Speaker 1: It's nice eyes. I'm going Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, back to the poems, we go, got Warren
Speaker 2: checking in here to We're talking again. We're keeping our
Speaker 2: eye on this horrific story out of Washington, d C. Tonight,
Speaker 2: but we are also talking about the Robert Kennedy testimony
Speaker 2: in front of the Senate today.
Speaker 3: Thanks, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just remember when the vaccine first came out, all
Speaker 3: these Democrat senators in Congress, people saying, oh, they had
Speaker 3: a lot of questions about the vaccine and all discussion.
Speaker 3: All Kennedy is doing is asking very tough questions, very
Speaker 3: uncomfortable questions.
Speaker 2: I think, I think it's an interesting part. Remember the uh,
Speaker 2: the Trump administration. People forget the timing of this. The
Speaker 2: Trump administration was in office when COVID hit yes, and they.
Speaker 3: Put up the vaccine. They like lightning speed.
Speaker 2: Well, they called it warp speed is what they called it.
Speaker 2: And I remember in December of twenty twenty, then President
Speaker 2: elect Biden and Vice President elect Harris I think were hesitant.
Speaker 2: I think they finally did accept the vaccine, but they
Speaker 2: were hesitant.
Speaker 3: They were very hesitant, and they were very this and that.
Speaker 3: But also I think that the decorum in Washington, DC
Speaker 3: is just trash. I mean, it's all they're acting like children.
Speaker 3: They're acting like children, and they're acting very very unprofessional.
Speaker 3: I mean, if this was a court of law, that
Speaker 3: would be badgering in the judge would tell the prosecution
Speaker 3: to back off or the whoever.
Speaker 2: Absolute Q. Yeah, it was. It was over. It was
Speaker 2: over the top, and then you had people who were cheering.
Speaker 2: I couldn't figure out. I watched it a little bit
Speaker 2: of it, actually quite a bit of it. This morning.
Speaker 2: I was in the gym and I was watching it,
Speaker 2: and there was some outbursts and people the room was cleared.
Speaker 2: I couldn't tell if they were his supporters or his critics,
Speaker 2: or maybe.
Speaker 3: A combination of both, maybe a combination of both. But
Speaker 3: it's just the fact that, you know, I mean, this
Speaker 3: happened anytime that confirmation has happened. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 3: if it's if it's a Republican, you know, questioning a Democrat,
Speaker 3: you know, de badgering, if it's a Democrat, you know,
Speaker 3: towards a Republican, de badgering. I mean, it's just like it.
Speaker 3: The world watches us and we look, we look chilly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then there was some questioning from I want
Speaker 2: I want you to react to this Senator Whitehouse at
Speaker 2: named US senator from Rhode Island who apparently was was
Speaker 2: Kennedy's roommate when they both were at the University of
Speaker 2: Virginia law school. What a small world, What a small world?
Speaker 2: He goes after Kennedy, and again this, I guess is
Speaker 2: a question, but it goes for a minute in six seconds.
Speaker 2: If you get a chance for Rob, please play cut
Speaker 2: number twenty six. This Senator Sheldon Whitehouse questioning or at
Speaker 2: least talking to Robert F. Kennedy Junior Cut twenty six.
Speaker 2: Rob was Kennedy.
Speaker 5: I only have five minutes with you, so and I've
Speaker 5: got a lot of experience with CMS. So you're just
Speaker 5: going to have to listen.
Speaker 1: Two things.
Speaker 5: One, if you want to move from advocacy to public responsibility,
Speaker 5: Americans are going to need to hear a clear and
Speaker 5: trustworthy recantation of what you have said on vaccinations, including
Speaker 5: a promise from you never to say vaccines aren't medically
Speaker 5: safe when they in fact are, and making indisputably clear
Speaker 5: that you support mandatory vaccinations against diseases where that will
Speaker 5: keep people safe you're in that hole pretty deep. We've
Speaker 5: just had a measles case in Rhode Island, the first
Speaker 5: since twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: And frankly, you frighten people.
Speaker 2: That's a good question, Senator white House. I wonder how
Speaker 2: long you took it to write that question.
Speaker 3: What a what a jerk?
Speaker 2: What a jerk? I only have five minutes to ask
Speaker 2: my question, So let me let me attack you personally
Speaker 2: and tell you you frighten people. And by the way,
Speaker 2: is it possible you think Warren that measles outbreak could
Speaker 2: have come from people coming across the border illegally to Rhoe.
Speaker 3: Is Yeah, that was that was My first thought is like,
Speaker 3: you know it's coming over the border, because like I'm
Speaker 3: in California. You know there's there are diseases that are
Speaker 3: coming back from people coming over the border.
Speaker 2: I think, I think, I think there's a spate of
Speaker 2: tuberculosis cases as a matter of fact, in California. We
Speaker 2: have a California caller coming up. She may be able
Speaker 2: to provide some insight on that. Yeah, but it's just
Speaker 2: I listen, this is this shows how much so how
Speaker 2: incestuous this is. So you have you have Robert F. Kennedy.
