Latest / Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning / Hour 1: Democrats' disagreements
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Look who's here.
- 0:02Speaker 2: Man, the last time you were with us, Chris, the
- 0:05Speaker 2: Quiet Storm, unknown from the Mark Simone Show, you just,
- 0:10Speaker 2: it was like your debutante ball. You came out and
- 0:13Speaker 2: you were flexing about hot dogs and baseball parks. And
- 0:17Speaker 2: I got to tell you, Larry and I, we were
- 0:19Speaker 2: like stunned at how you were exuberant. We had to
- 0:24Speaker 2: cut you off at times.
- 0:26Speaker 1: You were so talkative.
- 0:27Speaker 3: Let's calm down a little bit. Exuberant by his standards. Yeah,
- 0:31Speaker 3: I set a low bar for myself, but I exceeded it.
- 0:34Speaker 3: But you were good.
- 0:35Speaker 1: Yes, you did. Talkative by his standards. You blew away
- 0:40Speaker 1: a lot of our listeners.
- 0:41Speaker 3: He went from saying no words to about 50. To
- 0:45Speaker 3: a handful, yeah.
- 0:46Speaker 2: And you were on loan to us because Natalie is
- 0:50Speaker 2: out today. So you got to do the heavy lifting.
- 0:55Speaker 2: I understand you're looking forward to it. to after the
- 0:58Speaker 2: show because the Rockettes are showing up from Radio City
- 1:02Speaker 2: Music Hall.
- 1:03Speaker 1: So you notice, Chris, a little perky today, Larry. But
- 1:07Speaker 1: it'd be interesting. Are you really into the Rockettes? Yeah,
- 1:10Speaker 1: I've been stretching my legs extra hard. I want to
- 1:12Speaker 1: do the kicks with them today.
- 1:14Speaker 4: Really?
- 1:14Speaker 1: No, I'm kidding. No, no, no, but you said that. No,
- 1:17Speaker 1: I can't kick that high. I cannot kick that high.
- 1:19Speaker 3: We need to get a video of you doing kicks
- 1:22Speaker 3: with the Rockettes.
- 1:23Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you something, and this is your
- 1:26Speaker 2: sweet spot, Larry. There is an individual somewhere in New
- 1:30Speaker 2: Jersey who has won a jackpot that almost reached Elon
- 1:35Speaker 2: Musk numbers, right?
- 1:38Speaker 1: Well, not quite.
- 1:39Speaker 3: Close to a billion dollars. Well, except you don't get that.
- 1:44Speaker 3: That's the problem. The big number you see, you're not
- 1:48Speaker 3: ending up with. But you end up with a lot
- 1:50Speaker 3: of money. I mean, it's still great. It's going to
- 1:53Speaker 3: change their lives.
- 1:54Speaker 1: Absolutely. Do we know who this person is?
- 1:57Speaker 5: No, no, no.
- 1:57Speaker 1: They're in Jersey again. What is it about Jersey? I know.
- 2:01Speaker 3: California and Jersey, I think they're the two top states
- 2:04Speaker 3: in winning, and Ohio's like third.
- 2:06Speaker 1: But Jersey, Jersey, Jersey. If you're going to get a
- 2:09Speaker 1: lotto ticket, get it in Jersey.
- 2:10Speaker 3: But the problem when you get a lotto ticket out
- 2:12Speaker 3: of state is that that's another state tax you have
- 2:15Speaker 3: to pay on it.
- 2:16Speaker 1: So forget what I just said. Just buy it in
- 2:19Speaker 1: your own state.
- 2:20Speaker 2: So the payout on this, the winning ticket, because I
- 2:23Speaker 2: understand this guy who bought a ticket, he only bought one.
- 2:27Speaker 2: He didn't buy a whole handful of tickets like people do.
- 2:31Speaker 1: He is able to.
- 2:33Speaker 2: Receive a prize and naturally all the taxes taken out.
- 2:37Speaker 1: What did it hit?
- 2:38Speaker 3: So it hit $ 863 million. And $ 863 million you get
- 2:40Speaker 3: if you want that. you get it over 30 years.
- 2:47Speaker 3: And they also increase it by 5% every year, whatever
- 2:51Speaker 3: the payout is to set with inflation. So that's kind
- 2:55Speaker 3: of nice. But most people that win the lottery feel
- 2:59Speaker 3: like I'm not going to be around in 30 years.
- 3:01Speaker 3: And so they don't take the big payout. What they'll
- 3:05Speaker 3: take is the single payout, which by the way, is much,
- 3:10Speaker 3: much lower. It's less than 400 million.
- 3:14Speaker 1: But then hold on.
- 3:15Speaker 4: Yep.
- 3:15Speaker 1: Then you've got federal taxes.
- 3:17Speaker 3: 24% of that's going to come out on federal taxes.
- 3:21Speaker 3: And then you have state taxes. And in New Jersey,
- 3:25Speaker 3: that would be 8%. So you're losing 30% of that.
- 3:28Speaker 3: So even though it's up there and it tells you
- 3:31Speaker 3: on the billboards you could win $ 863 million, he's going
- 3:35Speaker 3: to walk away with about.
- 3:36Speaker 1: $ 200 million.
- 3:37Speaker 2: One thing we could say, whoever this gentleman is, when
- 3:40Speaker 2: it finally emerges who he is, he will not... Any
- 3:43Speaker 2: longer lists affordability and cost of living as his main concern.
- 3:47Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's true. That's absolutely true. So he'll be
- 3:50Speaker 1: able to walk away with about $ 300 million, right?
- 3:52Speaker 3: And we'll probably never know who it is. No, probably
- 3:54Speaker 3: a little bit less than that. But yes, yes, in
- 3:57Speaker 3: the $ 200 million to $ 300 million range. So yeah, except
- 4:01Speaker 3: that it's not that number that you see.
- 4:04Speaker 1: It never is. Now, I won one time in New York.
- 4:09Speaker 1: And the problem is.
