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Monitor Show 14:00 10-02-2023 14:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context. And context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. Jeanie Shanzano and Rick Davis, great to have you both back. We'll see you later on Balance of Power on Bloomberg TV. Our signature panel with our politics contributors every day on Sound On. I'm Joe Matthew in Washington. An hour or two of Sound On starts right now. Bloomberg Sound On, politics, policy, and perspective from D .C.'s top names. Federal spending combined with too -lax monetary policy has produced this 40 -year high on inflation. China policy is driven basically by domestic politics. American families are finding themselves further behind the eight ball. To get anything done in this Congress, it's going to have to be done in a bipartisan way. Bloomberg Sound On with Joe Matthew and Kaylee Lyons on Bloomberg Radio. Still no motion to vacate. Welcome to hour two of Sound On, as Congressman Matt Gaetz threatens Speaker McCarthy yet again with expulsion, but no motion. We'll wade into the drama surrounding the debate over funding the government, yes we are still open on this Monday, in a conversation with Mick Mulvaney, co -founder of the House Freedom Caucus, of course the former acting chief of staff in the Trump White House will have a lot to tell us. Later we'll talk with Bloomberg politics reporter Mike Doerning about what happens when temporary funding lies.
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"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context. And context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg.com to get context. Jeanie Shanzano and Rick Davis, great to have you both back. We'll see you later on Balance of Power on Bloomberg TV. Our signature panel with our politics contributors every day on Sound On. I'm Joe Matthew in Washington. An hour or two of Sound On starts right now.Bloomberg Sound On, politics, policy, and perspective from D.C.'s top names. Federal spending combined with too-lax monetary policy has produced this 40-year high on inflation. China policy is driven basically by domestic politics. American families are finding themselves further behind the eight ball. To get anything done in this Congress, it's going to have to be done in a bipartisan way. Bloomberg Sound On with Joe Matthew and Kaylee Lyons on Bloomberg Radio. Still no motion to vacate. Welcome to hour two of Sound On, as Congressman Matt Gaetz threatens Speaker McCarthy yet again with expulsion, but no motion. We'll wade into the drama surrounding the debate over funding the government, yes we are still open on this Monday, in a conversation with Mick Mulvaney, co-founder of the House Freedom Caucus, of course the former acting chief of staff in the Trump White House will have a lot to tell us. Later we'll talk with Bloomberg politics reporter Mike Doerning about what happens when temporary funding lies.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 10/02/23
"The United States Border Patrol has exciting and rewarding career opportunities with the nation's largest law enforcement organization. Earn great pay with outstanding federal benefits and up to $20 ,000 in recruitment incentives. Learn more online at cbp .gov slash careers slash USBP. I went and read a book on Marx, a quartet practiced in the park, and we sang dirigence. The great Don McLean, Don McLean, McLean, the music died, is 78. We were singing bye bye. So Mike Gallagher is 11 years old for American Pie and I do too. Is this eight and a half minutes of masterpiece or just a butt whipping? I run across people who go, American Pie, ugh, what's the matter with you? I think it's a masterpiece. You know, disc jockeys always loved it because it was the song they put on when they had to go to the bathroom. Stairway to Heaven, Sweet Judy Blue Eyes, Mike Crosby, Stump Fashion Young, yeah buddy. I need a potty break. It is time. Well listen, here we go, first Monday in October, a Supreme Court in session and some fascinating decisions they're going to have. We got all kinds of shenanigans and hijinks happening with the Republicans and Matt Gaetz and I want to start something, I want to start a conversation with you about this rift between Kevin McCarthy and Matt Gaetz and the punditry that has decided to go after Matt Gaetz. This is very interesting to me. I get it. I appreciate, I'm going to speak for me and then I want to find out, pick your brain on where you think this is all going with the aversion of averting the government shutdown, no funding for Ukraine in this particular resolution. That's right. So we've taken out the funding for Ukraine, the government doesn't get shut down and the Democrats continue to implode as Gavin Newsom appoints a woman from Maryland to replace the Dianne Feinstein. Now they're scrubbing all references to the fact that she lives in Maryland because her dedication to abortion trumps everything else. Yes it does. You don't have to be a Californian to be a California senator. You've got to be all about abortion, which is we have got to, boy, I've got my final week of my preborn campaign and I hope people will make a contribution just to counter the nonsense going on in California right now with Gavin Newsom and this Emily's List lady. But let me go back to Matt Gaetz for just a moment.
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"For women and girls and has been a fierce advocate for working people as you'll read on the terminal this is the head of emily's list on the butler longtime labor leader is well ran the s e i u as we recall some of her stylings on the podium this was just last year 2022 lafonzo butler that right now we know that right now is our time and right now it is our turn it's our turn to build power like we've never built power before connecting the abortion rights movement with the labor movement with the climate movement with the black lives matters movement with the native american protection movement she will be only the black woman in the current u .s senate let's reassemble the panel for their take genie shanzano was it the right call for gavin newson i think it was um you know he put itself in a bit of a bind in 2021 when he made that promise he was under pressure because of his replacement of camila harris and you know he was facing three really beloved members of the house who are now in the race he didn't want to tip those scales and so to go with butler was a smart choice to do it quickly to give the democrats in the senate a governing majority a smart choice and also i think importantly generationally you know barbara lee certainly not happy today was pushing for this appointment didn't get it but like so many americans people in california want a new generation of leader and butler does that you know she's in her 50s she's energetic she's young she has a strong liberal record for all those things you just talked about so it was a good move and it allowed newson to keep his really important that butler did not get talked into making a deal she'll be a caretaker so she could run if she decides to i think the cutoff would be december 8th so we'll have to watch and see if she's the fourth person race in this going in then as an incumbent senator which does give her some advantage yeah a couple of interesting things here rick uh... she did not pledge to be a caretaker she may well run this for seat will find out about that but she lives in the greater washington area i believe for spring maryland is that a problem nine i think they call out a carpet bagger i have to she's only a carpet bagger if she runs for office right now she's just a good appointment no guarantee that she'll run uh... newson wasn't guaranteeing that she wouldn't and i think it's kind of an interesting pick in that regard uh... because that there's obviously a big cast of characters on the democratic side who want that nomination you know adam ship overly kato or they've all been raised a lot of money uh... and they're ready role and introduce somebody new to the equation i think uh... really destabilize it so i wouldn't surprised be that she does become a caretaker uh... kind of makes sense to bring someone from out -of -state who doesn't have a political lineage in california uh... what do you make of this uh... in genie and what is adam shift do when there's a call to have a woman of color in the seats so many people were looking at him uh... for uh... glide path to victory about yeah i mean you know i think shift definitely will stay in the race as we look at the polls now you know we do see that shift and porter are in the lead again it's still early barbara lee is behind she's also behind when it comes to fundraising we understand so porter and shift really have the advantage from that perspective but to your point there is a lot out of there are a lot of people in california would like to see an african -american woman nazi and that does bode better for somebody like lee or butler if she does decide to enter this race and you know those are concerns that shift has to keep in mind that said he's a very popular member of the uh... house delegation from california and i think given his polling and fundraising he stays in this race it's an open primary in california that's another interesting twist on this that's gonna make it a race to watch so something to really see out there and of course whoever wins can if they does serve the people well be there thirty forty years depending on their age and if they're able to you know really serve the constituents well and get re -elected that's what we've seen in california in the past very seat powerful this is shaping up to be the most expensive senate race of the cycle rick yes certainly could be i mean there are some other hot states that could generate a lot of expense but california definitely with the crazy primary they've got the general election will be a walk through for whoever the democratic nomination is uh... because it's become a one -party state but that does raise the anti when it comes to win in that primary so yeah i i would anticipate this being a hugely expensive state especially as more more people get into this primary including potentially butler i guess it seems me to it's the story and then in the end jeannie that you can't deny is gavin newson rising we only have a minute left he's going to be one of the president's chief surrogates if he's not drafted into a presidential election cycle he's man the to debate ronda santas apparently now this is spending every day on the front page lately he really is and you know we are poo pooing i was at least these republican debates i'm really anxious to see you the debate just mentioned between the santas and newson they're a new generation of potential leaders from sides of the aisle yeah i'm kind of looking forward to that rick how about you this is one that we might actually want to sit down and watch a little more closely it's got to be better than these two previous republican debates that have been real snoozers so yeah i'm looking forward to that too it could only be better than that you guys see donald trump in was court today in new york you may not show up for the debates but he showed up for the court date we're going to talk about coming that up next with rick davis and genie shanzeno i'm joe matthew in washington we've got a lot more to follow today the government is still open this is bridgebank helps break together we have the opportunity to build a more sustainable and inclusive future at the bloomberg new economy forum we help make this possibility a reality by cultivating new connections among global leaders that transcend geographies and ideologies because when global leaders work together the outcomes benefit all of us learn more at bloombergneweconomy .com
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Monitor Show 00:00 09-30-2023 00:00
"Interactive brokers' clients earn up to USD 4 .83 % on their uninvested, instantly available cash balances, rates subject to change. Visit ibkr .com slash interest rates to learn more. For Bloomberg, executive producers are George Lavender, Marshall Louie and Jen Sargent for Wondery. I'm Hannah Miller, and this is Bloomberg. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act, this is Bloomberg Radio. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is offering little to no clear answers on the next steps for government funding. He spoke to reporters Friday after House Republicans met for almost three hours to come up with a plan to avoid a shutdown. McCarthy said he thinks a Senate bill without $6 billion in funding to Ukraine could pass in the House, adding that he thinks Democrats will oppose it. California's governor is calling the late Senator Dianne Feinstein a role model. Lucinda Kaye has more. California Governor Gavin Newsom shares reflection in a statement saying, Dianne Feinstein was many things. A powerful, trailblazing U .S. Senator, an early voice for gun control, a leader in times of tragedy and chaos. But to me, she was a dear friend, a lifelong mentor, and a role model for what a powerful, effective leader looks like. Feinstein is praised for breaking gender barriers throughout her long career in local and national politics. I'm Lucinda Kaye. Las Vegas police say a suspect has been arrested in the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. We are here today to announce the arrest of 60 -year -old Dwayne Keith Davis, a .k .a. Kefi D., for the murder of Tupac Shakur.
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"Recapping stocks are lower S &P down 18 drop there of four tenths of one percent. I'm Charlie Peloton. That is a Bloomberg Business Flash. This is Bloomberg Sound With Joe Matthew on Bloomberg Radio now Now that we've established the government did not shut down over the weekend we look to the fallout here not only what will happen after November 17th that's how long this plan goes for But what to the Speaker of the House Congressman Matt Gaetz made very clear on Sunday morning following the vote on this continuing resolution that he was going for it the motion to vacate I I do do intend to file a motion to vacate against Speaker McCarthy this week I think we need to rip off the band -aid I think we we need to move on with new leadership that can be trustworthy that was on ABC next door on CBS the speaker Kevin McCarthy says once again bring it on he's more interested in securing TV interviews than doing something he wanted to push us into a shutdown even threatening his own district with all the military people there who would not be paid only because he to wants take this motion so be it bring it on let's get over with it and let's start governing speaking of TV interviews we're gonna be talking with Congressman Matt Gaetz later on today here on Bloomberg Radio and on Bloomberg TV when we get to balance of power a special show we have lined up from the hill we'll be talking to a lot of the folks here who are making the decisions around this and brought us to this point following weeks of on again off again negotiations fast forward to today Matt Gaetz on the floor of the house talking about a secret deal to fund Ukraine and he says learns when more he about that deal he'll have a better sense of who might vote for this motion to vacate. Members of the Republican Party might vote differently on a motion to vacate if they heard what the speaker had to share with us about his secret side deal with Joe Biden on Ukraine. I'll be listening. Stay tuned. Stay tuned indeed as we assembled our panel Jeannie Shanzano and Rick Davis join Bloomberg contributors politics off a wild weekend Rick I'll start with you on secret deals here whether you think that's true or not Sarah Chamberlain from Main Street Partnership told this and maybe I should fill in a couple of blanks it's important here this legislation that passed over the weekend includes money for disaster relief $16 billion but no aid for Ukraine that's expected to come up at a later time here in the appropriations process Rick what's Matt Gates talking about yeah look I mean it's kind of hard to tell what he thinks is secret the the president has requested funding for the Ukraine the Senate has included it in the various versions of the stopgap bill that they were promoting everyone has spoken out on this and so to think that there's somehow some hidden deal that's going to result in a vote in the house you're going to get a vote in the house and it's going to require you to get on the record for being either for Putin or for Ukraine and I don't understand what he thinks might be secret absolutely there's going to be a vote on Ukraine aid I would point out that Mike Quigley the one Democrat that voted against the continuing resolution did so so because there was no funding for the Ukraine in that bill so that everyone there expects it to happen I don't understand what what Matt Gaetz thinks is not going to happen well and there's going to be apparently a vote on a motion to vacate is well here Jeannie probably a lot sooner than anyone gets to vote on Ukraine the question remains will Democrats take part in this exercise to either protect speaker McCarthy or help to oust him which do you think it'll be yeah I mean we think there's going to be a motion to vacate Gaetz was saying all weekend there would be an immediate motion to vacate then he goes on the floor today and no motion to vacate so we're all sort of in waiting mode for this historic motion to vacate if and when it ever happens and you're right it's going to be in the Democrats hands what they decide to do and it is unclear at this point what they will decide we heard people like Alexandria Ocasio -Cortez this weekend saying she would like to vote against Kevin McCarthy we've heard from moderate Democrats that they are more inclined to you know sort of stop and help end the chaos by keeping in there but it's really going to come down to what Hakeem Jeffries and the leadership decide and one interesting thing is Nancy Pelosi has said she would not vote to save McCarthy but she will follow the leadership so you know but her advice to Jeffries seems to be don't say them and Democrats are not happy with Kevin McCarthy not only the vote to impeach or the impeachment inquiry that he started but going back to Donald Trump after January 6 breaking his deal with Joe Biden and then even on Saturday jamming that bill through without giving them time to read through it all of those things make them feel they can't trust him and they may not want to work them with unless he's willing to strike a deal and make some concessions but of course that's going to cost him support amongst Republicans so it's really unclear at this point how he survives except he's gonna have to end on Democrats to do that well and that's the point that Matt Gaetz was making yesterday I find this really interesting in his Sunday show interviews Rick it was less about firing Kevin McCarthy and more about exposing him as one sympathetic how he put this I actually think Democrats are gonna bail out Kevin McCarthy so this is an exercise to show the American people really who governs you and how that governing occurs so I'm on a mission to change it where we're evaluating these bills independently Kevin McCarthy is off making a secret deal on Ukraine as he's baiting Republicans to vote for a continuing resolution that doesn't include Ukraine alright so Rick that was on ABC he he doesn't actually expect to fire Kevin McCarthy that means the Republican votes are not there or Democrats are which is it well his trading range for Republicans who are willing to kick out Kevin McCarthy is probably twenty to thirty votes right so it's not a lot of people that he needs to run around and talk to to see whether or not they're willing to exercise a motion to vacate so uh he's doing that right now that's the reason he hasn't announced it yet is he's talking to those twenty or thirty members saying are you with me are you ready to storm the blockade and uh and my guess is he's getting of a lot no's because in the sort of cooler heads of the moment uh i think most of these guys who giving kevin a hard time realize he's probably sitting at two hundred votes for speaker no matter what happens of motion to kate so it's highly unlikely
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Monitor Show 19:00 09-29-2023 19:00
"Warning. The following message contains an app recommendation you won't be able to resist. Girl, how do you keep getting all these things for free? Coffee, makeup, and now lunch? You haven't heard of the Drop app? Drop is a free app that rewards you for shopping at places like Ulta, Adidas, and Sam's Club. I've already earned $100 this month. Download the Drop app and get $5. Use invite code GETDROP222. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. President Biden is honoring the late California Senator Dianne Feinstein. During remarks in Arlington today, Biden said Feinstein was a trailblazer for women and a great friend. Dianne made a remark on everything from national security to the environment, gun safety to protecting civil liberties. The country is going to miss her dearly. Feinstein passed away at the age of 90. Lately, she's been battling health issues, but there's no word yet on an official cause of death. A suspect has been arrested in the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. Las Vegas police announced Dwayne Kefi D. Davis has been charged with murder with use of a deadly weapon. Before today, no one had ever been arrested in the 27 years since Shakur's murder. The clock continues to count down to the deadline to avoid a government shutdown. The House failed to pass a Republican -led short -term funding bill this afternoon. The government is set to shut down at midnight Saturday if lawmakers fail to make a deal. A Michigan judge is ruling the teen who shot seven people and killed four at Oxford High School in November 2021 can be sentenced to life without parole. Lisa Taylor reports...
