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. You see all the
momentum that that Harris has been able at this point to take advantage of having
the best forty eight hours in presidential campaign history, raising one hundred million dollars
since Sunday. And it's like before Biden dropped out, I thought there's no
way Trump loses in November, right, And now the temperature seems to be
different during this timeframe. And you mentioned this earlier about the numbers of people.
More than eight hundred and eighty eight thousand people donated up to two hundred
dollars a piece according to Act Blue, which is this donation platform that they
put together, and again, sixty four percent of those people first time donators.
I mean, if that's not energizing the base and creating voter enthusiasm on
the left, I don't know what is. A group of black women leaders
called Win with Black Women, held a zoom call more than forty four thousand
people on Sunday night to throw their support behind the vice president and they said
that they raised a million and a half dollars in just three hours for the
campaign. Some of that was just the fact that the money was put on
pause. It was frozen as Biden's waning days kept coming, the donors all
backed out. They said we're not going to spend any money here, so
they were just it was all frozen. And then when she announced and the
floodgates got opened. So there's still some issue. I think that you're going
to see within the Democratic Party that there will be some whiplash of was this
the right choice. I know that the coalescing behind the vice president as the
nominee is important and they had to do it. But I wonder if there's
going to be any voice that grows that says, wait, we should They
can't now, but pump the brakes on this thing. And I point that
out because even Read Hastings, one of the co founders of Netflix, humongous
Democratic donor, he said that this is a few days ago he said that
Biden should step down as the nominee. But he wrote on X after the
announcement yesterday or Sunday, Yeah, days are crazy. On Dave Banana,
he wrote, DEM delegates need to pick a swing state winner. I don't
know if Kamala Harris is I mean, I don't know if according to read
Hastings, if she would be the one that fits that description. Obviously she
can choose a vice presidential running madagas. I think that's what they mean.
I think that's what it means. You've got to look at you know.
I know there's been a lot of talk about Mark Kelly. He is a
Democrat in Arizona, important state there. He has been vocal about his criticism
of Democrats and Republicans when it comes to the border, that Democrats don't do
enough, and that when they do try to do anything, the Republicans try
to stop it just for the sake of polytical welfare. He's also a big
guns guy. He owns a lot of guns. He is very much into
the Second Amendment, and that would be advantageous to pull in independence maybe,
but you need more electoral votes. You need the Pennsylvania, you need the
Michigan. You don't need Arizona. And you know it takes away a Democrat
from Senate. Of course, the Democratic governor would just appoint someone until a
special election in twenty twenty six, but that would that would be an issue.
Yeah, to make that seat vulnerable, maybe as as palatable as a
guy like Andy Basheer might be governor of Kentucky because he is a blue governor
in an overwhelmingly read state. You don't Kentucky's not the place that you're going
to get. No, you're not gonna get any help in Kentucky. So
they're all signs, at least right now, all signs point to Josh Shapiro
out of Pennsylvania. Yeah, there have been vetting materials that supposedly have been
sent out that have been sent out to the vice presidential potential people. Ken
Thomas with The Wall Street Journal said several VP picks have been contacted for vetting
materials. We mentioned Senator Kelly out of Arizona, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper,
Shapiro out of Pennsylvania, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Illinois Governor JB.
Pritzker, Minnesota Governor Tim Walls. That was a name that was thrown in
overnight that I hadn't seen before. Pritzker apparently told people he hadn't received any
materials yet, but he didn't say that he wasn't contacted by the campaign.
Kentucky gets eight votes, Arizona gets eleven votes, Pennsylvania gets nineteen. Yeah,
yeah, and not math as. What was the other person from South
Carolina or North Carolina? Roy Cooper? I think it's thirteen, am I
clothes, let me find it. Okay, there's a lot, you know,
there's a lot of states. I don't know if you know this,
but the ear bleeds more. There are sixteen votes North Carolina. Oh,
I'm surprised by that. That's an option. Yeah, that's an option.
The coconut thing is also coming back. Yeah. Can we break that down
so well, I've got what she said. You said something about May tenth
of last year. She was making remarks swearing in the President's Economic Advisory Commission
on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence and Economic Opportunities for Hispanics. This is a
very very specific group of people, and she said, everything is in context.
