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So they keep having this vote up there, which, of course, the president is angry about. And then he and Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. They reportedly start shouting each other. Bill Cassidy is criticizing the president's action on Iran. Trump fires back. Trump told Bill Cassidy to sit down, you lunatic. Bill Cassidy... Talk to the media afterwards and said, I stood and said, you have not told the American people what's going on. It was supposed to last four weeks. It's lasted four months. Our original objectives have not been achieved, and I want to know what's going on. The president said, sit down, you lunatic. Bill Cassidy said, I lost my temper. That's not appropriate. Bill Cassidy said, it's the Irish in me. I think he lost, when he lost the primary, that's what started it. Yep. And that's because he voted to impeach Trump. That's the convict Trump in the Senate after impeachment articles. Yeah. The president starts mocking him about that, I guess. Oh, you lost the election. You're just mad because he lost the election. The reason we lost the election is that you didn't fall in line and you voted to convict me, you a-ho. Yeah. A senator near him tried to de-escalate the situation. I don't know if that was Senator Deb Fisher. I just was thinking about this going. What do you think Senator Chuck Grassley was thinking during all of this? Okay, goodbye. Okay, I've been here for a million years. Okay, I think we should stop yelling at each other. This is a little strange. At least we're doing this in the afternoon and not at 3 o'clock in the morning. Okay, goodbye. I should say that after yesterday's reportedly contentious meeting between the president and the Republican leadership and members of the United States Senate, he initially went in there all rambunctious, a wamping and a whooping about the war powers vote, which didn't go anywhere or do anything. But then, after he went in there and yelled at these guys, lighting up Senators Bill Cassidy, Louisiana, and then the usual crowd, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rand Paul of Kentucky, who all sided with Bill Cassidy on the vote. He also lit up Senator Dave McCormick, who is a senator from Pennsylvania, and he was mad at him because McCormick missed the vote. what was McCormick doing that he missed the vote? He was out campaigning with the president. He was in Pennsylvania. He was in Pennsylvania. He went in there and yelled at all of them. He goes out and talks to the media. The media says, I heard it got a little testy in there. He's like, ah, it was a great meeting. I don't like a few of those people, but it's okay. I think they know who they are. I think you probably know who they are too. So then...

They went and had another vote on the exact same thing. That war powers vote? Here's the president's assessment of what happened next. He posted last night on true social. Wow. The Senate just changed its vote on Iran. From 50 to 48 against to 50-47-4. Rand Paul and Bill Cassidy changed their votes. Thank you to Leader John Thune, Lindsey Graham, Bernie Moreno, and all. This vote puts Iran on notice, President DJT. He also is pointing out, that just a couple of weeks ago, there were only about 30 or so ships getting through the Strait of Hormuz. Now it's over 90 and climbing. So whatever the president thinks he's doing in Iran is leading to the things that he said it would lead to. Oil plummeting. Ships going through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran backing off. supporting Hezbollah and Lebanon, causing Israel to have to blow them off the map. So it's moving in the right direction here. Let's move into the direction of the 1110 KFAB certified transmission sports brief. Here's Jim Rose. Okay, Scott, good morning, everybody. Sam Hoyberg started college as a walk-on. No D-1 offers out of high school and Rose to become one of the most effective players in the Big Ten conference. He's going to start his pro career as a walk-on too, signed as an undrafted free agent with the Phoenix Suns yesterday. So he's going to get his shot. And you watch, he might hang around a lot longer than you think. And Josh Dix signs a deal with the Thunder, but the Creighton guy has a better deal. He is a two-way free agent, which means he can go back and forth between the Thunder and his G-League team. Each NBA team can have three of these, and they can be on the NBA roster up to 50 games a year, so that's good for Josh Dix. World Cup soccer yesterday afternoon and last night. The final round of the group stage began with Switzerland beating Canada and Vancouver. Bosnia-Herzegovina took down Qatar and Seattle. Morocco survived Haiti and Atlanta. Brazil beats Scotland in Miami. And then in the evening session, South Africa gets into the knockout round that beat South Korea in Guadalupe, Mexico, and Mexico shut out Chequia in Mexico City. Kansas City has a match today when the Netherlands takes on Tunisia. Why does the world hate Wyndham Clark? The U.S. Open champ was pretty much booed as he walked up the 72nd hole on Sunday.

