Latest / Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning / Hour 1: Pete Hegseth on the hot seat
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Uh-oh. What's going on here, Larry? Quiet Storm Chris, two
- 0:04Speaker 1: days in a row, producing this morning on loan from
- 0:08Speaker 1: Mark Simone. Not a word from Natalie. A big, big
- 0:15Speaker 1: lottery winner announced, as you did for all of our
- 0:19Speaker 1: listeners yesterday, Larry. You give us the specifics again. $ 847 million.
- 0:23Speaker 2: 847 million.
- 0:26Speaker 1: Do we know the name of the winner yet?
- 0:30Speaker 2: Not yet. Nobody has come forward. Nobody has come forward.
- 0:34Speaker 2: We do know where it was purchased now, at a
- 0:37Speaker 2: Wegmans grocery store in Montvale, New Jersey, which is really
- 0:41Speaker 2: just across the river.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Wegmans. That's a great supermarket. And if you're into salads
- 0:48Speaker 1: and salads, You want to go to Wegmans if you're
- 0:50Speaker 1: going to any supermarket. They have the best selection of
- 0:54Speaker 1: greens and all the things you would put in a salad.
- 0:58Speaker 2: And a food bar. I mean, you go there and
- 1:00Speaker 2: you can get Mexican food. You can get Indian food.
- 1:02Speaker 2: They have the most extensive food bar I have ever seen.
- 1:06Speaker 1: So let's trace previous winners who have all of a
- 1:09Speaker 1: sudden gone MIA. We know what happens. They contact a lawyer.
- 1:12Speaker 1: The lawyer says, hey, we need a financial planner. You
- 1:15Speaker 1: need to basically be in the witness protection program. Don't
- 1:19Speaker 1: let anybody know where you are. Plan on moving. You
- 1:23Speaker 1: will get deluged with people you forgot all about who
- 1:26Speaker 1: are suddenly your very best friends. So plan. Plan potentially
- 1:31Speaker 1: on moving out and starting a new life with all
- 1:33Speaker 1: the money you're going to have. And then they tell
- 1:35Speaker 1: you how much you're going to be paid in taxes.
- 1:37Speaker 1: In New Jersey, you don't have to have your name released.
- 1:41Speaker 1: You have that option. Not every state has that. Most
- 1:44Speaker 1: states are getting it now, but not every state has that.
- 1:47Speaker 1: So you don't have to have your name out. And
- 1:49Speaker 1: do you know who the director of the Lottery Commission
- 1:52Speaker 1: is in New Jersey? Guess what his name is? No.
- 1:55Speaker 2: Jim Carrey.
- 1:56Speaker 1: Jim Carrey. Does he look like Jim Carrey?
- 2:00Speaker 2: No. But, you know, he's got a good personality. This
- 2:03Speaker 2: is what he said yesterday.
- 2:04Speaker 1: Check your tickets.
- 2:05Speaker 3: Because prizes for Powerball range from $ 4 and up, all
- 2:09Speaker 3: the way up.
- 2:10Speaker 4: To $ 847 million.
- 2:11Speaker 1: So make sure you check the ticket.
- 2:13Speaker 5: You can go to any lottery retailer, scan your ticket
- 2:16Speaker 5: at the scanner, and you can find out.
- 2:17Speaker 1: Maybe you won $ 4. Maybe you won $ 847 million.
- 2:22Speaker 2: It is very possible, he said, because this has happened before.
- 2:25Speaker 2: It is very possible, if it's not Natalie. If it's
- 2:28Speaker 2: not Natalie, because believe me, she would have checked her ticket.
- 2:30Speaker 2: And she only buys one at a time. Are you kidding?
- 2:33Speaker 2: That would be amazing. Yeah, no, she buys one. Most
- 2:36Speaker 2: people buy like $ 20. Wait a second, Larry. Apparently, the
- 2:40Speaker 2: winner only bought the one ticket. The last time. The
- 2:42Speaker 2: last time they won, not this time. Uh-oh.
- 2:45Speaker 1: Uh-oh. I'm telling you. And Natalie loves her family and
- 2:50Speaker 1: her family loves her. This is not a dysfunctional family.
