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. What else is going
on? Time for What's happening? Wow? Delta is canceling about twenty percent
and delaying about fifteen percent of its Monday flight so far. Most airlines are
recovered from last week's global tech outage, but Delta is still struggling. Twenty
one percent canceled, thirty three percent of them have been delayed. I mean,
there's no there's no one even close to that in terms of individual airlines
that have had problems. This is all, of course, from that CrowdStrike
problem, the glitch that happened when they tried to update security software last week,
and it for some reason has continued to plague Delta specifically. I saw
what I believe was a farcical tweet from Southwest Airlines. Remember Southwest, the
last two times we've had major meltdowns, it's been because Southwest's computers either broke
or whatever. And Southwest got snarky, and again I don't even think it
was real, but it said, oh, now you're happy with us because
we have we run our schedule on one single Commodore sixty four computer based out
of San Antonio, and then it said, go to hell. We have
a missing girl from Monterey Park, Alison Chow. She was last seen on
ring video July sixteenth, riding a blue Mountain bike from her father's house headed
for her aunt's house less than four miles away. That was the last time
she was seen riding her bike to her aunt's house. She's tiny. She's
a straight A student entering her junior year at Mark Keppel High School. No
history of running away or anything like that. She's made no contact with friends,
There's been no activity on social media. She's five to two and weighs
ninety six pounds. That's terrifying. Is terrifying? Well, we were talking
about Texas. Heat related deaths have continued to climb since Hurricane Burrell left millions
of people without power and they still have not got the lights back on in
some areas of Houston. There's a woman, Pamela Jarrett, used a wheelchair,
relies on a feeding tube. She was gasping for breath. Paramedics had
to be called. She was pronounced dead at the hospital almost two weeks after
they hit heat related deaths during this prolonged power out, which just have pushed
the number of storm related fatalities to at least twenty three in Texas. So
not good, especially specifically, I should say, right around in and around
Houston. Sho hey Atani made his thirtieth home run in Dodger Blue a memorable
one. He drove a cutter four hundred and seventy three feet over the bleachers
at Dodger Stadium during the fifth inning of Sunday's game. The pitcher's name was
also Cutter. Oh, it was Cutter Crawford. One of six home runs
by the Dodgers yesterday, and according to fans in the area, they said
the ball went between the pavilion roof and an advertisement sign in right center field,
but it did clear the concourse and landed on the walkway in that ballpark
plaza. I mean, they could have just called it a fastball. They
didn't have to call it a cutter. I think they were trying to get
cute. There have been a handful of people who cleared the pavilion roof.
He just missed becoming the second Dodger player to do it. Piazza did it
back in ninety seven. The others who did it visiting teams. Willie Starzel
did it twice in sixty nine and seventy three, Mark McGuire in ninety nine,
John Carlos Stanton back in twenty fifteen. San Diego's Fernando Tatiste Junior just
twenty twenty one. So he'll get one, he'll get a hold of one.
He'll really tattoo one of those ones. All right. Coming up next,
we will dig into some of that audio of the Secret Service talking about
how they crapped the bed on Capitol Hill. Today, you're listening to Gary
and Shannon on demand from KFI AM six forty. We have seen the first
public appearance, first public remarks since President Biden endorsed Kamala Harris to take over
the top spot of the Democratic ticket. So we'll hear from Perry here in
just a few minutes. More Democrats are falling in line behind Kamala Harris.
Today, Gretchen Whitmer joined governors from Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin and endorsing her
today. The money is materializing as well, with a Democratic superpack raking in
just one hundred and fifty million dollars over the past day before we get into
the Secret Service hearing today on Capitol Hill. It's a chance for you to
win a thousand bucks. Now your chance to win one thousand dollars shift enter
this nationwide. Keyword on our website. Pay. That's pay pay entering now
at KFIAM six forty dot com, Calm slash cash Howard by Sweet James Accident
Attorneys. If you're hurting an accident, winning is everything, call the Winning
Attorneys. It's Sweet James one eight hundred nine million. That's one eight hundred
nine million or sweet James dot com. Here it goes on the website again,
it's pay pay. They'll let you know via email if you in one
thousand bucks. We'll do it again an hour from now. All right.
