You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles and Orange County, and your haste. Amy. Okay, it's five o'clock. This is your wake up call for Thursday, October fifth. I'm Amy King. Thanks for waking up with us this morning. You know that that intro was very apropos because the National League Division Series is set. The Dodgers will be playing
the Diamondbacks. Arizona swept Milwaukee, so the Dodgers and Diamondbacks go at it starting with Game one at Dodgers Stadium on Saturday. Can't wait for October Ball. Also, twenty six days to Halloween, We've got a Boop preview coming up on wake Up Call today. We're gonna be telling you about one of the really amazing, fun spooky things you can do leading up to the big day. And we've got a four pack of tickets for you too, so you can go check it out for yourself. That's coming up at about five
thirty five. Here's what's ahead on the wake Up Call. Official say a speeding driver likely caused a four vehicle crash on the four h five that killed Manhattan Beach Police Officer Chad Swanson. Swanson was thrown from his motorcycle early yesterday morning on the four h five. Officer Swanson survived the mass shooting at their
Route ninety one Harvest festival in Las Vegas back in twenty seventeen. With Kevin McCarthy out, Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise have both launched bids to replace him. Oklahoma's Kevin Hearn is also apparently in interested. The House is currently on recess. A speaker election is set to happen next Wednesday. Thousands of Kaiser workers will be on picket lines again today for the
second day of a three day strike in California and several other states. Official day progress has been made in negotiations. The workers want increased staffing, better working conditions, and more money. At six oh five, it's handle on the news. In a bit of an about face, the Biden administration is now saying the US needs to build some border wall. The DHS secretary says there is an acute need for border wall. Let's get started with some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A Manhattan Beach Police officer killed in a freeway crash in Carson is being remembered as a hero. Officer. Chad Swanson was injured during a mass shooting at a music festival in Vegas in twenty seventeen, where he helped save several people. Manhattan Beach Police Chief Rachel Johnson says Swanson was dedicated to serving. I last spoke with Chad on Sunday at the can Car Show, and I watched as he lifted
one kid after another kid onto his motorcycle. Swanson was riding that motorcycle on the four h five yesterday on his way to work when he crashed. CHP says it's still investigating the cause of the accident. Chris Adler kea Fine News. The funeral service for Senator Dianne Feinstein is being held at City Hall in San Francisco. It's no longer open to the public because of security concerns. Her office says. The service this afternoon is going to be limited to invited
guests. Vice President Harris and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are among those attending. President Biden has provided a recorded message for the service. Feinstein, who was the longest serving female Senator in American history, died last week at the age of ninety. A new report from UCLA shows the window for prescribed burns
throughout southern California continues to get smaller. The report's lead author says climate change has had an impact on the amount of time firefighters can safely conduct controlled burns, especially the entire West. There are deer at least thirty days per year, but there are a lot of places where you could potentially have as many
as seventy or eighty days in a given year. Doctor Daniel Swain's has prescribed burns remain one of the best and safest ways to eliminate dry brush when conditions are safe to do so, but as weather conditions get wetter or drier for longer periods of time, that reduces the time firefighters com mitigate the high risk conditions. Steve Goregori kaya Finos, the European Climate Agency, says twenty twenty
three is on track to be the hottest year on record. The agency says the average temperature last month was one point seven degrees above the average from nineteen ninety one. To twenty twenty. That's the warmest margin above average for a month in eighty three years of records kept by the European Space Agency's Copernicus Climate Change Service. President Biden's German Shepherd Commander is in the Oval doghouse. ABC's David Packer says the two year old shepherd has been sent away because of at
least eleven biting incidents, one which required a hospital visit. The First Ladies communications director Elizabeth Alexander saying that the Bidens remain grateful for the patients and support of the US Secret Service, but didn't say where commander was being sent. He says the Biden's first German Shepherd major also seemed to have a taste for Secret Service workers. He was sent back to Delaware time to say good morning
to ABC White House correspondent Karen Travers. Karen, President Biden's basically calling on Congress to learn to play in the sandbox together. Yeah, and you know this is all related to the Ukraine funding request that the administration has been pushing for now for many weeks. The President yesterday urged House Republicans to move quickly to reorganize, as he put it, and elected News speaker, saying,
of course, the government's only funded until November seventeenth. The President said we cannot and should not again be faced within eleventh hour decision brinksmanship that threatens to shut down the government. He also gave a familiar plea for a return to kind of the good old days in his view, saying that the poisonous atmosphere
