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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hey, Curtis, I don't know if you saw yesterday, but
- 0:03Speaker 1: they had an availability with Donald Trump, and there was
- 0:06Speaker 1: all the reporters that were there. And right there, smack
- 0:10Speaker 1: in the middle of the room, in just about every
- 0:13Speaker 1: TV shot, was John Decker. You can't tell me he
- 0:17Speaker 1: doesn't position himself. It's a great spot, by the way.
- 0:20Speaker 1: I don't know how he gets it, but he's right
- 0:22Speaker 1: up front. Every time the president answers, he almost has
- 0:27Speaker 1: to look at John Decker at one point because he's
- 0:30Speaker 1: right there. He's right up front. That was his laugh.
- 0:33Speaker 1: John Decker, WOR White House and Washington correspondent and host
- 0:37Speaker 1: of the podcast, The White House Briefing Room with John
- 0:39Speaker 1: Decker can be found on the iHeartRadio app. Congratulations, John.
- 0:43Speaker 1: That's I would imagine that's a tough spot to get.
- 0:47Speaker 2: Well, it is, absolutely. But, you know, I've been doing
- 0:50Speaker 2: this for quite some time, so I know where to go.
- 0:54Speaker 2: I know where my spot is in the Oval Office,
- 0:57Speaker 2: where to go to get the best spot available to
- 1:01Speaker 2: ask the president some questions. And as you point out,
- 1:03Speaker 2: right in front of the Resolute Desk, in the Oval Office,
- 1:07Speaker 2: and I think that if you counted, I probably got
- 1:09Speaker 2: five or six questions yesterday to the president, which was
- 1:12Speaker 2: pretty good.
- 1:12Speaker 1: Yeah, it is amazing. I think the president right now
- 1:15Speaker 1: is doing everything possible to try to bring gas prices
- 1:18Speaker 1: down with the Straits of Hormuz, with the tens of
- 1:21Speaker 1: billions of barrels of oil coming out of Venezuela. But
- 1:26Speaker 1: I think one of the most important things, and this
- 1:29Speaker 1: is what I want to ask you about, is the
- 1:31Speaker 1: meeting he had with oil executives. How did that go?
- 1:34Speaker 1: Do we know what happened?
- 1:36Speaker 2: Well, we don't know everything that happened. That was a
- 1:39Speaker 2: meeting in which I was also scheduled to be in
- 1:42Speaker 2: the pool to go into the cabinet room. That's where
- 1:46Speaker 2: he was meeting with those oil and gas company executives.
- 1:49Speaker 2: But unfortunately, the White House decided to leave that meeting closed.
- 1:54Speaker 2: They did not open it up to the press. So
- 1:57Speaker 2: as a result, we have to rely on the readout
- 1:59Speaker 2: coming from the White House. and the limited information coming
- 2:03Speaker 2: from those oil and gas company executives who are meeting
- 2:06Speaker 2: with the president in terms of what was discussed at
- 2:09Speaker 2: that meeting. As you know, oil prices remain exceedingly high.
- 2:14Speaker 2: I think over $ 94 a barrel consistently this week. And
- 2:20Speaker 2: when oil prices are so high, when the wholesale price
- 2:24Speaker 2: is so high, there's a corresponding high price for gasoline,
- 2:28Speaker 2: and that's what we're seeing all across the country, in
- 2:30Speaker 2: New York State, all around the country. In some places, obviously,
- 2:33Speaker 2: it's much worse places like California, which also has on
- 2:36Speaker 2: top of those high gas prices, high taxes. So you're
- 2:40Speaker 2: looking at gas around $ 6 a gallon in California.
- 2:44Speaker 3: So now, John Decker, the Iranians, whoever is the shot callers,
- 2:50Speaker 3: their trump card is the Straits of Hormuz. Why does
- 2:54Speaker 3: the president, over this very serious matter in which he
- 2:58Speaker 3: does not have acceptance by the American public, he's down
- 3:02Speaker 3: in the polls on this issue, first last week say,
- 3:06Speaker 3: I'm going to declare it an American territory, and then
- 3:09Speaker 3: yesterday say, we're going to rename it Trump straight. Does
- 3:13Speaker 3: he not realize that that goes nowhere? Even with MAGA supporters,
- 3:17Speaker 3: they're shaking their heads like, yo, man, this is not
- 3:21Speaker 3: a joking matter. This is like, this is hurting us.
- 3:24Speaker 3: This is hurting the world. It's hurting Iran. What are
- 3:28Speaker 3: you joking around for?
- 3:30Speaker 2: Well, I can't get inside. The president said he was
- 3:32Speaker 2: indeed joking around. He was asked a question about that yesterday,
- 3:35Speaker 2: also in the Oval Office by a colleague of mine
- 3:38Speaker 2: from AFP. And he just pretty much said I was
- 3:41Speaker 2: just putting it out there in jest. But you're right.
- 3:44Speaker 2: This is a serious matter. It's a serious matter for
- 3:47Speaker 2: families that are dealing with this high price of gas.
- 3:52Speaker 2: You know, I remember a few weeks ago when I
- 3:53Speaker 2: was out in Alaska and talking to motorists out there,
- 3:57Speaker 2: they're dealing with really high gas prices because although they
- 4:00Speaker 2: have the largest amount of crude oil in the country,
- 4:02Speaker 2: they have to export it out to be refined and
- 4:05Speaker 2: then bring it back in on trucks to get to
- 4:09Speaker 2: the residents of Alaska. So it really hits home for them.
- 4:13Speaker 2: The fact is it hits their budget really hard. So
- 4:17Speaker 2: I don't know why the president would put that out there.
- 4:19Speaker 2: Of course, this comes a few days after the president
- 4:21Speaker 2: says and declared through an executive order that he's changing
- 4:25Speaker 2: the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. So maybe
- 4:29Speaker 2: it's just simply, Curtis, a follow-up on that.
- 4:32Speaker 1: Everything is going to change next week. Is starting guns
- 4:35Speaker 1: going to go off? That's when you're going to see
- 4:37Speaker 1: all of the ads for the midterm elections coming up.
