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. I have a confession. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: I haven't told you this yet.
Speaker 2: Oh boy.
Speaker 1: So this morning I went to go get a cappuccino
Speaker 1: at the hotel coffee bar.
Speaker 2: Oh, sure, I'll take one.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm sorry to ask. Did I That was rude?
Speaker 2: That was rude? All right?
Speaker 1: Strike one? Yeah, And you know how I'm down on
Speaker 1: like the pumpkin spice stuff Like, I have no toleration
Speaker 1: for any sort of pumpkin spice anything. It's everywhere, it's
Speaker 1: too much, it's oversaturated the market in every way. You
Speaker 1: know you probably have pumpkin spice sox or something.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I get the cappuccino, I take a sip of it,
Speaker 1: and it's a freaking pumpkin spice latte. And I loved it.
Speaker 1: It was fantastic. It was like a taste of joy
Speaker 1: and fall in the holidays, all wrapped up in one.
Speaker 1: It was delicious and delightful. And I hated myself for
Speaker 1: every sip that I took and felt that way. Who
Speaker 1: are you? Okay, we can continue the show.
Speaker 3: Now live today in Chicago United Center for the Day
Speaker 3: two of the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 2: How did things go?
Speaker 1: I think that they went really well. Another confession here,
Speaker 1: I did not go to the speeches in the arena.
Speaker 1: I watched them in bed because I felt like I
Speaker 1: could like monitor social media and I could. You can
Speaker 1: get the vibe watching it on TV, just like everybody else.
Speaker 1: And it's a hassle to come back here after we
Speaker 1: leave for the show, and traffic and the barricades and
Speaker 1: the whole thing. I thought they handled it really well.
Speaker 1: I thought Biden sounded good. I thought, for the first
Speaker 1: time he had these senior moments, but it was okay.
Speaker 1: You know, it was okay, and it's okay that he's
Speaker 1: still the sitting president because he called himself out on it,
Speaker 1: like when he would stumble, he would stop and like
Speaker 1: roll his eyes or whatever her and that was kind
Speaker 1: of refreshing to see.
Speaker 3: Well, no one, I think that's the observation, is the
Speaker 3: way I read it. Nobody was expecting anything else. We
Speaker 3: now know, like we know what the condition is, we
Speaker 3: know what the situation is. The party seems to be
Speaker 3: united behind Kamala Harris, so we knew that this was
Speaker 3: going to be his opportunity to come out, and almost
Speaker 3: like almost with relief, I say, I want to pass
Speaker 3: the tour.
Speaker 1: I had a real hard time with their back to
Speaker 1: back to back hitting you over the head with abortion.
Speaker 1: That was too much. You know, the girl that came out,
Speaker 1: and I know it's real life stuff, but the girl
Speaker 1: who came out and said she was impregnated by her
Speaker 1: stepfather and why should I have to carry my parents child?
Speaker 1: I was too much. I was this is supposed to
Speaker 1: be enthusiasm and excitement and yay women, but that was
Speaker 1: over the top.
Speaker 3: I thought it was supposed to be a party, and
Speaker 3: that was the one part of the day or one
Speaker 3: part of the evening events where all of that was lost.
Speaker 2: I mean, all of that enthusiasm was gone.
Speaker 3: I mean there were images of what you know, when
Speaker 3: you could see the images of the convention floor itself
Speaker 3: and everybody holding up those long, skinny signs that were
Speaker 3: the we love Joe.
Speaker 2: I mean though that those images are what this is
Speaker 2: going to be remembered.
Speaker 1: They even ran out of we love Joe signs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I guess a little bit of what exactly
Speaker 3: happened yesterday This was probably the quote of the night
Speaker 3: from the from President Biden.
Speaker 4: Folks, I've got five months left in my presidency. I've
Speaker 4: got a lot to do. I intend to get it done.
Speaker 4: You see, spend the honor of my lifetime to serve
Speaker 4: as your president. I love the job, but I love
Speaker 4: my country more.
Speaker 2: That was the line right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And he came across very genuine after his introduced him.
Speaker 1: There wasn't a dry eye in the in the box
Speaker 1: and Kamala's box there. I mean, she looked visibly moved
Speaker 1: by that, by that speech. And you know, I knock
Speaker 1: politicians for being phony and being fake and not being human.
