WEBVTT - Steve Hawkins in for Thom 12/19/2025 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:02.599 Time for a big old wad of business news. 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:07.600 This is the Bloomberg Money Minute on seven hundred WLWU. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:07.920 Right. 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:11.160 Dan Schwartzman with us from the Bloomberg newsroom. Good morning, 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:15.080 Good morning, Steve. It's Friday. Another report here and we 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:19.520 closer to the weekend. Let's start with Toyota. They're gonna 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:23.040 be sitting cars from the US to Japan. Yeah, kind 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:24.360 of an interesting take there, right. 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:26.160 See, if you think about it's a Japanese car maker 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.640 and they're gonna be reverse shipping, but it's a move 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:31.840 designed to peace President Trump. They're gonna ship three American 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:35.000 made models, the Camri, the Highlander, and Tundra to Japan 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:37.400 starting next year. Now this year, now, the market for 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.519 US made car Steve is expected to be limited. Japanese 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:44.040 drivers prefer smaller cars, the roads are smaller, and they 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:46.480 like the right hand driving models because will they drive 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:48.600 like the British on the wrong side of the road. Oh, 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.360 the nation's largest car maker is turning on the Charma offensive. 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:54.040 They're trying to east tariffs imposed by Trump. Yeah, they 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:56.680 literally I'm not really sure how this is gonna work, 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:59.440 but I guess they're trying to of course, by nice, nice. 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:03.320 Absolutely, oil prices could continue to fall for the near future. 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.240 Yeah, the oil market may be facing a major glut. 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:09.360 Steve producers ramping aboutput putting a record one point three 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:12.920 billion barrels of crude on the world's markets. Benchmark oil 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:15.960 prices heading for their biggest annual loss since the pandemic, 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.080 as gasoline prices dropped below three dollars a gallon for 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:21.080 the first time since twenty twenty one. 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.320 So if you're looking to drive, well, this is good 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:25.760 news for you. All right, less than ninety minutes from 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.679 the open. What do you seeing in the futures? They're 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:29.199 going down? 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:31.280 The Dow right now is down a tenth to one 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:33.120 percent in ass that's a bright spot that is at 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.160 least up a tenth of one percent, but that continues 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:38.479 to go down as well. SMB is up three quarters 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:42.679 of actually just one point, which is essentially flat from Bloomberg. 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:46.280 Dan Schwartzman on News Radio seven hundred WLW, Thank you, Dan. 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:47.400 It's eight to eleven. 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:52.400 Tom Burnderman's show Friday Morning, Steve Hawkins filling in this 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.640 time every week on Friday, we get to talk TV 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:59.080 with Matt roush Hey goodbrning Man how are you. I'm 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.960 doing good? We get the week before Christmas. There's still 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.040 some TV to talk about, isn't there here? 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.079 Well, there is, and we'll start off on sort of 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:12.280 a poignant note because Hollywood and the world beyond is 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:16.480 still dealing and coping and reeling, I think from. 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.400 The tragic death of Rob. 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:22.320 Reiner and his wife last weekend. But now TV gets 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:26.640 to celebrate his accomplishments and career. And on Sunday there's 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.720 going to be two tributes on the nostalgia channel called 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.639 Me TV. They're going to be running a four hour 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.920 marathon Sunday night of All in the Family episodes that 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:40.680 feature the Mike Ctivic, the meat head character, front and center, 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.200 and there's some really good episodes there. There's one where 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:47.360 he deals with he thinks he's becoming sexually impotent. You know, 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.679 they just dealt with so many issues on One in 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.000 the Family, and of course he was the liberal counterpart 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.400 to Archie Bunker. And there are episodes that they feature 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:59.840 here where they where they clash significantly or are forced 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:02.760 to spend time together, which was always fun. So I mean, 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:04.799 if you loved All in the Family, which so many 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:06.720 people did in the seventies. This is a great way 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:09.800 to appreciate the beginning of his career. You know, this 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:11.959 was the guy who was the son of Carl Reiner, 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:14.560 who was a TV comedy legend, and then he created 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:16.840 his own legend, not just on On the Family, but 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:18.920 then afterwards as a major Hollywood director. 