but he won it anyway. I'm 40. He gets it. The incident at Oakmont this last year, the club throwing, the F-bombs, and he hates Baker Mayfield. He finally came out with why that is. Ten years ago, when Clark was golfing at Oklahoma State, Baker Mayfield was quarterbacking Oklahoma. It seems Clark's girlfriend was making regular incursions into Baker. His girlfriend was doing the starting quarterback. Clark says it's all good now. Mayfield is married with two kids, and Clark's girlfriend is a smoke show. Bros before, well, you know, it rhymes with goes. Husker football has chosen its media reps for Big Ten media days, July 28th through the 30th from Chicago. And for the first time in a while, we aren't using a quarterback who's never taken a snap in a game. Three veterans. The center, Justin Evans, defensive back, Andrew Marshall, and tied in Luke Lindenmeyer, will represent Husker football at Media Days. Big Red, rather Big League baseball. Yesterday afternoon and last night, K.C. Royals got beat by Tampa Bay 5 to 3. Houston over Toronto, 3 to 1. The Yankees who went over Detroit and the Cleveland Guardians defeated the White Sox, Angels 7 to 6 over the Orioles. Double header for the Cubs and the Mets and Chicago sweeps it. It wins the first one 10 to 3 and the second one 10 to 5. Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Arizona, and the Padres also got wins. Miami, Colorado, Pittsburgh, the Dodgers and Giants all got victories in interleague play. After the double header between the Cubs and the Mets and you give up 20 runs, New York made a trade. Mets pitcher Dave Peterson, the former All-Star, who has really fallen off in the last couple of years, to Chicago for minor league infielder. Cole Mathis. You wonder if Peterson was on the team bus. He may start this weekend against the Brewers. Major upset at the state match played golf tournament over at Oak Hills. Jackson Binge, the pre-tournament favorite, got beat in the round of 16 by Travis Tilford. And it wasn't close. Four and three. Tilford, Golfford, Nebraska, Nebraska, Nebraska, now moves on to the quarterfinals today. Sports is news on Nebraska's News Weather and Traffic Station. There are several media outlets. And by the way, they're the same. The same media outlets, who when the president says something like, for example, just the other day, that there are people vandalizing the reflecting pool on the National Mall and arrests are being made, which has happened. But the media still says, well, the president said, without evidence, that blah, blah, blah, blah, they constantly do, and they never did that for President Biden. They never did that for President Obama. President Obama today said without evidence that if you like your insurance and you like your doctor, you can keep your insurance and you can keep your doctor. The media never did that. And price will go down. Right. And your insurance rates will go down. Not only will you have more coverage, but you'll spend less for it. Well, 88% increase later, we're still waiting for that. The media, the president come on and say today's Thursday, and the media would say the president today without evidence suggested, alleged that today is Thursday. Well, the same media that does that to the president is also, I'm seeing this phrase a lot after what happened yesterday. The president goes to the Senate.

yells at him, didn't like one of these votes on the War Powers Act, and then called a few of them in, including Senator Bill Cassidy, who had previously voted to strip the president of his ability to do what he's doing in Iran, and then he had a closed-door meeting at the White House with officials who went over with him and said, look, here's what's going on in Iran. And then he saw that, and he went back and changed his vote. Now, he either did that because the president and his people, some of the vice president, I imagine Steve Witkoff, envoy was in there, and others showed Bill Cassidy, the Louisiana senator. Here's what's going on in Iran. Here's what was happening. Here's what we did. Here's what's happening now. And here's what happens if you guys in the Senate stop us from doing what we're doing. And Bill Cassidy looked at it and said, either, okay, you've made a compelling argument, Mr. President, I'm going to go back there tonight. We're going to change our vote, which is what he did. That was either due to new information he had. Or the phrase that many people in the media have been using is, the Senate had a late night vote yesterday to try to appease the president. They've just decided the media without evidence is putting that insinuation on this vote. And it could very well be the case. But you can't say the president's alleged without evidence, and then throw in your own bias into the reporting. And all the major networks are saying the same thing. The Senate tried to appease the president. That is a biased opinionated statement that is not rooted. In fact, no one is saying that. And it could very well be that they weren't trying to appease him, Jim. They saw the evidence and changed their vote. Well, first of all, I'm offended because I'm the one that assigns motives to people without any evidence. And I don't want any more roosters in the hen house. But yeah, no, your point is taken and may very well be true. But see, Scott, we're used to this. The news media in this country, other than some on Fox News, some on News Max, and a couple for the New York Post, are absolutely not. inclined to give the president of the United States right now any fair treatment because they don't like the guy. They don't like his personality. They don't like his take charge approach. They don't like his wanton suspension of protocols in Washington, D.C. And they're just sick and tired of him being around for 10 years. Remember, we got the four-year break with a guy who probably today doesn't remember that he was president of the United States. But then we get another four of Donald Trump. And they're just sick of this. Who's surprised? The ruling class, the political media class, these people live in a bubble in D.C. They don't know how the rest of the world thinks are acts. And they are not inclined to give this guy a break. Look, he is about to perform if this ceasefire holds. And I don't know that it will, but if it does. And I don't believe that the Iranians tell the truth. So, you know, take your pick. He doesn't either. But if this happens.

