Speaker 1: Thank you, Joe. It is eight oh four here Kentucky.
Speaker 1: This Morning News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight
Speaker 1: forty whas maybe a little late mentioning this. I mean
Speaker 1: I've mentioned it throughout the morning, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's eight oh four here, so maybe there are some
Speaker 1: that are just now getting ready to get their day started.
Speaker 1: Everybody's schedules different, but a reminder that Phase two of
Speaker 1: the routine inspections of the Clark Memorial Bridge is scheduled
Speaker 1: to begin today. In Phase two is believed to be
Speaker 1: one that will and will cast some more traffic delays
Speaker 1: than Phase one, So just just keep that in mind.
Speaker 1: If you're somebody that finds yourself on the Clark Memorial
Speaker 1: Bridge at any point throughout your daily commute, you could
Speaker 1: have a little bit of traffic and that's no fun
Speaker 1: for anybody. But maybe maybe I've given you a heads
Speaker 1: up to now you know to leave earlier. You're probably
Speaker 1: not happy about that, but hey, if I can help
Speaker 1: anybody avoid traffic, that's a good thing, right at least
Speaker 1: I choose to believe that it is a good thing.
Speaker 2: I hear that from folks all the time. It's amazing
Speaker 2: with this technology.
Speaker 3: We have nick that they'll tell us either hey, thank
Speaker 3: Bobby Ellis or thank you, thank you guys for letting
Speaker 3: me know that that was blocked off, because I definitely
Speaker 3: would have went that way.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, when you I would say most people who
Speaker 1: have had the same commute for a while, even if
Speaker 1: you're kind of you know, not sleeping because you're driving,
Speaker 1: we got to be safe. But maybe you're you're on
Speaker 1: autopilot a little bit there you hear of an incident
Speaker 1: and you hear a road, a bridge, a street that
Speaker 1: you know that that is a part of your path,
Speaker 1: and you know, hopefully you can make arrangements and avoid
Speaker 1: a longer delay. All right, So we've been very busy
Speaker 1: this morning reacting to a big weekend. It really started
Speaker 1: with Friday evening Saturday morning news. That is horrific and
Speaker 1: that is the assassination that took place. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's quite literally exactly what it was. And you had
Speaker 1: a a senator. Yeah, let's see. So the guy his
Speaker 1: name I don't think I've mentioned yet this morning, not
Speaker 1: that it's you know, it's out there, but the suspect
Speaker 1: is Vance Luther Bolter. He's the fifty fifty seven year
Speaker 1: old Minnesota man who is accused of killing a state representative,
Speaker 1: Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. They were fatally shot
Speaker 1: at their home in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. That took place
Speaker 1: at three point thirty five on Saturday morning. And then
Speaker 1: thankfully they're going to survive. But State Senator John Hoffman
Speaker 1: and his wife Avett, they were shot at their home
Speaker 1: and it's about nine miles away from where the other
Speaker 1: shooting took place, and they both survived. And it sounds
Speaker 1: like their shooting actually was first, that took place before
Speaker 1: the second shooting that of course did take the lives
Speaker 1: of those two in Brooklyn Park, Mark Hortman and Melissa Hortman.
Speaker 1: So last night they were able to capture this suspect
Speaker 1: with the help of somebody who had a trail cam
Speaker 1: set up within I guess, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know the exact distance. We'll talk to Rory O'Neil of
Speaker 1: NBC New sot'll join us coming up at eight thirty.
Speaker 1: We'll get the specifics on this. But yeah, just an
Speaker 1: awful situation that of course led to a lot of
Speaker 1: the protests that were planned to take place in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: A lot of those did not happen because obviously they
Speaker 1: were on I mean, they had all resources available looking
Speaker 1: for this suspect, and thankfully last night they were able
Speaker 1: to tap rand him. But he will he's doing court today,
Speaker 1: so we'll see what comes from that, and we'll see
Speaker 1: if this individual is willing to talk. Not that there's
Speaker 1: any words that could justify his actions, but maybe he
Speaker 1: can he can share. Again, I don't think I'm trying
Speaker 1: to walk down the line here of maybe he'll give
Speaker 1: us some type of reason that will at least make
Speaker 1: it make sense. But I'm not really sure that's possible.
