Speaker 1: Good morning, Kentucky, Ina. It is five oh five here
Speaker 1: at Kentucky Anda's Morning News on news Radio eight forty.
Speaker 1: Whas Nick coffee. That's me. Let's get a roll call.
Speaker 1: Scott Fitzgerald in the house. What up? We've got mister
Speaker 1: John Olden also produd morning, and we'll have John Shannon
Speaker 1: with his first news update coming up around five thirty.
Speaker 1: We're learning a lot about each other here. We've known
Speaker 1: each other a long time, but obviously now we're we're
Speaker 1: still in the early phases of working a show together.
Speaker 1: And I knew this already, but it's goot your morning guy.
Speaker 1: I am morning big Morning Bobs, Yep, yep, And I
Speaker 1: want to let you know that I also believe that
Speaker 1: I'm a morning guy. But I'm not at all saying
Speaker 1: I'm on your level because I'm not sure many are.
Speaker 1: And I mean this in a good way, because this
Speaker 1: is it's infectious right, ready to get the day started,
Speaker 1: high energy, John. I don't know if you're high. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you're a morning guy or not. To
Speaker 1: be honest with you, because at times it hasn't necessarily
Speaker 1: seemed that way was a morning guy. Okay, so even
Speaker 1: before you had a newborn baby that that you know,
Speaker 1: obviously up a lot of your time right now. That's
Speaker 1: the phase you're in as a new parent, before that
Speaker 1: in your previous world, because it is two different worlds
Speaker 1: pre parent and when you're a parent, those are the
Speaker 1: two worlds. Were you a morning person or no.
Speaker 2: I think I was in the sense that I had
Speaker 2: a good attitude about it. But I don't like getting up,
Speaker 2: you know, at four in the morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like you, maybe weren't as enthusiastic as some.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think until if you meet one Scott Fitzgerald,
Speaker 2: I don't think it's possible to match his morning energy.
Speaker 1: I love it because it helps me get the energy
Speaker 1: flowing as well. And I remember it's going back to
Speaker 1: the time I was on in the mornings on seven ninety.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel bad calling it mornings because it
Speaker 1: started at seven and I thought, oh wow, man, it's
Speaker 1: going to be tough for me, real adjustment. And now
Speaker 1: whenever it hit seven o'clock we're halfway through the show.
Speaker 1: So this is actually I mean, this is more so
Speaker 1: late night early morning than anything else. But I remember
Speaker 1: really liking being on the air to get people rolling
Speaker 1: you know to get the day started and bring some energy.
Speaker 1: But I remember some saying, Okay, I need at least
Speaker 1: a little bit of coffee before I get you, because
Speaker 1: I'm not ready yet. There are people that need a
Speaker 1: little bit of their own time before they can really
Speaker 1: handle somebody that's enthusiastic in the morning. And I say
Speaker 1: this knowing it because I live with one. My wife
Speaker 1: not a big morning person. She's good if I'm zippity
Speaker 1: dooo doo all ready to start the day high energy,
Speaker 1: She's appreciative of it, but she just needs her time.
Speaker 1: So you know, hopefully if you're up with us at
Speaker 1: five am, you're ready to start your day too. If not,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's our duty to assist in that. Right.
Speaker 3: Well, you know who's like your wife, and that is
Speaker 3: Kentucky Derby winning trainer Bill Mott was.
Speaker 1: Not aware now what he's ever made the comparison to
Speaker 1: my wife and Bill Mott.
Speaker 3: When we run the Backside Derby morning, it was funny.
Speaker 3: We were there with Linda who runs the counseling center there. Well,
Speaker 3: Bill Mott comes walking in Linda's ruined coffee because you
Speaker 3: don't get the coffee and donuts on Derby Day and
Speaker 3: oaks Dale like you do throughout. So he came looking
Speaker 3: for coffee and he wanders into the office and you
Speaker 3: wouldn't know him if you saw him, and he just asked, Linday,
Speaker 3: He says, can I have a couple of coffee? While
Speaker 3: I saw him there, and instinctively I took the opportunity
Speaker 3: to say, hey, can I chat with you on Derby Day?