My mother used to she would give us a hard time sometimes and she
would say to us, I don't know what's wrong with you, young people.
You think you just fell out of a coconut tree. You exist in
the context of all in which you live and what came before you. What,
Well, it's just you're not the first person to have this experience,
or you're not the first person, You're not the only person that there's a
there's a lot of things that went into your existence. I'm translating now these
people need translators. Okay, Trump needs a translator. Couldn't you just say
it that way? Because she speaks in poetry, Gary, uh So,
now that we are unburdened by glass called bason, pierces, figs and stuff
like that, we don't play that enough. We need more of that.
Uh So, this is this is a uh it's gonna be a fun thing.
Uh These next few days, as we said earlier, are going to
be very important at least to get her out there and introduce her to people
who haven't seen her before. Looks like right now in Washington, d C.
Let's see House Minority lead Hakeem Jeffries is throwing his endorsement to Kamala Harris
as is majority leader in the Senate Chuck Schumer. These again not surprises,
but the higher levels of the Democratic Party not everybody has at least signed on
to it yet, so they're just kind of checking boxes at this point.
Who hasn't they were the last ones? Well, Obama now you're talking about
people who aren't in office. You're talking about Obama's right. At this point,
that's it. That's the only one. And like like we talked about
yesterday, they usually hold off on endorsing till the last moment until someone gets
the delegates and it appears that she's got him. I think she names the
running mate before the convention, but that the big splash at the convention is
Barack Obama. That's just my fan fiction. That he speaks I would have.
I would expect him to anyway. I don't know if that's going to
be a like people are gonna go, oh, Micah. Now if Donald
Trump spoke, that would be a surprise. Yeah, I don't know.
More security, that's what we're looking for in Chicago, is more secure.
He didn't speak for Hillary Clinton, did he? I would have to go
back and remember, I don't I don't think he spoke for Biden during the
the COVID twenty twenty. Yeah, I don't know. We'll check it out.
This was a quick compilation of what she talked about yesterday in what was
touted as sort of the first campaign style where I was elected as United States
Senator. I was the elected attorney general, as I've mentioned a California and
before that, I was a courtroom prosecutor. In those roles, I took
on perpetrators of all kinds. So hear me when I say I know Donald
Trump's type, and in this campaign, I will proudly, I will proudly
put my record against his. Isn't is that a take off his she's not
my type? Rape claims or harassment claims. That would be a deep cut.
That would be a deep cut. But that's the first thing I thought
of. It was when he said, well, she's not even my type
talking about the I forget what her name was, Jane Carroll. Yes,
the head of the Secret Service has stepped down. Kimberly Chetle made it official
today after that disastrous congressional hearing from me yesterday. A bipartisan House task force
is also going to investigate the assassination attempt. How Speaker Mike Johnson got together
with Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries today and announced this task force of thirteen people,
seven Republicans, six Democrats. They will have subpoena power and so that they
will move quickly to find the facts, ensure accountability, and make certain such
failures never happen again. You Know, what I've been thinking about in the
past forty eight hours is how different it is with Kamala Harris. How did
you I mean, we know that she's what fifty nine years old, He's
got twenty years plus years on her Biden does. But just the juxtaposition of
those two and the youth, and she's it's gonna feel like she's every where
because she's got the energy and she can handle the travel schedule. He just
hasn't been anywhere. It's been very weak stream. The bar has been so
low in terms of energy on that side of things that it sounds it seems
like she's set in the world on fire. It is going to bring well.
But we talked about it yesterday. Would she peak too soon? I
mean, she has the benefit of having the later convention. You know,
they don't start their convention until August nineteenth in Chicago. That might be the
time when you know, she starts to really pick up speed. I wonder
what Donald Trump has planned to steal back the attention. Nothing. He's going
to rely on his own personality. He's going to rely on what he thinks
are going to be the funniest one line nicknames for her and whoever her choice
of vice president is going to be. But he's such as showman. He
likes to plan events and things that will give him that attention back. I
wonder, well, I wonder how much he's going to believe that the whole
assassination attempt will bring him political Like we said earlier, there is value in
it. As horrific as it was, there is some value in it for
him. I don't know if he thinks that that's enough. I mean,
they spent the convention going after the wrong person. He can tie Harris to
Biden because she doesn't have a lot that she's done on her own. She's
been connected to him, but still he's got a lot to go after here,
or he's got a lot of going after her. Making up to do.
