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This is Gary and Shannon and you're
listening to KFI AM six forty the Gary

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and Shannon Show on demand on the
iHeartRadio app. Just before the show started,

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we got this kind of bombshell from
the Democratic part. It's just in

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the CNN, big Democratic donor George
Clooney. Of course, the actor has

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just called for President Biden to step
aside. C r Lett signs joins us

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now from the White House. Arlett, Obviously, this is not going to

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be welcome news over there. What
can you tell us? No, it

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won't be Jim And this is a
significant New New York Times op ed from

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actor George Clooney. Now to remind
viewers, George Clooney was one of those

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celebrities that headlined a major Los Angeles
fundraiser with President Biden back in June,

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and today he is saying that he
believes it is time for President Biden to

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step aside. The op ed from
the New York Times was posted at about

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seven forty six. In it,
George Clooney writes, is it fair to

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point these things out? Talking about
mental lapses that we've seen from the president.

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He says it has to be this
is about age nothing more, but

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also nothing that can be reversed.
And again, we are not going to

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win in November with this president.
On top of that, we won't win

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the House, and we're going to
lose the Senate says, this isn't only

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my opinion. This is the opinion
of every Senator and congress member and governor

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that I've spoken with in private,
every single one, irrespective of what he

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or she is saying publicly. Would
it be messy, Yes, democracy is

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messy, he says. Was he
tired, yes, a cold maybe,

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But our party leaders need to stop
telling us that fifty one people didn't see

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what we just saw. He ends
with Joe Biden as a hero. He

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saved democracy in twenty twenty. We
need him to do it again in twenty

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twenty four. So this comes on
the heels of yesterday's big meeting where Democratic

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leaders, well the entire Democratic caucus
in the House and the Senate got together

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behind closed doors and had what they
referred to as this family meeting. And

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throughout the course of the show yesterday, I was trying to catch up with

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and get a good sense of what
the people in the meeting thought of the

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meeting, and everybody came out and
for the most part, it was basically

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a family issue, like we're not
going to discuss what went on in the

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meeting, but he's our nominee and
we're gonna stay behind him. They basically

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hippa right exactly. There were a
handful of people going into the meeting who

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said that they needed a new nominee
and they stayed that way. There were

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some who went into the meeting saying
they needed a new nominee and they came

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out and changed their version of it. Jerry Nadler is an example congressman out

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of New York who said on Sunday
in a private call, he needs to

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step down. Yesterday after the meetings, he was saying, he's our nomine

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We're gonna stick with him. Well, the big question mark and it's not

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necessarily a question mark anymore. But
Nancy Pelosi, she was on MSNBC today

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and she said, she said,
this, does he have your support to

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be the head of the Democratic ticket
as long as the president had the president,

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it's up to the president to suicide
if he is going to run.

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We're all encouraging him to make that
decision because time is running short. Important

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point there First of all, she
said socidy, meaning decide. I assume

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well. The President also said goodest
too well, which ABC refutes, and

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she go ahead. She says that
he needs to decide. We're all encouraging

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him to make that decision, to
make this decision right now. According to

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Joe Biden, he's already made the
decision right And I don't know if she

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has spoken to him, or if
she believes that he's made the decision,

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or if there is some other thing
going on, if there's an unspoken truth

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about what's happening, which is he
is technically leaving the door open to step

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aside at the top of the tablet, which that's what I take her comments

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to me. There is something else
going on. I think it's going to

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be really telling tomorrow because of the
NATO summit. He spoke yesterday, and

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he spoke with more vigor. Again, the bar is set low, right.

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He seemed much more awake and lively
when he took to that podium yesterday.

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Tomorrow he will speak again at the
NATO summit, But then he is

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reportedly going to be holding a press
conference, really the big boy press,

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that big boy press conference, and
how he how he comes across, then

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I think will be telling enough so
that if he does have moments like he

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did in the debate, will Pelosi
outright and Hakim Jeffries and Chuck Schumer,

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will they say enough is enough,
we need a new nominee. One of

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the senators who has been vocal about
this is Senator Michael Bennett out of the

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great state of Colorado, who,
if I'm not mistaken, did run for

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president before got stomped. But and
the only reason I say this because I

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remember his very slow, droopy dogg
kind of delivery. But he was on

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CNN last night explaining and coming out
publicly saying we need a new nominee.

