May 29, 2026 • 36 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
- Hurricane Season
- Jill Biden's comments on Joe Biden's debate performance
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Now here's Jimmy Barrett. So hurricane season starts. Does it
start up? Monday?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Starts June? First? Just do first Monday? Hang on, let
me look at my calendar. Let me pick up my
cell phone and look at my calendar, because I don't
know what date is unless yes it's Monday. Okay, good,
So Monday morning on our kat r H Morning Show.
Just a little plug for that. We will uh, we
will have some guests on talking about the beginning of
hurricane season. Not not from hyping standpoint. I don't like
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hyping storms because you know, you hear all these I
see all these stories all the time, these doom and
gloom stories about oh, this is gonna be one of the.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Worst hurricane hurricane seasons in the history of that kind.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
And then you see other stories as well. It's a
super El Nino year, so that'll probably repress the hurricanes.
You know, it's a bad hurricane season if you get
hit by a hurricane period. That's basically how that works.
You get one big storm that creates a lot of damage,
and you've had a bad hurricane season, even if it's
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only one. I mean, we only had the year we
had Barrel. Was that a couple of years ago when
we had Barrel which was not a big hurricane, but
especially the imagination, but it's the first hurricane I've had
living here in Texas, and I think, what was it
like a Category one? Yeah, it wasn't a big storm,
but you know what it caused the problems. It caused
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some problems with people's roofs, It caused some problems with
you know, electrical lot that we were out of power
at our house for like eight nine days, So it
did cost some issues. But that was a very light
hurricane season. That was one of the few that hit
the United States that year. And last year, of course,
we had no hurricanes that any impact on the United
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States whatsoever. And that was during a year where supposedly
we're gonna have a bad hurricane season. So anyway, long
story short, I'm gonna try to make sure we don't
hype the hurricane season. I know the rest of the
media loves to do that because they love to prepare
you for a disaster, and more importantly, they want to
suck you in into watching coverage of whatever that disaster is.
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But I'm gonna try real hard not to do that.
We're just gonna have some practical things, like, for example,
they're using AI now as part of the hurricane forecasting process.
How does that work? I mean, can you program AI
to do a better job of forecasting whether that Humans
are having a very difficult time forecasting. We have a
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hard enough time getting whether accurately predicted by human beings,
let alone artificial intelligence. So I'm curious. We'll have that
done Monday. I'm curious how that all works.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Now.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Here's one though that's a good lead into that's something
to think about this weekend, right before the start of
hurricane season, and that is do you have flood insurance?
Because as we know, water is the biggest issue that
we face with most storms. All you have to do
is think back to Harvey and you know that water
is a big problem. Flooding could be a big problem.
It can be a big problem outside of hurricane season,
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just with a thunderstorm that you just kind of stalls
over your house and just keeps raining for hours on end.
You know, we have flooding issues. So flood insurance is
a smart thing for a lot of people to have,
but it's also gotten extremely expensive. And I'm going to
play this report for you for my television partner KPRC too,
because I thought there's some information missing there. I don't
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think they the equate the smaller. There are few people
that are caring flod fud insurance. There are more individuals
who've dropped their flood insurance. And I don't think they
give the credit to where the credit is due as
to why people are dropping it. Here's that report from
our television partner KPRC two.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
When you think of flooding in Houston, storms like Hurricane Harvey,
Tropical Storm Allison in the Tax Day flood of twenty
sixteen come to mind as scorching hot as a Houston
summer can be.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
We sure have our fair share of problems with water.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
If you live in the Houston area, you are at
risk of flooding. And after all, Houston is nicknamed the
Bayu City simply because well we have a lot of waterways,
which makes it even more difficult to swallow the statistic
that not hundreds, but thousands of Texans across the Loan
Star State are dropping their flood insurance policies. Data from
FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program shows a decline in policies
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across the nation, but no one has dropped more flood
policies than right here in the Lone Star State. A
staggering forty five thousand plus plants canceled in the last
year alone.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
I mean, we're situated here along a massive by They're
designed to move water, but the reality is is they
can only handle so much.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
That's right, and we can't plan for every rein of it.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Now. Look, I don't have to tell you that life
is getting more expensive. I'm sure you can think of
things that you've adjusted or cut out of your budget
just to make the dollars make sense.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
It's across the board affordability challenges that are going on,
and people are going to look for ways to save money.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Daniel Potter is a researcher with the Kinder Institute at
Rice University. His research showing that two thirds of Houstonians
are struggling with housing affordability.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Insurance is one of those things that, especially with flood insurance,
I don't necessarily need to have it. I don't have
to have it. People are going to look to make
cuts there.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
There's also this Our last major flood across the Houston
metro was Hurricane Harvey nearly a decade ago.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Are we becoming too comfortable?
Speaker 8 (05:45):
You're right, you become complacent and it becomes much more
of a comfortable issue versus one that you think you.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Need to take action on.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
But if we've learned anything over time, history repeats itself
in Houston.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Every place has a natural disaster that they face.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Ours and Harris County happens to be flooding.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I don't think it's a complacency problem. I think it's
purely and simply a price problem. Insurance in general has
gone way way up, flood insurance in particular. We have
two different policies with our freeport property. Now we have
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to have them the mortgage company because there's a mortgage
on it. If you own something free and clear and
you don't owe money to the bank on it, you
don't have to have flood insurance. That's strictly optional, but
you pretty much do you owe money on it. If
you're in a floodplane and you're paying a mortgage, that
mortgage company is going to make sure that their investment
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is protected because technically they're the ones that own the house,
not you, because you owe them money. But the problem
is is we have a twofold problem. Not only is
flood insurance very expensive, wind inhale that is equally expensive.
That's gone way way up between those two policies. For
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the freeport property we have, and it's with a rather
large deductible, we're still spending the better part of probably
seventy five hundred almost eight thousand dollars just on those
two policies alone, not to mention the regular homeowners policy.
It has become unaffordable for some people to carry flood insurance.
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If you have the option of carrying flood insurance, there
are some people who are willing to roll the dice
for no other reason, not because they don't think they
need it, not because they don't want to have it,
but because they simply can't afford it. It's just too expensive.
It's the same reason right now you go down to
the Galveston area, and there are hundreds and hundreds and
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hundreds of beach property homes for sale. Nothing's selling down
there right now, or at least very few things are
selling right now because people can't afford to to buy
those properties. They can't they can't afford to ensure them,
they can't pay for the higher interest traight on the
mortgage and insure them both. All right, quick little break
back with more in a moment. Jimmy Barrett AM nine
fifty KPRC. All right, here's the story that's kind of
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taken off. I'm not sure which show Jill Biden was
on when she said what she said about her husband
and his debate performance with President Trump, but I think
she was on somebody's show, and I think she's promoting
a book that she wrote. That's usually the reason why
these people get out and do these things is to
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promote a book, you know, looking to make some more money.
But Jill Biden got asked about Joe Biden's debate performance,
and she basically said, well, you'll hear the clip of
actually you'll probably hear it a couple of times in
this segment. But she actually she said I thought he
was I thought maybe he was having a stroke. You know,
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she made the claim he never acted like that before
and hasn't acted like it since, which I find to
be total bs, But that's the claim anyway. So Greg
Guettfeld was talking about it in his program last night,
So here he is. He's got some Jill Biden what
she said about her husband and the whole having a
stroke thing and his reaction to it.
