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Hour 2: Subway safety · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, Kathy Hochul released what can only be called a
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  Speaker 1: seething statement about the rape at Cornell University. I should
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  Speaker 1: say the alleged gang rape at Cornell University. And she
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  Speaker 1: has appointed a special prosecutor, and the special prosecutor is
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  Speaker 1: New York Attorney General Letitia James.
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  Speaker 2: Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 1: Cornell's in some problems. But in the statement she released,
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  Speaker 1: she was... really searing about the way Cornell handled the
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  Speaker 1: rape investigation and also the way that the Tompkins County
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  Speaker 1: District Attorney chose not to prosecute or even investigate further
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  Speaker 1: alleged sexual assault. They just based everything on what Cornell
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  Speaker 1: University told them. So she wrote in her statement, this
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  Speaker 1: has in turn undercut my faith and the public's faith
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  Speaker 1: in the district attorney's ability to effectively investigate and prosecute
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  Speaker 1: the case at this time. You remember this attorney, this
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  Speaker 1: district attorney, was working with the university. And the university
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  Speaker 1: had a statement from the victim that he claims that
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  Speaker 1: he never saw.
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  Speaker 3: And she says, quote, I can say with 100 percent
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  Speaker 3: confidence I was raped.
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  Speaker 4: That wasn't information that I had, first of all. Second
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  Speaker 4: of all, that is a legal conclusion. If she had
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  Speaker 4: said those words, we certainly would want to have explored
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  Speaker 4: that more.
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  Speaker 5: Well, according to the transcript, she did say those words.
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  Speaker 4: Well, like I said, that wasn't provided to me.
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  Speaker 1: So you dropped the investigation at that point? You must
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  Speaker 1: have gone only with what Cornell University supplied you because
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  Speaker 1: had you interviewed Jane Doe, the accuser, yourself, she could
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  Speaker 1: have said the exact same thing to you. So although
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  Speaker 1: I don't like Letitia James taking over the case because
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  Speaker 1: I think everything is political with her and it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be political ambition first and the victim first, and
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  Speaker 1: Cornell University second and a far third. But I do
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  Speaker 1: believe there needed to be a special prosecutor on this
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  Speaker 1: case because clearly this district attorney was way over his head.
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  Speaker 1: And Cornell University, it sounds like, just bullied him and
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  Speaker 1: didn't give him the information they needed. But Cornell University,
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  Speaker 1: now they have, given up everything. They've said, yes, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to help. We're going to do everything we need
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  Speaker 1: to do. They know they're in trouble at this point.
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  Speaker 1: They know how bad this looks. I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about what happened at Cornell University last night, but I
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  Speaker 1: also want to get into the fact that this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when the horrible thing like this happens, many times it
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  Speaker 1: calls attention to something that deserves attention, an issue that
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  Speaker 1: deserves attention. Because now women are coming out from across
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  Speaker 1: the country and at that town hall at Cornell last
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  Speaker 1: night saying something like this happened to me. It happened
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  Speaker 1: at my university. So this is pervasive. This isn't an
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  Speaker 1: isolated incident at Cornell University. This is going to be
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  Speaker 1: the start of stories happening across the country. And that's
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  Speaker 1: a good thing because it's going to bring necessary change.
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  Speaker 1: Did you want to say something?
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  Speaker 6: No, I agree with you because I have been seeing
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  Speaker 6: on my social media feed women from all over the country,
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  Speaker 6: all types of life, age, talking about their experience with this.
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  Speaker 5: And it's not always at universities. Sometimes it was at
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  Speaker 5: a convention, a vacation, when they were 14.
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  Speaker 6: When they were 44. the only good thing that could
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  Speaker 6: come out of this is that other women realize they
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  Speaker 6: were not the only one that this happened to and
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  Speaker 6: that it's okay to say something. Because there were some
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  Speaker 6: women who were holding their stories for 30, 40 years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough. You know, it is tough to admit
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  Speaker 1: to that. She was counseled. The Jane Doe was counseled.
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  Speaker 1: Don't come forward.