Speaker 2: His cousin, Caroline Kennedy, is calling him a predator and
Speaker 2: in effect a drug a former drug addict who has
Speaker 2: enabled other members of the family. That's what she's saying, essentially,
Speaker 2: mean mm hmm, it's I.
Speaker 3: Mean, I don't I don't understand the Kennedy dynamic and
Speaker 3: why they're attacking each other and all stuff like that.
Speaker 3: And I don't know enough about RFK. I mean, I
Speaker 3: know that he's asking very uncomfortable questions and and he
Speaker 3: wants to go after what's in our food, the chemicals
Speaker 3: and the food.
Speaker 2: Which which I think is legitimate concerns.
Speaker 3: But now outside of that, I really, I really don't
Speaker 3: know anything. So I don't know if I would do
Speaker 3: an up or down on him, you know, like confirming
Speaker 3: them or not confirming them. I don't know enough information
Speaker 3: on him.
Speaker 2: I got to I got to play two cuts of
Speaker 2: Caroline Kennedy for you because I want you to respond.
Speaker 2: Cut twenty seven A rock Caroline Kennedy basically accusing Kennedy
Speaker 2: Robert Kennedy UH, who had been admitted at a former addict,
Speaker 2: basically saying that he led others, including family members, down
Speaker 2: the road to tradition. Cut twenty seven A Caroline Kenny
Speaker 2: that was a.
Speaker 6: Long time ago, and people can change. Through his own
Speaker 6: strength and the many second chances he was given by
Speaker 6: people who felt sorry for the boy who lost his father,
Speaker 6: Bobby was able to pull himself out of illness and disease.
Speaker 6: I admire the discipline that took and the continuing commitment
Speaker 6: it requires. But siblings and cousins who Bobby encouraged down
Speaker 6: the path of substance abuse suffered addiction, illness, and death,
Speaker 6: while Bobby has gone on to misrepresent, lie and cheat
Speaker 6: his way through life.
Speaker 2: And then this is one where she's absolutely inconsistent. Now
Speaker 2: she's a smart woman. Okay, she talks. I want you to.
Speaker 2: She says she will not try to speak for her father, who,
Speaker 2: of course, who was President Kennedy, but she's certain he,
Speaker 2: his father, uncle, Bobby, and Teddy would be disgusted. So
Speaker 2: she says, I'm not going to speak for my father,
Speaker 2: but I'm going to tell you he and his brother,
Speaker 2: his two brothers, will be disgusted. How can you possibly
Speaker 2: articulate that sentence? Here we go, Cut twenty eight eight.
Speaker 7: Caroline Kennedy, unlike Bobby, I try not to speak for
Speaker 7: my father, but I am certain that he and my
Speaker 7: uncle Bobby, who gave their lives in public service to
Speaker 7: our country, and my.
Speaker 6: Uncle Teddy, who devoted his long sentate career to the
Speaker 6: cause of improving health care, would be disgusted.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's almost like it's almost like they
Speaker 3: are mad that you know he's working for the enemy.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that is a big part of it.
Speaker 2: And matter of fact, I will prove your statement right here.
Speaker 2: Here's cut twenty eight. Rob. This proves what Warren just said.
Speaker 2: Fit cut twenty eight.
Speaker 6: We are a close family, and none of that is
Speaker 6: easy to say. It also wasn't easy to remain silent
Speaker 6: last year when Bobby expropriated my father's image and distorted
Speaker 6: President Kennedy's legacy to advance his own failed presidential campaign,
Speaker 6: and then groveled to Donald Trump for a job Bobby
Speaker 6: continues to grant stand off my father's assassination and that
Speaker 6: of his own father. It's incomprehensible to me that someone
Speaker 6: who is willing to exploit their own painful family tragedies
Speaker 6: for publicity would be put in charge of America's life
Speaker 6: and death situations.
Speaker 2: He groveled to Trump.
Speaker 3: I hurt it right in the head, you know, because
Speaker 3: you know, they just you know, Democrats don't know how
Speaker 3: to act right now because because of what Trump is doing,
Speaker 3: all the things that he's doing right maybe he's going
Speaker 3: a little bit too fast. It's like they you know,
Speaker 3: they're putting you know, Democrats have to play defense right now,
Speaker 3: and rather than Republicans constantly right now, we're on the.
Speaker 2: Democrats have not compoted themselves. Well, I don't know. My
Speaker 2: sense is that he will hold the Republican votes. I hope,
Speaker 2: I hope that he focuses on safety and safety in
Speaker 2: the food chain and safety in terms of the chemicals
Speaker 2: that are used. Want great, great call. Thanks for participating today.
Speaker 3: Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Six seven, two, five four ten thirty six
Speaker 2: one seven nine three one ten thirty. We're talking about
Speaker 2: the Robert F. Kennedy hearing today in front of the Senate.