Speaker 9 (09:24):
So, after deceiving the public for years insisting Joe was
fit to lead, doctor Jill told CBS about one moment
that left her terrified Joe's CNN debate.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Were you horrified as you saw it unfold? Were you
horrified as you saw it unfold? I wasn't horrified.
Speaker 10 (09:46):
I was frightened because I had never ever seen Joe
like that before or since?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Never since? Yes, or he has never seen never? No,
why happened? I don't know what happened.
Speaker 10 (10:03):
I mean, as I watched it, I thought, oh my god,
he's having a stroke, and it scared.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Me to death.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
It scared you to death? Or were you just relieved
Joe still had enough life in him.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
To have a stroke.
Speaker 9 (10:17):
Here's how she describes more of her thought process during
that debate.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Quote is he short circuiting?
Speaker 9 (10:23):
I felt like we were watching an AI hologram of
the man we knew, and the hologram was glitching.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Was he drugged?
Speaker 9 (10:30):
Then she writes, Oh God, Well, people watching assume this
is how he is all the time. Hey, Doc, we
don't have to.
Speaker 11 (10:37):
Assume we knew he was that way all the time.
This is a guy who avoided Jimmy Carter because he
couldn't keep up with him. But if you were really
that frightened, then why did you cheer him on right
after Joe?
Speaker 10 (10:55):
You did such a great job.
Speaker 12 (10:56):
You answered every question.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
You know, heavy asked the crowd.
Speaker 13 (11:05):
What did Trump do?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Four more years?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Who knew?
Speaker 9 (11:19):
She meant, that's how much longer she hoped her husband
would live.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
That same night, she brought him straight to a waffle house.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
Yeah, nothing better for a person in mid stroke than
a stack of fried dough.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
With half a fried chicken and maple syrup on. And
what's next, treating AIDS with more AIDS. Days later, she
called him the only person for the job. What's that job? Scarecrow?
Speaker 9 (11:46):
Then she struck a pose for Vogue, The Telltale Signs
of a wife gripped by fear, probably not for her husband,
but that she'd lose the title First Lady and gained
the title old lady.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
So peddling new.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
Book after hiding Joe's mush brain from us, you say
you were scared to death, Well not as much as us.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
That was our president up there.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
But what about you, the loving wife?
Speaker 9 (12:10):
What was that love before when you took a bumbling
old man dragged him through a brutal national campaign.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
The fundraisers interviews the flights.
Speaker 9 (12:18):
A wife protects her husband's dignity, at least a wife
who isn't Loreena Bobbit.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
No, Well, like he was saying, if he was having
a stroke, you would think everybody was stopped everything, right.
Is there a doctor in the house, I mean, other
than doctor Jill Biden. Is there a doctor in the house,
a real doctor, to come up there and examine him,
or to at least to provide him with some help. No,
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he wasn't stroking out, you know, he was in the
throes of dementia. That seems pretty obvious. You know, they
don't pray him out very much anymore. At least she
was in that interview. At least she seemed to be
willing to admit that he well, he's getting old, you know,
But that's about as far as she was willing to
go with it. I wonder, you know, for the Democrat Party,
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I wonder do they just wish at this point that
all the Bidens would just go away? You know how
bad a memory is that for them? You know, you
would think they would spend a lot of time just
hoping they would go away. Now you're gonna hear a
little repeat audio here, but it's worth sharing again because
let's get another opinion. This comes from the Five and
Jesse Waters, who's going to point out some of the
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things I'm just talking about here as it relates to
if they'd been an actual stroke, how you would think
Sony would behave when it comes to all this.
Speaker 10 (13:39):
That was frightened because I had never ever seen Joe
like that before or.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Since never since yes, or has never seen never? No,
Well has happened. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 10 (13:57):
I mean when I as I watched it, I thought,
oh my god, he's having a stroke.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
People were saying he wasn't the same Joe Biden.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
Well, I don't think that's true. He was the same,
the essence of the same Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
But yeah, he was slowing down. He was getting older.
Speaker 13 (14:15):
So if you see your husband having a stroke, you
call nine to one one.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Emma called an ambulance for.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Me a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 13 (14:25):
I was dizzy on a Sunday a couple of times
and then my face felt funny. So we googled the
symptoms and I was like whoa. So she called an ambulance,
picked me up at the house, takes me to the er,
and they run all sorts of tests, the EKG, catskin, urine, blood, everything,
all battery of tests.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Right, nothing was wrong? Right, I was like, maybe hungry?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
He shows me why Emma cares about you.
Speaker 13 (14:50):
He cares because it's preventive. And so did he go
to the er?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
After?
Speaker 14 (14:57):
No?
Speaker 13 (14:58):
He went to waffle waffle house. She actually doesn't care.
The family doesn't care. They ran an eighty year old
man into the ground for power. And you can tell
she doesn't love Joe the way Ema loves me, because
someone who's truly in love with her husband, if she
thought he was having a stroke, would jump up she's
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a doctor and give him mouth to mouth. Right, that's
the hippocratic oath, Right, do no harm?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
The waffle house is harm but she's no doctor.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Well she's she's got a doctor red, but that does
not make her a doctor per se, certainly not a physician. Yeah.
I've often struggled too with the motivation there. Everybody wants
to attribute this to power. Is it really just Was
it really just about power? Because it seems to me
morally and maybe the two are disconnected, and I'm not
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getting that part of it, but it seems to me
it's more about money than it was about power. I mean,
most of these politicians were in Paula to enrich themselves.
I kind of make that assumption about most people in
politics these days. One of the few I don't make
that assumption about his President Trump, because well, he's already
a billionaire. He's done. But he has done a great
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personal expense. It's actually cost him money, you know, in
order to be able to participate in politics. It's cost
him a lot of money, just an attorney fees. It's
cost him a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
He's had to take time away from his businesses, although
he has children to run that. Speaking speaking of children,
by the way, let me sneak this one in. Did
you hear that Ivanka evidently targeted Evanka Trump. There was
a plot to assassinate Evanka Trump or would it just
be murdered? The assassination assassination? Usually, I guess Ivanka Trump
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is is famous, so I guess if you're famous, that
would be an assassination versus just a good old fashioned murder.
But evidently was some sort of a revenge killing, or
was supposed to be a revenge killing. They arrested some
Iraqi guy with Iranian connections, And here's the report from Foxham.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
What happened.
Speaker 12 (17:16):
Terrorist plotting to take out the president's children is really
an entirely new horror And apparently this is the world
we are now living in, because there are new court
filings that reveal a alleged terror plot targeting the president's family.
This by the notorious security service in Iran. They pledged,
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apparently to murder First daughter Avanka Trump. The suspect's plan
was so far advanced that he actually had obtained a
blueprint of her twenty four million dollar Florida home.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
According to the New York Post.
Speaker 12 (17:52):
The suspect posted as well a chilling message on social media,
which translates in English to quote, I say to the Americans.
Look at this picture and know that neither your palaces
nor the Secret Service will protect you. We are currently
in the stage of surveillance and analysis.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I told you our revenge is a.