Director Kimberly Cheatle, speaking before the House Government Affairs and Oversight Committee, The
assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump on July thirteenth is the most significant operational
failure of the Secret Service in decades. Okay, I don't know what else
needs to be said from that. Here's James Comer, he is the chair
of the committee. One of the things that you said, I believe in
an interview that there wasn't an agent on the roof because it was a slope
roof? Is that normal? And you hear that that immediately creates an opportunity
for future would be assassin to look for a slanted roof. I mean,
this is a huge question that every American has. Why I wasn't a Secret
Service agent on the roof? And there have been reports that agents were supposed
to be on the roof but it was hot that day and they didn't want
to be on the roof. Can you answer any of those questions? That's
all Awson. I'm so I appreciate you asking me that question. Chairman,
I should have been more clear in my answer when I spoke about where we
placed personnel in that interview. What I can tell you is that there was
a plan in place to provide overwatch, and we are still looking into responsibilities
and who was going to provide overwatch. But the Secret Service and Jill looking
in repon specifically to this incident now nine days what he didn't do. I
don't know if anybody else has. Because we've been doing the show, I've
been able to see all of it. Answer that question specifically, what the
hell would you even be talking about when you said it was dangerous for them
to be on a sloped roof. Right, it was a safety concern with
it being a slope. You're the Secret Service. There should be no slope
that you run from. There should be no slope too sloped for you to
patrol a couple of a couple of new ones. Nancy mays Uh, representative
out of South Carolina. I would have to get back to you. That
is a no. You're full of sheet today. You're just being completely dishonest.
We have to maintain no. Yeah, why start now, let's see,
here's another one. This one was Marjorie Taylor Green. Was there a
stand down order? Miss Cheetle? Was there a conspiracy to kill President Trump?
Absolutely not? Then how did this happen? And why are you still
sitting here not turning in your letter of resignation? Last question, but please
answer and then I'll recognize miss press. Please answer the question. That is
what we are investigating to determine. We're waiting for your letter. We're waiting
for your letter resignation, and you really need to consider doing that before you
leave today. And then Florida Congressman Byron Donald's just a couple of minutes ago,
ended his questioning with this. Some of my colleagues have texted me over
the last couple of days, bipartisan, about whether you should lose your job.
And I've been quiet on that question because I wanted to see where what
you were going to do today. In my opinion, you do need to
be fired immediately, and it is because this is gross incompetence and the fact
that it's been nine days and these are simple questions to answer. I'm quite
sure if I asked any one of my kids if they got in trouble and
I told them to give me the details, I would get more answers from
them that I'm getting from you right now. And that's what's frustrating on a
bipartisan basis, on a nonpartisan basis, And why aren't you mad? And
director, you're in charge, and that's why you need to go. Why
isn't she mad? Why isn't she embarrassed? Why isn't she saying I can't
believe this happened on my watch. I absolutely should be held accountable. I'm
resigning effective now as soon as yeah, as soon as it makes it so
it's like a lack of accountability with her where she's just bureaucrat speaking. I
almost felt like there was gonna be enough push there was gonna be some sort
of pushback, that she would have something along the lines of, listen,
we have we have asked for resources from Congress for years. Sure, we've
been told we need to cut budgets, we need to do this, and
this is the this is the eventual result in something like that. But that's
not it. I mean, it's not She's just sitting there, and I
mean, on the one hand, she said, she sounds like she's at
a school board meeting, not the head of the Secret Service who just allowed
the former president to have a bullet whiz by his head. Then you know,
there's no contrition. Where's that? That would be nice. There were
a couple others that she uh she talked to Jamie Raskin is the ranking Democrat
on the committee, and he asks secifically about how do you determine when is
someone suspicious? We knew this guy was walking around for an hour before the
shooting and raised some suspicion. Where is the line between suspicion and an actual
threat? He was known to be suspicious before former President Trump took the stage.
That is the information I've received, Why was he allowed to take the
stage with a suspicious person having been identified in the crown? So I appreciate
the question, I'd like to make two points. If the detail had been
passed information that there was a threat, the detail would never have brought the
former president out onto stage. That is what we do, and that is
who we are. We are charged with protecting all of our protectees. So
you distinguished between someone who is suspicious and someone who's threatening. Is that right?
