Wednesday, July 17th, 2024

Jimmy Barrett & Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 07/1724

Episode Transcript

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This is HUES Radio seven kt RHHouston Live Everywhere, with the exclusive audio
home of NBC's coverage of the twentytwenty four Paris Olympics. Now the latest
news, weather, fan traffic,it's more of what matters to you from
the John Morris Services Studios. Goodmorning, five am is our time here

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in Houston's morning News. I'm JimmyBarrett along with Sheriff Fryar Bonger. Top
stories this half hour, he wasMake America Safe and last night's r NC
and Biden goes to Vegas. Speakingof Vegas, a classic Vegas hotel closes
today, Larry last day for themirage. More of those stories coming up
in the minutes. Say head first, we're checking out that morning drive for
the first time. Did I seewhat's going mine? Did you see the

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lightning? I did not? Whendid you see lightel? Oh, It's
all over the place. I can'twait to talk to Terry Smith at five
ten. Let's go to the NorthSand. We've got the roadwork both ways,
Imperial Valley eastbound and then westbound allthe westfield. Secret to this is
get up early if you're gonna botherwith the North Sam, It's been a
real thorn in your backside for thelast couple of weeks, and it's going
to be there for a while too. Our rest of our freeways rock and

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along. I'm Skymike and the GeneratorSupercenter dot Com Traffic Center. Hope it
wasn't a transformer from our KTRH toptax defenders twenty four hour Weather Center part
of the Cloudy Skies forty percent chanceof a shower storm with the high today
right about ninety two. We'll getto the complete forecast when we talk to
Terry Smith of the Weather Channel inabout nine minutes. Right now, it's
eighty at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH.

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It is time now for the news. Here's sheryff Fryar. Good morning.
I don't have a microphone. Okay, good morning everyone. It is now
five o two on news Radio sevenforty KTRH and our top story this hour
unity at the RNC. Donald Trumphas my strong endorsement period. Yeah.

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That's the former rival Nikki Hailey givingher complete and total endorsement to Donald Trump
at the RNC in Milwaukee last night. Invited to attend to make that speech,
among the other speakers last night TexasSenator Ted Cruz, who focused on
our broken border. Never before hasan election mattered so much. We are

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facing an invasion on our southern border, not figuratively, a literal invasion.
Last night's theme was make America SafeAgain. Our live coverage will continue tonight
at seven on KTRH dot com aswell and the iHeartRadio app. A man
shot and killed by police near theConvention Center yesterday. Police say it was

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unrelated to the RNC gathering. Thatman was armed with knives involved in a
fight of some sort with another man. As the FBI investigates the tempted assassination
of President Donald Trump, we're learningabout a separate assassination plot. Yeah.
According to the government, US intelligenceofficials were tracking a potential Iranian assassination plot

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against former President Donald Trump in recentweeks and have beefed up security because of
it. Those officials are also tellingFox the plot was not connected to Pennsylvania
gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks. That's SebeeCotton of Fox. Secret Service director Kimberly
cheadah under scrutiny, heavy scrutiny overthe near assassination of Donald Trump after She

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claimed that the building the shooter usedwasn't secured because it had a sloped roof.
We're going to have a hearing Monday, and we're gonna ask some serious
questions that she's going to have toanswer, and I'm real concerned about her
confidence. House Majority Leader Steve Scaliseof Louisiana, Trump's son Eric says the
last four days have been an emotionalroller coaster for the family. A punch

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in the I'm thinking he was possiblydead on the ground with Secret Service agents
lying on top and obviously making himthe Republican nominee, to then seeing him
walk into the convention the first timehe's really been seen since that shooting.
Trump with KGRH as Klay Travis andBuck Sexton attempted assassination has the left calling
for unity. But do they reallymean that this recent call for unity is

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a complete one eighty for Democrats.Democrats have consistently demonized and tried to marginalize
anyone who stands in the way oftheir agenda. Political analyst Laed Davidick told
KTRH there's a good reason to doubtthat these calls for unity are sincere.
These are people who over the decadeshave utilized violent political rhetoric to divide and

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pit Americans one against the other.Davidia says, Americans do want unity,
but we shouldn't back down from holdingthese toxic politicians accountable. Ethan Buchanan News
Radio seven forty k TRH our newstime now is five oh five. Joe
Biden losing even more Democrats support toCalifornia. Congressman Adam Shift, running for
the Senate of California, has repeatedlytold donors are reportedly in private meetings that

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the Democrats could quote lose everything Houseand Senate if Joe Biden remains at the
top of the ticket. Reportedly,the window replaced Biden though on that ticket
has closed. There's this August fifthvirtual delegate vote at the DNC that's going
to come up fat. But alsoPresident Biden controls the delegates that he won.

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The voters have already voted, WhiteHouse reporter John Bennett, Yeah,
the voters voted. He says,Biden may have simply run out the clock
on all of this. He campaignedat the NAACP convention in Las Vegas and
has told us repeatedly about corn pop. Remember, well, it turns out
Biden had another friend as a kid, one of my best friends, Resa,

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when I was a lifeguard projects hewas his His nickname is Mount Mouse.
When he was a lifeguard. Hepoliticized the Trump assassination attempt to he
uses it now to call for aban on what he terms assault weapons.
Five oh six is our time lawenforcement urging people to stay inside. Last

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night in our area as a searchfor a gunman who was wearing a ski
mask. They say he killed aman near the Woodlands. The sheriff's office
believes the shooter and victim knew eachother. It's the tenth day without power
for about fifty four thousand Center Pointcustomers. What has Center Point told you?
I haven't told us anything. We'rereally relying on our county. Judge

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Marcillo, I think we're just forgotten, forgotten, a Kingwood resident with our
TV partner, Channel two. Thedeath toll from the storm in southeast Texas
rising now to at least eighteen,six of the deaths reported now as heat
related. A surge in property crimesto since Barrel, nearly fifty people have
been arrested and charged with burglary afterrepeatedly rebuffing state offers of helping resources in

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the recovery. The Harris County JudgeAlina Hidalgo now claims she doesn't have the
resources to pick up debris. Wellright now, Judge Loldago is not acting
like the county judge that's in chargeof emergency response. She'd be much better
off and the community being much betteroff as well, if she would take

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that role. Seriously. State SenatorPaul Bettencourt says it's just more hypocrisy from
Hidalgo. He didn't call it atotal failure of leadership. Guess he was
being nice. Five h seven isour time. The American League beats the
National League in Baseball's All Star Gamelast night five three, and the American

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League has won ten of the lasteleven All Star Games. I'm shereber Fryer
on news radio seven forty KTRH thiselection. I could do this to stakes
of this race. Couldn't be hired. This store president has to have immunities
changing by the minute. What cameout to news radio seven kt RH.
You ever go to Vegas, Nannychimes is the state of the mirage.

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You gamble when you go to Vegas. Of course I gamble, all right,
what's your game of choice? Craps? Craps? I love the dice.
I like blackjack myself. Yeah,Lizzie's the nickel slop machine chick.
The only thing she's missing is isa long, dangly cigarette with an ash
on it. She gets sit there, lots of lots of action and crabs

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and a good yeah, craps.All she needs is the old lady outfit
and the long cigarette where the ashabout ready to fall off, you know,
which is then pull? You know, she likes to pull the lever.
She doesn't like to push the button. She give me the lever anyway.
They'll only do that one more day. Today's last day. They'll do
that at the Mirage. It's justsaying over thirty years shutting down. You

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know, in Las Vegas, it'sabout whatever's new and glitzy. It's not
about you know, when things,when the things you get old there,
they knock him down and build somethingelse on that site. Uh. That
was the homeless sake Freed and RoyFor a long long time. I'm trying
to remember what else I remember aboutthe Mirage as far as the acts and
that kind of stuff goes they aredoing a progressive uh cash giveaway one point

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six million dollars in their last week, and I guess there's over. There's
still a million dollars left, sothey're gonna be giving away some big prizes
during the course of the day today. They're going to be replaced after thirty
four years by a new hard rockcasino is going to be taking over that
site. Younger people. That's it. Get them again, Like I said,

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whatever, whatever's new and glissing fancyand get your attention. They're all
about in Vegas on the Strip fiveto ten. Time for traffic and weather
together. Sky Mike is ready tofill you in. I've still got to
climb the pole, the telephone pole, and see about getting our tip line
back on here seven one three twoone two Tips said, we're actually off
to a dicent start this morning.I've got something on the spur three point

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thirty decker, I call it deckerstill southbound, uh oh, fridge repair.
There we are, Baker to SanJacino. That's gonna be. They're
calling that southbound, so that reallymeans eastbound. There we go. If
you're going up, if you're driving, if you're goriving over to Exxon mobile.
That's gonna be a little bit ofa thorn here North Sam. We
have the roadwork on the eastbound atImperial Valley and then westbound at Aldin Westfield

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freeways for now checking the north side. Forty five North Spring down nineteen minutes
and two eighty eight up, IowaColony up nineteen minutes. Here fifty four
thousand still without power. Melody fromLamark is having an easy time on forty
five South Hi s Guy, Mike, why don't you give all those hard
working linemen some banana stickers? Theydefinitely deserve it. I am one hundred

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percent down with you there, Terry. I am seeing lightning, and my
Facebook friends say there's no such thingas heat lightning. And the last thing
I want to do is get myscience the same place I get my you
know, my cap memes, soyou can enlighten me on that. I'm
in the Generator Supercenter. Dot ComTraffic Center said before. As long as
that transform is blowing up, I'mgood. From our ktr o aage top

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tax Defenders twenty four our weather center, Terry is here. You wanna explain
is there such a thing as heatlightning? No, there is not such
a thing as heat lightning. Whatwe think of of heat lightning, or
what we tend to call heat lightning, is lightning that is taking place in
a storm so far away you're nothearing the thunder. Oh so it's just
regular lightning, no heat lightning.It does not know such thing, no

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such thing. That is so interesting. I remember hearing that term too when
I was growing up. But ifthere's lightning, there's thunder somewhere, just
not close to where you are.And I am seeing a couple of showers
and thunderstorms down near Lake Jackson andjust to the south of Galveston. Those

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streamer showers we get this morning,but we're gonna get more rain for the
afternoon, and we got more rainthrough the weekend, folks. Fifty percent
chance of afternoon thunderstorms today, anotherwarm day like yesterday. No big change
there, load of mid nineties.Sixty percent chance of shower and thunderstorms Tomorrow,
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.It's still load of mid nineties tomorrow.

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But over the weekend, with moreclouds and that persistent rain, temperatures
will be in the upper eighties tolow nineties. Look at really soggy this
week. Temperature right now eighty atyour official severe weather station. News Radio
seven forty KRH. It's Houston's morningNews, brought to you by New South
Windows Solutions. Now back to Jimmyand Scherah with the info you need to

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take on the day. So.I don't know how much of the RNC,
the Republican and National Convention all calledlast night, but I personally think
and scher I think you would agreeme on this. I think the most
moving moments from last night were notthe politician speaking the everyday people as they've
called them, the EEDP the everydaypeople, especially the mom who lost her

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son to a fentanyl overdose. Bothmoms, two moms or lost their sons.
Yeah, well I've got one ofthe moms we're going to hear from.
Play a little audio for you.It's a little emotional, it's a
little but it's worth the effort.We'll play for you. Coming up next,
first, though, traffic and weathertogether, we're checking out the drive
again. Here's guy Mike. Let'scheck your belts and loops and we'll start
with the belt on the north sidehere that roadwork is still there. Alding

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Westfield westbound and also at Imperial Valleyeastbound. If you go now, if
you're trying to catch a plane,do it now because later up this smashes
up pretty badly and you're hardy toilveroad Airport connector my secret route to get
around that. East Texas looking good. The lights are back on at will
Clayton Parkway. Man Kingwood, blessyour heart, you've got all those light
outages still out from Kingwood was tellingme last night he still doesn't have lights.

