Speaker 1: Good morning, Kentucky and a happy Monday. It is Kentucky
Speaker 1: and his Morning News with Nick Coffee on News Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas getting the week started here and the
Speaker 1: crew has a symbol Scott Fitzgerald alongside John Alden he's
Speaker 1: here as well, and John Shannon in the mix. We'll
Speaker 1: have your first newscast coming your way at five thirty.
Speaker 1: And obviously I think we know what is going to
Speaker 1: be a big topic of discussion today for a good
Speaker 1: part of our morning. But I'll start with you, fellas.
Speaker 1: How was the weekend? Good weekend?
Speaker 2: It was fantastic, bro. I spent a lot of times
Speaker 2: someone was in town, got to watch a little the
Speaker 2: NBA Finals last night. I got to hang out, grilled
Speaker 2: out all weekend long.
Speaker 3: But was sweating.
Speaker 4: No, I was gonna say it was.
Speaker 1: If you were outside this weekend, you were sweaty and ready.
Speaker 4: I mean it was.
Speaker 1: It was brutal, and today is going to be just
Speaker 1: as bad, maybe worse. John, how about you?
Speaker 5: A lot of good vibes this weekend. Whent over to
Speaker 5: the end laws, gotten their hot tub, which thankfully because hot,
Speaker 5: so hold on, hold on, let me explain. It's a
Speaker 5: swim seap he can lower the temperance. It's yeah, I did.
Speaker 5: Maybe I shouldn't have off that way, but uh, it was.
Speaker 5: It was a good little Saturday afternoon over at the
Speaker 5: end laws nice.
Speaker 4: Well, nice to hear.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: My weekend also was was very solid, very warm. And
Speaker 1: of course last night the Pacers end up losing and
Speaker 1: that that's a bummer, but you know, we can certainly
Speaker 1: get into that this morning. And I don't really have
Speaker 1: any I'm bummed, but I really felt throughout the entire
Speaker 1: run they were on in the postseason that the likelihood
Speaker 1: of them winning the whole thing was was unlikely. But
Speaker 1: there's also this reminded me a little bit of when
Speaker 1: the Bengals lost in the Super.
Speaker 4: Bowl to who was it?
Speaker 1: I know they beat the Sheeps, Yeah, the Rams got them,
Speaker 1: and and I remember telling Bengals fans like, I mean,
Speaker 1: you kidding me?
Speaker 4: How could you be disappointed.
Speaker 1: The Bengals made the Super Bowl? This is insane that
Speaker 1: this really happened. And Joe Burrow, I mean, he's young,
Speaker 1: He's only going to get better. And I don't think
Speaker 1: I don't rememb remember getting any kind of pushback from that. However,
Speaker 1: one of my Buddies, who's a big Bengals fan, said them.
Speaker 1: That always stuck with me, and I thought of him
Speaker 1: last night because all that can be true. But when
Speaker 1: you're right there and it's I mean, you're to Game
Speaker 1: seven of the NBA Finals, that's first time that's ever
Speaker 1: happened to the Pacers, you can be substantially better than
Speaker 1: you were this year, and you don't know if you're
Speaker 1: ever going to be in that spot. So to get
Speaker 1: that close and come up short, it sucks. But the
Speaker 1: biggest issue.
Speaker 4: Is now next year.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're probably going to be without Haliburton because
Speaker 1: of the Achilles injury, so that's a bummer. But overall, okay,
Speaker 1: see as your winner, and we got a lot to
Speaker 1: get into the sports, you've got a lot to react to.
Speaker 3: You.
Speaker 2: You ask a good question amongst sports fans in life
Speaker 2: in general, when you get to that point, whether it
Speaker 2: be sports, whether it be anything in life, when you
Speaker 2: get to that magical point and you fall just short,
Speaker 2: whether it's career, whether it's sports, whether it's anything. Because
Speaker 2: I went through that with the Lions when they lost
Speaker 2: that to the forty nine ers, Sure, and then of
Speaker 2: course got bounced by the commanders.
Speaker 4: You know, would you rather not make it that far.
Speaker 2: In just or just go all the way?
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I think the obvious answer is, of course, the further
Speaker 1: you go, the better it is. But as a fan,
Speaker 1: the emotional component changes a little bit to where you
Speaker 1: set yourself up for a bigger disappointment when it comes short.
Speaker 1: So just part of being a sportsman. But we'll get
Speaker 1: into sports coming up here in about fifteen minutes. It
Speaker 1: is five h nine here at news Radio eight forty.
