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Here's Amy King. This is your wake up call for Wednesday, August twenty
third. Good morning, I'm Amy King. Here's what we're following in the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hollywood Studios, who put out a new offer
to the WGA for increased salaries and protections in AI. Studios, said in
a statement they're offering the largest pay bump for the WGA in thirty five years.
Writers have been on strike since early May. The Justice Department says a
witness in the federal prosecution of former President Trump over classified documents has retracted what
it calls prior false testimony after switching lawyers last month, and then provided new
information that implicates the former president. We're going to talk to ABC Stephen Portnoy
more about this in just a couple of minutes. An animal center in San
Diego has taken in twenty orphaned pets rescued from the deadly wildfires on Maui.
Officials say moving the animals to the mainland freeze up space in Hawaiian shelters for
more animals with a chance of reuniting with owners. Let's get started with some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. At least
five people have ransacked a Macy's in Arcadia during a flash mob robbery. Please
say. The group went into the store at the Santa Anita Mall yesterday afternoon
around one and took multiple box sets of perfume before leaving in a black car.
Video shows the robbers with their faces and heads covered as they filled up
large bags of merchandise. National Retail Federation says organized retail crime is increasing.
It caused ninety four a half billion dollars in losses in twenty twenty one.
Say some of those losses and stores are being passed onto consumers, forcing the
average family to pay an estimated five hundred dollars more each year for goods.
Isn't that nice? They steal and we get to pay for it. ABC's
Morgan Norwood's Walgreens has opened a prototype store where all the merchandise except for essential
goods in two aisles is locked up. That forces customers to use kiosks to
order what they need. Dick's Sporting Goods calls the thefts one factor behind a
twenty three percent drop in its profits. A man in his twenties has been
stabbed to death in Malibu, Ali County Sheriff's deputies were called just after eleven
last night about a fight between a man and a woman. The man was
found stabbed on pch near Las Tunis Beach. He died at the hospital.
Cruz and San Bernardino are searching for a woman who may have been swept away
when Hillary caused the Santa Anna River to overflow. They are searching downstream in
an attempt of low proof that resident San Bernardino count Fires Eric Sherwin says a
witness claimed the woman was taken by floodwaters away from a group of about twenty
people stranded in Seven Oaks. The road in and out of that community Glass
Road. We have a several hundred yards section of that road that no longer
exists, that was destroyed by the floodwaters actually resulting from storm. He says.
Many people have been rescued from the area, including one injured woman.
Firefighters with medical supplies have had to camp out with the group. Some people
have refused to leave Corbin Carson k if I News. Tropical storm Franklin has
made landfall on the island of Hispaniola, as Haiti and the Dominican Republic face
possible flooding. Two of the nineteen defendants in the twenty twenty election interference case
in Georgia have surrendered early. Bail bondsman Scott Hall and Trump lawyer John Eastman
surrendered yesterday, three days ahead of the Friday noon deadline. Some sources say
Rudy Giuliani will surrender today. Former President Trump is expected to surrender tomorrow,
and that one will reportedly be televised. A teenager in Pakistan rescued with seven
others from a cable card dangling over a ravine, says the rescue was a
miracle. The effort yesterday took sixteen hours. The teen says he and the
others repeatedly felt death was imminent. ABC's Alani Alison Kosik says one child was
rescued by helicopter, but the rescue plan changed when it got dark. Two
daring responders climbed out onto the cable to set up a makeshift rescue zipline,
the operation extending into the night until Finally, the last of those trapped were
brought down to the ground. The students were on their way to school when
a cable on their gondola snapped. El segundo. All Stars are still alive
in the Little League World Series. They beat Smithville, Rhode Island yesterday nine
to three to avoid elimination. Next up is Nolansville, Tennessee, today in
Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The game will be at four o'clock this afternoon. It'll
air on ESPN and then also stream on Fubo. Let's say good morning to
ABC's Stephen Portnoy. He's gonna tell us about a Marrow Lago worker who has
flipped his testimony about what happened in the classified documents case against former President Trump.
