Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2: We live in Chicago.
Speaker 3: We had some great times last night when we went
Speaker 3: to watch the Cubs game at Wrigley Field, which was
Speaker 3: an absolute bucket list item for me.
Speaker 4: Oh, it was wonderful. It was great.
Speaker 1: You got great seats, We met great people. We had
Speaker 1: three different types of sausage. We had a Polish sausage
Speaker 1: and a broughtwurst and a Chicago dog.
Speaker 3: They wondering about that Neon Green relish that they put
Speaker 3: on that show.
Speaker 4: So Delicious, And we ate a pickle. We ate a
Speaker 4: team pickle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was very fun.
Speaker 3: And you got a security guard fired from Wrigley Field.
Speaker 4: I may have done that.
Speaker 3: You were not supposed to take pictures with the security people.
Speaker 4: Yeah. His name was what was his name?
Speaker 2: Jason?
Speaker 4: Jason.
Speaker 3: You see, you didn't even care enough to know his
Speaker 3: team figures. Wow, what else is going on?
Speaker 2: What's happening?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 1: I'm Tamala Harris preparing for the biggest speech of her life.
Speaker 4: This will tell the story.
Speaker 1: Of her middle class upbringing.
Speaker 4: We're told it will cast.
Speaker 1: The twenty twenty four race as the future versus the past,
Speaker 1: and there will be an appeal to patriotism as well.
Speaker 3: She had said about a month ago when she became
Speaker 3: the candidate that she saw this speech, any debate that
Speaker 3: would be planned that might take place, would be the
Speaker 3: most pivotal moments of this now shortened race down to
Speaker 3: about you know, eighty ninety days. And in reality, this
Speaker 3: is the speech that's going to be even the more
Speaker 3: crucial than perhaps the debates.
Speaker 1: They say she's taking her convention address so seriously. She's
Speaker 1: held rehearsals complete with teleprompters in three different time zones.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of eyeballs on this thing tonight. Not
Speaker 3: the entire country, but a lot of people. And I
Speaker 3: don't know this is you know, we've been saying that
Speaker 3: this is a show, that it's a it's a party
Speaker 3: for the party. This is there her ability to perhaps
Speaker 3: reach out, maybe find some sort of common ground with
Speaker 3: independent voters or people who are disenfranchised by any anybody
Speaker 3: else that's running right now. I don't know how she does.
Speaker 3: We'll see how she does in the Uh. She's a
Speaker 3: good speaker.
Speaker 2: We know that.
Speaker 1: I've been waiting to see Eric Adams around here, because he,
Speaker 1: like Gavin Newsom, was kind of ditched when it came
Speaker 1: to a speaking slot at this convention. Of course, Eric Adams,
Speaker 1: the mayor of New York City, has been critical of
Speaker 1: the White House over immigration, the migrant crisis.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's she's got to answer some of those questions.
Speaker 3: But tonight you're going to just see a continuation of
Speaker 3: the themes of the joy of you know, the the
Speaker 3: what'd you say, the joyful warriors. We kept hearing that term,
Speaker 3: so we'll see more of that tonight.
Speaker 1: The Italian Coast Guard said the body of a British
Speaker 1: tech magnet, Mike Lynch, is among those recovered off the
Speaker 1: coast of Sicily from the wreckage of that super yacht.
Speaker 1: One woman remains missing. She has not been identified, but
Speaker 1: Hannah Lynch, according to Hannah Lynch's daughter, is reportedly unaccounted for.
Speaker 1: The family had been celebrating his recent acquittal on fraud
Speaker 1: charges with the people who.
Speaker 4: Defended him at his trial in the US.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this yacht went down Monday in stormy weather about
Speaker 3: a half a mile from the fishing village of Porticello,
Speaker 3: which they said is close to the city of Palermo.
Speaker 2: There's a strange story.
Speaker 3: Going on in Canada that could have a massive impact
Speaker 3: on the United States.
Speaker 2: There is a labor dispute.
Speaker 3: Both of Canada's major freight railroads have come to a
Speaker 3: full stop because of a contract dispute with their workers,
Speaker 3: and they're saying that that could bring significant economic harm
Speaker 3: to businesses and consumers in Canada and the US if
Speaker 3: they don't get those trains running sometime soon. Canadian National
Speaker 3: and CPKC Railroads both locked out their employees after that
Speaker 3: deadline this morning without any new agreements. The Teamsters Canada
Speaker 3: Rail Conference represents some ten thousand engineers, conductors, dispatchers, and
Speaker 3: they said all rail traffic in Canada and all shipments across.
