Speaker 1: Keep it going, John Shannon, well done, well done. Operation
Speaker 1: Midnight Hammer.
Speaker 2: Is that.
Speaker 1: The strike that took place over the weekend as the
Speaker 1: United States struck Iran? Or is that the name of
Speaker 1: the latest WWE pay per view Operation Midnight Hammer. Could
Speaker 1: be a lot of things, but maybe that's just me. Anyways,
Speaker 1: It is seven o five here, Kentucky in his morning
Speaker 1: news on news Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee with you.
Speaker 1: We've got John Allen alongside today Scott Fitzgerald with the sports.
Speaker 1: We'll have another sports update coming your way in about
Speaker 1: twenty minutes, and of course you just heard John Shannon there.
Speaker 1: We are going to be joined coming up in roughly
Speaker 1: ten minutes by another guest. It is Ali Piccoran of
Speaker 1: ABC News. She's going to join us to discuss the obvious,
Speaker 1: and that is the situation as the United States has
Speaker 1: has intervened here and is not at war with Iran,
Speaker 1: they want to make that pretty clear, but certainly at
Speaker 1: war with the nuclear programs that Iron has. And course,
Speaker 1: as I've said throughout the morning here probably isn't something
Speaker 1: that needs to be said as much as I have
Speaker 1: said it, but why not reiterate because I think many
Speaker 1: are sharing opinions on this, and look, I think it's
Speaker 1: it's expected that people would have strong opinions one way
Speaker 1: or another about the decision that Donald Trump made. But
Speaker 1: you know, as far as what really plays out the
Speaker 1: rest of the way, as far as where this goes
Speaker 1: good or bad, it's it's completely unknown at this point,
Speaker 1: but certainly something We're going to keep you updated as
Speaker 1: best we can here at NewsRadio eight forty whas. At
Speaker 1: times I've thought to myself, as this is this real,
Speaker 1: meaning just you know, some of the things that have
Speaker 1: taken place in this world, not just this country in
Speaker 1: recent years.
Speaker 2: But whenever I mean, I'll take you back to the
Speaker 2: this is I guess.
Speaker 1: Week two for me, whenever I was making the transition
Speaker 1: here to news Radio eight forty WHS, we had some
Speaker 1: coverage of an internet fight that you don't often see,
Speaker 1: maybe the most powerful man in the world, Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: and maybe one of the one of the most of
Speaker 1: one of the most wealthiest men in the world, and
Speaker 1: Elon Musk and they're having their they're having their internet
Speaker 1: fight and and throwing some big time jabs at each other.
Speaker 1: Obviously some big time accusations made on both sides, and
Speaker 1: I remember one of the first responses that I saw
Speaker 1: was that when you consider just what was what was
Speaker 1: said back and forth and a brief amount of time
Speaker 1: on a social media platform that Elon Musk owns. I mean,
Speaker 1: a WWE storyline that would probably take like a year
Speaker 1: and a half to play out, it played out in
Speaker 1: about forty eight hours on the internet. It's one of
Speaker 1: those moments where you think, Okay.
Speaker 2: Is this is this real?
Speaker 1: Is this is this this just there's no way we'd
Speaker 1: have these people of of of the status that they
Speaker 1: have fighting on the internet. But it happens, and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: the I swear whenever. Let's go back to the presidential debate,
Speaker 1: this was of course.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, any any residential debate's going to get
Speaker 1: a lot of attention because it's important, right, You're going
Speaker 1: to hear from both sides, and it's a big decision
Speaker 1: to make, right as far as who we as a
Speaker 1: country decide is going to be the leader that's going
Speaker 1: to be the president. But this exchange between Trump and Biden,
Speaker 1: it kind of you I trust me, I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to correlate everything to professional wrestling, and I hope you
Speaker 1: guys can can understand, you know, you can sense the
Speaker 1: sarcasm here, But this, this exchange really happened. As I'm
Speaker 1: reflecting on just various things over the years that wow,
Speaker 1: you didn't. I don't know if I would have expected
Speaker 1: had you told me five six years ago, that you'd have,
Speaker 1: you know, this back and forth between two people that
Speaker 1: are fighting to become or at least you know, one
Speaker 1: person was trying to maintain the spot as president and
Speaker 1: Trump was trying to get it back.
Speaker 2: But this was in fact real.
Speaker 4: I'm having sex from a porn star on the night
Speaker 4: image every while.
Speaker 1: Your wife was training it.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? You have the morals of
Speaker 2: an alley cat.
Speaker 3: I didn't have sex with a porn star.
