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Full Show · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Ah, Yankees win, Yankees win, Yankees win. We'll describe that
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: victory as they swept the Red Sox, annihilated them, two games.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: So go back to Boston, cry in your Boston baked beans,
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  Speaker 1: your Boston cream pie, everything Boston, I hate you. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: in 86, when the Mets played the Red Sox in
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  Speaker 1: the World Series, Larry, I hate both teams equally. When
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  Speaker 1: people ask me, who are you rooting for? I said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like Switzerland. I hate them both equally, the Mets
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  Speaker 1: and the Red Sox. So I couldn't be happier this morning.
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  Speaker 1: And I was happy last night. But then the number
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  Speaker 1: one Yankee fan in our family came home. It's not me.
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  Speaker 1: It's Nancy. Nancy actually spent a summer driving a Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Softee truck out at Lankron Conkamo in Suffolk County and
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  Speaker 1: then Wine Dench. Wine Dench is the equivalent of being
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  Speaker 1: in the South Bronx. It's like damned if you do,
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  Speaker 1: damned if you don't. You're going to get robbed going
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  Speaker 1: out there, but that was the only route available. So
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  Speaker 1: she could go to every Yankee home game.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: That's how fanatical she was and still is. So she
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  Speaker 1: comes in from a business meeting. They had a goodbye
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  Speaker 1: business dinner. They had been up in Albany doing business
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  Speaker 1: and some of their colleagues were heading off. So they
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  Speaker 1: were wrapping it up at a dinner last night and
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  Speaker 1: she came in and she was completely traumatized. So immediately
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking, oh my God, she got mugged. What happened?
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  Speaker 1: And it takes her about five minutes to compose herself.
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  Speaker 1: And then she dictates to me what she had went
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  Speaker 1: through earlier in the evening at this dinner. Nice restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's getting along. She happens to look out the window
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  Speaker 1: and on the street, main thoroughfare, she sees a woman
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  Speaker 1: slapping a young boy. She estimates a young boy about
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  Speaker 1: six or seven years old. Slapping, slapping the young boy.
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  Speaker 1: Young boy apparently is like wanting to grab on. to
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  Speaker 1: the woman. So she's assuming it's his mother. And so
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  Speaker 1: she goes, let me go outside. I'm just going to
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  Speaker 1: go outside and make a call. She's not making a call.
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  Speaker 1: She's faking the call on the cell phone and she watches.
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  Speaker 1: And then she sees this woman, African-American woman, wind up and,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, punch the boy. I mean, seriously hard. So
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  Speaker 1: she closes the cell phone and she decides, I got
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  Speaker 1: to do an intervention. Everybody is walking by as if
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  Speaker 1: nothing's going on. You know, they've got window shades on
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  Speaker 1: their eyes, cotton balls in their ears, a zipper on
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  Speaker 1: their mouth, typical of New York City of late. And
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  Speaker 1: she goes up to the woman and goes, why did
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  Speaker 1: you just hit this young boy? That's my son. That's
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  Speaker 1: my son. You mind your own business, you effing white bitch.
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  Speaker 1: And then she goes on and on. And Nancy, again,
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  Speaker 1: tries to do an intervention, tries to calm the situation.
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  Speaker 1: She sees the young boy is completely traumatized. Young boy
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  Speaker 1: is crying. He's nervous. He's shaking. She's trying to calm
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  Speaker 1: down the situation. This woman would not be calmed down.
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  Speaker 1: She was emotionally disturbed. And Nancy has been with me
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  Speaker 1: when I do interventions with emotionally disturbed persons. So she
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  Speaker 1: was clear on that. And she realized there was nothing
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  Speaker 1: she could do. Nobody called 911. Nobody did anything. They
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  Speaker 1: just kept moving, moving. So she goes back inside. This
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  Speaker 1: is the Naked City, you know, in 2026, where this
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  Speaker 1: goes on on a regular basis. Men and women just
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  Speaker 1: acting out in the streets of New York City. And
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  Speaker 1: people were oblivious to it. So she's sitting down with
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  Speaker 1: her colleagues. And then all of a sudden, this woman
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  Speaker 1: comes charging in, grabbing her son, continuing to berate Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: putting a finger in your face. Imagine every invective, racially
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  Speaker 1: charged invective you can imagine. Everybody in the restaurant is stunned.
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  Speaker 1: She will not stop this woman. Continuous. And she's holding
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  Speaker 1: her son and grabbing him along. And she's saying, she's
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  Speaker 1: saying to the young boy, you tell him I'm a
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  Speaker 1: good mother. You tell him I'm a good mother. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a great mother.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, ma'am. And she's yelling and yelling. And Nancy is going, oh, man,
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  Speaker 1: what am I going to do if she attacks me?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have to defend myself. She's clearly emotionally disturbed.
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  Speaker 1: The other patrons are shocked. You imagine you're in a restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: They're shocked. It just so happens James was filming this.
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  Speaker 1: And I hope to be able to post it. But
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  Speaker 1: eventually what happens is the management and the waiters and waitresses,
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  Speaker 1: they just start pushing her out the door. They call
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  Speaker 1: the cops. Cops didn't come.
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  Speaker 4: Can I ask how long it took before anybody intervened
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  Speaker 4: at all, including the people that work there?
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  Speaker 1: My wife estimates anywhere from eight to ten minutes.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: Screaming at the top of her lungs. And again, people
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  Speaker 1: in New York City are used to this. You know,
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  Speaker 1: people just wailing away, screaming, hollering, yelling for, you know,
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  Speaker 1: endless time. So she eventually is pushed outside. But before
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  Speaker 1: she goes outside as she's dragging her son, the son
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  Speaker 1: looks at James and says, please help me, help me,
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  Speaker 1: help me. That's what traumatized my wife. Not the fact
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  Speaker 1: that she was being verbally assaulted and physically threatened and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it was racially charged in words that were
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  Speaker 1: being used. But the fact that the little boy was
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  Speaker 1: looking at them like, please help me, help me. And
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  Speaker 1: my wife said to me, you know, I'm normally not
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  Speaker 1: in favor of people separating children from their parents, especially
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  Speaker 1: the mother, and sending them to foster care. That can
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  Speaker 1: be a nightmare. But in this situation, this boy is
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  Speaker 1: going to be traumatized for life. God only knows if
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  Speaker 1: he survives. What is going to happen in his mindset? Because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, those who are abused end up tending to
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  Speaker 1: be abusers.
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  Speaker 4: Or be violent. And so you think of a little
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  Speaker 4: boy like that, and you try to find... in your
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  Speaker 4: heart how possibly someone could commit the most vile crimes
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  Speaker 4: that are committed in New York City and across the country.
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  Speaker 4: There's the reason.
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  Speaker 1: That's the reason. It's upbringing. The police have been told,
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  Speaker 1: back off. You know, we want mental health people with you.
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  Speaker 1: This goes back to de Blasio Adams and now with
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  Speaker 1: Zorhan Mandar. No, we need mentally health trained people. So
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  Speaker 1: the cops don't even bother responding anymore because they know
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  Speaker 1: what the call is. It's an EDP call. They're very specific.
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  Speaker 1: When a 911 call comes in, you know, the operator
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  Speaker 1: who take the 911 call says, is this person appearing
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  Speaker 1: to be emotionally disturbed? And so you actually hear on
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  Speaker 1: some of the tapes, yeah, EDP reported at such and such.
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  Speaker 1: And the cops are like, what are we going to do? Well,
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  Speaker 1: what's supposed to happen when an EDP is called in?
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  Speaker 1: Does no one show up? No, the cops normally would have.
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  Speaker 1: But increasingly more and more, they get chastised when they do.
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  Speaker 1: And so they just decide, you know, they tell us
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  Speaker 1: we're not qualified to deal with this. They tell us
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  Speaker 1: they want mental health trained individuals to deal with it.
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  Speaker 1: What are we supposed to do when we get there?
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  Speaker 1: We're told, leave the person alone. Don't take them into custody.
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  Speaker 1: Don't even take them for a psychiatric observation at Bellevue
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  Speaker 1: in which they get cut loose in 24 hours. It's insane. Look,
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  Speaker 1: even Natalie today, although it may not have been an
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  Speaker 1: emotionally disturbed person, you were coming to work. And some
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  Speaker 1: guy was screaming and yelling. How far away did you
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  Speaker 1: hear it? Two blocks.
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  Speaker 5: I walked by a guy screaming at a coffee cart guy.
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  Speaker 5: And he was actually in a Yankee jersey. And I'm
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  Speaker 5: thinking maybe he's a holdover from the game, drunk all night.
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  Speaker 5: And he was yelling so loud and, you know, in
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  Speaker 5: his face, pointing and pointing. And there were people around
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  Speaker 5: just walking by. Some didn't even, like, try to avoid it.
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  Speaker 5: I went around them so I didn't have to go
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  Speaker 5: by them.
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  Speaker 1: And.
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  Speaker 5: Some guy was there texting.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, how can nobody– this is insane.
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  Speaker 1: This is what the city has become. We're almost like
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  Speaker 1: immune to this. And I can only tell you because
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  Speaker 1: I deal with EDPs all day long. Like this morning,
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  Speaker 1: coming to work on the subway. So there were two
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  Speaker 1: of them mumbling to themselves. One of them hitting his
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  Speaker 1: head on the side panel of the subway. And I
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  Speaker 1: went up to him and I cautioned him. I said, hey, guy,
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  Speaker 1: you're hurting yourself. They don't belong in the streets and
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  Speaker 1: the subways. They need to be given– I.
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  Speaker 4: Agree with you. I agree with you. I agree with you.
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  Speaker 4: And I wish they could just take these people and
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  Speaker 4: get them help. And I think would all be safer.
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  Speaker 4: So I agree with you, but that's, we keep saying that,
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  Speaker 4: keep saying that, keep saying that, keep saying that. But
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  Speaker 4: when you have someone assaulting another human being, and I
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  Speaker 4: don't care if it's her child, I can see a slap.
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  Speaker 4: I can see a spank. I don't approve of that,
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  Speaker 4: but I can at least understand that when you are
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  Speaker 4: beating your child, that's a crime. That's a crime. And
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  Speaker 4: that should be responded to. So when a phone call
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  Speaker 4: goes out and says there's someone on the street beating
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  Speaker 4: a child, doesn't matter if it's their child at that point.
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  Speaker 4: It really doesn't matter. That's child abuse. So that's why
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  Speaker 4: the story you tell is so upsetting. That your wife
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  Speaker 4: was the only one that intervened. And that nobody intervened.
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  Speaker 4: And what is really ugly.
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  Speaker 4: Is the fact that that continued in a restaurant, and nobody,
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  Speaker 4: including the restaurant ownership, intervened for eight to ten minutes?
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  Speaker 4: Eight to ten minutes? No, there's something really, really wrong
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  Speaker 4: in this city if that can continue to happen. And
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  Speaker 4: I understand why people are moving out. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 4: not just the taxes. It's this.
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  Speaker 1: Well, for instance, when I was lecturing at the University
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  Speaker 1: of Pennsylvania a few weeks ago, I and Nancy were
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  Speaker 1: staying downtown Philadelphia, right near Center City, right near City Hall,
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  Speaker 1: South Broad Street. A lot of nice hotels there. Emotionally
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  Speaker 1: disturbed people outside harassing their clients. I mean, you could
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  Speaker 1: tell they were emotionally disturbed. They weren't just homeless. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: being done. This is happening all over the country time
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  Speaker 1: and time again. So we have empty spaces in mental
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  Speaker 1: health care facilities.
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  Speaker 6: Empty.
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  Speaker 1: I know that for a fact in New York. And
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  Speaker 1: yet on October 13th, when we get the one and
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  Speaker 1: only debate, there should be at least two or more.
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  Speaker 1: I doubt seriously if the subject of mentally impaired people
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  Speaker 1: will be brought up to either the Governor Hochul or
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  Speaker 1: the challenger, Blakeman, in the course of, I think, a
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  Speaker 1: one-hour debate. That's it. This is a serious issue in
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  Speaker 1: our state. It is.
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  Speaker 4: And just like all of those people walked by and
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  Speaker 4: ignored what was happening on the streets, and just like
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  Speaker 4: all of us walk by people talking to themselves and
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  Speaker 4: possibly violent and threatening people every day... that we walk
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  Speaker 4: by saying, well, thank God they're not threatening me. We're
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  Speaker 4: the problems. That's the problem. That's the problem. And it
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  Speaker 4: is exacerbated by the fact that if you were to
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  Speaker 4: do anything, it would be your fault. So I understand
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  Speaker 4: the reaction, but all of that has to change. And
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  Speaker 4: we had a guy that ran for mayor that said
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  Speaker 4: he was going to hire all these mental health professionals.
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  Speaker 4: That didn't happen. That didn't happen. If you're making a
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  Speaker 4: phone call when somebody is mentally disturbed and nobody comes,
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  Speaker 4: where are the thousands? You know, you're right. It's a
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  Speaker 4: problem that people finally just move away. That's the only
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  Speaker 4: way you can deal with it is just to get away.
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  Speaker 1: Side issue here, Larry. Our own Natalie Magliore spotted a
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  Speaker 1: guy robbing mail this morning out of the blue mailbox.
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  Speaker 1: At what time? 4.57 in the morning when there are
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  Speaker 1: no cops around. You see, it's systemic and nobody's doing
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  Speaker 1: anything about it.
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  Speaker 4: When we come back, can you call it a sweep
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  Speaker 4: when it's only two games? Yeah, I guess. Yankees sweep
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  Speaker 4: the Red Sox. Plus a chance to see Stevie Wonder
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: sold out concert at Madison Square Garden. That's coming up
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  Speaker 4: at 825. I'll tell you what, the Yankees are rolling.
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  Speaker 4: Let's hope they can keep this mojo going through the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to Tampa Bay on Saturday because they swept
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  Speaker 4: the Boston Red Sox winning game two in big fashion, 8-1.
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  Speaker 4: And I want you to hear this, Curtis. In the
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  Speaker 4: sixth inning, they were already up 5-1. Already up 5-1,
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  Speaker 4: and Cody Bellinger comes up with two men on. And
• 12:38
  Speaker 4: Dave Sims, the announcer, basically calls what's going to happen
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  Speaker 4: next before it happens. If he were to go large here,
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  Speaker 4: this place would absolutely go bonkers beyond belief. But Cody
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  Speaker 4: Bellinger can get the dagger out if he can do
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  Speaker 4: something big here.
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  Speaker 6: Pitch.
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  Speaker 7: Swung on.
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  Speaker 1: Deep drive.
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  Speaker 7: Right field.
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  Speaker 1: Got a chance. And there it goes! A three-run homer!
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  Speaker 1: Cody Bellinger!
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  Speaker 8: 8-1 Yankees!
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  Speaker 1: And that was it.
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  Speaker 4: The Tampa Bay scored again, but that was really the
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  Speaker 4: end of the game. But they look impressive. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 4: the Red Sox are impaired. Look, I hate the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 4: Their best hitter was down for the count. They didn't
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  Speaker 4: have it.
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  Speaker 1: Now they go into Tampa Bay, who has been a
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  Speaker 1: better team all year long, and they are the standard
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  Speaker 1: of how you can have a minimum payroll and continue
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: to win your division year after year by playing fundamental baseball.
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: Stealing bases, hit and run, bunting, all the basics. And
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  Speaker 1: it was a guy years ago named Stuart Sternberg from Canarsie.
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  Speaker 1: Went to Canarsie High School. He bought them. Nobody wanted them.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, they wanted to move them. They get no
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  Speaker 1: fans in the stands. They're out there in St. Petersburg.
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  Speaker 1: They're not even in Tampa. You got to go across
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  Speaker 1: the causeway. And yet game one is Saturday night in Tampa.
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  Speaker 1: And you would have to favor them because their pitching
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  Speaker 1: is as good as the Yankees, but they play fundamental baseball.
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  Speaker 1: The Yankees play long ball. And if they don't hit
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  Speaker 1: long ball, they lose.
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, in a baseball season, you follow
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  Speaker 4: team after team after team, which I have. It's all
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  Speaker 4: about being hot at the right moments. You've seen it
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  Speaker 4: happen before. You've seen surprise teams that just get hot
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  Speaker 4: at the right time. I don't know if that's going
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  Speaker 4: to happen after two games, but it sure looks that way.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he did this without Aaron Judge, right? Remember I
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: said do not let him.
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  Speaker 9: In the lineup.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, we know.
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  Speaker 1: He sucks in the playoffs. Keep him out the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the way. He does. You heard that when Natalie
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  Speaker 1: Medliore went in the streets and people were saying, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's horrible in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: If he can play, he's playing. That's what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Then they'll lose.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 10: People don't intervene because they don't want to be. sued
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  Speaker 10: because our story a few years ago a guy saved
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  Speaker 10: a woman from crossing the street inadvertently she was looking
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  Speaker 10: at her phone and he grabbed her before she was
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  Speaker 10: going to get hit by a bus and he pulled
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  Speaker 10: her down to the sidewalk she sued him because he
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  Speaker 10: inappropriately grabbed her and hello he saved your life and
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  Speaker 10: now you're suing him because he inappropriately grabbed.
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  Speaker 1: You yep that is one of the reasons There should
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  Speaker 1: be a good Samaritan law that if you intervene and
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  Speaker 1: you put yourself at risk, that even if there's a
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  Speaker 1: lawsuit that results, the people will cover you with qualified
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  Speaker 1: immunity and you would see a lot more people getting involved.
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  Speaker 4: He's absolutely correct. That's a great idea.
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  Speaker 2: What upsets me a lot, too, is when a person
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  Speaker 2: passes an emotionally disturbed person begging for money.
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  Speaker 3: And they're like, I'll go get a job.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what exactly are they qualified for with, like, 10-year-old
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  Speaker 2: sweatpants to have five holes in them and they smell
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  Speaker 2: like they haven't showered since the Clinton administration?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, give these people a break.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them are past that point. Yeah, absolutely. There
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  Speaker 1: are some people who get very jaded and will curse
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  Speaker 1: them or tell them, like you said, go get a job.
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  Speaker 1: And you look at that person and you say, well,
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  Speaker 1: what kind of a job could they work? They need help.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think you were talking about all homeless
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  Speaker 4: people because many of them are there because of drug
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  Speaker 4: abuse or some other problems in their life. What you're
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  Speaker 4: talking about is the violent people, the mentally ill, violent people,
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  Speaker 4: and that does have to be dealt with. I think
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  Speaker 4: we all agree with what you just said. There are
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  Speaker 4: homeless people you can feel bad for and try to help.
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  Speaker 4: I get it. There are many that commit crimes and
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  Speaker 4: just all of a sudden attack people. And those are
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  Speaker 4: the people that always there's some signs beforehand need to
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  Speaker 4: be taken and they need to be put away. Now
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  Speaker 4: let's get the news with Daria Albinger at 630.
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  Speaker 1: Daria.
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  Speaker 4: Morning, guys.
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  Speaker 11: Mostly cloudy, mild, and muggier today with a high of
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  Speaker 11: 76 degrees. An argument may have led to a deadly
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  Speaker 11: stabbing on the subway.
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  Speaker 12: It happened a little before 5.30 p.m. on the northbound
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  Speaker 12: J train as it approached the Woodhaven Boulevard subway station
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  Speaker 12: in Queens. A 59-year-old man stabbed multiple times in his
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  Speaker 12: chest and neck. He died at a hospital. A person
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  Speaker 12: of interest was taken into custody. The investigation is continuing.
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  Speaker 12: Andrew Whitman, WOR News.
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  Speaker 11: The governor of Tennessee has ordered an investigation into what
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  Speaker 11: can now be described as the attempted execution of the
• 17:36
  Speaker 11: state's only woman on death row. Krista Pike is still
• 17:39
  Speaker 11: alive and at a hospital after surviving two lethal injections.
• 17:45
  Speaker 11: After nine months on the job, Mayor Mamdani has finally
• 17:48
  Speaker 11: gotten top-level security clearance. This is something that the FBI
• 17:51
  Speaker 11: usually handles, and there's speculation that President Trump might have
• 17:55
  Speaker 11: had something to do with the delay. A plumber may
• 17:58
  Speaker 11: have kept the pilot on a flight to Israel from
• 18:00
  Speaker 11: crashing the plane, subduing the pilot, and taking control, helping
• 18:04
  Speaker 11: the jet to land safely.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: When the plane finally touched down, they sang.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: They were on the ground for eight hours.
• 18:14
  Speaker 13: Saudi Arabia refusing to let Israel send its own planes.
• 18:18
  Speaker 14: And many did not want to board another fly Dubai
• 18:21
  Speaker 14: jet until Israeli security vetted the new crew.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: But eventually, they reached Tel Aviv.
• 18:26
  Speaker 11: ABC's Karen Hua. Residents of Deal Park, New Jersey, want
• 18:30
  Speaker 11: a divorce from Ocean Township. So they've petitioned to secede.
• 18:34
  Speaker 11: They're looking to get back together with the borough of Deal.
• 18:37
  Speaker 11: Now here's the problem. Deal has no plans to reconcile.
• 18:40
  Speaker 11: It's not the first Jersey Shore breakup this year. South
• 18:43
  Speaker 11: Seaside Park left Berkeley Heights back in the spring. The
• 18:47
  Speaker 11: Yankees head to the American League Division Series after sweeping
• 18:50
  Speaker 11: Boston 9-2 last night. They'll face Tampa Bay on Saturday night.
• 18:54
  Speaker 11: And the Islanders drop their season opener to Toronto. The
• 18:57
  Speaker 11: Devils will open their season tonight at home against Philadelphia.
• 19:01
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• 19:05
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• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Oh, up next, that New York Democratic conservative judge. Remember
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: when I told you his name is Ozzie? Ordered the
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: city to scrap Mondami's Pierre Duterte tax, the second home tax.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: We'll also talk about the Derek Jeter tax rule as
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: the Yankees are going to Tampa for the continuation of
• 19:26
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• 19:50
  Speaker 1: secondary home tax again? You're very good in French. What
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: was that, Larry?
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: Pied de terre.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Pied de terre. Just secondary home tax. The Zohar Mandami
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: administration suffered a setback. Remember, I told you Judge Ozzie
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: on Staten Island State Supreme Court is an exception to
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: the rule. He's a Democrat who's a conservative. And he
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: certainly used conservative principles in ruling against the city by saying,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: although I'm not ruling it's unconstitutional, you botch this roll
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: up every conceivable way from publicizing names and owners and
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: addresses to the fact. That you unlawfully sent notices to
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: the people who, quite frankly, didn't have a second location.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Because this is supposed to apply to, let's say, a
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: lot of people live in Florida. That's their primary residence.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: If you have a secondary home. in New York City
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: or state, it's a state law, then you could have that,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: what would they call that tax again?
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: The aid to terror.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: A second tax that Zoran Mandami got in a trade
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: with Kathy Hochul. Because remember, he wanted a tax billionaire.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Kathy Hochul said, no, no, no, no. I give you
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: the secondary home tax. So if you own a home,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: $ 5 million or more, or a condo or co-op, $ 1
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: million or more, you're subject to this. When all is
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: said and done, it's only about 10,000 properties. uh, that
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: you can apply this to, but 17,000 were alerted. And
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: then you had all the people whose names and addresses
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: and properties were posted publicly. You had nothing at all
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: to do with this. So basically the judges said, look,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: you got to roll it out all over again. You
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: got to start from scratch with, Oh no, sorry, my nami.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: They decided to appeal this. They can't win this. They
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: can't win this. So they should just start all over again.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: How big, of an embarrassment is this to him? I mean,
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: first of all, he said he was going to tax
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: the rich.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Remember that?