Speaker 2: The US border have stopped as of right now.
Speaker 1: Would you like something fun? Would you like some good news?
Speaker 2: Do we have good news music of some kind?
Speaker 4: Of course we do. Stephen Netterosik. You know him as
Speaker 4: the pommel horse guy.
Speaker 2: Oh, the guy with the glasses, the guy.
Speaker 1: With the glasses, I forget his other catchy names from
Speaker 1: the Olympics, the guy Clark Kent, Clark Kent of the Olympics. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's the one with just the one specialty name to
Speaker 1: the Olympic team under great amounts of criticism. Why why
Speaker 1: would you take Kim Stephen to the Olympics when he
Speaker 1: only specializes in.
Speaker 4: The pommel horse.
Speaker 1: Well we need a good horse performance, they said, and
Speaker 1: Steven went off to Paris. Well, now Stephen is going
Speaker 1: off to Dancing with the Stars. The Olympic gymnast is
Speaker 1: joining the cast for season thirty three. If you can
Speaker 1: believe it, of Dancing with the Stars thirty three, that's
Speaker 1: like Steve Gregory's show, what season forty five of Unsolved
Speaker 1: or something like that hasn't been on for thirty three years.
Speaker 1: From Paris to Dancing with the Stars, We're thrilled to
Speaker 1: welcome pommel horse legend Stephen or Netterosik.
Speaker 4: As the first star of the season.
Speaker 1: If you're wondering, Dancing with the Stars will premiere live Tuesday,
Speaker 1: September seventeenth on NBABC and Disney Plus. So he is
Speaker 1: a first star that has been that has been named.
Speaker 1: I know that you wait right before any season of
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars drops because you're just baited.
Speaker 4: I love you who's going to be involved?
Speaker 2: You got that right?
Speaker 3: And man, I love those announcements when they just Jompson drabs.
Speaker 1: Well, you have a Google alert for Dancing with the Stars,
Speaker 1: so anytime something comes up about it, you're one of
Speaker 1: the first to know it's.
Speaker 4: Dancing with the Stars. You're Google alert. You also have
Speaker 4: a Google alert for BTS and.
Speaker 1: I think there's one because I borrowed your computer that
Speaker 1: one time, so I saw your Google alerts and it
Speaker 1: was Dancing with the Stars, BTS and women accomplishments, any
Speaker 1: any women accomplished big women accomplishments.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you ate for lunch, but pretzels.
Speaker 4: All I've eaten today are pretzels.
Speaker 3: All right, Day four of the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 1: Here in Chicago, a group of House Democratic women just
Speaker 1: presented a one hundred thousand dollars check to the Harris
Speaker 1: Victory Fund at a closed door event for Democratic women.
Speaker 4: According to a person who was there.
Speaker 1: The group is called elect Democratic Women, devoted to lifting
Speaker 1: more women into elected office, particularly Congress. Hey, next week,
Speaker 1: when we're on the air, can we not do any politics?
Speaker 2: We may have to do that a palate cleansing. We
Speaker 2: probably not a bad idea, or just.
Speaker 1: Maybe Monday nothing politics unless something huge happens, We'll just
Speaker 1: do murder and Mayhem and you know, penguins gay, all
Speaker 1: the gay penguins.
Speaker 2: Yeah, solid, that'd be good.
Speaker 3: There is a I'll use that term again, groundswell of
Speaker 3: Democratic lawmakers who have announced their support to have a
Speaker 3: pro Palestinian speaker added to the lineup for today.
Speaker 2: There is suggestion.
Speaker 3: That among them, by the way, Congressman Rocanna from California,
Speaker 3: he is an ally of President Biden, who has served
Speaker 3: as a mediator between Democrats who have disagreed on the
Speaker 3: Biden Harris administration's handling of Israel and Gaza, and he
Speaker 3: has said that the Democratic Party is making a mistake,
Speaker 3: a tragic mistake, by not allowing a pro Palestinian speaker
Speaker 3: to address the convention here sometime today.
