Will Harris County Deputies Leave En Masse?

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 05/21/25.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is US Radio seven forty kt RH Houston.

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Live Everywhere with now the latest news, weather, and traffa.

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It's more of what matters to you. From the John
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It is five am here on Houston's Morning News. Good morning,
I'm Jimmy barrett're getting started to hear this half hours
some of these stories for you. Trump wants a golden Dome. Well,
Harris County deputies leave in mass and coming up at
five to eight, the Department of Transportation will now test
truck drivers or English proficiency. Details in the minutes ahead.
You're in Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking out that

(00:39):
morning drive for the first time. Hey Sky Mike, Oh there,
I am. Hey, we've got so far. We've got this
one deal of concern. That's two eighty eight southbound at McGregor.
Got a stall over on the side here.

Speaker 5 (00:51):
He's no big woop, but once the Ninjas get there,
they'll take a right lane. So look out as you're
coming southbound from the canyon. Rest of your freeways rocket along.
Let's go ahead and check your shit channel bridges at
the five to ten break in the USA RV Resorts
dot Com Traffic Center.

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From our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour weather center.
Becoming partly cloudy, less humid today with the hot temperature
right about ninety Look at the latest on the forecast.
Terry Smith will join us in nine minutes from the
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your weather station, News radio seven forty KTRH. It's time
now for the news. Here's Cliffs Onders.

Speaker 6 (01:24):
Good morning, Jimmy, and good morning everyone, fiveh one on KTRH,
our top story.

Speaker 7 (01:30):
I promise the American people that I would build a
cutting edge missile defense shield to protect our homeland from
the threat of foreign missile attack.

Speaker 8 (01:38):
And that's what we're doing.

Speaker 6 (01:39):
President Trump announcing the Golden Dome for America at the
White House fulfilling yet another campaign promise.

Speaker 8 (01:47):
The Golden Dome for.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
America is game changer.

Speaker 9 (01:49):
It's a generational investment in the security of America and Americans.

Speaker 6 (01:54):
Defense Secretary Pete hegsett the project is going to cost
one hundred and seventy five billion dollars and Trump hopes
to have this all done by the end of his term.
Elsewhere on Capitol Hill, there could be a full House
vote on the Trump budget today, Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan
told KTRH is Sean Hannity, Republicans are putting America first.

Speaker 10 (02:16):
We're the party that says, let you keep more of
your money to go after your goals and dreams.

Speaker 6 (02:19):
We're the party that says we need to have a
border secure novel we had under Biden. The President met
with the Republican House Conference yesterday. Johnson also reportedly has
a deal with Blue state Republicans to raise the cap
on state and local tax exemptions or AsSalt to forty
thousand dollars.

Speaker 8 (02:36):
As part of all this five.

Speaker 6 (02:38):
H two on KTRH, a House hearing held yesterday to
look at obstructing ice operations. Now this comes a day
afternoon Jersey Democrat Lamonica McIver was slapped with federal charges
for storming a new Jersey ice facility. Our fellow Democrats, well,
they did Democrat things.

Speaker 11 (02:58):
The entire chaos that ensued ensued because of the unlawful
detainment and arrest of the mayor in the first place.

Speaker 6 (03:06):
Texas Congresswoman Jasmin Crockett ignoring the video showing Mackivor pushing
and shoving officers by the way mckiv is claiming that
she rejected a potential plead deal in the case, claiming
she would not quote admit to doing something I did
not do, even though again there's video five oh three
on ktr H.

Speaker 8 (03:27):
Here's a shocker.

Speaker 6 (03:28):
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough actually was confronted for lying to America
last year about this being quote, the best Biden ever.

Speaker 12 (03:38):
Looking back at that, do you say, well, it was
misleading to say best by never without a caveating it
and say except on the days when he's not the
best Biden. Well, but I never saw those days. First,
Well you did, you did, because you saw him adress
a dead congresswoman.

Speaker 6 (03:55):
Scarborough called out by Mark Halper. And so just how
bad was the cover up? Well, a former Obama official
says it was massive, and.

Speaker 13 (04:05):
RNC committeemen doctor Robin Armstrong says it's about time.

Speaker 14 (04:10):
The Democrats are finally accepting reality years later. That's what
it says to me. And I think it's shameful. I mean,
this is the biggest cover up in American history.

Speaker 13 (04:20):
The question now is will there be any accountability?

Speaker 14 (04:24):
That is a great question. If we are able to
find out who was actually running the country. That person
should be tried for treason.

Speaker 13 (04:32):
If not, it's up to voters to make sure that
Democrats don't get their power back. Jeff Biggs, News Radio
seven forty k tiery.

Speaker 8 (04:40):
Thank you, Jeff. It's five to h four here at home.

Speaker 6 (04:43):
Houston City Council votes today on the new HPD pay raises.
If that gets through, this will of course benefit those officers,
and it might cause a huge exodus from the Harris
County Sheriff's office.

Speaker 15 (04:56):
It's then definitely put particularly our p Troll Division in
crippling numbers. Patrol districts are going to have very few deputies.

Speaker 6 (05:07):
Jose Lopez with the Harris County Deputies Organization says the
Sheriff's office is already understaffed. So far, County Judge Alena
Hidalgo hasn't done much to address the issue. She wants
twenty three grand to go to Paris, though. Lopez joins
Jimmy at five fifty, a Texas man executed last night,
thirteen years to the day after he set a grandmother

(05:29):
on fire during a gas station robbery in Garland. Matthew
Johnson is the fourth person to be put to death
in Texas this year. There are currently one hundred and
sixty eight inmates on death row in Texas, the lowest
number since nineteen eighty five. A maintenance worker in the
jail where ten inmates escaped on Friday was arrested on

(05:49):
accusations of helping the bad guys break out. Louisiana Attorney
General Liz Merle commends New Orleans Sheriff Susan Houston for
owning what happened where.

Speaker 8 (05:59):
All of our own ships.

Speaker 16 (06:01):
And I think she took responsibility at the at the
hearing and said I take responsibility for what happened.

Speaker 8 (06:08):
That's appropriate.

Speaker 6 (06:10):
Five of the escape prisoners are still on the loose again.
A fifth inmate was taken into custody overnight five oh
six on KGRH Looking at your Money overnight trading is
down three hundred and twenty four points on Dow futures.
All three indices took losses yesterday. That said, we've talked
about the Great Wealth Transfer before, but there's a switch.

(06:32):
It won't be children inheriting the money. It'll be women.

Speaker 17 (06:35):
One survey says the wives of men with at least
some wealth will inherit a total of about fifty trillion
dollars over these coming years. How economist doctor Stephen Craig
at the University of Houston says.

Speaker 18 (06:48):
Because we've put our pensions into four to one k's
instead of leaving them in corporations.

Speaker 17 (06:52):
In the past, savings went to banks and corporate pension funds,
and the money now will go from husbands to the wives.
Makes you wonder what the kids think about that. Michael
Shiloh News Radio seven forty k.

Speaker 6 (07:05):
And the Astros lose to the race three to two.
The series finale today pregame at eleven on Sports Talk
seven ninety.

Speaker 8 (07:11):
First pitch shortly after twelve o'clock.

Speaker 6 (07:13):
I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news weather in traffic station
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 19 (07:20):
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Speaker 14 (07:23):
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Speaker 4 (07:31):
Bi Linguals lost the mob which I was bilingual. I
really do, but you need to be able to speak
English to be a truck driver in this country, especially
right now five to eight our time here on Houston's
Boring News. Good morning, President Trump ordered removing truck drivers
who don't speak sufficient English. It's been made official now
by the Department of Transportation. There's a guy in the story.

(07:54):
He's an Haitian immigrant. His name is Kevinson Jane. He
says he feels self conscious, or did feel it. During
his commercial driver's license exam. He said, sometimes I was
afraid to pronounce something wrong. He covers about one hundred
thousand miles of year as a trucker. He said, I
didn't want people to laugh at me. Well, here's the thing.

(08:17):
We all, from time to time pronounce a word wrong.
Nobody should be embarrassed by pronouncing a word wrong. But
if you can't speak the language, if your accent is
so thick that you cannot communicate with other people in
the English language, in particular law enforcement, then that is
going to be a big problem. So, starting evidently Tuesday,

(08:41):
this is retroactive to yesterday, roadside English proficiency tests will
now be given. Wow Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy officially signed
a directive for his department to take truck drivers off
the road if they're not fluent in English. The directives
into effect an executive order signed by the President on

(09:02):
April the twenty eighth. Trump's order changes the penalty for
violations of the law, which for decades have required that
as a qualification to be a commercial motor vehicle driver,
a person must read and speak the English language. It's
now going to be enforced.

Speaker 14 (09:14):
Now.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
How they go about enforcing it, I don't know, because
I don't think there are members of the Department Transportation
that are just to be driving around, pulling over truck
drivers and testing them on their English. I don't know
if they are asking for or getting any cooperation from
the state police, for example, or local law enforcement, where Hey,

(09:36):
if you pull over a truck driver and they can't
communicate with you they don't speak English or they don't
speak it in a way that's understandable. We need to
know who these people are. I would think that would
be the only way that would actually work. I do
remember we talked about this, I want to say, about
a month ago here in the show, and we heard
from a lot of you truck drivers who say, this
is a big problem. There are a lot of truck

(09:56):
drivers out there who don't speak English at all and
can I communicated all. It's a major problem. Five to
ten time for traffic and weathered together.

Speaker 8 (10:04):
I want everybody to.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
Know enough English to know what the height of the
bridge is at Houston Avenue on the Katie Freeway. That
would sure be helpful with help a lot. Katie Freeway
looks good. In fact, that's why they're doing some work.
You've got Grand Parkway in. From from Grand Parkway into
Highway six, we're clear assoom a little here from the
Belt to the Loop looks good and into the President's heads,

(10:25):
we're good shape. Katie jump on now. While while nothing's
doing Southwest Freeway. Nothing going on here so far. We're
from Sugar Lakes. Let me go back for the Brass
River and we're looking at twenty one minutes up.

Speaker 8 (10:36):
Wow, two eighty eight rocks this morning.

Speaker 5 (10:39):
Iowall call on you up twenty four minutes now and
Golf Freeway zipping along posted speed. Some of you above,
I understand northbound. I don't condone it. Dickinson now officially
thirty four minutes up. I'm Skymike on the USA RB
Resorts dot Com traffic center from our KTRH top tax
defenders twenty four.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
Our weather center Terry Smith is here. We're getting closer
to the Memorial Day weekend, So the pressure is going
up terry to provide us with a nice weekend.

Speaker 20 (11:05):
Yes, and you know it's not looking too bad. Overall.
We don't have a lot of rain. We do get
some rain early next week, more so Monday than anything.
So let's go through the rest of this week and
then talk about the weekend. That front is stalled just
to the south of us, the one that brought us

(11:27):
a little bit of rain yesterday, and it's bringing a
shower too along the coast today, So there's a twenty
percent chance of some rain if you live close to
the coast or close to Galveston Bay. Other than that,
we are partly cloudy, temperatures slightly cooler today, uper eight
east to low nineties, lots of sunshine Tomorrow, Friday, Saturday,

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and Sunday, but there's no rain until Sunday. There's a
twenty percent chance of a thunderstorm or two on Sunday. Now,
our temperatures are going to be in the load of
mid nineties starting tomorrow through the weekend Monday Tuesday, we've
got some scattered showers and thunderstorms. So if you got
outdoor plans earlier in the weekend is going to be
okay and Monday could be a bit tricky.

