WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:04.040 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI AM six forty, the 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:08.160 Gary and Shannon Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. What else is going 3 00:00:08.199 --> 00:00:16.800 on? Time for What's happening? Wow? Delta is canceling about twenty percent 4 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:22.519 and delaying about fifteen percent of its Monday flight so far. Most airlines are 5 00:00:22.559 --> 00:00:27.359 recovered from last week's global tech outage, but Delta is still struggling. Twenty 6 00:00:27.399 --> 00:00:31.519 one percent canceled, thirty three percent of them have been delayed. I mean, 7 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:36.719 there's no there's no one even close to that in terms of individual airlines 8 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:40.640 that have had problems. This is all, of course, from that CrowdStrike 9 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:46.719 problem, the glitch that happened when they tried to update security software last week, 10 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:52.359 and it for some reason has continued to plague Delta specifically. I saw 11 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:58.960 what I believe was a farcical tweet from Southwest Airlines. Remember Southwest, the 12 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:03.960 last two times we've had major meltdowns, it's been because Southwest's computers either broke 13 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:07.359 or whatever. And Southwest got snarky, and again I don't even think it 14 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:11.840 was real, but it said, oh, now you're happy with us because 15 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:18.480 we have we run our schedule on one single Commodore sixty four computer based out 16 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:22.680 of San Antonio, and then it said, go to hell. We have 17 00:01:22.719 --> 00:01:27.280 a missing girl from Monterey Park, Alison Chow. She was last seen on 18 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:34.480 ring video July sixteenth, riding a blue Mountain bike from her father's house headed 19 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:38.799 for her aunt's house less than four miles away. That was the last time 20 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:44.319 she was seen riding her bike to her aunt's house. She's tiny. She's 21 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:48.040 a straight A student entering her junior year at Mark Keppel High School. No 22 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:51.879 history of running away or anything like that. She's made no contact with friends, 23 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:55.719 There's been no activity on social media. She's five to two and weighs 24 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:01.640 ninety six pounds. That's terrifying. Is terrifying? Well, we were talking 25 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:07.919 about Texas. Heat related deaths have continued to climb since Hurricane Burrell left millions 26 00:02:07.919 --> 00:02:13.599 of people without power and they still have not got the lights back on in 27 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:17.840 some areas of Houston. There's a woman, Pamela Jarrett, used a wheelchair, 28 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:22.240 relies on a feeding tube. She was gasping for breath. Paramedics had 29 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:24.759 to be called. She was pronounced dead at the hospital almost two weeks after 30 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:29.039 they hit heat related deaths during this prolonged power out, which just have pushed 31 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:35.120 the number of storm related fatalities to at least twenty three in Texas. So 32 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:39.840 not good, especially specifically, I should say, right around in and around 33 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:45.680 Houston. Sho hey Atani made his thirtieth home run in Dodger Blue a memorable 34 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:51.319 one. He drove a cutter four hundred and seventy three feet over the bleachers 35 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:55.800 at Dodger Stadium during the fifth inning of Sunday's game. The pitcher's name was 36 00:02:55.840 --> 00:03:05.479 also Cutter. Oh, it was Cutter Crawford. One of six home runs 37 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:08.319 by the Dodgers yesterday, and according to fans in the area, they said 38 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:14.159 the ball went between the pavilion roof and an advertisement sign in right center field, 39 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:17.479 but it did clear the concourse and landed on the walkway in that ballpark 40 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:21.680 plaza. I mean, they could have just called it a fastball. They 41 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:23.599 didn't have to call it a cutter. I think they were trying to get 42 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:30.319 cute. There have been a handful of people who cleared the pavilion roof. 43 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:35.800 He just