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Hour 1: NJ sanctuary cities · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Other day yesterday was at City Hall as a press
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  Speaker 1: conference took place. The mayor, his staff, others who were
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  Speaker 1: involved in and around 9-11, and the keynote speaker was
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  Speaker 1: Jon Stewart. His friend was also there, who you know
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  Speaker 1: personally very well, Larry.
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  Speaker 2: Jon Field.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And there were assorted people in the crowd who were
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  Speaker 1: not really political. I could just tell by looking. But
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  Speaker 1: the information that was revealed was damning. Apparently, they had
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  Speaker 1: found finally, after many, many years of searching during the
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  Speaker 1: administrations of Giuliani, Bloomberg, de Blasio, and most recently Adams,
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  Speaker 1: about 68 boxes in the Department of Environmental Protection. that
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  Speaker 1: had to do with reports on the air quality in
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  Speaker 1: and around the 9-11 attack site. Very extensive, including what
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  Speaker 1: could be a very damning report by a deputy mayor
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  Speaker 1: of Rudy Giuliani's administration, Robert Harding, who I've known pretty well,
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  Speaker 1: at least many, many years ago. It's called the Harding Memo.
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  Speaker 1: And boy, if it's true, Larry... There's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people who have to be able to answer the question,
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  Speaker 1: which right now nobody is answering. When did you know?
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  Speaker 2: What did you know? And what, if anything, did you
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  Speaker 2: do about it? They never warned anybody, even that it
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  Speaker 2: might be dangerous. If you remember, Christy Todd Whitman, former governor,
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  Speaker 2: head of the EPA at the time, said that the
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  Speaker 2: air was fine. If there was anybody in the city
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  Speaker 2: that knew different because they were doing testing right then.
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  Speaker 2: You can see from the files they were doing testing
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  Speaker 2: at the time. They didn't see anything. They didn't see
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  Speaker 2: a thing that made them realize this air might be dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: This gets very personal for me because I think that
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  Speaker 2: anybody that used to watch my commentaries on WPIX know
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  Speaker 2: that I did them once or twice a week. On
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  Speaker 2: this very topic, and I went with busloads of first responders,
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  Speaker 2: many of them wheelchairs, many of them with breathing apparatuses,
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  Speaker 2: down to Congress to beg them for money to help
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  Speaker 2: on the illnesses they got on that day. The thing is,
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  Speaker 2: they were the living proof. We all knew. We all
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  Speaker 2: knew it was making people sick. How could you not know? Curtis,
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  Speaker 2: there was four buses that we went down there on.
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  Speaker 2: More than half of them are dead now. More than
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  Speaker 2: half of them died. More than half of the people
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  Speaker 2: I got to know died from 9-11-related illnesses. All kinds
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  Speaker 2: of weird illnesses that people don't get. And we just
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  Speaker 2: kept looking the other way. Oh, sure, Congress passed money
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  Speaker 2: to help them and get medical treatment, but they kept dying,
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  Speaker 2: over 9,000 of them. So look, where are we at
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  Speaker 2: with this now? Evil has been done. That's pretty apparent.
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  Speaker 2: There was information that could have helped people that was
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  Speaker 2: held back because nobody wanted culpability. Nobody wanted the lawsuits.
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  Speaker 2: And to me, and I think to the law, that's criminal.
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  Speaker 2: Like it shouldn't end here. It shouldn't end with the
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  Speaker 2: release of documents. There should be criminal charges. And I
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  Speaker 2: know probably nobody in the city will take this case.
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  Speaker 2: So I look to the federal government.
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  Speaker 1: The U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Attorney should be looking at this. And finding out when
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  Speaker 2: people knew. Because let's just say, Curtis, it wasn't right away.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just say it wasn't at that moment. Let's say
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  Speaker 2: it was a few weeks later. Well, people were working
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  Speaker 2: at that site for years and they were complaining the
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  Speaker 2: entire time that there's something wrong with the air. And
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  Speaker 2: they were told over and over again, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: you don't even need a mask. Oh, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: It's fine. It's fine. It wasn't fine. And people died.
