WEBVTT - Steve Hawkins in for Thom 10/8/2025 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:02.840 Playlist's perfect for party fives and more. 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:07.360 Just open the free iHeartRadio apps, hireen, listen. 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:11.480 Now radio Money. 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:11.959 Money, Money. 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:14.560 If you want to make a bunch, it takes more 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:18.720 than luck. This is the Bloomberg Money Minute on seven 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:20.120 hundred WLWA. 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:24.160 Already ginas already joining us again this morning from Bloomberg. 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:25.000 Gina. 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:28.360 Mortgage rates slip last week but remain elevated, keeping a 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:31.400 lot of people on the sideline still right, that's. 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:31.760 Right, Steve. 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:35.199 We have these mortgage rates falling just a little bit 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:37.599 last week according to a banker's group, but they are 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:41.519 still at just over six point four percent. It's been 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:43.520 tough for a lot of people to get into the market, 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:45.880 and that's also keeping a lot of people whose rates 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:50.000 are much lower on the sideline, saying I'm not moving 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:51.959 if I'm going to have to pay a mortgage rate 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.760 like that because the current one is a lot lower. Right, 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.160 So this is hitting applications for both mortgages to buy 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:01.800 and refinance. They were down for a second week, Steve. 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:02.160 Yeah. 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:05.520 Meanwhile, this other report shows that home buyers are actually 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:07.720 calling off deals at a record pace. 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:09.000 Yeah. 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:12.640 This one's from Redfinn. Roughly fifty six thousand home purchase 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:17.280 agreements were canceled in August. That's about fifteen percent of 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:20.880 the homes that had gone under contract. Redfinn says buyers 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:24.040 are skittish, they're selective because of those high prices and 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:28.520 high rates. But Redfinn also says issues around inspections and 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.880 repairs are the biggest drivers of cancelation. 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:35.720 Steve Goodness, all right, stock market, less than ninety minutes 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:36.399 from opening. 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:38.360 What are you seeing there in the futures? 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.520 Well, right now, the futures are picking up a little 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:44.000 bit of speed here this morning, could be a higher open. 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.640 The Dow futures are up ninety nine, SMP futures up nine, 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:52.400 Nasdaq futures are up twenty eight. From Bloomberg. Ginas Cervetti 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:55.160 on News Radio seven hundred WLW. 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.320 All right, it's eight ten on seven after wl W. 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:08.799 Steve Hawkins in for Tom Brennaman peace talks gaining more 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:13.120 momentum in Egypt, So let's talk to Jordana Miller. ABC 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.960 News corresponding Jerusalem. Find out the latest. Good morning, Geordanna, 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:24.799 how are you? I have lost Jordana? All right, Let's 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:29.120 try again, Jordana, you there yet? Live Radio Hey, Jordana, 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:30.560 Steve Hawkins here, how are you. 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:34.359 Well? 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:38.040 We'll we'll try to get Jordana back on the one. 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:41.720 She is calling from Jerusalem, so it is live radio. 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.079 Can we take a quick break and try to get 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:47.079 her back on Dan? Is that possible at all? 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:48.920 Or? 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:50.200 All right? 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:53.160 Let's go to Chuck. Chuck, how are you this morning? Well, 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.280 I'm doing better than some things. 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.040 There you go. It's been rough for you this morning, 0:02:58.240 --> 0:02:59.359 yet have there you go? 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.000 I thought we needed rain and things for things to 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:05.000 be really nasty. Well that was yesterday, all right. So 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.360 with dry roads, I thought it'd be a little bit easier, 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:11.600 but not the case. From UCA Hell Traffic Center, Mammogram 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.360 Saved Lives called five one three five eight four Pink 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:18.200 to schedule your annual mammogram with U Seahouse Expert team. 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:20.160 That's five to one, three five eight four. 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:20.560 PINK. 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:24.280 Crews continue to work with an accident northbound two seventy five. 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.560 Before you get towards corner, traffic is running heavy from 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:31.120 before the Milford Parkway. I'm seeing some slow traffic northbound 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:34.280 seventy one from just before the lateral near Smith Edwards 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:38.520 and that continues into Kenwood southbound heaviest between two seventy 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:42.720 five and Red Bank eastbound seventy four. That's slowly starting 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:46.280 to get better through Miami Town. It was all backed 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:49.080 up big time towards Dry Fork because of an earlier 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:53.080 accident on eastbound two seventy five just after you get 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:57.520 passed the seventy four split at Cole Ring Chuck Ingram, 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:59.880 News Radio seven hundred w WELW. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.280 Jordana back. We'll talk to her after their weather here. 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:06.240 It looks like this sunshine, cooler temps hi today sixty eight, 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:10.280 overnight low forty three, plenty of sunshine tomorrow staying cool, 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.640 high sixty five, still low fifties around the tri State 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.920 at yours Severe Weather Station, News Radio seven hundred WLW. 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.919 All right, let's head back to Jerusalem this morning with 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:22.320 Jordana Miller. 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:23.800 Hey, good morning, how are you this time? 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:31.159 I'm good, glad we're reconnecting here. I think today is 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.040 going to be a very critical day for these Gaza 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:38.680 ceasfire talks. In Shawn Malshack, that's on the Red Sea 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.640 in Egypt. All of the main players are now going 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:43.760 to be at the table today, and by that I 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:47.480 mean the President's mideastnboy, Steve wick Cooff and Jared Kushner, 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:52.160 the senior Israeli negotiator, will be there. Ron Dermer. We're 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:57.080 going to have the Katari premiere, Prime Minister Altani there 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.760 and then the intelligence chiefs from. 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:00.920 Egypt and Turkey. 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:06.040 Turkey is a new player in this ceasefire plan, and 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.360 I think it was wise President Trump brought Turkey in. 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.960 It's a new lever pressure point for Hamas. Remember some 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:18.040 of Hamas's leaders live in Turkey. So we're going to 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.279 have to see what happens now. The first goal of 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:25.520 this team, and of course the negotiations really led by 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.719 the US, but the first goal is to hammer out 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:33.080 details for a swift withdrawal of all or released I 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:36.920 should say, of all of the Israeli hostages, the twenty 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.919 that are presumed to be alive, the twenty eight bodies 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:44.839 in exchange for more than two thousand Palestinian prisoners, some 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.320 who have you know, a lot of blood on their hands. 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:52.680 They've been serving life sentences. So these are going to 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:56.400 be some you know, tough next twenty four to forty 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.799 eight hours. Who's on that list of Palestinian prisoners? Who's 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:05.159 now how quickly can come off, locate the Israeli hostages, 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:09.159 especially the ones that have died that they killed in 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.400 captivity or on October seventh, and then of course the 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:17.240 details of the first Israeli withdrawal of their troops from Gaza. 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:22.239 They're basically in operational control of about eighty percent of Gaza, 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.400 but they need to move out of, for example, Gaza City, 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:30.239 parts of central Gaza and the north, and that's also 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.120 going to be something that's going to be heavily negotiated. 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.359 So I think the next twenty four forty eight hours 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.400 critical to see if we actually make progress here. 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.799 Yeah, yesterday, I believe Prime Minister and Etna whose office 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:45.320 said that he was cautiously optimistic. Is that where we 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:49.520 still stand today. 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:54.800 I think the Israelis are cautiously optimistic about the talk. 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.400 But remember, you know, there's a lot of you know, 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.760 as they say here and everyone where really you know, 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.320 God is in the details, and there's a lot that 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:07.680 has to be hammered out before we can you know, 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.600 take a victory lap Uh. And I think it's going 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:13.160 to be tough for Hamas to give up all of 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.840 those hostages in a short period of time, which is 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:17.120 what they're being asked to do. 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:18.360 Uh. 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.440 And then I think it's also going to be hard 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.200 for these really is to pull out, pull their troops back, right, 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:29.440 because the military pressure is one thing they hold over Amas, right, 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.560 and they have for for a while. But I think 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:34.800 the Prime Minister is ready to end this war. 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:35.760 Uh. 