Speaker 12 (18:11):
Matter of time. Let's talk about the suspect. His name
is Mohammad al Sadi. He's a thirty two year old
Iraqi national who is affiliated with Iran's IRGC. He now
stands accused of taking part in as many as up
to twenty different terror attacks on Americans. He was taken
into FBI custody after agents identified his revenge plot. He
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had hoped to avenge the killing of Iranian military chief
Kasam Solamani in a us drone strike six years ago.
Just yesterday, President Trump talked about the threats he himself
has faced.
Speaker 14 (18:48):
Look, anybody in office, not only in this country, in
other countries too. But when you are a consequential president,
your life is in grave danger. I know that.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
So the kids are targets now too.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Of course they get Secret Service protection, but that may
have to be beat up. All right, quick little break
back with born a moment. Jimmy Verrett am nine to
fifty KPRC. All right, A couple of National Stories here
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to talk about it in this segment of our program
here today. Let's start with this one, and that is
the deal or No Deal thing that's going on. I
feel like I'm watching a bad episode of Deal or
No Deal. Remember that show at the game show with
Howie Mandel and the Super bowls with the suitcases, right,
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and they all have different dollar amounts in them, and
you can win up to let's say, I think my
memories correctly on this updo one hundred thousand dollars. There's
one suitcase that has one hundred thousand dollars in it,
and there's one suitcase that has one dollar in it.
And then you have all these very different and high amounts.
It may have been more than one hundred thousand dollars,
I'm for the sake of argument. And you picked the
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what suitcase you wanted, and you didn't know how much
was in there. And then you start picking suitcases and
there's a banker that you never see, just see the
shadow of the banker. And you get to the point
where the banker is making you an offer to take
this deal and to turn in your suitcase, and you
have to, you know, deal or No Deal, and hit
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that red button on the table if you're if you're
if you're going to take the deal, or put the
top back down over the red button if you're not
going to take the deal. I feel like that's what's
going on with Iron. It's just crazy no deal or
no deal. Yesterday, it's like, well we got a deal,
we don't have a deal. We you know, Iron says
we have a deal where they're making a deal, and
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then Trump says, no, we don't. It's and then the
next time Trump says, I think we're close to a
deal and they say no, we're not. It's like back
and forth. It's it's gotten ridiculous, and I can't help
but think that all of this just plays into Iran's hands.
I know the President doesn't want to send in troops.
I know he doesn't want to resume a bombing campaign.
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I know he wants to get the straight of Horm
moves open as quickly as possible because he wants gas
prices to come down. We've got a midterm election coming up,
still ways away, but you know, if this doesn't get settled,
especially over the straight of Horm moves, then the gas
prices will stay high and there are plenty of Americans
that are going to vote in a different direction just
based on that, because that's how we generally vote is
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with our pocketbooks. But how much longer can we do
this deal or no deal? Back and forthing? It just
seems ridiculous at this point. So anyway, one of the things,
evidently that is a huge sticking point is the uranium.
Who gets the uranium? The iraniums probably would like to
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keep the uranium. Obviously Trump's not going to allow that
to happen. So their idea evidently for a compromise, which
made them think that, well, this is a deal, we'll
make this deal, is to give thee enrich at least
the rumors that they would give the enriched uranium to China,
who of course they have a relationship with and who
I assume they think would give the uranium right back
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to them whenever it is that they wanted it. You know,
they could keep working on building some sort of a
delivery device for a nuclear weapon and then get the
uranium back when they're ready to build it kind of thing.
I assume that that's what that's all about. So President
Trump got asked about the Iranians, Kenat. I think this
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was this a part of his I don't think it
was this cabinet being, but he had some present and
he got asked about this rumor of a uranium deal
where the rich uranium would go to the Chinese. So
here's the president responding to that.
Speaker 13 (22:55):
Would you be comfortable with Russia or China taking their
stockpile of highly enriched uranium.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
That they offered to would be companies?
Speaker 14 (23:03):
Were not to be comfort We're not talking about any
easing of sanctums, are giving money, no.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Sanctions, no money, no nothing.
Speaker 14 (23:11):
We have control of money that they claim as theirs.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
We'll keep control of that money.
Speaker 15 (23:18):
President Trump was absolutely right. You know, Iran has a
nuclear weapons program because China transferred virtually everything that it
needed either directly or indirectly through the ah Con nuclear
black market. So you know, we did not go to
war so that China could hide its nuclear proliferation, because
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we want to know what where those isotopes came from,
and we're not going to be able to do that
if it gets shipped off to China. So I think
it's important that either you know, as President Trump said
on Monday, either it gets destroyed in country destroyed in
the United States or destroyed in an acceptable country, and
clearly neither Russia nor China are acceptable.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Still buying oil from Iran.
Speaker 12 (24:01):
There's been reports that those shadow tankers are still out
there and that the business as usual is still happening.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Is that true.
Speaker 15 (24:09):
The answer to your question is yes, because there are
at least two rail lines that connect Iran to China
and they're selling them over rail, and this has been reported.
The Trump administration should several of those lines because although
the amount is not substantial, nonetheless it is an important
flow of revenue to Iran, especially because the Strait of
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Hormos is closed. So although the Trump administration has stopped
most of China's purchases of Iranian oil, it's still going
on and we know about it.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
It's in the open.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
China expert Gordon Chang right there. Okay, here's no other
national story that got my attention. This one involving the
Supreme Court. Seems there's a little infighting at the US
Supreme Court over the majority of the court being unwilling
to consider a case of illegal truck driver with a
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CDL license from I think it was from California, but
Washington state just as guilty. He may have had one
from both. And this is the guy who got involved
in a collision on a Florida freeway where people got
killed as a result of his negligence, and the State
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of Florida suing California Washington over their policy of giving
CDLs to illegals in some cases and other cases legal
immigrants who don't speak the language, who don't understand the
rules of the road. Art Arthur had Art Arthur on
This Morning artists with the Center for Immigration Studies. Here's
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my conversation with him about sam Aliito and Clarence Thomas
being upset with their fellow justices over there. Do you
what do you make of the Supreme Court deciding they
don't want to hear this case, or at least some
of the members don't want to hear this case.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
So it's very interesting because under Article three, Section two,
Clause two of the Constitution, only the Supreme Court has
the ability to consider disputes between states.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
No lower court.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
There's no district court or circuit court that Florida can
go to, So the Supreme Court is really it's last out.
And the question that Justice Thomas raises is does the
Supreme Court even have the discretion not to hear these cases?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
He and Justice.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Alitia argue that the Supreme Court has an obligation to
consider all disputes between states, particularly ones like this, in
which if these were two sovereign countries, there would be
diplomatic negotiations. Of course, there are no diplomatic negotiations because
these are two of the several states. And so you know,
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in lieu of that, the drafts of the Constitution said,
if you have a dispute, bring it to the Supreme Court.
