Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome in.
Speaker 2: It is a Monday morning edition Coffee and Company, Kentucky
Speaker 2: and his morning news here on News Radio eight forty
Speaker 2: whas Nick Coffee. That's me Scott Fitzgerald alongside the one
Speaker 2: and only John Olden. He's with us as well. And
Speaker 2: we've got Joe Lincoln in once again this morning, filling
Speaker 2: in for John Shannon. So we've got a full crew
Speaker 2: and we were ready to get this week started. Fellas
Speaker 2: is it is?
Speaker 3: It?
Speaker 2: Can we say college football season is here? I mean
Speaker 2: we have games this week. Okay, just to make sure
Speaker 2: you were ready to confirm that, thank you, John. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the slate here for a week zero
Speaker 2: and I'm not going to be not going to be.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm not going to complain. We have real
Speaker 2: football and that's exciting, but you know it's not what
Speaker 2: we're going to get when we get really rolling.
Speaker 1: But hey, again, I won't complain. I'm going to embrace it.
Speaker 2: We also have high school football starting this week, which
Speaker 2: is really exciting. And yeah, we got another week. We're
Speaker 2: getting up and running here, and we had a little
Speaker 2: bit of a break yesterday. I don't know if you
Speaker 2: guys noticed, I think it was actually unexpected where we
Speaker 2: never reached the nineties, which almost fell like we need
Speaker 2: to put sweaters on.
Speaker 1: I mean, well, it's kind in.
Speaker 4: The cool down's coming to see.
Speaker 5: Temperatures could be in the mid fifties yes naxt week overnight.
Speaker 2: I'm ready for the cool down to happen. And I
Speaker 2: don't know how long it's going to stay. Don't know
Speaker 2: how long we can expect it, but I'm going to
Speaker 2: embrace it and enjoy it because this summer, I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't really know if there's any data that supports this.
Speaker 2: There's probably not, because if it was in fact like
Speaker 2: this record breaking type of summer, I think we would know.
Speaker 2: It just feels as if we haven't had as many breaks,
Speaker 2: if you know what I mean, from the heat right,
Speaker 2: like yesterday was a break. I don't think it was
Speaker 2: expected to be as cool as it actually was. But
Speaker 2: I'll but I'll take it. You were in Cincinnati this weekend,
Speaker 2: are they? I guess they pretty much have the same
Speaker 2: weather we.
Speaker 5: Do, right, same thing, same thing. The humidity is bad, Yeah,
Speaker 5: it was hot.
Speaker 4: It was hot.
Speaker 5: I was moving a bed down from a third floor
Speaker 5: apartment back up to a second floor apartment.
Speaker 1: That sounds like a great way to spend your weekend.
Speaker 4: Were No, by the time we were done, dude, it was.
Speaker 4: It was well done.
Speaker 5: We had a nice dinner, it was well deserved, and
Speaker 5: there were a few SuDS partake of at dinner.
Speaker 4: But no, it was the same thing, dude, it was
Speaker 4: the same. It was hot, it was human.
Speaker 5: Looking at the Climate Prediction Centers eight to fourteen day
Speaker 5: out look, it looks like we're gonna stay below normal
Speaker 5: temperatures coming up through that. So I think the most
Speaker 5: brutal part of this was before we hit the road Friday,
Speaker 5: I was cutting my grass and it was just I mean,
Speaker 5: it's the grass is so thick, it's so wet.
Speaker 4: It's just the air is like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just what we're doing. I mean, that's.
Speaker 5: Brutal, It's like and so by the time I get
Speaker 5: done cutting the grass, it's told.
Speaker 4: My wife said, I am just baked. I'm baked on
Speaker 4: every level.
Speaker 3: I'm done.
Speaker 4: And so if it doesn't rain for a while, my
Speaker 4: yard slows down.
Speaker 3: I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2: Saturday was it was one of those days where I
Speaker 2: ended up. I was fortunate to spend some time poolside
Speaker 2: Thankfully my mother and stepfather, they they have a setup
Speaker 2: and they allow me to take advantage of it. And man,
Speaker 2: I needed to this weekend with the kids by myself
Speaker 2: for the weekend, but it was I was in the
Speaker 2: pool and for the first time, it wasn't even really
Speaker 2: like refreshing because even though the water was you know,
Speaker 2: it's better to be in the water than without.
Speaker 1: But like, it's just that air. It's thick and gross.
Speaker 1: And that's what.
