Camp I Am six forty. You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand on the iHeart Radio app. It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Jason Middleton. Good morning everybody. Wednesday, June twenty eight, one week past summer solstice. We're on the downslope of sunshine, but we're gonna get a lot more sunshine today and into the weekend. I don't know if you've heard, but the first heat wave is going to be moving in starting tomorrow.
It sounds like five to ten degrees up and into the weekend as well. It's all this morning that President Joe Biden thinks the US may manage to avoid a recession, which is exactly what a president should say. What he's going out talking about his economic plans. We're gonna talk more about that in just a few minutes, about biden Omics. If you're old enough, you remember Reaganomics. If you're not, we'll give you context. I thought I had a dad joke there, but none of my dad joke has been working
this week, so I'm just gonna stick to the news. Let's do a few headlines, and then we'll get into what's coming out of the KFI newsroom. The United States is analytic today another five hundred million dollar weapons package for Ukraine. Georgia's Secretary of State, Brad Rappensburger, will speak today with investigators from Special Counsel Jack Smith's office, and a deadline for Hollywood actors and studios to get a deal done ready looms over the entertainment world this week. Sagaffre's
contract is going to expire on Friday. Now we can start with some of these stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom, and we're gonna lead local. The president of the LA Police Commission says forty five members of the transgender community have been attacked so far this year, and William Briggs says that's fifty five percent more than last year. He says documented hate crimes continue to climb, and the recent protests at schools over LGBTQ related curricula is concerning.
If you think adults screaming, shouting, and physically fighting outside of schools is okay, you're mistake, Briggs told the Commission yesterda Day. The protests at schools have turned violent and have included threats of violence. He said, in the last year there have been three hundred ninety one documented hate crimes against the LGBTQ plus community. Steve Gregory Camfin News. More than eighty million people from the Midwest and East Coast are under air quality alerts because of smoke from
Canada's wildfires. Canada's inter Agency Forest Fire Center says more than two hundred fire and fires are burning out of control. Beaches and parks in the US have been closed and flights have been delayed or canceled because of the smoke. Well more on that too this hour. Residents in fourteen states have been told to stay inside or where in ninety five masks if they have to go outside. A brush fire in Riverside County has burned about fifty five acres and has spread
to homes and cars. CalFire ordered evacuations for people living near Santa Rosa Mine Road in Paris yesterday. The fire is five percent surrounded. Plumes of thick flack smoke can be seen for miles when the fire first started yesterday afternoon, and estimated one point seven million people could start losing medical benefits this weekend during a national purge and California we're projecting on the low end at thirteen percent disenrollment
rate. LA Care Health medical director Carla Leo Romero says, up the thirteen million medical recipient statewide, that's almost one point seven million people. If you receive a packet, make sure you return that information that you get in the mail by the deep requested. If you don't do this, you could lose your coverage. Leo Romero says the annual income eligibility purge was paused during the pandemic. Fortunately, she says, eligible people have ninety days to recover coverage
if they missed the deadline. In La Corbin Carson k if I News, at least fifty sea lions have died in La County in one week from a severe toxic algal bloom. Marine Mammal Care Center CEO John Warner says the toxic bloom that has killed hundreds of sea lions could last another several weeks. Blooms are still in a high concentration off the southern California coast, coming more into La County. The fears that it's going to get even worse for Orange County
San Diego County. Warner says his facility is at capacity treating more than sixty six sea lions. A section of beach in Venice has been designated for six sea lions to rest, and the La School District has expanded a marine care center it owns to increase local treatment capacity. Some cities in SoCal are among
the recipients of federal grant dollars for transportation related projects. Transportation Secretary Pete boodh Jedge says federal grant money was awarded to a high speed rail project in San Bernardino, a pedestrian bridge in South La and a bus rail connector in Anaheim. Summer in big cities, summer in rural communities, many are in tribal
