Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. Finally, heads are rolling. At least
Speaker 1: five members of the Secret Service have been placed on
Speaker 1: AD leave mid leave following the assassination attempt against former
Speaker 1: President Trump. One member of Trump's personal protective team and
Speaker 1: four members of the Secret Services Field office in Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: including the Special Agent in charge, had been placed on
Speaker 1: leave six weeks after the incident. I was kind of
Speaker 1: surprised about the member of his personal protective team. That's
Speaker 1: odd to me because that is not where the responsibility lies.
Speaker 1: The responsibility lies on the people that planned this, The
Speaker 1: people that went out there and checked out the venue
Speaker 1: and observed the problem areas ie a roof overlooking the event.
Speaker 2: Those are the people I want to see fired. Fox
Speaker 2: was the first to report this this morning. But they
Speaker 2: learned that the threat to Trump from Iran, Do you
Speaker 2: remember that came out a couple of weeks later. That
Speaker 2: was communicated internally at the Secret Service prior to the
Speaker 2: event in Pennsylvania, And the investigation is now looking into
Speaker 2: why the event went forward at all, even though that
Speaker 2: was hanging over the heads of everybody there in Butler, PA.
Speaker 2: The Secret Service did say in a statement they're committed
Speaker 2: to investigating the decisions the actions of all the personnel
Speaker 2: then related to the event. The FBI had previously stated
Speaker 2: that the shooter was able to get on the roof
Speaker 2: of that building nearby by, climbing up HVAC equipment and
Speaker 2: piping cooked. The gunman then traveled multiple rooftops traversed, i
Speaker 2: should say, before he found his shooting position on top
Speaker 2: of the building about one hundred and fifty yards away
Speaker 2: from where have you.
Speaker 1: Been traveling with your the sourus? Because your vocab this
Speaker 1: week has been next level. I would say this morning,
Speaker 1: you were on Amy Kings Show Wake Up Call, and
Speaker 1: you use the word postulate right out of the gate,
Speaker 1: and I'm like lying there, barely woken up, and you're
Speaker 1: saying things like postulate, which I really appreciate. I do
Speaker 1: appreciate a good vocab, but you seem to be bringing it.
Speaker 1: Are you doing something or are you doing word exercises
Speaker 1: in your downtime?
Speaker 2: It just sometimes my brain gets sparked. You know, maybe
Speaker 2: it's the microdosing.
Speaker 1: Ah, the ketamine. Something maybe don't do drugs kids, Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't do not the nineties anymore funny.
Speaker 3: No, it's not funny.
Speaker 1: It's not funny.
Speaker 3: There's also a big deal going on. Of course. Robert F.
Speaker 2: Kennedy withdrew from the ballot in Arizona late last night,
Speaker 2: the day before he is set to appear in Arizona
Speaker 2: and probably drop out of the race, drop his independent
Speaker 2: presidential bid. He's scheduled to speak at about eleven o'clock
Speaker 2: hour time, so a couple hours from now, talking about
Speaker 2: the present historical moment and the Kennedy path forward.
Speaker 3: That's according to the campaign.
Speaker 1: All Right, So, Kamala Harris has her big night last night,
Speaker 1: the coronation ceremony where she accepts democratic nomination.
Speaker 3: She was very demure, very demure.
Speaker 1: Very again, you're killing that, Like when you play that,
Speaker 1: it ruins it and it makes it just disappear from
Speaker 1: pop culture.
Speaker 3: Hey, it does.
Speaker 1: You had a headline this morning on an article you
Speaker 1: were reading, and it made my stomach turn.
Speaker 3: It's a Washington Post opinion piece. Bye.
Speaker 2: Let me see the writer's name, Catherine Rampell. Holy hell,
Speaker 2: here's the title.
Speaker 3: Doug M. Hoff modern day sex symbol good.
Speaker 1: Lord in Heaven not for me, not for me. Exclamation
Speaker 1: will kill you. So Kamala Harris has her big night
Speaker 1: last night. I watched it live and I got to
Speaker 1: say I was bored. I was bored as all get out.
Speaker 1: I think her rallies have gone better for her. I
Speaker 1: think that the moment was huge, and she was maybe
Speaker 1: a little overwhelmed by it. And maybe that's just me
Speaker 1: being a sexist, but I didn't feel any gravity and
Speaker 1: I didn't feel any gravitas, and I did not enjoy
Speaker 1: all of the platitudes. It was just like every.