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  Speaker 2: And people that I know died. And someone has to
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  Speaker 2: be held accountable. It can't be the release of a document,
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  Speaker 2: and then you say, oh, guess what? Everything's okay now.
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  Speaker 2: We admitted to it. All right, let's move on. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: And you pointed it out, Curtis. It's administration after administration
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  Speaker 2: after administration, but it has to start with the first one.
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  Speaker 2: The hero of 9-11, Rudy Giuliani, the mayor that led
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  Speaker 2: us out of 9-11, doesn't look so good right now.
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  Speaker 2: And anybody in his administration doesn't look so good right now.
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  Speaker 2: And there has to be at least hearings. I would
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  Speaker 2: hope that there's going to be congressional hearings and that
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  Speaker 2: people are called in front of them and asked the
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  Speaker 2: simple question, what did you know and when did you
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  Speaker 2: know it? Because obviously there was testing going on. We
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  Speaker 2: know now we have paperwork. There was testing going on
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  Speaker 2: from the very beginning. And there was a sign at
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  Speaker 2: the very least, although it's probably deeper than that, that
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  Speaker 2: that air was dangerous. That air was dangerous to be in.
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  Speaker 2: And did they give out gas masks?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: Did they make any accommodations for the people that had
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  Speaker 2: to work on that pile? No.
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  Speaker 5: None.
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  Speaker 2: Not a one. So people died. And in my opinion,
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  Speaker 2: at this point, there was culpability from the government. And
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  Speaker 2: this can't stop after this. Let's remember 9-11. Let's take
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  Speaker 2: time this week. We don't want this to get in
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  Speaker 2: the way of the remembrance. But in the back of
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  Speaker 2: your mind, This can't be forgotten. As soon on Monday,
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  Speaker 2: next Monday, they should announce hearings. Next Monday, there should
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  Speaker 2: be the U.S. attorney talking about an investigation. Next Monday,
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  Speaker 2: all that should start. Because there has to be more
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  Speaker 2: than this. It can't be, oh, look, we all knew. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's move on. No, no, no. There's too many people.
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  Speaker 2: This was, at the very least, manslaughter. if you knew
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  Speaker 2: what was going on and you did nothing and you
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  Speaker 2: could have saved lives and you did nothing, you killed people.
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  Speaker 2: People that came to this city's aid, people that tried
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  Speaker 2: to rebuild this city, you killed them. And so Curtis,
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  Speaker 2: you can tell this is pretty personal to me, but
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  Speaker 2: I want an accountability. I want a commission. I want
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  Speaker 2: like a Warren commission almost. I want a commission to
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  Speaker 2: look into this and figure out what people know. And
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  Speaker 2: I need those that died to know that we cared
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  Speaker 2: about them that much that we fought to find out
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  Speaker 2: what happened to them. And we held those that did
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  Speaker 2: this accountable. No doubt.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, John Stewart was very eloquent in explaining the,
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  Speaker 1: To the world, really, what was in the first drop
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  Speaker 1: is 170,000 pages. There's many, many more to come in
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  Speaker 1: those 68 boxes. But he had quite a bit to say.
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  Speaker 6: There was poison in the air and on the ground
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  Speaker 6: and in the windowsills and in your air conditioners and
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  Speaker 6: covering your pets and your clothes. And it stayed there
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  Speaker 6: for months. Everyone knew.
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  Speaker 2: And it was in lungs. Yeah, everybody knew, but it
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  Speaker 2: was in lungs as well. That was the worst part.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I didn't have the personal relationship that you
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  Speaker 1: obviously did, Larry. What really brought my attention to this
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  Speaker 1: were all the people who were told you could continue
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  Speaker 1: to live in the area. One of them was Donna Summers,
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  Speaker 1: the great disco queen who died of lung cancer.
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  Speaker 2: She had an apartment down there. She had never smoked,
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  Speaker 2: no secondary smoke.