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My colleague Dana Bash reported that you, Senator John Tester and Senator Shared Brown

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all said during that launch that you
don't think President Biden can win in twenty

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twenty four. Is that true?
Well, it's true that I said that,

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and I did say that behind closed
doors, and you guys and others

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asked whether I had said it,
and that is what I said, So

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I figured I should come here and
say it publicly. Why do you think

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you can't win in November? I
just think this race is on a trajectory

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that is very worrisome if you care
about the future of this country. Joe

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Biden was nine points up at the
time. At the last time he was

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running, Hillary Clinton was five points
up. This is the first time in

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more than twenty years that a Republican
president has been up in this part of

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the campaign. Donald Trump is on
track, I think, to win the

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selection and maybe win it by a
landslide and take with him the Senate and

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the House. Right now, if
you look at Real Clear Politics and their

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average of polls right now, Trump
is up more than three points. Favorability

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ratings, he's up more than seven
and the top battlegrounds, which obviously are

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key to that two hundred and seventy
electoral college map, he's up four on

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average. It's also interesting and the
Korean Jean Pierre, I have watched every

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single minute the last several days,
and just there are we have NATO going

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on. There are a few questions
about that seventy fifth anniversary. Great,

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but in terms of the reporter questions
to her, it's about the it's about

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the neurologist, it's about Parkinson's disease. It's about Hey, if this was

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just your uncle, your mother,
your sister. Wouldn't you just say why

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don't we just take a cognitive test? And to me, having seen those

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news conferences, she's causing the problems
that are frustrating the reporters absolutely, the

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way she's answering the questions or obfuscating
what should be a pretty straightforward answer.

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Then the reporters get frustrated. They
come back the next day loaded for bear,

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and she gets upset about it.
Well, she could have answered the

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questions correctly in the first place.
And she's saying, look, just because

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I'm making a clarification, I didn't
necessarily know this yesterday. So and so

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it goes on and on. She
brings you coffee. I had to go

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get my own. What's going on
in Keana? Thank you so much.

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You're so welcome. I appreciate it. I was a little bit more high

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maintenance today. I asked for a
decap. We are days away. We

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don't know if it's one day or
six days, but we are days away

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from a former President Trump announcing who
is going to be his running mate.

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Mentioned yesterday that a couple of different
places has have that list down to three.

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Marco Rubio jd Vance Doug Bergham.
Maybe if you were to add a

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fourth, you'd say Tim Scott possibly, although I think he's Let me just

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tell you this, I watched a
lot of Network News yesterday and Ben Carson

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is in the bettings. I know, I know that, but it's amazing

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to me how much time was spent
talking about Ben Carson as a potential.

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But yes, do you think it
comes down to Burgham, Rubio and JD.

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Vance? Vance? And those three
guys know that they have to perform

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for this president. That's his currency, and they have to be loyal to

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him. That's been said, that
that's been established. There was an interesting

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interview done with John Bolton yesterday,
former national security advisor who was in the

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original Trump administration. We interviewed him
eight years ago before the or during,

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I should say the Republican National Convention
in Cleveland, and he was an affable

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guy, very nice, fun knew
that people made fun of his mustache and

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took it with a grain of salt. He was a very well thought I

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thought, a very well thought person, and was at the time not necessarily

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in love with the idea of a
Trump presidency. He ended up working for

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Trump and then they had a falling
out, and now he's very concerned about

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what Trump would say to a potential
vice presidential candidate. And John Bolton said,

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there would be two questions, what
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And if I asked you to do
what I asked Mike Pence to do,

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would you do it? Those two
questions are the only things that would exist

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between Trump and his potential vice presidential
running there, and those two questions fall

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under what is most important to him
in terms of an umbrella, and that

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is loyalty. Right. So,
last night, former President Trump held a

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rally in Durral, Florida, at
his golf course there, and among the

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people that was in in the building
Marco Rubio, I mean senator from the

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great state of Florida. So it's
not like it's hard to believe that he

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would be there. But Trump knows
everybody's waiting to hear who his vice presidential

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nominee is going to be. So
multiple times yesterday he played with the idea

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of hey, Marco's right there.
Like we talked about his no taxes on

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tips? They said, you know, I have a great idea, how

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about no tax on tips? That
was the extent of my study one waitress.

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But it's true. It makes so
much. Isn't it funny that nobody

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ever thought of that but me?
Isn't that weird? But it's a great

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thing, and they deserve their money. They work hard for it. They

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they deserve it. Marco, you're
going to vote for it, I hope.

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Well, you may or may not
be there to vote for it,

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but you'll be involved. Ah see, little nugget. He did that a

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handful of Yeah he did. And
Marco spoke both in English and Spanish prior

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to Trump taking the stage as well. Yes, this was at his golf

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course. He also challenged the president
to a another debate, yeah next week,

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and then be around at golf.
It's just the golf thing has got

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to go. It's so stupid,
it's so frustrating. The jd Vance issue

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is interesting. The Daily Beast is
out with an article that suggests that some

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of the people who do not want
to see jd Vance as the vice presidential

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nominee are Trump donors. But they
said that in this article by Jake Lahout,

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the very same coastal elites who once
adored jd Vance have been trying to

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sabotage his vice presidential aspirations. The
two main rivals, according to most reports,

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obviously would be Doug Bergham and Marco
Rubio, but that donors have been

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coalescing around Burgham and Rubio at this
point because of the concern that JD.

