Joe Biden PARDONS Hunter Biden

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 12/02/24.

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Five am is our time here on Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories as we get
started this morning, Joe has pardoned Hunter, the left hates
Trump's pick for the FBI, and at five oh eight,
Houston ranked is one of the world's top cities. Details
in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,
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Speaker 3 (01:27):
Thank you very much, Jimmy, Good morning everybody, five oh
one on KTRH our top story. Will you accept the
jury's outcome, their verdict, no matter what it is. Yes?
And have you ruled out a pardon for your son? Yes.
That was Joe Biden in June talking to ABC News
because last night a flip, he pardons Hunter.

Speaker 7 (01:49):
This is beyond the two cases. This is saying, if
there's anything else in that period for essentially ten years,
I as president, Joe Biden am giving him a full
pardon for things that may not have even been charged yet,
that may possibly still be out there.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
That is Fox's Shannon Breem. Hunter was facing sentencing on
December twelfth in his federal gun case and on the
sixteenth in his tax case. Now on truth, Social President
elect Donald Trump reacted asking if the pardon includes the
quote January sixth hostages who have now been imprisoned for years.
You'll hear more from Trump on the pardon at five

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point thirty. Trump also threw the left into hysterics by
nominating Cash Patel to replace Christopher Ray as FBI director.

Speaker 8 (02:34):
All of the people pulling their hair out are exactly
the people who are dismayed about having a real reformer
come into the FBI and clean out the corrupted partisans
who sadly have burrowed into senior career positions.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Texas Senator Ted Cruz on CBS has faced the nation.
The President elect also let the Bricks Alliance know that
would be Brazil, Russia, India and other countries that there
would be a one hundred percent tariff if they moved
away from the US dollar in trading. It's now five
h three on ktrh At the border. Texas is reportedly

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planning to bust illegal aliens directly to Ice instead of
sanctuary cities. State officials aren't denying it.

Speaker 9 (03:18):
This could be an effective strategy, of course, First off,
you have to cut out all the NGOs.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Lieutenant to Chris Olivar is with Texas DPS on Fox Business.
Of course, Texas may not have to use any buses
if Trump revives one of his signature border security programs.

Speaker 10 (03:34):
And that would be the return of Trump's remain in
Mexico policy.

Speaker 11 (03:39):
At high noon on January twentieth, right after the inauguration,
right after the swearing end, they'll have that thing chambered
and ready to pull the trigger.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
That is Border reporter Todd Benzman.

Speaker 12 (03:50):
That makes people stay in Mexico instead of in the
United States. They have to stay in Mexico for the
duration of their asylum claim. Nobody is coming for the
Great mech dream.

Speaker 10 (04:01):
And he adds it cannot be tied up in the courts.
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven, Katie.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Thank you, Jeff. Elsewhere, Breitbart is reporting that seven special
interest aliens, all from Iran, were found in a group
of nearly three hundred illegals caught Inegal Pass on Friday.
Now this comes as a Runnian back. Tomas released a
video of an Israeli hostage this weekend. The Biden administration
claims it's trying to strike a deal to get the

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hostages released.

Speaker 13 (04:31):
I can't make you any predictions about the shape of
that deal or when it will come, but I can
tell you that we are working actively to try to
make it happen. We are engaged deeply with the key
players in the region.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on NBC's Meet the Press.
This comes as the President was spotted with a copy
of an anti Israel book during a Black Friday shopping
trip in Nantucket. The book, called The One hundred Year
War on Palestine, was written by Rashid Khali Leady, who's
been on records saying, quote, when someone says I'm a terrorist,

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my feelings aren't hurt. It's five oh five here at home.
Texas lawmakers are looking to do more work on election
integrity in the next legislative session. Several bills have already
been filed to address it.

Speaker 14 (05:18):
It's important to make sure that we keep election results
reporting to be done within twenty four hours, and that's part.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Of this election package. State Senator Paul Bettencourt says he's
filed a total of seven different bills. They aim to
improve auditing and address issues with ballot distribution. Of course,
lawmakers in Austin cracked down on DEI in the last
legislative session. Now, new research shows that some DEI training

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couses psychological harm. This is more corporations back away from
their initiatives.

Speaker 15 (05:51):
Like many companies all across the United States. We've been
on a journey and we continue to be on a journey,
and what we're trying to do is to ensure that
every customer, every associate, Phil's welcome.

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Walmart's CEO John Ferner. There are other companies that have
made similar moves include Harley, Davidson, Ford and Low's. There
are minimal delays at the airports this morning after a
busy travel weekend. The FAA says it handled a record
two hundred and thirty two thousand flights during Thanksgiving Week.
Only one and a half percent of those flights were

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either delayed or canceled. It's now five oh six. The
Texans hold off the Jaguars twenty three to twenty. Defensive
back Aziz al Shire faces disciplinary action by the league
for a hit on quarterback Trevor Lawrence, which started a
brawl between the two teams.

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It's not unfortunate with the hit with diseases hit us
now when we're coaching, not representative of who asease is.
Like Z's a smart player, you know, I'll talk to
disease addressing personally and we'll move forward from it.

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Coach Tamiko Ryan's there. The Texans have their buy next weekend. Now, Jimmy,
the videos at NRG that were once the biggest and
all of professional sports turns out there obsolete and they
need to be replaced. There are also a number of
major repairs needed to the building. You were at a
game when they started the leak, right, Yeah?

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I was at the National Championship that was here early
in twenty twenty four, and during warm ups a nasty
storm blew through the roof started the leak. I was
on the field watching guys warm up. Rain was coming through.

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John Salisbury and Brian Lalima from Sports Talk seven to ninety.
According to an outside firm, NRG Stadium needs two hundred
and sixty four million dollars in work over the next
twenty years. How much two hundred and sixty four million
dollars yes? For repair work? For repairs? Wow? Yikes. Finally,
the Longhorns are still second in the polls after their

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seventeen to seven win over A and m UT will
face Georgia in the SEC title game next Saturday afternoon.
I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news weather in traffic station
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the day. Now back to Houston's morning news. Five eight
is a time here in Houston's morning News. Right, it
looks like we're pretty high in this list. Here, Houston
ranked very high in a study naming the world's top cities.

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In fact, we are considered one of the top forty
cities in the entire world. Based on the survey, we
did better than Austin, We did better than sant Well,
we did better than Dallas. We did we did better
than anybody else. Okay, we were like in the top forty.
Austin was fifty third, Dallas was fifty fifth. Both cities

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ranked extremely low in terms of livability, and it came
down to four ratings for income ratio versus rent in
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to live in a particular place. We also ranked pretty
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concerts and events, sports teams, and museums. We were thirty
fourth in culture, highlighting numerous festivals and big events like concerts.
Ranked sixty fourth on the lovability scale, above average the prosterity,
but the prosperity is the high point. They catapulted Houston

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in the top forty. Our economic health and wealth have
submitted it as one of the best financial centers in
America with room to grow. Interestingly, Houston ranked sixth in
convention centers. Will you go, George R. Brown, Way to Go,
making it a conference destination. Prosperity also factor in the

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on par with New York, with one hundred and forty
five languages spoken in the metro area. Houston's economic profile
ranked thirty fourth, cementing its status in the top half
of the list. How about that, I guess leading factory
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We you know we have the second largest theater district
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Speaker 4 (14:18):
Who is surprised the Hunter Biden got parted pardoned rather
by Joe? Anybody surprised by that? You may not even
even been aware that this happened. But it was done
over Thanksgiving weekend? Why would you do it over Thanksgiving weekend? Well,
that's pretty clear, right because everybody's you know, putting up

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their Christmas decorations and you know, having family and friends
and you know, watching football games, and nobody's paying a
whole lot of attention to the news. So that's when
you do it. But again, is anybody surprised by the action,
of course not. But you said he wouldn't. Oh, I know,
And he never lies, right, right, he never, he never.

(15:02):
He would never mislead you into thinking he was doing
something he wasn't doing yet, right anyway, Trey Gotti, what's
news broke not the least bit surprised either. Here he
is on Fox commenting Joe Biden's pardon.

Speaker 21 (15:14):
It is part of me is jealous. I'm wondering where
I can go to get one of those for myself,
although the good news is I don't really need one.
It's the least surprising news I've heard all day. I mean,
I've been saying for months and months and months that
he is not going to allow what I think is
his last living child to go to prison. I mean,

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parents just don't do that. Now, most parents don't have
the power to stop it. But there's a reason we
don't put parents on the jury. And there's a reason
Paris won't prosecute their kids. I mean, they're just not objective.
So I am not at all surprised. The breadth of
it surprises me a little bit. But the president knows
better than I do how much criminality his someone is
engaged in.

Speaker 22 (15:57):
Joe Biden has tweeted and publicly said repeatedly that no
one is above the law. I guess except for his
son Hunter and him with mishandling classified information dating back
to the nineteen seventies and eighties while he was senator.

Speaker 21 (16:10):
Yeah again, I mean, I hate for my cynicism to
show up on a holiday weekend. But I never believed
him when he said it. I mean, he was always
going to pardon his son. I mean, he wanted the
jury to find him not guilty. He hired a really
good lawyer in Abbie Lowell. Although he pursued a pretty
curious defense strategy, there was never any danger. But I'll

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also say this, it would not surprise me if President
Trump had pardoned him. Look what he did with Hillary
Clinton when he came in in twenty sixteen. Can you
name a single political enemy that Donald Trump prosecuted for
all to talk about retribution and revenge. He actually never
did it, so I think he was going to be
pardoned no matter what. Ordinarily, prosecutors are not big fans

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of pardons, so you know, there's a time and a
place for them. It's just really hard for a parent,
particularly one that's in his eighties, to see a child
go to prison.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
Yeah, well, okay, I get that, you know, I get
the whole parental thing. It's like ye having an argument
about it. Let's say, for example, not that Hunter Biden
committed murder, but let's say one of your kids killed
somebody and you knew that they killed them in cold blood.
They weren't defending themselves, they just they killed somebody. How

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far would you go to protect them? Would you hide them?
Would you not cooperate with the police, would you try
to make excuses for what they had done? Or would
you say no, I'm sorry. You know, I know what
he's I know what my son has done, and he
is he's guilty, and I'm just going to He's just

(17:51):
going to have to live with the consequences of what
he did. I know, in theory, we all say that
we would respect the law and not try to protect
our own. But at the end of the day, I
think it's probably more often than not that we would
try to protect our own. Now, what is interesting, dray
Gott He mentioned this how sweeping this pardon was. Basically,

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it covers a ten year period. It's a blanket pardon
for anything he may have done between twenty fourteen and
twenty twenty four, ten years. Normally, when a president pardoned somebody,
it's for a specific act that they did, not just
a blanket. The only time I think we've had a

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blanket presidential pardon that is even comparable to this is
when Gerald R. Ford gave an unconditional pardon to Richard M.
Nixon when he took over after Nixon resigned. That's the
only thing you can compare this to five twenty six.
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Good morning to you, Jimmy.

Speaker 23 (18:55):
The holiday shopping spotlight falls on e commerce companies today.
It is Monday, and companies are looking to lure online
shoppers with special deals. Adobe says a lot of consumers
got an early start on internet shopping. The company estimates
nearly eleven billion dollars was spent online on Black Friday.
MasterCard Spending Pulse estimates total Black Friday spending was up

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Is five thirty. Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among
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that under Biking got a pardon? Texas Democrats pushing for
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It's time now for the news. Here's clipsunders. Thank you
very much, Jimmy. Good morning everybody. It's five point thirty
one on KTRH our top story. I'll bet you the
father probably pardons him. Let's see what happens. That was
Donald Trump's prediction in October. It came true last night.
President Joe Biden officially pardons Hunter.

Speaker 14 (21:39):
Biden.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
Hunter was days away from sentencing in a pair of
federal cases. And this all comes after Joe Biden repeatedly
said he would not pardon his son. Much more on
this coming up at six o'clock. Also topping the news,
violent crime did not take a break for Thanksgiving. Wes
Houston man charged with capital m and the stabbing of

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his sister and his two year old niece. On Friday,
in Perland, police arrest a man after a three hour standoff.
It all started when the man shot at police. No
cops were injured, but one bullet did hit an officer's
protective shield. Last week, we told you that more Republican
women are arming themselves a result of violent crime. And

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in Austin, Texas, Democrats are filing nearly one hundred anti
gun rights bills ahead of the legislative session. Chris McNutt
with the group Texas Gun Rights is fighting back. Yeah.