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  Speaker 1: Probably attributable to the lung cancer from asbestosis, which could
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  Speaker 1: surface any time from 15 to 60 years, you know,
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  Speaker 1: those fibers, those inhaled fibers. So you say to yourself,
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  Speaker 1: in addition to all the men and women who are down,
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  Speaker 1: you know, trying to find the last remnants of those
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  Speaker 1: that have been crushed to death, people removing the debris,
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  Speaker 1: the construction people, People had to work in the area.
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  Speaker 1: People had to go to school in the area. People
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  Speaker 1: who lived in the area. It's a lot, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know four out of five firefighters that were
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  Speaker 2: there had some type of diagnosis of 9-11 conditions? Four
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  Speaker 2: or five of those firefighters. And how was that ignored
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  Speaker 2: all this time? Do you know that there are almost
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  Speaker 2: 4,000 people right now as we speak battling cancer linked
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  Speaker 2: to that toxic dust? So this is a current problem.
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  Speaker 2: This is a murder that's still happening. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: a mass murder that's still happening. Not knowing. Murders gets
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  Speaker 2: carried away because there has to be intent. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think the intent was on the people that covered it up.
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  Speaker 2: But they're complicit. They're complicit in killing people.
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  Speaker 1: And they had to have known. You know it had
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  Speaker 1: to have been discussed. We know, as you mentioned, Christine
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  Speaker 1: Todd Whitman immediately announced on behalf of the EPA, the
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  Speaker 1: air is clear, it's clean, it will not be a
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  Speaker 1: threat to you. She has since apologized. What are you
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  Speaker 1: apologizing for if you were reading from a report that
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  Speaker 1: said the air was clear, or did you just rush
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  Speaker 1: that through? was there a predetermined attitude that you couldn't
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  Speaker 1: just vacate the whole area, let's say south of 14th Street,
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  Speaker 1: that you had to have people actively working there, going
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  Speaker 1: to school there, and then obviously continuing with the extraction
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  Speaker 1: of materials and the search for any remnants of DNA
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  Speaker 1: of those who had been crushed to death? So, I
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  Speaker 1: think you're right. There needs to be a commission. People
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  Speaker 1: need to be issued warrants. They need to give public
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  Speaker 1: testimony on this because, boy, this is pretty damning. And
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  Speaker 1: this is just the start. 170,000 pages, and it's all
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  Speaker 1: going to be posted. It's being posted now on a portal.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have an opportunity to see for ourselves, but it's...
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  Speaker 1: Not looking good for Rudy or Bloomberg especially because those
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  Speaker 1: were the main two mayors that came during the attack
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  Speaker 1: and then obviously after the attack.
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  Speaker 2: But there's a lot of people that ignored it down
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  Speaker 2: the road. You're right. They're the main culprits, but there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people that ignored it. We want to
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  Speaker 2: the C crane radios work when it matters most. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the nine 11 airport restrictions are going to be lifted
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  Speaker 2: and you're going to like what they want to do.
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  Speaker 2: Plus a chance to see Andrea Bocelli at eight 25, 5,000.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be easier to fly in the near
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  Speaker 2: future within the year, apparently. And they're already testing this
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  Speaker 2: out in some, in some airports. Remember, When you used
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  Speaker 2: to go to the airport and if you had a
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  Speaker 2: liquid with over 3.4 ounces, they'd tell you they had
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  Speaker 2: to throw it away.
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  Speaker 1: They had to take it. If you had a water bottle.
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  Speaker 1: Trash bags filled with water bottles. Poland Spring. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they might as well have been a subsidiary at every airport.
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  Speaker 1: Just bags and bags of it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, now because of new technology, they can test as
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  Speaker 2: you're walking through their scanners whether the water is safe
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  Speaker 2: or not. And so if it scans properly and you
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  Speaker 2: have a big bottle of water and you're drinking it,
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  Speaker 2: you can keep going. They're not going to make you
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  Speaker 2: throw that away anymore. Isn't that amazing?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, so I don't have to buy their $ 10 bottle
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  Speaker 7: of water in the airport.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and also, listen to this, you're going to be scanned.