Speaker 2: Now there are.
Speaker 3: Places they could stick them in. They could change at
Speaker 3: any time they wanted to. But usually the way that
Speaker 3: they've been running it in the last couple of days
Speaker 3: is they set the speaker list, they send it out
Speaker 3: to members of the media.
Speaker 2: They have not yet. I haven't seen that yet.
Speaker 1: So Kennedy's decision, all the experts are saying now to
Speaker 1: drop out of this is unlikely to change the race.
Speaker 4: Really at all.
Speaker 1: This is an expected decision by RFK Junior to end
Speaker 1: the bid is poll numbers have fallen to the level
Speaker 1: of a run of the mill third party candidate. It's
Speaker 1: hard to tell what the effect is decision may have
Speaker 1: on it. An endorsement of Trump would be unlikely to
Speaker 1: change the nature of the race, even if it was
Speaker 1: well received by Kennedy's supporters, in part because it's hard
Speaker 1: to know how many of his supporters will vote in November. Right,
Speaker 1: You got to if they were going to mobilize and
Speaker 1: get to the polling place or to the ballot for him,
Speaker 1: are they less likely to get out of that chair
Speaker 1: for one of the other two?
Speaker 2: Well, wouldn't you say that?
Speaker 3: From what we've seen polling wise, he was taking from
Speaker 3: both sides.
Speaker 2: I mean, it.
Speaker 3: Wasn't like he was taking ten percent from well, from
Speaker 3: Harris and from Biden, really, right.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: It's like, how does that change the math for Kennedy
Speaker 1: the Biden to Harris switch. In a recent Time Siena poll,
Speaker 1: when pushed, his supporters were more inclined to support Trump,
Speaker 1: but other recent high quality polls have found him to
Speaker 1: be pulling support from Harris so, and like I said earlier,
Speaker 1: I mean, the Kennedy supporters are free thinking people.
Speaker 4: They're not cheap.
Speaker 1: They're not going to fall in line with any sort
Speaker 1: of endorsement.
Speaker 3: Yeah, their own decision and the reasons that people were
Speaker 3: choosing Kennedy don't necessarily line up with one person or
Speaker 3: the other perhaptly. So yeah, i'd be it will be
Speaker 3: a confusing day when that happens. I want to tell
Speaker 3: you a story about a woman named Kim up in
Speaker 3: San Francisco. I saw headlines regarding this and it's not
Speaker 3: a great story.
Speaker 2: It's not happy in any way.
Speaker 3: It's highlighting perhaps one of the things that we were
Speaker 3: able to talk to Antonio Vira Gosa about, and that
Speaker 3: is the quality of life for some of these people
Speaker 3: in San Francisco and how it has gone absolutely downhill.
Speaker 3: Kim Andrews is known for harassing people with children. She's
Speaker 3: a homeless woman, although nobody knows exactly where she calls home.
Speaker 3: Being homeless, obviously, she ran up to a nanny a
Speaker 3: few years ago and started screaming.
Speaker 2: And saying, I'm.
Speaker 3: Going to take your child, I'm going to kill you.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 3: This nanny is among a bunch of different people, different
Speaker 3: caregivers and parents who have reported experiences with Kim Andrews
Speaker 3: over the last four years, and nobody seems to be
Speaker 3: able to do anything about it. They said, this thirty
Speaker 3: six year old woman has been repeatedly harassing and threatening
Speaker 3: children and their caretakers, and they need they authorities need
Speaker 3: to do more to intervene to keep her up the
Speaker 3: street before something bad actually happens. Now, they said, it's
Speaker 3: not clear where she lives, but everybody has been saying
Speaker 3: she's been seen in the Laurel Village area, the Richmond,
Speaker 3: the Coal Valley, the Inner Sunset, and despite a drumbeat
Speaker 3: of criminal charges that range from battery and robbery, shoplifting,
Speaker 3: criminal threats, she's been popped on.
Speaker 2: All of those.
Speaker 3: She has cycled through jail, She has cycled through the
Speaker 3: courts and then gets back out there on the streets
Speaker 3: to scare the living tar out of nanny's and parents.
Speaker 4: That's awful, they said.
