June 27, 2025 • 32 mins
Dueling Lawsuits: Newson and Trump vs. TV Networks. Hollywood is Fading. Big Sur’s Remoteness Is a Selling Point. Now It’s Driving Longtime Owners Away.
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This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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A bunch of stories that we are following. Supreme Court
came down with a series of decisions today. The biggest
one was dealing with the birthright citizenship case, but not
deciding on birthright citizenship actually was a procedural question, but
they said that individual judges do not have the authority
to grant nationwide injunctions. This is being hailed as a
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win for the Trump administration. Arguably it's better to say
it's a win for the presidency because other presidents have
dealt with this issue as well and have been upset
by it as well. President Biden, President Obama, President George W.
Bush all had arguments against these judges that grant nationwide injunctions.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
So that was decided today.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
There was also one about age verification for pornography sites,
parents opting out of LGBTQ, plus lessons in schools.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Things like that.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Closing arguments are taking part in the defense. Closing arguments
in the Sean Didty Combs Chase Sean diddy Combe's case,
his attorney had said, listen, we own the domestic violence.
I mean argue, how could you not. The video that
was shown in courtroom was of him beating up his girlfriend,
Cassie Ventura, but the attorney said, remember, that's not what
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he's being charged with. Locally, the Santa Nez Reservoir up
in the Palisades, which was empty was being repaired at
the time of the firestorm in January, is finally back online,
just in time. LA Department of Water and Power says
the reservoir had been out of service since early twenty
twenty four because its floating cover had a significant tear.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Apparently that needed to be fixed.
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we can. But she's not going to be suspended for
what happens on the Weekend Fix. You remember, earlier this month,
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President Trump called in the National Guard here in Los
Angeles to protect federal buildings federal troops. When he described
why he did that, he talked about calling Governor Gavin
Newsom and talking to him about what was happening in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Kind of do a better job. He's doing a bad job,
causing a lot of death and a lot of potential death.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Gavin Newsom says that phone call never happened. He actually
wrote on Twitter that day there was no call, not
even a voicemail. Americans should be alarmed that a president
deploying marines onto our streets doesn't even know who he's
talking to. Well, then the President came out with a
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call log that did show, yes, there was a phone call.
The timing was all wrong. The President got that part
of it completely wrong. But they did have a phone call.
They talked for fifteen sixteen minutes on the Friday night,
even though the President referred to it being Sunday or
something like that. I don't know why he got it wrong,
but he got that part wrong. Then Fox News host
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Jesse Waters went on TV and blasted Governor Newsom.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Newsom responded and he said there wasn't a phone call,
said Trump never called him, not even avoid smile. He said,
but John Roberts got Trump's call ogs and it shows
Trump called him late Friday night and they talked for
sixteen minutes. Why would Newsom lie and claimed Trump never
called him? Why would he do that?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
That was enough for Gavin Newsom today to file a
lawsuit against Fox News claiming that Fox News defamed him.
This suit, filed in Delaware, that's where Fox News is incorporated,
looks for damages of at least get ready for this,
seven hundred and eighty seven million dollars, and a court
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order that prohibits Fox from broadcasting or posting segments that
mistakenly say that he lied about that call with Trump. Now,
this is taking an exact page out of Donald Trump's book,
So I'm not sure why he thinks this is a
good idea. The lawyers also sent a letter to Fox News.
They demand a formal retraction and an on air apology.
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From Jesse Waters. If those conditions are met according to
this other letter, then Gavin Newsom will withdraw the lawsuit.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
The damages.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
By the way, that number seven hundred and eighty seven
million dollars is important because that's the same amount that
Fox News had to pay to settle a lawsuit by
Dominion Voting Systems that accused Fox of publicizing fake election
conspiracies that damaged dominion voting system systems. And Gavin Newsom
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put out a statement and said, quote, if Fox News
wants to light to the American people on Donald Trump's behalf,
it should face consequences just like it did in the
Dominion case. I believe the American people should be able
to trust the information they receive from a major news
outlet such a a What a waste of time. It's
a stupid waste of time. Gavin Newsom knew he had
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been on the phone with the President and was nitpicking
the timeline as to when he spoke to the president.
That's on Gavin Newsom the president. You can't rely on
that guy to get the facts straight right. He didn't
know what day it was when he made that comment.
I'm not making an excuse for the guy. I'm just saying,
if he's the one you're looking for the fine minutia,
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you're looking up the wrong tree.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
While that's going on.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And I mentioned that this is taking a page out
of Trump's book, a mediator has proposed that Trump and Paramount,
the owner of CBS, settle a plan, sorry, settle a
lawsuit for twenty million dollars. This is where the President
sued CBS and Paramount over the sixty minutes interview with
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Kamala Harris that they totally edited. The proposal would be
seventeen million dollars for a donation to the presidential foundation
or museum, and then millions more in legal fees, even
a public service announcement on CBS to fight anti Semitism.
I'm not sure how that plays into any of this,
but Trump soon dude earlier in I should say, Trump
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sued earlier and was asking for twenty billion dollars in
damages even though we won the election. CBS had argued
it didn't doctor the comments rared it. They said it
aired a more succinct version of her response. So now
Gavin Newsom's jumping into this whole lawsuit thing. Yet another
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article about Hollywood and its fading glory. We'll go through
this latest Washington Post dissection of what's wrong with one
of the major industries here in southern California when we
come back. Also a shot at one thousand bucks.
