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twenty twenty two alone. Studies authors say the figures point to a need for
speed and safety regulations. ABC's Jim Ryan says that includes a requirement that writers
wear helmets. The study was published in the journal Jama Network. A Russian
born man has been detained in France on suspicion of planning to destabilize There was
a great article I think we're going to get to it in swamp Watch.
You think this year is crazy like twenty twenty four, and the years leading
up to this have been just nuts politically speaking, But nineteen sixty eight wasn't.
It was banana. It was just as bananas. I mean, we
think about this because for the vast majority of us, we weren't alive in
nineteen sixty eight, so it's hard for us to kind of wrap our heads
around what it is without saying I learned in history yousic alone in nineteen sixty
Yate was phenomenal, But there have been There's been election site event after event.
Yes, I mean, if you just looked at sixty eight, there's
a couple of assassinate, literal assassinations in the course of the in the course
of the election cycle that absolutely altered the fabric of not just the not just
that election cycle, but the country as a whole. So we'll talk about
it. The Secret Service telling Trump not to hold any outdoor rallies or that
he shouldn't is not helping the conspiracy theory. Problem of this was Biden's secret
Service that let this bullet fly by. Yeah, him then now trying to
thwart campaigning is a bad look. It's a it's a weird do your job
about do your job, very weird. The testimony about that assassination attempt continues.
Actually, FBI Director Christopher Ray is going before the is currently before the
House Judiciary Committee. We'll talk more about that and play some sound from what
he has been saying. Investigation and he's not concentrating on that aspect, which
is, how did the Secret Service allow this guy to get where he was
and peel off eight shots? His investigation or his agency's investigation is all about
who this guy was, how he did what he did, separate from what
was going on. What holes did the Secret Service have that needed to be
filled? So Mike Johnson is essentially ordering the code red. He had a
closed door meeting of House Republicans to tell them no, and I'm using the
language here, no overt racist and sexist attacks against Kamala Harris. Don't do
this. Nothing overt, So he can say, so they can say,
there was this warning. In the meantime, take your baby shots. Well
are you? They're set up for their set up for failure because a lot
of times, unless you're very specific about a PAS see that you don't like
that the Kamala Harris holds, you're going to be accused of being either sexist
or racist, and probably both. So I think he's I think it's a
smart move on his part to say, hey, just so you know,
you have to be a little bit more nuanced in your attacks on this one.
So he's covering his own ass. True. Yeah, yeah, he's
also said this is interesting. Mike Johnson has also said if you disrupt Benjamin
Netanyah, who's speech today before a Joint Session of Congress, he may have
you arrested. I guess he's the in terms of security. He's the guy
who is the buck stops here guy. He is the Kimberly cheatle of a
joint session of Congress in that I don't think he's gonna completely bunk it up
like she did. But he's the one who could have people taken out of
the chamber for when Benjamin Netanyah who addresses Congress. Hey, that's supposed to
happen in about eleven o'clock hour time too. What star for the Republicans?
Mike Johnson, Yeah, I feel like he took the speaker seat and has
just used it. He has used the platform well in terms of getting his
name out there and being a powerbroker. Don't forget he didn't. He didn't
do so without criticism. There were still people on the right Marjorie Taylor Green
and Matt Gates and all these people who still wanted him out because of the
deal that he struck. Well, you're talking about crazy people there, but
they but they're crazy people in Congress, I mean crazy people with a certain
amount of power. So net Yahoo is the subject of serious protests that are
currently going on in Washington. D c Also, they have been disruptive up
and down the Capitol Mall to have their voices heard. Both pro Israel and
pro Palestinian are out there and they are either upset that net Yahoo is being
given an audience with Congress, also with the President and Vice President. We
believe Tom and then he's going to meet with former President Trump on Friday.
In fact, there were people who broke into and broke into got into how's
that the Watergate hotel where he is staying, where Natanyahu is staying, and
released thousands, hundreds of thousands of crickets and maggots and other bugs inside the
Watergate Hotel, not to mention the fact that they were pulling the fire alarm
over and over and over again all night long trying to disrupt him. That's
like when you go to an away game with the Chargers. Yeah, my
god, the alarms that go off seriously. Oh yeah, Well, because
fans from the home team will to disrupt you, they get they get ignored
a lot of the time. Speaking of the Chargers training camp today, Jim
Harbaugh has arrived. Jim Harbaugh, we now know listens to the show,
specifically listened to the show yesterday because of the inspirational video he dropped last night,
which made mention of one of the topics of yesterday, which was crazy,
how that was a very specific thing, a specific So I think what
it is is it's his like nod to me, like, hey, it's
okay to be crazy, Okay to be crazy. I see you, I
got you. I just hope he doesn't smack your shoulder pads the way you
smacked mine, pretending that I I want that's what I want. You want
him to get you in the game. Yeah, grab you right by that
face mask. Yes, scream and something inspirational at you. Yes. Okay.