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  Speaker 2: If you think flock cameras were bad, they're going to
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  Speaker 2: scan everything about you. When you go to an eGate
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  Speaker 2: in the near future, there's going to be facial comparison
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  Speaker 2: technology available. That will check immediately with your boarding pass
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  Speaker 2: or your IDs. And it doesn't matter. You don't have
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  Speaker 2: to take them out. They'll find them in your pocket
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  Speaker 2: or purse. Okay. So this is Orwellian. Very Orwellian.
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  Speaker 1: But thank God they finally discarded that tradition of making
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  Speaker 1: you take your shoes off.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I know.
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  Speaker 1: It was nothing more embarrassing to realize, oh, my God,
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  Speaker 1: I got holes in my socks.
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  Speaker 2: I was real upset about it because it was because
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  Speaker 2: of the shoe bomber. Remember the shoe bomber?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And it didn't go off. It just sizzled. And you
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  Speaker 2: know where that trial was?
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  Speaker 1: In Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts in the federal playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Was it really?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, because it was a flight from, I believe, Paris
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  Speaker 1: to Boston. When they tackled the guy, he was trying
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  Speaker 1: to pull a ripcord on his sneakers. But then right
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  Speaker 1: after that, there was the underwear bomber.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought, oh, no, what are they going to
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  Speaker 2: do to us now? We have to take our underwear
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  Speaker 2: off at the airport?
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  Speaker 1: That reminds me, as mommy always told me, you better
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  Speaker 1: make sure you have a fresh pair of underwear on
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  Speaker 1: each day.
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  Speaker 2: You never know. You may end up going to the hospital.
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  Speaker 2: It won't look good for the family. One last thing
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  Speaker 2: with the TSA, the new regulations that are coming within
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  Speaker 2: the year. They got so many complaints from people that
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  Speaker 2: weren't allowed to go to the gate. And they said,
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  Speaker 2: we have little kids coming off. We want to go
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  Speaker 2: meet them. We have an elderly person, a grandmother coming
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  Speaker 2: off that needs help. We'd like to be the ones
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  Speaker 2: that helps them. Not stand at the gate waiting for help.
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  Speaker 2: We want to be there and greet them. And they're
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  Speaker 2: saying that yes now.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 2: You'll be able to go to the gate. That's great.
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  Speaker 2: You have to go through pre-check first. They got to
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  Speaker 2: check you out. All the things that I just talked about,
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  Speaker 2: you're going through a pre-check.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 2: You have to have that TSA pre-check.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So you got to pay them. So now you got
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  Speaker 2: to pay them to go to the gate, but okay.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever.
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  Speaker 2: You know, your signs, you got balloons, welcome home. I know,
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  Speaker 2: it's nice.
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  Speaker 1: I saw that for a lot of the servicemen and
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  Speaker 1: servicewomen in Pittsburgh International Airport, where obviously they weren't following
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  Speaker 1: the rules. Because groups of men and women in uniform
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  Speaker 1: were coming off, and the families were there to welcome
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  Speaker 1: them home.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they must have let them. There's no way they
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  Speaker 2: could have got through. They must have let them.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's get to some talkbacks. We were talking
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  Speaker 2: about the findings about the Air 9-11 that were released yesterday.
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  Speaker 9: Giuliani personally lied to everybody. on 9-28-01 and gave the
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  Speaker 9: statement that there were low levels of asbestos and the
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  Speaker 9: air was safe. Everyone knows there were two 110-story towers
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  Speaker 9: that were lined with asbestos for insulation. I mean, that
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  Speaker 9: alone tells you right there that they were breathing in
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  Speaker 9: nasty stuff.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of nasty stuff. I've told the story on
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  Speaker 2: the air before, but I talked to a guy from
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  Speaker 2: MIT and in a lab, they tried to reproduce what
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  Speaker 2: the air was like and they couldn't. And they said
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  Speaker 2: there were so many odd materials and materials they had
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  Speaker 2: never seen before that they couldn't replace it. So asbestos,
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  Speaker 2: you're right. Asbestos was part of it, but it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: the only thing. It wasn't the only poison.
