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Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
"mike franken" Discussed on Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
"But you know, speaking of electorally, there's a glitter of hope you retweeted that chuck grassley's and it's statistical tie. Someone tweeted, I was gonna go blue, blue tsunami incoming and you just said, hello. Yeah, I mean, yeah, this is a race that nobody's noticed. Right. Right. And you know, I wonder, the guy who's running against, by the way, his name, Mike Franken. Yeah. And I'm wondering how many people in Iowa think they're voting for Al Franken. That's fine. You know, seriously. And it's life and death for old chuck and he's not, you know, he's built for comforting and built for speed. He's not built for the home stretch right now. Yeah. So who knows? I mean, I mean, I think you're going to, I think what you are going to see is a lot of split ticket voters. Yeah. Yeah. For example, I think in Iowa, Kim Reynolds is probably going to get reelected governor. But grassley could lose. Yeah. Whitmer's going to win. You know, I think the democratic gubernatorial candidates are in great shape. Do you? I hope so. Tony Evers in Wisconsin, I'm sending novena upwards for, but I think a lot of them, I think a lot of them are going to survive more Healy's going to win, you know, from here or there in Massachusetts, not the typical of anything. Right. Right. But you know, I guess it is astounding that statistical speaking of statistical ties, Herschel Walker. Has gone up despite all these allegations. I don't believe any of the polling out of Georgia. I really don't. Nobody's been able to predict Georgia correctly for about ten years now. Yeah. I think that there's a whopping big vote down there who doesn't want to be represented in Congress by, you know, inarticulate doof. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and that's do you like if you say from the episode? Yes. I mean, you're right to Travis's point about polls, especially now. I mean, yeah, this one had a swinging four points toward walker, so it's like in a tie, basically, but then there was a New York Times Siena poll last week showed Warnock up by three. I mean, it's like we were saying some of it, I think, is deliberate, like the joy Reid covered yesterday. There's a lot of Republican commission polls that are meant to try to suppress democratic votes. They're infecting the average. You don't get the RealClearPolitics average or somebody else's average, and you've got, you know, 9 or ten, you know, self Rasmussen Republican polls. Yeah, it's going to screw up the average a little bit. Do you have a winning chime? Voting numbers. Look at the turnout numbers. Yeah. That's his grandfather clock. It is, well, ten 45 there.
Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
A Look at Gubernatorial Polls With Charlie Pierce
"Speaking of electorally, there's a glitter of hope you retweeted that chuck grassley's and it's statistical tie. Someone tweeted, I was gonna go blue, blue tsunami incoming and you just said, hello. Yeah, I mean, yeah, this is a race that nobody's noticed. Right. Right. And you know, I wonder, the guy who's running against, by the way, his name, Mike Franken. Yeah. And I'm wondering how many people in Iowa think they're voting for Al Franken. That's fine. You know, seriously. And it's life and death for old chuck and he's not, you know, he's built for comforting and built for speed. He's not built for the home stretch right now. Yeah. So who knows? I mean, I mean, I think you're going to, I think what you are going to see is a lot of split ticket voters. Yeah. Yeah. For example, I think in Iowa, Kim Reynolds is probably going to get reelected governor. But grassley could lose. Yeah. Whitmer's going to win. You know, I think the democratic gubernatorial candidates are in great shape. Do you? I hope so. Tony Evers in Wisconsin, I'm sending novena upwards for, but I think a lot of them, I think a lot of them are going to survive more Healy's going to win, you know, from here or there in Massachusetts, not the typical of anything. Right. Right. But you know, I guess it is astounding that statistical speaking of statistical ties, Herschel Walker. Has gone up despite all these allegations. I don't believe any of the polling out of Georgia. I really don't. Nobody's been able to predict Georgia correctly for about ten years now. Yeah. I think that there's a whopping big vote down there who doesn't want to be represented in Congress by, you know, inarticulate doof.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"mike franken" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Show that the U.S. economy grew at a relatively healthy rate in the last three months. Sounds good, but how much can we make of that? NPR Scott horsley joins us now, Scott good morning. Thanks, Steve. What do these numbers tell us about how the economy is doing? This is the gross domestic product. It's the broadest measure of economic activity. And it's expected to show the economy grew at an annual rate of two to 3% in the late summer and early fall. Which sounds pretty good, especially compared to the first half of the year when GDP showed the economy was shrinking. In reality, though, the economy is kind of in a holding pattern. Mark zandy is chief economist at moody's analytics. If you take a step back and look at GDP, it's gone effectively nowhere over the past year. So one quarter or two, it's down a bit this quarter. It's up a little bit. But net net were kind of treading water. Trading water, of course, is not great, but it is better than sinking. What is keeping the economy from growing more quickly? Inflation is certainly one challenge. It's cutting into people's buying power and in response the Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates. Mortgage rates of more than doubled in the last year, and that's taking a heavy toll on the housing market, which is a significant component of GDP. Paul swinghammer builds custom homes in Indiana, his company hallmark homes had a record year last year when the housing market was booming, but he sees a lot less work coming down the pipeline now. We are saying that the top of the funnel is not as full as it was. So we know that as we finish homes, we're not going to be starting as many in the coming months in the next year as we have been in the last two years. And this is not an accident. The fed is deliberately raising borrowing costs and effort to tamp down demand and curb inflation. The housing market is one of the first places that shows up, but it probably won't be the last. At the same time, Scott, you're telling us these numbers with the economy treading water. Something is also pulling up the economy even as other things are dragging it down. What is working? The biggest driver of the economy is, as always, consumer spending. And so far that has held up pretty well, even though prices are going up faster than most people's wages. In some cases, people have been able to draw on savings that they built up in the first two years of the pandemic to supplement their spending. The JPMorgan Chase institute says, on average, bank account balances are still a lot higher now than they were in 2019 before the pandemic. Those bank balances are starting to come down so you can't necessarily count on those savings to prop up spending indefinitely. How's next year looking? We are probably in for a period of slow growth, if not outright contraction. A lot will depend on how hard the fed hits the brakes and for how long. A lot of forecasters think the U.S. will slip into recession in the coming year. Zandy though is hopeful we might avoid that, but he says it's a close call. We need to catch a break. We've been pretty unlucky. We got nailed by a global pandemic, which still is creating havoc in many parts of the world. And the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which wasn't even on the radar screen a year ago. So we