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American Sunrise EARLY edition on Real America's Voice starts now. All right. Good morning. We are live from Heatburn, Kentucky once again as we covering the day after Trump's big visit here in Northern Kentucky. And we'll have a little bit more of that later in the show. But here's how you can start your day with this. Take a look at the bottom of your screen right now. That is a QR code. You can scan it. And that's your ticket to joining the Weather Nation family. And you can scan it and get connected and even have your hometown forecast could be next. So head over to the real America's voice chats on Getter, YouTube and Rumble. And during the 9am hour, if you're selected, we'll have your home town forecast live. So be a part of the fun, jump in and be a part of us. And on Weather Nation. And joining us for today's forecast is weather owns Weather Nation's own Tracy Anthony. Tracy, we were talking offline, a lot of activity across the region here in Northern Kentucky yesterday. I think all eyes, if they weren't on the stage for President Trump, they were on in the skies looking for storms.
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Yeah, definitely. We had a very active afternoon and evening and we're still tracking the southern end of this system and it's still causing some problems here throughout the morning hours. Areas of Georgia dealing with this line of storms that's rolling on through now. This line is almost entirely severe warned. And we do have a handful of tornado warnings associated with this line. And oftentimes what we get when these storms are a little more organized are these quick spikes. And that's exactly what we're seeing. You can see some of those red polygons. I can zoom in a little bit more, try to get you a few more cities on the map here where those warnings are. So we've got a radar confirmed tornado south of Albany. We have an observed one as well, which oftentimes in these lines can be very difficult to see. But moving through Warner Robins and Macon, Georgia right now. So that's where we're going to have a lot of the activity for the start of the day. But across the country, we've got a few other big weather headlines. We're talking about blizzard conditions out across the Northwest. So blizzard warnings in place. We even have some blizzard warnings for the arrowhead of Minnesota. So winter weather across the northern tier of the nation. And we're talking fire danger across the Central Plains as winds are going to get rather gusty. So daytime highs still staying very mild for most of us. And we're really going to be focusing on the Southwest as those temperatures get into the 90s. And some of us will be flirting with daytime highs back in the triple digits, some triple digits for the first time this year. And we're still going to be tracking that severe weather threat into the second half of the day across the Southeast. So lots of springtime weather, Brian, from coast to coast with the winter weather, the severe, the heat. We've just kind of got a grab bag of everything
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you do. And I was even looking at the forecast here in the tri State area and we've got some cold temperatures as I step out after the show to take a flight back. It's pretty chilly outside, which yesterday we had very kind of muggy conditions. But the temperature is definitely gone the other way. Yes, it's called a cold front. Tracy, you're always the best, delivering all the news in the weather that we need. Thank you so much. We'll see you back in the in the American sunrise for one of our lucky hometown forecasts. Who knows, it might be in one of these severe storm areas. Who knows? Or it might be somewhere nice along A1A as well. Right?
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Might be a. Yeah, I love when I can tie the weather story to it.
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There you go. All right, thank you. All right, let's turn our attention to our top story. Iran is laying out its terms to end the war with the US And Israel. Iranian President Mossad Benjamin is positioned, poised. Posted I'm sorry posted on X saying quote, any deal must include three things, recognition of Iran's legitimate rights, compensation for war and damage and guarantees against future attacks. In other words, Iran wants payments and promises all as US And Israeli forces continue strikes overnight. Joining us now, former assistant secretary of state and main gubernatorial candidate Bobby Charles. Bobby, good morning. Thanks for joining us. What do you mean, think of these terms that the new leader is laying out, which by the way, I know I completely butchered his last name, by the way. I've got to brush up on all these Iranian hierarchy names there.