Speaker 25 (22:34):
Absolutely, and we're working with Representative Briscoe Kine in the
Houston area to ban red flag gun confiscation laws.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
So that's House built one sixty two.

Speaker 25 (22:43):
That would pretty much neuter everything that the corn and
Biden compromise tried to do.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
Other bills filed include a ban on semi automatic firearms
and ending open carry. Also at Austin, the pro life
group Texas Right to Life is planning to help launch
civil lawsuits against people trying to illegally traffic abortion pills
into Texas.

Speaker 26 (23:06):
Despite being a strongly pro life state, there are some
gaps in Texas law here.

Speaker 27 (23:10):
Those laws have not kept pro abortion groups and activists
from promoting illegal abortions bringing abortion pills into Texas.

Speaker 26 (23:19):
John Sego, president of Texas Right to Life, told kt
H these lawsuits will help enforce laws.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
Left wing groups are ignoring this.

Speaker 27 (23:26):
Is illegal, but we don't have effective tools to stop
the new tactics we're seeing from those that are promoting abortion.

Speaker 26 (23:33):
Sigo says he hopes enforcement of pro life laws will
be strengthened during the upcoming Legislative Session. Ethan Buchanan, News
Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
It's coming up on five point thirty four president elect
Donald Trump announcing the nomination of Cash Patel to replace
Christopher Ray as FBI director. The left has been in
meltdown mode ever since. Republicans are singing a different tune.

Speaker 28 (23:55):
The FBI has failed the American people, under the leadership
of Christopher Ray to be purged. They failed in uh
in trying to do anything to go after drug traffickers,
human smuggler, sex traffickers.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
The list goes on and on. Mouse Oversight Committee James
Comer on Fox Elsewhere. A hit piece by the liberal
New York Times, which published an email to Defense Secretary
nominee Pete Hexith, one written by his mother called him
an abuser of women, an email that Penelope Hexth has
apologized for and now calls the Times quote disgusting for

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publishing it. Five point thirty five now on KTRH. Last week,
the President elect promised tariffs on Canada and Mexico if
they did not help secure the border. Within days of that,
Trump announced that he'd already held talks with the new
Mexican president and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau showed up
tomorrow Lago to talk to Trump. This as sanctuary cities

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continued to push back against mass deportations in coming borders
are time home and says they can push back all
they want, but these deportations won't be stopped.

Speaker 29 (25:05):
Get them on that administrative work. Put more on the street,
and that's what we're going to do. And these sanctuary
states and cities keep pushing back. I'll have the extra resources,
a double manpower.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
He says. He'll contract as much work that does not
require law enforcement as he can to get around those
sanctuary cities. Also, we now know that a child was
airlifted to a hospital after a group of illegals pushed
through razor wire this weekended Eagle Pass. No word this
morning on that child's condition. It's now coming up on

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five point thirty six. So far, so good if you're
planning to fly in and out of Bush and Hobby today,
but it is early yesterday too. Between two and three
hundred thousand, rather between two and three hundred flights were
delayed out of the airport's combined with more than six
thousand flights delayed nationwide. If you're driving in in the
market for a new car, you know prices are up

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and many people can even afford to pay off their
old ones.

Speaker 30 (26:01):
One third of American car loans are now underwater, meaning
they owe more than the car is worth. KTRH car
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Speaker 31 (26:11):
Typically a lease is three years, so if you have
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lease in three years, it's all gone.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
You're free and clear with the world.

Speaker 30 (26:22):
But if you're more than five thousand dollars under water,
he recommends writing it out and paying down some more.
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Speaker 3 (26:30):
Thank you Corey. Today, of course, Cyber Monday, which closes
out the first weekend of the traditional Christmas shopping season,
nearly eleven billion dollars was spent online for Black Friday shopping,
and the expectation is we could see thirteen billion dollars
spent today five point thirty seven on KTRH. Hundreds of
Houston businesses and households will have to relocate as text

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Dot starts the I forty five expansion project. Aaron Erickson
of Stoptext Dot I forty five says it'll displace more
than three hundred businesses in five places of worship.

Speaker 32 (27:03):
Stane Emmanuel is going to be where the drainage project begins.
That's a street with bustling nightlife. It's got a lot
of businesses that people love dearly and a lot of
those are going to be gone, and it's going to
completely strip that area of the community.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
She says that the traffic problem won't be solved by
the expansion either. The Rockets get a one nineteen to
one sixteen win over the thunder last night, and the
Texans beat Jacksonville twenty three to twenty heading into the
bye week with an eight and five record. I'm Cliff
Saunders on Houston's news, weather, and traffic station News Radio
seven forty KTRH. Stay Informed, Stay on time.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Houston's Morning News continues with Jimmy Barrett and the Houston
Morning News Team.

Speaker 4 (27:49):
We'll we all see football over The weekend started with
the Michigan Ohio State game. The end of the game,
Michigan was about a twenty one point underdog, unranked, having
a horrible season, playing second rank to Ohio. State, and
it was a major upset that they won the game
thirteen to ten. And for whatever you think of the

(28:12):
two schools, and for whatever you think of the players
with the two schools and the tradition of the whatever
you think of any of it, the way that thing
ended was just beyond ugly. What you had was a
group of Michigan football players celebrating. Obviously, the game was
at Ohio State in Columbus, and clearly the Columbus crowd,

(28:33):
especially the Ohio State football players, were not real happy
with the celebration, especially when they tried to quote unquote
plant the flag at midfield. Well it's turf. You can't
really you know what I mean, You can't really plant
the flag. But it was the symbolism of it. And
that's when the fights broke out and it became a
melee and the police were involved, and pepper spray was involved,

(28:56):
and it just got super super ugly. Now you can
talk all you want about who started it, Well, the
mission guns started about trying to plight the flag. Well's
that started to by racing the way they did at
the end of the day. Is this what our society
has become? Is is this a bigger symbol than just

(29:17):
a college football game. With what happened yesterday at the
Texans game. After as these houses are puts a horrible
hit on a sliding quarterback knocks them out, and before
you know it, you got fisticuffs involved in that game?
What and you know the fighting all seems to come

(29:40):
down to one thing. I've been trying to figure this
out for a while because the problem's got nothing but
worse in in sports and in life in general. And
here's what I mean by in life in general. And
I'm not going to I'm not going to accuse a
particular group of individuals have causing more trouble than others.
But there does seem to be a cultural thing right now,

(30:02):
in particular with young men, involving whether or not they
feel disrespected, and if they feel disrespected, how they're allowed
to react to being disrespected. Yeah, used to be a
time where you could put those things aside. Eventually apologies
are given and accepted and everybody moves on with their life.
But that doesn't seem to be the way things work anymore.

(30:24):
So I'm going to suggest to both the National Football
League and to the nc double A. Although I'm not
a big fan of the NC double A that. But
let's just suggest it to the schools themselves. The University
of Michigan, Ohio State, let's suspend, do some real suspension
of players. National Football League's let's do the same thing.
This stuff in the bud and there's going to have

(30:46):
to be there's going to have to be retribution. There's
going to have to be a real penalty paid, and
it's going to have to be it's going to have
to become obvious there's unacceptable if this is ever going
to change.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
Five forty one. Let's get to traffic and whether together.

Speaker 6 (31:00):
No respect after what happened on the field this weekend.
By the way, there's a rematch in three weeks.

Speaker 4 (31:04):
I'm a plant of flag in your studio just about
thirty secondsky Mike.

Speaker 5 (31:08):
Good seats are available. We'll be having rematch in three weeks.
Let's do North Sam. If you're going westbound on the
North Sam, you got that roadwork at all Dean Westville.
It's taken out two left lanes, and then eastbound in
Imperial Valley that's one left lane.

Speaker 6 (31:23):
It's not just a project, it's a lifestyle.

Speaker 5 (31:24):
It'll be around for a little bit whatever was scooching
up on the North Freeway Parker outbound looks to be
good and I think they've had just a stoe a toll.
I'm having fun this morning. A stall outbound. We're good
to go. Woodlands down twenty three minutes, Humble into downtown
on the east text a nineteen minute breeze. And if

(31:46):
you're coming down from the Southwest Freeway or up from Sugarland,
twenty one minutes here and remember your tip line will
be the first to know stuff. Thanks to you seven
one three two one two tips. Give me your name,
your neighborhood, and if you remember the Sam Houston Coliseum, Terry.
Look at that picture from Jack from Connecticut. I'm in
the classic You at GMC traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
Does look anything like Buffalo? No wow? From our KTRH
Generator super Center. Twenty four hour Weather said, I brought
up Buffalo.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
I've gone.

Speaker 4 (32:15):
I don't have any idea how much like effect snow
they got. Been watching that football game in the beginning
was wild.

Speaker 19 (32:20):
Oh my goodness. Well I haven't seen the final totals,
but what a snowy weekend they've seen. And I'll have
to go and look and see how much. But yeah,
that's quite something. And no, Jack is not seeing any
snow whatsoever. It's a cold sunny morning there in Connecticut
where Jack is listening to us, and it's going to

(32:42):
be a cool sunny morning here. And it feels like
December today, just a little bit cooler than yesterday. Upper
sixties today. It's gonna be chilly again tonight. Most places
will be in the forties overnight, and then tomorrow high's
only in the mid upper six sixties. We are dry
today and tomorrow, and then that changes Wednesday when we

(33:04):
have somebmarine Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Wednesday, it's an eighty
percent chance of showers, some thunder. Still mild in the
upper sixties to mid seventies, but get ready. By the
end of the week, high temperatures expected.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
To be in the fifties.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
Deepitcha right now forty four at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
What you need to know for the day ahead.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
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Speaker 4 (33:32):
Well, as I said a little bit earlier this hour,
we've been asked constantly for the last few weeks and serily.
We understand this. Where's shera? Why share not on show?
What's going on? We deserve to know, and we agree
you deserve to know. And I think we're finally at
the point here where we can at least make a
little statement regarding Sheriff Fryer and I will do that

(33:53):
with you coming up next. But first we've got traffic
and weather togethers we check out that drive once again.
Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 5 (33:58):
All right, I'll go very fast this morning. We've got
the only thing I've got on the freeways. Doug from
Mott Bellevue sent me this police activity on it east
the Sanjacino River Bridge.

Speaker 6 (34:09):
He sent it on my Facebook.

Speaker 5 (34:11):
By the way, I'm super easy to find on social media,
So thanks.

Speaker 6 (34:13):
For your help.

Speaker 5 (34:14):
No big scoocha so far, Skymike on the classic view
at GMC Traffic.

Speaker 4 (34:18):
Center from r KTRH Generator super Center twenty four hour
weather center. For today, we're looking at sky's mostly sunny
with a high temperature right about sixty eight, partly plotting
for tomorrow's sixty seven Wednesday rain. Early thunderstorms will developed
with the high temperature of seventy two right now forty
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Speaker 3 (34:39):
Forty k TRH.

Speaker 4 (34:40):
It's time to get caught up on some of our
top stories on the Monday morning.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
Here's clip, Thanks Jamy, and we're sponsored by Moro Mechanical.
After insisting he would not do it. Joe Biden pardons
Hunter Biden a man after a man dies rather after
falling from a parking garage in the downtown area last night.
And tonight's powerball jackpot is two hundred and twenty four
million dollars. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com.