Speaker 5: People were complaining about all weekend. They said, you walk
Speaker 5: out and you literally just the air's wet. It's just
Speaker 5: so like to your point, hopefully we break.
Speaker 2: It when I get to when we get here, meaning
Speaker 2: football is here, I mean we know that for the
Speaker 2: first few weeks of football season, sometimes even longer, it's
Speaker 2: going to be pretty hot. But man, I'm ready for
Speaker 2: I'm ready for a hoodie. Yeah, and some fall temperatures,
Speaker 2: but we got a ways to go. Yeah, and uh,
Speaker 2: you know it's coming fire pit again. I haven't used
Speaker 2: a fire pit since the early spring. Yeah, I tell
Speaker 2: you what, that's one of those I'm trying. I'm thinking
Speaker 2: now when it comes to cooler temperatures and fall season,
Speaker 2: there are things that like you you like a fire pit,
Speaker 2: you realize, Oh yeah, that's it's you know, fire pit
Speaker 2: season is upon us, John, and I'm sure you're looking
Speaker 2: forward to doing that. I'm also looking forward to to
Speaker 2: betting on some college football this year, which it just
Speaker 2: be it's just donations I make to to Drafting Sports Book,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure they're appreciative of these donations.
Speaker 1: That I give.
Speaker 2: But what I always tell people who are are not
Speaker 2: into the sports gambling, totally understand do whatever you want.
Speaker 2: If you are enjoying sports without having any type of
Speaker 2: wager on it, then you know that's then it's good.
Speaker 2: I just I always say that it enhances the experience
Speaker 2: in a way that just it makes a little bit
Speaker 2: more exciting. It's entertainment. It's not like I'm out here
Speaker 2: trying to, you know, make make a living doing it,
Speaker 2: because certainly.
Speaker 1: I would be. I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: able to.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 1: It's not like I went a whole lot. But John,
Speaker 1: I think you're a good case study.
Speaker 2: You had never been someone that really got into sports
Speaker 2: gambling at all until it became legal and it became
Speaker 2: sort of really content as far as what we did
Speaker 2: on the sports side. Yeah, and you know, I don't
Speaker 2: think you're betting big dollars, but it just it it
Speaker 2: enhances the experience of sports, and that's that's what it's
Speaker 2: now what I look forward to when it comes to,
Speaker 2: you know, sports seasons starting that I really care about.
Speaker 7: And I'm very good about really just doing it between
Speaker 7: college football and the end of college basketball, and then
Speaker 7: if I have a little bit left over towards the end,
Speaker 7: I might do a little bit of NBA. But I
Speaker 7: haven't done any wagering since since the beginning of the
Speaker 7: NBA playoffs, so I'm ready to get back put some
Speaker 7: skin in the game once again.
Speaker 1: Scut. You're more of like a daily fantasy.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, I do the Sunday daily fantasy.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Wake up Sunday morning.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you wake up Sunday morning, create a couple of lineups, which,
Speaker 5: to your point is great because you follow that along
Speaker 5: and that's what makes Red Zone so much fun.
Speaker 2: I feel like those those specific those leagues specifically, yeah,
Speaker 2: have had they had to have had a negative impact
Speaker 2: on people's interest in fantasy leagues, right, because it's like
Speaker 2: a reset every week and it's it's fresh start and
Speaker 2: you can have money in your pocket day of whereas
Speaker 2: in your league. I really think, and we'll talk about
Speaker 2: this later on, I had this planned. Some of the
Speaker 2: best fantasy football punishments the leagues do as far as
Speaker 2: the come last, those are funny, but I do it
Speaker 2: for just the nostalgia. We've had the same league for
Speaker 2: no joke, about fifteen years now and it would be
Speaker 2: sad to not have it anymore. But really like the
Speaker 2: incentive for me, the payoff is our annual draft where
Speaker 2: we all get together. We don't usually see each other
Speaker 2: all in one setting and other than that draft, but
Speaker 2: I mean it's like last on the priorities for me
Speaker 2: day of Sundays because I'm worried about my bets, and
Speaker 2: even the daily fantasy stuff too, So.
Speaker 4: It's still widely popular season long fantasies. It'll always be here.
Speaker 5: To your point, a lot of people have those teams,
Speaker 5: and I've seen some of those celebrations on TikTok that
Speaker 5: are coming out now.
Speaker 4: But daily fantasy just draws you into every game.
