Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Joe Tacopina | Defense Attorney | 04-24-26
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- 0:21Speaker 2: Just Sid and Friends in the Morning, entertaining and informative
- 0:26Speaker 2: on the Red Apple podcast network.
- 0:28Speaker 3: K T mcfolland was great Stephen A. Smith.
- 0:31Speaker 4: This guy's been my friend for forty eight years. It's
- 0:33Speaker 4: the best defense attorney in the country. He's also mister
- 0:35Speaker 4: Army these days, and he's great on this show every Friday.
- 0:38Speaker 4: And I think he's a Raiders fan. I'm pretty sure
- 0:41Speaker 4: he is, so maybe he's excited before I get to that.
- 0:43Speaker 4: I did mention last segment that you'd be surprised that
- 0:46Speaker 4: Stephen A. Smith and Randy Levine, the President Yankees, have
- 0:48Speaker 4: become good friends. I did say this earlier. Steve Cohen
- 0:52Speaker 4: reached out to me yesterday, which is very nice. He
- 0:54Speaker 4: didn't have to, he did. The owner of the New
- 0:56Speaker 4: York Mets and we had a great fifteen in a
- 1:00Speaker 4: phone call where he said to me, and I quote,
- 1:03Speaker 4: I want a relationship here. So I'm going to the
- 1:06Speaker 4: Met Yankee game in Queen's on the fifteenth of May
- 1:09Speaker 4: with Bill O'Reilly, and Cohen said, you're sitting with me.
- 1:12Speaker 4: You're gonna be in my in my suite, and we're
- 1:15Speaker 4: going to start this conversation because he admitted basically that
- 1:18Speaker 4: I'm a big voice in New York, if not the biggest,
- 1:21Speaker 4: and he wants to have a good relationship. So it
- 1:26Speaker 4: was a great phone call. I cannot share the specifics
- 1:30Speaker 4: about all the subjects that have bothered me. We discussed
- 1:33Speaker 4: all of them, but I won't maybe at a letter date.
- 1:35Speaker 4: So I just wanted Joseph to know, because he's a
- 1:38Speaker 4: metman as well, that at the very least, Steve Cohen
- 1:42Speaker 4: and I on a very good terms doc, very good terms.
- 1:46Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm happy, sir. I want to talk to you
- 1:47Speaker 5: about this. I really know this is this is such
- 1:49Speaker 5: a strain in our relationship. You know, I love you
- 1:52Speaker 5: and I care about you. But Sky, every time I
- 1:54Speaker 5: see the Mets lose, which is every day, they.
- 1:58Speaker 3: Want two straight want to stretchers. I go to the
- 2:02Speaker 3: World Series.
- 2:02Speaker 4: I said to Steve, I said, are you gonna be
- 2:04Speaker 4: mad when I come to I when I come to
- 2:06Speaker 4: that game and I come to your sweet I'm wearing.
- 2:07Speaker 3: A Greg Naddo's jersey. He's not going to bother you.
- 2:09Speaker 5: So you didn't say, no, you're not doing that. Don't
- 2:11Speaker 5: do that, don't do them, don't do that. You don't
- 2:13Speaker 5: do that. You don't do that. I don't want to
- 2:16Speaker 5: do that representing, representing us. You can't do that, brother, please,
- 2:20Speaker 5: And it was just it's crazy. I mean, you know,
- 2:21Speaker 5: you don't be anchios or cowtowing to AOC. Right, I'm
- 2:24Speaker 5: not a girl.
- 2:25Speaker 4: I know what that there, And that's a stretch.
- 2:29Speaker 5: They must be anti semitich. I guess.
- 2:33Speaker 3: You have funny. Are you still a Raiders fan?
- 2:36Speaker 5: Of course you see I'm not like you.
