The Daily Signal - Harris’ 100 Day Economic Plan, ESPN Newscaster Fired, Preliminary Trump Assassination Investigation Released | Aug. 16

Starting point is 00:00:00 Kamala Harris says she has big plans for the economy if elected president. How is she distinguishing herself from President Biden? I'm Virginia Allen, and this is the DailySitville Top News for Friday, August 16th. The Democratic National Convention begins in Chicago on Monday. But Democratic Party nominee Kamala Harris was in North Carolina today. She was there to deliver a speech laying out her economic policy agenda. And specifically, she explained what economic policies she would be. pursue if elected president during her first 100 days in office. The Daily Signal's Elizabeth

Starting point is 00:00:45 Mitchell covered the speech. Elizabeth First, thanks so much for being back with us today. If you would explain what these core tenants are of Harris's economic proposals. What has she said she would prioritize if elected president during those first 100 days? Thanks, Virginia. Kamala Harris said in her speech today that under the Biden administration, America has overcome one of the worst economic crises in history. She said that joblessness has improved since she took office, the economy has improved, a lot of jobs she claimed have been created, and she even said that inflation is down. But she said that because cost are high, Americans don't feel that progress. As far as the plan goes for her first 100 days, she said that she wants to help the middle class and build economic

Starting point is 00:01:34 opportunity for all. She said she wanted to get rid of barriers to opportunity so anyone can start a business or advance their career. She talked about cutting bureaucracy, red tape, and said that she would like to encourage a stable business environment. She said people should be able to join a union if they want, be able to retire well. And it was interesting to hear talk about lowering the cost of living, considering what we've all seen under the Biden administration of record high cost of living, grocery stores are so expensive. And she acknowledged that and said that she kind of placed the blame on price gouging. So that's when companies raise prices of food when it's not driven by the market. She blamed price gouging for what I think a lot of Americans would blame the Biden administration

Starting point is 00:02:24 for. And that is that pain at the grocery store that we all face. So I think that was one of the big questions headed into this speech was how is Kamala Harris going to thread that needle between separating herself from some of those economic pains that the American people are feeling that they have felt under the Biden administration while, of course, she's been a part of that administration. And so threading that needle of acknowledging the economy is not where most Americans want it to be and also acknowledging the apparent successes that she claims have come under the Biden administration around economic policy and laying out a vision for the future. It doesn't sound like there was much in the way of acknowledging maybe some of those pain

Starting point is 00:03:09 points, and instead it was that focus on the price gouging. Absolutely, Virginia. So I think that Americans listening to this speech could feel a little bit gaslit because she said the economy is great, you just don't see it, because price gouging is taking advantage of you. And it seems like she was kind of using that to downplay her. her role and the Biden administration's role. And I think that the question that a lot of Americans would have listening to that speech is if you have all these plans to improve the economy, make it

Starting point is 00:03:39 easier to live in America, how it's even hard to afford rent and buying a house and groceries for Americans. And I think that a question that a lot of Americans would have is why Kamal Harris can't do something about these high prices she mentioned now, why she needs to wait until she's president because we all have experienced these high grocery prices, high rent prices, the difficulty of buying a house, even if you have two working people in your household. And she was kind of saying, don't worry about my role in this and I will fix it when I'm president, but why can't she fix it now? Interesting. Well, Elizabeth, thank you for your reporting on it. Encourage all of our listeners, check out the DailySitle website, DailySignal.com to find Elizabeth's

Starting point is 00:04:22 full reporting and the details of that speech. Elizabeth, thank you. Thanks, Virginia. We have some new information about the assassination attempt on Trump. Louisiana Republican Representative Clay Higgins has released a preliminary investigative report on the assassination attempt. Two of Congressman Higgins' findings have gained quite a bit of attention from the public today and for good reason. First, a police sniper might have actually saved Trump's life by firing a shot towards Thomas Matthew Crooks who was trying to assassinate Trump. What Higgins found was that Crooks managed to get off eight shots. A ninth shot was then fired from a Butler-Swat operator from the ground about 100 yards away from the building where Crooks was on top of the roof. The report found that the ninth shot hit Crooks' rifle's stock. Crocs was wounded from that stock rifle breaking up. Then a 10th shot was fired from a counter-sniper team, and that's the shot that's believed to have killed Crooks. A second- critical finding in this preliminary investigation is that the FBI released Crook's body for cremation