We're approaching football season, so we're ramping up here. We're getting the
adrenaline going. FBI Director Christopher Ray says that that shooter rigged multiple explosive devices
to blow up had a remote transmitter at that rally. He's in front of
a congressional committee about that shooting. He says law enforcement agencies were covered three
bombs, presumably set up by the the shooter, two in his car,
one in his home, all with the ability to be detonated remotely. There
were receivers at the scene for two of the devices, and he had a
transmitter to detonate them. Yeah, it's so funny. He was describing them
as not really super sophisticated, but about what they would expect. And I
thought, would would you expect bombs in someone's car as they're attending a rally
for a presidential candidate. But new Pole says that Georgia is in play.
This is a Landmark Communications poll four hundred likely voters in Georgia that was conducted
just Monday, and it says the difference between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris is
well within the five percent margin of error, which seems pretty sizable. Largely,
but Trump has a forty five point eight percent, about a percent and
a half above Harris, and that would be in a six way race.
When you do when you take it down to just a two person race,
the lead is a little bit larger. The President will address the nation tonight
five o'clock hour time, so by about six thirty our time, you'll have
all the twenty five twenty fifth Amendment talk, probably right. Yeah, I
don't know if his voice sounds anything like it did on that phone call that
he made. It's not it's not going to be pretty okay, but speaking
of, there's been a lot of talk about the money that has been raised
by the now Harris for President campaign and the ninety plus million dollars that would
go from Joe Biden's campaign war chest to her campaign war chest simply by changing
the name of the campaign. The Federal Elections Commission has now gotten a complaint
filed by the Trump Campaigns General counsel David Warrington argues that transferring that ninety one
point five million dollars would amount to little more than a thinly veiled excessive contribution
from one presidential candidate to another, and he says that this would be the
biggest violation in the history of the FEC, sorry the Federal Election Campaign Act
of nineteen seventy one. This seems all for not. There are still issues
like this with the FEC going back to the twenty sixteen election. This is
not going to be something that's decided in time, certainly not in time for
them to burn through that cash. And it also, I think is a
bad look because it makes them look like they're worried. But the this is
the playbook. But this is to throw stuff at the wall to see what
legally sticks and what doesn't. I mean, they were also talking to Mike
Johnson. Speaker Mike Johnson was also talking about the potential for there to be
legal challenges to putting Kamala Harris's name on the ballot right now, and again
the rules when it comes to how you change a candidate, especially before a
nomination. I mean, they're not even Joe Biden is not been nominated yet.
That's the thing is. It's not he does have enough or had enough
delegates that he was the presumptive nominee. But there is a process that each
of these parties go through, and they have different rules for it, but
there's a process that the party sets up for them to do. He's not
the nominee. He was not the nominee when he dropped out, So there's
a lot more flexibility that Democrats have. Yeah, I completely agree with the
argument that they did not turn it over to their Democratic voters and say,
okay, he's out, now what he want to do? They just kind
of assumed the Kamala Harris he got the or she got the endorsement from Joe
Biden and then started piling up these endorsements from others. The delegates all came
in they all coalesced behind her, But that's still not the democracy that we
all think of. We think of it as we leave it to the people
and the people get to decide. I know we're a constitutional republic, I
get it, but in general, the small deed democracy that everybody likes to
talk about, that's kind of the way we think of it. This is
not that. This is party politics the way it's played out, and we've
all bought into it, so it's not like we can be surprised by the
fact that the party still gets to choose who the nominee is going to be.
Did you read the story about R. F. Kennedy about he went
to Trump after the assassination attempt or is I like to say, the attempted
assassination attempt and asked for a job in exchange for his endorsement and said he
wanted to be like the health czar in the cabinet. I did hear rumors
of that, but again, this is one of those things that I don't
even know where to He's RF case is he never asked that and never asked,
and that the Trump campaign was like, eh no, yeah, I
know, both of them denied whatever conversation, but we heard the conversation.