(35:06):
Our next update is at six o'clock. I live in Pasadena,
Sharptown Southwest.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
Next on the ten time saving traffic on seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (35:17):
All right, five fifty two our time here on Houston's
Morning News. Let's see how well I can tackle this.
This is this is not the kind of duty I
lect having, certainly, but I agree. You know everybody's been
asking where's Shrif Fryer, Where's Shara, what's going on? And
you deserve to know that share is no longer with

(35:38):
our KTRH morning show with Houston's Morning News. And if
you're wondering why that is The best I can tell
you is is that we are in a business, a
media business that is constantly changing, and when that comes
constant staffing changes. Consolidation leads to changes, and when the
changes happen, then positions come and positions go. You may

(35:58):
have heard that Rachel Mattow, for example, just took a big,
huge salary hit over MSNBC. The media business constantly goes
through this, and it's going through one of those periods
right now. And it's not just here in Houston, it's
all across the country. So with this reorganization, Shara is
no longer their morning show, and like you, I will
miss not having her not only to just be a

(36:20):
co host, but also to talk to every morning. I
can tell you that I have talked with her. I
think she's fine. I absolutely believe that she will probably
come up with her next best life of what it
is that she wants to do. And I will never
forget how she welcomed me to Houston. You know, gave

(36:41):
me all the background information. Here's what you need to
know about Houston. Here's what's important. All this other I
couldn't have made the transition I made to this new
city of mine. My new hometown without Sheriff Fryer, and
I owe her a debt of gratitude for that. We
look forward to seeing and hearing whatever she does next.
And I hope you're going to continue to listen to
us here on KTRH. I promise you we will do

(37:04):
the best morning show we know how to do, and
Sky Mike and Cliff and myself will what put all
of our energy into making this show as good as
we can make it. So obviously, you know, change happens. Sometimes,
change happens that we don't like. I know this is
probably not the news you wanted to hear, but we
felt important for you to know, and as soon as

(37:25):
it was possible to pass that long, that's what we've done.
Five point fifty four now here in Houston's Morning News.
Speaking of which, kind of a similar topic here, one
of the things that the business world thinks is going
to be happening with the Trump administration is we're going
to see more mergers, more consolidation, maybe even more cutbacks
at various different businesses. Here is Kevin O'Leary talking about

(37:47):
all that.

Speaker 33 (37:48):
Mergers are a good thing if they drive efficiencies, and
there's many industry that are very fragmented and.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
Would like to merge consecurely.

Speaker 33 (37:57):
For for example, in regional banking, where there's a lot
of pressure to have fewer smaller banks for a bunch
of reasons. But the regulatory environment in the previous administration
was punitive.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
Downright punitive.

Speaker 33 (38:11):
And you know, pursuing our big tech companies and trying
to break them up and sell off their assets is
not the right way to go because technology has proved itself.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
Over and over again.

Speaker 33 (38:21):
That really is innovation, not regulation that changes the market
so quickly.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
So just when you think.

Speaker 33 (38:27):
Google can't lose, something else comes along. Or you thought that,
you know, Facebook was the only social media platform, look
at what TikTok did in three years. I would really
like to change management in the regulatory agencies to a
more open I want to use that word because really
I love the way the market works and self corrects itself.

Speaker 3 (38:48):
I'm a market driven guy. Everybody knows that.

Speaker 33 (38:51):
But I hate a single individual deciding what is right
and wrong for a market that in itself is un American.
And that's what I think the market its senses. In
the Trump administration for at least the first two years
we're gonna get rid of all those people, and we're
gonna get a different tonality to M and A, and
it'll be a good thing for everybody.

Speaker 4 (39:12):
We'll see, like I said, mergering consolidation. Sometimes it's not easy,
but sometimes it works out the best for everybody. Five
point fifty six. You're on Houston's Morning News.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
Is used Radio seven KATI RH Houston Live Everywhere with
now the latest news, weather, and draft.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
It's more of what matters to you. From the John
Morris Services Studios. Six am is our time, Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this fr Joe
Pardons Hunter, the Life Hates Trump and his pick for
the FBI, and coming up at six away proof that
some aren't is just a great, big scam. Details in
the minute to head. You're in Houston's Boring News. First,

(39:58):
I can't wait. We're checking out that driving again. Sky
Mike's here.

Speaker 5 (40:01):
We've got South beelt so far looking good both ways.
We'll check from Golfgate from the Golf Freeway over the
Southwest Freeway. We're rocking along nicely. We still have that
stall truck on two eighty eight. He's not bothering anybody
at Almeta Genoa. Just watch out as people are passing
each other northbound from the Beltway. And we better check
in with Uber Mike about Bush Airport at the sixth

(40:23):
ten break and the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (40:26):
From r KTRH top Ta's defenders twenty four hour weather Center.
Mostly sunny, mild today with the high temperature right about
sixty eight. We'll get you the complete forecast from Terry
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It's time now for the news. Here's Clipsanders.

Speaker 3 (40:49):
Thank you, Jimmy, Good morning everybody. We are sponsored by
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top story.

Speaker 5 (40:55):
I shaid, I advied by the jury decision.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
I will do that and I'm not partner. That was
Joe Biden in June, after Hunter, Biden was convicted on
federal gun charges. Fast forward six months later and on
his way out of the office, Biden does a oneint eighty.

Speaker 34 (41:10):
He signed a full and unconditional pardon for his son Hunter.
Hunter was convicted earlier this year of federal gun and
tax crimes. The surprising move contradicts the president's repeated promises
not to use his executive power to barden his son
or commuterist sentence. The pardon covers offenses spanning a decade
from twenty fourteen to twenty twenty four.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
That is Fox's Ashley Stromeyer now on Truth Social President
elect Trump called the pardon a miscarriage of justice. You
will hear from Trump at six thirty. The President elect
adding to his new administration as well over the weekend,
naming Cash Battel the nominee to replace FBI Director Christopher

(41:50):
ray Lesson.

Speaker 8 (41:51):
I think Cash Battel is a very strong nominee. I
think the entire slate of cabinet nominees President Trump is
put forward is very strong. I believe everyone one of
these cabinet nominees is going to be confirmed by the.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
Senator Texas Senator Ted Cruz on CBS's Face the Nation.
Trump also warned the Bricks Alliance that would be Brazil,
Russia and other countries that he would impose a one
hundred percent tariff if they moved away from the US dollar.
In trading six POH three now on KTRH and at
the border, Texas is apparently planning to bus illegal aliens

(42:26):
directly to Ice instead of sanctuary cities. Lieutenant Chris Olivar's
with DPS says it's about eliminating the middleman, the NGOs
that helped the illegal aliens.

Speaker 9 (42:36):
When illegal immigrants come across the southern border, they are
then apprehended and processed by US Border Patrol, and then
from there they are released to these NGOs where we
then come in as a state and bus them to
sanctuary cities.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
Olivar's on Fox Business. Trump continues to promise mass deportations,
but he could also secure the border by bringing back
remain in Mexico.

Speaker 35 (42:58):
It's been upheld all the way up to the court,
so it's good to go out and camping suit again.
And the American people are going to hear very shortly
all the time about remaining in Mexico.

Speaker 12 (43:09):
It's going to be in all the headlines.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
Border analyst Todd Benzman expects Trump to put this back
into action on day one. Breitbart's reporting this weekend that
there were several seven special interest aliens, all from Iran,
found in a group this weekend of almost three hundred
illegals that were caught at Eagle Pass. And this comes
as we get official word this morning of an American

(43:32):
Israeli hostage killed in the October seventh terror attack in Israel.

Speaker 36 (43:37):
The Israeli military says Captain Omar Neutra was already dead
when Hamas took him into Gaza on October seventh last year.
The IDF says it's been able to confirm his death
as a result of new intelligence. Captain Neutra was a
twenty one year old soldier from New York serving as
a tank platoon commander in the seventy seventh Battalion of

(43:58):
the seventh Brigade.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
Jonathan said aage reporting now as the Biden administration claims
to be working to free the other hostages held by Hamas.
On Friday, President Biden was seen carrying a copy of
anti Israel book written by a man who is on
the record a saying he doesn't mind being called a terrorist.
It's now six to ZHO five on KTRH. Here at home.

(44:21):
With the legislative session approaching, election, integrity is once again
a tough issue. Several bills have already been filed to
address it.

Speaker 26 (44:29):
There are still outstanding issues from the twenty twenty two
election that need to be addressed.

Speaker 14 (44:34):
The Election administration office literally left three million ballot sheets
in the warehouse, couldn't get the ballots to the polls.
That is fixed in this package of seven bills.

Speaker 26 (44:43):
State Senator Bettencourt told KTRH his seven election integrity bills
also improve election auditing.

Speaker 14 (44:49):
As good as these elections have been run lately by
the county. Her reconciliation document shows theres twenty eight hundred
more votes and voters.

Speaker 26 (44:57):
Bettencourt says he also wants to make sure all future
election results are reported within twenty four hours. Ethan Buchanan
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
Thank you Ethan. Bettencourt and the other state lawmakers cracked
down on DEI two years ago, and new research shows
that some DEI training actually causes psychological harm, and more
corporations are dumping their DEI programs.

Speaker 15 (45:20):
We've been talking about belonging now for almost two years.
Early twenty twenty three, we started talking about belonging, and
we're going to continue to make the best decisions we
can that makes everyone, our customers, our associates feel like
this is an environment they can shop in.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
Walmart's John Ferner on CBS. Other companies Dumping Dei, Harley, Davidson,
Ford and Low's. We've got smooth sailing so far at
Bush and Hobby. After a busy travel weekend. The FAA
handled ay record two hundred and thirty two thousand flights
last week, with only one and a half percent of
those being either delayed or canceled. Six oh six Now

(45:57):
on KGIH, the Texans hold off the Jag twenty three
to twenty in Jacksonville.

Speaker 16 (46:02):
And I'm really proud of the way our guys just
played complimentary football, right. That's been a struggle for us
in the games that we've dropped, so just seeing everybody
step up and make a play when the other side
wasn't doing so well. Everybody played together.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
Head coach Tomiko Ryan's defensive back is He's al share
faces disciplinary action by the NFL for that hit on
Trevor Lawrence yesterday which started a brawl between the two
teams at RG Stadium needs major repairs before the Rodeo
and World Cup next year. Some of the most immediate
needs are the roof in those big video displays in

(46:37):
each end zone only eleven years in. You got to
replace it? Crazy, huh Yeah.

Speaker 17 (46:41):
Mitsubishi Electric is the one that designed those video boards.
The parts aren't even available if something breaks down.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
Sports Talk seven ninety Sean Salisbury and Brian Lima Harris
County says it's going to put up thirty five million
dollars to replace the roof, the video boards, and the
aching sound system. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news Weather
in Traffic station news Radio seven forty k t r H.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
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Speaker 3 (47:14):
Never sounded so good.

Speaker 4 (47:16):
But we can agree right that that Vince ev Ango
painted his he was a true artist.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
Monet monee.

Speaker 4 (47:25):
You ever heard anybody ever say from you know, kind
of as a you know, guide joke, she's a monet
as in good from Afar but far from far from good.
Or he's a monet same thing, good from Afar, but
far from good, because you know, because with the monet thing,
the closer you get, the more you realize that it's
just kind of a bunch of paint that's splattered around,

(47:46):
but when you pull back, it's actually a picture. That's
but that's art. That's I mean, art is a very
subjective thing. I get that, I really do. But can
we all agree that some art is nothing more than
a scam. There's a couple of examples for you. One
is a true example, the other one is to make

(48:07):
fun of that example. A banana duct taped to a
wall sold for six point two million and an auction
at Soth of Beast in New York. Now this really happened,
in case you missed the story. The banana was an
art piece by Maurizio Cattelan, the titled Comedian and described

(48:28):
as passionately debated, repsidlically venerated, and hotly contested. A Chinese
cryptocurrency entrepreneur was the one that bought it, proving that
he's crazy, I guess. So to make fun of it,
they decided the folks a Cheetos decided that they would

(48:49):
create their own art, and they got a whole bag
of Cheetos and a roll of duct tape, which probably
costs you about eight to ten bucks at the store,
and crafted an art pece with one single Cheeto puff
duct taped to a piece of something canvas or whatever

(49:09):
they use for that that was sold an eBay at
auction and sold for twenty thousand dollars on Thursday. Now,
before you think why would somebody spend twenty thousand dollars
for what's obviously a scam or meant to make fun
of what they think as a scam, the answer is
really quite simple. The folks at Cheetos put up an

(49:32):
actual twenty thousand dollars. Whatever the art piece was going
to sell for, they were going to supply you with
the equivalent of Cheetos. So whoever bought this art piece
tuck to you know, this cheeto puff stuck to a
wall by duct tape, has also gotten twenty thousand dollars
worth of Cheetos. I have no idea how many bags

(49:53):
that is, six to eleven time for traffic and whether
it's together.

Speaker 5 (49:57):
Of course you do sky mine, you know, we've got
the Saint chet radiothon coming up on our iHeart station
Shortland figure. I can put a banana sticker on a
slinking and we could auction it off for you know,
good cost. That's a great idea. Let's work on that.
It's an original Sky Mike, and you are an artist. Oh,
thank you very much. We are going right off our
tip line seven one three two one t ips.

