The Biden Investigation Is Still On...Will Trump Get A Pardon Too?

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 12/03/24.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is huge Radio seven forty kati RH Houston Drive
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
News, weather and traffic. It's more of what matters to you.
From the John Morris Services Studios. It's five am here
on Houston's Morning News. Good morning, I'm Jimmy Barrett mong
Our top stories. As we get started this morning, commer
says the Biden investigation it's still on. Is a Trump
pardon coming and coming up? At five o' eight? What
do you mean Edron is making a comeback? Details in

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the minutes ahead. You're on Houston's Morning News. First, let's
chick out that morning drive with sky Mike. That was
a fast ride.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
All right, Hardy Toll Road outbound the Hardy VONN is
completely shut down at Alden mail route. They're doing some
kind of scheduled construction. They told us about it too.
It's all over those flashy signs, so outbound not inbound. Okay,
inbound you can goww trust me. These text Freeway twenty
minutes now Umbo and North Freeway Rock and Long twenty
three minutes from sawdest Road into downtown. We will check

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seven forty k TRH. It is time now for the news.

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Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 5 (01:28):
Good morning, Jimmy, and good morning everybody, five oh one
on KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:32):
Our top story, Joe Biden obstructed my Chairman Jordan's investigations.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
He lied multiple times.

Speaker 5 (01:41):
At his House Oversight Committee chair James Comer with ktrh's
Sean Hannity. He's upset with the pardon of Hunter Biden,
and he's far from being the only one.

Speaker 7 (01:51):
They're serious bipartisan backlash. Utah Republican Mike Lee says he
wants Hunter Biden to testify at a hearing. Democrat Michael
accused the president of putting quote, personal interest ahead of duty.
Some of the Democratic blowback is substantial. Ohio Democrat Greg
Lansman said, quote, as a father, I get it, but

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Lansman added, it's a setback for those who want people
to again believe in public service.

Speaker 5 (02:18):
That is Fox's Chad Pergram. Comer also says that he
will continue to investigate the Biden family business despite the pardon.
Well Hunter Biden's lawyers have moved to dismiss the indictments,
but Special Counsel David Weiss is finding that he found
a request to deny that motion for dismissal. And then

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there are other legal scholars who want Biden to go
beyond pardoning his son. Alan Dershowitz thinks President Elke Donald
Trump should get a pardon as well.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
It can't be just the one off.

Speaker 8 (02:49):
He has to now look at every other case in
which people have been prosecuted, not because necessarily what they've done,
but who they are.

Speaker 5 (02:57):
Dershowitz on Newsmax. Meantime, the Rump transition continues. Attorney General
nominee Pam Bondi was on Capitol Hill yesterday to meet
with several key senators, including Iowa was Chuck Grassley and
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. We'll have more on that
coming up at five point thirty. It's now five oh
three on KTRH. Breitbart reports that Mexico has dissolved a

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large illegal alien caravan that was trying to get here
before January. This comes days after Mexico Mexico's President, Claudia
Shinbaum talk to President elect Trump about tariffs if Mexico
didn't secure the border. But Mark, in addition to securing
the border, the President elect is vowed to kick out

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the violent trendyar Roqua gang from Venezuela out of the US.

Speaker 9 (03:47):
But Mark Ricorian with the Center for Immigration Studies tells
KTRH it won't be easy.

Speaker 10 (03:52):
It's almost like a weed has been planted. It's gonna
be hard to get rid.

Speaker 11 (03:57):
Of all of it.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
So can it actually happen?

Speaker 10 (04:00):
You know, I'm optimistic the cup people will be able
to do a lot of good and prune this weed.
But I'm afraid because of four years of Biden, they've
put down roots that are going to be hard to
pull out.

Speaker 9 (04:10):
New borders are Tom Homan will have to lead the charge,
Chuff Biggs News Radio seven.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
Forty k ties.

Speaker 5 (04:18):
And by the way, one of these suspects charged with
killing Houston, twelve year old Joscelyn Nungaree in June has
reported ties to Trendy Iraqua five oh four now on KTRRACH.
And there was more violent crime across Houston yesterday. A
schwatz standoff in southwest Houston last night ends with two
robbery suspects in custody. And then there's this the woman

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charged with beating her friend's four year old is out
on one hundred thousand dollars bond, but the child remains hospitalized.
We've been telling you for years that HPD as an
officer shortage.

Speaker 12 (04:54):
How about this.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
The last cadet class graduated just sixty five new office
Doug Griffith with the Houston Police Officers Union told KTRH
that some of those new cadets already left HPD for
higher paying law enforcement jobs.

Speaker 13 (05:10):
Compared to other departments. We're on the low end, actually
very low end of the pay skill and it's something
that we're going to have to address to get people here, and.

Speaker 5 (05:20):
They'll address it next year. That's when their contract comes
up for negotiation, with Mayor John Whitmeyer already promising to
make HPD the highest paid department in the state. Five
h five on KTRH In Austin, Banning, Foreign donations to
Texas universities is part of a new bill proposed in
the legislature will be a genie of Texas. Scorecard says,

(05:43):
it's a problem that needs to be fixed, and it
goes beyond just China, North Korea and Russia.

Speaker 14 (05:49):
It would also interestingly block government that have given funding
or other aid to foreign terrorist organizations from also having
a hand in influencing.

Speaker 11 (05:59):
Our higher education.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
He says, we need to take every step we can
to prevent them from having any sape in our education.
Looking at your money, new centerpoint natural gas rates are
now in effect, and that means your bill is going
up ever so slightly.

Speaker 15 (06:14):
The City of Houston kept those bills from going up
five dollars a month, But we're not addressing a huge problem.
Most of the natural gas pipelines we use we're built fifty, sixty,
seventy years ago and they need to be replaced. We
have the political leadership to keep rates down, but not
to solve the biggest problems. As the University of Houston
energy fellow at hers will tell you.

Speaker 16 (06:37):
The regulatory compact is broken. The regulators need to be
ahead of the game and thinking about what needs to
be done. To protect society.

Speaker 15 (06:46):
Part of the problem is gas lines are buried. We
don't see them, so the problem isn't staring us in
the face. Michael Shiloh, News Radio seven forty kra.

Speaker 5 (06:56):
Thank you, Michael. And then there's this the Federal Reserve.
They cut in rates twice this fall. There's word they
could do it again later this month if inflation numbers
don't rise.

Speaker 12 (07:07):
We'll get the November numbers next week.

Speaker 5 (07:10):
It's now five oh seven on KTRH, and yesterday was
the anniversary of Enron going bankrupt. But there is some
buzz about a comeback that involves a Houston Chronicle ad
and a website. Jimmy's gonna have more on that in
just a moment as the Rockets visit Minnesota tonight. Pregame
is at six on Sports Talk seven ninety And I'm

(07:32):
Cloff Saunders on Houston's news, weather and traffic station, news
Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 17 (07:38):
Better Boulder, Richard, Safer and Stronger.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
The return the great of America can come back on
news Radio seven KTRH.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
It's all right, just the crooked e making a comeback.
You know. Enron is one of those things for wherever
you feel about what happened at Enron, and plenty of
people feel them very very protective towards it, and there
are other people who feel very much like they were cheated,

(08:10):
And so I will leave it at that. I will
not tell anybody how to feel about Enron. I don't
tell people how to feel about anything, to be honest,
But I'm surprised that somebody would even make an attempt
to bring back the name. It's sort of one of
those names that lives in infamy. En Ron is sort
of synonymous with sudden and total bankruptcy. It's not a

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positive name. It's not something you would think you would
want to have associated with your company. So this ad
appears in the Houston Chronicle, and as it turns out,
by the way, that there's a website attached to this
that is selling merchandise including Enron Power turns me On

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stickers and We're back t shirts now buried in the
terms of use page on this thing as a disclaimer,
the information on the website is First Amendment protected. Parody
presents performance art is for entertainment purposes only. All of
this appears to be tied to a guy by the
name of Connor Gato's one of the people behind the

(09:18):
birds aren't real satirical conspiracy theory and associated merchandise business.
In other words, this is an excuse to sell shirts, basically.
And they made the announcement that, as Cliff just told you,
on the anniversary of the Enron bankruptcy. So no, Enron's
not making good comeback. No, it's not going to be

(09:40):
a real Enron. They just I guess they have purchased
the rights for the use of the name and they're
making T shirts or something out of it, near as
I can tell. But it sure was an elaborate way
to try to get our attention and it worked. Five
to ten time for traffic and weather together. As we
check out the drive once again, skuy Mike's here.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
I am this close to slinky time, but the hardy
bind stops that we're outbound. That's all the lanes are
blocked here. It's some kind of roadwork deal they're doing.
They've been doing it since I can tell you last
night around eleven o'clock. Outbound. All lanes are blocked here.
It's outbound, not inbound. So let's take the east text
forty five. They're rocking along nicely. If you're trying to
leave town. Get this off of me here inbound forty

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five still twenty three minutes. Let's check your shift channel
bridges as we're going out to the Hartman Bridge. We'll
check one forty six. And those of you that play
the home game with me at home that makes sense.
We're at thirteen ten. Looks good on this side, and
I'm looking from the Laporte side this time bytown side
rocks along toll bridge wide open six ten's going sure
from the bud Plant down to two twenty five. Keep

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them a tip line busy seven one three two one
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Center from r KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hours
where the center, Terry Smith is here. Not chili, Not
really the chili. I mean this a little bit warmer
than was yesterday morning at this time, Terry.

Speaker 18 (10:56):
Yeah, you know, our temperatures are cool, is how I
would describe them. And they're also what you would expect
here in early December. So at least we're on track
for where we're supposed to be. Starting out most places
in the upper thirties to forties across southeast Texas.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
It's a dry day.

Speaker 18 (11:17):
Make the most out of it because it is the
last completely dry day that we'll see this week. The
rest of the week, we've got some rain. Temperatures this
afternoon mid upper sixties. Tomorrow, here comes that area of
low pressure to the south of US with some widespread rain.
Eighty percent chance you'll get wet upper sixties to mid
seventies for highs. And just as we go up, we

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start coming back down with some cooler weather beginning Thursday
into Friday. Thirty percent chants of showers both days. Temperatures
Thursday in the low to mid sixties. But Friday, right
now it looks like highs only in the fifties and
a fifty percent chance of more rain on Saturday.

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Speaker 4 (12:11):
Well, the NFO you need to take on the day. Sorry, sir,
didn't meet me. Interrupt Everything you could possibly imagine is
being said about the pardon still the big story reaction
to it. Even in the sports world they're talking about
the pardon steven A Smith. You know, Lias steven A
Smith had some thoughts about the Joe Biden pardon, and

(12:32):
I think he probably nailed it more coming up from him.
Next first though, at five twenty, let's do a little
traffic and weather together. It's you check out the drive again. Yes,
pardon meanski miike, I'm gonna need one, you know.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
On the Hardy Toll Road one morning, outbound total shutdown.
Still well, wait a minute, hold on, it looks like
they're opening No still shut down, shutdown at Alding Bender
they were doing some roadwork. It looks like they have
now opened up a right lane. This is outbound, not inbound.
It's not big on the grand scheme. I would keep
doing in the east text just for grits and chins,
and do the North Freeway that was close down from Rayford.

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Sawdust on the North Freeway twenty three minutes in. And
if you had a grand march at your wedding two nineties,
rocking a long, help me out with the south side.
I can't always see what's going on. Brazoria County. Here's
your tip line seven one three two one two tips.
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top trending stories on this Tuesday morning. Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy.

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Speaker 4 (14:24):
By twenty two our time here on Houston's Morning News.
It seems like now granted, granded, this is this is
called the slow news cycle time. Right, the election's over,
we just had Thanksgiving, Christmas is next. A lot of
folks are going to their happy place. There's not a
lot of things in the world of politics to talk about,
which is I guess you know what do you think

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about it? The timing of the story, you know, releasing
the pardon Thanksgiving weekend was an attempt to sort of
bury it, if you will, in the news cycle, because
you know, people are doing other things. They're holiday shopping,
they don't really care what's going on in the news.
Let's make this, make this as invisible as we can

(15:06):
make it. Right But the problem with that is is
that when Monday comes after Thanksgiving weekend and nobody has
anything to talk about, all they're going to talk about
is this. Even the sports world has been weighing in
on this. Do you know who Stephen A. Smith is.
He does a lot of a commentary on ESPN. He's

(15:27):
a sports commentator basically, but he has gotten more involved
in the world of politics. Here he is talking about
the problem he had with the pardon.