Starting point is 00:05:32 10 days after he tried to assassinate Trump and then was killed. Higgins said that he wanted to examine the body to confirm that the coroner's report and the autopsy report were accurate. But the congressman says now we will actually never know. Other key findings in the report include the issue that the Secret Service did not retrieve the radios that had been set aside for them by the Butler County Tactical Command and concerns over how quickly the FBI cleaned up the crime scene are also noted in Higgins' report. You can read the full report from Higgins in today's show notes. Samantha Steele Ponder is a successful sportscaster. Most recently, Ponder has hosted Sunday NFL countdown on ESPN. But ESPN just fired Ponder, and the big question is why. ESPN claimed the firing

Starting point is 00:06:31 is for financial reasons. But as the Daily Signal's editor-in-chief Kate Trinco points out in her report on the situation, just this January, ESPN put out a glowing press release about how Sunday NFL countdown earned its most watch regular season since 2019 and its second best since 2016. The viewer marks a significant 8% jump from the 2022 season that was up 15% from the 2021 season. ESPN also said that Sunday NFL countdown had increased its audience among women and young adults. So why then was Ponder fired? Back to that question. Well, some in the women's sports advocacy space believe that Ponder was fired from ESPN because of her defense of women's sports. Back in May, of 2023, Ponder shared a post on X from Riley Gaines. Gaines was discussing how many female

Starting point is 00:07:30 athletes have reached out to her to thank her for her defense of women's sports. In response to that post, Ponder wrote, I barely said anything public about this issue and I've had so many people message me, stop me in the street to say thank you, tell me stories about girls who are afraid to speak up for fear of lost employment or being called hateful. It's not high. It's not hateful to demand fairness in sports for girls, according to Ponder. And recently, Ponder also praised Italian boxer Angela Carini. She's the boxer who forfeited her position in the Paris Olympics in a boxing match on August 1st against Algerian in Ming Khalif.

Starting point is 00:08:11 Caliph seems likely to have XY chromosomes, not X,X chromosomes. And earlier this year, Ponder also defended Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, who came under fire from the left for advocating for traditional values and suggesting that women can find fulfillment as wives and mothers. Well, keep in mind that Disney owns ESPN, and Ponder was the only woman at ESPN actively voicing her thoughts on women's sports. If you want to dive a little deeper into this situation, you can again check out today's show notes for a link to Kate Trinko's full coverage of the situation.

Starting point is 00:08:49 Following the protests on the campus of Columbia University this spring, the college formed a committee to determine protest rules. But the Washington Free Beacon has found that two of the professors serving on that committee appear to have participated in those very protests. The Washington Free Beacon reviewed images and metadata from the protests. What they discovered was that two of the professors on the committee were involved in specific. unlawful encampments. The professors who are believed to have participated in those protests are Joseph Slaughter and Susan Bernowski. They both serve on the University's Senate Rules Committee and set rules for protesters. According to the Beacon, this raises some questions about conflicts of interests and their incentive for laying down the law. This news comes the same week

Starting point is 00:09:45 that the president of Columbia University announced her resignation following those protests in the spring. Now, some student groups have already expressed plans to begin protests again come the fall, so stay tuned. Mediators for Hamas and Israel held talks yesterday and today to try to find a peace agreement. The talks took place in Doha, and while Hamas did not attend, the terrorist group did talk with mediators from Qatar and Egypt, according to a source that spoke with CNN. Those who were at the talks include CIA Director Bill Burns, Mossad chief David Bernia, Qatari Prime Minister Shika Mohammed bin Jasmine Al-Thanin,

Starting point is 00:10:29 and Egyptian intelligence head Abbas Kamal. As of right now, it does not appear that any deal has been reached. The Egyptian presidency and Qatari Foreign Ministry called the talks serious and constructive. Today, the United States, Qatar, and Egypt said that they have presented a final proposal to Hamas and Israel for a ceasefire and a deal to free the hostages. The three mediating nations say that they hope a deal can be reached by the end of next week. Meanwhile, Israel is still bracing for a possible large attack from Iran following a strike on Iranian soil that killed a top Hamas leader. Well, Friday night is upon us. or if you're listening to this a little later in the weekend, Saturday, maybe Sunday night.

Starting point is 00:11:16 And if you need a movie to watch, we have a recommendation for you tonight. We have a little bit of a unique recommendation. The Wind Rises. Here with us to talk about the film is a gentleman who's usually on the other side of the microphone, pushing all the buttons to make sure that this show goes off without a hitch. Joseph Von Spakovsky works as a studio fellow here. He's a producer on the Daily Siddal podcast. Joseph, thanks for being with us. It's good to be on with you.

