Ken Paxton Wil Try To Primary Sen. John Cornyn

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 04/09/25.

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Good morning, five am. As we get started here this
morning on our Wednesday edition of Houston's Morning News, I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour, Ken
Paxton will try to primary Senator John Cornyon. The trade
bar with China is ramping up and coming up at
five to eight. I'll think how hard I should say.
Do you think it'll be to one seat? John Cornyan
details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,

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Here's Cliffsonders, Good morning Jimmy, and good morning everyone. It's
five oh one on KTRH. Our tough story.

Speaker 7 (01:28):
That's hard to think of the things that he's done
good for Texas or for the country.

Speaker 6 (01:32):
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton officially announcing a run for
Senate on Fox, challenging John Cornyan, who's seeking a fifth term.

Speaker 7 (01:41):
That can certainly point to many things like his gun restrictions,
his lack of wanting to fund a border wall, and
disagreeing with President Trump on that and even opposing President
Trump's election in twenty sixteen.

Speaker 6 (01:52):
Paxton saying it's quote time for a change now. Senator
Cornyn's campaign reacted with a statement he called Paxton a
quote fraud, adding that quote he talks tough on crime
and then let's crooked progressive Lena Hidalgo off the hook,
also topping the news this morning.

Speaker 8 (02:11):
I'm glad to be the president for the workers, not
the outsources. The president just stands up from Main Street,
not Wall Street.

Speaker 6 (02:19):
President Trump last night doubling down on tariffs. As of
this morning, a new one hundred four percent tariff is
imposed on the Chinese, that is after China refused to
lift retaliatory tariffs on US. Trump believes the Chinese wheel
eventually come to the table.

Speaker 5 (02:36):
But not every Republican is on board. Including a surprise.

Speaker 9 (02:41):
If a year from now, our trading partners of all
jacked up tariffs on America and we have high tariffs
on everyone, I think that'll hurt this country.

Speaker 6 (02:50):
That was Texas Senator Ted Cruz with ktrh's Sean Hannity
last night. Markets are all over the place. In overnight trading,
we've seen wild swings. Dow futures currently down by two
hundred and thirty three points, oil trading at fifty seven
dollars and seventeen cents a barrel this morning, five ht
three on KTRHD. Trump derangement syndrome is strong in those

(03:15):
that identify as leftists. Fifty five percent say killing Trump
would be justified.

Speaker 10 (03:24):
This could be a sign that after twenty twenty four,
the radical left is finally starting to crack.

Speaker 11 (03:28):
We've been politically divided for a long time, but to
Trump two point zero has sent the unhinged left over
the violent edge.

Speaker 10 (03:37):
Matt Kittle with the Federalist says this is also the
predictable result of the left spending years normalizing violence.

Speaker 11 (03:43):
We're seeing this in real time with the hatred for
allan mosque overheated rhetoric turning into violent action.

Speaker 10 (03:51):
He went on to warn that if this trend continues,
we could be headed down a dangerous path. Eaton Buchanan
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
Thank you, Ethan.

Speaker 6 (04:01):
No vote yet from the House on a bill to
reign in activist judges and their rulings against the Trump agenda.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
Plenty of debate, though, a.

Speaker 12 (04:08):
Bold and necessary step to reign in activist judges who
have made it their sole mission to obstruct the agenda
of President Donald J.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
Trump.

Speaker 6 (04:19):
Colorado Republican Lauren Bulbert also in the House a Doze
Committee field hearing with eye popping revelations the.

Speaker 13 (04:26):
Federal government owns a massive, real estate portfolio of more
than a quarter million buildings. No one knows how much
of this real estate is actually being put to use.

Speaker 6 (04:37):
Share Person Marjorie Taylor Green and in the Senate, Republicans
led by John Thune continue to work on a budget bill.

Speaker 14 (04:44):
Stand the Trump tax cuts, obviously to rebuild a military,
restore American energy dominance, and secure our southern border.

Speaker 6 (04:52):
Thoon wants to get this done before the tax cuts.
The Trump tax cuts of twenty seventeen expire. It's now
five oh five, four years of Joe Biden's foreign policy
fails have consequences today the subject of a House subcommittee
hearing yesterday.

Speaker 15 (05:07):
Russia invaded Ukraine. North Korea ramped up its military provocations.
Iran advanced its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, empowering
its proxies to now cause chaos throughout the entire region.

Speaker 6 (05:20):
Florida Republican Corey bills Talks between the US and Iran
about their nuclear aspirations take place Saturday. South Carolina Senator
Lindsay Graham says the stakes could not be higher.

Speaker 16 (05:31):
They have to believe he will take down their refineries.
They have to believe that he will blow them off
the face of the planet out those are they going
to get a bomb.

Speaker 6 (05:39):
Adding that the only thing standing between Iran and having
a nuclear weapon is quote Trump five h six. Now,
another warning from urkat The Texas electric grid needs more power.

Speaker 17 (05:51):
URKUT says its latest estimates are that in just five
years the state is going to need forty percent more
electricity than we have today. But in natural gas there's
a backlog. For turbines and nuclear energy costs remain high,
and for solar and wind it's cough up the cash
or not in my backyard.

Speaker 18 (06:08):
Even those developers are running into challenges because the landowners
are requiring more in the surface rent they much.

Speaker 17 (06:15):
University of Houston energy fellow at Hers says, we've got challenges.
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Thank you, Michael.

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You have less than a week to go to get
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are lots of scams out there right now. One example,
if you get a text or email allegedly from the IRS,
but you haven't gotten a stale mail letter about it, first,
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The only time you're going to get an email is
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given permission to the IRS to contact you.

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That's the IRS's Craig Childs. Five oh seven. The Astros
beat the Mariners two to one. They'll wrap up the
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News gathered, reports, aired and reactions roll in.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
People were gonna lose their freaking mind.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
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Speaker 4 (07:18):
Bie, oh wait is our time here on Houston's Morning News.
All right? Politicians? Politicians, Yeah, politicians not a not a
big trust factor with me and politicians, you know, regardless
of party affiliation. Although I'm gonna cut you a whole
lot more slack if you're got an R next to
your name versus a D next to your name. I
don't trust a whole lot of people with the D

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next to their name. Matter of fact, I'm trying to
think anybody. Nope, not right now, anyway, I can't think
of a soul. It's interesting to me. It didn't take
long after coming to Texas that I figured out, you know,
the difference between Ted Cruz and John Cornyn. And I'll

(08:01):
never forget the last election that John Cornyn ran in.
And I'm looking at his campaign ads and I'm going, huh,
that's interesting. Nowhere in these ads does he identify himself
as a Republican. Now, maybe that's what he thinks he
needs to do to win. But then I started thinking
about a little bit more, and I think it's deeper
than just not identifying yourself as a Republican because you're

(08:24):
concerned about because you're up in a Dallas Plano area
and you're concerned that there's a lot of Democrats up
there that might not vote for you if they really
took the time to think about the fact that you
suppose they're not a Democrat. But then I really started
to think, well, maybe that's not it. Maybe maybe it's
got more to do with his mindset. Maybe he doesn't
think of himself as a Republican. Maybe he thinks of

(08:44):
I don't think he thinks of himself as a Democrat,
but I don't think he necessarily thinks of himself as
a Republican. He certainly doesn't think of himself as a
Trump Republican. John Cornin is by no means conservative. He's
more conservative than a Democrat, but he is not a
concer servative Republican, and I think that's why Ken Paxton
has made the decision that he's going to go after him. Now,

(09:06):
I will say this, Ken Paxton has made a few
head scratching decisions during his tenure as attorney general. Is
he the perfect candidate, No, he probably isn't. But the
fact that we've got people who are willing to step
up an attempt a primary John Cornet, I think is
First of all, I think it's a good thing because
I think the Republicans really need to have a Texas
Republicans really need to have a talk with themselves about

(09:28):
what they expect from the party.

Speaker 20 (09:30):
Here.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
We are supposedly this big conservative state, and we have
a lot of Bush era Republicans who are serving not
just at you know, the national level, but are also
serving at the state level. I mean, look what's going
on with the Texas House and their inability to act
on conservative measures. So we've got a little mirror, you know,

(09:52):
looking in the mirror segment. We need to go through
here and decide what, you know, who we want to
represent the state of the United States Senate next time around?
You would you prefer to have a John Cornyon or
would you prefer to have a Ken Paxton? And given
a choice between the two, I would definitely be leaning
towards Ken Paxton and not John Cornyon. Five to ten.
Time for traffic and weather together.

Speaker 5 (10:13):
No, this is going to be another perfect day today
with Terry standing by. I'm just one. You know, it's
days like this that I missed my old ghetto house.
I'll tell you why. Shortly, let's go to Let's go
to the west side here, advisors, check you out it
San Katie Freeway coming in from Cinco Ranch. We look nice.
Twenty six minutes into the President's head so far two
ninety How you doing out that way? Cyprus, Nada. You've

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got Rose Hill, Graham Parkway to the West Loop and
if you're wedding head of Grand March, you're having an
easy ride in so far West Park to Allway, whew
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Southwest Freeway outbound. We've got that lane shift up at
the Brazis River. That's a long term project. For now.
They've done a really nice job of cordinging off and

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you can even kind of see what's going on. So
it's no problem there on the outland. And it's an
outbound too, not inbound inbound from Sugarland twenty minutes here. See,
my old ghetto house, Terry was right on Buffalo Bayou
of the ship channel, and we had a poop We
had a poop plant across the bayou from my old house.
So whenever the wind came out of the north, you know,
it would smell. So if it smelled like poop, it

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was going to be a beautiful day at the old
ghetto house. And that's the story. I'm skywike on the
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I don't smell anything up from our from our GTRH
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is here.

Speaker 21 (11:32):
I'm just scratching my head.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
I no, no, it's just random thoughts. I'm gonna I'm
gonna chalk it up. He's not a week nd. I'm
gonna chalk it up to that. He gets just sleep talking.
He's sleep talking. He gets about twenty minutes before or
some caffeine kicks in or something.

Speaker 21 (11:46):
Yeah, Okay, Well, fortunately the winds are not blowing out
of the south, so I guess hopefully it's a better
day by the old ghetto house. Hey, here's the thing, sunshine,
no rain through Sunday. I'm gonna go look for what
our next chance of rain is. Because this is getting
a little redundant. I know we'll make the best out

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of it.

Speaker 22 (12:08):
What.

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We don't want to be stuck in a prolonged dry spell.
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Upper seventies to low eighties this afternoon. Tomorrow, temperatures will
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Then the wind shift.

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They'll be slightly northerly Friday, so the temperatures slightly cooler,
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Well said, excellent verbage. Let's go to the north side.
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Speaker 5 (14:41):
Thank you Jimmy.

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The extreme left is backing a Texas team accused of
killing another Texas team instead of backing the victim up
to a million illegals who use Biden's CBP one app
to come here. I've been ordered to leave immediately. And
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Speaker 5 (15:15):
Four more years?

Speaker 8 (15:16):
Uh got old John Trump?

Speaker 5 (15:18):
What happens next? Who knows what happens?

Speaker 3 (15:20):
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Speaker 4 (15:26):
Why we have ourselves well trade war going on, and
I to be honest, I don't know who's gonna blink first.
I don't know if anybody's gonna blink. You know, both
sides just are you know, ratcheting up the tariffs and uh,
how this is all gonna end, especially with China, remains
to be seen. Hopefully how it all ends is that
we basically decouple, which we need to do from China

(15:49):
and we the things that we rely on China for
we should not be relying with an enemy.

Speaker 18 (15:54):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (15:54):
For for anything, and we're gonna have to find a
different source for this stuff. China's board terriffs after Trump
added terrfs, back and forth, they go, we'll see what
today brings. But here's the Heritage Foundation. Steve Yates on
China's tariff retaliation and what to do about it. Oh, Maria, this.

Speaker 23 (16:11):
Is a nice healthy dose of Chinese projection.

Speaker 5 (16:15):
It's kind of astonishing in.

Speaker 23 (16:16):
Some ways that this challenge snuck up on them somehow,
even though I think pretty much telegraphed from Trump's first
term there was going to be a desire to engage
in renegotiation immediately on all the terms of trade. But
China's reaction, I think hopefully is a lesson to the
wider world. They want to hit us on soybeans and

(16:37):
things like that. It's basically a message to farmers then
a time of crisis, China expects you to side with China,
not America's economy. I doubt that's where farmers want to be.
On fentanyl, they're pledging to pull back on cooperation, so
they're saying they'd like to continue to poison Americans. Not
exactly a great negotiating strategy. And they say they're going

(16:57):
to pull back on Hollywood films. Who knows, maybe maybe
that would finally free up Hollywood to do something pro
American and maybe tell the truth about China crushing Hong
Kong and Tanon men and all the goodness that they've missed.
They've been a long term truth that America has always
had much greater leverage and never seem to find a

(17:17):
way to use it. In an odd way, our large,
large consumer market is quite powerful and China doesn't have
a lot of alternatives, and matter what they want to
block by way of American sales going into China, that
will hit a few large companies perhaps, but the broader
state of play is that China has a much smaller
and weaker hand and they are at risk at home,

(17:40):
whether it's demographic population change, but definitely financial institutions and
their dependence on this export model is profound.