Speaker 19 (15:36):
The Biden situation disgusted me in terms of the parting
only from this standpoint, Chris, nobody on a planet you
want to be a cynic and you want to act
like you would be offended by something like that if
you want. Of those people out there find But no
one within the reason would have a problem with him
saying it's my son.

Speaker 4 (15:54):
I love him.

Speaker 19 (15:55):
There's no way I'm sending him to jail, and I
have the power to avoid it. Nobody would blame him
for that. But that's not where he went. So I
didn't have a problem to answer your question directly with
the decision that he made to part of his son.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
Buver the fool knew he was going to do that.
I don't care who he.

Speaker 19 (16:08):
Stood in front of or sat in front of him
and said that he wasn't going to part of his
son and he was just going to go by the
letter of the law. Please everybody and their grandmother knew
he was going to part.

Speaker 10 (16:16):
In his son.

Speaker 19 (16:17):
But to come out and to start talking about how
it's been a witch hunt and the Department of Justice
and others were after him or whoever it was, and
GOP rather was after him. Well, wait a minute, what
have y'all been doing with Donald Trump all of these years?

Speaker 11 (16:30):
Now?

Speaker 19 (16:31):
You can make an argument about the legitimacy of the
cases against Donald Trump compared to what was a legitimate etc.
That's not the point. The point is it was clearly politicized.
You had folks on the left who were hell bent
on going after Donald Trump because they were determined to
make sure that he couldn't run for reelection or that
these elements would get in the way of him possibly

(16:52):
winning re election. And now we know why more than ever,
because they weren't confident they would ever be able to
beat him. He'd been a Republican nominee since two thousand
and sixteen. He beat Hillary Clinton with the electoral College vote.
He wouldn't concede defeat in twenty twenty, but he did
receive over seventy four million votes at that particular moment
in time. And then you fast forward four years later,
despite the thirty four felony convictions, the two impeachments, the

(17:15):
bevy of crimes that he had been accused of, the
Republican voters out there, the conservative voters out there and
a lot of independence from various communities said he's the.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
Guy we want.

Speaker 19 (17:26):
And I've said it on many many occasions. It wasn't
about him, just like it wasn't about Biden in twenty twenty.
It was more against Trump. In this particular instance, it
was an indictment against the Biden administration. Would have been
going on for the last four years, some of the
things going on with the border, obviously, inflation, of course,
crime in the streets, of course, walk and canceled coaching

(17:46):
and all of that, it all played the role.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
And so for him to come out.

Speaker 19 (17:51):
And to talk about that this was a witch hunt
when clearly it could be argued that's exactly what you
were doing to Donald Trump or you assisted in doing
beyond hypocritical.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
And that was what disgusted me.

Speaker 19 (18:03):
It wasn't his decision, it wasn't imparting in his son.
It was the weak, pathetic explanation that he gave, which
has most critics just shaking their heads and raising their
eyebrows as saying, what nerve you have?

Speaker 20 (18:16):
And I agree with you one hundred percent, and you
know what else Biden should do? And I know people
are going to get upset about this, But just think
about it.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
Before you go crazy on me. If I were he,
I would.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
Pardon Trump Hello, But then you'd have to admit that
everything that you were doing to Trump was a witch
hut it. I don't think they're going to admit to that,
do you. Five twenty six. Time to take a look
at your money. Jeff Bellinger is here. Good morning, Good
morning to you.

Speaker 11 (18:42):
Jimmy.

Speaker 21 (18:43):
Stock started this new week and month with a mixed session.
The Dow lost the little ground yesterday, but the Nasdaq
and the S and P five hundred posted games and
closed at record highs Intel sharer slipped half a percent
after the abrupt departure of CEO Pat Gelsinger, but analys
say Intel can now consider potential deals that Gelsinger opposed,

(19:04):
and Exon Mobile is said to be considering selling its
fifty nine gas stations in Singapore. Sources say selling the
stations would raise about one billion dollars that Exon could
deploy in areas with higher growth potential. Exon is operated
in Singapore for more than one hundred thirty years. Stock
market future is all pointing a little lower at this hour.
I'm Jeff Bellinger Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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It's five thirty here on Houston's Barning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories a hour, I'll trucked arrangement syndrome
just might have saved America, Big construction opposes mass deportation
and coming up at five thirty eight, been fourteen major recalls.
I'm drinking water. Details in the minutes ahead. You're in

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Houston's Morning News. First, just check out that morning drive again.
Sky Mike's here.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
Advisors, let's do some Katie Freeway. Check in your ride
coming in from Brooks shure As. Look, there's BUCkies. We
look good. Grab Parkway into the President's It's easy going.
Twenty six minutes Southwest Freeway. We're rocking from great Wood
all the way up into the Canyon northbound. I don't
even see the little scoots at the west Loop yet.
Six ten and two ninety inbounds. Cyprus eighteen minutes stroll

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into the west Loop six ten. You know you're gonna
see it first, and you'll tell me, and then I'll
let the pretty ladies on TV No. Seven one three
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Buick GMC Traffic Center from r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty
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Speaker 4 (20:50):
With the he temperature right about sixty seven, rain will
be starting tomorrow morning. We'll check out the details how
much rain to expect over the next few days when
we talk to Terry Smith at the Weather Channel in
about eight and a half minutes. Temperajure right now forty
five at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven
forty k TRH, it is time out for the news.
Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 5 (21:11):
Thank you, Jimmy. It is five point thirty one on KTRH.
Our top story, the Trump transition moves forward as Attorney
General nominee Pam Bondy met with key Republicans yesterday. Lard
Governor Ron Desantisa's BONDI should not be afraid to shake
up the DOJ.

Speaker 22 (21:28):
You got to go in there, and I think Pam
will don't try to be liked by the bureaucrats, expect
to be attacked relentlessly by the corporate press, and know
that when that happens, that's a badge of honor.

Speaker 11 (21:41):
That means you're doing the right thing.

Speaker 5 (21:42):
Tosantis on Fox. Not only was Trump derangement syndrome a
major factor in the election last month, but political commentator
Steve McCann says it actually saved America.

Speaker 23 (21:54):
I think history's going to look at this whole situation
of Trump arrangement syndrome as a real attorney point prevented
the country from going down the road that it had
been accelerating for the last twenty years, partecularly with the
Obama presidency.

Speaker 5 (22:08):
He also believes that history will be very critical of
Democrats in the mainstream media for succumbing to teds. Despite
blowing a billion dollar war chest, Kamala Harris is continuing
the fundraise. According to The New York Post, her campaign
is still asking for donations nearly a month after the election.
Her boss is taking a lot of heat for pardoning

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his son Hunter on Sunday, but the Biden administration is
trying to defend it.

Speaker 24 (22:35):
He said he wrestled with this and because he believes
in the justice of sun but he also believes that
the war politics infected the process and led to a
miscarriage of justice.

Speaker 5 (22:47):
Yeah, that was White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre.
Biden ignored questions about the pardon after landing in Africa.
We'll have more on the pardon at six am. It's
five point thirty three on KTRH. Despite a ceasefire being
in place. Has Belah fired rockets at Israel yesterday, with
the Israelis responding and the Bidens State Department spinning.

Speaker 25 (23:12):
Just as anywhere in the world, when you see a
ceasefire implemented, you see various violations at times. Ultimately, what
we don't want to see is the ceasefire breakdown. We've
not seen the ceasefire breakdown.

Speaker 12 (23:22):
Spokesman Matthew Miller.

Speaker 5 (23:23):
There the President elect with a warning for hamas released
the remaining October seventh hostages by January twentieth, or there
will be quote held to pay and that those responsible
will be hit harder than anybody has been hit before.
It's five point thirty four now on KTRH. Well, we

(23:43):
now know that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made promises
to the president elect when the two met at mar
A Lago last week. Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who
was at the meeting, says Canada will toughen up their
border controls and that the two discussed additional security measures
despite laws. There's also more pushback on Trump's promised mass deportations.

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Some construction companies claim that it will ruin their ability
to find workers.

Speaker 26 (24:13):
Despite laws against it. Some companies hire illegal aliens and
then mistreat them.

Speaker 27 (24:17):
They don't provide workmen's compensation for them. They'll work them
sixty hours and only pay them for forty hours, or
they'll work them below minimum wage or things like that.

Speaker 26 (24:26):
Britbart's Bob Price told KTRH, this is exactly why our
labor and immigration laws are so important.

Speaker 27 (24:31):
Treat workers fairly no matter where they're from, and pay
them fairly. If you have legal workers working for you,
they will work for a fair wage.

Speaker 26 (24:40):
Price says that many illegals are forced to work as
indentured servants in order to pay off debts to the
cartels who smuggle them.

Speaker 11 (24:45):
Here.

Speaker 26 (24:45):
Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 5 (24:49):
Thank you, Ethan. It's now five point thirty five. Home
builders here are concerned about the cost of materials thanks
to the possibility of Trump's tariffs, but KTRH Texas Home
improvement show host Jim Dutton says that's overblown.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
I think the.

Speaker 28 (25:03):
Tariffs will actually work themselves out because that is a
negotiating tool that I think will be used to straighten
out some other issues. So I'm not super concerned with that.

Speaker 5 (25:15):
Own builders face regulations on everything from where trees are
planted to what type of air conditioning coolant must be used.
Dutton says the best thing that Trump could do is
work with Congress and several agencies to ease the amount
of paperwork in regulatory burdens. There's also this some retailers
are now offering pre tariff sales. Have you seen these ads?

(25:39):
They want you to buy now, claiming that once Trump
tariffs go into effect, prices will go up. The only
problem is it's all a lie.

Speaker 29 (25:48):
So much of the tariff threat that President Trump is
articulating right now is just that a threat. What he
has done is figured out how to weaponize the purchasing
power of the American Consumer.

Speaker 12 (26:00):
Foundation economist EJN.

Speaker 5 (26:01):
Tony tells KTRH that Trump is just using these tariffs
as a bargaining chip and that most countries will negotiate
with him. Coming up now on five point thirty seven
overnight trading, and Wall Street is flat across all three
in decease. This follows a mixed day yesterday, with the
Dow losing one hundred and twenty eight points while the
Nasdaq gained one hundred and eighty five and as the

(26:25):
cost of buying a home continues to rise, many couples
are flipping the script on the American dream.

Speaker 30 (26:32):
There looks to be an increasing trend of couples buying
their first home before they get married and have children.

Speaker 31 (26:39):
What we're seeing isn't just a housing trend. It's a
reflection of how younger generations today are approaching life's big decisions.
They're practical, they're strategic, and they're not afraid to break
up the tradition.

Speaker 32 (26:49):
Real estate expert Kenya Burrell van Warner says eleven percent
of all home buyers in the US last year were
unmarried couples. Some attorneys Warren that without a marriage certificate,
couples could be less likely to ride out a thirty
year mortgage commitment. Eric Sharp, news Radio seven forty KGRH.

Speaker 5 (27:07):
Thank you, Eric, and the NFL continues to review the
hit by Texans linebacker Aziz al Schier on Jaguars quarterback
Trevor Lawrence from Sunday, al Shire has apologized for the hit.
No action yet from the NFL. And on Cliff Saunders
on Houston's News Weather in Traffic station, News Radio seven
forty KRH.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
What happened, why it happened, The information you need to
start the day. Now back to Houston's morning news one. Okay,
dud Les's water, I'd like it, five thirty eight. Water's
good for you, right. Doctors always tell you drink more water,
drink more water, and we rarely do. But if you're

(27:48):
one of those people who doesn't like water, this probably
won't help in that area because it might scare you
just a little bit.

Speaker 11 (27:54):
All Right.

Speaker 4 (27:55):
We have a several we've had several this year recalls.
It seems like every every morning these days, I'm talking
about some sort of food item recall. Yesterday was eggnog,
a whole variety of different eggnogs that had not been
properly pasteurized. Now they may well be okay, but if
they're not pasteurized the right way, then they're gonna certainly

(28:16):
at the very least spoil sooner. It's always something. Now
we got drinking water, drinking water that may be contaminated
with E. Coli and coliform bacteria. This one doesn't impact
a whole lot of people. In fact, I think it's
only three states. Berkeley Club Beverages had to issue a
recall for thousands of bottles of it's purified and distilled

(28:39):
spring water, which it shipped in one in five gallon bottles.
So it's the ones, you know, for the generally not
the one gallon, but certainly the five gallon ones are
more for the you know, I think the dispensers, if
you will. Also, earlier this year, Fiji, a natural artesian

(28:59):
water had to recall of almost two million bottles of water.
You know, would you like to think that that'd be
one thing you could you could get straight and not
have contaminated, would be water. But the reality is that
it's all as good as the source, and we really
don't know the source of most of the bottle of
water we buy. I mean, where does it come from?