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And remember you've got Kingwood Community Centerhas ice that is forty one oh
two Rustic Woods they have ice.And also that cooling center there opens up
ten am to seven pm. We'llcheck ship channel bridges at the five point
thirty and the Generator Supercenter, dotCom traffic Center from r Katirah, top
tax defenders twenty four hour Weather Centerpart La Claude forty percent chance we shall

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restor them about ninety two. Todaywe're on Friday, both variable clouds fifty
percent, shower storm chants with thehigh round ninety step. But you're right
now is still lady at your officialsevere weather station News Radio seven forty k
TRH. We're checking out some ofour top stories bright and early on this
Wednesday morning. Here's Shriff five twentytwo on news radio seven forty k TRH.

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Our headlines are sponsored by Marrow Mechanical. There are fifty four thousand Center
Point customers in their tenth day nowwithout electricity after Hurricane Beryl's Day three at
the Republican Convention, the theme ismake America Strong again and how about some
strength. Trump ready to rally andalong with Vance, will be in Michigan
in a rally on Saturday, GrandRapids. Would you do that? No?

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Wow, I think you'd have tobe pretty brave, wouldn't you.
One teen dead another injured in separateshootings in Southwest Houston last night. The
latest news anytime KTRH dot com.Our next update is at the bottom of
the hour. I live in friendswith Your forecast is at the bottom of
the album on seven KTRH. Solast night you had a couple of moms,

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one of them a woman by thename of an Funder who was there
at the RNC talking about her sonwho was given a pill by one of
his friends, took it and diedof an overdose fetanyl, and how she
blames the open border policies of thisadministration for what happened to her son.

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Her speech very moving. Here's alittle bit of it for you. Hi.
My name is Anne Fundner, andI am the wife and mother of
four children. I'm standing here todayto share the tragic reality of open borders.
I'm here to share the story ofmy firstborn son, my everything,

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my Weston. My family and Iwere living in southern California when President Biden
took office and opened our borders.My Weston was fifteen. He was an
amazing big brother to his three youngersiblings. Weston attended church twice a week,
played football and hockey, and heloved to serve. He had a

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big heart and he lived to makepeople laugh. He had so many good
friends, and I was always vigilantto be the best mother that I could
be. His room moms, schoolambassador, and I attended all of his
sports. We had family dinners andbarbecues at the beach, and like most

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teenagers, Weston wanted to fit in, and in a moment of peer pressure,
he tried something that someone gave tohim and it took my baby's life.
We did everything right. I hadthose conversations with him and bent and

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all still my son. And onFebruary twenty seventh, twenty twenty two,
our lives were shattered and our babywas gone. This was not an overdose,
It was a poisoning. His wholefuture. Everything we ever wanted for

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him was ripped away in an instant. And Joe Biden does nothing. I
hold Joe Biden, Kamala Harris,the borders are what a joke. And
Gavin Newsom and every Democrat who supportsopen borders responsible for the death of my
son, thank you, thank you, and the tens of thousands of American

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innocent children for that alone, theyshould be voted out of office. Something

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tells me, yes, he missSomething tells me this will be a campaign
commercial, as it should be,as it should be. So Moscow absolutely
pretty moving stuff. I mean,yeah, I know, people don't take
the time. I've been to somany conventions that I watch them, sure,

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and boy, I've just never seena convention like this one. Yeah
ever all not every night. Imean to these everyday people in their testimonies
and the response from the people,and I think it makes a difference when
you hear from people who've been personallyaffected by instead of their role government policies.
They've shot politicians. I mean,you know, come on, I

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agree. Five twenty seven. Timeto take a look at your money.
Courtney Donaho, good morning, Hey, good morning too, Denisen for Courtney
ste It's okay, we love CourtneyShilliback Friday just what Amazon didn't need in
the middle of its Prime Day event. The retailers marketing portal for merchants crash
last night, according to reports fromseveral third party sellers and consultants, and

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Amazon rep says it's already back upand running again, though Elon Musk is
relocating headquarters for X and SpaceX toTexas. That adds more fuel to the
billionaire's efforts to align himself with thepolitical right and distance himself from left leaning
California. Stock Future is putting toa lower open Downtown forty nine point sess
and P five hundred down thirty nine, Nasdaq down two hundred and forty three,

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Johnson and Johnson cutting its profit forecastfor the ear that's not helping,
and Walt Disney revamping its streaming service. The goal not to just check more
subscribers for Disney Plus who lose ESPNPlus but also to get customers to spend
more time watching the services. Somelive channels will be introduced for people like
you and me who can't decide whatto watch, and if we bail on
a series before it's over, getready for a whole flood of emails reminding

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you to finish watching the series.I'm Denise Pelller, Gritty Boomberg Business on
News Radio seven forty k t RHAN. You are Houston's News. Why there
were traffic plus Breaking News twenty fourto seven. This is News Radio seven
forty KTRH Model Everywhere with IRF moreof what's happening now from the John Morris

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Services Studios. Five thirty one isour time, Houston's Morning News. I'm
Jimmy Barett along with Sheriff Ryer MongerTop stories. This f are jd Vance.
We'll speak tonight and accept his VPnomination. Is DEI to blame for
Trump's poor protection? And coming upat five thirty eight another where I should
say an anthem so bad Evidently shesays she's going to have to go to

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rehab. Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,
we're going to check him with skyMike, we need rehab. Two.
Let's put on our hardheads and goto the hard work and east side.
We've got the Hartman Bridge. I'mlooking from two twenty five. Lost
my Missouri street cam. But fromtwo twenty five going up the bridge,
Laporte side, we look good.Let's check the other side going down.

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Yeah, we're good. To goBaytown to Littleport either way, toll bridge,
Well, it's pretty. It's uphere high. All our lights are
working. That's good southbound just downthe one lane road construction. I don't
have the southbound suckage yet and turningbasin. I'm looking at the east floop
six ten the Sherman Bridge. Fromthis side, we look good. I've
lost my Manchester cam. Old GalvestonRoe. We look good. Coming around

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from Gulf Cape for now, cleanbill of health. Let's check your southwest
side at five point forty and theGenerator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from r
KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four our weathercenter partly clouding forty percent chance we shall
our storm today with the high temperatureright about ninety two. We'll get you
the complete forecast when we talk toTerry Smith in eight minutes. Right now,
it is eighty and your officials severeweathers station News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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It's time now for the news.Here's Sheriff Ryer. Good morning everyone,
five thirty two on news radio sevenforty KTRH and our top story this
hour, Let's make the forty fifthPresident of the United States the forty seventh
President of the United States. FloridaGovernor Ron desanis at the RNC in Milwaukee
last night. He was one ofthe challengers you know of Donald Trump that

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was defeated by Trump during primary season. Another was Vivek Ramas Swami. We're
not going to win this election justby criticizing the other side. We're going
to win this by standing for ourown vision of who we really are.
Nikki Hayley, who is the lastopponent opposing candidate to suspend her campaign,

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finally took to the stage, wasinvited and given Trump her full support.
The theme for today A three inMilwaukee is make America Safe Again. Ohio
Senator jd Vance accepting the nomination inhis speech for Vice President. Tonight Coverage
here on KTRH and KTRH dot Com. In the iHeart Radio app beginning at

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seven PM. One of the otherspeakers during the day session today, Trump
attorney Alena Haba, two days aftera federal judge in Florida dismissed the Marra
a Lago documents case, ruling thatSpecial Counsel Jack Smith's appointment was unconstitutional.
It's embarrassing for my profession what hedid. And I think that Merrick Garland

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and the Biden administration has become sodesperate and sloppy that these are falling one
after another like Domino's. Yeah,Haba with kt h's Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton is sewn five thirty four moredisturbing details about the attempted assassination of Donald
Trump and the failure of the SecretService to actually prevent protect him. Fox

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News has learned before the shooting,Raley Gower spotted a suspicious man with what
appeared to be binoculars or a rangefinder. Sources also say that same person was
pacing around magnetometers and the security barrierbefore the event began. According to multiple
different videos and witness interviews, itwas at least eighty seconds from the time

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people alerted police to the time theshooting began. David Spunt reporting, and
now we're being told about an Iranianplot to assassinate Trump, one that the
government claims necessitated giving the president extrasecurity. Well did they? Also?
The Bidens was saying it had nothingto do with Saturday's attempted assassination. However,

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House Oversight Committee in a hearing onMonday, and with many questions for
the Director of the Secret Service pira, including these dei comments made by Secret
Service Director Kimberly Cheedle to CBS,we need to attract diverse candidates and particularly
women. Bullsh is a former SecretService agent who now lives in the Woodlands

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and is the owner of the SaddleRiver Range. We have to go back
to some semblance of the most qualifiedperson gets the position. If you're the
best at what you do, youshould be rewarded for it, and former
president should get rewarded by having thebest people for the job. Kimberly Cheatle,
by the way, was picked byJoe Biden in twenty twenty two.

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Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty kt H Democrat criminals in Congress. But
the mainstream media doesn't obsess the waythey obsess over Donald Trump and his Manhattan
bookkeeping trial, New Jersey Democrat SenatorBob Menendez was found guilty on sixteen counts,
all sixteen counts of bribery and corruption. Obviously, I'm deeply, deeply

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disappointed by the jury's decision. Ihave every faith that the law and the
facts did not sustain that decision,and that we will be successful upon appeal.
Yeah, on the Intelligence Committee,Senator Menendez now facing new calls to
resign, and those calls coming fromthe majority leader, Chuck Schumer and other
Democrats. Five point thirty six isa time Centerpoint has not restored power for

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about fifty four thousand customers, nowin their tenth day without air conditioning,
power, refrigeration in ninety degree heat. We told you yesterday that Attorney Tony
Busby is suing Center Point on behalfof several local restaurants who were impacted by
the outages. What sealed it forme as far as Center Point goes is

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you know their CEO was sitting inhis office telling us about how great Centerpoint's
response was to the storm, withthe thermostat behind his left ear seventy degrees.
I love that, Busby told WaltonJohnson on nine to fifty KPRC is
about forcing Center Point to become accountablefor its actions. Meantime alignment in Galveston
working to restore power, there hasbeen arrested charge with beating up another lineman.

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The victim in critical condition. Atlast check, newly constructed beach houses
homes in Galveston, they actually dida better job holding up to Hurricane Beryl
than did the older homes. Itwas essentially a practice run of some new
and improved building codes. They putin windload codes. They put in all
these new codes to strengthen the structuresto make them withstand the winds. Jim

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Duddan of the Texas Home Improvement Showsays retrofitting these codes is costly, and
while these codes are a good idea, it comes with consequences. All this
advancement and these extra things that wedo to make the houses stronger also add
to the cost of it. Soit's a give and take. This says
the best thing to do in anolder home is leave when a storm hits.
Modorey Perard news Radio seven forty KTRH. I'm Sheriff Fryer on news radio

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seven forty KRHS. The Hottest happeningright now. The hottest news happens right
here. Stay alert and be prepared. On US Radio seven forty kt RH
for Ingrid Andress that evidently she didtwo things yesterday. She admitted she was

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drunk during her performance, which wouldexplain a lot. Although I don't know,
I find myself a much better singerwhen I'm drunk or what, have
had a few toure meny other peoplethink that that might not be that.
You might have a point. Thatmight not be the case. I sound
in my head, I sound better. She probably thought she was singing really

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really well. She didn't look verygood. No, she didn't. She
said that she's going to check herselfinto a facility. Well that's always the
no. Everybody loves you, theyforgive you. Sure, yeah, check
yourself in right exactly now. Idon't know if she's actually going to do
it or not, because one ofthe one of the things that she said
in the post that she had wasabout no no both to rehab it sounds

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like it'll be fun. I don'tknow if she was being sarcastic or if
she really thinks that rehabits is fun. It's it's difficult, especially if you
are an alcoholic and you've got somewithdrawal problems to go through and all those
other things to deal with. Idon't think she will find it very fun,
but she may find it very helpful, and it might also help her,
as you said, gain a littlesympathy and people forget about her.

