Trump Talks About A Gaza Takeover

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 02/05/25.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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It is five am here on Houston's Morning News. Good morning,
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this have aur
Trump talks about a Gaza takeover. Trump is winning everything
and coming up at five o eight. When it comes
to recruiting for the military, the chief executive, the commander
in chief, it matters details in the minutes ahead.

Speaker 5 (00:37):
First, now we're working lists in the military.

Speaker 6 (00:40):
No, we got lots of folks of them to join.
Now sky mine man, let's hit.

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Let's hit the north side here, all right, here's the deal.
We've got fog as an issue this morning. I can
do this all day though, watch especially around. I'm noticing
if you're coming in from the sticks, the shots i'm
seeing look like you can't hardly see. And also the
north I'm really suspecting for forty five golf Freeway two
eighty eight.

Speaker 5 (01:01):
You're in the same boat. For now, we're not running
into each other.

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for the news. Here's clipsonders.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
Thank you, Jimmy, Good morning everybody, five oh one on
KTRH our top story.

Speaker 8 (01:38):
I think the potential and the Gaza Strip is unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
And as President Donald Trump proposing an American takeover of
the Gaza Strip, comparing it to the Riviera, you met
yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin nets And Yahoo and
ask for nets and Yahoo. He credits Trump for the
ceasefire that exists between Israel and hamas your leadership.

Speaker 9 (01:59):
Help bring hostage's home among them American citizens.

Speaker 5 (02:03):
Not to Netsan. Yahoo is the first foreign leader to
visit the new president and more winning on Capitol Hill.
The first of Trump's Justice Cabinet picks is confirmed.

Speaker 10 (02:13):
On this vote, They's are fifty four, the nays are
forty six.

Speaker 5 (02:17):
The nomination is confirmed, so Pam Bondi is now Attorney General,
Doug Collins is your Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and the
nominations of Tulsea Gabbert and RFK Junior advanced to the
full Senate. Trump has only been president for two plus
weeks already, He's done a lot of winning, both here
at home and internationally.

Speaker 11 (02:37):
We shouldn't be surprised with these big wins because they're
consistent with his messaging.

Speaker 12 (02:41):
We've seen what he wants to do, how he talks
about this stuff, how he sees our ability to leverage
our power on the global stage for the American interest.

Speaker 11 (02:49):
GOP strategist Chris Johnson says other countries are already moving
to get in line with Trump's agenda.

Speaker 12 (02:54):
France has doubled their defense spending this week. They know
that they will be in the crosstairs of President Trump.
They're preemptively saying, hey, we're doing our part.

Speaker 11 (03:02):
Johnson says, despite these major wins, he doesn't think the
left will ever give Trump the credit he's due.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven to forty and there's this
mega started as a political theme, right, but political writer
Michael Jay says it's now America's political mainstream.

Speaker 10 (03:18):
Trump actually saw the opportunity to double down on the
America First concept, which is basically just the economic prosperity
that's going to appeal to people across the board. Then
I started going into the numbers and I realized that
this is a very real thing.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
And he adds that Trump continues to deliver on many
of his campaign promises. Five HT three on KTRH Democrats
are in meltdown mode because Elon Musk and Doge now
has access to the federal government's payment system, But the
Treasury Departments says that that access is read only and
it hasn't caused Social Security or Medicare payments to be

(03:57):
delayed or rerouted. Meantime, the squad's leader put her foot
in her mouth when talking about Elon on social media
this week.

Speaker 13 (04:05):
This dude is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires
I have ever met or seen our witness.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
This is the guy who founded Tesla in SpaceX just
saying here at home house didn't make need its own.
Doze is the Texas Supreme Court shoots down in old
lawsuits and now the city has to shell out millions
for infrastructure repair.

Speaker 14 (04:31):
Mismanaged funds by former mayor Sylvester Turner brought us here.

Speaker 15 (04:35):
They didn't balance their books or anticipate or prepare for this,
so now the City of Houston is looking at about
a three hundred and forty million dollars gap in their budget.

Speaker 14 (04:43):
Conservative activist Jared Woodville says this means either cutting spending
or increasing Texas And what we really need is our
own version of Doge.

Speaker 15 (04:51):
Someone who will go in and look at the spending
that's being made by the City of Houston and make
the cuts that are necessary. The people of City of
Houston cannot forward another time.

Speaker 14 (05:00):
Hike, he says, though the taxpayers ended up being on
the hook based on our history. Andre Ferrard News Ordio
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Now five h five more violent crime around town. HPD
says a woman was shot and killed at a convenience
store last night in Northwest use In. The shooter is
on the run. The reward is now twenty five thousand
dollars for solving a Cypress triple murder. Sheriff at. Gonzalez
says the murder of a mother, her son, and his
girlfriend last August was well planned. This was premeditated.

Speaker 16 (05:31):
When you look at having a getaway driver canvassying the location,
trying to you know, burn the place down, you know,
after the brutal killings, this is unacceptable.

Speaker 5 (05:43):
Anybody with information is asked to call crime stoppers. Looking
at your money. More signs that the job market continues
to cool. The number of openings in December fell by
more than half a million from November and are down
by one point three million from December of twenty twenty three.
There's a new workforce trend. It's called career catfishing. This

(06:05):
is a gen Z and millennial thing. They apply an
interview for jobs just to ignore potential employers. So what
can those employers do.

Speaker 17 (06:14):
Go and do the extra work that you have to
do as an employer. You know, your typical background check,
But if you know somebody who works for that particular company,
do some research see if this truly is somebody who's
trying to cat Fessue.

Speaker 5 (06:24):
Author Paul Peter says nearly twenty five percent of those
who admitted to doing this catfishing say they did it
on a dare. It's five oh six, it's only February,
but you're not the only ones sneezing or coughing complaining
about allergies right now.

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My reason is mold has been prevalent here in Texas
because of recent humid damn conditions. And despite all kinds
of new drugs coming on the market for all kinds
of ailments, doctors are still calling for the use of steroids.

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And then there's Orlandihissamine's faster, faster onset in terms of benefit,
but then they make holes side effects. Sometimes people might
feel fatigued.

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For example, doctor Gavin LeNoble at Methodist willowbrook Tree pulling mold,
whatever it is, lots of us are feeling it. Michael
Shiloh and News Radio seven forty KTR and.

Speaker 5 (07:13):
The Rockets lose again. That's their third straight. Brooklyn beat
them last night, ninety nine to ninety seven. I'm Cliff
Saunders on Houston's News Weather in traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 19 (07:23):
The Verry Latest on your way to work. This is
Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
Well, we've getting a few more American soldiers thanking the
five of lady, is our time here in Houston's morning News.
What a difference a potus makes, What a difference of
commander in chief makes? Since the election, the Army has
been on a tear for people signing up for the military.
In fact, they broke recruiting records for December and January.
In fact, the the records go back over fifteen years.

(07:53):
Isn't that amazing? Defense Secretary Beate Hegseth, confirming yesterday the
preliminary recruitment figures for the military shows how interested in
serving as quickly rising under President Trump. He revealed that
the Army had its best recruitment totals in twelve years
in December twenty twenty four, the first full month after
President Trump was elected. That was followed by the best
recruiting numbers in fifteen years in January, the month in

(08:16):
which Trump officially took office. Conclusion, according to Pete Hegseth,
is that America's youth want to serve, but they want
to serve under bold, strong, America First leadership. They are
joining the military to learn DEI or many the other
policies that were in effect during the by administration. They

(08:39):
are joining the military to join the kind of military
it was before the Biden administration, and it's quickly revolving
back to that. I mean, a guy's been in office
for like two weeks, and even before the changes were happening,
at least as far as the military, before he even
took office, just knowing that he was coming into office.

(08:59):
This is all very amazing. I mean, I can't get
over the amount of things that are getting done and
how quickly they're getting done, and even even as cabinet
appointments are getting done in fairly quick order, and so
far there has not been a one that's lost their vote.
Of course, we still haven't got to the RKA Junior

(09:20):
vote yet and the Tulsi Gabbard vote, but a couple
more were voted in yesterday. I think we're up to
thirteen now cabinet members that have been approved by the Senate,
five to ten. Time for triphing and weather together, Air
Force Marines, Terry.

Speaker 20 (09:32):
You know the song, we don't ask for experience, we
give it.

Speaker 6 (09:36):
She knows this.

Speaker 5 (09:38):
Let's head for the hard work in east Side here
we got. I remember that one. Come on, you won't read.

Speaker 6 (09:42):
It in the book, you live it, Okay.

Speaker 5 (09:46):
I would love to help the military recruit. Let's go
to it ten east. You know what, Let's go to
Gator Country.

Speaker 7 (09:51):
Now, let's check out Wallaceville and a whack I ten.
You look nice coming in from the Golden Triangle. Golden Triangle.
We love to hear from you too. I like to
know what what's going on Beaumont, Port, Arthur and Orange.
And I know we've got some roadwork right around the
state line coming in from I ten. Though from Mott
Bellevue we look good. Twenty seven minutes in. Let's flip
over to the visors here. I see some visibility that

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makes sense. Grab Parkway into the President's heads now twenty
four minutes and Westpark Tollway. Maybe you shouldn't go this
morning with that visibility issues. You let me know what
you see seven to one three or what you don't
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From r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour bther
Centator Terry Smith is here. We have a day starting
off pretty much like es dates. Some clouds and some
morning fog, and it's gonna end up nice and warm.

Speaker 5 (10:41):
It's gonna be nice and warm. It's gonna be warm
all week.

Speaker 21 (10:44):
I don't really see uh much of a change in
general in our temperatures, and not much of a change
in the overall pattern. A lot of fog in the
morning in spots. In the afternoon, we've got the sunshine.
Now today there is a slight chance, a twenty percent
chance of a shower. Too, enough of instability and certainly
plenty of humidity, we could get a little bit of

(11:05):
rain now. Temperatures today will range from the low seventies
near the coast, where the clouds are going to be
a little bit more prevalent, low eighties further inland, flirting
with some record warm temperatures again today, same thing with tomorrow,
low seventies to low eighties. We're dry Friday and Saturday.
Sunday there's a twenty percent chance of rain, and temperatures

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will range anywhere from the mid seventies to low eighties
over the weekend.

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All the info you need did take on the day.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
So it's kind of a recap of all the things
that Trump has been winning this morning on our show,
I thought we'd start with the Panama Canal because Marco
Rubio just got done in Panama and it didn't take
long for them to say that the deal China, Okay,
we're not gonna be doing that anymore. We're not gonna
redo it. Then we're gonna see if we can get
out of this one. Early Marco Rubil was very I'm

(12:10):
impressed so far. He's he's very direct about why we
objected to what Panama was doing and why we were
threatening to potentially take back the Panama Canal. We'll have
more audio to share with you coming up next. First, though,
at five twenty, the little traffic and weather together, starting
with sky Mike.

Speaker 5 (12:25):
Well, let's bring it up from Brissoria County.

Speaker 6 (12:27):
See if you can see.

Speaker 7 (12:28):
And as we're driving up from Lake Jackson, where Stephen
Fossting go he usually sticks out seven one, two tips.
So far, I'm not seeing any problems golf freeways. We're
rocking along now from the causeway, but causeways looking awfully
thick around there.

Speaker 6 (12:43):
Let's hit our tip line.

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Dude, Issy from Busher that's Fork Tollaway, No fam.

Speaker 5 (12:49):
Most good to go.

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A little sound quality there, but I'm hearing good things
about the West Park.

Speaker 6 (12:55):
Let's hit the Golden Triangle.

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Hey, good morning sky Mike. Driving from Fort Nature just
to Bowman High tend is clear. From Beaumont all the
way to Fighter, Texas. There's no fog site.

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Just a little bit of my boom.

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Jesse from Port and Hus banana sticker.

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Thank you, Jimmy, brought to you by DNM autoleasing the
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reportedly will sign an executive order today banning trans athletes
from playing in girls and women's sports at schools that
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Speaker 6 (14:26):
All right, Barco.

Speaker 4 (14:26):
Rubio headed to Panama. He's not there anymore, just there
for a little while, long enough to get Panama to
capitulate on cooperation with the Chinese. And he was very
frank about it. Listen, well, you can we can't have
you doing this. You know, you're breaking our treaty. You're
breaking the treaty. And if you break the treaty, then
you know, maybe we're gonna have to take the canal back.

(14:47):
Here's Marco Rubio giving an interview on the subject.

Speaker 24 (14:50):
You've just come from Panama and you said that your
meetings in Panama went well. After them, President Trump said
that we're going to take the canal back or something there,
very powerful.

Speaker 6 (15:00):
Is going to happen.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
What's going to happen.

Speaker 25 (15:04):
Well, I hope nothing's going to happen, and it shouldn't
because look, the President's point is, we gave the canal
and a treaty to Panama.

Speaker 6 (15:09):
We didn't give it to China.