just need a little bit of luck. So far, the job markets held up very well, employers added nearly 3.8 million jobs so far this year. We'll be on the lookout for any slowdown in the October jobs numbers when they come out next week. And Pierre Scott horsley, thanks so much. You're welcome. Early voting is underway in Iowa, where voters will decide whether to give Republican chuck grassley an 8th term in the U.S. Senate. On the whole national Democrats think the state isn't competitive for them. Iowa public radio's claim masters reports, though, that grassley is now facing the toughest reelection battle of his political career. This is the 99th county county meeting that I've had for the 42nd year in a row. Republican senator chuck grassley has been representing Iowa for what seems like forever. For decades, he was reelected in a state many saw as purple. Megan Goldberg is a political scientist at Cornell college in eastern Iowa. She says things have changed. And so things have gotten more polarized so people. And so you should expect a lot of states that were purple to start to shift one direction. We have the demographics that are going to push us in the rightward direction, not the left word. The Supreme Court's decision to overturn roe V wade energized supporters of reproductive rights here. Even in small towns that turn out big for Republicans. Like in McGregor, where I come across a handful of protesters holding signs that say things like women, vote like your life depends on it, because it does. Aaron Cuban is one of the protesters here almost every Friday. We're barreling towards 2024, which really seems like the last chance we have to stay a democracy. It's scary. She says it's hard to believe Iowa helped launch former president Obama's rise to The White House and was among the first to legalize same sex marriage. Chuck grassley has been in Washington for nearly a half century. He's been reelected easily, partly because he presents himself as a moderate. But the 89 year old has learned to embrace former president Trump like Republican voters have in the state, grassley accepted his endorsement at a Trump rally in Des Moines last year. I was born at night, but not last night. So if I didn't accept the endorsement of a person that's got 91% of the Republican voters in Iowa, I wouldn't be too smart. That means, though, he's often facing questions about the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election. I asked grassley recently why he pivots to talk about election policy instead of pushing back on Trump's false claim about a stolen election. Don't you think that's what I should be doing instead of talking about the personality of an individual? Would that be an opportunity though to say that the election was legitimate you voted to certify the election of president Joe Biden? I shouldn't have to repeat that. It's a fact that what I said on November the 14th, when the electoral votes were counting. Yeah. You hear his staffer there at the end. The new Des Moines register Iowa poll suggests voters might be ready to move on, even as this state becomes redder. Grassley is just three points ahead of his democratic challenger, retired navy admiral Mike Franken. There's a portion of Iowa that will not vote for me because I'm a Democrat. That
Bloomberg Radio New York
"mike franken" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"For the candidate there. Yeah, I think Arizona is hard to beat Mark Kelly. Mark Kelly is an astronaut. He has, you know, he's married to Gabby Giffords who is pretty popular, he's got a pretty sympathetic life story, fighter pilot, space shuttle campaigner, but he has a tough environment to run in as well with inflation. If he ends up losing, I think the border issues and the inability of the Biden administration to really stem those flows, which is something that Kelly has criticized the administration for not taking more action on. Might be the reason. Is there a potential for any October surprise? And if so, what? There's always a potential for October surprises. We saw one earlier with Herschel Walker. With the story about him paying him being accused of by the mother of one of his four children with four different women of paying for an abortion and urging him to have a second and she refusing and deciding to have one of his sons. I mean, I think he's had such a messy personal life. That's kind of been the story of that race. You know, we have, there are some other races that can pop up. I mean, I think the Iowa Senate race with chuck grassley is sort of come on the scene in the last week or so after the Des Moines register at a poll showing grassley only up three points on Mike Franken. That's the kind of thing every year there tends to be one race or two that surprises you and on the one hand, it's hard to imagine chuck grassley losing. He's won every election since 1959. In the state of Iowa has served continuously since 1959 in one capacity or another. But on the other hand, at some point, people start saying, hey, we need somebody new. You're going to be willing to your 90s. By the end of the 6 year term, and Mike Franken has put forth a credible campaign. He's got a military background and trying to say, you know, he's going to be a moderate. I think that that actually would be not a huge, crazy thing to happen. And of course, right now, if you look at the polls, we're ending up with a 50 50 Senate. And so any one of these Senate races could determine all kinds of things. One just one word I would put out there of why stuff like this matters is Merrick Garland. The reason why Merrick Garland is the attorney general anonymous Supreme Court and why roe V wade therefore got overturned is because of the 2014 midterms where the Republicans won the Senate control and then decided not to hold any hearings or a vote on Merrick Garland. And Merrick Garland did make it to the Supreme Court and Neil Gorsuch did and you have 5 four vote to overturn roe completely. So that the Supreme Court seats could open up in the next couple of years. It seems pretty unlikely that Republicans are going to be eager to fill one of those seats with a Joe Biden pick. So. These are going to be very interesting times next couple of years if we're going to have divided government. We've got a dump limit coming up. A lot of things coming forward in all depending, potentially trillions of dollars one way or another on each of these Senate races. Steven, thank you so much. Great to be here. Bloomberg Senate correspondent Stephen Dennis, that's what's going
Bloomberg Radio New York
"mike franken" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Tens and tens of millions of dollars. It looked close in maybe a few weeks out. But the getting this money from outside. Yeah, and so in the end, these states tend to sort of revert to form and Lindsey Graham won on a blowout. Let's do a quick lightning round. For some of the other states in the other races, I just want to get an idea of what it is you as the expert what you are watching for in these particular races. Georgia Senate race. Georgia Senate race is now all about whether voters can trust her walker. You know, he's got to close that gap and get Republicans comfortable with voting for him. North Carolina. North Carolina is sort of a sleeper race. Sherry Beasley has been within a few points of Ted bud. It's going to be a real test of whether African American voters in North Carolina are excited about having an African American democratic nominee. And also whether roe V wade gets Democrats and maybe some crossover Republican voters in that state. Arizona where the governor of Virginia was just visiting this past week to campaign for the candidate there. Yeah, I think Arizona is it's hard to beat Mark Kelly. Mark Kelly is an astronaut. He has, you know, he's married to Gabby Giffords who is pretty popular, he's got a pretty sympathetic life story, fighter pilot, space shuttle campaigner. But he has a tough environment to run in as well with inflation. If he ends