[national anthem] [national anthem] rachel: good morning, everybody. it s 6:00 here in new york city, i m so happy to be sitting next to my friends will and pete this morning. yesterday i brought in three bananas so we could start to be hell think, andstair healthy, and they re still there. [laughter] pete: yeah, look at that. rachel: all three. pete: i haven t eaten a banana many in ten years. will: i ate one four minutes ago. rachel: good for you. pete: they re still good though rachel: no, i m going to attack those bananas. will: i have contended and introduced a massive debate on the office floor around jesse watters prime time, and i think bananas are the number one fruit. i think they are easy, portable, thank you, dave, a lot of i appeal, not messy. i would rank bananas one. rachel: i think they are just like the egg, the perfect egg is the perfect to protein, that s the perfect fruit. will: i defy you, pete, to come up with a fruit that beats the banan
not just for the pictures it is not number one she said she ll e me in the kid kidney she meansee good one can you live with zero kidneys inn for a fact you can live for years without a brain.. [laughter] be successful. now that that s out of the way, a new gallup poll shows recor, number of americans arell identifying asup politically independent 49%, in fact, compared to 25% who identify aso republicanmps and another 25 whs identify as female competitive swimmers. [laughter] sha s shocking since two decadei ago independents accounted for lowest percentage of voters as seen in this easy to understand graph. [laughter] yeah drew that on the way home last night pete hegseth gives one hell of a piggy back right you might be asking what happened since 2004? lfi mean, over joe biden s hairh plugaps turning 60. gallop points to the disillusion meant with the political system u.s. institutions and the two party which is are seen as too s political and too extreme. so yeah you can
and no matter what day it was, i kept thinking about one man. tennis legend john mcen row. you can t be serious, man. you cannot be serious. brian: that s exactly what i found myself saying all week on and off the air. you cannot be serious. i knew i was right. i could not believe what i was hearing and i saw fallacy after fallacy. it began in new york city where lawmakers paid a visit to crime-riddled new york city. they came to hear from real victims. we care about people getting raped in elevators. we don t care about your statistics. you can t convince us to care about your numbers because we see with it our eyes day in and day out, especially in the poor black and brown communities. where none of you in this room would even step food in. my son is dea dead forever. brian: where did that come from? because she had real pain. and they were called props by democrats. they didn t want to talk about the city given away to felons. they didn t care. but those in attendance
presidential campaign sure was good while it lasted, and now he s getting buried a couple of months before he even announces. so trump turbo-charged by his indictment in the stormy daniels case has been rising in the polls, and desantis has been sinking. i ve argued for many weeks now against my guests that desantis needed to respond to trump s assaults rather than largely ignore him because he s busy with the florida legislature. now that s becoming the media s conventional wisdom. throw in the journalists who say ron desantis lacks charisma, and you have a whole new landscape at least for this week. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: when it comes to ron desantis taking knack over his war on disney flak over his war on disney, it comes from the left and the right. governor desantis is trying to stop bleeding on what s left of his unofficial presidential campaign. it s going to start to wilt a little bit. you just see he s got no answers, he s got no
you guys feel. rachel: me too too. pete: one of those mornings. first hour s the warm-up hour, 7 a.m. s sleeper hour, not as many people watching, but it s really good, you know? will: that s the sleeper hour? pete: yeah. 8:00 we re going and then 9 it s, like, i don t know what 9 is. it s the cherry on top. rachel: 9 is off the hook. [laughter] pete: thank you for joining us. we enjoy being together, we re grateful that you re out there sharing it with us. hopefully, you ve got a cup of coffee, some doughnuts. rachel: thanks. all right. [laughter] president biden is back in the u.s. after wrap withing up his 4-day trip to ireland. pete: and before he left, he got a rock star welcome ahead of his speech last night. check this out. [cheers and applause] will: wow. huh. peter doocy joins us live from dublin with more. very popular many in ireland, apparently, peter. [laughter] reporter: very popular. that s like when they play u2 at one of the pubs here and people just go c