Friday, April 26th, 2024

Jimmy Barrett and Cliff Saunders take you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 04/26/24

Episode Transcript

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This is HUSED Radio seven forty KATIRH Houston Live Everywhere with them now the
latest news, weather and trapping.It's more of what matters to you.
From the John Morris Services Studios.Good morning, five am is a time
here in Houston's Morning News. I'mJimmy Barrett cheriz Off. Today clip is
in for her among our top storiesas we get started on this Friday morning.

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Well, let's see how I gotthis straight. Ogg has passed the
Hildago case on to Ken Paxton,Trump his take on what the Supreme Court
is saying about presidential immunity, andcoming up at five o' eight. I
knew that endless shrimp was a badidea. Details in the minutes ahead.
You're in Houston's Morning News. Firstreal check out the Morning Drive for the
first time with sky Mine. Oh, I've got a west Loop problem.

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That's all that stands between me andthe slinky right now. It's an accident.
I didn't see any backup southbound,but this is west Loop sixteen southbound,
right before the merge with the SouthwestFreeway. Remember, if you're coming
up from bel Air, are youcoming around from the south side here?
You can't do that ramp that goesup to downtown from bel Air that you'll
have to go to Chimney Rock bustingyou turn off the Southwest. I'm Skymike.

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It's the Generator Supercenter dot Com trafficCenter. From our KTRH top tax
defenders. Twenty four hour weather centare overcast today with the high temperature right
about eighty three. We'll get youthe complete forecast with Terry Smith at the
Weather Channel in about nine minutes.Right now seventy four at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven fortyk TRH. It's time down for the

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news and for share of this morninggrs Cliff's onders. Thank you, Jimmy
five oh one on kgrhhower top storythis morning. Evidence is not political,
it is simply evidence. And Iwant this case heard by Harris County jury.
That is County DA Kim Agg askingAttorney General Ken Paxton's office to take
on the bid rigging case against threeof County Judge Lena Hidalgo's former staffers.

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While there was a steel cage deathmatchbetween kim Ogg and Lena Hidalgo, there
is an ongoing steel cage deathmatch asequel between the attorney General's Office and the
County Judge. Legal analyst Brian Weisson our TV partner Channel two, Ogg
says her likely successor, Sewn Tier, has a conflict of interest. Tears
sought and received the enthusiastic political endorsementof the Harris County Judge. Commissioner Rodney

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Ellis called the move quote red meatfor the Maga bass. Meanwhile, in
Washington, without presidential immunity from criminalprosecution, there can be no presidency as
we know it. Attorney d JohnSower, arguing the case to the US
Supreme Court that Donald Trump as presidentialimmunity. Investigative reporter Julie Kelly telling our

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Clay and Buck that Trump is fightingvague charges brought by Special counsel Jack Smith.
These are not clear cut crimes murder, bribery, drum trafficking. As
for the former president's reaction, presidentialimmunity is imperative, or you practically won't
have a country anymore. Trump outsideof court in Manhattan, where his hush

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money trial continues this morning. Thedefense began its cross examination of ex National
Inquirer publisher David Pecker Thursday. Theirline of questioning sought to establish Pecker's seventeen
years of giving the former president advancenotice of potentially damaging stories. Pecker's recall
of specific dates was also challenged.Fox's Gernald Scott reporting on the campaign trail,

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a warning from Steve Bennon House Republicanssome of them secretly want Trump to
lose. I agree with Bannon onthis. You've got a party that really
isn't backing Trump. Republican strategist MattLocke blames the establishment. There's a group,
and you can call it once again, the cabal. The deep state
was actively working against the former president. They don't want an outsider in there.

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They want someone who can be controlled. Thus saw the GOP in fighting
five oh four on KTRH anti Israelprotests taking place for the second straight day
at ut in Austin, Students joinedby faculty and Democrat Congressman from Texas Greg
Kazar smaller. No dozens arrested atWednesday's protests, by the way, all

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released from jail. Protests continue atColumbia University in New York City, the
school backing off its deadline for riotersto leave the so called liberated zone.
This speech has become discriminatory. It'sbecome harassment, and it's kept us from
studying and going to class, andit's really put our safety on the line.
That student talking to Fox News.President Biden was in Manhattan yesterday campaigning

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we got to stop this division.I promised to be president for all America,
whether you voted for me or not. And as you may have figured,
Biden avoided talking about the protests.With wars in the Middle East and
Europe, the US it's being forcedto beef up its nuclear arsenal. The
White House budget includes funding for thefirst new nuclear warhead in forty years.

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Jill Ruby, with the National NuclearSecurity Agency, says it's part of a
larger upgrade of our arsenal weapons programof record grew from five to seven systems
this past year. Energy Secretary JenniferGranholm ads that time is of the essence.
Geopolitical shifts around US have made clearthat those missions are urgent. As
Ever, the growing cooperation between Russia, China, Iran, North Korea has

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created a more unstable international environment.Production on the new warhead is slated to
start by the mid twenty thirties.Corey Jolson, who's Radio seven forty KTRH
and ask for Bidenomics. First quarterGDP grew by one point six percent,
sixty percent below expectations. Slow downand consumer spending is what leads to contraction

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and recession in the business cycle,and so I wouldn't be surprised if we
weren't looking at talking about recession laterin the year. As a result,
well in Star College economist Tank LewisWall Street did not like that the Dow
lost three hundred and seventy five pointsyesterday. NASDAK was down, so was
the S and P five hundred.Americans keep telling Paul after Paul that they're
not happy with the economy, yetwe're still spending. There are substituting away

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from the higher price items to thelower price items and that will help them
to meet their needs. Vance Again. Economist says this is unsustainable in the
long run. And if you askmost Americans how much savings they'll need for
retirement, the answer one point fivemillion. Yes. But KTRH Moneyman Passion

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says there is no one size fitsall. Variables make all the difference.
There are a ton of variables,as I like to say, just as
everybody's got their own personality, everybody'sgot their own financial personality. Frugal,
some frivolous, some don't have adome, some don't give it on.
But eighty percent are worried about outlivingtheir savings. The US average for after

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tax income postage sixty five, isclose to thirty eight hundred a month.
The average for expenses is forty twohundred a month. Nicky Courtney News Radio
seven forty kt RH emergency supplies.They are part of a sales tax holiday
in Texas that starts tomorrow and runsthrough Monday. Among the items that qualify
emergency ladders, batteries, and carbonmonoxide detectors. Finally, the Chicago Bear

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select USC quarterback Caleb Williams with thefirst pick in the NFL draft last night.
The Texans did not have a firstrounder. They've got two second rounders
in for Shara. I'm Cliff Saunterson Houston's news, weather and traffic station
News Radio seven forty KTRH Houston's morningnews continues with Jimmy Verrett and Sheriff Fryar.

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They all like seafood. I loveseafood. I love seafood. I
mean when I moved here to Houston, I got into hog Heaven because I
grew up in the Midwest and wejust we didn't have any good seafood restaurants.
We had Red Lobster. That's it. So Red Lobster for a long
time, it was as close asI got to seafood. I have not

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been to Red Lobster since I movedto Texas, but we do have red
Lobsters. I don't know how wellthey do here. I don't know how
well anything we're doing right now.Did you hear the Red Lobster is looking
for a buyer. They're trying toavoid bankruptcy. They're out of money.
What went wrong? You know,when you were the only game in town
in a lot of places, youwould think they'd do okay. The problem

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is they did too well. Whatdo you mean you did too well?
The problem is endless shrimp. Youknow they do that promotion last The last
time they did the endless shrimp promotion, they sold so much shrimp that they
lost money, tons of money.You know, these are kind of dangerous,

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you know, during these inflationary times, it's kind of a dangerous time
to be a restaurant that doesn't allyou can eat promotion, right, you
probably don't want. I wonder whathappens for a place like a you know,
a Golden Corral or a buffet placewhere you theoretically can have as many
helpings as you want, because I'mguessing that those places are in high demand

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when prices go way up. Imean, you can only adjust your prices
so much. What if, likeyou have all the night where a bunch
of three hundred pounders come in andthey're all getting like four or five plates
of food. That's got to bea losing proposition, I would think.
So. I don't know if RedLobster's going to find a buyer in time
for all this. You know thebest thing about Red Lobster the biscuits,
which you can buy now. Youcan get a box and make them yourself

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at home. Five to ten,time for traffic and weather together. My
cheesy biscuit you can get, Yes, you can. You can make them
yourself at home. Skymike, Ohmy gosh, that sounds fantastic. Let's
check out your west flip six tenAnd that was it. We had an
extent southbound west loop at sixty nine. That's out of the way. Never
was a big hu od here gofreeway. Do you have a stall.

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This is going to be outbound atTellips and that's kind of a sticky spot.
He's on the right side. Butand this is a big bud that
you're coming out from all that mergingcraziness at Lockwood. They may have to
take a right lane in the nextminutes. So let's look out there.
Let's go inbound and we're get twentyone minutes from NASA one up into downtown.
And of course the toll bridge secondshould start any minute now southbound the

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toll bridge down the one little punylane and a concrete wall on both sides.
We'll check it out at the fivetwenty break and the Generator Supercenter dot
Com Traffic Center from our KTRH toptax devenders twenty four our Weather Center.
Time to bring on Terry Smith fromthe Weather Channel. Another day without a
whole bunch of sun, yes,sir, we are going to be stuck

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with a fair amount of clouds.More importantly, though, we are starting
to get some rain even today,and that continues into the weekend. It's
not a complete wash out, butwe're definitely having to deal with some wet
weather and the possibility of strong tosevere storms as well, so a thirty
percent chance of those thunderstorms developing latertoday. It's going to be a breezy
day. Temperatures today really into nextweek won't change much. We're going to

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stay in the low to mid eightiesthrough the weekend. There's a forty percent
chance of thundershowers around this evening.They'll die down late tonight. We have
a brief break tomorrow. Tomorrow's yourbest outdoor day, Partly cloudy, breezy,
load of mid eighties. But thenthe rain is back Sunday, Monday,
and Tuesday. Fifty to sixty percentchance of showers and thunderstorms for the

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first part of next week. Allright, turn it off the sprinklers from
our KTRH top tax defenders twenty fourour weather center. That's Terry Smith.
The current temperature is we double checkit here. I just had it here
a second ago. There it isseventy four at your official severe weather station.
News Radio seven forty KTRH ninety nineone HT two. It's news Radio
seven forty KTRH on FM. It'sHouston's Morning News, brought to you by

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New South Windows Solutions. Now backto Jimmy and Scherah with the info you
need to take on the day.Hey, there's a union in New York
City called the Steamfitters, the Localsix thirty eight steam Fitters. They've got
about nine ten thousand members of thesteam Fitters. And you know, like

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most unions there would traditionally vote Democrat, but evidently Trump has picked up the
endorsement of the manager of this localand because most of his members, I
mean the vast majority of his memberssupport Trump and do not support Biden,
which I find kind of interesting.And I think they're actually talking about if

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he does enough campaigning, he mightactually do something that hasn't been done since
Ronald Reagan, which would be fora Republican to win New York. Here
is the manager of Steamfitter's Local sixthirty eight. It was great to see
the President come and engaging with theblue collar worker of New York City.
We basically built New York. Theunion movement has made the middle class.

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And we are very patriotic union andwe are pro America. So my members.
Right now, I put out apoll in my union. President Trump
is leading Joe Biden three to oneon my presidential poll out of my nine
thousand members right now. We arevery tired of the situation with groceries,

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inflation, gas prices, illegal immigration, crime. We're living it every day
in New York City. So isthere pressure from union heads to vote a
certain way? Well, yeah,I'm probably gonna get a lot of phone
calls after this interview. But likeI've told other people, I don't work
for my international union. I workfor my members. I represent my members,

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and I wish every politician that waselected to any office would remember they
work for their constituents that vote forthem. They don't work for themselves.
I see a wave coming as amatter of fact. And you know,
nobody that I speak to likes what'sgoing on in America right now. What
about that court case citizens? Doesthat change your opinion? If the court

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case going downtown, nothing changes myopinion. Of course. I want to
see what's done for America. Iwant what's right for America. I want
what's right for the citizens, andmy members want that also. They are
very agitated. They're living week toweek, some of them are not affording
their bills, and I think thingsneed to change. And my members have

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basically told me, listen, wewant to vote for this guy. So
when the time is right and Ihave a bigger poll to be done,
we will make that decision. ButI will do whatever my members want me
to do. Trump could never carryNew York City, but you have enough
people in New York City vote forhim, he could carry the state.