Speaker 1: Whas and what I referenced a moment ago, as far
Speaker 1: as what will be of course a big topic of discussion,
Speaker 1: not just today but probably for the foreseeable future. Really
Speaker 1: everywhere as it happened, I said, last week, you know,
Speaker 1: we heard two weeks was the timeline mentioned by Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: And yet I said, I kind of feel like we'll
Speaker 1: find out sooner closer to now than two weeks from
Speaker 1: said date.
Speaker 4: And I was right.
Speaker 1: I can't say I told you so very often, so
Speaker 1: I'll say I told you so now. But yeah, he
Speaker 1: made the big moves that I guess really isn't a
Speaker 1: surprise at all. He's thrown some US muscle behind Israel's
Speaker 1: air Campaigan hitting Iron's nuclear programs. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: something that has been discussed, and I guess now that
Speaker 1: we sit here a couple of days after it's happened,
Speaker 1: no surprise really at all, right, I mean I kind
Speaker 1: of felt like this was coming. So the US has
Speaker 1: joined in on Israel's attack of Iran and their nuclear programs.
Speaker 1: And here's what I'll say. And of course we'll talk
Speaker 1: about it all throughout the morning and keep you updated
Speaker 1: as best we can.
Speaker 4: But I think if anybody.
Speaker 1: Tells you they they know where this is going, good
Speaker 1: or bad, they don't know what.
Speaker 4: Nobody knows. Nobody truly knows.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 1: I kind of wish there was more acknowledgment of that
Speaker 1: because I think I don't think you'd hit a whole
Speaker 1: lot of resistance.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't really know what waters I'm stepping in here,
Speaker 1: But nobody knows where this goes from here?
Speaker 2: No, in what's impointant to keeping context, because you're gonna
Speaker 2: hear a lot from the split boxes, the talking heads.
Speaker 4: Everybody's an analyst.
Speaker 2: This time of year, My inbox has already been inundated
Speaker 2: with people who are analysts. Look, there are people that
Speaker 2: work in the intel world. This was a calculated move
Speaker 2: by the where you love then tration or you don't.
Speaker 2: There are people that are trained to do this that
Speaker 2: do this. Do they know what they're doing all the time,
Speaker 2: none of us do, I get it. But they're privy
Speaker 2: to more intel, more information. They know the bigger picture
Speaker 2: than It's kind of like the guy who sits up
Speaker 2: in the stands and tries to call a strike that's
Speaker 2: not a strike when the umpire is clearly behind the
Speaker 2: plate and has a better view. So it's kind of
Speaker 2: important to keep that in person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of people supportive of it, a lot
Speaker 1: of people saying this was a big mistake.
Speaker 4: And again you can make points on.
Speaker 1: Both sides, But as far as what really comes of this,
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody has any real clue at all,
Speaker 1: Maybe more so than ever when it comes to these
Speaker 1: kind of situations. So again, we'll keep you updated as
Speaker 1: best we can throughout the morning. It is five eleven
Speaker 1: here Kentucky in his morning news on news radio eight
Speaker 1: forty whas let's get an update on traffic and weather.
Speaker 4: Yes, it is.
Speaker 1: Monday morning, five sixteen here Kentucky and his morning news
Speaker 1: on news Radio eight forty whas nit coffee with you.
Speaker 1: I guess this gets it out of the way. Thank
Speaker 1: you John for that. Because it is Monday. I guess
Speaker 1: just embracing it with a little uh mark chestnut. That's
Speaker 1: I mean, that's how you that's how you get it
Speaker 1: out of the way.
Speaker 4: You deal with it.
Speaker 1: Mondays are always difficult, especially after a fun weekend.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: And maybe it's just me, but the heat, I mean
Speaker 1: that just makes that just I feel just going outside
Speaker 1: for a little while and then coming back in to
Speaker 1: catch my breath and need a shower. Honestly, just because
Speaker 1: of how humid it is outside. Uh, it just it
Speaker 1: wears you down. So if you are tired this morning,
Speaker 1: I get it, just but just embrace Monday. There's nothing else,
Speaker 1: There's nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 4: It's ere.
Speaker 1: So let's let's have a Monday, ladies and gentlemen. So again,
Speaker 1: uh the the let's start with this Operation Midnight Hammer,
Speaker 1: that is uh, that is what Donald Trump and his
Speaker 1: team have U have named their attack on an Iran
Speaker 1: from over the weekend, attacking three of their nuclear sites.
Speaker 1: Can we just get that out of the way, Operation.