Speaker 2: I know that there's a big story going on in
Speaker 2: Washington tonight. We're trying to follow that for you. We
Speaker 2: will have a special report at the bottom of the
Speaker 2: hour on this plane crash in Washington, d C. Tonight.
Speaker 2: Apparently a collision between a jet flying in from Wichita,
Speaker 2: Kansas to Washington with about sixty people and a crew
Speaker 2: on board and looks like a military helicopter. Just I
Speaker 2: don't understand how something like that could happen with all
Speaker 2: the communications we have. Maybe maybe we have to just
Speaker 2: cut back on some of the flights going in and
Speaker 2: out of airports. I don't know. This is it's frightening,
Speaker 2: a frightening. Back on Night Side right after this.
Speaker 8: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 8: nights Side Studios. I'm Dombity Bzy News Radio.
Speaker 2: Back we go. We're gonna go to Lola in San Diego. Lola,
Speaker 2: I know you follow this stuff pretty closely. What's going
Speaker 2: on out in San Diego?
Speaker 4: Oh, well, we're freezing here. First of all, he's like
Speaker 4: fifty one in the daytime. No, no, this is not good.
Speaker 2: Oh we'll take fifty one and seven days a week.
Speaker 2: Don't trust me that I understand.
Speaker 4: I understand that, but not here.
Speaker 2: But I gotcha.
Speaker 4: You know, there's a lot going on. And I called
Speaker 4: because I told you I was going to vote for
Speaker 4: Robert F. Kennedy if he ran for president, And after
Speaker 4: hearing him today, I listened to the hearing because I
Speaker 4: wanted to hear with my own ears what he was saying,
Speaker 4: what he wasn't saying, so not to get on Senator
Speaker 4: Warren's you know side. She was asking him because this
Speaker 4: is what he's doing. He recommends these lawyers for families
Speaker 4: that want to sue for the vaccines. So he's just
Speaker 4: a spokesperson for you know, those lawyers. Because lawyers, and
Speaker 4: from what I understand, you cannot solicit clients. They have
Speaker 4: to come to you.
Speaker 2: So's that's changed. Have you seen any of the TV
Speaker 2: ads lately for lawyer yours? Well, yes, I have, Morgan,
Speaker 2: if you've been if you've been injured in an accident, yeah,
Speaker 2: so that has sort of changed a little bit. And
Speaker 2: whether or not, Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think that's different Dan, that's a car accident. But
Speaker 4: I'm not an expert.
Speaker 2: But well, I'm just telling you it's not because you
Speaker 2: have you have people out there, lawyers of all sorts,
Speaker 2: you know, taught lawyers, you have lawyers out there, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, family planners, estate planners. But the point is
Speaker 2: that that that is kind of that's kind of changed
Speaker 2: a little bit. I don't know what Kennedy does, uh,
Speaker 2: in terms of funneling. My only clients. I don't know
Speaker 2: what Kennedy does. If if let us say, someone calls
Speaker 2: me and says to me, G, I've been injured in
Speaker 2: an accident, can you give me some advice? I generally
Speaker 2: will say to them, why don't you call the Massachusetts
Speaker 2: you know bar Association. But if someone calls me with
Speaker 2: with a situation, I have referred cases to other lawyers.
Speaker 2: The only difference is I don't take it. I've never
Speaker 2: taken a referral fee because I felt that you got
Speaker 2: people are calling me is because the normal lawyer and
Speaker 2: I happen to have a position of public trust. So
Speaker 2: I have referred people exactly to compy lawyers. Okay, but
Speaker 2: I and lawyers have sometimes said to me, do you
Speaker 2: want a referral No, no, I'm not don't want a
Speaker 2: referral fee. I mean because it's my name and my
Speaker 2: integrity are worth more than a five thousand dollars or
Speaker 2: a ten thousand dollars referral fee.
Speaker 4: So are you saying that are you saying that's that's
Speaker 4: my understanding that they brought it up in the hearing
Speaker 4: today that he gets a kickback and then if they
Speaker 4: win the case, he gets another kickback.
Speaker 2: Well, unless they win a case like that. It sounds
Speaker 2: to me like you're talking about a a practice against uh,
Speaker 2: you know, pharmaceutical company.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 2: The only way that anyone recovers anything, the lawyer who
Speaker 2: takes the case will take the case on what's called
Speaker 2: the contingent fee basis, then the tin on the state
Speaker 2: that they're in, they will It's often capped at thirty
Speaker 2: three whatever it is, whether it's in state court, federal court,
Speaker 2: et cetera, and exactly. But he shouldn't be he shouldn't
Speaker 2: be getting a referral fee.
Speaker 4: I'm just I'm just repeating what I heard at the
Speaker 4: confirmation today. That's what I heard getting the hearing.
Speaker 2: Said he wouldn't get ten percent. And then on top
Speaker 2: of that, because if if they don't prevail, there's no
Speaker 2: ten percent. There's it's it's.