Speaker 25 (15:11):
He come back twenty years later and you go to
the canal and on the entry points of both sides
of the canal is a Chinese.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
Oops, that's my fault. I clicked the wrong button there,
Shame on me. How do I fix that? Hang a second,
I will fix that because that's too good, too good
an answer to Let that one go by. Let me
start this again. Marco Rubio getting question on Panama.

Speaker 24 (15:37):
You've just come from Panama and you said that your
meetings in Panama went well. After them, President Trump said
that We're going to take the canal back, or something
very powerful.

Speaker 6 (15:48):
Is going to happen.

Speaker 25 (15:49):
What's going to happen, Well, I hope nothing's going to happen,
and it shouldn't because look, the President's point is, we
gave the canal and a treaty to Panama. We didn't
give it to China. He come back twenty years later,
go to the canal, and on the entry points of
both sides of the canal is a Chinese linked company.
Back when I was visiting there yesterday, the ship behind
me just over my shoulder was a Hong Kong shipping vessel.

(16:11):
And so their presence not just in the canal but
in Panama rit large, is very disturbing.

Speaker 24 (16:17):
So reading the presence their presence could solve this whole problem.

Speaker 25 (16:20):
Well, we didn't give the canal to China. I mean,
it's a violation of the treaty. What I told the
President Mollino yesterday was the presence made President Trump's made
a preliminary determination that there's a violation of the treaty.
You're in violation of the treaty because a sovereign other country,
a third country, has effective control over the canal area,
and that absent serious measures, we're going to have to

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preserve our rights under the treaty. Now, you know, obviously
a lot of options in that regard, and I think
people speculate things, but I don't think we'll ever get
to that point and shouldn't get to that point. So
we had a very frank conversation. Since then, they've taken
some steps. They announce that they're going to get out
of the Bolton Road initiative. We'd like to see more.
We hope to see more in the days to come.
You know, the government doesn't control the canal. It's run
by an independent agency, the Canal Zone, so they have

(17:09):
to go through some legal steps that they have to
carry out. But my hope ultimately is that we can
get back to a point where that canal is what
it was meant to be, which is a place for
the United States and Panama working in partnership. It's free forever,
it's open for everyone, and that no foreign power, through
their companies or any other means, has the ability to
use it against us in a time of conflict and
impete travels through it because they would be devastating.

Speaker 24 (17:29):
Easily get resolved without the United States taking direct operational
control of the canal.

Speaker 25 (17:35):
Yeah, there's a lot of options, and I'm not going
to preclude any options.

Speaker 5 (17:37):
About what the final outcome looks like.

Speaker 25 (17:39):
But at a pre baseline, we cannot continue to have
the Chinese and through their companies, exercising effective control of
the canal area.

Speaker 4 (17:48):
So basically, he's just told them you have to kick
out the Chinese. If you don't kick out the Chinese,
then everything's on the table. And I think everybody takes
this administration seriously. That's the difference. Nobody would take a
Joe Biden thread like that seriously, but everybody takes the
Trump threat seriously. Five twenty six. Now you're a news
radio seven forty ktrh. Time take a look at your money.
Here's Jeff Bellinger.

Speaker 6 (18:10):
And good morning, Jimmy.

Speaker 26 (18:11):
The major stock averages advanced and Tuesday trading with gains
ranging from three tens percent to one point four percent,
but investors remain concerned about tariffs and trade. In the
latest development, the Postal Service stopped accepting parcels from China
and Hong Kong, as the Trump administration seeks to close
a loophole that can give e commerce sites like temu

(18:32):
and advantage over Amazon and other American online retailers. Stock
market futures are all pointing lower this morning. From the
Fidelity Bloomberg Business Desk. I'm Jeff Beldinger on News Radio
seven forty KTRH.

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All right, I think I'm awake now five thirty Here
on Houston's Morning News, I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top
stories this f hour, the Texas Senate may vote today
on school choice, Why uls frackers disagree with the drill
Baby drill Manda, and coming up at five thirty eight,
Trump shows you just how to handle a question you
don't want to answer. Details in the minutes ahead. You're

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in Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking out that morning
driving again with Skymike.

Speaker 7 (19:28):
All right, we're gonna come up the Golf Freeway. Who
better to come up from the south side than southside?
Larry Dude, Let me see it right southside.

Speaker 6 (19:36):
Larry scot check good traffic.

Speaker 5 (19:39):
Put me in there entry.

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Ramp, the head westbound.

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There is a challenger or a chaja.

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The thing to have missed the turn.

Speaker 6 (19:47):
Larry puts things mildly.

Speaker 12 (19:48):
Rod line and he just buried into the woolve snakes
up on you.

Speaker 7 (19:52):
That's Golf Freeway northbound, right where the ramp is to
the south clip. And if I know Larry, he's going
tour to NRG. So watch out there. Let me let
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the news.

Speaker 5 (20:24):
Here's Cliff Sanders, Thank you, Jimmy five thirty two on KTRH.
In our top story, it is parents who are in
charge of their children. That's Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaking
in Athens, about one hundred and seventy miles away from
here last night. The state Senate is expected to take
up SB two school choice later today, might even vote

(20:45):
on the plan which would send it to the House,
where similar legislation failed two years ago. President Trump is
reportedly preparing an executive order that would dismantle the National
Department of Education, something Texas Congressmanship Roy has called for.

Speaker 29 (21:01):
And education expert Corey DeAngelis says this is a very
good thing.

Speaker 30 (21:08):
As this fantastic news. President Trump won the parent vote
by nine points. The gop as basically emerged as the
parents party.

Speaker 5 (21:15):
So what happens if they do shut it down?

Speaker 30 (21:18):
The states and individual districts would be able to spend
that money on education as they see fit. The main
benefit is they'd have more local control over education.

Speaker 29 (21:27):
The Department would go away, but that federal money would
still be available.

Speaker 5 (21:32):
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty K tire. By the way,
Trump iss said he wants incoming Eduscation Secretary Linda McMahon
to quote put herself out of a job. It's now
five point thirty three. Trump has been pushing drill, baby, drill, right,
But get this, American oil companies say they don't actually
need more drilling. What they want is more investment in

(21:55):
infrastructure and more common sense regulation.

Speaker 31 (21:57):
It's just common sense, right, We're gonna need fossil fuels.

Speaker 5 (22:01):
We're gonna need them for a long period of time.

Speaker 31 (22:03):
The US says it better and cleaner than everybody else,
so let's move in that direction.

Speaker 5 (22:07):
Market analyst Phil Flynn says that this approach would require
long term investment, which would bring down prices without requiring
more drilling and checking. Oil prices this morning they're right
around seventy two dollars a barrel, as gas prices are
down to about two sixty seven. Across the city. It's
now five point thirty four. A man who escaped from
a Harris County inmate processing area last week is back

(22:30):
in jail. Travis Earl Bryant simply walked out of the
processing center a week ago. He now faces additional charges,
and a growing crime problem here in Houston may be
taken up by state lawmakers.

Speaker 6 (22:43):
In Austin, State Rep.

Speaker 32 (22:45):
David Cook has introduced a bill to make jugging a
separate felony crime in Texas. Jugging is when these target
people who are at or leaving banks. Andy Conn with
Houston Crime Stoppers likes the idea.

Speaker 6 (22:55):
He's absolutely right.

Speaker 33 (22:56):
It is a prevailing problem, and perhaps that time for
be given its own identity as its own crime as itself,
instead of loving it into robbery.

Speaker 32 (23:06):
Cooks bill would create a first degree felony for robbing
someone during a jugging and a third degree felony for
breaking into someone's vehicle. Coriolson News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (23:15):
It's now five point thirty four. The number of border
arrests continued to plummet as President Trump puts his deportation
program into place. Texas DPS says on Monday there were
a grand total of four hundred and forty six encounters.
This also comes as criminal illegal aliens are being shipped
out of the country.

Speaker 34 (23:34):
The first illegal migrant flight to Guantanamo Bay with about
a dozen illegal migrants happening.

Speaker 5 (23:39):
According to the Pentagon, they.

Speaker 34 (23:41):
Will be held in the detention facility set up for
the post nine to eleven detainees. President Trump has said
the most violent of illegal migrants will be taken there.

Speaker 5 (23:50):
Fox's Brooke Taylor. In Dallas and in Washington, the Senate
Judiciary Committee heard from family members who lost loved ones
to fentanyl.

Speaker 35 (23:58):
We can no longer allow criminals, cartels, and gang members,
and deadly drugs to stream across our border.

Speaker 5 (24:04):
Senator Ted Cruz there, and the President is not backing
off his tariffs on China, chiefly involved in the pentonyl crisis,
and is in no rush to hash things out with
China's Jjin Ping right now.

Speaker 8 (24:16):
They've taken advantage of the Biden administration like I've never seen.
I've never seen. The deficit with China is about a
trinion dollars. Think of it, a trinion dollars.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
Trump and g were supposed to speak by phone yesterday
and that didn't happen. It's five point thirty six. Last
month's winter storms shut down roads and schools, but the
grid held up. Benerkos Pablo Vegas credits a rise in
battery storage technologies.

Speaker 36 (24:43):
Increases are making a meaningful difference during these bridge hours,
which during the winter are in the mornings waiting for
the sun to come up and in the evenings right
after the sunsets.

Speaker 5 (24:53):
Texas is now among the best in the country when
it comes to power storage capacity. Looking at your money,
According to the FED, Americans now have the highest average
credit card balance in thirteen years.

Speaker 6 (25:06):
It's not just inflation. Americans can't stop spending, maybe not
as much as they're spending.

Speaker 37 (25:12):
As they're monitoring of allowing their balances to go up
so quickly.

Speaker 38 (25:17):
Banking expert Jannis Spooner says, on top of the high
balances is the average credit card interest rate, which is
at twenty five percent. The report also shows that credit
card debt has risen to over one point one trillion
dollars and nearly eleven percent of cardholders are only making
the minimum payment. Eric Sharp News Radio seven forty KTRH five.

Speaker 5 (25:36):
Point thirty seven the cost of your Super Bowl party
this year will be just about the same as it
was last year, maybe a little more expensive and more
bad news. There's a shift in marketing. According to Scott
Bardell with the ad agency Idea Growth.

Speaker 39 (25:50):
There's a bunch of ads for the first time from
non alcoholic beverage brands. All of it's very different from
what you think about the beer ads and things of
the past.

Speaker 5 (25:57):
Right you know, Bud and bud Light a thirty second
ad on the Super Bowl. By the way, this year
is going to cost around eight million dollars and the
Astros officially retire the number thirteen of Billy Wagner. He's
going to be inducted into the Hall of Fame this summer.
The Jersey retirement ceremony takes place on August sixteenth. I'm
Cliff Saunders on Houston's news weather in Traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 19 (26:20):
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Speaker 6 (26:29):
Never sounded so good.

Speaker 4 (26:33):
There are a lot of questions being asked of President
Trump yesterday at his press conference with Benjamin Nettanachhu, the
Prime Minister of Israel, and of course a lot of
them had to do with the Trump proposal to basically
take over the Gaza Strip and treat it like a
big Trump real estate development. We'll get into that as

(26:53):
the morning goes on. But there was an Afghan reporter there,
a female reporter from Afghanistan who obviously we've had some
issues with in the past, and there's a terrorist hotbed
and we know all that about Afghanistan, and of course
she was there because you know, she's certainly anti Israel
and she has some questions she wanted to ask on
her own. President Trump, I don't think, wanted to have

(27:14):
to deal with the kind of questions that she wanted
to ask. So here's how he handled it pretty pretty
adeptly a.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Woman as I expectations from you. Do you have any
plan to change Afghanistan situation? Are you able to recognize Haliban?

Speaker 26 (27:32):
Because I'm an Apgan journalist up and staffer woman, any
comment about Afghanistan?

Speaker 2 (27:37):
UN?

Speaker 1 (27:37):
What's your future plant?

Speaker 11 (27:39):
For?

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Again, people, especially Afghanist, I.

Speaker 8 (27:41):
Have a little hard time understanding Q.

Speaker 6 (27:43):
Where are you from?

Speaker 8 (27:46):
Actually it's a beautiful voice and a beautiful accent, dear.
It's the only problem is I can't understand the word
you're saying. But I just say this, good luck live
in peace, go ahead, please.

Speaker 6 (28:00):
Good luck living piece.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (28:05):
I just can't understand the word you're saying. I guess
maybe maybe Biden should have tried that the few times
he ever bothered with the press conference. By the way,
if if we set a record dead his Trump's his
Trump beating Biden's entire four year term as far as
press conferences, I think so. By now it only took
a couple of weeks five forty time for try making

(28:25):
weather together is which you have to drive once again?

Speaker 5 (28:28):
Sky Mike's here, yeh, next time somebody calls on the
tip line.

Speaker 20 (28:31):
I can't understand a word you're saying. Yeah, good luck,
living piece. All right, there's a little bit of unrest
in the forest and Golf Gate northbound. Let's see it's okay,
south side, Larry gave.

Speaker 6 (28:44):
This to me originally.