Speaker 6 (50:18):
Let's do some southeast.

Speaker 10 (50:19):
Sky Mike roast from League City one six Graham Parkway,
the ten all the.

Speaker 31 (50:25):
Way to Winny Brother.

Speaker 6 (50:26):
Is smooth, all right, rocking along.

Speaker 5 (50:29):
That's our second banana sticker this morning. We have something
that's scooting up near downtown forty five. This is southbound
North Freeway North Maine. And you know there's kind of
a curve there too, plus the text dot wall of
death here, I've got one two three right lanes. Here
comes the lights show. We are scooched up now from Cavalcade.
Let's take the East Tex get around that business and

(50:49):
better check on the airport north side. I know we
have the roadwork on the north Salmon Alding Westfield. That's westbound.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
Hoober Mike, dude.

Speaker 7 (50:56):
Hey, what's up Skylike?

Speaker 16 (50:57):
There is no pandemic.

Speaker 19 (51:00):
I'm airborn.

Speaker 6 (51:01):
It's not the sam used a glisseum yet. I think
some of us are too young to know what that
what that was?

Speaker 5 (51:06):
Seven three two tips And let's do some southwest side
at the six twenty break in the generator Supercenter dot
Com traffic Center from r ktr H stop Tax Defenders
twenty four Our weather sentator, Terry Smith, who's here, beautiful
sunshine back today.

Speaker 4 (51:21):
A little warmer than it was on Saturday, but pretty
close to what it was yesterday. Eric, are you thinking, yeah,
pretty close? Maybe you know, two or three degrees cooler.

Speaker 19 (51:30):
It looks like upper sixties for Heist today and tomorrow
I'm expecting to be another dry day, though we'll start
to get some clouds mid to upper sixties tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (51:40):
It changes. There's a big change in our weather pattern.

Speaker 19 (51:44):
Starting Wednesday, when this area of blow pressure to the
south of US makes its way northward. So we've got
an eighty percent chance of rain Wednesday, a sixty percent
chance of more rain Thursday, and a forty percent chance
of showers on Friday. And by the end of the
week it looks like it could be quite chilly, actually
mid to upper fifties. And I have a very important

(52:06):
pressing question. Yes, ma'am, if you bought twenty thousand dollars
worth of Cheetos and you ate those, would you turn orange?

Speaker 4 (52:16):
I think you would, me too, but I think you'd
probably keel over from a heart attack before you did.

Speaker 3 (52:21):
So, or be well preserved by all the persons.

Speaker 4 (52:24):
Yes, you would not have to be involved upon your death.
You are correct about that temperture Right now forty three
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Speaker 4 (52:44):
Our time here on Houston's Morning News. Coming up in
just a moment of we talk with Mark Krecory, and
executive director at the Center for Immigration Studies, about remain
in Mexico, about evidently getting some level of cooperation. Though
we shouldn't be again surprised by this now that Trump
is the president elect, it goes President and President Trump
have already talked about remaining in Mexico, about curtailing people

(53:06):
headed to the border, so we're already seeing results. We'll
talk to him about all this and more in just
a moment. First, though, traffic and weather together, and that
starts with you Sky Mike.

Speaker 5 (53:14):
All right, let's go to your west Loop six ' ten.
I'll go fast. We've got Gary from Cyprus.

Speaker 37 (53:18):
Mike, the northbound west Loop sixty ten. You've got some
marching activity. I saw one lane open.

Speaker 5 (53:26):
Yeah, the fire response is kind of crazy. It's two
right lanes northbound. Also North Freeway clear the wreck at
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Speaker 3 (53:59):
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Biden's pardoning hunter Biden and abuse of justice. I says
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Speaker 32 (54:23):
Well, with the holidays and everything, it's really hard to keep.

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Speaker 4 (54:36):
Six pointy two our time here on Houston's Morning News. Right,
there probably are some people that will head back to
the Mexico border to go back once President Trump is
in office. We certainly know we're already seeing results as
far as people headed from Mexico to the United States.
Mark Korean joins US executive director of the Center for
Immigration Studies. This isn't surprising, is it.

Speaker 37 (54:58):
No, it isn't u In fact, we saw something like
this the first time Trump was elected. To call it
the Trump effect, where people were like, oh my god,
you know, what's what's this guy gonna do. Let's uh,
let's let's hold off and wait and see what happens.
The key, though, is to make sure that once he
takes office that he actually follows up and we see real,

(55:22):
you know, real results in enforcing immigration law. To make
sure that the you know, the initial Trump effect doesn't
just dissipate and people figure, oh, I'm gonna go give
it a try anyway, because it was all talk, it's
not likely to be all talk. But that is the
one thing that they have to worry about.

Speaker 4 (55:39):
I think the selection of Tom Holman tells us all
we need to know about whether it's all talk or not,
don't you Yeah, clearly, I mean, and that's part of
the reason he's been so visible, because you know, the
point is to try to, you know, it, make clear
to people things. Are you know, winter is coming, as
they said in that in the Game of Thrones, and

(56:02):
you know, get ahead of it now. And you know,
we're not going to know right away whether people have
in fact left, you know, sort of packed.

Speaker 37 (56:11):
Their bags as he said, and left. But I expect
at least some share of people are likely to be
doing that.

Speaker 4 (56:19):
Not that this should matter, and quite frankly, for me,
it doesn't matter, because if you're here illegally, you're here
illegally and you got to go. But there are a
fair amounts of businesses here in the United States that
have employed people who quote unquote won't do American jobs.
At Americans, you know, we'll do it, I guess jobs
Americans won't do, like working in their chicken processing plant,
for example. Are we going to see do you think

(56:39):
an immediate impact on jobs and those types of businesses.

Speaker 37 (56:43):
I think you're going to see you might well see
an immedia impact, but it's not going to be the
doomsday scenario that the lobbyists for these businesses are saying now,
because it's not as though you wake up one day
and every illegal alien is gone. The process that will
take time, and the number of people, say working in

(57:06):
chicken plants, will start decreasing, and in a market economy,
what that means is that the employer will respond by
you know, uh, making changes, offering more money to try
to get legal workers, of offering for instance, a free
you know, shuttle service, a van service from farther away

(57:29):
to hope to kind of expand the number of people
who could work there. We've seen this at other you know,
in other instances. Last time Trump was president, there were
raids like this and the responses were exactly what you
would expect, and it wasn't the end of the world.
That actually worked out pretty well.

Speaker 4 (57:47):
Here in Texas, we've already begun a construction on our
own border wall, and that that continues. I would expect
that at the federal level there will be an effort
to get Trump's wall back up. Do you think this
time that job is going to get done to it UNDHARDI.

Speaker 37 (58:04):
Well, I mean yes and no, because entirety is sort
of a hard thing to say. You know, are you
going to build a wall along all two thousand miles
of the border. Probably not, but there's going to be
a lot more of it constructed. And the thing is, though,
that's just one piece of what they need to do.
And I've been to some of a lot of a

(58:26):
wall in Texas, and because of the river, you have
to build it back from the border, so people are
already in the United States once they get to the wall,
and you know, and if they say I want asylum,
then the border patrol sometimes has to go through the
wall and get them and bring them in. So the
wall is important, but it's you got to make sure

(58:49):
you don't sort of make it a bigger deal than
it really is. It's just one tool. You have to
mainly change the policies that make it worse trying to
do this. Because of the Biden catch and release policies,
it's worth trying to come through. If those catch and
release policies are ended, it's not as beneficial to try

(59:12):
to get over the wall in the first place. Yeah,
Marco is always good to talk to you, sir. Thank
you appreciate it. Mark grec Goran YEP, Executive Director of
the Center for Immigrations and Studies. It's six twenty seven.
Time to take a look at your money, Jeff Bellinger,
Good morning. Good according to you, Jimmy, the Commerce Department
has announced new restrictions on China's access to components for
computer chips and artificial intelligence. The new curbs apply to

(59:36):
gear made here in the US and to equipment produced
by American firms and overseas facilities.

Speaker 3 (59:42):
Stock market futures pointing.

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Slightly lower right across the board this morning, I'm Jeff Bellinger,
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Six thirty is our time here in Houston's boning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
anybody really surprised Hunter Biden got pardoned by the old man.
Texas Democrats pushing for more gun control and coming up
at six thirty eight. Well, RFK Junior, come after your twinkies.
E Deel's in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Boning

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Speaker 5 (01:00:33):
All right, Jimmy, put on your Michigan colored hard hat.

Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
No, no, keep your flag in your studio.

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Inbound, this is a scooch over the Ien East Freeway
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And inbound on ninety.

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Something's quishing us up right at Green's by You help me, Rond,
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(01:01:28):
It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
Thank you, Jimmy. We are coming up on six point
thirty two. Good morning, everybody. Our top story. He's a
bad boy, There's no question about it. How was Donald
Trump talking to Fox's Bill Mlugin in October? He predicted
what we saw happen last night as you were winding
down from the holiday weekend. President Joe Biden pardons Hunter.

(01:01:50):
After saying over and over again that he would not
Hunter himself, released a statement saying he would not take
this quote for granted. We'll have much more on this
coming up at seven o'clock. Also topping the news this morning,
more violent crime across Houston this weekend. A West Houston
man in jail charged with capital murder for stabbing and

(01:02:11):
killing his sister and two year old niece. A woman
is hospitalized after a shooting at a Tomball home. One
man is in custody, and pair Land police arrest a
man after a three hour standoff which started when that
man shot at police. No officers were injured. More women
are arming themselves because of crime. We told you about

(01:02:32):
that last week. Yet Texas Democrats are filing more gun
control bills.

Speaker 10 (01:02:37):
In Austin, the group Texas Gun Rights, led by Chris McNutt,
is sounding the alarm.

Speaker 25 (01:02:44):
We are on track for having the most gun control
bills ever filed in the Texas legislature.

Speaker 10 (01:02:49):
Nearly one hundred anti gun measures were submitted, all by
state Democrats.

Speaker 25 (01:02:55):
They keep coming back with trying to pass red flag
gun confiscated laws. You can have your firearms are stripped
from you without due process.

Speaker 10 (01:03:04):
Thankfully, some Republicans have filed pro gun measures.

Speaker 3 (01:03:09):
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty k T Thank you, Jeff.
Elsewhere in the state's capital, the Houston based Texas Right
to Life has come up with a strategy to help
enforce the state laws pro life laws via civil lawsuits.

Speaker 27 (01:03:23):
This category of civil liability really gives regular citizens the
right to go and correct the wrong and hold those
accountable that have participated in the legal activity.

Speaker 3 (01:03:33):
John Sego with Texas Right to Life told KTRH that
this will help stop pro abortion groups currently illegally sending
abortion pills into Texas six point thirty four on KTRH.
President elect Donald Trump nominating Cash Patel to replace Christopher
Ray as FBI director. Tennessee Senator Bill Haggerty says the

(01:03:54):
bureau needs to be shook up. There are serious problems
that the FBI.

Speaker 38 (01:03:59):
The American public no that they expect to see sweeping
change in Cash Hotel is just the type of person.

Speaker 37 (01:04:03):
To do it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:03):
Hagrity on NBC's Meet the Press on Capitol Hill. Today,
Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi will meet with Senators. She
was Trump's choice to replace Matt Gates when Gates withdrew.
Trump's threat of tariffs on Mexico and Canada over the
border disaster is getting results. It led to talks with
the new Mexican president last week, and Canadian Prime Minister

(01:04:27):
Justin Trudeau flew down to meet Trump at mar A Lago.
This has border crossings at the northern border with Canada
skyrocket under Biden, with a spike in the rise of
illegal aliens from India, an increase of some twenty two
percent this fiscal year alone. Sanctuary cities are fighting Trump's

(01:04:47):
proposed mass deportations incoming borders are Tom Holman says he's
found a way to get around the pushback.

Speaker 29 (01:04:53):
We want to limit ICE's access to your communities. Give
me access to the jail. Is not a safety issue,
a common sense issue.

