This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to k if I am six forty
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swamp watching. This swamp is horrible. The government doesn't work. Man,
we're gonna make this like a reality TV show. Was a bad Noos,
always a pleasure to be anywhere from Washington, d C. Hey, Joe
a town hall who clearly built on a swamp and in so many ways still
a swamp. I have to watching Milwaukee, boy said, dreamed the swamp.
I said, Oh, that's so hope, keepsh You know the thing,
well, DC is the center of the universe in many ways because of
what's going on with Bob Menindez, because of the Democratic turtmoil within the party
with Joe Biden at the top of the ticket, and then what Republicans are
doing. They happen to be in Milwaukee. But let's talk with Brett Samuels,
who is a White House reporter, about what's going on in this in
this crazy, crazy time that we find ourselves. Brett was going on,
hey, guys, how are you good. Let's start with if you don't
mind some fallout perhaps there in d C, or at least the beltwagh about
what's going on with Bob Menendez convicted just a short time ago bribery foreign agent
charges all sixteen counts he faced. He's been found guilty on Yeah, and
after that happened, the floodgates have sort of opened, I think just in
the short time since that verdict came down, we've already seen a handful of
Democrats, including sent Majority leader Chuck Schumer, have called for him to resign.
Corey Booker, his fellow New Jersey senator, has done so, and
we're going to continue to see I think statements like that trickle out in the
next few hours here. So some Democrats need to be kind of holding their
fire waiting for this trial to play out. But now that he's been found
guilty, it seems like everyone has a green light to go ahead and call
on him to resign at this point. Quick question about what goes on in
DC. If Republicans are concentrating on Milwaukee this week because of the convention,
President Biden is actually in Vegas. He's closer here than he is to d
C. It's not that the place shuts down, but where where do we
stand? Is the temperature lowered a little bit when you've got main players like
that that are elsewhere. Yeah, certainly, you know, d C.
I would say it's fair to say a week like this is, you know,
to take a point off what you guys are saying earlier. It's not
quite the center of the universe anymore. You know. Certainly President Biden,
as you said, he's out in Las Vegas campaigning former President Trump, and
really the entire Republican Party are in Milwaukee for the week talking about, you
know, their visions for another term should Trump be re elected. So I
would say far more eyes are on Milwaukee than are on Washington, d C.
At this point. And then you know, pretty much the entire Republican
Party and all those lawmakers are are in Wisconsin as well well. All eyes
were certainly on President Biden in the days that led up to what happened on
Saturday after that disastrous debate. Has the temperature gone down when it comes to
calls to replace Biden on Capitol Hill? Is there a feeling of it would
be all for nought at this point because Trump just seems to be a freight
train rolling down the win in November track, Yeah, it's a good question.
I think what's happened since what we saw on Saturday with that horrific shooting
at the Trump rally is those calls for President Biden to step aside have sort
of receded into the background. I think it's definitely fair to say we haven't
had lawmakers publicly kind of calling for Biden to step aside, publicly wringing their
hands about his chances in November, but those conversations from where I've heard from
Democrats are still going on behind the scenes. And the latest is that there's
some frustration among Democrats that the Democratic National Committee might try to nominate Biden virtually
before the end of the month, essentially clinching the nomination for him, and
I think that could backfire, that could create some frustration among Democrats who still
kind of want to have this conversation about whether he's the best candidate. So
certainly, you know, I think, as you said, the temperatures are
sort of cool, people aren't aren't quite as publicly and viscerally discussing this,
but those those conversations are still happening behind closed doors. Brett Samuel's works for
The Hill covers the White House and I think, if I'm not mistaken,
I think we talked about this before, Gary, that there's a rule in
Ohio I want to say about nominating or have there's like a deadline where they
have to have them name the nominees to get on the ballot in Ohio.
And I don't remember what the deadline is, but I think it is within
a matter of days, if not, maybe maybe a couple of weeks.
Yeah, Brett, they've had to kind of alter their plans because of the
the later start, you know, the mid August start for the Democratic National
Convention, right, Yeah, So what happened there, it's interesting is,
as you guys said, you know, the deadline in Ohio was initially in
July, so it was going to be about a month before this late convention.
