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Speaker 1 (00:13):
The government shutdown is in day number nine. US Senator
Shelley Moore Capito will join us a couple of minutes
from now. Brad mclhonny with the latest from Raleigh County.
Worthy school vaccination, religious exemption case continues, and Hobby stops by.
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Speaker 6 (02:24):
Well.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
The federal government shut down now and it's ninth day.
Another vote in the Senate yesterday to reopen the government
failed to reach the sixty vote threshold again, Republicans still
putting the Continuing Resolution up to vote, Democrats still rejecting
that until they get an extension on the expanded ACA
tax credits. US Senator Shelleymore Capitol joins us on Metro

(02:45):
News talk line this morning. Senator, good morning.

Speaker 7 (02:48):
Good morning, good morning.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
How you doing doing pretty well?

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Another vote yesterday on that clean CR and again it
failed to get the sixty votes necessary. Is there any movement?
Can we reach a deal to get the government reopened?

Speaker 7 (03:01):
You know, this is extremely frustrating to the American people,
to West Virginians, where the third largest federal have the
third largest amount of you know, federal employees in our state,
and it's a great disservice to them, but to everybody
who has relies on a government service. And you've heard
me say many many times, a shutdown is a misery

(03:22):
march to nowhere. So basically, for six times we've said
to the Democrats, to Chuck Schumer, basically we want a
just a clean which means there's no Republican gimmicks, there's
no Republican wish lists in here. It's just a clean
extension for seven weeks that will give us the time
then to get into the bipartisan appropriations process, which would

(03:42):
include talking about the healthcare issues that they that they
want to address. We've offered that so many times, and
I think it's just a political boomerang by the by
the Democrats because in their bill they're asking for one
point four trillion dollars demands to keep the government open
for four weeks. They want to get rid of the

(04:05):
fifty billion dollar Rural Health Stabilization Fund. So their bill
is a non starter, and we're going to vote on
this again today. So hope springs eternal. Though I don't
think your first question, is there any movement? The only
movement we've seen is really the truth telling by Chuck
Schumer last night when he was quoted as saying every
day gets better for us, and he's talking about his

(04:27):
political ambitions, and to me, that's a bad way to
hijack and held hostage. So many are government and so
many of those who are affected by it.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
He also said, I believe that the momentum was on
the side of the Democrats. I'm going to go out
on a limb and say, you would disagree with that.
Is the momentum on the side of the GOP.

Speaker 7 (04:46):
Though you know what, I don't really think it matters
where the momentum is. I think common sense has to
prevail here. The easy, simple way is to open the
government and all of these issues will go by the wayside,
and we can begin these negotiations that are already taking place,
quite frankly, on the premium sub support, on how we're
going to finish our appropriations bills. So, you know, if

(05:09):
it's if the whole thing to him is a game
to see who gets ahead, you know, that just tells
me that the American people are being pawned in a game.

Speaker 8 (05:18):
Here.

Speaker 7 (05:18):
What I would say is, let's reopen this. Let's have
a simple vote. We already have three Democrats that have
joined with us. Let's just get some more, five more,
and we're on our way.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Talking to US Senator Shelley Moore Capitol, the Democrats want
some sort of guarantee at least on the tax credits.
Let's say we can negotiate on the tax credits. Would
you this is going to sound funny, though. Would you
trust you if you say, listen, we can open the government.
We'll negotiate later. Would you take that if you were
on the other side.

Speaker 7 (05:47):
You know, I've thought about this because I think that's
what Schumer keeps saying, like, we don't trust you. So
who's the leader here now.

Speaker 8 (05:55):
Our leader is.

Speaker 7 (05:55):
John Zune, a Senator from South Dakota. He took the
leadership reigns in jail. I would challenge any of them
on the other side to say to find one time
where John Thune has said he's going to do something
he hasn't followed. He hasn't followed through. I think that's
just a there is a lack of trust all the
way around, But I think that's just something for them

(06:17):
to hide behind. You're not going to get ironclad agreements
in something that really only needs to be about should
we keep the government open? Should we keep it funding
and work our appropriations process. So again it goes back
to the political one upmanship that Chuck Schumer keeps playing
because he has a left side to his party that's

(06:37):
putting tremendous pressures on him.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
US Senator Shelley Moore Capito joining us here on Metro
News talk line. If you can't reach an agreement on
keeping the reopening the government, should there at least be
a bill to make certain military families don't miss a
paycheck next week?

Speaker 7 (06:51):
You know, that's the subject of conversation. I think on
the fifteenth is when our military would be in danger
of missing a paycheck. I voted six times and not
allow that to happen. I wish that, you know, we
could reach we could reach the breakthrough here today and
if we don't do it by Monday, they will miss

(07:12):
a paycheck. And a lot we're hearing from people that
you know, they obviously they have bills to pay, They've
got families to raise. It's not like they're you know,
making gazillion amounts of dollars here. They're they're on the
seat of their pants like a lot of people. And
so I think it'd be a great disservice to our military.
Will there be a bill like that? I guess that
remains to be seen. It's been a topic of conversation,

(07:32):
but I think the easy way open the government and
this whole issue goes away.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Honestly, life goes on. I don't know how many people,
Senator are feeling ill effects from it. And it's not
to make light of military families or get it, or
people who are working. What's it going to take to
move the needle? The delayed flights, the the you know,
the air traffic controllers who are calling off that causes delays,
that's annoying. That's frustrating. I don't know if it's moving

(07:59):
the needle yet. What's it going to take for one
side to budge or the other.

Speaker 7 (08:04):
Well, I can tell you that I've had many conversations
with Democrats from the other side of the aisle that
one out of this circular firing squad that we're going
through here, and you know, so, I think we are
in honesty. There are groups that are pulling together to
try to figure out the best way to break through.
That is definitely occurring, and I'm a part of that.

(08:25):
But at the same time, the simple to me, I
don't know why this has to be so complicated. The
simple thing is open the government for seven for seven weeks,
and we'll have these discussions. The President kind of gave
mixed signals last week or early in this week when
he talked about whether federal employees would be paid or not.
I think that issue has been settled as well. The

(08:46):
federal employees will be paid, but we'd like to have
the services that come along with having our federal employees paid.

Speaker 8 (08:52):
So it's just a lot of.

Speaker 7 (08:55):
Washington double speak. I guess, would you say, And you're right,
life goes on for folks. They do their business, Why
can't we do ours? Simply vote to open the government
today and we're on our way.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Should the President be more involved in these talks negotiations?

Speaker 7 (09:11):
You know, I'm kind of mixed on that. I think yes,
the President, he's a leader. I think he doesn't like
a shutdown. He's made that very very clear, and he's
made clear who he blames for this, which for the
Schumer shutdown. So I mean that those are things that
he's been clear on. In some sense, I think this
is something we need to handle internally within the Senate.
The House has done their work, We have conversations that

(09:34):
have been going on. They handed us a bill two
weeks ago that basically keeps the government open very simply,
with no gimmicks on it. And it's an unpartisan bill.
There's no partisan ship in it. And so I'm the
only reason, I would say for the Republicans for the
President to get involved major boost. But I concern that
because of the Trump derangement syndrome on the other side,

(09:57):
I don't know if that stiffens their spine even more.
And I think that's a calculation the President's trying to
make right now.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
US Senator Shelley Moore Capito joining US menchro News talk line.
The government shut down in day nine. There will be
you say there will be another vote today.

