Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray. I'm Debs Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Nicoll Dad News in the Red
Speaker 2: Sox tonight. Boy, I thought they were starting to roll
Speaker 2: last night. There's still a few winnings left there. May
Speaker 2: they maybe they could take tunor row from the Birds
Speaker 2: of Baltimore. We'll see. My name's Dan Ray, host of Nightside,
Speaker 2: and this is Debate Night in America. They talk about
Speaker 2: Hockey Night in Canada and Sunday Night football and of
Speaker 2: course all the great sporting events that all of us
Speaker 2: have grown to love over the years. Well those of
Speaker 2: us who are into politics, this may be the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl of twenty twenty four. Rob Brooks is back in
Speaker 2: the control room tonight, and we are diverging from our
Speaker 2: normal schedule here in the first hour tonight, we're going
Speaker 2: to open up the phone lines, give you an opportunity
Speaker 2: to chime in as to what you will be looking
Speaker 2: for tonight. If you happen to be an undecided voter,
Speaker 2: with love love to hear from you as to what
Speaker 2: you're looking for. If you're a Trump voter, or a
Speaker 2: Harris voter, or Republican or a Democrat, this is an
Speaker 2: opportunity for you to call and talk about the strength
Speaker 2: of your candidate, what your candidate will emphasize, or perhaps
Speaker 2: the weakness of your candidate's opponent. Either way gives you
Speaker 2: a chance here before the debate to put a stake
Speaker 2: in the ground and tell us how you think this
Speaker 2: will go. We, then, of course, will carry the debate
Speaker 2: the ABC News debate ABC News twenty twenty four presidential debate, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, may be the last presidential debate of
Speaker 2: this year. For those of you who are debate junkies,
Speaker 2: this could be it. Both the Trump campaign and the
Speaker 2: Harris campaign have not committed to any subsequent debates, and
Speaker 2: I would suggest that if either one of these candidates
Speaker 2: have a good night tonight, I mean on the level
Speaker 2: of the night that Donald Trump had in June when
Speaker 2: he debated President Joe Biden. Sometimes you have to remember
Speaker 2: Joe Biden is still president, and he is certainly in
Speaker 2: the background, but he will be part of this debate tonight.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's going to be some references to him,
Speaker 2: but this could be it. This could be it. In
Speaker 2: the past, my recollection has been that the National Commission
Speaker 2: on Presidential Debates has run the program. They have generally
Speaker 2: designated three universities around the country to post one of
Speaker 2: these debates. I was reminded tonight that the one of
Speaker 2: the two thousand debates between then Governor George Bush and
Speaker 2: who eventually became President, George Bush forty three and then
Speaker 2: Senator well then Vice President alb War, former senator from Tennessee,
Speaker 2: was held at UMass Boston, my alma mater, back in
Speaker 2: the year two thousand and of course that it's been
Speaker 2: it's been a variety of schools, but this year, for
Speaker 2: some reason, and it's a little unclear to me why
Speaker 2: the Commission on Presidential Debates has taken a back seat now.
Speaker 2: I think they were kind of caught by surprise when
Speaker 2: President Biden, in I think it was late May or
Speaker 2: early June, challenged Donald Trump to a debate, which president
Speaker 2: former President Trump accepted, which of course we know was
Speaker 2: hosted by CNN. Jake Tapper and Dana Bash were the questioners,
Speaker 2: and we know how that turned out. It basically forced
Speaker 2: the Democratic Party to look for a different presidential candidate.
Speaker 2: We can talk about that some other night. Tonight, what
Speaker 2: I want to talk about is what are you going
Speaker 2: to be looking for let me tell you what I'm
Speaker 2: going to be looking for, and maybe you will agree
Speaker 2: or disagree. I want to know what questions will be asked,
Speaker 2: what topics will be covered. This debate is only ninety minutes,
Speaker 2: and apparently there's no opening statement. There will be closing remarks,
Speaker 2: and just to set the scene a little bit for you,
Speaker 2: if you have not heard, President Vice President Harris is
Speaker 2: bringing a couple of guests. Now apparely these guests and
Speaker 2: staff and some political leaders who basically go to the
Speaker 2: spin room after the debate splits. A spin room, Dan Well,
Speaker 2: A spin room is where all of the political reporters,
Speaker 2: whether they're video with camera crews or radio reporters with
Speaker 2: some form of recorder, or if they're ascribed for the
Speaker 2: important papers around the country New York Times, Boston Globe,
Speaker 2: all the different you know, LA Times, Chicago Tribune. They're
Speaker 2: in a room and in walks of faelanx of people
Speaker 2: who are elected officials or officials of either party, and
Speaker 2: their job is to put as good as spin on
Speaker 2: the performance of their candidate as they possibly can. So
Speaker 2: the Republicans, no matter what are going to happen, is
Speaker 2: going to We'll be telling us Donald Trump had a
Speaker 2: terrific night. He showed why he should be reelected, and the
Speaker 2: Democrats will be doing the same thing, telling all of
Speaker 2: the assembled media that Vice President Harris had a great night.
