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Hour 3: Middle east terror attacks · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: We have two stories back-to-back, belly-to-belly that could involve terrorism,
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  Speaker 2: potentially on behalf of Iran. The biggest being the Israeli flight.
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  Speaker 2: It was packed with Israelis who were coming back from Dubai.
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  Speaker 2: It's on an airline that is a budget airline that
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  Speaker 2: started right after the Abraham Accords, and Israel developed a
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  Speaker 2: relationship with the UAE. So it flies from Dubai to
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  Speaker 2: Tel Aviv. The pilot was a citizen of India originally
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  Speaker 2: who got citizenship in the UAE.
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  Speaker 1: We're not sure who the co-pilot is yet.
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  Speaker 2: It's thought he was from Oman, maybe a naturalized citizen
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  Speaker 2: in the UAE, but apparently when they were in the cockpit...
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  Speaker 2: the co-pilot took out a knife and started to attack
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  Speaker 2: the pilot and stabbed him over and over. Luckily, the
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  Speaker 2: pilot was able to open up the cockpit. All of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden, that jet started descending into the sands of
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  Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia, because that's the country you fly over when
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  Speaker 2: you leave the UAE and you go to Tel Aviv
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  Speaker 2: and Israel. And luckily, there were two pilots who were
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  Speaker 2: in the front seats of who were able to jump
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  Speaker 2: to the rescue and straighten out the flight. But it
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  Speaker 2: had dropped 17,000 feet and other of the passengers jumped
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  Speaker 2: in to wrestle down the guy who has been taken
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  Speaker 2: into custody in Saudi Arabia and to come to the
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  Speaker 2: aid of the Indian pilot who was stabbed repeatedly. So
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  Speaker 2: it was a great job on behalf of everybody on
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  Speaker 2: the flight. They landed in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia would
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  Speaker 2: not allow Israel to send any jets to pick them up.
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  Speaker 2: So the same airline that had transported them brought a
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  Speaker 2: different jet in, and they brought them back to Israel
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  Speaker 2: where they were given a heroic welcome by family, friends,
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  Speaker 2: and others who were so happy that they were safe
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  Speaker 2: and secure. The Prime Minister, Bibi Netanyahu, met a plumber
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  Speaker 2: who actually was credited with doing most of the work
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  Speaker 2: to disable Israel. the crazed co-pilot who continued to try
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  Speaker 2: to stab and injure anybody who would come anywhere near
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  Speaker 2: him after he did some really serious damage to the pilot.
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  Speaker 2: This is really a miraculous situation. The Prime Minister of Israel,
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  Speaker 2: Bibi Netanyahu, suggested it might be Iranian terrorism, but we
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  Speaker 2: don't know because the co-pilot is in a hospital in
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  Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia. Obviously, the pilot himself is in a hospital,
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  Speaker 2: and the Saudi Arabians are not talking now. So we
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  Speaker 2: hope by the day's end to get more information on this,
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  Speaker 2: but the suggestion might be that it was a hijacking
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  Speaker 2: with an attempt to destroy everybody on that airline on
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  Speaker 2: their way to Israel, since most were Israelis. And they
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  Speaker 2: don't know where he was going to take the plane.
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  Speaker 2: There are some that think he was going to search
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  Speaker 2: out a building so he could have more casualties in it,
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  Speaker 2: but nobody knows for sure. I do want to take
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  Speaker 2: a moment before just going through all the facts of
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  Speaker 2: that story to talk about the incredible heroism.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, from that pilot. That pilot was stabbed
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  Speaker 3: several times. They don't know if he's going to survive
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  Speaker 3: at this point. That's how badly he was injured. But
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  Speaker 3: he had the wherewithal... To open the cockpit door. And
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  Speaker 3: if he didn't open that cockpit door, everybody on that
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  Speaker 3: flight would be dead because there was no other way
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  Speaker 3: to get in there. That is security after 9-11. That's
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  Speaker 3: one of the security things that they do all around
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  Speaker 3: the world right now. You can't get in unless the
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  Speaker 3: pilots let you in. So what a hero he was.
