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Hour 1: Refresher on driving · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Oh, Larry, later on, you got to tell us about
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  Speaker 1: your visit to the concert in Philadelphia with Ed Sheeran.
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  Speaker 1: Natalie's going to tell us she was going to go
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  Speaker 1: to that restaurant where they had the crash on the
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  Speaker 1: Jersey Shore. And I'll tell you about the San Gennaro
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  Speaker 1: Festival as I went back to back. But last night,
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  Speaker 1: 60 Minutes was really dedicated to, I guess, the response
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  Speaker 1: of Patrick Clancy. to all the rumors, the innuendos, the
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  Speaker 1: negative social postings that have been filed against him, as
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  Speaker 1: he's basically trying to set the record straight in terms
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  Speaker 1: of what he was doing and how he was trying
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  Speaker 1: to help his wife, Lindsay Clancy, and also the responses
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  Speaker 1: of his new wife, who he met in New York
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  Speaker 1: City when he moved here. She's an infertility specialist at
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  Speaker 1: both joggers they met in Central Park. And boy, it
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  Speaker 1: was quite a sit down. Larry, what did you make
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  Speaker 1: of it?
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  Speaker 2: The thing I made of it was the and I
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  Speaker 2: think what the most important thing that we learned there
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  Speaker 2: was that he didn't think she was guilty. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that was stunning because remember, the prosecution called him and
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  Speaker 2: everybody thought he was a weak witness. Now we know
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  Speaker 2: why he said she would never have killed those three kids.
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  Speaker 2: It was the psychosis. She was mentally ill. That's what
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  Speaker 2: caused it. which is what the prevailing feeling was in
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  Speaker 2: the jury room. So it was a little bit stunning
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  Speaker 2: that this prosecution witness was now saying, no, there's no
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  Speaker 2: way she's in a right mind and killed her kids.
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  Speaker 2: We should go through this interview because for the first time,
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  Speaker 2: we're getting some soundbites. So I haven't been able to
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  Speaker 2: preview these, but take a listen and we can react
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  Speaker 2: as we hear.
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  Speaker 3: I saw headlines that said, you know, killer mom and
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  Speaker 3: baby murderer, monster. And none of them were accurate. I
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  Speaker 3: believe that it was her mental illness that caused that.
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  Speaker 2: So there's the most important sound bite. That was the
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  Speaker 2: most important one.
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  Speaker 1: You are correct, because that seemed to be the sentiment
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  Speaker 1: of the jury.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: We did hear from the holdout juror again, and he
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  Speaker 2: was fascinating, too. Let's talk about him in a second,
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  Speaker 2: and let's get through the rest of this sound.
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  Speaker 3: And I think when it comes to forgiveness, I also
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  Speaker 3: felt that if I didn't get there, I would be
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  Speaker 3: eaten up inside her.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so he forgave her. That's what that was from.
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  Speaker 2: That was the question that was asked. How can you
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  Speaker 2: forgive her for that? And he said he had to.
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  Speaker 2: For himself and for her and for the memory of
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  Speaker 2: the children, he had to forgive her.
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  Speaker 3: I asked her if she remembered it. And what did
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  Speaker 3: she say? She said it was like a dream. And
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  Speaker 3: she remembered it much in the way you would remember
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  Speaker 3: a dream after waking up.
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  Speaker 2: So that answer is yes. She does remember it. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember that coming out of the trial. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the fact that she knows what she did.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I thought she blanked it all out. That's what was
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  Speaker 2: reported earlier, that she blanked it all out. There was
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  Speaker 2: some real revelations out of this interview last night.
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  Speaker 3: I think I did the best I could with what
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  Speaker 3: I had at the time. And I live with the outcome.
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  Speaker 3: I live with it every day.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he was sent away. I'm not sure what he's
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  Speaker 2: talking about. I guess no matter what, if you're the dad,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to beat yourself up. What could I have done?