- 4:11Speaker 3: I didn't live in New York. And so I had
- 4:14Speaker 3: to pay a federal tax on it. I had to
- 4:17Speaker 3: pay a state tax on it. I had to pay
- 4:19Speaker 3: a city tax on it. And then I had to
- 4:22Speaker 3: pay another state tax on it. So I won at
- 4:26Speaker 3: the time. It was five numbers, but they didn't give
- 4:28Speaker 3: you a million dollars back then. It was $ 250, 000.
- 4:31Speaker 1: And I ended up with about $ 157, 000. Not a bad payday. No,
- 4:36Speaker 1: I wasn't complaining.
- 4:38Speaker 3: It's just that the advertised price that you see, the
- 4:42Speaker 3: advertised payout that you see, you ain't going to get that.
- 4:45Speaker 1: Chris, have you ever played a lot of all these games, Powerball?
- 4:49Speaker 6: I've played the Powerball Mega Millions a few times when
- 4:52Speaker 6: it gets really high.
- 4:53Speaker 1: Isn't that funny? I mean, yeah.
- 4:56Speaker 6: I would take, even if today, when it resets, if
- 4:59Speaker 6: I won today, I would be I don't know what
- 5:02Speaker 6: I'm going to do with myself.
- 5:03Speaker 1: It's going to reset at $ 20 million if people go, oh, no.
- 5:06Speaker 6: Apparently that's not worth it for me, even though I'm
- 5:09Speaker 6: never going to make that much money in my life.
- 5:11Speaker 4: Wow.
- 5:12Speaker 2: So now we've got hot dogs, baseball parks around the country,
- 5:16Speaker 2: and lotto tickets.
- 5:18Speaker 4: Wow.
- 5:19Speaker 1: There's so many things we're learning about you quite some.
- 5:22Speaker 3: But how about the fact that he's now wearing his
- 5:25Speaker 3: Giants hat? Did you notice that a lot of Giants hats.
- 5:28Speaker 1: Are now coming out now? You haven't seen them the
- 5:31Speaker 1: last few years.
- 5:32Speaker 3: Now all of a sudden everybody's flexing.
- 5:34Speaker 2: But let's provide public service as we did yesterday because
- 5:38Speaker 2: they don't do it at WABC. They don't take calls
- 5:40Speaker 2: in the morning. You know, it's the Israel First radio
- 5:43Speaker 2: program there. We continued to take talkbacks all morning long.
- 5:48Speaker 2: In fact, we even cleared out segments where we did
- 5:51Speaker 2: only talkbacks. You have an opportunity. I call it PTSD,
- 5:56Speaker 2: post-Trump stress disorder, to be able to vent.
- 6:00Speaker 1: Whether you're going to dance the aura.
- 6:02Speaker 2: And the tarantella, which I don't think many of our
- 6:04Speaker 2: listeners are, or you have recommendations and suggestions because it's
- 6:09Speaker 2: starting to marinate in. When the New York Post has
- 6:12Speaker 2: on its front cover, blue tsunami, you know it's beginning
- 6:16Speaker 2: to marinate in. It's like, what are your thoughts about this?
- 6:21Speaker 2: You know, we haven't even completed the week. This is
- 6:24Speaker 2: all anybody wants to talk about. And everybody is a
- 6:27Speaker 2: Monday morning quarterback. You know, they all have recommendations on
- 6:31Speaker 2: what everybody needs to do.
- 6:32Speaker 3: I hope we're at that point. I haven't felt that yet.
- 6:36Speaker 3: I don't think that's happened yet. I think people are
- 6:38Speaker 3: still angry. And we'll find out today. It'll be a
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- 7:00Speaker 3: C-Crane radio. I'm getting really tired of the blue tsunami thing.
- 7:04Speaker 3: It's only said by people who have no sense of
- 7:07Speaker 3: history whatsoever, and recent history. I mean, this happens. This happens,
- 7:12Speaker 3: and it's happened many, many times. And as I pointed
- 7:14Speaker 3: out yesterday, this doesn't make the top 10.
- 7:18Speaker 1: Of overwhelming midterms.
- 7:20Speaker 3: So it is a wave. I'm not, I will not
- 7:23Speaker 3: question that at all. It's a blue wave, but you know,
- 7:26Speaker 3: to make it something that's historic and has never happened before.
- 7:30Speaker 3: And it's, it's this big rejection of Donald Trump. It
- 7:34Speaker 3: is a rejection of his policies. There's no question, but
- 7:37Speaker 3: it's not, it's not historic.
- 7:39Speaker 2: Later on, we're going to talk about the race for
- 7:41Speaker 2: the presidency in 2028 has already begun.
- 7:44Speaker 1: As of yesterday. As it always does, by the way.
- 7:47Speaker 4: Right.
- 7:47Speaker 2: Unofficial, yes. But with the blessings of the president who
- 7:51Speaker 2: allowed Vance to issue his release, we'll go into the details.
- 7:56Speaker 2: DeSantis was flexing in Florida. I think he used a
- 7:59Speaker 2: word far more draconian than blue tsunami. I'm going to
- 8:03Speaker 2: find that word when we talk about him. But there
- 8:06Speaker 2: have been words issued by Republicans who would never have
- 8:10Speaker 2: used that language before.
- 8:12Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 8:12Speaker 2: If Donald Trump wasn't a lame duck who lost the
- 8:14Speaker 2: House and the Senate. And, you know, even on our
- 8:17Speaker 2: new news woman from W.A.B.C., Liz Radabali came up to
- 8:22Speaker 2: me and she said, oh, you were on the low side.
- 8:25Speaker 2: Remember when my predictions came out of the political marketplace?
- 8:30Speaker 2: You know, I said the Democrats will win 53 seats
- 8:34Speaker 2: and the House will be 240 seats. She said to me,
- 8:37Speaker 2: you know, you're on the low side. And it turns out, presently,
- 8:41Speaker 2: I am on the low side. Everybody thought I was
- 8:44Speaker 2: crazy when I made those predictions, but I am on
- 8:47Speaker 2: the low side. I think the Democrats are like at 254.
