Friday, June 14th, 2024

Episode Transcript

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This is Use Radio seven forty katrh Houston Drive Everywhere with the IR,
the exclusive audio home of NBC's coverageof the twenty twenty four Paris Olympics.
Now the latest news, weather andtraffic. It's more of what matters to
you from the John Morris Services Studios. Congress ass FBI, what are you

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doing about those eight? Isis terroriststhat you allowed into this country? How
safe are we? And Biden borderorder will it's not really worth the signature
on the paper. We're gonna behearing more about that with clyss Saunders in
the news. But first let's diveinto the traffic on this bright Friday morning.
Here is Skymine. It's almost happyon the freeways too, Sheriff rar.

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This is an I forty five NorthFreeway outbound all Dean Bender. We
just cleared up a couple of laneshere this accident. There were some junk
in the road playing The kids leftnorthbound its inbound. We're looking at twenty
four minutes in from Woodlands Parkway whilewe're on this side here east text looks
good so far. We're dealing twentyminutes now from Humble into downtown Partney til
road's going hut all the way inskywrike on the Generator Supercenter, dot Com

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Traffic Center, I should say it'sfive oh one. I'm sure a friar
and Jimmy Barrett is off today.Taking a look at our weather. It's
going to be pretty much a repeatof what it was yesterday. We're gonna
have a high of about ninety five, loss of sunshine, little chance of
rain overnight, about seventy seven degrees. Tomorrow. The humidity will kick up
a little bit more, but againa repeat about ninety five degrees, and

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it's gonna feel even worse than that. We're gonna get the full rundown on
our weather and what might be aheadof us early next week in terms of
tropical activity, from Terry Smith,who's in the Weather Channel. In just
a few minutes, in about twentyminutes. But let's go to the top
stories of the day and our newswith Cliff Saunder, Good Morning Show,

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Good Morning Everybody, five two onKTRH. Our top story, you can't
have ten million people come and nothave potential terrorists come across the border.
Florida Governor Ron Desand is talking toour own Sean Hannity as Kansas Senator Jerry
Moran Meyers off a letter to FBIDirector Christopher Ray demanding to know how eight

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illegals with ties to isis K gotinto this country and eventually in New York,
Los Angeles, and Philadelphia present in. Biden's executive border order has been
in place for more than a week, but not much has changed. Biden
was praised by liberals for his action, yet the damn remains broken. As
you can capint it twenty five hundred, you capet it five hundred, twenty

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five hundred per day is one pointtwo million per year, right barts Bob
Price sys four years ago we wereunder two thousand crossings a month. And
it's not like Biden hasn't had lessonson the issue. Jay Johnson said that
one thousand per day overwhelmed the borderpatrol and was a crisis. Biden thinks
two and a half times that amountnow is okay. He says, Mexico's

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new president will only exacerbate the problem. Andre Perard News Radio seven forty ktrh
pap Price joined Shara at seven twenty. Among the many things fueling the crisis,
or the freebies being given to illegalsby the White House. The federal
government takes your taxpayer dollars and givesthem to a nonprofit who then gives them

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to illegal aliens. Amon Blair withthe Texas Public Policy Foundation says that as
long as we keep incentivizing this willnever close the border. Five h three
on KTRH, the manhunt is overafter an inmate at the Harris County jail
escaped custody yesterday. Nigel Sanders allegedlythen carjacked the woman, jumped into Buffalo

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by you, and then somehow gotall the way up to East Harris County
before being arrested. We do believethat that is a relative Again, our
search efforts consisted of multiple addresses beingdechecked. Officials say internal affairs is involved
in the investigation. A Harris CountyPrecinct five Constable chief was not hit,
but was fired at by a pairof men who were still on the run.

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Another person was in fact arrested.Five oh four. We have great
unity, We have great common sense, a lot of very smart people in
this room, and a lot ofpeople that love our country. They love
our country beyond just about all else. Donald Trump on Capitol Hill yesterday,
meeting with Congressional Republicans and dropping morehints about who his potential vice president might

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be. You'll hear that at fivepoint thirty, Trump is making big gains
with young voters. Quinnipiac's latest pollinghas him leading Joe Biden with registered voters
between the ages of eighteen and thirtyfour. In a New York Times seeing,
a College poll has him trailing Biden, but that's just by two points.
The US Supreme Court has yet toroll on Trump's claim of presidential immunity,

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but it did uphold full access tothe abortion pilm if A Pristowe yesterday.
Rolling, though, is no impactin Texas legally doesn't change anything,
but it does change things for theillegal trafficking of abortion bills. Doctor Joe
plumon with Texas Alliance for Life.It's five oh five on KTRH and looking
at your Money. Despite the numbers, the Biden administration continues to claim that

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the economy is rolling all Americans,both those who are well off and those
who are near at the bottom ofthe income distribution are better off now their
wages have risen more than prices.Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on CNBC. But
weekly wages are actually down about fourpercent under this president, and prices under

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this president are up by more thantwenty percent. First time Jabos claims are
at a ten month high, risingby thirteen thousand to a total of two
hundred and forty two thousand. Thebiggest jump came from California. Despite that,
certain industries are desperate for more skilledworkers, but he says annual hiring
and trades will be twenty times morethan the projected increase in net new jobs.

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Whatever it is plumbing or surveying,or electrical or computer assisting or architect
assisting, there are apprenticeships if youare patient. Martin Nimko, career counselor
and author of Careers for Dummies,says more college age people are side eying
the trades somehow. If you're workingwith your hands, you're a second class

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citizen. There's no prestige, andthat's foolish. Prestige is a foolman's fool
woman's game. And with that,the shortage of skilled trade workers is hurting
some industries in the US. JaredLewis News Radio seven forty khright. Thanks
Jared. The Biden economy is puttinga financial vicecript on restaurants both in Houston
and nationwide, forcing many that werestruggling to close. Two primary drivers food

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inflation, which is skyrocketed since thepandemic. You know, the cost of
proteins has gone up drastically, andlabor is gone up as well. Franchise
consultant Nick Neonakus. Recent polling showsthat eighty percent of Americans now look at
fast food as a luxury item.It's five oh seven. According to new

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research, more Republican voters listen toAM and FM radio, while more Democrats
listen to podcasts. I think firstand foremost. This survey says that audio
still matters. The people on cableTV news get really upset that the American
people, especially the conservative half,don't accept them as legitimate people to listen
to Tim Graham with NewsBusters. Eitherway, the study shows that audio reaches

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eighty four percent of the voting agepublic every single day. And finally,
the Astros return home to Minute MayPark tonight against Detroit. Pregame is at
six on Sports Talk seven ninety,First Pitch at seven ten on seven ninety
and KTRH on Cliff Saunders on Houston'snewsweather and traffic station, News Radio seven

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forty KTRH. How bad things arethe twenty twenty four elections really happening?
Everything in your world here and abroadNews Radio seven forty KTRH. Did you
hear about this recent Harvard study HarvardUniversity. I only saw it flashing through
Fox News a little bit yesterday,but it was all over global media.

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I could not believe how excited peoplewere in Indian, Indonesia and Australia and
Great Britain about a recent Harvard studythat reveals that aliens might be living among
us, probably underground or maybe evenon the Moon. It's a program at
Harvard University called Human Flourishing, andthey've stated that UFOs might actually be alien

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spaceships that are visiting to meet theiralien friends living here on Earth. Oh
my. And they've described about fourdifferent types of aliens. They think Mike
could possibly be here. Crypto terrestrialsthat have evolved. They've been living underground
after some sort of terrible calamity hitthe planet Earth years ago, decades,

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millennia ago, or maybe former cryptoterrestrials who somehow escaped to space and now
are coming back, and then they'remagical aliens as well earth bound angels.
Some look like human beings, evenvery very tall, some maybe are very
very small. I don't know.The more I think about it, we

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do have a lot of really tall, incredibly capable people on this planet.
Are they really humans? Are theyhave they crossed over? And do we
have aliens living among us? Idon't know, Skymike. I think maybe
this sounds like something you might haveyou dated someone like this, you would
be surprised. Do you know howcrazy as I've been all over the place,

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But I don't know about aliens.Everybody, sorry, just with it.
If they grow up on a youknow, you grow up out in
the country, you grow up ona farm. Believe me, you believe
in aliens. If you grow upon a farm, you know, you
don't take it as seriously in thecity, but you're out there, you're
like when you hear the music run, I hear that too. Night.

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Let's go to the hard work ineast Side heare, put your hard head
on and let's do some hartmon Bridgehere. I'm gonna put up a quick
shot of that heartmin bridge between Baytownand Laporte and look at that. That's
pretty what a great shot. MissouriStreet in Baytown down to Laport. We're
looking good so far. Toll Bridgehas not started to spackle. Yeah,
southbound a little bit at just ana port that's at six ten. The

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Sherman Bridge always your best way around. Something is smashed up on I sixty
nine East tex southbound in front ofthe ballpark. And we're going to get
to the bottom of that. Thatsure looks like a stall. We'll get
you some language at the five twenty. We're gonna defer here Skymike and the
Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Center. Well, we are looking at repeat.

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I guess rinseash, repeat, exceptit's going to be a little bit
dry today. Terry Smith's standing byto kind of give us the outlook as
we head into the weekend. Butalso, Terry, if you can kind
of keep your eye on what's happeningto Florida. Boy, are they a
mess? And will any of thattropical weather work its way across the Gulf
and affect us early next week.Yeah, Florida's really had it rough,
with South Florida in particular picking upsome extraordinary amounts of rain since Tuesday.

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I believe there's some places that havehad already two feet of rain there.
That little disturbance i'll call it,is moving out into the Atlantic, so
it's not going to have an impacton us. What we're watching is something
down in the Bay of Campeache onthe Southwestern Gulf that right now there's nothing

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there except some thunderstorms. There's thepotential for that to get better organized sometime,
perhaps laid over the weekend early nextweek. The impact it's going to
have for us, though, isjust to send us this influx of moisture
off the Golf Mexico starting Sunday andfor several days. So a lot of
uncertainty in that part of the forecast. How quickly does it form, what

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does it turn into, exactly whereit's going to go. I think it'll
stay south of us, but stillplay a factor in our weather. Now,
we're dry today or tomorrow, andthe temperatures are hot. We're in
the low to upper nineties both days. Forty percent chants of thunderstorms starting to
show up Sunday afternoon, eighty percentchance of those thunderstorms on Monday, and
a sixty percent chance on Tuesday.All Right, We will be standing by

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to hear more from you throughout theday. Thanks a lot terry. Currently
it is eighty two degrees, butit feels like it's eighty eight. We're
gonna have a lot of sunshine today. At Houston's News Radio seven forty KTRATE,
It's Houston's Morning News, brought toyou by New South Windows Solutions.
Now back to Jimmy and Sherah withthe info you need to take on the

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day. Today is officially Flag Day. What does it mean? Well,
it was created June fourteenth, aholiday celebrated every year in the United States
because the flag of the United Stateswas adopted June fourteenth of seventeen seventy seven
by a resolution of the Second ContinentalCongress. We were still fighting our War

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of Independence when Flag Day was whenour flag was adopted. We celebrated when
it was actually in nineteen sixteen whenWoodrow Wilson, the president at the time,
decided that we would make it anofficial flag Day for these United States
of America. Don't know how manypeople really celebrated anymore, though. Have

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you noticed here we are in thiselection year and it seems like we went
through Memorial Day, We went througha very moving time of d Day.
Now it's Flag Day at a timewhen people are more concerned about other holidays,
other observances, other flags, SupremeCourt controversies about what flags they fly,

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and Pride Week in the month.Sorry, it's an entire month of
Pride month. Juneteenth is coming.We have all sorts of observances, but
we're kind of putting the flag inthe background. Might also note that this
is also the anniversary of the creationof the US Army. This is the

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birthday of the US Army. Fivetwenty is our time. I have a
little bit more to say about thatwith Mike Rowe and the patriotism that he
believes should be shown. But let'sgo first here our patriot of the freeways
sky Mike, oh dude, andMike row Well, you know, just
like him. I got a dirtyjob too. But somebody has to check

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on this. This is East texElevated at southbound. A lot of your
sources online are saying there's a rectnorthbound. They're wrong. It's a squish
southbound. Me and some of theladies TV, you're talking about this off
channel right now. You see thebackup right before it trying to get onto
the elevated you loose about two orthree minutes time to get to the Big
George. Stay the course if that'syour normal route, I wouldn't worry too

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much if it's one, six andone or a half dozen to the other
to take the forty five pier salvatoraround that. For now, we're in
good shape. We're going to talkabout some Southwest freeway construction. Also,
let's do downtown closures at the fiveforty break. I'm Skymike. This is
your Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center, looking at your weather right now.

