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Speaker 1: We have got a great show for you tonight. Europe
Speaker 1: is feeling the heat. Du Say Sloan tries to make
Speaker 1: you lay it for work, and President Joe Biden is
Speaker 1: hoping to fist his way to a higher approval rating.
Speaker 1: So let's do these people. Let's up straight into today's headlines. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's kick things off with Europe, the continent with a
Speaker 1: long history of white on white violence. Unfortunately, Europe is
Speaker 1: not having a good time right now. There's slow war
Speaker 1: in Ukraine, which is also causing an energy crisis. Italy's
Speaker 1: Prime minister has called it quits. Britain has lost its leadership,
Speaker 1: which means now they'll have to find another magic spell.
Speaker 1: To turn a dandelion into a prime minister. Plus for
Speaker 1: the first time ever, the euro has become less valuable
Speaker 1: than the dollar yea and with the economy struggling, European
Speaker 1: workers are now limited to only forty five weeks of
Speaker 1: vacation a year. And as if all of that wasn't enough,
Speaker 1: now Europe is dealing with a heart girl summer that
Speaker 1: nobody asked for. The triple digit temperatures that have sparked
Speaker 1: forest fires and drought conditions here in the States are
Speaker 1: also taking hold in Europe. This morning, people are being
Speaker 1: warned to take cover as deadly heat sweeps across Britain,
Speaker 1: the National Weather Service issuing the first ever extreme heat warning,
Speaker 1: with forecast highs of a hundred and five today and tomorrow,
Speaker 1: hotter than the Sahara Desert and Delhi. The scorching heat
Speaker 1: is bearing down on all of Western Europe, fueling out
Speaker 1: of control wildfires. In southwest France, the planes dumped yet
Speaker 1: more water over wildfires that have burned an area bigger
Speaker 1: than twenty thousand football fields. The hate is causing havoc
Speaker 1: London's Luton Airport and an r A F base in
Speaker 1: Oxfordshire both being forced to close because the runways were melting.
Speaker 1: Mammy sucker bl bloody bull sweats the runways in Europe
Speaker 1: on melt. Did you hear that the runways on melting?
Speaker 1: You never want to land a plane and here go?
Speaker 1: What are you even in that situation? What do you do?
Speaker 1: Like if the runways melted, where's the plane gonna land?
Speaker 1: In the baby's mouth? That's right, open the baby, please baby,
Speaker 1: the plane in your baby. You know, this is one
Speaker 1: of those situations where you really appreciate how calm a
Speaker 1: pilot is, you know, because like even when a runaways melting,
Speaker 1: I bet the pilot is just gonna be there, like
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, seems the airplane is melting as the ground.
Speaker 1: So how must just everyone get back to their seats?
Speaker 1: Hold on? Now, it seems like a portal to the
Speaker 1: underworld is opened and we're slowly being sucked by the
Speaker 1: devil himself. So I'm gonna go ahead and turn on
Speaker 1: the fast and sea bulls, it's a pack, relax and
Speaker 1: enjoy the flat. But yes, Europe is scorching hot right now,
Speaker 1: and it's so bad that there were photos going around
Speaker 1: today off people pouring water in the mouths of the
Speaker 1: gods at Buckingham Palace. Yeah, I mean, if if I
Speaker 1: had to make a suggestion, though, maybe the first thing
Speaker 1: I would do in a heatwave is lose the ten
Speaker 1: foot heap covered entirely in fur, or at least filled
Speaker 1: with ice. It looks like it would be a good cooler,
Speaker 1: you know. And remember remember you might be hearing those
Speaker 1: temperatures in America going like a hundred degrees. That doesn't
Speaker 1: sound bad, but remember this heat wave is especially bad
Speaker 1: for Europe because Europeans are not prepared for this kind
Speaker 1: of heat. Yeah, they don't use air conditioners in most
Speaker 1: parts of Europe. They don't even put ice in their drinks,
Speaker 1: and they can get sunburnt from like a camera flash.