Speaker 3: And he goes, I was You're a proud talk to
Speaker 3: you anytime. He says, I'm gonna be straight with you.
Speaker 3: I need coffee before I can talk to anybody. And
Speaker 3: he's very honest about it.
Speaker 1: There are many that have that. It's got to be
Speaker 1: a more of a mental thing, right. A coffee does
Speaker 1: give you a boost, There's no doubt about it. And
Speaker 1: it's a huge step in I think the morning routine
Speaker 1: for a lot of people, but it's certainly a mental
Speaker 1: because you can just take a sip and I feel
Speaker 1: like people are like, all right, I'm ready ye, And
Speaker 1: at that point I don't think the coffee's really done much.
Speaker 1: But I get it. Everybody's got, you know, it's routine
Speaker 1: and consistency. So even if it is more of a
Speaker 1: mental thing, I understand, trust me. Yeah, all right, so
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a fun morning. At least we are.
Speaker 1: I say we, meaning myself, Scott Fitzgerald, John Shannon, John Alden.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you guys will have some fun as well, because
Speaker 1: we got a lot to get into. There is still,
Speaker 1: i suppose, what they call unrest in California. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to Rory O'Neill coming up at five forty five get
Speaker 1: the latest on the immigration raids in California and now
Speaker 1: it's turned to looting this which hate hate to say that,
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised, but I'm not surprised. So that'll continue
Speaker 1: to be something that we discussed throughout the morning. Also,
Speaker 1: Mayor Greenberg did talk yesterday and was asked about the
Speaker 1: protests happening here in Louisville at this point still seemed
Speaker 1: seems to be very peaceful, which is which is what
Speaker 1: you want. But we'll let you guys hear that. And
Speaker 1: since the real focus on getting Bargetown Road Highlands that
Speaker 1: area in check, if you will. We've seen some some
Speaker 1: liquor licenses be revoked or places simply be shut down
Speaker 1: for not having a liquor license. There's a story from
Speaker 1: yesterday that I want to that I want to hit
Speaker 1: on because it sounds like this may not be the
Speaker 1: last business here in the next few days to be
Speaker 1: reprimanded shut down, whatever penalty is is is needed because
Speaker 1: they're not only maybe not only do they maybe not
Speaker 1: have a liquor license or it's expired, they're they're serving
Speaker 1: alcohol to people that are not of age. So if
Speaker 1: you're somebody that's been cutting corners, breaking rules as an
Speaker 1: institution that serves alcohol, you might want to make sure
Speaker 1: you get things cleaned up because they're looking for you.
Speaker 1: Just keep that in mind. Also, I know Scott's going
Speaker 1: to have plenty of stuff this morning when it comes
Speaker 1: to sports, But Vince Barrow to Louisville, I've got what
Speaker 1: if I told you guys, I had seventy seconds of
Speaker 1: Kentucky fans melting down, calling in, calling in to KSR,
Speaker 1: just upset about it. So we'll let you hear some
Speaker 1: of that. Also, some big rule changes coming to college basketball,
Speaker 1: which is exciting to me. I'm a college basketball nerd.
Speaker 1: So let's have a morning, fellas. It's five to eleven.
Speaker 1: Your first update of traffic and weather is right here,
Speaker 1: right now on News Radio eight forty WHAS five point
Speaker 1: fifteen here at Kentucky's Morning News. But Nick Coffee on
Speaker 1: news Radio eight forty whas take us with you wherever
Speaker 1: you go this morning. You can listen live on the
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Speaker 1: here's the uh, here's the latest on the on the
Speaker 1: I guess the situation. That's the best way I'm trying
Speaker 1: not to to. I mean, calling that riots, is that
Speaker 1: out of line? I don't know. I'm sure some people
Speaker 1: would be bothered by that and not agree that it
Speaker 1: is writing that is going on. Some would call it
Speaker 1: peaceful protesting. I think what some people may call it
Speaker 1: peaceful protesting may actually be rioting in the eyes of others.