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Like I said, hasn't been donesince Reagan, but it has been done
five twenty one. Time to takea look at traffic and weather. Together,
we're going to check out the drivebook. Guess do I have a
guest? No, I do nothave a guest, Guy, Mikey.
But why are you worried about that? You got the slinky out? Oh
yeah, yeah, that's true.I'm looking at the shot. I don't
know why Channel thirteen's giving me thisshot here of the canyon. It's pretty.
It's a pretty view this morning.I'm looking for the Southwest Freeway and

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McGowan. Looking up, I seethe Toyota Center here, and I should
be watching freeways. Freeways look goodso far, no problem here, even
your East Text elevator. Let's flipover this way and do some East Tech
salvator. We look good so far. I sure could use an update on
the toll bridge suckage that'll start anyminute now seven one three, two,
two tips and two ninety. I'vegot Captain Jack Mike Mike two nights with

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a stripy kid all the way Godicfluttered or fry, I mean the general.
I don't even know who that is. I'm a the Generator Supercenter dot
com traffic center from Mark KTRH dotDAX defenders twenty four hour weather center.
Today mostly claudium, breezy, chanceof a shower of storm with the high
eighty three. Most of the Claudia. Tomorrow's like chancefor shower eighty three and

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then Sunday isolated warning. Thunderstorm isbecoming more widespread in the afternoon with the
high eight two. A temperature rightnow is seventy four at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven fortyKTRH. Time to check out some of
our top trending stories on this Fridaymorning, and for sher today, here's
clipp Thank you, Jimmy. We'responsored by DNM Auto Leasing. Anti Semitic

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protests on American college campuses continue tospread. Houston Mayor John Whitmeyer responds to
County Judge Lena Hidalgo, saying hedoesn't have time for meeting greats. He's
too busy running the city of Houston, and the CDC says the birth rate
has dropped to a record low aftergetting a boost during COVID. At the
Latest News Anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next update is at five thirty.

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How bad things are the twenty twentyfour elections? What's really happening?
Everything in your world? Here andabroad News Radio seven forty KTRH. The
springs were busy yesterday during the Presidentialcommunity. Trump could not be there.
He was stuck in in New Yorkdoing what he was doing and could not

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go. But evidently has gotten somefairly good news about some of the questions
being asked by the Supreme Court.Now trying to interpret what the Supreme Court's
going to rule as it relates topresidential immunity as easier said than done.
But here's Jonathan Turley, Constitucial lawtsporat George Washington University, and Kerrie Urbain

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to talk about what they thought theyheard is a part of yesterday's testimony.
Well, I think there were pointsin this argument that should be viewed as
quite positive for the Trump team.First of all, you had roughly four
justices referring to sending this back forfurther deliberations. If they do that,
it's hard to imagine the trial judgegetting a trial before the election, and

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if Trump is reelected, you mightnot have any trial at all. But
the argument went along the lines ofwhat many of us had predicted, That
is that justices seemed equally uncomfortable withthe sweeping arguments of the Trump team and
the sweeping decision by the DC Circuit. I thought the real haymaker of the
argument was delivered by Chief Justice JohnRoberts, who was openly mocking of the

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DC Circuit, which had this awfulstandard where they said, well, a
president can be prosecuted effectively when he'sprosecuted. That they had this line that
suggested that the fact of prosecution meantthat the acts could be prosecuted, and
Chief Justice Robbers legitimately said, whattype of standard is that? I mean,

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you know, don't we have tohave something more. All of those
comments would suggest that there are justicessort of groping in the dark here for
a middle road where there might besome immunity for public acts, official acts,
but not for private acts. Iwas struck by the I thought,
extreme positions of both sides. Whohave Donald Trump who was arguing absolute immunity

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for all official acts from colinal prosecutionfor all official acts, and then you
have the Department of Justice are doingzero immunity. And I thought to myself,
well, how can a president functionif they have no immunity whatsoever from
criminal prosecution for their official acts.And you know, Bret Kavanaugh, who
I worked for when he was goingwhen he was going through his confirmation process,

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I thought he raised some very interestingpoints. He talked about how troubled
he was for the trajectory of theAmerican presidency if they were to side with
the Department of Justice's approach, whichis this, you know, zero immunity,
this posture. And you know,I was also struck by DOJ's argument
that, well, don't worry aboutit because prosecutions are not politically motivated.

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We take oaths about that kind ofstuff, And I thought, how can
you possibly say that given what weare all watching happen in New York.
And secondly, the person who madethat argument was on Special Counsel Bob Muller's
team, which we all know whatthat was a two year, thirty five
million dollar investigation that was driven bypolitics and failed. You know, if

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the Supreme Court does rule I predicted, what they would rule is that a
the president is protected from official actsbut not protected from private acts. And
then the next argument becomes, wherewhere's that line between a private act and
an official act. That's gonna befue's That's what's going to money up the
waters next five seventy. It istime to take a look at your money.

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Denise Pellergreene is here. Good morning, Hi there. You know,
we got this interesting story about theFed and Donald Trump because Wall Street Journal
reporting Trump allies are apparently making plansto weaken the Federal Reserve. Wall Street
Journal reporting Trump allies our drafting proposalssaying the former president should be consulted on
interest rates if he's elected president again. That would be a big departure from

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current policy where the Fed is supposedto be independent. We've got more data
on inflation that could rock Wall Streettoday. Stock futures are higher this morning,
Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet gaining.Crude oil futures right now up about
four ten eighty three ninety a barrel. I'm Denise Pellegreeney Bloomberg. Business News
Radio seven forty Ktright here, Whoyou are, no Houston's News, Why

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there were traffic plus Preaking News twentyfour to seven. This is News Radio
seven forty kt R h Child Everywherewith more of what's happening now from the
Sean Morris Services Studios. It isfive point thirty now here on Houston's Boning
News. I'm Jimmy Barrett along withI was gonna say share up a shares
off today Cliff Sauders is in forher. Among our top stories this f

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are or protesting on college campuses.Biden goes to New York but stays away
from Columbia, and at five pointthirty eight, Arcola's mayor says someone send
him a noose the message to dropout of the race. Details in the
minute sayhead, you're in Houston's BoringNews. First you check out that morning
drive again. Here's guy Mike allright. Doug from mitt Velde just reports
he doesn't see any sucking jo onthe toll bridge so far. I ten

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east looks good, Federal Road allthe way downtown and north forty five.
Here's Gerald from Conrod. Guy MikeSouthall at the glass Ogram. There's a
whole bunch of equipment up there withtheir life's going launching the entire on RAM,
So you're going to have to godown to Loop three thirty six and
take that on RAM to get on. I didn't notice an accident or anything,

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so it might be clearing up soon. That's on the inbound main lanes
are looking good though, Skymike onthe Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from
our KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty fourhour Weather Center mostly clowneye, breezy,
chance of a shower of storm todaywith the highemp at you're right about eighty
three. We'll get to the completeforecast when we talk to Terry Smith at
the Weather Channel in eight minutes.Right now, it is seventy four at

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your officials, Severe Weather Station,News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's time
now for the news and for shareof this morning. Here's Cliff Sanders.
Thank you, Jimmy five thirty two. We're sponsored by All Star Construction and
our top story. Wake these kidsup, I mean they ought to know
they can't do this. Missouri SenatorJosh Hawley on Fox Anti Israel. Protests
spread to colleges across the country,including Atlanta's Emery University. From demonstrators came

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on to camp, they were removedusing teargas, tasers, and even some
rubber bullet. Emory officials were quickto say that these protesters were not part
of the campus community. That's SteveHarrigan reporting. By the way, USC
and Los Angeles canceled their main graduationbecause of these protests, which continued at
Columbia University in New York City,where the President was campaigning yesterday. How

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come the President of the United States, how come he hasn't called for the
National Guard to go in and protectstudents. Florida Congressman Byron Donald's protest also
continued at U T Austin. Herein Houston, Da Kim Ogg asked the
state Attorney General's office to assist withthe corruption case involving Harris County Judge Lyda
Hidalgo's office Shawn Tier, who isOG's likely successor. As a conflict of

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interest, he works at a lawfirm representing one of the defendants. We'll
have more at six o'clock. DonaldTrump's lawyers were at the US Supreme Court
yesterday arguing for presidential immunity. Thatcertainly seems that the Supreme Court wants to
ensure that the system we end upwith is a system that preserves presidential prerogatives.

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Attorney Will Sharf, the High Courtwill issue a ruling in June.
It will affect multiple cases. SomeDemocrats, specifically South Carolina's Benny Thompson,
want Trump stripped of a secret Serviceprotection. These democrats want you dead.
You realize that, yeah, becauseI'm the one that turns things around Trump
on Newsmax last night, David Peckerwill be back on the witness stand when

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cross examination resumes this morning in Manhattan. The only things that are certain in
life are death taxes and that theelites have no respect for Trump supporters.
This is causing working class Democrats toturn towards Republicans. The Trump campaign is
going to zero in now on areasthat Republicans had not banned previously. They're

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going to try and carry New YorkCity News mex contributor Jeffrey Lord says Blue
city voters are done being ignored whiletheir cities are destroyed. Is a bad
situation, and they don't have controlof it. It's New York City.
It's Chicago, It's Los Angeles,San Francisco. It's a mess. Lord
says. The choice in November isclear, more of the same or something

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better. Ethan B. Kennan NewsRadio seven forty KTRH, Thank you,
Ethan. A new column in theAtlantic claims that democracy quote dies behind paywalls.
See premise is just stupid. TheAmerican vote in public is moving to
other forms of media. The AmericanSpectator's Melissa mackenzie. In an ironic twist,
this particular column was hidden behind apaywall. May is mental health awareness

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month, but it might be timeto change that cliff As Noel Williams notes
an American Thinker, a more deservingone should be liberalism is a mental disease
awareness Month. I mean, itis sarcastic in everything, but I think
he does make the point that leftismis a mental illness. That is Andrea
Widberg, editor with American Thinker yourtransgender and plotting mass murder. Or a

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black woman judge who says that there'sno such thing at the Second Amendment in
her court. Or college students screamingfor hamas they don't need reality anymore.
The reality is we need a realityawareness. Jeff Biggs, News Radio seven
forty K Tier eight. It's fivepoint thirty five. Average citizens can no
longer monitor police scanners in Austin.Ray Hunt of the Houston Police Officers Union

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says this is surprising in such aliberal city because it's for ulcer safety.
I'm shocked that Austin, Texas isdoing it because they don't give a crap
about their ulcers. Well, encryptedchannels are you Sometimes here in Houston,
they try to stay transparent. We'renot scared of media, we're not scared
of the general public. But unfortunately, you've got that element out there that
is not good folks, and they'reusing it for nefarious reasons to get a

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jump on the police. Now,encrypted channels can still be hacked, but
it makes things tougher and there wasmore violent crime in the city yesterday.
A female shooter arrested in West Houstonafter a two hour scane and off with
the SWAT team. A nineteen yearold was grazed by a bullet. The
Biden Administration's war on American energy continues. Here's Fox's Kelly Sebiri. If coal

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plants want to stay open past twentyforty. What they'll need to do is
reduce their emissions by ninety percent witha deadline of past twenty forty. Coal
accounts for sixteen percent of the nation'senergy generation. The largest number of plants
are in Pennsylvania, Texas, Indiana, Wyoming, Kentucky, West Virginia,

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and Iowa. Gas prices, meantime, remain high across the country three six
to six a gallon nationally three twentyone a gallon around Houston. Of course,
they're only going to go up insummer driving season. And speaking of
which, many of you are tryingto work out your summer vacation plans.
In this economy, little over halfof Americans are definitely planning a summer vacation

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this year. Another eighteen percent arenot sure yet, so that leaves about
thirty percent who are pretty much setagainst it, primarily due to the cost
bank rates. Ted Rossman says athird of summer vacationers are paying with plastic
and well, of course, justworry about paying for it down the road.
Finally, the Astros losing streak isat five games after a defeat in

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Chicago to the Cubs three to one. The team is off today they'll play
the Rockies in Mexico City starting tomorrow. In for Sharf, I'm Cliff Saunders
on Ustin's news, weather and trafficstation News Radio seven forty k TRH,
Classic Elite, Chevy Sugarland dot Com, be Elite, buy Elite. Do
you understand is to listen? Icheck in all the time, keep up

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with what's happening. Staying in formmatters to the Hues Radio seven forty KTRH.
And this is where the fun begins. Wow, it's such a happy
song about a noose. Five thirtyeight is their time here in Houston's borning
news. This is something weird goingon in our Coola. I'm not that
familiar with our Cola. I knowit's about two thousand people call our Colahoma.

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It's in Fort Bend. They buildthemselves as country living in the city.
But that's about all I know aboutit. I don't know anything about
the ethnic makeup of the town.I don't know anything about the police department,
although I know they have one.I don't know anything about city government
other than they do have a mayorand he is running for re election again.

