Trump Calls For Lifting Sanctions On Syria

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 05/14/25.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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It's more what matters to you. From the John Morris
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Speaker 3 (00:17):
Well, good morning, five am. As we get started on
this Wednesday morning here on Houston's Morning News, I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories this are Trump calls for lifting
the sanctions on Syria, April said, an all time record
for tiff income and coming up at five O eight.
There's only one reason inflation is at a four year low.
Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,

(00:39):
we're checking out that Morning Drive. What's up sky Mine?

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Hey dude, we got east text problems here southbound after
the beltwat some kind of wreck one two left lines here. Ah,
this is gonna be trouble Greens. We're gonna have to zoom.
The backup is not big just yet. Just be super
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Robot KTRH top tax Defenders. Twenty four hour weathers in
a part of the Claudiam Breezy today with the high temperature
right about ninety five. We'll get Terry Smith in here
and get an update on forecast on the heat and
humidity and the heat index when we talked to her
in about nine minutes. Right now, seventy four at your officials,
Severe Weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's time

(01:21):
for the news. Here's Cliff Sauders.

Speaker 5 (01:22):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (01:23):
Good morning everyone. It is five oh one on KTRH.
Our top story.

Speaker 7 (01:27):
It gives them at you has so great.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Guess the sanctions were really crippling.

Speaker 8 (01:32):
Very powerful.

Speaker 6 (01:32):
President Trump this morning in Saudi Arabia lifting sanctions on Syria,
saying he wants to make a deal with a rant.
This is date two of what will be a three
day trip. He is on his way to Katar now. Earlier, though,
he hit back at the critics who don't want him
to accept the gift of a new air force one
from the qataris.

Speaker 9 (01:52):
We give a lot of gifts. We give too many gifts,
to be honest with you. We give gifts to defend countries.
They wouldn't even exist. Many countries wouldn't even exist. All
over the world, countries wouldn't even exist. But I thought
it was a beautiful gesture.

Speaker 6 (02:05):
Trump on Air Force one with k trh's Sean Hannity.
So how do Dems respond, Well, Chuck Schumer says He's
going to block Trump's DOJ nominees over.

Speaker 10 (02:15):
This, Donald Trump's business deals in the Middle East, Reek
of Crooked itself and Richmond. He isn't just blurring the
line between public service and personal profit, he's erasing it.

Speaker 6 (02:26):
Funny how Schumer ignored the Biden family business five h
two on k TRH. Here's yet another thing the mainstream
media won't tell you. The US brought in a record
amount of customs duties in April because of tariff's sixteen
point three billion dollars.

Speaker 11 (02:42):
This was likely due to importers rushing to get ahead
of Liberation Day tariffs.

Speaker 12 (02:46):
People knew that the tariffs were going to be put
in place relatively quickly, and so as soon as the
announcement came, everybody rushed to import product.

Speaker 7 (02:55):
Economist EJ.

Speaker 11 (02:56):
And Tony says that in the next few months, expect
tariff revenues to fall slightly.

Speaker 7 (02:59):
Then out they're going to.

Speaker 12 (03:01):
Be importing much, much less for the middle of this year,
and that means that despite having a higher tax rate,
You're gonna have a much smaller tax based.

Speaker 11 (03:09):
Antony says, we could see the groundwork for long term
success as soon as major deals start getting signed. Ethan Buchanan,
News Radio seven forty ktr.

Speaker 6 (03:17):
Thank you, Ethan. Overnight trading is flat after a mixed
day on Wall Street, the down losing two hundred and
sixty nine points, and that was after a good inflation report.
The year over year number two point three percent is
at a low we haven't seen since twenty twenty one,
proving that Trump was right about Bidenomics.

Speaker 13 (03:36):
The terriffs were never gonna be inflationary. I've said that repeatedly.

Speaker 6 (03:40):
Jagan McDowell on Fox Business. It's now five h four.
More revelations about former President Joe Biden. According to a
new book, staffer is not only considered putting him in
a wheelchair had he won a second term. Actor George
Clooney was quote shaken when Biden didn't recognize him at
a fundraiser last year. As for the Democrat new guard

(04:03):
Jasmine Crockett, Oh, she's at it again, not only talking
about how to stop President Trump, but talking about how
to replace him.

Speaker 7 (04:12):
And calling out her own party for not picking her.

Speaker 14 (04:15):
Like, let's go find the safest white boy we can find.
I mean, I'm just saying I had a donor on
the phones with me telling me that all the donors
are lining up behind that candidate.

Speaker 15 (04:24):
And this Florida congressional candidate Raven Harrison says she is
firing up the race card.

Speaker 16 (04:31):
She wants to run, but she is trying to force
the race.

Speaker 17 (04:34):
Class, gender narrative that the left always likes to use.

Speaker 15 (04:38):
She adds that Crockett may get a lot of clicks,
but she won't get a lot of votes.

Speaker 7 (04:45):
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty k tiers.

Speaker 6 (04:48):
And the DNC is trying to cancel weis cher David
Hogg after he blasted the party for losing young voters,
a trend that continues thanks to the extreme left.

Speaker 18 (04:58):
You can't tell me that the absolute madness that happened
on college campuses all across America last year has nothing
to do with why young people are saying this is nuts.
The woke stuff is now affecting me. I don't want
any part of this.

Speaker 6 (05:11):
Political strategist Nick Linquist says that while Democrats finally admit
this is a problem, they're ignoring the reasons why five
h five NASA is finally focusing on the lunar race
now after years of becoming political. NASA expert Vincent Moroli
says this will help bring the US and Johnson's Space
Center back ahead of China.

Speaker 19 (05:32):
They're excluding the United States and our allies and establishing
allonies residents' spaces up on the Moon. So I see
the centers focusing on the expiration, helping us establish a
foothold up on the Moon.

Speaker 6 (05:46):
And putting us back on top in the space race.
As for our earthly travel, gas prices are dropping ahead
of Memorial Day, giving relief to three point two million
Texans planning to go on a road trip, but it's
also raising concerns about the oil economy here. Doug Shoop
with Triple A Texas says the average across Houston this
morning is two seventy a gallon.

Speaker 20 (06:07):
That price is about fifty cents less per gallon than
a year ago, so for those who are taking road
trips they will see some savings at the gas pump.

Speaker 6 (06:17):
The price of crude is currently at about sixty three
dollars a barrel, and in Texas, if that number drops
below sixty bucks. It can slow drilling activity and even
cut jobs. Now people from all over the state will
go up to the San Antonio area to go tubing
this summer, but be prepared for sticker shock in terms
of higher parking fees.

Speaker 21 (06:38):
I see these massive signs with this overwhelmingly egregious and
unfair fee structure.

Speaker 6 (06:45):
That's activist Katie Dudley who says the higher prices are
literally sucking the joy out of tubing. Five oh seven,
the Astros beat the Royals two to one on a
walk off homer from Ezac Parid's pregame. Tonight is at
six on Sports Talk seven ninety. Game time at seven
on seven ninety and KTRH. I'm Close Saunders on Houston's

(07:06):
news Weather in traffic station News Radio seven forty ktrh.

Speaker 22 (07:10):
When events are happening, people knew something was going to happen.

Speaker 23 (07:13):
Check in the big trade deal India and Pakistan.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Lepope elicted these radio seven forty ktrh.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
So the April of CPI numbers year to year, what happened.
We've talked a little bit about the inflation rate was
down to what was a two point three percent overall,
But it's like everything else. The story is not just
the overall number sometimes as much as it is what's
behind the numbers and in specific areas, what inflation looked like.

(07:46):
For example, let's say you didn't buy any clothes in
the month of April, so you wouldn't really particularly care
that apparel prices were down point seven percent for the
month of April. You went to the grocery store, right
and you bought food, so you do care that food

(08:08):
is up two point eight percent, medical services up three
point one percent, shelter up four percent. That was the
leading category of an increase that's a year over year,
and I'm sure that has a lot to do with
rent as much as it does home prices. In fact,
it probably has more to do with rent than it
does home prices, because there's been a rental demand because
we have fewer and fewer people who are buying homes

(08:30):
right now. While interest rates remain not historically high, but
unfortunately stubbornly high for people who are interested in getting
a home loan, there's a lot of people like you
and me who have a under three percent or around
a three percent mortgage who just aren't motivated to move
because you don't want to give up that low mortgage
rate that you have. I get that. Now, what was

(08:53):
the big mover? What's the one thing? She just sang it?
Energy down three point seven percent, Gasoline prices, oil prices,
energy prices in general down three point seven percent this
April compared to last April. That was the big mover.
Almost everything else was just down slightly or up slightly.

(09:13):
Energy was the biggest mover. That's why we have an
inflation rate at about two point three percent right now.
But it's getting better. It's getting better, and I would
expect that there's going to be improving in these numbers
as we go month to month. And at least one
pundit we'll probably hear from him a little bit later
in the show. At least one Capital Wealth guy really

(09:34):
believes that things are getting ready for a really big
second half of the year June, July, August, September, October, November, December,
that the stock market's going to take off, interest rates
are going to come down, home sales will take off,
because it wouldn't take a whole lot to get people
buying homes again. We just have to make that if

(09:56):
that interest rate gets I'm telling you if that interest
rate gets down anywhere near five percent, look out, there's
gonna be a buying frenzy. Five ten time for traffic
and weathered together as we check out the drive the
second time this morning.

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two minute scoots. Nothing to get around so far, it
looks like we've got enough laneage. We've got three extra
lanes on the southbound side here on the north Sam
if you miss the memo, we have opened that roadwork
at Imperial Valley that was on the eastbound. It out
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enter Terry Smith is here. We've got hot temperatures, we've
got humidity that's up there a little bit terry, and
we've got those these breezing it's again.

Speaker 7 (10:46):
It's been so windy.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah, he's been like fifteen to twenty five off our
winds to go along with the hot temperatures. That's kind
of like sitting at a convection of it.

Speaker 24 (10:56):
It's not a lot of fun. I would agree with
you on that. Yeah, U, temperatures are going to run hot,
the humidity high. It feels like summertime, like a little
bit of June weather here the next couple of days,
and I don't see this changing through early next week.
And I'm going to really have to dig to see
if we have any rain on the way. Last time

(11:17):
I checked, I did not see any rain for the
next seven days. So heat and humidity and lots of sunshine,
that's what we're going to be dealing with. We're flirting
with record heat and then the heat in disease at
least starting tomorrow will probably be over one hundred. So
kind of just factor that any plans that you might
have upper eighties to upper nineties today Tomorrow, Friday through

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the weekend.

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Speaker 7 (11:55):
All the info you need did take on the day.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
So I saw Senator Ted Cruise yesterday talking about MAGA accounts.
MAGA accounts. What in the world is a mega account?
It's like a four oh one K I guess, and
it would be provided to your child in seeded with
one thousand dollars from the federal government. It's kind of

(12:21):
an interesting proposition. What's that all about? Well, I'll let
Senator Cruz explain it next. First though, at five twenty,
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up in some of our top story on this Wednesday morning.

Speaker 7 (13:01):
Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (13:02):
Congress has started marking up Trump's agenda setting budget bill.
Harris County deputy is hospitalized after a crash last night.
That deputy's condition is unknown. In Major League Baseball, reinstates
the late Pete Rose from the ineligible list, meaning he's
finally eligible posthumously for the Hall of Fame at the
latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next update

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is at five point thirty.

Speaker 7 (13:27):
Tol wrote it.

Speaker 25 (13:28):
Or save a few bucks your cheaper commute coming up
every ten minutes on the tens.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
I mean, you have free money, with no such thing
as free money, but government provides your child with one
thousand dollars for being born in a MAGA account. A
MAGA account kind of like a four oh one K.
I guess here, Senator Ted Cruz explaining what the MAGA
account would be all about.

Speaker 7 (13:56):
It's a tremendously.