That is we're talking about the money that's come in and Hollywood Democrats have
opened the floodgates. We pointed to the importance of that. George Clooney op
ed where he said Biden should step down and that George Clooney himself may not
be the largest donor in Hollywood, but he is one of the loudest voices
in Hollywood that can impact other people's money. The according to Jake Tapper,
I said in a statement to Jake Tapper, George Clooney did President Biden has
shown what true leadership is. He's saving democracy once again. He We're also
excited to do whatever we can to support Vice President Harrison her historic quest.
I don't know if I would say he's saving democracy. What he's doing is
he's understanding that the pressure was building around him. Damon Lindeloff was a producer
on the TV show Lost. He had called for a dem bargo and he
has called for it to be lifted since Biden decided to step down. He
said that he felt profound relief, gratitude, and then for the first time,
genuine excitement for the election ahead. That relief word keeps coming back up,
and you talked about it yesterday, just the idea that there's a certain
amount of consternation, frustration, maybe even anger and disappointment that people had in
the Democratic Party. But now that that's gone, because you don't have to
try to fake it anymore. With Joe Biden, you have somebody who's going
to have the energy, et cetera. But is there then disappointment. Wait
a minute, Wait a minute, Wait a minute. We didn't even get
it. We didn't even get to say in what the candidate was going to
be at the top of the ticket. Because how many millions of people voted
in the primaries for a Biden Harris ticket. I don't know, Like we've
said multiple times, I don't know how many people were super excited about Joe
Biden the candidate as opposed to he's not that guy. But that's the same
reason a lot of people voted for Donald Trump. At least he's not that
guy. The important thing is that I got to pet a penguin today.
That was pretty fun. That's you looked genuinely happy, not as happy,
not as happy as when you saw my dog, but that was a funny
looking dog that you petted. You didn't even want to get near the penguin
because you didn't want to go home with penguins smell on you. And then
we get a little penguin lipstick on my collar because then your dog would know
that you were playing with other pets. And how what was going on that
the women always got lipstick on their on their paramour's collar, so that when
the dude would come home, his wife would know that he was cheating on
her because she had lips. Ye, why is the lipstick on the collar?
What was she doing? Were you supposed to put it in the face?
Yes, that's exactly wed. How about something completely not politically and I
was supposed to make out with a guy's shirt. I don't know what's going
on. That's why, you know what, I'm going to do a deep
dive on that love has changed in the many decades. Because there's not enough
going on in Washington, d C. Benjamin ett Yiahu is there, and
Vice President Harris will not be presiding over the Senate Chamber when he speaks to
a joint session of Congress tomorrow afternoon. He is expected to meet with her
at a different point during the visit. He's also expected to meet with President
Biden on Wednesday. Harris is already planning to be in Indianapolis for a previously
scheduled event her absence. According to an aid, her absence should not be
interpreted as a change in her position when it comes to supporting Israel. And
then one more, yeah, where to go? Oh you? Olympics thirty
two lapd Reserve officers are going to be in Paris, Lucky. They're traveling
part of the Olympic delegation to work at the event sites around the country.
And there was an interesting thing. France is actually going to cover their airfare
and lodging but not meals. That's fine. They will not be wearing body
cameras, but they will be in full uniform with their service weapons. So
that itself was a weird thing because apparently French law does not allow I don't
know if this is common. French law does not allow foreign law enforcement officers
on French soil to hold weapons. And they had to get special permission from
the federal from the French government to get it, Yeah, to carry their
guns. Well, you know, there's the whole war thing. Yeah,
long history of people from other countries with weapons France. I guess there's still
a little sour about yeah, I think. So, Okay, three days
ago, this crowd strike four days ago, now, this crowd strike computer
update caused some five thousand flight cancelations around the world in a single day.
Almost everything is back to normal, except except your friends at Delta Airlines.