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: That was the number one thing he was going to do.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: I'm going to tax the rich. I'm going to tax
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: the rich. I'm going to tax the rich. And nobody
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: stopped to say to him, you really can't. You can't
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: do it by yourself. You're And Kathy Hochul is going
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: to be running for re-election. She's not increasing taxes. Even
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: if the legislature decided they were going to do what
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: you wanted, which they didn't, even if they did, Kathy
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Hochul was going to veto it.
• 22:18
  Speaker 15: She can't.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: She'd lose.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: She'd lose re-election if she did. So he was never
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: going to get that. So what they did is this
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: is P.O. to tear tax, which is started in Paris
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: and really didn't spread that many places across the country. Curtis,
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: you know how many other places in this country has
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: such a tax?
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Well, I know Andrew Cuomo wanted it to subsidize the MTA,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: but he wasn't able to get it. No, I have
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: no idea.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Montana.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Montana, that's the last place I would have thought that
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: would have had it.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because they have a lot of places that people
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: that buy land there and then are never there, and
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: they're saying, well, that's not fair. So I get Montana,
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: but that's the end of the list. That's it. There's
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: not many places in the world that have this ridiculous tax,
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: and it obviously is just a tax— Here in New York,
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: more than Montana. Montana, I kind of get, because there's
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: people that don't go there for years.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Well, they're more bison out there than people.
• 23:12
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I know.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: Montana's beautiful, though.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: It really is.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: I have friends that moved out there and bought ranches,
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: so it really is beautiful, but I get it for them. Here,
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: it was just a money grab. It's always been just
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: a money grab. And when he got this consolation prize...
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: from the state, he got so excited because he was
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: finally going to be able to say, look, I, at
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: least I taxed the rich a little bit, but what happened?
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: He rolled it out wrong. He put on names of
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: people that didn't even qualify for this. Some that it
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: was their original home and they were living there, older
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: couples who you saw on the news all the time.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Then he had to do a redo on that. And
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: now he may not even get it in the first place.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: I mean, this is, all of it is so embarrassing.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: All he has to do is send invoices to the 10,000.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: He has seven weeks to do that to put the
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: tax into effect January 1st. Now, I'm sure it'll be challenged.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: It'll get challenged by everybody. Yeah.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: But the bigger case, and nobody's paying attention to this,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: is in Suffolk County. Because remember, this is a state law.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: So Steve Wynn, you know, owns all those casinos, Vegas, Macau, everywhere.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: He has a mansion out in the Hamptons, and he's
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: going into court. state Supreme Court in Suffolk County and
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: challenging the whole secondary home taxes being unconstitutional. So if
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: he wins that, you can't do it in New York City.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: And then there's the other issue that nobody's talked about,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: but I'll bring it up now because number two, Derek Jeter,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Captain Derek Jeter. I don't know, people realize that New
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: York State comes after you from the cradle to the grave.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: So they have a 183-day physical presence rule. Now, Derek Jeter, right, untouchable, right?
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: He was like superstar extraordinaire. Not to the New York
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: state tax authorities. He set up a mansion in Tampa,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: which is Yankee's spring training location, a very nice mansion,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: built it from scratch. And he claimed he spent most
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: of his time there because there's no income taxes in Florida.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: But the state revenue said, we're going to follow Derek.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Do you know the law is this, Larry? This is
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: how crazy the law is. If you had a layover,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: let's say you flew to JFK and you had a
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: two-hour layover to catch a flight to England, that's a
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: day that you spent in New York. If you stopped
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: to have a business meeting, right, that's a day. So
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: if you spent 184 days of what they call residency
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: in New York City, You got to pay all your
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: income tax to New York City for your worldwide revenues.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: That's ridiculous. Whatever you do all over the world. That's
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the Derek Jeter rule. And he settled it for millions
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: and millions of dollars. But they send detectives after you.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: It's absolutely ridiculous. Look, here's a bright idea. Why don't
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: you cut government? Why does it have to keep growing?
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: Why does it only keep growing in blue states? How
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: come that happens?
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Well, to do what was done by DeSantis. He cut
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: property taxes. This is what Bruce Blakeman is promising to do.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: He wants to do it for income tax. He'll have
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: his chance to roll it out on his one and
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: only debate. There should be at least two or more
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: on October 13th against Governor Kathy.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: But explain that to me. I mean, the population is leaving.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: And for some reason, that never is part of the solution.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: Never part of the solution is, you know what, we
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: should just cut the size of government. We don't need
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: all these people. Look at Lamdani. I mean, how many
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: people did he add? He added all these departments. Of
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: course he needs more money. He's got to pay his payroll.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: Cut government. That's the only way you're going to save
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: this state.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Larry, who was the only person that said that in
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: the debates when I was running for mayor?
• 27:00
  Speaker 16: You did.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Cut property taxes, income taxes, cut government, $ 10 billion from
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: the Department of Education budget.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: You did.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Gee.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: That's true.
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: Hmm.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: But it's not free. You're not giving away free stuff.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Of course.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: But even though he can't possibly do it, knew that
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: he never could. Now, it gets to you. You know
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: who we have coming up next, and it's an important
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: time to have him. A lot going on in the world,
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: especially when it comes to Iran. We don't have John
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: Decker coming in next?
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Hey, City Council, you can't escape the mishigash in the
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: City Council.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: I'm so excited about having John Decker coming in.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, but 23 different bills that are going to
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: go nowhere to stopping these marauders on their e-bikes in
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the streets of New York City. Up next.
• 27:44
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• 27:56
  Speaker 4: That starts today. You can start watching it today. Who
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: knew that this fight to control e-bikes and really all
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: bikes in the city, you should have different classes depending
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: on how fast they go. Who knew it would be
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: this controversial? You can't get anything done. And it's not
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: just New York. It's all around the country. Everybody is
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: having a problem getting something through, and I'm not even sure.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: I know Uber's got a problem with it, and I
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: know that there are other companies that have deliveries that
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: have a problem with it, that they don't want to
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: go through the hubbub. But man, you had 20 pedestrians die.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: You had somebody die this week that was hit by
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: an e-bike in Central Park. You had someone killed on
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: the streets of New York earlier by a pickup truck.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: People are dying. You need to have some type of regulation.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: So city council, they originally had 23. They cut it
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: down to 17 yesterday. And they're talking about passing that.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: And I know that New Jersey right now, New Jersey,
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: God bless them. They have the toughest e-bike and bicycle
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: laws in the country right now where you have to
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: get registered. There are some other states that do require registration,
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: but only if you get over 20 miles per hour.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: Under that, and rest of bicycles don't have to. New Jersey,
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: it's across the board. So they're really smart about that.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: But Julie Menon, who said yesterday she's all for registration,
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: she'd be happy to do it. And so the question is,
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: why doesn't it get done? We'll have to see what happens,
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: because it's a fight right now, and there's a lot
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: of money fighting this from the other side. And that's
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: why the state can't do it. They have legislation called
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Priscilla's Law that constantly gets stalled. But the city council
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: leader had a great point. She looked at city leaders
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: to find out what the city and what the Mamdani
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: administration would want to do about this. And she said, look,
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: I can pass all the laws in the world, but
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: if you don't enforce them, they don't mean anything.
• 30:06
  Speaker 16: The council's now passed several laws on this, and no
• 30:09
  Speaker 16: one knows anything about them. We passed them for a reason.
• 30:12
  Speaker 16: So one of the reasons for this hearing is to
• 30:15
  Speaker 16: get the commitment from the agencies to actually enforce the
• 30:17
  Speaker 16: current laws we have in the books that are not
• 30:19
  Speaker 16: being enforced.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: We are 100% going to take that back.
• 30:23
  Speaker 16: Okay, and so I'd like a commitment from both agencies
• 30:26
  Speaker 16: in writing to us. We really want to, I just
• 30:28
  Speaker 16: don't want to have like more conversations, okay?
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: I wanted to play that, Curtis, because that's the comment
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: that scared me. It scared me because it made it
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: sound like she was saying, and maybe I'm reading too
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: much into it, but I listened to the whole thing,
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: and it sounds like she's saying, well, maybe if you
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: just go ahead and enforce the laws we've already passed
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: that are on the books, we don't need to do
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: anything more. I got that impression from that question. So
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: that all of this would just be smoke and no fire.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Well, look, Jersey is as blue as New York in
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: many ways. And yet you pointed out how they lead
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: and we refuse to follow. So if you're Julie Menon,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: just pass the legislation. Force the mayor to veto it.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Don't play around any longer. 23 bills are now down
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: to 17 bills. Maybe in a year's time, we'll get
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: it down to one bill that can be voted up
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: or down. But this is ridiculous. When you are the speaker,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: whether of the House, you know Johnson can control everything
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: in the House. Look up in Albany and in Trenton.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Speakers can control everything. And in city council, speakers control
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: what gets entered in. into discussion on the floor for
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: open debate and vote. That's why the horse carriage bill
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: was never entered into the floor for debate because Adams,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: the previous Adams, who's running for lieutenant governor now with
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Kathy Hochul, hated that bill. So she wouldn't enter. So Julie,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: enter a bill, have an up and down vote, let
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: the council people debate it openly. Let it be a
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: strong enforcement bill and then force the mayor's hand on it.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: No, that'd be great if she would do that. She
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: probably won't because although you can put something up, all
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: the people you mentioned have this same problem. You can
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: put something up, doesn't mean it's going to pass. And
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: many times they don't want to put something up if
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: it's going to fail. I agree with you. Go ahead
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: and put it up. Just do it. Get people on
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: the record voting yes or no. This is the argument
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: that's made all of the time. And they never go
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: through with that.
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: Never.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: Remember, Trump said the SAVE Act. I know you don't
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: have the votes.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Put it up.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: I want to see where people are on the record.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: John Thune said no, because there's certain people he doesn't
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: want to embarrass. So they try to get the votes
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: behind the curtain, and then they don't put it up
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: until they know they have the votes.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I would say, Julie Manning, force the issue. Stop tiptoeing
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: through the tulips. Force the mayor's hand to veto the legislation. Well,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: where are we.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: Right now with the war on Iran? It gets brought
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: up all of the time. Then it just kind of disappears.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: Then it reemerges. But where are negotiations right now? Are
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: there any negotiations? I know Iran wants to talk. Does
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: Donald Trump? Well, we're happy to bring in John Decker, W.O.O.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: White House and Washington correspondent, host of the podcast, The
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: White House Briefing Room with John Decker. You can find
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: that on the iHeartRadio app. John, we had this miracle
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: on fly Dubai that everybody is talking about that comes
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: a week after. That's in the wake of an Iranian
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: terror plot to bomb a U.S. base in the United Kingdom.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: And there is suspicion that this guy that tried to
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: take over that plane and may have been successful, if
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: not for the passengers, was also connected with Iran. And
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: yet we keep hearing Homeland Security, Mark Wayne Mullen, saying, no,
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: there's no serious threats, no known threats to the mainland.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure. How can those two things be true?
• 34:05
  Speaker 15: Well, look, I asked a number of Trump senior officials
• 34:09
  Speaker 15: yesterday whether the U.S. is on elevated vigilance because of
• 34:13
  Speaker 15: what happened in the U.K.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Over the weekend.
• 34:16
  Speaker 15: And they say our force posture has not changed. But
• 34:19
  Speaker 15: certainly after what we saw happen yesterday, Over the weekend
• 34:23
  Speaker 15: in the U.K., the plane incident that you just referenced
• 34:28
  Speaker 15: that happened just in the past 24 hours, you'd have
• 34:32
  Speaker 15: to think that U.S. intelligence is looking into whether Iran
• 34:37
  Speaker 15: is trying to attack Americans, American interests around the world.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: John Decker, yesterday the president announced we're out of Iraq,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: all of our troops after 25 years, thank God. But
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Iran applauded that, and the many Shia Iranians supported militias
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: throughout Iraq. What problems, if any, does that create since
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: we're still at war with Iran?
• 35:06
  Speaker 15: Well, it's a good question. It means that there's a vacuum,
• 35:10
  Speaker 15: and the vacuum could indeed be filled by those with
• 35:15
  Speaker 15: bad intent, ill intent towards the U.S.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: Or towards the West.
