America The Beautiful | 07-02-26

On this Thursday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Sid preview's Saturday's 250th birthday celebration for our great nation, as Americans across the globe get ready to celebrate the 4th of July this weekend. In other news of the day, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are holding their wedding celebration at Madison Square Garden tomorrow night, the city’s $125.8 billion budget deal doesn’t include a previously planned NYPD headcount increase — coming after Mayor Mamdani faced pressure from his base to scrap his plan to add more officers, President Trump is facing ethics questions over a luxury Boeing jet gifted by the Qatari government and his finances that skyrocketed 4x past his 2024 earnings, and free agent center Mitchell Robinson - fresh off winning an NBA title with the New York Knicks - has agreed to a three-year, $47.4 million deal to sign with the Boston Celtics. Bill O'Reilly, Brian Geltzeiler, K.T. McFarland, Rich Lowry & Vincent Vallelong join Sid on this Friday Independence Day installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning.