August 20, 2024 • 27 mins
Gary and Shannon are LIVE from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
We are live in Chicago this week for the Democratic
National Convention. We were speaking earlier about how things went
way over schedule last night during the speaking portions of
the event.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Gary and Shannon, I hope you're having good and safe
fun in Chicago. But let me get this right. None
of the organizers have ever been to a convention before.
I noticed that the applause goes on for way too long.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah, But I also think it may have been yet
another way for them to poke a finger in the
eye of b Wasserman Schultz by putting her on the
schedule and then yanking her.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Yeah, I think that was scripted.
Speaker 6 (00:43):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
One of the things we've had our eye on are
the demonstrations and the potential for chaos outside as thousands
of demonstrators have taken to the streets. We saw some
of the action yesterday.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Jim Ryan is on.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
This beat for ABC News and joins us.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
US now from somewhere in Chicago.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
From US somewhere here, Jim, how are you hi?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (01:07):
Outside where The protesters gathered yesterday, thirty five hundred of
them according to the police, and they began in a park,
Union Park, which is several blocks away from the United Center,
that held a big rally there, primarily a pro Palestinian rally,
although there were some people who walked into this event
with Israeli flags. The police were there that these activists,
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called peacekeepers, were there to keep everybody separated and keep
it peaceful, and it was peaceful. The group then moved
over toward the United Center, thirty five hundred strong. This
big march that went on. Then at some point you
know that a few of them broke off and broke in.
This actually went over the outer perimeter fence or through
it or around it, or something got through that fence,
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and that they were approaching the bill. They couldn't get
close to it. Really. The police came and they were arrested,
but not before, according to the police, some of these
protesters sprayed the officers with pepper spray. The police say
they didn't spray anything, but the protesters did. So it's
only thirteen people were taken into custody during this whole thing.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
Here.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
There was also some action that I saw at least
video this morning from farther downtown near some of the
hotels where protesters ended up getting.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Tickled with batons.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Perhaps by a couple of Chicago police officers. What's the
expectation for the rest of the week. We know that
there are other permitted protests, right, yes.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
Well there are, and there's one tonight here there's a
little more not menacing than maybe ominous. The one that's
going to be held in front of the Israeli Consulate
here in Chicago. A group that does not have a
permit for this event is planning to rally there at
about seven o'clock this evening. It has made some interesting
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comments online. The slogan for this thing is make it
great like sixty eight, which you know is a callback
to nineteen sixty eight when the DNC here in Chicago
turned very violent. So, you know, I think that's one
to watch this evening. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
What are your plans for Chicago?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I mean, you've been outside, this is how do you
How are you going to stay safe?
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Well?
Speaker 7 (03:24):
I have my weights, you know, we've been issued equipment
and security folks who were with us, and so it's
just a matter of using what you know and what
you can do and the best way to escape the
situation when it turns nasty. So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Don't mess around with Jim Ryan.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I'll tell you that you got another thing coming.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Thank you all right, I have a great day. Thanks
for taking time for us. Talk you guys. Jim Ryan
there with ABC News. So there was.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
A former Obama senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett, a name should
be familiar.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
We spoke at a Axios.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Event today and gave a kind of a a look
at what Barack and Michelle Obama will be talking about.
Specifically during their speeches at the DMC tonight. She says
they will be calls to action about the need to
translate the excitement for Kamala Harris into votes. Valerie Jarrett,
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now CEO of the Obama Foundation, longtime friend of the family,
says that these two are going to emphasize the need
for an all hands on deck approach while also talking
about the sense of optimism that course through the party
its voters. She noted that former First Lady Michelle Obama
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knows Vice President Harris very well.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
She says that this is going.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
To be a message of us getting engaged again, working
hard again to get the vote out, about democracy being
under attack and under threat, and how it's up to
them to be engaged citizens to make sure the country
gets back on track.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well, like you said earlier, Obama, at least the president
has quite a speaking style and can hold an arena
like this pretty captivated.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
So we'll watch that tonight.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Welcome to Chicago for day two of the Democratic and
National Convention. The big headliners tonight, of course, we'll be
Barack and Michelle Obama. Obama giving the keynote speech tonight,
Harris not even going to be here Milwaukee.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
More importantly, what are we going to eat tonight? That
is a good question, because we've done the pizza.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
At least we've done so we should do another pizza place.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
Yeah, don't we do another pizza place? Okay, that's good. Okay,
you don't have to take don't hit me.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
I'm sorry. I'm sorry for striking you.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
But I got excited with the idea of another pizza place.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Because we did pizza the first.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Night, and then we had a piece of meat last
night that was a beautiful piece of meat. I enjoyed it.
It was it was most beautiful.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
People said it was the shiniest meats.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
It was the most beautiful, delicious meats. And the mac
and cheese was good as well.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
What was left of it.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And the diabetes I'll enjoy. But yeah, I think we
got to get back on that pizza train tonight and
the Navarro will act as the host for tonight's Day
two activities here at United Center.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
The theme for tonight is a bold vision for America's future.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
We talked about the Obamas. Governor JB.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Pritzker from Illinois will be one of the speakers for tonight.
According to the organizers for last Night, by the way,
multiple speeches had to be cut, including speeches from Debbie
Wasserman Schultz and cringresswoman gay Grace meng as well as
a performance by James Taylor because they ran completely over time.