Speaker 7 (28:45):
This is Golf Freeway northbound, the ramp that takes you
to the South Loops.

Speaker 6 (28:49):
So let's make it easy.

Speaker 7 (28:50):
Clear Lake ramp over to the mediciner meek from Chemo.

Speaker 5 (28:53):
What's up, morning, mikey. At the six ten overpass, there
are two vehicles that are pulled off on the actual
overpath aded waft a little dark up there.

Speaker 7 (29:05):
Okay, so that's the same spot and you're seeing two
vehicles southside, Larry, he just saw.

Speaker 19 (29:09):
A challenge or a chaja that seems to have missed
the turn.

Speaker 20 (29:13):
See, because Larry Australia is like Texas, Jimmy, they understate things.

Speaker 6 (29:18):
He seems to have missed a turn.

Speaker 5 (29:20):
You know that horse Buck's just a little bit.

Speaker 7 (29:23):
So watch out coming up the Golf Freeway ramp to
the south with visibility is a thing around town. And
we'll get to two idiot, We'll go back to Brazoria
County at five fifty Skymike here deferring to Terry and
the generator of Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (29:35):
From r Ktirah Generator super Center twenty four our Weather Center,
Terry is here. More fog in our forecast this morning. Yes,
that's sir, not super thick, at least not on the
route I took this morning.

Speaker 21 (29:46):
Yeah, let's see how our visibilities are doing. We've got
a couple of places with quarter mile visibility. Bush In
or Continental is one of them that's reporting quarter mile
and Laporte where you would expect Galveston as well. I
mean the close sure you are to Galveston Bay or
the coast, that's where we're seeing the thicker fog. But
we do have a dense fog advisory through ten o'clock

(30:06):
this morning. Once the fog thins out, we'll have a
little bit of sunshine. We also have a little bit
of rain, a twenty percent chance of a shower today.

Speaker 5 (30:14):
Now, our temperatures are going.

Speaker 21 (30:15):
To range from the low seventies near the coast to
the low eighties around some of our northern suburbs. Tomorrow
it looks dry, so does Friday. Actually, we've got the
clouds in the morning, then sunshine generally.

Speaker 5 (30:29):
Upper seventies to low eighties.

Speaker 21 (30:31):
Saturday no rain, still warm Sunday of twenty percent, chants
of showers, and I bet you can guess what the
temperatures are on Sunday, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (30:41):
Warm warm? Yes, how about next week? Are they warm?
Next week?

Speaker 35 (30:46):
You know?

Speaker 5 (30:47):
Let me go check that out.

Speaker 21 (30:48):
I've been looking at what's happening right now here, but yeah,
we can check out next week. I know there's a
cool down aunt of their way. I want to see
how much of a cool down?

Speaker 6 (30:56):
Yeah, you know me, I like to bury winter as
soon as I can. Yeah, stepit.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
You're right now sixty nine at your official severe weather station,
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Speaker 2 (31:13):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (31:13):
I've been having so much fun watching this meltdown, complete
meltdown from the progressive left over what Elon Musk is
proposing and shutting down USAID and all that kind of stuff.
That's the first that's the first agency to really fall
as a result of DOGE, I mean basically shuttered the doors.

(31:33):
It's a beautiful thing to see. What should be next?
Do you think, by the way, we're going to have
Chip Roy on Representative Chip Roy coming up at about
six twenty two. He thinks it should be the Department
of Education, and we'll talk to him about that. But
i'd love to know what you think. What government agency
would you like to see be the next one, either
really cut back to the bare bones or completely eliminated.

(31:56):
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Hit the talkback button on the microphone there, and you've
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which department or which entity government entity should be the
next thing cut by Doge first, though, we've got traffic
and weather together as we check out the drive. Come on,

(32:19):
it is way too early. That problems with the Canyon partner.

Speaker 7 (32:21):
We got a hitching our giddy up on the south side.
It's Mark from Spring is in the canyon.

Speaker 22 (32:27):
Skyline from the split between fifty nine and two eighty eight.
There is a set of two cards in the split.

Speaker 7 (32:38):
All right, that's going to be southbound. I'm seeing a
bit of a scooch myself. Mark from Spring with the
banana sticker on your briefcase and will zoom in to
get you some lineage at the six o'clock report Skymike
on the Generator Supercenter dot com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (32:51):
From our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four hour Weather Center.
Partly Claudie. Some morning fog again today, high temperature bud
any fog early tomorrow, then party Claudia. That would be
near the record Friday, becoming partly Claudie with the high
temperature in near eighty. Noticing a trend here. Temperature right
now is sixty nine. At your officials Severe Weather Station

(33:11):
News Radio seven forty k TRH. We're checking out some
of our top stories. It's a Wednesday morning. Here's Cliff.

Speaker 5 (33:17):
Thank you, Jimmy. We're brought to you by DNM Auto Leasing.
Governor Greg Abbott goes public with his support for online
sports betting during an interview with the Houston Chronicle. The
CIA offers buyouts to all of its employees, and the
Trump DOJ is going to investigate cases of anti semitism
at several colleges, including Columbia and UC Berkeley. At the

(33:40):
latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next update
is at six o'clock fifty nine inbound at the loop
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Speaker 19 (33:49):
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Speaker 4 (33:54):
Well, I think that's our new Doge theme song five
fifty three our time here in Houston's Warning news On
the five yesterday they were talking about the left over
the top reaction to the Doge cuts and US AID
getting cut. Here's some of the left doing what they do,
with some response from Jesse Waters on the five.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
Hut over.

Speaker 40 (34:21):
Whatever Doge is doing, it is certainly not not what
democracy looks like or has ever looked like in the
grand history of this country.

Speaker 21 (34:31):
We are living a nightmare created by Donald Trump and.

Speaker 5 (34:36):
Elon Musk, and we need to wake up.

Speaker 13 (34:40):
This suit is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires
I have ever met or seen our witness.

Speaker 28 (34:49):
They don't do.

Speaker 13 (34:49):
Their homework, clearly like they're putting nineteen year olds in
at the Treasury.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
This suit is not smart.

Speaker 28 (34:56):
I love some of these stand and mentioned it the
other day.

Speaker 41 (34:59):
You have Iraqi Sesame Street, you have Moroccan pottery classes,
bat viruses and tourism for Lebanon.

Speaker 28 (35:08):
No offense, Judge Gey, I've been looking into usaidea. It's
a CIA cutout.

Speaker 41 (35:15):
It's basically like a dark money group that's been caught
staging crews across Latin America.

Speaker 28 (35:21):
They've been kicked out of dozens of countries.

Speaker 41 (35:25):
They've been funding paramilitary operations and.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
They got caught.

Speaker 41 (35:30):
And this is basically a forty billion dollar slush fund
for social justice warriors in permanent Washington to bribe people,
staff people at NGOs and just create hell. And they
were probably going to launch the resistance against Trump's second
term through this little government super pack because it was
so dark and shady. And if you are like our

(35:55):
friend Kamala Harris and you're interested in ven diagrams, if
you take all the exils executives from USAID, the Clinton Foundation,
the Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the World Health Organization,
and the United Nations, all of them overlap. It's very
interesting when you look at who is who when they
run these organizations. Barisma got a contract with USAID through

(36:20):
Hunter Biden and then Hunter Biden, and it was so
shady judging in that the Obama people looked at it
and canceled it.

Speaker 28 (36:27):
That's how corrupt it looked.

Speaker 41 (36:28):
Like Rosemont Seneca Hunter's firm also did deals with two
people that were trying to get rich off of disaster
aid in Haiti through USAID. Now, I'm not saying you
got to eliminate all for an aid, but it's like
a knockdown to see a house, it's a knockdown.

Speaker 28 (36:46):
You just got to level it and you got to build.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
It back up.

Speaker 28 (36:48):
That's how corrupt it is.

Speaker 41 (36:50):
And if they found out this much corruption in just
one small agency, imagine how bad it.

Speaker 28 (36:55):
Is at the Pentagon.

Speaker 4 (36:57):
Oh well, just about every level of the federal government.
This kind of stuff is going on. People are enriching themselves.
And by the way, that is the approach with the
aid approach. They canceled it all and then they bring
it back as they examine a case by case by case.
They bring back the things that make sense, and they
don't bring back the things that don't. I mean, can

(37:19):
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Six AM is our time here in Houston's Morning News'
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour, Trump
talks about a gaza takeover. Trump is winning at everything
and coming up at six awaight. Governor Abbott comes out
in favor of legalized sports gambling, but that doesn't mean
we'll get it details in the minutes ahead. Here in
Houston's War News. First, we're checking out that morning drive again.

(38:03):
Here is Skymie.

Speaker 7 (38:03):
All right, we just had something come down in the
canyon a few minutes ago to eighty eight southbound.

Speaker 6 (38:08):
At sixty nine.

Speaker 7 (38:09):
Sure looks to me like the tow tracks of Ninja
that already either way, not much of a slow down,
stay the course. Watch out on the Golf Freeway Golf
Freeway northbound ramp that takes you to NRG south Loop
six ' ten southside.

Speaker 5 (38:21):
Larry said, it seems so missed the ten, you.

Speaker 7 (38:23):
Know, just a slight misunderstanding with the concrete wall.

Speaker 6 (38:27):
Here.

Speaker 7 (38:27):
I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders. Twenty four hour weathersent
are partly cloudy skies after some morning fog with a
high temperature today right about eighty. We'll get Terry Smith
in here with another update on the forecast. Mostly colder
weather coming for next week, But is it going to
be that polar vortex that people are talking about. We'll
see if it gets as far south as us, we'll
talk to her. As I said, in about nine minutes.
Temperature right now sixty nine, make that sixty eight at

(38:53):
your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k
t RH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Sanders, Thank.

Speaker 5 (39:00):
You, Jimmy, Good morning everybody. We're sponsored by All Star
Construction at six ZHO one in our top story.

Speaker 8 (39:06):
I think you'll make that into an international, unbelievable place.

Speaker 5 (39:12):
President Trump announcing his vision for Gaza in the Middle
East yesterday, proposing a takeover of the Gaza Strip, comparing
it to the Riviera, after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahou yesterday. By the way, the Israeli PM was
the first foreign leader to visit Trump in the White House.
Reaction to Trump's plan, Middle East Donvoy Steve Whitcoff says,

(39:34):
you have to remember Trump knows a thing or two
about building and rebuilding.

Speaker 42 (39:39):
It's a dangerous place to live today, and the President
is saying let's make it better for these people.

Speaker 5 (39:46):
Let's give them more hope. Witcomf with ktr E to
Sean Hannity elsewhere. Two more cabinet picks are confirmed by
the US Senate Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of
Veterans Affairs Doug Collins, with the non nations of our
FK Junior and Tulsea Gabbert advancing out of committee.

Speaker 43 (40:04):
The focus of the Senate right now is working through
the president's nominations.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
We have made considerable headway there.

Speaker 5 (40:12):
Senate Majority Leader John Thune and those are just some
of the big wins that Trump has posted in just
a little over two weeks since coming back into office,
along with the international wins like Venezuela, Columbia, Canada, Mexico.
You know, even France is getting in line.

Speaker 12 (40:29):
I think we're going to see a lot more of that.
Is trying to figure out, Okay, where are the areas
where Trump's going to be coming after us? And this
is the first time they've actually had a deal with
the fact that America is willing to actually hold other
countries accountable.

Speaker 5 (40:40):
GOP strategist Chris Johnson says that these early geopolitical wins
put Trump in great position to negotiate over the next
four years. And we all know that make America Great
Again started as a theme for Trump on the campaign
trail years ago. But is Mega now America's political mainstream.

Speaker 29 (41:00):
And retired professor Michael Zay says yes.

Speaker 10 (41:04):
It wasn't just the results of the election, though, as
I point out, this was a pretty robust when getting
the popular vote was a critical turning point.

Speaker 29 (41:14):
And now he says it's about keeping the Mega momentum.

Speaker 10 (41:19):
I think he's got a timeline here and they really
have to come through with these promises.

Speaker 29 (41:24):
Meanwhile, the Democrat Party has sunk to its lowest approval
rating in thirty years. Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty
k T eight six oh four.

Speaker 5 (41:34):
And those Democrats are throwing a tantrum. Now, the doge
got access to the federal government's payment systems, but the
Treasury Department says no payments have been delayed and that
access is read only. And there's this. AOC of the
Squad had some choice words for Elon Musk during an
Instagram live post.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
This dude is not smart.

Speaker 13 (41:57):
This guy is one of the most morally vacant, but
also just least knowledgeable about these systems that we.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
Really know of.

Speaker 5 (42:12):
Remember she's talking about the guy who funded SpaceX and
Tesla for the record Closer to us, The Texas Supreme
Court rejects an old lawsuit and that leaves the City
of Houston on the hook for millions in street and
drainage projects. Former Harris County GOP chair Jared Woodfield says,
we need our own version of Doze here to figure

(42:33):
out where the cuts are needed. In the end, you
the taxpayer, has to pay for it all.

