WEBVTT 00:09.560 --> 00:11.360 align:start >> SENATOR MITCH MCCONNELL'S 00:11.360 --> 00:12.960 align:start CAMPAIGN MANAGER RESIGNS, WHILE 00:12.960 --> 00:14.680 align:start QUESTIONS LINGER ABOUT 00:14.680 --> 00:15.360 align:start CHALLENGER ALISON LUNDERGAN 00:15.360 --> 00:16.600 align:start GRIMES' CAMPAIGN BUS. 00:16.600 --> 00:18.120 align:start THE COAL ISSUE LOOMS LARGE IN 00:18.120 --> 00:19.520 align:start THE SENATE RACE AND IS ALREADY 00:19.520 --> 00:20.160 align:start AN ISSUE IN THE GUBERNATORIAL 00:20.160 --> 00:21.840 align:start RACE. 00:21.840 --> 00:23.760 align:start BREATHITT COUNTY LEADERS FIGHT 00:23.760 --> 00:25.280 align:start TO REGAIN LOCAL CONTROL OF THEI 00:25.280 --> 00:25.100 align:start SCHOOL SYSTEM BUT LOSE IN 00:25.100 --> 00:27.840 align:start FRANKFORT. 00:27.840 --> 00:29.160 align:start AND SOME IN LOUISVILLE PUSH FOR 00:29.160 --> 00:30.280 align:start A LOCAL HIKE IN THE MINIMUM 00:30.280 --> 00:31.080 align:start WAGE. 00:31.080 --> 00:32.600 align:start IT'S LABOR DAY WEEKEND. 00:32.600 --> 00:33.240 align:start TAKE A LITTLE BREAK FROM YOUR 00:33.240 --> 00:37.800 align:start HARD WORK. 00:35.600 --> 00:37.100 align:start COMMENT" IS NEXT ON KET! 00:37.100 --> 00:44.110 align:start GOOD EVENING. 00:44.110 --> 00:47.440 align:start I'M BILL BRYANT, ANCHOR AND 00:47.440 --> 00:48.080 align:start MANAGING EDITOR AT WKYT-TV IN 00:48.080 --> 00:49.280 align:start LEXINGTON. 00:49.280 --> 00:50.100 align:start OUR GUESTS ON "COMMENT ON 00:50.100 --> 00:52.560 align:start KENTUCKY" ARE JOE GERTH, 00:52.560 --> 00:54.840 align:start POLITICAL WRITER FOR THE 00:54.840 --> 00:57.960 align:start COURIER-JOURNAL, ERICA PETERSON 00:57.960 --> 00:59.200 align:start ENVIRONMENT REPORTER FOR WFPL I 00:59.200 --> 01:00.110 align:start LOUISVILLE, AND JACK BRAMMER, 01:00.110 --> 01:02.000 align:start FRANKFORT BUREAU CHIEF FOR THE 01:02.000 --> 01:04.440 align:start LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. 01:04.440 --> 01:05.120 align:start ALSO TONIGHT, REPUBLICANS 01:05.120 --> 01:07.200 align:start CHALLENGE THE SIGNATURES THAT 01:07.200 --> 01:08.320 align:start GOT A LIBERTARIAN CANDIDATE ON 01:08.320 --> 01:10.100 align:start THE BALLOT. 01:10.100 --> 01:13.160 align:start LEA START OUT WITH THIS LATE 01:13.160 --> 01:14.480 align:start BREAKING NEWS TODAY, THE 01:14.480 --> 01:17.480 align:start RESIGNATION OF JESSE BENTON, 01:17.480 --> 01:18.800 align:start SENATOR MITCH McCONNELL'S 01:18.800 --> 01:19.400 align:start CAMPAIGN MANAGER. 01:19.400 --> 01:20.040 align:start IT'S EFFECTIVE TOMORROW. 01:20.040 --> 01:22.400 align:start JOE AND JACK, WHAT LED TO THIS 01:22.400 --> 01:22.110 align:start TWIST SH. 01:22.110 --> 01:24.110 align:start >> WELL, IT STARTED WITH THE 01:24.110 --> 01:26.280 align:start 2012 PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN IOWA 01:26.280 --> 01:29.840 align:start WHERE RON PAUL WAS COMPETING IN 01:29.840 --> 01:31.600 align:start THE CAUCUSES THERE. 01:31.600 --> 01:34.920 align:start JESSE BENTON, WHO IS MARRIED TO 01:34.920 --> 01:37.920 align:start RON PAUL'S GRANDDAUGHTER, WHO I 01:37.920 --> 01:39.600 align:start ALSO RAND PAUL, SENATOR RAND 01:39.600 --> 01:42.100 align:start PAUL'S NIECE, WAS INVOLVED IN 01:42.100 --> 01:44.800 align:start THAT CAMPAIGN, AND THERE WAS A 01:44.800 --> 01:48.640 align:start FELLOW WHO WAS A CLOSE ASSOCIAT 01:48.640 --> 01:55.080 align:start OF HIS NAMED DEMETRI KASARI WHO 01:55.080 --> 01:58.240 align:start ALLEGEDLY GAVE $73,000 TO KENTO 01:58.240 --> 01:59.360 align:start SOUTHERNSON WHO IS A STATE 01:59.360 --> 02:01.120 align:start SENATOR TO SWITCH HIS BACKING 02:01.120 --> 02:03.240 align:start FROM MICHELLE BACHMANN TO RON 02:03.240 --> 02:06.240 align:start PAUL IN THE CAUCUSES, WHICH IS 02:06.240 --> 02:12.360 align:start ILLEGAL TO DO IN IOWA. 02:12.360 --> 02:14.640 align:start SORENSON PLED GUILTY THIS WEEK 02:14.640 --> 02:15.960 align:start TO CHARGES INVOLVING THIS. 02:15.960 --> 02:17.520 align:start THE FBI SAID THE INVESTIGATION 02:17.520 --> 02:19.720 align:start IS ONGOING SO THERE MAY BE MORE 02:19.720 --> 02:20.100 align:start SHOES TO DROP HERE. 02:20.100 --> 02:24.840 align:start AND SO AT ONE POINT IN THE 02:24.840 --> 02:25.960 align:start TAPE-RECORDED CONVERSATION 02:25.960 --> 02:27.560 align:start SORENSON SAID THAT HE IS CERTAI 02:27.560 --> 02:29.600 align:start THAT JESSE BENTON KNEW ABOUT TH 02:29.600 --> 02:30.920 align:start PAYMENTS, AND SO THAT'S WHAT LE 02:30.920 --> 02:33.440 align:start TO THIS, THIS DECISION BY BENTO 02:33.440 --> 02:34.960 align:start TO STEP AWAY FROM THE CAMPAIGN. 02:34.960 --> 02:36.320 align:start >> SO BENTON, JACK, BELIEVES 02:36.320 --> 02:37.920 align:start THAT HE WAS BECOMING A 02:37.920 --> 02:39.440 align:start DISTRACTION BASED ON WHAT WAS 02:39.440 --> 02:39.880 align:start COMING UP. 02:39.880 --> 02:40.680 align:start >> ABSOLUTELY. 02:40.680 --> 02:44.320 align:start AFTER THIS STORY BROKE BY 02:44.320 --> 02:48.240 align:start POLITICAL REPORTER SAM YOUNGMAN 02:48.240 --> 02:48.110 align:start BENTON PATE PRESS RELEASE 02:48.110 --> 02:50.360 align:start EXPLAINING HIS POSITION THAT HE 02:50.360 --> 02:52.520 align:start WAS RESIGNING, SAID HE HAD 02:52.520 --> 02:54.320 align:start BECOME A DISTRACK TO THE 02:54.320 --> 02:55.800 align:start McCONNELL CAMPAIGN. 02:55.800 --> 02:57.100 align:start HE SAID HE SPOKE TO SENATOR 02:57.100 --> 02:58.600 align:start McCONNELL FRIDAY AFTERNOON. 02:58.600 --> 03:02.400 align:start HE SAID THE SENATOR RELUCTANTLY 03:02.400 --> 03:04.080 align:start ACCEPTED HIS RESIGNATION THAT. 03:04.080 --> 03:06.040 align:start COMES SATURDAY, AUGUST 30th. 03:06.040 --> 03:08.240 align:start HE'LL BE NO LONGER PART OF THE 03:08.240 --> 03:08.110 align:start TEAM MITCH CAMPAIGN. 03:08.110 --> 03:11.040 align:start BUT HE SAID THE CAMPAIGN HAD 03:11.040 --> 03:13.280 align:start ALREADY PUT TOGETHER A TOP 03:13.280 --> 03:14.800 align:start FLIGHT TEAM OF INCREDIBLE PEOPL 03:14.800 --> 03:15.400 align:start TO KEEP IT ROLLING. 03:15.400 --> 03:17.100 align:start HE SAID THE DECISION BROKE HIS 03:17.100 --> 03:18.640 align:start HEART. 03:18.640 --> 03:20.640 align:start HE EVEN QUOTED SCRIPTURE FROM 03:20.640 --> 03:22.800 align:start JAMES 5:16, "I HAVE TOLD YOU 03:22.800 --> 03:24.440 align:start THESE THINGS SO THAT IN ME YOU 03:24.440 --> 03:25.280 align:start HAVE PEACE. 03:25.280 --> 03:26.520 align:start IN THIS WORLD YOU WILL HAVE 03:26.520 --> 03:27.120 align:start TROUBLE. 03:27.120 --> 03:29.640 align:start BUT TAKE PART FOR I HAVE 03:29.640 --> 03:30.110 align:start OVERCOME THE WORLD." 03:30.110 --> 03:32.840 align:start SHE WAS VERY UPSET ABOUT THIS. 03:32.840 --> 03:34.040 align:start RIGHT BEFORE THE SHOW STARTED 03:34.040 --> 03:35.360 align:start TONIGHT WE HEARD FROM THE 03:35.360 --> 03:35.110 align:start GRIMES' CAMPAIGN. 