- 8:51Speaker 3: I'm looking right now. They're still counting. You know, there's
- 8:53Speaker 3: still seats that are out there. Could go up to 260.
- 8:55Speaker 3: You know where it is exactly right now? It's 240
- 8:59Speaker 3: right now.
- 8:59Speaker 4: 240. Yeah.
- 9:00Speaker 1: That would have been my prediction, but we know there's
- 9:02Speaker 1: going to be a lot more.
- 9:03Speaker 3: There's a lot more out there that still have to
- 9:05Speaker 3: be counted, so. It may take several days. There may
- 9:08Speaker 3: be recounts. They've been so close in some of these
- 9:11Speaker 3: districts that there may be recounts. Unfortunately, the ones that
- 9:14Speaker 3: there's going to be recounts in are districts that were
- 9:18Speaker 3: held by Republicans. So those are potential losses for the Republicans.
- 9:23Speaker 2: But I tell you, this is a perfect opportunity for
- 9:26Speaker 2: all of you to vent out there. More importantly, we'll
- 9:28Speaker 2: have John Decker with us at 7. He went on
- 9:31Speaker 2: the tour of the ballroom yesterday with President Donald Trump
- 9:35Speaker 2: as he addressed the loss, what J.D. Vance had done
- 9:38Speaker 2: with his blessings, and more importantly, how he said, and
- 9:43Speaker 2: that's why I'm going to give him a pass from
- 9:44Speaker 2: now on. Guys, gals, you have to understand when I
- 9:47Speaker 2: do these construction projects, it relaxes me. I had never
- 9:52Speaker 2: thought of that. This is like his hobby. It's to
- 9:54Speaker 2: replace golf. He doesn't get to golf much anymore.
- 9:56Speaker 3: You know how many construction sites that man has been
- 9:59Speaker 3: on in his life? This is probably his home away
- 10:02Speaker 3: from home.
- 10:02Speaker 1: He loves this.
- 10:03Speaker 2: Oh, but I want the president to be relaxed because
- 10:07Speaker 2: when he's over the top, it doesn't help.
- 10:08Speaker 1: It doesn't help.
- 10:09Speaker 2: And now we have some ideas coming up. of how
- 10:13Speaker 2: the president can take advantage of Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer,
- 10:20Speaker 2: get him into that White House office and make a
- 10:23Speaker 2: deal on a few issues.
- 10:25Speaker 1: And I'm not going to.
- 10:25Speaker 2: Hurt the Republicans, but it's like a little bit of
- 10:27Speaker 2: a give over to the Democrats so that the president
- 10:30Speaker 2: can fulfill his promise, which he said yesterday. He goes,
- 10:33Speaker 2: you know, there's some things on immigration I'll talk about.
- 10:36Speaker 2: Some things about the economy and tariffs I'll talk about.
- 10:39Speaker 2: Take advantage of it now, because after January 1st, when
- 10:42Speaker 2: all these new Jack Democrats get sworn in.
- 10:45Speaker 3: You had a great point a moment ago, and I
- 10:48Speaker 3: think you're exactly correct, that the president needs to get
- 10:51Speaker 3: out on front on this. He needs to have an
- 10:54Speaker 3: address to the nation to talk about the proposals he
- 10:57Speaker 3: would like to talk about with the new Congress and
- 10:59Speaker 3: make it some things that everybody wants. Put them on
- 11:03Speaker 3: their heels for a second. That's a great idea.
- 11:05Speaker 2: And I think he should do so after he's toured
- 11:09Speaker 2: the ballroom.
- 11:10Speaker 1: Because it relaxes him.
- 11:12Speaker 2: Remember, sometimes the president, when he's done those nationwide addresses,
- 11:15Speaker 2: he's a little too tense, a little too angry.
- 11:18Speaker 1: If that's his form of prozac, this is good.
- 11:20Speaker 3: This is good. As we just said, we're going to
- 11:23Speaker 3: get all your talkbacks. You already have some of them
- 11:26Speaker 3: coming in. Some of your talkbacks are coming in at
- 11:29Speaker 3: this moment. So we'll be able to get them.
- 11:33Speaker 1: Because it'll be your turn to be heard.
- 11:36Speaker 2: Your opinion counts here at 710WOR with Larry and Curtis
- 11:40Speaker 2: in the morning.
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- 13:13Speaker 4: All right.
- 13:14Speaker 3: As Curtis said a moment ago, your talkbacks were incredible yesterday.
- 13:19Speaker 3: I think a lot of people want to still vent.
- 13:22Speaker 3: So we're just going to do talkbacks right now because
- 13:26Speaker 3: we want to make you the star of the show.
- 13:28Speaker 5: You know, I guess they didn't like the low unemployment rate,
- 13:30Speaker 5: GDP reaching 5%, tax refunds, especially to people in blue states, $ 15, 000, $ 20, 000.
- 13:37Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what they rejected.
- 13:39Speaker 5: And you know what? Even inflation. The inflation rate is 3%.
- 13:44Speaker 5: It's not 9%. Wake up, America.
- 13:47Speaker 3: Yeah, I jumped to 3.4% and you would have thought
- 13:50Speaker 3: we were in a recession. the way that the media
- 13:53Speaker 3: covered it remember it's not just the Democratic Party it's
- 13:56Speaker 3: the way the media covered all of this stuff it
- 13:58Speaker 3: is incredibly sick and a lot of it was biased
- 14:04Speaker 3: by omission they just leave out certain things anything that's
- 14:07Speaker 3: too positive they'll just leave out Like some of the
- 14:10Speaker 3: things that you just talked about. Do you want some
- 14:13Speaker 3: perspective on the economy or you just want to say
- 14:16Speaker 3: it's horrible?
