August 1, 2025 • 27 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
- Lessons to learn from the flood
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Well, what we need is more common sense.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Breaking down the world's nonsense about how American common sense.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Will see us through with the common sense of Houston.
I'm just pro common sense for Houston from Houston. This
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett yesterday. Where are some of the
story today? Even though it's kind of a depressing story
in its Friday, but I think we need to learn
some lessons from what happened with the Texas flood And
the more the hearings go on yesterday, you had state officials,
and you had local officials, and you had citizens in
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Kerr County and Kerrville specifically talking about the flood, and
the questions got fairly specific here about what did you know?
When did you know it? And I'm going to play
this clip for you. This involves a Houston area lawmaker
questioning some of the local officials, the head of emergency management,
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the county judge about when they knew about the flooding problem,
how they went about spreading the alarm, and it's very telling.
Let's take a listen.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
You said at three point thirty when people were having
to get off the roof. That's the moment for all
hands on deck, and I'm trying to figure out is
there an existing system that could have gone out to
people in floodwaters way to reach higher ground or are
you missing that system?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
No, we do have a cod red system that something
can be put out, gives.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Meam, But for whatever reason, in this moment, there was
nobody to properly sound the alarm.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Is that what I'm hearing? They did not send the
code red.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
And come, ma'am until five oh one.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I have numerous folks from our area that have lost
families in this event. And it is my understanding that
there were little girls with water around their feet at
two am at Mystic and we're told stay in your cabin,
and those little girls did what they were instructed.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
What if any system is.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
There available for Kerr County officials to hear from campsites
on the river in a flood zone to better coordinate
to send out a warning. Is there any way right now?
Was there a way from Mystic at two am to
tell you we have water at our ankles.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I'm going to defer to our emergency management.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
William Thomas kirk Kenny is it working okay, William Thomas
kirk Kenny. So there were a number of National Weather
Service alerts that went out that agen.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
I'm not asking about the National weather because that's prediction.
I'm talking about the reality on the ground of little
girls in their bunks with water around their feet at
two am. Did you have any idea that that was
happening and was there a mechanism in place, because if
it's happening at Camp Mystic, you've got every other camp
in this recreational.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Zone at risk.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
What was the protocol in the process to warn people
when that scenario comes up?
Speaker 6 (03:30):
To my knowledge, we were not notified that the girls
had water in their camp.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
And despite that last piece of testimony, the Sheriff's office
did testify that they did get a call at three
fifty seven am from Camp Mystic that they were trapped
they needed help getting out of there. So what lawmakers
say they were going to have to come up with
are pieces of legislation that will codify into law backup plan.
So when you hit these counties that have you know,
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their short staff, don't have a lot of staff, and
the main people who were responsible for coordinating emergency efforts
emergency response efforts. What is the backup plan that that
has to be in place in case those officials are
out of pocket like they were here.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Okay, that is the report from our television partner, KPRC too.
I want to give them credit for that. The part
that didn't really get covered in that piece, though, was
the knowledge that the county judge was not in town.
The director of the Office of Emergency Management was home sick,
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in bed, asleep, and nobody woke him up until five
in the morning. So they're getting a phone call just
before four o'clock in the morning from Camp Mystic needing
help to evacuate, and nobody's called the director of the
Office of Emergency Management. He's on a sleep sick. That's
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a problem. That's a communication problem. Now, even if you
even if you wake him up at four o'clock in
the morning, you know, maybe maybe we have a slightly
better outcome. Maybe maybe we get people out of there
a little bit quicker. I'm not sure. I still think
there needs to be a siren warning system up and
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down the Guadalupe River. But the question is going to
become if you are going to go to the expense
and the trouble of building that type of warning system.
Who is going to be responsible for setting that system off? Who?
Because that's what happened here. They have a plan when
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they've referred to it the red Dot plan, I think
that's how they refer to it. They have a plan,
but it has to be put into effect by the
Office of Emergency Management. And if they are not prepared
to activate a siren, for example, and the siren doesn't
get activated, then you spend the money for nothing. I mean,
do we need to look at installing a system that
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is automatic that as soon as there's a flood warning
that's been issued by the National Weather Service, the sirens
go off. You know the danger you have with that is,
you know, a flood warning does not necessarily mean that
you're going to have a flood. So if you have
sirens going off every time there's a flood warning issued
by the National Weather Service, and they do it fairly
frequently and there's no flood, then it's like chicken little right,
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Why why are we evacuating? Why? Why? You know, after
a while, people don't pay attention to the sirens anymore.
If they can't count on the sirens and indicating an
actual flood is going to happen. I mean, there's no
full proof system that involves human beings. There's no doubt
about it. But it's pretty obvious to see part of
what went wrong with this situation in Kirk County. All right,
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quick little break, we are back with mortem moment Jimmy
Bairt Show here at AM nine point fifty KPRC.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
All Right, I don't normally talk sports on.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
This show, but I'm fairly excited by what happened with
the Astros of the trade deadline yesterday. I thought, I
just go ahead and throw that in there. Just it's Friday,
you know, why not, It's Friday, you've got you've got
the the the Astros in Boston. Carlos Correa is now
back with the team. Interesting how that whole thing unfolded.
