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Hour 2: Horse carriage ban · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: On the line now, uh, white house correspondent, uh, John Decker. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: John is international, national, regional, and obviously campaign, uh, news
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  Speaker 1: galore coming out of the white house. Uh, yesterday when
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  Speaker 1: you were questioning the president about this Ramaswamy ad, it's
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  Speaker 1: running for governor in Ohio Republican. He's behind his democratic opponent. Um,
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  Speaker 1: What was the president's response since I saw the vice president, J.D. Vance,
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  Speaker 1: in there supporting Ramaswamy, who used her biological mother against
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  Speaker 1: her in an ad?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the president didn't distance himself from that ad or
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  Speaker 2: the running of that ad. I did not ask the
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  Speaker 2: president a question on that. I actually asked the president
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  Speaker 2: a question about Steve Wyckoff and his calling Vladimir Putin
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  Speaker 2: a humanitarian. I asked that question to the president in
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  Speaker 2: the East Room yesterday. But as it relates to that
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  Speaker 2: Ramaswamy ad that's now running in Ohio.
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  Speaker 3: It's certainly gotten a lot of attention. There's certainly a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of people who think it's going to backfire on Ramaswamy,
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  Speaker 2: who is already trailing in that race for governor in Ohio.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it strikes me that it's one of those
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  Speaker 2: types of ads in which you're really taking your chances
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  Speaker 2: and running an ad like that. And we'll see if
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  Speaker 2: it pans out for Ramaswamy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you did get to ask a question yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, you got to ask in
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  Speaker 4: that press availability half the questions. That's amazing. That really
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  Speaker 4: is amazing. Well, there was only two asked, but you
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  Speaker 4: got one of them. That's what's important. And you did
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  Speaker 4: ask about what Steve Witkoff said, because he was able
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  Speaker 4: to negotiate the release of an American prisoner in Russia,
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  Speaker 4: Stephen Hubbard, who is a 74-year-old American. And when, after
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  Speaker 4: the release with the press there, he said, he called
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  Speaker 4: him a humanitarian. And I know that that got a
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  Speaker 4: lot of blowback. And so what did the president say?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the president, I asked the president about that description
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  Speaker 2: of Vladimir Putin. And I asked the president if he
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  Speaker 2: agrees with that description of Vladimir Putin by Steve Wyckoff,
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  Speaker 2: that Vladimir Putin is a humanitarian. And the president said,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to say one way or the other.
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  Speaker 2: He said, you know, in this particular instance, the fact
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  Speaker 2: that he signed off on the release of this individual
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  Speaker 2: who otherwise would have spent the rest of his life
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  Speaker 2: in jail, you could make the argument that that's a
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  Speaker 2: humanitarian gesture. But I don't think the president necessarily wanted
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  Speaker 2: to go down the road of calling Vladimir Putin himself
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  Speaker 2: a humanitarian. And as you point out, Larry, This has
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  Speaker 2: gotten a lot of blowback from some in the president's
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  Speaker 2: own party who just, you know, are shocked by the
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  Speaker 2: use of that word to describe Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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  Speaker 1: I noticed last night when he was in South Carolina
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  Speaker 1: rallying the troops around Lindsey Graham's sister, who before his
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  Speaker 1: arrival completely distanced herself from that woman. Because in his name,
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  Speaker 1: after he passed away, one of the few times, John,
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  Speaker 1: that we've seen a bipartisan effort to support legislation which
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  Speaker 1: increased the sanctions against Putin and Russia. How was she
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  Speaker 1: able to do that dance without offending the president?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I think the president is most concerned
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  Speaker 2: about holding onto control of the Senate. And he realizes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, for candidates, they have to say what they
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  Speaker 2: need to say to get reelected. And so I think
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  Speaker 2: we spoke about this earlier this week. You see candidates
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  Speaker 2: in other states, in Alaska, in Michigan, in Iowa, distancing
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  Speaker 2: themselves from the president on the issue of his approach
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  Speaker 2: to Russia and his approach to Russian President Putin. And
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  Speaker 2: the president, I think, is fine with that distance. He
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  Speaker 2: knows full well it really doesn't matter what they say.
