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Hour 2: Conley vs Lawler · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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Speaker 1: You know, Curtis, we haven't really talked about this Iranian
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Speaker 1: terror plot. There was an attack that was planned on
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Speaker 1: a U.S. military base in the United Kingdom, but John
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Speaker 1: Decker's all over it. John Decker, WOR, White House and
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Speaker 1: Washington correspondent. He's also host of the podcast, The White
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Speaker 1: House Briefing Room with John Decker. You can find that
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Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. So, John, I know that there
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Speaker 1: was an availability yesterday. I know you got several questions in.
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Speaker 1: Tell us the latest on this terror attack. I know
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Speaker 1: that President Trump was very proud that it was thwarted.
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Speaker 2: John?
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Speaker 3: Momentarily, we'll get him up there. I think the dischronification. Oh,
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Speaker 3: here it is. There you go. Hey, John, did you
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Speaker 3: hear what I said?
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Speaker 2: No, I missed everything that you said leading up to
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Speaker 2: your introduction. I'm so sorry.
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Speaker 1: I was saying really nice things about you, how many
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Speaker 1: questions you got in, that you were the star of
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Speaker 1: the availability, and that.
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Speaker 3: Stop glazing them!
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But we were talking about the terror attack that was
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Speaker 1: thwarted in the United Kingdom, the one by Iran.
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump seems like he was very proud of that.
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Speaker 5: That he thwarted it well absolutely and he was asked
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Speaker 5: about it he said he would not have released those
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Speaker 5: individuals on bail he made it sound like u.s intelligence
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Speaker 5: has more information uh.
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Speaker 2: than has been made public regarding these individuals uh.
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Speaker 3: and uh.
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Speaker 2: as far as british authorities are concerned they say that
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Speaker 2: their investigation is not closed so this matter uh... you
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Speaker 2: know may still have uh... elements of it that we
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Speaker 2: do not know yet and these individuals may indeed uh...
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Speaker 2: ultimately be charged with certain crimes and punished for those
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Speaker 2: crimes related to alleged terrorism at this British air base
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Speaker 2: that the U.S. uses.
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Speaker 4: John Decker, Fox News Sunday had on the ambassador to
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Speaker 4: Red China, and he said something that I think stunned
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Speaker 4: not just me, but others in the country, that when
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Speaker 4: President of the United States Donald Trump was entertaining President
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Speaker 4: Xi over the two days. He actually offered to sell
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Speaker 4: American weapons to Red China. Please say it ain't so,
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Speaker 4: John Decker. Please say it ain't so.
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Speaker 2: Well, this is a question that I asked President Trump
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Speaker 2: yesterday when I was in the Oval Office. Because as
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Speaker 2: you point out, David Perdue, he is the U.S. ambassador
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Speaker 2: to China. That's what he said in that Fox News
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Speaker 2: Sunday interview yesterday. And I asked the president essentially what
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Speaker 2: you just asked me. Can you confirm that? Can you
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Speaker 2: confirm what Ambassador Perdue said in that interview? And the
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Speaker 2: president seemed a little confused or baffled by my question.
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Speaker 2: He said, do you mean China or Taiwan? And I said, no,
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Speaker 2: I mean China. I mean the PRC. And the president
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Speaker 2: said that that was not something that he offered. But
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Speaker 2: let's just say for argument's sake that the president said
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Speaker 2: to Taiwan, why would you bring that up with China?
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Speaker 2: Why would you say we're going to sell some weapons
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Speaker 2: to the country that you view as a breakaway province?
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Speaker 2: Is that OK? You know, so there's a lot, I think,
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Speaker 2: more to that story than perhaps that we know.
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Speaker 3: At this point.
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Speaker 1: How much do we know about President Trump's schedule over
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Speaker 1: the next several weeks before the midterms? I know he's
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Speaker 1: going to be barnstorming, but it's going to be really
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Speaker 1: fascinating where he chooses to go. Do we have any
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Speaker 1: kind of schedule yet?
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Speaker 2: We do for this week. We don't have it for
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Speaker 2: next week. The president will be traveling to some head-scratching places,
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Speaker 2: for me anyway. Why would you go to Alabama? Why
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Speaker 2: would you go to Oklahoma? I mean, those are not
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Speaker 2: states that are viewed as states that are in doubt.
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Speaker 2: It's North Carolina. It's Ohio. It's Maine. It's Alaska. And
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Speaker 2: I'm sure the president will hit those spots, but I
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Speaker 2: don't understand why you take time away from visiting states
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Speaker 2: Those critical states where very competitive Senate races are going on.
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Speaker 2: It's a zero-sum game. If you're in Alabama one day,
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Speaker 2: that means you're not in Ohio, and that means that
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Speaker 2: you're not in Iowa. And so I don't understand the
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Speaker 2: president's schedule this week. As far as Ohio is concerned,
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Speaker 2: I'll travel with the president on Saturday to Ohio. That's
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Speaker 2: for that very competitive races where Democrats are hoping to
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Speaker 2: flip a seat. And right now it's a coin toss
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Speaker 2: in terms of who's going to win that Senate race.
