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Speaker 2: We are live in Chicago this week for the Democratic
Speaker 2: National Convention. We were speaking earlier about how things went
Speaker 2: way over schedule last night during the speaking portions of
Speaker 2: the event.
Speaker 3: Gary and Shannon, I hope you're having good and safe
Speaker 3: fun in Chicago. But let me get this right. None
Speaker 3: of the organizers have ever been to a convention before.
Speaker 3: I noticed that the applause goes on for way too long.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But I also think it may have been yet
Speaker 2: another way for them to poke a finger in the
Speaker 2: eye of b Wasserman Schultz by putting her on the
Speaker 2: schedule and then yanking her.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that was scripted.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 1: One of the things we've had our eye on are
Speaker 1: the demonstrations and the potential for chaos outside as thousands
Speaker 1: of demonstrators have taken to the streets. We saw some
Speaker 1: of the action yesterday.
Speaker 5: Jim Ryan is on.
Speaker 1: This beat for ABC News and joins us.
Speaker 6: US now from somewhere in Chicago.
Speaker 5: From US somewhere here, Jim, how are you hi?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Outside where The protesters gathered yesterday, thirty five hundred of
Speaker 7: them according to the police, and they began in a park,
Speaker 7: Union Park, which is several blocks away from the United Center,
Speaker 7: that held a big rally there, primarily a pro Palestinian rally,
Speaker 7: although there were some people who walked into this event
Speaker 7: with Israeli flags. The police were there that these activists,
Speaker 7: called peacekeepers, were there to keep everybody separated and keep
Speaker 7: it peaceful, and it was peaceful. The group then moved
Speaker 7: over toward the United Center, thirty five hundred strong. This
Speaker 7: big march that went on. Then at some point you
Speaker 7: know that a few of them broke off and broke in.
Speaker 7: This actually went over the outer perimeter fence or through
Speaker 7: it or around it, or something got through that fence,
Speaker 7: and that they were approaching the bill. They couldn't get
Speaker 7: close to it. Really. The police came and they were arrested,
Speaker 7: but not before, according to the police, some of these
Speaker 7: protesters sprayed the officers with pepper spray. The police say
Speaker 7: they didn't spray anything, but the protesters did. So it's
Speaker 7: only thirteen people were taken into custody during this whole thing.
Speaker 6: Here.
Speaker 2: There was also some action that I saw at least
Speaker 2: video this morning from farther downtown near some of the
Speaker 2: hotels where protesters ended up getting.
Speaker 6: Tickled with batons.
Speaker 2: Perhaps by a couple of Chicago police officers. What's the
Speaker 2: expectation for the rest of the week. We know that
Speaker 2: there are other permitted protests, right, yes.
Speaker 7: Well there are, and there's one tonight here there's a
Speaker 7: little more not menacing than maybe ominous. The one that's
Speaker 7: going to be held in front of the Israeli Consulate
Speaker 7: here in Chicago. A group that does not have a
Speaker 7: permit for this event is planning to rally there at
Speaker 7: about seven o'clock this evening. It has made some interesting
Speaker 7: comments online. The slogan for this thing is make it
Speaker 7: great like sixty eight, which you know is a callback
Speaker 7: to nineteen sixty eight when the DNC here in Chicago
Speaker 7: turned very violent. So, you know, I think that's one
Speaker 7: to watch this evening. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 6: What are your plans for Chicago?
Speaker 2: I mean, you've been outside, this is how do you
Speaker 2: How are you going to stay safe?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 7: I have my weights, you know, we've been issued equipment
Speaker 7: and security folks who were with us, and so it's
Speaker 7: just a matter of using what you know and what
Speaker 7: you can do and the best way to escape the
Speaker 7: situation when it turns nasty. So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 5: Don't mess around with Jim Ryan.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that you got another thing coming.
Speaker 6: Thank you all right, I have a great day. Thanks
Speaker 6: for taking time for us. Talk you guys. Jim Ryan
Speaker 6: there with ABC News. So there was.
Speaker 1: A former Obama senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett, a name should
Speaker 1: be familiar.
Speaker 5: We spoke at a Axios.
Speaker 1: Event today and gave a kind of a a look
Speaker 1: at what Barack and Michelle Obama will be talking about.