Hey, good morning. So we're talking about Yusel Tavares, the iam
man at Marrow Lago who was the first known instance of a witness who testified
one way and then, under pressure from prosecutors, changed their story to avoid
prosecution and has agreed to testify against the former president. This is what led
to the superseding indictment issued against the former president in late July. Yusel Tavares,
according to our sources in March, gave testimony to the grand jury that
wasn't really the full true story, and when presented with that and a target
letter by prosecutors, he flipped. He's not the first person to tell things
to the grand jury that would be helpful to the prosecutors, but he is
the first known witness to change his story and to align himself with prosecutors under
threat that he too would face charges Steven. So, here's my question.
When there's pressure from prosecutors, is that testimony then still credible or could they
later come back and say, Hey, I was being pressured, I was
threatened like this, and so that's why I flipped. It is something that
defense attorneys without fail will point out, and the jury has to weigh the
credibility of any witness, but it definitely it tends to help prosecutors in the
main that witnesses say one thing before grand jury and then change their story.
They oftentimes have either their own testimony or maybe some documentary evidence to back it
up. The prosecutors must have had some reason to believe that he was lying.
Okay, so do we know what he was saying and what he is
now saying, or is that still all kind of under wraps. Well,
you think you can infer from what our sources are telling us that in June
Tavares received a target letter from the Special Council warning him that he was likely
to be charged with perjury for making false statements to investigators, and before the
grand jury in March, and then in June he comes forward to say,
I was approached by the body man and the maintenance man, and they told
me that the boss wanted the server deleted with the footage, the boxes being
moved around mar Lago to hide them from the attorney be when the Justice Department
came calling. And so you can infer in that whatever he said before the
grand jury was the opposite of that, and so or at least lying by
omission or in some way not telling the story that was true. And now
prosecutors are going to use him at trial to try to prove that former President
Donald Trump engaged an obstruction of justice in cooking up a scheme to have that
footage deleted to avoid prosecutors getting their hands on it. Okay, and as
the result of the flip there could be more charges. Well, no,
I think so the charges have already been brought as a result of the flips.
What's new here is the fact that we've learned about it. Wasn't surprised
when I heard this story last night. I said, well, of course
Tavares has provided helpful testimony, otherwise they wouldn't been able to hand up that
superseding indictment in July. But the story is what was behind it, because
what we did not know until yesterday was that Tavares was offering different testimony earlier
in the year. And now you understand why they did it in two waves,
because in the intervening time between the first indictment and the second indictment,
they put pressure on this witness. He turned and that is the first known
instance of such a thing happening against Donald Trump. All Right, Stephen Portnoy,
thank you so much for the enlightenment this morning. Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
Porter Ranch residents have protested a planned expansion of the Aliso Kenyon natural gas storage
facility. The protest yesterday comes almost eight years after the largest ghastly Kennuis history
that displaced about ten thousand residents. Hard to believe that was eight years ago.
Many of them weren't even told about the league until they started having medical
issues. Following plans to initially shut the facility down, the California Public Utilities
Commission has agreed to the Southern California Gas Company's request to expand the facility and
store more natural gas. The La City Council is set to consider a four
year contract with the union representing LAPD officers, detectives, and lieutenants. The
deal includes raises, increased healthcare benefits, and patrol incentives. The agreement was
approved by a mayor Bass earlier this month. City officials say the deal could
cost taxpayers about three hundred eighty four million dollars over the next four years.
The Mayor's offices. LAPD staffing has gone down by more than a thousand officers
since twenty twenty. Felony chargers are expected in Riverside County against a twenty one
year old man suspected of multiple armed operies in Moreno Valley and Cabazon. The
guy was arrested Monday. Police say he held up gas stations in convenience stores
between April and August fourth of this year. A school bus carring dozens of
elementary school students in Ohio has collided with a minivan that crossed the center median
ABC's Alex Perez says the bus driver tried to avoid the oncoming car yesterday,
but the bus went off the right side of the road and flipped over.