But with the Supreme Court door closed, Florida's got nowhere
to go.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Well, and let's fill the people in on the case
if they're not familiar with it. It's Florida versus California
and Washington. Those are two states that were issuing CDLs
to illegal aliens. And the driver who was involved in
a fatal accident killed somebody on Florida roads. The state
of Florida is suing over this, the fact that this
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guy was given the CDL to begin with.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Yeah, so the first individual in question, the one that
really brought all of this to the public four was
a fello named our gender singing, and in August to
twenty twenty five was driving on the Florida Turnpike and
did a U turn in the middle of the highway and.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
That ended up causing a crash.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
A couple of people were killed in a medi van
that were right behind because they couldn't stop. And so
Florida began looking into this, and what they determined, or
what you know they claim they've determined, is the California
and Washington State were issuing commercial driver's licenses individuals did
not meet the requirements for English proficiency and who did
(28:07):
not meet the requirements for legal status in the United States. Now,
both California and Washington State are sanctuary states. They don't
ask about immigration status in any situation.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
And so what Florida was asking.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
The Supreme Court to do was order California order Washington
to clar sanctuary laws, at least as it pertains to
commercial driver's licenses, to ensure that the people who receive
those who have the proper status, and also to ensure
that the people who get those commercial driver's licenses driving
an eighty thousand pound vehicle down our interstate highways can
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actually are proficient enough in English that they can read
the road signs and know how to properly operate their vehicles.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
And now we're back to the fact that the Supreme
Court will not hear the case. What is the have
you heard any reason of rationale? Obviously Thomas and Alito
want the case, sir, But what about the other justices?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Why are they ducking in this case? Do you think?
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Yeah, so this was on the order list, and so
it's one of those things where they just simply say,
we're not going to consider the claim. What Thomas and
Alito are you saying is we really need an explanation
for this. We need some case law to government how
the Court is going to use its discretion to settle
these disputes among the states. If the Supreme Court is
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going to argue that it doesn't have to take all
of those cases. Now, if you go back to the
time of the Constitution, if we didn't have fourteen or
thirteen Courts of Appeals, we didn't have seven hundred and
forty two district court judges. We had the Supreme Court,
and then we sort of built from there. And so
that's why the drafters of the Constitution said, you Supreme
Court have primary and sole jurisdiction over these claims. And
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you know, unfortunately it's a lot bigger country. There are
a lot more disputes between states. So either we need
to amend the constitution or alternatively, we need to you know,
have the Supreme cour or Bluewood duty and hear these claims.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Okay, that's Art Arthur and again Art Arthur is with
the Center for Immigration Studies. Quick little break back with
our final segment in a moment Jimmy Barrett Show, You're
an AM nine to fifty KPRC. I feel like we've
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done a segment on the FIFA World Cup. We've done well,
We've done a couple of segments on the FIFA World Cup.
I'm feeling a little confused about what kind of experience
this is going to end up being for Houston, because
I continue to see stories that the hotels are not
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being booked the way that they thought they were going
to be booked, the ticket sales are not is good
as what everybody thought they would be. And of course
we had the story that we had the other day
about some Hustonians who are miffed, evidently with their fiful
World Cup ticket buying experience. Because when you buy tickets
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for the event, it is by zone. You're either in
zone one, two, three, or four. Don't get you don't
get a seat assignment until after you've already bought the ticket.
You can't find out what up front, what kind of
a seat you're buying, and that strikes me as wholly unfair. Normally,
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when you buy seats for any sort of supporting event,
you know what seats you're buying. In fact, if you
go to most of these websites, not only do you
know exactly where the seat is, and they've got a
map of where the seat's going to be, exactly where
it's going to be. You can click on that map
and you can see what the view looks like of
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the field from where that seat is is, and then
you know whether or not that's the seat you want
to sit in, and if you're willing to spend that
much money for the seat. With the fief of World Cup,
evidently that's not the way they do it, and I'm
guessing it's their way of being able to make as
much money from ticket sales as they can by not
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showing you you know what seat you're getting for the
money you're spending. There was a guy that is a
part of that story who was upset because he bought
a Tier two seat. You know, again there's one, two, three,
and four for being the really expensive ones, and he's
thinking he would expect with Tier one that you'd end
up potentially up in the nosebleeds or obstructive viewer or
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something like that was a possible problem, which is why
he bought number two. But he ended up in the
nosebleeds anyway with Tier two, so he was upset about that.
The other thing we're wondering about for the rest of
us who don't care about World Cup and aren't participating
in World Cup and just need to commute and go
to work in the city and get back to the suburbs,
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or just want to try to get around town where
our traffic is already bad anyway, what's that going to be?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Like?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
I had Robin Egbert. Robin Egbert was on our program
this morning. She's with the Houston Galveston Area Council, and
we talked to her about what kind of traffic jams
we might expect as a result of the FIFA World
Cup that most people are going to get around on buses,
or is that going to be the problem?
Speaker 8 (33:24):
Yeah, I mean it's going to be really interesting to
see what happens because you know, within our region we
have nine transit agencies, we have four commuter buses that
come in. But at the same time, not everyone has
access to a parking ride or transit and so it's
is it carpool or are we going to start seeing
an uptick and vampool. So it's going to be a
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really interesting time to see how we are the region
adapt and welcome the.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
World right well, and I'm assuming too that we'll probably
have a few more uber drivers than we would normally
lift drivers than we normally have as well. I would
think that's another way people are going to get around.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Yes, definitely.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
So for what we know the FIFA scheduled, do we
have an idea of what days and what hours are
most likely to be negatively impact by this.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 8 (34:09):
So we were very fortunate that we drew noon kickoff times. However,
you know, the host committee's encouraging fans to get there
at nine in the morning, and so three of our
games are actually on weekdays, and so if you're getting
your fans to get at nine am that's going to
be impacting your morning commute. And so that's June seventeenth,
June twenty third, and June twenty ninth. Those are the
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big ones. And then I also want to talk about
July fourth, because that's a Round of sixteen knockout match
on top of an Astros home game, on top of
Freedom over Texas with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Yeah,
so that's also part of the you know, conversation is
we were very fortunate that we're hosting thirty nine day
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fans Fest tournament, which is drawing a lot of attention
to downtown. In addition to there's four Astros home stands,
twenty of those thirty nine days, there's conventions at.
Speaker 7 (35:03):
The George R.
Speaker 8 (35:04):
Brown Convention Center, and there's also concerts at Toyota. So
not only are we having really great activity, it just
makes navigating the thirty nine day tournament from an every
day you know, people live in work downtown, so what
does that look like and how are we supporting them
during that time to make this just a really great event.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
So in other words, we're going to be victims of
our own success. Yes, but again it's a little bit
of a pain, But when you get right down to it,
you know, hopefully FIFA World Cup is well attended. As
I said at the beginning here, we kind of have
mixed reports on how things are going as far as
hotel bookings and ticket sales and those types of things.
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Do we have a feel now for how many additional
people we expect to see here in the greater Houston
area as a result of the World Cup or is
that still kind of up for grabs.
Speaker 8 (35:57):
The numbers that I'm still hearing are five hundred thousand,
I have. I'm not really privy to that extra information. However,
the tournament's happening, and so we're you know, it's five
hundred thousand, and that's just kind of what we're going
off of.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Okay, so we'll be we'll be ready, You'll be okay,
we'll get through it. Gotta leave it at that for today.
You're ready to start the weekend.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
I am.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Yeah, it's time. Let's start the weekend. You' all have
a great weekend. We'll see a Monday morning. Bregnerle five
over our news radio seven forty KTRH. We are back
here at four on a nine fifty KPRC
Well, what we need is more common sense.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
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Speaker 3 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
We'll see us through with the common sense of Houston.
I'm just pro common sense for Houston from Houston Way.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett. So hurricane season starts. Does it
start up? Monday?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Starts June? First? Just do first Monday? Hang on, let
me look at my calendar. Let me pick up my
cell phone and look at my calendar, because I don't
know what date is unless yes it's Monday. Okay, good,
So Monday morning on our kat r H Morning Show.