(07:43):
There was a fire sale in Minnesota they or is
this guy? Mike said this morning it's it must have
been an estate sale because they're, you know, they're killing
off the team. They got rid of twelve players yesterday.
I think they're getting ready to sell as I think
what's going on with it. They getting ready to sell
the team and they're trying to you know, just get
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rid of the payroll problems, and that's why they were
getting rid of Carlos Korea. And they and Carlos Korea
had a no trade clause, and he let it be
known that he would waive that no trade clause to
go back to the Astros because I think he still
thinks of this place as his home, and I think
he still thinks fondly of the Astros organization and a
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lot of those players on the team, like jose L
two b. Now I wonder to myself because obviously jose
L two Bay is an Astro for life. I think
he has the ear of the Dana Brown the general manager,
and Jim Crane the owner, and I would not be
the least bit surprised if he was involved in making
a few phone calls. Hey, would you call up Carlos
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and ask him if he really would be interested in
coming back? Would you ask him to would would he
mind playing third base? You know, because we kind of
have a shortstop now. You know that he trained, but
we still kind of have a shortstop now, we do
he think about moving to third base and Carlos career.
Let it be known, Yeah, not only am I interested
in going back and I would. I would I would
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waive any attempted of any I would waive the no
trade clause if it were the Astros. No only would
I do that, I would be happy to play third base.
So that tells me he wanted he wanted out, he
wanted to come back home, and it was kind of
big news. I know it's big news for us, right
but it's kind of big news nationally. Here's what they
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said on ESPN.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
The big acquisition was Carlo's Korea. You go and you
bring him back home. He waves the no trade clause.
Buster said it earlier, the Minnesota Twins getting out of
the Houston Astros thirty three million dollars to go along
with Carlos vil Korea to help out on that trade.
He's been there, he's done it, he's won there before
and he's been a huge part of their success. Look,
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Paga right now is her. Yes, you need a third basement,
but when Penya comes back. Before he comes, I expect
Correa to be a short then transition over to third base.
He's done it. When the World Baseball Classic for Puerto Rico.
I think this is a great move for the Houston
Astros and it tells everyone we're still around. Let's not
forget Sanchez as well as us. Sanchez got outed to
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the Houston Astros. The Houston Astros are saying, Okay, Seattle,
you guys made moves. Texas, you made moves. Angels, you're
making moves. We're still in first place by five games.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Yeah, and we're still making moves. But I mean, they
didn't make any other major move. You know, the Carlos
Korea and he has a big paycheck. Although you could
tell from that what made that deal happen was Minnesota's
willingness to pay thirty three million dollars towards his contract.
So so that was the trade was for a left
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handed minor league pitcher I've never heard of, and probably
Minnesota never heard of either, and and and thirty three
million dollars in cash considerations from Minnesota. They just wanted
out from underneath that big contract. They gave up, and
they didn't last for along with it, they gave up
on their plan. They gave up on their plan of
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what they were doing. They were they were bringing in.
They had never made a financial commitment to anybody the
way they did to Carlos Korea. But they gave up
on their plan because they're you know, they're they're not
going to win their division, They're not going to make
the playoffs. So it didn't take them long to give
up on that. Now, one of the other things, just
one more baseball thing. I promised, I'm not going to
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spend that much time on it. One more thing. When
they did an interview after the trade deadline had passed
and all the deals were done with the general manager,
Dana Brown or the Astros, you know, they asked him
about the great trade and what made it possible. But
they also asked him why they didn't get another starting
pitcher because that was another Astro's need that had been
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identified as whether or not they were going to go
after Dylan Cees or some other a big name starting
pitcher to help fill out the rotation. They got a
great you know, one two punch with Hunter Brown and
from Er Valdez. But but they they could have used
another starter. So here is the questions being asked and
answered of astrogerial manager Dana Brown.
Speaker 9 (12:14):
Yeah, I mean, look, so you know, at the end
of the day, we were you know, kind of looking
for a bat and you know, we knew that we
could also use an infielder, and so you know, we
felt like, you know, Career would be a good fit.
So we started working through it, and you know, look,
this guy's done a lot here, has been very successful here,
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and so this thing came together. We had talked you know,
earlier in the week, you know, about certain bats, and
knowing that he was available, and knowing that you know,
he would give our clubhouse a charge, give us, give
the city a charge. You know, this was a guy
that you know, we started to talk more closely about
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and then it started to come together. I think the
pitching editions was the biggest part of our grind. We
just felt like the asking prices were too high, and
we know that we have a bunch of starters coming back,
and so that was an area where we knew we
were getting some help, you know. And then in terms
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of the bats, the two bats that we got, we
knew we had to you know, potentially get another bat
in the infield, and so we got that with the
in the utility road with you uh uh, you know, Ursius.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
And then.
Speaker 9 (13:39):
You know, when when we felt like Career became available, look,
that really made the difference. And you know, we pursued
that bat, and so, uh, getting the bat was really important.