- 2:39Speaker 4: No, no, no, you weren't exactly like You're exactly like me
- 2:41Speaker 4: because I remember very young Joseph Tacapina getting pen marks
- 2:46Speaker 4: on my father's Cadillac right after you got bab Midfred
- 2:49Speaker 4: who used to come to school wearing a Minnesota Viking
- 2:52Speaker 4: Joe Sensor jersey Joe censor.
- 2:54Speaker 5: But I was a tight end streak and I played
- 2:56Speaker 5: tight end for Paula, you know that. And Joe Cencil
- 2:58Speaker 5: was my favorite tight end ever. So I love jose I.
- 3:01Speaker 3: Can't even remember that.
- 3:02Speaker 5: And t was awesome.
- 3:03Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go. You like the Vikings. It's fine.
- 3:05Speaker 4: So you got to be thrilled that Mendoza is your
- 3:07Speaker 4: new quarterback.
- 3:08Speaker 5: Right, finally, finally, I mean I was so. I saw
- 3:11Speaker 5: Mark Davis and spoke to Mark at the National Championship game,
- 3:15Speaker 5: and I said, Mark, and we talked to Mark Doozi
- 3:17Speaker 5: for a while. I said, please just draft Mendoza, right,
- 3:20Speaker 5: We're doing that, right. He's like, well, yeah, I'm gonna
- 3:22Speaker 5: leave it to the GM. But as Mark, I said,
- 3:25Speaker 5: we're drafting Mendoz, right. I was convinced we're going to
- 3:27Speaker 5: draft the punter with the first pick of the draft
- 3:30Speaker 5: up until yesterday. So I'm so happy right now.
- 3:33Speaker 3: They did good.
- 3:33Speaker 4: But I do want to ask you quickly about because
- 3:35Speaker 4: you know this team better than anybody. You saw Mark
- 3:37Speaker 4: Davis at the championship game. Mind, folks, that was Miami
- 3:40Speaker 4: against Indiana, and Joseph has a great relationship with the Hurricanes.
- 3:44Speaker 3: Great the kid.
- 3:45Speaker 4: The Giants shocked everybody. The guard the Giants took number
- 3:50Speaker 4: ten overall first round pick. They traded Dexter Lawrence to
- 3:53Speaker 4: Cincinnati to get this kid, Magoa mcgawi from the Hurricanes.
- 3:57Speaker 5: Maw we go, how is Magoa? He's amazing? He was.
- 4:02Speaker 5: I think he was the best offensive live man college
- 4:03Speaker 5: last year. He is. He is a rocket, is one
- 4:06Speaker 5: of those Samoan beasts, like he's like a tree. But
- 4:09Speaker 5: he's also a great guy, a leader. It was a
- 4:12Speaker 5: great a really great pick. Giants had a hell of
- 4:15Speaker 5: a draft, by the way, you know, And I just
- 4:18Speaker 5: think that was that was a great pick. And by
- 4:19Speaker 5: the way, you know, I don't even want to view
- 4:22Speaker 5: was back anymore because we're back is not where we
- 4:24Speaker 5: are wait here, wait here. But we had three guys
- 4:27Speaker 5: draft in the first round.
- 4:28Speaker 3: So it was three you're right, it was three. Yeah,
- 4:31Speaker 3: that's a big deal.
- 4:33Speaker 5: Yeah exactly.
- 4:34Speaker 3: Who was the quarterback again? This year? We got somebody else?
- 4:37Speaker 5: Good? Mensa? Oh right, mensa from I saw. I was
- 4:40Speaker 5: at the spring game last Saturday on the sideline Mario
- 4:43Speaker 5: and the coaches watching that thing. And this kid, Oh
- 4:46Speaker 5: my god, this kid looks amazing, Bro, he looks amazing. Duke. Yeah,
- 4:51Speaker 5: he wore his one hundred yards a thousand yard receiver
- 4:54Speaker 5: with this little white guy looks like he should be
- 4:56Speaker 5: in glee club. But he's amazing too. I mean, all right,
- 5:01Speaker 5: let's go Hurricane, let's see.