Speaker 1: So you really just never know. But unrest. There's unrest
Speaker 1: in in California as these protests continue. And now we
Speaker 1: have looting that has taken place overnight, looting at stores
Speaker 1: in La along Broadway, an Adidas store, an Apple store.
Speaker 1: I actually saw some footage of the Apple store, and
Speaker 1: I don't know why that that that just I can't
Speaker 1: watch it like I have to. If the clip is
Speaker 1: forty five seconds, I'll get thirty seconds in and get
Speaker 1: the gist of what is going on, and it's maybe
Speaker 1: I'm soft. I don't know what it is, but I
Speaker 1: just prefer not to watch that kind of stuff. I mean,
Speaker 1: that makes sense. It's weird. It's one of those things
Speaker 1: that I can't quite put a finger on why. I
Speaker 1: just try to avoid looking at it. It's not as
Speaker 1: if I'm watching somebody be hurt, but I guess just
Speaker 1: to see something just completely damaged with no regard, no
Speaker 1: care at all of the destruction, and of course you
Speaker 1: know theft. Yeah, it's wild. So yeah, the Adida store,
Speaker 1: apple store, a place called Shoe Palace, different dispensaries, a pharmacy,
Speaker 1: and a jewelry store building. Some police vehicles were defaced
Speaker 1: with graffiti across the ten block radius. So it's not
Speaker 1: getting any better.
Speaker 4: And I.
Speaker 1: Don't know if we'll have I mean, we'll talk to
Speaker 1: Rory O'Neil, and I'm not sure he can predict the future.
Speaker 1: In fact, I'm pretty confident he can't know if it's
Speaker 1: to Rory, if anybody could, it would be him. But
Speaker 1: as far as where this goes from here, I don't
Speaker 1: really know. I mean, like we talked about yesterday, Scott,
Speaker 1: these things will run their course, but I kind of
Speaker 1: get a sense, and it's just a gut feeling that
Speaker 1: it may get a little worse before it gets better.
Speaker 3: Sure, and when you see these unfolded, and certainly Los
Speaker 3: Angeles is no stranger to riots, they've come aways. What
Speaker 3: I like when I hear you talk about this is
Speaker 3: the fact that it doesn't sound like the rioting is spreading.
Speaker 3: It's not spreading to other cities. So the communities sometimes
Speaker 3: you'll see these things to this level bingo, and you'll
Speaker 3: start to see people, hey, call the action, do this,
Speaker 3: do this, do this. So it's pretty much contained to
Speaker 3: la which they will. They'll get a handle on it. It
Speaker 3: just takes time to get a handle on it. I
Speaker 3: did see we had the ice protests yesterday here in Louisville.
Speaker 3: Peaceful folks were just marching along, which is great. It's
Speaker 3: great to see. It's great to see our community come together.
Speaker 3: Know Baltimore has had some protests other cities as a
Speaker 3: matter of fact, But these things start once you let
Speaker 3: that riding genie out of the bottle, is extremely hard
Speaker 3: to put it back in until it just dies itself out.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's got it. We talked about morning vibes
Speaker 1: being infectious. Yeah, and a bad way. I think you
Speaker 1: see somebody be the first to really cross a line,
Speaker 1: then then it's then it's full go for a lot
Speaker 1: of people. Which that's to your point, that's where it
Speaker 1: gets that's where it gets scary.
Speaker 3: Where was it Vancouver, I think is where it was
Speaker 3: when they had the economic protest. That's how that kind
Speaker 3: of started. And because you're thinking economic protests.