Speaker 2: The amount of money that is spent across the country
Speaker 2: on Sundays, just doing that is is big, big, big money,
Speaker 2: And of course some people win big money, not me,
Speaker 2: but other people do.
Speaker 1: And that's proof that you can win, just isn't me.
Speaker 1: So I've gotten some.
Speaker 4: Peer money out of it.
Speaker 1: Good Stuff's nice, good stuff.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll get you caught up on at traffic
Speaker 2: and weather this morning.
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Speaker 2: you have, feel free to fire away. So this story
Speaker 2: from Friday is one that I really saw before it
Speaker 2: became and this is really a lot of honestly, now
Speaker 2: that I think about it, the two stories last week
Speaker 2: that of course became big stories. The first I saw
Speaker 2: of it was just people on social media, just average
Speaker 2: you know, not reporters, not media outlets, but somebody just
Speaker 2: saying that they're aware of something that happened, and then
Speaker 2: sure enough, within you know, a matter of minutes, it
Speaker 2: ends up being a report of something going on. One
Speaker 2: was the bus stop shooting, where somebody was there that
Speaker 2: went Facebook live and you could see I mean, unfortunately,
Speaker 2: you could see the woman laying on the ground. I mean,
Speaker 2: it wasn't a close up, and no one knew at
Speaker 2: the time the significance of the well, I guess how
Speaker 2: severe it was, but that's just how news kind of
Speaker 2: breaks this day and age. But on Friday, I don't
Speaker 2: even know how it ended up on my Facebook timeline.
Speaker 2: I think it's just one of those things that starts
Speaker 2: to spread like crazy, and then if you follow it
Speaker 2: or not, the algorithm just ends up having it in
Speaker 2: your feed. And there was somebody referencing a standoff situation
Speaker 2: where like an area of Jeffersonville, Indiana was was shut
Speaker 2: down because of an active police situation, and they were
Speaker 2: alluding to the details are crazy. What I'm hearing is nuts.
Speaker 2: And then somebody commented on what they heard was the situation,
Speaker 2: and I'll admit first thing I thought of, well, there's
Speaker 2: no way that's true, because that's insane, and sure enough
Speaker 2: it was true. So in Jeffersonville on Friday, a thirty
Speaker 2: nine year old was arrested. Bryce WINNECKI believe say you
Speaker 2: say that after a four hour standoff following the discovery
Speaker 2: of a headless body inside of a nearby home. So
Speaker 2: when you see somebody insinuate that there's a you know
Speaker 2: that just to me sounded like each layer that this
Speaker 2: got stretched and share there was an added, I guess exaggeration,
Speaker 2: But that wasn't the exaggeration because it was true. Police
Speaker 2: confirmed a headless body was found at the crime scene.
Speaker 2: So apparently around ten o'clock, officers responded to a welfare
Speaker 2: check on Summerland Place in Jeffersonville and they found a
Speaker 2: homicide victim. And then later that day they located the
Speaker 2: suspect who was armed at a home on Callaway Drive,
Speaker 2: and that led to a tactical standoff for many hours.
Speaker 2: Around three point thirty, this suspect surrendered with that incident
Speaker 2: and was taken into custody. But yes, police confirmed a
Speaker 2: headless body found. A severed head was later recovered in
Speaker 2: the area, not in that home, and investigators say this
Speaker 2: was a family related incident and not a random act.
Speaker 2: So not something you see very often somebody being arrested
Speaker 2: for murder and they've decapitated somebody. I mean, that's just insane,
Speaker 2: for lack of a better word, and I'm sure there
Speaker 2: are better words, but I mean insane, that's what I've got.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll figure out a better word to use moving forward.
Speaker 2: So yeah, just a gruesome and heartbreaking situation there in Jeffersonville.
Speaker 2: But again, they do want to stress that this is
Speaker 2: not a this is there's no ongoing threat to the public.
Speaker 2: It's just an isolated incident with a family situation. So
Speaker 2: also with Jeffersonville, this we didn't talk about last week,
Speaker 2: but they did later confirm that gat that that explosion
Speaker 2: that took place at that home in Jeffersonville was once
Speaker 2: again confirmed to be a gas leak, and one of
Speaker 2: those that was injured has since passed away. So rough
Speaker 2: rough situation there in Jeffersonville the last few weeks. All right,
Speaker 2: let's get to another check of traffic and weather. We'll
Speaker 2: get you caught up on the roadways. Another busier week,
Speaker 2: meaning everybody's back in school. Let's I feel like this
Speaker 2: is the first week where we are up and at
Speaker 2: it and everybody's starting fresh on a Monday, back to
Speaker 2: school and of.
