This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI AM six forty, the
Gary and Shannon Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Vice President Kamala Harris
does now have enough support from Democratic delegates to sew up that Democratic nomination.
Several media outlets calculated that she has more than the nineteen seventy six the nineteen
hundred and seventy six Pledge delegates that would be needed. She just held her
first full Harris for President campaign stop in Milwaukee, framed the race as a
choice between freedom and chaos. A fifteen year old girl who went missing from
Monterey Park area about a week ago has been found safe. Alison Chow was
located this morning in Glendale outside ABC seven studios. According to ABC, A
security guard at the station said the girl was on foot and was being followed
by someone in a car who recognized her as the missing teen and called police.
There is a disturbing story before we get into our her secret service stories
that Illinois State Police have released body camera footage that shows a sheriff's deputy shooting
and killing a woman in an exchange over a pot of water. This is
from July sixth, Sean Grace, and a Sangamon County sheriff's deputy was fired
after this episode is now charged with murder. He shot thirty six year old
Sonya Massey while inside her home. She had called police early in the morning
because she believed that intruder had entered her home in Springfield, Illinois. He
was trying to tell her to put down a pot of boiling water because he
was afraid she was going to throw it at him. She had been heard
on the body camera saying a couple of completely unconnected things, including Jesus will
rebuke you a couple of times to the officers. Tonight, the Dodgers take
on the Giants first pitch at seven. What happened at the game last night?
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LA Sports. Well, the Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle resigned very early today,
and we know that they have at least appointed somebody else to take over.
Ronald Rowe junior named deputy director of the Secret Service, and we'll begin
here in a couple of months. Joining us to talk all about this is
a political contributor to News Nation. Denise gets some Denise, thanks for taking
time for us. We saw that disastrous House hearing yesterday with Kimberly Cheatle.
This was just a matter of time before she was going to either lose her
job or give it up, right, that's right, Well, thanks for
having me on. You know, when there's not a lot that anyone on
either side of the aisle agrees with on lately, but when you see a
headline that says Republicans actually agree with AOC after she rips into Cheatle, which
was an actual headline yesterday, you knew that the writing on the wall for
her. And then you saw Representatives James Comer and Jamie Raskin, the chair
and top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, jointly calling for a resignation after
the hearing. So, you know, one of our representatives from here in
California, Rokanna up here in northern California, said I just don't think this
is even a partisan issue, Like if you have an assassination attempt on a
president or a former president, you need to resign. And I think that
everyone watching saw what a disaster it was and how she wasn't helping herself at
all by invading questions and not answering or giving half answers or political answers.
It just went really poorly for her. It was hard to watch. It
was it was the bureaucracy too, and the smugness was just next level.
Now what are we looking at in terms of what's next. I know that
Mike Johnson, jakeem Jeffries said that there's going to be a bipartisan to your
point task force that digs into what exactly happened on that Saturday and if any
changes need to be made to the Secret Service moving forward. Yeah, you
know, I'm sure that there'll be a whole You know, this is what
Washington does. They like to cover their butts and they like to make sure
that they have something that they've said that can be fixed because the not acceptable
answers that everything can stay the same. So, whether they're helpful suggestions or
they're just suggestions for the sake of politics, something's going to come out of
this. And I cannot imagine a scenario in which the Secret Service itself wouldn't
be the most interested in figuring out what went wrong and how they can fix
it and moving forward, because they cannot afford to have this stame on their
agency, because it affects everything from their funding to really even their existence at
the end of the day. So they need answers and nobody needs them more
than the Secret Service at this point. But is it going to be Is
it going to be an issue that all these different investigations are going to muddy
the waters? Alejandro Majorcis, the Homeland Security Secretary, said he's going to
put together a panel. We know the House is going to investigate that they
have put together a certain member panel. Is that too much? Well?
What's too much? In Washington these days? I think everyone just wants to
have a talking point, especially the members of Congress. I mean, you
we have to recognize the thirty thousand foot picture is that all these members of
Congress are up for reelection in November, and all of them, you know,
whether they're on the Republican side and want to pledge their fealty to Donald
Trump by saying we're going to get to the bottom liss for you or they're
Democrats that are just really concerned about their own reputations and being certain of upholding,
you know, standards for every president, whether Republican or Democrat, in
the future in terms of how well they're protected by the Secret Service. There's
some political posturing for sure, but I think that nobody trusts anyone these days.