Speaker 2: Now a couple of pieces of information that might be helpful, Uh,
Speaker 2: the vice president President. Vice President Harris has a couple
Speaker 2: on her guest list.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump's former press secretary of ten days, Anthony Scaramucci,
Speaker 2: the mooch as he's called in New York. He was
Speaker 2: he campaigned to become the press secretary for the Trump administration,
Speaker 2: lasted ten days. Uh, and a security official. Not anyone
Speaker 2: whose name jumps out at me, Olivia, Troy Troye. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's TROYA. I don't know. There are other Republicans who
Speaker 2: have endorsed Vice President Harris. Former Vice President Dick Cheney,
Speaker 2: also known Darth Vader. I cannot imagine the Democrats even
Speaker 2: accepting Dick Cheney's endorsement. But that's okay because along with
Speaker 2: Dick Cheney came Congresswoman Liz Cheney, former National security adviser
Speaker 2: John Bolton, former Defense Secretary Mark Esper. They will not
Speaker 2: be in, They will not be in Philadelphia. President as
Speaker 2: far as I know, but these are some significant Republicans
Speaker 2: who have who have endorsed the vice president. Vice President
Speaker 2: Pence didn't realize that the former Joint chiefs of Staff
Speaker 2: Belmont Hill's own Mark Milly. He's certainly General Mark Milly.
Speaker 2: You would expect that. Adam king Zinger, the Republican. Other
Speaker 2: Republican member of Congress on the January sixth Committee, Stephanie Grissom,
Speaker 2: who was Milania Trump's press representative, media representative, and the
Speaker 2: Lieutenant Governor of the Great State of Georgia, a Republican
Speaker 2: named Jeff Duncan. Despite all of those endorsements, the polls
Speaker 2: suggest that anywhere from ninety three to ninety five percent
Speaker 2: of registered Republicans around the country are sticking with Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: at least up until now. Under the ABC rules, tonight,
Speaker 2: no live audience, So this first time, by the way,
Speaker 2: that former President Trump and the current Vice president have
Speaker 2: never been in Bill have never met. I guess they've
Speaker 2: been in the same room maybe for a State of
Speaker 2: the Union address. They each get two minutes to answer
Speaker 2: a question. There's a minute for a robutto I guess
Speaker 2: there's some opportunity then to follow up each gets two
Speaker 2: minutes for closing remarks, So now we're down to this
Speaker 2: ninety minute debate is already down to about eighty six minutes.
Speaker 2: I don't know how many subjects are going to cover,
Speaker 2: and the subjects and the questions that are chosen I
Speaker 2: think are most important. The questions will be asked by
Speaker 2: the host of the ABC nightly newscast, David Muir and
Speaker 2: the weekend host of the I Guess World News Tonight,
Speaker 2: Lindsey Davis. There will be two commercial break, so there
Speaker 2: goes a few minutes out of the ninety minutes. No
Speaker 2: pre written notes, they count bring cheat sheets onto the stage,
Speaker 2: they compering any props onto the stage. There will be
Speaker 2: no questions or topics provided to either candidate in advance. Okay,
Speaker 2: this is their first meeting. The question I would ask
Speaker 2: all of you, will or will they not be a handshake.
Speaker 2: I had predicted there would be a handshake between former
Speaker 2: President Trump and President Joe Biden June I was dead
Speaker 2: wrong on that. I hope these two candidates shake hands,
Speaker 2: maybe not at the beginning, but certainly at the end.
Speaker 2: If there is no handshake, I will be disappointed, and
Speaker 2: I think the country will be disappointed. The debate is
Speaker 2: being held in Philadelphia at the National Constitution Center, certainly
Speaker 2: historical location. When we get back, I'm going to talk
Speaker 2: about some of the issues that should be should should
Speaker 2: be raised by the moderators. I have never moderated a
Speaker 2: presidential debate of any sort. I have moderated congressional debates.