Speaker 4: Midnight Hammer is a badass name.
Speaker 5: That is a killer name.
Speaker 4: I mean, that is awesome.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I mean, I don't say that with
Speaker 1: any indication that I'm sharing any strong opinion in one
Speaker 1: way or the other as far as the decision to
Speaker 1: do to do what we did as a country, and
Speaker 1: of course the reaction in the aftermath, because that's that's
Speaker 1: the big unknown. But just the name itself, operation Midnight Hammer.
Speaker 1: That could be a lot of things, like you like
Speaker 1: bring up like have you guys heard? And they could
Speaker 1: be like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 4: Have you heard what? Like?
Speaker 1: They could think you're talking about a movie. They could
Speaker 1: think you're talking about what actually happened. I mean, the
Speaker 1: different the different things that could technically tie into something
Speaker 1: being called Midnight Hammer are endless. But no matter what
Speaker 1: it is, it just sounds pretty badass, I think. So anyhow,
Speaker 1: that is, of course the big news. I doubt that
Speaker 1: as of five eighteen, here on a Monday morning, I
Speaker 1: am I'm sharing this news with you for the first time,
Speaker 1: so I'm not telling you anything you didn't already know.
Speaker 1: And again, what we also don't know is what truly
Speaker 1: comes from this. But here is President Trump on Saturday
Speaker 1: after the big news.
Speaker 6: Our objective was the destruction of a range nuclear enrichment
Speaker 6: capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by
Speaker 6: the world's number one state sponsor of terror. Tonight, I
Speaker 6: can report to the world that the strikes were a
Speaker 6: spectacular military success. Iran's key nuclear and Richmond facilities have
Speaker 6: been completely and totally obliterated.
Speaker 1: So one thing that really stood out to me as
Speaker 1: I am and I have no problem of admitting this.
Speaker 1: Maybe I shouldn't. Maybe I'll get a phone call later, Hey,
Speaker 1: don't don't do that. Don't I wouldn't. I wouldn't bring
Speaker 1: that up unless it has to be brought up. I'll
Speaker 1: just say it. I'm learning a lot about this kind
Speaker 1: of stuff as far as just the actual steps that
Speaker 1: take place for something like this to happen, meaning bombing Iran.
Speaker 1: So what I think is and again this isn't all
Speaker 1: new information to me, but the last four presidents Obama, Trump,
Speaker 1: Biden and now Trump again have all launched military actions
Speaker 1: from drone strikes to again bombing Iran's nuclear sites without
Speaker 1: Congress giving the green light. So regardless of political affiliation,
Speaker 1: this has now become a thing that not only is
Speaker 1: is rather common it doesn't really seem as if anybody
Speaker 1: truly thinks that they need Congress to give them the
Speaker 1: green light, right, I Mean, the Constitution's pretty clear, right,
Speaker 1: only Congress can declare war. That's not just a rule.
Speaker 1: I mean it should be a safeguard to keep us
Speaker 1: from rushing into conflicts. So, yeah, you've now got voices
Speaker 1: on both sides, from Rand Paul to Bernie Sanders that
Speaker 1: that will sound the alarm and and let it be
Speaker 1: known that you know, this is this is this was
Speaker 1: not the action was not taken the way that it
Speaker 1: was supposed to be taken. Like there's there's certain things
Speaker 1: you're supposed to do that people just now don't seem
Speaker 1: to care as as much about. And I don't you know,
Speaker 1: I think right now the those bringing it up, they're
Speaker 1: drowned out every time.
Speaker 4: And it's I think.
Speaker 1: It's because it's easier to act first and then debate
Speaker 1: later and just know that it'll be just a back in.
Speaker 1: But ignoring the risks of this, I just it's going
Speaker 1: to potentially drag us into deeper, deeper, deeper into war,
Speaker 1: which I don't think anybody wants, right. So again, that's
Speaker 1: that's the the lead topic today will be for a while,
Speaker 1: and we will wait and see because I'm very comfortable
Speaker 1: and content and letting you know that, regardless of what
Speaker 1: side you're on when it comes to the politics or
Speaker 1: what you claim to read, who you follow, who you
Speaker 1: think has the best news, as far as sources and
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff, nobody knows what truly comes
Speaker 1: of this, so we'll try our best to keep you
Speaker 1: updated as best we can. Again, it's five twenty one
Speaker 1: here at Kentucky and it's morning News on news Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whs, let's get another update of traffic and
Speaker 1: weather and our first update of sports right here on
Speaker 1: news radio eight forty whas. All right, I may have
Speaker 1: to challenge John Shannon to keep that going as long
Speaker 1: as he can. A fresh batch, a fresh helping.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 1: A fresh helping reminds me of eating like Thanksgiving dinner
Speaker 1: my grandmother's house as a kid. So thank you for that, John,
Speaker 1: And you're right, it's a fresh helping coming your way.