And then the addition of Sanchez, Uh, you know that
getting that left hand bat that I talked about earlier,
we felt that that was big. Adding Sanchez to the
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mix as well.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Yeah, I think he's right about that. Hopefully he's also
right you know that we're getting some starting pitching back.
Christian Javier. I think he's he might make it back. JB.
Frantz looks like he might make it back. But right
right now, I mean because they did trade one of
the pictures they've been using as a starter, Ryan Gusto.
So so that was part of the trade deal to
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Miami to get the left handed outfielder Sanchez. So you
know they have some work to do. All right, enough
sports talk, Thank you for indulging me. I do love
sports baseball, in college football in particular, and I do
like talking about it. I just don't normally do that
on our show. Were normally involved in politics and and such.
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But it felt it was a big day. I thought
it was a big day for the Astors yesday. I
felt like talking about that. I hope you don't mind anyway,
all right, onto Kama Harris. Yes, she has a book. Well,
she's writing a book. It's not done yet. She's already
pipping a book that hasn't been completely written yet. Not
that I think she's writing it. I'm pretty sure there's
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a ghostwriter involved in this. Better be or it'll be
like watching paint dry. Greg Guttfeld and his panel, mainly
Emily Campogdo. We're talking about it last night, you know,
about what kind of book it might be. The stake
a listen, Kamalaz gonna write a book.
Speaker 10 (15:31):
Since leaving office, I've spent a lot of time reflecting
on those days, talking with my team, my family, my friends,
and pulling my thoughts together, in essence, writing a journal
that is this book one hundred and seven days with
candor and reflection. I've written a behind the scenes account
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of that journey. In writing this book, one truth kept
coming back to me. Sometimes the fight takes while, but
I remain full of hope and I remain clear eyed.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
You know, she just slapped a cover around like a
farmer's almanac.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
There's no book in that book. She has not held
a book in years. There's a cutout of a wine bottle.
It's a wine bottle safe totally. I had one of those. Emily.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
She said, she's not going to run for California governor,
but she's going to do this book.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Do you think she's actually going to put anything truthful
in it? In the book? Yeah, no, two words ghost writer.
Speaker 11 (16:38):
Even her ad for this was so obviously, like she
was reading it for the first time. Talk about robotic
We have written books and talked about it on air,
and it is so obvious when you are talking.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
About something you know and that you did. She's like, and.
Speaker 11 (16:52):
This is that book one oh seven days. I mean,
it's it's horrific. It looks like a hostage video. But
what do you expect from her? Here's what I'm wondering.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Tell you guys.
Speaker 11 (17:00):
I'm wondering, if you know, at this point she's retired
after the super Bowl, even though she's a failed presidential candidate,
she has all of these yes men surrounding her saying, dang,
I wish you would have run for governor, Please run
for twenty twenty eight president, et cetera. I'm wondering if
her ego is going to be such that she's like,
you're right, I should do it, or if she realizes
that this is the highest stocks she'll ever have, that
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if she gets out now, there will always be people
that will say no, please have stayed in, and that
then that way she will not be another failed presidential candidate.
So to me, I think that decision will be made
whether either she makes the call or whether she listens
to the true people with brains in her party, if
there are any which are saying, don't go anywhere near
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an election ever.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Again.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah, the interview was on Colbert last night, and and
well it was I would not that I would expect
to be. It was not a very in depth interview,
as you can probably imagine. But President Trump got asked
if he was interested in buying the book. So I'll
share that clip with you, along with a question or
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two from Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
He's also coming out of the book. He plans to
buy it. I don't know.
Speaker 12 (18:12):
Yeah, I think I'm gonna buy it. I'd love to
see it now, I know i'd find it. Look, I
find everything in politics interesting. I thought it was a
very strange campaign that we had. I wouldn't call her
a skilled politician, madam.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
By President, it's nice to see you again.
Speaker 10 (18:29):
It's great to.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
First of all you look rested. Yeah, I'm happy for you.
Thank you. WHOA, I'm fine. I'll get funny rest in June.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yeah, the first time you've been here.
Speaker 13 (18:49):
As just just a citizen Garman official.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Do is your eighth visitor show? Yes, sir, thank you
for being here. Once you left office, I'm just curious.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
IM gonna get into the details and I'm gonna I
want to talk about.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
The your your coming book one and seven record to that.
I'm just curious. Once once you left office, how long
before you turned on the news again? Months?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Months?
Speaker 10 (19:17):
I am you know, I'm just not into self mutilation
and I just.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
I am.
Speaker 10 (19:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Lots of cooking shows.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
Oh goody Off and stuff is one of my favorite.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Amaze sure yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Okay, so she's been watching a lot of cooking shows.
Maybe instead of writing about her unsuccessful presidential campaign, maybe
she should just write a cookbook that might be more useful.
All right, back with boring to Mama Jimmy part show.