Speaker 2: I have moderated a gubernatorial debate in twenty ten between
Speaker 2: Devell Patrick and Charlie Baker, so I know a little
Speaker 2: bit about moderating a debate. Also. Tim Cahill was involved
Speaker 2: in that, then the state treasurer of Massachusetts who had
Speaker 2: decided to run as a third party candidate that year.
Speaker 2: We'll get to all of this. I'd love to hear
Speaker 2: from you your thoughts pre debate. What are you looking for?
Speaker 2: What do you expect? Six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty, six one seven, nine, three, one tenth thirty
Speaker 2: or triple eight nine to nine, ten thirty. Let's load
Speaker 2: them up quickly. I'll get to as many of you
Speaker 2: as possible in the nine o'clock hour. We'll be cutting
Speaker 2: away at about eight fifty eight. We'll have the debate
Speaker 2: in its entirety right here on WBZ News radio. So
Speaker 2: if you're listening on the radio, stay with us. If
Speaker 2: you're in a caros somewhere, stay with us. We'll take
Speaker 2: you all the way, and then when the debate ends,
Speaker 2: we will go immediately to your reaction, what you feel
Speaker 2: is important, and perhaps if there was a moment in
Speaker 2: this debate. I think the moment in the d in
Speaker 2: the debate from June was when President Biden was answering
Speaker 2: the question kind of the The answer went nowhere, and
Speaker 2: at some point one of the panelists asked Donald Trump
Speaker 2: to respond, and he said, I have no idea what
Speaker 2: he just said, and I don't think he does either.
Speaker 2: We'll see if there is a moment in time tonight
Speaker 2: on either side which will live on beyond the debate. Tonight.
Speaker 2: You have the numbers. My name's Dan Ray. This is
Speaker 2: Night Side. I'm excited. I hope you're excited. Back on
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Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios. I'm WBZ, the news radio.
Speaker 2: So as we head towards the nine o'clock hour, imagine
Speaker 2: the butterflies that both of these candidates must be feeling.
Speaker 2: I mean, they will probably be I'll bet seventy five
Speaker 2: million people who will watch this tonight. I don't think
Speaker 2: it will be as many as the Super Bowl, which
Speaker 2: is generally over one hundred million. But at night, a
Speaker 2: lot of people have to go to bed to work
Speaker 2: in the morning, so they'll catch it on the rebound.
Speaker 2: They'll catch it on the replay. But if you're interested
Speaker 2: and want to tell me what you think is going
Speaker 2: to happen, give me a prediction, give me an idea.
Speaker 2: Feel free. That's what this show is all about. It's
Speaker 2: a talk show. You have an opportunity to express yourself
Speaker 2: and express your point of view literally to tens of
Speaker 2: thousands of people throughout New England and across the country.
Speaker 2: Let me go first to Joe in Belmont. Joe, you
Speaker 2: are first up to. I appreciate your patient. Let's start
Speaker 2: it off. Joe, go right ahead.
Speaker 3: Dan, like I like to say, you always hear this
Speaker 3: from me. It's better to light a candle than to
Speaker 3: curse the darkness.
Speaker 2: You have lit a lot of candles, Joe, There's no
Speaker 2: doubt about that.
Speaker 3: But one of the moderateors, I would like to ask
Speaker 3: Trump a question about his twenty twenty five agenda and
Speaker 3: his isolation. No, I know it takes a smart man
Speaker 3: went to be a policeman in the world, and when
Speaker 3: it doesn't, when it does not take a policeman. And
Speaker 3: I'm hoping that his isolation policies will stop the New
Speaker 3: World Data from advancing. Another code word from the New
Speaker 3: World Daughter is globalization, and I think Trump is against
Speaker 3: that with his isolation policies. What do you think, Dan.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm more interested in your point of view. I
Speaker 2: don't know if Trump is an isolationist. I think he's
Speaker 2: a businessman. I think he is more wary of getting
Speaker 2: involved in directly involved certainly or maybe even indirectly involved
Speaker 2: in military actions overseas. We'll have to see. I'm hoping
Speaker 2: that question is asked. It's gonna be interesting, Joe, to
Speaker 2: see what questions are chosen. I have a list of
Speaker 2: questions here or subjects that I hope will be covered
Speaker 2: during this debate. It will be interesting to see how
Speaker 2: tough the questions are to each of the candidates, meaning meaning,
Speaker 2: if if they asked Trump questions about Jane or a sixth,
Speaker 2: that's going to give him an opportunity to go on
Speaker 2: and on and on about how unfair the election of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty was that's a mistake for Trump, because I
Speaker 2: don't think people want to hear about his complaints about
Speaker 2: the election of twenty twenty. So if that question is
Speaker 2: rolled across the floor to him, sort of like a
Speaker 2: hand grenade without a pin, he should recognize that and
Speaker 2: he should move past it. On the other side of it,
Speaker 2: I'd be interested to know how much either of the
Speaker 2: moderators are going to press Vice President Harris on what
Speaker 2: would seem to be the Republicans would call her flip flops.