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I don't think anybody will ever forgetabout the anthem performance. Unfortunately, she
did it in front of a nationalaudience. Is there for everybody to see,
just like the Roseanne bar will willwill live in infamy. Well,
my husband saw the apology. Hehad not heard the national anthem. Did
you play for him? Well?Yeah? What did he think? Wow?

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Yeah, it was pretty bad.Five forty time for traffic and mother
together. When you drink, youbecause I want to. I want to
take you out Carrie's. I'm willing. I'm willing to sing. But when
I have a few cocktails, Iam I'm willing to center. Yeah.
Can you dance when you drink?I can do the White Man overbite like
nobody's business. I can cabbage patchall night long, house Sharf's tequila for

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Shares entertainment. I can see Ican dance, you know, if I
drink two beers. I can speakSpanish fluently. So let's get over to
the southwest side as promised. Here, let's take a look at your Southwest
Freeway as we're coming up now fromlet's go all the way to Rosenberg.
Hey, what's up Rosenberg? You'repretty this morning. We look good over
the Brasis River. I don't knowwhat the deal is with that road construction.

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I'll check what text dot again,but I don't have the Brasis River
closed down yet. So far,we're good. Twenty two minutes from Sugarland
in West Park. You're a tollsticker, big shot, and you're going
you from Grand Parkway all the wayand we look good here Katie Freeway,
nothing doing, Katie Mills all theway to the President's heads. That's an
easy thirty minute stroll. We're gonnacheck your north side at the five point

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fifty report. And I'm sure ifTerry drinks some wine, she can sing
too. I'm in the Generator firstCenter dot Com Traffic Center from r kti
H Generator super Center in twenty fourhour weather Center. Terry is here.
We're not going to make you.We're not going to make you sick.
Thank you. None unless the forecastgets really bad, and then we might
reconsider, well, it is goingto be a little bit soggy. I've

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been watching some showers making their wayon shore this morning, just a few
showers this morning. Once we getthe heating of the day to kick in,
we will get more rain today,a fifty percent chance of showers and
storms, most of that during theafternoon hours. Load of mid nineties today.
Rain chances tomorrow through the weekend sixtypercent, and we may get some

(31:40):
heavy rain from some of those storms, especially tomorrow and then over the weekend
at sixty percent chance of rain helpsto cool the temperatures a little bit,
upper eighties to low nineties. It'snot a washout of a weekend, but
we will be dealing with some rainevery single day right down to eighty.
And your official severe weather station,News Radio seven KRH, what you need

(32:01):
to know for the day ahead.This is Houston's Morning News, brought to
you by New South Windows Solutions.All right, so we are still dealing
with center Point and debris removal.As I was just you know, talking,
Harris County is having a hell ofa time with debris removal. Although
all you know, all truth betold I have to get props to Precinct

(32:22):
three Commissioner Tom Ramsey. The debriswas taken out of my yard yesterday.
There's no more debris in my friend. You are as we have said repeatedly
here, it's the precinct commissioners whohave the ability to ask for that help
Harris County. You know, LenaHidalgo, the judge is complaining about she
doesn't have resources after turning them down. But the precinct commissioners can ask for

(32:43):
it. And I don't know ifthey did in Precinct one or not.
That would be Rodney Ellis. Idon't know if he did. But continuing
controversy on Center Point and their vegetationmanagement program. Will have more on that
coming up next. First, though, we've got traffic and weather together.
Here's serious Lena again, all right, let's do some North Freeway here trafficking
weather. Here's me Nord Freeway.You're coming down the ramp trying to catch

(33:06):
a plane at Bush Airport. Youget a little packed up there. Blame
the roadwork at Imperial Valley. That'seast found westbound, that's backle at aldeing
west Phillis here the suckage has begunon the toll Ray southbound. The toll
Bridge southbound, you lose about sixminutes. Skymichael A Generator Supercenter, dot
Com Traffic Center from r KTRH GeneratorSupercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center Party
cloudy fifty percent chance of a showerstorm ninety two today and then tomorrow and

(33:29):
Friday. Variable clouds sixty percent showerstorm chance with a high right about ninety
Temperature currently is eighty at your officialsevere weather station. News Radio seven forty
k TRH, let's get you caughtup on some top stories here on this
Wednesday morning. Here's Shay. It'sfive fifty two on news Radio seven forty
k TRHR. Headlines are sponsored byD and M Auto Lousing. Nikki Haley

(33:51):
was invited to speak and she gaveDonald Trump her complete in total endorsement at
the RNC Last night, Enter galso utility company without having customers without power.
They had hoped to get everyone restoredby last night. It hasn't happened
yet. An unnamed editor at Axiosbelieves it's dangerous for the media to show

(34:13):
photos of Donald Trump standing tall afterhis near assassination. They're calling it free
p R you have to latest newsat anytime at ktorh dot com. Our
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I live in Ito, your reliableforecast next on the ten on seven

(34:37):
forty kt RH. Here's a khoueleven reports on Center Point and their quote
unquote vegetation management program that people areso upset with a Centerpoint executive would not
firmly commit to meeting Governor Abbott's demand. Meanwhile, many homeowners are telling us

(34:59):
their attempts to potentially dangerous trees trimmedin the past have gone nowhere. Months
before Hurricane Barrel stormed through when itwould blow this direction, homeowner Alex Rome
says he tried and tried to getthis backyard tree trimmed after it was rubbing
and sparking on the live power line. They said they would add us to
the tree trimming queue, the queuethe cue. Grome says, that was

(35:21):
his first call to Center Point.Then the Dracho hid in May and the
Center Point representative said, since it'snot actively on fire, he would just
put us back in the queue.So now they're in the queue twice twice.
He says he wound up spending onethousand bucks to trim the tree on
his own. Meanwhile, hundreds wroteus on kju's Facebook page, including Tina,
who said we've got trees rubbing onlines. A ton of neighbors have

(35:45):
called about it, and they don'tdo anything. Vicki told us they have
not been here since December twenty nineteen, nothing trimmed since, and Amanda sent
us this video of a neighborhood treecatching fire around a live wire. The
feedback come after K eleven investigates andcovered how compared to other utilities. Responding
to Baryl, center Point ranked nearthe bottom in tree spending per customer last

(36:08):
year. The company executive said Centerpointserves a more dense urban landscape compared to
others in more rural areas. Idon't believe that that's a complete accurate way,
just by itself to say that's therepresentation of your vegetation management program.
But Governor Abbott is now taking aimat Centerpoints tree maintenance program, giving the

(36:30):
company an ultimatum they must provide indetail what center Point will do to eliminate
all vegetation issues. The removal mustbe accomplished by August the thirty first Is
that deadline doable? Is it evenrealistic? To be honest, I'm not
aware or fully appreciative of exactly whathe's looking at. It seems very cut

(36:51):
and dry. August thirty first,remove vegetation. It does seem cutting clear.
But the devils in the details,all the devils in the Isn't it
always the devil's in the details.I find it kind of interesting that they're
using the fact that they serve avast urban area as an excuse for the
lack of spending on tree removal.I think you have a lot bigger trees

(37:14):
in your neighborhood than I have inmine now in the suburbs, old neighborhoods
inside Houston, yes, we do, all the suburbs. I mean we
only have a lot of those newsubdivisions. Ones that are ten fifteen years
old don't have big, huge,hawking trees. Much as the power lines
is damage to your neighbors, andit's having limbs or branches fall on like
the cable lines that are strung.Sure you know, I have to pay

(37:36):
myself to have my trees trimmed everyyear to make sure that it's not encroaching
on people's lines. Or power theircable whatever, right, and it's just
tough. Luck. City sends outa little notice to me and tells me
you must cut these trees. Well, they should send the same us all
right, even though it's in thecity right away, they should send the
same notice to Center Point about thetrees that are blocking their power lines.

(37:58):
Exactly five fifty six is are timehere in Houston's morning News. This is
Huge Radio seven forty kt RH HoustonDrive Everywhere with the IR the exclusive audio
home of NBC's coverage of the twentytwenty four Paris Olympics. Now the latest
news, weather and traffic. It'smore of what matters to you. From

(38:22):
the John Morris Services Studios. Sixam is a time here in Houston's Bonning
News. I'm Jimmy Barrett along withSheriff Fryer Bungertop Stores. This half hour
it was Make America Safe and lastnight's r NC Biden goes to Vegas and
coming up at six to eight,Center Point spent eight hundred million dollars on
big generators for big power problems.Where are they details in the minutes ahead.

(38:45):
You're in Houston's Porning News. First, we're checking out that morning vibe.
Here's sky Mike. No wait,put this down, dad, gummet.
Something just popped up there this NorthFreeway southbound. Guess where? Yes,
the Shepherd kurb southbound. Give methe six' ten report. I'll
get you some lane. I'm inthe Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from
our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty fourour Weather Center partly KLADI. Fifty percent

(39:07):
chance of a shower storm today withthe I temperature right about ninety two.
We'll take a look at the restof the work week. When we talked
to Terry Smith at the Weather Channelin about nine minutes, right now eighty
at your official severe weather station,News Radio seven forty KTRH. It is
time now for the news. Here'sSheriff Fryer six oh one now on news
Radio seven forty KTRH is new sponsoredby All Star Construction. Top story this

(39:30):
hour. He will do what isnecessary to protect you, protect your family,
and protect this country. That's LauraTrump at the RNC in Milwaukee last
night. The theme last night makeAmerica Safe Again. Too late for Michael
Morin, whose sister was killed byan illegal alien while she was just out

(39:51):
for her morning run. I praythat we hold worldly leaders accountable for safety
and justice for innocent people. Ipray that we make our country safe and
secure in the memory of my sisterRachel, who loved life. Meantime,
Invited to speak, the former TrumpGOP challenger NICKI Haley, who wouldn't let

(40:13):
go, gave Trump her total endorsementlast night. Our coverage from the RNC
continues tonight seven pm, with OhioSenator jd Vance officially accepting the nomination to
be Trump's vice president. Police didshoot and kill a man with a knife
during a fight of some sort atthe convention Center in Milwaukee yesterday. It
was apparently unrelated to the gathering.There was another plot to assassinate Donald Trump,

(40:37):
we're told by the Biden administration,this one coming out of Iran.
It forced the Secret Service, theysay, to give Trump extra security last
month. The Biden administration won't talkabout it, though, yas seeing those
reports. I'd have to refer youto DHS or DOJ for any questions on
that. That's on Press Secretary MajorGeneral pat Ryder, Secret Service Director,

(41:04):
the head of it all, KimberlyCheedle, will testify before Congress next week
to answer for the security failures thatled to the near assassination of Donald Trump
and Butler Pennsylvania. It doesn't makesense to me that that building was unsecured,
that it's one hundred and thirty yardsshot. Recreational hunters can make that
shot. I can make that shot. Jexas Attorney General Ken Paxson on Newsmax.