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  Speaker 3: And he laid himself down so that the person, the terrorist,
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  Speaker 3: couldn't close the door. That is an amazing hero in
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  Speaker 3: my book. So I hope he survives so that he
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  Speaker 3: can get all the accolades he deserves. Then the first
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  Speaker 3: guy that ran in, the pilot, who put the terrorist
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  Speaker 3: in a chokehold immediately. And they asked him about his training,
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  Speaker 3: and he said, oh, I saw it in a movie
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  Speaker 3: one time. You know, he's actually a funny guy and
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  Speaker 3: a nice guy. And he went in. And then the
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  Speaker 3: others that ran in after him to secure the plane
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  Speaker 3: and to straighten out the plane. This is an absolute
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  Speaker 3: miracle that happened. And I only think about, right away,
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  Speaker 3: my mind goes to United Flight 93 and how I
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  Speaker 3: wish they had the same luck. And I wish they
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  Speaker 3: had the same ability to level off that plane. And because, man,
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  Speaker 3: what a miracle that would be. But it's the same
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  Speaker 3: type of thing. Terror is taking over a flight. The
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  Speaker 3: passengers go to fight back. In this case, they had
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  Speaker 3: a pilot helping them to get into the cockpit. And
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  Speaker 3: they were able to do, with pure luck, they were
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  Speaker 3: able to do, and a lot of heroism, what they
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  Speaker 3: couldn't do on United Flight 93. Imagine you're on a flight.
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  Speaker 1: You've been on many. I've been on many. Natalie, you've
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  Speaker 1: been on many.
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  Speaker 2: And the flight drops 17,000 feet straight down. So the
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  Speaker 2: overhead containers open up, luggage starts flying in all different directions.
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  Speaker 2: People are flying in different directions, yelling, screaming, total chaos.
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  Speaker 2: And a total of six individuals, six guys kept their
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  Speaker 2: wits about them and rushed into that cockpit to assist
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  Speaker 2: in restraining that co-pilot who was just like stabbing anybody
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  Speaker 2: within proximity after taking out the pilot himself. Just amazing
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  Speaker 2: resolve amongst everybody to get that flight safely into Saudi
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  Speaker 2: Arabia so that it could land and then eventually back
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  Speaker 2: to Tel Aviv.
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  Speaker 3: I'll just keep going back to that pilot, though, because
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  Speaker 3: because none of that what you just described, none of
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  Speaker 3: that happens without that pilot. And he was dying. He
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  Speaker 3: might die still. I mean, that courage and the bravery
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  Speaker 3: and to have his wits about him while he's being stabbed.
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  Speaker 3: I just can't. I hope he's OK. And I hope
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  Speaker 3: he gets hailed as a national hero around the world
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  Speaker 3: and he gets a visit to the White House.
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  Speaker 2: And I hope the Saudis open up since they have
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  Speaker 2: him at a hospital. Hopefully, as you mentioned, the pilot recovers.
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  Speaker 2: They have the co-pilot who is stabbing everybody in sight.
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  Speaker 2: They have him in custody. They would not allow Israel
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  Speaker 2: to fly planes in to bring the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: passengers back.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's been a longstanding rule.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 3: And I listened to the people from the Mossad that
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  Speaker 3: were talking about it, and they had to They had
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  Speaker 3: to hear who the pilot was going to be, the
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  Speaker 3: new pilots were going to be. They had to check
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  Speaker 3: them out. Remember, there was a delay? That was the delay.
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  Speaker 3: The delay was Mossad checking out that these pilots are okay.
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  Speaker 1: But you say how ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: They're flying over Saudi space anyway, these flights that go
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  Speaker 2: back and forth between Tel Aviv and Dubai.
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  Speaker 3: But now— One last thing, because I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: blast them too much, the Saudis, because all of the
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  Speaker 3: passengers said how great they were. They were wonderful to
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  Speaker 3: the people on there. They just— They just had a
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  Speaker 3: law that they weren't allowed to either, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: they were allowed to land there, but no Israeli planes
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  Speaker 3: can come or leave from that airport.
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  Speaker 2: So let's do the pivot and shift to England. Remember
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  Speaker 2: the RAF base in Gloucestershire in which a farmer calls
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  Speaker 2: up the local police at about 1.30 in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: He's right nearby and he goes, hey, man, there are
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  Speaker 2: five suspicious guys in these SUVs.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't look right. You better come on over.
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  Speaker 2: The authorities respond and arrest the five guys. The five
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  Speaker 2: guys are taken by New Scotland Yard and they're processed
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  Speaker 2: and then released on bail. Now, the UK prime minister
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  Speaker 2: just yesterday, Andy Burnham, weighed in and he said, I
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  Speaker 2: think Iran is involved. But you scratch your head and
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  Speaker 2: you say, why were they released on bail? And then
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  Speaker 2: you find out that an issue called by the farmer
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  Speaker 2: at 1.30 in the morning, and he needs to be
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  Speaker 2: praised over and over again for seeing something and saying something.
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  Speaker 2: But Larry, it was an original call at 12.45 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: to the authorities from one of the five in the group.
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  Speaker 2: So was he a covert operator in the group of
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  Speaker 2: five on behalf of the Brits, maybe an undercoverer?
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  Speaker 1: Quote, terrorists?
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  Speaker 2: When are the Brits going to reveal why this person,
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  Speaker 2: one of the five, would call them at 1245 in
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  Speaker 2: the morning, the security? What was the purpose of that call?
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  Speaker 2: And you're alleging that Iran is involved. I don't doubt that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is what they do. But why did
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  Speaker 2: one of these five call the police first? And why
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  Speaker 2: is it you release them on bail? You don't have
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  Speaker 2: to do that. You know how restrictive the Brits are.
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  Speaker 2: When it was thought you were IRA operative, man, they
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  Speaker 2: had dip lock courts. They'd lock you up. It'd be
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  Speaker 2: a month of Sundays before you would see a judge
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  Speaker 2: who could determine whether you should be detained or release,
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  Speaker 2: whether on your own recognizance with bail. So they know
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  Speaker 2: how to do a lockdown on suspected terrorists when they
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  Speaker 2: want to.
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  Speaker 1: So the This one is a little fishy. Yeah, except for.
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  Speaker 3: The fact that, and I've heard this theory, and it
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  Speaker 3: does make a lot of sense, they have great intelligence
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  Speaker 3: in Great Britain, and it could be that they want
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  Speaker 3: to see what they're going to do next, who they're
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  Speaker 3: going to contact, where they're going to try to go,
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  Speaker 3: because that will tell them a lot. So it's very
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  Speaker 3: possible that they let them out just to get more
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  Speaker 3: intel and more information. I'm sure these five, there not
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  Speaker 3: going anywhere without being tracked and traced. And so if
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  Speaker 3: they tried to leave the country, trust me, they'd be
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  Speaker 3: arrested right away.
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  Speaker 1: It's an interesting theory.
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  Speaker 3: I can't prove that, but that's what has been said
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  Speaker 3: by some intelligence agents on TV and said, you know,
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  Speaker 3: this is, This is standard sometimes. You let them go
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  Speaker 3: just to find out who they're with and where they
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  Speaker 3: want to go.
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  Speaker 2: I could understand that, if not that the initial call
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  Speaker 2: came from one of the five at 12.45 a.m. preceding
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  Speaker 2: the farmer who called at 1.30 a.m. describing their suspicious activity.
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  Speaker 2: Why did one of the five call the police?
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  Speaker 3: I think that makes it more plausible that they have
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  Speaker 3: some informants that was with them. Wouldn't that... If he
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  Speaker 3: thought an attack was imminent and he was working with
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  Speaker 3: British intelligence, wouldn't he make that phone call immediately? I mean, look,
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  Speaker 3: it's all speculation at this point. I understand. It's all speculation.
