Speaker 1: Night side with Dan Ray on WBS Constance new video.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Al.
Speaker 2: It is a Friday night, but coming up a little
Speaker 2: bit after nine o'clock and we're going to get to politics.
Speaker 2: There's just no way to avoid it tonight. As I
Speaker 2: think all of you know, the Democratic National Convention is
Speaker 2: now in the books. That closed up last night with
Speaker 2: Vice President Harris Kamala Harris delivering her acceptance speech. And
Speaker 2: then about the middle of the week some rumors started
Speaker 2: to circulate. There was an interview given by a member
Speaker 2: of the RFK team very high up his vice presidential
Speaker 2: running mate, to a podcast in which it was suggested
Speaker 2: that perhaps RFK was about to lead the race. And
Speaker 2: then following on fairly quickly was what surprised a lot
Speaker 2: of people, including me, that not only would he leave
Speaker 2: the race, suspend his campaign as he said today, but
Speaker 2: but he'll also endorse Donald Trump. And wouldn't you know,
Speaker 2: That's what happened this afternoon. So in a summer in
Speaker 2: which we've had one debate, one debate between Joe Biden
Speaker 2: and Donald Trump that was in June, and we had
Speaker 2: an assassination attempt on July thirteenth, and shortly thereafter, I
Speaker 2: believe was July twenty first, Joe Biden was forced to
Speaker 2: exit the race, and then in short order the Democratic
Speaker 2: Party settled upon Vice President Harris, as I assumed they
Speaker 2: would have, she being in effected next in line. Donald
Speaker 2: Trump had a pretty good Republican convention, but the Democrats
Speaker 2: and full or Vice President Harris, I thought, had a
Speaker 2: fabulous convention this week, And on the heels of that, today,
Speaker 2: Robert F. Kennedy Junior decides to suspend his third party effort,
Speaker 2: ian Ian into Astnald Trump. So if this has happened today,
Speaker 2: maybe you haven't had a chance to listen to some
Speaker 2: of this, But this was OURFK today. Let's start off
Speaker 2: with cut number twenty two. Please Rob cut twenty two.
Speaker 4: In a system of nonpartisan courts and election boards, everything
Speaker 4: would be different. After all, the polls consistently showed me
Speaker 4: beating each of the other candidates, both in favorability and
Speaker 4: also in head to head matchups. But I'm sorry to
Speaker 4: say that while democracy may still be alive at the grassroots,
Speaker 4: it has become a little more than a slogan for
Speaker 4: our political institutions, for our media, and for our government,
Speaker 4: and most sadly at all for me. The Democratic Party.
Speaker 2: Now, this is obviously the son of Robert F. Kennedy,
Speaker 2: assassinated in nineteen sixty eight, the nephew of President John F. Kennedy.
Speaker 2: Most of his family members did not support his third
Speaker 2: party candidacy. Let's get that out there first. He does
Speaker 2: have some interesting and intriguing issues and questions, but he
Speaker 2: does have a following, and if he's able to convince
Speaker 2: those followers to vote for Donald Trump, it's going to
Speaker 2: be a boost for the Trump campaign, whatever the result. So,
Speaker 2: for example, he seems to identify with Trump, not so
Speaker 2: much of the issues, but on the treatment that he
Speaker 2: and former President Trump have received and in their minds
Speaker 2: at the hands of the Democratic establishment is twenty three.
Speaker 4: Rob In the name of saving democracy, the Democratic Party
Speaker 4: set itself to dismantling it Lacking confidence in its candidate,
Speaker 4: that its candidate could win in a fair election at
Speaker 4: the voting booth, the d n C wage continual legal
Speaker 4: warfare against both President Trump and myself. Each time that
Speaker 4: our volunteers turned in those towering boxes of signatures needed
Speaker 4: to get on the ballot. The d n C d
Speaker 4: agniscent to court state after state, attempting to erase their
Speaker 4: work and to subvert the will of the voters who
Speaker 4: had signed those petitions.
Speaker 2: In this speech that R. F. Kate Junior made today,
Speaker 2: he pointed out some things that I was unaware of
Speaker 2: and that I think were interesting. And the the more
Speaker 2: I listened to him, the more I realized that apparently
Speaker 2: he did approach the Harris campaign about perhaps doing something
Speaker 2: with them, but was rebuffed, and that I'm sure didn't
Speaker 2: sit well within He goes after the media a lot,
Speaker 2: and well, you know, he basically laid out the reasons
Speaker 2: why he supports now supports Donald Trump. This has cut
Speaker 2: twenty nine. We're ub twenty nine.
Speaker 4: Three great causes drove me to answer this race in
Speaker 4: the first place, primarily, and these are the principal causes
Speaker 4: that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Democratic Party and
Speaker 4: run as an independent and now to throw my support
Speaker 4: a President Trump. The causes were free speech, a war
Speaker 4: in Ukraine, and the war on our children.