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This would be his third term.If elected. His name is Fred
Burton and Mayor. Burton claims hereceived a package in the mail on Tuesday
containing a noose and a message todrop out of the upcoming mayoral race.
The police Department took the Facebook toask community members or anyone with additional information
on the quote threatening package to comeforward. The message to Burton, who's

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running for his third term, readget out of the race now our call.
The police chief, Arika car Bryant, told the media that there are
quote several inconsistencies with the package.I'm not sure what that means. The
threat is being treated with the utmostseriousness there co. The police Department has

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requested assistance from the FBI and investigatingthis criminal act, and the mayoral opponent,
Vita Williams expressing doubt about the authenticity, saying, I hope this has
not been staged for the sake ofthe election, but given all the lies
and ugliness thus far, it's notan unreasonable assumption at this point. I

(30:32):
for one, do not want themarriage to drop out of the race,
but when he loses, I dowant him to step aside peacefully. So
I think any time you have thesekinds of accusations, unfortunately, at least
in my mind, you have totake them, I think with a certain
grain assault, especially when you're talkingabout a political race. Here, I

(30:53):
think just about anything seems to befair game in politics these days. A
gooding making that type of charge.Now, maybe the inconsistencies of the package
indicate us that, you know,perhaps this was like an inside job.
Maybe this hasn't got anything to dowith a legitimate threat. After all,
the guy has been mayor, thisis running, he's running for reelection for

(31:15):
a third time. It's and he'snever theoretically received a threat before. That
doesn't seem to make much sense,does it. Take it all with a
grain of salt. Five forty onetime for traffic and weather together, we're
gonna check out the drive again.Here's guy mine Way Gerald from Conrod gave
me that emergency whatever. There areemergency crews on Eyed forty five's entrance ramp
from Gladsdale, which means you gotto skip down to three thirty six,

(31:37):
hit a couple of lights or twoto get back on afterwards. That might
sure as long sometimes too, butso far mainlanes look good. Coming down
from Willis, Texas. We arean easy thirty three minutes into downtown on
the south side forty five. Ofcourse, we have that big road construction
section coming up between Lamark and Dickinson, and boy, we had some real

(31:59):
we had some real tries yesterday.Man, if you have a stalled vehicle,
you've got these concrete walls all aroundyou, you want to hang tight
in that vehicle and be super dupercareful. But now coming up from Dickinson,
we're wide open. Jeff from tomBalls got to us a two pointy
nine problem. It's just four nineteensixties as a ten foot ladder at a
two left lane. Were tenna rightthere in the middle of two lanes,

(32:20):
and people look at its dark,can't see it all right, that's just
south the nineteen sixty. It's notthe ladder itself. You can run right
over that. Watch out for otherstations listeners swerving at the last minute.
Terry, I have partly cloudy hairtoday. I just want to let you
know I'm in the Generator Supercenter dotCom traffic Center. Your hair don't exactly
go with the forecast from our KTRHGenerator Supercenter Weather Center. Terry Smith,

(32:44):
is here? Are you expecting partlycloudy? I thought we were gonna expect
maybe mostly cloudy today. I thinkwe're gonna be dealing with a lot of
clouds today certainly, and I suspectthe next couple of days as well,
because we've got this front that eventuallymakes its way closer to us by the
end of the weekend, and that'llincrease our chances of Right now, we

(33:05):
do have a thirty percent chance ofsome showers, maybe some thunderstorms later this
afternoon. It is a breezy day, a warm, muggy day, load
to mid eighties this afternoon. Fortypercent chance of getting wet tonight tomorrow right
now looks stry to me. Nochange in the temperature, holding out the
low to mid eighties really tomorrow throughthe early part of next week. It's

(33:27):
Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday whenour ring chances increase. Let's just basically
call it a sixty percent chance ofthunderstorms each day into Tuesday and Wednesday as
well. Temperture right now still seventyfour at your official severe weather station.
News radio seven forty KTRH Houston soundsgood everywhere. Tell your smart device to

(33:49):
play KTRH on iHeartRadio. What youneed to know for the day ahead.
This is Houston's Morning News, broughtto you by New South Windows solution Zoom
Zoom Zoom. We all zoom thesedays, sept We're not talking about flying,
We're talking about zoom meetings. Doyou hear that the anti Trump liberal

(34:09):
legal pundits out there have a regularFriday phoner Well Zoom meeting to discuss the
coverage of Trump so they can allget on the same page. Supposedly,
the group includes CNN legal analyst andformer Obama official Norman Eisen, Bill Crystal,

(34:30):
and George Conway, who are inthe Republican side, Liberal Harvard professor
Lawrence Tribe, former Nixon White Housecounsul John Dean, MSNBC legal analyst Andrew
Weisman, and former c and Nlegal analyst Jeffrey Tubit. Here's Greg Guttfeld
talking about this group. Normal people. Normal people understand time people in the

(34:51):
media don't. We think about thepast in the present. We anticipate the
future. But the media can't dothat right because then they would hate themselves.
For example, they hold different positionsin the past than they do now
based on team sports, so theycan't look at themselves in the past and
the present. They have to pretendthat this is a new and exciting idea
so they seem original, and theycan't contemplate the future or else that would

(35:15):
change what they do in the present. So by embracing this lawfair, they
actually betray their future selves because thismob justice will come for them. They're
betting stupidly on this idea that there'sno future costs to them, so they're
living in the now. They're likea drug addict doing a lot of crack

(35:36):
forgetting that there's going to be ahangover coming soon. And that hangover is
when all of a sudden, thepeople you don't like are going to be
in power and they're going to beable to do the same thing to you.
They are betraying their future selves,just like they betray the American people.
That's going to deep five to fiftyone is their time. Time for
traffic and weather together. Let's checkin again with sky Mine. There's some
big shots. You've got your WestPark tot Waite for now. If you're

(35:59):
coming in from Grand Lakes, you'rerocking along past Highway six, nothing to
slow you down the Beltway all theway to the Southwest Freeway West Grand Parkway
from two ninety up and down inbetween the Katie Freeway. We're looking good
both ways. Let's check the southpart around sugar Land and we're looking good
this way too. Coming across theBrazzis River Southwest Freeway over our shoulder looks

(36:21):
good to twenty one minutes, almostslinky time into downtown. I'm gonna watch
that stall on the south Loop atMLK. This is eastbound. It looks
like they may take a right lanein the next couple minutes. Skymike from
the Generator Supercenter. Dot Com TrafficCenter from r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty
four hour Weather Center. Mostly cloudy, breezy, chance of a shower or
a storm thirty percent chance today withhigh temperature of eight three. Mostly the

(36:44):
cloudy's like chance for a shower eightythree tomorrow Sunday, isolated morning thunderstorm becoming
more widespread sixty percent chance in theafternoon with the temperture about eighty two.
Right now seventy four at your officialsevere weather station, News Radio seven forty
k TRH. Time to check outsome of our top stories on this Friday,
and for Sherah, Here's Cliff.Thanks Jimmy, State Attorney General takes
up the corruption investigation of Harris CountyJudge Lena Hidalgo's office. Southwest Airlines will

(37:08):
stop flying out of Bush Airport andthree others across the country, and the
CDC says the birth rate has droppedto a record low after hitting a boost
during COVID. Get the latest newsanytime at KGRH dot com. Our next
updates at six o'clock. Do youunderstand? Pleased to listen? I check
in all the time. Keep upwith what's happening. You're staying in form

(37:30):
matters to the US Radio seven fortyKTRH five point fifty three. Now in
time here in Houston's morning news.Andrea Whidberg is up early this morning.
She's an editor of an American Thinker, and we saw a peace and American
thinker that kind of grabbed our interestbecause every month Andrew is designated as something
right, some sort of Yes itis some sort of a month. But

(37:51):
May is mental health awareness month,and I think the idea behind the piece
An American Thinker is is that maybewe should change that to lib is a
mental disease awareness month. That wouldbe a good thing. One of the
most interesting things about the Democrat Partyis that the highest number of people with

(38:12):
mental illness is the women, whomake up the strongest part of the ment
of the Democrat Party. Unmarried womenare thirty seven percent of the Democrat Party
supporters, and women are more likely. Democrat women are more likely than any
other demographic to report mental illness.Really not a coincidence. Really self admitted

(38:35):
that they have a What type ofmental illness are we talking about here?
What sort of symptoms are these liberalwomen showing? Well, judging by the
videos we see of them, hysteria, neuroses, paranoia, and incredible ignorance.
Okay, well, ignorance is nota mental illness per se. Stupid,

(38:58):
it's shaved into men ill. Yeah, if it were, we'd have
to celebrate that every month of theyear. I think we'd have to have
that going on. You know,what is your thinking behind why liberal women
seem to be and let's just grabon the one thing because I think we
can best term it as emotional.These women are seemingly much more emotional than

(39:21):
your average human being. What hasled to this increased emotion? Well,
women are naturally more emotional because youhave to be to cope with children.
I mean, when you have ababy, you get flooded with your body
produces oxytocin, which is a bondingemotional hormone. Women want bonding, women
want connection. It's natural, andthe Democrat Party has done everything it can

(39:45):
to stifle that. It turns womenagainst men, making women afraid of men.
It tells them not to have children, It encourages them to abort their
babies, breaking that profound connection.It tells them that their greatest happiness will
be giving their life over to acorporation. So it's destroying women's natural emotional
outlets. And so those emotional outletsthen get captured by the fear of the

(40:12):
climate and by being told to goout and protest for people when they don't
even understand what's going on, butgo out and shriek, go out and
demand, and it's fundamentally unfulfilling.It creates cognitive dissonance, It makes you
paranoid, It amps you up toa profound level that's chronic dysfunction. And
then they go to their therapists andsay, I'm depressed, I can't cope,

(40:36):
I hate my life. Because they'rebeing taught this is where I said,
ignorance factors into it. They haveno knowledge, no awareness, no
wisdom. They just have profound emotion, emotion lashing out in unnatural ways.
Well, I'm glad they came fromyou enough for me. Andrea, thanks
for joining us this morning. Ithink you subbed it up wonderfully. Edit
durd American thinker, Andrea Widberg.It's five fifty six, your dependable and

(41:00):
reliable news feed. This is Houston'sMorning News. This is US Radio seven
forty kt RH Houston Drive Everywhere withnow the latest news, weather and traffic.
It's more of what matters to you. From the John Morris Services Studios,

(41:22):
six oh one at time Houston's BonyNews. I'm GiB Be Barren along
with Sheriff Fryer on your top stories. This f our og has passed the
Hildago case, ont Ken Paxton,Trump's tak and what the Supreme Court is
saying about presidential immunity, And comingup at six o' eight, how the
EPA plans to shut down your ACdetails in the minute tohead. You're in

(41:42):
Houston's Bonny News. First, let'schick out that morning drive again. Sky
Mike's here, all right, Tollbridge. The digitals are showing two minute
Dratton. Now it's worse than thatBoloni southbound. I can see a pretty
good sketch now after Jacino Port twoforty nine. Something's happening, Bryce Magnolia.
Boy, my dude, we havelittle stuff going on. Yeah,
you and missus Jones. There's theladder and I think you've reported on this

(42:04):
already. It's in between the twofar left lanes in the middle. It's
pretty smashed up, but be careful, and it's right before the nineteen sixty
Guester exit. Right. Watch outfor other stations listeners swerving at the last
minute. I'm Skymike on thee GeneratorSupercenter dot Com traffic Center from our KTRH
top tax defenders twenty four hour WeatherCenter. Mostly cloudey, breezy, chance

(42:27):
of a shower a storm thirty percentchance today with the intemperature right about eighty
three. We'll get you the completeforecast from Jerry Smith to the Weather Channel
in eight minutes. Right now,it's seventy four at your official severe weather
station, News Radio seven forty kTRH. It is time now for the
news and for sure this morning disclossonders. Thank you Jimmy, it is
six ZHO two. We are sponsoredby All Star Construction in our top story.

(42:49):
The Office of the Attorney General hassufficient resources to properly prosecute cases of
this magnitude. That is Harris CountyAttorney District Attorney Kim Auk, who had
over the COVID Big riggings case involvingHarris Gunny Judge Lena Hidogo and three of
her staff members to Attorney General KenPaxton. Og was worried the case would
go away once she left office.It is a clear conflict of interest for

(43:14):
mister Tyr should he be elected totry and handle this case and to hand
pick another DA is not the solution. A hearing in the case is set
for May thirteenth. The case forDonald Trump's presidential immunity went to the US
Supreme Court yesterday. But if pleatriminalconduct isn't discovered until after the president is

(43:35):
out of office, so there wasno opportunity for impeachment. We say the
framers assume the risk that of underenforcement by adopting these very structural checks.
A ruling is not expected until June. Investigative reporter Julie Kelly told our Clay
and Buck that the court could allowimmunity on only some of the charges.
Just imagine for a moment this issettled. He can go on trial for

(43:57):
private personal accident. Can you goto trial November December, early January,
especially if she wins. That's anothernightmare scenario. By the way, he'd
be able to pardon himself if hewas convicted after winning re election. The
former president was not in DC yesterday, stuck in Manhattan for his hush money
trial. Open your eyes, andwe can't let this continue to happen to

(44:21):
our country. Former National Inquirer publisherDavid Pecker remains on the witness stand this
morning. The cross examination began withPecker explaining that publishing positive stories about Trump
was good for his business, andthat he let Trump know about negative stories
as early as nineteen ninety eight,so long before he got involved in politics.