Speaker 4: Like, oh, I understand if they don't win the case.
Speaker 4: But this is I'm just repeating what I heard that
Speaker 4: he gets a cut for every referral he sends to them,
Speaker 4: and then if they win, he gets another cut. No,
Speaker 4: he's not.
Speaker 2: I heard some of that questioning today. I don't know
Speaker 2: the truth.
Speaker 4: Of it, and I don't know either, I said.
Speaker 2: I'm just looking. Let me ask you, is there an outbreak?
Speaker 2: I thought I heard tonight that there's an outbreak of
Speaker 2: tuberculosis in California.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm I'm on the San Diego TB County by
Speaker 4: the numbers, and they only have up to twenty twenty three,
Speaker 4: and I'm trying to make the screen bigger.
Speaker 2: And oh, that's okay, no problem. I thought it was
Speaker 2: a news story misheard.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I just I looked while I was
Speaker 4: waiting to talk to you, and I don't see any statistics.
Speaker 4: But first of all, San Diego is a border city
Speaker 4: and people live in Mexico. Americans live in Mexico and
Speaker 4: they cross the border every day and work here. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so it showed central and South count south out of
Speaker 4: San Diego, the city. Maybe it is, Oh, it is
Speaker 4: the county, so the southern part of the county which
Speaker 4: touches Tijuana, and then and then the east east San Diego.
Speaker 4: So that's the poorer sections East San Diego, and you
Speaker 4: get the border, and people are traveling, so whether they're
Speaker 4: an American or a Mexican, that's legal, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: They're carrying TV.
Speaker 2: Going I mistaken the outbreak is in Kansas. It's not
Speaker 2: in California. That's my problem. In Canada, I'm mistaken. It
Speaker 2: says it says this is a c AND report from yesterday.
Speaker 4: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: Two dead, dozen sickened in Kansas tuberculosis outbreak.
Speaker 4: So that's well, I don't so there's no crop picking
Speaker 4: right now in Kansas. So you know that my workers.
Speaker 2: Who knows?
Speaker 4: Again, I don't know. Well, I just know it's cross.
Speaker 4: I raised it.
Speaker 2: I only raised it because you were from San Diego
Speaker 2: and I thought I heard it and I thought it
Speaker 2: was sanding. It's not. It's as a Friday. There have
Speaker 2: been at least sixty seven people treated for confirmed active
Speaker 2: TV infections in the outbreak, and there have been seventy
Speaker 2: nine confirmed latent cases in which TV is detected in
Speaker 2: the body. But it's not causing disease and making people sick.
Speaker 2: So that's a lot of people for k.
Speaker 4: Thought there's transient people involved.
Speaker 2: It's to me, we can speculate and we don't know.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, right, well speculating because most people.
Speaker 2: Well I I hear him do this to you, loll
Speaker 2: about it. But we've hit it. We've hit a lot
Speaker 2: here and I gotta I gotta get one more call.
Speaker 1: In before this this It's okay.
Speaker 4: I just I'm not for him because because you've.
Speaker 2: Made that clear, yes would be a no vote, all
Speaker 2: right if senator from California would be no?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Good night? Can I can? I let me go to
Speaker 2: Vincent in Cambridge? Vincent lost you there? You're back right ahead? Vincent?
Speaker 2: Dan Dan?
Speaker 9: How are you? Did I listened to your show all
Speaker 9: the time. I never call him and I go way
Speaker 9: back with w b Z Dan. Did you I listened
Speaker 9: to the hearing today and did you catch the end
Speaker 9: of that hearing of what was said by mister Crapple
Speaker 9: the chairman.
Speaker 2: Uh, he's a Republican senator who's the chair of the
Speaker 2: committee from Idaho. I think it's crapo is how he's
Speaker 2: the names go ahead. I did not hear.
Speaker 9: Exactly what he can you before the show ends?
Speaker 4: Can you play that?
Speaker 2: H I don't have that clip. I think I heard
Speaker 2: him say or heard him say, well, thank you much,
Speaker 2: mister Kennedy. You did a good job or something like that.
Speaker 2: Is that what you're referring to?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 9: But he h yeah, but it's supporter Kennedy.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 9: I don't. I can't stay for Bata.
Speaker 2: Paraphrase it for me, Vincent, I do not have that
Speaker 2: that sound bite. I do not have any sound bite
Speaker 2: from Crapo.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Okay, I wouldn't be able to do that.
Speaker 9: Dan, That's okay.
Speaker 2: Well, was it supportive of Kennedy? Was it critical?
Speaker 9: He's a republicanisicated background, you know, as far as finances
Speaker 9: and so forth, and you know you had a clean
Speaker 9: bill of healthy, you.
Speaker 2: Know, okay, So so the Republican chair of the committee,
Speaker 2: it's the finance committee, uh, suggested that Kennedy had a
Speaker 2: clean bill of health from a financial perspective, is what
Speaker 2: you're absolutely you know?
Speaker 3: Okay, Well that was important at the end, you know.