missed becoming the second Dodger player to do it. Piazza did it 44 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:39.560 back in ninety seven. The others who did it visiting teams. Willie Starzel 45 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:44.520 did it twice in sixty nine and seventy three, Mark McGuire in ninety nine, 46 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:50.159 John Carlos Stanton back in twenty fifteen. San Diego's Fernando Tatiste Junior just 47 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:54.240 twenty twenty one. So he'll get one, he'll get a hold of one. 48 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:58.719 He'll really tattoo one of those ones. All right. Coming up next, 49 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:01.159 we will dig into some of that audio of the Secret Service talking about 50 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:05.800 how they crapped the bed on Capitol Hill. Today, you're listening to Gary 51 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:12.680 and Shannon on demand from KFI AM six forty. 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All right. 67 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:28.800 Director Kimberly Cheatle, speaking before the House Government Affairs and Oversight Committee, The 68 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:33.800 assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump on July thirteenth is the most significant operational 69 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:39.519 failure of the Secret Service in decades. Okay, I don't know what else 70 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:44.160 needs to be said from that. Here's James Comer, he is the chair 71 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:46.399 of the committee. One of the things that you said, I believe in 72 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:50.480 an interview that there wasn't an agent on the roof because it was a slope 73 00:05:50.519 --> 00:05:58.160 roof? Is that normal? And you hear that that immediately creates an opportunity 74 00:05:58.199 --> 00:06:01.439 for future would be assassin to look for a slanted roof. I mean, 75 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:06.480 this is a huge question that every American has. Why I wasn't a Secret 76 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:11.600 Service agent on the roof? And there have been reports that agents were supposed 77 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:13.920 to be on the roof but it was hot that day and they didn't want 78 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:15.319 to be on the roof. Can you answer any of those questions? That's 79 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:18.319 all Awson. I'm so I appreciate you asking me that question. Chairman, 80 00:06:19.079 --> 00:06:23.279 I should have been more clear in my answer when I spoke about where we 81 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:28.079 placed personnel in that interview. What I can tell you is that there was 82 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:32.519 a plan in place to provide overwatch, and we are still looking into responsibilities 83 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:38.120 and who was going to provide overwatch. But the Secret Service and Jill looking 84 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:43.920 in repon specifically to this incident now nine days what he didn't do. I 85 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:46.319 don't know if anybody else has. Because we've been doing the show, I've 86 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:50.120 been able to see all of it. Answer that question specifically, what the 87 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:56.800 hell would you even be talking about when you said it was dangerous for them 88 00:06:56.879 --> 00:07:00.680 to be on a sloped roof. Right, it was a safety concern with 89 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:03.959 it being a slope. You're the Secret Service. There should be no slope 90 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:09.360 that you run from. There should be no slope too sloped for you to 91 00:07:09.439 --> 00:07:15.040 patrol a couple of a couple of new ones. Nancy mays Uh, representative 92 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:17.120 out of South Carolina. I would have to get back to you. That 93 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:27.040 is a no. You're full of sheet today. You're just being completely dishonest. 94 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:32.360 We have to maintain no. Yeah, why start now, let's see, 95 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:36.120 here's another one. This one was Marjorie Taylor Green. Was there a 96 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:41.800 stand down order? Miss Cheetle? Was there a conspiracy to kill President Trump? 