03:35.110 --> 03:38.100 align:start THEY JUST PUT OUT A SENTENCE 03:38.100 --> 03:39.760 align:start SAYING THAT SENATOR McCONNELL 03:39.760 --> 03:42.040 align:start OWES THE PEOPLE OF KENTUCKY A 03:42.040 --> 03:44.720 align:start FULL ACCOUNT OF WHAT HE KNEW AN 03:44.720 --> 03:45.840 align:start WHEN HE KNEW IT. 03:45.840 --> 03:47.100 align:start >> WELL, DOES THIS BLOW BACK NO 03:47.100 --> 03:50.120 align:start ON McCONNELL IN ANY WAY OR 03:50.120 --> 03:53.040 align:start DOES IT IMPEDE HIS STRATEGY FOR 03:53.040 --> 03:54.840 align:start WINNING THE ELECTION, GIVEN THA 03:54.840 --> 03:56.600 align:start BENTON WAS HIS CHIEF STRATEGIST 03:56.600 --> 03:58.600 align:start >> MOST PEOPLE EXPECT JOSH 03:58.600 --> 04:00.120 align:start HOLMES, McCONNELL'S FORMER 04:00.120 --> 04:01.480 align:start CHIEF OF STAFF WHO HAS BEEN 04:01.480 --> 04:02.560 align:start WORKING WITH THE CAMPAIGN FOR 04:02.560 --> 04:04.680 align:start SOME TIME NOW, TO TAKE OVER, AN 04:04.680 --> 04:06.160 align:start I DON'T EXPECT HIM TO MISS A 04:06.160 --> 04:08.120 align:start BEAT BECAUSE OF IT. 04:08.120 --> 04:09.600 align:start YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR THE GRIMES 04:09.600 --> 04:10.360 align:start PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS SOME. 04:10.360 --> 04:11.720 align:start I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S GOING TO 04:11.720 --> 04:12.480 align:start HAVE LEGS. 04:12.480 --> 04:14.480 align:start I THINK THE BIGGEST CONCERN 04:14.480 --> 04:15.100 align:start ANYBODY'S GOT TO HAVE HAS GOT T 04:15.100 --> 04:18.100 align:start BE RAND PAUL WHO IS NOW SEEING 04:18.100 --> 04:20.520 align:start THE PERSON OR SOME OF THE PEOPL 04:20.520 --> 04:23.840 align:start THAT HE WAS GOING TO BUILD HIS 04:23.840 --> 04:25.600 align:start PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN AROUND, 04:25.600 --> 04:26.800 align:start SUDDENLY HAVING THESE TROUBLES 04:26.800 --> 04:28.560 align:start THAT MAYBE HE DOESN'T WANT TO 04:28.560 --> 04:30.720 align:start BRING ONBOARD WHEN HE GOES -- 04:30.720 --> 04:33.120 align:start >> I DON'T WANT TO ADD TO ANY 04:33.120 --> 04:34.480 align:start SPECULATION BUT I THINK IT 04:34.480 --> 04:35.920 align:start RAPIST TO BE SEEN WHAT EFFECT 04:35.920 --> 04:37.200 align:start THIS IS GOING TO HAVE ON THE 04:37.200 --> 04:38.320 align:start CAMPAIGN AND WHETHER IT HAS ANY 04:38.320 --> 04:39.440 align:start EFFECT AT ALL, AND RIGHT NOW WE 04:39.440 --> 04:42.520 align:start DON'T HAVE ANY REASON TO BELIEV 04:42.520 --> 04:43.080 align:start SO ON SENATOR McCONNELL. 04:43.080 --> 04:45.200 align:start >> AND WE SHOULD POINT OUT THAT 04:45.200 --> 04:47.440 align:start WE CAN'T SAY THIS ENOUGH, THAT 04:47.440 --> 04:48.600 align:start BENTON DENIES THAT HE HAD 04:48.600 --> 04:49.440 align:start ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS. 04:49.440 --> 04:50.320 align:start >> ABSOLUTELY. 04:50.320 --> 04:53.600 align:start >> JUST MEDIA SPECULATION AND 04:53.600 --> 04:56.040 align:start RUMOR AND INNUENDO AND THAT HE 04:56.040 --> 04:56.720 align:start DID NOTHING WRONG. 04:56.720 --> 04:58.080 align:start >> OBVIOUSLY WE REACTED TO THIS 04:58.080 --> 05:00.760 align:start NEWS LATE THIS AFTERNOON, HAD 05:00.760 --> 05:02.920 align:start THE HEADLINES BEEN TWO HOURS AG 05:02.920 --> 05:03.720 align:start WE WOULD HAVE BEEN TALKING MORE 05:03.720 --> 05:05.680 align:start ABOUT THIS AUDIO TAPE THAT 05:05.680 --> 05:06.100 align:start CONTINUED TO BE IN THE NEWS 05:06.100 --> 05:07.920 align:start AFTER IT SURFACED. 05:07.920 --> 05:10.000 align:start >> RIGHT. 05:10.000 --> 05:13.320 align:start THE NATION, A KIND OF A LIBERAL 05:13.320 --> 05:15.360 align:start LEANING MAGAZINE, POSTED ON ITS 05:15.360 --> 05:16.100 align:start WEBSITE THE OTHER DAY AN AUDIO 05:16.100 --> 05:18.280 align:start TAPE OF MITCH McCONNELL 05:18.280 --> 05:20.560 align:start SPEAKING TO A SUMMIT HELD BY TH 05:20.560 --> 05:21.720 align:start KOCH BROTHERS IN CALIFORNIA IN 05:21.720 --> 05:24.200 align:start WHICH HE SAID THAT HE WOULD NOT 05:24.200 --> 05:27.400 align:start ALLOW DEBATE ON ISSUES LIKE 05:27.400 --> 05:28.110 align:start RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE, 05:28.110 --> 05:29.320 align:start LIKE -- 05:29.320 --> 05:30.440 align:start >> UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE. 05:30.440 --> 05:32.280 align:start >> -- UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE, 05:32.280 --> 05:33.110 align:start AND ALSO SAID THAT THE WORST DA 05:33.110 --> 05:36.480 align:start OF HIS CAREER WAS THE DAY THAT 05:36.480 --> 05:39.100 align:start PRESIDENT BUSH SIGNED THE 05:39.100 --> 05:41.160 align:start MCCAIN-FEINGOLD CAMPAIGN FINANC 05:41.160 --> 05:42.100 align:start REFORM ACT INTO LAW, AND A LOT 05:42.100 --> 05:44.520 align:start OF FOLKS ON THE LEFT ARE HAVING 05:44.520 --> 05:46.360 align:start SOME FUN WITH THIS, AND THEY 05:46.360 --> 05:46.760 align:start THINK -- 05:46.760 --> 05:49.200 align:start >> THAT LIMITED POLITICAL 05:49.200 --> 05:49.720 align:start CONTRIBUTIONS. 05:49.720 --> 05:50.100 align:start >> RIGHT. 05:50.100 --> 05:52.120 align:start AND PEOPLE ON THE LEFT THINK 05:52.120 --> 05:57.040 align:start THAT THIS COULD BE THE 47% 05:57.040 --> 05:58.640 align:start COMMENT, LIKE MITT ROMNEY MADE 05:58.640 --> 06:00.600 align:start TO A GROUP OF WEALTHY DONORS 06:00.600 --> 06:02.160 align:start BACK IN 2012. 06:02.160 --> 06:04.320 align:start >> SPEAKING OF MITT ROMNEY, HE 06:04.320 --> 06:05.680 align:start WILL BE COMING TO ELECTRICS IN 06:05.680 --> 06:07.440 align:start SUPPORT OF McCONNELL TO -- 06:07.440 --> 06:08.640 align:start LEXINGTON IN SUPPORT OF 06:08.640 --> 06:09.110 align:start McCONNELL TO RAISE MONEY FOR 06:09.110 --> 06:11.600 align:start HIM IN OCTOBER AND ALSO SAM 06:11.600 --> 06:12.100 align:start YOUNGMAN REPORTING IN THE HELLE 06:12.100 --> 06:14.960 align:start LEADER THIS MONTH DOING A 06:14.960 --> 06:17.280 align:start COMPARISON TO ROMNEY'S STRATEGY 06:17.280 --> 06:19.040 align:start IN 2012 TO WIN KENTUCKY WHEN HE 06:19.040 --> 06:20.600 align:start GOT 60% OF THE VOTE TO 06:20.600 --> 06:21.200 align:start McCONNELL'S CAMPAIGN THIS 06:21.200 --> 06:21.560 align:start YEAR. 06:21.560 --> 06:22.840 align:start >> YEAH, INTERESTING QUESTION O 06:22.840 --> 06:24.280 align:start THAT, TOO, IS ROMNEY, WHAT'S IN 06:24.280 --> 06:25.240 align:start IT FOR HIM? 06:25.240 --> 06:27.880 align:start AND MIGHT HE BE A PRESIDENTIAL 06:27.880 --> 06:29.720 align:start CANDIDATE AGAIN IN 2016. 06:29.720 --> 06:32.520 align:start >> I THINK HE SWITCHED NOW TO 06:32.520 --> 06:33.000 align:start CIRCUMSTANCES CHANGE. 06:33.000 --> 06:33.100 align:start >> YES. 06:33.100 --> 06:35.960 align:start >> THAT'S KIND OF WHERE HE IS A 06:35.960 --> 06:36.920 align:start THIS POINT. 06:36.920 --> 06:37.800 align:start McCONNELL WENT ON WHILE THIS 06:37.800 --> 06:39.680 align:start WAS A RECORDING THAT WAS NOT TO 06:39.680 --> 06:41.680 align:start HIS KNOWLEDGE, HE WENT ON RADIO 06:41.680 --> 06:43.110 align:start AND DANVILLE THIS WEEK AND SAID 06:43.110 --> 06:45.560 align:start THAT THE RACE IS SO CLOSE 06:45.560 --> 06:47.280 align:start BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF OUTSID 06:47.280 --> 06:48.100 align:start MONEY BEING SPENT AGAINST HIM, 06:48.100 --> 06:51.320 align:start WHICH HE SAID HE SUPPORTS 06:51.320 --> 06:52.080 align:start LETTING PEOPLE DO. 06:52.080 --> 06:54.100 align:start >>Y THERE'S ALSO A LOT OF MONEY 06:54.100 --> 06:56.110 align:start FOR EXAMPLE -- OUTSIDE MONEY 06:56.110 --> 06:58.480 align:start BEING SPENT FOR HIM. 06:58.480 --> 06:59.880 align:start >> ALISON GRIMES CONTINUES TO 06:59.880 --> 07:02.800 align:start TRY TO COURT FEMALE VOTERS. 