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Speaker 4: So, John Decker, so far what I can gather, what
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Speaker 4: both the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and J.D. Vance,
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Speaker 4: the vice president, because he'll also be out on the stump,
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Speaker 4: they are going to say to people before the midterm elections, yeah, okay,
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Speaker 4: price of gasoline, diesel, home heating, fuel oil up, utilities up,
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Speaker 4: groceries up. But, you know, it's a sacrifice you all
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Speaker 4: have to make in order for Iran not to have
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Speaker 4: a nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 3: They don't really think that that's going to work, do they?
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Speaker 2: Well, that's the message. That's the message the president has
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Speaker 2: been delivering for weeks, if not months. It's a message
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Speaker 2: that is hard to sell to individuals and families that
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Speaker 2: are dealing with high gas prices. I asked the president yesterday,
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Speaker 2: you know, how long can we expect these elevated prices
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Speaker 2: at the pump, elevated prices for diesel? Will it last
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Speaker 2: through the midterm elections? And the president said what he
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Speaker 2: said before, as soon as the war is over, it'll
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Speaker 2: come down. And he's right about that. But when will
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Speaker 2: the war be over? That's the big question. It doesn't
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Speaker 2: look like it's ending anytime soon.
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Speaker 1: President Trump has doubled down on his promise to give
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Speaker 1: thousands of dollars, $ 5, 000, I believe, $ 5, 000 to every American
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Speaker 1: that votes. I guess every American, doesn't matter if they
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Speaker 1: vote or not, if The Republicans take the Senate and
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Speaker 1: the House. And my question to you, Mr. Constitutional Attorney,
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Speaker 1: is that legal? Is that constitutional?
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Speaker 2: Well, that's going to be challenged for sure. As you know, Larry,
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Speaker 2: and as you know, Curtis, the power of the purse
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Speaker 2: resides with Congress. The president has given different answers at
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Speaker 2: different times. The president told me in January that he
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Speaker 2: doesn't need congressional authority to do that. He told me
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Speaker 2: that at the very beginning of the year. One of
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Speaker 2: his chief economic advisors, Kevin Hassett, told me something completely different,
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Speaker 2: that it does require congressional approval. And it's not clear
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Speaker 2: whether Congress would have enough votes to approve that $ 5, 000
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Speaker 2: check coming from the federal government. So that is one
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Speaker 2: of those issues that is unknown. And it's also unclear
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Speaker 2: why the president needs to do it after the election.
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Speaker 2: Republicans control the White House, the House, the Senate right now.
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Speaker 2: If the president wanted to cut a check right now
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Speaker 2: and believes he has authority, he could do so tomorrow. So,
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Speaker 2: you know, to me, that would be something in which
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Speaker 2: voters may say, thank you, Mr. President. Thank you for
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Speaker 2: that $ 5, 000 check. I'm now going to vote for Republicans
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Speaker 2: rather than string it out there and hope that the
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Speaker 2: voters vote your way on Election Day.
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Speaker 4: Well, the big focus of late has been artificial intelligence,
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Speaker 4: both the data filing centers that are popping up all
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Speaker 4: over the country.
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Speaker 3: And the warnings of the CEOs, danger, danger, danger.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 4: The president has said it's fake news, yet he's hosting
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Speaker 4: a conference today. What does he hope to accomplish?
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Speaker 2: Well, the president wants to get these leaders of artificial
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Speaker 2: intelligence on the same page. You know, as you may know,
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Speaker 2: on Sunday night, the president hosted the CEO of Anthropic,
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Speaker 2: who has been one of those industry leaders who said,
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Speaker 2: is urging the federal government to put in place guardrails
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Speaker 2: as it relates to artificial intelligence. We did not get
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Speaker 2: a readout in terms of how that dinner went with
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Speaker 2: that CEO, either from the White House or from Anthropic.
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Speaker 2: The president will meet with other leaders from the artificial
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Speaker 2: intelligence industry for this lunch. Right now it's closed press.
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Speaker 2: I'm in the pool today. Hopefully that opens up and
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Speaker 2: I can answer a lot of the questions that you
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Speaker 2: may have. Curtis and Larry, about the president and the
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Speaker 2: administration's focus on AI going forward.
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Speaker 1: You know, the Republicans are calling them public service announcements,
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Speaker 1: but the Democrats are saying these are political ads that
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Speaker 1: shouldn't be paid for with taxpayer money. But they seem
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Speaker 1: like they're going to continue happening over the weekend during
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Speaker 1: some of the football games. People may have noticed there
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Speaker 1: was an ad that featured Donald Trump in black and
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Speaker 1: white prominently. Is this one of those cases? I'll go
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Speaker 1: back to the constitutionality of this. Is this one of
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Speaker 1: those cases that's going to be challenged?