Speaker 9: So anyways, okay, Dan, that's okay.
Speaker 2: Vincent, this is your first time? Is this your first
Speaker 2: time calling?
Speaker 9: I called a long time ago, but I I listened
Speaker 9: all the time.
Speaker 2: He tells me, how long ago was it that you called?
Speaker 3: Oh Dan, it had to be eight years ago?
Speaker 2: Maybe, okay, Well do me, yeah, called back before eight
Speaker 2: years Because so I like hearing from different people, different voices.
Speaker 2: I love my regular callers, but I also love to
Speaker 2: hear folks like yourself who are listeners, and you made
Speaker 2: a very interesting point tonight that I was unaware of
Speaker 2: and that contributes much more to the conversation than than
Speaker 2: you could possibly imagine. Thanks Vincent, I appreciate it for that.
Speaker 9: I don't have a TV and I just listen to
Speaker 9: the radio.
Speaker 2: You're good man. I think that's a that's a good
Speaker 2: way to go through life, trust.
Speaker 3: Me, in that than what they did.
Speaker 9: I went to Boston State, I was in the National God,
Speaker 9: good night.
Speaker 2: All right, sir, have a great night. Good night, Okay,
Speaker 2: thank you for everything. All right. Where we are now
Speaker 2: taking an ABC News special report on this horrific crash
Speaker 2: between a helicopter and a plane at Reagan National Lamport
Speaker 2: is the ABC.
Speaker 1: New It's Nights with Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Dan Watkins. As we continue to do two
Speaker 2: things simultaneously, we're trying to honitor what's going on in Washington.
Speaker 2: You heard the ABC News special report, and we will
Speaker 2: try to keep you posted throughout the night here on
Speaker 2: wb Z. At the same time, we were talking in
Speaker 2: the last hour or so about the nomination today and
Speaker 2: the committee, the Finance Committee of the Senate questioning of
Speaker 2: Robert F. Kennedy Junior who is the nominee of President Trump.
Speaker 2: And what I'd like to do is like to continue
Speaker 2: to talk about that. If obviously it was a it
Speaker 2: was a very fiery nomination today. I mean, the Democrats
Speaker 2: really seemed to be incensed at the nomination of Kennedy.
Speaker 2: They actually treated Kennedy today, I thought, more unfairly than
Speaker 2: some of the other Republican Trump nominees, including the Defense secretary,
Speaker 2: who ended up with a very close vote of fifty
Speaker 2: to fifty and the tie was broken by JD. Van
Speaker 2: So what I'd like to do is just keep the
Speaker 2: phone lines going here and tell me, as they say.
Speaker 2: There's nothing that I'm going to be able to tell
Speaker 2: you about Washington. We're relying on ABC News and I'm
Speaker 2: monitoring some television screens as well just to get a
Speaker 2: sense of it, but pretty much it's all talking heads
Speaker 2: at this point. I've been able to pick up that
Speaker 2: really no one knows for sure. The longer you go here,
Speaker 2: the less likely that you're going to have survivors. So
Speaker 2: there's not much I can talk about on that, but
Speaker 2: I would love to hear from you on what Robert F.
Speaker 2: Kennedy Junior indoor today. He was ripped by Democrats, including
Speaker 2: Senator Warren from Massachusetts and Senator Sanders from Vermont. It
Speaker 2: wasn't a typical hearing where questions are asked. He was
Speaker 2: asked several yes or no questions, specifically without being allowed
Speaker 2: to even begin an answer, and is being told to
Speaker 2: want a yes or no answer. And he was trying
Speaker 2: to say, look, they were quoting comments that were made
Speaker 2: to him or comments that were attributed to him, and
Speaker 2: he disagreed, and he said that look, some context matters,
Speaker 2: and they wanted no part of that. It's apparent to
Speaker 2: me that all the Democrats in the Senate are going
Speaker 2: to vote against him. They seem to have a uniform
Speaker 2: position in that regard. If all the Republicans or all
Speaker 2: but two or some of the Republicans vote against him,
Speaker 2: he'll be narrowly confirmed. Like the defense pick, the defense
Speaker 2: nominee Pete Hegsath. Most of the Republicans. Marco Rubio was
Speaker 2: confirmed unanimously. Now he has the advantage of being the
Speaker 2: United States Senate, but he was confirmed, I believe was
Speaker 2: ninety nine to nothing. There have been other lesser known
Speaker 2: Senate or rather cabinet nominees and who have been confirmed by,
Speaker 2: you know, a fairly interesting number seventy to thirty. So
Speaker 2: you knew that the thirty were Democrats. But there were
Speaker 2: some Democrats who as strayed from the party allegiance and
Speaker 2: voted for these these nominees, even even though obviously they
Speaker 2: probably weren't happy about it, but they felt that they
Speaker 2: were within the realm of normalcy, if you will. So
Speaker 2: my question to you is real simple. If you were
Speaker 2: a United States senator or how would you want your
Speaker 2: United States senator vote on Robert F. Kennedy's nomination. I
Speaker 2: think there are some things that he has said during
Speaker 2: about particularly about vaccines, which calling to question his judgment,
Speaker 2: But what he was trying to do to say was
