Host: Heidi Hatch

Guests: Greg Hughes & Maura Carabello

• US House still without a leader.
• Israel Hamas war
• Utah AG Sean Reyes under new scrutiny
• Senator Mike McKell says its time the AG office become an appointed position not elected.
• Utah lawmakers looking to move road rage bill to priority in upcoming legislative session.
• New CD2 poll
• Chuck Feeney, the Billionaire who you don’t know by name, but gave away all his wealth.

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Host: Heidi Hatch

Guests: Greg Hughes & Maura Carabello

• Speaker Of the House- McCarthy Out- Republicans in a mess with budget clock ticking
• “Wholesale the whole group.” Greg Hughes on Congressional members including Utah’s Representatives after the vote to oust Speaker McCarthy.
• Biden is Building the Wall: Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Wednesday there is an "acute and immediate need" to build border wall in southern Texas.
• Sharp pivot from what Joe Biden said in August of 2020 during his campaign: "There will not be another foot of wall constructed on my administration.
• Riverton Mayor and US Senate Candidate says Utah is now a “Sanctuary State” after the Salt Lake ICE field office designated it as such.
• Was Staggs used as a political pawn?
• Immigration will likely be a campaign theme in the U.S. presidential race with a majority of Americans - 54% - agreeing with the statement that "immigration is making life harder for native-born Americans," a September Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

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Host: Heidi Hatch

Guests: Greg Hughes & Maura Carabello

• Senator Diane Feinstein dead at the age of 90
• Government shutdown looms
• Utah will keep National Parks open and Pay WIC benefits.
• Legislative members call on AG Reyes to comment on Tim Ballard accusations.
• US Senate Seat: Brad Wilson Officially in, Josh Romney out, Congressman John Curtis in or out?
• GOP Debate- did anyone inspire?

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Host: Heidi Hatch

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

• US Senate Candidates: Who is in, out and the news surrounding potential candidate Tim Ballard
• New Utah House Speaker Race
• Former SLC Mayor Ralph Becker Endorsed Erin Mendenhall for Mayor
• Utah Taxpayers pay above national average.
• Trump UAW

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Host: Heidi Hatch

Special Guest Kelsey Berg: Political Director for Romney Senate Campaign and Romney Deputy Chief of Staff for 4.5 years.

• Berg left Romney’s office in May to work for the Miller Group as VP of Government relations.
• Her insight into Romney’s decision to run for Senate after his Presidential loss.
• What was it like working for Romney and guiding policy?
• Named to Utah Valley’s 40 under 40

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• CD2 Primary
• Celeste Maloy wins
• SLC Mayoral Race is on
• 13 presidential centers sign unified warning on the state of democracy
• Sen. Jake Anderegg resigns
• Lawsuit claims Utah failing to stop Great Salt Lake from shrinking

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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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