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After this attempted assassination, left wingerssuddenly calling for unity, but do
they really mean it. The leadersof the radical left, those voices that
have for decade tried to divide Americans, are panicking right now because they know
Americans are sick and tired of theirlives and their divisive tactics. Political analysts
Laed davidiac He says, there arepeople who have used violent political rhetoric to

(41:51):
divide Americans. Yeah, these arethe people who have done it, and
we're tired of it. It's nowsix oh four more Democrats trying to get
President Biden to step down. Butthere are a few reasons why time is
actually on his side and now SharyWhitehouse correspondent for Roll Call John Bennett says

(42:15):
there are four reasons that, ofcourse is the assassination attempt of Donald Trump.
So the Democrats, it looks like, are standing down for now at
least, but the longer they standdown plays in at a calendar issue along
with more interviews and campaign stops.And now the countdown is on to the
DNC convention. Really it comes downto Biden. If he doesn't lose too

(42:37):
many big dollar donors, he canrun out the clock and get to the
Democratic National Convention, which is nowjust over a month away. Jeff Biggs
News Radio seven forty k t HJoe Biden campaigning in Las Vegas at the
NAACP convention. And guess what tellingmore lies Tamaha have her constant lightning,

(43:00):
she says, She says, Howard'sthe best I said, Delarre State's the
best. Products is that's why Igot my star. Yeah, he got
his start at Delaware State, whichis as historically black university. No,
Biden actually went to the University ofDelaware, barely graduated. His grades were
so bad. It's six oh five. Now. Officials in Montgomery County they're

(43:23):
pretty fed up, they say,with center point and in their tenth day
there now without electricity after Hurricane Beryl. How can that be. How can
we have the fourth largest power gridout our twelve counties and have the least
amount of activations here in Montgomery County. That's the county Judge there Marko with
our TV partner Channel two, fiftyfour thousand Center Point customers are still impacted.

(43:47):
This morning, the death toll fromthe storm across southeast Texas has risen
to at least eighteen. Six ofthose deaths reportedly now heat related. Many
our focus on Center Points failures,but there was someone else who was asleep
at the wheel. Harris County JudgeLena Hidalgo is once again in hot water.

(44:09):
Judge Hildago has made a fundamental mistakeby telling the Lieutenant governor that accounting
the size of Harris doesn't need assistance. Now, Hidalgo says she doesn't have
the resources to clean up debris.State Senator Paul Bettencour says that doesn't make
any sense. It's just more apocrisyof saying one thing and then doing another,

(44:30):
and I don't understand it. It'snot the response you need. Bettencourt
says the community would be better offif she took her emergency management role more
seriously. Ethan Buchennan News Radio sevenforty KTRH. And here's some big news
economically and politically. Elon Musk,He's gonna move the headquarters of his SpaceX
as well as X the former Twitterto Austin from San Francisco, citing the

(44:54):
new law sign back California Governor GavinNewsen that prohibits school districts from notifying parents
that their child wants to change genderidentification. Oh yeah, keep it from
the parents. He's moving. Anddespite being so woke, the US military
surprisingly making some progress in recruitments nowafter years of shortfalls, all four branches

(45:20):
of the service are now ahead oftheir recruiting pace from last year. What's
going on? Of those three thousand, we have only lost one to a
physical fitness standard, and so thatis about the barriers that we have been
able to remove, as well asbeing able to really get out there and
tell our story from our recruiter standpoint. Well, that's Air Force recruiting Commander
Christopher I'm ryan. He told Foxthey added three thousand more recruits by this

(45:45):
is the quote updating some physical requirements. I think it's called dumbing it down.
Maybe update means dumbed down, andnot just dumbed down, but physical
requirements is toned down. Every branchexcept the DAVY now expects to meet recruiting
goals this year. That's all theyhad to do was lower the standards.

(46:06):
There you go. It is nowsix oh seven. The American League has
won Baseball's All Star Game top ofthe National League in Arlington last night five
to three. I'm sureby Fryer anews radio seven forty KTRH keeping you in
the know all the information in realtime and again the now right now,
news Radio seven forty KTRH. Youwould think that this would help, but

(46:31):
evidently it doesn't. Over the lastthree years, Centerpoint Energy has spent eight
hundred million dollars on twenty massive generatorsthat they had to get that approved by
state regulars. They proved it becauseCenterpoint claimed at the time that the generators
would keep the lights on during theextended power outage. Only, as it

(46:52):
turns out, none of them,almost none of them, were deployed in
the wake of Beryl. Why weren'tthey deployed? Some of these generators are
i mean, their masters to thepoint where they can power an entire neighborhood.
Why isn't one of these generators deployedto Kingwood? Are several of them
deployed? Don't have the lines totake them from the point of generation into

(47:15):
individual households. They won't work,will they. Well, in fact,
that would be part of it.I mean, you've got to get that
debris cleared, you got to getthose lines back up. None of those
generators have been put into service sinceCenterpoint first began running them in twenty twenty
one. Uh oh. The companytold the Chronicle this week that they are
quote not for rapid response use andare not designed to be mobile. Okay,

(47:38):
so you knew a storm is coming, Take it and construct it wherever
you need to construct it. Centerpointhas deployed three of its remaining five large
generators at a water processing plant andtwo senior living centers. Each of those
is the size of a tractor trailer. It has about five megawatts of capacity.
But the other ones, the largerones, have never been used.

(48:00):
They're just a quote unquote insurance policyfor bigger power outages. Well, if
they're never used, then what kindof insurance is it there? For the
plans that don't have enough natural gaswhen the wind and solar fails. That's
what that is for. They arenot very mobile. They require constructing.
In other words, they're in partsand you have to put them together,

(48:20):
and you can't use it for arapid response. So I guess my question
would be, is that eight hundredmillion dollars well spent money if you can't
really use it in an emergency.If you're if you're justifying spending eight hundred
million dollars for something you can usean emergency, but you can't use these,
why would you spend the money?You know this, this, this
is a bigger issue than just CenterPoint. This is PUC, This is

(48:45):
this, this is a state thing. It's you know, as real easy
to just lay all the blame onCenter Point. That don't forget they are
highly regulated. So who took theireye off the ball? I think the
state is going to end up havingabout as much egg on their face as
the as Centerpoint does. When thisis over setting and done with six eleven,
time for trafficking weather together, let'scheck out the drive again. Here's

(49:06):
sky mate ha. We have laneagefor you ktr rach listeners. The first
to know about it, of course, but I did get some help from
my TV friends. Tammy from Channelthirteen sent me this shot the aerial of
I forty five. She's over itright now southbound. No, don't look
up. Keep her out on theroad southbound Shepherd Curve. That's two two
left lanes southbound backups from West Road. And then Jennifer tells me she's from

(49:28):
Channel eleven. She said there arestill hundreds of signal problems all around town.
So I'd like to know. Thelast thing I got yesterday was Hardy
Toll Road at the northbound, andthat's been a real pain. Everything seems
to be northside north sam Aldean,Westfield, westbound roadwork, and then eastbound
at Imperial Valley. Let's sneak downtownand southbound. You've got breaks right after

(49:49):
equipment down to the Big George.You lose one or two minutes. No
big thing for now. If you'regoing down the East tex Al from Kingwood,
do it now, go freeway.Some breaks starting right around park Place
and we're going to check your westside again at the six twenty report Skymike
and the Generator Supercenter dot Com TrafficCenter from our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty
four our Weather Center Time to checkInventary Smith here and find out about the

(50:12):
rest of the work week. Rainchances are going up every day, Yes
they are, and it's because wehave this cold front. It's a week
one, but it's going to makeits way into southeast Texas sometime tomorrow.
So more clouds, more rain,a little less heat, A fifty percent
chance of showers and thunderstorms. Today, it's still warm typical July load to
mid nineties today, sixty percent chancetomorrow, heavy rain of possibility tomorrow,

(50:38):
and a sixty percent chance of showersand thunderstorms Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Temperatures over the weekend in the uppereighties to low nineties. Right now,
still lady at your official severe weatherstation, News Radio seven forty ktrh
USE Traffic and Weather. You're startingyour day right with Houston's Morning News,

(50:59):
brought to you by New South toWindows Solutions. All right, big night
tonight at the Republican National Convention.JD. Evans will accept his nomination and
give a speech. We'll talk alittle bit about that. Of course,
some of the speeches last night werepretty dog gone good as well, especially
fora Vec Ramaswami. His speech gotmy attention. So we have some audio
to share coming up in the minutes. A head. First, we've got

(51:19):
traffic and weather together, which startswith you skuy Mike. Do we have
Jonathan signs of Texas Values coming up? Jim? Maybe we're trying to reach
him Oway just in case, hopefullyhe'll bring me a shot glass from Milwaukee.
Let's go to the north side.Forty five southbound at Shefford to Reckets
two left lines. Looks like everybody'sokay if you're playing the home game.
Hit camera two to two to onefrom Little York. I've got this south

(51:40):
Loop thing, south Loop six'ten at South Maine. Here we go
with those signals again. Double checkme if I'm wrong here, Well,
check back on two eighty eight atsix thirty the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic
Center from r KTRH top Tax Defenderstwenty four hour weather center. For today,
we're looking at Partley cloudy sky's fiftypercent chance of a shower of storm

(52:00):
with the high ride about ninety two. And then tomorrow Friday Party Cloudy's sixty
percent shower storm chance, high temperatureabout ninety. Right now, it is
eighty at your official severe Weather station. News Radio seven forty k TRH.
Time to get you caught up onsome of our top stories this morning,
Mere Shriff, Good morning Everyone,is six twenty two on news radio seven
forty k TRH. Our headlines aresponsored by DNM auto Leasing Center Point Customers.

(52:24):
Not only the unhappy ones, EntergyTexas also dealing with a tenth day
of customer outages. Vivek Ramaswami's namebeing floated as a potential appointment to the
Ohio Senate seat of JD Vance ifDonald Trump wins the presidency. Interesting see
how that works? I do Idid you speak? According to HPD data,

(52:47):
only twenty percent of hit and runsare actually investigated. Even fewer are
solved. Latest News Anytime kturh dotcom. Our next update will be at
the bottom of the hour. SummerLife, traveling Movies, Bad weather happens
here, Astro stream Time, Inflation, the Election. News Radio seven forty

(53:08):
Summer Light j t RH the homeof jd Vance, who will be campaigning
with President Trump in Grand Rapids,Michigan. Is that tomorrow's at this week?
This weekend? This week is Saturday. Yeah, they're a little busy
right now. Yeah, well,that's the Republican country in Michigan, so

(53:30):
I'm surprised they're maybe moving a littlebit, a little bit further to the
east, try to get some ofthat middle ground in there. But you
know, that's a good part ifthat's why he's got JD. Vans,
that's that's right, that's right.And speaking of which JD. Evans will
be giving his accepted speech tonight.But the vat Robins Swambey gave a you
were just mentioning him as a possiblemaybe taking over the Senate sated or getting

(53:52):
appointed out there. It's being floatednow. I think that would be a
pretty good choice. He was.He was impressive last night. I alway
he's been kind of impressed with himas a speaker, but he did a
very impressive job last night of kindof reminding people of what it means to
be an American. Our message toblack Americans is this. The media has
tried to convince you for decades thatRepublicans don't care about your communities, but

(54:16):
we do. We want for youwhat we want for every American. Safe
neighborhoods, clean streets, good jobs, a better life for your children,
and a justice system that treats everyoneequally, regardless of your skin color and
regardless of your political beliefs. Ourmessage to every legal immigrant in this country

(54:50):
is this, you're like my parents. You deserve the opportunity to secure a
better life for your children in America. But our message to ill legal immigrants
is also this, we will returnyou to your country of origin, not
because you're all bad people, butbecause you broke the law. And the
United States of America was founded onthe rule of law. Our message to

(55:24):
millennials, speaking as one myself,yes, it's true our government sold us
a false bill of goods with theIraq War and the two thousand and eight
financial crisis, loading up our nationaldebt that falls on our generation's shoulders,
telling us that if we took outcollege loans, we'd somehow get a head
start on the American dream when ithasn't worked out that way. But we