- 5:03Speaker 4: All right, So that's all. That's all the good news.
- 5:04Speaker 4: The bad news is is that last I checked, you
- 5:07Speaker 4: and I still love and live and work in a
- 5:11Speaker 4: city where somebody like Ken Griffin, I know, you know him,
- 5:14Speaker 4: Joseph with somebody like Ken Griffin is now a criminal
- 5:18Speaker 4: only in this city.
- 5:19Speaker 5: Right, it's just unreal. I mean what Mondamine did by
- 5:23Speaker 5: going there and doing that little stunt of his. You know,
- 5:27Speaker 5: you know Ken Griffin's done to the city, right, I
- 5:29Speaker 5: mean for the city he has donated, still handled the
- 5:32Speaker 5: philanthropic causes to the tune of about six hundred million
- 5:36Speaker 5: piece in New York City. Okay, he just perched the
- 5:40Speaker 5: home for what two point two d two hundred three
- 5:46Speaker 5: eight eight billion. That's that's spending money in New York City. Okay,
- 5:51Speaker 5: Citadel his company and its affiliates that paid over two
- 5:54Speaker 5: point three billion impaxes in the last five years. Okay,
- 5:59Speaker 5: so without guys like that, you know, the taxing, the
- 6:02Speaker 5: ritual that nonsense that he does, we would be hurting
- 6:06Speaker 5: so badly. I mean, Citadel now is reconsidering a six
- 6:10Speaker 5: billion dollars in New York City development project because of
- 6:12Speaker 5: Wolden's nonsense with Mndami. So that's really really great. Isn't
- 6:16Speaker 5: that really great that that Mundamie is making like a
- 6:19Speaker 5: clown of themselves.
- 6:20Speaker 4: And by the way, not just not just the money, Joseph,
- 6:22Speaker 4: six billion dollars and like you pointed out, people like
- 6:25Speaker 4: him and my boss love him. John Katchman, Titi's black
- 6:27Speaker 4: when they pay these taxes his project at three fifty Park,
- 6:32Speaker 4: you're looking at the very least six thousand construction workers
- 6:36Speaker 4: fifteen thousand total employees. Right then you got people have
- 6:40Speaker 4: to live here, they got to pay, but that they
- 6:41Speaker 4: have to go to restaurants. The revenue above and beyond
- 6:44Speaker 4: the actual project is all money for New York City.
- 6:48Speaker 3: What is this guy doing.
- 6:49Speaker 5: Really threatens our core as a city. You know, basically
- 6:52Speaker 5: what this said, New York City is the greatest city
- 6:53Speaker 5: in the world. It's the global financial capital of the world.
- 6:56Speaker 5: It's where you know, if you make it here, you
- 6:59Speaker 5: can make it anywhere. Right, Frank said, that's not true.
- 7:01Speaker 5: So so so you know, here's the crazy part. What
- 7:04Speaker 5: this message sends. The one mondaminance given is success in
- 7:07Speaker 5: New York City is a liability. Okay, it's liability and
- 7:11Speaker 5: and and you know hedge funds are leaving thanks for shrinking.
- 7:14Speaker 5: In presence, talent is leading, and talent follows money, by
- 7:18Speaker 5: the way, right, So so it's just it's unbelievable when
- 7:22Speaker 5: the great cities are in decline and then you have
- 7:24Speaker 5: someone like this. You know, you don't grow with city
- 7:26Speaker 5: by punishing the people funding the city, you idiots. Okay,
- 7:29Speaker 5: it's just taxing the rich. It's exporting the rich, because
- 7:33Speaker 5: now what it's making sure everyone who has the weare
- 7:36Speaker 5: results to spend money in this great city has to leave.
- 7:39Speaker 5: Uh you know, it's just it's it's it's it's you
- 7:41Speaker 5: can't run New York City like a protest movement. It's
- 7:43Speaker 5: it's an economic engine. I love that so disgusting.