He'll be the first president in history, really literally 3,000 years to bring peace to the Middle East. Do you think he'll even get a sniff at the Nobel Peace Prize for that? It's like Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan freed 100 million Europeans from the grip of the totalitarian Iron Curtain, the Soviet Union and its proxies on the Iron Curtain. the Warsaw Pact Nations, if you will. He wasn't even up for nomination, and they should have retired the trophy for him after that. The man freed all of these people from the oppression of the Warsaw Pact and the Iron Curtain. And yet, this is how Republicans are treated by the national ruling class in this country and the global... political elites. So I don't think it matters to Donald Trump because he's doing fine. I think he'd like to get the Nobel Peace Prize because he wants to live a complete life. But I think he gets it because he's saying, look, this is what I want to do as president and I'm going to do it. But he's not going to get any help. He's going to be accused of everything from the theft of the Lindberg baby to the COVID-19 virus. Well, didn't he come up with another group that had a different Peace Prize and that they gave him the Peace Prize or something like that? The Trump trophy. I don't need the Nobel one. I got the Trump trophy. We're going to name it after the Trump. This is the only guy that's going to put a massage parlor and concedo in his own presidential library. Why? Because he'll make money at it. I got the Christian Nobel Peace Prize. It comes with a nice fur. You said something else a moment ago that I want to dive a little deeper into. I think you said something that's very revealing. And that was you made some reference to something that I think is often left out of the conversation about America and Iran and all the rest of it. And that is the American people. As the Senate is having a vote every 10 minutes, it seems like, on what's going on in Iran. And the media, and I this morning am guilty of this as well. I've been talking about it. The American people, I don't think. Are thinking one bit about what's going on in Iran right now. The president says we got 93 ships going through the straight-of-Hormuz. People like, straight-of-Hormuz, is that a thing? We were talking about that weeks ago. We've moved on. What do you think the temperature is of the American people? How much is it on the radar of anything going on in Iran? Whether it blows up or they all start walking around arm and arm and hugging each other every day. Do the American people care at all about that at this point? Not very much. They don't because we are sort of victims to our own daily experience. We don't really think outside the box. I was speaking to the Packaderm lunch on the other day, the collection of Republicans. And I said, you know, people in Nebraska typically don't think about a congressional race in Seattle.

All right, we talk about keeping the House, talk about keeping the Senate. Well, when we begin processing the political opportunity of voting for one of our candidates, we don't think now, I got to vote for this guy because the race over in Iowa is really close and we can't afford to lose that seat. I would say less than 1% of voters cared. one bit about what's going on in another state. So every election is really local except for when we vote for president. And even then they don't seem to care too much about the election. So the answer to that is I think our nation is comprised of a bunch of people who have a day-to-day routine, whether it's their job or their family or their neighborhood or their passions. And that's what they focus on. And now if a nuclear bomb goes off. because we didn't stop the Iranian regime from getting one, and it goes off in the Middle East, and suddenly gas goes to $12 a gallon because of the disruption over there. People are going to say, well, now, where's that country again? I think they'd probably notice that one. They might. Yeah. That's my view. I suspect, and I don't need to tell you this. I suspect you're right. It was a rogue bit of journalism, a drive-by media on CNBC. No. In the wake of the elections in New York, where suddenly socialism is looking like a really, really cool thing, especially with a lot of young voters. And there are some members of the political left in this country wondering how far left they have to go to appease this new... wave, a red wave of young voters. One of them seems to be Senator Lisa Blunt, Rochester. She's a senator from Delaware. She's a Democrat. And she thinks it's great. I don't know that she thinks socialism is great, but she's certainly trying to appease that growing block of the left wing of the party. and not decry it and not say that has no place in American politics. That's not what our nation's found out. She's not saying any of that. She's like, hey, this is a big tent party. We've got a lot of different opinions here. And let's embrace this. And so she was saying some of this stuff on CNBC and clearly didn't think she was going to get any kind of pushback. And that's when a host of the program, Joe Kernan. asked her a pretty simple question. Where has socialism ever worked, Senator? Is that another question or is that for the next interview? That's, oh, that's definitely for you. You said fish, fish doesn't work everywhere. I just want to know one place where socialism has been beneficial. Well, when you have me come back on, we can talk about all the races across the country. Get your answer ready. That's it. Is that a question for me? Yeah, you're on here. I'm talking to you. No, you're just a hood ornament on this program, Senator. What the heck kind of next time I'm on here, we can talk about that. You're on here now. Yeah, well, the best and brightest does not necessarily reside in Washington, D.C. This is the thing that most Americans should recognize if they're not sure that our system is working for them.