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The bottom line is it's, I mean, let's be honest, Brian, it's dead on arrival. The, the Iranians have no ground on which to dictate terms to the United States after having essentially tried to get a nuclear weapon and tested a hypersonic missile and putting long range missiles, trying to get a long range missile that the United States. President Trump did what he has to do, he has to wrap it up here. I think the only other two things I would say are, you know, Iran's missile inventory is not without end. And so at a certain point they're going to run out of missiles and have no resupply. And I think that the allies, and in particular, obviously the United States, Israel and those who've been working with us to try to make sure that the Strait of Hormuz stays open, need to focus on that. And I think they're doing that. So I have no criticism. The other thing I'll just note is as much as the world depends on oil, and we have many sources of oil both in this hemisphere and elsewhere, one of the remarkable things about this, I think an unintended consequence is that people can realize that this drill baby drill idea, which was, you know, people were either for or against it early on. America being self reliant in energy is an extraordinarily important thing, just like bringing home our national security supply chain. And that is what Donald Trump has been doing. So, you know, you can say what you will about, you know, I'm not a big, I'm not a big fan of intervention, but you know, this was an intervention that had to happen in order to protect the United States. And here we turn around and look at our own supply of energy and we realize, gosh, maybe it is better to have energy come from home instead of being dependent on folks abroad that have rather significant quarrels with us.
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I 100% agree with you, what you just said. You know, I used to be where we were so dependent on the ministry, Middle east and all the oil production, but we have a ton here. We have a lot of reserves. So now Eric Bolling was on yesterday and we talked about the reason why oil kind of spiked overnight and kind of a justification on that. He did say it's going to take three to four weeks to unwind and get it back down. But certainly the drill baby drill is the right strategy for our own energy independence. Let's shift gears real quickly. Bobby, your gubernatorial race, something phenomenal is happening in your state that has not happened. Now, I'm not a main expert on politics there, but it has not happened in decades. Let's talk a little bit about the lead that a Republican candidate has, as in yourself there in the great state of Maine.
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You know, Brian, it makes me marvel every day because sometimes if you just speak to common sense and common concerns and you offer up straightforward solutions, people, people say, you know what, that's what I've been waiting for. And we go to places where other governors or real, you know, when they were serving turned out 80 or 90 people and we're turning out 120, 130 people. Why? Because this state is in real distress. I say it's in real peril. But the other part of this, that's really phenomenal, I'll call it a 4 by 4 by 4 is that we've had four polls in the last six months that put me up by double digits. One of them, the internal poll, which is probably the deepest methodology, has us up 20 points on the field. That has not happened, as you said, in decades, maybe back to the 1960s. The second four, I'll give you, is that we just finished collecting signatures for ballots. And because one of the contestants on the other side, one of the candidates on the other side as actually our Secretary of state, who is the one that tried to throw Trump off the ballot, has admitted there are illegal aliens on the rolls, but refuses to produce those roles for the Department of Justice. We needed to double up and make sure. So in a very short period of time, with no paid people doing it all with volunteers in all 16 counties, 300 or 400 towns, we ended up with, with literally 4000 signatures, where we only needed 2000 signatures. So we had 2000 backup that allowed us to be sure we were on the ballot. That has not happened in recent memory. And then the third thing is this is a, we are, this is really a grassroots movement, Brian. In all 16 counties, south to north, north to south, we have almost 4,000 Mainers who contributing, who are contributing their small dollar donations to this campaign. And by the way, anybody that wants to see a conservative actually preserve Maine, lower taxes, lower crime, and get rid of all the woke in our schools, get rid of all this Medicaid corruption here, as a former investigator, you can just go to bobby for maine.com but I will tell you right now, we are doing things no one has done in decades. And I think the result of that, in combination with people feeling just so frustrated, is really producing these incredible results.
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Yeah. Remind us again on the dates on everything in your state for people who are watching and perhaps have family members in Maine that they want to, you know, pick up the phone and say, hey, make sure you make sure you show up on the right day. So let's go over some of the timing of all this.
