(KMN) 6.23: Closer to Now - Hour 3

We'll have another sports update coming your way in about twenty minutes, and of course you just heard John Shannon there. We are going to be joined coming up in roughly ten minutes by another guest. It is Ali Piccoran of ABC News. She's going to join us to discuss the obvious, and that is the situation as the United States has has intervened here and is not at war with Iran, they want to make that pretty clear, but certainly at

war with the nuclear programs that Iron has. And course, as I've said throughout the morning here probably isn't something that needs to be said as much as I have said it, but why not reiterate because I think many are sharing opinions on this, and look, I think it's it's expected that people would have strong opinions one way

or another about the decision that Donald Trump made. But you know, as far as what really plays out the rest of the way, as far as where this goes good or bad, it's it's completely unknown at this point, but certainly something We're going to keep you updated as best we can here at NewsRadio eight forty whas. At times I've thought to myself, as this is this real, meaning just you know, some of the things that have taken place in this world, not just this country in recent years.

Obviously some big time accusations made on both sides, and I remember one of the first responses that I saw was that when you consider just what was what was said back and forth and a brief amount of time on a social media platform that Elon Musk owns. I mean, a WWE storyline that would probably take like a year and a half to play out, it played out in about forty eight hours on the internet. It's one of those moments where you think, Okay.

sarcasm here, But this, this exchange really happened. As I'm reflecting on just various things over the years that wow, you didn't. I don't know if I would have expected had you told me five six years ago, that you'd have, you know, this back and forth between two people that are fighting to become or at least you know, one person was trying to maintain the spot as president and Trump was trying to get it back.

News correspondent. She's going to join us coming up here at seven fifteen, but before that, we've got another update on traffic and weather right here at Kentucky and is Morning News on News Radio eight forty whas it is seven fifteen here Kentucky and is Morning News on News Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee with you, and we are now joined by ABC News correspondent Ali picorin Ali.

When it comes to Operation Midnight Hammer and the reaction from leaders here in Congress, I think from my perspective, it seems as if the reaction on both sides with was as expected, just given the current temperature in the climate of politics right now. But I guess was there any reaction that you felt like was a surprise as far as reacting to what took place over the weekend.

over the weekend. Congress, as you know, has an authority to declare war, and so the debate that's going on on Capitol Hill right now is whether these targeted strikes on Iran nuclear site constitute a war action that Congress would have needed to authorize, as opposed to President Trump's acting under this authority that the Constitution grants him to take action and there's an immediate threat against the United States, and so that's a debate that's going to be playing

out pretty aggressively on Capitol Hill this week.

did this weekend. So when I say there's Republicans that are raising concerns about this, it's a pretty small group of them. But we should expect to see efforts on Capitol Hill this week to try to force the issue onto the floor. There's going to be members who want to see Congress take a vote on whether they need to authorize these strikes. They is called war powers votes.

But again Democrats told them minority in both chambers. So whether either of those bills, or any of those bills get any traction, will have to see, because in Trumbull also have the ability to veto them, and I don't expect that there would be a veto proof majority on any of that stuff.

the United States responds to it. And so what we're seeing is a lot of Republicans coming forward and saying, look, we don't want to enter a war, but it would also be completely unacceptable for Iran to hit American assets or to injure in any way Americans or American service members. So the way that the United States responds, they say, will be dictated by what Iran does here. And there's

certainly a heightened threat environment going on right now. It's a little bit unclear, and I think lawmakers are waiting for more information about how much they need to be concerned about that heightened threat environment. We would expect members

to receive a classified briefing on this. They're scheduled to receive a briefing on Tuesday, kind of laying out the situation at hand, and if they get noticed that the threat environment is really escalated, then I think you could expect to see calls for greater action in BI the United States.

what Donald Trump decided to do. But I think what made it seem surprising, even if it is a real small, very small representation from the Republican Party, I feel like any level of pushback or resistance, especially at a public way. As far as saying I don't agree. I don't think we should do this, and then obviously now it did happen. I think that just stands out because I feel like that's a rare thing in today's climate from the Republican side. But again, big thank you to Alec Picorna, ABC News

for joining us. We're going to take a time out. Let you get an update on traffick and weather, and then we've got an update of sports coming your way right here on news radio eight forty whas. Thank you very much, John Shannon. It is seven thirty five here, Konseucky. It is more News with Nick Coffee on News Radio

eight forty whas. You've heard over the years, Gen Z Millennials, Generation X baby boomers, and I guess the latest is those who were born from twenty thirteen to currently, and those are that's Generation Alpha, which I got to be honest with you, I'm nowhere near in that demo because if you're born in twenty thirteen, you know you're basically your preteen. But I'd not heard of Generation Alpha. That's I mean, I would have I wouldn't have guessed that's

the name. But I'm sure there's a reason as to why they've come up with all these names. But the reason I bring this up is because and we'll talk a little bit later with Rory O'Neill of NBC News about this, but there's a study that shows that gen Z leans more conservative, and a lot of that is believed to be I guess surprising to some, and it's it's you know, one of the factors is because of

how the pandemic was handled. So gen Z is those born nineteen ninety seven, between nineteen ninety seven and two thy and twelve, which means we've got a gen Zer within the program here, because that's that's John Alden. But you are just two things. One, you're barely gen Z, you're leading the charge.