One student was ejected from the bus, dying at the scene. Twenty three
other children taken to the hospital, one of them in serious condition. Yesterday
was the first day of school. Ohio, like most states, does not
require seat belts on school buses. Former President Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows
has asked a federal judge to block his arrest over election interference charges. In
Georgia. The deadline to surrender for all nineteen defendants is Friday. Meadows has
asked Fulton County DA Fannie Willis for one more business day so the federal court
can hold its hearing set from Monday first. Willis says she's not granting any
extensions. Performances for four Legged Friends have been happening in Orange County. It's
almost showtime. Hayden Ducie only started learning to play the violin just two years
ago, but the twelve year old is already putting on concerts playing for a
very special audience. Hayden is one of the volunteer musicians who perform at the
San Clementi Dana Point Animal Shelter. Volunteer and Pet Project Foundation board member Nancy
Coortz says, the special performances have a special name. We came up with
Wolfgang Puccini spelled woofgnng and Puccini poohi ni. Nancy says the concerts are a
way to engage the community while helping soothe shelter animals. Hayden says, these
concerts are a really cool idea show us that they really care about all the
animals. For more, you can go to Spectrum News one dot com.
Joe Kuan kup by News I love that treating the puppies, kiddies desert music.
You know, we were at Pasadena Humane the other day and because they
were doing their clear the Shelters event that we told you about, and there
was a little girl sitting by one of the kennels where the dogs are reading
to the puppies, and I think that's that's part of what the volunteers do.
Was just the sweetest, sweetest thing. We were going to record it
and show it to you. But she was reading so quiet. She was
just this cute little girl reading to the puppies. Right now, let's say
good morning to KTLA tech reporter Rich Demiro, also host of Rich on Tech
here on KFI. Good morning Rich, Hey, good morning to Amy.
So should I flip for the foldable phones or not? Well, that's a
great question. So I've been using three of them in the past month.
The first was the Samsung Flip five. This is kind of like the entry
level easiest. It literally looks like Samsung phone that just kind of folds in
half. Then I was testing out the Samsung Fold five, which is kind
of like a tablet that folds in half into a phone. And now I've
been testing the Google Fold, which looks like a passport that opens up into
a phone. They all have their pros and cons, but I've been really
trying to figure out why someone needs a foldable phone. And I understand the
appeal, like you get this big, giant screen that you can use sort
of like a tablet in your pocket at all times, but you also have
a regular phone. But this means that they're heavier, they're bulkier and do
you always need a giant screen at all times? I don't know about you,
but you know, maybe I open this thing up once or twice a
day at the most to do something on the big screen. But these companies
are really pushing these things, and I think in the future, when they
get thinner, when they get lighter, when they get sleeker, they will
be a thing. Right now, if you want one, I think it's
more of like the fun of it and the difference, you know, like
you have a different device than a lot of other people out there. Okay,
so for the folding phones, now they do they all have that flat
screen then when they open up, well, it's interesting. The Samsungs are
a little bit more advanced than the Google Phone. The Samsung's open and fold
flat. They have no gap in the middle. The Google phone doesn't have
a gap in the middle, but it doesn't completely open flat, which is
kind of weird. Like it opens up like maybe like one or two degrees
off the like you can't fully push it down like you want to, but
you're going to break the screen if you do that, and that's like a
thousand dollar break, right. Oh yeah, that's gonna be an expensive break.
Now, It's interesting because Samsung is really trying to get people to do
these things to switch over. So not only are they giving you a lot
of money towards this phone, like up to one thousand dollars to switch,
but they're also giving you one free screen protector replacement and then one discounted screen
repair. I think the screen repair is like about two hundred dollars or two
hundred and fifty bucks depending on the phone. Okay, waiting repairs and protectors.
That suggests to me that they're breaking a lot. Well, these definitely
do break more than a standard phone. But here's the deal. People crack
a standard phone screen all the time. This is just different because you're opening
and closing it, so there's much more of a chance for the screen,
you know, something to get caught in there. You have a you know,
I don't know why you'd have a nickel in your pocket these days,
but if you did and it got caught between the screen and it smash things
up, who knows, you know. I think I think at the end
of the day, they're just trying to reassure people like, look, you
know, you get this thing, You're gonna have two years where you can
get it fixed for cheaper free. And you know, look, a lot
of people go into the Apple store to get their iPhone screen replaced, so
it's kind of like the same thing. Do they have a shorter lifespan or
do they know yet? Are they supposed to be equal to a regular phone?