up losing, I think the border issues in the inability of the Biden administration to really stem those flows, which is something that Kelly has criticized the administration for not taking more action on. Might be the reason. Is there a potential for any October surprise? And if so, what? There's always the potential for October surprises, you know, we saw one earlier with Herschel Walker with the story about him paying him being accused of by the mother of one of his four children with four different women. Of paying for an abortion and urging him to have a second and she refusing and deciding to have one of his sons. I mean, I think he's had such a messy personal life. That's kind of been the story of that race. You know, we have, there are some other races that can pop up. I mean, I think the Iowa Senate race with chuck grassley is sort of come on the scene in the last week or so after the Des Moines register at a poll showing grassy only up three points on Mike Franken. That's the kind of thing every year there tends to be one race or two that surprises you. And on the one hand, it's hard to imagine chuck grassley losing. He's won every election since 1959. In the state of Iowa has served continuously since 1959 in one capacity or another. But on the other hand, at some point, people start saying, hey, we need somebody
WTOP
"mike franken" Discussed on WTOP
"Home estimate. It is two 11. If Democrats keep control of Congress after the midterms, president Joe Biden says his first legislative priority will be protecting abortion rights. And when Congress passes it, I'll sign it in January 50 years after row was first decided the law of the land. The president's address comes exactly three weeks from election day. Well, joining us live from Capitol Hill, double DTO peace Mitchell Miller, Mitch, the president in today's clearly trying to elevate abortion rights as an issue, but the political landscape has definitely changed since the Supreme Court's decision the summer tell us about that. It really has over the summer you'll recall polling indicated abortion rights was rising in importance to many voters, but while it's clearly going to be a factor in some house races, inflation has persisted in New York Times, CN Sienna, and a New York Times Siena college poll found that inflation and the economy were the top concern for 44% of voters, that compares to just 5% citing abortion, House Republicans have been hammering home this issue with ads showing candidates walking with shopping carts and supermarkets, citing those high prices. Republicans only need to flip 5 seats to retake the house and nonpartisan political analysts are now predicting that the GOP will have a majority with perhaps another ten Republican seats to spare when it's all said and done. When Republicans or while Republicans appear to have the edge for retaking the house Mitch, the Senate does still seem wide open, doesn't it? It really does Hillary the Senate could quite literally be a coin flip right now. You have tight races in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada, in particular, and in Georgia where democratic senator Raphael Warnock is trying to defeat Republican Herschel Walker. The first day of early voting yesterday crushed the old midterm record set in 2018 more than a 130,000 people voted yesterday that's nearly double that of 2018 showing the intense interest in elections there, including the governor's race, there are also races elsewhere that are closer that I inspected, including the Senate races in Ohio and Utah, where Republicans have been favored to keep the seats in the GOP column. Mitch once Senate race that is surprising a lot of people is in Iowa where the longest serving Republican senator chuck grassley may be in some trouble. That's right, Sean, this could be the toughest reelection for chuck grassley, who's 89, since he was elected in the Senate way back in 1980, a Des Moines registered mediacom Iowa poll shows grassley with just a 3% lead over Democrat Mike Franken. He's a retired navy admiral, grassley says he's unconcerned about the poll, but it does include some potential warning signs, two thirds of those surveyed say they see grassley's age as a concern instead of an asset and his opponent seems to be getting support from independent voters. Hey Mitch quickly before we go, another U.S. Senate debate tonight. And this one is in Florida. That's right. Republican senator Marco Rubio facing off against democratic congresswoman Val demings, who trails Rubio in the polls. She's raised a lot more money than Rubio and hit him with ads criticizing his opposition to abortion rights. He has in turn tried to tie demings, a former police chief to House speaker Nancy Pelosi. This is expected to be their only debate, so it may be the biggest chance deming has demings has to cut into Rubio's lead. Well, down the stretch we come, you'll be busy guy. That's right, next three weeks are going to be very busy
Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
"mike franken" Discussed on Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
"How. Good morning, Charlie pierce. Don't good morning me lady outside. You know you're my number one. Are we having a bad ride? Okay, I saw the preview trailer for the new movie. Bob and Kimberly and Jody and wow. We're having our first lover's spat. We are. Lovers got it. Hell, I've been cuckolded on Twitter. Now you know how Jerry Falwell felt. I was invited into the one to know how Jerry follow up here. Good morning, Charlie. How's everybody doing? It was great. It was like, it was like Sunday Night football last night on C-SPAN. Yeah, so many debates. Holy crap. Yeah, they need to carry Underwood to do the big warm up. I share your feelings about the moderators in general, though. You said, how do these moderator people get walker get away with saying that he opposes government healthcare that everyone should have the healthcare at the senator Warnock has? You said these moderators in Georgia are just not good at their jobs. I mean, plus 100 Warren was named buck. And I'm sorry, even in Georgia. You don't have somebody named buck moderating a debate. You have a guy named buck announcing our high school football game. And Wisconsin. Although, I'll tell you, one guy I did like and I don't know his name, but he looked, you know, he just looked like an elder. Is the guy who moderated the Utah Senate debate. Because he really went and go to town. On January 6th. Oh yeah. And I thought that was like very necessary. Yeah. In Wisconsin, you said Ron shreds of freedom Johnson was doing okay in his debate with mandala tonight until he explained how the FBI conspired to make him look like a Russian asset after he went to Moscow for reasons he's never explained and everybody left. I mean, and then he was taking place by the way at my Alma mater. In the renovated theater building where people once took the history survey class as freshmen. But, you know, and then he blamed it on left wing students. At my college. Right. Right. So you were just at least Scott walker had the good sense to like drop out of my college. Yeah. By the way, you pointed out some new Iowa poll, chuck grassley 46% the Democrat Mike Franken at 43% someone else 4%, not sure 3% margin of error 3.9%, and you just said, hell. Yeah. I wonder what percentage of the Iowa voters think that telling Paul pollsters that who think they're voting for Al Franken? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, if I was Mike Franken, I would let that go. You know, hey, yeah, sure. Absolutely. Let me tell you about my days on Saturday Night Live. You know, I'm sure Mike Franken is boring, is every other problem. Politician from Iowa. You in general wrote a piece of America has a long history of fumbling its democracy. You say I shouldn't be dreading election day the way I am. But you are. You said I've been dreading it for an entirely new reason, a reason I thought we left behind with tammany hall in the north and with the Klan in the south.