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  Speaker 2: He's the person who's in charge of America's foreign policy.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the job of the president. So You know,
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  Speaker 2: the criticism I think he can take, I think he's
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  Speaker 2: most concerned about holding on to that Senate seat, in
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  Speaker 2: this case in South Carolina, that Lindsey Graham's sister Darlene
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  Speaker 2: Graham's trying to hold for the next six years.
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  Speaker 4: There seems to be a lot of people questioning as
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  Speaker 4: to why he is on this tour with poor poll numbers. But, John,
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  Speaker 4: in midterm elections, he needs to get his vote out
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  Speaker 4: because with MAGA, he's still extremely popular.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he is. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: I see it when I travel with the president. I
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  Speaker 3: saw it last week.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to travel with the president once again on
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  Speaker 2: Air Force One this coming Sunday to Michigan.
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  Speaker 3: And I see it at campaign rallies.
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  Speaker 2: There's still a lot of enthusiasm for President Trump within MAGA,
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  Speaker 2: within the Republican base. That being said, I also see polls.
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  Speaker 2: I'm seeing a snapshot of America. But I also see
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  Speaker 2: polls which indicate the president is unpopular today. You know,
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  Speaker 2: approval rating and in the low 30s. And it's a
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  Speaker 2: headwind that the Republicans are dealing with and trying to
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  Speaker 2: hold on to the House and the Senate. The president,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and I think it's the right approach. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's just essentially energize your base. Get as many Republicans
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  Speaker 2: out as possible. If you have a turnout like it's
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  Speaker 2: an election year. Maybe you will mitigate your losses. I
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  Speaker 2: think that's the thinking of the White House right now.
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  Speaker 1: Now, in the past young decade, you have always been
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  Speaker 1: our go-to guy about anything affecting D.C. The reflection pool,
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  Speaker 1: the golf course recently. Yeah. And what I jokingly refer
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  Speaker 1: to as the golden arches. Which Donald Trump deserves to
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  Speaker 1: have built in his honor in Washington because he consumes
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  Speaker 1: more McDonald's than any other celebrity figure in the world.
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  Speaker 1: More than Ronald McDonald did or even the owners and
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  Speaker 1: operators of McDonald's. So they've announced that November 5th they
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  Speaker 1: may be putting the shovels into the dirt to build
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  Speaker 1: the arch that again is controversial in honor to himself.
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  Speaker 1: Is this in fact moving forward right after the midterm elections?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I would not be surprised.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that does occupy, I don't know how much time,
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  Speaker 2: but some time of the president. You know, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: like I'm in the Oval Office and I see on
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  Speaker 2: his desk plans for.
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  Speaker 3: That new golf course that he'd like to build in
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  Speaker 3: the nation's capital.
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  Speaker 2: I see even before the president took possession of this
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  Speaker 2: new Air Force One, there was a model airplane of
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  Speaker 2: that new Air Force One in the Oval Office. The
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  Speaker 2: president's very much focused on that. He's very much focused
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  Speaker 2: on his legacy, you know, with two years left in
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  Speaker 2: his final term as president. So, yes, Curtis, I do
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  Speaker 2: expect movement on that front that what he calls the
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  Speaker 2: triumphal arch being built just on the D.C.-Virginia border. I
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  Speaker 2: do expect it to go forward after the midterm elections
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  Speaker 2: are complete.
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  Speaker 4: We've seen the federal government going after state election boards
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  Speaker 4: and state voter polls records to see if there is
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  Speaker 4: anybody illegal voting. And they've found some in Los Angeles
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  Speaker 4: and in Pennsylvania, recently in New Jersey as well. And
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  Speaker 4: now a coalition of Democrats is suing to prevent the
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  Speaker 4: Trump administration for what they say imposing itself on state-run elections.
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  Speaker 4: You're a constitutional attorney as well. That's an interesting constitutional question,
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  Speaker 4: isn't it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it is, you know, states-run elections.
