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FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Monday December 2nd, 2024

FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Kevin Manno

News, Society & Culture, Arts, Daily News

5.02.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:00.0

All right, let's go. It's Monday, December 2nd, 2024, Cyber Monday.

0:05.5

It's first thing with Kevin Mano. Good to be back. Hope you're well. It's a real quick look at all the headlines.

0:10.7

Lots to get through today, and the show starts right now.

0:15.3

And we always start with the top story. First, in politics, news broke last night,

0:19.8

the President Biden, who is 49 days

0:21.7

away from the end of his term, signed a pardon for his son Hunter's gun and tax charges. He said

0:27.4

that Hunter has been treated unfairly for being his son. Biden released his statement regarding

0:32.0

the decision, part of which said, quote, I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled

0:36.3

with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process, and it led to a miscarriage of justice.

0:41.7

And once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further.

0:45.1

I hope Americans will understand why a father and a president would come to this decision.

0:49.9

Let's go!

0:53.1

All right, okay.

0:55.7

On to sports, it's all football.

0:59.1

First, in college football, there were lots of fights over the weekend.

1:02.9

It was a rivalry weekend, and I just kept seeing headlines about brawls.

1:06.9

Michigan and Ohio State, those teams were each fined $100,000 for their fight.

1:12.7

Florida State and Florida, Arizona State and Arizona, NC State and UNC, Auburn and Alabama, Houston and BYU, lots of little scuffles everywhere. In a few cases when a team would win, they would try to

1:17.6

plant a flag in the middle of their opponent's field. Didn't always end well. In other football news,

1:22.9

the pros fight too. There was a fight during the Texans Jaguars game yesterday after Jaguars quarterback

1:28.4

Trevor Lawrence took an illegal hit. He actually suffered a concussion because of it. The Texans

1:32.9

won that game 23 to 20. Another headline out of the games yesterday, Josh Allen of the Bills,

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