Speaker 2: Again, he seems to identify with with Donald Trump. And
Speaker 2: he went after Joe Biden today. Now this is a
Speaker 2: longer bite, but I think it's very instructive. Remember the
Speaker 2: Biden administration refused to give RFK junior Secret Service protection
Speaker 2: until there was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump. And
Speaker 2: insrestingly enough, I guess today there have been five Secret
Speaker 2: Service agents, maybe some in the mid level of a
Speaker 2: chain of command, who have been basically put on leave.
Speaker 2: Who knows where this investigation will go, but clearly, clearly
Speaker 2: the Democratic National Committee made a decision, and that was
Speaker 2: that they wanted to neuter politically RFK. And it was
Speaker 2: not only the Biden administration, but specifically it was Mayorcus,
Speaker 2: the head of Homeland Security, who would made the final
Speaker 2: decision on Secret Service protection. And I said back in
Speaker 2: the spring that I thought, actually before that, in a
Speaker 2: late winter, I thought it was vile and dangerous and
Speaker 2: pernicious that they would withhold secret Service protection from RFK.
Speaker 2: And the reason I think in retrospect that they did
Speaker 2: it was they did not want they wanted him to
Speaker 2: spend whatever money he was going to generate on his
Speaker 2: own security, which he had to. I mean, clearly, we
Speaker 2: know that there's a lot of unhinged people out there.
Speaker 2: So this was one of his strongest statements going after
Speaker 2: Joe Biden for having marked Vladimir Putin. This is twenty seven, a.
Speaker 4: Rob President Biden marked Vladimir Putin's eighty eight percent landslide
Speaker 4: in the Russian elections, observing that Putin and his party
Speaker 4: controlled the Russian press and that Putin prevented his serious
Speaker 4: opponents from appearing on the ballot. But a year in America,
Speaker 4: the DNC also prevented opponents from appearing on the ballot,
Speaker 4: and our television networks exposed themselves as Democratic Party organs
Speaker 4: over the course of more than a year in a
Speaker 4: campaign where my poll numbers reached at times in the
Speaker 4: high twenties, The DNC allied mainstream media networks maintained a
Speaker 4: near perfect embargo on interviews with me. During his ten
Speaker 4: month presidential campaign in nineteen ninety two, Rosborow gave thirty
Speaker 4: four interviews on mainstream networks. In contrast, during the sixteen
Speaker 4: months since I declared, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, NCNN combined
Speaker 4: gave only two live interviews from me. Those networks instead
Speaker 4: ran a continuous wug. He hit pieces with inaccurate off
Speaker 4: and file sure it is and defamatory smears some of
Speaker 4: those and networks, and coluded with the DNC to keep
Speaker 4: me off the debate stage.
Speaker 2: Pretty strong stuff from RFK. Now I'm going to open
Speaker 2: up the phone lines, give you a chance to talk
Speaker 2: about this. If this, in any way, shape or form
Speaker 2: influences you, if you were an RFK supporter, and his
Speaker 2: name will still be on the ballot, I believe in
Speaker 2: several states he's asking to take his name off the
Speaker 2: ballot in swing states so it doesn't adversely impact Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: and he's advising his supporters to vote for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: I'd love to know if you're an RFK supporter, if
Speaker 2: you still are or have been, what do you make
Speaker 2: of this? If you are with Vice President Harris, does
Speaker 2: this worry you? And if you're with President Trump. This
Speaker 2: is the first positive news that the Trump campaign has
Speaker 2: had in weeks, I think it's fair to say in weeks,
Speaker 2: coming the day after the Democratic National Convention. So we're
Speaker 2: going to have some fun with this. I want to
Speaker 2: give the whole idea of Nightside is to give you
Speaker 2: an opportunity to pick up the phone and express your opinion.
Speaker 2: As I've said before, Talk Rady was not a spectator sport.
Speaker 2: Feel free to participate. I don't think there's a wrong
Speaker 2: answer with any of this. Tonight. It is basically your opinion.
Speaker 2: So I say, if you're an RFK supporter, what is
Speaker 2: this likely that maybe you'll decide to stay home? Or
Speaker 2: maybe some of you will say, no, I'm going to
Speaker 2: go with Harris, or maybe some of you will say
Speaker 2: Donald Trump. If you are not, how do you think
Speaker 2: this will play. What sort of an impact will it
Speaker 2: have on the election of twenty twenty four. Now, I
Speaker 2: know we're about seventy five days away. I'm not exactly
Speaker 2: sure if it's seventy five or seventy four or whatever.
Speaker 2: And we'll get to the countdown eventually, but it's two
Speaker 2: and a half months. That's what it comes down to.