(29:19):
You're when it says spring water. Is it really spring water?
How much of it is just you know, water from
a city that's been run through some sort of a filter.
Five forty time for traffic and weather together, we're checking
out that drive once again. Sky Mike is here.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
I'm not complaining about the weather either, Terry. It's nice
looking at We could clear the Hardy Toll Road, and
that roadwork was that outbound. It's out of the way.
We're back to full speed both ways. Some of you
a little faster. You know, speeding happens sometimes on the
Hardy Toll Road. But for now we're looking good. The
rest of the freeways, we're just kind of in the
calm before the next shoot falls in the woods Grand

(29:55):
park Way. Now, if you're coming around from two to ninety,
there's a lot of nothing out there.

Speaker 15 (29:59):
I like it.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
Look at all those cows coming over from two to
ninety past Tomball and the other way coming over from
Mott Bellevue, all the way around New Caney, And if
you're somebody's butler and Tomball, you've got an easy ride in.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
Look.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Look look at my ghetto house, Terry. Look, I've got
it online there. Let's see I tagged you. We have
got the South Side two eighty eight looking good, twenty
two minutes from Iowa Colony. I'm having a little trouble
getting anything on Roach Share and any kind of digitals
or anything. So if you could tell me what's coming
up from Angleton and Roach Sharon, it would be much appreciated.
And let's go back to the visor side of the world.

(30:33):
At the five point fifty break, Skymike in the classic
Buick GMC traffic center.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
Yeah, look white out there. I love holks using up
their vacation time. Terry Smith is here to tell you
whether or not you should be taking a couple of
days off. Looks like today'd be a good day to
take off. Not so sure about tomorrow, Terry.

Speaker 18 (30:48):
Yeah, if I was to pick, today would be my day,
just because we're sunny, there's no rain, and the temperatures
are pretty much what you would expect in December. So
we're doing okay today. But there's rain on the way.
In fact, there's some wet weather right now down toward
Matagorda Bay and back over toward Victoria and San Antonio,

(31:09):
but none of that's going to make it into Southeast
Texas today. Looking for a dry day, a mild day,
mid upper sixties this afternoon. There's an eighty percent chance
though tomorrow you'll get wet between showers and some thunder.
Temperatures upper sixties to mid seventies, thirty percent chants of
more rain Thursday and Friday, fifty percent chants of some

(31:31):
showers Saturday, and get ready for things to really cool
down by the end of the week. It looks like
Heisel b in the fifties for a lot of us.

Speaker 4 (31:39):
Wow, right now forty four at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH, it's five fifty one the
South Windows Solutions. Hello, we've got a lot of stuff
going on. I guess it's time for trafficking weather together.
Let's do that because EJ. Antonio is standing by to
talk about trades and tariffs. But first though, we've got
to check in with Sky. I can see how the

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drive's going.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
All right, We're gonna pitch from the stretch here. I
do have a North Freeway thing. It's Gerald from Conrad
with guy Mike.

Speaker 33 (32:07):
Sorry I didn't get a preperate cross road, but about
a mile north of twenty nine to twenty on the
North Freeway outbound Red white blue police lights everywhere in
a big long bashuff. I couldn't tell what happened.

Speaker 11 (32:20):
Hits.

Speaker 33 (32:20):
A mess of traffic is starting back up.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
Oh, I see it right there at Graham Parkway. All right,
let me figure out what's going on. Get you some laneage.
We'll do that at six o'clock and I'll share it
with the rest of the media too. Skymike and a
classic Pwick GMC Traffic Center from r KTRH Generator super
Center twenty four hour Weather Center part of the Claude
sixty seven.

Speaker 4 (32:37):
Today tomorrow morning showers, afternoon thunderstorms with the high seventy
two temperature currently forty four at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Time to check out some
of our top stories. Here's clip.

Speaker 5 (32:49):
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(33:11):
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Speaker 4 (33:27):
So have you noticed any sales kind of based on
the upcoming Trump administration, you know, a pre Trump tariff sale, quick,
hurry by this big luxury item before the price goes
up due to Trump tariffs. Yeah, I suppose there are
some that are going to try that. Ej Antoni joins
us and he's an economist at the Heritage Foundation. There

(33:48):
are First of all, you know, we already have some
tariffs that are left over from the Trump years before.
People probably don't even know that they're not really paying
that much more than what they were paying before.

Speaker 11 (34:01):
Exactly.

Speaker 29 (34:01):
That's one hundred percent, right, Jimmy. And you know, one
of the ironies is the fact that we were told
these tariffs were going to cause all these prices to
go up on imports. It was going to crash the economy,
it was going to cause inflation, right, none.

Speaker 11 (34:14):
Of which happened.

Speaker 29 (34:14):
In fact, the average price of imports during the Trump
administration actually went down, not up, and that wasn't an
effect from COVID by the way, we saw prices declining
in twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen two.

Speaker 4 (34:27):
So why are we so afraid of tariffs? Why why
is that the narrative when the reality is we're not
really likely to put that many tariffs on because this
is a negotiation tool.

Speaker 29 (34:39):
Well, Jimmy, I think it's largely because the academics tell
us to be afraid. And the academics, you know, they
get to live in an ivory tower. They don't have
to deal in the real world like Ui and all
the listeners do. But the reality of the matter is
that all of these different tariffs are not born entirely
by the American people. Some in fact, are not paid
by the American people at all. What we saw during

(35:01):
the first Trump administration was about eighty one cents of
every dollar of these tariffs wasn't even passed on to
the American consumer by Chinese manufacturers. Instead, only about nineteen
cents on the dollar was and the other eighty one
cents was literally just paid for by those Chinese producers.
And the reason was, in a lot of cases, American

(35:22):
consumers have alternatives, and if you try to pass on
all of those costs, then consumers will choose one of
those alternatives. This is why Mexico and Canada, Jimmy were
so quick to bend the need to President Trump and
acquiesce to his demands because they know that it will
kill their economies if these tariffs are put in place,
because American consumers will choose to get their products elsewhere.

Speaker 4 (35:46):
Let's tackle one more with you, Eja before we let
you go this morning, and that has to do with you.
May have heard Big Construction came out yesterday and basically
said if there are mass deportations, it will destroy our industry.
There won't be anybody to build your home. Is I
have a legitimate concern or not?

Speaker 29 (36:03):
No, it's not legitimate at all, for a couple of reasons,
not the least of which is the fact that with
this flood of low wage labor, one of the things
that we have seen is a stagnation of wage growth
in a lot of those types of jobs that we
would consider low skilled jobs. Look, that's not a knock
on anyone in those jobs. Everyone starts their careers as

(36:23):
low skilled labor. And what happens is that as you
increase supply, you decrease price. The price in the labor
market is called wages. I don't know why we think
the labor market is different from any other market. It's
in the name for crying out loud labor market. And
so as you start removing those people who shouldn't be
here in the first place, you will see wages for

(36:43):
Americans rise faster, and that will draw more Americans back
into the labor force. Let's not forget we have some
five million American men who left the labor force after
COVID and have never returned. We need to get those
people working.

Speaker 4 (36:56):
Again, well said sir. Appreciate it as always, Thank you.
Ej Antoni. He's an economist with the Heritage Foundation. It's
five fifty six.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
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Speaker 2 (37:16):
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Speaker 4 (37:20):
Six am is our time. You're in Houston's morning news.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories. This half hour
comer says the Biden investigation is still on. Is a
Trump pardon coming and coming up? At six o' eight,
Houston now has one billion dollars worth of vacant office space.
Details and the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,
we're checking out that morning drive once again with Skyline.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
All right, Gerald from Conrod saw the scunch, and then
Tammy from TV just called me. She's like, well, sky Mike,
what is going on on the North Freeway because she
talks like that. Outbound at Graham Parkway, they've taken out
two left nights. It's roadwork, that's what is. Thank you, Gerald,
Banana sticker for your briefcase. Inbound, we're still looking good
from the Woodland and down twenty four minutes up, we're
starting to really scunch up on the North Salm at

(38:04):
Imperial Valley eastbound road work Golf Freeway. It's Mitchell.

Speaker 34 (38:07):
Yeh got Mike northbound at six fIF dis table vehicle.

Speaker 11 (38:11):
There's a coil truck there.

Speaker 28 (38:12):
But right now there's no tom foolery or shanning that's
going on.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
Here here, good verbage all right. Inbound, just watch out
at the south Loop, Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot
Com traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (38:22):
From our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather
Center part of the Contee today looks like about sixty
seven for the high temperature rain coming for Tomorrow's going
to stick around for a while, so get your outdoor
stuff done today. I guess Terry will talk to us
about this in eight minutes. Temperature right now forty four
did your official severe weather station News radio seven forty
k t RH. It's time now for the news. Here's

(38:44):
Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 12 (38:45):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (38:46):
Jimmy, it's six ' oh two on KTRH our top story.

Speaker 35 (38:49):
After saying he would imparton his son, he turns around,
does the very thing lie at the start, lie at
the ending?

Speaker 3 (38:55):
And a terrible four years in between?

Speaker 5 (38:58):
A's House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan upset with the
pardon of Hunter Biden, And maybe we know the real
reason why the President did it in the first place.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
President, Miss pardon is not just about Hunter.

Speaker 13 (39:11):
It's a pardon for Joe himself, because there's no other
reason to go back eleven years.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
That is unprecedented in history.

Speaker 5 (39:19):
That is New York Post columnist Miranda Divine with k
TRHS Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. But if that's why
Joe did it, House Oversid Committee Chair James Comer promises
that the Biden family business investigation isn't going anywhere.

Speaker 12 (39:34):
He lied about his knowledge as an involvement.

Speaker 6 (39:36):
We had sworn testimony from Bob o Lensky and Devin
Archer that said that Joe Biden knew all along what
was going on. He was selling the brand, his brand,
He was selling access to our enemies around the world.

Speaker 5 (39:47):
Comer on Fox. Hunter's lawyers, of course moved to dismiss
the indictments following the pardon, but Special Counsel David Weiss
wants to stop that. He filed a request to deny
that for dismissal. And there's this. Several legal scholars have
now gone on record as saying that Biden should give
a pardon to Donald Trump as well, and some of

(40:10):
Trump's longtime critics say the same thing.

Speaker 3 (40:12):
You know what else Biden should do?

Speaker 20 (40:14):
And I know people are gonna get upset about this,
but just think about it before you go crazy on me.

Speaker 3 (40:19):
If I were he, I would pardon Trump.

Speaker 5 (40:21):
That is Chris Cuomo on News Nation. In the middle
of all this pardon fallout and controversy, more Trump cabinet
picks met with Republican senators on Capitol Hill Pam Bondi,
the potential Attorney general met Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley in
South Carolina's Lindsay Graham or on this coming up at
six thirty. It's now six ' oh four on KTRH.

(40:44):
Remember that illegal alien caravan we've been talking about for
a couple of weeks, Well, Mexico's broken it up. They
were trying to get here before January twentieth. And this
all comes after last week's conversation between President elect Trump
and Mexico's President Claudia Shinbaum, which included the threat of
tariffs if Mexico did not play ball with Trump's spporter policies.

(41:07):
The President elect has promised to track down and kick
out the violent gang trend Dea Ragua, but Mark Corey
in with the Center for Immigration Studies, says that's easier
than it sounds.

Speaker 10 (41:19):
When the new borders are takes over, Tom Homan, he's
going to make a real effort at finding these guys
and throw them out of the country. I just think
that the damage Joe Biden and DHS Secretary of Majoritis
have done can't totally be undone.

Speaker 5 (41:34):
Meantime, the Venezuelan gang members are now operating in sixteen
states plus DC, and of course here in Houston, we
know that the two suspects charged with murdering Joscelyn Noingray
in June had reported ties to the gang. It's now
six ZHO five on the crime beat. The woman charged
with beating our friends four year old is out on

(41:55):
one hundred thousand dollars bond, while the child remains hospitalized.
This morning, and we had more crime overnight as a
swat standoff in southwest Houston ends with a pair of
robbery suspects in custody. For years, we've been telling you
about the Houston police officer shortage. It's not getting any better.
The last HPD cadet class graduated just sixty five new officers.