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"I am. Of course I am. But a lot of folks think that a lot of folks have counted out the consumer and you're of not one them, Mark. That's really what we're talking about here. I mean, why? I mean, the consumer is like rock solid. I mean, I mean, real consumer spending growth, the whole shooting match, you know, everything is 2 % ish on the nose, which is like exactly what you want, right? That's enough to keep the economy moving forward out of recession, but not so strong that it generates inflationary pressures. I mean, it's like, you know, I couldn't draw it on a piece of paper better than it's happening now. And all the fundamentals look good. You know, jobs, unemployment, real wages are rising, a lot of excess saving. That service is low. Yeah. I mean, low income households are under pressure, no doubt about it. But middle income, high income households, their balance sheet's never been stronger. Stock prices are down. Housing values are flat, but people are still a lot wealthier than they were when the pandemic hit just a few ago. So I'm hard pressed. Why would the consumer pack it in unless something happened? No, things happen, right? There could be another shock, something that we're not forecasting at this point. But so it's not, again, an unreasonable concern, but it seems much more likely than not the consumer is going to hang in Is the Fed done? I think so. I hope so. So I mean, I don't think they need to raise rates any further. I mean, inflation's sticking in the script. It's coming right in, You know, you as the shocks from the pandemic and Russian war fade and they're increasing in the rearview mirror, those inflation is moderating, as you would expect. And, you know, it's going to take 6, another 12, 18 months to get it back to target. But, you know, I think that the interest rates where they are today is sufficient to to accomplish that. So and then, as I said, Q4 growth is going to be soft for all the reasons that the piece that you mentioned put forward. So it is going to be soft. So I think that'll be enough evidence less inflation should be headed to target and slow growing economy will be sufficient to forestall further rate hikes. I do think the Fed has set us up for much slower rate cuts when they start cutting late next year going into 2025. But and that's one reason why long term rates are up, you know, over the last couple three weeks, but so I don't think they'll be cutting quickly, I but think that they're probably in the rate hikes are over. Yeah, the hire for longer story gets interesting here. You're banking on a cut by the end of the year. I presume Mark. What does mortgage rates have they peaked? Yeah, I think so. I mean, we're set what 7 677 .7 on a three year fixed, that would be, you know, consistent, you know, obviously with a four percent and a half tenure yield and a three basis point three percentage point spread, which is very wide by historical understandable reasons. So if I, you know, if I'm right about the Fed in growth, I think tenure, your treasury yields are probably close to a peak. And if they're at a peak, I think mortgage rates are at a peak. Again, I don't think rates are going to come in fast. So we're going to be higher rates for a long longer here, which means we will the home sales were already dead in the water. Anyway, this run up in rates isn't going to do any more damage there, but it could and probably will result in some house price declines here. So it's been expecting that for quite some time. do So you think we'll see, you know, some further weakness in housing, but hey, Joe, you know, the housing market, the single family housing market is the single most interest rate sensitive sector of the economy, bar none. And, you know, it is held up pretty well, surprisingly. In fact, housing in aggregate, if you consider, you know, multifamily has activity actually been effectively flat because the multifamily market's been strong up to this point in time and offset the weakness in single family. So net housing has been basically neutral with respect to the if you're really going to go into recession, you'd expect housing to be, you know, sinking housing in aggregate, sinking, you know, into the into the black hole. Right. Yeah. I never had to buy a house in the 80s, but I'll wear the 70s for that matter. tell But I'll you what, that 76 rate that you point out was the exact to the to the letter, the exact mortgage rate that we had the first time we bought a home in our family. And we thought it was a steal because we had heard about my not when you were growing up. They were 18 percent. I always feel better when I talk to Mark Zandi. I hope everyone does. The chief economist at Moody's Analytics. Thank you, Mark, as always, for sharing insights. We've got a lot to talk about with our panel, not just the economy, but shut down politics and what the heck happens after November Does Kevin McCarthy know? And will he still be speaker? All that's ahead with Rick Davis and Jeannie Shanzano on the fastest show in politics. I'm Joe Matthew. This is Bloomberg. Bloomberg Radio on demand and in your podcast feed on the latest edition of the Bloomberg Daybreak U .S. edition podcast, we talked about what comes next in the government funding fight with Greg Valliere of AGF Investments. I think a precedent Nathan has been set and that precedent is that enough candidates will vote with McCarthy for a budget for maybe to keep McCarthy as speaker. It's a risky move and some Democrats are saying, you know, why should we do this? He favors impeaching Biden. He reneged on the deal we got on the debt ceiling. But I think that you only need a handful votes. And I think that McCarthy got that handful on Saturday. He reneged on the for spending conservatives like Matt Gaetz
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We did the big chill. It was very, very exciting. I have Kyle Brandt coming on Monday's podcast. I'm just gonna tell you the movie now because it is gonna be the best moment of your weekend if you spent two hours watching this classic. We're doing Toy Soldiers. It really brings everything possible to the table. So if you wanna watch it ahead of time, there it is. That podcast is going up Monday night. If you wanna hear stuff about the debate, we have Tara Paul and Mary's podcast, Somebody's Gotta Win. That reacted to it as well as the press box with Brian Curtis and David Shoemaker. So there you go. Our debate coverage has been on point. Also, higher learning. Van and Rachel had Larry Elder on this weekend. It made a lot of noise, man. That podcast is great. I hope you check that out as well. Hope you're checking out theringer .com. And on this podcast, gonna talk about the dame trade at the top. We're gonna bring in Ben Thompson from the Techery newsletter, which he's been on this podcast I think four weeks ago. And he's a huge Bucks fan. He's gonna give the Bucks fan side of things. We're gonna do million dollar picks. And then old friend Seth Meyers talking about a whole bunch of stuff. So really good podcast. It's all next. First, our friends from Pro Jam. What's up? All right, I'm taping this on Thursday afternoon. Normally when there's a big MBA trade, I always do the emergency trade reaction right after the podcast. But we just put up a podcast on Tuesday. So I decided to play it a little differently this time. I wanted a little distance, I wanted to listen to stuff, read stuff, and try to form some big picture opinions coming out of this. So I have four smaller ones, then one big one. First one, I thought Portland did an incredible job with this trade. I really liked this trade, especially everyone was trying to bully them in June and July about, oh, you got to take Miami's offer. You just got to. It's where he wants to go. It's the only offer you're going to get. And guess what? They waited. They played it perfectly. They stared Miami down, and they got a much better deal. First of all, they get the Drew Holiday piece that they can flip into a bunch out of their stuff, which we'll talk about in one second. I love the DeAndre Ayton gamble. As you know, on this podcast, I am a big DeAndre Ayton guy. Not in the sense of I'm the biggest fan of his in the world, but I'm a fan of the asset. I just think I love the valued assets, no matter what it is. Whatever market we're talking about, DeAndre Ayton, 18 and 10 for his career, 60 % field goals percentage, 25 years old. He's played in 45 playoff games. He played four rounds in the 2021 finals. Last year, he got his ass kicked by Jokic. Oh, sorry. Like, that never happens. And Phoenix just sold on him, which I can't wait to talk about. But just from a Portland standpoint, they not only get Ayton in whatever they get for holiday, they get the 29 first, they get the two swaps, and they dump Nurkic. Nurkic hasn't had a healthy start to finish all the way through the playoffs here since 2018, which I'm positive was a long time ago. He's basically 12 and 8. He's, you know, a 50 % shooter. I made a list of the top 30 centers. I encourage you to do this at home, because what's more fun than making lists of NBA centers? I can't imagine anything. I made a list of who I thought were the best assets of the center position for talent, contract, everything. He was 29th on my list. The only person I had ahead of him who's technically a starter, unless you start talking about the Detroit or Charlotte guys, was Zubats on the Clippers. I thought he was the 29th best center asset in the league. And Phoenix, you know, just quickly to go to them, they're trying to win this year. They got worse. They turned Ayton's money into Nurkic and Grayson Allen and Nasir Little. Grayson Allen, we already know with him, he can't play in playoff series. We saw him 22. We saw it last year. I heard and read in some places like that, I got two rotation players. Did they? Is Nurkic a playoff rotation player? Is Grayson Allen a playoff rotation player? Because I'm positive he's not. So for the same money that they were spending on Ayton, they got three guys that I don't think are going to help them. In 25, the money comes down a little bit to 23 million just for Nurkic and Little, which is 7 million less than Ayton. And then in 26, that money goes up to 25 .5. But I don't understand what Phoenix was doing. Why not wait to see if Ayton clicks with Vogel? Vogel has such a good history with centers. He rejuvenated Dwight Howard on the 2020 Lakers. He basically created Roy Hibbert's career in 2013 with the defense verticality thing. I thought he was going to do a good job with Ayton. I'm stunned that they gave up on him. I'm almost waiting for one of those, now they tell us stories when, you know, that's where Brian Curtis calls them, where like a week after something happens, there's this kind of notebook dump where it's like, here's seven terrible DeAndre Ayton stories. So maybe that'll happen. But for Phoenix just to be like, cool, we locked this down, man. We got Nurkic. You're trying to win the title. You have KD and Booker and Beal. And like, what are you guys doing? Anyway, from Portland's standpoint, I love the Ayton thing. I love that they didn't get bullied. And I know they're going to turn Drew Holliday into something. So this to me was at least an A minus for them, for where they were two months ago, where Dave's like, I want to go to Miami. That's it. And if you don't trade me there, that's kind of fucked up. And they made this work as it got reported that, uh, I think in the athletic, that he expanded his list to Brooklyn and to Milwaukee in the last two weeks. And that's what Portland was waiting on. You know, they were banking on the fact that he's a competitive dude. He's one of the best 75 pairs ever. He wanted a situation settled. So, you know, you wait, you wait, you wait, they expand the list and then you go. Uh, there's a Drew Holliday piece to this. That's awesome. He becomes a contender prize. I wouldn't call this a Drew Holliday sweepstakes. I reserved sweepstakes for the superstars, but it's a mini sweepstakes. This is somebody that could have a huge impact on the playoff race. You know, not only the usual suspects, everybody's talking about Boston, ironically, Miami is a really good fit for him. And in some ways, um, I'm a little more scared of them with Miami than Dame in some ways, especially at a much cheaper contract with giving up less and keeping some of their assets. Philly, if they could pull it off, they have to be in there in Golden State, Minnesota. I think I have to mention Sacramento, I think is a team that if they could figure out how to get Drew without giving up their core, which is basically Keegan Murray and Sabonis and Fox, like that's, you know, could Davion Mitchell be in that trade with some, with a salary and some picks, who knows. The team that I love for Drew Holliday is OKC. I have OKC, you know, I started doing my MBA research for the over -under spot and I haven't landed on a number for them yet, but to me, they feel like a high forties team with Chet and with the growth of their young guys. And if you just like, let's say they traded Lou Dort and a bunch of their picks, maybe two firsts and two of their lesser picks or three firsts and a second, whatever it is. And they just say, fuck it. And they get Drew and you put him with Giddy and SGA and Jalen fucking awesome Williams and Chet Holmgren and all these other dudes they have, that might be a top three team in the West. I mean, that, that's starting to give me some early 2010s OKC vibes. So where he goes is going to be important. I just feel like there was so much Drew Holliday slander the last couple of days. You know, he's one of my favorite players. Even Haralabob, who was the chairman of the board of the Drew Holliday fan club for years and would have the benefit dinners there and, you know, just did a lot of yeoman's work on that front. And even he was like, yeah, yeah, Dame's better than Drew. That trade makes sense for Milwaukee. I was hurt, Haralabob. I was 100 % hurt by that. But you know, Drew got his ass kicked by Jimmy Butler in the playoffs last year. I get it. It happens. Jimmy was unbelievable. I feel like he would have kicked anybody's ass. By the way, why is Drew Holliday guarding Jimmy Butler? That speaks more to some of the issues with Milwaukee. He was never supposed to be a point guard and a creator. I think he was always better as an off -the -ball guy. We saw that with Rondo and New Orleans and just in general. I want to see him with a point guard. I want to see him just being unleashed, not having the ball a lot, just worrying about hitting threes, being an occasional, you know, make -shit -happen guy and being like the third or fourth best guy on a team without having the offensive responsibility to have. All their half court issues got blamed on him for the last couple of years. And I get it. They weren't like an awesome half -court team, even the other one in the finals, but I really value that dude. I had him, even I did the trade value list in August and I had him 37th and I had Dame 23rd. I think he's one of the best 30 players in the league still. He's 33 years old, which, you know, I'm going to talk in a second about when guards hit their mid -30s, but just in general, I think he's a real asset. If he goes to a team like the Celtics and they can keep Derek White and Tatum and Brown in the center, it's like, look out, man. So little mini sweepstakes, rarely do we get the trade, but then we still get another asset to talk about. Thank you for everyone involved in the trade. And then the fourth small point is just that, you know, not rocket science, Milwaukee bought some Giannis time here. They have one of the best 20 players of all time. They were staring down the barrel of a situation that was not good. I was talking about it on this podcast in late June and early July. I thought he was going to put them on the clock. I thought Mark Lasry selling his stake was a really bad sign for all of this because that dude is smart. As I laid out in June, that guy is really smart. And if he's feeling like, you know what, it's time for me to sell my buck stock, that makes me nervous. And then all the stuff that Giannis said and did, which I thought he did really fairly and really smartly. And I think that dude's about titles and that's it. And I know we say that about players, but I think in his case, I don't think he cares about, you know, what's my legacy, how do I compare against Dirk DeWhisky, any of that stuff. I just think he wants more rings. I mean, think about the guys who have won two rings out of the best 35 guys on my list of my pyramid. Those are all guys in my top 35 that won multiple wings. You go to the one -ring side, Jerry West, Oscar, Moses, Dirk, Jokic, Giannis, Pettit, Garnett, Kawhi, Rick Barry. That's the list he's on now. I certainly don't think he's looking at that list going, I got to get away from these guys, but it's a slightly different list. I think when you win multiple rings in multiple situations, it elevates you in a certain way. I think he fundamentally understands that at least a little bit. I want to be the best player since LeBron James. I think that's a thing that he wants. How am I going to do that? I need more rings. I need more finals trips. He knew from last year and maybe even the Boston series that they just weren't good enough. Whether this trade is going to be the thing that propels them, we'll find out, but he's been in the league 10 years, two MVPs, five first teams, two second teams, and now we have this little two -year window. Kawhi and the Raptors was a one -year window. This is a two -year window, I feel like. With Giannis, he's got two years left in his deals. So does Lopez. Middleton has two in a player option. Dame's got two, and then this crazy $120 million player option extension thingy that he has that just keeps going and going. It's probably two years. There's a world where this could go terribly this season, at least for what the expectations are, and then maybe it becomes Kawhi, Raptors. Maybe Giannis is like, you know what? That didn't work. Trade me. And the Bucks, who have no picks left and no future, they look at it next summer, and they go, all right. We tried it. Giannis, what can we get for you? Dame, what can we get? And they just do a reboot, rehaul. Remember, they won in 2021, which just takes so much pressure out of this. It's so much different than the Clippers situation, where they went all in on Kawhi and Paul George. They give up all those picks and SGA, and they've gotten nothing out of it. They haven't even made the finals. So it's got to happen. I think they at least probably have to make the finals. If they get bounced in round two, do I think Giannis is going to stay because they made this Dame -Mower trade? Probably not. So that leads to the big question, is how good of a trade was this? So there's a big picture angle on Dame, and it's going to sound negative, but I really don't want it to sound negative because I think Dame, I voted for him for NBA Top 75. I think he's been one of the best guards in the last 15 years. I think there's a ton of great things you can say, and there's a chance that he goes to Milwaukee, and this thing is fucking awesome. I know any Celtic fan I've talked to, including Isaiah, who's helping produce this podcast today, the Giannis -Dame pick and roll is just terrifying. Other than Jokic and Murray, it's going to be the single most unstoppable offensive play in the league. It is. We are conceding that point. The spot Dame is in right now, big picture -wise, it's weird. He's a superstar, but he's not, and we've seen guys like this before. I judge superstars by, do you have the resume statistically, and is your team succeeding consistently at a certain level? You can't totally say that about Dame. He's never been on a 55 -win team. He's missed the playoffs completely four times in 11 years. He said three first -round exits. He made the Final Four once in 2019, which was really lucky because Golden State and Houston were the two best teams, and then they got smoked. He's never been on a true contender ever. Instinctively, you go, well, that's not his fault. Who's he played with? Well, he played with LaMarcus Aldridge and CJ McCollum and a couple other guys, but not really anybody. The reason I'm putting this up is there's a success element that he has not had yet that for somebody with his resume is actually kind of unusual. I went and I looked up how many guards in the history of the league averaged 22 points a game for their career and played at least 700 games. I thought the list would be like 20. I didn't know. I didn't know what I was walking into. Only I think 75 guys have averaged 22 a game. So I went and I looked up the list, and it was 10 guys, 700 games, 22 a game for their career. There were some guys who came close like David Thompson, who I think is one of the best guards I've seen in the last 45 years, but had a short career and had some drug issues. He didn't make it. He didn't play enough games. Pete Maravich, 24 .2 points a game, but he didn't play enough games. Kyrie hasn't played enough games yet. Bradley Beale is five games away. I'm actually kind of glad the cutoff's at 700 so we don't have to talk about him. And then Mitchell and Trey Young aren't there yet. There's only 10 guys that made it, and the 10 guys are all fucking awesome. And again, I mentioned this in the context of Dame, who we think he is versus the success he's had. So the 10 guys, Michael Jordan, 30 .1, Jerry West, 27 .1, Allen Averson, 26 .7, George Gervin, 26 .2, Oscar Robertson, 25 .7, Kobe, 25 .0, Harden, 24 .7, Curry, 24 .6, Wade, 22, barely made it, and Russ, 22 .4, and then Dame is at 25 again. All right, what does he not have that those other guys have? Well, MJ, don't need to talk about him. Don't need to talk about Jerry West, who's the freaking logo. Allen Averson, pretty good comparison, right? Big stats, really memorable player, but not a ton of success. Here's the difference. Averson made the finals once. He won an MVP. Dame has done neither of those things. George Gervin was the best scoring guard of the 70s. He made two final fours. He had some bad luck. He really, in 79, really should have came close. And some of it's on him, right? He could have come through. Bobby Dandridge is the one that ended up coming through for the Bullets. They lose. But two final fours, he had four top five MVP finishes, five first teams, four second teams. He was just unassailably the best guard in the league until MJ. Oscar Robertson, don't need to go through him, but he won a ring and an MVP. Kobe, five rings and an MVP. Eleven first teams for Kobe, by the way. James Harden, three final fours, an MVP, six top five MVP finishes, six first team MBAs. And even though Harden has never made the finals as the best guy, he made it with OKC as the sixth man, you could build a contender around Harden. We saw it. We haven't really seen it with Dame. I think that's a fair thing to bring up. Curry, four rings, two MVPs, you know, the Curry thing. Dwayne Wade, three rings, two top five MVPs, two first teams, three second teams. He's more in the Dame waters a little bit, but he had the 2006 finals and he was the second best guy with LeBron on those heat teams. And then Westbrook, who you would say, well, Dame had a better career than Westbrook. Did he? Westbrook made the finals in 2012. He was second best guy on that team. Almost made the finals in 2016. He won an MVP. He had two first teams and five second teams. It's at least like a real argument. And I think when you look at Dame, he only had that one 2019 round three, got bounced. He's only had one top five MVP finish. He's only had one first team MBA and four second team MBAs. Really, really good top 75 career. But the piece that's missing is, have you been on a really good team? Have you made a real run at it? Which is why, you know, I think this Milwaukee trade is so much fun. This is his real chance. I get nervous about a couple things with this trade. One is that, you know, if you look at the 33 and older guards who average 22 points a game in a season. Jordan did it twice. Curry did it twice. Still going. Kobe did it three times. Jerry West twice. Sam Jones once. Hal Greer once. That's the entire list. Now the NBA is different. We have more three -pointers now. It's easier to score. Scoring is the easiest it's ever been. Guys can play at a longer age. So I'm not ruling out Dane being good for the next three years. But just pointing out, history is saying, be a little nervous. In general with guards, like Chris Paul, we saw from age 35 to 36 to 37, like it just dropped. But that's two years older than Dane. Maybe it's fine. I just worry about guards. We have not a lot of instances with guards in their mid -30s of them either peaking as players or being able to sustain whatever success they had during their prime. It always starts to go down with really no exceptions, except for Steph Curry. He's the only non -exception. So if your case is Dane's as good as Steph Curry, or Dane can be as potent as Steph Curry on a winning team, like, you know, Steph Curry is better than Dane, but I'm not going to argue that he couldn't do a lot of the stuff that Curry did in Golden State. The bigger issue for me, the age I'm definitely worried about. Dane has not been healthy the last couple of years, and we have not seen him play nine straight months at playoff basketball with a big bullseye on his back. Everybody coming after you, you're the best team. We haven't seen him do that ever, much less than the last couple of seasons. So can he stay up? Can he stay healthy? That's one thing. The defense with Dane just got kind of swept under the rug the last couple days, and I don't really understand it because there's five categories of defensive player I feel like. There's excellent, there's good, there's average, there's not so good, and then there's bad. And I think Dane's a bad defender. I think the stats back it up. Like, his defensive rating last year was 245 out of the guards. He's the 245th guard for defensive rating. You know, 117 .4 individual defensive rating is 483 overall. Portland's team's always defensively, it was the Achilles heel for them. Partly because of Dane, because he couldn't guard anybody. He's too small. And, you know, think about what we saw from the playoffs the last couple years. I think about the 2020 bubble Celtics playoffs, not infrequently, because I think that team had a chance to potentially win a title. What happened? Everyone hunted Kemba Walker. It was hunting season. It's like, where is he? Got to get a switch. Got to get Kemba Walker guarding somebody who's bigger, or got to beat him off the dribble, and it just became a hunt session with him. And basically, he got played out of the league. He's not in the league anymore. You know, we had this with Isaiah Thomas, too, in the mid -2010s. I think it's been an issue with Kyrie Irving. The Celtics certainly went at him in the playoff series with Brooklyn a couple years ago. Curry, you saw, who I think is a better defender than people give him credit for, but the And he's a much better defender than Dame is. Jordan Poole is somebody that got hunted in playoff series recently. Chris Paul, obviously, is a big one. Jalen Brunson, remember what the Heat did to him? Mitchell, when he was on Utah, this was a huge issue. And then Trae Young, obviously. My fear with Dame is he's a DH, and I think in Portland, part of the reasons he was able to put up the stats he did was because he wasn't playing defense, right? It was just, how many points can I score? My team isn't very good, and I'm just going to do my thing. He's an incredible offensive player. But how much of a trade -off is the defense, right? Well, you think, all right, well, Milwaukee, they're really good defensively. They'll be able to protect him. Here's the team. Giannis, Dame, Lopez, Portis, Middleton, Conaton, Beauchamp, Crowder. Who's guarding Trae Young on this team? Who's guarding Jason Tatum? Here's a partial list of guys that I don't think this team will be able to guard this season. Devin Booker, Tatum, Butler, Trae Young, Kyrie, Curry. Who's going to be chasing Curry around the screens? Dame lowered? Good luck. SGA, Luca, Mitchell, Murray, Edwards, Brunson, Ja, Garland, Fox, Halburn. Are they going to be able to cover Derek White? I don't know. The way this team is constructed, they are not going to have the ability to guard other guards at all, which means they're just going to have to be in a shooting match with them, right? It's going to be not much different than what's going to happen with Phoenix, where they're just literally going to have to outscore the other team. I've just watched too much playoff basketball over the last couple years, where it's like, if you have that weak link on defense, and you're playing a team that's smart enough, they're going to go after that weak link. Like, think about them against the Lakers, right? The Lakers figure their crunch time. Let's say they make the finals. It's Milwaukee and the Lakers, and Lakers crunch time. They're going to have LeBron and Davis and Austin Reeves and, I don't know, a shooter and a point guard, whatever. All they're going to be doing is trying to find where Dame is on the court and going after him. What about when they play Boston? Boston puts out White and Brogdon and Tatum and Brown and a center, and all they're going to be doing is trying to make sure Dame is covering somebody who has the ball who's now torturing him. I think it's a real problem for them. And what's funny is they gave up Drew's defense and, you know, they, what they gave up on defense, which is significant, and they gained an offense, it might end up just being a wash and they might just be a different version of the same team where they still have a huge flaw. It's just on the other end of the court. I'm just shocked that nobody brought up the defense. I agree he's an amazing offensive player and what's cool about this trade and what I'm excited about as a basketball fan is, can he go up a level? Right? A lot of these stats he put up, especially the last couple years. They didn't mean anything. They were, he was on bad teams. Like, who cares? Ultimately, Bradley Beal scored 30 points a game on the Wizards. Who cares? I think most really good offensive players, if they're on a bad team, can get between 25 and 30 a night. Can you do it nine months in a row? Can you do it when you're getting hunted on defense all over the place? How much can Milwaukee protect him? And what does he have in the tank at age 33 with 900 plus games on the O 'Dominor already? I'm still afraid of the Bucks, but people have, like, FanDuel had them as best odds in basketball and I think most people feel like they're the favorite now. I don't feel like there's a favorite. I think you can go through every team. Boston, I could, I'm scared of Porzingis. What's going to happen with Jalen Brown out there? He has contracts. Can Peyton Pritchard, all these different things. Philly, God only knows. Miami, they're unquestionably worse. Yeah, Milwaukee is going to be really good, but depending where Holiday lands and how this all plays out, I just think it's still wide open. And the other piece, so if you're just talking Boston, Miami, Tatum kills Milwaukee. I have no idea why. Boston is kind of built to at least stay with Dame and, you know, Derek White is about as good of a person you're going to have to try to keep Dame in check, at least. And Boston's done a really good job of guarding Giannis over the years. They don't have Grant Williams this year, but I just don't think, I think there's as many ways this goes wrong as it goes right, I guess would be my final thought on this because for what they gave up, especially with that 29 unprotected and the two swaps and, you know, they are all in on this team. And you know my theory, when you go all in on a team, you better think you can win. Not positive, but it's an awesome trade. It really is. It makes the league so much more fun. Dame and Giannis together. I'm going to enjoy watching Portland. I still have my eating stock. Watching Phoenix fans slowly realize that Derkiszna isn't the answer is going to be fun and then we'll see where Drew Holliday goes. So really fun trade. We're going to talk about it a little bit more with Die Hard Bucks fan, Ben Thompson in one second. Let's take a break.