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  Speaker 5: I think Mondani released these documents now. I think he
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  Speaker 5: knew about it for a while, just to stir the pot.
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  Speaker 2: You know, a lot of people were saying that, that
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  Speaker 2: he was trying to deflect because people didn't want him
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  Speaker 2: to go to 9-11, so he did this to deflect.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care. I just don't care. This is much bigger,
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  Speaker 2: what he uncovered, what he put out. If that was
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  Speaker 2: the onus to get somebody to finally do that, then good.
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  Speaker 4: I was a police officer. I was there on the
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  Speaker 4: day of 9-11, 2001. and the subsequent months right through
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  Speaker 4: May of the following year, digging at the site. So
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  Speaker 4: now that we know this information, which we've known all
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  Speaker 4: along because we were breathing that air, now what?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's a great question. I think that you probably
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  Speaker 2: should contact John Feal from the Feel Good Foundation. They
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  Speaker 2: have all the answers for this kind of stuff, and
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  Speaker 2: they also have been lobbying Congress for a long time
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  Speaker 2: for the compensation fund. But to get tested and all
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  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff, there is money available for that.
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  Speaker 2: Just go to the iHeartRadio app or online. Would they
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  Speaker 2: have the email Larry Menti so I can give them
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  Speaker 2: the information? There's a button there that you can get
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  Speaker 2: my email and I'll send you the information.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, good morning, Mr. Menti. Woke up today with Make
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  Speaker 8: America Great Again. But I drive past the quick check
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  Speaker 8: at $ 4. 49 a gallon. My empanadas went up 75 cents
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  Speaker 8: from yesterday. These oil companies are making billions and billions
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  Speaker 8: of dollars. We're exporting oil, and we can't even help
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  Speaker 8: and bring down our own gas prices. But, hey, we
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  Speaker 8: got Gulf of America, and we got Lake America. Make
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  Speaker 8: America great again.
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  Speaker 2: Here comes the laugh. No, he didn't laugh at the end.
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  Speaker 2: He starts with Mr. Menti, and he laughs at the end.
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  Speaker 2: Read the room. It's not the day for this.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 2: You're right. Gas prices are high. I agree with you.
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  Speaker 2: They are high.
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  Speaker 1: End?
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Let's get to the news with Daria Albinger at 6.30.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 10: The empanada index.
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  Speaker 7: You know?
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  Speaker 10: A new way to gauge gas prices. Warmer and humid today.
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  Speaker 10: A high of 84 degrees. More 9-11 families are telling
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  Speaker 10: Mayor Mamdani they... Don't want to see him at this
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  Speaker 10: Friday's memorial.
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  Speaker 7: The controversy surrounds Mamdani's appointment of Ramzi Qasem as the
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  Speaker 7: city's chief legal counsel. Qasem previously represented a convicted al-Qaeda
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  Speaker 7: member who was the brother-in-law of one of the 9-11 hijackers.
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  Speaker 7: During a 9-11 signing last week, the mayor reportedly gave
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: a ceremonial pen to Qasem, which has drawn considerable backlash.
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: The mayor's attendance has already become a contentious issue. An
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: online petition circulating has now garnered more than 100,000 signatures
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: calling on Mamdani to skip Friday's ceremony. Liz Warner, WOR News.
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: Gas prices are rising as the war between the U.S.
• 18:58
  Speaker 10: and Iran intensifies again, and analysts say they could go
• 19:01
  Speaker 10: even higher.
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  Speaker 11: The Pentagon says it's now targeting Iran's oil money, not
• 19:06
  Speaker 11: just its military. Iran hitting back overnight, releasing video of
• 19:10
  Speaker 11: what it says are missiles launching.
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  Speaker 2: Toward a U.S.
