We are still discussing the news of the day as it trickles in; the FBI served a search warrant on Trumps' Florida residence this morning, and then Trump himself sent out a long press release via Truth Social, which was then reposed to Twitter -- which is how the White House even found out about it.

As all this unfolds the calls flood in, and John Rothmann takes 'em from all political corners. Lots of folks react and opine here on KGO!

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As news spreads of the FBI's search warrant served on Donald Trumps' Mar-A-Lago Florida residence, the political pundits are in overdrive; callers across the spectrum found a voice on KGO with John Rothmann this evening.  This superseded other topics of the day.

In other news however, Olivia Newton John passed away today; you'll hear John discuss this and credit Karen Reid for her Newton John musical selections throughout the show.  Unfortunately, KGO has to block published music from our podcasts for licensing reasons, so you won't hear the music here.

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Even as John sat down in his chair at 4:00 pm, the ABC National News was breaking the story of the FBI Raid on Trumps' property in Mar-A-Lago.  We threw the prepared topics of the day aside and digested the news with you here on KGO in real time for all three hours of the show!  We took calls all across the political spectrum, as the news slowly trickled in.

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They're at it again with all kinds of classic movie clips and trivia -- todays' theme is couples and duo's that work really well on screen!  Some of the clips had to be edited for the podcast edition to remove musical elements.

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Whether you're a Trump supporter or a Biden enthusiast, or somewhere in between - John takes calls from all of you!  Biden is getting credit for a bunch of things recently: better jobs report, Senate spending bill moving forward, and more.  Should he get credit?   Does it change the upcoming midterms?  John Rothman wants to know and takes your calls to find out.

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Joe Biden has gotten some political wins of late; most recently the blowout Jobs Report shows that the economy may be in better shape than some thought -- should Joe get credit?  A vigorous debate ensued, with the lines loaded here on KGO!

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Breaking news this afternoon as talk show host & conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is hit with hefty penalties in his Texas defamation trial.  The men and women of the jury awarded punitive damages in excess of 45 million dollars.  John gets your reactions as you call in to KGO!

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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) said she would soon be ready to “move forward” on a revised version of Senate Democrats’ health care, climate and deficit-reduction package, after party leaders agreed to scale back some of their original tax proposals.

The new approach — along with other changes to the proposal known as the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 — satisfied Sinema’s chief concerns and helped set in motion a plan to approve it as soon as this weekend.

In a statement, Sinema said Democrats had “agreed to remove” a key tax targeting wealthy investors. She also suggested they had made additional, unspecified changes to a second provision that aims to impose a new minimum tax on corporations that currently pay nothing to the U.S. government.

From here, Sinema said she would await a final review from the chamber’s parliamentarian — a critical step in the process that allows Democrats to move their spending bill — at which point she would “move forward.”

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Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister who has consolidated autocratic power with hard-right opposition to immigration and liberal democracy, addressed a crowd of thousands of American admirers in Dallas on Thursday with a red-meat speech that could have easily been delivered by any Republican candidate on the campaign trail this year.

Orban presented the two countries as twin fronts in a struggle against common enemies he described as globalists, progressives, communists and “fake news.” “The West is at war with itself,” Orban said. “The globalist can all go to hell. I have come to Texas,” he added, stumbling over a famous slogan attributed to Texas legend Davy Crockett.

The speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) went ahead despite Orban’s latest controversy: a speech in which he railed against Europe becoming “mixed race,” saying that Europeans did not want to live with people from outside the continent. One of his own close advisers resigned in protest, calling the speech “pure Nazi.”

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Former vice president Dick Cheney, in a campaign ad for his eldest daughter, Rep. Liz Cheney, said former president Donald Trump is a “coward” and the greatest threat to the nation in its 246-year history.

“He is a coward,” Cheney says in the ad, which was released Thursday. “A real man wouldn’t lie to his supporters. He lost his election, and he lost big. I know it, he knows it, and deep down I think most Republicans know it.”

Liz Cheney faces a tough primary on Aug. 16 for Wyoming’s sole congressional seat, with Trump-backed Harriet Hageman favored to win.

Trump, Cheney said, “tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him.”

The former president has repeatedly spread false claims of voter fraud and a rigged election. The House impeached him on a charge of inciting an insurrection for the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the Capitol by a mob of his supporters intent on stopping the confirmation of Joe Biden’s electoral college win.

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