Speaker 3 (01:05:01):
Homan repeatedly has told those sanctuary cities to get out
of his way. It's now six thirty five, no issues
so far this morning. At Bush and Hobby Airports. Yesterday,
between two and three hundred flights were delayed out of
the two airports combined with more than six thousand flights
delayed across the country. If you're driving this holiday season

(01:05:22):
and you need a new car, you know it's going
to be hard to pay off those car loans. Thanks
to high prices and interest rates. One third of all
auto loans are now underwatering more than the car is worth.
KTRH Car pro Jerry Reynolds says a lot depends on
how far under you actually are.

Speaker 31 (01:05:39):
If it's more than five thousand dollars, I would tell
people to just hang on, don't do anything until the
value and the payoffs get closer together.

Speaker 6 (01:05:48):
He says.

Speaker 3 (01:05:49):
If you need new wheels and your negative equity is small,
he recommends rolling it into a lease. Rather into another loan.
Some thirteen billion dollars is expect to be spent today.
It is, of course, cyber Monday. Almost eleven billion dollars
was spent online for Black Friday shopping six thirty six
on KTRH. The multi billion dollar I forty five expansion

(01:06:13):
is apparently going to force out hundreds of local businesses.

Speaker 39 (01:06:17):
Three hundred and thirty one of them, plus five places
of worship will have to relocate.

Speaker 32 (01:06:22):
I don't know what the compensation looks like for businesses,
if that actually completely recoups the cost of what it
means to move your business to another location.

Speaker 39 (01:06:31):
Aaron Erkson of the group Stop Text Dot I forty
five says many businesses on Saint Emmanuel where it starts,
have already left, and in reality it's not going to
help the traffic problems either.

Speaker 32 (01:06:41):
Now people will think, oh, it's a wider freeway, so
then I can just get on that. Therefore more people
will get on the freeway.

Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
She says.

Speaker 39 (01:06:47):
Iten's expansion was similar and did nothing to help. Andre
Perard News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:06:54):
Rockets beat the Thunder last night one nineteen to one
sixteen and the Texans Top the Jaguars twenty three to
twenty They're eight and five now and are off next weekend.
I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news Weather in traffic station
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and stronger.

Speaker 40 (01:07:13):
The Return the Great of America American Comeback on news
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Speaker 3 (01:07:22):
So is rfk JOR gonna take away your twinkies?

Speaker 4 (01:07:27):
Believe it or not? The CEO of Smuckers, you know
that Smuckers. Smuckers owns Twikies. Now it's not He hasn't
been hostess for a long time. Yeah, Twikies are now
made by the same time they make Smuckers. It's got
to be good. Mark Smucker, the CEO of Twinkies, isn't
worried about rfk JR. He thinks that snacking will continue.
Americans love their snacks and we will continue to eat

(01:07:50):
our snacks. Okay, there may be some changes coming to
those snacks though.

Speaker 3 (01:07:57):
Here is.

Speaker 4 (01:07:59):
Here's a guy by the name of what is his name?
Cali means he's the founder of True med He said
that the difference between American twinkies and twinkies that are
served in other countries. Well, for one thing, they don't
have the high fruit toose corn syrup. They don't have
the yellow five dye, the red forty dye in it.
So what do those things mean having those ingredients and

(01:08:22):
twinkies we.

Speaker 41 (01:08:22):
Should be conserveed, Rachel, because those are not ingredients by
and large, that are in Twinkies that are made in
any other country. I want to be clear, Bobby Kennedy's
not saying he's going to take the twinkies away, but
we should be starting to ask questions as seventy seven
percent of young adults aren't e those about to join
the military in the United States due to metabolic health

(01:08:43):
due to food.

Speaker 3 (01:08:44):
We have these things called grass standards. No other country
has them. Food companies can sell police.

Speaker 9 (01:08:49):
You know.

Speaker 41 (01:08:50):
That's not conservative, it's not liberal. It just doesn't make sense.
We have ten thousand ingredients that aren't allowed in European foods.
More alarmingly, Rachel, we subsidize this food. You know, again,
Twinkies should exist, but it was just on Amazon right
before this show. They're available for snap you can buy
them with food stamp dollars right now.

Speaker 3 (01:09:09):
Twinkies.

Speaker 41 (01:09:10):
Additionally, Twinkies actually qualify for federally funded school lunch programs.
There's no nutrition or sugar limits on federally funded school lunches.
The last thing I'll mention the USDA essentially recommends twinkies
for two year olds. The USDA right now are guidelines
which are very corrupt, say that ten percent of a

(01:09:31):
two year old's diet can be added sugar. So by
the letter of the nutrition guidelines, we're actually recommending twinkies
to kids. So, as you said, there's a real optimistic,
mystic vision here. I think the food industry is not
fully understanding what President Trump and RFK are saying. They're saying,
let's get all stay closer together. Let's have American food
be the most nutritious food in the world and the

(01:09:53):
best food in the world.

Speaker 4 (01:09:54):
Or at least as nutritious is the same foods in
other countries. Right six forty times for trafficking weather together,
we're checking out the DRIVEE once again.

Speaker 3 (01:10:02):
Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:10:03):
All right, DA, they've cleared the wreck off the west Loop. Sam,
I'm telling you, the responders are just on fire. This morning,
HFT had two right lanes flock and then just like
they got it off, the West loop at Beach Nut.
The wreck is gone. We're a little heavy going around
the curve north Freeway. Also I forty five, let's check
your squish. Wow, look at that. Not only is the
wreck gone, the suckage is out of the way. We're

(01:10:24):
a little thick on forty five from Tidwell the Parker southbound.
Just a slight back quarder slip if that ninety. I
don't like the way that wreck looks inbound Green's value.
That's some bad placement. It's messing you up from the beltwave.
This is actually a good time to jump on old
ninety instead it's crazy bumpy, so you'll go slow. But
at least everybody's sober on it at this hour, unlike

(01:10:46):
Friday nights and two eighty eight northbound got breaks right
around Orum coming up to read and plus we have
that big old stalled eight team wheel a flatbed northbound
that's over on the side.

Speaker 3 (01:10:55):
We've got some breaks now. From Macart, I will.

Speaker 5 (01:10:58):
Check your northwest side Grand March at the six fifty
break and the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from
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Speaker 4 (01:11:07):
Terry Smith is with us, and she has another nice
day coming up, although again we could use a little
bit of rain, so you got to add on the
horizon for us.

Speaker 19 (01:11:15):
Yeah, we've got some rain midweek, and it looks like
we may get some rain for the rest of a
week as well, at least the possibility of some range.
So if you need a dry day today and tomorrow,
look good. Temperatures today in the upper sixties. Tomorrow's a
little bit cooler in the mid to upper sixties. And
then this low pressure system that's over South Texas right

(01:11:36):
now starts to head our way. So we've got an
eighty percent chance of rain Wednesday, a sixty percent chance
of more showers. Thursday and Friday at forty percent chance
of more wet weather.

Speaker 4 (01:11:47):
Jepp At youre right now forty three at your official
severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. You are commute,
you are forecast your news. It's Houston's Morning News, brought
to you, buying you sousway to those solutions. So if
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man of you've been asking where's Sherra? What happened to Shera?
So I did my level best answer to that question.
But if you missed the announcement, I will repeat that
announcement at seven fifty two. Just you know, seven fifty two.
We'll cover it again. Right now, it's time for traffic
and whether together. We're checking out the drive again. Here's
sky Mine.

Speaker 5 (01:12:27):
All right, dude, you know I'm gonna miss her so much,
and I'm gonna miss putting a possum and your fan belt.
Thanks for your comments on my social media. Everybody ninety
Crosby Freeway New ninety. We call it New ninety. Right
at greens by you it's a wreck there. I don't
like the way this looks. We're scootshut from the beltway
twenty extra minutes on the inbound. I see a lot
of you are rerouting on the west on the east, SAM.

(01:12:49):
Not bad for the East Sam for now and ten
whatever was over the bridge, We're good to go. Skymike
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From r kat right. Generator Supercenter twenty four our weather center.
Most of Sunday mile today sixty eight tomorrow partly called
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forty k TRH. Time to check out some of our

(01:13:17):
top trending stories. Cliff is here.

Speaker 3 (01:13:19):
Thank you, Jimmy, sponsored by Morrow Mechanical Hunter. Biden is
pardoned by his father after the President assisted that wouldn't happen.
The retire Texas judge who signed death row inmate Robert
Robson's execution warrant has recused himself from the case. And
I don't know if you missed this or not, Jimmy,
but Costco is going to stop selling books at most

(01:13:40):
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Speaker 4 (01:14:00):
Fifty three at a time here on Houston's Party News.
All right, the Department of Government Efficiency. Can we all
agree that there's very few things at the government level
that are less efficient than anything having to do with
the Pentagon, including the Department of Veterans Affairs, also very inefficient.

Speaker 3 (01:14:18):
But the good news.

Speaker 4 (01:14:19):
While there are some plenty in Washington, DC that fear
the Department of Government Efficiency coming in and gutting their
departments represented, Greg Murphy's not among them. He thinks that
once this is done, this is going to help free
up money for real veteran causes. It's going to cause
them to have really take a good hard look at

(01:14:41):
how much money they're spending and what they're spending it on.
Here he is on Fox, and here's what he had
to say about DOGE and Veterans affairs.

Speaker 38 (01:14:50):
We've seen this administration, especially in the last four years
I've sat on Veterans Affairs, and it's been a scandal
ridden administration as far as it goes for our vener as.
We saw eleven million dollars just go out the war
with go out the door with you know, unaccepted or
unregistered pay raises and bonuses for executives at the VA.

Speaker 3 (01:15:11):
It goes on and on and on. In fact, you know,
I sat down in the VIA committee one day. It
just was scribbling some statistics.

Speaker 38 (01:15:17):
We spend five times per patient more at the VA
than the new and the British healthcare system. Not that
that's a paragon of excellence to look at, but it
just goes to show you how much more we spend
on what ends up in wasted money, abused money, fraudulent
money that goes on in our VA system. You know,
at one out of ten of my constituents is a veteran.

(01:15:40):
We get calls all the time about our veterans not
being served. Well, I think the VA does do a
lot of things good, but I think it is a
bureaucratic agency that has grown and grown and grown. I
mean they just asked for a couple of billion more
because they couldn't predict They didn't were able to predict
their expenditures well enough. So I think this whole theme
that the present and it's bringing to this about streamlining

(01:16:02):
government is really going to be for everyone's benefit, especially
our veterans.

Speaker 42 (01:16:06):
Let's talk to former Congressman Doug Collins. You know, he's
a front of this program. He's been someone I've known
for years. So he's Donald Trump's pick to run the VA.
If Doug we're here, what would you say to him
about where where's the first place you used to start.
If he gets confirmed to lead the VA, well, Doug.

Speaker 3 (01:16:28):
Is going to be an excellent pitch pick.

Speaker 38 (01:16:31):
Rather, I've known it briefly because we crossed just when
I came in and everything.

Speaker 3 (01:16:35):
He is a go getter. It's going to be a
target rich environment.

Speaker 38 (01:16:39):
You know, we want we want efficiency, and it's a
change shall in the calculus of.

Speaker 3 (01:16:44):
Thinking about what government does. Is that, well, we need
more money this, we need more money to do this.

Speaker 38 (01:16:49):
No, we need to learn and do it smart, more smart,
more efficiently like private business does. And so I think
it's going to be I think it's going to be
a real welcome change by the American people and get
back to really serving what we're supposed to do with
tax payers, with our veterans, making sure they have appointments
on time, make sure they don't get bounced around endlessly

(01:17:10):
within the system. I really, really think Doug will do
an excellent job. Well, let's hope he's right all right.
Time for the timeline.

Speaker 4 (01:17:17):
Got a pair of tickets Go see Andrea Butchelli live
in concert with the Houston Stephanie. It's going to be
June the twelfth at Toyota Center. Tickets are on sale
right now Toyota Center dot com. But you can win
affair from us. Just tell us what year today's timeline's from.

Speaker 43 (01:17:31):
It was December, and while circling the moon, the crew
of Apollo eight gave a Christmas greeting dur.

Speaker 3 (01:17:39):
And on television again, this is fine little can you
get treason?

Speaker 5 (01:17:46):
Ye five oh?

Speaker 3 (01:17:47):
It was in its first season on CBS and it
was on.

Speaker 5 (01:17:49):
The islands for about a year.

Speaker 3 (01:17:50):
She still doesn't help us.

Speaker 24 (01:17:51):
Down at the movie versions who have recently died have
been returning to life.