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.560 And so also on Sunday Night, CBS. 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:22.440 Is going to be doing a news. 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:25.399 Special where they appreciate his TV. 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.480 And film legacy, and there's going to be commentary for 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.680 many of the people that he worked with, including Kathy 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.200 Bates who won an Oscar for his film Misery, Manette 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.360 Benning who was in The American President, Michael Douglas, as 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.720 well Jerry O'Connell who was one of the Boys and 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.120 stand by Me. When you think about the reach of 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:46.920 his film career, The Princess Bride, when Harry met Sally 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.920 and stand by Me, and it's The Spinal Tap, and 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.480 he just produced a forty years later sequel to The 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.400 Spinal Tap that he also appeared in, and so his 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.520 career was still going. I mean, this was such a 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:00.080 shocking event for so many people, but I think that 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.640 people will also appreciate the fact that they'll be able 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:06.560 to acknowledge his career through these tributes that are going 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:07.440 to air Sunday night. 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.120 Yeah, and so that's some of the greatest movies and 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.560 TV of all time. There, Hey, I want to ask 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:16.120 you about this. Everybody loves Raymond ring. Didn't they just 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:16.719 do one? 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:18.240 They just did one? 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:20.159 But I guess it did so well that CBS is 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:22.760 going back for more. And on Monday night there's going 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.720 to be another hour long special that's gonna bring Ray 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.440 Vermano and the creator Phil rosenthal On probably a few 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.440 others back to show more clips and bring it back 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.680 more memories about this really classic sitcom, one of the 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.680 last classic sitcoms that CBS aired, And so yes, if 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:40.000 you were a fan of it, I guess I can 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.000 tell you the last special was a great deal of fun. 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.520 The clips really hold up and you just remember what 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.760 a great show that was, remembering Doris Robertson Peter Boyle 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.080 who played the parents across the street, and they're both 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.599 gone now, but there are so many loving memories. 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:53.000 About that show. 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.359 So if you enjoyed that nostalgia, you can do it 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:56.160 again on Monday. 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.000 All right, before we get to Monday, Saturday night, is 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:03.320 this the Christmas twenty twenty five final episode of the 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:04.760 year for Saturday Night Life. 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:06.479 Yeah, this will be the last for the year. They'll 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:08.680 come back sometime in January. I suppose that they get 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:11.200 a couple of weeks off, but always the last episode 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:12.960 of the year is a big one, and they're really 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:14.960 pulling out the stops on this one. They're bringing back 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.040 Ariana Grande, who is one of their. 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:17.760 Better guest hosts. 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:19.640 She can do the music, she can do the comedy, 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:21.680 and of course she's writing High off of the Wicked 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:23.719 sequel right now, which is making a ton of money. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.960 But they've also landed as their musical guest share. 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:30.680 And Shaer has not done this show since nineteen eighty seven, 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.279 which is just incredible that she hasn't been a musical 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.479 guest for that long. But you know, she's publishing the 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:37.880 second part of her memoir and she did I think 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.400 she produced her first Christmas album last year. So having 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.120 Cher and Ariana Grande on the same show, if they 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:44.800 don't find a way to put them together at least 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:46.880 for one song, it's going to be quite a disappointment. 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:48.120 But that is bringing out. 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.640 Star power for the last show of Saturday Night Live, 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:52.000 which is finishing. 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.600 Its fiftieth year. You know, they celebrated its fiftieth year earlier. 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.559 In the year, and so this has been a banner 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:58.960 year for Saturday Night Live, and of course, given what's 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:00.800 going on in the world that you need that kind 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:01.920 of satire more than ever. 