Speaker 1: Ha ha ha. So how do I look? So once again,
Speaker 1: all over the world we're experiencing record temperatures, wildfires, and droughts,
Speaker 1: and I mean, I know it can't be climate change
Speaker 1: because Fox says that's not real, so it's probably pronouns
Speaker 1: it is pronounced. Those are pretty bad. Anyway. Let's move
Speaker 1: on from Europe to another place that's feeling the heat,
Speaker 1: the White House. After being unable to accomplish anything like
Speaker 1: Joe Biden has campaigned on the President's approval rating is
Speaker 1: now hovering somewhere between long COVID and Uvaldi police departments,
Speaker 1: and making matters worse for him is a runaway inflation, right,
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to gas prices. The prices of
Speaker 1: gas are so high that these days driving is the
Speaker 1: entire dates. You know. It's just like he rarely spoiled me.
Speaker 1: Last night, we we drove all the way from my
Speaker 1: house to the end of the block. He's so romantic.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. There's the thing. Until gas prices improve,
Speaker 1: neither will will will Joe Biden's approval racing right, which
Speaker 1: is why over the weekend he was in Saudi Arabia
Speaker 1: making nice with a front of me who just happens
Speaker 1: to own a lot of oil. It was the fist
Speaker 1: bump scene around the world, the President with Saudi Crown
Speaker 1: Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the man the US holds responsible
Speaker 1: for the murder of journalists Jamal Kaso. It's the image
Speaker 1: the Saudis had hoped for and the White House had
Speaker 1: hoped to avoid. Biden's doctors reportedly disallowed handshakee to due
Speaker 1: to COVID, but conveniently also helped the President avoid a
Speaker 1: photo op of shaking the hand of the Crown Prince.
Speaker 1: The fist bump R. President should talk about bombers, baggage. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: stop asking him about the first bomb. Asked him about
Speaker 1: the looming mercession. No, actually, just asked me about the
Speaker 1: first bomb, the first bomb. America obsesses about these things.
Speaker 1: Don't don't look too friendly, don't do it. It's also
Speaker 1: funny how President Biden thought it would be better to
Speaker 1: fist bump Mohammed been someone because that seems less friendly
Speaker 1: than I had shake. That's the whitest decision of all time. No,
Speaker 1: because it's the opposite. Handshakes are the most formal way
Speaker 1: to meet someone, even your enemy. You can be like hello,
Speaker 1: but first bombs is always like what's up? What's up? Killer?
Speaker 1: I see you, I see you, man, I see you there.
Speaker 1: You know what I really think happened? I think Joe
Speaker 1: Biden's team briefed him, and they're like Mr President in
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, if you make them mad and you have ella,
Speaker 1: chop off your hands, so you want to hide your fingers,
Speaker 1: get in quick, in and out, in and out, God speeding,
Speaker 1: Mr President You know what Biden should have done if
Speaker 1: he didn't want any controversy in this is he should
Speaker 1: have gone in for the handshake and then given him
Speaker 1: the psych Just do that move. There's no comeback for
Speaker 1: that devastating. If he did that, NBS would have been like, Oh,
Speaker 1: just take all the oil and go. Don't tell my friends,
Speaker 1: don't tell my friends. And Okay, if you're wondering why
Speaker 1: this the situation is so awkward? Right, Oh, who cares?
Speaker 1: He fist bumped him, he met him. Why is it
Speaker 1: so bad? It's because back during the presidential campaign, Biden
Speaker 1: was saying things like this because show he was in
Speaker 1: fact murdered and dismembered. And I believe in the order
Speaker 1: of the Crown Prince there's very little social redeeming value
Speaker 1: of the in the president government in Saudi Arabia. We
Speaker 1: were going to in fact make them pay the price
Speaker 1: and make them in fact the pariah. They are awkward, yeah,
Speaker 1: because how do you go from that to flying across
Speaker 1: the world to meet the guy in his palace. Biden
Speaker 1: must have been a little nervous. You know, you meet
Speaker 1: the guy and you said all these things about him,
Speaker 1: called him a murderer, callan. Now you in his palace,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be walking in like, come on, you've you've
Speaker 1: watched Fox News, I just read the teller problems or man,
Speaker 1: I don't even know why. Most of the time that
Speaker 1: wasn't me. And unfortunately for President Biden, the bad news
Speaker 1: didn't stop at his presidential pound yes, because when Biden
Speaker 1: got back to the US, he had to deal with
Speaker 1: another all powerful dictator, Joe Mansion, West Virginia Democrat, and
Speaker 1: somehow the real presidents of the United States, because you see,
Speaker 1: Biden has spent the last two years trying to get
Speaker 1: Joe Mansion to vote for his Build Back Better bill,
Speaker 1: But Mansion has spent the last two years saying no,
Speaker 1: and he's been giving a variety of answers. You know,
Speaker 1: or I don't want to risk inflation, I don't want
Speaker 1: to end off shore drilling. I'm a Gemini and mercuries
Speaker 1: in retrograde and now it's not a good time to
Speaker 1: make big decisions. So a lot of back and forth.