• 35:19
  Speaker 15: But the president had vowed to remove U.S. troops from Iraq,
• 35:25
  Speaker 15: and indeed he's fulfilling that pledge, that promise. And it
• 35:29
  Speaker 15: does mark the end of quite a chapter as it
• 35:32
  Speaker 15: relates to U.S. involvement in Iraq that began in the
• 35:36
  Speaker 15: aftermath of 9-11.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: They are very aware of our midterms in Iran. The
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: IRCG came out and urged Americans to vote against Donald Trump.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: I would imagine that's not the kind of help the
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: Democratic Party wants.
• 35:52
  Speaker 15: Well, that's probably right, you know, but it's no surprise.
• 35:56
  Speaker 15: You know, they may be publicly saying what we already knew.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: The president believes that Iran.
• 36:02
  Speaker 15: Doesn't want to come to the negotiating table, Larry, until
• 36:04
  Speaker 15: after the midterms. They want to impact the president, Republicans
• 36:10
  Speaker 15: in a negative way as it relates to the midterms.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: Now, just a little over one month away, hard to believe.
• 36:17
  Speaker 15: And the president, as you know, meanwhile, hitting the campaign
• 36:20
  Speaker 15: trail in earnest starting today. And that's going to last
• 36:25
  Speaker 15: all the way up to November the 3rd. I'll be
• 36:28
  Speaker 15: with the president traveling to Ohio, a critical Senate race there.
• 36:32
  Speaker 15: And that's going to be on Saturday.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Well, speaking of Ohio, apparently the polls indicate that the
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Democrats are ahead both in the Senate race and in
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: the gubernatorial race. And one of the issues is the
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: artificial data filing centers that have popped up all over
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: the Buckeye State. And with the president indicating that anybody
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: who's opposed to it wants to end up being backwards
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: and poor. I don't think, John Decker, that helps. Vivi
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Suani running for governor or the Republican senator in Ohio
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: holding that seat.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Well, it certainly doesn't. You're right about that.
• 37:14
  Speaker 15: Vivek Ramaswamy, who, of course, ran for president against President
• 37:18
  Speaker 15: Trump at one point and then returned to Ohio to
• 37:21
  Speaker 15: run for governor, doesn't, in my view, and I think
• 37:26
  Speaker 15: that I've spoken to many people in Ohio, doesn't have
• 37:30
  Speaker 15: the kind of personality that attracts people.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: In some cases, it turns off people.
• 37:37
  Speaker 15: So when you talk about political races, and this goes
• 37:41
  Speaker 15: not just for Ohio, but anywhere across the country, likability
• 37:44
  Speaker 15: is a major factor. And likability, I think, is a
• 37:47
  Speaker 15: factor in that governor's race. As far as the Senate
• 37:49
  Speaker 15: race is concerned, a lot of headwinds that John Husted
• 37:54
  Speaker 15: is facing as he runs for a full six-year term,
• 37:56
  Speaker 15: he's running against someone who's formerly served as a U.S. senator,
• 38:00
  Speaker 15: Sherrod Brown. And, you know, the headwinds are, you know,
• 38:04
  Speaker 15: high gas prices, high oil prices, inflation, the impacts of
• 38:09
  Speaker 15: the president's tariffs policy, and of course, history, because the
• 38:13
  Speaker 15: party in power typically loses seats in the midterm elections.
• 38:16
  Speaker 15: So those are a lot of headwinds right now that
• 38:19
  Speaker 15: Republicans are dealing with, not just in Ohio, Curtis, but
• 38:23
  Speaker 15: also in many other Senate races as well.
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: The Trump administration is insisting that there are people that
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: are illegal voting in the elections, and there are some
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: arrests that are being made by Todd Blanch across the country.
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: He made 10 yesterday. In Minnesota. And yet we have
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: right here in New Jersey, we have 6,000 people who
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: have been registered for six years that are being removed.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: But the president wants the entire list. He wants the
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: entire list of not the president, but the Justice Department
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: wants the list of all the people that are on
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: those roles. It sounds like this is going to be
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: a big focus over the next month.
• 39:05
  Speaker 15: Well, I think it is, you know, to a certain extent.
• 39:08
  Speaker 15: You know, I don't know to what extent the fraud
• 39:11
  Speaker 15: that you just referenced is widespread and how large it is.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: That's a big number.
• 39:17
  Speaker 15: You know, that can impact a race, certainly in a
• 39:19
  Speaker 15: close race. We're talking about the numbers in New Jersey.
• 39:23
  Speaker 15: And as you know, New Jersey is run by a
• 39:25
  Speaker 15: Democratic governor. So no surprise that she rebuffed the request
• 39:29
  Speaker 15: for the DOJ, from Attorney General Todd Blanch. But this,
• 39:34
  Speaker 15: as you point out, Larry, is going to be an
• 39:35
  Speaker 15: issue as we get closer and closer to November the 3rd.
• 39:39
  Speaker 15: You know, the president has consistently raised this idea of
• 39:44
  Speaker 15: voter fraud just about every election that he's run in
• 39:48
  Speaker 15: or been involved in. And this of course, is no
• 39:50
  Speaker 15: different with the midterms less than 35 days away.
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: Will ICE officials be outside the polling places?
• 39:58
  Speaker 15: Well, Todd Blanch was asked that very question, and Mark
• 40:03
  Speaker 15: Wayne Mullen, who is the Secretary of Homeland Security, has
• 40:07
  Speaker 15: been asked that question under oath, and the answer to
• 40:10
  Speaker 15: that is no. They say that that will not be
• 40:12
  Speaker 15: the case in the days leading up to or on
• 40:16
  Speaker 15: November 3rd itself.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Now, John Decker, I'm sure you're going to Texas with
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: the president. If there's one candidate he's gone to the
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: mat for, above all others, it's Attorney General John Paxton.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: And there was that audio in which Paxton was at
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: a fundraiser saying that that midterm convention that Trump hosted
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: right in Texas actually hurt everybody, meaning Republicans' numbers that
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: are down. I gotta believe the president took that shot
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: personally because he's put everything on the line for Paxton.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: Well, he has.
• 40:52
  Speaker 15: I mean, first of all, to begin with, he, uh,
• 40:55
  Speaker 15: decided not to endorse the incumbent Republican Senator throwing a support, uh,
• 41:00
  Speaker 15: behind Ken Paxton. So that was the difference maker in
• 41:03
  Speaker 15: the primary, uh, leading Paxton to be the Republican nominee.
• 41:06
  Speaker 15: And then, uh, just in the past week, a significant
• 41:09
  Speaker 15: amount of campaign funds, uh, dumped into this race to
• 41:14
  Speaker 15: help out Ken Paxton. He has consistently been trailing James
• 41:18
  Speaker 15: Tallarico in that Senate race, the president heading back down
• 41:22
  Speaker 15: to Texas today, all in an effort to boost the
• 41:25
  Speaker 15: candidacy of Ken Paxton. And here's another instance, you know,
• 41:28
  Speaker 15: in which likability is a factor, you know, and I
• 41:31
  Speaker 15: think that that is just one of the many reasons
• 41:34
  Speaker 15: why he has been trailing in this Senate race.
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: Have we seen a schedule for the 32 days? I
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: know there might be security reasons why they can't let
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: that out, but I'm only interested because it seems like
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: he's focused on the Senate races and not so much
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: the House races.
• 41:50
  Speaker 15: Well, I think that the Senate's important to the President.
• 41:53
  Speaker 15: That allows his nominees for various agencies and departments that
• 41:58
  Speaker 15: require Senate confirmation to get confirmed, and without it, it
• 42:02
  Speaker 15: makes it that much more difficult. That even goes for
• 42:05
  Speaker 15: ambassadors that the president's appointing. The focus is primarily, you're right,
• 42:10
  Speaker 15: on the Senate. I have not seen the president's schedule
• 42:14
  Speaker 15: beyond Monday. Monday, he's going to be traveling to Nebraska.
• 42:17
  Speaker 15: And to me, it's a head scratcher, Larry and Curtis,
• 42:20
  Speaker 15: because just look at the next few days, the president
• 42:23
  Speaker 15: will travel to Oklahoma, to Alabama, and to Nebraska. Those
• 42:29
  Speaker 15: states are always red states. And he's not traveling to
• 42:33
  Speaker 15: The purple states not traveling to states just yet until
• 42:37
  Speaker 15: Saturday that have very close Senate races. Texas is one
• 42:41
  Speaker 15: of them. But for the most part, you know, he's
• 42:43
  Speaker 15: not going to Maine, to Iowa, to North Carolina and
• 42:47
  Speaker 15: to Alaska.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: Those visits will happen.
• 42:50
  Speaker 15: But it's strange to me that he is spending a
• 42:52
  Speaker 15: lot of time in these red states.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Now, John Decker, there's no White House spokesperson now. And
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: I don't care who the president is. I'm sure in
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: the many years you've covered the White House beat. The
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: White House press secretary always calls you up and tries
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: to clean up a misspeak. The president misspoke, whether it's
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: Trump or Biden or Obama, and immediately they try to
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: rectify it. When is he going to get a press
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: spokesperson who can actually do that? Because he never does
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: it to himself. No, he doesn't.
• 43:24
  Speaker 15: And, you know, the people that work in the press
• 43:27
  Speaker 15: office that serve the president, They can certainly do so.
• 43:31
  Speaker 15: They're names that you may not be familiar with, but
• 43:33
  Speaker 15: they're still functioning in that way.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: But it's been.
• 43:36
  Speaker 15: Over a month since Caroline Leavitt has left the White House,
• 43:40
  Speaker 15: and the president seems in no rush to name a replacement.
• 43:44
  Speaker 15: I don't know if there's going to be a replacement
• 43:46
  Speaker 15: named between now and the midterms. And that's unfortunate for
• 43:51
  Speaker 15: Republicans and unfortunate for the president. Caroline Leavitt, I thought,
• 43:54
  Speaker 15: did a good job advocating for the president, and he
• 43:57
  Speaker 15: lacks that right now.
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: John Decker, WOR White House correspondent. Thank you so much.
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: Good to talk to you.
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Larry. Thanks, Curtis. Have a good one.
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: Bye-bye. You can check out his podcast on the iHeartRadio app,
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: the White House Briefing Room with John Decker.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Up next, you go out of Huntington Station as a
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: pizza maker who throws that pizza in the air like
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: he just doesn't care and set a world's record for height.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: but all of a sudden he's being denied the title.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: We'll get into the nitty-gritty details of that, plus a
• 44:29
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• 44:48
  Speaker 4: So there's a pizza place out in Huntington Station called
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: Johnny D's Pizzeria. And it's run by a guy named
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: Johnny Dawson. Johnny Dawson is well-known in the area for
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: making great pizzas. And he does it by hand, you know,
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: all the natural ingredients by hand. He tosses the pizza.
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: People watch him as he tosses the pizza and then
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: puts them in the oven. And he happened to notice
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: recently that the Guinness Book of World Records has a
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: record in the book for the highest toss of a pizza.
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: And the highest toss of a pizza is 21 feet tall.
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: five inches. And he looked at that and he said,
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: I can break that. I can break that.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: Who has that record? Who has that record?
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: That's Joe Carlucci.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, Carlucci, Italian.
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: Who did it at the Mall of America in Minneapolis,
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: Minnesota on April 20th, 2006.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: But remember that.
• 45:46
  Speaker 9: Italian.
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: Yes, he's Italian, but he's also in Minnesota.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: So an Italian in New York, in the New York area-
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: is more impressive than an italian in minneapolis.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: But you see he's not italian that's where i think
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: the prejudice is here.
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: Oh because his last name's dawson exactly well i'll tell
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: you what you look at him he looks italian maybe
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: his mom was italian we'll have to we'll have.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: To really dig into that all right we have to
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: dig so he he threw it how high well he's.
