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Speaker 1 (00:12):
We've got a loaded show this morning. Attorney General JB.
Mccusky stops by. We headed toward another government shutdown, plus
President Trump's speech to you in general as simply yesterday,
and much much more. It's Metro News talk Line. We
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Speaker 1 (01:17):
Starting the day with breaking news out of Texas. One
person's killed two wounded in a shooting at an ice facility.
Looks like officials are getting ready to hold a news
conference in Dallas. We'll keep you posted on that story
as details unfold. Good morning, Welcome inside the Encova Insurance
studios Dave Wilson and Morgantown TJ Meadows is in the

(01:39):
Charleston Bureau. The phone number is eight hundred and seven
sixty five Talk eight hundred and seven sixty five eight
two five five. You can text the show three or
four Talk three oh four. Those are the two ways
to communicate and be part of our discussion this morning.
Got a lot to get to. The AG is going
to join us in justin moment. We'll get into this discussion.

(02:00):
One of the main points in the possible government shutdown
is the expanded ACA tax credit and extending those those
are set to expire. That could impact a lot of
people here in West Virginia. Also, Jared Helper and Ryan
Smell stops by. And what about journalists working in the Pentagon?

(02:21):
More censorship, question mark. We'll get into all those subjects
and more. TJ. Meadows is in the Charleston Bureau. Good morning, TJ.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Good morning, sir. I have News Nation on that's my
channel of choice this morning. They just flashed an interesting statistic.
Let me caveat by saying, I don't know what base
A was versus base B in the actual numbers, but
according to their reporting, a tax on immigration officials up
over one thousand percent year over year that grabbed my attention,

(02:52):
but again we don't know what the bases are, so
I mean, you know, if you move from one to
four versus if you move from you know, so just
interesting staff that grabbed my eye here as we talk
about what's unfolding in Dallas, Dave, we.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Will continue to monitor that situation well. Also, yes, we
will get into the return of Jimmy Kimmel last night
to the ABC Network. But first, the state Attorney General
here in West Virginia has asked a judge to pause
local court cases related to religious exemptions for school vaccinations
and instead send a key legal question directly to the

(03:27):
state Supreme Court. It's like he's been listening to the show.
Joining us on Mention News talk line to explain the question,
and why is the Attorney General for the state of
West Virginia JB mccusky. JB, good morning, thanks for joining us.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
Good morning, guys, and I think we should all be
praying for everybody at that ice facility. It is the
amount of increases in some ways irrelevant attacks on government
officials are really really brutal for democracy, and this is
not good. What's happening in our country is tough to
take right now and just prayers for everybody down there.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Well said, Well said, well, JB, let's get into this
question about the vaccination law and the religious exemptions. Well,
what is the question you want the Supreme Court to consider?

Speaker 5 (04:16):
Yeah, so specifically, the question that we're asking is whether
the Equal Protection for Religion Act or the EPRA applies
to West Virginia's compulsory vaccination law, and if it does,
requires the state to offer religious and philosophical exemptions to vaccination.
And the reason why we have asked the Circuit judge

(04:37):
to certify this question to the Supreme Court is because
school has started and parents are confused, and we need
clarity now because there are really three sets of cases
going on in the state. There's one with Judge Lawrence
and one with Judge Pancake, and then there's these two
cases that have been consolidated in Raleigh County in front
of Judge Problem. And so what needs to happen is

(05:01):
that we need to have clarity from the highest court
in the land as to how to proceed because you know,
especially working parents, not knowing if your kid is going
to be able to go to school tomorrow is a
huge problem. And so we believe that that we need
an answer as soon as humanly possible so that we
can continue down these pieces of litigation and continue and

(05:26):
start to give clarity to our parents in school boards
about how they're supposed to proceed.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
JB.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
I have a two part question on process for you.
Number one, it's my understanding that Judge Froebel has to
certify the question and send it to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court cannot step in and take the question.
If the judge fails to do that. Do I have
that correct?

Speaker 5 (05:48):
Yes, that is generally and almost completely correct. Yes, there
would be very specific exceptions to that, but they don't
probably apply here. So yes, the judge needs to ask
the Supreme Court to do this.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
And here's a hypothetical. If Judge Froebel does not want
to certify that question. You mentioned some of these other trials,
and I'll pick on Judge Lawrence in for a second.
Could you go to Judge Lawrenson and ask him to
certify it and then it could go to the court.

Speaker 5 (06:18):
It would be more difficult for us to do that
in Judge Lawrenson's court because we are not a specific
party to that litigation. So in this instance, the reason
why it is important for us to be doing it
is that the Raleigh County cases, which is the Guzman
case as well as the Hess case, one of which

(06:39):
came from Kanawh County and got consolidated in we are
a party to those cases, and so for us, we
can ask the judge to do it whenever we want,
But this is the best venue for us to ask
that question because we are involved in that litigation as
a party.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
State Attorney General JB. Mccusky joining us here on Metro
News talk line, Why now, Why is the timing right
now to ask the State Supreme Court to step in?

Speaker 5 (07:05):
Yeah, I mean the time is now because the confusion
is real and it's causing real world effects within families
and school systems across the state. And I think what's
really interesting here is that we have a state law right,
and if you read the language of the EPR, it says,

(07:25):
notwithstanding any other provision of law, no state action may
substantially burden a person's exercise of religion.

Speaker 6 (07:34):
Right.

Speaker 5 (07:35):
And then it goes on to clarify what was already
the Supreme Court rules, which are unless applying the burden
to that person's exercise of religion in a particular situation
is essential to further a compelling government interests, and is
the least restrictive means of doing so. And so in
this instance, what we have is a state law that
says it must apply in every instance where there where

(07:58):
there is a conflicting state law. And it's hard to
imagine a more restrictive means of doing anything than compelling
somebody to do something right. And so the governor's argument here,
and we are representing the governor here, is that this
law applies in this instance. And I think it's fairly

(08:19):
clear in our eyes that there is no more restrictive
means than compelling somebody to take a medication.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
A few quick hits on this, and then we can
move on if Dave doesn't have other questions. But one,
do you know if the other parties support this ask
that you're making of Judge Froebel? And two, is there
any timeline on when Judge Froebel would rule on the matter.

Speaker 5 (08:41):
I do not know if the other parties are supportive
of this. I would assume that they all would be,
because if it is in their interest to clarify these positions,
they should want the Supreme Court to weigh in as
quickly as possible. It is sort of curious that we
have the ACLU as a plant here because the ACOU

(09:02):
is traditionally a group that supports the free exercise of
religion and tries. I mean, even their very name is
the Civil Liberties Union, right, and they're advocating for the opposite.

Speaker 7 (09:14):
Of that here.

Speaker 5 (09:15):
In my opinion, but it is my hope that the
other parties will want to support the Supreme Court stepping
in here in a quick way, because it is regardless
of the outcome, I believe it is good for all
of the parties to have clarity.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Here, say Attorney General JB. McCuskey, joining us here on
Metion News talk line. Wow, we've got you for a minute.
A couple other things we wanted to touch on your
office co leading with the Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman,
a coalition of twenty six states, and a comment letter
to the Administer of the Environmental Protection Agency supporting the
proposed reversal of the two thousand and nine Endangerment Finding

(09:52):
under Clean Air Acts Section two two. What's the letter?
What are you trying to get a cost for you.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
To say, yeah, easy for you to say, Dave Mouthful,
you did a great job.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
I might have to hire you.

