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Hour 2: Knicks season opener · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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Speaker 1: Well, just back from Alaska, let's go to John Decker,
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Speaker 1: WOR White House and Washington correspondent and host of the podcast,
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Speaker 1: The White House Briefing Room with John Decker, which can
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Speaker 1: be found on the iHeartRadio app. John, I want to
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Speaker 1: talk to you about Katie Zachariah because I feel bad
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Speaker 1: for the woman because you hear all these other press
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Speaker 1: secretaries talk about how long they had to prepare and
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Speaker 1: how difficult it is to prepare for your first time
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Speaker 1: out there. And she flew in and was sent out there,
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Speaker 1: and she obviously wasn't prepared.
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Speaker 2: Well, she wasn't.
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Speaker 3: And, you know, to some people, it's easier than others.
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Speaker 3: I think Caroline Leavitt made it look easy, but she
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Speaker 3: had spent a full year out on the campaign trail
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Speaker 3: taking questions from reporters. So that gave her great practice
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Speaker 3: for when she assumed the role as White House press secretary.
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Speaker 3: And similarly, you know, you go back to Jen Psaki.
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Speaker 3: She was the spokesperson for the State Department. before serving
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Speaker 3: as the White House press secretary. So she had also
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Speaker 3: ample experience. So it was difficult for her. You know,
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Speaker 3: I traveled with Katie when she still had the job
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Speaker 3: two days last week when the president did that trip
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Speaker 3: out to Alaska, stopped in Arizona and Montana. So I
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Speaker 3: chatted with her quite a bit on that trip. And,
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Speaker 3: you know, I could just tell she really wasn't prepared
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Speaker 3: to take on all that that job entails.
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Speaker 1: Well, some of the people, including Jean-Pierre and also including
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Speaker 1: Jen Psaki, said that before they went out there, they
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Speaker 1: got briefed for four hours. Zachariah said that didn't happen
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Speaker 1: with her.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that's right.
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Speaker 3: You know, this was an unusual hire. I don't think
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Speaker 3: it went through the proper vetting process. That's pretty clear.
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Speaker 3: The president, you know, apparently just, you know, liked what
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Speaker 3: he saw when she did cable news appearances on Fox News,
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Speaker 3: on Newsmax even appearing on CNN from time to time.
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Speaker 3: But I have to tell you, doing a five-minute hit
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Speaker 3: on a cable network is not the same as taking
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Speaker 3: 30 minutes worth of questions on every subject imaginable. Trade policy,
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Speaker 3: economic policy, foreign policy, domestic policy, politics. It's not the same.
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Speaker 3: It's not easy. And that is something that I think
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Speaker 3: anyone should be aware of if they're being considered for
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Speaker 3: that job.
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Speaker 4: You know, You know the phrase, when the cat's away,
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Speaker 4: the mice will play. You've heard that, haven't you?
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Speaker 2: Of course I have, Curtis. Yes, of course. What the
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Speaker 2: hell's going on in the White House?
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Speaker 4: Susie Wiles, the chief of staff, who I thought was
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Speaker 4: a stabilizing influence, they say now family members of hers
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Speaker 4: are being investigated for illegal transactions overseas. Alina Haba is
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Speaker 4: complaining to the president that Rick Grinnell ripped my husband
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Speaker 4: off for $ 6 million of a donation. There's a lot
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Speaker 4: of drama going on in that White House. Can you
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Speaker 4: sort of connect the dots with us? Because if the
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Speaker 4: president's away and the vice president's away, who's running the
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Speaker 4: show there?
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Speaker 3: Well, it's a really good question, Curtis. And these stories
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Speaker 3: that you're mentioning, they're all coming out. Look at the calendar.
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Speaker 3: They're coming out less than two weeks to go before
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Speaker 3: Election Day. And what that is, is a distraction. Katie Zachariah,
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Speaker 3: a distraction. The stories that you mentioned involving various members
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Speaker 3: or former members of the administration, a distraction. The president
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Speaker 3: should just be solely focused on trying to keep the
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Speaker 3: House and the Senate under Republican control. And yet he's
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Speaker 3: dealing with these extraneous issues at the same time. Some
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Speaker 3: of the administration's own doing, you know, the press secretary choice,
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Speaker 3: that's the administration's own doing. But others, you know, I
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Speaker 3: think that you have to question why these stories are
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Speaker 3: coming out right now, less than two weeks to go
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Speaker 3: until November the 3rd.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know why those stories are coming out right now,
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Speaker 1: two weeks to go before November 3rd. This happens almost
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Speaker 1: every single election. I know that you might say to yourself, well,
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Speaker 1: these are self-inflicted, but I'm sure that there's some digging
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Speaker 1: for dirt that is going to happen now until it's
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Speaker 1: all finished. You got an experience that most of us
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Speaker 1: don't get. As a matter of fact, 90% of us
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Speaker 1: don't get. you got to sit down with the president
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Speaker 1: of the United States in Alaska. And I know it
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Speaker 1: was about Alaskan issues, but can you tell us about
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Speaker 1: the entire experience, what he was like with you, how
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Speaker 1: the interview you felt went and how it ended?
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Speaker 3: Well, I think it went very well. It was a
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Speaker 3: good interview. You know, the president, his team knew that
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Speaker 3: I was just solely focused on a race that could
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Speaker 3: determine control of the U.S. Senate, the Alaska Senate race.