- 4:40Speaker 1: And The president talked a lot about the midterms yesterday
- 4:44Speaker 1: and what he plans to do. Is he going to
- 4:48Speaker 1: spend any of his money on these midterms? Because he's
- 4:51Speaker 1: got a big war chest.
- 4:53Speaker 2: He's got a huge war chest through his super PAC
- 4:55Speaker 2: MAGA Inc., over $ 400 million. And there are those people
- 5:00Speaker 2: like Karl Rove who are saying, don't wait. We can't
- 5:04Speaker 2: afford to wait. Republicans need to spend that money. They
- 5:08Speaker 2: need to help out their candidates, and he's urging the
- 5:10Speaker 2: president to start spending right now, even before we hit
- 5:14Speaker 2: that magic Labor Day holiday. So the president realizes that
- 5:19Speaker 2: there's some pressure on him and is super packed to
- 5:21Speaker 2: spend that money. And the president yesterday, in response to
- 5:25Speaker 2: my question, confirmed that he's going to head all the
- 5:27Speaker 2: way out to Alaska to help out U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan.
- 5:32Speaker 2: who's running for his third term. This is a state
- 5:35Speaker 2: that President Trump won all three times he ran for president.
- 5:39Speaker 2: The last time in 2024, he won it by 13.5 points.
- 5:43Speaker 2: And yet, Dan Sullivan is having difficulty in terms of
- 5:47Speaker 2: gaining traction to win a third term in the U.S. Senate.
- 5:50Speaker 2: So that's the reason why the president says he's going
- 5:53Speaker 2: to head out to Alaska to campaign for Dan Sullivan,
- 5:57Speaker 2: to get his base energized, to vote for him on
- 6:01Speaker 2: November the 3rd.
- 6:02Speaker 3: Now, just imagine, John Decker, you're one of those 38
- 6:05Speaker 3: that are marginal.
- 6:07Speaker 1: You're on that line.
- 6:08Speaker 3: You're a little ahead. You're a little behind. And the
- 6:11Speaker 3: president said, I'm there for you those last 30 days.
- 6:14Speaker 3: It's going to be morning, noon and night. But you
- 6:16Speaker 3: first got to come to our first ever party convention
- 6:21Speaker 3: in Dallas, which is September 9th and September 10th, right
- 6:25Speaker 3: before 9-11. Some of the Republicans are saying they can't
- 6:31Speaker 3: make it. They're too busy campaigning. Now, you know this, President.
- 6:34Speaker 3: If they don't pick up and come to this party convention,
- 6:38Speaker 3: which is going to be like a pep rally and
- 6:39Speaker 3: laying out the goals of this campaign, I have a
- 6:43Speaker 3: feeling the president ain't going to be there for them
- 6:46Speaker 3: in that final push.
- 6:49Speaker 4: Well, you're right.
- 6:50Speaker 2: You know, you really have to make a tough decision
- 6:52Speaker 2: if you're in a very close race. Do you head
- 6:54Speaker 2: down to Dallas? Or do you stay in your district
- 6:58Speaker 2: and campaign there and try to, you know, energize the
- 7:01Speaker 2: people there, the constituents there to come out and vote
- 7:04Speaker 2: for you or to vote early or to vote on
- 7:06Speaker 2: November the 3rd? So that's a tough decision they have
- 7:08Speaker 2: to make. I've already made that decision. I'm going to
- 7:11Speaker 2: be down in Dallas next week for that midterm convention,
- 7:14Speaker 2: the first.
- 7:14Speaker 1: Of its kind.
- 7:16Speaker 2: So I'll be speaking to you next week from Dallas, Texas.
- 7:20Speaker 2: And we'll see if indeed the president is effective in
- 7:24Speaker 2: essentially energizing is base, energizing the troops, and getting them
- 7:29Speaker 2: to vote for those Republican candidates in November.
- 7:32Speaker 1: Oh, they're all going to be there. There's over 400
- 7:35Speaker 1: million reasons why they should be there. They're not going
- 7:37Speaker 1: to see any of that money unless they go down.
- 7:39Speaker 1: So the one person that was left out, actually a
- 7:43Speaker 1: lot of people that were left out, when he talked
- 7:45Speaker 1: about the campaign and what he's going to do and
- 7:48Speaker 1: how he's going to barnstorm, remember he said the last
- 7:50Speaker 1: 30 days I'll be on the road every day?
- 7:52Speaker 5: Yes.
- 7:54Speaker 1: Except for the Republican governors. Good luck. You're on your own.
- 7:58Speaker 1: How does Vivek Ramaswamy feel in Ohio?
- 8:03Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's in good shape, regardless of whether
- 8:06Speaker 2: the president campaigns for him. It is Ohio. That being said,
- 8:09Speaker 2: there's a Senate race in Ohio, and I would imagine
- 8:12Speaker 2: the president's going to travel to Ohio for that Senate race.
- 8:14Speaker 2: And I would not be surprised if Vivek Ramaswamy shows
- 8:18Speaker 2: up at that event with the president. So the Senate
- 8:21Speaker 2: race is one in which It really is a pickup
- 8:24Speaker 2: opportunity for Democrats. That's in Ohio. There are other pickup
- 8:29Speaker 2: opportunities for Democrats. I could go through the list really quickly.
- 8:32Speaker 2: It's North Carolina. It's Maine. It's Iowa.
- 8:37Speaker 6: It's Alaska.
- 8:38Speaker 1: It's Texas.
- 8:39Speaker 2: So those are the pickup opportunities for Democrats this election cycle.
- 8:43Speaker 2: And as it relates to the Republicans, they have some
- 8:48Speaker 2: pickup opportunities there.
- 8:50Speaker 1: As well.
- 8:50Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens. It's going to be a
- 8:52Speaker 2: really interesting work. Look at the look at the date
- 8:55Speaker 2: on the calendar. It's September the 3rd. We're exactly two
- 8:59Speaker 2: months away from election day.
