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. So it's like a perfect
week for the Republicans. They're having like a wonderful time party, unity,
wonderful, sparkling event. Matt Gates has to come in and take a crap
on the floor. By the way, I have the audio of Matt Gates,
what a child, what a spoiled child? Talking to yelling at Kevin
McCarthy interview. He's on CNN, Kevin McCarthy being interviewed. It's a one
on one interview on the floor and Matt Gates has to interject and just crap
all over the floor and what an awful Thankfully somebody confronted him right after.
Did you hear that part of it? Not? Okay? So this was
the beginning of I don't know if you want to start with this or not,
but we have the audiow So this is the beginning of an interview Kaitlyn
Collins interviewing Kevin McCarthy on the floor of the conventions hall there in Milwaukee.
But what does that look like going into the next four months? Much more
unit. I mean, think about that. That was all the Democrats and
eight Republicans, one who's not coming back, and then the other part that
you have. And the other part you have is one person who raised the
issue. He's got an ethics then about you took Okay, now I'm just
gonna leave it there because I boosted up a little bit of what macat Matt
Gates was saying. Again, he interrupted the former Speaker of the House and
asked, like a complete a hole, when are you speaking? Are you
speaking tonight? Because if you get on that stage, you'd be booed off
of that stage. Kevin McCarthy was pretty clever the way he weaved in one
of these people has an ethics complaint for sleeping with a seventeen year old girl.
Here is another version of that, and you can hear Matt Gates a
little bit better. What does that look like going into the next we're here?
What night are you speaking to? Are you speaking tonight? So people
kind of get between Gates and McCarthy. Hey, if you took that stage,
you would get booed off. You would get booed off the stage of
Kates. Dude, I don't even know too large it doesn't. So they
have a couple of pops or something. You hear the guy he goes,
shut up Gates, Who is that? Just an older guy? I don't
know. He hasn't been identified anything I saw. And he goes, I
don't even know who the f you are, Matt Gates, a sitting congressman
to a Republican delegate at the National Convention. Don't you know that if you
are? And the guy goes, just don't be an age. Yeah,
and he says it a couple of times, just don't be an a hole.
He's just there was no reason to interfere with that interview with Kevin McCarthy.
You've already ousted him a Speaker of the House. Gates will be speaking
tonight, Lord, why would you give that guy the platform? The highlight?
Highlight? The keynote speaker tonight is going to be jd Vance, obviously,
the senator from Ohio chosen to be the vice presidential running mate. He
will be preceded by people like Governor Doug Bergham, Don Junior, and boy.
I can't wait to see what happens when Kimberly Guilfoyle takes the stage tonight.
You know what's going to happen, a lot of shouting, a lot
of wondering about where the fillers are. I don't know what she's done to
her face. She was a beautiful woman. I don't know why she had
to go in there with the needles. Ladies, God made you perfect the
way that you are most most everybody, Okay, what's wrong with you?
Okay? Sloped roof, this was a tree, an obstructed view. Everyone
at the Secret Service needs to be brought into a meeting and the head of
the Secret Service needs to be canned immediately. Cannot keep her, she cannot,
absolutely cannot. This was her discussion again from that ABC interview she did
about the threat posed by a slightly sloped roof. Should that roof have been
secure? Period? That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest
point, and so you know there's a safety factor because I'm considered there that
we wouldn't want to and climbed in. No problem. You know, the
decision was made to secure the building from inside. Okay, Now that's an
important aspect to keep saying. I kept saying yesterday, there's no way they
just set up inside the building. There's no way. But the way she
said it and the way it sounds is they were looking for bad guys through
the windows. Now again, I'm hoping that's not true. I'm hoping I'm
misunderstanding that because there's there's there's no way that that came from the officers themselves.
I screwed up. I should have had that roof manned. Obviously.
Don't say there was a safety factor with the slightly sloped roof. Give me
a break. Every Secret Service agent who's worked the job listens to that and
bangs their head on a wall. Yeah. This was her in an interview
that aired today, specifically again trying not to throw local officers under the bus,
but completely throwing local officers under the bus. Secret Service respects local law
enforcement, and we could not do our job, either investigatively or on our
protective mission without them in Pennsylvania. In fact, on that same day,
they were also working the first Lady trip and a Vice presidential trip. So
I understand the constraints that they're under. And as I said earlier, we
couldn't do our job without them at that particular site. We divided up areas
of responsibility, but the Secret Service is solely responsible for the design and the
impipitation and the execution of the site. Again, I think that hearing on
Monday morning. It starts at seven am our time. It's prime time listening.