Speaker 5 (10:03):
There is oral advocacy everybody. Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 8 (10:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (10:07):
So in two.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
Thousand and nine, what the EPA did was made a
determination that certain commonly found gases in the environment pose
and endangerment to society. And since then we have had
Patrick Morrissey's huge win in West Virginia versus EPA, as
well as the case in Chevron. And what we now

(10:29):
know is that major questions such as are these gases
allowed to be regulated by the EPA under the Clean
Air Act, must be decided by Congress and not by bureaucrats.
And so we have an eighty eight page filing that
delineates help myself and Russell Coleman, the Attorney General in Kentucky,
along with twenty six of our other Republican Attorney generals,

(10:50):
clarifying what our position is on how they should interpret that.
And this interpretation is so important because this will be
the basis on which we are able to completely re
re engineer our energy policy. Right, we have gone from
a country that produced reliable, low cost energy, not just
for our families, but also for our small businesses and

(11:11):
our manufacturing sector to a country that supports the kinds
of energy that will never allow us to flourish economically.
And so what the President and what Secretary Zelden are
doing is so important to reset this balance. Because we've
talked about this before. We have to make three times
more electricity over the next twenty years than we make

(11:33):
now just to sustain what American families are doing today,
and that will never be accomplished if we continue down
this road of irrational energy policy that foregoes every single
bit of energy that's found beneath our feet. If the
Left had their way, we would never make another kill
a lot of energy with gas or coal, and we

(11:55):
cannot move forward as a country. We cannot maintain our
place in the world standing if if that is how
we continue. And so what we're asking is for our
positions to be heard as they rewrite these rules, and
we're very hopeful that our opinions and our expertise here
will go a long way and helping the Secretary and

(12:16):
the President and accomplishing this wildly important goal.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
JB.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Good for you. I agree with you. Good for your
twenty six partners. I'm going to t this up for you.
It doesn't matter, do it. It doesn't matter. EPA will
come back and they'll write something again. It doesn't matter unless.

Speaker 5 (12:32):
What unless Congress steps in and rewrites what is the
Clean Air Act? Right, Bingo, There is a real need
here for permitting reform, which we've been talking about for
twenty years, and a complete reformation of the environmental policy
that's been passed in Washington over the last twenty five years.

(12:54):
And so what you've seen really over the last twenty
years is that all of the huge wins that have
tried to reset us, like I talked about, into a
rational energy policy have come at the Supreme Court at
the hands of our Republican attorney generals. They have taken
an incredible leadership role in doing this, and we need
Congress to step up and make it so we don't

(13:16):
have to fight what are bad laws so frequently.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
State Attorney General JB. Mccusky. We've got just a couple
of minutes, JB. But also wanted to ask about another
filing with US Supreme Court where you lay out your
argument defending the state's law meant to keep males from
competing in female sports do tell Yeah.

Speaker 5 (13:35):
We are so thankful that our congressional leaders have stepped
up and filed an amicus supporting what is West Virginia's
position here. We passed the law on the legislature, and
good on our state legislature for doing this and passing
the Save Women's Sports Sector And all it does is
it says that biological males cannot play sports against biological females.

(13:55):
That is a common sense law. It promotes safety and
fairness competition in women's sports. And it is our argument
that the Save Women's Sports Act is in full compliance,
if not supportive, of of Title nine, and that it
is constitutional as it relates to the Equaltection clause. And
so we will be arguing in front of the US

(14:18):
Supreme Court in January, and we are very very confident
that the Supreme Court will agree with us and our
state legislature and thankfully with our congressional leaders that this
law is constitutional and necessary.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
If it's common sense, why is it such a contentious question?

Speaker 5 (14:38):
The answer to that question is much longer than we
probably have, but it really stems from this from from
a sort of societal point of view, where we are
so frequently verified of offending anyone that we are incapable
of passing common sense laws that are that are designed

(15:02):
to effectuate what is known, and what we know is
that a fifteen year old boy is bigger, stronger, and
faster than a fifteen year old girl, and allowing that
boy to play in a women's sport is going to
reduce their ability to get scholarships. It's going to reduce
their ability to get nil deals, and it's going to
reduce their ability to even make the very teams that

(15:23):
they try and work so hard to get ready to make.
And you know it, you can It is possible to
say that boys shouldn't be playing in girls' sports without
disliking the people who that this would affect. Right, We're
not saying that a male who is transitioning into a

(15:46):
female shouldn't be allowed to play sports. What we're saying
is they shouldn't be allowed to play sports against women.
And I think that is a very very key point
here is that this isn't about a distaste for anyone.
This is about women's sports and giving our girls and
women an appropriate, fair and competitive arena for them to
showcase their talent.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
State Attorney General JB. Mccusky. We appreciate the time this
morning and safe travels.

Speaker 5 (16:12):
Hey you guys, have a great day. We'll talk to
you soon.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
Absolutely. State Attorney General JB. Mccoskey. Jimmy Kimmel made his
return to network television last night. We'll talk about that next.

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Speaker 1 (17:46):
Coming up, we'll talk about the impacts of not extending
the expanded tax credits for the American the Affordable Care Act.
We'll do that after the news break last night. Jimmy
Kimmel returned to ABC, where he was suspended last week
following comments on a show about Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin.
He addressed the elephant in the room during his monologue

(18:08):
and got emotional.

Speaker 12 (18:09):
It was never my intention to make light of the
murder of a young man.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
He also referenced his comments that got him in some
hot water during his monologue when he said, we hit
some new lows over the weekend with the Maga gang
desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk
as anything other than one of them, and doing everything
they can to score political points from it.

Speaker 12 (18:31):
He tried to clarify, nor was it my intention to
blame any specific group for the actions of what it
was obviously a deeply disturbed individual. That was really the
opposite of the point I was trying to make. But
I understand that to some that felt either ill timed
or unclear, or maybe both. And for those who think
I did point a finger, I get why you were upset.

(18:53):
If the situation was reversed, there was a good chance
I'd have felt the same way.

Speaker 13 (18:56):
I have many.

Speaker 12 (18:57):
Friends and family members on the other side who I
love and remain close to, even though we don't agree
on politics at all. I don't think the murderer who
shot Charlie Kirk represents anyone. This was a sick person
who believed violence was a solution and it isn't it.

Speaker 13 (19:15):
Ever.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Kimbo went on to criticize President Trump for praising a
show Suspension and calling for it and other late night
shows to be canceled.

Speaker 12 (19:23):
The President of the United States made it very clear
he wants to see me and the hundreds of people
who work here fired from our jobs.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Our leader celebrates.

Speaker 12 (19:32):
Americans losing their livelihoods because he can't take a joke and.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Of course, President Trump criticized Kimmel's return on Truth Social
Now that show did not air everywhere, including here in
West Virginia. Next Star and Sinclair owned ABC affiliates did
not air Kimmel last night. Thoughts, mister Meadows.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
Believe him, don't believe him. It's up to you. Watch him,
don't watch him. It's up to you. Here's what I no.
I don't think we should be censoring speech. I don't
think the President of the United States should be effectively
asking to censor Jimmy Kimmel based on his truth posts
whatever you call them yesterday. More speech is better than

(20:14):
less speech. That's simple in my mind.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
I agree with all of that. It's not the government's place.
And this we say this with stories coming out today
that Google is reinstating people's whose YouTube accounts accounts were
suspended because of pressure that the Biden administration applied during
the pandemic and during the twenty twenty election. So, like

(20:38):
I tried to point out earlier this week, this thing
swings both ways. I will say this though, the comment
that I thought really got him in trouble, the one
that I took the most exception to, was the one
where he asserts and implies that the alleged assassin in
this case was most certainly part of a group, most

(20:59):
certainly part of the MAGA group. That was a scripted comment,
that wasn't off the cuff, that wasn't improvised, that wasn't
something that happened in the midst of a breaking news
story on live television. That was scripted, and that was calculated,
and just saying I'm sorry I was wrong would have
gone a long way. I didn't think he did.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
That last night. Yeah, so look, maybe he didn't write it,
but he's responsible for it because he said it. But
he said it, Like.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
You said, TJ. It's on. You can watch it or not.
You all have that ability to decide and very quickly.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
I don't think they should have kicked Trump off Twitter
or Facebook or anything. Let him stay more speech is better.
Just take it or don't take it up to you.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Coming up impact of not extending or extending that expanded
tax credit, we'll talk about that next talk. Lona Metro
News the Voice of West Virginia. It is ten thirty
time to get a news update. Let's check in with
the Metro News Radio Network West Virginia.