- 7:46Speaker 3: I love that.
- 7:47Speaker 4: Have you put that anyone like you cannot run the
- 7:50Speaker 4: city like a protest I love that.
- 7:52Speaker 5: A protest movement, that's what he's running like this. I
- 7:54Speaker 5: know it's a protest movement. That's that's funky did yesterday
- 7:59Speaker 5: to one of the cities great great institutions, one of
- 8:02Speaker 5: the great sort of contributors to the New York City's
- 8:04Speaker 5: philanthropic scene. Was ridiculous.
- 8:07Speaker 3: It was terrible.
- 8:08Speaker 5: It's running the city like a purpose movement.
- 8:11Speaker 3: I love that. I'm gonna use that. I'm gonna steal
- 8:12Speaker 3: that from you. It's not just ridiculous, it's actually disgraceful.
- 8:15Speaker 3: Ken Griffin is a terrific guy and a.
- 8:19Speaker 4: Very successful guy, and we should be celebrating people who
- 8:22Speaker 4: are successful and not turning them treating them with their criminals.
- 8:27Speaker 4: I do want to get back to the war for
- 8:28Speaker 4: a second. You've been great with this. I had Kat
- 8:32Speaker 4: mcfallen on earlier. She's great too. She worked for Trump,
- 8:35Speaker 4: she worked for presidents. She's on Box News almost every day,
- 8:38Speaker 4: she's on the show every Friday.
- 8:40Speaker 3: I think she's great, but she is all in here.
- 8:43Speaker 3: I mean so.
- 8:44Speaker 4: I pointed out some of the things that was provided
- 8:46Speaker 4: to me by a friend who happened to be at
- 8:48Speaker 4: the Pentagon this week. That person will remain nameless, talking
- 8:51Speaker 4: about how the strait up her moves wasn't an issue
- 8:53Speaker 4: before now it is, how a nuclear weapon really wasn't
- 8:57Speaker 4: on its way now it may be all the fibrus
- 9:00Speaker 4: different things. I read them one by one and her
- 9:02Speaker 4: quote to me was, well, they're all untrue. Every one
- 9:05Speaker 4: of those are on two. I said, well, do you
- 9:08Speaker 4: think that maybe the president keeps ceasefire, ceasefire, ceasefire because
- 9:14Speaker 4: truth be told, he's not exactly sure what to do next,
- 9:16Speaker 4: and maybe it was stuck.
- 9:18Speaker 3: And she was revaulted by that actual suggestions revolted.
- 9:22Speaker 5: So so you know, deadlines that keep moving don't pressure
- 9:27Speaker 5: your adversary. They empower your adversary. Because how many times
- 9:31Speaker 5: has the president said, if this doesn't happen, we're going
- 9:35Speaker 5: to moliterate their civilization. We're going through it by this date.
- 9:39Speaker 5: You know, last time it was by Tuesday night. If
- 9:42Speaker 5: this isn't done, we're going to rank holy hell on them.
- 9:44Speaker 5: They'll never go to put them back into the stone
- 9:46Speaker 5: age where they belonged.
- 9:47Speaker 3: That was seventeen days ago.
- 9:49Speaker 5: Seventeen days ago, that's right. And and you know, a
- 9:52Speaker 5: ram store is like laughing at us a little bit. Right.
- 9:54Speaker 5: They're making posts like going, oh is that eight pm
- 9:57Speaker 5: Eastern Standard time or Indian time? You know, it's like
- 10:01Speaker 5: they did that, really they did. They posted in response
- 10:04Speaker 5: to that threat because they knew it wasn't going to happen.
- 10:06Speaker 5: I mean, if they were really scared, they wouldn't be
- 10:08Speaker 5: mocking that threat. And what's happening is every time we
- 10:11Speaker 5: keep doing this, every time we keep moving away, it
- 10:15Speaker 5: chips away the terms because now all red lines look
- 10:18Speaker 5: flex flexible, like the ends of the world. Deadlines look flexible.