• 19:13
  Speaker 11: Base in Jordan. Jordan says it shot down 18 missiles
• 19:17
  Speaker 11: and no one was hurt. The escalation, coming as gas
• 19:19
  Speaker 11: prices here at home, average $ 4. 15 a gallon, up $ 1. 17
• 19:24
  Speaker 11: since the war began.
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  Speaker 10: ABC's Karen Hua in Washington. We are paying more here
• 19:28
  Speaker 10: in the tri-state area. The AAA pegs the average price
• 19:31
  Speaker 10: in New York and New Jersey at $ 4.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: 31 a gallon, $ 4. 35 in Connecticut.
• 19:36
  Speaker 10: Kids in New York City head back to school tomorrow,
• 19:38
  Speaker 10: but some may not have buses to ride. A spokesperson
• 19:41
  Speaker 10: for the district says a bus shortage means thousands of students,
• 19:43
  Speaker 10: including some who are physically challenged, may be impacted. And
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: it was another late night at the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Open.
• 19:49
  Speaker 10: American Ben Shelton upset Spain's Carlos Alcaraz in a five-set match,
• 19:54
  Speaker 10: which took more than four and a half hours to complete.
• 19:57
  Speaker 10: Shelton advances to the semifinal. Mets and Yankees win. New
• 20:00
  Speaker 10: England and Seattle meet tonight in the NFL's regular season opener.
• 20:04
  Speaker 10: Next news, 7 o'clock bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger
• 20:07
  Speaker 10: on 710WOR.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Politics is a dirty business, and boy, I'm going to
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: give you an update on what's going on in the
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Israeli elections, a document dump on Bibi as he scurries
• 20:22
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  Speaker 1: We know the midterm convention for the Republicans is conducted
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: today and tomorrow with Trump being the keynote speaker two
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: nights in a row, J.D. Vance and other Republicans. So
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: most of Americans are focused on that in Dallas right
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: before 9-11 on Friday. But in Israel, they have an election, too,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: at the end of October, a parliamentary election, which is
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: really a plebiscite on whether Bibi stays after close to
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: 20 years in leadership or he goes. And for the
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: very first time, Larry, a coalition now has a pathway
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: to unseat him. They would have 61 seats in the
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: parliamentary election without Arab parties helping them. which is what
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: all the Israeli parties want to avoid, because then immediately
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: there are others who say you can't do a coalition
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: with Arab parties. But that's their way of doing elections. Now,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: as you know, yesterday we talked about how Bibi was
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: bragging on the campaign trail in Hebrew and in English
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: that his interviews with America media, they're about a thousand
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: hours worth, helped shape public opinion in the U.S. and
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: also convinced the Trump administration that diplomacy with Iran would fail.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: And that was not a good thing because although he
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: is using that to try to coalesce his coalition around him,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: it certainly plays into the argument that he goaded us
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: into this war. And it's turned out that we're at
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: an impasse right now with Iran and their.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Client nations that are involved with them. Can I just
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: point out something right there? And that is he has
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: pointed out in the past that he did not talk
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Trump into it and nobody can talk Trump into anything.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: And he even laughed it off and said, do you
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: think that I could influence Donald Trump? He's going to
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: do what he wants to do. So he either lied
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: then or he's lying now.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Well, he's trying to get his folks to understand that
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: he's in control of Israel and not Donald Trump, because
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: believe it or not, Israelis wanted him to do more.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Whereas Americans say, do less, you know, pull back out
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: of Lebanon, stop what you're doing in Gaza. In Israel,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: his opposition wants him to do more, to deliver on
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: the promises that he made. Two other things have come
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: out since. A book was just published, and apparently this
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: by Israeli government ops, who said that Bibi and his
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: cabinet were warned about a possible Hamas attack 10 days
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: before October 7th when the carnage took place. 1,200 people killed, rapes, hostages,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: a complete horror, both by the UAE and Egypt. He
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: is claiming that that's absolute nonsense. But, you know, in
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: the coming days in the campaign, people are going to
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: come forward and say, oh, no, no, no, no. They
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: warned us that Sinwa was planning an attack. That was
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: the leader of Hamas at that time. And all your
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: leaders resigned. It was sort of like very similar to
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: us in 9-11, both first through Clinton and then through
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Bush 43.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: We were asleep at the wheel.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: That's why we became so vulnerable to the successful attack
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: that finally took the towers down, which they tried to
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: do in 93. Same thing, October 7th, the leadership of
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Israel was asleep at the wheel. There has not been
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: an inquiry. The citizens in Israel want an inquiry, like
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: we had the 9-11 commission that was head by Tom