Speaker 1: And I felt like the Democrats had a really human
Speaker 1: night last night, aside from hitting us over the head
Speaker 1: with abortions, and aside from Hillary Clinton, I mean, Jesus,
Speaker 1: Mary and Joseph. She hasn't gotten better. The condescending schoolmarm
Speaker 1: thing has not gone away. And she looked great. And
Speaker 1: when I was watching her on close caption, I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, and then I and then I turned the
Speaker 1: volume on and I was like, oh, hell no.
Speaker 3: I want my grandchildren and their grandchildren.
Speaker 1: To know I was here.
Speaker 5: At this moment that we were here and that we.
Speaker 1: Were with Kamala Harris every step of the way.
Speaker 4: This is our time, America.
Speaker 2: This is when we stand up.
Speaker 4: This is when we break through the futuris hair and.
Speaker 1: Jenna, Oh boy, that is so reminiscent of twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: It's the tone that so many people had such a
Speaker 3: hard time with.
Speaker 1: We went to the California delegation breakfast this morning to
Speaker 1: talk to some delegates, and the women that I spoke with,
Speaker 1: I mean, Gloria already was one of them, but there
Speaker 1: was this They kept winking at me, like I'm interviewing them,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, you know, how you doing what
Speaker 1: you feel? And they're like, it's about women, wink wink,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, whoa, what's going on here? I felt
Speaker 1: like I was indoctrinated in some sort of woman's cult.
Speaker 2: Men, you don't like women?
Speaker 1: No, I love women. Oh that didn't come out right either. Well,
Speaker 1: let me tell you about Karen Bassett's dress.
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 2: Yes, women are just objects to wear dresses? Is that
Speaker 2: what we're saying? All right? So this is going to
Speaker 2: be at least some of.
Speaker 3: Our topic today, because we are again live in Chicago.
Speaker 3: This is the biggest story of the week, So this
Speaker 3: is why we're here. We will come or other stories also,
Speaker 3: but when we come back, we're going to get together
Speaker 3: with News Nations correspondent Kelly Meyer about what happened last night,
Speaker 3: about what we can expect coming forward in day two,
Speaker 3: some more familiar names, of course, some interviews. We'll just
Speaker 3: be popping around the old Michael Jordan statute today.
Speaker 1: You know, I just realized why I changed to pencils
Speaker 1: using pencils on this show, because remember when I used
Speaker 1: to have this pen and I just did this.
Speaker 2: The whole time, four hours, the entire time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the whole It's like a tick.
Speaker 3: American intelligence agencies say that it was Iran that was
Speaker 3: responsible for hacking into former President Trump's campaign and trying
Speaker 3: to breach the Democrats campaign. This was not unexpected, but
Speaker 3: it does kind of add some details from American intelligence agencies,
Speaker 3: including the fact that it was Roger Stone's Gmail and
Speaker 3: hot Mail.
Speaker 2: Accounts that were compromised.
Speaker 3: Supposedly allowed the hackers from Iran to impersonate Roger Stone
Speaker 3: and to get access to the emails of a bunch
Speaker 3: of campaign aides.
Speaker 1: Kelly Meyer is a right follow at Kelly Meyer News
Speaker 1: Kelly with an Ie on X. She has been covering
Speaker 1: the White House, the campaign, the Pentagon. She's a Washington
Speaker 1: correspondent for News Nation. Joins us. Now, Kelly, pretty big
Speaker 1: night for the Democrats.
Speaker 2: Yeah, huge night.
Speaker 6: You know you're going to see former President Obama coming
Speaker 6: out here and also former First Lady Michelle Obama out
Speaker 6: here tonight. And we've been reporting for a NewsNation this morning,
Speaker 6: just kind of talking about this bookends this full circle
Speaker 6: moment from twenty years ago, when you know Obama was
Speaker 6: really first coming onto the scene in two thousand and four.
Speaker 6: Harris was at fundraising events for him for his Senate
Speaker 6: campaign in two thousand and four. Now he's out here
Speaker 6: to support her bid for the presidency. He was the
Speaker 6: first black president. Now he wants to see the first
Speaker 6: female black president. So it really is a full circle
Speaker 6: moment for Harris. She's been there supporting Obama all along,
Speaker 6: and actually along the way the two group closer, she
Speaker 6: sought his advice as she's been going through her political career,
Speaker 6: and then also to have the First Lady Michelle Obama here.