Speaker 3: People experiencing homelessness and mental addiction or illness or all
Speaker 3: three get in that cycle and they can't get out
Speaker 3: of it. They'd go between jails and the psych hospitals
Speaker 3: and then the streets. Their families are frustrated. Their neighbors
Speaker 3: and neighborhoods, I suppose are frustrated by all of this.
Speaker 3: So can you force someone into treatment?
Speaker 2: And can you do that?
Speaker 3: But only if they pose some sort of imminent danger
Speaker 3: or might be disabled in some way. Many of those
Speaker 3: who come into contact with this woman say that they're
Speaker 3: relieved when she was arrested just last month, charged with
Speaker 3: criminal threats child endangerment because she was menacing a mother
Speaker 3: and a baby in Golden Gate Park.
Speaker 2: She had an altercation that.
Speaker 4: Resides us to go there and feed the ducks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you ever see this woman?
Speaker 4: She never did.
Speaker 1: No, Nana and Pau would take me there and we'd
Speaker 1: bring some bread and we'd feed the ducks.
Speaker 3: That incident in Golden Gate Park was the sixth time
Speaker 3: this woman has been arrested this year.
Speaker 2: Released once again.
Speaker 3: Prosecutors said that they need time to gather more evidence
Speaker 3: for my witnesses.
Speaker 1: I remember thinking this is a big waste of perfectly
Speaker 1: good bread.
Speaker 4: I would like this bread.
Speaker 2: Did you eat it? Surely? Stale bread that you give
Speaker 2: to the ducks?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is usually bread? But well, who lets their
Speaker 4: bread go stale?
Speaker 1: People who like ducks I mean there's butter, perfectly good
Speaker 1: butter for that bread.
Speaker 2: Where is the extra button?
Speaker 4: Where here's the butter?
Speaker 3: They have issued in a warrant for this woman's arrest.
Speaker 3: Community members have banded together. They said that government hasn't
Speaker 3: done anything to protect them. So they put a flyers
Speaker 3: in the Richmond District presidio heights that have this woman's
Speaker 3: picture on it, and people are asked to call nine
Speaker 3: to one one to report any harassment of children.
Speaker 2: Some have filed police reports.
Speaker 3: And posted on social media, but at this point they
Speaker 3: have said that she is still out there and she
Speaker 3: is still a threat to kids.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers have made a very surprising move. They've dfa
Speaker 1: designated for assignment.
Speaker 4: Jason Hayward.
Speaker 2: Why.
Speaker 3: He's one of the great clubhouse guys.
Speaker 4: Great clubhouse guy, great story.
Speaker 2: He and Freddie Freeman are best friends.
Speaker 4: He's wonderful.
Speaker 1: They say, to make roster room for Chris Taylor and
Speaker 1: keep Kevin Kermeyer.
Speaker 4: I don't know who that is.
Speaker 2: Keer Meyer. He's the centerfielder.
Speaker 4: Hmmm.
Speaker 3: Wow, Well, what are you gonna do now with your
Speaker 3: Jason Hayward Jersey.
Speaker 4: I will keep it. I'll keep it.
Speaker 3: Speaking of which, Tomorrow night, the Dodgers take on the
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Speaker 1: Maybe we should pick up Jason Heyward just to be
Speaker 1: on our team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would, I would. I would love him.
Speaker 4: We could have a third member of the show.
Speaker 2: That's not a bad one.
Speaker 1: We need a good clubhouse guy.
Speaker 2: We need a great clubhouse guy. Do you think he
Speaker 2: would be good.
Speaker 3: At the motivational speeches at the beginning.
Speaker 2: Of the show.
Speaker 1: I think he would be good at getting you to
Speaker 1: work out more great? Okay, if you had to look
Speaker 1: at Jason Hayward every day. We are in Chicago for
Speaker 1: the DNC, of course, but uh.
Speaker 4: An update from trump Land.
Speaker 1: Cops in Arizona are searching for a man they say
Speaker 1: threatened to kill Donald Trump. Police are scouring the border
Speaker 1: for him. This is the same day that Trump's going.
Speaker 4: To the border. They say.
Speaker 1: The Sheriff's our office has announced a man hunt for
Speaker 1: this guy and they're currently looking for him. He's sixty
Speaker 1: six years old. His name's Ronald Zybrand. Law enforcement say
Speaker 1: he's being sought as an investigative lead for threats to
Speaker 1: kill a presidential candidate.