Speaker 5 (17:49):
So yes, we finally found leverage, but we have to
see whether it'll be used.

Speaker 23 (17:53):
So far, She's leadership has been willing to pick fights
rather than negotiate and stand down.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
Yeah, I think we'll get an idea of how this
is likely to go, depending upon how long it takes
for Trump in President's need to get together, you know,
some sort of face to face meaning if that doesn't
happen anytime soon, then this is probably going to be
going on for a while. Five twenty six is our time.
Time to take a look at your money. Here's Jeff
Bellinger and Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (18:19):
Good morning.

Speaker 24 (18:20):
Is you just reported all of President Trump's tariffs have
gone into effect?

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Now?

Speaker 24 (18:24):
Stock market futures are pointing lower at the moment. Our
futures down four hundred and six points now. The Tuesday
session on Wall Street started out with a good deal
of promise. The S and P five hundred had an
intra day gain of more than four percent, but the
bottom fell out before the session ended. The major averages
had losses ranging from eight ten percent to more than

(18:45):
two percent. Apple shares have taken a huge hit since
the President announced his tariff plan a week ago. After
another five percent drop in its stock price yesterday, Apple
is no longer the company with the world's highest market
value for now. That distinction goes to Microsoft. In White
House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says the President believes Apple

(19:07):
can build its iPhones here in the US. From the
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It is five thirty. You're on Houston's Bonning News. I'm
Jimmy Bairtt. Among our top stories this f are the
Left raising money for a killer, are tariffs a threat
to the green energy agenda? And speaking of green energy?
Coming up at five thirty eight, Trump's executive order to
increase the production of coal. Details and the minutes ahead
on Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking out the drive

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Speaker 20 (20:53):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (20:53):
Jimmy coming up on five point thirty two on KTRHR
top story. The left supporting the criminal and not the
victim once again. This latest case involves a Texas team
charged with murdering another team over.

Speaker 5 (21:07):
A seat at a track meet.

Speaker 26 (21:09):
An online fundraisers gathered one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
for the suspect, who claim self defense.

Speaker 22 (21:15):
I just don't see how self defense would actually stick
in a court of law with reasonable and sensitive people
that clearly understand that if his fight does not have
to result.

Speaker 19 (21:25):
In a stabbing.

Speaker 26 (21:26):
Criminology Professor Alex Dale Carmon says this wave of raising
money to defend a suspect as concerning and it shows
the rule of law has eroded.

Speaker 22 (21:33):
People are actually looking at these people and talking about
what heroes they are. Twenty five, they've committed horrible crimes.

Speaker 26 (21:40):
The teen's currently jailed on a one million dollar bond.
Andrey Perard News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (21:46):
Here at home.

Speaker 6 (21:46):
Another violent night across Ariri. We had a deadly stabbing
on the north side. Two men were shot in an
altercation that also involved a bow and arrow on the
west side, and we had a woman that was shot
by a strayed just sitting on her couch in her
West Houston home. Elsewhere, Fort Ben County Judge K. P.
George won't leave office despite facing money laundering charges.

Speaker 5 (22:10):
He's now represented.

Speaker 6 (22:12):
By Attorney Jared Woodville of the Conservative Republicans of Texas.

Speaker 27 (22:17):
This isn't about the truth, this isn't about justice. This
is about weaponizing the district attorney's office. In an effort
to take out a political opponent.

Speaker 5 (22:26):
That was Woodville.

Speaker 6 (22:27):
At a press conference yesterday, George was there as well
and did not utter a single word. Statewide, Texas Attorney
General Ken Paxton officially announced the challenge to Senator John
Cornyn in next year's primary. GOP strategist Met Mkoveac told
the Dallas television station, this race will be heated.

Speaker 28 (22:46):
I expect this to be the most expensive statewide Republican
primary race in Texas history. I expect this to be
one of the nastiest races in Texas political history, perhaps
the nastist in several decades.

Speaker 6 (22:57):
More on Paxton's challenge of cornin at six o'clock. It's
now five point thirty four. As of this morning, higher
tariffs are in place on the Chinese thanks to President Trump.

Speaker 29 (23:09):
President Donald Trump's global tariffs now include one hundred and
four percent duties on goods from China, but the world's
biggest exporter says it won't sit idly by. In a
paper published this morning, it vows countermeasures, saying China's right
to develop cannot be deprived. The government in Beijing believes
it can write out the economic storm. That's because exports

(23:31):
to the United States only account for two percent of
China's GDP, that is.

Speaker 6 (23:36):
Fox's Jonathan Savage Wall Street. Well, we'll look at the
markets right now. Wild slides overnight in both directions up
and down.

Speaker 8 (23:44):
Down.

Speaker 6 (23:44):
Futures right now are down four hundred and twenty three points.

Speaker 5 (23:48):
Now.

Speaker 6 (23:49):
The left claims that tariffs will lead to higher home
and insurance prices, but a forty one billion dollar lumber
industry could help prevent that from happenings.

Speaker 19 (24:00):
As the building and the construction community is, they're going
to be looking to all different avenues to bring costs down,
and that is sourcing as much as they can from
US producers and providers.

Speaker 6 (24:12):
Leith Dank with Texas Lone Star things that declining mortgage
rates as well as expected text cuts will keep the
cost of new construction from rising to dramatically. So here's
the real reason the left is upset about tariffs. It
could hurt their radical climate change push.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Tariffs are going to come and further expose this whole agenda.
You cut off the money and you start putting tariffs
on the country that have been letting this and you
see this, come do it quick.

Speaker 6 (24:37):
And Mark Murano with the Climate Depot says the left
doesn't want a free market for green energy. And while
we're at it, the Trump administration is also working to
reverse Biden's crazy climate regulations.

Speaker 30 (24:49):
President Trump has directed EPA Administrator Lead Zelden to roll
back Biden era green energy standards on gas stoves, washing machines, dishwashers,
and light bulbs. Zelden tells Fox New they are doing
just that.

Speaker 5 (25:01):
We want to.

Speaker 31 (25:02):
Help President Trump at EPA to accomplish his mission, his
mandate that the American public spoke loud and clear on
last November. These thirty one historic actions that we undertook
is the largest deregulatory announcement ever made in US history.

Speaker 30 (25:16):
Republicans in Congress are also helping passing new resolutions to
end restrictions or bands on coolers, freezers, and water heaters.
Corey Yelson, who's Radio seven forty KTRH.

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Five thirty six.

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New research shows that nearly eighty percent of employees feel.

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Quote disengaged that work.

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That's because they didn't want to come back to the
office from COVID in the first place.

Speaker 32 (25:37):
The only way you can bring all that together is
through a relationship.

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And when you have the basis.

Speaker 32 (25:43):
Of a connected relationship, the business out comes follow.

Speaker 6 (25:47):
Business analyst Dennis Hollins says, the adversarial relationship between workers
and employers got worse since COVID. Don't look now, but
you might be sharing the road with self driving trucks
later this month.

Speaker 33 (26:00):
We weren't worried, we wouldn't be paying attention to the policies,
to the legislation, to the regulations, to the things that
we need to be paying attention to.

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JOHNA.

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Sparza with the Texas Truckers Association says, if the rollout
goes well, more companies could look to ramp up automation
and cut back their workforce. And finally, the Rockets visit
the La Clippers. Tonight coverage starts at eight thirty on
Sports Talk seven ninety. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather,
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I'm not saying it's a glamorous job, but it pays
pretty good, right. I'm pretty sure. There's some folks in
West Virginia that used to do it who would like
a chance to do it again. Coal mining, that is.
But there's been a war on coal, especially with the
last administration. President Trump signed in an executive order. The

(27:03):
idea behind the executive order is to boost coal production
here in the US in part to support AI data centers.
In other words, we need to generate more power in
order to be able to take advantage of cryptocurrency and
artificial intelligence and all these technologies that require quite a
bit of energy in order to be able to do

(27:24):
Trump cut funding for coal minor health and safety protections
were told and shuddered mind safety and health administration offices
around the country. Actually, that's more like Biden. The executive
order seeks to invoke. This is an opinion piece here. Obviously,
Texas has twelve by the way, coal mines O burning
coal mines. That's more than any other state. So we

(27:45):
would be burning maybe the most coal, second most coal
propound in all of the US. Of course, the green
people who wrote this piece that I'm stealing from the
cr club folks and the green people, they're all freaking
out or the idea of burning more coal. There are
very clean ways to burn coal, and I don't think
anybody's suggesting that we're going to make coal fired plants.

(28:08):
We're gonna put a bunch of those into production and
we're gonna start burning, you know, tons of coal. Again,
the fact of the matter is we need more energy
from whatever sources we can get them, and that includes
coal at least to a moderate extent. And the Executive
Order will turn around a policy that's existed for quite
some time. I'm sure he leaves. Eldon at the EPA
talked about it. Clean coal five forty time for traffic

(28:30):
and weather together meet. Yeah, that's right, use guy, Mike,
that's you.

Speaker 5 (28:34):
Let's do some Southwest Freeway. Come up from First Colony Mall.
We look nice so far. We're looking at just twenty
minutes up into down ten piece of cake here West Park, Toby,
your big shot. You got those toll stickers. Let's come
in from West Timor Lakes. I see not a We're
looking good here. Even Highway six isn't that ugly? Some
of the lights up. I don't know if they spin

(28:54):
them up or what. Katie Freeway rocket along Katie Mills
Mall twenty four minutes into the President's had some of
you going above posted speeds. That's dangerous to night. You
had a grand march. You're looking good from your wedding
from Graham Parkway to the west Loop. We are wide
open here. You know this show needs more you and
less me. Seven one three two one two t ips

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tip line.

Speaker 25 (29:16):
Dude, heys gume Mike, Tony from Paul Man?

Speaker 5 (29:19):
Did you ever make a video you regretted? Tony?

Speaker 3 (29:23):
All you widows?

Speaker 5 (29:25):
Terry? Do you speak New York Times?

Speaker 18 (29:27):
Traveling west on I ten?

Speaker 4 (29:29):
Everything?

Speaker 35 (29:29):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (29:30):
Forget a fuck? All right, somebody translate for me. Seven
one three two one two t ips. I'm in the
Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
How you're doing from our ktr H Generator Supercenter twenty
four hour weather Center. We're doing fine, Terry Smith, But
yes we are. It's some point to be nice to
get a rain dropper too. But do you know what,
Let's enjoy this week?

Speaker 36 (29:49):
Right Uh?

Speaker 21 (29:50):
Yes, we're gonna have to enjoy what we have while
we've got it and hope for some rainefalls sometime soon.
But when I was just kind of skimming over the
overall pattern right now, it looks like we are dry
through the middle part of April, so let's hope that
changes at some point. Sky Mike is Tony on the

(30:10):
road earlier this morning, I don't recall.

Speaker 5 (30:12):
I think he is. I think he's up a little early.
He's coming in from the Golden Triangle Boma. We look good.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
I think he's heading west too. This way.

Speaker 5 (30:19):
He's coming here into Houston.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
Good, good, good, Yes, that'd best all right.

Speaker 21 (30:23):
Well, at least he's up before the sun is. The
sun will show up. It's going to be around all
week long. No signs of brain just comfortably warm temperatures
today a little bit warmer than yesterday, upper seventies to
low eighties this afternoon. Tomorrow you're going to feel a
little more heat and humidity, at least briefly high temperatures
tomorrow mid to upper eighties. There's a weak front that'll

(30:46):
swing through tomorrow night and early Friday, so that'll help
drop the temperature just a little bit. Load of mid
eighties Friday and Saturday and Sunday.

Speaker 5 (30:55):
Everybody's in the eighties.

Speaker 21 (30:56):
We'll start to see those upper eighties showing up again by.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
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Speaker 4 (31:14):
So the Trump tariffs, there's all kinds of potential side
effects from that. One of them may be it could
be dealing a blow to the green sector. That might
not be a bad thing. We'll talk to Mark Moreno,
a publisher of the Climate Depot, coming up next first though,
at five fifty, Traffic and weather together as we check
out the drive once again, the sky mine.

Speaker 5 (31:33):
All right, let me be super short here, but let's
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Speaker 22 (31:38):
Dude, Hey, sky Mike, this is Joe Cyprus, coming down
Highway six.

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Right before I can bake Bear Creek area.

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There's a four car pile up.