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  Speaker 3: It's all going to come out over the next couple
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  Speaker 3: of days. But I hope, let's put it that way,
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  Speaker 3: I hope they're on top of these guys and they
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  Speaker 3: release them on purpose. Well, this is a story that's
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  Speaker 3: right up your alley. Exotic Pets. There's these people that
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  Speaker 3: keep buying exotic pets, they get them in their house,
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  Speaker 3: and then they decide, oh, I can't keep a leopard anymore,
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  Speaker 3: and they release them into the neighborhoods. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 3: it because it's becoming a huge problem, especially in the suburbs,
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  Speaker 3: plus a chance to see Stevie Wonder next.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 3: The SPCA is saying, there's become a real problem with
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  Speaker 3: people buying exotic animals like... leopards and alligators and pythons,
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  Speaker 3: and then realizing, well, I can't take care of this
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  Speaker 3: anymore or I don't want to take care of this anymore,
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  Speaker 3: and then releasing them into the wild where they are
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  Speaker 3: a danger to people, young children, and other small animals
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  Speaker 3: like cats and dogs. This has been a special problem
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  Speaker 3: in places like Suffolk County and out on Long Island
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  Speaker 3: because people in the city do it too. But then
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  Speaker 3: to get rid of them, they'll drive off and release
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  Speaker 3: them somewhere. And Roy Gross, who is with the Suffolk
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  Speaker 3: County SPCA, as a matter of fact, he is in
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  Speaker 3: charge of it, says they have seen a huge increase
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  Speaker 3: in this.
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  Speaker 4: In one season alone, we had 20 alligators recovered in
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  Speaker 4: Suffolk County. We had two leopards taken out of a
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  Speaker 4: house in Dix Hills.
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  Speaker 3: And it goes on and on. It's a long list.
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  Speaker 3: Pythons seem to be a big problem, especially now. And
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  Speaker 3: here's the thing. Here's what's so easy. If you are
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  Speaker 3: tired of an exotic animal, you can give it to
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  Speaker 3: the SPCA, no questions asked. They'll find a good home
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  Speaker 3: and an appropriate home for it. But if you don't... If.
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  Speaker 4: They turn them in, they're not going to be facing
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  Speaker 4: any charges. But if we find that they abandoned it
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  Speaker 4: or they have it in their home illegally, then all
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  Speaker 4: bets are off.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what a lot of these collectors do... And it's
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  Speaker 2: an illegal pipeline that brings in all these exotic pets,
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  Speaker 2: which you would think there needs to be a crackdown of.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're smuggling in very large animals in many instances.
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  Speaker 2: These are not little baby alligators that we used to
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  Speaker 2: bring up when we'd visit Florida in the 60s and
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  Speaker 2: they'd sell it along Old Dixie Highway on your back up,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in a little cardboard box with a hole
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  Speaker 2: in it so the baby alligator could breathe. Then you
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  Speaker 2: bring it up in New York and Your mom puts
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  Speaker 2: it in the tub and says, it's getting too big.
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  Speaker 2: Got to get it out of here. And you flush
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  Speaker 2: it down the toilet. That's how we ended up with
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  Speaker 2: alligators in the sewers. No, these are big, exotic animals.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of money being made on the black market.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of these, it's mostly men, but some women.
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  Speaker 2: will then resell. So they make money on their original investment.
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  Speaker 2: They take the risk of bringing in the illegal animal
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  Speaker 2: and then they'll resell it. There's a whole network out there.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't see much of an effort to crack
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  Speaker 2: down on that. And there are neighbors who know of
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  Speaker 2: some other neighbors and they refuse to see something and
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  Speaker 2: say something when all of a sudden you have this
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  Speaker 2: huge leopard running around in the yard, right? And you say, well,
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't look like any dog I know or any
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  Speaker 2: cat I know. So very few reports that go into
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  Speaker 2: the authorities.
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  Speaker 1: But you're right.