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: Practiced for a long time you can you can see
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: videos of him practicing he put the rocky music behind
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: it and all of that good So he finally tossed
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: one that went above his building. The ceiling of his
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: building is 10 feet, but the building itself is over
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: 20 feet. He tossed it higher than the building, and
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: he claims he tossed it 22 feet 1 inch. Done.
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: Which would be the world record.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: That's him.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: No.
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: The Guinness Book of World Records says, no, we need
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: to confirm that. We have to be able to confirm it.
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: They take this very seriously at the Guinness Place.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: I'm just sorry that Ray Liotta, the actor, is no
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: longer alive. Do you know that his claim to fame
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: before he became the star of Goodfellas, he would work
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: in Cranford at the pizza house, the pizza chef, and
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: the owner-operator said, He tossed pizza better than anybody else
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: for $ 3. 50 an hour in the summers. And when Ray
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Liotta was asked, why did you practice so much pizza tossing?
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: He goes, that's how you get the girls, which is true.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: Pizza night was Friday in Canarsie, and all the young
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: ladies would show up, Divini or Style or Giuseppe would
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: be flipping the pizzas, and they would end up with
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: a date on Saturday because of their ability to toss
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: those pizzas high in the air.
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: Well, we'll have to ask Johnny Dawson if that's true because,
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: you know, he's the biggest of them all, so he
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: should attract more girls. But, and don't smile like that, Natalie.
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: I meant nothing wrong with that. That was not an innuendo.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you.
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: Anyway, let me tell you what they have to do.
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: The idea must be measurable, breakable, standardizable, whatever that means, verifiable,
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: and universal. And so he already has video of it.
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: He could send the video, but they may send someone
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: that has to verify it.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: As far as I'm concerned, he's the champion. I think
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: his last name being Dawson is a very good chance
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: he's not Italian, like Carlucci was the champion of at
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: the Mall of America outside of Minneapolis. This is prejudice
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: against non-Italians. I would bet you on that.
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: Now we have to get Johnny Dawson on. We got
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: to get Johnny D on. I already reached out.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: Let's see if he gets back to us.
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: We have to find out. All right, let's get some talkbacks.
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: The first one about illegals voting.
• 48:36
  Speaker 17: To comment on illegal voting, are you crazy?
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: It is widespread. Just come to Connecticut. It has to
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: be dealt with. Well, they're trying. They're making arrests all
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: around the country. And they said over the next 30 days,
• 48:51
  Speaker 4: they're going to look at every state. So I'm sure
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: they're going to get to Connecticut.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: Well, they want to hire not illegals, green card holders
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: in Danbury to the police department. They can't vote. So
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: why not let them all vote?
• 49:05
  Speaker 15: Right.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: You could become a cop, too, in Connecticut.
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: I just thought, side note, that it's interesting.
• 49:10
  Speaker 10: Over here in Jersey and some of these small towns,
• 49:13
  Speaker 10: I'm seeing signs they're putting up for the election.
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: Saying, no data center, no data center.
• 49:18
  Speaker 10: And then when you look up their small towns, that
• 49:20
  Speaker 10: have absolutely no room they're full of everything they couldn't
• 49:23
  Speaker 10: even build one but they're just running on it to
• 49:26
  Speaker 10: run on it it's.
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: Interesting that's really fascinating so places where it's not even
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: a problem they're running on it because it's a it's
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: a big issue that's that's funny.
• 49:34
  Speaker 18: The problem with a guy like Vivek Ramaswamy is that
• 49:38
  Speaker 18: he's too intelligent. As they dumb down this country further
• 49:42
  Speaker 18: and further, intelligent people.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: Will be marginalized.
• 49:48
  Speaker 18: Hence, we have a whole sea and Kamalama Ding Dong
• 49:53
  Speaker 18: as potential 2028 presidential candidates.
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: Are you kidding me? Are you absolutely kidding me in
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: this country?
• 50:01
  Speaker 18: Intelligence is a lost skill.
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: Come on, you're jealous of those names he made up.
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: That should have been you.
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: Although, Vivaswamy, excellent debater. The Democrat who's heading the polls
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: against him for governor in Ohio refuses to debate him.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: And you know why. Because he would wipe the deck
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: with her. He's that good a debater.
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: Now let's get to Daria Albinger with the 7.30 news.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: Daria.
• 50:26
  Speaker 9: Morning, guys.
• 50:26
  Speaker 11: Mostly cloudy, mild, and muggier today with a high of
• 50:29
  Speaker 11: 76 degrees. A New York City man has been indicted
• 50:33
  Speaker 11: in a parking meter scam.
• 50:34
  Speaker 12: Manhattan prosecutors accused Mihai Inescu of running an almost impressively
• 50:39
  Speaker 12: efficient scheme to steal from people who were eager to pay.
• 50:43
  Speaker 12: They say he put QR code stickers on city parking
• 50:46
  Speaker 12: meters last year that were labeled WebPay Scan to Pay.
• 50:51
  Speaker 12: That code was a link to a fake payment site
• 50:53
  Speaker 12: that featured a copy of the Real Park NYC logo.
• 50:56
  Speaker 12: Not clear how much, if any, money Inescu made from it.
• 51:00
  Speaker 12: He says he's an Amazon driver and doesn't know anything
• 51:03
  Speaker 12: about the scheme. Andrew Whitman, WOR News.
• 51:06
  Speaker 11: A rent freeze takes effect today in about a million
• 51:09
  Speaker 11: rent-stabilized apartments here in the city. It was one of
• 51:11
  Speaker 11: Mayor Mamdani's main campaign promises. Landlords are suing to get
• 51:15
  Speaker 11: it overturned, though they're arguing the Rent Guidelines Board was influenced.
• 51:19
  Speaker 11: Tennessee's only female death row inmate is in the hospital
• 51:23
  Speaker 11: after surviving two lethal injections.
• 51:26
  Speaker 17: Krista Pike was scheduled to be put to death on
• 51:28
  Speaker 17: Wednesday by lethal injection, but the procedure was unsuccessful. Witnesses
• 51:32
  Speaker 17: described what they saw.
• 51:34
  Speaker 16: We haven't seen anything like it. It went really poorly.
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: Almost the entire time she was kicking her feet.
• 51:40
  Speaker 17: Her attorneys reported she was still breathing after receiving two
• 51:44
  Speaker 17: doses of pentobarbital. Pike was taken to a nearby hospital
• 51:47
  Speaker 17: after the attempted execution. Governor Bill Lee has since announced
• 51:51
  Speaker 17: he's pausing executions for the rest of 2026 and he's
• 51:54
  Speaker 17: ordered an investigation. She was on track to become the
• 51:56
  Speaker 17: first woman Tennessee has executed in more than 200 years.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: I'm Michael Kastner.
• 52:01
  Speaker 11: Well, we started this newscast with a scam. We're going
• 52:03
  Speaker 11: to end it with one, too. And this one involves
• 52:06
  Speaker 11: Apple's first foldable iPhone. If you're trying to preorder it,
• 52:10
  Speaker 11: you need to be careful. Malwarebytes found a fake preorder page.
• 52:15
  Speaker 11: For the iPhone Duo, it resembles Apple's page and it
• 52:19
  Speaker 11: includes a tab for a $ 500 voucher. That's getting a
• 52:22
  Speaker 11: lot of attention. However, the page also has a tool
• 52:25
  Speaker 11: which can break into a vulnerable iPhone and steal sensitive data.
• 52:30
  Speaker 11: Yankees head to the American League Division Series after sweeping
• 52:33
  Speaker 11: Boston 9-2 last night. They face Tampa Bay Saturday night.
• 52:36
  Speaker 11: And the Islanders drop their season opener to Toronto. The
• 52:39
  Speaker 11: Devils open their season tonight at home against Philadelphia. Next news,
• 52:43
  Speaker 11: 8 o'clock, bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Daria.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: Well, the.
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: Gang rape story scandal continues to grow as it should.
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  Speaker 4: And now the governor, who is a board member of Cornell,
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: has gotten involved. We'll explain that after the news. Also,
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  Speaker 4: can be ready the next time it counts. The Cornell
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: University rape case just continues to grow and is certainly
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: getting national attention. And from the beginning, it is obvious
• 54:29
  Speaker 4: that Cornell, the university, didn't handle this very well. This
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: happened back in 2024. In October of 2024, it was
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: at a frat house party. This young woman was invited over.
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: They plied her with drugs, ketamine, and alcohol. And then
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: a number of men had sex with her. Seven were
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: investigated by the university. Two were expelled. At least one
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: of them got a writing assignment as a punishment. But
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: there were no federal charges or local charges. It could
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: have been either at that point. But the local DA
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: says that he investigated it. He went to Cornell University.
• 55:13
  Speaker 4: And this is a big story broke by CBS that
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: everybody has now. And he went there and he didn't
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: find any evidence that it was a rape. Except for
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: the fact that this young woman who's being called Jane
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: Doe spoke to the campus police and said, I can
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: say with 100% confidence that I was raped. That was
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: never turned over to the prosecutor or to the investigating
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: force from the county. And he says, I never saw that.
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: And had I seen it, I absolutely would have charged.
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: So it keeps growing and growing and growing. And I
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: should mention that Kathy Hochul, A lot of you emailed
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: me yesterday to tell me this, and I thank you
• 55:59
  Speaker 4: for that. Kathy Hochul is a board member at Cornell University,
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: the governor of the state. But also, just to let
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: you know, for everybody that emailed me, every governor becomes
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: a non-voting board member of Cornell University. So you can't
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: pin too much on her. She got it. It's not
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: like she has some affinity to the organization. And certainly now,
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: she's taking this extremely seriously.
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  Speaker 19: What happened to this young college student at Cornell University
• 56:29
  Speaker 19: is nothing short of horrifying and shocking. And I believe
• 56:33
  Speaker 19: that she deserves justice and there must be accountability. That
• 56:37
  Speaker 19: is why I called for an outside independent counsel to
• 56:40
  Speaker 19: conduct an investigation of what exactly transpired.
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: And Columbia University and the local prosecutors have agreed to that.
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: The local prosecutors, by the way.
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: Cornell, not Columbia.
• 56:52
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: I keep saying that. Cornell University. Just to mention Columbia.
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: That's because I told you yesterday there was a woman
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: who claimed she was raped as an undergraduate. They didn't
• 57:02
  Speaker 4: listen to her.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: She carried a mattress on her back the whole campus
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: year just to point out I was raped and you
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: did nothing about it at Columbia.
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: Well, good for her. And this woman is now suing
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: Cornell University and good for her. I'll tell you what,
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: Kathy Hochul is now going to have her own investigation. Cornell,
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: thank God, has already said okay to that. They said
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: that it could be a completely independent investigation. Also, the
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: local DA said, I'm going to keep up with my
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: criminal investigation, but we can work hand in hand. So
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: that's going to happen. I think there's going to be
• 57:42
  Speaker 4: some resolution to this, but I want to call your
• 57:46
  Speaker 4: attention to something called, and it's in New York, it's
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: not in every state, the voluntary intoxication loophole, which could
• 57:54
  Speaker 4: be a holdup in this case. It is a state
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: law that does not cover rape victims who choose to
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: drink or get high themselves. It is maybe the most
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: ridiculous law I have ever heard But there's actually a
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: fight right now in Albany, and there has been for
• 58:15
  Speaker 4: a time, to get rid of that law. Assemblyman Jeffrey
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: Dinowitz is the one that is pushing for reform, and
• 58:24
  Speaker 4: he explains some of the pushback.
• 58:26
  Speaker 16: Some people do not want more people going to jail.
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the reality.
• 58:32
  Speaker 16: My opinion is, if you did something really bad, like
• 58:35
  Speaker 16: rape somebody, You.
• 58:37
  Speaker 9: Should go to jail.
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: And getting drunk, Curtis, shouldn't be an invitation for people
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: to rape you. And because that's what the law allows.
• 58:45
  Speaker 4: If you voluntarily get drunk and you get raped, well,
• 58:50
  Speaker 4: according to the state, in many cases, that's on you.