We have thousands and thousands of people entering our country this summer to watch the World Cup that come from socialist nations, that come from restrictive government nations where, you know, the government handles everything from their health care to their education, to their housing, to their retirement, to their funeral. And they come into this country and they have no idea just how wonderful it is here. The freedoms that we have, the ability to move back and forth, the financial opportunities. It's the old saying, you know, if two folks from Cuba. defected the United States because they've been under communist and socialist rule for their whole lives. They come to this country because it's the shining city on the hill. It's the beacon of hope and light that everyone chases. Well, my question is, if we lose that... And we sort of succumb and surrender to what is a clear movement in our country today. Where do we go? Have you seen some of the clips online of these guys going on on on social media? These are people from around the world coming to America for the first time. And they're... They're talking to their friends back home going, guys, you're not going to believe this place. This is incredible. Have you heard the Australian talking about a restaurant he went to here? There's a little bit of this. Yeah, I don't normally go to fancy restaurants, but like I'm in America with my son, so I'm like, let's go to Texas Roadhouse. Fancy restaurant. It's unbelievable. First of all, they give you these peanuts. You can eat as many as you want. She's like, yeah, just take a bag. Then they come out and they put this bread on the table, and I'm like, I didn't order the bread. It's like, oh, that's free. And it's like, and she goes, and if you want more bread, we'll just give you more. And this bread is, it's as nice as bread can possibly be. Like, if you're an Australian, try and picture the most unbelievable bread, like subway bread. Got this fancy butter. And they give you the Coke. Of course, it's America, so it's unlimited refill. See, it's paradise. The bread and butter at Texas Roadhouse could bring about world peace. It could. Like, look, you sit, here's what you do. You get the leaders of Iran and Israel in a room. and you don't let them eat for 10 hours. So these guys go in there, they're hungry. And in the middle of the table, you've got the Texas Roadhouse bread and butter. It's all hot and it's nice and warm. That cinnamon butter they got there. And you say, guys, you can have this. Yeah.

Well, look, I think the president continues to want to have a very, you know, again, a strong immigration footing with regard to immigration control. And there are forces that work against that. And sometimes the forces working against that are coming from the U.S. Senate and the Republicans, specifically in the U.S. Senate. And that seems to be a big chasm between the president and his Senate Republicans. The president, I think, wanted to have a... You know, a come to me moment. I'll put it that way. And part of that was started with his last minute refusal to sign that housing bill. Yeah. This is the bill that the Congress passed in a bipartisan fashion. This should have sort of been a layup. And the president said, no, I'm not going to sign this because you don't do what I want you to do. And I think that that's a part of the president putting a foot down on a lot of things. He wants the Save America Act. And we talked yesterday with Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska about both the housing and the Save Act. And he says we can't get it passed here unless we do what the president wants and go to that filibuster-proof nuclear option and just ram it through there. Well, that's another thing. Yeah, and that's another thing. The president has tried to encourage Senate Republicans to start acting like Senate Democrats, and that is to use all the levers of power they have at their disposal when they have it. Senate Democrats have had no problem using the nuclear option. They complain about it when it's being used against them, but they've had no problem using it themselves. And so there's an old feeling about the U.S. Senate that it should be collegial and brotherly and fraternal and all of that stuff, and there are... It really hasn't been in quite a long time, and there are some members of the Republican caucus in the Senate that kind of long for those old days, and they still seem to think that if they behave that way, the Democrats will, too, and it never really works out. No. Well, they were Christian Sinema and Joe Manchin away from getting the filibuster blown up the last time. Right. And if there's an old feeling in the Senate's because some of them are old, very old people. Evan, appreciate it. Thank you very. much. As always, Evan Brown from Fox News Radio right here on Nebraska's Morning News. We're here in Dundee, that's middle of Omaha, and emanate from here, everywhere, anywhere you are with our free iHeart radio app. And just down the street from here, we've got wanted posters up in town. And it's not because someone robbed a bank. Someone probably did rob a bank. That does happen occasionally, but these wanted posters don't have anything to do with that. Wanted CEO Javier Fernandez and OPPD subdivision 5, board member Craig Moody. That's what these posters are about. It says approach with extreme caution if you see one of these people.