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Speaker 8 (12:25):
All the info you need to take on the day.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
So who do you suppose showed up to try to
make a few excuses for the seashell eighty six forty
seven thing that happened with Trump? Yeah, yeah, James Comy.
He went to MSNBC. Of course he did. But that
should tell you all you need to know about his politics,
not that you needed that clue that that's where he

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would go, because you know you're going to have a
friendly audience there that's not going to ask too many questions.
So what kind of excuse did James Comey make for
the seashells eighty six forty seven? We'll have that in
reaction to it coming up next. First though, twenty gimme yes,
Sky Mike norm died he did?

Speaker 8 (13:03):
I saw that.

Speaker 5 (13:03):
George went Cheers America is a little Saturday this morning.

Speaker 8 (13:07):
I agree let's go.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
You know what, let's hit your southwest side here as
we're going up by sixty nine.

Speaker 8 (13:12):
Let's go from Rosenberg.

Speaker 5 (13:13):
Why would anyone ever leave Richmond or Rosenberg in the morning.

Speaker 8 (13:16):
We're beautiful coming up from the Brass River.

Speaker 5 (13:19):
Now you have that outbound lane shift that happened a
long time over the river a long time ago.

Speaker 8 (13:24):
That's outbound southbound.

Speaker 5 (13:25):
One of these days they're going to really ramp up
that construction.

Speaker 8 (13:28):
For now you're getting by.

Speaker 5 (13:29):
They've they've done a nice shift job here on the
inbound coming up from the fountains.

Speaker 8 (13:34):
It's nineteen minutes rest of Bee Freeways rock.

Speaker 5 (13:36):
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From r KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour weather center.
Becoming partly cloudy. Let's semid today high temperature about ninety
and then tomorrow all the way through Saturday, mostly sunny
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Speaker 4 (14:00):
Time to check out some of our top Wednesday morning
stories cliffs here.

Speaker 6 (14:03):
Thank you Jimmy we could see a vote on the
Trump Big Beautiful Bill.

Speaker 8 (14:07):
Today.

Speaker 6 (14:08):
A man is arrested in connection to the murders of
his father and stepmother this past weekend. In spring and
check your calendar, it's that time of year. Noah puts
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Speaker 4 (14:36):
I don't know James Comany's mama, so I don't know
if is mama raised him better than this or if
he's just, you know, just the apple that didn't fall
very far from the from the family tree. I have
no idea, but I do know that he's more than
happy to go on national television and make excuses for
the eighty six forty seven thing, the Seashell beat shot. Yeah,

(14:58):
so here's James Comy making his the excuses with some
reaction to it.

Speaker 21 (15:02):
I was a grandfather and an author wearing you know,
sweaters and jeans, and then they went for a walk
on the beach and posted a silly picture of shells
to trace. My wife said, why would someone put an
address in the sand? And I said, I don't know.
And we stood over it and I said, you know,
I think it's some kind of like political message. I said, well,
to me, as a kid had always meant to leave

(15:22):
a place to ditch a place, I said, that's really clever.
So then she said, should take a picture of that
is a goofball.

Speaker 8 (15:29):
I think that's the best way to describe it.

Speaker 22 (15:31):
And I get how people say this is overblown, and
that's completely fair if it's coming from the right, But
no one on the left can criticize.

Speaker 8 (15:41):
This, Sorry, Jessica, because how.

Speaker 22 (15:44):
Many articles were written about the Nazi origins of the
Okay sign and green frogs. You know, they turned Tesla
cars into justifiable targets of hate by linking them to Nazism.
You know, every single outrage to existential threats was based
on mind reading that they knew somehow what we were thinking.

(16:05):
So if you saw somebody in a Maga hat, that
meant they wanted to go back to the.

Speaker 8 (16:09):
Era of slavery. They would make these leaps.

Speaker 22 (16:12):
Remember the taco salad, You know, Trump, Trump's eating a
taco salad, Well, that was an attack on Hispanics to.

Speaker 8 (16:19):
Remember blood bath.

Speaker 22 (16:20):
He was talking about the economy in Detroit or Michigan,
and and then they said, no, he was advocating violence.

Speaker 8 (16:27):
That's true.

Speaker 22 (16:28):
So I think we have and I say we, as
someone on the right, have been dealing with this daily.
James Comey said that he's unbiased because as an FBI
director on Obama, he never played basketball with Obama. Now
could you imagine if Trump had said, you know, I've
never played basketball with Obama, they would.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
Say, oh, and have you not eaten a bucket of
fried chicken with him either?

Speaker 8 (16:52):
How dare you? But you know, it's like, we don't
do that stuff. So you know, once in a while
we can say this.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Guy's a he's a fruit, a goofball, a nut job,
a wacko.

Speaker 8 (17:02):
Yeah, and those are the medical terms. Those are the
medical terms.

Speaker 14 (17:07):
Huh.

Speaker 4 (17:07):
Let me think about the excuses. Well, let's hear the
excuses one more time.

Speaker 21 (17:11):
I was a grandfather and an author wearing you know,
sweaters and jeans.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
Hang on, I was a grandfather and author wearing sweaters
and jeans. What in the HG double L does that
have to do with anything? So he's trying, he's trying
to paint a picture. Yeah, I mean, I just you know,
I'm just a grandfather. You know, I'm author, I'm a
book author. You know, I'm out here wearing my jeans,

(17:37):
taking a walk on the beach with my wife. And oh,
by the way, she's the one that pointed that out,
So nothing like throwing the wife under the bus. If
she hadn't pointed that out, I would have never even
seen that. So so that's her fault, you know, for
showing that. And then you know, and then she thought,
why would why would somebody put their address in the sand?
And I thought, well, yeah, that is kind of weird.

(17:57):
Oh wait a minute, maybe it means something else. Is
anybody buying any of this crap? I'm sure there'll be
a few people who will. And of course you know
that he was on a miss NBC. So nobody's pushing
back at all. No's calling nobody's calling bs. Nobody's saying,
come on, man, nobody's going to believe that. Nobody's going

(18:20):
to believe that you didn't know with eighty six forty
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k trh. Time to take a look at your money.
Good morning to you, Jeff Bellinger.

Speaker 8 (18:29):
And Jimmy, Good morning to you.

Speaker 23 (18:30):
Stocks had modest losses yesterday. Major averages closed a quarter
percent to four tens percent. Lower shares of Home Depot
fell six tenths percent. The Home Improvement Change quarterly results
were weaker than expected. Lowe's just checked in. It's quarterly
sales topped forecasts. Tensions in the Middle East are pushing
up the price of oil. CNN cited US intelligence and

(18:53):
a report that Israel may be gearing up to hit
nuclear facilities in Iran. That report also on the stock
market futures this morning, the Dow futures down four hundred
and fifteen points. Toyota is doubling down on its push
into hybrids. The automaker will discontinue the gas powered RAV
four going forward. The Compact Crossover, the best selling Toyota

(19:16):
vehicle in the US, will only be sold as a hybrid.
From the Fidelity Bloomberg Business Desk, I'm Jeff Bellinger on
News radio seven forty ktrh.

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It's five thirty now here in Houston's Morning News. I'm
Timmy Barrett. Among our top stories this have are Trump
lobby's Congress for his Big Beautiful bill, fifty percent of
Houstonians are looking to leave the city, and coming up
at five thirty eight is Jet Blue selling the naming
rights of their planes. Details in the minutes ahead. You're
in Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking out that morning

(20:05):
drive once again. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 5 (20:06):
I do have some closure to tell you about it
East text leaving downtown, if you're trying to go up
to the Loop to sixteen, you're trying to get over
to the heights and go over toward the squeeze. That
remp remains closed until June first. We think we think
it'll be opened by then. But here's the deal. If
you're trying to go downtown trying to go to the heights,
it's an easy heck. You just head over toward LBJ
and bust a U turn at Lockwood. Also that road work,

(20:28):
it's a lifestyle Cadie Freeway outbound from forty five to Studomot.

Speaker 8 (20:32):
Most of us know about it.

Speaker 5 (20:33):
It's three little skinny lanes and the text lot wall
of death. Plus if you're coming down forty five trying
to get onto the KD outbound, that's a little suicide
squeeze ramp. I'm skylike and the Generator Supercenter dot Com
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From our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour Weather Center
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k TRH. It is time now for the news. Here's Cliffsonders.

Speaker 6 (21:09):
Hey you, Jimmy five point thirty two on KTRHR top story.

Speaker 20 (21:12):
You cannot leave the American people waiting or wanting.

Speaker 6 (21:16):
Speaker Mike Johnson could bring the Trump Agenda Bill, the
Big Beautiful Bill, to a House floor vote by today.
This after the President met with Republicans yesterday.

Speaker 25 (21:27):
I think we have unbelievablegnity. I think we're going to
get the everything we want, and I think we're going
to have a great Brinkley.

Speaker 6 (21:35):
The President also announcing that construction would begin on the
Golden Dome missile defense system.

Speaker 8 (21:41):
It's similar to what Israel has.

Speaker 6 (21:43):
Texas Congressman Wesley Hunt telling Fox Business, Trump is fulfilling
yet another campaign promise.

Speaker 26 (21:49):
S're in the future, You're going to see a peaceful world.
You're going to see a peaceful America. You're going to
see these world wars that are going to come to
an end over the course of the next few years.
And in doing so, President Trump is also committed to
defend this great nation.

Speaker 6 (22:02):
Elon Musk's SpaceX will help build the system. And speaking
of Elon, he made his future plans clear yesterday.

Speaker 19 (22:09):
In terms of political spending. I'm going to do a
lot less in the future.

Speaker 20 (22:14):
And why is that.

Speaker 19 (22:17):
I think I've done enough.

Speaker 6 (22:18):
And it's also because the Left has threatened him and
literally harassed his business. Five point thirty three on KTRH
on Capitol Hill a mic drop moment. As Secretary of
State Marco Rubio went after Maryland Senator Chris Van Holland
during an appropriations hearing.

Speaker 27 (22:34):
We deported gang members, gang members, including the one that
you had a margarita with, and that guy is a
human trafficker, and that guy is a gang banger.

Speaker 6 (22:43):
Rubio referencing Kilmar Brego Garcia, who the Democrats no longer
talk about, or Democrat delusion. On the Hill, Texas Congressman
Al Green files impeachment papers again. Political analyst lad Davidia says,
grant standing as all the Democrats.

Speaker 28 (22:58):
Have forbod like Congresson Algreen, who is a completely inarticulate,
unaccomplished politician, It's not surprising to hear him push that
radical ideology and that radical agenda.

Speaker 6 (23:13):
Now Green claims impeachment is the only way to stop
what he calls Trump's military takeover. It's now five point
thirty four Ian Austin. The state House moves on property taxes,
approving increases to both the standard and elderly homestead exemptions.
The rest of the reform package still needs to be
hashed out between the House Senate. Troubling news heading into

(23:35):
hurricane season, a third party audit shows that Center Point
did not use the billions of dollars worth of generators
they bought after Hurricane Barrel last.

Speaker 29 (23:45):
Year, Centerpoint did not follow its own procedures. There was
clearly a relationship between the CEO of Centerpoint at the
time and the company that supplied the generators.

Speaker 6 (23:56):
The Centerpoint spin, by the way, is that these generators
are meant for rare blackouts that occur when state power
plants don't generate enough electricity to meet demand. The annual
survey done by RICE reveals that almost half of Ustonians
have considered moving.