Speaker 2: So and eventually on November fifth, someone will win. It
Speaker 2: will either be Donald Trump or Vice President Harris. It's
Speaker 2: as simple as that. That's what it comes down to.
Speaker 2: But we have a lot of ground to cover in
Speaker 2: the next two and a half months, and we start tonight.
Speaker 2: The campaigns have finally been joined, the conventions are over,
Speaker 2: the pep rallies that the Republicans had and that the
Speaker 2: Democrats had there in the past, and now it is
Speaker 2: the hard work of going every day every day between
Speaker 2: now and November fifth, and trying to convince every last
Speaker 2: voter that you, meaning you, Donald Trump or Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris are the most qualified to become the forty
Speaker 2: seventh President of the United States. The one thing we
Speaker 2: do know it will not be RFK and the other
Speaker 2: thing we know will not be Joe Biden. So the
Speaker 2: field's been winnowed. Six months, seven two, five, four, ten
Speaker 2: thirty six months, seven nine, three, one, ten thirty will
Speaker 2: get it going. And I expect to go on this
Speaker 2: topic at least until eleven. So this is a night
Speaker 2: for the political junkies. Uh, it should be a good night.
Speaker 2: We'll be back on Nights Side after this. Now back
Speaker 2: to Dan Way live from the Window World Nights Side Studios.
Speaker 1: I'm WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: So I mean that there's so much in play here.
Speaker 2: This is this is calculus. It's not just mathematics. It's
Speaker 2: not addition of subtraction. You could have the Kennedy voters,
Speaker 2: the majority of them break for Harris, the majority of
Speaker 2: them could break for Trump. The majority of them could
Speaker 2: decide they're not interested in participating. You have no idea
Speaker 2: which way this is going to go. And then it
Speaker 2: could be that that it just might be one state.
Speaker 2: One state, a Michigan, Pennsylvania, and a Minnesota, a Wisconsin
Speaker 2: that they I love to cite for you the numbers
Speaker 2: that in Florida in two thousand, if you remember, al
Speaker 2: Gore was declared the winner because he carried Florida, a
Speaker 2: state that I think had about at that time four
Speaker 2: million voters, by five hundred and twenty seven votes, also
Speaker 2: on the ballot that fall, and remember they were recounting
Speaker 2: the hanging chads, and if you remember in December, the
Speaker 2: Supreme Court said nope, stop the counting, and at that
Speaker 2: point it was five hundred. I think the magic number
Speaker 2: was five hundred and twenty seven, by which by which
Speaker 2: Bush barely won. It got over the two seventy. If
Speaker 2: Gore had carried either his home state of Tennessee or
Speaker 2: Bill Clinton's home state of Arkansas, he would have won.
Speaker 2: Or if Ralph Nader had not been on the ballot
Speaker 2: in Florida, Nader had ninety five thousand votes. If those
Speaker 2: votes had a second choice, I think the vast majority
Speaker 2: of them would have gone to Al Gore. Let's go
Speaker 2: to the phone. Let me go to Peggy in South Boston. Peggy,
Speaker 2: you called in first, going to take you first, Go ahead, Peggy.
Speaker 5: I'm happyast but Kennedy going with President Trump. They both
Speaker 5: deserve a lot of happiness and been soe hell, but
Speaker 5: two of them. I think. I worked volunteered for the
Speaker 5: Kennedys for years. Those Kennedy wrote to my number to
Speaker 5: have a social team for Jack when he ran for Congress.
Speaker 5: And in nineteen sixty eight we had Ted Kennedy as
Speaker 5: a tupeaker at Suffolk Downs and that was Notch nineteen
Speaker 5: sixty eight. The next week they notched soon at Saint
Speaker 5: Patrick's state page, him and brav And then in April
Speaker 5: God blisses Martin Luther King got killed and Robert went
Speaker 5: to that seaman and little did he know he was
Speaker 5: going to get killed in June. I'm telling you the
Speaker 5: Kennedy family had been through absolute hell, and I wish
Speaker 5: Roberts unhappiness. And I wanted him to run for vice
Speaker 5: president with Trump because Trump's got my back and I
Speaker 5: and I think nor the crucified from day one.
Speaker 2: I got you down. I got you, I got you down, Peggy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because I told you before, if Joe came became
Speaker 5: our president, we could kiss America goodbye. All right, I
Speaker 5: got my ways for God loves him, the Kennedy guy,
Speaker 5: and God bless Donald Trump and his whole family.
Speaker 2: All right, thangy, have a great weekend. Okay, get out,
Speaker 2: get out. It's beautiful sunshine this weekend. Thanks much. Let
Speaker 2: me go next to Chris in Chelmsford. Chris, you are
Speaker 2: next on nightside.
Speaker 1: Go right ahead, Dan Ray, I was not a kid
Speaker 1: of the supporter. I this is the first time I
Speaker 1: ever heard him run for office. But I hope that
Speaker 1: he gets well over of the lonei ildness that he has.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it's a lonely illness that he
Speaker 1: Oh no.