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Speaker 2: It's going to be challenged. And here's the issue. You know,
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Speaker 2: if Democrats retake control of the House, this could be
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Speaker 2: one of the issues that they hang their hat on
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Speaker 2: as far as an article of impeachment against the president
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Speaker 2: using taxpayer dollars for this effort. You may say, well,
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Speaker 2: that's not an impeachable offense, and that's always debatable because
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Speaker 2: impeachment is a political exercise. But there are individuals who
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Speaker 2: say this certainly skirts that dividing line between legal and illegal.
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Speaker 2: And as you point out, Larry, the administration is moving
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Speaker 2: full speed ahead with this, thinking this is going to
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Speaker 2: change the minds of undecided voters with about four weeks
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Speaker 2: to go until election day.
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Speaker 3: Now, the president ratcheted up the tariffs.
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Speaker 4: He said basically no cattle, no dairy, no Billy Joel motorcycles,
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Speaker 4: no nothing.
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Speaker 3: What the hell is that?
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Speaker 4: I mean, this is costing the Republicans in the Midwest
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Speaker 4: and in New York because the tariffs are hurting people.
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Speaker 2: Well there are a lot of things that are hurting
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Speaker 2: people the high gas prices high prices at the grocery
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Speaker 2: store and then on top of that the president's tariffs
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Speaker 2: policy in certain places uh for sure uh and you
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Speaker 2: mentioned some of those places also let's not forget up
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Speaker 2: in new england with the seafood industry that also is
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Speaker 2: being hit hard by tariffs, reciprocal tariffs being imposed upon
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Speaker 2: American seafood. So that is one of those additional headwinds
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Speaker 2: that Republicans are dealing with heading into the midterms. You know,
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Speaker 2: I've looked at it very closely in terms of what
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Speaker 2: the Senate looks like in particular, the House. I think
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Speaker 2: that there's this conventional wisdom that Republicans will lose the House.
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Speaker 2: The Senate is the big unknown. And as you know,
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Speaker 2: it's a 53-47 advantage that Republicans have right now, which
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Speaker 2: means Democrats need to flip four seats. And to me,
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Speaker 2: I think they can do it. You know, it's one
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Speaker 2: of those things. It really is getting a full straight,
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Speaker 2: you know, in poker. But it's certainly possible for Democrats
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Speaker 2: to do that. And they're hoping that Texas and Ohio
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Speaker 2: and North Carolina and Alaska, and maybe even Iowa, flip
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Speaker 2: to give them control of the U.S. Senate for the
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Speaker 2: next two years.
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Speaker 4: Well, thank you very much, John Decker, our WOR White
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Speaker 4: House correspondent. All the questions that you were able to
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Speaker 4: get into the queue that the President answered for you,
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Speaker 4: and you shared it with us.
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Speaker 3: Many, many thanks, John.
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Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, Curtis. Thanks, Larry. Talk to you real soon.
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Speaker 2: Bye bye.
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Speaker 3: But he ain't giving it up. He's saying, one more time,
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Speaker 3: one more final tour. All these guys, it's like one
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Speaker 3: more final tour. Lionel Richie, Barry Manilow. It's a lot
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Speaker 3: of money. It's a lot. That's where they make most
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Speaker 3: of their money on these tours. I know, but hang
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Speaker 3: it up. Yeah, how much money do you need, right?
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Speaker 3: Hang it up.
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Speaker 4: It's like either that or just do it. He lives
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Speaker 4: down in Palm Beach. I saw his mansion there. Just
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Speaker 4: do your concerts down there in West Palm. I think
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Speaker 4: the traveling is what really impairs him. Yeah, so we're
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Speaker 4: not going to hear this. We'll do one concert a
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Speaker 4: month at Madison Square Garden. You know, his friend Jimmy Dolan,
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Speaker 4: they come in, same crowd, almost like Rocky Horror, you know,
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Speaker 4: same words. People would be there in the aisles waiting
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Speaker 4: there to pens, cheering them on.
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Speaker 1: You said this about other aging rockers. They should do residencies.
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Speaker 1: They should just do it like in their own hometown
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Speaker 1: and get it over with. The stress and the strain
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Speaker 1: goes away. And you're right, Billy Joel did that for
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Speaker 1: the longest time. He can't anymore, of course, because he
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Speaker 1: did have that brain condition with fluid building up in
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Speaker 1: his brain. And because of that condition, by the way,
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Speaker 1: he can't ride his motorcycles anymore.
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Speaker 3: Remember that?
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Speaker 1: You maybe write the song, I ride my motorcycle in
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Speaker 1: the rain, even rode my motorcycle in the rain through Bedford-Stuy.