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  Speaker 2: That being said, you know, if you have voters that
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  Speaker 2: are on your rolls that should not be on your rolls,
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  Speaker 2: I think it would be in the interest of any
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  Speaker 2: state to kick them off. It shouldn't be something that
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  Speaker 2: should be political issue at all. You know, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we saw this in New Jersey. They were the first
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  Speaker 2: state to indicate that a significant number of voters should
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  Speaker 2: not have legally been on the voter rolls. And now
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  Speaker 2: we see other states following suit. This is not an
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  Speaker 2: issue that necessarily will be one that we'll experience in
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  Speaker 2: this upcoming midterms, you know, now less than two weeks away.
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  Speaker 2: But in 2028, This will be a major issue, and
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  Speaker 2: an issue that certainly I think would be one that
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  Speaker 2: would potentially go all the way up to the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Supreme Court to decide whether or not the federal government
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  Speaker 2: can insert itself into this issue that is generally seen
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  Speaker 2: as one in which states have the purview concerning who
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  Speaker 2: can and who cannot vote in a particular federal election.
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  Speaker 1: John Decker, finally, Iran once again is like, the low
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  Speaker 1: end of our totem pole, apparently the president has given
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  Speaker 1: maybe two versions that there are plans to resume bombing
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  Speaker 1: right after the midterm elections, maybe by ourself or in
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  Speaker 1: tandem with Israel. What are they floating out there, the administration?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, look, the Pentagon always prepares for all kinds.
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  Speaker 2: Of potential military operations.
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  Speaker 3: And that's certainly the case with Iran. And so, Yes,
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  Speaker 3: there are plans.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you even see it just in terms of
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  Speaker 2: the amount of military personnel that has been moved into
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  Speaker 2: the Persian Gulf. Within, I would say, probably a week's time,
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  Speaker 2: there will potentially be three aircraft carrier striker groups in
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  Speaker 2: the Middle East.
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  Speaker 3: That tells me.
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  Speaker 2: That they are preparing for the potential authorization of more
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  Speaker 2: military operations being carried out against Iran. And the president,
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  Speaker 2: the people that speak on behalf of the president say
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  Speaker 2: there will be no operations before the midterms. But I
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  Speaker 2: think after the midterms is a different story entirely. And
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  Speaker 2: we'll see what indeed the president, the commander in chief
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  Speaker 2: decides to do there.
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  Speaker 4: John Decker, WOR White House and Washington correspondent and host
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  Speaker 4: of the podcast, The White House Briefing Room with John Decker,
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  Speaker 4: which can be found on the iHeartRadio app. Look forward
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  Speaker 4: to talking to you next week, especially after you've traveled
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  Speaker 4: with the president.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, John. Thanks, Larry.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, Curtis. Have a great day and a great weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Talk to you soon.
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  Speaker 5: Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 4: Called Jalen Hurts, the quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles, the
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  Speaker 4: face of the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 4: Now, whether you agree with that or not, if Roger
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  Speaker 4: Goodell thinks that, you'd think he would treat him better
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  Speaker 4: than he's been treating him. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 4: know the story of Jalen Hurts, but it's become a
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  Speaker 4: national story. It's been on the nightly news. Because he
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  Speaker 4: was diagnosed with having a blood clot. Now, this happened
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  Speaker 4: apparently in a game against the Rams on October 4th.
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  Speaker 4: He got spiked in the leg. That's how they believe
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  Speaker 4: it started. They don't know because the medical team in
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  Speaker 4: Philadelphia looked at his leg and cleared him for an
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  Speaker 4: international flight to London. Now, most of you know the
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  Speaker 4: worst thing you can do when you have a clot
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  Speaker 4: is to get on a plane, especially for a long flight.
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  Speaker 4: So when he landed in London, he had throbbing pain
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  Speaker 4: in his legs, and they took him to a specialist,
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  Speaker 4: and they found out that he had a blood clot.
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  Speaker 4: And then they cleared him to play in the game
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  Speaker 4: in London because they said, quote, activity and mobility are
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  Speaker 4: important to clear a blood clot. Then they allowed him
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  Speaker 4: to get on the plane to fly back to Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Where he was diagnosed.
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  Speaker 4: Upon landing of now having a more serious issue because
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  Speaker 4: the blood clot is now more than one blood clot
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  Speaker 4: and it's in his lungs. So he went from deep
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  Speaker 4: vein thrombosis to bilateral pulmonary emboli, which is extremely dangerous.