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but Soka Hollywood. A guy named George Wong is a screenwriter, director,
and film professor at UCLA and said of Hollywood, the
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industry is on a cliff edge, clinging by its fingernails.
It feels like one more blow, even just a tiny
feather on our shoulder, is going to send us careening
down to our rocky deaths. Hollywood has dealt with bad
times before other locales, whether it's a Vancouver they call
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it Hollywood North, or Atlanta they call it Yallywood.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Get it.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
They have been luring productions and companies away from Hollywood
for a long time. But this moment right now in
Hollywood is probably more precarious than ever, and we've talked
about it multiple times. The Washington Post is the latest
publication to come out with the story lamenting the loss
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of business out of Hollywood into foreign countries, other states.
All of that when you look at the conditions today
in Hollywood compared to what they were a couple of
years ago. We had the ridiculous pandemic shutdown in twenty twenty, which,
by the way, the film and TV industry still clinked
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still to this day, five years later, still clings to
some of those COVID rules and regulations about on set
health requirements. The pandemic shutdown, which basically decimated just about
every industry in Southern California and particularly the movie and
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TV industry, paired with the labor strikes, the actor strike,
the writers strike, the other strikes that have always been threatened,
the wildfires that came through and had a less of
an impact, but still an impact, all of them combined
with the falling box office revenues, the empty theaters, another
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headline today that said, basically, there's maybe twenty years left
on the movie.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Theater industry itself.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Gavin Newsom has paid attention, the governor, the president has
paid attention despite the fact that they agree on nothing
other than how to sue TV networks. There is agreement
that Hollywood is being destroyed. That was the president's Those were,
i should say, the president's words last month that Hollywood
is being destroyed and they have to find some other
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way to do this, to fix this, to make this
a thing where Hollywood stays in Hollywood. They're talking about
tax credits companies can use to can sell, or use
to offset their tax liability. These film tax credits kind
of have a mixed track record. Some researchers have said
that their poor use of taxpayer money. They're still popular
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among lawmakers, though, because they have proved effective at pulling
productions away from Los Angeles, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, they
New Mexico now as well.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
They all have very.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Significant tax credit plans that will entice productions out of
California into those other areas.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Other states are doing this as well.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Lawmakers in New York and Texas have earmarked hundreds of
millions of additional dollars to their tax credit programs. Other
countries are now doing the same, So there's a number
of productions that are moving overseas. Bill Mchanicks quoted in
this Washington Post article. He's a former top executive paramount
Disney Fox. He's got a good resume, and he said
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he's preparing to produce a film noaw set in La
and he wants to shoot it in La Duh. But
he says he may have to go to Australia to
film a movie about La. And he says, you have
a choice. Do you want to make the movie or
do you not want to make the movie. This is
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a guy grew up in Michigan, watched the decline of
the car industry in Detroit and sees a lot of
echoes in what's going on in California today with what
happened in Michigan and that Upper Midwest, which was the
absolute Earth's heartbeat when it came to automobile production. California
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does have a tax credit program, but we can't afford it.
Let me rephrase that. We run out of money every
single year. And now they want to double it. They
want to raise it from three p forty I believe
it is to seven hundred and fifty million dollars annually.
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And the legislature is also looking at bills that would
increase the credit base rate allow more types of productions
to be eligible for the program.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Listen, there's a lot of people who say this is.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Just a Hollywood and out because especially we're trying to
close this budget deficit. But supporters have said, it's not
just an LA thing, It's not just an LA County thing.
This is all of the state of California that could
benefit from a healthy, revived Hollywood. President Trump had talked
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about his plan, which would be one hundred percent tariff
on movies that were made overseas.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
There is a concern that.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
That would be that feather that the guy referred to,
the one feather on the shoulder that would cause the downfall.
A lot of people said it would send Hollywood into
a death spiral because there are plenty of movies that
are made overseas that are still worth.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
A lot of money.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
All right, coming back, another California story, was in Big
sur a couple of years ago, and absolutely loved it.
Wife and I spent almost a week there and it's beautiful.
The thing is, it's hard to get to now why
some people moved to Big Survey because it's so remote.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
They didn't think it would be this remote.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
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Speaker 2 (15:15):
President Trump does say he expects Iran to open itself
to international inspection to verify that it is not going
to restart its nuclear program. He was asked in this
news conference earlier today. He was talking about the Supreme
Court decisions, but they asked him about it and if
he was going to demand during these upcoming talks with
Iran that the IAEA or some other organization be authorized
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to conduct inspections, and he said, Iran would have to
cooperate with that group or somebody that we respect, including ourselves.
I don't know if Americans would go in, but something
we'll keep our eyes on. Shannon's out today, shoot on vacation, jan.