Speaker 4: Your nomination to be president.
Speaker 1: It was just like wa wah wah whah. And this
Speaker 1: is this boost Tim Walls for me because like he
Speaker 1: spoke like a normal person. He didn't speak like a politician.
Speaker 1: And that's what I loved about his speech. Hers was
Speaker 1: the exact opposite, where she's just up there saying the
Speaker 1: things that she thinks she should be saying. We didn't
Speaker 1: hear enough.
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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, did you see jd Vance ordering donuts?
Speaker 1: Holy hell?
Speaker 3: Awkward?
Speaker 1: He's He's so trying to be Tim Walls and he's not,
Speaker 1: and so just just get out of that lane. It's
Speaker 1: so awkward. And and he the way he interacts with
Speaker 1: everyday people, it's kind of reminiscent of Gavin Newsom, to
Speaker 1: be honest, like he, I don't know who this guy is.
Speaker 1: I thought I knew who this guy is. I read
Speaker 1: his book, the whole bit. But the way he's interacting
Speaker 1: with the woman at the donut shop and the way
Speaker 1: she's just like, yeah, I don't want to be on film,
Speaker 1: Like have you ever seen that before in your life?
Speaker 1: Like one of these I'm gonna go get a sandwich,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go get ribs, I'm gonna go do the
Speaker 1: everyday American thing. And it's usually like they're they're thrilled
Speaker 1: to have the person that's running for vice president or
Speaker 1: president in their shop. It's all coordinated. It seems like
Speaker 1: these people didn't know he was coming in, they didn't
Speaker 1: know who he was, and they didn't want any part
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 3: Oscar said that this was bad planning for the advanced team.
Speaker 5: The events team didn't go and do the work exactly.
Speaker 5: And then you know, you go to a business and
Speaker 5: he asks, Hey, how long you've been working here. You
Speaker 5: want that person to say, I've been here twenty years.
Speaker 5: I've been all that. She's like, I just started in January.
Speaker 1: Well, and that's part of my problem because his first
Speaker 1: question was how long has this place been open? And
Speaker 1: she says four years, and then he's trying to elicit
Speaker 1: that response. You just said that I've been here for
Speaker 1: twenty years after it's been open for four years, and
Speaker 1: she's like, I've been here six months. He's like, Oh,
Speaker 1: that's great. I love to hear that. I'm like, what
Speaker 1: are you talking about? She's been there six months? And
Speaker 1: where was the business owner?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 1: That's the yahing you go do. It was awful. It
Speaker 1: was awful. They didn't know who he was. They wanted
Speaker 1: no part of being on film. They said that, And
Speaker 1: he ordered all glazed donuts? Who does that? That's the
Speaker 1: best part because he's like, what should I get?
Speaker 3: At least two dozen, sir?
Speaker 1: All glazed? I'm like, who wants a glaze donut? Where
Speaker 1: are the sprinkles? Where's the chocolate?
Speaker 3: Old Fashion Kennedy Robert F.
Speaker 2: Kennedy Junior is expected to end his presidential campaign today.
Speaker 2: They said this week that he intended to address his
Speaker 2: path forward in a speech from Phoenix coming up. We
Speaker 2: do know that there's some talk about him endorsing Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: and Trump has a rally later today in Glendale, Arizona.
Speaker 2: The FED Reserve apparently ready to cut interest rates. FED
Speaker 2: Chair Jerome Powell said today in what his being billed
Speaker 2: as his most anticipated speech of the year, because everybody
Speaker 2: wants to hear from Jerome Powell, the time has come
Speaker 2: for policy to adjust and the direction of travel is clear.
Speaker 3: See what they said.
Speaker 1: Are we going to get into the Tom Girardi trial
Speaker 1: in the next hour? Darn tout Tom Girardi, standing trial
Speaker 1: on four counts of wire fraud. Prosecutors say he stole
Speaker 1: more than fifteen million from four clients between twenty ten
Speaker 1: and twenty twenty. He took the stand yesterday, he went
Speaker 1: all murder on them. So we'll talk about that when
Speaker 1: we come back earth.
Speaker 4: In NEXTUS country, anything is possible, that nothing is out
Speaker 4: of reach, and America, where we are from one another,
Speaker 4: look out for one another and recognize that we have
Speaker 4: so much more in common than what separates us.
Speaker 1: Okay, here's a conspiracy anybody. That speech could have been
Speaker 1: given by anybody.