There are a number of times at protective events where suspicious people are identified
and those individuals have to be investigated and determined. What is it identifies that
person? And why wasn't that done here? If you see somebody who's suspicious,
you stay on them. As soon as he reaches for whatever weapon,
you would have been on top of him. Well, and that's what I
don't quite get about the situation. If in fact law enforcement, local law
enforcement was responsible for that specific area and one officer goes, hey, what's
that guy doing on the backpack and a range finder? Why is he walking
around like that? This is an odd looking duck. Plus, I think
a lot of cops have this just general intuition and they can pick out somebody
who's not acting correctly. Yes, so there's that. How does it go
from that to wait a minute, where did dark guy go? And you
would you? You lost him, You lost the suspicious person because remember,
there were at least two pictures taken of this guy by law enforcement or secret
service. They had at least two pictures of this guy long before the shooting
happened, so you knew there was somebody suspicious. You lost him at some
point. You don't flood the zone with more officers to find this guy because
even if I mean her difference between suspicious and threat I understand. But even
if it's just suspicion, at that point, you need to have eyes on
that guy. It's so inept the ineptitude is so strong in this situation,
and the answers are so few. How can you not jump to conclusions?
And that's what the Internet's doing. The Internet. The Internet is doing it.
You're not doing that. I'm not just saying you're just watching the Internet.
I'm just waiting for information and in the meantime, and in the meantime,
that vacuum's filling up pretty pretty quickly, all right, up next,
Perry Rossam from ABC News is going to join us. We'll talk about Vice
President Harris and the comments that she made today, first ones since at least
first public comments since she has been tapped to take over the Democratic charge for
the presidents of the United States. You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand
from KFI AM six forty. Yesterday was Dave Banana. Today is Ford Bronco?
Today's Fort Bronco? A new one or an old one? You know,
watch my mom for Bronco? For Bronco? Is that a not a
vehicle? What does that mean? It's a made up word? Taking it
up now? Okay, we're just making it up, all right? Why
not? Everything else is crazy? Might as well just rename all the days
welcome to for Bronco. You know, we have a guest, so you're
sounding crazy in front of the new people. I apologize, that's right.
Vice President Harris making first remarks today since Biden dropped out. When will we
hear from President Biden? It's all very vague, isn't it? Sometime later
this week when he'll address the nation about why he backed out. Perry Rossam
is joining us for ABC News there in Washington, D C. Perry,
Good afternoon to you. How are you well? Crazy? That's how we
are. There's been three absolutely insane weeks, and I expect it's going to
get even more insane as we get closer to the Democratic Convention, of course.
But Vice President Harris today spoke at an event to celebrate NCAA championship teams,
and did she get into much of the last twenty four hours for her,
I'm sure has been pretty crazy. Yeah, I mean, she just
talked about that she was grateful for Biden's legacy, saying that his legacy is
on matched in the last three years, saying she's deeply grateful for his service
to the country. But she did not really get in too much about what's
been going on the last twenty four hours. I can't believe it's only July.
Still, we have so much to go, one hundred and six days
left until election days. We have many twists and turns still to go.
In terms of hearing from Biden, we are expecting something later this week.
We're being told that they're just waiting for his voice to get a little bit
better, as he's dealing with COVID right now, inho with Beach, Delaware.
It looks like Kamala Harris is getting the band back together that her aids
have called on her twenty twenty leadership team to boost the new campaign push.
Yeah, so what we saw yesterday, a source told ABC News that essentially
the Biden campaign, the whole infrastructure stays the same, it just shifts to
Harris. So the Biden campaign now becomes the Harris campaign, and they're headquartered
in Wilmington, Delaware. So I know today Harris is headed up to Wilmington,
Delaware, which was Biden's campaign headquarters, but now it's hers. So
she's going up there today to meet with the team. But as you mentioned,
a lot of the people that she was working with before are staying the
same. So we'll see where that goes going going forward. Do you have
any general idea of what a timeline would be for a vice presidential pick from
Harris? No. I think what we're seeing right now is we're seeing some
of these candidates somewhat of a faux audition on national TV. I know the
Governor of Kentucky, Andy Basheer, was on MSNBC this morning, now,
as was Governor Cooper from North Carolina. We know, Governor Shapiro from Pennsylvania's
on the short list as well. So I think right now in the meantime,
until a VP pick is named in some capacity, it's going to be
somewhat of a you know, pageantry on national television. But I mean,
just to reiterate, just because Biden endorses her doesn't mean she automatically becomes the
nominee. There has to be a process of some kind. We had Maryann
Williamson, who's been running for president, you know, for the past couple
of years, pretty much past couple of last two campaigns. At least,
she wants to have a debate of some kind. She wants to have open
dialogue, some type of pushback on just in her words, coronating Harris and
then Michael Bloomberg today with interesting, you know comment. He's one of the
major donors for the Democrats, who also ran for president years ago. He
says he wants to party just to take a step back, slow down,
take the poll the voters before deciding on who the best person to win in
November is. But really from Harris's team, after seeing the dozens and dozens
of lawmakers come forward just backing her, she has the most momentum, and
she has the most money right now. There's a fundraising group called Act Blue,
which is basically a grassroots group, So these are people who give five,
ten, twenty one hundred bucks. She raised I think it was a
little bit more than fifty million in the first twelve hours after Biden endorsed her.