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So anyway, we'll pay attention to those tonight. We'll talk
more about them tomorrow. But in the meantime, what else
is going on?
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Time four? What's happening?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I saw this just to keep it political here for
a second.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Robert F.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Kennedy Junior's running mate Nicole Shanahan said in an interview
today that the campaign is considering dropping its bid for
president and joining forces with Donald Trump.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
She was asked in a podcast today, the Impact Theory podcast,
about the stories that had been going around about whether
they were looking to the Harris campaign for a cabinet position.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Definitely not in talks with Harris.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Definitely never have brought up this idea of an endorsement
with Harris.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Definitely has never brought up a cabinet position with Harris.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
So now she says, that's all fake news, basically, But
she said that the options are looking at. One is
staying in obviously, but then suggested that if they did that,
they might pull votes away from and end up giving
Harris and Walls the presidency vice president six to.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Seven work seven pm.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yes, she says, or we walk away right now and
join forces with Donald Trump and explain to the base
why they're making that decision. And she said it's not
an easy decision. So that's something that is something that
they are looking at, at least in the Kennedy camp.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Did you hear about this story about the yacht that
overturned a super yacht tragedy. Apparently it was a high
powered attorney from New York Christopher Marveo and as jewelry
designer wife Nita among.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Six lost at sea.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
This was off the coast of Sicily on Monday morning.
There were twenty two people aboard this thing, one hundred
and eighty four foot luxury British vessel. Fifteen were rescued
after it overturned bad weather, perfect storm type stuff. One
body was found and there are six people unaccounted for.
They say that it overturned sometime after five am near Palermo,
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where it was ad There were ten crew members, twelve passengers,
including British, American and Canadian nationalities.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Wow, there's a price tag on the Boston Celtics. We
say that from the Chicago Bulls Arena. Of course, this
price tag is somewhere around six billion dollars. They said,
someone with extremely deep pockets is going to have to
pony up six billion for one of the world's leading
sports franchises.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Who's got six.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Billion sitting in the probably between the couch cushions.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Right now, Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And they're talking about Jeff Bezos, legitimate buzz about him
buying the Boston Celtics. According to Bill Simmons of The
Ringer Tim kain Man. That guy was pretty boring, wasn't
he Does anybody walk around and just go, hey, senator,
you might want to brush your hair real quick something.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
He had a gaggle of reporters around him earlier, and
I'm like, who's dying to talk to Tim Kaine?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I mean, he was the vice presidential nominee.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
I know.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
That.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
And a dollar will get you a bag of chips.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
So I mentioned Scott Peterson talking to Gloria Allread this morning.
The reason I did is because there's a couple documentaries out.
One is American Murder on Netflix that goes through the
whole thing, and one is a Peacock documentary called Face
to Face with Scott Peterson, and this is the first
time that he has spoken out about this since his
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two thousand and three arrest, maintaining his long held belief.
In this documentary, he goes on to say that a
group of burglars are responsible for his wife's death. This
is what he told the interviewer over a video call
from jail. He said, there was a burglary across the
street from our home. There was a lot of people involved,
and I believe Lacey went over there to see what
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was going on, and that's what she was taken.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Why would she go over there to see someone burgling
a house.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Yeah, I'm eight months pregnant. I'm going to go put.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
My life in jeopardy to see who's breaking into my
neighbor's house.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Now, well, maybe not as important, but the US Secretary
of State has visited fellow mediators Egypt and caught her
as he is trying to press ahead with the latest
diplomatic mission to secure a cease fire deal in Gaza.
Hamas and Israel have signaled that there are still some
challenges that remain the group. Hamas called the latest proposal
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presented to it a reversal of what had been agreed to,
and accused the United States in a statement of acquiescing
to new conditions from Israel. Of course, Anthony Blincoln didn't
say so. I didn't say as much or say anything
about this just yet.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Our table has.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Been confirmed at lou mal Natti's excellent. I think I've
been there before for football and it's a lot of pizza.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
It's very deep, it's very big.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
It might be the biggest deep dish pizza you've ever seen.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Is it the shiniest it's the shiniest.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
It is one of those places that people told us
we had to go.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
You are better looking than the pizza.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
That was a lie. The pizza is better looking than you,
much better looking.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
I see what you're doing, and I don't appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
In Chicago, just down the street, there's a new pangolin
pup that was born at the Brookfield Zoo.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
What's a pangolin?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Pangolin was one of those animals that they originally thought
might have prompted COVID. Really, yeah, because I guess a
panglin you could eat it. And they were making pangolin
stew with that angle in at that wet market.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
How do I? How do I spell that?
Speaker 6 (12:21):
The peg?
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Olin?
Speaker 5 (12:25):
There it is. Just look at how cute that little shit.
It's like an ard vark.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
But with the scales, We're going to go from pangolin
to one of the longer serving members of Congress and
we come back.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Pangolins are the only mammals that have scales. They're made
of keratin, the same material that makes up skin and.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Fingernails or hair and fingernails.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
The scales make up about twenty percent of their body
weight and it's their main defense mechanism. When threatened, pangolins
coral into a ball and become immobile. They're known as
scaly ant eaters because they eat ants, termites, and other
small insects. They use their long snouts and tongues to
reach into holes and nests to catch their prey. Oh
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my goodness, some panglins have tongues that could be up
to sixteen inches long.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Did you know that.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
I'm just going to turn that down. I can't hear
you anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
To seventy million insects live today in Chicago for the
Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
We're talking with Congressman Emmanuel Kleaver out of Kansas City, Missouri.