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  Speaker 2: He came off really good in this interview, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, much better than when he was the lead off
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  Speaker 1: witness for the prosecution in Plymouth and talking about his wife.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was, even though he had to be
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  Speaker 1: on the witness stand, they should not have started out
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  Speaker 1: with him because I think He was not the strongest
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  Speaker 1: witness at all. Now we know why.
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  Speaker 2: He was tormented. So he never thought she killed those
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  Speaker 2: children in their right mind. And that went against what
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  Speaker 2: the prosecution was trying to get.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so grateful for those four days that I had
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  Speaker 3: with him. And I'm so grateful he hung on.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I'm going to start this again because it's
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  Speaker 2: important to tell you what he's talking about. He's talking
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  Speaker 2: about the one child that survived.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the baby Kaylin.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And he's talking about the baby that survived and
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  Speaker 2: the fact that she hung on for four days before
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  Speaker 2: she died.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so grateful for those four days that I had
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  Speaker 3: with him. And I'm so grateful he hung on. Did
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  Speaker 3: you talk to him in those four days?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Can you tell me anything you said? I said, I'm
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  Speaker 3: so sorry. I'm so sorry. And I got to hold him.
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  Speaker 3: I got to lay down next to him. And he
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  Speaker 3: died in my arms.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's eight-month-old Kalen that he's talking about. How unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: That was the most compelling part, I think, of the interview.
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  Speaker 1: Because he described the four days that the baby was
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  Speaker 1: holding on. And they enabled him to hold the baby,
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  Speaker 1: to go into the hospital, to lay down with the baby.
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  Speaker 1: And then to have your own child die in your arms,
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  Speaker 1: that just compounded it. And you could just feel the
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  Speaker 1: pain even now in his voice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's amazing. Throughout the interview, you get the feeling
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  Speaker 2: that he blames himself, that he doesn't blame her, that
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  Speaker 2: he blames himself for not being there for her, for
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  Speaker 2: not being there for her children, for being away, for
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  Speaker 2: falling for this plot, which is the fact that she
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  Speaker 2: remembers what happened and the fact that she plotted it out.
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  Speaker 2: leads me to believe she's still guilty of murder.
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  Speaker 3: I think every parent can agree you have different relationships
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  Speaker 3: with your kids, but they're all your kids. And I
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  Speaker 3: can't wait to tell them about their brothers and sister.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I've found that a little odd.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't. I don't. I mean, what he's saying
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  Speaker 2: is when they get of a certain age, I would
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  Speaker 2: do the same thing. I think any parent would do
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  Speaker 2: the same thing. When they get of a certain age...
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  Speaker 2: he wants to be able to tell them. They're going
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  Speaker 2: to find out anyway. You know what I mean? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: there's no doubt. So he wants to say to them,
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  Speaker 2: you had wonderful brothers and sisters. They were just wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: And so I just want to let you know about
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  Speaker 2: them and tell you about them. He might not have
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  Speaker 2: phrased that perfectly, but I understand the sentiment completely, and
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  Speaker 2: I would feel exactly the same way in his position.
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  Speaker 1: Well, part of the reason that he chose to do
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  Speaker 1: this along with his new wife, Rachel, is was to
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  Speaker 1: deal with what was first brought to our attention by
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  Speaker 1: our own Natalie Migliore. I was unaware of it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you were, Larry, but the escalating campaign
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  Speaker 1: of conspiracy theories, misinformation about possibly him being involved. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: I was shocked. Natalie was telling us, oh, yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: is being discussed on a regular basis. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: people are doubting Thomas's about him being, you know, basically
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  Speaker 1: out of the circle of what transpired. Many people I
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  Speaker 1: went online and actually looked at some of these comments
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  Speaker 1: after Natalie had mentioned to us, and she was right.
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  Speaker 1: They were going to indict him as the person responsible.
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  Speaker 1: So I think part of the reason that the couple
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  Speaker 1: decided to do that was to try to address the
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  Speaker 1: escalating campaign that hasn't stopped. Remember, the next court date
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  Speaker 1: is September 29th. That's when the DA for the county
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  Speaker 1: there has to determine, are we going to go back
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  Speaker 1: to trial, go for a plea? Who knows what they're
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  Speaker 1: going to discuss? but apparently hasn't slowed down at all.