Speaker 26 (13:57):
Important proposal that I've been working on for more than
a year, working with a group called invest America that
is a business coalition of CEOs and leaders across the country.
And what this provision is, and as you noted, it
is in the House Ways and Means Reconciliation Bill.

Speaker 7 (14:13):
The President supports it.

Speaker 26 (14:15):
The Chairman of ways and means supports that the Speaker
supports it, we are going to pass it into law.
What this will do is create a new personal investment
account for every newborn child in America, and that personal
investment account will be seated with one thousand dollars and afterwards,
each year, friends and family and employers can contribute up

(14:36):
to five thousand dollars a year into that account. The
money has invested either in an ETF or mutual fund
that's invested the S and.

Speaker 7 (14:44):
P five hundred.

Speaker 26 (14:45):
So it's a broad based investment in the equity markets.
And it does two things that are incredibly powerful. One,
it creates a whole generation of kids that are enjoying
the incredible benefits of compounded growth, and that is transformational.
But number two, it creates a new generation of capitalists.

(15:06):
As children will be invested in the market, they will
have a stake in the marketplace. And the House included
at the President enthusiastically supported it, and I think this
is this is a new provision that will change how
our children are raised. And thirty forty fifty years from now,
we'll look back as it being one of the most
impactful parts of this tax bill.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Okay, Well, that's that's that's saying something right. That's expecting
a lot from that. In the House Build, the item
is listed as the MAGA Accounts Contribution Pilot Program. A
qualifying child gets a one time credit of one thousand
dollars payable into the child's account. To be eligible for
the program, the child must be a US citizen at birth,

(15:51):
possess a we have we settled what that means to
be at birth a US citizen? Does that include anchor
babies by The child must be a US citizenate birth,
possess a Social Security number, and have a birth date
after December thirty first, twenty twenty four and prior to
January the first, twenty twenty nine in order to get

(16:12):
the stipend. This probably goes along with the idea that
President Trump was talking about about basically paying people to
have kids. You know that we need to get the
birth rate up, and the best way to do that
is to provide a financial incentive. I don't know if
a thousand dollars is that kind of a financial incentive.
The devil's always in the details with these things. First

(16:34):
of all, let's be realistic about this. If you take
a thousand dollars and you compound the interest at four percent.
Let's say the interest rate average interest rate is four percent,
and you compound that interest over thirty years, that one
thousand dollars becomes roughly thirty four hundred bucks. Little bit
more than thirty four hundred dollars. So the only way

(16:56):
really achieves much, I think is if first of all,
they're going to have to leave the money in the
account for a significant period of time. So I would
love to know what the rules are as far as
taking the money out. When are you ultible to remove
the money. You can make a contribution up to five
thousand dollars a year, so maybe parents will treat this
like the same way they would treat an account for

(17:20):
saving up for college, for example. But you'd have to
be a diligent saver in order for it to really
amount to anything. But you know, you do that for
the first eighteen years of the child's life, and then
you make sure that they don't get access to it
for a while, and maybe they could make a big difference.
Five twenty six. Time to take a look at your money.
Jeff Belger, good morning and good morning to you.

Speaker 22 (17:40):
Jimmy better than expected reading on inflation was well received
by investors, and stocks closed mixed yesterday. The NASDAK gained
one point six percent. The S and P five hundred
closed seven tens percent higher. It's once again in positive
territory for the year. The Dow fell six tenths percent.
United Health was among the big losers on Wall Street.

(18:01):
At stock fell nearly eighteen percent. The company surprised investors
with an announcement that it was replacing its chief executive
and suspending its earnings guidance. Starbucks says most of its
stores have been open as usual this week, but Barista
is at a handful of stores around the country have
gone on strike. They don't want to wear the solid

(18:21):
black tops that are required under the company's new dress code.
Stock Market futures slightly lower this morning. From the Fidelity
Bloomberg Business Desk. I'm Jeff Beeldinger on News Radio seven
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Five thirty is our time here in Houston's morning news.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
will Republicans mess up Trump budget bill, Texas bill to
pay high school athletes? And coming up at five thirty eight,
the top ten most popular chain restaurants in the first
quarter of twenty twenty five Here in America. Details coming
in the minutes ahead. First, an update on your drive

(19:15):
from Skymike.

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time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 5 (19:48):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (19:49):
Jimmy. Five thirty one on ktrh our top story.

Speaker 26 (19:53):
We need to focus on transforming people's lives. We need
to be the party of jobs and economic growth, and
I think this bill well is a very powerful piece
of that agenda.

Speaker 6 (20:02):
Texas Senator Ted Cruz on Fox Business as Congress starts
marking up the Trump budget plan, which he of course
calls the big beautiful bill here he's in the House
began yesterday, but the House GOP may be ignoring something
in all of this.

Speaker 7 (20:17):
That would be an opportunity for greatness.

Speaker 28 (20:20):
Absolutely. Look, I think President Trump should not have to pressure.
We all know what we campaigned on.

Speaker 15 (20:25):
That is Aaron Evans, president of winning Republican strategies.

Speaker 28 (20:29):
You know, we don't have kings in America for a reason.

Speaker 8 (20:31):
We have Congress.

Speaker 28 (20:32):
And so I do hope that Republicans in Congress realize
the importance of having courage and fortitude and doing the
right thing.

Speaker 15 (20:39):
If not, it will be the wrong thing, like in
Trump's first term. Jeff Biggs, News Radio seven T Thiery.

Speaker 6 (20:47):
Remember Republicans want to have this on Trump's desk by
July fourth, five point thirty two. Illegal win for the
administration sort of a federal judge appointed by Trump rules
that the White House can use the Alien Enemies Act
to deport criminal illegals who are members of Trendy i Ragua,
but the judge also says it must allow for due process.

(21:09):
The three Democrat lawmakers who tried to storm that New
Jersey ice facility last week have yet to be arrested.
DHS Secretary Christie Noam says they deserve whatever happens to them.

Speaker 29 (21:21):
This was an oversight. This was committing felonies. This was
going out and attacking people who stand up for the
rule of law, and it was absolutely horrible.

Speaker 6 (21:31):
No I'm on Fox Wisconsin. Judge Hannah Dugan is indicted
by a federal grand jury and charges that she helped
a violent illegal alien escape arrest. Dugan was taken into
custody last month. It's now five point thirty three. The
President continues his trip to the Middle East this morning,
making a big announcement in Saudi Arabia.

Speaker 30 (21:51):
And a major policy shift and a way to kind
of normalize relations. Trump also announced he was ordering an
end to sanctions on Siri. Yet he also used the
time to threaten Iran if Tron doesn't agree to a
new nuclear deal and said he hoped Saudi Arabia would
join the Abraham Accords and condemn Iran.

Speaker 6 (22:10):
Ashley Stromeyer reporting Trump is now on his way to Katar.
Trump may not be at tomorrow's peace talks between Russia
and Ukraine. He is sending Secretary of State Marco Rubio
to Turkey. As of now five point thirty four. Here
at home, we are already paying college athletes. Now high
school athletes could be next if the state legislature passes

(22:32):
proposed legislation.

Speaker 31 (22:33):
Two bills pending in the Texas House would allow high
school athletes to profit off their name, image, and likeness
or nil. Brent Chapman, who runs the app My Nil Pay,
thinks this is unlikely to pass.

Speaker 32 (22:45):
Texas has gone out of its way over the years.
Who protect public school sports? And if you allow nil,
private schools can then buy players, and I do not
think that is what the state of Texas wants at
this point.

Speaker 31 (23:00):
One bill would require high school athletes to be at
least eighteen years old, while the other would allow students
as young as ninth grade to get paid. Corey Jolson,
Who's Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (23:10):
Our first heat wave of the year continues NRG made
headlines after buying up eighteen natural gas plants and a
twelve billion dollars deal, But don't expect to see your
energy supply or bill change because of this.

Speaker 33 (23:23):
These plants are already in ERKA. The operator is a
well known New York hedge fund. The NRG is going
to step into their shoes and profit from the lack
of positive action by the Texas legislature.

Speaker 6 (23:35):
Uhs ed Her says, we are at least five years
away from building more of the new plants we need
to meet our growing energy demands, and the timing of
this heat wave has some concerned.

Speaker 34 (23:47):
Experts say this could not have come at a worse
time for the States. In battle power grid professor Michael
Webber at UT Austin says many fossil fuel power plants
are offline for maintenance.

Speaker 7 (23:56):
I say's like twenty gigabots.

Speaker 6 (23:58):
It's like twenty new gore power plants or those power
plants offline, which.

Speaker 8 (24:02):
Is a lot.

Speaker 34 (24:02):
Today, demand could be record setting, Michael Board News Radio
seven forty ktright.

Speaker 6 (24:07):
And despite the potential of that record setting demand, there
are no warnings from URKONT. The Texas Farm Bureau is
scrambling to head off a possible invasion of a Mexican
parasite that we thought we took care of sixty years ago.
It's the scowworm and it has the potential to kill cattle, bison,
and horses. It can even affect people.

Speaker 20 (24:29):
They are likely to produce and section outbreaks, and that
is of the great concern for wildlife, for livestock, people,
all mammals.

Speaker 6 (24:39):
The Farm Bureau's Gary Joyner says waves of infections from
the parasite are moving north through Mexico. Five point thirty six.
You heard it here on ktrh's the Astros walk it off.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
The one breaking Paul and that's hammer detail that field.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
To set that bar.

Speaker 7 (25:00):
Hey suck, Grady spit, hoping of the season.

Speaker 6 (25:02):
As a walk up winter. The Astros beat the Royals
two to one. Robert Ford on the call there. The
series wraps up tonight coverage at six o'clock on our
sister station, Sports Talk seven ninety. Game time at seven
here on seven ninety and kt RH. I'm Cliff Saunders
on Houston's news Weather in Traffic station News Radio seven
forty kt RH.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
Now back to Jimmy Barrett and the Houston Morning News.

Speaker 7 (25:28):
Team, Houston's Morning News. I like Popeye's chicken fries. Do
you like Popeye? Do you like Popeye's chicken?

Speaker 3 (25:36):
Five point thirty seven our time here in Houston's Morning News.
I'm gonna apologize right up front, you shouldn't gain weight
listening to the radio. But I'm I'm pretty convinced that
if you listen to this show long enough, you might
gain five pounds because because we do like talking about food,

(25:57):
and when you talk about food, that has a tendency
to make you certain things. And I'm already smelling chicken.
I'm smelling fried chicken in the studio just by talking,
just by talking about Popeyes late this list out. These
lists come out all the time, and they all operate
under different criteria. I'll tell you what the criteria is
on this one. They came up with the top fifty.

(26:18):
I'm allly going to do the top ten Top fifty
chain restaurants. As far as popularity goes, and it's based
on a positive opinion score of the chain restaurant, it's
popularity among baby boomers, among gen xers, and among millennials,
and the more popular you are with those three groups,

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combined with you know with a positive opinion score moves
you up the list. Number ten with a positive opinion
score of sixty six percent fifty five percent among boomers,
sixty seven percent among gen xers, and sixty nine percent
among millennials. Is Popeyes, Fried Chicken and Biscuits. Nine on
the list. Texas Roadhouse sixty six percent overall opinion a score.

(27:06):
It's the most popular among gen xers, although the popular
is pretty evenly spread. Number eight Cinnabon. See this is
where I think these these surveys fail. Cinnabon if I
don't consider Cinnabon to be a chain restaurant. I mean,
what can you You can get coffee and you can
get a Cinnabon, right, what else can he get? Can

(27:26):
he get a hamburger? Can he get breakfast? I guess
if you consider a Cinabon breakfast. Also Number seven Olive Garden,
Number six on the list, Taco Bell I think the
by the way, seventy percent positive rating among gen xers
and millennials. It's still relatively cheap food, you know, for

(27:49):
people who are looking for something fast and cheap, that's
that's a good way to go. I guess Number five
Domino's Pizza. Number four Krispy Kream Donuts, same thing. Can
you get anything out of there? I guess you can
get something other than a donut there. Number three was
Dunkin Donuts, so you had two donut shops in the
top five. Number two Dairy Queen, certainly popular here in Texas.