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Cain Sr. And I believe Hamilton, the congressman from Ohio,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: that did a thorough investigation and then published a report
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: with some of the items redacted that affected the Saudi family.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: And then to show you this is politics, the dirtiest
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: occupation that has ever existed, no matter where it is.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: 33 years after the fact, a woman named Dr. Ruth
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Barr used to be involved with Bibi Netanyahu's strategic group,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: when he was rising up in the Likud, the conservative leadership, 1993.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Some of the members who were trying to bump him
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: out of the leadership position floated the rumor to him
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: that they had videotapes of him and Dr. Ruth Barr
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: having sex. So Beebe, rather than checking to see the
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: veracity of the rumors that they had tapes, although he
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: was away, he was having an affair, ran to Channel One,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: which at that time in 1993 was the only TV
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: station in all of Israel. So you had 100% eyeballs.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: He comes on to a live program, and he does
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: the reverse of what Bill Clinton did. He said, yes,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I did have sex with that woman, Dr. Ruth Barr.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I have sinned. Oh my God, his wife kicks him
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: out of the house, Sarah. He couldn't be more apologetic.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Dr.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Ruth Barr said nothing at the time. She was well-renowned
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: as a strategic advisor. Well, guess who has emerged 33
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: years later in the Jerusalem Post, a good publication, in
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: which she now points out the good and the bad
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: of Bibi.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: So it's not like, you know, an attack on Bibi.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: The bad part is she says that We always used
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: to talk about how Bibi wanted to be more than
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: a prime minister. He wanted to be like an emperor.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: But then she also points out the good leadership traits
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: of Bibi Netanyahu, how he could bring a coalition together.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: He could put aside the differences. But can you imagine this, Larry?
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: 33 years after the fact, this woman, Dr. Ruth Barr,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: has remained married to her husband, B.B. has remained married
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: to his wife, Sarah. They moved on with their lives.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: They haven't had anything to do with one another. But
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: this is politics. It all comes to the surface. Yes,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: and I would.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Think to myself, if you're a politician and they have
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: to pull something from 33 years ago, you're like, oh,
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: I guess they couldn't find anything else. You know, if
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: they do opposition research and that's all they could find
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: from three decades ago. I'm doing pretty good.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: But it's also good insight into the organizing ability of Beebe.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: This is not like salacious. This is the man, Beebe.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: This is how he organizes. This is what his supporters
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: that were working for his cause were saying. You know,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: you could be like the emperor, and he was buying
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: into it at that time.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: So I would say it's the good, it's the bad,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: but I can expect far more to.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Come down the pipe Because one thing in Israel, they
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: have a vibrant media, lots of newspapers now, lots of
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: TV stations, lots of radio stations, lots of podcasters, just
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: like here in the United States. And that election is
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: going to have an impact on U.S. policy in the
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Middle East and Persian Gulf, depending on who becomes the
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: next prime minister.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Latest polls, by the way, their show at a tie
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: of 52 votes to 51 votes with Netanyahu just slightly ahead.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: So That's going to be a race to watch. When
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: we come back after a horrendous, horrendous car accident that
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: killed a nine month old little boy. mayor in New
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Jersey has had enough. She wants to get rid of
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: sanctuary cities, not only in Jackson Township, but across the state.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: You'll hear from her coming up next. And the countdown
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• 30:04
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• 30:08
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• 30:20
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• 30:29
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• 30:36
  Speaker 2: sanctuary city policies really got popular under the first Trump administration,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: if you remember. And everybody was holier than thou. Everybody
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: was standing up to Donald Trump in his first term,
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: saying you're not going to come into our cities. You're
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: not going to come into our states. And sanctuary city
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: policies are basically that the local police don't coordinate with
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: ICE at all. If they pick up somebody that's illegal,
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: they don't even put it in the records. They don't