(55:46):
can't just be cynical about our country, because the United States of America is
still the last best hope that wehave, and we deserve a better class
of politician, one who actually tellsus the truth, even if it comes
with some mean tweets from time totime, and our message to gen Z

(56:16):
is this, you're going to bethe generation that actually saves this country.
You want to be a rebel,you want to be a hippie, you
want to stick it to the man. Show up on your college campus and
try calling yourself a conservative. Sayyou want to get married, have kids,
teach him to believe in God andpledge allegiance to their country. Good

(56:37):
stuff the beg Ramaswami from last night, six twenty six. It is time
to take a look at your moneyand recording. Here's to Dase Pellegrini.
Hey there, good morning to youguys. Dear In Company got a loud
and clear message from its customers.Guys. The pharm equipment maker is now
pulling back from diversity initiatives that youallow a conservative criticism. Dear says it

(57:00):
will no longer take part in culturalawareness parades and also says business resource groups
will now focus exclusively on things likeprofessional development and networking instead. Stock futures
right now are putting to a loweropen. Dow futures down one hundred and
twenty three, s in P futuresdown fifty seven, Nasdaq futures down a
whopping three hundred and seventeen points rightnow, and one of the new workplace

(57:22):
trends making the rounds on social mediais called quiet vacationing. Instead of using
up paid vacation days, people arecarving out a little downtime within the workday
without their boss knowing. Presumably inone extreme case, people you know,
fly to other places and actually goon a vacation. But in a lot
of cases, people are just kindof, you know, taking an hour

(57:42):
or two off in the middle ofthe day, checking out, relaxing,
taking care of personal stuff when theboss isn't looking. You know. One
thing I don't get, though,people are posting about this stuff on social
media. That doesn't seem too smartif you're trying to hide it from your
boss anyway. I'm Denis Pelgritty BloombergBusiness on News Radio seven forty kr H

(58:02):
Houston's News Why there Were Traffic plusPreaking News twenty four to seven. This
is News Radio seven forty kt RHILEverywhere with the more of What's happening now
from the John Morris Services Studios.It is six point thirty now here in
Houston's Boring News, I'm Jimmy Barren, a Long with Sheriff Fryar Bunger Top
Stores. This half hour. JDVance will speak tonight and accept a VP

(58:27):
nomination. Is DEI to blame forTrump's poor protection and coming up at six
thirty eight, all of our powerproblems as some considering relocation details in the
minutes ahead. You're in Houston's boringnews. First, let's check out that
morning drive again. Here's guy Mike. All right, I'm seeing seconds you
on the East Text Freeway ben atask Casita, Mike Ingbow of Les Moe,

(58:49):
Houston is backed up all the wayto Boss Timbers. Red light the
whole entire way. All right,let's assume it. Let's try another East
Text height. Hey, Mike thepoll. There's a three cars much before
the cross Timbers. Kelly accents it. Guess happened. There's no old names
on site, all right, greatverbage, banana stickers all around. This

(59:13):
is East Text. I'm gonna callit a wreck at Laura Coffee. We'll
have laneage at the ten report,at the forty report. Nord Freeway,
Shepherd and Act and inbound also KatieFreeway, Mason Road. Let me get
you some language there. That istwo left lanes inbound Skymichael the Generator Supercenter
dot Com Traffic Center from our KTRHGenerator Supercenter twenty four hour Weather Center.
Partly cloudy, fifty percent chance ofa shower storm today with the I temperature

(59:35):
right about ninety two. We'll getyou the complete forecast in about nine minutes
with Terry Smith of the Weather General. Right now, it is eighty at
your official severe weather station, NewsRadio seven forty KTRH. It is time
out for the news. Here's SheriffRyer. Morning. Everyone is how six
thirty one on news Radio seven fortyKTRH and our top story this hour under
President Trump, America was safer,the world was safer. Arkansas Governor Sarah

(01:00:02):
Huckabee Sanders in Milwaukee at the RNCon stage the theme last night, make
America Safe Again, and heavy emphasison what the left has tried to do
to Trump over the last year.Not the left, the Democrats. They
tried to ruin his reputation, andhe's more popular now than ever. Then

(01:00:23):
they tried to bankrupt them, andhe's got more money now than he had
before. And then they tried toput him in prison, and he's freer
and has made other people free withhim. Yeah, and then they tried
to kill him, is what doctorbin Carson went on to say. He
was Trump's former HUD secretary. Threeof Trump's challengers from the primary also gave

(01:00:45):
their full support to Trump last night, Florida Governor Ron de Santas, vivek
Ramaswami, and former UN Ambassador NikkiHaley. We heard a lot about the
border crisis too, in its consequenceson every American. We'll have more on
that seven am. Today's theme willbe make America Strong Again and JD.

(01:01:05):
Vance will be speaking to the conventiontonight and his acceptance speech for the vice
presidential slot. Trump attorney Alina Habawill also be on stage. I've been
asked to speak about him and whohe is, and it's also more daunting
for me. The American people don'tknow President Trump the way I do,
and I'm so honored to be oneof those people that gets to be with

(01:01:25):
him a lot and tell them whohe is. Haba was on with Katurgis,
Klay Travis, and Buck Sexton livecoverage tonight here on KTRH and online
as well and the iHeartRadio app.It is six thirty three lawmakers on Capitol
Hill will be brief today on theFBI DHS investigation into the attempted assassination of

(01:01:46):
Donald Trump. As the investigation intoSaturday's events and attempted assassination of President Trump
continues, so does the pressure onSecret Service Director Kimberly Cheedle. He is
vloud to stay on and is setto appear next Monday at a hearing before
the House Oversight Committee chaired by KentuckyRepublican Congressman James Comer. Yeah, that's

(01:02:09):
Fox's Kevin Ureskie reporting. Of course, this Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheadle under
a little bit of scrutiny because she'sfocused so much on DEI and they say
not enough, I'm protecting Donald Trump. I'm seeing a lot of that on
social media and people, you know, looking at what happened and zooming in

(01:02:30):
on certain agents and commenting on theirheight and their inability maybe to holster their
firearm. That was in our trainingdivision for five years and it's been going
on for years. As the formerSecret Service agent Tom Ball, she's local.
He's the owner of Saddle River Rangein the Woodlands. Mainstream media back
to old tricks, less than aweek after this failed assassination attempt. It's

(01:02:51):
all about politics, you know.Listen to what they said about the bandage
on Trump's ear, an image forpolitical mobilization aspect for this candidate, who
we know is by his own admission, obsessed with assorted spectacles. Uh huh
MSNBC Ari Melber. There Iranians wereplotting to kill Trump, is what this

(01:03:15):
administration is telling us now. Theplot serious enough that they say they gave
Trump extra security before last week.Biden administration officials claim it has nothing to
do though, with what they didduring the attempt on his life in Pennsylvania.
Mainstream media totally totally ignoring this forthe most part. That New Jersey

(01:03:38):
Democrat Senator Bob Menendez has been convicted. He's a criminal on sixteen counts of
bribery and corruption in the service ofthe country of Egypt. I have never
ever been a foreign agent, andthe decision right under by the jury today
would put at risky member of theand I State Senate in terms of what

(01:04:00):
they think a foreign agent would be. They have never taken away his security
clearance or his intelligence briefings that hegets. Now, those calling for him
to resign include the Senate Majority leaderChuck Schumer. It's six thirty six now.
About fifty four thousand Center Point customerswere told this morning in their tenth

(01:04:23):
day without power. Yesterday we toldyou about a class action suit filed by
against Center Point by a local localbusinesses, a group of local businesses represented
by Houston attorney Tony Busby Paul ormom and pop shops. You know,
if they're not open, they can'tpay their employee. So that's kind of
why we started there. And plusbecause a lot of these people I'm representing,

(01:04:46):
like Ronnie Killing as an example,or ruffle Yobar, like I said,
ben Burg, these are people thatare known people. Buzzby on nine
point fifty KPRC that lawsuit seeking onehundred million dollars in damages. That'll get
their attention. You've noticed mosquitoes morethan buzzing since the storm. Yeah,

(01:05:06):
Brazoria and Mattagorda Counties have started theirspraying programs. Is to counteract qulex mosquitoes
and the diseases they carry viruses.Newly constructed beach homes in Galveston they held
up in the storm better than theolder homes did. Jim Dutton of Texas
Home Improvements says new building codes havehelped adding them to older homes. Trying

(01:05:30):
to upgrade like that, that's achallenge as they are being remodeled and you
open up walls, hurricane straps anddifferent things like that can be added.
But to retrofit these new codes intoexisting homes is just cost prohibitive. Yeah,
he says. These newer codes,while helpful, they also add a
lot higher costs. That's what weknow. Six point thirty seven is our

(01:05:56):
time. I'm shereber Friar on newsradio seven forty KTRH. Michael Berry only
endorses Texas renters dot com for propertymanagement needs. Yeah. Little thunder,
little lightning, little hurricane here andthere, and losing your power all reasons
why. According to a University ofHouston survey, about twenty nine percent of

(01:06:18):
people currently living in the Houston metroarea said they were considering leaving Houston at
least in part because of severe weather. That's pretty high number. I wonder
if they asked about crime management.I don't see that in here about crime.

(01:06:38):
Here's here's the thing. We havetransplants that come and go all the
time in the Greater Houston area,and the number may be that high.
I'm sure there are plenty of peoplewho came here for a job from somewhere
else. Some love it here.I would have to be one. Others
perhaps don't appreciate it as much asas I do, and they've decided that

(01:06:58):
I can't put up well, Ican't put up with losing my power and
having a hurricane. Well. Partof the research of deciding where you're going
to live is what you're going totolerate at certain levels of and here if
you move to Houston, it's nosecret. We do get hurricanes and tropical
storms, and we do get rainlike nobody's business. I mean, I

(01:07:19):
said three weeks without power after HurricaneAlicia. I'm still here. That was
nineteen eighty three. We get alot of humidity. We have the same
problems many big cities have. Noneof this is a surprise, you know,
yep. In the question crime,however, the crime is a bigger
issue for just about everybody. Butthat has to do more with I mean,

(01:07:41):
every major city in America is experiencingan uptick in crime and prosecutors that
don't want to prosecute because they're allbeing run by liberals. That's right by
progressives. I'm not even to sayliberals by progressives. So traffic, if
you all live in a big city, that's rudeness of the people who've moved
in. There's some truth to thattoo, Sheriff Fryar. Yep. I
mean no place is perfect, that'sfor sure, But as far as I'm

(01:08:04):
concerned, this place is more perfectthan most six forty time for traffic and
weather together, we're checking out thedrive again here sky Mie, I'm holding
up my end of it. Here, guys, they're looking at it in
Katie Freeway as promised. Mason Road. That's some laneage now inbound. We're
two left lanes blocked. This isa backup. Let's see how far it
goes back. It looks like justafter Pinoak Road, so that's becoming about

(01:08:27):
a twelve minute smash. If WestPark is an option, do that.
If two nineties an option, dothat instead. All right, North Freeway.
Who is that Robert from Tomball?Thank you, he says. Shepherd's
clear. The onlines are still holdingthat on their screen, so let me
let them know about it. We'rebacked up from Green's Road. Ktr Rach
listeners the first to know something cleartoo. East Text, it's getting ugly.
Let's go to young Albert from Kingwood. Hey Mornings, Mike, Dude,

(01:08:51):
Jerry duty today. My case isthree weeks away. The slowdown starts
at Lauder and I'm just passing EastMount Houston and it is a parking lot,
all right, inbound here it is, got it three middle lanes and
a backup from let's call the beltway. Now, that's thirty extra minutes this
way. All right, big shots, jump on the hardy toll road.

