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at and T phones. I'm hoping to hear from some folks this morning. Get the reaction to the violence downtown Cincinnati just amazing and horrific. It's just like animal like behavior. That's the only way I can really conclude. And you know, sum it up. I mean, there's a million words you can use to try to sum it up, but just stand in awe and disbelief that people could act that

way anyhow. Coming up with the fifty five Hereessedy Morning Show to talk about the violent weekend in downtown Cincinni Ken Cober FOP President at seven oh five, followed by yes, Christopher's Smithman. Gee, what do you think Christopher's smithman is going to talk about in the smith event money money with Brian James Fed's meeting. Will there be a rate change? I saw some people are projecting maybe a rate increase. We'll see what Brian James has to say about that.

I do not expect to drop in the interest rate. Though, tariff deal with European Union. Congratulation Donald Trump of the team for well working things out with the European Union, fifteen percent tariff on European imports and the promise of six hundred billion dollars in investment in the United States along with some arms sales. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about the ongoing talks with China which are kicking in hopefully we'll get some resolution on tariffs with China

as well. And corporate earnings are coming out this week. How's the market going to react to that? And welcome back Rabbi Ari Jun He'll be in studio at eight thirty to talk about the Robling Bridge protests. He's a little upset that the well the shutdown of the bridge and the police response is shut down of the bridge took away from what the actual protest was about. And Rabbi Ari Jun always welcome to get his thoughts in comments here in the fifty five Cassi Morning Show. He's

a pretty decent guy. I'm not sure I agree with his conclusions on that, but we'll find out together at eight thirty on it. Anyhow, three five Caresey dot com get your iHeartMedia so you can stream the audio wherever you happen to be get the podcast. Learn about the trades, a really really enthusiastic conversation with the Northern Kentucky Trade Union and how many jobs are available out there for young people or people in their middle ages who've got

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for it, but there it is. Go to Foxnews dot com, Go to New York Post, go to this. It's all over, of course, the viral video and it's actually, you know, it's interesting, and it kind of is troubling to me. You can't unring the internet bell. Once it's out there and it's been posted, it's there forever in some place, way, shape or form. But the Facebook and several other sites I suppose have since embedded or prevented the sharing of

the video of the fight. Why isn't this something we all should see and appreciate, for the horror and the well de evolution of mankind that it actually is so we can talk about it, maybe spread the word and maybe all collectively together step back and say we need to stop this immediately. Of course, these people need to be held accountable for the absolute horrific violence. I mean,

some may argue it was attempted murder. You got a guy laying on the ground and people who had Really it doesn't appear to have anything to do with the original verbal altercation that they keeps suggesting starting all this all. No, it had nothing to do with the music festival. No, but it was the festival that brought ninety thousand people to downtown Cincinnati, congregating in a tight space that may have led to the verbal altercation. Do we stop doing

music festivals? Or or will you stop going to events that draw large groups of people in downtown Cincinnati? Is this event? Have you watched the video? Does it change your perception of downtown CINCINNTI? Does it make you want to go downtown? And have you reached a conclusion that you know, you used to go downtown and used to really enjoy it, but now you're like, you know what, it's not worth it. Why take the chance? I go someplace else It's easier to park someplace else. It's easier

to stay out in the suburbs. The experts, it's easier to eat. It's easier. You know, there's a multitude of reasons why, beyond the potential for violence, that you might choose to go someplace else for your entertainment and or dining enjoyment. I mean, the city of Cincinnati's in competition with the entire tri state area when it comes to within driving distance, and there are multitudes of opportunities within downtown since at driving distance. But so you get into

a fight. Fights happened all the time. We read about it quite often, quite often in the stack of stupid There'll be two people du can get out. Maybe a couple of family members get involved because they're right there, but strangers, and it looks and it appears to be random people joining in the beat down, running from the sidelines and kicking this poor guy who's already on the ground. To the extent there was a fight between two people, the white guy in the white T shirt lost to

the extent he represented a threat to anyone. He no longer represented a threat he was on the ground, and yet the people continue to pour over and kick him and punch him, step on him, kick him in the head. And then, if you think things can't get any worse, some random dudes, seemingly out of nowhere, just hauls off and punches a seemingly innocent woman, certainly not representing any

threat to society or anybody there in the crowd. Punches are square in the face and knocks her out, lay on their on the ground, completely knocked out and bleeding. Will there be any accountability? And here's a test for the city of Cincinnati and its residence. How many people do you think were around there?

How do you expect law enforcement to come in and render assistance in times of societal breakdown if nobody bothers to alert the police department. That's going on question number two. Don't you think when there's a crowd of ninety thousand people gathered for a music festival in downtown Cincinnati there might be a well, I don't know, perhaps substantial police presence around. I don't know that they necessarily have been standing at fourth and Elm Street. It's kind of a

rather innocuous area. That's where it all went down. But with that many people around, how many witnesses do you think could identify the people who were responsible for engaging in this horrific activity? Asked yourself this, If it was one of your family members and you knew that they were the ones that punched that woman directly in the face,

would you drop a dime on a family member? If it was your buddy from down the street that you hang out with, would you let the police know that it was your buddy from down the street that you can't identify as the person who just beat the living crap out of that guy or punched that woman square in the face when she was bothering no one. If there were more people in the world that would be willing to do that in the name of law and order. Maybe we would have fewer incidents like this, but we're

on the map now, folks. Elon Musk even commented on it, and I was reminded in so far as nobody nobody bothering to call the police or render assistance, except maybe the woman got punched in the face, anybody bothering to render assistance there was more likely got to get beat down. It's like one of those things. Wait a second, am I going to risk my neck to go and try to help a total stranger who's the subject of an

absolute brutal assault? Here? I am one guy. M that looks like there's twenty people taking a turn of beating somebody up. Is there anything I can do about it? To render eight or assistance? Now, let me get my cell phone on just video it. How about doing a nine to one one call first, just to make sure someone has called the police, and then move on with videotaping so you can be the one with the viral

video online. I don't know, maybe there's a presumption in the entire crowd that somebody had to have called the police. This is getting out of hand, But Coober who will be on again seven oh five FOP president criticizing the bystanders for recording the incident rather than intervening the help. And I guess I can understand again on some level why someone might not want to get in the middle of the melee to help, for fear for their own safety and perhaps life. But it reminded me of the

last episode of Seinfeld. Remember they got arrested for violating the community's good Samaritan law by not intervening to help a victim of a crime. They just stood there and watched and made jokes about it. That's what we're witnessing here that last Seinfeld episode. I think it was nineteen ninety eight. So here's life's imitating a comedy to some degree, although perhaps the Seinfeld episode was in fact inspired by

life and reality. More people are willing to stand around and not do a damn thing than help out their well brother, man or sister, as the case may be unbelievable and a great ad campaign. And let me ask this question out loud for anybody who's been paying attention to the you know, I always give Joe credit, Joe Drecker credit for being Internet research guru and you know, I'm considering myself pretty decent when it comes to internet research.