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From r KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four our weather center.
Sunny a little bit warmer today with the high bound
eighty mainly sunny warm eighty seven tomorrow and then Friday sunny,
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(32:17):
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Speaker 6 (32:21):
Honor releasing Trump isn't backing off higher tariffs on the Chinese.
The federal judge rules against the White House ban on
the associated press from Oval office events, and a petition
to rename the Nashville Airport in honor of Dolly Parton
has gotten fifty thousand signatures. Get the latest news anytime
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Speaker 1 (32:49):
Next on the ten.

Speaker 4 (32:53):
Yeah, something other than green. Five fifty two is our
time here in Houston's boring news. All right, American thinker
has a piece entitled Teriff threatened to put the nail
in the green energy coffin. Not sure how that would work,
but I'm sure Mark Moreno wouldn't mind if that happened.
He's the pulpisher of the climate depot. That might be
a side benefit, I guess, to the terrace. But how

(33:14):
does that impact the green energy business?

Speaker 2 (33:18):
Well, unfortunately, green energy isn't really green to begin with.
It digs the earth. And I'm not talking about a
nineteen seventies Brady bunchway. I'm talking about a rare earth
mining lanthanides and cobalt, nickel and copper way. That China
is now the world leader in this kind of mining.

(33:39):
And so whenever we're talking solar wind EV batteries, your
average Tesla battery, by the way, is a half a
million pounds of materials dug up, and we are relying
on China for that. So tariff particularly on China, are
going to have a massive cost impact on the green
energy can tire green energy menu of whatever you choose.

(34:03):
And of course, fossil fuels, especially with Donald Trump expanding coal,
is going to be cheaper and home grown.

Speaker 4 (34:09):
I was going to ask you about the coal thing.
You like that objective order he signed for coal yesterday?

Speaker 2 (34:15):
Absolutely, I mean coal is the most strategic of all
fossil fuels. No matter what country you are, If you
have coal in your country and you can produce it domestically,
you were not beholden to even your friendly neighbors. For
energy in the United States is the Saudia Arabia of coal.
We have more coal available to us than adest nation

(34:35):
on Earth. And before people start panicking about air pollution,
since the first Earth Day, which were coming up on
Earth Day in nineteen seventy, we've radically improved our air
quality well at the same time increasing our population economic growth.
We've largely solved even the environmentalist conceived the air problem.
Other than a few pockets have been largely solved in
America in terms of air quality and improvement. Even the

(34:59):
new co old plants are now ninety five percent of
some of the most recent stats I've seen in terms
of how much cleaner they are than the ones from
the seventies and eighties. So technology and embracing energy is
our future and not relying on China to the rare
earth mining for energy. Solar and wind combined producing the

(35:19):
less than five percent of our total energy lesson fourteen
percent of our electrical grid, despite massive subsidies, massive mandates.
It's incredible to have Donald Trump doing what he's doing
in the area of energy in climate. This is unprecedented.
It blows away anything he did in his first term.

Speaker 4 (35:37):
Yeah, I think he's also talking about bringing more nuclear
into the picture as well, which would be a game
changer or a potential potential game changer there, But that
he understands the key for economic success is just to
bring down the overall cost of energy, and I think
he's doing whatever you can to try to come up
with ways to do that.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
It's all about supply and demand and the barrel. The
price per barrel is now dropping under sixty dollars a barrel,
so the question is how long will that take to
really show up at the pump? Hard to say. The
tariffs are going to be kind of like in order
to make an omelet, you've got to break a lot
of eggs, So that could have a short term negative
effect on everything, including energy prices inflation. But I think

(36:18):
it's mostly a negotiating tactic and reset of global trade deals.
So you know, it's just regardless of what any of
you and you're listening audience and thinks about these tariffs.
It is amazing to have a president of the United
States in twenty twenty five, based on his personal lifetime
conviction standing up against the world, his own advisors, the establishment,

(36:39):
his own party, and literally pursuing something he's dreamed of
doing for fifty years and in terms of his just
his life, he's always believed this. So we're not going
to see this Togein in our lifetime. Someone this committed
to an agenda that's going to be against the establishment
and against conventional wisdom. Just that alone is amazing to
watch about that.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
Mark Burno, thank you as always appreciated publisher of the
Climate Depot, Mark Morano. It is five p fifty six
now here in Houston's Morning News.

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Speaker 4 (37:25):
Yeah, good morning. It is six am here on Houston's
Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this
fur Ken Paxton's going to try to primary Senator John Cornyn,
the trade war with China wrapping up and coming up
at six o' eight. Did Jasmine Crockett just promote slavery
details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Borning News. First,
we're checking out that morning. Drive again, Skot Mike's here.

Speaker 5 (37:48):
Thanks. Starting to thicken up now in the North Freeway
right around West Mount Houston, you hit some breaks so far,
we're not bumping into each other. Good work. They're sixty
nine east texts. Around the Cemetery Lauder Road, you'll hit
a few breaks, but or not bad. Even the elevated
and they got that scoot southbound in iten but it's
not bad. On the East tex elevated Joe from Cyprus
family erect Highway six just before it in southbound there's

(38:10):
a four car pilot. All right. They got a lot
of ninjas there. And let's see two ninety check your northwest.

Speaker 11 (38:16):
Hey, good morning, sky Mike, two ninety.

Speaker 4 (38:18):
Everything's looking honky dory.

Speaker 5 (38:20):
But does your mama know you're making the pay? I
am so lucky. My family doesn't listen. My family doesn't
even know where I work. I'm Skymike on the Generator
Supercenter dot Com traffic center makes.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
It sound like you did something dirty from our KTRH
top tax Defenders twenty four hour weather centers. Sunny and
a little warmer today with the high temperature right about eighty.
We'll get you the complete forecast when we talk to
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it's fifty one at your official severe weather station, News
Radio seven forty KTRH. It's time now for the news.

(38:52):
Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 6 (38:53):
Thank you, Jimmy. It is six oh two on KTRH.
We are sponsored by All Star Construction. Our top story
until they make a deal.

Speaker 8 (39:00):
With us, that's what it's going to be.

Speaker 5 (39:01):
I think they'll make a deal at some point.

Speaker 6 (39:03):
President Trump last night and as of this morning, new
one hundred and four percent tariffs are on the Chinese
after China refused to lift their tariffs on US.

Speaker 8 (39:12):
Now it sounds ridiculous, but they charged us for many
items one hundred percent, one hundred and twenty five percent.
Many countries have. They've ripped us off left and right.

Speaker 4 (39:21):
But now it's our turn to do the ripping.

Speaker 6 (39:25):
Trump at a Republican dinner in DC, the move on
China is about more than trade. Ag Secretary Brook Rollins
told Fox it's a check on Chinese owned farmland here
in the US.

Speaker 37 (39:36):
When we can't feed our own people, then you see
the great decline of other great civilizations across the world
and across history. So I believe personally that this is
one of the most important challenges that we're going to
be facing.

Speaker 6 (39:49):
Rollin's calling food safety national security or food security national security.
While the left and even some Republicans like Ted Cruz
have criticized tariffs, journalists Lena Zito told KTRH is Clay
Travis and Buck Sexton it's a hit with Middle America.

Speaker 38 (40:05):
They look at it as being patriotic, bringing Backman American manufacturing,
sacrificing in their four oh one k for the betterment
of the country.

Speaker 6 (40:17):
Adding that these are the people that put Donald Trump
back into office. Down Futures are down one hundred and
seventy six points this morning, while oil is now down
to fifty seven dollars and thirty four cents a barrel
six h three on KTRH, a shakeup might be coming.
In twenty twenty six to the Senate, Texas Attorney General
Ken Paxton announced a challenge to John Cornyn.

Speaker 7 (40:39):
We have another great US Senator, Ted Cruz, and it's
time we have another great senator that will actually stand
up and fight for Republican values, fight for the values
of the people of Texas.

Speaker 5 (40:48):
Paxton said.

Speaker 6 (40:49):
Cornyn hasn't done much good for Texans or the country
during his time in Washington. Cornyn has held the seat
since two thousand and two.

Speaker 20 (40:57):
Now.

Speaker 6 (40:58):
Cornyan has reacted in a message to KTRH this morning,
calling Paxton quote a crook. Is campaign added that in
a statement that quote, Ken claims to be a man
of faith but uses fake Uber accounts to meet his
girlfriend and deceive his family. It's now six h four
on KTRH. According to a new study, as many as

(41:19):
fifty five percent of self identified leftists say that assassinating
President Donald Trump would be justified. This could be a
sign of morecoming violence.

Speaker 11 (41:29):
Unfortunately on the left. Because Democrats are not in power,
they seem to want to do anything to get back
into power.

Speaker 6 (41:39):
Matt Kittle with the Federalists says this is unfortunately the
predictable result of leftists and their allies in the media
normalizing violence. For the better part of the last ten years.
Mordaux revelations during a hearing in the House money being
wasted on real estate owned by the federal governments.

Speaker 13 (41:57):
American taxpayers have been drowning debt, all while the federal
government is pouring billions of dollars into wasteful empty office
buildings and luxurious high end furniture which they the American
taxpayers can't even afford.

Speaker 6 (42:13):
Themselves, Chairperson Marjorie Taylor Green. Elsewhere, the battle between Republicans
and Republicans overry potential Trump budget continues.

Speaker 34 (42:23):
The House is supposed to vote on the Senate's budget framework,
but right now Speaker Johnson does not appear to have
the votes to pass this. Several House Republicans, as I mentioned,
these holdouts. They opposed the Senate's proposed four billion dollars
in spending cuts that is way smaller than the one
point five trillion minimum that they agreed to when the

(42:45):
House passed its version.

Speaker 6 (42:46):
Ayisha Hosny, reporting on Capitol Hill six six four years
of failed Joe Biden foreign policy were the subject of
a House subcommittee hearing yesterday.

Speaker 15 (42:56):
While the Biden administration was trying to figure out what
pronouns to use, our adversaries grew stronger and more emboldened.

Speaker 6 (43:03):
Florida Republican Corey Mills and talks between the US and
Iran about their nuclear program are set for Saturday, with
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham telling KTIH is Sean Hennity.

Speaker 5 (43:14):
The stakes couldn't be any higher.

Speaker 16 (43:16):
Donald Trump is the only thing between them and a bomb.

Speaker 5 (43:20):
Is now six h six.

Speaker 6 (43:21):
Urkat says it's going to need forty percent more power
in five years. Reasons include a backlog for natural gas
turbines and slow growth in solar and wind power.

Speaker 18 (43:32):
The terrapour that's underway is going to severely restrict the
growth of solar farms and potentially wind farms as well.

Speaker 5 (43:40):
He wahes at hers.

Speaker 6 (43:41):
By the way, the presidents signed an executive order yesterday
to help the coal industry as the last minute tax.

Speaker 5 (43:47):
Filing season heats up. Beware of scams.

Speaker 6 (43:50):
The IRS's Craig Child says that the agency uses old
fashioned snail mail almost exclusively.

Speaker 19 (43:56):
If you receive an email or text and it's the
first contact allegedly with the IRS, it is fishing. Don't reply,
don't open any attachments because that can infect your system
and steal your information.

Speaker 6 (44:12):
It's now six oh seven. The Astros beat the Mariners
two to one. They also deal relieve a Rafael Montero
to Atlanta for cash and a player to be named later.
Remember he was an All Star just a few years ago.
I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News, Weather and Traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 5 (44:29):
I take the Beltway sometimes and I also take the
West Park Toll Road KTRH, time saving traffic.

Speaker 4 (44:34):
Next on the ten, Well, Jasmine Crockett got all Mississippi
cotton picking Delta Town. In one of her appearances the
other day, she made a comparison. You ready for this?
She made a comparison between illegal immigrants and slavery. Basically, well,

(44:56):
I'm gonna play for you the second what she said.
But she basically said, well, you need these We need
more illegal immigrants to do things like pick cotton. I
don't think she specifically referred to them picking cotton, but
the black people that pick cotton, and we're not going
to pick any god anymore. Therefore, we need we need
more illegal immigrants. How do you like the logic on
that one. Let's take a listen to Representative Jasmine Crockett,

(45:17):
shall we?

Speaker 34 (45:18):
So I have to go around the country and educate
people about what immigrants do for this country, or the
fact that we are a country of immigrants, right right,
The fact.

Speaker 5 (45:28):
That is, ain't none of y'all trying to go a
farm right now?

Speaker 22 (45:34):
All right?

Speaker 4 (45:35):
So I'm lying, raise your hands.

Speaker 22 (45:42):
You not?

Speaker 33 (45:43):
You not?

Speaker 1 (45:45):
We done picking cotton?

Speaker 39 (45:49):
We are you can't pay us enough to find a plantation.
She continues to scrape the moral bottom of the blacket.
But I also say this as somebody who is from
South Dakota. A lot of my neighbors are ranchers and farmers.
They really enjoy doing that work. So I'm not sure
sure she's ever met any of those, but I'm sure
living in Texas, she's had to run into a few.
I'd also say this, it's not just Jasmine Crockett, but

(46:11):
we hear this on repeat from several Democrats, who I
guess are finally being honest, that they view illegal immigrants
as the new form of their.