Speaker 1: And that's really when it gets out that when it
Speaker 1: gets almost uncontrollable exactly I mean, and that's why I
Speaker 1: think you that's why you would end up needing the
Speaker 1: real resources that that that President Trump is is putting
Speaker 1: in place to keep it from getting to that. So,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned here Louisville and Louisville, it's been it's
Speaker 1: been peaceful.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Mayor Greenberg, he's he's expressed confidence that the city's equipped
Speaker 1: to handle it. But he's also in fact, I think
Speaker 1: he repeated it a couple of times in his comment
Speaker 1: yesterday which I'm about to play for you guys, that
Speaker 1: says will not we will not tolerate anybody who's doing this,
Speaker 1: I guess in a non peaceful way instead of paraphrasing,
Speaker 1: I'll just let you guys hear him for for yourself.
Speaker 5: I will not tolerate l MPD, will not tolerate damage
Speaker 5: to property, we will not tolerate risk and danger to others,
Speaker 5: and so that we don't expect to occur here, and
Speaker 5: so we will continue to move forward with lmpd's focus.
Speaker 5: I'm preventing and responding to violent crime.
Speaker 1: So again that'll be a early story. We continue to monitor.
Speaker 1: You guys may have missed this overnight, and I mean literally,
Speaker 1: it just it happened actually this morning more so than overnight.
Speaker 1: But first thing I saw when I woke up and
Speaker 1: was sleep walking into the into the kitchen at the
Speaker 1: early early morning hours that I now get up, I
Speaker 1: popped open my phone in the first tweet, I guess
Speaker 1: the first X post I saw was Elon Musk apologizing
Speaker 1: for his tweets last week comments via X I should
Speaker 1: say about President Trump. So yeah, not often do you
Speaker 1: see somebody in that position, somebody of that status, that power,
Speaker 1: apologize and say I was wrong. But you know, he
Speaker 1: did pick an internet fight with the President of the
Speaker 1: United States, somebody that is actually more powerful, and hefit
Speaker 1: seems so we'll get to all that when we talk
Speaker 1: with Roy O'Neal coming up at five forty five. Your
Speaker 1: next update of traffic and weather is right here, right
Speaker 1: now on news Radio eight forty whas it is five
Speaker 1: thirty five here at Kentucky and this morning News with
Speaker 1: Nick Coffee on News Radio eight forty whas. So, last
Speaker 1: week we had a bar, I believe a hookah lounge
Speaker 1: that was that was shut down because they did not
Speaker 1: have a liquor license. And you know, I'm sure anytime
Speaker 1: that happens, it's probably going to get some some attention,
Speaker 1: meaning it's going to be going to be gonna end
Speaker 1: up in the news. But maybe maybe I'm wrong, But
Speaker 1: right now it appears that they are cracking down on
Speaker 1: really just making sure that everybody is playing by the
Speaker 1: rules as far as liquor licenses and serving alcohol to
Speaker 1: people that are of age. But there's a Louisville bar
Speaker 1: in German Town that has been shut down by city officials.
Speaker 1: This took place over the weekend due to quote, serious
Speaker 1: violations involving underage drinking, over service, and public safety. So
Speaker 1: Little Metro Alcoholic Beverage said in a news release yesterday
Speaker 1: that they have detectives that inspected twenty first in Germantown
Speaker 1: that's the name of the of the bar, just after
Speaker 1: midnight June eighth, after a pattern of violations, including underage
Speaker 1: drinking and the arrest of a severely impaired driver who
Speaker 1: had just left the bar. So that's one of those
Speaker 1: things that when I go out in a previous world,
Speaker 1: I don't go out much at all anymore. Kind of
Speaker 1: miss that life. But you know, life changes when you
Speaker 1: get older and you have kids. But I rarely I'm
Speaker 1: so far removed from being twenty one. I rarely even
Speaker 1: think of anybody being idd but you really have to.