Just a little plug for that. We will uh, we
will have some guests on talking about the beginning of
hurricane season. Not not from hyping standpoint. I don't like
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hyping storms because you know, you hear all these I
see all these stories all the time, these doom and
gloom stories about oh, this is gonna be one of the.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Worst hurricane hurricane seasons in the history of that kind.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
And then you see other stories as well. It's a
super El Nino year, so that'll probably repress the hurricanes.
You know, it's a bad hurricane season if you get
hit by a hurricane period. That's basically how that works.
You get one big storm that creates a lot of damage,
and you've had a bad hurricane season, even if it's
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only one. I mean, we only had the year we
had Barrel. Was that a couple of years ago when
we had Barrel which was not a big hurricane, but
especially the imagination, but it's the first hurricane I've had
living here in Texas, and I think, what was it
like a Category one? Yeah, it wasn't a big storm,
but you know what it caused the problems. It caused
(01:55):
some problems with people's roofs, It caused some problems with
you know, electrical lot that we were out of power
at our house for like eight nine days, So it
did cost some issues. But that was a very light
hurricane season. That was one of the few that hit
the United States that year. And last year, of course,
we had no hurricanes that any impact on the United
(02:16):
States whatsoever. And that was during a year where supposedly
we're gonna have a bad hurricane season. So anyway, long
story short, I'm gonna try to make sure we don't
hype the hurricane season. I know the rest of the
media loves to do that because they love to prepare
you for a disaster, and more importantly, they want to
suck you in into watching coverage of whatever that disaster is.
(02:38):
But I'm gonna try real hard not to do that.
We're just gonna have some practical things, like, for example,
they're using AI now as part of the hurricane forecasting process.
How does that work? I mean, can you program AI
to do a better job of forecasting whether that Humans
are having a very difficult time forecasting. We have a
(02:59):
hard enough time getting whether accurately predicted by human beings,
let alone artificial intelligence. So I'm curious. We'll have that
done Monday. I'm curious how that all works.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Now.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Here's one though that's a good lead into that's something
to think about this weekend, right before the start of
hurricane season, and that is do you have flood insurance?
Because as we know, water is the biggest issue that
we face with most storms. All you have to do
is think back to Harvey and you know that water
is a big problem. Flooding could be a big problem.
It can be a big problem outside of hurricane season,
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just with a thunderstorm that you just kind of stalls
over your house and just keeps raining for hours on end.
You know, we have flooding issues. So flood insurance is
a smart thing for a lot of people to have,
but it's also gotten extremely expensive. And I'm going to
play this report for you for my television partner KPRC too,
because I thought there's some information missing there. I don't
(03:53):
think they the equate the smaller. There are few people
that are caring flod fud insurance. There are more individuals
who've dropped their flood insurance. And I don't think they
give the credit to where the credit is due as
to why people are dropping it. Here's that report from
our television partner KPRC two.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
When you think of flooding in Houston, storms like Hurricane Harvey,
Tropical Storm Allison in the Tax Day flood of twenty
sixteen come to mind as scorching hot as a Houston
summer can be.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
We sure have our fair share of problems with water.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
If you live in the Houston area, you are at
risk of flooding. And after all, Houston is nicknamed the
Bayu City simply because well we have a lot of waterways,
which makes it even more difficult to swallow the statistic
that not hundreds, but thousands of Texans across the Loan
Star State are dropping their flood insurance policies. Data from
FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program shows a decline in policies
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across the nation, but no one has dropped more flood
policies than right here in the Lone Star State. A
staggering forty five thousand plus plants canceled in the last
year alone.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
I mean, we're situated here along a massive by They're
designed to move water, but the reality is is they
can only handle so much.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
That's right, and we can't plan for every rein of it.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Now. Look, I don't have to tell you that life
is getting more expensive. I'm sure you can think of
things that you've adjusted or cut out of your budget
just to make the dollars make sense.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
It's across the board affordability challenges that are going on,
and people are going to look for ways to save money.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Daniel Potter is a researcher with the Kinder Institute at
Rice University. His research showing that two thirds of Houstonians
are struggling with housing affordability.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Insurance is one of those things that, especially with flood insurance,
I don't necessarily need to have it. I don't have
to have it. People are going to look to make
cuts there.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
There's also this Our last major flood across the Houston
metro was Hurricane Harvey nearly a decade ago.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Are we becoming too comfortable?
Speaker 8 (05:45):
You're right, you become complacent and it becomes much more
of a comfortable issue versus one that you think you.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Need to take action on.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
But if we've learned anything over time, history repeats itself
in Houston.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Every place has a natural disaster that they face.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Ours and Harris County happens to be flooding.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I don't think it's a complacency problem. I think it's
purely and simply a price problem. Insurance in general has
gone way way up, flood insurance in particular. We have
two different policies with our freeport property. Now we have
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to have them the mortgage company because there's a mortgage
on it. If you own something free and clear and
you don't owe money to the bank on it, you
don't have to have flood insurance. That's strictly optional, but
you pretty much do you owe money on it. If
you're in a floodplane and you're paying a mortgage, that
mortgage company is going to make sure that their investment
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is protected because technically they're the ones that own the house,
not you, because you owe them money. But the problem
is is we have a twofold problem. Not only is
flood insurance very expensive, wind inhale that is equally expensive.
That's gone way way up between those two policies. For
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the freeport property we have, and it's with a rather
large deductible, we're still spending the better part of probably
seventy five hundred almost eight thousand dollars just on those
two policies alone, not to mention the regular homeowners policy.
It has become unaffordable for some people to carry flood insurance.
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If you have the option of carrying flood insurance, there
are some people who are willing to roll the dice
for no other reason, not because they don't think they
need it, not because they don't want to have it,
but because they simply can't afford it. It's just too expensive.
It's the same reason right now you go down to
the Galveston area, and there are hundreds and hundreds and
(07:47):
hundreds of beach property homes for sale. Nothing's selling down
there right now, or at least very few things are
selling right now because people can't afford to to buy
those properties. They can't they can't afford to ensure them,
they can't pay for the higher interest traight on the
mortgage and insure them both. All right, quick little break
back with more in a moment. Jimmy Barrett AM nine
fifty KPRC. All right, here's the story that's kind of
(08:22):
taken off. I'm not sure which show Jill Biden was
on when she said what she said about her husband
and his debate performance with President Trump, but I think
she was on somebody's show, and I think she's promoting
a book that she wrote. That's usually the reason why
these people get out and do these things is to
(08:43):
promote a book, you know, looking to make some more money.
But Jill Biden got asked about Joe Biden's debate performance,
and she basically said, well, you'll hear the clip of
actually you'll probably hear it a couple of times in
this segment. But she actually she said I thought he
was I thought maybe he was having a stroke. You know,
(09:04):
she made the claim he never acted like that before
and hasn't acted like it since, which I find to
be total bs, But that's the claim anyway. So Greg
Guettfeld was talking about it in his program last night,
So here he is. He's got some Jill Biden what
she said about her husband and the whole having a
stroke thing and his reaction to it.