lands. Every community has different needs. A total of two point one billion dollars was awarded to more than one hundred and fifty projects in all fifty states. Boodha Jedge said yesterday seventy percent of all the grant money went to low income or underserved communities. And on the line, we have ABCS in z delicatea to talk with us about the Vatican envoy who is in Moscow. Good morning in z that's right, So we're talking about Cardinal Matteo Zupis, who
was someone who's had prior experience of participating in the church's peace initiatives. He was involved in Mozambique, in Guatemala, he also helped negotiate as he's fired in Burundi. So he is now in Moscow. He arrived on Tuesday. Unclear what he will actually be doing. They haven't released any kind of detailed schedule. We know that he so prior to going to Russia, he did
meet with the Ukrainian President Lensky in Keith. He didn't make a stop to Ukraine prior to going to Russia. So there are questions as to whether he might decide to or try to meet with political figures in Russia as well. Whether he might decide to meet with the Russian President Putin. Unclear whether Putin would agree to that, whether Putin would even have time. He's obviously got a lot on his plate right now with the Wagner rebellion and the aftermath of
all of that. And there's speculation that Zuppie might meet with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. They are are obviously very powerful, They're very close to the Kremlin. They actually have voiced support for the war in Ukraine. Um and and but but there's a there's there's a speculation that Zupie might try to start there. Has Cardinal Zuppie been to Moscow before on missions like this
before? What's his diplomatic pedigree? Yeah, so his asking whether he's actually been to Russia before, I'm not quite clear on, but I do know he is a veteran of the Catholic Church's kind of peace missions and initiatives. So again, he participated in Muslim initiatives Guatemala, He did help broker a cease fire in Burundi, and this is just the latest effort. Yeah, this is someone who was tapped specifically by Pope Francis. We should just want
to Zupie has been so he has voice support for the Ukrainian people. Uh. He has also called for peace in Ukraine, but he has stopped short of actually calling out the Russian president or just calling out Russia by name. And that's the same criticism that Pope Francis has actually faced. There are those who feel that Pope Princess should be doing more to call out Putin and call out Russia by name for starting a war in Ukraine. But the Vatican has
traditionally taken kind of a different approach. They typically do not take sides in conflicts, and they prefer to engage in diplomacy, kind of quiet diplomacy behind the scene. So I think if anything concrete comes out of this mission, you know, it'll be happening behind the scenes. Who probably won't hear about it right away. We should point out this as just the latest kind of
effort to try and negotiate peace here. We saw the Chinese recently trying to do the same thing with China sending an envoye both to Ukraine and Russia, and not much came out of that. So I think low expectations for this mission, but still a big deal that the Vatican is sending someone. And as we don't have the clearest line, but I think I could get one more question in and you've covered a lot of context there, so thank you
for that. I want to circle back real quick on the Russian Orthodox Church angle. If they are in support of the war in Ukraine or against Ukraine. Is that part of the soft diplomacy you're talking about, or is it typical for these for envoys to meet with leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church on trips like this. Well, yeah, I think it's it's a little bit of both. I will say the Russian Orthodox Church has been a huge point
of debate in Ukraine. So when I was in Ukraine back in November, there were all these stories of Ukrainian official security officials raiding Russian Orthodox monasteries and churches, and Ukrainian officials accusing members of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine and essentially spying for Russia, of spying on everyday Ukrainian citizens and then reporting back
sending that information back to the Church in Moscow. Again, because the Russian Orthodox Church is so closely aligned with the Kremlin, and we've seen Ukrainians kind of breaking away from the Church in you know, just another active defiance. They're standing up to Russia and really create it, mean it was already created, but really kind of investing and turning more towards the Ukrainian Church. Thank you so much for the context this morning, and I hope we can speak
again soon. Thank you. Let's ABC News correspondent and as Delicatera, she's in Paris. We had a kind of a cloudy line there, but it's an important visit for sure. Let's get back to some of these stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. Community relations manager Emelda Padilla will join the La City Council in August. She won the special election to fill Nuri Martinez a spot last night, defeating City Council aid Marissa Alcaroz.