(42:19):
Some of them are already gone, leaving for higher paying
police jobs.

Speaker 13 (42:23):
The issues doing coming to play again is how to
we retain these officers, and the only way to do
it is through benefits, and so the mayor has promised
he's going to make us one of the highest pad
of state.

Speaker 5 (42:35):
Doug Griffith with the Houston Police Officers Union says their
contract comes up for renegotiation next year. The base salary
for cadets forty two grand, which city leaders are adding
on too, approving a ten thousand dollars hiring incentive six
oh six. In Austin, new legislation is proposed to ban
foreign donations to Texas universities.

Speaker 36 (42:57):
This has been a problem and we could use more
of these.

Speaker 14 (43:00):
We've seen far too many hostile countries try to dick
their fingers into hot into our higher education system in Texas,
and we need to stop.

Speaker 36 (43:08):
It will be a genie of Texas scorecards, says. The
bill would also block governments who funded terrorism, and the
fight goes beyond accepting donations.

Speaker 14 (43:16):
Governor Greg Abba He recently directed state nstees, including funds
controlled by universities, to block investments in China and to
divest from existing holdings tied to the CCP.

Speaker 36 (43:26):
He says foreign entities should never have influence in state affairs.
Andrei Perard News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 4 (43:33):
Thanks Andre.

Speaker 5 (43:34):
Centerpoint customers are going to see a twelve cent increase
on their natural gas bills this month. That's because the
city of Euston rejected a more expensive plan that would
have raised your bill by five dollars. The big problem
that's not being addressed, though, is that the natural gas
pipeline infrastructure is starting to fail. According to uh's ed Hers.

Speaker 16 (43:55):
A lot of the natural gas infrastructure that Centerpoint is
using was put in place fifty actually seveny years ago,
and steel and iron a little rust and deteriorate over
time that has to be replaced.

Speaker 12 (44:06):
He says.

Speaker 5 (44:07):
Centerpoint and state regulators should be talking about where the
money's going to come from to replace those deteriorating gas lines.
Oil futures this morning are up to about sixty nine
dollars a barrel ahead of this week's OPEC plus meetings,
and according to reports, that group will extend production cuts
until the end of March six oh seven. Yesterday, the

(44:29):
anniversary of Enron going bankrupt and the company claiming to
be en run to got a full page in the
Houston Chronicle and add and then fired up a website
claiming that they were coming back. It appears to be
all tied to a company that's known for parodies the
Rockets visit the Timberwolves. Tonight coverage starts at six on

(44:50):
Sports Talk seven ninety and I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news,
weather and traffic station is Radio seven forty ktrh.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
I live in Conrad.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
I lived in deerw on the ten you're reliable forecast
on seven forty ktright, I like that.

Speaker 4 (45:08):
That's a banging version six eight is our time here
in Houston's boring news. And if you own an office
building here in Houston, you probably are banging your head
against the wall because despite best efforts to try to
enforce strict return to office mandates, office vacancies here in
Houston remained very, very high. Study recently released says the

(45:29):
city's empty office space represents as staggering one point five
five billion dollars in lost rent for office building owners.
According to a news Switch on Business survey, Houston is
one of eleven major metropolitan areas with at least one
billion dollars worth the vacant office space now. The report

(45:50):
saw Houston take the number seven spot is the city
with the most vacant spaces. Dallas took the number six spot,
Austin took the number twelve spot, and Antonio was pretty
deep down the list of number thirty five. But every
major city in America has vacant office space at levels
that we have not seen in recent history or at least,

(46:13):
you have not really recovered since the pandemic. I mean
that's when we really started to see it was in
twenty twenty during the pandemic, and it really hasn't recovered
very well. Houston's in the third quarter Houston office vacancy
rate twenty point eight percent. That's up from twenty point
one percent year on year from the same period in
twenty twenty three. I guess the question becomes, what do

(46:33):
you do? How do you cure it? Because it doesn't
seem to me. It seems to me that even the
businesses that usually have office space or need office space
in the city are pairing down the amount of office
space that they need. You know, they're they're consolidating, they're
making their office space smaller, which is, you know, they

(46:55):
may still be in the city, they may still be
in an office building, but they're in a much smaller space.
Certainly that's true with us. So how do you recover
from that? What do you do? If you're an office building,
order do you remodel? Do you know, go in a
different direction, do you go into a housing direction? Hard
to say six to hand time for traffic and weather together.
Check out that drive again, here's sky Mike all right.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
Golf Freeway. They just cleared that stall at the south
loop inbound Mitch from the Gulf with the banana sticker
on his head this morning, and it never was It
was just a minor hub of it never was a
full who hah. We've got some brakes right after waffle House.
Nothing to worry about. Stay the course, East Texas. What
are you doing at the graveyard there? Southbound slowing down
for no reason. If we can just get the ignorant
people out of your way, maybe an extra minute or two.

(47:39):
I don't see anything really happening. Outbound North Freeway outbound,
not inbound. Right at Grant Parkway, we're missing two lanes.
They just threw up some pavement repair at the last minute.
Here we got brakes right after spring on the northbound southbound.
We actually look pretty good now. A little thick round
West Road.

Speaker 4 (47:55):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
Got a smudge going on off that ramp.

Speaker 37 (47:58):
On that.

Speaker 3 (47:59):
Let's go to the west side here, advisors, Katie Freeway
inbound off the Remp to Graham Parkway. I strongly suspect
a stall. Give me the six to twenty report and
I'll give you some I'll get with some laneage on
that nord Sam westbound all the westfield two left lines
block here AT's roadwork. It's a lifestyle going that way.
You lose about six minutes. Terry, What exactly is a

(48:21):
mule and why does it come with a tide? Is
it an Alabama thing? I'm sky mikel Nobody says roll Christmas,
I'm Skymichael. The generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center line
comes in the form of a log. A mule is
a log?

Speaker 4 (48:34):
Yeah? No, well it's yeah yule log.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
Can your you'll be happy? Can you say that happy?

Speaker 10 (48:40):
Ule?

Speaker 4 (48:40):
Is that right? Are you feeding it from ar Katrage
top tax defenders? Twenty four hour weather sentor Terry is here? Yeah,
mule tide is almost here. You may be needing to
put a yule log on the fire this weekend, don't
you think?

Speaker 12 (48:57):
I think so?

Speaker 18 (48:58):
In fact, today would be an excellent data stuck up
on some firewood, folks. Temperatures are going to be much
colder Friday and Saturday than they are right now. Right now,
it's just like typical December, and we can deal with that.
And the fact that it's a sunny, dry day helps too.
Midumber sixties Today, here comes the rain. Eighty percent chance

(49:19):
you'll get wet Tomorrow. It still is mild tomorrow, upper
sixties to mid seventies, starting to cool down a little bit. Thursday. Thursday,
we have a thirty percent chance of some rain, low
to mid sixties. Thursday, thirty percent chance of more rain,
but there's a lot of cold air. Friday, heights in
the fifties. Friday, We're still looking at some wet weather Saturday,

(49:42):
and temperatures either side of sixty degrees on Saturday.

Speaker 4 (49:46):
Wow, looks like the long pants are coming out this weekend.
Right now, forty four at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty ktrh.

Speaker 3 (49:54):
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Speaker 4 (50:03):
You know, it's December kind of you know, very close
to Christmas, in the new year, and of course we
have a tendency to sort of reflect back at the year.
And one of the things, of course, one of the
big highlights we don't have to go that far back
to reflect on it is the election and how the
election turned out. It would it be too much to
say that one single malady caused the election results. We
had Trump derangement syndrome. We'll talk to Steve mccanner wrote

(50:27):
a story about that for American Thinker. We'll talk to
him next. First though, I'm traffic short, go ahead, trafficking
weather together, skuy Mike outbound.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
You got I forty five northbound at Graham Parkway. That's
a big scooch here. This is two lanes blocked here.
It's road construction. I'm trying to get Tammy from Channel
thirteen to say hubus tanker on the air, and she
want to do it. Y'all jump on my Twitter talk
to her. I'm skymikeh the Generator Supercenter dot.

Speaker 4 (50:50):
Com traffic Center from r KTRH stop tax defenders, twenty
four hour weather Center. Sunny and cool today with the
high temperature of sixty seven. Tomorrow morning showers, afternoon thunderstorms,
but pretty much wet all day with the high temperature
of seventy two. Current temperature forty four at your official
severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. Time to
check out some of our top stories on the Tuesday.

(51:11):
Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 12 (51:12):
We are sponsored by Moro mechanical.

Speaker 5 (51:14):
President elect Donald Trump is in France this weekend to
attend the reopening of the Notre Dawn Cathedral. Vehicle safety
inspections will end for most Texans on January first. In
the US Post Office says that if you want your
package to get to where it's supposed to be by Christmas,
you need to send it by December eighteenth. Get the

(51:35):
latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next update
is at six thirty.

Speaker 4 (51:40):
You like free stuff.

Speaker 3 (51:41):
We all like free stuff.

Speaker 38 (51:43):
Guess what.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
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Speaker 11 (51:52):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (51:52):
Trump derangement syndrome is real, but it also may be
the number one, if not the only, reason why the
election turned out the way. Steve began joined us with
American Thinker. He wrote a story about it for them. Steve,
Welcome to the show here this morning. Trump arrangement syndrome
caused the progressive left to do some things they might

(52:14):
otherwise thought better of doing.

Speaker 11 (52:15):
Don't you think, Yeah, Jimmy, it was really a strange election.

Speaker 23 (52:21):
Trump's arrangement syndrome really had its beginning back during the
Obama years, when the establishment or the ruling class allied
itself with the left that was under Obama taking over
the Democrat Party, because they were more concerned about maintaining
power than taking care of the country, and they were

(52:41):
pretty much convinced that this alliance would have put them
in a position of being in power almost permanently, particularly
with one more election in twenty sixteen. Well, everything was
going along swimming l until Trump decided to get into
the race in twenty fifteen. Donald Trump was almost what

(53:04):
you would call an ex potential threat to this alliance
because he possessed a trait that the ruling elites in there,
the Marxist's parent allies, could never match. Trump could not
only relate to and empathize with the people, but he
also thought, acted and spoke like many of them. And

(53:25):
to this cabal, the possibility of having a man they
perceived to be the composite of their stereotypes of average
Americans occupying that White House infuriated these so called best
and brightest, and his ability to connect with the people
and create a powerful political movement.

Speaker 11 (53:45):
Just absolutely put him over the top.

Speaker 23 (53:48):
And when he won, they really descended into an uncontrolled rage,
which eventually exposed them in their agenda and caused them
to commit some of the biggest blunders of American political history.

Speaker 4 (54:03):
Everyone remembers, Steve, do you think, before we get into
the blunders here, do you think that anything has been
learned from this though? Because up up until the last
few weeks, it didn't feel like anything, that this was
all news to the progressive left that they hadn't really
learned from it. But now we're seeing you know, you know,
borning Joe going down to mar A Lago and meeting

(54:23):
with Trump and kissing his ring. We're seeing the folks
at Facebook going down there to meet with him. We're
seeing foreign leaders, justin Trudeau going to Marrow Lago to
meet with Trump. All of a sudden, everybody's showing up
to kiss his ring or seemingly anyway, Well, I think that's.

Speaker 23 (54:38):
More you hit the nail there, Jimmy, seemingly. I think
a lot of it is self preservation and maintaining their
lifestyle and their power structure. I don't think for a
minute that they would stab him in the back again
if they had the opportunity, and.

Speaker 11 (54:55):
He's still the devil to these people.

Speaker 23 (54:58):
And right now it's a matter of maintaining their status
and their power position in the country. That's more important
to them than simply trying to get along with Trump
because at the moment they don't have any choice in
the matter. But you know, this is the same group
that's you know, starting and during the during the Trump years,

(55:22):
they tried to impeach him, they tried to neuters, they've
tried to imprison him. The new Terrish presidency, they starting
in twenty twenty, they completely misread the electorate and how
they decided to go after winning the election with the
mail in ballots and ballot harvested, right, you know, they

(55:45):
really alienated half of the half of the country after that.

Speaker 4 (55:50):
I think their most desperate move though, was when they
decided they were going we run out of ideas, we're
just calling Hitler.