So that's why they're going to nominate him. Virtually. What happened was
Governor Mike DeWine in Ohio actually signed sort of a fix to this to extend
the deadline back into August. So really it would be fine if they nominated
him at the convention. Now there'd be no issue getting Biden on the ballot
in Ohio. Democrats that had already made these plans to nominate him virtually,
and it sounds like they're going to go ahead and do that this month,
despite sort of the consternation among some of the party about whether Biden's the right
guy in November. Yeah, that brings up a question based on the attempt
at assassination on Saturday. I don't know if that talk exists anymore about replacing
Biden at the top of the ticket. Is it just that's just going to
fade into the background. Maybe, Yeah. I think, you know,
people still have those concerns, certainly about whether Biden can actually beat Trump.
But given what happens Saturday, you know, nobody wants to be out here
calling for for for Biden to step aside. Nobody wants to publicly be saying,
you know, that he's not up to the job. So it certainly
shifted the calculation. And Biden himself has kind of helped shift that calculation because
he's been out there since what happened on Saturday. He's you know, he's
given multiple speeches. He gave that Oval Office primetime address that we saw on
Sunday, he did an interview with NBC. He's out in Nevada, as
you guys mentioned, so he's really putting himself out there, and Biden has
made clear that he's not going anywhere. So for Democrats to kind of keep
up this public fight, it just seems like sort of a pointless exercise.
It will only hurt them over the next few months. Brett Samuels, thank
you so much for your time. Appreciate it, and go Orange. Thank
you, Go Orange. Brett Samuel's White House reporter for The Hill dot Com.
Multiple people briefed on the matter. I've told CNN that US authorities obtained
intelligence in recent weeks on a plot by Iran to try to assassinate Donald Trump.
They said that was a development that led to the Secret Service increasing security
around the former president in recent weeks. There's no indication the shooter who attempted
to kill Trump was connected to the Iranian plot. I already was a Chinese
national. I did too. New questions now about the security lapses on Saturday.
If there was the existence of the intelligence threat from a hostile foreign intelligence
agency and enhance security for Trump, how the hell did that twenty year old
kid get so close within range and with a bullet that close to the former
president, and that he was there for that long. Yeah. Again,
The report out of Pittsburgh, a television station in Pittsburgh, is that local
police in charge of that specific area, because it was outside of the fairgrounds,
were inside the building. They were inside the building because it was being
used as a staging area for them, and that they have at least two
pictures of the guy taken by officers who already thought he was suspicious a half
an hour before the shooting, not eighty six or eighty four second half an
hour before the shooting. So today, sorry, not today, would have
been yesterday. Yesterday, former President Trump got on the phone with RFK Junior
and was talking about unity. In fact, Kennedy tweeted out yesterday he said
a lot of rumors going around about my meeting this morning with the President Trump.
Our main topic was national unity, and I hope to meet with Democratic
leaders about that as well, and then he wrote, no, I am
not dropping out of the race. A short time after that, the video
of the phone call leaked. It's weird to say it that way, but
he was doing he was being interviewed, and there was a videographer in the
room when Trump called Kennedy's phone, and Kennedy picked it up, put it
on speakerphone, and was walking around the room talking with former President Trump.
Had something strong with Steh. I said, I want to do school.
He's talking about vaccines, and that's kind of the conversation. At least about
ninety seconds of it that was that ended up being posted online. Kennedy then
went to Twitter this morning and said, when President Trump called me, I
was taping with an in house videographer. I should have ordered the videographer to
stop recording immediately. I am mortified that this was posted. I apologize to
the president. This is what he wrote, so and I don't remember.
I saw in one place that it may have been Kennedy's son who posted it.
I don't know why he would have. It seems like a cordial conversation
between two people who are rivals. It's not a bad thing. Okay,
the vaccine stuff, sure, whatever, you want to die on that hill,
die on that hill. But that's not the It was just people trying
to have a friendly conversation. Last night Republican National Convention Day one. Some
of the speeches that we saw from play people like Glenn Youngkin and Amber Rose.