(28:13):
And number one was this is the one that really
made me go, what Baskin Robins? Do we even have
any Basket Robbins around here? I mean, there's not nearly
as many Basket Robins ice cream stores as there used
to be, but they just have super high favorability ratings
with just about everybody have the highest opinion score. So

(28:36):
they may not have as many customers, but the people
who have an opinion of them love them. Five forty
time for traffic and weather together Chimney Rock. There's the
one on Chimney Rock.

Speaker 4 (28:44):
There was a West Time, or there was there was
Oh oh oh yeah, that's true.

Speaker 7 (28:50):
So it's past tense. Is now what's good? You know
what's good?

Speaker 4 (28:52):
But ship Fleet Donuts they had big Earl klashis big.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
What's a big earl? Koalachi has his own band of
sausage with jalapeno.

Speaker 7 (29:04):
Oh man, that does sound good. I just gained two pounds.
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
We're on our way to five pounds. Five pounds. We're
gonna gain five before the show's over today.

Speaker 4 (29:10):
North six in westbound at the squeeze, Terry, does this
make my butt look bick westbound at forty five in
the squeeze there's a wreck.

Speaker 7 (29:18):
We got langage two of them. Now we knew about
it first.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
This is going to mess you up now if you're
trying to get over from the east text, So let's
go right through town instead and take ien get around
that business. Terry your hazard just so jump on the
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Speaker 7 (29:38):
Terry is here. I guess the good news is we gained.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
If we gain five pounds during the show today, you
can just go outside and Mother Nature's sauna will help
you sweat it out.

Speaker 6 (29:48):
I hope that works.

Speaker 24 (29:50):
That would be really very sweet, actually, but it works.

Speaker 20 (29:55):
It does.

Speaker 6 (29:55):
Okay. Good good to know, because.

Speaker 24 (29:57):
You guys are making me hungry listening you talk about
all that food and places to eat. So, yeah, today
is going to be a hot day. I mean our
temperatures are already in the seventies for most of us.
I mean this is like July, June and July kind
of weather. And it stays like this into early next week.

(30:18):
So that's the good thing. If you can get through today,
you know what to expect the rest of the next
several days upper eighties to upper nineties. This afternoon, I
expect that we'll see some records set. We did yesterday.
I think we'll see more record high set today. Keep
in mind, now with the temperatures being hot, the humidity
is also high, and so we start talking about heat

(30:39):
and disease, and it's going to feel like it's one
hundred degrees or hotter today and the next several days
as well. Upper eighties to upper nineties with no rain
through Sunday.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
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All right, just about five fifty year in Houston's Morning News.
All Right, I'm gonna try to be as positive with
our next interview as as humanly possible to do. I'm
gonna fight the feeling of negativity that I sometimes get
when talking about politics. Aaron Evans is going to be
our guest president of winning Republican strategies. Congressional Republicans. Are

(31:30):
they ignoring an opportunity for greatness?

Speaker 8 (31:33):
You know?

Speaker 3 (31:33):
Are they gonna blow it with Trump and that big
beautiful bill whatever you want to call it, the Budget Bill,
the Big Beautiful Bill, all those things that are in
there that Trump wants. Are they going to get that done?
Or are they going to blow it more? In that
story coming up next first though controversial? No, I don't
think controversial. I'm just I'm just gonna try to stay
positive here and hope that Congress gets its, you know what, together,

(31:55):
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Let's go oh.

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Did you see this, Jimmy, He's being allowed to graduate
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to death.

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That attract me.

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Yeah, that'll come in handy when he's in prison for life.
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These radio seven KTRH. You know, nobody can term me
negative like Congress. Nobody. Five point fifty two is our
time here in Houston's Morning News. I'm going to try
to ignore myself here, though, I'm gonna try to stay positive.
As we talked to Aaron Evans, president of Winning Republican Strategies,
tell me something that's going to make me feel good

(33:40):
about Congress dealing with Trump's big beautiful Bill Erin.

Speaker 7 (33:45):
Well, good morning. Yeah.

Speaker 35 (33:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 28 (33:47):
First of all, look, I think that you know, I
think many of us share share the same frustration you've got.
I mean, at the end of the day, you know,
when you look at what's happened since President Trump was
worn in, I mean he has hit the ground running,
delivering on his America First agenda and and and you know,

(34:07):
going above and beyond to do everything in his you
know power, with his UH, with his pan and efforts
to UH to deliver on what he campaigned on. And
then you know, as usual, Congress is operating much slower.
I do think it's it's vital that Congress really steps

(34:27):
up and shows some of the same type of leadership
that President Trump has Shalm you know, I think it's
important to remember that all of us campaigned, you know,
at the end of the day, the you know, the
Republicans in Congress campaigned on many of the same things
that President Trump campaigned on. And you know, I think
we've we've got a majority, uh because of the America

(34:52):
First promises that President Trump made, and UH in Congress,
you know, came in on that, on that same message.
And so, you know, I think it's important to step
back and remember that if Congress does not act a
lot of these things that President Trump is doing with
a pen, it's only short term stop gap solutions. And
the only way to really make these long term, permanent

(35:13):
solutions is by uh an Act of Congress. And and
so you know, I think that's definitely where some of
the fatigue is starting to occur. And how slow uh,
you know, Congress and and and look and looking back
to the past, I think rightfully, so we have we
have real historical data to be skeptical when we look

(35:34):
back in uh, you know, President Trump's first term and
you know, UH was was even unable to fix the
Obamacare mass not because of Democrats, but because of Republicans.
In a Republican majority, just like we have now, uh,
who didn't have the political courage to do what was
right for America. And you know, and I think that's

(35:56):
uh uh, that's the fear that many of us have
right now, is you know, know, are there enough Republicans
with actual courage to step up and lead and quit
checking the wind and actually just do the right thing.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
I don't know if it's the courage problem, Aaron, as
much as it is that Republicans can't get on the
same page. That we have some very stubborn Republicans who
believe what they believe, They are unwilling to compromise in
any way, shape or form. And there's enough of them
to prevent a lot of these things from happening. Not
a whole lot gets soun in Congress without major compromise,
even within a party, whether you're talking about Democrats or Republicans.

(36:28):
And the thing that the Democrats are so good at
is is they all get on the same page, you know,
like them or ham like them or hate them. They're
they're all rowing, They're all rowing in the same direction.
Same cannot be said for Republicans. Yeah, No, I couldn't
agree more. I mean, I think that you know, the
Democrats certainly, they have their whatever fights they have, they

(36:48):
have you know, largely in private, and occasionally.

Speaker 28 (36:52):
It will it'll filter out into the news. And uh
and then you know, they vote as a block and
they they get things done, most most of which is
bad for America, but they they're united on that. And
and on the Republican side, I mean, I think we've
seen that, you know, where it's either you know, the
hard writer or the hard you know, kind of kind

(37:12):
of uh squishy h middle moderate of the party that
depending on the item and President Trump's agenda, you know,
we've tend to see you know, several willing take that.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
I hope the one thing that I hope the one thing, Aaron,
that they understand or seem to have a better job
of grasping now because I'm hearing it from just about
everybody on on on the right, which is very simply,
if we don't get this done, we don't get re elected,
we lose, we lose the House, and we lose the gabble,
and then we are definitely we're going to spend all
of our time worrying about impeachments. We're not going to
get anything else done.

Speaker 28 (37:49):
I couldn't agree more. You know, Listen, I I love
talking to uber drivers, you know, when I'm traveling around
the country. And I was talking to a gentleman in
a blue state just this week, and uh, he voted
for President Trump, was not a lifetime Republican, doesn't consider
himself a Republican today, and and he voted Republican in

(38:11):
this last election. And and I think what he told me,
I thought was pretty profound. He said, you know, he said,
the problem we've got in this country, he said the
Democrats are bulliefs and the Republicans are cowards. And he said,
anytime the Republicans have control, he said, they never get
anything done. And he said anytime the Democrats have control,
they're always trying to force things down. And and I

(38:31):
think that that that was a you know, just a
normal guy, a blue collar worker and various stud Uh.
You know, I think thoughts on what's going on in government,
and like, you know, we've got a mandate by the
American people and it's time to step up with seed.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
Amen, Aaron, thank you appreciate the president of winning Republicans riveties.
Aaron Evans, It's five fifty seven.

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Among our top stories for this half hour. Trump was right,
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Thank you, Jimmy. It is six oh one on KTRH.
Our top story this morning. President Trump heading to Katar,
continuing his Middle East trip this morning, speaking overnight in
Saudi Arabia and sending a message to Iran.

Speaker 8 (40:28):
I want to make a deal with Iran.

Speaker 4 (40:29):
I want to do something off as possible.

Speaker 10 (40:32):
But for that to happen, I must stop sponsoring Terra.

Speaker 6 (40:35):
Trump also announced he will lift sanctions on Syria. He's
also responding to the criticism over the gift of a
new Air Force One from Qatar.

Speaker 9 (40:44):
I thought it was a beautiful gesture. Now there are
those that say we shouldn't be accepting gifts to the
Defense Department, And I would say only a stupid person.

Speaker 7 (40:52):
Would say that.

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Telling KTRH is Sean Hannity from the current Air Force
one that his plane is right now forty years old.
The new jet has the left all upset, and it's
their latest talking point.

Speaker 36 (41:04):
A four hundred million dollar flying palace is an unconstitutional
gift to this president or any president.

Speaker 6 (41:15):
Aus Minoriti leader Hakim Jeffries must have forgotten the millions
the Biden's made from Bearisma six Zho three on KTRH.
The US collected a record sixteen point three billion dollars
in customs duties back in April thanks to importers rushing
to get head of tariffs. That means revenues will probably
dip before evening out.

Speaker 12 (41:37):
The actual amount of tax revenue collected will likely go down,
not up now. In the long run, after we get
into you know, maybe well into next year, and trade normalizes,
then you might see that revenue tick up again.

Speaker 6 (41:50):
Heritage Foundation economist E. J. And Tony says that's because
for the next few months, importers won't need to bring
in as much product to the United States. Overnight trading
is flat right now. The DW lost two hundred and
sixty nine points yesterday in a mixed day of trading,
and that was after a very good inflation report. The
year over year number two point three percent. We haven't

(42:12):
seen that since twenty twenty one.

Speaker 13 (42:14):
Inflation overall during President Trump's second term is running at
one point six percent enjoy it, relishit. Biden's first eighteen months.
It was eight point six an a.

Speaker 6 (42:29):
Live Dagan McDowell on Fox Business at six 'zho four.
Another day, another bombshell about the former president Joe Biden.
A new book claims that he didn't recognize actor George
Clooney at a fundraiser last year, leaving the Hollywood Star
quote shaken. Texas Democrat Jasmine Crockett is hinting it running

(42:50):
for president in a few years and calling out her
party for already selecting quote the safest white dude possible.
Florida congressional candidate Raven and Harrison says she's not surprised
at this.

Speaker 17 (43:02):
Jasmine Crockett is an embarrassing representation of what Congress should be.
She obviously wants to run for president, and if she
is the best the Democrats have, then Republicans can breathe
a sigh of relief.

Speaker 6 (43:15):
She says. Crockett might get likes on social media, but
that won't translate to votes. Democrats are finally starting to
realize that they are losing young voters, but DNC vice
to your David Hogg still thinks the youngsters like the policies.
The truth is they're tired of walking on edgshells.

Speaker 18 (43:33):
They just expect you to be scared enough to fall
in line and just keep your mouth shut, and they're
trying to do that to these young people who, frankly,
gen Z is a very different generation than the millennials
or jen X.