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  Speaker 2: It's absolutely growing in scope and size. Unless anybody is
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  Speaker 2: prepared to be Noah's Ark number two and they're trying
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  Speaker 2: to collect two animals of every type, a female and
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  Speaker 2: a male, this has to be stopped.
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  Speaker 3: Do you remember this story back in 2006? There was
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  Speaker 3: a secret Lyndon Hurst menagerie. It had a five-foot python,
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  Speaker 3: nine alligators, a crocodile, emus. That's a bad combination, an
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  Speaker 3: emu and a crocodile. Electric eels and a tortoise in
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  Speaker 3: a bathtub that they were collecting and holding out in
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  Speaker 3: the yard.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, why?
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  Speaker 3: It's absolutely illegal. Is it just to show you're rich?
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  Speaker 1: That, but it's also bragging rights.
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  Speaker 2: When you bring over family or friends or others, it's
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  Speaker 2: sort of like you have your own little zoo to
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  Speaker 2: show them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get to some talkbacks. Here is a topic that's
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  Speaker 3: near and dear to your heart, Curtis, debates.
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  Speaker 5: I believe for every election, at least two debates have
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  Speaker 5: to be conducted between the final candidates. I mean, you've
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  Speaker 5: got to give everybody a chance to express their final thoughts.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe if they mess up on the first one, there's
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  Speaker 5: always a second one as a rebuttal or as a cleanup.
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  Speaker 5: But two, at least, are no election.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And it needs to be enforced. We've seen presidential debates
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  Speaker 2: where the remaining presidential candidates failed in an initial election. debate,
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  Speaker 2: only to come back in a second debate. Oh, many times, yeah, many,
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  Speaker 2: many times. Yeah, and also, by the way, the one
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  Speaker 2: group that you didn't mention was the electorate. They should
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  Speaker 2: be able to have debates to see so they can
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  Speaker 2: rate the candidates and not just go in and say, eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
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  Speaker 6: If that flight had happened over New York City airspace,
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  Speaker 6: Alvin Bragg would now be charging that plumber with attempting
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  Speaker 6: a second-degree murder.
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  Speaker 2: Ha, ha, ha, ha. That was good, that Israeli flight.
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  Speaker 2: You know, with Alvin Bragg, you murder somebody. No cash bail.
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  Speaker 2: Courtesy of who? Andrew Evil Ice Cuomo. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about his $ 9 million mansion later on in the Hamptons.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's get the 8.30 news from Daria.
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  Speaker 7: Mostly cloudy and muggier today, but it's going to be
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  Speaker 7: on the mild side. We'll see a high of 76
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  Speaker 7: degrees today. Well, starting today, it's going to be a
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  Speaker 7: lot easier to cancel subscriptions you say you don't want
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  Speaker 7: or need, at least if you live here in the city.
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  Speaker 8: Mayor Mamdani says what's been dubbed the click-to-cancel rule allows
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  Speaker 8: New Yorkers to easily cancel automatic renewals and continuous service offers.
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  Speaker 4: The click-to-cancel rule is estimated to save New Yorkers more
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  Speaker 4: than $ 160 million a year.
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  Speaker 1: When in operation.
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  Speaker 8: The city is also implementing a junk fees rule which
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  Speaker 8: requires businesses to advertise the total price of any good
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  Speaker 8: or service up front. The average New York City family
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  Speaker 8: loses roughly $ 3, 200 a year to junk fees, and businesses
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  Speaker 8: caught violating the new rule will be fined $ 525 per violation.
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  Speaker 1: Natalie Migliore, WOR News.
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  Speaker 7: New York's Attorney General's Office says it will investigate Cornell
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  Speaker 7: University's response to a 2024 alleged rape at a fraternity.
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  Speaker 7: The school has already agreed to an independent probe in
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  Speaker 7: the case that Governor Hochul ordered. Well, this is an
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: idea that a lot of colleges say they're considering. Some
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  Speaker 7: have already embraced it. No letter grades for freshmen. Boy,
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  Speaker 7: I could have used that my freshman year. The University
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: of Michigan was going to try it, but now says
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  Speaker 7: it doesn't make the grade.