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Speaker 3: I was out in Alaska just a few weeks ago
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Speaker 3: covering that race. And, you know, for me, it made
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Speaker 3: sense to do an interview with the president in Alaska
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Speaker 3: while he was there just ahead of doing that campaign rally.
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Speaker 3: So I made that pitch to the White House and
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Speaker 3: they thought it was a good idea as well. So
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Speaker 3: they gave me some time with the president before he
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Speaker 3: hit the campaign stage for that campaign rally in Wasilla, Alaska.
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Speaker 3: And the president felt it went well. I've spoken to
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Speaker 3: a lot of their team and I hope to do
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Speaker 3: more of those interviews soon. in which Larry and Curtis,
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Speaker 3: I don't have to travel seven hours to do an
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Speaker 3: interview with the president. I'll do it at the White House.
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Speaker 4: John Decker, you're our expert on the reflection pool.
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Speaker 2: Put that aside.
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Speaker 4: What is this story about a public golf course, Trump
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Speaker 4: knocking down trees, a federal judge intervening? I would think
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Speaker 4: the president has enough to deal with of a serious
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Speaker 4: nature that he isn't sort of causing chaos over a
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Speaker 4: public golf course in D.C.
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Speaker 2: What can you tell us about that?
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Speaker 3: Well, it's about the East Potomac golf links. It's a
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Speaker 3: public course, and the president has this idea of turning
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Speaker 3: it into a championship caliber course. Well, there's a lawsuit
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Speaker 3: to prevent the president from doing just that. That lawsuit
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Speaker 3: is now tied up in litigation. The federal judge that
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Speaker 3: has been assigned this case has been angered by the
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Speaker 3: fact that the administration, according to her, has essentially rebuffed
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Speaker 3: and violated her direct orders in terms of not taking
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Speaker 3: any measures that would be in the process of refurbishing
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Speaker 3: that course until this litigation is complete. And so that's
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Speaker 3: where we are right now. Just a few weekends ago,
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Speaker 3: about 130 trees were removed as part of this renovation
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Speaker 3: of this course, despite a judge's order. prohibiting the administration
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Speaker 3: from doing that. So that's why it's in the news.
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Speaker 3: There was a seven-hour hearing yesterday before that judge, and
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Speaker 3: this litigation continues. It's still not resolved. And you're right.
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Speaker 3: I mean, again, the president should be focused on the midterms,
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Speaker 3: making certain that Republicans retain control of the House and
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Speaker 3: the Senate. And yet he's putting out many social media
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Speaker 3: posts regarding this particular issue, as opposed to talking about,
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Speaker 3: you know, the race in Michigan, which they could possibly
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Speaker 3: Flip that seat or, you know, these other races where
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Speaker 3: they're essentially a coin toss in terms of who's going
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Speaker 3: to win those races.
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Speaker 1: So let's talk for a second about Ukraine and the
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Speaker 1: president's relationship with Vladimir Zelensky, because it doesn't seem good
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Speaker 1: at this time. Zelensky is complaining about Starlink, the administration
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Speaker 1: saying they have no idea what he's talking about. Zelensky
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Speaker 1: also upset with the diesel deal with Russia. And now yesterday,
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Speaker 1: it seemed like Trump got upset with him and said, well,
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Speaker 1: Zelensky just doesn't know what.
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Speaker 2: He's talking about. What is happening? What is going on?
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Speaker 2: What's the truth and what isn't the truth? Do you know?
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Speaker 3: Well, about a week and a half ago, the president
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Speaker 3: had a phone conversation with President Putin on his birthday
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Speaker 3: of all days. And I think that, you delved into
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Speaker 3: issues which the president has been speaking about right now.
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Speaker 3: The president clearly right now appears to have a better
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Speaker 3: relationship with Vladimir Putin than he does with Vladimir Zelensky,
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Speaker 3: and it's impacting his public policy concerning the war in Ukraine.
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Speaker 3: The president has floated this idea potentially of meeting with
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Speaker 3: President Xi and President Putin on the sidelines of the
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Speaker 3: APEC summit next month in China to discuss the war
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Speaker 3: in Ukraine to find a solution. But interestingly enough, Curtis
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Speaker 3: and Larry, President Zelensky would not be invited to that meeting.
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Speaker 3: How are you going to get peace unless you have
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Speaker 3: that major player at the negotiating table? Europe is not
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Speaker 3: invited to that meeting, the EU or NATO. So hard
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Speaker 3: to see how you can bring about an end to
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Speaker 3: that war, which, by the way, in February, five years,
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Speaker 3: that's how long that war will be going on. And
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Speaker 3: as things stand right now, you're right. Things are not
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Speaker 3: in a good place in terms of the relationship between
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Speaker 3: President Trump and President Zelensky.
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Speaker 4: Also, John Decker, the president, South Carolina, Kansas, these are
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Speaker 4: two states you wouldn't normally see him going to, you know,
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Speaker 4: seven states in seven days. But I noticed that Lindsey
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Speaker 4: Graham's sister that he elevated into the position and then
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Speaker 4: she was the winner of the Republican primary. distanced herself
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Speaker 4: from the president's decision not to impose what they call
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Speaker 4: the Lindsey Graham sanctions on Russia. It has to be
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Speaker 4: a bit uncomfortable. Here she is, she's saying, basically, you're wrong, Mr. President,
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Speaker 4: and yet he's stumping in South Carolina.