Speaker 3: He's at the border right now. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 3: I the lad President Trump is. There's a story back
Speaker 3: home in California. Also that suggests that we might see
Speaker 3: snow this weekend in Lake Tahoe. It's the middle of August.
Speaker 3: Apparently this anomalously deep low pressure system is about to
Speaker 3: roll through northern California. They're talking about snow at possible
Speaker 3: possible at elevations above about eight thousand feet at points
Speaker 3: over the weekend, So very unusual August snow possible in
Speaker 3: Lake Tahoe.
Speaker 1: Protesters remain a situation here in Chicago. We saw some
Speaker 1: big protests on Monday, and word that there may be
Speaker 1: some more today for the final day of the DNC.
Speaker 4: Jim Ryan from.
Speaker 1: ABC News is on the story. Joins US Now with
Speaker 1: the very latest.
Speaker 4: Jim, what do you.
Speaker 2: See, hey, guys.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it looks as though in a couple of hours
Speaker 7: they're going to gather again in Union Park, which is
Speaker 7: a mile or so east of the Convention Center used
Speaker 7: to the United Center, and then begin another small march
Speaker 7: toward the center and they'll turnaround and go back. You know,
Speaker 7: the people who are doing the march are locals for
Speaker 7: the most part. These are people who do this march
Speaker 7: almost every weekend. That they are pro Palestinian activists who
Speaker 7: since last October have been holding demonstrations all over Chicago,
Speaker 7: and that's what's happening today another group, so there will
Speaker 7: be two essentially two simultaneously happening in the same huge park,
Speaker 7: this Union Park where these have been going on all
Speaker 7: week long.
Speaker 3: Channel we saw some of those protesters on Monday, the
Speaker 3: ones there at Union Park, but we didn't get a
Speaker 3: chance to see much activity after that.
Speaker 2: It kind of fizzled out. They did try to breach
Speaker 2: some of the perimeter.
Speaker 3: You know, they're fencing heavy fencing around the United Center here,
Speaker 3: but that.
Speaker 2: Was about it.
Speaker 3: Has this surprised you that we haven't seen more activity.
Speaker 7: Honestly, yes, you know, I mean there are large gatherings
Speaker 7: of people that went on Monday, was something like thirty
Speaker 7: five hundred people who participated in that, and then this
Speaker 7: small splinter group that broke off from that went over
Speaker 7: and tried to get through that outer perimeter actually did so.
Speaker 7: The Secret Service was responsible for that steel barricade and
Speaker 7: has fortified at somewhat. Those people were arrested. We did
Speaker 7: have that demonstration that did turn nasty outside the Israeli
Speaker 7: Consolate in downtown on Tuesday evening. There was something like
Speaker 7: seventy people were arrested. That was a fairly small group,
Speaker 7: and today we'll have these other demonstrations, potentially large demonstrations.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's.
Speaker 7: Interesting that they have been relatively peaceful, and I think
Speaker 7: part of it is that the police department has this
Speaker 7: policy just an overwhelming show of force officers standing there
Speaker 7: with their bikes or standing there in their uniform shirts,
Speaker 7: rarely in riot gear, that kind of thing. So yeah,
Speaker 7: I've been a little surprised at that, Garrett.
Speaker 1: In comparing what's going to happen today to what we
Speaker 1: saw on Monday, which was built I thought as the
Speaker 1: largest protest planned of the week. What kind of numbers
Speaker 1: are we seeing. Is it going to be similar in
Speaker 1: those size that we saw on Monday or what do
Speaker 1: you know?
Speaker 7: Well, hard you never know until it actually happens. I
Speaker 7: think so much of the work comes out on social
Speaker 7: media that the group organizers will blast something out on
Speaker 7: Instagram or on TikTok, and then people will come to
Speaker 7: these things. That, yeah, that grew thirty five hundred or
Speaker 7: so on Monday was the largest of the whole week.