Speaker 7 (10:11):
Yes, there's a vote today. I think around eleven.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, well see what we've got Foxes Ryan smells on that.
We'll see what happens a little bit later on. The
President is busy, it's not that he's doing nothing. He'll
be heading to the Middle East. There's the Israel and
Hamas have agreed to Phase one of the Seas Fire.
Why is this deal, why is this negotiation different?

Speaker 7 (10:33):
Well, I mean, I think this is just an incredible breakthrough.
Everybody on every side of this in our country knows
how meaningful this can be. And even if you look
at it, historically, we've never been able to get really
a piece plan between the Palestinians and Israelis at all.
So this is Hamas. Hamas is a terrorist group that

(10:54):
over two years ago attacked Israel and brutally killed over
a thousand people, and Israel has responded by trying to
root out Hamas and really wreaking havoc on Gaza. For
the President to get this this far, to have the
leaders agree to this, all the Arab leaders, the Israeli leader,

(11:14):
the Hamas leader. He's sort of being a little cagy here. Well,
I kind of agree to all of it, but to
release all the hostages, dead or alive. That has always
been one of Israel's probably their major point in this,
and the President was able to get that agreement from Hamas.
I think this is a remarkable achievement, and hopefully it
will not just have lasting effects today, tomorrow, in the

(11:37):
next weeks, but this could be a generational thing. I mean,
think back, I think back through my entire life. This
has always been a major source of contention everywhere. Now
I'm not even enough to think those contentions won't still smolder.
But I think if they can all figure out a
way to live in a neighborhood together, it would certainly
help everybody and certainly discontinue the destroy uction and loss

(12:00):
of life that we've seen.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
Sena they're selling Moore Capito joining us here Metro News
talk line. Controversy also continues over the President's deployment of
National Guard troops in American cities such as Portland and Chicago.
Is this a proper use of National Guard troops?

Speaker 9 (12:16):
You know.

Speaker 7 (12:17):
I think here's how I look at that. I think
that our large cities have been had havoc greeked upon
them because of the lack of enforcement or use of
their law enforcement to discontinue murders and drug trafficking and
all other kinds of violent crimes. I mean, I think

(12:37):
the statistics pare that out. I think the President is
not just trying to shine a light. I don't you
see what's happening in Memphis. Memphis has one of the
highest percentages of crime, and the governor said, please come in,
we need help. The differences I think in Illinois and
in Portland are the governors and the city officials are
saying no, don't, don't come in. So this may be

(12:59):
something that has to be settled at the at the
judiciary level, with with the in the in the legal challenges.
But honestly, I think if we send our National Guard
into settle things down like they did here in d
c UH, then I think citizens and leaders of those
areas can see how if you can contain your crime element,

(13:22):
how much better quality of life everybody has UH. And
So I'm not sure for the long term this is
the direction that we want to go and need to go.
But I think it's for the shock value of it.
I think it does have some value, yes, and I
think that you know, in Portland they're protecting federal facilities.
I think that is a good use of our of
our National Guard to protect our own ice facilities and others.

(13:46):
So I think I think this is still has some
has some deeper questions. I don't want a police state,
and I think that's what some people fear.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
It's it's a trick I think it's a tricky question
because at what point do you have to step in
if a local government or state government is either unable
or unwilling to get its arms around a crime problem
or perceive crime problem. At what point do you step
in or do you just shrug your shoulders and go, well,
these are the leaders you voted for. You have to
deal with that, whatever state, whatever city you are.

Speaker 5 (14:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (14:19):
So let's look at Washington, d C. Very high crime.
I think I said on your show before, forced to
I have forced staff members that have been attacked here
over the years. Young people, and there's a lot of
young people in the city certainly tied in with the government,
serving their members of Congress, or their government. And so

(14:39):
what you saw was a mayor who really resisted this.
But then once the National Guard came in, and what
they did was they sort of solidified the areas that
were already more safe in DC, like the Union Station
and others, and let the DC police go to the
areas where there are as much deeper and more viole crimes,

(15:00):
so they can, you know, have a more fortified force there.
And it resulted in fewer violent crimes, fewer murders. And
then you hear the you hear the mayor saying thank
you for sort of settling us down, and uh, you know,
of course she is very reliant on federal funding. So
that's a little bit different situation in Washington, d C.

(15:20):
But I do think that if any mayor worth is
worth his or her assaults or however whatever that's saying is,
you would say, help us, help us settle this down,
and then we'll figure out with our own law enforcement
how to enforce this. They've just gotten away from enforcing laws.
I mean, I don't know about you, but when you
see these violent crimes and then you see this person's

(15:42):
been picked up thirty times and they're still not incarcerated,
they still got mental health issues. They're still out on
the street until boom, they stabbed somebody in a subway
in Charlotte, North Carolina. Why why was law enforcement not
enforcing and taking this person off the street before this tragedy?
And I think people living in cities, big cities in particular,

(16:03):
are tired of this US.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Senator Shelley Moore, Capitol. There'll be another vote today on
that clean cr to reopen the government. We'll see if
it's groundhol day all over again, Senator Capitol. We appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (16:14):
All right, you guys have a good day, and thank.

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Speaker 1 (17:53):
Oh that's an order. Interview Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy talking
about air traffic control operations dealing with staff shortages amid
the shutdown. They're talking about that on CNN right now.
Of course, I got the news channels up on the
monitors here. I mentioned Pete Thamil's tweet that came out
just before the show. Sources says Tamil West Virginia is

(18:15):
going to add one hundred and forty new athletic scholarships
starting in the twenty six twenty seven season. That includes
sixteen new football scholarships and one hundred and twenty four
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will join a second hour of the show as well.
He's got a commentary. Go read it now and then
we we'll discuss. That's your assignment. You have an assignment
over the next thirty three minutes. Read it now. We
will discuss at eleven oh six. Let's get some of
your thoughts in at three oh four. Talk three oh four, David,
seems like Trump is excited about laying off or firing
these federal employees. I don't see him trying to stop

(19:18):
anything going on. Uh, I don't know if he's excited.
He is certainly using that as a threat. Now that
could very well backfire, and that has to be taken
into consideration the political calculus. If you lay off tens
of thousands of employees, whatever the case may be, if

(19:40):
you do that, you're taking a huge gamble that you
will not be blamed for that. And I think that
is a huge I know we use that term way
too often.

Speaker 6 (19:52):
Huge.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
That is a huge gamble to take to try to
exert some sort of leverage or pressure on the Democrats.
That's a big gamble. Is he willing to take that?
Is he willing to do that? He very well may be.
I think that is a huge political gamble in this game.

(20:13):
Texter says, remember last month when TJ was critical of
his audience for not being educated enough on the constitution
to know that Trump could not send the National Guard
into cities other than d C. Let's double click into
that those old documents do not apply to this wanna
be dictator's unchecked power until there are consequences. Trump can
do whatever he wants. How far we have fallen? Are

(20:35):
they actually in I know they're on the outskirts of Chicago,
those National Guard troops. I don't think they're actually in
Chicago yet. I said, a way to keep the government open,
Shelley Moore is capital, is to help poor people keep
their health insurance. I know it's hard for you to understand,
but a lot of people don't lead sheltered lives like
you and all of the other pampered Republicans. I think

(20:56):
there's room to negotiate. There seems to be room to
negotiate because again, Republicans understand the calculus that there are
here in West Virginia, for instance, I think the numbers
between sixty and seventy thousand people that would be impacted
by increased premiums if those ACA expanded credits go away.
They understand that. But that is not the entire ask

(21:18):
coming from the Democrats right now. It's a one point
four one point five trillion dollar ask, and that's just
not going to happen. All right, Well, shift gears, We'll
get an update from Brad McIlhenny. He is covering the
school vaccination religious exemption case in Raleigh County. We'll get
an update from outside the courtroom in Berkeley or in Beckley.