Four hundred and sixty two canceled flights today four hundred and sixty two and almost
a quarter of their entire schedule is also delayed at Delta. So why thousand
flights were canceled yesterday alone Delta's mainline operations and Endeavor, which is a regional
airline that feeds into the Delta system under the Delta Connection brand. About half
of all flights canceled by airlines worldwide were of the Delta and about three quarters
of the flights within the United States. Other US airlines had two percent or
fewer of their flights canceled, and they said that especially in places like Atlanta
Hartsfield, where the largest airport in the world or busiest airport in the world,
there were people who have been in the Atlanta airport going on five days
now as a result of these problems with Delta. This is not good for
Pete boot edge Edge Well, it doesn't reflect great on him. Well,
he can investigate and appear to show some muscle. Yes, it is true.
In a note to customers a couple days ago, the Delta CEO Ed
Bastioni, apologized for all of these disruptions and he attributed the problem specifically to
a computer program affecting the crew tracking software. He said, one of our
crew tracking related tools was affected and unable to effectively process the unprecedented number of
changes that were triggered by the system shutdown. So our teams have been working
around the clock to recover and restore full functionality, similar to what we saw
with Southwest in that Southwest was having problems and they had to basically fill out
cards hand right where they're staffing, where their crews were going to be from
airport to airport because their problems from several months ago. At this point,
they said, there have been problems with hotel rooms. Many people have been
forced to sleep in airports, wait for hours on hold trying to get through
to Delta in this effort to find flights out of there. Hartsfield International on
Monday, there were three friends, Nicole, Tiffany and Melissa. They've been
traveling since Saturday. They just want to get to home to Tucson. That's
all they were in Athens. All they want to do is go to Tucson
and imagine how desperate you must be if you want to go to That's where
you all play out. They were told finding a flight for the last leg
of their trip might not happen until tomorrow or Thursday, and they've been in
the airport since Saturday. Where were we when we were so? Was that
Phoenix? Why do I think it was Phoenix? Because the flight out of
Cleveland was supposed to go back to Lax, right Cleveland to Lax was going
to get us home from the convention. They didn't leave until about eleven o'clock
Cleveland time, and they were only going to get us as far as Phoenix
because we would take them the first flight Phoenix to Burbank. Yes, and
we were saying whatever, I was so excited to get to Phoenix. Get
me in the eight one eight and that's fine. Do you remember how cold
those sheets were? Yes, that was the best. They put us up
in Southwest, put us up in the hotel room. We were so dirty.
By that time, we had been into airport for like four hours waiting
the flights were delayed or are we talking about? That was twelve hours.
Our first flight was supposed to be out at one thirty or two in the
afternoon, So we were there for we game member. We were so gamy.
It was awful. That Bet I've never felt well, maybe not.
I mean there have been times when I actually used to physically exert myself and
laying down felt good. But that was one of the times that like that
bed was just the best thing ever. And we on that moment. We're
only in those hotel rooms a couple hours, three hour, four hours maybe,
because then we had to get right back up, get right back into
a car, head to the airport, although we were on the airport grounds,
but had to get right to the terminal for a seven or eight o'clock
flight or whatever it use was to go to Burbank. And then our luggage
never made it at least Oscar and what a mess. So the next day
we had to turn around to go to Philly for the Democratic Convention, and
Oscar and I roll up to the Lax Airport hoping that Southwest there would have
our bags. You got to carry on for a week. Yeah, you
didn't carry on for a week. It sure did many questions. Well,
I was just wearing tenting. I didn't Those true didn't really take up out
of space. It was. It was a gamy week though both of those
weeks were pretty so sticky. I'm giving sticky just thinking about it. A
guess who's running for governor I'm Antonio Vira Gosa. I'm a problem solving Yeah.
With your support, that's exactly what I'll do, is your next governor.
My god, I hear his voice and I'm so nostalgic for John and
ken Like. They had so much fun with that guy. We all did
as a reporter covering him. It was it was just a gift that kept
on giving. This was a video that he put out earlier today on social
media to announce that he was running for governor. I'm not gonna play the
whole thing. It's a little bit. It rubbs you a little bit the
wrong way. California is a state where anything is possible with hard work and
determination mostly, but our future depends on our willingness to face our biggest challenge
old I'm Antonio Vira Gosa, and I believe we need a problem solverer to
lead our state. That's why I'm running for governor. As leader of the
California State Assembly, I worked with both parties to balance the state budget.
We've billions of dollars in reserve to prevent cuts to schools, in public safety,
and when I became mayor, LA was one of the most dangerous cities
in America. So I hired nearly a thousand police officers, took illegal guns
off the streets, and violent crime dropped. I turned around our failing schools.
