“We Were Right About Everything”: Fauci, Romo and the Reflecting Poo

We open the Monday show with socialist State Assembly candidate Brian Romero asking strangers to cover his rent, then quickly deleting the fundraiser once the reaction hits. From there, we move through flash-flood warnings across the Philadelphia region, the hunt for Armani Tyrell Waite after gunfire inside a crowded Delco Walmart, a triple shooting in Norristown, a Chester County fitting-room suspect caught after a Goodwill manager sets a facial-recognition alert, and the arrest of a Reading murder suspect before he can board a flight. We also unload on New Jersey’s Skip the Stuff law, debate the Musikfest forecast, and react to the Phillies’ rain-shortened 8–0 win in Baltimore. Our Big Take returns to Anthony Fauci’s Fifth Amendment testimony and the weekend response from Stephen A. Smith, Bill Maher, RFK Jr., Dana Bash and Michael Smerconish. We argue over vaccine hesitation, media gatekeeping, autism research and whether Americans receive enough evidence to make their own medical decisions. The political fight then shifts to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Markwayne Mullin’s conflicting amnesty message, the Haley Stevens–Abdul El-Sayed primary in Michigan, the Bob Brooks–Ryan Mackenzie contest in Pennsylvania’s 7th District, Chris Rabb’s answers about the DSA agenda, and the power of AIPAC money and social-media feeds. Harry Mayes joins the cut sheet as we debate whether Tony Romo has called his last game for CBS, salute the armed citizen and off-duty trooper who confront the Twin Falls gunman, and hear 16-year-old Ryder Williams describe his ocean rescue. We spend much of the 8 AM hour on Cornell student Austin Franco, his anti-Jewish refusal of a job interview, his clash with Piers Morgan, his parents’ response and the role of internet algorithms in radicalizing teenagers. Fight Club brings a bikini parking-lot brawl, the rapid-fire cuts return to Bernie Sanders, John Fetterman, RFK Jr. and Dana Bash, and Dawn’s Big Three closes the show with the Delco Walmart case, the Idaho attack, a fiery Galloway senior-home evacuation, nationwide water-system cyberattacks, dangerous flooding and a Lyle Lovett debate.