Speaker 1: I mean, you would think that that was doc that
Speaker 1: was not real. And if I'd have said ten years
Speaker 1: ago that will be in exchange between two candidates to
Speaker 1: be the president of the United States, I don't think
Speaker 1: for a second you would believe me. But here we are,
Speaker 1: so again we'll talk coming up here shortly and get
Speaker 1: the latest because again I'm sure it's a continuously developing situation.
Speaker 1: But again we'll talk with Ali Picoran. She's an ABC
Speaker 1: News correspondent. She's going to join us coming up here
Speaker 1: at seven fifteen, but before that, we've got another update
Speaker 1: on traffic and weather right here at Kentucky and is
Speaker 1: Morning News on News Radio eight forty whas it is
Speaker 1: seven fifteen here Kentucky and is Morning News on News
Speaker 1: Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee with you, and we
Speaker 1: are now joined by ABC News correspondent Ali picorin Ali.
Speaker 1: When it comes to Operation Midnight Hammer and the reaction
Speaker 1: from leaders here in Congress, I think from my perspective,
Speaker 1: it seems as if the reaction on both sides with
Speaker 1: was as expected, just given the current temperature in the
Speaker 1: climate of politics right now. But I guess was there
Speaker 1: any reaction that you felt like was a surprise as
Speaker 1: far as reacting to what took place over the weekend.
Speaker 4: I think that your assessment of it is largely fair.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: It's pretty typical that we would expect to see Republicans
Speaker 4: largely falling in line with President Trump's actions. Will Democrats
Speaker 4: suppose what he's doing, and I think pretty across the board,
Speaker 4: that's what we've seen. But I will say there are
Speaker 4: a number of Republicans that have had no worthy reactions
Speaker 4: to this action that they do feel that President Trump
Speaker 4: has overstepped his authority here by unilaterally acting in Iran
Speaker 4: over the weekend. Congress, as you know, has an authority
Speaker 4: to declare war, and so the debate that's going on
Speaker 4: on Capitol Hill right now is whether these targeted strikes
Speaker 4: on Iran nuclear site constitute a war action that Congress
Speaker 4: would have needed to authorize, as opposed to President Trump's
Speaker 4: acting under this authority that the Constitution grants him to
Speaker 4: take action and there's an immediate threat against the United States,
Speaker 4: and so that's a debate that's going to be playing
Speaker 4: out pretty aggressively on Capitol Hill this week.
Speaker 1: I know you can't speak for anybody but yourself, but
Speaker 1: did it seem as if the emphasis yesterday that they're
Speaker 1: not we're not at war with Iran or at war
Speaker 1: with their nuclear programs. It seems as if that there's
Speaker 1: a to me. It seems as if there may have
Speaker 1: been a real reason emphasized that because of what you
Speaker 1: just mentioned.
Speaker 4: Yeah, certainly, it seems like, especially when we saw a
Speaker 4: President Vans out yesterday making those comments, it's certainly working
Speaker 4: to underscore this message from the administration that they don't
Speaker 4: do this as an act of war against another country.
Speaker 4: Whether that's going to actually have a fact on Capitol
Speaker 4: Hill is a little unclear, And I should say the
Speaker 4: vast majority of Republicans who control both chambers of Congress
Speaker 4: right now are very much standing behind what President Trump
Speaker 4: did this weekend. So when I say there's Republicans that
Speaker 4: are raising concerns about this, it's a pretty small group
Speaker 4: of them. But we should expect to see efforts on
Speaker 4: Capitol Hill this week to try to force the issue
Speaker 4: onto the floor. There's going to be members who want
Speaker 4: to see Congress take a vote on whether they need
Speaker 4: to authorize these strikes. They is called war powers votes.
Speaker 4: But again Democrats told them minority in both chambers. So
Speaker 4: whether either of those bills, or any of those bills
Speaker 4: get any traction, will have to see, because in Trumbull
Speaker 4: also have the ability to veto them, and I don't
Speaker 4: expect that there would be a veto proof majority on
Speaker 4: any of that stuff.
Speaker 1: Ali bikorna ABC News is our guest joining us here
Speaker 1: on News Radio eight forty w h AS. When it
Speaker 1: comes to Congress, what are the what are the key
Speaker 1: concerns here as far as reaction, you know, initially from
Speaker 1: from Iran. Obviously they've let it be known that they're
Speaker 1: going to react and already have in some form or fashion.
Speaker 1: But I guess what's what's the biggest concern initially following
Speaker 1: this this strike over the weekend as far as where
Speaker 1: they think the retaliation is going to come, right, So
Speaker 1: the big.