(44:42):
Pecker also explained doing similar things,suppressing stories for Arnold Schwarzenegger and also
purchasing a story about Tiger Woods thatwas Nate Foyd reporting from Manhattan. A
warning from former Trump advisor Steve Bannon. House Republicans secretly want Trump to lose
to Joe Biden and Cliff host andRepublican strategist Matt Locke agrees. I think

(45:05):
what he's saying by that, andI think it's correct. We have a
legion, a segment of the RepublicanParty that really are a Democrat, and
that will all change if Trump wins. In November, Speaker Johnson was supposed
to be this rock grid conservative wasgoing to get stuff done. He goes
into a private meeting and all ofa sudden, he's Biden's blackie. How

(45:29):
does that happen? It is happeningright in front of our eyes. Jeff
Biggs, News Radio seven forty kT eight. There was a second day
of anti Submitic protests at UT yesterdayand the near sixty rioters that were arrested

(45:51):
on Wednesday were all released from jail. The protests also continue at Columbia University,
where school officials back down again andthey have now dropped their deadline for
the protesters to get out of theso called liberated zone. And then there
was Joe Biden, the President inNew York, ignoring the protests completely,
continuing to fight his teleprompter. Today, folks, when folks see shovels on

(46:19):
the ground in these projects, Yeah, we can't make sense of what he
said either. The growing global threatenvironment prompting a major upgrade to our nuclear
arsenal. These seven systems represent modernizedweapons and new capabilities responsive to today's security
environment. National Nuclear Security Agency ChiefJill Ruby says, we've expanded from five

(46:40):
weapons systems to seven. More.Disappointing economic numbers for the White House first
quarter GDP growth came in sixty percentlower than they thought it would at one
point six percent. People have lessentheir budget to buy other goods and services
in the economy is going to slowdown. It's still growing, but think
of it as a bow loan,and it's no longer inflating as fast.

(47:01):
At some point it's going to stopinflating and it may start to pop long
start. College economist Tank Lewis themarkets did not react well. The down
lost nearly four hundred points yesterday,and despite how angry we are with inflation,
it hasn't slowed down our spending habits. So how are consumers combating in
the higher prices the bigger purchases isreally where they're starting to slow down their

(47:23):
spending because they're having to spend somuch on necessities economists. Vans again tells
KTRH consumers are also bargain hunting andtaking on debt. Credit card debt is
racked up to a trillion dollars acrossthe economy. Those interest rates are running
about twenty four percent right now.Gin says that even if consumers have the
fancy new things that they want,they'll end up paying more for them in

(47:45):
the long run thanks to interest either. Beginning news Radio seven forty ktr the
average person estimates it'll take a millionand a half dollars to retire comfortably,
But KTRH moneyman Patchen says there's nomagic number, nor the surveys run the
numbers you're there are a number ofvery good financial calculators that are online.
People in their fifties tend to bemost worried about outliving their shavings. Emergency

(48:08):
supplies are eligible for the sales taxholiday across Texas this weekend, running from
Tomorrow through Monday. And the HoustonTexans make a pair of picks in the
second round of the NFL Draft tonightin Detroit. The Chicago Bears select usc
quarterback Caleb Williams with the first pickof the draft in for Shara. I'm

(48:29):
Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weatherand traffic station, News Radio seven forty
KTRH nationally and locally all the bigstories because big events happen every day and
will happen to be there. Thisis important. It's critical use Radio seven
forty KTRH six oh eighties on timehere in Houston's morning news. We might
all have to give up the ACif the EPA gets their way. EPA

(48:52):
came out with a new set ofrules yesterday, new carbon dioxide emission rules
for existing coal fired power plants thatbasically will put coal fired power plants out
of business. Rule would force futureelectric plants as well, fueled by coal
or gas. So it's also anatural gas to control ninety percent of their

(49:15):
carbon pollution ninety percent. Wonder whatthe average natural gas plant as emissions right
now? How much? How manychanges would they have to make in order
to be viable or to keep beingable to operate the plant. Coal plants
the plan to stay open beyond twentythirty nine would have to cut or capture

(49:36):
ninety percent of their carbon dioxide bytwenty thirty two, that is eight years
from now, EPA says that plantsthat expect to retire by twenty thirty nine
would face a less stringent standard,but would still have to capture some of
those admissions. Coal plants are saidto retire by twenty thirty two would not
be subject to the new rules,so a lot of the plants would be
retired. I mean, we retireda lot of those plants anyway, but

(50:00):
we have replaced them with wind andsolar and places like here in Texas.
I mean, every year we hearfrom Urkat about the possibility of rolling brownouts,
that there might not be enough powerto go around on a really hot
day. We kind of limped throughlast summer, okay, but they also
said that they've had a problem storingenergy and that they could lead to a

(50:22):
cataclysmic failure when the power demand getstoo high. This is what relying as
much as we do, even inTexas on wind and solar means when the
wind don't blow, in the sundon't shine, you don't make enough power
to run the state. Six'ten time for traffic and weather together.
Check out the drive once again.Here's sky Mike. All right, put

(50:43):
your hard hats on, everybody.Here's one for Terry and her garnet red
and shining gold for her. Andthis is hard work in east side time.
It's the toll bridge, and Idon't believe my own timestamp here it's
showing like a five minute delay comingdown from I ten. I think that's
worse southbound and seeing quite a smudgeand a lot of break lights. You're
down to one lane, got aconcrete text dot wall of death on both

(51:04):
sides. And this is a fourmonth project six' ten. That's your
lifestyle. Now the Sherman Bridge southbound, we look good. Bud planned to
two twenty five. That's a goodalternate. I'll write you an excuse if
you have to skip over to theHartman Bridge, which is wide open now
from Baytown to two twenty five totwenty five rocks all the way to the
eastwook. Kind of smells funny there. Here's Carlos from tom Ball. Mike,

(51:24):
I can confirm that that ladder onto forty nine and right before the
egg, so it's scattered across thefreeway. Kind of a slow news morning
on two forty nine. But youknow what, sometimes stuff like that turns
into something. Just watch out forpeople that aren't paying attention. Well,
look swerving at the last minute.Skymike at your generator Supercenter, dot Com

(51:45):
traffic Center from r KTRH top taxDefenders, twenty four hour Weather Center.
Time to check in with Terry Smith. She's working on the weekend. But
yeah, it's gonna take a lotof work to straighten this forecast out,
isn't it. Yeah, so wehave some rain. It's not going to
be a complete wash out, butwe are dealing with some wet weather.
Saturday may be your best day tobe outside. I don't think we're going

(52:08):
to see any rain on Saturday,but we'll see how all this plays out.
Front's back to the west. It'sin Texas. It's just kind of
hanging around doing its thing, notgoing anywhere, and that's the problem.
That's why the weather's not changing much. We will see a thirty percent chance
of showers some thunderstorms later this afternoon, Temperatures low to mid eighties. They

(52:30):
stay in the low to mid eightiesthrough the weekend into early next week.
Forty percent chances some thundershowers Tonight tomorrow. I think we're dry. I think
we may see some sunshine, hooray. And then a sixty percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms Sunday, Monday,and Tuesday because the front gets closer,
but it's going like at walking pace, so it can't get out at Texas
until sometime the middle part of nextweek. Jepps, you're right now seventy

(52:52):
four at your officials severe Weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH two to
ninety nine to one D two.That's news Radio seven forty KRH on FM.
Use traffic and weather. You're startingyour day right with Houston's Morning News,
brought to you by New South WindowsSolutions. I think we all know

(53:14):
how bad the infighting is with theRepublicans right now, and especially as it
relates to not just issues like foreignaid, but the issues like who the
presidential nominee is going to be.There there are plenty of people who are
fighting behind the scenes to try tosabotage the Trump campaign. So who are
those people and how far are theywilling to go to try to make that

(53:36):
happen. You know, we toldyou last hour about this Legal Lawfair meeting
that features people like George Conway andBill Crystal. Those are a couple of
Republicans who are working hard to keepDonald Trump from being the nominee. And
there's plenty more out there. We'lltalk to Matt Locke about that in just
a second. First at six twenty, traffic and weather together, and that
starts with you Sky Mike. I'mpitching from the stretch at your east text.

(54:00):
They just cleared an app stall vehicleat leave some little pill squat thing
on the side and we're wide open. Twenty two minutes from Umble Nord Sam
Scott from Wallaceville Warrant Dam for northbound, there's a stall, big old coat
drug nats are there now. Wellsaid, So all right, that's Green's
point. If you're going on thenorth Sam from the Airport Exeter Entrance JFK

(54:21):
trying to get on too forty fivenorthbound, that'll be out of there shortly.
This is your Generator Supercenter, dotCom, Traffic Center, probour KTRH
top tax Defenders, twenty four hourweather center mostly Claudie breezy, chance of
a shower storm thirty percent chance today, I temperature about eighty three, Mostly
Claudie's like. Chance of a showertomorrow eighty three and then an isolated morning
thunderstorm, but more widespread for theafternoon, and then we're looking at rain

(54:44):
on Monday, Tuesday, maybe evento Wednesday. Hi on Sunday eighty two.
Right now seventy four at your officialsevere weather station, News Radio seven
forty k TRAH, we're checking outsome of our top stories on this Friday
morning. In Today for Sharah,here's clip Thanks to me. The spread
event Israel protests at American College continues. Donald Trump says he's trying to finalize

(55:05):
a rally at New York City's MadisonSquare Garden. And Disney World doesn't like
your croos. They've banned the shoefrom escalators at the Magic Kingdom. At
the latest news anytime at KGIH dotcom. Our next update is at six
thirty. You like free stuff.We all like free stuff. Guess what
Our iHeartRadio app is free and freenever sounded so good. Six twenty two.

(55:31):
Now Here in Houston's morning, there'splenty of people talking behind Donald Trump's
back. At least members of Congressjoin us to talk about. Matt Locke,
host of Republicans, writers, Idon't think we're surprised by that,
Matt. I think maybe though wewould be surprised by some I mean we
know some of the people, right, but there may be some Republicans kind
of working behind the scenes in ananti Trump manner that we think at least

(55:53):
on the service support Donald Trump.Oh yeah, I mean there are a
lot of Republicans that we're not awareof that are working behind the scenes,
who have alterior motives, who arecompromised, you name it. We're watching
a group grow and grow and growon the Republicans side. We always thought,

(56:15):
you know, the Republicans, Hey, Trump's going to be your guy,
but maybe they don't want them.Okay. Who are some of the
people that we would maybe least suspectthat are not exactly Trump supporters that would
surprise us? Why? I thinkthe better question is who's not right?
I mean, I think there's asmaller group of the Thomas Matsys, the

(56:37):
Jim Jordan's, the Mike Lees,the Rand Paul everybody after that is I
think questionable at best. Wow.Wow, is that bad? Huh?
I didn't realize it was that bad. Well, I don't think people do.
And in the said, part ofthis whole reality is we're just being

(56:59):
way late by that agenda and withSpeaker Johnson all the way down, you
know even through even some of thepeople that you would maybe not think so,
and that you see every night onFox News or the mainstream media telling
you how hard they're fighting. Well, if you're fighting so hard, ware

(57:19):
are the results. So at thispoint, I guess the question would be
is it insurmountable for Trump? Whenyou get right down to it, I
mean, is the support? Isthe support so lacking that even if he
were to be elected that they wouldbe working behind the scenes to block his
agenda. I don't know if Iwould use the word insurmountable, but it

(57:44):
is going to be a challenge.And in the first term, you remember,
that's really a lot of the criticismof Trump as he had the wrong
people around him. In my opinion, I think Trump needs to bring people
in around him from outside of thegun from it. Let people who have
ran business, let people who've beenin the free market, let them get

(58:05):
in there and get their hands onon what is going on and help him
because quite frankly, I don't thinkyou're doing you any help out of the
Republican Party. Wow. I guessit tells us just how pervasive the swamp
is, doesn't it. Well,there's scared to death of Trump. I
mean, if you look at what'scurrently taking place in this country, that
that is a a one accurate statement. They they do not want Trump there.