Speaker 2: He's got He's got some sort of a problem with
Speaker 2: his vocal cords. I'm not familiar with it, but I
Speaker 2: think it is a condition that he's had for some time,
Speaker 2: and it's not a condition that can be corrected. He
Speaker 2: he has a tough time speaking, but he certainly speaks
Speaker 2: well and people can understand him. But that's not something
Speaker 2: that he can go and I understand to get fixed.
Speaker 1: Okay, so okay, But I think he would have been
Speaker 1: he would have been great in the debates. If with him,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure it's a tough one then, but I
Speaker 1: think he would have been the great president.
Speaker 2: Well, he's still a young man. He's only seventy, I
Speaker 2: mean a young man in terms of presidential candidates. He's
Speaker 2: a seventy And were now found that people over the
Speaker 2: age of seventy, well over the age of seventy, in
Speaker 2: the person of Donald Trump and Joe Biden, can run
Speaker 2: for office, and in the person of Joe Biden, can
Speaker 2: serve the office. So you know, I mean, I'm assuming
Speaker 2: that if Donald Trump wins, Joe Robert Kennedy Robert rfk Jr.
Speaker 2: Will have a position of some importance, maybe not a
Speaker 2: cabinet position, or maybe a cabinet position, but certainly a
Speaker 2: relatively high profile position. That's a that's a big decision
Speaker 2: that he made today. And if I'm Donald Trump tonight,
Speaker 2: I'm thinking to myself that that is only going to
Speaker 2: help the Trump campaign. But some of you might see
Speaker 2: it differently. Some of you, you know, particularly if you're
Speaker 2: a Kennedy supporter and you've decided to look at it differently, Well,
Speaker 2: we'll see what people have to think. Who were you?
Speaker 2: Does this impact your vote in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 1: Chris, I know it does that. I voted earlier for
Speaker 1: the primary, for the September primary for karam Harris, and
Speaker 1: it does not affect me.
Speaker 2: Well, waste you couldn't. She's not on the ballot in
Speaker 2: the in the September primary. Okay, So I understand you.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, that's okay. So you're going to vote for
Speaker 2: come November. Uh for Kamala Harris, gotcha? Okay? Fair enough?
Speaker 2: And you were never a Kennedy supporter, per se, So
Speaker 2: you are have have been a Democrat. Were you going
Speaker 2: to vote for Joe Biden before or No?
Speaker 1: I was going to, but I wasn't sure of if
Speaker 1: he was gonna.
Speaker 2: Well, if you had been, if he had been on
Speaker 2: the ballot, if he if he persevered and was on
Speaker 2: the ballot, would have he been your choice?
Speaker 1: He would have been if if he got things done
Speaker 1: right with poopen let him at poopin pootin right. Okay,
Speaker 1: good enough, I'm sorry, that's.
Speaker 2: Okay, Thank you, Chris, talk soon here comes here comes
Speaker 2: the news at the bottom of the r Thanks Chris,
Speaker 2: appreciate you call. Have a great weekend. One line at six, one, seven, two, four, ten, thirty.
Speaker 2: A couple at six one seven. Look, if you're a
Speaker 2: political junkie or if you like politics, I want to
Speaker 2: hear from you tonight. Whatever your point of view on
Speaker 2: this one is. Because this is a major day. It
Speaker 2: may turn out at the end to be much ado
Speaker 2: about nothing, But I don't think so. I think that
Speaker 2: in some form of fashion this will have an impact
Speaker 2: on the race. Though whether or not it will be
Speaker 2: enough to put Donald Trump back in the White House,
Speaker 2: no way to know that, no way to know that.
Speaker 2: But all you need enough Kennedy voters in one important state,
Speaker 2: one of the battleground states to make a difference. And
Speaker 2: if it's a close race, Donald Trump might under those circumstances. Oh,
Speaker 2: Robert F. Kennedy Junior, much more than even he believes
Speaker 2: he owes him. Tonight, we'll be back on Nightside, joined
Speaker 2: the conversation, got some open lines. Let's get it going.
Speaker 2: Coming back after this, You're on the Night Side with
Speaker 2: Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio. Let me go
Speaker 2: to Steve and Cambridge. Steve love to know what you
Speaker 2: think about what has transpired. It's just in the last
Speaker 2: few weeks, but particularly in the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 3: God Steve, Dan wanted to ask you a question. You
Speaker 3: said that the Democratic Convention was fabulous in your opinion, yes,
Speaker 3: that they did a fabulous job.
Speaker 6: I believe I.
