Speaker 1: Good morning, Kentucky and and welcome in. It is Kentucky
Speaker 1: and it's Morning News with Nick Coffee on news radio
Speaker 1: eight forty WHAS five five here on a Thursday, June
Speaker 1: the twelfth.
Speaker 2: The full crew is assembled.
Speaker 1: We've got Scott Fitzgerald, the one and only mister John Alden,
Speaker 1: and John Shannon, who will have your first news update
Speaker 1: coming up around five thirty. How many days have I
Speaker 1: been in the new role here? This makes I believe
Speaker 1: the ninth show if I can count, it is I
Speaker 1: can count. It's early in the morning star I can't count.
Speaker 1: So one of the many differences in this than what
Speaker 1: I did for nearly a decade on seven ninety doing
Speaker 1: sports is interaction and engagement, which I get it. That's
Speaker 1: really not what this is to the extent that what
Speaker 1: it is on sports talk. But we do have something
Speaker 1: I need to start really pushing, which is a way
Speaker 1: to mix in some interaction from listeners that listen to
Speaker 1: us via the iHeartRadio app, which I'll give you another
Speaker 1: plug here. You can listen to us anytime anywhere on
Speaker 1: the ahet Radio app. Also listen live at WHAS dot com.
Speaker 1: But we have within the Aheart Radio app a feature
Speaker 1: called the talkback feature. So if you listen on the
Speaker 1: app and you you know, you pull it up and
Speaker 1: you see the station with that beautiful logo eight forty whas,
Speaker 1: you'll see a microphone, and on that microphone, if you
Speaker 1: click the microphone, it'll then prompt you to record something.
Speaker 1: I think you have up to thirty seconds to send
Speaker 1: something in and when you do that, it goes directly
Speaker 1: to us here within this portal, this talkback portal. I
Speaker 1: guess that's the best way to describe it. And then
Speaker 1: we can we can listen to feedback. And I don't
Speaker 1: mean necessarily feedback on the show, which again what I
Speaker 1: used to say on seven ninety questions, complaints, compliments, insults,
Speaker 1: whatever you have, feel free to send them our way.
Speaker 1: But I know that's not necessarily what this is to
Speaker 1: the same to the same level. But if we're talking
Speaker 1: about something, which again we've got four hours with you,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things to come up. You have
Speaker 1: some thoughts, you want to share your perspective, there's always
Speaker 1: a chance, you know, we can mix in that, and
Speaker 1: we're going to try to do that here and there.
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly to the level of of you
Speaker 1: know how often you'll hear feedback from from you know,
Speaker 1: listeners that want to share thoughts on what's going on.
Speaker 1: But it is an option, and I feel like that's
Speaker 1: the best way we can include some engagement within the
Speaker 1: show that that really hasn't been there.
Speaker 2: Well, I shouldn't say that. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe there has been some engagement. I know, Scott, you've
Speaker 1: got a lot of people who've been loyal listeners of you,
Speaker 1: to you and all sort of just this station for
Speaker 1: a long long time. That that will give you feedback
Speaker 1: in different ways on social media, and I hope they
Speaker 1: still do that.
Speaker 2: I have the same thing on my end.
Speaker 1: As far as folks who reach out via Facebook, X Slash, Twitter,
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. But this is this is the
Speaker 1: This is an easy way for us to just, you know,
Speaker 1: you record something. It comes to us. We are told
Speaker 1: we have to listen to it before we have play it,
Speaker 1: which you do. I feel like it's a no brainer.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's something you would just assume that.
Speaker 2: You have to do. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there have been some that maybe listened to
Speaker 1: the first half of the thirty second clip and then
Speaker 1: realized they didn't get to the end of it, and
Speaker 1: you know what, they had to hit the dump button
Speaker 1: and all that.
Speaker 2: What it replaces is we used to have folks. When
Speaker 2: I first started this gig long long ago, I think
Speaker 2: it was with Bob's Cohler. They you could tell folks
Speaker 2: would be up drinking all night and we get the
Speaker 2: weirdest calls. Dude. And now when I saw that and
Speaker 2: I started using that, I go back and listen to
Speaker 2: some of this. You can tell people that clearly. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's the term drunk dialing. We had drunk texting, drunk dialing,
Speaker 2: and there's people that are all night and one guy
Speaker 2: used to call me, oh, liquid courage, Yeah exactly. One
Speaker 2: guy used to call me every morning, like right around
Speaker 2: five to ten, and my man had been hitting a bottle.