(01:09:12):
Commoners go ahead and flip over tothe forty five North Freeway instead. I'm
Skymike. It's your Generator Supercenter dotCom Traffic Center, Pabo har Katie right,
Generator super Center, twenty four hourWeather Center. Terry Smith is here.
I see a lot of blue sky, and I see a few clouds
do but I see a lot ofblue sky out there so far this morning.
Terry. Yeah, it's a fairlyquiet morning overall. We've had a
couple of showers near the coast thismorning. Just you know that onshore breeze

(01:09:38):
that we get early in the morning, and we will see a little more
in the way of rain by theafternoon. What's the heating of the day
kicks in a fifty percent chance ofshowers and thunderstorms today. It's going to
be a July day. Load ofmid nineties. Call front's headed our way
tomorrow. That's going to increase ourchances of rain. Sixty percent chance of

(01:09:58):
afternoon storms tomorrow, sixty percent chanceof ring through the weekend. Still warm
tomorrow, load to mid nineties.Slightly cooler over the weekend. Uper eight
east to low nineties Friday, Saturdayand Sunday as well. It is still
eighty at your officials, Severe weatherstation. News Radio seven forty k TRH.
You are commute, you are forecastyour news. It's Houston's Morning News,

(01:10:20):
brought to you, buying you Southway. Those solutions six fifties their time
here in Houston's Morning News. Aright coming up here in just a moment.
Joe Scarborough and his wife on MorningJoe went on the air yesterday morning
to explain why they weren't on Mondaymorning. And I think they've made a
little something sum up about it.It looked really mad they did. Wow,

(01:10:43):
they did it. So I'll sharea little that with you. Coming
up next first though, traffic andweather together. We're checking out the track
if we get here's sky Mike dadgem I forgot to tell the rest of
the media that the North Freeway Shepherdis clear. Hopefully the girls from TV
can see it, but I knowsome of the official sources still have it
on your map. That's why youget your traffic from AM radio. Okay,
I need your help here. We'rehaving trouble getting a visual on the

(01:11:05):
East Text Freeway. That's a recinbound. Call it Laura copy and middle
lanes. Double check my lane.It's your young Albert from Kingwood. It
is in the middle of the highwayto have one open lane on the left,
and they're forcing a lot of peopleall the way over to the right,
so it's three middle lanes that aretaken. All right, If you

(01:11:26):
could send me a picture somebody,I'm super easy to find on social media
if you can do it safely.Katie Freeway Mason two left lanes back up
from Graham Parkway. I'm skylike onthe Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from
our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hourweather center for today partly Kloudy fifty percent
chance of a shower storm ninety twotomorrow and Friday, variable clouds sixty percent.

(01:11:46):
Shower storm chance with the high roundninety Right now, temperature is eighty
at your officials severe weather station.News Radio seven forty KTRH time to get
you caught up here on some ofour top trending stories on this Wednesday morning.
Here's shareff. It is six fiftytwo on news Radio seven forty k
TRHR. Headlines are sponsored by DNMAutolys. Jd Van's VP makes his official

(01:12:10):
acceptance speech tonight at the RNC inMilwaukee Centerpoint, with more than fifty three
thousand customers with no power this morning. Those people now in their tenth day
of sweltering. The liberal Washington Postreporting that Joe Biden is going to propose
major overhauls of the US Supreme Courtright including term limits, packing the court,

(01:12:34):
forest retirements. Who knows it's gonnamake FDR look like you? Yeah,
they don't like this Supreme Court.Latest news anytime at KTRH dot com.
Our next update will be at thetop of the hour. Our fifty
nine inbound at the loop is alwaysa problem. KTRH time saving traffic connect
on the ten. They are upsetthat they got yanked for the line up

(01:12:57):
on MSNBC on Monday. Here's joOh Scarborough explaining why he was told.
He says that it happened in somereaction for the folks at box. Before
we start this hour, Willie,I just wanted to briefly talk to our
friends and viewers that watch us everyday and talk about what happened yesterday.

(01:13:19):
We were told in no uncertain termson the Sunday evening that there was going
to be one newsfeed across all NBCNews channels yesterday that we were going to
stay as a network in breaking newsmode throughout all day yesterday. That did
not happen. I guess after therewas such a strong blowback about yesterday morning,

(01:13:44):
I guess they changed their plans.We were very surprised. We were
very disappointed. And if we hadknown that there wasn't going to be the
one newsfeed from NBC News across allNBC News channels, Willie, we obviously
would have been in yesterday morning.His wife mik is looking at him.
Okay, really, let me justget through this. Fox contributor Joe Conco,
writing in a new op ed quote, even MSNBC can't trust Joe Morning

(01:14:09):
Joe after Trump assassination attempt. WhatMSNBC appears to be saying is we simply
do not trust our most prominent fulltime hosts during this crucial moment in our
country's history. Your take, it'san admission that it's not just the Biden
team and the Democrats that have beenusing this un irresponsible, heated rhetoric.

(01:14:29):
It's the left wing media as well. They understood in the wake of the
Trump assassination. They understood that millionsof Americans saw what happened to Donald Trump
and said enough, enough, enough, it's gone too far. Okay,
we impeached him twice, we've beenninety one indictments, trying to sue him
in civil courts to bankrupt him,and all the rest of it, and

(01:14:51):
now an assassination attempt. At somepoint, it's enough. And I think
millions of Americans are looking at thisand saying, Okay, I'm ready to
give Donald Trump a second look.I don't like this media establishment, I
don't like this president. I'm notsold on Trump yet, but I'm willing
to look at him. He's gota chance for a second look, and
he's got to seize that on Thursday, so they didn't trust Morning Joe to

(01:15:12):
be able to stifle themselves for oneday. His explanation, what happened yesterday?
He could not say assassination attempt?Now, is that the type of
information giver that you really want topay attention to? Of course Don don
has doesn't he want to recognize anassassination attempt that if it's done by the
left against the right, and bythe way, almost all with exception of

(01:15:34):
John F. Kennedy, almost allof them may apparently have been Democrats assassinating
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(01:17:05):
weather and traffic. It's more ofwhat matters to you. From the John
Morris Services Studios. Seven on oneis our time here in Houston's morning News.
I'm to be bearing along with SheriffRyer Bunger top stories this half hour.
It was Make America Safe Night atlast night's RNC, Biden speaks in
Vegas and at seven oh eight,Elon is moving everything to Texas. Details

(01:17:29):
in the minutes ahead. You're inHouston's morning News. First, let's check
out that morning vibe again. Here'sguy Mike Mason wrote, Katie Freeway inbound.
Lookout. That's one, two three. I'm gonna call it a middle
lane. Two middle lanes here toetracking Ninjas are on c They're about to
pull that away. We still havebig backups now from Graham Parkway East Tech
southbound, Laura Coffee wreck right inthe middle of the freeway. Three lanes

(01:17:50):
backups from the belt Roger Magnolia.I'm gonna get to you at seven ten.
I've got something on the North Freewayoutbound at West Mountain, the Generator
Supercenter, dot Com traffic Center fromr KTRH top tax defenders, twenty four
hour Weather Center party cloenty fifty percentchance for a shower storm today with high
temperature right about ninety two. We'llget to the complete forecast in eight minutes

(01:18:13):
with Terry Smith at the weather Channel. Right now, we're looking at eighty
at your official severe weather station.News Radio seven forty KTRH. It is
time now for the news. Here'sSheriff Fryer. Good morning, seven oh
two on news Radio seven forty KTRHUS, who's sponsored by Choice Home and Commercial.
Our top story this hour. Wedid everything right. I had those

(01:18:35):
conversations with him and fentanyl still foundmy son and Fudner talking about her son
who died of a fentanyl poisoning,as she called it. She spoke at
the RNC last night. The themewas make America Safe again, emphasis on
the border and soft on crime prosecutors. Two of the maniac responsible from my

(01:19:01):
Son's death had their gang assault andmurder charges completely dismissed. Madeline Bram's son,
an Army vet, was murdered inManhattan in twenty eighteen. Want to
be Nicky Haley gave Trump her endorsementfour months after she ended her own run
for president. The theme tonight willbe make America Strong Again. Our Life.

(01:19:28):
Coverage continues seven pm on KTRH dotcom, online and iHeartRadio app.
FBI investigating the attempted assassination of PresidentDonald Trump, and we are learning about
a separate assassination plot. US intelligenceofficials were tracking a potential Iranian assassination plot

(01:19:48):
against former President Donald Trump in recentweeks and have beefed up security because of
it. Those officials are also tellingFox the plot was not connected to Pennsylvania
gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks. Fox atcbe Cotton there Pittsburgh Posts Gazette reporting that
Crooks bought fifty rounds of ammunition justhours before the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

(01:20:12):
FBI officials will not confirm Secret ServiceDirector Kimberly che Cheatle under scrutiny.
She's claiming now well that the buildingthat the Crooks thet would be assassin used
was not secured because it had aslope proof and it was dangerous for Secret
Service. We're going to have ahearing Monday, and we're gonna ask some

(01:20:34):
serious questions that she's going to haveto answer, and I'm real concerned about
her confidence. House Majority Leader SteveScalise of Louisiana. Trump's son Eric says
the last four days have been anemotional rollercoaster for the family. A punch
in the stomach thinking he was possiblydead on the ground with Secret Service agents
lying on top of him, obviouslymaking him the Republican nominee, to then

(01:20:56):
seeing him walk into the convention thefirst time he's really been seen since that
shooting. Yes, they and theirchildren were watching live as it happened.
Eric Trump was on with KR's ClayTravis and Buck Sexton. So the attempted
assassination had the Democrats calling for unity, Yeah, didn't last long. This

(01:21:18):
recent call for unity is a completeone eighty for Democrats. Democrats have consistently
demonized and tried to marginalize anyone whostands in the way of their agenda.
Political analysts La Davidia told KTRH there'sa good reason to doubt that these calls
for unity are sincere. These arepeople who, over the decades, have

(01:21:38):
utilized violent political rhetoric to divide andpit Americans one against the other. Davidick
says, Americans do want unity,but we shouldn't back down from holding these
toxic politicians accountable. Ethan Buchanan NewsRadio seven forty KTRH NOW seven oh six.
Law enforcement locally here urging people tostay inside last night searching for a

(01:21:58):
gunman in a sche map who theysay killed another man near the Woodlands last
night. The sheriff's office believes theshooter and the victim didn't know each other.
It's the tenth day without power forabout fifty four thousand. Centerpoint customers
here. It's extremely frustrating because everybody'sgetting power around you. Entergy's in the
neighborhood too, and they've had powerfor days. That man on with our

(01:22:20):
TV partner, Channel two. Thedeath toll from the storm across southeast Texas
has risen to at least eighteen now, six of those deaths reported as heat
related surgeon property crime too. SinceBeryl, nearly fifty people have been arrested
in charge with burglary, and afterrepeatedly rebuffing state offers for help and resources

(01:22:43):
in the recovery efforts, Harris CountyJudge Alina Hayendalgo now claims that she doesn't
have the resources in this county topick up debris right now. Judge Loldago
is not acting like the county judgethat's in charge of emergency response. Much
better off and the community being muchbetter off as well, if she would

(01:23:03):
take that role seriously. State SenatorPaul Bettencurdy says it's more hypocrisy from Hidalgo,
maybe just a total failure of leadership. Seven oh seven is our time.
The American League beat the National Leaguein Baseball's All Star Game last night
in Arlington it was five to three. The American League's won ten of the
last eleven All Star Games. Maybeit's time to stop them. I'm Sheperd

