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KVI's John Carlson tracks where the significant campaign financial donations are going in the Washington governor's race now that Republican candidate, Dave Reichert, has joined the ring. Carlson explains how Reichert's candidacy has mostly impacted the campaign fundraising of moderate Democrat, Mark Mullet.

KVI's morning team notices that a candidate running for the Seattle City Council to replace Kshama Sawant is complaining about the cost of living in Seattle. Oh the irony that ensues.

Batya Ungar-Sargon joins Ari and explains why she's calling President Biden the "sex trafficker-in-chief".

Show topics: What DeSantis and Republicans are doing wrong // Cop leaves SPD in epic fashion // Mainstream media is talking about Biden corruption again countdown begins for another trump indictment // Disney quarterly earnings suck. Is it because of wokeness or something else? // A drug bust recovers enough fentanyl to kill everyone in Seattle twice // Lahaina destroyed by wildfires // Friendly Faceoff with Batya Ungar-Sargon // GUEST: Comedian Brad Upton joins Ari to talk about his upcoming specials // It isn’t just Washington, New York worked with the NYT to target religious schools

6am hour -- 36 people now reported killed in catastrophic Lahaina wildfire, a pilot says Lahaina now "looks like a city in Ukraine" after being bombed in the war, the Snoqualmie Tribe brokers a deal to save a massive red cedar tree from being cutdown, the EV school bus maker touted by VP Kamala Harris in Seattle is now going bankrupt, I-2117 would repeal the Gov. Jay Inslee "cap and invest" auction on fossil fuel producers.

7am hour -- is Gov. Jay Inslee going to declare the Mariner's are on fire because of climate change??, earth has had fewer acres of wildfire over the last 20 years than prior decades yet climate activists--like Inslee--distort that fact with their alarmism, the irony of a Seattle City Council candidate complaining about the high cost of living in Seattle, signs of "homeless industrial complex fatigue" among Seattle's socialists, "failed policies" that got Seattle in to the current mess, a massive drug bust in Shoreline but a King Co. judge gives the arrest suspect a $10,000 bail.

8am hour -- GUEST: Clint Hansen, a Realtor ® and Broker in Kihei, Hawaii on Maui, has recorded drone camera video of the Lahaina fire devastation that has now been seen across the globe, Hansen describes the fire destruction, the 200 foot fire cyclone that has now burned the entire town including boats down to the waterline, some top shelf economic ignorance from a Democratic US Congressman, Ford Motor Co. reports a $4 billion loss within its EV division as demand is tepid for EVs while Pres. Biden and states like WA are ramping up restrictions on gas fueled (ICE) cars/trucks, juvenile crime now a focus for the Pierce Co. Sheriff's Dept.

KVI's John Carlson discovers signs of "homeless industrial complex fatigue" among Seattle's socialists, push back from readers of The Stranger to wide-ranging concepts of (drug addicted) homeless enabling, "failed policies" that got Seattle in to the current mess.

I-2117 would repeal the Gov. Jay Inslee "cap and invest" auction on fossil fuel producers which went into effect in January 2023 that is now contributing to the cost of Washington gas prices. KVI's John Carlson interviews spokesman for Affordable Fuel Washington and creator of www.shiftwa.org about the petition drive to bring the Inslee climate agenda to a statewide vote.

GUEST: Clint Hansen, a REALTOR® and Broker in Kihei, Hawaii on Maui has recorded drone camera video of the Lahaina fire devastation that has now been seen across the globe. Hansen tells KVI "obscenely rapid" fire "engulfed" Lahaina destroying the charming town on the western shores of Maui. Hansen says thousands of people are hospitalized. "The winds were out of control. The (power) lines were clackin'. There was no electricity. There's a lot of different theories about how the fire started", says Hansen. "People reported seeing a fire cyclone almost 200 feet high (in Lahaima) and just a wall of heat (that) was so intense that it burned the boats down to the waterline. I mean the harbor has just disappeared", Hansen adds. Hansen suggests KVI listeners and others donate to the Maui United Way to help all the island's fire victims as they recover.

Show topics: Both borders are now a mess now // Seattle City Council spends millions on a movie theater // Kamala is coming to Seattle to use democrats as an ATM // Making people go to work is racist // Exclusive story about another King County Regional Homeless Authority failure // GUEST: Katie Daviscourt, correspondent with The Post Millennial, joins Ari to discuss the conclusion of the Andy Ngo-Antifa trial and how her car was vandalized // GUEST: Chad Wolf, Former acting DHS Secretary, talked with Ari about the mess at both borders // Democrats have a real problem with Jew hatred // Chinese Communist Party funding public schools?

6am hour -- 49 years ago today an historic moment in Presidential politics, NBC News reporter gaslights Ron DeSantis about 'abortion on demand', UCLA's football coach offers a plan to resolve the conference realignment problems associated with the collapse of the Pac 12, candidate for WA governor--Semi Bird--tells KVI why voters should "Give Olympia the Bird", how Bird ended up being recalled by voters last week from his seat as a Richland (WA) School Board member.

7am hour -- new polling about whether or not the federal government has too much power or just the right amount of power, the Gallup polling also includes revealing answers about confidence in police, a compare/contrast of two cases involving excessive force and police officers between Seattle and Tacoma,

GUEST: WPC's educational policy director, Liv Finne, tells KVI about the dramatic increase in private school enrollment across WA as public school enrollment dips, M's baseball sensation Julio Rodriguez does something to trick the opponent and the play-by-play voice in last night's victory.

8am hour -- Hawaiian city of Lahaina on Maui is devastated by wild fire after extremely strong winds spread the fire, three children in King Co. in the last 10 days have died from fentanyl OD--including a 9 yr old, a Seattle socialist dives into the stereotypes about a viral video from Montgomery AL this week, the collapse of the Pac 12 and what happens next, more news and video updates from catastrophic wild fire in Lahaina HI.