Yeah, that's the thing we don't know yet because it's these kind of
These are pretty new. I mean, Samsung has been in these for four
years, by the way, and they rate them for about three hundred thousand
folds, which if you do the math, it's a lot of folds per
day. And you know, it's one of those things where you're on the
cutting edge. There may be a problem, there may be an issue,
but overall, you know, they're selling I think they sold ten million of
these last year, so you know they're they're growing ever slow so slowly.
Okay, but her right now, you were just saying, maybe want to
hold off until they improve them a little bit more. Well, I think
that they're at a good place this year. All three models are at a
really good place. But you have to understand the compromise is if you go
to my website rich on tech dot tv, I write about all that stuff
with the fold and the flip. You know, you just have to know
what you're getting. But if you want to be on the cutting edge,
like I've been carrying one of these things for a month now, and it's
really fun because you always have this big screen with you. But at the
same time, it's always have big screen with you. Yeah, it's just
it's it's just not like you have this small phone in your pocket like these
are heavier. They're a little bit bulk heere. Okay, so iPhones coming
out with their new phone and that's when we get rid of the lightning jack
and go to the USBC, which is more universal, right, yes,
okay, so this yep, And what's what's the cool thing that they're including
with the new USBC. Well, you know, it's a slow tech newsday
when I'm talking about the braided cable on the iPhone. But here's the deal.
A lot of people'll be we'll be using USBC for the first time when
the iPhone fifteen comes out next month. USBC is currently what they use for
one end of the cable that plugs into the charger, but now it will
be the other end of the cable that plugs into the phone. So it's
kind of like a universal charger cable, data cable, whatever you want to
call it. That has been used on Android phones for many years. Now
it's coming to the iPhone, which will make it a lot easier to pack
for vacations and trips and travel because you only need to pack one cable.
But Apple, I think they're doing something a little bit nice. They're making
the cable longer. It is braided, so it has this nice like fabric
braiding on the outside, and the rumor mill says that it will match the
color of the phone you get. Okay, so that sounds ridiculous, but
I will tell you I had the rose Gold phone which got stole loop so
I don't have it anymore. But when I got that, I got a
rose gold case and I got a rose gold chord for it. So yeah,
okay, ridiculous, But I was all matchy matchy, and I loved
it. I hear you, And I just posted on my Instagram. The
other day I was in Walmart, much to my wife's chagrine, she does
not like Walmart, but we were in there and I was like ready to
tweet about how I thought it was funny that they're selling a sparkly charging cable
and pink or whatever purple, and she was like, oh my gosh,
I need a new cable, and she literally bought it, and I was
cracking up, and I posted this to my Instagram stories and every person wrote
me back and was like, yeah, Rich, we like our cables a
lot of women, and they're like, we like our cables to be you
know, the same color or fun or sparkly. And I was like,
all right, you know, there's just some things in this world I don't
understand, and that's one of them. Okay, Well, I'm glad that
they're going to have MATCHI MATCHI cables because it apparently to me and many other
women, it's a very important thing. There you go. KTLA Tech reporter
Rich Demiro, host of rich on Tech right here on KFI Saturdays from eleven
to two. Love your show, by the way, and you can follow
Rich on Instagram at rich on Tech. His website is rich on Tech dot
tv. Thanks Rich, All right, have a great day. All right,
let's get back to a couple of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. The Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers has released
a statement with its offer to striking Hollywood writers. It's been met with resistance
and skepticism from union leaders. They've promised a more detailed description today on the
state of negotiations. The union representing three hundred forty thousand UPS workers says it's
members have approved a tentative five year contract deal that avertsus strike. The teamsters
say eighty six percent of the it's cast were in favor of ratifying the contract.