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"The United States Border Patrol has exciting and rewarding career opportunities with the nation's largest law enforcement organization. Earn great pay with outstanding federal benefits and up to $20,000 in recruitment incentives. Learn more online at cbp.gov slash careers slash USBP. I went and read a book on Marx, a quartet practiced in the park, and we sang dirigence. The great Don McLean, Don McLean, McLean, the music died, is 78. We were singing bye bye. So Mike Gallagher is 11 years old for American Pie and I do too. Is this eight and a half minutes of masterpiece or just a butt whipping? I run across people who go, American Pie, ugh, what's the matter with you? I think it's a masterpiece. You know, disc jockeys always loved it because it was the song they put on when they had to go to the bathroom. Stairway to Heaven, Sweet Judy Blue Eyes, Mike Crosby, Stump Fashion Young, yeah buddy. I need a potty break. It is time. Well listen, here we go, first Monday in October, a Supreme Court in session and some fascinating decisions they're going to have. We got all kinds of shenanigans and hijinks happening with the Republicans and Matt Gaetz and I want to start something, I want to start a conversation with you about this rift between Kevin McCarthy and Matt Gaetz and the punditry that has decided to go after Matt Gaetz. This is very interesting to me. I get it. I appreciate, I'm going to speak for me and then I want to find out, pick your brain on where you think this is all going with the aversion of averting the government shutdown, no funding for Ukraine in this particular resolution. That's right. So we've taken out the funding for Ukraine, the government doesn't get shut down and the Democrats continue to implode as Gavin Newsom appoints a woman from Maryland to replace the Dianne Feinstein. Now they're scrubbing all references to the fact that she lives in Maryland because her dedication to abortion trumps everything else. Yes it does. You don't have to be a Californian to be a California senator. You've got to be all about abortion, which is we have got to, boy, I've got my final week of my preborn campaign and I hope people will make a contribution just to counter the nonsense going on in California right now with Gavin Newsom and this Emily's List lady. But let me go back to Matt Gaetz for just a moment.
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A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/28/23
"Stay tuned for a free health tip brought to you by Peloton. Whether you're doing a dance to your favorite artist in the office parking lot or being guided into warrior one in the break room before your shift. Whether you're running on your Peloton tread at your mom's house while she watches the baby or counting your breaths on the subway. Peloton is for all of us wherever we are whenever we need it. Download the free Peloton app today. Peloton app available through free tier or paid subscription starting at $12 .99 per month. Embrace the power of daily walks for improved health and well -being. Walking is a simple yet effective form of exercise that offers a wide range of health benefits. Whether you stroll through the park, walk around your neighborhood or take a brisk walk during your lunch break. There are a lot of health benefits to getting in your daily walks. Next time you may be craving that afternoon cup of coffee, try a Peloton walk outside to go grab your coffee. The Peloton app offers structured walking experiences regardless of your environment. So get out and enjoy that fresh air with the help of Peloton. Birthday 85 years old today. So a little stand by me. It was a joy. First of all, you did great. I was just saying the news channel product last night was fun and it was great to hook up from the house and just join you in the immediate aftermath. We've slept on it now. Do you feel any differently? I may resent it even more now than I did last night. What a colossal waste of time. Not for Donald Trump. The winner was Donald Trump. That's just it. I mean, and you said it earlier. He's he's a genius once again in his decision to stay away. And I've been thinking a lot about DeSantis's decision to go after Trump on this issue. I would think, you know, Governor DeSantis, if he has any chance at all, has to win over Trump supporters. Correct. How do you win over Trump supporters by trashing the guy who made the brilliant decision to stay away from that train wreck last night? And it was a train wreck. How many times in your career, Mark, have you decided to do something that you just wish like heck you could take back? I mean, I don't know. Maybe. Oh, I could. I could just start with Monday. You know, I mean, if you're Dana Perino, you're going to spend the rest of your career asking yourself, why did I think the survivor question was going to go over? Well, so stupid. So stupid. And that couldn't have been couldn't have been her. That's got to be some staffer, even some executive or some consultant who said, hey, let's lighten the mood or do something kind of fun. And sometimes I'm actually OK with the moment that sort of humanizes them. I mean, like in a one on one debate or maybe when there's just two or three people left or to say, look, you guys are up there to sort of knock each other around. Tell me one really good, praiseworthy thing about each other, you know, about you, about your opponent. And that's kind of neat. And it sort of cuts. But this was so unbelievably stupid. And and there were a lot of cringe moments. I mean, poor Mike Pence. I've slept with the school teacher for 38 years. And everybody kind of groaned. And Chris Christie, oh, you're not Donald Trump. You're Donald Duck. Somebody wrote that for him and he thought it would go well. Or maybe it was his. Once again, I don't know whose idea it was, but it was terrible. And let's go back to programing decisions. The Univision lady, are you serious? I want to be as careful as I've ever been for anything. Univision, God bless them. Great. Univision, whatever Hispanic news media. Great. And I bet she's great on it. I bet she's wonderful.
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"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context, and context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. So I mean, why disappoint so many school -aged children? Always the best time with Rick Davis and Jeanne Shanzano, even in times like these. Our two of Sound On starts right now. Bloomberg Sound On, politics, policy, and perspective, from DC's top names. Federal spending combined with too -laxed monetary policy has produced this 40 -year hot inflation. China policy is driven basically by domestic politics. American families are finding themselves further behind the eight ball. To get anything done in this Congress, it's going to have to be done in a bipartisan way. Bloomberg Sound On with Joe Matthew and Kaylee Lines on Bloomberg Radio. The government shutdown appears unavoidable at this point. So who should we pay? Welcome to our two of Sound On as the Biden administration considers spending options now. In the case of a full shutdown as soon as this weekend, it might be unavoidable. And we'll have the latest on negotiations from Capitol Hill. And we'll discuss the fallout with Michael Linden, former executive director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Biden White House, the man who would have had to make those decisions this weekend. SEC Chair Gary Gensler gets his latest grilling in the House. And a cannabis banking bill.
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A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/27/23
"Lots of channels. Nothing to watch. Especially if you're searching for the truth. It's time to interrupt your regularly scheduled programs with something actually worth watching. Salem News Channel. Straightforward, unfiltered, with in -depth insight and analysis from the greatest collection of conservative minds. Like Hugh Hewitt, Mike Gallagher, Sebastian Gorka, and more. Find truth. Watch 24 -7 on SNC .TV and on Local Now, Channel 525. A big hit for the Crystals, girl group, 1963. Just 14 years later, this guy, 19 -year -old Sean Cassidy, busting onto the scene. Was this in the Mike Gallagher record collection when you were 17? Nope. Missed it. Missed it. Don't miss this. Sean Cassidy, who I had on the show, I think, last year. He blows through town in some medium -sized venues and just kind of has a sense of humor about all of his hits and all of his stuff and blah, blah, blah. The great Sean Cassidy is 65 today. I also saw him in a theatrical production of a great musical called Blood Brothers. He has toured in that. I think he might have played it in New York a little bit. Maybe even in the West End in London. He's great. I thoroughly enjoyed talking to him. He just has a lot of energy. And you know what he has? He has gratitude because he knows he's pigeon -holed. He was in the Hardy Boys TV show or some such. He was the kid star and blah, blah, blah. But you know what? If you got that going for you, milk it for your entire life. I'm a big believer in staying in your lane. I am a stay -in -my -lane kind of guy. Let's talk a little bit about my years -long narrative about the crap file on Donald Trump. Oh, yes. Let me tell everybody what it is. The Mike Gallagher theory has been born out true time and time and time and time. Whenever something starts to happen that will create positive attention for Trump or make people empathize with him or vote for him or support him, some kind of story will mysteriously appear so that the media can cover something else. Go. Well, yesterday is a perfect example. Huge news. The House Oversight Committee subpoenas records and discovers that Hunter Biden got wires from China, got transfers from Beijing for more than a quarter of a million dollars. And the wires were sent to Joe Biden's home. The president himself, his home, his home address, not Hunter's address, Joe's address. Now, this is the man, of course, who has insisted all along that he doesn't know anything about his son's business dealings. He just happens to be getting a quarter million dollars sent to his residence, but he didn't know anything about it. Now, hours after that comes this big revelation. A judge in New York, a Trump -hating, maniacal leftist New York City judge ruled that Trump has overstated the value of his properties over the years.
The Bad Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Crypto Kingpins: The War Between SBF and CZ
"It's been almost one year since FTX collapsed and created a horrific ripple effect in the crypto industry. Sam Bankman -Fried and Chengpeng Zhao have become key players in this incident, and a new podcast goes behind the scenes to tell about exactly what took place. With SBF's trial ramping up as we speak, we're pleased to welcome Tom Wright, one of the creators of the new Crypto Kingpins podcast to the show, to share some insights. So let's go ahead and get into it today on our episode number 697 of the Bad Crypto Podcast. Five, four, three, two, one, go. Who's bad? Well, what do you know? Once again, it's the Bad Crypto Podcast, the show for the crypto curious and crypto serious. We had a week off because I was traveling en France, and was Travis keynoting at a crypto event in Manila. He was the thriller in Manila. And how was it, Trev? I tell you what, you know, I think I maybe made a quote of this before. Somebody said, go where you're celebrated, not where you're tolerated. And I do think in Puerto Rico sometimes it's like, you know, the natives tolerate, they don't really like the gringos, but they tolerate them. And then there's some people that'll throw hate. So, but in the Philippines, oh my God, they are so open and welcome and kind. And like, hello, sir, how can I help you, sir? Like just most lovable people, probably that I've ever encountered in the world. Thailand, the same, very nice people. Not a lot of crime in these places. I think maybe the Buddhist nature of that. And they're like, oh, you know, and it was so nice, very nice. And the keynote was great. They had me kick off the whole conference. So the founder came up, Dr. Donald Lin, he came up, did a little thing. And boom, then they had me kick off the keynote. And I think it was one of the better ones that I've done. I think it'll be up on YouTube here shortly and we'll share the link when that comes available. I had a few people come up and tell me it was one of the best keynotes they've ever seen. So I was like, ah, you've not seen very many keynotes. Perfect answer. Well, I'm sure you did a fantastic job and represented the Republic of Bad Cryptopia. So, you know, it's hard to believe that it's been a year since the dominoes started falling. You know, Luna was first, then FTX and Three Arrows, and then Celsius. And it's just been, it's gonna be a bear market anyway, but boy, the downward pressure exerted by these, you know, horrible black swan incidents have made it a really, really bad bear market. And of course, we've been here with you guys throughout it all. We've not abandoned you. We've not turned into bears. It was like a kick to the ass, a nudge, an elbow to your face, and then a kick to the crotch. And here we are. And the bear markets can be - Here we are. Here we go, sweetie. It was fun, fun times. Crypto goes up, crypto goes down. Or as our next guest would say, number go up. You mentioned that book right there. So we're gonna have a great conversation here with maybe my long lost relative, Tom Wright, who's been doing, who's an investigative journalist, gonna talk about what happened with FTX and SBF and CZ. And he's got his own podcast around that, multiple topics or multiple episodes. So you're gonna want to tune in. This is a pretty good interview, Mr. Joel Kopp. I think so. Let's let the people decide as they listen now. Unless you're living under a rock, you have heard the names Sam Bankman -Fried and Chengpeng Zhao, or CZ, of Binance. And you've heard about the fall of FTX. Well, Sam Bankman -Fried's big trial for basically making off with countless billions of dollars is coming up shortly. Scam bank man fraud, right? That's the guy. We have a guy with us today who is the co -founder of Project Brazen, a journalism -focused content studio. He's a New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer finalist. And his name is quite similar to Travis Wright's. His name is Tom Wright. We're talking, it's two T Wright's here today. There's two TWs here today. And Tom, welcome to the Bad Crypto Podcast. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, tell us, just kind of give us a little more meat on the bones of your background and how that led you to this new podcast called Crypto Kingpins. Well, I was at the Wall Street Journal for about 20 years, Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal in 2019 after writing a book called Billion Dollar Whale, which is about the one MDB scandal. That's the scandal where a bunch of money was taken out of a sovereign wealth fund in Asia and used to make films like The Wolf of Wall Street and for all these guys to party on this fraudster Joe Lowe's tab. Clearly people like Paris Hilton and big actors, Leonardo DiCaprio and others. And then the guy who I wrote the book with, Bradley Hope and I quit the journal and set up this company Project Brazen. And what we do is we make podcasts and we also write magazine articles and other things, books as well, that we use as the basis for adaptation into TV and film. So that's Project Brazen, that's a business. And our latest podcast is Crypto Kingpins, which we've done in conjunction with USG Audio, which is Universal's audio. And that just started rolling out last week and the episodes are running weekly on Tuesdays. And it's about the huge rivalry between Changpeng Zhao, who you mentioned of Binance, and Sam Bankman -Fried of FTX and how that rivalry played out and how it led to the downfall of SPF. And we went based on exclusive access to CZ himself. There was some interesting stuff that was going down with that. A lot of personality clashes and then just like, oh, CZ is gonna come in and save the day. Oh no, he's not. Because it looked like he got some, he was feeling the heebie jeebies. He was looking at some stuff and going, whoa, we better get rid of all of my FTT because this ain't working. And so this is great. We're talking about some of the big crypto frauds, right? That's what you've done. You know, actually, since Joel and I have not done this show as regularly here in the last couple of weeks because of travel, a documentary just came out about Ruja Igniktova called The Crypto Queen on 2BTV and I was in there talking about that. So I'm featured on that. So it's like, it seems like there's a lot of stuff going on right now and I'll put that in the show notes if you guys wanna watch The Crypto Queen documentary. But this is fascinating. There's so many bad actors in crypto. Hopefully we can get past this and only the good people remain in crypto. The fraudsters are kicked out. Hopefully all the good people haven't left and are chasing dreams in AI now. So hopefully there's still some good foundations here in the crypto space. Well, we got into this podcast because I'm based here in Singapore and for a long time, CZ was based here. And what he was hoping to do was get a license from the Singapore government. I mean, a lot of people were here. Do Kwan of Terra Luna was here. Carl Davis was here. The Three Arrows guys were here. Their yacht Much Wow that they bought, I think was supposed to be in the marina here but never made it, as you said. A lot of people getting washed out of the system. But anyway, I got to know CZ because he was living down in this area called Sentosa Cove which is a lot like Miami. You know, it's big mansions with a marina. And at that time, now what a lot of people do know about is what happened last November, which you just alluded to, which is when CZ decided to sell his tokens and that caused a world of pain for Sam Bagman Frieden FTX, right? But what people don't really understand is the degree to which CZ and SPF had interacted over time. People know that the Binance was one of the big first investors in FTX back in the early days. They took a 25 million stake for 20 % of FTX. But Sam really looked up to CZ. Obviously CZ and Binance go back to 2017 and Sam didn't set up FTX until a couple years later. And we show in the podcast how CZ first met Sam when Sam invited him to this party in an aquarium in Singapore in 2019. And he was just a trader, one of many traders. I don't think he was a VIP trader, but just a trader nonetheless on Binance. And so that's really when the story begins and that's how we start the podcast by showing that relationship and how it evolves and then all of the stuff in between that initial meeting and then what happened last November, which was what we call the kill shot. So he kind of went from being a trader to becoming a traitor. We're gonna talk about some of that political stuff that he did down the road, which was really crazy. It's like you look at some of this stuff, Joel, and I go, man, anybody else was doing some of this stuff where they hadn't have donated so much money to the political parties? There's no way that you get taken out of a Bahamas prison and then immediately brought to America and then released on a first class flight to fly back home to go be with your mommy and daddy if you've done this amount of fraud. So there's so many different nuances to this story. I can't wait to get into this with you. Well, the most amazing thing about that is he was released on a $250 million bail, which was I think the biggest ever bail in American pretrial history. But was it really? It wasn't really like they didn't actually pay that. No, their house is not worth $250 million. I didn't quite understand that it was backed by their house, but that was the, I think they judged him a very low flight risk based on how recognizable he is. Yeah, did they think that house would be a collector's item someday or something? With a future value of this home, yeah, that's crazy. So do this for us. When everything went down, kind of set the stage for what happened that day when this story broke. How much money were we actually talking about? How many people were impacted? And just how far did the ripples extend? Well, I think it's November the 2nd is when this CoinDesk article comes out, which basically says, look, the Alameda, which was Sam's hedge fund, FTX's hedge fund, its financial situation isn't all that it looks like because somebody inside the company leaked these documents to CoinDesk. And they showed that they were heavily reliant on FTT tokens, which were basically a cryptocurrency that Sam had made up and bought himself to prop up the value. And then if you took those out, they were about almost a half of the total assets of the hedge fund. And so at that point, CZ is pacing in his penthouse in Dubai where he left Singapore where I got to know him and he moved to Dubai.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 13:00 09-26-2023 13:00
"Zoe Hoecker is a welder who practices his craft in the metaverse with ForgeFX's virtual training platform. He says, Virtual welding lets me train as much as I want, increasing my skills and access to opportunity. Through Tulsa Welding School, Zoe and other welders can use ForgeFX's platform to uplevel their expertise and answer the need for more skilled workers in today's economy. These are the ways skilled professionals are using the metaverse today. Learn more at meta .com slash metaverse impact. Dot com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. Now from our nation's capital. This is Bloomberg Sound On. The Biden administration says we're making good on a long -held promise. Ballooning budget deficits in Washington. We're in a bizarro political world here. Bloomberg Sound On. Politics, policy and perspective. From D .C.'s top names. Most people, including most Republicans in Congress, understand that we need to get aid to Ukraine. Who's going to take us in a rational way into the future and lead our country? This has really become kind of the new frontier in American politics, is this battle between red states and blue cities. Bloomberg Sound On with Joe Matthew on Bloomberg Radio. Joe Biden beats Donald Trump to the picket line. Welcome to the fastest show in politics as Biden becomes the first sitting president to visit a picket line, throwing support behind striking autoworkers in Detroit. It's coming together as we speak a day before Donald Trump does the very same. And we're joined this hour by Congressman Dan Kildee. The Democrat from Michigan was on the picket line himself just days ago. He's now back in Washington for the grand debate over government funding. We'll talk about both with just five days to a potential shutdown. Analysis today from our panel. Rick Davis is back, Bloomberg politics contributor, Republican strategist. Joined today by Al.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/26/23
"Olivia Newton -John would have been 75 today. So this one hurt. I mean, when she passed last year. I mean, how many people are this universally loved? It would have been easy to go get I Honestly Love You or Let Me Be There. But two, three years before that, she had this cover of the great Bob Dylan, If Not For You. It was her first big hit, and so we salute Olivia Newton -John today on what would have been her 75th. Hey! You know, it's funny that you mention this, because I spent some time on the show yesterday saluting a great, great guy out of Columbus, Ohio, Bruce Hooley. He is a Columbus host. He's filled in, I think, for Hewitt a few times. And he and I had a segment together. We haven't always seen eye to eye. He's kind of a mainstream conservative establishment Republican, and he's a really, really spiritual guy out of Columbus. He found out a couple of weeks ago, wham, he's got brain cancer. And he had brain surgery. Well, this guy is now embarking on sort of a journey to say, you know what, remember the things that matter. Now is the time everyone should lean into your faith and remember the love of Jesus, remember what we're here for. And he sees this as almost a calling that he's facing this very tough, difficult journey. And he's got a blog going, Bruce Hooley. You can look him up in Columbus. Spell Hooley. Spell Hooley. H -O -O -L -E -Y. He's the midday host on 98 .9 The Answer, our affiliate in Columbus, the Salem affiliate in Columbus. And he's such a deep man of faith that he said, I'm not afraid of this at all. He said, I know what I'm supposed to do, and if I can share the love of Jesus Christ and help everybody know what the right path is, I'm going to do it in whatever time I have. He's my age. He's 63 years old. And this guy, I always have such a deep admiration because you know what? If it's me, I'm on the floor in the fetal position, and I'm not going to be able to get out of bed. I'm going to be afraid. I shouldn't be. We should know we're here for a short period, and we know what our real purpose is, and we know where we should be headed. But you've got to make—it's an easy choice. And he writes about that. He goes, it's real easy. You accept him as your savior, and you do it now, and don't wait until you get a diagnosis. And that's kind of his message. Mark, I just love the courage and the nobility of people like Bruce. And so you just reminded me of that when our prayers were out. I am so glad. Let us lift him up in prayer. And it's funny. It's a big—not to use everybody else's story as a mirror and an attitude check in our own lives, but it just invariably happens because I can get a little twisted off if I can't get to the bank and the post office in the same day. It kind of gives you a little bit of a big -picture look at your own blessings, your own health, your own prayers. So let's everybody kind of get a grip. I got a scathing email from a listener in Columbus who said, hey, Mr. Wisdom Tooth, we had to hear you whining about your stupid wisdom tooth, and here's Bruce facing brain cancer. How dare you? And she really went at me. And I read this email, and I thought, holy—and that was after I did this lengthy tribute to his courage. But I get it. I lose perspective all the time. And all of a sudden, my stupid dry socket problem didn't seem so bad. That's it. Everything's relative. Like Elaine Stritch said, everybody's got a bag of rocks. We all got something we're dragging around in our lives. And, you know, right now we've got seven candidates on a debate stage dragging around some rocks tomorrow night. And by the way, can you help me understand why Larry Elder's name has just been eradicated from the conversation? They don't even talk about him anymore. A little bit of history, because he did, by all accounts, he did what was necessary to get onto debate stage number one. X amount of fundraising, 1 percent in a stretch of significant polls. He did it. And Ronna McDaniel or somebody simply blocked him from that debate stage. So I think he could have gotten from 1 to 3 percent just by being Larry on that debate stage. And that would have opened the door to who knows what, because if Doug Flippin' Burgum can be in this debate tomorrow night, Larry certainly could. But he was denied the chance to be on debate stage number one. The threshold for debate stage number two is 3 percent. And with Larry back there at one, there's no way for him to triple that without being on the debate stage.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 07:00 09-26-2023 07:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context. And context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. U .S. growth both accelerating and surprising to the upside. That's something that's going to change. The U .S. economy in the near term will probably be slowing down. When I look at the bond market, it's pricing in a slowdown. When I look at the equity market, it's not. What people have been doing all year, which has confused me, is sold bonds, but said that they like them. Right now, we're still in the annoyance phase of inflation. That's why we think it will persist. This is Bloomberg Surveillance with Tom Kean, Jonathan Farrow, and Lisa Abramowitz. Good morning, everyone. Bloomberg Surveillance, Jonathan Farrow, Lisa Abramowitz, and Tom Kean thrilled you with us on radio, on television. Right there is what we're about. Katie Kaminsky and Eric Davis yesterday each separately, equities and bonds, looking for price down, yield up. Bramo loved Monday, not so much in love with Tuesday. But Lisa, I mean, the toxic stew or brew of the last 48 hours is something. Yesterday was a tipping point moment where we saw yields climb to levels that people didn't think possible. And they basically were all saying that this, we had seen the peak about six months ago, and here we were reaching new post -2007 peaks in the 10 -year yield. And today we're seeing a little bit of a bounce back, but not with conviction. And that raises a question, can we live with these rates? Why are risk assets holding in as much as they are? Yes, you're seeing a bit of softness today. And are we entering a new regime that looks unfamiliar to anything that we have seen over the past 20 years? And I would stagger the data dependency. Yesterday, the 30...