Speaker 2: Her supporters would say her evolution on certain issues. The
Speaker 2: candidates will be on the spot, but so won't be
Speaker 2: the hosts, the questioners, the moderators, and it will be
Speaker 2: the question. The question will be how moderate are the moderators.
Speaker 2: Let's see what happens. I don't know quite what to
Speaker 2: expect tonight. Who do you think will carry the night? Joe?
Speaker 2: If you had to pick a winner in advance? I
Speaker 2: know you're a top supporter.
Speaker 3: Right Dan? What do you think about the New World Daughter?
Speaker 3: I know you read Pat Robinson's book written in nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety by what he wrote still applies today, and I
Speaker 3: think I heard you.
Speaker 2: I'm not someone from Joe in all honesty, In all honesty,
Speaker 2: I think a lot of that comes down to cliches
Speaker 2: and comments, and it means different things to different people.
Speaker 2: I want the United States to be the strongest both
Speaker 2: economically and militarily of any country in the world.
Speaker 3: Well, I think globalization could hurt our country in the
Speaker 3: wrong way.
Speaker 2: Well, globalization can help in some respects. I don't see.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want to see important industries shipped overseas,
Speaker 2: if that's what you're that's if that if that is
Speaker 2: what you mean about globalization. No, I want our industries
Speaker 2: to stay at home. We learned that during the COVID crisis,
Speaker 2: when we had problems with our supply chain and we
Speaker 2: couldn't get boats into Los Angeles Harbor, and we found
Speaker 2: out that virtually all of the computer chips which are
Speaker 2: so important to our economy now are manufactured in Taiwan.
Speaker 2: What happens if China goes into Taiwan and basically takes
Speaker 2: over Taiwan and we can't do anything about it militarily.
Speaker 2: We got to get those computer chip manufacturers home home
Speaker 2: to the United States of America. That's what I am
Speaker 2: concerned about. When you talk about globalization. Do I think
Speaker 2: I want to be able to export products from the
Speaker 2: United States to countries around the world to benefit our economy.
Speaker 2: That's the flip side of globalization that might help. So
Speaker 2: it's you can't reduce it just to one word, Joe,
Speaker 2: is what I'm trying to say it. You may disagree
Speaker 2: with me, but go ahead.
Speaker 3: Dan, picture the world is going to get it strength
Speaker 3: when the answering Christ comes, and that might be ten
Speaker 3: years or one hundred years.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, fair enough. Well maybe maybe Putin's the anti Christ.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Joe. Yeah, okay, all right, Joe. I
Speaker 2: just want to stay away from you.
Speaker 4: Know.
Speaker 2: I know you have your point of view. I'm glad
Speaker 2: you called and you had a few minutes here to
Speaker 2: express it. Let's see if people want to react to it.
Speaker 2: I'm not singing from the same song page on that. Uh.
Speaker 2: You're my friend, uh and I and I respect you,
Speaker 2: but I think that we would disagree fundamentally on our concerns.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 3: We can always disagree peacefully.
Speaker 2: You got it. Absolutely reasonable people can disagree reasonably. Thanks Joe.
Speaker 2: We'll talk again. Appreciate people tonight. Thank you, Joe. Quite
Speaker 2: back at you back that gotcha six one seven, two
Speaker 2: four ten thirty six one seven, nine three ten thirty
Speaker 2: triple eight nine two nine ten thirty. I'd like to
Speaker 2: know what question you would like to ask either President Trump,
Speaker 2: Home of President Trump or Vice President Harris. I've got
Speaker 2: a list of issues here and i'd like to see
Speaker 2: if you want to add to the list I got
Speaker 2: Steven rent them waiting, and again I would emphasize to
Speaker 2: you feel free to just listen to debate with us
Speaker 2: on radio, and as soon as it's over, let us
Speaker 2: know who you think. One We're coming back on Nightside
Speaker 2: right after the news break at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 2: I have a whole list of questions, but I prefer
Speaker 2: to hear yours. Okay, let's go to Steve and rent them. Steve,
Speaker 2: you were next on nights. I appreciate your calling in.