Speaker 6: We learned that on Sunday that she was going to
Speaker 6: be giving her speech. You know, she had her famous
Speaker 6: moment in twenty sixteen with the saying when they go low,
Speaker 6: we go Hi supporting Hillary Clinton for the presidency. Then
Speaker 6: as Hillary Clinton became the first female Democratic presidential nominee.
Speaker 6: Now she's supporting Harris to become the first black female
Speaker 6: Democratic presidential nominee.
Speaker 2: This week, Well, you're there.
Speaker 3: On the East coast, and last night was a very
Speaker 3: late night, not just for President Biden but for.
Speaker 2: People on the East Coast who were watching this. What happened?
Speaker 2: Why did this show go so long last night?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: You know, they kept saying they put out a statement
Speaker 6: immediately because I think they knew that there were questions swirling.
Speaker 6: I mean, obviously they knew what time it was, and
Speaker 6: it pushed President or President Biden out of prime time
Speaker 6: as he wanted to speak in that primetime slot. So
Speaker 6: there were a lot of questions on you know, did
Speaker 6: the Democratic the DNC kind of push him out of
Speaker 6: the spotlight, you know, as they kind of were, you know,
Speaker 6: pushing in Harris for this. There was a lot of
Speaker 6: controversy in questions throughout this. They were saying that it
Speaker 6: just was because of the start. They did start late,
Speaker 6: and then also because of the applause and the pauses
Speaker 6: for the standing ovations and things like that, that they
Speaker 6: had to cut back programming. They cut back on a
Speaker 6: video for Biden on this legacy, and they also cut
Speaker 6: back on James Taylor, who we saw performing and practicing
Speaker 6: on stage earlier in the day and he never ended
Speaker 6: up on stage, so I don't know if they're going
Speaker 6: to bring him back tonight. But they had a press
Speaker 6: conference this morning, which press conference was also a little late,
Speaker 6: and talking about how they're going to try to keep
Speaker 6: things on track tonight, maybe start a little earlier. They
Speaker 6: didn't start until like five forty five pm Central Time,
Speaker 6: so that was nearly seven o'clock on the East coast,
Speaker 6: So it was just a late start in general. But
Speaker 6: they're going to try to keep it on track going
Speaker 6: into Tuesday.
Speaker 1: So today we will hear from Michelle and Barack Obama.
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 6: Yes, those are the two big speakers here for tonight,
Speaker 6: and they are expected to talk about Harris being the
Speaker 6: right person for this moment. We talked a lot in
Speaker 6: twenty twenty about Biden being the one for that moment,
Speaker 6: the one to take on Trump. Now the messages behind
Speaker 6: Harris being the one to take on Trump, being the
Speaker 6: person a female candidate to talk about. You know, abortion
Speaker 6: rights is a big part of her platform, voting rights
Speaker 6: a big part of her platform. They have those themes
Speaker 6: throughout this week, but that's what they are expected to
Speaker 6: talk about and their relationship with her over the years,
Speaker 6: So both kind of talking about her personally and professionally.
Speaker 3: Where did all the conversation go about Kamala Harris as
Speaker 3: an administrator in an office? There were discussions early in
Speaker 3: the term in the administration is when she became vice
Speaker 3: president that there were problems and there were people who
Speaker 3: were less than excited about having her as their boss.
Speaker 3: I mean, there was a lot of turnover in her office.
Speaker 3: All of that discussion seems to have gone away.
Speaker 2: Where did it go?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, no, it's a good question. I think there's
Speaker 6: a lot of you know, history there. You know, she's
Speaker 6: been in the political world for decades now, from California
Speaker 6: to Washington, d C. As a side that are then
Speaker 6: to vice president and of course this week is going
Speaker 6: to be talking a lot about at the DNC. It's
Speaker 6: going to be a lot of joyfulness as the circuits
Speaker 6: are referring to a lot of enthusiasm. I already talking
Speaker 6: about the wave of enthusiasm they're seeing behind her. I
Speaker 6: keep hearing people talking about the two thousand and eight
Speaker 6: feeling that they're getting with Hars comparing her to Obama.