And I got to say right off the bat, I
know we're in Chicago and pizza is what you have here,
But the pizza out of the back of Kelly's Westport
in is where it's at late at night.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
That is absolutely correct. Yes, if you want to eat
something that will also serve as your breakfast, go to
Kelly's around eleven thirty twelve o'clock.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yes, Early last month, early in July, you were concerned.
You expressed concern about President Biden's debate performance. There was
also some concern on your part of coming into Chicago
for the convention. We didn't want an open convention, is
what you had said.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
How we're six weeks later. A lot has changed in
those six weeks. How are you feeling today in terms
of comfort with the way we the way the party
is handling things at this convention.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Well, I have never seen as my fourth I've never
seen a transformation like I have seen in this election.
You know, I did think that President Biden performed very poorly,
and I said it openly, and I was one of
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the ones. I was among the first ten members of
Countess that the can out supporting him in the last election.
So I'm faithful to him. But I'm also a realist,
and I think that we are now experiencing something that
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is rare and new. Enthusiasm is the mother's milk of
successful politics, and this enthusiasm is just unbelievable. Last night
was the most emotional political event I've ever been in
in my life. I don't know if I could take
another night with President Biden's Daughter's coming out talking about
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her dead. I have one daughter, and I'm sitting a
big grown man trying to keep from crying. I mean,
it was powerful.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
There wasn't a dry eye in the house. I mean
even Kamala. I mean, I think that was a really rare,
genuine moment that you get to see between the two
of them in terms of what that relationship actually is.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Yes, And the thing about Joe Biden is that he
is real. I mean, what you see is what you get.
And I served with Timmy with Tim Waltz for twelve
years in the house him quite well, and in some
ways he's the opposite. I mean, he's just there. I mean,
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he is the political culture's every man. I mean, you know,
we can sit up and I argue about football, and
of course he loses, you know, because it is not
I tried to take that into consideration. But he is.
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I mean, if you don't like Tim Walls, he's just
something wrong with you. I mean, because you may not
want to vote for him. But this guy is just
as real as anybody I've ever seen in politics. And
as I said, I've worked with him in Congress.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Well, we in California we know of Kamala Harris obviously
because she was our attorney general for a long time.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
She has a history there.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
In terms of her work in San Francisco as a
DA as well.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
What do we need to know about Tim Walls?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I mean, if, like you said, not a lot of
people know him, but you have worked him for, like
you said, twelve years in Congress, what do we need
to know about him in terms of making decisions about
whether we want him to be vice president.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
He can be a very serious person, and he is
coming out of an environment he understands. I mean, you know,
a small town, you know, trying to hustle to make
it in life, and then working on a job. He
wasn't making much money teaching school and coaching. You know,
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they give you an extra thousand dollars if you coach
and still teach it. I mean, you know. And so
he understands, you know, the average American and the person
who's not even average in terms of income. And I
think you can expect him to also be jovial. I
mean he you know, I think he could. He could
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look at these balls and find something funny about it.
And he's just a kind of guy that you want
to sit down and have a b with. I don't
drink beer, but if I did, it would.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
To your point there, Congressman.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
It seems like we are in this new era of
wanting politicians that speak like humans, plane speakers, people that
don't talk above our heads. Not no condescension anymore.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Uh, yes, we are there. I think people in this
country comes to the conclusion that, uh, you know, if
we went to we can go to college and take
a class in philosophy or theology. You know, we want
somebody who can be pepeology where where they just come
out and and be who they.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Are it is.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
And then because we can relate right Uh when when
when I was first married, our water was turned off
and my wife and I walked in the kitchen and
she turned the faucet on and no water came out.
We just it was one of the most memorable moments
of our of our marriage. I mean, you know we
I think we had the money, we just didn't pay
it because we didn't have any other money if we
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had paid it. But I think that people can relate
to that, and uh uh, and that's what they want
in that political leaders. They don't want somebody you know,
preaching down to them and who is and people who
are arrogant you know. Uh, look, I'm right and you're wrong,
and I'm intelligence. You're stupid that runs people away. I
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think we bring in more and more people when we
get people like Waltz, who is just an everyday person. Uh,
nothing fancy about him. What you see is what you get.