Speaker 1: It's five thirty five here a Kentucky and this morning
Speaker 1: News with Nick Coffee on news Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: Rory O'Neil is set to join us coming up here
Speaker 1: in ten minutes of NBC News will get the latest
Speaker 1: and get his thoughts on sort of I mean, is
Speaker 1: it worth asking what's next?
Speaker 4: Where do we go from here? What can we expect?
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think if I did ask that
Speaker 1: anybody would be alarmed as if what kind of question
Speaker 1: is that?
Speaker 4: But none of us really know.
Speaker 1: But again, what Rory can do is he can keep
Speaker 1: us up to date on what's out there, the latest
Speaker 1: as far as what is developing. So again he'll join
Speaker 1: us coming up here shortly. Here is something to be
Speaker 1: mindful of, and this is certainly scary, but there are
Speaker 1: aspects of this that, of course are scary in a
Speaker 1: lot of different ways. But NBC News is reporting that
Speaker 1: Iran warrened President Trump that they would activate sleepers sell
Speaker 1: terror inside the United States if it were attacked. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if these two things are I mean
Speaker 1: totally aligned here. But you also have reports coming out
Speaker 1: that during the you know, during the Biden administration, that
Speaker 1: more than seven hundred Iranian nationals illegally entered the US
Speaker 1: and they were released into the country again during the
Speaker 1: Biden administration. That's according to data obtained Sunday by the
Speaker 1: by the center square from a from a Border patrol agent.
Speaker 1: So take of that which you will, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: I will say, I was listening.
Speaker 4: And this is in no.
Speaker 1: Way a shot or a slight at our great partners
Speaker 1: at WLKY, because I'm sure, I mean, that's all they
Speaker 1: can do. They did nothing wrong here, but something did
Speaker 1: just stand out to me when they were I don't
Speaker 1: even remember which story it was, but we always keep
Speaker 1: our TV in the studio here on WOKY, and their
Speaker 1: four thirty newscast was on and I'm just getting prep
Speaker 1: for the show, and I just I hear them wrapping
Speaker 1: up a story and it was a reminder for their
Speaker 1: listeners to make sure that any reporting that they do
Speaker 1: in fact see is is accurate. And I'm thinking, good luck,
Speaker 1: good luck if that. I mean, I don't think that's
Speaker 1: as easy as you think it is. I mean, I
Speaker 1: wish there was a way to just know that what
Speaker 1: is out there and what's being shared is truly accurate
Speaker 1: or not. I mean, so again, that's that's I feel
Speaker 1: like something that hasn't really needed to be to be
Speaker 1: said for quite some time, because you know, the old,
Speaker 1: the old joke of well wouldn't be on the internet
Speaker 1: if it wasn't true. I mean, that's that's I think
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things. In fact, maybe there's more
Speaker 1: on the internet that's not true than what in fact
Speaker 1: is true. But with this type of situation, I mean,
Speaker 1: good luck. I think there are certain outlets and whatnot publications,
Speaker 1: even just specific journalists reporters that you feel as if
Speaker 1: if you're seeing it directly from them, if they're on
Speaker 1: live television and they're they're sharing news, breaking news, you
Speaker 1: feel as if you.
Speaker 4: Can trust it.
Speaker 1: But I now take it, I now take everything from
Speaker 1: every side of coverage, especially on national news and politics,
Speaker 1: there's at least some level of okay, well, maybe there's
Speaker 1: probably some exaggeration, you know, some stretching of the truth,
Speaker 1: if you will. Also, I know a lot of folks
Speaker 1: who maybe just don't let this consume them the way
Speaker 1: others do, because they just think it's out of their
Speaker 1: control and they just they're more so preoccupied by how
Speaker 1: this impacts their day to day life. Well, one way
Speaker 1: that it will is gas prices. So right now, the expectation,
Speaker 1: of course, is that gas prices could jump quickly, possibly
Speaker 1: buy a dollar twenty five per gallon if oil hits
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty dollars, so that will be I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of folks out there that even if
Speaker 1: they wanted to avoid this type of news and whatnot,
Speaker 1: it'd be hard to do just because of what we're
Speaker 1: dealing with. But they'll start looking for the latest as
Speaker 1: far as hey, can we get this figured out so
Speaker 1: the gas prices.