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/25/23
"Were you hardwired into this program Mike? Kinda, yeah. This was an actual hit. The theme song of this was an actual hit on the actual radio in 1976. We have a happy day's cast birthday. That would be Potsy. Potsy is 74. I have no idea how old Ralph Mouth is. Well, they're all in their 70s. It's a weird birthday too because Mark Hamill, virulent liberal Luke Skywalker, he is 72. And you know, you just pause, you stop and you think about the career and what happened. The great Christopher Reeve would have been 71 today. That 1995 horse accident, man, I still haven't scrubbed my brain of that and what heroism and activism. So anyway, big showbiz birthdays. A lot going on in the news. You want to do some new stuff or the book, the article? Well, let's do both. Yeah, the book comes out this week, the Fox News book, but let's start, let's not bury the lead. This Washington Post poll has people in hysteria. I mean, they are running through the streets of DC with their hair on fire. This is kind of unusual. I've never seen a media organization like the Washington Post produce the results of a poll and then trash their own poll and bang on it. Right. It's an outlier. This can't be real. This can't be right. I mean, it's devastating news for Biden if it's to be believed. Now let's face it. Polls are quirky. Here's why polls kind of matter. We kind of, they don't. The reason they don't matter is because Lord knows we saw polling about the big red wave in 2022 and that didn't quite work out for us. So let's remember before we get too excited about polls that they are subject to change dramatically. But here's where it does matter. It does give a person like Donald Trump momentum. There is an appearance of momentum. There is the facade of surging and momentum, which kind of feeds upon itself. It just, it just snowballs. So it's real. I mean, it's very, very, it's very, very palpable. And it becomes even more and more unlikely that anybody's going to overcome him. But we never know. A lot can change. We still could, we still could change. How about the debate Wednesday? I heard you mentioned driving in. I thought I saw Burgum. Yes, you did. I rectified that a couple. He did. He managed to get 3 % in Iowa, 4 % in New Hampshire. Speaking of polls I'm skeptical of, there's one, but bless his heart. He seems like a good guy. It seems to be wasted time. I have a very short appetite for wasted time. How about wasted money? How about the money he's spending on the ads? You know what those ads cost? I know. And they're all, I see, I see six Doug Burgum ads every day on Fox news, speaking of Fox news. Every ad I see on Fox news for Doug Burgum, I think how many families of police officers would that help? Or how many poor people would that feed? Or how much, how much of a border wall would that fund? It's his money. I know he can do what he wants. But what a waste of money. It seems to be. Unless, unless he comes in third in Iowa or New Hampshire, kind of punches a ticket out of the month of January. And I mean, stranger things, well, not many stranger things have happened, but then maybe, maybe he ends up with some, how old is he? Is there running mate buzz? You're not going to have a North Dakota running mate buzz. There's not buzz about him over here at the 7 -11 down the street from the airport. Buzz. There's no Doug Burgum buzz. Here's the conspiracy buzz about the Washington Post poll that you just mentioned is that this is on purpose. They want to show Biden as desperate so that in the liberal and the Democrat ivory towers, they can really get the ball moving on replacing him with somebody who might have a prayer of winning. So that's not without some merit. I mean, you know, they got to be sitting around saying, this is our guy. I mean, last week at the UN, at one point it was utter gibberish. And you're looking, I'm thinking my Lord, that's the commander in chief of the United States of America. So the Democrats have to see this. Mark, no way he'll be the nominee. No way he's going to run. Shall I ask you? I mean, okay. I'll ask you again. It's a flow chart.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 14:00 09-22-2023 14:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context, and context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. No facial recognition. I think turn and run is going to be the answer for me. I'm Joe Matthew in Washington. Big thanks to Rick Davis and Jeannie Shanzano. Hour two of Sound On starts right now. The auto strikes are getting bigger. Welcome to hour two of Sound On as the United Auto Workers expands strikes against GM and Stellantis, but not Ford. We're going to get the latest from Bloomberg Auto reporter Keith Naughton coming up, and we'll dive into the details of the negotiations and what might come next with Arthur Wheaton, director of labor studies at Cornell University. The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is indicted in a federal corruption probe. We're going to look at the case against Senator Bob Menendez with Bloomberg Politics reporter Ryan Teague Beckwith.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from Week in Review - Episode 24
"Cycling isn't just cycling. It can be cycling or cycling or even cycling. Peloton isn't just one thing. We have classes that will ease you in and classes that will make you sweat and a range of instructors so you can find your match. Whatever you're in the mood for, we can get you in the zone. See for yourself with a worry free 30 day home trial. Visit one Peloton dot com slash home dash trial terms apply. Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. It's just about everything that's happened this week. I'm Eric Hanson, and we begin with President Trump, who made some controversial statements about abortion this week and called Ron DeSantis's six week abortion ban a terrible mistake. We might as well get this out of the way. We got President Trump with an answer to Kristen Welker on NBC's Meet the Press and her debut as the new host, which gave a lot of ammunition to Trump haters who want to hurt him and try to wreck his chances of becoming the nominee in 2024. This is an interesting dilemma that Republicans have. Here's the dilemma. Pro -life fighting for the sanctity of those unborn babies, the sanctity of their lives, the sacredness of the innocent. That's a centerpiece that's foundational for the Republican Party. And whether we like it or not, this particular debate that we're having in America over abortion is crushing us at the ballot box. And Donald Trump, I believe, was trying to address that with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press. Let's get it out of the way. I've been dreading this all weekend. Well, it wasn't all weekend. I mean, this first broke, I think, Saturday. They gave a little preview of his answer. I don't love his answer, but I also don't love the way Trump critics are pouncing on him, claiming he's not pro -life. I got into a big knockdown drag out, as I expected I would with my friend Mark Davis in Dallas, because Mark is now hell bent on proclaiming that Donald Trump is not pro -life. And he's saying that because of this exchange with Kristen Welker yesterday on Meet the Press. If a federal ban landed on your desk, if you were re -elected, would you sign it at 15 weeks? Are you talking about a complete ban? A ban at 15 weeks? Well, people are starting to think of 15 weeks. That seems to be a number that people are talking about right now. Would you sign that? I would I would sit down with both sides and I negotiate something and we'll end up with peace on that issue for the first time in 52 years. I'm not going to say I would or I wouldn't. I mean, the sanctus would really design a five week and six week ban. Would you support that? I think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake. But we'll come up with a number. But at the same time, Democrats won't be able to go out in six months, seven months, eight months and allow an abortion. Now, there are people who took that answer and proclaimed that Donald Trump is not pro -life, like it's important to proclaim or make some kind of declaration that he is not pro -life. I believe it's ridiculous to claim that a guy who's the only president to ever attend the March for Life, the guy who promised to get Roe v. Wade overturned because that was terrible federal. That was a terrible federal ruling and appointed Supreme Court justices who did just that to claim that Donald Trump is not pro -life is preposterous. It's absurd. It's virtue signaling. And perhaps it's just. The opportunistic way you chalk up some points for Ron DeSantis, because clearly Team DeSantis is pouncing on Donald Trump over this remark. I believe two things can be true at the same time. You can be pro -life and you can acknowledge that this issue is killing us at the ballot box. And we're losing elections. So President Trump has some campaign trouble to manage. Meanwhile, our current president can barely navigate a simple speech. If you miss Joe Biden at the U .N. this week, well, buckle up. Remember when Trump went to the United Nations and gave a really good speech and the media freaked out and said how goofy and wild and unpresidential and unprecedented it was, they had a complete meltdown and he gave a really decent speech. Compare that to the appearance of Joe Biden yesterday at the U .N. Now, even as we have all our institutions and drive creative new partnerships. Let me be clear. Certain principles of our international system are sacrosanct. Both Biden and Kamala Harris do the same thing when they say, let me be clear, run for the hills, because when they say, let me be clear, you're going to see nothing but mud and gibberish. I mean, babbling incoherently in front of the United Nations. And if that wasn't wild enough, you've got the Ukrainian President Zelensky. He marches in with his entourage. You know, I used to say I was torn about Ukraine. People that I respect insist that we have got to continue to fund the Ukrainian battle with Russia, that the American people have to help Ukraine with its border. We dare not have a wall for our own border, but we better, by God, help Ukraine with theirs. We better fund them. We better give them the missiles they want. We got to give them the ammunition they need. We need to. We got to stop Vladimir Putin. And if you push back against that, you're a stooge for Vladimir Putin. You're a Putin puppet. Just ask Tucker Carlson. When Tucker dared to express the belief that the American people have bigger fish to fry than funding Ukraine, he was thoroughly denounced and renounced as a stooge of Vladimir Putin. So there goes Zelensky marching into the UN yesterday with his bodyguards and his entourage, and he gets up to that podium. And what he said was pretty stunning. I expected he would stand at that giant podium in front of that ugly green background at the UN and talk about the need to fund his military. Talk about Russia's aggression against the Ukrainian people. Talk about Ukraine's place in the whole worldview of things instead. We got this. Even though humanity is failing on its climate policy objectives, this means that extreme weather will still impact the normal global life and some evil state will also weaponize its outcomes. And then people in the streets of New York and other cities of the world went out on climate protest. We all have seen them and when people in Morocco and Libya and other countries die as a result of natural disasters and when islands and countries disappear underwater and when tornadoes and deserts are spreading into into new territories and when all of this is happening, one unnatural disaster in Moscow decided to launch a big war and killed the tens of thousands of people. No wonder loony leftists have the Ukrainian flag in their front yard. You would think the Ukrainian president had bigger problems than climate change. Meanwhile, the United Auto Workers hit the picket lines this week. They made a few modest demands like a 40 % pay raise in a four day work week. Speaking of the UAW strike, I watched Sean Fain, the president of the United Auto Workers Union on the Sunday morning news shows. And you know, I admit I'm not a real big fan of unions. In fact, quite the opposite. I kind of think that unions have helped destroy many aspects of our economic system. In fact, it's a commonly held view that pension plans that used to be in place contributed to the decline of the U S automakers. Well, now the UAW is demanding pensions come back. They want the old fashioned defined benefit plan. And as Bloomberg points out, pensions are not worth striking over. You know what I find interesting about the UAW dispute? I heard all the talking points about how the corporate executives at the big three automakers make too much money. That's a Bernie Sanders mantra. That's an Elizabeth Warren trope. The executives make too much. You know, a company can be producing billions of dollars of revenue, but the Bernie Sanders of the world want to cap what an executive at one of those companies earns, which I always find so fascinating. It's as if they want to equate the guy or gal on the assembly line with the big automakers. Well, they're not the same. I mean it'd be nice if everybody made the same amount of money in life hate to break it to your life doesn't work that way. Some people make more than others and admittedly a lot of it is luck. I don't deserve the living that I make, but I'm very blessed to make a good living. There are people make a lot more than I do and I don't begrudge them anything, but simply because somebody that might have a show on television might make 10 times what I make. I don't think I should make what they make simply because we do the same essentially same thing. I mean, and Democrats always have such hypocrisy on this issue. Like somebody just texted me, how many homes does Bernie Sanders have again? It's more than one. But here's something that I noticed when I heard Sean Fain, the president of the UAW talk about executives compensation and how we're not making enough and we're taking steps backwards. I mean, the fact of the matter is the union gave up the defined benefit pension plan in a previous negotiation. Now they want it back. When you give up a benefit like that, you're not going to get it back. That's not realistic. And here's what I'm interested in. You know what was missing from all the coverage of the UAW strike? They never talk about what auto make auto workers make. Now I kept hearing how somebody on the assembly line can't feed their family. Really? What do they make? I kept hearing that Sean Fain kept saying the auto workers have taken three steps backwards. Really? How much do they earn? I know what they want to make. They want a 40 % pay increase and they want to only work four days a week. Now that's a pretty good deal.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/21/23
"United States Border Patrol has exciting and rewarding career opportunities with the nation's largest law enforcement organization. Earn great pay with outstanding federal benefits and up to $20 ,000 in recruitment incentives. Learn more online at cbp .gov slash careers slash USBP. That's off the uh that was uh that was my birthday five years ago. The uh the boss vocal performer that enables me to do things like this. Welcome. A little delight. Groove is in the heart. Topics are in the air. Mike is in the house. How you doing, man? I'm good. I'm excited for you. I'm looking forward to hearing your conversation with Ken Paxton following Tucker's interview with Ken Paxton. I watched it last night. You know, the significance of this is so profound. It strikes me as to all the examples we're seeing of the machine trying to shut people down that they want to stop. Yeah. And if they can't stop them legitimately, if they can't get them beat at the ballot box, if they can't win in legitimate ways, then let's figure out a way to cheat. Let's figure out, let's impeach. Let's, let's have trials. Let's, let's do, let's cancel them any way we can. Let's sue them. Let's, let's prosecute them. Look at what's happening with Trump. I mean, that's the Ken Paxton story in a nutshell. They've tried to stop. And I love the way Tucker framed this, and you have too, so brilliantly. Ken Paxton is arguably the biggest thorn in the, in the side of the Biden administration that he's, that the administration's got. And he has been relentless. And as you pointed out, he's, he's on the right side of every issue, borders, law and order, the Constitution, everything, the second amendment, first amendment, go down the list, everything we pray for and that we want, Ken Paxton's on the right side of. And so they've decided, okay, we can't, he wins in a landslide. We can't stop him there. I know, let's impeach him. Now it's the same thing with Trump. There's such an analogy between the Ken Paxton story and the Donald Trump story. We can't stop his skyrocketing poll numbers. He's, he's apparently going to be the GOP nominee. And now there's a path for a number two that might not be Ron DeSantis. I mean, all along we've said Trump or DeSantis, Trump and DeSantis, apparently the New Hampshire voters don't agree. Who's, who's second? Is Vivek second in there? I don't know. It's like a race for the, it's, they're all close, they're all clustered together for second, but it's, but DeSantis is fifth.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/20/23
"Music I needed me some Gary Numan mic with a little new wavy electronic sound of cars. Because I've done something now that you have done. My goal in life is to follow everything you've done. When I grow up, I want to be you. So guess what I've done? Don't get dry socketed. Okay, well, Lord knows. Oh, how'd that go? How'd that go? I may not make it today. I'm going to maybe do the hit with you and I am, boy, am I hurting. Oh, boy. I come out of here and I'm listening to the Mike Gallagher Show as all good Americans should. Bless your heart. You're saying, please call me so I don't have to talk as much. Oh, my gosh. And they oblige. Yeah, it's really. But what's going on? And then I'll get to my silly little story. Well, no, no, I didn't mean to interrupt you. I didn't want to. No, it's okay. First things first. And I know you're and you're a little cranky because listen, I want to I want to lift you up. If you've got to be scooped by anybody, be scooped by Tucker Carlson. No, you know what's funny? Because Paxton's people thought I'd be upset. Oh, we're so sorry. It's like, dude, it's Tucker flipping Carlson. There's 50 million people if that delays me a day. And I also totally understand in Tucker world if they say, look, if Ken Paxton is going to be on with us. No other media before this airs. I completely understand. Well, it also gives you a lot of great material based on what he's going to say. Five o 'clock tonight, it drops. Yeah, yeah. Because when I saw that unfolding, I thought about the timing because I saw his announcement of being on with Tucker and I knew he was going to do your show. And I thought, well, I'll bet you the Tucker thing has got to go first, probably. And they're bringing him to Maine, right? That he has been there. It has happened. It's been taped. Absolutely. Oh, wow. Interesting. So anyway, I had this stupid wisdom tooth surgery Friday and was feeling great Saturday, a little less great Sunday, starting to feel bad Monday. By Tuesday, full -fledged pain. Go to the dentist. He said, yep, you've got dry socket. I said, well, Lord. And don't look that up online if you're going to have wisdom tooth surgery. So it's like a really, really awful, awful pain. It's like when the I don't want to get too graphic. But it's it's people who know it, know it. Dry socket is what you don't want to have after you get your wisdom tooth taken out. So I'm not sure I'm going to make it. Is there something you I remember when I had some wisdom teeth taken out. I remember a piece of device that said, don't do fill in the blank or you'll get dry socket. What was that? And did you do it? Well, I ate and that's you know, you got to eat and have that. No kidding. And that's sucking through a straw. How about a straw straws? Bad. No straws. No, you know, don't chew on that side. You don't want to get food in there, but good luck not getting food in it. And that's the problem. The dentist, the oral surgeon said, oh, boy, you got some food in there. I said, I've been trying to rinse with saltwater and like they told me to do. And I you know, but it's bad. I mean, I was up all night and tossing and turning and you can't. And it's always bad. Of course, it's this interesting dilemma that everybody has in life. Everybody goes to the doctor, has the same. And if you've got a problem like this, they don't want to give you narcotics. They are so reluctant because of the scared of you. Well, hooked on something ensuing. Yeah. Because of the whole, you know, national epidemic. Opioids have a bad name. Opioids have a bad name. Opioids are awesome. The cause. There's a drop. They used to be the cause. I mean, the purpose properly used has been. And what's the thing? You saw it, didn't you? A painkiller. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. About about the Sackler family and all that. So this is they all this Dr.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Mike Signorelli