The union says that was the highest vote for a contract in the history
of the teamsters at UPS. The deal was reached days before an August first
deadline, and the La City Council has approved plans for public safety upgrades at
the Hollywood Sign. One calls for putting a permanent fence around or a long
Mulholland Highway to stop drivers from stopping near the sign. They would also install
a traffic roundabout in the area. Now, the City Bureau of Engineering has
a few months to find a way to pay for the updates. When we
come back, we're gonna be talking to Jane Wells. It's time for Biz
Buzz and the Buzzes. If you want to buy a home, you need
to make a lot of money. The Justice Department says a witness in the
federal prosecution of Donald Trump over classified documents has retracted prior falls testimony after switching
lawyers, and provided new information implicating the former president. India could become only
the fourth nation to ever land a spacecraft on the Moon. It's scheduled to
touch down today and if it does, it would become the first space moduled
land on the lunar South Pole. Remember the Russian spacecraft Luna would have beat
India to the South Pole, but wound up crashing into the Moon. Over
the weekend. At six o five, it's handled on the news, the
first two of nineteen defendants in the election interference case in Georgia have surrendered.
We'll take a look at who's turning themselves. In next five fifty we'll be
talking with five dot COM's Nathaniel Raikitch about what to expect at the first Republican
presidential debate. It's tonight, but right now, let's say good morning to
CNBC special correspondent Jane Wells. Jane, this storm has done a number on
farmers, which I'm guessing is not going to be great news. When it
comes to prices and supplies later, well, it may end up being an
issue amy, because two thirds of our winter vegetables come from the Imperial Valley,
which kind of dodged a bullet with Hillary. It was supposed to be,
you know, really wallop the farmland out in that part of the world.
They did get a bit of rain and really some whipping winds the farmers
down there. That's where I spent most of Monday, Sunday and Monday covering
the storm social media. I'm sorry I saw you on social media. Oh
yes, I happened to be on Interstate eight as this huge boulder came crashing
down and we barely got past it before HP closed. It was you know,
the wind was more interesting to me than the rain. It was just
so sustained and intense. But we talked to these farmers out there who managed
to get out what they had in the ground, which is a lot of
alfalfa and corn stuff that they sell to the dairy industry, and get that
bailed up quickly. I mean, they were hiring people right and left,
doing double cruise, all kinds of overtime. Now, the question is they're
supposed to be planting those winter vegetables now, getting the seed in the ground,
and they are going to have to wait and see if the ground dries
out, how quickly it dries out. Some farmers are like, hey,
minimal damage is not that big a deal. Others are saying, we you
know, everything has to go perfect now. We can't have any more of
this kind of weather going on or they're going to miss their contracts. I
mean, they they're on a very strict schedule. Most of the farmers down
the Coachella Valley farmers got hit really hard because they the way the land is,
the ground is up there and slopes. They didn't have quite as much
drainage, so it was not great, but it could have been a lot
worse. So they they were harvesting ahead of the storm so it was ready,
or they did they kind of take it a little before it was ready,
just to make sure they got it, got it both. I mean,
whatever they had in the ground they were they were pulling out. Now
it had to go. There were some crops that we saw. The one
guy was trying to grow a jalapeno pepper crop down there for the first time
because there's such a pepper shortage. He ironically, this farmer alex Jack,
last Friday before the storm was having to put sprinklers on these pepper plants to
get them keep them cool because it was like one hundred and fifteen degrees down
there. Knowing that there was going to be this deluge of rain and wind
that might just mow his pepper plants down. They did. Okay, he
lost a few, but he's going to be okay. But most of the
stuff in the ground was alfalfa and other kinds of feed, and they just
got it out bailed. They had it under tarps to try and protect it.