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  Speaker 9: A change of heart from the university president. He says
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  Speaker 9: the policy change has been put on hold, citing media
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  Speaker 9: coverage that he says distorted narratives about our intentions and,
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  Speaker 9: most concerningly, about the academic strength and resilience of our students. Adding,
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  Speaker 9: our students could bear the consequences of those misperceptions, including
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  Speaker 9: being unfairly portrayed as coddled or unprepared for the demands
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  Speaker 7: ABC's Sophie Flay. It's October 1st, which means it's the
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• 18:39
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  Speaker 7: 9-2 last night. They'll face Tampa Bay Saturday night. And
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  Speaker 7: their season tonight. at home against Philadelphia. Next news, 9 o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Daria.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations to Wendy Foster from Long Island. You just won
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• 19:18
  Speaker 3: tomorrow at 825. Well, in Tennessee, they tried to put
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Krista Pike to death. They tried to come through with
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: the sentence that they gave her, that she was to
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: die for a murder. But she didn't die. As a
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: matter of fact, when they took her to the hospital,
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: she was snoring after two lethal injections. We'll talk about
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: it when we come back. Now I do want to
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  Speaker 2: Wow, Tennessee. They call it the volunteer state. Maybe they
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: need volunteers to euthanize prisoners who are on death row.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Maybe the most embarrassing case of a malfunctioned execution in
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: the history of executions. And there have been a few.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: But first off, it was a female, Christy Pike, who
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: had murdered a classmate along with two others back in 1995.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: In a satanic ritual. Horrific.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: The detail's horrific. She was given the death penalty. Her boyfriend,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: who was 17, life in prison. I don't know what
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: the third person was given. And a decision was made
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: that she would get a lethal injection as she was
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: on death row. They did all kinds of appeals to
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: every circuit court in the state of Tennessee. It went
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: all the way up to the United States Supreme Court.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: And Larry, they determined, nope, you've got to kill her.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: And so they went ahead with an execution that whenever
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: you see executions, they prepare for this. You know, they
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: basically simulate how the execution is going to go. So
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: they put the doses of this lethal injection together days before.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: They strap her into the gurney. They then pull a.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Draper over and they pour the toxic elements into veins.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: And after the first go round... You hear from behind
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  Speaker 2: the curtain, she's in a deep sleep. So they say, okay,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: let's try it.
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  Speaker 1: A second time.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: And they find other veins to inject to it, maybe
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: a different lethal injection, maybe the same elements. And again,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: the same results. She's sleeping, snoring, clinking.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Well, she was in pain, too. There was a point
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: where she started complaining in pain. Her arms swelled up.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: And so there was something wrong from the very beginning.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: They screwed this up. This is a TV reporter. They
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: had five witnesses, all with the media. This is a
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: TV reporter, Tori Gessner, who was there and saw the
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: whole thing.
• 23:19
  Speaker 10: We all looked at each other like she's still alive,
• 23:23
  Speaker 10: or at least that's what I was thinking. 7.49, three
• 23:26
  Speaker 10: minutes later, the curtains reopened. She's snoring very loudly at
• 23:30
  Speaker 10: that point. And then they close again at 8.05, and
• 23:34
  Speaker 10: they do not reopen. And we were escorted out.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: So to go through all that, and it's not funny,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: except for the fact that the people that were the executors,
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: the people that were executing the execution, were very upset
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: with what happened at first. She was yelling. She was
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: in pain. Then she fell asleep, but she didn't die.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: She was still breathing.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: She snored.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: They closed the curtains.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: They ran over.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: They closed the curtains. Then everybody in the press is
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: looking at each other going, what's going to happen next?