Speaker 15 (42:39):
And that's where we need city government to change. They
need to change the way they look at budgeting. Instead
of looking to raise more revenue on the backs of taxpayers,
they need to be looking to trim the fat, remove
the corruption.

Speaker 5 (42:53):
And a lot of that, he says, came during the
Silvester Turner years as opposed to fixing our roads and streets.
The city now has a budget shortfall of three hundred
and forty million dollars. Former Houston Water Department manager patrise
Lee gets ten years in jail as part of a
plea for her corruption scandal. Indicted last year along with

(43:13):
six other people after an investigation uncovered a scheme to
divert millions in public tax dollars through a bogus waterline
repair contract. She was considered the ringleader of the entire thing,
and as crime skyrocketed during the Biden years nationally, a
new report says five thousand FBI employees were busy and

(43:34):
all tied up with January sixth cases. It's now six
oh six. The job market continues to cool and the
number of openings in December fell by more than half
a million from November. We'll get the January jobs report
on Friday. The ADP numbers come out later this morning.
As if gen Z didn't already make you shake your head,

(43:55):
they're leading a trend now called career catfishing, applying for jobs,
interviewing for them, and then ghosting employees. So what can
those employers do?

Speaker 17 (44:05):
Go and do the extra work that you have to
do as an employer. You know your typical background check,
but if you know somebody who works for that particular company,
do some research see if this truly is somebody who's
trying to cap this shoe.

Speaker 5 (44:16):
Author Paul Peter says that twenty five percent of those
admitting it say they do this because of a dare
six oh seven. The calendar says February, but you may
know a friend or two that are coffee and sneezing.
Allergies are picking up early. There's more mold in the air.

Speaker 18 (44:32):
It's definitely worth getting assessed by somebody to make sure
that you don't have another don't have some other condition
that it's sort of mimicking allergies, and then also to
consider additional therapies.

Speaker 5 (44:43):
Doctor Gavin LeNoble with our TV partner Channel two, and
the Rockets lose their fourth straight to Brooklyn, this time
ninety nine to ninety seven. They are in Minnesota tomorrow.
I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news weather in traffic station
news Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 19 (45:00):
From start to finish, We'll be okay here twenty twenty
five here right here on news Radio seven KTRH.

Speaker 36 (45:11):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (45:12):
I don't think gambling is easy money because I don't
know about you. On the rare and it's very rare.
On the rare occasion I do gamble, I always seem
to lose. So every time I've never won the lottery.
That's gambling, and that's legalized here in the say of Texas.
Governor Abbot was on a podcast evidently yesterday he said
he does not, quote unquote, I don't have a problem

(45:33):
with online sports betting, which of course everybody took as
a single Oh good, then maybe we're going to legalize
that here in Texas. But here's the problem. He's not
the guy who can make that decision. Well, I know
he's the governor, but the only way you could do
that is with the piece of legislation, and that is

(45:56):
not going to make it, at least through the Texas House.
In fact, they asked Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, who's the
real power when it comes to state legislation, not Governor
Rabbit asked him about it, and he said, I have
said repeatedly there's little to no support for expanding gambling
from the Senate GOP. I polled members this week. Nothing changed.

(46:17):
The Senate must focus on issues voters expect us to pass.
We don't waste time on bills without overwhelming GOP support.
HB nineteen forty two won't be referred In other words,
they're not it's going nowhere. And that's been the case
for years and that continues to be the case. So
unless that changes and all of a sudden there's a

(46:38):
majority of Republicans in support of legalizing sports gambling or
casino gambling or any other forms of gambling here in
the great State of Texas, it's just not going to happen.

Speaker 6 (46:49):
It just isn't. Now.

Speaker 4 (46:51):
There's all kinds of reasons why they don't support it.
I have a very libertarian approach when it comes to gambling,
and that is I don't personally believe much in doing it.
I think it's a great way to lose money. I
know a lot of people who do gamble and enjoy it.
And as long as you're not gambling more than you
can afford to lose, bore power to you. And I
would I would never as a government entity tell you

(47:13):
can or you have to or you can't gamble. That's
an individual choice, you know. And if you if you
object to gambling for moral reasons, then that's fine. Don't gamble.
No that that that's how you handle that. You handle
it with your own versa belief system and how you
conduct yourself. Six ' ten time for traffic and whether
to get gambling?

Speaker 6 (47:33):
What what? What is your game of passions? We bingo.

Speaker 5 (47:38):
Yeah, like everybody else gets to go bingo and I
get to go.

Speaker 6 (47:40):
That's old it's it's old people gambling. But yes, oh
well it's gambling.

Speaker 5 (47:44):
I'm just about there all right.

Speaker 7 (47:45):
First of all, the rest of the media now has
word on the forty five Golf Freeway northbound wreck at
the south Whip. It's in the ramp and Meg from
Chema and Southside Larry'll get the banana stickers for that.

Speaker 5 (47:58):
That's out of the way. I'm looking here.

Speaker 7 (47:59):
It's clear now one one, two, and we're backed up
from Edgebrook. Still it'll get better coming up from waffle House.
We've been next to a two or three minutes stay
the course here North Freeway. I forty five looks good.
Rayford Downs Sawdust twenty three minutes on the North Freeway.
I don't even have the wreck of the Shepherd Curve yet.
Tipline seven one three two one.

Speaker 6 (48:18):
Two t I p S.

Speaker 7 (48:19):
I'm also easy to find on Facebook and Twitter. Alex
from Tarkington Joes.

Speaker 6 (48:24):
Come, I dude. Just comes to the canyon and the
split at two eighty eight and fifty nine.

Speaker 5 (48:28):
Everything is clear, nothing on the side.

Speaker 6 (48:30):
All lanes are going.

Speaker 5 (48:31):
Boom clear the canyon. Let's go to New ninety got Mike.

Speaker 22 (48:34):
Mike from Mofill Clausy Freeway to the south.

Speaker 6 (48:38):
Loop line open, no scout.

Speaker 22 (48:40):
Boom, no hit, no automotive, melee bamn wide open.

Speaker 5 (48:44):
Brother well, said Mike from Moss Hill.

Speaker 6 (48:47):
I know where that is. I've been from a Taska.

Speaker 4 (48:49):
See to what happens, Mike, East Text Freeway, h V
Lane and Toll Road. I'm made behind it a truck
that's carrying ladders that not secured.

Speaker 22 (48:58):
He's fixing the loose three.

Speaker 5 (48:59):
I'll all right, we're having a hard whale.

Speaker 7 (49:02):
So a hardware store on the East Text at the belt, Terry,
I'm Skymike. It's a Generator Supercenter dot com traffic center.

Speaker 4 (49:09):
From r KTRH top taxt devenders twenty four hour with
the center. Terry is hearing. She's got another warm day
coming up today. I think at least a few spots
for the next day or two might be flirting with
record temperatures.

Speaker 21 (49:21):
We could be flirting with record temperatures probably every day
this week today eighty four, eighty three, and seventy five.
Those are the records for our airports Houston, Bush and Galveston.
So and that was a while back ago. We had records. Yesterday,
we're flirting with it today. The temperatures don't change a

(49:42):
whole lot over the course of the next several days.
So yeah, some record he possible fog too, that's the
main concern this morning. The low visibility through about mid morning,
and then we'll see the sunshine. Then there is a
twenty percent chance of a shower today and our temperature
for the most part in the seventies to low eighties. Tomorrow,

(50:03):
Friday and Saturday looking dry and no big change in
the temperatures generally upper seventies to low eighties, and Sunday
we may get a twenty percent chance of a shower.
There's this pseudo coldfront that's going to hang around, and
so we may see a little bit of rain, better
chance of rain perhaps early next week, and that's when
the temperatures cool some jimmy like we might get back

(50:27):
into the sixties, which is where we're supposed to be,
mid sixties.

Speaker 5 (50:31):
Maybe a little bit cooler than that early next week.

Speaker 6 (50:33):
Okay, So no polar vortex for.

Speaker 5 (50:35):
Us, no, not no big dose of really cold.

Speaker 6 (50:40):
Thank God for that.

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Our program here in just a minute or two. Congressman
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Speaker 5 (51:47):
Get rid of the speed limit?

Speaker 6 (51:49):
Is that. I don't think that's the department Sky Michael.

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It's time not to get you caught up on some
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The US Senate might the Texas Senate rather might vote
on school vouchers later today. Arguments over birthright citizenship are
going to be heard in a Maryland federal court this morning,
and for the first time in four years, the NFL
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Speaker 4 (53:03):
Six twenty two Here on Houston's Morning News. All right,
Congressman Chip Roy joints us. Good morning, Congressman, welcome to
the program.

Speaker 6 (53:10):
How are you? I am well, sir. Thank you.

Speaker 4 (53:12):
Before we get to eliminating the Department of Education, which
I think there's a consensus, at least amongst conservatives, there's
a consensus. What do you think of the work that
DOSEE is doing so far and what they what they're
doing with USAID.

Speaker 6 (53:26):
Well, it's a great question.

Speaker 44 (53:27):
First of all, thanks for having me on, and you know,
it's been great to watch what's been happening with DOSEE,
what's been happening with the team the elons got in
there yesterday. In fact, in the House Rules Committee, I
rattled off a laundry list of the kinds of things
that we've been funding, and it's pretty absurd in terms
of dollars that are going to LGGBTQ. You know, support

(53:50):
and countries across the world. We're you know, propping aupentities
in Burma and propping aubentities all across the world, and
it's just absurd. And the American people liqum is going,
what are you doing? And I think that's a signal
that we're going to go through and find all of
this ways to get rid of it. Now, some of
us have been trying to do that internally. Yesterday I
put out a re released a report that I put

(54:11):
out two years ago, or I will line items all
of the things we've been funding with tax dollars. But
the problem is it's been impossible to get Congress to
pick up that mantle and fight to get a majority
of both the House and the Senate to take on
President Joe Biden and to eliminate that. So now having
that voice in the executive branch willing to go do
it is really important.

Speaker 4 (54:32):
But now Congress has to back it up. That's the
really important part. Oh, you're right about that. It really
is quite amazing though, just how much money is being
wasted at all levels of government. I think when it
comes to the Education Department, it's not just about wasting money,
it's about who's controlling the money and what are they
demanding in return for the federal money they're giving the states?

Speaker 44 (54:52):
Right now, that's exactly right, and you know, I mean
we have to remember that. You know, we're spending close
to seven trillion dollars this year, okay, And one of
the big fights we're having, obviously is how many cuts
we can get put in place, you know, as we
debate our tax policy and reconciliation all of that, And
so the American people are just flankly, frankly sick of it.

(55:13):
They're sick of having their tax dollars taken wasted and
ways like this. And so what we're trying to do
is highlight and elevate those things so that people can
understand them and see them. And in that way, we
were backing up Elon and stuff. But we're talking about,
for example, and this is from memory, one and a
half million I think, what's the advanced.

Speaker 6 (55:32):
Diversity and inclusion in Serbia?

Speaker 22 (55:35):
Right?

Speaker 44 (55:35):
Two and a half million was for electric vehicles in Vietnam. Yeah,
I mean, you can't even make this up, right, two
million dollars for sex changes and LGBT activism in Guatemala.

Speaker 6 (55:50):
What now, does all that stuff add up? Well, in
some ways, yes, it does.

Speaker 44 (55:55):
There are bigger programs we've got to deal with Medicaid,
big spending programs of the things involving you know, SNAP
and food stamps.

Speaker 6 (56:04):
Right, those are huge numbers.

Speaker 44 (56:06):
But people, you can't go effectively change those programs if
you're doling out money, you know, for DEI scholarships in Burma,
literally forty five million dollars that Usaidea was putting out
for DEI scholarships in Burma.

Speaker 4 (56:23):
Yeah, it's ridiculous. How difficult will it be to get
rid of the Department of Education? Though certainly the progressive
left has been squealing over what happened with the USA Idea.
I think they're missing the idea that they're going to
not going to have one of their slush funds anymore.
That's probably why they're upset. But I'm guessing they're going
to howl even louder about doing away with the Department
of Education.

Speaker 44 (56:45):
Well, I want to put in perspective for all your
listeners that the Department Education didn't exist before nineteen seventy nine. Now,
I don't know how old you are, but you know
I'm fifty two. I was born in nineteen seventy two.
I started school right before, you know, the Department Education
even existed. We put a man on the moon in

(57:06):
nineteen sixty nine, a full ten years before the Department
of Education existed. We believe that America's overall education performance
and rank in the world. The data bears this out,
was significantly higher before the Department Education. So one has
to wonder that in the forty and five years since
the Department Education has existed, what have we gotten for it?

(57:28):
The data will show you it has gotten a significant
amount of spending for the bureaucrats in Washington, a significant
amount of spending for administrators across the entire country. And
there are local and state problems too. Like your listeners
out there, make sure Austin is hearing you on not
just school choice, but on serious reform. And you hear
they want to have teacher pay increase, say great, but

(57:51):
go take that money out of the administrators, right. Don't
have a vice principle of equity, don't have a fourth
vice principle of you know, all the field, whatever it is.
You know, when I was a kid on a chew it,
we had a principal and we had some teachers and
that's what we had.