(01:23:27):
Fryar and news Radio seven forty KTRH. Well you're enjoying your summer. We're
keeping you up to date at thetop thirty fast and when it breaks,
where I get my information fun useradio seven forty KTRH. Bye bye,
California, see you later. Announcingyesterday that X, formerly known as Twitter

(01:23:48):
and SpaceX, are on their wayto Texas. He's leaving California. The
latest straw that broke the camel's backwas Governor Gavin newsom sunning law preventing schools
venting schools from requiring employees to notifyparents if students request to use different pronuns
pronouns. In other words, theyintentionally want to keep parents in the dark

(01:24:10):
about what's going on with their ownkids. Elon Musk called it the final
straw. You know it's the companywill be moving in a post on X,
saying the move quote is because ofthis law and the many others that
preceded it, attacking both families andcompanies. He's tired of it. He
at least wants to do business outof a state where his families who work

(01:24:31):
for him can make decisions for themselves, especially as it relates to their own
children. So that's a lot ofbusiness to lose. California, that's a
lot of business to lose. That'sa lot of jobs and a lot of
business to lose. Start to seean awful lot of consolidation into Texas of
big tech. Yeah, yeah,that's interesting. Here. Here's and this

(01:24:55):
to me is what makes our powergrid and power issues so much more important
to solve because we are claiming someof the biggest companies in the country and
they're all coming here because the freedomwe have. But if there's one thing
that could deter them from staying hereis having power problems and the inability to

(01:25:16):
get your power back. I mean, we're all going to lose power from
big storms, but the inability toefficiently get it back and the inefficiencies we
have a producing power itself well,and that the type of computing that they
require now, yes, and thetype of power that that demands. You
know, ye who, we needto get to our ec together on this

(01:25:38):
and need to get together quickly.Well, you're not going to get it
from wind and solar. No sure, not seven to ten type for traffic
and weather together. We're checking outthe drive once again. Here is sky
Mike Katie Freeway, Mason once againonlines are still showing a wreck there that
isn't there. That's why you getyour traffic from AM radio. As a
matter of fact, it looks likewe're starting to move again. Let me
check the second cheer. Maybe twoto three minutes, and it's actually nice

(01:26:01):
Katie Freeway everything outside the loop,inside the loop, you hit it around
Studimott Roger Magnolia, dude, goodmornings guy. My outbound northbound north Freeway
right on top of Westmounth Houston,there is a big old rough haha.
There only two right lanes are gettingfast, multiple cars they're tangled up like
a tight turn of talladagas. Allright, Roger, put this banana sticker

(01:26:23):
on your holster and northbound they havejust now cleared that up. While you're
talking. We've got a big smashboth ways between the belt and the Loop
toll bridge. We're looking at twelveextra minutes southbound. I've got towboat red
from river Terrace. Good morning,sugar, Fred Hartman southbound is nice and
up to speed. I'm liking thismorning outstanding. Also south Loop south Main

(01:26:46):
At south Loop, those tadgum signalsare out again. Keep giving me more
signals seven three two one two tipsTerry, you get a banana sticker for
the blue line. I'm in thegenerator of Supercenter, dot Com, traffic
Center, ktrhtop tax Defenders twenty fourhour Weather Center. Terry Smith is here.
Some showers and storm possibilities around theway. What have we got today?
About a fifty to fifty shot.We got about a fifty to fifty

(01:27:10):
shot, and we've had a coupleof sprinkles near the coast. But it's
later on this afternoon when you're reallymore likely to get any rain. And
it is a fifty percent chance ofshowers and storms. Load of mid nineties.
The blue line sky Mike was talkingabout starts to get closer tomorrow.
I'm going to call it like afaded blue line because it only cools us
slightly, but it does increase ourchances of rain. Sixty percent chance of

(01:27:35):
showers and storms tomorrow, Friday,Saturday and Sunday. And temperatures tomorrow load
to mid nineties, but we area little bit cooler and we'll take it
upper eighties to low nineties Friday intothe weekend temperature. Right now, you
still lady at your officials severe weatherstation News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's

(01:27:55):
Houston's Morning News, brought to youby New South Windows Solutions. Now back
to Jimmy and Sharah with the infoyou need to take on the day.
Seven twenty is our time here inHouston's Born News. Coming up, just
a moment, little preview of daythree at the r NC in Milwaukee with
Dan O'Donnell. He's with our sisterstation WYSN in Milwaukee. We'll talk to
him in just a minute or two. First, Traffic and Weather together is

(01:28:17):
starting with you Sky Mike Queer KatieMason. That accident inbound. The backups
are going away pretty quickly to easttext it's not good. That's a wreck
at cross timbers Cot. Lower copyKevin Splendora, Hey good, Mike,
that's pushed on Kick nine is backedup home the way to water Road.
Thankfully, I'm in the HLV lanemoving faster. Novonter Biden after reading with

(01:28:38):
his dailor Nord Freeway clear boat Rexinbound Shepherd outbound West Mount. This is
your Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Centerfrom r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four
hour weather Center. Today, We'relooking at partly cloudy skies, fifty percent
chance for a pop up shower stormwith a high ninety two. Tomorrow and
Friday rearible clouds sixty percent chance ofa shower storm high right about ninety Right

(01:28:59):
now it is eighty at your officialsevere weather station, News Radio seven forty
KTRH. Check out some of ourtop stories this morning. Here's Shay seven
twenty one now on news Radio sevenforty KTRH. There are fifty four thousand
Centerpoint customers in a tenth day nowwithout electricity after Hurricane Barrel. The RNC
continuing in Milwaukee tonight. Jd Vanceaccepting the VP nomination. You'll hear it

(01:29:23):
live here on KTRH online and onthe iHeartMedia app radio app. US Supreme
Court has stopped the execution of aTexas death row in made Robin Robin gutierres
at the last minute. The HighCourt considering a review of his case.
It's a capital murder in Brownsville datingback to nineteen ninety eight latest news anytime

(01:29:46):
KTRH dot com. Our next updatewill be at the bottom of the hour.
I live in southeast Houston. Yourforecast is at the bottom of the
hour on seven forty KTRH. Seventwenty three is our time as we check
in, as we check in withour sister station wis and in Milwaukee,
Dan, Welcome to the show.I'm really curious. Milwaukee has done a

(01:30:10):
stellar job of hosting the Republican NationalConvention so far, and I'm just kind
of curious how much pressure y'all feltafter the assassination temp on President Trump to
really step it up and to makesure that nothing bad happened in Milwaukee.
Oh my gosh, you have noidea what the pressure was like. In
fact, I was actually talking toa couple of members of Wisconsin's Republican delegation

(01:30:32):
and guys, I'm going to justbegin I'm a little horse right now.
You can imagine. I have beenworking and doing about one hundred interviews a
day. But I was talking toa member of Wisconsin's delegation and he said
exactly that. On Sunday, wewere just kind of texting about the events
of the previous day, and hesaid, man, oh man, I

(01:30:54):
hope security is going to be allright. I hope that we're still able
to put on a party. Andfrankly, with the exception of one guy
who had a concealed weapon and approachedthe secure perimeter but was very very quickly
arrested, there's been nothing that wouldsuggest that anybody feels unsafe. And frankly,

(01:31:14):
the atmosphere down here has been oneof jubilation, of celebration. Of
course, the events and Saturday arestill top of mind, but that really
hasn't stopped the party. Yeah,I was noticing last night that I've been
watching, you know, the televisedcoverage of it all. It is a
happy convention, and it was likethe last thing that I expected. I
didn't expect people to be so happy. No, because two days ago,

(01:31:40):
three days ago, now you verynearly. I mean, I've been saying
it came within two to three millimetersof President Trump being shot and killed.
You did have a man, unfortunately, who was killed by the sniper.
Two people remain in critical condition inPennsylvania. But I think it's so celebratory

(01:32:01):
because there is such deep, abidingfaith in sort of a divine intervention here,
and there's a bit of a resolvemixed in with that joy that it's
time to finish the job, toget President Trump elected and to make sure
that this miracle is sort of aspringboard for doing the serious job of,

(01:32:24):
in the President's words, making Americagreat again. There is no tighter battleground
state than Wisconsin, and I'm justkind of wondering, between having the convention
there and the assassination attempt, howdoes that seem to be affecting the voters
in Wisconsin? Can you tell?Not? Right now? I mean,
Wisconsin essentially comes down to two cities. You guys have essentially a big three,

(01:32:45):
right Houston, Dallas, Austin thatare pretty much the largest vote drivers.
But because there's such a big state, all of the Republican areas just
are able to overwhelm those three bigDemocrat centers of turn out the vote.
Here in Wisconsin, we're a populationof about five point eight million people,
and the overwhelming majority of those livein two major Democratic areas, Milwaukee and

(01:33:11):
our capital city of Madison. Italways depends on what the voter turnout looks
like in Milwaukee and Madison. Ifthose two cities in their metro areas can
overwhelm the rest of a very republicanstate. Our legislature is overwhelmingly Republican,
then Democrats win statewide. If notRepublicans win. I think what you saw

(01:33:33):
last night the message of unity.Trump's former rivals Nicky Haley, Ron DeSantis,
Marco Rubio, even his vice presidentialrunning mate JD. Vance all were
very sharp critics of him, butall are coming over to support him and
to show this message of unity.Democrats, on the other hand, are

(01:33:55):
not unified. They're talking about openlyfor the past three weeks now replacing President
Biden on the ticket. That tendsto affect turnout if I had to guess
right now. The shooting on Saturday, as I said, steals the resolve
of Republicans. They're all going toturn out, where while Democrats are just

(01:34:16):
disunified there you know, it's notat all excited about this election, and
I think a lot of them believeit's already over. That translates into a
big turnout advantage, and in Wisconsinthat is one hundred percent the key.
Okay, that's going to be interestingto watch. Dan, Thanks for joining
us. We sure do appreciate it. Dan O'Donnell from WYSN and Milwaukee is

(01:34:36):
seven twenty seven are no Houston's Newswhile they're traffic plus Breaking News twenty four
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Houston's Warning News, I'm Jimmy Barrett. Long as you Ger Fryar Munger top
stories. This fur jd Vance willspeak tonight and accept his VP nomination.
Is DEI to blame for Trump's poorprotection? In coming up at seven thirty
eight, Make America Safe from Crimedetails in the minutes ahead, you're in
Houston's Morning News. First, we'rechecking out that morning bribe again. Here's

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skyline all right, I'm clearing easttext at Laura Copy southbound. We still
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at West Houston Center downtown. Iten. It's big Ben from Baytown Bay hey
man, we got a little muchof three carps on it. Webtbound just

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there, Ben, Ben, andwe've got a closer look. We'll get
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ninety two. We'll take a lookat the rest of the work week here
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News Radio seven forty KTRH. Itis typed out for the news.
Here's Sheriff Fryars seven thirty one onnews Radio seven forty KTRH and our top
story this hour. But in Americansfirst must be what the selection is about.