How how could you possibly have faith in the Secret Service management if they
can't get something like that correct. You can't just say local officers were the
ones who were in charge of that area. Because the Washington Post reports from
inside that building they saw this guy acting furtively, walking back and forth around
the building with some gear. They did radio the Secret Service command post to
alert them. Now, why the Secret Service didn't then flood that area with
eyes how? I just it's one of those that's It's it. I'm hoping
everything that we think about this is completely wrong. I'm hoping we have a
story. We're not. We're not. It's common sense. Is there anything
worse in the United States Secret Service not taking accountability for a shot on the
incoming president former president. No, it's right up there with child Protective Services
not taking accountability for dead kids. What are you doing? You're sitting there
making excuses. You're an excuses person. Is the head of the Secret Service?
No, you should be in middle management somewhere working never mind, that's
not nice. The point of the slope roof is also one of those questions
where it's just mind boggling, considering there were four counter snipers on sloped roofs
behind the president, and they're the ones we believe that took the guy out
while sitting on a slope roof, and the exactly a twenty year old with
no law enforcement experience is able to manage the slope roof, but yet the
best in the business cannot. That does not hold water, nor does the
excuse that a tree was obstructing the view. What a failure? What a
failure? Failure? Is there anything happy today? I had? I had
four shots of espresso this morning? Why usually I only have two? Did
you I had four? Were you worried about your heart stopping or something?
It felt like I felt like another double espresso and here we are. Good
luck? Okay, all right, Well I'm going to need a bucket and
a mock. Senator Bob Menendez out of New Jersey delivered with a sixteen guilty
verdicts yesterday in his federal corruption trial. Derek Dennis has all the latest on
the future and what we're going to do. What the protocol is for getting
this guy to resign or voting to expel him. I guess if he doesn't
step down, Derek, Right, it's a little murky right now. So
after Senator Bob Menendez's conviction yesterday on sixteen counts of bribery and conspiracy charges,
he came out of the courthouse defined as ever, saying he will not accept
these charges, that he's going to vigorously appeal, that he's done nothing wrong.
But prosecutors and certainly a Manhattan federal jury said otherwise that Menendez took bribes
in the form of cash, some of which was found stuffed in clothing,
in his clock posits at his house, gold bars, payments for a luxury
Mercedes, convertible mortgage payments, and other things from three New Jersey businessmen in
exchange for political favor in New Jersey and the federal government and in the governments
of Egypt and Cutter. So that's what he's convicted of, including being a
foreign agent in relation to the help for those businessmen in those foreign countries.
And so Bob Menendez a convicted felon, but still a sitting US senator,
And you talk about the efforts to either oust him from office or get him
to resign. That's where the next step is. The quickest way would be
for Senator Menndez to step aside, though he has vowed not to. In
fact, he's still running for re election as an independent in November. So
the other mechanism would be for the Senate to expel him, but that's a
process. It involves bringing a resolution to the Senate floor to work its way
through committee, and then ultimately a vote in the Senate, and there's no
indication right now that that is imminent, though it could happen. The Ethics
Committee in the Senate, also headed by Chris Coons and James Langford, are
looking into this. Why. I mean, it seems to me like a
conviction on sixteen felon accounts is enough for them to wrap up their investigation.
Yeah. Sure, but you know, you have to keep in mind that
in the Senate there's really not much like this in terms of precedent. I
mean, certainly there have been senators who've been convicted of a crime, but
it's been a number of years. Certainly as senators who have run a foul
of the law, but most of or many have been able to beat those
charges, including Senator Menendez who was brought up on other charges years ago related
to a sex scandal, for instance, and he was able to beat those
charges. And so it's sort of like, what do we do? Where
do we go from here? That's what the Senate is grappling with and what
is the best way to handle this? And so we're waiting for an announcement
on it, whether it'll be the expulsion right the Ethics Committee or Senator Menendez
himself stepping aside yet another elected official in America. We can be so proud
of Derek Dennis, Thank you so much for that embarrassing report about America and
who we put in power. We go it's our fault. It's our fault,
our fault. All right, we will pivot. We'll head over to
Milwaukee and talk about what happened last night in the Republican National Convention. People
like Nikki Haley and Ronda Santis and people who kind of savaged Donald Trump a
few months ago, full throated endorsements. Last I heard Laura Trump had a
good night. I haven't heard her comments yet. She did, she did.