We invited him to Kansas City about five weeks ago
to speak to a group. Uh Russ Carnahan, who used
to be in Congress as the chair of our state party,
invited them in. So we have all these people out
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in this uh auditorium in the Country Club Plaza, which
is like a significant part of our city. And Tim
uh and Uh Governor Waltz comes in uh with jeans
on I mean, uh, I got a photograph in my pocket.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
He comes in with jeans and I tell people all
the time that that's him. You know, he got to
come in a three piece suit. I mean, kenwo jeans.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I love the familiarity that you keep trying to refer
to him as Governor Walls as opposed to Timmy. Everybody's
catching that we're talking with Emmanuel Cleaver, the congressman from
the fight in fifth District than the Kansas City area.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
And in the spirit of unity, I would just like
to say, I am reaching across the aisle as a
forty nine.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Ers fan talking to a Chiefs fan.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
It's completely diplomatic and polite.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
No bad blood was being polite so far?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Well, Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi. It can be cutting and very
nice and sweet and doing it. We had a bed
and Unle Sam Francis goes non for its candy, and
she had a bet was barbecue against the candy, and
she gave it to me and she said, enjoy it
while you can.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
You know, just me That makes me like her far.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Well, we've talked about the enthusiasm right that exists around
the Democratic.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Party and this ticket specifically.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
There will be a point where policy is going to
become a gigantic issue. Well, I'm hoping as a voter,
I'm hoping that the debates are the kind of place
where that policy discussion actually takes place.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
But Vice President Harris hasn't had to do much of
that as of yet.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
After this week, I mean, this week is probably not
the right time for policy because it's more of a
party party. When will she do that? When do you
think we can expect to see some of those real
hard down to the needy, gritty types of policy discussions
from her.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I think in about two weeks, she's going to submit
herself to press conferences. She's going to go on the
talk shows. She's going to answer all of the questions. Look,
she's forming her own policies and at the same time
walking between the rain drops. I mean, she's not going
to want her to stop at her boss and partner
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for the last almost four years. So I mean it's
a delicate kind of an experience. But she is going
to present policies that I think can relate to the
American public. She's getting criticism about her comments about, you know,
trying to crack down on people who exploit the country
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in some bad times. I mean, price gouging is a
big deal to the economists and to the political class.
You know, we want to debate this and that, you know,
whether it's going to bring down the economy and all
of that. The average American is angry when they know
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that they're being gouged. And so she's going to have
to go in deeper. She just can't say I'm I'm
going to stop price gouging. She's going to go beneath
the top layer, and I think she can.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Congressman Kleaver, thank you so much for your time today.
Was a pleasure to meet you. A lot more activity
today here in Chicago for the d NC, a lot
more politicians making the rounds, a lot more pretty people
walking around television type.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And you know, not so not so pretty people. But
who's to judge? There is a lot that's going on.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
That guy is a mirror for Maybe I thought he
was taller.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Well, no, we interviewed him eight years ago.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I thought he was. Did I have the same impression
that I thought he was taller?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
We were sitting down before, and also we weren't on
an elevated stage before.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
You may be you may look at everybody and think
they're shorter.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
He looks much shorter than I thought that he was.
You know, it was really tall, was Lester Holt?
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Lester Holt was very tall? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Bill Deblasio was walking through here a little bit earlier.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
He was very tall, Yeah, demure.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Maybe Booker was walking around the center from New Jersey.
Corey Booker was walking around with a they entourage. I
think that was the biggest by far that we that
we've seen. And he doesn't need it.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
He's built. He's a built man.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
He's the guy who will push you out of the
way if he had to. So tonight, of course, is
going to be night two of the Democratic National Convention.
They are looking to shorten the program because last night
went way late. We saw President Biden speaking well into
the eleven thirty.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
Hour if you were on the East coast, and.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I actually was waiting in my room last night looking
out the window because the hotel that he and Jill
stayed in two blocks away, two blocks all from me. Yeah,
and the night before or I guess it would have
been earlier in the afternoon when they flew in.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
There was a massive convoy.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
There's been just ubiquitous sirens throughout the city where the
part that we're staying in. The protesters did get pretty
close within I think six blocks.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Right, Yes, yeah, they were outside the Langham or something
like that. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I think that they if they're going to make any noise,
they should do it closer to our hotel tonight so
we can see what's going on without actually having to move.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
You just want to stand in your room looking out
the window down to.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
The street a reservation for a deep dish pizza place.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Trust me, you're not gonna want to move.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
So a couple notable absences actually tonight include Vice President
Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walls. They won't even be
around tonight. They're going to hold a rally at about
eight o'clock tonight Chicago time.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Is that kind of.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Weird VI for your party?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
You know?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I mean I know that it's not always here the
whole time, but it's like the Obamas are coming to town,
you know, and you skip out.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I would imagine you'll see both Governor Walls and Vice
President Harris represented via video.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Oh like that.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
They'll do something like that to to I don't want
people to think that they're gone, all right, but yeah,
they will be gone. They'll be in Milwaukee at five
Serve Arena, which is where, of course, the Republicans held
their convention last month, and too much I mean much
of a party atmosphere as you could have just a
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couple of days after.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Somebody had tried to kill your candidate.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Maybe the crowd size today, it's a big crowd. It's
one of the biggest. Maybe that's because the Obamas are
going to be here. They still they've got a lot
of star power going on.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Well, and the event itself.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I mean we're talking about the speeches don't even start
until five o'clock, so they got a late start yesterday.
I don't think that's going to happen again today, but yeah,
that star power is probably what's going to bring people in.
We were talking at the California delegate breakfast this morning
with some people who said last night was a very
late night because if you imagine they left the arena,
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they're basically all in buses or ride share vehicles. It
takes me to get out of this arena at the
end of the night. And if they were here until
ten thirty last night, they were partying, and so we
we earles at we earliest wee hours of the morning.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
That's why I always leave with a couple of minutes
left in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
That sounds like fun. You're fun at parties.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Well, I mean, if the game is done, put it
in refrigerator, you know what I.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Mean, put it in the refrigerator.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Well, the John Kobel Show is coming up next. We'll
be back tomorrow for Day three of the Democratic National
Convention and whatever sort of adventures we have over the
next several hours.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
We're gonna put this show in the refrigerator.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
That's a good idea. Gary and Shannon, we'll see you tomorrow.