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  Speaker 4: And now he's out for the season. But he may,
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  Speaker 4: who knows what's going to happen. He may not be
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  Speaker 4: able to play again.
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  Speaker 1: And so all the focus.
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  Speaker 4: Right now is on the NFL and its doctors. How
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  Speaker 4: did they miss this? And Roger Goodell has been interviewed
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  Speaker 4: over and over and over again. And it sounds like
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  Speaker 4: Roger Goodell cares more about expanding the NFL overseas than
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  Speaker 4: he does about Jalen Hurts or the players. It's all
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  Speaker 4: about making some more money. Now, there's going to be
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  Speaker 4: an investigation. They say the NFL is going to investigate
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  Speaker 4: what happened. They've already cleared the Eagles, by the way.
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  Speaker 4: And their chief medical officer had a news conference, and
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  Speaker 4: he was as arrogant as you could be. Like, how
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  Speaker 4: dare you question me? Here's what has to happen, Curtis.
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  Speaker 4: They have to have an independent investigation. This is extremely important.
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  Speaker 4: It's what the players are calling for right now. The players'
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  Speaker 4: union is saying, no, no, no, you can't investigate yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Just like you did back with the concussions and the CTEs.
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  Speaker 4: We want an independent investigation so this never happens again.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get a little conspiratorial here. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Jay-Z just announced, as the guy who puts on and
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  Speaker 1: produces the halftime show, he is going to be it.
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  Speaker 1: which stole a lot of headlines, obviously. And he's very
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  Speaker 1: good friends with Roger Goodell. Do you think that was
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  Speaker 1: like an attempt to maybe distract from the constant round-the-clock
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  Speaker 1: and rightfully so attention on what happened to the Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: Eagle quarterback with the blood clots?
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  Speaker 6: Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't work. It didn't work.
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  Speaker 4: It's getting a whole lot of attention. I was surprised
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  Speaker 4: how much attention it is getting. I mean, it was
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  Speaker 4: in the first segment of the national news.
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  Speaker 1: And you mentioned how Roger Goodell... who used to be,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, the chauffeur for Pete Rizal, the original commissioner. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: the chauffeur knows all. The face of the NFL, they said,
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  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagle quarterback. What happened to Mahomes and Kelsey
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  Speaker 1: and Taylor Swift in Kansas City, the heartland of America?
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  Speaker 1: He said it on a Philadelphia radio station. So I
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  Speaker 1: think he's kissing up a little bit to the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: fans who won his head. Speaking of putting somebody's head
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  Speaker 1: on a pike, they won his head on a pike.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get a talk back in.
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  Speaker 4: We talked about road rage from the beginning, and everybody
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  Speaker 4: seems to have their own story.
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  Speaker 7: I was passed on the left very aggressively while making
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  Speaker 7: a left-hand turn at a light. I didn't start turning
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  Speaker 7: fast enough. Two young fellows They threw something at me
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  Speaker 7: out of their window, their moonroof, and I started following
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  Speaker 7: them aggressively. They slammed on their brakes. It could have
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  Speaker 7: been bad. But I went back at night and with
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  Speaker 7: a flashlight found what they threw out of the window,
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  Speaker 7: and it was a whole work stub, pay stub.
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  Speaker 1: It was a work stub, pay stub with their address
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  Speaker 1: on it. Good going.
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  Speaker 4: I love that one. Thank you so much for that.
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  Speaker 4: Now let's get to Daria Albinger with the 730 News.
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  Speaker 8: Daria.
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  Speaker 1: Morning, guys.
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  Speaker 6: Sunny and breezy today. We'll see a high of 65 degrees.
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  Speaker 6: The city council is expected to vote today on a
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  Speaker 6: bill which would phase out the horse carriage industry here
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  Speaker 6: in New York. And the union that's representing the driver
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  Speaker 6: says it's going to fight it every step of the way.
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  Speaker 9: After years of debate regarding the age-old tradition in New
• 15:45
  Speaker 9: York City, the city council finally puts the issue to
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  Speaker 9: a vote.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to the horses, they never look happy.
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  Speaker 10: It's kind of a rip-off anyway.
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  Speaker 8: The horses here, they faint. They're not in good conditions.