- 2:53Speaker 1: Like you don't want to go with daddy and mommy
- 2:55Speaker 1: wherever they went to retire. Down in Florida, right? It's
- 2:59Speaker 1: now costly to move to Florida. It's not like it
- 3:01Speaker 1: used to be. It's up there. I could easily see
- 3:04Speaker 1: the Segway taking place and she'll be joining John Gambling
- 3:07Speaker 1: in retirement down there. i'm telling you i i feel
- 3:12Speaker 1: it i feel it.
- 3:14Speaker 2: In my bones yeah it could well the fact that
- 3:16Speaker 2: she texted me at 2 44 in the morning leads
- 3:20Speaker 2: me to believe that no she didn't win unless she's
- 3:23Speaker 2: up because she's so excited now yeah they probably.
- 3:27Speaker 1: I wouldn't be doing any work if i won the
- 3:29Speaker 1: uh If I won the lottery. You wouldn't be here.
- 3:33Speaker 2: No, she was messaging us about work stuff, so I
- 3:35Speaker 2: don't know.
- 3:36Speaker 1: That would not be me.
- 3:37Speaker 2: I have a feeling it's somebody that hasn't checked their
- 3:39Speaker 2: ticket yet.
- 3:40Speaker 1: Probably.
- 3:41Speaker 2: That's the thing.
- 3:41Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question, Larry. You've been with
- 3:43Speaker 1: Natalie a long time. She plays the lottery. You play
- 3:48Speaker 1: the lottery. Did she ever say what she would do
- 3:51Speaker 1: with her winnings? Did she ever say that?
- 3:52Speaker 2: The only one thing she said to me, which is
- 3:55Speaker 2: so pure Natalie... She said, the first thing I would do,
- 3:58Speaker 2: now most people would say, I'm going to buy a yacht.
- 4:00Speaker 2: I'm going to get a nice house. I'm going to move.
- 4:03Speaker 2: I'm going to invest it all. She said I would
- 4:05Speaker 2: pay off my kids' student loans.
- 4:07Speaker 1: Oh, my God. And then she could really cut all
- 4:10Speaker 1: ties and leave. Hey, kids, you're on your own. I'm
- 4:14Speaker 1: going to give you a little nest egg. I'm paying
- 4:16Speaker 1: off all your student loans. You don't need to be
- 4:19Speaker 1: dependent on me anymore. You're going to have your own nest.
- 4:22Speaker 1: We're going to invest it so it makes money on
- 4:25Speaker 1: its own. I'm out of here. I'm down in Florida.
- 4:27Speaker 2: I think a lot of people that play the lottery
- 4:31Speaker 2: already have it lined up what they want to do.
- 4:33Speaker 2: And I'd love to get a talk back about this
- 4:36Speaker 2: because I know I do. I have like a list.
- 4:39Speaker 2: I have a top 10 list of things I would do.
- 4:41Speaker 2: So do me a favor and leave us a talk back.
- 4:45Speaker 2: If you are the same or if you have a
- 4:47Speaker 2: couple of things that you will definitely do, you go
- 4:50Speaker 2: to the iHeartRadio app, you look for 710WOR. And then
- 4:55Speaker 2: the talkback page. There's a little red microphone. You record
- 4:58Speaker 2: what you want to say. If you don't like it,
- 4:59Speaker 2: you can record it again. And then we play you
- 5:02Speaker 2: on the air. And the best talkback of the day
- 5:05Speaker 2: wins a Curtis Lewin, Larry Menti, and the Morning T-shirt.
- 5:08Speaker 2: The best talkback of the week. That's today. We're going
- 5:11Speaker 2: to figure that out. Takes home a C-Crane radio. So
- 5:13Speaker 2: you might want to get in on that.
- 5:14Speaker 1: Chris, this may be your permanent position here now. So
- 5:18Speaker 1: get prepared.
- 5:18Speaker 2: Okay.
- 5:19Speaker 1: Early, you know, early to bed, early to rise, because
- 5:22Speaker 1: you've got to get in here really early, Chris. I
- 5:25Speaker 1: have a feeling that Natalie is halfway out the door. Hey, look,
- 5:30Speaker 1: I've been right so far in terms of the election results.
- 5:33Speaker 1: I'm on a roll here.
- 5:34Speaker 2: Yeah, you're on a hot streak. Yeah, you're going to
- 5:39Speaker 2: blow it in this one. You've got like a one
- 5:42Speaker 2: in 200,000, more than that, one in two million chance.
- 5:44Speaker 1: We'll know on Monday, won't we?
- 5:47Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll know on Monday.