Speaker 30 (24:14):
One of the top reasons cited was the high crime
that has plagued the area.

Speaker 31 (24:17):
Fear is a huge concern among people that are living
in a community. They're very concerned about their safety, their
children's safety, and quality of life issues.

Speaker 30 (24:26):
That's former HPD Captain Greg Freeman. He says, once residents
start leading, things usually just get worse.

Speaker 31 (24:31):
It's a vicious cycle because your tax base is eroded.
Then you have lesser city services or fewer city services
because they don't have the funding mechanism to provide for that.

Speaker 30 (24:40):
He says, rather than leaving, those concerned with public safety
should pressure city officials to make it a priority. Ethan
Buchanan News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 8 (24:47):
Thank you Ethan.

Speaker 6 (24:48):
New census data shows that Texas is experiencing a population
boom and the biggest growth is in the suburbs.

Speaker 32 (24:55):
Urban ring areas in the Dalitary, but then we also
see them surrounding Austin, surrounding Town Antonio, and then surrounding
Houston as well.

Speaker 6 (25:02):
State demographer Lloyd Potter says Fulsher is the second fastest
growing city in the state. Over one point three million
people are set to travel through our airports next week
for Memorial Day days after an outage at Hobby Airport.

Speaker 33 (25:17):
A power outage at Hobby last week sparked worries, but
things worked as designed.

Speaker 34 (25:22):
They lost commercial power that was issued from the power
side of the house, not the FAA side of the
out and what happened is is that rolled over to
their backup generator. The generator kicked in empowered their system.

Speaker 33 (25:32):
Houston Airports System Director Jim sysney Act says they haven't
had issues like Newark International and they have plenty of
ways to get going quickly.

Speaker 8 (25:39):
At Bush that.

Speaker 34 (25:40):
Terminal e operation has a TSA checkpoint there and then
there's also an uber and Lyft pickup operation that's there.

Speaker 33 (25:47):
He also reminds folks to check the website for TSA
wait times and get ahead of the curve. Andre Parard,
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 8 (25:54):
It's now five point thirty six.

Speaker 19 (26:00):
Hey, what's happened to Norman?

Speaker 35 (26:01):
That's a doggy dog Worlds Emmy and I'm more in
milk Phone underwear.

Speaker 6 (26:06):
Actor George Went who played Norm Peterson on Cheers, dies
at the age of seventy six. The Chicago native, also
known for being one of the Chicago Bear super fans
on SNL when SNL was actually good S pawp Bears.
The Stros lost to the Rays three to two. They
close out the series in Tampa this afternoon. Pregame at
eleven this morning on Sports Talk seven ninety I'm Close

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We are that neighbor. Check in often for the latest
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News Radio seven forty ktrhach by thirty eight other time
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Speaker 4 (26:49):
Right Jim Gaffigan, of course having fun with Dunkin Donuts.
The reason why I bring up Dunkin Donuts is a partnership.
I guess the partnership has actually been around for the
better part twenty years. Jet Blue partnered up with Duncan Donuts.
They now have a brand new coffee themed plane. It's
called Brewing Brewing Attitude. It's their new airbus, a three

(27:15):
twenty aircraft covered with Duncan's signature bright pink and orange colors,
complete with a donut and a cup of coffee on
either side of the tail. Duncan has been a part
of the Jet Blue journey for nearly two decades, and
they say they're proud to showcase the partnership by doing this. Evidently,
if you fly on board the plane, you get some

(27:35):
pretty good coffee from Dunkin Donuts. You also get free coffee, donuts,
and a donut neck pillow, at least on some of
the initial flights. According to a statement from Jet Blue,
the pink and orange aircraft will soon be expanding out
of Boston, making its way across the airline's network. You
know what Jet Blue has done? This is actually quite genius.
Jet Blue has sold the naming rights of planes. Is

(27:59):
this the first of many? This seems like a great
way for airlines to make money. I mean they're always
I would much rather you had a corporate logo on
your plane than to keep charging me, you know, baggage
fees and hidden fees, and excess fees and and fuel
fees and all these and all these other exorbitant fees.
Could we get the price of the tickets back down

(28:21):
a little bit and you just bring in the corporate sponsors, Well,
I'll go for it.

Speaker 8 (28:25):
Why not?

Speaker 4 (28:26):
How about how about you United? How about having a
Whataburger plane? Wouldn't you like to fly a Whataburger plane?

Speaker 29 (28:33):
You know?

Speaker 4 (28:33):
Give me a choice between you know, a mushroom Swiss,
what a burger or a Paddy melt in fries. I'd
much rather eat that than whatever you're serving an economy today,
I would love that. Yeah, think the good exposure for
what a burger? United could make some money they could
pass off for what a burger things and everybody be happy.

(28:55):
Who else would you like to see? Just make that
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You would like to maybe see United Airlines or people
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would make good partners with each other, especially for you

(29:17):
as a passenger, where you might be able to get
some free stuff from them, maybe better food, and maybe
get the price of the ticket down because it's corporate sponsored.
Five forty one time for traffic and weather together. As
we check out the drive with a very bored skymine,
you could somebody could sponsor my slinky.

Speaker 5 (29:36):
Let's see, well, for now, I want to thanks Peter
Brunn though he's taking good care of me. Let's go
both sides of I ten now, Hard Hats, you are
looking good all the way from the river. Something's a
little smoochy right before the truck stops outbound. I think
maybe we just had a slow moving Sometimes you'll have
an oversize load and that'll that's what shows up.

Speaker 8 (29:54):
On your digitals.

Speaker 5 (29:55):
Inbound from the river to downtown, Hard Hats, you're looking good.
Twenty one minut it's here other side visors we look
at Katie Freeway, Katie Mills Mall Hi and that's an
extra that's just twenty five minutes now and whoa look
out North Freeway.

Speaker 8 (30:10):
I got a report of a wreck popping up.

Speaker 5 (30:11):
This is coming up from southbound around the Shepherd Curvett
Veterans and boy, that is looking awfully rough all of
a sudden. From West Mountain, Houston. Give you the five
point fifty, Terry, I'll get you some laneage. I'm in
the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from r KTRH
Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour whether centare.

Speaker 4 (30:28):
Terry Smith is here. If we could get you a
corporate sponsor, who should we get you for this weekend
Hawaiian Tropic maybe? Ooh, but Nana both you know, one
of the suntann Lucien.

Speaker 20 (30:38):
I was thinking, like Bennett Jerry's.

Speaker 4 (30:41):
Well, maybe we could pick a more conservative ice cream comedy.
But yeah, I understand where you're going with the ice cream.

Speaker 6 (30:46):
Yeah right, and or or blue Belt much better.

Speaker 4 (30:50):
Thank you, Thank you for recognizing that is the official
ice cream of the Great State.

Speaker 20 (30:55):
Of dest Jit exactly. So yeah, no, my mind was
on ice cream, which you know, when we get to summer,
that's where my mind goes because it's a nice way
to help us stay cool because these summers are hot
and humid and it is going to be a warm,
very warm weekend with very little rain, which is great.
We got outdoor plans, so we're in good shape. We'll

(31:18):
turn out partly cloudy today, a little cooler, just a
little bit upper eight east to low nineties. Today. We
are dry, not a drop of rain through Saturday, load
to mid nineties Tomorrow, Friday. Saturday, there's a twenty percent
chance of a thunderstorm Sunday. Better chance of rain Monday
and Tuesday next week. We could use the rain, and
it's you know, we know that we got through Sunday

(31:39):
to do things and not be worried about it.

Speaker 14 (31:41):
JEP.

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But you're right now. Seventy six Save your officials, Severe weather.
Station News Radio seven forty KTRH what you need to
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Speaker 4 (31:55):
It's five point fifty now here on Houston's Morning News.
We're going to talk in just a moment with the
president of the Harris County Deputies organization is Dames ose Lofez.
There's a huge wage disparacy getting ready to take place
here now that the Houston police officers are getting a
big pay raise, and there's concerns that there may very
well be a mass exodus from the Harris County Sheriff's Department.

(32:18):
We'll have more in that story coming up next. First, though,
traffic and weather together, starting with the yuskymak all.

Speaker 5 (32:22):
Right, I got suthing that's skipping up on the East
Text Hi Holly from Porter.

Speaker 20 (32:27):
Morning, Mikey, it's me. So far, traffic has been just
fine on forty five heading up to the Beltway.

Speaker 34 (32:34):
Cliff may have his family, but we all have you.

Speaker 5 (32:38):
I got you, baby, East Texs. I've got something skipping
up right around Tidwell. We'll zoom that at six o'clock
in the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic.

Speaker 4 (32:46):
Center from r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather
Center becoming part of the cloudy less himid high around
ninety four today and then Tomorrow through Saturday, mostly sunny, warm,
about ninety three each day.

Speaker 8 (32:58):
Give your take.

Speaker 4 (32:58):
Current temperature is seventy six in your officials Severe Weather
Station News Radio seven forty k TRH. Let's get you
caught up in some more of our top stories on
this Wednesday morning.

Speaker 8 (33:09):
Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy. We're sponsored by D and
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Speaker 6 (33:12):
The new HPD contract could lead to a mass exodus
of deputies from Harris County. Bond set it more than
two million dollars for the man accused of killing a
contractor last week after an argument in Northwest Harris County
and Jimmy, did you see this? Another change at Southwest Airlines.
They are now going to farm out their skycab service
to who independent contract third party vender. Gotcha? Get the

(33:35):
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is at six o'clock.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
Hey, listen usually on the way to.

Speaker 19 (33:41):
Work and on the way home for every day.

Speaker 20 (33:43):
I can't be late, so I listen to traffic.

Speaker 19 (33:45):
For every one I listened for the weather forecast.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Use radio seven forty.

Speaker 4 (33:49):
KTRH five fifty two is our time here in Newston's
morning news. I mean quickly reach a point here that
you call for the Harris County s Sheriff's Department. And
they don't have a whole lot of depth needs to
send out. I guess we could get there. There's a
huge pay disparagy coming right now for Harris County Sheriff's deputies.

(34:09):
I think it's I want to say, it's somewhere around
a twenty four thousand dollars difference between what they're gonna
be paying police officers in Houston now and what they
they traditionally pay. Harris County Sheriff's deputies Linda Hildago pleted poverty. Well,
we're gonna have to We're gonna have to increase taxes
if we're going to give these guys a raise. While
in the meantime she's out there planning a trip to Paris, right,

(34:30):
Jose Lopez joins as president of the Harris County Deputies organization.
So the county is pleting poverty, Jose. But at the
end of the day here, something's going to have to
happen on behalf of the Harris County sheriffs.

Speaker 36 (34:43):
And that is absolutely correct. Something's going to have to
happen because we are going to lose deputies in large numbers,
particularly to the Houston Police Department.

Speaker 4 (34:57):
Well, there's a huge shortage. I want to say, there's
at least five hundred police officers short in the city
of Houston.

Speaker 36 (35:03):
Correct, So the city of Houston wants to fill one thousand,
two hundred police officer positions.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
Wow, that's a lot of spots. How many deputies do
you have in Harris County?

Speaker 36 (35:20):
So we have nineteen one hundred deputies. That's total deputies,
that's detectives, that bay lives working in the jails, transportation
patrol deputies we have about five hundred.