Speaker 3: Didn't watch it, but I'm getting the impression to a
Speaker 3: large extent, it was largely fomenting hatred against Donald Trump
Speaker 3: and by extension, his supporters, and also unabashedly accusing him,
Speaker 3: particularly the Obama's speeches of racism, which I don't think
Speaker 3: is really hitting above the above the belt. What was
Speaker 3: your opinion of the would you agree with that. I
Speaker 3: didn't see the convention, but what I'm hearing make it
Speaker 3: sounds like that.
Speaker 2: Well, I think Bobby Kennedy mentioned today that at one
Speaker 2: night in the convention. Well, let me play this. This
Speaker 2: is Robert F. Kennedy responding to your comment, which is
Speaker 2: supports your comment. This is cut number twenty five. Please Rob,
Speaker 2: I'll comment on this after we played cut twenty five.
Speaker 4: In Chicago, the string of Democratic speakers mentioned Donald Trump
Speaker 4: one hundred and forty seven times just on the first day.
Speaker 2: Who needs a policy.
Speaker 4: You have Trump to hate? In contrast, at the RNC convention,
Speaker 4: President Biden was mentioned only twice in four days.
Speaker 2: Last Let me give you one of the soundbites from
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris's speech last night, in which she left nothing
Speaker 2: in the bullpen. She went after Donald Trump for a
Speaker 2: number of things. Cut for a rob.
Speaker 7: Donald Trump tried to throw away your votes. When he failed,
Speaker 7: he sent an armed mob to the United States Capital,
Speaker 7: where they assaulted law enforcement officers. When politicians in his
Speaker 7: own party begged him to call off the mob and
Speaker 7: send help, he did the opposite. He fanned the flames.
Speaker 7: And now for an entirely different set of crimes. He
Speaker 7: was found guilty of fraud by a jury of everyday
Speaker 7: Americans and separately and separately found liable for committing sexual abuse.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say that the Democrats made made their
Speaker 2: case against Donald Trump. But they they they they're very effective.
Speaker 2: It was a very effective speech I thought by Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3: Kamala Harris last night, Right, Well, I think Kennedy. I
Speaker 3: think it's very important what Kennedy is doing because he
Speaker 3: is really pointing out something that goes beyond policy, Like,
Speaker 3: are Harris's policies better than Trump's? No Democrat, you know
Speaker 3: there's something that goes beyond that.
Speaker 2: There wasn't by the way, there wasn't much policy in
Speaker 2: any of the Democratic speeches throughout the week of this
Speaker 2: Certling was again the vice president gave a great acceptance speech,
Speaker 2: But if you were looking for a policy, it wasn't there.
Speaker 2: It was it was very it was it was an
Speaker 2: a plus on style and there was there was very
Speaker 2: little substance. And that's the campaign that the Democrats are
Speaker 2: now running. And in the last few weeks that campaign
Speaker 2: has proved effective.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 3: And I guess here's what I think Robert Kennedy's important
Speaker 3: because he's unafraid. I think he believes what he says.
Speaker 3: He's not someone who goes with the political wins, even
Speaker 3: though he's very much of an odd ball. And one
Speaker 3: thing he points out that I think it's very important,
Speaker 3: and that is the Democratic Party is very willing to
Speaker 3: completely suppress free speech, destroy anybody who disagrees with them.
Speaker 3: And even though they say they're not the party of hatred,
Speaker 3: are filled. They're filled with hatred. And I think Kennedy
Speaker 3: is pointing in this out and if he continues pointing
Speaker 3: out it could be very effective.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean is he basically identifies with what happened
Speaker 2: to him as they say. The thing that both most
Speaker 2: bothered me about how he was treated was the fact
Speaker 2: that he was not given Secret Service protection until there
Speaker 2: was an assassination attempt on President Trump. And I thought
Speaker 2: that was vile and pernicious by the Biden administration, not
Speaker 2: to give Secret Service protection to a member the Kennedy family,
Speaker 2: whose family had already lost two political leaders in President
Speaker 2: Kennedy and Robert Kennedy's dad, two assassination attempts in the
Speaker 2: nineteen sixties assassinations in the nineteen sixties. So he's feeling it.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is the revenge of of RFKA.
Speaker 3: Here, because they have tried to destroy him, and they
Speaker 3: have tried to destroy Donald Trump, and they will go
Speaker 3: to any length to do that. And I think that
Speaker 3: is really dangerous for our country.
Speaker 2: Sure it is, because I don't see how if you
Speaker 2: have and again, you know, if forty you know, forty
Speaker 2: five percent of the country will vote for Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: at least forty five percent will vote for the Democrat,
Speaker 2: and the other ten percent will decide who wins. Joe
Speaker 2: Biden ran as the Great United in twenty twenty. I
Speaker 2: don't think he succeeded in uniting the country. I really
Speaker 2: don't now. Donald Trump made a plethora of misstatements and misactions.