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We're going to have a hot oneagain today, Lots of sunshine, a
high in ninety four overnight, I'llget down to seventy seven pretty much a
repeat tomorrow. Currently it is eightytwo degrees at news Radio seven forty KTRH.
We'll be checking in with Terry Smithin another twenty minutes or so to
get a fuller forecast. Let's turnto our top stories of the day,

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and here is Cliff Saunders. Thankyou, Shara. Donald Trump goes back
to Capitol Hill and back's a frequentin a key Senate race. Judicial Watch
reports that President Biden personally witnessed multipleattacks by Commander the Dog, and that
one secret Service agent wanted him touse a muzzle and a us in craft
brewery fails. Klaus Brewing closes forgood tomorrow, unable to come back from

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a mechanical failure that they say quotewrecked its brewing system. Get the latest
news anytime at KTRH dot com.Our next update is at five thirty Pasadena,
a living clearly reliable KTRH traffic andweather. Next on the ten,
I was taken by Micro. Heis about to release a movie on June

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twenty seventh, and it's called OhHere I Am. I had it on
my screen Stan something just stand forand Micro if you don't know him,
something to stand for. It's goingto be in American movie theaters on June
twenty seventh, and it's about Americaand it's Micro TV host that you know
who always advance answers the skilled trades. But he has some incredible things to

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say about patriotism and what we shouldbe doing or he believes, and what
this movie that he's created stands for. Let me see if I can get
this to roll. I hope thatthe movie will make it easier for people
to feel grateful about the miracle they'vebeen given. You know, we're alive,

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we walk the earth, we've hitthe greatest lottery of all time.
We live in a pretty wonderful place. So above all, feeling grateful about
that. You know, it's notjust a thing that I think we owe
our forefathers. It's a thing thatwe should selfishly latch onto right now,

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because study show if you feel gratefulon a basic fundamental level, you're going
to be a terrible victim. Youknow, you're going to have a very
hard time feeling sorry for yourself andfeeling bitter about any number of things.
Yeah, he went on, Ido think fostering a new appreciation for the

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past and encouraging this idea that wedon't you know, our country was formed
by imperfect people and we are stillvery much a work in progress. And
you know, the movie doesn't attemptto wrap itself in a flag and say,
hey, we did it, gous, We're perfect. It's not

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that at all. But it's alsoan unapologetically patriotic movie that that gives me,
i think, permission to say,in spite of the imperfections of our
founders and in spite of the worldwe find ourselves in today, we still
we still have a lot to wesawt a lot to be proud of,

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and we still have a lot tobe grateful for, and we still have
a lot to celebrate. So fundamentally, that's what the movie is. It's
a celebration. Of course, allthis is in advance of the fourth of
July and looking forward, but somethingthat on this Flag Day, which isn't
an official celebrated holiday in these UnitedStates, maybe to give us all something

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to think about about how grateful weshould be for the country that we live
in and not keep falling back onvictimology and feeling the way that so many
in our country do, and realizingthat we have incredible opportunity and in incredible
ways to make this country even bettermoving forward. Anyway, from the lips

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of Mike Row, but the daygoes on, Happy Birthday to the US
Army, as we celebrate your birthdayas well. I guess I should have
rolled some case in music. Butit is another day of market activity and
politics. So let's go see whatWall Street is looking like it's going to
do to us today. Here's CourtneyDona Host standing by with Bloomberg. I

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love that what it does to ustoday, that's what I feel like all
the time. And what if weIt's been good morning, Sharf's so nice
to talk to you this morning.Stocks are in the red. Dow futures
right now down two hundred and sixtypoints three hundred sixty points. Traders are
still evaluating the Federal Reserve's decision thispast week, policymakers signaling one rate cut

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this year and more to come intwenty twenty five. Well, yesterday,
the S and P five hundred closedat another all time high, driven by
rally in tech. However, theDow dropped sixty five points. Data showed
a cooled down in another key measureof inflation. Producer prices unexpectedly declined in
May by the most in seven months. Oil this morning slightly lower at seventy
eight dollars a barrel. There areconcerns over global demand, especially out of

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China. Crude prices have dropped elevenpercent from reaching a peak in mid April,
and Ford is expanding its electric vehicleoffering to all of its dealers.
The automaker is scrapping a plan thatrequire dealers to invest as much as one
point two million dollars in their storesin order to qualify to receive models such
as the electric Mustang Mocky. Roughlyhalf of Ford's retailers signed up for that

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program. Courtney's on Hop Bloomberg Businesson News Radio seven forty KTRH. You
are Old Houston's News. Why thereare traffic plus breaking news twenty four seventh.
This is News Radio seven forty ktrh. Tribe Everywhere with IRPP more of
what's happening now from the John MorrisServices studios. Well, Trump's still teasing

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all of us about who will behis VP, even as he forges ahead.
He's now backing another never Trumper ina key Senate race on the East
coast. We'll hear more about that. Good morning everyone, It is now
five thirty on news radio seven fortyk TRH. Cliff Saunders will have all
the news still ahead. But let'scheck ourions and our mountains. Of all

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those highways out there, I hopethat people aren't trapped in them. Her
sky mine, oh we got them. Guess what? Sure, it's a
back back order slip on forty fiveNorth. Hopefully everybody's okay, this is
a wreck southbound at aldem Bender.That's taking up a left lane. They
may take a second one, allright. There's been a lot of discussion
about the direction of the wreck downtown. I sixty nine southbound. Me and

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the pretty ladies on TV think it'ssouthbound, unlike some of the north other
sources that are saying it's northbound.Wyatt reported, this is East tex at
the ballpark. Hey, Sky,my trucking on down the Corpus Christie.
The two left lanes are jammed upon fifty nine south by the ballpark.
I appreciate what you do every more, man, and I see that smush

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up from quiitman. Christina Cruz thinksso too. And you know, happy
work wife, Happy work life.Skymichael a Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic center
looking at our weather today. Gotlots of sunshine, just about a three
percent chance of rain, so don'tthink we'll hit it. But that humidity
is just afl. It already feelslike it's eighty eight out there. We're
going to hit a high about ninetyfive overnight low about seventy seven. Currently

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it is eighty two at your officialsevere weather station, News Radio seven forty
k T rh and let's take alook now at all the top news of
the day. Here's Cliff Saunders.Thank you, Sherry. It is five
thirty two on KTRHR top story.You know who your vps because you told
us at a town hall you alreadyknew back in the Iowa Caucasus. I
have sort of a pretty good idea. Look clear, some really talented paper.

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Donald Trump on Fox, the formerpresident at Capitol Hill yesterday making an
endorsement in a big Senate race,backing a critic of his and a former
Maryland governor, Larry Hogan. Ithink he has a good chance to win.
I would like to see him win, and we got to take the
majority. The race could determine controlof the Senate. Republicans on the House

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Judiciary Committee call Manhattan DA Alvin braggoutduring a hearing yesterday, Alvin Bragg's prosecution
of President Trump was personal, wasbased on politics, and it was wrong.
Committee chairman Jim Jordan, accusing Bragof prosecuting Trump simply to appease his
supporter's brag will be on Capitol Hillnext month. With the election in November

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projected to be close, Trump needsreluctant trumpers to come to his side.
There are still a few reasons peoplemight be holding out on voting for Trump,
personal quirks and foibles, his brusqueness, his insults, his personal failings
and his marriages, his ways ofdoing business. Jeffrey Right with The American

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Thinker told kt H. Trump canstill win those voters over, though,
look at the bigger picture, avoidsome of the petty personal stuff, and
focus on the larger cause, whichis taking back the country from the left.
Right says, whether you love himor not, it's between Trump or
four more years of Biden. EthanBuchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH and speaking

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of the current president, he isin Italy for the G seven making it
official he won't garden his son Hunterafter his conviction on three felony gun charges
this week. I'm extremely proud ofmy son Hunter. He is overcome an
addiction. He's one of the greatest, most decent men I know. The
President also shook his head no andasked about commuting any sentenced that Hunter gets.

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He also signed a ten year securityagreement with the Ukrainians yesterday, but
his performance on the global stage onceagain has Republicans alarmed. When world leaders
see a president who is infirm andweak, shuffling around the stage, not
knowing where he's supposed to go,they know that they can take advantage of
America. And that's not just ouradversaries, our allies as well. Arkansas

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Senator Tom Cotton, it's five pointthirty four. A new report by DHS
says that border patrol has not vettedillegals as thoroughly as they should have.
Texas Senator Ched Cruz has worried aboutthe consequences. The border patrol right now
is under explicit directions to be onthe guard for Hamas terrorists, and Republican
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham wants thefull Senate to be briefed about the terror

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threat at the border. The administrationis now protecting more than eight hundred and
sixty thousand foreign nationals from deportation thanksto its expansion of TPS that is Temporary
Protected status that data coming from theCongressional Research Service, and with the border
crisis getting worse by the day,Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry could send more National

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Guard troops here to Texas. JessicaVaughan with the Center for Immigration Studies,
notes the Louisiana deployment is set toexpire at the end of the month.
He has been in discussions with GovernorAbbott about extending that commitment of troops to
help Texas with Operation Loan Star.And as for what they do to help,

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what they do on this mission ishelping the Texas authorities patrol the border,
which is the most effective way outsideit of actual barriers. Right now,
there's about five thousand Texas National Guardtroops at the border. Jeff Biggs
News Radio seven forty KTAH. ThanksJeff, It's five thirty six on KTRH.

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And it's not just stoves anymore.The Biden administration wants to expand the
Nanty State by coming for all ofyour gas appliances. The Energy Department is
now pushing for zero emissions buildings,which include only items powered by clean energy,
part of what the Biden administration callsit's Building Electrification Agenda. Power the
Future. Executive director Daniel Turner tellsFox this will only lead to less efficiency.

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Why did your grandmother's appliances last forthirty forty fifty years. The reason
why is because they were quality made. They were made in America and they
didn't have all these government mandates.And we've developed this habit in America if
that we buy two thousand dollars applianceas they break and they're disposable. The
administration has issued regulations targeting furnaces,water heaters, dishwashers, and gas power
generators. Coreyolson News Radio seven fortyK and meantime, gasoline prices continue to

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tick up across Texas now at threeh two a gallon this morning. From
your financial health to your physical wellbeing, Pharmacists are experiencing the worst drug
shortages in over twenty years. CEOof Healthcare Finance Specialists, David Blot says
there are a few reasons for itare patent issues with the FDA and the

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manufacturers, and then also the supplychain in the middle, the greup purchasing
organizations and the pharmacy bents managers thatcreate a kind of choke point in the
supply chain. There are over threehundred and twenty active drug shortages as we
speak. And finally, the Astroshost the Tigers tonight pregame at six on
Sports Talk seven ninety. First pitchseven to ten simulcast on seven ninety and

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KTRH. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston'snews, weather and traffic station, News
Radio seven forty KTRH. But theexperts at garage Door doctor, tune up
your garage door and keep it runningfor a lifetime. This most important,
This is the most important election thisyear. It is believe that stay with
your most important station, News Radioseven forty JGRH. Donald Trump basically returned

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to Capitol Hill and with a house, certainly the Republican led House. It
was something of another Trump rally yesterday, and then he went over to the
Senate where he met with senators whohave been well, let's pretty much say,
firmly in the hands of Mitch McConnelland before that Paul Ryan. And
we've got to know that Mitt Romney. We know we've got about fifteen or

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sixteen senators still over there who,while they maybe are playing nights now with
Donald Trump, they nonetheless have beennever Trumper's and you have to wonder are
they just waiting waiting to see whatthey can do to him this time?
But first time he went back toCapitol Hill in four years, and boyd

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he have some things to say abouthimself and the country and what the government
can do. And we're a nationthat's in decline. We're declining nation.
We're a nation that is being leftat all over the world. We have
a leader that's being left at allover the world. And we're going to

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turn it around. We're going toturn it around fast. The polls are
looking like they're very strongly for us, and no matter where you look.
In fact, a lot of statesthat people thought weren't in play are very
strongly in play somewhere actually leading inBut we have to get elected. We
have to take this beautiful place andwe have to make it really something very

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special again. Right now, it'snot special right now, it's being scorned
and being used as an example ofwhen they look at the crime on the
streets, when they look at allof the problems that we have. They're
using us as a bad example ofdemocracy and they're getting away with murder.
And we're not going to let ithappen. Not gonna let it happen.
So he says, it is fiveforty now and is a quick look.