Speaker 2: Well, and that's the that's one of the issues. She
Speaker 2: didn't write the speech. I mean, one of the Obama
Speaker 2: speech writers has been part of her campaign for a while, so,
Speaker 2: I mean as long as the campaign's been going for
Speaker 2: thirty days. But she she didn't personalize the speech. I
Speaker 2: thought she delivered it well. I thought it was you know,
Speaker 2: it said the things that she needed to say.
Speaker 1: If you have the same takeaway, there was no personalization
Speaker 1: anyone could have given that speech.
Speaker 2: She did get into the whole issue of we'll play
Speaker 2: it here in a second. The you know, acknowledging the split,
Speaker 2: the schism in the Democrat seat.
Speaker 3: That's another I know you keep doing it micro dosing.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you the schism and the Democratic Party about
Speaker 2: the Israeli gazapolosy, and so we'll talk about that.
Speaker 3: But Mike, conspiracy theory.
Speaker 2: Yes, they knew this was a flat speech. They knew
Speaker 2: that this was not going to be the personalized again
Speaker 2: because it's arguably the best speech she's given, but did
Speaker 2: not match the trajectory of the first few days of
Speaker 2: the convention.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I disagree. I think that her rallies after she
Speaker 1: took the top of the ticket were better I thought
Speaker 1: she was more natural, she was more down to earth.
Speaker 1: This was gobblygook.
Speaker 2: But the conspiracy theory is, if the campaign knows that
Speaker 2: it's going to be gobbledegook, maybe we start to throw
Speaker 2: the rumor around that Beyonce is going to be in town, Ah,
Speaker 2: and that will get more eyes on the convention.
Speaker 1: Who was the Beyonce slash Taylor Swift, Lynn Manuel Miranda?
Speaker 7: Was that right?
Speaker 3: I thought it was the Eva Longoria thing.
Speaker 1: Oh was he not there?
Speaker 2: That's a good question of all the speakers gallivanting.
Speaker 3: I went home and watched the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Whatever. You sent me a picture from a casino last
Speaker 1: night while I was doing my homework, and I was
Speaker 1: watching this, and I was jealous. I should have been
Speaker 1: the one at the casino.
Speaker 3: It would have been awful. Had you gone to the casino,
Speaker 3: you would not be here right now.
Speaker 1: I would not be You'd be in jail. I'd be
Speaker 1: in a gutter somewhere. So yeah, I'm glad, but but
Speaker 1: it did pain my heart when you guys sent me
Speaker 1: the picture of Oscar with the slot machine, because it
Speaker 1: also pained ray Loo business.
Speaker 3: We were in that building for about forty five seconds.
Speaker 3: We did it just for the photo.
Speaker 4: Wop.
Speaker 1: That's horrible. I would have been there for six hours.
Speaker 3: You still be there.
Speaker 2: The acknowledgment that there is a huge divide in the
Speaker 2: Democratic Party when it comes to policy on Iran.
Speaker 4: And let me be clear, I will stand up for
Speaker 4: Israel's right to defend itself.
Speaker 7: And I will always ensure Israel has the ability to
Speaker 7: defend itself because the people of Israel must never again
Speaker 7: face the horror that a terrorist organization called Hamas calls
Speaker 7: on October seventh, big applause, unspeakable sexual violence, and the
Speaker 7: massacre of young people at a music festival at the
Speaker 7: same time.
Speaker 3: Ah, here it comes.
Speaker 4: What has happened in Gaza the past ten months is devastating,
Speaker 4: so many innocent lives long and.
Speaker 2: She went on to say that she fuller firmly endorses
Speaker 2: a ceasefire plan and wants to see one sooner rather
Speaker 2: than later.
Speaker 1: Maybe because we're just in it. We've been sitting in it.
Speaker 1: We've been here in the soup and the soup sandwich.
Speaker 1: I'm done hearing about sexual violence, sex crimes, abortions. I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear about any of that. For a while,
Speaker 1: that seemed to be a big I know that she
Speaker 1: started as a sex crimes prosecutor and that's been making
Speaker 1: the rounds in the media, and I understand that, but
Speaker 1: I don't want to sit in it. I don't want
Speaker 1: to like get into it and be hit over the
Speaker 1: head with abortions and all of it.