"Trump calls Florida heartbeat bill a terrible mistake, and Mike Pence talks war with Russia. So I think if you will allow me to speak critically of Donald Trump for five minutes, I will speak critically. No, no, no, no. Look, you know, and I know, everybody listens who to this program knows that I don't think Trump is perfect. I think he ought to be the next president. And I think that, as you know about me and about many people listening to this program, that we are radically pro -life. We think it's a moral issue. And I think that Trump has made, I think he misspoke. I think it was, I don't know. Well, talk about it so people understand what we're talking about. Donald Trump went on face the nation and said that the heartbeat bill Ron DeSantis bravely signed in Florida was a terrible thing, a terrible mistake. And he said that he wouldn't commit to supporting any kind of federal restriction on the taking of unborn life. And he said with characteristic real estate bravado, well, I'm going to have policies that are going to make everybody happy. Everybody's going to walk away happy from the table. That is not how things work. When you're talking about life and death issues, Mr. President, that is how things might work. If you're negotiating over ownership of a golf course. All right. All right. Each of you is going to get nine holes. Okay. You'll each get nine holes. It's wonderful. You got, you've got half a golf course, half a loaf is better than none. But we remember from the story of Solomon, half a baby is not better than none. In this case, we're talking about cutting the baby in half. Literally we're talking about should abortion, should the pro -life position be, we want a bad abortion after maybe 15 weeks, which would only get rid of maybe 8 % of the abortions in America. If that's the pro -life position, it's not worth a damn thing. That's the law in Germany. That's the law in France. That's the law in Belgium. All these countries where euthanasia is now taking over. Having a 10 week, a 15 week abortion ban solves absolutely nothing. It just means the women who are so dopey, they don't even know they're pregnant until like 18 weeks won't be able to get abortions. That's all it means. He's really just punishing the stupid. It's not saving a significant number of babies. I don't know who Trump is getting his advice from on the abortion issue, but they're not on our side. They are like the Jared Kushner. They're not on our side. What Trump is saying is a complete loser position. It's like saying we're going to build the wall. We're going to build the wall with the Mexican border, except every 20 feet there's going to be a gap. We'll get most of the wall built. There'll guess who will come. I think a couple of things need to be said. First of all, I already said it. Trump is not perfect. So he often has done things that I think are harmful to himself. And saying that I think just politically is a mistake. But we also have to say without a doubt he has been the most pro -life president we ever had in this country. Because of him and standing up for Kavanaugh, Roe v. Wade was overturned. I want to remind people of that. I also want to remind people that he spoke at the March for Life. No other president had done that. And so right now, I guess I find everything with him, not everything, but a lot of stuff just funny. It's almost like he'll say anything Ron DeSantis says, he'll say the opposite. I know. You could be triggered and tripped into that. And it's his Achilles heel that whatever Trump, whatever DeSantis says, Trump will somehow try to spin it. Trump even said that Andrew Cuomo did a better job on COVID than Ron DeSantis. That is literally the most insane thing any American politician has said since Jefferson Davis said I want to secede from the union. It's up to that level of crazy. But Trump, I mean Trump does this stuff for effect. In other words, for political effect to drive people crazy. That's why I guess I find it at least partially entertaining that he'll go out on a limb and say something like that just to trigger DeSantis. The problem is this stuff isn't cute. There were thousands of people murdered in those nursing homes in New York. Abortion isn't cute. This is not something funny. This is not like letting Jared and Ivanka turn the White House into their own little party hut. This is really serious. And our only leverage over Trump is right now during the primaries. If he gets the nomination, he can do whatever he wants because he will be elected president unless they assassinate him, which I do not put past that. I do not put that past the deal. Oh, I know that there have been attempts that we haven't heard about, but obviously they would do anything to get rid of him. We have our leverage now, especially before the Iowa caucus. Trump needs to be told if you keep saying this weak, rhino, wimpy garbage about abortion, maybe we'll hold our noses and vote for you against Joe Biden because we don't want to be put in prison camps. But we're not going to go to the mattresses for you. We're not going to go to the wall for you. We're not going to be fanatical, devoted supporters. We will hold our nose and vote for you the way we held our noses and voted for George W. Bush. Do you want to be the next George W. Bush? Well, no, John, I think it's worse than that. I think what will happen, what will happen is many evangelicals, pro -life evangelicals simply won't vote, which I think is an unbelievable mistake because they feel it's principled not to vote for Trump because he said this about what DeSantis's view. On the other hand, let him think that and maybe it's true and let him act accordingly. It's like if we are so on the reservation, Eric, that they know they have our votes no matter what they do, the Republican Party will keep treating evangelicals and pro -lifers the way the Democratic Party treats blacks. That is, you have no choice where you're going to go, take whatever scraps we throw you. So no, I think it's good. Let him be a little afraid that we will go off the reservation. No, that's why I just said that. That's why I just said that. In other words, I actually believe that that's true because when you look at what happened in the last number of elections, there are many evangelicals who are so pious in the negative sense that they would say, I'm just going to sit home and I'm not going to vote because Trump had three wives and I'm going to let Hillary Clinton or Satan or Adolf Hitler take over America because I'm so pious that I won't pull the lever for somebody who doesn't agree with me on everything or who puts out mean tweets or says things I disagree with. That is effectively how we got Biden because we didn't have a serious situation that we're in. On the other hand, Mike Pence is saying that unless we give long range missiles to Ukraine so it can kill lots of Russians, we'll have to go to war with Russia because it will invade Poland. So in order to avoid war, we have to fight a war. It's exactly what George W. Bush said about Iraq, that we have to fight the terrorists over there so we don't have to fight them over here so they won't do 9 -11 again. Now we know now Iraq had nothing to do with 9 -11. It had no weapons of mass destruction. So he lied us into the Iraq war. In Vietnam, they told us we had to fight the Vietnam war so that the communists wouldn't take over Japan and then Hawaii. The whole domino theory is something that warmongers and the military contractors they work for, they whip it out every time they want to get us in a useless war. They say, well, remember Neville Chamberlain? Remember 1938? And I always say, remember August, 1914, when they blundered into World War I and destroyed all three of the main governments involved in it, all based on nothing, based on lies, based on garbage. Sometimes it's November, September, 1938. Sometimes it's August, 1914. And you're the idiot warmonger about to plunge the world into destruction because of your silly fantasies private about being a big man. Mike Pence is one of those warmongers and he's very dangerous right now. There's never enough time to talk to you, my friend. We'll get you back as soon as possible. Thank you, folks. We'll be right back. Thank you. For 10 years, Patriot Mobile has been America's only Christian conservative wireless provider. And when I say only, trust me, they're the only one. Glenn and the team have been great supporters of this show, which is why I'm proud to partner with them. 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THE NEWS with Anthony Davis
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"Find himself entangled in a battle with Chinese mythological gods. Based on the graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang, the series explores culture, identity, and acceptance through the lens of adolescence. American Born Chinese, premiering May 24, exclusively on Disney Plus. Coming up on 5 -Minute News Trump's criminal trial will begin next March when campaign is in full swing. Carrie Lake's final claim of election fraud dismissed by judge. And gay rights group issues Florida travel advisory as governor announces presidential run. It's Wednesday, May 24. I'm Anthony Davis. Donald Trump threw up his hands in frustration on Tuesday as a judge scheduled his criminal trial for March 25 next year, putting the disgraced former president and current candidate in a Manhattan courtroom in the heat of next year's presidential primary season. Trump, appearing by video conference at a pretrial hearing in the hush money case, glowered at the camera as the judge advised him to cancel all other obligations for the duration of the trial, which could last for several weeks. Trump pleaded not guilty last month to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush money payments made during the 2016 campaign to bury allegations that he had extramarital sexual encounters. He has denied wrongdoing. The judge said he arrived at the March 25 trial date after discussions with Trump's lawyers and prosecutors. Trump's case is proceeding in state court, even as his lawyers seek to have it moved to federal court because some of the alleged conduct occurred while he was president. The Manhattan district attorney's office has until next week to file paperwork stating why it should remain in state court where the historic indictment was brought. Trump has made the New York case and the long list of other investigations into his personal, professional and presidential conduct central to his campaign to reclaim the White House in 2024 and fundraise off the back of it. The Republican has portrayed himself as the victim of a coordinated, politically motivated effort to sully his chances, despite evidence to the contrary. A judge on Monday dismissed the only remaining legal claim in Republican Carrie Lake's challenge of her loss in last year's race for Arizona governor, affirming the election of Democrat Katie Hobbs. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter A. Thompson said Lake failed to prove her claim that Maricopa County did not verify signatures on mail ballots as required by law. Lake was among the most vocal of last year's Republican candidates, promoting former President Donald Trump's election lies, which she made the centerpiece of her campaign. She has built a small but loyal following among Trump supporters and is openly considering a run for the U .S. Senate seat now held by Kirsten Sinema, an independent and former Democrat. Lake is often mentioned as a potential vice presidential pick for Trump. While most other election deniers around the country conceded after losing their races in November, Lake did not. She has touted her legal battle in fundraising appeals and speeches around the country. Lake's signature verification claim was the subject of a three -day trial. Her lawyers argued that there was evidence that lower -level screeners who found inconsistencies in signatures ran them up the chain of command where they were neglected by higher -level verifiers. She did not contest whether voters' signatures on ballot envelopes matched those in their voting records. In mid -February, the Arizona Court of Appeals rejected Lake's assertions, concluding she presented no evidence that voters whose ballots were unreadable by tabulators at polling places were unable to vote. The following month, the State Supreme Court declined to hear nearly all of Lake's appeal, saying there was no evidence to support her claim that more than 35 ,000 ballots were added to vote totals. Earlier this month, the court sanctioned Lake's lawyers $2 ,000 for making false statements when saying that more than 35 ,000 ballots had been improperly added to the total count. Carrie Lake joins the disgraced former president in undermining U .S. democracy with frivolous accusations of election fraud. The largest LGBTQ rights organization in the U .S. joined other civil rights organizations yesterday in issuing a travel advisory for Florida, warning that newly passed laws and policies may pose risks to minorities, immigrants, and gay travelers. The Human Rights Campaign joined the NAACP, the League of United Latin American Citizens, the Florida Immigrant Coalition, and Equality Florida in issuing travel or relocation warnings for the Sunshine State, one of the most popular states for tourists to visit in the U .S. While the LGBTQ advocacy group said it wasn't calling for a boycott or making a blanket recommendation against visiting Florida, it said it wanted to highlight new laws passed by the Republican -controlled Florida legislature that they said are hostile to the LGBTQ community, restrict abortion access, and allow Floridians to carry concealed weapons without a permit. Meanwhile, Target, which rolled out its Pride collection at the start of May, is pulling some products from its stores after facing customer backlash, saying it was acting to protect employees' safety. Target is offering more than 2 ,000 products, including clothing, books, music, and home furnishings, as part of its Pride collection. Target has been celebrating Pride Month for more than a decade, but this year's collection has led to an increase in confrontations between customers and employees and incidents of Pride merchandise being thrown on the floor. This comes as anti -gay, far -right Florida Governor Ron DeSantis plans to launch his 2024 presidential campaign today in an online conversation with Twitter CEO Elon Musk. Subscribe to the 5 -Minute News Patreon for bonus videos, commentary, and more. Go to patreon .com slash 5 -Minute News. 30 -year -old remastered interviews with veterans from World War I recounting their time in the trenches of Europe, and with veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and from our most recent conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other battlefields Americans may never have heard of. Hear their stories by listening to Warriors in Their Own Words wherever you find podcasts.
THE NEWS with Anthony Davis
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"Coming up on 5 minute news. A quarter of a million Somalis escape floods after prolonged drought. Walgreens to pay $230 million for their role in opioid crisis. And Biden administration invests in carbon capture to offset climate change. It's Thursday, May 18. I'm Anthony Davis. Floods have caused almost a quarter of a million people to flee their homes after the shebelle river in central Somalia broke its banks and submerged the town of Bella Dwayne, even as the country faces its most severe drought in four decades. Aid agencies and scientists have warned that the climate crisis is among the most significant factors accelerating humanitarian emergencies, while those affected are some of the least responsible for CO2 emissions. Seasonal rains in Somalia and upstream in the Ethiopian highlands triggered flash floods that washed away homes, crops and livestock and temporarily closed schools and hospitals in Belle Duane, the capital of the hiran region. A crippling drought coupled with violence and a spike in food prices caused by the war in Ukraine killed as many as 43,000 people last year, according to United Nations figures. Since mid March, the floods have affected more than 460,000 people nationwide and killed 22, according to the UN humanitarian office, the Somali disaster management agency said the floods in Bel Duane alone have caused the displacement of more than 245,000 people. The rains are recharging water sources and enabling vegetation to regenerate, but it will take far more rainfall to effectively alleviate the impact of the recent drought, the OCH said in a report. The World Bank predicts 216 million people could be compelled to move within their own country by 2050 because of climate stress. The city of San Francisco said on Wednesday that it reached a $230 million settlement with Walgreens over its role in the city's opioid epidemic. The settlement came 9 months after U.S. district judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco said the drug store chain could be held liable for having substantially contributed to an opioid epidemic that caused widespread harm in the city and constituted a public nuisance. Brea faulted Walgreens for its 15 year failure to properly scrutinize opioid prescriptions and flag possible misuse of the sometimes highly addictive drugs. The San Francisco city attorney called Walgreens settlement the largest awarded to a local government in years of opioid litigation nationwide. He said Walgreens actions made the opioid epidemic in San Francisco worse than it otherwise would have been, and that there is no amount of money that will bring back the lives we have lost. In a statement Walgreens said it disputes liability and did not admit fault, but that settling allows it to focus on patients, customers, and communities, it said. The Deerfield Illinois based company had been the only remaining defendant in San Francisco's civil lawsuit after several drug makers and distributors reached settlements worth more than a $120 million in his ruling last August following a non jury trial, bray found that Walgreens suffered from a profit driven fulfill culture in dispensing opioids. Breyer found that Walgreens San Francisco pharmacies had received more than 1.2 million opioid prescriptions with red flags from 2006 to 2020, yet performed due diligence on less than 5% before dispensing them. Last May, Walgreens reached a $683 million opioid settlement with Florida, paying more than three quarters of the $878 million that four other companies, including rival CVS, agreed to pay in similar earlier settlements. Opioids include legal painkillers such as OxyContin and various forms of the highly addictive drug fentanyl. More than 600,000 people have died from drug overdoses in the United States from 1999 to 2021, including more than a 107,000 in 2021 alone, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Biden administration on Wednesday announced $251 million for carbon capture and storage projects in 7 states, aiming to reduce planet warming pollution from power plants and other industrial facilities. The announcement represents a vote of confidence by the government in the nascent technology, which proponents often from oil and gas industries say could have a huge role in reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. Meanwhile, many environmentalists note that the technology is far from scale and argue that focusing on it distracts from established renewable energy solutions. Between the direct investments announced Wednesday, billions more earmarks from legislation and public statements from Biden and U.S. climate envoy John Kerry, the government is increasing pressure on the carbon capture and storage industry to show that the technology can significantly help combat climate change. Carbon capture and storage involves removing carbon dioxide, either from the source of pollution or from the air at large, and storing it deep underground. In some instances, the carbon dioxide is transported across states through pipelines and stored at facilities and used for other things. The projects are funded through the U.S. Department of Energy, with funds from the bipartisan infrastructure law, which set aside $12 billion for carbon management projects, attacks credit that was part of the inflation reduction act has incentivized investments in carbon capture and storage projects in California, Wyoming and Alaska. 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THE NEWS with Anthony Davis
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"King. Coming up on 5 minute news. North Carolina Republicans override veto of 12 week abortion limit. Study finds YouTube's algorithm showing violent videos to children. And Ukraine says Russia's most powerful hypersonic weapon is destroyed. It's Wednesday, May 17. I'm Anthony Davis. The Republican controlled Senate in North Carolina voted yesterday to override the democratic governor's veto of a bill banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy in the first two steps necessary to enact the policy over governor Roy Cooper's opposition. The vote came as abortion rights in the U.S. faced another tectonic shift with lawmakers debating laws to sharply limit abortion in north and South Carolina, two of the few remaining southern states with relatively easy access. Nebraska joined North Carolina and South Carolina in debating abortion restrictions yesterday that a possible because the U.S. Supreme Court last year struck down the landmark 1973 roe V wade ruling, which established a nationwide right to abortion under another bill on Tuesday up for a vote in the South Carolina House, abortion access would be almost entirely banned after about 6 weeks of pregnancy. The South Carolina state Senate rejected a proposal to nearly outlaw all abortions. Abortion is banned or severely restricted in much of the south and is banned throughout pregnancy now in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia. In Georgia, it's allowed only in the first 6 weeks of pregnancy, often before a woman knows she is pregnant. The Carolinas, Florida, and Virginia are now the main destinations in the region for those seeking legal abortion. Florida has a ban that kicks in 15 weeks into pregnancy under a recent law that would tighten to 6 weeks pending a court ruling. Further west, women, if they can afford it, often travel to Illinois, Kansas, New Mexico, or Colorado. Nationally, bans on abortion throughout pregnancy are in effect in 14 states. When researchers at a nonprofit that studies social media wanted to understand the connection between YouTube videos and gun violence, they set up accounts on the platform that mimicked the behavior of typical boys living in the U.S.. They simulated two 9 year olds who both liked video games, the accounts were identical except that one clicked on the videos recommended by YouTube and the other ignored the platform's suggestions. The account that clicked on YouTube suggestions was soon flooded with graphic videos about school shootings, tactical gun training videos, and how to instructions on making firearms fully automatic. One video featured an elementary school age girl wielding a handgun. Another showed a shooter using a 50 caliber gun to fire on a dummy head filled with lifelike blood and brain matter. Many of the videos violate YouTube's own policies against violent or gory content. The findings show that despite YouTube's rules and content moderation efforts, the platform is failing to stop the spread of frightening videos that could traumatize vulnerable children, or send them down dark roads of extremism and violence. The accounts that followed YouTube suggested videos received 382 different firearms related videos in a single month, or about 12 per day. The accounts that ignored YouTube's recommendations still received some gun related videos that only 34 in total. A spokeswoman for YouTube defended the platform's protections for children and noted that it requires users under 17 to get their parents permission before using their site. Accounts for users younger than 13 are linked to the parental account. We offer a number of options for younger viewers the company wrote in an emailed statement, which are designed to create a safer experience for tweens and teens. Along with TikTok, the video sharing platform is one of the most popular sites for children and teens, both sites have been criticized in the past for hosting and in some cases promoting videos that encourage gun violence, eating disorders and self harm. Critics of social media have also pointed to the links between social media, radicalization, and real world violence. Ukraine said it as neutralize the Kremlin's most potent hypersonic weapon, shooting down 6 out of 6 kinzel missiles launched at Kyiv, but hours later it emerged the intense nighttime attack had damaged a patriot air defense system, Yuri and at a spokesperson for Ukraine's air command, said Moscow had also bombarded the capital with 9 caliber missiles and three ballistic rockets, as well as 6 attack drones and three reconnaissance drones. All were shot down, he said, thwarting what he called air terrorism. But the attack appears to have damaged a U.S. made patriot air defense battery. Officials warn the system may have to be withdrawn entirely, depending on the level of damage at a sustained and assessment was ongoing. The attack on Kyiv was one of the biggest since last year's invasion and followed volodymyr zelensky's three day trip to Europe during meetings in London, Berlin, Paris and Rome, Ukraine's president secured promises of more military assistance, including long-range attack drones from the UK. Earlier on Tuesday, the Ministry of Defense in Moscow said it destroyed a U.S. supplied patriot air defense battery. Serious damage to a patriot would be a major blow to Ukraine's air defenses, two patriots, one donated by the U.S. and won by Germany arrived in the country around mid April, and have already been targeted previously by Russian missiles in an effort to eliminate them. You can subscribe to the 5 minute news Patreon for bonus videos, commentary and more go to Patreon dot com slash 5 minute news. Hello. This is Gary Shea. Welcoming you to check out the French history podcast. Our main show covers the history of France from the first humans until present. If you like Mike Duncan's the history of Rome and wanted a similar program covering the land of beauty, culture and love, we are exactly that. We also host world renowned scholars who have delivered guest episodes on their specialties, including 18th century pirates, revolutionary booksellers in 20th century Paris, the special friendship between the Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson and numerous others. Learn what you love and listen to the French history podcast today.