So she has so much wind in her sales right now. Joe Manchin
was another one who today called for there to be a small primary or something
of that nature, like you were mentioning. Mary Ann Williamson did the same
thing. It looks like the super pac too. The Democratic super Pack was
able to rake in about one hundred and fifty million more dollars. But that
doesn't have to go to Kamala Harris. I mean it could be used for
down the ballot races. Yeah, that's a good point too. But I
mean the thing that we're seeing here in DC is that the Democrats want Harris
to be tested in some way. They want to make sure that she is
ready in some capacity because when she ran the president, I mean, she
had that one moment in the debate with President Biden with when they were talking
about bussing, But after that she pretty much disappeared from the campaign trail.
So they want to make sure that she is ready to go when she faces
off against Trump, because you know, being the vice president is much different
than being the president and running as the number one on the ticket. They
want to make sure that she's ready to go if and when that moment happens.
All right, Perry Ross, some good stuff, Thank you, thank
you, have a good one, Perry Ross and there from ABC News Live
in Washington, d C. This is going to be I mean, I
don't even know what the expectation is outside of the President speaking at some point,
very mysterious over the course of this week. We have no idea what
this is, what this lays out for. I mean, we have no
idea the timing of any of it. I mean, he made the point
of these potential vice presidential candidates we'll all find out together, is that we'll
all be here together finding out what is laying ahead for us. Tonight,
I will be distracted. The Dodgers are going to take on the Giants first
pitches at seven o'clock tonight on show. He o Tani Hack night. Oh
you're not going to go to the game, No, I am not.
Why not? You've got nothing else to do because I don't have to find
somebody. I can't take my dog. Oh, I see that's right,
Puppy watch at this point, listen to every play of every Dodger's game on
a five to seventy LA Sports stream all games NHD on the iHeartRadio app.
Used the keyword AM five seventy LA Sports powered by LA Care for all of
LA. I mean, I could get one of those service animal vests for
him, but I don't think he's old enough that anybody would believe that he's
in actual services. You've just started the socialization process, and I think bringing
him to a stadium filled with thousands of people would be a bridge too far
at this juncture. Maybe he seemed fine here. He did seem fine.
It's pretty really. I mean, you saw him over here. He's just
sitting there with my feet. He was so playful laying around. It's just
so funny. You see, you meet a new dog, right that looks
like your old dog, but it's a new dog, and you expect that
dog to behave similarly and they are very different. You kept saying that is
very different, very different, And you said his name which I thought was
good. Peter. No, Fergus, yes, oh I'm sorry, say
with more reverence than you do, Peter. He's earned it. Well,
Fergus has gone over the rainbow bridge. Yeah. Uh, and that's sad.
This is why you don't come to me with your problems, my pet
problems. Let's wrap up the show when we come back. What do you
want to wrap it with? I don't know. We'll find something meat.
You're gonna wrap it with some meats. No, we can't do that because
Mark Thompson is here. Right. I got blueberries in here, so I
won't completely offend Mark when he comes in. You're listening to Gary and Shannon
on demand from KFI AM six forty. Okay, well, this is going
to be an odd, odd week as we try to figure out what the
world's going on in our politics. You know who I like to have by
my side shepherding me through an odd week, Mark Thompson. Oh oh wow,
it's a voice? Is that you confect that finish? Now? You're
right, voice comforts. We don't get to see you verych I was just
thinking that. I think I said, as Shannon in the hall, it's
so weird because I don't see you guys at all anymore. It sucks.
I love seeing you guys, love the energy, love seeing you both.