07:02.800 --> 07:05.200 align:start AT THIS POINT IT IS IT HAS NOT 07:05.200 --> 07:06.520 align:start EMERGED THAT SHE HAS AN 07:06.520 --> 07:09.160 align:start ADVANTAGE WITH THE FEMALE VOTER 07:09.160 --> 07:09.960 align:start THAT SHE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE. 07:09.960 --> 07:11.320 align:start SHE ALSO THIS WEEK, THOUGH, HAD 07:11.320 --> 07:12.920 align:start SOME MORE QUESTIONS TO ANSWER 07:12.920 --> 07:15.520 align:start ABOUT THE BUS, THE MODE OF 07:15.520 --> 07:16.200 align:start TRANSPORTATION IN THE CAMPAIGN, 07:16.200 --> 07:18.100 align:start AND YOU WROTE THIS MORNING, JOE 07:18.100 --> 07:20.680 align:start THAT THAT BUS IS NOT LICENSED T 07:20.680 --> 07:21.040 align:start CARRY PEOPLE. 07:21.040 --> 07:23.760 align:start >> WE CAN'T FIND ANYWHERE WHERE 07:23.760 --> 07:24.800 align:start IT'S BEEN LICENSED WITH THE 07:24.800 --> 07:27.520 align:start STATE OR WITH THE FEDS TO 07:27.520 --> 07:28.880 align:start ACTUALLY HAUL PEOPLE AROUND. 07:28.880 --> 07:32.040 align:start YOU NEED A SPECIAL PERMIT TO DO 07:32.040 --> 07:34.400 align:start THAT, AND I HAVEN'T HEARD BACK 07:34.400 --> 07:36.600 align:start FROM JERRY LUNDERGAN'S BUSINESS 07:36.600 --> 07:38.720 align:start THE LUNDERGAN GROUP, WHICH ONE 07:38.720 --> 07:41.560 align:start OF ITS SUBSIDY YEARS PURCHASED 07:41.560 --> 07:43.240 align:start THE BUS AND IS PROVIDING IT TO 07:43.240 --> 07:44.240 align:start THE CAMPAIGN FOR WHAT THE 07:44.240 --> 07:45.480 align:start McCONNELL FOLKS SAY IS A 07:45.480 --> 07:45.100 align:start REDUCED RATE. 07:45.100 --> 07:48.240 align:start >> AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THE 07:48.240 --> 07:49.100 align:start GRIMES CAMPAIGN ON FRIDAY DID 07:49.100 --> 07:52.320 align:start ASK THE STATE FOR A PERMIT TO 07:52.320 --> 07:55.440 align:start HAVE CHARTER RIGHTS TO CARRY 07:55.440 --> 07:56.600 align:start PASSENGERS. 07:56.600 --> 07:57.960 align:start THEY -- THEIR UNDERSTANDING WAS 07:57.960 --> 07:59.240 align:start THAT THEY HAD THE RIGHT TO DO 07:59.240 --> 08:00.840 align:start THAT, BUT TO BE SURE THEY'LL GO 08:00.840 --> 08:02.720 align:start AHEAD AND TRY TO GET THAT PERMI 08:02.720 --> 08:04.520 align:start IN GRIMES ENDORSED BY FORMERY 08:04.520 --> 08:07.360 align:start SECRETARY OF STATE MADELINE 08:07.360 --> 08:09.360 align:start ALBRIGHT AND MARTHA LANE COLLIN 08:09.360 --> 08:11.000 align:start IS ON IT DOING A LOT OF SPEAKIN 08:11.000 --> 08:12.120 align:start FOR HER. 08:12.120 --> 08:14.680 align:start IS SHE HAVING DIFFICULTY 08:14.680 --> 08:15.960 align:start CONNECTING FEMALE VOTERS, JOE? 08:15.960 --> 08:17.840 align:start >> YOU KNOW, FROM WHAT WE HAVE 08:17.840 --> 08:19.100 align:start SEEN, WE HAVEN'T -- I MEAN, 08:19.100 --> 08:21.110 align:start POLLING GOING BACK TO THE 08:21.110 --> 08:23.720 align:start ORIGINAL BLUEGRASS POLL THAT 08:23.720 --> 08:26.240 align:start YOUR TELEVISION STATION, MY 08:26.240 --> 08:28.800 align:start NEWSPAPER, JACK'S NEWSPAPER AND 08:28.800 --> 08:31.200 align:start W HAAS DID HAS SHOWN SHE DID NO 08:31.200 --> 08:32.120 align:start HAVE THE ADVANTAGE THAT I LOT O 08:32.120 --> 08:33.110 align:start PEOPLE EXPECTED THAT SHE WOULD. 08:33.110 --> 08:35.720 align:start IT'S HARD TO TELL WHY. 08:35.720 --> 08:38.240 align:start >> WHICH, BY THE WAY, TRILLION 08:38.240 --> 08:40.720 align:start THERE BE A NEW POLL OUT TOMORRO 08:40.720 --> 08:40.110 align:start EVENING. 08:40.110 --> 08:42.680 align:start >> IT'S TOMORROW EVENING AT 08:42.680 --> 08:43.200 align:start 8:00. 08:43.200 --> 08:44.110 align:start THAT'S SATURDAY EVENING AT 8:00 08:44.110 --> 08:47.800 align:start THEY WILL BE POSTED ONLINE AT 08:47.800 --> 08:49.110 align:start ALL OF THE PARTNERS WEBSITES, 08:49.110 --> 08:51.720 align:start AND YOU'LL GET TO SEE WHO IS 08:51.720 --> 08:52.920 align:start LEADING IN THE SENATE RACE. 08:52.920 --> 08:55.160 align:start >> WE'VE STILL GOT NINE MORE 08:55.160 --> 08:56.100 align:start WEEKS TO GO BEFORE THE 08:56.100 --> 08:57.560 align:start NOVEMBER 4th ELECTION. 08:57.560 --> 08:58.110 align:start ALL THESE STORIES ARE BREAKING. 08:58.110 --> 09:01.440 align:start I TALKED TO HOUSE SPEAKER GREG 09:01.440 --> 09:02.760 align:start STUMBO, HIS TAKE ON THIS, AND I 09:02.760 --> 09:03.100 align:start SEEM TO SIDE WITH HIM THAT THIS 09:03.100 --> 09:06.880 align:start IS GOING TO GO DOWN TO THE WIRE 09:06.880 --> 09:08.720 align:start AND USED A SPORTS ANALOGY, 09:08.720 --> 09:09.100 align:start WHOEVER HAS THE BALL THAT IS 09:09.100 --> 09:12.400 align:start WEEK OR SO IS GOING TO WIN THIS 09:12.400 --> 09:12.760 align:start RACE. 09:12.760 --> 09:13.110 align:start >> WELL, WOULDN'T YOU THINK THA 09:13.110 --> 09:15.100 align:start A POSSIBLE GAME-CHANGER FOR 09:15.100 --> 09:18.280 align:start EITHER SIDE MIGHT BE A DEBATE? 09:18.280 --> 09:20.100 align:start AND THERE'S GOING TO BE THE 09:20.100 --> 09:24.880 align:start FORUM AT KET THAT WE'LL BE 09:24.880 --> 09:28.280 align:start BROADCASTING, TELECAST, BUT NOW 09:28.280 --> 09:29.880 align:start CENTRE COLLEGE HAS CANCELLED IT 09:29.880 --> 09:33.100 align:start PLAN FOR DEBATE, WHAS SAYS THAT 09:33.100 --> 09:35.110 align:start THEIR EVENT IS OFF. 09:35.110 --> 09:37.240 align:start THERE IS STILL I THINK THE 09:37.240 --> 09:38.080 align:start INVITATION FROM THE UNIVERSITY 09:38.080 --> 09:39.640 align:start OF KENTUCKY AND THE LEAGUE WOME 09:39.640 --> 09:41.040 align:start VOTERS AND THERE ARE SOME OTHER 09:41.040 --> 09:42.100 align:start WHO SAY THEY WOULD SCRAMBLE AND 09:42.100 --> 09:43.100 align:start PUT ONE TOGETHER. 09:43.100 --> 09:46.040 align:start BUT AT THIS POINT DATES PIERCE 09:46.040 --> 09:47.920 align:start THIS WILL BE OTHER DEBATES? 09:47.920 --> 09:51.360 align:start >> ERICA, WE KNOW REPORTERS 09:51.360 --> 09:51.110 align:start HAVEN'T SUPPOSED TO HAVE 09:51.110 --> 09:52.110 align:start OPINIONS BUT I THINK ALL THE 09:52.110 --> 09:54.110 align:start REPORTERS ARE UPSET THAT THERE 09:54.110 --> 09:55.100 align:start HAVEN'T BEEN DEBATES ON MAJOR 09:55.100 --> 09:56.600 align:start ISSUES. 09:56.600 --> 09:57.840 align:start >> IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN 09:57.840 --> 10:00.600 align:start HARD THE REPORT ON WHEN YOU'RE 10:00.600 --> 10:01.760 align:start JUST GETTING STATEMENTS FROM 10:01.760 --> 10:03.680 align:start CAMPAIGNS AND SPAIN CAMPAIGN 10:03.680 --> 10:03.110 align:start SPEECHES. 10:03.110 --> 10:06.600 align:start >> WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO KNOW 10:06.600 --> 10:09.360 align:start WHETHER THEY FEEL WE SHOULD PUT 10:09.360 --> 10:12.240 align:start TROOPS IN IRAQ OR AMNESTY FOR 10:12.240 --> 10:13.000 align:start ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS? 10:13.000 --> 10:15.480 align:start >> IF YOU HAD THE BEAT FOR U.S. 10:15.480 --> 10:17.000 align:start SENATE CANDIDATES THIS YEAR, 10:17.000 --> 10:17.600 align:start WHAT WOULD IT BE? 10:17.600 --> 10:19.240 align:start >> WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO THIS 10:19.240 --> 10:20.100 align:start I KNOW IN A LITTLE BIT, BUT IT 10:20.100 --> 10:22.360 align:start WOULD BE I GUESS WHAT IS THE 10:22.360 --> 10:23.480 align:start FUTURE OF KENTUCKY COAL? 10:23.480 --> 10:25.160 align:start SO FAR WE'VE HEARD A LOT OF 10:25.160 --> 10:27.920 align:start TALKING POINTS ABOUT COAL. 10:27.920 --> 10:30.320 align:start WE'VE HEARD I'M PRO-COAL, COAL 10:30.320 --> 10:30.110 align:start IS THE FUTURE. 