Martinez resigned in October. LA County Clerk Say Padia received more than fifty six percent of the vote according to semifinal official results. Turnout was ten point zero four percent. Alca Roz says she's ready to be the community's champion in La. People living in Orange say they have been without hot water for almost a month because of gas leak repairs. Over two hundred residents at the LaVita Monterey Condominiums have had to find alternatives to cooking and bathe while the gas has been
shut off. This renter says there's no communication or sense of urgency from management. They have three or four guys to walk here for eight hours. I don't think they don't have enough time to do what they said one month. It's going to take about six months to finish it. The homeowners Association said yesterday. Gas has been off since June second, and there's no solid date on when people will have the gas turned back on. Chris Adler KFI News.
Insects control crews have sprayed around Covena to get rid of pesky mosquitos. Pesky Indeed, officials say adult side was sprayed from a truck between midnight and five this morning. Officials say the treatment will help decrease mosquito populations and lower the possible risk of being bitten by a bug capable of transmitting West Nile virus. This border crossing was for the birds. A man's been arrested for allegedly trying to bring parrots into the US at the Sandy Cedar Report of entry.
US Customs and Border Protection says a twenty six year old man tried to smuggle thirteen yellow headed parrots across the border earlier this month in two devil bags in the of his car. Customs agents say the parrots are considered endangered. The man was taken into custody by homeline security investigators. US Fish and Wildlife has taken custody of the parrots and place them in quarantine to make sure they don't
contract any diseases. Amy King KFI News. Federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for the man convicted of shooting up a synagogue in Pennsylvania. Robert Bowers is currently on trial for killing eleven people in twenty eighteen, and jurors have focused on his mental health. Rabb by doctor Danny Schiff with the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh says the Jewish faith does not rule out using the death penalty.
The death penalty should be a possibility for those particular moments when society is confronted with an example of ultimate evil. He says that it should only be used when the strictest of guidelines and not with any frequency. Smoke from Canadian wildfires has drifted into the US. Chicago and Detroit have the worst air quality in the world as of yesterday. The marine veteran who used a deadly chokehold on a homeless man on a New York City subway train will be arraigned this
morning. A grand jury earlier this month voted to indict Daniel Penny. Americans are keeping their credit card debt as secret from their partners scanning the room. A survey by nerd Wallet found two and five Americans think credit card debt is embarrassing and have lied about other finances. In related news, collective credit card debt in the United States is one trillion dollars, So that is a really big secret everybody seems to be holding onto. At five thirty ish, we're
gonna talk bidonomics with ABC's Faith at Boo Bay. But right now we have Rich Dumorrow on the line. We're gonna talk to tech Good morning, Rich. Do we have Rich? Sorry? Rich? We do we have you? Now? I'm right here. Hello, Hello. I don't know if you could hear me, but I just introduced you as the as the tech man. So oh, I like that. Let's let's dive into because let's do a little bit of hardhere first, in some software, if we could
please your review of Amazon's new Firemax eleven tablet. Amazon does not have a great track record with hardware. How does Firemax eleven come in. Well, it's their best tablet yet, let's put it that way. This is a nice they've got, like the best design they've had, premium aluminum on this thing, eleven inch screen, it's got a keyboard in Stylus available, and
the price is pretty good. Two hundred and thirty dollars for the base tablet, which is very expensive compared to previous Amazon tablets, but you're getting a much better design. It's also their fastest tablet. They've got a fingerprint reader on this thing for the first time, sixty four gigabytes of storage plus a memory card slot, which is rare these days. The cameras look good.
But Jason, the problem is the software. Oh now, okay, I like I said, the hardware, okay, sounds like the hardware they've got right this time. What is missing with the software this time? Well, you know, their fire Os tablet system is just really bad. It pushes all Amazon products, which is fine if you only want to use this as a kindle, as a prime video viewing device, as an audible listening device, it's fine. Web surfing it's okay. But there are no Google apps
preinstalled on this tablet, which is otherwise really good. So if they had Gmail, if it had YouTube, if it had Chrome, if it had Maps, I would give this thing high praises. Now some people might argue Rich, you can just sideload and install Google Play on your own. Well, the tech novice is not going to know how to do that very easily, and so I can't say that this is great just because that's an availability.