shocked at all. If if you're you know, you're you're teenager, you're you're just getting out of your teenage years, and you know, a global pandemic is something that happens once every one hundred years, So there's there's no way to really know when it's going to happen and what you can expect as far as how the country handles it. But obviously the way in which it was handled by the Biden administration at the time was not great in

the eyes of a lot of people. And to be fair, I mean, there was some lying about stuff that we've later learned, which is which is, you know, not a good look by any means. But then I don't know, I was going to give. I was going to give somewhat of the benefit of the doubt when it comes to well, you know, let's just be real, we're all kind of learning on the go here. We've never encountered

this type of virus before, we've never been here. You know, you're trying your best, but the reality is that nobody really knows because again, this is not something we've ever encountered.

are years later. Let's be honest, A lot of people, a lot of people don't care. I'm sure a lot of people are strongly defending the way it was handled by the Biden administration and Fauci and whatnot. But then there's also others that just look back and say, what did we were we doing?

The extent of how much that's true, we'll never know for sure, but looking back, like some of the things we did, I'm not the only one I'm sure that fails, like, yeah, that was probably not necessary. We probably didn't need to, you know, shut down the world quite like we did at that time. So I'm not bringing it up to try to go back in time and dunk on those who made the those decisions.

being conservative, and they are aligned with being Republicans. I'm sure there's many that it's not based off of their family or how they were raised. It's just they made the decision for themselves because of how they saw things playing out.

think that's funny. And I'm sure there is an there's a segment of that is that does identify that way as far as just thinking, you know, guy, he's he's a loud mouthed and he you know, he's in the he's been in the WWE before, like, But then also I think there's others that it has nothing to do with that aspect. It's just they were able to see how things played out and they maybe without even really giving it a whole lot of consideration, they just realized

where they where their beliefs are. So I don't think it's that big of a shock. But of course it's in the news because it's being shared as well. A surprise here, gen Z is more conservative than people expected. All right, we've got traffick in weather coming your way. We'll get to another sports update in about fifteen minutes.

What I want to get to on the other side, though, is just how how much should we be worried about the dark Web and passwords being exposed, and it's if you're somebody that's never been worried about it before, you may want to be mindful of it right now because we are expected to have one of the biggest data

breaches we've ever had in America. So again we'll get to that on the other side right here on news Radio eight to forty whas I will admit I am guilty of logging in one of the many things I log into each and every day, and logging in for me is just clicking log in. I don't have to enter a password or a username because it's already set up to auto say, which makes things very convenient. In fact, on my iPhone, I now have the facial recognition to where if I just if it sees my face, it

logs me in automatically. It's super convenient and I at times have had You may want to reset your patsword. There's a chance that your account could have been involved in some kind of a data breach and I just ignore it. John, let me ask you this. You seem to be somebody that that would be more cautious of that than me, meaning you are you know you would avoid that whereas I would be the idiot and not if has that happened to you? And if not, would you quickly change your password?

I mean, like spam bots. All of that is rooted from people trying to scam you or trying to take advantage I mean, or get your information in some way. Think about all the nonsense, all the fluff you see within everything that you are on in the Internet. I'm not talking about advertisements on web pages. I'm talking about spam. I mean, I guess certain spam can just be there just trying to flood your inbox to promote whatever it

is they're doing. But like so many like if you go to Instagram or x and even Facebook to an extent, like you'll get messages from somebody that like clear like And what's what's wild to me is that like so many people fall for That's a sad thing, but it's a real thing. There's a reason that people get into the scamming business of getting your information, hacking your account because they've been able to see that there's enough vulnerable

people out there to where you can get exposed. So anyway, the reason I bring this up is because we've got watchdog warnings that billions of passwords are expected in the on the dark web. Around sixteen billion passwords are reportedly compromised after one of the largest data breaches in history. This is according to cyber news loggainst to social media VPNs user accounts you know for Apple, Facebook, Google, telegram,

all these different I mean even government services. So you may you may want to get some annavirus or some kind of protection out there that you haven't had before, or just change.