Speaker 1: Mansion said, look, I'll do a much small a bull
Speaker 1: that only has some health insurance expansions and the climate
Speaker 1: change stuff, and then like you can raise taxes on
Speaker 1: corporations to pay for it. So Democrats took out everything
Speaker 1: mentioned and want and came back last week with a
Speaker 1: bill that only has what he asked for, to which
Speaker 1: Joe Manson said more now from Capitol Hill, where Democrats
Speaker 1: are extremely upset with Senator Joe Mansion after he effectively
Speaker 1: torpedoed their hopes of acting on climate change it concept.
Speaker 1: Mansion told Democratic leadership he is not willing to back
Speaker 1: major climate and tax provisions in President Biden's agenda. Senator
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders was especially upset over the weekend, suggesting Mansion
Speaker 1: never negotiated in good faith in the first place. People
Speaker 1: like Mansion, Cinma sent him up to a lesson degree,
Speaker 1: who are intentionally sabotaging the president's agenda? What the American
Speaker 1: people want? What the majority of us in the Democrat
Speaker 1: caught this one. Nothing new about this, yep, Bernie's piste off.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen him this piston someone trying to give
Speaker 1: him one percent milk. I'll stand with the nine nine
Speaker 1: percent fact, milk that's been excluded from the dariel for
Speaker 1: far too long. No more with the one percent. And
Speaker 1: I get it. I get why Democrats are frustrated with
Speaker 1: Joe Manchon because he's on your team, he's wearing your jersey,
Speaker 1: but every time he gets the ball he dunks on you.
Speaker 1: But if your mansion doesn't believe in these policies, the
Speaker 1: least he could do is just say so upfront, instead
Speaker 1: of wasting everybody's time and jerking the Democrats around for
Speaker 1: a year pretending there's something that couldn't be join amobile.
Speaker 1: You know this, You know this reminds me of this
Speaker 1: reminds me of the time I tried to take a
Speaker 1: girl to the problem, right and she was like, well,
Speaker 1: first you have to buy me flowers, then you have
Speaker 1: to rent a limo, then we have to go somewhere
Speaker 1: nice for dinner. And I did all of that, and
Speaker 1: then the night of the problem came and she was like,
Speaker 1: I don't think that, as your history teacher, is appropriate
Speaker 1: for me to go to the problem with you in
Speaker 1: the park White you said that at the beginning, Mrs
Speaker 1: Chen kids could not broken. I don't have a date.
Speaker 1: Why she's so big ahead. She was a very interesting person,
Speaker 1: all right. Finally, some news from the world of automobiles.
Speaker 1: Transformers that never went through puberty. Every year car companies
Speaker 1: compete to see who can offer the most exciting new options,
Speaker 1: you know, like voice activated controls or augmented reality windshields,
Speaker 1: or trunks that have got a lot more junk. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're looking good, so then I see you. I see you.
Speaker 1: But the latest innovation isn't a new feature. No, it's
Speaker 1: a new way to pay for what you get. A
Speaker 1: new kind of subscription could be making its way to
Speaker 1: your bank statements. BMW says that it will start charging
Speaker 1: a monthly fee for heated seats. It costs about twelve
Speaker 1: dollars a month and would allow the car maker to
Speaker 1: activate the heating coils already built into the seat. You
Speaker 1: can purchase the heated seats when you buy the car,
Speaker 1: but for those who didn't, you can at least temporarily
Speaker 1: try them out on a cold day with the subscription.
Speaker 1: They're also considering a subscription service for heated steering wheels.
Speaker 1: It's interesting BMW is gonna let people subscribe for certain
Speaker 1: features in the car, like heated seats. Yeah, so instead
Speaker 1: of just buying it, you pay month to month, which
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, actually sounds great because I don't need
Speaker 1: heated seats in the summer, so why am I paying? Huh?
Speaker 1: They should do this very feature, the radio, the windshield wipers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the horn. I don't need the horn all the time.
Speaker 1: I want to subscribe to the horn if I get
Speaker 1: cuddled this mother, Yo, give me three, give me three,
Speaker 1: loading up, give me three and light is adds up?