(21:39):
In Beckley when we return. This is talk line on
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Speaker 1 (25:30):
Eight hundred seven sixty five Talk eight hundred seven sixty five,
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h four Talk three oh four. Yesterday, Raleigh County Circuit
Court judge and the school vaccination requirements and religious exemptions
case made three rulings. We talked about those yesterday with
mentionite state wide correspondent Brad Mclahonney. State School Board President

(25:53):
Paul Hardesty was also a witness on the stand joining
us from outside the courthouse in Raleigh County this morning.
Is mentioning a statewide correspondent, Brad McIlhenny. Brad, good morning,
thanks for joining us.

Speaker 18 (26:06):
Hi, Dave, and good morning. Yes, a second day of
the latest round of hearings before Judge Froebel today and
what we expect this morning is to hear from a
witness that the judge himself called the lawyers in the
case did not subpoena this witness, but it is the
state health officer who notably has only been on the
job a few weeks. I think what the judge is

(26:27):
getting at with this testimony is what is the state
of West Virginia's process for evaluating families applications for religious
exemptions to the state vaccine law. So, you know, I
think this witness, the public health officer, is going to
get some leeway because he really just showed up for

(26:48):
work a few weeks ago, probably doesn't even have his
papers and pens in his desk yet. But the judge
did specifically want to hear from him, and that's going
to kick off the day and we're to follow that
by This is going to surprise you. I hope the
listeners Toby and Edith are sitting down. We're gonna hear
arguments from lawyers after that.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Brad has most of this focused on process. We've always
had the question about whether or not the religious exemption applies.
The judge just came right out yesterday and said yep,
it applies and moves on to the next thing. So
has this mostly been about the process of applying for
and receiving exemptions.

Speaker 18 (27:27):
Well, yeah, so there is argument among the lawyers in
the case about whether the West Virginia's religious protections law
does truly affect the vaccination's law. So that's not necessarily
agreed upon in the courtroom, but the most prominent voice
in the courtroom, Judge Froebel, says yes it does. But

(27:50):
Judge Frobell left some leeway on other things. That religious
protections law is multifaceted. It says that if you believe
your religious freedoms have been curtailed by some act of government,
you can.

Speaker 8 (28:04):
Go to court.

Speaker 6 (28:05):
But there's.

Speaker 18 (28:08):
There are other things to weigh. That is, it has
government embarked on the least restrictive means of trying to
do something for a compelling governmental reason. And so I mean,
in layman's terms, translate compelling government reason to the common good.

(28:30):
And in this case, what they're talking about is heard immunity.
The judge in this case says that that issue is
still something on his mind. Is the issue of herd
immunity something that could be eroded by you know, a
significant number of families receiving and using the religious exemptions

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for West Virginia's bactine law.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Metro New state wide correspondent Brad Mcilhetnay joining us from
outside the Raleigh County Courthouse in Beckley. State school Board
President Paul Hardesty was on the witness stand yesterday. Brad,
what did you take away from his testimony?

Speaker 18 (29:05):
Well, he you know, as listeners to Metro News talk
line know President Hardesty has been in the news and
it was because of some comments he made last week
that got attention about a different topic, but it was
state support for the public school systems, what is the
balance with charter schools? And so, you know, he made

(29:26):
kind of a lightning rod witness in the courtroom yesterday
because he's been a newsworthy figure. Much of what he
was asked was posed by the lawyers for the families
seeking religious exemptions. I will say that the last week's
comments by President Hardype did come up. He was asked

(29:48):
about them, and it was, you know, the context was
what what kind of structure or are you leading with
with the public school system? Does it have latitude for
things or is it you know, so highly controlled that

(30:13):
you and the state school board are not allowing religious
exemptions to be honored. There were questions to President Hardesty about,
you know, do you follow some laws meaning the religious
meaning meaning the vaccine law, meaning meaning the vaccine law
on state code, but not follow other laws, meaning the

(30:36):
religious freedom's law. I mean, as we've talked on talk
line many times, I don't know that it's as simple
as that, but that was that was the kind of
question that President Hardesty got, along with a series of
questions about an even playing field, about consistency with the

(30:56):
question regarding you know, students are subject to the vaccination law,
but our teachers, our janitors, do students on sports teams
ever play across the border with kids who might be
from another state and not have their vaccines. So all
of that posed to President Hardesty. I don't know necessarily

(31:18):
that it's gonna make a dent in the final outcome
of this case, but it was interesting testimony and an
interesting guy on the fand.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
Talking to about your new state wide correspondent, Brad mckelhoney,
and Brad just quickly, we already mentioned one of those
rulings yesterday that the judge said he didn't need the
Spring Court's way in that the religious exemption or the
Religious Freedom Act did apply to immunizations. But what were
the other two rulings he made yesterday that have big
impacts on this case.

Speaker 18 (31:49):
Well, one was that he decided this case in his
courtroom is a class action, meaning that it originally was
a couple of families seeking religious exemptions, and he had
authority over what happened with those families, but he decided,
based on a motion from the lawyers representing those families,
that this is now a class action, meaning that anyone

(32:11):
in similar conditions would be affected by the rulings in
this case. What the judge said was that the state
school board has taken a statewide action in saying that
the counties should not accept religious exemptions, and also that
there are five hundred and seventy some families who have
applied for religious exemptions to vaccinations, and Judge Froebel believes

(32:36):
that those families are entitled to something consistent around the state,
not different outcomes depending on what courtroom they go into.
And so he's decided that it's a class action lawsuit
now and he is behind the steering wheel of that.
The final thing that he made a significant ruling on
is there's been this question of all right, it's the

(32:56):
Religious Protection Act, but people are applying for and the
governor has talked about philosophical exemptions or sort of conscientious objections,
and so how could you define those things. In the end,
the judge himself, Judge Frobel, decided that they are essentially
the same thing if you have a deeply held belief.
That's again not a conclusion that everyone in the courtroom reached,

(33:22):
but it's the one that Judge Frobil reached, and he
is the one calling the shots right now.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
Brad McIlhenny outside the courthouse in Raleigh County, in Beckley,
where there will be more testimony today and more arguments.
This will be, though, Brad, the final day of this
case in Judge Froebel's court room. He made that pretty
clear yesterday.

Speaker 18 (33:43):
Dave my I had earbuds in and they picked that
moment to conk out, so I missed all that.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
This will be the last day in Judge Froebel's court room.
This is the last day of hearings.