• 58:53
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: Well, I think with the New York Times, they released
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: a number of the reports that were done on this
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: report of the woman that she had been raped by
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: the Cornell 7. And accordingly, she said, yeah, originally I
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: was okay. having sex with the two I knew at
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: the frat. I knew them, and obviously I knew what
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: I was getting into, but they pressured me into snorting ketamine.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: I had never taken it before. I was then incapable
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: of consenting to others who came in the room at
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: the behest of the two. Remember, their fraternity, they were
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: on their Snapchat saying, hey, all Phi Beta, whatever the
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: hell the fraternity was, feel free to come on in.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: So I think it's very clear. If she was OK
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: with the two, she did not want ketamine. They pressured
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: it into snorting it. That's a date rape drug. So, boy,
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: these young men have some real serious problems ahead of them,
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: no matter how good the lawyers that their parents hire
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: in their defense.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there's going to be jail time if
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 4: there's any justice in the world, especially with all of
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: the attention this is getting. I will point out in
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: that statement, you're right. She did say she was OK
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 4: with the first two.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: She said.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 4: With the next batch of people that came in. And again,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 4: they were invited on Snapchat. They said, the store is open,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 4: is the way they put it. When these other men
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 4: showed up, they got physical. They started hitting her. It
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 4: wasn't just rape. There was assault with the rest of
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: the people that came in. And she has a remembrance
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: of that. And because she has a remembrance of that,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 4: and this is extremely important, she said 100% It was rape.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 4: And I want you to remember those words because Cornell
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 4: knew that. And they didn't release that part of their investigation.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 4: Shame on them.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, only six pages of what were dozens of pages.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: They basically truncated it and eliminated the most damaging part
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: of it for the university. And now we're beginning to
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: learn all about it. As you said, Larry, shame, shame,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: shame on Cornell University. But up next... Natalie Migliore takes
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: to the streets about all these bills in city council
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: to rein in these crazed e-bike drivers in the streets.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: She'll give you an update of what people were talking about.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: And most importantly, you know, we finished our I Heart
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  Speaker 1: But you can relive all the biggest moments because it
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• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore. Ah,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: Natalie from the streets dodging those crazed e-bike drivers in
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: order to report to us what the feelings of those
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: are towards Disney. what, all the bills that city council
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: wants to consider to rein them in?
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, well, New York City is one step closer to
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 13: tightening those restrictions for e-bikes, scooters, and those mopeds that
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 13: sometimes they want to be cars, but they're bikes, but
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 13: they act like they can follow any rule of the road.
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  Speaker 1: There's no rule of the road. That's what a lot
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: of New Yorkers say. We know it.
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  Speaker 13: Well here, especially in Midtown. The city council is considering
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 13: nearly two dozen bills following several fatal collisions involving e-bikes
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  Speaker 13: with a variety of bills that address several of New
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 13: Yorkers concerns. New Yorkers know those issues all too well.
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  Speaker 7: I think it's dangerous sometimes, like the way that they
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 7: go fast and don't always obey the traffic laws. And
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 7: I'm driving and I'm trying to make either a right
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 7: or a left. And all of a sudden somebody shoots
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 7: out or darts out of nowhere. I'm worried, you know
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 7: what I mean? I'm worried for them. I'm worried for me.
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  Speaker 8: I have been hit by a bike, not in a bad,
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 8: like severe way, but I won't say, oh, they should
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 8: not exist because I think they are also very convenient.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 8: I am a fan of e-bikes myself.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: Ban all of them except for the city bikes.
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  Speaker 13: Now, maybe he's saying that because city bikes actually cap
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 13: at the speed limit an e-bike 15 miles per hour.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 13: That's his fast as you can go on a city bike.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 13: But part of these bills will help city leaders curb
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 13: advertisements for class three bikes, which go as fast as
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 13: 25 miles an hour.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: Once you get that pedal assist on, you don't even
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: need to pedal. It'll just go.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 13: Now, one of the bills would also force third party
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 13: delivery apps to obtain liability insurance. And as you guys know,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 13: we've been covering this for a long time. Insurance has
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 13: been in the conversation for years.
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  Speaker 7: What happens if there is, God forbid, an accident? Whatever
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 7: company they work for, DoorDash or whatever, should at least contribute,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 7: if not cover them in some ways, the way that
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 7: some organizations that you work for have some kind of
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 7: insurance policy for you, you know, at least some minimal amount.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 8: I think it's for the safety of both pedestrians and
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 8: the actual delivery guys. I mean, I really respect them.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 8: I order food a lot of times, and it's unfair
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 8: to say, hey, they're doing this because it's the consumers
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 8: on the other side who are like, oh, I need.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: All of this fast.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 13: Maybe too fast, though, okay, because the city council says
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 13: e-bike collisions are up more than 30% this year compared
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 13: to last year. It comes as the number of riders
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 13: continue to grow with roughly 65,000 e-bikes already on the streets,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 13: and those many of them deliveristas, okay? New Yorkers are
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 13: concerned how any of these 23 laws work.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: Would even be enforced.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 8: A law is as good as how best it is enforced.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 8: You can make any number of laws, but if there's
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 8: no good enforcing mechanism in place, it doesn't mean anything.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: They should be forced to follow it or be fine
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: like everyone else.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 3: Get a ticket.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, we all live here.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 7: The police are stretched pretty thin, and I don't know
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 7: that that's going to become like a priority or something,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 7: to be honest with you. But, you know, I'm kind
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 7: of skeptical about government taking care of us anyway in general.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll find out.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 13: The final legislative vote is expected to be decided early
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 13: next year. And this is a really dense package of bills.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 13: They're probably going to scrap some, decide on what makes
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 13: it and what doesn't. But one of the bills, which
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 13: I found really interesting because I'm sure you guys see
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 13: it too, is when the guy's ride their e-bikes on
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 13: the sidewalks. And it happens rarely, but specifically on the
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 13: corner of 56th and 8th, I see that tremendously. And
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 13: they want to see if there's a way to get
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 13: a slowing mechanism down when the mechanism recognizes that the
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 13: bike has left the roadway and gets on the sidewalk.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 4: Now, whoever, if that's in existence, that's crazy technology.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: You know, This goes back to when we had messengers
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: in the city before you faxed and that. And they
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: would speed around because they got paid based on their
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: ability to get that message to another company. Those were
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: normal bicyclists on 10-speed races. And it caused some problems.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: Then they have the motorized guys. Why do you need
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: a motorized vehicle? Why not an old-fashioned 10-speed racer to
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: do your deliveries? There would still be some problems, but
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: nowhere near the problems you have now. This is crazy.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: 40 miles an hour, 45 miles an hour with helmets on.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: They know they're going to get into accidents and they
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: don't think that's going to hurt other people.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 13: And they said that they've really seen the increase in
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 13: the uptick in 2020, which was a lot when we
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 13: had our migrant crisis here in New York City. And
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 13: a lot of those people went to work to be
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 13: delivery workers here. And that's like how they got their bikes.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 6: What?
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: Nobody could see this, but Larry is shaking his head
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: at me.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 4: No, I'm not shaking my head at you. I'm not
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 4: shaking my head at you. I'm just we're talking about
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 4: legislation and the city council. If it's not enforced, you
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 4: can pass all the legislation you want. I've seen cops
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 4: watch people go the wrong way on a one way
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 4: street on a bike in the middle of the street.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 4: Nobody does anything. So it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 4: until they take it seriously in the city.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: Well, tomorrow, Natalie Migliore will be back, same time, same
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: place at 7.50. Up next, we're going to talk about
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: that Israeli flight, that attempted hijack wasn't an act of terrorism,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: and the five arrested in the U.K. outside of the
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: Air Force Base. Was that a potential act of terrorism?
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: But first, the news at 8.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: We have two stories back-to-back, belly-to-belly, that could involve terrorism.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: potentially on behalf of Iran. The biggest being the Israeli flight.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: It was packed with Israelis who were coming back from Dubai.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: It's on a airline that is a budget airline that
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: started right after the Abraham Accords, and Israel developed a
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: relationship with the UAE. So it flies from Dubai to
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: Tel Aviv. The pilot was a citizen of India originally
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: who got citizenship in the UAE. We're not sure who
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: the co-pilot is yet. It's thought he was from Oman,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: maybe a naturalized citizen in the UAE, but apparently when
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: they were in the cockpit, the co-pilot took out a
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: knife and started to attack the pilot and stabbed him
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: over and over. Luckily, the pilot was able to open
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: up the cockpit. All of a sudden, that jet started
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: descending into the sands of Saudi Arabia because that's the
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: country you fly over when you leave the UAE and
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: you go to Tel Aviv and Israel. And luckily, there
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: were two pilots who were in the front seats, who
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: were able to jump to the rescue and straighten out
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: the flight. But it had dropped 17,000 feet, and other
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: of the passengers jumped in to wrestle down the guy
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: who has been taken into custody in Saudi Arabia and
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: to come to the aid of the Indian pilot, who
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: was stabbed repeatedly. So it was a great job on
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: behalf of everybody on the flight. They landed in Saudi Arabia.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia would not allow Israel to send any jets
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: to pick them up. So the same airline that had
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: transported them brought a different jet in, and they brought
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: them back to Israel where they were given a heroic
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: welcome by family, friends, and others who were so happy
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: that they were safe and secure. The Prime Minister, Bibi Netanyahu,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: met a plumber who actually was credited with doing most
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: of the work to disable the crazed co-pilot who continued
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: to try to stab and injure anybody who would come
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: anywhere near him after he did some really serious damage
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: to the pilot. This is really a miraculous situation. The
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: Prime Minister of Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, suggested it might be
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: Iranian terrorism, but we don't know because the co-pilot is
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: in a hospital in Saudi Arabia. Obviously, the pilot himself
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: is in a hospital and the Saudi Arabians are not
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: talking now. So we hope by the day's end to
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: get more information on this. But the suggestion might be
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: that it was a hijacking. with an attempt to destroy
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: everybody on that airline on their way to Israel since
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: most were Israelis.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 4: And they don't know where he was going to take
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 4: the plane. There are some that think he was going
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 4: to search out a building so he could have more
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 4: casualties in it, but nobody knows for sure. I do
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 4: want to take a moment before just going through all
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 4: the facts of that story to talk about the incredible heroism.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 4: First of all, from that pilot. That pilot was stabbed
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 4: several times. They don't know if he's going to survive
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 4: at this point. That's how badly he was injured. But
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 4: he had the wherewithal to open the cockpit door. And
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 4: if he didn't open that cockpit door, everybody on that
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 4: flight would be dead because there was no other way
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 4: to get in there. That is security after 9-11. That's
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 4: one of the security things that they do all around
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 4: the world right now. You can't get in unless the
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 4: pilots let you in. So what a hero he was.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 4: And he laid himself down so that the person, the terrorist,
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 4: couldn't close the door. That is an amazing hero in
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 4: my book. So I hope he survives so that he
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 4: can get all the accolades he deserves. Then the first
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 4: guy that ran in, the pilot, who put the terrorist
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 4: in a chokehold immediately. And they asked him about his training,
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 4: and he said, oh, I saw it in a movie
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 4: one time. You know, he's actually a funny guy and
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 4: a nice guy. And he went in. And then the
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 4: others that ran in after him to secure the plane
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 4: and to straighten out the plane. This is an absolute
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 4: miracle that happened. And I only think about, right away,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 4: my mind goes to United Flight 93 and how I
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 4: wish they had the same luck. And I wish they
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 4: had the same ability to level off that plane. And because, man,
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 4: what a miracle that would be. But it's the same
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 4: type of thing. Terror is taking over a flight. The
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 4: passengers go to fight back. In this case, they had
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 4: a pilot helping them to get into the cockpit. And
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 4: they were able to do, with pure luck, they were
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 4: able to do, and a lot of heroism, what they
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 4: couldn't do on United Flight 93.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: Imagine you're on a flight. You've been on many. I've
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: been on many. Natalie, you've been on many. And the
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: flight drops 17,000 feet straight down. So the overhead containers
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: open up, luggage starts flying in all different directions. People
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: are flying in different directions, yelling, screaming, total chaos. And
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: a total of six individuals, six guys kept their wits
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: about them and rushed into that cockpit to assist in
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: restraining that co-pilot who was just like stabbing anybody within
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: proximity after taking out the pilot himself. Just amazing resolve
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: amongst everybody to get that flight safely into Saudi Arabia
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: so that it could land and then eventually back to
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: Tel Aviv.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 4: I'll just keep going back to that pilot, though, because
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 4: none of that– what you just described, none of that