Speaker 4 (35:37):
So they hired every one of your patrol deputies and
left Harris Nuncey Sharf's Barber with any patrol deputies, they
would still have a shortage of officers. So it's very
conceivable they could all leave for the Houston Police Department.

Speaker 36 (35:52):
Absolutely, and that's where the sounding the alarms was a
necessary because of just how many of the Houston Police
Department is trying to fill. And yeah, absolutely, they take
all of our patrol deputies, it's going to leave us
no deputies to patrol the streets. And yes, you're absolutely correct.

(36:16):
They still have room to recruit from other agencies deputy
constables or you know, surrounding agencies.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
What has been recruitment What has recruitment been like for
the Harris County Sheriff's Deputies organization with the pay rate
that you have right now, has been difficult to attract officers.

Speaker 36 (36:38):
Absolutely, it's difficult to attract officers because the surrounding law
enforcement agencies are paying more than what the Harris County
Sheriff's Office is paying. With that being said, it's also
has been difficult to retain what the deputies that we have.
Now for the past several years, we have been losing

(37:01):
deputies to surrounding law enforcement agencies that pay more. But
we've been losing them in seven deputies, eight deputies, ten, three,
so on and so forth. The danger part here is
just the number of Houston police officers that they're trying
to get.

Speaker 4 (37:22):
So any idea Jose Lopez, how much it costs to
train Harris County deputy? How much money is invested in
the training of a brand new deputy.

Speaker 36 (37:33):
It's roughly around ninety thousand dollars per cadet.

Speaker 4 (37:38):
Okay, So every time you have somebody leave, you have
to spend ninety thousand dollars to train somebody else to
take that job. And if you're talking about hundreds of jobs,
you're talking about a massive sum of money. There would
be cheaper just to pay them more to keep them here.
Wouldn't it constantly retain people?

Speaker 36 (37:55):
Absolutely absolutely, it's cheaper to pay them to retain what
we have and also the basic Peace Office course is
ten months long and then they go through a three
month of FTO program, so it's a total of thirteen
months and then for them just to you know, just

(38:17):
to go where they're going to pay them more.

Speaker 4 (38:19):
Yeah, yeah, to train them for somebody else as it
turns out, all right, Jose Lopez, thank you, sir, appreciate
the information. That's the president of the Harris County Deputies Organization.
Ho Jose Lopez back with more in a moment. It's
five fifty six. You're on news radio seven forty KTRH.

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I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this have are
something's going to have to change if Ariskonti is going
to retain their share, deputies, Trump wants a golden dome
to protect the country from missile attacks. And coming up
at six o eight, Airbnb is deploying their anti party
technology for the holiday weekend. Details in the minute say head,

(39:11):
you're in Houston's Warning news. First we check out morning drive.
What's that'kind?

Speaker 8 (39:15):
I could protect us from missile attacks?

Speaker 32 (39:17):
Can you?

Speaker 8 (39:17):
How's that? With an Atari?

Speaker 5 (39:19):
The Atari twenty one hundred, we had that missile game
one Nord Freeway. Look out Golf Bank southbound one two
three left lanes, Nope, nope, three center lanes.

Speaker 8 (39:28):
Here we're shifting here. This is inbound.

Speaker 5 (39:31):
Boy, that wreck looks like everybody's okay, but it's a
big smash coming down from the Betway Holly.

Speaker 32 (39:36):
Porter fifty nine, Hi, yep, southbound.

Speaker 29 (39:39):
Right before the table exits, there are two vehicles in
the left hand emergency lane with flashers on.

Speaker 5 (39:45):
All right, I see that back up southbound. That's going
to become a solid left line inbound. Skymike on the
Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic.

Speaker 4 (39:51):
Center from r KTRH Top tax Defenders twenty four hour
Weather Center becoming partly cloudy, little less humand today with
the high temperature right about ninety I will get the
complete forecast with Terry Smith in eight minutes. Right now,
seventy six said your official severe weather Station News Radio
seven forty KTRH. I'm down for the News. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 6 (40:09):
Thank you, Jimmy six ZHO two sponsored by All Star
Construction our top story. Houston City Council today is expected
to vote on the new HPDE contract, and that could
lead to a mass exodus of deputies from the Harris
County Sheriff's Department.

Speaker 30 (40:23):
It would create a huge paid disparity, likely causing county
deputies to leave.

Speaker 36 (40:27):
It's the talk from our deputies, detectives, and even some.

Speaker 19 (40:31):
Of our sergeants.

Speaker 15 (40:33):
They're going to go to the Houston Police Department.

Speaker 30 (40:36):
Jose Lopez with the Harris County Deputies Organization says Judge
Adalgo hasn't done much to address this.

Speaker 15 (40:41):
We really don't want to entertain the lip service.

Speaker 8 (40:43):
We need action.

Speaker 15 (40:45):
We're not seeing it, particularly from Judge Isago and Commissioner
at List.

Speaker 30 (40:49):
He says, they're already understaffed as it is, so this
could be a major hit to the Sheriff's office. Ethan
Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (40:56):
Meantime, the County judge is going to discuss her twenty
three thousand dollars trip to Paris tomorrow at Commissioner's cart.

Speaker 8 (41:04):
It is six oh three on KTRH.

Speaker 6 (41:06):
President Donald Trump delivers on another campaign promise, unveiling the
Iron Dome missile defense system once fully operational. President Trump
says the Golden Dome will be capable of intercepting missiles
fired from around the world or launched from space.

Speaker 14 (41:21):
Leave the world out there.

Speaker 9 (41:22):
So this is something that goes a long way toward
the survival of this great country.

Speaker 6 (41:28):
Trump's is a full project, well total one hundred and
seventy five billion dollars and be operational in about three years.

Speaker 8 (41:35):
That's Jaron Halpern reporting.

Speaker 6 (41:37):
The House Rules Committee is looking at the Trump budget
package this morning. A full House vote is possible today.
Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair told ktr H is
Clay Travis and Bucks Exton, Trump is simply fixing what
Joe Biden broke.

Speaker 14 (41:51):
The fact is this is a huge step in the
right direction for getting the country on a better fiscal footing.

Speaker 6 (41:56):
Elsewhere, House Speaker Mike Johnson reportedly has a deal to
b the cap on salt, state and local tax exemptions.
Six oh four of the New Jersey Democrat charged with
assault for storming an ice facility, Lamonica MacIver. She claims
her arrest is all political but borders our Tom Homan
calls it something else.

Speaker 8 (42:15):
He calls her actions illegal. You can't cross the line
of impediment.

Speaker 17 (42:19):
You can't cross the line of annoyingly harbor and concealing
illegal alien from Ice. You can't commit a criminal.

Speaker 8 (42:26):
Trespass, Homan on Fox.

Speaker 6 (42:28):
Republicans in Washington, meantime continue to call out the Dems
for covering up Joe Biden's health problems. House Oversight Committee
chair James Comer says, it's the biggest scandal in American history.

Speaker 8 (42:39):
We want to find out who was actually running the country.

Speaker 7 (42:42):
We want to find out what the process was for
how important executive orders and pardons would get to the auto.

Speaker 8 (42:50):
Pin Comber on Newsmax to cover up so bad.

Speaker 6 (42:53):
Even former Obama official Van Jones is blasting the Dems.
RNC Committee man doctor Robin arms Rung says those involved
need to be held accountable.

Speaker 14 (43:03):
It is the biggest cover up in American history. It
should be investigated and we should find out exactly what
is going on.

Speaker 8 (43:09):
Who was running the.

Speaker 14 (43:10):
Country while Biden was incapacitated.

Speaker 6 (43:13):
Shameful, shapel enough, he says, to be tried for treason.
At six h five another warning about how AI is
changing education. It's making it easier for your kids to cheat.
Some college professors are calling for drastic actions like ending
online courses or banning screens in the classroom to keep
students from cheating with AI. Jeen Burke with college prep Genius,

(43:34):
as good students shouldn't be punished for the bad ones.

Speaker 20 (43:37):
It is really to think ahead beyond graduation. Because you
get caught cheating.

Speaker 37 (43:41):
That's going to follow you, that's going to follow you
into your job, into your future.

Speaker 14 (43:45):
So I think that every student needs.

Speaker 20 (43:47):
Take their own responsibilities. It goes back to that self government.

Speaker 10 (43:50):
She also believed schools need clear rules for use of AI.
One survey found nine to ten college students use chat
GPT to complete homework. Corey Yelsen, Who's Radio seven five KRH.

Speaker 8 (44:00):
Lugging at your Money.

Speaker 6 (44:01):
All three indicies on Wall Street took losses yesterday, and
Dow futures are currently down four hundred points. The Great
Wealth Transfer may be more lateral than anything else, with
women set to inherit the bulk of their husband's wealth
over the next quarter century. You ate just Stephen Craig
says that'll total more than fifty trillion dollars.

Speaker 18 (44:20):
Part of the reason the number is so big is
because it's no longer just real estate. Now it's your
monetized pension.

Speaker 6 (44:27):
And one reason for the transfer moving this way is
that men are marrying younger women six oh six. So
much for those driverless trucks h Well, the company putting
them on Texas roads are now going to have people
in the front seat, they claim as a backup. The
company says the trucks are safe, but Narita Taylor with
the Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association says they've made other

(44:51):
claims too.

Speaker 38 (44:52):
They also included narrative about trying to steal gaps of a.

Speaker 20 (44:57):
Truck drivers shortage, which that's proven been proven to be
a myth.

Speaker 6 (45:01):
Now, according to the company involved here, the humans will
be simply observing the Astros lose to the Rays three
to two. Pregame this morning at eleven on Sports Talk
seven ninety for this series finale, the first pitch shortly
after noon. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather in
Traffic Station KTRH.

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Speaker 4 (45:32):
So thinking about booking a last minute Airbnb for Memorial
Day weekend to throw a party?

Speaker 8 (45:40):
Yeah, maybe not.

Speaker 4 (45:41):
Airbnb has their anti party technology and effect for Memorial
Day weekend. Also, by the way, for the fourth of July,
fourth year they've done.

Speaker 8 (45:50):
It.

Speaker 4 (45:51):
Doesn't mean, by the way, that they're just listening in
to see if you're being too loud. It's an algorithm
that looks for red flags when you're booking a place.
The red flags is a last minute booking. You know,
you waited until you waited until like now, for example,
to book for this weekend. That's pretty rare. People normally

(46:12):
book well ahead of time for a holiday weekend, so
that would be a red flag to them. Also, if
you're booking a huge house and your home address is
like just a matter of a few miles away. So like,
let's say you're booking an Airbnb down in Galveston and
you live here. I mean, that'd be kind of a

(46:33):
tough thing to figure out though, right because people drive
to to Galveston to go to the beach all the time,
so it get it might get your red flag, might
get you a few questions being asked it has been
evidently fairly effective. And by the way, Texas was one
of the biggest states where they circumvented some of these
party bookings. They say, according to Airbnb, they have prevented

(46:56):
over fifty thousand bookings last year alone, of them being
in Texas, Florida, in California. That's where the biggest party
houses were. Evidently Texas, Florida and California.

Speaker 8 (47:07):
Six'. Ten time for traffic and. Weather together with Sky,
mike we've got more trouble to your east.

Speaker 5 (47:13):
Text first of, all, Southbound, Alex i'm talking to, Dude.

Speaker 14 (47:16):
Yo, mike did You Nins.

Speaker 32 (47:19):
Country it's southbound left, shoulder three car.

Speaker 14 (47:23):
Accident and right at The saunders.