And yes, if you're a tech nerd, you might be able to do that, but on it's the way it's packaged is just not very good and it's very expensive when you think about what you're getting for that price. So wait for this thing to go on sale if you want it. If you're just using it to watch movies on a plane, it's fine. Will it show up on Prime Day? Think that's what I'm wondering now. Historically the new product that Amazon comes out with, they don't discount very much.
But I bet you they already know what the pre orders are on this device, so if they're seeing pre orders down, they'll probably discount it a little bit. But yes, Prime Days right around the corner. Definitely wait for that to see if this price is any less than two thirty. Yeah, you're right, they can move quick to market when it comes to reduced for quick sale kind of a bin. Yeah. Insta three sixty taking on GoPro. You and I've covered GoPro for a while. What's the take here with
Insta three sixty. Yeah, you know GoPros. I mean, let's be honest, they serve a purpose, They've gotten kind of stale over the years. It's an action cam, right, so all these other companies are trying to figure out, well, how do we make action cams more interesting? And I think this insta three sixty go three, which I haven't personally tested, but some of the early reviews are out. It looks really cool.
So it's kind of like a tiny GoPro style action camera, but it has a magnet on it, so you can actually just like magnetize this thing to like your shirt and wear it like that. Plus there's a whole bunch of accessories. But the cool thing is it has this little tiny how that it
pops into. So the camera pops into this housing that has a big screen that is either wireless, so you can kind of put the camera somewhere and see what the camera sees on this wireless screen, or you can pop this little camera into the wireless screen and then you can flip the screen up and you can see kind of a big, wide display of what you're camera seeing.
So really, bottom line, very helpful for helping you get a lot of different shots with this camera, which if you're using an action cam, you know you're getting low on the ground, you're getting high you're putting it on a car hood whatever under four hundred dollars for this thing. Of course that doesn't include accessories. Okay, all right, well you've anticipated my follow
up, which was use case, and you nailed that one. You also held fire on an Amazon Prime follow up and it says, or I've read and I need you to explain for us, please Prime Days back. Of course I saw it yesterday in a trailer for a matinee movie. Actually, well, wow, yeah movie. What was I seeing yesterday? Nor feelings? I was seeing no hard feelings? Oh nice? Oh you know. Funny story about that movie. My wife texts me, She's like, hey, do you mind if I go see this? I'm like, really,
come on, Jennifer Lawrence is in this movie. I'm you're not seeing it by yourself? Like I am going with you anyway. It was a romp, as they say, yeah, Prime Day. Some of these deals, though, are going to be invitation only, right, And I didn't understand that. What's that take? Yeah? So some of these big deals, they've got like a TV for one hundred dollars. They've got a watch, they've got headphones, noise canceling headphones, and a couple other little things that
they think are going to really be popular. Of course that TV. So this time around, they are having you go on the website and you have to reserve or ask for an invitation, and so once you put in your information for an invitation, they may send you an email with another invitation with a link to buy the actual device. So it sounds very confusing. That's because it is. We don't know if that everyone that gets the invitation to buy will actually be able to buy it, or if just a upset of
people will get the invitation. It's very very confusing. But the reality is, if you want some of these big, you know, doorbuster products, they're trying something different this year. So go on Amazon, Amazon dot com slash Prime Day and look at some of these invite only deals and if you want any, if you're interested, you can click you know, request and invite and you may get an invitation to buy a product, which is very odd. Yeah, that is it's is that a new wrinkle? I mean,
because I don't remember anyway. Okay, yeah, okay, I've never done this before. Okay, the last one I wanted to ask you about intrigue me and I saved it for last because it's to me, like what tech should do, and that's an emotional connection with a physical experience. And the app is called voice Map. Can you unpack that one for us?