The concern seems to be, and there's a reward of over $850,000. The demands include a two-year moratorium for data centers, cease and desist for the allegations that OPPD or these particular members are using OPPD ratepayers' money for right-wing hate groups. They want these guys to be, well, they want Fernandez, the CEO of OPPD to be fired. They call them environmental racists, solicitors of data centers, and they have said that they're creating health risks for the community. So they are wanted. It thankfully doesn't say dead or alive. Yeah, that's a plus. First Alert 6 News reached out to a couple of people running for seats in the OPPD Board, Carol Blood, who's been a political figure around here in the area in various capacities over the years. But she says the signs are unproductive, quote. You do not take your opinion and shove it down somebody's throat. Wait. What do you mean? That's what we do. That's what everyone does. This is our job. Carol, I don't know if you've ever been on social media. You don't take your opinion and shove it down someone's throat. Because when you do that, you're never going to get any kind of agreement or common ground. We have to work together. We have to work with people we like. We don't like people. We don't support people. The number one thing we should have in common is that we extend grace and work together. I don't know that. The people who decided to put up wanted posters for a couple of these OPPD members care about any of that. The other person that First Alert 6 talked to is Jim Smith. Another person who served in the unicameral and so forth, the former OPPD guy. He said, As a state senator who has held various leadership roles, have had more than my fair share of attacks from extremists and political activists, it's unfortunate and unacceptable, but no longer unusual or isolated in today's hyper-partisan political climate. We can disagree without being disagreeable. The temperature should be lowered across the board, allowing for civil, thoughtful, and deliberate discussions of the serious issues at hand. OPPD is aware of the posters. They had a board member or they had a board meeting here this month that they decided to hold online rather than in person out of an abundance of caution. I don't know that they... are specifically saying we see this as a threat. They're not saying that specifically, but their actions indicate that if you're the CEO, Javier Fernandez, and your face is on a wanted poster with a reward attached to you, it's kind of hard not to take that as a threat, isn't it?

Well, as long as nobody, you know, in a slew of stones or carving in a beach says 86 Javier, yeah, short of that, it probably is. Look, OPPD, like any public organization, makes policy decisions. Now, I differ with many of them. Because I don't believe that we are embracing renewable energy in a smart way. I think buying land and putting solar panels on it in a part of the country that gets golf ball to baseball-sized hail is stupid, bordering on incompetent. Meanwhile, we should be building SMR, small modular reactors because they are immune to hail storms. That said, you know, he's a very well compensated. His crew of executives are very well compensated. They are compensated by rate payers, and they are answerable to an elected board, which is political in its nature. So you're going to get controversy, and you're going to get people complain, and you're going to be in the public eye. It's part of the job, and it's something you sign up for. But the people who put these wanted posters out, it seems to me, don't share some of the concerns you just laid out, quite the opposite, because they're looking at the OPP decision here recently. to delay the retirement of the nuclear plan. No, no, the coal burning plant. The coal fired plan. That's why they're calling them environmental racist, because this is a coal burning plan in North Omaha that creates a lot of job, and by the way, energy for the community. And for everyone across the OPPD. And so they said, well, if we get rid of this, we're not going to be able to provide the energy. We're not going to be able to provide the jobs. So we're delaying the retirement of the plant. And so. These guys with their wanted posters, they're very, very unhappy. They want all those things you just mentioned. They want solar panels. They want wind turbines. Or they just want everyone to go back to an agrarian lifestyle where we don't have any of these energy concerns. They believe that transportation should be by yoke of oxen. They don't understand because they are hard pressed to come up with solutions. This is the Al Gore crowd. This is the crowd of people who say, we have a problem. And you need to do something about it and spend a lot of money to go carbon neutral or carbon zero, if you wish. And then you say, well, how are we going to power your house? How are we going to power your schools? How are we going to power? And they have no answer for that. This is also the crowd of... very, very extreme political positions that has no problem, not just taking out the CEO of United Healthcare, but praising as a hero, the person who did it. And so you put wanted posters up from that far, far left political wacko group. Somebody's going to get loose.