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We need to go and see what'shappening out there on the freeways. It's
actually kind of quiet today, isn'tit. It depends on where we are,
Sheriff Brar. If you're a visor, you're in great shape now,
Katie two ninety and the Southwest Freewayall rock and a long incident free if
you're hard at You've got some troubleon the toll bridge, just the usual
southbound smash with the roadwork and alsodown coming in from the north side forty

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five. That's they're calling that astall now Alding vendor, just watch out.
It's not causing that big of asquish. The big question this morning
has been about the east text downtownright around the ballpark and then let's go
right to it. Hey, gotmy dude at the confluence by a minute,
may It is all left lane exceptfor one on the right side,
so it's getting jamped back. Butnine more east text side. Good morning

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guy, Mike, be careful beforeyou hit it. You at our Ron
convention Center, there are two leftlane blocked right now and only people are
getting by. I'm going to beon the right shoulder, all right,
you know what, Let's switch youover to I forty five, the peer
s elevated part instead and you cango around that get right around and trying
to get down into the canyon.We will check your advisors. Let's see

(32:20):
how Bush Airport's doing. Two atthe five point fifty break and the Generator
Supercenter, dot Com traffic Center,and we need to turn now to the
weather Channel and Terry Smith, who'sstanding by for is we've got just basically
it's midsummer. It shouldn't be justthe beginning of summer. The kind of
temperatures and weather we've been having,it's just one of those weird years again,

(32:43):
Terry, I'm afraid it is.It's like July in June. You
know, it's a little bit warmerthan we typically would see. It definitely
is a little bit more humid.We're missing out on any sort of rain
though, so if you have thingsyou're doing today or tomorrow, you don't
have to worry about the rain.Rain comeback comes back starting Sunday and will

(33:06):
likely be with us for a goodbit of next week because of something that
could be developing down in the southwesternGulf of Mexico, down around the Bay
of Campeachee. We're watching it.You need to stay up today just to
see how this all pans out.Because that's far out in the extended forecast,
but we could be dealing with heavyrain for several days starting Sunday.

(33:28):
No rain today or tomorrow, loadto upper nineties. It's going to be
hot Sunday. It's a forty percentchance of thunderstorms Monday and eighty percent chance
of showers and some thunder Tuesday,sixty percent chants of rain. I suspect
we'll be dealing with more rain Wednesdayand Thursday. All Right, thanks a
lot terry. We'll check back withyou again very soon, about half an

(33:49):
hour. Right now, it iseighty two degrees feels like eighty eight at
News Radio seven forty KTR. Whatyou need to know for the day ahead.
This is Houston's Morning News, broughtto you by New South Windows Solutions,
and it is now five point fortyeight here on Houston's Morning News on
News Radio seven forty ktrh Jimmy Barrettoff today. I'm Sherriff Ryer, trying

(34:14):
to do my best imitation of JimmyBarrett, not always succeeding at that.
As you well know, it isa momentous time in our republic, and
we are a republic and we haveto make sure that we're able to save
it. And Donald Trump has positionedhimself as the person who is able to
do that. You know, it'svery interesting. Cliff was doing a story

(34:37):
a while ago about well, he'llbe doing one and coming up at the
top of the hour. He didone earlier about the restaurant industry and how
suffering it is, among other things, I can't get workers why, well,
some states are demanding such a highminimum wage they can't afford to pay
workers. A lot of workers arereluctant to go back to restaurants because the

(34:58):
industry has been so battered. NowDonald Trump comes forward and he said,
he offered, He said, whyshould we tax the tips of people in
the service industry? He held thatout and a boy was a music to
the ears of people. Might bea way to turn the service industries back
around again. But he's taken iteven further now as part of his plan,

(35:22):
his platform, he's talking about increasingproductivity, raising tariffs on other countries,
trying to inundate our country with theirgoods, keeping America first, and
ultimately bringing down the American tax system, bringing down the irs. Now,
that would surely get a bunch ofvotes. We'll find out. I know

(35:45):
Sky Mike would love it if hecould or go all the taxes because he
pays enough in his gasoline out thereon the roadways. I think if you
have multiple jobs, you know youshould like they should give you a break
on one of your jobs. Justokay, you only get taxed on one.
But I'm not the government. Oh, I do have a declaration at
six' ten. Be very nervous. I'm bucking authority here downtown. The

(36:07):
big story is your east text elevatedsouthbound at the ballpark where we're just getting
by on the shoulder here. Thiswreck may be a little more serious than
first thought, but it is southbound. Uh and we we got that look
Me and the ladies on TV agree. Originally it was reported northbound watch out
from equipment. Let's just skip overto forty five. Get around that Nord
Freeway I forty five coming out thebeltway southbound. They've cleared that stall.

(36:31):
That's out of the way. Quicktip line two ninety seven. Two t
ips Mike from Magnolia m bond dodunchstickle. Yeah, I just want to
let the people in cypress up.They here aloud, boom, it's not
thunder. It's just me breaking itdown. Barrier two ninety wide open,
all right, your traffic cord Iknow is that sixty eight hundred Cypress would

(36:52):
will be there soon. SKYMIKEE onthe Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.
Taking a look at our weather today. Right now it's ticked down a degree.
The downtown station here in Houston eightyone degrees. We're gonna look at
a high of ninety four today hereon News Radio seven forty KTRG. Let's

(37:13):
turn to Cliff Saunders. Now,who's got the top headlines of this morning,
and we are sponsored shared by DNMautoleasing Senate Republicans won answers from the
FBI about the terror threat at ourborder. A disturbance in the southern Gulf
of Mexico has a forty percent chanceof tropical development. We're talking about that
with Terry Smith all morning and theBig twelve conference in college sports. The

(37:34):
Home for UH is considering selling itsnaming rights to the All State Insurance Company.
At the latest news anytime at KTRHdot com or next update is at
six o'clock. I live in Pasadena, Sharptown, Southwest. Next on the
ten Time Saving Traffic con seven fortyKTRH. He's in a jail house.

(37:54):
Now. He is in the jailhouse. Now, he's in a jailhouse.
Now is in the jail house nowwell, Camel Bluckist, Yeah,
he's about to be in the jailhouse. It's about fifty two now on
news Radio seven forty k TRH.Steve Bannon, a good supporter, a
longtime advisor to Donald Trump, islooking at being sent to prison. It's

(38:17):
almost more than you can understand.He claimed executive privilege, refused to testify
to the j six Committee, andfor that, they're going to send him
to jail beginning July first, he'ssupposed to report to the jail house.
Steve Bannon says he's going to doit proudly. And he was on with
Tucker Carlson, who, by theway, is going to be making a

(38:40):
love appearance here in Houston coming up. We'll tell you about that during our
timeline. But Steve Bannon on withTucker Carlson, had this to say about
being sent to jail by standing bythe executive privilege. The most important to
me, Bill is the structure ofthis committee. Was it a legitimate committee.

(39:01):
And you see what the videos yougot the last couple of days of
Nancy Pelosi saying, you know,as her responsible to the National Guard.
This is why we need a completeand thorough investigation by the House into the
January sixth Committee exactly what went on, you know, was it a FED
surrection, was it not a FEDsurrection? Was the details and what did

(39:21):
the January sixth Committee know about it? Because we've you know, if you
follow Darren Beattie in Revolver News everyday, it's another every couple of days
you get information that was suppressed fromthe committee, as John Solomon and these
investigative reporters keep breaking. So Ithink there'll be a lot more of this.
But July first, Hey, Iserved my country in a Navy ship.
I'll serve my country as a politicalprisoner in a federal prison for a

(39:44):
misdemeanor. But it doesn't I don'tbat one eye. Whatever takes to win
this revolution we got to do.But you did serve your country in the
US Navy. You're now being betrayedand persecuted by your country. There's no
fair person, and could I don'tthink could conclude anything but that not not
our country, Tucker, No,our country, our country. The guys

(40:05):
that listen to you and support you. We're being we're being suppressed by We're
being oppressed by an illegitimate regime thatyou serve power here. And that's what
we have to break. And look, I don't need to tell you.
They're on you every day, asyou know, they're on everybody that stands
up. That's what they that's whatthey've tried to do. This illegitimate regime
is trying to persecute not just PresidentTrump. They're going to send him to

(40:27):
prison on July eleventh. They maydefer that, but they're going to give
him a prison sentence as they've givenRudy Giuliani. Either bankruptcy or deplatforming or
taking your law license away or orputting people in prison. That's what they're
doing and we have to stand upto it. That's why I would never
give them. I would never givethem. You know, you see mccab
on TV wedding himself every night aboutoh, when these people get back in

(40:49):
power, they're going to come afteras you damn right, We're going to
come after you within the rule oflaw, because that's how we'll bequeath a
constitutional republic to our children and grandchildren. But no, I don't bet any
it's hostile. They will never breakme ever, and I quite frankly,
it will be just as proud toserve my nation as a political prisoner in
a federal prison for a misdemeanor byNancy Pelosi as I was to serve my

(41:12):
nation on that destroyer. Pretty powerfulstuff there, Steve Bannon ready and able
to go to prison. He wenton to say that when one man goes
down, is next man up,next man up, next man up,
and is incumbent on everyone in America. If they want to make sure that

(41:34):
we have a continuing constitutional republic,just stand up. It's now five fifty
six on Who's Radio seven forty KTRH. This is used Radio seven KTRH Houston
Live Everywhere with the exclusive audio homeof NBC's coverage of the twenty twenty four

(41:54):
Paris Olympics. Now the latest news, weather, fantaffic, it's more of
what matters to you from the JohnMorris Services Studios. Congress issuing a letter
to the FBI wanting word why whereeight terracets tied to isis allowed not only
vetted and allowed in but allowed totravel across this country, remain in major

(42:17):
cities, or a long length oftime before they finally were found and arrested.
Biden Borders Order. Is it havingany effect? Well, no,
not so much. Cliff Saunders willbe along in just a few minutes with
those stories on topping our news atsix oh one now on news Radio seven
forty k TRH. I'm sheryff Ryer. Let's get a quick look at our

(42:39):
traffic out there on the highways onthis is going to be a hot day.
East Text Downtown elevated. We gotthat wreck at the ballpark three lanes
block, big smushup from equipment.Let's switch over to forty five and sixty
nine. Make that I forty fiveNorth Freeway. Gotta spackle at the north
Loop six ten. All I cansee is bushes and flashy lights southbound,

(43:00):
so it must be the seventy Sowatch out from crosschimbers and I've got a
declaration to make it six' tenand some downtown storm street closures. It's
the generator of Supercenter dot Com TrafficCenter. All right, looking at our
weather today, it's going to bemuch like it was yesterday. It's about
eighty one degrees right now. I'mgoing to get up to high of a
ninety five overnight seventy seven. It'sgoing to feel a lot hotter than it

(43:22):
is. The humidity is going tostart creeping in again tomorrow, and then
we will have a weekend maybe ofa little bit more chance of rain as
we go into Sunday. Now wego to Cliff Saunders, who's standing by
with all the top news stories ofthe day. Thank you, Cherry,
I sponts you byes all Star constructionat six oh one hour top story.

(43:45):
All the red lights are flashings.FBI Director Ray has testified to Congress multiple
times. Now why because we believethere's probably terrorist cells set up around the
United States. Now, that's USHouse Speaker Mike Johnson on Fox Business.
After eight illegals with ISIS k timeswere arrested in three of this country's biggest
cities, Kansas Senator Jerry Moran isdemanding answers from FBI Director Christopher Ray,

(44:07):
sending a letter asking what the FBIcan do to make sure that the bad
guys don't make it to the US. One week into President Biden's executive border
Order and illegals are still coming herewithout anything to stop them right. Bart's
Bob Price says that capping crossings attwenty five hundred a day still equates to

(44:28):
over a million a year, andit only focuses on Mexican illegals, which
is a bigger problem. The vastmajority of these migrants now, the Venezuelans,
the Chinese, the Middle Eastern migrants, Eastern Europe, all of these
people with countries that are connected toterrorism. They're not going to be returned.
He says that four years ago wehad under two thousand crossings per month.

(44:52):
Now that number is two hundred andforty thousand. And why are they
coming, Well, it's because ofthe handouts they're getting. Illegals can live,
King's thanks to these freebies. Everybenefit that a citizen could have in
terms of how they live or theirlivelihoods is given and prioritized to illegalaliens.
A Moon Blair with the Texas PublicPolicy Foundation told KTRH, these freebies are

(45:15):
paid for by you tax payer dollarsgoing to our federal agencies, and then
those federal agencies work with nonprofit That'swhere it's coming from, is your pocketbook.
Blair says that as long as weincentivize the legal immigration like this,
it will be impossible to close theborder. Ethan Buchennan News Radio seven forty
KTRH. Thank you, Ethan.It is six oh three on KTRH.