Speaker 7: There's a much smaller, quieter protest going on right now
Speaker 7: that the steps the United Center, where you guys are
Speaker 7: an uncommitted Michigan Delegate Abba Salawilla has gone out in
Speaker 7: stage to sit down demonstration. He's out there with some supporters,
Speaker 7: not in the hall. He won't be there for this
Speaker 7: evening unless something happens. He's there asking the DNC to
Speaker 7: allow a Palestinian American to have a few minutes on
Speaker 7: the stage to make some remarks. Yesterday we had the
Speaker 7: parents of a kidnapped American who's held by Hamas right
Speaker 7: now talk about the anguish that they're going through. It
Speaker 7: wasn't really a particularly political speech at all. It was
Speaker 7: just an appeal for something to be done about the
Speaker 7: hostages being held. So yeah, and at this point the
Speaker 7: d n C has offered a deaf ear to about
Speaker 7: Salawia and his request.
Speaker 3: Can you talk about the status of the Chicago Police
Speaker 3: Department in Illinois State Police who are here as well.
Speaker 3: Just in terms of my understanding is there's nobody taking
Speaker 3: time off this week.
Speaker 2: They're all on call basically ready to go if if
Speaker 2: they're needed. That's right. Yeah.
Speaker 7: The police Superintendent Larry Snelling said earlier in the week
Speaker 7: that all the time off right now is canceled once
Speaker 7: this all wraps up, I assume tomorrow, you know, you
Speaker 7: can have your day's huffback. But for now, he just
Speaker 7: wants everybody on deck, all hands on deck and ready
Speaker 7: to respond to anything. And you've seen that at these
Speaker 7: rallies and these demonstrations, just the whole area is saturated
Speaker 7: with police officers, most of them standing around chatting until
Speaker 7: something happens. And you know, that's it's that visibility. I
Speaker 7: think that in the psychology behind it that Snelling is
Speaker 7: going for.
Speaker 1: Do you think the mystery speaker tonight at the convention
Speaker 1: is going to be Beyonce or Taylor Swift?
Speaker 7: That's I don't know's that's a good theory, Taylor Swift
Speaker 7: maybe so. I mean the speaker mystery speaker last night, Oprah.
Speaker 7: You know, certainly the DNC is hoping she gins up
Speaker 7: some support. I'm looking down the list right now. It
Speaker 7: doesn't have an obviously and have the surprise speaker on there.
Speaker 7: The theme tonight really, I mean, it's looking forward, but
Speaker 7: as opposed to the Palestinian Israeli situation. Gun violence will
Speaker 7: be a major theme this evening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jim Ryan, thank you so much. ABC guys appreciate it.
Speaker 4: All right, thank you.
Speaker 2: We got a couple.
Speaker 3: You would ask somebody if we have anybody that's listening
Speaker 3: that doesn't know who they're going to vote for.
Speaker 5: Gary Shannon doing a great job in Chicago. Well, I'm
Speaker 5: one of those people. I don't know who to vote for.
Speaker 5: I am a moderate, I lean more conservative, but there's
Speaker 5: I cannot vote for Trump and I honestly cannot vote
Speaker 5: for Kamala.
Speaker 4: I don't know what to do.
Speaker 5: What would put me over the sense I guess sticking
Speaker 5: to policy and finding out what the real issues are.
Speaker 3: We're not going to get that in the speech tonight,
Speaker 3: but maybe sometime in the near future. Day four, wrapping
Speaker 3: up our final day at least at the UNID Center
Speaker 3: for the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 1: All right, friend of the show, David Urbin, I mean
Speaker 1: you're on the show one time as the first second time,
Speaker 1: so you're now a friend of the show. I love
Speaker 1: it back lobbyist political commentator for CNN, and David, we
Speaker 1: wanted to talk to you today about this announcement coming
Speaker 1: from RFK getting out of the race and the impact
Speaker 1: you think it will have on the remaining candidates.
Speaker 8: Look, so I welcome it. I think it's important.
Speaker 6: I followed RFK on Aaron Burnett show one night, and
Speaker 6: so I sat there and listened to him.
Speaker 8: For thirty five minutes before I had met him.
Speaker 6: In the airport one time, I bumped into him and
Speaker 6: said hello.
Speaker 8: But I really got to listen to him talk.
Speaker 6: And look, I know he said a lot of crazy
Speaker 6: things in the past. He's got to go and you
Speaker 6: can find quotes that are kind of out there about
Speaker 6: different things and so, but when I listened to him
Speaker 6: talk about childhood obesity and how much money we spent
Speaker 6: in America battling diabetes and more money on diabetes than defense.