Speaker 4: Thing from a congressional perspective is trying to esport that
Speaker 4: line of what it would mean to attack a very
Speaker 4: specific site in Iran as opposed to a larger US response.
Speaker 4: So what Iran does here will very much dictate how
Speaker 4: the United States responds to it. And so what we're
Speaker 4: seeing is a lot of Republicans coming forward and saying, look,
Speaker 4: we don't want to enter a war, but it would
Speaker 4: also be completely unacceptable for Iran to hit American assets
Speaker 4: or to injure in any way Americans or American service members.
Speaker 4: So the way that the United States responds, they say,
Speaker 4: will be dictated by what Iran does here. And there's
Speaker 4: certainly a heightened threat environment going on right now. It's
Speaker 4: a little bit unclear, and I think lawmakers are waiting
Speaker 4: for more information about how much they need to be
Speaker 4: concerned about that heightened threat environment. We would expect members
Speaker 4: to receive a classified briefing on this. They're scheduled to
Speaker 4: receive a briefing on Tuesday, kind of laying out the
Speaker 4: situation at hand, and if they get noticed that the
Speaker 4: threat environment is really escalated, then I think you could
Speaker 4: expect to see calls for greater action in BI the
Speaker 4: United States.
Speaker 1: Ellie, thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: That's Alli Picorn of ABC News. Always good to get
Speaker 1: her thoughts on what's going on here, and certainly a
Speaker 1: lot going on. And I say, and I'm glad she
Speaker 1: did emphasize it, because this is, by the way, this
Speaker 1: is my words and nobody else's. I'm not certainly putting
Speaker 1: words in her mouth. But she mentioned that there was
Speaker 1: at least some level of maybe not pushback, but just
Speaker 1: some level of not being as supportive or maybe some
Speaker 1: just not being really supportive at all as far as
Speaker 1: what Donald Trump decided to do. But I think what
Speaker 1: made it seem surprising, even if it is a real small,
Speaker 1: very small representation from the Republican Party, I feel like
Speaker 1: any level of pushback or resistance, especially at a public way.
Speaker 1: As far as saying I don't agree. I don't think
Speaker 1: we should do this, and then obviously now it did happen.
Speaker 1: I think that just stands out because I feel like
Speaker 1: that's a rare thing in today's climate from the Republican side.
Speaker 1: But again, big thank you to Alec Picorna, ABC News
Speaker 1: for joining us. We're going to take a time out.
Speaker 1: Let you get an update on traffick and weather, and
Speaker 1: then we've got an update of sports coming your way
Speaker 1: right here on news radio eight forty whas. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much, John Shannon. It is seven thirty five here, Konseucky.
Speaker 1: It is more News with Nick Coffee on News Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas. You've heard over the years, Gen Z Millennials,
Speaker 1: Generation X baby boomers, and I guess the latest is
Speaker 1: those who were born from twenty thirteen to currently, and
Speaker 1: those are that's Generation Alpha, which I got to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, I'm nowhere near in that demo because
Speaker 1: if you're born in twenty thirteen, you know you're basically
Speaker 1: your preteen. But I'd not heard of Generation Alpha. That's
Speaker 1: I mean, I would have I wouldn't have guessed that's
Speaker 1: the name. But I'm sure there's a reason as to
Speaker 1: why they've come up with all these names. But the
Speaker 1: reason I bring this up is because and we'll talk
Speaker 1: a little bit later with Rory O'Neill of NBC News
Speaker 1: about this, but there's a study that shows that gen
Speaker 1: Z leans more conservative, and a lot of that is
Speaker 1: believed to be I guess surprising to some, and it's
Speaker 1: it's you know, one of the factors is because of
Speaker 1: how the pandemic was handled. So gen Z is those
Speaker 1: born nineteen ninety seven, between nineteen ninety seven and two
Speaker 1: thy and twelve, which means we've got a gen Zer
Speaker 1: within the program here, because that's that's John Alden. But
Speaker 1: you are just two things. One, you're barely gen Z,
Speaker 1: you're leading the charge.
Speaker 2: You are a year.
Speaker 1: Away from being a millennial like myself, because eighty one
Speaker 1: to ninety six is the is the age range there,
Speaker 1: But gen Z is ninety seven to twenty twelve, so
Speaker 1: people that are thirteen to twenty eight. And I do
Speaker 1: think when you consider that age range, a lot of
Speaker 1: folks on the older end of that of that demo
Speaker 1: were I guess forming their real opinions of politics. Maybe
Speaker 1: around that time. Not everybody certainly, but I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: shocked at all. If if you're you know, you're you're teenager,
Speaker 1: you're you're just getting out of your teenage years, and
Speaker 1: you know, a global pandemic is something that happens once
Speaker 1: every one hundred years, So there's there's no way to
Speaker 1: really know when it's going to happen and what you
Speaker 1: can expect as far as how the country handles it.