(01:36:29):
A Senator from Florida, Marco Rubio, addressing the RNC, the theme
last night was to make America safeagain, something how speaker Mike Johnson says
the left really doesn't care about.They have a very different vision for what
America should become. They want totear down those foundations and remold us into

(01:36:54):
some sort of borderless, lawless Marxistsocialist utopia. The theme for today,
Day three in Milwaukee make America SafeAgain. Ohio Senator jd Vance will accept
the nomination for Vice president tonight onstage coverage on kt KTIRH dot com and
the iHeart Radio app. It beginsat seven pm. One of the other

(01:37:16):
speakers today is Trump attorney Alena Habba. Two days after a federal judge in
Florida, well a federal judge thatwould be Eileen Cannon, dismissed the mar
A Lago documents case, ruling theSpecial Council Jack Smith's appointment was unconstitutional,
so was his payment. It's embarrassingfor my profession what he did. And

(01:37:39):
I think that Merrick Garland and theBiden administration has become so desperate and sloppy
that these are falling one after another. Like Domino's haba with k t h's
Clay Travis and Bucks Sexton about thelaw fare cases against Donald Trump. Seven
thirty three is our time, moredisturbing details out about the attempted assassination of
Donald Trump and the secret Service failureto protect him. Fox News has learned

(01:38:04):
before the shooting, Raley Gower spotteda suspicious man with what appeared to be
binoculars or a rangefinder. Sources alsosay that same person was pacing around magnetometers
and the security barrier before the eventbegan. According to multiple different videos and
witness interviews, it was at leasteighty seconds from the time people alerted police

(01:38:26):
to the time the shooting began.David spot reporting there. The House Oversight
Committee is having a hearing on Mondayto question the director of the Secret Service
TIRA, including these DEI comments madeby Secret Service Director Kimberle Cheedle to CBS.
We need to attract diverse candidates andparticularly women. Tom Bulsh is a

(01:38:48):
former Secret Service agent who now livesin the Woodlands and is the owner of
the Saddle River Range. We haveto go back to some semblance of the
most qualified gets the position. Ifyou're the best at what you do,
you should be rewarded for it,and the former president should get rewarded by
having the best people for the job. Kimberly Cheatle, by the way,

(01:39:10):
was picked by Joe Biden in twentytwenty two Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty
KYTRH. It's now seven thirty four. Mainstream media, they're not really getting
into it in great detail. Butbig news yesterday that New Jersey Democrat Senator
Bob Menindez was found guilty on allsixteen counts of bribery and corruption acting as

(01:39:34):
a foreign agent, almost for Egypt. Obviously, I'm deeply, deeply disappointed
by the jury's decision. I haveevery faith that the law and the facts
did not sustain that decision, andthat we will be successful upon appeal.
Kind of hard to have detail,not the way they handled Donald Trump.

(01:39:56):
Mendez. Menindez now has new callsto resign from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
and some other Democrats. Seven thirtyfive is our time. Centerpoint still has
not restored power for about fifty fourthousand customers in our area, ten days
now already without air conditioning in thisheat alignment. Who was in Galveston working

(01:40:18):
to restore power has been arrested chargewith beating up another alignment that victim and
critical condition. At last check,we're finding also that newly constructed be Cholmes
in Galveston. Actually we're better atholding up to Hurricane Beryl than older homes.
It was essentially a practice run ofsome new and improved building codes.

(01:40:39):
They put in windload codes. Theyput in all these new codes to strengthen
the structures to make and withstand thewins. Jim Dudden of the Texas Home
Improvement Show says retrofitting these codes ascostly and while these codes are a good
idea, it comes with consequences.All this advancement and these extra things that
we do to make the house isstronger also add to the cost of it.

(01:41:01):
So it's a give and take.This is the best thing to do
in an older home is leave whena storm hits. Moderree Perard News Ordio
seven forty KTRH seven thirty six hourtime. Now, The Wall Street Journal
is reporting that Americans over the ageof fifty five control nearly seventy percent of
American household wealth, not a surpriseto economists fan skin when you get older,

(01:41:25):
you ty typically have more wealth,and especially when it comes to housing,
and housing prices have sored over thelast few years, making it better
off for many of those who areboomers and part of the Boomer generation older,
though than a retiree. Yeah.The seventy percent number is an increase
from fifty percent just back in nineteeneighty nine. Older Americans also amount to

(01:41:46):
the account for forty five percent oftotal US spending. White House claims the
economy is doing well, but thirtysix percent of Americans say they need side
hustles in order to make ends meet. I thought we would see more passion
project side hustlers, but for themost part, people are doing this because

(01:42:08):
they have to, not because theynecessarily want to staying at work longer too
into their age bank rates. TedRossman says we're going to see more of
this because of this economy brought tous by the left. I'm sure.
Fryar on news radio seven forty kTRH, did your favorite summer beverage for

(01:42:28):
a lower price at specs Cheers tosavings. What happened? Why it happened?
Jimmy Barrett and Sheriff Fryar explain it. Now back to Houston's morning News.
I said earlier this morning, ifyou missed it, that I've found
sure and I think both found thatthe speech is delivered by some of the

(01:42:49):
moms who were there to talk aboutyou know, either you drug overdoses in
both the fetnohl, in their sonor in the case of this woman.
Her name is Mette and brain.She was there to talk about crime and
her son who had been in themilitary and did tours of duty and came
back safe but became a victim ofcrime. Here she is. She gave
a very powerful speech. Last light. Here's a little bit of that.

(01:43:11):
My son, Sergeant Hassan Korea andAfghanistan War, retired veteran. He received
enemy fire from the Talibans, onlyto be murdered with a knife on the
streets of New York City. Thefour assailants responsible for his death initially were

(01:43:36):
facing justice, but that changed whenDistrict Attorney Alvin Bragg was elected. Suddenly,
two of the homicidal maniacs responsible formy son's death had their gang assault

(01:44:01):
and murder charges completely dismissed. Oneof them received fourteen months time served.
Alvin Bragg charged her with assault witha shoe, and another one was sentenced

(01:44:25):
to seven years. I later learnedAlvin Bragg often dismisses and reduces dangerous criminals.
He wants to clear the jails andreturn Jock Violet Fellonis onto our streets
every day. The injustice was devastatingfor me in my family. I don't

(01:44:48):
want anyone else to experience the sensewith pain that many other victims across the
United States of America have to livewith every day. So I decided to
use the voice that God gave meto be the voice from the voiceless across

(01:45:09):
America. You know, she's doinga great job of it. She went
out on a high tone of callingfor justice. It was just stunning,
it really was. I thought theentire evening was and very effective to use
comedy day people everyday people call themedps. Every day people. There you

(01:45:30):
go in the life that we're allliving as a result of the policies of
this government. Seven forty one.Time for traffic and weather together Skylike,
what's happening, hey, Jimmy Cheron, Let's jump on to eighty eight now
right from Lovely Brazoria County. I'vegot kind of a smush around. Iowall
call any Is that a wreck atHighway six? If it is, we'll
get you some langage at the fiftyreport north down. Look at all those

(01:45:50):
breaks after Shadow Creek Ranch Parkway.And you haven't called me in a long
time Brazoria County. Where's Amy fromLake Jackson Katie Freeway. We clear to
wreck a long time Mason. Youcan't tell it was there, But the
pack up is just a normal thing. Grand Parkway into about Barker Cypress,
lose about six minutes there. Staythe course West Park Tollway fourteen sixty four

(01:46:11):
of the back door into Eldridge ParkwayWest Sam. Look at that northbound right
after sixty nine. And of coursethat roadwork on the feeder roads between Southwest
and West Park total disaster. Weare a little two ninety up around Highway
six North Freeway spackled both ways fromthe belt to the loop. North Sam
suckage. I've got uber Mike.Hey, why Jeff? Exit really backed

(01:46:32):
up? I was just taking WillClayton go have fun. I'm gonna go
kill the pigs. I'll be overresur Ranch. All right, you have
a good time. We've got thatback up now because of the roadwork at
Aldane Westfield that's westbound and tip Line. Hey, this is Jady aka Coconut
Cream Pie. The lights are outat built Way eight and Highway ninety and
it's not so bad in the morning, but man in the afternoons. Is

(01:46:56):
it a lusha? All right?Thank you, Debbie. Now, remember,
folks, we've got two side.I'd all these roads. You know,
there's an East belt, a Westbelt, the East ninety Debbie.
Since you are coconut that sounds kindof East Houston to me. I'm in
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love me some sunshine too. Thatwhat I would really like is a cold
spell. But we're gonna have towait well for that. Yeah, we're
not gonna get cold weather. We'llget some cooler weather, like you know,
temperatures two three four degrees cooler weewe've got right now. It's July.
We're in the midst of summertime.It feels like it today. We

(01:47:40):
do have those afternoon thunderstorms. Fiftypercent chance you'll get wet load of mid
nineties today. Call front on theway tomorrow, and that ups our chances
of rain and eventually cools our temperaturesjust a little bit sixty percent chance of
those thunderstorms tomorrow, heavy rain possible, sixty percent chance of more rain Friday
through the weekend. Load of midnineties tomorrow, but over the weekend starting

(01:48:01):
Friday, upper eighties to low nineties. Right now, it's eighty one at
your officials Severe Weather Station news Radioseven forty k TRH. What you need
to know for the day ahead.This is Houston's morning News, brought to
you by New South Windows Solutions.It's a little traffic and weather together time
before we talk about unity. Let'sbring on sky Miike North Loop six'

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I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot ComTraffic Center from our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty
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(01:48:48):
live in Pasadena, Sharptown Southwest.Next on the ten time Saving Traffic on
seven forty KTRH seven fifty three nowhere in Houston's warn So the message,
certainly the Republican National Convention is oneof unity for the party, But as
far as unity for the country,well that's kind of up to the Democrats,

(01:49:10):
isn't that joining us to talk about? Is vled Davidia political consultant,
extraordinary political analyst. Lad. Theyall quieted down there for about twenty four
hours after the assassination attempt. Hedidn't last very long, did it,
No, not at all. It'sit's the nature of the radical left to
constantly beyond the attack, and theykind of cock seems like they got a

(01:49:31):
little bit caught off guard by thereaction and they freaked out because they're worried
that the blame is going to beshifting to them. So yeah, they
quiteted, have sled down just abit, but it ramped right back up
as soon as the RNC convention started. Yeah, they pulled Joe Scarborough's show
for one day and then it's backthe very next I mean, and the

(01:49:51):
assaults are coming. Biden's out therelike crazy, uh, spouting more lies.
You know. The the whole thingjust stinks. As far as I'm
concerned. Yeah. No, whatwe've seen for years is as the Democrats
who have been speaking loudest about unityare the people who are most responsible for

(01:50:12):
the for the divisive rhetoric, theviolence, the animosity, and the division
within America. They did this,they inspired this. The only one,
the only possible outcomes of the rhetoricthat they've been using for years is violence
and murder. And that's exactly whatwe saw on Saturday when it happened.
They quickly backed off because they knewthat they're responsible, and they're trying to

(01:50:38):
avoid the blame, but there's noway for them to get their fingerprints off
of that. George Stephanopolis is blamingTrump and Trump's rhetoric for causing all of
these problems. If you're the Republicans, how do you play this? Look,
it's simple fact of the matter thatAmericans remember what happened. Americans remember
that BLM and Antifa burned down cities, churches and killed cops. They understand

(01:51:02):
that the violent anarchists in Seattle destroyedcourthouses and actually that closed off city blocks,
holding people hostage. They understand thatthe violence that was visited upon our
cities, the violence that's being visitedin our cities right now with with people
being targeted because they refuse to goalong with the radical agenda. It's something

(01:51:25):
that is endemic and identified by theleft. And what Republicans are offering now
is an alternative, is a unifyingmessage based on the principles and values that
we hold there and it's a sharpcontrast. And more Americans are coming on
board every single day. And DonaldTrump with his running mate, will be
holding another rally this Saturday in Michigan. That's what needs to happen. It

(01:51:48):
needs to be a rejection of theviolence needs to be present every single time.
Bravery and courage do not hide.They shine their face for all to
see so people can rally to thatflag. What the left hopes is for
people to be to cower and befearful, and the only solution is to

(01:52:10):
come forward and be brave. Well, nothing says courage like making an appearance
at a rally one week after anassassination attempt at rally. Glad always good
to talk to you, sir,Thank you. That is political ennalyst Glad
da Vidyak. Listen, you allhave a great day. We'll see you
tomorrow morning. Bright and early atfour or five AM, pardon me,
and I'll see you this after atfour on AM nine to fifty KPRC