Speaker 3: It's also one of those issues.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to talk about it, and like the thing
Speaker 1: is is they've made it. I saw an article in
Speaker 1: Politico yesterday about how the Democrats have made abortion not
Speaker 1: taboo by talking about it all the time. It's worse.
Speaker 1: It's like the Republicans claim that you love abortion, So
Speaker 1: why don't you come out and say we hate abortions,
Speaker 1: but sometimes they're necessary. Why isn't that the messaging Instead it's.
Speaker 3: Like, come get a free abortion in the mobile clinic. Yes,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know how they did that.
Speaker 1: And it's awful to talk about and hear about. And
Speaker 1: let's focus on the optimism, the joyful warriors right.
Speaker 2: Jonathan Carl from ABC News listened to the speech and
Speaker 2: discussed what he said was a change in tone from
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris, A.
Speaker 8: Very interesting move and quite a contrast from the way
Speaker 8: she ran for president the first time when she tried
Speaker 8: to get the nomination four years ago. This is a
Speaker 8: Kamala Harris that sounded a little bit more like Maggie
Speaker 8: Thatcher or Ronald Reagan, especially on national security, than like
Speaker 8: Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 3: But Donald cars used words like.
Speaker 8: American carnage to talk about America. Has portrayed a more isolationist,
Speaker 8: protectionist view. It is it odds with what Ronald Reagan
Speaker 8: was all about. So this was Kamala Harris. I mean,
Speaker 8: she didn't say the word city on a hill like
Speaker 8: Ronald Reagan did, but full embrace of patriotism, the American
Speaker 8: flags waving here, the chance of USA, USA USA.
Speaker 2: They know Democrats know that they are being painted by
Speaker 2: Republicans as either not patriotic or not as patriotic. So
Speaker 2: I think that that was part of what that push was.
Speaker 1: Yesterday, Margaret Thatcher said things like if you want something said,
Speaker 1: ask a man, If you want something done, ask a woman.
Speaker 1: That's more Michelle Obama's tenor than it was Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: The one thing I'll say for Kamala Harris, she didn't
Speaker 1: hit us over the head with the fact that she's
Speaker 1: a woman. She's a woman of color, she's a woman
Speaker 1: of biracial descent, all of that, Like she just her
Speaker 1: presence alone, was that exclamation point?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: That was nice.
Speaker 3: And I think that's intentional.
Speaker 2: I think that's absolutely They know that that's not going
Speaker 2: to resonate.
Speaker 3: We will still be doing our nine news nugget.
Speaker 2: You need to know, we've pretty much run empty when
Speaker 2: it comes to the desire to talk about politics a
Speaker 2: whole lot more.
Speaker 1: We're going to spend all of Monday not talking about politics, right, Like,
Speaker 1: what are we going to do in swamp Watch? Is
Speaker 1: that going to be the gay penguin segment?
Speaker 3: We'll actually do swamp stories?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Will we just do Florida? Yes?
Speaker 1: Yes, Oh my gosh, wouldn't that be a delight If
Speaker 1: we just did a half an hour of Florida mans story?
Speaker 2: It would be perfect. Tropical Storm Honee is that what
Speaker 2: we're saying? Honee, I haven't even seen it has become
Speaker 2: the eighth named storm of the Pacific Ocean hurricane season.
Speaker 2: Cruising toward the islands of Hawaii, hone I believe is
Speaker 2: on course to pass near but probably south of the
Speaker 2: Big Island sometime late tomorrow or early Sunday said, it
Speaker 2: should either be a strong tropical storm, maybe category one
Speaker 2: hurricane at its closest pass.
Speaker 1: Hey remember Chris Watts, the guy who killed his wife
Speaker 1: and his two little baby girls three and four years old.
Speaker 1: He now blames his murdered wife, the one that he
Speaker 1: killed for the affair and the murderers. He says she
Speaker 1: was a control freak and she's the reason that he
Speaker 1: had an affair that led him to kill her and
Speaker 1: their two young daughters.
Speaker 3: Let that be a lesson too, what us sociopath.
Speaker 2: There's a family up in Hollister urging parents to be
Speaker 2: cautious after their two year old daughter was mistakenly served
Speaker 2: alcohol at a restaurant in Salinas. What they had to
Speaker 2: take her to the emergency room. The restaurants called Fujiama,
Speaker 2: Japanese restaurant a big family dinner. Apparently, the parents ordered
Speaker 2: apple juice for their two year old. I love apple juice,
Speaker 2: But it was not until their daughter started showing signs
Speaker 2: of intoxication that they realized that the juice cup she
Speaker 2: had been drinking actually had house made cooking wine on
Speaker 2: the inside of it.