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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and she's not the only person. I could
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Speaker 3: go through a list of very high-profile Republicans who are
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Speaker 3: in competitive races that have publicly distanced themselves from the
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Speaker 3: president's approach to Russia and his approach to Vladimir Putin.
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Speaker 3: Dan Sullivan from Alaska running for the Senate, he's distanced himself.
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Speaker 3: Mike Rogers in Michigan running for the Senate, he's distanced himself.
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Speaker 3: And the Republican nominee for the Senate in Iowa as well, Hinson,
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Speaker 3: has distanced herself from the president. So this is an
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Speaker 3: issue that's dividing the party. Typically, you wanted a united
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Speaker 3: party going into the midterms. But this issue of Russia
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Speaker 3: is has risen to the top because of the president's
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Speaker 3: positions on Russia, his relationship with President Putin. And I
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Speaker 3: think that if it's a big if, I don't know
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Speaker 3: what's going to happen. I don't have a crystal ball.
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Speaker 3: But if the Republicans lose control of the House and
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Speaker 3: the Senate, this issue is going to rise to the
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Speaker 3: top and you're going to see a lot of Republicans
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Speaker 3: coming out publicly and maybe even taking hold of legislation,
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Speaker 3: which essentially puts the president's foreign policy concerning Russia in check.
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Speaker 3: Could this lead to impeachment of the president, his approach
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Speaker 3: to Russia potentially? I think these are all unknown questions
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Speaker 3: that we'll have to see what happens after the midterms.
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Speaker 1: I'll add Susan Collins to your list. I hear every
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Speaker 1: election that Susan Collins is going to lose every six
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Speaker 1: years and every year, every six years she wins. But
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Speaker 1: she distanced herself from the president very early in the process. So, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you're right. It's happening across the country. John Decker, WOR
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Speaker 1: White House and Washington correspondent. host of the podcast The
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Speaker 1: White House Briefing Room with John Decker. You can find
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Speaker 1: that on the iHeartRadio app, and it is worth a listen. John,
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Speaker 1: thanks so much.
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Speaker 5: Thanks, Larry.
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Speaker 3: Thanks, Curtis. Have a great day.
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Speaker 2: Bye-bye.
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Speaker 1: So, a spacecraft was shot off earlier today, and the
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Speaker 1: reason you didn't hear a lot about it is because
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Speaker 1: it wasn't one of ours. Remember, our last mission was
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Speaker 1: to go to the moon. And we're going to be
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Speaker 1: sending some astronauts to walk on the moon very soon.
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Speaker 1: But we went around the moon. We went further in
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Speaker 1: space than any other astronauts. And Japan was watching. And
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Speaker 1: Japan said, you know what? We can do you one better.
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Speaker 1: So earlier today, they shot off a spacecraft to go
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Speaker 1: not to Mars, but to one of the moons of Mars.
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Speaker 6: My engine stopped.
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Speaker 4: My engine stopped.
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Speaker 1: Get up. If you notice when you're listening to this,
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Speaker 1: when you hear an American spacecraft go off, there's very
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Speaker 1: little talking.
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Speaker 2: These guys don't shut up. They're still going.
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Speaker 4: Exactly. By the way, is this sponsored by the Japanese
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Speaker 4: version of Nutella? Will we see a Nutella jar flying?
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Speaker 2: Now, let me ask a question here.
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Speaker 4: Does this mean that SpaceX has basically bought all the
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Speaker 4: rights to Mars? Because this is really what Elon Musk wants,
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Speaker 4: to be able to land a rocket and eventually astronauts
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Speaker 4: on Mars so they can be a space colony.
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Speaker 2: That's his ultimate desire.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's the Japanese and the international desire.
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Speaker 1: By the way, they all work together on these things.
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Speaker 1: All the countries work together on these things. So he
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Speaker 1: is involved in this as well as the United States
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Speaker 1: and everybody else. What they're doing is they have three
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Speaker 1: reasons for going to a moon on Mars. By the way,
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Speaker 1: there are two moons on Mars, Phobos and Deimos. And
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Speaker 1: I might have said that wrong. It might be Deimos.
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Speaker 1: But they're going to Phobos. And on Phobos, what they're
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Speaker 1: going to do is they're going to drill down because
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Speaker 1: they want scientists to be able to study what they
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Speaker 1: find and that they may be able to understand the
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Speaker 1: beginning of the solar system a little bit better. But obviously,
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Speaker 1: they're going to look for minerals when they're down there,
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Speaker 1: precious metals and minerals, just like we're going to be
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Speaker 1: doing with the moon as well. But most importantly, to
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Speaker 1: your point about an international space station and a space
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Speaker 1: station on Mars, they.
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Speaker 2: Want to see.
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Speaker 1: if this could be a staging area, a natural space
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Speaker 1: staging area, so that for a future exploration, they could
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Speaker 1: stop there, they could refuel there, they could take a
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Speaker 1: break there. It's a way to be able to land
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Speaker 1: something and to see if the surface is good enough
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Speaker 1: to be able to land on.