Speaker 1: But obviously the way in which it was handled by
Speaker 1: the Biden administration at the time was not great in
Speaker 1: the eyes of a lot of people. And to be fair,
Speaker 1: I mean, there was some lying about stuff that we've
Speaker 1: later learned, which is which is, you know, not a
Speaker 1: good look by any means. But then I don't know,
Speaker 1: I was going to give. I was going to give
Speaker 1: somewhat of the benefit of the doubt when it comes
Speaker 1: to well, you know, let's just be real, we're all
Speaker 1: kind of learning on the go here. We've never encountered
Speaker 1: this type of virus before, we've never been here. You know,
Speaker 1: you're trying your best, but the reality is that nobody
Speaker 1: really knows because again, this is not something we've ever encountered.
Speaker 2: Before as far as this specific virus.
Speaker 1: But again, we later learned that some of the things
Speaker 1: they told us that they knew weren't true, But anyhow,
Speaker 1: I could see you what I want to. The reason
Speaker 1: I wanted to bring this up is because I think
Speaker 1: the surprise from folks about gen Z being more conservative
Speaker 1: than they would have expected, it really shouldn't be that surprising,
Speaker 1: because I do think when you were in that age
Speaker 1: range where you're you're seeing something play out like that
Speaker 1: at a very impressionable age, and now here were you
Speaker 1: are years later. Let's be honest, A lot of people,
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't care. I'm sure a lot
Speaker 1: of people are strongly defending the way it was handled
Speaker 1: by the Biden administration and Fauci and whatnot. But then
Speaker 1: there's also others that just look back and say, what
Speaker 1: did we were we doing?
Speaker 2: What was that like?
Speaker 1: We had a lot of things shut down, we had
Speaker 1: a lot of lives impacted, And yes, you can easily
Speaker 1: just say, well, hey, we were trying to keep everybody safe,
Speaker 1: and that's not a lie. I mean, tough to know
Speaker 1: the true motives of every decision that was made during
Speaker 1: such an important time, but that's an easy thing to
Speaker 1: put out there, and you know it's legit to an extent.
Speaker 1: The extent of how much that's true, we'll never know
Speaker 1: for sure, but looking back, like some of the things
Speaker 1: we did, I'm not the only one I'm sure that fails, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was probably not necessary. We probably didn't need to,
Speaker 1: you know, shut down the world quite like we did
Speaker 1: at that time. So I'm not bringing it up to
Speaker 1: try to go back in time and dunk on those
Speaker 1: who made the those decisions.
Speaker 2: But I do think.
Speaker 1: The not only the handling of the of the coronavirus
Speaker 1: and whatnot, and just the pandemic, and of course the
Speaker 1: election that took place in twenty twenty, and of course
Speaker 1: the one that just took place here recently, I'm not
Speaker 1: at all surprised that a younger, impressionable demo at that
Speaker 1: point without even maybe giving it much thought, Like I
Speaker 1: don't think it would to me. I would not be
Speaker 1: surprised if those who just now realize they align with
Speaker 1: being conservative, and they are aligned with being Republicans. I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's many that it's not based off of their
Speaker 1: family or how they were raised. It's just they made
Speaker 1: the decision for themselves because of how they saw things
Speaker 1: playing out.
Speaker 2: And I get it.
Speaker 1: I think there's some that will say, well, my goodness,
Speaker 1: they just they're so entertained by Donald Trump, the way
Speaker 1: he carries himself and you know, grab her by the
Speaker 1: you know what, like all these young idiots. They just
Speaker 1: think that's funny. And I'm sure there is an there's
Speaker 1: a segment of that is that does identify that way
Speaker 1: as far as just thinking, you know, guy, he's he's
Speaker 1: a loud mouthed and he you know, he's in the
Speaker 1: he's been in the WWE before, like, But then also
Speaker 1: I think there's others that it has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with that aspect. It's just they were able to see
Speaker 1: how things played out and they maybe without even really
Speaker 1: giving it a whole lot of consideration, they just realized
Speaker 1: where they where their beliefs are. So I don't think
Speaker 1: it's that big of a shock. But of course it's
Speaker 1: in the news because it's being shared as well. A
Speaker 1: surprise here, gen Z is more conservative than people expected.