Speaker 1: But does then you realize there's the downside to this, right?
Speaker 1: Car manufacturers are joining the subscription model, and we know
Speaker 1: how this goes. First you buy things, then they go, oh,
Speaker 1: now you subscribe, and then how does it end? It
Speaker 1: always ends with ads? Always so when he amount of
Speaker 1: time before you buy a BMW and then you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to like listen to a Mattress ad every time
Speaker 1: you start the car. The killers coming kill, Let's get
Speaker 1: out of here. Are you looking for a new mattress aft? That? So? Look,
Speaker 1: car manufacturers one subscription plans. That's fine. You know, pay
Speaker 1: for the parts of the car that you only want
Speaker 1: when you use them. I think that actually works, although
Speaker 1: you better be warned if you forget to renew the
Speaker 1: wrong subscriptions, that ship could end in tears. Oh oh,
Speaker 1: should I knew? I should have renewed the brake subscription
Speaker 1: all right, you've got me BMW one more month, one
Speaker 1: more month of brace please wait wait seven one months
Speaker 1: and then shifty for you? Is that cheap? Is that?
Speaker 1: Where's that? That? Seven? Seven times twelve? That equals it's
Speaker 1: gonna be? And I'm fine, I'm fine, I made it.
Speaker 1: I'm fine. All right, that's it for the headlines. But
Speaker 1: before we go to a quick break, let's check in
Speaker 1: on the stock market without finance expert Michael cost to everybody. Okay, Michaels, Okay,
Speaker 1: you'll get okay, So what's happening in the markets? Man?
Speaker 1: The market? You? Okay? First of all, that was a
Speaker 1: that was a that was a tumble. That wasn't That
Speaker 1: wasn't real. It wasn't real. Okay, all right, god that's great.
Speaker 1: Um I'm crushing the markets, dude, crushing, crushing, crushing, still crushing.
Speaker 1: And I got a hot tip for you. I got
Speaker 1: a hot tip for all you pay attention. All right,
Speaker 1: So let's get into this, okay. Well, actually, first of all,
Speaker 1: BMW the subscription for the warm seats, Yeah right, I
Speaker 1: mean I'm over all these subscriptions. Okay. I was trying
Speaker 1: to print something recently and my printer was like, hey,
Speaker 1: you want to sign up for an INK subscription. So
Speaker 1: why would I give my credit card to a printing
Speaker 1: company when I can just do all my personal printing
Speaker 1: here at work. Okay, I'm mad, Trevor. I print manuals,
Speaker 1: Encyclopedia's health records, thousands of pages. You know, I print someone.
Speaker 1: It's actually easier for me just to take one of
Speaker 1: the work printers home with me and now I print
Speaker 1: from working home. I can print anything you want. You
Speaker 1: just let me know I got printed for it. I
Speaker 1: will let me know. I got a hot tip too. Okay,
Speaker 1: don't forget, I got a hot tip for you guys. Alright,
Speaker 1: let's let's get to this. What's happening. I'll show you well,
Speaker 1: you know what the European heat wave. Yes, that that's hot.
Speaker 1: That is hot. I was just in Ireland for a
Speaker 1: couple of days. It's it's hot. It's hot, and they
Speaker 1: don't handle the heat. Well there, okay, I mean, how
Speaker 1: are you gonna cool off? Drink a lukewarm guinness and
Speaker 1: have some piping hot shepherd's pie. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: This gravy is so refreshing. You know, it is hot
Speaker 1: in Europe and with the euro now, when you're in Europe,
Speaker 1: you're hot and you're broke. I was thinking, I haven't
Speaker 1: been this hot and broke since I was eighteen living
Speaker 1: in l A doing shirtless auditions for independent films that
Speaker 1: never got mailed. The director said that they're caught up
Speaker 1: in editing. But it's been about twenty years, Trevor. So
Speaker 1: all right, I got a hot tip for you. Don't forget.
Speaker 1: I won't forget. All right, let's break down this euro chart.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, this thing looks like you're skiing down
Speaker 1: the Swiss Alps. Am I right now, I know that
Speaker 1: because thanks to how low the euro is, I can
Speaker 1: afford to now ski down the Swiss alse. This is
Speaker 1: great news for all of us. It is Europe. Europe
Speaker 1: is now cheat for us in America. You know, think
Speaker 1: about Americans love going to Mexico because it's so cheap. Well,
Speaker 1: what we didn't realize was this whole previous time, America
Speaker 1: was Mexico to to Europe, right, But now that's swapped.