Speaker 3: Clearly.
Speaker 1: Well, at this time, there was no way to interact
Speaker 1: with with any type of radio other than picking up
Speaker 1: the phone and hoping that somebody answers it. Now it's
Speaker 1: an insanely different world. And yeah, you mentioned drunk dialing.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna miss my well, I almost lied.
Speaker 1: I don't want to lie. I'll miss it to an extent.
Speaker 1: I'm also going to enjoy the weekends where I can
Speaker 1: spend time with my family. But when I would do
Speaker 1: postgame shows for Louisville football and basketball, especially football if
Speaker 1: it was a I mean, football is a four hour
Speaker 1: game if it's at four hour event, So it wouldn't
Speaker 1: be a shocker that maybe seventy five percent of the
Speaker 1: callers on some nights on a Friday, especially a Friday,
Speaker 1: but sometimes even a Saturday, that they you could tell
Speaker 1: they were a little sauced as we as we would
Speaker 1: get the postgame show started, and that that always left
Speaker 1: the door open for us to go in a lot
Speaker 1: of different directions and it made it kind of fun.
Speaker 2: But yeah, but that talk back feature you're talking about
Speaker 2: is very cool, Nick in a lot of ways because
Speaker 2: if you're a lot of people are out and about driving,
Speaker 2: and I mentioned you off the year where we get
Speaker 2: real busys when we have storm damage or we have
Speaker 2: a bad like sixty five gets shut down and folks
Speaker 2: can access through.
Speaker 1: That, Yeah, I know they could be a resource for us,
Speaker 1: and this is the easiest, most convenient way for that
Speaker 1: to happen. So again, questions, compliance, compliments, insults. Again, We're
Speaker 1: not afraid of compliments. Although trust me, we're not going
Speaker 1: to just I'm winking at Scott. We're not just going
Speaker 1: to play the compliments that come in on the show.
Speaker 1: But all right, let's get another update. In fact, it's
Speaker 1: our first update within the show here of traffic and weather.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to Roy O'Neil coming up at five forty five.
Speaker 1: Scott Fitzgerald's got sports coming your way in fifteen minutes,
Speaker 1: and we hope you stick with us. It is Kentucky
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I feel like I'm like it. This
Speaker 2: is like the last song after the Friday night dance
Speaker 2: at the basketball game, and you're scrambling trying to find
Speaker 2: somebody to awkwardly dance with.
Speaker 1: I love how within milliseconds. Maybe there's certain songs that
Speaker 1: is as soon as Scott hears yeah enough to know
Speaker 1: what the song is, and it usually doesn't take long.
Speaker 2: You go to a place. Oh, Gally, John is an
Speaker 2: ace with the music I got you you.
Speaker 4: You have an ear for this more than I've ever
Speaker 4: at least with the people we have here at our
Speaker 4: station and pick up on play.
Speaker 1: Yet, before he realized what song it was, I knew
Speaker 1: what it was, dude, I mean he was he was
Speaker 1: reacting before we had Mike Song because he just this
Speaker 1: is this is.
Speaker 2: His shraumaty No, I was traumatized in high school by this.
Speaker 2: I was the guy looking for somebody to dance with.
Speaker 2: Nobody dances anymore, right, did they still have school dances?
Speaker 1: Somebody? Right?
Speaker 2: I don't think we sound like dinosaurs.
Speaker 1: They have.
Speaker 2: They gotta have some kind of dance, right like that Prom?
Speaker 2: Well yeah, but Prom's not even prom anymore. The guys
Speaker 2: go over here, the girls go over here, and then
Speaker 2: nobody talks to each other until the end of the night.
Speaker 1: If I was a fly on the wall at a
Speaker 1: let's say, a football homecoming dance, if those still exists,
Speaker 1: I would just imagine it's everybody on their phones. It's
Speaker 1: pretty much abody, just like you know, sending snapchats to
Speaker 1: each other while in the gymnasium together just twenty feet apart.
Speaker 2: Like I can see that. What did we spend on myself?
Speaker 1: We spent man, I'm getting old. I'm just I'm criticizing
Speaker 1: the younger generation. Back in my day, we we actually
Speaker 1: we didn't dance either. I think my generation might have
Speaker 1: killed the dancing, Scott, because we just hovered around, and
Speaker 1: when we did dance, it was more of like a
Speaker 1: a hug with enough distance because the teachers were going
Speaker 1: to make sure we weren't getting too close to each other.
