This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Just before the show started, we got this kind of bombshell from the Democratic part. It's just in the CNN, big Democratic donor George Clooney. Of course, the actor has just called for President Biden to step aside. C r Lett signs joins us now from the White House. Arlett, Obviously, this is not going to
be welcome news over there. What can you tell us? No, it won't be Jim And this is a significant New New York Times op ed from actor George Clooney. Now to remind viewers, George Clooney was one of those celebrities that headlined a major Los Angeles fundraiser with President Biden back in June, and today he is saying that he believes it is time for President Biden to step aside. The op ed from the New York Times was posted at about seven forty six. In it, George Clooney writes, is it fair to
point these things out? Talking about mental lapses that we've seen from the president. He says it has to be this is about age nothing more, but also nothing that can be reversed. And again, we are not going to win in November with this president. On top of that, we won't win the House, and we're going to lose the Senate says, this isn't only
my opinion. This is the opinion of every Senator and congress member and governor that I've spoken with in private, every single one, irrespective of what he or she is saying publicly. Would it be messy, Yes, democracy is messy, he says. Was he tired, yes, a cold maybe, But our party leaders need to stop telling us that fifty one people didn't see what we just saw. He ends with Joe Biden as a hero. He saved democracy in twenty twenty. We need him to do it again in twenty
twenty four. So this comes on the heels of yesterday's big meeting where Democratic leaders, well the entire Democratic caucus in the House and the Senate got together
behind closed doors and had what they referred to as this family meeting. And throughout the course of the show yesterday, I was trying to catch up with and get a good sense of what the people in the meeting thought of the meeting, and everybody came out and for the most part, it was basically a family issue, like we're not going to discuss what went on in the meeting, but he's our nominee and we're gonna stay behind him. They basically
hippa right exactly. There were a handful of people going into the meeting who said that they needed a new nominee and they stayed that way. There were some who went into the meeting saying they needed a new nominee and they came out and changed their version of it. Jerry Nadler is an example congressman out of New York who said on Sunday in a private call, he needs to step down. Yesterday after the meetings, he was saying, he's our nomine
We're gonna stick with him. Well, the big question mark and it's not necessarily a question mark anymore. But Nancy Pelosi, she was on MSNBC today and she said, she said, this, does he have your support to be the head of the Democratic ticket as long as the president had the president, it's up to the president to suicide if he is going to run. We're all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short. Important
point there First of all, she said socidy, meaning decide. I assume well. The President also said goodest too well, which ABC refutes, and she go ahead. She says that he needs to decide. We're all encouraging
him to make that decision, to make this decision right now. According to Joe Biden, he's already made the decision right And I don't know if she has spoken to him, or if she believes that he's made the decision, or if there is some other thing going on, if there's an unspoken truth about what's happening, which is he is technically leaving the door open to step aside at the top of the tablet, which that's what I take her comments to me. There is something else going on. I think it's going to
be really telling tomorrow because of the NATO summit. He spoke yesterday, and he spoke with more vigor. Again, the bar is set low, right. He seemed much more awake and lively when he took to that podium yesterday.
Tomorrow he will speak again at the NATO summit, But then he is reportedly going to be holding a press conference, really the big boy press, that big boy press conference, and how he how he comes across, then I think will be telling enough so that if he does have moments like he did in the debate, will Pelosi outright and Hakim Jeffries and Chuck Schumer,
will they say enough is enough, we need a new nominee. One of the senators who has been vocal about this is Senator Michael Bennett out of the great state of Colorado, who, if I'm not mistaken, did run for president before got stomped. But and the only reason I say this because I remember his very slow, droopy dogg kind of delivery. But he was on CNN last night explaining and coming out publicly saying we need a new nominee.