Remember that was part of the phone call that leaked. I believe that showed
him talking to him, According to a Harris campaign spokesperson, They responded to
this FEC comp in a statement saying Republicans may be jealous that Democrats are energized,
but these baseless legal claims will only distract them while we sign up volunteers,
talk to voters and win this selection. And they said, so far
they've raised one hundred million dollars in the first thirty six hours and have signed
up fifty eight thousand volunteers. One specific issue about this that I have not
yet seen explained is how much are they counting the previous pledges of money?
Remember the ninety million that we said was frozen and the fifty million AD campaign
that was not going to be put up. That's what I mentioned yesterday.
Are they baking this into those I think they are, because they said that
they had unfrozen the money. Remember it was like the lost producer that came
out and said, you know, the dembargo or what have you is over.
We're going to release the floodgates for her, So release the hones.
Yes, Yeah, like is that sixty two percent of new donor were those
new donors to the Biden campaign, but now they're just called their new boners.
Sorry new donors. Oh you said, you know what I meant?
Amy, Are you laughing at a boner joke? Trying to say I was
laughing at a story I'm about. Uh huh, Well, I well,
I didn't know we were all eight years old, but here we are both
boner boner boner Gary ch Now I'm in trouble because I'm not supposed to say
penis before eleven am. It's funny because I'm the one who said it right.
Also, mattel U has unveiled the first blind Barbie I. She has
shiny hair, high heels, picture perfect features, and a red and white
cane sunglasses that provide additional eye protection. So that's how we know she's blind
is the cane and the sunglasses. Well, you can kind of tell the
way that her I don't know what you're trying to do. They're trying to
show you the way that her features. Can you can you not see that
picture? I can't, No, you can't anyway? Very cool? Yeah,
very cool if you have I'm not I'm trying seriously, I'm not trying
to make fun of that. But if you have a child who is blind
and you give that child a blind sorry, see this blind brought this up
and I should know better. A blind Barbie can't couldn't you just get a
Barbie and then say this one's blind like you? I I do not know,
I understand. I am totally in line with your thought process. There,
this is you Disney. I have a quick Disneyland story. Oh is
this about Deadpool? Yeah, so that's a weird juxtaposition with like a profanity
laced character walking around the castle with the princesses. Yeah. Well, I
mean he's gonna be over on the other side, he's gonna be a California
Adventure Marvel Camps. Oh, I see, I but yeah, that's what
he's known for, Deadpool and R rated movies dirty dirty Joe, dirty fun,
wonderful, hilarious, but a comic genius. He's not really going to
be a Disneyland California adventure even has booze and stuff, right, And I
wonder I am assuming because you don't see his face. I mean he's wearing
the full mask. You're not gonna hear him speak. I think he's I
think he's a mute character like the other. Well, yeah, he's not
fully costumed character. You're not going to be Disneyland Ad Jason and start dropping
f bombs. Although although that would be a crowd pleaser, the thing is,
how are you going to find somebody who is quick enough on their deadpool
feet to get what I'm still stuck on. This one is blind, She's
just like you. I have a problem. Also, let's move on back
to politics. This is just an example of what's going to happen over these
next couple of months that is really, really bad and we all need to
be very very careful about what we're doing. Earlier today on Fox Brian kill
Me part of their morning show and also does his own talk show radio talk
show. He was upset that Kamala Harris, the now or presumptive nominee for
the Democratic Party to be president, to be their presidential candidate, that she's
not going to attend Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to a joint session of Congress. Instead,
she had something that was planned before, which still doesn't make it as
any It doesn't make an excuse for what why she's not there, but she's
going to be in Indiana. I believe it is speaking to a traditionally black
sorority about getting out the vote and et cetera, and women and black women
specifically. This was Brian Killmead this morning. Tell me what he says she'd
rather addressed in the summer A sorority, A cold sorority, like you can't
get out of that. What did he say, she'd rather address a sorority,
A sorority, A cold sorority like you can't get out of that.
A college sorority, not colored, right, but that is what people are
now saying. Brian kill Mead would suggest if Brian Killmead use the term colored
on Fox News today, he would be fired immediately. He would be fired
immediately. That's not what he said. He said college sorority. He's right
now. Colored wasn't even a term that was used in old is he Brian
kill me fifty? Yeah, maybe late fifties. Yeah, that that's not
even a term that he grew up with. No, that's a term that
my grandparents grew up with. And it's he's sixty specifically, Okay, it's
it's a frustrating thing because this is just the beginning. This is just the
beginning of people. See, that's why Mike, you Brian kill me.