97 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:46.040 Absolutely not? Then how did this happen? And why are you still 98 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:50.360 sitting here not turning in your letter of resignation? Last question, but please 99 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:54.360 answer and then I'll recognize miss press. Please answer the question. That is 100 00:07:54.399 --> 00:07:59.399 what we are investigating to determine. We're waiting for your letter. We're waiting 101 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:03.279 for your letter resignation, and you really need to consider doing that before you 102 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:07.560 leave today. And then Florida Congressman Byron Donald's just a couple of minutes ago, 103 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:13.120 ended his questioning with this. Some of my colleagues have texted me over 104 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:18.240 the last couple of days, bipartisan, about whether you should lose your job. 105 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:22.560 And I've been quiet on that question because I wanted to see where what 106 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:26.439 you were going to do today. In my opinion, you do need to 107 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:31.720 be fired immediately, and it is because this is gross incompetence and the fact 108 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:37.200 that it's been nine days and these are simple questions to answer. I'm quite 109 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:39.720 sure if I asked any one of my kids if they got in trouble and 110 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:41.480 I told them to give me the details, I would get more answers from 111 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:46.039 them that I'm getting from you right now. And that's what's frustrating on a 112 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:50.240 bipartisan basis, on a nonpartisan basis, And why aren't you mad? And 113 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:54.240 director, you're in charge, and that's why you need to go. Why 114 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:58.759 isn't she mad? Why isn't she embarrassed? Why isn't she saying I can't 115 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:03.679 believe this happened on my watch. I absolutely should be held accountable. I'm 116 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:09.159 resigning effective now as soon as yeah, as soon as it makes it so 117 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:13.639 it's like a lack of accountability with her where she's just bureaucrat speaking. I 118 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:16.639 almost felt like there was gonna be enough push there was gonna be some sort 119 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:20.600 of pushback, that she would have something along the lines of, listen, 120 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:24.360 we have we have asked for resources from Congress for years. Sure, we've 121 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:26.840 been told we need to cut budgets, we need to do this, and 122 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:31.960 this is the this is the eventual result in something like that. But that's 123 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:35.679 not it. I mean, it's not She's just sitting there, and I 124 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:37.919 mean, on the one hand, she said, she sounds like she's at 125 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:43.039 a school board meeting, not the head of the Secret Service who just allowed 126 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:46.759 the former president to have a bullet whiz by his head. Then you know, 127 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:52.159 there's no contrition. Where's that? That would be nice. There were 128 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:56.960 a couple others that she uh she talked to Jamie Raskin is the ranking Democrat 129 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:01.559 on the committee, and he asks secifically about how do you determine when is 130 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:05.960 someone suspicious? We knew this guy was walking around for an hour before the 131 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:11.559 shooting and raised some suspicion. Where is the line between suspicion and an actual 132 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:16.039 threat? He was known to be suspicious before former President Trump took the stage. 133 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:20.279 That is the information I've received, Why was he allowed to take the 134 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:26.799 stage with a suspicious person having been identified in the crown? So I appreciate 135 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:31.320 the question, I'd like to make two points. If the detail had been 136 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:37.440 passed information that there was a threat, the detail would never have brought the 137 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:39.879 former president out onto stage. That is what we do, and that is 138 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:45.960 who we are. We are charged with protecting all of our protectees. So 139 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:50.159 you distinguished between someone who is suspicious and someone who's threatening. Is that right? 