Speaker 1: Course back to work for a lot of people too.
Speaker 2: So we'll get you through the morning here Kentucky and
Speaker 2: this morning news, coffee and company with you on news
Speaker 2: radio waight forty whas. Thank you very much, Joe Link.
Speaker 2: And it is six thirty five. I'm sorry I got
Speaker 2: ahead of myself. It's five thirty five. Don't worry, You're
Speaker 2: not late to work. If I just put you in
Speaker 2: a full panic, it's five thirty five. But it is
Speaker 2: Kentucky INA's Morning News that I can confirm. And I
Speaker 2: tell you what. We're off to a good Monday morning here.
Speaker 2: And I know I said this last week, but why
Speaker 2: not say it once more? I am I am amazed
Speaker 2: would probably be an exaggeration, but just the flow of vehicles.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say traffic because I don't sit
Speaker 1: in traffic.
Speaker 2: But the commute here when there's not school going on
Speaker 2: in the commute here, when there is school going on
Speaker 2: in the early morning hours. I mean, I'm sure this
Speaker 2: is probably an exaggeration, and I wouldn't be good at
Speaker 2: just looking and putting throwing a number out there, but
Speaker 2: I feel like it's like forty percent more vehicles on
Speaker 2: the road in the morning, which just tells me how
Speaker 2: many people are rather be their teachers, or they work
Speaker 2: for the school system in some capacity, or they have
Speaker 2: to get their kids somewhere to get ready to be
Speaker 2: taken to school somewhere. But yeah, I underestimated just how
Speaker 2: many people are up and at it earlier throughout the
Speaker 2: early morning, whenever you've got school going on, regardless if
Speaker 2: it's I mean, look, there are people who maybe live
Speaker 2: in Oldham County here, Spencer County, Bullet County that their
Speaker 2: kids are in private school in Jefferson County and that
Speaker 2: involves a commute and whatnot. So we'll keep you updated
Speaker 2: as best we can on the traffic situation. So far,
Speaker 2: didn't sound like there's anything major going on, but if
Speaker 2: that changes, we'll be sure to let you know. So
Speaker 2: Joe mentioned the triathlon, the iron Man, that took place
Speaker 2: here in Louisville. It was yesterday, and I am I'm
Speaker 2: amazed by those who are able to do these. I mean,
Speaker 2: let alone do it and be competitive as far as
Speaker 2: you know, like the amount of time you get it done.
Speaker 2: But just doing a one point two mile swim, a
Speaker 2: fifty six mile bike ride, and a thirteen point one
Speaker 2: mile run, I mean doing that in general, and also
Speaker 2: doing it in the summer heat. Those who participate, the
Speaker 2: competitors absolute badasses, I mean just insane, and I don't.
Speaker 2: I'll never I'm not gonna lie to myself and act
Speaker 2: like I'll ever do one of these because I won't.
Speaker 2: But I looked up just some average, just some numbers.
Speaker 2: As far as those that do participate, So women make
Speaker 2: up eighteen percent of total iron Man entries. That's the
Speaker 2: full distance, which I will'll admit hand up, I would
Speaker 2: have guessed fewer than that, So apologies for I guess
Speaker 2: underestimating the women that also participate in this. But in
Speaker 2: certain areas of the United States, female participation for iron
Speaker 2: Man actually gets up to like twenty five percent. So
Speaker 2: as far as the age range, it says here that
Speaker 2: recent trends show more young athletes signing up. A thirty
Speaker 2: nine percent increase in first timers under the age of
Speaker 2: thirty currently compared to twenty nineteen, and an impressive sixty
Speaker 2: six percent growth among those that are under thirty in
Speaker 2: iron Man seventy point three events, So age range thirty
Speaker 2: to thirty four is now the largest category for the
Speaker 2: first time. So that's where most are. That's the age
Speaker 2: range most are in that participate in this. But again,
Speaker 2: the youth surge has been has been. I mean even
Speaker 2: those that are in their twenties, it's climbing up. So
Speaker 2: again I'm jealous of all of you who are able
Speaker 2: to do that. And also, more than anything, accomplishing it
Speaker 2: is certainly a huge accomplishment. I doubt, I doubt there's
Speaker 2: ever been anybody other than maybe someone who suffered some
Speaker 2: type of serious injury because of it. But training for
Speaker 2: a triathlon and then competing it, have you Ever, there's
Speaker 2: no way anybody's regretted it, right, It's got to be
Speaker 2: such a sense of accomplishment, Like for me, this is such.