Some tarps work better than others. But now goes in, you know,
spinach and broccoli and artist chokes and all the sorts of things that Americans
eat during the winter. And the hope is that the ground dries out and
it's going to be okay and then you can keep to their schedule. Well,
it's see me back to like one hundred degrees again for the rest of
this week, so maybe that'll dry it out quickly. So I'm curious as
to whether our region is being relied on more heavily because of what's going on
Ukraine, or are those two separate harvests. They're separate. I mean the
vegetables. Ukraine is most lee wheat and that comes out of that part of
the world, the Imperial Valley. For the interesting, A lot of it
goes to Saudi Arabian other parts of the world, not just California dairy industry
or whatever. But it's not It is a little bit of to use an
actor, apples and oranges. No, okay, well that's good. So
if you're looking to buy a house, good luck, because you've got to
make a ton of money to do it. Do it. Yeah, the
California Association of Realtors, I actually was a little surprised at the median home
price isn't higher, even though it is very high. The median home price
right now in California is eight hundred and thirty thousand dollars, and you have
to make a minimum income of two hundred and eight thousand dollars to qualify for
a mortgage. And only sixteen percent of the people in California can afford that
medium home price with that kind of and have that kind of salary. Sixteen
percent. Back in twenty twelve, it was fifty six percent of people could
afford a meeting the medium price of a home. So we have really housing,
as we all know, has become unaffordable in California. But it's really
bad. The condo prices again are more affordable. They have actually come down
a little bit since a year ago. Twenty five percent of us can afford
the media and a condo, which is six hundred and forty thousand dollars.
You have to make about one hundred and sixty thousand dollars a minimum to afford
that. So you can factor that into your into your checkbook, and you
and your I just don't know, you know, I have kids. I
have a daughter who's in her thirties, has makes a great living as a
lawyer, and she wonders if she'll ever be able to buy a house where
she wants. You know, it depends on where you want to be.
Like if you want to live in or Sanfordino County, which is the most
affordable county down here, the medium hoe price there is four hundred and fifty
seven thousand dollars and find inncome would be one hundred and fourteen. Oh,
only one hundred fourteen, But then you have to drive two hours to get
into town. For your job. Yeah, unless you're going to work out
there, and maybe you're not gonna make a one hundred and fourteen thousand out
there. In LA, the median price is seven hundred and ninety thousand,
and you got to make almost two hundred thousand for that. And in Orange
County, which is the most expensive down here, one point two five million
is the median price. That means half the homes are worth more than that
and half the homes are worth less one point two five million. You need
a median qualifying income of three hundred and thirteen thousand and two hundred dollars gets
them not buying in Orange County. No, Oh, my gosh, I
didn't realize it was and I didn't realize there was that much of a disparity
between LA and Orange County County. That's a huge number. That is uh,
that's almost yeah, that's almost thirty That's more than thirty percent more to
live in Orange County than it is in LA. That's that's crazy. Yeah.
And then when the prices are that high too, you know, you
want to hit that threshold of having twenty percent down so you don't have to
pay the what's that insurance last. Yeah, hold on, hold on,
I'm back. You know that the insurance you have to pay if you don't
put twenty percent down, that also raises that threshold because if you, you
know, if you if you're buying a million dollar house, the chances of
you having enough to put down twenty percent might be a little bit lower as
well. Well, that's and now we've got interest rates close to seven percent
on mortgages. You know, the twenty percent down you don't. There are
more depending on what your income is. You can get a mortgage for ten
percent. You can get a mortgage for like five percent down. But that's
the big thing, and that's where I think a lot of people who are
buying their houses are depending on their parents to help them or something, you
know, if their parents even can help them. I just I don't see
it as being sustainable. When interest rates went up, housing prizes were supposed
to come down, and that really hasn't happened. Well, cross our fingers
that maybe it does happen eventually. I'm not gonna hold my breath for it.
Yeah no, I wouldn't either, all right, Jane Wells, thank
you so much for your time. I'm glad you've made it home safely and
and we're able to escape the Big Boulder. Yeah, thank you, Amy.
All right, you can find out the latest from Jane on Substack at
Jane Wells dot substack dot com. And I wanted to mention really quickly.
I said at the opening of this segment that India was planning to touch down
on the Moon. It has. The spacecraft has landed near the Moon's south
pole, becoming the fourth country to touch down on the lunar surface. The
Elsa Gundo All Stars are still in it. They beat the team from Smithfield
Road Island nine to three in the elimination bracket yesterday. They play again today
against Nolansville, Tennessee. The games at four on ESPN and on Fubo.
We're just minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning, you're going
to keep getting your packages from ups. Three hundred forty thousand teamsters workers have
approved a new contract. Right now, let's say good morning to five thirty
eight dot COM's senior elections analyst Nathaniel Rak. Nathaniel, the first debate is
tonight. Who standing center stage and how'd they get there? Yeah? Ronda
Santis and Vivek Ramaswamy are the two candidates who are going to be in the
middle of the stage, And the podiums were arranged based on polling, which
is also part of how the candidates qualified for the debate. So in order
to be on the stage at all, you had to reach at least one
percent in a series of polls that the RNC had kind of set criteria for.