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Absolutely. So our primary on the Republican side is June 9, and our competitors on the other side are really flat on their backs. They're all very similar to the current governor with whom Donald Trump has had a really significant crossing of swords, Governor Mills. And then our election, of course, is in November this year. So at the end of the day, we just have to be constantly focused on getting back government. And I would say that across the entire midterm cycle, this is a moment in which Americans are making yet another significant choice. And Ronald Reagan gave a famous speech called Time to Choose. So in the state of Maine, this is a time to choose. Across the country, I think this is going to be a time to choose. We either believe that the policies that make our government accountable, that give us prosperity, freedom, smaller government, lower taxes, and a strong security at home, whether that's security on the streets of Maine or security nationally, closed borders. We either, and we're a border state, we either believe that stuff matters, getting illegal aliens out of here or we don't. And in Maine, what you're hearing is that a majority, and I hear from Democrats and independents actually all seem to think that matters. And I think it matters.
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Yep. All right. It does matter. Bobby, thank you so much for joining us on this Thursday morning. Thank you so much. We'll look forward to seeing you again.
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Well, we're already seeing it. Now it's flowing into prices that are up. As you mentioned, we've seen oil up about 45% over the last month. If you think about what they're doing with the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, we should remember that this was established A generation ago as an emergency supply for true supply risks. We saw in the Biden administration an announcement in 22 ahead of the midterms. They were going to tap the SPR in order to bring prices down, really as a political move to try to control prices. No emergency at the time. And they basically announced of the 700 million barrel capacity, that they were going to take down about 300 million barrels, which they did. And at the start of the war, we ended up with the spr at about 55% capacity, around 415 million barrels. The announcement yesterday by the IEA, 32 countries saying they would collectively draw 400 million barrels. Well, 172 million of that comes from the U.S. the biggest member in that. In that. In that group. What does that mean? It means that the spr, already at just over half capacity, is going to be reduced even further. It will take about 120 days to do that, to actually bring benefit to prices at the pump. But at the same time, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said, well, we're going to replenish it. So you're either draining it or you're replenishing it. But both things can't be true at the same time. Both take time, both to reduce the supply. There's a flow issue and also a timeline to replenish it. So this is, I would say, more. More symbolic than actual meaning in terms of impact on prices at the pump. And I would argue it's dangerous because we do have our own domestic supply. We don't have a true supply emergency today. This is about prices, and this is about the upcoming midterm elections.
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Okay, we've got about 45 seconds real quickly, but won't it cost us more to replace that oil back in the reserves? Now that oil is $92 a barrel. Is it going to cost us more ultimately to put that back in reserves?
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What Secretary Wright and others are depending on here is that by releasing the reserves, it'll normalize prices. If the war is over, that'll normalize prices at the Strait of Hormuz is open. That'll normalize prices. And then we can refill it at lower prices in the future. Who knows whether that's actually going to be true or not? But you raise a good point. Not only can you drain and fill at the same time, but to drain today and then find out that prices are higher tomorrow, we've accomplished very little.
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Michael, website for people to get the most information about this subject and a lot more. What is that? Website for you.
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I'm on stormwall.com. you can also see me on X@MW underscore Stormwall.
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Michael, as always, thank you. Appreciate it.
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Thanks very much, Frank.
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Welcome back to American Sunrise. That is a live shot at Marco island, and rumor has it that's where the entire real America's voice production team is punching this show from a very luxurious beach cottage there on Marco Island. So I'm sure they're having an amazing time right now. Welcome back. I am Brian Glenn. Very busy morning as always. We're here. We're live. We're following the latest developments that's happening around the world. You can join US on Getter YouTube and Rumble and enjoy and interact with US weather. As the Iran war heads towards week three, questions are growing about President Trump's decision making. From the strikes on Iran to tapping the US Oil reserves to shake ups inside the administration, firing Christy Noem and dispatching Tom Holman to Minnesota, what do these moves all have in common? Trump makes the call and the moves. And the moves go on from there. National political reporter Neil McCabe joins us. He calls it the disciplined Trader. Neil joins us now. You lay it out in your latest column. What do you mean by the disciplined trader approach? It's a very unique approach to making very tough decisions. Yeah.