Speaker 6 (43:46):
Political strategist Nico Linquis says the madness that occurred across
college campuses has also turned off a lot of young voters.

Speaker 7 (43:55):
Six five.

Speaker 6 (43:56):
The future of the Johnson Space Center looks brighter as
NASA cut back on politics to focus on their real job,
you know, space exploration.

Speaker 37 (44:05):
They're focusing on a few specific things. After stretching themselves thin.

Speaker 19 (44:10):
They're trying to do seven different areas of hard science.
By pairing down all their different endeavors, it's going to
allow them to focus on a few things and do
them well.

Speaker 37 (44:20):
NASA expert Vincent Moroli says, though there will be cuts
to other space centers nationally, but for us to expand
our space presence, this is necessary.

Speaker 19 (44:29):
We're not going to be able to do that if
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the South China Sea.

Speaker 37 (44:36):
He says, this will take time, but it's a good
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Speaker 6 (44:42):
Thank you, Andre. Cheaper gas is fueling a record breaking
Memorial Day travel weekend. Doug Shoot with Triple A Texas
says gas prices are about fifty cents cheaper per gallon
now as opposed to this time last year.

Speaker 20 (44:55):
Triple A Texas is projecting a record three point seven
million will take a trip of fifty miles or more
away from home.

Speaker 6 (45:04):
Gas prices are at two seventy across the Houston area
this morning. And the Trump administration wants to fix that
annoying feature on your car that turns off the engine
that stoplights. KTRH car pro Jerry Reynolds says the car
makers claim the feature does not affect the air conditioner,
but that's not true.

Speaker 38 (45:23):
It doesn't cool as well when the engine stop turning.
The air condistioner doesn't go off, but it sure doesn't
cool as well, and people in Texas that was a
big issue with them.

Speaker 6 (45:35):
On most cars, though, there is a switch that can
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Speaker 35 (45:44):
Tonight.

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Speaker 3 (46:08):
Oh man, everybody's looking for their pay day. How far
are we going to go with this name and likeness thing?
How far are we willing to go with this? We
have a bill that I don't know what kind of
chance it has of passing, probably won't pass, but that's okay.
We can still talk about this from a philosophical standpoint.
The bill would allow Texas high school athletes to have

(46:32):
nil opportunities names, you know, name, image, likeness. I have
no idea who would want to pay a high school
kid for their name, image, or likeness and give them
an opportunity to make you know, thousands, perhaps hundreds of
thousands of dollars. One of the concerns that I saw,

(46:55):
and this is the least of my concerns, Well maybe
not the least, but it's certainly not high in the lip.
The you know KPRC too headline is Texas high school
athletes could face financial literacy challenges with new nil opportunities. Yeah,
that's probably true, because we do not do a very
good job of teaching young people about financial literacy, how

(47:17):
to budget, how do you know how to take care
of their money? And you give, you know, a young athlete,
promising athlete, who has no background in finance, one hundred
thousand dollars and his parents don't have any background in finance,
and and you know, who knows what's gonna happen. They'll
be driving fancy cars and wearing jewelry and and probably

(47:38):
won't take a penny. But you know, that's that that
that's not the bigger concern. The bigger concern is that
you're giving a high school athlete money to play a
sport in high school, high school. This these are and
they could go back as far as like ninth grade.
I mean, it's bad enough that we have colleges out
there recruiting kids who are in junior high school, middle school,

(48:02):
you know, potentially for college. You know, are we not
interested in allowing kids to be kids at all? You
mean to tell me that we can't keep a kid
interested in being in school and getting at least decent
enough grades to get through high school so they can
go on to college and play sports, we have to
pay them at the high school level. Now, are high

(48:24):
schools making a bunch of money off of star players
that I'm not aware of. I don't understand why we
need to pay these people, But that's my opinion. I'd
love to hear yours. We're gonna do a question today.
You go to the iHeart Radio app KTRH. Please make
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Speaker 7 (49:01):
Isn't that horrible?

Speaker 4 (49:01):
Let's pay the band instead, Terry.

Speaker 7 (49:05):
Yeah, band geeks should get they should get paid. Yeah.
And in theater. All right, let's go.

Speaker 4 (49:09):
We've got something on the West Park here. Tip blind
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Time, Mike did just tough from Let's park Torvey inbound.

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That is a host fine by lill Parkway.

Speaker 4 (49:23):
Joe burnis all right, we're looking at it. As a
matter of fact, Terry, did you get this shot here?
I'm looking at your plan. Yeah, the home game with
us on camera three five two eight on the trans
Star system. Hopefully everybody's okay. Didn't get your name there
from Fullsher's shot. Well, thank you either way. Also more
tip line before we get to that. Let's do the
north loop at the squeeze. We are loopy. We just

(49:46):
cleared to wreck. Everybody's okay. Westbound at forty five. That's
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Hey time mike it from the Woodlands.

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All thing things to.

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West. Yes, a sound quality got us okay, somewhere on
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Oh yeah, and it's here to stay at least the
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see some more record heat between today through the weekend.
Not a drop of rain, just sunshine every day. Our
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(50:51):
in the humidity, the heat index will be running over
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the book supposedly is a big reveal of all the
things that Biden's aides were considering doing because of his
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(51:39):
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Our House Republicans about to blow a golden opportunity. The
Michigan Democrat who found an impeachment resolution against Trump is
literally trying to force a full House vote this week.
And the Menendez brothers are now eligible for parole apparently
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This is Radio seven kt RH. All right, so this
new book, all of a sudden, you have all these
all these progressives who are coming out with well, we
you know, all these things that were hidden from us.
We didn't know the tear, the extent of of Joe
Biden's deteriorating condition, you know, which is, as we all know,

(53:30):
is a bunch of bs. Of course, they did in
the In the new book by Jake Tapper, he claims
that they were talking about putting him in a wheelchair,
but they didn't want to do it until after the election.
They should have gone FDR. I mean didn't didn't didn't
to hold back Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Of course they didn't
like to photograph him in the wheelchair either, I guess.

(53:51):
But anyway, that's at least one of the allegations. They
talked about it on the Five. Here's Jesse Waters wheelchairs.

Speaker 40 (53:59):
There's nothing wrong with wheelchairs. I use them all the
time at the airport. You don't even have to have
a doctor's note. You could just say you're late and
they'll wheel you around to give him twenty bucks. It's fine.
We were just talking about what we would have.

Speaker 6 (54:11):
Called Joe if he was in a wheelchair asleep at.

Speaker 41 (54:14):
The wheel you would have been we're talking about it.

Speaker 7 (54:17):
Yes, yeah, it was just.

Speaker 32 (54:18):
Me, it wasn't it.

Speaker 7 (54:20):
So I want to just talk to the people that
don't watch us. How would I do that for watching us?
But let me put it differently. Do you like to
time travel? Do you like to see the future? Well,
I have something to store for you. You can just.

Speaker 40 (54:35):
Watch Fox and you don't have to buy books from
seeing that.

Speaker 7 (54:39):
Okay, you'll know the future by watching us.

Speaker 40 (54:42):
That's how this goes, now, Jake, this is what the.

Speaker 7 (54:46):
Media is doing. I wasn't a part of the cover up.

Speaker 40 (54:49):
Ron Claim's like, no, it was doctor Jill Tapper's like,
oh no, we were.

Speaker 7 (54:53):
Trying real hard.

Speaker 6 (54:54):
It's everybody's pointing finger.

Speaker 40 (54:57):
He's getting paid to write a book about what.

Speaker 7 (55:00):
We said four years ago. And we had Ran Paul
on last.

Speaker 40 (55:04):
Night, and Ran Paul was against tariffs, he was against
the Muslim plane and the drug prices. And that's fine
because at this company you can say whatever you want,
if it's your opinion. We don't have to toe the
line here. Now, if you go back four years and
someone had gone on CNN and said Biden's braindead, the
lab leak, the labtop, they would have cut your mic

(55:26):
and you would have been banished from CNN. Now, being
banished from CNN is a badge of honor, but still
you can hear the truth here. If Joe Biden had
done decently at that debate, cover up still would have happened.
There would have been no book, there would have been
no book advance. We would not be hearing about this.
They would just slap them in a wheelchair on November six,
and they would have said, see, he's just like FDR.

(55:48):
They're both in wheelchairs, and they both defeated Nazis. What's
more dangerous Trump being president or a secretive cabal of
unelected officials controlling the president using auto pen and overrule
him and then lying to the public about it.

Speaker 7 (56:02):
Yeah, what's more on constitutional? What's more corrupt? In a way?

Speaker 3 (56:06):
Trump saved democracy? Yeah, no doubt about that. I mean,
can you imagine where we'd be if Biden had continued
to run and somehow got reelected. Imagine we're well, he
probably would have stepped down. By now, we'd have Kamala
Harris's president. Lord have mercy, all right, six twenty six,
Time to take a look at your money, as we

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say good morning again to Jeff Bellinger and.

Speaker 7 (56:29):
Jimmy, Good morning to you.

Speaker 22 (56:30):
Microsoft is slashing its payroll. The software giant says it's
working to reduce management layers and it will cut about
six thousand workers across the company, about a third of
the employees being laid off or based at Microsoft headquarters
in Redmond, Washington. Good news for renters in most parts
of the country. Realtor dot com says rents have become

(56:51):
more affordable since the pandemic. You're a spike as of
last month. Renters earning the typical household income, we're devoting
about twenty three and a half percent of their income
to lease a typical home. Airbnb is expanding beyond home rentals.
The company has overhauled its app. In addition to vacation rentals,
users will find offerings in ten categories of in home services,

(57:14):
including meal preparation, catering, photography, and spa treatments. Airbnb also
relaunched Experiences, that's its tour booking product. Stock market futures
pointing higher across the board right now, the Dow futures
are up twenty points. From the Fidelity Bloomberg Business Desk.
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It is six point thirty now here in Houston's borning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this f hour.
Who thinks it's a good idea to pay high school athletes,
well House Republicans blow Trump's budget bill, and coming up
at six thirty eight, the Alamo is getting a new
management team. Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's
Morning News. First crocket wasn't on it. No, the Daughters

(58:16):
of the Republic of Texas are not gonna be running
the place anymore either.

Speaker 4 (58:19):
The white the smoke is white now in the West
Park Tollway that was at Eldridge Parkway. Drivers have lost interest,
so the Reverend acking has gone west. Sam Kyle Friendswood
got Mike.

Speaker 41 (58:30):
Everything looks good from fifty nine up to the toll
boots all right.

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Sending from the Woodlands.

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Found those stall vehicles that's north Belt westbound at forty five.
I think we've got crap in the road. We'll find
out what it is at the six forty break and
the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

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From our KTIH Generator super Center twenty four hour Weather Center. Sunny,
even hotter and breezy today with the high temperature right
about ninety seven. We'll stay in the upper nineties here
for the rest of the week, and we'll check it
all out with Terry Smith the Weather Channel in about
eight minutes right now, seventy four at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's time now

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for the news. Here's Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 6 (59:08):
Thank you, Jimmy. It is six thirty two on KTRH.
Our top story this morning. With President Trump's budget, what
he calls the Big Beautiful Bill, taking center stage in DC,
Congressional Republicans are on the spot. That's because, as Aaron
Evans with Winning Republican Strategy says, we've seen this movie before.

Speaker 28 (59:27):
If we look at history every time Republicans get control,
and we go back to President Trump's first term, we
had the super majority and we were unable to fix
the Obamacare ness, not because of Democrats, but because of
Republicans not having the courage and willingness to do exactly
what the American people were demanding.

Speaker 6 (59:43):
But they do have a chance to get things done
this time around. Democrats claim the budget would kill Social
Security and Medicare. Florida Congressman Corey Mill says, you should
not believe the hype.