Speaker 6 (58:07):
Yep.

Speaker 44 (58:07):
So you know, get back to the basics. So the
Department Education is part of that problem. It's not even
in the constitution. It's not an enumerated power. I'm perfectly
content with Texas, which by the way, is the eighth
florigs economy in the world.

Speaker 6 (58:21):
I think we can figure it out.

Speaker 4 (58:22):
I think you're right, and I think the bottom line
on education is you're absolutely right. Our education system was
far better before we had a Department of Education. Chip Roy,
always a pleasure, Thanks for your.

Speaker 6 (58:32):
Time, Thanks for having me on. Great to see you guys.

Speaker 4 (58:35):
You bet us representative Chip Roy. It is six twenty
eight and it's time to take a look at your money.
Jeff Bellinger is here and Jimmy.

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Six thirty Now Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among
our top stories this f are the Texas Senate may
take up school choice today, Why US frackers disagree with
drill Baby Drill? And coming up at six thirty eight,
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again with Skymine.

Speaker 7 (59:46):
Let's check out ninety new ninety Crosby Freeway. Gotta report
James from Crosby with a guy changing a flat right
on the bridge. That has got to be scary stuff.
Watch out coming in from twenty one hundred. We cleared
the wreck off the Golf Freeway arthbound rep to the
south stay the course. Gol Freeway is getting a lot better.
Katie Freeway Barker Cyprus. Look out, that's two left lanes

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they're about to get that out of your hair. So
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From our KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center Party, Claudie.
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Speaker 6 (01:00:34):
Time. Now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 5 (01:00:37):
He thank you, Jimmy. It's six thirty two on KTRH
top story this hour. All eyes on Austin as the
state Senate is expected to take up school vouchers today.
They might even vote on SB two, sending it to
the House if it passes, where similar legislation never got
moved on two years ago.

Speaker 19 (01:00:55):
Paris must be empowered to choose a school that's best
for their channel.

Speaker 28 (01:01:00):
The way to do that is to school choice with
education savings.

Speaker 5 (01:01:04):
Accounts Governor Greg Gabbott in Athens last night.

Speaker 19 (01:01:07):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:01:07):
Earlier yesterday, the Governor told the Houston Chronicle podcast that
he would have quote no objection to legalized online sports betting.
Thirty nine other states already have it. The US Department
of Education appears to be on life support. According to
multiple reports, President Trump is finalizing plans to defund it

(01:01:28):
through executive order.

Speaker 30 (01:01:29):
I think it's a great idea to evolves the Department
of Education. It's an unconstitutional waste of time and money.
We would do well to send that money back to
the states so that the states could spend that money
on education as they see fit. This would allow for
more local control.

Speaker 5 (01:01:43):
School choice advocate Corey DeAngelis there. Texas Congressman Ship Roy
just joined Jimmy moments ago, also is calling for the
termination of the GOE. Trump has said he wants to
make incoming Education Secretary Linda McMahon put herself out of
work thirty three now on KTRH. Trump has also been
saying drill, baby, drill for months, but American oil companies

(01:02:07):
are hesitant. So how will the Trump administration fulfill its
promise to bring down energy costs?

Speaker 11 (01:02:13):
Turns out, the drill baby drill agenda is about a
lot more than just literal oil drilling.

Speaker 31 (01:02:18):
It's about streamlining projects. It's about being able to plan
for the future, build infrastructure, build pipelines.

Speaker 11 (01:02:26):
Market analyst Phil Flynn says, we have plenty of oil,
but we need to ease regulation so we can actually
use it.

Speaker 31 (01:02:32):
It's speeding up the process to build a refinery or
build a pipeline you know where it won't take you know,
ten years or billions of dollars.

Speaker 11 (01:02:40):
Flynn says that following the Drill Baby Drill ethos will
also encourage more investment, which will reduce costs. Ethan Buchanan
News Radio seven forty KTRH and.

Speaker 5 (01:02:48):
Oil markets this morning, checking in just under seventy two
dollars a barrel this morning. Gasoline prices across the city
are at about two sixty seven. It's now six thirty four.
Violent crime can continuing across Houston, as police say a
woman was shot and killed at a convenience store on
the northwest side. Nobody's in custody on that now. There's

(01:03:09):
one Texas lawmaker looking to crack down on the growing
problem of jugging, that is, when people are targeted and
robbed at or near banks. State Representative David Cook has
filed to build to make it a separate felony crime,
and Andy Kahn with crime Stuffer says the law would
only work if it's actually enforced.

Speaker 6 (01:03:27):
Tough talk has chieved you a rhetoric.

Speaker 12 (01:03:29):
I see it all the time, but whether that actually
amounts to someone going to pen for a long time, that's.

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
The real issue.

Speaker 5 (01:03:37):
Jugging has been one of the fastest rising crimes in
the city, so much so that HPD formed a jugging
Task Force in twenty twenty three. It's now six thirty five.
Mass deportations under Donald Trump continue. In his first two
weeks in office, more than eighty seven hundred illegals have
been arrested, and the worst of the worst have already

(01:03:57):
been sent out of the country.

Speaker 30 (01:03:59):
The first flights from the United States to Guantanamo Bay
with illegal migrants are underway.

Speaker 5 (01:04:05):
Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt on Fox Business on the tariffront,
the President was supposed to talk to Chinese President Jijin
Ping yesterday. That call didn't happen, and Trump says, that's
just fine in Dandy with him.

Speaker 8 (01:04:19):
That's fine, it's fine. We're going to do very well
against China and against everybody else.

Speaker 5 (01:04:26):
And there's this the US Postal service is temporarily suspending
accepting inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong until further notice.
Six point thirty six, three Texas doctors accused of illegally
performing sex change procedures on children are no longer practicing medicine.
Attorney General Ken Paxton says two of the doctors agreed

(01:04:47):
to a legally binding agreement that stops them from seeing
any patients. The third is under a court injunction banning
him from providing so called gender transition care to children.
Last month, snowstorm shut down our roads and schools, but
the state's power grid didn't buckle or costs. Pablo Vegas
says batteries fill the gaps when the power generation dips.

Speaker 36 (01:05:11):
Batteries continue to make a meaningful contribution to what those
shoulder periods look like and how much scarcity we get
into during these peak events.

Speaker 5 (01:05:19):
And he says the batteries make sure that all power
is available at peak times. Most of us are feeling
the stress of rising credit card debt, and new report
from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia shows the average
balances are at their highest level since twenty twelve.

Speaker 37 (01:05:34):
Your average credit card interest rate right now is twenty
five percent, and I've seen some customers have more than that.

Speaker 5 (01:05:42):
Banking expert Jannis Spooner. There By the way, Bernie Sanders
and Josh Hawley are working on a bill to cap
credit card interest rates six point thirty seven. The Astros
will retire the number thirteen of Billy Wagner on August sixteenth. He'll,
of course, be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of
Fame this summer. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news weather
in Traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 1 (01:06:05):
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Speaker 4 (01:06:16):
Right, Dose doing their thing at USAI D and maybe
the Department of Education as we were talking about with
Congressman ship Roy, So I was asking you to tell
me where would you like to see the next dose cuts?

Speaker 6 (01:06:30):
Where?

Speaker 4 (01:06:31):
What departments would you like to see eliminated or severely
cut back? And you can you can talk back to
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Put us on your preset and then you got thirty
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maybe your name where you're calling from, and what you
would like to see cut looks like ATF is a

(01:06:52):
favorite this morning.

Speaker 5 (01:06:54):
The ATF, alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. They are there to
enforce the law.

Speaker 6 (01:07:02):
Not make laws.

Speaker 5 (01:07:04):
They seriously need to be I say, defunded, gotten rid of.

Speaker 6 (01:07:08):
We don't need.

Speaker 4 (01:07:09):
Them all right, anybody else vote for the ATF.

Speaker 2 (01:07:16):
He did.

Speaker 6 (01:07:17):
Look at the.

Speaker 22 (01:07:17):
ATF, alcohol, baco, firearms, all legal, millions of dollars, with
about six.

Speaker 4 (01:07:24):
Thousand people, you know where we haven't heard so far.
What I thought would be the first on the list
would be would be the I R S.

Speaker 5 (01:07:36):
I would also like the I R S to be gone.

Speaker 4 (01:07:39):
Okay, sir, there you go. I knew the IRS was coming.
And then one more, and this one is for you,
sky Mike. Evidently this caller would like us to get
rid of the Federal communications.

Speaker 6 (01:07:51):
Yes, the FCC. Yeah, take a listen to this.

Speaker 5 (01:07:56):
Shut down the FCC so Sky Mike can speak more freely.

Speaker 4 (01:08:01):
I don't know if you want that. That's a great,
great tip, thank freely. I didn't realize the SEC was
his name. I didn't think no, I didn't get his name,
but I didn't realize we were holding you back. So
much the government regulations. You seem to speak pretty freely,
asked me. I'm feeling pretty unbridled over here. That was
a great call. By the way, Yeah, speaking of this
guy mine, I think six forty time for traffic and

(01:08:23):
weather together, speak freely about the drive this morning.

Speaker 5 (01:08:25):
We should defund the media. We voted him out.

Speaker 6 (01:08:29):
Anyway.

Speaker 7 (01:08:29):
Katie Freeway inbound Barker Cyprus, two left lanes blocked here.
Look at all those lights. I thought they would have
this cleared by now. Oh, there's a big truck in vault.
I see there it is.

Speaker 5 (01:08:38):
This is inbound on the KD.

Speaker 7 (01:08:40):
Now we're backed up from Graham Parkway eighteen extra minutes
on the inbound and all my cameras just flipped out.
Good lord, let's go to well, let's check the digitals.
I sixty nine East text elevator from Callingsworth. Look Out,
you're gonna hit some brakes, equipment. Nothing's doing. It's just
all the people from other stations are getting in your way.
Driving in the left lane. We're slow down to the
Big George Katie Freeway. Remember you have the outbound roadwork

(01:09:04):
from forty five to Heights. It's not just a project
it's a lifestyle. It's going to be with us for
a long long time. Outbound inbound, some slowdowns around Taylor Street,
trying to hit the President's head.

Speaker 5 (01:09:14):
Kyle's Kyle from Friendswood.

Speaker 22 (01:09:16):
Dude on the West Beltway hits some good old fashioned sucking.

Speaker 5 (01:09:21):
Go here here here, well said.

Speaker 19 (01:09:23):
Tell you man, people need to hit the gas and
not the breaking.

Speaker 5 (01:09:25):
All right.

Speaker 7 (01:09:26):
I can't tell them to speed Kyle, but at least
get in the correct line southbound. I'm seeing those backups
and northbound around the West Park. I'm skylike, it's your
Generator Supercenter dot com traffic.

Speaker 4 (01:09:36):
You don't have to tell them, you'd lead by example
from our kat r H Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour
weather Center. Terry's here. So it's a little bit of
fault mainly around the coast. You know that Galveston yesterday
had zero visibility all day long.

Speaker 5 (01:09:49):
More gall I hate that. I hate it when it's
sucked in like that.

Speaker 6 (01:09:53):
They never got out of the faulk.

Speaker 5 (01:09:54):
Yeah, and that's part of.

Speaker 21 (01:09:56):
The reason why I think temperature is near the coast
today will be a little bit cooler than they were
yesterday because of the persistent clouds and fog. Today's very
similar to what we had yesterday, with one exception. I
do see the possibility of a little bit of rain.
We've got that very persistent onshore flow, and so some

(01:10:16):
of these streamer showers are showing up to the east
of us at the moment, but we could get a
shower two to pop up today, so anticipate that as
well as a little bit of visibility issues this morning.
Temperatures today mainly in the seventies, but there'll be some
low eighties. Looking dry Tomorrow. Friday and Saturday temperatures generally

(01:10:36):
upper seventies to low eighties. There's that slight chance of
a shower Sunday. It's still warm Sunday, then some cooler
air next week. This is gonna be really interesting because
because it's so far out, there's many differing opinions about
how far.

Speaker 5 (01:10:52):
That coldfront's going to go.

Speaker 21 (01:10:53):
But I expect that the temperatures will resemble something of
February by Monday.

Speaker 4 (01:10:58):
All right, right now, sixty eight here at your official
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Speaker 4 (01:11:13):
We've got the timeline coming up here in just a
couple of minutes. And also it may be one of
the most interesting real estate proposals of all time. Basically,
President Trump came out yesterday during his press conference with
Benjamin Nett and Yahoo and offered to take over Gaza.
I don't know if he offered or he said he
wanted to take over Gaza and basically bulldozed the place,

(01:11:35):
get rid of the explosives, and turn it into the
Riviera of the Middle East. Interesting more in that story
coming up next. First, though, we've got traffic and weather
togethers we check out the drive once again with Skyline.