Both of us this morning searching somewhere for some statement from the mayor aft tab parval. Both of us came up with nothing. The only reference to aff tab Parvall was from others saying, how come we haven't heard from the mayor of the city of Cincinnati on this issue. Hell, the vice mayor showed up and at least said something to the press. If you were the mayor of the City of Cincinnati, don't you think it'd be critically important for you to get out there and say something, maybe

supportive of the police, maybe can condemn the violence. Something. Hell, it's an easy thing to come up with a statement under these circumstances. You got people of all political stripes condemning it. How can you do anything otherwise? Not a peep? Where is he anyway? Seven five eighteen fifty five KC Talk station Mark, Hang on a minute, brother, if you don't mind holding over the short break here, I will take your call right out of the gate. I'll be

right back fifty five car the talk station. Our iHeartRadio Music. Five twenty one fifty five krcy De Talk station. A very happy Monday to you trying to make it so anyway, feel free to call interested in your thoughts and comments about the brawl downtown, and Mark is on the phone. Mark, thanks so much for holding over the breake there. Welcome to the Morning Show.

violent crime in this country. And when you see this type of behavior, you have people standing around somebody, and even if the guy was intoxicated, okay, you have people standing around cheering while this guy's literally getting his head stomped into the pavement. And they're cheering it. And then you have a woman that's trying to come up and I don't know if it was his wife, I don't know, you know, obviously what the relationship was there that was

concerned for his well being. And as she's getting pulled backwards by another woman, that's when the guy hauls off in pull copser And I mean, my wife showed me the video, the second video that was going around with this poor woman's laying on the ground, her eyes are wide open. My wife thought she was dead at that moment, you know, and I heard later that she did regain consciousness, but she looked she looked like she was dead. And these people are literally cheering and people I'll lose that.

I'll use that term loosely because it's animal behavior and it happens more often than not. But again, if there were pats of white teenagers or white people running around committing crimes like this, the outrage in the community with the absolutely off the charts and this this behavior is overlooked. And I'm sorry, Teresa Fiji, she's a choke. And the Cincinnati police, my first response was, where's the police presence

down there? You know, you had and when I heard that the music festival was going on this weekend and I moved out of Ohio. I got tired of whole in the circus down there, and I will never spend a dime of money in Hamilton County, down in that entertainment so called entertainment district. It's ridiculous the behavior that

is accepted. And I understand from the police standpoint that they've pulled back time and time again because every time they turn around and tried to do something, they're accused to be racist, they're accused of profiling, their sued, they'd lose their job. I have an ex brother in law that was a Cincinnati officer that retired from the Cincinnati fource.

This is going back twenty five years ago. He said that the amount of crime that was covered up back then by the police department and by the city of stuff that went on downtown would blow people's minds, and it's still happening today. They were more worried about making sure that it wasn't connected to the music festival.

a racially motivated attack? One could draw that conclusion, but it's never drawn immediately when it's attacked by black folks on white folks, but it's immediately assumed that it was racial if it's the polar opposite to your point. That's why anything the police do has this taint at Oh, it was racially motivated, because we live in an inherently racial society, and people will jump to that conclusion immediately because they get away with it. You know, go ahead

call it racist. Everybody's accused of being a racist for literally anything anybody does anymore, and it's become such a default position that, you know, I think people will grown callous to it. As a matter of fact. It's funny because I've read a couple of op ed pieces on that very point of late, go ahead, call me racist. Whatever I did, it wasn't born of racism. I had a logical, reasonable means or motivation to do whatever I did or say whatever I said. And I can defend

myself all day long. So yeah, I'm not afraid of being called racist anymore. But when it is the opposite, that rush to conclusion is embraced and parroted, often in the press before the facts are known. And anybody listens to the morning show knows that I'm not the person who will jump to conclusions, and I'm the one that's willing to sit down and make the point they listen, keep your popcorn out, wait for the information to come out.

It's easy to draw conclusions based upon what you saw, but you really don't know why did the fight start. Maybe the guy that got the beat down, un deserved as it was, Maybe he said something horrific to the guy who started the fight with him. We don't know. But whatever that, if that happened, does it justify the reaction? Does it justify a crowd of people who you know? And here's an assumption I will draw the vast majority of people I'm sure have no idea what started that interaction.

Maybe a handful of them did, but I cannot imagine that twenty or thirty people that appear to have joined in the beat down really had some understanding of what started it. They just saw somebody beating this guy on the ground and thought it was a funny thing. So this is the kind of discussion that arises after something like this, and it's an important discussion to have, and

it's an important analysis to walk through. But stepping back from whatever brought about this horrific event, what we see, though, cannot be supported or justified. There is no one on this planet who can say that that was appropriate or acceptable by way of behavior from the folks that joined in and just continually pounded that guy into the pavement and then just again Cole cocked up seemingly innocent woman.

I'll underscore seemingly again because I don't know. But the video evidence does not suggest she was doing anything other than trying to render aid. Five twenty eight fifty five Kasity Talk Station. Love to hear from you, call me up, just give me your interject your thoughts and comments on this be right back.

he's allowed to hear reach his own conclusions. Of course, it's because it went viral on Facebook and elsewhere in social media. The video was posted all over the place. How could you do? How could you not report on this incident any other interesting component? And again I wasn't watching Sherry Pallo or Atrician Mackie. They claimed they weren't allowed to show the video because they didn't have permission.