It was a very personal I don't know, it was a very personal
humanized. Yeah, she talked a lot about him as a grandpa, which
is which is kind of funny compared to the way people are savaging Joe Biden
for his grandpawness grandpa, but referring to him to Trump as a guy who
you the best moments are the ones where it's just him and his grandkids.
So there's a new survey by ap North Center for Public Affairs and it finds
nearly two thirds of Democrats say Biden should withdraw water. Rescues and evacuation has
taken place in northern Arkansas today. Rising water has inundated homes and businesses.
National Weather Service issued a pretty rare flash flood emergency for that area in Marion
County, near the state's border with Missouri. It affects only a few thousand
people, but it is pretty crazy considering the time of year. Severe storms,
at least tornadoes also ravaged New York State overnight, leaving a trail of
destruction. At least one person was killed. The theme for Day three of
the RNZ is make America Strong once Again. But before we get to that
and talking about jd Vance headlining tonight speakers, let's talk about what happened last
night, big night for party unity. Robert Sherman is joining us. He's
a national correspondent for News Nation there in Milwaukee, and we saw Nicky Haley,
We saw Ron DeSantis, we saw Marco Ruby, we saw some people
who a few months ago would have been saying nasty things about Donald Trump say
some pretty nice things. Yeah. I mean, I think you hit the
nail on the head right there. Just a couple of months ago, the
Republican Party did have some very clear divisions within it, and Nicki Haley was
really at the tip of the spear of all that. A lot of her
supporters very against the former president, really no appetite to go out and vote
for him under any circumstance. Potentially would even vote for President Biden before they'd
vote for the former president. But then you saw Nicki Haley coming out last
night and saying, look, I don't agree with the former president on a
lot of things, but that doesn't really matter. She's trying to get all
of her people to go out and support mister Trump. And I think it's
just worth noting here is that you have seen this message of unity really starting
to come together. Ever since that Saturday assassination to Tim Mickey. Haley was
not supposed to speak yesterday. She was a late ad after that Saturday attack
in Butler, Pennsylvania. And that's where you've really started to see this message
of unity coming from. The former president has rewritten his RNZ speech which will
be given on Thursday, less of an emphasis on Biden, more on party
and national unity, So that'll be the big thing to look out for there.
Ron DeSantis looked really good and comfortable last night, which was a departure
from what we saw when he was running for president. And we really haven't
seen too much of an in the middle of the spotlight ever since he bowed
out of the race in the early part of the primary process. He's mostly
been on the operations that have been ongoing in Florida. But you are right,
it is a really strong speech that he gave last night, not only
criticizing President Biden, but supporting the former president as well. You also brought
up Marco Rubio, You had Ted Cruz up there. I mean, all
of these people were at one point and another rifles with the former president and
all of them coming out holding the standard for him. It is very clear
that This is the message that they're really trying to pound the table with here
today. All Right, So as we get closer, we know that jd
Vance is going to be the headliner tonight. Expectations, I mean, do
we know? I haven't seen him deliver any sort of long form speeches,
so I mean, what kind of reputation does he have? Well, the
big thing here is that when you walk around this convention center, it feels
as though that people were either very satisfied with the move to put jd Vance
on the ticket, but there's also a lot of people here who admit they
don't really know too much about him. He hasn't been in the game that
long. He's been a United States Senator for just two years. So it
is a big question without doubt. I mean, this is tonight is the
biggest moment of the now VP nominees' career in politics up to this point,
and so this will be one an opportunity for him to introduce himself to voters
around the country and an introduction to the national spotlight. But also does he
play off with those tropes of unity as well? One thing that he does
focus heavily on are his sets of experiences from the memoir that he wrote,
He'll Billy Elegy, focusing on growing up in southern Ohio and with the backdrop
of the Appellations behind him and all the issues that he saw firsthand that surround
working class Americans and rural America. That's a big part of his story.
Without question, that's going to be a big piece of it. I wouldn't
be surprised if he gets into the twenty six team motto of America first.
What I do know about him is he's more of an isolationist. There were
some world leaders Ukraine for example, that was saying, well, he did
flip on Trump. He was a never Trump guy and now he's ride or
die for Trump, and that maybe his mind can be changed a little bit.
But he's definitely in America first. Let's take care of our country and
our people first before we start handing over billions of dollars to other places.