- 9:00Speaker 1: It's just real quick. I would check those polls in Ohio.
- 9:04Speaker 1: Take another look. Yeah, you would think that they were
- 9:07Speaker 1: Swami Ramaswami was way ahead. But Cook Report just called
- 9:11Speaker 1: it a toss up.
- 9:13Speaker 2: Did it really?
- 9:13Speaker 1: Yes, it did.
- 9:14Speaker 2: Really interesting.
- 9:15Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 9:15Speaker 2: Thanks for letting me know that.
- 9:16Speaker 8: Sure.
- 9:16Speaker 2: I'm not following the governor's races like the president is.
- 9:19Speaker 1: I'm following the Senate races.
- 9:20Speaker 6: So there you go.
- 9:21Speaker 1: You're on your own, pal.
- 9:23Speaker 3: I've got enough to do for Senate candidates and House candidates,
- 9:27Speaker 3: and you better be in Dallas if you expect to
- 9:30Speaker 3: see me. But we know the big meeting is at
- 9:33Speaker 3: the end of September at the White House, the return engagement.
- 9:37Speaker 3: President Donald Trump went to see President Xi in Beijing.
- 9:41Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 9:41Speaker 3: And then he invited him to come to the White
- 9:44Speaker 3: House in the end of September. You know, a lot
- 9:47Speaker 3: of focus on what the red Chinese can do to
- 9:50Speaker 3: help end this Iranian war. They seem to be quite
- 9:53Speaker 3: belligerent and defiant. What do you think is the president's
- 9:57Speaker 3: goal in that meeting where he.
- 10:00Speaker 1: Is the host?
- 10:02Speaker 2: Well, it's going to be really interesting, and it just
- 10:04Speaker 2: so happens September the 24th is when President Xi will
- 10:08Speaker 2: come to the White House. I'm in the pool that day,
- 10:11Speaker 2: so hopefully there'll be an opportunity to ask both presidents
- 10:14Speaker 2: questions in the Oval Office. I've been looking forward to
- 10:17Speaker 2: that for quite some time. And for the president, a
- 10:20Speaker 2: lot is on the agenda. Trade with China is always
- 10:24Speaker 2: on the agenda. That is such an important issue. And
- 10:26Speaker 2: then you hit upon those foreign policy challenges for the president.
- 10:30Speaker 2: And the number one foreign policy challenge right now for
- 10:34Speaker 2: the U.S. and for President Trump is the Iran conflict.
- 10:38Speaker 2: And the president would very much like to see China
- 10:41Speaker 2: take essentially stop purchasing that Iranian oil. It props up
- 10:45Speaker 2: their economy. And I don't think you're going to get
- 10:47Speaker 2: any buy-in from the Chinese, given the statements that have
- 10:50Speaker 2: been put out by their foreign ministry just in the
- 10:53Speaker 2: course of the past two weeks.
- 10:54Speaker 1: John Decker, WOR White House and Washington correspondent and host
- 10:58Speaker 1: of the podcast, The White House Briefing Room with John Decker.
- 11:01Speaker 1: That can be found on the iHeartRadio app. Thanks a lot, John.
- 11:04Speaker 1: Talk to you next week.
- 11:05Speaker 6: Thanks, Larry.
- 11:06Speaker 2: Thanks, Curtis.
- 11:07Speaker 6: Talk to you then.
- 11:07Speaker 5: Bye-bye.
- 11:08Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you one Republican candidate who's already spending
- 11:11Speaker 1: some money in New Jersey because he's in a tough race.
- 11:15Speaker 1: Tom Cain Jr., and he brought in the big guns.
- 11:19Speaker 1: We'll let you hear for yourself coming up next. Plus,
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- 11:48Speaker 1: talking about the midterms, and one of the races everybody's
- 11:52Speaker 1: going to be looking at, not only in this area,
- 11:54Speaker 1: but all across the country, is the 7th District in
- 11:57Speaker 1: New Jersey. It's really a purple district. It's always a toss-up.
- 12:02Speaker 1: But Tom Kane Jr. currently holds the seat, and he's
- 12:06Speaker 1: been in there for a few terms now. He's facing
- 12:09Speaker 1: the fight of his life, not only because of the
- 12:11Speaker 1: political climate in the country, but because he's up against
- 12:15Speaker 1: a pretty good candidate. Rebecca Bennett is a healthcare executive,
- 12:19Speaker 1: 15 years in the military, Navy helicopter pilot. She was
- 12:23Speaker 1: a commander for a while, and she's a mom with
- 12:27Speaker 1: two kids. So she checks every single box, and The
- 12:32Speaker 1: Cook Report right now, which is what I look at
- 12:34Speaker 1: for these races, calls it a toss-up at this point.
- 12:38Speaker 1: So he's bringing out the big guns. Maybe the most
- 12:42Speaker 1: popular politician ever in New Jersey. His dad, Tom Kane Sr.
- 12:49Speaker 1: You watch your children grow and wonder, who will they become?
- 12:54Speaker 5: I couldn't be prouder of my son, Tom.
- 12:57Speaker 1: He cares about people.
- 12:58Speaker 5: That's why he worked to protect Medicare and Medicaid for
- 13:01Speaker 5: every New Jersey senior, child, and disabled person.
- 13:05Speaker 1: He's never going to stop fighting, advocating, and serving those
- 13:08Speaker 1: in need. That's what drives him, makes him a leader
- 13:11Speaker 1: we can all be proud of. I'm Tom Kane. And
- 13:15Speaker 1: I'm Tom Kane, Jr., and I approve this message. I
- 13:18Speaker 1: will say I've interviewed and met Tom Kane, Sr. several
- 13:23Speaker 1: times back when he was in his prime. And I've
- 13:26Speaker 1: also interviewed Tom Kane, Jr. Tom Kane Jr. 's no
- 13:30Speaker 1: Tom Kane Sr. Oh, that is for sure.
- 13:35Speaker 3: Just like Andrew Evil Eyes Cuomo's no Mario Cuomo.