WCPT 820
"mike franken" Discussed on WCPT 820
"Good morning me, lady. You know you're my number one. Are we having all the white? Okay, I saw the preview trailer for the new movie. Bob and Kimberly and Jody. Wow. We're having our first lover's spat. We are. What was that? Hell, I've been cuckolded on Twitter. Now you know how joy Falwell felt. I wasn't invited into the bed. You want to know how Jerry follow up here. Good morning, Charlie. How's everybody doing? It was great. It was like, it was like Sunday Night football last night. On C-SPAN. Yeah, so many somebody debates Holy crap. Yeah, they needed Carrie Underwood to do the, you know, the big warmup. I share your feelings by the moderators in general, though. You said, how do these moderator people get walker get away with saying that he opposes government healthcare that everyone should have the healthcare of the senator Warnock has? You said these moderators in George are just not good at their jobs. I mean, no, that's 100. Warren was named buck. And I'm sorry, even in Georgia. You don't have somebody named buck moderating a debate. You have a guy named buck announcing our high school football game. And Wisconsin. Although, I'll tell you, one guy I did like and I don't know his name, but he looked, you know, he just looked like an elder, is the guy who moderated the Utah Senate debate. Because he really went and go to town. Oh yeah. And I thought that was like very necessary. Yeah. In Wisconsin, you said Ron shreds of freedom Johnson was doing okay in his debate with mandala tonight until he explained how the FBI conspired to make him look like a Russian asset after he went to Moscow for reasons he's never explained and everybody left. I mean, and then he plug in this was taking place by the way at my Alma mater. In the renovated theater building where people once took the history survey class as freshmen. But, you know, and then he blamed it on left wing students. At my college. Right. Right. So you were just at least Scott walker had the good sense to like drop out of my college. Yeah. By the way, you pointed out some new Iowa poll, chuck grassley, 46%, the Democrat Mike Franken at 43%, someone else 4%, not sure 3% margin of error 3.9%. And you just said, hell. Yeah. I wonder what percentage of the Iowa voters think that are telling Paul pollsters that who think they're voting for Al Franken? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, if I was Mike Franken, I would let that go. You know, hey, yeah. Sure. Absolutely. Let me tell you about my days on Saturday Night Live. You know, I'm sure Mike Franken is as boring as every other problem. Politician from Iowa. You in general wrote a piece of America has a long history of fumbling its democracy. You say I shouldn't be dreading election day the way I am. But you are. You said I've been dreading it for an entirely new reason, a reason I thought we left behind with tammany hall in the north and with the Klan in the south. I'm dreading the actual act of voting all over the country and you talked about the Reuters piece about the network of election deniers and trained rat ephors to put it nicely. Yeah, they're holding seminars on how to disrupt how to disrupt polling places. So the nice volunteer ladies, you know, can have miserable times. Yeah. I mean, what a collection of lizard people, these are. I mean, this is just awful. Yeah. No, I was talking about that. I've already voted. My ballot came in the mail. Did you vote by mail? I put up my mail, put in my mailbox, put the flag up, I already got a thing saying my vote's been received and counted. I just, it makes your votes in Mexico. It's in Italy. But it makes me crazy. No, no, it's in China, but it started in Italy. It just makes me crazy. That they don't have that everywhere. That we have to see these long lines already. Yeah, we have it here this time. We have it here this time. Yeah. I'm not going to do it because I'm like Chris, I like to the idea of going to the elementary school and checking off my ballot. And talking to the cast of cocoon? Yes. Yes. And talking very, yes, talking to the folks who've been doing this since my kidney Brian. Yes. You could take them Starbucks gift card stuff. You've been flight attendants, and they'd be over caffeine in the boats would never get there. Yeah, but aren't you bribing them? I mean, isn't it? You're not allowed to do that. Oh, that's right. Yeah, you can't bribe the poll workers. Like you can flight attendants. What? Okay. You can't fly to Texas? Okay. You know, Charlie. You're not that I'm complaining, but I just made a house sparks the historian of the Stephanie Miller show yesterday, but I'm revoking that and giving it to you now. We can share the title. Okay. We can teach you each other's classes. I did not know these historical fun facts. You said chicanery, even violent chicano polling places has a long history in American politics for a long time, it was often fueled by alcohol, provided to the citizens on their way to vote. That's right. In fact, as an author author Daniel okrent reports is fine history of prohibition, it goes back to elections called even before the U.S. was the U.S. when 24 year old George Washington first ran for a seat in the Virginia House of burgesses. He attributed his defeat to his failure to provide enough alcohol for the voters. When he tried again two years later, Washington floated into office, partly on the 144 gallons of rum punch and hard cider and beer. His election agent handed out. In 1970 7, excuse me, James Madison, a future president and principal author of the constitution lost an election because he refused to ply voters with booze. Yeah. According to a historian, this was called swilling the planters with gumbo. In New York. That phrase was now entered my lexicon, by the way. And also I didn't know the famous Hatfield McCoy feud had been Kentucky was exacerbated by a murder of a Hatfield by a McCoy in a drunken election day brawl. I did not know anything. It was like drunk history. Thank you, Charlie. You know what you call gene Arizona. They did not allow alcohol sales on election day until the time
Newsradio 600 KOGO
"mike franken" Discussed on Newsradio 600 KOGO