Speaker 1: Cooking wine.
Speaker 2: Mom said quote she was swaying. She was falling over.
Speaker 2: She was leaning on walls. She couldn't hold her head up,
Speaker 2: and she was slurring like you last night. Oh no,
Speaker 2: their two year old daughter. Two years old? Don't they
Speaker 2: always sway and fall over? Yeah, that's I mean two
Speaker 2: years old. You're drunk all the time.
Speaker 3: They spent the night at the Salinas Valley Er.
Speaker 2: They set a blood test revealed an alcohol level of
Speaker 2: zero point one two percent.
Speaker 1: Side note, The best apple juice I've ever had is
Speaker 1: at a place and I don't know if it's still there,
Speaker 1: but when I lived in Marine and Delray, it was
Speaker 1: a place called cows And right on Washington there right
Speaker 1: near the beach. Good coffee place. They sandwiches and stuff.
Speaker 1: Bores had place, but they made fresh squeezed apple juice,
Speaker 1: and it if you have fresh apple juice, like okay,
Speaker 1: You know how you talk about the difference between like
Speaker 1: fruit and the peppers your dad used to grow, like
Speaker 1: bell peppers and stuff, and how sweet they taste when
Speaker 1: they're fresh. Like that, The difference between like a bottle
Speaker 1: of apple juice that you get, you know, what's the
Speaker 1: brand of juice? You know, the cranberries, welches or whatever,
Speaker 1: as opposed to fresh. It's night and day, night and day.
Speaker 2: Well it's also not you know, overly pasteurized and added
Speaker 2: you know, added sugars and stuff like good.
Speaker 3: So, oh boy, I got to read to you. So
Speaker 3: we're gonna run out.
Speaker 1: Of time for this. Well we can also continue it,
Speaker 1: we could.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's other parts of the show.
Speaker 2: The Washington Post there's a there's an op ed piece
Speaker 2: by Catherine Rampole, and I don't know much about her,
Speaker 2: and it doesn't really give a biography towards the end
Speaker 2: of the article. She's an opinion columnist covers economics, public policy,
Speaker 2: and immigration. Data driven journalism is what they say, Okay.
Speaker 2: The headline to her op ed piece is Doug m
Speaker 2: Hoff modern day sex symbol. It says m Hoff is
Speaker 2: secure enough with his own masculinity to sometimes prioritize his
Speaker 2: wife's ambition over his own.
Speaker 3: What uh hunk? She writes, All cast.
Speaker 1: I do like a supportive of a husband, right, it's
Speaker 1: import you support your wife and her career.
Speaker 2: Doug em Hoff has been called many things. Second, make
Speaker 2: you a sex symbol? Well, isn't that just something.
Speaker 1: That you should do?
Speaker 2: Well, it is something you should do. It's good, But
Speaker 2: she says, move over, Ryan Gosling. The modern female fantasy
Speaker 2: is embodied by the man who might soon become our
Speaker 2: first first gentleman. Em Hoff appears to be a genuine
Speaker 2: mensch with an impressive career, smitten with his wife and
Speaker 2: supports our ambitions and is obvious from his convention speech
Speaker 2: and their sweet interactions on the campaign trail. But most
Speaker 2: important for this sexy sobriquette, oh boy, m Hoff is
Speaker 2: secure enough with his own masculinity to sometimes prioritize his
Speaker 2: wife's ambitions over his own.
Speaker 1: So Brookot, And it doesn't that just mean, like cohort,
Speaker 1: so brocod, you're the phasaurus this week.
Speaker 2: She says, whatever his previous marital drama, you mean got
Speaker 2: her all pregnant? Good lord, whatever his previous marital drama.
Speaker 2: That makes him the working man's woman's ideal partner. Today
Speaker 2: he's a high achieving alpha, but isn't threatened if his
Speaker 2: wife is two Now, I did not guess.
Speaker 1: Sobriquette means a person's nickname. Sorry, I got that wrong.
Speaker 3: I did not get alpha from that speech.
Speaker 1: I did not get alpha.
Speaker 3: I got a lot of hard boiled, a lot.
Speaker 1: Of beta, which is fine, which is fine again. I
Speaker 1: liked his speech. I thought it was cute. You can
Speaker 1: tell he does like his wife. That's important, and I
Speaker 1: do enjoy that because it's very rare in politics.