They were a handful of just normal people too. I don't know how
they get chosen to make these speeches, but four or five minute speeches about
what they saw as prosperity during the first Trump administration and then compared to what
we've seen in the Biden administration, saying that you know, groceries are more
expensive, they're having a hard time caring for their families, and that sort
of thing because the increased costs that come with the inflation. That was really
the first day highlighted by the appearance of former President Trump in arguably the most
theatrical way possible. I mean, like you said, the tunnel camera very
very I don't even it was very to me, yes, very very NFL
very wwe yes, just in the showmanship and then the emotion which appeared to
be genuine, the emotion the there was one guy that there were two moments
that I saw highlighted of former President Trump where he's sitting, he's entered the
arena, the place goes nuts. I mean everybody was talking about the people
who were in the arena at the time saying they've never felt electricity like that
in a political event. I mean, yes, people get excited, yeah,
but the appliance of a guy who two days ago was the subject of
an assassination. To see you say you were there? Ye were at his
first appearance following that. Let me ask you this. Jd Vance was a
never Trump guy. Nikki Haley a never Trump person. They have both now
obviously taken up his side. You know, you had the Teamsters there the
first time that they've shown up at an RNC convention, usually stronghold for the
Democrats. Does this way voters who were on the fence? I mentioned yesterday
that I had at least three people that I know on social media who are
not vocal when it comes to politics, and certainly not vocal when it came
to supporting Donald Trump, but were out and about with their posts yesterday saying,
you know, not even quietly, not even in their house, to
their spouses, saying you know, I'm gonna vote for Trump, but they
were publicizing it. How far does this move the needle with people who were
never Trump To see Nicky Haley or jd Vance is more in line with Trump
right in the make America Great movement. But to have Nicki Haley come out
there tonight, I don't know if it. I don't know if it affects
the never Trump people. I think it affects the people who are like never
Trump Republican. I should say I don't think it does much. I don't
think it does much, But I would say that the independent voter who at
times was just resigned to two guys I don't want to choose from, and
I'm gonna have to hold my nose and vote for one of them. I
think those are the ones that we've seen react in the way that you're talking
about. Well, I'm okay now voting for this guy because he does.
They may look at what they saw Saturday and say, I perceive that as
strength. I perceive that was a monster move for him to come out and
pump his fist, and that's the kind of guy I want representing the United
States on the world stage. Maybe I don't know. Other people think still
are convinced that it was completely fake and that that bandage on aziriait last night
was a little too big. I mean, well, I'm in that camp
that it was a little too big. You saw what happened with MSNBC.
They pulled off that show with jo Yeah and Mika. I think they were
afraid what they were going to say, like, I've had conversation around here
about how I've got a lot of questions about what went down, and it's
like, let's just pump the brakes on the conspiracy theories a little bit.
You know. I think that MSNBC, or I should say NBC, was
terrified that they would go on the air and say baselessly this is a total
hoax. But this morning when Joe Scarborough got on the air and addressed that,
he didn't even look at himself and go, maybe we have dabbled in
things that shouldn't be talked about, or maybe we have been part of the
problem. But I think it was the way they lied to him and kind
of obviously sated. He was right, what we are doing? Food stuff
we could want to you're hungry? No, I had my carrots, I
had my apple. Oh okay, now we eat like horses. I didn't
realize that Tuesday was horse Day. Most of gen Z uses TikTok to seek
out health advice. Fifty six percent of gen Z he looks on TikTok for
wellness, diet and fitness advice. Over a third say they use the app
is their main form of health advice. Health fourteen percent they get health advice
from friends, thirteen percent from Google, eleven percent from qualified doctors or trainers.
And that's considered go Google. That is considered health. Yeah. Well,
I think a lot of people get their health advice from us. That's
also awful. That's an awful place to get health. That was a joke.
That was just a little joking joke for us. We did talk about
this story. Well, we've talked before a lot of times about these smaglatides.
The GLP one inhibitors. Is that what they're called, the wigovi's.
What are the other ones? The wigov the ozempic. Zep bound is another
one. You're you're doing the ozempic right, I'm doing the ozep bound.
Gov God, I'm doing a combo of all three. But I'm also not
doing the injections. I'm snorting. Oh yeah, wow, way to get
it in your bloodstrain. It's a it's a trial basis, all right,
I see. Are you heating it up first like a heroine like a hot
rail? No? Oh no, don't be ridiculous. I'm snorted cold right
like everybody does. Yes, cold. So there is a new frontier to
get these weight loss drugs, and it is through your ailment of sleep apnea.