Stay dry.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
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you can always hear us live on KFI AM six
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
We are live in Chicago this week for the Democratic
National Convention. We were speaking earlier about how things went
way over schedule last night during the speaking portions of
the event.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Gary and Shannon, I hope you're having good and safe
fun in Chicago. But let me get this right. None
of the organizers have ever been to a convention before.
I noticed that the applause goes on for way too long.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah, But I also think it may have been yet
another way for them to poke a finger in the
eye of b Wasserman Schultz by putting her on the
schedule and then yanking her.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Yeah, I think that was scripted.
Speaker 6 (00:43):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
One of the things we've had our eye on are
the demonstrations and the potential for chaos outside as thousands
of demonstrators have taken to the streets. We saw some
of the action yesterday.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Jim Ryan is on.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
This beat for ABC News and joins us.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
US now from somewhere in Chicago.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
From US somewhere here, Jim, how are you hi?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (01:07):
Outside where The protesters gathered yesterday, thirty five hundred of
them according to the police, and they began in a park,
Union Park, which is several blocks away from the United Center,
that held a big rally there, primarily a pro Palestinian rally,
although there were some people who walked into this event
with Israeli flags. The police were there that these activists,
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called peacekeepers, were there to keep everybody separated and keep
it peaceful, and it was peaceful. The group then moved
over toward the United Center, thirty five hundred strong. This
big march that went on. Then at some point you
know that a few of them broke off and broke in.
This actually went over the outer perimeter fence or through
it or around it, or something got through that fence,
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and that they were approaching the bill. They couldn't get
close to it. Really. The police came and they were arrested,
but not before, according to the police, some of these
protesters sprayed the officers with pepper spray. The police say
they didn't spray anything, but the protesters did. So it's
only thirteen people were taken into custody during this whole thing.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
Here.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
There was also some action that I saw at least
video this morning from farther downtown near some of the
hotels where protesters ended up getting.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Tickled with batons.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Perhaps by a couple of Chicago police officers. What's the
expectation for the rest of the week. We know that
there are other permitted protests, right, yes.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
Well there are, and there's one tonight here there's a
little more not menacing than maybe ominous. The one that's
going to be held in front of the Israeli Consulate
here in Chicago. A group that does not have a
permit for this event is planning to rally there at
about seven o'clock this evening. It has made some interesting
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comments online. The slogan for this thing is make it
great like sixty eight, which you know is a callback
to nineteen sixty eight when the DNC here in Chicago
turned very violent. So, you know, I think that's one
to watch this evening. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
What are your plans for Chicago?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I mean, you've been outside, this is how do you
How are you going to stay safe?
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Well?
Speaker 7 (03:24):
I have my weights, you know, we've been issued equipment
and security folks who were with us, and so it's
just a matter of using what you know and what
you can do and the best way to escape the
situation when it turns nasty. So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Don't mess around with Jim Ryan.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I'll tell you that you got another thing coming.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Thank you all right, I have a great day. Thanks
for taking time for us. Talk you guys. Jim Ryan
there with ABC News. So there was.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
A former Obama senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett, a name should
be familiar.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
We spoke at a Axios.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Event today and gave a kind of a a look
at what Barack and Michelle Obama will be talking about.
Specifically during their speeches at the DMC tonight. She says
they will be calls to action about the need to
translate the excitement for Kamala Harris into votes. Valerie Jarrett,
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now CEO of the Obama Foundation, longtime friend of the family,
says that these two are going to emphasize the need
for an all hands on deck approach while also talking
about the sense of optimism that course through the party
its voters. She noted that former First Lady Michelle Obama
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knows Vice President Harris very well.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
She says that this is going.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
To be a message of us getting engaged again, working
hard again to get the vote out, about democracy being
under attack and under threat, and how it's up to
them to be engaged citizens to make sure the country
gets back on track.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well, like you said earlier, Obama, at least the president
has quite a speaking style and can hold an arena
like this pretty captivated.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
So we'll watch that tonight.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Welcome to Chicago for day two of the Democratic and
National Convention. The big headliners tonight, of course, we'll be
Barack and Michelle Obama. Obama giving the keynote speech tonight,
Harris not even going to be here Milwaukee.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
More importantly, what are we going to eat tonight? That
is a good question, because we've done the pizza.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
At least we've done so we should do another pizza place.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
Yeah, don't we do another pizza place? Okay, that's good. Okay,
you don't have to take don't hit me.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
I'm sorry. I'm sorry for striking you.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
But I got excited with the idea of another pizza place.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Because we did pizza the first.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Night, and then we had a piece of meat last
night that was a beautiful piece of meat. I enjoyed it.
It was it was most beautiful.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
People said it was the shiniest meats.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
It was the most beautiful, delicious meats. And the mac
and cheese was good as well.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
What was left of it.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And the diabetes I'll enjoy. But yeah, I think we
got to get back on that pizza train tonight and
the Navarro will act as the host for tonight's Day
two activities here at United Center.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
The theme for tonight is a bold vision for America's future.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
We talked about the Obamas. Governor JB.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Pritzker from Illinois will be one of the speakers for tonight.
According to the organizers for last Night, by the way,
multiple speeches had to be cut, including speeches from Debbie
Wasserman Schultz and cringresswoman gay Grace meng as well as
a performance by James Taylor because they ran completely over time.
(06:51):
So anyway, we'll pay attention to those tonight. We'll talk
more about them tomorrow. But in the meantime, what else
is going on?