Speaker 1: Specifically during their speeches at the DMC tonight. She says
Speaker 1: they will be calls to action about the need to
Speaker 1: translate the excitement for Kamala Harris into votes. Valerie Jarrett,
Speaker 1: now CEO of the Obama Foundation, longtime friend of the family,
Speaker 1: says that these two are going to emphasize the need
Speaker 1: for an all hands on deck approach while also talking
Speaker 1: about the sense of optimism that course through the party
Speaker 1: its voters. She noted that former First Lady Michelle Obama
Speaker 1: knows Vice President Harris very well.
Speaker 5: She says that this is going.
Speaker 1: To be a message of us getting engaged again, working
Speaker 1: hard again to get the vote out, about democracy being
Speaker 1: under attack and under threat, and how it's up to
Speaker 1: them to be engaged citizens to make sure the country
Speaker 1: gets back on track.
Speaker 2: Well, like you said earlier, Obama, at least the president
Speaker 2: has quite a speaking style and can hold an arena
Speaker 2: like this pretty captivated.
Speaker 6: So we'll watch that tonight.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Chicago for day two of the Democratic and
Speaker 2: National Convention. The big headliners tonight, of course, we'll be
Speaker 2: Barack and Michelle Obama. Obama giving the keynote speech tonight,
Speaker 2: Harris not even going to be here Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: More importantly, what are we going to eat tonight? That
Speaker 1: is a good question, because we've done the pizza.
Speaker 5: At least we've done so we should do another pizza place.
Speaker 6: Yeah, don't we do another pizza place? Okay, that's good. Okay,
Speaker 6: you don't have to take don't hit me.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry. I'm sorry for striking you.
Speaker 1: But I got excited with the idea of another pizza place.
Speaker 5: Because we did pizza the first.
Speaker 1: Night, and then we had a piece of meat last
Speaker 1: night that was a beautiful piece of meat. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: It was it was most beautiful.
Speaker 6: People said it was the shiniest meats.
Speaker 1: It was the most beautiful, delicious meats. And the mac
Speaker 1: and cheese was good as well.
Speaker 6: What was left of it.
Speaker 1: And the diabetes I'll enjoy. But yeah, I think we
Speaker 1: got to get back on that pizza train tonight and
Speaker 1: the Navarro will act as the host for tonight's Day
Speaker 1: two activities here at United Center.
Speaker 2: The theme for tonight is a bold vision for America's future.
Speaker 6: We talked about the Obamas. Governor JB.
Speaker 2: Pritzker from Illinois will be one of the speakers for tonight.
Speaker 2: According to the organizers for last Night, by the way,
Speaker 2: multiple speeches had to be cut, including speeches from Debbie
Speaker 2: Wasserman Schultz and cringresswoman gay Grace meng as well as
Speaker 2: a performance by James Taylor because they ran completely over time.
Speaker 2: So anyway, we'll pay attention to those tonight. We'll talk
Speaker 2: more about them tomorrow. But in the meantime, what else
Speaker 2: is going on?
Speaker 6: Time four? What's happening?
Speaker 2: I saw this just to keep it political here for
Speaker 2: a second.
Speaker 6: Robert F.
Speaker 2: Kennedy Junior's running mate Nicole Shanahan said in an interview
Speaker 2: today that the campaign is considering dropping its bid for
Speaker 2: president and joining forces with Donald Trump.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 2: She was asked in a podcast today, the Impact Theory podcast,
Speaker 2: about the stories that had been going around about whether
Speaker 2: they were looking to the Harris campaign for a cabinet position.
Speaker 5: Definitely not in talks with Harris.
Speaker 7: Definitely never have brought up this idea of an endorsement
Speaker 7: with Harris.
Speaker 6: Definitely has never brought up a cabinet position with Harris.
Speaker 2: So now she says, that's all fake news, basically, But
Speaker 2: she said that the options are looking at. One is
Speaker 2: staying in obviously, but then suggested that if they did that,
Speaker 2: they might pull votes away from and end up giving
Speaker 2: Harris and Walls the presidency vice president six to.
Speaker 5: Seven work seven pm.