Speaker 1: It's probably something that after a while you just, I
Speaker 1: don't want to say you get lazy, but you just
Speaker 1: start to maybe trust your judgment of someone's age a
Speaker 1: little bit more than you should. Oh, you get enforcement fatigued.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're busy, you're not checking ideas every so often,
Speaker 3: you more than you should. You're right, and I know
Speaker 3: this place real well. Was a shocker to me to
Speaker 3: find out that that came down down the wire. But
Speaker 3: again I applauded the mayor for stepping up there because
Speaker 3: I will tell you when my son and I guess
Speaker 3: I can admit this that you know that he's dad.
Speaker 3: There's places we can buy and we can go out,
Speaker 3: and he was telling me where they I'll tell you
Speaker 3: out the air where one of them was.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's do you think it's more so
Speaker 1: just because they're they're loose, or do you think that
Speaker 1: they don't like they don't they don't care.
Speaker 3: I think it's a combination of both. Yeah, I'll tell
Speaker 3: you what I was thinking about this one. But it
Speaker 3: was interesting about that tease.
Speaker 1: I'm getting that stuff, and.
Speaker 3: Now every time I drive by it, I'm like, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, you look at it and you go and
Speaker 3: he's like, yeah, Dad's legit. And he says everybody knows
Speaker 3: about it, nobody tells you, and I never would have
Speaker 3: suspected it. So you know, those things happened. So this
Speaker 3: didn't surprise me when I heard this news. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm glad the mayor is stepping up and really enforcing
Speaker 3: this and cracking down on this.
Speaker 1: It has to when you get carded. I mean, I
Speaker 1: haven't gotten carted for beer at a restaurant in a
Speaker 1: long time, haven't got I mean, I get carted when
Speaker 1: I in fact yesterday, I went to go pick up.
Speaker 1: I went to go my wife needed a specific ingredient
Speaker 1: that she did not have when she was preparing dinner. So,
Speaker 1: you know, this has kind of become a thing. If
Speaker 1: she needs me to run and make a last minute
Speaker 1: purchase to help her complete dinner, I'll also throw them,
Speaker 1: you know, six pack of beer or something like that.
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 1: So I'll go through the self checkout and they need
Speaker 1: my ID, but just to scan it, not to like
Speaker 1: actually look at it. I could give them an idea
Speaker 1: of my grandmother and they you know, they're not worried
Speaker 1: that I'm not twenty one, but when you are, because
Speaker 1: I feel like you can sense it. Whenever there's a
Speaker 1: lot more attention to iding everyone and I think that,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe I'm wrong here, but it makes me
Speaker 1: think that they've been reprimanded in some way, or maybe
Speaker 1: they've been warned her, maybe they've been in trouble. I mean,
Speaker 1: you clearly are going to be held accountable if you
Speaker 1: get caught not doing to do diligence and you end
Speaker 1: up serving alcohol to people who who are not who
Speaker 1: are not of age, especially if there's if there's a
Speaker 1: level of it and it's tough to prove this, I
Speaker 1: would imagine, but if they're investigating you, they're going to
Speaker 1: be able to come to the conclusion if you're just
Speaker 1: doing it because you got complacent, or you're doing it
Speaker 1: because you have no regard for their rules.
Speaker 3: Well, and I understand if someone comes up and they
Speaker 3: look sixty years old, you don't idea.
Speaker 1: Now, I will say, when my daughter, who's of legal.
Speaker 3: Age, we'd go running and she'd go out with my
Speaker 3: son and they would stop at one of the said
Speaker 3: there were places that wouldn't even sell my daughter alcohol
Speaker 3: because my son was with her and so, and that
Speaker 3: was just at random. So that that's an interesting twist.
Speaker 1: And that's just somebody doing their job. That's exactly what
Speaker 1: it is. What I think is wild is those who
Speaker 1: are clearly of age but do get id because of
Speaker 1: people doing their job and they get offended by it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: I mean sometimes you can't win, right if you uh,
Speaker 1: and this was this was long ago, but I went,
Speaker 1: I went to lunch with my mother and I got
Speaker 1: a beer and uh, she got a glass of water
Speaker 1: and and I got carded. She didn't, and she was joking.
Speaker 1: My mom and I have a similar sense of humor.