Speaker 34 (46:18):
Cheap slave labor.

Speaker 5 (46:19):
And it's really discussing that.

Speaker 39 (46:21):
They view human beings that way, especially when they seem
to go out of their way to keep the criminal
ones in our country. But I don't see a human
being as somebody who should just be exploited for cheap labor.
I would hope again that the Democrats would see the
light on this, but I guess we can at least
thank Jasmine Crockett for always being transparent about her true feelings.

Speaker 4 (46:40):
To her own detriment. She certainly is transparent. You, I
guess if you're going to give her credit for anything,
can give her credit for that representative crockets yep. And
people I talk to people around the country, they cannot
believe that she's from Texas. I said, well, even in Texas,
we have a few of those six to ten time
for traffic and weather together. If we check out the

(47:00):
bike's here, good stretch.

Speaker 5 (47:02):
Okay, let's go to your ship Channel bridges. Here, Terry
puts your hard hat on. We're going to check out
your beautiful Fred Hartman Bridge. Now, fortunately this morning, most
of our freeways rocking along. We're getting thick in spots.
I'll get to that. But if you're trying to get
from Baytown Laporte either way. Right now, we're having a
lovely drive. Now it's getting a little heavier, but everybody's
moving fairly well, even other stations. Listeners. Look at camera

(47:25):
one three zero if you're playing one three zero seven,
if you're looking at the home game with me, Bell
Wa eight toll Bridge, so far, no problems. Looks good.
That's a good route for you. Now it tend to
Deer Park and If the Sherman Bridge is your normal thing,
maybe you work at Valero. From the Bud Plant to
the Goodyear Plant. We look good now. It ten two
twenty five rocking along my secret hack to get across

(47:46):
the ship channel. When we have trouble on the bridges.
Don't tell anybody, but it's waysided. It only has one
bad light there at Harrisburg East Text. It's good stuff
downtown now from Iten it's not bad. Maybe an extra
minute if that hidd into the Big George. The North
Freeway also thick from west Mount Houston down to Tidwell.
Maybe an extra minute. They're to eighty eight. Some breaks
at the Beltway, but if you get out of bed

(48:07):
now you'll be in good shape. And let's check your
southwest side at the six twenty break. I'm Skymike Atcher,
Usaarvresorts dot Com Traffic center.

Speaker 4 (48:15):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather
Center Terry Smith is here. Lots of sunshine coming up
today in a little bit of a warming trend here
for the next day or two.

Speaker 21 (48:25):
Yes, today and tomorrow the temperatures get a little bit warmer.
You might notice a little more humidity. Nothing that's out
of control. Maybe it just feels better to the skin.
But there's a week cold front that'll move through tomorrow
night early Friday. No rain, there's not enough moisture in
the atmosphere for any rain, so the temperatures will cool

(48:46):
slightly as we head into the weekend.

Speaker 5 (48:48):
Nice day today.

Speaker 21 (48:49):
Temperature is actually pretty close to what you would expect
here in this part of April. Upper seventies to low eighties. Tomorrow,
though noticeably warmer of us will be in the mid
to upper eighties for highs in the afternoon, but then
Friday and Saturday a little more comfortable in the load
to mid eighties. Sunday we're in the eighties, but those

(49:09):
upper eighties are starting to show up again.

Speaker 4 (49:13):
Jumpishier right now, still fifty one at your official severe
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Speaker 4 (49:28):
All right, So, big news political news for Texas anyway
from yesterday, is that a journey General Ken Paxton is
going to oppose John Cordon in the next primary for
US Senate. So here's the question and I'm gonna do
a question of the day on this one. In fact,
I might as well go ahead and tell you now
who would you support in the primary? We you support

(49:49):
Paxton or Cornyn? And why? You go to the iHeartRadio
app KTRH hopefully that's number one on your preset. Hit
that talkback button when you get there. You got thirty seconds.
Get the first name where you're calling from? And who
do you support? Paxton or Cornyn? And why? First? Though,
traffic and weather together we'll talk more about in the moment. Short,
Go ahead, sky Mite. Just like in that video, don't look.

Speaker 5 (50:12):
Nord Sam westbound, Hardy Toil Road, the usual Scoochs. That's
the roadwork at Alding Westfield. It's messing up your life.
Something's quishing up our Crosby Freeway New nineties. Seriously inside
Beltway eight. Let me see what it is. Get you
some lineage at six thirty. I'm Skymike at Sure USA
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Speaker 4 (50:29):
From r KTRH Top tax Defenders, twenty four hour Weather
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Radio seven forty k TRH. Time to get you caught
up in some top stories. It's a Wednesday morning, and

(50:50):
here's clip.

Speaker 5 (50:51):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (50:52):
Another night of violence across Houston with a deadly stabbing
and at least two shootings. An ice operation in Arizona
results in the arrest of at least one person with
ties to the Sinaloa cartel. And on this day in
nineteen fifty nine, NASA introduced our first astronauts get the
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is at six thirty.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
People voted for major government portfolio.

Speaker 5 (51:15):
Also know this is just the beginning.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
Here it happened, and that's what people are going to
get on news Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (51:23):
Well, John Cordon claims he's a Republican, but he doesn't
run his one. He'd never put that in his ads,
so that always made him a little suspect. With being
six twenty three is our time here in Houston's parting news.
Now he's going to get some opposition in the next
a Republican primary to run for the United States Senate
seat he might get. Will John Cornon get primary? Is
there enough support for Ken Paxton to to primary him?

(51:46):
Will Ken Paxton be the only one that tries to
primary him? All way need to be seen, but we're
gonna get an opinion on this. Glad davidioc joins US
GOP analyst, What do you think?

Speaker 36 (51:57):
I think I think Texans have been looking forward to
a primary race in the Senate for a long time.

Speaker 20 (52:05):
John Cornyn has served Texas in the Senate for decades now,
and I think it's interesting that every single time he
appeared at a Texas GP convention or Conservative Group convention,
there's always concerns that he could get booed, and it usually.

Speaker 36 (52:24):
Winds up happening. And I think Texans have been concerned
a lot. Many Texans have been concerned about his record
and his stance on policy issues, and many Textans have
expressed concern with regard to the way he approaches Second
Amendment issues or border issues, or confronting overreach of the
previous administration and the Abutment administration as well. So I

(52:49):
think Ken Paxson has really made a name for himself
as someone who has been under fire, who has been
under attack, who has been targeted, who has been prosecuted
and persecuted, and he's he's become as far as the
Republican Party is concerned, somebody who is a viable prospect
to replace Cornyon in the Senate.

Speaker 4 (53:09):
Well, he doesn't come without his own baggage. Of course,
most of the baggage was created by Democrats and John Cornyon.
I guess we texted back and forth with John Corner
to try to get him on the show, and in
at least in one of the texts, he John Cornan
referred to Ken Paxton as a crook. So so although
I wouldn't, you know, politics is politics, I wouldn't. I
wouldn't expect any other treatment from either one of them, right,

(53:30):
I think I think they're both gonna be There's gonna
be some name calling in this race.

Speaker 36 (53:34):
This is not going to be a fun, easy going,
happy GOP everybody Kumbai primary.

Speaker 20 (53:42):
This is gonna be pretty vicious.

Speaker 36 (53:45):
John Cornyon was in line to become Senate Majority leader
when President Trump returned to the White House and there
was a big intra party fight between him and a
couple of other candidates and and he uh did not prevail.
In fact, he was I think the third place choice.
But John Corny has the history of getting on the

(54:06):
wrong side of Texas GOP primary voters and grassroots activists.
I mean, I remember at the twenty fourteen convention when
it was being introduced to the audience, and the video
that came up called him Big John Cornyn, and it.

Speaker 20 (54:24):
Caused laughter in the audience. People just found it ridiculous.

Speaker 36 (54:28):
And so he has built a reputation as someone who
who talks a big game but doesn't seem to back
it up with action. And that's unfortunate because he, you know,
representing texts, he has an incredible opportunity, He's had an
incredible opportunity to really set the table and set the
tone on a daily basis. He just hasn't chosen not to.

Speaker 4 (54:51):
Yeah, it's gonna be fascinating to watch this whole thing
break itself down. Glad, as always, thank you so appreciate it.
That's Glad Davidiock joining us here is six twenty six
is time to take a look at your money. Here's
Jeff Bellinger and Jimmy.

Speaker 24 (55:03):
Good morning China. Just announced it is raising its tariffs
on American goods to eighty four percent, escalating the trade war.
Stock market futures lower across the board. Now the dial
futures are down five hundred and twenty two points. Delta
is the latest major airline to post its first quarter results.
Passenger revenue for the quarter was right in line with estimates,

(55:26):
but Delta withdrew its financial guidance for the year, citing
uncertainty over global trade. From the Fidelity Bloomberg Business Desk,
I'm Jeff Beldinger on News Radio seven forty KTRH there
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Speaker 25 (55:43):
Why there were traffic plus breaking news twenty four to seven.
This is News Radio seven forty KTRHLVE.

Speaker 5 (55:50):
Everywhere within the IRP.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
More of what's happening now from the Sean Moore Services Studios.

Speaker 4 (55:57):
Six thirty is our time. It's Houston's Morning News. I'm
Jimmy bar After. Among our top stories as half hour,
the Left raising money for a killer, are teriffs a
threat to the green energy agenda? And coming up at
six thirty eight, hisd IS decided they're going to pay
their teachers based on performance. Details in the minutes ahead,
first we're checking out that morning driving that sky Mike's here.

Speaker 5 (56:19):
It's crisy Freeway inbound. I'm looking, I'm scrambling, I'm under pressure.
I can't figure out what this is. That's scooching us
up here around ce King Parkway. It's in a blind spot.
You helped me seven one three two one two tips.
But I see a wall of breaks if we look
from from beltweight eight on the inbound westbound lanes, I
got downtown your east text pretty messy now from I

(56:42):
ten from just past the ballpark. Lose a minute or
two trying to hit the big George Andrew from Springs
on forty five North.

Speaker 20 (56:48):
Hey, skrime Mike, du do you know what they say.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
About the HOV lane.

Speaker 5 (56:51):
It's one lane.

Speaker 20 (56:51):
It's a lot like a box of chocolate. You might
go to speed limit.

Speaker 35 (56:55):
You might be going twenty five miles an hour, depends
on who's in there at front of you.

Speaker 5 (56:59):
Yeah, and then something times you just get a stalled
metro for no reason. I'm Skymike at a Generator Supercenter
dot com traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (57:06):
From r KTRH Generator super Center, twenty four hour weather center.
Sunny A little warmer today with the high temperature right
about eighty. We'll get you the Klee forecast with Terry
Smith in eight minutes. Right now, it is uh I
think it went down. Let me check yep down one
fifty at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven
forty KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 6 (57:27):
Thank you, Jimmy six thirty two. Our top story. Another
violent night across Houston. We had a deadly stabbing on
the North side. Two men were shot in an altercation
on the West Side that included a bow and arrow
as well, and a woman is in the hospital she
was hit by a stray bullet while sitting on the
couch in her West Houston home. After a spike in

(57:48):
deadly shootings related to after hours clubs in Houston, City
Council is considering action.

Speaker 38 (57:53):
The fines don't seem to be hindering anyone from continuing.

Speaker 6 (57:58):
To operate, Republican City Council Member Amy Peck with our
TV partner Channel two. Meantime, the left continues supporting criminals
as opposed to victims. An online fundraiser has picked up
some one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a teen
who's charged with stabbing another team to death, killing him
at a Texas track meet. Criminology professor Alex del Carmon

(58:21):
says Carmelo Anthony's defense claim won't hold, but it shows
how far we've fallen.

Speaker 22 (58:26):
It's really sad to see the erosion of our American
society to make everything about relativity as opposed to the
fact that there is a right and there is a wrong,
that there are things that we simply will not allow.
As George Washington One said, we are a national laws
and sadly that's been eroding.

Speaker 6 (58:43):
Anthony faces capital murder charges and is in jail on
a million dollar bond. Fort Ben County Judge KP. George
won't step down despite facing money laundering charges, and now
he's represented by a well known conservative attorney.

Speaker 27 (58:58):
People make mistakes on campaign report.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
It happens all the time.

Speaker 6 (59:01):
That was Jared would fill at a news conference yesterday
giving you a preview of the defense. George attended that
news conference but said not one word. Texas Attorney General
Ken Paxton will primary Senator John Cornin next year for
the seat in Washington. Republican strategist Latavidier just told Houston's
Morning News cornin.

Speaker 5 (59:22):
Is vulnerable the intensive express.