- 5:48Speaker 1: Because if she isn't here on Monday, that's it. She's
- 5:51Speaker 1: the winner. Anyway, talking about winners, remember the big story
- 5:55Speaker 1: we talked about involving Jersey where the Republicans got wiped out?
- 5:58Speaker 1: Except for Chris Smith, who you pointed out, doesn't want
- 6:02Speaker 1: anybody to know about him. He flies under the radar screen,
- 6:05Speaker 1: the congressman from, what is that, Ocean County, right?
- 6:08Speaker 2: Yeah, Ocean County. He is the longest-serving congressman. Tie for
- 6:12Speaker 2: it right now. the longest-serving congressman. He's won like 48 elections.
- 6:16Speaker 1: But there was that battle royale in the community meeting,
- 6:20Speaker 1: which you must host, you know, when you are the
- 6:23Speaker 1: mayor of a village, a township, a small municipality, where
- 6:27Speaker 1: the gadflies show up, where the people can be heard.
- 6:29Speaker 1: Remember Mayor Bianchini, who got into fisticuffs, wanted to kill
- 6:34Speaker 1: the guy who was asking questions?
- 6:37Speaker 2: He wanted to get in fisticuffs. They held him back.
- 6:40Speaker 1: The cops held him back. Well, he was up for re-election.
- 6:45Speaker 1: Guess what happened?
- 6:46Speaker 2: Yeah, he lost.
- 6:46Speaker 1: He lost to the Democrats.
- 6:47Speaker 2: A wipeout!
- 6:49Speaker 1: A wipeout!
- 6:51Speaker 2: Well, the problem is it's a wipeout across the country.
- 6:54Speaker 2: I mean, all the attention has been on Congress, of course,
- 6:58Speaker 2: and then the governor's races, but nobody's talked about What
- 7:01Speaker 2: has happened in the state legislators and in the state
- 7:05Speaker 2: senates and at the county level, this was pervasive. I mean,
- 7:09Speaker 2: it was across the country. So, and it was deep.
- 7:13Speaker 2: And listen, this kind of stuff has happened before. I mean,
- 7:17Speaker 2: you know, I push back all the time and everybody's
- 7:19Speaker 2: saying this is the biggest that ever happened because it's not.
- 7:22Speaker 2: It's far from it. This has happened under FDR. It's
- 7:25Speaker 2: happened under Reagan. It has happened under Clinton. It happened
- 7:28Speaker 2: twice under Obama. So this is not unusual. This is democracy.
- 7:34Speaker 2: But the fact that it was so deep and went
- 7:38Speaker 2: into municipalities, went into counties where Republicans were losing and
- 7:42Speaker 2: losing and losing all across the country.
- 7:45Speaker 1: Or, as we're going to be talking about later, Mike
- 7:48Speaker 1: Lawler yesterday on CNN said, Jesus Christ couldn't have won
- 7:53Speaker 1: this election, meaning his election that involves Rockland County, Putnam County.
- 7:58Speaker 1: And Westchester. And remember, he is the most in the
- 8:01Speaker 1: middle Republican you're going to find. You'll find him on
- 8:04Speaker 1: MS Now, CNN, Fox News. You know, he always walks
- 8:08Speaker 1: that fine line. He said Jesus Christ couldn't have won
- 8:11Speaker 1: the election. And I believe him on that.
- 8:13Speaker 2: Oh, I don't. I think Jesus Christ would be a
- 8:15Speaker 2: great candidate.
- 8:17Speaker 1: No, I want that to stick to him because the
- 8:19Speaker 1: last person who used Jesus Christ in a reference, remember,
- 8:22Speaker 1: was John Lennon of the Beatles.
- 8:24Speaker 2: That's right. He got in trouble for that.
- 8:25Speaker 1: The Beatles are bigger than Jesus Christ.
- 8:29Speaker 2: Yeah, and the statement he was making, he's always been,
- 8:33Speaker 2: even before he died, he was talking about that, how
- 8:35Speaker 2: upset he was about that, how he was misquoted and
- 8:38Speaker 2: the fact that he was misunderstood and He thought that
- 8:40Speaker 2: was a bad thing. Like, that's ridiculous. He wasn't bragging,
- 8:45Speaker 2: which is the way that the media played it at
- 8:47Speaker 2: the time. But yeah, I mean, the Republicans have to
- 8:50Speaker 2: lick their wounds right now, but now the Republicans have
- 8:53Speaker 2: to lead. And did Natalie win the lottery? I doubt it,
- 8:58Speaker 2: but I'd love it if it happened because— By the way,
- 9:00Speaker 2: did I ever mention she's my favorite person in the world?