Oh, Jason, this is such a cool app to have. We discovered it my wife and I were in Austin, Texas, and we were kind of trying to figure out something to do for the day and she's like, oh, my friend went to New Orleans and just did this weird, like, you know, a GPS audio tour from her phone. I was like, what, that's not weird, that's awesome. Yeah, So we downloaded this app called voice Map, and we searched Austin. Sure enough, they
had one. It was a couple of bucks. I think it was like six or seven dollars for the GPS tour and it basically you start at a location and you just follow a map and your phone triggers the audio kind of snippets when you get to the GPS area of the next stop on the map, and so it's just like basically following a tour, but the tour guide is in your ear and it's recorded, and it's it's really cool. We had we spent a couple of hours. We never got bored and it was
so much fun. And by the way, on my website rich on tech dot tv, I've got like a share code and you can actually get your first one for free, so definitely take advantage of that. And definitely I was going to go do a downtown tour this weekend for the Art Deco buildings in LA and we had to push it because of a prior engagement that wasn't on the calendar. But I'm going to use this when I go out by myself. It's called voice Map. By the way, it's a cool new
app which likes it. I think that I'm gonna love it, Honestly, I do think it's like the epitome of what tech should do. Right. It's like, oh absolutely, And there's a whole bunch for Los Angeles, So if you want to start right here at home, but just remember when you're in a different city and you're looking for something to do, this is such a great thing, Like don't forget about it because it's such a great
way to connect with the city. And also you just feel smart, like you learn stuff and you're like, oh, like you may not remember everything, but you'll feel like you really connected with that place. Rich. You mentioned Rich on tech dot TV. What are some of the other places people can find you find me on social media? I am at rich on tech on Instagram. And if you haven't checked out my video that's going viral right now of the foldable TV. Jason. Yeah, this thing is. It's
just incredible. It keeps just getting more and more views. I think it's up to like almost a million views. And it's something that I shot. This is the weird thing about going viral. I shot that like three weeks ago and people just started noticing it like three days ago. Well, good on that. We'll check it out. I heard you guess today talking to Wayne too, and your Instagram is lit, so I think everybody should be checking that out. Thanks a lot for your time. It's morning, Rich.
Always a pleasure, and hopefully we talk again soon, maybe this weekend. Thanks, Jason. Was a movie? Good do I see it? Look? I was gonna lie and say I saw an Asteroid City again and I saw it was good. I'd see it. Okay, Sure it's not eighties raunchy. If you're worried about that, it's not. It's not eighties raunchy, like bachelor party kind of stuff. But it's it's pretty funny, it's pretty I'm not taking my kids. I'm not worried. Okay, all
right, thanks rich all right, all right. A fire in San Bernardino County has burned about ninety acres and is ten percent surrounded. The fire in mentone, near Yucaipa, is near the San Bernardino National Forest. Cal Fire says there's a full ground in air response to put the fire out, and the La City Council was approved of motion to streamline Mayor Basses Directive for developing Affordable and Supportive Housing. The motion, unanimously voted on yesterday, permanently exampts
one percent of affordable housing proposals from the city's long review process. Officials say since Bass signed the directive, it has cut approval time for housing projects from an average of six months two thirty seven days. California is a step closer to sealing the new budget deal. Governor Newsom signed a placeholder bill yesterday after
reaching an agreement with lawmakers Monday night. Voting will continue today on bills related to the state's second largest spending plan ever, three hundred and ten billion dollars. The push to boost juror pay in California is also moving forward to build and expand. A pilot program is now making its way through the Senate. San Francisco started it last spring, paying one hundred dollars a day. That's up from the fifteen dollars per diem. A record five million Californians are heading