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Speaker 1: That's not happening anymore anymore. because he is now going to,
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Speaker 1: just to make sure, he never rides a motorcycle again,
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Speaker 1: because his balance is off, too. He's going to auction
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Speaker 1: off 70, count them, 70 motorcycles November 20th and 21st. Actually,
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Speaker 1: more than 70, so it must be somewhere between 70
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Speaker 1: and 80. November 20th and 21st at the Javits Center
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Speaker 1: in New York City. Listen to some of the motorcycles
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Speaker 1: he has. A 1952 Vincent Rapidi Series C, which is
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Speaker 1: considered the Rolls Royce of motorcycles. So that's going to
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Speaker 1: go for a couple hundred thousand. 1978 Triumph T140 Bonneville,
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Speaker 1: a classic British twin featured prominently in this upcoming auction.
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Speaker 1: It goes down and down, but he's got some Unbelievably
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Speaker 1: expensive motorcycles.
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Speaker 4: What did he do when he was feeling well with
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Speaker 4: over 70 motorcycles? I mean, he couldn't ride all of them.
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Speaker 4: I remember the one picture that really turned my stomach.
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Speaker 4: He was on the road out there in the Hamptons.
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Speaker 4: On one side is buddy Jimmy Dolan, who owns Madison
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Speaker 4: Square Garden, and Andrew Evil Eyes Cuomo, all of them
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Speaker 4: on Harleys. I'd love to get all three of those
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Speaker 4: Harleys and destroy them.
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Speaker 3: Well, you can bid on them. I don't got the dough. Wildcat.
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Speaker 3: Let's get some talkbacks.
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Speaker 6: Calling out the AI centers that they're talking about, the
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Speaker 6: data centers, and that they need water for cooling. I
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Speaker 6: don't understand why they have to come into certain communities
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Speaker 6: where they're being like, we don't want you here, and
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Speaker 6: starting fights when they could build them on the ocean, Alaska, Greenland.
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Speaker 6: We have coast. We have coastlines.
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Speaker 2: You're right.
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Speaker 1: That costs a whole lot of money. It also takes
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Speaker 1: time and they don't have time. As we've explained several times,
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Speaker 1: and this comes from industry insiders, they know there's a bubble.
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Speaker 1: They know it's going to burst. They know a lot
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Speaker 1: of people are going to lose money. So they want
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Speaker 1: to get in early and get while the getting is good.
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Speaker 2: Larry, Curtis, I have a great idea.
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Speaker 7: So in honor of National Coffee Day, why don't we
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Speaker 7: do something starting tomorrow? Curtis, you have 14 cups of coffee,
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Speaker 7: and Larry, you have none.
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Speaker 2: Let's see how it goes.
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Speaker 3: Oh, no thanks. He got the better end of that deal.
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Speaker 4: No, no, no, wait a second. Larry, you went on record.
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Speaker 4: I don't know if you want to amend that. is
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Speaker 4: saying that you drink 14 cups of caffeinated coffee a day.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's an estimate. We'll see if it's true. I'm
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Speaker 3: now going to keep count today. This is my third.
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Speaker 4: All right, but when we heard Daria's news report, the
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Speaker 4: contributor said, oh, you know, four to five cups, that's it.
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Speaker 3: You've tripled that.
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Speaker 1: No, wait a second. She didn't say four to five,
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Speaker 1: that's it. They said, and Daria, correct me if I'm wrong,
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Speaker 1: four to five cups are good for you.
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Speaker 7: She said four to five, yeah, to keep yourself in
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Speaker 7: the safe range.
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Speaker 3: There you go.
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Speaker 1: But they're good for you. They help your mental acuity.
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Speaker 1: They help your sex life.
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Speaker 4: Your head is going to explode off your shoulders with
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Speaker 4: 14 cups of coffee.
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Speaker 3: They're not.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I've never had that effect. It actually just
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Speaker 1: keeps me alive and unparalyzed.
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Speaker 3: That's what it does. Let's get to Daria Albinger now
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Speaker 3: with the 7.30 news.
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Speaker 2: Daria.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 7: The highly caffeinated morning crew here. Mostly cloudy, a little
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Speaker 7: warmer today, a high of 69 degrees. A serious data
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Speaker 7: breach at the Pentagon to tell you about.
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Speaker 8: The Pentagon is dealing with its own data breach. An
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Speaker 8: official confirms an employee database was compromised with hackers obtaining
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Speaker 8: the personal information of nearly 3 million current, former, and
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Speaker 8: deceased members of the military.
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Speaker 7: That's ABC's Karen Hua in Washington. They are looking into that.
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Speaker 7: President Trump is hosting an AI summit at the White
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Speaker 7: House as the warnings continue about the possible dangers of
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Speaker 7: the technology. Mark Zuckerberg and the heads of Anthropic, OpenAI,
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Speaker 7: and other companies are going to be there. A New
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Speaker 7: Jersey woman is bringing a new meaning to the term
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Speaker 7: house cleaning. She works as a maid, and she's accused
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Speaker 7: of stealing over $ 100, 000 worth of items from the homes
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Speaker 7: of people she worked for.