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I write a column twice a week for Long island paper called the South Shore Press, which is Suffolk in Norfolk County. And in my most recent column, I say, hey, Trump is the disciplined trader, based on a 1990 book by Mark Douglas where he says that a successful trader on Wall street ignores all of the psychological hoo, ha ha. And you just read the data like he says, the market is always right and the market will pull you in, the market will flow you out. If you listen to the market. And when you have a bad trade, you have to sell it immediately as soon as you realize it's a bad trade. But he says the reason why people go bankrupt is they hope it will turn around or they don't want to admit they made a mistake. And so that's their ego. And so we see with George W. Bush in Iraq, and it was clear by the winter of 2003 that things were going the wrong way and yet they ignored it. They said, hey, Bush said, hey, we're going to just drive on. And basically hope became the strategy in Iraq, hope became the strategy in Afghanistan. And it was a losing trade forever. It took it well, frankly, we're still in Iraq. The what Trump is doing, Trump is recognizing it's a loss. And like Mark Davis, Mark Douglas says taking a loss is the cost of doing business. So with Nome, with Minneapolis, and what we're seeing is he tries to figure out an off ramp for Iran, is that if he sees a bad trade, he's going to sell it. Brian.
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You know, Neil, I can't help but think that he really, this comes from his business background, his development background of making real estate deals and perhaps backing out of certain deals. If he found out it was going to be, you know, a bad move, would you think this gives him the advantage being in the executive office, that he has a background of dealing in high stakes real estate?
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Oh, absolutely. One of the things Douglas talks about is like when you're a kid, you know, and the game is over, you just start again. Right. Or playing cards, you just reshuffle the deck, you start a new game. But with the market, when you lose, you lose, you, the money doesn't come back. And if you win, you don't have to give the money back. And so Trump has been in so many of these deals where he's won and lost and he'll cut his losses. He'll back out. Great example is the Trump Tower in Moscow that his lawyer Michael Cohen was pushing for him to do for years. He saw it wasn't a good day. Like they spent money on development and they were the plans. He said, hey, this isn't going to work. I'll just cut my losses. I think you're going to see Trump in 47 is going to cut his losses and move on. And because he's the president, Brian, the country moves with him. So he moved on from Minneapolis. No one's talking about Minneapolis anymore, Brian.
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Yeah, Neil, thank you. We appreciate your analysis. Appreciate it. All right, let's bring in James Thorpe, chief of maternal and prenatal health at the wellness company. Dr. Thorpe, good morning. Glad to have you on the show today. Many Americans are interested in GLP1s but don't like the idea of needles. Are there alternatives? And I'm Dr. Thorpe, I'm one of them. So I can sit here today and tell you I don't like the needles, but there's some alternatives to that, right? There are.
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And thanks for having me on, Brian. So absolutely there are alternatives. If a pill is taken, a special kill that is designed to be absorbed under the tongue. Under the tongue is a very vascular area and it bypasses the gut. So, yes, Tirzepatide can be taken under the tongue on a daily dose. And we believe that it is safer than weekly injections. So, yes, we at the Wellness Company provide a just such a product. And you know, in this area of March, most people have given up on their diets and they're, they're frustrated. They are, they're still heavy and they want to lose weight. This is a good alternative, Brian.
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Yeah. And, you know, how does vitamin B12 and B6 in conjunction with the GLP1s improve weight loss and reduce the side effects?
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Great question. Very important point. You know, vitamin B6 and B12 important to take in conjunction. Why is that? Because they help derive the energy from amino acids and fat and carbohydrates where they're stored in glycogen in various organs throughout the body. So, yes, vitamin B6, B12 very important in conjunction with tirzepatide.
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Now, the conflict in Iran is once again bringing the issue of how fragile nature of our supply chain prescription drugs bring that all into focus. Is it true that the vast majority of prescription drugs that are actually imported from countries like India and China, I mean, that's true. To be a little concerning that's true.