10:30.110 --> 10:32.560 align:start WHEN THE STATISTICS AND THE 10:32.560 --> 10:33.360 align:start FACTS DON'T REALLY SUGGEST THAT 10:33.360 --> 10:35.080 align:start >> LET'S GO AHEAD AND TALK ABOU 10:35.080 --> 10:35.440 align:start THAT. 10:35.440 --> 10:37.960 align:start IT IS OBVIOUSLY THE OVERRIDING 10:37.960 --> 10:38.680 align:start ISSUE. 10:38.680 --> 10:40.080 align:start SOME OF THE EARLY POLLING HAS 10:40.080 --> 10:42.400 align:start INDICATED THAT IT IS A MAJOR 10:42.400 --> 10:43.920 align:start CONCERN TO A LOT OF PEOPLE, 10:43.920 --> 10:46.080 align:start PARTICULARLY IN THE EASTERN AND 10:46.080 --> 10:52.100 align:start WESTERN KENTUCKY, AND TO THE JO 10:52.100 --> 10:55.000 align:start THE JOBS THAT DEPEND ON COAL BU 10:55.000 --> 10:56.000 align:start YOU'RE SAYING YOUR REPORTING AN 10:56.000 --> 10:57.100 align:start YOUR FINDINGS INDICATE WHAT? 10:57.100 --> 10:58.100 align:start >> WELL, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE 10:58.100 --> 11:00.840 align:start NUMBERS OF PRODUCTION, OF 11:00.840 --> 11:02.840 align:start EMPLOYMENT, PRETTY MUCH 11:02.840 --> 11:06.440 align:start NICOLE-RELATED NUMBERS IN -- 11:06.440 --> 11:07.080 align:start ANY COAL-RERATED NUMBERS IN 11:07.080 --> 11:08.400 align:start KENTUCKY YOU SEE A COUPLE OF 11:08.400 --> 11:09.440 align:start THINGS, YOU SEE JOBS AND 11:09.440 --> 11:10.280 align:start PRODUCTION DROPPING STATEWIDE 11:10.280 --> 11:11.110 align:start PRETTY MUCH OVER THE PAST 30 11:11.110 --> 11:12.880 align:start YEARS, AND THIS IS A TREND 11:12.880 --> 11:13.110 align:start THAT'S BEEN GOING DOWNHILL FOR 11:13.110 --> 11:14.440 align:start WHILE. 11:14.440 --> 11:15.760 align:start IT'S NOT THE PAST SIX YEARS. 11:15.760 --> 11:17.760 align:start IT'S NOT THE PAST DECADE. 11:17.760 --> 11:19.100 align:start WE'RE TALKING AT LEAST SINCE 11:19.100 --> 11:21.520 align:start 1980. 11:21.520 --> 11:22.640 align:start BUT YOU ALSO SEE IN EASTERN 11:22.640 --> 11:24.360 align:start KENTUCKY IT'S DROPPING A LOT 11:24.360 --> 11:26.200 align:start FASTER THAN IT IS IN WESTERN 11:26.200 --> 11:26.720 align:start KENTUCKY. 11:26.720 --> 11:27.800 align:start WESTERN KENTUCKY, IT'S NEVER 11:27.800 --> 11:30.120 align:start HAD -- IT'S PRETTY MUCH STAYED 11:30.120 --> 11:30.520 align:start STEADY. 11:30.520 --> 11:31.840 align:start IT'S NEVER HAD THE HIGHS THAT 11:31.840 --> 11:33.360 align:start EASTERN KENTUCKY HAD, BUT IT'S 11:33.360 --> 11:35.160 align:start ALSO NOT HAVING THE LOWS RIGHT 11:35.160 --> 11:35.960 align:start NOW. 11:35.960 --> 11:37.000 align:start I GUESS EASTERN KENTUCKY AND 11:37.000 --> 11:38.600 align:start WESTERN KENTUCKY RIGHT NOW ARE 11:38.600 --> 11:41.110 align:start ABOUT ON THE SAME LEVEL 11:41.110 --> 11:42.800 align:start PRODUCTION-WISE WILL BE WHICH 11:42.800 --> 11:43.480 align:start EASTERN KENTUCKY USED TO PRODUC 11:43.480 --> 11:44.100 align:start A LOT MORE COAL THAN WESTERN 11:44.100 --> 11:45.320 align:start KENTUCKY. 11:45.320 --> 11:47.240 align:start >> AND THAT'S FOR, WHAT, A 11:47.240 --> 11:48.600 align:start COUPLE OF REASONS. 11:48.600 --> 11:50.600 align:start MARKET FORCES AS WELL AS THESE 11:50.600 --> 11:52.240 align:start MUCH MORE STRINGENT REGULATIONS 11:52.240 --> 11:52.100 align:start ON EMISSIONS. 11:52.100 --> 11:54.240 align:start >> YEAH, THERE ARE A LOT OF 11:54.240 --> 11:54.640 align:start REASONS. 11:54.640 --> 11:56.120 align:start EMPLOYMENT HAS BEEN DOWN PARTLY 11:56.120 --> 11:57.480 align:start BECAUSE OF TECHNOLOGY WHEN YOU 11:57.480 --> 11:59.480 align:start HAVE CONTINUOUS MINERS AND DRAG 11:59.480 --> 12:00.360 align:start LINES, YOU DON'T NEED AS AM 12:00.360 --> 12:02.600 align:start PEOPLE, BUT RECENTLY IT'S BEEN 12:02.600 --> 12:03.960 align:start MARKET FORCES, IT'S BEEN CHEAP 12:03.960 --> 12:06.960 align:start NATURAL GAS, IT'S BEEN RECLININ 12:06.960 --> 12:07.400 align:start RESERVES. 12:07.400 --> 12:08.110 align:start IN EASTERN KENTUCKY IT'S A LOT 12:08.110 --> 12:09.640 align:start HARDER. 12:09.640 --> 12:10.110 align:start YOU DON'T HAVE THE HUGE THICK 12:10.110 --> 12:13.100 align:start COAL SEAMS YOU USED TO HAVE SO 12:13.100 --> 12:14.760 align:start IT'S LOT MORE EXPENSIVE TO MINE 12:14.760 --> 12:15.400 align:start COAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL 12:15.400 --> 12:17.760 align:start REGULATIONS ON MINING AND 12:17.760 --> 12:18.520 align:start BURNING COAL HAVE D CONTRIBUTED 12:18.520 --> 12:18.840 align:start TOO. 12:18.840 --> 12:19.110 align:start >> YOU HAVE RECENTLY REPORTED 12:19.110 --> 12:20.110 align:start THAT IT TAKES LONGER TO MINE 12:20.110 --> 12:21.280 align:start COAL. 12:21.280 --> 12:22.160 align:start >> IT DOES. 12:22.160 --> 12:22.110 align:start >> NOW. 12:22.110 --> 12:23.240 align:start WHY? 12:23.240 --> 12:23.110 align:start >> WELL -- 12:23.110 --> 12:26.600 align:start >> BUS OF THE REGULATION? 12:26.600 --> 12:27.760 align:start >> NO, THE RESOLUTIONS REALLY 12:27.760 --> 12:30.120 align:start HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE 12:30.120 --> 12:31.200 align:start PRODUCTIVE NUMBERS, AND ACTUALL 12:31.200 --> 12:32.320 align:start IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE I LOOK 12:32.320 --> 12:34.000 align:start AT AT THESE NUMBERS, THE STATE 12:34.000 --> 12:34.100 align:start ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT CABINET 12:34.100 --> 12:38.200 align:start HAS JUST THIS TREASURE TROVE OF 12:38.200 --> 12:39.110 align:start DATA YOU CAN LOOK UP PRETTY MUC 12:39.110 --> 12:41.720 align:start ANY ENERGY-RELATED STATISTICS 12:41.720 --> 12:42.640 align:start YOU CARE ABOUT. 12:42.640 --> 12:44.360 align:start AND I CALLED THE ENERGY 12:44.360 --> 12:45.440 align:start INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION, THE 12:45.440 --> 12:47.080 align:start FEDERAL AGENCY THAT LOOKS AT A 12:47.080 --> 12:49.000 align:start LOT OF THIS, AND I SAID WHY IS 12:49.000 --> 12:50.880 align:start PRODUCT OF DOWN SO MUCH IN 12:50.880 --> 12:53.080 align:start EASTERN KENTUCKY? 12:53.080 --> 12:54.680 align:start THEY SAID THAT'S A GOOD 12:54.680 --> 12:54.110 align:start QUESTION. 12:54.110 --> 12:56.440 align:start WE'VE BEEN MEANING TO LOOK AT 12:56.440 --> 12:57.110 align:start THAT BUT WE HAVEN'T REALLY YET. 12:57.110 --> 13:01.960 align:start SO THERE ARE A COUPLE OF IDEAS. 13:01.960 --> 13:04.200 align:start ONE IS TECHNOLOGY, YOU KNOW, 13:04.200 --> 13:04.100 align:start INCREASES PRODUCTIVITY 13:04.100 --> 13:06.560 align:start SOMETIMES, AND IT DID YEARS AND 13:06.560 --> 13:07.080 align:start YEARS AGO. 13:07.080 --> 13:09.560 align:start IT'S REALLY THE DECLINING 13:09.560 --> 13:10.100 align:start RESERVES AND THE FACT THAT YOU 13:10.100 --> 13:12.080 align:start JUST DON'T HAVE THE THICK COAL 13:12.080 --> 13:13.110 align:start SEAMS YOU USED TO. 13:13.110 --> 13:14.960 align:start >> HARDER TO REACH? 