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:37.920 You know, these really public has been the majority of 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:39.760 the public has wanted this war to end for a 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:44.280 very long time. And NATANIEO needs to ensure that the 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:47.960 United States and its allies in the region here are 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:52.800 very very strict with Amases both that their leadership leaves, 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.360 leaves Gaza and that they hand over their weapons and 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.920 commit to you know, to giving up not only political 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.040 but military power in the Goaza syrup. And that's going 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:06.520 to be critical, really critical. And I don't think we're 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.840 going to see the Israelis leave and pull back to 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:14.840 the final buffer zone until there's an international security force 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.960 in place and a new civilian government. So that's that 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.640 that final step will probably take you know, a couple 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.840 of months, but we're not we're not there yet. It's 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.480 a process. It's going to be a process. But I think, 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:30.560 you know, yesterday is remarked two years since that horrific 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:35.080 barbaric attack, and it was such a painful day, but 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.320 there was a little bit of hope here that maybe 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:37.959 we're near the. 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:39.280 End, all right. 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.720 Jordanah Miller, ABC News correspondent, live in Jerusalem this morning, 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.960 Thank you so much for your report. Much appreciating it 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:50.400 is eight seventeen on seven hundred WLW. You can tour 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:52.679 music Hall. They got those ghost things. 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Call eight four four eight 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:38.160 four four. iHeart Tamn Andre wlwe Cincinnati. 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:42.320 I thought we'd go out to Music Hall their historical preservationists, 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.600 Taya Chapcoma with us this morning. 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.760 Good morning, Taya, how are you hi, I'm great, Hey, 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:49.640 thanks for joining us. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:53.600 I was seeing that you guys always give the ghost 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:55.960 tours this time of year, which I know are sold out, 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.400 but I didn't realize you have other tours that we 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:03.800 can do at music Hall throughout the year, right, we do. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:08.720 We are a nonprofit with thirty volunteer guides that lead 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:13.439 all kinds of different regular tours of music Hall and 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.200 the ghost tours a special ones. So if you become 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.520 a member of the Friends of Music call on dot 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:24.480 org you will get a pre sale email for that one. 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.720 So if you do that, you might catch the next one. 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.880 But we do have room left on our beer tour 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:36.920 through Music Hall on October seventeen, and you get a 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:41.120 tour and you get four beer samples from Ryangeist. So 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.719 Ryan Geist comes and tells you about the beer and 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.480 so you get a little history and some stories and 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:49.559 then a drink of beer throughout the building. 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:50.280 Wow. 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:54.480 So sure and catch that one. We also have our 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:59.200 regular indoor tour that we give about eight times a month. 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.760 If you go our way website you can get tickets 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:06.480 for that. It covers everything from the opening of the 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:11.640 building in eighteen seventy eight all the way today, everything 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:16.560 from the opening with the May Festival with seven thousand 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:21.559 people court Serena. Wow, so you learn about all the 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:26.560 amazing celebrities that have appeared in music call. So that 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:30.800 one's an easy one to sign up for. Just go 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:34.840 to dot org, Friends and Musicall dot org. We have 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:38.600 a new tour called under one roof the African American 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:42.360 Experience and Music Hall. And these are some of the 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:50.040 long unforgotten, untold, forgotten and untold stories of African Americans 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:54.600 that have made their mark on music Call, from you know, 0:12:54.800 --> 0:13:01.240 agents of change, to athletes to amazing musicians and celebrities. 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:03.439 So be sure to come on that new one. 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:03.960 That's great. 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.600 We get to see backstage and all the various private 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.520 and public places of Music Hall that are not normally 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:10.320 open to the public. 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:10.559 Right. 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:16.559 Yes, we cover the whole building, all three hundred thousand 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:20.240 square feet, so bring your tennis shoes. 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:24.160 He tya. Thank you so much for doing what you 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:25.599 guys do. And I'm going to check out one of 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.800 these tours shortly, all right, Yes, Oh. 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:30.760 And I just wanted to say it's not too early 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.640 to get your tickets to our Mighty Worlesser Organ concert. 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:39.520 We have the Albe Organ Worlesser in the ballroom and 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:44.240 we invite a famous organists, and we have the Happy 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:48.880 Holidays concert coming up. So we've got all the bells 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:49.559 and whistles. 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.240 Literally, Thank you, Taya much appreciate it. 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:55.160 Okay, okay, thank you. 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:57.480 I would take one of those tours. I just can't 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:57.920 wait for that. 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.920 Okay, It's time for the Who Days Today report with 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:02.600 Mowen Rocky coming up next. 