Speaker 14 (21:55):
Metro News. I'm Chris Lawrence. State Attorney General JB. Mccusky
is asking a judge to pause lower court action on
the ongoing cases that involve religious exemptions and vaccine requirements.
McCuskey is hoping to get the matter, which is the
subject of cases in several different courts, bound up and
expedited to the Supreme Court. Brad McIlhaney reports the idea
here is a quick resolution.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
By going directly to the state Supreme Court. With that
question at the heart of several courtroom conflicts, the lawyers
say a basic conclusion could be revealed.

Speaker 14 (22:25):
The question is whether the Equal Protection for Religion Act
applies to West Virginia's compulsory vaccination law and thus requires
the state to offer religious and philosophical exemptions to getting vaccinated.
Brad writes more at wv metronews dot com. There's more
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Speaker 6 (22:45):
We were starting to obviously be concerned things were trying out.
We were getting back to a little bit towards the
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Speaker 7 (24:38):
A lot of people are going to be heaving that
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Speaker 1 (24:49):
From the Metro News anchored ask, I'm Chris Lawrence. Jared

(25:11):
Halpern Fox News Radio will join us a couple of
minutes from now. We'll get the latest from DC. President
Trump was addressing you in General Assembly yesterday. We'll get
the latest from Jared halperm and Obamacare deadline has collided
with the fights over government funding, Democrats signaling they want
Republicans to extend the laws expiring premium subsidies before they'll

(25:33):
support any bill to keep the government open. What would
be the impact if those subsidies do expire here in
West Virginia and across the country. Let's get more on
that subject. Joining us here on Metro News talk Line
this morning is Brendan buck Keep Americans covered. Brendan, good morning,
Thanks for joining.

Speaker 16 (25:50):
Us, thanksgiving me the time. Good see you guys.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
Why is this such a critical piece of the government
funding bill and why Democrats are digging their heads in
on this.

Speaker 16 (26:02):
Well, I think it's the calendar more than anything. I
mean that this issue is to just sort of running
smack into the end of the government's fiscal year, about
to have a potential government shutdown that's now related but
somewhat unrelated to the issue that we're talking about. At
the end of this year, the subsidies that have made
it affordable to buy coverage on the marketplace expires, and

(26:26):
that may seem like an end of the year thing,
But the reason why it's so important right now is
that open enrollment, when people can go online and shop
and buy. The coverage for their family starts on November first,
and if Congress doesn't do something to extend these tax
credits that are about to expire, premiums are going to
go way up. And so I think you have both

(26:46):
Democrats and Republicans who have acknowledged that this is a problem.
Something needs to be done here. People are going to
be asked to pay thousands of dollars more. And obviously
Democrats have thought that this is something worth picking a
fight over here at the end of the government shutdown deadline.
That's not really our fight. What we're talking about is
the importance of extending these tax credits so that people

(27:08):
don't face those big premium increases.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Give us a sense of the history here. We seem
to run into this quite a bit lately, but this
is part of the ACA. You can correct me if
I'm wrong, But why have an expiration on these credits?
If we were going to do it, why have an expiration?
Why did that occur?

Speaker 16 (27:26):
So the ACA has been around for fifteen years or
so now, but in twenty twenty one, they Congress increased
the amount of the tax credit somewhat significantly, making it
more affordable to buy coverage, and they were only able
to do that for a handful of years. Funny enough,
one of the reasons why they weren't able to extend

(27:47):
it longer was Senator Mansion at the time was worried
about the cost of doing so, and so they had
a shorter timeframe on it. But since they've been able
to increase the tax credit, enrollment has skyrocketed. The ACA
marketplace was ten or eleven million people in the country
four years ago and now it's over twenty four million.

(28:10):
And so it just shows you that this amount of
tax credit has made a significant difference. And now it's expiring.
And I think a lot of people are looking at
this somewhat at the last minute, candidly and realizing what
a big problem it would be if they just go
away overnight. And I think that's what we're facing.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
So what would the and we're talking to Brandon Buck
from KEEAP Americans covered about the expiring premium subsidies for
the ACA. So what would the impact be in West Virginia?
How would people here be affected?

Speaker 16 (28:39):
Yeah, anybody who buys their coverage on the marketplace is
probably going to be affected. In twenty twenty four, which
is the latest numbers I have, there were about fifty
thousand people in West Virginia that buy their healthcare this way.
This is really anybody who's not getting their coverage through
a job. They're not on a government program or get

(28:59):
it through union plan. These are people who maybe they're farmers,
maybe they're ranchers, maybe they are small business owners who
don't have a plan that they offer their employees. Maybe
it's somebody kind of near retirement and they're not quite
at Medicare age, but they have to buy coverage on
their own. For a family of four in West Virginia

(29:22):
that's making sixty four thousand dollars for their household, if
these tax credits do expire, they're going to have to
find almost three thousand dollars more next year to pay
for their health coverage.

Speaker 6 (29:33):
And I know.

Speaker 16 (29:34):
If families there, like anywhere else, are struggling with the
cost of living already, Telling someone that they need to
find three thousand dollars just to keep what they already
have is tough, tough to swallow, and it varies depending
on your income and your age. Those older people who
are not quite at Medicare age get hit really bad.

(29:56):
If you're in your mid sixties and you've got maybe
eighty thousand dollars of income, but you're not quite ready
to be on Medicare yet, these tax credits expire, you're
going to have to pay close to forty thousand dollars
more to afford coverage on the marketplace. That's that's not
a type of forty thousand dollars more to be able
to afford it. That's just not realistic. And so what

(30:16):
we're seeing is there's an expectation that millions of people
across the country are just going to drop coverage because
they can't afford that. I don't know who could afford that.
So we're expecting a lot of people would would lose coverage,
and everybody who can somehow afford to keep doing it,
they're all going to be paying more if the tax
credit goes apart, goes away, and not just a little

(30:37):
bit more, a lot more.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
So costs will hit somebody's p and l to your point,
forty thousand times how many other people would lose it
just as an average, and the costs obviously add up.
I'm curious if your organization has any ideas about what
we can do, what we can cut in other areas
or where we would find that money to be able
to continue these tax credits.

Speaker 16 (30:57):
Yeah, obviously, cost is a real issue something that Congress
I think is sorting out. And you know, one of
the things we've said is we've never called for a
permanent extension of this, and I think that's probably where
a lot of members of Congress are at this point,
is like what can we afford? What can we do?
And maybe it's not making it permanent, Maybe it is,

(31:19):
I don't know, but there are real trade offs of
course that they'll they'll have to consider. But I think
what they are all recognizing is the costs should not
fall on families, and that's where ultimately it's going to
fall if nothing is done. Again, you have close to
twenty four million families who are going to be asked
to pay thousands of dollars more, and those are the
real options that they're facing. Whether they want to find

(31:40):
some ways to offset that in the budget, that's a
discussion they're obviously going to have. But this is not
a theoretical thing. I know you've probably probably talked about
the other cuts. It's a healthcare and Medicaid in the
bill that Congress passed earlier this year, those are sort
of pushed off for a few years. Can't stress enough
that this is coming in thirty eight days. That's when

(32:02):
open enrollment starts, thirty eight days. If Congress doesn't do
something now, people are going to log on. They're going
to try to keep the coverage that they've already had,
and they're going to be blown away by how much
more expensive it got. And so that's the choice Congress has.
Are they going to find a way to pay for it.
Are they going to find a way to just put
that on families or let this just purely expire. And

(32:23):
I don't think that that's what they want to do.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Our families and people enrolled with the ACA already facing
increase bringing the increases anyway, even if these subsidies are extended.