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.880 And Netflix, they're not slowing down for Christmas this year, 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:05.279 are they? 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:06.440 Well, they are not. 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.599 If you remember, on Thanksgiving Eve they put out the 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:13.040 first episodes of the final season of Stranger Things, and 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:16.479 now that epic horror show is coming to a conclusion 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:18.520 with three more episodes that they're going to drop on 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:19.440 Christmas Night. 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:21.359 I suppose it's not exactly a. 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.720 Christmas show, but they're going to drop it on Christmas Night, 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.200 and the very very last episode is going to air 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.479 on New Year's Eve, or that's what it's presented. 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:29.560 You can watch it anytime. 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.360 I have a feeling people are going to maybe spend 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:33.760 the New Year's weekend maybe watching the end of it. 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:35.400 I don't know who's going to actually spend New Year's 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:39.000 Eve watching Stranger Things, but nonetheless, Stranger Things have happened, 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:41.080 I guess. But anyway, you're going to get the final 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:44.560 show down between the heroes of Hawkins, Indiana and those 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:46.080 monsters from the upside Down. 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:47.200 So we'll see how it happens. 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.120 But even when it's over, it's not over because there's 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:49.839 going to be spinoff. 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.920 Yeah, and then one more on Christmas Eve. Here Netflix 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:57.480 offering this tiered jerker. Goodbye June, Yes. 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.640 Goodbye June is a film that the first film that's 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:03.080 k Winsley, then Oscar Winner has directed, and she's directing 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.039 a script by her son, and it's a very personal 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:09.200 film based on Kate's own mothers struggle with cancer. In 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.000 the last days of her life. She brought her family 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.560 together and this plays out against the holidays. But the 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:17.760 person playing June is Helen Mirron, one of our great actresses, 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.600 and she plays this really prickly and funny woman who 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.000 gathers her family together who are sort of all scattered 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.160 to the winds. They're all kind of crazy characters. But 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.040 Kate Winsley also plays one of the daughters, along with 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:33.400 Tony Kolett Andrea Riseborough. It's a really stacked cast and 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:35.920 there a warm film, but at the same time it's 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:39.480 dealing with mortality and holidays and many people deal with 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:41.960 this kind of thing so it's quite a poignant film. 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:43.840 So if you're looking for something that's going to touch 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:48.400 the heart, Goodbye June is on Christmas Eve on Netflix. Again, 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.760 not the happiest Christmas movie. 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.400 But it's one you'll probably remember for a long time. 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.240 Hey, Matt Rausch, thank you so much for joining us. 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:57.880 Have a great Christmas, and hopefully we'll get to talk 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.000 to you next Friday, the day after Christmas. 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.080 All right, I think we will, so yeah, Happy Christmas 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:02.920 to y'all. All right. 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:07.040 Matt Rowse, senior TV critic, TV Guide Magazine, TV Insider 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:11.520 dot Com. Check him out, and uh it just does 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:14.120 a great job on TV stuff. It's coming up on 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:18.120 eight eighteen. Chuck Chuck Ingram's in here National Ugly Christmas 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:18.720 Sweater Day. 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:22.040 Oh I could partake in that? Did you partake it? 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:22.320 Not? 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:22.760 Today? 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.600 I didn't know what's today? Okay? Well, you know I 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:25.920 got to. 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:27.920 Get better of putting these things on my calendar. You 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:29.760 got to read the memos and come to the meetings. 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:33.040 Well, yeah, I do. I usually rely on you to 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.240 fill me in on those sort of things. Tom is 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:38.600 in charge of all the meeting. 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The company is offering drivers more predictable schedules, 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:54.040 nicer Wi Fi equipped trucks, as well as six figure salaries, 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:56.800 which are roughly double what typical truck drivers are making. 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.280 Walmart is attracting high numbers of candidates, including women men, 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.720 who make up eighteen percent of its truck or payroll, 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:06.480 which is double the industry overall. From Bloomberg, Dan Schwartzman 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.680 on news radio seven hundred. 