- 9:03Speaker 1: In the whole world!
- 9:04Speaker 2: Right now she is, in case she won the lottery. Oh,
- 9:10Speaker 2: you're going to send that over to her, that guy, right? Yes,
- 9:12Speaker 2: that's right. I'm going to do a little text. Did
- 9:15Speaker 2: I ever tell you how much I love you?
- 9:16Speaker 1: Well, wouldn't that be ironic if she moved down to
- 9:20Speaker 1: Florida to be near her parents, which so many children do,
- 9:23Speaker 1: if they have the wherewithal, and she's now joining John
- 9:26Speaker 1: Gambling for brunch here. In the morning, because remember, he decided,
- 9:30Speaker 1: morning radio, no, it's killing me. Larry, that one day
- 9:32Speaker 1: you took off for a family event. We were lucky
- 9:35Speaker 1: enough to get the iconic John Gambling on. And I said,
- 9:38Speaker 1: why'd you leave? You were at the top of your game, John.
- 9:41Speaker 1: He goes, it was killing me. And both he and
- 9:43Speaker 1: I agreed it's going to take 10 years off our life. Larry,
- 9:46Speaker 1: be prepared. It's going to take 10 years off your
- 9:48Speaker 1: life doing Morning Tribe. And I can just see it
- 9:52Speaker 1: somewhere in the west coast of Florida having brunch. Natalie,
- 9:56Speaker 1: with one of the many gambling she's worked with over
- 9:59Speaker 1: the years.
- 9:59Speaker 2: Here at W.
- 10:00Speaker 1: Here at WOR. You know what?
- 10:01Speaker 2: I pray that's true. I hope that's true. I doubt
- 10:04Speaker 2: that's true. So we'll probably see Natalie. And as far
- 10:07Speaker 2: as taking 10 years off my life, it already has.
- 10:10Speaker 2: This week, doing the marathon and then doing the election
- 10:14Speaker 2: took 10 years off my life. I'm finally feeling it
- 10:17Speaker 2: this morning. When we come back, when you fly to
- 10:20Speaker 2: Logan Airport, they actually had a contest to see who
- 10:25Speaker 2: would be the voice over the announcers, the people that
- 10:27Speaker 2: would welcome you to Logan Airport and to welcome you
- 10:30Speaker 2: to Boston. Man.
- 10:32Speaker 1: Man.
- 10:32Speaker 2: If we had that kind of contest here, who should
- 10:36Speaker 2: we have? Who would win? We're going to talk about
- 10:40Speaker 2: that when we come back. Plus a chance to see
- 10:42Speaker 2: Def Leppard and the Goo Goo Dolls at 825. This
- 10:45Speaker 2: is such a great idea, and I wish we would
- 10:48Speaker 2: do it here for JFK, LaGuardia, Newark. It was a
- 10:53Speaker 2: wicked tough competition, but Boston's Logan International Airport now has
- 11:00Speaker 2: its voice. Airport officials held a contest to find the
- 11:04Speaker 2: voice of Logan, where the winner would greet travelers and
- 11:09Speaker 2: natives with a signature Boston accent. And a 40-year-old HVAC
- 11:15Speaker 2: worker named Chris Donacy entered.
- 11:19Speaker 6: That night, just specifically, there was three days left in
- 11:24Speaker 6: the competition to send your video in. And he was like,
- 11:28Speaker 6: you've got to get down there, make the video, send
- 11:30Speaker 6: it in.
- 11:31Speaker 2: Yeah, his mom convinced him to send in the audition,
- 11:35Speaker 2: and he won. He will now be the voice of Logan.
- 11:38Speaker 2: I didn't hear the Boston traditional accent, which was what
- 11:42Speaker 2: they advertised at first, but he's got a great voice.
- 11:45Speaker 2: Want to hear his audition tape?
- 11:46Speaker 1: Yes, please, yes.
- 11:47Speaker 4: Welcome to Boston Logan International Airport, front door to the
- 11:52Speaker 4: capital of hot, hustle, and hometown pride. This city runs
- 11:57Speaker 4: on iced coffee, raw rambitions, An unbeatable teen spirit.