Speaker 16 (32:34):
Yeah, there's a bit of a double whammy going on
here just to healthcare in general is getting more expensive.
And one of the important dynamics is all of the
states in West Virginia included, the insurance companies there have
had to basically model out how much they think it's
going to cost to cover people in the next year,
and for a bunch of reasons. Health insurance is just

(32:55):
more expensive. But one of the reasons it's more expensive
is that they had to assume that these tax credits
go away. And what happens when the tax credits go away,
theoretically is the people who are really sick, who really
need it, maybe older, they're gonna find some way to
probably still buy it. But those younger, healthier people might say,
you know what, that's not worth it. I'm just gonna

(33:17):
roll the dice and I'm not gonna buy it. What
ends up happening, then is health insurance just gets more
expensive for everybody because you end up in that's what
we call a risk pool. All the people who are
in it are older, they're more expensive to cover, they
have more health conditions, and that ends up driving up
prices everywhere. So the underlying cost of health insurance because
of that is going to go up. And then you
take away the tax credit that serves to make it affordable,

(33:40):
and it's a bit of a double whammy. Higher underlying
insurance costs hit with the loss of the tax credit,
and that's how you end up paying thousands of dollars
more a year to cover.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Yourself Brandon, help me understand and educate me on how
children fall into this. Because you talked about family coverage,
I'm assuming some family have their children covered through this,
But if that were to go away and was unaffordable,
would this then increase the number of children potentially who
end up in the CHIP program, which is also a cost.

(34:11):
I'm just trying to understand the path that children may
face in regard to these decisions and consequences that are upcoming.

Speaker 16 (34:20):
Yeah, don't. I don't have a specific number for West Virginia,
but across the country, one point six million children are
enrolled in coverage on these marketplace plans, So yeah, you
have a real family impact here. Now, are there other
places that that children could be covered potentially, but they
would be eligible theoretically would be eligible for those other

(34:41):
programs previously, And a lot of the reasons some of
these kids end up on this coverage because their family
doesn't qualify for enrollment in SHIP or Medicaid or or
some other programs. So yeah, I think there is a
I don't exactly know what the number would be for
your state, but very clearly there are children who who
would be at risk, and you're going to have an
increase in families, including kids who don't have coverage. If

(35:04):
this doesn't happen, there's just simply no way for some
of these families to afford what it's going to cost.
And that's why this is a really urgent, real life
human consequence issue that Congress is just now, I think,
sort of waking.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
Up to branding about thirty seconds he your final question,
do you have a sense is Congress moving toward extending
these or are we going to have a fight on
our hands.

Speaker 16 (35:29):
Well, there's always a fight, of course in Congress. I
am encouraged that you have Republicans and Democrats both acknowledging
that something needs to be done here. Obviously Democrats are
much more dug in on it. But I don't think
we should look at this as a red versus blue fight.
You have sort of certainly moderate Republicans, but you have
some really conservative Republicans who have also said that we

(35:50):
should do something. You've got Josh Holly from Missouri and
Tommy Tubberbill from Alabama. Shelley Moore Capito has talked about
the need to look at this too. I mean, you
have some people who are conservative who have said this
is something that needs to get done. The sausage making
is underway, and I'm hopeful that we'll be able to
get this done. I think the important thing that was
getting it done before November one starts in thirty eight

(36:11):
days when open enrollment begins.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Brendan Bunck from Keep Americans Covered. We'll continue to watch
as the deadline approaches. Brendan, thank you so much this morning.

Speaker 16 (36:20):
Thanks guys.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
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News Radio. Jared, good morning, thanks for joining.

Speaker 4 (38:24):
Us, Thanks for having me. Good morning.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
So other than a faulty teleprompter, and malfunctioning escalator. What
were your takeaways from the president speech?

Speaker 4 (38:33):
Yeah, the escalator was notable. I think that listen, this
is the type of address that he's expected to give
it the un right. He has been critical of the
United Nations. He has been critical especially of Europe and
energy and immigration policies, and that was certainly on display.
I will say that I thought what was most notable

(38:55):
was the president's tenor and tone following his sit down
with Lotomer Zelenski, the president of Ukraine. Remember it was
not that long ago that the president said that Ukraine
didn't have any cards, that there was going to have
to be a concession of land, that Russia was poised
to kind of let this go on for a long time.

(39:16):
And then yesterday, after meeting with European officials, after meeting
with Zelensky, he came out and said that he thinks
that Russia's a paper tiger, that Ukraine can win back
all of the land that it has lost, all the
territory it has lost, doubled down on making sure that
NATO has the capabilities it needs to send to Ukraine,

(39:38):
said that he thinks that if Russia violates a NATO
country's airspace. They should shoot that aircraft down. This was
a much more aggressive tone on Russia than we've heard
from President Trump, certainly since that sit down with Vladimir
Putin in Australia in Alaska about a month ago.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
Do we know why, Jared, why now? Why this reversal
or change of course in.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
It's a good question, Listen. I think with the president,
he is one who is looking to make deals. He
is one who is looking for a level of cooperation,
and he has not seen that in Vladimir Putin. It
is not the first time that he has accused Putin
of kind of dragging this process along. And I think
that you have seen Ukraine willing to sit down, have

(40:25):
that meeting that President Trump wants between Zelenski and Putin,
and it has been the Russian side that has not
agreed to that. I think that is part of it.
The President also was very alarmed, if you saw his
social media post a few weeks ago, with the drone
incursion in the Poland and so again, I think a

(40:47):
lot of it has to do with the President just
feeling like he hasn't gotten what he's asked for from
Vladimir Putin. He has said in the past that he
thought that this would be an easy conflict to settle
because of his relationship in his first administration with Putin,
but he has gone on to kind of say that
that relationship apparently didn't mean what he thought it did,

(41:09):
So I think it's a reflection of that now. I
do know that there are Europeans that were glad to
hear that from the President, but also have thrown up
some caution signs that the President has changed his views
on this a couple of times, and they are hopeful
that this new ten or this new attitude towards Russia

(41:29):
has some staying power.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
He also kind of put this on European countries as well.
Jared called him out for not doing more.

Speaker 4 (41:37):
Yeah, I mean he also said, if you look at
the social media post that the President put out, that
lengthy one, he also kind of said, listen, I wish
both countries. Well, that's generally not what you say when
you want one side to win and one side to lose.
I think the President is losing patience with this, and
he's been looking for a way to maybe lesson reduce
the US role in ending this conflict, and perhaps what

(42:00):
you heard yesterday, which you saw from the President yesterday
was a reflection of that, not that the United States
is kind to completely back away, but perhaps will not
take as forward facing a role on the negotiation side,
while at the same time continuing to supply NATO countries
who are essentially buying these weapons, but supplying NATO countries

(42:23):
with the weapons that they're able to transfer them to Ukraine.

Speaker 3 (42:27):
Jared, I'd like to circle back domestically here. Haven't talked
to you in a while. Tell us about the President's
comments when it comes to Pam BONDI seems like he
was trying to send a message, and then I think
the White House was walking that back on Monday.

Speaker 4 (42:42):
They are walking it back because it is pretty extraordinary
for a president to kind of direct an attorney general
to open up investigations, and the President, I think, was
frustrated that some of these cases have not moved forward
in the way that he'd like them to. That is
playing out now in the Eastern District of Virginia, where
the US Attorney there chose not to file any charges

(43:03):
pursue charges against Letitia James, the Attorney General of New York.
That person resigned or was fired I guess depending on
who you ask. And the President has put in a
new US attorney that seems to be an indication that
Pam Bondi is at least open to the idea of

(43:25):
continuing to pursue some of these cases. Now, whether or
not that leads to an indictment, leads to a trial,
I think we are a long way from but it
is raising questions and raising concerns about kind of the
prosecutorial discretion and independence of the Justice Department, with the
President kind of very actively naming people that he thinks
should be prosecuted by the Justice Department, by the Attorney General.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
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Always appreciate it. Thank you, Jared.