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Speaker 2: So it's interesting.
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Speaker 4: As I've said before, 1969, man lands on the moon
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Speaker 4: as part of Woodstock and.
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Speaker 2: The Miracle Mets. Was part of Woodstock? All part. All part.
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Speaker 2: All wrapped together. I didn't know that. They had telescopes
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Speaker 2: at Woodstock.
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Speaker 4: We landed a number of times on our moon. And
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Speaker 4: yet we're still not landing on our moon. We're flying
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Speaker 4: around the moon. The Japanese are flying a spaceship to
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Speaker 4: the moon. One of the two, as you mentioned, around Mars.
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Speaker 4: When are we ever going to land on our freaking
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Speaker 4: moon again? Why is this so difficult?
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Speaker 2: Next year. That's what it's planned for. Why is it
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Speaker 2: so difficult? Why is landing on the moon so difficult?
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Speaker 2: Is that your question? We did it in the 60s
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Speaker 2: and 70s.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like it takes 50 odd years to do
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Speaker 4: it again.
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Speaker 2: Why don't you do it? No, no, no. It's hilarious.
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Speaker 7: Come on.
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Speaker 8: 50 years with new technology?
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Speaker 1: Yes, but the only reason we're going back is because
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Speaker 1: we want to mine the moon.
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Speaker 2: Now there's money to be made. So let's get up there.
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Speaker 2: That's why we're going back. What are we waiting for?
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Speaker 1: They weren't going to spend the money just to sightsee again.
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Speaker 2: They had to wait.
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Speaker 1: And listen, here's three people that know nothing about science questioning, well,
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Speaker 1: why don't they just do it?
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Speaker 2: Well, you just said the.
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Speaker 4: Japanese are going to land on the moon that's circling Mars.
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Speaker 4: The Red Chinese are going to land on our moon
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Speaker 4: before we do.
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Speaker 2: We sent lunar equipment. Stop. Just stop. They'll do it.
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Speaker 2: I trust that they're doing it when they can do it.
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Speaker 2: Let's get to some talkbacks. You know, I work in
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Speaker 2: the city every day for HVAC at different locations.
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Speaker 5: And over the last month, I've seen a lot more
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Speaker 5: crazy people than usual. You had that stabbing in Times Square.
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Speaker 5: I see, like, people who are out here vocal. You know, like,
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Speaker 5: they used to leave you alone, but now they get
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Speaker 5: in your face. One guy was doing finger guns at somebody,
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Speaker 5: and then he threw an empty soda can right at
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Speaker 5: this 18-year-old tourist's face, and she was so scared.
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Speaker 2: What's he going to do next?
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Speaker 4: Absolutely correct. I see it all the time, an increase
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Speaker 4: in the number of EDPs. They call them emotionally disturbed persons,
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Speaker 4: homeless people who start acting out. It'd be interesting to
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Speaker 4: look at the 911 call log.
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Speaker 2: How many EDP calls?
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Speaker 4: I would say they've noticeably increased just from my own
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Speaker 4: knowledge of being in the subways and streets every day.
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Speaker 2: Now let's get to Daria Albinger with the 730 News, Daria.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, guys.
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Speaker 9: Mostly sunny today. We'll see a high of 70 degrees.
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Speaker 9: The wait is over for the Knicks fans with tonight's
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Speaker 9: season opener against Philadelphia and LeBron James, who, by the way,
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Speaker 9: lives here in the city. Before tip-off, New York will
16:56
Speaker 9: get their championship rings and raise the banner at the Garden.
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Speaker 9: Former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil is appealing his deportation
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Speaker 9: case to the Supreme Court.
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Speaker 6: Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist, was detained last year by immigration
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Speaker 6: authorities after being accused of lying on documents when he
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Speaker 6: was applying for permanent residency. He has been ordered to
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Speaker 6: be deported. Khalil denies the allegations. He's accused the Trump
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Speaker 6: administration of targeting him as a way to crack down
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Speaker 6: on pro-Palestinian demonstrations. In his appeal to the Supreme Court,
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Speaker 6: Khalil says the fight is not just for him to
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Speaker 6: stay in the country, but for anyone who can speak
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Speaker 6: out for Palestinians without being punished for it. I'm Scott Pringle,
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Speaker 6: WOR News.
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Speaker 9: There are two weeks left to the midterms, and President
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Speaker 9: Trump is heading to North Carolina today to campaign for
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Speaker 9: Republican Senate candidate Michael Watley. Last night, he was in
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Speaker 9: a state which has been historically deep red, but could
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Speaker 9: be trending purple.
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Speaker 7: Overnight, with just two weeks to go until the election,
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Speaker 7: President Trump on the campaign trail in deep red Kansas,
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Speaker 7: as polls show a number of tight races in states
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Speaker 7: he won.
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Speaker 10: I love you, Kansas, but I'm here for a guy
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Speaker 10: named Roger Marshall.
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Speaker 7: The president stumping for incumbent GOP Senator Roger Marshall. Democrats
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Speaker 7: have not won a Senate seat in Kansas in nearly
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Speaker 7: a century. But Marshall now locked in a close race
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Speaker 7: against Democrat Adam Hamilton.