Speaker 6 (59:25):
Warren Paxton's challenge of Cornin at seven o'clock. It is
now six point thirty four on KGRH As of this morning,
higher tariffs have been placed on China by President Donald Trump.

Speaker 40 (59:36):
President Trump insists China wants to make a deal, though
Chinese officials say they're prepared to fight this to the end. Now,
China is one of the largest trading partners in the world.
Last year, the US saw trade devisit China two hunder
ninety five point four billion dollars. President Trump thinks turning
up the heat on Beijing will lead to a new deal.

Speaker 6 (59:55):
Fox's Lucas Tomlinson. The Chinese respond by raising tariffs on US.
This morning overnight training has been all over the place,
but now sharply down by five hundred and eighty eight points.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
So far.

Speaker 6 (01:00:07):
Major components of new homes like lumber and steel have
been hit with tariffs. But how much is that actually
going to affect the felt cost of new construction homes?

Speaker 19 (01:00:18):
Lower bond and lower mortgage rates, that's going to help
the consumer achieve lower cost monthly even if the cost
of some of the materials are higher. The offset really
is just people just looking to figure out ways to
help the consumer.

Speaker 6 (01:00:30):
Leith Dyke with Texas Lone Star says our forty one
billion dollar lumber industry might actually help keep prices in check.
The Left is upset over tariffs, but here's the truth.
It's because they could be the final nail in the
coffin of green energy. Green energy is so unprofitable. It
requires cheap Chinese labor to survive.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
Rare earth mining, solar panels, components of windmills. All of
this depends on overseas operations, particularly China, the climate depots.

Speaker 10 (01:00:58):
Mark Morano says, take away handouts and adding tariffs will
end the market for green energy.

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
You don't have to be a trade expert to see
the handwriting on the wall. The subsidies are drying up.
Their competition is finally having the shackles removed.

Speaker 10 (01:01:11):
Morano hopes that this will open the door to more
investment in real sustainable energy like nuclear. Ethan Buchanan News
Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:01:19):
Thank you, Ethan.

Speaker 6 (01:01:20):
Any response to the Biden regulations. President Trump signed an
order helping the coal industry in the US.

Speaker 8 (01:01:26):
We're bringing back an industry that was abandoned despite the
fact that it was just about the best, is certainly
the best in terms.

Speaker 4 (01:01:36):
Of power, real power.

Speaker 6 (01:01:38):
Trump at the White House yesterday. The administration is also
freeing your dishwasher, stove, and washing machine from Biden era
green energy regulations. EPA administrator Lee Zelden says the rules
were costing Americans.

Speaker 31 (01:01:52):
When people start reviewing these individual actions and you realize
that you're talking about hundreds of millions, billions and sometimes
into the trillions when you're looking at the impact of
each of these regulations, we refuse to suffocate the economy.

Speaker 5 (01:02:07):
Zelden says.

Speaker 6 (01:02:08):
The EPA is implementing the largest deregulatory effort in American history.

Speaker 5 (01:02:13):
Six thirty six.

Speaker 6 (01:02:14):
The future of trucking is taking a big step, and
it might be coming at the expense of human drivers.
Self driving eighteen wheelers from Aurora and Volvo are now
on Texas highways and there's literally no one behind the wheel.

Speaker 33 (01:02:28):
You still have certain shuttle rags that still have to
be appeased, i e. You know, the interaction with law
enforcement roadside in the event that you pull a truck over.

Speaker 6 (01:02:40):
Texas Trucking Association President Johnas Sparsa says, nearly two million
Americans make their living driving eighteen wheelers and the Rockets.

Speaker 5 (01:02:48):
Visit the Clippers.

Speaker 6 (01:02:49):
Tonight coverage at eight thirty on Sports Talk seven ninety.
I'm Cliff Saunters on Houston's News, weather and traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:02:57):
Info At this Speed of Houston, Houston right now, Houston's
Morning News continues with Jimmy Barrett and the Houston Morning
News Team.

Speaker 4 (01:03:07):
All Right, everybody know what louvie. That's from yes, Yes,
to sir with love about a teacher, right, Sidney Poititier,
a teacher in the in the ghetto or slums if
you will, of London. Not quite the same as the
ghetto or slums of many other countries. But hey, okay,
tough kids didn't want to learn, and he was there

(01:03:27):
to make sure they learned, and they did. He had
a great performance. So evidently Houston ISD is looking for
some Sydney Poitiers to put in the classroom, or at
least to try to inspire their teachers to be more
like Sidney Poitier. At least in the movie. They're going
to begin linking teacher compensation to classroom effectiveness starting in

(01:03:50):
the twenty twenty six twenty seven school year. At the
end of the day, this is a quote here from
Superintendent Mike Miles. At the end of the day, we
want to ensure that you're true and have effective, proficient teachers,
educators who nurture them and help them achieve, whether it's reading, writing, math,
or preparation for college and career. This pay for performance
model helps us do that. Yes, it's about teachers, but

(01:04:13):
more importantly, it's about our students and making sure they
get the highest quality education possible, and that starts with
an effective teacher in every classroom. Now, what I don't
know are the specifics of how they're going to be
judged on their performance, because, let's face it, there are
some kids who have no interest in learning and cannot

(01:04:33):
be taught. I'm guessing I'm hoping I would assume that
you have a track record for every student right of
their school career, from kindergarten all the way up to
wherever they are at the high school level, and you
know what they've done in the previous years, and if
you have something who's consistently bad or not interested, I
would like to think that would be taken into consideration,

(01:04:55):
because if you have a kid that is not interested
in learning, then it doesn't matter how good the teacher is.
Usually just like if you have parents who don't care
if their kids learn anything, you're you're fighting a losing battle.
But there are plenty of kids who are what I
would call marginal kids, ones who really could be talked
into being better students who want to be more successful

(01:05:15):
and just haven't been. Those are the ones I would
think you want to monitor the performance to see if
that teacher has made an effective difference for a student
like that. I think there are ways you can figure
that out. SAX forty time for traffick and whether it's
done again. Ganel Brown from Tarkingden.

Speaker 5 (01:05:31):
One day was writing something on the board and one
of the she had this kid that had you would
call it adhd now, and all of a.

Speaker 4 (01:05:38):
Sudden he just turned on just like that, I would
And teachers make a difference.

Speaker 5 (01:05:43):
Man, Let's go, h Let's see what. Try to figure
out what's scooching up ninety that's inbound ninety Crosby Freeway
around ce King big smashup now coming from the Beltway. Dude,
Donni from Crosby.

Speaker 11 (01:05:54):
FA guy Mike just came through on Highway ninety.

Speaker 35 (01:05:57):
Pop pasted it that way.

Speaker 20 (01:05:58):
It's called eighteen wheelers already got the big drug hooking
him up.

Speaker 35 (01:06:01):
He'll be out there in just.

Speaker 10 (01:06:02):
A little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:06:03):
Ah inbound, all right, let me let the rest of
the media know because they're asking me. Also, let's go
around to the southwest side. Now, we've got some breaks
on the Southwest Freeway right up to six to ten.
That ramp's getting awfully scoochy. Highway six. They had a
pretty nasty wreck southbound coming out of Bear Creek down
just before it ten. And that looks ninja there. Well,

(01:06:23):
there's a lot of ninjas around Bear Creek Village, so
they looks like they've just about cleared that now. And
I've got a random call Cindy from Dayton.

Speaker 18 (01:06:31):
Hey, there's a salt eighteen wheeler in the right hand
lane right before the entrance ramp onto ninety westbound by
the Matt Dealership.

Speaker 5 (01:06:40):
Don't know the road, somebody knows where that is. Helped
me out there, Mac Dealership. All right, two ninety inbound,
not a big squish. I do have some breaks at
Eldridge Parkway and Terry Smith. Jack from Connecticut's listening on
the free iHeartRadio WAPP. You saw those pictures. What did
he say? The temperature was in Connecticut this morning where
he was there was thirty Oh lord, all right, you

(01:07:02):
know what. But he put these beautiful pictures up on
my Facebook page. If you want to see Jack from
Connecticut for iHeartRadio app, I'm Skymike in the USA Rvresorts
dot Com Traffic Center from r ktr H Generator super
Center twenty four hour withther Center Terry Smith.

Speaker 4 (01:07:15):
This year, this is the time of the year that
when Night lived in Michigan, this is the time of
the year that you would just go into complete an
utter depression because one day it would be seventy and
the next day'd be snowing. I don't That's why I'm
so glad I'm in Texas and I don't have to
worry about that kind of stuff anymore. Maybe in January
we'll get a day a week like that, but yeah,
not in April.

Speaker 21 (01:07:36):
Now we get real spring here, and spring kind of
is dipping its toe across New England and the Great
Lakes region. This time of year, you're going back and
forth between winter and spring and winter is going.

Speaker 5 (01:07:50):
Ha ha ha ha.

Speaker 21 (01:07:51):
That's what it's doing up there in Connecticut.

Speaker 5 (01:07:54):
So it's a beautiful day.

Speaker 21 (01:07:55):
It's cold, but it's beautiful and I'll take sunny and
cold over gray and gloomy bad. We got lots of sunshine, folks,
lots of happy people if you like the sunshine. And
a little bit warmer today, upper seventies to low eighties today.
Tomorrow will be the warmest day. A little more humidity
as well, but we're still dry. Middapper eighties. Temperatures are
back in the loaw to mid eighties Friday and Saturday.

(01:08:17):
Sunday is still dry and everybody's in the eighties on Sunday.

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
Jemp at you're right now fifty at your official severe
weather station News radio seven forty KTRH. It is six Bethtey.
Now there us this morning news question of the day.
You go to the iHeart radio app. Put KTRH number
one on your preset, go to us. You're gonna love
having that preset, by the way, because it gets you
there so much faster. I mean, just like getting the

(01:08:42):
preset on your car radio. And when you get there,
you'll see the talkback button push that you have thirty seconds,
give me first name where you're calling from. And our
question of the day is, now that we know that
Ken Paxton will oppose John cornyin in the Senate primary,
the next Senate primary that comes around, who do you
support in that? Paxton or Cornyan.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
Hey, Jimmy Sean from Pasadena.

Speaker 11 (01:09:06):
Paxton every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Speaker 5 (01:09:09):
Yeah, this is Miles calling in. I'd vote for Paxton.
Cornyn is a sellout and a fraud.

Speaker 20 (01:09:18):
Carling from Silsby. It's Paxton all the way.

Speaker 21 (01:09:21):
I remember when John Cornyn stepped across the aisle after
midnight one night and voted on the Obama Omnibus bill.

Speaker 8 (01:09:29):
He lied he is a rhino.

Speaker 5 (01:09:31):
It is Paxton all the way for me.

Speaker 41 (01:09:33):
Jimmy, it's Angel from Spring.

Speaker 30 (01:09:35):
I would support Ken Paxton.

Speaker 41 (01:09:36):
He's a true conservative. The other guy, John Cornyan has
sold out way so many times to the Democrats, has
signed too many bills that have some good in them,
but far more evil things than them, and he should
have known better. So yeah, Ken Paxton all the way.
I'd hate to lose him. We need to replace him

(01:09:57):
with somebody just like him or better for Texas.

Speaker 4 (01:10:01):
All right, I'm noticing a trend here. I'm not hearing
any cordon support six fifty two. Better get the traffic
and weather togethers we check in again with Skymike.

Speaker 5 (01:10:09):
All right, North Sam something scooting us up eastbound Houston
trends stars looking right now for me. Let me see
if they found it. I don't know, but it's right there.
I'm looking from eight to one the camera number, and
we're going eastbound. Boy, look at that squish the Veterans
Memorial Veterans Toll Plaza. That way westbound is actually better
for now all deem Westfield better than eastbound. But let's

(01:10:29):
don't do the loop. Let's the Beltway. Let's take my
secret route, the Hardy Airport connector. If you're a big shot,
North Freeway squished at cross Chambers North Loop, squeeze down
at forty five. That's westbound. Let's go south and west
at the seven o'clock report Skymike and the Generator Supercenter
dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:10:46):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour weather Center,
sunny little warmer eighty today and then sunny moorem ety
seven tomorrow. Right now fifty at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH. Check out some more
of our top stories. This morning's CLI Thank.

Speaker 6 (01:11:00):
You Jimmy headlines are sponsored by DNM Auto Leasing. Cornyn
gets a serious challenge for his Senate seat. China does
take resolute and effective measures to fight the latest Trump tariffs,
and a poll I don't agree with Jimmy. Fifty percent
of Americans say the amount they pay in federal taxes
is unfair, compared to forty six percent who call that

(01:11:23):
amount fair.

Speaker 5 (01:11:25):
I don't buy it.

Speaker 4 (01:11:25):
Who are these forty six percent?

Speaker 6 (01:11:27):
I would like them to pay my tax bill. Get
the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next
update is at seven. I live in Katie, I live
in Ito.

Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
Your reliable forecast next on the ten on seven forty KTRH.
All right, well, you know we mentioned with the Trump
tariff thing that you know, no tariffs on prescription medicines, right,
Thank goodness. You're probably thinking because a lot of that
stuff comes from overseas well. Last night, President Trump made

(01:11:57):
an appearance at a Republican event in Washington, DC, and
he talked about tariffs are coming soon to prescription drugs.

Speaker 4 (01:12:04):
Here's the president.

Speaker 8 (01:12:05):
We don't make our own pharmaceuticals, drugs and other things
to get better.

Speaker 5 (01:12:11):
They're made in other.

Speaker 8 (01:12:12):
Countries and you pay a number. I mean, the same
package in our country compared to like London and other places,
is sometimes ten.

Speaker 5 (01:12:25):
Times more, ten times more.

Speaker 8 (01:12:28):
Something it sells for eighty eight dollars in London sells
for thirteen hundred dollars here, made of the same factory
by the same company.

Speaker 5 (01:12:38):
And that's over. I told them all, that's over. They
put all of.

Speaker 8 (01:12:43):
Their research and development it, they put everything. But what
they don't tell you is that these other countries are smart.
They say you can't charge more than eighty eight dollars,
otherwise you can't study your product, and the drug companies
listen to them. But we're going to do something that
we have to do. We're going to put We're going
to teriff for our pharmaceuticals. And once we do that,

(01:13:04):
they're going to come rushing back into our country because
with a big market, the advantage we have over everybody
is that we're the big market. So we're going to
be announcing very shortly a major terraf for in pharmaceuticals.

Speaker 5 (01:13:17):
And when you and when they hear that they will
leave China.

Speaker 8 (01:13:22):
They will leave other places because they have to sell
Most of their product is sold here, and they're going
to be opening up their plants all over the place
in our country. We're going to be announcing that. So
that's breaking news, ladies and gentlemen, we have breaking news.
That's what's going to happen. What other presidents allow China
to get away.

Speaker 5 (01:13:40):
With is absolutely criminal.

Speaker 8 (01:13:41):
But I'm not like the other presidents, and it's not
going to happen under President Trump.

Speaker 4 (01:13:47):
There you go. I heard drug prices that could be
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Speaker 5 (01:14:19):
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For President, celebrity Apprentice star Donald Trump, toys with a
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Seven on one Our time, Houston's borning News. I'm Jimmy Parrott.
Among our top stories this half hour, Ken Paxton will
try to primary Senator John Cornyn the trade war with
China ramping up and coming up at seven o eight
seven grocery items people are stocking upon because of tariffs
details in the minutes ahead, you're in Houston's Borning News. First,
we're checking out the drive again. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:15:59):
Look at it's Sam. Nobody needs that eastbound habistankory. This
is a wreck there. I've got multiple lanes here, multiple vehicles,
big ninja response and we're packed up from the Veterans
toll plastical in that way eastbound westbound. That's all the
in Westfield roadwork. You've got the problem on ninety. That's
an eighteen wheeler. It's a right lane coming in from
the Beltway. Our hard hats still have that up pretty

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shortly and got a rumbling of two ninety Eldridge Parkway.
We'll get you some laneage in ten minutes. I'm skylike
and the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center from.

Speaker 4 (01:16:29):
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Sunny and a little bit warmer today with the high
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Speaker 6 (01:16:48):
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Speaker 7 (01:16:52):
That's hard to think of the things that he's done
good for Texas or for the country.

Speaker 6 (01:16:56):
Attorney General Ken Paxxton of Texas announcing a run for
the Senate on Fox, challenging John Cornyn, who's seeking a
fifth term.

Speaker 7 (01:17:04):
That can certainly point to many things like his gun restrictions,
his lack of wanting to fund a border wall and
disagreeing with President Trump on that and even opposing President
Trump's election in twenty sixteen.

Speaker 5 (01:17:16):
Paxton saying it is time for a change now.

Speaker 6 (01:17:18):
KGRH reached out to Cornyn, who told us in a
message that Paxton is a quote crook. His campaign put
out a statement saying that Paxton quote talks tough on
crime and then let's crooked progressive Lena Hidalgo off the hook,
also topping the news this morning.

Speaker 8 (01:17:36):
I'm glad to be the President for the workers, not
the outsources. The president just stands up from Main Street,
not Wall Street.

Speaker 6 (01:17:44):
President Trump last night doubling down on new tariffs on
the Chinese, and the Chinese respond by increasing tariffs on us.
But Trump believes the Chinese will eventually negotiate. However, not
every Republican is on board with the tariff plan, and
that group includes Texas Senator Ted Kruz.

Speaker 9 (01:18:02):
If a year from now, our trading partners of all
jacked up tariffs on America and we have high tariffs
on everyone, I think that'll hurt this country.

Speaker 6 (01:18:10):
The Chinese move this morning is sending down futures down
by about seven hundred points. Oil taking a hit as well,
down four dollars to fifty five dollars and fifty seven
cents a barrel. It is now seven oh three on KTRH.
The Trump derangement syndrome out of control. Fifty five percent
of self identifying leftists say that killing Trump would be justified.

Speaker 10 (01:18:34):
This could be a sign that after twenty twenty four,
the radical left is finally starting to crack.

Speaker 11 (01:18:38):
We've been politically divided for a long time, but to
Trump two point zero has sent the unhinged left over
the violent edge.

Speaker 10 (01:18:47):
Matt Kittle what the Federalist says, this is also the
predictable result of the left spending years normalizing violence.

Speaker 11 (01:18:53):
We're seeing this in real time with the hatred for
allan mosque, overheated rhetoric turnout into violent action.

Speaker 10 (01:19:02):
He went on to warn that if this trend continues,
we could be headed down a dangerous path. Ethan Buchanan
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:19:08):
Thank you very much, Ethan.

Speaker 6 (01:19:10):
No vote yet from the House on a bill to
rainy and activist judges in their rulings against the Trump
America First Agenda.

Speaker 5 (01:19:17):
Plenty of debate, though, a bold.

Speaker 12 (01:19:18):
And necessary step to reign in activist judges who have
made it their sole mission to obstruct the agenda of
President Donald J.

Speaker 5 (01:19:28):
Trump. Colorado Republican Law and Bobert.

Speaker 6 (01:19:31):
Also in the House, a Doze Committee Field hearing with
eye popping revelations.

Speaker 13 (01:19:36):
Federal government owns a massive real estate portfolio of more
than a quarter million buildings. No one knows how much
of this real estate is actually being put to.

Speaker 6 (01:19:46):
Use Chairperson Marjory Taylor Green. And in the Senate, Republicans
led by the majority Leader John Thune, continue to work
on a budget.

Speaker 14 (01:19:55):
Dell extend the Trump tax cuts, obviously to rebuild the military,
restore American energy dominance, and secure our southern border.

Speaker 5 (01:20:03):
Remember those cuts expire at the end of the year.

Speaker 6 (01:20:07):
Seven h five on KTRH four years of Biden foreign
policy failures have consequences today the subject of a House
Committee hearing yesterday.

Speaker 15 (01:20:17):
Russia invaded Ukraine. North Korea ramped up its military provocations.
Iran advanced its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, empowering
its proxies to now cause chaos throughout the entire region.

Speaker 6 (01:20:30):
Larida Republican Corey Mills. Talks between the US and Iran
about their nuclear aspirations take place Saturday, with South Carolina
Senator Lindsey Graham saying the stakes could not be higher.

Speaker 16 (01:20:41):
They have to believe he will take down their refineries.
They have to believe that he will blow them off
the face of the planet.

Speaker 5 (01:20:48):
Those are they going to get a bomb, adding that
the only thing standing between Iran and a bomb is Trump.
Seven oh six. Another warning from URKAT, the Texas grid
needs power.

Speaker 17 (01:21:00):
U It says it's latest estimates are that in just
five years the state is going to need forty percent
more electricity than we have today. But in natural gas
there's a backlog. For turbines, and nuclear energy costs remain high,
and for solar and wind it's cough up the cash
or not.

Speaker 18 (01:21:15):
In my backyard, even those developers are running into challenges
because the landowners are requiring more surface rent payments.

Speaker 17 (01:21:23):
University of Houston energy fellow at Hers says, we've got challenges.
Michael SHINLOH News Radio seven forty KTRA.

Speaker 6 (01:21:31):
You have less than a week to get your taxes done,
and the IRS says there are lots of scams out
there right now. One example of this a texture email
supposedly from the IRS. But if you haven't gotten a
snail mail letter about it first, that texture email is fake.

Speaker 19 (01:21:48):
The only time you're going to get an email is
if you've already received something in the mail and have
given permission to the IRS to contact you.

Speaker 6 (01:21:58):
The IRS is Craig Chop seven oh seven on k TRH.
The Astros beat the Marinders two to one. They'll wrap
up the series this afternoon. Coverage starts at two on
Sports Talk seven to ninety. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's
News Weather in traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:22:13):
World Events, national headlines, Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 4 (01:22:20):
You know, I think there might be something to be
said for shopping that way right now. It takes the
edge off the high prices. Right and speaking of Japan
and China, there are seven different areas of grocery shopping
that are going to be the first impacted by higher tariffs,
and of course Tarisa now in effect. But you may

(01:22:44):
still have time, I guess if you get to the
story to stock up on a few things before the
new inventory comes in. I mean, if you're interested in
doing that. Here's here's the list of things most likely
impacted fairly quickly. Seafood interestingly number one on the list,
and I'm thinking seafood. Why is that? Well, it turns
out eighty five percent of seafood is imported. We just

(01:23:08):
don't realize it most of the time. Chile, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, fish, shellfish.
We get a lot from those countries, as it turns out,
and there's terrace on those countries. Coffee number two coffee
beans and pods another item that shoppers evidently are stocking
up on right now. You've got to get your coffee fixed.

(01:23:30):
Good time to stock up on that alcoholic beverages if
you have a preference, for example, if you like a
certain Mexican beer produced to Mexico, or if you like
a European wine. We've already talked about that one. Nuts
came in on the list. Cashews pecans. Of course we
grow pecans here in Texas, but cashews pecans Macademian nuts

(01:23:51):
are majority grown from in places like Vietnam, Brazil, and
prices on them will go. Maple syrup if it comes
from Canada, you can get maple syruce syrup made in
the United States. From cann goods, you've got soup and veggies.
The packaging some of that is foreign made. They're terrifi

(01:24:15):
aluminium and steel because that could end up costing a
little bit more in canfoods, and of course they have
a long shelf life. And lastly, but not leastly, cooking
oils and spices. Many cooking oils, especially all of them
palm oil, and spices like cinnamon and black pepper are
imported and you don't realize what all is important until
you see the prices start to spike. Seven ten. Time

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for traffic and weather together, we're checking out the drive again.
Here's the guy, Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:24:40):
Queer Nord Salmon. It's the wreck is gone at Imperial Valley,
but the ugliest still there. If you're going eastbound from
Veterans Toll Plaza and then westbound Allding West filled that
usual Sichaget ninety. We still have the big eighteen wheeler
that's stalled just before ce King Parkway. I think the
souper sizes have just about moved that, but we still
have this scu from Beltway eight. I got Nick from

(01:25:02):
Cyprus on the Northwest Freeway.

Speaker 1 (01:25:03):
Dude, hey, s guy Mike.

Speaker 35 (01:25:05):
Right about Eldridge there was an accident. That tap has
taken up three lanes. Oh and the ladies of the
Pacompie that called about the heelers mac Heeler.

Speaker 2 (01:25:18):
The on thing I can think of is caterpillarity.

Speaker 5 (01:25:21):
Okay, so you think Cindy from Dayton sounds like PACOMPI
I agree. And the caterpillar thing, Terry that looks like
a big Tanka truck thing over there on the two
ninety a round Piemont Southwest high Good morning, Michael.

Speaker 37 (01:25:33):
Is Terry from beautiful Richmond, and I'm coming in on the.

Speaker 21 (01:25:36):
Southwest Freeway and we are all spunched up back to Sweetwater.

Speaker 5 (01:25:41):
Oh that's some good verbiage there, Darcy.

Speaker 12 (01:25:44):
Hey, sky Mike, there's.

Speaker 39 (01:25:45):
A huge, huge kerfuffle on fifty nine northbound in Sugarland.

Speaker 13 (01:25:50):
At Highway six, about four or five cars both sides
of the freeway.

Speaker 39 (01:25:55):
Truck to trust ninjas are there, and so are the.

Speaker 5 (01:25:58):
Cost points and banana stickers all around. Nice verbit. You
hear that, Terry, I'm skylike on the USA RV Resorts
dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 4 (01:26:07):
We now return to English from Markatie rh tops ex
Defenders forty four hour Weather Center. Terry Smith is here.
She's got a forecast, all in normal English, where she's
gonna explain to you there's gonna be a lot of
sunshine in our future. Lots of sunshine.