- 13:38Speaker 1: That's for sure. But it's smart. It's a great ad.
- 13:42Speaker 1: They're sitting on a porch. He's retired. He's in a
- 13:45Speaker 1: rocking chair on the porch looking glowingly at his son.
- 13:49Speaker 1: His son comes through the door and sits down next
- 13:52Speaker 1: to him. He gets a big smile on his face.
- 13:54Speaker 1: The fact that We all now remember who this Tom
- 13:58Speaker 1: Kane is. Oh, yeah. He's the son of the governor,
- 14:02Speaker 1: the guy I really liked. You know what? It's going
- 14:04Speaker 1: to have some power.
- 14:05Speaker 3: Well, maybe if they had Brooke Shields join them. New
- 14:08Speaker 3: Jersey and you together forever.
- 14:11Speaker 1: Perfect together. Perfect together.
- 14:13Speaker 3: I don't know. Remember, the electorate has changed. It's a
- 14:16Speaker 3: generational change. This is a strong Democratic candidate, just like
- 14:22Speaker 3: Mike Lawler, who will be in Dallas for those two
- 14:24Speaker 3: days because he wants Trump to come to Rockland, Westchester.
- 14:28Speaker 3: He's facing a similar candidate, again, military veteran woman, just
- 14:34Speaker 3: like your governor in New Jersey. There's a cookie cutter
- 14:37Speaker 3: approach now that the Democratic DNC in states and nationally,
- 14:43Speaker 3: can we find a woman who has served in the military,
- 14:46Speaker 3: maybe as a mother, maybe with kids who has a
- 14:49Speaker 3: background to win a seat that maybe before was not winnable.
- 14:53Speaker 1: It's going to be a tough, tough race. It's going
- 14:55Speaker 1: to be, that's going to be so close. Our talk
- 14:59Speaker 1: backs are patiently waiting.
- 15:01Speaker 5: I've mentioned this before, but I still believe that the
- 15:03Speaker 5: oil companies have abandoned Trump and are doing everything they
- 15:07Speaker 5: can to keep those gas prices artificially high to make
- 15:12Speaker 5: him lose in his party lose in the midterm elections
- 15:17Speaker 5: because they, he did what they wanted, what they wanted
- 15:21Speaker 5: him to do as far as getting rid of the regulations.
- 15:23Speaker 5: Now they don't.
- 15:23Speaker 2: Need him anymore.
- 15:24Speaker 5: They don't want the prices to go down and they
- 15:28Speaker 5: don't want to lose profit.
- 15:30Speaker 1: I don't, I think you're way off on that. I
- 15:32Speaker 1: think the oil companies love Donald Trump. They hated Biden.
- 15:36Speaker 1: Remember Biden would do anything to talk against the oil companies,
- 15:40Speaker 1: anything because he was for the green new deal and
- 15:42Speaker 1: all of that. Trump is drill, baby, drill. No, no, no,
- 15:47Speaker 1: I got a feeling you're wrong on that one. We'll see.
- 15:49Speaker 1: We'll see if the prices come down in the next
- 15:51Speaker 1: couple of months.
- 15:52Speaker 9: More emphasis on protecting the public from these crazy people,
- 15:57Speaker 9: no matter what reason they killed the people. Protecting the
- 16:01Speaker 9: public from them and not to let them go free
- 16:05Speaker 9: because they were insane or whatever. That's the thing that
- 16:08Speaker 9: gets me.
- 16:10Speaker 3: Oh, remember the new category, random attacks. It mostly affects
- 16:15Speaker 3: emotionally disturbed persons who are wigging out, who attack people
- 16:20Speaker 3: they don't even know. You know, could be random, could
- 16:22Speaker 3: be the same person on the same corner, and they
- 16:25Speaker 3: won't do it nine times out of ten, but on
- 16:27Speaker 3: that tenth day they do it. And again, because there's
- 16:31Speaker 3: no cash bail here, courtesy of Andrew Evil Ice Cuomo,
- 16:35Speaker 3: as much as he does not want to acknowledge that, Oftentimes,
- 16:39Speaker 3: they get a 72-hour observation at a local municipal hospital
- 16:44Speaker 3: and cut loose to do it again and again. No care,
- 16:47Speaker 3: no help, no medication, just an endless treadmill of this.
- 16:51Speaker 8: In reference to the story about Pamela Cisneros, why don't
- 16:55Speaker 8: cops use a burner gun to stop these perpetrators instead
- 17:00Speaker 8: of shooting them with real guns? A burner gun should be...
- 17:05Speaker 8: knock them down and keep them alive and give them
- 17:09Speaker 8: time to apprehend them instead of killing them i don't
- 17:13Speaker 8: know that's just the.
- 17:13Speaker 3: Thought actually uh head of security here for iheart chris
- 17:18Speaker 3: former nypd cop when i was leaving the building yesterday
- 17:22Speaker 3: said to me you know what would have helped in
- 17:24Speaker 3: all these cases is what we all had as patrolmen
- 17:28Speaker 3: a nightstick they took that away from us the police
- 17:31Speaker 3: officers no longer have that wooden nightstick they have uh
- 17:36Speaker 3: basically a metal baton that they have to open up
- 17:39Speaker 3: that doesn't work.
- 17:41Speaker 1: And yet the auxiliary police, right, look like NYPD. They,
- 17:46Speaker 1: they carry a nightstick. Chris is absolutely right.
- 17:50Speaker 3: That would have helped at least prevent the attack once
- 17:53Speaker 3: you've surrounded him. No one can outdo a nightstick. Yeah,
- 17:57Speaker 3: and when they see it, they know what's going to
- 18:00Speaker 3: happen next. I think you're absolutely right. Now, Daria Albinger
- 18:03Speaker 3: with the 730 News.
- 18:03Speaker 10: Daria.
- 18:04Speaker 1: Morning, guys. We start out the way we have so
- 18:06Speaker 1: many days.