Speaker 23 (59:55):
Chuck Schumer and all the others want to go ahead
and stand up there and rant the dollar tree version
of Obama. Hakeem Jeffries wants to talk about how Republicans
are continuing to try and go after Medicare and medicaid
to social Security. It's political theatrics and that's all it is.

Speaker 6 (01:00:08):
Mills on Fox. It is now six thirty three. A
legal win kind of for the administration. A federal judge,
a Trump appointee, says the White House can use the
Alien Enemies Act to deport criminal illegals or also in
trendyar ragua, but at the same time they want due process.
The three Democrat congressmen that tried to break into a

(01:00:30):
New Jersey ice facility last week have yet to be charged.
DHS Secretary Christy Noam is waiting for the charges to come.

Speaker 29 (01:00:38):
What happened last Friday was we had members of Congress
assaulting law enforcement officers. They were cooperating with criminals to
create criminal acts, and then they're saying that they were
providing oversight. This was an oversight.

Speaker 6 (01:00:52):
No one is calling for felony charges. Wisconsin judge Hannah
Dugan indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that
she helped a violent illegal alien escape authorities. Missouri Senator
Josh Hawley told Fox this is a victory for law
and order.

Speaker 25 (01:01:07):
It is outrageous for a sitting judge to be trying
to obstruct justice in the United States of America.

Speaker 8 (01:01:14):
That's what this individual was doing.

Speaker 6 (01:01:17):
Dugan has pled not guilty. Six point thirty four. The
President is in Qatar now as his Middle East trip continues,
and he extended an olive branch towards the new government
of Syria earlier this morning that.

Speaker 41 (01:01:29):
The GCC today he talked about the lifting of sanctions
on Syria. He was thanked by the President of Sharky
and of course the Crown Prince himself. The Crown Prince,
by the way, called the President's decision to lift the
sanctions courageous.

Speaker 6 (01:01:46):
Kevin Cork reporting there Trump likely won't be at tomorrow's
peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. Marco Rubio, the Secretary
of State, will attend in his place. At six thirty four,
Texas colleges Jimmy mentioned this are now paying top dollar
for student athletes thanks to rules allowing players to profit
off their name, image, and likeness, but new legislation in

(01:02:08):
Austin would extend that right to high school athletes. Brent Chapman,
with the app My nil pa says, kids are being
groomed as athletes at earlier ages.

Speaker 8 (01:02:19):
This is just going to.

Speaker 32 (01:02:20):
Continue to drive the business for these companies that.

Speaker 8 (01:02:23):
Are trying to get these kids in the system.

Speaker 32 (01:02:26):
Being able to pay them for endorsement sponsorships is just
going to fuel that even more.

Speaker 6 (01:02:31):
He predicts the legislation will face tough opposition. No issues
are anticipated with the grid during the heat wave this week. Meantime,
and RG has bought eighteen different power plants and a
deal they say will double generation capacity.

Speaker 11 (01:02:46):
Unfortunately, this is more of a money making move for
energ rather than anything else.

Speaker 33 (01:02:50):
It's a consolidating place. They're buying these power plants for
sixty cents seventy five cents on.

Speaker 7 (01:02:56):
The dollar of what it would cost to build them
new U have H Energy Hello.

Speaker 11 (01:03:00):
Ed Hers says this won't actually add more generation to URKOTT,
which is already way behind demand.

Speaker 33 (01:03:05):
Yeah, we're five years out from adding any new natural
gas power plants to the grid across the nation.

Speaker 8 (01:03:11):
Other grids are needing to build up.

Speaker 11 (01:03:12):
Also, Her says, as of right now, we still don't
have any real long term solutions to the Texas power
demand deficit being proposed Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 6 (01:03:22):
Some are concerned about the timing of the summer blast.
Many fossil fuel plants are offline for maintenance.

Speaker 4 (01:03:28):
The boulder parts have to go offline for like a
month to get tuned up.

Speaker 8 (01:03:31):
For the summers. As the summer's arriving earlier.

Speaker 6 (01:03:33):
Now, Michael Weber at u T, Austin, we could see
record demand this week and a concern for ranchers is
currently playing out. Texas could see an invasion of a
parasite we thought we took care of back in the sixties.

Speaker 5 (01:03:46):
Parasite is called the New World screwworm, and Gary Joyner
at the Texas Farm Bureau says his agency is scrambling
to use the safest methods to stop it from getting here.

Speaker 20 (01:03:55):
We know that there's over fourteen hundred outbreaks and detections
of New World screwworm in Mexico right now. They continues
to progress northward.

Speaker 5 (01:04:04):
That parasite was eradicated in nineteen sixty six in Texas.
It would be devastating to have it returned and start
killing cattle, horses and bison. Michael Shiloh News Radio seven
forty K TRH.

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And the Astros beat the Worlds two to one on
a walk off dinger from EAZAC Parades. Pregame tonight at
six on Sports Talk seven ninety Game Time at seven
simulcast on seven ninety and KTRH. I'm Cliff Saunders on
Houston's news weather in traffic station News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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Our time here in Houston's borning news. Right, a little
shakeup going on at the Alamo. The management team. You know,
the Alamo was run by the General Well, he's complicated.
The Alamo comes under the General Land Office, which is
George P. Bush got involved, remember the whole sentinel. Thank yeah. Anyway,

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the Daughters of the Republic of Texas have been running
the day to day operations, and there has been at
least several accusations that perhaps they weren't doing a very
good job with that, that they weren't spending money on
the preservation of the Alamo, they were spending it on
their own personal causes. At any rate, there's a shakeup now.

(01:05:28):
The DRT will no longer be running the day to
day operations of the Alamo. The General Land Office is
searching for a new management team to run the Alamo.
The question is who are they going to get And
of course most of us believe that it would be
much much better if it was being managed by somebody local.

(01:05:49):
I think the last thing we want to do is
turn the day to day operations of the Alamo over
to an out of state management team somehow. So that's
going to be the question going forward. Who are they
going to get to manage to the Alamo and what
will this The state is increasingly taking a bigger and
a bigger role in the management of the Alamo. I

(01:06:11):
mean he goes back to like twenty eleven when they
really first started getting involved with this. So the question
becomes now is what's next. What's next for the Almo?
Who's going to run it the day to day operations?
What is the plan going forward? And of course we'll
be waiting, probably for several months to get the answer
to that, and we should we should all it's it's

(01:06:32):
one of it's, if not our greatest treasure, certainly one
of them here in Texas. We have to keep an
eye on this stuff, right. We want to make sure
that the Alamo is taken care of and preserved for generations.
It is one of our biggest attractions and one we
are probably the most proud of, and rightfully so. Six
forty time for traffic and weather together. Put George Trait

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in charge of it. George Strait, Dan, Willie Nelson and
Willie Nelson, somebody and Earl Campbell. Well the plenty of
entertainment there. Then yeah, somebody from Texas. You know, let's
go now to the West Park to al Way. I
got robbed from Katie Dude.

Speaker 33 (01:07:06):
Good morning sky Mike had a crawl starting at about
Highway six, which is very early. It looks like there
may be.

Speaker 8 (01:07:12):
An apartment fire.

Speaker 4 (01:07:14):
Yeah, rubbernecket, that's what we had. Now, I see, I'm
looking from thirty five twenty eight. I'm looking at Sinot
and those backups are gone. But I thank you for
pointing that out to me. We still have the suckage
behind that where we're trying to recover. So yeah, I've
got backups now from West Park from Barker Cypress. So
thank you for correcting me on that east side. It

(01:07:34):
in east it's Tony from Beaumont.

Speaker 7 (01:07:37):
Days Guy Mike Poetry nice Oh.

Speaker 36 (01:07:40):
Nolue is cleared and so is the full boom.

Speaker 4 (01:07:45):
Oh, there we go again with that. See that he's
coming back at me with that. We look good so far.
Now we will spackle up a little before the Sandracino
River Bridge coming in from mcnare six ten north. We're
still looping at the squeeze, Terry forty five. You're hazardous,
so you know what to do. Take the south loop instead.
I ten starting to cram up now on the baytown
side from Lockwood. I'm Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot

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Com Traffic Center.

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Promo r KTRH Generator super Center, twenty four hour Weather Center.
Terry is here. We're starting off today just like yesterday.
We've got little low clouds going on here that are
going to burn off as the morning progresses. So when
does the sun pop out?

Speaker 24 (01:08:20):
Now that I'm gonna say, just put me on repeat.

Speaker 7 (01:08:23):
There's no rents for this repeat though, is there?

Speaker 20 (01:08:25):
No?

Speaker 24 (01:08:26):
There's no rints. All that humidity is hanging around. It's
not coming down, man. It is dry. It's going to
be hot, and it's going to be humid, and it
stays like this through the weekend. Yes, we have some
morning clouds, they'll start to thin out in another hour
or so. Temperatures are going to soar. Most of us
will be in the nineties today, a lot of us

(01:08:47):
in the mid to upper nineties. And our heat indecks
today between one hundred.

Speaker 6 (01:08:52):
And one oh five.

Speaker 24 (01:08:53):
And then we're just gonna do it over and over
again every day through the weekend. And don't be surprised
if we're talking about record heat as well.

Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
All right, and by record, what would constitute a record
for today? What do we have to hit?

Speaker 24 (01:09:07):
So ninety three is the record high at Hobby and Bush,
and ninety is the record high at Galveston, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:09:15):
At least here, I think it gets obliterated, don't you
it's obliterated.

Speaker 24 (01:09:20):
Yeah, I think well, I think we'll exceed that by
more than just one or two degrees.

Speaker 3 (01:09:25):
Fair enough, seventy four right now, your officials, severe weather
station News Radio seven forty KRH. You are commute, you
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you buying New Southway. Those solutions six fifty one is
air time here in Houston's Morning News. All right, there
was a huge, huge amount of raids this week in Houston.

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Most of us didn't even notice what was going on,
but the Feds ICE came to town and arrested four
hundred and twenty three people. More than story coming up next. First,
we've got traffic and weather together as we check out
the drive again, here's guy Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:10:01):
We've still got trouble on the West Park. We had
that building fire. I think that was apartments inbound at
Eldris Parkway. Now the backups right there are gone, but
behind it we're still recovering from Highway six. I'm Skymike
on the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:10:15):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center. Sunny,
even hotter and breezy today ninety seven degrees and then
tomorrow through Sunday becoming mostly sunny. I temperature in the
upper nineties. Current temperature is seventy four at your officials
Severe Weather Station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's a
Wednesday morning. Cliff is here to let you know what's

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going on in our newsroom.

Speaker 20 (01:10:36):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:10:36):
President Trump is giving the new government of Syria a
break by lifting sanctions. The Fort ben County Democrat Party
kicks out its chairman after they found ninety seven thousand
dollars worth of unauthorized purchases. Oops, and Microsoft is laying
off six thousand workers. That amounts to three percent of
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I listen usually on the way to work and on
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Speaker 3 (01:11:14):
Four twenty three arrests here in Houston by ICE in
the last week. It's it's been a major effort. Similar results.
By the way, in Washington, DC. I think the number
is maybe half of that, but I'm sure there's a
lot more illegals who are here in Houston than they
are in Washington.

Speaker 31 (01:11:29):
D C.

Speaker 3 (01:11:30):
Brook Taylor from Fox News reports on the Ice raids.

Speaker 42 (01:11:34):
We joined ICE on this exclusive week long operation. In total,
they arrested four hundred and twenty to illegal migrants. The
majority had criminal convictions or pending criminal conviction. So we're
talking everything from murder, aggravated assault to sexual assault of
a child's.

Speaker 22 (01:11:53):
Twenty one plus years for murder in Columbia. He was
involved in a lot of organized crime in Columbia.

Speaker 7 (01:12:01):
ICE officers pull up and arrest this, a legal.

Speaker 42 (01:12:04):
Migrant who, according to ICE, is a convicted.

Speaker 7 (01:12:06):
Murderer from Columbia.