Speaker 1: A lower level of that.
Speaker 2: But I always say this to people when it comes
Speaker 2: to the gym and working out, like, is anybody ever
Speaker 2: regretted going to the gym and working out or exercising?
Speaker 2: Meaning like you think about it, like should I do it?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll do it next week or and look, I'm
Speaker 2: guilty of that too, but I've never actually going through
Speaker 2: with getting a run in or going to the gym
Speaker 2: and exercising and working out and not feeling like.
Speaker 1: Wow, there was there was I should have done this.
Speaker 1: This was good for me. I'm glad I did this.
Speaker 2: So the training, right, those that go through, because you
Speaker 2: don't just show up and swim what is it, one
Speaker 2: point two miles and then ride your bike for fifty
Speaker 2: six miles and then pull off a thirteen point one
Speaker 2: mile run. You don't just say, yeah, oh, there's a
Speaker 2: triathle on this weekend, I'm gonna sign up. I mean,
Speaker 2: if you did do that and you were able to
Speaker 2: get it done, then you are next level badass. But yeah,
Speaker 2: congratulations to all those that competed. I'm just looking at
Speaker 2: it different iron man training. I guess programs that you
Speaker 2: can get into and I mean you're talking probably fifteen
Speaker 2: hours a week that is spent just training, and that's
Speaker 2: what's needed. I guess to be best bet, you know,
Speaker 2: to be in the best shape possible to get it done.
Speaker 2: So that just takes a lot of dedication and commitment
Speaker 2: and I envy those that can pull that off. Congrats
Speaker 2: to everybody involved. All right, we've got another traffic and
Speaker 2: weather update coming up, so stick around for that. Also,
Speaker 2: Roy o'eil of NBC News set to join us coming
Speaker 2: up on the other side right here on News Radio
Speaker 2: eight forty whas. It is Coffee and Company, Kentucky, and
Speaker 2: is Morning News with you here on News Radio eight
Speaker 2: forty whas. Good morning, everybody, Happy Monday. Let's welcome in
Speaker 2: our friend Rory O'Neal of NBC News. Rory, when it
Speaker 2: comes to the situation in Washington, DC, to me, it
Speaker 2: kind of depends on who you who you want to
Speaker 2: listen to, who you believe, because there's there's some numbers
Speaker 2: that do back up just how dangerous Washington, DC is
Speaker 2: as far as crime. But then there's some that will
Speaker 2: tell you, well, hey, it's not that big of a deal.
Speaker 2: The National Guard troops really aren't needed. What do we
Speaker 2: know as far as what is fact and what is not?
Speaker 2: And I guess how this is expected to play out.
Speaker 6: Well, one of the issue is are we sure we
Speaker 6: have the facts right? Because there is a police commander
Speaker 6: who's gotten in trouble, who he is accused of fudge
Speaker 6: the crime statistics, essentially under reporting what happened. Let's say
Speaker 6: it was a shooting and he puts it down as
Speaker 6: a simple assault or something like that, so that it
Speaker 6: looks like he's doing a better job of managing crime
Speaker 6: in his area.
Speaker 3: Now that guy's been suspended, he's appealing all that stuff.
Speaker 6: But that's also one of the issues that cloud's exactly
Speaker 6: what's happening on the ground in Washington.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 6: This weekend we saw again the military flexing its muscle
Speaker 6: quite a bit, with large vehicles and a large strong
Speaker 6: presence by places like Union Station near the Capitol and.
Speaker 3: The Washington Monument in the mall.
Speaker 6: But are those really the high crime areas where they
Speaker 6: need the attention.
Speaker 3: It's another question that's out there.
Speaker 2: What I can't understand is that if in fact, there
Speaker 2: are resources being provided to a city that is clearly
Speaker 2: suffering from a high level of violent crime, and they're
Speaker 2: there to help, what's the resistance.
Speaker 6: Well, for a president to call up a national go
Speaker 6: and deployed troops in a state, which again is a
Speaker 6: little gray here because it's the district, that's not something
Speaker 6: that the Constitution really approves of, especially without the governor's consent.
Speaker 6: We saw the same conflict when it came to California
Speaker 6: and the process that were happening there. It's similar now
Speaker 6: in this case. The mayor has not really objected to this.