Speaker 9 (09:24):
So, after deceiving the public for years insisting Joe was
fit to lead, doctor Jill told CBS about one moment
that left her terrified Joe's CNN debate.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Were you horrified as you saw it unfold? Were you
horrified as you saw it unfold? I wasn't horrified.
Speaker 10 (09:46):
I was frightened because I had never ever seen Joe
like that before or since?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Never since? Yes, or he has never seen never? No,
why happened? I don't know what happened.
Speaker 10 (10:03):
I mean, as I watched it, I thought, oh my god,
he's having a stroke, and it scared.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Me to death.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
It scared you to death? Or were you just relieved
Joe still had enough life in him.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
To have a stroke.
Speaker 9 (10:17):
Here's how she describes more of her thought process during
that debate.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Quote is he short circuiting?
Speaker 9 (10:23):
I felt like we were watching an AI hologram of
the man we knew, and the hologram was glitching.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Was he drugged?
Speaker 9 (10:30):
Then she writes, Oh God, Well, people watching assume this
is how he is all the time. Hey, Doc, we
don't have to.
Speaker 11 (10:37):
Assume we knew he was that way all the time.
This is a guy who avoided Jimmy Carter because he
couldn't keep up with him. But if you were really
that frightened, then why did you cheer him on right
after Joe?
Speaker 10 (10:55):
You did such a great job.
Speaker 12 (10:56):
You answered every question.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
You know, heavy asked the crowd.
Speaker 13 (11:05):
What did Trump do?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Four more years?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Who knew?
Speaker 9 (11:19):
She meant, that's how much longer she hoped her husband
would live.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
That same night, she brought him straight to a waffle house.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
Yeah, nothing better for a person in mid stroke than
a stack of fried dough.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
With half a fried chicken and maple syrup on. And
what's next, treating AIDS with more AIDS. Days later, she
called him the only person for the job. What's that job? Scarecrow?
Speaker 9 (11:46):
Then she struck a pose for Vogue, The Telltale Signs
of a wife gripped by fear, probably not for her husband,
but that she'd lose the title First Lady and gained
the title old lady.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
So peddling new.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
Book after hiding Joe's mush brain from us, you say
you were scared to death, Well not as much as us.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
That was our president up there.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
But what about you, the loving wife?
Speaker 9 (12:10):
What was that love before when you took a bumbling
old man dragged him through a brutal national campaign.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
The fundraisers interviews the flights.
Speaker 9 (12:18):
A wife protects her husband's dignity, at least a wife
who isn't Loreena Bobbit.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
No, Well, like he was saying, if he was having
a stroke, you would think everybody was stopped everything, right.
Is there a doctor in the house, I mean, other
than doctor Jill Biden. Is there a doctor in the house,
a real doctor, to come up there and examine him,
or to at least to provide him with some help. No,
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he wasn't stroking out, you know, he was in the
throes of dementia. That seems pretty obvious. You know, they
don't pray him out very much anymore. At least she
was in that interview. At least she seemed to be
willing to admit that he well, he's getting old, you know,
But that's about as far as she was willing to
go with it. I wonder, you know, for the Democrat Party,
(13:09):
I wonder do they just wish at this point that
all the Bidens would just go away? You know how
bad a memory is that for them? You know, you
would think they would spend a lot of time just
hoping they would go away. Now you're gonna hear a
little repeat audio here, but it's worth sharing again because
let's get another opinion. This comes from the Five and
Jesse Waters, who's going to point out some of the
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things I'm just talking about here as it relates to
if they'd been an actual stroke, how you would think
Sony would behave when it comes to all this.
Speaker 10 (13:39):
That was frightened because I had never ever seen Joe
like that before or.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Since never since yes, or has never seen never? No,
Well has happened. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 10 (13:57):
I mean when I as I watched it, I thought,
oh my god, he's having a stroke.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
People were saying he wasn't the same Joe Biden.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
Well, I don't think that's true. He was the same,
the essence of the same Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
But yeah, he was slowing down. He was getting older.
Speaker 13 (14:15):
So if you see your husband having a stroke, you
call nine to one one.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Emma called an ambulance for.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Me a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 13 (14:25):
I was dizzy on a Sunday a couple of times
and then my face felt funny. So we googled the
symptoms and I was like whoa. So she called an ambulance,
picked me up at the house, takes me to the er,
and they run all sorts of tests, the EKG, catskin, urine, blood, everything,
all battery of tests.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Right, nothing was wrong? Right, I was like, maybe hungry?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
He shows me why Emma cares about you.
Speaker 13 (14:50):
He cares because it's preventive. And so did he go
to the er?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
After?
Speaker 14 (14:57):
No?
Speaker 13 (14:58):
He went to waffle waffle house. She actually doesn't care.
The family doesn't care. They ran an eighty year old
man into the ground for power. And you can tell
she doesn't love Joe the way Ema loves me, because
someone who's truly in love with her husband, if she
thought he was having a stroke, would jump up she's
(15:18):
a doctor and give him mouth to mouth. Right, that's
the hippocratic oath, Right, do no harm?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
The waffle house is harm but she's no doctor.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Well she's she's got a doctor red, but that does
not make her a doctor per se, certainly not a physician. Yeah.
I've often struggled too with the motivation there. Everybody wants
to attribute this to power. Is it really just Was
it really just about power? Because it seems to me
morally and maybe the two are disconnected, and I'm not
(15:50):
getting that part of it, but it seems to me
it's more about money than it was about power. I mean,
most of these politicians were in Paula to enrich themselves.
I kind of make that assumption about most people in
politics these days. One of the few I don't make
that assumption about his President Trump, because well, he's already
a billionaire. He's done. But he has done a great
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personal expense. It's actually cost him money, you know, in
order to be able to participate in politics. It's cost
him a lot of money, just an attorney fees. It's
cost him a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
He's had to take time away from his businesses, although
he has children to run that. Speaking speaking of children,
by the way, let me sneak this one in. Did
you hear that Ivanka evidently targeted Evanka Trump. There was
a plot to assassinate Evanka Trump or would it just
be murdered? The assassination assassination? Usually, I guess Ivanka Trump
(16:52):
is is famous, so I guess if you're famous, that
would be an assassination versus just a good old fashioned murder.
But evidently was some sort of a revenge killing, or
was supposed to be a revenge killing. They arrested some
Iraqi guy with Iranian connections, And here's the report from Foxham.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
What happened.
Speaker 12 (17:16):
Terrorist plotting to take out the president's children is really
an entirely new horror And apparently this is the world
we are now living in, because there are new court
filings that reveal a alleged terror plot targeting the president's family.
This by the notorious security service in Iran. They pledged,
(17:37):
apparently to murder First daughter Avanka Trump. The suspect's plan
was so far advanced that he actually had obtained a
blueprint of her twenty four million dollar Florida home.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
According to the New York Post.
Speaker 12 (17:52):
The suspect posted as well a chilling message on social media,
which translates in English to quote, I say to the Americans.
Look at this picture and know that neither your palaces
nor the Secret Service will protect you. We are currently
in the stage of surveillance and analysis.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I told you our revenge is a.
Speaker 12 (18:11):
Matter of time. Let's talk about the suspect. His name
is Mohammad al Sadi. He's a thirty two year old
Iraqi national who is affiliated with Iran's IRGC. He now
stands accused of taking part in as many as up
to twenty different terror attacks on Americans. He was taken
into FBI custody after agents identified his revenge plot. He
(18:35):
had hoped to avenge the killing of Iranian military chief
Kasam Solamani in a us drone strike six years ago.