out of town for the Fourth of July. That is, if they can catch a flight that isn't delayed. That's a five percent jump from last year. While most are going to hit the road, the number of people flying is expected to be the highest in twenty years. Coming up at towards the top of the hour, the GOP nominees are gathering at the gate as they say the presidential nomination full field sixth like it's like the sixth race at Santa
and need it. We're gonna unpack the state of affairs for the Republican race with Jeffrey Skilly. He's an elections analyst at five thirty eight dot com. Right now on wake Up Call, we have ABC News correspondent Faith of Boo bay Is with his talk economics slash Politics slash Policy. Welcome in Faith, Thank you for joining us, so happy to join you, and thanks for having me. Yeah, so the White House is branding this as bidonomics. Let's just start there. Is this a rollout of policy or is this an
assessment of policy? Well, so the interesting thing is, you know, this is going to be a three week branding session. Really we don't expect any new major policy announcement, but the President will make the point that his plans are working, his policies are working, and it's full steam ahead. As some of the major infrastructure projects that he's gotten behind or underway across the
country. Well, the president has a big hurdle to overcome here. This administration has a disconnect between the accomplishments they're highlighting versus how people actually feel everyday. Americans feel that, you know, inflation is too high, their rent is too high, prices are too high, the cost of living is too high. But the President and the White House or touting how unemployment is really
low, the millions of jobs they've created since they've been in office. The major legislation that the President has been able to push Congress to pass, the bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Inflation Reduction Act, Chips and Science Act, and so they're going to basically use this Bidonomics as a messaging platform where they're going to talk about the economy and how they plan to invest in America through these
accomplishments that he's already had legislatively. And so we'll see whether any of that helps him moving forward. I know, we have to let you go in thirty seconds. Bidonomics sounds a lot like Reagonomics. Do you think that was on purpose? Well, they're saying that it's the opposite. Bidonomics is the opposite of Reaganomics. They are saying, you know, while Reagonomics was deep on a trickle down, the trickle down effect, they want this to be
middle out, bottom up. We've heard the President talk about this over and over again. They're calling this investing in a America. And so their philosophy is to grow the economy focusing on the middle class. They say, or economics was the opposite of focused on the wealthy. And so we'll see how if that actually helps them in terms of support from the American people. Faith, thank you very much for your time and for giving us some context.
Thank you. ABC News correspondent Faith Abooba joins us right there, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
NASA's JPL says it hopes to make your PDF more secure. Data scientist Tim Allison says he's part of a team that compiled more than eight million PDF files to help researchers and others try to find malicious code or other weaknesses embedded in those pdf gool has had a number of vulnerabilities or identified a number of vulnerabilities and font file parsers and others that lead to major problems with malware.
Now for those of us not up to speed with all the computer techie stuff, Allison says, the idea is to research as many files as possible to root out anything that could be used later to hack into computer systems, a sort of way to create a vaccine against certain type of cyberattacks. Sources the JPL gathered and the batch up data that we published will help the people building the software tools that read your files make better decisions and make them less vulnerable.
To Steve Gregory camf Ie News, a state lawmaker from Newport Beach, has called for an audit of state oversight licensing and treatment being provided at sober living homes. Assemblywoman Diane Dixon says bad actors are taking advantage of people seeking help. The state is really not, in my opinion, adequately monitoring and regulating the usage of these homes. Let's find out how we can make them more effective and get people well, that's the bottom line. Dixon says.