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Time four? What's happening?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I saw this just to keep it political here for
a second.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Robert F.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Kennedy Junior's running mate Nicole Shanahan said in an interview
today that the campaign is considering dropping its bid for
president and joining forces with Donald Trump.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
She was asked in a podcast today, the Impact Theory podcast,
about the stories that had been going around about whether
they were looking to the Harris campaign for a cabinet position.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Definitely not in talks with Harris.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Definitely never have brought up this idea of an endorsement
with Harris.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Definitely has never brought up a cabinet position with Harris.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
So now she says, that's all fake news, basically, But
she said that the options are looking at. One is
staying in obviously, but then suggested that if they did that,
they might pull votes away from and end up giving
Harris and Walls the presidency vice president six to.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Seven work seven pm.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yes, she says, or we walk away right now and
join forces with Donald Trump and explain to the base
why they're making that decision. And she said it's not
an easy decision. So that's something that is something that
they are looking at, at least in the Kennedy camp.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Did you hear about this story about the yacht that
overturned a super yacht tragedy. Apparently it was a high
powered attorney from New York Christopher Marveo and as jewelry
designer wife Nita among.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Six lost at sea.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
This was off the coast of Sicily on Monday morning.
There were twenty two people aboard this thing, one hundred
and eighty four foot luxury British vessel. Fifteen were rescued
after it overturned bad weather, perfect storm type stuff. One
body was found and there are six people unaccounted for.
They say that it overturned sometime after five am near Palermo,
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where it was ad There were ten crew members, twelve passengers,
including British, American and Canadian nationalities.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Wow, there's a price tag on the Boston Celtics. We
say that from the Chicago Bulls Arena. Of course, this
price tag is somewhere around six billion dollars. They said,
someone with extremely deep pockets is going to have to
pony up six billion for one of the world's leading
sports franchises.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Who's got six.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Billion sitting in the probably between the couch cushions.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Right now, Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And they're talking about Jeff Bezos, legitimate buzz about him
buying the Boston Celtics. According to Bill Simmons of The
Ringer Tim kain Man. That guy was pretty boring, wasn't
he Does anybody walk around and just go, hey, senator,
you might want to brush your hair real quick something.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
He had a gaggle of reporters around him earlier, and
I'm like, who's dying to talk to Tim Kaine?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I mean, he was the vice presidential nominee.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
I know.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
That.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
And a dollar will get you a bag of chips.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
So I mentioned Scott Peterson talking to Gloria Allread this morning.
The reason I did is because there's a couple documentaries out.
One is American Murder on Netflix that goes through the
whole thing, and one is a Peacock documentary called Face
to Face with Scott Peterson, and this is the first
time that he has spoken out about this since his
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two thousand and three arrest, maintaining his long held belief.
In this documentary, he goes on to say that a
group of burglars are responsible for his wife's death. This
is what he told the interviewer over a video call
from jail. He said, there was a burglary across the
street from our home. There was a lot of people involved,
and I believe Lacey went over there to see what
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was going on, and that's what she was taken.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Why would she go over there to see someone burgling
a house.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Yeah, I'm eight months pregnant. I'm going to go put.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
My life in jeopardy to see who's breaking into my
neighbor's house.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Now, well, maybe not as important, but the US Secretary
of State has visited fellow mediators Egypt and caught her
as he is trying to press ahead with the latest
diplomatic mission to secure a cease fire deal in Gaza.
Hamas and Israel have signaled that there are still some
challenges that remain the group. Hamas called the latest proposal
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presented to it a reversal of what had been agreed to,
and accused the United States in a statement of acquiescing
to new conditions from Israel. Of course, Anthony Blincoln didn't
say so. I didn't say as much or say anything
about this just yet.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Our table has.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Been confirmed at lou mal Natti's excellent. I think I've
been there before for football and it's a lot of pizza.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
It's very deep, it's very big.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
It might be the biggest deep dish pizza you've ever seen.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Is it the shiniest it's the shiniest.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
It is one of those places that people told us
we had to go.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
You are better looking than the pizza.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
That was a lie. The pizza is better looking than you,
much better looking.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
I see what you're doing, and I don't appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
In Chicago, just down the street, there's a new pangolin
pup that was born at the Brookfield Zoo.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
What's a pangolin?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Pangolin was one of those animals that they originally thought
might have prompted COVID. Really, yeah, because I guess a
panglin you could eat it. And they were making pangolin
stew with that angle in at that wet market.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
How do I? How do I spell that?
Speaker 6 (12:21):
The peg?
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Olin?
Speaker 5 (12:25):
There it is. Just look at how cute that little shit.
It's like an ard vark.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
But with the scales, We're going to go from pangolin
to one of the longer serving members of Congress and
we come back.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Pangolins are the only mammals that have scales. They're made
of keratin, the same material that makes up skin and.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Fingernails or hair and fingernails.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
The scales make up about twenty percent of their body
weight and it's their main defense mechanism. When threatened, pangolins
coral into a ball and become immobile. They're known as
scaly ant eaters because they eat ants, termites, and other
small insects. They use their long snouts and tongues to
reach into holes and nests to catch their prey. Oh
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my goodness, some panglins have tongues that could be up
to sixteen inches long.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Did you know that.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
I'm just going to turn that down. I can't hear
you anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
To seventy million insects live today in Chicago for the
Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
We're talking with Congressman Emmanuel Kleaver out of Kansas City, Missouri.