Speaker 7 (01:11:48):
We're the Katie Freeway inbound Barker Cypress accident.

Speaker 6 (01:11:51):
It looks like everybody's okay.

Speaker 7 (01:11:52):
We're still backed up from Grand Park by losing twelve
minutes this way.

Speaker 5 (01:11:55):
West Park fourteen sixty four.

Speaker 7 (01:11:57):
Here cover those breaks around south Barker Cypress two eighty eight.

Speaker 5 (01:12:00):
It's awfully breaking from the belt.

Speaker 7 (01:12:02):
Wait, I'd sure love to hear about Missouria County Your
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Speaker 4 (01:12:16):
Partly clotte some morning fog again today, high temperature right
about eighty just like yesterday. The closer yard to the coast,
the more fog you're likely to see. Then fog early
tomorrow becoming partly clotty with a near record high eighty two.
Temperature currently sixty eight at your officials Severe weather Station
News Radio seven forty k TRH. Time to catch up
on some of our top trending stories on a Wednesday.

(01:12:38):
Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (01:12:39):
We're brought to you by DNM autoly Seeing the President
lays out how he sees the Middle East, which includes
a US led rebuild of Gaza. A shooting out in
Ohio warehouse last night kills one and injures several others.
The shooter hasn't been caught, and the Aggies so are
name the favorite to win the national championship in a
poll of college baseball coaches. Get the way this news

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seven o'clock.

Speaker 19 (01:13:05):
I live in Pasadena, Sharptown Southwest next on the ten
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Speaker 4 (01:13:14):
Point fifty two. Now here in Houston's Porting News. Yeah,
Gaza is not exactly paradise by any stretch of the imagination,
but you can thank Hamas and the terrorist groups for that.
As to what it's become, which is basically a junkie
it is. It is a war zone. I mean the
video coming out of God. I mean, there's virtually nothing
left standing, which is why I think President Trump made

(01:13:37):
a rather bold proposal yesterday. How about we take over
Gaza and we rebuild it, because the way it's been going,
working with the Palestinians, the way it's been going before,
it doesn't work. They just build stuff back and then
you know, the terrorist groups launch attacks and it gets
torn back down again. Here's President Trump making his proposal.

Speaker 8 (01:13:57):
The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we
will do a job with it too. We'll own it
and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded
bombs and other weapons on the site. Level the site
and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out,
create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of

(01:14:19):
jobs and housing for the people of the area. Do
a real job to something different. Just can't go back.
If you go back, it's going to end up the
same way it has for one hundred years. I'm hopeful
that this ceasefire could be the beginning of a larger
and more enduring peace that will end the bloodshed and
killing once and for all.

Speaker 1 (01:14:39):
With the same goal in mind.

Speaker 8 (01:14:41):
My administration has been moving quickly to restore trust in
the Alliance and rebuild American strength throughout the region. And
we've really done that. We're a respected nation again. A
lot's happened in the last couple of weeks. We are
actually a very respected nation again. I ended the last
administration's de facto arms embargo, won over one billion dollars

(01:15:04):
in military assistance for Israel, and I'm also pleased to
announce it this afternoon. The United States withdrew from the
anti Semitic UN Human Rights Council and ended all of
the support for the UN Relief and Works Agency, which
funneled money to Hamas and which was very disloyal to humanity. Today,
I also took action to restore a maximum pressure policy

(01:15:27):
on the Iranian regime, and we will once again enforced
the most aggressive possible sanctions, drive Iranian oil experts to
zero and diminished the regime's capacity to fund terror throughout
the region and throughout the world.

Speaker 4 (01:15:42):
Doe ain't messing around. He is not messing around. It's
quite a statement, though, we'll buy it. Buy from whom?
Who do you buy Gazi from? We'll own it, he
basically said, well, own it what becomes a part of
the United States. I'm not quite sure what he meant
by all that, but it's it's any way to look
at it. It's an interesting proposal. Six fifty five. Time

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I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this f hour,
Trump talks about a God's the takeover. Trump is winning
at everything and coming up at seven o eight, how
USAID workers got ready for their Doge visit. Details in
the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First, we're
checking out that morning drive again with skyline. All right

(01:18:14):
clear Katie Freeway. Second wreck at Barker Cypresses there. We
had a first one, that one was pulled away and
then just hit the second one just now, so we
got that out of your hair now, Cliff. And we're
backed up from Graham Parkway eighteen extra minutes that way
two to ninety. Lookout inbound thirty fourth, multiple lanes blocked
with this wreck and inbound that's about a six minute
Scooch East Text Downtown fifty one.

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
Forget upon everybody's flowing down.

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God Fie, thank you all.

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Right, great job.

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I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

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Ah.

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You're doing from our katrih top tax Defenders twenty four,
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News Radio seven forty k TRH. It's time now for
the news. Here's Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 5 (01:19:05):
Thank you, Jimmy seven oh one on KTRH. We're sponsored
by Isopharmic LLC. And our top story.

Speaker 8 (01:19:11):
I think the potential and the Gaza Strip is unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (01:19:14):
President Trump proposing an American takeover of the Gaza Strip,
comparing it to the Riviera. Yesterday he met with Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin netson Yahoo at the White House, who
gave Trump credit for the current ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Speaker 9 (01:19:29):
Your leadership, help bring our hostages home, among them American citizens.

Speaker 5 (01:19:34):
Nets in Yahoo is the first foreign leader to visit
the new president. More winning for Trump, the first of
his Justice Cabinet picks is confirmed.

Speaker 6 (01:19:43):
On this vote.

Speaker 10 (01:19:44):
They's are fifty four, the nays are forty six.

Speaker 5 (01:19:46):
The nomination is confirmed. Pam Bondi is now Attorney General.
Doug Collins is now leading Veterans Affairs. The nominations of
Telsey Gabbard as DNI and RFK Junior at HHS have
advanced to the full Senate. Trump has only been president
for a little more than two weeks, but he's already
done a lot of winning, both here at home and internationally.

Speaker 11 (01:20:08):
We shouldn't be surprised with these big wins because they're
consistent with his messaging.

Speaker 6 (01:20:12):
We've seen what he.

Speaker 12 (01:20:13):
Wants to do, how he talks about this stuff, how
he sees our ability to leverage our power on the
global stage for the American interest.

Speaker 11 (01:20:20):
Goop strategist Chris Johnson says other countries are already moving
to get in line with Trump's agenda.

Speaker 12 (01:20:25):
Frinch has doubled their defense spending this week. They know
that they will be in the cross stairs of President Trump.
They're preemptively saying, hey, we're doing our part.

Speaker 11 (01:20:33):
Johnson says, despite these major wins, he doesn't think the
left will ever give Trump the credit he's due. Ethan
Buchanan News Radio seven to forty KRH.

Speaker 5 (01:20:40):
And you know, Maga started as a political theme on
the campaign trail, but political writer Michael Zay says it's
now America's political mainstream.

Speaker 10 (01:20:49):
Trump actually saw the opportunity to double down on the
America First concept, which is basically just the economic prosperity
that's going to appeal to people across the board. Then
I started going into the numbers, and I realized that
this is a very real thing.

Speaker 5 (01:21:05):
He says. So far, so good. Trump continues to deliver
on his campaign promises. Seven h three. Democrats are melting
down because Elon Musk of Doge now has access to
the government's payment systems. But here's the truth. The Treasury
Department says that access is read only and has not
caused any Social Security or Medicare payments to either be

(01:21:27):
delayed or rerouted. Meantime, did you see this? A member
of the squad opened her mouth inserted her foot when
talking about Elon on social media.

Speaker 13 (01:21:37):
This dude is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires
I have ever met or seen are witnessed.

Speaker 5 (01:21:49):
Somebody better tell her that this dude, as she called him,
founded Tesla and SpaceX. Here at home, Euston might need
its own Doge, as the Texas Supreme Court shoots down
an old life. So the city, after wasteful spending, now
is to pay millions for actual infrastructure repair.

Speaker 14 (01:22:08):
Mismanaged funds by former Mayor Sylvester Turner brought us here.

Speaker 15 (01:22:12):
They didn't balance their books or anticipate or prepare for this.
So now the City of Houston is looking at about
a three hundred and forty million dollars gap in their budget.

Speaker 14 (01:22:20):
Conservative activist Jared Woodville says this means either cutting spending
or increasing taxes.

Speaker 6 (01:22:25):
And what we really need is our own version of Doge.

Speaker 15 (01:22:28):
Someone who will go in and look at the spending
that's being made by the City of Houston and make
the cuts that are necessary. The people of City of
Houston cannot forward another tax.

Speaker 14 (01:22:37):
Hike, he says, though the taxpayers will end up being
on the hook based on our history. Andre Ferrard News
Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:22:44):
And more violent crime. Overnight, as HPD says, a woman
was shot and killed at a Northwest Houston convenience store.
The shooter on the loose. The reward is now twenty
five thousand dollars for solving a Cypress triple murder. Harrison
County Sheriff Hadn Donald says the murder of a mother,
her son, and his girlfriend last August was well planned out.

Speaker 16 (01:23:05):
This was premeditated when you look at having a getaway driver,
canvassying the location, trying to you know, burn the place down,
you know, after the brutal killings.

Speaker 5 (01:23:18):
This is unacceptable. Anybody with information is asked to either
call it the sheriff's office or crime stoppers. At seven
h six, more signs the job market continues to cool.
The number of openings in December dropped by more than
half a million from November. There's a new trend out there,
by the way, called career catfishiing gen z's really doing
this one. They're applying for jobs, they're interviewing for jobs,

(01:23:41):
and then they're ignoring their potential employers. So how can
those companies avoid it?

Speaker 17 (01:23:47):
Go and do the extra work that you have to
do as an emplorterer. You know, your typical background check,
but if you know somebody who works for that particular company,
do some research see if this truly is somebody who's
trying to Cates.

Speaker 5 (01:23:57):
Shoe author and business experts Peter says it Nearly twenty
five percent of those who admitted to this say it
was done on a dare seven oh six. It's only February,
but you're not the only one sneezing, coughing, or taking
flow nase complaining about your allergies.

Speaker 9 (01:24:12):
Now, one reason is mold has been prevalent here in
Texas because of recent humid damn conditions. And despite all
kinds of new drugs coming on the market for all
kinds of ailments, doctors are still calling for the use
of steroids.

Speaker 18 (01:24:25):
And then there's Orlandi Hisssamine's faster, faster onset in terms
of benefit, but then they may come with side effects.
Sometimes people might feel fatigued.

Speaker 9 (01:24:35):
For example, doctor Gavin LeNoble at Methodist willowbrook Tree pulling mold,
whatever it is, lots of us are feeling it. Michael
Shiloh News Radio seven forty ktr.

Speaker 5 (01:24:45):
And the Rockets lose their fourth in a row to
Brooklyn ninety nine to ninety seven. I'm Cliff Saunders on
Houston's news, weather and Traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 28 (01:24:54):
I take the Beltway sometimes and I also take the
West Part toll.

Speaker 19 (01:24:58):
Road KTRH time saving it connect on the ten. Oh yeah,
these cuts feel so right. Seven to eight is our
time here in Houston's morning news. It is just I'm
just having a ball watching the progressive left having a
complete and total meltdown over USAID being shut down and

(01:25:18):
the funding taken away, and basically the building you know,
locked and the workers told, don't bother to come in,
nothing for you to do. They are, they're going crazy
on the left. It's one of their favorite slush funds,
their way to get their their agenda into other countries,

(01:25:38):
you know, transgender comic books and musicals and all that
kind of stuff. What's even more funny to me is
how willing the people who work at USAID are willing
to admit what they're all about. They caught up.

Speaker 4 (01:25:54):
Fox News caught up with a us AID worker outside
of the building who explained how they had prepared for
a visit from Elon Musk and Doge.

Speaker 45 (01:26:06):
Those was in the building and we started. We slow down,
our pride flags, we swood down. I sung out any
books I thought would be incriminating.

Speaker 22 (01:26:14):
No one was talking.

Speaker 45 (01:26:15):
We heard they started taking transfers automatically of all of
our jugel meets. They unplugged the news in the little
kitchen galleys.

Speaker 1 (01:26:25):
It didn't feel good.

Speaker 45 (01:26:26):
And then Saturday all of the website put down and
then I lost complete access to my computer.

Speaker 6 (01:26:33):
I lost complete access to my computer.

Speaker 4 (01:26:34):
We took down our gay Pride flags and we took
down Yeah, we removed anything that we thought would be incriminating.
It's like, you know, they know, I mean, they know
exactly what it is that they've been doing and the
thing about it. And if we have time, you know,
before this hour's over, I'll share some comments from Secretary
of State Marco Rubio, because DOZE is now officially under him,

(01:26:58):
what's left of it, And he basically talked about the years,
the decades of problems they've had with USAID who doesn't
believe that they have any government oversight. They don't believe
that they work for anybody else but themselves. They just
do whatever the hell they want to do. And nobody
challenged them on that until now seven ten. Time for

(01:27:20):
traffic and weather. Together. We're checking out the drive again
with Skymine.