- 18:07Speaker 7: Of summer, and it's going to be the summer of
- 18:09Speaker 7: the storms, isn't it? And we have a weather alert.
- 18:11Speaker 7: The city's storm emergency plan is in effect for a
- 18:13Speaker 7: third day. Just a reminder, some heavy rain today could
- 18:16Speaker 7: cause localized flooding. Gloria Steinem has died. She was a
- 18:19Speaker 7: key figure in the second wave of the women's rights movement.
- 18:22Speaker 7: She was born here in New York City. and remained
- 18:25Speaker 7: active well into her 80s. Steinem was 92. The big
- 18:28Speaker 7: Labor Day getaway begins today for some, and if you're
- 18:30Speaker 7: going to be driving, plan to pay more than you did.
- 18:33Speaker 7: to hit the road last year.
- 18:34Speaker 1: But will Americans be taken advantage of by the economy?
- 18:37Speaker 11: Gasoline prices are still high and we just hit a
- 18:40Speaker 11: record in August.
- 18:41Speaker 1: Aixa Diaz is with AAA, which puts the national average
- 18:44Speaker 1: for a gallon of gas at $ 4. 14 a gallon, almost
- 18:47Speaker 1: a dollar higher than a year ago. Relief on the horizon?
- 18:49Speaker 11: Gasoline demand typically starts coming down in early fall and
- 18:52Speaker 11: that's why you typically see gas prices coming down this
- 18:55Speaker 11: time of year as well.
- 18:56Speaker 1: California is posting the highest pump price, $ 5.
- 18:58Speaker 12: 78.
- 18:58Speaker 1: That's $ 2. 34 above the lowest.
- 18:59Speaker 4: Indiana.
- 19:03Speaker 1: Jim Ryan, ABC News.
- 19:04Speaker 7: We're paying about $ 4. 26 a gallon here in New York,
- 19:07Speaker 7: $ 4. 27 in Connecticut, and $ 4. 25 in New Jersey. Mayor Mamdani
- 19:12Speaker 7: is addressing concerns over the messaging app that his administration
- 19:16Speaker 7: uses to communicate with influencers.
- 19:18Speaker 13: The encrypted messaging app called Signal is used to share
- 19:21Speaker 13: daily talking points with more than 200 creators. But the
- 19:24Speaker 13: concern is whether messages that disappear are being correctly preserved
- 19:29Speaker 13: under city record. Mayor Mamdani.
- 19:31Speaker 14: And my administration will always strive to fully comply with
- 19:34Speaker 14: all legal requirements, including those that relate to the preservation
- 19:37Speaker 14: of city records. And if there are any departures from
- 19:41Speaker 14: what is legally required, my administration will look into it
- 19:43Speaker 14: immediately and take corrective action.
- 19:45Speaker 13: Meanwhile, former independent mayoral candidate Jim Walden is calling for
- 19:49Speaker 13: a Department of Investigation. probe into the use of the
- 19:52Speaker 13: Signal platform. Natalie Migliori, WOR News.
- 19:55Speaker 7: The Trump administration is threatening to end its support of
- 19:58Speaker 7: the Smithsonian. Its governing board says it received a letter
- 20:01Speaker 7: from the White House stating that federal agencies cannot in
- 20:04Speaker 7: good conscience continue to support the Smithsonian. It says that
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- 20:13Speaker 7: Mets and Yankees both win. Next news, 8 o'clock, bulletins
- 20:16Speaker 7: at once. I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
- 20:19Speaker 3: Well, you saw Tiger Woods in court yesterday. Judge determined,
- 20:23Speaker 3: all right, five years, no driving privilege. And then he
- 20:26Speaker 3: turned to the prosecutor and said, what about when he's
- 20:29Speaker 3: playing golf and he's driving a golf cart? And the
- 20:32Speaker 3: prosecutor went, we hadn't factored that in. Oh, wait till
- 20:36Speaker 3: you hear that. And plus, Tony Romo, who has been
- 20:40Speaker 3: kicked out of NFL broadcasting booths, saying, oh, no, you
- 20:43Speaker 3: have it all wrong. I-D-U-I, you got it all wrong.
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- 20:57Speaker 3: So the attention of the world was on that courtroom
- 21:00Speaker 3: in Florida. where Tiger Woods, after getting out of his
- 21:04Speaker 3: rehab stint, was in court to hear from the judge
- 21:09Speaker 3: in terms of what would the penalties be for being
- 21:13Speaker 3: caught impaired while recently driving. They claim that it wasn't alcohol.
- 21:18Speaker 3: He passed the breathalyzer, but he was clearly on some pills.
- 21:22Speaker 3: They found two pills on him at the time. Vanessa Trump,
- 21:26Speaker 3: who is his girlfriend, I guess you can call her
- 21:30Speaker 3: at this point, was at his side.
- 21:33Speaker 1: Everybody was watching.
- 21:35Speaker 3: And what was it that was said about him and
- 21:37Speaker 3: his driving privilege, Larry?
- 21:39Speaker 1: Well, he's been suspended for five years. I want to
- 21:42Speaker 1: point out, he did pass the breathalyzer, but he refused
- 21:45Speaker 1: to take a urine test and a blood test, which
- 21:48Speaker 1: they wanted to do. And that's why they arrested him.
- 21:50Speaker 1: And when he got arrested, if you remember, he was...
- 21:54Speaker 1: way out of it i'm.
- 21:55Speaker 10: Thinking ambien we remember that original one he had his
- 21:58Speaker 10: fight with his wife at the time and the gated
- 22:00Speaker 10: community and then he crashed.
- 22:01Speaker 6: Into the johnny pump knocked it over they find found out.
- 22:03Speaker 7: He was impaired on ambien.
- 22:19Speaker 3: Seems to have that look, you know, when you've had
- 22:22Speaker 3: too much Ambien and you're still sleepwalking.