Speaker 3 (01:17:56):
George Romero is neither of the living dead opened in theaters.
You had a gun shoot him in the head. That's
a sure way to kill him.

Speaker 43 (01:18:02):
And the big hit on the radio, Marvin Gay I
heard it through the grape vine, was number one.

Speaker 3 (01:18:09):
What year was it?

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If you know seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four, that is seven one three two one
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ourselves a winner. That would be Susan in Belleville. Whe
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You get a pairict try again, Jimmy Paar tickets see
Andrea Butcelli live in concert with the Houston Somebody June
the twelfth, of Toyota Center. You got all kinds of

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Speaker 4 (01:18:52):
From the John Morris Services Studios. Seven am is our
time here on Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among
our top stories this far, Joe has pardoned Hunter, I
love hates Trump's pick for the FBI, and coming up
at seven oh eight, Well, this particular book sales through

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the roof ever since the election. What is the book?
Those stories and more in the middlete say head first though, dude, yes,
Sky Mike, you got any more Andrea but Chili tickets?

Speaker 5 (01:19:22):
I bet I have some for tomorrow. Oh okay, all right,
let's go. You know what hop on, We're gonna get
on it.

Speaker 6 (01:19:26):
In East Kdy Freeway, La La La Lo inbound. We
look good.

Speaker 5 (01:19:30):
We're a little packed up from Graham Parkway to Barker
Cypress in spots, but it's not bad for the KDE.
You only lose about six minutes this way westwoop six
' ten going down to Uptown. That makes sense and
breaks now Hempstead to the Kdie Freeway and we've cleared
that accident. Crosby Freeway inbound Greens Road. Stay the course,
it's all better. Skymike is a generator supercenter, dot com

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Speaker 3 (01:20:09):
It is time now for the news. Here's Flip Sanders.
Thank you, Jimmy. It's seven oh two on KTRH. We're
sponsored by Oopsteam Cleaning. Will you accept the jury's outcome,
their verdict, no matter what it is. Yes? And have
you ruled out a pardon for your son?

Speaker 18 (01:20:23):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:20:24):
That was President Joe Biden in June talking to ABC News.
That was also a lie because last night pardoning Hunter
is exactly what he did.

Speaker 7 (01:20:35):
This is beyond the two cases. This is saying, if
there's anything else in that period for essentially ten years,
I as President Joe Biden, am giving him a full
pardon for things that may not have even been charged yet,
that may possibly still be out there.

Speaker 3 (01:20:49):
Hunter Biden was facing sentencing December twelfth in his federal
gun conviction and the sixteenth in his tax evation case
on truth Social President elect Donald Trump react that asking
if the pardon includes the January sixth hostages who have
now been imprisoned for years. Trump also threw the left
into hysterics by nominating Cash Patel to replace Christopher Ray

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as FBI director.

Speaker 8 (01:21:14):
All of the people pulling their hair out are exactly
the people who are dismayed about having a real reformer
come into the FBI and clean out the corrupted partisans
who sadly have burrowed into senior career positions.

Speaker 3 (01:21:28):
Cruise on CBS has faced the nation. The President elect
also told the Bricks Alliance Brazil, Russia, India, China and
other countries that he would tariff them at one hundred
percent if they moved away from the American dollar in
trading seven h three now on KTRH at the border.
Texas apparently is planning to bust illegal aliens directly to

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Ice instead of to sanctuary cities. State officials aren't exactly
denying it. This could be an effect of strategy.

Speaker 37 (01:21:58):
Of course.

Speaker 3 (01:21:58):
First off, you have to cut out all the NGOs,
DPS Lieutenant Chris Olivares on Fox Business. Of course, Texas
may not have to use the buses if the President
elect revives one of his signature border security policies.

Speaker 10 (01:22:13):
And that would be the return of Trump's remain in
Mexico policy.

Speaker 11 (01:22:17):
At high noon on January twentieth, right after the inauguration,
right after the swearing end, they'll have that thing chambered
and ready to pull the trigger.

Speaker 3 (01:22:25):
That is Border reporter Todd Benzman.

Speaker 12 (01:22:28):
That makes people stay in Mexico instead of in the
United States. They have to stay in Mexico for the
duration of their asylum claim. Nobody is coming for the
great Mexican dream, and.

Speaker 10 (01:22:39):
He adds it cannot be tied up in the courts.
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty KA TIERI, Thank you, Jeff.

Speaker 3 (01:22:47):
Elsewhere, Breitbart reports that seven special interest aliens, all from Iran,
were found in a group of nearly three hundred illegals
in Eagle Pass late last week, and that comes as
the Iranian back to there or a group MAS releases
a video of an Israeli hostage this weekend. The Biden
administration claims it's trying to make a deal and get

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the other hostages released.

Speaker 13 (01:23:09):
I can't make you any predictions about the shape of
that deal or when it will come, but I can
tell you that we are working actively to try to
make it happen.

Speaker 3 (01:23:18):
We are engaged deeply with the key players in the region.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Meet the Press, and
there's this. The President was spotted with a copy of
an anti Israel book during a Black Friday shopping trip
in Nantucket. The book is called The One hundred Year
War on Palestine, written by Rashid Khalidi, who's on record

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is saying, quote when someone says I'm a terrorist, my
feelings aren't hurt. Seven oh five Now on KTRH, State
lawmakers are looking to do more work on election integrity
in January. Several bills already filed to address various issues.

Speaker 14 (01:23:57):
It's support to make sure that we keep election results
reporting to be done within twenty four hours and that's
part of this election package.

Speaker 3 (01:24:07):
State Senator Paul Bettencourt says he's found a total of
seven different election integrity bills. Willmakers also cracked down on
DEI two years ago. Now, new research shows that some
DEI training causes psychological harm. This has more corporations back
away from their initiatives.

Speaker 15 (01:24:26):
Like many companies all across the United States. We've been
on a journey and we continue to be on a journey.
And what we're trying to do is to ensure that
every customer, every associate phils welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:24:39):
Walmart's CEO John Ferner. There other companies making similar moves,
Ford Lows and Harley Davidson. There are minimal delays at
the airports this morning after a busy travel weekend. The
FAA says it handled a record two hundred and thirty
two thousand flights last week. Only one and a half
percent of those flights were either delayed or canceled. Seven

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h seven Now on k TRHD, Texans hold off the
Jaguars twenty three to twenty. Defensive back of ziz al
Shire faces disciplinary action by the NFL for his hit
on Trevor Lawrence, which started to brawl between the two teams.

Speaker 16 (01:25:15):
It's not unfortunate with the hit with the zas as
hit us now when we're coaching, not representative of who
Asease is. Like Z's a smart player, you know. I'll
talk to Azaz addressing personally and we'll move forward from it.

Speaker 3 (01:25:28):
The Texans have their buy next weekend. The video boards
at NRG that were once the biggest and all of
pro sports need to be replaced. It's also a number
of major repairs needed to the building.

Speaker 37 (01:25:40):
If you were at a.

Speaker 17 (01:25:41):
Game when it started a leak, right yeah, I was
at the National Championship that was here early in twenty
twenty four and during warm ups a nasty storm blew
through the roof started the leak. I was on the
field watching guys warm up, rain was coming through.

Speaker 3 (01:25:52):
Shawn Salisbury and Brian Lilima from Sports Talk seven ninety
say that an outside firm estimates and RG will need
two hundre's sixty four million dollars in work over the
next twenty years. And finally, UT is number two in
the polls. After their win over A and M on Saturday,
they faced Georgia in the SEC Championship game this coming Saturday,

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I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news weather in traffic station
News Radio seven forty ktrh. Crime is on the rise,
our schools are in trouble. The next four years. Will
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Speaker 4 (01:26:34):
So, the book sales are way up since the Trump election.
And it's not the Art of the Deal, No, it's not.
It's the Bible. The Bible sales up twenty two percent
since the end of well actually since the end of October,
so even before the election, just right before the election,

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despite the fact that twenty eight of adults in the
US are now religiously unaffiliated. According to Pew Research, Bible
sales rose to fourteen point two million in twenty twenty
three from nine point seven million in twenty nineteen. Have
already hit thirteen point seven million in the first ten
months of this year, so it's pretty significant. Now, what's

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driving the sales could be this conservative ground swell that
we see. Maybe young people are looking to find some
answers that they haven't been able to find in society
at large. Maybe the fact that the Trump has been
re elected shows that there's going to be resurgence of

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religion in America, a religious revival, if you will.

Speaker 3 (01:27:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:27:47):
I don't know overall what it means. I know that
people felt fairly hopeless and worried and anxious going into
the election, and they feel much less so now. Maybe
Bible sales or reflection of that. Seven ten Time for
traffic and weather together, we're checking out the drive again.
Here Sky Mike, let's get on your north side here.

Speaker 5 (01:28:08):
I have forty five, Jimmy, We've got this roadwork on
the north Sammet's westbound Alding Westfield.

Speaker 3 (01:28:13):
It's kind of a lifestyle. It's going to be there
for a while.

Speaker 6 (01:28:16):
We're backed up from JFK.

Speaker 5 (01:28:17):
Now in extra three or four minutes going that way
and then the other way Imperial Valley. That messes up
the left line. Plus it'll mess with your forty five
southbound ramp. That'll if you're trying to get on that ramp.
What I might do is it gets a little later,
go to Aldean Vendor Bus to U turn Katie Freeway Advisors.

Speaker 6 (01:28:34):
You got the look at it sunrise.

Speaker 5 (01:28:36):
We look good.

Speaker 6 (01:28:37):
Now we've got some slow down from Mason Road, but
not bad.

Speaker 3 (01:28:40):
For the Katie.

Speaker 5 (01:28:41):
Just an extra eight minutes on the inbound two eighty
h squish up now from the belt. We have stopped
running into each other on the new ninety Crosby Freeway.
We cleared that wreck at Greensby. You stay the course there,
Ien East Freeway. We've cleared the police activity over the bridge.
Stay the course there. I'm Skymike. It's your Generators dot
Com traffic Center from.

Speaker 4 (01:29:02):
R KTRH top Tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather Center.
Terry Smith is here. We've got a gorgeous morning that
we're starting off with, Terry, and a nice day coming
up today.

Speaker 3 (01:29:10):
Oh yeah, really.

Speaker 19 (01:29:11):
Nice day today and tomorrow actually, and then it starts
getting a little soggy, and we really do need some rain.
So just plan accordingly for the second half of the
week to be rather wet, but just blue skies today
and a cool day.

Speaker 3 (01:29:27):
But this is like typical December for US.

Speaker 19 (01:29:29):
Upper sixties today, mid upper sixties Tomorrow. Wednesday begins the
rain and eighty percent chance of showers, perhaps a little
bit of thunder. Temperatures in the upper sixties to mid seventies. Wednesday,
there is a sixty percent chance of more rain Thursday
and a forty percent chance of showers on Friday, and
Friday could actually be rather chilly.

Speaker 3 (01:29:52):
Right now, it looks like heiselb in the fifties on Friday.

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Right now, forty three at your official severe weather station,
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It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you Biden U, South
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Speaker 4 (01:30:08):
Morning News team. All the info you need to take
on the day. Well, as we've been telling you all morning,
no surprise Joe Biden pardoned his son. What might be
a little bit of a surprise is just how all
encompassing this pardon is. It's not just for one thing.
It's not the gun charge. It's anything he might have

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done for the last ten years twenty fourteen through twenty
twenty four anything he may have done. He gets an
unconditional pardon for any of those things, which I think
also takes him off the hook as far as having
to worry about testifying. Maybe that helps protect the old
man as well. More on that story coming up next.
We'll visit with Attorney Dune and Bials about that first, though,

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Traffic and weather together as we check out the drive
once again.

Speaker 3 (01:30:56):
The sky mine.

Speaker 5 (01:30:56):
All right, Jimmy, I need a pardon. Let's do something
on the north side here. I'll go fast. You got
tip line seven three two one two tips Jin from Tomball.

Speaker 7 (01:31:05):
Tays guy Mike, there's an seuz on fire on the
Grand Parkway.

Speaker 3 (01:31:11):
He's found.

Speaker 27 (01:31:12):
As you go over Goslin just happened.

Speaker 6 (01:31:15):
Look out as you're coming over from the golf ball.

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We'll get you laneage at the seven thirty report in
the classic view at GMC traffic.