Did you this is one of those What has he been doing for the
last six or seven years? Getting boards, just being bored? Remember he
went on like a listening tour. He worked at a think tank. That
was one of the brilliant things that John and Ken could make fun of.
Well, and like he's some sort of bright mind. There we are,
fifth in San Pedro. Remember he's driving in his Prius. Yes, looking
at the homelessness solidos. You know, we could do better than this.
We really can't go away than in the richest nation in the world. So
many people of Henry looking for shelter. Oh my gosh, tense everywhere.
Yeah, I can't. Please do more for each other, Yes, please,
let's get more of this. I've said I have a lot of service
left in me, and you know, I think it's pretty clear the writing
on the wall. So speaking of the conventions, he was speaker twenty six
years ago. Just so you to speak of the House or Speaker of the
Assembly, to remind you about the conventions. Also that day when we were
you know, spent it felt like a day alone trying to get out of
Cleveland. The next morning, we got up and came back to Lax to
fly to Philadelphia. And as we're sitting there, there were a lot of
people that were headed to the convention also from Lax on that flight with us,
including the former mayor and Tonio Viirigoso. We actually took a picture with
him because he was Antonio via Ragosa, and I think you introduced yourself.
He didn't have any clue who I was, but he hall. I mean,
I covered most of his whole term. And that's a that's a four
and a half hour, five hour flight from Lax to Philadelphia. I wanted
to say hello, and then I didn't want any more interaction, right,
so I pretended to sleep the entire flight. Well, he did this thing
where he was seated up towards the front, not first class, mind you,
but up towards the front, and he'd get up and he'd start talking
to people, and he'd come down the aisle and was high five in people.
It was working the captive audience that was the plane because we couldn't leave.
We were in a plane. That's when I think you were sitting directly
in front of me or yeah, and you we were laughing about the fact
that he's holding people hostage as he's talking to them, and you're like,
oh no, he's getting closer, he's getting closer. And then I see
your head go hunk and slump over and you pretended to sleep. I put
my eyemask on and everything. The flight detendants eventually made him go sit down,
because you know, you're not supposed to just walk around the airplane cabin
these days. So it reminded me of getting a man on the street interviews
at a gas station. It's captive audience. Those people aren't going anywhere.
They're filling up their tank. Now, just imagine if you were to do
it at like a Tesla charging station where they got to sit there for fifteen
or twenty or thirty minutes. You can have a full on conversation with them.
You know everything about those people. Anyway, So Vieira Gosa says he
will be running for governor. Can you feel it? Six twenty twenty six
is when the election is because Skeavin Newsom of course, is going to be
turned out. We just got news as well, Thank you producer Keana for
three throwing this in there. New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez will resign his office,
but not until August twentieth. They said. The official resignation would be
submitted to New Jersey's Governor Phil Murphy, who would then select an inter replacement.
Of course, Menendez was the one who has found guilty on all charges
in that bribery fraud case in New York, a two month long trial.
Federal prosecutor said that he accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in the
form of cash, gold bars, mortgage payments, and more in exchange for
his political clout. Did you know that yawning is a sign of being cold
in humans? It is? Yeah, no, yeah, really, that's
why we yawn in here sometimes in the middle of the day, sub zero.
We're super excited to be here. I am Oh, aren't you?
Wow? You don't have to be mad about it. Why didn't trying to
poke a little levity at you? And then oh, I'm sorry, you're
not having fun? Sorry is not fun? Sorry? Not fun enough?
Snappy. We've got plenty to get to in swamp watch. We've got the
secret Service Director resigning. We've got net and Yahoo to address Congress, what's
going on with common La Harris and her swing through the Blue the Blue Wall,
and then we've got the investigation of Delta. There was one thing that
we got to get to, uh, this one right here. Come on,
Gary and Shannon. You know they meant he messed up like he does
in everything he says. Trump, but he meant coming out of the Secret
Service car to go into the hospital a stretcher there. Of course they wouldn't
pull a stretcher up there, but that's Trump. Tuck does not know how
to say things. Why do we have to have translations for now? The
two people who are at the top of the ticket, we do. What
they really meant to say, is this, trust me? Come on,
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