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Yeah, I remember my dad was just texting me about it and I saw the picture and it's just it's absurd how they're open.
I don't know how they're open at the whole
the whole ceiling is practically collapsed.
And he was like, yeah, you got it.
You got to put this back on air.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I guess they opened up at six o'clock this morning.
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Netanyahu said, quote, President Trump is fiercely leading the free world.
He's a great friend of Israel like no one before him.
Rick Stengel is back with us.
Rick, is this effectively mission accomplished for Israeli president Netanyahu?
Well, Captain, I'm glad you brought up BB Netanyahu.
I remember when I was editor of Time, we used to do every week winners and losers.
The big winner is BB Netanyahu.
He is essentially functioning as our director of national intelligence.
I mean, the president is listening to him rather than our own gigantic intelligence agency.
I remember when I was in the State Department,
John Kerry used to come into the morning meetings shaking his head because he just got off the phone for 45 minutes of being berated by Beebe.
I'm sure Tony Blinken had the same experience.
But the downside of a president like President Trump who thinks foreign policy is about personality rather than a nation's interest is the why he succumbs to Beebe's view of the situation.
Netanyahu has tried to persuade the last three presidents, including Trump in his first term, that
Iran was this far away from having a nuclear weapon.
Well, he finally persuaded Donald Trump in his second term.
That's not a president who is representing America's interests.
That's a president who's doing the bidding of the head of a foreign government.
about intelligence.
Well, it seems like they forgot about intelligence a long time ago.
That was Rick Stengel again, a former undersecretary of state.
I want to get to this too, because this is just right up your alley.
What do you got?
Is this about the supercells?
What's this about?
Yes, it is.
Biden led into our country dangerous supercells.
Really?
Asked by one journalist about the threat of Iranian retaliation on US soil following strikes against three nuclear sites.
The president was quick to pin the blame on Joe Biden.
Could we play that?
All
right,
lot of these
Exactly Exactly what what the
right?
Don't we?
Yes, we do.
Okay.
All right Well, I want to get to the Nobel Peace Prize, please.
Oh, really?
This is awesome big in the news
Trump wants it.
Well, at least Fox thinks that Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize for putting Iran back at least two or three months.
That deserves the
Intelligence, but who cares about intelligence, says that that's not true maybe a couple of months at the most.
So let's listen to the first cut.
from Fox News about its first Trump talking about getting the peace price and then Fox News.
And I've got another cut from Fox News, which is just lovely.
Okay, but let's listen to this one.
This is fantastic.
This is cut 194.
He won the Nobel Priests.
Oh, do you know this?
Can you believe it?
He won the Nobel Peace Prize.
They probably will never give it to me even what I'm doing in Korea and Idlib province and all of these places.
They probably will never give it to me.
You know why?
Because they don't want to.
think I'm gonna
In fact, this week, the MAGA right went out demanding Trump get a prize for a strike that, again, nobody's sure achieved his objective, and a ceasefire that nobody's sure really exists where we'll hold.
I think we're going to see the fruits of this decision tonight play out for many, many years to come.
And if the Nobel Peace Prize were worth anything anymore, I would say the president certainly deserves one.
President Trump is going to win the Nobel Peace Prize, no doubt.
Rather than World War III, we may get more peace.
And rather than 34 felony counts, President Trump may end up with 34 Nobel Peace Prizes.
The president, it was courageous in making this move and making this decision.
And as you said, I think we're going to see the fruits of this decision tonight play out for many, many years to come.
And if the Nobel Peace Prize were worth anything anymore, I would say the president certainly deserves one.
The last president was given the Nobel Peace Prize.
This president may actually earn it.
This was about peace, ultimately.
There's a lot of drama.
We can break down everybody's feelings.
But in the end, I think what's remarkable
is that we have a president who's willing to do anything to bring about world peace.
Man, if he doesn't get the Nobel Peace Prize after this, that thing, it means nothing.
Well, cells, why doesn't he just get his Sharpie out and move them out?
Oh, there you go.
Oh, I forgot about the Sharpie.
Yes.
That's a simple fix.
it is.
I mean, you'd think he'd come up with that immediately, but, you know, I see a lot of this and people disagree with me.
But to me, a lot of this is divert attention and a horrible thing to say, because you know you're under water on just about every issue now domestically.