My colleague Dana Bash reported that you, Senator John Tester and Senator Shared Brown all said during that launch that you don't think President Biden can win in twenty twenty four. Is that true? Well, it's true that I said that, and I did say that behind closed doors, and you guys and others asked whether I had said it, and that is what I said, So I figured I should come here and say it publicly. Why do you think you can't win in November? I just think this race is on a trajectory
that is very worrisome if you care about the future of this country. Joe Biden was nine points up at the time. At the last time he was running, Hillary Clinton was five points up. This is the first time in more than twenty years that a Republican president has been up in this part of the campaign. Donald Trump is on track, I think, to win the selection and maybe win it by a landslide and take with him the Senate and the House. Right now, if you look at Real Clear Politics and their
average of polls right now, Trump is up more than three points. Favorability ratings, he's up more than seven and the top battlegrounds, which obviously are key to that two hundred and seventy electoral college map, he's up four on average. It's also interesting and the Korean Jean Pierre, I have watched every single minute the last several days, and just there are we have NATO going
on. There are a few questions about that seventy fifth anniversary. Great, but in terms of the reporter questions to her, it's about the it's about the neurologist, it's about Parkinson's disease. It's about Hey, if this was just your uncle, your mother, your sister. Wouldn't you just say why
don't we just take a cognitive test? And to me, having seen those news conferences, she's causing the problems that are frustrating the reporters absolutely, the way she's answering the questions or obfuscating what should be a pretty straightforward answer. Then the reporters get frustrated. They come back the next day loaded for bear, and she gets upset about it. Well, she could have answered the questions correctly in the first place. And she's saying, look, just because
I'm making a clarification, I didn't necessarily know this yesterday. So and so it goes on and on. She brings you coffee. I had to go get my own. What's going on in Keana? Thank you so much. You're so welcome. I appreciate it. I was a little bit more high maintenance today. I asked for a decap. We are days away. We don't know if it's one day or six days, but we are days away from a former President Trump announcing who is going to be his running mate.
Mentioned yesterday that a couple of different places has have that list down to three. Marco Rubio jd Vance Doug Bergham. Maybe if you were to add a fourth, you'd say Tim Scott possibly, although I think he's Let me just tell you this, I watched a lot of Network News yesterday and Ben Carson is in the bettings. I know, I know that, but it's amazing to me how much time was spent talking about Ben Carson as a potential. But yes, do you think it comes down to Burgham, Rubio and JD.
Vance? Vance? And those three guys know that they have to perform for this president. That's his currency, and they have to be loyal to him. That's been said, that that's been established. There was an interesting interview done with John Bolton yesterday, former national security advisor who was in the
original Trump administration. We interviewed him eight years ago before the or during, I should say the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, and he was an affable guy, very nice, fun knew that people made fun of his mustache and took it with a grain of salt. He was a very well thought I thought, a very well thought person, and was at the time not necessarily
in love with the idea of a Trump presidency. He ended up working for Trump and then they had a falling out, and now he's very concerned about what Trump would say to a potential vice presidential candidate. And John Bolton said, there would be two questions, what did you think of January sixth? And if I asked you to do what I asked Mike Pence to do,
would you do it? Those two questions are the only things that would exist between Trump and his potential vice presidential running there, and those two questions fall under what is most important to him in terms of an umbrella, and that is loyalty. Right. So, last night, former President Trump held a rally in Durral, Florida, at his golf course there, and among the people that was in in the building Marco Rubio, I mean senator from the
great state of Florida. So it's not like it's hard to believe that he would be there. But Trump knows everybody's waiting to hear who his vice presidential nominee is going to be. So multiple times yesterday he played with the idea of hey, Marco's right there. Like we talked about his no taxes on tips? They said, you know, I have a great idea, how about no tax on tips? That was the extent of my study one waitress. But it's true. It makes so much. Isn't it funny that nobody
ever thought of that but me? Isn't that weird? But it's a great thing, and they deserve their money. They work hard for it. They they deserve it. Marco, you're going to vote for it, I hope. Well, you may or may not be there to vote for it, but you'll be involved. Ah see, little nugget. He did that a handful of Yeah he did. And Marco spoke both in English and Spanish prior to Trump taking the stage as well. Yes, this was at his golf
course. He also challenged the president to a another debate, yeah next week, and then be around at golf. It's just the golf thing has got to go. It's so stupid, it's so frustrating. The jd Vance issue is interesting. The Daily Beast is out with an article that suggests that some of the people who do not want to see jd Vance as the vice presidential
nominee are Trump donors. But they said that in this article by Jake Lahout, the very same coastal elites who once adored jd Vance have been trying to sabotage his vice presidential aspirations. The two main rivals, according to most reports, obviously would be Doug Bergham and Marco Rubio, but that donors have been coalescing around Burgham and Rubio at this point because of the concern that JD.