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:12.600 WLW ANN it's coming up on a mint eight forty 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.680 one and seven hundred WLW. Steve Hawkins and for Tom 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:19.960 Brenneman set out to ABC News national correspondent to Washington, 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:21.560 Stephen Portnoy, Hey, good morning, Steven. 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:22.000 How are you. 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.040 Hey? Steve's good to talk to you. Hey. 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:28.400 Do I understand everybody left DC yesterday and none of 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:32.559 these votes or anything on the subsidies actually happened. 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:34.000 Yeah, you got that right. 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.840 Congress has finished up work for the year, and while 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.720 the House passed a bill on Wednesday that Backer says 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:43.640 aimed at addressing the cost of healthcare, particularly for a 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:48.240 employer provided healthcare, nothing has been done with respect to 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:51.520 the expiration of the subsidies in Obamacare that twenty million 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.800 people take advantage of and Republicans say it would cost 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.760 too much money to extend those subsidies and they're simply 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:59.760 not interested, so they're not going to do it. Yesterday, 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.240 and told my colleague Mary Bruce that yes, premiums will skyrocket, 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.960 but that's because he argues the Affordable Care Act has 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.600 a broken structure and the only way to fix it 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:13.520 is to essentially, you know, do something else. But what 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:15.880 exactly he has in mind. You know, we've heard him 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:18.160 say concepts of a plan. They sort of reiterated that 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:19.040 idea yesterday. 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:20.400 We've not seen it yet. 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:22.040 I was going to say, you just can't have a 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.560 plan in a week. What are these people going to 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:28.160 do this? Twenty million people when their healthcare doubles and 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.400 triples in January, do they have to cancel it? 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:32.560 Well, you know it's interesting. 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:36.400 Right now, the open and roll period for January has closed, 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:40.360 and yesterday men At Oz, who's a senior official at HHS, 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.960 indicated that the number of people who are re enrolling 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:46.400 in plans is only reduced somewhat because there were forecasts 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.080 that because of these plans were so expensive, that a 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.760 whole lot of people would stop buying the coverage and 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:54.240 doctor Oz suggests that maybe that's not happening. We'll see 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:58.280 when the data comes out broadly, though, yes, premiums are 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.720 going up and lots of people are concerned about it. Now, 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:04.319 a small number of House Republicans have signed a discharge 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.880 petition to force a vote on the House floor with 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:11.120 Democrats next month to extend the subsidies for three more years. 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:14.000 The leadership thinks it's a terrible idea, costly idea, and 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:16.360 they don't want it to pass, but it looks like 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.600 their hand has been forced and raised questions this week 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:23.280 about how firmly Speaker Mike Johnson has control of his 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:27.800 own Republican conference. Now, set that aside, look at the calendar. 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:30.839 We're about six weeks away from the next government shut 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:35.599 down deadline the end of January, and Democrats in the 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:37.920 Senate particularly are going to look at that and say, hey, listen, 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.080 you know we've got some leverage here and we expect 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:44.520 some sort of promise from Republicans on a compromise, and 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:46.800 so far it's still being worked out and if it's 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.199 going to be worked out, and everything's on pause now 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:52.120 for several weeks through the holidays. So the point is 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.160 nothing's been done, but there's still a lot of talk. 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.480 Yeah, wasn't there supposed to be a vote or something 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:02.040 to reopen the government last last month? Weren't they going 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.680 to take a vote or promised to take a vote? 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:05.600 You know they did. 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.560 The actually took two votes in the Senate. Neither proposal 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.320 neither that they were dueling proposals. Neither Republican plan, which 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.800 involved health saving these accounts, nor the Democratic plan, which 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.520 involved an extension of the subsidies. Neither got more than 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:22.120 fifty one votes. So America looks to Washington, DC for leadership, 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.080 for compromise, to solve problems, to come up with solutions. 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.760 So far none yet, So. 