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Speaker 3 (15:56):
Okay, that's the weirdest request we've had all day.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
But okay, my god, that's many years old.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
That's an older but a.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
Good Shannon's infectious gigf My favorite Shannon's sound was the
excitement that came out of her when she learned that
the conclave had selected an American pope. Just thinking of
that always brings a smile to my face.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Priceless when he said, we got him. I think that's
what she said.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Bro, that's white.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeah, the white smoke. All right, we'll get into big
stir here in just one second. Something to clear up.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
Good morning, Gary John from the Inland Empire. Hey John, Hey,
So the phone call between Newsom and Trump, it was
a lie. Here's the double standard is a y'all support
Donald Trump, sou and everybody, but when exact same thing
criticizing Donald Trump did lie? He said he made a
phone call on Sunday. He made a phone call on Friday.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
That's a lie.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
I don't know where y'all don't understand that.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
But yeah, I already talked about that. I already said
you can't trust that guy. You can't trust whatever timeline
he thinks he has in his head, that he was
completely wrong about it. And the idea of suing Paramount
or CBS for twenty billion dollars laughable, laughable. I don't
quite hear what. I don't quite know what other people here.
Let's talk about Big sir. Big sur is a place
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up along the California coast between Carmel and Gosh.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I don't know what's what's the biggest place on the coast.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
There, Carmel and San Simeon maybe, and Big Sur is
absolutely gorgeous. God's country. I mean it is full of trees,
it's incredible views. Some of the most iconic pictures of
California come out of the Big Sur area. And it
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used to be that being that far away, I mean
mileage wise, you're not far away from everything, but being
that far away mentally from the hustle and bustle of
the rest of California was a huge selling point. There
are people who moved there in the eighties and lived
in a camper on a five acre plot of land
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and built a massive home. This is a Briga and Reed.
They moved there from La to Big Sur in nineteen
eighty three and they built their own home there, incredible
custom home, all kinds of huge windows to view the landscape,
the mountains on one side, the ocean on the other.
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And they want to sell their home. They're getting out.
They're selling for three million dollars. Not because things are
awful there. They just realized that at their age and stage,
you know, seventies, eighties, it's probably a better idea for
them to be close to grandkids or kids, or a hospital.
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And they just admit it's a little bit harder for
them to be there. I mentioned the interior, I should
say I need to mention the interior this home. It
is ridiculously beautiful and all of the views make this
thing a three million dollar home at least. Now the
problem with Big Sur. I went through this a couple
of years ago, and my wife and I in twenty
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twenty three June, almost exactly two years ago, we went
to Big Sur. But you can't get there from here.
I mean you can, but we had to go up
through Monterey. That's fine, spend a day in Monterey, go
to the aquarium, drive down through Carmel and hang out
in Big Sir. Again, beautiful place, couple of restaurants, a
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couple of places for you to stop by.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
But that was before there were some problems.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Now the Rocky Creek Bridge is currently undergoing repairs. Rocky
Creek Bridge is just to the north of Big Sur
and you can get through there, but you basically have
to wait until the fog lifts because it's pretty hard
to drive through there, depending on how experienced you are.
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You also have to use a Caltrans escort because there
was a slide March of twenty twenty four. That again
that didn't impact our trip, but March of twenty four
there's a slide right near Rocky Creek Bridge. Trips in
and out of Big Sur are now only twice a day.
You can only if you're a resident, use the Caltrans convoy.
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They did open one lane last month to signaled traffic control, so,
but that portion of the road had been closed for
overnight repair work periodically throughout the spring. Below that, south
of Big Sir, there's about a seven mile section near
Lucia is a tiny little hamlet there that's been closed
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since February of twenty four and is not expected to
reopen until the sometime after this summer.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I mean, that's eighteen months of closure along Highway one.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
CalFire also released an updated map that shows just about
all of Big Sur is in what they call a
very high fire hazard severity zone, which means you can't
get insurance and if you can, it's going to be
more your your installments are going to be more than
your mortgage. Basically, you cannot get it if you're on
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the California Fair Plan basically. So now what they're saying
is there's a bunch of property that's available in Big
Sur if you're willing to take the risk.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
And these are old properties, and I mean old.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Just that they've been in the same family for decades,
not that they're old and run down. Some of these
are gorgeous, gorgeous property, large acreage, prime location, and they
haven't been sold for decades. Seventy percent of the homes
currently listed or that have sold between May of last
year and May of this year fall into what they
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call these legacy properties, including there is a one hundred
and fifty acre ocean front ranch in Big Sur that
is on the market right now. Listen, you gotta pay
for it. It's going to be one hundred million dollars.
But you do not see that kind of inventory being
available all at once. Some of the people who live
there the ocean front compound, there's another one called Bien Sur,
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multiple guest houses, a caretaker unit, a funicular down to
the beach, basically an elevator. But the owner lived there
a part time for about thirty years with her husband
until he died a couple of years ago, and she
says she's still obsessed with the beauty of Big Sir.
The closest place to god I've ever encountered, is how
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she described it. But she says now it's hard for
her to be there without him. That one, by the way,
again gorgeous on the water property at Big Sir twenty
two million dollars. That woman's lucky enough, she comes from
a very rich family. She can come to LA and
basically redo her property here in LA. But that one incredible,
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gorgeous part of the state that's now completely cut off
because the problem on the Rocky Creek Bridge to the
north and that seven mile stretch of Highway one that's
been closed or will be closed for about eighteen months.