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  Speaker 8: They live in a building. They don't have any pasture.
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  Speaker 9: While many New Yorkers are ready to get horses off
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  Speaker 9: the roads, drivers are worried about their financial future, and
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  Speaker 9: the union representing them is threatening legal action. Central Park
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  Speaker 9: horse-drawn carriages are restricted to inner park drives in specific
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  Speaker 9: pickup locations, but that could all end by June 2028.
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  Speaker 1: Natalie Migliore, WOR News.
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  Speaker 6: He was once one of New York's finest. Now a
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  Speaker 6: former detective is charged with murder in a drive-by shooting
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  Speaker 6: this week on the GWB. Victor Rowan of Haverstraw was
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  Speaker 6: arrested yesterday in the fatal shooting of Koran Irvine, who
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: is also from the Hudson Valley. The State Department is
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: ordering non-essential U.S. government personnel to leave Saudi Arabia as
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  Speaker 6: soon as possible with violence by Houthi rebels.
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  Speaker 1: Increasing. So you say your job is literally becoming a
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  Speaker 1: pain in the neck?
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  Speaker 11: Andrew Bang, a chiropractor at the Cleveland Clinic, says sitting
• 16:46
  Speaker 11: for long periods with poor posture can result in aches
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  Speaker 11: and pains and tension.
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  Speaker 12: Every hour you feel like you need to crack your neck,
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  Speaker 12: that's a key indicator. That's your flashing dashboard light. Hey,
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  Speaker 12: I got to change up my posture. My ergonomics is
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  Speaker 12: obviously off. You don't need to be a specialist to
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  Speaker 12: know that.
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  Speaker 11: He recommends raising your laptop on a stack of books
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  Speaker 11: or a box to make the computer screen at eye level.
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  Speaker 11: And he says to think about a separate keyboard and
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  Speaker 11: mouse to help prevent that hunched over position. He also
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  Speaker 11: suggests getting up and moving once an hour. I'm Tammy Trujillo.
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  Speaker 11: The Nets lost to Charlotte. The Devils, the Islanders, and
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  Speaker 11: the Rangers all skate tonight. Next news, 8 o'clock bulletins
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  Speaker 11: at once. I'm Daria Albinger on 710.
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  Speaker 1: Every day we're besieged by more and more polls, locally, regionally, nationally,
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  Speaker 1: even internationally sometimes. Well, there's a firm that has come
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  Speaker 1: front and center and admitted to fabricating data. It was
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  Speaker 1: carried by some of the most prestigious. Media outlets in
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  Speaker 1: the country will break it down to you. And the
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  Speaker 1: latest Quinnipiac College poll, which says that Blakeman is 14
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  Speaker 1: points down to Hochul. I don't believe that poll at all.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe that poll at all.
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  Speaker 4: You hear from a lot of people. We get a
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  Speaker 4: lot of talkbacks about it saying, oh, I don't believe
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  Speaker 4: in polls. Polls are always wrong. But I will tell
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  Speaker 4: you this. It's a necessary evil. And I'm addicted to polls.
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  Speaker 4: I look at polls all of the time. I know
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  Speaker 4: politicians look at polls all the time because it's.
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  Speaker 1: All we got.
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  Speaker 4: It's the only thing you have to tell you how
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  Speaker 4: you're kind of doing. So you trust them. You trust
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  Speaker 4: the mathematicians and you trust that their algorithm is correct. Well,
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  Speaker 4: this doesn't help their case as being credible because Wedgwood Polling,
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  Speaker 4: which was cited by a lot of big groups like
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  Speaker 4: the New York Times, it was in their aggregate, the
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Wedgwood polling, they have come out and said, no, this
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: was all a social experiment to show the vulnerabilities of
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: polls and to show the vulnerabilities of the media using polls.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: 51 plus 1 in the New York Times had included
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Wedgwood polling, but it was 50 plus 1 that came out.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: They're the ones that caught them. They said, uh-uh, there's
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: something fishy about these polls. And then they had to
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: come out and fess up. They were actually going to
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: have a bigger experiment than this. But 50 plus 1
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: found them. The New York Times didn't. Listen to all
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: the organizations that use their poll. MSNL, Newsweek, Decision Desk Headquarters,
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: and Mediaite. What do all of those places have in common?