Speaker 5 (47:25):
Exit all, right well said they named it after. You
cliff been from a Task casita.

Speaker 39 (47:29):
Myke no Told Chuck ninjas and it's backed all the
way up to the summer.

Speaker 5 (47:34):
Terry all, right let's look out on your east, text,
BOY i hope you're a big shot this. Morning harty's
your only good option from the north. Here you've got
this north freeway problem At Gulf bank that's erect three center, lanes.
BLOCKCHAIR i think everybody's, okay SO i don't think it'll
be there. Forever but that's a big squish now coming
down from The, beltway and we're losing nineteen minutes on
the SOUTHBOUND i forty five outbounds good all the way

(47:57):
up To, conrod where Ghetto' dave finally found the.

Speaker 19 (47:59):
Spot, hey it's Got.

Speaker 31 (48:00):
Mike it's a beautiful half moon out here On Lake. Condos,
terry what is that planet to the left over your?

Speaker 8 (48:06):
Bottom?

Speaker 5 (48:07):
Lift, YEAH i mean, OKAY i get, It. Dave we Love,
Day we love Ghetto. Dave by the, way he's a.
Classic but you Know terry is a, scientist but she's
Not Carl. Sagan i'm in THE USA Rv resorts Dot
com traffic, center or are?

Speaker 4 (48:22):
You she might need more to go on than bottom?
Left get to really put on an extra lab coat
from Bar katie Rh Top. Packagers. Saturn, okay for the,
time she, said just a, guess or is that for?

Speaker 8 (48:32):
Real?

Speaker 20 (48:33):
NO i think it Is, Saturn so, okay, dude confession time.
Here i'm a little bit of a science geek and
so LIKE i, do follow a lot of THE nasa
updates and the sky updates that come. Out, yep AND
i saw one he, Asked, well AND i just need

(48:53):
a moment to go look it up because you can't
see the. Planets that's what's so. COOL i usually don't
know what plan that it is UNTIL i ask the
experts about. It but, yeah it's Probably. Saturn it might Be,
neptune But neptune is kind of hard to see to.

Speaker 8 (49:09):
Say that's way out.

Speaker 4 (49:10):
There, yeah hang on a, second let's get the sponsor
bitch for a katrh Top Tax defenders twenty four Our
weather And Astronomy. Center this Is Terry smith getting ready
to forecast The Memorial day.

Speaker 8 (49:21):
Weekend.

Speaker 20 (49:21):
YEAH i can do that a lot easier THAN i.
Can't what's going on in the sky at? Night, yeah
nice stretch of, weather a little less heat and humidity
today it will be a real. Treat we've got some
clouds right, now but we'll see him break up a
mix the sun and. Clouds there's a slight chance of
a shower near the coast because that's where the front's hanging.
Out upper eighties to low nineties today, Now, Tomorrow friday And.

(49:46):
Saturday no. Rain sunday there is a twenty percent chance of.
Rain temperatures will be in the load of mid nineties
Starting tomorrow Through, sunday Then monday And, tuesday our rain chances.
Increase we've got about a fifty percent chance of showers
and storms for the last day of The Memorial day,
weekend and then when everybody's going back to work On.

Speaker 4 (50:06):
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News coming up here in the just a, Moment Doctor Robin,
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(51:01):
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out some of our top trending stories this.

Speaker 8 (51:29):
Morning Here's, Cliff thank, You.

Speaker 6 (51:30):
JIMMY a vote on The Tump Trump Big Beautiful bill
could happen, Today Aris Konna Gia Shawn tear drops felony
charges against donor Doctor Stephen hotsey over an assault of
an air conditioning repairman five years.

Speaker 8 (51:43):
Ago and according to, Reports Jimmy love is in the.

Speaker 6 (51:46):
Air seventy three year Old Bill belichick reportedly engaged to
his twenty four year old.

Speaker 4 (51:51):
Girlfriend oh that's going to end really, WELL i can tell.

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Speaker 1 (52:08):
Ten, yeall this.

Speaker 4 (52:12):
Is a multi faceted cover up that's being covered. Up
six twenty three is our time here In Houston's Warning.
News Doctor Robin armstrong joins. Us we have all these
books coming out, Now Dr, armstrong from the same people
who are covering up the cover up to begin with
members of the, media The Jake tappers of the, world
and we're finding out all sorts of things that don't

(52:33):
surprise most of, US i, guess other than the fact
that it's pretty clear That President biden was not running the,
country was not the one who was making executive orders or,
pardons probably that was done with an auto. Pen we
have to get to the bottom of who was signing
all these, papers don't?

Speaker 14 (52:49):
We, yes, Absolutely. Jimmy this is the biggest cover up
In american. HISTORY i, mean when we think about, it you,
know we had we elected The american people will elected
someone allegedly in a rigged, election but they elected someone
to be president of The United. States we expect that
person is making decisions and leading our, nation the most

(53:11):
powerful nation in the. World and now we know for.
Sure we've known this for. Years jimmy's known this for.
Years i've known this for many. Years but now The
left is understanding and and and coming to some of
them are coming to the realization some of them knew
it and were covering it, up that That President biden
was demented and incapacitated and should not been should not

(53:34):
have been president of The United. States they should have
been voked to twenty Fifth. Amendment it was their responsibility
to do. IT i believe The democrats will suffer many
many elections in the. Future they will lose because of this.
Issue it is the biggest scandal and cover up in,
history AND i think it has to be investigated by CASPUTILITY.
Fbi it has to we have to figure out who

(53:54):
was running the country for the last four. Years, well
if nothing else. TOO i, mean you go back over
those executive. Orders of course many of them were overturned
By President, trump but you go back over those orders,
if if if any of them were not signed by
really signed By President, biden whether it's using an autopan or.
Not if they were signed by somebody, else They're nolan,
void wouldn't they, Be, well absolutely absolutely they would Be Noelan.

(54:18):
Voyd what about the? Pardons, right the pardons certainly should
Be nolan. Void BUT i really believe that that who
was providing the direction for the country is the big.
QUESTION i, mean we had radical, staffers radical bureaucracy members

(54:38):
who were providing the direction for the, country not the
president of The United. States AND i believe that that
IS i believe that people should go to. PRISON i
believe it's treasonous what happened over The biden, years AND
i think That Cash mattil has to investigate. That we
have to figure out who was running our, country because,
yes the, pardons the executive, orders the direction of the.

(55:00):
Country who was making foreign policy, decisions who was interacting
with these foreign leaders on these private. Calls we have
to know all of this because it's a it's a
constitutional crisis when we've elected someone but he's been. Led
this is how this is how communists take over in the.
Past you, know The communists have a long history of

(55:21):
leaders who who no one knew who was in control
because they were Incapacitated america cannot go down this. Path
we have to know what was going on in the
last four years has to be, investigated and we have
to people have to go to jail for this.

Speaker 4 (55:34):
Good and agree with you, more, sir thank you for your.
Time as, Always Doctor Robin, armstrong six twenty, Six it
is time to take a look at your. Money as
we check in once again with The blueberg folks.

Speaker 23 (55:44):
And, Jimmy Federal reserve officials are staying on. Message central
bankers are in no hurry to lower interest. Rates two
More fed bank presidents wighed in. Yesterday The San Francisco
Fed's Married daily said The fed should stay in a
central position and be prepared to, move though not. Abruptly
The Cleveland Fed's Beth hammick said there's still a lot

(56:06):
of information to be learned in the coming. Months numbers
For target's later latest quarter were weaker than. Expected target
says shoppers are pulling back and it cut its sales.
Forecast stock market future is still. Lower right across the
board from The Fidelity Bloomberg Business, Desk I'm Jeff belinger
on news radio seven FORTY Ktrh.

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Studios six thirty is our time here In houston's Morning.
News I'm Jimmy. Barrett among our top stories this half,
Hour trump is Lobby congress for that, big beautiful. Bill
will it get past this? Weekend fifty percent of houstonia
is looking to leave the city for the, suburbs and
thirty eight the corporate sponsors you'd like to see on
your next flight details in the minutes, ahead and you're

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Freeway good, Morning, Sky, Mike.

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Dude past the kerfuffle on The North freeway Inbounding it's
really closer to The Shepherd curve.

Speaker 34 (57:24):
Than it Is Golf.

Speaker 40 (57:25):
Bank but it's seven. Vehicles some of them have been
picked up by, ninjas but they're still on the, freeway
and just.

Speaker 5 (57:31):
As you're, speaking the last one rolling off downtown quick
take that fight.

Speaker 40 (57:35):
Out down, here Salivated.

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warm all the way Through. Saturday after that we'll get
the last on the forecast for the holiday weekend that's coming.
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Speaker 8 (58:13):
Thank, You jimmy six thirty two ON. Ktrhr top.

Speaker 6 (58:16):
Story House Speaker Mike johnson could bring The trump budget
bill to The house floor for a vote.

Speaker 8 (58:21):
Today The Rules committee is looking at this right. Now
congress has.

Speaker 6 (58:25):
A role and a responsibility to step in at this
stage to stitch up and mend those wounds for.

Speaker 8 (58:29):
Good and that's what this legislation is.

Speaker 6 (58:31):
About johnson And blue State republicans reportedly have an agreement
to boost the cap on salt state and local tax
exemptions to forty thousand. Dollars President trump announcing The Golden dome.
Yesterday that will be a missile defense system similar to
what The israelis used to protect themselves From Hamas Defense
Secretary Pete hegsith, says the original concept was born in

(58:56):
the early nineteen.

Speaker 8 (58:56):
Eighties President reagan forty.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
Years ago Casts division.

Speaker 19 (58:59):
Four the technology wasn't.

Speaker 1 (59:01):
There now it, is.

Speaker 9 (59:02):
And you're following through to say we will protect the
homeland from cruise, missiles ballistic, missiles hypersonic, missiles.

Speaker 6 (59:09):
Drones the project will cost one hundred and seventy five
billion dollars six point thirty three. More Democrat grant standing
On Capitol, hill But secretary Of State Marco rubio was,
prepared and he returned.

Speaker 3 (59:22):
FIRE i have to tell you directly and personally THAT
i regret voting for you For secretary Of.

Speaker 31 (59:27):
STATE i yield.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
BACK i respond, You, Mayson.

Speaker 27 (59:32):
Well first of, all your regret for voting for me
Confirms i'm doing a good.

Speaker 8 (59:35):
Job pipe.

Speaker 6 (59:36):
Bomb rubio responding To Maryland Democrat Senator chris Van holland,
yesterday and while we're on the subject Of democrat, Stunts
Houston Congressman Al green is added again he's trying to
Impeach Donald trump for the one two third.

Speaker 13 (59:51):
Time and this Time green says it's the only way
to Stop trump's military.

Speaker 8 (59:57):
Takeover he's defying the federal.

Speaker 21 (59:59):
Courts you do, this you'll become a de facto, dictator
and for this you must be.

Speaker 13 (01:00:05):
Impeached political strategist Vlad davidia says this is all they've.

Speaker 28 (01:00:10):
Got democrats really have nothing left to stand.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
On the only way the left is able.

Speaker 31 (01:00:15):
To advance her agenda is by.

Speaker 28 (01:00:17):
Dividing, people by, radicalizing by soaking.

Speaker 13 (01:00:20):
Grievance green has received criticism from both. Sides Jeff Biggs
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Speaker 6 (01:00:28):
Point thirty four In, austin we're closer to property tax
reform being extended is the State house approves increases to
both the standard and elderly homestead. Exemptions investigations Into Epic,
city that Proposed Islamic city outside The dallas area are continuing.