Speaker 4: Aren't so high.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to act as if the majority
Speaker 1: of America just doesn't care about this stuff, because that's
Speaker 1: not true. But there are many that just they don't
Speaker 1: they don't follow it as much, and they maybe just
Speaker 1: know that they don't have any controls, so they're just
Speaker 1: going to let it play out and live their life
Speaker 1: and be in their own world. And honestly, I don't
Speaker 1: think there's anything really wrong with that. I mean, you
Speaker 1: have the right to do that, and honestly, if you
Speaker 1: do that, I totally get it. So again, the concern
Speaker 1: about rising gas prices in the United States is something
Speaker 1: that regardless of your status politically or your thoughts on
Speaker 1: what took place over the weekend as the United States
Speaker 1: got involved here intervened, if you will, with what's going
Speaker 1: on between Iran and Israel. Gas prices are certainly expected
Speaker 1: to make a big jump here, so we shall see.
Speaker 1: But Roory O'Neil of NBC News, he joins us here
Speaker 1: on the other side. And then of course we've got
Speaker 1: another data sports coming your way at around a five
Speaker 1: to fifty five, So hang out with us. It's a
Speaker 1: Monday morning. It's Kentucky and His Morning News on News
Speaker 1: Radio eight forty w.
Speaker 4: Five forty five.
Speaker 1: Here Kentucky and his Morning News with Nick Coffee on
Speaker 1: News Radio eight forty whas Happy Monday, everybody. Let's welcome
Speaker 1: in our friend Rory O'Neal of NBC News. Rory, we
Speaker 1: heard two weeks was the time frame for President Trump
Speaker 1: and didn't take close to two weeks for him to
Speaker 1: make the decision. And obviously that's been the big story.
Speaker 1: What is the response right now as far as what
Speaker 1: we can expect from Iran when it comes to just
Speaker 1: where they plan, you know, to strike back. Clearly, they're
Speaker 1: not just going to act as if this didn't happen, all.
Speaker 3: Right, And we've seen more of the similar back and
Speaker 3: forth with them lobbing more missiles and drones that Iran.
Speaker 3: Iran launching some significant attacks towards Tehran in the past
Speaker 3: few hours, but not the big retribution against the US
Speaker 3: that we're fearing. Remember, President Trump has said, look, this
Speaker 3: can be a one and done that all we wanted
Speaker 3: to do was to take out the nuclear facilities. If
Speaker 3: you guys want to come to the table where we'll
Speaker 3: to talk, so long as you pledge that you're not
Speaker 3: going to renew your nuclear ambitions. But Iran has said no,
Speaker 3: they are going to retaliate in some way. They have
Speaker 3: a lot of things at their disposal. Yes, they're a
Speaker 3: lot weaker than they were, but there's still cyber there's
Speaker 3: still We've got a lot of military assets in the
Speaker 3: region that are within their ballistic missile range, and they
Speaker 3: could take some action that would close down the Strait
Speaker 3: of Hormuz. That's like twenty million barrels of oil a
Speaker 3: day go through there, so that could really disrupt international markets.
Speaker 1: Vpjd Vance reiterated yesterday that I'll read the quote, we
Speaker 1: do not want war with Iran. We actually want peace.
Speaker 1: He went on to say that we are not at
Speaker 1: war with Iran, and we're at war with Iran's nuclear program.
Speaker 1: Do you get the sense that there's been a real
Speaker 1: push to emphasize that. It seemed as if that's really
Speaker 1: been something that was that took off yesterday, that maybe
Speaker 1: the reaction to the decision from President Trump has I
Speaker 1: guess had his administration wanting to really enforced that this
Speaker 1: is not a war with Iran.
Speaker 4: It's in again.
Speaker 1: They can word it however they want, but just seems
Speaker 1: like yesterday that was a bigger talking point than I
Speaker 1: maybe would have expected.
Speaker 4: Well, right, I.
Speaker 3: Look, I was having my morning coffee, I was watching
Speaker 3: Meet the Press. I watched that whole thing happen live,
Speaker 3: and I said, oh, that's interesting that they're taking this tact.