Speaker 18 (33:53):
We don't expect a ruling today from Judge Frobill. I
went in thinking that maybe he would, but the lawyers
in the case have some written requests from the judge
to submit. So I think he's going to wrap up
testimony and closing arguments today, and I don't think we're
going to gather back in this courtroom. But I also
think that we should not expect an overall ruling from

(34:15):
the judge at the end of today's activities.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
Read brad story from yesterday's proceedings atu WDV metronews dot com.
We'll have updated stories later on today. Brad, thank you
very much. We'll let you get back in the courtroom. Hey,
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(36:26):
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three or four talk three to four. Hoppy gonna join
us at eleven O six mm, Dave, I'd rather listen
to thirty minutes of lou Wendell marine commercials than Shelley

(38:15):
Moore Capito talking circles. She's seriously passive aggressive. Can you
guys get Hoppy some help with his tds? It seems
to be getting worse. The reason Trump is sending the
military into cities is he will order troops to seize
ballots after the twenty six elections and refuse to count
Democrat votes, claiming fraud. This from a convicted fraudster. DJT

(38:38):
says the Texter conspiracy theories. Uh, the problem is they
never excelled at playing follow the leader when they were
when they are elected office, the oath they took was
for the people, not self preservation. Wake up, not woke up.
Read the preamble to the Constitution. That's the key, regardless

(39:01):
of party politics. They're supposed to work with the president
and work for the people, like it or not. That's
what elections are for. Texter says, this is about my
health insurance. Shelley is tone deaf. I don't think she's
tone deaf. No, And Senator Cavato has recognized that there

(39:22):
are tens of thousands of West Virginians who face premium
insurance hikes or premium rate hikes if those ACA tax
credits go away. She's recognized that, she's talked about it,
and she's also expressed a willingness to negotiate and possibly
extend those So I don't think she's toned deaf. No.

(39:43):
But if that were the only thing Democrats and I
talked about this yesterday, if that were the only thing
that Chuck Schumer and the Democrats in the Senate, in
the House we're asking for, you probably could work something out.
At least I think you could work something out. But
there's a political calculation to this as well.

Speaker 8 (40:00):
Well.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
And I go back to when you look at polling data,
polling numbers, and it's not that Republicans are doing great.
It's not that Trump is doing great in the polling data,
but Democrats do worse in most categories except four when
it comes to healthcare. And this is something that you
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(44:14):
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Speaker 19 (44:48):
Jerry, Well, the Democrats want to paint one picture and Jerry,
it's got a lot of non true sentence. But the
fact of the matter is a tree in the half
dollars that they want to spend on everyone but Americans
is holding up to botch the budget process and that

(45:09):
ACA and everything else. To look at that one and
a half trillion dollars and the people it effects. If
it does it is due to the Democrats wanted to
spend money in places it shouldn't be spent by the
United States. Let's get the truth out there instead.

Speaker 14 (45:27):
Of the lies.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
Jerry appreciate the phone call, buddy, and yeah, it's the
big ask. It's the one and half trillion. It's the
rollback of the stipulations that were provided in the big
beautiful bill that has this held up. I think there's
room to negotiat. I really get the feeling, having talked
to Senator Capitol several times now leading up to and
since the shutdown, there is room to negotiate and come

(45:51):
up with some sort of an extension of those ACA
tax credits. It's the other trillion and a half dollars
that's the problem. That's the major there. And flip the
rolls around and look, Chris Tiwand has said this how
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(46:12):
the right and the left and the Republicans Democrats, there's
not really a huge difference. If the roles were reversed,
I don't know, three years ago, and to get a
cr through in the Republicans shut down the government, and
their demand was to roll back everything from the Inflation
Reduction Act. Well, Ted Cruz tried this right, He tried this,

(46:36):
try to repeal Obamacare, shut down the government didn't work.
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Also keeping an eye on things happening in Raleigh County.
Down in the courtroom in Beckley where Judge Michael Froebel

(48:05):
is hearing the case involving vaccinations for school children and
religious exemptions. Brad Macklhenny is covering that they're expecting to
break for lunch and could maybe get a ruling later
this afternoon. So we'll keep you posted. If we don't
have the details, we got David and Amanda coming up
Metro News midday. They will get you details later on

(48:25):
this afternoon over at ww metro news dot com. This morning,
Hoppy Kerchival has a commentary Are we a free or
fear society? He tackles that question in his commentary this morning,
Getting deep Thereah.

Speaker 20 (48:39):
Thanks, you know, the very lightweight stuff here on Thursday morning.
But I've been thinking about this for a while and
I dug back out a book I read a number
of years ago by Nathan Sharansky, who was a Sylviet
dissident and he was in a gulag in the Sylvie
Union for nine years and then went to Israel. Finally

(49:00):
was released when Israel became a successful politician there in Israel.
And in his book he defines free and free societies
versus fear societies, and he says that a free society
is one where you're free to express your opinion without
fear of retribution. Of fear society is where you may

(49:20):
be punished for your views. And it made me think
of where we are now, because I believe this administration
and those some of those who support this administration are
creating a fear society here where Trump is exacting punishment
on his enemies and if people speak out or take

(49:42):
certain actions, they may fear retribution because of it. And
I think we're seeing a period where we're eroding some
of our democratic principles, small d democratic principles in this country,
and that's worrisome. I mean, you see now with the
dispatching of military across the country in various places. And
I would not argue that some of these cities don't

(50:04):
have serious problems with protecting people who shouldn't be there,
protecting the legals, and with crime and those kinds of things.
But it is a significant step when you say we're
going to dispatch the military from other states to there
to when they haven't been requested by the officials there
to quote unquote enforce the law or do whatever they're

(50:26):
assigned to do. And one of the big concerns there, Dave,
is that you're normalizing this kind of behavior. You're normalizing
seeing the military, the United States military, in a role
of civilian enforcement, and maybe nothing comes of that, or

(50:48):
maybe when it comes around to the election next year
or in a couple of years for the presidential election,
that if there are allegations raised in certain democratic precincts
or Democratic states about the voting, that you could see
the military then put in there with the same kind
of argument, well, we have a major issue here. We've

(51:11):
got to secure the ballots we're going to send in
the military. So you're normalizing if you see enough of this,
you're normalizing this behavior which a few years ago people
would have been Conservatives and Republicans would have been agast
by I mean doing this show. For years, I had
conservatives call me and say when there was something similar
to this, they say, we don't forget about the Posse

(51:32):
Commatatis Act. You can't invoke the military to enforced civilian law.
So I think we're headed down a dangerous path here
where we do have increased fear and less freedom.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
Where's the point when a state or a city is
either unwilling or unable to enforce the law that the
federal government has to step in at some point? I mean,
you can only I get the idea that, hey, you
voted for these city council members, you voted with, these
state legislators, you deal with. But is that fair to

(52:08):
the residents who have to deal with Antifa, the residents
that have to deal with violent protesters, the riots like
we saw a couple of years ago. At what point
should the federal go?

Speaker 20 (52:17):
Yeah, that's that's a good question, and I don't like.
I was just reading about Portland, and clearly Portland has
a lot of problems, but it had not been a
major problem to the point in Portland for the last
couple of months. In fact, I think crime had been
down a little bit. But I know what you're saying.
I guess when it gets to the point where a

(52:38):
community is unable to protect a protected citizens or be
curry out its responsibilities as a government, those kinds of things,
then maybe there is.

Speaker 5 (52:49):
Justification for doing it.

Speaker 20 (52:51):
But it just seems obvious to me when you're sending
it to democratic cities across the country.

Speaker 5 (52:59):
I think, like Higo, Chicago clearly has a crime problem.

Speaker 20 (53:02):
So Chicago, Illinois, deal with it, deal with it, you know,
find more money for police, put more police on the streets,
do what you need to do.