Speaker 23 (55:57):
Well that's that's another indicative aspect than the entire Trump arrangements.

Speaker 11 (56:03):
I mean, when you get to that level of name calling,
when you're down to the great.

Speaker 4 (56:07):
School school level, when you get to we get to
your mama, you know you're in trouble. Let me ask
you one last wing, because we need to run here, Steve,
But do you think that Trump derangement Sindo syndrum dies
with the Trump administration. When when Trump is done in
four years, is that the end of it or will

(56:27):
it just be the return of it for whoever the
next Republican candidate is.

Speaker 23 (56:32):
I think it's still going to remain with us as
long as we have the element within the Democrat Party
that the left wing has taken over. That's still going
to be there to some degree, and among the ruling elites,
there's still.

Speaker 11 (56:44):
Going to be looking out for themselves.

Speaker 23 (56:45):
It's not going to be as severe or as obvious
to the rest of the electorate, because Trump obviously is
someone that's pretty unique in political American political history.

Speaker 11 (56:57):
But it'll still be there, Jimmy, it will still be there.

Speaker 4 (56:59):
All right. Deep, Thank you always, good to talk to, sir.
Steve McCann, American Thinker, six twenty seven. It's time to
take a look at your money, Jeff Bellinger, what's going on.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
Well, Jimmy.

Speaker 21 (57:09):
Post election surveys by regional federal Reserve banks find that
American companies are more upbeat about their prospects. Anticipation of
more pro business policies has pushed sentiment to the highest
level in years. Stock market futures are a little changed
right now, I'm Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg Business on News Radio
seven forty ktrh.

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Six thirty Our Time, Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories this half hour. Trump arrangement syndrome
saved America, they constructed, they oppose best deportation and coming
up at six thirty eight, So what was with the
black lettering on that olive garden breadstick? Details in the minutes.
Say ahead, you're in Houston's Morning News. First sky Mike,

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what you got?

Speaker 3 (58:09):
I got North Freeway all you can stand on the outbound.
That's some road construction. It's really scooched up at Graham
Parkway outbound, not inbound inbound. You're still pretty reasonable. I
got Sewan from Pearland. I think on the tip line
limit check here.

Speaker 39 (58:21):
Hey guy, Mike Sewan from Peerland. You got a bunch
of NPR listeners on two eighty eight doors. We're backing
up at mccarr doesn't know what's going on yet.

Speaker 3 (58:29):
All right, let's check that out. Also, I've got a
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(59:04):
It's time now for the news. Here's Clipsanders.

Speaker 5 (59:07):
Thank you, Jimmy six thirty two on KTRHR. Top story
the Trump transition. In Coming Attorney General Pam Bondy meets
with Republican senators yesterday ahead of confirmation hearings next month.

Speaker 3 (59:19):
She's a great choice, been a longtime friend. I think
the right person at the right time.

Speaker 30 (59:24):
I'll look forward to next.

Speaker 5 (59:26):
Year, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. One of the Republicans
that Bondy sent down with the other was Iowa's Chuck Grassley. Now,
there are many reasons why Donald Trump won the election
in a landslide last month. One of them might surprise you, and.

Speaker 9 (59:42):
That would be what is known as TDS Trump derangement syndrome.

Speaker 23 (59:47):
Their derangement about Trump causing them to just make one
sliping mistake after another, which eventuated Trump winning on our
last side, a.

Speaker 9 (59:55):
Win that political writer Steve McCann says saved America.

Speaker 23 (01:00:00):
By winning this election and soundly defeating the elites and
a Marxist and Democrat authority, leave basically saved the nation.

Speaker 9 (01:00:08):
He adds that history will have a lot to say
about this. Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty katrad Thank you, Jeff.

Speaker 5 (01:00:15):
Now, even though she lost, Kamala Harris still wants your money.
The New York Post reports that her campaign is still
fundraising a month after the election. This is on top
of the billion dollars she already got and blew through.
President Joe Biden's pardon of Hunter. Biden is being criticized
from both sides of the isle. The administration, though, is

(01:00:38):
trying to justify it.

Speaker 24 (01:00:39):
The President believed enough is enough, and the President took action,
and he also believes that they try to break his
son in order to break him.

Speaker 5 (01:00:51):
Kareeine Jean Pierre on the flight from DC to Africa yesterday,
where Biden ignored questions about the pardon It's coming up
on thirty four. Despite the temporary ceasefire, has Bela fires
rockets at Israel from Lebanon, which leads to a response
from the Israelis. But Texas Senator Ted Kruz thinks the

(01:01:11):
incoming Trump administration can bring peace to the region.

Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
In the next year, both of the wars that are
raging on will end. The war in Ukraine will end
and the war in Israel will end.

Speaker 5 (01:01:22):
Cruise with ktrh is Sean Hennity last night. The President elect,
for his part, is warning Hamas or at least the
hostages from October seventh by his inauguration, or there will
be quote hell to pay. Canada is promising to befump
border security at its southern border. That's the word from

(01:01:42):
their Public Safety minister, who was at mar Lager with
Justin Trudeau last week for that meeting. With the President elect,
and as Trump prepares his deportation plans, construction companies are
complaining that it could hurt their access to cheap labor.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
Taglet's come across the border.

Speaker 27 (01:02:01):
They still owe the money to the cartels for their
smuggling fee, and they're forced to work in inventured servitude
in construction and hospitality.

Speaker 5 (01:02:09):
That's Brakebart's Bob Price, who says that these workers are
often mistreated by their employers six point thirty.

Speaker 12 (01:02:15):
Five on KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:02:16):
While the home building industry is happy with the incoming administration,
it's expected to work to reduce the paperwork and regulation
that they've been buried with under Biden. Texas Home improvement
show host Jim Dutton says it's one of the biggest
roadblocks to building homes today.

Speaker 28 (01:02:32):
Everything from where you've got to plant trees to well
the new one, what type of air conditioning coolant you
have to use for the new air conditioning systems. All
of this stuff adds money.

Speaker 17 (01:02:44):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:02:44):
While builders are concerned about the effects of Trump's tariffs
on the cost of materials, Dutton says even that can
be managed easier than the overregulation they've had to deal with.
There are some businesses that are using new scare tactics
to get you do buy.

Speaker 39 (01:03:00):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:03:01):
Here's what they're doing. They're telling you that prices could
go up due to Trump's tariffs on China.

Speaker 26 (01:03:08):
The truth is, just like in his first term, Trump's
tariffs likely won't lead to any price hikes.

Speaker 29 (01:03:12):
What we saw during the first Trump administration was a
lot of fear mongering around tariffs, but we actually saw
the average price of imports go down.

Speaker 26 (01:03:21):
Heritage Foundation economist e j Atni told KTRH, this is
just more of the same lies we've heard for years.

Speaker 29 (01:03:27):
The same people who are telling us Trump is going
to cause runaway inflation also said during his first term
he was going to cause runaway inflation.

Speaker 26 (01:03:35):
An Tony also says that China will probably just negotiate
with Trump before tariff's even come into play. Ethan beginning
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 12 (01:03:44):
Thank you, Ethan.

Speaker 5 (01:03:44):
It's now six thirty six. Stock futures are flat ahead
of the opening bell on Wall Street. It was a
mixed day yesterday, with the Doubt losing one hundred and
twenty eight and the Nasdaq gaining one hundred and eighty five.
Now this is a switch his house prices continue to soar.
We're seeing a growing trend among young couples by their

(01:04:05):
first home and then get married.

Speaker 31 (01:04:08):
For many young couples, the fifty thousand dollars dream wedding
is taking the back seat today than it was just
a few years ago because that fifty thousand dollars could
be used for a down payment.

Speaker 5 (01:04:16):
Real estate expert Kenya Van Burrell Van Warmer says just
over eleven percent of home buyers last year were unmarried couples.
And no action from the NFL as of yet, but
the league is continuing to review that hit by Texans
linebacker Aziz al Shier on Trevor Lawrence from this past
Sunday Big.

Speaker 10 (01:04:35):
What can be does?

Speaker 40 (01:04:36):
Just have to look at all sizes right, and we
don't have to overreact just because I think a guy
gets hurt. We're not intentionally trying to hurt anyone. I
think there's an overreaction when someone gets hurt, but we
just have to look at it all from all perspectives.

Speaker 5 (01:04:51):
Coach Tamiko Ryans there el Shire has apologized for the hit,
and I'm Cloff Saunders on Houston's News, whether in traffic
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Speaker 4 (01:05:14):
Let me start by saying, I actually do like olive Garden.
I'm not an Italian food snob. My wife, who is Sicilian,
even likes olive Garden. I mean, she'd be the first
to say that in her mind it is Italian chunk
food certainly not like you know, Mama would make. But
it's still good stuff. And the other thing I like

(01:05:34):
about it is that there's plenty of them. They are
very consistent with their food, and they are and there's
a reason why they're so consistent.

Speaker 10 (01:05:42):
By the way.

Speaker 4 (01:05:42):
I'll get to that in a second. I have never
had this happen. You ever been to an olive garden
and pulled out a breadstick and there was printing on
the bread stick. This happened to one TikTok user evidently,
who went to olive Garden and took a picture of
the bread stick, and on the breadstick it says O

(01:06:02):
K six And it looks like it's printed right on
the bread stick. Obviously they're not printing on the breadsticks.
Nearest anybody can tell, probably what happened is it came
from a bag of frozen breadsticks, because those things are
all made elsewhere. They're not made from scratch. At the

(01:06:23):
olive garden restaurants you go to, I'm back, virtually nothing
is other than maybe the salad. But they it probably
transferred from the packaging, of course, all the gardens at
what where were you? What happened?

Speaker 11 (01:06:39):
You know?

Speaker 4 (01:06:39):
And evidently you know, talk to the tich docer and
send them a gift card for like a hundred bucks
now go away kind of a thing. And I think
I think part of the secret for the consistency. I
have a son who worked at Oligards. My son Brian
did for a little while, and this is what he
told me. I have no idea, and it certainly has
an impact of whether or not I eat there. It's

(01:07:00):
a it's a darden restaurant. Like I said, they're all
over the country in order to make sure that their
product is consistent. I am told that what they do
is they basically prepare the meals ahead of time. They
put them in in preparation bags, they freeze them and
then they send them to the restaurants. So what's happening

(01:07:21):
behind the scenes. Nobody's making fresh pasta there, and they
are making you a fresh salad, obviously, but everything else
is frozen and they make it to order. So if
everything is frozen and comes in a bag, then you
can see how something like that can happen. I guess
six forty. Time for traffic and weather together as we
check out the drive once again, here's skyline.

Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
Oh we're a buzz now, I've got Eric from Kingwood.
Looks like we got trouble on both sides of I
sixty nine. Let's go to the north side. Eric from Kingwood.

Speaker 13 (01:07:47):
Would happen based at my fifty nine inbound right over
Kingwood drivers, it's all in the middle lane, all.

Speaker 3 (01:07:53):
Right, that's on the southbound side. Look out. I will
let the rest of the media know, and you watch
out for others, nations listeners that are swerving at the
last minute. Let's go the other side of I sixty nine.
It's Scott from Richmond.

Speaker 39 (01:08:05):
Dude got Mark down bound fifty nine right before the
ninety nine Crab River exit. Uh huh was wrecking the
right hand lane nine is on the same boom.

Speaker 3 (01:08:16):
Extra points for burbage with your banana sticker. That's outbound,
not inbound Crab River, which is also the exit for
Graham Parkway northwest side. What's cranking seven three two t ips, Mike.

Speaker 24 (01:08:28):
There is a woodtle letter on the left lane on
two ninety right before Pie.

Speaker 3 (01:08:33):
All right, that looks to be inbound looking you know,
I need a ladder so bad, Terry and Ghetto Dave's
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I'm I'm going to petition for President Trump to party
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Speaker 4 (01:10:00):
So are you worried about the possibility of a cashless
society where you don't you can't get your hands on cash,
it's all digital. There are parts of the world that
are going in that direction, and one of them seems
to be Australia, where their number one bank is now
going to charge its customers a fee to take money

(01:10:20):
out of their own account. More on that story coming up. First, though,
we got traffic and weather together as we check out
that drive once again, sky Mike is here.

