This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to kf I AM six forty,
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gas alert. Oh sure, it has just become a blow it up Tuesday.
Damn. Okay, that's right, because the world's rarest whale has washed
up in New Zealand. It's a sixteen foot carcass. It is the near
mythical spade toothed twhaleh Is it a real thing? Yes, it's a real
thing. I said near mythical, not mythical. Well, they say they're
still trying to confirm that it is in fact that spade tooth whale, and
if so, it would be the first chance for scientists to cut up or
blow up a spade tooth whale as it rains down on the town's children.
The spade toothed whales are the most poorly known large mammillion species of modern times.
It's bittersweet that it wasn't alive and we couldn't study it in it's a
live state. But the next best is a fresh sample like this. It's
an odd way to put it. The spade toothed whale was first documented in
eighteen seventy four from lower jaw and teeth samples collected on Pitt Island, about
five hundred miles off of New Zealand's west coast. The first intact specimen came
from a mother in calf stranding in Bay of Plenty. How funny is that
a couple of whales get stuck in Bay of Plenty. I don't think funny
is the right word. Ironic. If in fact this is a spade toothed
whale and it's dissected, they'll be very interested in the details of the stomach
and the gastruin festinal track. They talk about what they meant honestly that smell,
like what it was eating and all that sort of thing, and then
they'll they'll blow it up. The breaking news just before the top of the
hour, New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez has been found guilty of all sixteen counts
in his federal corruption trial. This is where he was getting gold bars and
cash and dinners and cars and things like that from Egyptian nationals. It was
a nine week trial where prosecutors laid out their case that he abused the power
of his office to protect allies from criminal investigations in rich associates, including his
wife, helping Egypt access millions of dollars in US military aid. He did
not testify publicly. He said he was only doing his job. So we'll
watch the fallout on that. One of the things that happened yesterday was that
President Biden sat down for an interview with NBC. He's Lester Holt, and
you could argue that this did you know it was along the same lines of
the interview with George Stephanopolos in that I don't think it helped Joe Biden at
all. What's with you guys? Come on, man? He went after
specifically the question or Lester Holt did about Okay, let's tone down the rhetoric
a little bit. But just a short time ago you said it's time to
put Trump in the bulls eye. Well, let's talk about the conversation this
has started, and it's really about language, what we say out loud,
and the consequences of those You called your opponent an existential threat on a call
a week ago, you said it's time to put Trump in the bullseye.
There's some dispute about the context, but I think you appreciate crosshairs. I'm
talking about focus on Look, the truth of the matter was I just to
say that you said cross The term was focus on Trump's Yeah, the term
is bullseye. It was a mistake to you. I didn't. I didn't
say cross bulls. I'm going to focus on it, focus on what he's
doing. Okay, now, And I understand the explanation. I get it.
But if you're going to suggest that rhetoric is a problem, then just
say I'm part of the problem. Just say I screwed up too, right.
But instead he pivoted and said, yeah, but the other guy,
there's a whole range of things that Look, I'm not the guy that said
that's a juvenile response. That's the guy that except the outcome of the election.
I mean he could even he could even I'd be satisfied with he if
he left it with I made a mistake choosing that word. I meant,
we need to focus on him and the deficiencies and this and the policy differences.
And I'm not even going to bring up the things that he has said
because I don't want to fan this flame anythore or he could say we're all
guilty of it. Maybe it started with Trump and his name calling. Maybe
it continued with people like jd Vance calling Trump America's hitler, and it continued
with me saying put him in the bullseye, and we're all at fault and
we should all unify in improving and cleaning up the political rhetoric in this country
that can be so dangerous. But no, the whole like shifting a blame.
And maybe maybe that's Joe Biden ten years ago is articulate enough. He's
he's always been a kind of a verbal sniper is probably not the right word.
He's always been a guy who's willing to throw it back at you.