Speaker 2: you have to understand the context of the remarks. I
Speaker 2: think that the fact that Donald Trump has offered to
Speaker 2: reinstate all members of the US military who were dismissed
Speaker 2: from the military in the time of COVID in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty and twenty twenty one for not accepting a vaccine,
Speaker 2: that all of those people would be reinstated to their
Speaker 2: military positions if they wanted, and they would receive their
Speaker 2: back pay. At the same time, Trump is offering literally
Speaker 2: a buyout divertually every federal employee, giving them eight months
Speaker 2: of I guess you call it a severance pay. So
Speaker 2: there is just so much going on, and so they
Speaker 2: say tonight the topic that is probably first and for
Speaker 2: most of most people's minds is this, this horrific crash
Speaker 2: just literally over Reagan National Airports. So, if you'd like
Speaker 2: to talk about Kennedy, if you watched any of it tonight,
Speaker 2: if you watch the network news cast reports. I didn't
Speaker 2: get a chance to see them. I watched a lot
Speaker 2: of the questioning today. The Kennedy family obviously feels very
Speaker 2: deeply about Robert Kennedy. Matter of fact, Jack Schlosberg, who
Speaker 2: is the grandson of President Kennedy in this cut, Rob,
Speaker 2: this is number thirteen B that I'd like you to play,
Speaker 2: in which he's making fun of Kennedy RFK Junior's speech impediment.
Speaker 2: This is not particularly kind, but it's indicative of the
Speaker 2: depth of disagreement that exists within the Kennedy family. Cut
Speaker 2: six thirteen B, please Rob, everybody.
Speaker 10: I I'm trying to figure out the right president to
Speaker 10: get Donald tru Trump for the inauguration. So I found
Speaker 10: a really rare animal and killed it, and I'm going
Speaker 10: to give it to him.
Speaker 2: That's Jack Slosburg, grandson of Robert Kennedy, the son of
Speaker 2: Caroline Kennedy, who herself ripped Kennedy by calling him a predator. So, uh,
Speaker 2: feel free jump on board six one thirty six ninety
Speaker 2: if you why do you think? My question really is
Speaker 2: why do you think? And again, obviously, Donald Trump, I
Speaker 2: think made a deal with Bobby Kennedy when Kennedy stepped
Speaker 2: away from the race, which seemed to be a good,
Speaker 2: smart deal political, that he would give him a position
Speaker 2: uh in his administration. I didn't think that he would
Speaker 2: give him a position as high up as Health and
Speaker 2: Human Services secretary. So I wonder why maybe maybe Trump
Speaker 2: actually share some of the beliefs that Kennedy has about
Speaker 2: the size of HHS and the demands and the requirements
Speaker 2: that ahh ands puts on people. Maybe they're concerned about
Speaker 2: just the amount of people that work within the agency.
Speaker 2: It's difficult to see. I mean, politics make strange bedfellows.
Speaker 2: That would be the way I would look at it.
Speaker 2: So let me do this. We're going to take a
Speaker 2: quick break six one seven two thirty six one seven
Speaker 2: nine three one, ten thirty. I know many of your
Speaker 2: attention is on what is transpiring and outside of Washington,
Speaker 2: d C. Tonight. A plane crash that is just a
Speaker 2: horrific story, uh so unnecessary. A plane landing at Reagan
Speaker 2: Airport barently being impacted by a military helicopter, black Hawk
Speaker 2: helicopter that obviously was I believe on some sort of
Speaker 2: a simple training mission. But why you would have a
Speaker 2: training mission that close to a landing pattern strikes me
Speaker 2: as irresponsible. So feel free. I got wide open line
Speaker 2: six one, seven ten thirty, six seven, nine thirty. We'll
Speaker 2: be back right after this one Nightside.
Speaker 8: Now back to Dan Ray Mine from the window World
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Speaker 2: Stuff. Not to pay attention to this plane crashdown in Washington.
Speaker 2: We'll try to keep you abreast of what's going on.
Speaker 2: In the meantime. Let me go to Kennon Waltham. Ken
Speaker 2: appreciate you calling in, sir. What's your comment tonight? I
Speaker 2: assume it's on the Robert F. Kennedy cabinet hearing it is.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I did watch or heard a lot of parts
Speaker 11: of it. You know what's kind of interesting. Mike penns
Speaker 11: actually posted a video on X Today encouraging Republicans to
Speaker 11: vote now and used Donald Trump's scathing comments on Robert
Speaker 11: Kennedy and what a disaster he would be as president,
Speaker 11: worse than Biden. He said, the country would go, you know,
Speaker 11: down the tubes and immediately, and I think you really
Speaker 11: hit on right before the break. I mean, it just
Speaker 11: seems like, you know, if Kennedy could have made a
Speaker 11: deal with Biden or Harris when Harris took over, you know,
Speaker 11: he would have gone with the Democrats. I mean, RFK
Speaker 11: was saying the same thing about Trump. You know, he
Speaker 11: wanted nothing to do with him, he'd never run on
Speaker 11: the ticket with him. But I think, you know, they
Speaker 11: came to an agreement, and I think these are this
Speaker 11: is one of these areas where I don't think Trump
Speaker 11: really cares.