Yeah, that is, without question a focal point of his rhetoric up to
this point. I mean, he's been very outspoken on the war in Ukraine
in which he thinks that the United States. He contends the United States doesn't
have a national and vested interest and what goes on in Ukraine. He's been
very focused on taking care of domestic issues here and he wants that to be
a focal point as well. So yes, I mean, world leaders are
interested in what he's going to have to stay on that. But I mean,
you made a very good point in two thousand and sixteen. He did
not like former President Donald Trump. He was not a Trump guy, and
he says that he admits that, and he talks about that. It's been
very open in Canada about that, and says that his mind has totally changed
on that issue with what he saw the former president doing in that first term.
Is our other topics and other issues malleable to him as well? We
shall see. I mean again, I mean, he's only been in the
United States Senate for two years. There isn't a long list of a political
record that voters have to work with here. So that's part of the reason
why there's such a focus on this speech tonight at a big introduction to the
national stage, and there's no All Star Game to compete with, so he's
probably gonna have a little few more eyes on him. Maybe, Yeah,
there you go, there you go, all right, Robert, thank you
appreciated, of course. Robert Sherman there with the News Nation where of their
national correspondents covering the story in Milwaukee. I have some Olympics news. Oh
okay, there's a couple things that have happened. One of the things that
they've talked about for the Olympics in Paris, which start what two weeks I
think or a week a little more than a week, the plan for the
opening ceremonies is to not do it in a stadium. They would do it
along the river senn Is. That how they say that in Paris. And
one of the problems they've had with the river saying is it's full of human
excrement and has been for one hundred plus years, ever since they built the
sewer system in Paris where back you know, in the eighteen fifth seventies,
whatever it was, they agreed they all thought, if you just put zipoop
in Zawattre, it goes away. And now we have politicians swimming in it
right today. Okay, So the mayor of Paris, and hildal Hidalgo had
said for months since Paris was a of the Olympics, that she would swim
in the river sand to prove that it is not full of baby ruth bars.
Today, she finally did it. After multiple delays caused by a combination
of torrential rain domestic politics, she took to the river. They have an
engineering project that costs well above what the original sewer system cost. It was
one and a half billion dollars to try to prevent the amount of sewage and
industrial waste from simply flowing into the river. The result is they hope a
river that is clean enough, not just for opening ceremonies where people would be
riding in boats, I assume, but the triathlon swimming portion would be in
the river, and two ten kilometers swimming events that are supposed to take place
in the river as well. Where's the best hot dog you've ever had in
Paris? Really? You know, I've never been at Paris. The best
hot dog I've ever had? Yeah, I had a friend who one time
made hot dogs wrapped in bacon. Now I know that that in and of
itself will put you on the toilet. Well, it's not unusual because you
can buy them stadiums. Yeah, but it was perfectly crisped. That's bacon.
That's the key. You don't want to undercook the bacon wrapped on the
hot dog. There's about seven carts on the exit that I leave from so
far that area of the stadium that I leave, and I've identified the best
hot dog cart. I've tried all of them, but I've identified the best
one. It's usually the women that do a better job with crisping the bacon.
The men are a little willy nilly when it comes to the bacon.
Sometimes you've got some parts of the bacon that aren't cooked through, and that's
when you really run into some problems, especially if they're stadium traffic getting out.
Do you mean digestive problem? Digestive problems? Correct urgencies? Urgencies?
But there's a woman, she's about four to seven, she's very small,
and she kills those things. Does she stand on a little step stool behind
the behind the hot dog cars? She does so you can see her.
Yeah? Yeah, And do you get out the super quiet? She's not
one of the people that like calls you over because she knows how good her
hot dogs are. Listen, it's word of mouth at that point, and
it's not word from her mouth, it's just word of mouth from other people.
Do you stop the vehicle to get out. No, no, no,
there is. You're walking out of the stadium. Oh you walk out,
got it? Okay, I thought you meant and then you grab ramp
and I thought you was thinking on ramp. You grab your dog on the
way to the car, right, that's a small chomp, chomp, chomp,
and then finish that thing. Just just make an ugly spectacle. Oh
you can. Well, you're walking and you're usually I'm usually by myself,
so I can just look like a complete animal. That's one way to ensure
that you stay alone is by It's by walking and eating a massive hot dog
with food coming out of your mouth. Hey, everybody, look, Secretariat's
about to eat a hot dog. And somewhere in the background, there's somebody
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