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  Speaker 6: And a lot of the women will admit, I was drunk,
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  Speaker 6: so I thought it was my fault because I put
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  Speaker 6: myself in a situation where I wasn't 100% in the
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  Speaker 6: moment and could do something about it. But that's not–
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  Speaker 6: being drunk does not give anybody the right to rape someone.
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  Speaker 1: Well, in New York State it does. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: that as well. There's a law that allows that. They're
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  Speaker 1: trying to change that now. So a lot of good
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  Speaker 1: is coming from this horrible story. And you talked about
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  Speaker 1: women coming forward. There is a woman, a very brave woman,
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  Speaker 1: who came forward. Her name's Liv Reinertsen, and she went
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  Speaker 1: to a purchased college, a SUNY college. And it was
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  Speaker 1: there that she says almost immediately when she got to college,
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  Speaker 1: she was raped.
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  Speaker 2: So I was supposed to be living in a bedroom
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  Speaker 2: right next door to my rapist.
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  Speaker 5: And so my only ask.
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  Speaker 2: From the university was that he would be removed from
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  Speaker 2: that housing assignment.
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  Speaker 1: And they told me that they couldn't do that. So
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  Speaker 1: she was living next to her rapist. And she was
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  Speaker 1: not pressing charges. She didn't want to make this difficult
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  Speaker 1: for anybody, actually. She just wanted to go on with
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  Speaker 1: her life. But she said to the university, could you
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  Speaker 1: just do me a favor and move him out of
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  Speaker 1: the building that I'm in? I don't want to see
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  Speaker 1: him every day. He was right next door in the dorm.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to see this man every day. And
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  Speaker 1: they said they couldn't do that. I... I got a
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  Speaker 1: feeling these are stories that we're going to be hearing
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  Speaker 1: every day from across the country. And it's sickening. It
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  Speaker 1: is absolutely sickening that people are sending their daughters to
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  Speaker 1: these universities and they're not being protected. And I'm so
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  Speaker 1: happy this story has come forward. And I feel horrible
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  Speaker 1: for what happened to this young lady, but I'm so
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  Speaker 1: happy that she's suing Cornell University. Because across the country,
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  Speaker 1: good things are going to happen from this. I agree.
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  Speaker 5: And just women telling their stories is a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because they've been living in silence and many have been
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  Speaker 1: living in pain. And so they finally get to deal
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  Speaker 1: with this. They get to see Jane Doe as a
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  Speaker 1: sort of Joan of Arc that they can say, well,
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  Speaker 1: wait a second. She came out. I can come out.
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  Speaker 1: I can come out. Now I know that she's going
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  Speaker 1: by Jane Doe, but She still is suing Cornell University.
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  Speaker 1: And her name is going to come out eventually as
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  Speaker 1: they go through this. But she couldn't live with this anymore,
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  Speaker 1: her attorney says. Couldn't live with this anymore and said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want this to happen to somebody else. And
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  Speaker 1: so she's come forward with her case. And my feeling
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  Speaker 1: is there's worse cases all across the country that we
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  Speaker 1: don't know about yet. But you know what? We're going
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  Speaker 1: to know about it. And you just talked about a
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  Speaker 1: second ago about just because you're drunk, that doesn't give
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  Speaker 1: someone the right to rape you. And yet in New York,
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  Speaker 1: and it's been very difficult to get rid of, in
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  Speaker 1: New York, there is a law called the voluntary intoxication law.
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  Speaker 1: where if you voluntarily get so drunk that you can't
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  Speaker 1: say no, then it's your fault, basically. That, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: you can't charge rape at that point. And they've been
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  Speaker 1: fighting this for years. And they had a rally in Albany,
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  Speaker 1: and some of the advocates and some of the legislatures
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  Speaker 1: legislators that want to get rid of this spoke about it.
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  Speaker 8: These are our allies who've been fighting with us for
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  Speaker 8: the last seven, let me repeat that, seven years we
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  Speaker 8: have been fighting an uphill fight to end this loophole.
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  Speaker 7: Either you're on the side of sexual assault survivors or
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  Speaker 7: you're not on their side. There's no middle ground, choose
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  Speaker 7: a side.