The economy, it's everything slipping.
And the guy's looking for anything and then of course, you know, he's talking about the parade yet.
I'm already brings it up the worst it gets.
Wow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Dick, thank you.
All right, Dick.
And how about this?
AOC, uh, brutally burst Trump's world bubble.
Pete Hakeseth and I thought this is this is just fun stuff.
This is great stuff I don't have a cut for this, but this is great Newsmax host Todd Starnes applauded Hakeseth who earlier this year was embroiled in the so-called signal gate scandal Starnes wrote on X not a single leak well done secretary of defense There's a standard The post was the target of parody of course AOC led the mockery with
with this particular post.
This is like applauding a grown man for being able to wipe their behind.
Not exactly a vote of confidence.
She wrote that.
Another one wrote, this is such an embarrassing new standard to try to celebrate.
And another one wrote, Megas praising Pete for not leaking war plans again.
It's like giving a toddler a medal for not eating glue.
Congratulations.
He finally did the bare
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cells,
Okay, that's the reason why we're getting all these storms then.
That's it, see?
nice.
Check
out on
Thank you.
Thank you.
We've got multiple waves of storms headed our way.
So I've got 48 hours of chances for rain heavy at times.
We've got rivers that are going to be rising as we go into this weekend too from all of this rain.
So here's what's going on.
The good news is, is the front has sagged south.
It is south of the state, sitting over Chicago now.
Temperatures 70 degrees, patchy fog in places, but that's going to burn off.
Obviously, today we're going to stay cloudy, maybe some spots of sun out there on occasion.
Highs flirting with 80 today, but waves of showers and storms.
There's what I think is going to happen.
I think we're going to see some light rain chances probably around midday, noon or so.
Then maybe a strong storm.
with some gusty winds, maybe small hail, heavy downpour so foreshore, probably around four o'clock, four, five or so, then another round possible, maybe around nine or ten, and that one kind of looks like the line of storms that moves through, and that could of course bring another half an inch of rain.
So total we could get up to an inch, maybe an inch and a half of rain maximum tonight,
we still got rounds to go tomorrow.
And we're not getting the worst of it.
It's going to be much, much heavier up north, but still that's a lot of rain all at once.
So be careful of some streets, you know, kind of get flash flooding on occasion.
Like I mentioned, too, the rivers are going to be rising after the next two days.
So the Wisconsin River at Portage, actually, they're going to be up about, they're looking at 18 feet.
So a five foot rise by this weekend.
Wow, that's outrageous.
I did.
The video of it.
That is like, like I said, it's a fall.
It
a way to
I'd rather opened up again.
That was a quick turnaround.
That
That's what a black hole sounds like.
Man, that is frightened stuff, isn't it?
They're making that up.
That's what they released.
This is a NASA releasing the effects of it.
It sounds really scary, but by the time any of those solar systems or planets make it into even near that black hole under those planets are dead.
So, I don't know if that's, you know, a comforter.
Thanks for bringing that in.
Trying to
up.
I'm trying to make this happy.
You know what?
This makes the rain sound not too bad.
There you go.
Yes, that's it.
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I don't know what your advisors have told you about the authoritarian bargain, but the basic deal is this, the American people look the other way.
While you disappear, undesirables knuckle under the elites, ban all seven trans athletes from our nation's beloved NCAA fencing tournaments.
You know, all the people that are holding us back and then you in turn make
work.
You want to ignore the Supreme Court and all the other courts and take away people's licenses to broadcast?
Fine.
But when the planes go up, you're going to kill them.
I'm not on fire.
You can take over Greenland, demonize Canada, dominate the golfing pro-circuit, but in return, our children should be somewhat safe from most Victorian era diseases.
You want to destroy NPR and PBS, The Voice of America, sell the naming rights of the Washington Monument to hymns.com, use the R word, the P word, the C word, make up your own slurs, have the United States Naval Academy, remove Maya Angelou from its bookshelves, but for some reason keep mine calm, which is a real f***ing thing that they did.
We'll be fine.
We weren't that crazy about the system of government in the first place.
But you keep f***ing this up.
And some of these lawyers and universities and corporate leaders are going to start to think about
suggesting, respectfully, to each other in a very tightly controlled text chat, that someone should reach out to someone who knows someone in your administration to express mild dissatisfaction.