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: even put it in the records that the person's here illegally.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: That's why it is a fallacy when you hear, well,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: the crime rate is lower among illegal aliens than the
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: general population. That's BS. It's higher. It's just that it's
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: not reported in any sanctuary state or sanctuary city. So
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: it doesn't make the FBI database. So anytime you hear
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: somebody say that to you, remember that. So we've had
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: crime after crime after crime. We've had death after death
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: after death. And all of these people protected by sanctuary
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: cities because they believe that the person that came here
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: illegally is more important than the rest of us. They have,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: they should get some special rights. Well, we had an
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: incident last week in January. Jackson, New Jersey. It's down
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: in the middle of the state, you know, where Great
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Adventure is. That's where Jackson is. Real big. It takes
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: up a whole big, huge landmass. And the woman driving
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: the car that hit another car, it was an accident.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: It was a real bad accident. And the woman driving
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: the car that hit a car with a family in
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: it was Maria Coban Guzman, 20 years old. She is
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: a Guatemalan national living in Trenton here illegally that was
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: arrested before. And of course they didn't take her information,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: you know, because, and say she was illegal or call
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: ice because it was a sanctuary state, the whole state
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: of New Jersey. Well, the mayor of Jackson has had enough.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: She is fed up. Jennifer Kuhn said, has been now
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: on national TV. She put out a video. She's all
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: over social media saying, look, don't blame us for this.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: We want to deal with ICE.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: But they're undocumented and they're not legal. There's no reason
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: for this little nine-month-old baby to die. Condolences just at
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: this point are not enough. At this point, leadership needs
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: to step in and we have to do something. This
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: is a death that has never occurred.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: It's never made any sense. that they can't just work
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: with ICE. It's never made any sense that they can't
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: work with the federal government.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: If our police officers arrest somebody, they can't tell ICE
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: that they have them. That's an issue for me. This
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: wouldn't happen. It's happening more and more. And, you know,
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: we need to really think about what we're going to do.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: We need to stand up for our police. Our police
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: are out there fighting for us and we need to
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: support them. We need to give them, uh, The ability
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: that if they have somebody that they can report it,
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: they should be able to communicate with other authorities.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: So she's thinking about doing that. She's checking with attorneys
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: in Jackson, but she wants the state law change, Curtis.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: We want to avoid the next tragedy. And we definitely,
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: you know, this administration and myself is calling on counsel to, again,
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: create the resolution, follow suit with everybody else and, you know,
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: hold our government accountable and ask them to allow our
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: local law enforcement to work with federal law enforcement.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: And that's what has to happen. We need politicians to
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: stand up and say enough is enough. This happened in
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: my community. I hate it. You've got to do something. Obviously,
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: that's the fact.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: But the reality is Sanctuary Cities came about when Chris
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Christie was governor, when Pataki was governor in New York
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: and Rudy was mayor, to encourage the illegals to come
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: forward and report crimes because they weren't doing that before.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: And gangs were taking advantage of that.
• 34:42
  Speaker 11: So.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: There'd have to be a lot of negotiations in Trenton
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: in order to do that. But the polarization is too
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: great now as we go into the midterms and then
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: the election for 2028.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: More people have died because of sanctuary cities than lives,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: than cases that have been solved. That was always a
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: BS reason from the very beginning. It was incredibly political.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: It was anti-Trump years ago. It's anti-Trump now. It's anti-strong
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: immigration policy. And it should be changed because there's no
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: legitimate reason for it. And people are dying.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Well, you have to mobilize the citizens. And right now,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: I don't see that happening before the midterms and maybe
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: not even before 2028.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: But it will continue to be an issue. Up next,
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: the jurors came forward. Remember, as I had said, jurors
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: will come forward. But first, the news at 7.