Speaker 1: All right, we've got traffick in weather coming your way.
Speaker 1: We'll get to another sports update in about fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: What I want to get to on the other side, though,
Speaker 1: is just how how much should we be worried about
Speaker 1: the dark Web and passwords being exposed, and it's if
Speaker 1: you're somebody that's never been worried about it before, you
Speaker 1: may want to be mindful of it right now because
Speaker 1: we are expected to have one of the biggest data
Speaker 1: breaches we've ever had in America. So again we'll get
Speaker 1: to that on the other side right here on news
Speaker 1: Radio eight to forty whas I will admit I am
Speaker 1: guilty of logging in one of the many things I
Speaker 1: log into each and every day, and logging in for
Speaker 1: me is just clicking log in. I don't have to
Speaker 1: enter a password or a username because it's already set
Speaker 1: up to auto say, which makes things very convenient. In fact,
Speaker 1: on my iPhone, I now have the facial recognition to
Speaker 1: where if I just if it sees my face, it
Speaker 1: logs me in automatically. It's super convenient and I at
Speaker 1: times have had You may want to reset your patsword.
Speaker 1: There's a chance that your account could have been involved
Speaker 1: in some kind of a data breach and I just
Speaker 1: ignore it. John, let me ask you this. You seem
Speaker 1: to be somebody that that would be more cautious of
Speaker 1: that than me, meaning you are you know you would
Speaker 1: avoid that whereas I would be the idiot and not
Speaker 1: if has that happened to you? And if not, would
Speaker 1: you quickly change your password?
Speaker 3: You know, I'm somebody who usually puts off putting, you know,
Speaker 3: changing their password, especially like for example, here at iHeart
Speaker 3: that ask us to do it every six months, I
Speaker 3: usually wait to do it the very last second.
Speaker 2: So I'm probably.
Speaker 3: You know, we're not the only workplace that does that,
Speaker 3: But I think you're right. I think I would be
Speaker 3: very it. It'd be tough for me to fall for
Speaker 3: something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I And there's a reason they that this
Speaker 1: is in place, you know, because they're trying their best
Speaker 1: to keep keep everything safe to where you're not having
Speaker 1: your accounts compromised and data breach. And I mean there
Speaker 1: are people that the hacking is it hacking is an industry.
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's quite literally a booming industry. And
Speaker 1: I mean how many times do you log into anything
Speaker 1: and get them I mean the amount of times you
Speaker 1: see something within any type of social media account, email,
Speaker 1: I mean, like spam bots. All of that is rooted
Speaker 1: from people trying to scam you or trying to take
Speaker 1: advantage I mean, or get your information in some way.
Speaker 1: Think about all the nonsense, all the fluff you see
Speaker 1: within everything that you are on in the Internet. I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about advertisements on web pages. I'm talking about spam.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess certain spam can just be there
Speaker 1: just trying to flood your inbox to promote whatever it
Speaker 1: is they're doing. But like so many like if you
Speaker 1: go to Instagram or x and even Facebook to an extent,
Speaker 1: like you'll get messages from somebody that like clear like
Speaker 1: And what's what's wild to me is that like so
Speaker 1: many people fall for That's a sad thing, but it's
Speaker 1: a real thing. There's a reason that people get into
Speaker 1: the scamming business of getting your information, hacking your account
Speaker 1: because they've been able to see that there's enough vulnerable
Speaker 1: people out there to where you can get exposed. So anyway,
Speaker 1: the reason I bring this up is because we've got
Speaker 1: watchdog warnings that billions of passwords are expected in the
Speaker 1: on the dark web. Around sixteen billion passwords are reportedly
Speaker 1: compromised after one of the largest data breaches in history.
Speaker 1: This is according to cyber news loggainst to social media
Speaker 1: VPNs user accounts you know for Apple, Facebook, Google, telegram,
Speaker 1: all these different I mean even government services. So you
Speaker 1: may you may want to get some annavirus or some
Speaker 1: kind of protection out there that you haven't had before,
Speaker 1: or just change.
Speaker 2: Your passwords if you haven't, because this is one.
Speaker 1: Of those things where a lot of people and I'm
Speaker 1: guilty of being this person that would say all that
Speaker 1: wone impact me, and then it does, and you're like,
Speaker 1: oh wow, I guess I can only blame myself because
Speaker 1: they did warn us. All right, we got a traffic
Speaker 1: and weather update, come on your way. Also some more
Speaker 1: sports with Scott Fitzgerald in about five minutes right here
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