"For American families. I'm Joe Cheryl, Fox News. That's what President Biden will say he can do is he speaks this hour in Portland, Oregon. But there's another reason he's there. What he's really coming here for is to try to avoid what would be an embarrassing and really historic loss in the Oregon governor's race. It has been get this 40 years since the Republican has won here and right now the race is a toss up with polls showing Republican Christine drazen with a slight lead, but within the margin of error. It's a three woman race with all of them former members of the state legislature, including longtime Democrat and now independent Betsy Johnson. Whole suggests Johnson is pulling more support from Democrats pina kotek than drazen. Boxes, Dan Springer. The Marine Corps halted some training operations with its new amphibious combat vehicles while does more analysis after one of them rolled over and surfed during training off of California's camp Pendleton this week. The three crew members were not injured. The Department of Education has lost a beta version of its online student loan forgiveness application. Even though it's a beta test, any applications submitted now will be processed with no need to resubmit after the site's official launch date, which has not yet been set. Borrowers have until the end of 2023 to apply, but they're being encouraged to get their applications in by mid November. The White House is offering $10,000 in student loan to forgiveness and another $10,000 in forgiveness for pell grant recipients for those who meet income guidelines. Fox's Paul Stevens, President Biden has irritated Pakistan after he called the South Asian country, one of the most dangerous nations in the world during a fundraising dinner Thursday. Pakistan's current prime minister and two former ones called the comment baseless Pakistan also summoned the U.S. ambassador for
Bloomberg Radio New York
"mike franken" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Now the latest news from New York City and around the world here's Michael Barr Tom Lisa John the House oversight committee is set to hear testimony today from survivors of mass shootings and the families of victims committee chair Carolyn maloney of New York says she hopes the hearings will lead to Congress passing gun reform legislation We've had 40,000 people die Recently from gun violence in our country The number one killer of children What are we going to act Congresswoman maloney told ABC it's not even a felony to sell illegal guns the traffic It's a misdemeanor Meanwhile a bipartisan group of senators is closing in on a framework Lead Republican negotiator Texas senator John cornyn I think a focus on mental health and criminal background history is probably going to be the most productive But there's a range of things We know that this is not a single point of failure This is a multiple points of failure Senator John cornyn With vaccine immunity waning and concerns over a fall surge growing a Moderna executive says the company's new COVID booster is highly effective and could potentially lead the way to annual shots Moderna chief medical officer doctor Paul Burton says the company plans to file its data with the FDA as soon as possible As the potential to be a real turning point in this latter part second half of the pandemic Moderna's doctor Burton spoke to ABC In Iowa a retired navy admiral Democrat Mike Franken will challenge Republican senator chuck grassley's reelection this fall after winning his party's nomination over two competitors The World Bank is sending Ukraine additional help The World Bank's executive board is deciding to send an additional $1.5 billion to Ukraine to help the war torn country pay government and social workers wages In all the bank is now pledged to send Ukraine over $4 billion Researchers say there is a.
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"Body in a way considered to be more traditional than the current ones Health experts hope that will appeal to those still unvaccinated A protein based alternative may be more comfortable for some in terms of their acceptance of vaccine I'm Michael hill It's morning edition from NPR and WNYC Deep divisions in a lack of trust within the U.S. Supreme Court are making it hard for the court to get things done A former police chief discusses the practical reality of congressional gun reform and a new audio installation explores how the global climate crisis is affecting New York City's urban gardeners It's Wednesday June 8th the news is next Live from NPR news on corva Coleman this falls midterm elections are coming into sharper focus following primary elections on Tuesday NPR's Giles Snyder has results from some of the key races With control of Congress at stake this November voters in 7 states went to the polls to select their party nominees and Iowa Democrats chose retired navy vice admiral Mike Franken to take on 8 term Republican senator chuck grassley In California vice president Kamala Harris successor in the Senate Democrat Alex Padilla easily advanced and will face Republican Mark Boise in November And Mississippi Republican congressman Steven Palazzo was forced into a runoff at the end of the month after running into ethics troubles Voters also went to the polls in South Dakota New Mexico Montana and New Jersey where Republican Tom king junior the son of a popular former governor What challenged democratic congressman Tom malinowski in a closely watched house race Trial Snyder NPR news Some of those forever changed by the mass shootings in New York State and Texas are on Capitol Hill this week victims and family members who lost loved ones testified before a Senate panel yesterday and today as NPR's Windsor Johnston tells us they'll be on the house side Lawmakers on the house oversight committee will hear testimony in the aftermath of the shooting attack on a grocery store in Buffalo that killed ten black people The panel will also hear from a fourth grader who played dead to survive the mass shooting at an elementary school and you value Texas Their testimony comes as lawmakers in both the House and Senate facing increasing pressure to reach a bipartisan compromise to strengthen gun laws in the U.S. and beards Windsor Johnston reporting The bodies of 210 Ukrainian soldiers are being returned to their families and bears Nathan ront reports from Kyiv most of them were killed in the southern port city of Mario ball Ukraine's defense ministry says most of the bodies are those of soldiers who were killed in the weeks long siege at the as of stahl steel plant in mariupol The battle of the steel plant came to represent Ukraine's unexpected resolve and ability to defend itself from Russia's aggression It ended last month when Ukraine's leadership commanded the last holdouts at the steel plant to surrender Russia claims roughly 2000 Ukrainians did just that and many are believed to have since been transferred to Russia It's unclear still what their futures hold Nathan rott and PR news Kyiv Drug maker Moderna says a new version of its COVID-19 vaccine appears highly effective against the omicron strain as well as the original coronavirus strain Moderna says this is its leading candidate for use as a booster vaccine The company is submitting its data to regulators It hopes the new version of the vaccine will be available in late summer This is NPR It's WNYC in New York at 8 O four good morning I'm Michael hill 71 and partly cloudy warmer today a high of 83 We have delays.