Here an am nine fifty KPRC. Okay, let's see what
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should be talking about to wrap.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Up the week.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
This week, did you see that the president President Trump
is breaking ground on a two hundred million dollars ballroom
at the White House.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
What a ballroom.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I didn't realize this, but and I don't know why,
I've been on a White House tour before, but there's
only one place where you can see quite a few
guests at the White House right now, for like a
state dinner or whatever. And they only holds two hundred people,
so you can't you can't have a big state dinner
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and invite a big size crowd. So the President has
decided that he is going to build a ballroom for
the White House. He hired an architect in Washington, d C.
To come up with a design that looks like the
rest of the White House, so architecturally it will fit in.
It's going to seat six hundred and fifty guests. It
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will be located in the East wing of the White House.
They're gonna tear down the East wing of the White
House was built like in nineteen oh six, and then
it's been changed and renovated many times since. So's they're
gonna tear that down. They're going to build this ballroom instead.
That will replace the use of tents for state dinners.
He says the tents are ugly and they're overpriced. I'm
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sure they are. I'm sure that any ten company is
going to charge the White House top dollar for something
like that. So they're going to build this. The president's
donating some of his own money, some of his friends
are donating money. In other words, he's got the donations
in order to be able to make it happen. He's
been involved directly with the design and the planning, and
he's going to oversee the project. And unlike the FED building,
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which Jerome Powell has technically been overseeing, I bet this
one won't be over budget. I bet this one will
be done on time. What Trump does I mean, if
nothing else, Regardless what you think of him, he's a builder.
He's a great builder. So I like the possibility that
this is going to turn out really well. New terroffs
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went in effect today. Canada thirty five percent, India I
think it was twenty five percent. South Africa had some
new tariffs go into effect, Brazil fifty percent. So there's
more terrifts that went into effect today. Some other ones
will take effect August seventh. China has a August the
twelfth deadline in order to be able to get that done.
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Although I did note that the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen
said that you know that there'd been a deal, basically
a trade deal with China. Here here is what he
had to say, and some reaction to that from Maria Bartoromo.
Speaker 13 (22:54):
Everybody that I speak with, money managers, business manager CEOs,
they will say.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
The same thing.
Speaker 13 (23:00):
America is back and America is hot, and it has
everything to do with President Trump's policies and everything to
do with the expectations of where things are going. Look,
very few people expected a three percent quarter that we
just got in the GDP, and now you're seeing hundreds
of billions of dollars come back invested in America because
President Trump is doing these deals.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
He's doing tax.
Speaker 13 (23:21):
Deals, trade deals, piece deals, and it's working.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
You're seeing it. People are feeling better about things.
Speaker 13 (23:27):
And I think even skeptics of President Trump's policies in
the past are coming around just the other day, so
ken Lango and say, look, when you're wrong, you're wrong,
I have to admit it. So I think that when
you actually look at what he's doing, there was a
whole message to the plan, a message to the madness,
and he's actually doing lots of deals we'll.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
See where China is.
Speaker 13 (23:48):
China has been tougher than the other countries. It's been
a while, and they also have been a very bad
actor on the global stage.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Well, well said, all right, one more story for you,
because it's worth sharing. We have now that the John
Durham Report has been declassified, we're finding out just how
involved the deep state was in the Russian hoax. Here's
Senator Chuck Grassley.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
You're bringing attention of the Burn Bay to me for
the first time, and I'll leave that up to the
FBI to describe. But I think it's evidence of the
great depth that the deep state will go to cover
up weaponization that was going on in the FBI and
the executive branch of government generally under the Obama administration.
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And I want to thank Cash Patel the FBI and
Pan Bondi, our Attorney General, for release in these documents
because after eight years, and it took us three years
to get this information, but after eight years, I think
we need maximum transparency on all the SKI teams that
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were going on ten years ago to either stop Trump
from being elected or after who was elected.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
To ruin his presidency.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
And that's what this Duram Report is all about and
it gives information that tomy FBI had eight ten years
ago that they never followed up on. And it actually
brings attention to the fact that there was either a
Clinton conspiracy to make this happen or Russian disinformation, but
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either way it was an attempt to stop Trump. It
also proves that the FBI had a hand in it.
And now after these eight years, three years of my
trying to get the document, we know that there was
the Steele dossier paid for by the Democrats and the
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Clinton campaign, that it was all effort of total distraction
and to make it look like Russia was playing a
very major role in helping Trump to be elected.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
And now we know none of that was true.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
And now with this Durham Report annex out, it finally
proves that the FBI was covering up.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
And here's what we know. Addition to FABI covering up,
Clinton approved it herself. Hillary had proved it herself. George
Soros paid for it. There you go, So when are
the charges going to be filed? Let's go. Hey, listen, y'all,
have a great weekend, enjoy your weekend. I will see
you Monday morning. Bright nearly five am A News Radio
seven forty KTRH. We are back here at four on
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Speaker 2 (27:02):
Ava
Well, what we need is more common sense.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Breaking down the world's nonsense about how American common sense.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Will see us through with the common sense of Houston.