(58:28):
They can't control him. Obviously,he's not been blackmailed. You use
law fare. You see the newlawsuit coming out of Arizona, because there
are you know, Trump just poppedin Arizona to a seven point lead.
You've got a coordinated strategy to foreverremove Trump or anyone like him from the
political universe. Okay, Well,like I said, you know, all

(58:51):
we could do is vote for somepeople in and some people out. But
it sounds like what you're telling meis is that it's so pervasive, even
within the Republican Party, that it'svirtually impossible to change it. It's an
pill battle, and you got tostart your community. You got to vote
for the people you know, youtrust, you grew up with, and
you have to vote for people whohave some integrity. We're lacking that sorely

(59:12):
in Congress today. All Right,Matt Locke, thanks as always appreciated.
How's a host rather Republican strategist,Matt Locke, It's six twenty six.
It is time to take a lookat your money. Denise Pelgren is here.
Yeah, we've got more data oninflation. It could really rock things.
Today we'll be getting one of theFed's favorite inflation readings, the PCEE
deflator, and if that comes inhigher than expected, we could see some

(59:34):
problems. But right now, stockfutures are higher across the board. We've
got the doll e minis up aboutthirty three points on the futures. There.
Texas based exonmobile posting disappointing results.That's after a whole bunch of non
cash charges took the shine off surgingoil output from its marquee development in Guyana.
Crude oil is higher. West Texascrud ups seven tens of percent right

(59:57):
now eighty four bucks thirteen cents ofbarrel. And if you up your Domino's
delivery driver three bucks or more online, Dominoes is now offering to give you
a three dollars coupon toward an onlinedelivery order for the following week. And
this promotion comes as Petzchen sees consumersfeeling overwhelmed by what's being dubbed the guilt
tip boom. You know that thingwhere you get that you pay with your
credit card and you get that thingwhere it says tip fifteen percent, twenty

(01:00:21):
percent or twenty five percent. It'sreally really hard to say no, you
don't even want to do that,even though it's takeout order. Well,
they're trying to get people to feela little bit better about that. They'll
give you three dollars in a couponfor next week if you give your delivery
driver a nice tip this week.I'm Denise Peller Greeny Bloomberg Business on News
Radio seven forty KTRH. You areHouston's News. Why there were traffic plus

(01:00:45):
Breaking news twenty four to seven.This is News Radio seven forty KTRH five
Everywhere within the ir app more ofwhat's happening now from the John Moore Services
Studios. Six thirty is our time. You're on Houston's Bonning News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Jeri's on vacation today, She'll be back on Tuesday. Cliff
Saunders is in for her. Amongour top stories, war protesting on college

(01:01:07):
campuses, Biden goes to New Yorkbut stays away from Columbia. At six
thirty eight. The protesting has ledto a graduation cancelation. Details in the
minutes ahead. You're on Houston's MorningNews. First, we're gonna check out
that morning drive. You're sky Mike. Now we're starting to stitch up downtown
now in all directions, both sidesof it. Hard haats. You're actually

(01:01:29):
cramming up from wayside. Not surewhy. I'm gonna double check around Waycoat
Street. Sure looks like we mighthave a stalled there, and we've got
the Katie side backed up a littlearound stud to mind forty five north southbound
trying to make the pier slevated.You lose that lane at the Dallas Street
squeeze and that explains the backup.Now from the North Street bridge. I'm
Skymike. This is your Generator Supercenterdot Com traffic Center from our KTRH Generator

(01:01:52):
Supercenter twenty four our weather center.Mostly thaddy and breezy, with the chance
of a showerstore both thirty percent chancemainly this afternoon, but today will be
right about eighty three. We'll checkout the rest of the weekend into early
next week. Some rain in theforecast. We'll talk to Terry Smith about
all that in eight minutes right now, seventy four at your official severe Weather
Station News Radio seven forty KTRH.It's stop now for the news and for

(01:02:15):
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Oopsteam Cleaning tops story. They oughtto know. They don't have any right
to occupy these campuses. They don'thave any right to threaten their fellow students.
Missouri Senator Josh Holly Anti Israel protestscontinue at colleges like Columbia University,
where officials cave they have just simplydropped their deadline for rioters to leave a

(01:02:37):
heavy police presence around Columbia. Theywere really competing marches, one pro Israel,
one anti Israel. Some of theflyers to get people to come out
said be prepared for a fight.Steve Harrigan reporting, New York City officials
maintained that the rioters are not students, they are professional agitators. We'll see
some familiar faces that are in variousmarches in protests that we believe that they

(01:03:02):
continuously to infiltrate these maunches and wantto cause some serious conflict. New York
City Mayor Eric Adams. Meantime,Joe Biden ignored the protests duringa Manhattan campaign
stomp yesterday here at home Harris County, GA, Kim agg asks Ken Paxton's
office to take on the corruption caseinvolving the office of County Judge Leada Hidalgo.

(01:03:24):
John Tierr, of course, worksat a law firm representing one of
the three defendants. He's likely thenext DA you'll hear from aug at seven
o'clock. Former President Donald Trump isfinding legal battles on two fronts. One
was at the US Supreme Court yesterday. The attorney for former President Trump contents
without blanket immunity, a president won'tbe able to make bold and fearless action

(01:03:46):
when it's most needed. But thelawyer for the Justice Department warned against creating
a new presidential power. Justice hasappeared to search for a middle ground.
That's Jared Halpern reporting in Manhattan.Trump's hush money trial continues with former National
Inquirer publisher David Pecker on the stand, his testimony so far not going well

(01:04:09):
for the prosecution. If this iswhat they thought was their strongest start,
this is particularly Animackay's LEGO analyst Jonathanchurleye the elites have contempt for Trump supporters,
and that could backfire on them beforeNovember. This is causing working class
Democrats to turn towards Republicans. TheTrump campaign is going to zero in now

(01:04:30):
on areas that Republicans had not bannedpreviously. They're going to try and carry
New York. New York City Newsmex contributor Jeffrey Lord says, Blue City
voters are done being ignored while theircities are destroyed. This is a bad
situation and they don't have control ofit. It's New York City, it's
Chicago, it's Los Angeles, SanFrancisco. It's a mess. Lord says.
The choice in November is clear,more of the same or something better.

(01:04:54):
Ethan B. Kennan News Radio sevento forty KTRH, you call um
in the Atlantic claims that democracy willquote die behind paywalls. The American Spectator's
publisher is Melissa mackenzie, and shesays, the way you're getting your news
is changing. So the Atlantic isbeing disingenuous. They're moving to visual medium
for their news, which tends tobe more straight commentary. In last actual

(01:05:17):
base and there's this, The columnwas behind a paywall. There are currently
ninety two month long observances. Thesedays, and one political writer says it's
time to add another one. Liberalismis a mental disease awareness month. I
don't know where the venue to pushit, but I think it's a great
idea. We need to weaponize thephrase progressive democrats, a progressive Democrat or

(01:05:41):
evil progressive Democrat. The American ThinkersAndrea Wiberg says it's not her idea,
but it's not a bad one.First responders in Austin no longer are making
their scanners available to the public.They've been pushing for encryption since twenty twenty.
But what about Houston. We havesome ENCRYPTI channels for where persons cannot
hear that obviously when you're doing somebus or things like that. I'm totally

(01:06:03):
in support of having no scanners outthere. Ray Hunt of the Houston Police
Officers Union says criminals have gotten moresophisticated, making things difficult, but even
the encrypted channels don't stop them.I don't doubt what the technology is out
there now that someone could probably breakinto those, but you're still making it
more of a limited number. Hesays encryption is also there for officers safety.

(01:06:25):
On Ripe Perard News Radio seven,forty caseyrh. You've got an uptick
in crime in the River Oaks section. Reports say there were two swat situations
on the same road involving the sameman over the last couple of weeks,
including one last night. The manallegedly threatened a parole officer and a judge.
Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln on theInternational Front is in China this morning.

(01:06:48):
I pleased to announce that earlier todaywe agreed to hold the first USPRC
talks on artificial intelligence to be heldin the coming weeks. We'll share our
respective views on the risks, fafetyconcerns around advanced AI and how best to
manage them. We Lincoln met withChina's Jijen Ping earlier this morning, and
looking at your money, it's timeto start thinking about that summer vacation and

(01:07:12):
how to pay for it. We'llgo into debt to pay for a memorable
vacation. You know, I don'twant to tell people you can't have any
fun, but I do worry aboutthe high cost of credit card debt.
The average rate is about twenty pointsix percent, so that's close to a
record high. Thank great economist TedRossman says fifty three percent plan on hitting
the road, Jack one on three, You're going to put that on plastic.

(01:07:34):
The older you are, the moreaccess you have to funds to pay
for that time away. Nicky Courtney, News Radio seven forty k tr And
finally, the Astros loose to theCubs three to one, their fifth consecutive
loss. There off today they'll playColorado starting tomorrow in Mexico City. In
for Shara. I'm Cliff Saunders onHouston's news, weather and traffic station,

(01:07:57):
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Howbad things are the twenty twenty four elections?
What's really happening everything in your world? Here and abroad News Radio seven
KTRH. I think we all havefairly vivid memories of our own graduation,
right from high school or for college, or from both. So it's it's

(01:08:19):
kind of a big deal to takethat away from students, and that's what
they're doing at the University of SpoiledChildren otherwise known as the University of Southern
California, announcing yesterday they're canceling theirmain May commencement ceremony. That's something that
about sixty five thousand people would normallyattend, but they're canceling it because of

(01:08:43):
what's going on with the protesting andconcerns that I guess they just can't provide
enough security for that amount of people. And in order to make sure that
the ceremony was going to be safe. You've got that many, You've got
sixty five thousand people to process.They thought that that would just be too
unwieldy in order to do. Ohand there's one more problem. The young

(01:09:08):
lady that was supposed to deliver thecommencement address is a Muslim student who evidently
has written pro Palestinian anti Jewish statements. Now she claims that she's not anti
Semitic, not anti Jewish. Butyou put all this kind of stuff together,
and I think the university is justsaying, why look for trouble,

(01:09:33):
Let's just go ahead and cancel thisstuff now, you know, to take
a graduation away, I think createsits own level of trouble. Like I
said, with parents and grandparents andthe students themselves, who figure, hey,
I've been here and I spent alot of money to get her degree.
I need to wear my gown andI need to take a walk down
there and get my diploma, Butit ain't gonna happen to USC six forty

(01:09:57):
time for traffic and weather together,we're gonna check out that drive once again.
Stay Mike, all right, we'restarting to get busy. Now,
I've got some golf freeway going on. Hey, like forty five southbounds all
boogered up again? In front ofthe Amazon warehouse in Lamark. Where's that?
About a mile before the P Streetexit, there's an accident taking up
two left lanes. There's a carthat's sideways in the lane and a van

(01:10:21):
that's bulled over. All right,look out, that's Matt from Texas City
there. Let's check your toll bridgesouthbound. We've got to here we go
with the suckings. That's an extrafifteen minutes. Now, let's jump on
six' ten the Sherman Bridge instead. This is all southbound. Hartman Bridge
is still your best way around ifthat's part of your plan. This morning,
I got a new wreck reported onthe East Freeway Lockwood. This is

(01:10:43):
on the inbound I believe it.Look at that back up from waystside.
That's not natural. We'll check.That's about a six minute drag. We'll
get you some laneage at the sixfifty from the Generator Supercenter, dot Com
Traffic Center from r KTRH Generator superCenter, twenty four hour weathers that we're
bringing on Terry Smith. Chance ofrain today, not a big chance,
but what about thirty percent, right, thirty percent chance of those showers and

(01:11:04):
thunderstorms developing. And if they dohappen, it'll be later on this afternoon,
So the first part of the dayshould be nice and quiet. It
is going to be a breezy day. In addition to that slight chance of
rain. The temperatures they're not goingto change through the weekend into early next
week, so expect what we've hadthe last several days, low to mid
eighties. Tomorrow, I think norain, some sunshine. Sunday, it's

(01:11:28):
a sixty percent chance of those showersand storms, and that possibility of more
showers than storms again Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The front not going
anywhere anytime soon, so it's goingsoggy start to the week next week.
Right down seventy four at your officialsevere weather station, News Radio seven forty
k TRH. You are commute,you are forecast your news. It's Houston's

(01:11:49):
Morning News brought to you buying youSouth Windows solutions six forty eight is their
time here in Newston's Morning News.All right, TikTok. You know they
can snuck that into the Foreign Aidbill, that that TikTok is on a
ticking time bomb, if you will, for being able to operate in the

(01:12:09):
United States unless they get rid oftheir Chinese ownership, the relationship with the
Chinese government. And of course they'regoing to fight that in court. Here's
Gordon Chang though, to talk aboutthat and the importance of TikTok or getting
TikTok under control. First of all, on TikTok, we know that TikTok
is stealing data from Americans who haveit on their phones, and Beijing is

(01:12:31):
using this potentially for blackmail in thefuture because it's learning all about TikTok users.
You know, I know that Bidenwants to get re elected, but
he does have a responsibility because heis the President of the United States.
He knows what the Chinese are doing. He has the power to stop it,
and he's not doing it, whichmeans he's probably accepting from his point
of view, it's acceptable that Chinasteals all this data in addition to all

(01:12:55):
the other problems TikTok causes. What'sso ironic about this TikTok man is that
we want to make sure China doesn'thave access to that data because China is
a country whereby they confiscate assets,they imprison executives for speaking out against the
government. So we want to movethat data back to a US company so
the US government can confiscate our assetsand try to imprison former presidents. So

(01:13:20):
you know, I mean, that'sa little love to get your take on
the TikTok thing. Well, firstof all, there's two national security threats.
There's the data theft, but alsoChina uses the curation algorithm to promote,
for instance, suicide, self harm, illegal drug use. And you
know, we see all of theseprotests across American campuses of the Hamas videos
on TikTok. Ninety six point fivepercent support the terrorist group. So of

(01:13:44):
course we're having all of these protestsacross our country. And this is China.
They did this in the twenty twentycampaign to hurt Trump. They're doing
this now and we know what's goingon. Why is that so hard for
so many people to figure out?It was a great point though, wasn't
it about? Yeah, we wantwant China to sell to a US company
so the US government can do twoto us what China is trying to do

(01:14:05):
to us six fifty Time for trafficand weather together timeline just a couple minutes
of wat Skymike. But first wegot to get an update from you.
I've got your golf freeway. Wehave two problems on the Gulf One close
to town here. This is inboundat Culling in front of you, of
h there's a wreck one two threeleft lanes. Holy wow, that's going
to be a big packup from thesouth Loop six' ten and northbound.

(01:14:26):
I see we're already losing at leastfifteen minutes. Here two eighty eight McGowan
inbound. This wreck's taking up twoleft lanes. It's messing up not only
two eighty eight, but it's inthe canyon, so it's connected like your
neebone to the Southwest Freeway. That'sa backup from Kirby on the inbound and
then in the Lamark southbound right beforeseventeen sixty five and from the Amazon warehouse.