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"FM and a.m. 8 20 NPR news and the New York conversation Live from NPR news in Washington I'm Dave Mattingly A retired U.S. Navy admiral will challenge Republican senator chuck grassley of Iowa in November Democrat Mike Franken won his party's nomination to face grassley who's seeking his 8th term in the Senate Franken defeated former congresswoman Abby finken hour the perceived FrontRunner in that primary Iowa was one of 7 states holding primary elections yesterday Voters in San Francisco have ousted the city's district attorney in a recall election as NPR's Eric westervelt reports residents were unhappy with the city's progressive DA chesa boudin A former public defender and son of radical activist boudin was elected in 2019 and launched policies aimed at rolling back mass incarceration Boudin dismissed the recall effort as a trumpian power grab funded by Republican billionaires In fact a coalition of Democrats Republicans and independents in this famously liberal city saw boudin as two lenient to inexperienced and ideologically rigid Pandemic rattled voters also partly blamed him for persistent problems with property crimes open air drug dealing and an overdose crisis A series of prosecutor resignations only added to the perception that boudin's office was in chaos Mayor London breed a moderate Democrat will now appoint an interim replacement and voters will elect a new DA in November Eric westervelt and PR news San Francisco This is NPR news from Washington And its doubly NYC in New York at 6 32 good morning 69 in the gradual clearing has begun but what shall we could get more showers this morning Warmer today as well and a high of 83 Ian M trains are running on delays in the city Governor Kathy hochul says her views on gun control have evolved since 2012 when the NRA gave her an a rating during her time in Congress hoku was responding to congressman Tom swazi during last night's democratic gubernatorial debate The current governor says her evolution on the issue should be taken as a sign that voters can also change how they think about issues like gun control That was a decade ago judge you what I've done because a lot of people have evolved since I took that position You don't need more people to evolve We have to change the hearts and minds of people all over this country so we can finally have common sense legislation During her single term in Congress hulk will voted to allow licensed gun owners in every state to carry a concealed firearm during her time as governor she has come out strongly in favor of gun control and signed a package of gun control measures this week in the wake of the buffalo in uvalde shootings The majority of New Yorkers want to see more police on the subways those are the findings of a spectrum news NY New York one Sienna college poll released yesterday WNYC Steven nessen reports the city has already assigned more officers to the subway since the start of the year The new poll finds 85% of New Yorkers support having more officers in the subway since January when Michelle go was fatally shoved at the Times Square station the NYPD began adding more officers to patrol the transit system Now there are an additional 1000 officers assigned to the subways and the NYPD has non transit police patrolling platforms and train cars as part of their regular routine Still a man was fatally shot on the Q train last month and there was the non fatal mass shooting on an R train in April This week the mayor's office says a new policing initiative for the subways is coming soon The Tampa Bay lightning shut down the New York rangers last night four to one to try the NHL's Eastern Conference final at two games apiece game 5.
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"Works in the body in a way considered to be more traditional than the current ones Health experts hope that will appeal to those still unvaccinated A protein based alternative may be more comfortable for some in terms of their acceptance of vaccine Hi Michael hill It's morning edition from NPR and WNYC Deep divisions and a lack of trust within the U.S. Supreme Court are making it hard for the court to get things done A former police chief discusses the practical reality of congressional gun reform and a new audio installation explores how the global climate crisis is affecting New York City's urban gardeners It's Wednesday June 8th the news is next Live from NBR news on core of a coolman survivors and family members who lost loved ones in the mass shootings in New York and Texas last month are testifying this week on Capitol Hill They addressed a Senate panel yesterday and NPR's Windsor Johnston reports some will appear before a House committee later today Garnell whitfield lost his 86 year old mother when a gunman opened fire in a racist attack on black shoppers at a buffalo supermarket Testifying before a Senate panel on Tuesday whitfield called on Congress to act against the cancer of white supremacy What are you doing You elected to protect us to protect our way of life I ask every one of you to imagine the faces of your mothers as you look at mine And ask yourself is there nothing that we can do Today the House oversight committee will hear from more victims families and from a fourth grader who survived the mass shooting at an elementary school in uvalde Texas last month Windsor Johnston NPR news 7 states held primary elections on Tuesday Democrats are looking to protect their slim majority in the U.S. House in California's Orange County incumbent Republican congresswoman Michelle Steele will face Democrat J Chen in the fall in what is seen as a toss up election in the diverse district In one of Montana's new congressional districts former Trump interior secretary Ryan zinke is leading the Republican primary results there but that vote is too close to call In Iowa retired navy vice admiral Mike Franken has won the democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate He beat two other democratic challengers including a former congresswoman who was thought to be the FrontRunner My job is to help the Iowa Democratic Party And every race from school board on up Franken will face long time incumbent U.S. senator Republican Charles grassley in the fall In New Mexico broadcaster Mark ran chetty won a crowded Republican gubernatorial primary He will face incumbent democratic governor Michelle Wuhan Grisham for the general election Ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky says the country's military is continuing its defense of the eastern Donbass region NPR's Ryan Lucas reports the area is the target of an ongoing Russian offensive that is slowly gaining ground In his daily overnight address zelensky says the frontline situation has remained relatively stable in the last 24 hours across the country He says the place's hardest hit by fighting in the Donbass right now are the city of severo Donetsk as well as the towns of Pope Austen Senator nets in particular has been the site of fierce battles between Ukrainian and Russian troops were fighting in the city's streets Capturing the city would hand Russia the last urban center in the area and near total control over the entire lupin's region which has been a stated goal of the Kremlin in this war Ryan Lucas and Pierre news harkey Ukraine You're listening to NPR news You're listening to WNYC 6 O four good morning I'm Michael hill 69 in cloudy now today gradual clearing warmer and Ohio of 83 We have delays this morning or an E and M trains in the city and a crash on I 95 southbound at undercliff avenue in New York Congressman Tom swazi is calling the cause of his House ethics probe over his failure to report stock transactions in time the manner a clerical mistake in last night's democratic gubernatorial debate the Long Island Congress member was asked to explain the House ethics committee investigation swazi said he has filed disclosures every year My accountant disgusted with the ethics committee every single year After 5 years they said you have to file periodic transaction reports as well Every 45 days after a trade when they told us that we did it it just paperwork thing It's a paperwork error So as you fail to report more than 300 transactions that ranged in millions of dollars from 2017 through 2020 that's according to complaints filed against the three term representative and 6 other members of Congress Democratic New Jersey congressman Tom malinowski but once again face Tom Kane junior in November's midterm election Kane easily won his party's nomination yesterday in the state's 7th congressional district in central New Jersey malinowski B Kane in 2020 by just one percentage point malinowski told denji's spotlight news expect another close finish In New Jersey this year this is the race because redistricting left all the others essentially safe for their incumbents all eyes are going to be on our district Cain served as the Republican leader of the state Senate for 14 years before declining to seek reelection last year that primary results could be among the topics for tonight's ask governor Murphy a live monthly call in special submit your questions now at WNYC dot org slash ask God Murphy and then tune in tonight at 7 right here on WNYC A.