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Vance, among other things, might
not appeal to those people in the middle,

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those independents or those specific voting groups
that a Doug Burgham might or a

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Marco Rubio might. Well, the
independent they may like the fact that he

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is younger, and significantly younger.
He's thirty nine, oh be forty next

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month, So there's that element to
consider. But in terms of loyalty about

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January sixth, of the two questions
that you said that he would ask,

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would you do as I asked Vice
President Pence to do and not certify the

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election? JD. Vance was a
never Trump guy. Yeah, and now

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he's potential view And that's the thing
is there's a lot of people in the

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Republican Party who were very pro Trump, became very anti Trump, and have

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now come back around full circle and
are a pro Trump again. It's just

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a it's a bizarre political game that
we have been playing. So and I

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told I told my daughter there that
day, I'm really sorry that we broke

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the country, like we just we
blew it. It's our fault. We

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had we had every opportunity to make
some good decisions and we just we blew

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it. I'm sorry, Olivia.
Yeah, it is July the tenth.

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You said, ringing any bells?
Is it Shannon's brother, No, it's

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not. It would be my sister's
husband, Bend. Jeez. So if

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everybody, if you see Roger today, say happy birthday, birthday Rogers.

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Well, since I'm not going to
be here tomorrow, I'd like to wish

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my father in law, Brad,
who I call bas zemp Sick, a

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happy birthday tomorrow. He's he's a
July eleventh, seven eleven baby, and

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to get free slurpees. So we
always got we're on a family chain and

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it's flee free Slurpy day. Love
you, bas. His birthday was May

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tenth. Oh, it's the tenth. Oh you know what. It's their

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anniversary. That's what it is.
It's my sister and brother loss anniversary.

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Happy anniversary. You should just open
the show. Happy anniversary, Happy birthday

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to everybody I know. Cover all
the bases Rangers beat the Angels five to

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four. Last night. They play
againstixt thirty eight. First pitch. The

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Dodgers got crushed in Philly last night. It was so bad. How bad?

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It was so bad that Key k
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Oh that bad. So it was
bad. Phillies ended up winning ten to

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one. So they will play again
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ten first pitch this time. So
what was Hurricane Burrell made her way through

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state, through the state of Texas
and then up through the Midwest and has

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caused some problems, nothing as significant
as what we saw in Houston, where

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as many as two million people were
without power over the course of the last

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couple of days. They have been
working tirelessly to get people back under the

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power because the weather there is still
a problem. It's not a hurricane,

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but ninety five degrees and seventy plus
percent humidity is unbearable for some people and

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is potentially dangerous for a lot.
So what they need to do is they

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need to get the air conditioners back
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Well, there is an issue.
First of all, Governor Greg Abbott is

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apparently in Korea for an international trip
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Office, organized and paid for by
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least according to the Governor's office.
So that means that the Lieutenant Governor Dan

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Patrick is not Dan Patrick sports guy, but Dan Patrick is the one who

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is technically the governor as of right
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Well, the Constitution gives the Lieutenant
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and authority pertaining to the office of
governor when obviously the governor leaves the state.

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We see it all the time here
in California. We get sometimes it's

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kind of on the on the low
low. We get usually a news release

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or something from the Governor's office that
says Gavenuwsom is out of state is going

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to be the acting governor, so
the acting governor. Lieutenant Governor Den Patrick

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issued a disaster declaration Friday Friday before
the storm hit Friday for counties for forty

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different counties, expanded that list to
eighty one counties on Saturday, and then

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brief the media on the preparations alongside
the division of an emergency Management Chief on

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Sunday. Then later Sunday he was
telling people to take precautions. Obviously,

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Monday morning rolls around and we've got
landfall. There is a question now about

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when the Lieutenant governor was finally on
the phone with President Biden. A disaster

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of this size, I mean,
eighty one counties on a state disaster level

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does rise to the level we should
see some sort of federal intervention, and

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a disaster declaration doesn't really change a
whole lot about what's going on on the

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ground, but it does free up
the resources of the federal government to help

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state and local governments deal with the
aftermath in this and the question is when

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was Dan Patrick on the phone with
Joe Biden and why did it take as

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long as it did? Well?
And now there's criticism because Greg Abbott on

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X was talking about his trip and
then also talking about the fact that while

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I'm in daily contact with the actor
acting Governor Patrick, the Texas Division of

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Emergency Management and other state officials to
ensure Texas swiftly deploys all resources needed to

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help Texas Texans as heavy rain fall, etc. The point of what I'm

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getting at is he posts this on
X, and then all of those comments

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below are saying, well, maybe
you shouldn't brag about a business meeting in

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Seoul right now while your state is
under this emergency. Maybe it's not the

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best time to brag about how awesome
your trip is. Replied one ex user,

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there's a weird thing that goes on. No, there's no excuse.