Is that the gist of it, Joe, That's what they said. Well, let me just throw a giant Barbara streisand flag on that this was a public, outdoor thing. They got, you don't need permission from anybody to post the video, most notably since it literally was viral on the internet. Oh look, look, I can report about a story that's on the internet and involves a viral video. Let me see what Tom's got this morning. Tom, Welcome to the Morning Show and happy Monday to you.

whole thing with with crime downtown. These people want to be able to do whatever they want, whenever they want, however they want. They don't want to be stopped. So as soon as someone tries to stop them, they'll come up with anything they can scream and yell and holler or whatever and to make a fuss so that you'll leave. Oh wait, well I'm going to leave them a little whoa. I don't want to be involved in that. Now you

got to be involved in it. You got to step in and go if if you have any responsibility in this, you got to step in and say no, that's not okay, not gonna deal with it. Here's what I'm gonna do. And I'm not going to scream and yell like you are, but I'm going to take this away or I'm going to not do this or I'm going to do my

job and do this. And I know it's difficult because these people are flailing and screaming and crying, bloody murder and all that, but adults have to do the job that they've been they've been elected to and hired to do, and voters don't vote Democrat. Have a great day, Brian, All.

a comment. Veg Ramaswam he had a comment, Mary have to have purval. Nothing as to Hamilton Township police Chief Scott Hughes. Before I take a break here, what happened on Fourth Street in Cincinnati wasn't just a fight. It was a breakdown of order, decency, and accountability. Caught on video and cheered on by a crowd. This isn't just Cincinnati's problem, it's ours. Two. He pointed out, the incidents in the city don't just stay here in the city. Quote.

The perception of danger ripples across the region, discouraging residents from visiting downtown's many events and attractions. Quote. Families stop going out, businesses stop investing. Cities lose the very momentum they worked to build. This video isn't just another viral moment. It's a warning shot. We can either raise our voices or watch silence fund the chaos. I thought that was one of the more astute comments and well done Scott

Use Hamilton Township police chief. And maybe that's what there wasn't much reporting. Maybe that's why the mayor hasn't said anything. He wants to ignore it and pretend as though it didn't happen. Why because the optics are terrible. If you're in Poughkeepsie, Iowa, and you're thinking about moving your business, I don't know why I pick on Poughkeepsie. Are you going to consider the city of Cincinnati now? Would you be like, you know, what it does doesn't sound very

good down there. I've been reading a lot lately and yeah, exactly no, thank you Dad from beyond five point thirty seven. Right now, Jay, I will take your call and happy to do so just a minute, be right back.

the culture, and that is the NAACP. They're very vocal, they're very welsome, want well connected, politically well funded, and it strikes me that if this was the other way around it, there was a there was a black person that was beat down by a group of white people, they would have already been organized and marching in the streets.

So why not join in the ever growing number of people who have actually come out normally folks that you might not associate with being tough on crime, saying we need to prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. We need to find the people who did this and prosecute them. Prosecutor's office and we judges who are willing to meet out the highest level of punishment to serve as a deterrent to others who might consider this to be an appropriate way of addressing the a breakdown situation.

Wait a second, I'm not gonna be involved in this. I'm not gonna go over and kick a guy when he's on the ground. I saw what happened to the last guy who did that, and he's serving time. I'll pass. Welcome to the point of a criminal justice system, Larry, Welcome to the program. Thanks for calling this morning, and happy Monday to you.

So I don't know, but what we do have is everything that happened after that, which is the unacceptable, inexcusable conduct of so many people. Right.

the recipient of the deadly force. Is it someone who's administering the beatdown that gave rise to your legitimate concern or is it some random individual filming in the crowd that takes the bullet that you intend for the person beating you down. There's your critical problem when it comes to self defense and the use of deadly force. You know, there's a lot you got to process in your head before you use deadly force. And that's why it comes

down to the instant time, moment and time. Was it reasonable at the time for you to believe your life was in jeopardy or you're in fear of grievous bodily horrible. He was experiencing grievous bodily harm right then, So yes, I think under those circumstances, deadly force may have been justifiable. But in the aftermath, and when we all look at it with a lens of twenty hindsight, did the person who got the bullet? Is that the person who was deserving of the bullet because they were the one that

gave rise to that fear. It's a tough thing to have to contend with when you're the one that's getting the that is under that that fear. But I do believe it would have been reasonable. Appreciate the call man, it's an excellent, excellent point. De rays that knee, hip shoulder, pay not getting any better. He's stuck on the cycle

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love to hear what you have to say. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty five hundred, eight hundred eighty two to three Talk pound five fifty on AT and T phones. Ken Cobra, FLP President's going to join us in an hour to talk about that. He was interviewed by Local twelve. Got a couple of comments from kend to talk about here in a moment, Christopher Smitheman with a Monday Morning Smith event from the former vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati.

Ge I wonder what he's gonna say. Yeah, it is Monday. We'll still do money money with Brian James. Fed meeting tomorrow. Apparently a lot of discussion about whether or not to be a rate change. Some are hoping it goes down, some are suggesting it needs to go up because of inflation, tariff deal with the European Union, congratulations of Trump fifteen percent, and a promise of billions of dollars investment from Europe.

Some I'm critical of that. I know the Wall Street Journal didn't think it was that great of a deal, but they're allowed, They're entitled to their opinion. I'm just happy it got resolved. We'll have to sit back and wait and find out how it impacts us, but most people applauding the effort. Corporate earnings coming out this week as well those subjects with Brian James. At eight oh five, Rabbi rijn returns to the program we've had him on previously.

He's going to talk about the Robling Bridge protest. Apparently he's under the impression it didn't accomplish what it was supposed to because of the shut down of the bridge and the subsequent police involvement and arrests of those who were violating the law by shutting down the bridge. So Rabbi John in studio, looking forward to seeing him again the informative opinions he has. Uh, let us see here real quick here before I get to the calls in

Matt and Bobby just to hold on a moment. Ken Kober again interviewed by Channel twelve, I said, obviously we have the videos. We know we're going to be able to have some help there and figure out who the people are. The police have already interviewed the victims of the beat down. They're going to be using the city cameras in the area, which we haven't seen yet. To the best of my knowledge, that has not been released yet.

But apparently there are some city cameras that captured some or maybe even all of this, and there have been some who have made have tippedaled. Several tips have been received. He's asking the public for itself, saying quo, there are still some people that have not been identified. Me that suggests to me they've already identified some of the perps. I would ask the public play a part in this because stuff like this shouldn't happen in our city, but

when it does, we need people to step forward. That way we can bring these people to justice. Amen. And I mentioned at the last hour, if this was a buddy of yours from down the street, you were there. You watched him walk over and start beating on a man who's already on the ground, or you know the guy that punched that woman square in the face, but have to be an acquaintance of yours, maybe even a

family member. Would you call the police and let them know who that guy is if you know definitively it was someone you were there, I saw it. It was that guy. It's Joe from down the block. Now we live in a world where we're willing to alienate our own family members because they happen to be Trump supporters.