(45:35):
The search is over for an inmateafter an escape at the Harris County Courthouse.
Nigel Sanders was taken into custody atabout three o'clock this morning in East
Harris County. So how did hemake it all the way there from downtown.
We don't have that information at thispoint. We will be able to
release some details as the investigations continues. You saw it's still on their investigation.
I was officers earlier this morning.Deputies in the meantime are investigating after

(46:00):
finding a dead man in a housethat went up in flames in southern Harris
County yesterday six h four on KGRH. Who are a nation that is being
left at all over the world.We have a leader that's being left at
all over the world. Donald Trumpon Capitol Hill yesterday, meeting with congressional
Republicans, dropping more hints about apotential running mate. We'll have more on

(46:20):
that at six thirty. Younger votersare now coming over to Trump's side.
He leads Joe Biden with voters betweeneighteen and thirty four years old, and
the latest polling from Quinnipiac University andhe's only two points behind Joe Biden with
young voters, according to The NewYork Times and Siena College. An uneasy
moment for CNN after asking Nathan Wade, the ex lover of Fulton County DA

(46:44):
Fannie Willis, when their relationship started. There's been this effort to say that,
Okay, these exact dates are atissue, and these exact dates are
I'm getting I'm getting signaled here,Yes, signaled by his consultant. And

(47:05):
then there was Willis talking about Trumpand other critics during a speech at a
Georgia church. I'm so tired ofhearing these idiots call my name as Fanny
in a way to attempt to humiliateme. Either way, Wade and Willis
have both said they won't rule outputting Trump on trial even if he's reelected
in November. We're still ready tohear what the US Supreme Court will do

(47:30):
with the former president's claim of immunity. But the High Court upheld access to
mifipristone yesterday that, of course theabortion pill. It was a unanimous ruling
yesterday which does not really have aneffect in Texas because of this state's pro
life laws coming up on six ohsix. Now, she didn't mean to
do it, but Treasury Secretary JanetYellen admitted that, yeah, you were

(47:52):
better off financially under Trump than youare now. People are feeling pain.
They've seen the let full of pricesrise quite a lot, I mean,
over twenty percent over the last threeyears. Yelling on CNBC, first time
jobless claims hit a ten month highof two hundred and forty two thousand,
rising by thirteen thousand last week.The largest jump was in the state of

(48:15):
California. The shortage of skilled tradeworkers continues. Career counselor Marty Nemko says
there's been too much of a focuson hiring minorities and women and less emphasis
than somebody's work ethic. There isa tremendous priority on getting women and minorities
in the trades. So if anybody'slistening to this as a ward of minority,

(48:37):
the Biden administration has made that verytop priority. Nemco adding that there
are certain industries that are desperately lookingfor more skilled workers. It's coming up
on six oh seven. According toa new study, Republican voters spend more
time listening to AMNFM radio, Democratsprefer podcasts. Tim Graham with Newsbus points

(49:00):
out this is not new, andit's because liberal talk radio has failed spectacularly.
I just think it's funny that theliberals love podcasts. They would not
love my Newsbuster's podcast. Most Americansdon't really reach out for fair and balance.
It isn't really the model anymore.Eighty four percent of the voting age
public is reached by audio daily andfinally the astros are back admitted May Park

(49:23):
tonight starting a weekend series with theTigers. Pregame is at six o'clock on
Sports Talk seven ninety, First pitchat seven to ten on seven ninety and
KTRH on Cliff Saunders on Houston's News, Weather and Traffic station News Radio seven
forty KTRH the tools you need totake on the day news in the morning,

(49:44):
Weather and traffick. This is Houston'sMorning News with Jimmy Barrett and Sheriff
Fryer. And it is now sixoh seven here on news Radio seven forty
KTRH. Nancy Pelosi, Boy,she's been making the rounds. I guess
she feels like maybe the Trump forcesare winning too much. Biden's not able
to speak for himself, so nowthey're calling it all out. We are

(50:06):
in the last few minutes, certainlyof an election right now. Campaigns as
we, I should say, thelast few minutes. It's we've got several
months. It's been ongoing. Let'sjust put it this way. We have
never stopped having a campaign. Itseems like since twenty sixteen and Donald Trump
was first elected, it just goeson and on and on. And now

(50:30):
we are in just the final monthsreally before people start voting for the presidency.
So they're pulling out all the guns. Both sides are doing that.
Certainly, Nancy Pelosi is now callingthe GOP a cult that has insecure voters.
I don't know. I wonder ifshe's ever looked at a rally in

(50:51):
the size of the crowds that arethere. Meantime, every form of law
fair is still being practiced, butwe're finally getting some rather vocal push back
about what is happening in our courtsand how justice has been weaponized. We
certainly have Congress with the weaponization ofjustice being on display and talked about every

(51:15):
day, as well as the differencein how Trump is prosecuted for what should
be not even equivocal the same equatedcrimes. I'm going to get into that
in just a little bit, butif I can go maybe to sky Mike.
I don't know if you're standing byearlier, but let's go to sky
Mike, because you're starting to seethings pick up a little bit out there

(51:37):
on the freeway. Yeah, it'sgetting like that. Let's go downtown.
Your east text elevated, Sharah,and what is up with that van?
And what was left of and itcaught fire? Looks like everybody's okay,
but you're going to need a littlebody work on that southbound east text elevated
at the ballpark and we're pretty smashedup now from equipment. Let's gep over
to forty five instead, now fortyfive north southbound at the Loop. They've

(51:59):
cleared that accident. I've got reportsof something at the squeeze on the north
loop six' ten. So ifyou're going westbound over from the East tex
that way and then over our shoulder, it's a forty five southbound between Parker
and two, about a two orthree minute back quarter slope downtown. We
had the street closures due to thestorm. We're starting to open stuff up
now Louisiana. Milam Street's totally open. Smith I still have closures from Clay

(52:22):
to Peas and also Travis from Franklinto Commerce. And later in the morning
we're gonna hear from west side.Mary. She's my eyes downtown for those
street closures. Oh, I havea declaration here, Terry. What is
this you science? People keep talkingabout the solstice? What is exactly does
that solstice mean? The solstice meansthat's when the Sun's rays are hitting the

(52:43):
northern hemisphere directly. They're blinding mewith science there. What date is the
solstice? The twentieth, the twentyOkay, I'm sorry, but you know
what. It's eyeball melting hot.We're wearing shorts, there's mosquitos, astros,
plus we're eating hot dogs. Thisis Sheriff Fryar. She had executive
power to just declare it summer.So you know what, well, I
mean, don't you feels like itfeels like, don't do that? All

(53:07):
right? Right? Declare summer.Sorry, he's officially done that and officially
thrown to you, Terry about Well, we're facing as we go into our
weekend, and it's Father's Day weekend. I haven't even had a tip of
the hat yet to the fathers ofour country. But what are they looking
at for their backyard barbecue? Well, backyard barbecues are fine today and tomorrow,

(53:30):
as long as you don't mind theheat. We're kind of used to
that around here. By the way, for meteorologists, summer begins June first.
It's a whole lot easier to trackhurricane season. Yes, exactly.
So it does feel like summer.Temperatures are in the nineties. We're gonna
see some upper nineties today tomorrow aswell, and then they'll cool off a

(53:52):
little bit because we're getting clouds andrain. There's a forty percent chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon on Sunday,Temperatures low to mid nineties. More rain,
widespread rain Monday, Tuesday, perhapsWednesday and Thursday as well. This
is tropical moisture that's making its wayinto southeast Texas starting Sunday. It's going
to be a prolonged period of rain, heavy rains of possibility, and with

(54:13):
the clouds in the rain, it'snot going to be quite as hot.
That's I guess the upside to allthis wet weather. All right, Terry,
we'll check back with you in aboutthirty minutes here on News radio seven
forty krh's eighty one degrees. Usetraffic and weather. You're starting your day
right with Houston's Morning News, broughtto you Biden New South Windows Solutions.

(54:36):
It's now six nineteen here on Houston'sMorning News. Jimmy Barrett is off today.
He's going to be celebrating Fathersday overthe weekend. I'm sherruff Ryer filling
in for him, not very ably, but I enjoy getting a chance to
do it. We're talking a lotabout the vote. Of course, it's
all that's on anybody's mind. ButI wonder this. Donald Trump on Capitol

(54:58):
Hill yesterday basically said, look,all the problems with this country are fixable.
We're gonna bring back our jobs,We're going to bring back common sense
to government. We're gonna have strongborders, and we're gonna have people come
into our country, but they're goingto come in legally. They're not going
to pour in from prisons all overSouth America and all over the world.

(55:19):
And it's not just South America,by the way, it's all over the
world. And we're not going tohave them pour in from mental institutions,
which is where they're coming from.Large numbers, and large numbers are terrorists
and we're not going to have thiscommon sense. That's what Donald Trump says
he's offering to the voters. Let'sfind out what kind of common sense sky
Mike's able to find out for usout there on the freeways this morning.

(55:40):
Can you I believe so? Andyou're doing a bang up job. I
think I'm not. I'm telling you, I just stumble around out here.
I'm miss having Jimmy to talk to. Well, you know, you need
to sound a little bit more likeTony the Tiger. If you listen to
Jimmy, he literally sounds like Tonythe Tiger. Right, I'm going to
let's go. Let's take you downtown, all right, scher, I'm
proving people are listening to us.We have that East tex accident. Clear

(56:04):
it minute made, but we werererouting people over forty five and they're listening.
I got people now smashed up southboundat the Dallas Street squeeze from I
ten from the President's heads, you'relosing about two or three minutes on the
southbound. It's kind of six toone half dozen of the other. Now,
if you're going downtown, if you'rehazardous, remember to take the Loop
six' ten north. I've gota reported wreck right there in the squeeze.
Whatever that was. I think thetoe trix ninjaed that already, and

(56:28):
the toll bridge suckage has begun.Twelve extra minutes on the southbound. Let's
move over to six' ten Skymikeon the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.
I guess I'm supposed to give youwhat the weather forecast is is going
to be pretty much a repeat ofwhat today yesterday was. We're going to
have a high of ninety five.Currently is eighty one here at Houston's official

(56:51):
severe weather station, News Radio sevenforty k TRH. And let's take a
look at our top headlines of thismorning. Here's Cliff Saunders. Hey,
I was waiting for that. Skymcomplimented me and it went all in my
head. Here you go. DonaldTrump throws his support behind a never Trump.
We're in a big Senate Race andjudge in Houston decides today on the

(57:12):
liquidation of Alex Jones's assets after hewas ordered to pay a billion five to
the families of the Sandy Hook victims, and a Galveson oyster company says it's
lost thirteen million oysters in storms thisspring. That's what they said at the
Latest News anytime at KTRH dot com. Don't look at me like dad shower.
Our next update is at six pointthirty for once on are under construction

(57:36):
to eighty eight six y ten accidents. Send alternate next on the ten line
seven forty KTRH. We're being joinednow by Jeffrey Wright. He's a writer
for The American Thinker who did apiece. Jeffrey, it was very curious
to me saying that it's the peoplewho are the passionate Trump supporters who now
have a duty to at least recognizethe reluctant try concerns the voters who have

(58:01):
concerns about Donald Trump. And Ithought it was really amazing when you said
they don't like his narcissism. Andmy first response to that is, I
don't know how anybody can run forthe presidency without being a narcissist. Well,
that's fair, Shara, good morning. That's fair. I think that

(58:22):
back in the twenty fifteen twenty sixteencampaign, there was a lot unknown about
Donald Trump, but he had somepersonal quirks. He had a you know,
kind of a questionable personal life.He was brusque and and you know,
prone to insults and hyperbole and thatsort of thing, and that personality

(58:46):
did turn off some people. Itjust as a fact. Now we know
that he was president for four yearsand we can judge his presidency and overlook
some of those personal foible. Yes, But the point of the article that
I wrote earlier in the week wasthat it's legitimate for people to have some

(59:07):
reluctance about Trump. And part ofit was personality, but also part of
it was was he conservative enough.I know people myself included, who thought
that he wasn't quite conservative enough,that he didn't use his power where he
could in terms of quelling riots,in terms of reigning in you know,

(59:28):
the military, and Mark Milly andhis back channel backstabbing comments that there were
several things that you know, heygot rolled by Anthony Fauci. I mean,
there were things that he was notas effective or as conservative enough.
And then the final point is thatis he the right guy to go to
battle with when you've got forty toforty five percent of the country that won't

(59:51):
vote for him under any circumstances thatmaybe irrationally, maybe Trump derangement syndrome,
but we have to win the election, and so it was legitimate to question
if Trump was the right guy togo to battle this season. Now that
he's the nominee, he's the guywe're going with, and there's a duty
to support him if you care aboutthe country and you are worried about what

(01:00:15):
leftism is doing to the country.So that was kind of the point of
the article. It's legitimate. I'vewritten articles for American Thinker where I questioned
Donald Trump, and I'll call themfanboys, the absolute always Trumpers are pretty
nasty about people who had legitimate concerns, and so that's why I wrote this

(01:00:35):
latest article. And I know peoplewho are guilty of it, maybe even
sometimes I have been as well.We've got Pelosi calling the GOP a cult
now right insecure voters, But isn'tit more about not so much yes,
what Trump did in the past,because we know how we lived under Donald
Trump. All the things that theysaid that were so horrible about him,

(01:00:58):
Well, you know, he's aguy who gave us a great economy,
and he ended wars, and hebrought us an awful lot of peace,
and he made America first an energyproduction we can. Why shouldn't we be
talking about that to reluctant voters.Why shouldn't we be talking about voter integrity
and getting these reluctant voters instead ofwasting our time trying to convince them to

(01:01:19):
vote for Trump, getting them togo to the polls and observe and make
sure that we have good votes.A totally legitimate I didn't I wouldn't disagree
with anything you said. I thinkthat's absolutely right. My only point was
that passionate Trumpers, and I've becomethat over time, especially now that now

(01:01:40):
that we don't have a choice,right should respect and not insult reluctant Trumpers.
That that was my point. Weshould we we level headed maybe in
the way we discuss with them andjust wint out facts. Yeah, I
get that received vitriol for you know, some questioning about whether Trump was the