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Speaker 9: Local police say the thefts were reported by people in
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Speaker 9: the homes between August 29th to September 11th, although cops
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Speaker 9: say some of the thefts happened months earlier. Detectives say
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Speaker 9: it did not take long to connect the house cleaner
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Speaker 9: to the cash, jewelry, personal documents, and other items swiped
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Speaker 9: from all the homes that she was hired to clean.
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Speaker 9: Investigators also say 50-year-old Beata Kucharsic of Linden handed over
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Speaker 9: a photo ID to a store in Linden as part
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Speaker 9: of the transactional record of her selling some of the
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Speaker 9: stolen items. Kucharsic arrested last Wednesday, charged with second-degree theft.
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Speaker 9: She is in jail. I'm Levon Putney.
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Speaker 7: It may be time to buy a lottery ticket.
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Speaker 3: I'm Mark Mayfield.
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Speaker 7: It's a big night in sports, starting with Game 1
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Speaker 7: of the Yankees' wildcard series against Boston at the stadium,
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Speaker 7: also first round of the WNBA playoffs. The Liberty can
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Speaker 7: knock out top-ranked Minnesota tonight, and there's also the first
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Speaker 7: regular season NHL game for one of our teams. The
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Speaker 7: Rangers are in Boston. Next news, 8 o'clock.
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Speaker 3: Bulletins at once.
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Speaker 7: I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
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Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Daria.
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Speaker 1: And they are the ones that are going to decide
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Speaker 1: who controls the next House of Representatives. And one of
19:56
Speaker 1: those seats is New York 17 in Hudson County. It's
20:00
Speaker 1: other counties as well, but mostly Hudson County. And they
20:03
Speaker 1: had a debate last night between Kate Conley, the Democratic challenger,
20:08
Speaker 1: and Mike Lawler, the sitting Republican congressman.
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Speaker 11: We need to do a better job of actually delivering
20:14
Speaker 11: for people. And that means putting these problems in context
20:17
Speaker 11: and solving them with the urgency and aggressiveness that people deserve.
20:20
Speaker 12: We delivered the largest tax cut in American history, putting
20:23
Speaker 12: more than $ 4, 000 back in the pockets of hardworking Hudson
20:27
Speaker 12: Valley families. I fulfilled my promise to lift the cap
20:30
Speaker 12: on salt from $ 10, 000 to $ 40, 000.
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Speaker 1: That's both when they were setting up what they have
20:36
Speaker 1: done and what they're going to do. When they really
20:39
Speaker 1: got into it, Curtis, was when they started talking about Israel,
20:43
Speaker 1: when they started talking about Zorin Mamdani, and when they
20:47
Speaker 1: started talking about Donald Trump.
20:49
Speaker 3: That was the real back and forth.
20:51
Speaker 11: I denounce antisemitism from anyone.
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Speaker 3: Do you denounce Zoran Mamdani?
20:54
Speaker 12: I've denounced Tucker Carlson.
20:56
Speaker 3: I've denounced Candace Owens.
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Speaker 11: This is a cute stunt.
20:58
Speaker 12: Do you denounce Zoran Mamdani?
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Speaker 11: I have firm disagreements with members of the DSA within
21:02
Speaker 11: the Democratic Party. We have any form of hate has
21:06
Speaker 11: no place, period, full stop. Look, as a former military
21:09
Speaker 11: police officer, I support our law enforcement and ensuring the
21:13
Speaker 11: safety and security of our communities. I support border security
21:16
Speaker 11: as part of national security. And I absolutely call out
21:18
Speaker 11: my own party when I believe it's wrong.
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Speaker 12: But you don't denounce Oran Mandani.
21:22
Speaker 11: Have you denounced Donald Trump and the harm that he
21:24
Speaker 11: has caused to our families here in the Hudson Valley? No,
21:27
Speaker 11: you voted with him 100% of the time, Mike.
21:29
Speaker 12: You continue to lie about that.
21:30
Speaker 3: It's provably false.
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Speaker 1: More than anything else, that back and forth you just
21:35
Speaker 1: heard is going to be a big deal in election
21:39
Speaker 1: ads and elections that are very close.
21:41
Speaker 3: Oh, I would have pirouetted on Mike. I'd say, Mike,
21:43
Speaker 3: what are you talking about?
21:45
Speaker 4: Donald Trump just embraced Soran Mondami, said he's going to
21:48
Speaker 4: be a great mayor. What are you talking about? Did
21:52
Speaker 4: Donald Trump call him an anti-Semite? That's what I would
21:55
Speaker 4: have done. And that would have been tough for Lawler.
21:58
Speaker 4: It's tough for all Republicans now because of what the
22:00
Speaker 4: president did by going to Gracie Mansion and having the
22:03
Speaker 4: third love affair with him.
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Speaker 1: You want that to be a campaign strategy, but nobody's
22:10
Speaker 1: brought it up.