Speaker 3: You like it when your husband likes you.
Speaker 1: But it's not doesn't That does not make you a
Speaker 1: sex symbol, you know what I mean? Like, who's watching
Speaker 1: Doug m Hoff and is like, I gotta get me
Speaker 1: some of that?
Speaker 3: He compares.
Speaker 2: Sorry, She compares Doug em Hoff to Jonathan Owens, the
Speaker 2: Chicago Bears player who took time out of training camp
Speaker 2: to fly to Paris to watch his wife. A good
Speaker 2: looking guy, Jonathan Owens is a brick essay in that too,
Speaker 2: And I don't know why the why wouldn't you don't
Speaker 2: have to write this piece?
Speaker 1: Who asks for this piece?
Speaker 3: That's what That's what I will get.
Speaker 1: Who asked to picture Doug m Hoff without his clothes
Speaker 1: on as a sex symbol? You know, when you think
Speaker 1: about a sex symbol, you want to see someone topless
Speaker 1: on the cover of People magazine. You don't want to
Speaker 1: see Doug m Hoff. I mean, I'm not knocking the guy.
Speaker 1: I am a little I get that, but like I
Speaker 1: feel like not to be don Lemon. But he's primed
Speaker 1: out of being a sex symbol. I think don Lemon right,
Speaker 1: speaking of what?
Speaker 2: So she ends with this, what do women want to
Speaker 2: be valued and supported as much as they deserve, both
Speaker 2: privately and in public?
Speaker 3: On that score, m Hoff looks like a dream.
Speaker 1: This is a piece that could have been written in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two, it says, not need to be written
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. Aston answered, of course women want that.
Speaker 1: That's what we get these days. If you're not that,
Speaker 1: you're an a hole. You're Gavin Newsom. We we've gone
Speaker 1: hard against Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 3: He had a he had a rough night.
Speaker 1: Oh did he?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Can we get into that that? I can't wait.
Speaker 2: Gary and Shannon will continue to see him at the casino. No,
Speaker 2: but I saw him at the convention. Ah, I mean
Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't see him at the he was
Speaker 2: at the convention.
Speaker 3: How's that? I saw him on TV front Row?
Speaker 1: Mad Joke cleil is with News Nation Washington correspondent joins
Speaker 1: us Now and Joe. A successful week for the Democrats.
Speaker 6: I think so they came in, you know, riding a
Speaker 6: little bit of enthusiasm in the polls. Things were going
Speaker 6: well for them, right, Joe Biden had been down in
Speaker 6: the swing states in some cases up up to close
Speaker 6: ten points to Donald Trump. Tamala Harris's closed that gap.
Speaker 6: So they came in with that sort of confidence, and
Speaker 6: I think they did what they were planning to do.
Speaker 6: They really wiled up that Democratic crowd. Night after night.
Speaker 6: You had the Obamas, the Clintons, and a bunch of celebrities.
Speaker 6: I thought Oprah's message that was particularly I think impacts
Speaker 6: on that crowd, and she tried to make an appeal
Speaker 6: to moderate and undecided. So yeah, that was you know,
Speaker 6: generally the candidate gets a little boost after their party's convention.
Speaker 6: We saw Donald Trump get a little boost, and we
Speaker 6: imagine that the Harris Walls campaign hoping they can also
Speaker 6: get that and try to you know, build on it
Speaker 6: moving forward.
Speaker 2: Okay, but we got seventy four days left, and now
Speaker 2: is the hard part for the for the Harris Walls campaign,
Speaker 2: which is they have to begin to define specific policies
Speaker 2: that they want to talk about. The four day party
Speaker 2: that we just witnessed was that it was a party,
Speaker 2: It was a show, and it did what I think
Speaker 2: they needed to do, which was a capitalize on that
Speaker 2: enthusiasm now comes the hard part right.
Speaker 6: Exactly. And it's a fair criticism from the Trump campaign
Speaker 6: that they have been, you know, lacking in detail on policy.
Speaker 6: Their website still doesn't have a policy section on it.