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"E Jean Carroll called friend immediately after Trump rape says testimony. U.S. Surgeon General warns loneliness is next public health priority. And U.S. to send 1500 troops to southern border as title 42 ends. It's Wednesday, May 3. I'm Antony Davis. A friend of E Jean Carroll on Tuesday backed up the writer's account of being raped by the former president Donald Trump, testifying during a civil trial that she received a phone call about the alleged attack minutes after it occurred. Author Lisa bernbach told a jury in Manhattan federal court that she vividly remembered Carol calling her one evening in the spring of 1996 and saying Trump had just attacked her in a dressing room in the lingerie section of the bergdorf Goodman department store in New York City. Carol's civil lawsuit for battery and defamation alleges Trump raped her and then tied her reputation by claiming in an October 2022 post on his truth social platform that the former Elle magazine advice columnists case was a complete con job and a hoax and a lie. Trump has denied the allegations and said he has never met Carroll, whom he accuses of making up the story. I whispered E Jean he raped you. You should go to the police burn back testified. On Monday, Carol wrapped up her third day on the witness stand, where she recounted the alleged assault and responded to pointed cross examination by a lawyer for Trump who questioned nearly every aspect of her account. Burn back testify that Carol refused to go to the police after the alleged rape and asked her to never tell anyone about the incident. Another woman, Jessica Leeds testified on Tuesday that Trump kissed her, groped her and put his hand up her skirt on a flight in 1979. Trump's lawyers sought a mistrial on Monday accusing U.S. district judge Lewis Kaplan of bias against him in a motion Kaplan swiftly denied from the bench. 26 women have now made allegations of sexual assault against the disgraced former president. The U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released an advisory on loneliness and isolation on Tuesday and urged people and public officials to treat the matter with the same urgency as other serious conditions, such as obesity or drug abuse, as it continues to surge, affecting about half of the people living in the U.S. Murphy who has written about his own personal experience with loneliness and feeling isolated for several years said the pandemic has brought the disruption of social cohesion to the forefront. But as the advisory points out, the issue has been ticking up since the 1970s for a myriad of reasons, including changes in social norms built environments and of course technology. The advisory sites polls from the 1970s in which 45% of Americans said they could reliably trust other Americans. That dropped to roughly 30% by 2016. Between 2003 and 2020, the time Americans spent alone increased by 24 hours a month, and time with friends in person decreased by ten hours a month. Teenagers and adults reported being online almost constantly, but across all ages had fewer Friends and in person interactions. These changes coupled with the influx of home delivery and other changes that limit personal interactions can leave people feeling disconnected, but without addressing the issue, the lack of connection contributes to increased hospital visits and dementia, but also a vicious cycle of anxiety and depression that one third of U.S. adults reported experiencing, according to the Kaiser family foundation. Mirth is advisory suggests ways that individuals, companies and public officials can start to bring people together and address the issue of loneliness. Those solutions include tracking social connection through research, making social connection and priority at work and community programs that consistently bring people together. The Joe Biden administration will temporarily send 1500 additional troops to help secure the U.S. Mexico border The Pentagon said on Tuesday, in preparation for a possible rise in illegal immigration when COVID-19 border restrictions lift later this month. The 90 day deployment of active duty troops will supplement the work of the U.S. border patrol, but will not carry out law enforcement duties Pentagon spokesperson Brigadier general pat rider said in a statement. They will conduct ground based monitoring, data entry and warehouse support to free up border agents and fill critical capability gaps rider said. The force will be in addition to an ongoing deployment of about two and a half thousand National Guard troops. The so called title 42 restrictions set to end on May 11 allow U.S. authorities to rapidly expel non Mexican migrants to Mexico without the chance to seek asylum. The 1500 troops could arrive at the U.S. Mexico border by May 10 rider said during the briefing. The Pentagon is looking at ways to replace the active duty personnel with those from the reserve force, he said. The Mexican president when asked about the troop deployment in a news conference said the U.S. is a sovereign nation and that Mexico respects its decisions. U.S. Military troops have been used to help secure the border during previous presidential administrations, including Republican George W. Bush, Democrat Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, who deployed thousands of active duty and National Guard troops. You can subscribe to the 5 minute news Patreon for bonus videos, commentary and more go to Patreon dot com slash 5 minute news. 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"Asks, what's that sound? That's the sound of hearts popping out of your eyes when you see smoothie king's all new smoothie bowls. These power packed beauties are just waiting to be spooned. Our smoothie bowls start with acai or Pattaya and our handcrafted with fresh toppings like sliced bananas, sweet berries, ripe mangoes, crunchy, purely Elizabeth granola, and a savory peanut butter drizzle. That's the sound of a smoothie bowl being made fresh. Just for you. The new smoothie bowls menu only smoothie king coming up on 5 minute news. Another mass shooting at an Alabama birthday party. Judge delays trial over Fox News and 2020 election lives. And mRNA cancer vaccine delays skin cancer return. It's Monday. April 17. I'm Anthony Davis. Law enforcement officers in Alabama on Sunday were imploring people to come forward with information about a shooting that killed four people and injured 28 others during a teenager's birthday party. Among those killed was a high school senior who planned to play college football and was celebrating his sister's 16th birthday. The shooting erupted on Saturday night at a dance studio in downtown dayville during two news conferences on Sunday, sergeant Jeremy burkitt of the Alabama law enforcement agency did not take questions. He did not say if a suspect was in custody or if investigators knew about any motivation. He did not provide the names of those killed. The bloodshed in Alabama marks the third high profile mass shooting in as many weeks in the U.S. south, following separate outbreaks of deadly gun violence in Tennessee and Kentucky that prompted local leaders to call for tighter gun control measures. Dave ville itself was shaken by at least one prior mass shooting in August of 2016, when a gunman wounded 5 people at a party at an American legion hall. What has our nation come to when children can not attend a birthday party without fear, president Joe Biden said in a statement last night? Biden called the rising gun violence in the U.S. outrageous and unacceptable, and urged the U.S. Congress to pass laws to make firearms manufacturers more liable for gun violence. Ban assault weapons and high capacity ammunition magazines and require safe storage of firearms and background checks for gun sales. Meanwhile, Republicans vying for their party's 2024 presidential nomination and other prominent party members sought to cast themselves as unwaveringly supportive of gun rights without restrictions in Indiana over the weekend at the annual conference of the National Rifle Association. The country's largest gun lobby. The Delaware judge overseeing a voting machine company's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News announced late on Sunday that he was delaying the start of the trial until Tuesday. He did not cite a reason, though there are early reports that the two sides were keen to have a conversation suggesting some kind of out of court settlement. The trial which has drawn international interest had been scheduled to start this morning with jury selection and opening statements. The case centers on whether Fox defamed dominion voting systems by spreading false claims that the company rigged the 2020 presidential election to prevent the disgraced former president Donald Trump's reelection. Records produced as part of the lawsuit showed that many of the network's hosts and executives didn't believe the allegations, but aired them anyway. Jurors hearing the lawsuit would have to answer a specific question did Fox defame the voting machine company by airing bogus stories alleging that the election was rigged against then president Donald Trump, even as many at the network, privately doubted the false claims being pushed by Trump and his allies. Yet the broader context looms large, a trial would test press freedom and the reputation of conservatives favorite propaganda source. It would also illuminate the flow of misinformation that helped spark the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. capitol and continues to fuel Trump's hopes to regain power in 2024. Court papers released over the past two months show Fox executives producers and personalities privately disbelieved Trump's claims of a fraudulent election, but dominion said Fox was afraid of alienating its audience with the truth, particularly after many viewers were angered by the network's decision to declare Democrat Joe Biden the winner in Arizona on election night in November 2020. An experimental mRNA cancer vaccine developed by Moderna and Merck cut the risk of death or recurrence of the most deadly skin cancer by 44% compared with Merck's immunotherapy keytruda alone U.S. researchers reported at a medical meeting on Sunday. The findings suggest that adding a personalized cancer vaccine based on mRNA technology to keytruda, which revs up the immune response, could prolong the time patients have without recurrence or death, said doctor Jeffrey Weber, who presented the findings. From a general cancer therapeutic standpoint, this is a potential major breakthrough doctor Ryan Sullivan, a melanoma expert at mass general cancer who worked on the study, said in a statement. The results presented at American association for cancer research meeting in Orlando, Florida added data details to partial findings released by the companies in December. Additional data will be presented at an upcoming medical meeting and published in a peer reviewed journal. The combination treatment has won U.S. breakthrough therapy and European medicines agency prime scheme designation, regulatory programs that aim to speed development of innovative treatments. The Merck Moderna collaboration is one of several combining powerful drugs that unleash the immune system to target cancers with mRNA vaccine technology use successfully around the globe to prevent people from being hospitalized with COVID-19. The vaccine is custom built based on analysis of a patient's tumors after surgical removal. The vaccines are designed to train the immune system to recognize and attack specific mutations in cancer cells. You can subscribe to the 5 minute news Patreon for bonus videos, commentary and more go to Patreon dot com slash 5 minute news. High podcast listeners, I'm Carol Costello, a former CNN anchor and national correspondent. This January, I'm launching a podcast about one of the first cases I ever covered as a journalist. It's one that stuck with me all of these years, the one that buried itself under my skin and stayed put. It's a true crime series about an amazing woman named Phyllis coddle, who defied torture and death and brought a fierce rage to the quest to find her attacker. Carol Costello presents blind rage as a production of evergreen podcasts and signature title of the killer podcast network. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Discover more great true crime and paranormal programming at killer podcast dot com.
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"Falsifying business records in an historic case over allegations he orchestrated hush money payments to two women before the 2016 U.S. election to suppress publication of their sexual encounters with him. Prosecutors in Manhattan accused Trump, the first sitting or former U.S. president to face criminal charges of trying to conceal a violation of election laws during his successful 2016 campaign. When asked by the judge in court how he pleaded, Trump said, not guilty. Prosecutor Chris Conroy said the defendant Donald J Trump falsified New York business records in order to conceal an illegal conspiracy to undermine the integrity of the 2016 presidential election and other violations of election laws. While falsifying business records in New York on its own is a misdemeanor, punishable by no more than a year in prison, its elevated to a felony punishable by up to four years when done to advance or conceal another crime, such as election law violations. Prosecutors during the arraignment said Trump made a series of social media posts, including one threatening death and destruction if he was charged. The judge asked the parties to please refrain from making statements that are likely to incite violence or civil unrest. Trump said nothing as he entered the courtroom or when he left roughly an hour later. He flew home to Florida where he addressed family, Friends, and supporters at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach on Tuesday night, delivering a litany of grievances against investigators and prosecutors and rival politicians in a rambling speech. Trump faces a separate criminal probe by a county prosecutor in Georgia into whether he unlawfully tried to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state. He also faces two U.S. Justice Department investigations, led by a special counsel into attempts to overturn the 2020 election results, and his handling of classified documents after leaving office. Tennessee Republican lawmakers took the first steps on Monday to expel three democratic members from the GOP dominant house for their role in a recent gun control protest at the state capitol. The extraordinary rare move resulted in a chaotic and fiery confrontation between lawmakers and supporters opposing the move and as further fractured and already deep political division inside the Tennessee legislature. Resolutions have been filed against representatives Gloria Johnson Justin Jones and Justin Pearson after they led chance from the house floor with supporters in the gallery last Thursday. The resolution declared that the three had participated in disorderly behavior and did knowingly an intentionally bring disorder and dishonor to the House of Representatives. Republican representatives but Halsey, Geno balso and Andrew farmer filed the resolutions. They successfully requested on Monday that the house expedite the process and vote on the resolutions tomorrow. Despite support from the Republican supermajority, their requests sparked outrage among supporters watching in the gallery. They allowed jeers led House speaker Cameron Sexton to demand that they be removed by state troopers. Also during the turmoil, several lawmakers engaged in a confrontation on the House floor. Hundreds of protesters packed the capital last week, calling for the Republican led state House to pass gun control measures in response to the Nashville school shooting that resulted in the deaths of 6 people. As the chance echoed throughout the capital, Jones Johnson and Pearson approached the front of the House chamber with a bullhorn. Sexton confirmed that the three lawmakers had been stripped of their committee assignments and said more punishments could be on the way. Expelling lawmakers is an extraordinary action inside the Tennessee capital, just two other House members have ever been ousted from the chamber since the Civil War. Wisconsin judge Janet Protoss defeated Daniel Kelly in a record breaking race that could determine the future of reproductive rights in the state. The race between protocell and the conservative Daniel Kelly set spending records with more than $45 million having been spent ahead of Tuesday's election. For to say witz will rule on several critical issues over the course of her tenured term, but none is more immediately pertinent to voters than a lawsuit that will determine whether an 1849 ban on abortion remains in effect. Wisconsin's democratic attorney general, Josh call, filed a lawsuit challenging the law, and it's expected to reach the state Supreme Court later this year. Wisconsin will become the first state that has outlawed abortion since roe to reverse course and legalise it again should the Supreme Court rule in calls favor. It is likely to do so now that the court has flipped from a conservative to a liberal majority, which will come as a relief to the state's doctors. Warned that if Kelly won the race, the archaic law would stay on the books, Protoss hasn't said explicitly how she will rule, but is a vocal supporter of abortion rights. You can subscribe to the 5 minute news Patreon for bonus videos, commentary and more go to Patreon dot com slash 5 minute news. Mad magazine advertising mascots. Be movie posters and cartoons. If you get the funky connection that ties these pop culture gems together, you'll dig two designers walk into a bar. See, we're a couple of creatively curious pals living between the bookends of grand museums and dive bars. Hey, you know the place, the sweet spot where highbrow and lowbrow become drinking buddies. So join our bar room chats as we talk influential work and uncover stories of how the familiar became iconic. Think behind the music for the stuff we love. Check out our website at two designers walk into a bar dot com. And listen wherever you get your podcasts or visit evergreen podcasts dot com.
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"Coming up on 5 minute news. World turning the tide after backslide on democracy says Biden. Kentucky GOP override veto of transgender protections. And reparations still up for debate in California. It's Thursday March 30. I'm Anthony Davis. Joe Biden on Wednesday offered an optimistic outlook on the health of democracy worldwide, declaring that leaders are turning the tide in stemming a years long backslide of democratic institutions. Opening his second democracy summit Biden looked to spotlight hopefully advancements over the past year, despite Russia's war in neighboring Ukraine and U.S. tensions with China over its military and economic influence in the indo Pacific and beyond. The president cited signs of progress across the globe from Angola's efforts to create an independent judiciary, Croatia's move to boost government transparency and the Dominican Republic's anti corruption steps. At home Biden pointed to his stalled push for voting protections in Congress as evidence of his administration's commitment to support democracy. Today, we can say with pride, democracies of the world are getting stronger, not weaker Biden said. That's a direct result of all of us. The summits which bind and promised as a candidate in 2020 have become an important piece of his administration's effort to try to build deeper alliances and nudge autocratic leaning nations toward at least modest changes. He said the U.S. will spend $690 million bolstering democracy programs, supporting everything from free and independent media to free and fair elections around the world. He said he also wanted to use the summit to foster discussion about the use of technology to advance democratic governance and ensure such technology is not used to undermine it. Republican lawmakers in Kentucky on Wednesday swept aside the democratic governor's veto of a bill regulating some of the most personal aspects of life for transgender young people from banning access to gender affirming healthcare to restricting the bathrooms they can use. Kentucky's state Senate voted 29 to 8 to override the veto on Wednesday afternoon, while the House voted 76 to 23, officially making the bill law. The bill prohibits transgender students in public schools from using restrooms locker rooms and showers matching their gender identity and instructs school officials to ban instruction on sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases for children below 5th grade. It also prohibits healthcare providers from providing gender affirming services to minors for the purpose of attempting to alter the appearance or perception of the miners sex. Under the law, healthcare providers licenses can be revoked for any violations. The bill's opponents framed the issue as a civil rights fight. Democratic representative Sarah stalker said, Kentucky will be on the wrong side of history by enacting the measure. The American civil liberties union of Kentucky reaffirmed that it intends to take this fight to the courts to try to preserve access to healthcare options for young transgender people. Bill supporters assembled to defend the measure, saying it protects trans children from undertaking gender affirming treatments they might regret as adults, research shows such regret is rare. The legislation in Kentucky is part of a national movement with state lawmakers approving extensive measures that restrict the rights of LGBTQ+ people this year from bills targeting trans athletes and drag performers to measures limiting gender affirming care. At least 11 Republican states have now enacted extremist laws restricting or banning gender affirming care for minors, federal judges have blocked enforcement of laws in Alabama and Arkansas, and nearly two dozen states are considering bills this year to restrict or ban care. The leader of California's first in the nation reparations task force on Wednesday said it won't take a stance on how much the state should compensate black residents whom economists estimate may be owed more than $800 billion for decades of overpolicing disproportionate incarceration and housing discrimination. The $800 billion is more than 2.5 times California's $300 billion annual budget and does not include a recommended $1 million per older black resident for health disparities that have shortened their average lifespan, nor does the figure count compensating people for property unjustly taken by the government or devaluing black businesses to other harms the task force said the state perpetuated. Black residents may not receive cash payments anytime soon, if ever, because the state legislature and governor Gavin Newsom will ultimately decide whether any reparations are to be paid. The task force faces a July 1st deadline to recommend the forms of compensation to be awarded and who should receive it, along with other remedies to repair the harm. For those who support reparations, the staggering $800 billion estimate underscores the long-lasting harm black Americans have endured, even in a state that never officially endorsed slavery. You can subscribe to the 5 minute news Patreon for bonus videos, commentary and more go to Patreon dot com slash 5 minute news. Yes, go out there. Everyone, I'm hell Schwartz. And I'm Flynn McLean. Together we host a podcast called none but the brave, which focuses on the music and career of Bruce Springsteen. We begin season four of the podcast on September 26th with a look at the 40th anniversary of Nebraska and we'd love for you to join us. And you can check out our previous three seasons right now wherever you get your podcast. We've also had some pretty cool guests on like little Steven Van Zandt of the E street band, Brian and Hyatt from Rolling Stone and Ken Rosenthal from Fox Sports. If you're a fan of Bruce's music, you're not going to want to miss our discussions on his past albums and tours. And as Bruce begins his first tour in 6 years next year, we will cover it as it happens. And we are very excited about that. Yes, we are. So check out our website, but the brave podcast dot com. And we hope to see you further on up the road. Thank you so much. We'll be seeing you.