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 4: happens without that pilot. And he was dying. He might
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 4: die still. I mean, that courage– And the bravery and
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 4: to have his wits about him while he's being stabbed.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 4: I just can't. I hope he's okay. And I hope
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 4: he gets hailed as a national hero around the world.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 4: And he gets a visit to the White House.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: And I hope the Saudis open up since they have
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: him at a hospital. Hopefully, as you mentioned, the pilot recovers.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: They have the co-pilot who is stabbing everybody in sight.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: They have him in custody. They would not allow Israel
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: to fly planes in to bring the rest of the
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: passengers back.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 4: Well, that's been a longstanding rule.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 4: And I listened to the people from the Mossad that
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 4: were talking about it, and they had to They had
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 4: to hear who the pilot was going to be, the
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 4: new pilots were going to be. They had to check
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 4: them out. Remember, there was a delay? That was the delay.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 4: The delay was Mossad checking out that these pilots are okay.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: But you say how ridiculous. They're flying over Saudi space anyway.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: These flights, they go back and forth between Tel Aviv
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: and Dubai. But now.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 4: One last thing, because I don't want to blast them
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 4: too much, the Saudis, because all of the passengers said
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 4: how great they were. They were wonderful to the people
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 4: on there. They just... They just had a law that
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 4: they weren't allowed to either, you know, and they were
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 4: allowed to land there, but no Israeli planes can come
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 4: or leave from that airport.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: So let's do the pivot and shift to England. Remember
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: the RAF base in Gloucestershire in which a farmer calls
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: up the local police at about 1.30 in the morning.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: He's right nearby and he goes, hey, man, there are
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: five suspicious guys in these SUVs. Doesn't look right. You
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: better come on over. The authorities respond and arrest the
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: five guys. The five guys are taken by New Scotland
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: Yard and they're processed and then released on bail. Now,
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: the UK prime minister just yesterday, Andy Burnham, weighed in
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: and he said, I think Iran is involved. But you
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: scratch your head and you say, why were they released
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: on bail? Well, And then you find out that an
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: issue called by the farmer at 1.30 in the morning,
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: and he needs to be praised over and over again
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: for seeing something and saying something. But Larry, it was
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: an original call at 12.45 a.m. to the authorities from
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: one of the five in the group. So was he
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: a covert operator in the group of five on behalf
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: of the Brits, maybe an undercoverer? quote, terrorists? When are
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: the Brits going to reveal why this person, one of
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: the five, would call them at 1245 in the morning,
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: the security? What was the purpose of that call? And
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: you're alleging that Iran is involved. I don't doubt that.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is what they do. But why did
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: one of these five call the police first? And why
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: is it you release them on bail? You don't have
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: to do that. You know how restrictive the Brits are.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: When it was thought you were IRA operative, man, they
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: had dip lock courts. They'd lock you up. It'd be
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: a month of Sundays before you would see a judge
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: who could determine whether you should be detained or release,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: whether on your own recognizance with bail. So they know how.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: to do a lockdown on suspected terrorists when they want to.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: So this one is a little fishy.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, except for the fact that, and I've heard this theory,
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 4: and it does make a lot of sense. They have
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 4: great intelligence in Great Britain, and it could be that
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 4: they want to see what they're going to do next,
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 4: who they're going to contact, where they're going to try
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 4: to go, because that will tell.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 3: Them a lot.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 4: So it's very possible that they let them out just
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 4: to get more intel and more information. I'm sure... These five,
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 4: they're not going anywhere without being tracked and traced. And
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 4: so if they tried to leave the country, trust me,
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 4: they'd be arrested right away. It's an interesting theory. I
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 4: can't prove that, but that's what has been said by
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 4: some intelligence agents on TV and said, you know, this
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 4: is standard sometimes. You let them go just to find
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 4: out who they're with and where they want to go.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: I could understand that, if not that the initial call
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: came from one of the five at 12.45 a.m., preceding
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: the farmer who called at 1 30 a.m describing their
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: suspicious activity why did one of the five call the police.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 4: I think that makes it more plausible that that they
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 4: have some informants that was with them i mean wouldn't
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 4: that would if they if he thought an attack was
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 4: imminent and he was working with british intelligence wouldn't he
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 4: make that phone call immediately i mean look, it's all
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 4: speculation at this point. I understand. It's all speculation. It's
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 4: all going to come out over the next couple of days.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 4: But I hope, let's put it that way, I hope
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 4: they're on top of these guys and they release them
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 4: on purpose. Well, this is a story that's right up
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 4: your alley. Exotic Pets. There's these people that keep buying
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 4: exotic pets, they get them in their house, and then
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 4: they decide, oh, I can't keep a leopard anymore, and
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 4: they release them into the neighborhoods. We'll talk about it
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 4: because it's becoming a huge problem, especially in the suburbs,
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 4: plus a chance to see Stevie Wonder next. I'll tell
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 4: you what, the SPCA is saying, there's become a real
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 4: problem with people buying exotic animals like... leopards and alligators
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 4: and pythons, and then realizing, well, I can't take care
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 4: of this anymore or I don't want to take care
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 4: of this anymore, and then releasing them into the wild
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 4: where they are a danger to people, young children, and
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 4: other small animals like cats and dogs. This has been
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 4: a special problem in places like Suffolk County and out
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 4: on Long Island because people in the city do it too.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 4: But then to get rid of them, they'll drive off
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 4: and release them somewhere. And Roy Gross, who is with
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 4: the Suffolk County SPCA, as a matter of fact, he
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 4: is in charge of it, says they have seen a
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 4: huge increase in this.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 9: In one season alone, we had 20 alligators recovered in
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 9: Suffolk County. We had two leopards taken out of a
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 9: house in Dix Hills.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 4: And it goes on and on. It's a long list.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 4: Pythons seem to be a big problem, especially now. And
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 4: here's the thing. Here's what's so easy. If you are
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 4: tired of an exotic animal, you can give it to
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 4: the SPCA, no questions asked. They'll find a good home
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 4: and an appropriate home for it.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 9: But if you don't... If they turn them in, they're
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 9: not going to be facing any charges. But if we
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 9: find that they abandoned it or they have it in
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 9: their home illegally, then all bets are off.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: Well, what a lot of these collectors do... And it's
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: an illegal pipeline that brings in all these exotic pets,
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: which you would think there needs to be a crackdown of.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, you're smuggling in very large animals in many instances.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: These are not little baby alligators that we used to
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: bring up when we'd visit Florida in the 60s and
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: they'd sell it along Old Dixie Highway on your back up,
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: you know, in a little cardboard box with a hole
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: in it so the baby alligator could breathe. Then you
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: bring it up in New York and Your mom puts
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: it in the tub and says, it's getting too big.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: Got to get it out of here. And you flush
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: it down the toilet. That's how we ended up with
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: alligators in the sewers. No, these are big, exotic animals.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of money being made on the black market.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: And a lot of these, it's mostly men, but some
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: women will then resell. So they make money on their
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: original investment. They take the risk of bringing in the
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: illegal animal and then they'll resell it. There's a whole
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: network out there. And I don't see much of an
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: effort to crack down on that. And there are neighbors
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: who know of some other neighbors, and they refuse to
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: see something and say something when all of a sudden
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: you have this huge leopard running around in the yard, right?
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: And you say, well, that doesn't look like any dog
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: I know or any cat I know. So very few
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: reports that go into the authorities. But you're right. It's
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: absolutely growing in scope and size. Unless anybody is prepared
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: to be Noah's Ark number two and they're trying to
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: collect two animals of every type, a female and a male,
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: this has to be stopped.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 4: Do you remember this story back in 2006? There was
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 4: a secret Lindenhurst menagerie. It had a five-foot python, nine alligators,
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 4: a crocodile, emus. That's a bad combination, an emu and
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 4: a crocodile. Electric eels and a tortoise in a bathtub
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 4: that they were collecting and holding out in the yard.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, why?
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 4: It's absolutely illegal. Is it just to show you're rich?
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: That, but it's also bragging rights when you bring over
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: family or friends or others. It's sort of like you
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: have your own little zoo to show them.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that makes sense. Let's get to some talkbacks. Here
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 4: is a topic that's near and dear to your heart, Curtis, debates.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 20: I believe for every election, at least two debates have
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 20: to be conducted between the final candidates. I mean, you've
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 20: got to give everybody a chance to express their final thoughts.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 6: Maybe if they mess up on the first one.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 20: There's always a second one as a rebuttal or as
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 20: a cleanup.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: But two, at least.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 12: Or no election.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: Exactly. And it needs to be enforced. We've seen presidential
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: debates where the remaining presidential candidates failed in an initial
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: debate only to come back in a second debate.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 4: Oh, many times. Yeah, many, many times. Yeah, and also,
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 4: by the way, the one group that you didn't mention
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 4: was the electorate. They should be able to have debates
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 4: to see so they can rate the candidates and not
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 4: just go in and say, eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 6: If that flight had happened over New York City airspace,
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 6: Alvin Bragg would now be charging that plumber with attempted
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 6: second-degree murder.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: That was good, that Israeli flight. You know, with Alvin Bragg,
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: you murder somebody. No cash bail. Courtesy of who? Andrew
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: Evil Ice Cuomo. We're going to talk about his $ 9
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: million mansion later on in the Hamptons. Now let's get
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: the 8.30 news from Daria.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 11: Mostly cloudy and muggier today, but it's going to be
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 11: on the mild side. We'll see a high of 76 degrees. Well,
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 11: starting today, it's going to be a lot easier to
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 11: cancel subscriptions you say you don't want or need, at
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 11: least if you live here in the city.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 13: Mayor Mamdani says what's been dubbed the click-to-cancel rule allows
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 13: New Yorkers to easily cancel automatic renewals and continuous service offers.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 12: The click-to-cancel rule is estimated to save New Yorkers more
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 12: than $ 160 million a year.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 4: When in operation.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 13: The city is also implementing a junk fees rule, which
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 13: requires businesses to advertise the total price of any good
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 13: or service up front. The average New York City family
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 13: loses roughly $ 3, 200 a year to junk fees, and businesses
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 13: caught violating the new rule will be fined $ 525 per violation.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: Natalie Migliore, WOR News.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 11: New York's Attorney General's Office says it will investigate Cornell
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 11: University's response to a 2024 alleged rape at a fraternity.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 11: The school has already agreed to an independent probe in
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 11: the case that Governor Hochul ordered. Well, this is an
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 11: idea that a lot of colleges say they're considering. Some
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 11: have already embraced it. No letter grades for freshmen. Boy,
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 11: I could have used that my freshman year. The University
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 11: of Michigan was going to try it, but now says
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 11: it doesn't make the grade.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 14: A change of heart from the university president. He says
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 14: the policy change has been put on hold, citing media
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 14: coverage that he says distorted narratives about our intentions and
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 14: most concerningly about the academic strength and resilience of our students.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 14: Adding our students could bear the consequences of those misperceptions,
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 14: including being unfairly portrayed as coddled or unprepared for the
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 14: demands of a rigorous Michigan education. Nothing could be further
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 14: from the truth.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 11: ABC's Sophie Flay. It's October 1st, which means it's the
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 11: start of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The World Health Organization
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 11: says in 2024, more than 2 million worldwide were diagnosed
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 11: with breast cancer, and over 690,000 died from it. Yankees
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 11: head to the American League Division Series after sweeping Boston
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 11: 9-2 last night. They'll face Tampa Bay Saturday night. And
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 11: the Islanders drop their season opener to Toronto. Devils open
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 11: their season tonight. at home against Philadelphia. Next news, 9
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 11: o'clock bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Daria. Congratulations to Wendy Foster from Long Island.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 4: You just won a pair of tickets to see Stevie
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 4: Wonder's sold-out Songs and the Key of Life 50th Anniversary
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 4: Concert at Madison Square Garden November 19th. You have another
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 4: chance to win tomorrow at 825. Well, in Tennessee, they
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 4: tried to put Krista Pyke to death. They tried to
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 4: come through with the sentence that they gave her, that
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 4: she was to die for a murder. But she didn't die.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, when they took her to
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 4: the hospital, she was snoring after two lethal injections. We'll
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 4: talk about it when we come back. Now I do
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 4: want to talk about LifeVac because I believe so much
• 1:27:44
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• 1:27:49
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  Speaker 1: Well, Tennessee, they call it the volunteer state. Maybe they
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  Speaker 1: need volunteers to euthanize prisoners who are on death row.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the most embarrassing case of a malfunctioned execution in
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  Speaker 1: the history of executions, and there have been a few,
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  Speaker 1: but first off, it was a female, Christy Pike, who
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: had murdered a classmate along with two others back in
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: 1995 in a satanic ritual. Horrific. The detail is horrific.