Speaker 5 (53:10):
But they didn't ask for federal help.

Speaker 20 (53:13):
And again it's coming from in the case of Portland,
I think it's coming to Illinois, coming from other states
like Texas National Guards going in.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
There isn't Some of that's just political posturing though, just
because Trump's going to do it, so I'm whatever he's
going to do, we're going to oppose it.

Speaker 20 (53:26):
Is that some of this, sure, I'm sure that's some
of it.

Speaker 5 (53:30):
I'm sure that's some of.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
It, because I don't understand why the mayor of Chicago
doesn't go, hey, man, you're right, we got a crime problem.
We could use X million dollars for our police department
rather than try to paint a picture as if there's not.
There was a great quote and I've lost it in
my stack of stuff from a county commissioner near Portland
who said, you've got the governor and the mayor and

(53:52):
the legislator is saying it's all petting zoos and bake sales.
And then you got Trump saying it's like World War two.
Because the truth is it's actually in the middle somewhere.
See if there's a lot of posturing and I'm trying
to figure out hop reading, you know, either Portland's a
war zone or it's a great place and you want
to come vacation there.

Speaker 20 (54:11):
Yeah, somewhere you're right, and somewhere trying to figure it
all out. It's somewhere in the middle. But again, I
think the larger concern, as I said earlier, is that
it normalizes sending in federal troops to a location, which
maybe in this instance you could argue, well, they do
have a crime problem, it can help out, it'll be okay.
And but if you can do it in this instance,

(54:32):
what prevents you from doing it?

Speaker 5 (54:34):
If there is an election.

Speaker 20 (54:37):
During an election, okay, where where you send in to
seize ballot boxes or to.

Speaker 5 (54:46):
You know, block polling places or whatever it might be.

Speaker 20 (54:49):
That I think is the larger concern of this, Not
not as much as what's happening now, but what what
what this paves away for what could happen.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
You could read the commentary over at the website w
the metronews dot com. You weren't afraid to write that commentary.

Speaker 5 (55:02):
Worry if you weren't.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
Araid, somebody's gona show up the house and Hoppy disappears.

Speaker 20 (55:07):
No, No, I just thought and again I was t
I talked to Chris Starwalk for a long time.

Speaker 5 (55:10):
This morning, and.

Speaker 20 (55:13):
He look, I think, and I know people listeners now
go happy you're now MSNBC you've gone to the left.

Speaker 5 (55:20):
I haven't.

Speaker 20 (55:21):
I mean, I'm thinking back. I don't think I've changed.
I think I'm where I was, you know, years ago.
I just see leaders of the Republican Party and this
administration have gone really far to the right and in
terms of executive control and executive orders, and part of
that's because of Congress and you guys have talked about

(55:42):
it's have advocated the responsibility they can't get a budget done.
They can't do that, So I don't. I think Republicans
used to fear and rise up against executive power right
too much federal interference. Let's have local control, And now
it's all about federal control and dictates coming down from Washington,

(56:05):
which to me seems antithetical to where Republicans and Conservatives
were just a few years ago.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
I don't necessarily disagree with you. It feels like to
me it's the old ill. If you can't beat them,
join them. I mean, have Republicans done that going, Well,
that didn't work. So we'll see your executive orders and
we will double down on those.

Speaker 20 (56:25):
Yeah, I mean possibly. I think the Republicans are divided up.
I think the Republicans who were all in on MAGA,
and I think there are Republicans who who are not
all in, but they understand the ramifications of not being
all in right, of not being politically aligned with MAGA
and Trump, and worry that it will cost them politically. Therefore,

(56:48):
they're going to be all in because they know the
consequences if they aren't.

Speaker 1 (56:52):
You could read Hop's comments Sarry, of course, over at
the website WDV Metronews dot Com. Any thoughts on the
shutdown before we move on?

Speaker 20 (56:59):
Just I know you had Center Capitol in this morning,
was listening to her, and I would just repeat what
I said the other day. Is that Come on, guys,
I mean, you know, one of your fundamental responsibilities is
funding the government, right, and they haven't, as TJ point
out as commentary, haven't done it, having done all twelve
appropriations bills since nineteen ninety six. You just to me,

(57:21):
it's just wildly dysfunctional, right, just incredibly dysfunctional.

Speaker 5 (57:26):
Of not being able to do it. And what's the resolution?
I know what each side is saying.

Speaker 20 (57:31):
I almost just kind of go just get it, come on,
you know, work it out, but nobody, I mean, compromise
is now a dirty word.

Speaker 1 (57:39):
So what the only way to win is to have
the other side complete, total surrender.

Speaker 5 (57:45):
Complete and total surrender. Then you can punish them.

Speaker 20 (57:47):
Yes, So that that's where we are, and that is
not that's not conducive to trying to get a deal.

Speaker 5 (57:53):
We may get. We may get.

Speaker 20 (57:55):
And by the way, President Trump would deserve a lot
of credit for this and maybe the Nobel Peace Prize
if if you can bring peace to the Palestinians and
the Israelis.

Speaker 5 (58:02):
If he could do that, we may get peace between.

Speaker 20 (58:06):
The Palestinians and the Israelis before we get a federal budget.

Speaker 5 (58:09):
I'll think about that for a second.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
I hadn't thought about it in those terms. But you're
exactly by the way, Jonathan Savage bottom of the Ayre,
I have details. Pete Thammil tweeted, first, scoop me again,
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whole slew of scholarships across the athletic department, think one
hundred and forty across the eighteen sports. And that goes
back to we talked about this what September Board of Governors.

(58:31):
They said, we're in. We're all in. We are going
to be one of the best funded athletic departments in
the country or in the Big twelve.

Speaker 20 (58:37):
Yeah, and this is a big step toward that for
a couple of reasons in that, as Rin Baker has
said in the bard of Governor's agrees and President Hampston degrees,
is that WVU wants to be in the upper tier
of the Big twelve in athletics. How it funds athletics.
This is another step in that direction because historically, and
I'm not sure how the dollars all work, but the
athletic department would pay for these scholarships and reimburse the

(59:00):
university for the scholarships. Well, this is about the university side,
the academic side, taking on more responsibility and adding in scholarships.
I think there's going to be I think they're going
to go with the in state rate for for these athletes,
so to be a lot more.

Speaker 5 (59:17):
Uh, it'll it'll be less expensive. But this is this
is a big bouse.

Speaker 20 (59:22):
This is a big commitment by the university side, the
academic side, to the athletic side to add these scholarships
is going to help these Olympic sports tremendously and and
put it in the upper tier of the Big twelve
in terms of scholarships, full scholarships offered and paid for
for these athletes. So it's a gigantic step.

Speaker 1 (59:42):
I know football, basketball, course, well that'll get the headlines,
but you look at what that will do for women's soccer.
You look what that will do for those baseball, baseball
one especially the Big twelve. Yeah, that's a big commitment.

Speaker 20 (59:55):
It is a gigantic commitment and a part of the university.
And what will happen is the phone Rin Baker's phone
will ring this afternoon from other ads go how did
you do this? How did you get the academic scited
to pick up these costs? And this will this will
be very meaningful for the athletic department and again for
these Olympic sports which are already very competitive, but now

(01:00:16):
you talk about like you said baseball, I think they
had maybe a half dozen scholarships and then some half scholarships.
Now they'll be fully have full scholarships for their players.
It's a it's a gigantic step for WV athletics going forward.