Because injustice anywhere is not something we mostly think
Hmm.
John Stewart.
Yeah.
Saying a very nice way.
Telling it like it is.
Yes.
Very nicely.
In a kind of a Chuck Schumer kind of way.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But anyway, uh, let's talk about, uh, what's he, he mentioned that, you know, sweeping people off the streets, right?
Uh, the question is ice.
Who are these people?
Right?
No, no.
Mast immigration agents.
Nobody knows.
And, and how do the police identify them?
Right?
That's the problem.
Police have little or no insight into where the federal enforcement actions are going to be taking place in each and every one of the cities that we get to watch.
in absolute pain.
I mean,
it
We're wondering what are we going to do about this?
Secret police.
That's what they are.
Now, here's what previous administrations have actually gone in and informed the cities of enforcement actions that they're going to take place in their cities.
So law enforcement has a heads up on that.
So there's no conflict.
Right now, there is conflict.
They don't know who they're confronting at this point.
I don't think they're giving them a heads up nowadays.
No, they're not not at all.
That's that's the thing they're not doing.
Yeah, because they don't want Word to get out and the immigrants writing at that point But if they tell the police departments at least that you know, we're gonna be here there and mm-hmm
there's some kind of preparation involved.
That would help a great deal.
And I think that's the problem we're really seeing here.
They don't know who they're confronting.
Police don't know who they're confronting.
LA Mayor Karen Bass said after the Dodger Stadium incident, this is a quote, they show up without uniforms.
They show up completely masked.
They refuse to give ID.
Who are these people?
Are they bounty hunters?
Are they vigilantes?
If they're federal officials, why is it that they do not identify themselves?
That's, that's the question.
And we see a problem here and the administration is not taking care of that problem.
I think bring back informing the local police departments about ICE raids.
That's what they should at least start doing, but show some identification.
My God, now here's a clip from Chris Hayes last night.
I believe this is cut 191.
Let's listen to this.
This is about the Marine and his, this guy, this father who was taken by
ice agents.
Listen, listen.
according to a new analysis from the Libertarian Cato Institute.
Ice arrests of non-criminals are up more than a thousand percent when compared to the first year of Donald Trump's first term.
10x thousand percent.
Every day we are seeing stories of immigration enforcement that truly shocks the conscience.
I mean, big groups of armed masked men just rolling up to regular folks who've not been convicted or accused of serious crimes or any crimes.
People who, in many cases, are just trying to do their jobs, and then these menacing, armed, unidentified agents roll up and confront them and detain them, often as onlookers cry out for them to stop.
One example from the city of Santa Ana involved a landscaper named Narciso Barranco, an undocumented man with no criminal record, who's lived and worked in this country for decades.
You see his three sons there, all of whom are Marines.
One, Alejandro is a veteran.
The other two men are active duty.
Well, over the weekend, Bronco was doing what he does every Saturday, working.
He was cutting grass at an IHOP restaurant in Santa Ana when he was approached by armed, identified masked men.
Frightened, Bronco fled the men, still holding his weed wacker.
The agents chased him.
They caught up with Bronco, and they sprayed him in the face with something, wrestled him to the ground, and started beating him.
In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said Bronco assaulted agents with his weed whacker.
Just like I said, Brad Lander had assaulted them.
eyewitnesses, including the manager of that IHOP, say that is a
lie.
And I asked him about it and he just broke down and he said his shoulder was hurt, like it hurt a lot.
And then he said his eyes burned and he was thirsty, he was hungry.
Alejandro says his father's first concern, he asked his son to finish the landscaping job he had to leave behind.
Did he go get my truck?
Did he get to get the tools?
Did he go talk to the guy?
He's like, I think he's like, I still need a leaf blow that the parking lot is taking.
Can
you go through that for me,
And you know, the weed-whackers lay next to them as they are wrestling them to the ground.
And I guess Laura Sadato was going to show a clip.
They didn't come up with the clip, but apparently they say that he took the weed-whacker and started threatening them with it.
which is wrong.
No, according to the store owner, who the work was being done for.
He said he didn't see anything like that, that the is his worker was actually running away from them.
He
And again, as you saw or heard rather, a thousand times that, you know, people are being taken away who are here.
legally.
Immigrants here legally.
We talked to CJ yesterday about it.
He has no problem with that.