140 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:54.159 There are a number of times at protective events where suspicious people are identified 141 00:10:54.399 --> 00:11:01.320 and those individuals have to be investigated and determined. What is it identifies that 142 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:05.879 person? And why wasn't that done here? If you see somebody who's suspicious, 143 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:09.799 you stay on them. As soon as he reaches for whatever weapon, 144 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:11.879 you would have been on top of him. Well, and that's what I 145 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:18.639 don't quite get about the situation. If in fact law enforcement, local law 146 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:26.240 enforcement was responsible for that specific area and one officer goes, hey, what's 147 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:31.159 that guy doing on the backpack and a range finder? Why is he walking 148 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:35.639 around like that? This is an odd looking duck. Plus, I think 149 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:39.799 a lot of cops have this just general intuition and they can pick out somebody 150 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:45.240 who's not acting correctly. Yes, so there's that. How does it go 151 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:50.279 from that to wait a minute, where did dark guy go? And you 152 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:54.559 would you? You lost him, You lost the suspicious person because remember, 153 00:11:54.600 --> 00:12:01.279 there were at least two pictures taken of this guy by law enforcement or secret 154 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:05.120 service. They had at least two pictures of this guy long before the shooting 155 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:11.320 happened, so you knew there was somebody suspicious. You lost him at some 156 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:16.279 point. You don't flood the zone with more officers to find this guy because 157 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:20.799 even if I mean her difference between suspicious and threat I understand. But even 158 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:24.679 if it's just suspicion, at that point, you need to have eyes on 159 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:31.120 that guy. It's so inept the ineptitude is so strong in this situation, 160 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:35.960 and the answers are so few. How can you not jump to conclusions? 161 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:41.519 And that's what the Internet's doing. The Internet. The Internet is doing it. 162 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:46.159 You're not doing that. I'm not just saying you're just watching the Internet. 163 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:50.399 I'm just waiting for information and in the meantime, and in the meantime, 164 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:56.279 that vacuum's filling up pretty pretty quickly, all right, up next, 165 00:12:56.919 --> 00:13:01.679 Perry Rossam from ABC News is going to join us. We'll talk about Vice 166 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:07.000 President Harris and the comments that she made today, first ones since at least 167 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:11.879 first public comments since she has been tapped to take over the Democratic charge for 168 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:16.799 the presidents of the United States. You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand 169 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:22.919 from KFI AM six forty. Yesterday was Dave Banana. Today is Ford Bronco? 170 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:26.559 Today's Fort Bronco? A new one or an old one? You know, 171 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:31.720 watch my mom for Bronco? For Bronco? Is that a not a 172 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:35.320 vehicle? What does that mean? It's a made up word? Taking it 173 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:37.600 up now? Okay, we're just making it up, all right? Why 174 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:41.840 not? Everything else is crazy? Might as well just rename all the days 175 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:46.720 welcome to for Bronco. You know, we have a guest, so you're 176 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:52.159 sounding crazy in front of the new people. I apologize, that's right. 177 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:56.639 Vice President Harris making first remarks today since Biden dropped out. When will we 178 00:13:56.759 --> 00:14:01.759 hear from President Biden? It's all very vague, isn't it? Sometime later 179 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:05.919 this week when he'll address the nation about why he backed out. Perry Rossam 180 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:09.440 is joining us for ABC News there in Washington, D C. Perry, 181 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:16.039 Good afternoon to you. How are you well? Crazy? That's how we 182 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:20.080 are. There's been three absolutely insane weeks, and I expect it's going to 183 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:24.240 get even more insane as we get closer to the Democratic Convention, of course. 184 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:28.840 But Vice President Harris today spoke at an event to celebrate NCAA championship teams, 185 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:35.480 and did she get into much of the last twenty four hours for her, 186 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:39.120 I'm sure has been pretty crazy. Yeah, I mean, she just 187 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:41.679 talked about that she was grateful for Biden's legacy, saying that his legacy is 188 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:46.639 on matched in the last three years, saying she's deeply grateful for his service 189 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:48.480 to the country. But she did not really get in too much about what's 190 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:52.879 been going on the last twenty four hours. I can't believe it's only July. 191 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:56.399 Still, we have so much to go, one hundred and six days 192 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:58.919 left until election days. We have many twists and turns still to go. 193 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:03.320 In terms of hearing from Biden, we are expecting something later this week. 194 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:07.200 We're being told that they're just waiting for his voice to get a little bit 195 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:09.720 better, as he's dealing with COVID right now, inho with Beach, Delaware. 196 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:16.200 It looks like Kamala Harris is getting the band back together that her aids 197 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:22.240 have called on her twenty twenty leadership team to boost the new campaign push. 198 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:24.480 Yeah, so what we saw yesterday, a source told ABC News that essentially 199 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:30.440 the Biden campaign, the whole infrastructure stays the same, it just shifts to 200 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:35.000 Harris. So the Biden campaign now becomes the Harris campaign, and they're headquartered 201 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:39.240 in Wilmington, Delaware. So I know today Harris is headed up to Wilmington, 202 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:43.000 Delaware, which was Biden's campaign headquarters, but now it's hers. So 203 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:45.799 she's going up there today to meet with the team. But as you mentioned, 204 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:48.279 a lot of the people that she was working with before are staying the 205 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:52.000 same. So we'll see where that goes going going forward. Do you have 206 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:56.240 any general idea of what a timeline would be for a vice presidential pick from 207 00:15:56.279 --> 00:16:00.919 Harris? No. I think what we're seeing right now is we're seeing some 208 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:06.440 of these candidates somewhat of a faux audition on national TV. I know the 209 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:10.000 Governor of Kentucky, Andy Basheer, was on MSNBC this morning, now, 210 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:14.879 as was Governor Cooper from North Carolina. We know, Governor Shapiro from Pennsylvania's 211 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:17.519 on the short list as well. So I think right now in the meantime, 212 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:21.039 until a VP pick is named in some capacity, it's going to be 213 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:23.679 somewhat of a you know, pageantry on national television. But I mean, 214 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:30.200 just to reiterate, just because Biden endorses her doesn't mean she automatically becomes the 215 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:34.679 nominee. There has to be a process of some kind. We had Maryann 216 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:37.039 Williamson, who's been running for president, you know, for the past couple 217 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:40.840 of years, pretty much past couple of last two campaigns. At least, 218 00:16:41.240 --> 00:16:42.799 she wants to have a debate of some kind. She wants to have open 219 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:48.440 dialogue, some type of pushback on just in her words, coronating Harris and 220 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:52.519 then Michael Bloomberg today with interesting, you know comment. He's one of the 221 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:55.960 major donors for the Democrats, who also ran for president years ago. He 222 00:16:56.039 --> 00:16:59.320 says he wants to party just to take a step back, slow down, 223 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:02.759 take the poll the voters before deciding on who the best person to win in 224 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:07.200 November is. But really from Harris's team, after seeing the dozens and dozens 225 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:11.240 of lawmakers come forward just backing her, she has the most momentum, and 226 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:15.799 she has the most money right now. There's a fundraising group called Act Blue, 227 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:19.559 which is basically a grassroots group, So these are people who give five, 228 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:23.240 