Well, that's why Mike Johnson had to tell everybody rally the troops, Hey,
be careful. You're going to be called racist and sexist, So no
overt attacks. Speaking to your point about getting out the vote, I've got
some new numbers when it comes to voter registrations that have happened since Biden bowed
out. That's what motivates people. Yeah, The organization said it helped register
more than thirty eight thousand, five hundred voters in the forty eight hours after
Biden's announcement. Thirty eight thousand, the largest number of new voters it is
registered in a two day period this election cycle. Wow, okay, it's
also more. This is more telling. It's also more people than who registered
last September when Taylor Swift urged fans to vote. Now that's a bit more
powerful than Taylor Swift. Before we get to Christopher Ray, King, Gary
and Channon, I am one of the minorities who was fifteen years old and
sixty eight and I remember it all very well. The music, the hmm
pot It's okay, you can say the political the upheaval, racial tensions,
you name it. It was there. The assassinations I remember vividly. Yeah,
we'll talk, Yes, we'll talk more about the craziness that is this
election cycle. Obviously we're living in it, but it's not necessarily unprecedented.
Turmoil is not unprecedented. Yeah, we agree that forwarding of Biden dropping out
quote unquote dropping out for the race is inaccurate. He was forced out people
calling him a patriot and a true American. He went out fighting, kicking
and screaming. He didn't want to, he didn't want to leave, but
dropping out kicked out, it's more accurate. Thank you. Okay, I'll
take I'll take that. That's okay. Sure, if you really think that
Gary did a good job needing his dog, would you be willing to allow
him to give a first name to mister bumper Puss? And are you ready
for a Peter bumper Puss? What have we done? What have what have
we done? Wait? He brings up a good point though, which is
what is bumper Puss's first name? Mister? I kind of like like a
share type thing. Yes, yeah, does not have to be anything.
We don't have to anthropomorphize or Western culturize. The naming of an alien cat
is his? What is his own orientation? Man? I think that doesn't
exist. That's not a They don't worry about that stuff. He hasn't gone
through nobody yet. Nobody cares. Nobody caring. Boner, boner. Okay,
that was the funniest thing I've heard all morning. Sorry about that,
all right. Christopher Ray, the head of the FBI, is testifying before
the House Judiciary Committee today about the attempted assassination attempt on President Trump and talked
about what they know about the shooter in this case, and among other things,
he has said that he looked up information about Lee Harvey Oswald killing JFK,
like what was the distance at which that shot was taken or those shots?
It appears that he flew a drone in the area of the of that
rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, but not over the actual stage area, but
in the general area. It was about two hundred yards from the staging area
where he flew the drone. They also said, did Christopher Ray that there
were eight shots that they can confirm? Did crooks fire eight shots? We
have recovered eight cartridges on the roof. Why was crooks allowed to get off
eight shots? Well, that I think is something we're still digging into.
They also Director Ray talked about the explosives that were found. They said they
found two and he almost he was hesitating when he would describe him as explosive
devices. But two things that we will say capable of exploding in the car
and then one at home. At a moment, it looks like because of
the on off position on the receivers, that that if he had tried to
detonate those devices from the roof, it would not have worked. But that
doesn't mean the explosives weren't dangerous. And I'm sure Republicans are leaning into the
algorithm, shall we call it. They say that they're skeptical over the FBI's
ability to conduct this investigation because the Justice Department under the Biden administration. Yeah,
I they wanted to make it go away. They could make it go
away. I get real uncomfortable when you start talking about law enforcement agencies that
for some reason would lean one way or the other. I understand people arguing
that the Department of Justice itself has been has been weaponized because of the investigations
that have taken place. But you also have people complaining that the Department of
Justice was weaponized against Joe Biden because of the the Robert Hur's report or the
special council that was appointed to look at the Hunter Biden case. Well,
you go back to James Comey and Trump and demanding loyalty and all of that.
Yeah, that's not what those people, and those people being law enforcement,
that's not what they swear allegiance to. They don't swear allegiance to you
or a party. They swear allegiance to the country and the upholding of the
Constitution. And that's where it should begin and end. The officials trying to
figure out exactly what this guy knew. I think the most important thing is
whether he was simply a loaner trying to get notoriety, or if there was
anybody else that may have been involved with his planning, with his equipping all
of that, and we don't know yet. You've been listening to The Gary
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