Speaker 1: But clearly, I think it's it's human nature to one
Speaker 1: understand the motive that could bring somebody to do something
Speaker 1: like that. So there's obviously some noise out there that
Speaker 1: he's very much He was very upset about these folks
Speaker 1: who he killed and attempted to kill, the others their
Speaker 1: their stance on abortion. So again we'll talk to Rory
Speaker 1: O'Neil coming up here at about eight thirty. Also, there
Speaker 1: were many protests across the country, the no Kings protests,
Speaker 1: and Louisville had won and it got up to about
Speaker 1: four thousand people. That's the estimated crowd that showed up
Speaker 1: downtown Louisville. It went on from noon to four pm
Speaker 1: out at Jefferson Square Park on Jefferson Street near Metro
Speaker 1: City Hall, and I felt like, just comparing the footage
Speaker 1: the pictures, it seemed as if there was a lot
Speaker 1: more folks here in this area than I would have expected. Maybe,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe the exact number four thousand is not
Speaker 1: large compared to what took place in other cities, and
Speaker 1: really that's not relevant. But what I think is the
Speaker 1: takeaway for me, and I'm only speaking for myself here,
Speaker 1: is that he had four thousand people out protesting, and
Speaker 1: yet they were able to do what they wanted to do.
Speaker 1: And it ended at four pm and nobody was arrested.
Speaker 1: And I hate to say that I was expecting people
Speaker 1: to be arrested, but I don't think anybody would have
Speaker 1: been totally stunned if at least a couple ended up
Speaker 1: maybe getting putting handcuffs taken to jail, because they did
Speaker 1: cross that line of of it going from peaceful to
Speaker 1: not peaceful. So regardless of where you stand on the
Speaker 1: protesting meaning what people are protesting about, meaning if they
Speaker 1: should even have the ability to do it where they've
Speaker 1: blocked off streets to where you can't because everybody, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody's got their own opinion. I'm not here to try
Speaker 1: to change yours, but I think collectively, wouldn't it be
Speaker 1: an obvious thing to say that with nobody getting arrested,
Speaker 1: that's the best case scenario, right. I mean, you don't
Speaker 1: want to be a city that ends up being one
Speaker 1: of the three to four where they really highlight what
Speaker 1: went on with the protests in your city, because it
Speaker 1: did cross the line, it did get to a point where,
Speaker 1: you know, I used this example earlier. A lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of law enforcement across the country they utilize
Speaker 1: horses to, you know, to get around, especially for things
Speaker 1: like this, and you know, you put your hand on
Speaker 1: a horse, that's a cop. You can't do that. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're you're asking to get arrested.
Speaker 2: Horses are pretty big characters too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you would think I'll be interested maybe next
Speaker 3: time you sit down with Dwight Mitchell from the LMPD
Speaker 3: talk about some lessons learned not just from a physical standpoint,
Speaker 3: but in crowd control. Yeah, what we learned during Brown
Speaker 3: and Taylor and what we've learned from other police departments
Speaker 3: around the country, because when it comes to protesting, goes
Speaker 3: much beyond. It goes further beyond just the physical let's
Speaker 3: block off streets and keep people restrained. There's a mental
Speaker 3: approach to this that seems to work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think to your point, I mean, when
Speaker 1: it comes to the level in which you will engage
Speaker 1: as an officer with somebody protesting, I'm sure they learned
Speaker 1: a lot because you know, there's nothing wrong with engaging
Speaker 1: in them. But you also may have training that tells
Speaker 1: you but really is no there's no need to really
Speaker 1: have a you know, do your job, answer questions that
Speaker 1: need to be answered. But you know, there's really not
Speaker 1: a whole lot of good that may come from somebody
Speaker 1: that's just screaming at you, trying to antagonize you, because
Speaker 1: some people do that. And what I do like to
Speaker 1: remind folks every now and then, which I think is
Speaker 1: an obvious these people are human beings. Law enforcement. They
Speaker 1: are they they want to wrap up work and go
Speaker 1: home to their families, like that's what a lot of
Speaker 1: them do. So I think there's so many that just
Speaker 1: don't humanize law enforcement. And I wish that wasn't the case,
Speaker 1: but it.