ten, twenty one hundred bucks. She raised I think it was a 229 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:27.559 little bit more than fifty million in the first twelve hours after Biden endorsed her. 230 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:32.319 So she has so much wind in her sales right now. Joe Manchin 231 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:37.960 was another one who today called for there to be a small primary or something 232 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:41.960 of that nature, like you were mentioning. Mary Ann Williamson did the same 233 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:47.079 thing. It looks like the super pac too. The Democratic super Pack was 234 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:51.799 able to rake in about one hundred and fifty million more dollars. But that 235 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:55.759 doesn't have to go to Kamala Harris. I mean it could be used for 236 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:59.599 down the ballot races. Yeah, that's a good point too. But I 237 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:03.519 mean the thing that we're seeing here in DC is that the Democrats want Harris 238 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:07.599 to be tested in some way. They want to make sure that she is 239 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:11.599 ready in some capacity because when she ran the president, I mean, she 240 00:18:11.680 --> 00:18:15.359 had that one moment in the debate with President Biden with when they were talking 241 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:18.119 about bussing, But after that she pretty much disappeared from the campaign trail. 242 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:22.359 So they want to make sure that she is ready to go when she faces 243 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:26.519 off against Trump, because you know, being the vice president is much different 244 00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:30.119 than being the president and running as the number one on the ticket. They 245 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:33.920 want to make sure that she's ready to go if and when that moment happens. 246 00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:38.559 All right, Perry Ross, some good stuff, Thank you, thank 247 00:18:38.599 --> 00:18:41.759 you, have a good one, Perry Ross and there from ABC News Live 248 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:45.960 in Washington, d C. This is going to be I mean, I 249 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:52.279 don't even know what the expectation is outside of the President speaking at some point, 250 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:57.200 very mysterious over the course of this week. We have no idea what 251 00:18:57.240 --> 00:19:00.680 this is, what this lays out for. I mean, we have no 252 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:03.039 idea the timing of any of it. I mean, he made the point 253 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:07.400 of these potential vice presidential candidates we'll all find out together, is that we'll 254 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:15.759 all be here together finding out what is laying ahead for us. Tonight, 255 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:18.519 I will be distracted. The Dodgers are going to take on the Giants first 256 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:22.160 pitches at seven o'clock tonight on show. He o Tani Hack night. Oh 257 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:25.160 you're not going to go to the game, No, I am not. 258 00:19:25.400 --> 00:19:29.240 Why not? You've got nothing else to do because I don't have to find 259 00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:30.680 somebody. I can't take my dog. Oh, I see that's right, 260 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:34.400 Puppy watch at this point, listen to every play of every Dodger's game on 261 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:38.240 a five to seventy LA Sports stream all games NHD on the iHeartRadio app. 262 00:19:38.279 --> 00:19:42.039 Used the keyword AM five seventy LA Sports powered by LA Care for all of 263 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:45.480 LA. I mean, I could get one of those service animal vests for 264 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:48.960 him, but I don't think he's old enough that anybody would believe that he's 265 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:56.279 in actual services. You've just started the socialization process, and I think bringing 266 00:19:56.319 --> 00:20:00.200 him to a stadium filled with thousands of people would be a bridge too far 267 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:04.839 at this juncture. Maybe he seemed fine here. He did seem fine. 268 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:07.680 It's pretty really. I mean, you saw him over here. He's just 269 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:11.279 sitting there with my feet. He was so playful laying around. It's just 270 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:14.440 so funny. You see, you meet a new dog, right that looks 271 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:17.079 like your old dog, but it's a new dog, and you expect that 272 00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:19.839 dog to behave similarly and they