- 14:17Speaker 2: No, you sit at your kitchen table on Saturday. The
- 14:21Speaker 2: family figure it out. You don't have enough money for gas.
- 14:24Speaker 2: You don't have enough money for groceries. That's how you
- 14:26Speaker 2: lose elections.
- 14:27Speaker 3: Yeah, but you see, I reject that narrative too. Yes,
- 14:30Speaker 3: prices went up. There's no question. I'm not questioning that.
- 14:33Speaker 3: Prices went up, gas prices went up, and food went up.
- 14:35Speaker 3: But also salaries went up more, way more. So to
- 14:38Speaker 3: say you don't have enough money is really untrue across
- 14:44Speaker 3: most of the country. But if you hear it over
- 14:46Speaker 3: and over again, oh, the gas prices are up, the
- 14:49Speaker 3: food prices are up, and then you see it with
- 14:51Speaker 3: your own eyes– You think, man, I don't have enough
- 14:54Speaker 3: money for this.
- 14:55Speaker 1: But you do. Spending was up.
- 14:57Speaker 2: I don't know what world you live in.
- 15:00Speaker 1: I'm not living in the media world. Why do you
- 15:02Speaker 1: think there was a blue tsunami? There wasn't a tsunami.
- 15:05Speaker 1: And that's another thing. Groceries and gas. You buy into everything, man.
- 15:08Speaker 1: You are in such denial. You are listening to the
- 15:09Speaker 1: wrong stations. I'm not in denial at all. Go to
- 15:11Speaker 1: your average family. They'll tell you every week, gasoline, groceries.
- 15:14Speaker 1: I know they're up. This was the guy who promised
- 15:16Speaker 1: that they would go down.
- 15:17Speaker 3: Would you stop for one second? I just said, I
- 15:20Speaker 3: know they're up. but so are salaries and so is spending.
- 15:24Speaker 3: So something didn't make sense. Something that you're saying right
- 15:28Speaker 3: now doesn't make sense.
- 15:29Speaker 1: Knock yourself out trying to figure it out. Well, I
- 15:31Speaker 1: already figured it out.
- 15:33Speaker 3: It's just that there was an omission in giving all
- 15:35Speaker 3: the information.
- 15:36Speaker 1: I don't know, guys.
- 15:39Speaker 4: I'm sick and tired of hearing about the blue wave.
- 15:42Speaker 4: All I'm thinking about is that McRib sandwich. I may
- 15:48Speaker 4: just fly to the Netherlands and Because it's on the
- 15:52Speaker 4: regular menu. You don't have to wait for it to
- 15:54Speaker 4: come around.
- 15:56Speaker 1: See that?
- 15:58Speaker 2: Dreaming of Mickey D's, which does not have McRibs on
- 16:02Speaker 2: the menu all year long.
- 16:03Speaker 1: It's like a certain number of months. And it turns
- 16:06Speaker 1: out it's not ribs.
- 16:07Speaker 4: No.
- 16:08Speaker 2: It's a concoction of products that appear to be ribs,
- 16:11Speaker 2: but it's not ribs. I'd love to know if anybody
- 16:14Speaker 2: ever really thought they were ribs.
- 16:16Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 16:17Speaker 3: Because I don't think anybody thought that. But they're being
- 16:21Speaker 3: sued over this. And guess what? It was the first
- 16:24Speaker 3: judge not to throw out the suit. So they may
- 16:27Speaker 3: actually have to defend themselves over something that everybody else
- 16:32Speaker 3: in the world knows.
- 16:33Speaker 7: The Democratic wacko left party is much like a psycho
- 16:38Speaker 7: ex that keeps trying to get back together with you.
- 16:42Speaker 7: But at the same time, they keep telling you all
- 16:44Speaker 7: the things that is wrong with you, everything you're doing, bad, wrong,
- 16:48Speaker 7: you're wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. But we need you.
- 16:55Speaker 2: Man, I've been in that situation. I know exactly what
- 16:59Speaker 2: he's talking about.
- 17:00Speaker 1: Is he right? Oh, is he spot on? You know,
- 17:04Speaker 1: it's like a honey trap, but someone you've already been with.
- 17:08Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 17:09Speaker 1: Oh, no, no, don't worry. That's all forgiven, forgotten. Don't worry.
- 17:12Speaker 2: And the moment you pivot and shift and go in,
- 17:16Speaker 2: you just get clobbered again.
- 17:18Speaker 1: So he's perfect. He was brilliant.
- 17:21Speaker 4: Well, it's official. This country is full of morons.
- 17:24Speaker 2: If anybody thinks that this election cycle is going to
- 17:27Speaker 2: be good for this country in.
- 17:28Speaker 4: The long run, you are officially a moron. Time will tell.
- 17:32Speaker 6: And I know I'm right.
- 17:34Speaker 1: A moron.
- 17:35Speaker 3: Yeah, I completely agree with them. I think that people
- 17:41Speaker 3: just drank the Kool-Aid on this one.
- 17:43Speaker 1: Congratulations now with the United States of Europe.
- 17:46Speaker 5: We're going to end up like them.
- 17:47Speaker 1: We're going to be broke. We're going to have people
- 17:49Speaker 1: in the streets in a few years protesting. They're not
- 17:52Speaker 1: getting enough, and our borders will be overrun.
- 17:54Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to it.
- 17:55Speaker 3: No, it's not going to happen. Remember, they really have
- 17:58Speaker 3: no power. Even though they control the Senate and even
- 18:02Speaker 3: though they control the House— Their power is still limited.
- 18:06Speaker 3: They can't get anything through that the president doesn't want
- 18:10Speaker 3: to get through because it'll be vetoed. They have investigative power.
- 18:13Speaker 3: They have power of the purse and they have oversight power. So, yes,
- 18:17Speaker 3: they do have some power. but not enough to do
- 18:20Speaker 3: all the things that you were just talking about a
- 18:22Speaker 3: second ago.
- 18:24Speaker 1: We already went through ours. It was the summer of 2020.