Speaker 2: Thanks for holding through the news. Go right ahead, Steve.
Speaker 5: Yeah, good evening. My prediction is they won't shake hands.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 5: I think Trump will come out on top if he
Speaker 5: sticks to her flip flop issues. But my question would
Speaker 5: be is on the border in the cost to the
Speaker 5: American people a year after year, So that right now
Speaker 5: you've used ten millions and saved the cost to have
Speaker 5: them per years anywhere from what sixty five to eighty
Speaker 5: thousand dollars per per person a unit.
Speaker 2: You're looking at it, well, I would think that I
Speaker 2: would think that's pretty close to reality, particularly if you've
Speaker 2: got to house people in hotels. So that's a pretty
Speaker 2: good number. Never mind the kids that are going to
Speaker 2: be added to school systems. You're going to have to
Speaker 2: hire a new teacher. That's tremendous cost. Look in Massachusetts alone,
Speaker 2: it's a billion dollars last year, and it's going to
Speaker 2: be in fiscal twenty four, and it's going to be
Speaker 2: a billion dollars this year in fiscal twenty five, So
Speaker 2: there's two billion dollars right off the top.
Speaker 5: So if you just do rough math, you're looking anywhere
Speaker 5: from eight hundred billion to a trillion dollars for the
Speaker 5: ten million over the last four five years. But there's
Speaker 5: also a group that have been here longer than that,
Speaker 5: And if Ama got elected, what would that number go
Speaker 5: grow to? Twenty? And the idea is they're running out
Speaker 5: of time with the Medicare and social Security. If they
Speaker 5: put the trillion dollars that they're using for the ten
Speaker 5: million here now into those systems, we wouldn't be running dry.
Speaker 5: And so that to me, all of everyone in America
Speaker 5: listening to this bait, if they could get a handle
Speaker 5: and that number could have been used for the homeless,
Speaker 5: vets and Social Security medicare, I think that would be
Speaker 5: the deciding factor.
Speaker 2: I couldn't agree with you more and that would be
Speaker 2: one of the questions social Security cost medicare. There are
Speaker 2: a lot of families and individuals who have retired they're
Speaker 2: depending upon Social Security medicare. When those we are in
Speaker 2: debt right now thirty five trillion dollars you obviously I
Speaker 2: know that question and that number, and our gross national
Speaker 2: product is only about twenty six or twenty seven trillion
Speaker 2: a year, and when your debt exceeds the amount of
Speaker 2: money that you have coming in, you start to drown
Speaker 2: in that. If let's say you work and you make
Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars a year, Okay, that's one thousand dollars
Speaker 2: a week, but you have a debt that you're paying
Speaker 2: interest on for a debt of one hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 2: you're gonna pay ten percent a year on that debt,
Speaker 2: whether it's on average credit card debt or whatever. So
Speaker 2: you're gonna be taking twenty percent of your salary. Just
Speaker 2: do the math to pay off your debt, which you'll
Speaker 2: never get out from underneath it. And I'm afraid we're
Speaker 2: never gonna get out from underneath it. We'll have to
Speaker 2: devalue our currency or the dollar will no longer be
Speaker 2: the primary world currency. I know the Chinese are looking
Speaker 2: to take over and become the country of the nation
Speaker 2: of the twenty first century, and that would be a
Speaker 2: big step in the direction if all of a sudden
Speaker 2: we would start to deal with the yuan as and
Speaker 2: not the dollar as the currency of the world, the
Speaker 2: major currency of the world.
Speaker 5: We're in trouble, yeah, we definitely are. And I think
Speaker 5: the younger crowd because they've been living by credit card
Speaker 5: and digital dollars and I don't know who's paying their bills,
Speaker 5: but somehow they the younger group has to realize that
Speaker 5: the debt that their parents and grandparents that are saddled
Speaker 5: them with is going to come out of their paycheck.
Speaker 5: And so if they keep voting in the Democratic Party
Speaker 5: with giving away free They want to give away the
Speaker 5: tuitions and everything else some more. It's like you say,
Speaker 5: the dollar is going to get devalued, and we are
Speaker 5: in trouble. And I think if he sticks to these
Speaker 5: points or gets somehow gets to that, if they don't,
Speaker 5: you know that question, If they don't or try to
Speaker 5: skip it, I think you do that again.