in Washington needs to change. He said, you have strong disagreements. He's not wrong, it's certainly not, but you know, he said, we have strong disagreements, but we need to stop seeing each other as enemies. We needed to talk to one another, listen to one another, and work with one another. Notably, he was asked about his lack of listening or talking to Kevin McCarthy, because McCarthy had indicated the other day that the two
had not spoken directly in a long time. The President defended his communications to the former speaker, saying, you know, if Kevin McCarthy wanted to talk to me, I was available that I'm available to whoever wants to talk, including the next speaker, whoever that ends up being. I think that's sort of a I mean, my personal thought on that is sort of a cop out. I mean, he's the president. If he wants to talk to
somebody, he can call him, you know. Yeah, I mean a lot of this, you know, for the president on the debt ceiling, we saw that in the spring. There was a waiting and waiting and then they finally started talking and that got resolved on this on the spending issue. The White House take on this was that Kevin McCarthy had walked back from the deal that he made with the President back in June, that he had completely ignored what the President said, you know, we agreed to and we shook
on. So if he wants to talk, we need to get back to what we agreed on just a couple months ago. And that ultimately this was up to House Republicans to sort out because the conflict, the sticking points were among House Republicans, not broadly Congress. Yeah, and McCarthy, I mean, he may have walked back the deal, but he was overall in support of funding for Ukraine. So yeah, and that's a separate Yeah. Well, but the thing is he hasn't put he didn't put it forward, and
that's what the White House has been frustrated by. You know, it wasn't included in the short term agreement to keep the government operating that they passed just the other day, and that he had not in any way put it forward just as a standalone measure. Now, what's going to end up happening is, you know, McCarthy has, at least for the White House purposes,
had signaled publicly he was interested in moving forward on assistance for Ukraine. The next people who could be coming in as speaker who have thrown their hats in the ring are far more hardline on this, Jim Jordan or Steve Scalise, And then it makes it even more murky as to what could happen with that funding request from the President. That's kind of the big question over the next
couple of days. Yeah, it's going to be interesting to watch because I think overall support for Ukraine there, Like you said, there's a few hardline people who are kind of against it, but overall in Congress there is pretty
strong support for funding Ukraine. Yes, if you were to take a piece of legislation that just had the funding for Ukraine put it on the floor, the expectation from the public comments we see is it would pass with just bipartisan support in the Senate, and would also pass with that in the House. But it's got to get to the floor, and of course it's the House speaker that controls what gets to the floor in the House. Yeah, and I would agree with him on the whole thing. Can't we just all get
along? As Rodney King said person excellently, But it's Washington, I know, right. Thank you so much, Karen Travers, appreciate your time this morning. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A lawsuit challenging La County's new zero bail policy has been moved to Orange County. Multiple cities joined Whittier on Friday and filing for an injunction on the policy, which allows nonviolent or non serious offenders to be
cited and released. Zero bail policy took effect on Sunday, and La City Council committee has approved a moratorium on breeding permits to help curve overcrowding at the city's animal shelters. The full city Council will consider the request later. The moratorium would be lifted when shelter capacity drops below seventy five percent, and then
could automatically be reinstated if shelter capacity rises back above seventy five percent. A bill adding paid sick days for workers in California has been signed into law by Governor Newsom. The bill grants a minimum of five guarantee he'd paid sick days. It used to be three. The new law comes a decade after California passed its original paid sick leave law. New stats show a jail snitch scandal in Orange County has caused dropped charges, overturned convictions, and reduced sentences in
fifty seven felony cases. There were a myriad of reasons as to why these cases were affected, but it went on for years and years. OHSI Assistant Public Defender Scott Sanders says thirty five homicide cases and twenty two felony cases were weakened because, he says, allegedly, the previous Orange County DA administration illegally used snitches without a lawyer present, and then that info was hidden from defense lawyers. So in all of these murder cases, the person was looking at
a life sentence in prison. In sixteen of those murder cases, the defendant ended up serving twelve years or less. In Orange County Corbin Carson KFI News. Funeral services are being held at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels for an Lakenny Sheriff's deputy murdered in Palmdale. The ceremony this morning for Ryan Clinton Brumer will be live streamed. Burial after the mass is going to be private. Clinton Brumer was shot last month while in his patrol car at a
traffic light near the Palmdale sheriff station. He had gotten engaged only four days before he was killed. A man in Philadelphia who allegedly shot three police officers responding to a domestic violence call has been killed. Interim Police Commissioner John Stanford says there was an argument yesterday between a child, his uncle, and his father, who shot the uncle. When officers arrived, he begins to immediately fire upon our officers. Three deputies and the uncle were taken to the hospital.