Speaker 2: Yes, she says, or we walk away right now and
Speaker 2: join forces with Donald Trump and explain to the base
Speaker 2: why they're making that decision. And she said it's not
Speaker 2: an easy decision. So that's something that is something that
Speaker 2: they are looking at, at least in the Kennedy camp.
Speaker 1: Did you hear about this story about the yacht that
Speaker 1: overturned a super yacht tragedy. Apparently it was a high
Speaker 1: powered attorney from New York Christopher Marveo and as jewelry
Speaker 1: designer wife Nita among.
Speaker 5: Six lost at sea.
Speaker 1: This was off the coast of Sicily on Monday morning.
Speaker 1: There were twenty two people aboard this thing, one hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty four foot luxury British vessel. Fifteen were rescued
Speaker 1: after it overturned bad weather, perfect storm type stuff. One
Speaker 1: body was found and there are six people unaccounted for.
Speaker 1: They say that it overturned sometime after five am near Palermo,
Speaker 1: where it was ad There were ten crew members, twelve passengers,
Speaker 1: including British, American and Canadian nationalities.
Speaker 2: Wow, there's a price tag on the Boston Celtics. We
Speaker 2: say that from the Chicago Bulls Arena. Of course, this
Speaker 2: price tag is somewhere around six billion dollars. They said,
Speaker 2: someone with extremely deep pockets is going to have to
Speaker 2: pony up six billion for one of the world's leading
Speaker 2: sports franchises.
Speaker 6: Who's got six.
Speaker 2: Billion sitting in the probably between the couch cushions.
Speaker 6: Right now, Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 2: And they're talking about Jeff Bezos, legitimate buzz about him
Speaker 2: buying the Boston Celtics. According to Bill Simmons of The
Speaker 2: Ringer Tim kain Man. That guy was pretty boring, wasn't
Speaker 2: he Does anybody walk around and just go, hey, senator,
Speaker 2: you might want to brush your hair real quick something.
Speaker 1: He had a gaggle of reporters around him earlier, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, who's dying to talk to Tim Kaine?
Speaker 2: I mean, he was the vice presidential nominee.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 3: That.
Speaker 5: And a dollar will get you a bag of chips.
Speaker 1: So I mentioned Scott Peterson talking to Gloria Allread this morning.
Speaker 1: The reason I did is because there's a couple documentaries out.
Speaker 1: One is American Murder on Netflix that goes through the
Speaker 1: whole thing, and one is a Peacock documentary called Face
Speaker 1: to Face with Scott Peterson, and this is the first
Speaker 1: time that he has spoken out about this since his
Speaker 1: two thousand and three arrest, maintaining his long held belief.
Speaker 1: In this documentary, he goes on to say that a
Speaker 1: group of burglars are responsible for his wife's death. This
Speaker 1: is what he told the interviewer over a video call
Speaker 1: from jail. He said, there was a burglary across the
Speaker 1: street from our home. There was a lot of people involved,
Speaker 1: and I believe Lacey went over there to see what
Speaker 1: was going on, and that's what she was taken.
Speaker 2: Why would she go over there to see someone burgling
Speaker 2: a house.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm eight months pregnant. I'm going to go put.
Speaker 1: My life in jeopardy to see who's breaking into my
Speaker 1: neighbor's house.
Speaker 2: Now, well, maybe not as important, but the US Secretary
Speaker 2: of State has visited fellow mediators Egypt and caught her
Speaker 2: as he is trying to press ahead with the latest
Speaker 2: diplomatic mission to secure a cease fire deal in Gaza.
Speaker 2: Hamas and Israel have signaled that there are still some
Speaker 2: challenges that remain the group. Hamas called the latest proposal
Speaker 2: presented to it a reversal of what had been agreed to,
Speaker 2: and accused the United States in a statement of acquiescing
Speaker 2: to new conditions from Israel. Of course, Anthony Blincoln didn't
Speaker 2: say so. I didn't say as much or say anything
Speaker 2: about this just yet.
Speaker 5: Our table has.
Speaker 1: Been confirmed at lou mal Natti's excellent. I think I've
Speaker 1: been there before for football and it's a lot of pizza.
Speaker 5: It's very deep, it's very big.
Speaker 1: It might be the biggest deep dish pizza you've ever seen.
Speaker 5: Is it the shiniest it's the shiniest.