If you're not going to pick up a phone call and call your brother, your sister because you disagree with them politically, don't you think this is a bigger thing thing to want to just sort of terminate a friendship or a relationship over. I don't want to be friends with someone who would punch up and walk up and punch a woman square in the face for any reason.

That's not someone I want to be associated with. And we've got multitude of people down there, you who you know who the ones were that were committing all these heinous acts of violence. You maybe even have information to know how the whole thing started. That would be helpful for police, and you'd serve as an example to everybody else out in the world that you should cooperate with

police and you should bring these folks to justice. But there but for the grace of God, go I. Next time you're downtime, maybe you're enjoying a show at the Brady Center, you walk out and you get punched in

the face for no reason. If that kind of crime does not go unaddressed, if that person who would do something like this does not go through the criminal justice system and is not a hell accountable to the fullest extent of the law, it's just gonna invite more of this kind of thing to happen, and it's going to further further reduce the city of Cincinnati as a great destination for investment or perhaps to live in. It's a

great ad campaign for the city, isn't it? And the silence is definiting from ayor aftab Provoll's office, since there has literally been no statement from the office that either just Trek or I could find as of the start of the morning show. We've got a lot of other elected officials and public officials and noted notables. We've got the chief of Police talking, We've got the Vice mayor talking, We've got other elected officials.

your use of deadly force. That's what it comes down to, reasonable under the circumstances, and I think this is the use of deadly force under the circumstances I put it on the last hour is really troubling because there are so many people around. I mean, I think there's some expectation that someone is gonna use deadly force. Has to account for the fact that, well, maybe I'll miss and

I'll keep shoot an innocent bystander. The use of deadly force may be reasonable and justified, but a concern human being might hesitate for a moment, and then, of course instilled in the public perception is exactly the point you're making, which is, wait a second, if you had time to process it under the circumstances, and this is I mean, moments matter. Under these circumstances, you don't have a whole lot of time to kick back and sort of contemplate,

you know, the ethics and morality, the legality. You're getting the crap beat out of you. But then that little voice like you said, well, if I do use deadly force, I'm going to get prosecuted. And that's an image and a perception. I think that the left and anti gun folks, that's what they want. They want people to be so fearful that they will not even protect their lives when they have the ability to do it. Like I said, I'm going with a jury. Bobby, Welcome to the Morning Show.

Happy Monday to you, Happy Monday.

out of it. There's gonna be people milling in the street. They're gonna be exiting bars post a concert, bars closed it too. People are pouring out in the streets. If you're police chief, where do you think you might want to allocate recent sources? He asked out loud, scratching his head, wondering why there weren't police standing right there. Six sixteen fifty five kerr Se Detalk Station. Feel free to chime in. All opinions are welcome five one, three, seven, four, nine

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dot net fifty five KRC. The talk station talk station five one three seven fifty five two three talk now if I fifty down at and T phone fast forward an hour Christopher Smith and I G I wonder what he's going to be talking about this morning anyway. You know the interesting comment from police chief three SOHIGI. She has actually came out in issuative statement six p m. Saturday, of course, many hours after the altercation, but she said the behavior show of the video nothing short of cruel

and absolutely unacceptable. Of course you're just tuning in. I'm talking about the uh, the fight, the beat down individueen kicked and stomped on by folks after he had already been incapacitated laying in the street, followed by a woman getting punched in the face Colecock knocked out. That was the I think one of the more horrific elements of the video. But you're entitled your own conclusions on that. She said, I'm in complete disgust waking up to the

viral video. Many of you now seeing the behavior displayed nothing sort of cool and absolutely unacceptable. Our investigative team is working diligently to identify every individual involved in causing harm. She claimed it was not connected in any way to the music fest, and something else that was echoed by some of the other elected officials that actually came on record, absent have Purval, who hasn't said a word anybody's understanding

at this moment. I mean, it was a connected in some way of the music fest, because that's what brought all the people downtown Cincinnati. But I don't know what the verbal altercation that she concluded led to this horrific beatdown was about. Maybe it was about one of the musical acts that performed. But here's the trouble. In comment, as reported by WCPOS, Molly Shramp, a spokesperson for the Cincinnati Police Department, told us before Fiji's statement that they

were not aware of the incident until the videos were posted. Huh, so there was literally no police presence at all in the general area, and of course if nobody bothers calling nine to one one and apparently they only got one nine one one call among all the throng of people that were involved or they're witnessing this, only one person bothered, and a lot of criticism of people standing around videoing something when they should have been rendering assistance to those Well,

you know, it's it's easy to say that, but if you're in the middle of a melee like that and the idea of you rendering assistance may mean that you're the one in the middle of the street getting kicked and beaten down because you're so outnumbered. Referencing the woman who got punched in the face, who appeared to be a person who was looking into rendering aid or otherwise checking on the condition of the individual that had gotten the crap beat out of them. She gets punched in

the face for no reason at all, left unconscious. Mark Jeffries, maybe he'll be right since the accounts with Mark Jeffries said incredibly disturbing and horrific, downright inhumane. He said he's spoken with other city officials and police to work on finding individuals responsible and arrest them urgently. Quote. This behavior cannot stand and will not represent our city. Those responsible must be held accountable and prosecuted the fullest extent of the law. Yeah,

that's what we need to hear. Props to Mark Jeffries for saying the important part out loud. Let's see what happens. Will there be followed through? How do you rehabilitate a city's repute is being soft on crime and we've got one of those and overcome the challenges that this type of incident represents for the city and its efforts to grow and expand and attract businesses and individuals to live in the City of Cincinnati. You know how you do that.