13:14.960 --> 13:16.240 align:start >> YEAH, HARDER TO REACH, YOU 13:16.240 --> 13:17.920 align:start HAVE TO GO THROUGH MORE YORE 13:17.920 --> 13:19.800 align:start BURDEN TO GET TO THE COAL. 13:19.800 --> 13:21.920 align:start BUT IN 1997 IT HIT ITS PEAK IN 13:21.920 --> 13:23.110 align:start EASTERN KENTUCKY AND A MINER 13:23.110 --> 13:26.080 align:start COULD MINE 3.8 TONS OF COAL PER 13:26.080 --> 13:28.040 align:start HOUR, AND NOW THAT'S DOWN TO 13:28.040 --> 13:28.800 align:start 2.1 TONS OF COAL. 13:28.800 --> 13:30.840 align:start >> COAL HAS BEEN SUCH A VISIBLE 13:30.840 --> 13:32.040 align:start ISSUE AS WE ALL KNOW IN THE 13:32.040 --> 13:33.880 align:start SENATE RACE, YET THERE COULD BE 13:33.880 --> 13:35.880 align:start A LEAST A BIT OF A DEPARTMENT O 13:35.880 --> 13:37.560 align:start NARRATIVE IN THE GOVERNOR'S RAC 13:37.560 --> 13:40.160 align:start NEXT YEAR BASED ON SOME COMMENT 13:40.160 --> 13:42.080 align:start OF SOON-TO-BE REPUBLICAN 13:42.080 --> 13:43.100 align:start CANDIDATE ARE TO GOVERNOR JAMES 13:43.100 --> 13:45.880 align:start COMER WHO, BY THE WAY, HAS NOW 13:45.880 --> 13:48.040 align:start BACKED OFF OF THOSE COMMENTS TO 13:48.040 --> 13:48.800 align:start SOME EXTENT, RIGHT? 13:48.800 --> 13:50.040 align:start >> YEAH. 13:50.040 --> 13:51.110 align:start JAIME COMER MADE COMMENTS LAST 13:51.110 --> 13:53.400 align:start FALL TO A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT 13:53.400 --> 13:53.110 align:start OUTLETS. 13:53.110 --> 13:57.040 align:start HE TOLD MY COLLEAGUE AT WFPL 13:57.040 --> 14:01.000 align:start THAT HE MADE COMMENTS TO CN2. 14:01.000 --> 14:02.800 align:start I BELIEVE THE COURIER-JOURNAL 14:02.800 --> 14:03.110 align:start REPORTED ON IT AS WELL. 14:03.110 --> 14:06.100 align:start WHAT HE TOLD WFPL, I'M A FRIEND 14:06.100 --> 14:07.440 align:start OF COAL. 14:07.440 --> 14:08.640 align:start I SUPPORT THE COAL INDUSTRY. 14:08.640 --> 14:10.640 align:start BUT THE COAL INDUSTRY'S FUTURE 14:10.640 --> 14:11.720 align:start DOESN'T LOOK BRIGHT AND WE HAVE 14:11.720 --> 14:13.360 align:start TO LOOK BEYOND THAT AND LEARN T 14:13.360 --> 14:14.840 align:start DEVELOP A NEW ECONOMY IN EASTER 14:14.840 --> 14:15.800 align:start KENTUCKY. 14:15.800 --> 14:16.800 align:start NOW, THIS IS FAR FROM WHAT I 14:16.800 --> 14:19.200 align:start WOULD CALL AN ANTI-COAL 14:19.200 --> 14:19.640 align:start STATEMENT. 14:19.640 --> 14:21.280 align:start IN FACT, AT THE TIME IT WAS KIN 14:21.280 --> 14:22.560 align:start OF I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE IN 14:22.560 --> 14:24.840 align:start THE MEDIA SAID, AH, YOU KNOW, 14:24.840 --> 14:27.520 align:start HE'S ACTUALLY -- THIS IS A 14:27.520 --> 14:28.120 align:start FACT-BASED STATEMENT. 14:28.120 --> 14:30.200 align:start BUT NOW THAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT 14:30.200 --> 14:33.840 align:start RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR, HE'S BEIN 14:33.840 --> 14:36.080 align:start ATTACKED BY HIS REPUBLICAN 14:36.080 --> 14:37.110 align:start OPPONENT HAL HEINER FOR THE 14:37.110 --> 14:39.680 align:start STATEMENT, SAYING, OH, YOU KNOW 14:39.680 --> 14:40.560 align:start HE DOESN'T BELIEVE IN THE FUTUR 14:40.560 --> 14:42.920 align:start OF COAL IN EASTERN KENTUCKY, 14:42.920 --> 14:43.560 align:start HE'S AGAINST COAL. 14:43.560 --> 14:46.320 align:start >> AND THIS WHOLE THING CAME 14:46.320 --> 14:48.080 align:start ABOUT BECAUSE OF AN EVENT IN 14:48.080 --> 14:51.000 align:start LOUISVILLE WHERE STATE 14:51.000 --> 14:52.560 align:start REPRESENTATIVE TOM BURCH SAID 14:52.560 --> 14:54.240 align:start SOME THINGS ABOUT COAL AND NEED 14:54.240 --> 14:55.440 align:start TOPPING LOOK BEYOND COAL IN 14:55.440 --> 14:56.320 align:start EASTERN KENTUCKY. 14:56.320 --> 14:57.000 align:start REPUBLICANS STARTED TO ATTACK 14:57.000 --> 14:57.680 align:start HIM ON IT. 14:57.680 --> 14:59.920 align:start AND THEN YOUR COLLEAGUE, PHIL 14:59.920 --> 15:01.110 align:start BALE WELL POINTED OUT THAT, HEY 15:01.110 --> 15:03.320 align:start COMER SAID SOMETHING SIMILAR TO 15:03.320 --> 15:03.110 align:start THIS A YEAR AGO. 15:03.110 --> 15:05.920 align:start >> YEAH, AND I THINK CALLING IT 15:05.920 --> 15:07.320 align:start SIMILAR. 15:07.320 --> 15:09.080 align:start IT'S A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT -- I 15:09.080 --> 15:10.680 align:start MEAN, BURCH'S COMMENTS WERE A 15:10.680 --> 15:12.110 align:start LITTLE BIT MORE, YOU KNOW -- I 15:12.110 --> 15:15.080 align:start THINK HE SAID SOMETHING LIKE -- 15:15.080 --> 15:15.680 align:start >> COAL IS DIRTY. 15:15.680 --> 15:18.440 align:start >> AND COMER DOES BEGIN HIS 15:18.440 --> 15:20.920 align:start STATEMENT WITH "I AM A FRIEND O 15:20.920 --> 15:21.080 align:start COAL." 15:21.080 --> 15:23.560 align:start >> WHEN YOU DRILL DOWN DEEP 15:23.560 --> 15:24.920 align:start NIGHT THEY'RE SAYING THE COAL 15:24.920 --> 15:26.200 align:start INDUSTRY IS GOING AWAY AND WE 15:26.200 --> 15:26.100 align:start NEED TO START LOOKING. 15:26.100 --> 15:29.160 align:start >> I UNDERSTAND WHERE COMER 15:29.160 --> 15:30.320 align:start OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCES I BELIEVE 15:30.320 --> 15:31.800 align:start IN SEPTEMBER 9TH IN HIS HOME 15:31.800 --> 15:33.520 align:start DOWN OF TOMPKINSVILLE, HE'S 15:33.520 --> 15:34.110 align:start GOING TO HAVE HIGH-POWERED COAL 15:34.110 --> 15:36.880 align:start OFFICIALS WITH HIM, COAL OWNERS 15:36.880 --> 15:37.840 align:start AND OPERATORS AND ADDRESS THIS. 15:37.840 --> 15:38.100 align:start >> ONE OF THE THINGS I THOUGHT 15:38.100 --> 15:41.760 align:start WAS SO INTERESTING ABOUT THIS 15:41.760 --> 15:44.840 align:start WAS IT'S -- I MEAN, FROM MY 15:44.840 --> 15:46.040 align:start READING, IT'S A FACTUAL 15:46.040 --> 15:46.640 align:start STATEMENT. 15:46.640 --> 15:48.520 align:start WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBERS, 15:48.520 --> 15:50.520 align:start EXPERTS SAY COAL IN EASTERN 15:50.520 --> 15:52.680 align:start KENTUCKY ESPECIALLY IS NOT -- 15:52.680 --> 15:53.960 align:start THERE WILL BE COAL MINING THERE 15:53.960 --> 15:56.480 align:start FOR A WHILE BUT IT'S JUST NOT 15:56.480 --> 15:57.480 align:start GOING REACH THE NUMBERS AND 15:57.480 --> 15:58.600 align:start EMPLOY THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THA 15:58.600 --> 16:00.600 align:start IT USED TO, BUT I ASKED SEVERAL 16:00.600 --> 16:03.600 align:start PEOPLE FOR THIS STORY IS THIS 16:03.600 --> 16:04.480 align:start WHAT -- WHAT WILL VOTERS IN 16:04.480 --> 16:06.600 align:start EASTERN KENTUCKY SAY? 16:06.600 --> 16:08.600 align:start IS THIS A BREATH OF FRESH AIR? 16:08.600 --> 16:10.480 align:start IS THIS, THANK YOU, SOMEBODY IS 16:10.480 --> 16:11.400 align:start BEING REALISTIC? 16:11.400 --> 16:12.440 align:start AND EVERYONE I TALKED TO SAID, 16:12.440 --> 16:13.400 align:start YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK PEOPLE 16:13.400 --> 16:15.760 align:start ARE READY FOR THIS YET. 16:15.760 --> 16:17.880 align:start >> WELL, BACK JUST FOR A SECOND 16:17.880 --> 16:19.240 align:start TO THE SENATE RACE, LET'S TALK 16:19.240 --> 16:20.800 align:start JUST FORA MOMENT ABOUT THE 16:20.800 --> 16:22.840 align:start REPUBLICAN PARTY OF KENTUCKY 16:22.840 --> 16:24.080 align:start CHALLENGING THE SIGNATURES ARE 16:24.080 --> 16:27.440 align:start OF THE LIBERTARIAN SENATE 16:27.440 --> 16:29.560 align:start CANDIDATE DAVID PATTERSON WHO 16:29.560 --> 16:30.100 align:start HAD TO HAVE 5,000 SIGNATURES TO 16:30.100 --> 16:33.680 align:start GET ON THE BALLOT, PLENTY MORE 16:33.680 --> 16:34.880 align:start THAN 9,000. 