Speaker 3 (01:10:30):
I got big suckage on the East tex Freeway southbound.
Eric from Kingwood's got a bananer sticker on his briefcase
this morning. This is inbound. I'm trying to help the
rest of the media and they won't even listen to me.
Inbound Kingwood Drive, there's a stall center lane. Look at
those backups. We are packed plumb from Porter and then
on the North Freeway outbound. That roadwork is really scooching
us up. That's at Grand Parkway. We're messed up almost

(01:10:52):
from Cypruswood on the outbound. And Sean from Pearland. What
did you get for me? You got that Southwest Freeway
outbound River Road that was Scott from Richmond. That's not
really causing a big problem. Downtown Louisiana Street right before
the entrance, it's metro bus in an accident. There's also
an HPD involved. Hopefully everybody's okay. Skymike and a classic

(01:11:13):
Buick GMC.

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Thank you Jimmy.

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Speaker 4 (01:12:13):
Yeah, I'm not talking digital, I'm talking cash. I like
to have a little cash in my wallet, do you
know what I mean? There's this is something that's going
out around the world, and you have to wonder how
long before it happens here? I mean, you get charged
ATM fees every now and again. If you are taking
money out and an ATM that's not a part of
your bank. But in Australia, their biggest bank is charging

(01:12:36):
their own customers to take money out of their own
accounts at their either bank branches or ATMs. Here's a
report on just how upset people are in Australia.

Speaker 3 (01:12:50):
Well, it might not.

Speaker 41 (01:12:51):
Rule anything for much longer as cash moves further and
further away from being king. Come Bank today on veiling
plans to move some customers onto different accounts where they'll
be slugged a cash withdrawal fee from early next GM.

Speaker 3 (01:13:04):
I think it's absolutely disgusting, really really terrible. You should
not have to pay to withdraw any of your own money.

Speaker 41 (01:13:09):
The change, we'll see customers pay three dollars for any
withdrawal that requires someone to help them, including withdrawals at
a branch, a post office or over the phone. But
Commonwealth Bank says there are exemptions for age and disability pensioners,
pointing out that getting cash from their ATMs is still free.

Speaker 27 (01:13:29):
This is a kick in the gas for ordinary Australians
and the worst Christmas present imaginable.

Speaker 3 (01:13:36):
There will be people that really suffer as a result.
It's kind of like a text for my ninety three
year old father who's still.

Speaker 4 (01:13:41):
Operations with cash.

Speaker 41 (01:13:42):
It comes as Combank has also opened a number of
specialist centers which don't have any tellers that handle physical cash.

Speaker 11 (01:13:49):
I don't like cash.

Speaker 3 (01:13:50):
I think it's just makes it a while to a
well fish.

Speaker 41 (01:13:53):
I feel like my generation doesn't really use cash, so
I'm really not exposed to it a lot. But it's
not the only bank targeting HASH users. Just last month,
both Bendigo and Adelaide Banks introduced to two dollars fifty
fee for customers withdrawing cash from their branches.

Speaker 38 (01:14:09):
I think a three dollar fee to access your own
money just because you went into a branch does.

Speaker 23 (01:14:14):
Not pass the pump test.

Speaker 38 (01:14:16):
It seems just unfair that banks would be charging people
for using cash.

Speaker 3 (01:14:21):
And the war on cash doesn't stop there.

Speaker 41 (01:14:23):
Almost four hundred and fifty bank branches and eight ams
have been shut down in the last financial here alone.

Speaker 38 (01:14:29):
Over one hundred billion dollars worth of cash has been
withdrawn out of eighty and across the country in the
last twelve months. Cash might not be king anymore, but
it's certainly not dead in the water.

Speaker 4 (01:14:41):
Yeah, well that dead my water anyway. Now, I will say,
for example, locally Croker, if you want to if you're
going through the checkout line of the supermarket and you
want to get cash, they will charge your fee. I
think it's like seventy five cents. Most places you can
still get cash for free. I think it starts here
with more and more businesses charging you some sort of
a fee to get your hands on CAM. I don't
know if the banks are ready to do that yet.

(01:15:02):
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the Biden investigation It's still on. Is a Trump pardon
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Word of the Year details in the minutes ahead. You're
in Houston's Born News first.

Speaker 7 (01:17:01):
Know it first.

Speaker 4 (01:17:02):
We're gonna check in with sky Miner.

Speaker 3 (01:17:04):
All right, all right, so we've got Mike from Copperfield
and has Matt Mark from Spring. I've got big sugage
on two ninety. What in the world is going on
right there just before the Beltway. I see the hard
front door. We'll get into that. I'll bet we've got
some kind of wreck. I hope nobody ran into that
ladder inbound. That is a solid packup now from Huffmeister
Katie Freeway Visors. You're crammed up from Graham Parkway. You're

(01:17:27):
stopped up right at the belt too, and we still
have that big stall East Text Terrible Kingwood Drive. You're
plumb backed up from Porter. I'm Skymike and the Generator
Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:17:37):
From our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour weather Center.
Sunny cool today with the high temperature right about sixty seven,
but there's quite a bit of rain coming. We'll talk
to Terry Smith about that in eight minutes. Temperature right
now still forty four at your officials, Severe Weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH. It's time now for
the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 5 (01:17:56):
Thank you, Jimmy seven oh two on kg RH. We're
sponsored by Plays for All Seasons. Our top story.

Speaker 6 (01:18:02):
Joe Biden obstructed my Chairman Jordan's investigations.

Speaker 3 (01:18:07):
He lied multiple times.

Speaker 5 (01:18:10):
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comber with our own Sean
Hannity last night. He's upset with the pardon of Hunter Biden,
and he's not the only one.

Speaker 7 (01:18:18):
They're serious bipartisan backlash. Utah Republican Mike Lee says he
wants Hunter Biden to testify at a hearing. Democrat Michael
Bennett accused the president of putting quote, personal interest ahead
of duty. Some of the Democratic blowback is substantial. Ohio
Democrat Greg Lansman said, quote As a father, I get it,

(01:18:40):
but Lansman added, it's a setback for those who want
people to again believe in public service.

Speaker 5 (01:18:45):
At is Fox's Chat program. Comber, for his part, says
he'll continue to investigate the Biden family business Hunter. Biden's
lawyers moved to dismiss the indictments against him after Sunday's pardon,
but Special Counsel David Weiss is fighting that, filing a
request to deny that motion for dismissal, and other legal
scholars want Biden to go beyond pardoning his son. Alan

(01:19:08):
Dershwitz thinks President elect Donald Trump deserves a pardon as well.

Speaker 3 (01:19:12):
It can't be just the one off.

Speaker 8 (01:19:14):
He has to now look at every other case in
which people have been prosecuted, not because necessarily what they've done,
but who they are.

Speaker 5 (01:19:22):
Dershowitz on Newsmax. Meantime, the Trump transition continues. Attorney General
nominee Pam Bondi was on Capitol Hill yesterday. She'll be
back today along with Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hexith. It's
now seven oh four on KTRH. Breitbart is reporting that
Mexico has broken up that large illegal alien caravan that

(01:19:43):
was trying to get here before Trump took office. This
comes days after Mexico's president talked to the President elect
about tariffs on Mexico if that country didn't secure its
border in addition to securing the border, the president elect
is promised to kick out the violent Trendy Iraqua gang
from the.

Speaker 9 (01:20:03):
US, but Mark Riccorriyon with the Center for Immigration Studies
tells k TRH it won't be easy.

Speaker 10 (01:20:10):
It's almost like a weed has been planted. It's going
to be hard to get rid of all of it.

Speaker 4 (01:20:15):
So can it actually happen?

Speaker 10 (01:20:17):
You know, I'm optimistic the Trump people will be able
to do a lot of good and prune this weed,
but I'm afraid because of four years of Biden, they've
put down roots, so they're going to be hard.

Speaker 4 (01:20:27):
To pull out.

Speaker 9 (01:20:28):
New borders are Tom Homan will have to lead the charge.
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty k tierre.

Speaker 5 (01:20:35):
And one of these suspects charged with killing that Houston
twelve year old Joscelyn nongerat in June, has reported ties
to Trendy i Roquab seven point five on k TRH
Moore violent crime across Houston. It was a home invasion
that led to a swat standoff in Southwest Houston overnight.

Speaker 12 (01:20:52):
It ended with a pair of suspects in custody.

Speaker 5 (01:20:55):
The woman charged with beating her friend's four year old
is out on one hundred thousand dollars, but the child
remains in the hospital. And this just in a Houston
police vehicle and a metro bus were involved in a crash.
No word on any injuries at this time. We'll keep
an eye on that. We've been telling you for years
that HPD has an officer shortage. The last cadet class

(01:21:18):
graduated just sixty five new officers. Doug Griffith with the
Houston Police Officers Union told KTRH at some of those
new officers already left for higher paying police.

Speaker 13 (01:21:29):
Jobs Compared to other departments. We're on the low end,
actually very low end of the pace skill and it's
something that we're going to have to address to get
people here.

Speaker 5 (01:21:39):
And that contract comes up for renegotiation next year. Mayor
John Whitmeyer has promised to make Houston cops the highest
paid in Texas. Seven oh six in Austin, banning foreign
donations to Texas universities is part of a new bill
proposed in the legislature. Will be a Genie of Texas.
Scorecard says it's a problem that needs to be fixed

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and that this bill goes beyond China, North Korea and Russia.

Speaker 14 (01:22:05):
It would also interestingly block government that have given funding
or other aid to foreign terrorist organizations from also having
a hand in influencing our higher education system.

Speaker 5 (01:22:16):
He says, we need to take every step we can
to prevent these adversaries from having any say in our education.
Looking at your money, new center point, natural gas rates
are now in effect. That means your bills are going up.

Speaker 15 (01:22:31):
The City of Houston kept those bills from going up
five dollars a month, but we're not addressing a huge problem.
Most of the natural gas pipelines we use we're built
fifty sixty, seventy years ago and they need to be replaced.
We have the political leadership to keep rates down, but
not to solve the biggest problems. As the University of
Houston energy fellow ed hers will tell you.

Speaker 16 (01:22:53):
The regulatory compact is broken. The regulators need to be
ahead of the game and thinking about what used to
be done to protect society.

Speaker 15 (01:23:02):
Part of the problem is gas lines are buried. We
don't see them, so the problem isn't staring us in
the face. Michael Shiloh News Radio seven forty k TRH,
Thank you, Michael.

Speaker 5 (01:23:13):
The Federal Reserve, they already cut interest rates twice, and
it could do so again later this month. If inflation
numbers don't rise before the December seventeenth meeting, We'll get
those numbers next week seven oh seven on KTRH. The
Rockets visit Sacramento tonight. Pregame at eight on Sports Talk
seven ninety an on Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather,

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in Traffic station News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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Speaker 4 (01:23:50):
By let's just stay of your brain here this morning
seven to eight is our time here. I'm Houston's ponning news.
I The Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year for twenty
twenty four has been an eystand it is brain rot.
Is that one word? Two words? How can the word
of the year be two words? Anyway? Brain rot has

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been chosen. They had a public vote of more than
thirty seven thousand people who worked from a short list
of six words that they thought we were reflecting the
moods and conversations that helped shape the last year, and
brain rot was the winner by the way if you

(01:24:35):
haven't heard the term or used the term yourself. Brain
rod is defined as the supposed deterioration of a person's
mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of
overconsumption of material, particularly online content considered to be trivial
or unchallenging. I think we all suffer from brain rod

(01:24:58):
to a certain extent. How much of your day is
spent on your phone looking at Facebook, or you know,
are just looking up looking up certain stories that you
know are are particularly important. I think probably our listeners
are less inclined than a lot of listeners to suffer

(01:25:18):
from brain rot, But as a country goes, I think
we have an epidemic of brain rot. Maybe this was
a good choice. In fact, the term increased in usage
frequency between last year and this year, up by two
hundred and thirty percent, So they are word of the
air brain rot seven to ten. Time for trafficking word.

(01:25:40):
Time to check in with skybike.

Speaker 3 (01:25:42):
We have a lot of brain rot going on on
the North Freeway now outbound. Let's see hazard's mark from
spring gaming. This board man look at the suckage on
the North Freeway. It's roadwork. I did not see the
hov is also blocked up there. Thank you, Mark. That's
a banana sticker. This is outbound the north freeway, right
before the Wood at Graham Parkway, and we're packed up
now all the way from nineteen sixty. This is outbound,

(01:26:03):
not inbound. And then your east text, the sucket is
still there. We've cleared the stall at Kingwood Drive. That
nobody else in the media. I think Jennifer talked about it.
Nobody else in the media seemed to know about it,
but southbound I did share jumping Joe. We're backed up
Graham Park with plumb from porter southbound. That's why your
east text is like that. Stay the course unless you
are close enough to the Hardy toll road. I think

(01:26:24):
that'll get better shortly. We've got West Park Tollway starting
to scooch up now fourteen sixty four. That's kind of normal.
Two eighty eight, it's a big pack up at mcchard.
Lookout there, Gold Freeway. You're not bad so far, Mike
from Copperfields on the northwest side.