Speaker 2: I mean the fact that he summoned that mob on
Speaker 2: January sixth. You've heard me my spiel on that I
Speaker 2: don't have to repeat for you. It was. It was
Speaker 2: an absolute horrific mistake. And if he had just accepted
Speaker 2: the outs of the election, there have been closer elections
Speaker 2: and moved on and all of that would have been
Speaker 2: would no longer be democratic ammunition. But it is and a.
Speaker 3: Lot no question that Donald Trump is an extremely floid candidate,
Speaker 3: and he's not slick and smooth like the Clintons and
Speaker 3: the Obamas, and evidently Harris is Harris was.
Speaker 2: Very smooth, very smooth last night, Okay, And I thought
Speaker 2: I thought she did a great job for what she
Speaker 2: what she had to do. You know, she basically made
Speaker 2: her case against Donald Trump. And a lot of people
Speaker 2: are going to listen to that. Maybe people who don't
Speaker 2: follow politics as close the issue, but a lot of
Speaker 2: people are going to listen to and say she made
Speaker 2: a great first impression last night for people who really
Speaker 2: didn't know much about her.
Speaker 3: Did you watch the whole convention?
Speaker 2: Dan, No, no, no, no, Because obviously I was on
Speaker 2: the air every night.
Speaker 3: The hardest working man in talk radio. I'll take that,
Speaker 3: thank you, thanks very much.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me go next to Susanna Is in Newton. Susanne,
Speaker 2: you were next on Nice Go right ahead.
Speaker 9: Good evening dance. Thanks for taking by Carl. I just
Speaker 9: stayed to the point tonight. Uh tamalo Uh? I guess
Speaker 9: was the start of the show. I will vote in
Speaker 9: person with fire picture idea. They were not for her,
Speaker 9: but on my old lady soul, and I keep getting
Speaker 9: these things promises that I can get a ticket to
Speaker 9: Beyonce or Taylor Swift if I just support the Democrats,
Speaker 9: which didn't.
Speaker 2: Well, there was a rumor that Beyonce was going to
Speaker 2: be there last night. If she didn't show up whatever,
Speaker 2: But they had they had star power. Oprah was there,
Speaker 2: Steph Curry, I think the Golden State Warriors was there.
Speaker 2: They had a lot of political leaders. They had Pink,
Speaker 2: they had chicks or now they just called they think
Speaker 2: the chicks. Whatever. They had a lot. Stevie Wonder was there.
Speaker 2: John Legend was there. It was They put on quite
Speaker 2: a show.
Speaker 9: They put on hashed the sport on TV. But it
Speaker 9: seems that Barack Obarbara and Michelle O Barbara and Bill
Speaker 9: Clinton have aged desperately.
Speaker 2: I don't think I don't think Bill Clinton was the
Speaker 2: most effective speaker. I didn't watch much of his speech,
Speaker 2: but it kind of got panned by a lot of
Speaker 2: Democratic commentators as once again being a little too long,
Speaker 2: and it wasn't nearly. You know, Michelle Obama gave a
Speaker 2: good speech, Barack Obama gave a good speech. That they
Speaker 2: were the stars of the.
Speaker 9: Show, and you forgot Elizabeth Ward was well, she was there.
Speaker 2: But I think the fact that we found out yesterday
Speaker 2: that her ancestors owned upwards of fourteen slaves kind of
Speaker 2: took a little of the shine off of Elizabeth Warren.
Speaker 2: If you saw that story that I just.
Speaker 9: Call short. I have a in person on the third
Speaker 9: of right after every day to go to the polls
Speaker 9: and vote for mister Dayton, not sovis.
Speaker 2: Okay, well we'll see how that one works out. Thanks
Speaker 2: very much, that.
Speaker 1: D Thanks for dating Michael.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Suzan. We'll talk talk again soon.
Speaker 2: Thanks very much. We'll take a very quick break. The
Speaker 2: only line is open at six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. Your reaction to this whole development today, RFK
Speaker 2: now now has endorsed Donald Trump. He is he basically
Speaker 2: has suspended his campaign. What do you think? What do
Speaker 2: you say? Coming back on Nightside? Now, back to Dan
Speaker 2: Ray Mine from the Window World night Side Studios on
Speaker 2: w b Z, the news Radio. Let's go to Bob
Speaker 2: and can't And Bob, I appreciate your patience. You've been
Speaker 2: holding on a little bit and you're up at back.
Speaker 2: Go right ahead, Bob.
Speaker 6: Well, thanks to what Dan. And that was a great
Speaker 6: topic tonight. And I've enjoyed the college so far. Probably
Speaker 6: a special but I think I am a Trump supporter.
Speaker 6: But I do admire JFK very much. I mean at
Speaker 6: Jaffy Afk RFK Junior very much. I think the guys
Speaker 6: I know, Steve called him an oddball. I wouldn't go
Speaker 6: that far, but he's willing to stand alone. You know,
Speaker 6: today everybody likes to follow the crowd. That's you know, Dan,
Speaker 6: I grew up in a Democrat home. I'm almost your age.