- 10:23Speaker 5: And once your adversary believes you won't act decisively, you've
- 10:27Speaker 5: already lost ground. So the extension of this sea is
- 10:29Speaker 5: far with the rand is being sold to stability. But
- 10:32Speaker 5: it's actually the opposite. To me, it's a sound that
- 10:34Speaker 5: there's really no clear path forward. Because when you have leverage,
- 10:37Speaker 5: you don't extend, you conclude, You dictate the terms, right,
- 10:40Speaker 5: I mean, I remember President Trump saying there's no negotiation here.
- 10:44Speaker 5: This is a complete and total surrender. They will surrender
- 10:50Speaker 5: to all of our terms. And now we're trying to
- 10:52Speaker 5: negotiate with them. And because we haven't done it, we're
- 10:54Speaker 5: going to extend it again for another three weeks. And
- 10:56Speaker 5: I guarantee you that's going to be extended again. Guse.
- 10:59Speaker 5: What we can't do is keep doing this. We can't
- 11:01Speaker 5: keep fighting. We're in a war. That has no end
- 11:04Speaker 5: in sight, and said, I'm telling you this is this
- 11:07Speaker 5: comes from the real war fighters. I'm talking from right.
- 11:11Speaker 5: This is We're in a pickle here, we really are. Okay.
- 11:15Speaker 5: This is not something where you know we have the
- 11:17Speaker 5: ability to go in there and militerate them, because we can't.
- 11:21Speaker 5: We're in a massive hole financially. Also, don't forget, we're
- 11:24Speaker 5: kind of ammunition. Okay, the war is burning. Listen to
- 11:28Speaker 5: this number. The burning at roughly one billion, would to
- 11:34Speaker 5: be dollars per day. No, okay, said, I swear that's
- 11:38Speaker 5: all cast these do Pentagon numbers one billion a day.
- 11:41Speaker 5: In six days, we spent over eleven point three billion.
- 11:44Speaker 5: And that was only partial accounting. It doesn't include all
- 11:47Speaker 5: the pre war build up, the troop deployment, and long
- 11:49Speaker 5: term replacement costs. It's just crazy.
- 11:52Speaker 3: This is the war.
- 11:53Speaker 5: This is like a financial free fall with no feeling.
- 11:56Speaker 5: And it's scary. And that's you know, we're in this
- 11:59Speaker 5: particament and I don't care what taking for all inside.
- 12:02Speaker 5: I respect her at all. But if right now, if
- 12:05Speaker 5: we can get this from Iran, if we can get
- 12:08Speaker 5: they don't control the straight anymore. Their oil is sanctioned,
- 12:14Speaker 5: and they will not build nuclear weapons, right right, So,
- 12:22Speaker 5: and all the US bases in the Gulf become assets again,
- 12:25Speaker 5: not liabuildings.
- 12:26Speaker 2: Right.
- 12:26Speaker 5: If we got those three things, we win.
- 12:29Speaker 3: Not really want see not even then I disagree.
- 12:32Speaker 4: What about the IOG, what about the IRGC, what about
- 12:36Speaker 4: those psychos?
- 12:36Speaker 3: Will still be in charge. They'll just do the same.
- 12:38Speaker 5: Thing and tend the game change. There is no regime
- 12:41Speaker 5: change in there. What are you kidding me?
- 12:42Speaker 4: Well, you got you gotta kill you gotta go and
- 12:43Speaker 4: kill all these RGC guys.
- 12:45Speaker 3: You gotta take them out. I'm sorry, gotta kill them.