I mean, Republicans don't trust the FBI to handle it. So you've
got them probably doing their own thing, you know, leading on the House
side, and you've got my artist, who's in charge ultimately of the Secret
Service Agency as being sectaria of DHS, who's going to want to make sure
that nothing happens under his watch. Again, he's had enough problems. He's
really been attempted to be impeached. So there's a lot of folks that are
just saying, look, we got to get something right. And this is
some biperson issue, one bipartisan issue that it seems like everyone can make you
on. We have to get right. Denise, Thank you, appreciate your
coverage. Yeah, my pleasure. Have a great day, guys. Denise
gets them there again. Political contributor to News Nation, Garry, do you
think somebody's going to pay you two hundred and fifty dollars an hour to come
up with a baby name. When you name your dog Peter, come on,
why are you laughing at that? No, it's a great name for
a dog. Well that I wouldn't name particularly of Peter, by the way,
after spending a few hours with him this week on Sunday. On Sunday,
oh, definitely nailed it with the name. Okay, good, wow,
Come on, man, Garry saved a baby. Bring some copes in
please. Speaking of Donald Trump, he has been on a call with reporters
and they asked him if he would take part in in at least one presidential
debate with Kamala Harris. He's said, oh, yes, absolutely, I
want to. I think it's important. I would be willing to do more
than one debate. Actually really so. She has spoken for the first time
since she became the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate. She's in Milwaukee and really one
of the key swing states that will decide the race. Some of the hits
she had she paid tribute to Biden, saying his accomplishments and politics are unmatched
in modern history. While he's been there for fifty years. She repeated in
an attack line contrasting her background as a prosecutor against Donald Trump. She keeps
going back to that I know Donald Trump's type. She says her campaign has
seen the best twenty four hours of grassroots fundraising and campaign history, which is
true. Sixty two percent of those donors were first time donors. She has
set her policy priorities on tap backing child poverty, union rights, affordable healthcare,
and being able to retire with dignity. Any economy stuff in there outside
of the retirement thing, I have not gotten to that. She said that
she would stop Donald Trump's extreme abortion bans. Let's see, where'd she talk
about guns? She says, to keep people safe from the terror of gun
violence, she will pass red flag laws, universal background checks, and an
assault weapons ban. Well, she's going to have to get Congress if she's
going to do any of that stuff. They also said Politico wrote it up
this way. Her first campaign rally signaled a more youthful, energetic, and
aggressive campaign, one designed to draw the kind of Democrats sorry, one designed
to draw the kind of contrast Democrats widely believed Joe Biden could no longer deliver.
Members of the party would often bemoan the president's inability to launch a consistent,
cogent message against the former president, a breakdown that they believe Harris is
uniquely positioned to mend a lot of expectation being put on her now too,
especially now that she's had the job of candidate for two days. There was
one poll that came out very quick poll from Reuters and IPSOS conducted yesterday and
today that does show Kamala Harris with a forty four percent support compared to forty
two percent support for Donald Trump among registered voters, well within the margin of
error. But they said it is an improvement because most of those even if
they were within margin of error, most of the polls showed with Trump with
that very small lead. In fact, if you look at combination of polls
over the course of the last several months, when you put Trump against Kamala
Harris, he still leads by two and a half percent when you look at
seventy three polls and you average them to get and in fact, one of
the pollsters for the Trump campaign, a guy named Tony Fabrizio, put out
a memo that he shared with reporters that they expect to have what they refer
to as a Harris honeymoon in this public polling that obviously she's getting Walldewall coverage
because of the circumstances around her candidacy. And with that Waldewall coverage, they
say they will start seeing public polling where Harris is gaining on or even leading
President Trump. And he says particularly in those national polls, national public polls.