- 18:26Speaker 1: George Floyd, remember? It was months and months. Riots, breaking
- 18:31Speaker 1: into stores, looting. We went through that.
- 18:33Speaker 3: We're out of it. Europe is now going through that.
- 18:35Speaker 3: For a much different reason. Yeah, he's talking about the economy.
- 18:38Speaker 3: Let's get to Daria Albinger now with the 630 News.
- 18:41Speaker 1: Daria.
- 18:41Speaker 3: Morning, guys.
- 18:42Speaker 8: Chance for showers today will see a high of 64 degrees.
- 18:45Speaker 8: Investigators want to know if a lithium-ion battery may have caused...
- 18:49Speaker 8: A deadly fire at an apartment building in Brooklyn early today.
- 18:53Speaker 8: At least six people are dead, several hurt, and some
- 18:56Speaker 8: residents are unaccounted for. After flames swept through the building
- 18:59Speaker 8: in Sunset Park at about 2 a.m., the battery was
- 19:03Speaker 8: found near where authorities believe that fire began. Police are
- 19:07Speaker 8: still looking for clues into last week's fatal stabbing of
- 19:10Speaker 8: a jogger in Brooklyn.
- 19:12Speaker 9: A vigil was held Wednesday for 28-year-old Katie Suarez, who
- 19:15Speaker 9: was fatally stabbed while running near the Belt Parkway Friday night.
- 19:19Speaker 9: The NYPD says there's no surveillance video or witnesses identified
- 19:23Speaker 9: to help piece together the attack, which happened near the
- 19:26Speaker 9: Caesars Bay Shopping Center, close to where Suarez worked. Police
- 19:30Speaker 9: continue searching the area near the Varanzano Bridge and believe
- 19:34Speaker 9: someone knows something about the killing. urging them to come forward.
- 19:38Speaker 9: Natalie Migliore, WOR News.
- 19:41Speaker 8: Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massey says he'll force a House vote
- 19:44Speaker 8: to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as soon as next week.
- 19:48Speaker 8: He's already introduced articles of impeachment against Hegseth, accusing him
- 19:52Speaker 8: of high crimes and misdemeanors for his role in the
- 19:54Speaker 8: Iran war. The ballots in New York's Westchester County, which
- 19:58Speaker 8: could not be processed Tuesday due to a programming glitch,
- 20:01Speaker 8: are finally being counted.
- 20:02Speaker 10: Tens of thousands of ballots are being counted in a
- 20:05Speaker 10: Board of Elections warehouse in Artsley after arriving late Wednesday
- 20:08Speaker 10: morning in orange bags along with voting booths. But GOP
- 20:12Speaker 10: Congressman Mike Lawler isn't waiting for the outcome to concede,
- 20:16Speaker 10: flipping New York's 17th CD to Democrat Kate Conley. I'm
- 20:20Speaker 10: a big believer in humble in victory, gracious in defeat.
- 20:23Speaker 10: Lawler says he conceded early because it was clear he'd
- 20:26Speaker 10: fall short of a win when Westchester's outstanding votes were counted.
- 20:30Speaker 1: Sarah Lee Kessler, WOR News.
- 20:33Speaker 8: And it wasn't me, because I'm here. Maybe it was
- 20:36Speaker 8: producer Natalie. She is not. Someone in New Jersey is
- 20:41Speaker 8: very rich today. He, she, or they holds the only
- 20:45Speaker 8: winning ticket. That matched all of the numbers on last
- 20:47Speaker 8: night's $ 847 million Powerball jackpot. The Knicks and the Nets
- 20:52Speaker 8: both won. Next news, 7 o'clock bulletins at once. I'm
- 20:54Speaker 8: Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
- 20:57Speaker 1: Daria, how about that? Yes!
- 21:01Speaker 3: So you were thinking that maybe Natalie hit the lottery,
- 21:06Speaker 3: and that's the reason she took off today.
- 21:08Speaker 1: By the way, let me.
- 21:09Speaker 3: Just say that I love Natalie, and that she is
- 21:12Speaker 3: my favorite producer that I have ever worked with.
- 21:16Speaker 1: Just in case she did win.
- 21:17Speaker 2: She's been the only producer who has been here since
- 21:20Speaker 2: all three gamblings were on the air in the morning.
- 21:23Speaker 1: She's a lifer. But this makes sense. But we have
- 21:25Speaker 1: to kiss up to her all morning. And Natalie, we're
- 21:27Speaker 1: both Greeks, and we're cousins. You know, we're related. Come on. Yeah,
- 21:32Speaker 1: why would she be in hiding now? She may never
- 21:37Speaker 1: be coming back. We may be stuck with Quiet Chris. Yeah,
- 21:41Speaker 1: Quiet Storm Chris. What do you mean stuck with me?
- 21:44Speaker 1: Did I say stuck? Yeah, you did. That's not what
- 21:48Speaker 1: I meant. That's what I meant. Okay, okay, okay, okay.
- 21:52Speaker 2: All right.
- 21:53Speaker 3: When we come back, well, there was a big beating
- 21:57Speaker 3: for the Republican Party, and the Democrats beat them well
- 22:02Speaker 3: over this election. Man, there was wipeouts. There's only one
- 22:06Speaker 3: Republican congressman left in New Jersey. So what is the
- 22:11Speaker 3: Republican Party going to do in New Jersey? What is
- 22:14Speaker 3: the Republican Party going to do in New York? We're
- 22:16Speaker 3: going to talk about that when we come back.
- 22:19Speaker 1: Dr. Arthur Perry.