Speaker 2: It's going to be really interesting to see what the
Speaker 2: moderators of ABC, David Muir, Lindsay Davis have tremendous influence
Speaker 2: and power tonight. There have been moderators before which was
Speaker 2: shown to be biased and their questions. I thought Jake
Speaker 2: Tapper and Dana Bash were very fair in the Trump
Speaker 2: Biden face off in June. I think that Muir and
Speaker 2: David's have to live up to that standard tonight. And
Speaker 2: I will talk about that at ten thirty tonight because
Speaker 2: I'm going to chart the questions. I'm going to chart
Speaker 2: the difficulty of the questions and who who the more
Speaker 2: difficult questions are directed to. I'm gonna i will give
Speaker 2: you my my read on this debate from not only
Speaker 2: of the of President former President Trump and Vice President Harris,
Speaker 2: but also of the ABC moderators Trust me on that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree with you. I liked the format of
Speaker 5: their last debate, and I hope that runs trued again tonight.
Speaker 2: All right, Steve, I appreciate you call very much. Thank
Speaker 2: you so much.
Speaker 6: Welcome, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Please keep calling the program. You're a great call. Let
Speaker 2: me go next to Geronimo in Maine. Geronimo, welcome to Nightside.
Speaker 5: How are you all right? Thank you, good evening. Vice
Speaker 5: President Harris as a follow up question to the previous
Speaker 5: According to Peter Sweitzer's book Profiles and Corruption, when you
Speaker 5: were district attorney and there was an illegal alien with
Speaker 5: a long criminal history of violent crimes, and he committed one,
Speaker 5: and he was thrown in jail, and you single handedly
Speaker 5: released him out on the street, whereupon he immediately committed
Speaker 5: a brutal rape and murder of a young woman, whose
Speaker 5: mother asked, why did District Attorney Kamala Harris release him
Speaker 5: on the street. She knew he was an illegal alien.
Speaker 5: Why didn't she deport him? If she had deported him,
Speaker 5: our beloved daughter would still be alive today. So my question,
Speaker 5: Madame Vice President, is why did you release him? Why
Speaker 5: didn't you deport him? And what were you thinking?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I'll tell you this, if even David Muir
Speaker 4: or Lindsay Davis, the two ABC anchor people who are
Speaker 4: hosting or moderating this debate.
Speaker 2: That's a terrific question. I mean, they can be they
Speaker 2: can be tough questions asked fairly, both of both Harris
Speaker 2: and Trump. And that's what I hope we see tonight.
Speaker 2: I hope we don't see softball questions, and I hope
Speaker 2: that we don't see questions where I'd like to see
Speaker 2: them break into some areas that we really don't understand,
Speaker 2: we don't know, okay, And that is an area that
Speaker 2: that I think she needs to answer for, to be
Speaker 2: really honest with you, because.
Speaker 5: All the key yes, that's not the only I'm not
Speaker 5: going to go into a long litany, but that is
Speaker 5: not the only example of Kambala Harris's prosecutorial misconduct as
Speaker 5: district attorney and as attorney general.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, there has been. I think at one point
Speaker 2: she's she supported gender a lot realignment surgery for prison inmates,
Speaker 2: even if they were illegals who had come here. So
Speaker 2: the idea is, we can't take care of our homeless terence,
Speaker 2: but we can provide gender alignment realignment surgery for someone
Speaker 2: who has come here illegally and who we have imprisoned.
Speaker 5: I mean anything, anything twisted or questionably immoral at other
Speaker 5: taxpayers expense.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, the ideas. You know, I'm fairly open minded.
Speaker 2: If if if you're somebody who wants to live a
Speaker 2: different lifestyle than that, maybe you live or I live.
Speaker 2: Who am I to to comment on on you know
Speaker 2: who you cohabitate with? Okay?
Speaker 5: And why doesn't Obamacare pay for all that? Anyways?