are very different. You kept saying that is 273 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:23.799 very different, very different, And you said his name which I thought was 274 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:29.559 good. Peter. No, Fergus, yes, oh I'm sorry, say 275 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:33.400 with more reverence than you do, Peter. He's earned it. Well, 276 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:37.480 Fergus has gone over the rainbow bridge. Yeah. Uh, and that's sad. 277 00:20:42.759 --> 00:20:45.759 This is why you don't come to me with your problems, my pet 278 00:20:45.799 --> 00:20:49.599 problems. Let's wrap up the show when we come back. What do you 279 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:52.920 want to wrap it with? I don't know. We'll find something meat. 280 00:20:53.480 --> 00:20:56.799 You're gonna wrap it with some meats. No, we can't do that because 281 00:20:57.599 --> 00:21:02.920 Mark Thompson is here. Right. I got blueberries in here, so I 282 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:07.680 won't completely offend Mark when he comes in. You're listening to Gary and Shannon 283 00:21:07.799 --> 00:21:11.759 on demand from KFI AM six forty. Okay, well, this is going 284 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:15.880 to be an odd, odd week as we try to figure out what the 285 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:18.680 world's going on in our politics. You know who I like to have by 286 00:21:18.680 --> 00:21:25.519 my side shepherding me through an odd week, Mark Thompson. Oh oh wow, 287 00:21:25.720 --> 00:21:27.960 it's a voice? Is that you confect that finish? Now? You're 288 00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:33.559 right, voice comforts. We don't get to see you verych I was just 289 00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:36.400 thinking that. I think I said, as Shannon in the hall, it's 290 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:40.519 so weird because I don't see you guys at all anymore. It sucks. 291 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:44.400 I love seeing you guys, love the energy, love seeing you both. 292 00:21:44.799 --> 00:21:48.799 And this is great that we have these these moments between us now because I'm 293 00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:52.240 filling in for Cobilt all week. Nice. I mean, if things go 294 00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:56.680 well today, we'll see you can always get pulled out of the lineup, 295 00:21:56.799 --> 00:22:03.240 just as Joe Biden. Yeah, I'm so faster. Did you anticipate him 296 00:22:03.279 --> 00:22:04.319 dropping out of the race. Yeah, yeah, I mean it was there 297 00:22:04.359 --> 00:22:10.319 was so much pressure once the donors had dried up, and internal polling, 298 00:22:10.359 --> 00:22:14.240 it was rumored, and their polling, I mean from inside the campaign was 299 00:22:14.279 --> 00:22:18.000 so grim and I guess that's what did it. I mean, based on 300 00:22:18.039 --> 00:22:23.359 what I was reading this morning, the true insiders at the Biden campaign really 301 00:22:23.400 --> 00:22:27.480 prevailed upon him and it was like a four person meeting and they essentially showed 302 00:22:27.599 --> 00:22:33.720 him all their internal polling, and he himself realized there's no way to win. 303 00:22:33.160 --> 00:22:36.559 There's no way I can win well. And he did say that was 304 00:22:36.599 --> 00:22:38.799 one of the that was one of the reasons he would step down, as 305 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:41.839 if someone could show him the polls that he did not have a chance to 306 00:22:41.880 --> 00:22:47.640 win. Sure that the Lord Almighty and medical condition, the Lord Almighty. 307 00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:49.680 So I mean the medical condition. Who knows. We have no idea what 308 00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:55.160 he looks like right now with COVID and he's he's being treated for it, 309 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:57.519 but it could be bad. Yeah, I mean that could have been part 310 00:22:57.559 --> 00:23:02.680 of it. Certainly, it's certainly a rough weekend for him. And you 311 00:23:02.680 --> 00:23:06.000 don't want that COVID. And by the way, sure you're at these polls, 312 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:07.720 you should see those two. You know. I think that it was 313 00:23:07.880 --> 00:23:12.839 damaging to his legacy the longer he stayed in and kind of was defiant, 314 00:23:14.359 --> 00:23:17.160 and I think he has put that back together now, you know. I 315 00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:21.119 think we'll remember Joe Biden, who was in Congress for fifty years, not 316 00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:25.720 the waning days of blank stares, the twenty fifth Amendment stare and all of 317 00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:27.119 that. Yeah, and a lot of people had said a lot of those 318 00:23:27.279 --> 00:23:32.920 the big names Obama's, the Schumers, the Pelosis, had used the word 319 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:37.880 patriotic to describe what he did, where he put his country, his party 320 00:23:37.960 --> 00:23:41.519 before himself because he knew that this was not going to go well. Yeah, 321 00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:45.480 you got to give the guy credit for stepping back. It has to 322 00:23:45.519 --> 00:23:47.880 be very hard. And by