(01:14:46):
It's a wreck taking up two rightlanes. Here. This guy's turned
around the other way. This isoutbound, not inbound. Skymike the Generator
Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from rKTRH Generator super Center twenty four. Our
weather center, mostly Clotte, breezy. It's of a shower storm thirty percent
chance eighty three today, mostly cloudeight, very slight chance Tomorrow a shower
eighty three. Isolated morning thunderstorms morewidespread in the afternoon eighty two for the

(01:15:11):
high end Sunday tepature Reich now isseventy four at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Let'sget you caught up on some of
our top stories this morning. Infor Sherah here's clip and we're sponsored by
dn M Auto Leasing. Ken Paxton'soffice. Now in on the corruption investigation
of Lena Hidalgo's office. A NewJersey firm recall some eighty six thousand pounds

(01:15:32):
of sliced ham produced in Germany andshipped to eight states, including Texas.
And how's this for Bidenomics. Buyinga home is more expensive than ever.
The average price according to redfind threeone hundred eighty three thousand dollars at the
latest news anytime at KTRH dot comor next updates at seven. I live
in clear Lake, Humble, reliableKTRH traffic and weather. Next on the

(01:15:57):
ten so called hush money trial.It's not really hush money, but that's
what they like to call it.Six fifty three is their time here on
the Houston's Warning News. All right, let's get some analysis on that.
On the testimony yesterday of the NationalInquires David Pecker. No, that's his
name. Really, yeah, Iknow, I'd change you too if that

(01:16:18):
were my last name, But that'shis name. Here's Judge Jennine Pirou.
Consecution is alleging that this is aconspiracy, which means it involves more than
two people to promote or effect anelection by unlawful means. Any prosecutor knows
that the most important witness is thefirst witness. David Pecker was not a

(01:16:40):
significant witness for the prosecution. AndI'll tell you why, because there is
no crime. An NDA is somethingthat celebrities engage in all the time.
People in this science community and thetech community signed NDA's all the time.
This is just a way of doingbusiness. So if you look at the
business record question, it says,for legal services. Okay, the money

(01:17:03):
is to calling for legal services.So if they are trying to say no,
it is really for a federal election, then why is it that the
FEDS didn't prosecute? Why is itthat the Fed's looked at this and made
a decision not to cover it.And what I don't like about what happened
today was that Pecker said he assumedit was for the campaign. And we

(01:17:27):
know Pecker didn't have any conversation withTrump about this. There is no direct
conversation, so that he assumed thatI would have been on my feet and
objected. But this judge isn't goingto sustain a rightful objection by Donald Trump.
And finally, how is it thatPecker is going forward alleging all of
this when he said nothing a nondisclosure and noncompete. I mean, that

(01:17:53):
is something that is part of thelaw. I'll tell you why Pecker assigned
an immunity agreement. And these prosecutorsare so tough, whether it's Colangelo from
the Department of Justice and Joe Bidensent down to the local DA to help.
Becker knows if he goes one lineaway from what he's supposed to say,
his butt is going to be shippedto the state prison. And that's

(01:18:15):
why this whole thing is so absurd. It's a nothing burger, a nothing
burger with ketchup and mustard and maybea lot of cheese. Definitely a lot
of cheese. All right, sixfifty five, Time for the timeline.
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you can win a pair from us. Just tell us what year. Today's
timeline's from American and South Vietnamese units. We'll attack the headquarters for the entire
Communist military operation at SOF Vietnam.It was April. Nixon sends American troops
to Cambodia. An explosion crippled soApollo thirteen in space. But I'm going

(01:18:58):
to a phase now. I don'twant to be in the line like Paul
McCartney quits ending the Beatles. Butit was happening anyway. I don't mean
Yolk. I'm any business. Brandnew. At the Movies Friday six film
mash makes its debut. You everythingto write a number one on the radio
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(01:19:19):
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year was nineteen seventy Robert, Youget yourself a pair of tickets for the
Houston Grand Opera production of the Soundof Music. Enjoyed the show and thank

(01:19:40):
you for listening to Houston's Morning News. This is used Radio seven forty kt
RH Houston five everywhere with now thelatest news, weather and traffing. It's
more of what matters to you.From the John Morris Services Studios. Seven
Old one is our time, Houston'sMorning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett along with

(01:20:02):
Clift Saunders in today for Sheriff Fryar. Among our top stories, og is
past, the old Doggo case onthe Ken Paxton, Trump's take and what
the Supreme Court is saying about presidentialimmunity, and coming up at seven to
eight, all of those UT protestersthat were arrested, they've been let go
without charges details in the minute tohead. You're in Houston's morning news.

(01:20:24):
First, let's check out that morningdrive once again. Here's sky Mike clear
the Gulf of Dicketts and that extentis out of the way. The backups
are gone too. We still havethe one inbound at Colon by U of
H. That's three lanes blocked,and that's a solid scrunch up. Now
from the southwop six y ten,you've got two eighty eight in the canyon
northbound McGowan. That's two left lines, and it's messing up two freeways.

(01:20:45):
It's messing up two eighty eight fromsouth Moore and also messing up the southwest
from Kirby outbound two nineties look outAntwine, two right lines Allen from Beytown.
Banana sticker on your head. I'min the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic
center from our KTRH top tax defenders, twenty four hour weather center, mostly
clinie and breeze. A chance fora shower storm thirty percent chances today with
the high temperature right about eighty three. We'll get Terry Smith in here with

(01:21:08):
the complete forecast in eight minutes.At the weather channel right now temperature is
still seventy four at your official severeweather station, News Radio seven forty k
TRH. It's time now for thenews and for Sherah. Here's Class Saunders.
Thank you, Jimmy seven oh twoon KTRH our top story. Not
only did Harris County DA kim Ovturn the Lda Hidalgo bid rigging case over

(01:21:29):
to the Texas Attorney General's office,she cried foul over political retaliation. Unfortunately,
locally elected prosecutors like myself face enormouschallenges when prosecuting public corruption cases because
political retaliation is very real. Aswe have seen. Hidalgo supported Democrat DA
nominee Sean Tier, whose law firmrepresents one of Hidalgo's staffers. The fallout

(01:21:54):
from this pitts Paxton against Hidalgo again. The two have been feuding over the
Uplift Harris basic income program. Thereis bad blood, there's politics, and
I'm telling you we have not heardthe last of this, legoanalyst Brian Weiss
on our TV partner Channel two.Meantime, in Washington, d C.
Without presidential immunity from criminal prosecution,there can be no presidency as we know

(01:22:16):
it. Attorney D John Sower,arguing the case to the US Supreme Court
that Donald Trump has presidential immunity andthe justices were one they game so as
yeah, that it all turns out. But again I say, presidential immunity
very powerful. Presidential immunity is imperative. Trump in Manhattan. Meantime, investigative
reporter Julie Kelly told KTRH is Clayand Buck that Trump is finding vague charges

(01:22:42):
from special counsel Jack Smith. Theseare not clear cut crimes murder, bribery,
drug trafficking. You can listen toClay and Buck this morning at eleven
on KTRH. And in New York, his hush money trial continues. The
defense will continue to resume his crossexamination this morning of David Pecker, and
it turns out that the former NationalInquirer tabloid publisher says they cut a lot

(01:23:05):
of so called catch and killed dealswith a lot of famous people through the
years, not just former President Trump. Boxes Eric Sewan outside the courthouse.
Trump is considering a rally at MadisonSquare Garden and says he can win very
blue New York state in November.What's it like seeing so many Republicans in

(01:23:25):
Manhattan? So many Trump supports inManhattan's that surprise you, No, not
at all. It's turning down.What's your message to Joe Biden? You
that union worker talking to Newsmax.A warning from Steve Bannon. No,
House Republicans secretly want Trump to lose. I agree with Bannon on this.
You've got a party that really isn'tbacking Trump. Republicans strategist Matt Locke blames

(01:23:46):
rhinos. There's a group, andyou can call it once again, the
cabal. The deep state is activelyworking against the former president. They don't
want an outsider in there. Theywant someone who can be controlled and Trump
kent, which has cost this GOPinfighting. Anti Israel students or rather protests
take place for the second straight dayat ut in Austin. Students joined by

(01:24:11):
faculty and Democrat leftist Congressman Greg Kazar. The dozens arrested at Wednesday's protests released
from jail. Protests continue at ColumbiaUniversity in New York, the school backing
off its deadline for rioters to leavethe so called liberated zone. Meantime,

(01:24:31):
President Biden was in New York Cityyesterday campaigning we got to stop this division
I promise to be president for allAmerica, whether you voted for me or
not. As that worked out bythe way, Biden's avoided the protests with
wars in the Middle East. InEurope, the US is beefing up its
nuclear arsenal. The White House budgetincludes funding for the first new nuclear warhead

(01:24:55):
in forty years. Jill Ruby withthe National Nuclear Security Agency says it's part
of a larger up rate of ourarsenal. The nuclear weapons program of record
grew from five to seven systems thispast year. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm ads
that time is of the essence.Geopolitical shifts around US have made clear that
those missions are urgent. As Ever, the growing cooperation between Russia, China,

(01:25:17):
Iran North Korea has created a moreunstable international environment. Production on the
new warhead is slated to start bythe mid twenty thirties. Coreyolson News Radio
seven forty ktrhl as for Bidenomics firstquarter GDP grew by one point six percent,
well below expectations. At Rock WallStreet is the downlast three hundred and

(01:25:38):
seventy five points yesterday. Americans keeptelling poll after paul that they're not happy
with the economy, but we're stillspending a lot. They're substituting away from
the higher price items to the lowerprice items, and that will help them
to meet their needs. Economist vancegain there. And if you ask most
Americans how much savings they need toretire, I'll say one and a half

(01:26:00):
million dollars. Yes. But KTRHMoneyman Passion says there is no one size
fits all. Variables make all thedifference. There are a ton of variables.
As I like to say, justthis, everybody's got their own personality.
Everybody's got their own financial personalities.Frugal, some frivolous, some don't
have a dome, some don't givea darn. But eighty percent are worried

(01:26:24):
about outliving their savings. The USaverage for after tax income postage sixty five,
is close to thirty eight hundred amonth. The average for expenses is
forty two hundred a month. NickyCourtney News Radio seven forty KTRH emergency supplies
are part of a sales tax holidaythat begins in Texas tomorrow and runs through

(01:26:45):
Monday. Among the items that qualifyemergency ladders, batteries and carbon monoxide detectors,
and Finally, the Chicago Bears.So like USC quarterback Caleb Williams with
the first pick in the NFL draftlast night, the Texans didn't pick in
the first round. They've got twopicks in the second round tonight. In
for Shara, I'm Cliff Saunders onHouston's news, weather and traffic station,
News Radio seven forty KRH. Stayin touch on your drive in with Jimmy

(01:27:12):
Barrett and Sheriff Fryar. This isHouston's morning News. You know, Jesus
been dropped the charges whenever he wants, But judges in Austin, yeah,
not so much, but they did. Seven to eight is our time here
in Houston's morning news. Criminal chargesdropped against at least forty six protesters arrested
during the This comes from the TexasTribune. You'll know that it comes from

(01:27:34):
the Texas Tribune. When I readthe next line. During a pro Palestinian
demonstration. They never say that.The liberal publications ever say anti Israel.
They always say pro Palestinian, proHamas. Why didn't think why couldn't they
say pro Hamas because these people allsupport Hamas. Anyway, the charges,

(01:27:57):
criminal trespass charges have been dropped Theywere booked into Travis County Jail on Wednesday.
Travis County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Kristin Darksaid that as a five pm Thursday,
all of those arrested had been releasedfrom custody. Wasn't sure if every
one of them had had their chargesto dismissed, but the vast majority have

(01:28:19):
at this point. A spokesperson forTravis County Attorney Delaiyah Garza said law enforcement
lacked probable cause. That's why theywere arrested. Probable cause. Well,
you're on campus trespassing to protest.That seems pretty obvious to me that there's

(01:28:43):
probable cause. So they dropped thecharges. None of this then, this
is happening all across the country.None of this should be surprising, right,
I mean, that's why we saythis over and over again, whether
it's Black Lives Matter or whatever thegroup is. If you are a demonstrating
for a liberal cause, it doesn'tmatter what you do, including destruction of

(01:29:05):
public property, you will not beprosecuted. You just won't. They will
let you go. They will letyou go and they'll drop the charges.
These people all knew that they wouldbe let go. I mean that's why
you're protesting in Austin. You knowyou've got to you know, free get
out of jail ticket seven to ten, dive for traffick in weather together as
we check out the driving again withthe skuy Mike who has problems in the

(01:29:27):
canyon. Oh, this canyon abig enough for both of us, Jimmy.
This is two eighty eight north Balemcgallan. They've cleared the accident,
but the pack ups are still thereand in fact that's messing up two freeways
to eighty eight. You've got you'vegot the backups now after McGregor northbound,
and also it's scunching up the SouthwestFreeway. You've got breaks here from Chepper
northbound. Lose about twelve minutes hereall right, you have h I forty

(01:29:49):
five Golf Freeway. Big trouble onthe mainlines here to Wrect with three lanes,
all kinds of flashing lights and that'sa pretty big squish from the loop.
We're losing twenty minutes here East Freeway. We got the lineage at Lockwood
inbound. They've moved you over tothe left shoulder, but we're backed up
from the bud plant used in sixteenminutes here and Gary from Cypress had a

(01:30:10):
grandmarch at his wedding. Good MorningShow Mike the olt found two ninety and
looks like a rollover. Lots offlyshyle heights and the backup goes to about
from six. All right, Garyfrom Cypress, put this banana sticker on
your head, Gerald from Conrod,Jeff from Tomball, Carlos from Tomball,
Captain Jack and Scott from Wallaceville alsoin the banana sticker club this morning.
Terry, whatever you do this afternoon, do not get in a high speed

(01:30:33):
chase or go on to shooting spreein Houston, because I'm flying for TV
today and I have to show whateverhappened. Sorry, just stay out of
trouble. Might be kind of excitingif she did all that, that would
be exciting. From from r KTRHstop PA's Defender his twenty four hour weather
Center, here is Terry Smith.I need share it to right shot gun
with me. If something like that, don't worry, No, nobody nobody's

(01:30:56):
going to keep you in jail.Nobody's going to find any charges. Ok,
nobody's going to charge you any bail. Go do what you want to
do. Terry. Okay, SkyMike, you're going to be having some
fun today. Go thellmen. Luise, all right, Well, we got
some rain, folks, but nota lot of it today or tomorrow.
Today's only a thirty percent chance ofshowers, maybe some thunderstorms later this afternoon.