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"Coming up on 5 minute news. Military releases video of Russian jet dumping fuel on drone. New York's attorney general calls for no more delay in Trump's civil fraud case. And China accuses U.S. of suppressing TikTok app. It's Friday. March 17. I'm center templeton. The Pentagon has released footage of what it says was a Russian aircraft pouring fuel on a U.S. Air Force surveillance drone and clipping its propeller in international airspace over the Black Sea. The 42 second video shows a Russian SU 27, approaching the back of the MQ 9 drone and beginning to release fuel as it passes The Pentagon said. Apparently aimed at blinding its optical instruments and driving it out of the area. On the second approach, either the same jet or another Russian fighter, struck the drones propeller, damaging one blade according to the U.S. Military. The military said it ditched the MQ 9 Reaper in the sea after what it said was an unsafe intercept of the unmanned aerial vehicle. The released excerpt does not show events before or after the apparent fuel dumping. Russia said its warplanes did not strike the drone and claimed it went down after making a sharp maneuver over the sea. Nikolai patrushev, the secretary of Russia's Security Council, said on Wednesday that Moscow would try to recover the drone fragments. On Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry peskov told reporters the decision was up to the military. If they consider it necessary to do so in the Black Sea for the benefit of our interests and security, they will do it, he said. U.S. officials have expressed confidence that nothing of military value would remain from the drone even if Russia managed to retrieve the wreckage. U.S. defense secretary Lloyd Austin and joint chiefs of staff chairman general Mark milley has spoken to their Russian counterparts about the destruction of the drone. While intercept attempts are not uncommon, the incident amid the war in Ukraine has raised concerns it could bring the U.S. and Russia closer to direct conflict. New York's attorney general urged a state judge to reject Donald Trump's bid to delay her civil fraud case against him and said the former U.S. president might use his 2024 White House run as an excuse for further delay. In a Wednesday night court filing, attorney general letitia James said her office had provided Trump and other defendants with an enormous quantity of material, including 1.7 million documents and interview transcripts from 56 witnesses. She said that negates their plea for an extra 6 months to gather evidence to defend themselves adequately at trial, now scheduled for October 2, and accused them of being slow to conduct their own witness depositions. The record defendants have and are compiling is more than sufficient to afford them due process and prevent the trial from becoming a game of surprise, James said. When the calendar turns over into 2024, Donald J Trump will be in the midst of a campaign for president she added, defendants have used his campaign as a reason for delay in both 2016 and 2020. There is no reason to believe 2024 will be any different. Lawyers for the defendants did not immediately respond on Thursday to request for comment. James sued Trump three of his adult children, the Trump organization and others last September, following a three year probe. The $250 million lawsuit concerns an alleged decade long scheme to manipulate more than 200 asset valuations and Trump's net worth to win better terms from banks and insurers. Trump has called the case a partisan witch hunt. The case is separate from Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg's criminal probe into a hush money payment to keep porn star stormy Daniels quiet before the 2016 presidential election about her alleged affair with Trump. China has accused the U.S. of spreading disinformation and suppressing TikTok after reports that Biden administration was calling for its Chinese owners to sell their stakes in the popular video sharing app. Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wen bin told reporters, Washington has yet to present evidence that TikTok threatens national security and is using the excuse of data security to abuse its power to suppress foreign companies. TikTok was dismissive of a report in The Wall Street Journal that said the committee on foreign investment in the U.S. part of the Treasury Department was threatening a ban on the app unless its owners, Beijing based ByteDance, divested. If protecting national security is the objective, divestment doesn't solve the problem. A change in ownership would not impose any new restrictions on data flows or access. TikTok spokesperson, Maureen Shanahan said. She added that TikTok was already answering concerns through transparent U.S. based protection of U.S. user data and systems, with robust, third party monitoring, vetting, and verification. In late February, The White House gave all federal agencies 30 days to wipe TikTok off all government devices. Some agencies, including the departments of defense, Homeland Security, and the State Department already have restrictions in place, while The White House does not allow TikTok on its devices. The UK government has become the latest to ban TikTok from government devices after security concerns were raised there. An ordered security review by cabinet office ministers looked at the potential vulnerability of government data from social media apps on devices and risks around how sensitive information could be accessed and used by some platforms. The TikTok ban in the UK will not apply to personal devices for ministers, government employees, or the wider public. You can subscribe to the 5 minute news Patreon for bonus videos, commentary and more go to Patreon dot com slash 5 minute news. Mad magazine. Advertising mascots. Be movie posters and cartoons. If you get the funky connection that ties these pop culture gems together, you'll dig two designers walk into a bar. See, we're a couple of creatively curious pals living between the bookends of grand museums and dive bars. Hey, you know the place, the sweet spot where highbrow and lowbrow become drinking buddies. So join our bar room chats as we talk influential work and uncover stories of how the familiar became iconic. Think behind the music for the stuff we love. Check out our website at two designers walk into a bar dot com. And listen wherever you get your podcasts or visit evergreen podcasts dot com.
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"Coming up on 5 minute news. Donald Trump to be indicted in New York says report. Biden's budget frustrates Republicans raising taxes on the rich. And Mexican cartel apologizes for attack on Americans. It's Friday March 10. I'm Anthony Davis. According to The New York Times, the Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg's office has requested the disgraced former president Donald Trump to testify before a grand jury looking into a hush money payment to a pawn star during the 2016 presidential campaign, sending a clear message that an indictment against the ex-president is imminent. It's not clear if Trump will accept the offer, though it's rare for prospective defendants to testify, according to the times report, which cited for unnamed sources with knowledge of the matter. The case centers around a 100 and $30,000 payment then Trump fixer Michael Cohen made to porn star stormy Daniels in an apparent attempt to keep her from going public with details of an alleged affair she had with Trump before he ran for office. Prosecutors appear likely to argue the Trump organization illegally reimbursed Cohen the $130,000 through identifying the payment as legal expenses as falsifying business records is a misdemeanor offense in New York. They may also argue the payment was a felony violation of campaign finance law, since the cash to allegedly kill the story may have functioned as an illegal donation to help the Trump campaign, though that is the subject of legal debate. Trump's potential indictment could send shockwaves across the 2024 presidential campaign as prominent Republicans mild entering the race. It could also be the first domino to fall in what could end up being a string of criminal charges against the former president, following years of investigations and mounting legal pressures. Trump is facing a federal special counsel investigation looking into his role in staging a coup, which resulted in the storming of the U.S. capitol, and his potential mishandling of classified government records, while a Georgia special grand jury recently wrapped up a probe into Trump's efforts to overturn the state's 2020 election results. Trump is also facing criminal investigations into his business practices in New York State related to alleged financial fraud. In the battleground state of Pennsylvania, where he is likely to run for reelection in 2024, president Joe Biden presented plans for increased spending and taxes on the wealthy on Thursday. Speaking as a union hall in Philadelphia, the democratic president pressed Republican rivals to be more fiscally responsible, citing proposals to reduce the U.S. deficit by over $3 trillion over ten years by raising taxes on individuals making more than $400,000. Overall, the budget would increase federal spending in the 12 months starting in October to $6.8 trillion from the 6.2 trillion expected to be spent in the current fiscal year. Biden's budget proposal faces stiff opposition from Republican lawmakers emboldened by winning control of the House of Representatives in November's midterm elections. Large parts of his agenda are unlikely to even be enacted by this Congress. The plan, however, is a political statement that directly challenges Republican House speaker Kevin McCarthy's threats to block an increase in the $31.4 trillion limit on federal borrowing unless Biden agrees to rein in federal spending. The president seeks to fund higher spending and narrowing the deficit by imposing a 25% minimum tax on billionaires and nearly doubling the capital gains tax from 20% The White House said. He also wants to quadruple a 1% stock buyback tax, potentially picking a fight with some of the investors he would need to call on to finance any reelection campaign. The measures would roll back some corporate tax breaks enacted in 2017 under Republican president Donald Trump. Suspected drug cartel members on Thursday handed over 5 purported henchmen as a would be apology for the abduction of four Americans in the border city of matamoras. The two of the Americans and a Mexican woman died after gunmen opened fire on the U.S. citizens shortly after their arrival in Matamoros on Friday. The four Americans were found on Monday on the edge of the city by which time two of them were dead. Mexican officials gave the bodies of the two dead men identified as shaid woodard and zindel Brown to U.S. officials in Matamoros on Thursday afternoon, and they were taken across the border into the U.S.. A faction of Mexico's gulf cartel was likely responsible for the kidnappings and that the gunmen may have believed that the Americans were encroaching on the gang's turf. Evidence suggested woodard and Brown had probably died from injuries they suffered during the attack by the gunmen in Matamoros on Friday. The two surviving companions returned to the U.S. earlier this week. The attorney general said on Monday the abduction of the four was likely a case of mistaken identity, but authorities have yet to clearly set out the reasons for the attack. You can subscribe to the 5 minute news Patreon for bonus videos, commentary and more go to Patreon dot com slash 5 minute news. Mad magazine advertising mascots. Be movie posters and cartoons. If you get the funky connection that ties these pop culture gems together, you'll dig two designers walk into a bar. See, we're a couple of creatively curious pals living between the bookends of grand museums and dive bars. Hey, you know the place, the sweet spot where highbrow and lowbrow become drinking buddies. So join our bar room chats as we talk influential work and uncover stories of how the familiar became iconic. Think behind the music for the stuff we love. Check out our website at two designers walk into a bar dot com. And listen wherever you get your podcasts or visit evergreen podcasts dot com.
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"DoJ probe finds Louisville police discriminate against black people. Nissan to reduce cost of electric power trains for EVs. And as conflict rages, Russia launches missile barrage on Ukraine. Its Thursday, March 9th. I'm Anthony Davis. The U.S. Justice Department reached its conclusion yesterday after an investigation into the killing of briona Taylor in a botched police raid in 2020. The investigation found that Louisville police had engaged in illegal practices that violated citizen civil rights and discriminated against black people and people with behavioral health deficiencies. The city of Louisville consented to an overhaul of its policing procedures. Coming shortly before the killing of George Floyd by officers in Minneapolis, Taylor's death fueled protests against police brutality and for systemic reform. The Justice Department civil rights division has now concluded that Louisville police and city government failed to adequately protect and serve and discriminated against black people and deployed unjustified neck restraints, an unreasonable use of police dogs and tasers. Announcing the findings the U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland said officers had demonstrated disrespect for the people they were sworn to protect. Some videotaping themselves, throwing drinks at pedestrians from their cars, insulting people with disabilities and calling black people monkeys, animal and boy. This conduct is unacceptable, it's heartbreaking Garland said in Louisville, it erodes the community trust necessary for effective policing. It's an affront to the people of Louisville, who deserve better. Louisville police disproportionately stopped black drivers for minor traffic offenses. Black drivers were twice as likely to be cited for having a tail light out as white drivers. Four times as likely to be cited for improperly tinted windows and nearly 5 times as likely to be cited for improper tags. Black drivers were also 50% more likely to be searched when stopped, Louisville police also charged black drivers at higher rates. The city and police agreed to 36 remedial measures, building on reform efforts after Taylor's death. The city has prohibited no knock warrants and dispatched behavioral health specialists to scenes involving mental health episodes. Officer training and wellness support have been revamped. Nissan today said it will overhaul its approach to power trains for all electric and hybrid petrol electric vehicles, as it aims to bring prices in line with those of petrol powered cars by 2026. The Japanese automaker said it will use the same components across models to make electric powertrains, the assembly which propels a vehicle smaller and lighter and reduced development and production costs by 30% within three years versus 2019. It will also use solid state batteries with materials that are cheaper than those usually used such as nickel and cobalt, senior vice president toshihiro hirai told reporters. The effort is among many by automakers trying to make new energy efficient vehicles more affordable, such as by reducing the cost of electric powertrains, which have yet to achieve parity with those used in traditionally powered vehicles. Nissan became one of the first mass market electric vehicle makers with its leaf model more than a decade ago. It aims to introduce 27 electrified models, including 19 all electric vehicles by 2030. Dozens of Russian missiles pounded a number of Ukrainian districts early this morning, including the Black Sea port of Odessa and the second city of kharkiv, cutting electricity to many places, regional officials said. Maxim marchenko, the governor of the Odessa region, posted on telegram that a large scale missile attack had struck a power plant in the port city cutting power, although residential areas were also affected, there were no recorded fatalities. Late on Wednesday, Ukraine's military said it had managed to push back in tense Russian attacks on the city of bakhmut to spite a Russian claim of control over its eastern half. As one of the bloodiest battles of the yearlong war ground on in the small city's ruins, Ukrainian defenders who last week appeared to be preparing for a tactical retreat remained defiant. Ukrainian military and political leaders now speak of hanging on to positions and inflicting as many casualties as possible on the Russians to grind down their fighting capability. Ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky said in last night's video address that the battle for back mut and the surrounding Donbass region was our first priority. In a separate interview, he said we think that in the dombas direction, Russia has started its offensive. This is the offensive. This is what it looks like, a slow aggression because they don't have enough strength and forces. The head of the Russian private mercenary group Wagner said its fighters had captured the eastern part of bakhmut. If true, Russian forces would control nearly half the city in a costly pursuit of their first big victory in several months. You can subscribe to the 5 minute news Patreon for bonus videos, commentary and more go to Patreon dot com slash 5 minute news. I'm Ken Harbaugh, host of the warriors in their own words, a podcast that presents the unvarnished, unsanitized truth of what we have asked of those who defend this nation. As a country, we need these stories more than ever. Stories from Americans who have borne the battle, including 30 year old remastered interviews with veterans from World War I, were counting their time in the trenches of Europe. And with veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and from our most recent conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other battlefields, Americans may never have heard of. Here are their stories by listening to warriors in their own words wherever you find podcasts.
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"I'm Anthony Davis. With nearly 41,000 hours of video footage from January 6th, Fox News's Tucker Carlson has started a passionate new campaign to discredit the tragic capital attack, drawing even closer links between the Republican Party and pro Trump conspiracy theories about the 2021 riot in an effort to slant public perceptions of the bloody arduous siege that was broadcast live for everyone to see. The conservative commentator presented the first installment to millions of viewers on his prime time program. Tuesday night in the face of criticism to stop, he made a vow to say more. Fox News initiative comes at a time when Trump is once more campaigning for president and top officials of the cable opinion channel have testified in separate legal hearings that they disseminated the former president's misleading claims about the 2020 election despite privately rejecting them. This initiative complements that of Republicans on Capitol Hill, particularly House speaker Kevin McCarthy, who gave Fox access to the surveillance footage. The house probe released on January 6th thoroughly revealed with testimony from Trump loyalists and video evidence how the disgraced former president urged his supporters to go to the capitol and fight like hell, as Congress was certifying his loss to Democrat Joe Biden. Republicans are now attempting to reverse the conclusions. Trump on Tuesday contended that Carlson's presentation was irrefutable evidence that rioters have been wrongly accused of crimes and thanked the host and the speaker for their work. Carlson praised McCarthy as having rectified the official record. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said it was a mistake for Fox to depict the footage as it did at odds with the capitol police assessment and what he and others witnessed firsthand at the capitol on January 6th. Fox corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch said under oath that he believes the 2020 presidential election was free, fair, and not stolen, according to court filings released on Tuesday in a voting machine company's defamation lawsuit over Fox News coverage of the disgraced former president's unfounded election fraud claims. In sworn questioning in January by lawyers for dominion voting systems, Murdoch was asked, do you believe that the 2020 presidential election was free and fair? Yes, he replied, according to a transcript, the election was not stolen, he said later. Dominion is suing Fox News for $1.6 billion, saying the network crippled the company's business by broadcasting false claims from Trump's lawyers that dominion had changed votes in the 2020 election. Federal and state election officials exhaustive reviews in battleground states and Trump's attorney general found no widespread fraud that could have changed the outcome of the election. Nor did they uncover any credible evidence that the vote was tainted. Trump's allegations of fraud have also been roundly rejected by dozens of courts, including by judges he had appointed in a recently unsealed filing in the dominion case, Rupert Murdoch acknowledged that he didn't stop various Fox News commentators from promoting unfounded claims from Trump allies that the election was stolen, even though he could have. He also acknowledged that some of the network's hosts had at times endorsed the false claims. The UK government declared on Tuesday that it was prepared for judicial challenges based on human rights to astringent new rule designed to prevent tens of thousands of migrants from entering the nation each year in small boats traveling across the English Channel. Divisive Home Secretary Sue said the government had pushed the boundaries of international law with a bill that will bar asylum claims by anyone who reaches the UK by unauthorized means and will compel the government to detain and then deport them to their home country or a safe third country. They would be banned from ever reentering the country. But critics say the illegal migration Bill is unethical and unworkable since people fleeing war and persecution can't be sent home, and is likely to be the latest in a series of unfulfilled immigration pledges by successive UK governments. The United Nations refugee agency urged British lawmakers to reconsider the plan, saying it would be a clear breach of the refugee convention and amount to an asylum ban. Prime minister Rishi sunak said the law would take back control of UK borders, a central pledge of the successful but divisive campaign to take Britain out of the European Union. Bravo and acknowledged that the robust and novel legislation is likely to face legal challenges. She said she was confident it is compatible with Britain's international obligations under refugee and human rights conventions. But acknowledged in a letter to conservative lawmakers that there is a greater than 50% chance that it isn't. You can subscribe to the 5 minute news Patreon for bonus videos, commentary and more go to Patreon dot com slash 5 minute news. Mad magazine advertising mascots. Be movie posters and cartoons. If you get the funky connection that ties these pop culture gems together, you'll dig two designers walk into a bar. See, we're a couple of creatively curious pals living between the bookends of grand museums and dive bars. Hey, you know the place, the sweet spot where highbrow and lowbrow become drinking buddies. So join our bar room chats as we talk influential work and uncover stories of how the familiar became iconic. Think behind the music for the stuff we love. Check out our website at two designers walk into a bar dot com. And listen wherever you get your podcasts or visit evergreen podcasts dot com.
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"Hour. You can subscribe to 5 minute news on YouTube with your preferred podcast app, ask your smart speaker or enable 5 minute news as your Amazon Alexa flash briefing skill. Subscribe rate and review online at 5 minutes dot news. 5 minute news is an evergreen podcast covering politics inequality, health and climate delivering independent, unbiased and essential world news. Daily. Yes, we're out there. Everyone, I'm hell Schwartz. And I'm Flynn McLean. Together we host the podcast called none but the brave, which focuses on the music and career of Bruce Springsteen. We begin season four of the podcast on September 26th with a look at the 40th anniversary of Nebraska and we'd love for you to join us. And you can check out our previous three seasons right now wherever you get your podcast. We've also had some pretty cool guests on like little Steven Van Zandt of the E street band, Brian and Hyatt from Rolling Stone. And Ken Rosenthal from Fox Sports. If you're a fan of Bruce's music, you're not going to want to miss our discussions on his past albums and tours. And as Bruce begins his first tour in 6 years next year, we will cover it as it happens. And we are very excited about that. Yes, we are. So check out our website, but the brave podcast dot com. And we hope to see you further on it today. Thank you so much. We'll be seeing you.