Has Joe Biden, just like Donald Trump, is different characteristics about how they
do it. But he's always he's not one to back down from a name
calling context. No, but if you're going to preach accountability and better rhetoric,
then you got to just own it. Be the first. Yeah,
be the first. Now, there are two other things that he said in
this interview. I've never seen a circumstance where your ride through certain royal areas
of the country, people have signs there, big Trump signs with middle science
saying f Biden and the little kid standing there putting up his middle finger.
I mean, that's the kind of stuffed It is just inflammatory. It is
it's terrible to see. It's awful on both sides across the board. But
I was gonna say, but the other but you don't think people have said
awful things about Donald Trump. But he's right in that there are no flags.
Democrats don't fly flags that say F Trump in front of the homes.
They do giant baby balloons of Trump wearing a diaper or something stupid like I
mean, not that I've seen. I've only seen let the liberals cry,
you know, Trump. But it's more about it's more about support for Trump
than it is F Joe Biden. I do see F Joe Biden stuff,
especially in Orange County. Sure, but you don't see F Trump. Democrats
don't do that. They're not going to put a flag outside of their home
says F Trump. I totally disagree. Have you ever seen one? Absolutely?
I have not. Maybe I just live in more conservative areas. Then
this was the way they ended the interview, and this did nothing to help
Joe Biden. What happens if you have another so like we saw during the
debate, what happened. What happens you have another performance on that part on
that level. I don't plan to have another for us. Oh my goodness,
that was the end, guys. Yeah, that's it's not going to
get better. It's just going to keep up degenerating. Unfortunately, if we
if we get to that point in life, that's what happens secret Service when
we come back. Hey, why can't people ever just say, you know
what, my bad up going to the drum board. You know, I'm
resigned, sorry about that. I see like that always to my wife.
You know my bad you know you gotta do that. Anyways, That's just
what I had to say. I hope you guys have a great show like
always. You guys are the best. Well, it goes a long way
to say I fed up. Yes, although I don't know what he's doing
with his wife. But rarely are there instances where someone probably died and someone
did die. Yeah, right, I forget right. Eight years ago.
They didn't really do much four years ago, obviously because of COVID, at
least not with audiences. I remember going back to you know, we would
do our show in the morning from the parking garage and then go back to
the event center that night and listen to some of the speeches, and it
just got the impression that very few people were paying attention eight years ago.
Maybe there's the delegates are on the on the floor, they're chit chatting with
each other, they're shaking hands, they're meeting people from other parts of the
country and everything. It seemed like last night everybody was dialed in. Yeah,
And I don't know if it's the I think it's the assassination thing.
I mean, that helps, that's a hopeful way to put it, But
I think there is that. Do you remember eight years ago when we were
in Cleveland and the anticipation to see the Trump family and you know, Luca
came out and then Donald Trump Junior or whatever the rotation was, and everyone
got real quiet because it was going to be what is this what is this
family? What are we doing? You know, are they politically minded?
We get to see them make these formal remarks for the first time, and
it was there was a lot of fascination around them. The did you see
any of the speeches from last night? The amber what's her name, Amber
Rose? Amber Rose? I did not see that. So this is a
one time what would you say she wasn't married to Kanye? Was she listen?
I am not your pop culture maven. She has all google it though.
She's famous for showing a lot of her party party parts, her body
parts. Well, depending on which only fans page I suppose you subscribe to
my My point is she was in the music video for put On That's How
They Met, which featured Kanye. Let's see here. Her spouse is Whiz
Khalifa. At one time they divorced. That's who she he was married to
was whisk A Leaf. Okay, now she has You're on talk show,
She's got a talk show, she's got a podcast she likes to She's a
mom. And she actually talked about last night in this four or five minute
speech whatever it was, that her goal now is solely to have a place
that she can raise her kids, a safe neighborhood, state, country,
where she can raise her kids and give them something to live look forward to.
She's beautiful, and she said he, being Donald Trump, is the
only person that could do that. That was one of the speeches that kind
of caught people by surprise. Also, the president of the Teamsters union,
when's the last time you heard the Teamsters union, breaking ranks with the Democratic
Party and endorsing a Republican on any level, in any position is shocking.