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  Speaker 2: No, they're going to go for a retrial. The prosecutor's
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  Speaker 2: office has kind of come out and said, there's no
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  Speaker 2: way we're going to settle unless we get exactly what
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  Speaker 2: we want or near to what we want. And we're
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  Speaker 2: so far apart right now, that's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: So I believe 99% that there is going to be
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  Speaker 2: a retrial at this point. But you're exactly right about
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  Speaker 2: Patrick Clancy. It is bizarre. But when you think about it,
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  Speaker 2: It makes some sense because everything is screwed up today.
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  Speaker 2: Everything happens on social media. People take it as legitimate news.
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  Speaker 2: So when they read something on social media, and I've
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  Speaker 2: seen this myself a million times, how I've been at things,
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  Speaker 2: I've been at stories, and you read about it online,
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  Speaker 2: and it's something completely different. It's somebody skewing exactly what
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  Speaker 2: happened to fit what they believe should have happened or
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  Speaker 2: what they believe was true. So please, whatever you do,
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  Speaker 2: don't take social media unless it comes from a legitimate
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  Speaker 2: source like a news source as fact. Because you're right.
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  Speaker 2: That grew around the country. People around the country thought
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  Speaker 2: he was involved. He made it happen. He forced her
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  Speaker 2: to do it because they already had their own bias
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  Speaker 2: when it came to fathers and mothers and the case.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll tell you this. If I'm the defense attorney,
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  Speaker 1: if in fact it does go back to trial. I
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  Speaker 1: want him on the stand saying exactly what he said
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  Speaker 1: in the 60 Minutes interview, and he won't be able to, like,
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  Speaker 1: maneuver away from that. I'll say, well, didn't you say
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  Speaker 1: on the 60 Minutes interview?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they can play it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: They can play it and say, can you, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they don't have to put him on the stand at
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  Speaker 2: this point.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let me do a pivot and shift to your guy,
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  Speaker 1: the no-doubts guy, the holdout juror. There's been a fundraising
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  Speaker 1: campaign for him. He had to flee Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he took Governor DeSantis up on
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  Speaker 1: his off-road sanctuary. Remember, DeSantis said, I know you may
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  Speaker 1: want to leave Massachusetts. You're welcome in Florida. They raised $ 350, 000.
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  Speaker 1: His attorney has posted a picture of him, the Haitian-American juror,
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  Speaker 1: smiling with his new baby girl. He's been under death threats, doxing, harassment.
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  Speaker 1: So he's using the money to pay for security, legal fees,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously lost work. Again, he stated, I'm a black Republican.
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  Speaker 1: I support Trump. And that jury had a leftist bent
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  Speaker 1: from day one. So they call that jury nullification. I
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  Speaker 1: went through a case myself where the jury ruled on
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  Speaker 1: my side. And you knew from day one, they already
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  Speaker 1: made their decision. They weren't even going to listen to anything.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what you call jury nullification. Remember, the jurors
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  Speaker 1: kept saying he wasn't listening. He kept drifting off. He
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  Speaker 1: would be scribbling on a pad. Well, he says, every
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  Speaker 1: time I tried to talk. They'd cut me off. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: would listen to what I wanted to say. They'd ask
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  Speaker 1: me a question, I'd start to answer, and then they'd
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  Speaker 1: cut me off. Well, I would say to him, you're
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  Speaker 1: no Henry Fonda. You didn't convert the other 11, remember?
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  Speaker 1: What was the name of that great movie? 11 Angry
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  Speaker 1: Men or something like that?
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  Speaker 2: No, 12 Angry Men.
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  Speaker 1: And it was Henry Fonda, the lone holdout, who convinced
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  Speaker 1: the other 11. I guess... He wasn't able to do that.