(01:31:16):
Breezy day, warm day like it'sbeen all week, low to mid
eighties today through the weekend. Ithink tomorrow's dry and then Sunday, Monday,
Tuesday, cole Front's hanging around,and that means a sixty percent chance
of those showers and thunderstorms to endthe weekend and start off the work week.
Jep, But you're right now.Remain seventy four at your official severe

(01:31:36):
weather station. News Radio seven fortyk TRH. It's Houston's Morning News,
brought to you by New South WindowsSolutions. Now back to Jimmy and Scherah
with the info you need to takeon the day. Just about seven twenties
thet time here on Houston's Morning News. There's a phenomenon going on right now.
I don't know how much longer itcan last, but it continues.

(01:31:59):
And that is, you know,despite inflation, despite the fact that many
of us have our charge cards chargedup. We're still out there spending money.
Now, I will say this.You know, the GDP growth is
down to one point six percent.That's in the fall. It was like
four fall into winter four point onepercent. So we're slowing that trend.

(01:32:19):
Well, we're still out there spendingBansgain will join us. He's an economist
again, economic consulting. We'll talkabout that in just a couple of minutes.
First though, at seven twenty,let's do a little traffic and weather
together, starting with sky Mike.All right, two ninety overturn vehicle.
Hopefully everybody's okay here, this isoutbound, not inbound. And Twine,
we'll take up two right lines.Clear the Gulf Freeway right in front of

(01:32:41):
you. Of h I saw themclearing it. I didn't want to tell
you it was completely clear into Iknew one hundred percent sure it's out of
the way. Cullen backups from theloop, Skymike on the Generator Supercenter,
dot Com traffic Center from r KTRHtop tax Defenders twenty four hour weather center
for today looks like mostly cloutie,breezy, chance of shower storm primarily this
afternoon. The high temperature of ADthree. Clouding for your Saturday with a

(01:33:04):
slight chance for shower eighty three andthen Sunday isolated morning thunderstorm chance more widespread
starting in the afternoon with the highBAD two. Temperature currently is seventy four
at your official severe weather station.News Radio seven forty k TRH. We're
checking out some of our top storieson this Friday morning. Share is off
today. Cliff is in for hersponsored by DNM Auto Lias in Columbia University

(01:33:26):
caves and drops its deadline completely foranti Israel protesters to leave. Federal judge
in New York rejects Donald Trump's requestfor a new trial in the e Gene
Carold defamation case, and Bike Dancedenies that it will sell following the new
law that could man TikTok signed earlierthis week by President Biden. At the
Latest News anytime at KTIH dot com. Our next update is at seven thirty

(01:33:50):
The Fight for America. I'm fightingfor you. This go time on your
election headquarters. It's gonna happen hereNews Radio seven the corner KTRHEW our time
here in Houston, Smart News.We wore all work hard for the money
and for money that's worth less andless every day thanks to inflation. Vanskin

(01:34:12):
joins us economist at Again Economic Consulting. You know, we're going to talk
vance about why we're all still spendinglike there's no tomorrow. But the reality
is that it looks like maybe we'restarting to see tomorrow on the rise.
And you take a look at GDPand it's gone from four point one percent
down to one point six percent.So evidently the spending is starting to slow
down. Well that's right, Jimmy. I mean, that's what we're seeing.

(01:34:39):
Consumer spending has been pretty resilient tosome extent throughout this after the pandemic,
and people had all these checks andunemployment insurance, and they racked up
all the savings for a while andthey kept spending and they are now.
But what we're seeing is that excesssavings gets continuing to be reduced. The
savings rate is down to three pointsix percent, near a historic low,

(01:35:00):
and credit card debt is up toa trillion dollars and people are paying twenty
five percent interest on that. Sowhat they're doing is they're saying, you
know what, I don't have alot of extra money inflation's going up up
all around me, but I'm gonnakeep putting on the credit card. And
at the end of the day,Jimmy, that's just unsustainable. Well that's
a fact. I guess. Ifwe're rapidly reaching that point, what does
that do to the economy. Whatdoes the rest of twenty twenty four look

(01:35:23):
like if we're finally starting to seethat slow down and spending well, with
that new report that you just mentionedearlier, they came out yesterday for GDP
only one one point six percent growthin the first quarter, very slow.
Inflation was up to three and ahalf percent, So it's coming back up
again after it had went down fora couple of quarters, which is not
a good indication for consumers across theeconomy unfortunately. And I think we're going

(01:35:45):
to continue to see that, andinterest rates are going to be higher than
otherwise. Inflation's higher, and thatmeans slower economic growth. And so what
I'm expecting for the second half ofthe year is more the same. This
is a period of taxation that wejust haven't been able to get out of
because the bad policies out of Washington, DC. Okay, you start to
break up a little bit. We'lltry to hang with you there. Let's
let's look at it this way too. At this point, what do you

(01:36:10):
think the chances are that we're gonnahave a twenty twenty four recession sometime during
the year, And might that bea blessing in disguise if we do as
far as maybe turning things around asfar as interest rates and some of these
other things. Yeah, I thinkso. I think the second half of
the year we will have a recession, and I think that what you'll see
is his interest rates we have tostart coming down. This will help people

(01:36:31):
out to be able to buy things. But at the same time, you'll
have issues with the labor market andjobs and uncertainty there. So they're gonna
be trade offs of course between thetwo. So it's something to just prepare
for for you know, for everybodyhere in Houston and Texas, across and
across the country is just prepared forthose things and save where you can.
What do you think happens with thejob market. I'm noticing they're not super

(01:36:54):
big stories, but I but I'mseeing stories of you know, some major
corporations laying off. You know,these are big corporations that probably have one
hundred thousand employees, but they're startingto lay off two or three thousand people.
I mean that starts that up.After a little while, we're starting
to see a lot of problems withrestaurants and bankruptcy issues for a variety of
different reasons. Some of them themare out in California where they they want

(01:37:15):
to pay twenty bucks an hour tohave somebody you know that's's washing dishes.
But you know, where do youthink we're going with jobs at this point?
Yeah, it's something I've been watchingbecause we hear a lot of the
highlights and it'll say three hundred thousandjobs we're added the previous month, but
then you know, the next monththey'll company were divided down one hundred thousand,

(01:37:35):
and so we get these big announcementshocks, but that really go away
in the following months. But ifyou look at the household employment numbers,
they have been declining in four ofthe last five months. So we're already
starting to see pretty substantial cuts andemployment, not only at the big box
shops but also some of the smallerbusinesses as well. And that's what happens
when you get higher interest rates,high inflation, profitability is going down substantially.

(01:38:00):
This is all contributing to less economicgrowth and therefore less fewer jobs are
going to be created in the process, all right, And I guess the
other thing is is of those jobsyou just mentioned, a lot of those
are part time jobs, and alot of those are jobs that are second
jobs for people, right, Yeah, in government jobs. I mean,
out of the two hundred and somethingon thousand jobs that were added last month,
seventy one thousand were government jobs.And I mean, sure, it's

(01:38:21):
agree when they get those jobs.Just remember though, that that all comes
out of the private sector to paytheir salary. You're right about that.
Vance is always good to talk toyou. Thank you man. Vance again.
Economists again, Economic Consulting, seventwenty six. Let's keep looking at
your money as we welcome to DenisePello Greeney. Yeah, you were talking
about the economy and how maybe thereare some signs some people are suffering,

(01:38:44):
that is for sure. I wastalking with a pawn shop owner here at
New York City yesterday and he toldme three times more people are coming into
pawn their gold chains and stuff.Part of this obviously high gold prices,
but he also said for the firsttime ever, these are middle class people
got who are using their gold ascollateral just so they can pay bills,
including their healthcare bills, and alsoeven pawning their goal just to pay their

(01:39:06):
rent. So that could be oneominous indicator about the economy maybe weakening a
bit. Stock futures right now,though they are higher, just ahead of
this inflation data we've been talked aboutcoming out in just a few minutes.
Big tech basking in the Wall StreetGlobe, Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet.
They are gaining in early trading Texasbased ex On Mobile, though posting disappointed

(01:39:28):
results at stock is lower. Crudeoil futures right now up seven tens of
a percent eighty four bucks seventeen centsa gallon. I'm Denise Pelgrene Bloomberg Business
on News Radio seven forty KTRH.You are Houston's News. Why there are
traffic plus breaking news twenty four seventh. This is Use Radio seven forty KTRH.

(01:39:50):
Tribe Everywhere with the ir app moreof what's happening now from the John
Morris Services Studios. Seven thirty isour Time, Houston's Warning News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett shares off today Cliff isin for her. Among our top stories
this half hour, more protesting oncollege campuses, Biden goes to New York
but stays away from Columbia University,and at seven thirty eight, one of

(01:40:12):
Kamala's secret service agents get into afight. Details in the minutes ahead here
on Houston's Morning News. First,we're gonna check out that morning drive again.
You skymine clear the East Freeway atLockwood. That wreck is out of
the way. It was kind ofa miner who I wasn't a major full
blown hoopastanker here, but inbound You'vegot the breaks from wayside clear Gulf Freeway
in front of you of h atLockwood. That's going to be closer to

(01:40:34):
Super five. That reck's gone.The Scooch is still there from the South
Loop. Now I've got a stalljust before I sixty nine clear two ninety
and one. The outbound reck's gone, forget it, and then it Katie
Freeway. There's a wreck right infront of my hungry spot. This is
outbound, not inbound, Washington Avenueright between Dennis and I Hot. I'm
Skymike and THEE Generator Supercenter dot ComTraffic Center from our KTRH Generators super Center,

(01:40:59):
twenty four hour weathers Center. MostlyClaudium, breezy. We do have
about a thirty percent chance of ashower a storm, primarily this afternoon with
the high of eighty three. Rainchances really ratchet up starting on Sunday afternoon
into early next week. We'll getall the latest on that when we talk
to Terry Smith that the Weather Channelwill do that in eight minutes right now
at seventy four at your official severeweather station, News Radio seven forty k

(01:41:19):
TRH. It's time down for thenews in for Sherah. Here's Cliff Saunders.
Thank you, Jimmy seven thirty twoon KGRH our top story. Wake
these kids up. I mean,they ought to know they can't do this,
Missouri Senator Josh Hawley on Fox's antiIsrael protests spread to more colleges across
the country, including Emory University inAtlanta. Tom demonstrators came on the campus.