You lock people up and prosecute them to the full sixtent of the law. We are a law and order city here in the City of Cincinnati. The old days are gone. We are now all about law enforcement. Don't do the crime, or you're going to do the time. Isn't that a better message to project to the nation and even the world. You know, it's kind of funny what I was doing prep for the show yesterday. This was reported in the Hindu Times front page of Fox

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even care what the original fight was about. Moving on the other things did happen over the weekend. Fairfield of Hio. We got a person shot Sunday morning at a speedway gas station on Dixie Highway or in Fairfield. Shooting started as a physical fight in the parking lot of the seventy three hundred Dixie Highway. Police said two men injured, only one shot shooting victim taking to Mercy Hospital airlifted

UC Medical Center. As of the reporting from WC, condition currently unknown, and of course at this point there are no suspects. They also believe there's no threat to the community, which is good.

had active warrants on charges of strangulation an assault. After officers dispatched Friday night to u See, Westchester for report of an assault, Warren County Tactical Response Unit breached the front door of the residence with explosives before making entry and taking this guy in to custody. Riley said three others were also taken out of the residence, including Pouncey's fiance. No one injured, no shots fired during the breach, Riley said.

After leaving the scene, wcpo's crew saw damaged doorway at the residents. Riley said Pouncy also currently on parole. Long criminal history including involuntary manslaughter, aggravated drug trafficking, weapons charges, and more. WOW. Crews from multiple law enfortunate enforcement agencies were involved, Deerfield Fire and Rescue, Mason Fire and Rescue,

Monroe Police, and Deerfield Township Police and more. Warren County EMA said a press release the alert regarding the incident in the Landing area accidentally sent out to a much wider area due to what they call a technical malfunction. Riley specified they believe it was a computer glitch, not human error, saying the dispatcher who sent it out today is one of the most experienced, hardest working, best dispatches

I know in the business. Not his fault. Not only sent to all Warren County residents, but also some people surrounding counties Hamilton, Butler, Clinton, Claremont, and Green County Geese even went to my own Sims Township. I didn't get an alert. Technical issue was with the integrated Public Alert and Warning system. I pause, and they say it's currently

being thoroughly investigated with local, state, and federal partners. At corner of the Warren County EMA original alert to residents sent out about twelve thirty pm, calling for everyone to shelter in place. That's a pretty wide swath of the community. Third alert, roughly one thirty PM told residents of safety alert was canceled. So maybe that glitch will get resolved.

We can only hope anyhow, if you got some comments or thoughts on the melee in Downtownsons and I'd love to hear from you, love to have an explanation or excuse to how we fixed the problem. One costs to

person called earlier. It suggest that, you know, it would be really important for the NAACP, given all the power and cloud that they enjoy and they do, to issue a statement maybe calling for calmer reactions, maybe calling for some you know, reflection on members of the community generally speaking, not members of any particular ethnic group. Everybody. Look, I mean, we need people from all levels. This is something Smithman's been on a tear and I'm sure he's gonna continue it.

The silence about the police department and support for police and support for law enforcement has been deafening, sort of in a state of denial over the crime statistics that some statistics are down but many are up. You know, you're gonna believe you're lion eyes or you're gonna believe

what our public officials say. But in the absence of a statement from public officials, you know you don't have this showing of uniformity, this showing of collective lockstep approval of and support of the police department, and support of law and order, and support of civility. Wish more elected officials would speak to civility, getting along, living side by side with people of all races and colors and creeds. We can all enjoy the city of Cincinnati together. Look

what we've got. I've commented many times over the years, how much better my life has been since I moved back to Cincinnati after experiencing Chicago in the nineteen nineties. Do look at the crime stats in Chicago between nineteen ninety and nineteen and in two thousand. I mean, you think it was a war zone. How bad things were back doing with a number of murders. It's gotten better, believe it or not, but it's going in the wrong direction.

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former vice mayor with the Smither event. He'll be on today and yeah, I imagine he'll have a thing or two to say about that Monday Money with Brian James Ato five and the return of Rabbi Ari June to talk about the Robling Bridge shutdown protest. That'll be at eight thirty. He'll be in studio. Looking forward to seeing your Rabbi. That again eight thirty, let's go to the phone, see what Corey's got. Corey, thanks for calling this morning, and happy Monday to you.

More than likely these people were either at the baseball game or at that jazz best, which both of them disarm you, so you're vulnerable while you're out in public.

a more opportunity for more violence. But I believe in the property right, so I'll disagree with you on that. But I think it's a rather interesting thing that Kentucky allows people to consume alcohol and carry concealed I don't find any problem with that as long as you're not intoxicated. But and I don't know if it would solve the problem. Corey, what's your reaction if you know that this would have

been a justifiable use of deadly force. If you were that guy getting the crap beat out of him, you would have a legitimate fear for your wife life. Who would you shoot.

operate one. That guy was clearly disoriented, he could barely get up some people standing around.

If we encounter this, you're obviously outnumbered. There's a multitude of people beating the crap out of some defenseless little guy on this or guy on the street. So if you have a firearm, maybe that's what equalizes the situation, so you're less afraid to get involved and help a poor man out.

the bill Sykes under the standard ground wall. A few years ago, each took that language out in the Federal's committee of the bill to leave it a crime. So thank you Bill Sykes for people being in harms way in Ohio.

being kicked on the ground. Obviously the black folks were beating the crap out of the white guy on the ground, But was race a factor? That does not answer the question. This is why I always say I'm gonna let cooler heads prevail and find out and someone is looking into it.

Harmead Nolan, the Assistant Attorney General for the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, had this to saynd it our federal hate crimes law applied to all Americans, and the division is monitoring how local authorities handled the incident, saying, nobody in our great nation should be the victim of such a crime, and where race is a motivation federal law may apply. She's obviously taking like I am a wait and see approach. I'm not going to be quick

to rush to judgment as to what motivated this. I don't know what the two guys are in a verbal altercation about that brought about this insane reaction from the crowd. I don't like jumy conclusions. Some people get away with joemy to conclusions immediately calling something racial or not, and quite often they're found to be wrong in their immediate conclusion. Six forty eight was SAYI, Jim hang On, brother, I can't wait to talk to you, but I a'mount of

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But I understand the festival is over. Don't they shut those things down at eleven pm? So people work clearly at the Dora or at the bars, right. The reason they were there was because the news had brought them down.

departments upper management. I'm not talking about the troops. The troops do their job when they're given the opportunity to do their job, and that's the problem. They're not given that opportunity.

out render assistance knocked the ground. To speak to that matter, the FOP president Ken Kober returns to the morning show. Chief or President of the Sin Saint's Fraternal or Police. It's great to have you back on, Ken. I wish it was under better circumstances, but I appreciate your willingness to speak with my listeners of me about this.