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  Speaker 1: They wouldn't even let him talk.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine if Henry Fonda, every time he talked, they jumped in. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: matters most. Well, a great voice in sports history here
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  Speaker 2: in New York is going to retire. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 2: how he rose, plus a chance to see Kenny G
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  Speaker 2: at age 25.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we have to do it. We have to
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  Speaker 2: talk about the Jets and what happened to the Jets yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I feel so bad for Jets fans. I really do,
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  Speaker 2: because there's hope every once in a while. And think
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  Speaker 2: about it this year. They start 1-0. It looked like
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  Speaker 2: they were going to win yesterday. They would have been
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  Speaker 2: 2-0 yesterday. Curtis, you know what the percentage is when
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  Speaker 2: you go 2-0 in the NFL of the teams that
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  Speaker 2: are 2-0 making the playoffs?
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  Speaker 1: 67%.
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  Speaker 2: 67% of the teams that go 2-0 go on to
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  Speaker 2: make the playoffs. But nope, wasn't going to happen. They
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  Speaker 2: were up 17-7 at half, and they held that lead
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  Speaker 2: until 11 minutes left in the game. And they blew it.
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  Speaker 2: They had opportunity after opportunity after opportunity. The game went
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  Speaker 2: to overtime. They got the ball first. And you know
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  Speaker 2: under the rules, if you don't score and the other
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  Speaker 2: team gets the ball, they just have to score and
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  Speaker 2: they win. And that's exactly what happened. And they lost. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: it was 17-7 with 11 minutes left in the game.
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  Speaker 2: And they lost 20-17. There is some good news. They
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  Speaker 2: look pretty good. The quarterback looks good. They've played good
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  Speaker 2: teams so far. Not great teams, but good teams so far.
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  Speaker 2: So I think they're going to not have a winning season,
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  Speaker 2: but win a lot more than they did last year.
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  Speaker 2: How about that?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And tonight, oh, the big game. Matthew Stafford, MVP with
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  Speaker 1: the LA Rams, who got killed in Australia against the 49ers.
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  Speaker 1: Playing at home against Jason Dart. And the revived New
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  Speaker 1: York Giants. Jackson Dart. I'm sorry, Jackson Dart. And the
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  Speaker 1: revived New York Giants. And so all eyeballs will be
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  Speaker 1: watching because it's Monday Night Football. And the betting is
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  Speaker 1: going to be intense because a lot of people are saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: the Rams, after they got killed in Australia, now want
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  Speaker 1: to be able to come back. Because if they're owing
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  Speaker 1: to it to start of the year, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: they're making the Super Bowl. And I don't think the
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  Speaker 1: Jets are frauds.
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  Speaker 2: Like the Giants, I should say. The Jets were frauds
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  Speaker 2: in that first game, but the Giants are. The Giants
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  Speaker 2: are a good team. The Giants are going to win
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  Speaker 2: probably eight to ten games this year. So they're legitimate.
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  Speaker 2: They may not win tonight, but they're legitimate.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I got to tell you, nothing has gone right
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  Speaker 1: for the New York Mets this season. The entire season,
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  Speaker 1: a debacle. And then Steve Cohen, the owner, set it
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  Speaker 1: up so that the final day at home at Citi
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  Speaker 1: Field would be to honor the great Howie Rose. Howie Rose,
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  Speaker 1: who was part of a great threesome in radio. Ron Darling,
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  Speaker 1: the former player, Keith Hernandez, former player, but not Howie Rose.
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  Speaker 1: He is the average guy. Grew up in Queens, went
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  Speaker 1: to Cardoza High School, Queens College, would listen to the
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  Speaker 1: games on his father's radio in his car. He was
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  Speaker 1: such a fan and then was able to realize this
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: stream had bladder cancer in 2021. That oftentimes will kill you.
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  Speaker 1: Radical surgery came back. What a great voice. And yesterday
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to be his day. Oh, they canceled it
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  Speaker 1: because they said in Clement Weather. Well, they had the
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  Speaker 1: game anyway. The fans were there for Howie Rose, but
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  Speaker 1: no ceremony. Nothing's gone right. This guy is so good.
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  Speaker 1: He deserves better than this.
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  Speaker 2: Here he is signing off for the last time.