Yeah, damon Sedgwick. For example, tech business analysts in Sydney,
Australia enrolled in a clinical trial a couple of years ago to test whether taking
zepbound would alleviate alleviate the sneap Try it again, you see it's starting to
affect me. Are you singing the national anthem tonight? The anti OBCD drug
zetbound would alleviate the sleep apnea that had plagued his nights for years. So
the thesis is, the idea is that the weight loss from the drug would
help open the airways of this guy and other people too. It is true,
but I think you should have to go through other avenues first, right,
Well, just because there's so much that goes on mentally with overeating or
over drinking or drugs or what have you. It's not just that you're extra
hungry, is it. I mean some people, yes, g genically predisposed
and all of that. Sure, and there are plenty of people who have
tried stuff that doesn't work or it's hard to maintain, and the idea of
being on one of these things for a long time is less daunting to them
than trying to, you know, go about the whatever weird diet or you
know, crazy plan that they had before that was unsuccessful for them for whatever
reason. Now in this case, obviously it makes sense. You're going to
lose a lot of weight, you're gonna cure your sleep apnea most of the
time, and however that weight comes off is good generally. But again the
idea of we don't know what the long term effects of something like this would
be. They're betting the drug companies, by the way, Eli, Lilly,
Novo Nordisk, they are betting that insurers that have been resistant to cover
this weight loss treatment will be inclined to reimburse for other uses. We've talked
about the different ways that it has been able. These drugs have been able
to help cure a lot of things that simply are related to weight, and
once you're able to reduce that weight, some of those other conditions that you
may suffer from can kind of just go away. So one other suggestion,
although not smart, is to try gas station heroin as a way to lose
weight. These pills are right next to the Boner Boner x x X pills.
You should also steer clear from they're calling it gas station heroin. Gas
station heroin. It's tyane nepteine and other compounds names like neptunes, fix zaza,
and tiana. They said. Poison control centers are reporting a dramatic case,
dramatic spike in cases that involve tyaneptine, a drug that the FDA has
not approved, but you can find in these gas stations, and it's also
available to buy online. Growing number of states have already banned this drug,
most recently Florida was the latest, but millions of people in Europe, Asia
South America had used tyaneptine, despite the fact that for years no one is
exactly sure what it does or how or how it works. But it's addictive.
It's like high on opioids. They say. A Reddit form for people
trying to quit the drug, many of them called Tia, has grown to
some fifty five hundred members. They describe taking full grams of the drug each
day, in some cases more than one hundred times the manufacturers recommended daily dose.
Who is listen? We have a lot of truck drivers that have that
listened to the show on a regular basis, and we appreciate them all.
What crosses your mind when you say to the person at the gas station,
Uh, yeah, give me a bottle of boner, boner boners xx,
give me a bottle of xxx. And while you're at it, throwing a
bottle of zaza. Well, they're right there on the counter, so you
can just slide them in there with your with your corn nuts and your mountain
dew. But it's not truck drivers. I mean, it's just they have
it at truck stops and things. It may be some truck driver, but
not our truck drivers. Our truck drivers don't need boner bon or boner xxx.
I would hope boner boner boner, you know what I mean. They've
they've they've got more things going on. Doog Google, stop at you guys.
You're annoying me with myself from XXXIT. Do you want to as a
X How about your Jeopardy question? Well, I was just going to mention
that from twenty to From twenty seven to twenty seventeen, the National Poison Data
System reported eighty two percent of ty in epteene calls involved men. About fifty
seven percent of the calls involved men between the ages of twenty one and forty,
So that I don't know if that's prime truck driving time, but it's
don't go google. It's worth a google. I'm I dare you guys?
Now, Gray's anatomy for six hundred dollars. The rooman, the omissum,
and the reticulum are parts of this organ for a cow? Can I see?
And not trust? You don't trust my pronunciation. You don't think I'm
a doctor, a large animal veterinarian. I do not. Don't go google.
The rooman, the omasm, and the reticulum are parts of the cow's
stomach. How do you know that? Oh? You bought a cow?
Huhart of a cow? Did you get the stomach bits? Did you get
the rooms? Did not get the room? You're messing out the room and
I hear is delicious? How many? How many stomach the cows have four
or chambers? I think within their stomach A lot. I don't know the
exact number. When we come back, we're going to do our chore.
Did I say four? Yeah? Hell? Yeah? Do I know my
cows? Okay, I'm a bovine specialist. Is that a yes? Yeah?
That is a cow? Who's the doctor? Now? That's also a
doctor veterinary medicine. Is that what you're suggesting you are now, large animal?
Okay, MAMLB All Star Game is tonight. Pirates and Paul Sken is
going to start for the National League. The Orioles, Corby and Burns will
start for the American League. First pitches sometime after five o'clock. And get
this, I guarantee you they're going to do a brilliant because they've done it
before. Memorial for baseball players that have passed recently. Of course, Willie
Mace, do you know which chamber the rooman lives in? I do know
the four that's that is not my The rooman is in the first chamber of
the digestive system. It's home to a variety of micro organisms that help cows
digest plant materials. Where did you learn that? Don't do it? Doog
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