(01:02:07):
right candidate to cycle, And there'sno doubt he is now. I mean,
there's just you know, I wasJeffrey. I thank you, I
thank you. I'm sorry, we'verun out of time. I'm not so
great at managing the clock, butI appreciate you coming on and pointing it
out for all of us. Nowit's time to turn to Courtney Donahoe.
I'm sorry, Courtney, I eightunto your time. No worries. Well,

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it's looking like a tough day onWall Street. Nobody really wants to
see that. Stocks are headed fora lower open down. Future's down two
hundred and eighty points. The Sepfive hundred looks set in the open lower
after hitting record highs every day thisweek. Courtney's on a Hope Bloomberg Business
on News radio seven forty ktr hYou are own Houston's News. Why there

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were traffic plus Breaking News twenty fourto seven. This is US Radio seven
forty kt RH five Everywhere more WhatNow from the John Morris Services Studios.
Good morning everyone, to sell sixthirty on news radio seven forty Ktrrage.
Why is Donald Trump still teasing uswith the VP question? And who is

(01:03:15):
it that he's teasing us with?And backing? Never Trumpers? And a
key a never Trumper and a keySenate race. That's what Donald Trump is
up to these days. We're gonnalearn more about that from Cliff Saunders with
the News in just a few minutes. But first let's check with sky Mike.
We're just not supposed to go souththis morning, Sheriff Fryar, first
to fall. We're never supposed togo sliding. Well, I mean,

(01:03:36):
look at this right here downtown.See that smush up there. It's I
sixty nine. We had that earlierwreck at the ballpark. Now something is
brewing up at the Big George.Give me the six forty break and I'll
see if we've got some extra blocklane at here. It's a little shining
right there. And then a bunchof people skipped over to forty five Piers
celebrated. So your squis step southfor my ten tall bridge south. You
guessed it. Twelve extra minutes thatway, and even six in the west

(01:04:00):
loop we're going down to uptown.That south would waste some breaks, Skymike.
It's your Generator Supercenter, dot ComTraffic Center. It is going to
be another hot one today, alot of sunshine. I'm going to hit
a high about ninety five degrees overnight, getting down into seventy seven. We're
going to learn more about our extendedforecast from Terry Smith with the Weather Channel
in just about ten minutes now.Currently it's eighty one degrees at your official

(01:04:24):
severe weather station, News Radio sevenforty KTRH. And let's turn now to
Cliff Saunders, who's got all thenews of this morning. Thank you,
Chery, Good morning everybody. Comingup on six thirty two, our top
story this hour. We have somereally talented page for life, a pretty
good idea, but I think it'sprobably I'll do it the way it's usually

(01:04:45):
done. You an acident male female? Can you give us a hint?
And he did not give a hint. That was Donald Trump on Fox,
not giving away that choice, butadmitting it could have been one of the
senators he met with on Capitol Hillyesterday. The former president did make an
endorse spent in the big Maryland Senaterace, backing never trump er and former
Governor Larry Hogan. I can justsay, from my standpoint, I'm about

(01:05:09):
the party and I'm about the country, and I would like to see him
win. Now, the last timea Republican won a US Senate seat from
the State of Maryland nineteen eighty four. Elsewherehouse Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan puts
Mainhatt and da Alvin Bragg on blastduring yesterday's weaponization hearing. The left begins
their pressure campaign on mister Bragg,and suddenly the quote zombie case is resurrected,

(01:05:33):
talking about Trump's conviction from last week. Bragg will testify on Capitol Hill
July twelfth. As the election getscloser, people are beginning to wonder if
Trump can win over the moderates whoare still concerned about his personality. I
think he can be his better self, his best self, and avoid self
inflicted wounds. He has some historyof doing that the American thinkers. Jeffrey

(01:05:58):
Wright, who was just on withShaa telling KGRH that regardless of how people
might feel about Trump personally, itis down to either him or four more
years of Joe Biden, speaking ofwhom he's in Italy at the G seven.
He's going to meet with the Popetoday and yesterday he was asked about
the possibility of pardoning his son Hunter, convicted this week on three felony gun

(01:06:20):
charges. I am satisfied that I'mnot going to do anything. I said,
I advi by the jury decision,and I will do that, and
I will not partner. President alsoshook his head no when asked about commuting
Hunter's sentence, which still has yetto be scheduled. Biden also signed a
ten year security agreement with Ukraine,but Republicans are worried that he's telling that

(01:06:43):
country how to fight Russia, justlike he's telling Israel how to fight Hamas.
If you want Ukraine to win,and if you're hopeful of what they're
putting forward right now, this tenyear security partnership, why would you weaken
them by not allowing them to beon the offensive? Florida Congressman Brian mast
It is six thirty four on KTRH. A new DHS report says border patrol

(01:07:05):
is not vetting illegals as thoroughly asthey should be. Texas Senator Ted Cruz
says they're coming here from our topadversaries. We have had Shineese, we've
had Russians. And Republican South CarolinaSenator Lindsey Graham wants the full Senate to
be briefed about the terror threat atthe border after the arrest of eight people
from Tajikistan in the US that areall tied to isis K call it DACA

(01:07:30):
two point zero. Biden will reportedlyannounce next week amnesty and access to green
cards to as many as a millionillegals. The announcement could come at event
marking the twelfth anniversary of DACA,which takes place on Tuesday. Biden's border
order hasn't stopped the flow of illegalaliens. In Louisiana, Governor Jeff Landry

(01:07:50):
could send more of his National Guardtroops to help Texas secure the border.
They've sent three different rotations of fiftyArmy National Guard soldiers to Texas so far,
and the last location is expiring soon. Jessica Vaughn with the Center for
Immigration stead He says the National Guardpresence has been a big helps to US

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in Texas, with most illegals nowhaving to enter the US from California six
thirty five on KTRH. A yearafter denying they were trying to ban gas
stoves, the Biden administration is nowpushing for building electrification that targets all gas
appliances and new buildings. Daniel Turnerwith the group Power the Future told Fox

(01:08:32):
Radical Climate Advisors are behind this.This is pushed by the White House by
Gina McCarthy, who has been onthe record saying we have hundreds of these
regulations coming out for all appliances.No offense to Gena McCarthy, but what
do you know about making a householdappliances nothing, He says. These clean
energy appliances are actually less efficient andwear out faster than the old reliable appliances.

(01:08:55):
Did. Gasoline prices across Houston checkingin this morning at an even three
dollars gallon, with the state averageup to three dollars and two cents and
a warning about your health. Pharmacistsacross the country are dealing with a major
drug shortage. Through the first fewmonths of this year, there were reportedly
three hundred and twenty three active drugshortages, just life saving drugs that doctors

(01:09:17):
have had to find alternatives for whenthese could have been available, but unfortunately,
there's a number of reasons that manyof them are financial in nature,
that have limited these drugs and theiravailability in the hospitals. Healthcare finance specialist
CEO David Blott says there's a financialstruggle at the heart of the shortage.
When you have a shortage, thingsget more expensive, so there are some
people that are profiting from the shortagesthat we're seeing today. Unfortunately, some

(01:09:41):
healthcare professionals say the drug shortage isthe worst in the country since two thousand
and one. Jared Lewis News Radioseven forty KHR eight it's six thirty seven.
Jarrel mentioned this earlier this morning,But today is June fourteenth, Flag
Day, which began in the earlynineteen hundreds. That's when President Woodrow Wilson
issued a nineteen sixteen proclamation declare duringJune fourteenth as Flag Day, and in

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nineteen forty nine, President Harry S. Truman signed the formal observance into law
Whine June fourteenth. It was onthat day in seventeen seventy seven, that
the Continental Congress determined the look ofthe new nation's official banner. Since it's
not a federal holiday, government servicesare still open and mail will still be
delivered. Only Pennsylvania marks it asa state holiday. That's Fox's Tawny j

(01:10:24):
Powers. And finally, the Astrosare back at home tonight at Minute May
Park against the Tigers and former Strosskipper A J. Hinch. Pre game
at six on Sports Talk seven ninetyfirst pitch at seventy ten a game simulcast
on seven ninety and here on KGRHon Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather in
Traffic station KGRH Summer cheers here withextra low prices at Specs cheers to savings

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ninety nine one HD two. It'sUS Radio seven forty KGRH on FM Houston's
News, Weather, Traffic and Talkat ninety nine one HT two. You
know, it's just hard for meto even imagine what would happen if these
climate maniacs, these people advising JoeBiden and what's happening through all of his

(01:11:12):
agencies to take away gas appliances.I think about not just gas stoves.
I think about a gas clothes dryer. I think about gas water heaters.
I think about how expensive it isto purchase electricity and to create the electricity
with the means that we have aswe keep attacking fossil fuels. Living here

(01:11:35):
in the state of Texas, it'svery hard to understand and seeing it coming
at us. Knowing that this waswhat the platform was for Joe Biden when
he ran the first time. Thisis what we knew was going to happen
to us here in the Lone StarState, an attack on the very industry
that not only fuels this state butfuels the world. Nothing is made,

(01:12:00):
nothing is manufactured, no travel isundertaken, no exploration of space or the
seas is done without the energy todo that. And going the very idea
that we're going to get it allfrom wind and solar it just isn't feasible.
It can't be done, and isbeing proven time and time again.
And the fact that we're at thetail end of this tiger, the tail

(01:12:25):
end of the tiger, is waivingthe rest of us all into this oblivion
about how we're going to live ourlives and how we're going to raise our
families. And it is just inconceivableto me that there's even any debate,
and yet debate there is. AndI guess that's just the nature of the
beast in this year twenty twenty four, and it is just wrapping up.

(01:12:47):
It's going to be a wild rideon this tiger, or whipped around by
its tail. As we get evercloser to election day, ever closer to
getting the weekend, are people headingout of town or people just trying to
get to work early so they canget the hell out of Dodge. That's

(01:13:08):
going to be your guys, that'sthe stuff. Can I say that word?
Yes, I can get the hellout of Dodge some of the stuff.
Jimmy says, just like, ofcourse I want to say it,
but I don't want to get introuble here. Let's go which way are
we going? Downtown? We hadthat East Tech smash and it's had been
there for a while. They clearedeverything up, still got a lot of
breaks around quipment. I can't understandwhy it's skipping up around the Big George.

(01:13:30):
They might have thrown down some emergencypavement repair that I don't know about,
and we'll keep an eye on thatthroughout the morning. Six fifty,
we'll know for sure. Down onthe toll bridge, if you're trying to
head to two twenty five, yougot about a sixteen minute squish from the
north Shore side to the Deer Parkside. Maybe you just want to move
to Deer Park west Loop. It'sa pretty place west Loop northbound Postoke.

(01:13:50):
There's a wreck going to get somelane at here one two White Lanes,
and that's going to be a fullemergency, full emergency response. So if
you're going up to uptown, makesa lot of sense you're going to get
some backups. Right now. AfterWest Park, let's go to Roger from
Magnolia on the North Freeway. GoodMorning's gott Mike at inbound on the HOV
Lane just north of West Road.There's some emergency repaired to the divider causing

(01:14:14):
a little bit of a backup.You still get by, but you have
to slow down to about five milesan hour. I think somebody ran into
it yesterday during Katie London shift andtwo forty nine. Let's do Lance from
Magnolia. Dudels from Magnolia. Iknows Department of Public Safety is handing out
driving awards, so I've forgotten freeway. I'd like to thank all the little
people. They're not lock Consona willsir actually turning on the red lights.

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Super Driving Driving Awards, the Wart, the Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic
Center see of their lens. Andwe got Terry Smith standing by with the
Weather Channel to give us a biggeroutlook, a bigger picture of what we've
got going forward this weekend. Butalso we want to talk about tropical things.

(01:15:01):
Things are happening it's not a tropicalsystem yet, but we do have
a lot of weather patterns out therein the Gulf, and I guess maybe
Yucatan you were saying earlier. Yeah, So there's two areas the National Hurricane
Center is watching. One is alongthe east coast of Florida. It's part
of that system that's been generating theheavy, massive flooding in South Florida.

(01:15:23):
But what is of more concern tous and more interest to us, is
what may develop in the southwestern Gulfof Mexico, down in the Bay of
Campaigncha. It doesn't exist right now, but the Hurricane Center is seeing it
some indications there could be some developmenthere by the end of the weekend early
next week, it may become atropical depression. But regardless of what it

(01:15:45):
becomes, it's impacts for us aregoing to be pretty much the same.
An increase in the onshore winds,so some high tides, rough seas,
and a lot of rain starting Sundaythrough Thursday. Because it does doesn't exist
just yet, it's really hard topinpoint specifically what it's going to do.
So I just want us to allpay attention through the weekend and keep an

(01:16:06):
eye on what's happening there, niceand quiet, and lot's the heat.
No big surprise there today and tomorrowanywhere in the load to upper nineties,
forty percent chants of thunderstorms Sunday,eighty percent chance of showers and storms Monday,
and a sixty percent chance of warrain right now for Tuesday. All
right, well, you're keeping uscheerful anyway, Thanks a lot Terry.