Speaker 42 (01:12:07):
He was caught by border patrol last year, then released
under the Biden administration's catch and release policies and watched.
This a twice supported illegal migrant from Mexico. He tried
to flee in his car then make a run for
it before he was captured and eventually arrested. According to ICE,
he has multiple convictions in the US, including arson, aggravated

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assault with a deadly weapon, and DWI.

Speaker 43 (01:12:33):
This is a week long operation where we really fled
the zone with additional resources from all these agencies and
come together trying to make the biggest impact and get
as many of these folks off the streets as we
possibly can.

Speaker 42 (01:12:45):
And more than two hundred of the illegal migrants arrested
during this operation had final orders of removal, including this
thirty six year old criminal migrant from El Salvador. ICE
is speeding up that removal process.

Speaker 7 (01:12:57):
So this is new.

Speaker 42 (01:12:58):
Fox got an exclusive look, eighty detainees aborting this plane.

Speaker 7 (01:13:02):
To the al Paso Hub.

Speaker 42 (01:13:03):
So instead of bringing them to detention centers taking up
that limited space allegal migrants with final orders of removal,
they are being transferred to these hub locations immediately so
that they could be quickly deported to their home countries.

Speaker 43 (01:13:18):
We can arrest the individual this morning, process them this afternoon,
and have them on a removal flight this evening same day,
saving taxpayer costs and just to make it a more
efficient and expedited process to get these folks out of
the country.

Speaker 42 (01:13:35):
And meanwhile, at the Southern border, CBP just release those
monthly numbers yesterday, and according to those numbers, it just
continues to stay significantly down at the Southern border. Apprehensions
right now about ninety percent lower right now than this
timeframe last year.

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Trump takes his old Air Force one to cut her ranking.
I should say, raking in the tariff money and coming
up at seven oh eight, AOC makes a threat, DHS
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in Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking out that drive again.

Speaker 4 (01:16:00):
Sky Mite all right at ten East Freeway, coming in
from Baytown. We had a minor wreck, but it sure
did mess us up. Right before the San Jacino River Bridge,
We've got suckage all the way back to Wade Road East.
Text Young Albert Kingwood forty time.

Speaker 41 (01:16:13):
Like the slowdown RUMs of the river, Saint Jack is
causing varies slow traffic all the way up.

Speaker 8 (01:16:19):
To ninety nine.

Speaker 4 (01:16:20):
It's not sure exactly what's going on with this inbound. Slowdown,
I see it too. We're plumb backed up from New Caney.
I'm Skymike and the Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:16:29):
From KTRH top tax Defenders, twenty four hour Weather Center, Sonny.
Even hotter today, breezy. What's those morning clouds? Lift with
a high temperature today? Right about ninety seven, We'll get
Terry in here with an update on your forecast in
about eight minutes. Won't take her along though, forecast is
pretty much the same every day all the way through
the weekend. Right now, seventy four did your official severe
weather station? News Radio seven forty k t RH. It's

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Speaker 12 (01:16:55):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (01:16:55):
It's seven o two on KTRHR top story.

Speaker 38 (01:16:58):
It gives them a chance some great DISTI sanctions were
really crippling, very.

Speaker 6 (01:17:02):
Powerful President Trump this morning in Saudi Arabia, he's now
lifting sanctions on Syria, saying he wants to make a
deal with Iran. And he's already went from Saudi Arabia
to Katar, where earlier he hit back at the critics
who didn't want him to accept the gift of a
new air Force one from the qataris.

Speaker 9 (01:17:22):
We give a lot of gifts. We give too many gifts,
to be honest with you. We give gifts to defend countries.
They wouldn't even exist. Many countries wouldn't even exist. All
over the world, countries wouldn't even exist. But I thought
it was a beautiful.

Speaker 6 (01:17:35):
Gesture Trump on Air Force one. So how do Dems respond?
They go unhinged. Chuck Schumer says he'll block Trump's DOJ
nominees over this.

Speaker 10 (01:17:46):
Donald Trump's business deals in the Middle East, Reek of
Crooked itself and Richmond. He isn't just blurring the line
between public service and personal profit, he's erasing it.

Speaker 6 (01:17:56):
Funny how Schumer didn't say anything about the Biden family
business seven oh three.

Speaker 4 (01:18:02):
Here's you hat.

Speaker 6 (01:18:03):
Another thing that the mainstream media isn't telling you. The
US brought in a record amount of customs duties in
April thanks to tariffs, sixteen point three billion dollars.

Speaker 11 (01:18:13):
This was likely due to importers rushing to get ahead
of Liberation Day tariffs.

Speaker 12 (01:18:17):
People knew that the tariffs were going to be put
in place relatively quickly, and so as soon as the
announcement came, everybody rushed to import product.

Speaker 7 (01:18:25):
Economist EJ.

Speaker 11 (01:18:26):
And Tony says that in the next few months, expect
tariff revenues to fall slightly then balance out.

Speaker 12 (01:18:31):
They're going to be importing much, much less for the
middle of this year, and that means that despite having
a higher tax rate, you're going to have a much
smaller tax.

Speaker 11 (01:18:39):
Based Antoni says, we could see the groundwork for long
term success as soon as major deals start getting signed.
Ethan Buchanan, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:18:47):
And taking a quick look at overnight trading right now,
it's barely up after a mixed day on Wall Street yesterday.
This was all after a better than expected inflation report.
The year over year number two point only three percent
is out of four year low, proving Trump right about tariffs.

Speaker 13 (01:19:04):
The terriffs were never gonna be inflationary. I've said that repeatedly.

Speaker 6 (01:19:09):
Jacon McDowell on Fox Business seven oh four. More revelations
about President Joe Biden. A new book says staffers considered
putting him in a wheelchair had he won a second term.
And there's this actor George Clooney apparently was quote shaken
when Biden couldn't recognize him at a twenty twenty four fundraiser.
As for the Democrat new Guard, Jasmin Crockett is at

(01:19:33):
it yet again. She's not only talking about how to
stop Trump, but how to replace him, and calling out
her own party for not picking her.

Speaker 14 (01:19:43):
Like, let's go find the safest white boy we can find.
I mean, I'm just saying, I had a donor on
the phones with me telling me that all the donors
are lining up behind that candidate.

Speaker 15 (01:19:51):
And this Florida congressional candidate Raven Harrison says she is
firing up the race card.

Speaker 17 (01:19:58):
She wants to run, but she is trying to force
the race class, gender narrative that the left always likes
to use.

Speaker 15 (01:20:06):
She adds that Crockett may get a lot of clicks,
but you won't get a lot of votes. Jeff Biggs,
News Radio seven K TIERH.

Speaker 6 (01:20:15):
And then there's the DNC trying to cancel David Hogg,
their vice chair, for blasting the party over losing young voters,
a trend that continues thanks to the extreme left.

Speaker 18 (01:20:26):
You can't tell me that the absolute madness that happened
on college campuses all across America last year has nothing
to do with why young people are saying this is nuts.
The woke stuff is now affecting me. I don't want
any part of this.

Speaker 6 (01:20:38):
Political strategist Nick Lindquist seven h six, NASA is finally
focusing on space after years of being political. Space expert
Vincent Baroli says this will help bring the US and
Johnson's Space Center back ahead of China.

Speaker 19 (01:20:53):
You're excluding the United States and our allies, establishing all
in these residents space up on the moon. So I
see the centers focusing on the expiration, helping us establish
a foothold.

Speaker 6 (01:21:06):
Up on the Moon, putting us back on top of
the space race. As for travel here on Earth, gas
prices are dropping ahead of Memorial Day, giving relief to
the three point two million Texas planning to road trip,
but raising concerns in the oil economy. Don't shoot a
triple a Texas says. The average across Houston this morning
is two seventy a gallon.

Speaker 20 (01:21:25):
That price is about fifty cents less per gallon than
a year ago. So for those who are taking road trips,
they will see some savings at the gas pump.

Speaker 6 (01:21:36):
Oil is in the sixty three dollars a barrel. Neighborhood
this morning and in Texas, if prices has fallen below
sixty dollars per barrel, it can slow drilling activity and
lead to job losses. People from all over Texas go
up to New Braunfels for tubing over the summer. But
if you do, get ready for some sticker shock higher
parking fees.

Speaker 21 (01:21:55):
I see these massive signs with this overwhelmingly agreed is
an unfair fee structure.

Speaker 6 (01:22:02):
Activist Kate Sudley says those prices are sucking the joy
out of tubing. The Astros beat the World's two to
one on a walk off homer from Ezac Parides. Game
time tonight pregame rather at six on sports Time Talk
seven ninety. Game time at seven on KTRH and Sports
Talk seven ninety. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather
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Traffic and Weather when you need it most every ten
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Speaker 3 (01:22:36):
How I feel about the AOC DHS thing right now?
Right she he's threatening the Department of Homeland Security. What's
that going to get you? You think you're that powerful
a congress person. You can thread the Trump administration in DHS.
She's threatening them over arresting the Democrat mayor of Newark,

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New Jersey, or or prevent any member of the House,
any Democrat, any Democrat from protesting what's going on at
that ice facility in Newark, or going inside that ice facility.
Here is AOC and what she posted on social media.
We get a response from a assistant deputy at the
Department of Homeland Security.

Speaker 45 (01:23:18):
If anyone's breaking the law in this situation, it's not
members of Congress, it's the Department of Homeland Security. It's
people like Tom Holman and Secretary Christy No.

Speaker 7 (01:23:29):
You lay a finger on someone.

Speaker 45 (01:23:31):
On Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman or any of the representatives
that were there, you lay a.

Speaker 7 (01:23:36):
Finger on them, we are going to have a problem.

Speaker 46 (01:23:39):
I'd like to ask AOC who does she want out
of that detention facility? Is it the MS thirteen members,
is it the known terrorists? Is it the child rapist?
Is it the murders? Who is she fighting for? Because
she's not fighting for Americans, she's not fighting for American victims.
And I'd like to lay out the facts the fact
that it was these three members of Congress who trespassed,
broke the law, and stormed that ICE detention facility. They

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put law enforcement at risk, they put our detainees at risk,
and they put.

Speaker 7 (01:24:06):
Our staff at risk. Had they asked for.

Speaker 46 (01:24:08):
A tour, we would have happily facilitated one for them,
But there was absolutely no notice. And the fact that
they put hand they body slammed, body rammed, push shop,
whatever you want to call it. It was assault on our
ICE agents and it's unacceptable.

Speaker 7 (01:24:22):
Okay, I think that's pretty clear.

Speaker 3 (01:24:24):
Seven to ten, Time for traffic and whether together as
we check out the drive once again.

Speaker 4 (01:24:28):
Purtceyve of Skyline, all right, Teast Freeway, we cleared that
wreck inbound over the Santa Cino River Bridge. I need
to check the smash here inbound. We've still got some
breaks now from White Road. Looks like we had a
secondary accident, but it's over on the side of No
big whoop, Katie Freeway Advisors, you're slow right at Mason
Road West park to away that earlier apartment fire at
Eldridge Parkway. I don't think that's the reason for the

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backup now, it's just from Barker South Barker, cyperscool in
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Mike Ividash Street. Nor Sam westbound just passed.

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After We've still got cars on the side of the road.
Cindy from the Woodlands found that lot.

Speaker 7 (01:25:07):
Where did that come from?

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Yo?

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That's just random sound.

Speaker 4 (01:25:11):
Sorry guys, but it's right out of my head the
iHeartRadio without clicking, and you never know what will happen.
So now that North Sam westbound at forty five, that
was some cars that they got something in their tires,
so they're over on the side and it's messing up
that ramp that comes from the North Freeway. I'll get

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At seven twenty at the USA RP Resorts dot Comtract Center.
By the way, Ryan from Crosby says, there's a Shipleys
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Speaker 7 (01:25:43):
While we're on it.