Speaker 3: And then by the afternoon, President Trump is tweeting all
Speaker 3: about regime change and make Iran great again. So look
Speaker 3: that went right on. Still, the Vice President's comments sort
Speaker 3: of went right out the window with the post on
Speaker 3: true social So it's a little confusing as to exactly
Speaker 3: what the goals are. I mean, we know that Israel
Speaker 3: wants to see regime change in Iran, and it does
Speaker 3: go back to a basic question. Okay, fine, we took
Speaker 3: out their nuclear capabilities, but at the same people are
Speaker 3: still in charge. They're just going to hit the reset
Speaker 3: button on this stuff, and we may be at this
Speaker 3: again in just a few years.
Speaker 4: Rory and Nale.
Speaker 1: NBC News is our guest joining us here on news
Speaker 1: radio eight forty whas and NBC News is reporting that
Speaker 1: Iran warren President Trump that it would activate sleeper cell
Speaker 1: tear inside the United States if it were attacked. And
Speaker 1: then we also have a report that more than seven
Speaker 1: hundred Iranian nationals were illegally led into the country during
Speaker 1: the Biden administration. Do those two things correlate? Is that
Speaker 1: is when you when you hear the report of that
Speaker 1: there was there was a warning that you know, we've
Speaker 1: got sleeper cells here. I mean again, I guess there's
Speaker 1: no way to know for sure, but I guess just
Speaker 1: the latest on that development.
Speaker 3: Well, right, again, you don't know what the buzz is
Speaker 3: and you don't know how much Iran is just trying
Speaker 3: to save face because again you've had their military leadership
Speaker 3: as they're fascinated by Israel. They're trying to say that, look,
Speaker 3: we're not a paper tiger. We are a strong country,
Speaker 3: is what they're trying the show they're trying to put on.
Speaker 3: We also know that there are some communications with back channels.
Speaker 3: You know, we don't know how much progress they're making there,
Speaker 3: but they have reached out, especially through the EU, so
Speaker 3: there are some realizations that you know, Iran is not
Speaker 3: in a position of power here. So that's why, you know,
Speaker 3: we're so fascinated to see what they're response would be.
Speaker 3: And again i'd also look up, as I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 3: for their cyber capability. Sure, they're pretty good at it,
Speaker 3: and that would be something i'd worry about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the warnings in regards to that last week pretty
Speaker 1: pretty alarming that they may have a better ability to
Speaker 1: hit us there than anything else at this point. So
Speaker 1: that's one of the things, one of the many things
Speaker 1: I've been thinking about as far as the potential aftermath here.
Speaker 1: But we've got another poll that is out that tells
Speaker 1: us young adults as gen Z, that's how they're classified
Speaker 1: by most, that they're actually quite conservative. I know, we'll
Speaker 1: have these polls that we discussed throughout. What are your
Speaker 1: takeaways from this one?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought this is interesting. So gen Z is
Speaker 3: born between nineteen ninety seven and twenty twelve, so that
Speaker 3: makes them between thirteen and twenty eight years old, especially
Speaker 3: the younger ones. They're turning out to be much more conservative,
Speaker 3: and actually the pandemic has a lot to do with it.
Speaker 3: Like if you were in grade school during the pandemic,
Speaker 3: then you're likely to be much more conservative than if
Speaker 3: you were older and say in college, and the way
Speaker 3: that you were treated during the pandemic how government operated,
Speaker 3: gives you very different views of things depending on your age.
Speaker 3: So it's fascinating to see that in some segments of
Speaker 3: gen Z they were actually voting more for President Trump
Speaker 3: than baby boomers, who we promptly assume we're all voting
Speaker 3: for President Trump. So it's fascinating to see how things
Speaker 3: are splitting here. But a warning to conservatives and fans
Speaker 3: of President Trump. Some of these latest policies though, are
Speaker 3: not going over too well even with the more conservative
Speaker 3: gen z ers. They don't like some of these ice raids,
Speaker 3: especially in hospitals and churches and things like that. So
Speaker 3: that's something to look out for to how some of
Speaker 3: these ice operations are unfolding.
Speaker 1: Rory, thank you as always for the time. Enjoy the
Speaker 1: rest of your day and we will talk soon, my friend.
Speaker 3: Thanks Nick.
Speaker 1: All right, that's Rory and Neald NBC News. I got
Speaker 1: to be honest, I'm not totally stunned to hear that
Speaker 1: those that were I guess you know those that are
Speaker 1: in gen z currently you know where they were at
Speaker 1: the time of how this country responded to the coronavirus
Speaker 1: and the pay pandemic. I mean, I'm not at all
Speaker 1: surprised that that was a dare I say, a turn
Speaker 1: off when it comes to the democratic side of things,
Speaker 1: But just my thoughts. All right, we've got sports coming
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