But he says that we've now entered uncharted territory, as he says as
one major party candidate bowed out less than four months before election day, and
noted that Trump did also receive a polling bump in the days following the assassination
against attempt against him and the Republican National Convention. So just he's saying,
basically, sheer attention is one of the things that's going to bump her numbers
up at least in the next few polls that we see. I think that
that is an accurate prediction. I have some sad news music news, yeah,
sad sad music, hopefully don't I is this the owl? Yeah?
I know. We talked with Henry de Carlo about his owl rescue. He
was driving to work early on July eighteenth when he noticed an owl standing alongside
the freeway the ninety one in your Belinda. He pulled over, called the
Orange County Sheriff's Department and said, I'm not leaving till you send somebody out
to help this owl. A short time later, deputy arrives, places the
owl in a ventilated tupperware container and takes it to OC Animal Care. The
prognosis was good initially, wasn't it. When we talked to Henry, it
was hopeful. He was hopeful, hopeful, optimistic that he had intervened.
He knew that that owl was not going to survive on that side of the
road. Unfortunately, the owl had a significant joint fracture that would prevent the
bird from ever flying again. Due to the age and the temperament of the
bird, it would not do well in an education center such as a zoo
or a sanctuary. Maybe it was an honory owl. We don't know how
old the owl was, but they said it would have been unfair to keep
the animal in captivity under such stressful conditions, so, unfortunately, the owl,
Guys was humanely euthanized. It was a barn owl. Barn owls are
among three owl species native to la Each can consume over three thousand rodents a
year. We should get an owl. I got some some rats sometimes in
the garage in the backyard. If I put an owl back there and he
can just chomp, jump, chomp. You put an owl owl house,
an owl house box, an owl box. The bears might be a problem.
Did I tell you the story about the bear? You've told me many
stories about the most recent one from Friday night? No? Okay, so
Friday night. Is there anything to do with Jim McMahon, No, okay,
Friday Night. I don't know that reference bears. Oh that was a
bad reference. That was like a nineteen eighty four, very old, terrible
cover of sports illustrated from nineteen eighty six. Thank goodness, What are you
gonna do the history of packaging next? So, anyway, my husband and
I walked to our little downtown area Friday night, bear music, get some
dinner. Walking back, it's pitch black walking along the main the road there,
and we run into some other people and they're like, oh, just
so you know, there was a bear that was walking over over on the
right, and so I said, okay, well we'll go to the left
then. So we kind of detour to avoid the bear walking down the road.
And I'm like, that's pretty wild that there's a bear just you know
there, there's just they're showing up more and more. They're just not afraid.
And my husband, without missing a beat and total deadpan, goes,
oh, there's there's a bear right there walking across the street. There was
a bear on the sidewalk, walking on the sidewalk, directly across the street
from us. And it was a male bear. It was massive. It
was not a cub. And at that point, you're just nude. You're
just nude out there, like if that thing wants to charge you, you're
gone. You don't have it. There was nothing for me to jump into
heard shell that you can. There was no heart hour or shell. It's
just like if that bear, because the bear looked at us, and if
that bear looked at it, when that bear looked at it, if he
decided he want me. I don't know, maybe he's got a disease that
makes him aggressive. I could have been I could have been done being a
bear. And I don't know you, I don't know if you know this,
but if he got my ear, if he could bleed a lot,
they bleed more than any other part in the body. I have a story
about you and your husband as well. Oh okay, yes, hey guys.
Last time you did a story on baby names, I believe was when
you were at the Slide Bar in Fullerton and Shannon actually asked if her husband
could sid at my table, and he was very nice and very kind,
and we chatted a bit. And then as I approached you guys after the
show to tell you the dumbest baby name I had ever heard, Shannon was
great, and Gary just glared at me the whole time because I'm fat and
he hates fat people. Wow, what well you do? Kinda no,
no, I know where you're going with this, But tell him, I
don't hate fat people. It's my face, it's his face. It's not
that he hates fat people. Gary doesn't hate any people. And I go
through this and I'm sorry you were on the receiving end of his face,
because we go through this from time to time here in the building where there's
this rumor that Gary is a total d which couldn't be further from the truth.