Speaker 41 (01:00:45):
The alleged violations of The Texas Fair Housing. Act and
then in addition to, that we have The Texas Attorney
general as well as now The United States department Of
justice all conducting investigations to ensure.

Speaker 8 (01:00:57):
This this project is stuck dead and its.

Speaker 6 (01:01:00):
Tracks Governor Greg gabbott on The Wilkine show On Fox
here At. Home according to or a recent survey From,
rice almost half of the residents of the area have
considered moving because of rise and.

Speaker 31 (01:01:12):
Crime Greene's point And sharpstown are perfect examples of.

Speaker 8 (01:01:15):
This those were.

Speaker 31 (01:01:16):
Once beautiful areas that were populated by professionals back in
the eighties and crime just took. Over, unfortunately the climb
in that area now is some of the highest in the.

Speaker 6 (01:01:23):
City FORMER Hbd captain Doctor Greg freeman says once people
start leaving an area because of, crime the crime usually gets.
Worse according to new census, Data texas is experiencing a population.
Boom the biggest growth as of now is in the.

Speaker 32 (01:01:40):
Suburbs well also tend to look for school districts or
tend to be better in the suburban ring.

Speaker 6 (01:01:45):
Areas state Demographer Lloyd, Potter folscher is the second fastest
growing city in the entire. State after the freeze four years,
Ago Center Point energy bought a billion dollars worth of,
generators but in audit shows they haven't used them even
After Hurricane, Berrel so why.

Speaker 29 (01:02:03):
Not it wasn't so much an issue of not having,
Electricity it was the issue Of centerpoint not having cleared
the vegetation from its. LINES a company clearing only twenty
percent of its lines each year is obviously vulnerable to big.

Speaker 8 (01:02:18):
Storms uh is At.

Speaker 6 (01:02:19):
Herst The president is Prioritizing american, manufacturing and his push
includes prescription. Drugs Doctor Clifford porter with The Texas Public
Policy foundation Says texas could pull resources to do the
research needed for all of.

Speaker 31 (01:02:33):
This we'll get that to the point of. Genetics we
could actually really create market.

Speaker 6 (01:02:37):
Options earlier this, month The president announced a plan to
reduce prescription drug. Costs six point thirty six one point
three million people are expected to travel Through houston's airports
This Memorial day. Holiday Houston Airport System Director Jim sasniak
says the recent power outage At hobby should not be
a cause for concern because the backups did their.

Speaker 34 (01:02:58):
Job it's something that is. Rare it doesn't happen on
a regular, basis but it is one of those things
that we are prepared, for and we saw it successfully.
Implemented because of the fact that we again we rolled
into the backup, systems and the backup systems protected, everybody
and the traveling public really didn't notice.

Speaker 6 (01:03:12):
It he also says a NEW tsa Checkpointed bush should
help speed things along next week and The astros lost
to The rais yesterday three to. Two I'm Cliff saunders
On Houston's news whether in traffic station News radio seven
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Brought to you By Crown royal six thirty eight is
their time here In Houston's Born. News we're thinking of
corporate sponsors That united Maybe Jeff blue is already doing
this With dunck And. Donuts they actually have A dunck
And donuts, plane a passenger plane where they serve they're
serving up you, Know Dunkin, donuts coffee and donuts and
that kind of. Stuff Crown, royal, WELL i Guess Crown

(01:04:03):
royal would probably work better For Air, canada right Because
Crown royal Is, canadian but you could have A Crown royal.
Plane tell me what would want to fly in A
Crown royal, plane you, know especially if they're offering up free.
Drinks you, know a couple of Free Crown royals might
make the flight go a little bit. Smoother So i've
been asking you this, morning you, know if if other

(01:04:24):
companies should try With Jeff. BLUES i, MEAN i think
it's a great opportunity for the airlines to make some extra.
Money so maybe they can take it a little easier
on these airfares for. Us and maybe you did get
some more goodies on the plane that would make it
a more fun. FLIGHT i, mean flying on the planes
become like you, know flying bus these like going to.
Greyhounds it's not much fun. Anymore maybe we could bring

(01:04:45):
back some fun to. Flying so what are some of
your ideas of corporate sponsorships of airplanes that you would
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Speaker 42 (01:05:05):
Sponsorship Morning Jimmy rick from The East. Side how about
A hooter's. Plane wouldn't that be cool to have Some
hooters wings while lying in the air and the airline,
attendance you, know would have to have certain. Qualifications uh.
Huh have a good, Day.

Speaker 19 (01:05:22):
Jimmy necessari Fan.

Speaker 8 (01:05:24):
Focher how about A bucky's?

Speaker 43 (01:05:27):
Plane, so what better corporate sponsor is there Than? BUCkies
think about. It you could fly to your, destination eat some,
brisket have a giant, fountain, drink shop for pool, toys,
coolers household, items, gifts whatever else you. Need t shirts

(01:05:48):
for every, occasion and be happy when you get off the.
Plane this Is gina From Southwest. Florida have a good,
One good.

Speaker 20 (01:05:56):
Morning this Is teresa From. Snook as far as corporate
sponsors on an, Airplane.

Speaker 14 (01:06:01):
I'd love to See chick Fil.

Speaker 8 (01:06:02):
A y'all have a great.

Speaker 40 (01:06:04):
Day.

Speaker 8 (01:06:05):
Bye this Is Checking. Connecticut how about we use KTR
h to sponsor a.

Speaker 26 (01:06:10):
Flight then they can use Sky mike's voice and his
verbiage to do the safety besidures in the beginning of the.

Speaker 8 (01:06:16):
Flight have a good. Day hang, On i'm checking my.
Wallet NO i.

Speaker 4 (01:06:20):
DON'T i don't see enough money in there for A
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Together currently encountering some. Suckage pretty sass in your. Seatbelts
there you. Go that wouldn't be. Good i'd love to
see who do the instructions on board the. Plane they
should hire you to do. That, anyway right, there put
on my little. Flight attend an. Outfit by the, Way,
TERESA i know Where snook is And rick from the east.
Side they did have a hooter's. Plane it was Called
Southwest airlines in the. Seventies look at some of those pictures.

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Here that's, true, baby Uh Nord, freeway i'd forty. Five
we've cleared that wreck that was. SOUTHBOUND i kept calling
it Golf bank BECAUSE i was looking From Golf, bank
but it Was shepherd.

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Inbound that it's.

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Clear the scutch is still there from The beltway northbound
and we're, southbound, brother and we're losing sixteen minutes this.
Way if you're a big, shot this is a good
time to jump on the hardy non big. Shots we've
got your east text. PROBLEM a second accident just cleared
at West Mount. Houston that's a better. Alternate this morning
from the north side we still have about three or
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lippy at the squeeze westbound right at forty.

Speaker 8 (01:07:23):
Five tony From, beaumont it In East age, Guy mike.

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All cleared to all my brothers veterans who served this
country LIKE i.

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DID i want to wish you guys a happy.

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And Safe Memorial.

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Day.

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Amen very, Nice tony From. Beaumont banana stickers all. Around,
terry you are on fire this morning with with weather and.
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YOU i THINK i. WAS i, MEAN i don't know
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At you will get the lower left is what he's looking.

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At, yeah, wow, right And saturn's visible early this morning
and when sun coming. Up, boh the sun should be
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of the planets you're going to be able to see this.
Morning you might be able to, regardless we are seeing
a big glowing object in the sky the next couple of.

(01:08:34):
Days we do have some clouds at the, moment but
they'll clear. Out we'll turn out partly cloudy. Today only
place we all see some rain near the. Coast there
is a twenty percent chance of a shower close to
the coast. Today the rest of us should be, dry
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(01:08:54):
of submarine a fifty percent chance of thunderstorms On, Monday
So Memorial, day little bit. Soggy temperatures will be warmer
in the load of mid nineties into early next.

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Speaker 4 (01:09:18):
Solutions So President trump has floated this idea of a golden.
Dome what in the world is a golden? Dome more
in that story coming up in just a, moment along with. Timeline,
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Speaker 8 (01:09:31):
Skyline the rest of.

Speaker 5 (01:09:32):
The media found that Wreck east tex Southbound Little. York,
okay they, cheated they used to, test but it's a left.
Shelder i'm glad we all know a big scotch from
the cemetery on the east Text hearty's your best. Route
got a new North Freeway andrew is up.

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There Got mike southbound At West. Road we got kerfuffles
in the main, lanes and the H Sylvine lane wells
at a dead. Stop all right?

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(01:10:24):
time to get caught up on some more of our
top stories this. Morning Here's, Cliff.

Speaker 8 (01:10:27):
Thank, You. Jimmy we're brought to you BY Dnm Auto.

Speaker 6 (01:10:29):
Leasing The president introduces us to The Golden dome missile defense.
SYSTEM A woodlands area tree trimmer is electrocuted in what
officials call an industrial. Accident And jimmy were updating the
case of The pennsylvania man who fell from the bleachers
at A Pittsburgh pirates. Game apparently he was under, age
and now there's another man facing charges for giving him beer.

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Weather next on the.

Speaker 4 (01:11:03):
Ten so here The president does they talk about The Golden.
DOME i, think what Does Notre dame got to do
with the missile defense? System THEN i, realized, oh wait a, minute,
no he's calling it The Golden dome Because israel has
The Iron, dome, right and of course Whatever israel's, got

(01:11:24):
as good as it, is will make it even better
because that's What President trump, does makes things, bigger, better more.
Beautiful so we're going to go with The Golden. Dome
here's The president talking about The Golden dome idea and
some response From Texas Representative Wesley hunt's.

Speaker 9 (01:11:40):
Designed for The Golden dome will integrate with our existing
defense capabilities and should be fully operational before the end
of my, term so we haven't done in about three.
Years once fully, constructed The Golden dome will be capable
of intercepting missiles even if they are launched from other
sides of the, world and even if they're launched from.

Speaker 26 (01:12:02):
Space, well after what we saw last week From President,
Trump President trump is committed this committed to peace through,
strength and that's exactly where what we're going to see
during the. Future you're going to see a peaceful. World
you're going to see a Peaceful. America you're going to
see these world wars that are going to come to
an end over the course of the next few. Years
and in doing, So President trump is also committed to
defending this great. Nation it says we are going to

(01:12:25):
be nation. Building it says we are going to be
getting involved in the wars all over the world.

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And paying for. Them isn't coming upon us to use.

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That says we need to have a border, secure not
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Biden The president met with The Republican House conference. Yesterday
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THREE A house hearing yesterday was looking at the obstruction
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Place Texas Congresswoman Jasmine, crockett ignoring the video showing mcgiver
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Shocker as MSNBC's Joe scarborough is confronted for lying To
america last year about, quote this is the Best biden.
Ever looking back at, that do you, say, well it
was misleading to say best by never without caveating it
and say except on the days when he's not the Best.

Speaker 12 (01:18:07):
Biden, well BUT i never saw those. Days, First well you,
did you, did because you saw him address a dead.
Congresswoman scarborough called out By Mark. Halper and so just
how bad was The biden cover? UP a Former obama.

Speaker 13 (01:18:21):
Official says it was, massive AND Rnc committee man Doctor
Robin armstrong says it's about time.

Speaker 14 (01:18:29):
The democrats are finally accepting reality years. Later that's what
it says to, me AND i think it's. SHAMEFUL i,
mean this is the biggest cover up In american.