I would be very unhappy if I'm Javier Fernandez or Craig Moody and my face is on a wanted poster here in Omaha. What are your thoughts? Scott at kfab.com. Todd emails and says, Scott, thank you for talking about the elephant in the room regarding the socialist extremist agenda to just find people they don't like and in some cases mark them for... Now, I'm not going to go so far as to say a political ad masked as a wanted poster automatically should cause someone who wasn't otherwise predisposed to that maniacal way of thinking to want to go shoot the CEO of OPPD. But you know exactly how it worked, Jim. If this was the other political shoe on the other political foot... And some right-wing extremists said, oh, I got to put this state senator I don't like on a wanted poster. They say, this is political hate speech. This is threatening violence. This person's domestic terrorist. Well, the double standard is in 3D, no doubt about it. But this is the nature of our political discourse. And it has largely to do, I believe, with two things. One, the media, not just the national media, but the local media, too. Secondly, a lot of these activists... have nothing else to do, okay? The rest of us have a nine to five job. A lot of these people don't. Six to ten. And you know, six to ten. Believe it or not, stuff happens after the show. But, you know, I looked at some of the demographics of the people who got those three communists elected through the primary in New York. It was all a function of community organization. These people were walking around, knocking on doors, putting handbills on the sides of buildings because the rest of New York was working for a living. Very, very low voter turnout. Extremely low voter turnout. Someone said that only 3% of registered Democrats actually voted for these candidates. And they're going to win in November. Yes. You know, what are they going to have for opposition to Republican? The Republican's not going to get elected there. We were talking earlier. Jim was bemoaning the state of media this day. You know, the media is to blame for this and all that. Of course, pressing company excluded. Yeah, we're good. I got this email from Dave says, guys, guys, you're wrong about the media misleading people. You're telling me, Biden. didn't get more votes than voters. Kamala Harris's votes were not counted in swing states. Trump didn't attempt to assassinate himself. Men can't have babies, and Vladimir Putin didn't give Trump massages at Epstein Island. Come on, guys, that's all true. I heard it in the media. That's from Dave. Thank you, Dave, for that. Appreciate that. Well, dovetail to some of the president's activities, and he knew this because he's surrounded by a legion of veteran Washington insiders. This bill is going to pass. If it goes without a veto for 10 days, it automatically becomes law. This is the pocket veto. This is the housing thing. Pete Ricketts was on here yesterday. He's pretty happy about it. It says it's going to create better. More housing, which would therefore be affordable housing if you've got more supply. But here's the problem, Scott. And that is it doesn't help the Republicans if the president doesn't sign it.

You know, a lot of it has to do with images. A lot of it has to do with perceptions that come from what you see. And the president did not do a signing in the Rose Garden. which means he gets tacit credit for it. He will, though. Well, I don't know. I don't think he's going to sign it because the Congress is recessed now for the July 4th holiday in between the time that they leave and the time they come back, it'll become law. But he can still sign it. They've already voted on it. Yeah, he could, but he's not going to because he wants the Save Act taking care of first. I firmly believe that there are two or three things in the Save Act. that could get bipartisan support and could turn into law. But the president wants all of it. He doesn't want a few things. He wants all of it. And the challenge is he's not running for re-election, okay? But a lot of people are and people that matter in this part of the country. You know, we're going to have a tougher race to replace Joni Ernst in Iowa than people think. I personally believe, based on talking to very, very smart politicos and those who are dialed in, Pete Ricketts has a problem in this state. I don't know what it is and I don't know why it is, but Pete does not have the popularity that most Republicans have enjoyed. And I don't know why, because as governor... I don't agree with everything that he did, but I'll tell you that I thought his behavior during COVID was as good as any governor in the country, if not the best. But somehow, some way, for some reason, Nebraska's have not warmed up to Pete. And unless he is successful in defining Diane Osborne, which is something Deb Fisher couldn't do. Dan Osborne. I'm sorry. I was thinking Don Bacon. I've got all these politicos in my head. If they don't successfully read define Dan Osborne. He will stay in that race until the last vote is counted out there. He is popular out there. And I don't know why other than I don't think a lot of people know everything there is to know about Dan Osborne. And maybe over the course of the next few months, they will. The same issue with Denise Jerome Powell. Okay. Nobody really knows what she is. She's never voted for any legislation. She's never sponsored a bill. She's a backroom insider. She has raised money and gotten other people elected. And let's brinker Harding with the news media in this community. Find a way to truly define Denise Jerome Powell.