Speaker 28 (01:26:39):
Two ninety inbound from Highway six, it's a mess.

Speaker 29 (01:26:43):
It's very, very slow, very congested.

Speaker 3 (01:26:46):
I did not find an incident. I know we had
the latter at Pinemont, but that's too far in to
be the reason for that. It's just kind of scooched
up Highway six into Jones Road west side. Mary's having
an easy drive now on the Katie Freeway.

Speaker 1 (01:26:58):
Take time.

Speaker 3 (01:27:01):
I'll pass that long to Terry.

Speaker 31 (01:27:02):
Hey, your life on your getto house, Glott, Thank you,
have a beautiful day.

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There we go.

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Speaker 4 (01:27:13):
From o KTRH Top Tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather Center.
We're going to talk to Terry right now about the forecast.
How much rain do you think we're going to get
here starting tomorrow?

Speaker 18 (01:27:21):
Well, tomorrow could be a good soaker from what it
looks like with this low pressure to the south of
us making its way in our direction. I wouldn't be
surprised if we pick up an inch or two of
rain tomorrow. After that it becomes more hit and miss
and and a little bit harder to kind of pinpoint.
But that low pressure system tomorrow does look to be

(01:27:42):
a good rain maker for our part of the state,
and we need it. It's been dry and it's dry today.
Take advantage of a dry sunny day today, mid upper
sixties this afternoon, eighty percent chance of showers, some thunder Tomorrow,
still on the milder side, temperatures upper sexties to mid seventies.
And then the cool down begins tomorrow, little bit sixties

(01:28:05):
tomorrow with the thirty percent chance of rain, thirty percent
chance of more rain Friday, and we've got our heavy
coats on because temperatures will be in the fifties and
Saturday of fifty percent chance of more showers and still
on the cool side, near sixty the high.

Speaker 4 (01:28:20):
Saturday right now forty four at your official severe weather station.
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Speaker 4 (01:28:37):
Seven twenty is our time here in Houston's Morning News.
One of the stories we already actually talked a little
bit about this. If you missed the interview, by the way,
with ej Atni Heritage Foundation economists, you can find it
on our podcast page a KTRH dot com. But we're
going to talk more specifically about construction companies complaining that
Trump is going to stop them from hiring illegals with

(01:29:01):
mass deportation. They're worried they won't have anybody left to
build homes. We'll talk to the editor of Breitbart News,
Bob Price about this coming up next. First, though, traffic
and weather together as we check out the drive once
again with skymik.

Speaker 3 (01:29:13):
Ah getting reports of a big rig broken down. He's
tough to see. He's right under that ramp on the
two ninety Northwest Freeway inbound before the Beltway are at
closer to Eldridge Parkway. Now you see the big scoots
now from Huffmeister, that's about to be Telgy outbound North Freeway.
It's roadwork at Rayford making us crazy. Backed up from
nineteen sixty inbound. We cleared the stall on the East

(01:29:34):
Tex at Kingwood. Still packed from Grand Parkway. Skymike on
the Generator Supercenter, dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:29:39):
From r KT alright, top tax defenders, twenty four hour
weathers Center. Sunny and cool today right about sixty seven
morning showers, afternoon thundershowers tomorrow seventy two Claudie with some
showers on Thursday with I have only sixty two temperature
right now is forty four. At your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty K we're checking out some of

(01:30:02):
our top running stories this morning. Here slip thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (01:30:04):
We're sponsored by D and M auto Leasing. Attorney General
nominee Pam BONDI meets with more key Republicans on Capitol Hell.
Today the President elect names investment banker Warren Stevens is
the ambassador to the UK. And on this day in
nineteen ninety two, the first text message was sent at
the latest news anytime on KGRH dot com. Our next

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update is at seven thirty.

Speaker 13 (01:30:28):
I'll just get right to the point.

Speaker 11 (01:30:30):
Thanks so much for taking my call.

Speaker 3 (01:30:31):
Beer. Thankful for you, thank you for everything you do,
for joining the conversation.

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Speaker 4 (01:30:42):
Seven twenty two time here on Houston's morning News. So
the construction in the industry is worried. I think maybe unnecessarily,
but they are worried that mass deportations would lead to
them not having enough workers. Bob Price joins US editor
Breitbart News. You know I've talked to two or three
differentonymous Bob in the last forty eight hours about this,

(01:31:02):
and none of them agree with the construction industry. They
don't think that these fears are well placed. That they
believe there are thousands upon thousands of Americans and the
building trades who just aren't working right now because they
can't make it a good enough living doing it, and
that if we get rid of the illegals who are
working on these projects, they'll have jobs that pay better

(01:31:23):
than they did before.

Speaker 34 (01:31:25):
Well, that's very true, and I think that we're going
to see that happen. Workplace enforcement has been excuse me,
sorely lacking for many years now, going back to the
Obama administration, and so I think you're going to see
a crackdown at some point from the Trump administration on
employers that are illegally working migrants that aren't authorized to

(01:31:48):
work in the United States. We've been fighting against this
for years in Texas, where you have a lot of companies,
particularly construction companies, that will hire people as daylights or
as contract labor when in actuality they meet the rules,
they should be considered employees, and as such, they don't
get paid overtime, they don't get work with compensation. If

(01:32:10):
they get injured on the job, they just get dumped
at hospitals and put on the taxpayer's expense.

Speaker 11 (01:32:16):
That kind of thing.

Speaker 34 (01:32:17):
So this unethical employment behavior has got to stop.

Speaker 4 (01:32:20):
You know, one thing that you find in defense of
some of these companies, I guess, to a certain extent,
if you do any any project here in the Greater
Houston area, if you hire a company to put a
roof on your home, chances are good that everybody working
on that home is going to be I don't know
what their status is, but they're probably going to be Mexican.
Most brick layers in the Greater Houston area are Mexican.

(01:32:42):
Do we do we have enough people still interested in
American building trades in order to be able to get
these positions filled.

Speaker 34 (01:32:51):
We have a capitalistic society here, and if companies are
paying a fair wage for the work that they are
needing to have done, people will come out and do
the work. Right now, the wages are depressed to the
point because of all the illegal immigrants that are working
to where Americans aren't going to do those kind of
jobs for the wages that are being paid.

Speaker 4 (01:33:12):
So bottom line is they have to pay more which
of course they would say to us, well, that's just
going to make an already expensive home that much more expensive.

Speaker 3 (01:33:22):
But you have to look at the other side of
the coin.

Speaker 34 (01:33:24):
It is the cost that is offset by not employing
those illegal workers and sending them back to their home countries.
Right now, you have increased housing prices because of illegal immigration,
you have increased healthcare cost you have increase education costs.
Those factors go away when you get back to a
more normal society, and that offsets the increases in labor

(01:33:48):
that you would be paying now. That particular employer, yeah,
he's going to have to pay more labor. But the
other side of the coin, as a society, we are
offsetting those costs and making it a neutral or even
a positive experience.

Speaker 4 (01:34:01):
Great point, Bob, as always, thank you, sir, appreciate it.
Editor Breitbart. That is Bob Price. It is seven twenty six.
It's time to take a look at your money. Jeff
Bellinger's here.

Speaker 21 (01:34:11):
And Jimmy, there are more encouraging reports about the holiday
shopping season. The mall operator Simon Property report shopper traffic
for Friday through Sunday was up more than six percent
from the same three days last year, an Amazon executive
told Women's Where Daily the company had its biggest Black
Friday ever, and Amazon said late yesterday Cyber Monday sales

(01:34:33):
were running well ahead of expectations.

Speaker 3 (01:34:35):
It is official.

Speaker 21 (01:34:36):
A record number of people flew over the Thanksgiving weekend.
The Transportation Security Administration says screen nearly three point one
million passengers on Sunday, topping the previous record set in July.
Three Federal Reserve officials were heard from yesterday. All agreed
that interest rates will likely continue to fall in twenty
twenty five, but they all stopped short of saying there

(01:34:58):
will be another rate cut this morn.

Speaker 3 (01:35:00):
They have to wait and see.

Speaker 21 (01:35:01):
Stock market futures just narrowly mixed. S and P futures
are up two points. Nasdaq and Dow futures are slightly lower.
I'm Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty
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Seven thirty is Our Time. Houston's borning News. I'm Jimmy
Barrett among our top stores this half hour, How trumped
arrangement syndrome saved America, Big Construction opposes mass deportation, and
coming up at seven thirty eight, San Antonio wants to
set aside tax dollars for travel expenses for abortions. Details
in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,

(01:35:53):
we're checking out that morning drive again with a skymine.
All right, it's all about you this time. Darryl Latask Casita.

Speaker 33 (01:35:57):
Hey got my played owner of the Fresh Jackson writing
freend the cemetery on the Eastex Freeway, right on the
entrance ram starting back out right there by Audi.

Speaker 3 (01:36:06):
Email rapp it's ind the system now, thank you so much.
Jerald Tara from Brenham's on two ninety, Hey, sky Mike, is.

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You on two ninety?

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Is a big rig that is broken down?

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There's no Menda's on site, yt causing big backup follows
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right there before the beltway. Will zum it gets you
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GMC Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:36:30):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour weather Center.
Sunny and cool today with high temperature right about sixty seven.
This will be the last Sunday day we're going to
have this week. We'll talk to Terry Smith about that
in nine minutes. Temperature right now forty four at your
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k t RH.
It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 12 (01:36:51):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (01:36:51):
It is coming up on seven thirty two on KTRH.
Our top story, the Trump transition moves ahead. Attorney General
Pam Bondi me with Republican senators today for the second
day in a row. Florida Governor Ron Desanta says BONDI
should not be afraid to shake up the DOJ.

Speaker 22 (01:37:08):
You got to go in there, and I think Pam
will don't try to be liked by the bureaucrats. Expect
to be attacked relentlessly by the corporate press, and know
that when that happens, that's a badge of honor.

Speaker 12 (01:37:21):
That means you're doing the right thing.

Speaker 5 (01:37:22):
DeSantis on Fox Not only was Trump derangement syndrome a
major factor in the election, political commentator Steve McCann says
it actually saved America.

Speaker 23 (01:37:33):
I think history is going to look at this whole
situation of Trump arrangement syndrome as a real turning point
prevented the country from going down the road that it
had been accelerating for the last twenty years, particularly with
the Obama presidency.

Speaker 5 (01:37:47):
He also believes that history will be very critical of
Democrats and the mainstream media for giving in to TDS.
Despite having a billion dollar war chest that she blew through,
Kamala Harris continues to fundraise. The New York Post reports
that her campaign is still asking for donations nearly a
month after the election. Her boss is taking a lot

(01:38:11):
of heat for pardoning his son Hunter on Sunday, But
the Biden administration while they're trying to defend it.

Speaker 24 (01:38:18):
And he said he wrestled with us and because he
believes in the justice of sum but he also believes
that the war politics infected the process and led to
a miscarriage of justice.

Speaker 5 (01:38:30):
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre now Biden ignored
questions about the pardon after landing in Africa. It's now
seven thirty three despite a ceasefire that's in place has
Belah fires rockets at Israel, with the Israelis responding and
the Biden State Department spinning.

Speaker 25 (01:38:48):
Just as anywhere in the world, when you see a
ceasefire implemented, you see various violations at times. Ultimately, what
we don't want to see is the ceasefire breakdown, and
we've not seen the ceasefire breakdown.

Speaker 5 (01:39:00):
To spokesman Matthew Miller, the President elect with a warning
for hamas released the remaining October seventh hostages by January twentieth,
where there will be quote hell to pay. It's now
seven thirty four on KTRH. We know now what Canadian
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised Trump when the two met
at mar Lago last week. The Canadian Public Safety Minister

(01:39:23):
Dominic LeBlanc, who was at the meeting, says Canada will
toughen up their border controls and that the two discussed
additional security measures. There's more pushback on Trump's promised mass deportations,
with construction companies claiming it will ruin their ability to
find workers.