And I got to say right off the bat, I
know we're in Chicago and pizza is what you have here,
But the pizza out of the back of Kelly's Westport
in is where it's at late at night.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
That is absolutely correct. Yes, if you want to eat
something that will also serve as your breakfast, go to
Kelly's around eleven thirty twelve o'clock.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yes, Early last month, early in July, you were concerned.
You expressed concern about President Biden's debate performance. There was
also some concern on your part of coming into Chicago
for the convention. We didn't want an open convention, is
what you had said.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
How we're six weeks later. A lot has changed in
those six weeks. How are you feeling today in terms
of comfort with the way we the way the party
is handling things at this convention.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Well, I have never seen as my fourth I've never
seen a transformation like I have seen in this election.
You know, I did think that President Biden performed very poorly,
and I said it openly, and I was one of
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the ones. I was among the first ten members of
Countess that the can out supporting him in the last election.
So I'm faithful to him. But I'm also a realist,
and I think that we are now experiencing something that
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is rare and new. Enthusiasm is the mother's milk of
successful politics, and this enthusiasm is just unbelievable. Last night
was the most emotional political event I've ever been in
in my life. I don't know if I could take
another night with President Biden's Daughter's coming out talking about
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her dead. I have one daughter, and I'm sitting a
big grown man trying to keep from crying. I mean,
it was powerful.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
There wasn't a dry eye in the house. I mean
even Kamala. I mean, I think that was a really rare,
genuine moment that you get to see between the two
of them in terms of what that relationship actually is.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Yes, And the thing about Joe Biden is that he
is real. I mean, what you see is what you get.
And I served with Timmy with Tim Waltz for twelve
years in the house him quite well, and in some
ways he's the opposite. I mean, he's just there. I mean,
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he is the political culture's every man. I mean, you know,
we can sit up and I argue about football, and
of course he loses, you know, because it is not
I tried to take that into consideration. But he is.
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I mean, if you don't like Tim Walls, he's just
something wrong with you. I mean, because you may not
want to vote for him. But this guy is just
as real as anybody I've ever seen in politics. And
as I said, I've worked with him in Congress.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Well, we in California we know of Kamala Harris obviously
because she was our attorney general for a long time.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
She has a history there.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
In terms of her work in San Francisco as a
DA as well.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
What do we need to know about Tim Walls?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I mean, if, like you said, not a lot of
people know him, but you have worked him for, like
you said, twelve years in Congress, what do we need
to know about him in terms of making decisions about
whether we want him to be vice president.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
He can be a very serious person, and he is
coming out of an environment he understands. I mean, you know,
a small town, you know, trying to hustle to make
it in life, and then working on a job. He
wasn't making much money teaching school and coaching. You know,
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they give you an extra thousand dollars if you coach
and still teach it. I mean, you know. And so
he understands, you know, the average American and the person
who's not even average in terms of income. And I
think you can expect him to also be jovial. I
mean he you know, I think he could. He could
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look at these balls and find something funny about it.
And he's just a kind of guy that you want
to sit down and have a b with. I don't
drink beer, but if I did, it would.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
To your point there, Congressman.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
It seems like we are in this new era of
wanting politicians that speak like humans, plane speakers, people that
don't talk above our heads. Not no condescension anymore.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Uh, yes, we are there. I think people in this
country comes to the conclusion that, uh, you know, if
we went to we can go to college and take
a class in philosophy or theology. You know, we want
somebody who can be pepeology where where they just come
out and and be who they.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Are it is.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
And then because we can relate right Uh when when
when I was first married, our water was turned off
and my wife and I walked in the kitchen and
she turned the faucet on and no water came out.
We just it was one of the most memorable moments
of our of our marriage. I mean, you know we
I think we had the money, we just didn't pay
it because we didn't have any other money if we
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had paid it. But I think that people can relate
to that, and uh uh, and that's what they want
in that political leaders. They don't want somebody you know,
preaching down to them and who is and people who
are arrogant you know. Uh, look, I'm right and you're wrong,
and I'm intelligence. You're stupid that runs people away. I
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think we bring in more and more people when we
get people like Waltz, who is just an everyday person. Uh,
nothing fancy about him. What you see is what you get.