Speaker 13 (01:18:38):
History the question now is will there be any? Accountability
that is a great.

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Question if we were able to find out who was
actually running the, country that person should be tried for.

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HOME A Houston City council vote today is on tap
for the new pay package FOR. Hpd if it's, passed
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could cause a huge exodus of deputies from The Harris
County Sheriff's.

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Office it's gonna definitely put particularly Our patrol division in
the crippling. Numbers patrol districts are going to have very few.

Speaker 6 (01:19:24):
Deputies Jose lopez with The Harris County Deputies organization says
The sheriff's office is already understaffed so. Far Judge Lena
hidalgo hasn't done much to address. This, tomorrow though she'll
ask for money for her trip To. PARIS A texas
van executed last night thirteen years to the day after
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Robbery Matthew johnson is the fourth person to be executed
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Responsibility at the at the hearing and, SAID i take
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Women one survey says the wives of men with at
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craig at The university Of houston, says.

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Ktrh there's a team Of turner Channeling Joe Scarborough Morning
joe seven on eight our time here In houston's morning. News,
Yeah Morning. Joe if you're going to give an interview to,
somebody you know they're going to ask you about the
best Ever. Biden, right remember when he had this whole
thing about best he's ever, been now, great how great he,

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is how firing on all, cylinders the Best biden. Ever,
well he got asked about. That here's the answer that he.
Gave and then reaction on the five From. Kennedy there were.

Speaker 12 (01:22:10):
Plenty of days in public when he when he was
not the Best biden ever of hearly.

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Stumbled and he, stumbled and he stumbled and bumbled.

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Around.

Speaker 8 (01:22:18):
MARK i, mean, yeah he certainly. Did Donald trump, did
other politicians.

Speaker 45 (01:22:22):
Did but but and it's actually the same case as
a lot of times When i've gone in and talked
To Donald. Trump that didn't seem to me to get
in the way Of Joe biden being able to analyze
the most important. Issues AND i certainly think he has
a better grasp on it than probably the overwhelming majority

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of his critics there certainly did WHEN i spoke with.

Speaker 37 (01:22:46):
Him Joe scarborough is in, denial and his words will
come back to haunt him for as long as he
is on the, air because he was the guy and
he's trying to kind of slack, it gloss over it
a little. Bit right, now give it a favorable, finish
which isn't gonna do any good because when you go
back and look at the original, tape he's, like this
is the Best Joe, biden and he keeps going back

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to analysis like his analysis is spot, on he is,
sharp he is, fast and it's, like, no he was
a withering vegetable who had real problems and everyone around
him knew. It and now they're all going on and
off the record to a number of different. Authors we've
got four books accounting About biden's cognitive decline to tell

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the opposite picture of the magical interactions That Joe scarborough
And Joe biden, had which you, know all you had
to do was look At Joe biden every other second
of the day to know that something was terribly. Wrong
and the prostate, cancer metastatic prostate. Cancer that diagnosis is
awful AND i wouldn't wish that on. Anyone you, know

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it's terribly sad and concerning that a family has to
deal with something like, That but they have managed to politicize,
it and you have to think logic would dictate that
they've known about that diagnosis for a long. Time it
is incredibly inconvenient for his post presidency because the other
post presidencies have been very lucrative in modern, history and

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he will not.

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That and so it feels like they kind of put
that news in there to because they were bookended by
the her tapes and of course the book that came
out Today Original, sin and they both draw a very damning.

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Portrait he heard the, latest by the, way in the
prostate test supposedly the floating the story anyway that The
biden has had prostate test A psa test in ten plus.
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we don't have that much rain and we'll see a
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Humidity today we've got a bit of. A break it's
a nice change. OF pace i have. To say we'll
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pretty close to where we should be this time of.
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bit of a, southerly breeze so load of mid, Nineties
tomorrow Friday and Saturday. And sunday sunday's our next chance,
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The day, All right so we have a report From
The Kinder houston area survey Done By rice university that
lists far and away the number, one problem the one
that has up to fifty Percent of houstonians rethinking whether
or not they want to live in. The city. Is,
crime crime far and away the number. ONE concern i
think the mayor. UNDERSTANDS that. I know our next, guest

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Does Doctor. Greg freman he's A retired hpd captain who
will talk to him about all this in just. A, moment,
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Twenty two our Time Here In. HOUSTON'S Warning news a
right survey is always interesting to watch these kinder Surveys Out,
of rice university where they poll people and basically ask
them about the quality of Life In the. Greater houston
area there's a lot of very positive. Things in, there
for example about eighty percent of residents in all three
Counties In the greater houston metro Said that the houston
area was a better place to live compared to other

(01:29:40):
major metropolitan areas. Around the country. That's a positive but
for people living within the combines of The, city of
houston their number one concerns are. Crime And safety period
that is. The biggest thing they love the diversity. Of
the city they love a lot of other things, about
the city, the sports scene a lot, of other things
but crime and safety is far and. Away number one
that makes it pretty easy to know what needs to

(01:30:02):
be honed. In On Right doctor, GREG freeman JOINS Us. Retired, hpd,
captain welcome sir you're not surprised. By this survey, i'm, Guessing,
No no.

Speaker 31 (01:30:11):
Jimmy i'm nottton thanks for. Having me on crime and
safety has, always been paramount and fear of crime has
been a huge motivating factor for what we've seen as
a mass exodus in most urban cities over the last fifty.
To sixty years we've seen it play, out, many times.

Speaker 4 (01:30:28):
Yeah we have I'm originally From michigan and detroit is
probably the oldest example of flight, to the suburbs going
way back to the, nineteen sixty seven and many other
cities have seen. The same thing that's certainly something we
do not want To, see in houston where people just
get up and leave because they just don't count on
their ability. To, stay safe.

Speaker 31 (01:30:50):
No we don't and we've seen a resurgence in, the
inner city the rebuilding of, the. Infrastructure midtown uptown the
downtown area twenty five thirty years, ago was desolate only
had the police, and homeless people and now it's a
vibrant part of. The INNER city so i do think
you can see elements of the city coming back where
they're trying to improve the infrastructure and improve the safety.

(01:31:12):
And quality life but fear and crime is still a
huge driving motivation for people being scared and they don't
want to live in that, type of area and that's
why we're, going to.

Speaker 4 (01:31:21):
Move you know the thing that really strikes. ABOUT this
story i wish it were. A simple, answer we, don't
for Example that The city of houston needs to hire
a whole lot. More police officers the mayor has gotten
a good raise for the. Police officers Union Of course harriskoni.
Shriff's deputies have now they have a major problem, because
of that and maybe some of them are going to.

(01:31:42):
Be crossing over many of them may crossover to work
For For the houston police because of the. Difference in
pay but that's only part of the problem as it
relates to crime and Safety in The. City of houston
our court system is the real big problem as far,
as repeat offenders don't?

Speaker 31 (01:31:58):
YOU think, absolutely i, mean you know and just looking
quickly at the staffing issues, of our department we still
have the same number of police officers today that we had,
twenty years ago which is about. Fifty three hundred our population,
has increased exponentially almost. By a million but regardless of
how many officers, that we have we put these bad

(01:32:18):
people in jail twenty four to seven and it's a
revolving door with some of these courts. That are downtown
and until, that gets corrected you're letting these repetitive violent
offenders and it's only a very small portion of them
that make up a vast majority of. All the crime
and as long as they're allowed to be unfettered, into
the population we're just spen. In our wills so the
court system has to correct, itself as well and, that's a,

(01:32:39):
Huge huge issue.

Speaker 4 (01:32:41):
And that's probably, the biggest problem, don't you think because
we keep electing judges who seem to be more concerned
about criminals than they are about the citizens.

Speaker 8 (01:32:48):
Who, live here, Yeah.

Speaker 31 (01:32:51):
It's outrageous jimmy. It really is when, you start thinking what.
Are they THINKING we've arrested, i know personally they've arrested
people that have ankle monitors on that have been out
on five? Sellny bonds five how does that happen in The.
City of houston and you go back to the judges
and our police union has done a good job of
exposing who, these judges are but until they get booted,
out of office they're going to keep doing.

Speaker 6 (01:33:12):
The.

Speaker 4 (01:33:12):
Same, thing yeah good agree, With you, more thank you
there's always good to. Talk to you have. A Great Weekend,
doctor GREG Freeman retired hbd captain seven twenty six time
to take a look at your money as we check
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if they don't fix, The crime problem. Houstonians will leave
putting The pressure on congress to, pass that. Big beautiful
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Holiday Weekend. For memorial day when We Talked to terry
Smith At the weather channel in a little, over eight
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Speaker 8 (01:35:53):
For The News. Here's cliff Saunders.

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Heyk you jimmy it is seven THIRTY. One on ktrh.

Speaker 8 (01:35:57):
Our top story we Cannot leave the american people. WAITING
Or Wanting.

Speaker 6 (01:36:02):
O speaker mike johnson Could Bring, the trump agenda his
big beautiful Bill to the house floor for. A Vote
today the President met. WITH republicans yesterday i think, we
have fun.

Speaker 25 (01:36:13):
BELIEVE of motility i think we're going to get, everything
WE want and i think we're going to Have a great.

Speaker 6 (01:36:19):
Brinkley reports a johnson has A deal With blue state
republicans to boost the cap. On Salt exemptions the president
announcing that construction will Begin On. The golden dome it's
the missile defense system similar To what. The Israelis Use
Texas congressman Wesley Hunt Told fox business trump is fulfilling yet.

Speaker 8 (01:36:38):
Another campaign promise.

Speaker 26 (01:36:40):
You're the future you're going to see. A peaceful world
you're going to See. A peaceful america you're going to
see these world wars that are going to come to
an end over the course of the. Next few years
and In doing soident trump is also committed to defending.

Speaker 8 (01:36:51):
This Great NATION.

Speaker 6 (01:36:52):
Elon musk's SpaceX will help. Build the system And, speaking
of elon he made an announcement on his future plans yesterday.

Speaker 19 (01:37:00):
In terms, Of political spending i'm going to do a
lot less.

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In the future and.

Speaker 20 (01:37:05):
WHY is That.

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I think.

Speaker 6 (01:37:09):
I've done enough this is after the left threatened him
and harassed His Businesses.

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On Capitol Hill a.

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Mike Drop moment As, Secretary Of state marco Rubio When
After maryland Senator chris van holland during, a hearing yesterday.

Speaker 27 (01:37:23):
We, deported gang, members gang members including the one that
you had. To margarita with and that guy is, a
human trafficker and that guy is, A, gang.

Speaker 6 (01:37:31):
Banger Rubio Referencing, kilmar abrego Garcia who the democrats no,
longer talk about and that's because of. His Criminal history.
More Democrat Delusion Texas congressman al green files. Impeachment articles
Again Political analyst, lad davidick says the grand standing Is
all the dems really have.

Speaker 28 (01:37:50):
For Somebody, like congressman algreen who is, a completely, Inarticulate
unaccomplished politician it's not surprising to hear him push that
radical ideology in.

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That radical agenda.

Speaker 6 (01:38:04):
Green claims impeachment is the only Way to stop. Trump's
military takeover seven point THIRTY four On, ktrh in Austin
the state house moves, on property taxes approving increases to
both the standard and. Elderly homestead exemptions but troubling news heading,
into hurricane season a third party Audit reveals that centerpoint

(01:38:25):
did not use the billions worth of generators They Bought.