Speaker 2: Well, the people who pay the people that pay for Obamacare,
Speaker 2: Geronimo or you and me? Yes, you know, but we
Speaker 2: had this influx of district attorneys around the country who
Speaker 2: had a different point of view on criminal activity. Look,
Speaker 2: what's happened to Los Los Angeles is in tough shape
Speaker 2: right now. San Francisco is probably gone as a major city. Seattle, Washington,
Speaker 2: we know what happened out there. Portland, Oregon. They had
Speaker 2: just now recriminalizing drugs. They've literally decriminalized drugs across the
Speaker 2: board in Oregon, and that turned out to be a disaster,
Speaker 2: a total disaster for Oregon.
Speaker 5: Oh and by the way, if anybody's looking for a
Speaker 5: reason to decide whether to vote for Trump or Harris.
Speaker 5: This style of prosecutorial misconduct had a program title which
Speaker 5: at the Democrat National Convention was praised and touted by
Speaker 5: a district attorney in Maryland who's running for Senate now,
Speaker 5: who referred to Kamala Harris's program, which the example I
Speaker 5: just gave precipitated. That person at the convention said, and
Speaker 5: that is now becoming a template, an example for the
Speaker 5: whole nation in terms of district attorneys and how to
Speaker 5: deal with violent criminals and illegal aliens. Just put them
Speaker 5: out back on the street.
Speaker 2: Well, you see again the DA Fox in Chicago. Uh.
Speaker 2: You see Rachel Rollins here in Boston for the relatively
Speaker 2: brief period of time she was here. You see Alvin
Speaker 2: Bragg in New York City. You see Gascon in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: It goes on, It goes on and on and on. Torontmo.
Speaker 2: I've had the pleasure of having you on my show.
Speaker 5: Before, no several times.
Speaker 2: Well, I want you to keep calling the program. Okay,
Speaker 2: call yes, certainly, thank you very much, thank you, sir. Okay,
Speaker 2: coming back on nights. I taking a break. I got
Speaker 2: Todd and Alex you're going to get in and I
Speaker 2: got room for you if you like to call right now,
Speaker 2: here's the number six one, seven, two, five, four, ten
Speaker 2: thirty or six one seven nine three. I will tell
Speaker 2: you that I'm assuming, and this is my lineup of
Speaker 2: questions that I think need to be asked in some
Speaker 2: form of fashion. This is just the topics. January sixth,
Speaker 2: Immigration in the border, abortion, Joe Biden. What did Vice
Speaker 2: President Harris know about his condition and his diminution in capacity? Iran?
Speaker 2: What are we going to do about Iran inflation? What
Speaker 2: are we going to do about Israel? Are we going
Speaker 2: to support Israel? Fracking putin Ukraine? The federal debt, the
Speaker 2: cost of medicare, deportation policies that President Trump, former President
Speaker 2: Trump has talked about crime. What are we going to
Speaker 2: do about crime nationally? The student loan forgiveness? The Minnesota
Speaker 2: Bail Fund, which Vice President Harris supported, social Security, the
Speaker 2: future of Social Security, Project twenty five. All of that,
Speaker 2: all of that in more needs to be discussed tonight.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back on Night's side. More phone calls,
Speaker 2: and we will be breaking away at about eight fifty eight.
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Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Rady, Mine from the Window World
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Speaker 2: Next up, Todd in Onset, Massachusetts. Todd, Welcome to Nightside.
Speaker 2: What are you looking for tonight in the in the
Speaker 2: Big Debate?
Speaker 5: Hi, Dan Gridine.
Speaker 6: Then, one of the questions I would ask former President
Speaker 6: Trump is how would he continue to support NATO with
Speaker 6: our current obligations and pretty change things? I guess to say, yep,
Speaker 6: I feel like, you know he's got the inside edge
Speaker 6: on Russia. I believe that I heard from a reputable
Speaker 6: news media that he could uh stop the Ukraine war
Speaker 6: in twenty four hours after being elected. I don't off
Speaker 6: if that's something I got from misinformation.
Speaker 2: That's that's what he claimed. That is what he said.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's possible, because I think the
Speaker 2: level of enmity that exists between those two people, those
Speaker 2: two groups of people is deep and divided. I don't
Speaker 2: know how you do that, but that's what he said.
Speaker 2: He should be asked about that tonight. I think he
Speaker 2: should be asked to lay out a specific plan on that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because mean one thing It's one thing to say, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm going to stop the war. It's it's it'd be
Speaker 2: like me saying, you know, put me up against the
Speaker 2: Baltimore Pictures tonight, I'll hit a home run. Well, you
Speaker 2: know you got to get up and do you gotta.
Speaker 6: I mean he didn't exactly lay it a long timeline.