But his face doesn't always I wear the face exude friendship. Well,
I have other things going on. You're a studhorse. Daddy Stallion Secret Service
director has stepped down. We saw that today. Kamala Harris had her first
big campaign rally today, and it seems that the field is shrinking when it
comes to who will be her running mate. Joining us now to talk about
it, Perry Russam from ABC News in Washington, and it seems is that
this thing has dwindled down to about two people. Huh, Perry, Yeah,
so we started with four. I mean, we have two different reports
coming out of ABC News right now. So a source grates on the process
that tells us that Josh Shapiro, Governor Pennsylvania, Roy Cooper, Governor of
North Carolina, Mark Kelly, Senator from Arizona, and then Andy Basheer,
the governor of Kentucky, they are all either being asked or have been asked
to give some materials for the vetting process. But then how our Martha rattis
is reporting, it's really coming down to two leaders in that group, at
least for now. I mean, the vetting process is very early, and
the two leaders right now are Shapiro and Kelly, both of who are from
key key swing states. But I mean, if you would you consider North
Carolina. We talked about this a little bit earlier and went through and found
out if you rank those states from where these guys come Pennsylvania, North Carolina,
Arizona, and then Kentucky in that order in terms of their electoral votes.
Is that part of the math. It has to be. I think
everything is a part of the math right now. I mean, I think
the benefit that Harris has if we just take a step back and look at
going into the RNC, Trump was picking his VP based off of a Biden
Harris ticket. Now the entire thing gets flipped on its head where Harris is
picking her VP in response to Trump picking JD. Vans. So I think
everything is on the table. But in the vetting process, they're going to
be looking at everything. You know, Eric Holder is leading this group,
the former AG who is a part of the Obama administration. So things can
pop up, not saying they're going to, but things can pop up in
the four men that we're looking at here in their bios that could change everything
in terms of the complexity who the VP is going to be, And just
to add two others could be added to this list. Who does the vetting
process. I'm just assuming probably people close to her, to the campaign,
or maybe even operatives that worked on Biden's campaign. As we get closer and
have we heard anything more insider information about what the timetable may be. Right,
So we know that the sources tell us that the vetting process is being
done by former AG Eric Holder his law firm. I'm not exactly sure what
the what the details are in terms of what they're looking at, but we
know that quote unquote materials have to be submitted. I'm not exactly sure what
those materials are at the top of my head. In terms of the timeline,
you know, August seventh was mentioned as a possible you know date in
terms of when a VP would be announced, but we're being told it's going
to go past that. I mean, the next number, the next day
we're looking at is August nineteenth, which is the start of the DNC.
Still in the coming weeks, we should you know who, we should know
who her pick is going to be. So we've talked about demographics, we've
talked about geography. How much does a personal connection play into choosing a vice
president? Or is that me being way too optimistic and Hallmark movie like,
No, I mean, I think that makes sense because I mean, you
know, her backs up against the wall in terms of trying to pick somebody
in short in short order and short notice. You normally go with somebody that
you trust. We know, you know from our reporting that Roy Cooper is
somebody that she has known for a long time. There were attorneys generals together,
they've worked together for years before this moment. But it really is a
calculus of who can they pick that is going to you know, shore up
an election in some of these key swing states. And that's why our reporting
makes sense when it looks at Shapiro and Kelly, because I mean Shapiro from
Pennsylvania, you know, former attorney general of Pennsylvania, another former prosecutor,
just like Harris, high approval ratings from that battleground state. And I think
they're looking to see if Shapiro is somebody who can go to somebody's rouss belt
states Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and try and make those states turn
blue. So that everything right now within the calculus early on in this process.
All right, Perry, thank you appreciate the update. Thanks have a
good one, Perry Russam their ABC News in Washington, we should see what
we know about. I don't think I've ever heard Josh Shapiro's beak. There
was an event recently and I can't remember what it was, but he had
to come out. Was it in a shooting of some kind? Oh?
Yes, A vague memory. Now, yeah, I actually think I mean,
just the sheer number of times his name has come up. He's got
to be the clear leader. Yeah. And there's that key county there that
made decide the whole freaking state. Yeah, swing county as you want to
call it. All right, we got one more it is, It's almost
over all right, don't worry. This was watching this video. I saw
a little bit of it last night. I saw a longer version of it.