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And that's what prior administrations have done over the last three decades is destroyed the United States manufacturing base, you know, and that's a, a real threat when it comes to life saving prescription medications. So always be prepared. You know, one of the golden rules of medicine for Melania has been the earlier you start a treatment for a disease, the better the prognosis, the quicker the recovery and the less chance of having severe consequences. This is why every single family in the United States in America should have the Wellness Company's emergency medical kit and also some other kits that we provide. These are prepackaged kits that have, for example, the emergency medical kit has eight, eight prescription medications in there that are potentially life saving. You get it at one shot, one visit. You have a visit with a telemedicine doctor. Listen, nobody else does that. You can't do that in a standard medical practice. We want to keep you out of the hospital and out of the emergency rooms. Your viewers have probably watched Pitt, you know, the catastrophic events in the emergency rooms all across the United States of America. It's a disaster. So to have these medications at home, to have an instruction pamphlet on how to use them and a direct connection with a telemedicine doctor, keep you out of the emergency room, keep you out of the hospital.
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Dr. Thorpe, thank you so much for joining this morning. Good information. Thank you.
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Thanks for having me.
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All right. Senator Ron Johnson is coming up next. You will not want to miss that as EARLY EDITION continues from Heber, Kentucky. Stick around. Welcome to American Sunrise EARLY Edition, the show where faith, freedom and the values that built this nation take center stage. All right. Welcome back. American Sunrise EARLY edition. I am Brian Glenn coming to you live from Hebron, Kentucky. Glad you're with us this morning. You can join the conversation on Getter, YouTube and Rumble. We're here. We're live. And we're listening. Texas Senator John Cornyn now saying that he would support changing the Senate filibuster if that's what it takes to pass the election integrity bill. Joining me now is Senator Ron Johnson from the wonderful great state of Wisconsin. Senator, where do you make of this on this move here? This was kind of a, I did not have that. I'm on bingo card of horn and coming out and saying he would vote for that filibuster. But what's your take on this?
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Well, good morning. Well, first of all, the big divide in the Senate is Democrats do not want to vote for anything that's going to secure our elections. They want to make it easy to cheat. Republicans want to secure elections. The divide between the Republican Party really basically boils down to do you believe the Democrats, when they get control, will eliminate filibuster or do you think they'll actually, you know, not do that? And people like myself and apparently John Corner now just believe that. We believe what Democrats have told us. Last time they tried, they only had two Democrat senators vote against any field buster. They purged those two, Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, that they're gone. So I just believe, unfortunately, listen, I wish we could maintain the filibuster. I think it's important to have minority rights in the Senate. But Democrats won't respect that. They'll end the filibuster, turn D.C. puerto Rico into states, pack the Supreme Court, do everything they can to turn this into one party nation. So I believe, again, reluctantly, that we probably end the filibuster so we can secure elections, secure our border, pass an awful lot of things that the American people want the Democrats are opposed to.
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Yeah. Senator, if our viewers think for one second that if the Democrats have a chance to get, when they get, if they get back in office, they will go 100% all gas, no break to impeachment. They'll go after every single person that was on an oversight committee that did any type of investigations into any subject. They're going to go full on. They tried to impeach President Trump and they were successful at it. So they're going to do these things. And I'm glad that we have people like you that understand that this, the seriousness of making sure that we get this agenda done while we're in power.
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And again, I understand why my colleagues in the Republican Party want to maintain the filibuster. But you have to recognize reality, Democrats simply won't. We need to beat them at the punch.
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We do. Okay, let's turn our attention. Senator, you also had a Hilda held a hearing on a national debt with warnings that deficits could hit 3.1 trillion by 2036. How serious is this threat? And this national debt is absolutely getting out of control. And a lot of people are not raising the red flags. Obviously you are one of those that are.
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Well, CBO just came out with their latest 10 year forecast and they're forecasting in total $24.4 trillion in additional deficits over the next 10 years. Now, this all began really with the, with the pandemic when we went from about $4.4 trillion in spending to $6.5 trillion and never look back this year, we'll spend about $7.4 trillion. That's a 67% increase. And I know we had 40 year high inflation, but this is way beyond population growth inflation. There's no justification for it. I've been arguing really since the start of 2025, leading up to the one big beautiful bill, that we ought to use that piece of legislation to return to a reasonable pre pandemic level spending. We didn't do it because, let's face it, the American people are not demanding lower spending. The American people, by and large, like free money from the federal government. They're not connecting the dots. The reason you can't afford things is because of massive deficit spending devaluing our currency. And unfortunately, that devaluation is permanent.