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Speaker 9: ABC's Rachel Scott. Well, Wall Street is doing what a
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Speaker 9: lot of us on this shift wish we could do
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Speaker 9: some days, and that is ignore the clock. But instead
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Speaker 9: of sleeping in, they're getting up earlier. Pre-trading began this
18:23
Speaker 9: week on the New York Stock Exchange at 7.30 to
18:26
Speaker 9: 9.15 ahead of the opening bell. And post-market trading is
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Speaker 9: going past the close from 4 to 4.15. And starting
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Speaker 9: in December, trading on the exchange and the NASDAQ will
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Speaker 9: go to 23 hours a day, five days a week.
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Speaker 9: Rangers beat Anaheim. Next news, 8 o'clock, bulletins at once.
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Speaker 9: I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
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Speaker 4: Oh, up next, he's coming out for Ilhan Omar, the
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Speaker 4: smooth one.
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Speaker 2: Barack Obama.
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Speaker 4: And Tom Holman, with a wink in his eye, is saying, hey,
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Speaker 4: there's a lot more about Ilhan Omar we're going to
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Speaker 4: be revealing to you. We'll discuss that up next, and
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Speaker 4: you don't want to miss it. Jimmy Failure joining us
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Speaker 4: at 835. As you know.
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Speaker 1: By now, eight days ago, Ilhan Omar, congresswoman from Minnesota,
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Speaker 1: her home was raided by the FBI, and they took
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Speaker 1: her personal cell phone, they took her passport, They took
19:19
Speaker 1: all the computers in the house. They took paperwork and
19:22
Speaker 1: various documents from the house. She is and she has
19:26
Speaker 1: been notified that she is under active investigation. The question is,
19:31
Speaker 1: what for? Now, what's made it into the media and
19:35
Speaker 1: is talked about all the time is that the probe
19:38
Speaker 1: now focuses on paperwork completed when the Omar family came
19:44
Speaker 1: to this country in 1995. Her father Omar Mohammed, apparently
19:50
Speaker 1: said that she was a minor at that time, but
19:53
Speaker 1: her birth certificate says something different. So with that, she
19:57
Speaker 1: would be in the country illegally. Now that's all that
19:59
Speaker 1: makes it into the news. And that's what, by the way,
20:02
Speaker 1: she's fundraising over right now. And she's taken in a
20:06
Speaker 1: lot of money saying that, look, Donald Trump's coming after
20:09
Speaker 1: me for something that happened back in 1995. But it
20:12
Speaker 1: sounds like there's a lot more. Tom Holman was on
20:16
Speaker 1: several places like CNN. He was on ABC. He was
20:21
Speaker 1: on Fox News. But I thought Fox was the best
20:24
Speaker 1: with him in talking about the investigation.
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Speaker 11: The allegations were made clear and they would be investigated.
20:30
Speaker 11: And they are investigating it. I'm not going to get
20:33
Speaker 11: ahead of the Bureau or HSI, but I've been told
20:38
Speaker 11: they have a strong case, and we'll let the evidence
20:41
Speaker 11: lead where it leads, but she'll be held to the
20:44
Speaker 11: same standard you and I are held. If she violated law,
20:47
Speaker 11: then she'd be held accountable.
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Speaker 1: Now, the reason I thought Fox did so well as
20:50
Speaker 1: compared to ABC and CNN is that Fox went after him.
20:55
Speaker 1: Fox kept pressing him. Is that really all? Is that
20:59
Speaker 1: all it is?
20:59
Speaker 2: They must have asked him three times.
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Speaker 5: Tom, is this simply an immigration fraud investigation, or do
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Speaker 5: you have, or does the federal government have reason to
21:09
Speaker 5: investigate any.
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Speaker 2: Other type of wrongdoing?
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Speaker 11: I'm not going to go there.
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Speaker 2: Not even a little bit?
21:15
Speaker 11: Not even a little bit. That's a question for the FBI.
21:18
Speaker 11: I know things, but that's a question for the FBI.
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Speaker 2: Would it have anything to do with anything that happened
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Speaker 2: in Minnesota? It's a question for the FBI.
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Speaker 1: You had to see Tom Homan's face during that. He
21:29
Speaker 1: was like the Cheshire Cat. He was trying to hold
21:31
Speaker 1: back a smile the entire time he was answering. And
21:35
Speaker 1: it seemed like he thought the questioner knew something else.
21:38
Speaker 1: The other things that may be investigated... Well, let's start
21:42
Speaker 1: with this, because she has already been investigated by Congress.
21:46
Speaker 1: And James Comer, who was leading the oversight investigation... talked
21:50
Speaker 1: about this.
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Speaker 12: Not only was there a huge discrepancy in the financial
21:54
Speaker 12: disclosure form, there was the winery that was the big
21:58
Speaker 12: base of her $ 25 million listing on her financial disclosure form.
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Speaker 12: That winery has, according to the press, been shut down
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Speaker 12: because of fraud. They were apparently selling investors barrels of
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Speaker 12: wine to be aged, but there was nothing in the barrels.
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Speaker 1: Now, this is important because what she listed on her
22:18
Speaker 1: financial disclosure form that every congressperson has to do was
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Speaker 1: $ 25 to $ 30 million was their net worth because of
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Speaker 1: the winery. When she realized that she was under investigation
22:29
Speaker 1: and when more and more people in the state were
22:31
Speaker 1: arrested for Medicare and Medicaid fraud.