Speaker 1: And then we would just kind of awkwardly, very slowly
Speaker 1: sway and.
Speaker 2: Then that was it. One you had one of you
Speaker 2: had nasty breath, so you were trying to I was
Speaker 2: it was too much cologne? That was really?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: What was your go to?
Speaker 3: John?
Speaker 2: Do you remember?
Speaker 4: I don't remember what the brand was. It might have
Speaker 4: been just like an air apostle or something.
Speaker 2: All right, that works.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: I don't do clone anymore though, because of that. Really,
Speaker 2: so don't do a period.
Speaker 1: So you really So this was a real experience, Okay,
Speaker 1: So it wasn't like you just Yeah, I was the
Speaker 1: guy with too much clone like you were told you
Speaker 1: were the guy with too.
Speaker 2: Much and in front of man, did you wear it?
Speaker 3: Nick?
Speaker 2: I didn't. Yeah.
Speaker 1: In fact, I would wear cologne, believe it or not.
Speaker 1: You guys, Scott, you may remember this. John, you have
Speaker 1: to be too young. Michael Jordan had a cologne. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure if it smelt like sewage or
Speaker 1: if it smelled great, but it was Michael Jordan's cologne.
Speaker 1: So we wore it and I don't remember if it again,
Speaker 1: I don't remember if it smelled great, but if it
Speaker 1: was the I mean, Jordan was Jordan in the nineties,
Speaker 1: that just if you know, you know, But I didn't
Speaker 1: realize this, you know, before five twenty am. We're we're
Speaker 1: going back in time and revisiting opening up some old
Speaker 1: wounds with Scott being left alone on the dance floor
Speaker 1: and John being the guy with too much cologne.
Speaker 2: Do you know bon Jovi was gonna take us in cologne.
Speaker 2: Axe kind of replaced cologne, and now Axe is out
Speaker 2: the door. Old spices back in, dude, really to my son,
Speaker 2: almost like body washed.
Speaker 1: They I used old spice deodorant, and I'm sure they've
Speaker 1: got all the different type of fragrance men's products, but
Speaker 1: old spice is solid.
Speaker 2: That used to be. Yeah, I see, I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 2: to degree. Okay, I got to go with degree. But
Speaker 2: you guys were talking about cologne and now, just for
Speaker 2: old times sake, it's still in the stores. I smelled
Speaker 2: it when I was and it brought back so many flashbacks.
Speaker 2: It was poloed your car and gray flannel. Never heard
Speaker 2: of them, never heard of it, Vanetio.
Speaker 1: Though it sounds like we've got we've got different uh,
Speaker 1: different generations. Yeah, different generations represented within within Kentucky. And
Speaker 1: it's morning news, so good stuff. And I you know,
Speaker 1: I hope eventually you guys can move move past being
Speaker 1: the too much cologne guy and Scott, I hope you
Speaker 1: can move the trump. I mean that's now, it's now
Speaker 1: it makes sense why you really had a tough time
Speaker 1: just being able to control what this song does to you.
Speaker 1: And it's because it takes you back to that moment
Speaker 1: where you were on the dance floor nowadays though, I
Speaker 1: mean too he's he's he's spoken for us and married
Speaker 1: man ladies. But if he at the dance floor now,
Speaker 1: you'd have some takers.
Speaker 2: I believe that you've lost half yourself. But according to
Speaker 2: my wife, I look a little, a little what they
Speaker 2: not emaciated? I can't remember. My wife actually told me
Speaker 2: one day, look alone, raggedy.
Speaker 1: So you've lost so much weight. You're getting insults now
Speaker 1: from my wife. Wow, maybe it's a sun of endearment.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the encouragement. I appreciate that yeah, yea.
Speaker 1: So she's noticing you're losing weight. Yeah, good stuff. All right,
Speaker 1: We've got sports coming your way here in about five minutes.
Speaker 1: We've got another update of traffic and weather coming up
Speaker 1: right now. Ten minutes away, we will have our first
Speaker 1: news update with John Shannon. It is Kentucky This Morning
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Speaker 2: Thank you, John.
Speaker 1: It is five point thirty five here Kentucky This Morning
Speaker 1: News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: Coming up in ten minutes, we will chat with Rory
Speaker 1: O'Neill and we'll continue to discuss what we've discussed all
Speaker 1: week with Rory, and that is the ice demonstrations that
Speaker 1: are going on. We'll get an update on how things
Speaker 1: are going in Los Angeles, but also it's starting to
Speaker 1: become somewhat of us I'd say, a gradual build to
Speaker 1: where other cities are are also having these these protests,
Speaker 1: and I don't think anything has been quite as is.