Nobody really knows what kind of a Democrat shall be. Now, I've got 10 questions that are yes or no answers for her if she comes on this radio station. They're not gotcha questions. They're yes or no. Do you believe in this, this, this, this, or this? Invitations out there. The invitations open. Same thing with Dan. You know, Dan has been on the station before. Yeah, and we'll be again. It would be nice if he's on again to answer these questions in a yes or no. He will. So. But this is what's happening in our country right now, and the president is not helping Republicans by not giving them bullets to shoot. Here's my question that's going to sound incredulous, and then I'm going to answer my own question. And that is, how is it? that you have an overwhelming majority of Republican registered voters in Nebraska who would turn their back on the registered Republican incumbent senator and former governor in the state of Nebraska and elect. Dan Osborne. Are they just going to forget what they see is the radical agenda of the political left in the country? All the things that they elected Pete to go fight. All the things they elected Trump to go fight. All the things that we've got three out of three congress members who are Republican to go fight. Are they registered voters of Nebraska who don't elect any Democrats to state white office ever in the history of a long, long time here? Are they going to forget? about all that stuff? Now here's the answer to the question. Oh, they certainly could. They have. They certainly could because people, it's just a matter of, how am I feeling about this right now? And it's not that they, I don't think the voters are going to not, I don't think they're going to vote for Dan Osborne. They'll just stay home and not vote for Pete Ricketts in your scenario. There are so many Republican bones in the greater ditch of Nebraska Republican politics of Everybody from Norbert Teeman to Charlie Thone, to Hal Dobb, to Gene Stother, to K. Orr, they're all over the place because Nebraskaans fell out of love with them. Lee Terry. Lee Terry is another one. They just decided, you know, I'm done with you. We have a long history of what they call, I call quasi-populist politics. To answer your question with another question, how is it that Lincoln and Lancaster County have upwards of 18,000 more registered Republicans? And yet there has not been a Republican mayor of Lincoln since 1994. They have not had a majority on the city council since black and white television. Are there more registered Republicans in Lincoln, like city limits? Yes. Lincoln and Lancaster County, there are, according to the last census. Well, Lancaster County is not just Lincoln. I understand, but the point is they vote in there. There are significantly more registered Republicans in Lincoln. So the answer to that is they don't care. I'm going to have to go care. There have not been compelling Republican candidates for elected office. That's an issue. But I believe.

And I take you back to a line that Chuck Hagel used in 1996 against Ben Nelson. Because remember, Ben Nelson promised that he would cut your property taxes. And one of the Hegel lines was, you know, don't send, if Ben Nelson promised to lower your property taxes, don't send him to Washington, send him a message. And Nebraskaans are doing that. And that's why Pete needs to worry. Jim Pillen needs to worry. Brinker Harding needs to worry because the president and the Republican National Message made a lot of promises and wrote a lot of big checks that they can't cash. Well, the election's not this Tuesday. It's this November and who knows what happens between now and then. That's why. We'll be here talking about it from time to time, not constantly. Lucy, I've been ignoring you much of the morning. I'm going to give you my full attention here. You want this? I don't know. Hit me. A guy goes into a... A restaurant in Polk County. No, I'm out. Florida. Florida man story. All right. He's walking into the restaurant, and when he trips on a curb, falls face down and suffers severe and permanent injuries to his face. So he's, he got all, he got beat up pretty good in this fall. If you're thinking, is he an older guy? Yeah, he's 84, which. Might be very old in his current state, or maybe he is one of these young, but whatever. He, you know, he fell down and he hurt himself. And it could happen to any of us, and it's a bad deal. Well, he says it's not his fault. What he says is that the restaurant he was walking into had an advertisement in the window that was such that he couldn't possibly take his eyes off of it as he was walking into the restaurant and therefore he couldn't possibly think to look where he was going because there was a big sign promotion in the window of this Waffle House promoting the limited edition Strawberry Shortcake Waffle. He says, how am I supposed to walk into a restaurant and navigate curbs when you've got a big picture of the strawberry shortcake waffle right there on the window of the waffle house? I bet he won. He's, um... He's only just filed the lawsuit. I bet he wins. He wants a settlement. Well, maybe the settlement is, all right, we'll give you some waffles. We'll let you eat here for free for the rest of your life. It's all I wanted in the first place. My face is all messed up here. I'm going to have it through a straw. But did he fall down the Monterey Peninsula or what? This particular waffle house was at the end of a rickety suspension bridge. I guess. It's apparently hanging over a cliff. In Florida. Remember the days when we used to think that all judges were nonpartisan, that they were fair, impartial?