Speaker 6: And again President Trump is using authority he has under
Speaker 6: section seven forty of the Home Rule Act for the district,
Speaker 6: so he can do this for thirty days.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 6: Whether or not this is extended, that's going to be
Speaker 6: up to Congress. But of course, you know, Congress pretty
Speaker 6: much has been acting like a rubber stamp for the president.
Speaker 3: So we'll see what happened. So there are some constitutional
Speaker 3: questions about.
Speaker 6: Doing this, whether or not this is a distraction to
Speaker 6: change the topic from the Epstein case, and whether or
Speaker 6: not this was really necessary at all is Again the
Speaker 6: numbers are tough, but this idea that you know, Washington
Speaker 6: got bad in twenty twenty three and that things had
Speaker 6: been improving, and finally, you know, do you want armed
Speaker 6: troops marching through your streets all day?
Speaker 3: Does that make you feel safer either?
Speaker 2: And that makes it make sense as far as it's
Speaker 2: more so, not that people are totally in denial, that
Speaker 2: they have an issue. It's just I guess the way
Speaker 2: in which President Trump is going about it, which it's
Speaker 2: not uncommon for him to go at about it a
Speaker 2: certain way that's different than really others have done it,
Speaker 2: and questionable if it's even if it's even allowed. So
Speaker 2: that makes it make total sense. Thank you, Roy. That's
Speaker 2: why you're the best. That's that's why we love to
Speaker 2: have you each and every morning here with us on
Speaker 2: news Radio eight forty WHS. So let's switch gears here.
Speaker 2: The Texas lawmakers. They're returning to Austin to vote on
Speaker 2: redistricting as far as the plan that will favor Republicans,
Speaker 2: and in California a special election will be held that
Speaker 2: could benefit Democrats in Congress. Are other states expected to
Speaker 2: in line to kind of follow suit here?
Speaker 6: Well, that's the big argument now, right, So this is
Speaker 6: an issue of jerry mandering, redrawing the maps in order
Speaker 6: to make the votes go to your party. You know,
Speaker 6: we've seen it in places like Illinois where it favors Democrats,
Speaker 6: and now in Texas they're trying to redraw the maps
Speaker 6: to try to get five more Republican seats. Well, now,
Speaker 6: the governor of California with plans unveiled over the weekend
Speaker 6: and maps there saying aha, we can do that too
Speaker 6: and get five more seats. The question is, okay, California
Speaker 6: and Texas. Let's say California approves it, and that's no guarantee,
Speaker 6: but let's say California voters approve it, so five offset spives.
Speaker 6: So now you have to look at places like Indiana,
Speaker 6: oh and Ohio as two other places that could try
Speaker 6: to redraw some of their maps in order to give
Speaker 6: them a Republican benefit. So it's a bit of a
Speaker 6: wait and see. But this could also get close. You know,
Speaker 6: we're talking about midterm elections that are happening just over
Speaker 6: a year from now, so because then these registrict maps
Speaker 6: always go to court challenges that can really slow things down.
Speaker 6: So let's see how this all unfold. But the Democratic
Speaker 6: lawmakers in Texas are now expected to start returning today.
Speaker 6: It looks like the inevitable is about to happen with
Speaker 6: these new maps getting approved in Texas.
Speaker 2: Rory is always appreciate your time and appreciate the conversation.
Speaker 2: Enjoy the rest of your day. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 3: Thanks Nick, talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 2: That is Rory O'Neil of NBC News good stuff there
Speaker 2: Again when it comes to the situation in DC, and
Speaker 2: again that's why Rory makes it make sense. Like the
Speaker 2: way in which Trump has decided to go about a
Speaker 2: lot of things is a little bit, I guess, not
Speaker 2: the traditional way, and sometimes there's legitimate questioning.
Speaker 1: As far as like would he be allowed to do it?
Speaker 2: And Rory did a good job explaining sort of the
Speaker 2: you know what he's using to be able to do
Speaker 2: it and whatnot. But I just from just a citizen standpoint,
Speaker 2: if you hear that somebody is there's going to be
Speaker 2: resources added to help keep your city from being quite
Speaker 2: as violent and dangerous, I would say I would welcome
Speaker 2: with open arms. But clearly I think some people just
Speaker 2: don't want Trump to be able to do whatever he
Speaker 2: wants to do. And that's just where we are, all right.
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