Vance, among other things, might not appeal to those people in the middle, those independents or those specific voting groups that a Doug Burgham might or a Marco Rubio might. Well, the independent they may like the fact that he is younger, and significantly younger. He's thirty nine, oh be forty next
month, So there's that element to consider. But in terms of loyalty about January sixth, of the two questions that you said that he would ask, would you do as I asked Vice President Pence to do and not certify the election? JD. Vance was a never Trump guy. Yeah, and now he's potential view And that's the thing is there's a lot of people in the Republican Party who were very pro Trump, became very anti Trump, and have now come back around full circle and are a pro Trump again. It's just
a it's a bizarre political game that we have been playing. So and I told I told my daughter there that day, I'm really sorry that we broke the country, like we just we blew it. It's our fault. We had we had every opportunity to make some good decisions and we just we blew it. I'm sorry, Olivia. Yeah, it is July the tenth. You said, ringing any bells? Is it Shannon's brother, No, it's
not. It would be my sister's husband, Bend. Jeez. So if everybody, if you see Roger today, say happy birthday, birthday Rogers. Well, since I'm not going to be here tomorrow, I'd like to wish my father in law, Brad, who I call bas zemp Sick, a happy birthday tomorrow. He's he's a July eleventh, seven eleven baby, and to get free slurpees. So we always got we're on a family chain and it's flee free Slurpy day. Love you, bas. His birthday was May
tenth. Oh, it's the tenth. Oh you know what. It's their anniversary. That's what it is. It's my sister and brother loss anniversary. Happy anniversary. You should just open the show. Happy anniversary, Happy birthday to everybody I know. Cover all the bases Rangers beat the Angels five to four. Last night. They play againstixt thirty eight. First pitch. The Dodgers got crushed in Philly last night. It was so bad. How bad? It was so bad that Key k Hernandez came in to pitch the eighth
Oh that bad. So it was bad. Phillies ended up winning ten to one. So they will play again tonight. I believe it's a seven to ten first pitch this time. So what was Hurricane Burrell made her way through state, through the state of Texas and then up through the Midwest and has caused some problems, nothing as significant as what we saw in Houston, where as many as two million people were without power over the course of the last
couple of days. They have been working tirelessly to get people back under the power because the weather there is still a problem. It's not a hurricane, but ninety five degrees and seventy plus percent humidity is unbearable for some people and is potentially dangerous for a lot. So what they need to do is they need to get the air conditioners back up and running in the Houston area.
Well, there is an issue. First of all, Governor Greg Abbott is apparently in Korea for an international trip organized by the Governor's Economic Development and Tourism Office, organized and paid for by the nonprofit Texas Economic Development Corporation, at least according to the Governor's office. So that means that the Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick is not Dan Patrick sports guy, but Dan Patrick is the one who is technically the governor as of right now. Oh good, thanks for clarifying.
Well, the Constitution gives the Lieutenant governor the power to exercise the powers and authority pertaining to the office of governor when obviously the governor leaves the state. We see it all the time here in California. We get sometimes it's kind of on the on the low low. We get usually a news release or something from the Governor's office that says Gavenuwsom is out of state is going
to be the acting governor, so the acting governor. Lieutenant Governor Den Patrick issued a disaster declaration Friday Friday before the storm hit Friday for counties for forty different counties, expanded that list to eighty one counties on Saturday, and then brief the media on the preparations alongside the division of an emergency Management Chief on Sunday. Then later Sunday he was telling people to take precautions. Obviously,
Monday morning rolls around and we've got landfall. There is a question now about
when the Lieutenant governor was finally on the phone with President Biden. A disaster of this size, I mean, eighty one counties on a state disaster level does rise to the level we should see some sort of federal intervention, and a disaster declaration doesn't really change a whole lot about what's going on on the ground, but it does free up the resources of the federal government to help state and local governments deal with the aftermath in this and the question is when
was Dan Patrick on the phone with Joe Biden and why did it take as
long as it did? Well? And now there's criticism because Greg Abbott on X was talking about his trip and then also talking about the fact that while I'm in daily contact with the actor acting Governor Patrick, the Texas Division of Emergency Management and other state officials to ensure Texas swiftly deploys all resources needed to help Texas Texans as heavy rain fall, etc. The point of what I'm getting at is he posts this on X, and then all of those comments