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Speaker 2: She changed it.
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Speaker 1: To $ 16, 000 to $ 98, 000.
22:38
Speaker 2: That's quite a big difference. Oh, absolutely. That's a huge
22:41
Speaker 2: clerical mistake. Absolutely.
22:43
Speaker 4: Now, which husband was she blaming this on? The most
22:45
Speaker 4: recent one, right? The political consultant, the white guy. So
22:48
Speaker 4: she was hiding money there. If every allegation against her
22:53
Speaker 4: is true, she was taking the money from Medicare and
22:56
Speaker 4: Medicaid fraud and hiding it in her husband's winery, which
23:00
Speaker 4: is why he was sending out barrels with no wines. Well,
23:04
Speaker 4: that's why I think it is very important that it's
23:07
Speaker 4: got to go beyond a paperwork discrepancy of a year,
23:10
Speaker 4: 30 years later. That's just a plus for Ilhan Omar.
23:15
Speaker 4: It makes her like a victim, you know, like a
23:16
Speaker 4: Joan of Arc 30 years later. OK, you said that
23:20
Speaker 4: I was 18. I say I was 17. You're going
23:24
Speaker 4: to prosecute me. You're going to throw me out of
23:26
Speaker 4: the country, send me back to Somalia over that. I
23:29
Speaker 4: think most people wouldn't go for that. So that's why
23:31
Speaker 4: they got to do the deep take. This gives them
23:33
Speaker 4: the right to go in further. But she's got big
23:36
Speaker 4: guns supporting her. Hey, look, Barack Obama. I never knew
23:39
Speaker 4: him to be very supportive of Ilhan Omar. Well, the
23:44
Speaker 4: smooth operators come out in defense of her. Other Democrats
23:48
Speaker 4: are naturally the squad. She's a sister in solidarity. They've
23:52
Speaker 4: come out in support of her. So let's see where
23:54
Speaker 4: the investigation goes. But I think even people who are
23:59
Speaker 4: close to Ilhan Omar in the Democratic Party would have
24:03
Speaker 4: to say, out of all the people in the squad, man,
24:06
Speaker 4: she's the one that you're always asking the most financial
24:10
Speaker 4: questions about.
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Speaker 2: Like, where did this money come from? Where did this...
24:13
Speaker 2: Where did this Medicaid issue come from? Where did this
24:16
Speaker 2: Medicare issue come from?
24:18
Speaker 4: It's always circling around Ilhan Omar and the Somalian community
24:21
Speaker 4: in Minnesota, her district.
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Speaker 1: Well, the Medicare and Medicaid fraud, there's now been three
24:26
Speaker 1: dozen people from the Somali community that were sent to
24:29
Speaker 1: jail for that. And she has been the ringleader of
24:33
Speaker 1: everything in that community. So the idea that she's not
24:37
Speaker 1: connected to it seems far-fetched. especially we get back to
24:42
Speaker 1: the winery, especially because she felt like she had to
24:48
Speaker 1: go ahead and say, I made 25 to $ 30 million. And,
24:51
Speaker 1: and because she knew it was going to be investigated.
24:54
Speaker 1: So she's going to say, no, that's the winery. The
24:56
Speaker 1: winery was making that much money. And now we found
24:59
Speaker 1: out that the winery was all just fake. So there's, there's,
25:03
Speaker 1: there's there, there, there's a lot of smoke right now.
25:06
Speaker 1: And when you look at that interview with Tom Holman and,
25:10
Speaker 1: The way he was trying to hold back a smile,
25:14
Speaker 1: I think they got something. I think they have a lot.
25:16
Speaker 1: I think this is going to be a big story.
25:18
Speaker 1: It's not going to come out before the midterms. They
25:20
Speaker 1: can't do this investigation that quickly. But I think after
25:23
Speaker 1: the midterms, you're going to hear about charges, several charges,
25:26
Speaker 1: and it's going to have a lot more to do.
25:28
Speaker 1: than immigration fraud.
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Speaker 4: Well, as you know, right now, she's playing the victim role.
25:32
Speaker 4: She's raising a lot of scoundrel. A lot of people
25:35
Speaker 4: are throwing money at her saying.
25:37
Speaker 2: That's right. This is lawfare.
25:39
Speaker 4: They're coming after you, the Trump administration, Kash Patel, you know,
25:43
Speaker 4: Tom Holman and all the rest because they want to
25:47
Speaker 4: put you up on the cross there. And she is
25:49
Speaker 4: playing it like the tears, crying, and then naturally playing
25:54
Speaker 4: the race card.
25:55
Speaker 2: You know, the investigation into her started under Biden.
25:57
Speaker 7: Yeah.
25:58
Speaker 1: That's what nobody reports. It was Biden that started this.
26:01
Speaker 1: So if you're going to be upset about anybody, all
26:03
Speaker 1: the groundwork was done by Biden. We just picked it up.
26:06
Speaker 2: Because she gave every reason for you to investigate. Absolutely. Yes.