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Yeah, it is. And if you look at, you know, and I'm not, you know, saying this is not worth it, but when you look at the spending that we're, that we have right now on the war in Iran, it's about a billion dollars a day. So we've, we've gone through about $15 billion, give or take. That is something that we need. I know there's a supplemental that's being introduced to kind of help fund a little bit and replace some of the dollars spent on that. All that just adds up. And even if you look at Social Security, Senator, real quickly, that that is another thing that people have been waving the red flag that is simply going to be ineffective. 2032, 2033. What's your take on Social Security right now and the direction that we're headed?
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Well, the trust fund expires around 2032, 2033. When that happens, according to law, benefits would need to be reduced to equal the revenue coming in. But the way CBO takes a look at the way they score it, they'll just assume that we're going to plus up those benefits out of the general fund. I think that's exactly what we'll try to do. Will we have the financial wherewithal to do that? Will we already hit a debt crisis? I mean, when you're approaching $39 trillion in debt, you'll be over $60 trillion in debt at the end of 10 years. I mean, will we have that fancier wherewithal? Will we no longer be the reserve currency? Will our interest rates skyrocket like Greece did about a decade ago? That's the danger. And unfortunately, the vast majority of members of Congress, people in the administration, the public is just ignoring this. They're just whistling by the graveyard, which is Why I held the hearing yesterday to try just try and make people aware of this. We have to address this problem. And again, when you go from 4.4 to $7.4 trillion, there are plenty of areas in the federal budget that we can reduce that spend level to a pre pandemic level. People won't even feel the pinch.
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Yeah. Senator Johnson, how can fourth thing. Thanks for joining us this morning. How can people keep up with you on social media and maybe perhaps get the very latest from your website? What is a website?
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Well, website's pretty easy, but most of my postings are on accident. It's just ask send Ron Johnson. We're pretty easy to find.
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Hey, we're always appreciative you coming on the show this morning. Thank you so much, Senator.
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Have a great day.
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Standing your ground when you told you can't. I don't look for trouble. All right. Another beautiful shot there in Florida. I think our production crew is trying to make me jealous that they've got this beautiful sunrise and I was, well in a tornado watch yesterday. But it's all good right now. Welcome back. American Sunrise, EARLY edition. I am Brian Glenn coming to you live from Hebron, Kentucky, The David Brody. And that's what it says in the teleprompter. David, I'm not making this up. It says what? David Brody joining us. Yeah, it's T H E E E E E E E. It's like the,
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like they wanted, only clearly I'm controlling proctor this morning, Brian. I mean, I think that's, that's pretty clear.
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Yeah. Good morning. Let's, let's talk about Trump's stop here in Kentucky and really kind of what it meant. I mean, obviously, he went to Cincinnati, he went to a local pharmaceutical company and talked about prescription drugs. Trump Rx that he's rolled out earlier this year. And then he transitioned over to Northern Kentucky, talked about lower prices, higher wages. He did it at a distribution company. But also had a chance to kind of pound a little bit on Thomas Massie as he's got this primary challenger looking to take his seat.
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Yeah.
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And look, he's been doing that for a long time with Massie, I think the ultimate rub. And we can talk about how he came against Trump on the Epstein files and other stuff, and that all factors into it. I'm not saying it doesn't. But I think at the core, right, Thomas Massie is a constitutional libertarian, and that's what he is. And President Trump is, wait for it, not a Republican. He's a Trump publican. He's a transactional president who just wants to make a deal. And so when you see a lot of this omnibus stuff and you see a lot of these big spending bills and everything, I mean, Trump just wants to do art of the deal all day long. And so Massie's not going to do any of that. So Massie's been, you know, in Yiddish, they call it a pain in the tuchus. We'll call it a thorn in the side. And, you know, he just sticks to what he believes from a libertarian, constitutional, libertarian standpoint. And so you got to commend Massie for the fact that he's being principled. Now, Trump doesn't like that, but it is what it is. And if you look at what Massie's this all started back in Covid, you know, with that Covid Cares Act. President Trump when he was president. That's right. Right. The first time around, Massie voted against it. Said, I'm not.