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Able to check back in with youin about thirty minutes. Currently it is
eighty one degrees feels like eighty sixthough at your officials of your weather station,
news radio seven forty KTR rate youare commute, you are forecast your
news. It's Houston's morning News broughtto you, buying you southway to those
solutions. Thank good morning again.Everyone is now six point fifty on news

(01:16:53):
radio seven forty KTR. Agent istimed at check what our roads are doing.
And here is our sky Mike,who's the commander in charge of such
things. That's a lot of authority. But we're looking at your west loop
here Shara northbound at Post Oke andthis is a bad spot for wreck and
two right lanes. I've got allkinds of flashing lights. And if we're
going up from uptown or up touptown, looking at an extra three or

(01:17:15):
four minutes. Now, if thisweren't a Friday, this would be a
lot worse. Let's do some WestSam northbound at Westby, right in front
of Walmart. Got a truck that'sstalled there. No, he's in a
wreck there. One two right lanesblocked here and here comes some more people.
I think they're going to take athird lane before long. Chris from
Hockley, Dude, dude, preflowing traffic, pre flowing traffic inbound nine

(01:17:39):
nine all the way down there.All right, if you had a grand
march at your wedding, stress freeon two ninety Skymichael the Generator Supercenter dot
com Traffic Center. And you're lookingat high today of ninety four degrees,
lots of sunshine. Currently it iseighty one At your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven KRH. We'll geta fuller forecast from Terry Smith in

(01:18:02):
just about thirty minutes. But let'snow go to our top headlines of the
day, and here's Cliff Saunders andshar We are sponsored by Moral Mechanical.
The FBI is being asked to explainhow eight illegals from Tajikstan with ISIS k
ties wound up in New York,Los Angeles and Philadelphia before they got arrested.
Because of low demand, General Motorsis cutting electric vehicle output, and

(01:18:26):
the site formerly known as Twitter isnow hiding likes not your likes, but
you can't see who else is likinganybody else's posts. It's a move geared
at quoch protecting privacy. At thelatest news anytime at KTRH dot com,
our next updates at seven PC.I live in clear Lake, Humble,
reliable KTRH traffic and weather next onthe ten. On this flag Day,

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and as we face a Father's Dayweekend, I think it's maybe appropriate to
bring out as many upstanding fathers malefigures. Sorry, folks, whatever your
gender affiliation is. I have atendency to like the types of people who

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seem to be leaders. And there'sa lot there's a guy who's got a
lot to say about that, andit's not normal. I don't normally talk
about sports because I'm not very goodat it. But Tom Brady, I
have to admit. Tom Brady,when he made his Hall of Fame acceptance
speech, the things that he hadto say, are they resonate. They

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really do, and they should resonateall across age groups and gender groups,
because it's all about life, it'sabout reality. And I don't normally expect
to get a whole lot of greatphilosophy out of foot ball hero But on
the other hand, you can getan awful lot of common sense, and
that seems to be what this countryis in great need of right now.

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So just listen to this from TomBrady. I would encourage everyone to play
football for the simple reason that itis hard. It's hard when you're young
to wake up in the offseason atsix am to go train and work out,
knowing that all your friends are sleepingin and eating pancakes. It's hard

(01:20:30):
when you're on your way to practiceway down with all your gear and it's
ninety degrees out and all the otherkids are at the pool or at the
beach and your body is already completelyexhausted from workouts in two a days.
It's hard to throw, catch,block, and tackle and hit kids when
they're way bigger and way more developedthan you, only to go home that

(01:20:51):
night bruised and battered and strained.But know one, you have to show
up again the next day for thejust the chance to try again. But
understand this, life is hard.No matter who you are. There are

(01:21:13):
bumps and hits and bruises along theway. And my advice is to prepare
yourself because football lessons teach us thatsuccess and achievement come from overcoming adversity,
and that team accomplishment far exceeds anyone'sindividual goals to be successful at anything.

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The truth is you don't have tobe special. You just have to be
what most people aren't, consistent,determine, and willing to work for it,
no shortcuts. If you look atall my teammates here tonight, it
would be impossible to find better examplesof men who embody that work, ethic,

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integrity, purpose, determination and disciplinethat it takes to be a champion
in life. Boy, add theapplause of that a champion in life.
Well, it's time now to doour timeline. Get ready. The number
digital call is seven one three twoone two five eight seventy four and the

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prize you will get if you cananswer correctly is a pair of tickets to
see Tucker Carlson Live September eighteenth,Fort Bend Epicenter. Those tickets go on
sale today ten am at Tuckercarlson dotcom. Here you go, lots of
luck. More than one hundred peoplewere reported dead in a plane crash near
New York Kennedy Airports this afternoon.It was June plane was an Eastern Airline

(01:22:49):
seven twenty seven. Eastern Airline Flightsixty six crashes on landing at JFK,
killing one hundred and thirteen. Mywitnesses here said they saw the plane come
in. I'm very low on TV. Hi, I'm Alan Ludman. These
are the contestants. It's the finalepisode of the game show Password on ABC
and the name of the game isPassword in theaters. Is not Accident?

(01:23:13):
Steven Spielberg's blockbuster Jaws makes its debut. Any Shark Expert in the World.
Let's have you to kill it?The mediator and number one on the radio,
keep us together. The Captain andSanil Love will keep us together.
What year was it again? Ifyou know the correct answer called seven one
three two one two five eight sevenfour, Good luck. This is used

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Radio seven forty kt RH Houston LiveEverywhere with the exclusive audio home of NBC's
coverage of the twenty twenty four ParisOlympics. Now the latest news, weather
and traffic. It's more of whatmatters to you. From the John Our
Services Studios. The border's a mess. Congress wants the FBI now to explain.

(01:24:04):
Meantime, Biden's order is accomplishing absolutelynothing about obtaining border security. We'll
be talking about that is now sevenoh one on news radio seven forty k
t r H. Jimmy Barrett's offtoday. I'm Sheriff Ryer. Cliff Saunders
will have all the news in justa few minutes. But let's first turn
too, SKYMIKEE one year. You'reoff a year again again, Sam from

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Cold Spring Trojans. Yeah, weplayed Joe. Sam. I know he's
well. I sat on the benchfor them. Sam. We're looking at
your west Loop northbound post. Ok, that's two right lanes erect and west
Sam. Here's Nick from Cyprus.Sky Mike. On the northbound side,
there is going to be a completefreeway closure. There is a truck and
a small half done truck with atrader faking the wrong way and a car

(01:24:54):
on the opposite side faking the wrongway. It's gonna be a fish metal
well said, that's northbound at Westviewin front of Walmart. I'm in the
Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Centerfrom Terry Smith and the weather center.
Mostly high today, mostly Sunday todaywith a high eight. Now they're saying
ninety six clear skies overnight and alow of seventy six and again tomorrow,

(01:25:15):
a little bit of a precipitation creepingin about eleven percent chance and it's going
to be human all through this weekend. Currently it is eighty one degrees at
your official severe weather station, NewsRadio seven forty k tr AH, and
here is Cliff Saunders with all thetop stories of the day. Thank you,
sher seven oh two sponsored by AlliedSiding into Windows our top story this

(01:25:38):
hour. They've invited all these dangerouspeople into our country, and they've they've
taken up the invitation and come here. It's a serious situation. I'll speaker
Mike Johnson talking to KTRH his ownSean Hannity as Kansas Senator Jerry Moran fires
off a letter to the FBI DirectorChristopher Ray. He once answers how did
eight illegals with ties to isis Kget into this country? Illegally, only

(01:26:00):
to be arrested in New York,Los Angeles in Philadelphia. President Joe Biden's
executive Border Order has been in placefor over a week now, but not
much has changed. Biden was praisedby liberals for his action, yet the
damn remains broken. If you cancapint at twenty five hundred, you capet
a five hundred. Twenty five hundredper day is one point two million per

(01:26:20):
year. Right Bart's Bob Price says, four years ago we were under two
thousand crossings a month. And it'snot like Biden hasn't had lessons on the
issue. Jay Johnson said that onethousand per day overwhelmed the border patrol and
was a crisis. Biden thinks twoand a half times that amount now is
okay. He says, Mexico's newpresident will only exacerbate the problem. Andre

(01:26:44):
Perard News Radio seven forty KTRH Andamong the many things fueling the disaster are
the handouts being given to these illegalsby this administration. The federal government takes
your taxpayer dollars and gives them toa nonprofit who then gives them to ellegal
aliens. Amund Blair with the TexasPublic Policy Foundation says that as long as
we keep incentivizing this illegal migration,we will never be able to secure the

(01:27:09):
border seven thirty three seven three.Rather, the manhunt is over after an
inmate at the Harris County jail escapedcustody yesterday. Nigel Sanders allegedly carjacked a
woman with a knife, jumped intoBuffalo Bayo, and somehow made it all
the way to East Harris County beforehe was arrested at a relative's house.
We do believe that that is arelative. Again, our search efforts consisted

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of multiple addresses being dechecked. Deputiesare still trying to put this one together.
A Harris County Precinct five constable chiefwas not hit, but he was
fired at by a pair of menyesterday who are still on the run.
Another person was arrested seven oh fouron KTRH. What's happening to our country
is of great concern to the groupof people standing alongside of me, Donald

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Trump, meaning with Congressional Republicans onCamp Capitol Hill yesterday dropping more hints about
a potential running mate. We'll havemore on that at seven point thirty.
The former president is making more thanjust inroads with young voters. He's making
gains. Quinnipiac's latest polling has himleading Joe Biden with registered voters between eighteen
and thirty four years old, whilethe New York Times and Siana College poll

(01:28:19):
has him trailing Biden by only twopoints. The US Supreme Court has yet
to rule on Trump's claim of presidentialimmunity, but did uphold full access to
the abortion pill yesterday. The rulinghas almost no impact in Texas. Legally
doesn't change anything, but it doeschange things for the illegal trafficking of abortion

(01:28:41):
pills. Doctor Joe Poyman with theTexas Alliance for Life. The ruling again
unanimous, nine nothing, seven ohfive. Looking at Your Money, the
White House continues to blame Donald Trumpfor their failing economy. The drug cuts
in Tax Act provisions of which we'llexpire at the end of next year,
really resulted in the substantial loss inrevenue, So Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told

(01:29:05):
CNBC they need to tax the richand big corporations, who then would just
pass those extra costs right onto you. First time. Joba's claims are at
a ten month high, rising bythirteen thousand last week to two hundred and
forty two thousand. Economists had expectedthat number to be about two hundred and
twenty five thousand. The biggest jumpcame from the state of California. Despite

(01:29:30):
that, certain industries are desperate formore skilled workers. One study says annual
hiring and trades will be twenty timesmore than the projected increase in net new
jobs. Wherever it is plumbing orsurveying, or electrical or computer assisting or
architect assisting, there are apprenticeships ifyou are patient. Martynimco, career counselor

(01:29:50):
and author of Careers for Dummies,says more college aged people are side eyeing
the trades somehow. If you're workingwith your hands, you're a second class
citizen. There's no prestige, andthat's foolish. Prestige is a foolman's fool
woman's game. And with that,the shortage of skilled trade workers is hurting
some industries in the US. JaredLewis News Radio seven forty khrh Biden Economy

(01:30:14):
putting a financial vice script on therestaurant industry, both here in Houston and
nationwide, forcing many that were strugglingto simply close down two primary drivers.
Food inflation, which is skyrocketed sincethe pandemic. You know, the cost
of proteins has gone up drastically,and labor is gone up as well.

(01:30:38):
Franchise consultant Nick Neo nachus. Arecent poll showed that nearly eighty percent of
Americans now view fast food as aluxury item. Seven oh seven. New
research finds more Republicans listen to AMFM radio and more Democrats are listening to
podcasts. I think first and foremost, This survey says that audio still matters.

(01:31:00):
The people on cable TV news getreally upset that the American people,
especially the conservative half, don't acceptthem as legitimate people to listen to Tim
Graham with NewsBusters. Either way,the study shows that audio reaches eighty four
percent of the voting gage by publicevery single day. And the astros are
back at home to take on theTigers tonight pregame at six on Sports Talk

(01:31:21):
seven ninety. First pitch at seventen. I'm seven ninety and KTRH.
I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's newsweather andtraffic station News Radio seven forty KTRH.
What happened? Why it happened.Jimmy Barrett and Sheriff Fryar explain it.
Now back to Houston's Morning News.What is this the timing? As we

(01:31:45):
narrowed down the amount of time untilthe election, the boy Jim Jordan was
on fire pointing out, yes,the discrepancies and how this country is injustice
in this country. Take a listen. On page one of his report,
Special Counsel her said, President Bidenquote willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after

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his vice presidency when he was aprivate citizen. Joe Biden not only kept
information he wasn't allowed to keep,he shared it with people who weren't allowed
to get it. And on pagetwo thirty one, the Special Council told
us why President Biden did this.He said, quote President Biden had strong
motivations to ignore proper procedures for safeguardingthe classified and information in his notebooks.