Speaker 6: You know, fifty six percent of Americans can't put their
Speaker 6: hands on a thousand bucks. So when that check engine
Speaker 6: light comes on your car, for you and I may
Speaker 6: not be a big deal, but for fifty six percent
Speaker 6: of Americans, it's a crisis in your family. I mean,
Speaker 6: he said a lot of things that I listened to
Speaker 6: it and said, Wow, pretty insightful. Really really connects with
Speaker 6: a lot of people. So I am hopeful that we
Speaker 6: get at Bobby Kennedy on the team in the campaign,
Speaker 6: not the guy who's dubbing a dead.
Speaker 8: Bear in Central Park, but we get the other guy.
Speaker 2: It's a good story.
Speaker 8: That's a good story. I'm not I don't know, but
Speaker 8: you know, I don't know if we get many voters
Speaker 8: that way.
Speaker 6: But he's a thoughtful, intelligent person who's got a big following,
Speaker 6: and I'm hoping we can convince some of those folks
Speaker 6: to come to our side and vote for Donald Trump.
Speaker 6: And listen, in a state like Pennsylvania, it's going to
Speaker 6: be won by tens of thousands of voters, right, it's
Speaker 6: really important. It's really important that we get those folks
Speaker 6: and we we bring him in and we lock hands
Speaker 6: and we hopefully kind of move for or together.
Speaker 2: Uh do you have you been looking at any of
Speaker 2: the polls?
Speaker 3: I mean, is there is there a way to gauge
Speaker 3: what kind of an impact kennedy endorsement would have on Trump?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I would have to think. You know, the Democrats officly
Speaker 8: going to downplay it.
Speaker 6: They'd been spending millions, tens of millions of dollars to
Speaker 6: keep Bobby Kennedy off ballots in lots of places.
Speaker 8: So they obviously think that he's.
Speaker 6: A concern in a lot of ways that if his
Speaker 6: name shows up on about that's bad for them. So
Speaker 6: if it's bad for them, you know, just by uh,
Speaker 6: by by logic, you would think it's good for Republicans.
Speaker 8: So I don't know a number.
Speaker 2: Well, that'd be.
Speaker 1: Bad for them because there would be voters that would
Speaker 1: normally vote for Harris that would vote for Kennedy. So
Speaker 1: it takes away from them absolutely. So I mean if
Speaker 1: if you remove if you remove that, then they're going
Speaker 1: to go.
Speaker 6: I don't know, well, I mean hopefully they don't stay home,
Speaker 6: right right, I don't think hopefully don't make questions. I
Speaker 6: hopefully we can convince them to come vote for us.
Speaker 6: And so that's part of the challenge is convincing to
Speaker 6: join our team. And I'm hopeful, you know, we'll kind
Speaker 6: of listen to President Trump and and uh and see
Speaker 6: some things that might be appealing to them, and hopefully
Speaker 6: they'll join up politically.
Speaker 3: Do you think Governor Tim Wallas did a good job
Speaker 3: last night in terms of introducing himself to people who
Speaker 3: wouldn't necessarily know him.
Speaker 6: Look, I think the moment with his son, if you're
Speaker 6: you know, you're, if you're a human being, you can't
Speaker 6: you can't help be touched by that, right, It's a
Speaker 6: sweet moment, right, I still think that he's I think
Speaker 6: he's like a mean spirited Jim Gaffigan, right, like so
Speaker 6: hot pockets, right, but you can see him like, yeah,
Speaker 6: that guy eats hot pockets.
Speaker 8: He's pockets, right, But he's you think he's like that.
Speaker 6: He's like this nice Jim Gaffigan esque figure, but then
Speaker 6: he seems like he's got this nasty he's like there's
Speaker 6: yelling and screaming and getting all angry.
Speaker 8: I don't like that, don't you know.
Speaker 6: So we'll see the whole like football team up there
Speaker 6: and there thing raw ra like, ah, I'm not buying it, right.