(01:41:42):
They were removed using tear gas,tasers, and even some rubber bullet.
Emory officials were quick to say thatthese protesters were not part of the
campus community. Steve Harrigan, reportingprotests continued at Columbia University in New York,
where the President was campaigning and willbe today. I'm the president of
the United States. How come hehasn't called for the National Guard to go

(01:42:03):
in and protect students. Florida CongressmanByron Donald's protest also continued at u T
Austin yesterday, and here in Houston, Dakim Ogg says she wants the state
Attorney General's office to assist with thecorruption case involving County Judge Lena Hidalgo's office
because Sean tier Ogg's likely successor asa conflict of interest working at a law

(01:42:26):
firm that represents one of the defendantsin the case or of this. At
eight o'clock, Donald Trump's lawyers wereat the US Supreme Court yesterday arguing his
case for presidential immunity. It certainlyseems that the Supreme Court wants to ensure
that the system we end up withis a system that preserves presidential prerogatives.
That's Attorney Will Sharff. The HighCourt will issue a ruling that will affect

(01:42:48):
multiple cases in June. David Peckerwill be back on the stand when cross
examination resumes at eight thirty in Manhattan. Legal analyst Andy McCarthy told Fox and
Friends this morning, a judge WanMrshaan has displayed his bias through the first
seven days of trial. So far, Judge Merchand has gone down the line
on almost every important issue, rulingin Bragg's favor, and I would expect

(01:43:13):
that the jury instructions that he givesat the end of the case will be
favorable to the prosecution. Meantime,some Democrats, specifically South Carolina's Benny Thompson,
want Trump stripped of Secret Service protection. These democrats want you dead.
You realize that, yeah, becauseI'm the one to turn things around.
That was Trump on Newsmax last night. The only thing certain in life for

(01:43:35):
death taxes and the fact that eliteshave no respect for Trump supporters. This
is causing working class Democrats to turntowards Republicans. The Trump campaign is going
to zero in now on areas thatRepublicans had not been previously. They're going
to try and carry New York.New York City News Mexic contributor Jeffrey Lord
says Blue City voters are done beingignored while their cities are destroyed. This

(01:43:59):
is a bad situation. Then theydon't have control of it. It's New
York City, it's Chicago, it'sLos Angeles, San Francisco. It's a
mess. Lord says. The choicein November is clear, more of the
same or something better. Ethan B. Kennen News Radio seven forty KRH,
and there's this games with the mainstreammedia. A new column in the Atlantic
claims that quote democracy dies behind paywalls. The premise is just stupid. The

(01:44:23):
American vote in public is moving toother forms of media. The American Spectator's
Melissa mackenzie there, in an ironictwist, this particular column was behind a
paywall. May is mental health awarenessmonth, but it might be time to
change that cliff. As Noel Williamsnotes an American Thinker, a more deserving

(01:44:45):
one should be liberalism is a mentaldisease awareness month. I mean, it
is sarcastic and everything, but Ithink he does make the point that leftism
is a mental illness. That is. Andrea Wiberg, editor with American Thinker,
whether you're transgender and plotting mass murderor a black woman judge, she
says that there's no such thing atthe Second Amendment in her court or college

(01:45:06):
students screaming for hamas. They don'tneed reality anymore. The reality is we
need a reality awareness Jeff Biggs,News Radio seven k TIER. Interesting to
note there are ninety two different awarenessmonths out there only twelve months. Average

(01:45:26):
citizens can no longer monitor police scannersin Austin. Ray Hunt with the Houston
Police Officers Union says this is surprisingin such a liberal city because it's for
ulcer safety. I'm shocked that Austin, Texas is doing it because they don't
give a crap about their ulcers.He says. HPD uses encrypted channels,
those could be hacked, but itdoes make things tougher in the city.

(01:45:47):
Last night, a female shooter wasarrested in in West Houston after a two
hour standoff with the SWAT team.A nineteen year old was grazed by a
bullet seven point thirty six. Nowon ktr H, the Biden Administration's war
on American energy continues. Kelly Siberiais more. If coal plants want to
stay open past twenty forty, whatthey'll need to do is reduce their missions

(01:46:11):
by ninety percent. With the deadlineof past twenty forty, coal accounts for
sixteen percent of the nation's energy generation. The largest number of plants are in
Pennsylvania, Texas, Indiana, Wyoming, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Iowa.
Thank you, Kelly. And we'rejust getting some new economic numbers.
In a key FED inflation measure,the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index rose two

(01:46:38):
point eight percent last month a yearover year, much higher than expected.
More reports coming out this morning,and we'll pass those along to you as
we get them. Well, we'realmost at the time where we plan out
our summer vacations, and many ofyou are looking at your budgets and trying
to figure out exactly how to getit done. A little over half of

(01:46:58):
Americans are definitely planning a summer vacationthis year. Another eighteen percent are not
sure yet, so that leaves aboutthirty percent who are pretty much set against
it, primarily due to the costbank rates. Ted Rossman says a third
of vacationers plan to use their creditcard and we'll just worry about paying it
off later. Finally, the Astroslosing streak is at five games as they

(01:47:18):
drop a three to one decision tothe Cubs yesterday. The team is off
today in for shar I'm Cliff Saunderson Houston's news, weather and traffic station
is Radio seven forty KTRH. Ilive in Sugarland. Be prepared for wild
Houston Weather next on the ten onseven forty KTRH. Well, this is

(01:47:40):
a secret service, but it's nota man's it's it's a woman involved in
a fight. She's she's working onKamala's secret service detail and she gets into
a fight. Now the Hill describesit as she began displaying behavior their colleagues
found distressing. What a nice wayto put that, Judge Janine Piro,

(01:48:03):
however, she has the more juicydetails of what happened. This is what
happened. Okay, there was anotherperson on the secret service detail. By
the way, the Vice President's detailis where all the they put all the
problem children. Okay, is thata fact? That is a fact.
You could write it down. Andapparently she was having an argument with another
person on the secret service. Shegrabbed his phone and started removing apps from

(01:48:27):
the phone. Why was there arelationship there? I don't know and I
will not say. And so shegives the phone back and the guy says
nothing. Nothing. He just moveson then she starts chest bumping it.
She punched out another agent. Ohnow, they said that her hire was
part of a diversity, equity andinclusion push. Hang, greg, it

(01:48:51):
responds to years of staff shortages andmay have required the agency to lower it's
one strict employment standards. Reading that, I'm not saying it now. I
also understand from someone in the knowthat when she was training in twenty sixteen,
she heard voices and everybody ignored it. She heard voices, disembodied voices.

(01:49:14):
Okay, so we have a DEISecret Service agent hired, So that
tells us probably that you know sheis African American. Perhaps, Now,
from what I know of African Americanwomen, they can, they can,
they gnaw to fight, So shewas probably scrapping pretty good. They ended,
They put she must have been.They had her in handcuffs, Secret

(01:49:38):
Service Agent seven forty one time fortraffic and weather together. Remember when you
used to say your mother wears combatboots. Yes, and that was a
joke. Yes, Well, ifyou go around these universities, there's all
kinds of these young girls running aroundwearing combinent foods. Well, there you
go. It's it's a compliment.Now, I guess h hi, Well,
let's take it through the Montrose uhnorth bound. I've got some breaks

(01:49:59):
on the south West Freeway right there. She's wearing combat boots inbound now from
the main exit, you've got abig scoots trying to get into downtown.
We had some earlier trouble in thecanyon at McGowan, and we're still trying
to clear up there. Also twoeighty eight packed up now right after the
zoo exit McGregor, that accident thatwas also tied in there. Southwest side,
you've got more breaks on the southwestitself from Fountain View up to the

(01:50:24):
westwoop sixty ten. If you're onsix to ten west going down to uptown
Cliff, that makes sense. Fromtwo ninety down to sixty nine, that's
an extra fourteen minutes. Look atthe toll bridge suckage southbound now it's an
extra twenty minutes. Big Phil saysit's up. Got a wall of death
on both sides. Now, that'sa big pack up there six ten.
A lot of you trying to reroutehere, and Hartman Bridge is obviously your

(01:50:45):
best way around all this stuff.They cleared the wreck on the Katie Freeway
in the spot I call Heaven WashingtonAvenue outbound right between Dennis and Ihawk.
Reck's gone. Scooch is still thereout from STUDI of Wood inbound your slow
from Studemont to the President's heads.Terry, best behavior today flying for Channel
thirteen. You're not robbing convenience stores, setting nothing on fire. I'm in
the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center. Don't worry. She's got it under

(01:51:09):
control for mark KTRH Generator Supercenter,twenty four hour Weather Center. She wouldn't
harm a fly. Terry Smith ishere ready to fill you in on the
forecast. I don't even want toget in tattoos. I was gonna say,
I have to make another plan thatmessage up my weekend. What am
I gonna do? Okay, Cherry, you and I are getting together to
figure this out, all right.So we do have some rain, folks.

(01:51:30):
It's not a complete washout, butfinally some wet weather after days and
days of clouds and warm temperatures,thirty percent chance of thunder showers later today,
we're still warm, load of mideighties. We're gonna stay like that
into early next week. No bigchange there. Tomorrow looks dry. Hey,
maybe a little more sunshine. Sundayis sixty percent chance of thunderstorms.

(01:51:51):
Monday and Tuesday sixty percent chance ofshowers and storms, and I suspect we'll
be dealing with some rain Wednesday aswell. Temperature Right now, Bill seventy
four at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH.
What you need to know for theday ahead. This is Houston's Morning News,
brought to you by New South WindowsSolutions. So Kim Ogg is working

(01:52:15):
with Ken Paxton. Do you everthink you'd hear me say that? True?
Though? And she's passed along thecase involving the office of Harris County
Judge Lena Hildago to Ken Paxton's officebecause she's going to be out of office
here after the November well actually afterthe first of the year, but the
November elections. You know, shegot beat the primary, So this I
think is her way of keeping thatcase alive. We'll talk to Holly Hanson

(01:52:39):
of the Texan about that in justa moment. First, though, we
have traffic and weather together as wecheck out the drive once again with Skymike.
All Right, I'm gonna go sureI got missing from Tombaugh. I
just saw a car have a blowoutin the middle of La eight coming south
right before you exit ten towards theEnergy Corridor. He's trying to get over,
but he's a long drug. He'sHollis death. All right. That's
been as ticker for your briefcase.Iten eas at Market Street. That's road

(01:53:02):
debris. What is it? Somekind of stuff. We'll find out at
the top of the hour at Thisis your Generator Supercenter dot com traffic Center
from our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty fourhour weather center. Mostly cloudy, breezy,
chance of a shower storm primarily thisafternoon with the high today of eighty
three. Mostly cloudey's like chances ofshower eighty three tomorrow, isolated morning thunderstorms,
more widespread for the afternoon on Sunday. Steputer Right now is still seventy

(01:53:26):
four at your officials Severe Weather StationNews Radio seven forty KTRH. Just check
out some of our top stories infor Sharah. Here's Glip. Thank you
very much, Jimmy. We're sponsoredby Tomorrow Mechanical. Ken Paxton's now involved
in the investigation of Harris County JudgeLena Hidalgo's office, more anti Israel bias
in the White House, the StateDepartment's Arabic language spokesperson quits over Biden's Israel

(01:53:48):
policy, and Columbia is the firstcountry to restrict the import of American beef
due to bird flu. At thelatest News anytime at KTRH dot com.
Our next update Toda eight. Ilive in Katie, I live in Ito.
You're reliable forecast Next on the tenon seven forty Katie rh Well,

(01:54:11):
my dad, you say the sweetestrevenge is victory. Seven to fifty three
is our time here in Houston's WarningNews. So is kim Ogg assuring that
she's going to get her victory?Maybe? Holly Hanson joins us of the
Texan this is a pretty spark movie. If I don't know if this is
about revenge or if this is aboutjustice, it really doesn't matter. But
this this assures, this move assuresthat there will be a continuing investigation into

(01:54:35):
Lena Hildago's office, as there needsto be. Holly, Yes, you
know yesterday at the press conference,so we saw very defiant kim Ogg who
seemed very determined to make sure justiceis done in this case. Whether you
know, these allegations are proven ordisproven, and her concern stemmed from the

(01:54:58):
Democratic primary this year, which herDemocrat opponents on TYR basically called these investigations
and indictments a political prosecution and didn'tseem to put a lot of credibility behind
them. This investigation has been ongoingfor more than two years. The indictments
were handed down two years ago.In the cases languaged somewhat, so I

(01:55:21):
think everyone is wondering what really happenedhere, and if those charges get dropped
or not prosecuted properly, I don'tthink we would ever get the answers.
But as Kim Obbs noted, yes, Sewn Tier also solicited the endorsement of
Lena Hidalgo. He did get thatendorsement. There are questions about that as

(01:55:41):
well, since that was done oncounty property and livestream on county resources on
social media. So there's another criminalcomplaint pending on that as well. But
in this case, it looks likethe Attorney General's Office is going to take
jurisdiction over both the investigation and prosecution. And we did see new evidence last
November that perhaps other staffers who havenot yet been indicted, were involved in

(01:56:06):
these communications, and also may havehidden some of what they were doing by
using encrypted apps and personal cell phones. So there are still a lot of
questions to be answered about how thisone woman firm got this eleven million dollar
contract to conduct vaccine outreach, althoughI think we know some of those answers.

(01:56:28):
We'll only have about a minute left, Holly, But but how aggressive
have that been? Telling me?How aggressive do you think Ken Paxton's office
is going to be in investigating thiscase further? Well, I think they're
certainly going to be very aggressive.They did have the Taklas ranger there yesterday
who has been following this all along, along with some new investigators from the
Attorney General's office. Looks like they'rebringing in their best to thoroughly vet all

(01:56:55):
of the evidence and make sure justiceis done here. All right. Do
you think there will be any forthcomingcharges against Lena Hildalgo herself? Is she
still being investigated personally? You know, I think that's possible. Just looking
at the affidavits that were signed lastNovember, it does look like Lena Hidalgo
herself was directly involved in creating thisproject for this friend of hers who's also

(01:57:18):
a Democrat strategist. So we couldsee more indictments coming down. We just
don't know at this point, allright, Holly Hanson, always a pleasure.
Thank you, appreciate it. HollyHanson from the Texan. Y'all have
a great day. We'll see youa Monday morning, bright and early,
five am. I'll see the Safrothe four on EM nine fifty KPRC