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KTRH top tax Diventures twenty four hour weathers. I'm not
gonna say yum yum about this forecast. I must say,
whoa he's gonna be hot.

Speaker 24 (01:25:56):
It's almost like we need to bring breakout the ice
cream index.

Speaker 7 (01:26:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, time for that again.

Speaker 6 (01:26:04):
Yeah, we're getting close to that.

Speaker 24 (01:26:06):
How many scoops does it take to get through this
kind of heat and humidity?

Speaker 6 (01:26:10):
Perfect, Well, we'll have to refine that, all right, folks.

Speaker 11 (01:26:14):
Not a lot of.

Speaker 24 (01:26:14):
Change in our weather. The thing to do is, no,
it's going to be hot, it's going to be humid.
It feels like summertime already, and you want to take
a little extra cautions because this is our first stretch
of very hot temperatures and record heat likely for the
next several days.

Speaker 7 (01:26:30):
No big change.

Speaker 24 (01:26:31):
We're sunny and dry through Sunday. Every day the temperatures
will range from the upper eighties to upper nineties, but
most of us will see those high temperatures in the
mid to upper nineties with the heat indecks over one hundred.
So ice cream, playing in the sprinkler, staying inside, whatever
you can do to stay cool.

Speaker 3 (01:26:49):
Yeah, I think I'm going for a double scoop today.
Currently it is seventy four at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KRH. It's Houston's Morning US to
you buy new South windows solutions. Now back to Jimmy
Barretts and the Houston Morning News team all the info
you need to take on the day. So we've been

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kind of talking all morning about this, this Texas bill
that could change the game for high school athletes and
with new NIL that's name Image Likeness regulations. It's House
Bill twenty to eleven. It would allow high school athletes
participating in university interscholastic leagues to earn compensation for their name,
image and likeness. In other words, just like college only

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high school athletes getting paid. Brent Chapman is an NCAA
expert and the CEO of by nil Pay. We'll talk
to him about this in just a minute. First, though,
traffic and weather together we bet as we check out
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Freeway inbound before three point thirty, I thought, I thought,
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KTRH listeners.

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Seven twenty two is our time here in Houston's borning news.
All right, Friday night lights high school football in particular.
I'm thinking high school football gets impacted by this more
than well, maybe basketball too, But I wonder if we're
opening up a big time can of worms if these
Texas bills pass, they would allow name image and likeness

(01:29:34):
compensation for high school athletes. Brent Chapman joins us NCAA
expert and the CEO of my NILA. I could tell you, Brent,
all the things I don't like about name image like
this and what it's done to college football. I'm just
having a hard time imagining taking that down to like
a sixteen year old for example.

Speaker 39 (01:29:53):
Well, good morning, thanks for having me on. I actually
completely agree with you. It sort of makes sense to
me at the college level because those programs are making
billions or at least millions of dollars on those athletes
through television deals and stuff, so it kind of makes sense,
you know, to pay them actually for what they're doing

(01:30:13):
on the field. But once you start getting down into
the high school level, I think it definitely changes the
landscape significantly.

Speaker 3 (01:30:22):
Yeah, I mean, they're even talking about going as far
as like middle school, junior high school, depending upon where
you are, like ninth graders for example, I mean you're fifteen, basic,
fifteen or sixteen years old. When you're in the ninth grade,
you're probably you're lucky for getting an allowance from your parents.
You don't you haven't learned anything about financial literacy. Maybe
your parents don't know that much about financial literacy either.

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The problems that this could potentially cause seem to outweigh
the benefits. What's the motivation behind doing this?

Speaker 7 (01:30:51):
Why? Why would anybody think this is a good idea.

Speaker 8 (01:30:56):
That's a great question.

Speaker 39 (01:30:58):
Well, the way that I can say it is this
is if if you're familiar in the youth sports world,
you'll notice that camps and it's become a very large business.
Private coaches, camps, and it's all going down into the third, fourth,
fifth grade.

Speaker 8 (01:31:14):
And I'm telling you it's not small, it's large.

Speaker 39 (01:31:17):
Just go on Twitter and look there's camp especially in Houston,
San Antonio.

Speaker 8 (01:31:22):
Dallas, in this area.

Speaker 39 (01:31:23):
I'm in Dallas right there are tons of camps to
suck these kids in early and tell them.

Speaker 8 (01:31:28):
How great they are and how great they're gonna be.
Just in the Dallas area.

Speaker 39 (01:31:33):
My son is a class of twenty twenty nine, which
is a rising freshman, and there are several kids that
he plays with.

Speaker 8 (01:31:40):
And then around that all already have D one offers.

Speaker 39 (01:31:43):
So the parents in eighth grade, mind you, so the
parents are seeing this as a huge opportunity for them to.

Speaker 8 (01:31:49):
Start making money now right for the kids.

Speaker 39 (01:31:52):
And so I don't know if that's what driving it,
but my guess is it's the business interest of all
the surrounding camps and the company's and the businesses and
the people that can profit from this.

Speaker 8 (01:32:03):
That's likely what's driving a lot of this gas.

Speaker 3 (01:32:06):
I would imagine, you know, it's still the case, is
it not that almost every parent thinks that their child
is special and there's going to be some sort of
a star and is going to make millions of dollars,
and it's amazing. And to me, this just kind of
extends this false dream to a lot of people, because
you don't just because you're a great athlete in the
ninth grade or the tenth grade doesn't mean you're going

(01:32:28):
to necessarily be a great college athlete or a professional
football player.

Speaker 39 (01:32:32):
That's correct, but that's exactly the argument for it right,
So today, or let's say ten years ago, I would
only get paid playing football if they need it all
the way to the NFL. Right, that's like zero point
zero one percent of.

Speaker 8 (01:32:47):
People that play football.

Speaker 39 (01:32:48):
Now today, I can make it to college football, which
is like two percent of people that play football.

Speaker 38 (01:32:56):
Right.

Speaker 39 (01:32:57):
Well, now, if I can play high school football and
I'm really great tenth grade, I.

Speaker 8 (01:33:00):
Can get paid. So now you're expanding it out.

Speaker 39 (01:33:03):
So maybe I don't make it to college, maybe I
don't even make it to the you know, pros or college,
but I can still get paid because I'm really awesome
in eighth and ninth grade. I think that's what's driving you, right,
It's bringing it down in closer to people to be
able to compensate on it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:17):
Yeah, you know, I had my mixed emotions because at
the college level, you'd like to think that the reward
is getting a degree, although we if we're going to
be realistic, there's a lot of those athletes that never
get around to getting a degree. There they're there to
play football. But I'd like to think that at the
high school level, they're there to get a high school
diploma and they're not there to try to make a living.

Speaker 39 (01:33:37):
Well, I'll give you a great example of what NIL
is causing in high school. So there is a local
receiver here in Dallas. His name is Booby Feaster. He
plays for DeSoto. He was the number one ranked receiver
in the country in class of.

Speaker 8 (01:33:53):
Twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 39 (01:33:55):
He reclassed up to twenty twenty six, so he can
graduate this.

Speaker 8 (01:34:01):
Year and go start making NIL money.

Speaker 7 (01:34:04):
So begin with the high school a bit. That's the priority.

Speaker 8 (01:34:08):
Ron.

Speaker 39 (01:34:08):
Yeah, yeah, So I'm the number one receiver in twenty
twenty seven. Now I'm the number seven receiver in twenty
twenty six.

Speaker 8 (01:34:16):
I'm still going to go to the same power for.

Speaker 39 (01:34:18):
School, right, and now I get my NIL a year faster.

Speaker 7 (01:34:21):
Wow. Okay, it's the world we live in, I guess Brent.
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:34:24):
Brent Chapman, ncaa expert CEO of my nil pay seven
twenty seven. Time to take a look at your money.
Jeff Bellinger is here and Jimmy.

Speaker 22 (01:34:33):
This doesn't happen often, but Apple has been beaten to
market for a second time. This week. Google took the
wraps off a major update to its Android mobile operating
system before Apple could preview its overhauled iPhone software, and
just a day earlier, Samsung announced a thinner, lighter model
of its premium smartphone. A thin iPhone is expected later

(01:34:54):
this year. Stock market future is modestly higher right across
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I'm Jeff Golding dur on News Radio seven forty ktrh.

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Seven thirty one is our time here in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this fur time
for House Republicans to pass that big, beautiful bill, the
Texas bill that would create nil money for high school athletes.
And coming up at seven thirty eight are cycle paths
more attractive than the rest of us. Details in the

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minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First, speaking of
you know what crazy you were going there? Here's sky
Mike's Freeway inbound. That's a wreck right before three point thirty.
It sucks all the way back from Wade Road, Grab
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It's Jim from Kingwood that Mike, dude take.

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A truck broke down, tapp in the left lane right
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From our KTRH generator super Center. Twenty four hour Weather Center.
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Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 6 (01:36:30):
Thank you, Jimmy at seven thirty two. Good morning everyone.
Our top story this hour.

Speaker 26 (01:36:35):
We need to focus on transforming people's lives. We need
to be the party of jobs and economic growth, and
I think this bill is a very powerful piece of
that agenda.

Speaker 6 (01:36:44):
Texas Senator Ted Cruz there as Congress begins marking up
the Trump budget Plan, which of course he calls the
Big Beautiful Bill. Hearings in the House began yesterday but
the House GOP might be ignoring something in all of this.

Speaker 7 (01:36:58):
That would be an opportunity unity for greatness.

Speaker 28 (01:37:01):
Absolutely. Look, I think President Trump should not have to pressure.
We all know what we campaigned on.

Speaker 15 (01:37:06):
That is Aaron Evans president of winning Republican strategies.

Speaker 28 (01:37:11):
You know, we don't have kings in America for a reason.
We have Congress, and so I do hope that Republicans
in Congress realize the importance of having courage and fortitude
and doing the right thing.

Speaker 15 (01:37:20):
If not, it will be the wrong thing, like in
Trump's first term. Jeff Biggs News Radio seven k thieri
now seven thirty three. A legal victory for the administration
kind of a federal judge appointed by Trump rules that
the White House can use the Alien Enemies Act to
deport TDA members, but it also must allow for due process.

(01:37:43):
The three Democrat lawmakers who tried to storm that New
Jersey ice facility last week have yet to be arrested,
and HS Secretary Christy Nolomes says they deserve whatever comes
their way.

Speaker 29 (01:37:55):
This was an oversight, This was committing felonies. This was
going out and attacking people who stand up for the
rule of law and it was absolutely horrible.

Speaker 6 (01:38:05):
No, I'm on Fox Wisconsin. Jodge. Hannah Dugan is indicted
by a federal grand jury on charges that she helped
a illegal alien, violent criminal. We should add evade arrest.
Dugan was placed in cuffs last month. Coming up on
seven thirty four, the President continues his trip to the
Middle East this morning. He is now in cutter after

(01:38:27):
making a big speech in riod in.

Speaker 30 (01:38:29):
A major policy shift and a way to kind of
normalize relations. Trump also announced he was ordering an end
to sanctions on Syria. He also used the time to
threaten Iran if Tron doesn't agree to a new nuclear deal,
and said he hoped Saudi Arabia would join the Abraham
Accords and condemn Iran.

Speaker 6 (01:38:48):
Ashley Stromayer reporting now Trump may not be at tomorrow's
peace talks between Russia and Ukraine after all. Marco Rubio
is going to Turkey in his place. Seven thirty four.
Here at home, you know we're already paying college athletes
for their name, image, and likeness. High school athletes could
be next if legislation passes in Austin.

Speaker 31 (01:39:10):
Two bills pending in the Texas House would allow high
school athletes to profit off their name, image and likeness
or nil. Brent Chapman, who runs the app my Nil Pay,
thinks this is unlikely to pass.

Speaker 32 (01:39:21):
Texas has gone out of its way over the years
to protect public school sports and if you allow nil,
private schools can then buy players, and I do not
think that is what the state of Texas wants at
this point.