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After hurricane barrel centerpoint did not follow.

Speaker 29 (01:38:31):
Its own procedures there was clearly a RELATIONSHIP between The
ceo of centerpoint at the time and the company that,
supplied The generators.

Speaker 6 (01:38:40):
Uh Is at her centerpoint says they are meant for
rare blackouts that occur when state power plants can't generate
enough electricity.

Speaker 8 (01:38:48):
To meet demand the.

Speaker 6 (01:38:50):
Annual Survey Done by rice university reveals that almost half
of people in this area.

Speaker 8 (01:38:55):
Have considered moving.

Speaker 30 (01:38:57):
One of the top reasons cited was the high crime
that is.

Speaker 31 (01:38:59):
Placed the area fear is a huge concern among people
that are living. In a community they're very concerned, about
their safety, their children's safety and quality.

Speaker 8 (01:39:08):
Of life ISSUES That's Former Hpd.

Speaker 30 (01:39:10):
Captain greg, freeman he says once, residents start leading things usually.

Speaker 31 (01:39:13):
Just get worse it's a vicious cycle because your tax,
base is eroded then you have lesser city services or
fewer city services because they don't have the funding mechanism to.
Provide for, that.

Speaker 30 (01:39:23):
He says rather than leaving those concerned with public safety
should pressure city officials to make. It A Priority Ethan
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Two census data Shows that the texas population boom is
impacting the Suburbs Of The lone star.

Speaker 32 (01:39:36):
State suburban ring Areas, in the dalitary but then we
also See, them Surrounding Austin, surrounding san antonio And. Then
surrounding Houston.

Speaker 6 (01:39:43):
Estate demographer lloyd potter says fullsher is the second fastest Growing.

Speaker 8 (01:39:47):
City in texas.

Speaker 6 (01:39:49):
Over one point three million people will travel through the
airports This weekend In Houston for memorial day days after An.

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OUTAGE at hobby.

Speaker 33 (01:39:58):
A Power outage at hall last, week sparked worries but things.
Worked as designed.

Speaker 34 (01:40:03):
They lost commercial power that was an issued from the
power side, of the house not the faas out of
out and what happened is that rolled over to. Their
backup generator the generator kicked in.

Speaker 33 (01:40:11):
Empowered Their System Houston Airports system Director jim saysney act
says they haven't Had Issues, like newark international and they
have plenty of ways to.

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Get Going quickly at bush.

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Operation that's there he also reminds folks to check THE
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It's now seven THIRTY. Six, on ktrh.

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What happened, why it happened the information you need to.
Start the day Now back to. Houston's, morning news yesded
you don't hear about.

Speaker 4 (01:41:32):
This Very Often united states senate voted in favor of
something one. Hundred to nothing.

Speaker 8 (01:41:38):
One.

Speaker 4 (01:41:39):
Hundred to nothing, they all agreed when's the last? TIME
that happened i guess it happens more often than you,
think it does just because you know there's procedural things
that they do that they can. All agree on but
as far, as a policy when's the last? Time that
happened it's. Been a while they all voted Unanimously To
codify president trump no. Taxes on tips i'm not quite sure.

(01:42:04):
Why they did that is. A separate measure do they
not have confidence in the big beautiful bill getting in?

Speaker 8 (01:42:11):
Front of.

Speaker 4 (01:42:11):
Them maybe not i'd hate to think that they're going,
to have, to you know take every little piece of
The big beautiful bill and vote on them on. An
individual basis that will take forever in order to. Get
anything done but no? Taxes on tips how about? The
next one let's how about? Social security relief i'm. Not
sure that HERE'S here's how i thought the bill was,

(01:42:32):
supposed to be versus what. It might be my understanding
was Is that social security benefits would no longer be,
taxed over time would no. Longer be Taxed those were
those are a couple more things Supposedly In The. Big
beautiful Bill but what i'm looking at it says that
the bill would provide Tax Relief to social security recipients
by reducing taxes. On their benefits how about eliminating taxes?

(01:42:57):
On their benefits other other? Breaks in there again the
no tax on, not just tips but also no, tax
on overtime and some other provisions that Are In The.
Big beautiful bill like everything, else in, life you know
there's a, there's the budget there's a lot of things
as a part of that huge bill that we probably

(01:43:17):
don't even know what. Are in there and we probably
Not To quote NANCY pelosi because i rarely like, to
do that but we. May have to we may have,
to pass it divine out. What's in it that's the
way it usually. Seems to work seven forty time for traffic.
And weather together as we check out the, drive Once again.
Sky mike's, Here all right i've Got A clear grant
Parkway North. At riley fuzzle we had some kind of closure.

Speaker 5 (01:43:38):
FOR a while i don't think the rest of the
media knew much, about that either but. It was westbound
we had it affecting the ramp here and the backup
was about an hour. For a while from what some,
callers were saying but. This is westbound looks like that's out.
Of the way i'm double checking with the PRETTY. Ladies
on tv, They're, also saying yeah looks like everybody's getting
through from what we.

Speaker 8 (01:43:58):
All can see we'll keep an. Eye on.

Speaker 5 (01:43:59):
This twenty five this is our big scoochery.

Speaker 8 (01:44:02):
Of the morning inbound.

Speaker 5 (01:44:03):
Two twenty five the ramp that goes Up To The
ship channel bridge northbound is out it's. Completely shut down
some crazy stuff that's happening with, that ramp too so
they've got to do.

Speaker 8 (01:44:12):
Some emergency work we don't even have a timeline for
how long that's.

Speaker 5 (01:44:15):
Going to take now on, six' ten north we are,
loopy both ways westbound the usual slow down at the.

Speaker 8 (01:44:21):
Squeeze at forty five that's going to back you.

Speaker 5 (01:44:23):
Up from sixty nine now your southbound ramp from, sixty
nine is affected and then eastbound it's a pretty Good
Scoots right after durham little Two ninety up from telgy
And again right After Antwine. Coming in katie freeway i'm
just watching you drag It Now, off a grand parkway
off those ramps and it Gets Better after barker cypruss lose.

Speaker 8 (01:44:41):
About Eight minutes Inbound.

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I'm skymichael The Generator Supercenter dot com TRAFFIC Center from R,
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Speaker 4 (01:44:48):
Four Hour weather center. Terry smith is here we still,
have the cloud cover but it's been that. Way every
morning though we start off, with the cloud cover then
we'd burn it off and.

Speaker 20 (01:44:56):
End, up with sunshine yeah we should, see some sunshine
today but we do have a the front is stalled,
right along the coast and so we're seeing some clouds,
in relation to that and the upper level winds are,
out Of the southwest so i'm seeing some clouds that,
are hugging the coast but there's some breaks and we'll
see a little bit. Of sunshine later today main thing
is most of us are. Dry near the coast there's

(01:45:17):
that slight chance, of a SHOWER today but otherwise i
think most. Of us are dry we definitely have a little.
Less eat in humidity that's kind of a nice change of,
pace because After all it is may upper eighties. To
load nineties today now we're gonna warm up and a
little more humidity to go along with it, tomorrow through
the weekend load of Mid. Nineties tomorrow through sunday there's No,

(01:45:42):
rain though until sunday and then it's only a twenty
percent chance. Of a shower thunderstorm there's actually a Better
chance Of rain monday and. Tuesday up next week so
outdoor plans for the most part should be In Decent shape.
This memorial day weekend.

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The drive Once. Again here's sky Mine Let's.

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Go visoring westpark tollway there's breaks right before addicts cloning
this time six minute wait here something you got pavement
repair on all Ninety. The most city expressway. This time
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Speaker 4 (01:49:01):
That big beautiful bill president to. Lobbing very hard Yesterday,
he went, to congress you know trying To get the
chip roys of the world in line To Vote For.
The big beautiful bill i'm not sure. HOW successfull he
was i. Guess we'll find out also Trotting Out, yesterday
was steve miron he's The chair Of The, council of

(01:49:21):
economic advisors to talk about how good For The Economy
the big. Beautiful Bill would Be The council of economic
advisor has just put. Out a white paper.

Speaker 39 (01:49:30):
It's on our website you CAN get into the Ca
Website on The White house, the white house website and
we found exactly what you said that over, the next four,
years the tax bill the, one big, beautiful bill WOULD,
boost would boost gdp would boost the economy by about
four point two to five point two percent over the
next four years relative to what happens that. The bill
doesn't pass it'll create about, seven million new jobs and

(01:49:50):
it'll boost take home pay for a typical family of
four take home pay by about eight thousand.

Speaker 14 (01:49:55):
To.

Speaker 8 (01:49:55):
Thirteen thousand dollars right so these are, very.

Speaker 39 (01:49:58):
Significant growth effects and that's why it's so critical that
we get this.

Speaker 19 (01:50:01):
Bill over the line so help.

Speaker 8 (01:50:02):
ME out on.

Speaker 46 (01:50:03):
THIS i don't understand i keep, reading In Various Publications,
the Wall, street journal in alswoer the news pages of
These papers that the republican plan is going to increase
deficits by three trillion dollars over.

Speaker 8 (01:50:20):
The NEXT ten years but i think.

Speaker 39 (01:50:22):
It's really unfortunate that this conversation tends to BE dominated
by the cbo scoring Process Because This the congressional budget
office leaves out so much when. They're calculating their scores
here's all the things they leave out that are going
to bring. The deficit way down they leave at the
fact that this that this bill is. Going to boost
growth it's going, to boost economic. Growth which is huge
we get economic. Growth to three percent it creates four
trillion new. Revenues, over a decade. Right that's number one number.

(01:50:45):
Two is tariff revenue we're taking in hundreds of billions
on the on an annualized. Basis of tariff revenue that
brings down deficit ANOTHER. Percentage point of gdp number three
is going. To be interest expenses this bill and. Deregulation
together kill inflation by pushing out, the suppliesid the economy.
We kill inflation completely that allows interest rates to come
down if they come down to WHERE. They were before

(01:51:05):
covid it's another point at least. Off of the deficit, and, then,
there's custom. Waste fraud and abuse, between all these things
WE can reduce s deefsit by about three to four PERCENTAGE.
Points worth of gdp this is huge and none of it's.
In the scoring process so it's REALLY unfortunate that the
cbo scoring. Process dominates the conversation SO How Does The?
Cbo commercial budget office how do they figure out what

(01:51:25):
something costs or doesn't cost if they don't? Consider all
those things how can you? Possibly figure it out if
you don't? Consider all, Those things.

Speaker 4 (01:51:37):
You can so YOU, can't Trust The Cbo the congressional
budget office for what They're Saying About. The, big BEAUTIFUL
bill now am i here trying To Tell You the big? Beautiful,
bill is perfect. No no it's not but, it is
a far far cry better than anything we've seen Come
Out of the united. States, GOVERNMENT and, forever so i
mean who doesn't want To Get?

Speaker 31 (01:51:58):
Rid?

Speaker 4 (01:51:59):
OF social, security type i mean you already paid your
taxes When You. Paid into social security you shouldn't. Have
to pay them you shouldn't have to. Consider it income
anymore it's just A Withdrawal from your social security Account
as far as, i'm concerned by anyway we'll See how,
successful the president was and whether not this big beautiful
bill ends up getting passed here in the next Few.
Days in the house something tells me it's going to

(01:52:21):
take more than One trip from the president in order
to be able. To make this happen but he is pretty. Good, at, persuading,
people hey listen y'all. Have a great day i'll, see
you tomorrow morning bright and early at five Am here
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