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: They open the curtains again, and they try a second time.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: And she obviously was alive again. Then they run, and
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: they close the curtains again.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: But her defense counsel that the state taxpayers have paid
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: for every step of the way— So the reason you
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: should not execute her, this is before the execution actually
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: went through because the governor did not make the call,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Bill Lee, to say, no, no, no, stay the execution.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: You know, that's the famous scene in every black and
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: white movie. You're waiting for the governor maybe to call
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: to stay the execution before you have to walk down
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: the alley again. And then sit there for your last meal,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: normally Kentucky Fried Chicken, original, and all the servings. And
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: then they would strap you in and put the juice
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: in your caboose like they did in Ossining and Sing Sing.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Dozens and dozens and dozens of people. But her defense
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: counsel said, you can't execute her because it'll cause her
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: excessive pain. Yeah, what about the pain? of the murdered classmate,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: they severed her head from her body after they had
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: tortured her for hours.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: No, it's horrible.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: But listen, the death penalty is so flawed, I'm against
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: the death penalty. I would be for it if they
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: just killed the person. I mean, they found them guilty
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: and killed the person. It never happens that way. Let
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: me just finish, because I have spent a lot of
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: time with families waiting for someone who killed one of
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: their loved ones to die. and be put to death.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: And they go through more pain. This woman was convicted
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: in 1996. It's now 2026. That's 20 years later. You
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: think that every single time she was supposed to be
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: put to death, the families didn't feel disappointment, didn't feel pain,
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: everything was brought back?
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: This is wrong. They shouldn't be doing that. And I
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: don't care about the person being put to death. I
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: care about the families. I've gone around with the wife
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: of Daniel Faulkner, a police officer in Philadelphia, who was
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: murdered by Mumu Abu-Jamal. He became a celebrity.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: And he's still alive. He's still alive.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: That happened back in the 80s.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: But in this case, the mother. of the woman who
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: was killed wants a new death penalty in place.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: First off, it.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Costs way too much. It doesn't work. It doesn't deter anybody.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: It costs way too much money. We do it every day.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: There are 14 states that have Physician-assisted suicide.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: You're saying there's death penalties being implemented in this country
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: every day?
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Dr.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Kevorkian, 130, remember, from 1990 to 1998. He would bring
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: them out to his van. That's just fashionably incorrect.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: But did he not kill them? Did he not euthanize them? Yes,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: that's fine.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: I don't know what you're talking about, Dr. Kevorkian, when
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: you're talking about this.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I'm just asking, how is it? You could be so inept.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: After practicing, after putting these.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Solutions together, and every day in America, physician-assisted suicide takes place.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Dr.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Kevorkian was killing his patients because he had requested it,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: and there didn't seem to be any of these problems.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: I'm so against this. I'll tell you what, you know,
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: you haven't had the experiences I've had. And I was
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: with the people whose children were killed by John Wayne Gacy,
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: and they felt so much pain. as he was sitting
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: in jail and they kept doing interviews and he kept
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: doing paintings. And then when he was going to be
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: put to death, I was in a home of one
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: of the women whose son was killed and she broke
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: down crying. And listen, I had a chance to be
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: there for John Wayne Gacy. I turned it down. I
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: don't want to go in and see somebody die. If
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: I can avoid that my entire life, I'll avoid it
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: unless it's someone I love and I'm at their bedside. Look,
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: everything is wrong about this. It doesn't work. It doesn't
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: deter anybody. And I don't even know why it's still happening.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: It's a choice.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: And she's choosing now, potentially, if I'm correct, Natalie, she
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: wants to be hung as opposed.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: To be given the lethal injection. Actually, I think a
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: firing squad. Yeah, well, again.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Up next, this is a guy that has been my
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: nemesis forever. Andrew Evil Eyes Cuomo. Guess what he just
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: bought in the Hamptons where he spent almost his entire
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: campaign for mayor? A $ 10 million mansion. Even though we're
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: spending $ 60 million paying out all the victims involved. of
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: his sexual harassment when he was governor.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Wait, there's more. You don't want to miss it.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Up next, though, think about our 2026 iHeartRadio Music Festival
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: that went on all week long.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: And you may have missed it.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: It's presented by Capital One, but you get to relieve
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: all the biggest memories. Streaming on Disney Plus and Hulu
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: beginning today. Well, a $ 9 million mansion was purchased. At
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: least we found out about it publicly yesterday. By former
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Governor Andrew Evil Eyes Cuomo, not far from his brother
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Chris's mansion out in Southampton.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: He's Fredo.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: And so it becomes like the Corleone compound, the Cuomo
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: organized crime compound. Now, I said to myself, when I
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: ran against him in his last mayoral election, my number
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: one beef with him was he was never in New
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: York City. He was always in the Hamptons. He never campaigned.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: So he announced in March 1st of 2025, make that 2024,
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: that he was going to run in the Democratic primary.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: He shot to the lead. 40% in the polls saw
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Han Mandami was at 1%. Within a matter of four months,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: he got beat by Zoran Mandami, and then he hung on.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: He decided, well, am I going to run as an independent?