- 12:01Speaker 1: So let's go. Oh, that is so weak. So who
- 12:07Speaker 1: did he pay off? And by the way, you know,
- 12:10Speaker 1: we talk about all the socialist mayors now.
- 12:12Speaker 3: L.A.
- 12:12Speaker 1: Now has a socialist mayor. The first socialist mayor is
- 12:16Speaker 1: in Boston. She refused to meet with Donald Trump. You know,
- 12:20Speaker 1: because they're taking over, they probably would have demanded 38
- 12:23Speaker 1: different versions of it in 38 different languages. That's right.
- 12:27Speaker 2: That's exactly right. He's got a great voice, though. I mean,
- 12:30Speaker 2: the depth of that voice.
- 12:31Speaker 1: It's not that Boston accent. I'm sorry. No, not at all.
- 12:33Speaker 2: Not at all. So now... If we had the same
- 12:38Speaker 2: competition here and they wanted a traditional New York accent, God,
- 12:44Speaker 2: who would that be? Any ideas?
- 12:48Speaker 1: Well, I think we could bifurcate that. I have had
- 12:52Speaker 1: an influence on Natalie Migliore ever since we consummated this
- 12:57Speaker 1: relationship when Tom Cuddy brought us together, our program director,
- 13:00Speaker 1: back in March. She is sounding more and more... Like
- 13:05Speaker 1: she's from Brooklyn. So you're saying Natalie should do it?
- 13:08Speaker 1: Natalie and me. You need a male voice. You need
- 13:10Speaker 1: a female voice, a rotation. Who's more New York sounding
- 13:14Speaker 1: than me? And Natalie's like really catching up quick. Do
- 13:18Speaker 1: a quick audition. What would you say? Hey, you've arrived
- 13:21Speaker 1: at JFK. If you're an illegal alien, be prepared to
- 13:25Speaker 1: go back as soon as possible. ICE agents are waiting
- 13:29Speaker 1: with you at Transportation TSA stand. Let them know straight up.
- 13:36Speaker 2: We need to workshop that a little bit if you
- 13:38Speaker 2: want to win, but.
- 13:40Speaker 1: I think that'd be great. I think, look, my voice
- 13:43Speaker 1: needs to be heard in the subway. The problem is 90%
- 13:47Speaker 1: of the audio is, you can't hear it, but they
- 13:51Speaker 1: have voices now in the subway that I think, man,
- 13:54Speaker 1: I'm having a psychotic episode. What the hell is that?
- 13:58Speaker 1: I would be the perfect voice, right? And also, whatever
- 14:01Speaker 1: happened to that, you know, watch the closing doors. You know,
- 14:05Speaker 1: that should be me. I've earned that. I've earned that
- 14:08Speaker 1: 47 years in the subways. I think you get the subways,
- 14:10Speaker 1: Natalie gets the airport. Okay. That's the way it works.
- 14:13Speaker 2: That's a good idea. There you go.
- 14:15Speaker 6: There you go.
- 14:15Speaker 1: That's fair, but you know New York City is just
- 14:17Speaker 1: like Boston, you know, socialist now. They're going to want
- 14:20Speaker 1: 38 different versions in 38 separate languages.
- 14:24Speaker 2: Contest over, I guess. Let's get to some talkbacks.
- 14:27Speaker 7: I came into quite a bit of money once, certainly
- 14:30Speaker 7: not like this, and I will be coming into even
- 14:33Speaker 7: a larger amount in the near future. And at both times,
- 14:37Speaker 7: I took the advice of a financial counselor.
- 14:40Speaker 2: Sit down, take a deep breath.
- 14:41Speaker 7: You'll do nothing with it for six months. I put
- 14:44Speaker 7: it into a money market account within a very safe
- 14:46Speaker 7: investment firm, and then I made decisions after six months.
- 14:50Speaker 7: Best thing I ever did because it still pays me today,
- 14:53Speaker 7: and it will forever.
- 14:55Speaker 1: Oh, you know what that sounds like? Remember De Niro
- 14:57Speaker 1: in Goodfellas when he tells everybody who did the Lufthansa heist,
- 15:01Speaker 1: you don't spend a penny of this for a year, remember?
- 15:04Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 15:05Speaker 1: And everybody who did got whacked.