Speaker 6: I vote it for mcgoblin, I vote it for Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 6: That Democratic Party is long gone. It's long gone. I
Speaker 6: look at it today. Bobby Kennedy is right. I mean,
Speaker 6: it's all this foolishness about the children and drag queens
Speaker 6: story hours and all this nonsense. Just I don't want anything.
Speaker 8: To do with that foolishness.
Speaker 6: And I just see them as a bunch of lemmings,
Speaker 6: you know, dissing Donald Trump and praising all this garbish.
Speaker 6: And I think I looked at out of Here's the
Speaker 6: ironic thing, Dan, You know, John F. Kennedy wrote that
Speaker 6: great a profiles encourage and every year they give those awards,
Speaker 6: those Profile Encourage awards. Who is a greater example of
Speaker 6: a profile encourage than Bobby Kennedy? But he would never
Speaker 6: win that award. His extended family has dissed him. They
Speaker 6: put out a statement today basically saying they were ashamed
Speaker 6: of him. And Dan, I'm going to make a prediction
Speaker 6: tonight at Nightside that the next Profile Encourage Award is
Speaker 6: going to go to Joe Biden.
Speaker 8: That's my prediction.
Speaker 2: Well, I've seen it happen a lot. Okay, the Kennedy
Speaker 2: Library has politicized that award. Every once in a while
Speaker 2: they will give the award to someone like a John McCain,
Speaker 2: or to a Liz Chase or an Adam Kinsinger of
Speaker 2: having the courage to stand up, you know whatever. But
Speaker 2: that's where they want to take it. I've said to
Speaker 2: friends of mine who are Democrats, give me a Democrat today,
Speaker 2: Tell me a Democrat today who will quote Presidentity and say, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, in focus words, ask not what your country
Speaker 2: can do for you, what you can do for your country.
Speaker 2: With the Democratic Party, it's now often much more, you know, ask,
Speaker 2: ask not what your country could do for what your
Speaker 2: country could do for you. The opposite.
Speaker 6: It's completely the opposite, and it's sad, but I think
Speaker 6: I think it's a good move for Bobby Kennedy Junior,
Speaker 6: and it's a good move for Trump. I don't know
Speaker 6: if Trump will win, but if he does win, I
Speaker 6: think there'll probably be a very high level position in
Speaker 6: the administration.
Speaker 2: Should be Bobby Kennedy could have stayed on the sideline.
Speaker 2: So okay, Bob is always great to hear your voice.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much, you too, thank you calling the show.
Speaker 2: I have a great night. All right, let me move on,
Speaker 2: say good night to Bob. Let's see who's coming up next.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Susan in no excuse me, I gotta
Speaker 2: I will come to Susan and Worcester, but I gotta
Speaker 2: go first to Pete in South Carolina because he's been
Speaker 2: holding on a little longer. Pete, welcome back. How are you.
Speaker 8: I'm fine, Dan, you welcome back. I heard you had
Speaker 8: a good chip.
Speaker 2: It was hot. It was hot, I will tell you that.
Speaker 2: But it was Rome and the Mouthy Coast in the
Speaker 2: first week of August. We expected it, but it was.
Speaker 2: It was beautiful, I know.
Speaker 8: And you told me there was going to be a
Speaker 8: lot of walking and apparently there was. And no, I
Speaker 8: can't do that, yep.
Speaker 1: But anyway we missed. Well maybe the next month. To
Speaker 1: get on topic one. I'd been a lifelong Republican, Okay.
Speaker 1: I remember back when I was in sixth grade. I
Speaker 1: believe you were in sifth The nuns at my Catholic
Speaker 1: school were going crazy. John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy,
Speaker 1: John F. Kennedy, John F.
Speaker 8: Kennedy today would be a Republican. Yea.
Speaker 1: From what I saw the last week and what I've seen,
Speaker 1: what the you know, what they did to King Biden.
Speaker 1: Uh is just I don't know where it's coming from.
Speaker 1: I really don't. As you said, she gave a great speech,
Speaker 1: but I want to know who wrote it right?
Speaker 2: Well, she wrote she delivered it really well. There was
Speaker 2: a lot of rhetoric, long on long on style, short
Speaker 2: on substance. We understand that. I think there were a
Speaker 2: lot of promises made. There were subjects that were never
Speaker 2: touched upon, never really touched upon. Inflation. Per Se talked
Speaker 2: about I promise I will bring the prices of this, this,
Speaker 2: and this down. Well when did the prices go up?