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  Speaker 5: When we go back to Albany, this will be a priority.
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  Speaker 7: Day one.
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  Speaker 1: So, so many good things may come from this. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz has been trying to push
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  Speaker 1: for legislation time and time and time again. He is
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  Speaker 1: from the Bronx, by the way, and he was at
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  Speaker 1: that rally yesterday. And he talks about the fact that
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  Speaker 1: he's been trying to get rid of this voluntary intoxication
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  Speaker 1: law for years and years and years and years and years.
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  Speaker 1: You heard the advocate a second ago says it's been
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  Speaker 1: seven years. And what's more disgusting to me is the
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  Speaker 1: reason that the other assemblymen and the state doesn't want
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of that law.
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  Speaker 8: Some people do not want more people going to jail.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the reality.
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  Speaker 9: My opinion is if you did something really bad, like
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  Speaker 9: rape somebody.
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  Speaker 1: You should go to jail. Duh. Yeah, of course. Of
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  Speaker 1: course that should happen. But for some reason, they look
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  Speaker 1: at college campuses as a different world. Like, oh, these
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  Speaker 1: things happen. No, those things aren't supposed to happen. So
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  Speaker 1: I think from a horrible situation. and I'm so glad
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  Speaker 1: that this Jane Doe filed suit, some really good things
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  Speaker 1: are going to happen, not only in New York, but
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  Speaker 1: across the country. Hey, remember that Long Island pizzeria owner
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  Speaker 1: we talked about yesterday who broke a world record? but
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  Speaker 1: it's not in the Guinness Book of World Records. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk to him next to find out if
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  Speaker 1: he's going to fight the good fight and get in
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  Speaker 1: the Guinness Book of World Records.
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  Speaker 7: Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Plus, a chance to see Stevie Wonder's sold-out MSG concert
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  Speaker 1: at 825. But first, remember we talked about yesterday the
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  Speaker 1: guy out in Long Island in Huntington Station that just
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  Speaker 1: broke the record for the highest pizza dough toss in
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  Speaker 1: the world? Well, guess what? We got him on the phone,
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  Speaker 1: the world record holder for the highest pizza dough toss,
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Dawson from Johnny's Pizza. Johnny, thanks a lot for
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  Speaker 1: agreeing to talk to us. Tell us how you came
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  Speaker 1: up with this idea to break the record. My pleasure.
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  Speaker 9: Thanks for having me on the show. So I have
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  Speaker 9: a seven-year-old daughter, Presley, and I own the pizzeria and
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  Speaker 9: obviously making pizzas there all the time. I make pizzas
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  Speaker 9: at my house. And she loves it when I throw
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  Speaker 9: the dough up in the air. She thinks it's funny
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  Speaker 9: and great. And I do little tricks with it. So
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  Speaker 9: one day, I don't know, I just came across it
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  Speaker 9: on the internet that the Joe Carlucci had the record
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  Speaker 9: 21 and a half feet. Now I'm thinking in my head,
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  Speaker 9: like I throw pretty high sometimes. I'm like, I could
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  Speaker 9: probably beat that. So I started messing around with it.
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  Speaker 9: And in the beginning, I was getting close, but I
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  Speaker 9: wasn't beating it. And then I started practicing and throwing
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  Speaker 9: it a little bit of a different way. And then
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  Speaker 9: all of a sudden, I started throwing it higher than
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  Speaker 9: the record. And I said, wow, I could beat this record.
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  Speaker 9: So we turned it into a fundraiser for every inch
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  Speaker 9: that I break it by. I was going to donate
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  Speaker 9: 100 meals to Family Services, which is their local homeless shelter.
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  Speaker 9: And once I started putting that on my social media,
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  Speaker 9: other businesses joined in. and donated two per inch, and
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  Speaker 9: it got pretty big, and we raised a bunch of
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  Speaker 9: money and a bunch of meals for the homeless shelter.
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  Speaker 1: And I've seen the video. By the way, that was
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  Speaker 1: a great video. I love the Rocky music and the training,
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  Speaker 1: but so I've seen the video, and I saw you
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  Speaker 1: break the record. You have video evidence. Why aren't you
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  Speaker 1: in the Guinness Book of World Records?