Just yesterday, President Trump talked about the threats he himself
has faced.
Speaker 14 (18:48):
Look, anybody in office, not only in this country, in
other countries too. But when you are a consequential president,
your life is in grave danger. I know that.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
So the kids are targets now too.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Of course they get Secret Service protection, but that may
have to be beat up. All right, quick little break
back with born a moment. Jimmy Verrett am nine to
fifty KPRC. All right, A couple of National Stories here
(19:24):
to talk about it in this segment of our program
here today. Let's start with this one, and that is
the deal or No Deal thing that's going on. I
feel like I'm watching a bad episode of Deal or
No Deal. Remember that show at the game show with
Howie Mandel and the Super bowls with the suitcases, right,
(19:45):
and they all have different dollar amounts in them, and
you can win up to let's say, I think my
memories correctly on this updo one hundred thousand dollars. There's
one suitcase that has one hundred thousand dollars in it,
and there's one suitcase that has one dollar in it.
And then you have all these very different and high amounts.
It may have been more than one hundred thousand dollars,
I'm for the sake of argument. And you picked the
(20:07):
what suitcase you wanted, and you didn't know how much
was in there. And then you start picking suitcases and
there's a banker that you never see, just see the
shadow of the banker. And you get to the point
where the banker is making you an offer to take
this deal and to turn in your suitcase, and you
have to, you know, deal or No Deal, and hit
(20:29):
that red button on the table if you're if you're
if you're going to take the deal, or put the
top back down over the red button if you're not
going to take the deal. I feel like that's what's
going on with Iron. It's just crazy no deal or
no deal. Yesterday, it's like, well we got a deal,
we don't have a deal. We you know, Iron says
we have a deal where they're making a deal, and
(20:50):
then Trump says, no, we don't. It's and then the
next time Trump says, I think we're close to a
deal and they say no, we're not. It's like back
and forth. It's it's gotten ridiculous, and I can't help
but think that all of this just plays into Iran's hands.
I know the President doesn't want to send in troops.
I know he doesn't want to resume a bombing campaign.
(21:13):
I know he wants to get the straight of Horm
moves open as quickly as possible because he wants gas
prices to come down. We've got a midterm election coming up,
still ways away, but you know, if this doesn't get settled,
especially over the straight of Horm moves, then the gas
prices will stay high and there are plenty of Americans
that are going to vote in a different direction just
based on that, because that's how we generally vote is
(21:35):
with our pocketbooks. But how much longer can we do
this deal or no deal? Back and forthing? It just
seems ridiculous at this point. So anyway, one of the things,
evidently that is a huge sticking point is the uranium.
Who gets the uranium? The iraniums probably would like to
(21:58):
keep the uranium. Obviously Trump's not going to allow that
to happen. So their idea evidently for a compromise, which
made them think that, well, this is a deal, we'll
make this deal, is to give thee enrich at least
the rumors that they would give the enriched uranium to China,
who of course they have a relationship with and who
I assume they think would give the uranium right back
(22:20):
to them whenever it is that they wanted it. You know,
they could keep working on building some sort of a
delivery device for a nuclear weapon and then get the
uranium back when they're ready to build it kind of thing.
I assume that that's what that's all about. So President
Trump got asked about the Iranians, Kenat. I think this
(22:40):
was this a part of his I don't think it
was this cabinet being, but he had some present and
he got asked about this rumor of a uranium deal
where the rich uranium would go to the Chinese. So
here's the president responding to that.
Speaker 13 (22:55):
Would you be comfortable with Russia or China taking their
stockpile of highly enriched uranium.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
That they offered to would be companies?
Speaker 14 (23:03):
Were not to be comfort We're not talking about any
easing of sanctums, are giving money, no.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Sanctions, no money, no nothing.
Speaker 14 (23:11):
We have control of money that they claim as theirs.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
We'll keep control of that money.
Speaker 15 (23:18):
President Trump was absolutely right. You know, Iran has a
nuclear weapons program because China transferred virtually everything that it
needed either directly or indirectly through the ah Con nuclear
black market. So you know, we did not go to
war so that China could hide its nuclear proliferation, because
(23:39):
we want to know what where those isotopes came from,
and we're not going to be able to do that
if it gets shipped off to China. So I think
it's important that either you know, as President Trump said
on Monday, either it gets destroyed in country destroyed in
the United States or destroyed in an acceptable country, and
clearly neither Russia nor China are acceptable.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Still buying oil from Iran.
Speaker 12 (24:01):
There's been reports that those shadow tankers are still out
there and that the business as usual is still happening.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Is that true.
Speaker 15 (24:09):
The answer to your question is yes, because there are
at least two rail lines that connect Iran to China
and they're selling them over rail, and this has been reported.
The Trump administration should several of those lines because although
the amount is not substantial, nonetheless it is an important
flow of revenue to Iran, especially because the Strait of
(24:30):
Hormos is closed. So although the Trump administration has stopped
most of China's purchases of Iranian oil, it's still going
on and we know about it.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
It's in the open.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
China expert Gordon Chang right there. Okay, here's no other
national story that got my attention. This one involving the
Supreme Court. Seems there's a little infighting at the US
Supreme Court over the majority of the court being unwilling
to consider a case of illegal truck driver with a
(25:02):
CDL license from I think it was from California, but
Washington state just as guilty. He may have had one
from both. And this is the guy who got involved
in a collision on a Florida freeway where people got
killed as a result of his negligence, and the State
(25:24):
of Florida suing California Washington over their policy of giving
CDLs to illegals in some cases and other cases legal
immigrants who don't speak the language, who don't understand the
rules of the road. Art Arthur had Art Arthur on
This Morning artists with the Center for Immigration Studies. Here's
(25:45):
my conversation with him about sam Aliito and Clarence Thomas
being upset with their fellow justices over there. Do you
what do you make of the Supreme Court deciding they
don't want to hear this case, or at least some
of the members don't want to hear this case.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
So it's very interesting because under Article three, Section two,
Clause two of the Constitution, only the Supreme Court has
the ability to consider disputes between states.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
No lower court.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
There's no district court or circuit court that Florida can
go to, So the Supreme Court is really it's last out.
And the question that Justice Thomas raises is does the
Supreme Court even have the discretion not to hear these cases?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
He and Justice.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Alitia argue that the Supreme Court has an obligation to
consider all disputes between states, particularly ones like this, in
which if these were two sovereign countries, there would be
diplomatic negotiations. Of course, there are no diplomatic negotiations because
these are two of the several states. And so you know,
(26:50):
in lieu of that, the drafts of the Constitution said,
if you have a dispute, bring it to the Supreme Court.