Groups are often buying homes in residential neighborhoods, advertising care they don't provide, and accepting patients all before getting a license. Plus, she says cities don't have the power to enforce state regulations. The most famous canal in the world is drying up. The Panama Canal Authority says record droughts have lowered the water level, forcing them to reduce the number of ships passing between the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans. Officials say droughts like the current one used to happen once every five years, but now it's every three years. Restrictions were supposed to begin last Sunday that would reduce the cargo a ship can carry by forty percent, but instead they reduced the number of ships passing through the canal each day from about thirty five to about thirty one. The forty percent cargo reduction is still supposed to eventually happen, and some ships are already doing it, but all
of this means shipping costs will be going up. Michael Krozer KFI News, an LA County fire captain has been awarded four hundred and fifty thousand dollars for facing retaliation after he called out a supervisor for illegal discrimination. Captain Michael Cash was removed from his position after he accused his supervisor of giving a pass to a female recruit who failed the academy over three males who also failed but were
not given a pass. Cash's attorney said yesterday that Cash will likely be awarded additional fees and costs that could bring the total to more than one million dollars. A woman who threw an explosive cocktail into a Bank of America branch in Torrents has been sentenced to prison. The woman pleaded guilty in March to possession of a firearm and destructive device. Torrens native Nancy Gray says even though the woman tried to burn down the bank, stuff like this usually doesn't happen in
the South Bay. Some crazy behavior to go off on to somebody that crazy regarding a little argument that they've had. The Department of Justice says in twenty twenty one, the woman threatened to blow up the bank because she was told to wait in line. She was sentenced to two years in federal prison yesterday. Chris Adler KFI News. Defense attorneys for the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students day they want the state to hand over materials from the
indictment. Brian Coburger's defense argued in court yesterday for access to cell phone data, analysts, claims about his car and the training schedules for police officers involved in the investigation. They see it could be important in their case. After prosecutors announced they will seek the death penalty against Coburger, and the judges expected to rule on that later today. We talked a little bit just a minute ago with Faith Faith a Boo Bay about bonomics. Some more business news and
economic news. The Federal Reserve is set to release the results of its annual bank stress tests later today. That follows the recent banking crisis triggered by Silicon Valley Bank. Despite the regional bank failures, experts anticipate the twenty three lenders being tested will show capital in excess of regulatory minimums. That's securing their buybacks and dividends as well. Also, trade wars work both ways, and to
fight over high tech computer chips between China and the US continues apace. The US is weighing new curbs on AI chip exports to China, marking the latest fight in the battle over silicon. Leasing of cloud services to Chinese AI companies may also be restricted, as well as other restraints on US investment in China. Now, this news is pushing chip stocks down on Wall Street, and
we're looking at a lower open this morning as well. Severe weather is disrupting air travel ahead of the fourth of July, coming on the heels of yesterday's issues. More than sixteen hundred flights have all already been delayed or canceled so far today. I'm sure we'll have more on this for the rest of this morning. Former President Trump claims he did nothing wrong discussing what prosecutors say were classified documents with his staff and others after he left office. This may come
up in just a moment as well. And Airbnb is giving guests the chance to stay in a real life Malibu Barbie dreamhouse. I heard that the studio bought all of the pink paint available for the Barbie movie. The company announced it will be giving away two one night's stays inside the Dreamhouse next month to celebrate the release of the movie, which personally I'm still kind of excited about. I think it's going to be a commentary on feminism in the modern age.
But we shall see fifty on your wake up call. And we have Jeffrey Skelly on the line. He's at five thirty eight dot com. He's a senior elections analyst and he unpacks polling data as his main hustle. Welcome in, Hey, thank you for having me. Absolutely Okay, So I want to I really want to jump to the imaginary debates stage that I have in my head for the GOP candidates. But let's start with the most recent one to join the race, and that's Will Heard. What is the HAPs
there? Yeah, so, so former Congressman Heard is from Texas. He represented a border district or you know along the US Mexico border. Um, he's a former CIA agent or a former formerly worked for the CIA on me, just be clear, and is African American, and I think he's trying.
He has a lot of you know, narrative selling points as a candidate, but he is positioned in himself certainly as a critic of former President Trump, and so he's joined sort of a group of either sort of outright Trump critics or sort of Trump skeptics that now there's about about five candidates who i'd say roughly fall into that group, including former Vice President Pennce maybe as a
Trump skeptic type. And you know, they're just they're fighting over arguably a minority as a Republican prime electorate, and it's sort of tough to see a path for them, but they are here. They are running, and I think for her, and it would be really great for him if he could get on at bait stage and and get just some more notoriety, because that's a big problem for him. As you know, very few people know who he is sure so far. Absolutely, But let me reintroduce you real quick.