And this is great that we have these these moments between us now because I'm
filling in for Cobilt all week. Nice. I mean, if things go
well today, we'll see you can always get pulled out of the lineup,
just as Joe Biden. Yeah, I'm so faster. Did you anticipate him
dropping out of the race. Yeah, yeah, I mean it was there
was so much pressure once the donors had dried up, and internal polling,
it was rumored, and their polling, I mean from inside the campaign was
so grim and I guess that's what did it. I mean, based on
what I was reading this morning, the true insiders at the Biden campaign really
prevailed upon him and it was like a four person meeting and they essentially showed
him all their internal polling, and he himself realized there's no way to win.
There's no way I can win well. And he did say that was
one of the that was one of the reasons he would step down, as
if someone could show him the polls that he did not have a chance to
win. Sure that the Lord Almighty and medical condition, the Lord Almighty.
So I mean the medical condition. Who knows. We have no idea what
he looks like right now with COVID and he's he's being treated for it,
but it could be bad. Yeah, I mean that could have been part
of it. Certainly, it's certainly a rough weekend for him. And you
don't want that COVID. And by the way, sure you're at these polls,
you should see those two. You know. I think that it was
damaging to his legacy the longer he stayed in and kind of was defiant,
and I think he has put that back together now, you know. I
think we'll remember Joe Biden, who was in Congress for fifty years, not
the waning days of blank stares, the twenty fifth Amendment stare and all of
that. Yeah, and a lot of people had said a lot of those
the big names Obama's, the Schumers, the Pelosis, had used the word
patriotic to describe what he did, where he put his country, his party
before himself because he knew that this was not going to go well. Yeah,
you got to give the guy credit for stepping back. It has to
be very hard. And by the way, you know, you're surrounded as
president, as you guys know this, by people who have a vested interest
in you continuing, right, So you're in an echo chamber that's actually really
designed to keep you from stepping back. So he had to kind of swim
upstream against that current as well, and the current within him that didn't want
to give up. Plus he sees Trump as this you know, political terrorist,
you know, and so he doesn't want to be the guy who goes,
well, okay, you win, I'll step back, or he would
like to defeat. But you know, I think the writing was there for
yeah, for weeks now. It's going to be interesting. We were talking
about the convention that's coming up in just a few weeks, and it's obvious
that the Democrats have fallen in line behind Kamala Harris. But this is going
to be an event that all the people running in twenty twenty eight are going
to use as their coming out party. You know, you're going to see
Gavin out there acting like he's there to support Kamala, when in fact he's
just trying to raise his name recognition on a national stage. And it'll be
interesting to see all of that in all the the hogwash. But they try
to sell us. You know, I heard that stuff about, oh,
it's going to be an open convention and should be open to everybody, and
we said, let him. Let it'll be a chance to air issues out
and let them see the process. Come on, man, it was not
even ever in doubt Kamala Harris. No one who wants a political future in
the Democratic Party, many of the people to whom you've just referred neuisoms of
the world, would ever go up against Kamala Harris in an open convention.
So that part the liberal suicide, Yes, thank you. But there is
one thing that the convention could produce in terms of drama, and that is
sort of what Trump produced with the JD Vance announcement, and that is running
mate. Right. I mean that strikes me as an Obama But there's enough.
There's enough. Chaos is not the right word. There's enough unsettled.
Even if everybody coalesces behind her as they have in the last twenty four hours,
that unsettled feeling. I don't think they can continue that for weeks leading
up to the convention. I think she's got a sooner rather than later,
pick a running mate. Oh that's interesting. I don't know about that.
I mean, I like the way you put it together as an argument.
I just wonder if they won't play the drama of the convention a little bit.
But but yeah, the unsettled thing I think also is taken care of
with a narrative. I think she really has to figure out and they have
to figure out what's the narrative on Kamala Harris. I mean, that's really
what presidential campaigns are, right, Trump had a populist narrative, Biden had
a return to normalcy, and maybe hers is a prosecutor. It's certainly the
right time for the prosecutor right in a law and ordered live that's a good
l to be in. Yeah, and it's gonna be the first time in
a long time that that presidential politics has such a that California should say has
such a role in presidential polity truly problem. It's been decades, Yeah,
since we've had somebody that's been that significant. Well, the Mark Thompson Show
coming up next. I'll be filling in for John Well. Obviously we'll talk
about this in March, So it's going to be it's a big jo got
all right, Marta in for John, We'll see you tomorrow. Stay drive
everybody lists you've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show. You can always
hear us live on KFI AM six forty nine am to one pm every Monday
through Friday, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio ap