Speaker 1: I get it from her and she was like, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna card me, And she was clearly joking, but
Speaker 1: you could tell the server felt bad, and you know,
Speaker 1: we let it. She clearly let them know you were joking.
Speaker 1: But you've got people who probably are what, oh, you
Speaker 1: don't think I'm you know, you think I'm You think
Speaker 1: I'm so old that you don't even need to see
Speaker 1: the ID. And then you have people that are in
Speaker 1: their fifties. What do you mean this is ridiculous. It's
Speaker 1: not that ridiculous to have to get out your ID. Also,
Speaker 1: it's people doing their job. You know, they're not they're
Speaker 1: not picking on you. It's probably just trying to cover
Speaker 1: the rear end, which it makes total sense.
Speaker 3: And talk to servers and see what kind of pressure
Speaker 3: they're under. I mean they're the ones under the biggest pressure.
Speaker 3: Absolutely in the front lines, no doubt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you were a bartender, I mean really, the
Speaker 1: whole process of getting a liquor license and knowing who's
Speaker 1: going to be serving alcohol using your license as an employee,
Speaker 1: I mean, you need to know what you have in
Speaker 1: your hands. As far as you know. I don't want
Speaker 1: to say power, but obviously if you're not doing what
Speaker 1: you're supposed to do, it could be a tragic situation.
Speaker 1: That's why it's such a serious issue. So yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: we've got Rory O'Neil coming up here in just a
Speaker 1: few minutes. But first your next update of traffic and
Speaker 1: weathers right now right here on news Radio eight forty
Speaker 1: whas it is five forty six here at news Radio
Speaker 1: a forty whas Kentucky and his Morning News with Nick Coffee,
Speaker 1: and we now are joined by Rory O'Neal of NBC News. Rory,
Speaker 1: the rest, the unrest, i should say, continues, and we
Speaker 1: now have looting that has taken place. What does this
Speaker 1: does this do you expect this to change much as
Speaker 1: far as just how those in California not not those
Speaker 1: who've been sent to help and assist at keeping this,
Speaker 1: I guess as peaceful as possible, But a lot of
Speaker 1: looting has taken place a lot of different stores, and
Speaker 1: you got to wonder if the community there is now
Speaker 1: no longer agreeing with Newsom as far as it being
Speaker 1: controlled at this point.
Speaker 4: Well, they did install the or institute that curfew last
Speaker 4: night and arrested I think since this began, they've arrested
Speaker 4: nearly four hundred people. That number is probably going to
Speaker 4: be higher when it's significantly higher when it's updated this morning.
Speaker 4: So it seems that, yes, there was some looting that
Speaker 4: we know of that's been identified. The police were asking
Speaker 4: people to submit that video. But last night seemed relatively quiet.
Speaker 4: Quiet as we speak right now, considering the early hour
Speaker 4: in California. But police essentially gave people plenty of time
Speaker 4: to stand down because of the curfew that went into
Speaker 4: effect for the overnight hours. Many did not and they
Speaker 4: were taken into custody at the scene. Haven't heard reports
Speaker 4: of looting this morning, but I know it has happened
Speaker 4: earlier in the week. Lots of graffiti, lots of damaged
Speaker 4: vehicles as well, so there's certainly plenty of damage. But again,
Speaker 4: this is all happening in a one square mile area
Speaker 4: of Los Angeles, a city that's about five hundred square
Speaker 4: miles in all, so.
Speaker 1: A lot of the attention is understandably on Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: but there are protests going on elsewhere. In fact, we've
Speaker 1: had a couple of different days this week where there
Speaker 1: have been peaceful protests here in Louisville. Are we hearing
Speaker 1: of any other city that's had anything to the level
Speaker 1: of what we've seen in Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: Well, we know that there are these no King's protests
Speaker 4: coming up in advance of that military parade that set
Speaker 4: happened this weekend. But we have seen other demonstrations New York, Chicago, Austin, Texas, Dallas.