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He had decided months before leaving officeto write a book, a book for
which he got paid eight million dollars. So we have motive, an eight
million dollar motive. We have theelements of the crime knowingly keeping classified information,
knowingly disclosing classified information. But despiteall this, Special Counsel her decline

(01:32:56):
to prosecute recommend prosecution for President Bidenbecause Joe Biden is quote a sympathetic,
well meaning elderly man with a poormemory. On page two hundred and seven
of his report, Special Council Herstsaid mister Biden's memory also appeared to have
significant limitations, both at the timehe spoke to the ghost ghostwriter misrs Wantinson
in twenty seventeen, as evidenced bytheir recorded conversations, and today as evidenced

(01:33:20):
by his recorded interview with our office. The committees need the audio recordings to
determine whether the Justice Department appropriately carriedout justice by not prosecuting the president,
because remember what they told us.Justice Department said, we're going to operate
independent of the White House. Theysaid, we'll be impartial, independent arbiters

(01:33:41):
of the facts. Okay, maybeso. But what we do know is
this one former presidence being charged,Joe Biden's not being We think we're entitled,
Actually we know we're entitled to allthe evidence and the best evidence,
and the transcripts alone are not sufficientevidence of the state of the President's memory,
especially since the Executive Branch has ahistory of changing transcripts. We saw

(01:34:04):
this in late April. The transcriptthe White House put out didn't match the
video and audio recording of President Biden'sspeech, and only after the White House
was caught did they change the transcript. And in that case and in this
case, the audio recording is thebest evidence of the words that President Biden

(01:34:24):
actually spoke. And that's why theAttorney General has been found in contempt of
Congress because he will not produce theaudio that proves it. Is now seven
to eleven. Time for us andreally get it. I'm late, I'm
sorry, st I got all caughtup. Now I'm just going to talk
really fast, and I'm kidding Wes, Sam and Hammerley. I'm looking from

(01:34:44):
this spot here. This is awreck northbound at Westview. Nick from Cyprus
with the banana sticker this morning onhis briefcase, and even though it's all
lanes blocked, I'm just looking atthe way they're lined up here. I
think everybody might be okay, I'mfeeling I'm not freaking out about this.
We're backed up now from Buffalo byyou northbound, so let's take a different
route. It's bad enough that Iwould take Highway six or Grand Parkway downtown.

(01:35:06):
What's that? Guy? Mike isdone from Conroe. Just join you
and me. And the Post Easttext Freeway southbound at IDN and GRB is
shired up pretty nice, all right, I won't tell anybody. And yeah,
it looks like that wreck at theEast Texas minute mate gone. And
we're kind of thick down around thebig George H. North free Way,

(01:35:26):
little heavy around the Shepherd Curve.We haven't had our accident there. Camille
from Springs, enjoying our drive.Michael, Michael, Michael, what do
you know about the seventies? Youweren't supposed to catch up? I thank
god shrif didn't tollbridge fourteen extra minutesouthbound. I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot
Com traffic Center. What it's sadto say. I know a lot about
the seventies. Terry Smith standing byto tell us, Gee, it's what

(01:35:50):
it'll get down to maybe in theseventies overnight. But it's going to be
hot today. Oh yeah, yeah, the morning hours the temperatures are little
little bit more comfortable than the afternoon. But keyword there, a little bit
or key phrase. So sunshine,no rain today and tomorrow and temperatures in
the nineties, and that means someupper nineties in spots. So if you

(01:36:12):
have afternoon plans today and tomorrow,make sure you're staying cool as best as
you can. Here comes to therain, clouds and rain starting Sunday and
Monday and Tuesday. Forty percent chantsof thundershowers on Fathersday, eighty percent chants
of the rain Monday, sixty percentchants on Tuesday. This is tropical moisture

(01:36:32):
from the Gulf of Mexico that's headingour weight. So I expect we're going
to be getting heavy rain in spotsand several days of heavy rain. So
we're going to keep you posted ifanything does spin up in the southwestern Gulf.
All right, Terry, thank youto check back within you. Check
back with you again in about halfan hour. Currently it is eighty one

(01:36:53):
degrees that your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTR. It's
use in morning news brought to youbyden New South Windows Solutions. Now back
to Jimmy and Sharah with the infoyou need to take on the day.
Morning again. Everyone is now seventwenty here on Houston's morning News. Jimmy
Barrett is off today we're going tobe talking to an expert on what is

(01:37:17):
really happening at our border and thewar that's going on within our competing administrations
about all of this. But firstit's time to check our traffic again.
Here is sky Mikeel standing by sunsup. What do the freeways look like?
Well, they look kind of roughon the southwest side. I see
we have a guest, so I'mgoing to go fast for you here Sherah.
But West Sam, I don't likethe way this wreck looks now northbound

(01:37:40):
west View in front of Walmart.There's a big treck involved multiple vehicles that's
messing up your West Sam. Thirtyminute drag northbound, don't do it.
Also Katie Freeway because of this offthe ramp. We're packed up from Eldridge
Parkway and a lot of you reroutein the southwest that's getting ugly from Hillcroft.
We'll check your south side at theseven thirty break in the Generator Supercenter
dot Com Traffic Center. Well,it is looking like it's going to be

(01:38:04):
mostly sunny today with a high ofninety six and clear skies Tonight as well,
with a high about seventy six.Is going to creep up a little
bit of humidity. Eleven percent chanceof reign tomorrow, but it'd be very
humid and hot. Once again.We'll get more from Terry Smith of the
Weather Channel in about ten minutes.But let's go now to our top stories

(01:38:26):
of the day, and here isclyss Saunders. Thank you. We are
sponsored by Amorrow Mechanical. Donald Trumpendorses one of his biggest critics in a
key Senate race. The head FDFAAadmits that the agency's overset of Boeing was
quote two hands off and the Eagles, although are they really the Eagles without
Glenn Fry announce a Las Vegas residencyfrom September twenty ninth October nineteenth at the

(01:38:49):
sphere. Get the latest news anytimeat KTRH dot com. Our next update
is coming up at seven thirty.I live it, Katie Your best Way
around Houston next on the ten line, seven KTRH down Mexican. Oh,

(01:39:13):
it used to be so prosaic,didn't it. We've got Bob Price of
Breitbart Texas joining us right now.Bob, you know, we're just trying
to keep up with it all becauseit's coming from every direction. Now we've
got the FBI being questioned finally byCongress about how did this happen? How
do we have isis terrorists allowed inthis country, even being vetted and allowed

(01:39:36):
in. We seem to be havinghundreds of illegal aliens coming from Turkey,
China, Egypt, just in oneday coming into California. The mass release
policy is still continuing, even asBiden touts that no, no, I
have a border policy. Now,we can't let all these people in.

(01:39:56):
And now we're hearing that he's goingto offer pre protections for undocumented immigrants,
as he calls them, and benefits. What is going on at the border
chaos, Sarah. This is justpure, unadulterated chaos put in place intentionally
by President Joe Biden and his leftleaning, progressive liberal whatever you want to

(01:40:20):
call them, socialist administrative staff.They have absolutely no respect for the rule
of law in this country. Thisclaim that somehow they vetted these eight Tajikistan
Muslim migrants who illegally entered the UnitedStates is just a bold face lie.
When Vice President Joe Biden was inoffice under the Obama administration, their national

(01:40:45):
security advisors testified before Congress that theycould not vet migrants from these countries because
there's no records to check with.You can't call Tajikistan's Department of Public Safety
and say, can you give usthe criminal back on these guys. Those
records don't exist and we don't havetheir relations to do those kind of investigations.

(01:41:05):
So these people show up at ourborder. We've been reporting on this
for years. These people crossing theborder from countries that are connected to terrorist
activities are showing up at the border. They're turned over to the FBI,
and then they are simply released intothe United States. So we seem to

(01:41:27):
be having it, you know,the FBI not doing the job that they're
supposed to be doing while what underdirection. And then we've got border patrol
agents who have to disguise their identitiesto say, look, we would like
to vet these people, but Icould lose my job if I try to
do that job. That's been comingout in recent days this is almost like

(01:41:49):
a battle for our country, andthe enemy seems to be coming from the
administration. Well, sure, there'sbeen a real change in transparent andcy under
the Biden administration. From the Trumpadministration, the contrast is like night and
day under the Trump administration, borderpatrol officials were allowed and encouraged down to

(01:42:12):
the lowest level possible to communicate withthe media and let them know what was
going on along the border. Assoon as Biden took over, all of
that was taken back, and nowborder patrol officials have to go to cabinet
level of approval for almost any statementthat are made to the media. So
you have these brave border patrol agentsand members of the Border Patrol Union who

(01:42:35):
will come to journalists like breitbartt likeFox News, like Newsmax and provide some
additional information that the public is notgetting through official channels. It's very accurate
information. The Biden administration's latest announcementof this so called immigration border security policy

(01:42:56):
was just a headfake to take theattention of the national mainstream media and get
them to think, oh, JoeBiden is now doing something. Well,
first off, it's too little,too late, But second of all,
he's not doing anything. And soa leaked border patrol memo that came out
this week shows that the Biden administrationdirected border patrol agents not to remove migrants

(01:43:18):
except from those who come from Mexico, the Northern Triangle countries, and just
a small handful of other places.These migrants that are showing up from Venezuela,
from other South American countries, fromEastern Europe, from countries with ties
to terrorism, to Chinese nationals,those are all just being released. And

(01:43:39):
this doesn't count the thousands who comein every month from Biden's illegal CPP one
application that was never funded by CALS. We'll fly you right on in.
Yeah, I get that, allright, Bob. I don't envy you
the job, but I thank youfor keeping your eye on things for us.
Thanks once again for joining us hereon Houston's Morning News. Let's go

(01:44:02):
to Courtney Donahoe and find out whatyour money is doing for you today.
Courtney, welcome, Look, goodmorning, share. It's looking like a
tough day ahead for traders. Dalefeatures are down two hundred and fifty points.
Stocks are coming off a supercharge runwhich sent the S and P five
hundred to another record yesterday. Technologyshares have been the main driver for the
markets. Apple has overtaken Microsoft toregain its title as the world's most valuable

(01:44:26):
company. The catalyst has been Apple'sartificial intelligence focused presentation at its Worldwide Developers
Conference This week, and it's feelinghopes that customers will pay up for the
next generation of iPhones. Aramco hasagreed to buy liquefied natural gas from next
decades planned project in Texas. Thisis a first US purchase steel for the
Saudi energy giant, and shares ofTesla jumped. Yesterday, shareholders voted to

(01:44:49):
approve Elon Musk's fifty six billion dollarpay package. Some investors were worried that
Musk would leave the company if thepay award wasn't approved. I'm Courtney Donahoe
Bloomberg. Busy this on News Radioseven forty k t H. You are
Houston's News. Why there are trafficplus breaking news twenty four to seventh.

(01:45:10):
This is News Radio seven forty KTRH. Child Everywhere with the IR app.
More of what's happening now from theJohn Morris Services Studios. Donald Trump teasing
once more who will be his VPchoice. And there's a movement to unify
this country by actually backing a neverTrumper in a key Senate race. That's

(01:45:35):
what Trump is up to. We'llhear more about that from Cliff Saunders in
just a few minutes. In thenews Right now, it's seven thirty one
on news radio seven forty k tRH. I'm Sheriff Fryar and we are
going to sky Mike. You cantell he's ready. Guy and Sam,
let's do this and share. Ithink everybody's okay on this wreck. Here
Nick from Cyprus with the banana sticker. Here Wes Sam northbound at Westview right

(01:45:59):
past ten and to wreck. Here. They were knocked out two right lines.
We've knocked a left lane out.We're bowling a split going down the
middle. They're letting you through andthat's a really really good sign. Look
at that trailer turned around backwards.All right. We're backed up all the
way from West Park northbound southbound Suckondstarts from Tanner. This is messing up
to Katie Freeway because the backups areconnected like a nebone to Highway six.
So twenty four extra minutes this way. Jump on the West Park or two

(01:46:23):
ninety if you can. I'm inthe Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic center from
Terry Smith of the weather Channel ismostly high, mostly Sunday today with a
high of sevent ninety six, lowover night seventy six, and currently it
is eighty one. Feels like eightysix at your severe weather station, news
radio seven forty KTRH. Let's goto Cliff Saunders, who's got all the

(01:46:46):
top news of the day. Thankyou sharing seven thirty two on KTRH.
You know who your VP is becauseyou told us at a town hall you
already knew. Back into Iowa Caucasus, I have showed up a pretty good
idea. Look, we have somereally talented papers. Donald Trump talking to
Fox's Aisha Hansei yesterday, the formerpresident on Capitol Hill making an endorsement in
a key Senate race, going allin on a Trump critic, the former

(01:47:11):
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan. Well,nobody's asked me that, but essentially I
would be endorsing him. Yeah,that race could determine control of the Senate.
House. Republicans on the Judiciary Committeecall out Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg
during a hearing yesterday. Alvin Bragg'sprosecution of President Trump was personal, it
was based on politics, and itwas wrong. Committee Chairman Jim Jordan accused

(01:47:31):
Brag of prosecuting Trump simply to appeasehis base. Brag wasn't there yesterday,
will be though. On July twelfth. With the election in November projected to
be close, Trump needs quote reluctantTrumpers to come to his side. There
are still a few reasons people mightbe holding out on voting for Trump.
Personal quirks and foibles, his brusqueness, his insults, his personal failings,

(01:47:59):
and his marriage is his ways ofdoing business. Jeffrey Wright with The American
Thinker told ktr H. Trump canstill win those voters over, though,
look at the bigger picture, avoidsome of the petty personal stuff, and
focus on the larger cause, whichis taking back the country from the left.
Right says, whether you love himor not, it's between Trump or
four more years of Biden. EthanBuchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH, speaking

(01:48:24):
of which he's in Italy for theG seven. He'll meet the Pope today
and he made it official yesterday.You won't pardon Hunter after his conviction on
felony gun charges. I'm extremely proudof my son Hunter. He is overcome
an addiction. He's one of thegreatest, most decent men I know.
The President also shook his head nowhen he was asked about commuting hunter sentence.