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"Scored little change down 70 cents at 1851 50 ounce The Euro is at 1.0707 against the dollar British pound 1.2539 The yen is at one 33.72 MBA mortgage applications at 7 a.m. Wall Street time followed by a wholesale inventories at ten Campbell's among companies scheduled to report earnings today That's a Bloomberg business flash and now here's Michael Barr with more on what's going on around the world Good morning Michael Good morning Nathan Victims families and survivors of the uvalde and buffalo mass shootings are in Washington D.C. today for multiple hearings to call on Congress to act on gun reform In Iowa a retired navy admiral Democrat Mike Franken will challenge Republican senator chuck grassley's reelection this fall after winning his party's nomination over two competitors In the NHL east final the rangers lost to the lightning four one series now tied at two games apiece in baseball the Yankees won the mets lost the Red Sox and the Orioles were winners The nationals lost along with the a's and giants Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake Powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts to more than a 120 countries Michael Barr and this is Bloomberg Amy All right thank you Michael It's 5 49 on Wall Street We're live from the Bloomberg interactive broker studios on Bloomberg daybreak After yesterday's primaries we are looking at what these races in their results are telling us about what we can expect in November Joanie is now Greg valier chief U.S. policy strategist at AGF investment Greg thanks so much for joining us Always a pleasure I got to say some of the big issues that keep coming up are crime gun control measures now abortion rights And of course inflation including high gas prices I want to know from you though if the election were just about inflation it seems Democrats would be in trouble but with these other factors does that make a difference Perhaps in good morning Amy I think that once in a great while in the world of politics there is a message that is so clear that is a metaphor for what's going on politically that you can't ignore it And that happened in San Francisco last night The fact that a progressive defund the police Democrat got beaten in a landslide sends a chilling message I think to a lot of Democrats around the country that they need to go to the center They are going to the left is becoming an albatross for the party And in addition in the race for the mayor of Los Angeles you had Karen Bass and Rick Caruso they're both advancing to the November runoff and you have one who is a representative the other who is a billionaire at businessman Does that give you any indications Not necessarily And I'd say that for Caruso he should have won by a majority Now he's going to run off where it's just him against Karen Bass And I think it's going to be a lot tougher for Caruso than it was last night when he had several other candidates diluting the vote total Caruso has money and Caruso has the argument that crime is out of control in LA but I think his chances have decreased Something we're also noticing is that it's very granular how these results are turning out and what those results might be indicating when it comes to the primary and then perhaps the general election in a couple of years Are you noticing that as well that everything boils down to super local which is kind of unusual Absolutely right Amy I think that a lot of these races are based on parochial racism I tell everybody don't over interpret these primaries That's why I think the San Francisco vote is so unique And so important But if there is a theme you mentioned at the beginning of our chat the theme still is inflation And I think that the average American who's seeing gasoline prices over $6 a gallon wants to extract revenge And they want to blame somebody And who is going to get blamed Well it's the party in power Very briefly I'm going to shift gears about the January 6th hearings They're going to be public They're going to be in prime time They start tomorrow night but when people are having a hard time filling up their gas tanks and dealing with those kitchen table issues that we talked about crime inflation gun control measures even is anybody going to tune in tomorrow I think people will I think that it's probably not going to change a lot of votes I think that it's not going to move the needle As someone who follows politics for a living I'll be addicted to this It's going to be fascinating There's a lot of speculation about bombshells coming new evidence being introduced But I think in terms of the election again it's inflation more than anything else And close behind inflation is urban crime as we saw last night Absolutely Greg valiant chief U.S. policy strategist at AGF investment always a pleasure thanks so much Nathan Okay Amy thank you It is coming up to.
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"On the air good morning I'm James Sears at 1231 Matthew McConaughey got emotional at The White House talking about gun control The socks shut out the LA Dodgers four zero cubs lost at Baltimore 9 three WGN traffic looking at the expressways in 12 weeks no accidents out there to report at this time Primary election days in the rearview mirror for voters in 7 states Much of the focus has been on California and its high profile elections there including whether San Francisco's district attorney should be recalled He was Governor Newsom will advance to the general election now with over 50% of the vote while in Iowa Republican chuck grassley who's been senator for 42 years won his primary and will run for an 8th term in November The 88 year old will go up against retired navy admiral Mike Franken Actor and uvalde Texas native Matthew McConaughey made an emotional plea for gun reform at a White House press briefing yesterday two weeks after a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school News nations Kelly Meyer has more The actor inspired to speak out after the mass shooting at rob elementary school and Yuval Texas the town where he was born Emotional McConaughey spoke of each of the 19 victims His wife joining him at the briefing holding a pair of green high tops worn by one of the victims These are the same green converse On her feet that turned out to be the only clear evidence that could I did to fire her after the shooting McConaughey's walk on role in the briefing room came after a brief meeting with president Joe Biden and before that with leading lawmakers on Capitol Hill McConaughey made it clear he just wants changes and is not seeking office A new COVID vaccine for adults could get FDA approval this week after panel of independent experts voted unanimously to recommend it Novavax uses a protein that's made with more conventional technology used in other vaccines officials hope that people worried about the current vaccines mRNA technology will feel more comfortable using novavax Julia Garner is being offered the role of Madonna for an upcoming biopic from Universal Studios The 20 year old actress known for TV shows Ozark and inventing Anna the movie will follow the early days of Madonna's life and career and will be directed by Madonna herself No word.