Speaker 1: Europe is our Mexico and we got Mexico. Right, we
Speaker 1: have two Mexicos. No other country in the world has
Speaker 1: two Mexicos. Think about that now, What I like about
Speaker 1: this is this has dropped the Europeans cockiness a little bit.
Speaker 1: You know, some French, Well you Americans, you're so over weight,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, yeah, maybe we are everyway because maybe
Speaker 1: we've just stuffed our pockets with our currency right, and
Speaker 1: it's weighing us down. I promised you a hot tip, yea,
Speaker 1: the whole time, hot tip in Europe. You don't tip right,
Speaker 1: and it's hot there. Yeah. I wonder how many people
Speaker 1: have dressed on your advice. Michael cops to everybody when
Speaker 1: we come back. That's slow as hit in the streets,
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Speaker 1: to day short. You know, there's so much important to
Speaker 1: us out that these days. So I asked still Say
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Speaker 1: the people to get their opinions about issues. But dul
Speaker 1: Say just does what she wants, so instead she came
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Speaker 1: the world, I'm asking hard hitting questions about the issues
Speaker 1: of the day, But not today. I'm out at the
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Speaker 1: when we come back, we'll be talking about w NBA.
Speaker 1: Start Brittany Grinder, who's been detained in Russia four months now,
Speaker 1: So don't go away, ye, Welcome back to your Daily show.
Speaker 1: Five months ago w n B a star Britney Grinder
Speaker 1: was detained by the Russian government while visiting Russia to
Speaker 1: play with the local basketball team. We're joined now by
Speaker 1: Terry Jackson, executive director of the union representing w NBA players,
Speaker 1: to discuss where the situation currently stands and where we
Speaker 1: hope to go from here. Terry Jackson, Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Daily Show. Thank you, Channer. So I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start with the question that really sets up the whole
Speaker 1: you know, not even discussion, but the situation. Some people
Speaker 1: have seen pieces of the story Brittney Grinder detained in Russia.
Speaker 1: Some say, you know it it was because of a
Speaker 1: false accusation, some say it was because of prescriptions. How
Speaker 1: did the story start, just to get everybody on the
Speaker 1: same page, our very own Brittney Grinder b G was
Speaker 1: returning back to Russia. UM. I think everybody saw that
Speaker 1: the clip of her in the airport. UM. At some
Speaker 1: point there was a search of her belongings and UM
Speaker 1: what we learned thereafter was that she was detained. She
Speaker 1: was returning back to Russia to go play with her
Speaker 1: team that she's played with for several years and one
Speaker 1: great championships UM for them. UM, So she didn't make
Speaker 1: it back to the team. She was detained. And let's
Speaker 1: just stop right there and just think about what that
Speaker 1: means to be an American over in Russia, to to
Speaker 1: be learning about this process in real time and UM
Speaker 1: coming forward and making the statements that she made. And
Speaker 1: we're just hoping and praying that the judge, the court
Speaker 1: UM extends her great compassion and great mercy because that
Speaker 1: was so incredibly brave to do. But again, but again
Speaker 1: reading the case into the record and and hopefully this
Speaker 1: process again I don't completely understand it, but hopefully this
Speaker 1: process will continue to move forward. And you can see
Speaker 1: a conclusion. If I may interrupt you there, I think
Speaker 1: that's been that's been one of the more confusing aspects
Speaker 1: of the story. Initially, when it kicked off, many people
Speaker 1: were encouraged not to weigh in online, not to bring
Speaker 1: it to the president's attention, not to make it an issue,
Speaker 1: because people felt like this may hamper Um, you know,
Speaker 1: her her defense in Russia, because as you know, in Russia,
Speaker 1: it's different. It's it's not really a trial the way
Speaker 1: Americans think of it. It's more the state lasers. It's
Speaker 1: out it's case, and I think it's over prosecution rates.
Speaker 1: But what was interesting about the story is when it
Speaker 1: happened just as the invasion of Ukraine took place, it
Speaker 1: seemed like Brittany was being used as a pawn in
Speaker 1: the situation. And I know that puts yourselves in a
Speaker 1: precarious position. But how much help are you hoping for
Speaker 1: from the administration and how much you know of a
Speaker 1: movement are you hoping to turn this into or does
Speaker 1: that hamper the negotiations to to bring this wom at home.