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
What are you doing on the bye week? What do
you do on an open weekend?

Speaker 5 (01:00:32):
What am I going to do?

Speaker 19 (01:00:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 20 (01:00:34):
I haven't haven't got haven't gotten that, haven't gotten that far.
Watch I guess I'll watch football. See what Marshall does.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
They're two touchdown dogs at home, two touch two touchdowns.

Speaker 5 (01:00:45):
Home dogs by two touchdowns.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
ODU may have a top fifteen quarterback in the country.
I put them in the top fifteen in the country.

Speaker 20 (01:00:53):
Hey look it's it's you're zero for Gibbe as well. Again,
like I said about rich Rod, do you got to
have pay since it's it's year zero.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
Man, it's the same, it's the same situation, just you
know Big twelve and sun Belt. That's the real difference
you have what Marshall has. Seventy new guys come in like, yeah,
so you're trying to piece that together. And if it's
backing my microphone around here, if you can keep forty
of those guys and you don't have to bring forty
and Brad Howe talked about this, it's a mut you're
in a much better situation next year. Cause that's where

(01:01:23):
not that people want to hear breakdown of Marshall's problems,
but they're probably other problems. Are just these guys have
only played five games together.

Speaker 20 (01:01:29):
Yeah that's and again I just have to say, okay,
this is the new reality. It's going to take. And
I know people want to they don't want to hear
five and six years. They don't know a lot of
people don't want to hear two years. No, But but
it's it's gonna take I think two to three years
to sort of get on track right. And so this

(01:01:50):
is year zero for for Givee and for rich Ron.

Speaker 1 (01:01:53):
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You know how many times a show I look up,
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It's a lot. I don't have a good number, but
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Wvmetronews dot com. All right, let's get in some texts.
They got a whole bunch of them here, three or
four talk three or four, Dave, How can the US
afford subsidies or Obamacare? If the US cannot pay our
Social Security in a few years? Wake up people, call
for term limits on Congress. Congress can also pay for
their own healthcare and fund their four oh one k

(01:05:39):
no pensions for them, Dave, I don't understand why asking
the question about teachers and bus drivers having the vaccine.
They are adults and would have been in school at
a time when the vaccinations were required. I think that's
a moot point. I had that conversation with Brad mclhoney
this morning as a matter of fact, talking about and

(01:06:00):
we're talking about the school vaccination requirements and religious exemptions.
Bringing that up that children may encounter adults in everyday life,
people in everyday life who have not been vaccinated. I said, well, Brad,
most of us, the vast majority of us went to
public schools, had the MMR vaccines long ago. I don't

(01:06:21):
think you have to get a booster for that. As
an adult. Nobody's told me I need to so to
the text's point, yeah, I had the same question, like
I think most of us have had these vaccines that
we're talking about. The column is just what I expect
from Hopy TDS, says the Texter Dave. I sleep each night,

(01:06:43):
I sleep better each night knowing President Trump is in
the White House. And our West Virginia legislature is dominated
by common sense Republicans. Thanks, well, you're welcome. Blame the
Demos all you want. Trump and his games are the problem,
and the Dems are only ones standing up to him.
The republic have just rolled over and let the people suffer.
Shelley and the rest of the GOP leadership just don't care,

(01:07:05):
or else they get back to DC and negotiate. They're hiding.
Oh I see the correction.

Speaker 5 (01:07:13):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:07:13):
They're hiding because Trump told them to. She's in DC.
She's in DC. The House recess, the House left because
well they've passed the bill, they passed the clean cr
and it is over on the Senate side, and well
they are in the Senate, Dave, Not a huge difference
between Democrats and Republicans. How do you possibly get on
the air. The difference includes our border taxes, boys and girls,

(01:07:37):
locker rooms, woke ideology, health care for everyone. You've got
to be kidding me. I said there wasn't a big difference.
I should have been a little bit more specific there.
Fiscal responsibility, not a lot of difference, Not a lot
of difference. Have you seen drastic cuts and spending in
the last year. Have you ever seen drafts that cuts

(01:07:58):
in spending? Not much in my lifetime, Dave. We have
been a feer society since at least six thirty AM
on September eleventh, two thousand and one, probably before that too.
What's happening today is the result of what started twenty
four years ago. Get some more of your texts coming up.
Jonathan Savage, Fox News Radio will join us. We'll get

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Speaker 13 (01:09:02):
Lawrence a major announcement today In morgantown regarding future funding
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from now eight one hundred and seven to sixty. Five
talk to. Phone i'm here in three or Four talk
three or. Four the text, line let's go To london
Where Fox news Radios Jonathan savage. Is he joins. Us,
jonathan good, Morning, hello good, morning glad you can join, Us.
Jonathan hamas And israel agreeing to at least phase one

(01:12:43):
of the peace. Deals so what do we know about
this deal so?

Speaker 6 (01:12:46):
Far, yeah it doesn't end the, war but it does
give an, opportunity a pause for breath and some relief
for the return of the hostages and an influx of
aid Into. Gaza and what we know is That israel
And hamas have agreed to Exchange israeli hostages For palestinian.
Prisoners Every israeli hostage would be, returned the twenty who

(01:13:10):
are believed to be, alive and the bodies of twenty eight.
Others they would be about nineteen hundred prisoners released By.
Israel in, return there would be a, ceasefire no time
limit on the, ceasefire and it would allow for further
negotiations On President Donald trump's initiative to end the war In.

Speaker 1 (01:13:29):
Gaza he wrote out this twenty point plan last, Week
SO i guess this would be step one of a
whole lot of steps, Here.

Speaker 6 (01:13:37):
Jonathan, yes there is an awful lot to be worked.
Through this is not the end of the, war because
there's a lot in this twenty point plan that the
two sides haven't even started talking, about never mind agreed.
To for, example the future Of, gaza who will run,
it and how the future Of, hamas which refuses to.

(01:14:00):
Disarm that is one of the key points That israel
will insist on as part of a peace. Initiative these
are things which will require a lot more deep, discussion
a lot more, negotiation and some compromise on both. Sides
what we are hearing from The, israelis WHICH i think
perhaps is, significant firstly From Prime Minister Benjamin, nitnia who

(01:14:23):
spokesperson saying that the goals of the war have been,
achieved and from The Foreign minister who said that they
have no intention of restarting. Hostilities that will be considered good,
NEWS i think by all those who are concerned about
how long this war has been going on.

Speaker 1 (01:14:39):
For so what Are israel's obligations under least This phase one?

Speaker 6 (01:14:44):
Agreement what probably the main obligations are to stop firing
on targets In. Gaza, secondly to move their troops back
to what's described as the yellow, line which would mean
they would be only in occupying about half Of, gaza
with the other half free Of israeli true. Movements and,

(01:15:06):
finally they would facilitate a minimum of four hundred trucks
of aid Entering gaza every. Day they really say that
there are obligations upon, them there will be obligations Upon.
Hamas what there is probably a shortage of is trust
on both, sides which is partly why the optimism and
the hope is, there but also the caution.

Speaker 1 (01:15:28):
Too talking To Fox news, Radios Jonathan savage joining us
talking about The Hamas israel peace deal and what has
been reaction from just the general populations from people In
Israel hamas or excuse, Me, Gaza we're just around that
side of the.