- 22:20Speaker 3: It is really interesting, Curtis, as you look at the
- 22:22Speaker 3: two states, New Jersey and New York. But across the
- 22:26Speaker 3: board in New Jersey, across the board in New York,
- 22:29Speaker 3: Democrats basically sweep. Yes, there are some surviving Republicans in
- 22:34Speaker 3: New York. There is one survivor, Chris Smith in Ocean
- 22:39Speaker 3: County in New Jersey. But none of the people that
- 22:43Speaker 3: did survive, certainly not Chris Smith in New Jersey, is
- 22:47Speaker 3: considered now a leader in the Republican Party. And so
- 22:51Speaker 3: you have Republican parties in these two states, which right now,
- 22:55Speaker 3: now there's a void and it will be filled, but
- 22:58Speaker 3: right now are leaderless. So why don't we start with
- 23:02Speaker 3: New York? Who do you see in New York, Curtis,
- 23:06Speaker 3: as being a new leader, somebody that's going to step forward?
- 23:10Speaker 1: Well, I think you have to have a group of leaders.
- 23:14Speaker 2: Right now, you have a leader in name only, a
- 23:17Speaker 2: guy named Ed Cox, whose claim to fame is that
- 23:20Speaker 2: he was married to Richard Nixon's daughter.
- 23:24Speaker 1: And that's it.
- 23:25Speaker 2: This guy's like 80 years old. He can barely function
- 23:29Speaker 2: any longer. The day before the wipeout in New York
- 23:34Speaker 2: of Republicans, He was announcing that this would be an
- 23:37Speaker 2: unprecedented victory for Republicans. I mean, look, everybody tries to
- 23:43Speaker 2: look on the high side, but the problem is this
- 23:45Speaker 2: guy's always looking on the high side and you end
- 23:47Speaker 2: up with the low side. So it's a generational change.
- 23:51Speaker 2: It was ironic because they're all saying that now, the
- 23:54Speaker 2: old codgers, but. They don't want to necessarily give up
- 23:57Speaker 2: their leadership. So he's got to go. And I think
- 24:00Speaker 2: he got four really astute, sort of in their 40s,
- 24:04Speaker 2: maybe beginning of 50s, who have been through bruising political
- 24:08Speaker 2: battles in the past and can definitely give great advice
- 24:13Speaker 2: into restructuring the party. Because as I've said, Larry, over
- 24:15Speaker 2: and over, keep your powder dry. Next year, the fiscal
- 24:19Speaker 2: implosion takes place. Hochul is not going to have $ 8
- 24:22Speaker 2: billion to pay back Zoran for being attached to her
- 24:27Speaker 2: like an appendix during this race. And the state's not
- 24:30Speaker 2: going to have to have enough money. And you've got
- 24:31Speaker 2: to balance your budget. Unlike the federal government, you can't
- 24:34Speaker 2: print money. So it will be a fiscal collapse. And
- 24:37Speaker 2: that's when all of a sudden Republicans have thought of, oh, yeah, well,
- 24:40Speaker 2: you know, they're fiscally conservative. You know, they'll handle our
- 24:44Speaker 2: money better. So I would say, number one, you look upstate.
- 24:47Speaker 2: And you have to have somebody from upstate as part
- 24:49Speaker 2: of this. That would be former Congresswoman Stefanik. She was
- 24:53Speaker 2: the superstar. She was told, no, the president said, I
- 24:58Speaker 2: can't pick between you and Blakeman to run for governor.
- 25:01Speaker 2: And she was crestfallen, as she should be. because she
- 25:04Speaker 2: gave up being U.S. ambassador to the United Nations to
- 25:07Speaker 2: come back to the House to give him that one
- 25:09Speaker 2: vote he needed for that beautiful bill. And she gave it.
- 25:12Speaker 2: She delivered. The president did not deliver for her. So
- 25:15Speaker 2: that's number one. She is astute. And by the way,
- 25:19Speaker 2: she knows how to deal with interviews.
- 25:22Speaker 1: She's phenomenal.
- 25:23Speaker 2: Then you have Nicole Maliotakis in Staten Island, the only
- 25:26Speaker 2: survivor Republican running for reelection.
- 25:29Speaker 1: She's been through difficult battles.
- 25:31Speaker 2: Remember, she beat Max Rhodes, who wasn't a bad Democrat,
- 25:34Speaker 2: you know, Afghan veteran, sort of a conservative Democrat.
- 25:38Speaker 1: She beat him to get into office. She's always had
- 25:41Speaker 1: some tough races.
- 25:42Speaker 2: And then a dynamic duo out of Westchester, Rockland, Putnam,
- 25:47Speaker 2: our own Rob Astorino, who's been through... Battles with Democrats
- 25:50Speaker 2: in one races. And of course, the guy who coined
- 25:54Speaker 2: the phrase, and he was so correct when he was
- 25:59Speaker 2: in the throes of loss and he was a real gentleman,
- 26:04Speaker 2: Mike Lawler. who extended the good wishes to Caitlyn Connolly
- 26:10Speaker 2: because he realized that all the ballots coming in were
- 26:12Speaker 2: from Westchester. He could not win that election, and he
- 26:16Speaker 2: has been humble before in victory.
- 26:18Speaker 1: That would be the perfect foursome. That's pretty good.
- 26:22Speaker 3: That's pretty good, although I think somebody has to emerge
- 26:25Speaker 3: from that to go to the top, just like in
- 26:28Speaker 3: New Jersey, and New Jersey's got a bigger problem because
- 26:31Speaker 3: tell me right now, Curtis— You know New Jersey. Tell
- 26:35Speaker 3: me somebody in New Jersey right now that you think
- 26:38Speaker 3: is the leader of the Republican Party.
- 26:39Speaker 1: There is none.
- 26:40Speaker 3: There is none. There is none is the answer. Christine
- 26:43Speaker 3: Giordano Hanlon is the chairman of the Republican Party. Nobody
- 26:48Speaker 3: knows who she is. She has not been effective. She
- 26:51Speaker 3: has not really been out in front with the Republican Party.
- 26:54Speaker 3: So she's not going to be it. I know that
- 26:58Speaker 3: there's a talk show host there that believes he is
- 27:01Speaker 3: the new leader of the Republican Party because he's been
- 27:03Speaker 3: saying so. But God forbid that Bill Spadia steps up.