Speaker 21 (01:26:22):
Hey, you guys were talking.

Speaker 5 (01:26:23):
About nuts a little while ago.

Speaker 4 (01:26:25):
Yes, I was talking abou nuts.

Speaker 21 (01:26:26):
Do you know that Georgia is the top producing Pecan state,
really more than Texas, not Texas. New Mexico and Texas
are right behind it. But I used to live in Albany, Georgia,
which is the Pecan capital of the US.

Speaker 4 (01:26:42):
That's why I went on did not know that.

Speaker 21 (01:26:44):
Sometimes you feel like one, sometimes you do, and sometimes
you're just one.

Speaker 4 (01:26:50):
That's all right.

Speaker 21 (01:26:51):
Well, hey, folks, whatever you're doing today, including being stuck
in traffic, hopefully not for too long. At least, the
weather is quite pleasant, very enjoyable, and it'll stay like
that through the weekend. No signs of rain through Sunday,
even early next week. Right now, temperatures today comfortable, a
little bit warmer than yesterday, upper seventies to low eighties. Tomorrow,

(01:27:14):
you'll feel a little more heat and a little more humidity.
It's not going to be blazing hot and humid, but
we'll be in the mid to upper eighties tomorrow, then
cooling slightly, low to mid eighties Friday and Saturday. Sunday
dry in the eighties, Monday, Tuesday dry. Maybe if you
sprinkle sometime midweek next week.

Speaker 5 (01:27:32):
Keep your fingers crossed.

Speaker 4 (01:27:34):
Right now fifty one at your official severe weather station.
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New South
Windows Solutions. Now back to Jimmy Barris and the Houston
Morning News team. All the info you need to take
on the day, So there's a survey out that says
the fifty five percent of self identified leftists say that
killing Trump is justifiable.

Speaker 4 (01:28:00):
That would be the majority of them. That would be
the unhinged left. Matt Gettle will join us from the
Federalist to talk about it next. But first though, let's
do traffic and weather together as we check out the
drive again. Here's sky Mine.

Speaker 5 (01:28:12):
It's two ninety. I'm doing a poor job of helping
the rest of the media this morning. They still don't
know about that wreck at Eldritch Parkway. Thank you Nick
from Cyprus. It's Ereck three middle ones and backed up
from Togy. Yeah, inbound Southwest Freeway. We got the wreck now,
Willie t that's inbound and that's a huge scrunch from
the Brazis River. Will it's a nineteen minutes inbound. I'm
Skymite Atcher Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic center from.

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R KTRH top tax Defenders, twenty four hour weather center.
For today, we're looking at sunshine, plenty of it, a
little bit warmer, high temperature about eighty started off cool
though tomorrow mainly Sunday wore mety seven. Friday sunny, slightly
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one if your officials severe weather station. News Radio seven
forty k TRH. Time to check out some more of

(01:28:57):
our top trending stories.

Speaker 6 (01:28:58):
Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy headlines are sponsored by Partners
in Building. Once again, the left supports and accused criminal
as opposed to the victim. Fort Ben County Judge KP.
George is refusing to step down despite felony charges. And
the iconic house from the TV show Full House. Guess
what that is selling for six million dollars in San Francisco.

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Speaker 4 (01:29:33):
Never sounded It's so good. Seven twenty two, or time
here in Houston's morning news. I don't know if the
guy that tried to assassinate Trump in Florida is a
self identified leftist or not, but we do we do
know now that evidently he was texting somebody in the
Ukraine looking for stinger missiles to try to attack the president.

(01:29:55):
That I would say, that's pretty psycho And evidently the
there are at least fifty five percent of so called
self identified leftists or psycho enough to think that killing
President Trump would be justifiable. Joining us to talk about
it from the federalist is Matt Kittle. I guess let's
start with this, Matt, how do we how do we
describe a self identified leftist? I mean, we're not necessarily

(01:30:18):
talking a Democrat here? Are we just talking radicals? What
are we talking about?

Speaker 11 (01:30:22):
Yeah, Jimmy, the problem is is we're talking about what
used to be the fringe left. Now the fringe left
is the left in many ways, it's the Democratic Party
the United States of the Barica. And the problem is
is that they're so whipped up with Trump derangement syndrome

(01:30:43):
that the you know, the idea of violence is now
turning into the act of violence.

Speaker 4 (01:30:50):
Well, and we've seen a little bit whether it not
just directed at Trump but also directed a corporate America.
I guess I don't know how the guy who tried
or did kill the not in healthcare CEO in New
York City, how he's self identified, but they obviously thought
that was justifiable.

Speaker 11 (01:31:06):
Yeah, this report, the survey came out from the Network
of Contagion Research Institute, which is in partnership with Rutgers University.
And what it builds upon is this whole issue of
the Luigi Mangioni, the guy who is accused of killing
the healthcare CEO, and we're seeing this kind of stuff

(01:31:33):
now in policy. In California they have a Luigi Mangioni
Healthcare Act. It tells you just how mainstream this sort
of stuff is becoming.

Speaker 4 (01:31:45):
Wow, if we had to put up and I realize
I'm putting on the spot here, if we had to
put a number on how many people like this exist
in our country? Do we have any clue how many
people are out there that they're capable of this kind
of action.

Speaker 11 (01:31:58):
It feels like if you go online, they're everywhere.

Speaker 4 (01:32:01):
True.

Speaker 11 (01:32:03):
Good point, it's it's it's worrisome for sure, but no,
what this study found was that you know a significant
portion of people who say, or you know who tell
the survey folks that they they're liberal or lean liberal

(01:32:23):
now are talking about that it's justifiable at some level.
It's not only assassinate to kill the President of the
United States, but also his advisors like Elon musk And
we've seen all the violence coming out of surrounding the
Tesla product, of course.

Speaker 4 (01:32:41):
Well, and that also says something about just how desensitized
to violence we are. Have they done any research into
why so many Americans now think that committing crimes and
defending killers and and and the like are perfectly normal
things to do?

Speaker 10 (01:32:59):
What?

Speaker 43 (01:32:59):
What?

Speaker 28 (01:32:59):
What do?

Speaker 4 (01:33:00):
What has caused this to happen?

Speaker 5 (01:33:02):
Trump arrangement syndrome.

Speaker 4 (01:33:04):
It's all about Trump?

Speaker 11 (01:33:06):
I know, I know, we talk about that as you know,
kind of it used to be kind of a joke.
It's not a joke anymore.

Speaker 5 (01:33:13):
It really is.

Speaker 11 (01:33:14):
And the accomplice media in this country has much to
do with whipping up this frenzy that is that is
going on right now, and it is. It is dangerous,
to say.

Speaker 4 (01:33:26):
The least, no doubt.

Speaker 20 (01:33:27):
Matt.

Speaker 4 (01:33:27):
Thanks for Johnny. I appreciate it, Matt Kittle with a federalist.
It's seven twenty six. Time to take a look at
your money. As we check it again with Jeff Bellinger
and Jimmy. Mortgage interest rates have declined. That's boosting home
loan demand, mortgage bankers safety. Average thirty year fixed rate
loan carries an interest rate of six point sixty one percent,
the lowest since October. There were significant increases and applications

(01:33:51):
for new mortgages and for refis. Stock market futures were
moving off their lows just before China announced retaliatory tariffs
on US goods. Then everything turns south again. We're lower
across the board now, futures are down nine hundred and
eight points. From the Fidelity Bloomberg Business Desk. I'm Jeff
Beldinger on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:34:16):
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Why there are traffic plus breaking news twenty four to seven.
This is News Radio seven forty KTRH. Child Everywhere with
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More of what's happening now from the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 4 (01:34:32):
It is seven thirty now Here in Houston's morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
the Left raising money for a killer, our tariff's a
threat to the green energy agenda, and coming up at
seven thirty eight, Attorney General Pam Bondi sends a warning
to criminal illegals to self deport. Details and the minutes ahead.
You're in Houston's borning News. First, we're checking out that morning.

(01:34:54):
Dave again with the skyline.

Speaker 5 (01:34:55):
All right, I got this shot of two ninety inbound
at nineteen sixty kt RH listeners were the first to
know about it. That's a wreck inbound. Let's call it
Williams Trace, Williams Trace Eldridge Parkway. Two ninety inbound Eldridge Parkway.
And that's a big smunch now from TELGI. You lose
nineteen minutes this way Southwest free Way. It's ugly before

(01:35:16):
ninety that's going to be sweetwater. It's a wreck. Three
middle lanes here, big backup before the Brasses River. If
you could do all ninety you'll have a lot of company.
But it's a better route around. And you've got two
eighty eight northbound. I got reports of a wreck at
the Beltway. Let me give you some laneage at the
forty break Skymike and the Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic
Center Promo r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center.

Speaker 4 (01:35:38):
Sunny and a little bit warmed today with the high
temperature right about eighty. We'll get you the complete forecast
with Terry Smith at the Weather Channel. We'll check in
again with her in eight minutes right now fifty one
at your officials, Severe Weather Station News Radio seven forty
k TRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 6 (01:35:55):
Thank you, Jimmy, seven thirty one on KTRH top story.
The left is supporting the criminal and not the victim again.
This time it's in Texas where teen is charged with
murdering another team over a seat at a track meet.

Speaker 26 (01:36:09):
An online fundraisers gathered one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
for the suspect, who claim self defense.

Speaker 22 (01:36:14):
I just don't see how self defense would actually stick
in a court of law with reasonable and sensitive people
that clearly understand that if his fight does not have
to result in a stabbing.

Speaker 26 (01:36:25):
Criminology Professor Alex Dell Carmon says this wave of raising
money to defend a suspect is concerning, and it shows
the rule of law has eroded.

Speaker 22 (01:36:33):
People are actually looking at these people and talking about
what heroes they are. Twenty five, they've committed horrible crimes.

Speaker 26 (01:36:39):
The teen's currently jailed on a one million dollar bond.
Andre Perard News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:36:45):
Thank you Andre.

Speaker 6 (01:36:46):
Here at home of Violet Night across Houston, a deadly
stabbing on the north side, two men are shot in
an altercation that also involved a baseball, bat, bow and arrow,
and a woman was hospitalized after getting hit by a
straight bullet while sitting on the couch in our West
Houston home.

Speaker 5 (01:37:03):
Fort Bend County Judge K. P.

Speaker 6 (01:37:05):
George won't be leaving office despite facing money laundering charges.
He's now represented by Jared Woodville of the Conservative Republicans
of Texas.

Speaker 27 (01:37:14):
This isn't about the truth, This isn't about justice. This
is about weaponizing the district Attorney's office in an effort
to take out a political opponent.

Speaker 6 (01:37:23):
George was also charged in a social media hoax connected
to the twenty twenty two reelection campaign. Texas Attorney General
Ken Paxton officially announced as a challenge to Senator John
Cornyn in next year's primary. GOP strategist Matt mcoveac told
a Dallas TV station the race will be heated.

Speaker 28 (01:37:41):
I expect this to be the most expensive statewide Republican
primary race in Texas history. I expect this to be
one of the nastiest races in Texas political history, perhaps
the nastist in several decades.

Speaker 6 (01:37:52):
We'll have more on the challenge of corned by Paxton
at eight o'clock seven thirty four on KGRH. As of
this morning, higher tariffs are placed on the Chinese by
President Donald Trump.

Speaker 29 (01:38:03):
President Donald Trump's global tariffs now include one hundred and
four percent duties on goods from China, but the world's
biggest exporter says it won't sit idly by. In a
paper published this morning, it vows countermeasures, saying China's right
to develop cannot be deprived. The government in Beijing believes
it can write out the economic storm. That's because exports

(01:38:25):
to the United States only account for two percent of
China's GDP.

Speaker 6 (01:38:30):
Foxes Jonathan Savage, the Chinese up their tariffs on US,
and as a result, as of now, down futures are
down eight hundred and ninety six points now. The left
claims that tariffs will lead to higher home and insurance prices,
but the forty one billion dollar lumber industry could help
prevent that from happening.

Speaker 19 (01:38:49):
As efficient as the building and the construction community is,
they're going to be looking to all different avenues to
bring costs down, and that is sourcing as much as
they can from US.

Speaker 4 (01:39:00):
Producers and providers.

Speaker 6 (01:39:01):
Leith Dike with Texas Lone Star things, declining mortgage rates
and tax cuts will defer the cost of new construction.
So here's the real reason that the left is upset
about tariffs. It could hurt their green energy push.

Speaker 2 (01:39:14):
Griffs are going to come and further expose this whole agenda.
You cut off the money and you start putting tariffs
on the country that have been letting this, and you
see this, come do it quick.