Stanford says the disagreement in the family was over the video game the man's son was playing. Robots will soon start helping surgeons at City of Hope, Orange County, with a breast cancer clinical trial. Medical director doctor Jennifer Saying says the robotic nipple sparring masectomy only uses a one inch incision instead of a five inch incision. This is wonderful from a cosmetic standpoint. Furthermore, we're
using instrumentation that allows tenfold three D magnification in the operating room. Saying says that'll provide for better outcomes. Of the two hundred people accepted into the clinical trial, fifty will be treated at City of Hope oc SO. In spite of the strikes, the studios are still pushing out new shows, and I am excited about this one, mainly because one of my best friends, Amy, has been trying to get me to read this thing for quite a while,
and I don't read books that often. I read them every once in a while, but not as much as she does. So Netflix has released the trailer for its upcoming World War II limited series called All the Light We Cannot See. So. It's about a blind teenager who escapes from German occupied Paris with her dad and then they try to find shelter with her uncle, who works for the French Revolution and records secret radio broadcasts. It stars are
mari Emia Loberti, Mark Ruffalo, and Hugh Laurie. All the Light We cannot see hits Netflix on November tewod so looking forward to that. Also looking forward to the next Powerball drawing. There was no winter last night. That one point two million dollar or billion dollar jackpot rather is not only up for grabs, it's up again. So the next drawing is on Saturday. That's
going to be one one point four one point four billion dollars. The parents of two teens shot and killed by another student at Saugust High School in twenty nineteen have filed court papers demanding fifty million dollars from the william S. Hart Union High School District. The district says it is not at fault for the shooting because it was an unforseeable terrorist Act. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorcis has
called for construction of a border wall in parts of Texas. Mayorcis cited what he called an acute and immediate need to waive federal laws to build the border wall in parts of tech Is, where I legal migration has been surging. The Arizona Diamondbacks have swept their wildcard series against Milwaukee that sets up a best of five National Division series against the Dodgers. The series starts at Dodgers Stadium Saturday night with Clayton Kershaw on the mound at six oh five. It's handled
on the news. You're gonna want to stick around for this. Nancy Pelosi got kicked out of her office space that Kevin McCarthy had given her, but then you know he lost the speakership and apparently he wants that office for himself. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Inez de la Quetera. So Inez, this is a creepy crawley ikey, itchy thing. Paris has a bedbug
problem, that's right. Yeah, So this all really started with lovely social media videos, online seats on trains and metros, movie theaters, mostly in Paris, but in other parts of France as well. There were two schools in Marseille, one in Dulence of both in the South that beca I'm infected as bedbugs and then actually had to be closed down for several days to be cleaned out. You also had the deputy mayor of Paris saying that no one
is safe and that there is a wide spread rise in bedbugs. No wants safe, because of course that's prompted concerns. But then you had government officials later coming out to try and calm the public, you know, reassure people that everything was under control. The French health minister, for instance, saying there is no reason for widespread panics, that we haven't been invaded by bedbugs.
And yesterday we heard from the Transportation minister. He met with several transportation outlets and he also existed there is no outbreak of bedbugs in public transport. Okay, but people are showing on social media because you hear you think bedbugs and you think beds, but they're seeing it's in train stations and movie Oh my god. Can you imagine going to a movie and coming out with bedbugs? That's right? Yeah, I mean there's there's definitely a level of paranoia.