below are saying, well, maybe you shouldn't brag about a business meeting in Seoul right now while your state is under this emergency. Maybe it's not the best time to brag about how awesome your trip is. Replied one ex user, there's a weird thing that goes on. No, there's no excuse. I don't know who's to blame, and I'm not saying that one side gets the creditor the blame for this. There's no excuse for the White House not being in contact with the head of a state. In this case, it
happened to be the lieutenant governor. There's no reason why the White House can't immediately locate the lieutenant governor of the state of Texas and have the President on the phone with him within minutes. Because, on the one hand, Dan Patrick has done these interviews and these news conferences with all these state representatives around him, but also federal Emergency Management Agency officials who currently live in the state
of Texas. I mean, they're there already knowing that this was where to happen. Of course, you get somebody on the phone immediately, and it's incumbent upon Dan Patrick to be available to the president. It's incoment upon the White House to be able to make that connection immediately and not delay. This is maybe making Maybe it was after eight pm. Yeah, somebody was in bed already. I don't know today was it. Today's supposed to be the warmer of the two days. Today's going to be a Buco five in my
house? Oh not in my house? At my house? Well what six? It went up? So yeah, I think today is supposed to be, at least in the valley, one of the warmer days of the week. And I heard Neil with Handle this morning. I think he said it was one hundred and twenty four in Palm Springs. That sounds fine. I mean, you're in Palm Springs, what's your expectation. Well, but one hundred and twenty four, that's almost death valley numbers. Yes, yeah,
that's why they have pools. That's why they have pools in spring. I guess a big noise was made in Hollywood today and across the country. George Clooney has added his voice to calls for Joe Biden to leave the presidential race. He wrote an op ed piece in The New York Times and said he loves Biden, but that the Democrats will lose the presidential race as well as
control of Congress if Biden remains the nominee. Now, George Clooney was one of those guys who hosted that huge Hollywood fundraiser a short time ago where they raised something like thirty million dollars with president's Clinton and Obama on the stage with Biden. Yeah, right, he and he did for Obama in twenty twelve, Clinton, Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen, and then yes, Joe Biden in twenty twenty, and then last month as well. So he he's taking
a strong stance again. This is in the New York Times, this op ed ending with Joe Biden is a hero. He saved democracy in twenty twenty. We need him to do it again in twenty twenty four. You can always leave us a talkback message if you're listening on the app, just hit that little microphone and you leave us a quick message. Morning guys, Hey, Marlo, welcome back. You're a ray of sunshine to all of us.
Glad to hear that down you're back there today. Hey, when you played that interview with Nancy Pelosi, I was standing still and all of a sudden, my arms started flailing around. Can you explain that what happened? It was so weird? And then as soon as you stopped talking, my arms weren't flailing anymore. No, I can't explain what I did. What's soup? Dary? What's up? Homie? Hey? We Mark? I'll tell you is nice to have one love standing. But I love when you
come to the show too. Uh you, guys, that's a great day. Love listening to you. Guys, it's trying to make me cry again. It's arry. You just called Hurricane Baryl a woman. How do you know it's a woman. I have always that that was a man's name. Are you being sexist? Yes? And no, Yes I'm being sexist, but I'm doing it for traditional reasons, because we used to only name storms women's names. It wasn't until nineteen eighty. Do you know this well,
I knew that like hurricanes. When we knew about hurricanes, they were always Gladys and mary and I mean, they were all women's names. That was just the way they did it. And then somebody got upset that that was the traditional I mean, listen, hold on. I would be so proud Hurricane Marla Baby. I'm not saying agree with it, but yeah, one hundred years ago, the only people who were on boats were men for the most part, and when something got in their way, they blamed women.
I mean that, dudes are we're we're small minded. I'll admit that. So I'm the captain now. If the if the weather is causing problems for your transatlantic voyage, of course you're going to blame it on a woman, and you might as well put a name to it. And maybe it's your ex wife or ex girlfriend or you know, love that was lost. Whatever, that's what's going to happen. She didn't leave her name, did she, Because we're saying Beryl at Fox eleven. You are, Yeah, we're
saying Beryl. Well, the good news is it's no longer a named storm, so we don't have to worry about it. That one storm that came through. Hey, Gary, you're right. You were really close anyway, because they started alternating men's and women's names in nineteen seventy nine and I said eight. He said, it's close, yeah, close. This is why he does well on the Jeopardy questions. And before that, I don't know
when we started naming them because Team fifty three. Oh okay, Amy Hi, Amy Hill, Cliff Cven, all right, it's a great show. You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show. You can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app