Up next, the President actually talked about Dan Kine today.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Dan Kane.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
General Dan Kane is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, and he talked a little bit about exactly
why he chose Dan Kane to be his chairman of
the Joint Chiefs. We'll talk about this guy's career, what
we know about this guy who's definitely risen in prominence
over the course of the last week or so. Gary
and Shannon will continue in just a moment.
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Gary, silly question I might have missed it Is it
true that Shannon got suspended? I tuned in late this morning?
And if so, why please recap?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Okay, So I'm gonna do a quick game here. Let's
assume that Shannon got suspended for something she said on
the air. Would I be able to tell you what
she said to get suspended or would then I run
the risk of being suspended? And we don't need both
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of us sitting at home with the bonbonds. General Dan
Kane Raisin Kan is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff. He's been pretty high profile in the last
week or so, obviously, since the attacks on the Iranian
nuclear facilities. He's been standing next to Secretary of Defense
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Pete Hegseth during those Pentagon news conferences.
Speaker 10 (25:19):
This operation underscores the unmatched capabilities and global reach of
the United States military. As the President clearly said last night,
no other military in the world could have done this.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
President Trump name checked dan Kine earlier today at that
news conference where they were talking specifically about the Supreme
Court stuff, or at least that's the original intent, but
questions did come up, and he said General dan Kine
is a real badass.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I'm just I'm using words that he didn't.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
But this guy is the newly confirmed chair of the
Joint Chiefs and has gotten a lot of accolades from
the President and from people in the military. His confidence
about our American capabilities when it came to striking Iran's
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nuclear facilities was what resonated probably most with the President,
and he told reporters a couple days ago, did the
President I have to say General Raisin Cain was incredible.
Cain has become one of the President's closest advisors, and
in the week before and the week immediately after the strike,
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he was the guy in the White House almost every
single day. I mean, he's the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
That's not an unusual part. But during the operation in
the situation room, Trump supposedly was asking questions of Cain specifically,
and Cain again an army I'm sorry, take that back.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Apologies.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
He's an Air Force general, so he may have some
specific information about the operations of the Air Force since
that's who carried this out that he could share with
the president. Displaying maps, talking about what's going on in
real time. He said he believed the Iranians never saw
this coming, and answered the most questions of any of
the officials in the room. Again, he is the Chairman
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of the Joint Chiefs and is active military Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Is a civilian.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
So not that Pete Heseth wouldn't have the answers, it's
just you would go to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
He was great when it came to the technical details.
If you remember, they came back out on Thursday yesterday
morning and talked more specifically about the details of the
attack itself. They was kind of a pushback to the
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argument that they didn't get the damage that they were
looking for. Dan Kane didn't have the information about a
damage assessment, and he referred to he said, we don't
do we don't do our What did he say, we
don't do our homework on that one. That's not the
term he used, but this is what he's done. Cain's
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job as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is to help
his civilian bosses be the best wartime leaders they can be,
and once they've made a decision, he's the one, as
the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs that has to make
sure that the military does everything it's told to do
well lawfully, but you know, the lawful orders, and there's
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a risk that this becomes politicized. I was just talking
with somebody who described this feeling for a lot of
people that if Trump touches something, it's automatically bad. And
what Dan Cain is fighting against is he doesn't serve
Donald Trump. He serves the President of the United States,
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and people have a hard time Donald Trump even has
a hard time delineating between the two. But Cain was
a deputy commander a Special operations component of Operation Inherent Resolve,
which was the campaign to defeat ISIS, and he helped
debrief the President about all of that, and he was
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impressed with General dan Kin during that briefing. He was
clearly impressed with how he was communicating the straightforward approach
to answering questions. At a fundraiser for top donors last year,
Trump talked about meeting. Dan Kine and other military leaders
told him during his first term that he probably couldn't
defeat Isis very quickly. He's repeated that line over and
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over again, where they said again, if I'm Trump, he says,
they told me I couldn't do it. It was going
to take months, and we did it in weeks. And
he credits a lot of that to General dan Kine.
According to Trump, Cain said he could knock the hell
out of him Isis that Is and then went on
to say at this fundraiser, I tell you the story
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because we have a great military, but they're not allowed
to perform because we have idiots that talk.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
We have stupid people running it. Dan Kin, in his.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Military career in the Air Force F sixteen fighter pilot
in the Air National Guard, deployed several times to the
Middle East. He was assigned to Andrews Air Force Base
back on September eleventh. His unit was one of those
units that was scrambled to protect the skies over Washington,
d C.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Which remember.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Some of those were basically sent into the air with
the expectation that they were going to have to ram
commercial airliners with their F sixteens. He has been working
on special operations tactics for stealth aircraft which probably came
into play on these attacks on the Iranian nuclear facilities
and some other highly classified programs at the Pentagon, at Jaysock,
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which is the Joint Special Operations Command, and with the CIA.
After he got back from his deployment in Iaq, retired
from the Air Force last year as a three star general,
only months before Trump took off office for his second term.