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Then he decided to run as an independent, and he
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: lost in the general election. What people didn't realize in
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: all that interim of time after he made his comeback
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: from escaping impeachment by his own party in Albany, which
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: would have prevented him from running for any office ever
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: again in New York State, He was being sued by
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: the 13 women that claimed that he sexually harassed them
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: when he was governor. And because he has qualified immunity,
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: like every elected official, like anybody who works for the
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: state or the city, we had to cover all of
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: his expenses. And these civil lawsuits continue. So right now,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Tom DiNapoli, who is the state comptroller, has indicated that we've.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Spent $ 60.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Million defending his lawsuits, paying for the lawyers and settling
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: because each of these cases is settled.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: We're not finished yet. It could go over a hundred
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: million dollars.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: So when you add to that, Larry, a book that
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: he had written in the midst of the lockdown and pandemic, right?
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: With his own staff writing it in precious time, because
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: there was serious things occurring. He made $ 5 million and
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: he makes money other way. Uh, How about using that
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: money that you bought your $ 9 million mansion in the
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Hamptons where you prefer to be rather than New York
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: City and actually give it back to the taxpayers because
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: we've been funding your defense and the settlements that have
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: been made to make these cases go away. Now, you know,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: if you're a cop and you get personally sued, you
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: don't have that qualified immunity anymore.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Courtesy.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Of Governor Andrew Cuomo, who said cops should not have
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: qualified immunity.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: He said, oh, what's good for the goose should be
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: good for the gander.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: I am stunned at politicians, not just Andrew Cuomo, and
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: I shouldn't put everybody in the same bucket, not all politicians,
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: but the politicians that have so little self-awareness, that are
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: never encumbered by the sins of their past, as if
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: they didn't happen. You know, most would go and climb
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: into a hole somewhere and hide and be away from
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: the public eye. But the gall of somebody, not just
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: Andrew Cuomo, there's a lot of them, that go ahead
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: and just go on with their lives and hope to
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: be reelected again as if nothing bad happened in the past.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Can you explain that to me?
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: I don't get that.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: They think that you should be lucky that they ran...
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: for political office and, quote, serve them when, in fact,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: they serve themselves. They really think they are in a
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: class above everyone else.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: There is a narcissism.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: An entitlement. Yes, an entitlement.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: So, like, if you were to question him now, because
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: he's been off the radar screen, where'd you get the
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: $ 9 million? And then you go through everything that I mentioned.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: He would feel like, well, I was entitled to that.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: He won't say that. Well, I was your governor. Things
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: were never better in New York State.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: My, da, na, my.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: I'd like to, I'm going to visit the Cuomo compound
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: out there, the Corleone Cuomo crime family compound, and visit
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: both him and his brother Fredo, Chris Cuomo.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: And the talk back in the morning, and winner of
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: the Curtis Lewin, Larry Mendte in the morning t-shirt, wanted
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: to talk about the hero passenger who helped subdue the
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: hijacking suspect on Fly Dubai's flight.
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: If that flight had happened over New York City airspace...
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: Alvin Bragg would now be charging that plumber with attempting
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: a second-degree murder.
• 33:36
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