I you know, I haven't personally seen any bedbugs, thankfully, but I will say I know a number of people who are refusing to sit now in public transportation, and they're choosing instead to stay out no matter how long their journeys, out of fear that there could be bed bugs in their seats. So you can see on trains where people are going, oh sir, would you like my seat? No? No, Instead of it being a nice gesture, are you in you're in Paris right now, I am.
Yes, I'm sure tough assignment in this, okay, So what is what? What are they planning to do about it? It may be, like you said, if it's not an outbreak, it may just be that it is on social media and they're catching it. But that also makes it look bad. So what are they going to do? Yeah, I'm gonna say it was a very glamorous assignment up until this bed bugs issue. But you know, as far as what they're doing, they certainly are. So they're
trying. They're really coming out in full forth, trying to reassure the public that everything is under control, especially because of the upcoming summer Olympics. It will be held next summer in Paris, so that's going to bring in tons of people from everywhere. So they are announcing new measures to crack down on bedbugs, even as theyre insisting there is no reason for widespread panic. The Transport Minister yesterday said that they would be using sniffer dogs now on the Metros
on trains to sniff out these bugs. And we also know the various officials from different ministries are going to be meeting on Friday to also kind of give the French public answers. That's what they keep saying that they're going to give
the public answers regarding this issue. So we'll see if they announced any kind of new measures, then I think it's widely expected that they will well, and they could run into some issues too, because if they find the bed bugs and they have to fumigate, because I worked at an office a few years ago that somehow or another some bed bugs got there and they bring in some deadly stuff to wipe them out because they're not just easily killed. Oh did we lose in as I goes, I dropped that for a second.
That's what happens when we're intercontinental, we go yeah, so, but like so fumigating the trains and stuff that knocks the trains out of service for like a day or so, so that could cause some problems, that's right, Yeah, absolutely, And so that's why I think there's this kind of frenzy to try and deal with this now, you know, ahead of the Olympics, because there's going to be so many people, They are expecting so many
people to come in. They want people to come in. They don't want to have this image of being a city crawling with I mean quite literally crawling with bed bugs when you look at these videos, that could turn people away from coming in the first place. So they want to show that they have it under control. And then yeah, they want to avoid situations like that where metros need to be fumigated or you know, they have to to stop
using certain trains because they are bed bug issues. So there's I think in the coming weeks we'll see a push to really crack down on this issue. I will say it's also turning political interestingly, so we saw earlier this week the issue made its way to the floor of the National Assembly. So even though this is typically an issue that's dealt with at the local level, right we are seeing members of the federal government talking about at this meeting on Friday
will be at the federal level. And we did see one maker on the floor of the National Assembly grilling the Prime Minister earlier this week and planning years of inactions on bed bugs. She talked about how millions of people were now dealing with investations, how they were leaving sleepover bed bugs and growing paranoid and become socially isolated, and she even brought a flat filled with bed bugs with
her of the French National sofully brad and drama. So it's it's it's certainly a hot topic right now and which is totally getting I think the second is getting so much attention means that they're going to have to find a way to resolve it. Yep, they got a little over a year and a half to do it. No, nine months to do it. Okay, that's great. Yeah, and I'm supposed to ask you the question, what does a bedbug smell like? I didn't know they smelled. I yeah, I
have no idea, but I guess they must have spent the dogs. These sniffer dogs will be picking up on. Dogs are really good at sniffing, you know, various this is out and so these are dogs that have been specifically trained to pick up their dogs are the best. And as thank you so much. I hope that you avoid any encounters with bed bugs. And thank you. That's so much. All right, thank you so much. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. Three head writers on the Drew Barrymore Show have quit. Barrymore announced during the writer's strike that the show was going to resume without writers, then she reversed her decision a week later because of the backlash. The show is set to return October sixteenth. Sag After and the AMPTP have wrapped up another day of talks over a new three year contract. They met on Monday and then again yesterday. Negotiations are set to continue tomorrow and then again next