I'm just pro common sense for Houston from Houston. This
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett yesterday. Where are some of the
story today? Even though it's kind of a depressing story
in its Friday, but I think we need to learn
some lessons from what happened with the Texas flood And
the more the hearings go on yesterday, you had state officials,
and you had local officials, and you had citizens in
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Kerr County and Kerrville specifically talking about the flood, and
the questions got fairly specific here about what did you know?
When did you know it? And I'm going to play
this clip for you. This involves a Houston area lawmaker
questioning some of the local officials, the head of emergency management,
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the county judge about when they knew about the flooding problem,
how they went about spreading the alarm, and it's very telling.
Let's take a listen.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
You said at three point thirty when people were having
to get off the roof. That's the moment for all
hands on deck, and I'm trying to figure out is
there an existing system that could have gone out to
people in floodwaters way to reach higher ground or are
you missing that system?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
No, we do have a cod red system that something
can be put out, gives.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Meam, But for whatever reason, in this moment, there was
nobody to properly sound the alarm.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Is that what I'm hearing? They did not send the
code red.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
And come, ma'am until five oh one.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I have numerous folks from our area that have lost
families in this event. And it is my understanding that
there were little girls with water around their feet at
two am at Mystic and we're told stay in your cabin,
and those little girls did what they were instructed.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
What if any system is.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
There available for Kerr County officials to hear from campsites
on the river in a flood zone to better coordinate
to send out a warning. Is there any way right now?
Was there a way from Mystic at two am to
tell you we have water at our ankles.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I'm going to defer to our emergency management.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
William Thomas kirk Kenny is it working okay, William Thomas
kirk Kenny. So there were a number of National Weather
Service alerts that went out that agen.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
I'm not asking about the National weather because that's prediction.
I'm talking about the reality on the ground of little
girls in their bunks with water around their feet at
two am. Did you have any idea that that was
happening and was there a mechanism in place, because if
it's happening at Camp Mystic, you've got every other camp
in this recreational.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Zone at risk.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
What was the protocol in the process to warn people
when that scenario comes up?
Speaker 6 (03:30):
To my knowledge, we were not notified that the girls
had water in their camp.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
And despite that last piece of testimony, the Sheriff's office
did testify that they did get a call at three
fifty seven am from Camp Mystic that they were trapped
they needed help getting out of there. So what lawmakers
say they were going to have to come up with
are pieces of legislation that will codify into law backup plan.
So when you hit these counties that have you know,
(03:56):
their short staff, don't have a lot of staff, and
the main people who were responsible for coordinating emergency efforts
emergency response efforts. What is the backup plan that that
has to be in place in case those officials are
out of pocket like they were here.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Okay, that is the report from our television partner, KPRC too.
I want to give them credit for that. The part
that didn't really get covered in that piece, though, was
the knowledge that the county judge was not in town.
The director of the Office of Emergency Management was home sick,
(04:32):
in bed, asleep, and nobody woke him up until five
in the morning. So they're getting a phone call just
before four o'clock in the morning from Camp Mystic needing
help to evacuate, and nobody's called the director of the
Office of Emergency Management. He's on a sleep sick. That's
(04:58):
a problem. That's a communication problem. Now, even if you
even if you wake him up at four o'clock in
the morning, you know, maybe maybe we have a slightly
better outcome. Maybe maybe we get people out of there
a little bit quicker. I'm not sure. I still think
there needs to be a siren warning system up and
(05:23):
down the Guadalupe River. But the question is going to
become if you are going to go to the expense
and the trouble of building that type of warning system.
Who is going to be responsible for setting that system off? Who?
Because that's what happened here. They have a plan when
(05:43):
they've referred to it the red Dot plan, I think
that's how they refer to it. They have a plan,
but it has to be put into effect by the
Office of Emergency Management. And if they are not prepared
to activate a siren, for example, and the siren doesn't
get activated, then you spend the money for nothing. I mean,
do we need to look at installing a system that
(06:06):
is automatic that as soon as there's a flood warning
that's been issued by the National Weather Service, the sirens
go off. You know the danger you have with that is,
you know, a flood warning does not necessarily mean that
you're going to have a flood. So if you have
sirens going off every time there's a flood warning issued
by the National Weather Service, and they do it fairly
frequently and there's no flood, then it's like chicken little right,
(06:31):
Why why are we evacuating? Why? Why? You know, after
a while, people don't pay attention to the sirens anymore.
If they can't count on the sirens and indicating an
actual flood is going to happen. I mean, there's no
full proof system that involves human beings. There's no doubt
about it. But it's pretty obvious to see part of
what went wrong with this situation in Kirk County. All right,
(06:53):
quick little break, we are back with mortem moment Jimmy
Bairt Show here at AM nine point fifty KPRC.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
All Right, I don't normally talk sports on.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
This show, but I'm fairly excited by what happened with
the Astros of the trade deadline yesterday. I thought, I
just go ahead and throw that in there. Just it's Friday,
you know, why not, It's Friday, you've got you've got
the the the Astros in Boston. Carlos Correa is now
back with the team. Interesting how that whole thing unfolded.