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k TRH. Don to get you caught up on some

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of our top stories this morning. Here's Cliff.

Speaker 3 (01:31:45):
Thank you, Jimmy. We are brought to you by DNM
Auto Leasing. We'll have Donald Trump's reaction to Joe Biden's
pardoning hunter the funeral for that Precinct five Deputy Constable
Casey Hudson, killed with her daughter in a crash last month.
Is Thursday in Hockley. It's a private ceremony, and the
Big Ten Conference finds both Michigan and Ohio State for

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their post game brawl on Saturday in Columbus. Get the
latest news anytime at KTRH dot com or next update
is a seven thirty for.

Speaker 9 (01:32:15):
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Speaker 4 (01:32:22):
Seven forty KTRH. Seven twenty two is our time here
in Houston's warning news. Indeed, he has been pardoned. Seven
twenty two is our time. Dune Biles joins us. He
is an attorney at law here in Texas. Ready to
fill you in on the Hunter Biden pardon. I think
what got my attention. I know about you done them.

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What got my attention was the all encompassing ten year
anything you may have done or could have done, or
should have done or should not have done between twenty
fourteen and twenty twenty four. It wasn't a normal pardon
of a specific crime like the gun charge. He was
an all encompassing pardon.

Speaker 3 (01:33:02):
Yeah, absolutely it was.

Speaker 18 (01:33:04):
And President Biden, as he said, is hoping that America
will understand that he was partnering his son, And I
think that tells you what's going on there. He's partnering
his son and he made it all encompassing so that
in his mind put an end to what he caused
the witch, which is rich coming from that particular department

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of Justice.

Speaker 4 (01:33:26):
Well, and it also means that they're probably that would
probably take any potential deal that anybody would want to
make for Hunter Biden to testify against his father or
any other member of the family off the table right.

Speaker 18 (01:33:40):
Well, as far as somehow having leverage over him with
potential crimes, Yes, but he should be still be able
to be subpoena and forced to testify, though whether he
testifies truthfully, etcetera, it's obviously to be is an issue.
And I assume this was meant to get at potential
issues with his involvement in Ukraine and to take those

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off the table as well.

Speaker 3 (01:34:03):
Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 4 (01:34:04):
So here's the question, if that's what you were going
to do, why deny that you were going to do
it for the great like the time that he has
denied that he was going to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:34:14):
Well, you and I know the answer to that question.
He was running for president at the.

Speaker 18 (01:34:18):
Time, and then Kamala was, and he didn't want to
harm their political chances by admitting what he was always
going to do. I mean, I didn't have any doubt
that this was going to be the result one way
or another. In fact, some of my friends and I
had speculated that this had long been done and there
was a pocket pardon sitting there waiting to the exercise

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didn't where necessary, And that's what's happened.

Speaker 37 (01:34:41):
He was playing politics.

Speaker 18 (01:34:42):
But if he told the American people something that just
wasn't true, he was always going to pardon Hunter.

Speaker 4 (01:34:46):
Well yeah, And here's the other thing about it. I
kind of wonder, despite the attempts they make to make
Trump look like he is all about retribution, I kind
of had to wonder myself if Biden had had the
pardon hunter, if maybe Donald Trump would have.

Speaker 16 (01:35:03):
Oh, he may have.

Speaker 18 (01:35:05):
I mean, there are arguments who made this. I've made
all the time about others, whether it's Hilly Morton or
so forth. And you know, Ford pardon Nixon for the second.
This country at some point we do need to move on,
and we need to and Donald Trump especially needs to
spend this time worrying about how we make America great again,
not not what happened under the Biden.

Speaker 3 (01:35:24):
Administration other than making changes to the.

Speaker 18 (01:35:26):
Department of Justice and other places. But at some point
we need to spend our time moving forward.

Speaker 4 (01:35:31):
You know what, though, it just adds another level of
cynicism as to why most of US Americans feel the
way we do about politics, because we really don't believe
that anybody will in Washington, d C. Or or has
powerful people in Washington, d C. Will ever be held
accountable for what they've done.

Speaker 1 (01:35:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:35:48):
No, no, it's true because it seems like they never are.
And I'm sure nobody's going to be held accountable for
the Wrestler House which was which costs the one president
basically an entire time and held the country back, and
yet no one's gonna know what's going to pay any
consequences for that.

Speaker 4 (01:36:06):
Yeah, all right, Den, thank you appreciate it. That's done.
Bios Attorney at Law seven twenty six. It's time to
take a look at your money. Jeff Bellinger is here
and Jimmy.

Speaker 23 (01:36:15):
A shakeup is in the works at Chrysler's parent company, Stalantis,
announcing today the chief executive Carlos Tavaris, is stepping down immediately.
Tavarus and the Automaker's board have been at odds over
a sharp decline in the company sales and profit. Costco
is reportedly planning to end year round book sales at
most of its stores. Reports say that starting next month,

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books will become seasonal items at Costco, with book sections
being brought back for the holidays and at selected times.

Speaker 3 (01:36:45):
Throughout the year.

Speaker 23 (01:36:46):
And speaking of books, the Wall Street Journals says sales
of the Good Book are booming. Bible sales for the
first ten months of this year are of more than
twenty percent from the same period last year. Checking the
stock market, futures S and P futures up a fraction.
As futures are up twenty eight points. Now Future is
still the laggards. They are down six points. I'm Jeff Bellinger,
Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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Seven thirty Our time Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories this half hour, is anyone really surprised?
And Hunter Biden got a pardon? Texas Democrats pushing for
more gun control and coming up at seven thirty eight.
Sales are good so far. So what happens today for
Cyber Monday? Details in the minutes ahead. You're on Houston's
Morning News. First, we're checking out that morning drive once

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again with a SkyLife. What have you discovered?

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We found laneage on Grand Parkway as promised, all right,
Grham Parkway eastbound. Jin from Tomball gets a banana stricker
for her portfolio at Gozzling. This is a vehicle fire.
Everybody's okay, whoo, they're putting.

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That thing out now.

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It's at Gauzling eastbound. It's right lane block.

Speaker 5 (01:38:08):
We are completely scunched up now from twenty nine to
twenty going that way.

Speaker 6 (01:38:11):
John from the East sides on the tip link heace guy.

Speaker 37 (01:38:14):
Mike got a flatbed trailer truck and trailer with.

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A excavator on top that is in the middle lane
right fast and six ten over back.

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All right, put this on your hard hat.

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We've got a flatbed eighteen wheeler with big old piece
of equipment inbound East Freeway at the loop.

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Speaker 3 (01:38:55):
It's time now for the news. Here's Slip Saunders. Thank you, Jimmy.
Good morning everybody. It's seven thirty two on KRH.

Speaker 2 (01:39:01):
I'll bet you the father probably pardons him.

Speaker 3 (01:39:03):
Let's see what happens. How was Donald Trump's prediction in
October which came true as President Joe Biden pardoned Hunter,
who was just days away from being sentenced in two
federal cases after repeatedly saying he would.

Speaker 25 (01:39:18):
Not do so.

Speaker 3 (01:39:19):
Trump on Truth, Just on truth. Social called it a
miscarriage of justice. Also topping the news, we had plenty
of violent crime this weekend this Thanksgiving weekend, a West
Euston man who is charged with capital murder in the
stabbing of his sister and two year old niece. Paarland
police police arrest a man after a three hour standoff

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which started when the man shot at police. No cops
were injured, but a bullet did hit an officer's protective shield. Now,
last week we told you that more Republican women were
arming themselves a result of violent crime. In Austin, Texas,
Democrats have filed nearly one hundred anti Second Amendment bills
ahead of next month's legislative session. Chris McNutt with the

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group Texas Gun Rights is fighting back.

Speaker 37 (01:40:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 25 (01:40:05):
Absolutely, and we're working with Representative Briscoe Kane in the
Houston area to ban red flag gun confiscation laws.

Speaker 3 (01:40:13):
So that's House Built one sixty two.

Speaker 25 (01:40:15):
That would pretty much neuter everything that the Corn and
Biden compromise tried to do.

Speaker 3 (01:40:20):
Other bills filed include ending open carry. Also in Austin,
the pro life group Texas Right to Life is planning
to help launch civil lawsuits against those trying to illegally
traffic abortion pills into Texas.

Speaker 26 (01:40:34):
Despite being a strongly pro life state, there are some
gaps in Texas law.

Speaker 3 (01:40:38):
Here, those laws have.

Speaker 27 (01:40:40):
Not kept pro abortion groups and activists from promoting illegal abortions,
bringing abortion pills into Texas.

Speaker 26 (01:40:47):
John Sego, president of Texas Right to Life, told kt
H these lawsuits will help enforce laws.

Speaker 3 (01:40:52):
Left wing groups are ignoring this.

Speaker 27 (01:40:54):
Is illegal, but we don't have effective tools to stop
the new tactics we're seeing from those that are promoting abortion.

Speaker 26 (01:41:01):
Siego says he hopes enforcement of pro life laws will
be strengthened during the upcoming legislative session. Ethan Buchanan News
Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:41:09):
It's now seven thirty four President Elect Trump announcing the
nomination of Cash Patel to replace FBI Director Christopher Ray.
The left has been in meltdown mode ever since, but
Republicans are praising the pick.

Speaker 28 (01:41:22):
The FBI has failed the American people under the leadership
of Christopher Ray.

Speaker 3 (01:41:27):
It needs to be purged.

Speaker 28 (01:41:29):
They failed in in trying to do anything to go
after drug traffickers, human smuggler, sex traffickers.

Speaker 3 (01:41:36):
The list goes on and on. House Silverside Committee Chair
James Comer on Fox Elsewhere, a hit piece by the
liberal New York Times publishing an email to Pete Hegseth,
the Defense Secretary nominee, written by his mother calling him
an abuser of women, an email that Penelope Hegseth later
apologized for. In fact, she called The Times quote disgusting

(01:41:59):
for publishing it. Seven thirty five last week, the President
elect promised tariffs on both Canada and Mexico if they
did not help secure the border. So within days of that,
Trump announced that he'd held talks with the Mexican President
Claudia Shinebaum and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Well he
flew tomorrow a Lago to meet with Trump this ass

(01:42:22):
Sanctuary cities continue to push back against the mass deportation
program incoming borders. Our Tom Homan says they can push
back all they want, but these deportations will happen.

Speaker 29 (01:42:33):
Get them on that administrative work, put more on the street,
and that's what we're going to do in these sanctuary
states and cities. Keep pushing back. I'll have the extra resources,
a double manpower.

Speaker 3 (01:42:42):
Owen says. He'll contract as much work that does not
require law enforcement officials as he can to get around
those sanctuary cities. A child was airlifted to a hospital
after a group of illegal aliens pushed the Razor Wire
and Eagle Pass yesterday. There's no word on that chance
can as of this morning. It's now seven thirty six.

(01:43:03):
So far, so good if you're heading to Bush and Hobby,
but it is early. Yesterday, there were about three hundred
flights delayed out of the two airports combined. Nationwide, we
saw more than six thousand delays. As the price of
a new car goes up, many people find that they
can't pay off their old one.

Speaker 30 (01:43:22):
One third of American car loans are now underwater, meaning
they owe more than the car is worth. KTRH Car
pro Jerry Reynolds says, if you're one of those in
that situation, consider leasing your next car.

Speaker 31 (01:43:32):
Typically a lease is three years, so if you have
to row some negative equity from one loan into a
lease in three years, it's all gone.

Speaker 3 (01:43:41):
You're free and clear with the world.

Speaker 30 (01:43:43):
But if you're more than five thousand dollars under water,
he recommends writing it out and paying down some more.
Corey Yelsen Hew's Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:43:50):
Speaking of spending Monday today is Cyber Monday, closing out
the first weekend of the traditional Christmas shopping season now.
According to the National Retail Federation, eleven billion dollars was
spent online for Black Friday. The expectation for today is
thirteen billion dollars. It's now seven thirty seven. Hundreds of

(01:44:11):
Houston businesses and house solds will have to relocate as
Techtock begins the I forty five expansion project. Aaron Eriksson
stoptex Dot I forty five says it'll displace more than
three hundred businesses in five houses of worship.

Speaker 32 (01:44:24):
Sane Emmanuel is going to be where the drainage project begins.
That's a street with bustling nightlife. It's got a lot
of businesses that people love dearly, and a lot of
those are going to be gone, and it's going to
completely strip that area of the community.