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  Speaker 9: So when I first started this whole thing, I wanted
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  Speaker 9: it to be in Guinness, and I had reached out
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  Speaker 9: to them And, you know, told them that I wanted
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  Speaker 9: to attempt to break the record and all this. And
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  Speaker 9: they had wrote me back.
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  Speaker 1: That it was $ 13, 500.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: What a scam. You had to.
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  Speaker 9: Pay them to get an official attempt. You know, the
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  Speaker 9: package they give you where they send the cameraman and
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  Speaker 9: the judge. And, you know, basically, I think you're paying
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  Speaker 9: for their logo and the rights to their name. And
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  Speaker 9: I thought that was a little excessive. Uh, so, uh,
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  Speaker 9: I said, you know what? Better off donating the money
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  Speaker 9: to the, to the homeless shelter. I said, if they
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  Speaker 9: could probably use it better than Guinness can.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, you know what?
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  Speaker 9: Who needs Guinness anyway? You know, it's their record, but
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  Speaker 9: I'm going to beat it regardless.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But how about a GoFundMe? How about a GoFundMe?
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  Speaker 9: You know, that's not really. That's not really my thing.
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  Speaker 9: I don't do the GoFundMes and stuff like that. I
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  Speaker 9: hate asking other people for money. It's not something I
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  Speaker 9: enjoy doing.
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  Speaker 6: Johnny grew up looking at the Guinness Book World Records
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  Speaker 6: like I did. I had one in my house and
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  Speaker 6: I would flip through it all the time. So I
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  Speaker 6: know you did too. But you said, who needs sometimes Guinness?
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  Speaker 6: Because the internet thinks you're the top anyway, right?
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 9: So yesterday I was Googling who holds the... the highest
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  Speaker 9: record for the highest pizza dough toss, and I come up.
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  Speaker 3: Oh!
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  Speaker 9: Google says it's me.
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  Speaker 5: So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, who needs Guinness? Hey, listen, Johnny, thanks for taking
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  Speaker 1: the time to talk to us today. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 9: I appreciate the call.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, man. All right, see you later. Johnny Dawson
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  Speaker 1: from Johnny's Pizza in Huntington Station. Now to your talkbacks.
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  Speaker 1: We started off the show talking about the blowback that
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: Sidney Sweeney is getting for her latest ad.
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  Speaker 10: Two reasons why... They don't like Sidney Sweeney.
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  Speaker 3: One, she's a Republican, and two, she's beautiful and she's sexy,
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  Speaker 3: and they're just jealous.
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  Speaker 1: She's also very smart. I've seen her in interviews, and man,
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  Speaker 1: she doesn't get sucked in when they try to talk
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  Speaker 1: to her about politics.
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  Speaker 3: Sidney Sweeney is doing nothing different than every football player
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  Speaker 3: that does a commercial, every baseball player that does a commercial,
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  Speaker 3: and every so-called movie star.
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  Speaker 9: That does a commercial.
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  Speaker 3: Her only problem is she's on the wrong side of
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  Speaker 3: politics from what they say.
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  Speaker 1: I think you both are right. Now let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: Mikey Sherrill. We told you the story, which I think
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  Speaker 1: you've heard here first now, about some of the fraud
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  Speaker 1: in Newark in the school district. And Mikey Sherrill and
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  Speaker 1: now Cory Booker are a topic.
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  Speaker 4: Larry, could this be an attempt by Sherrill to throw
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  Speaker 4: mud on Cory Booker, who's going to be one of
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  Speaker 4: her rivals for when she runs for president in two years?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God. Oh, my God. I didn't think of that. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have nightmares now that you brought that up.
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  Speaker 1: Cory Booker, I'm not afraid of. Cory Booker is going
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  Speaker 1: to run for president until he dies and he's never
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: going to win. He's going to be Harold Stassen. But
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  Speaker 1: Mikey Sherrill, man. All right. I'll have to mull that over.
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  Speaker 1: But let's get the news now at 730 with Daria Albinger. Daria.
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  Speaker 7: Morning, Larry.