(07:43):
There was a fire sale in Minnesota they or is
this guy? Mike said this morning it's it must have
been an estate sale because they're, you know, they're killing
off the team. They got rid of twelve players yesterday.
I think they're getting ready to sell as I think
what's going on with it. They getting ready to sell
the team and they're trying to you know, just get
(08:04):
rid of the payroll problems, and that's why they were
getting rid of Carlos Korea. And they and Carlos Korea
had a no trade clause, and he let it be
known that he would waive that no trade clause to
go back to the Astros because I think he still
thinks of this place as his home, and I think
he still thinks fondly of the Astros organization and a
(08:26):
lot of those players on the team, like jose L
two b. Now I wonder to myself because obviously jose
L two Bay is an Astro for life. I think
he has the ear of the Dana Brown the general manager,
and Jim Crane the owner, and I would not be
the least bit surprised if he was involved in making
a few phone calls. Hey, would you call up Carlos
(08:47):
and ask him if he really would be interested in
coming back? Would you ask him to would would he
mind playing third base? You know, because we kind of
have a shortstop now. You know that he trained, but
we still kind of have a shortstop now, we do
he think about moving to third base and Carlos career.
Let it be known, Yeah, not only am I interested
in going back and I would. I would I would
(09:09):
waive any attempted of any I would waive the no
trade clause if it were the Astros. No only would
I do that, I would be happy to play third base.
So that tells me he wanted he wanted out, he
wanted to come back home, and it was kind of
big news. I know it's big news for us, right
but it's kind of big news nationally. Here's what they
(09:30):
said on ESPN.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
The big acquisition was Carlo's Korea. You go and you
bring him back home. He waves the no trade clause.
Buster said it earlier, the Minnesota Twins getting out of
the Houston Astros thirty three million dollars to go along
with Carlos vil Korea to help out on that trade.
He's been there, he's done it, he's won there before
and he's been a huge part of their success. Look,
(09:54):
Paga right now is her. Yes, you need a third basement,
but when Penya comes back. Before he comes, I expect
Correa to be a short then transition over to third base.
He's done it. When the World Baseball Classic for Puerto Rico.
I think this is a great move for the Houston
Astros and it tells everyone we're still around. Let's not
forget Sanchez as well as us. Sanchez got outed to
(10:15):
the Houston Astros. The Houston Astros are saying, Okay, Seattle,
you guys made moves. Texas, you made moves. Angels, you're
making moves. We're still in first place by five games.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Yeah, and we're still making moves. But I mean, they
didn't make any other major move. You know, the Carlos
Korea and he has a big paycheck. Although you could
tell from that what made that deal happen was Minnesota's
willingness to pay thirty three million dollars towards his contract.
So so that was the trade was for a left
(10:48):
handed minor league pitcher I've never heard of, and probably
Minnesota never heard of either, and and and thirty three
million dollars in cash considerations from Minnesota. They just wanted
out from underneath that big contract. They gave up, and
they didn't last for along with it, they gave up
on their plan. They gave up on their plan of
(11:09):
what they were doing. They were they were bringing in.
They had never made a financial commitment to anybody the
way they did to Carlos Korea. But they gave up
on their plan because they're you know, they're they're not
going to win their division, They're not going to make
the playoffs. So it didn't take them long to give
up on that. Now, one of the other things, just
one more baseball thing. I promised, I'm not going to
(11:30):
spend that much time on it. One more thing. When
they did an interview after the trade deadline had passed
and all the deals were done with the general manager,
Dana Brown or the Astros, you know, they asked him
about the great trade and what made it possible. But
they also asked him why they didn't get another starting
pitcher because that was another Astro's need that had been
(11:52):
identified as whether or not they were going to go
after Dylan Cees or some other a big name starting
pitcher to help fill out the rotation. They got a
great you know, one two punch with Hunter Brown and
from Er Valdez. But but they they could have used
another starter. So here is the questions being asked and
answered of astrogerial manager Dana Brown.
Speaker 9 (12:14):
Yeah, I mean, look, so you know, at the end
of the day, we were you know, kind of looking
for a bat and you know, we knew that we
could also use an infielder, and so you know, we
felt like, you know, Career would be a good fit.
So we started working through it, and you know, look,
this guy's done a lot here, has been very successful here,
(12:38):
and so this thing came together. We had talked you know,
earlier in the week, you know, about certain bats, and
knowing that he was available, and knowing that you know,
he would give our clubhouse a charge, give us, give
the city a charge. You know, this was a guy
that you know, we started to talk more closely about
(13:01):
and then it started to come together. I think the
pitching editions was the biggest part of our grind. We
just felt like the asking prices were too high, and
we know that we have a bunch of starters coming back,
and so that was an area where we knew we
were getting some help, you know. And then in terms
(13:22):
of the bats, the two bats that we got, we
knew we had to you know, potentially get another bat
in the infield, and so we got that with the
in the utility road with you uh uh, you know, Ursius.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
And then.
Speaker 9 (13:39):
You know, when when we felt like Career became available, look,
that really made the difference. And you know, we pursued
that bat, and so, uh, getting the bat was really important.