Starting point is 00:11:44 Thank you, Virginia. So the wind rises is rated PG-13. It actually came out in 2013. It's kind of an oldie but a goodie, so I'm glad to be turning the pages back to remember some of these great films. If you would, give us a little bit of a synopsis. No spoilers, because I haven't seen the movie,

Starting point is 00:12:01 and I might want to watch it this weekend. Give us a little bit of a synopsis of the wind rises. Well, I think first I should go into who created this film. the film Kazay Tatiyinu, forgive my pronunciation, but it's a film directed and written by a man called Hayao Miyazaki. Now, if you've heard this name, you may be familiar with another movie he made that won the 2003 Oscar for Best Animated Feature Spirited Away.

Starting point is 00:12:32 And Hayao Miyazaki is a legendary animator, a director from Japan. He runs Studio Ghibli. It is a world-renowned studio. It's inspired a lot of today's Western animation, not necessarily the adult Western animated shows, but like if you've seen Avatar The Last Airbender, a lot of those influences do come from Japanese animation. So the movie The Wind Rises is a semi-fictionalized autobiography. of Jira Horikoshi during World War I. And his movement of his interests in airplanes and development of aircraft.

Starting point is 00:13:29 And he gets roped in to develop airplanes for the army. He originally wanted to create airplanes. for a passenger, for air shows, those kinds of things. But due to the position he was in in his time frame, he's brought in into the Mitsubishi company. We know Mitsubishi today to create a lot of cars. But they also do aircraft motors. So they were hired by the Imperial Japanese Army to,

Starting point is 00:14:09 create the Mitsubishi 1F9, 1MF9. And after a lot of testing, it falling apart, his engineering feats are brought to the limit, as he is doubted and looked down upon. Eventually, he develops a successful prototype, and it is brought into the army. But there's a lot of contrast in the film. There's one scene I can't really talk about too much

Starting point is 00:14:50 or else it'll spoil the film. No spoilers, Joseph. But he has a very interesting conversation with a German man explaining how things are going on outside of Japan and how the war is really going. And it gives him, a very

Starting point is 00:15:08 a very interesting contrasting perspective compared to the propaganda that's going on. Fascinating. And Joseph, there's a pretty all-star cast involved in this movie, isn't that right? Yes, that's right. So

Starting point is 00:15:24 it's a very Hollywood individuals weirdly enough have a great affection toward the studio Ghibli films. Originally, Disney was the dubbing team that did a lot of the original studio Ghibli films. But in this, in the wind rises, you have Joseph Gordon Levitt as Giro Hortokoshi. You have Emily Blunt as his wife. So you have

Starting point is 00:15:55 some really interesting individuals. There's a lot of affection in Hollywood for studio Ghibli films, despite them always being choked out of best animated feature. But you have Joseph Gordon Leave it as Jira Horikoshi. You have, interestingly enough, Elijah Wood playing as a minor character as Sonai, and also Emily Blunt playing Nahokosatomi. So it's a really all-star cast. And if you look into the English casting for all of the Ghibli films, you'll find that Mark Hamill is in there or Willem Defoe. So it's a very, very strong cast. They know what they're doing.

Starting point is 00:16:42 A lot of big names. Well, for anyone who wants to check out The Wind Rises, you can find it. If you have a Macs subscription, it's available on YouTube TV. If you have a premier subscription on Amazon Prime, if you also have a premium subscription, or you can purchase it on Apple TV. So if you need a good movie recommendation for the weekend, and that one sounds interesting, check it out. And, hey, let us know what your thoughts are.

Starting point is 00:17:07 comment on the Daily Signal podcast. I will have to recommend this film very highly because it it very pointedly contrasts the beauty of creation being transformed into a weapon of war. So there's a lot of subtext in there that I forgot to mention. A lot of subtext in what happens when you are starting, when you lose things, how someone kind of builds themselves up, and then the issues of your creations being just absolutely corrupted and transformed into something you never wished it was going to be used for. Some really weighty topics. Fascinating movie.

Starting point is 00:17:57 Well, Joseph, thank you. We appreciate you stepping over to the other side of the mic today. I'm not normally on this side, but I think. I think I may get used to it. You know, well, bravo for the pronunciation of those names. Well, thank you for having me on, Virginia. Always a joy. Well, with that, that's going to do it for today's episode.

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The Daily Signal - Harris’ 100 Day Economic Plan, ESPN Newscaster Fired, Preliminary Trump Assassination Investigation Released | Aug. 16

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