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.600 Our store and roof is the ultimate defense. Fall storms, 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:08.080 cause damage you may not even see. 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:13.280 That's Wykachen, and reap the monetary rewards. This is the 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:17.319 Bloomberg money Minutes. On seven hundred WLW. 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.880 Tesla introduced new cheaper versions of the Model three Sedan 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:24.240 and the Model YSUV, priced at under forty thousand dollars. 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:28.440 Those prices are about thirteen percent and eleven percent cheaper, respectively, 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:32.320 than premium longer range versions. Tesla's new models offer less 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:36.640 battery range and are stripped of features including ambient interior lighting. 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:40.440 The record rally on Wall Street fizzled yesterday. Declines range 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.480 from two tenths percent to seven tenths percent. Billions of 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:47.000 dollars have been pouring into artificial intelligence, and investors are 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:50.760 growing cautious about lofty stock valuations, but Wall Street has 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:54.120 posted a string of record highs. Yesterday's pause in the 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:57.520 AI rally came after investors cheered a wave of alliances 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:01.920 this month, involving Open ai in Nvidia and Asian tech companies. 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:05.680 The Elon Musk backed AI startup Xai is also raising 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:09.720 more financing than initially planned, including an equity investment from 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:17.960 Nvidia from Bloomberg genas Cervetti on news radio seven hundred WLW. 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:17.840 Hey, good morning. 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:22.520 It's eight forty on seven hundred WLW in Cincinnati, Steve 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:26.040 Hawkins and for Tom Brenneman. This morning, I thought we'd 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:29.280 head out to Washington right now. I've seen the National correspondent, 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.840 Steven Portnoy with say, good morning, Stephen, how are you hey? 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:33.640 Good money to you, sir. 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:38.080 Hey. James Comy is being a ragin today. Just refresh 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:40.680 our listeners who he is and what's happening here. 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:44.400 The former FBI director is charged with two counts of 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:48.560 lying to the Senate Judiciary Committee five years ago, where 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:52.120 he reiterated his earlier testimony years prior that he had 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:55.560 never authorized anyone at the FBI to share details with 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:59.680 the press about the Clinton or Trump investigations. Now I 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.760 have to say we've learned a couple of things. One 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:06.200 is we knew that career federal prosecutors in the Eastern 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.600 District of Virginia had recommended that charges not be brought 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.640 because the career prosecutors believed that they could not sustain 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.840 the charges. This morning, ABC News is reporting new details 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.480 as to why there's a man at the center of 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:21.080 this case. His name is Dan Richmond, former FBI consultant, 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.920 longtime friend of James Comby, former Justice Department official alongside 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.920 him there and a Columbia University law professor. Now Comy 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:32.240 has admitted that he leaned on Richmond as an intermediary 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:35.680 with the press following his firing by President Trump in 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:39.600 twenty seventeen. That Comy had some of the extemporane contemporaneous 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:43.080 memos that he wrote about his meetings of Trump leaked 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.400 to The New York Times through this man, Dan Richmond, 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:50.920 in sworn testimony, he has denied that he gave anyone 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:55.800 at the FBI the instruction to share information, leak information 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.560 to the press, but he's accused of lying about that. 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:03.320 Now News has learned that Dan Richmond told investigators earlier 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:07.120 this year that Comy never authorized him to provide information 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.440 to reporters before the twenty sixteen elections. So if that's 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.720 the testimony he's prepared to give under oath, what proof 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.840 do prosecutors have that Comy committed the offenses. 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.240 They're charging him with? Wow, this morning, it's not clear. 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.320 So two prosecutors declined to do it, so Trump went 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.919 and got his own the third prosecutor. 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:26.800 Is that how that happened? 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:30.480 Lindsay Halligan is the newly installed US attorney who rejected 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.679 the recommendation of her office and moved forward, got a 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.919 grand jury to indict. You know, a majority is all 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.160 you need, and she achieved it. It's a much harder 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:44.119 task to get a jury to unanimously convict. Now, ultimately, 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:46.840 you know who is Lindsay Halligan? Well, she's never been 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:50.760 a prosecutor before. In fact, she seemed to stumble before 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.880 the judge, the magistrate judge in the Eastern District when 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:57.320 she handed up the indictment, because she signed two different 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:01.760 copies of what were essentially conflicting documents, and the judge 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:03.879 had to ask her what was going on because the 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:10.120 judge never seen it before. Ultimately, she is an insurance 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:12.760 lawyer by trade. She was formerly in the White House 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.680 task with rooting out what's described as inappropriate content at 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:20.320 the Smithsonian Institution. She was a personal lawyer to Donald Trump, 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:22.679 who was present at mar Lago the day of the 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:24.480 FBI raid in twenty twenty two. 