- 22:25Speaker 1: I don't know, man. He was out of it. He
- 22:27Speaker 1: was really out of it. I played that, and it
- 22:29Speaker 1: was hard to hear because it's all being recorded on
- 22:32Speaker 1: a body cam. But she said, turn around, face the car,
- 22:37Speaker 1: put your hands behind your back, and then she puts
- 22:40Speaker 1: the cuffs on him and says, we're going to take
- 22:45Speaker 1: you downtown. And he said, am I being arrested? how
- 22:49Speaker 1: out of it do you have to be not to
- 22:51Speaker 1: realize you're being arrested after you've been cuffed? I mean,
- 22:55Speaker 1: he was really out of it that day. And if
- 22:57Speaker 1: you remember, he clipped a car, he clipped a truck
- 23:00Speaker 1: that was being towed and the truck flipped over and
- 23:02Speaker 1: his car flipped over. And, and so it was, it was,
- 23:07Speaker 1: it was a mess and he tried to leave the
- 23:10Speaker 1: scene for a while and he was just way, way
- 23:13Speaker 1: out of it. But you mentioned the Florida state attorney,
- 23:17Speaker 1: Thomas Bacadal, who had a suggestion. If Tiger Woods, during
- 23:23Speaker 1: this five-month suspension— Five years. Five years.
- 23:27Speaker 9: Oh, yeah.
- 23:27Speaker 1: Five months would have been nothing. Exactly. Get out of
- 23:31Speaker 1: the way. Tiger Woods is behind the wheel. Shut down I-5.
- 23:38Speaker 1: Five years suspension. He said, you really shouldn't try to drive.
- 23:42Speaker 6: Oops.
- 23:45Speaker 10: His license is suspended for a period of five years,
- 23:48Speaker 10: and as you heard the judge indicate to him, you
- 23:51Speaker 10: shouldn't drive. And if anybody in the world, if I
- 23:54Speaker 10: can send any message to Mr. Woods, it's simply this.
- 23:59Speaker 10: Of all the people in the world who should not
- 24:01Speaker 10: get behind the wheel of the car, it's the gentleman
- 24:05Speaker 10: who is one of the most recognizable faces on the planet.
- 24:08Speaker 3: So that was the moment in the spotlight for the prosecutor,
- 24:12Speaker 3: except the judge then turned to the prosecutor and said,
- 24:16Speaker 3: Does this also apply to when Mr. Woods is playing
- 24:19Speaker 3: golf and he's driving a golf cart and the prosecutor
- 24:22Speaker 3: was like, we hadn't factored that in. So all of
- 24:27Speaker 3: a sudden he was stymied by that. But yeah, how
- 24:30Speaker 3: many times now I haven't played golf much in my life,
- 24:33Speaker 3: but the times I've been out there. on the links,
- 24:36Speaker 3: there's always some guy who's half in the bag driving
- 24:39Speaker 3: a golf cart because he's looking for the beer wagon
- 24:44Speaker 3: coming around that's going to sell you booze on nine
- 24:47Speaker 3: holes or 18 holes, and he's either in a ditch,
- 24:49Speaker 3: he's in a sand trap, and not his ball, the
- 24:52Speaker 3: golf cart, because they're impaired. I think they came to
- 24:55Speaker 3: the conclusion that he could drive a golf cart.
- 24:58Speaker 1: Of course he could. It's a stupid question. They never
- 25:00Speaker 1: should have asked it. The judge didn't know what he
- 25:02Speaker 1: was talking about. The state attorney doesn't know. Oh, I
- 25:04Speaker 1: would have asked that. He doesn't have a license for
- 25:06Speaker 1: a golf cart. You can't suspend driving a golf cart.
- 25:10Speaker 1: You can't. You just can't do it.
- 25:12Speaker 3: Larry, I hate to tell you, there are people who
- 25:14Speaker 3: have driven golf carts that don't have a license. As
- 25:17Speaker 3: long as you tip them, you can drive it.
- 25:19Speaker 1: What I'm saying is you don't need a license. You
- 25:21Speaker 1: don't need anything. You can drive a golf cart. You
- 25:24Speaker 1: could drive a golf cart.
- 25:25Speaker 3: No, no, I understand that. But I would ban it.
- 25:27Speaker 3: I would make sure that he's not. Well, he's not
- 25:31Speaker 3: going to a public links. There's only certain places that
- 25:34Speaker 3: he would go to play. He could have his chauffeur,
- 25:37Speaker 3: which he refuses to have, by the way.
- 25:39Speaker 1: He and others who are famous. You can't say to somebody,
- 25:43Speaker 1: guess what we're doing? We're also imposing a moratorium on
- 25:47Speaker 1: you driving golf carts. No, you can't. The only reason
- 25:51Speaker 1: you could suspend driving is because there's a driver's license.
- 25:54Speaker 3: Larry, in Florida, I've seen elderly people driving golf. Golf
- 25:58Speaker 3: carts on the road.
- 26:00Speaker 1: Okay.
- 26:01Speaker 4: Yes.
- 26:01Speaker 1: Then you can get fined. Once you get off the
- 26:04Speaker 1: golf cart, you are now a vehicle on the road.
- 26:07Speaker 1: But there's no license for that.
- 26:08Speaker 11: That is a thing, though, because some golf carts are
- 26:11Speaker 11: modified to be what they call low-speed vehicles, because I
- 26:15Speaker 11: see that down the shore.
- 26:16Speaker 1: And they actually have a license plate. and you can't
- 26:18Speaker 1: drive it on the street. They've become extremely controversial down
- 26:21Speaker 1: the shore. I agree. They're plentiful now, and people are
- 26:25Speaker 1: getting furious at them all over the streets.
- 26:28Speaker 6: As they should.
- 26:28Speaker 3: But meantime, the bigger issue here, Tony Romo, different set
- 26:32Speaker 3: of circumstances, wealthy people is, why aren't you being driven
- 26:38Speaker 3: by somebody? And it turns out that what my very
- 26:41Speaker 3: dear friend Johnny Legit said to me a long time
- 26:44Speaker 3: ago is, is they don't want a chauffeur, they don't
- 26:46Speaker 3: want a driver, they don't want to even Uber because
- 26:49Speaker 3: they don't want people listening to the conversations, private conversations,
- 26:53Speaker 3: they're probably having in the backseat on their cell phone.