26:11
Speaker 4: We're not talking about somebody who was like in the
26:13
Speaker 4: shadows doing this. We're talking about somebody who was openly
26:17
Speaker 4: and proudly, you know, she married a political consultant bragging
26:21
Speaker 4: about the winery, how profitable it was. Remember the, the
26:25
Speaker 4: husband himself, oh yeah, I'm really proud of my winery,
26:28
Speaker 4: you know. And then all of a sudden, realizing that
26:31
Speaker 4: they had to dissolve it because there was no money.
26:34
Speaker 2: In fact, there was no wine. They couldn't turn water
26:39
Speaker 2: into wine. They couldn't do it. Jesus Christ. That was
26:42
Speaker 2: the amazing thing.
26:43
Speaker 1: About the congressional investigation because they went to the wineries
26:46
Speaker 1: that got the wine to ask about the wine. They
26:49
Speaker 1: just wanted to know if it was worth what they
26:52
Speaker 1: were getting charged for it.
26:54
Speaker 2: And they said, There was no wine. What's in those barrels?
26:57
Speaker 3: Nothing.
26:58
Speaker 2: Where's the wine? I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it dissipated. No, she's in some big trouble. I
27:05
Speaker 1: got a feeling that she is going to be charged.
27:07
Speaker 2: But you're right.
27:08
Speaker 1: Right now, she is a victim because, you know, Trump's
27:11
Speaker 1: on the other side and the Democratic Party, especially if
27:13
Speaker 1: Trump's on the other side, you quickly become a hero.
27:18
Speaker 1: Everybody in town is excited for the game of the year.
27:22
Speaker 1: Do you know that they held off scheduling this game,
27:26
Speaker 1: the NBA, until they figured out where LeBron James was
27:30
Speaker 1: going to go? And now you've got the two teams
27:33
Speaker 1: favored to win the NBA championship. One did it last year,
27:37
Speaker 1: the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden versus the
27:41
Speaker 1: Philadelphia 76ers. And are fans excited? Well, Natalie Migliore said,
27:46
Speaker 1: Finds out next.
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Speaker 8: Now, it's 710 WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
27:57
Speaker 4: Opening game, Knicks, Philly 76ers tonight at the Garden. You
28:02
Speaker 4: see a lot of people rocking knit caps downstairs, Natalie Migliore?
28:07
Speaker 8: Knit caps, jerseys, everything in between. Any way to show
28:11
Speaker 8: that they are a Knicks fan, whether a dedicated Knicks
28:15
Speaker 8: fan or Or just somebody who's a fan by association
28:18
Speaker 8: of being in New York. You run into those people
28:22
Speaker 8: a lot.
28:22
Speaker 2: Can I add something? When you say Knicks.
28:24
Speaker 1: You have to say world champion New York Knicks.
28:29
Speaker 8: World champion New York Knicks. Now those world champions, they're
28:35
Speaker 8: going to tip off against the Philadelphia 76ers tonight at
28:39
Speaker 8: 7 p.m. But things will get underway before that. Because
28:43
Speaker 8: the team's going to raise the 2026 championship banner to
28:46
Speaker 8: the rafters of Madison Square Garden. And the players get
28:50
Speaker 8: their championship rings. So who is ready for the return
28:56
Speaker 8: of this NBA season?
28:59
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm a Knicks fan from New York. I can't wait.
29:02
Speaker 4: Remember the only years they had.
29:03
Speaker 2: Now I have to wait for some new more years.
29:05
Speaker 2: That's it. Oh yeah, I'm definitely ready. I can't wait
29:08
Speaker 2: to see it. Oh my God. I think the Knicks
29:10
Speaker 2: will prevail again.
29:12
Speaker 5: Obviously.
29:13
Speaker 13: Let's go Knicks.
29:14
Speaker 3: Knicks are fine.
29:15
Speaker 2: Hopefully they do it again.
29:16
Speaker 13: I think they're going to be good this year, but
29:18
Speaker 13: I know there was some question about Kyle Anthony's contract.
29:23
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
29:24
Speaker 13: So I don't know if that's going to do some
29:26
Speaker 13: kind of damage.
29:28
Speaker 8: Do you say give him the money, though?
29:29
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely. The guy's good. If you can't
29:32
Speaker 2: get it, get it.
29:33
Speaker 8: Now, contract negotiations between Cat and the team, as far
29:37
Speaker 8: as we knew, stalled ahead of regular season. season. He
29:41
Speaker 8: was eligible for a four-year $ 276 million extension, but the
29:45
Speaker 8: team offering him a $ 200 million deal for the same
29:49
Speaker 8: amount of time. At the time of the dispute, Cat
29:52
Speaker 8: had said it was news to him. But what's not
29:56
Speaker 8: news to him or the rest of the team is
29:59
Speaker 8: that they'll be facing off against the 76ers, who now
30:03
Speaker 8: have LeBron James in their corner. Okay? How's that going
30:07
Speaker 8: to go?
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Speaker 2: I think the Knicks will lose.
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Speaker 9: Why do you say that?
30:12
Speaker 2: Because LeBron's just too tough to deal with.
30:15
Speaker 8: And it's a whole new team they haven't played for
30:18
Speaker 8: a long time.
30:19
Speaker 2: So I think it'll be tough.
30:21
Speaker 8: He'll be looking to score 100 points.
30:23
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be a different atmosphere, a
30:25
Speaker 2: different environment for him. LeBron has definitely overcome... A lot
30:29
Speaker 2: of things, and I think he's going to pull through.