And after he got into office, it was Chief of
Staff Susie Wiles who brought dan Kin to the White
House for meetings for potential military jobs. Eventually brought back
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into the military, and the rest is history, nominated as
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and confirmed to his role
in a surprisingly close vote considering what it is, but
a sixty to twenty five vote in the Senate. All right,
up next, we'll get into the swamp watch. Talk about
these as Supreme Court rulings today, what they mean, what
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ruling over birthright citizenship, and what they mean for privacy
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
A bunch of stories that we are following. Supreme Court
came down with a series of decisions today. The biggest
one was dealing with the birthright citizenship case, but not
deciding on birthright citizenship actually was a procedural question, but
they said that individual judges do not have the authority
to grant nationwide injunctions. This is being hailed as a
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win for the Trump administration. Arguably it's better to say
it's a win for the presidency because other presidents have
dealt with this issue as well and have been upset
by it as well. President Biden, President Obama, President George W.
Bush all had arguments against these judges that grant nationwide injunctions.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
So that was decided today.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
There was also one about age verification for pornography sites,
parents opting out of LGBTQ, plus lessons in schools.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Things like that.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Closing arguments are taking part in the defense. Closing arguments
in the Sean Didty Combs Chase Sean diddy Combe's case,
his attorney had said, listen, we own the domestic violence.
I mean argue, how could you not. The video that
was shown in courtroom was of him beating up his girlfriend,
Cassie Ventura, but the attorney said, remember, that's not what
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he's being charged with. Locally, the Santa Nez Reservoir up
in the Palisades, which was empty was being repaired at
the time of the firestorm in January, is finally back online,
just in time. LA Department of Water and Power says
the reservoir had been out of service since early twenty
twenty four because its floating cover had a significant tear.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Apparently that needed to be fixed.
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what happens on the Weekend Fix. You remember, earlier this month,
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President Trump called in the National Guard here in Los
Angeles to protect federal buildings federal troops. When he described
why he did that, he talked about calling Governor Gavin
Newsom and talking to him about what was happening in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Kind of do a better job. He's doing a bad job,
causing a lot of death and a lot of potential death.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Gavin Newsom says that phone call never happened. He actually
wrote on Twitter that day there was no call, not
even a voicemail. Americans should be alarmed that a president
deploying marines onto our streets doesn't even know who he's
talking to. Well, then the President came out with a
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call log that did show, yes, there was a phone call.
The timing was all wrong. The President got that part
of it completely wrong. But they did have a phone call.
They talked for fifteen sixteen minutes on the Friday night,
even though the President referred to it being Sunday or
something like that. I don't know why he got it wrong,
but he got that part wrong. Then Fox News host
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Jesse Waters went on TV and blasted Governor Newsom.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Newsom responded and he said there wasn't a phone call,
said Trump never called him, not even avoid smile. He said,
but John Roberts got Trump's call ogs and it shows
Trump called him late Friday night and they talked for
sixteen minutes. Why would Newsom lie and claimed Trump never
called him? Why would he do that?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
That was enough for Gavin Newsom today to file a
lawsuit against Fox News claiming that Fox News defamed him.
This suit, filed in Delaware, that's where Fox News is incorporated,
looks for damages of at least get ready for this,
seven hundred and eighty seven million dollars, and a court
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order that prohibits Fox from broadcasting or posting segments that
mistakenly say that he lied about that call with Trump. Now,
this is taking an exact page out of Donald Trump's book,
So I'm not sure why he thinks this is a
good idea. The lawyers also sent a letter to Fox News.
They demand a formal retraction and an on air apology.
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From Jesse Waters. If those conditions are met according to
this other letter, then Gavin Newsom will withdraw the lawsuit.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
The damages.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
By the way, that number seven hundred and eighty seven
million dollars is important because that's the same amount that
Fox News had to pay to settle a lawsuit by
Dominion Voting Systems that accused Fox of publicizing fake election
conspiracies that damaged dominion voting system systems. And Gavin Newsom
(05:31):
put out a statement and said, quote, if Fox News
wants to light to the American people on Donald Trump's behalf,
it should face consequences just like it did in the
Dominion case. I believe the American people should be able
to trust the information they receive from a major news
outlet such a a What a waste of time. It's
a stupid waste of time. Gavin Newsom knew he had
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been on the phone with the President and was nitpicking
the timeline as to when he spoke to the president.
That's on Gavin Newsom the president. You can't rely on
that guy to get the facts straight right. He didn't
know what day it was when he made that comment.
I'm not making an excuse for the guy. I'm just saying,
if he's the one you're looking for the fine minutia,
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you're looking up the wrong tree.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
While that's going on.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And I mentioned that this is taking a page out
of Trump's book, a mediator has proposed that Trump and Paramount,
the owner of CBS, settle a plan, sorry, settle a
lawsuit for twenty million dollars. This is where the President
sued CBS and Paramount over the sixty minutes interview with
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Kamala Harris that they totally edited. The proposal would be
seventeen million dollars for a donation to the presidential foundation
or museum, and then millions more in legal fees, even
a public service announcement on CBS to fight anti Semitism.
I'm not sure how that plays into any of this,
but Trump soon dude earlier in I should say, Trump
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sued earlier and was asking for twenty billion dollars in
damages even though we won the election. CBS had argued
it didn't doctor the comments rared it. They said it
aired a more succinct version of her response. So now
Gavin Newsom's jumping into this whole lawsuit thing. Yet another
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this latest Washington Post dissection of what's wrong with one
of the major industries here in southern California when we
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but Soka Hollywood. A guy named George Wong is a screenwriter, director,
and film professor at UCLA and said of Hollywood, the
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industry is on a cliff edge, clinging by its fingernails.