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  Speaker 3: Partly cloudy, warm and humid. Summer for one more day.
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  Speaker 3: Showers later today. We'll see a high of 83 degrees.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to get cooler, though, this weekend. The war
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  Speaker 3: in Iran and its effects will be big issues in
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  Speaker 3: the midterms, and it was a major focus for President
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  Speaker 3: Trump as he campaigned in some reliably red states.
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  Speaker 2: The president started the day at a truck plant in Texas,
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  Speaker 2: addressing concern about high gas prices.
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  Speaker 9: I'm ensuring that Iran will be very quickly ended. I
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  Speaker 9: will tell you the energy prices are going to be rapidly,
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  Speaker 9: rapidly coming up. It's already happening.
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  Speaker 2: Trump's saying talks with Iran are ongoing. He vowed to
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  Speaker 2: decide soon what direction to take to resolve the conflict.
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  Speaker 3: ABC's Karen Hwan, Washington. Governor Hochul's appointed State Attorney General
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  Speaker 3: Letitia James as special prosecutor as she takes over the
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  Speaker 3: investigation into an alleged gang rape at a Cornell University
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  Speaker 3: fraternity house. Hochul says newly released information has raised some
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: serious questions. A suspect is facing charges in a deadly
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: subway stabbing in Queens.
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  Speaker 10: Police say Jyrel Thomas was taken to Jamaica Hospital for
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  Speaker 10: a psychiatric evaluation Thursday and later charged for what appears
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  Speaker 10: to be an unprovoked attack on a subway rider on
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  Speaker 10: a J train Wednesday afternoon. Police say Thomas was pacing
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  Speaker 10: back and forth inside the train car and appeared annoyed
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  Speaker 10: before attacking another subway rider on the train and then
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  Speaker 10: onto the Woodhaven Boulevard station platform as it pulled into
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  Speaker 10: the station. I'm Scott Pringle, WDOR News.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: A push to make daylight saving time permanent faces an
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  Speaker 3: uncertain future in the Senate. The House passed the Sunshine
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: Protection Act this summer. President Trump is fully behind it,
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  Speaker 3: but the bill remains stalled in the Senate, which is
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: on recess until after the midterms. The government will release
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: its September employment numbers in about an hour from now.
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  Speaker 3: Analysts are predicting a gain of about 84,000 jobs. That
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: would be a big drop from the 162,000 that were
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: added in August. Devils and Rangers win. Next news, 8 o'clock,
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  Speaker 3: bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger on 710 WOR.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thank you so much, Daria. When we come back,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman seems to be hitting his footing, his stride.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: He is coming out swinging against Kathy Hochul, and the
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Republicans are making a comeback in the midterms. That's what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about with WOR host and former
• 18:03
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  Speaker 1: five host of the Saturday agenda. One to three on
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  Speaker 1: Newsmax and the former Westchester County executive. I'll explain the
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  Speaker 1: good news in a second, but Rob Curtis isn't here today.
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  Speaker 1: So do you want to talk about him?
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  Speaker 7: It seems like old times, Larry.
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  Speaker 11: I know.
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  Speaker 1: So now, now we'll talk about, go ahead. What were
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: you going to say?
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: I want to get you, I want to get you
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: off the ledge.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, you think I'm going to commit suicide? Cause he's
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: not here.
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: No, no, no, no, no, no. Definitely not that. It
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: would be the politics. It would be the, you know,
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: you're concerned each week we talk.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm not concerned anymore.
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: Oh, go ahead.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I'm not concerned anymore. And I'll tell you the reason.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Let's do a couple of things. Let's start with the
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: governor's race. I think Bruce Blakeman is finding his footing.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Every single time I hear him interviewing, he's hitting the
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: right tone. He's hitting the right topics. I was wondering,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: he just seemed to be floundering. Maybe he was busy fundraising.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know. but he seemed to be floundering a
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: little bit, but man, he's coming out swinging now, and
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: I'm impressed every time I see him. Do you share
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: the same impression?
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: Oh, look, I've known Bruce a long time. He's a pro.
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: He gets it done, and he knows how to campaign.