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: They all lean Democratic. They all lean to the left.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Now, Nate Silver, who is supposed to be the god
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: of polling, he's the one that was one of the
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: few that correctly predicted that Donald Trump was going to
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: win the first time. It sent him into the national spotlight.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: He was using it too. And he said, he wrote
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: a long article saying, once I took Wedgewood. 1 out,
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: the polls started favoring Republicans. So this is, it seems
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: to me, conspiratorial, but it's not. What Wedgwood One did,
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: and I think you're going to hear this a little
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: bit later, that it was conservatives that did this. What
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: Wedgwood One did is they exposed the liberal media for
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: wanting an unknown poll.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: They wanted it so much.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: And the New York Times claims that they look into
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: every single one of the polls and they only use
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: the best of the best. They used it. They wanted
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: to use it. because it said exactly what they wanted.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: So not only did Wedgewood One expose a problem with polling,
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: it exposed a bias in the media.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Right, and that's wedge, like W-E-D-G, that you would reach
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: into your golf bag, get your wedge shot out, not
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Westwood One, which is in our business of radio well-known.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: You're absolutely right, Larry. And I've experienced this firsthand. Now,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: the first time I ran against Eric Adams, not at all.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Normal polling data was not favorable to me. I knew
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: what I was getting involved into. But the second time
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I ran, I didn't have a Republican primary. So I'm
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: sitting with my whole team. And there's a guy we
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: knew at the New York Post who was leaving to
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: go to Washington and was sitting there and was saying,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I've noticed there are a lot of polls being published.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Never heard the name of this organization before. That was
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the Democratic primary. It was very heated between Zoran, a
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: lot of the Democrats, Andrew Evil Eyes Cuomo, and Ranked
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Choice Voting. And he said, oh, yeah, now we'll take
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: any poll. I said, even an internal poll that you
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: paid for, that obviously if you're paying for a poll,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: it's going to reflect well on you. Oh, absolutely. You
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: can call up with a poll. They don't even question
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: it anymore because if you notice all these polls coming out.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: And then the defining moment was Eric Adams, remember, had
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: dropped out. I think he got bribed about $ 20 million.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: He took it. You know the rest of that story.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: I was being bribed at $ 10 million. And then Cuomo
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: had that press conference and you reported on it here, Natalie,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: you reported, I cannot win unless Curtis Lewitt drops out.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: And then he had a poll put out that suggested
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: his numbers and my numbers would give him a 6%
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: win over Zoran Mondami.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: During that whole time, I'm very proud of the fact, Natalie,
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: that you and I questioned every one of those polls
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: when they were coming out and even asked people in interviews.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Is this your poll? And they would get offended. Right.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: They would get offended. And I'm thinking to myself, why
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: would they get offended? If it's not, just say, no,
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: it's not ours.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: Right. Exactly.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: No, you were on that. Give you an idea. The
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Quinnipiac poll came out and says that Blakeman is 14
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: points behind Hochul. I do not believe that. 13 days out.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Last time, Zeldin was four points out at this point
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: with the same poll. Blakeman's running a much better campaign
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: than Zeldin did. But I will tell you this, in
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: reading the post, they are publishing internal polls that suggest
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: that Blakeman was one point behind, four points behind. No,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: that's not true either. So don't go by the polls,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. Just get out there and vote. Get
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: your vote out. Whoever you're supporting. If you go by
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the polls, I'm telling you, you're going to be disappointed
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: time and time again. And we have probably more local, regional,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: national races that are neck and neck. And if you
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: just went by the polls, a lot of people sometimes
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: are just, ah, later for that. No, no.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Get out and vote. Just get out and vote. Today
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: is the big day with the carriage, the horse carriage vote.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: That you're going to be at. That's why you're dressed
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: really nice today because you're trying to sneak in.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: We'll see if they're even going to let me into
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: the rally or the actual vote. It's like all of
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: a sudden I'm a person of no consequence. But Natalie
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Migliore is out for her beat on the street asking
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: people how they feel about horses and carriages next. Now,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: it's 710WOR' s Beat on the Street with Natalie Migliore. You're
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: like me, suited down here. I'm going down to the
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: rally that they may not let me into in the
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: vote at city council to get rid of the horse
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: carriage industry.