We're speaking with Jeffrey Skelvey. He's senior elections analyst at five thirty eight dot com. Great turner phrase, you just use, Trump skeptic. How is that playing out for candidates? Are they Well, let's let's face it, Former president Trump is in the news a lot. Is it good polling
wise to mention him and be a skeptic? Well, I mean, you certainly will get coverage by being critical of Trump, because look, the Republican Party following Trump's presidency is certainly a party that would be described as pro Trump, whether that means the individual or sort of the policies or the the the approach, the sort of conservative populist approach, you know, however you wanted
to define that, I think it's clearly more pro Trump than not. So. So when you have people who are openly critical of Trump, or at least critical of him to some extent um, that does get attention. I think the problem for these candidates, though, is that Republican primary voters pretty
clearly want someone who is at least someone like Trump. I mean, there's a reason rod to Santis is in second in the low twenties in our national primary poll, and Trump's just slightly above fifties, so they roughly are getting three fourths the vote, and you have polls that show, um, you know, there was a CBS News You Go poll recently that I thought kind of spelled it out nicely, which was if Trump can't be, can't be
the Republican nominee asking of Republican primary voters, what would you like someone like, someone similar to Trump or someone not similar to Trump? And three fourths said similar. So I think that sort of spells it out and why it's going to be really difficult for this group making a case for some a different sort of Republican party to really break through. Okay, that's a fair point.
So if it's in politics, it seems like see the ball hit the ball, and the ball coming is the primary voter, and there's a lot of candidates that are trying to take a slice, as as the prep says, take a slice out of the pie when it comes to taking some of Trump's advantage. Um, you mentioned a few there, but I mean DeSantis comes up obviously, but Tim Scott comes up a little bit too. Um. So how are they positioning themselves or is it too early really to tell?
Well, I do think that that Senator Tim Scott is very interesting because he has high favorables, at least among the people who know him. At this point, he's still not that well known, and there is some early evidence that you know his position and say, polls in Iowa has been improving because people are beginning to get to know him. He's been spending his campaign, the surrogates have been spending a lot of time and money on Iowa.
So to me, Scott is someone who has largely avoided being critical of Trump, but is maybe trying to project a sort of a more happy warrior version of Republican politics, as in the sort of the Trump age. I could see his potential as a candidate, and so the numbers sort of back up
that maybe he has that that opportunity I see. Okay, So last question I guess would be this imaginary debate stage, are we expecting more candidates to jump into the race or is it kind of a hurry up and wait situation when it comes to the former president Trump headlines and indictments At this point, there aren't a lot of other names. I mean, I think one of the names that's been that's been floating out there is Virginia Governor Glenn Young Can.
I remain skeptical that he will actually run, but it does seem like his either him or people around him, if at least kept the door ajar for a late entry this year. Um if if the opportunity arose. And you know, I will say this. You look at Chris Christie, who is you know, running again here And there's an argument that Chris Christie, who was first elected as New Jersey governor two thousand and nine, shouldn't have
just taken his shot in the twenty twelve Republican presidential primary. Of course, no one knows the future, no one knows how things are going to pan out. But sometimes you're just you know, you're you're you're politically hot. People want to talk about you, they want you to be somebody. And if the primary field is such that, uh, there are there are some some donors and leaders and others who are looking around saying we need someone else.
You know, you can strike while the iron is hot. And you know, arguably Christie didn't do that before the twenty twelve primary, and then when he ran in twenty sixteen, it was sort of passed at that point. Yeah, no doubt. I mean, it does seems like a snoo as you lose situation with Chris Christie, although he does get a lot of coverage because he is so vocal about coming out against Trump, at least when he's on some of the television news networks as well. Thank you so much
for your time this morning. Mister Skelly always fascinated to speak with somebody at five thirty eight. Hey, thank you so much for having it was great, Jeffrey Skelly, their senior elections analyst at five thirty eight dot com if you want to look it up. All their polling is vetted and fun to follow. Honestly, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom before we get to the top of the hour and handle on the news. A stretch of beach in Venice has been set
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