(01:48:45):
The President did sign a ten yearsecurity agreement with Ukraine yesterday, but
his performance on the global stage onceagain as Republicans sounding alarm bells. When
world leaders see a president who isinfirm and weak, shuffling around the stage,
not knowing where he's supposed to go, they know that they can take
advantage of America. And that's notjust our adversaries, our allies as well.

(01:49:08):
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, it's sevenpoint thirty four. A new report
by the DHS says that border patrolhas not yet vetted illegals as thoroughly as
they should be. Texas Senator TedCruz is worried about the consequences. The
border patrol right now is under explicitdirections to be on the guard for Hamas
terrorists. Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsaygrahaming Time wants the full Senate to be

(01:49:30):
briefed about the terror threat at thesouthern border. The Biden administration is now
protecting more than eight hundred and sixtythousand foreign nationals from deportation thanks to his
expansion of the Temporary Protected status.That data coming from the Congressional Research Service,
and with the border crisis getting worse, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry is considering

(01:49:53):
sending more National Guard troops here toTexas. Jessica Vaughan with the Center for
Immigration Studies notes the Louisiana deployment isset to expire at the end of the
month. He has been in discussionswith Governor Abbott about extending that commitment of
troops to help Texas with Operation LoanStar. And as for what they do

(01:50:15):
to help, what they do onthis mission is helping the Texas authorities patrol
the border, which is the mosteffective way outside of actual barriers. Right
now, there's about five thousand TexasNational Guard troops at the border. Jeff
Biggs News Radio seven forty Ktier eight. It's seven thirty six. It's not

(01:50:39):
just stoves anymore. The Biden administrationwants to go after all of your gas
appliances. The Energy Department is nowpushing for zero emissions buildings, which include
only items powered by clean energy,part of what the Biden administration calls it's
Building Electrification Agenda. Power the FutureExecutive Director Daniel Turner tells Fox this will
only lead to less efficiency. Whydid your grandmother's al alliance has last for

(01:51:00):
thirty forty fifty years. The reasonwhy is because they were quality made,
they were made in America, andthey didn't have all these government mandates.
And we've developed this habit in Americafat we buy two thousand dollars appliance as
they break and they're disposable. Theadministration has issued regulations targeting furnaces, water
heaters, dishwashers, and gas powergenerators. Coreyolson, who's radio seven forty

(01:51:20):
KTRH, Thank you Corey. Meantime, gasoline prices continue ticking up across Texas
now at three h two gallon thismorning. And from your financial health to
your physical wellbeing. Pharmacists are experiencingthe worst drug shortage in over two decades.
CEO of Healthcare Finance specialist David Ballotsays there are a few reasons for

(01:51:41):
it are patent issues with the FDAand the manufacturers, and then also the
supply chain in the middle, thegroup purchasing organizations and the pharmacy events managers
that create a kind of choke pointin the supply chain. There are over
three hundred and twenty active drug shortagesright now. The ASTROS host a Tiger
Tonight pregame at six on Sports Talkseven ninety. First pitch sevent to ten.

(01:52:02):
The game simulcast on both Sports Talkseven ninety and KTRH. I'm Cliff
Saunders on Houston's news weather in trafficstation News Radio seven forty KTRH. Beat
the heat this summer at the chilliestplace in town, specs. The fun
starts here. It is the birthdayof the US Army and is also the

(01:52:23):
birthday of now seventy eight year oldDonald J. Trump. So happy birthday,
mister President, to you on thatDonald Trump is he returned to the
Capitol yesterday. They sang a surpriseHappy Birthday to him at a rally in
Las Vegas. Took him totally bysurprise. Returned to the Capitol yesterday and

(01:52:45):
had a meeting almost like a rallywith the House of Representatives, certainly there
in Congress, because that is Republicanled over at the Senate, where you've
had a little bit of opposition evenamong Republicans from the Rhinos in the Senate,
and that Donald Trump stood there withthem, met with them and had
this to say, So, what'shappening to our country is of great concern

(01:53:11):
to the group of people standing alongsideof me, and I just wanted to
say that we have great unity,we have great common sense, a lot
of very smart people in this room, and a lot of people that love
our country. They love our countrybeyond just about all else, and the
only thing that maybe supersedes it istheir family and maybe their faith in certain

(01:53:31):
instances, and that's very nice.But they want this country to be great
again, and we're going to makeit great again. And so I just
want to thank the Republican Senate,and I want to thank also the House.
We met, as you know,with the full house Republican House today
and we had a tremendous meeting withthem also, and there's great unity.

(01:53:54):
Very similar different topics actually, butnot that different. And there's one thing
in common. We want to makeAmerica great again. We want to make
our country great. We want tomake our country great again. So happy
birthday, Donald Trump, Happy birthdayUS Army, and fly your flags today.

(01:54:15):
It is officially flag day. Ourflag adopted in seventeen seventy seven,
yeah, before we were actually arepublic. Time now to go to our
I don't know if you're waving flags, but I know that they're waving flags.
To flag you down on the freewaysyourself. So what's it looking like

(01:54:35):
for all of our other feet.It's looking like a pretty it's looked like
trouble in the Energy Corridor, whichdoesn't have that same ring as trouble in
the Canyon Shah. But this isa West SAM northbound. I think everybody's
okay, but look at that trailerturned around backwards, all these people in
all directions. It's West SAM northbounderec at Westview and it's going on an
hour or so. This is abig backup on the West Sam all the

(01:54:58):
way from that roadwork at Bison,and you're losing about thirty nine minutes on
the northbound southbound. It's all crammedup from Tanner Road and it's making the
ramp look bad off the Katie Freeway, which is also at affecting the Katie
Freeway itself, So that's backups froma highway six. So this is like
a fourheaded monster here, and alot of people apparently listening to us this
morning, they're rerouting to the SouthwestFreeway. So you've got backups from fonder

(01:55:23):
and my secret hacks this morning wouldbe West Park Tollway. If two nineties
an option for you do that hadan earlier problem. James from rose Hill
gave me an eighteen wheelers stalled ongrab Parkway. You big shots around,
Muski. That's out of the way. It looks like we're back to full
speed ahead six ten norths getting loppywestbound at the squeeze at forty five toll
bridge, suckage about twelve extra minutessouthbound, and you've got southloop six ten.

(01:55:45):
The roadwork at Cullen is getting roughthis morning. We've got banana stickers.
Wyatt Porter, Mike Magnolia, Nickfrom Cyprus, Camille from Spring,
Michael Michael mikets On, Oh,I'm in trouble, and Doug from Conrod.
Terry Smith has never had a tickether life share did you know that?
Yeah, she's veryou. I'm goingto she said in the front in
school. I'm in the Generator Supercenterdot Com traffic Center. Well, how

(01:56:09):
did you get a better introduction thanthat? Terry? It's very kind,
and I haven't had a speeding ticket. I've had some other tickets, but
a speeding parking No. Okay,we'll talk, We'll talk offline, all
right, Let's talk about sunshine andheat, folks, because that's how we're
starting off the weekend. No raintoday or tomorrow, and with fewer clouds,

(01:56:31):
We've got more temperatures in the uppereighties, I should say upper nineties
in some spots, so it isgoing to be a hot weekend. The
rain starts to make its way intosoutheast Texas Sunday and will last several days.
This is due to a expected areaof low pressure to develop down the
Golf of Mexico could become tropical rightnow. Anticipated to have a bigger impact

(01:56:55):
around Mexico next week, but enoughmoisture in our part of the day that
we may have some very heavy rainover that stretch of time. Forty percent
chance of afternoon thunderstorms on Fathersday,eighty percent chance you'll get wet Monday,
and a sixty percent chance of showersand storms Tuesday. All right, Terry,

(01:57:15):
thanks hope, you have a greatweekend. Currently it is eighty six
here at Houston Severe Weather Station,News Radio seven forty KTRH seven point fifty
here now on Houston's morning News,Let's go straight away to Skylight. He's
monitoring the skyways and the I likeit when you do the canyon, So

(01:57:36):
you know what, we'll do somecanyon at the eight o'clock news speed with
you. We've got this big hobnobbery on the West SAM northbound. Everybody's
okay, but I got this trailerand bob pickup trucks and all this business.
We're bawling the split. They're justletting you down the middle of this
wreck on the West SAM northbound.I'm looking from Hammerlink. We're crammed up
all the way from west Park northboundsouthbound from Tanner. Now you've got it

(01:57:58):
getting in the act with a starHighway six. That backup's marker Cyprus.
It's ugly on the west side SouthwestFreeway. That's going to be a backup
from he'llcroft reeltor ads on it ineast. Good morning, got I west
found at exit eight oh six halfno exit so Wallaceville exit okay, act
the a ton of red and bluelight plasting the right lane, got a

(01:58:24):
mudhed in it. Oh good verbageextra points there in a bananas ticker for
ed. It's the Generator Supercenter dotCom traffic center. And your weather outlook
today sunny to partly cloudy. We'regonna have a high near ninety five overnight
low about seventy seven, and thenagain more of the same with a little
bit of more moisture creeping in.About an eleven percent chance of rain tomorrow,

(01:58:46):
not that much to speak of.Currently, it is eighty six at
your severe weather station, News Radioseven forty k TRAH. And we're turning
to the top headlines of the day. And Cliff Saunders, thank you sharing
our sponsor by DNA, I'm autoleasing. President Biden meets the Pope at
the G seven today. A disturbancein the southern Gulf of Mexico now has
a fifty percent chance of development overthe next week. And NASA cause a

(01:59:11):
little bit of a scare accidentally airinga medical emergency drill on its live stream
yesterday, called that an oops.At the latest news anytime at KTRH dot
com. Our next update is ateight o'clock. I live in Katie,
I live in Ito. Your reliableforecast next on the ten on seven forty
KTRH. We're back now here onHouston's Morning News at seven point fifty two.

(01:59:36):
Jimmy is off. He's off celebratingFather's Day up in Michigan, where
the temperature is very very temperate andbeautiful. Hope he's having a great day.
Normally, when Jimmy's here, Iknow he likes to end with something
funny as we go off into aweekend. But I'm just not that funny
a person. I'm looking more forinspiration because I'm still resonating think off of

(02:00:01):
Memorial Day, I'm resonating off ofD Day and this observance of that,
I'm thinking about Father's Day. Myfather has long passed, but my father
was a veteran of the Normandy invasion, and so this is He's very much
on my mind during this period oftime. So I think what I've been
trying to look for is things thatinspire me. I don't have a father

(02:00:24):
that I can honor, but Ican in my memory. And I like
to look around me and find thefathers that are currently here on this planet
and the ones who inspire. Andone of them that I found inspiring me
is Micro. You know, Idon't really listen to him that often.
I don't see him that often,but he has made a movie and it's

(02:00:46):
called Something to Stand For and it'sall about patriotism. The reason why on
this Flag Day I chose to highlightthis. The movie's going to be released
on June twenty seventh, in advanceof the fourth of July. But it's
about our country and how we shouldfeel. And I just really love the
way that Mike ro is standing upand presenting it and giving all of us

(02:01:11):
an option. So I'm going toplay that for you now, a little
bit of what he has to saywhen he was on with Tucker Carlson.
I hope that the movie will makeit easier for people to feel grateful about
the miracle they've been given. Youknow, we're alive, we walk the
earth, we've hit the greatest lotteryof all time. We live in a

(02:01:34):
pretty wonderful place. So above allfeeling grateful about that. You know,
it's not just a thing that Ithink we owe our forefathers. It's a
thing that we should selfishly latch ontoright now, because study show if you

(02:01:59):
feel grateful on a basic, fundamentallevel, you're going to be a terrible
victim. You know, you're goingto have a very hard time feeling sorry
for yourself and feeling bitter about anynumber of things. I just thought that
that was wise advice, whether it'sfrom a father or whether it's just from

(02:02:19):
a good neighbor or someone that youadmire, Listen. I'm grateful to all
of you for bearing with me whileI fill in. Jimmy won't be back
till Tuesday, so if you'll joinus again on Monday, I'll be here
for sure. I want to wishall of you a really happy Father's Day
and wave your flags. Be proudof who we are. Have a good

(02:02:42):
weekend everyone,