We invited him to Kansas City about five weeks ago
to speak to a group. Uh Russ Carnahan, who used
to be in Congress as the chair of our state party,
invited them in. So we have all these people out
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in this uh auditorium in the Country Club Plaza, which
is like a significant part of our city. And Tim
uh and Uh Governor Waltz comes in uh with jeans
on I mean, uh, I got a photograph in my pocket.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
He comes in with jeans and I tell people all
the time that that's him. You know, he got to
come in a three piece suit. I mean, kenwo jeans.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I love the familiarity that you keep trying to refer
to him as Governor Walls as opposed to Timmy. Everybody's
catching that we're talking with Emmanuel Cleaver, the congressman from
the fight in fifth District than the Kansas City area.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
And in the spirit of unity, I would just like
to say, I am reaching across the aisle as a
forty nine.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Ers fan talking to a Chiefs fan.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
It's completely diplomatic and polite.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
No bad blood was being polite so far?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Well, Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi. It can be cutting and very
nice and sweet and doing it. We had a bed
and Unle Sam Francis goes non for its candy, and
she had a bet was barbecue against the candy, and
she gave it to me and she said, enjoy it
while you can.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
You know, just me That makes me like her far.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Well, we've talked about the enthusiasm right that exists around
the Democratic.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Party and this ticket specifically.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
There will be a point where policy is going to
become a gigantic issue. Well, I'm hoping as a voter,
I'm hoping that the debates are the kind of place
where that policy discussion actually takes place.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
But Vice President Harris hasn't had to do much of
that as of yet.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
After this week, I mean, this week is probably not
the right time for policy because it's more of a
party party. When will she do that? When do you
think we can expect to see some of those real
hard down to the needy, gritty types of policy discussions
from her.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I think in about two weeks, she's going to submit
herself to press conferences. She's going to go on the
talk shows. She's going to answer all of the questions. Look,
she's forming her own policies and at the same time
walking between the rain drops. I mean, she's not going
to want her to stop at her boss and partner
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for the last almost four years. So I mean it's
a delicate kind of an experience. But she is going
to present policies that I think can relate to the
American public. She's getting criticism about her comments about, you know,
trying to crack down on people who exploit the country
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in some bad times. I mean, price gouging is a
big deal to the economists and to the political class.
You know, we want to debate this and that, you know,
whether it's going to bring down the economy and all
of that. The average American is angry when they know
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that they're being gouged. And so she's going to have
to go in deeper. She just can't say I'm I'm
going to stop price gouging. She's going to go beneath
the top layer, and I think she can.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Congressman Kleaver, thank you so much for your time today.
Was a pleasure to meet you. A lot more activity
today here in Chicago for the d NC, a lot
more politicians making the rounds, a lot more pretty people
walking around television type.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And you know, not so not so pretty people. But
who's to judge? There is a lot that's going on.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
That guy is a mirror for Maybe I thought he
was taller.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Well, no, we interviewed him eight years ago.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I thought he was. Did I have the same impression
that I thought he was taller?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
We were sitting down before, and also we weren't on
an elevated stage before.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
You may be you may look at everybody and think
they're shorter.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
He looks much shorter than I thought that he was.
You know, it was really tall, was Lester Holt?
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Lester Holt was very tall? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Bill Deblasio was walking through here a little bit earlier.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
He was very tall, Yeah, demure.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Maybe Booker was walking around the center from New Jersey.
Corey Booker was walking around with a they entourage. I
think that was the biggest by far that we that
we've seen. And he doesn't need it.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
He's built. He's a built man.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
He's the guy who will push you out of the
way if he had to. So tonight, of course, is
going to be night two of the Democratic National Convention.
They are looking to shorten the program because last night
went way late. We saw President Biden speaking well into
the eleven thirty.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
Hour if you were on the East coast, and.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I actually was waiting in my room last night looking
out the window because the hotel that he and Jill
stayed in two blocks away, two blocks all from me. Yeah,
and the night before or I guess it would have
been earlier in the afternoon when they flew in.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
There was a massive convoy.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
There's been just ubiquitous sirens throughout the city where the
part that we're staying in. The protesters did get pretty
close within I think six blocks.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Right, Yes, yeah, they were outside the Langham or something
like that. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I think that they if they're going to make any noise,
they should do it closer to our hotel tonight so
we can see what's going on without actually having to move.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
You just want to stand in your room looking out
the window down to.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
The street a reservation for a deep dish pizza place.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Trust me, you're not gonna want to move.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
So a couple notable absences actually tonight include Vice President
Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walls. They won't even be
around tonight. They're going to hold a rally at about
eight o'clock tonight Chicago time.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Is that kind of.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Weird VI for your party?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
You know?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I mean I know that it's not always here the
whole time, but it's like the Obamas are coming to town,
you know, and you skip out.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I would imagine you'll see both Governor Walls and Vice
President Harris represented via video.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Oh like that.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
They'll do something like that to to I don't want
people to think that they're gone, all right, but yeah,
they will be gone. They'll be in Milwaukee at five
Serve Arena, which is where, of course, the Republicans held
their convention last month, and too much I mean much
of a party atmosphere as you could have just a
(26:11):
couple of days after.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Somebody had tried to kill your candidate.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Maybe the crowd size today, it's a big crowd. It's
one of the biggest. Maybe that's because the Obamas are
going to be here. They still they've got a lot
of star power going on.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Well, and the event itself.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I mean we're talking about the speeches don't even start
until five o'clock, so they got a late start yesterday.
I don't think that's going to happen again today, but yeah,
that star power is probably what's going to bring people in.
We were talking at the California delegate breakfast this morning
with some people who said last night was a very
late night because if you imagine they left the arena,
(26:50):
they're basically all in buses or ride share vehicles. It
takes me to get out of this arena at the
end of the night. And if they were here until
ten thirty last night, they were partying, and so we
we earles at we earliest wee hours of the morning.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
That's why I always leave with a couple of minutes
left in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
That sounds like fun. You're fun at parties.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Well, I mean, if the game is done, put it
in refrigerator, you know what I.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Mean, put it in the refrigerator.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Well, the John Kobel Show is coming up next. We'll
be back tomorrow for Day three of the Democratic National
Convention and whatever sort of adventures we have over the
next several hours.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
We're gonna put this show in the refrigerator.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
That's a good idea. Gary and Shannon, we'll see you tomorrow.
Stay dry.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Everybody you've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show,
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