But with the Supreme Court door closed, Florida's got nowhere
to go.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Well, and let's fill the people in on the case
if they're not familiar with it. It's Florida versus California
and Washington. Those are two states that were issuing CDLs
to illegal aliens. And the driver who was involved in
a fatal accident killed somebody on Florida roads. The state
of Florida is suing over this, the fact that this
(27:19):
guy was given the CDL to begin with.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Yeah, so the first individual in question, the one that
really brought all of this to the public four was
a fello named our gender singing, and in August to
twenty twenty five was driving on the Florida Turnpike and
did a U turn in the middle of the highway and.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
That ended up causing a crash.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
A couple of people were killed in a medi van
that were right behind because they couldn't stop. And so
Florida began looking into this, and what they determined, or
what you know they claim they've determined, is the California
and Washington State were issuing commercial driver's licenses individuals did
not meet the requirements for English proficiency and who did
(28:07):
not meet the requirements for legal status in the United States. Now,
both California and Washington State are sanctuary states. They don't
ask about immigration status in any situation.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
And so what Florida was asking.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
The Supreme Court to do was order California order Washington
to clar sanctuary laws, at least as it pertains to
commercial driver's licenses, to ensure that the people who receive
those who have the proper status, and also to ensure
that the people who get those commercial driver's licenses driving
an eighty thousand pound vehicle down our interstate highways can
(28:44):
actually are proficient enough in English that they can read
the road signs and know how to properly operate their vehicles.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
And now we're back to the fact that the Supreme
Court will not hear the case. What is the have
you heard any reason of rationale? Obviously Thomas and Alito
want the case, sir, But what about the other justices?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Why are they ducking in this case? Do you think?
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Yeah, so this was on the order list, and so
it's one of those things where they just simply say,
we're not going to consider the claim. What Thomas and
Alito are you saying is we really need an explanation
for this. We need some case law to government how
the Court is going to use its discretion to settle
these disputes among the states. If the Supreme Court is
(29:24):
going to argue that it doesn't have to take all
of those cases. Now, if you go back to the
time of the Constitution, if we didn't have fourteen or
thirteen Courts of Appeals, we didn't have seven hundred and
forty two district court judges. We had the Supreme Court,
and then we sort of built from there. And so
that's why the drafters of the Constitution said, you Supreme
Court have primary and sole jurisdiction over these claims. And
(29:48):
you know, unfortunately it's a lot bigger country. There are
a lot more disputes between states. So either we need
to amend the constitution or alternatively, we need to you know,
have the Supreme cour or Bluewood duty and hear these claims.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Okay, that's Art Arthur and again Art Arthur is with
the Center for Immigration Studies. Quick little break back with
our final segment in a moment Jimmy Barrett Show, You're
an AM nine to fifty KPRC. I feel like we've
(30:33):
done a segment on the FIFA World Cup. We've done well,
We've done a couple of segments on the FIFA World Cup.
I'm feeling a little confused about what kind of experience
this is going to end up being for Houston, because
I continue to see stories that the hotels are not
(30:54):
being booked the way that they thought they were going
to be booked, the ticket sales are not is good
as what everybody thought they would be. And of course
we had the story that we had the other day
about some Hustonians who are miffed, evidently with their fiful
World Cup ticket buying experience. Because when you buy tickets
(31:16):
for the event, it is by zone. You're either in
zone one, two, three, or four. Don't get you don't
get a seat assignment until after you've already bought the ticket.
You can't find out what up front, what kind of
a seat you're buying, and that strikes me as wholly unfair. Normally,
(31:37):
when you buy seats for any sort of supporting event,
you know what seats you're buying. In fact, if you
go to most of these websites, not only do you
know exactly where the seat is, and they've got a
map of where the seat's going to be, exactly where
it's going to be. You can click on that map
and you can see what the view looks like of
(31:58):
the field from where that seat is is, and then
you know whether or not that's the seat you want
to sit in, and if you're willing to spend that
much money for the seat. With the fief of World Cup,
evidently that's not the way they do it, and I'm
guessing it's their way of being able to make as
much money from ticket sales as they can by not
(32:18):
showing you you know what seat you're getting for the
money you're spending. There was a guy that is a
part of that story who was upset because he bought
a Tier two seat. You know, again there's one, two, three,
and four for being the really expensive ones, and he's
thinking he would expect with Tier one that you'd end
up potentially up in the nosebleeds or obstructive viewer or
(32:40):
something like that was a possible problem, which is why
he bought number two. But he ended up in the
nosebleeds anyway with Tier two, so he was upset about that.
The other thing we're wondering about for the rest of
us who don't care about World Cup and aren't participating
in World Cup and just need to commute and go
to work in the city and get back to the suburbs,
(33:01):
or just want to try to get around town where
our traffic is already bad anyway, what's that going to be?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Like?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
I had Robin Egbert. Robin Egbert was on our program
this morning. She's with the Houston Galveston Area Council, and
we talked to her about what kind of traffic jams
we might expect as a result of the FIFA World
Cup that most people are going to get around on buses,
or is that going to be the problem?
Speaker 8 (33:24):
Yeah, I mean it's going to be really interesting to
see what happens because you know, within our region we
have nine transit agencies, we have four commuter buses that
come in. But at the same time, not everyone has
access to a parking ride or transit and so it's
is it carpool or are we going to start seeing
an uptick and vampool. So it's going to be a
(33:45):
really interesting time to see how we are the region
adapt and welcome the.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
World right well, and I'm assuming too that we'll probably
have a few more uber drivers than we would normally
lift drivers than we normally have as well. I would
think that's another way people are going to get around.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Yes, definitely.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
So for what we know the FIFA scheduled, do we
have an idea of what days and what hours are
most likely to be negatively impact by this.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 8 (34:09):
So we were very fortunate that we drew noon kickoff times. However,
you know, the host committee's encouraging fans to get there
at nine in the morning, and so three of our
games are actually on weekdays, and so if you're getting
your fans to get at nine am that's going to
be impacting your morning commute. And so that's June seventeenth,
June twenty third, and June twenty ninth. Those are the
(34:31):
big ones. And then I also want to talk about
July fourth, because that's a Round of sixteen knockout match
on top of an Astros home game, on top of
Freedom over Texas with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Yeah,
so that's also part of the you know, conversation is
we were very fortunate that we're hosting thirty nine day
(34:52):
fans Fest tournament, which is drawing a lot of attention
to downtown. In addition to there's four Astros home stands,
twenty of those thirty nine days, there's conventions at.
Speaker 7 (35:03):
The George R.
Speaker 8 (35:04):
Brown Convention Center, and there's also concerts at Toyota. So
not only are we having really great activity, it just
makes navigating the thirty nine day tournament from an every
day you know, people live in work downtown, so what
does that look like and how are we supporting them
during that time to make this just a really great event.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
So in other words, we're going to be victims of
our own success. Yes, but again it's a little bit
of a pain, But when you get right down to it,
you know, hopefully FIFA World Cup is well attended. As
I said at the beginning here, we kind of have
mixed reports on how things are going as far as
hotel bookings and ticket sales and those types of things.
(35:46):
Do we have a feel now for how many additional
people we expect to see here in the greater Houston
area as a result of the World Cup or is
that still kind of up for grabs.
Speaker 8 (35:57):
The numbers that I'm still hearing are five hundred thousand,
I have. I'm not really privy to that extra information. However,
the tournament's happening, and so we're you know, it's five
hundred thousand, and that's just kind of what we're going
off of.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Okay, so we'll be we'll be ready, You'll be okay,
we'll get through it. Gotta leave it at that for today.
You're ready to start the weekend.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
I am.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Yeah, it's time. Let's start the weekend. You' all have
a great weekend. We'll see a Monday morning. Bregnerle five
over our news radio seven forty KTRH. We are back
here at four on a nine fifty KPRC
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