30:32
Speaker 10: I think we can take him. I think he's getting
30:34
Speaker 10: a little up there, LeBron. So, I mean, it's time
30:36
Speaker 10: for some new talent.
30:38
Speaker 8: Now, LeBron James has gone from West Coast to East Coast,
30:42
Speaker 8: and he's not expected to live in Philadelphia. Okay, he's
30:46
Speaker 8: actually expected to live here in New York. So how's
30:50
Speaker 8: he going to get between the two cities? He says
30:53
Speaker 8: he's going to take a helicopter. dismissing it as just
30:56
Speaker 8: another form of transportation.
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Speaker 13: If I was LeBron, I would do the same thing.
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Speaker 10: It sounds very LeBron. I think that, yeah, it sounds
31:04
Speaker 10: like him. I think that sounds ridiculous. But I mean,
31:08
Speaker 10: what is that, like a 40-minute flight?
31:10
Speaker 11: What's the worst that could happen?
31:12
Speaker 2: Another Kobe situation?
31:14
Speaker 3: Come on, man.
31:15
Speaker 4: When you reach that kind of peak like these guys,
31:17
Speaker 4: you know, anything goes.
31:19
Speaker 2: It ain't going to be weekly. Trust me, he'll find
31:22
Speaker 2: a nice big mansion somewhere.
31:24
Speaker 4: Right up there in Philly or whatever once you settle
31:26
Speaker 4: in wouldn't you jump on a helicopter you.
31:29
Speaker 8: Literally opened it with what else could happen another Kobe
31:32
Speaker 8: I don't.
31:32
Speaker 10: Know yeah but yeah that's the chances of.
31:36
Speaker 8: Life the chances of life so that guy would jump
31:40
Speaker 8: on a I was going to say on a roller
31:41
Speaker 8: coaster on a helicopter and the guy the first guy
31:45
Speaker 8: was right it's about a 40 minute helicopter ride they
31:47
Speaker 8: say between Philly and New York so that's what LeBron
31:51
Speaker 8: is going to do at this point. Now, the last
31:55
Speaker 8: guy who we talked to said that's the chances of life. Larry,
31:59
Speaker 8: when I first came in, asked, what are the chances
32:01
Speaker 8: of the Knicks winning this game? Who's favored? And that's
32:04
Speaker 8: the Knicks. They're favored to win, but Curtis thinks not.
32:08
Speaker 4: No, I'm a Knick fan. Been a Knick fan my
32:10
Speaker 4: whole life. They're going to lose tonight. There's too much
32:15
Speaker 4: background drama going on in the Knicks clubhouse over contracts. Now,
32:19
Speaker 4: for a guy to be complaining, who would have been
32:21
Speaker 4: making 50 mil a year, right? 200 a million. 50
32:24
Speaker 4: mil a year. Oh, I ain't getting paid enough. You
32:27
Speaker 4: know that ain't going away.
32:30
Speaker 8: But you don't think that he's proved to himself he's
32:31
Speaker 8: worth the money? He won a championship ring with five
32:35
Speaker 8: guys on the court.
32:36
Speaker 7: Yeah.
32:36
Speaker 8: That's what I was asking people.
32:37
Speaker 4: He won the ring. Just suck it up and negotiate
32:40
Speaker 4: after this year. Hopefully, you don't get injured and you
32:43
Speaker 4: can get what you want. Win another championship. Get another
32:46
Speaker 4: ring first.
32:46
Speaker 8: Now, one guy on the street said he thought that
32:48
Speaker 8: they were going to lose because of all the hoopla
32:50
Speaker 8: that's going to go on tonight. They're going to raise
32:52
Speaker 8: the banner. They're going to get their rings.
32:55
Speaker 2: He called it.
32:56
Speaker 8: He called it... I couldn't... He called it dopamina.
32:58
Speaker 1: Yeah.
33:00
Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question. Don't tell me that
33:02
Speaker 2: Spike Lee's going to get a ring. Please. I hate
33:05
Speaker 2: seeing that guy.
33:05
Speaker 8: We'll find out.
33:06
Speaker 2: I hate seeing that guy out on the court.
33:08
Speaker 8: There's so much hate. There's so much hate.
33:10
Speaker 2: It's weird, isn't it?
33:12
Speaker 9: Oh, no.
33:12
Speaker 2: Knicks are going to lose.
33:14
Speaker 8: Do you just want to go against the grain? You
33:16
Speaker 8: think they're going to.
33:17
Speaker 7: Win, Larry?
33:18
Speaker 2: I have no idea who's going to win tonight. I
33:20
Speaker 2: really don't.
33:21
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a tremendous game, but
33:24
Speaker 1: the Knicks are favored by four and a half.
33:26
Speaker 2: You know me.
33:26
Speaker 8: Whatever that means.
33:27
Speaker 4: The owner, Jimmy Dolan, pay your property taxes, 48 million.
33:32
Speaker 8: Thanks a lot.
33:34
Speaker 1: Natalie McGlurie will be back tomorrow morning at 7.50.
33:38
Speaker 2: Let's check in on the midterms.
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Speaker 1: It's getting close, and there's a lot of drama after
33:43
Speaker 1: the 8 o'clock news.