Speaker 26 (01:39:43):
Despite laws against it. Some companies highly legal aliens and
then mistreat them.

Speaker 27 (01:39:47):
They don't provide workmen's compensation for them. They'll work them
sixty hours and only pay them for forty hours, or
they'll work them below minimum wage or things like that.

Speaker 26 (01:39:56):
Breitbart's Bob Price told KTRAH, this is exactly why our
labor and immigration laws are so important.

Speaker 27 (01:40:02):
Treat workers fairly no matter where they're from, and pay
them fairly. If you have legal workers working for you,
they will work for a fair wage.

Speaker 26 (01:40:10):
Price says that many illegals are forced to work as
indentured servants in order to pay off debts to the
cartels who smuggle them. Here Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven
forty KTRH.

Speaker 12 (01:40:18):
Now seven thirty five.

Speaker 5 (01:40:20):
Home builders aren't concerned about the cost of materials with
the possibility of Trump tariffs, but KTRH Texas home improvement
show host Jim Dutton says that's overblown.

Speaker 28 (01:40:31):
I think the teriffs will actually work themselves out because
that is a negotiating tool that I think will be
used to straighten out some other issues. So I'm not
super concerned with that.

Speaker 5 (01:40:44):
Home Builders are facing regulations on everything from where trees
are planted to the type of air conditioning coolant they
can use. There's also this, some retailers are offering what
they're promoting as pre tariff sales. They're trying to scare you.
I mean that once Trump places tariffs on China, prices
will go up.

Speaker 12 (01:41:04):
It's a lie.

Speaker 29 (01:41:05):
So much of the tariff threat that President Trump is
articulating right now is just that a threat. What he
has done is figured out how to weaponize the purchasing
power of the American consumer.

Speaker 5 (01:41:16):
Heritage Foundation economist E. J. Antony says that Trump is
just using tariffs as a bargaining chick chip. It's now
seven thirty six. Overnight trading on Wall Street is flat
across all three in disease. That follows a mixed day
on Wall Street yesterday. And as the cost of buying
a home continues to rise, many couples are flipping the

(01:41:38):
script on the American dream.

Speaker 30 (01:41:40):
There looks to be an increasing trend of couples buying
their first home before they get married and have children.

Speaker 3 (01:41:46):
What we're seeing isn't just a housing trend.

Speaker 31 (01:41:49):
It's a reflection of how younger generations today are approaching
life's big decisions. They're practical, they're strategic, and they're not
afraid to break up the tradition.

Speaker 32 (01:41:57):
Real estate expert Kenya Burrell Van warners as eleven percent
of all home buyers in the US last year were
unmarried couples. Some attorneys Warren that without a marriage certificate,
couples could be less likely to ride out a thirty
year mortgage commitment. Eric Sharp, News Radio seven forty k trh.

Speaker 12 (01:42:15):
It's now seven thirty seven.

Speaker 5 (01:42:16):
The NFL continues to review the hit by Texans linebacker
these All Shire on Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence from this
past Sunday. Al Shire has apologized for the hit, and
I'm clof Saunders on Houston's news, weather and traffic station
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 17 (01:42:34):
I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor.
What happens next, Thomises may happens here, promises Kevin US
Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (01:42:45):
I guess this is for San Antonio girls that get
into trouble. Seven thirty eight is our time here on
Houston's morning news. Evidently, some members of San Antonio's City
Council are taking up a funding measure to the tune
of I think it's one hundred thousand dollars that they
want to set aside to provide travel cost for anybody

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in San Antonio who wants to lead the state to
get an abortion. Needless to say, I would find that
to be an abuse of taxpayer dollars because not every
resident of San Antonio would support it. Number one. Number
two is is this really is this more about sending

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a message or is this really necessary? How many people
who would seek an out of state abortion would not
be able to get the out of state abortion because
they couldn't afford to get to a state that is
offering it. I mean, it's not that far right. If
they don't have a card, they can take a bus,

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and if they can come up with some of the
medical expenses involved, then they can probably come up with
the transportation. Is that part of any government's role to
be involved in spending money on this? And they would
probably say, well, it's totally one hundred thousand dollars Because
to most people who's serving government, one hundred thousand dollars

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is nothing. I get that. I don't know what the
City of San Antonio's budget is, but it's obviously billions.
So to them, one hundred thousand dollars is a drop
of the bucket and we'd be sending the right message.
Would you really be sending the right message? I think
that's a bad idea. Seven forty time for traffic and

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weather together as we check out the drive once against
guy Mike's here.

Speaker 3 (01:44:42):
It's a good day to be a big shot. Let
me tell you this North Freeway awful both inbound and outbound.
Just getting out of Conro's a lot of scoochery here
around one oh five. No particular reason cut and shoot, boy,
be nice when they get those new lanes going on
one oh five northbound North Freeway outbounds the Hardy Toil
Road entrance. That's some roadwork. It's two lanes blocked here

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and a big backup from nineteen sixty outbound thirty five
minute spackle southbound. It all starts from West Road. I
got a wreck here inbound on the North Freeway at
the north Loop six ten, right before six to ten.
What are they calling it? I'm calling it a right lane?
They call it mays they got it's a right lane.
They're calling it. No, it's a right yeah, total right
lane all the way from West Road. Thirty five minute

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back up trying to go southbound east text awful and
two spots inbound coming to downtown from quipment and then
also later road. You've got that inbound Scooch. They moved
that wreck over to the side. Darryl from a Taska
seed to with the banana sticker there two ninety we
are pretty two nine eyed up inbound. Let's see if
Joe from Cyprus con'splain dude.

Speaker 13 (01:45:44):
Yay, Scot Mike a slow down inbound on the two ninety's.

Speaker 33 (01:45:48):
It picks up after the belt weigh.

Speaker 23 (01:45:50):
The only reason I traffic is slows because there's.

Speaker 33 (01:45:52):
A strange unidentified line object in the sky, big bright
and yellow, blinding everybody.

Speaker 3 (01:46:00):
Terry, can you explain that I'm in the Classic Buick
GMC traffic Center. It's out there somewhere.

Speaker 4 (01:46:07):
Why are you playing with your mash potatoes over? That's tough?
From Mark kattrh Generator super Center, twenty four hour Whether Center,
Terry Smith is here. There's a few mashed potatoes in
the sky. But looks like a lot of sunshine coming today.

Speaker 18 (01:46:19):
Yeah, nice day today, but the clouds are on their
way and then eventually that will mean some rain, but
the bulk of the wet weather holding off until tomorrow.
Today's a dry day and a mild December day, mid
upper sixties this afternoon. Eighty percent chance you'll get wet.
Though tomorrow at least the temperatures will be on the

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warmer side in the upper sixties to mid seventies tomorrow,
and then the cool down gets underway somewhat Thursday. Thirty
percent chance of rain. Thursday lo to mid sixties. It's
Friday and Saturday that are chilly. More clouds and more
rain both days, and highs in the fifties Saturday like
go to upper fifties and close to sixty on Saturday.

Speaker 4 (01:47:03):
That's like February weather. Yeah, hopefully down around for long
right now. Temperature forty five at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH.

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So is corporate media, especially the mainstream. Is the corporate
media embarrassed by the Joe Biden pardon of a sum hunter.
Uh huh. Well, let's put it this way. They should be.
Whether or not they are, I guess is debatable, but
they certainly should be. Well, we'll share some of the
things that they said about Joe Biden and how he

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wasn't going to pardon this on Hunter and then get
some reaction to it coming up next. First though, I
traffic the wedding. That's not above the law. That would
be use guy Mike.

Speaker 3 (01:47:53):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (01:47:53):
Outbound, you're surrounded by the law most of the time.

Speaker 3 (01:47:56):
Usually stopped Nord Freeway. Nobody needs this forty minutes drag
now from nineteen sixty outbound, not inbound. That's roadwork at
Rayford or just before Rayford, and then southbound it's not
very pretty either. West Road. We have that minor wreck
over at the north Loop. It's not causing a backup,
but it's not helping. Katie Freeway a lot of breaks now, Advisors,

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you've got the sun in your eyes and you're slow.
Now from Graham Parkway into Eldridge Parkway. Tim from Katie's
on the north Grand Parkway, stop and go on the
golf ball. You know, the golf balls becoming a real thing.
And west Side Mary says, it's hopefully your heater works.
That's right. You got your West park Tolway dragging it
at fourteen sixty four to eighty eight A lot of
breaks around McCard up into aorum. We'll check your golf

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Freeway and your Southway southeast side at the eight o'clock
News with Clifford Skymike on the Classic Buick.

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GMC Traffic Center from ktr H Generators super Center, twenty
four hour weather centers. Sunny, cool, about sixty seven for
the high today, Tomorrow morning showers, afternoon thundershower seventy two.
Thursday cloudy with morning showers claudi for the afternoon with
temperature of sixty two. Current temperature forty five at your
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Speaker 3 (01:49:44):
I live in Katie, I live in Ito.

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Your reliable forecast next on the ten on seven forty KTRH. So,
how many people at MSNBC are eating their words over
what they said about Joe Biden. No, he's not gonna
he's we're going to pardon Hunter. It's not going to happen.
Here's what they just to remind them. Here's what they
said about the whole pardon thing. And we get a

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reaction at the other end from the National Reviews Rich Lowry.

Speaker 11 (01:50:14):
Here we go.

Speaker 37 (01:50:15):
Their latest attack has been that Joe Biden has politicized
and weaponized.

Speaker 7 (01:50:20):
The DJ right.

Speaker 37 (01:50:21):
That was a whole argument around Donald Trump's conviction. And
this week, of course, Hunter Biden was found guilty and
Joe Biden has very clearly said he would not pardon
his son, he would not commute his sense. How stark
is this difference? I mean, how can Republicans keep making
this argument now that now that Joe Biden has really
put it out.

Speaker 3 (01:50:40):
There, where's Hunter?

Speaker 37 (01:50:43):
And he stood there in the courtroom flanked by his
family and he's accepted his sentence.

Speaker 16 (01:50:47):
The current president of the United States has so much
respect for the law that he has said he would
not so much his son.

Speaker 3 (01:50:56):
I mean, what you know, again, it's all.

Speaker 42 (01:50:59):
About the con trust President Biden saying I will respect
whatever this jury decides versus Donald Trump after he was
convicted on thirty four counts, saying the entire system is
rigged against him.

Speaker 3 (01:51:10):
He's not pardoning his son, which he could do.

Speaker 35 (01:51:14):
These are federal charges that he is not doing it
because he is living what it means to have a
rule of law in this country.

Speaker 3 (01:51:23):
He did not pardon his son.

Speaker 35 (01:51:24):
It's easier to lie when you're a Democrat because you
have all these people with major media platforms just willing
to swallow it.

Speaker 3 (01:51:31):
And what contempt does Joe Biden have for his media allies? Right,
if you're a man of decency and.

Speaker 35 (01:51:37):
You've lied, and you have other people making idiots in
themselves by believing their lies, you know, you might feel
a little guilty about that.

Speaker 3 (01:51:43):
Apparently none whatsoever. They are played like fools.

Speaker 35 (01:51:47):
And look, some of these people might be sincere about
protecting democratic norms, but Joe Biden was always a horrible
vessel for it. And it's just a symptom of our
time that people can't say. You know what, I don't
like Trump, but Biden is a honest hack who's been peddling.
You know, his family has been benefiting off his name forever. Right,

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Both those things can can be be true, but they won't.
They needed to put him on a pedestal that was
made out like it was this steadfast marble that can
never be toppled. And the thing was styrofoam all along.
It was a complete lie from the beginning to the end.

Speaker 4 (01:52:25):
Yeah, you know what though, the mainstream media were useful idiots. Right,
So Joe Biden doesn't feel guilty. I mean, he got
them to do what he needed them to do. He's
he once he wasn't running for re election. There's not
a Democrat going into the White House. There's nobody left
to protect, at least for now, so he doesn't care.
Oh one more recall before we call today, sun fed

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q covers linked to salmonella. Costco Walmart included in the
recall five people sick and so far in Texas. So
if you've been to Walmart, Costco, Wegmans, well, we don't
have Wegmans here, but there are like nineteen states including Texas,
impacted by this sun fed cucumbers. Seems like every day
we've had multiple recals. Y'all, have a great day. See

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you tomorrow morning bright at nearly five am, and I'll
see the SAF FOT four and AM nine fifty KPRC