The Big K Morning Show
Reaction From KDKA-TV's Jon Delano
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They turned it over to Acrewoman Nora O'Donnell and Margaret Brennan, who host face the nation. And lo and behold, they say, let's go to Pittsburgh and CBS and John Delano and John joins us just getting up and shaking off the national spotlight, shined on him. John, good morning. Hey, good morning, Larry. Good to be with you and all your listeners. I guess it made perfect sense that CBS would come to you to talk about the importance of our state, first and foremost, to Pennsylvania, plus you had a exclusive one-on-one with Kamala Harris. So how did all this come together? Well, as you know, I'm pretty aggressive in going after interviews that I've been working on trying to get Vice President Harris to do a local interview for months. So our weeks, I should say, because I guess it's only been a few months since he's been a candidate. But I had interviewed her once before in 2021, shortly after she became Vice President. And so I just kept pressing again and again and again. And finally, it surprised me a little bit that they gave me that interview the same day of the debate, but it allowed me to ask, at least, well, in this case, two nationally related questions. One, of course, was the war in the Middle East and the involvement of the U.S. And the second question was the vice presidential debate, what was her advice to Governor Walz? And so, and then I went on to ask about some Pittsburgh issues that we're going to run some stories on on Katie KTV later today. But the bottom line is when she said, yes, of course, I said, yes, let's do it. And CBS was aware that CBS had already booked me to go on their national pre-debate coverage story. And I think it's because they understand, like, most political pundits understand that as Pennsylvania goes, so goes the nation with respect to this, for the battle for the White House. And I've been saying that, as you know, on your show and others for a long time. And in fact, in the lead-up to introducing me, they had both their pollster, Anthony Salvanto and Major Garrett, talking in different ways about how Pennsylvania is key, more visits by these presidential and vice presidential candidates than any state of the nation is Pennsylvania. And of course, Salvanto looking at polls and looking at the electoral college map pointed out that basically, whoever wins Pennsylvania wins the White House. And so I was able to go on and describe how different the state is from East to West. And particularly relevant for this vice presidential debate, the two candidates running for vice president are both mid-westerners, Ohio and Minnesota. And I suggested to the national audience that Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, we're more like the Midwest than we are the East Coast, you know, New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston. And that belt, the old Amtrak line, the Metro line that runs up and down the coast. We're not like those folks. We're kind of our own unique brand, more mid-western than East Coast. And they kind of like, they like me using the map to do that. So that's how it all happened. Well, congratulations, John, on getting a great interview. One thing that I would like you to comment on, if you could in greater detail about the Pittsburgh issues, you tried to pin the vice president down on her U.S. steel position. And she gave an interesting answer to your question about whether if this deal falls through, what kind of support will there be coming from a Harris administration should she be elected? Yeah, it's a very fair question. Thank you for asking that. What I did with, and I'll do it with President Trump, if I get another chance to talk to him, both President, former President Trump and Vice President Harris and President Biden have said they're going to kill this deal. That is, that they will keep Neapon steel from purchasing U.S. steel. But the problem here is that U.S. steel is saying that they need the billion and a half dollars that's coming from Neapon steel in order to modernize their facilities in the Mon Valley. And if they don't get that money, they may have to close the Mon works. And at the same time, they suggest they might move their headquarters out of Pittsburgh. So the question to Donald Trump and to Kamala Harris is, all right, suppose you killed the deal, what are you going to do to save jobs in Pittsburgh? And that was my basic question to Kamala Harris. I will ask the same question to Donald Trump if I have the opportunity. And, you know, it might have taken her a little bit by surprise, but she certainly focused on the fact that she was committed to jobs in this region. I was trying to pin her down on whether or not the federal government would give the same amount of money to Pittsburgh and the U.S. steel operations as Neapon steel. And of course, I don't think there's any way that's going to happen. So it's an interesting question to ask and I can't say that it was answered. It hasn't really been answered by Donald Trump. Kamala Harris made an effort to answer it. But I think there's more follow-up to come on that issue. And we'll look forward to more of your one-on-one with Kamala Harris starting at four this afternoon on Katie KTV. John, I appreciate you jumping on with us short notice, but now that you're an international star on CBS, you're just going to have to deal with it. You know, I feel a star for being on your show as I am. So please, you don't need to fuck up. All right, John. Thank you, brother. I appreciate it. You guys have a great morning, everybody. Katie KTVs, John Delano. Hey NFL fans, you can start the season with a big return on FanDuel America's number one sports book. 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