Speaker 3 (01:44:41):
She also adds that the traffic problem won't be solved
by the expansion. The Rocket's going a one nineteen to
one sixteen win over the thunder The Texans beat Jacksonville
twenty three to twenty And I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news,
weather and traffic station news Radio seven forty KGRH.

Speaker 2 (01:44:58):
In four for Today's World, For Tomorrows America and connected
to Houston.

Speaker 3 (01:45:05):
Now I can stay in the now.

Speaker 2 (01:45:06):
News radio seven KTRH Black seven thirty eight.

Speaker 4 (01:45:12):
That's the old days seven thirty. At other time, you're
in Houston's borning years. Oh, we spent a record on
Black Friday. Ten point eight billion is a country on
Black Friday. But we didn't spend it in the stores.
We spent most of it online. So Cyber Monday is
not just a which today is is not just a
Cyber Monday thing. It started on Friday with Black Friday

(01:45:34):
sales online. I did note along with this story, I
saw another story that Texas is the seventh most likely
state to be scammed holiday weekend shopping or tempted scams.
Florida was number one. Texas was number seven on the list.
I noted that my bank did something that they don't

(01:45:58):
normally do, because we did go online and we needed
to buy a new outdoor grill. You know, we've had
ours for seven years and the thing is falling apart,
and this is the time of the year, a good
time of the year to buy a grill because they're
usually all on sale because grilling season is coming to
an end, and we had a hard time buying it
at first because the bank that we have our debit

(01:46:22):
card with kept turning down the sale. They thought it
was they were afraid it was fraud. So you may
get a number of notices. Maybe you already noticed this
over the holiday weekend, fraud alert from your bank, you know,
just trying to make sure it's you that's making the purchase,
because clearly it was one of the worst weekends of
the year when it comes to you know, people at

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least attempting to make fraudulent purposes. So what are the
deals on this year? Electronics twenty six percent off on average, toys,
twenty five percent off, computers, twenty three percent off, apparel,
twenty two percent off. Television is twenty one percent off,
appliance is eighteen percent off of the biggest ones. I
did also know that even though it's a record ten
point eight billion spent, that's up only about ten percent

(01:47:05):
over last year. So when you figure in inflation, how
much was it really up? Not by all that much?
Seven forty time for traffic and weather. Together's we check
it again us sky Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:47:15):
All right, well, the rest of the media now knows
about that accident. Tracy from spring Fire, thanks for your
help here. This is North Grand Parkway right at Gosling Road.
Everybody's okay, Springfire. They're busy moving that hose and point
and it stuff. It's a red vehicle. It's a right lane.
Everybody's okay, more spring thank you. We're backed up now
all the way from the golf ball terry. And if

(01:47:37):
you're trying to get over to the Woodlands, it's going
to take you twenty extra minutes that way. Katie Freeway
starting to smuckle up. You now inbound right around Mason Road.
As I biden on the radio, we're backed up a
little from Barker Cypress and it's not bad for the
Katie an extra ten minutes here, let's see. Also, you've
got East Freeway.

Speaker 3 (01:47:56):
Let's see.

Speaker 5 (01:47:56):
My work wife, Christina Cruz, has put this in the system.
Now this is East Freeway outbound, not inbound, right after
six ' ten the loop and as you're trying to
reach Mercury, that is a stalled, big old eighteen wheeler
flatbed taking up a center lane. Gil clear, like, now
let's go instead of that, let's go to Bend from
a Tasca seat that he's got a scoot chare.

Speaker 3 (01:48:15):
Guy Mike all the email rooms.

Speaker 18 (01:48:17):
A little slow down right there, and right after that
it opened right back up almost speeds.

Speaker 3 (01:48:23):
People keeping all the radio stations.

Speaker 37 (01:48:25):
Keep the break lights off.

Speaker 5 (01:48:27):
Have a good day, all right. Thank you, even on
a slow day. I'm you know, we're your first, We're
your first source. Here am radio John from the east side.
Thanks so much for your help, and we'll review your
north side at the fifty break in the Generator Supercenter
dot Com Traffic Center from our kt r H Generator
super Center twenty four hour Weather Center.

Speaker 3 (01:48:44):
Terry Smith is here.

Speaker 4 (01:48:46):
Sunshine is back for today, wild temperatures are back for today.

Speaker 3 (01:48:49):
Rain's coming though.

Speaker 19 (01:48:50):
Yeah, and it looks like once we start to get
the wet weather, which will be about Wednesday, that we
may see some rain of the week. And we kind
of needed things have been on the dryer side for
the last several months, so we'll take what we can get.
If you need dry weather, though, you got it today
and tomorrow. And temperatures pretty much on track for early December.

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Upper sixties today and mid upper sixties tomorrow, but starting
Wednesday there's an eighty percent chance of showers and some thunder.
Temperatures will still be on the milder side in the
upper sixties to mid seventies Thursday, a sixty percent chance
of more showers. Friday, a forty percent chance of getting wet,
and temperatures could be kind of chilly by the end

(01:49:38):
of the week. Right now, it looks like Friday's highs
in the mid upper fifties. Right now forty three at
your official some Beer weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.
What you need to know for the day ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:49:51):
This is Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New
South Windows Solutions.

Speaker 4 (01:49:56):
So at five point fifty this morning, I made an
announcement regarding Shriff Fryar. So many of you have been asking,
as I would expect, whatever happened to Shara? Where's Shera?

Speaker 3 (01:50:05):
What's going on?

Speaker 4 (01:50:07):
So if you missed that announcement that five point fifty,
I will repeat that announcement coming up next. But first
we have traffic and weather together, starting with you skuy Mike.

Speaker 6 (01:50:16):
All right, and we've got east side. We were going
the wrong way here.

Speaker 5 (01:50:19):
This is an east bound it in East Freeway right
past the right past the butt plant. That's big old truck.
Several vehicles involved. It's a wrect three middle lanes. It's outbound,
not inbound. Grant park Way eastbound at Gosling. That's vehicle fire.
Everybody's okay, they just got to haul this off. It's
right lane block. We are packed up solid from the
golf Ball Golf Freeway, guil clear like ah.

Speaker 3 (01:50:40):
My goodness, covering some Thanksgiving.

Speaker 6 (01:50:43):
Ah My butt's big.

Speaker 32 (01:50:44):
Now free and clear, You're all the way to downtown.

Speaker 6 (01:50:47):
It's kind of weird here.

Speaker 3 (01:50:48):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:50:48):
I'm gonna miss share it too. And by the way,
thanks for your comments on my social media Skymike and
the classic view at GMC Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:50:55):
From r ktr H Generator super Center twenty four hour
weather centers. Today we're looking at mostly sunny skies, mild
conditions with a high temperature right about sixty eight. Tomorrow
partly clotting with a high temperature again about sixty eight
sixty nine, and then Wednesday, it looks like we're going
to start seeing some rain for a few days, maybe
all the way through the weekend.

Speaker 37 (01:51:13):
Off and on.

Speaker 4 (01:51:15):
Right now, temperature forty three at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH. I'm to check out
some of our top stories this morning here's Cliff and we're.

Speaker 3 (01:51:24):
Brought to you by Texas Mutual Insurance. Hunter Biden gets
the pardon from his father that the father insisted was
never going to come. Governor Greg Gabbotts, where's in a
new DPS chief this morning? It's Freeman Martin and early
voting begins today for some runoff elections around Houston, including
the race for Baytown mayor. Get the latest news anytime
at KTRH dot com. Our next update is at eight o'clock.

(01:51:48):
Checking in.

Speaker 15 (01:51:48):
I'm up money.

Speaker 3 (01:51:50):
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Speaker 2 (01:51:51):
We all avoid it, but you'll better understand the world
around you if you check in with US News Radio seven.

Speaker 4 (01:51:58):
KTRH seven fifty two is her time here on Houston's
boring News. This was not an easy announcement to make
two hours ago, and it's not easier to make it now,
but I will make it anyway. I apologize it's taken
this long to make it, but there's a whole lot
of behind the scenes reasons why it's taken this long.
I'll just leave it at that. As you've noticed, Sheriff

(01:52:19):
Fryar has not been on our show here for the
last three weeks. Sheriff Fryar is no longer with KTRH.
I'm sure she'll pop up and do something in the
future because she's she likes to keep busy. She does,
she likes to keep busy. Now, as far as why
she's no longer with us, let me just say that
our business, I'm sure you can read between the lines
on this one as much as anybody else, Our business

(01:52:41):
is constantly changing. Consolidation happening all around the country, frequent
staffing changes. As a result of this, every company in
America is trying to figure out how to run the
leaner demeanor. And we're seeing positions either consolidated or eliminated
across the country. And that's not just true of our
station here in Kuston. It's stations in our company all

(01:53:02):
across the country, stations in other companies all across the country.
It's just it's just the way it is right now
in the business world. We just went through a reorganization,
and unfortunately that means a Shaa is going to be
pursuing other opportunities. Now, like you, I'm good, maybe even
more than you. I'm going to miss having her here
in the morning. I mean, she's been my work wife,
She's been my constant partner for seven years. I don't

(01:53:25):
like this a lick, but it is what it is,
and we're going to carry on and try to do
the best job for you here on KTRH that we
can ever do. I'm like, I'm looking forward to seeing
whatever it is that is next in her life. And
I know there will the other things, and I know
that we'll all have an opportunity to talk one another
and to kind of follow the careers of each other

(01:53:46):
as we go through the future. Now, as for us,
as I said, we will carry on as best we can.
You know, we're a band down as they say, But
Sky Mike and myself and Cliff, we will do or
level best to do a quality morning show for you
each and every day of the week. We'll just muddle
through and do the best that we can for you

(01:54:07):
and hope that you understand, hope you keep listening. All right,
one more thing before we call it a day, and
that is the economy and what is the future of
the economy. Maybe things are going to get a whole
lot better. Maybe rates will continue to drop. Here is
the president of the Chicago Fed. He's going to do
some Fed speak I'll translate it at the end, but
it sounds to me like rates are probably going to

(01:54:28):
drop this month if.

Speaker 44 (01:54:29):
You take a step back and you compare yields now
to what they were in the spring, So you'd take
it kind of a longer view.

Speaker 3 (01:54:36):
There hasn't been.

Speaker 44 (01:54:37):
As much movement as there there's been a lot of
volatility in the short run. For the group that thinks
that was mainly driven by changes in expected inflation. My
only observation is we have market measures and estimates of
what expected inflation is going to be, and you haven't
seen the movements nearly as pronounced in inflation, So that's

(01:55:03):
probably not the main reason. I think part of the
long rates, of course, are they embody a path of
what they think the Fed is going to do over time.
So as the market starts changing how fast or how
slowly they think the Fed is going to be cutting rates,
that's going to affect what the level.

Speaker 3 (01:55:24):
Of these of these longer treasuries are going to be.

Speaker 44 (01:55:27):
So I wonder if there's a little bit of a
reflection problem partly in that.

Speaker 3 (01:55:31):
Too, well.

Speaker 20 (01:55:32):
Is there a question do you think about what happens
in December? We have the final meeting for the Federal
Reserve in just a couple of weeks. If you were
a voter, what is the important message you would send
to the markets when voting for another rate cut?

Speaker 44 (01:55:50):
Well, look, you know, I don't like tie in our
hands ahead of time, before we get all the data
that we're going to have, and before I've heard what
the other members of the FOMC, what they have to say,
and where their opinions are.

Speaker 3 (01:56:04):
That said, I think the longer through line over.

Speaker 44 (01:56:08):
The last year has been inflations coming down, the unemployment
and the job market has cooled to a level that
is that looks pretty sustainable.

Speaker 3 (01:56:20):
That's about what full employment is.

Speaker 44 (01:56:22):
And that's why as I look at the dot plot
and what all the members of the FOMC say they
expect for rates over a year, you know, by the
end of twenty five, I think rates go if conditions
continue like they have been continuing, rates go lower than
they are today.

Speaker 4 (01:56:41):
Okay, it took a long time to get there, but
that's what he finally, I think said rates are going down.
I don't think he made a commitment about December though. Listen,
gall have a great day. Thank you for listening. Thank
you for understanding, we'll see you tomorrow morning, bright and early,
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