Speaker 6: But you're right, and the kind of more the questions
Speaker 6: around her as a person professionally, as how she treated
Speaker 6: her staff, those are all still questions and still stories
Speaker 6: that are out there. So I think just up to
Speaker 6: the voters to kind of both also, you know, see
Speaker 6: what's happening this week and what is being presented, but
Speaker 6: also you know, kind of study up on both her
Speaker 6: as a person or history is also her policy, and
Speaker 6: that's something that we're trying to watch for and see
Speaker 6: just how much of a sense we're going to get
Speaker 6: for her actual the meat of the of the headlines,
Speaker 6: the meat of these themes. How are they actually going
Speaker 6: to accomplish that, And that's something we still have yet
Speaker 6: to see and hope to see coming out of the DNC.
Speaker 1: You know, you mentioned the point about her staff, and
Speaker 1: there were so many stories the months ago that it
Speaker 1: was a sinking ship, that there was an exodus, that
Speaker 1: she was difficult to work with and it's it's funny
Speaker 1: because you never hear that about a male politician, and
Speaker 1: there's got to be a bunch of a holes around.
Speaker 1: But that's kind of a narrative that you only hear
Speaker 1: when it's a woman.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, and it seems like there's a you know,
Speaker 6: a double standard, and it's a lot harder for a female,
Speaker 6: it seems, in this political world because if they, you know,
Speaker 6: get labeled as tough, or they come out as tough
Speaker 6: and strong against adversaries or others, they may be labeled
Speaker 6: some sort of way and different than a male. So
Speaker 6: I think there is that, and I think we heard
Speaker 6: a bit about that when we heard from former Secretary
Speaker 6: of State Hillary Clinton. She faced a lot of that
Speaker 6: when she was running as well. But they are hoping
Speaker 6: that Harris could kind of break through that barrier and
Speaker 6: both be strong but also be vulnerable and likable. It
Speaker 6: just seems like it's a tougher for some reason, a
Speaker 6: more challenging balance for females that they've had to deal
Speaker 6: with in this political world. I don't know if I'll
Speaker 6: get too much into it. I guess I could get
Speaker 6: talk about it personally so as a female, but I
Speaker 6: think that's what they're looking at here.
Speaker 2: Awesome. Well, Kelly, thank you for your time. Appreciate it.
Speaker 6: All right, thank you, guys. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: You bet Kelly Meyer there with News Nation for their
Speaker 3: Washington d C Bureau.
Speaker 1: Maybe we just lean into it, Maybe we lean into
Speaker 1: women today, you know, embrace it.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to repeat that because I heard gibberish.
Speaker 1: Gary and Shannon coming up. Morgan Wood will join us
Speaker 1: coming up next from the Black Information Network.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a message for you. Oh you do? Yes?
Speaker 2: Where thinking of making us happy? Feeling happy? Feeling yeah.
Speaker 7: Shah so yeah, maybe I know.
Speaker 5: Fuck in the morning. Love the show all the time.
Speaker 5: You guys are the best. Remember you guys, gotta get
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Speaker 1: I love him broadcasting live from Chicago and the DNC.
Speaker 1: A lot of happy people here this morning. I was
Speaker 1: sitting in the hotel lobby when I was waiting for
Speaker 1: you guys to come down, and everyone who came off
Speaker 1: the elevator just had these big smiles on their faces
Speaker 1: because the night one landed correctly.
Speaker 3: One of the delegates that you spoke to, this morning
Speaker 3: at that California breakfast.
Speaker 2: Referred to everybody as joyful warriors.
Speaker 1: Yes, that was the term White House correspondent. Now Morgan
Speaker 1: Wood joins us. She also is a correspondent for the
Speaker 1: Black Information Network for iHeartRadio. Thank you for making time
Speaker 1: for us.
Speaker 7: Absolutely part of the iHeart family. Why not?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 1: So what was your takeaway from last night? What did
Speaker 1: you think?
Speaker 7: I think that the energy was definitely up. It was
Speaker 7: nice to hear about policy for once, as opposed to
Speaker 7: you know, a bunch of.
Speaker 2: You know this or that and joyful warriors.