Speaker 6: It is one of those places that people told us
Speaker 6: we had to go.
Speaker 1: You are better looking than the pizza.
Speaker 5: That was a lie. The pizza is better looking than you,
Speaker 5: much better looking.
Speaker 6: I see what you're doing, and I don't appreciate it.
Speaker 2: In Chicago, just down the street, there's a new pangolin
Speaker 2: pup that was born at the Brookfield Zoo.
Speaker 5: What's a pangolin?
Speaker 2: Pangolin was one of those animals that they originally thought
Speaker 2: might have prompted COVID. Really, yeah, because I guess a
Speaker 2: panglin you could eat it. And they were making pangolin
Speaker 2: stew with that angle in at that wet market.
Speaker 5: How do I? How do I spell that?
Speaker 6: The peg?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Olin?
Speaker 5: There it is. Just look at how cute that little shit.
Speaker 5: It's like an ard vark.
Speaker 2: But with the scales, We're going to go from pangolin
Speaker 2: to one of the longer serving members of Congress and
Speaker 2: we come back.
Speaker 1: Pangolins are the only mammals that have scales. They're made
Speaker 1: of keratin, the same material that makes up skin and.
Speaker 5: Fingernails or hair and fingernails.
Speaker 1: The scales make up about twenty percent of their body
Speaker 1: weight and it's their main defense mechanism. When threatened, pangolins
Speaker 1: coral into a ball and become immobile. They're known as
Speaker 1: scaly ant eaters because they eat ants, termites, and other
Speaker 1: small insects. They use their long snouts and tongues to
Speaker 1: reach into holes and nests to catch their prey. Oh
Speaker 1: my goodness, some panglins have tongues that could be up
Speaker 1: to sixteen inches long.
Speaker 5: Did you know that.
Speaker 6: I'm just going to turn that down. I can't hear
Speaker 6: you anymore.
Speaker 2: To seventy million insects live today in Chicago for the
Speaker 2: Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 1: We're talking with Congressman Emmanuel Kleaver out of Kansas City, Missouri.
Speaker 1: And I got to say right off the bat, I
Speaker 1: know we're in Chicago and pizza is what you have here,
Speaker 1: But the pizza out of the back of Kelly's Westport
Speaker 1: in is where it's at late at night.
Speaker 4: That is absolutely correct. Yes, if you want to eat
Speaker 4: something that will also serve as your breakfast, go to
Speaker 4: Kelly's around eleven thirty twelve o'clock.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 2: Yes, Early last month, early in July, you were concerned.
Speaker 2: You expressed concern about President Biden's debate performance. There was
Speaker 2: also some concern on your part of coming into Chicago
Speaker 2: for the convention. We didn't want an open convention, is
Speaker 2: what you had said.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 2: How we're six weeks later. A lot has changed in
Speaker 2: those six weeks. How are you feeling today in terms
Speaker 2: of comfort with the way we the way the party
Speaker 2: is handling things at this convention.
Speaker 4: Well, I have never seen as my fourth I've never
Speaker 4: seen a transformation like I have seen in this election.
Speaker 4: You know, I did think that President Biden performed very poorly,
Speaker 4: and I said it openly, and I was one of
Speaker 4: the ones. I was among the first ten members of
Speaker 4: Countess that the can out supporting him in the last election.
Speaker 4: So I'm faithful to him. But I'm also a realist,
Speaker 4: and I think that we are now experiencing something that
Speaker 4: is rare and new. Enthusiasm is the mother's milk of
Speaker 4: successful politics, and this enthusiasm is just unbelievable. Last night
Speaker 4: was the most emotional political event I've ever been in
Speaker 4: in my life. I don't know if I could take
Speaker 4: another night with President Biden's Daughter's coming out talking about
Speaker 4: her dead. I have one daughter, and I'm sitting a
Speaker 4: big grown man trying to keep from crying. I mean,
Speaker 4: it was powerful.
Speaker 1: There wasn't a dry eye in the house. I mean
Speaker 1: even Kamala. I mean, I think that was a really rare,
Speaker 1: genuine moment that you get to see between the two
Speaker 1: of them in terms of what that relationship actually is.
Speaker 4: Yes, And the thing about Joe Biden is that he
Speaker 4: is real. I mean, what you see is what you get.