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.360 We could be looking at another government shut down early 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:31.320 twenty twenty six. 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:34.400 It's possible. Look, I'll say this, and we can't get it. 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:35.880 We have six more weeks to talk about it. But 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.120 some aspects of the federal government had been fully funded 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.760 through the rest of the fiscal year. Most have not, 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:46.120 and that's the potential pressure point. But leaders are optimistic 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.800 that they can work out a plan to avoid a 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.080 government shut in at the end of the month. But again, 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.400 Democrats are going to hold the line to the extent 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.080 that they can on an extension of these subsidies. Republicans 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:59.280 are going to oppose it because they say it's costly 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.800 and it's simply not the most effective way to provide care. 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:04.880 The problem for the Republicans is, again. 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.080 For fifteen years now, they've. 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.360 Been talking about all the problems with Obamacare that desire 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:14.560 to repeal and replace it. What exactly is the replacement proposal? Again, 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.280 the President has suggested he has a concept of a plan, 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:19.080 but frankly, no plan yet. 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.360 All right, Stephen Portno, I have great holiday season. We'll 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.520 talk to you next time. Stephen Portnoyer, ABC News National 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:29.000 correspondent in Washington, DC on Tom Brenneman's show seven hundred 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:33.760 wl W about eight forty five now on seven hundred WLW. 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.760 Check ingram here, check before we get to traffic. Yes, 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:38.920 I got this press release as somebody sent me. 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:42.480 Oh wait, so the one I sent you? Is this 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:43.360 something you sent me? 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:44.880 Hey? 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:48.160 You could have walked it down the hallway. Well I could, 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:50.359 but in this modern technology. 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:56.080 Why, this is a great group of people, Santa's Goodie 0:15:56.360 --> 0:16:00.800 Bag Band, and they're getting together and raising some money 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:01.280 this weekend. 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:04.440 Right, yep, they've done it for the last forty five years. 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.640 And these are some good friends, old friends of mine 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.960 that are playing, still playing their instruments from back in 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:13.080 my King's Island days and clown Ban Days is where 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:15.920 I met most of them. But each year they do 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:19.280 a tour and that's coming up tomorrow. Was there forty 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.600 fifth and they'll go through a whole bunch of places 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.720 before all is said and done, playing Christmas tunes, him 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:26.720 Lubland and Landon. 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:31.520 Are You they play and people donate money for charity 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.240 and things like that. Yep, yep, So at these places, 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:35.600 that's what's going to happen tomorrow night. 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:35.960 Yeah. 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:38.440 I just imagine every time I look at what they 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:39.960 do do and they pop in and see in some 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.400 of the videos and things, it's like, wow, I wonder 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.520 if everybody in this place knew they were coming, because 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:49.080 we're talking it could be anybody ever from ten to twenty. Yeah, 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.960 the musicians in this and mostly it's horns and drums. 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:55.680 So it's like, all of a sudden, you're going to 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.360 be enjoying it. Forty fifth annual one tomorrow night. It's 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.520 sold out. The first one Silver spring House at six, 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:04.560 that's right. And then you got shooters in Loveland, Miamiville Road. 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:05.720 I'm bubbling Miamiville. 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:06.080 Yes. 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:09.320 And then is it Kirby's Do they say that right? Kirby's. Yeah, 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:10.840 they're in Lubland. 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:15.080 Eight o'clock downtown Love and Bishop's Quarter, Ramsey's and Paxton's 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:19.679 and neither back to bucks in landon at ten and 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.040 eleven is back to the Silver Spring House because they 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:24.600 got to get more money there, correct, And the Bell 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.200 and the Bear at Marketplace there Montgomery tomorrow night. 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:29.560 They wrap it up there and it's a great tour 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:33.200 and it's also great music. Absolutely, I appreciate those guys 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.040 a lot because they're helping out a allful lot of 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:36.160 charities here in town. 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:40.359 Absolutely, that's good news, especially this time of year. 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