During the break, Elon Musk gave an interview with Jordan Peterson and talked
about one of his kid's gender transition. Vivian now uses she her pronouns.
Filed to change names in twenty twenty two. Xavier. Xavier was Vivian's birth
name. And you have to do this very carefully because people get really lost
in a weird world of hurt if you miss if you miss gender, somebody,
Vivian reportedly said the decision to drop Musk as her last name was partly
because she didn't want to live with or wish to be related to the biological
father in any way, shape or form. And Elon told Jordan Peterson that
he was tricked into helping his son seek gender transition in all of it,
and that he wasn't told the repercussions that puberty blockers could have on a young
developing body. And they talked a little bit about the potential. Elon Musk
basically said he was told that his son would commit suicide if he didn't go
through this process. But there's no science to show that there's a correlation between
gender confusion and suicide. There is a correlation between depression that could lead to
these conversations and eventually suicide unfortunately, but those aren't the only two options gender
puberty blockers or suicide. Now, the thing about this interview was I've seen
Elon Musk interviewed two dozen times and see I have never seen him like this,
just his personal The way he was talking about this story was very personal.
Obviously, it's incredibly evil, and I agree with you that people that
have been promoting this should go to president. It won't stop till that happens.
Yeah, it'll just go underground. There's all puberty blockers are being accessed
online by kids all the time through non medical channels. So yeah, it's
not going to stop. I didn't know the case, so I was straight
into doing this, and it wasn't explained to me that puberty blockers are actually
just sterilization drugs. So anyway, and so I lost my son essentially,
so you know they they're quote dead naming for a reason. Yeah, all
right, So the reason it's quote dead naming is because your son is dead.
I had no idea that the puberty blockers could sterilize you. I had
no idea about that. I also come from the opinion of let puberty happen
and then sort it out after well, and that that I think is one
of those that attitude is something that people are fighting against. And I'm not
quite sure why it's too soon. It's especially puberty these days. It's probably
a lot younger than when we were kids, just because of well, the
world and the chemicals and all the things. Well, and I think there's
something also, We've we've got to stop putting, we've got to stop adding
value. To people who are victims of something or struggling, that's a better
word, thank you, Because everybody, just intrinsically everybody should have value.
That I believe that not everybody does. Everybody has some value. And the
idea that you earn value by being more victimized or by struggling harder or whatever,
it is a terrible place to put society because then all you're doing is
asking people struggle. Yeah, find a way to struggle even more, and
society will value you even more. Now, it's awful to struggle for whatever
reason, whether it is you're questioning your gender, your sexuality, or you
feel like you grow up in the wrong neighborhood, or you feel like society
is not going to give you a fair chance because of some immutable characteristic that
you have. Those are all awful things. But the more you tell people
to de lean into that and blame everything else on those people, we're going
nowhere. My dad would come to me as a kid and tell me you
can do whatever you want to do. It was never you're a girl,
so you're gonna have to work harder. It was not that that's a different
Don't put people at a disadvantage well, especially when they're young, and and
tell them, oh, well you're gonna you're not you're not as good as
other people. You're gonna have to work harder, or I don't know,
I think I told you I had that came up, and I think of
all places of Thanksgiving dinner one time when somebody said to my daughter something along
the lines of, don't you feel like you have to work harder because you're
a girl, And I thought, whoa, whoa, Yeah, that's not
what I teach my daughter. I teach my daughter the value is in how
hard you work, period, Not because you're a girl, not because you
are at a disadvantage, not because because she's not. Stop telling her that
she is, because then if she does fall short, then she thinks,
oh, it's because I'm a woman, right, as opposed to maybe I
did something wrong and I need to improve it next time I do it.
You don't send your kids out with that attitude. Just crazy. I wanted
to mention the Olympics. Did you see this. There are a few events
that are going on in the Olympics today, long before the opening ceremonies.
I don't know, if you're a big fan of rugby, Seven's sure I
played wing in college, did you really? Yeah? France and the US
and I guess Fiji. In the US, they're taking it. There's a
couple of different matches that you can see. Also, a football pool play
is on right now. France is taking on the US. I played for
about three weeks until the other ladies started drinking beer out of a dirty boot
and I was like, I am out. You've been listening to the Gary
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