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  Speaker 1: She was given the death penalty. Her boyfriend, who was 17,
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  Speaker 1: life in prison. I don't know what the third person
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  Speaker 1: was given. And a decision was made that she would
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  Speaker 1: get a lethal injection as she was on death row.
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  Speaker 1: They did all kinds of appeals to every circuit court
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  Speaker 1: in the state of Tennessee. It went all the way
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  Speaker 1: up to the United States Supreme Court. And Larry, they determined, nope.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to kill her. And so they went ahead
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  Speaker 1: with an execution that whenever you see executions, they prepare
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  Speaker 1: for this. You know, they basically simulate how the execution
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  Speaker 1: is going to go. So they put the doses of
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  Speaker 1: this lethal injection together days before. They strap her into
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  Speaker 1: the gurney. They then pull a draper over and they
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  Speaker 1: pour the toxic elements into veins and And after the
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  Speaker 1: first go-round, you hear from behind the curtain, she's in
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  Speaker 1: a deep sleep. So they say, okay, let's try it
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  Speaker 1: a second time. And they find other veins to inject
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  Speaker 1: to it, maybe a different lethal injection, maybe the same elements.
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  Speaker 1: And again, the same results. She's sleeping, snoring closely.
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  Speaker 4: Well, she was in pain, too. There was a point
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  Speaker 4: where she started complaining in pain. Her arms swelled up.
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  Speaker 4: And so there was something wrong from the very beginning.
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  Speaker 4: They screwed this up. This is a TV reporter. They
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  Speaker 4: had five witnesses, all with the media. This is a
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  Speaker 4: TV reporter, Tori Gessner, who was there and saw the
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  Speaker 4: whole thing.
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  Speaker 21: We all looked at each other like she's still alive,
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 21: or at least that's what I was thinking. 7.49, three
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  Speaker 21: minutes later, the curtains reopened. She's snoring very loudly at
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 21: that point. And then they close again at 8.05 and
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 21: they do not reopen. And we were escorted out.
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  Speaker 4: So to go through all that, and it's not funny
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  Speaker 4: except for the fact that the people that were the executors,
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 4: the people that were executing the execution, were very upset
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 4: with what happened at first. She was yelling. She was
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 4: in pain. Then she fell asleep, but she didn't die.
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 4: She was still breathing. She snored. They closed the curtains.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 4: They ran over. They closed the curtains. Then everybody in
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 4: the press is looking at each other going, what's going
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 4: to happen next? They open the curtains again and they
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 4: try a second time. And she obviously was alive again.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 4: Then they run and they close the curtains again.
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  Speaker 1: But her defense counsel that the state taxpayers have paid
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: for every step of the way. So the reason you
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: should not execute her, this is before the execution actually
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: went through because the governor did not make the call,
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: Bill Lee, to say, no, no, no, stay the execution.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: You know, that's the famous scene in every black and
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: white movie. You're waiting for the governor maybe to call
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: to stay the execution before you have to walk down
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: the alley and then sit there for your last meal.
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  Speaker 1: Normally Kentucky Fried Chicken original menu. and all the servings.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: And then they would strap you in and put the
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  Speaker 1: juice in your caboose like they did in Ossining and
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  Speaker 1: Sing Sing. Dozens and dozens and dozens of people. But
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: her defense counsel said, you can't execute her because it'll
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  Speaker 1: cause her excessive pain. Yeah, what about the pain of
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: the murdered classmate They severed her head from her body
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  Speaker 1: after they had tortured her for hours.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's horrible. But listen, the death penalty is so flawed,
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  Speaker 4: I'm against the death penalty. I would be for it
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  Speaker 4: if they just killed the person. I mean, they found
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 4: them guilty and killed the person. It never happens that way.
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  Speaker 4: Let me just finish. Because I have spent a lot
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 4: of time with families waiting for someone who killed one
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 4: of their loved ones to die. and be put to death.
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 4: And they go through more pain. This woman was convicted
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 4: in 1996. It's now 2026. That's 20 years later. You
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  Speaker 4: think that every single time she was supposed to be
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 4: put to death, the families didn't feel disappointment, didn't feel pain,
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  Speaker 4: everything was brought back?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: This is wrong. They shouldn't be doing that. And I
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 4: don't care about the person being put to death. I
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 4: care about the families. I've gone around with the wife
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 4: of Daniel Faulkner, a police officer in Philadelphia, who was
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 4: murdered by Mumu Abu-Jamal. He became a celebrity, and he's
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 4: still alive. He's still alive. That happened back in the 80s. Right.
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  Speaker 1: But in this case, the mother of the woman who
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: was killed wants... a new death penalty in place. First off,
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  Speaker 1: it costs way too much. It doesn't work. It doesn't
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: deter anybody. It costs way too much money. We do
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: it every day. There are 14 states that have Physician-assisted suicide.
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  Speaker 4: You're saying there's death penalties being implemented in this country
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  Speaker 4: every day?
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  Speaker 1: Dr. Kevorkian, 130, remember, from 1990 to 1998. He would
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: bring them out to his van. That's just fatally incorrect.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: But did he not kill them? Did he not euthanize them?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that's fine. I don't know what you're talking about, Dr. Kevorkian,
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 4: when you're talking about this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just asking, how is it you could be so inept?
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: After practicing, after putting these solutions together, and every day
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  Speaker 1: in America, physician-assisted suicide takes place.
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 3: Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Kevorkian was killing his patients because he had requested it,
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: and there didn't seem to be any of these problems.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so against this. I'll tell you what, you know,
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 4: you haven't had the experiences I've had. And I was
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 4: with the people whose children were killed by John Wayne Gacy,
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 4: and they felt so much pain. as he was sitting
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 4: in jail and they kept doing interviews and he kept
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 4: doing paintings. And then when he was going to be
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 4: put to death, I was in a home of one
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 4: of the women whose son was killed and she broke
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 4: down crying. And listen, I had a chance to be
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 4: there for John Wayne Gacy. I turned it down. I
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 4: don't want to go in and see somebody die. If
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 4: I can avoid that my entire life, I'll avoid it
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 4: unless it's someone I love and I'm at their bedside. Look,
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 4: everything is wrong about this. It doesn't work. It doesn't
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 4: deter anybody. And I don't even know why it's still happening.
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  Speaker 1: It's a choice. And she's choosing now, potentially, if I'm correct, Natalie,
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: she wants to be hung as opposed... To be given
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: the lethal injection. Actually, I think a firing squad. Yeah, well, again.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: Up next, this is a guy that has been my
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: nemesis forever. Andrew Evil Eyes Cuomo. Guess what he just
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: bought in the Hamptons where he spent almost his entire
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: campaign for mayor? A $ 10 million mansion. Even though we're
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: spending $ 60 million paying out all the victims involved. of
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: his sexual harassment when he was governor. Wait, there's more.
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: You don't want to miss it. Up next, though, think
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  Speaker 1: biggest memories streaming on Disney Plus and Hulu beginning today. Well,
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: a $ 9 million mansion was purchased. At least we found
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: out about it publicly yesterday. By former Governor Andrew Evil
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: Eyes Cuomo, not far from his brother Chris's mansion out
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: in Southampton. He's Fredo. And so it becomes like the
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: Corleone compound, the Cuomo organized crime compound. Now, I said
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: to myself, when I ran against him in his last
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: mayoral election, my number one beef with him was he
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: was never in New York City. He was always in
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: the Hamptons. He never campaigned. So he announced in March
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: 1st of 2025, make that 2024, that he was going
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: to run in the Democratic primary. He shot to the lead. 40%
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: in the polls, Zoran Mandami was at 1%. Within a
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: matter of four months, he got beat by Zoran Mandami.
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: And then he hung on. He decided, well, am I
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: going to run as an independent? I don't know. Then
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: he decided to run as an independent. And he lost
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: in the general election. What people didn't realize that in
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: all that interim of time after he made his comeback
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: from escaping impeachment by his own party in Albany, which
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: would have prevented him from running for any office ever
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: again in New York State, he was being sued by
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: the 13 women that claimed that he sexually harassed them
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: when he was governor. And because he has qualified immunity
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: like every elected official, like anybody who works for the
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: state or the city, we had to cover all of
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: his expenses. And these civil lawsuits continue. So right now,
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: Tom DiNapoli, who is the state comptroller, has indicated that
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: we've spent $ 60 million defending his lawsuits, paying for the
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: lawyers and settling because each of these cases is settled.
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: We're not finished yet. It could go over a hundred
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: million dollars. So when you add to that, Larry, a
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: book that he had written in the midst of the
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: lockdown and pandemic, right? With his own staff writing it
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: in precious time, because there was serious things occurring. He
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: made $ 5 million and he makes money other way. Uh,
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: How about using that money that you bought your $ 9
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: million mansion in the Hamptons where you prefer to be
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: rather than New York City and actually give it back
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: to the taxpayers because we've been funding your defense and
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: the settlements that have been made to make these cases
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: go away. Now, you know, if you're a cop and
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: you get personally sued, you don't have that qualified immunity anymore. Courtesy.
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: of Governor Andrew Cuomo.
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  Speaker 7: That's amazing.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: Cops should not have qualified immunity. He said, oh, what's
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: good for the goose should be good for the gander.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 4: I am stunned at politicians, not just Andrew Cuomo, and
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 4: I shouldn't put everybody in the same bucket, not all politicians,
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 4: but the politicians that have so little self-awareness, that are never...
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 4: encumbered by the sins of their past, as if they
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 4: didn't happen. You know, most would go and climb into
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 4: a hole somewhere and hide and be away from the
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 4: public eye. But the gall of somebody, not just Andrew Cuomo,
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of them, that go ahead and just
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 4: go on with their lives and hope to be re-elected
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 4: again as if nothing bad happened in the past. Can
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 4: you explain that to me? I don't get that.
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: They think... That you should be lucky that they ran
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: for political office and, quote, served them when, in fact,
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: they served themselves. They really think they are in a
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: class above everyone else.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 4: There is a narcissism about it.
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: An entitlement. Yes, an entitlement. So, like, if you were
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: to question him now, because he's been off the radar screen,
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: where'd you get the $ 9 million? And then you go
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: through everything that I mentioned. He would feel like, well,
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: I was entitled to that. He won't say that. But
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: I was your governor. Things were never better in New
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: York State. My, da, na, my. I'd like to visit
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: the Cuomo compound out there, the Corleone Cuomo crime family compound,
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: and visit both him and his brother Fredo, Chris Cuomo.
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  Speaker 4: And the talk back in the morning, and winner of
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  Speaker 4: wanted to talk about the hero passenger who helped subdue
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 4: the hijacking suspect on Fly Dubai's flight.
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  Speaker 6: If that flight had happened over New York City airspace...
• 1:41:28
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• 1:41:32
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