and we're still milling around downtown. That seems to be an area where you might expect the chief or whoever's responsible for allocating resources to have police presence. There doesn't appear to be any police involved in the era, even in the area. Can you speak to that, Ken, Well.

who started the fight. It could have been a guy that got the ultimate beat down and was almost murdered that night, But does it really matter if he's the one that started the whole altercation between one other person, It shouldn't at a wit so there was reported Local twelve reported Christianhauser has headlined police union leaders she was talking to you, I guess says several suspects identified in

brutal downtown since I attack. Have the police actually identified some of the suspects because there's no specific reporting in the bulk of the article that says just that.

punched that woman in the face. But at least they took a video of it, so it helped you identify them. But that the component that really bothers me so much. We live in a world where we're willing to alienate family members over politics and not answer the phone or

call them up anymore and end ties with them. If you're hanging out with or otherwise friends or relatives to someone who would do something as horrific as just walk up and punch a woman right in the face or otherwise kick a man while he's obviously incapacitated him down, that's not somebody I'd want to hang out with. And that's someone I'd be more than happy to drop a dime on, oh, without a doubt.

getting knocked out. People are trying to defend it, saying, oh, this is okay and this is why, and it's like and then kids see this and they're seeing grown adults trying to justify these savage attacks, and that's exactly why we are where we are as a society.

the nation because this made national headlines. Man, and actually it was reported globally a couple of global newspapers it included this in it as well. But for us to finally step up collectively from the mayor through council, the prosecutor's office, and maybe get these judges to start paying attention, we need to be a law and order city in order to counterbalance this, this really negative perception of the city of Cincinnati being a place filled with violence.

some of this stuff stop. But until then, I mean, they believe right now there's no consequences.

very busy public area. Now, that does not negate the ability to use deadly force, but it creates an opportunity for maybe an innocent bystander to get harmed in some way. But your take on the justification for use of deadly force had that guy been armed, Yeah.

A normal would be a press conference.

do a knockout game incident. So you're filling up the plain old white guy mining his own business, and then all of a sudden, this other guy comes up and just plot bam right in the face, like you said, and then drugman in the street, all recorded on video. How is it that the person recording it new to have the video camera running on that guy at that particular moment in time it was a setup.

up had a weapon and took a life. Now, all of a sudden, we are on CNN.

It was a tempted murder. Tell me that city Hall this the rest of the country, Al Sharpen, you name them, the NAACP, the Urban League would not be in downtown Cincinnati demanding justice.

involved with this from a law enforcement standpoint. But my reaction is, since you are a member of the black community, Christopher, what's your perception about how this looks or how this makes the black community look. If I was a member of the black community, I'd be pissed off about this. I would be embarrassed. I'd say, you're bringing me down, You're making me look bad, You're making me look to be as part of this of the problem. This isn't who we are as a people.

I'm supporting Corey Bowman. I'm gonna get real political because that's part of the penicillin. People go, oh Man, Smitham is getting political. We have an election in November. If you vote for this guy, you're voting for what you saw downtown. Don't blame me, blame yourself. Look in the mirror. You are the problem citizens in Paddock Hills and Clifton right in some of our more liberal parts of our community.

In Paddock Hills, if you and pleasant Ridge, if they go in and vote for this mayor, and you saw what happened downtown, right.

the Vice president of the United States of America. What does that have to do with anything. I have four brothers. My brothers and I are not the same. I have one sister. We're not the same. To act as if this this this talking point that the Democrats have, we are in a crisis community.

been knocked out. He looked like he was trying to protect him. Another good Samaritan. The reality of it is is that this was attempted murder. That's what it was. We need the justice department. I don't want this in the common police court because they'll let him out. I don't want it downtown in Hamilton County because those judges will let him out. I want this in federal court. I want everybody involved, including those who are videotaped the

whole incident. It's like driving in a car Brian Thomas and a robbery.

I want twenty years to life.

it certainly is easy to reach that conclusion. Right now. Let's bring Christopher back for a few more words. Seven here fifty five karasd talk station. He's always on fire, particularly riled up this morning. My good friend and friend of the community, former Vice mayor of the City of Sincinnati, Christopher Smith, with his thoughts, and Smith had been with

his thoughts and comments on the violence over the weekend. Christopher, you know someone brought up you mentioned in your comments the NAACP and someone this morning suggested, you know what,

that's a very influential, powerful organization. They've got a lot of credibility, they have a lot of contacts, and this will be a great opportunity for the NAACP to issue a statement as well about the violence in the city and maybe a call to stop it, change it, work with the police, do something to push the city in the right direction. You were former president of the NAACP Cincinnati Chapter, Christopher, what's your reaction to that kind of thought.

when I was Chair of Law and Public Safety. And there's no question that if I were the president, that already would have been a statement condemning what happened Number one, Number two, asking the community to cooperate with the police period right and extending my deepest condolences.

able to say, man, something horrible happens. I'm not going to just make put my voice in when I see African Americans that are harmed by racism or violence or injustice, I'm going to focus on injustice. I'm going to allow injustice to drive my policies at the NAACP, not race. The reality of this is that we have a situation where white citizens were targeted in downtown Cincinnati. We have an administration who is more worried about the money loss,

meaning the festival itself. The comments. If someone gets on your show and says the attacks had nothing to do with the festival, everybody should ask, how do you know that? If you've not arrested anybody and you don't know who is there, You don't know who these people are, you don't even know what they're from, the City of Cincinnati so don't make those proclamations. Their job right now is to find out who did it and arrest them and

charge them federally in court. Again, I want to emphasize because people say whether the solution, the solution is not putting them in Hamilton County just with a hate crime. Build your case. Hold people accountable. Now if they fail to do this, here's what's going to happen. Citizens from the suburbs are not coming into downtown.

He's a really good guy and people should vote for.