Speaker 2: What's the best word to use here.
Speaker 1: Clearly Los Angeles one of the biggest cities in the world,
Speaker 1: certainly in our country here, and to have curfew for
Speaker 1: two straight nights, I mean that, lets you know, sort
Speaker 1: of how things are going there. I don't think we've
Speaker 1: got to that point just yet. But again, we'll get
Speaker 1: the latest from Rory coming up here shortly. Also we
Speaker 1: will also see Yeah, there's another story I wanted to
Speaker 1: touch on with Rory, and that is a new national
Speaker 1: poll that takes a look at basically everything from President
Speaker 1: Trump to vaccines and other things to just I guess,
Speaker 1: a new national poll that gives us a feel as
Speaker 1: far as the temperature with with President Trump as he's
Speaker 1: back in office for the second time. Still clearly very
Speaker 1: early in that tenure. All right, So JCPS is proposing
Speaker 1: new start times for school this upcoming this upcoming school
Speaker 1: year twenty twenty five, twenty six. Right now, they're exploring
Speaker 1: a couple of different options. It sounds like, and I
Speaker 1: guess I'll start with this, fellas, do you all remember
Speaker 1: what time you started school at different levels of school?
Speaker 2: Seven forty five?
Speaker 3: I think?
Speaker 2: So, did you go to Catholic school growing up? No?
Speaker 2: I was public school, same here, public school. We're all
Speaker 2: public school.
Speaker 4: I think I was in three different school systems though
Speaker 4: elementary I was in Indiana, middle school, I was in
Speaker 4: the Catholic school system here in Kentucky and then high
Speaker 4: school I was in Bullet County. You got around I know,
Speaker 4: I remember my start time in high school was seven ten, Okay,
Speaker 4: so wow, I would assume that is around the time
Speaker 4: that I started high school, but I really don't remember.
Speaker 4: I know that we got out of school around like
Speaker 4: two twenty five. I think that's whenever school let out.
Speaker 4: Does that sound right, John, we got out of too ten?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we got out a little bit later.
Speaker 1: But of course I'm a lot older than John is.
Speaker 1: But I also went to TU Bullet County Public School.
Speaker 1: So again I don't When I look at these proposed
Speaker 1: start times, I don't know if it's a big difference
Speaker 1: from what I was used to, and I guess, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's see. So right now, the the option currently, one
Speaker 1: of the options they're looking at is to shift high
Speaker 1: schools and Ramsey Middle School to later start times, as
Speaker 1: research shows that later starts can improve teen sleep, behavior
Speaker 1: and grades. But it would require more bus drivers, and
Speaker 1: obviously that's an issue they've had for a while now,
Speaker 1: is having enough bus drivers. So if it does help
Speaker 1: with those specific things, then I'd say it's worth looking into.
Speaker 1: Right improving teen sleep, behavior grades. Those are things very important.
Speaker 1: I think everybody involved, parents, students, teachers, administrators would all
Speaker 1: agree that, you know, if you've got better behavior and
Speaker 1: better grades, then that's what you want. But a change
Speaker 1: in schedule could really just disrupt the routine for a
Speaker 1: lot of people.
Speaker 2: A high school kid, though, would you ever appreciated the
Speaker 2: later start. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I remember being I was not my high school years
Speaker 1: as far as the mornings. I mean, I remember just
Speaker 1: being a zombie like kind of sleep walking. Once I
Speaker 1: was old enough to start driving, it was a little
Speaker 1: bit different, but I feel like I was just on
Speaker 1: I wasn't really awake when I got to school sometimes.
Speaker 1: I mean I rode the bus briefly, and I remember
Speaker 1: falling asleep on the bus in the mornings. And then
Speaker 1: other times I would just be kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: out of it. So maybe I would have enjoyed a
Speaker 1: little bit more sleep. But I love getting out of
Speaker 1: school sorely too, Like I wouldn't trade that for anything.
Speaker 1: And as the older you go in school, the earlier
Speaker 1: you start, but of course the later or the earlier
Speaker 1: that you get out and that was that was always
Speaker 1: worth it.
Speaker 2: Do you remember what time it was when you all
Speaker 2: let out of school every day when.
Speaker 3: We were three thirty.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, because I think that's what it more so
Speaker 2: used to be.