Speaker 3: Joyful warriors and as important as they are, policy is
Speaker 3: what's going to drive this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just slinging mud.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, Yeah, there was. Yeah, there was a lot to
Speaker 7: the conversation. One that stuck out to me personally was
Speaker 7: Jasmine crocket that personal story that she told about VP
Speaker 7: Harris wiping her tears. I could see how she actually
Speaker 7: got emotional in that moment and understanding that that actually
Speaker 7: helped Jasmine Crockett move forward in the work that she's
Speaker 7: doing and everybody knows that she's viral right now.
Speaker 1: Rising Star definitely, absolutely.
Speaker 7: So it's nice to see those type of things. The
Speaker 7: standing ovation that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got
Speaker 7: That was absolutely amazing. I mean, she was standing there
Speaker 7: for a good two or three minutes, tears and it's
Speaker 7: almost like, well, where was that support for her twenty
Speaker 7: sixteen s and.
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders was in a closet somewhere last night.
Speaker 7: Yeah, No, but it was really good to see all
Speaker 7: of that, for sure.
Speaker 3: The feeling, i mean, you talk about this, this feeling
Speaker 3: of positivity is very different than what we saw in
Speaker 3: Milwaukee in the opening of that convention, obviously, because you're
Speaker 3: talking about two days after an assassination attempt on President
Speaker 3: Trump's former President Trump's life. Yeah, and there was positivity,
Speaker 3: but it was almost trepidacious. It was almost a very
Speaker 3: cautious optimism because they were so close to losing the candidate,
Speaker 3: We were close to losing a former president.
Speaker 2: This was a very different temperature.
Speaker 3: It felt like, i mean, the joyful word is being
Speaker 3: thrown around a lot.
Speaker 2: But that was a very different feeling in there last night.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, And just a touch back on the rn C.
Speaker 7: You know, it's kind of crazy because it was a
Speaker 7: little bit concerning to hear Trump that way. You know,
Speaker 7: he's always been out there very outspoken, and so to
Speaker 7: have him speak at RNC very timidly what I would
Speaker 7: assume is timidly or very different, just very calm. And
Speaker 7: his voice wasn't as loud as you know, you're normally
Speaker 7: used to hearing, so it.
Speaker 2: Was it was different.
Speaker 7: And then one thing that stuck out to me that
Speaker 7: he said it was that he felt like he wasn't
Speaker 7: supposed to be there. That was his first time speaking
Speaker 7: since the assassination attempt, and the fact that he said
Speaker 7: he wasn't supposed to be there, I'm also wondering, you know,
Speaker 7: does he really is he really in it the way
Speaker 7: that he was prior to because who wouldn't be traumatized
Speaker 7: by some type of by that type of situation, an
Speaker 7: assassination attempt.
Speaker 1: Your first assignment at the White House was for the
Speaker 1: Juneteenth Proclamation. Yes, explain how powerful that was?
Speaker 7: Well, for one to be a d MV resident, born
Speaker 7: and raised in the area and to actually go to
Speaker 7: the White House, that's that was a full circle for me.
Speaker 7: And then for it to be for Juneteenth, I mean,
Speaker 7: that was absolutely amazing. That's something that the black community
Speaker 7: has obviously been fighting for for a long time, and
Speaker 7: for Biden to put the proclamation up, and then the
Speaker 7: very following year there was the Juneteenth Concert, and then
Speaker 7: that has been going on. There was one this year also,
Speaker 7: and so it was it's nice to see the growth
Speaker 7: of it, and it's nice to see that it's now
Speaker 7: a federal holiday and there's celebrations of all kinds that
Speaker 7: are happening across the country just because you know, Biden
Speaker 7: put it out there on the forefront that hey, this
Speaker 7: is something that is very important.
Speaker 3: As a White House correspondent, it's hard to ignore the
Speaker 3: campaign aspect of what goes on as part of your job, obviously,
Speaker 3: because you have to cover it. How do you how
Speaker 3: do you maintain that balance. You've got to understand that
Speaker 3: as exciting and joyful as it.
Speaker 2: May be for people, you have to remain neutral. You
Speaker 2: have to remain you know, keep that reporter mode on. Yeah.
Speaker 7: So it's all about the people and the message, getting
Speaker 7: the message to the people. So I try to gather
Speaker 7: as much like you guys know, it's about gathering as
Speaker 7: much information as you can and getting it out to
Speaker 7: the people so that.