You think so little of us as African Americans that you think we would support this craziness that you think that law abiding African American citizens that live in the city of Cincinnati would not vote for you because you say that people were indiscriminately attacked violently downtown who absolutely was a You think that that's where the African American community is and we can't find you with a search war It tells you what he really thinks.

they're more concerned about the November election. And guess what, citizens who are listening, You go in and vote for these same people, you're gonna get the same You're gonna get the same result.

interest rates or lowering interest rates. Welcome back from all Worth Financial Brian James, do another edition of Money Monday.

books before. He said someone at the meeting should say the might have to raise its target rate at some point during the year. Noting that unemployment rate remains pretty dang low, but the rate of inflation is still somewhat elevated, suggesting, in his words, if anything, the target interest rates should be higher to push down inflation. No, here, I haven't heard anybody talk about that prior to my reading this article this morning. Was either going to stay the same

or it was going to get lowered. What do you think, Brian James.

lowering rates. Some people still see inflation out there. We've got we've got some good headlines over the weekend related to tariff that we're going to get to here and shortly. But you know, we haven't beaten the inflation monster yet completely one hundred percent, but we made a lot of progress there, So, yeah, I would agree with you. I'm not sure I see the benefit or the risk. I mean,

maybe it's a topic to talk about. That's why there's only a handful of voices, you know, out that about that. There are a few people out there, you know, Neil Kashkari and the Minneapolis Fed. He has hinted that he's open to leaving the door open for another hike if we still see price pressures resuming. Cleveland FED Representative Loredamester said similar, she's just really tight on None of them are as vocal as this individual is. But you know,

I really only hear it in hints. Otherwise, well it was noted again. I'm going back to this, mister silber guy. Congress has to pay the government's bills, right, so it too likes low interest rates. So this low interest rates doesn't really bear a political stripe. Low interest rates are

if you ignore the inflationary reality that might exist. I mean, Democrats, Republicans, independence, communists, everybody enjoys the benefits of lower interest rates, if for no other reason it tends to have an impact on what somebody pays for a home in the mortgage rate. Yeah, and that of course is where we feel at the most. That's we've had a lot of home buyers. If you've bought a home in the last four or five years,

then yes, you are paying probably six to seven percent. Ironically, I did get an email over the weekend from a client who was asking if we should borrow against the home to invest in the market. And first off, that is the sign of a market, of a market top and people start thinking that way. But I think he's

not a person who has a mortgage right now. He's not dealing with he's considering putting one back in place, and I think he has forgotten, as a lot of people have, that rates for people who are putting mortgages in place are in the six to seven percent range. It's not the three to four space or the two space that we were in just a few years ago. So I do think there's a big difference between people who aren't dealing with mortgages and those who are.

in all, the market's been up significantly and strongly. We always get to a point there where people just kind of lose that last bit of defensiveness in terms of you know this, this can't go on forever. Well, when that disappears, we start thinking about things like mortgaging the house to invest a little more. And that's just and usually it's people who don't really need that in.

mind on a dime. And as we've seen, you know it just in just in this administration, and we saw it a couple of ministrations ago in his first go round. He can do whatever he wants from day to day and everybody else has to deal with it. On the other hand, those representing the Federal Reserve making those decisions, they will not be able to raise rates today and then lower them tomorrow the way tariff Trump is handling things like Tariff's.

a pretty smart dude nowadays for having done that. Well, fought the fought against the tide of people who don't like that.

We had a long period of time where where there's a lot of people with money now who that's the period that they made it in. And those folks conclude that the anomaly has been the last twenty years where we've had a whole bunch of crazy. But really, if you look over the couple hundred quarter millennium of the history of this country, it's actually the eighties and the nineties that were probably about the beast period we've ever had.

you probably wouldn't be looking at large and giant. You'd be looking at something maybe a little bit more efficient and affordable.

How big of a house? They said, here's what you can afford right now, based on interest rates. And of course, remember who's pulling the strings, who benefits The banks of course were and this was a period of time where we had run up to a financial crisis in two thousand and eight based on mortgages. Banks were looking under every stone for every last opportunity to take advantage of the fact that people were really excited about low interest rates.

So yes, absolutely, Brian. Of course we were encouraged from a thousand different points about just buy a bigger home because you can afford it.

figure out what the mortgage payment should be. Don't focus on the giant house the way we did in the late nineties and early two thousands, and then worry about your four oh one K. That's gonna work against you.

tariff deal with the EU. We got a fifteen percent tariff deal, many reviewing it positively, a promise of six hundred billion dollars in investment for the European Union in the United States over time, seven hundred and fifty billion dollars worth of their energy purchases from the United States over time, and apparently hundreds of billions of dollars in arms purchases, making the military industrial complex very happy. We also had him negotiate a deal with Japan as well, and he's

sitting down to talk with China. I guess beginning maybe today, what's your take on the tariffs?

from happening. And the threat there was that the original Trump era tariffs were going to come back twenty five percent on steel and ten percent aluminum, and so this is going to replace a twenty twenty one deal that paused the tariffs and those were going to expire anyway, and so that this is all everybody wants to make sure we don't have an overcapacity situation, and so we're just out of situation where we've answered the question and we can kind of get to move on a little bit.

That is good news. Not everybody in Europe is happy, of course, right because you know, some of these countries didn't have any kind of the tariffs levied against the United States. So this is we're we're kind of taking the first shots against them. But the US is just throwing its weight around, and the EU at the moment has acquiesced and conceded a decent amount of the United States.

support supporting those military alliances. This is just the next phase of the same thing. The United States was able to force those countries, and those were things that they had all agreed to and simply not held up on what they had signed off on years ago. In the United States picked up the tab because we deemed it more important to have that in place, and the other countries just relied on the fact that we would step

in and they were right. So this, I think is the tit for tat to me, this is the zero for zero. We forced other countries to pay their share, and this is how we're getting back on the other end.

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see the talk station. The retur of Rabbi ri June's gonna be talking about the Robling Bridge protests, which was in support of i'mom Amon Solomon, whom ice detained and then we had sort of a situation breakdown with people taking over the bridge resulting in police activity. Rabbi John on that subject and maybe even get him to comment on the situation unfolding between Israel and Gaza. Right now, stick around for the Rabbi. He'll be on next fifty

five car the talk station. Channe first one to Weether four Kass. It's gonna be mostly cloudy day, isolated showers and they show up afternoon. It's gonna be high ninety two, low one hundred heat index, humid overnight muggy seventy six is low and cloudy, partly cloudy. Tomorrow hot humid ninety four with the heat index low one hundreds. Tuesday night partly cloudy, muggy seventy three, and on Wednesday another partly cloudy day with scattered showers and storms possible and a

high of ninety two seventy six degrees. Right now, let's turn out to Chuck and get a traffic update from.

should be. You know, I Mom Solomon. We can only really speak with confidence I think here about who he has been as a member of our local community. You know, he's been in Cincinnati for years now, been working as a chaplain at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and in our community, which is what we can speak with confidence about. He's been a model member of Cincinnati. You know, he's the kind of guy who's shown up in the nick you and working with parents who are in dire situations with

children or suffering. He has been to any member of the Jewish community, a real ally that's good, showed up at vigils to support Jews after October seventh, has you know, been there with rabbis and Cincinnati who run the whole spectrum from you know, from Reform to Orthodox and been a real friend and partner. Doesn't mean we agree on everything.