Speaker 6 (01:15:44):
World there has been a lot of jubilation on display
in The Hostage square In. Israel you've seen people, saying,
praying people just, gathering, hugging Celebrating american flags as well
As israeli flags being on, display with people showing their

(01:16:04):
gratitude To President trump and his team for pushing this.
Through also In, gaza there has been celebrations to more
mused a greater amount of fear there because while the
ceasefire has been, agreed that has not been implemented. Yet
there were airstrikes and firings earlier in the, day and
there have been warplanes hovering and flying overhead In gaza.

(01:16:28):
Too so, yes there is joy and relief there a
bitter sweet joy in relief given the amount of suffering
that's gone. On but certainly there's.

Speaker 1 (01:16:36):
Hope, jonathan how much of a factor did it play
that other countries were also on board with, this that
there was support for this, plan the ceasefire deal coming
from The european, countries from THE, uk and it just
was not A United states.

Speaker 6 (01:16:52):
INITIATIVE i think The european countries have been somewhat sidelined in,
this partly because many of them been so critical Of
israel and the way that they have conducted the war
and a number of people who have died and been
made to suffer In. Gaza they've spoken out Against israel
in quite significant. Numbers what's been happening In paris today
a group of countries from all over the, world Including european,

(01:17:14):
countries have been meeting to talk about how they will
help implement THE us initiative in, future what sort of
stabilization support they can, provide a lot of countries in
The Middle east have been playing a large part in.
This egypt And katar who have been mediating and hosting

(01:17:36):
talks but also putting pressure On, hamas telling them that
they need to come to an agreement to end this.
War turkey another country which has played a rising. Role
they have communications With hamas and they have been urging
them to come to an agreement as. Well so this
has been very much led by The United states and
The trump, administration but other countries have played a key.

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
Role Fox News Radio Jonathan Savag john's good to talk
to you. Again appreciate you hopping on with.

Speaker 6 (01:18:02):
Us how did you date you as?

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
Well three or? Four talk three or four is the
text line eight hundred seven six five, eight, two, five,
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get to those as we. Continue AS i, SAID i
think we might Get Brad howe on for second or.
TWO i want to talk more about these scholarship. OPPORTUNITIES
i think this is A i think this is a big.
DEAL i think this is a big deal moving, Forward

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and As hopey, Said Rin baker probably fielding phone calls
from other ads asking how did you get this? Done
we'll do that as we, continue keeping an eye on
That Raleigh county courtroom as, well where the hearing continues
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Speaker 8 (01:20:53):
Guys how are we?

Speaker 1 (01:20:54):
Today, WELL i was trying to remember if you had
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Place that's, enough all.

Speaker 1 (01:21:01):
Right we've been talking about the tweet this morning From
Pete Theamil hoppey confirmed it when he was in here
a little bit, earlier that w adding one hundred and
forty scholarships to the athletics. Program let's talk to the significance.
Brand what does that mean if you're a, coach if
you're you, Know Steve, sabans if You're nikki Is O.
Brown forget football for just a, minute we'll get to.

(01:21:22):
That but what does that mean to the athletics department
as a?

Speaker 8 (01:21:24):
Whole, YEAH i think and let's start With sabans for a,
second BECAUSE i think that's that's the biggest jump. Here
if You're Steve, sabans who's been part of a program
that's done something historic here with two super regionals the
last couple of, years this is. Remarkable and doing it
in college baseball when you have eleven point seven scholarships
to spread across your, roster your entire. Roster baseball's kind

(01:21:48):
of college baseball in, PARTICULAR i think is the one
that's been underreported about how difficult it, is especially in
this new. Environment so if you're Now Steve sabins and
you're suddenly adding thirty scholarships or roster spots that you
can now, cover that is just a massive. Change SO
i think it does a couple of, Things, dave first and,
foremost if you're those coaches in The olympic, sports primarily

(01:22:10):
you look at this and, Say, okay, LISTEN i am
really comfortable with my athletic, director with my administration from
a presidential, level that everybody is all in here on
making athletics the best it can. Be and certainly in
this new, environment you're going to have to do it
with university, support as you've gotten now with this. Announcement
SO i think it just gives a boost to These
olympic sports coaches in particular that that their school and

(01:22:32):
the place that they're at is doing everything possible to
give them every available resource to make them to help
them be competitive in this.

Speaker 1 (01:22:39):
Environment AND i completely agree with you on the baseball, front, There,
Brad big twelve baseball certainly nothing to sneeze, at and
you have to go out and recruit these, guys and
you're recruiting against places where you can play baseball outside
all year. ROUND i, mean you've got some build in,
disadvantages but this gives you A i think a huge leg,
up or at least puts you on par with some
of these other programs in.

Speaker 8 (01:22:59):
The, YEAH i think it does give you a leg,
up at least for an initial. PERIOD i think that's
what you'll. See we know that college sports is a copycap,
business and you'll see some other schools around The big.
TWELVE i guarantee today when they saw this release come,
out they're looking around saying What West virginia's. Doing WHAT i,
mean this is a, major significant investment into the program

(01:23:19):
of funding nearly four hundred, athletes that's almost everybody that's
on scholarship and the university is now on some sort of,
aid AND i think that's just. Massive this will send
shock waves around The big twelve, Certainly and, yeah baseball
is the, One. David it really is remarkable what this
program has been able to achieve given what you just,
said the weather disadvantages that are built, in and then

(01:23:41):
just the sport in. General you're trying to balance the
level of recruits you need to compete at this, level
but you've got to be a little bit careful that
those guys won't sign with the major leagues that they
intend to come to. College and then you were trying
to do it act to asking guys that eventually would
be all conference performers to pay their own way. Here
and that's why that's probably an underrated story or an

(01:24:02):
underreported story that maybe a lot of fans didn't realize
what was. Happening but, massive massive day For Steve savens
in this baseball program in.

Speaker 1 (01:24:09):
Particular is the Scholarship does it have the same value
as it did ten years, ago fifteen years ago when
nil was not a.

Speaker 8 (01:24:18):
Factor, well it's a good, question AND i think it
depends on what sport we're talking. ABOUT i think in
football you could probably argue that, no it does. Not
BUT i do think a sport like baseball or other
sports that we're asking performers or high level production folks
to have to come and pay their own. WAY i
think the fact that you can now at least take

(01:24:39):
that burden, away that's a net win for both this
student athlete and the. Program so, YEAH i think we
can debate all day long does it mean the same,
thing and it's clear that it does not now that
guys are getting paid so much money to do. It,
No BUT i think in a lot of these, sports
and what we're talking about here is primarily in The
olympic sports of being able to truly fully fund. Them

(01:24:59):
AND i think that's the the key here is truly
fully funding so many of these other. SPORTS i think
would that release say all sixteen sports are affected by
this in some, WAY i think that's just. Huge and,
YES i think in those particular cases it does still
have some extreme.

Speaker 1 (01:25:12):
VALUE i mean, wrestling for, example wview. Gymnastics now you
have those opportunities to go out and athletes don't necessarily
have to pay their full way all the way. Through
we got a story over AT Wdv metronews dot Com
what are you doing on the bye? Week what are
you watching this? Week?

Speaker 8 (01:25:26):
Brad still paying attention to, football looking ahead THE ucf next.
Week And i'm just now walking out of basketball practice
toill getting some more basketball work in because we're, Heck,
Dave we're only a couple weeks away from the opener in,
basketball and the first exhibition game FOR wvu will be
coming up in just less than three weeks Against, Wheelings
so still a lot going. On as you well, know
the bye week or off week both are bad terms

(01:25:47):
because there's always stuff to be done and things to.