Speaker 2: I mean, you get if you put, if you make
Speaker 2: your connections there. At the same time, I think Trump
Speaker 2: is a flawed candidate, and just as maybe Hillary Clinton
Speaker 2: was the only Democrat that he could be to nineteen
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, he might be the one Republican candidate who
Speaker 2: can't get elected in a general election. He may have
Speaker 2: an inability to get over that fifty percent mark or
Speaker 2: whatever you'll have eight percent.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I don't know either. But I think Robert F. Kennedy
Speaker 8: Junior coming out and saying, you know, I'm going to
Speaker 8: back Donald Trump or throw my support behind Donald Trump,
Speaker 8: I think that cause is a little bit of concern
Speaker 8: to the Democrats because of what happened in Georgia, what
Speaker 8: happened in Pennsylvania, And as you know, I'm a PA guy.
Speaker 8: It's going to be an interesting next two and a
Speaker 8: half months.
Speaker 2: Whatever it is, you got it, and I want to
Speaker 2: have you keep calling. We want to continue to hear
Speaker 2: from you. And you are a representative in South Carolina.
Speaker 2: I think I know which way South Carolina is going
Speaker 2: to go in this election. If if Trump doesn't win
Speaker 2: South Carolina, then it's a landslide for Harris. But I
Speaker 2: also want to hear from the callers in the so
Speaker 2: called battleground states. Pete as always.
Speaker 8: I appreciated so much, always a friend, and I'm glad
Speaker 8: to see this again. The political conventions and all this other.
Speaker 1: Stuff out of the way.
Speaker 2: Now we get to see what now it's now it's
Speaker 2: in the trenches. Now it's in the trun I will.
Speaker 1: Be talking to you over the next Well, I've been
Speaker 1: talking to you.
Speaker 8: Let's just leave it at that.
Speaker 2: You got it, Cranks, I appreciate it all. Let me
Speaker 2: go to Susan and Wooster. Susan is a big Trump supporter.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Susan, Yeah, I like this move.
Speaker 10: I really do. I think Rob mc kennedy all the
Speaker 10: kid about was helping the kids and of during his life.
Speaker 10: I mean, he was good. I didn't really know that
Speaker 10: much about him. You know, I never did because I
Speaker 10: didn't really like the Kennedys, to tell you the truth.
Speaker 2: You like this Kennedy, though, don't you now that he's
Speaker 2: supporting your man?
Speaker 10: Well, because they're they're mavericks. They're both on the same wavelength.
Speaker 1: Hey, I think you're right on that.
Speaker 10: It's true.
Speaker 2: I said, it's true. I said, I think you're right
Speaker 2: on that. I think they are very very maverick. When
Speaker 2: he heard and when you.
Speaker 10: Heard that the Trump got shot, thought but was his
Speaker 10: uncle and his father and the person he said, this
Speaker 10: is a setup. Like I told you before, you shushed
Speaker 10: me off. But c I a the deep state? How
Speaker 10: did this guy do everything? A kid? He had help
Speaker 10: doing it? And where's row.
Speaker 2: There's this well, I don't know. Let me just let
Speaker 2: me just respond. There's no evidence at this point. There
Speaker 2: may be evidence that's developed, there's no evidence at this
Speaker 2: point that this kid was anything other than a loser
Speaker 2: who was able to figure it out. And they apparently
Speaker 2: today there were five Secret Service agents who were suspended
Speaker 2: or placed on administrative leave.
Speaker 1: Because I have to tell you, well, it tells me
Speaker 1: that they're.
Speaker 2: Doing an investigation. And if if there were people who
Speaker 2: who were negligent, they should be punished. If there were
Speaker 2: people who were intentionally not doing their job, that's a
Speaker 2: different struggle.
Speaker 10: That's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 2: I know that you have no proof of that.
Speaker 10: What he gave the downside things to tell them to
Speaker 10: just you know, walk around, know around. And the butler
Speaker 10: Boliefs took over and you can hear one guy saying
Speaker 10: on the video, that's your job. What are we doing?
Speaker 10: But one smart guy tried to get on the roof,
Speaker 10: but he fell down, and then that crooked kid.
Speaker 2: There was one guy that got himself boosted up onto
Speaker 2: the roof and the kid played the gun at him
Speaker 2: and he and he got.
Speaker 10: But getting back to Bobby Kennedy, yeah he wants this job.
Speaker 10: And they were talking about it open Donald Trump and
Speaker 10: Grabbit Kennedy and John Trump says, m that's what I
Speaker 10: would like my legacy to be. He wants to go
Speaker 10: into chronic diseases about the children.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, you got it all in. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: I'm plaid out of time, so I gotta let you
Speaker 2: run for you for now. Thanks Susan kid, she's.
Speaker 10: An empty suit.
Speaker 1: The only way she's all right.
Speaker 2: That's look, you said, all sorts of positive things about
Speaker 2: your candidate. Let's keep it positive at once. Thanks Susan.
Speaker 2: Here comes the ten o'clock news on Nightside.