Speaker 4: And I served with Timmy with Tim Waltz for twelve
Speaker 4: years in the house him quite well, and in some
Speaker 4: ways he's the opposite. I mean, he's just there. I mean,
Speaker 4: he is the political culture's every man. I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: we can sit up and I argue about football, and
Speaker 4: of course he loses, you know, because it is not
Speaker 4: I tried to take that into consideration. But he is.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you don't like Tim Walls, he's just
Speaker 4: something wrong with you. I mean, because you may not
Speaker 4: want to vote for him. But this guy is just
Speaker 4: as real as anybody I've ever seen in politics. And
Speaker 4: as I said, I've worked with him in Congress.
Speaker 2: Well, we in California we know of Kamala Harris obviously
Speaker 2: because she was our attorney general for a long time.
Speaker 6: She has a history there.
Speaker 2: In terms of her work in San Francisco as a
Speaker 2: DA as well.
Speaker 6: What do we need to know about Tim Walls?
Speaker 2: I mean, if, like you said, not a lot of
Speaker 2: people know him, but you have worked him for, like
Speaker 2: you said, twelve years in Congress, what do we need
Speaker 2: to know about him in terms of making decisions about
Speaker 2: whether we want him to be vice president.
Speaker 4: He can be a very serious person, and he is
Speaker 4: coming out of an environment he understands. I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: a small town, you know, trying to hustle to make
Speaker 4: it in life, and then working on a job. He
Speaker 4: wasn't making much money teaching school and coaching. You know,
Speaker 4: they give you an extra thousand dollars if you coach
Speaker 4: and still teach it. I mean, you know. And so
Speaker 4: he understands, you know, the average American and the person
Speaker 4: who's not even average in terms of income. And I
Speaker 4: think you can expect him to also be jovial. I
Speaker 4: mean he you know, I think he could. He could
Speaker 4: look at these balls and find something funny about it.
Speaker 4: And he's just a kind of guy that you want
Speaker 4: to sit down and have a b with. I don't
Speaker 4: drink beer, but if I did, it would.
Speaker 5: To your point there, Congressman.
Speaker 1: It seems like we are in this new era of
Speaker 1: wanting politicians that speak like humans, plane speakers, people that
Speaker 1: don't talk above our heads. Not no condescension anymore.
Speaker 4: Uh, yes, we are there. I think people in this
Speaker 4: country comes to the conclusion that, uh, you know, if
Speaker 4: we went to we can go to college and take
Speaker 4: a class in philosophy or theology. You know, we want
Speaker 4: somebody who can be pepeology where where they just come
Speaker 4: out and and be who they.
Speaker 6: Are it is.
Speaker 4: And then because we can relate right Uh when when
Speaker 4: when I was first married, our water was turned off
Speaker 4: and my wife and I walked in the kitchen and
Speaker 4: she turned the faucet on and no water came out.
Speaker 4: We just it was one of the most memorable moments
Speaker 4: of our of our marriage. I mean, you know we
Speaker 4: I think we had the money, we just didn't pay
Speaker 4: it because we didn't have any other money if we
Speaker 4: had paid it. But I think that people can relate
Speaker 4: to that, and uh uh, and that's what they want
Speaker 4: in that political leaders. They don't want somebody you know,
Speaker 4: preaching down to them and who is and people who
Speaker 4: are arrogant you know. Uh, look, I'm right and you're wrong,
Speaker 4: and I'm intelligence. You're stupid that runs people away. I
Speaker 4: think we bring in more and more people when we
Speaker 4: get people like Waltz, who is just an everyday person. Uh,
Speaker 4: nothing fancy about him. What you see is what you get.
Speaker 4: We invited him to Kansas City about five weeks ago
Speaker 4: to speak to a group. Uh Russ Carnahan, who used
Speaker 4: to be in Congress as the chair of our state party,
Speaker 4: invited them in. So we have all these people out
Speaker 4: in this uh auditorium in the Country Club Plaza, which
Speaker 4: is like a significant part of our city. And Tim
Speaker 4: uh and Uh Governor Waltz comes in uh with jeans
Speaker 4: on I mean, uh, I got a photograph in my pocket.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 4: He comes in with jeans and I tell people all
Speaker 4: the time that that's him. You know, he got to
Speaker 4: come in a three piece suit. I mean, kenwo jeans.