- 26:57Speaker 3: God only knows what they're discussing. So they choose, instead
- 27:00Speaker 3: of spending the money, which they have in all these cases.
- 27:03Speaker 3: Who was the guy in Long Island? You were talking
- 27:05Speaker 3: about him yesterday. Remember who was cold busted? He couldn't
- 27:09Speaker 3: even walk the line. Justin Timberlake, remember?
- 27:12Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 27:13Speaker 1: No chauffeur.
- 27:14Speaker 3: No Uber driver, but there's a reason they don't want
- 27:17Speaker 3: him because they don't want anyone listening to their personal
- 27:21Speaker 3: business that they're discussing on the cell phone.
- 27:23Speaker 1: Absolutely. But let's get back to Tony Romo for a second,
- 27:26Speaker 1: because he was just a disgusting liar that day. I mean,
- 27:30Speaker 1: at least Tiger Woods took his punishment like a man
- 27:36Speaker 1: and then made a plea. Tony Romo said he asked
- 27:40Speaker 1: if you had any alcohol. He said, no, he had
- 27:42Speaker 1: a big open bottle of alcohol right next to him
- 27:45Speaker 1: in the car. What did he think? They weren't going
- 27:47Speaker 1: to look in the car to see that he lied
- 27:50Speaker 1: about everything, about where he was going, about what he
- 27:53Speaker 1: was doing, about where he was. The best thing. And
- 27:56Speaker 1: you know what? That ended up with not just a
- 27:58Speaker 1: suspended license. His job got suspended.
- 28:00Speaker 3: Yeah, well, the interesting thing was how he claimed he
- 28:03Speaker 3: was in Milwaukee to go visit his grandparents. I'm saying
- 28:07Speaker 3: out of all the stories he could have told. But
- 28:09Speaker 3: then I'm thinking back to when Pat Summerall was the
- 28:13Speaker 3: lead broadcaster with his partner at that time who would
- 28:17Speaker 3: never fly. I'm forgetting his name right now.
- 28:20Speaker 1: Madden.
- 28:21Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
- 28:22Speaker 3: My God, that guy had been an alcoholic. Now, the
- 28:25Speaker 3: reason I mentioned his name is that Susie Wise, who
- 28:28Speaker 3: is the chief of staff in the Trump administration, that
- 28:31Speaker 3: was her daddy. I'm wondering how he survived. I know
- 28:35Speaker 3: he said he was on the wagon for a while,
- 28:37Speaker 3: but sometimes I'd look at Pat Summerall when he was
- 28:40Speaker 3: with Madden, and it seemed like his eyes were rolling
- 28:44Speaker 3: in his head. I mean, it was a great broadcast,
- 28:46Speaker 3: so don't get me wrong, but some people said he
- 28:49Speaker 3: reeked of alcohol.
- 28:50Speaker 1: I just searched most famous people be arrested for DWI,
- 28:54Speaker 1: and the top two are Justin Timberlake and Tiger Woods,
- 28:57Speaker 1: but then Britney Spears, Mel Gibson, Khloe Kardashian, and I
- 29:03Speaker 1: didn't know about this one, Michael Phelps? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 29:07Speaker 3: Remember Phelps?
- 29:08Speaker 1: He went through that whole period. Oh, my God. He was, well,
- 29:12Speaker 1: what was that? He was drinking. He would go to
- 29:15Speaker 1: frat parties, right? He was already out of college. He'd
- 29:18Speaker 1: be drinking. I forget what those college kids do.
- 29:20Speaker 3: A funnel?
- 29:20Speaker 14: Yeah, with a funnel.
- 29:21Speaker 1: What the hell are you doing, Mike? I guess he
- 29:26Speaker 1: wasn't swimming anymore. I guess he wasn't in training at
- 29:29Speaker 1: that moment. When we come back, we haven't talked about
- 29:35Speaker 1: Zoran Mamdani basically banning any teaching of AI in grade school.
- 29:42Speaker 1: How do New Yorkers feel about that? Well, you know
- 29:45Speaker 1: what's going to happen. Natalie Migliore has her beat on
- 29:47Speaker 1: the street coming up next.
- 29:50Speaker 3: Now, it's 710WOR' s Beat on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
- 29:57Speaker 1: Well, Zoran Mamdani made an announcement yesterday about AI in
- 30:01Speaker 1: grade schools, basically saying they weren't going to use AI
- 30:05Speaker 1: in grade school for the most part because the teachers
- 30:08Speaker 1: union wanted that. So how do New Yorkers feel about it? Well,
- 30:11Speaker 1: that's Natalie Migliore's job. She has her beat on the
- 30:14Speaker 1: street today on that very topic. Good morning, Natalie.
- 30:18Speaker 6: Good morning, Larry. Good morning, Curtis. You know, this has
- 30:21Speaker 6: been a hot button issue for years now as AI
- 30:24Speaker 6: sort of arises and people use it more and more.
- 30:29Speaker 6: But New York City Public Schools says that's not happening
- 30:33Speaker 6: for some of its youngest learners. At least for now.
- 30:38Speaker 6: The mayor and school's chancellor made the announcement shoulder to
- 30:41Speaker 6: shoulder yesterday saying kids between kindergarten and eighth grade will
- 30:46Speaker 6: not have access to AI software in the classroom. While
- 30:51Speaker 6: high schoolers will be introduced to the technology, but it's
- 30:55Speaker 6: not going to be fully integrated. So they won't have
- 30:58Speaker 6: full use of it all the time. People of all
- 31:02Speaker 6: ages weighing in.
- 31:05Speaker 4: Honestly, a smart idea because I think that during our
- 31:08Speaker 4: most formative years, using AI is probably when it's most damaging.
- 31:11Speaker 4: I think that having that early education where you're not
- 31:14Speaker 4: using it and then being able to learn how to
- 31:16Speaker 4: use it as a tool later on is probably most beneficial.