- 15:07Speaker 2: Yep, yep, yeah, exactly. I think that's tremendous advice, except
- 15:12Speaker 2: when you win this much. Like, you didn't say how
- 15:14Speaker 2: much you won. When you won this much, it's really
- 15:19Speaker 2: difficult not to spend some money right away. There's no
- 15:22Speaker 2: way you put all that away. You got to have
- 15:25Speaker 2: a little bit of fun with it. Now, my idea
- 15:28Speaker 2: was always just start investing in real estate. Buy in
- 15:31Speaker 2: places you'd like to go. You know, like get a
- 15:33Speaker 2: place in Florida, get a place down the Jersey Shore,
- 15:35Speaker 2: get a place in Del Mar.
- 15:37Speaker 1: By the way, we have an addition to the theory
- 15:39Speaker 1: that Natalie won the lottery, and that's why she hasn't
- 15:42Speaker 1: been around in two days. You know, our other colleague, Izzy,
- 15:47Speaker 1: who is the board operator for Mark Simone and so
- 15:50Speaker 1: many other shows, he actually works at that Wegmans.
- 15:53Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. So he has to be here at
- 15:56Speaker 2: 7 o'clock. We'll see if he shows up.
- 15:58Speaker 1: But what about if he bought the ticket with Natalie's
- 16:01Speaker 1: money and they agreed to share it?
- 16:03Speaker 2: You are unbelievable. Oh, my God.
- 16:06Speaker 1: Don't you find that odd that Izzy, who used to
- 16:09Speaker 1: be with me at WABC— There's nothing odd yet.
- 16:11Speaker 2: She was offered today. Izzy comes in at 7. We'll
- 16:14Speaker 2: wait and see.
- 16:16Speaker 1: Crash, be prepared to cover Izzy's shit.
- 16:20Speaker 2: Wow. Something that's a one in 240 million chance. He's
- 16:25Speaker 2: got two people definitely winning it.
- 16:26Speaker 1: Don't you think that's odd that Izzy, our colleague here,
- 16:29Speaker 1: actually works at that Wegmans in, what is that, Montfail?
- 16:33Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a huge coincidence. Okay, let's get some more talkbacks.
- 16:38Speaker 1: Good morning.
- 16:39Speaker 3: Now, if you wanted to have an iconic voice welcoming
- 16:42Speaker 3: people into New York City at the airports... You would
- 16:46Speaker 3: reinvent and reinvigorate the voice of the longtime New York
- 16:51Speaker 3: Yankee PA announcer, Bob Shepard. He could certainly fit the bill,
- 16:56Speaker 3: and now with digital technology, we can bring him back
- 17:00Speaker 3: to life.
- 17:03Speaker 1: Derek Jeter. Or John Sterling. Right? I mean, John Sterling.
- 17:11Speaker 1: That was the iconic book. These are good ideas.
- 17:13Speaker 2: I love the idea of you. I just love that
- 17:16Speaker 2: thick New York accent.
- 17:18Speaker 1: That would be great. Yeah, but more importantly, warning all
- 17:20Speaker 1: the illegal aliens who are trying to sneak in. Report
- 17:23Speaker 1: to TSA because you're going right back on the next flight.
- 17:27Speaker 2: One last one. So let me get this straight. Somebody
- 17:30Speaker 2: in Jersey just made a ton load of money.
- 17:34Speaker 8: And Natalie hasn't been seen in how many days?
- 17:37Speaker 1: Today is number two. And we've added a caveat. Izzy,
- 17:41Speaker 1: board operator for Mark Simone and so many other shows,
- 17:44Speaker 1: happens to work at that Wegmans. And I believe he
- 17:48Speaker 1: probably bought the ticket with Natalie's money and they agreed
- 17:52Speaker 1: to share. This has been done before. You know people
- 17:55Speaker 1: buy tickets and then they agree to share. Better make
- 17:58Speaker 1: sure it's in writing, though.
- 17:59Speaker 2: Is Daria Albinger here today?
- 18:01Speaker 7: I am here.
- 18:02Speaker 2: Okay, so you didn't win.
- 18:03Speaker 6: I know.
- 18:03Speaker 1: I told you guys that yesterday.
- 18:05Speaker 9: And you know what else? Izzy told me yesterday, if
- 18:08Speaker 9: he wins, we.
- 18:08Speaker 1: All get a cut.
- 18:10Speaker 2: Did he say that to you? Well, he didn't say
- 18:11Speaker 2: that to me.
- 18:12Speaker 1: He said it to the newsroom.