Speaker 2: I love the familiarity that you keep trying to refer
Speaker 2: to him as Governor Walls as opposed to Timmy. Everybody's
Speaker 2: catching that we're talking with Emmanuel Cleaver, the congressman from
Speaker 2: the fight in fifth District than the Kansas City area.
Speaker 1: And in the spirit of unity, I would just like
Speaker 1: to say, I am reaching across the aisle as a
Speaker 1: forty nine.
Speaker 5: Ers fan talking to a Chiefs fan.
Speaker 1: It's completely diplomatic and polite.
Speaker 6: No bad blood was being polite so far?
Speaker 4: Well, Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi. It can be cutting and very
Speaker 4: nice and sweet and doing it. We had a bed
Speaker 4: and Unle Sam Francis goes non for its candy, and
Speaker 4: she had a bet was barbecue against the candy, and
Speaker 4: she gave it to me and she said, enjoy it
Speaker 4: while you can.
Speaker 6: You know, just me That makes me like her far.
Speaker 2: Well, we've talked about the enthusiasm right that exists around
Speaker 2: the Democratic.
Speaker 6: Party and this ticket specifically.
Speaker 2: There will be a point where policy is going to
Speaker 2: become a gigantic issue. Well, I'm hoping as a voter,
Speaker 2: I'm hoping that the debates are the kind of place
Speaker 2: where that policy discussion actually takes place.
Speaker 6: But Vice President Harris hasn't had to do much of
Speaker 6: that as of yet.
Speaker 2: After this week, I mean, this week is probably not
Speaker 2: the right time for policy because it's more of a
Speaker 2: party party. When will she do that? When do you
Speaker 2: think we can expect to see some of those real
Speaker 2: hard down to the needy, gritty types of policy discussions
Speaker 2: from her.
Speaker 4: I think in about two weeks, she's going to submit
Speaker 4: herself to press conferences. She's going to go on the
Speaker 4: talk shows. She's going to answer all of the questions. Look,
Speaker 4: she's forming her own policies and at the same time
Speaker 4: walking between the rain drops. I mean, she's not going
Speaker 4: to want her to stop at her boss and partner
Speaker 4: for the last almost four years. So I mean it's
Speaker 4: a delicate kind of an experience. But she is going
Speaker 4: to present policies that I think can relate to the
Speaker 4: American public. She's getting criticism about her comments about, you know,
Speaker 4: trying to crack down on people who exploit the country
Speaker 4: in some bad times. I mean, price gouging is a
Speaker 4: big deal to the economists and to the political class.
Speaker 4: You know, we want to debate this and that, you know,
Speaker 4: whether it's going to bring down the economy and all
Speaker 4: of that. The average American is angry when they know
Speaker 4: that they're being gouged. And so she's going to have
Speaker 4: to go in deeper. She just can't say I'm I'm
Speaker 4: going to stop price gouging. She's going to go beneath
Speaker 4: the top layer, and I think she can.
Speaker 1: Congressman Kleaver, thank you so much for your time today.
Speaker 1: Was a pleasure to meet you. A lot more activity
Speaker 1: today here in Chicago for the d NC, a lot
Speaker 1: more politicians making the rounds, a lot more pretty people
Speaker 1: walking around television type.
Speaker 2: And you know, not so not so pretty people. But
Speaker 2: who's to judge? There is a lot that's going on.
Speaker 1: That guy is a mirror for Maybe I thought he
Speaker 1: was taller.
Speaker 6: Well, no, we interviewed him eight years ago.
Speaker 1: I thought he was. Did I have the same impression
Speaker 1: that I thought he was taller?
Speaker 2: We were sitting down before, and also we weren't on
Speaker 2: an elevated stage before.
Speaker 6: You may be you may look at everybody and think
Speaker 6: they're shorter.
Speaker 1: He looks much shorter than I thought that he was.
Speaker 1: You know, it was really tall, was Lester Holt?
Speaker 6: Lester Holt was very tall? Yeah.
Speaker 2: Bill Deblasio was walking through here a little bit earlier.
Speaker 6: He was very tall, Yeah, demure.