Speaker 1: About the way forward.
Speaker 11: He just wanted Kennedy support and he got it so well.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's interesting in the politics does make strange bedfellows.
Speaker 2: I mean, there were there have been in the past
Speaker 2: candidates who didn't like each other who ended up together.
Speaker 2: John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson apparently did not like one another,
Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, they came together
Speaker 2: in nineteen sixty to win their their race. Ronald Reagan
Speaker 2: was actually trying to get Gerald Ford to accept his
Speaker 2: role as a vice president in nineteen eighty. Ford forward
Speaker 2: had none of it, and then Reagan at some point
Speaker 2: apparently had to pick a vice president, and out of desperation,
Speaker 2: he picked George Bush. That worked out okay for Reagan.
Speaker 2: It also worked out okay for Bush. So I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think that Trump likes some of these
Speaker 2: these candidates who are disruptors and who are going to
Speaker 2: commit and shake things up. And so maybe maybe Trump
Speaker 2: has come to see something in Kennedy that's similar to him.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I just am surprised that he would
Speaker 2: that Kennedy would put himself through this. He knew, he
Speaker 2: had to know it was going to be a rough
Speaker 2: out he take. Do you feel the Democratic senators helped themselves?
Speaker 2: Can or no?
Speaker 11: Well, well it's a bit Warren definitely not. I mean,
Speaker 11: she's she has a terrible uh disposition as far as
Speaker 11: she asked some questions. I do think, you know, Bernie Sanders,
Speaker 11: I think was kind of right down the middle.
Speaker 3: You know, there was I just I just.
Speaker 2: Thought with Sanders, I don't know. I don't mean to
Speaker 2: dirupt you, but I thought, with Sandrews showing the pictures
Speaker 2: on the screen of the little baby onesies, I'm sure
Speaker 2: all of us know what a onesie is. That's for
Speaker 2: a child or six months or a year, and you
Speaker 2: get it for your for your nephew or your niece,
Speaker 2: and oh, everybody's thrilled about it. And normally it's you know,
Speaker 2: I'm you know, I'm mummy's favorite, or I'm daddy's favorite,
Speaker 2: or some little cute thing. And of course there were
Speaker 2: a couple of anti vax slogans on these that were
Speaker 2: being sold by this company that Kennedy founded, but he
Speaker 2: was out of the picture and Sanders, somehow's your United
Speaker 2: States senator asking Kennedy, a Cabinet nominee, about whether they
Speaker 2: support the message on onesies.
Speaker 11: You know what I heard it. I didn't see it,
Speaker 11: so maybe if I had seen it, i'd react a little.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you see the picture Sanders is pointing to.
Speaker 2: They had pictures up on a screen, and it's like
Speaker 2: and all you saw was the little the onesie and
Speaker 2: you couldn't see the the statement, and I think it
Speaker 2: was like, no, vacs, no no problem or something like that.
Speaker 2: It was, you know, it was sort of thing that
Speaker 2: but that any group, an organization would would produce hats
Speaker 2: and T shirts and that's that sort of stuff. But
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone I.
Speaker 11: Think, yeah, I want to remind you. I don't know
Speaker 11: if you remember with Georgia W. Bush, there was a
Speaker 11: lot of you know, he should be able to a
Speaker 11: lot of Republicans were saying he should get the people
Speaker 11: he wants and that kind of thing. And I remember
Speaker 11: hearing that a lot until he nominated Harriet Meyers to
Speaker 11: be the Supreme Court justice, and then the Republicans went nuts.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, yeah, absolutely. She was like a White House
Speaker 2: counsel uh and had had really no experience much beyond that.
Speaker 2: And clearly, I mean it's yeah, it was one of
Speaker 2: the worst nominations to the Supreme Court in history. The
Speaker 2: day we threw her day pretty quickly.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 11: What I think happened today though, is you know ten
Speaker 11: there were two issues. I think the Democrats were really
Speaker 11: harping on where Kennedy was, you know, giving more of
Speaker 11: a moderate abortion stance, and also he was saying he
Speaker 11: was pro vaccine and that just sounded like he was
Speaker 11: saying that so that the Republicans wouldn't go crazy right
Speaker 11: on his nomination. And that's what I think the Democrats
Speaker 11: were really poking on to try to show Kennedy's insincerity
Speaker 11: or or I don't you know, so I think that's that.