22:11
Speaker 3: You have. Every, every, this Lawler thing.
22:14
Speaker 4: Caitlyn race, every network has edge because they've both raised
22:19
Speaker 4: a total of 16 million.
22:20
Speaker 3: So it's nonstop.
22:22
Speaker 4: She has him attached to Trump and he has her attached.
22:27
Speaker 3: Yes, I agree with that. I agree with that. That
22:29
Speaker 3: would have worked.
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Speaker 4: Until Trump decided to go visit Zoran Mandami and have
22:35
Speaker 4: a love fest.
22:35
Speaker 1: No, it's still working. That's what I'm trying to say.
22:39
Speaker 1: You make it so that that is a big campaign issue,
22:42
Speaker 1: the fact that Trump went and met with Zoran Mandami.
22:46
Speaker 1: Honest to God, you're the only one I've heard bringing
22:48
Speaker 1: that up. No, no, the Blakeman people are bringing it
22:51
Speaker 1: up all the time. How could you do this to us?
22:53
Speaker 3: How do you know that?
22:54
Speaker 4: Excuse me, Larry, again, time out. I am a Republican.
22:59
Speaker 4: I have a lot of contact with all the Republicans.
23:02
Speaker 4: They've told you that. I'm just asking you the question.
23:05
Speaker 4: Just got to say yes. You don't have to be nonplussed.
23:08
Speaker 4: You act shocked that Republicans in New York State, who
23:11
Speaker 4: I've known for years.
23:12
Speaker 1: Because they're not doing it publicly. Nobody's doing that publicly.
23:15
Speaker 1: Nobody's running on that or against it. That's why I'm surprised.
23:19
Speaker 1: You think that meeting helped, Lola? You think that meeting helped?
23:23
Speaker 3: Every piece of lit... has them attacking their opponent. Then
23:27
Speaker 3: why aren't we seeing that across the country? Why isn't
23:29
Speaker 3: that everywhere?
23:30
Speaker 1: Why isn't it in New York? Why isn't it in
23:32
Speaker 1: New Jersey? Why don't we hear people talking about it?
23:34
Speaker 1: It's a big deal to you.
23:36
Speaker 4: I can only share with you my experiences with Republicans
23:41
Speaker 4: that I've dealt with now for 10 years. And if
23:44
Speaker 4: you want to take that with a grain of salt,
23:46
Speaker 4: that's fine.
23:47
Speaker 1: No, I'm not taking it with a grain of salt.
23:48
Speaker 1: I just was asking you questions. That's all I did.
23:51
Speaker 1: I didn't say I doubted you. I was asking you questions.
23:54
Speaker 3: And you get upset every single time.
23:56
Speaker 1: As if I'm questioning you. And I am questioning you.
23:59
Speaker 1: But I'm not questioning you to the point where I
24:01
Speaker 1: doubt you. I just want to get more information because
24:05
Speaker 1: I'm not, what you're talking about, I'm not seeing.
24:08
Speaker 4: Being married to Donald Trump in our area is not
24:10
Speaker 4: going to help you. So if the Democrats keep marrying
24:14
Speaker 4: Blakeman and Lola to Donald Trump, that does not help them.
24:18
Speaker 1: I agree with that. Yeah, I agree with that. That's
24:20
Speaker 1: absolutely true. And that's been happening, by the way. That
24:23
Speaker 1: doesn't happen in the end. One thing about what they
24:26
Speaker 1: had to say was interesting. Because we talked about the
24:30
Speaker 1: data filing centers, which is a big issue in that
24:34
Speaker 1: district in Rockland, Putnam, Westchester, Dutchess.
24:36
Speaker 4: That's the law of the district. Lawler has taken the
24:39
Speaker 4: right point. He said, leave it up to the communities.
24:42
Speaker 4: Let them make the decision. That's the best policy. Meantime,
24:45
Speaker 4: she was for it originally. And then she hid behind Hochul, said, well,
24:49
Speaker 4: there's a one-year freeze. I believe what Governor Hochul did.
24:52
Speaker 4: So she's not as good as the other two military candidates,
24:57
Speaker 4: one who won already, the governor in New Jersey, beat
25:00
Speaker 4: Jack Cittarelli, the congresswoman who was running against Tom Cain Jr.,
25:05
Speaker 4: the woman who was running for Congress there, the helicopter pilot.
25:08
Speaker 3: Rebecca Bennett.
25:09
Speaker 2: Right.
25:09
Speaker 3: Yeah. She's just not at that level yet.
25:13
Speaker 1: Rebecca Bennett's really good. I feel bad for Tom Kane Jr.
25:16
Speaker 1: because he had enough going against him, and now he's
25:18
Speaker 1: got a great candidate. But Kate Connolly, I agree with you.
25:21
Speaker 1: I think she's not ready for prime time. I was
25:24
Speaker 1: not going to say it, to tell you the truth,
25:26
Speaker 1: because I was going to give her the benefit of
25:27
Speaker 1: the doubt because I didn't see the whole debate.