Speaker 4 (43:55):
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Busy. First hour, I haven't been neglecting your text I
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coming up. Second hour of the show. Got a couple
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(45:41):
second hour of Metro News Typeline talk line. Easy for
me to say. Rear Admiral Mike Smith is going to
join us. We'll talk about these new rules at the
Pentagon where and you wrote about this, TJ. Was it
this week or last week? I know you wrote about it.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
What is today WEDNESDA? I think it was Monday, Monday.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
Yeah, where if you're a journalist covering the Pentagon, you're
pretty well restricted on where you can go and what
you can actually report on. We'll get into that with
by the way, the rear admiral not a fan, by
the way, not not a fan, fan, not a fan,
and Ryan Schmells will join us. We'll talk more about
the looming government shutdown, whether or not we can get

(46:22):
a deal struck between now and then. Just want to
go back quick, and we've only got about to go
a few seconds here, TJ. There are fiscal hawks. We're
talking about the ACA premium subsidies. There fiscal hawks that
I know. It's the usual suspects. This drives them crazy,
they don't want to spend the money. However, there are

(46:43):
those on the right in the Republican Party recognizing the
political reality and that is, if those premium subsidies do expire,
there are going to be some very difficult house races
to win in twenty six.

Speaker 4 (46:55):
Well.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
I'm one of them. I talk about the debt more
than almost anybody you can imagine that thirty seven trillion dollars.
But I also asked about children. We have an obligation
to children. Dave, how's that gonna wash out here? So yeah,
we got to figure this out.

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(48:21):
We'll get into that bottom of the hour. Your text
coming up as well. U TJ. Watching the latest on
that shooting in Dallas where a gunman open fire on
an ice facility in Texas. Now two people confirmed dead.
The shooter took his own life as well. Looks like
they're getting ready for a news conference down there in
the rain, So we'll continue to monitor that situation throughout

(48:42):
the show.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
Correct and CNN at least I saw on CNN, maybe
other outlets as well reporting that the shooter opened fire
from an elevated position that according to a DHS official,
two detainees involved, as you said, too dead. So we
contend to continue to monitor the situation and in Dallas.
But just another horrible happening that we watched before our eyes.

(49:05):
I'm sure we'll learn more as the day goes on,
but it continues unfortunately.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
We will keep you up today on that story as
details emerge. In a controversial move, especially among media members
and journalists, the Pentagon announced strict new rules for journalists
covering the Department of Defense. Reporters will now be required
to sign a pledge agreeing to only report information formally
authorized for its release, even if it's unclassified, or risk

(49:32):
losing their press credentials. The policy also imposes tighter controls
on journalist movements inside the Pentagon, restricting access to certain
areas and requiring escorts. Critics calling this a serious blow
to the freedom of the press and independent journalism. Rear
Admiral Mike Smith is founder and president of National Security
Leaders for America, and he does not particularly care for

(49:54):
this new rule. He joins us on Metro News talk
line Mike, good morning, Thanks for joining.

Speaker 13 (49:59):
Us, Good morning, Thanks for having me so.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
On one hand, I could understand why you would need to
tightly control information in the Pentagon. On the other, I
don't like the idea of the states authorizing the release
of information. So maybe divergent thoughts there, But make this
make sense for me if.

Speaker 13 (50:21):
You can, you know you certainly can't make this policy
makes sense. There's always been a tension between the military
and press. You know, my organization has over thirteen hundred
former senior national security leaders. We grew up understanding that

(50:45):
tension and living with it. There's a reason we have
a freedom of the press, but there's also a reason
to allow our members to develop relationships so you know
which which press you can trust, in which you can't.
So when there is a crisis and somebody comes to
you and says, just give me this information so I

(51:07):
can help you, you know who to trust. And this
state sanctioned oversight and only printing what the Pentagon wants
to have printed, that's just dangerous.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
Admirable, thanks for your service. I think you would agree
that our founders did not want us to trust the government.
That's not a pejorative statement, it's just the way we're
set up. Is that effectively, what Secretary Hegseth is asking
us to do with this policy, is he asking us
to just trust him, us as Americans, to just trust
him absolutely.

Speaker 13 (51:42):
And that is, like you say, that's dangerous. I mean,
if we just trusted what the the press releases from
the Pentagon, how would we be characterizing the Afghanistan withdrawal?
Right now, you know, back years ago and learning about
the actions that were being done in this prison that

(52:06):
the United States was in charge of you know, or
going back to the Vietnam the Pentagon papers and if
we just went by press releases, everything would always be great.
And I'm not saying that that happens every day, but
you have to have the freedom of the press to
report and then, like I said, it's a tension, but

(52:26):
it's a good tension and we all learn to live
with it. It's strength in trusting the press. It's insecurity
to muzzle the press, and I don't think our country
and our military should be insecure.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
APRAL Mike Smith joining us. He's founder and president of
National Security Leaders for America. How do you or within
the Pentagon, if you can pull the curtain back a
little bit for us, how do you control the flow
of information to make certain that national security information that
may compromise missions where troops are, how do you make

(53:03):
sure that's secure. How do you find this balance between
information that needs to get out, information that reporters have
to dig to get to, but also not compromising national
security matters?

Speaker 13 (53:16):
Right? Well, that you don't learn that overnight.

Speaker 8 (53:20):
You know.

Speaker 13 (53:20):
I was before I made admiral, I was the one
of the senior special assistants to the Chairman of the adjoint
chiefs of staff, and I would travel with them everywhere.
And at that point in my career, I'd just been
on ships and things like that, and I didn't trust
the press, and I learned, oh, don't talk to the press.
I found it was the exact opposite. You want to

(53:41):
talk to the press. You need to understand how to
communicate and how not to communicate. And the press knows
that too. I mean, you know, they know they can't
print stuff that's direct in an irreparable harm. You can't press,
you can't publish, you know, troop movements and things like that.

(54:02):
But at the same time, you want to be able
to have that communication so they can help you when
you need them as well.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
I want to move down into some of the other
parts of this policy, beyond just telling the press what
they can and cannot print and threatening to pull their
credentials if they print something that's quote unauthorized movements within
the Pentagon, as Dave said, pull the curtain back a
little bit. Are you advocating or do you believe it's

(54:34):
a good idea that a reporter should be able to
go anywhere in the Pentagon they want. Is there some
kind of sensible restriction in saying, Okay, reporters can't be
in these certain areas. How should that work?

Speaker 13 (54:47):
Well, I think the current process works. If the press
can't go anywhere they want, you know, classified areas, you
have to have a badge that allows you to swipe
into that area. And certainly the press badges don't allow
them access to sensitive areas. So they're only going and

(55:08):
meeting people perhaps when they're having coffee, or they're having lunch,
or someone's going to invite them to their office to
discuss something. So you don't want to keep those people
in their offices. First of all, it makes it hard
when you really want to get information to them. Now
you're senior leaders have to walk down to their office
when they're in the middle of a very busy day.

(55:30):
So there's benefits on both sides to be able to
freely roam the Pentagon because they can't get into areas
that they're not cleared to get into.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
APROL Mike Smith is joining US, founder and president of
the group National Security Leaders for America. How is there
a way to plamp down on leaks, make certain information
is not getting out that's not supposed to get out
without these restrictions to press because we know information gets
out sometimes select information gets out that doesn't tell the

(56:03):
entire story about whatever the subject may be. Is there
a balance? That seems to be what we're looking for
is a balance here.

Speaker 13 (56:12):
We are looking for a balance, and I think that
the current system has that balance. You know, I mean
every president has been plagued by leaks. This isn't unique.
You know, even the President Trump just yesterday or the
other day said this is crazy. The press is going
to find out. You know, you can't restrict the press

(56:35):
like this because at the end of the day, you're
really only talking about restricting them in the Pentagon and
if somebody wants to leak information like the Pentagon papers,
they'll find, you know, some garage somewhere and they'll hand
over the papers there. So you have to work on
leaks by going to the source, and you have to
educate individuals that you know, this is what classified information

(56:59):
is and you can't talk talk to this. It's a
constant struggle when you're in the job. You know, you
are so frustrated that people don't understand that and talk
to the press. But again it's the press themselves. Learn
what they can report and what they can't as well
when it comes to that national security impact. But this

(57:21):
isn't national security, this is unclassified information. It's only if
at some bureaucrat in the Pentagon agrees with what you're reporting?
Can you report on that on basic unclassified information that
our Constitution guarantees the right of American people to hear about.