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"Up three suspects in fort for a 5 year old quadruple murder Senate majority leader Charles Schumer wants something out of a bipartisan group of senators on gun control by a week's end Senate Republicans including Mitch McConnell insists they do want a gun deal just not the one Democrats are pushing We're hoping to actually get an outcome It'll make a difference In the areas of mental health school safety and things that are related to the incidents that occurred in Texas Not in the deal no assault weapon ban no expanded background checks Andy field ABC News Washington Primary election day in Iowa where retired navy admiral Mike Franken won the democratic nomination for U.S. Senate he'll take on Republican Charles grassley in November grassley seeking an 8th term Food and Drug Administration advisers recommending approval for novavax's COVID vaccine for adults made with more conventional technology than Moderna Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson Richard kantz who ABC News Stay connected stay informed with the northwest's only all news station northwest news radio Good evening I'm Kelly Byron here are the top local northwest stories For the first time the three suspects accused in the horrific quadruple murders of a kitsap county family faced a judge Como four is Tammy mutasa was in the courtroom and has reaction from the family The three men accused in the horrific executions of the carriage family were held without bail at their arraignment Investigators say the suspects are 50 year old Bobby Watson a sergeant in arms and leader of the bandidos motorcycle club His brother 49 year old Johnny Watson and 43 year old Danny Kelly who's also in the bandidos deputy say in January 2017 they shot and killed Johnny and crystal carry and the 16 year old's hunter Scott and Jonathan Higgins Detectives say the motive for the murders was over drugs and money deputies believe there was an argument between victim Johnny Kerry yega and the suspects possibly over the cocaine trade detectives say the teenagers and crystal were executed just because they were there at that house Hunter's mom Carly told me she sat in the front row to the suspects would be reminded by her son's death I want them to be lived some sort of trauma again and again and again I want them to go to sleep tonight and I want them to see my face I want them to look at me And I want them to see my son The trial date has been set for August 1st Coma four is Tammy mutasa A homicide investigation is underway after a man claims to have fatally shot his wife at their Capitol Hill area home an 89 year old man contacted Seattle police this afternoon officers found an 83 year old woman deceased inside the home off of 15th avenue Said a police are hoping you can help them find two suspects who shot a man at a north Seattle car wash nearly two months ago leaving him partially blind investigators say the man was parked in a self serve car wash in the area of northeast 145th and 15th avenue early on April 25th That's where he was approached by two men who tried to carjack him at gunpoint the victim resisted in the suspects fired at the driver before leaving King County's office of law enforcement oversight finds use of force cases evolving sheriff deputies down 23% in 2021 from 2020 and critical incidents where the deputies face stressful traumatic situations were down 88% in oleos annual report director Tamar abuse told a county council committee they like to do additional analysis to see where the reductions are happening and if they are being done equitably We want to look at neighborhoods geography race gender time of day et cetera Right now we don't have that type of analysis One of the reasons is either the data collection or for example information about race is not always collected Or data sharing where we may not necessarily have access to everything that we need to make these determinations Abuse aid also told county commissioners that are council members some of this data mining requires a lot of staff hours so they can expect a budget request for more staff to help Northwest news time is 8 34 Let's get a traffic.
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"8 o'clock From ABC News I'm Daria albinger 7 states are holding primaries today in ABC News is making the following projections Incumbent Christina will win South Dakota's Republican gubernatorial primary Margarine Kenny will win New Mexico's Republican gubernatorial primary and Mike Franken will win Iowa's democratic Senate primary There are also a number of closely watched house races The Democrats can only afford to lose three seats in the House of Representatives if they want to keep control of Congress and you have maybe ten or so battleground districts in California alone Plus big ones in Montana New Mexico New Jersey big opportunities Iowa as well And what we're seeing tonight so far about Trump and his waning appeal Trump didn't play that heavily in a lot of these races tonight but there were Trump at your candidates that were on the ballot So far we're not seeing them that successful in the big races ABC's political director Rick Klein Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to journalists in Los Angeles on this eve of the summit of the Americas It's also the reason it's so important that governments like ours are open to scrutiny To questions from the media Even when occasionally it's not the most comfortable thing to do And you can take that from me as well Blinken calling journalist the backbone of a free society ABC News has been taking a deeper look today at gun violence in America a Senate committee hearing from those who lost loved ones to it Darnell whitfield lost his 86 year old mother Ruth and the buffalo supermarket shooting last month the targeted black shoppers and workers whitfield is now urging lawmakers to take action on gun and terrorism laws I ask every one of you to imagine the faces of your mothers as you look at mine and ask yourself is there nothing that we can do Extreme violence and domestic terrorism the focus of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that featured whitfield and others touched by mass shootings ABC's Derek Dennis stocks closed higher today the Dow up more than 200 points You're listening to ABC News Ew dad Why are toenails so ugly and yellow Hey it's James And if you're like me and suffer from toenail fungus please pay close attention Let's face it Toe fungus is embarrassing I was afraid to take my socks off and hid my yellow and crumbly toes from everybody But nail fungus isn't just a cosmetic problem It can also be dangerous even a small spot can spread and get worse But no matter what I tried it seemed like my fungus would never go away Then.
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"Edition from NPR and doubly when YC A grand jury has accused our far right extremist group leader of seditious conspiracy tied to the attack on January 6th an investigation is underway into the deadly attack yesterday on the Catholic Church in Nigeria and California faces the state's worst ever drought It's Tuesday June 7th primary day in New Jersey the news is next Live from NPR news in Washington on corva Coleman a House committee will start debate today on proposals intended to strengthen some of the country's gun laws This follows horrific mass shootings in the U.S. separately bipartisan talks are ongoing in the Senate to address gun violence NPR's Giles Snyder reports the Senate's lead Republican negotiator is asking for more time to reach a deal With the two sides still trying to find common ground Texas Republican senator John cornyn is urging the Senate's top Democrat majority leader Chuck Schumer To give negotiators a space they need Schumer has warned that he will force a vote on gun legislation of a deal is not reached soon On the Senate floor cornyn said consensus legislation takes time In order to deliver results we have to build consensus and the best way to do that is through targeted reforms Those targeted reforms are reported to include legislation to encourage states to adopt red flag laws at an eye firearms to people with mental health issues also to upgrade school security and to keep guns from people who can not legally possess child Snyder NPR news 7 states across the country have primary elections today from California to New Jersey in Iowa three Democrats are in a primary competition to go up against longtime Republican U.S. senator chuck grassley Iowa public radio's clay masters has more Former U.S. representative Abby finkenauer beat a Republican incumbent back in 2018 before losing her reelection nearly two years ago Now she wants to go up against senator chuck grassley who faces a primary opponent of his own It's not a stiff competition for grassley who has the endorsement of former president Donald Trump but before think an hour could face grassley in a general election she has to fend off two challengers in her primary today retired navy admiral Mike Franken and rural doctor Glenn Hurst Also in Iowa there's a three way race among Republicans and Iowa's newly drawn third congressional district the winner of that race will face the state's only remaining Democrat in Congress U.S. representative Cindy axne For NPR news I'm clay masters in Des Moines supporters of WNBA star Brittany griner held a rally and prayer vigil for the basketball star last night in Houston Reiner has been held in a Russian prison for more than 100 days Russia alleges she had cartridges containing oil derived from cannabis in her luggage One of the speakers at last night's rally was Trevor Reed the marine veteran was held in Russian prisons for nearly a thousand days before he was released in a prisoner exchange Reed fears a grinder may be getting worse treatment than he did Britney especially.