It feels like one more blow, even just a tiny
feather on our shoulder, is going to send us careening
down to our rocky deaths. Hollywood has dealt with bad
times before other locales, whether it's a Vancouver they call
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it Hollywood North, or Atlanta they call it Yallywood.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Get it.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
They have been luring productions and companies away from Hollywood
for a long time. But this moment right now in
Hollywood is probably more precarious than ever, and we've talked
about it multiple times. The Washington Post is the latest
publication to come out with the story lamenting the loss
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of business out of Hollywood into foreign countries, other states.
All of that when you look at the conditions today
in Hollywood compared to what they were a couple of
years ago. We had the ridiculous pandemic shutdown in twenty twenty, which,
by the way, the film and TV industry still clinked
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still to this day, five years later, still clings to
some of those COVID rules and regulations about on set
health requirements. The pandemic shutdown, which basically decimated just about
every industry in Southern California and particularly the movie and
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TV industry, paired with the labor strikes, the actor strike,
the writers strike, the other strikes that have always been threatened,
the wildfires that came through and had a less of
an impact, but still an impact, all of them combined
with the falling box office revenues, the empty theaters, another
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headline today that said, basically, there's maybe twenty years left
on the movie.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Theater industry itself.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Gavin Newsom has paid attention, the governor, the president has
paid attention despite the fact that they agree on nothing
other than how to sue TV networks. There is agreement
that Hollywood is being destroyed. That was the president's Those were,
i should say, the president's words last month that Hollywood
is being destroyed and they have to find some other
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way to do this, to fix this, to make this
a thing where Hollywood stays in Hollywood. They're talking about
tax credits companies can use to can sell, or use
to offset their tax liability. These film tax credits kind
of have a mixed track record. Some researchers have said
that their poor use of taxpayer money. They're still popular
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among lawmakers, though, because they have proved effective at pulling
productions away from Los Angeles, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, they
New Mexico now as well.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
They all have very.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Significant tax credit plans that will entice productions out of
California into those other areas.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Other states are doing this as well.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Lawmakers in New York and Texas have earmarked hundreds of
millions of additional dollars to their tax credit programs. Other
countries are now doing the same, So there's a number
of productions that are moving overseas. Bill Mchanicks quoted in
this Washington Post article. He's a former top executive paramount
Disney Fox. He's got a good resume, and he said
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he's preparing to produce a film noaw set in La
and he wants to shoot it in La Duh. But
he says he may have to go to Australia to
film a movie about La. And he says, you have
a choice. Do you want to make the movie or
do you not want to make the movie. This is
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a guy grew up in Michigan, watched the decline of
the car industry in Detroit and sees a lot of
echoes in what's going on in California today with what
happened in Michigan and that Upper Midwest, which was the
absolute Earth's heartbeat when it came to automobile production. California
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does have a tax credit program, but we can't afford it.
Let me rephrase that. We run out of money every
single year. And now they want to double it. They
want to raise it from three p forty I believe
it is to seven hundred and fifty million dollars annually.
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And the legislature is also looking at bills that would
increase the credit base rate allow more types of productions
to be eligible for the program.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Listen, there's a lot of people who say this is.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Just a Hollywood and out because especially we're trying to
close this budget deficit. But supporters have said, it's not
just an LA thing, It's not just an LA County thing.
This is all of the state of California that could
benefit from a healthy, revived Hollywood. President Trump had talked
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about his plan, which would be one hundred percent tariff
on movies that were made overseas.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
There is a concern that.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
That would be that feather that the guy referred to,
the one feather on the shoulder that would cause the downfall.
A lot of people said it would send Hollywood into
a death spiral because there are plenty of movies that
are made overseas that are still worth.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
A lot of money.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
All right, coming back, another California story, was in Big
sur a couple of years ago, and absolutely loved it.
Wife and I spent almost a week there and it's beautiful.
The thing is, it's hard to get to now why
some people moved to Big Survey because it's so remote.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
They didn't think it would be this remote.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
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Speaker 2 (15:15):
President Trump does say he expects Iran to open itself
to international inspection to verify that it is not going
to restart its nuclear program. He was asked in this
news conference earlier today. He was talking about the Supreme
Court decisions, but they asked him about it and if
he was going to demand during these upcoming talks with
Iran that the IAEA or some other organization be authorized
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to conduct inspections, and he said, Iran would have to
cooperate with that group or somebody that we respect, including ourselves.
I don't know if Americans would go in, but something
we'll keep our eyes on. Shannon's out today, shoot on vacation, jan.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
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Speaker 3 (15:56):
Okay, that's the weirdest request we've had all day.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
But okay, my god, that's many years old.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
That's an older but a.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
Good Shannon's infectious gigf My favorite Shannon's sound was the
excitement that came out of her when she learned that
the conclave had selected an American pope. Just thinking of
that always brings a smile to my face.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Priceless when he said, we got him. I think that's
what she said.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Bro, that's white.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeah, the white smoke. All right, we'll get into big
stir here in just one second. Something to clear up.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
Good morning, Gary John from the Inland Empire. Hey John, Hey,
So the phone call between Newsom and Trump, it was
a lie. Here's the double standard is a y'all support
Donald Trump, sou and everybody, but when exact same thing
criticizing Donald Trump did lie? He said he made a
phone call on Sunday. He made a phone call on Friday.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
That's a lie.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
I don't know where y'all don't understand that.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
But yeah, I already talked about that. I already said
you can't trust that guy. You can't trust whatever timeline
he thinks he has in his head, that he was
completely wrong about it. And the idea of suing Paramount
or CBS for twenty billion dollars laughable, laughable. I don't
quite hear what. I don't quite know what other people here.