That was shocking. And it wasn't like a Sean I remember his name,
Sean something was he was. He was adamant about what he was talking about
last night in one of the longer speeches that they gave. And again a
lot of times the speeches at conventions are just riff raff. They're just you
know, people who have been chosen because they look nice or because they and
these were stories from people that caught a lot of attention. So that was
I just happened to see some of it when I was flipping back and forth.
Amber Rose does sell pictures on OnlyFans. She wanted to start earlier but
was delayed because of pregnancy. You don't hear that all the time, do
you? No? No, we don't, Okay. The other story that's
breaking right now is that New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez has been found guilty on
all sixteen counts in his federal corruption trial. Twelve member jury found him guilty
on all sixteen counts after this two month ty while on charges that are probably
going to end his political career. The prosecutors accused him of bribery, acting
as a foreign agent for the country of Egypt, obstruction of justice, historiation,
not conspiring to commit those crimes. Remember this was that home search where
the FBI found all those gold bars, the stacks of one hundreds Mercedes Benz
in the garage, all of gifts from Egypt in exchange for our United States
funding of these various power players in Egypt. He is still currently seeking reelection
to the Senate. He's running as an independent because no Democrat wants to have
anything to do with him, and he's already faced calls to resign from his
former friends in the Democratic Party in New Jersey and on Capitol Hill, and
in fact, Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, has now called on
Menendez to resign from the Senate in light of this guilty verdict or these guilty
verdicts, and he'll be sentenced. I believe, I thought I saw that
it was Octobers when he would be SENTI he's been indicted twice. In twenty
fifteen, he was charged with letting a wealthy Florida eye doctor by his influence
through luxury vacations a jury could not reach an unanimous verdict in twenty seventeen,
so they dropped the case rather than put him on trial again. After his
second indictment last summer, he claimed he was being persecuted, saying some people
cannot accept that a first generation Latino American from humble beginnings could rise to be
a US senator. How dare you well? And remember that was his excuse
for having hundreds of thousands of dollars of cash on hand at his house and
the gold bars, saying, well, that's how I grew up. You
had to hoard cash and put it in aluminum foil in the freezer, so
nobody knew that. Everybody does that? Really, what I mean not the
freezer part. Which cash you have at your house? Like twenty five bucks
in a foil in the freezer somewhere twenty five But it's all single though,
so it looks like a good stack. Oh dare you insinuate that I am
working? Working? Stripper? Artistic is what you are? You're not a
stripper artistic dancer. I like that. It's nice. The bruises, you
know, it's just character. I don't have any bruises currently. I rest
my case Bob Menendez. Senator Bob Menendez found guilty of all the counts and
his bribery trial. He will be sentenced October twenty ninth, faces decades in
prison. Actually, let's start there. Evan Lambert, Washington, correspondent for
News Nation is joining us Alive from DC, and Evan, let's start with
the Bob and Endez story really quickly. Just that it came down maybe twenty
minutes ago or so. He's not going to last in the Senate. They've
already been calling for him to resign right well, really, as soon as
the news dropped that he had been convicted of all charges, you immediately saw
a statement that appear to really have been ready from a Senate majority leader,
Chuck Schumer, who called on Senator Menendez to resign. So that is obviously
a big signal of where Democrats are him being the leader of Democrats in the
Senate. But before now, the Senator, Senator Menendez has said that he
intends to stay in the race. He's running for re election. I think
many people will look at this conviction on all accounts for bribery, acting as
a foreign agent for the country of Egypt, and other felony charges as something
that would likely doom his re election bid if he doesn't choose to resign.