Speaker 3: Is all right.
Speaker 1: We got an update of traffic and weather coming your
Speaker 1: way again. Sports will be with Scott coming up about
Speaker 1: eight twenty five, and then we'll talk to Rory and
Speaker 1: Neil of NBC News. So stick around right here on
Speaker 1: news Radio eight forty whas it is eight seventeen here
Speaker 1: at Kentuckyana's morning news on News Radio eight forty whas
Speaker 1: Nick coffee with you, getting the week started. Hopefully you
Speaker 1: guys had a good weekend. I know it was a
Speaker 1: busy weekend, a lot to react to, and that's exactly
Speaker 1: what we've been doing so far this morning. You'll have
Speaker 1: another update of sports coming your way with Scott in
Speaker 1: about eight minutes. But one thing that I believe has
Speaker 1: certainly been in the news, but maybe it's just me
Speaker 1: that feels like it's a bigger deal than others or
Speaker 1: and again, everybody's got their own opinion on things. But
Speaker 1: to see that there has already been an adjustment made
Speaker 1: as far as what Donald Trump is tasking Ice to
Speaker 1: do as far as these immigration raids, I think that's
Speaker 1: pretty telling. But also, you know, not real surprise, to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, but what what is with the
Speaker 1: change is is that these these raids that have been
Speaker 1: taking place for quite some time with ICE, they now
Speaker 1: have been advised to no longer have these raids take
Speaker 1: place at farms, hotels and restaurants. So this is to me,
Speaker 1: it's almost an acknowledgment of you either didn't think it
Speaker 1: through or you were wrong. I doubt we'll ever hear
Speaker 1: that said from right from from from Donald Trump. But
Speaker 1: whenever you've got you're having to make an adjustment here
Speaker 1: to where you're still allowed, meaning if you're ICE to
Speaker 1: to have these raids take place at factories and in
Speaker 1: the streets and whatnot. But yet you're now saying, hey,
Speaker 1: we need to stop rating places that rely heavily on
Speaker 1: migrant labor. I mean, did you not realize that those
Speaker 1: industries like hotels, farms, and restaurants relied on migrant labor.
Speaker 1: I thought that was a no brainer. And I would
Speaker 1: assume that when when you put this plan in motion
Speaker 1: and you execute and have it be such a priority,
Speaker 1: that you would be aware that you're going to be
Speaker 1: rating places where if these businesses, industries really not just
Speaker 1: one specific business, but industries rely upon migrant labor. Whenever
Speaker 1: those people are snatched up and deported, that's going to
Speaker 1: impact the economy. So you're still going to see these again.
Speaker 1: This is from CBS News. They say two officials tell
Speaker 1: CBS News that the sudden shift follows complaints from growers, hotels,
Speaker 1: and trade groups who fear losing staff during peak peak
Speaker 1: summer demand. The pause does not affect the ongoing raids
Speaker 1: at factories or on city streets, but it halts plan
Speaker 1: sweeps of hundreds of food service and hospitality sites. All
Speaker 1: the agency reviews the economic impact here. So the change again,
Speaker 1: it's a sharp pivot for the Trump administration, which has
Speaker 1: vowed very much, blatantly, in your face almost that they
Speaker 1: will deport millions and and they and they don't they
Speaker 1: don't care if you're here illegally. You got to go
Speaker 1: well until until you truly. I mean, this is an
Speaker 1: acknowledgment that by the administration that we do in fact
Speaker 1: rely on these people more than they wanted us to believe.
Speaker 2: It seems well, and we've seen this before from the
Speaker 2: Trump administration.
Speaker 3: They go real hard one way and then come back
Speaker 3: the other way, and it just TikTok.
Speaker 2: For example, I was going to shut it down.
Speaker 3: Then all of a sudden, I realed it just wonders
Speaker 3: if some of these lobbyists have gotten to folks in
Speaker 3: the Trump administration said hey, you might want to rethink this.