Speaker 3 (57:42):
Talk to me about those that are still in leadership
at the Pentagon, the top brass if you will that
work for report to, whether it's Secretary heg Seth or
even into the White House. As a retired Navy admiral,
you can speak your mind as you are today talking
about this. I'm curious if you have any suspicions about

(58:05):
what upper brass may think about this policy. And obviously
it would be difficult for them to talk about it,
but would they be in agreement with you? Do you think?

Speaker 13 (58:15):
You know, I would just be speculating, but certainly if
I were in those positions, you know, it's a lawful order,
you know, so they're going to go by that order
and they're going to make sure that you know, the
there any statements they make are are you know, approved

(58:36):
through the whoever the press, police, is and the Pentagon.
But each of those senior leaders has spent thirty forty
years under an oath to protect the Constitution, to defend
the Constitution, and the first Amendment is freedom of speech

(58:57):
and freedom of press. So certainly I believe all of
them robustly believe. We have to have a free press
and you have to have a free free speech.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
Abrol before we let you go. What will it take
to overturn this policy in reverse course?

Speaker 13 (59:15):
You know, I think that the President needs to pick
up the phone and call Secretary Hexseth and say this
is really not in our best interest. Why are you
doing this The press, like he already said, the press
is going to find out anyways. And all it makes
us do is look insecure. It makes us look weak,
and it makes us look afraid of the press, and

(59:38):
our military is not weak and is not insecure.

Speaker 1 (59:42):
Amral Mike Smith, Founder and President of National Security Leaders
for America, thanks so much for the conversation this morning.
We'll continue to follow this story.

Speaker 13 (59:50):
Thank you, thanks for having us.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
Absolutely take a break. We're back. We'll get to your text.
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three oh four guys, Why didn't you tell Mike that
people in the military are in a chain of command
and they do not have freedom of speech. He didn't

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need us to tell him that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:29):
He said as much, didn't he He said it was
a lawful order.

Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
Yeah, and you're right to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:34):
Uniform Code of Military Justice is different when it comes
to freedom of.

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
Speech, TJ and Dave, Why can't you see that this
unlawful and anti democratic policy restricting press reporting on Pentagon
matters is all to cover for the drunkard Hegseth sharing
confidential battle plans on an unsecured signal chat that included reporters.
Why do you pretend that this is not the authoritarian
playbook control the media and control the information so that

(01:02:58):
the people know only what the sex abuser wants them
to know. Quit pretending these are normal policies. I thought
this country mattered. I thought the founding principles matter. Republicans
have shown me how wrong I was. Republicans no longer.
I have no honor or integrity, says the Texter. I
will just point out there's story today Google reinstating people

(01:03:19):
on YouTube other accounts because they were chicked off under
pressure from the bind administration. And my point is, yeah,
Trump does it, and Trump does it out in front
of everybody and flaunts it ToJ He flaunts some of
these policies. But it has been going on, and it
went on in the previous administration. It went on behind
the scenes of the previous administration. We know it did

(01:03:41):
so yeah, both sides are always trying to control the
information that is getting out, and none of it is good.
None of it is good in my opinion.

Speaker 3 (01:03:51):
Why would this instance be used to cover up for
the signal incident with Pete Hegseth and that group of
other pew, everybody knows about it. Nothing to cover up
it's out there. I believe you, and I remind me,
I don't think we spoke favorably of that when it happened.
I also don't think we're speaking favorably of this. If

(01:04:11):
you go read the commentary, Dave noted that I'm pretty
adamantly against telling anyone that's a reporter in the Pentagon
what they can and cannot print. So I'm not sure
where you would think that we support what is happening here.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
The press is just too hostile and pushing an agenda,
says the texture. I can see where you would or
how you had formed that opinion. But this goes back
to what the admiral said, and even in my humble
little career. You want to control information, you then you've
got to develop it relationships. You've got to be able
to know if a from this side, which which sources

(01:04:49):
can I trust who's going to tell me the truth?
Who is just giving me part of a story that
you know, to push their narrative. That is done through
relationship building, and that is not done through press releases
and keeping people at arm's length. And look, there should
be a little bit of an adversarial relationship between news
media and the people they cover. It should be a

(01:05:10):
little bit adversarial. That doesn't mean it has to be mean.
That doesn't mean that you can't be friendly with each other.
But I've got a job. You've got a job, and
sometimes you're going to butt heads when you're both trying
to do your jobs correctly.

Speaker 3 (01:05:23):
But the role of discernment is a responsibility and a
constitutional republic, the press is there to print what the
press will print. I think we as a society, I'm
guilty as well, fail to understand who's being a pundit,
who's being a reporter, and we fail to act with
discernment in what we are being told. You gotta look,

(01:05:46):
you gotta you gotta participate in democracy, folks, it's not
just handed to you. So there's a role there, right, Dave.
I mean, don't people have to have some level of
personal responsibility and discernment in terms of telling a rag
from the Wall Street Journal or calling the journal out
when they get it wrong. I mean, there's a role

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to be played.

Speaker 1 (01:06:08):
Texter says, Trump and company are doing a lot of
what Republicans and conservatives have been accusing Democrats of doing
or wanting to do, and the magas lap it up
in support. What gives Well, here's my simple explanation to that.
Interesting to see if you're in the same ballpark, DJ,
when you are the one in control, when you have

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the majority, and I'm talking about whether you know it's
Republicans or Democrats, you always think, I don't say always,
there's a tendency to believe that it's never going to
change and you're going to be the one in control.
You're going to be the one in power. That's not
the case. That's not the case. Remember, I mean, we
can go back and look talk government shutdown. Who was

(01:06:53):
telling us all how the the government shutdown was going
to be terrible and impact all these people and seniors
and veterans and so on and so forth. Well, a
lot of them are the same people who are advocating
for a government shutdown this time. So look There's not
as much difference in DC as you may think there is,
is my point.

Speaker 3 (01:07:11):
I guess political damage today, a political win today is
worth more than political damage tomorrow or a political win tomorrow.
That's the reality of the game. There is no long
game in politics. You show me someone who takes a
different course when they think what was done in the

(01:07:31):
previous administration was wrong and they choose not to do
it themselves, I'll show you a statesman instead of a politician.

Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
Dave and TJ. Another good reason Biden should have been
voted out of office is he wasted taxpayer money for
giving student loans to a select bunch of folks instead
of fixing healthcare, knowing that those government subsidies were going
to expire, affecting families. In my humble opinion, how should
be done? What should be done about the alleged fifty

(01:08:00):
thousand dollars bribe that ICE director Homan allegedly accepted. I've
seen that story, not followed it closely. There's only so
many things I can squeeze into a day. Have you
been on top of that one?

Speaker 3 (01:08:12):
I mean, I've looked at it, but I think there's
a question of what you can do as a private
citizen versus what you can do as a government official.
And if he was a private citizen when he did that,
I don't know that he can be prosecuted for it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:27):
Not sure what that one's about. I have a question
which comes from the interview you did with Everybody is Covered.
It seems to me the real culprit in this equation
is the inflation in healthcare. While I agree that the
text credit must be addressed or there are going to
be a lot of people without healthcare, it seems to
me something must be done to bring down the cost
of healthcare. If you've got the magic silver bullet for

(01:08:49):
that one, write a book, become a millionaire.

Speaker 3 (01:08:54):
Come it up, Save humanity. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:08:57):
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line three or four talk three four. Kimmel worst apology ever,

(01:13:06):
says the Texter. Kimill back on air. I guess Charlie
Kirk will be returning to his show soon. Oh wait,
but Kimmel was the victim because both sides are the same.
Texter says, who cares about Sinclair? I watched those shows
on Hulu. Too old to stay up, amen, Brother Dave.
We don't need Jimmy Kay's fake tears and lies. I

(01:13:28):
watched it. It was available last night in the Great
Free County of West Virginia's Fayette County way TV, locally
owned and operated. Not a pawn of big right wing media.
Kiss it Murdox, says the Texter.