Speaker 2: They are informed.
Speaker 7: It's not about me and you know my opinion, who
Speaker 7: cares about that? But the bottom line is making sure
Speaker 7: that the people are informed about what's going on in
Speaker 7: their states, their you know, their localities, and of course
Speaker 7: the nation.
Speaker 1: Barack and Michelle Obama today will be speaking. I mean
Speaker 1: everyone is in such a good mood already. Everyone still
Speaker 1: like drunk off enthusiasms from last night. If you're a
Speaker 1: Democrat and you're here, this is your super Bowl, it
Speaker 1: seems like people are just gonna explode. Whether you get
Speaker 1: Michelle and Barack Obama out here today, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2: I mean they're a fun bunch. I mean they brought some.
Speaker 7: Uh some some youthfulness to the White House when during
Speaker 7: their administration, and they are a fun bunch. I mean Obama,
Speaker 7: former President Barack Obama, he is very suave and Debonairrow.
Speaker 1: Or what should I say, demure, I'm.
Speaker 2: Very mindful and I know that very mindful of you.
Speaker 7: But yeah, so yeah, and you know he's got that
Speaker 7: suaveness and I think that attracts a lot of people,
Speaker 7: and people like that and they want to be around.
Speaker 1: He's got a lot of charisma. I've seen him speak
Speaker 1: before and it's it's Bill Clinton has that as well.
Speaker 1: Or they just take control of a room.
Speaker 7: Yeah, like the kids say Riz, Yes.
Speaker 1: All there is Ye. Morgan Would is a correspondent for
Speaker 1: the White House and for the Black Information Network here
Speaker 1: on iHeart Media. You can follow her at Morgan Media,
Speaker 1: Morgan with A.
Speaker 2: Y, yes, M O R G Y and M E
Speaker 2: D I A.
Speaker 7: And in fact, in the last ninety days I've been
Speaker 7: doing front page news on the Breakfast Club too, So
Speaker 7: that's been a fun assignment.
Speaker 2: That's really cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dealing with those guys.
Speaker 7: They're a fun bunch and as you can imagine, that's
Speaker 7: a lady a little challenging getting some serious news in there.
Speaker 7: But the bottom line is all of our audiences deserve
Speaker 7: to know what's going on.
Speaker 2: Thank you again.
Speaker 3: Of course, Okay, very late night last night, a lot
Speaker 3: of the speakers went way over their time. They had
Speaker 3: to cut Debbie Wasserman Schultz and everybody named Dessey. Debbie
Speaker 3: Wasserman Schultz were pissed. They also cut James Taylor, despite
Speaker 3: they kept promoting the fact that James Taylor is going
Speaker 3: to do some sort of musical number, but they knew
Speaker 3: that they're running way over time. They actually pushed President
Speaker 3: Biden out of prime time at least on the East
Speaker 3: Coast and here in the Central time zone. Today Day two,
Speaker 3: Anna Navarro is going to be the host. She is
Speaker 3: a Republican. She has said she lent her support to
Speaker 3: Democratic candidates over the last decade, ever since she said
Speaker 3: Donald Trump got into politics. She's, of course, one of
Speaker 3: the co hosts of The View and the theme for
Speaker 3: the second day of the convention is a bold vision
Speaker 3: for America's future.
Speaker 2: You know, I love.
Speaker 1: James Taylor, but I do not love James Taylor tainted
Speaker 1: with politics. Could you imagine if he got out there
Speaker 1: and saying like, you've got a friend and Biden and
Speaker 1: Harris are on the stage, or how sweet it is?
Speaker 1: Or sweet baby James, Sweet baby James, or your smiling face,
Speaker 1: or shower the people, how are the people? Would have
Speaker 1: been my probably my bet on what he would say,
Speaker 1: Shower the people you love with love, way you care.
Speaker 3: I've never been so high from secondhand smoke as I
Speaker 3: was at age. Sames Taylor concert at calex BO and Sacramento.
Speaker 1: I went to the same venue to see him.
Speaker 2: What year was this, I'm sure it was that it
Speaker 2: had to.
Speaker 1: Be the concert.