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I'm not.
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What was it? How many billion? I got the number here. Let me look at it. I know it's billions of dollars.
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The point is that Massey slow the spread, basically.
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Yeah, yeah. And Massey's like, I'm not doing that well. You know what I mean? He's principled on it. But Trump wants art of the deal all the time, every day. And so that's part of it. You know, to me, Brian, what's interesting also is the Rand Paul, Tom Massie dynamic. You know, both have been a thorn in the side to the president, but there's a different style involved. Massie's been more public. Rand Paul has been much more discreet. He doesn't take on the president directly. He doesn't throw, you know, he's not a flamethrower. And I think that is part of why Rand Paul doesn't get the ire as much as Tom Massey does.
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Yeah. What's interesting, as I was walking down the crowd of people coming in, I always ask them, why you're here, where you live. And of course, all of them said, I'm here to see President Trump. And I said, well, what do you. You know, what do you. Who do you. What do you think about Thomas Massie and the challenge? And they said, look, you know, we love Trump. We love Massie, so we're not really going to choose a side. We're going to just, you know, kind of go with what we believe. And so I would imagine there's a lot of people that feel that way, and there's a lot of people. I talked to, one lady in particular, David, that said, we understand that Massey's very principled in his political beliefs, but for the betterment of the party, if President Trump says that Thomas Massie needs to go, she said, hey, Thomas Massie needs to go. That was her exact words. So a lot of people are going to go off of whatever President Trump says that they need to do, even though they know that Massey's just being very principled in his beliefs. So I thought that was interesting. Okay, let's shift real quickly. We got about two minutes left. John Cornyn coming out and saying, hey, you know what? Maybe I will vote to end the filibuster. I did not have that on my bingo card on this Thursday, David. I just did not.
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No, I'm sorry. Is there a runoff coming? Is that why he did it. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm being sarcastic and rhetorical at the same time. Come on. I mean, yeah. So obviously, Brian, you know the deal. We both know the deal. That's why he's doing that. But once again, it kind of gets back down to how many arms can President Trump twist in the Senate. I'm not convinced he can get Murkowski or Collins or Massie. I'm not. Excuse me. Massey, I got. Now I got Massie on the brain. Murkowski, Collins, Tillis, Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell. You're gonna twist all those. Your arm's gonna be very tired. I don't see it. Listen, it'd be nice if John Thune said, look, we're doing this no matter what, even if it failed, and maybe it'll come to that. But at this point, Thune being the pragmatic guy is like, well, what am I gonna do? We're just gonna do this for an exercise and then we're just. The vote's gonna fail and we're gonna look horrible. Is that what we're gonna do here? I mean, maybe that's what it's gonna take, Brian. Maybe that's what it's gonna take to get it to fail, to get some pressure on some of these Senate Republicans to see it differently.
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The Senate, I always said, David, it's. The Senate is where good things go to die. It just seems like nothing gets accomplished in the Senate. David Bode, as always, thank you for joining us on the early edition. Of course. In about five minutes, you'll come up on the big show to talk about all things on the, on the news cycle right now.
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I salute you.
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I appreciate, appreciate that. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right. I salute you, David Bodie. All right, we are going to transition after the show. I'm going to head back, get leave Kentucky. We'll be joining tomorrow at 7am Eastern for another edition of American Sunrise. Early edition. As always, you can follow me on social media at Brian Glenn. TV warnings. I do jump into the comments and I will swing back at you and I'll also give you like a thumbs up as well. As always, goodbye. God bless. We'll see you back here tomorrow. This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.