Speaker 3 (01:13:44):
Anytime you can work in kiss it. I mean that's
a good text message.

Speaker 1 (01:13:48):
In my humble opinion, anything Kimmel said, was nowhere near
as bad as Fox's Brian kill me and said about
homeless people. But I'm sure that won't be mentioned on
your Republican paganda show. All Right, we'll get to more
some texts coming up three or four Talk three oh four.
We'll have a couple of open segments here in just
a moment joining us from Capitol Hill, Fox News Radios,

(01:14:10):
Ryan Schmells, where are we still headed toward a government
shut down? Is there something that could happen to avoid that? Ryan,
Good morning, buddy.

Speaker 8 (01:14:21):
Good morning brother. I mean we'll see.

Speaker 6 (01:14:24):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:14:25):
You know, there was supposed to be a meeting to
either today or tomorrow between President Trump and Jefferis and Schumer,
but that meeting got canceled after President Trump says he
saw the details of what they were proposing and he
thought it was unseerious and so a wasted time and
therefore canceled.

Speaker 1 (01:14:44):
Is that is that a Trump negotiating tactic? Is that
a sign that this is just not going to go anywhere?
How do you read that? Ryan?

Speaker 19 (01:14:51):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (01:14:52):
Well, I mean it seems like he's going back to
the drawing board, where in allowing Republicans to do their
initial plan, which was to have a vote either Monday
or Tuesday on the bill that's been out there and
that already passed the House, which is a government funding
plan from Leader Thun as well as Bigger Johnson that

(01:15:14):
would pretty much extend government funding until November twenty first.
Democrats wanted healthcare provisions to be attached to it. But
if you know enough Democrats decide, Okay, you know what,
we're up against the clock, it's really not that bad
a deal. Let's just vote for this, then you know
it can pass. But they're going to need upwards of
seven to ten Democrats to be willing to do that.

Speaker 3 (01:15:37):
Ryan Chuck Schumer on Morning Joe this morning, and he said, look,
I was hopeful we could get something done, but this
is on the Republicans. Is that a fair characterization on
Schumer's part.

Speaker 8 (01:15:48):
It depends on how you look at it. I mean,
you know, Democrats really want these Affordable Care Act subsidies
to be attached to this, but at the same time,
you know, the Republicans will say that's not an issue
to be addressing right now out of an issue for
down the road when we after we fund the government.
So you know it seems like Democrats are trying to

(01:16:08):
fight to get at least something included in here. But like,
keep in mind, the cost of just extending these Affordable
Care ACTAX credits quite substantial. I mean, we're talking about
upwards of three hundred and fifty billion dollars over ten years,
so it's not exactly cheap. And Republicans have said, no,
we need to actually look at what this thing is
and decide, you know, what we can put in, Well,

(01:16:28):
we can't put in whatnot?

Speaker 1 (01:16:30):
Fox News Radios. Ryan Schmelz joining us here on Metro
News talk Line. Ryan, we were discussing the premium subsidies
for the ACA a little bit earlier. Yes, there's a
cost associated to it, but there's a political gamble here
if those are not extended. There are a lot of
House members who are in very tight races, and that
could be a deciding factor.

Speaker 8 (01:16:52):
Well, and there are some House members who say, we
do need to talk about this as soon as we're
done with the funding battle, because you know, yes, there
are a lot who actually support extending this both send
it in House Republicans. So I think definitely the conversation
is going to be had at some point and there
are Republicans of what the conversation to be had, They
just don't think it should be attached to something like this.

Speaker 3 (01:17:15):
Ryan Jamel's Fox News radio man about town in Washington,
DC that he is talk to me about censorship. We've
heard what the President has been saying, what he's been
posting on social media, but it seems there's some bipartisan
level of support and push when it comes to censorship. Ran,
I'm thinking about folks like Ted Cruz and what they

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had to say. It seems folks in DC may be
up in arms about this.

Speaker 8 (01:17:39):
Well, if you want to see Ted Cruz talking in
an Italian accent, you can listen to the clip of
him criticizing exactly what we just talked about. We had
this in our story. He's criticizing the decision pretty much
to threaten some of these media companies with their licensing
deal over a rhetoric that they didn't like. So that

(01:18:00):
that's you know, Cruz has kind of said, that's that's
going down a very slippery slope. A don't think it's
something that the federal govern should be involved in. But also,
you know, if Republicans bite off more than they can
chew here, or at least the FCC does. Under a
Republican president, there's a fear of what that could mean
if a Democrat is the president down the road. Is

(01:18:21):
that what's going to happen in that situation. So I
think there are a lot of things out there that
are very concerning here.

Speaker 1 (01:18:28):
You know, Ryan, there is the possibility you just don't
do something on its merits, not because the other side
might do it back to you.

Speaker 3 (01:18:35):
That.

Speaker 1 (01:18:35):
I mean, that's just a novel thought I wanted to
throw out there.

Speaker 8 (01:18:39):
Yeah, And I mean, look, there's this big conversation about
free speech. He's got some Republicans that were saying, look,
Jimmy Kimmel's not getting pulled because of his you know,
because of what he said about Charlie Kirk. He's getting
pulled because his ratings suck and you know, his his
you know, show is not that good. He's not funny.
But yo, keep in mind, Jimmy Kimmel did just come

(01:18:59):
back on Area yesterday and he had probably more viewers
than he's had in a very very very very very
long time. So that's something to keep in mind, is
that sometimes this cancelations, sometimes this you know, public grilling
of somebody because of something they said you didn't like.
It can either it can ruin them. It can and them,
but it can also backfire and give them better ratings.

(01:19:22):
I mean, you saw that happen. I believe it was
with Phil Robertson when he was you know, kicked off
air by A and E for a period of time,
then came back to Duck Dynasty at some point.

Speaker 3 (01:19:32):
We just had a former Navy one star on talking
about this issue at the Pentagon. With the new procedures
around what reporters can print in what they can't, what
are you hearing in the halls of Congress. Anybody talking
about this on the Hill hasn't made it that far yet.

Speaker 8 (01:19:50):
It hasn't. It's hard to get a vibe on that
just because there's not a lot of people here as
of right now. They're still on like that slow brief recess.
But I mean, I can tell you within media organization,
it's probably not going to be good. You know, it's
it's just it's just kind of odd what they're asking
and what they're the you know, the agreement they want
for reporters to even be present at the Pentagon. It's

(01:20:12):
it's it's it's it's it's going to be something that that.

Speaker 7 (01:20:16):
Is is going to be a problem.

Speaker 8 (01:20:17):
I can tell you that when.

Speaker 1 (01:20:19):
All the congress people go home for one of these
little recesses, do you get some like grocery shopping done?
Are you able to?

Speaker 12 (01:20:25):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (01:20:26):
You know, I took yesterday off so I could cry
about the Ravens games. So yeah, I mean, you know,
I definitely take advantage whenever they're not in.

Speaker 3 (01:20:35):
Town cry about the Ravens game.

Speaker 8 (01:20:39):
Yeah, that game was rough.

Speaker 7 (01:20:42):
Rough.

Speaker 3 (01:20:42):
Hey here's another for you. You get your Girl Scout cookies.
Yet I'll go back to that. Isn't it that time
of year?

Speaker 8 (01:20:49):
Is it that time of you? I think it is.
I picked them up. Uh, well, i've sell the boy
Scouts selling popcorn recently, which was I didn't know they
still did that. Well that was not I got some.
But uh yeah, no, I need I need, I need,
I need, I need more Girls Scott cookies. I need
to stock up and then I can roast people by
their horrible opinions for them.

Speaker 3 (01:21:09):
Ping me your address on on the private line, I'll
send you a box of the good stuff.

Speaker 8 (01:21:13):
The tangle what do they call them?

Speaker 3 (01:21:16):
The tree folds? Do you know what they're called.

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The lame folds, the corn flake gosh, Fox News go ahead,
port to the.

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Invented peanut butter to put on those things so they
can have a good taste.