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  Speaker 6: So hopefully this is not it for this year. I
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  Speaker 6: will be back. You're not getting rid of me that easily.
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  Speaker 6: They'll dust me off here to do the various ceremonies
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  Speaker 6: beginning with opening day and Mets Hall of Fame day
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  Speaker 6: and number retirements and if we do an old-timers day.
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  Speaker 6: I'll visit in the booth from time to time as
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  Speaker 6: long as it's in New York or Miami. My days
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  Speaker 6: of going to other places are just about over with.
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  Speaker 6: But just know that I.
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  Speaker 3: Love you all.
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  Speaker 2: He got choked up there in the end. He is
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  Speaker 2: definitely one of the great ones. Should be in the
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  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame, so let's see what happens from here
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  Speaker 2: on out. And if they do right by him, if
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  Speaker 2: they now come around and give him some type of
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  Speaker 2: ceremony because they screwed the pooch.
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  Speaker 1: Or as he would say at the end of games,
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  Speaker 1: put it in the books. He's great.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's get to Daria Albinger with the 630 News, Daria.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what I can add to that. That
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  Speaker 4: is like the biggest story of the day.
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  Speaker 3: Seriously.
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 4: Partly sunny and breezy today. High 69. But we will
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  Speaker 4: find some stuff to tell you about now. It may
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: be a good day to work from home if you can.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: There's a gridlock alert with the U.N. General Assembly getting
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: underway today. And if you have to come into the city,
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  Speaker 4: take mass transit. President Trump is among the dignitaries that
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  Speaker 4: will be here. He'll meet this afternoon with Mayor Mamdani.
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  Speaker 4: Senator Cory Booker says President Trump is violating the Constitution
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  Speaker 4: by banning some major news outlets from the White House.
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  Speaker 5: The New Jersey Democrats slammed the new policy on NBC's
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  Speaker 5: Meet the Press on Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: This president has no regard for the First Amendment. He's
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  Speaker 4: going after reporters, and this ban just doubles down.
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  Speaker 5: Booker also accused the president of using the Justice Department
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  Speaker 5: in unprecedented ways to retaliate against reporters. Trump said on
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  Speaker 5: due to what he says is their constant reporting of
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  Speaker 5: fiction and lies when covering him. The president said other
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  Speaker 5: House soon.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Mark Mayfield.
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  Speaker 4: Police are looking for a suspect in a fatal shooting
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  Speaker 4: outside of Wawa, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 7: Police were called to a location in Tom's River just
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  Speaker 7: before 7.30 in the morning on Friday and found a
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: man who was shot in the head. The 42-year-old victim
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: was rushed to the hospital where he was later pronounced dead. Now,
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  Speaker 7: the Ocean City Prosecutor's Office is looking to find and
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: book 51-year-old Douglas Cobb. He's facing multiple charges, including murder
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: and unlawful weapon possession. The circumstances leading up to the
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: shooting remain unclear. Anyone who knows where he could be
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: is being asked to contact Crimestoppers. Jonathan O'Halloran, WUR News.
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  Speaker 4: Three students from Columbia University are suing the school over
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  Speaker 4: their response to pro-Palestinian protests. They're accusing campus security of
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  Speaker 4: locking protesters in a room at the school library for
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  Speaker 4: hours during demonstrations last year. And they say they were
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  Speaker 4: beaten by officers who were allegedly acting on Columbia's orders.
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  Speaker 4: The university maintains the students were being detained so authorities
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: could get their identities. The Jets, Mets, and Yankees all
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: lost the Giants' take on the L.A. Rams in Monday
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  Speaker 4: Night Football. Next news, 7 o'clock bulletins at once. I'm
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  Speaker 4: Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Daria. When it comes to businesses,
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  Speaker 2: New Jersey hasn't gotten any better. They're one of the
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  Speaker 2: worst in the country when it comes to dealing with
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  Speaker 2: corporations and businesses, and they just lost another one. That
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: makes four major companies leaving this year, which hurts the
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  Speaker 2: tax base, and it costs jobs. We'll tell you who
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: those companies are when we come right back. Well, New
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Jersey constantly ranks at the very bottom of the list
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: when it comes to company friendliness or places where companies
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: want to set up. And that's mostly because of their
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: tax rate. It is the second highest in the country.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, WalletHub.