Speaker 11: And that was you know, some some of the senators
Speaker 11: did better than others on on quizzing him on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was in, I was in and out. I
Speaker 2: was in the gym and I was watching, and I
Speaker 2: know that Senator Widen from Oregon is the chair of
Speaker 2: the committee, not the chair of the committee, he's the
Speaker 2: minority member leader of the committee. And uh, and he
Speaker 2: just started off and he set the tone and it
Speaker 2: was it wasn't it. Normally with these Senate hearings, there's
Speaker 2: a great deal of respectful conversation, but this was. This
Speaker 2: was tough. I think it was tougher than probably the
Speaker 2: mayors of Boston, Chicago, and Denver are likely to face on.
Speaker 2: That's that's gonna be no walk in the park either.
Speaker 2: But I suspect though it'll be a little more respectful.
Speaker 2: There was not a lot of respect towards r FK
Speaker 2: Junior tonight. That's for sure, Ken, I appreciate you taking
Speaker 2: the time to call. I assume if you're a US
Speaker 2: senator from Massachusetts, you're not voting for Robert Kennedy as
Speaker 2: Secretary for Health and Human Services. They got lost them here, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we lost them, so I can okay, Okay. So I'm
Speaker 2: just monitoring here what's going on in Washington, and I'm
Speaker 2: flipping news channels. Uh, it appears to me, and I'm
Speaker 2: not listening to the audio, but it appears to me
Speaker 2: that there's not much hope for many survivors. I would
Speaker 2: think at this point, Uh, the boats that are in
Speaker 2: the water are much more on a recovery mission than
Speaker 2: on a rescue mission. This plane went down now, well
Speaker 2: it's getting close to three hours ago. So if there
Speaker 2: are people in the water, I don't know how they
Speaker 2: could have survived. I think one of the network was
Speaker 2: saying that it was thirty six degrees in the water,
Speaker 2: and it's it's such such a waste. Why they would
Speaker 2: be a helicopter military or otherwise flying near Reagan International
Speaker 2: Reagan National Airport at a time when planes are being
Speaker 2: uh you know, are in landing and they're they're on
Speaker 2: approach to lan and I'll tell you at night, it's
Speaker 2: more difficult, even though everybody has, you know, instrument panels
Speaker 2: and theoretically everyone's watching to make sure that it is safe.
Speaker 2: I will I will confess that every time I'm on
Speaker 2: an airplane, I no matter what time of day, no
Speaker 2: matter And I've flown in snowstorms and flown in rainstorms,
Speaker 2: as any of you who travel have done. Did a
Speaker 2: lot more in the days of as a TV reporter
Speaker 2: than I do now. But every time that plane lifts
Speaker 2: off from the ground, you realize the miracle of flight,
Speaker 2: and is a miracle that that plane, which weighs however
Speaker 2: many thousand pounds, is able to somehow get airborne and
Speaker 2: stay airborne, to go from location A to Location B
Speaker 2: and to land safely is just extraordinary. It's you know,
Speaker 2: I know we cover and I've often told people we
Speaker 2: cover plane crashes, but it's understandable to me why planes
Speaker 2: crash that, you know, whether it's in a situation with
Speaker 2: an icing problem, as they think that the planes now
Speaker 2: have become a little bit more aware of that, and
Speaker 2: they don't ice they d ice planes, They just don't
Speaker 2: de ice them once and let them sit at the
Speaker 2: gate and they can't get off the ground. But it's
Speaker 2: so horrible to think that these people are flying into Washington,
Speaker 2: d C. They feel safe. And from what I can
Speaker 2: see tonight, what they're saying is that the plane might
Speaker 2: have somehow not seen the helicopter. The helicopter didn't see
Speaker 2: the plane. How that could happen is stretches the imagination. Anyway,
Speaker 2: very very sad, sad story in Washington. And as they say,
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be much more of a
Speaker 2: covery than a rescue mission, and particularly as time goes
Speaker 2: out and we get towards midnight. So I'm done for
Speaker 2: the night again. And I think that a lot of
Speaker 2: people were distracted. I want to thank my guest at
Speaker 2: nine o'clock, Professor John ebo Ebel of Boston College. We
Speaker 2: talked about earthquakes for about an hour and we have
Speaker 2: some really interesting calls. Want to thank everyone who called
Speaker 2: in on the Bobbie Kennedy Senate confirmation hearing today. I
Speaker 2: guess there's another one tomorrow which will probably be just
Speaker 2: as feisty. We'll talk about other subjects tomorrow night. As
Speaker 2: I say, I just wish that if you're going to
Speaker 2: bed tonight, say a prayer for the people who are
Speaker 2: on that plane and say a prayer for their families
Speaker 2: who are going to probably have to deal with a
Speaker 2: tough reality in the next next day or so. Rob Brooks,
Speaker 2: thank you very much. Kind of a discombobulated night, but
Speaker 2: that's the least of our problems. And I want to
Speaker 2: thank Maridam, thank the people who did call. I will
Speaker 2: be on night Side postgame briefly right after the midnight news.
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