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"Coming up on 5 minute news. President Biden makes surprise visit to Ukraine capital. Jimmy Carter enters hospice care at home. And more fatalities as another earthquake hits turkey. It's Tuesday, February 21. I'm Anthony Davis. Joe Biden swept unannounced into Ukraine on Monday to meet with president Vladimir zelensky in a defined display of western solidarity with the country still fighting what he called a brutal and unjust war, days before the first anniversary of Russia's invasion. Biden spent more than 5 hours in the Ukrainian capital, consulting with zelensky on next steps, honoring the country's fallen soldiers and seeing U.S. embassy staff in the besieged country. Altogether, he was on Ukrainian territory for about 23 hours, traveling by train from and back to Poland. The White House notified the Kremlin of Joe Biden's intention to visit Kyiv hours before he departed for Ukraine as the details began to emerge of how the U.S. president pulled off his high profile diplomatic coup. Meticulously planned over several months by a tight circle of key advisers, Biden's visit was described as unprecedented in modern times by his national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, on the grounds that it was the first time a U.S. president had visited the capital of the country at war, where the United States military does not control the critical infrastructure. The visit came at a crucial moment Biden is trying to keep allies unified in their support for Ukraine as the war is expected to intensify with spring offenses. Zelensky is pressing allies to speed up delivery of promised weapons systems and calling on the west to provide fighter jets, something Biden himself has declined to do. In Kyiv Biden announced an additional half $1 billion in U.S. assistance on top of the more than $50 billion already provided for shells for howitzers, anti tank missiles, air surveillance radars and other aid, but no new advanced weaponry. Former president Jimmy Carter, who, at 98 years old, is the longest lived American president, entered home hospice care in plains, Georgia, the statement from the Carter center confirmed on the weekend. After a series of short hospital stays, the statement said Carter decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention. The statement said the 39th president has the full support of his medical team and family, which asks for privacy at this time and is grateful for the concern shown by his many admirers. Jimmy Carter was a little known Georgia governor when he began his bid for the presidency ahead of the 1976 election. He went on to defeat then president Gerald Ford, capitalizing as a Washington outsider in the wake of the Vietnam War, and the Watergate scandal that drove Richard Nixon from office in 1974. Carter served a single tumultuous term and was defeated by Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980. A landslide loss that ultimately paved the way for his decades of global advocacy for democracy, public health and human rights via the Carter center. The former president and his wife Rosalind opened the center in 1982, his work there, garnered, and Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. A new earthquake on Monday at 6.4 magnitude killed three people and injured more than 200 in parts of turkey laid waste two weeks ago by a massive quake that killed tens of thousands. More buildings collapsed, trapping some people while scores of injuries were recorded in neighboring Syria. Monday's earthquake was centered in the town of Daphne in turkey's hatay province, one of the worst hit regions in the magnitude 7.8 quake that struck on February 6th. It was felt in Syria, Jordan, Cyprus, Israel, and as far away as Egypt, and was followed by a second magnitude 5.8 tremor. The Turkish interior minister said three people were killed and 213 injured, search and rescue efforts were underway in three collapsed buildings where 6 people were believed trapped. Police rescued one person trapped inside a three story building and were trying to reach others inside. It said those trapped include movers helping people shift furniture and other belongings from the building that was damaged in the massive quake. The February 6th quake killed nearly 45,000 people in both countries, the vast majority of them in turkey, where more than a million and a half people are in temporary shelters. Turkish authorities have recorded more than 6000 aftershocks since. The Syrian American medical society which runs hospitals in northern Syria said to treated a number of patients, including a 7 year old boy who suffered heart attacks brought on by fear following the new quake. President Erdoğan visited hatay earlier on Monday and said his government would begin constructing close to 200,000 new homes in the quake devastated region as early as next month, Erdoğan said the new buildings will be no taller than three or four stories built on firmer ground and to higher standards and in consultation with geophysics, geotechnical geology and seismology professors and other experts. The Turkish leader said destroyed cultural monuments would be rebuilt in accordance with their historic and cultural texture. You can subscribe to 5 minute news on YouTube with your preferred podcast app, ask your smart speaker or enable 5 minute news as your Amazon Alexa flash briefing skill. Subscribe rate and review online at 5 minute dot news. 5 minute news is an evergreen podcast covering politics inequality, health and climate delivering independent, unbiased and essential world news. Daily. Yes. We're out there. We won. I'm hell Schwartz. And I'm flyn McLean. Together we host a podcast called none but the brave, which focuses on the music and career of Bruce Springsteen. We begin season four of the podcast on September 26th with a look at the 40th anniversary of Nebraska and we'd love for you to join us. And you can check out our previous three seasons right now wherever you get your podcast. We've also had some pretty cool guests on like little Steven Van Zandt of the E street band, Brian and Hyatt from Rolling Stone and Ken Rosenthal from Fox Sports. If you're a fan of Bruce's music, you're not going to want to miss our discussions on his past albums and tours. And as Bruce begins his first tour in 6 years next year, we will cover it as it happens. And we are very excited about that. Yes, we are. So check out our website, but the brave podcast dot com. And we hope to see you further on up the road. Thank you so much. We'll be seeing you.
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"Charles starkweather and Carol fugate. They killed 11 people. It was one of America's most notorious killing sprees. This story permeated popular culture. Romance. Natural born killers. But there's a side to the story you haven't heard. She's a 14 year old child. She's being held hostage. This isn't romance. This was horror. The 12th victim. I swear to all mighty God, I never killed anyone. Streaming February 17th, only on showtime. Coming up on 5 minute news. Renewed calls for gun control after shooting at Michigan state university. Rescues continue as turkey's death toll passes 41,000. And expect mass exodus on biblical scale warns UN chief. It's Wednesday, February 15. I'm Anthony Davis. The gunman who killed three Michigan state university students and wounded 5 others before taking his own life, had a history of mental illness and carried a note in his pocket, indicating a threat to two New Jersey schools. The disclosure of an apparent New Jersey connection to the suspect, 43 year old Anthony Duane McRae, came as investigators sought clues to what prompted him to open fire on Monday night on the MSU campus in east Lansing, about 90 miles west of Detroit. Mccray, who lived in the adjacent city of Lansing, Michigan, the state capital, had no known affiliation to the university or associations to any of his victims, police said. We have no idea why he came to campus to do this, Chris rosman interim deputy chief of MSU police told reporters early on Tuesday, hours after the shooting at an academic hall and nearby student union building. A neighbor of McRae's described him as a real hellraiser, who often fired his gun at home. The shooting began at 8 30 p.m. local time, and the entire campus and surrounding neighborhoods were placed under a security lockdown, while police searched door to door for the gunman. The man hunt ended about three hours later in Lansing where McRae shot himself to death. Last year there were 600 and 47 mass shootings in the first 7 weeks of 2023, 67. No other country in the world has mass shootings on the scale, on Tuesday, the anniversary of the Parkland shooting, president Joe Biden reiterated his plea for a ban on semi-automatic assault rifles. 9 survivors were rescued from the rubble in turkey on Tuesday, more than a week after a massive earthquake struck, as the focus of the aid effort shifted to helping people now struggling without shelter or enough food in the bitter cold. The disaster were the combined death toll in turkey and neighboring Syria, exceeding 41,000, has ravaged cities in both countries, leaving many survivors homeless in near freezing winter temperatures. Turkish president Erdoğan has acknowledged problems in the initial response to the 17.8 magnitude quake that struck early on February 6th, but has said the situation is now under control. We are facing one of the greatest natural disasters not only in our country, but also in the history of humanity, Erdoğan said, in a televised speech in Ankara. Those rescued yesterday included two brothers aged 17 and 21 pulled from an apartment block, and Assyrian man and young woman rescued after 200 hours in the rubble. There could be further people alive still to find, said one rescuer. But you and authorities have said the rescue phase is coming to a close, with the focus turning to shelter, food and schooling. The needs are huge, increasing by the hour, said the World Health Organization's director for Europe, some 26 million people across both countries need humanitarian assistance. There's also growing concern over emerging health issues linked to the cold weather, hygiene, and sanitation, and the spread of infectious diseases with vulnerable people, especially at risk. An increase in the pace at which sea levels are rising threatens a mass exodus of entire populations on a biblical scale, the UN general secretary has warned. The climate crisis is causing sea levels to rise faster than for 3000 years, bringing a torrent of trouble to almost a billion people from London to Los Angeles and Bangkok to Buenos Aires Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday. Some nations could cease to exist, drowned under the waves, he said. Addressing the UN Security Council, Guterres said slashing carbon emissions, addressing problems such as poverty that worsen the impact of the rising seas on communities and developing new international laws to protect those made homeless and even stateless were all needed. He said sea level rise was a threat multiplier, which by damaging lives economies and infrastructure had dramatic implications for global peace and security. Significant sea level rise is already inevitable with current levels of global heating. But the consequences of failing to tackle the problem are unthinkable. Guterres said low lying communities and entire countries could disappear forever. We would witness a mass exodus of entire populations on a biblical scale, and we would see ever fierce a competition for fresh water, land, and other resources. People's human rights do not disappear because their homes do, he said. Yes, this means international refugee law. The international law commission is assessing the legal situation. In 2020, the UN human rights committee ruled that it was unlawful for governments to return people to countries where their lives might be threatened by the climate crisis. A new compilation of data from the world meteorological organization shows that sea levels are rising fast, and the global ocean has warmed faster over the past century than at any time in the past 11,000 years. You can subscribe to 5 minute news on YouTube with your preferred podcast app, ask your smart speaker or enable 5 minute news as your Amazon Alexa flash briefing skill. Subscribe, rate, and review online at 5 minute dot news. 5 minute news is an evergreen podcast covering politics, inequality, health and climate delivering independent, unbiased and essential world news. A daily. I'm Ken Harbaugh, host of the warriors in their own words, a podcast that presents the unvarnished, un sanitized truth of what we have asked of those who defend this nation. As a country, we need these stories more than ever. Stories from Americans who have borne the battle, including 30 year old remastered interviews with veterans from World War I, recounting their time in the trenches of Europe. And with veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and from our most recent conflicts and Iraq, Afghanistan, and other battlefields, Americans may never have heard of. Here are their stories by listening to warriors in their own words wherever you find podcasts.
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"Coming up on 5 minute news. Israel approved settlements without pushback from U.S.. President Biden fires architect of the capital. And South Africa declares state of disaster in wake of floods. Its Tuesday February 14. I'm Anthony Davis. The U.S. on Monday criticized new Israeli plans to build thousands of new homes for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, but gave no indication it would take any action against its close Middle Eastern ally. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced the plan saying they were in response to recent deadly Palestinian violence. It said Israel would legalize 9 settlement outposts that were built without authorization and convene a special planning committee in the coming days to approve additional settlement construction. Israel's finance minister, a hardline settler whose responsibilities also include authority over settlement construction, said some 10,000 housing units were set to be approved. Netanyahu's new government is dominated by Israeli ultra nationalists who support settlement construction and oppose Palestinian independence. The United States opposes settlement construction on occupied territories, claimed by the Palestinians. Over 700,000 Jewish Israelis now live in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories captured in the 1967 Middle East war and sought by the Palestinians for their future state. In Washington, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. was deeply troubled by the Israeli decision, we strongly oppose such unilateral measures, which exacerbate tensions and undermine the prospects for a negotiated two states solution. President Joe Biden has fired embattled architect of the capital Brett blanton, who oversees the historic building that houses Congress and its expansive grounds as pressure mounted for his removal following a scathing inspector general report of personal and management lapses. The White House said on Monday that blanton's appointment was terminated. How speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Monday he'd lost confidence in blanton's ability to do the job. An inspector general report released last year found administrative ethical and policy violations by blanton, a Trump era appointee, including that he abused his government vehicle and misrepresented himself as a law enforcement official. A house hearing last week, unearthed new questions and criticisms, including that he was not at the capitol on January 6th, 2021, when it came under attack by a disgraced former president Trump's supporters, lantern came under intense criticism after the inspector general report found blanton allowed unauthorized use of his work vehicle, including by his wife and adult daughter, racking up nearly 30,000 miles, about triple the estimate for his official use. At a house hearing last week, blanton also came under fire when he testified that he was not at the capital during the January 6th attack because it was a telework day under COVID-19 protocols. He also faced fierce questions about capital tours he allowed, and sometimes conducted despite pandemic restrictions. The report also found multiple social media posts created by blanton's wife about capital tours, including one reading all patriots welcome. The report said that while the posts did not violate U.S. codes, offering private tours of the U.S. capitol creates the appearance of impropriety and using a public position for private gain, which is a violation of AOC policy. Blanton was nominated in December 2019 by Donald Trump as the 12th architect of the capital and confirmed to the post by the U.S. Senate. South African president Cyril ramaphosa has declared a national state of disaster to enable an intensive response to widespread flooding that has affected 7 of the country's 9 provinces for malunga and the eastern cape have been most affected by the floods which were brought on by heavy rainfall as a result of the la Nina weather phenomenon, according to a statement from the office of the presidency yesterday. Gauteng, kwa Zulu natal, limpopo, the northern cape and northwest, have also experienced flooding. Invoking the national disaster gives the government additional powers, including in the procurement and delivery of goods and services, and the ability to bypass restrictions under current law. The national police and defense force may be called on to help respond to the flooding the statement said, the floods have resulted in wide ranging impact from flooded homes and vehicles to the loss of basic infrastructure. Farmers expect crop and livestock losses to continue as the government's weather service forecasts that the weather pattern will remain during the early part of 2023, it said. Ramaphosa declared a national state of disaster last week over South Africa's power crisis as daily rolling power cuts are paralyzing businesses. The world weather attribution service found that climate change doubled the likelihood of similar weather events. You can subscribe to 5 minute news on YouTube with your preferred podcast app, ask your smart speaker or enable 5 minute news as your Amazon Alexa flash briefing skill. Subscribe, rate, and review online at 5 minute dot news. 5 minute news is an evergreen podcast covering politics, inequality, health and climate delivering independent, unbiased and essential world news. Daily. I'm Ken Harbaugh, host of warriors in their own words, a podcast that presents the unvarnished, unsanitized truth of what we have asked of those who defend this nation. As a country, we need these stories more than ever. Stories from Americans who have borne the battle, including 30 year old remastered interviews with veterans from World War I, recounting their time in the trenches of Europe, and with veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and from our most recent conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other battlefields, Americans may never have heard of. Here are their stories by listening to warriors in their own words wherever you find podcasts.
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"Biden takes. The helm appeals for unity to take on crises. Kamala harris becomes the first woman to be vice president and biden targets trump policies on climate virus and immigration. It's thursday january twenty one. I'm anthony davis. Joe biden was sworn in as the forty sixth president of the united states on wednesday. Declaring democracy has prevailed and summoning american resilience and unity to confront the deeply divided nations historic confluence of crises denouncing. A national uncivil. War biden took the oath at the us. Capitol that had been battered by an insurrectionist siege. Just two weeks earlier. Then taking his place at the white house oval office he plunged into a stack of executive actions that began to undo the haunt of his polarizing predescessors agenda on matters from the deadly pandemic to climate change at the capitol with the american tradition of peaceful transfer of power never appearing more fragile. The quadrennial ceremony unfolded within a circle of security forces evocative of a war zone and devoid of crowds. Because of the coronavirus pandemic instead biden gazed out on a cold washington morning dotted with snow flurries to see over two hundred thousand american flags planted on the national mall to symbolize those who could not attend in person. The will of the people has been heard and the will of the people has been heated. We've learned again. Democracy is precious and democracy is fragile at this hour. my friends. Democracy has prevailed biden declared in his speech. This is america's day. This is democracies day a day in history and hope of renewal and resolve. History was made at his side as kamala harris became the first woman to be vice. President the former. Us senator from california is also the first black person and the first person of south asian descent elected to the vice presidency and the highest ranking woman ever to serve in the us government rare inaugural address president joe biden issued a strong repudiation of white supremacy and domestic terrorism on the rise on the donald trump in his speech biden denounced racism negativism fear demonization. That propels the assault on capitol hill by an overwhelming white mob of trump's supporters who carried symbols of hate including the confederate battle flag biden never mentioned his predecessor who defied tradition and left town ahead of the ceremony but his speech was an implicit rebuke of donald trump. The new president denounced lies told for power and for profit and was blunt about the challenges ahead central among them the surging virus that has claimed more than four hundred thousand lives in the united states as well as economic strains and a national reckoning over race. We have much to do in this winter of peril significant possibilities few people in our nation's history of been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we're in now biden said the absence of biden's predescessor from the inaugural ceremony undescored. The national rift to be healed but a bipartisan trio. Former presidents bill. Clinton george w bush and barack obama with there to witness the transfer of power biden in his third run for the presidency staked his candidacy less on any distinctive political ideology then on galvanizing a broad coalition of voters around the notion that trump posed an existential threat to american democracy for years after trump's american carnage speech painted a dark portrait of national decay biden warned that the fabric of the nation's democracy was tearing but could be repaired swearing the oath with his hand on a five inch thick bible. That has been in his family for one. Hundred and twenty eight years biden came to office with a well of empathy and resolve born by personal tragedy as well as a depth of experience forged for more than four decades in washington
THE NEWS with Anthony Davis
"davis" Discussed on THE NEWS with Anthony Davis
"Wednesday. There was no precedent for a president inciting citizens to storm the capital. And it's been more than one hundred fifty years dating back to the civil war since a large group of lawmakers gave comfort to an insurrection but all that changed after president. Donald trump invited his diehard fans to washington filled their heads with lies that he had been cheated out of the election. And that vice president. Mike pence could overturn the result unilaterally and pointed a mom of them in the direction of congress. What ensued was one of the ugliest days for democracy in living. Memory trump has spent weeks whipping up his supporters with false allegations of fraud in the november third election culminating in a coal to march to the building that represents us democracy trump who has refused to concede that he lost a democratic president. Elect joe biden had urged his supporters multiple times to come to washington for a rally on wednesday the day the us house of representatives and senate was scheduled to set the results of the electoral college. They turned out in the thousands to hear the president say they should march on the capitol building to express their anger at the voting process and to pressure their elected officials to reject the results. We're going to walk down to the capital and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women. Trump told the crowd standing behind safety. Glass the white house as a backdrop speaking what is likely to be his last rally. As the sitting. President trump exhorted his supporters to fight. We will never give up. We will never concede trum said about fifty minutes into the speech. Some of his supporters waving trump flags began heading toward capitol hill. Where unprecedented mayhem ensued. Protested slipped easily through barricades with police filmed allowing protesters through storms the building and entered lawmakers chambers. The certification process was stopped and vice president. Mike pence and members of congress were evacuated lawmakers and staff members. Were hiding under tables hunkered in lockdowns saying prayers and seeing the fruits of the country's divisions up close and violent guns withdrawn a woman. A fourteen year veteran of the us air force was shot and killed trump flag hung on the capital. The graceful rotunda reeked of tear-gas glass shattered the pro-trump mall took over the presiding officers chair in the senate. They mocked its leaders posing for photos in the office of nancy pelosi one with his feet propped on her desk. Another sitting in the same seat. Vice president mike pence that occupied only moments before during the proceedings to certify the electoral college vote on wednesday hallowed spaces of american democracy one after another yielded to the occupation of congress. This began as a day of reckoning for president. Donald trump's few tall attempt to cling to power as congress took up the certificates in process of joe biden's victory it devolved into scenes of fear and agony. That left a prime ritual. American democracy in tatters. If you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore. Trump said let the weak ones get out. This is a time for strength. He announced his lawyer rudy. Giuliani said to the crowd. Let's have trial by combat. Trump told his morning crowd that he would go with them to the capital. But he didn't instead. He sent them off with incendiary rhetoric and watch the coup in delight on television from the protection of the white house as night fell. A capital officials said the building had been cleared but outside some way from the grounds scores of protesters remained including members of militia and far right groups as criticism mounted that he'd incited a riot. Trump was urged to say more by a trump loyalist house. Republican leader kevin mccarthy and some of the advises who remain in the white house for he's dwindling days in office. Eventually trump posted a recorded video on twitter. I know you'll hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide. Election trump said repeating familiar falsehoods. But you have to go home now. He said shortly after posting the video received a twitter warning before the company locked. Trump's account altogether trump's failure to rein in his supporters stood in sharp contrast to his attitude last summer when he threatened arrests in the use of force to break up protests against racial inequality. When black lives matter protesters would tear teargassed and disappeared from the streets by unmarked police in rented vehicles.