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  Speaker 2: Just did a study. Hawaii was 50th. New Jersey was 49th.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where they are on almost every poll about
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: corporate friendliness, either at the very bottom or close to
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: the bottom. Well, another company has now moved out. Burlington
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Coat Factory, they now call Burlington the discount retailer. They
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: are moving from South Jersey, Curtis, to somewhere where you
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: just were, Philadelphia's University City neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's not far away, across the Delaware.
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  Speaker 2: No, but the taxes are better, and they got some
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: incentives from the state.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Some huge incentives from the state.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: So Shapiro stole them from the helicopter pilot. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: But that's not the only company. I mean, there's been
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: a whole lot of companies recently. Samsung Electronics. announced in
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: June that it was moving its headquarters with about 1,000
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: jobs to Plano, Texas.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Now, that's that huge tower in Englewood Cliffs, right? That's
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: exactly it. You can see it from Washington Heights, George
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Washington Bridge. What are they going to put in that
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: huge building now?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they better start attracting some businesses because they keep
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: losing businesses. By the way, there have been clubs and
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: corporations and business associations– In New Jersey, they've been warning
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  Speaker 2: about this for years, that if they don't change the
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: business climate, they're going to start bleeding companies and jobs.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: And no mayor, by the way, Murphy was the worst.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: So I'm not going to blame Mikey Sherrill completely, but
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: she hasn't changed anything yet. And so let me go
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  Speaker 2: through the rest of them. ExxonMobil. made a decision to
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: move its corporation to Texas after 140 years in New Jersey.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: So that's one in Pennsylvania, two to Texas. Honeywell in
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: 2018 moved out. Mercedes-Benz just recently moved out. It's company
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: after company after company. Ocean Spray Bottling Company just moved out.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Dietzen-Watson Distribution Center moved out. I mean, the list of
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: all of these companies that are moving out of New
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Jersey because they have the highest corporate tax rate in
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: the country is is incredible, and it doesn't seem like
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: they are ready to do anything about it. Let me
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: tell you some of the other reasons. New Jersey ranks
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  Speaker 2: near the bottom for job growth right now, with a
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  Speaker 2: non-farm workforce that shrank by 0.4%, or that's about 20,000 workers,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: over the 12 months ending in July. Pennsylvania, meanwhile, they
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: went up. Texas went way up. Most of the countries,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: you've seen the job growth, the job numbers coming out
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: from the federal government. They're going up around the country,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: just not in New Jersey. And Curtis, and I think
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: you know this well, that's a huge problem for a
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: state if they're not only losing their corporate tax base,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: But they're losing all of those jobs. And just from
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: the companies we talked about, and that's in the last
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: few years, that's almost 50,000 jobs.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, a lot. I remember it became– it dawned on
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: me when we began patrolling Camden, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man. Horrible.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: In terms of crime and deterioration. Other than the hospital there,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: there was nothing. But Campbell's Soups, right? I remember they
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: had the factory there and the corporate headquarters. And you
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: could actually go in and see. You saw the soup
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: can towers. You could go in and see how all
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: the Campbell's Soups were made. Because most of the Campbell's
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Soups were made there and then shipped out from there.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: And then they closed their factory. I guess they kept
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: their corporate headquarters there. But you say to yourself, the
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: traditional companies of New Jersey. I mean, just look across
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: the Hudson River, right? You see the Maxwell House sign, right,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: in Jersey City. Well, there's Maxwell House sign, but no
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Maxwell House. So you're right. You can go listing after
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: listing other than the pharmaceutical companies, which have a big
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: presence in New Jersey. Yeah, they're really bleeding out corporately,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: really bleeding out corporately.
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  Speaker 2: Here are the biggest companies in New Jersey, and if
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: they ever lose any of these, they're going to be
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: in real trouble. Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Woody.