Speaker 1: But I could be wrong, not maybe not everywhere, but
Speaker 1: I think as as the years have passed, at least
Speaker 1: from what I can tell, it's only gotten to where
Speaker 1: at the high school level, it seems like it's only
Speaker 1: gotten to where you start earlier and you get out earlier.
Speaker 2: Well, because my daughter is a teacher, and what I
Speaker 2: was telling him was is we had two fifteen minute
Speaker 2: recess periods, one in the morning, one in the afternoon,
Speaker 2: and then after we ate lunch, they let us go
Speaker 2: out and we had a nice playground when they let
Speaker 2: us go outside for like a half hour forty five minutes,
Speaker 2: and it was a beautiful thing, especially when it gets
Speaker 2: really cold up in Michigan, because you come in and
Speaker 2: you're not jumping around the classroom because you're too don
Speaker 2: and tired to be doing it. And I think I
Speaker 2: shared that with my daughter, and she's like, I would
Speaker 2: love to have a half hour forty five minutes at
Speaker 2: lunchtime just to put myself sure together. And I guess
Speaker 2: they don't do it anymore, and that's why we got
Speaker 2: out sold.
Speaker 1: And one thing you got to keep in mind, you've
Speaker 1: got to have a level of staggering just because bus
Speaker 1: drivers I would assume you're not just I mean you,
Speaker 1: you know, especially when you've got such a shortage of
Speaker 1: bus drivers. The option that I mentioned where they start
Speaker 1: high schools in Ramsey Middle School earlier, the challenges would
Speaker 1: be they would need for at least seven hundred and
Speaker 1: fifteen bus drivers, and the district currently has six hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty, So you need to add roughly one hundred
Speaker 1: bus drivers, which to me sounds like a tough task
Speaker 1: to add that many. But maybe I'm wrong, But yeah,
Speaker 1: I know for a lot of parents. I'm a parent myself.
Speaker 1: When you think of a change like this, first thing
Speaker 1: that comes to mind for me is, all right, does
Speaker 1: this impact my ability to get them to school or
Speaker 1: get somebody to get them to school to where I
Speaker 1: can still get to work on time. You're you know,
Speaker 1: you're always you're always balancing it. Yeah, all right, we'll
Speaker 1: talk to Rory O'Neil coming up here in just four minutes.
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Speaker 1: and his Morning News with Nick Coffee on News Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas it's time to welcome in our friend
Speaker 1: Rory O'Neal of NBC News.
Speaker 3: Rory.
Speaker 1: A second straight night where Los Angeles had a curfew,
Speaker 1: it seems as if that's that's helping the situation at
Speaker 1: this point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that does seem to be doing the trick in
Speaker 3: order for a police to maintain law and order there
Speaker 3: in downtown Los Angeles. Again, that curfew applies to just
Speaker 3: that one small area about one square mile in the
Speaker 3: downtown area near those federal buildings which have been the
Speaker 3: scene of these protests and guess they started last Friday
Speaker 3: night and have been growing sin But now with a
Speaker 3: strong police presence, obviously the National Guard that we've talked
Speaker 3: about before, and the US Marines who are out protecting
Speaker 3: ICE agents in the field, it seems like things maybe
Speaker 3: getting under better control in LA but perhaps unraveling in
Speaker 3: other cities across the country.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that in just a moment. But when
Speaker 1: it comes to a curfew, I could be wrong, but
Speaker 1: I imagine that doesn't happen that often in a city
Speaker 1: like Los Angeles. There's a lot of folks that they
Speaker 1: don't you know, I'm sure they're aware of what's going on,
Speaker 1: but it really hits them when it impacts them in
Speaker 1: sort of their their day to day lives, and a
Speaker 1: curfew can certainly do that. Do we know sort of
Speaker 1: what the noise has been in Los Angeles as far
Speaker 1: as just how much it's inconvenienced the residence and one
Speaker 1: of the biggest cities in the world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think again, the area is so small
Speaker 3: that I think they said it affects something like one
Speaker 3: hundred thousand residents directly, which granted is an awful lot
Speaker 3: of people. Sure it's of what fourteen million or something,
Speaker 3: so it's and again out of five hundred square miles,
Speaker 3: it's one square mile that has this curfew in effect.
Speaker 3: But I think the bigger concern of that part of
Speaker 3: the city is to protect the one on one freeway, which,
Speaker 3: as we've seen in the video, runs right through there.