week. Today marks the eighty fifth day since striking actors hit the picket lines and La County spokesman arrested on child pornography charges. Once ran for public office, Stephen Fraser ran for Redland City Council in twenty twenty LinkedIn shows he worked as a spokesman for Riverside and the Glendale School District in the past. Police raided Fraser's home in Redlands earlier this week, where they say they found child
porn on different electronic devices. Detectives from the Sam Bernardino Police Department say they were tipped off that Fraser was downloading child porn. Police posted video of the raid online. The video ends with Fraser being loaded into a police car. Blake Trolli kaf I news Hey Disneyland's offering discounted tickets for its youngest park goers. Guests will be able to buy kids tickets for as low as fifty bucks a day, and can choose between one, two or three day park park
ticket options. The limited time tickets will go on sale Mark your calendar's October twenty fourth. Sales at Disneyland don't happen a lot. With Kevin McCarthy out, Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan and House Majority Leader Steve Scleice have both launched bids to replace him. Oklahoma's Kevin Hearn is apparently interested too. The House is currently on recess. A speaker election is set for next Wednesday. Thousands of Kaiser workers will be on picket lines again today for the second of a three
day strike in California and several other states. The workers want increase staffing, better working conditions, and more money. Negotiators say they are making progress. The President's dog has been kicked out of the White House. Two year old Commander has bitten eleven Secret Service agents, including a bite last week. No word yet on where Commander is going to be living next. At six oh five, it's handle on the news. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorcis says there's an
acute, immediate need to build a wall on the US Mexico border. At five point fifty, we're going to be talking with ABC's Stephen Portnoy about who is throwing their hats into the ring now that McCarthy is out a speaker. But right now, nothing here is Nope. Right now, that's better. Here's what we're doing. There's so much going on for Halloween leading up to Halloween around southern California that we thought we'd venture out and check some of them
out for you. It's called our Boo Preview. This week, we ventured out to the Natural History Museum to check out Boney Island. We caught up with the museum's event manager, Laura Robinson and the creator of Boney Island, three time Emmy winning producer of The Simpsons, it's Rick Polizzi. We decided not to go scary this week. It's just good spooky Halloween fun. So Rick walk us through what we're going to see at Boney Island. Nothing here is scary and gory, but it's got a lot of humor, a lot
of subversive humor. Adults are going to get jokes that kids won't. Kids are going to get jokes that adults really aren't going to know. And I rely on my daughters to help me with some of that humor as well. And it's just it's fun. It's the spirit of Halloween. It's an old time Halloween feeling where families are around, but we get more adults than kids because you feel like you're at a a real theme park. Everything's moving,
everything's talking to you. There's jokes all around. Okay, cool, and we're here during the day, but this place lights up and goes to town at night. So as you wander through, there's skeletons everywhere. Right, We have a magic theme, and so we'll have stages around where skeletons are magicians. They're trying to do tricks. A lot of them are messing up so and their assistants pay the price for that. But it's all funny things.
So they'll be commenting on how they're messing up the magic as well. Tell me how did Bonney Island get started, because this is the first year at the Natural History Museum, but you've been around for a while. Yeah, we started at my house when my daughter was young. She wanted to go to a haunted house. Yep, I told her she wasn't going to like it because she's scared. She doesn't like scary movies, and with your daughter ident the right of passage, she wanted to go. She was about
six. She invited a couple of friends. We went to a daytime lights on thing because I said, we'll try it, because I knew she wasn't gonna like it. And as soon as we walked in, they all started screaming, pulling on me, and I knew they wanted to get out. So I said, all right, we'll run through this and then we'll go home and we'll try to create our own display that's fun and and everybody can get involved with. So it was at my house for twenty years. It
was a gigantic meeting place. Families would come by, everybody, people from movies and TV that you would see all the time were always there every year. And then it got too big. Our last year at my house we had about fifty thousand people over ten days. Oh my goodness. Yeah. So the house we got shut down by the city and we moved to Griffith Park and then that was yeah. And then COVID came along, you know, and messed all that up. So we are now at the Museum of
Natural History. Laurel invited us over. She had been to my house many times, and everybody just seems to take to the spirited atmosphere absolutely. Now, Laurel, we are going to walk around just a little bit. Sure this is all an outside, that's right. Yeah. It's taking place in our three and a half acre nature gardens, which is a really fun way to activate the gardens in a new way. I know, because the gardens are so beautiful anyway, they really are, and I think at night it