This was not what anybody voted for.
You don't take all these people out.
You know, we have a labor shortage in this country and we're getting rid of the labor that we have.
They didn't take other people's jobs.
We
have
one.
Let's catch it.
That black hole noise is what happens inside Trump's head every second of every day.
Have a good day,
guys.
Is that
Matt?
Yep.
Tricking for the birds.
Right around the corner, we're going to be checking in with Amy Horak from David J. Frank and Company and find out what we should be doing with our lawns and gardens when we get heavy rains and then heavy winds and all that stuff.
That's coming up in just a couple of minutes.
Sleeper cells?
I mean, supercells?
Supercells?
No.
I keep getting those confused.
I know.
I know it's tough, isn't it?
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Nice and humid and sticky.
Yes.
Oh, we love that
what are people?
Sweat doing nothing out there.
that kind of thing.
Yeah, so usually by mid-June or so you want to make sure if you have an irrigation system that you have it up and running, make sure it's started and make sure that there's any repairs that are needed that you get those taken care of.
But like you said, with all these heavy rains we've been having now, if there is a way to
adjust the settings on your irrigation system.
You might want to consider that, check into it.
You can shut it off for a couple days.
You don't need to spend extra money to water the lawn.
Doesn't
going on?
There's trying to fight with the rain and it's just kind of pointless at that point.
So yeah, if you do have a system, turn it off if it's going to be pouring like that.
There's no need to keep running more.
But you do want to make sure that you're getting at least about an inch to maybe two inches of water in the landscape.
throughout the week.
Just
to make sure your plants are staying healthy.
I mean, if you have newly planted perennials or new trees that are planted in the lawn, you want to make sure that you're still getting those enough water because trees need a lot more than the turf do.
So you don't want them to dry out because then there goes all that hard work.
They still have a
as
No.
Yeah.
Trees, you can still put mulch around the base of it, but you don't want to, um, they call it like a mulch volcano.
So when you mound it up and go up the trunk of the tree, you don't want to do that.
You want to leave a little bit of a clear space around that trunk.
Um, otherwise that extra moisture retention and just can lead to things, um, such as more disease and rot that can happen because that trunk staying too wet.
Yeah.
So this is a good time of year to do fungicide applications, things like roses or other flowering landscape plants, even trees too, like crab apple trees.
They're pretty notorious for getting some types of fungal diseases.
No
They don't look too happy once they're covered in black mold spots.
So spraying them with a fungicide, it's usually every like 10 to 14 days you want to do a reapplication, try to do it on a day it's not going to rain and just wash it all off right away.
But I'm trying to be mindful of that if you want to keep them just looking a little happier, make sure the foliage stays on throughout the season instead of just having the tree go bare too soon.
Yeah, no, we're
is June.
So the June bugs do start coming out hence the name.
But tent caterpillars as well.
They're they're going to be more on like apple trees and Hawthorne.
So if you notice them, it's pretty easy to see their nest is just kind of like a giant web or nest or tent, I guess.
There you go.
OK.
If you see them there, you can just take some pruners and just cut that chunk of a branch or plant out.
That's probably the easiest way to get rid of them.
Otherwise, if you want to play with the caterpillars, I mean, by all means, you can.
use your hands and get rid of them that way.
They're not super detrimental.
I mean, they're native to Wisconsin, but you can feed the birds with them.
I feel like if they find a spot they like, they might, but they'll hang out on the trees more or less to be right by a food source.
They do make pretty cute little moths though.
Yeah, a lot of caterpillars.
They'll be moths.
Some people don't like them, but they're
time?
So this time of year, I would be probably doing your last spring application of lawn fertilizer or an herbicide treatment to your lawn.
Once we get into July and August, there are notoriously scorcher months.
I
wouldn't want to put any chemicals down in the lawn.
Other heavy feeders like roses or peonies, you might want to continue to feed them just so those blooms stay nice and full throughout the season.
And otherwise too.
What about lawn
Yeah.
Um, still keep up with the mowing.
Obviously, if it's too wet outside, you don't want to clog your mower up.
That's just no fun.
But once we get to the hot months as well, you might want to consider raising the height on your lawn mower.
That way you can let the grass stay a little longer because with the longer grass, it'll help protect the crown and the roots and won't let it dry out so your lawn doesn't get brown and crispy.
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