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  Speaker 1: Woody with the Jets.
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, right now they're staying. Yeah, they're staying.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm telling you, state after state after state is
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: coming to all these companies with packages. that show a
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: lower tax base and show a workforce that was willing
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: to work for them. And in New Jersey, they just
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: don't have much of that and.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: The cost of living.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: And that's an extremely important thing for a business, for
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: all their workers, to attract workers. When they find out
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: the cost of a house in New Jersey compared to Texas, well,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: they're going to go to New Jersey.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Merck and Rahway is another big one. You know, I
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: have to beg forgiveness on this. I thought originally the
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Burlington Coat Factory was in Burlington, Vermont. You know what
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: straightened me out on that? It was Bernie the Atacaca Sanders,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: who was the mayor of Burlington. Never a Democrat, always
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: an independent. And I met him at the University of Vermont.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I was speaking there. He was like an adjunct professor.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: This morning was congressman. I said, oh, you were the
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: mayor of Burlington. Is that where the Burlington Coat Factory started?
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: He goes, no, we have one, but... It wasn't in Vermont.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: No, it was North Carolina.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: He had to straighten me out.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it started in North Carolina. As a matter of fact,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: the guy that started it started Elon University as well,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: which is where my son goes. That's the only reason
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: I know that.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Wait, I thought that was Elon Musk again.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: You can't go by that. Let me give you an
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: idea about these companies and how much money they make. Like,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: for instance, Prudential Financial, you've seen the building in Newark.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: They bring in $ 60. 8 billion a year in revenue. And
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: when you have an 11% tax rate, that's billions of dollars.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: I'm just trying to sound the alarm on this. I mean,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: I know they know it over there. But if these
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: companies keep leaving, and we've had three huge companies leave
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: in the last year, New Jersey is in some real trouble.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: And if you don't think this affects you personally, your
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: taxes are going up.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Would the new line be New Jersey without you? Don't
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: let the door hit you on the way out, corporations.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: I will say it's not Mikey Sherrill's fault yet because
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: this has been happening for a long, long time. And
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: I'm sure those deals were in the work before Mikey.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: But when she was contacted about the story, she didn't
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: want to comment on the story. So that means she
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: ain't got no answers yet. When we come back, well,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: we are glad to have Natalie Vaca with us this
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: morning because she got out of the way of disaster
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: just in time when a 93-year-old driver plowed into a
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Shore restaurant. We'll have the details when we come back. Well,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: in Lavalette, New Jersey, a 93-year-old woman attempting to park
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: a Buick Encore outside a restaurant Press the gas pedal
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: instead of the brake. This happens so much. Accelerating into
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: an outdoor dining area and building. One person was killed.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Seven others were injured. But the restaurant that we're talking
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: about is very popular. And guess who was waiting to
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: get into that restaurant and finally gave up and missed
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: certain disaster? Our own Natalie Vaca. Natalie, man, you missed tragedy.
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: You know, we went down Friday night, Saturday morning. My
• 27:53
  Speaker 8: husband went for a run. When he came back, I said, oh,
• 27:55
  Speaker 8: let's go grab some breakfast. I really want some coffee.
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: Let's sit down somewhere. He was really hungry. He's like, okay, fine.
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: You know, he wasn't really having it, but he went,
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: we went to, and it was, you know, it's the
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: end of the season. So not a lot of places
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: are open. So the ones that are open are really crowded.
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: Cause I figured, oh, it's September. Won't be so crowded,
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: but I was wrong. So we got there. And, you know,
• 28:17
  Speaker 8: tons of people, everybody was eating outside. It was, you know,
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: pretty nice out. And he was just so hungry. I said, fine,
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: let's just leave. I was kind of annoyed. I was like,
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: all right, fine. We got back in the car. We
• 28:27
  Speaker 8: went down about a mile and a half. We grabbed
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: a breakfast sandwich and we sat outside and we ate.