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: This is not his first rodeo. Going around the state,
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: it's different. It takes time, not only to get to
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: know everyone around the state, but also to find your footing.
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: It's a very different race being you know county executive
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: and and then running all over new york state where
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: it's very different very diverse um you know in in
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: in backgrounds and and just the geography it's just and
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: it's it takes a while he's done that now i
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: mean he's lapped this state i don't know how many
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: times i know he had a very successful fundraiser in
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: syracuse the other night he pulled in a lot of
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: money Money is not really the issue, which is really good.
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: And that's always been the case from, you know, for
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: me or for any Republican. Money's been tough because nobody
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: believed they don't invest in New York. He's had money
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: and he's got some super PAC money so he can compete.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: Republicans with money can compete in this state. And that's
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: why I think he's in a position to win.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I agree with you. I think he's really gaining ground,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: and we can see that in the polls. And I
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: think not only is he gaining ground, but he's gaining
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: confidence in this race because every interview I see him on,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: he does extremely well. If you were to advise him,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: what does he need to do in the debate, the
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: one and only debate coming up in about 10 days?
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: You know what? He needs to. Well, first of all,
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: I think he looks like a governor in all honesty.
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: And I think that that's important. You know, he's got
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: that stature. He's got a great demeanor. He just he
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: just has to bite his tongue. You know, she's going
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: to be lying the entire time. And he's got to
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: just make sure he remembers he'll never get the benefit
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: of a doubt in a debate with a woman. And
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: she will play that card a million times because she,
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: I think she feels she's on the run here. Like he's,
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: she's looking in the mirror and he's a little too close.
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: And then she's going to start getting desperate and play
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: every stupid card the Democrats play. And it's going to
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: be Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. But I think he's
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: got a real opportunity here. Remember the two big issues
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: where she actually wins in the polling is the affordability issue. And,
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: And crime. I mean, so he's got such an opportunity
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: to take her strength and just wrap it around her.
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: And I think he will.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think his proposal to eliminate the income tax
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: for low-income people or even moderate-income people is a winner.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: And to cut the fat and to try to keep
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: some of the money here, stop the rich and the
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: corporations from leaving New York. I think if he stays
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: on that, those messages, it's really a strong message to say,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: especially when people are suffering?
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: Well, remember, take the two issues, right? Affordability and crime. Okay. So,
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: I mean, it's pretty easy who's been in charge in
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: this state forever, right? It's the Democrats. We just have
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: to go back a few years when crime was rampant everywhere,
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: the riots, the George Floyd stuff, the COVID nonsense, all
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: this stuff, who was in charge. And with affordability, For
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: God's sakes, why is everybody leaving? Because they are in
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: charge on every issue, whether it's utility bills, whether it's
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: property taxes. There really is no one else to blame.
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: And so it's pretty easy to tell people that because
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: in the end, they know it's true. They know it's true.
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: It's been her. It's been Cuomo. You just keep going backwards.
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: They're all Democrats. So I think if he pounds that,
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: stays on that, and offers his vision of how he's
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: going to fix it, I think he can come out
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: not only winning the debate, but winning the election.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I agree with you. He said something really fascinating in
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: an interview that I heard recently when they asked him
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: about ICE and working with ICE and if that's going
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: to hurt him. He said, no, working with ICE allows
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: me to control what ICE does in my county.
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: That's a great answer.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Isn't it? Isn't it a tremendous answer? And for him
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: to be able to say that with the state, he said,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: I can take crime down. and I can know where
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: they're going, and I can keep them out of the communities.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I thought it was brilliant. Let me talk about why
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I'm feeling better about the midterms, because some recent polling
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: that came out shows Susan Collins in the lead now.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: It shows Rogers now tie. It shows in Oregon the
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: governor's race, the Republican winning. There seems to be a
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: bit of a surge for Republicans, and I'm guessing that
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: has to do with the fact they have so much
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: money and the ads have started.
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: It's finally being spent. Yeah, it's finally being spent. So
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: that's important. I mean, we've ceded all this ground to
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: Democrats so early. You can't do that, especially when you
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: have the huge advantage with money, not a little edge.