Let's talk about Big sir. Big sur is a place
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up along the California coast between Carmel and Gosh.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I don't know what's what's the biggest place on the coast.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
There, Carmel and San Simeon maybe, and Big Sur is
absolutely gorgeous. God's country. I mean it is full of trees,
it's incredible views. Some of the most iconic pictures of
California come out of the Big Sur area. And it
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used to be that being that far away, I mean
mileage wise, you're not far away from everything, but being
that far away mentally from the hustle and bustle of
the rest of California was a huge selling point. There
are people who moved there in the eighties and lived
in a camper on a five acre plot of land
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and built a massive home. This is a Briga and Reed.
They moved there from La to Big Sur in nineteen
eighty three and they built their own home there, incredible
custom home, all kinds of huge windows to view the landscape,
the mountains on one side, the ocean on the other.
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And they want to sell their home. They're getting out.
They're selling for three million dollars. Not because things are
awful there. They just realized that at their age and stage,
you know, seventies, eighties, it's probably a better idea for
them to be close to grandkids or kids, or a hospital.
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And they just admit it's a little bit harder for
them to be there. I mentioned the interior, I should
say I need to mention the interior this home. It
is ridiculously beautiful and all of the views make this
thing a three million dollar home at least. Now the
problem with Big Sur. I went through this a couple
of years ago, and my wife and I in twenty
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twenty three June, almost exactly two years ago, we went
to Big Sur. But you can't get there from here.
I mean you can, but we had to go up
through Monterey. That's fine, spend a day in Monterey, go
to the aquarium, drive down through Carmel and hang out
in Big Sir. Again, beautiful place, couple of restaurants, a
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couple of places for you to stop by.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
But that was before there were some problems.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Now the Rocky Creek Bridge is currently undergoing repairs. Rocky
Creek Bridge is just to the north of Big Sur
and you can get through there, but you basically have
to wait until the fog lifts because it's pretty hard
to drive through there, depending on how experienced you are.
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You also have to use a Caltrans escort because there
was a slide March of twenty twenty four. That again
that didn't impact our trip, but March of twenty four
there's a slide right near Rocky Creek Bridge. Trips in
and out of Big Sur are now only twice a day.
You can only if you're a resident, use the Caltrans convoy.
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They did open one lane last month to signaled traffic control, so,
but that portion of the road had been closed for
overnight repair work periodically throughout the spring. Below that, south
of Big Sir, there's about a seven mile section near
Lucia is a tiny little hamlet there that's been closed
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since February of twenty four and is not expected to
reopen until the sometime after this summer.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I mean, that's eighteen months of closure along Highway one.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
CalFire also released an updated map that shows just about
all of Big Sur is in what they call a
very high fire hazard severity zone, which means you can't
get insurance and if you can, it's going to be
more your your installments are going to be more than
your mortgage. Basically, you cannot get it if you're on
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the California Fair Plan basically. So now what they're saying
is there's a bunch of property that's available in Big
Sur if you're willing to take the risk.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
And these are old properties, and I mean old.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Just that they've been in the same family for decades,
not that they're old and run down. Some of these
are gorgeous, gorgeous property, large acreage, prime location, and they
haven't been sold for decades. Seventy percent of the homes
currently listed or that have sold between May of last
year and May of this year fall into what they
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call these legacy properties, including there is a one hundred
and fifty acre ocean front ranch in Big Sur that
is on the market right now. Listen, you gotta pay
for it. It's going to be one hundred million dollars.
But you do not see that kind of inventory being
available all at once. Some of the people who live
there the ocean front compound, there's another one called Bien Sur,
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multiple guest houses, a caretaker unit, a funicular down to
the beach, basically an elevator. But the owner lived there
a part time for about thirty years with her husband
until he died a couple of years ago, and she
says she's still obsessed with the beauty of Big Sir.
The closest place to god I've ever encountered, is how
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she described it. But she says now it's hard for
her to be there without him. That one, by the way,
again gorgeous on the water property at Big Sir twenty
two million dollars. That woman's lucky enough, she comes from
a very rich family. She can come to LA and
basically redo her property here in LA. But that one incredible,
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gorgeous part of the state that's now completely cut off
because the problem on the Rocky Creek Bridge to the
north and that seven mile stretch of Highway one that's
been closed or will be closed for about eighteen months.
Up next, the President actually talked about Dan Kine today.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Dan Kane.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
General Dan Kane is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, and he talked a little bit about exactly
why he chose Dan Kane to be his chairman of
the Joint Chiefs. We'll talk about this guy's career, what
we know about this guy who's definitely risen in prominence
over the course of the last week or so. Gary
and Shannon will continue in just a moment.