Speaker 1 (01:25:48):
WATCH i had my bye week last, Week. Brad there
was grass to be, mode there's cars that need, washed
there's chores that need to be, done because all that's
been neglected for the first seven weeks of the.

Speaker 8 (01:25:59):
Year, Well, Dave i'm also holding in there my as
a Lifelong cubs. Fan My cubs are still hanging around.
There they're still holding the. ROPE i got a couple more,
days or at least one more day of, baseball So
i'm taking that in as.

Speaker 1 (01:26:10):
Well and they survived last. Night they looked good last, Night.

Speaker 8 (01:26:12):
Brad, well early that was a hang on. Situation late
there and. Listen The brewers are, rolling So i'm. Listen
i've been through a lot of the defeat as A cubs,
fan So i've always learned to just take it one
day at a, time and if you can give me
another day of meaningful baseball In, October i'll take.

Speaker 1 (01:26:27):
It Metro New, sports Three guys before The game And
Metro New Sports. Line Brad. Howe you're in for three, guys,
right that's. TODAY i am en.

Speaker 8 (01:26:35):
Route right, Now, yes, sir well and thanks for the
chance to plug. This we're actually gonna Have Ren baker
in studio with, us sitting down to go through more
of this announcement and get into some deeper weeds on
what it actually.

Speaker 1 (01:26:47):
Means kertchiwill didn't mention that when he WHEN i gave
him the opportunity to promote the. Podcast there he didn't
Mention Bren.

Speaker 8 (01:26:52):
Baker, well promotion is not his main.

Speaker 1 (01:26:55):
Forte all, RIGHT i, will we'll schedule the. Download i'm
interested to hear that. Conversation thank.

Speaker 8 (01:27:03):
You should be out later this, afternoon mid afternoon.

Speaker 1 (01:27:05):
Nis all, Right brad how three guys Sports, Line Metro News.
Sports Thanks, brad appreciate.

Speaker 8 (01:27:09):
It, okay thanks da all, right we'll wrap.

Speaker 1 (01:27:11):
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(01:28:36):
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said he has more issues to. Consider it indicates he
will not rule. Today Judge probell, quote my intent is
to make a ruling by the end Of, november if not.
Sooner that Is brad mclhinney tweeting from the courtroom In
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(01:29:00):
vaccination requirements in religious. Exemptions brad will have a story
over at the website a little bit later on this.
Afternoon all, right ton of Tax i'll try to get
to as many of them as. Possible three or four
talk three h. Four why is extending the tax cuts
a problem that will affect millions of people who need
health care regardless of. Cost when it was no problem
to give tax breaks to the rich who don't need

(01:29:21):
a tax. Cut the tax breaks to the rich cost
more than extending. Healthcare this just proves The republican's way of.
THINKING i have a sincerely held belief that red is
the color of. SATAN i do not want to stop
at red lights or stop signs because of. THIS i
am more important than the community. GOOD i get what
you did?

Speaker 19 (01:29:40):
There?

Speaker 1 (01:29:42):
Uh? Three or Four talk three or? Four ask copy
if the previous administration ever censored. Anyone i'm sure he has.
Forgotten Does hoppy not remember the ninety one indictments Against
trump and all the indictments and prosecutions again Against trump's.
Staff hoppy has truly lost his. WAY tds has really
done a number ON i used to love to listen
to the show When hoppy was the, host But i'm

(01:30:03):
glad he's. GONE i wish he would just wake. Up
that's not. Nice, uh three or four talk three. Four
we've normalized the acceptance of illegal, immigration THAT us citizens
are okay with people assaulting law enforcement officers while trying
to deport said. Illegals during the civil rights era of

(01:30:24):
the nineteen fifties and, SIXTIES us presidents federalized The National
guard to force integration and protect civil rights activists against
the wishes of segregationist state. Governors this was a decisive
step taken to enforce federal court orders and uphold THE Us. Constitution, hoppy,
you like most of us in the, middle the right

(01:30:45):
and left have went to the extreme sides and the
middle field they cannot relate to. Either, Wow hoppy hit
the nail on the, head says The. Texter did it
normalize when troops were sent to The Southern states in
the sixties. TEXT i believe If trump were to say
he is in favor of air hoppy with stop, breathing

(01:31:07):
that's a bit extreme. Hoppy by the, way not that
he needs me to defend. Him. Uh did give The
president credit for the peace deal that's been negotiated in
The Middle, east and he even said might deserve The
Nobel Peace. PRIZE i, mean he did give him credit.

(01:31:28):
THERE i think that's worth pointing. Out he did give
him credit for. That also kind of tongue in cheek
said we might get a piece deal in The Middle
east before we get a federal budget three zho four
to three oh four more. Text The feds wouldn't have
to step in if what politicians would stop turning a
blind eye to crime shoe the, fly says The. Texter
and that was kind of my point in the. Discussion

(01:31:50):
at what point does it become an? Emergency AND i
know that you Know Governor pritzker In illinois and the
mayor Of, chicago the mayor Of, portland And i'll say that,
way we're doing. Fine we don't need the. HELP i
go back to the. Quote it was from a county
commissioner In, oregon Near, portland and he, said you, know

(01:32:12):
the truth lies, here somewhere in the. Middle it's not
this utopia with you, know petting zoos and baked sales
and everything's, great and it's not a war zone. Either
the truth is in the middle that yes there is
a crime, Problem yes we need to address, It yes
we need to deal with, it but it is not
the extreme that's being painted on either, side and the
whole issue becomes, politicized and then it becomes about political,

(01:32:35):
posturing and it becomes about just Opposing trump or supporting.
Him three or four talk three or four. Jeesh so
nice de, Ear hoppy sensibility to miss you. Hop the
boys do a good, job but they tend to pick.
Sides i've always thought you did a good job of
hanging in the middle and bringing the information forward without

(01:32:56):
trying to put your personal spin on. It, hobby go
back home and have a cup of, soup get in
your rocker with your afghan and cats and taking nap.
Pops that's the. Text so who's paying for the extra?
Scholarships the students bigger student, loans so AT w tuition

(01:33:17):
is going up to pay for all these athletic. Scholarships
hoppy Mission marshall football Coach. Gibby did you know That gibbey's,
Dad Charles Hoody, gibson was a top aide To Arnold,
miller THE unwa president from nineteen seventy two to seventy.
Nine he's also one of the best friends That Arra
miller ever, had says The. Texter julie, noted did not know,

(01:33:39):
That texter, WRITES i recently returned from a vacation In, Portland.
Oregon it Was it is a beautiful and vibrant, place
much more, vibrant open, minded and far less economically depressed
than any place In West. Virginia in, fact it does
not have any obvious crime, problem or certainly no more
than Most american cities its size and. Popularity, portland as

(01:34:01):
always is teeming with tourists enjoying the city's countless amenities
and natural. BEAUTY i don't know why it's so difficult
for commentators like you to understand and acknowledge that this
is nothing but a pointless and potentially dangerous power play
by The trump. Administration we are out of. Time appreciate
all the. Texts starwalt scheduled to join us. Tomorrow have
a great. Day Metro News midday coming. Up many of

(01:34:22):
these Same metro news radio stations On Metro news for forty,
years The voice Of West, virginia

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