• 24:27
  Speaker 9: I think that Larry and I have full confidence you'll
• 24:31
  Speaker 9: find your way in. You'll find your way in. I'm
• 24:34
  Speaker 9: just shocked that you don't have horses on your tie. Yeah,
• 24:38
  Speaker 9: I was thinking, Hal, you're wearing a tie today.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Where are the horses? I only have cat ties. Oh, well,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: we got to get him a horse tie now, I guess. Yeah,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I'm surprised. Wait a second. Do you have cat ties?
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I believe it.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: Really?
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and bow tie. Cat bow tie.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's cute.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. You have to come in wearing the
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: cat bow tie.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: I will.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Next time. I promise you I will. But now, question.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Polly Market, what would their rating be of my potential
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: of getting into this rally?
• 25:05
  Speaker 10: 100%.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: And eventually the vote in city council. What would Polly
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Market say? 36%. Yeah. 36? Really? But you're a New
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: York City icon. No, I've been iced out.
• 25:16
  Speaker 9: Talking about icons, these horse-drawn carriage rides.
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: Ah!
• 25:24
  Speaker 9: That after decades of debate, and this past summer when
• 25:28
  Speaker 9: an 18-year-old tourist was killed in a carriage crash, that's
• 25:31
  Speaker 9: really what started, that reignited this push to get rid
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: of them. This could be the final trot for the industry.
• 25:39
  Speaker 9: The end of an era after 150 years. Some New
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: Yorkers say don't let the door hit you.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: It's heartless, those poor things.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Clomping through.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: I mean, our feet hurt when we walked, imagine.
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: The horses here, they faint. They're not in good conditions.
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: They live in a building. They don't have any pasture. Like,
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: if they were going to do it, I think that
• 26:00
  Speaker 8: they should at least have, like, a pasture that they
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: bring them out to and maybe make them work once
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: a week, but they're overworked, they're thirsty, and they're dirty conditions.
• 26:10
  Speaker 10: When it comes to the horses, they never look happy,
• 26:13
  Speaker 10: and it's kind of a rip-off anyway, so... What's the
• 26:16
  Speaker 10: point of, I don't know how much people are spending
• 26:17
  Speaker 10: nowadays on them damn things, but I'm sure they're not
• 26:20
  Speaker 10: going into like the care for them anyway.
• 26:22
  Speaker 9: A carriage ride these days now costs about $ 100 for
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: 25 minutes, right? My one question is, how do you
• 26:30
  Speaker 9: know a horse is happy?
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: They ain't getting nothing. They're getting ugots. They're getting bupkis
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: out of that $ 100.
• 26:36
  Speaker 9: And I've been down to those stables. They are building
• 26:41
  Speaker 9: concrete buildings. Somebody likened them to a parking garage, in
• 26:45
  Speaker 9: a sense. You know, New York City doesn't really have
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: room for these pastures that we were talking about. You
• 26:51
  Speaker 9: know how much a carriage ride first cost when it
• 26:54
  Speaker 9: started in 1863?
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Could you take a guess? What, a nickel? A nickel.
• 26:57
  Speaker 9: 25 cents a ride, each passenger. So it's really, inflation
• 27:03
  Speaker 9: really kicked in.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: And I bet you the ride was longer. Yeah.
• 27:07
  Speaker 9: Now this New Yorker, not so sure we should be
• 27:09
  Speaker 9: doing away with an entire industry.
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: A lot of people are going to be out of work.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: It's their livelihood. Personally, I like horses. You have to
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: look at it in a whole, is it dangerous?
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Could be.
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: Traffic out here is not like it was before. When
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: they first started, things are different now. Do I think
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: they should ban it? No. I think they should have
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: a designated part of the park where they can continue
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: to give people rides. Because that's what tourists come for.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: They come for the horse ride.
• 27:39
  Speaker 9: Well, there is a designated part of the park where
• 27:41
  Speaker 9: carriages are allowed to go. They're restricted to the inner
• 27:44
  Speaker 9: park drives and specific pickup locations.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: So apparently.