Speaker 3: You know, when there are demonstrations in La this is
Speaker 3: a frequent spot where it happens, and this has been
Speaker 3: a tactic that's been in growing popularity of marchers just
Speaker 3: disrupting traffic, and that's an easy spot to do it,
Speaker 3: which is why now there's been such a strong presence
Speaker 3: to make sure the freeway can stay open for obvious reasons.
Speaker 1: Roo and Neil VC News is our guest joining us
Speaker 1: here on news Radio eight forty. Whas you mentioned the
Speaker 1: other cities, obviously Seattle and Spokane, there's been a lot
Speaker 1: of coverage about the protest going on there Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: I know there was a raid in Omaha yesterday that
Speaker 1: led to employees of a meat packing facility blocking ice
Speaker 1: cars as they were trying to leave after one of
Speaker 1: the raids took place.
Speaker 2: Is it correct to.
Speaker 1: Say that right now a lot of cities are doing
Speaker 1: whatever they can to put some things in place to
Speaker 1: prevent it gets to a level of what we've seen
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. I know, again you're probably seeing this
Speaker 1: in a lot of the bigger cities, but it hasn't
Speaker 1: gotten to anything close to what we've seen in LA
Speaker 1: and I assume that's what they're trying to keep from happening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there was a dumpster fire in one city,
Speaker 3: so a relatively small thing. What a half dozen arrests
Speaker 3: in Tucson as well. You mentioned Omaha where there was
Speaker 3: that raid by ice of the meat processing facility and
Speaker 3: some sympathetic protests after that as well. So we're seeing
Speaker 3: this in spots, and again to your point, nothing is widespread.
Speaker 3: New York did have a couple hundred arrests earlier this
Speaker 3: week at protests that were happening there, but that's a
Speaker 3: day that ends in a why for New York, right,
Speaker 3: So there's always something going on there, And the concern
Speaker 3: is that we're going to see more of these events
Speaker 3: happening as we get closer to Saturday's military parade, which
Speaker 3: coincides with President Trump's birthday. So they're having these no
Speaker 3: Kings events at about eighteen hundred places all across the country.
Speaker 3: So I think these are all sort of overlapping. If
Speaker 3: it's a ven diagram, the two circles are almost one,
Speaker 3: I think of what's going on here.
Speaker 1: We'll certainly talk about that tomorrow. As far as the
Speaker 1: big Saturday that, of course a lot of cities are
Speaker 1: preparing for, as you mentioned. But one thing I wanted
Speaker 1: to get to real quickly here is the new National
Speaker 1: poll that takes a look at pretty much everything from
Speaker 1: President Trump, and it gives us, I guess a little
Speaker 1: bit of a look at the temperature of how the
Speaker 1: nation feels with a lot of things early on here
Speaker 1: in President Trump's second tenure. What do we know about
Speaker 1: just the current temperature that Americans have for the for
Speaker 1: the president right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Nick, you and I are going to bring up
Speaker 3: these Quinnipiac polls a lot. They come out just about
Speaker 3: once a month, and don't look at just what happens
Speaker 3: one day, look at the trend, because that's where you
Speaker 3: can see attitudes change. Sure, specifically on President Trump, this
Speaker 3: Quinnipiac pole finds that thirty eight percent of voters approve
Speaker 3: of the way Donald Trump is doing the job, fifty
Speaker 3: four percent disapprove. That's essentially flat from where was with
Speaker 3: the poll that was conducted back in April. A little
Speaker 3: bit worse, but sort of within the margin of error.
Speaker 3: On the One Big Beautiful Bill, fifty three percent oppose
Speaker 3: the legislation, twenty seven percent support, but there's a big
Speaker 3: twenty percent who have no opinion, meaning they don't know
Speaker 3: what it's about and what's in it or why it's beautiful.
Speaker 3: And more specifically, on Medicaid, that's nearly half of voters
Speaker 3: forty seven percent think federal funding for Medicaid should actually
Speaker 3: go up, forty percent say should stay the same. Only
Speaker 3: ten percent think federal funding for Medicaid should go down.
Speaker 3: And it's those funding cuts for Medicaid that are paying
Speaker 3: for a lot of the big beautiful bills, So that
Speaker 3: could be a disconnect there.
Speaker 2: Rory, thank you as always for the time. Enjoyed the conversation.
Speaker 2: Have a great day. We'll talk soon, my friend.
Speaker 3: Thanks Nick.
Speaker 2: All right, that's Rory and Neil of the NBC News.
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