Host: Heidi Hatch

Guests: Maura Carabello Exoro Group & John Dougall State Auditor

• CD2 Poll 47% undecided – the poll two weeks old. Completed as ballots arrived at homes on the 15th.
• Voter turnout
• Senator Romney won’t announce until the fall.
• Brad Wilson has an exploratory committee but is acting more like a candidate.
• Republican GOP Debate
• McConnell freezes up, now what?

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Host: Heidi Hatch

Guests: Greg Hughes & Maura Carabello

• Utah GOP will hold Caucus not primary for Presidential Election:
• Utah Primary Debate- no Becky Edwards
• Robert Axson RNC summer meetings vote.
• Freshman lawmaker resigns.
• Utah Farm Bureau president Ron Gibson resigned from the job.
• 4th Trump Indictment in Georgia using RICO or racketeering laws.
• Utah National Guard Commander on administrative leave
• Hawaii Wildfires

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Host: Heidi Hatch

Guests: Greg Hughes & Maura Carabello

Biden’s tour of the mountain west

• 1st Biden Creates new national monument near Grand Canyon in Arizona key battleground state (Biden won narrowly 2020)
• Romney, Lee, and Governor Cox, all quickly denounced it.
• Antiquities Act use or misuse
• Grazing rights
• Energy production halted.
• Biden’s arrival in Utah: Governor and 1st lady Cox, Jenny Wilson, Mendenhall greet POTUS.
• Salt Lake VA hosts Biden: PACT Act
• Deer Valley Fundraiser
• FBI shoot and kill Provo man who made threats against Biden and others.

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Host: Heidi Hatch

Guest: Dr. Shereef Elnahal MD MBA US Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs and Health

President Biden visited Utah’s VA hospital in Salt Lake City on the one-year anniversary of the PACT Act. 

Dr. Shereef Elnahal, Under Secretary of Veteran’s Health joined the President on his trip. 

He sat down with Heidi Hatch to discuss healthcare for Veterans expanded by the PACT Act, mental health care, getting medical care to rural vets and the new 988 +1 suicide line specifically for those who have served our nation.

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Host: Heidi Hatch

Guests: Greg Hughes & Maura Carabello

• Liberty Park – crime and homeless camps on the rise
• Salt Lake Municipal election November- Mendenhall outraises Rocky Anderson
• Judge throws out case that would take Celeste Maloy off the ballot.
• 10 DEBATES in 12 days or private campaign events?
• Governor Cox Social Media push “Unmask the dangers of social media.”
• Trump Indictment: Not guilty plea
• Devon Archer testifies before Congress.

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Host: Heidi Hatch

Guests: Greg Hughes & Maura Carabello

• Congressional Hearings on Aliens
• Age limits for federal office
• Romney wants everyone out of the Presidential race.
• DeSantis in Utah answered question on new African American Ed Curriculum
• Former President Trump facing new charges.
• Presidential Poll Numbers
• Hunter Biden Plea deal Falls Through

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Host: Heidi Hatch

Guests: Greg Hughes & Maura Carabello

Utah CD2 Race: Exclusive, Greg Hughes talks about his run, loss, and convention.

• Greg’s campaign experience
• Celeste Maloy wins in 5th round at convention.
• Lawsuit filed by R Quinn Denning contends Maloy is not qualified.
• Becky Edwards and Bruce Hough get signatures needed.

Presidential Race

• DeSantis in Utah for fundraising and open event at Capitol Friday
• Biden is in political/legal trouble with Hunter Biden Laptop/IRS FBI whistleblower.
• Trump is in political/legal trouble new indictment coming related to January 6th
• 3rd Party? No Labels Formed in 2010, raised $70 million this year for “unity ticket.”

Gov. Cox new campaign for civility “disagreeing better.”

• Utah's governor has officially taken the reins as chair of the National Governors Association, a public policy organization comprised of the nation’s governors.
• As part of his chairmanship, Cox is launching an initiative to try to chip away at one of the country's biggest problems – toxicity in politics.

UDOT approves Gondola Project

• Environmental groups push back

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Host: Heidi Hatch

Guests: Former US Attorney for the State of Utah Brett Tolman and Executive Director of Right on Crime

• School debt forgiveness ruling Friday Am release.
• Affirmative Action SCOTUS decision: 6-3 and 6-2 decision
• LGBTQ website SCOTUS ruling
• Trump Charges
• Hunter Biden Plea deal/Whistle Blower
• 2-tiered Justice system in the US- does it exist- if so how and where do we start fresh and start holding the powerful accountable?
• First Step Act/Criminal Justice reform does it play into any of the current high profile political cases?
• Tolman was appointed by President George Bush in 2006 as the United States Attorney for the District of Utah and held that office for nearly 4 years from 2006-2009.
• He worked with President Trump to pass the First Step Act/Criminal Justice Reform. Tolman is the Executive Director for Right on Crime.

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Host: Heidi Hatch

Guests: Maura Carabello - Exoro Group, Rep & Candice Pierucci - Utah House member

• SCOTUS decisions, still no decision on student loans
• Utah GOP Debates wrap up, 5 candidates will collect signatures/Convention Saturday
• Bibles are Back in Davis County Schools
• Bears Ears land swap: Backed by Tribes
• U.S. House votes to send Articles of Impeachment against President Biden to the Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees, 219-208.
• Hunter Biden plea deal: 2 tier Justice or good for him pleading and taking ownership.

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Host: Heidi Hatch

Guests: Maura Carabello - Exoro Group & Mike Schultz - House Majority Leader

• CD2 Race is set: 22 candidates compared to 26 when Chafetz resigned.
• Special Session Committee hearing discussed book bans from the Bible to pornography.
• Brian Redd new Executive Director Depart Corrections- can he fix probation and parole?
• 52% of Utahns disapprove of a 2023 law that would require all abortions to be performed in hospitals, a new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics shows.
• Supreme Court preserves law that aims to keep Native American children with tribal families.

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