Speaker 3: Of course it was well yesterday, in an attempt to
Speaker 3: try to bring some kind of attention back to the
Speaker 3: Republican Party. President former President Trump spoke in Pennsylvania yesterday.
Speaker 8: Our plan will massively cut taxes, unlock American energy, slash
Speaker 8: regulations big factor, crack down on trade cheaters and stop outsourcing,
Speaker 8: rebuild our industrial base, and bring back those beautiful words
Speaker 8: made in the USA.
Speaker 3: So that was at a speech, sorry, that was at
Speaker 3: a factory in Pennsylvania yesterday, and he went on to
Speaker 3: say to these factory workers that were there and supporters
Speaker 3: at Precision Custom Components, that Harris is an economy wrecker
Speaker 3: and a country destroyer. This will be, I think, for
Speaker 3: all intentsive purposes, the busiest week that Trump has going forward,
Speaker 3: and it definitely the busiest week since winter because of
Speaker 3: all of the Republican challengers that existed in the primaries.
Speaker 3: This is a tough time for him because he's got
Speaker 3: to be able to pull back some of the attention
Speaker 3: from I mean, we've been seeing you saw it last
Speaker 3: night from a room full, an arena full of people
Speaker 3: who are very excited.
Speaker 2: And enthusiastic about their candidate.
Speaker 3: The primary focus on policy in these battleground states could be.
Speaker 2: Good for him.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's not great at sticking on to the topics,
Speaker 3: and that's been one of the things that's bugged him lately.
Speaker 3: The campaign officials try to keep him focused on stuff,
Speaker 3: and he kind of goes off on all of these tangents.
Speaker 3: So Trump appeared at times in the last couple of
Speaker 3: weeks to launch a bunch of personal attacks on the
Speaker 3: vice president.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if that sticks with It.
Speaker 3: Definitely sticks with his base, but it does nothing to
Speaker 3: grab independence. So you'll see him out and about. You'll
Speaker 3: see him in some other battleground states. Jade Vance also
Speaker 3: was in Ohio yesterday.
Speaker 1: Do you think Trump doubles down? And it's a it's
Speaker 1: a common talking point that he's better looking than Kamala Harris?
Speaker 1: Is that going to be one of those ones he
Speaker 1: goes back to over and over again, Because when he
Speaker 1: brought it up at that rally a couple days ago,
Speaker 1: the crowd.
Speaker 2: Ate it up, it ate it up.
Speaker 1: He loved it, It played well, and then he repeated
Speaker 1: it two more times. So I don't know. He also
Speaker 1: floated giving Elon Musk a job in his administration. He
Speaker 1: was doing an interview with Reuters and he said he
Speaker 1: was asked if he would name Musk to an advisory
Speaker 1: role or a cabinet position, and Trump said he's a
Speaker 1: very smart guy. I certainly would if he would do it.
Speaker 1: I certainly would. He's a brilliant guy. He's brilliant. And
Speaker 1: hours later, Musk posted on social media and AI generated
Speaker 1: image of himself standing at a podium backed by American flags,
Speaker 1: with the caption, I am willing to serve ps. Have
Speaker 1: you seen all those AI images of Trump and Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3: Like they get together and have a baby, Like she's
Speaker 3: pregnant and he's like Robin and her belly.
Speaker 1: And there's the one where he's the baby and she's
Speaker 1: holding the baby Trump. It's awful. And then the one
Speaker 1: where they're walking on the beach hand in hand.
Speaker 2: I do like the baby Trump on that I do too.
Speaker 3: The woman in that picture doesn't look anything like Kamala Harris,
Speaker 3: but the baby Trump is pretty funny because he's got
Speaker 3: the hair and the suit on, which.
Speaker 1: Is some you know, right, all right, Coming up next,
Speaker 1: we will talk about Kamala Harris's controlled strategy. We mentioned
Speaker 1: several times has she has yet to do an interview.
Speaker 1: She has yet to sit down. The last we heard
Speaker 1: was on August eighth, when she said she would do
Speaker 1: an interview in a press availability by the end of
Speaker 1: the month. Well, TikTok it is now the twentieth of August,
Speaker 1: so we're going to have that coming up pretty soon.
Speaker 1: They've been able to control her strategy and how they've
Speaker 1: been able to do it so well. We'll be hooking
Speaker 1: up with an Axios reporter right after this.
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