- 31:18Speaker 12: The thing is if you ban something, it's going to
- 31:20Speaker 12: make somebody want it even more. So, I mean, think
- 31:22Speaker 12: about Europe. They drink at the age of 18, we
- 31:24Speaker 12: drink at the age of 21, we have a higher
- 31:25Speaker 12: drunk driving rate. I think AI is a tool. So
- 31:29Speaker 12: I wish I had AI when I had to write
- 31:30Speaker 12: an essay with you in my outline, but do I think?
- 31:32Speaker 12: I don't think it's a good idea.
- 31:33Speaker 15: Children need to learn the right way. They need to
- 31:35Speaker 15: find out what's going on with their own brain and
- 31:38Speaker 15: not artificial intelligence.
- 31:40Speaker 1: Because they're going to be vegetables.
- 31:42Speaker 10: They don't even know how to.
- 31:43Speaker 8: Tell time anymore.
- 31:46Speaker 6: Well, I've certainly witnessed kids not being able to tell
- 31:49Speaker 6: time anymore. But so she's not necessarily, you know, we
- 31:55Speaker 6: sort of see the day to day of what technology
- 31:57Speaker 6: is doing to the younger generations. I was just talking
- 32:00Speaker 6: to somebody last night about that. Now, the mayor laid
- 32:03Speaker 6: out parameters that comes with this one year ban. He
- 32:06Speaker 6: says teachers will be teachers now will be able to
- 32:10Speaker 6: use AI software for lesson planning, but not for green
- 32:14Speaker 6: grading or managing crises. So high schoolers will have access
- 32:19Speaker 6: to five vetted AI software, but they won't be able
- 32:24Speaker 6: to use it without teacher supervision. They'll also have to
- 32:27Speaker 6: take modules on safely and properly using AI and how
- 32:33Speaker 6: to spot AI generated content.
- 32:36Speaker 15: High school, they already have their brains. But, you know,
- 32:39Speaker 15: little kids, no way. Absolutely no.
- 32:42Speaker 1: They need to learn what's real and what's not.
- 32:44Speaker 12: I don't know how you grew up, but in my school,
- 32:46Speaker 12: we had typing class in third grade. They taught us
- 32:48Speaker 12: to embrace technological advancements. I think they should have a
- 32:51Speaker 12: course on kid-friendly AI, or AI that's specifically for kids
- 32:55Speaker 12: in school. And there can be parameters on it, but
- 32:58Speaker 12: that's my belief. Make it accessible in a way that
- 33:01Speaker 12: they can learn how to use it in a way
- 33:02Speaker 12: that makes sense for them.
- 33:04Speaker 6: And I grew up exactly like her. I took computer
- 33:07Speaker 6: classes and typing classes and we learned how to use
- 33:11Speaker 6: the paint function. If anybody remembers what used to be
- 33:15Speaker 6: very crude and rickety and still is in this like
- 33:19Speaker 6: new school way of paint. But that's how they sort
- 33:22Speaker 6: of got us introduced to the computer. And so AI,
- 33:25Speaker 6: she's saying, is sort of becoming this new function that
- 33:29Speaker 6: people need to learn how to use. The city's saying
- 33:33Speaker 6: they're not quite going to just rule it out. They
- 33:36Speaker 6: want high schoolers with this limited access to learn how
- 33:40Speaker 6: to use AI in order to somewhat prepare them for
- 33:43Speaker 6: when they go to college. So the city doesn't seem
- 33:45Speaker 6: to necessarily have such blinders on it when it comes
- 33:50Speaker 6: to what AI can do but officials say they want
- 33:54Speaker 6: to be cautious of the potential harms. Now, some New
- 33:57Speaker 6: Yorkers just don't like AI in general.
- 34:02Speaker 4: I don't like AI, and I agree with the ban.
- 34:05Speaker 4: You know, the effects on the environment, not really my favorite,
- 34:08Speaker 4: and the people in charge of it, not my favorite either.
- 34:11Speaker 4: I feel like you could go a lot of ways
- 34:12Speaker 4: with it.
- 34:13Speaker 1: I mean.
- 34:14Speaker 4: I think that it's a really beneficial tool. I found
- 34:16Speaker 4: it pretty helpful in the workplace. I think that it's
- 34:18Speaker 4: useful for summaries, for making things a lot faster. But
- 34:22Speaker 4: at the same time, when you start using it too
- 34:24Speaker 4: early on in education, it cuts a lot of corners
- 34:27Speaker 4: and probably is not the most beneficial to your brain development.
- 34:30Speaker 10: But I don't know.
- 34:31Speaker 4: I mean, I could talk about it for a while.
- 34:32Speaker 15: They're getting lazier and lazier. And that way they can
- 34:36Speaker 15: just take over their brains.
- 34:42Speaker 3: I'm going to recuse myself here, Larry, until I speak
- 34:45Speaker 3: with my youngest son. Because he knows all the tricks.
- 34:48Speaker 3: You know, like they don't have their cell phone in school.
- 34:51Speaker 3: They do have their cell phone. So I'm going to
- 34:53Speaker 3: ask him first. And some teachers that I know, because
- 34:56Speaker 3: I've got to believe there's going to be a lot
- 34:57Speaker 3: of cheating on.
- 34:58Speaker 1: I hope there is, because if not, these kids in
- 35:01Speaker 1: New York schools are going to be backwards. They're not
- 35:04Speaker 1: going to be able to advance like the people across
- 35:06Speaker 1: the country.
- 35:08Speaker 4: Right.
- 35:08Speaker 6: Well, I know teachers already who are using it in
- 35:11Speaker 6: terms of just making lesson planning and stuff. And I'm
- 35:14Speaker 6: not a teacher. You guys know this is what I do.
- 35:17Speaker 1: All right, Natalie, we got to get going. You'll be
- 35:20Speaker 1: back tomorrow morning at 7.50. We're going to check in
- 35:23Speaker 1: on the Lindsay Clancy trial, which is platform.