- 27:08Speaker 3: He ran for governor. He failed. And he was so
- 27:11Speaker 3: upset he wouldn't support anybody else in the Republican Party,
- 27:14Speaker 3: including Jack Cittarelli. So he should be dead to the Republicans.
- 27:18Speaker 3: So someone is going to have to step up. And
- 27:21Speaker 3: it's probably going to be somebody with some money who's
- 27:24Speaker 3: not in politics right now. But the guy that I
- 27:28Speaker 3: like a lot, and I've always really liked him, and
- 27:31Speaker 3: he's always been in the front of every issue in
- 27:34Speaker 3: New Jersey, but I'm not sure he wants to take
- 27:37Speaker 3: that step. He's a successful businessman, and he is a
- 27:41Speaker 3: successful New Jersey state senator. Declan O'Scanlan, a good Irish
- 27:46Speaker 3: guy from Monmouth County. If you notice, on every single
- 27:50Speaker 3: issue in New Jersey, he leads the way for the Republicans.
- 27:54Speaker 3: He's extremely well-spoken. He's a great interviewer, by the way.
- 27:58Speaker 3: He's a good guy, very funny. I would love to
- 28:03Speaker 3: see some people rally around him and he be the
- 28:06Speaker 3: new force in the Republican Party because they need someone
- 28:10Speaker 3: like that.
- 28:11Speaker 2: I accept that, but I really look at enemies now.
- 28:15Speaker 2: And I would say Shamu El-Hefei Chris Christie is the
- 28:18Speaker 2: only one who's beaten Democrats. The only one who knows
- 28:21Speaker 2: how to get Democrats to vote for Republicans. And he's
- 28:23Speaker 2: not MAGA. And then there's another one. But I tell
- 28:26Speaker 2: you what, with most Republicans, he's dead to them. So
- 28:29Speaker 2: I'm not sure that he could rally support in the
- 28:32Speaker 2: Republican Party. He might have more support in the Democratic Party.
- 28:37Speaker 2: He's delusional. He's up in New Hampshire. He still thinks
- 28:39Speaker 2: he can run for president.
- 28:41Speaker 1: But they can go find Jack Cittarelli, right? Has anybody
- 28:44Speaker 1: seen Jack? I haven't heard from Jack. Since he became MAGA?
- 28:46Speaker 3: And I've tried to call him. I mean, I have
- 28:49Speaker 3: not heard from Jack.
- 28:50Speaker 2: It's unfortunate because he got lured into that MAGA thing
- 28:54Speaker 2: and he got clobbered, whereas against Murphy, remember, previously he
- 28:57Speaker 2: lost on paper. Because he was a supporter of President, respectfully,
- 29:02Speaker 2: but he wasn't MAGA.
- 29:03Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 29:04Speaker 3: No, it looked like he was going to win the
- 29:06Speaker 3: last time. And this time, the polls show he had
- 29:09Speaker 3: a really good chance. And then on election night, it
- 29:11Speaker 3: just didn't work out. Maybe it was the 6,600 illegal
- 29:14Speaker 3: voters they had on the rolls.
- 29:16Speaker 1: Yeah, I wouldn't count on that.
- 29:18Speaker 2: But anyway, up next, oh man, as much as Schumer
- 29:23Speaker 2: and especially Hakeem Jeffries is saying, no, we're not going
- 29:27Speaker 2: to war, peace, love, and happiness. We want mediation and moderation.
- 29:33Speaker 2: That ain't what their troops are saying. And one guy
- 29:36Speaker 2: in particular from California who says.
- 29:39Speaker 1: Hey, Republicans, lawyer up.
- 29:42Speaker 2: And he's going to be part of the oversight as
- 29:45Speaker 2: chairman of a committee that's going to deal with most
- 29:48Speaker 2: of that.
- 29:49Speaker 1: We'll deal with that up next. It is kind of.
- 29:51Speaker 3: Amazing when you hear the leadership get up. Chuck Schumer
- 29:55Speaker 3: gets up and says, no, no, it's affordability. We know
- 30:00Speaker 3: what the American people want. There's not going to be impeachment.
- 30:05Speaker 3: Jeffrey's got up yesterday, the House minority leader who's expected
- 30:09Speaker 3: to be the new speaker. He gets up yesterday and
- 30:12Speaker 3: he says, not one person in my party has ever
- 30:16Speaker 3: talked to me about impeachment.
- 30:19Speaker 1: Nobody wants impeachment. Nobody wants impeachment.
- 30:23Speaker 3: And then, of course, all the underlings in the Democratic Party,
- 30:28Speaker 3: under leadership, are saying, oh.
- 30:30Speaker 1: Just wait, impeachment's coming.
- 30:32Speaker 3: But one of those guys that have said it, actually
- 30:36Speaker 3: has some power. And that is Robert Garcia, congressman from California.
- 30:43Speaker 3: If you see him, you'd know him. And suddenly he's
- 30:47Speaker 3: going to be one of the major figures in the
- 30:50Speaker 3: Democratic Party because he's going to be leading all of
- 30:53Speaker 3: these investigations. And yesterday he held a press conference and
- 30:57Speaker 3: he gave his list of priorities and they are fascinating.
- 31:01Speaker 3: And I think all of us will agree with the
- 31:04Speaker 3: first one. And I think that's going to be the
- 31:06Speaker 3: first one out of the box because he knows it's
- 31:09Speaker 3: going to be popular.
- 31:10Speaker 11: We don't care if you are a Republican, a Democrat,
- 31:15Speaker 11: how much money you have, your wealth, your power. If
- 31:17Speaker 11: you abuse children, you will be held accountable by the overseer.
- 31:22Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein.
- 31:23Speaker 4: Of course.
- 31:25Speaker 2: And it has haunted the Trump administration, even though they
- 31:29Speaker 2: released gazillions of files that the Biden administration kept hermetically shield.