Speaker 3: A lot of political donors got to them and said, look,
Speaker 3: I need these people.
Speaker 1: I don't know who it is, and I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: the one that would know. But there's no doubt there's
Speaker 1: some with the ability when they pick up the phone
Speaker 1: and make a call, there's there's there's much more light,
Speaker 1: there's there's a much better chance of something changing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and whoever that is, right, whoever they are, clearly they
Speaker 1: got involved here because again this is a sharp pivot,
Speaker 1: no doubt. All right, let's get an update of traff
Speaker 1: and weather, and then we'll get an update on sports
Speaker 1: with Scott right here on news radio eight forty WHAS
Speaker 1: eight forty seven here Kentucky This Morning, News news Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty w h A s look with the cat
Speaker 1: drug in. It's mister Tony Venetti. Do you have a
Speaker 1: good Father's Day?
Speaker 4: I did. I went to see both my kids are
Speaker 4: out of town, so I got the text message, hey
Speaker 4: have your Father's Day.
Speaker 1: But you could feel how much they meant to through
Speaker 1: the text message.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4: Uh So I went to see I love going to
Speaker 4: the movies. Nice, I love going to the movies.
Speaker 1: So as a dad with your kids out of town,
Speaker 1: you got to you got to have like a dad
Speaker 1: day to yourself.
Speaker 4: Yeah I did. Yeah, I told everybody. I was like that,
Speaker 4: what do you want? I said, leave me alone.
Speaker 1: I got to sweat my ass off at Churchill Downs
Speaker 1: chasing my kids around.
Speaker 4: That's exactly right, you know what? You For years I
Speaker 4: did that to where Father's Day was about doing anything
Speaker 4: that you didn't want to do. Well, we're doing this
Speaker 4: barbecue and then we're going over to my dad's and
Speaker 4: then it's just like seven hours of stuff you didn't
Speaker 4: want to do. And I was like, and you sit
Speaker 4: there for a while. For a couple of years, you
Speaker 4: take it, and then once you get older a little bit,
Speaker 4: you're like, yeah, I'm not doing anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah I what about brunch. I'm not. I'm not. I'm
Speaker 1: not as seasoned of a father as you. I'm still
Speaker 1: relatively relatively new to where I've I've not hit the
Speaker 1: point where if I tell my kids, hey, no, I
Speaker 1: want you all to leave me alone. That I'm gonna
Speaker 1: sit my recliner. That wouldn't go.
Speaker 4: Well yeah yeah, no, no, no, your kids are still
Speaker 4: in What are we doing?
Speaker 2: Let's go?
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, that's right. So we would see Mission impossible.
Speaker 2: How was it?
Speaker 4: Oh dude, he's Tom Cruise is just a movie star.
Speaker 4: He knows how to do it. Man, it's three hours
Speaker 4: of crazy.
Speaker 1: So Tom Cruise is one of the rare and last
Speaker 1: remaining big time big name actors that still does a
Speaker 1: lot of the stunts himself. Like do people realize that, Yes,
Speaker 1: they do. It's his big calling card. So when you
Speaker 1: see the last little plane, you know he's there's two
Speaker 1: biplanes and he on one and he's got to get
Speaker 1: on the other. You know it's all him because it's
Speaker 1: all close ups of him on this plane. It's crazy.
Speaker 4: And actually it went too long to you're like, all right,
Speaker 4: get to the other plane, let's get this thing.
Speaker 1: It was just showing off.
Speaker 4: Huh yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it says he jumped from a plane with
Speaker 1: a parachute soaked inflammable liquid. Yes, ignited mid air. He
Speaker 1: did it sixteen times. Yep, I guess toget. That scene
Speaker 1: was incredible. It was incredible. That's him.
Speaker 4: Doing that. It's nuts. It's nuts, so it's worth the money.
Speaker 4: It is three hours of entertainment.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. Do we claim him? It's
Speaker 1: always been foggy to me. He is he Louisville? Is
Speaker 1: he not?