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: Start spending it. Define them. Define yourself. And they didn't.
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: And now they're playing catch up. And also, I was
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: just in Wisconsin and the governor's race there. A ton
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: of money is going to the Republican candidate. That didn't
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: happen in the past either. And he's now tied. He's
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: in a position to win. Same thing in Minnesota. Tafoya
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: is neck and neck actually winning in some polls. I mean,
• 26:10
  Speaker 7: think about that. We're doing, by the way, locally, the
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: two Long Island races, we're doing very well there. Trump's
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: numbers are not bad at all. And so we could
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: flip some from seats on Long Island. So, look, I
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: it's never going to be easy, but I do not
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: think it's going to be a disaster.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, I agree with you.
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: I think we're going to hold the Senate. House, I'm
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: not so sure about, but I've always said the Senate, yes.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: But I think the House is going to be close.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: I think it's going to be really close. It's fascinating.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: It's fascinating to watch it happening, and they still have
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: a lot of money and a lot of time to
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: pull out a couple of more races. At least the
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: polls are going the right way. And by the way,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the polls always undercount Republicans, so we have to take
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: that into account as well. Rob, it was great talking
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: to you, listening to you this weekend. when you are
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: on 4 to 5 on Saturday, and you're also the
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: host of Saturday Agenda, 1 to 3 on Newsmax, former
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Westchester County Executive Rob Estorino. Thanks a lot, Rob.
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: Thanks, Larry. Good talking to you.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: All right. Talk to you again soon. Natalie Migliore and
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: her beat on the street is next. There have been
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: six murders in the city subways so far this year,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: raising fresh concerns about safety underground. So how do New
• 27:28
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• 27:59
  Speaker 11: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: So wait a second, Natalie. You chose to do subway
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: safety when Curtis Lewa wasn't here?
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: We have to test how well you and I know
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: it without him. We have to see if we can
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: hold it down, baby!
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Well, it's a great topic for right now. I mean,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: a horrible thing happened yesterday.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: You're like, it's a horrible thing.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: No, because you're like, it's a great topic for right now.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: A horrible thing.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: But it's true.
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: That's what's in the news cycle.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: That is what you said, though. But it's in the
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: news cycle. That's why we got to keep up with
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: the news cycle. The subway stabbing on the J train
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: in Queens that ended with a 59-year-old dead. is the
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: sixth murder in New York City's subway system so far
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: this year. The suspect, a 25-year-old, allegedly, allegedly, okay, allegedly,
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: but he did, allegedly approached a 59-year-old man, a father
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: of six I read somewhere, which, terrible. He tried to
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: walk away, the guy on the subway, and the suspect
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: stabbed him with a kitchen knife. No shortage, really, of
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: reaction from New Yorkers who ride the subways every day.
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: It's terrible, it's scary, it's sad, it's gut wrenching.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's terrible. It's gotten crazy out here.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: I think that's very traumatic that there's increasing, we have
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: so much police and more murders, that's crazy and I
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: feel unsafe as a citizen.
• 29:36
  Speaker 11: You know.
• 29:36
  Speaker 12: Shock but also kind of not really because the subway
• 29:41
  Speaker 12: environment is a little bit all over the place like
• 29:44
  Speaker 12: you can see opposites of oh blue-collar workers but also
• 29:47
  Speaker 12: like really struggling people on there.
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: I'm not gonna lie the subway is just for the crackheads.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Hey.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: So you do see a lot of characters on. I
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: was going to say you do see a lot of
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: characters on the crackheads. You do see a lot of
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: characters on the subways and a lot of New Yorkers.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: They actually tell me they try to avoid the subways
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: and take the buses as often as they can now
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: in certain extents because they feel like they can jump
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: off more frequently. rather than being stuck underground sometimes. Now,
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: the suspect, Jarrell Thomas, ran away from the scene and
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: climbed onto a rooftop where he had to be carried away.
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: The NYPD has described him as emotionally disturbed, and he
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: was taken to Jamaica Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation yesterday morning.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: New Yorkers say they're seeing an increasing number of mentally
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: disturbed people, not just on the subways, but on the streets.