Speaker 7 (01:27:22):
Hey, somebody give me better eyes on two ninety. I've
got this inbound reck at thirty fourth. I'm showing one, two, three,
right lanes there. It's looking kind of serious. Two A
lot of you packed up behind that. Now from Antwin,
you're going to hit some serious brakes. Let's see, we've
got your north Sam that's a stall right where you
don't need an eastbound Imperial Valley.

Speaker 6 (01:27:42):
You have that roadwork Scooch there, Terry.

Speaker 7 (01:27:44):
You don't want to be in that mess that is
eastbound and then westbound all Dan Westfield, the usual spackle there.
You cleared the Katie Freeway Barker Cyprus. We actually had
two wrecks there, but now that those are backed up,
we still have the brakes from Graham Parkway on the inbound.

Speaker 5 (01:28:01):
I got Bob from Most City on your tip line.

Speaker 12 (01:28:03):
Hey, Mike, fred Hartman Bridge is moving along fine in
both directions this morning, although it is foggy facility down
to an eighth of a mine.

Speaker 7 (01:28:11):
All right, it's a pretty bridge too, highly underrated both ways.

Speaker 6 (01:28:14):
Baytown to Laporte, we look good.

Speaker 7 (01:28:16):
Let's do some beltweight eighth Yeah, I think we've got
a little visibility there too. North Shore to Deer Park
and let's see. Kyle from Friendswood gave me some west
sam while ago. We've cleared that wreck northbound at the
west Park. That was what was smashing you up.

Speaker 22 (01:28:29):
Good old fashioned suckage over.

Speaker 20 (01:28:31):
Here, boom verbiage, extra points and banana stickers all around, Terry.
Did you see that beautiful picture that Jack from Connecticut.
He listens on the free iHeartRadio app. You put that
on my Facebook. Let that sunrise and then gorgeous.

Speaker 5 (01:28:43):
I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic.

Speaker 4 (01:28:46):
Center from r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour
Weather Center. We have Terry Smith standing by. It's to
be part of the gludy day for much of us, unless,
of course, you're in the fog zone right there.

Speaker 21 (01:28:57):
Yes, we do have some of that fog out there
this morning. And the closer you are to the coast,
say from Harris County and counties just to the east
and south, that's where you're more likely to run into
that fog. Being a visibility problem. A lot of places
are reporting one quarter to one half mile visibility to
the reduced visibility, making the morning drive perhaps a little

(01:29:19):
bit slower. All right, So once we get rid of
the fog, by the way, we probably will see the
fog just about every morning. I suspect because there's no
big change in the overall pattern. So once the fog
thins out, we're going to have some sunshine today. There
is a twenty percent chance of a shower today. Temperatures
along the coast staying cooler because of the clouds. Low seventies,

(01:29:41):
but then here around Houston upper seventies to low eighties Tomorrow, Thursday,
Tomorrow is Thursday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Speaker 5 (01:29:50):
Again that makes the sun and clouds.

Speaker 21 (01:29:52):
I'm not expecting any rain, staying in the upper seventies
to low eighties. Twenty percent chance of some rain Sunday.
Some cooler weather could be on the.

Speaker 5 (01:30:00):
For early next week.

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Speaker 4 (01:30:18):
You know, it wasn't that long ago and Mega followers
were were considered, you know, kind of radical, certainly not
considered mainstream. Has Mega become America's new political mainstream? Our
next guest thing, so we'll talk to him in just
a moment. He's an author and retired professor. Michael z
wrote a piece for American Thinker that we'll share with
you next. But first we've got traffic and weather together,

(01:30:40):
Starting with you sky Mike, all.

Speaker 5 (01:30:41):
Right, you got two ninety inbound thirty four that's erect.
Three lanes blocks. Here here comes the backups.

Speaker 7 (01:30:46):
Piemont eastext outbound, not inbound right around equipment lines. That's erect.
It's the right lanes messing up. Now the elevator, the
elevated is messed up in both directions from equipment down
to the fan and exit. Katie Freeway Clear Barker Cyprus
Rex gone back up, still there from Grand Parkway. I'm
skywikeem the Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:31:07):
From r KTRH Top tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather Center.
Party CLOUDI is in the morning, fog right about eighty today,
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Speaker 5 (01:31:27):
You, Jimmy. The State Senate could vote on school choice today. Hey,
the President might attend the super Bowl on Sunday. He'd
be the first American president to do so. And we
just got the private sector jobs numbers from January from ADP.
It's one hundred and eighty three thousand above expectations. Gee
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Speaker 28 (01:31:57):
And now I can stay in the.

Speaker 19 (01:31:58):
No NewsRadio KTRH. I think we're well on our way,
don't you. Seven twenty two is their time here on
Houston's borning news. You have to Make America Great Again
has become mainstream, political mainstream, where it was considered radical
just what four years ago. Now it's political mainstream, and

(01:32:19):
that's thanks to the American people who overwhelming voted to
put Donald Trump back into the White House. Michael z
E's and author. He's also a retired professor. He wrote
a story about this for American Thinker. When do you
think it went mainstream? Michael? It must obviously went mainstream
before the election.

Speaker 6 (01:32:34):
Yeah, I did.

Speaker 10 (01:32:35):
And in fact, if you look at one of the
things I first noticed was a poll that was done
about four years ago, right at the end of Trump's
Trump's first term, we can speak about his first and
his second term in severed ways. Now and at What
they basically did is they listed what we would consider

(01:32:57):
MAGA principles, such as restricting immigrations, such as restricting our
foreign interventions, in the whole list of things which we
would consider MAGA, except it did not identify them as
MAGA or put Trump's name on them. And it was
very interesting. I believe it was the Harvard Harris poll

(01:33:17):
and they found out they were getting into sixty five
to seventy percent approval of those opinions. So I think
there was already a shift taking place in the population,
especially since Trump had been promoting those policies for four
years already, so we started to see that. Then. Of course,
the twenty twenty election, very controversial election, came in the

(01:33:39):
midst of basically chaos from a pandemic and shutdowns, et cetera.
By twenty twenty two, you started to see the most
people don't even talk about this, but the Republicans actually
beat the Democrats in the congressional race running on fairly
magget styled principles by about three million votes. Of course,

(01:34:00):
now we see what the wipeout that we've seen, clearing
all seven states, seven of the battleground states, so I
think this is a long time coming. And if you
notice the way that Trump articulates any statement that he
makes or any policy, that word common sense he now

(01:34:20):
calls it the revolution of common sense, is all presented
as centrist and when you're talking about just limiting the
border so you don't have millions of people coming over
who are basically undocumented, unknown, literally unseen at certain points,
that becomes common sense to the American people. And so

(01:34:43):
I think you started to see this taking place four
or five years ago, and it is kind of germinating now.

Speaker 4 (01:34:49):
I wonder too. You know, we go through political cycles
in this country all the time. Certainly Joe Biden is
not the first progressive president. Barack Obama was a progressive president.
Wilson was a progressive president. You can go back through
history and you can find plenty of progressives. But it's
amazing how that always seems to happen. Now, we take
a shift to the left for maybe four to eight years,

(01:35:11):
and then people realize that that really is not the
country they want to have, and they shift back to
the right again. Why do you think that history repeats
itself over and over again that way?

Speaker 2 (01:35:20):
Well?

Speaker 10 (01:35:20):
I think right, because what's happened is that the progressive
have gotten religion and reform themselves, so that after you
had all of those elections that they were losing in
the nineteen eighties because they were running on progressive, left
wing liberal principles, Suddainly Clinton came upon, came around in

(01:35:42):
the late nineteen eighties, and by nineteen ninety two they
were running on what they called the Third Way, which
was sort of conservative, and Kennedy responded himself was calling
for tax cuts and development of our natural resources. Kennedy
sounds now like a Republican JFK. If you look at

(01:36:02):
his inaugural address, it sounds just like a Republican address.
And so but the problem for the Democrats this time around,
and we're seeing it already, they show no signs of reform.
There is no one emerging, nor is there any faction
emerging within the Democrat Party that is going to bring
them back to the center. In fact, if we any

(01:36:26):
indication from their weekend sojourn where they were electing a
new DNC head, it sounds like it's the same old,
same old. I mean, it sounds literally like they're actually
digging in their heels and they've convinced themselves that it
wasn't a question of their policies. The Democrats feel that
it was just they didn't message it correctly, and if

(01:36:49):
they go down that road, they're going to have a
hard time in twenty six. Right now, the polls are
showing poles are showing Republicans are well ahead for the
congressional congressional races in twenty six. So something is going
to have to change within the Democrats. And I don't
think they've come to realize what their problems are at

(01:37:10):
this point, and it's because they have been They had
to find the extreme and they've branded themselves as such.
And unless there's a big change, it's there. They're gonna
have electoral problems.

Speaker 4 (01:37:23):
Yeah, we got to run. But thank you, sir, you're
exactly did on right. Michael z Author, retired professor, joining
us at seven twenty eight. Time to take a look
at your money. Jeff Bellinger's here and Jimmy.

Speaker 26 (01:37:33):
Private sector employers hired a bigger than expected number of.

Speaker 6 (01:37:36):
Workers last month.

Speaker 26 (01:37:38):
ADP out with a report that says one hundred eighty
three thousand people were added to pay rolls. Trade warries
and some earnings disappointments could be headwinds on Wall Street today.
Futures are all pointing lower they have been all morning.
From the Fidelity Bloomberg Business Desk, I'm Jeff Beldon jer
on News Radio seven KTRH.

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Seven thirty Our time, Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories this f are the Texas Senate
may take up school choice today, Why US frackers disagree
with drill, Baby Drill, and coming up at seven thirty eight,
the professor was just talking about this the DNC doubling
down at their weekend conference on DEEI details in the

(01:38:36):
minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking
out that morning drive once again with sky Mine.

Speaker 7 (01:38:41):
All right, let's check I forty five the golf freeway.
Is it me or you just completely fogging down there.
I'm looking at the causeway. I can barely Oh, that's
all I see is just fog looking all the way
up to one forty six Texas City. I don't see
the big slowdowns, no skunches as far as problems, but
it sure is visibility thing. Katie Freeway. We cleared Barker,

(01:39:02):
Cyprus long long ago. We still love the backups from
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Speaker 4 (01:39:09):
From r KTRH Generators super Center, twenty four hour weather Center.
For today, We're starting off fog in some spots anyway,
will become partly clnnie for most people. But the high
tempertuy today right about eighty. More in the forecast with
Terry Smith at the Weather Channel in eight minutes right
now sixty eight at your official severe weather station, News
Radio seven forty k TRH. It's time now for the news.

Speaker 5 (01:39:32):
Here's Leiff Saunders, Thank you very much, Jimmy seven thirty
two on KTRH. Our top story.

Speaker 28 (01:39:40):
It is parents who are in charge of their children.

Speaker 5 (01:39:43):
Governor Greg Gabbott speaking in Athens, Texas last night. As
the State Senate afternoon today is expected to take up
school vouchers. Yes, SB two might even vote on the plan,
and if it passes, it'll go to the House. We're similar.
Legislation never got off the ground. Two years ago, President
Donald Trump reportedly preparing an executive order that would dismantle

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the Department of Education, something Texas Congressman Chip Roy has
called for.

Speaker 29 (01:40:11):
And education expert Corey DeAngelis says this is a very
good thing.

Speaker 30 (01:40:17):
As this fantastic news. President Trump won the parent vote
by nine points the GOP as it basically emerged as
the parents party.

Speaker 5 (01:40:25):
So what happens if they do shut it down?

Speaker 10 (01:40:28):
The states and.

Speaker 30 (01:40:29):
Individual districts would be able to spend that money on
education as they see fit. The main benefit is that
you'd have more local control over education.

Speaker 29 (01:40:37):
The Department would go away, but that federal money would
still be available. Jeff Biggs, News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 5 (01:40:45):
By the way, Trump is any one's incoming Education Secretary
Linda McMahon to quote, put herself out of a job.
It's seven thirty three on KTRH. The President is pushing
his drill baby drill agenda, but American oil companies say
they don't actually need more drilling. They need more investment
in infrastructure and common sense regulation.

Speaker 31 (01:41:06):
It's just common sense, right, We're gonna need fossil fuels.
We're gonna need them for a long period of time.
The US says it better and cleaner than everybody else,
so let's move in that direction.

Speaker 5 (01:41:15):
Market analyst Phil Flynn says this approach would encourage long
term investment, which would bring down prices without requiring more drilling.
Oil prices this morning now firmly under seventy two dollars
a barrel, while gas prices across Houston are two dollars
and sixty seven cents. It's now seven point thirty four.
A man who escaped from a Harris County inmate processing

(01:41:37):
center last week is back in jail. Travis Earl Bryan
simply walked out of that center a week ago and
now faces additional charges. A growing crime problem in Houston
might be addressed sooner rather than later. In Austin State Rep.