And then the addition of Sanchez, Uh, you know that
getting that left hand bat that I talked about earlier,
we felt that that was big. Adding Sanchez to the
(14:02):
mix as well.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Yeah, I think he's right about that. Hopefully he's also
right you know that we're getting some starting pitching back.
Christian Javier. I think he's he might make it back. JB.
Frantz looks like he might make it back. But right
right now, I mean because they did trade one of
the pictures they've been using as a starter, Ryan Gusto.
So so that was part of the trade deal to
(14:25):
Miami to get the left handed outfielder Sanchez. So you
know they have some work to do. All right, enough
sports talk, Thank you for indulging me. I do love
sports baseball, in college football in particular, and I do
like talking about it. I just don't normally do that
on our show. Were normally involved in politics and and such.
(14:48):
But it felt it was a big day. I thought
it was a big day for the Astors yesday. I
felt like talking about that. I hope you don't mind anyway,
all right, onto Kama Harris. Yes, she has a book. Well,
she's writing a book. It's not done yet. She's already
pipping a book that hasn't been completely written yet. Not
that I think she's writing it. I'm pretty sure there's
(15:09):
a ghostwriter involved in this. Better be or it'll be
like watching paint dry. Greg Guttfeld and his panel, mainly
Emily Campogdo. We're talking about it last night, you know,
about what kind of book it might be. The stake
a listen, Kamalaz gonna write a book.
Speaker 10 (15:31):
Since leaving office, I've spent a lot of time reflecting
on those days, talking with my team, my family, my friends,
and pulling my thoughts together, in essence, writing a journal
that is this book one hundred and seven days with
candor and reflection. I've written a behind the scenes account
(15:52):
of that journey. In writing this book, one truth kept
coming back to me. Sometimes the fight takes while, but
I remain full of hope and I remain clear eyed.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
You know, she just slapped a cover around like a
farmer's almanac.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
There's no book in that book. She has not held
a book in years. There's a cutout of a wine bottle.
It's a wine bottle safe totally. I had one of those. Emily.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
She said, she's not going to run for California governor,
but she's going to do this book.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Do you think she's actually going to put anything truthful
in it? In the book? Yeah, no, two words ghost writer.
Speaker 11 (16:38):
Even her ad for this was so obviously, like she
was reading it for the first time. Talk about robotic
We have written books and talked about it on air,
and it is so obvious when you are talking.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
About something you know and that you did. She's like, and.
Speaker 11 (16:52):
This is that book one oh seven days. I mean,
it's it's horrific. It looks like a hostage video. But
what do you expect from her? Here's what I'm wondering.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Tell you guys.
Speaker 11 (17:00):
I'm wondering, if you know, at this point she's retired
after the super Bowl, even though she's a failed presidential candidate,
she has all of these yes men surrounding her saying, dang,
I wish you would have run for governor, Please run
for twenty twenty eight president, et cetera. I'm wondering if
her ego is going to be such that she's like,
you're right, I should do it, or if she realizes
that this is the highest stocks she'll ever have, that
(17:21):
if she gets out now, there will always be people
that will say no, please have stayed in, and that
then that way she will not be another failed presidential candidate.
So to me, I think that decision will be made
whether either she makes the call or whether she listens
to the true people with brains in her party, if
there are any which are saying, don't go anywhere near
(17:42):
an election ever.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Again.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah, the interview was on Colbert last night, and and
well it was I would not that I would expect
to be. It was not a very in depth interview,
as you can probably imagine. But President Trump got asked
if he was interested in buying the book. So I'll
share that clip with you, along with a question or
(18:05):
two from Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
He's also coming out of the book. He plans to
buy it. I don't know.
Speaker 12 (18:12):
Yeah, I think I'm gonna buy it. I'd love to
see it now, I know i'd find it. Look, I
find everything in politics interesting. I thought it was a
very strange campaign that we had. I wouldn't call her
a skilled politician, madam.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
By President, it's nice to see you again.
Speaker 10 (18:29):
It's great to.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
First of all you look rested. Yeah, I'm happy for you.
Thank you. WHOA, I'm fine. I'll get funny rest in June.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yeah, the first time you've been here.
Speaker 13 (18:49):
As just just a citizen Garman official.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Do is your eighth visitor show? Yes, sir, thank you
for being here. Once you left office, I'm just curious.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
IM gonna get into the details and I'm gonna I
want to talk about.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
The your your coming book one and seven record to that.
I'm just curious. Once once you left office, how long
before you turned on the news again? Months?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Months?
Speaker 10 (19:17):
I am you know, I'm just not into self mutilation
and I just.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
I am.
Speaker 10 (19:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Lots of cooking shows.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
Oh goody Off and stuff is one of my favorite.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Amaze sure yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Okay, so she's been watching a lot of cooking shows.
Maybe instead of writing about her unsuccessful presidential campaign, maybe
she should just write a cookbook that might be more useful.
All right, back with boring to Mama Jimmy part show.