But the candidates with kind of the highest polling numbers are in the middle.
Of course, Donald Trump is polling at the absolute highest in the entire
race, but he is gipping the debate. Yeah, so with Trump not
there, what are we expecting to see? Are they going to go after
Trump? Are they going to go after Biden? Are they going to go
after each other? Or do we just have to kind of wait and see.
Yeah, well, I think all of the above, right, you
know, I think Trump is obviously the front runner in the race, so
they have a lot of incentive to try to tear him down. Of course,
that's something that they haven't necessarily shown much interest in doing with regard to
like his indictments, for example, It's a turkey thing to attack Trump,
who remains so popular within the party. But I do think having him not
be there makes it a little bit easier because maybe, you know, there's
not the risk that Trump will kind of lash out at you, and maybe
there is strength in numbers in terms of if all the candidates attack Trump a
little bit, he won't single any one of them out, you know,
on social media later on or something like that. But then otherwise, yeah,
I would expect people to maybe attack of the Ramaswami who has been rising
in the poll, and also run to Santas who is still barely in second
place. Do it, Does it debate this early matter that much? Or
is it too early in the race, or is like, what's the significance
of having a fifteen months before the election? Yeah, it's it's pretty early
for sure. I mean obviously, you know, bear in mighty fifteen months
before the general election, but people will be voting in Iowa in less than
six months, so it's not that early with regard to the primary. But
obviously they're going to be more debates. You know, a candidate who has
a bad performance you know today, might have a better performance later on.
So it's not probably not make or break, but you know, we'll obviously
we'll still be watching. You know, it's you know, if you maybe
have a bad performance today and you lose five or ten percentage points in the
in the polls, you know, that's ground you have to make up later.
So so you'd rather not. Yeah, Traditionally do the debates move the
needle that much? Traditionally not that much. You know, basically the things
that can happen in the race are you know, you can shoot yourself in
the foot right debate probably won't help you that much. The kind of one
exception is if you are a lesser known candidate, So maybe the Promiswamy would
fall into this category. Even though he's rising in the polls nationally, he's
still only in like the high single digits, I believe, But you know,
there are still like a majority of Republicans who don't have an opinion of
him yet they just don't know enough about him perform one. And so if
he has a strong performance today, obviously this is a national audience that could
you know, maybe make more Republicans say they're considering voting for him. But
then on the foot side, yes, you know, think about like brit
Carry a few years ago when he couldn't remember the three cabinet departments that he
would eliminate as president. That basically sunk his campaign because it showed that he
wasn't ready for prime time. Yeah, and as far as national exposure,
I can't even name all eight of the people who are up on stage tonight,
and I usually picked pretty close attention. But there's a couple on the
end that I don't know who they are yet. Yeah, exactly. So
the candidates with the lowest name recognition who are on the stage are North Dakota
Governor Doug Bergom and our former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson. So I think they
might have the most of games in the debate if they can put on a
good performance. I guess we'll have to wait and see. And it's going
to be the first How many debates are they going to do? Do we
know? No, they haven't announced, but so far there's so they're doing
one obviously today, They're doing one in September and one in October, so
it's kind of weak they heap up that pace. We might be looking at
one for months until the primary is over, Okay, and then real quick,
five thirty eight is going to be watching the debate, of course,
and then immediately after do you start polling to see how everybody did? Yeah,
exactly. So we've partnered with EPSOS and the Washington Post and we are
going to go into the field of this, you know, eight pm Pacific
tonight, right when the debate ends, and then we'll be polling throughout the
night, and then we'll have result of that poll in the morning. Floyer
of the seed in almost in real time, whether the debate did move the
needle? Okay, And we can see the results at five thirty eight dot
com. Yes, absolutely, they should be up by midday on Thursday.
Can't wait. Thanks so much, Nathaniel Rackage for your expertise about the debates
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