- 12:47Speaker 5: They're they're embedded in the society. There were never changing it, right,
- 12:51Speaker 5: We're never changing it. And by the way, I thought
- 12:54Speaker 5: we weren't supposed to do that, right, I thought that
- 12:56Speaker 5: was the new problemse because I've watched a lot of
- 12:58Speaker 5: clips and footage where everyone in this administration, from the President,
- 13:01Speaker 5: the Vice President, to the Second War to Tulci Gabbert,
- 13:06Speaker 5: all these people saying the same thing. We're not fighting
- 13:09Speaker 5: other countries wars anymore. We're not fighting stupid you know,
- 13:13Speaker 5: endless wars where we spend.
- 13:14Speaker 4: But this wasn't a stupid war and they started at
- 13:17Speaker 4: forty seven years ago. I just don't know if we
- 13:20Speaker 4: ever really had a great plan from the beginning.
- 13:23Speaker 5: No, No, we definitely did have a great plan in
- 13:25Speaker 5: the beginning, because if you have a great plan in
- 13:27Speaker 5: the beginning, you protect your basis and your embassies first move,
- 13:31Speaker 5: second move, You secure the straight before you go in,
- 13:34Speaker 5: not after you go in.
- 13:35Speaker 3: Eat.
- 13:35Speaker 5: And because we didn't secure our basis embassies, we lost
- 13:38Speaker 5: a lot of human life, American lives, and our basis
- 13:42Speaker 5: embassies are gone to their liabilities. Now they're not our
- 13:45Speaker 5: stranglehold anymore. And the Strait is now, you know, we're
- 13:47Speaker 5: negotiating it now that they're putting land mines down maybe
- 13:50Speaker 5: or you know, minds under the strait. It's a mess.
- 13:55Speaker 5: It is a mess. And I'm telling you we have
- 13:57Speaker 5: an ammunition problem.
- 13:58Speaker 4: No, I believe it, and they don't because they're getting
- 14:01Speaker 4: none of the Russians keep reading every day NBC. Hey,
- 14:04Speaker 4: you know whatever Pete Heggs has said, it's not true.
- 14:07Speaker 4: They are they are fine. They've got plenty of weaponry.
- 14:11Speaker 4: They're not they're not running out.
- 14:12Speaker 5: I saw today he said they're they're pirateship army. No, oh, no,
- 14:15Speaker 5: they're not They're.
- 14:16Speaker 4: Not right, no good thing. You're here to tell the truth.
- 14:18Speaker 4: I got to run, but these, uh, these appearances with
- 14:21Speaker 4: you on Friday, I gotta be honest because I bring
- 14:23Speaker 4: on a lot of people I love them, and a
- 14:25Speaker 4: lot of them just kind of tow the line. And
- 14:27Speaker 4: I know you love Trump. You've represented them twice in
- 14:30Speaker 4: legal battles and you guys are close. But you come
- 14:32Speaker 4: every Friday with the real information and it's important.
- 14:35Speaker 3: So I love you getting.
- 14:36Speaker 5: Advice too, said so, and that's that's why I'm here.
- 14:38Speaker 5: I don't put this on the president. I mean, he's
- 14:41Speaker 5: got people who are supposed to know this. Yeah, I'm
- 14:43Speaker 5: giving him the real advice, right, and he's got some
- 14:46Speaker 5: better advice.
- 14:47Speaker 4: Get down to here one they're and uh, you too,
- 14:49Speaker 4: I don't know, give up the low stuff and just
- 14:51Speaker 4: become like some type of the I don't know, army,
- 14:53Speaker 4: the maka.
- 14:53Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 14:55Speaker 5: This country comes from me, So I know, do whatever
- 14:58Speaker 5: I can do.
- 14:58Speaker 3: I would do you know that, Joe.
- 15:00Speaker 4: I love your great job. Amazing job. Actually, thank you
- 15:02Speaker 4: so much, buddy, great job.
- 15:03Speaker 5: Okay, brother, take guys.
- 15:05Speaker 3: He's terrific.
- 15:06Speaker 4: Defense at Tony Joseph Taccapino will take a break home.
- 15:08Speaker 4: He's got the news. Scott Lobatos still the cool.
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