Speaker 4: Actually in Texas, the governor already dispatched the National Guard
Speaker 4: to make sure things don't happen like that have been
Speaker 4: happening in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver. Also protests in Atlanta, Philly, Milwaukee, Seattle, Boston,
Speaker 4: of course in Washington. So yeah, this is primarily i
Speaker 4: would say in blue states or at least blue cities
Speaker 4: in red states, thinking of Texas there, but so far
Speaker 4: none of the damage that we've seen on the scale
Speaker 4: of what's been happening in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: The Pentagon predicts that the troops being deployed to LA
Speaker 1: will cost one hundred and thirty four million dollars. What
Speaker 1: has been the reaction in regards to just what it's
Speaker 1: going to cost to have to have these resources in place? Yeah.
Speaker 4: Secretary Hegseth was testifying on Capitol Hill about his budget yesterday.
Speaker 4: Didn't have a whole lot of specifics and was still
Speaker 4: speaking in vague numbers because they don't really have their
Speaker 4: budget blueprint done just yet. But yeah, look, Democrats are
Speaker 4: going to make a lot of that figure that it's
Speaker 4: at least one hundred and thirty. You know, the talking
Speaker 4: points will suddenly have it up to one hundred and fifty,
Speaker 4: and I'm sure they'll be talking about the two hundred
Speaker 4: million dollar cost in a matter of days, right, But
Speaker 4: I think that it's going to be a key talking
Speaker 4: point for Democrats, added into the forty to fifty million
Speaker 4: dollar cost of Saturday's parade that honors the two hundred
Speaker 4: and fiftieth birthday of the US military and President Trump's birthday. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the Dems are getting a few talking points this week
Speaker 4: to counter what has been an awful scene in that
Speaker 4: small area of Los Angeles with American flags set on fire,
Speaker 4: Mexican flags flying, and cars burning in the streets.
Speaker 1: Rory and Neal of NBC News is our guest, joining
Speaker 1: us on news Radio eight forty whas President Trump's reps
Speaker 1: are trying to negotiate a trade deal with China and
Speaker 1: a nuclear deal with Iran. Do we know how those
Speaker 1: talks are going at this point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, some positive news on the China front. They wrapped
Speaker 4: up two days of talks in London yesterday and both
Speaker 4: sides apparently walking away with deals they're going to present
Speaker 4: to their respective leaders. So it seems that the US
Speaker 4: and China have a consensus on trade. Sort of goes
Speaker 4: back from that heated rhetoric we got last week. You're
Speaker 4: violating in it, No, you are.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 4: It surrounds those rare earth metals, minerals and the exports
Speaker 4: of high tech to China. On the iranium front, not
Speaker 4: so optimistic. It looks like the IAEA is trying to
Speaker 4: take action against Iran for secretly continuing operations to enrich uranium,
Speaker 4: and it doesn't look like Iran is going to take
Speaker 4: this deal that the President Trump has offered on when
Speaker 4: it comes to nuclear development. Good news on China, not
Speaker 4: so great on the iranium front.
Speaker 1: Rory, as always, thank you at the time. Enjoyed the
Speaker 1: conversation and enjoy the rest of your day, my friend.
Speaker 4: Thanks Nick, Take care all right.
Speaker 1: That is Rory O'Neil at NBC News. The Politico post
Speaker 1: on x that had the story. The link about the
Speaker 1: cost one hundred and thirty four million is with the
Speaker 1: pending on predicts as far as the cost to have
Speaker 1: the troops deployed to LA. Not surprising to see a
Speaker 1: quick response from Gaviner Newsom mentioning that the one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty four million that should be going to LA's
Speaker 1: fire recovery, at least in his mind, and calling it
Speaker 1: shameful to use that much, that much money, this much
Speaker 1: resources for something that he believes they could control on
Speaker 1: their own. Again, that's his belief, and clearly President Trump
Speaker 1: doesn't agree. All Right, we've got another update of news
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