really transforms to this wonderland that Reck and his team have created. So we're really excited about how this program will be both new for our museum visitors and members, but also a new space for the loyal fans of Bonnie Island to
come to the museum that might not have been here before. Cool and when you come out at night, About how long does it take to go through the If you're going to wander around the whole exhibit, you can expect an hour to an hour and a half to see, you know, everything, and you'll be going longer than that because there's tons of stuff you're gonna miss. We have little things hidden. We have skeletal hummingbirds, a skeleton butterflies
floating around and they're moving and flitting their wings. So you're always going to see a lot of stuff on your second past. Okay. And right behind us, here's something that you might miss the first go around. That's a squirrel in a tree. But it's gonna be animated. Fine. The vines are all going up and down. There's cats chasing the squirrels in the trees. Love. It's fun. So you're gonna hear jokes. Yeah, I want to stress that we get more adults than kids. Okay, so it's
not just for kids. You're gonna hear a lot of humor throughout the whole the whole display. Laurel, when can we come to Boney Island? So, Boney Island is open Thursdays through Sundays through Halloween six pm until ten pm. Okay, and we're just we're really thrilled and we think it's going to be a huge hit. Okay, great, can't wait to see it at night. And also where do we get tickets? You can get tickets at NHM dot org. Okay, slash Phony Island. That's Natural History Museum,
all right, Laurel and Rick. Thank you so much. I can't wait to see you. It's all darken, so you hear when it's all going a little bit spooky. Oh yeah, it's a little bit spooky, but always fun. That's Boney Island at the Natural History Museum. Tickets are available and information at NHM dot org. You don't even have to do the backsplash because they've got Bony Island up on the homepage. And I will tell you
it's really cool. And like he was saying, he does it. It's not spook, it's not scary, it's not bloody and that kind of stuff. It's just really cool and so inventive. I mean, he's he's a producer of The Simpsons. This guy's got it going on in the creative department. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Three people in Azusab been killed in a crash that involved
two motorcycles and several cars. Please say the motorcycles were speeding on Errow Highway yesterday afternoon when they collided with cars at an intersection. One of the motorcycles flew and killed a pedestrian. Both riders were also killed. A man who allegedly spray painted swastikas on thirteen cars parked on streets across La has been arrested. Officials say people discovered their cars vandalized on Saturday morning. The man was
taken into custody on Tuesday. The company that made parts for a ghost gun used to shoot to La County Sheriff's deputies, as settled a lawsuit filed by the deputies. The deputy say a background check was never done on Deontay Murray, the man who was convicted last month of shooting the deputies in twenty twenty. Claudia A pullinar on Emmanuel Pettes. Petes says they were shot with an unserialized Palmer eighty firearm and was originally bought as a kit in California from either
Palmer eighty or one of its third party distributors. Palmer eighty says Murray did not specifically seek out their parts and the company has been mischaracterized in the lawsuit. Murray obtained the parts for the gun while on parole and legally not allowed to possess a firearm. He's facing a life sentence in prison. Steve Gregory King of Fine News. Norwegian author Jan Fassi has been awarded the Nobel Prize Literature. The Swedish Academy says Fanse was chosen for, as they put it,
his innovative plays and pros which give voice to the unsayable. Of course, the big one. The Nobel Peace Prize, will be awarded tomorrow. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro majorcis Is called for construction of a border wall in parts of Texas. Mayorka cited what he called an acute and immediate need to waive federal laws to build the wall in parts of Texas where legal migration has been
surging. The parents of two teens shot and killed by another student at Saugus High School in twenty nineteen have filed court papers demanding fifty million dollars from the william S. Hart Union High School District. The district says it is not at fault for the shooting because it was an unforseeable terrorist act. The Arizona Diamondbacks have swept their wild Card series against Milwaukee. What does that mean? It means the Diamondbacks will be taking on the LA Dodgers in the best of
five National League Division Series. It starts Saturday night at Dodger Stadium with Clayton Kershaw on the map. We're just minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning, La County is looking at a plan to buy up your medical debt and then forgive it. Bill. I'll tell you more about that right now. Let's say good morning to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. With Kevin McCarthy out, Stephen, lawmakers are throwing their hats in the ring to replace him.