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: Got back home and they were like, did you hear
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: what happened in La Valette? I'm like, oh, no, we
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: were just there. What are you talking about? They're like,
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: there's Medivacs, there's this at Meg's.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I'm like, Meg's?
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: We were just standing there. So we must have missed
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: it by about 20 minutes. So by the time we
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: got in the car and went and ate somewhere else,
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: you know, something happened. But, you know, everybody was saying, oh, goodness,
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: I hope it, you know, nobody got really hurt. And
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: then it, unfortunately, the tragedy happened. A 56-year-old woman died.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an elderly person that's driving a car and
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: hits the gas pedal instead of the brake. If you
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: now go online and just put that in, elderly person
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: hitting the gas pedal instead of the brake, you'll see
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: that there were four tragic cases just in the last year.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: And Curtis, when I was a reporter in Chicago, I
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: think it was in 1992 at O'Hare Airport, there was
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: a man, I remember his last name still Horvath, because
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: it was such a horrible accident. He hit the gas
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: instead of the brake and ran in, a group of
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: kids waiting to get on a bus. 90 people were
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: injured by him and a nine-year-old girl died. So there's
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: something that has to be, I know that DMVs and
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: motor vehicle associations across the country are all over this.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: But it's still happening.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: The most difficult conversation you're ever going to have is
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: with your mother or father. Once they're getting up there
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: in age and they still want to drive and you
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: have to say, hey, dad, you can't be driving or mom,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: you can't be driving. And boy, they fight because that's
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: their independence. That's your ability to go out on their own,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: not depend on anyone. Oh, man, did I get into
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: some battles with my father? and my mother before they
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: passed away because in the last years, they were not
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: capable of driving on their own, yet they insisted. What
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: are you talking about? You don't even have a driver's license, Curtis.
• 30:37
  Speaker 8: For all we know, the family might have had a
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: conversation with this woman. She lived in the town. Lavalette
• 30:44
  Speaker 8: is not big. So maybe they said, oh, she's just
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: driving in town.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe she didn't have even family around anymore. I
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: will tell you, I had the same situation with my
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: dad And by the way, my father, it was so
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: horrible to see when dementia hit because he was the
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: most brilliant man I had ever met in my life.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: And he taught me things constantly. And I was just
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: so proud of his success and also just looked up
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: to him. We had to hide his car keys. That
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: was the hardest thing that myself and the family ever
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: did was to hide his car keys and then have
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: to lie to him. Because if you said, look, with
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: your dad, you know, he's going to get angry. He's
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: going to get really mad. And then you have to
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: have a bigger conversation with him. So we would constantly say, look,
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: we just can't find him, dad. We just can't find him.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: And then he would finally give up.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Well, there is one positive to come from this story. Natalie,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: remember I tagged you with the handle when Tom Cuddy
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: did the shit I can put me and Larry together.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: back in March, I called you Calamity Natalie, right? You
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: remember that, Calamity Natalie. You realize your husband being so famished,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: so hungry, avoided a calamity because you were getting so
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: annoyed with your husband, you just decided we're not waiting
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: on line at that very restaurant where the woman plowed into.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: We'll just go down the road. So you are no
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: longer in my book, Calamity Natalie.
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: I'm glad to get the name off, but it's the
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: first time his hangry We all understand people who get
• 32:19
  Speaker 8: hangry really, you know, because it is the one thing
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: I get.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Annoyed by him all the time. You realize she has
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: a one-up on her husband all the time now when
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: he says, what are you nagging me for? Remember when
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: I saved your life? Remember when I nagged you and
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: I saved your life?
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: No, he'll turn it around. Oh, he should because it
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: was him being hungry and not wanting to wait that
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: caused you to leave the queue. And thank God. Thank
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: God that did happen because who knows? Who knows? Well,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: you're no longer Calamity Natalie. But up next, our own
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Larry Menti was in Lincoln Field Park. to see Ed
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Sheeran in concert on Saturday night. And you're going to
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: give us your review because we've seen every other review.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: And I want to see if yours matches with what
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: we've seen in the mainstream media. But first, the news
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: at 7 o'clock.