25:29
Speaker 3: But what I saw— She is not good.
25:32
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, it was a debate in the afternoon on News 12.
25:37
Speaker 3: Come on.
25:38
Speaker 4: There should be two debates, prime time, so that the
25:41
Speaker 4: voters who have to work, Larry, they're working during the day,
25:44
Speaker 4: you know, to pay their taxes, to pay their expenses.
25:47
Speaker 4: They should have that available to them, at least two
25:50
Speaker 4: separate debates.
25:51
Speaker 3: I agree with you, but I think both candidates... Don't
25:55
Speaker 3: want them.
25:55
Speaker 2: Of course.
25:56
Speaker 3: And both candidates don't want them because they don't.
25:59
Speaker 1: Really move the needle. They do in the mayoral debate.
26:02
Speaker 1: As you found out, they do in a gubernatorial debate.
26:05
Speaker 1: Any executive debate, senatorial debates, not congressional debates. I think
26:09
Speaker 1: Lawler figures he got the better of her because of
26:11
Speaker 1: his experience. So it's one and done for him. But
26:14
Speaker 1: he's really good. He is very, very good. And she,
26:18
Speaker 1: just as I said, was not ready for prime time.
26:20
Speaker 1: But yeah, debates, congressional debates don't mean anything.
26:24
Speaker 4: Up next, it was the 20th death as a result
26:28
Speaker 4: of somebody on an e-bike trying to deliver a 50-year-old
26:32
Speaker 4: woman right in the shadow of Macy's. And it was
26:35
Speaker 4: yesterday at 11 as it was raining outside. And a
26:39
Speaker 4: dump truck, unfortunately, crushed this woman to death. We'll discuss
26:44
Speaker 4: that up next. So you know how they say alternative
26:47
Speaker 4: transportation needs, and there are a variety of ways you
26:52
Speaker 4: can get around the city. Yesterday when I left here,
26:54
Speaker 4: I tried to use my OmniPass to get in the
26:57
Speaker 4: subway like I do every day, every night. It wasn't
26:59
Speaker 4: working anywhere in the city. So if you had an OmniPass, MTA,
27:03
Speaker 4: money-taking agency, was not taking your money yesterday. So I
27:06
Speaker 4: walked home, and I remember it was drizzling. It was drizzling.
27:09
Speaker 4: It wasn't a downpour, but a drizzle. But about that
27:12
Speaker 4: same time at 11 a.m., A 50-year-old female working as
27:18
Speaker 4: a delivery worker while staying at a East Harlem shelter
27:23
Speaker 4: was going west on 34th Street as you pass Macy's
27:28
Speaker 4: and Herald Square. So she's traveling westbound. Apparently, there was
27:33
Speaker 4: a dump truck behind her. And as they approached 7th Avenue,
27:38
Speaker 4: a collision where the dump truck crushed her. And then
27:43
Speaker 4: moved forward and then eventually stopped. This makes the 20th
27:47
Speaker 4: fatality of somebody killed on an e-bike.
27:51
Speaker 3: Most of them delivery people.
27:54
Speaker 4: But the point is, is like, okay, the way you
27:57
Speaker 4: straighten this out is what we've talked about, Larry and Natalie,
28:00
Speaker 4: quite a bit here. Is you get license plates. You
28:05
Speaker 4: get these people to be registered online. You make sure
28:08
Speaker 4: that they're properly trained in the usage of that e-bike
28:11
Speaker 4: because it is a vehicle. It can go sometimes 40
28:14
Speaker 4: miles an hour. I have no idea how fast she
28:17
Speaker 4: was going at that point. But the city council, through
28:21
Speaker 4: Julie Menon, the city council president, speaker, promised that they
28:25
Speaker 4: would crack down on this and then backed off because
28:28
Speaker 4: they don't want to say this, but I'll say it.
28:30
Speaker 4: Most of these e-bike delivery people are illegals, so they
28:34
Speaker 4: don't want a registration of illegals where they think that
28:39
Speaker 4: maybe ICE will somehow sweep in, get that list, and
28:42
Speaker 4: then start arresting every e-bike delivery person in New York City.
28:46
Speaker 3: Which is ridiculous. It's ridiculous. New Jersey has done the
28:49
Speaker 3: right thing, and that's a blue screen.
28:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, what they could do is the exact same thing
28:53
Speaker 1: that they do with the sanctuary city policies, which I hate.
28:57
Speaker 1: When they make an arrest, you still see the name,
28:59
Speaker 1: but you don't see... the legality of them being here.
29:02
Speaker 1: You don't see their immigration status. They're not even allowed
29:05
Speaker 1: to report that to the national database, what their origin is.