Speaker 6: So and he's the white guy, he's the white guy,
Speaker 6: the ticket he's supposed to speak to. You know, I
Speaker 6: view everything again through the lens of Pennsylvania, my my
Speaker 6: little my, my superpower, also my my drawback. But you know,
Speaker 6: Carvel wants to described Pennsylvania is Alabama in between Philadelphia
Speaker 6: and Pittsburgh. Right, So again I see a lot in
Speaker 6: this convention, this building for the Philly folks, right, A
Speaker 6: lot of African American women, a lot about abortion. I
Speaker 6: don't see many for that Alabama part, right, not a
Speaker 6: lot of guys in baths, pro hats and driving trucks,
Speaker 6: and maybe that's the Tim Walls part.
Speaker 8: That he's supposed to fill in, and we'll see. I
Speaker 8: think I think he'll be helpful.
Speaker 6: He will be helpful in some of the Midwest states,
Speaker 6: perhaps maybe Michigan where you know, and in Wisconsin. I
Speaker 6: think he will be helpful there. Marginally, he's not gonna
Speaker 6: he's not gonna sell in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 8: He's not.
Speaker 6: He's not that one thing that I know is kind
Speaker 6: of off that what kind of sells in the state.
Speaker 6: It's gonna have a hard time.
Speaker 4: David Urbin, thank you so much for joining us. Always
Speaker 4: a pleasure, and we will on televisions for having me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, David, of course you can see him on CNN
Speaker 3: really the only many times the only conservative on the
Speaker 3: on a panel when he's up there.
Speaker 1: So it looks like Tim Waltz's big night with his
Speaker 1: whole you know, we've got the fourth quarter and we're
Speaker 1: down a field goal and everything counts, and we got
Speaker 1: to carry the rock and five dollars donations matter. It
Speaker 1: was the best night of the convention for grassroots fundraising.
Speaker 1: This is according to a person familiar with the totals
Speaker 1: so it beat out Monday with Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1: It beat out Tuesday with the Obamas. Tim Waltz moved
Speaker 1: the meter when it came to those small dollar donations.
Speaker 1: Of course, we can assume that that record will be
Speaker 1: broken tonight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're going to see this big slatest speakers once again.
Speaker 3: I keep going back to former Housing Secretary Marsha Fudge.
Speaker 2: We'll see what she has to say.
Speaker 4: You and your Fudge.
Speaker 2: Interior Secretary Deb Holland.
Speaker 3: You've got a former Representative, Adam Kinsinger of Illinois. He's
Speaker 3: one of those guys who was on the January sixth
Speaker 3: Committee and fell out of love, you could say, with
Speaker 3: Donald Trump. And he's going to talk about his endorsement
Speaker 3: of Kamala Harris for president. A couple governors are going
Speaker 3: to be involved, including Whitmer out of Michigan, Cooper out
Speaker 3: of North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Trump is speaking at an Arizona campaign event right now
Speaker 1: along the southern border. He opened his remarks by calling
Speaker 1: Harris's nomination a coup against Biden. Of course, Wednesday, on CNN, JD.
Speaker 1: Vance said that Harris is certainly the legitimate nominee of
Speaker 1: the Democratic.
Speaker 4: Party, but here's a twist.
Speaker 1: Like at every other event Trump's held in the past
Speaker 1: three years, he talked about the twenty twenty election, but
Speaker 1: this time, he said he seemed.
Speaker 4: To actually acknowledge his defeat. Here's the quote.
Speaker 1: I got many millions more votes than I got the
Speaker 1: first time, but didn't quite make it. Just a little
Speaker 1: bit short, he said today in Arizona.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's unusual.
Speaker 1: Well, he probably went on to say just a little
Speaker 1: bit short because they hid the votes.
Speaker 4: Or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe the full context it's still in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, Well, who's the big mystery guest tonight?
Speaker 4: Do you think I have no idea?
Speaker 2: You don't think it's Beyonce?
Speaker 4: I you know, I want to I want to care
Speaker 4: and speculate.
Speaker 2: Dick, but kiss Dick. But kiss Chicago guy.
Speaker 3: That is something, you know, the name that the bigger, bigger, No,
Speaker 3: not necessarily bigger, but another Chicago guy whose name we.
Speaker 2: Have not mentioned all week, Michael Jordan.
Speaker 4: No, we've mentioned him, mention.
Speaker 2: Him a lot.
Speaker 1: Kanye West. Kanye West, Yeah, big Chicago. He is also
Speaker 1: not big on mental stability. So I don't think they're.
Speaker 2: Going to be show.
Speaker 3: May not be around, may not be around now, all right,
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