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:30.240 But I understand the grand jury did indict based on 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.439 what she gave them, the documents and things right now. 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:36.080 On two of the charts, they were failed. They were 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:38.200 not persuaded on the third, but. 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:42.080 Just enough fourteen of the twenty three votes you need twelve, 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:45.520 they got fourteen on the other two counts. And you 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:50.160 know again, Comey's accused of lying more than five years ago. 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:52.880 The statute of limitations expired at the end of last month, 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.679 on the fifth anniversary of his testimony. The President, prior 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:00.520 to the indictment, tweeted, well I should say truth, posted 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:05.399 online at Pam Bondy, urging her to get moving on 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:08.959 this case, and days later the indictment was handed up. 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:12.919 So the trial doesn't start today. Explain to us what 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.080 the arraignment means today, an. 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:19.040 Arraignment is the formal beginning of a criminal case, a 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:22.040 criminal trial, and the defendant will be brought before the court. 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:24.960 The charges will be read aloud, a plea will be entered. 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:27.520 You can imagine that James Commy is going to plead 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:28.080 not guilty. 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:32.359 Is in these cases do plea bargains happen? Or is 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:35.119 he going to jail? What could be the best and 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:39.080 worst outcome for him? Well, look, I mean, he's ardent 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:41.840 that he's innocent. And this is again a case that's 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:44.199 been looked at for years. Decisions were repeatedly made not 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:46.520 to bring these charges, but that decision has been overcome 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:47.959 by the prosecutor. 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:50.680 Now. Ultimately, is. 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:54.640 COMI going to agree that he committed some other offense 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:57.640 with some deal with the Justice Department? I doubt that 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.639 He's pretty ardent in his belo that he did not 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:04.880 commit a crime. As for what today will bring it, 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:07.680 it probably will bring some conversation between the judge and 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:10.640 the parties as to what the conditions are for Comey's release. 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:12.840 I'd be very surprised if he were to be ordered 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:16.560 to tained. Remember this, the indictment was handed up weeks ago, 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:20.199 and the decision was made to by the court to 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:24.000 send him a summons, not to have him brought in 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:24.600 any sooner. 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:29.760 All right, keep us informed on what's going on. Steven Portnoy, 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:33.440 ABC News National correspondent Washington, thanks for report this morning. 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:37.760 Appreciated you bet eight five now and seven hundred WLW. 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:41.280 Sloany's coming up after nine o'clock this morning. He's got 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:45.560 carry sloan in balancing gun rights with the murders at 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:46.920 a ten year high in Ohio. 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:49.119 That's what he's going to start with. Out of the 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:50.600 gate and ten oh seven. 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:54.760 James Rapin in here talking Bengals and Joe Flacco at 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:57.560 Snart Report this morning with Sarah Leise. That's all coming 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:01.040 up with Slowey after nine o'clock this morning. Seven hundred 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:05.960 WLW checking Chuck. Yes, sir, I don't think I talked 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:07.560 to you about this, but this may be the most 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:10.080 important story of the morning. Oh no, have you heard 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:13.800 about the lady who in California who allegedly registered her 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:17.639 dog to vote. I did not voted twice here. You know, 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:20.960 voting is a fundamental right for every US citizen. Yes, 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:23.399 I don't know about dogs though. I don't think so. 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:26.920 She was charged with five felonies for allegedlate registering her 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:29.879 dog to vote, casting ballots in the pup's name for 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:35.639 the twenty twenty one California gubertatorial recall election, and as 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:39.840 a result of her alleged action actions, the dog not 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:44.159 only voted once, but successfully under a dog name voted 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:46.040 twice in California. 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:47.560 Amazing perjury. 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:51.000 One count of procuring or offering a false forged document 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:54.159 to be filed. And the greatest part of this she 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:59.560