Speaker 4: He addressed it at the Oscars a couple of years ago. Okay,
Speaker 4: he said, I've lived in a lot of places, and
Speaker 4: he named three or four places, and one was Louisville,
Speaker 4: because I lived in Louisville, Kentucky for three years. He
Speaker 4: went to St. Axe, he wrestled for Saint X. So
Speaker 4: he he did claim us to a certain point.
Speaker 1: Well, then I think we should claim him, right absolutely,
Speaker 1: he's you throw it.
Speaker 4: Johnny Depp is Johnny Depp is that Owensborough, Owensboro.
Speaker 1: And then George Clooneyloney is Maysville, real small area, Mason County.
Speaker 2: Don't forget the Hutcherson's and the Jerson and then Jennifer Lawrence.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jennifer Lawrence, I mean you throw in. Let's just
Speaker 1: say Louisville specifically, if we're I mean, if we have
Speaker 1: some level of ability to claim Tom Cruise, and we
Speaker 1: certainly know Jennifer Lawrence is the Louivillion I mean that's
Speaker 1: a good thing about us.
Speaker 4: She was the top billing female actors for about five years.
Speaker 4: Tom Cruise has been that forever. George Clooney was the
Speaker 4: guy for ten fifteen years. So think about it.
Speaker 1: Clooney wasn't probably still is, but he was a level
Speaker 1: of famous that was just different, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like he was in the tier of just like.
Speaker 4: But here's the key. He has been single forever, right,
Speaker 4: and no kids basically because I don't know what even
Speaker 4: his relationship with the daughter of because all that scientology stuff.
Speaker 4: This guy controls every aspect of his life in every movie.
Speaker 4: And when you have that weight that you're talented, smart
Speaker 4: and willing to work harder than anywhere else on the set,
Speaker 4: and you do that with an unlimited budget, you get
Speaker 4: movies like Mission Impossible, which are which are great movies. Man,
Speaker 4: They're not terrible, they're good movies. It's fun.
Speaker 1: So was it Clooney who at one point, like it
Speaker 1: became news that he had a party and he just
Speaker 1: gave all of his close friends at the party like
Speaker 1: millions of dollars. Have you heard that? Stung?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean, well you make that much money, yeah,
Speaker 4: and you come from.
Speaker 1: Like, that's so when you know you can there's no
Speaker 1: there's nothing you really can't purchase. So therefore maybe the
Speaker 1: new satisfaction is to like, it's not bringing home something
Speaker 1: that you paid a ton of money for, it's giving
Speaker 1: money to people because you know you've already spent enough
Speaker 1: to where you you no longer get satisfied by making
Speaker 1: a big lavish purchase. And he's I can't relate.
Speaker 4: And you grew up with Henry uh Henry French friend,
Speaker 4: Heather Frind Henry Heather French Henry, so they were kids
Speaker 4: together in the same area. It's more northern Kentucky. But yeah,
Speaker 4: but think about it. Johnny Depp, George Clooney for Lawrence
Speaker 4: and now we now we.
Speaker 1: Actually have movies that are being being filmed in Louisville
Speaker 1: because of the big push with you know, getting the
Speaker 1: set up at the Bolval Gardens, which is now going
Speaker 1: to mean that's just going to bring even more of
Speaker 1: those projects. So good stuff. Did you see what happened
Speaker 1: right as soon as you hit the airwaves on Friday
Speaker 1: that that semi truck hanging off the I mean it
Speaker 1: was it was during while the mayor was on the
Speaker 1: air with us. Yes, okay, so I knew that. I
Speaker 1: knew the timing had to align a little bit, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, that was great. Yeah, with his sons
Speaker 1: and the family. Yeah, that was a good way to
Speaker 1: get a good way to get Father's Day weekend started.
Speaker 1: Is Dwight with you today or is he still he's here,
Speaker 1: He'll hobble in here in a second. Well, you guys,
Speaker 1: have a good show, my friend talk soon, all right.
Speaker 1: We'll be back at it bright and early tomorrow at
Speaker 1: five am. Until then, keep it locked right here. Tony
Speaker 1: Dwight coming your way on news radio eight forty w
Speaker 1: h A. S.