• 27:48
  Speaker 9: That's not enough for advocates who want to get rid
• 27:51
  Speaker 9: of these things. Now, the transit union says it's ready
• 27:54
  Speaker 9: to sue if this measure goes through, saying as soon
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: as the ink dries, they want a TRO, a temporary
• 28:01
  Speaker 9: restraining order. Even though it has a clause that sets
• 28:04
  Speaker 9: up a horse-drawn cab industry transition plan by April of 2027,
• 28:09
  Speaker 9: the MTA even says, come work for us.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: I think they should. Why not?
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Well, who would know the streets better than a horse
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: carriage rider, huh? Good benefits, great pension. Man, it's a
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: good thing.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: But if you're manning a horse and carriage, you like
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: the freedom of being outside.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: But pensions and benefits are always great. Yeah, so that's
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: the trade-off here.
• 28:32
  Speaker 9: Now, horse-drawn carriages are really the pinnacle, arguably, of New
• 28:36
  Speaker 9: York City tourism. Everybody knows they're there. But pedicabs could
• 28:41
  Speaker 9: be ready to fill that gap. An industry true New
• 28:45
  Speaker 9: Yorkers seem to hate even more.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Those pedicabs are ridiculous. They're very expensive. The other one
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: gives you.
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: A ride around the park.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: It's really pretty.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: It's nice.
• 28:58
  Speaker 8: Scam. If you're stupid enough to fall for it, I
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: don't know what to tell you.
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: When did it become like that?
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: All of a sudden people want to take these pedicab rides.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: They play music.
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: And they're like, they look cute. $ 400 for like two miles.
• 29:12
  Speaker 8: I'm the little bike guys with a little music. I
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: just want to be part of your skin.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: Nah.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: I love the woman that said, I look cute in
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: a pedicab. That's why I want to be in one.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: But it's true. People do it for the Instagram moment.
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: They take the picture because there's the neon light behind them.
• 29:29
  Speaker 9: And the ivory, all the ivy and all the leaves.
• 29:33
  Speaker 9: And you're going through New York City and it's playing
• 29:35
  Speaker 9: Frank Sinatra's New York, New York or Empire State of
• 29:38
  Speaker 9: Mind by Jay-Z and Aliens.
• 29:40
  Speaker 12: Keys, is that it?
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it.
• 29:42
  Speaker 9: And they're blasting, and then they almost hit you, people say,
• 29:45
  Speaker 9: and it's a lot of fun for New Yorkers to
• 29:47
  Speaker 9: navigate them, but really.
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: Well, you.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Should do an ad for pedicabs. That was really good.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: But really, we're talking about these horses, which.
• 29:56
  Speaker 9: If the ban goes into effect, it's June 2028. So
• 30:00
  Speaker 9: it's going to take some time. You'll still see them
• 30:03
  Speaker 9: and their droppings.
• 30:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: You will. But you, they're really resistant to this. But
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I know you've been, Curtis, you've been really. Well, let
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: me tell you. Let me give credit to Side Talk,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Choice of the Gen Z Nation. They're the ones who
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: posted me drinking out of the trough. Yeah, that was disgusting.
• 30:22
  Speaker 8: The water.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Do you know how many hits? I can't believe you.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Did you get sick?
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: No.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: That's why you've been hacking it up these past few days.
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: That's right.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: You got sick from the trough.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: You're right.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: That's disgusting. You probably have like a horse. You probably
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: have like a horse. A horse. Oh my God, we
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: got to get you to a doctor.
• 30:38
  Speaker 8: I just put it together.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: I just put it together. Excuse me. This is my
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: day here, Natalie Migliore. It got a million clicks. And
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: I think this is the video that put it over
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: the top. Wow, you are absolutely right. He's got some
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: kind of weird horse disease.
• 30:58
  Speaker 9: He needs a horse tie, and he's got to get
• 31:01
  Speaker 9: to the doctor.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: Natalie Bigliore is going to be back tomorrow.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Do I go to the horse vet? Yeah. At 7.50.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: Coming up next, we're going to talk more about the midterms.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: Have you seen what's going on in Michigan and Ohio?
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: We'll let you hear it after the 8 o'clock news.