Speaker 1: You're right in the beginning, we were quiet Um. That's
Speaker 1: what we were told. That was the best way to
Speaker 1: show our best support. And if anybody knows, and and
Speaker 1: your audience knows, w n b A players UM. They
Speaker 1: are very vocal. They look to get informed about a situation,
Speaker 1: and they will step out on their platforms and and
Speaker 1: and give you know, the proper recognition, the proper spotlight.
Speaker 1: But the way that we were told in the beginning
Speaker 1: UM to best show our support was to be quiet.
Speaker 1: And so what we did was we we reached out
Speaker 1: to experts UM to learn about Russian Ukrainian affairs, to
Speaker 1: learn more about the system, to learn how this could
Speaker 1: play out over the next several weeks. And so, as
Speaker 1: my members always do, they look to get informed and
Speaker 1: educated before they are ready to speak. When we heard
Speaker 1: that the State Department had UM classified b G as
Speaker 1: wrongfully detained, when we heard from Cherrelle Grinder, b g's
Speaker 1: wife that she needed our help, we heard that through
Speaker 1: her team, it was go time for my for my members,
Speaker 1: because this is an issue about the sanctity of sport.
Speaker 1: You're right, she should not be a political pawn. This
Speaker 1: is not a game. This is not the game. And
Speaker 1: so to see our brothers and sisters across all the
Speaker 1: different professional sports and so many different organizations step up
Speaker 1: with us in this global sports community and talk about
Speaker 1: b G and and talk about this case and talk
Speaker 1: about the need to get her home. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: that's gotten, that's gotten the Biden's administration's attention. And Um,
Speaker 1: that call that Cherrelle Grinder got from not only the
Speaker 1: President but the Vice President to assure her that they
Speaker 1: were doing everything possible to get Big home and other
Speaker 1: detained Americans home, Well, that gave us the assurance that
Speaker 1: we need. And you know, quite frankly, Trevor, what this
Speaker 1: country needs is a rallying cry, and that's what we
Speaker 1: are b g is all about. It's a rallying cry.
Speaker 1: We need a win. So we need to stand with
Speaker 1: this president. We need him to do whatever it takes
Speaker 1: to bring Big home. When you look at the situation,
Speaker 1: you know, through the lens of people who are helping
Speaker 1: people who aren't helping. As you said, there's been support,
Speaker 1: you know, from other athletes who who now have been
Speaker 1: given the license to speak. Um, there are some who
Speaker 1: have said, it feels like this isn't something that would
Speaker 1: have happened to you know, one of the men's basketball players,
Speaker 1: and know if this was Lebron, he would have been
Speaker 1: out in a week, is what people say. But it
Speaker 1: feels like whatever dealing with an international incident. There is
Speaker 1: a lot of sensitivity that has to come into play.
Speaker 1: And and so I wandered from your side when looking
Speaker 1: have people raising their voices, et cetera. What are you
Speaker 1: what are you hoping that they would push for? You know,
Speaker 1: is this a situation where you feel the administration has
Speaker 1: got it handled. I know that her family hasn't spoken
Speaker 1: to her, But but what do you need from the
Speaker 1: people or is it just everybody having to wait because
Speaker 1: two governments are having a conversation about a delicate issue.
Speaker 1: You do have to recognize an any geopolitical system or
Speaker 1: situation that you've got to be sensitive, right You've got
Speaker 1: to be careful, You've got to watch, and you've got
Speaker 1: to monitor. Right now, it's go time right now. What
Speaker 1: we need from so many organizations, from from so many
Speaker 1: of our fans, um those in your audience. What we
Speaker 1: need is to unite, to come together, put politics aside,
Speaker 1: and let this administration know we want them to do
Speaker 1: whatever it takes to bring our wrongfully detained Americans home.
Speaker 1: We need folks to go to the we are BG
Speaker 1: dot org website again, I'm going to say it, we
Speaker 1: are e G dot org. Go to that website. Signed
Speaker 1: the petition. Tell folks that you have signed the petition.
Speaker 1: It is important that we get this visibility um and
Speaker 1: that we get the awareness out there. Terry Jackson, thank
Speaker 1: you so much. Jennings probably gonna take a thick break.
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