Speaker 32 (01:41:52):
David Cook has introduced a bill to make jugging a
separate felony crime in Texas. Jugging is when these target
people who are at or leaving banks and with Houston
crime Stoppers likes the idea.

Speaker 6 (01:42:02):
He's absolutely right.

Speaker 33 (01:42:03):
It is a prevailing problem, and perhaps it's time for
it to be given its own identity as its own
crime as itself instead of loving it into robbery.

Speaker 32 (01:42:13):
Cooks bill would create a first degree felony for robbing
someone during a jugging and a third degree felony for
breaking into someone's vehicle. Coriolson News Radio seven forty KTRH
now seven thirty five.

Speaker 5 (01:42:23):
The number of arrests that the border continue to drop
as President Trump installs his deportation program. DPS says there
were a grand total of four hundred and forty six
quote encounters on Monday, and this comes as criminal illegal
aliens are literally flown out of the country.

Speaker 34 (01:42:40):
The first illegal migrant flight to Guantanamo Bay with about
a dozen illegal migrants happening.

Speaker 5 (01:42:45):
According to the Pentagon, they will be.

Speaker 34 (01:42:47):
Held in the detention facility set up for the post
nine to eleven detainees. President Trump has said the most
violent of illegal migrants will be taken.

Speaker 5 (01:42:55):
There at as Fox's Brooke Tailor in Water, Washington, the
Senate Judiciary Committee, here's from family members who lost loved
ones to the phenanol crisis.

Speaker 35 (01:43:05):
We can no longer allow criminals and cartels and gang
members and deadly drugs to stream across our border.

Speaker 5 (01:43:11):
Texas Senator Ted Cruz and the President is not backing
off his tariffs on China, is in no rush also
to hash things out with Jijun Ping right now.

Speaker 8 (01:43:21):
They've taken advantage of the Biden administration like I've never seen.
I've never seen. The deficit with China is about a
trinion dollars. Think of it, a trinion dollars.

Speaker 5 (01:43:33):
Trump and She were supposed to speak by phone yesterday.
That didn't happen. And by the way, the US Postal
Service is now once again accepting packages from China and
Hong Kong. Seven thirty six. Last month's winter storm shut
down roads and schools, but the power grid held up
or costs Pablo Vegas credits arise in battery storage technology.

Speaker 36 (01:43:52):
Those increases are making a meaningful difference during these bridge hours,
which during the winter are in the mornings waiting for
the sun to come up and in the evenings right
after the sunset.

Speaker 5 (01:44:01):
Thanks to private investment, Texas is now among the best
in the country when it comes to power storage capacity.
Looking at your money, According to the FED, Americans now
have the highest average credit card balances in thirteen years.

Speaker 6 (01:44:15):
It's not just inflation. Americans can't stop spending.

Speaker 37 (01:44:19):
Maybe not as much as they're spending as their monitoring
of allowing their balances to go up so quickly.

Speaker 38 (01:44:26):
Banking expert Janis Spooner says, on top of the high
balances is the average credit card interest rate, which is
at twenty five percent. The report also shows that credit
card debt has risen to over one point one trillion
dollars and nearly eleven percent of card holders are only
making the minimum payment. Eric Sharp News Radio seven forty KTRH,
It's seven thirty seven.

Speaker 5 (01:44:47):
The cost of your Super Bowl party will be about
the same as it was last year. That's the good news.
Here's the bad news. You've got a shift in marketing.
According to AT Agency executive Scott Bardell.

Speaker 39 (01:44:58):
There's a bunch of ads for the first time from
non alcoholic beverage brands. All of it's very different from
when you think about the beer ads and things of
the past, right.

Speaker 5 (01:45:06):
You know, Bud Bud Light, the thirty second add on
the Super Bowl this year will cost between seven and
eight million dollars and the Astros will officially retire the
number thirteen of Billy Wagner on August sixteenth. I'm Cliff
Saunders on Houston's news weather in traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 19 (01:45:23):
Info at this speed of Houston hoton Right now, Houston's
Morning News continues with Jimmy Barrett and the Houston Morning
News Team seven.

Speaker 4 (01:45:34):
Thirty eight our time here on Houston's War News. So,
as the professor, an American thinker author was telling us,
the DNC metal of the weekend to elect a new
head of the Democratic National Committee, and in doing so
they laid down all these rules for the gender of
individuals and who you could vote for. And it was unbelievable.

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I mean, the shows that nothing was learned from the election.
So let's take a listen to their convoluted rules, the
attempt to explain them, and some reaction to it all
from Greg Guttfeld.

Speaker 2 (01:46:13):
There.

Speaker 3 (01:46:13):
Over the weekend, the DNC elected its new officers and
following with their woe pronoun.

Speaker 27 (01:46:17):
Rules, they ensure the appropriate number of yes, she's and
neither nors were elected rollad gladys.

Speaker 43 (01:46:23):
Our rules specify that when we have a gender non
binary candidate or officer, the non binary individual is counted
as neither male nor female, and the remaining six officers
must be gender balanced with the.

Speaker 42 (01:46:36):
Results of the previous elections. Our elected officers at this
point are currently two male and to female. In order
to be gender balanced, we must have added one male,
one female, and one person of any gender.

Speaker 6 (01:46:53):
Of any gender.

Speaker 19 (01:46:54):
That means you, Jamie, that was the opposite of clear.

Speaker 6 (01:46:59):
So how will all work?

Speaker 42 (01:47:01):
As we must elect a candidate of any gender as
well as one male and one female vice chare We
will first ask members to elect a candidate of any
gender on.

Speaker 6 (01:47:11):
The first ballot.

Speaker 42 (01:47:12):
After a candidate is elected on the first ballot, we'll
have one officer of the three so we will know
which position is filled the one male, one female, and
one vice share of any gender. Our second ballot will
also be for a candidate of any gender. Then our
third ballot will be the third position that is remaining

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based on.

Speaker 5 (01:47:33):
The two results.

Speaker 6 (01:47:34):
Now you know what's funny about this?

Speaker 5 (01:47:36):
Do you notice what's missing?

Speaker 1 (01:47:38):
Where is the sign language? Person?

Speaker 6 (01:47:43):
Yeah? No sign?

Speaker 4 (01:47:45):
They probably wouldn't be able to keep up. How would
you attempt to explaining it of that sign language? Unbelievable?
Learned anything from November? No, I don't think so. Seven
forty times for traffic and money to go to help me?

Speaker 7 (01:48:00):
Yeah, somebody just to kind of interpret what I'm saying
while I'm doing the traffic, so.

Speaker 6 (01:48:03):
You can follow up. At least their ears wouldn't lead
with the mime, right evisually.

Speaker 7 (01:48:07):
Yeah, let's go to two ninety here Worth two ninety up.
We had this wreck, God clear, thirty fourth that's out
of the way. Multiple lanes now reopening. Uh, you've got
kind of a spunge from Antoine and actually inside the belt.
Stay the course outside the belt, the usual stuff. If
you're coming in from Pot five star. Yeah, into Jersey Village.
Lose about seven minutes this way Katie Freeway. We're still

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stopping and going from the Grand Parkway into the West
Sam a little break right before Highway six.

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Connect those dods. You lose nineteen minutes in West park Toldway.

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A lot of breaks right after South Barker Cyprus and
North Freeway. It starts from the Shepherd Curve east text.
Here's Uber Mike Hey.

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It was Timeline went up Mike aldin Mill Route Road
a little skittish, then flowing down again.

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This is devy from the hard work an driving from Baytownty.

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This fog is like you're going.

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Over interchanges, like driving up into Heaven.

Speaker 35 (01:49:06):
One thing about Texas weather.

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She did home my beers.

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Y'all.

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Have a good day, y'all and thrive.

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Face hold our beer, and Terry, we're in the g
where's my beer? You know what You're gonna have to
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Come on five o'clock somewhere from our KTRH Generator super
Center twenty four our weather center. Terry Smith is ears
she's ready for her beer, but not until you give
us a good four kass.

Speaker 5 (01:49:32):
I can do that. I'm liking the weather. Even though
it's a little bit gray in the morning.

Speaker 21 (01:49:37):
We get to see the sunshine at some point and
not a lot of rain to slow us down. The
temperatures are reminding us that springs not too far away.
Nice and warm low seventies to low eighties today with
think twenty percent chance of a shower to slow you down.
Looks dry tomorrow, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or twenty percent chance
of rain. Expected temperatures to stay in the mid upper

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seventies to low eighties the rest of this week into Sunday,
and perhaps some cooler weather come Monday. We're gonna be
watching that cold front to see just how cool.

Speaker 4 (01:50:11):
It might be temperture right now sixty eight at your officials,
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Speaker 4 (01:50:28):
So we are told by US frackers and Saudi officials
that they're not going to drill any more than what
they're drilling right now. So this drill here, drill now thing?
Why won't they drill more? We'll talk to Phil Flynn,
he's an oil industry analyst. We'll talk to him about
this coming up next. But first we've got traffic and
weather together, starting with new Skymike, all right, let's hit
the golf ball.

Speaker 6 (01:50:48):
It's great. Now, let's not say it like that.

Speaker 7 (01:50:50):
Graham Parkway at Kirkindall eastbound. It doesn't sound like paraphernalia.
We're backed up from Champions Forest both ways. Look out
if you're trying to to forty five to go to
the Woodlands. Nineteen extra minutes that way beatdown freeway. Debbie says,
it's for now, but we're about to get that roadwork
eastbound before the bridge. I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot

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From our KTRH Generator super Center in twenty four hour
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two degree day. That'd be near record if we if
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We're checking out some of our top stories. Here's Cliff,

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Thank you, Jimmy.

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Speaker 4 (01:52:21):
Well, yeah, but maybe not any more than what they're
already drilling seven point fifty two Karin Houston's borning news.
We're told evidently President Trump has been told by Saudi
officials and US frackers that they're not going to drill
more than what they're drilling right now. Phil Flynn joins
US Industrial is. First of all, do you think that's true? Phil?
And if so, why, Well.

Speaker 31 (01:52:41):
You know, I think the main thing is is you
don't want to lose money on every barrel and try
to make up for it in volume. Right, the economics
have to make sense for US drillers. Saudi Arabia is
a different issue, of course. I think President Trump has
a lot of sway with Saudi Arabia. I think when
the time is right, he's going to pressure them to

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raise production. But you know, It's the one thing I
want to keep telling people. It's not just about drill, baby, drill.
It's about reforming the entire US oil and gas space,
removing regulations. And you know, I'm very excited about what's
going to come, and i think the rest of America
should be as well.

Speaker 4 (01:53:21):
Well, I'm glad you pointed that, and let's elaborate on
that a little bit more. It's not that these frackers
don't want to be cooperative or don't want to be
quote unquote good Americans. It's it has to number one,
has to make financial sense for them, and number two
is you've got to get you got to get government
out of their way to do their jobs.

Speaker 31 (01:53:40):
You're absolutely right. And under the Biden administration, i mean,
they were demonized. I mean, let's face it. You know,
they were accused of being war profiteers. You know, they
were they were accused of environmental and crimes and you know,
in the reality, they were just trying to do their
job right, you know, and then President Biden has the

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goal to take credit for ia. Look, and we still
have record oil production, you know, mainly because they were
using drilled but uncompleted. Well, so they weren't drilling. Listen.
The key thing is is that we're going to make
investment in oil and gas, you know, not a crime,
you know, And that's kind of what it felt like
under the Biden administration. By streamlining approval processes and permitting processes,

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by allowing you projects to actually get built, it's going
to be the free flow of energy. And it's not
just about you know, drilling. You know, it's going to
be about moving oil through pipelines. It's going to be
about approving perhaps new refineries and things like that. So
it's a bigger, pictuer thing than just putting a drill
in the ground.

Speaker 6 (01:54:46):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:54:47):
I would guess too that one of the things that
oil producers would be very worry of, and I can't
blame them in the least is as you know, you
have a friend in the White House now for the
next four years. What you don't know is what happens
after four years, right, And a lot of these projects
you might start them now, but it might be three
or four years before they even come to be close
to fruition.

Speaker 6 (01:55:07):
You know.

Speaker 31 (01:55:07):
That's why Canada's Excel pipeline people are like, yeah, I
can't know exactly what we're saying, Jimmy because you know,
at least spend years and you know, millions and you know,
dollars of trying to get this pipeline approved and then
it got all approved and went through all the environmental
reviews and it was proven to not increase you know,
greenhouse gas emissions one bit, and they canceled it anyway

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for political purposes. So you know, that's madness and we
have to get away from that. You know, we need
a fair playing field. You know, people are investing in
their livelihoods, their their their own money and they shouldn't
be you know, treated unfairly by the government, and that's
what happened under the Biden regime, right sir.

Speaker 4 (01:55:44):
Always good to talk to you. Thanks for insight. That
is oil industry analyst Phil Flynn. Y'all have a great day.
We'll see you tomorrow morning bright nearly five am, and
I hope to see you the SAT from four on
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