Speaker 2: Maybe Booker was walking around the center from New Jersey.
Speaker 2: Corey Booker was walking around with a they entourage. I
Speaker 2: think that was the biggest by far that we that
Speaker 2: we've seen. And he doesn't need it.
Speaker 5: He's built. He's a built man.
Speaker 2: He's the guy who will push you out of the
Speaker 2: way if he had to. So tonight, of course, is
Speaker 2: going to be night two of the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 2: They are looking to shorten the program because last night
Speaker 2: went way late. We saw President Biden speaking well into
Speaker 2: the eleven thirty.
Speaker 6: Hour if you were on the East coast, and.
Speaker 2: I actually was waiting in my room last night looking
Speaker 2: out the window because the hotel that he and Jill
Speaker 2: stayed in two blocks away, two blocks all from me. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and the night before or I guess it would have
Speaker 2: been earlier in the afternoon when they flew in.
Speaker 6: There was a massive convoy.
Speaker 1: There's been just ubiquitous sirens throughout the city where the
Speaker 1: part that we're staying in. The protesters did get pretty
Speaker 1: close within I think six blocks.
Speaker 2: Right, Yes, yeah, they were outside the Langham or something
Speaker 2: like that. Whatever.
Speaker 1: I think that they if they're going to make any noise,
Speaker 1: they should do it closer to our hotel tonight so
Speaker 1: we can see what's going on without actually having to move.
Speaker 2: You just want to stand in your room looking out
Speaker 2: the window down to.
Speaker 1: The street a reservation for a deep dish pizza place.
Speaker 5: Trust me, you're not gonna want to move.
Speaker 2: So a couple notable absences actually tonight include Vice President
Speaker 2: Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walls. They won't even be
Speaker 2: around tonight. They're going to hold a rally at about
Speaker 2: eight o'clock tonight Chicago time.
Speaker 5: Is that kind of.
Speaker 6: Weird VI for your party?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 1: I mean I know that it's not always here the
Speaker 1: whole time, but it's like the Obamas are coming to town,
Speaker 1: you know, and you skip out.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I would imagine you'll see both Governor Walls and Vice
Speaker 2: President Harris represented via video.
Speaker 6: Oh like that.
Speaker 2: They'll do something like that to to I don't want
Speaker 2: people to think that they're gone, all right, but yeah,
Speaker 2: they will be gone. They'll be in Milwaukee at five
Speaker 2: Serve Arena, which is where, of course, the Republicans held
Speaker 2: their convention last month, and too much I mean much
Speaker 2: of a party atmosphere as you could have just a
Speaker 2: couple of days after.
Speaker 6: Somebody had tried to kill your candidate.
Speaker 1: Maybe the crowd size today, it's a big crowd. It's
Speaker 1: one of the biggest. Maybe that's because the Obamas are
Speaker 1: going to be here. They still they've got a lot
Speaker 1: of star power going on.
Speaker 6: Well, and the event itself.
Speaker 2: I mean we're talking about the speeches don't even start
Speaker 2: until five o'clock, so they got a late start yesterday.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's going to happen again today, but yeah,
Speaker 2: that star power is probably what's going to bring people in.
Speaker 2: We were talking at the California delegate breakfast this morning
Speaker 2: with some people who said last night was a very
Speaker 2: late night because if you imagine they left the arena,
Speaker 2: they're basically all in buses or ride share vehicles. It
Speaker 2: takes me to get out of this arena at the
Speaker 2: end of the night. And if they were here until
Speaker 2: ten thirty last night, they were partying, and so we
Speaker 2: we earles at we earliest wee hours of the morning.
Speaker 1: That's why I always leave with a couple of minutes
Speaker 1: left in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 6: That sounds like fun. You're fun at parties.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, if the game is done, put it
Speaker 1: in refrigerator, you know what I.
Speaker 6: Mean, put it in the refrigerator.
Speaker 2: Well, the John Kobel Show is coming up next. We'll
Speaker 2: be back tomorrow for Day three of the Democratic National
Speaker 2: Convention and whatever sort of adventures we have over the
Speaker 2: next several hours.
Speaker 5: We're gonna put this show in the refrigerator.
Speaker 6: That's a good idea. Gary and Shannon, we'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 6: Stay dry.
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