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Fox News Radios, Ryan smells, Ryan, always appreciate it. Best
of luck to you, buddy.

Speaker 8 (01:21:35):
Hey always great to be on. Boys, have it go.

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over at wv Metro News dot com as well. By
the way, we hire a lot of Daves, don't we
and me? There's Dave Allen, There's Dave Weekly, There's Dave Jacklin.
Is there a prerequisite I was unaware of?

Speaker 3 (01:24:11):
Maybe there's a study there between association and causation and
why we have so many days.

Speaker 1 (01:24:18):
Well, Dave's are both dashing and charming. Probably there's a
direct correlation there somewhere. I digress three or four talk
three oh four. Let's get some text in here. Rest
of the show is yours open segments eight hundred and
seven and sixty five talk and three or four talk
three four. Uh. I'm usually asleep before Jimmy comes on TV,

(01:24:40):
but that's great that he is back on, and now
I will quit watching Channel eight. I'll show people how
easy it is to just turn off your TV on
programs you don't like or agree with. WHSTV is run
by Sinclair, so I will not be watching any longer
watching their news. All right, you can do that perfect
you don't like to turn it off not that I

(01:25:03):
would advocate, because you know, there's I don't want to
get myself in any trouble. But if you don't like something,
to turn it off, watch, you know, go watch cat
videos on Facebook. You guys talk about Trump like this
is normal. What about Biden? You say you know better?
This is our first gangster president. I don't recall this
kind of first mimic controversy in any other administration. Trump

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is changing the rules, and sadly not for our benefits,
says the Texter. If you have to ask who to
believe in the press, then that says all about the
press and news agencies. Look, try to pull the curtain
back here a little bit. When you are working, Yes,

(01:25:48):
you have to to build relationships and who you have
to trust behind the scenes, because you will have conversations
as someone on this side, as a reporter, as an anchor,
as a you know, bumbleheaded talk show host. You will
have conversations with people and they will often give you
information and context about a situation or something that's going

(01:26:10):
on that may not be fit for broadcast air, but
they give you that information because it adds context and
it helps you tell the story of what is going on.
They give you that information because they trust that you're
not going to publish that out publicly and in some
way put them in a bad spot to where they
can't do their job effectively, or where you can't do

(01:26:32):
your job effectively. That's what we're talking about here, building
trust and building relationships. If everything is coming through a
press release, if everything is coming through is just the
approved news, I mean, that's China, let's call it what
I mean, that's China type stuff we're talking about. You
build those relationships, they trust you, you trust them, and

(01:26:53):
it really helps get the information out. Again, that doesn't
mean you're not adversarial at some point. That doesn't mean
at some point you go, hey, dude, what are you
doing here? That happens, and that's part of the gig.
But yes, trust is a big part of this job.

Speaker 3 (01:27:06):
I'm sure glad I didn't know about the Pentagon papers. Really,
glad I didn't know about the Irong contra affair.

Speaker 1 (01:27:14):
I mean, those are two very famous examples, obviously, and
there are many, many more. But even simple thing, it
doesn't even have to be something controversial, something as inocuous
as even reporting at the local level having context of
maybe why the streets didn't get plowed. Well, you know,
it can be really something that inocuous that you get

(01:27:36):
information that's really not fit for public I'm trying to
say it without sound like a re censorship, but often
get context that adds to the story that you can't
get otherwise if it's coming through approved channels. That's from
the city of Morgantown on up to Washington, d C.

Speaker 3 (01:27:55):
In my career, well, look, since the time I was
nineteen years old, I had a professor made us buy
the Wall Street Journal. I've read it every day since
I was nineteen years old. If you don't like the
Wall Street Journal, you don't like the reporting, you think
it's slanted, don't buy it. Don't buy it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:14):
Texter says lies. The Biden administration never coerced or a
threat in Google, Alphabet or YouTube to ban or remove
any speaking No, there was no pressure from the Biden administration.
Come on, Spending trillions of dollars of taxpayers money on trends, surgeries,
and illegals is not the best interest of American taxpayers period.

(01:28:35):
This is what the Dems want to force on us
to avoid a shutdown. Despicable, says the Texter. How could
Jimmy have more viewers last night than he has had
in a very very long time. Like your guest claims,
most stations around the country did not run his program,
kiss It It's the test, worked it in again? I

(01:28:55):
have did you see that? I did not see the
overnight ratings. I have no idea what they are. I
would imagine or do I here between the ratings views
on youtae. Yeah, I'm sure a lot of people tuned
in to see how he was going to handle that situation.
I don't know that bump was is sustainable over the
long haul. And look, Kim's still in hot water. His

(01:29:18):
contract will be coming up. He has a show that
has very high legacy costs in a time when someone
else can hop on and do a podcast at a
very low cost and compete with him.

Speaker 3 (01:29:28):
He's not out of hot water.

Speaker 1 (01:29:30):
Well, And we talked about this with Colbert when comedy
officionado and late night historian Jack Loger joined us. Late
night television is not what it was when Leno and
Letterman were on the air, let alone, when Carson was
the only show in town. It's a totally different ballgame now,
and that whole industry is changing amidst everything else that's

(01:29:51):
going on at them.

Speaker 3 (01:29:55):
Called innovation, Dave, It's called innovation.

Speaker 1 (01:29:57):
At the Memorial Service Sunday, Trump was the keynote speaker.
Of course, he did not mince words. He said he
hated me and everyone else who disagreed with him, and
he wishes the worst for me. I hate to tell
you the bad news. Leaders of the Democratic Party don't
talk like that, says the text. We're gonna talk a
little bit more about that on tomorrow's program. Hoppey Kerchful
is going to join us and we'll talk a little

(01:30:18):
bit about the comments that were made during the Memorial
Service on Sunday. Stay tuned.

Speaker 3 (01:30:22):
I'll reserve my opinion until then.

Speaker 1 (01:30:25):
David TJ. TJ, if you were in charge of issuing
press credentials at the Pentagon and representatives from Google, Facebook, Instagram,
et cetera, would you authorize them to have access to
Section two thirty, asks the Texter.

Speaker 3 (01:30:41):
I'm gonna admit my ignorance. I don't know what section
two thirty is, do you.

Speaker 1 (01:30:45):
I don't know, but it doesn't sound like someplace we
should be.

Speaker 3 (01:30:48):
Let's substitute area fifty one.

Speaker 1 (01:30:50):
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Speaker 1 (01:32:18):
Squeeze in a quick phone call Bill at the Northern
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Speaker 9 (01:32:21):
What's Up Bill, Pyjay Section two thirty the first to ABC,
CBS and NBC. Rules of the press, Facebook, Instagram and
Google and YouTube whatever. Don't abide by the present two
point thirty. It is not a section of the Pentagon

(01:32:42):
and that's why you're in charge of issuing press credentials
at the pedagod.

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Have you read the book by s. Seuss? Too many Daves?
I have not, But how could you have too many Daves?
Welcome to Talk Line featuring Dave Wilson, Dave Meadows, and
special guest appearance by Dave Kerchivell says, the texter.

Speaker 3 (01:33:50):
That ain't happening, I gotta draw the line somewhere that
ain't happening?

Speaker 7 (01:33:56):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:33:57):
Was it Dave Allen that screwed up and called himself
Dave Wilson?

Speaker 7 (01:34:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:34:01):
I know you have the audio.

Speaker 1 (01:34:03):
You can play the audio. I don't have a queue up.
I got to here somewhere. All right, we're plumb out
of time. I didn't get to a lot of these texts.
We'll try to do better tomorrow. Hoppy is going to
join us tomorrow, and yes, we'll get into some of
those comments that were made during the Charlie Kirk service
on Sunday in Arizona High School. Sports Line coming up tonight,

(01:34:23):
seven oh six till nine o'clock, Fred Dave and Joe
Braccato will be by Metro News Middays coming up on
many of these same Metro News radio stations, Dave Allen
along with the Band of Baron, have a great day.
We'll talk to you tomorrow morning. This is talk Line
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