Speaker 6: I mean twenty four hours. I mean that's just short
Speaker 6: of a miracle.
Speaker 5: But I mean it also leads to me. You know,
Speaker 5: he would.
Speaker 2: Win the Nobel Peace Prize. He would win the Nobel
Speaker 2: Peace Price.
Speaker 6: You know, yeah, absolutely, And again I'm not trying to
Speaker 6: like think that, you know, he's well theory like, you know,
Speaker 6: he he actually has personal connections with Putin. I think
Speaker 6: I think that could be easily demonstrated with how he
Speaker 6: talks about him and and even Dak you know, he
Speaker 6: he was even asked back in uh when the Ukraine
Speaker 6: invasion underwent that he said, what do you think about
Speaker 6: Putin and being in Ukraine? He said, brilliant? And that
Speaker 6: again is something that I heard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't I don't think that he I'd like
Speaker 2: to know what contact that was. I really I know
Speaker 2: that Putin stayed in his in his lair in his
Speaker 2: den the Russian bear stayed pretty quiet while Trump they
Speaker 2: invaded no country while Trump was president, he should be
Speaker 2: asked specifically, what are you talking about? How are you
Speaker 2: going to end this? I mean, you know, Nixon talked
Speaker 2: about ending the war in Vietnam and it took about
Speaker 2: five years longer. Yeah, and Nixon had long since left
Speaker 2: the White House. Dodd, good question. Let's let me get
Speaker 2: one more in here before the break. Okay, that was
Speaker 2: an excellent question, and I will add it to the
Speaker 2: list that I will mention. Uh, if it's not asked tonight,
Speaker 2: that that that you asked a better question probably than
Speaker 2: some of the questions that will be asked. So that's
Speaker 2: a good one you were thinking tonight, and I'm I'm
Speaker 2: proud of you. Thank you, Todd, talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: Good night, Alex and Millis. Alex, what would you like
Speaker 2: to know out of tonight's debate?
Speaker 7: Well, I have a feeling it will be a dog
Speaker 7: and pony show. I'm not trying to be, you know, sarcastic,
Speaker 7: but I wish I had a better choice, and a
Speaker 7: lot of Americans feel the same way.
Speaker 2: From that, Now, would you say, you know there are
Speaker 2: some third party candidates who are who are running out there.
Speaker 2: I think Jill Stein is still in the ballot. I
Speaker 2: believe in Massachusetts Professor Cornell West there are there's a
Speaker 2: libertarian candidate. So you do have some other choices. But
Speaker 2: you had a lot of choices in the Republican primary
Speaker 2: and Donald Trump Trump.
Speaker 7: Tomall, well, I'll take the you know, the better of
Speaker 7: the two evils. But I was going to say, is
Speaker 7: both of these candidates, whoever wins, they're gonna they promise
Speaker 7: all these things now, and you mark my words. You
Speaker 7: know half the stuff's not going to happen.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: Well, that's that's why we have elections every four years
Speaker 2: and elections for Congress every two years. So obviously, if
Speaker 2: Donald Trump has a good night and he gets elected
Speaker 2: or real life, uh, he's going to have to prove
Speaker 2: He's got four years to prove himself.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I was going to ask, because the world is burning,
Speaker 7: which one of these two candidates would put out the
Speaker 7: fire or you know, would you.
Speaker 2: Say, I have no idea. I mean, I I think
Speaker 2: you can look at the record of each of them.
Speaker 2: One is a president, one is a vice president, and
Speaker 2: come to whatever conclusion you want. You know, did did
Speaker 2: the the depacal in Kabul basically encourage Putin to do
Speaker 2: something which was crazy, to invade Ukraine? That argument can
Speaker 2: be made. I wonder if but it was. Did it wasn't?
Speaker 2: It wasn't Joe Biden. I mean, we had a disastrous
Speaker 2: with withdrawal from Kabul. We left eighty five billion dollars
Speaker 2: worth of military equipment which is now in the hands
Speaker 2: of the Taliban.
Speaker 7: So real quick, Oh sorry.
Speaker 2: I got ten seconds. If you want to do be quick.
Speaker 2: If not, I'm going to have to put you over.
Speaker 7: You could you could do a topic on airline we
Speaker 7: went on our trip.
Speaker 2: No, no, don't do me a favorite. Don't open that up
Speaker 2: on me, Alex I said ten seconds, okay, because we
Speaker 2: got to get the ABC News thanks to Carl, and
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Well, we can deal with airlines at
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