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I don't know who's to blame,
and I'm not saying that one side gets

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the creditor the blame for this.
There's no excuse for the White House not

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being in contact with the head of
a state. In this case, it

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happened to be the lieutenant governor.
There's no reason why the White House can't

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immediately locate the lieutenant governor of the
state of Texas and have the President on

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the phone with him within minutes.
Because, on the one hand, Dan

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Patrick has done these interviews and these
news conferences with all these state representatives around

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him, but also federal Emergency Management
Agency officials who currently live in the state

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of Texas. I mean, they're
there already knowing that this was where to

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happen. Of course, you get
somebody on the phone immediately, and it's

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incumbent upon Dan Patrick to be available
to the president. It's incoment upon the

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White House to be able to make
that connection immediately and not delay. This

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is maybe making Maybe it was after
eight pm. Yeah, somebody was in

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bed already. I don't know today
was it. Today's supposed to be the

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warmer of the two days. Today's
going to be a Buco five in my

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house? Oh not in my house? At my house? Well what six?

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It went up? So yeah,
I think today is supposed to be,

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at least in the valley, one
of the warmer days of the week.

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And I heard Neil with Handle this
morning. I think he said it

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was one hundred and twenty four in
Palm Springs. That sounds fine. I

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mean, you're in Palm Springs,
what's your expectation. Well, but one

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hundred and twenty four, that's almost
death valley numbers. Yes, yeah,

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that's why they have pools. That's
why they have pools in spring. I

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guess a big noise was made in
Hollywood today and across the country. George

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Clooney has added his voice to calls
for Joe Biden to leave the presidential race.

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He wrote an op ed piece in
The New York Times and said he

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loves Biden, but that the Democrats
will lose the presidential race as well as

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control of Congress if Biden remains the
nominee. Now, George Clooney was one

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of those guys who hosted that huge
Hollywood fundraiser a short time ago where they

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raised something like thirty million dollars with
president's Clinton and Obama on the stage with

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Biden. Yeah, right, he
and he did for Obama in twenty twelve,

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Clinton, Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen, and then yes, Joe Biden

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in twenty twenty, and then last
month as well. So he he's taking

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a strong stance again. This is
in the New York Times, this op

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ed ending with Joe Biden is a
hero. He saved democracy in twenty twenty.

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We need him to do it again
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Glad to hear that down you're back
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played that interview with Nancy Pelosi,
I was standing still and all of a

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sudden, my arms started flailing around. Can you explain that what happened?

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It was so weird? And then
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arms weren't flailing anymore. No,
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soup? Dary? What's up?
Homie? Hey? We Mark? I'll

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tell you is nice to have one
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come to the show too. Uh
you, guys, that's a great day.

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Love listening to you. Guys,
it's trying to make me cry again.

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It's arry. You just called Hurricane
Baryl a woman. How do you

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know it's a woman. I have
always that that was a man's name.

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Are you being sexist? Yes?
And no, Yes I'm being sexist,

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but I'm doing it for traditional reasons, because we used to only name storms

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women's names. It wasn't until nineteen
eighty. Do you know this well,

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I knew that like hurricanes. When
we knew about hurricanes, they were always

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Gladys and mary and I mean,
they were all women's names. That was

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just the way they did it.
And then somebody got upset that that was

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the traditional I mean, listen,
hold on. I would be so proud

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Hurricane Marla Baby. I'm not saying
agree with it, but yeah, one

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hundred years ago, the only people
who were on boats were men for the

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most part, and when something got
in their way, they blamed women.

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I mean that, dudes are we're
we're small minded. I'll admit that.

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So I'm the captain now. If
the if the weather is causing problems for

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your transatlantic voyage, of course you're
going to blame it on a woman,

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and you might as well put a
name to it. And maybe it's your

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ex wife or ex girlfriend or you
know, love that was lost. Whatever,

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that's what's going to happen. She
didn't leave her name, did she,

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Because we're saying Beryl at Fox eleven. You are, Yeah, we're

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saying Beryl. Well, the good
news is it's no longer a named storm,

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so we don't have to worry about
it. That one storm that came

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through. Hey, Gary, you're
right. You were really close anyway,

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because they started alternating men's and women's
names in nineteen seventy nine and I said

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eight. He said, it's close, yeah, close. This is why

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he does well on the Jeopardy questions. And before that, I don't know

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when we started naming them because Team
fifty three. Oh okay, Amy Hi,

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Amy Hill, Cliff Cven, all
right, it's a great show.

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