Speaker 6 (01:39:23):
And Mark Murano with the Climate Depot says, the left
just doesn't want a free market for green energy. And
while we're at it, the Trump administration is working to
reverse Joe Biden's crazy climate rules.

Speaker 30 (01:39:36):
President Trump has directed EPA administrator Lease Zelden to roll
back Biden era green energy standards on gas stoves, washing machines, dishwashers,
and light bulbs. Zelden tells Fox News they are doing
just that.

Speaker 31 (01:39:47):
We want to help President Trump at EPA to accomplish
his mission, his mandate that the American public spoke loud
and clear on last November. These thirty one historic actions
that we undertook is the largest deregulatory announcement ever made
in US history.

Speaker 30 (01:40:02):
Republicans in Congress are also helping passing new resolutions to
end restrictions or bands on coolers, freezers, and water heaters. Coreyolson,
Who's Radio seven forty KTI eight seven thirty six.

Speaker 6 (01:40:13):
New research shows that nearly eighty percent of employees feel
disengaged at work, a number that's rising because they just
didn't want to come back to the office from COVID
in the first place.

Speaker 32 (01:40:24):
The only way you can bring all that together is
through a relationship. And when you have the basis of
a connected relationship, the business outcomes follow.

Speaker 6 (01:40:34):
Business analyst Dennis Holland says the adversarial relationship between employers
and employees has gotten worse since COVID, and don't look now,
but you will see self driving trucks in the following
hubastankory on the roads when you drive to work later
this month.

Speaker 33 (01:40:49):
If we weren't worried, we wouldn't be paying attention to
the policies, to the legislation, to the regulations, to the
things that we need to be paying attention to.

Speaker 17 (01:40:59):
Joe A.

Speaker 6 (01:40:59):
Sparza with the Texas Truckers Association, Now, if this rollout
goes well, he expects companies could ramp up automation and
cut back on their workforce. Seven thirty seven, The Rockets
visit the Clippers. Tonight coverage at eight thirty on Sports
Talk seven ninety. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's newsweather and
traffic station KGRH.

Speaker 5 (01:41:19):
I live in their park, I live in the Woodlands.

Speaker 3 (01:41:21):
You're reliable forecast. Next on the ten on seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (01:41:29):
Well, nothing but heartaches for the left with the last
couple of Supreme Court rulings. Although what they did it's
not really a permanent answer, but anyway, just to recap
what they did, the justices on Monday night lifted that
judge's order prohibiting the administration of him using the Alien
Enemies Act to the port suspected criminals, so that is resumed.

(01:41:53):
They also a lot of the administration proceed with the
plan to freeze funding for teachers. They also basically told
the Trump administration that they can lay individuals off. So
there's been a lot of you know, positive rulers. Both
of these have been like five to four decisions, they've
been relatively close. But to get back to the criminals here,

(01:42:16):
deporting criminals, Attorney General Pam Bonding saw her on Fox yesterday.
You know, she was asked about these Supreme Court rulings
and she basically told, you know, criminal illegal aliens. Although personally,
if you're here illegally, that's a crime, just just a reminder,
that's a crime. Pam BONDI basically said, the best thing

(01:42:37):
you could do for yourself right now is self deport
Here's oh cut six. I'm sorry, I forgot to tell you,
Marco Grabby cuts six. I'm used to push my own
buttons in here. Here is Attorney General Pam Bonding.

Speaker 44 (01:42:52):
This is a landmark victory for the rule of law.
And this is what we've been arguing on behalf of
President Trump from day one. These are our enemies of
our state, of our country and they should be deported.

Speaker 5 (01:43:05):
And what the judge ruled was.

Speaker 44 (01:43:07):
Going forward from this day forward, all those planes that
are gone are there, those people are staying. So there
are a lot of reasons why Americans are safer from
this point forward.

Speaker 1 (01:43:18):
The hearing will be held.

Speaker 44 (01:43:20):
It's a Hebeus hearing in the Court of Confinement, which
means in Texas, so it will be a much faster hearing.
They can't do class actions. It will be a much smoother,
simpler hearing, and these people will be deported. Americans are safer,
and domestic terrorists foreign terrorists. You'd better look out because
we're coming after you. I'd start self deporting if I

(01:43:41):
were you, because we're going.

Speaker 5 (01:43:42):
To find you.

Speaker 4 (01:43:44):
Okay, it's pretty clear. Seven forty time for traffic and
weather together. You're checking out. Yeah, So to check out
that drive again, sky Mike. Sorry, I'm just excited. Here
a Southwest Freeway inbound. Okay, they've got part of it
still sitting on a shoulder.

Speaker 5 (01:43:56):
The problem is this spacle goes all the way back
to Grand Park and if I can get a time
stop on that, that is twenty six minute drag northbound
on the Southwest Freeway. This also makes ninety go crazy
all ninety A lot of you re routed and coming
over from Grand Parkway. Got a lot of scoochery right
around Imperial around the old Sugar Plant on two eighty
eight northbound, still have that wreck report it just past

(01:44:18):
the Beltway. It's just the usual slowdown from it hard
up to Orum. Lose about six or eight minutes this way. Terry.
If you're super rich, you could afford those toll lanes
West Park Tollway. That's a lot of breaks from addicts, clothing,
Katie Freeway. A visors flip them down you need them.
It's all breaks from ninety nine Grand Parkway into the
Beltway here north Sand. We cleared the wrecked Imperial Valley

(01:44:40):
at some mess both ways from I sixty nine to
the Veterans Toll Plaza and by your golf ball, Terry,
we've got ninety nine Grand Parkway scooched up on the
eastbound side right around Glenlock Farms, trying to get over
toward the Woodlands and by the way, Gary from Conroe.
He may not be crazy, after all, he called in
earlier with this.

Speaker 2 (01:44:58):
I was wondering at about fifteen five sixteen to the southwest.

Speaker 5 (01:45:02):
I saw something falling out of the sky.

Speaker 18 (01:45:04):
You can let me know what that was.

Speaker 5 (01:45:05):
And he was over the Katie Freeway. And we're seeing
things in the sky again, Terry. I'm skywike O the
Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:45:13):
Maybe it's one of them drones from our KATRIH Generator
super Center twenty four hour weather Center. Terry is here.
The only thing I see in the sky is blue.

Speaker 21 (01:45:23):
Well, good, Yes, we're gonna have lots of sunshine. You know,
when Gary mentioned that, my first thought was it was
just shooting star. That's probably probably what it was. But
I was telling Sky Mike, there's a new comet that's
zooming around in the morning, Comet swan twenty five F.

Speaker 5 (01:45:39):
So keep an eye out for it.

Speaker 4 (01:45:40):
Jimmy, Wow, Comet swan twenty five.

Speaker 5 (01:45:44):
It seems like I see it early in the morning.

Speaker 4 (01:45:46):
Uh huh.

Speaker 5 (01:45:47):
And you can see it with the naked eye.

Speaker 4 (01:45:48):
That's what I'm told. Okay, it seemed like we could
come up with a better name, though, Yeah, something twenty five.
What's the twenty five F stand for?

Speaker 21 (01:46:00):
Don't ask me, I'm just delivering the comment news.

Speaker 4 (01:46:04):
Okay, all right, all right, back to.

Speaker 5 (01:46:06):
Weather, which interesting, Thank you very much.

Speaker 21 (01:46:11):
Well, we've got a fine stretch of weather. I love springtime,
and I'm loving springtime in Houston.

Speaker 4 (01:46:17):
Right now.

Speaker 21 (01:46:18):
We are sunny and dry through the weekend. So your
outdoor plans are fine. Your plants might not be too happy,
but your plans are good. Upper seventies to low eighties today.
Tomorrow's a little bit warm and a little more humidity,
just a little bit mid to upper eighties tomorrow and
then low to mid eighties Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. But
there'll be a couple of places by Sunday that want

(01:46:38):
to hit those upper eighties. So we're heading into May temperatures.

Speaker 4 (01:46:43):
Right now, fifty one at your officials, Severe Weather Station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 5 (01:46:49):
What you need to know for the day ahead.

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Speaker 4 (01:46:56):
All right, as a Trump derangement syndrome continues just for
across the country. Uncontrolled the latest victim, and he always
managed to resist it to a certain extent before, but
he's now in full fledged Trump arrangement syndome. James Carville,
who made Nazi references on his podcast. More on that
coming up in the moment. But first we've got traffic

(01:47:17):
and whether it's together earlier too. How is that possible?
This guy, Mike, is there like no limit to ugliness?
I went to the Reptile house and there was James Carvill.
Let's go inbound on the Southwest Freeway. First of all,
let's clear the wreck at Willie t might have been
closer to Sweetwater.

Speaker 5 (01:47:32):
That's out of the Way. I really messed up all
ninety the most City Expressway too, so look out this way.
It's not really the expressway there, but either way, if
you could do the KD do that instead. You got
to ninety clear of the wreck inbound at Eldridge Parkway.
Some bricks at Huffmeister, Yeah, and who was that? Richard
from l Campbell told me Southwest Freeway Rosenberg around thirty

(01:47:52):
six somebody lost a bunch of carpet in the road
and other stations listeners are swerving at the last minute.
I'm Skymike and the Generator Souper dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:48:01):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour Weather Center.
Sunny and a little bit warmer eighty today, Tomorrow mainly
sunning in warm eighty seven, and then Friday sunny and
slightly cooler with IBAD two temperature currently still fifty one
at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty
k TRH. We're checking out some more of our top
stories on a Wednesday morning. Here's Cliff, Thank you very much.

Speaker 6 (01:48:24):
Jimmy Trump isn't backing off higher tariffs on the Chinese.
The March inflation report comes out tomorrow and the Army
says it will use once again use horse drawn casings
for some funerals at Arlington Cemetery. They were stopped a
few years ago. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH
dot com. Our next update is at eight o'clock.

Speaker 5 (01:48:46):
Fifty nine. In Bound at the loop is always a problem.
KTRH time saving traffic connects on the ten.

Speaker 4 (01:48:54):
Yeah, I wonder what back door James Carville is looking
out of the ragin Cajun raging and talk. Well, he's
talking like, well, I'll give it to you in a nutshell,
but you got to hear him. Greg Guttfeld is in
this cuttoons from his show last night, and basically what
James Carville did was he said that people who are
corporations who are doing business with Trump now they weren't

(01:49:17):
doing business with Trump before. They're like Nazi collaborators. Let's
take a listen to this mess.

Speaker 45 (01:49:24):
How disgrace must these companies that are sucking up to him,
that are giving him tens of millions of dollars for access.
Do you know these collaborators which the country is going
to feel toward collaborators with this regime. Maybe you need
to go in history and see what happened in August

(01:49:48):
of nineteen forty four after Paris was liberated. They didn't
take very kindly to the collaborators.

Speaker 43 (01:50:01):
Carmon looks like someone liberated him from a glass tank
at Petco.

Speaker 5 (01:50:08):
Glad he's taking a break.

Speaker 1 (01:50:09):
From hunting down Sigourney Weaver.

Speaker 43 (01:50:14):
But is he saying these people should be placed in pajamas,
have their heads shaved, and march down Pennsylvania Avenue and
spit on.

Speaker 5 (01:50:20):
I'm not saying.

Speaker 45 (01:50:22):
These people should be placed in pajamas and have their
head shaved, marched now on Pennsylvania Avenue spinout. I'm not
saying that. But I'm saying that that did happen. And
I'm saying if these people betrayed the French nation.

Speaker 5 (01:50:44):
In the same way, and I think that these law.

Speaker 45 (01:50:48):
Firms and these giant corporate conglomerates are betraying the United States.

Speaker 43 (01:50:56):
Now, I'm not saying that James Carville is a barely
functioning retard.

Speaker 5 (01:51:02):
With nothing left of value in this world.

Speaker 7 (01:51:04):
I'm not saying that at all.

Speaker 43 (01:51:05):
I'm also not saying it's pointless t tar and feather
him because he still sheds his skin twice a year.

Speaker 5 (01:51:12):
And I'm also not.

Speaker 43 (01:51:13):
Saying if James Carvill choked to death on one of
his morning feedings of live mice, he wouldn't be missed.

Speaker 4 (01:51:19):
Well, I was sure.

Speaker 1 (01:51:20):
It's fun to not say things.

Speaker 4 (01:51:23):
Yeah, what can we not say about Jasmine Crockett? She
comes to mind. There's a few things we could not
say about her. Her endorsement of the illegals as slaves.
At least that's the analogy she was making. Yeah, that
Trump arrangement syndrome. What is THET I wish I knew
what the first symptom was, so I could just try
to get somebody into some sort of a you know,

(01:51:45):
I don't know. We have so many hospital facilities here.
Maybe if we got them hospitalized as quickly as we
saw the first symptoms, we could we could somehow cure them.
Or is there no cure for this? Listen, y'all, have
a great day. See you tomorrow morning bright nearly at
five am. Hope to see this afternoon at four on
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