Speaker 31 (01:39:37):
One bill would require high school athletes to be at
least eighteen years old, while the other would allow students
as young as ninth grade to get paid. Corey Jolson,
who's radio seven forty ktrh our.

Speaker 6 (01:39:47):
First heat wave of the year, continues, RG has bought
eighteen natural gas plants and a twelve billion dollar deal.
But this is not going to help your energy supply
or the bill you get in the mail.

Speaker 33 (01:40:00):
These plants are already in Erka. The operator is a
well known New York hedge fund. NRG is going to
step into their shoes and profit from the lack of
positive action by the Texas legislature.

Speaker 6 (01:40:12):
U ages at Her says we're still at least five
years away from building more of the plants we need
to meet the state's growing energy demands, and the timing
of this heat wave also has some concerned.

Speaker 34 (01:40:23):
Experts say this could not have come at a worse
time for the States. In battle Power grid professor Michael
Webber at UT Austin says, many fossil fuel power plants
are offline for maintenance.

Speaker 40 (01:40:32):
I want say's like twenty gigabats, so it's like twenty
newgre power plants worth those power plants offline, which is a.

Speaker 34 (01:40:37):
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One hundred days President Schump's first one hundred days. Not
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Speaker 3 (01:41:52):
Seven eight Hard Time here on Houston's Warn News. So
that there's this new study out about psychopaths and how
they evidently are more attractive than people who are not psychopaths.
And when you think about it, you know, some of
the better known psychopaths, we're good looking people and very charming.

(01:42:13):
They're extremely charming people. You know, Narcissists are the same way,
they can charm your pants off, but you know they're
also the kind of people that might kill and eat you,
you know. Gold Jeffrey Dahmer on you Greg Guttfeld in
his panel last night, We're talking about this study on
the level of attractiveness of psychopaths.

Speaker 47 (01:42:32):
And new study finds people who are narcissistic, psychopathic, or
machiavelian are often seen as more attractive and trustworthy due
to their ability to manipulate people's perception you.

Speaker 48 (01:42:45):
But people who fall for that, I feel like there's
a potential for it to begin with, you know what
I mean. Someone who's secure and confident and doesn't have
time for that, they're not going to fall for the
psychopath in sheep's clothes.

Speaker 35 (01:42:57):
I will say this, Hey, guys, you could back me
up on but I know you you agree with me.

Speaker 7 (01:43:01):
How many times do you see somebody and they're with
this really hot girl and then you see him three
months later? Is like what happens?

Speaker 13 (01:43:07):
Like?

Speaker 7 (01:43:07):
She's crazy? Then you think of yourself. So that's the
dumbest fot. That's the dumbest thing I ever heard in
my life. Yeah, yeah, you see being ashamed of yourself?

Speaker 35 (01:43:16):
Are the good producers at Fox and Friends just watched it.

Speaker 7 (01:43:19):
They came out of your mouth.

Speaker 35 (01:43:22):
Listen, Craig, you were so right when you said women
masking more. See what's funny is women When a guy
is crazy, the girl knows going in, he's back crazy,
he's a murderer, he's.

Speaker 7 (01:43:33):
In prison, but I love him. Yeah. Men, we don't
find out. So we're one kid in and we're trying
to trying to go out with our boys.

Speaker 35 (01:43:42):
The boys call you up. You come to the cell
the game, Yeah, I'm coming. As you get to the door,
then all of a sudden, the house gets dark and
you start hearing Michael Myers music like you're not going
anywhere without me? Are you?

Speaker 20 (01:43:55):
Like?

Speaker 39 (01:43:55):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:43:56):
Men we find out too late. Then you're stuck.

Speaker 3 (01:43:59):
Maybe we Maybe men aren't as good as women are
figuring out who the psychopaths are seven forty times for
traffic and weather together the car there you goes out
with her again.

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Yes, that's another topic. Not in front of Terry. Let's
go to Grand park Way North. Jim from Kingwood found
this minor deal that was a kind of a stall
westbound coming over from New KNY. It was right before
Ley Fuddle. Yeah, it's fun to say that. Just watch
out at that entrance ramp here East Freeway. You were
the first to know about it. I thought the rest
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cleared the East Freeway right before the bridge at three
point thirty. That's a good smash. Now from Wade Road,
still lose about ten minutes ago in this way on
the west Loop down to Uptown. That breaks down two
ninety up to uptown. We're slow from right before south
past ok in the Southwest Freeway, starting to smush up
northbound now at the West Park Curve. I'm Skywhite gets
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From our ktr H Generator super Center twenty four hour
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Terry is here.

Speaker 3 (01:44:57):
We've got some cloud cover right now, but it's gonna
thin out for you know it. And you might as
well take advantage of the cloud cover because it's only
been keeping it from being brood.

Speaker 24 (01:45:05):
You're getting our temperatures from getting crazy by eight am,
right exactly. By the way, I have a theory about
why women can pick out the psychopaths better than the
guys can. What's that Because that's a muscle we exercise
on a regular basis.

Speaker 7 (01:45:21):
Oh yeah, we really don't care, you know index.

Speaker 24 (01:45:25):
The psychopaths aren't after you. Oh they're going to leave
you guys alone. So anyhow, that's my theory. And as
far as the clouds go, they'll be thinning out shortly.
Hopefully maybe the clouds will be keeping the psychopaths away.

Speaker 6 (01:45:38):
That would be nice.

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We're going to turn out sunny though, and it is
going to be sunny and drive through the weekend. The
temperatures hot, the humidity high. Yes, folks, it's May, but
it feels like it's June. Temperatures most of us in
the mid to upper nineties and the heat index between
one hundred and one hundred and five. And there is
no rain right now through Sunday.

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Temperature currently seventy five at your official severe weather station.
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Just about seven fifty here in Houston's Morning News. Jasmine Crockett, Ye, yeah,
I know. Jasmine Crockett has made a huge name for herself.
You can say all you want about you know how
crazy she is, and you know how outspoken she is
in whatever else you want to say. I think what
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she is, and she has been very successful at achieving that.
She suggested the other day that Democrats for twenty twenty
eight are looking to run quote unquote the safest white
boy that somehow we've run women and so far we've lost.
So they're looking for the safest white boy. Well, we're
going to ask a black woman, Raven Harrison, Florida congressional candidate,

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Hey, sky Mike, Hey, we're having some trouble getting by
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A lot of breaks West Sam Smash step now from
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Speaker 3 (01:48:07):
All right, I can't wait to hear what Raven Harrison
thinks about Jasmine Crockett, because I know where she stands
on most issues, and I'm sure she has plenty to say. Raven,
welcome back to the show. Good to hear from me again.
You used to be here in Texas.

Speaker 4 (01:48:20):
What are you doing.

Speaker 7 (01:48:21):
What are you doing in Florida.

Speaker 16 (01:48:23):
Well, I've been a.

Speaker 17 (01:48:24):
Dual resident for a while, and we came out to
really give President Trump some support and bolster to get
him over the line, and we decided to make this
our permanent home. It was a little bit tough on
the kids to keep going between states.

Speaker 3 (01:48:38):
Okay, well, best of block in Florida, and best of
luck in your race. You're running for the twenty third district.
When is that election?

Speaker 17 (01:48:45):
Correct, that's not till August of twenty six, but we'll
be coming in right at the midterms.

Speaker 3 (01:48:50):
Okay, good deal. Well, we could use a little help
around the midterms, that's for sure.

Speaker 16 (01:48:55):
Yes, yes, indeed a.

Speaker 3 (01:48:56):
Little too close for comfort. I want to ask you
about Jasmine Crockett, as you know who she is, you
know some of the things, some of the outrageous things
that she has had to say. My theory is, and
you correct me if you think I'm wrong, my theory
is that a lot she we allted to. What she
says and what she does is for effect. In other words,
she's the squeaky wiel that wants everybody to notice her.

Speaker 16 (01:49:18):
Correct, that is exactly correct.

Speaker 17 (01:49:20):
What it is is basically, this is an intention employe
and the more outrageous that's the effect of social.

Speaker 16 (01:49:25):
Media in the Internet.

Speaker 17 (01:49:26):
The more outrageous it is, the more attention it grabs,
the circles it runs.

Speaker 16 (01:49:32):
And that's how AOC did this.

Speaker 17 (01:49:34):
We all can agree that for the most part, AOC
is like the poster child for useless people. But what
we notice is that she wields the social media hammer
very well. She knows how to engage even though most
of the stuff is categorically false. And Jasmine Crockett was
really hoping to be you know, the Kamala two points
she thinks it is. She was wanting she's wanting to

(01:49:57):
have a presidential run. But this has been the Democrats
platform for decades. Race, class, gender, this is always what
they run on. It always comes back to they don't
want a merit based system, they want something based on optics.

Speaker 16 (01:50:12):
And that's where she is.

Speaker 17 (01:50:13):
So she is trying to be relevant to position herself
to be the front runner because she really, in her
mind thinks that she has a shot at becoming president.

Speaker 3 (01:50:21):
Wow, that's pretty amazing. Okay, let's take her statement that
the Democrats want to run the safest white boy in
twenty twenty eight because a black woman can't win, or
at least has it won so far as a black
woman who's running for political office. Do you think it
was a problem of race for Kamala Harris or gender
for Kamala Harris or was it a problem with her policies?

Speaker 17 (01:50:43):
Well, I would say both. And I'm actually Native American,
so I've been slightly in the different vein, but in
the same vein of color. But I'm just telling you,
people who lead with race are racists, and that's what
it basically is.

Speaker 16 (01:50:56):
What she's trying to do is deflect.

Speaker 17 (01:50:58):
Kamala lost because she was an absolutely horrible candidate, and
she was wholly unqualified.

Speaker 16 (01:51:05):
She had one job, you know that way you had
one job. She had one job, which is to.

Speaker 17 (01:51:09):
Control the border, and we all know how that turned out.
She kept flipping her race in her gender and again,
you know, first she was a proud Indian senator, then
she was a black woman, then she was a Latina accented,
you know, ridiculous.

Speaker 16 (01:51:24):
And again she wasn't running on policy.

Speaker 17 (01:51:27):
She was running on elect me or you're a racist,
and that doctrine never goes over well, but they keep
running it and running it and running it. I mean,
look what's happened to David Hogg. David Hogg was elected
by them to the be vice chair of the DNC,
and now he's unelected because he doesn't meet their diversity.
He is a victim of the same ideology that they've

(01:51:49):
been pumping out there for the last you know, several years.

Speaker 16 (01:51:54):
And that's what people need to see.

Speaker 17 (01:51:56):
Does Kamala was not qualified and that's why she lost.
She had nothing to offer except for repeats and hate
of Trump. And they're doing the same thing again. So
hopefully they will learn something.

Speaker 3 (01:52:10):
I think that David Hogg also was done in by
the fact that he was willing to look in the
mirror and say, here's the things that we're doing wrong.
We need to fix this. And they don't want to
hear that. They're not at a point where they're willing
to accept that they've made a lot of mistakes.

Speaker 17 (01:52:22):
Well, anybody who's getting life advice from David Hogg probably
should examine, you know, a bunch of their other choices.
This guy got up there and said, Oh, all we
care about is getting late. I'm like, oh my gosh,
David Hogg is talking to people about getting Okay, take
us now, Lord, it's all downhill from here. But that's
what we want to remind people of context. They are
desperate and they are scrambling for something because all they

(01:52:45):
have is, you know, these these optics and the propaganda.
They have nothing real to run on. And that's what
you're seeing is desperation.

Speaker 3 (01:52:54):
That's a fact. Raven Harrison a pleasure, thank you. Good
to hear from you. Florida congressional candidate Raven Hairerson, y'all
have a great day. We'll see tomorrow morning bright nearly
five am. Hope to see you the saturd four An
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