We don't agree on everything, but that's you know, that's part of living in a pluralistic society is you can make friends with people with whom you have disagreements.

or how you feel about the Jewish people. Generally speaking, the world's filled with opinions, and within the Muslim community there are many varied opinions, much in the same way you just pointed out there are many varied opinions within the Jewish community.

Is there a direct correlation between this, this concept of anti Semitism, which I perceive to be the hatred or the antagonism or evil toward Jewish people generally speaking, or is it based upon the existence and creation of the State of Israel. Let's just delve on that A little good bridge to the bridge should perfect. I'm glad you perceive it to be that way. It's a thirty five Rabbi Ari John in the studio will continue after these brief words.

great work. So before we get to his trials and tribulations, addressing my question mark, because as I say that, I don't understand the hatred of a person for merely being of a particular race, and so I can't hate you for being a Jew, just in and of itself. There are people out in the world who hate black people just because they're black. That makes no sense to me either.

You know, I'm like a you know, I never met a man I didn't like kind of guy, which is sort of you got to take the time to know somebody before you're allowed to draw conclusions. And because all these different people exist across broad political sUAS within any given community, I can't draw a conclusion. It wouldn't be

fair for me to do so. But I'm kind of curious to know if this concept of anti Semitism has more of a connection with the creation of Israel as a state, in the displacement of the Palestinian people or anybody else that got this place when Israel was created in what nineteen four or nineteen forty seven. So do you see that as being a sort of a blurred line or maybe a problematic area.

to mutate throughout history. So generally speaking, in history, people will target Jews for whatever the perceived gravest evil of the time is. So, if capitalism is bad, Jews or the capitalists. If communism's bad, Jews are the communists? You name it. So in the present day, when you know ethnic nationalism trends are perceived as evil, Jews must be the colonialist, nationalist, whatever group that's most evil in the world.

So Israel's connected to it, no question. But Israel's more of an excuse than the impetus.

pick off and scapegoat and target. You layer on top of that religious differences intentions that existed between Christianity and Islam and Judaism, and you've got the recipe for all sorts of disaster well.

You're part of that family of Jewish people, you help each other in business perspectives, you elevate your fellow jew And I mean, and because it is I suppose a race predicated thing. There are people who are not of the Jewish race Sammy Davis Junior, who can become Jews by way of religion. It's a very difficult road to hoe. But there's the sense of the race being a component of being part of the Jewish faith as well, is there not?

And that's been used against us, of course also at plenty of times that because we take care of ourselves, there must be something wrong with that.

hundred heat index. Muggy and partly cloudy every night low of seventy four and another cloudy Scattered showers and thunderstorms possible on Wednesday, but another heat day ninety two for a high closed it out at seventy seven times for final traffic. Chuck from the ucup Tramphic Center.

But things went awry at the protests. The bridge was taken over and closed down, which then resulted in the police apartment showing up. Brab Ai, Your take on that, because that's all I remember. If you'd ask me before our conversation today what the Roblin Bridge shutdown was all about, I wouldn't have been able to remember.

What's the plan here? And I wasn't able to find any any evidence one way or another, and that to me was a red flag enough that but I came to the vigil where faith leaders had gathered before the folks walked onto the bridge, and I decided I wasn't going on the bridge myself.

leave one group out. CINCINNATIPD did a fabulous job of managing, you know, trying to restore traffic and you know, stop people from blocking a bridge, which is an act of civil disobedience and they have a right to try to stop and and dealing with the protesters effectively. But the conflict between Covington PD and the protesters was awful. One of those officers from Covington PD has been placed on leave, I believe since because of the concerns about what came out.

And as someone who was there when people started coming off of the bridge, I had a fellow clergy member who got back after being in the midst of all of the conflict, and he didn't know what was about to happen. He had been suckered into it, like a lot of people had been kind of co opted who just thought they were there to demonstrate properly. They figured, you know, permits had been polled or whatever planning was supposed to have happened had happened. So my clergy friend,

who you know's wearing his Roman collar and everything. So the police didn't do anything to him, but he showed me a video right after the fact that he took on his phone and I was I was appalled by what I saw. Meanwhile, you know, the people trying to block the bridge, it's responsible, it's reckless to pull people into a cause that they don't understand fully and they don't know the risks of you got to give people the you know, the information to consent to that kind of thing you're engage.

they're all dressed the same. Sometimes they're funded by outside organizations. But it's as if and perhaps the motive is to invite police over reaction. That's the image they want to show and project to the rest of the world. Has nothing to do with the condition of the IMOM, has everything to do with the police. And look at the brutality that has been on unleashed, that's the visual moment they want.

they were injured. They probably didn't enjoy it, but they got the you know, they got the social media videos that they probably were looking to create out of it. So who loses all of the reasonable people who want to see attention brought to a case that matters. Look, I'm not opposed to civil disobedience within the right parameters. You can choose to shut down a bridge, but their consequences that are going to happen, and people need to know what the consequences they've signed up for are.

about people reacting to the bridge being shut down. So you might have some otherwise sympathetic people to your message, but then we all get pissed off when roads are shut down and the traffic's backed up, and we hear about the EMS vehicle who couldn't get through with the you know, the the close to death injured victim, and all these horror stories come out.

not what you're about. If you want to engage in that type of protest, recognize there are going to be consequences, but in the final analysis, it's probably not going to do your message any good.

Money with Brian James. And of course my conversation just now with Rabbi Ari Jen podcast fifty five Carsee dot Com, Get Your iHeartMedia app Bright Bart Inside Scoop tomorrow at I followed by the Daniel Davis Deep Dive on the heels of my appearing on the Daniel Davis Deep Dive last week. Rather interesting reaction given some of my comments you got alienated a few of Daniel Davis's friends, but we'll talk about that tomorrow. Thank you, Joe Strecker, Executive producer,

for all that you do. God bless you, sir. Folks. Have a wonderful day, and don't call wey. Glenn Beck's coming right up Today's top stories at the top of the hour.