16:34.880 --> 16:35.640 align:start THEY'RE ASKING COUNTY CLERKS TO 16:35.640 --> 16:36.110 align:start GO IN AND VERIFY THOSE 16:36.110 --> 16:37.800 align:start SIGNATURES. 16:37.800 --> 16:39.440 align:start DO THEY WANT PATERSON OFF THE 16:39.440 --> 16:39.840 align:start BALLOT? 16:39.840 --> 16:40.100 align:start >> I THINK THEY JUST SAY THEY 16:40.100 --> 16:43.600 align:start WANT TO BE SURE THAT HE IS A 16:43.600 --> 16:44.200 align:start LEGAL CANDIDATE. 16:44.200 --> 16:45.110 align:start WHEN THEY WERE REVIEWING THE 16:45.110 --> 16:47.560 align:start SIGNATURES, THEY POINT OUT ONE 16:47.560 --> 16:50.200 align:start EXAMPLE THEY FOUND THE NAME OF 16:50.200 --> 16:51.680 align:start FELLOW NAMED BEN DOVER, AND 16:51.680 --> 16:55.680 align:start AFTER HIS ADDRESS, IT WAS AN 16:55.680 --> 16:56.800 align:start OBSCENE PHRASE, AND SO THEY 16:56.800 --> 16:57.100 align:start SAID, HEY, THIS LOOKS 16:57.100 --> 16:58.440 align:start SUSPICIOUS. 16:58.440 --> 17:00.240 align:start LET'S GO BE SURE HE'S LEGAL. 17:00.240 --> 17:02.320 align:start >> NOW, PATTERSON CLAIMS THAT 17:02.320 --> 17:04.100 align:start HE'S GOT -- THAT THEY VERIFIED 17:04.100 --> 17:06.280 align:start 5700 SIGNATURE AND THEY NEED 17:06.280 --> 17:06.800 align:start 5,000. 17:06.800 --> 17:09.120 align:start AND THAT'S OUT OF 9,000 17:09.120 --> 17:10.680 align:start SIGNATURES THEY'VE GOT, SO THEY 17:10.680 --> 17:11.800 align:start SAY THEY'VE GOT ENOUGH. 17:11.800 --> 17:13.200 align:start REPUBLICANS MAY NOT WANT HIM ON 17:13.200 --> 17:13.560 align:start THERE. 17:13.560 --> 17:15.320 align:start YOU EXPECT THAT THE LIBERTARIAN 17:15.320 --> 17:18.440 align:start CANDIDATE IS GOING TO DRAW 17:18.440 --> 17:19.960 align:start CONSERVATIVE VOTERS AND THAT 17:19.960 --> 17:20.680 align:start COULD HURT McCONNELL. 17:20.680 --> 17:22.200 align:start THIS IS A CLOSE RACE. 17:22.200 --> 17:25.440 align:start >> AND HE HAS ABOUT 7% OF THE 17:25.440 --> 17:26.160 align:start VOTE IN POLLING. 17:26.160 --> 17:27.840 align:start >> WE'RE HEARING FROM OTHER 17:27.840 --> 17:29.520 align:start CANDIDATES IN NEXT YEAR'S 17:29.520 --> 17:31.840 align:start ELECTIONS, AT LEAST RUMBLINGS. 17:31.840 --> 17:33.110 align:start JACK, A SAY THE SENATOR 17:33.110 --> 17:35.400 align:start CONSIDERING RUNNING FOR. 17:35.400 --> 17:38.040 align:start >> STATE SENATOR DENNIS PARE 17:38.040 --> 17:39.800 align:start OVER THE ELIZABETHTOWN, SAID 17:39.800 --> 17:40.100 align:start THIS WEEK HE'S SERIOUSLY LOOKIN 17:40.100 --> 17:42.400 align:start AT AND IT I NOTICE HE EVEN 17:42.400 --> 17:44.160 align:start CALLED HIS HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER 17:44.160 --> 17:45.880 align:start ELIZABETHTOWN AND LET THEM KNOW 17:45.880 --> 17:47.160 align:start SO HE REALLY IS LOOKING AT IT. 17:47.160 --> 17:49.400 align:start WE ALREADY HAVE ONE CANDIDATE I 17:49.400 --> 17:52.520 align:start THERE THAT'S A BROADCASTER, 17:52.520 --> 17:53.200 align:start JEAN-MARIE LAWSON. 17:53.200 --> 17:54.880 align:start >> AND SHE IS ACTIVELY 17:54.880 --> 17:55.160 align:start CAMPAIGNING. 17:55.160 --> 17:55.110 align:start >> YES. 17:55.110 --> 18:00.280 align:start >> A CHANCE FOR DEMOCRATS AND 18:00.280 --> 18:01.920 align:start REPUBLICANS GOT TOGETHER THIS 18:01.920 --> 18:03.240 align:start WEEK. 18:03.240 --> 18:04.520 align:start ERICA, THEY GATHERS WEDNESDAY 18:04.520 --> 18:07.160 align:start AND CELEBRATED A $20 MILLION 18:07.160 --> 18:08.400 align:start FEDERAL GRANT WHICH IS DESIGNED 18:08.400 --> 18:10.520 align:start TO HAVE KENTUCKY LOOK AT OTHER 18:10.520 --> 18:11.560 align:start FORMS OF ENERGY. 18:11.560 --> 18:14.520 align:start >> YEAH, IT'S $20 MILLION FROM 18:14.520 --> 18:16.280 align:start THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 18:16.280 --> 18:17.080 align:start PLUS $4 MILLION IN MATCHING 18:17.080 --> 18:19.400 align:start FUNDS FROM EPSCORE HERE IN 18:19.400 --> 18:22.160 align:start KENTUCKY, AND IT'S BAISLEY AN 18:22.160 --> 18:22.880 align:start R&D GRANT. 18:22.880 --> 18:24.880 align:start IT'S MONEY TO DEVELOP NEW 18:24.880 --> 18:25.680 align:start TECHNOLOGIES FOR ENERGY 18:25.680 --> 18:27.360 align:start GENERATION AND STORAGE. 18:27.360 --> 18:28.840 align:start SO WE'RE TALKING BAT 18:28.840 --> 18:30.600 align:start PARTNERSHIPS WE'RE TALKING NEW 18:30.600 --> 18:31.720 align:start MEMBRANES FOR REMEDIATION, 18:31.720 --> 18:32.960 align:start THINGS LIKE THAT. 18:32.960 --> 18:33.880 align:start BUT I THINK THEY'RE SAYING THAT 18:33.880 --> 18:35.600 align:start IT'S GOING TO BE 150 JOBS OVER 18:35.600 --> 18:37.240 align:start FIVE YEARS, SOME OF THOSE ARE 18:37.240 --> 18:39.880 align:start NEW POSITIONS, SOME ARE TO HELP 18:39.880 --> 18:40.100 align:start PEOPLE WHO ARE ALREADY FACULTY 18:40.100 --> 18:42.240 align:start AT UNIVERSITIES WORK ON THIS. 18:42.240 --> 18:44.720 align:start AND IT'S GOING TO BE 18:44.720 --> 18:45.100 align:start HEADQUARTERED AT THE UNIVERSITY 18:45.100 --> 18:47.120 align:start OF KENTUCKY AT THE CENTER FOR 18:47.120 --> 18:49.480 align:start APPLIED RESEARCH, BUT 18:49.480 --> 18:50.160 align:start UNIVERSITIES OVER THE STATE ARE 18:50.160 --> 18:50.880 align:start INVOLVED IN IT AS WELL. 18:50.880 --> 18:53.240 align:start >> WITH LABOR DAY APPROACHING 18:53.240 --> 18:54.840 align:start THERE'S A PUSH IN LOUISVILLE TO 18:54.840 --> 18:56.000 align:start RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE WINDS TH 18:56.000 --> 18:58.100 align:start CITY TO $10.10 AN HOUR, A LOCAL 18:58.100 --> 19:00.600 align:start MINIMUM WAGE HIKE. 19:00.600 --> 19:02.100 align:start IN JEFFERS COUNTY ATTORNEY SAID 19:02.100 --> 19:05.840 align:start THAT IT WOULD BE LEGAL TO HAVE 19:05.840 --> 19:07.040 align:start LOCAL MINIMUM WAGE. 19:07.040 --> 19:08.600 align:start LOCAL METRO COUNSEL APPEARS TO 19:08.600 --> 19:10.120 align:start HAVE SOMETHING READY TO SPRING 19:10.120 --> 19:10.640 align:start NEXT WEEK? 19:10.640 --> 19:11.960 align:start >> THAT'S THE WORD. 19:11.960 --> 19:13.320 align:start THEY SAY THAT BY RAISING THE 19:13.320 --> 19:14.720 align:start MINIMUM WAGE GRADUALLY OVER 19:14.720 --> 19:18.100 align:start SEVERAL YEARS FROM $7.25 TO 19:18.100 --> 19:20.680 align:start $10.10 WILL HELP 61,000 WORKERS 19:20.680 --> 19:23.200 align:start IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, AND THEY 19:23.200 --> 19:24.160 align:start THINK THAT THEY -- IF THE 19:24.160 --> 19:25.680 align:start STATE'S NOT GOING TO MOVE 19:25.680 --> 19:27.920 align:start FORWARD ON IT, IF CONGRESS ISN' 19:27.920 --> 19:28.800 align:start GOING MOVE FORWARD ON IT, THEY 19:28.800 --> 19:30.480 align:start THINK THEY NEED TO MOVE FORWARD 19:30.480 --> 19:31.640 align:start ON IT AND HELP OUT WORKERS. 19:31.640 --> 19:33.110 align:start >> DOES IT LOOK LIKE IT HAS A 19:33.110 --> 19:34.110 align:start CHANCE OF PASSAGE? 19:34.110 --> 19:37.680 align:start >> YOU KNOW, WHEN THE DEMOCRATI 19:37.680 --> 19:39.760 align:start MAJORITY IN THE LOUISVILLE METR 19:39.760 --> 19:40.100 align:start COUNCIL GETS BEHIND SOMETHING, 19:40.100 --> 19:43.200 align:start THEY'VE GOT TO I A CLEAR 19:43.200 --> 19:45.440 align:start MAJORITY THERE, SO IT'S GOT A 19:45.440 --> 19:46.520 align:start PRETTY GOOD CHANCE OF PASSING. 