Here an am nine fifty KPRC. Okay, let's see what
(20:06):
should be talking about to wrap.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Up the week.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
This week, did you see that the president President Trump
is breaking ground on a two hundred million dollars ballroom
at the White House.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
What a ballroom.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I didn't realize this, but and I don't know why,
I've been on a White House tour before, but there's
only one place where you can see quite a few
guests at the White House right now, for like a
state dinner or whatever. And they only holds two hundred people,
so you can't you can't have a big state dinner
(20:41):
and invite a big size crowd. So the President has
decided that he is going to build a ballroom for
the White House. He hired an architect in Washington, d C.
To come up with a design that looks like the
rest of the White House, so architecturally it will fit in.
It's going to seat six hundred and fifty guests. It
(21:02):
will be located in the East wing of the White House.
They're gonna tear down the East wing of the White
House was built like in nineteen oh six, and then
it's been changed and renovated many times since. So's they're
gonna tear that down. They're going to build this ballroom instead.
That will replace the use of tents for state dinners.
He says the tents are ugly and they're overpriced. I'm
(21:27):
sure they are. I'm sure that any ten company is
going to charge the White House top dollar for something
like that. So they're going to build this. The president's
donating some of his own money, some of his friends
are donating money. In other words, he's got the donations
in order to be able to make it happen. He's
been involved directly with the design and the planning, and
he's going to oversee the project. And unlike the FED building,
(21:51):
which Jerome Powell has technically been overseeing, I bet this
one won't be over budget. I bet this one will
be done on time. What Trump does I mean, if
nothing else, Regardless what you think of him, he's a builder.
He's a great builder. So I like the possibility that
this is going to turn out really well. New terroffs
(22:14):
went in effect today. Canada thirty five percent, India I
think it was twenty five percent. South Africa had some
new tariffs go into effect, Brazil fifty percent. So there's
more terrifts that went into effect today. Some other ones
will take effect August seventh. China has a August the
twelfth deadline in order to be able to get that done.
(22:35):
Although I did note that the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen
said that you know that there'd been a deal, basically
a trade deal with China. Here here is what he
had to say, and some reaction to that from Maria Bartoromo.
Speaker 13 (22:54):
Everybody that I speak with, money managers, business manager CEOs,
they will say.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
The same thing.
Speaker 13 (23:00):
America is back and America is hot, and it has
everything to do with President Trump's policies and everything to
do with the expectations of where things are going. Look,
very few people expected a three percent quarter that we
just got in the GDP, and now you're seeing hundreds
of billions of dollars come back invested in America because
President Trump is doing these deals.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
He's doing tax.
Speaker 13 (23:21):
Deals, trade deals, piece deals, and it's working.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
You're seeing it. People are feeling better about things.
Speaker 13 (23:27):
And I think even skeptics of President Trump's policies in
the past are coming around just the other day, so
ken Lango and say, look, when you're wrong, you're wrong,
I have to admit it. So I think that when
you actually look at what he's doing, there was a
whole message to the plan, a message to the madness,
and he's actually doing lots of deals we'll.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
See where China is.
Speaker 13 (23:48):
China has been tougher than the other countries. It's been
a while, and they also have been a very bad
actor on the global stage.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Well, well said, all right, one more story for you,
because it's worth sharing. We have now that the John
Durham Report has been declassified, we're finding out just how
involved the deep state was in the Russian hoax. Here's
Senator Chuck Grassley.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
You're bringing attention of the Burn Bay to me for
the first time, and I'll leave that up to the
FBI to describe. But I think it's evidence of the
great depth that the deep state will go to cover
up weaponization that was going on in the FBI and
the executive branch of government generally under the Obama administration.
(24:40):
And I want to thank Cash Patel the FBI and
Pan Bondi, our Attorney General, for release in these documents
because after eight years, and it took us three years
to get this information, but after eight years, I think
we need maximum transparency on all the SKI teams that
(25:00):
were going on ten years ago to either stop Trump
from being elected or after who was elected.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
To ruin his presidency.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
And that's what this Duram Report is all about and
it gives information that tomy FBI had eight ten years
ago that they never followed up on. And it actually
brings attention to the fact that there was either a
Clinton conspiracy to make this happen or Russian disinformation, but
(25:39):
either way it was an attempt to stop Trump. It
also proves that the FBI had a hand in it.
And now after these eight years, three years of my
trying to get the document, we know that there was
the Steele dossier paid for by the Democrats and the
(26:04):
Clinton campaign, that it was all effort of total distraction
and to make it look like Russia was playing a
very major role in helping Trump to be elected.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
And now we know none of that was true.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
And now with this Durham Report annex out, it finally
proves that the FBI was covering up.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
And here's what we know. Addition to FABI covering up,
Clinton approved it herself. Hillary had proved it herself. George
Soros paid for it. There you go, So when are
the charges going to be filed? Let's go. Hey, listen, y'all,
have a great weekend, enjoy your weekend. I will see
you Monday morning. Bright nearly five am A News Radio
seven forty KTRH. We are back here at four on
(26:52):
AM nine to fifty ktrc
Speaker 2 (27:02):
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