Who's in so far? Hey, good morning Amy. Two boldface names Jim Jordan, the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee YEP, founding member of the Freedom Caucus, someone well known to viewers of Fox News, a friend of the former President Donald Trump. The other name boldfaced is Steve Scalise, currently
the senior member of the House Republican Conference, the majority leader. Someone who has been in the leadership for quite some time, and it would be natural for the Majority leader to step forward and want to be the next Speaker of the House. There are other names that could emerge. One that's been talked about is Kevin Hearn, the head of something called the Republican Study Committee, which is a sort of a sort of a think tank or a thought laboratory
for Republicans and perhaps others. But for the moment, the race is a two man race between Scalise and Jordan, and typically these sort of jockeying over a Republican leadership happens behind closed doors and is not often talked about publicly. But there's a white hot spotlight on it now in the aftermath of this week's
successful coup toppling Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House. Now it's been said that there is a whisper campaign going on around town that McCarthy is urging, through his aids, people to vote for Jordan and not Scalise, who was, in theory his lieutenant as the majority leader. There has been reported to be some tension, a rivalry between McCarthy and Scalise dating back several years, and that's one emblem of the tension that continues to linger in the House Republican
conference. Okay, so then when you're looking at who might be a viable person to take over the speakership, like the one guy we hadn't hurt his name before this week, Does somebody who doesn't have a big national profile,
do they even have a shot at it is. That why we're saying it's pretty much between Scalice and Jordan. I think it's less likely that someone who's not well known to the country is going to become the next Speaker of the House, but then again, that's how someone becomes known to the country. I think ultimately it's a choice for Republicans to make based on how the individual who makes that the argument that they can thread the needle can bring people together.
It's not just about the person, mind you, It's also about the policy and procedure. What was the trouble for Kevin McCarthy not that people didn't like him well to hear it from him, He said it was personal between him and Gates, but Gates would insist it was about policy and process.
So the difficulty for any one of these individuals who hopes to not just win the support of the conference but also win a majority on the floor, preferably on the first ballot, is that they have to convince both the far right and the moderates looking conference that they will be there for them, and the moderates are going to want a rules change that would prevent the insurgents from doing what they successfully did this time. That's what he's just going to ask you
about. Are they going to keep that? One person can can to vacate? Right, it's an open question, and it does he still wants it exactly and why wouldn't he, right, why would he give it up? And so look for the remainder of the one hundred eighteenth Congress, which runs for another year and change a year and four months almost this is going to be a real challenge for whoever becomes the Speaker of the House to have to
worry about the potential that an insurgent could could move to oust him. And there really is no power that the Speaker has unless he can work across the aisle and convince Democrats to change the rules along with him and majority of the Republican Conference. And we'll see if that happens, because I'll tell you there's
a school of thought here. The Democrats are really enjoying watching this show, and yet they may be sorry what they wished for, because it'll be very difficult for Democrats to achieve the kind of bipartisanship that they have so far in this Congress, getting a debt deal done, getting the cr passed that staves off a government shutdown through November seventeenth with a Republican speaker who's further to the
right than a guy like Kevin McCarthy. Right, I was going to say, And McCarthy was somebody who actually worked with them, and everybody voted against him. So yeah, and by the way, begrudgingly and yet said things that so angered and enabled the far right to a point where it's so angered Democrats that they were willing to vote with the eight Republican insurgents to oust McCarthy.
So where things go and House of Representation in terms of the proper order and function of it, I don't know, Okay, So just real quick. So we've got the main two right now. Is it likely that they will be running against each other when they put it up for a vote, or is it more likely that one of them will kind of seed and then we'll just put one person up for a vote. This is a race for
the Republican Conference nomination, and ultimately the conference will make a choice. I think it'd be very unlikely for the contenders to continue to take that fight beyond the conference onto the floor. But the bigger question is where do the holdouts and who do the holdout support and how long will it take to elect another speaker? Yeah? Okay, well, next up is they're going to start fighting it out on Tuesday, and then they're supposed to be starting a vote
for speaker on Wednesday. Right. If they feel they can achieve it, they will probably move to a vote on Wednesday. So one caveat stall. That's stuff, right, That's exactly right. And the bottom line is they need to count two hundred eighteen votes if they don't get to too eighteen and they might not hold the vote right away. Okay, we'll be watching it and we'll be talking to you because you're the guy in the no. Thank you so much, Stephen Portner. I appreciate your insight and information. You
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