Remember those? It seems like a long time ago. That seems like a long. I'm wondering if it was ever true, really. We believed it was true. I wonder how many people. Yeah, there have been bad judges down through the years. You know there's already people, of course, jockeying for a position to be the next president of the United States. That is after Trump finishes his third term. But what they should do is they should just be a district court judge somewhere because apparently any of these guys can overrule the president. Anytime they want. Well, temporarily they can. And then it goes to the next thing and the next thing and the next thing. And ultimately we're in front of the Supreme Court. But yeah, it slows the process down. Yes. I wanted to get back to Omaha here for this next story. Real, real, real, real, real quick. I just want to make sure you understand. I think there are great judges out there. I'm just saying overall judges seem to be not quite what they used to be. You know who I think is a really great, Judge? Judge Reinhold. Fast Times of Ridgemont High, Beverly Hills cop. Right. I like Judge Ryan. Yeah, the famous scene in Fast Times at Ridgemont High when he was in the bathroom. They wouldn't ever knock? Yeah. Or when he gives the guy a hard time at the restaurant. He ate all the food. The guy wants to come back and get a refund. He ate all the food. Judge says, no. You ate all the food. You don't get a refund after you've eaten all of it. It says right here. You know what else Judge Reinholds in that I only just recently watched and was completely wrong about what a screwball comedy it was is ruthless people with Bet Midler, who's really, really funny. She gets kidnapped, right? Yeah. Okay, I know the movie then. Danny DeVito. Danny DeVito is married to Bet Midler, and Judge Reinhold and Helen Slater kidnapper. and hold her hostage. And Danny DeVito could not be happier because he hates his wife and he's not going to pay. And so he's just hoping that they kill her. And it's done by the same people that did airplane, naked gun. Now it's not the same style of comedy, but it is definitely screwball. And I know I'm now just reviewing a film that is 45 or so years old, but I only just saw it. I'm a little late to that party. I enjoyed it. Ruthless people. I can recommend. You and Saddemeier get way behind on movies. Well, I'm busy. I mean, I had, you don't think I can memorize Fletch by seeing it once. I have to watch it over and over again. You do have a remarkable capacity to remember lines from movies. There's Fred. Won't he be surprised? Since we're... Talking. I'll do the Omaha story because that sets up what's happening after 9 o'clock in just a moment. But I should also mention, we have failed to properly celebrate on this program, the likes of James Burroughs, without whom we wouldn't have cheers, Frazier, and a number of great sitcom. Will and Grace, another one. This guy is responsible. He did a lot of episodes of Friends. This absolute sitcom legend, James Burroughs just passed away. And then Clive Davis died earlier this week. And he was responsible for great songs like I Will Always Love You. He was the one pushing for Whitney Houston. No, he discovered her. At 19. Yeah. He was invited to a very local.

bar where her mother set her up to perform in front of Clive Davis, who then promptly signed her at age 19. But she was just one of the most incredible line of artists that were represented initially by Columbia Records, which was run by Clive Davis. He started out as one of their staff attorneys and rose to a position of great prominence. And then he. founded Arista Records and got many of these people to move over to Arista Records from Columbia. And revitalized the career of Aretha Franklin in the 80s with that free love record. Journey. He was pushing for Whitney Houston to start. I will always love you Acapella, which is just classic. He brought back Carlos Santana with that album in the late 90s featuring the song Smooth with Rob Thomas. Basically push Janice Joplin to National Prominers. That's how far he goes. back. But Lucy, he also is a big fan of Barry Manilow and was behind the song Mandy, which is one of Gary Saddlemyers' favorite songs. But he is responsible for that as well. So as I know as a fan aloe, you'll appreciate Clive Davis for the role he played in Barry Manilow's career. Dumb. Yeah. You were talking to Craig. No, I heard you. I think Barry Manilow would have been fine without Clive Davis. That's kind of where I think, too. The guy Kate was the most celebrated graduate of Juilliard at the time, which gets you a lot of attention to New York City. But to your point, Clive Davis was the, he was the godfather of all of these remarkably successful music acts. I think Barry Owens owes more to Bet Midler. than he does to Clive Davis. Because he was a songwriter before he was a singer. And he played piano for her on the road. You know what movie Bet Midler was in that was really good? Ruthless people. Going back to Ruthless. There was a story about how she was kidnapped and Danny would be going to want her to be killed. And you take it full circle. Hey, everybody. Lady Luck here. And we're celebrating America's 250th birthday. Now all summer long, I'm going to be celebrating by playing on SpinQuest.com, which is an American-owned social casino. It obviously features over a thousand slot games and live blackjack, live craps, live bubble craps. Head on over to SpinQuest.com. Get yourself. $30 coin pack for just $10. SpenQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit SpenQuest.com for more details. These days, it's getting harder and harder to trust what you're seeing. Who made it? Is it real? But with Iheart, everything you hear is guaranteed human. That's why 78% of listeners trust their favorite radio hosts product recommendations. And if you own or manage a business here or need to drive sales, that trust goes a long way in creating your future customers. Make iHeartMedia a part of your 2026 plan today. Call 844-844-I-Hart. Again, that's 844-844-I-Hart.