• 30:43
  Speaker 11: I'm not really sure what the motivation is behind some
• 30:45
  Speaker 11: of these attacks. I would assume mental health plays a
• 30:48
  Speaker 11: major part, so I don't know what could be done
• 30:49
  Speaker 11: to help that.
• 30:50
  Speaker 12: They really got to get better with having homeless people
• 30:54
  Speaker 12: and stuff on the train because it's dangerous.
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: And then late at night is usually when it's really bad.
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: I think there's something that needs to be done about it.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I'm not in a position to.
• 31:03
  Speaker 11: Run for politics right now, but they wouldn't like me
• 31:05
  Speaker 11: because I would do something about it if I was mayor.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: Now, I know Curtis isn't here, but he'd probably tell her,
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: move over, lady, because it's a crowded field, and Curtis
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: knows it all too well. But I thought that was
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: funny to put in. Of course, she said mayor.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: I went, ooh. I know a mayoral candidate.
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: There you go.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: We know somebody very well who's tried. But either way,
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: the question arises, what or who– do people rely on
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: to ensure they get to where they're going safely?
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: So it's a joint effort, right?
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, in society, you rely on everyone around you
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: to make sure that things go as everyone would want, right?
• 31:46
  Speaker 11: I mean, I feel safe to a certain extent, but
• 31:49
  Speaker 11: I'm very aware of my surroundings when I'm in the subway.
• 31:53
  Speaker 11: I also do carry something usually to protect myself in
• 31:56
  Speaker 11: case of emergency. Not anything illegal, but just some form
• 32:00
  Speaker 11: of protection. It feels like since COVID, it's gotten progressively
• 32:03
  Speaker 11: worse here.
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: Was there a final straw for you in deciding, hey,
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: I need a little something extra?
• 32:08
  Speaker 11: Probably hearing about violence on the subway, specifically, or random
• 32:13
  Speaker 11: acts of violence in the street where people are just
• 32:14
  Speaker 11: being assaulted for no reason.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, you should have asked him to see what he
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: was carrying.
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: No, thank you.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: I want to test it out. He's not going to
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: use it on you.
• 32:24
  Speaker 11: Well, here it is.
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: He said nothing illegal. But who knows? I didn't want to.
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: Maybe brass knuckles. You know, you're right. I should have
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: asked to see it. Isn't that illegal, though?
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: I don't think so.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: But if they would have taken. Now, remember, and I
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: haven't seen these in a while. I go down in
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: the subways a lot. They were doing bag checks in
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: this subway. I haven't seen them do bag checks in
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: a while. I haven't seen that. We covered that. It
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: was the big rollout. We did it for months at
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: a time. And I think they would have taken away
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: a knife, no, if they had found it in somebody's bag.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Now, if you have cutlery, let's just say you have
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: a steak knife you just bought.
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: What are you, a chef?
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: And it's in your bag. That's what they would say
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: when they check the bag.
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: What do you do for a living before we let
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: you cross the subway?
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: Now, you, though, Larry, we were talking off air before,
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: said that there was one thing that stuck out to
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: you about this specific story.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, I just love that three people ran after the suspects.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: I love that people got into action. They couldn't stop it.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: It happened so quickly. But they got him on video
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: and they chased after him.
• 33:33
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, so many times people just look the other way.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: So God bless those people. They're the reason. that police
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: were able to get them.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: And you know that one of the witnesses said they,
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: they were afraid to intervene because they didn't know which
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: way it could go, but they wanted to get this
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: on video in case of which way it would go.
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: So yeah, to see that, I think that, you know,
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: the first guy before the guy who revealed that he
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: carried a little something extra had said, we rely, we
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: have to rely on each other a little bit to
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: take care of each other and get to where we're
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: going safely.
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: And, Yeah.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: And so often it doesn't happen. So we should point
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: out and congratulate the people when it does, because that
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: is just wonderful. And we need to see a lot
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: more of that. And if Curtis was here, I'm sure
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: he would applaud them as well. Natalie Migliore is going
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: to be back Monday morning, along with Curtis, back Monday
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: morning at 7.50.