19:46.520 --> 19:48.440 align:start >> THE COUNTY ATTORNEY BASICALL 19:48.440 --> 19:49.920 align:start SAYING HE WOULD DEFEND IT IF IT 19:49.920 --> 19:50.280 align:start WERE CHALLENGED. 19:50.280 --> 19:50.100 align:start >> YES. 19:50.100 --> 19:52.000 align:start HIS ARGUMENT IS THAT THERE'S 19:52.000 --> 19:53.560 align:start NOTHING IN THE LAW, THAT CITIES 19:53.560 --> 19:56.200 align:start HAVE PRETTY MUCH BROAD -- BROAD 19:56.200 --> 19:57.080 align:start ABILITY TO DO THINGS LIKE THIS 19:57.080 --> 19:58.000 align:start IF THEY CHOOSE TO. 19:58.000 --> 20:01.110 align:start >> JACK, IF FRANKFORT STATE 20:01.110 --> 20:02.920 align:start DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION WILL BE 20:02.920 --> 20:05.320 align:start KEEPING CONTROL OF THE BREATHIT 20:05.320 --> 20:06.200 align:start COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM. 20:06.200 --> 20:09.000 align:start THERE WERE HOURS OF TESTIMONY, 20:09.000 --> 20:10.680 align:start LOCALS FROM BREATHITT COUNTY 20:10.680 --> 20:13.240 align:start SHOWED UP BASICALLY BEGGING TO 20:13.240 --> 20:16.320 align:start HAVE LOCAL CONTROL RETURNED 20:16.320 --> 20:18.760 align:start THERE, THAT KDE, THE KENTUCKY 20:18.760 --> 20:19.440 align:start DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SAID, 20:19.440 --> 20:19.960 align:start NO, NOT YET. 20:19.960 --> 20:22.560 align:start >> IN DECEMBER OF 2012 THE STAT 20:22.560 --> 20:23.440 align:start DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TOOK 20:23.440 --> 20:24.100 align:start OVER THE SCHOOL SYSTEM THERE 20:24.100 --> 20:26.320 align:start THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME IN 15 20:26.320 --> 20:27.240 align:start YEARS. 20:27.240 --> 20:29.600 align:start THE STATE HAS TAKEN OVER A 20:29.600 --> 20:30.800 align:start SCHOOL DISTRICT. 20:30.800 --> 20:33.000 align:start THIS OCCURRED RIGHT AFTER THE 20:33.000 --> 20:35.280 align:start THEN SUPERINTENDENT ARCH TURNER 20:35.280 --> 20:40.040 align:start WENT TO PRISON, INVOLVEMENT IN 20:40.040 --> 20:43.120 align:start VOTE BUYING SCANDAL, ALSO 20:43.120 --> 20:46.200 align:start SHOWING ECONOMIC DEFICIENCY IN 20:46.200 --> 20:46.640 align:start THE STATE. 20:46.640 --> 20:48.040 align:start THEY PLEADED IN A NINE-HOUR 20:48.040 --> 20:48.640 align:start MEETING. 20:48.640 --> 20:50.160 align:start THERE WERE THREE NEW MEMBERS OF 20:50.160 --> 20:51.760 align:start THE BREATHITT COUNTY SCHOOL 20:51.760 --> 20:53.200 align:start BOARD THAT SAID, LOOK, WE CAME 20:53.200 --> 20:54.200 align:start ON AFTER TURNER. 20:54.200 --> 20:56.280 align:start WE REALLY WANT TO DO A GOOD JOB 20:56.280 --> 20:57.520 align:start WE THINK WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO 20:57.520 --> 21:00.080 align:start CONTROL THE STATE COMMISSIONER, 21:00.080 --> 21:02.840 align:start KERRY HOLLADAY SAID, NO, LET'S 21:02.840 --> 21:03.960 align:start KNIGHT STATE'S HANDS AND THE 21:03.960 --> 21:05.160 align:start STATE BOARD VOTED UNANIMOUSLY T 21:05.160 --> 21:06.110 align:start DO THAT FOR AT LEAST UP TO THRE 21:06.110 --> 21:07.760 align:start MORE YEARS. 21:07.760 --> 21:09.160 align:start >> WHAT DOES IT ESSENTIALLY MEA 21:09.160 --> 21:10.800 align:start WHEN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIO 21:10.800 --> 21:11.100 align:start CONTROLS THE LOCAL SCHOOL 21:11.100 --> 21:12.200 align:start SYSTEM? 21:12.200 --> 21:16.160 align:start I MEAN, ARE THE LOCALS, IS THE 21:16.160 --> 21:17.110 align:start LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD POWERLESS AT 21:17.110 --> 21:18.400 align:start THAT POINT? 21:18.400 --> 21:20.440 align:start >> NO, THEY STILL STAY, QUOTE, 21:20.440 --> 21:23.360 align:start IN OPERATION, BUT THE STATE 21:23.360 --> 21:25.760 align:start WANTS TO BE SURE THE PRINCIPLES 21:25.760 --> 21:26.100 align:start WITH ESPECIALLY THE KEY LEADERS 21:26.100 --> 21:28.720 align:start IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, WHO 21:28.720 --> 21:31.360 align:start THEY ARE, ARE THEY CONCENTRATIN 21:31.360 --> 21:32.720 align:start HARD ENOUGH ON THE CLASSES AND 21:32.720 --> 21:34.120 align:start THE ACADEMIC WORK. 21:34.120 --> 21:35.480 align:start THE STATE HAS A LOT OF POWER. 21:35.480 --> 21:38.800 align:start >> ERICA, THERE'S AN APPEAL IN 21:38.800 --> 21:40.120 align:start THE BLUEGRASS PIPELINE CASE 21:40.120 --> 21:44.000 align:start WHICH WAS SO CONTROVERSIAL AND 21:44.000 --> 21:45.480 align:start EVEN MADE ITS WAY INTO THE 21:45.480 --> 21:47.560 align:start LEGISLATURE AND THEN EVENTUALLY 21:47.560 --> 21:49.680 align:start THE COURTS, AND WHERE IS THAT 21:49.680 --> 21:49.100 align:start HEADED? 21:49.100 --> 21:52.480 align:start >> WELL, RIGHT NOW THE BLUEGRAS 21:52.480 --> 21:53.440 align:start PIPELINE IS, OF COURSE, A 21:53.440 --> 21:54.800 align:start NATURAL GAS PIPELINE THAT WAS 21:54.800 --> 21:55.100 align:start GOING TO GO ALL THE THE WAY 21:55.100 --> 21:57.080 align:start ACROSS KENTUCKY, AND THEY 21:57.080 --> 21:59.560 align:start SPENDED IT FOR MARKET REASONS. 21:59.560 --> 22:01.520 align:start BUT A JUDGE HERE IN FRANKLIN 22:01.520 --> 22:02.840 align:start COUNTY RULED THAT THEY DID NOT 22:02.840 --> 22:04.960 align:start HAVE THE POWER OF EMINENT DOMAI 22:04.960 --> 22:06.320 align:start FOR THE PIPELINE. 22:06.320 --> 22:08.200 align:start KEV'S EMINENT DOMAIN LAW IS A 22:08.200 --> 22:09.960 align:start LITTLE BIT MURKY. 22:09.960 --> 22:11.000 align:start AND IF BLUEGRASS PIPELINE 22:11.000 --> 22:13.440 align:start COMPANY, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE 22:13.440 --> 22:14.520 align:start OSTENSIBLY NOT MOVING FORWARD A 22:14.520 --> 22:15.600 align:start THIS TIME, ARE APPEALING THAT T 22:15.600 --> 22:17.480 align:start TRY TO GET THE POWER OF EMINENT 22:17.480 --> 22:18.240 align:start DOMAIN FOR THE PIPELINE. 22:18.240 --> 22:20.720 align:start >> WELL, IT HAS BEEN HOT OWE IN 22:20.720 --> 22:22.600 align:start LOUISVILLE, WE KNOW THAT, AND 22:22.600 --> 22:24.720 align:start THAT IS PARTIALLY BEING BLAMED 22:24.720 --> 22:26.560 align:start FOR THE TOWN ATTENDANCE AT THE 22:26.560 --> 22:27.920 align:start KENTUCKY STATE FAIR THIS YEAR. 22:27.920 --> 22:30.640 align:start >> THE KENTUCKY STATE FAIR HAD 22:30.640 --> 22:32.080 align:start ITS 11-DAY RUN AND THEY REPORTE 22:32.080 --> 22:35.160 align:start LATE FRIDAY THAT THEY HAD ABOUT 22:35.160 --> 22:36.100 align:start 516,000 VISITORS, THE LAST TWO 22:36.100 --> 22:38.110 align:start YEARS THEY'VE BEEN HAVING MORE 22:38.110 --> 22:39.440 align:start THAN 600,000. 22:39.440 --> 22:41.100 align:start THEY BLAME THE HOT WEATHER. 22:41.100 --> 22:43.920 align:start THE RAINSTORMS. 22:43.920 --> 22:46.120 align:start THEY DIDN'T BLAME BUT A LOT OF 22:46.120 --> 22:46.110 align:start PEOPLE CITE THE PURGE. 22:46.110 --> 22:48.400 align:start >> THE LOUISVILLE PURGE. 22:48.400 --> 22:50.160 align:start IT WAS A RUMORED CRIME SPREE 22:50.160 --> 22:52.200 align:start THAT NEVER TOOK PLACE ON THE 22:52.200 --> 22:53.600 align:start FIRST FRIDAY NIGHT OF THE FAIR. 22:53.600 --> 22:55.680 align:start >> BUT THE FAIR WAS STILL ABLE 22:55.680 --> 22:58.040 align:start TO SELL MORE THAN 100,000 POUND 22:58.040 --> 22:59.640 align:start OF PORK, AND I CONTRIBUTED TO 22:59.640 --> 22:59.100 align:start THAT. 22:59.100 --> 23:02.960 align:start >> AND THERE WAS A LOT OF 23:02.960 --> 23:04.400 align:start POLITICAL HAPPENINGS OVER THERE 23:04.400 --> 23:05.800 align:start A LOT OF STORIES THAT CAME OUT 23:05.800 --> 23:07.520 align:start OF THERE. 