the way, you know, you're surrounded as 323 00:23:47.960 --> 00:23:52.079 president, as you guys know this, by people who have a vested interest 324 00:23:52.079 --> 00:23:56.720 in you continuing, right, So you're in an echo chamber that's actually really 325 00:23:56.759 --> 00:24:00.400 designed to keep you from stepping back. So he had to kind of swim 326 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:04.039 upstream against that current as well, and the current within him that didn't want 327 00:24:04.039 --> 00:24:10.599 to give up. Plus he sees Trump as this you know, political terrorist, 328 00:24:10.680 --> 00:24:12.119 you know, and so he doesn't want to be the guy who goes, 329 00:24:12.160 --> 00:24:15.839 well, okay, you win, I'll step back, or he would 330 00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:18.119 like to defeat. But you know, I think the writing was there for 331 00:24:18.279 --> 00:24:21.880 yeah, for weeks now. It's going to be interesting. We were talking 332 00:24:21.880 --> 00:24:26.279 about the convention that's coming up in just a few weeks, and it's obvious 333 00:24:26.359 --> 00:24:30.920 that the Democrats have fallen in line behind Kamala Harris. But this is going 334 00:24:30.920 --> 00:24:34.400 to be an event that all the people running in twenty twenty eight are going 335 00:24:34.440 --> 00:24:37.440 to use as their coming out party. You know, you're going to see 336 00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:41.680 Gavin out there acting like he's there to support Kamala, when in fact he's 337 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:45.960 just trying to raise his name recognition on a national stage. And it'll be 338 00:24:47.000 --> 00:24:52.279 interesting to see all of that in all the the hogwash. But they try 339 00:24:52.319 --> 00:24:55.960 to sell us. You know, I heard that stuff about, oh, 340 00:24:55.960 --> 00:24:57.480 it's going to be an open convention and should be open to everybody, and 341 00:24:57.519 --> 00:25:00.759 we said, let him. Let it'll be a chance to air issues out 342 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:03.799 and let them see the process. Come on, man, it was not 343 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:07.880 even ever in doubt Kamala Harris. No one who wants a political future in 344 00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:12.160 the Democratic Party, many of the people to whom you've just referred neuisoms of 345 00:25:12.160 --> 00:25:15.359 the world, would ever go up against Kamala Harris in an open convention. 346 00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:19.680 So that part the liberal suicide, Yes, thank you. But there is 347 00:25:19.799 --> 00:25:26.039 one thing that the convention could produce in terms of drama, and that is 348 00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:30.079 sort of what Trump produced with the JD Vance announcement, and that is running 349 00:25:30.119 --> 00:25:34.359 mate. Right. I mean that strikes me as an Obama But there's enough. 350 00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:40.480 There's enough. Chaos is not the right word. There's enough unsettled. 351 00:25:41.160 --> 00:25:45.880 Even if everybody coalesces behind her as they have in the last twenty four hours, 352 00:25:45.720 --> 00:25:52.519 that unsettled feeling. I don't think they can continue that for weeks leading 353 00:25:52.599 --> 00:25:55.759 up to the convention. I think she's got a sooner rather than later, 354 00:25:55.880 --> 00:26:00.599 pick a running mate. Oh that's interesting. I don't know about that. 355 00:26:00.680 --> 00:26:04.119 I mean, I like the way you put it together as an argument. 356 00:26:04.200 --> 00:26:08.319 I just wonder if they won't play the drama of the convention a little bit. 357 00:26:10.039 --> 00:26:12.880 But but yeah, the unsettled thing I think also is taken care of 358 00:26:14.119 --> 00:26:17.240 with a narrative. I think she really has to figure out and they have 359 00:26:17.279 --> 00:26:21.200 to figure out what's the narrative on Kamala Harris. I mean, that's really 360 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:27.079 what presidential campaigns are, right, Trump had a populist narrative, Biden had 361 00:26:27.079 --> 00:26:30.759 a return to normalcy, and maybe hers is a prosecutor. It's certainly the 362 00:26:30.839 --> 00:26:34.799 right time for the prosecutor right in a law and ordered live that's a good 363 00:26:36.799 --> 00:26:38.240 l to be in. Yeah, and it's gonna be the first time in 364 00:26:38.279 --> 00:26:45.759 a long time that that presidential politics has such a that California should say has 365 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:48.759 such a role in presidential polity truly problem. It's been decades, Yeah, 366 00:26:48.920 --> 00:26:53.599 since we've had somebody that's been that significant. Well, the Mark Thompson Show 367 00:26:55.039 --> 00:26:57.200 coming up next. I'll be filling in for John Well. Obviously we'll talk 368 00:26:57.240 --> 00:27:00.400 about this in March, So it's going to be it's a big jo got 369 00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:03.920 all right, Marta in for John, We'll see you tomorrow. Stay drive 370 00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:07.640 everybody lists you've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show. You can always 371 00:27:07.680 --> 00:27:12.000 hear us live on KFI AM six forty nine am to one pm every Monday 372 00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:15.640 through Friday, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio ap