Now, what's the mechanism for getting rid of him? And what does that
district look like in his absence? Well, I mean the Senate and also
the House can hold members accountable. I believe it's two thirds. If two
thirds of each chamber agree, So in this case the Senate, than they
can expel a member. It's something that is exceedingly rare, I believe fifteen
times or so throughout history. This may be the first time that a sitting
Senator, or at least in recent history, has been convicted of charge these
kinds of charges while serving in the Senate. So that would be the mechanism
if he didn't choose to resign. As far as who his replacement could be,
you already have running against him, a congressman from New Jersey out of
that same area. The name has given me right now, but Andy Kim
and so he is already running and likely has pretty good chances given the outcome
of this nine week trial. Well, that's all just developing here in the
last couple of minutes. We expect on Monday that the House Government Oversight Committee
is going to hear from the US Secret Service Director kim Cheatle. That's going
to be all eyes are going to be on that hearing on Monday morning.
Oh absolutely. And I'm actually still on the ground in the suburbs of Pittsburgh
right now, not too far. We're really just in front of the shooter's
home, as we have been for the last few days since Sunday or early
Sunday morning, once we found out who the shooter was according to authorities.
And yes, this is now obviously in the spotlight and the obvious security failures
of the Secret Service, who are ultimately in charge of protecting protecting presidents and
events exactly like this. We expect that the Secret Service Director Kimberly Chetle will
be at that hearing the House Oversight Committee that is on Monday. There's also
expected to be a public hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee the next day
on Tuesday that is expected to food Cheetle and then also the directors of the
FBI and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Majorcis. So we'll be hearing from all those
leaders with impertinent questions about how any of this happened. When it comes to
the planning. I mean, the biggest question obviously being how this shooter was
able to scale the building, which had a slope proof and gave him that
straight sight line to former President Trump, allowing him to shoot off those rounds
and strike the former president and members of the crowd, obviously killing another member
a spectator at that rally. And we've learned really just over the last several
hours. The Secret Service director, in an interview with ABC News, said
that that building from which the shooter fired his weapon actually had local law enforcement
officers inside of the building at the time of the shooting. They were assigned
to protect that building, according to the Secret Service, but ultimately the Secret
Service director said the buck stops with her in that interview with ABC that all
the Secret Service is responsible, fully responsible for the protection of presidents. It's
wild that there were agents or officers inside and nobody stationed on the roof.
More than a dozen guns found at the family home, that's not something out
of the realm in that part of the country. And then we also heard
that police went to that home after the dad called police saying he was worried
because his son and his ar rifle were missing. Do we know the timeline
of when that phone call was made. I don't have confirmation of that reporting.
The timeline is something that the FBI is still working to build. There
have been some reporting that the ATF was able to basically provide key information to
identify the shooter within thirty minutes after officers Secret Service counter snipers shot and killed
him. He apparently didn't have any identification on him at the time, but
they were able to get the serial number from the rifle, and it immediately
came back to his father and they started going through family members, found a
picture of the shooter and compared it to the shooter there at the scene after
he was deceased, and were able to identify him within thirty minutes. That's
some of the latest reporting that's out there on at least the timeline of how
quickly they were able to identify this individual when he didn't have identification on him.
Evan Lambert, News Nation, thanks so much for your reporting, appreciate
it. Thank you for having me you Bett. The former president also met
yesterday with Robert F. Kennedy Junior to discuss the possibility of him endorsing Trump.
According to many people familiar with this thing. Kennedy has said it wasn't
that he denied that he had any plans to drop out of the race.
There was actually a video that leaked that showed him on the phone with the
president, with the former president. I think he was emarrassed. I think
that was leaked on purpose, well, he said, I think it was
Kennedy. Believe anybody that that leaked it, but without his dad's permission.
I don't know how it went exactly. Kennedy took to Twitter and suggested that
it was not what he wanted and he was embarrassed that the It was just
their phone conversation. It wasn't anything spectacular or anything. Doug Bergham may serve
in Trump's cabinet if he does win. In November, Burgham told CNN Trump
referred to him as mister secretary when he called to tell him he would not
be his running mate. That's a nice way to smooth things over. Thanks
for all the footwork, the leg work you've done and being a surrogate.
You're not the guy, but thank you, mister secretary. You're a guy.