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Gary, silly question I might have missed it Is it
true that Shannon got suspended? I tuned in late this morning?
And if so, why please recap?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Okay, So I'm gonna do a quick game here. Let's
assume that Shannon got suspended for something she said on
the air. Would I be able to tell you what
she said to get suspended or would then I run
the risk of being suspended? And we don't need both
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of us sitting at home with the bonbonds. General Dan
Kane Raisin Kan is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff. He's been pretty high profile in the last
week or so, obviously, since the attacks on the Iranian
nuclear facilities. He's been standing next to Secretary of Defense
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Pete Hegseth during those Pentagon news conferences.
Speaker 10 (25:19):
This operation underscores the unmatched capabilities and global reach of
the United States military. As the President clearly said last night,
no other military in the world could have done this.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
President Trump name checked dan Kine earlier today at that
news conference where they were talking specifically about the Supreme
Court stuff, or at least that's the original intent, but
questions did come up, and he said General dan Kine
is a real badass.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I'm just I'm using words that he didn't.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
But this guy is the newly confirmed chair of the
Joint Chiefs and has gotten a lot of accolades from
the President and from people in the military. His confidence
about our American capabilities when it came to striking Iran's
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nuclear facilities was what resonated probably most with the President,
and he told reporters a couple days ago, did the
President I have to say General Raisin Cain was incredible.
Cain has become one of the President's closest advisors, and
in the week before and the week immediately after the strike,
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he was the guy in the White House almost every
single day. I mean, he's the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
That's not an unusual part. But during the operation in
the situation room, Trump supposedly was asking questions of Cain specifically,
and Cain again an army I'm sorry, take that back.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Apologies.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
He's an Air Force general, so he may have some
specific information about the operations of the Air Force since
that's who carried this out that he could share with
the president. Displaying maps, talking about what's going on in
real time. He said he believed the Iranians never saw
this coming, and answered the most questions of any of
the officials in the room. Again, he is the Chairman
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of the Joint Chiefs and is active military Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Is a civilian.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
So not that Pete Heseth wouldn't have the answers, it's
just you would go to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
He was great when it came to the technical details.
If you remember, they came back out on Thursday yesterday
morning and talked more specifically about the details of the
attack itself. They was kind of a pushback to the
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argument that they didn't get the damage that they were
looking for. Dan Kane didn't have the information about a
damage assessment, and he referred to he said, we don't
do we don't do our What did he say, we
don't do our homework on that one. That's not the
term he used, but this is what he's done. Cain's
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job as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is to help
his civilian bosses be the best wartime leaders they can be,
and once they've made a decision, he's the one, as
the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs that has to make
sure that the military does everything it's told to do
well lawfully, but you know, the lawful orders, and there's
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a risk that this becomes politicized. I was just talking
with somebody who described this feeling for a lot of
people that if Trump touches something, it's automatically bad. And
what Dan Cain is fighting against is he doesn't serve
Donald Trump. He serves the President of the United States,
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and people have a hard time Donald Trump even has
a hard time delineating between the two. But Cain was
a deputy commander a Special operations component of Operation Inherent Resolve,
which was the campaign to defeat ISIS, and he helped
debrief the President about all of that, and he was
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impressed with General dan Kin during that briefing. He was
clearly impressed with how he was communicating the straightforward approach
to answering questions. At a fundraiser for top donors last year,
Trump talked about meeting. Dan Kine and other military leaders
told him during his first term that he probably couldn't
defeat Isis very quickly. He's repeated that line over and
(29:36):
over again, where they said again, if I'm Trump, he says,
they told me I couldn't do it. It was going
to take months, and we did it in weeks. And
he credits a lot of that to General dan Kine.
According to Trump, Cain said he could knock the hell
out of him Isis that Is and then went on
to say at this fundraiser, I tell you the story
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because we have a great military, but they're not allowed
to perform because we have idiots that talk.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
We have stupid people running it. Dan Kin, in his.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Military career in the Air Force F sixteen fighter pilot
in the Air National Guard, deployed several times to the
Middle East. He was assigned to Andrews Air Force Base
back on September eleventh. His unit was one of those
units that was scrambled to protect the skies over Washington,
d C.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Which remember.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Some of those were basically sent into the air with
the expectation that they were going to have to ram
commercial airliners with their F sixteens. He has been working
on special operations tactics for stealth aircraft which probably came
into play on these attacks on the Iranian nuclear facilities
and some other highly classified programs at the Pentagon, at Jaysock,
(30:49):
which is the Joint Special Operations Command, and with the CIA.
After he got back from his deployment in Iaq, retired
from the Air Force last year as a three star general,
only months before Trump took off office for his second term.
And after he got into office, it was Chief of
Staff Susie Wiles who brought dan Kin to the White
House for meetings for potential military jobs. Eventually brought back
(31:11):
into the military, and the rest is history, nominated as
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and confirmed to his role
in a surprisingly close vote considering what it is, but
a sixty to twenty five vote in the Senate. All right,
up next, we'll get into the swamp watch. Talk about
these as Supreme Court rulings today, what they mean, what
(31:32):
they mean for the presidency in terms of that the
ruling over birthright citizenship, and what they mean for privacy
and parenting and all of that stuff still to come.
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