23:07.520 --> 23:09.160 align:start THE LOW FARE CARRIER FRONTIER 23:09.160 --> 23:11.040 align:start AIRLINES IS GOING TO DOUBLE ITS 23:11.040 --> 23:13.160 align:start SERVICE OUT OF SENATE, NORTHERN 23:13.160 --> 23:13.100 align:start KENTUCKY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. 23:13.100 --> 23:15.110 align:start GOING TO NOW OFFER SERVICE TO 23:15.110 --> 23:18.480 align:start VEGAS, TO ORLANDO, FORT 23:18.480 --> 23:19.520 align:start LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, PHOENIX. 23:19.520 --> 23:21.100 align:start IT'S NOT THE RETURN OF THE DELT 23:21.100 --> 23:23.110 align:start FLIGHTS CERTAINLY, BUT 23:23.110 --> 23:25.760 align:start SIGNIFICANT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMEN 23:25.760 --> 23:26.480 align:start THERE. 23:26.480 --> 23:28.240 align:start WOULD YOU SAY? 23:28.240 --> 23:29.240 align:start >> ABSOLUTELY. 23:29.240 --> 23:35.320 align:start >> AND -- A BIG ONE RIGHT THERE 23:35.320 --> 23:37.240 align:start SHARON THOMPSON, A LONGTIME 23:37.240 --> 23:39.800 align:start WRITER NOR THE LEXINGTON HERD 23:39.800 --> 23:42.840 align:start LEADER WHO HAS DONE CLOSE TO -- 23:42.840 --> 23:43.680 align:start HERALD-LEADER CLOSE TO 50 YEARS 23:43.680 --> 23:44.880 align:start IN THE JOURNALISM BUSINESS. 23:44.880 --> 23:47.440 align:start >> I WON'T SAY HOW OLD SHE IS, 23:47.440 --> 23:49.000 align:start BUT IT'S BEEN, SAY, MORE THAN 23:49.000 --> 23:51.480 align:start 40, AND SHE'S JUST BEEN A 23:51.480 --> 23:55.280 align:start PHENOMENAL ASSET TO THE 23:55.280 --> 23:56.440 align:start LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. 23:56.440 --> 23:58.200 align:start YOULY, RECIPES, NEW RESTAURANTS 23:58.200 --> 23:59.760 align:start I ESPECIALLY WOULD LIKE TO KNOW 23:59.760 --> 24:00.960 align:start WHERE I SHOULD EAT NOW IN 24:00.960 --> 24:01.960 align:start LEXINGTON. 24:01.960 --> 24:04.200 align:start AND SHE'S GOING TO BE SOARLY 24:04.200 --> 24:05.800 align:start MISSED, A TERRIBLE LOSS FOR THE 24:05.800 --> 24:06.120 align:start HERALD-LEADER. 24:06.120 --> 24:08.120 align:start >> ON THIS LABOR DAY WEEKEND TH 24:08.120 --> 24:09.100 align:start STATE LABOR CABINET SAYS THAT I 24:09.100 --> 24:12.880 align:start RECOUPS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN 24:12.880 --> 24:14.160 align:start WAGES TO WORKERS WHO FOR SOME 24:14.160 --> 24:16.110 align:start REASON ARE NOT GETTING PAID BY 24:16.110 --> 24:18.080 align:start THEIR EMPLOYERS. 24:18.080 --> 24:20.320 align:start THEY DON'T GET MAYBE -- MAYBE 24:20.320 --> 24:21.560 align:start IT'S THEIR FINAL CHECK OR 24:21.560 --> 24:23.110 align:start SOMETHING IS AMISS WITHHELD OR 24:23.110 --> 24:24.110 align:start WHATEVER. 24:24.110 --> 24:26.320 align:start THEY SAY THAT IT IS TWICE AS 24:26.320 --> 24:28.520 align:start MUCH AS IS TAKEN FROM PEOPLE IN 24:28.520 --> 24:31.040 align:start ROBBERIES IN THE STATE. 24:31.040 --> 24:33.600 align:start AND THAT RELEASE CAME OUT TODAY 24:33.600 --> 24:36.110 align:start >> YEAH, THAT WAS A STRONG 24:36.110 --> 24:38.040 align:start COMPARISON. 24:38.040 --> 24:39.520 align:start THAT'S WHAT GOT MY ATTENTION. 24:39.520 --> 24:41.280 align:start YOU LOSE MORE FROM THAT THAN YO 24:41.280 --> 24:43.160 align:start DO IN ROBBERIES IN THE STATE, 24:43.160 --> 24:45.110 align:start AND SO IT'S A CONCERN, WHETHER 24:45.110 --> 24:47.640 align:start THE LEGISLATURE SOMEHOW WILL BE 24:47.640 --> 24:49.560 align:start ABLE TO ADDRESS THAT I DON'T 24:49.560 --> 24:50.110 align:start KNOW WHEN THEY MEET BACK IN 24:50.110 --> 24:51.520 align:start JANUARY. 24:51.520 --> 24:52.640 align:start THEY HAVE SOME WORK ISSUES TO 24:52.640 --> 24:53.320 align:start LOOK AT. 24:53.320 --> 24:55.280 align:start >> ONE PROBLEM WITH THAT IS IS 24:55.280 --> 24:56.600 align:start LOT OF PEOPLE ARE HAPPY THIS 24:56.600 --> 24:57.110 align:start HAVE A JOB AND THEY'RE NOT GOIN 24:57.110 --> 24:59.320 align:start TO REPORT THE PERSON WHO IS 24:59.320 --> 25:00.200 align:start PAYING THE BILLS OR SOMETHING 25:00.200 --> 25:00.640 align:start LIKE THAT. 25:00.640 --> 25:03.240 align:start >> 1.9 MILLION KENTUCKIANS 25:03.240 --> 25:05.040 align:start EARNING A PAYCHECK RIGHT NOW IN 25:05.040 --> 25:07.280 align:start THE STATE WAS THE THING. 25:07.280 --> 25:10.920 align:start I INTERVIEWED THE STATE LABOR 25:10.920 --> 25:13.080 align:start CABINET SECRETARY FOR LARRY 25:13.080 --> 25:14.760 align:start ROBERTS FOR THE KENTUCKY 25:14.760 --> 25:15.880 align:start NEWSMAKERS PROGRAM THIS WEEK, 25:15.880 --> 25:17.640 align:start AND HE SAID ONE OF THE CONFUSIN 25:17.640 --> 25:19.800 align:start AREAS IS THE AREA WHERE PEOPLE 25:19.800 --> 25:21.110 align:start EARN THEIR LIVING IN PART BY 25:21.110 --> 25:26.960 align:start TIPS AND IN PART BY WAGE, AND 25:26.960 --> 25:27.840 align:start THAT CAN BE DIFFICULT. 25:27.840 --> 25:30.000 align:start >> THE JOB MARKET DOES SEEM TO 25:30.000 --> 25:31.200 align:start BE IMPROVING OVERALL IN THE 25:31.200 --> 25:33.560 align:start STATE BUT THE WAGES AREN'T 25:33.560 --> 25:35.840 align:start CLIMBING AND THAT POLICE BRINGS 25:35.840 --> 25:38.920 align:start US BACK TO THAT ISSUE ONE AND 25:38.920 --> 25:39.080 align:start ONLY. 25:39.080 --> 25:40.880 align:start >> THEY SAY THE CAMPAIGN REALLY 25:40.880 --> 25:41.840 align:start STARTS AFTER LABOR DAY. 25:41.840 --> 25:43.080 align:start >> IT'S ALREADY STARTED. 25:43.080 --> 25:44.100 align:start >> WE KNOW THAT. 25:44.100 --> 25:46.840 align:start WHAT DO YOU EXPECT NEXT WEEK? 25:46.840 --> 25:48.110 align:start AND RIGHT AFTER THAT WE EXPECT 25:48.110 --> 25:49.720 align:start THE ANNOUNCEMENT FROM JAMES 25:49.720 --> 25:50.880 align:start COMER ON THE GOVERNOR'S RACE. 25:50.880 --> 25:53.760 align:start >> THE LAST TWO WEEKS OF THE 25:53.760 --> 25:54.110 align:start SENATE RACE IS ONE THING AFTER 25:54.110 --> 25:55.100 align:start ANOTHER AFTER ANOTHER. 25:55.100 --> 25:57.240 align:start I DON'T EXPECT THIS RACE TO SLO 25:57.240 --> 25:58.100 align:start DOWN AT ALL BETWEEN NOW AND 25:58.100 --> 26:01.280 align:start INNOVATOR. 26:01.280 --> 26:02.100 align:start THE COMER ENTRY INTO THE RACE I 26:02.100 --> 26:04.840 align:start GOING TO BE A QUICK PLASH FLASH 26:04.840 --> 26:06.120 align:start BUT NOBODY IS PAYING ATTENTION 26:06.120 --> 26:06.920 align:start TO THE OTHER RACES. 26:06.920 --> 26:11.160 align:start >> AND MANY TV ADS FOR WKYD AND 26:11.160 --> 26:11.960 align:start OTHER TELEVISION STATIONS. 26:11.960 --> 26:12.100 align:start >> ALL THE OTHERS, THAT'S RIGHT 26:12.100 --> 26:13.100 align:start THANK YOU SO MUCH. 26:13.100 --> 26:14.100 align:start GOOD DISCUSSION TONIGHT. 26:14.100 --> 26:15.960 align:start WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR JOININ 26:15.960 --> 26:17.100 align:start US FOR THIS EDITION OF "COMMENT 26:17.100 --> 26:18.400 align:start ON KENTUCKY." 26:18.400 --> 26:20.400 align:start AND WE CERTAINLY HOPE YOU HAVE 26:20.400 --> 26:23.320 align:start HAPPY LABOR DAY AND A GOOD WEEK 26:22.120 --> 26:24.080 align:start AHEAD.