29:10
Speaker 1: And so they could do it and just take the
29:12
Speaker 1: names and leave all of that other stuff out. That's
29:15
Speaker 1: another way of doing it. I agree with you a
29:18
Speaker 1: thousand percent. I agree with you that it is just
29:21
Speaker 1: the Wild West out there when it comes to bikes.
29:24
Speaker 2: Bikes.
29:24
Speaker 3: I'll tell you a story.
29:25
Speaker 1: I was leaving the other day, just the other day,
29:27
Speaker 1: and I was going through a green light and I
29:29
Speaker 1: looked away for a second and I looked up and
29:31
Speaker 1: right in front of me was an e-bike. He was
29:33
Speaker 1: shooting across. He was going against a red light the
29:36
Speaker 1: wrong way. And I could have hit him.
29:39
Speaker 3: I mean, I.
29:40
Speaker 1: I could have hit him at that moment. I'm not
29:42
Speaker 1: saying that this woman did anything wrong. I have no
29:45
Speaker 1: idea if she did. And God bless her. I, I've taught,
29:48
Speaker 1: it's horrifying that she died. I all think, so think
29:51
Speaker 1: it's horrifying for the dump truck driver. If it's true
29:54
Speaker 1: that he really didn't see her and he didn't know
29:56
Speaker 1: what happened. So I, I'm sure that, you know, her
29:59
Speaker 1: life's over. His life is going to change forever. But
30:02
Speaker 1: something has to happen. Well, let me tell you what
30:04
Speaker 1: probably will happen today. So on Mondami, we'll have a
30:07
Speaker 1: press conference and say, you see 34th Street East and West?
30:11
Speaker 1: They need to have designated bike lanes going both ways.
30:14
Speaker 1: So there goes another car lane, another truck lane.
30:18
Speaker 3: You know what?
30:19
Speaker 1: I will agree with that, that if you're going to
30:21
Speaker 1: have bike lanes all over the city, you should have
30:22
Speaker 1: them everywhere. I'll agree with that. But that's not the
30:26
Speaker 1: biggest problem. That's not the biggest. Do you know 20
30:29
Speaker 1: people on bikes and e-bikes have died this year? It
30:32
Speaker 1: was seven last year. It's just gotten worse.
30:35
Speaker 3: Well, they're racing.
30:36
Speaker 4: And you see, not only that, some of these delivery
30:39
Speaker 4: guys have helmets on like they're ready to go to
30:41
Speaker 4: the front lines and start shooting an AK-47.
30:43
Speaker 3: You ever seen what the helmets are?
30:45
Speaker 1: I have seen that. But I've also seen them without
30:47
Speaker 1: the helmets. They don't wear any helmet at all. They
30:49
Speaker 1: don't take any safety precautions. How many times– I would
30:54
Speaker 1: love to know because I know a couple have been killed–
30:56
Speaker 1: I'd love to know how many pedestrians have been hit
30:59
Speaker 1: by these bikes.
31:00
Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
31:00
Speaker 3: So many.
31:01
Speaker 4: Not only killed, but severely injured. And by the way,
31:04
Speaker 4: we have traffic control agents. You know, they used to
31:07
Speaker 4: be called the Brownies. They write you up. If you're
31:09
Speaker 4: an inch across the box, if you're in a car,
31:12
Speaker 4: they don't stop any of these guys or gals. They've
31:15
Speaker 4: been told by City Hall, you don't stop them. You
31:18
Speaker 4: don't write them up. You don't bring it to the
31:20
Speaker 4: attention of a police officer in case they get mouthy
31:24
Speaker 4: with you. So you say to yourself, so you want
31:27
Speaker 4: this to continue like this without any regulation? It's a
31:31
Speaker 4: completely unregulated business, and the delivery industries are making money
31:36
Speaker 4: hand over fist.
31:37
Speaker 1: And if it's as you said, and I have no
31:39
Speaker 1: reason to doubt that it's not, if it is because
31:42
Speaker 1: of their immigration status that they're not releasing these names,
31:46
Speaker 1: they don't want to give out licenses, they don't want
31:48
Speaker 1: to do too much to hurt their way of life
31:52
Speaker 1: and the way they make a salary.
31:54
Speaker 3: Shame on them.
31:55
Speaker 1: Shame on them, because once again, just like with the crime,
31:59
Speaker 1: they're causing death and destruction on the road and mayhem
32:01
Speaker 1: on the road by not taking care of this problem.
32:04
Speaker 3: Well, some good news.
32:05
Speaker 4: Natalie Migliore will be back with us tomorrow, same time,
32:09
Speaker 4: same place as she is, five days a week, Monday
32:12
Speaker 4: through Friday. But up next, all eyes are on Plymouth, Massachusetts,
32:17
Speaker 4: as the Lindsay Clancy case.
32:21
Speaker 3: They regroup.
32:22
Speaker 4: They find out what the prosecutor wants to do. if
32:25
Speaker 4: he wants to re-prosecute this case. But first, let's get
32:28
Speaker 4: the news at 8 o'clock.