Yeah. Tornadoes and straight line wins rock Chicago last night. National Weather
Service said there may have been as many as ten tornadoes that touched down around
Chicago during the evening. At least one person was killed. Residents woke up
today a bunch of power routages caused by the severe storm, commed cruise and
emergency management teams working to clear the roadways and residential areas. Too big All
Star Game tonight in Arlington, Texas. The Dodgers have seven players representing in
La Phillies are sending the most with eight. How many do the Giants have?
Three? Better than none? I think it's three pirates. Paul Sken's
going to start for the National League and the Orioles Corbyn Burns will start for
the American League. All right, We've got a police chief apprentice happening in
Los Angeles. The searchs for the chief started when we found out that former
chief Michael Moore was going to step down back in February, and Dominic Choi
took over, but he said he didn't want the job officially or didn't want
the job permanently. So Moore has stayed on as a consultant in the search
for the next chief, and a couple of different reports have suggested that that
list is now down to about ten names. One of the big names is
former La County Sheriff Jim McDonald. Yeah, he, I guess was I
shouldn't say, I guess because I knew him when he was an assistant chief
with the LPD, the sheriff. As you mentioned, his name has been
circulated around LPD headquarters in city Hall for months as one of the possible candidates.
You can't. I mean, when the job opens up and you've got
somebody with that kind of experience in your backyard, of course his name is
going to be on the list. The problem, or the thing I think
that they're going to shy away from, is the majority of people that are
on the list are people of color. The pool of contenders is generally more
diverse and generally less experience in the recent past, which means he is not
necessarily what you would say diversity is, and he's got a lot more experience
than a lot of the people on this list. I loved covering Bill Bratton
and Jim McDonald. There were cops, they were cops, and they just
wanted to do the job, and he could just do the job. I
have breaking sad news. We've talked. I don't think so Okay, we've
talked about how everybody is widely panned the national anthem at the home run Derby,
sung by Ingrid Andres. She now is apologized and said she was drunk.
She says she's checking herself into a facility today to get the help she
needs. She said that was not me last night. I apologize what Yeah,
I apologize to MLB all the fans in this country. I love so
much for that rendition. And it does sound she sounds like she's slurring her
way through it. She just had, Uh, what's the song that she
does with boy I'm going to get this wishful drinking with Sam Hunt. Yes,
great song, but that's clearly what it was. Well, that takes
a lot of the like the fun humor out of it. It does.
That's why I xnate on the song a But good for her. Good for
her. I mean that sucks that it had to get to that low point,
but good for her that she was in such a public fac I mean,
it would be one thing if she was doing the national anthem for the
the Kodak Yeah bumblebees or something like that. But it's funny because not a
lot of people had eyes on the home run derby until that kind of surfaced
and exploded on social media, and again everybody came together in America to agree
it was a horrific. Some people even said it was worse than Roseanne Barr.
I don't agree with that. Well, Roseanne Barr was doing it.
It was disgusting. It sounded like Ingrid was trying. Yeah, that was
very sad. Before anybody, let's hear it again. Checks me on that.
By the way, it's not the Kodak Bumblebees, it's the it's the
Tennessee Smokies play in Kodak. Do you really want to hear it? I'm
kind of curious now because we didn't really know what was going on. Okay,
Well, you know how you get when you have a couple pops and
you start singing. I have never ever tried to sing the national anthem either.
I would never attempt. But she's gotten so oh my gosh, this
is that's heartbreaking. It is heartbreaking. It's bad. But good thing.
Good thing, she's getting help. That's good. Oh man, did I
just take something nice away from you? No, it's not even that it
was nice because I also felt bad about saying like, oh that was an
awful I know I felt about it too. Nobody, none of us could
do it now, none of us could stand up there in front of that.
K could do it. Keanu's gifted and we're not. And that's clear.
But that sounds that's awful. That's uh well, I'll follow her anyway.
Now, I'm sad now that that sucks. You Are you gonna?
Are you gonna recover? I feel like I feel like I have? Is
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