- 31:36Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 31:36Speaker 3: And he said, he doesn't care who you are. We're
- 31:39Speaker 3: getting you in front of this meeting. Now I talked
- 31:42Speaker 3: to my wife about it yesterday, who you know is
- 31:44Speaker 3: a talk show host in Philadelphia, very successful. And she's
- 31:48Speaker 3: more MAGA than certainly I am and more MAGA than
- 31:52Speaker 3: probably anybody I know. And she heard this and she said,
- 31:55Speaker 3: thank God. Wow. That's wonderful that he's doing that. So
- 32:00Speaker 3: even she agreed with this. So I think this is
- 32:04Speaker 3: going to be extremely popular if he leads off with that.
- 32:09Speaker 3: The next one that he said... Here we go.
- 32:12Speaker 1: Is going to be ICE.
- 32:13Speaker 11: Now, they might think, because they're no longer in the government,
- 32:17Speaker 11: that they can just wipe their hands clean of what
- 32:18Speaker 11: they created. But we are going to ensure that both
- 32:22Speaker 11: Noam and Lewandowski face real accountability and justice.
- 32:26Speaker 3: Noam and Lewandowski. He wants before the committee... To talk
- 32:31Speaker 3: about how she started the ICE investigations and the ICE
- 32:36Speaker 3: raids all across America. That's pretty amazing. I mean, how
- 32:40Speaker 3: many times have you heard before that a chairman got
- 32:45Speaker 3: up there and wanted to go after people that are
- 32:48Speaker 3: no longer in the government?
- 32:49Speaker 1: Usually you leave the government. Yeah, no, it's over. It's over.
- 32:53Speaker 3: He wants to reach back out. Now, remember where he
- 32:56Speaker 3: is from. He's from Peru.
- 32:58Speaker 4: Yes.
- 32:58Speaker 3: He came here when he was five years old on
- 33:01Speaker 3: a visa. They overstayed their visa and they were illegal.
- 33:05Speaker 3: But because of a law that was passed that gave
- 33:09Speaker 3: forgiveness for some people that overstayed their visas, they got
- 33:13Speaker 3: to be U.S.
- 33:13Speaker 1: Citizens.
- 33:14Speaker 3: He got to be a U.S. citizen in college at
- 33:17Speaker 3: UCLA when he was 20 years old.
- 33:20Speaker 2: Now, this leads me into what Trump almost was on
- 33:24Speaker 2: the cusp of doing. Let's go back to his first
- 33:26Speaker 2: term in office. He hated the Speaker of the House,
- 33:30Speaker 2: Paul Ryan. Most Republicans hated Paul Ryan. Remember, he had
- 33:33Speaker 2: run for vice president. He's a loser then, a loser
- 33:35Speaker 2: as Speaker. And McConnell, when he was lucid. So they're
- 33:38Speaker 2: sitting in his office. And opposite them is Schumer and Pelosi,
- 33:43Speaker 2: who obviously Trump didn't get along with.
- 33:45Speaker 1: It was a love fest, though. They were talking about them. Oh, man,
- 33:49Speaker 1: the dreamers.
- 33:50Speaker 2: And they were ever so close to normalizing them, just
- 33:53Speaker 2: so our audience understands. Dreamers were very much like the
- 33:56Speaker 2: story you just told. Young children who came here, maybe five, six,
- 34:00Speaker 2: seven younger. They had no idea what the parents were doing,
- 34:03Speaker 2: but they lived here for more than 20 years. They
- 34:06Speaker 2: speak our language. They know our history. Many of them
- 34:09Speaker 2: are doing very well in the corporate world. They've served
- 34:12Speaker 2: in the military, police.
- 34:14Speaker 1: Many of them are in Congress. Yes.
- 34:16Speaker 2: So the president was going to do it. I forget
- 34:20Speaker 2: exactly what prevented it, but this would be the because
- 34:22Speaker 2: he said, and we'll check with John Decker yesterday on
- 34:25Speaker 2: his walkthrough of the ballroom renovations when he said, you know,
- 34:29Speaker 2: I'd like to talk about some of the immigration issues.
- 34:32Speaker 2: This way you give Chuck Schumer something. Because all the
- 34:36Speaker 2: president has to do is lean over to Chuck. You know,
- 34:39Speaker 2: we have something in common. You're the most hated Democrat
- 34:42Speaker 2: in New York. I'm the most hated Republican. So I'm
- 34:44Speaker 2: going to give you something you can go back to
- 34:46Speaker 2: your critics with. Let's get the dreamers done.
- 34:50Speaker 1: It's a wonderful idea.
- 34:51Speaker 3: And I hope somebody from the president's staff is listening
- 34:54Speaker 3: because that's a great idea.
- 34:56Speaker 1: And that should happen.
- 34:57Speaker 3: We'll bounce it off of John Decker over the next week. Yeah,
- 35:00Speaker 3: we can bounce it off of John Decker. Let me
- 35:02Speaker 3: give one more thing from Garcia.
- 35:04Speaker 11: Arms broken. People snatched up on their way to immigration
- 35:09Speaker 11: appointments that we, the government, gave them. That's inhumane.
- 35:14Speaker 6: It's wrong.
- 35:14Speaker 11: And I think the American public, regardless of party, are
- 35:17Speaker 11: sick of it.
- 35:18Speaker 3: He has a list of people that he wants to
- 35:20Speaker 3: call for mice. But think about this. The two things
- 35:23Speaker 3: that he led with. He also, by the way, wants
- 35:25Speaker 3: to go after the Trump family. He says that he
- 35:28Speaker 3: wants to get Witkoff in. He wants to get Jared in.
- 35:32Speaker 3: And he's going to go after them as well. But
- 35:34Speaker 3: the two things at the beginning are really popular, to
- 35:37Speaker 3: go after Epstein and to go after Ice.
- 35:39Speaker 1: But he finished by saying to everybody, lawyer up.
- 35:44Speaker 3: Yeah, well, he tweeted that out. When we come back,
- 35:50Speaker 3: John Decker, as promised.