Speaker 6: We heard Kamala Harris makes her rents to certain policies
Speaker 6: in her speech last night Voting Rights Act. She endorsed
Speaker 6: the bipartisan border bill as the cornerstone of an immigration
Speaker 6: policy or the beginning of one. But we haven't really
Speaker 6: heard a lot of detail beyond that on a number
Speaker 6: of pretty serious issues. She also still has yet to
Speaker 6: do a one on one long form interview or like
Speaker 6: a long press conference. She's taking questions here and there,
Speaker 6: but no sit downs. She committed to doing that by
Speaker 6: the end of the month. It is now the twenty third,
Speaker 6: so she's got essentially a week if she wants to
Speaker 6: make good on that promise. And yeah, I mean this
Speaker 6: is going to be one and lost in the swing states.
Speaker 6: They haven't been penalized by voters yet for not rolling
Speaker 6: out policies, but you got to imagine between now an
Speaker 6: election day, the voters are going to demand, Hey, if
Speaker 6: you're asking for our votes, we're going to need to
Speaker 6: hear a little bit more about your specific plans in office.
Speaker 1: So, Joe, I'm assuming it's a bit of a delicate
Speaker 1: dance behind the scenes in terms of who gets the interview.
Speaker 1: You don't want to go to a super friendly place,
Speaker 1: so it looks like you're asking for the softballs, but
Speaker 1: you don't want to go to Fox News either.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's going to be interesting to see who
Speaker 6: lands it. And you know, you can pick out certain
Speaker 6: people who are known to do you know, tougher interviews
Speaker 6: at different outlets. But you're right, it is going to
Speaker 6: be a delicate dance for them. They have to make
Speaker 6: sure that it's it's you know, not nothing but softballs.
Speaker 6: Obviously that doesn't really garner you much respect in the
Speaker 6: eyes of most moderate or independent voters. I would suggest
Speaker 6: the place like News Nation totally unbiased to say that.
Speaker 6: But yeah, no, I think you're right about that.
Speaker 2: Read all right, So, I mean we're going to see
Speaker 2: this campaign really gain speed. Like I mentioned, the seventy
Speaker 2: four days, do you think debate time is the time
Speaker 2: for some of that policy discussion?
Speaker 6: You know, if I were the campaign, and there's a
Speaker 6: I guess reason I don't get paid do that. I
Speaker 6: think you got to start rolling out things before then,
Speaker 6: because you're going to get challenged on policies that you have,
Speaker 6: and you're going to want to sort of explain why
Speaker 6: your policy is better than the other guys. And if
Speaker 6: there's an absence of policy there, then I think it
Speaker 6: actually puts her at a disadvantage going into a campaign,
Speaker 6: because it doesn't really force Donald Trump to defend his
Speaker 6: policies if he can look at her and say, well,
Speaker 6: the alternative is, we don't know, blank page on your website, right,
Speaker 6: So I think before the campaign, before the debate, you
Speaker 6: sort of have to at least acknowledge, maybe in broad terms,
Speaker 6: what you're going to do for a lot of the
Speaker 6: specific issues that people want to hear about.
Speaker 1: Hey, Joey went to your News Nation studios in Chicago
Speaker 1: at WGN, and it was really creepy in there. There
Speaker 1: were a lot of clown paintings.
Speaker 6: Oh really, I'm a Washington correspondent, so I don't spend
Speaker 6: too much time in Chicago.
Speaker 1: I'm just letting you know, if you go there, be
Speaker 1: prepared big because it used to be the place where
Speaker 1: Bozo the Clown did the Sunday Show for children or something,
Speaker 1: and there's clowns everywhere.
Speaker 3: It's super creepy.
Speaker 1: But we had a great job. We had a great
Speaker 1: time with the news napers.
Speaker 6: To be honest with you, I'm getting an uber right
Speaker 6: now to go there, and I think I'm going to
Speaker 6: just change that and go lunch instead somewhere else. Absolutely terrifying.
Speaker 6: So thank you, Thank you for the insight.
Speaker 1: You got it.
Speaker 3: Thanks Joe, appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Happy to do it, guys.
Speaker 2: Jo Khalil there again, Washington correspondent for it for News Nation.
Speaker 2: A little bit of Gavin Newsome News when we come
Speaker 2: back as well. He did a couple of interviews last night.
Speaker 2: You saw him on TV, grimacing his way through trying
Speaker 2: to pretend that he and Kamala are best best friends.
Speaker 1: Did you eat all these cashews?
Speaker 2: All of That's the smallest bag of cashews I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: There were like seven cashews in there. Did you just
Speaker 2: calorie count me?
Speaker 3: Calorie checked me?
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