- 18:13Speaker 2: Maybe not you, but the newsroom gets a cut.
- 18:16Speaker 1: So I get a cut. Screw him, then. Oh, you're
- 18:20Speaker 1: being nice to Natalie. I just said, screw you.
- 18:23Speaker 2: Well, he offered it to everybody else. He didn't say
- 18:26Speaker 2: a thing to me. Now let's get the news at 630. Morning, guys.
- 18:30Speaker 2: Rain today.
- 18:30Speaker 9: Do not forget the umbrella. You're going to need it.
- 18:33Speaker 9: We'll see a high of 68 degrees, which is about
- 18:35Speaker 9: where we are right now. Well, it's been a couple
- 18:38Speaker 9: of days since the midterm elections and that razor tight
- 18:41Speaker 9: Senate race in Alaska is still being counted. And we're
- 18:45Speaker 9: being told that we may not know until the end
- 18:47Speaker 9: of the month who won that one. Less than 640
- 18:49Speaker 9: votes separate the top two candidates. The state's ranked choice
- 18:52Speaker 9: voting is going to slow things down. They're still counting
- 18:55Speaker 9: the ballots in Mississippi's Senate race, too. President Trump is
- 18:58Speaker 9: heading to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for an
- 19:01Speaker 9: aerospace and transportation tech summit. Today, this is his first
- 19:05Speaker 9: formal speaking engagement since the midterms. A Long Island teenager
- 19:09Speaker 9: is in the hospital. Another is in custody after a
- 19:12Speaker 9: stabbing in the parking lot. of a Suffolk County high school.
- 19:15Speaker 10: It happened at Satcham High School East in Farmingville in
- 19:18Speaker 10: the town of Brookhaven at around 2 p.m. Police say
- 19:21Speaker 10: the 16-year-old boy who was a student at the school
- 19:24Speaker 10: was taken to Stony Brook University Medical Center and a
- 19:28Speaker 10: 15-year-old is in custody. No word yet if the 15-year-old
- 19:32Speaker 10: was a fellow student or on the events leading up
- 19:35Speaker 10: to the stabbing.
- 19:36Speaker 1: Lisa Salvati, WOR News.
- 19:38Speaker 9: A judge in the UK says actor Russell Brand now
- 19:41Speaker 9: faces significant prison time since he's been convicted of sexual
- 19:46Speaker 9: assault and rape.
- 19:47Speaker 8: He, I should say, has consistently denied this. He's often
- 19:51Speaker 8: said that he was addicted to sex. He was a
- 19:53Speaker 8: sex addict and he had a promiscuous lifestyle, fueled with
- 19:56Speaker 8: drugs and alcohol, that he regrets that time in his life.
- 19:59Speaker 8: But at no time, he said, did he ever force
- 20:02Speaker 8: himself on a woman? But of course, he has now
- 20:05Speaker 8: been found guilty and he does face A pretty lengthy
- 20:08Speaker 8: jail sentence.
- 20:09Speaker 9: ABC's James Longman. Some babies who were diagnosed with peanut
- 20:12Speaker 9: allergies may not actually be allergic. That's what an Australian
- 20:17Speaker 9: study found to be the case in more than a
- 20:19Speaker 9: third of infants who were tested. Well, we still don't
- 20:22Speaker 9: know who won that $ 847 million Powerball ticket this week,
- 20:26Speaker 9: Natalie and Izzy. That's what I say. They still haven't
- 20:29Speaker 9: showed up. But we can tell you that it was
- 20:32Speaker 9: sold at the Wegmans in Montville, New Jersey. The store
- 20:35Speaker 9: is also saying that the $ 30, 000 bonus check that it
- 20:39Speaker 9: is getting because it sold the ticket, it's going to
- 20:41Speaker 9: donate to charity. The Devils and the Rangers win and
- 20:45Speaker 9: the Islanders lose. Next news, 7 o'clock, bulletins at once.
- 20:47Speaker 9: I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
- 20:51Speaker 1: Oh, the shots were fired by Elise Stefanik. She was
- 20:55Speaker 1: attacking Blakeman and the GOP leadership in New York. And
- 20:59Speaker 1: then Blakeman, who was accused of being low-energy Blakeman. Remember
- 21:05Speaker 1: that from Jeb Bush? He started shooting back. And we're
- 21:09Speaker 1: going to have to break it down for you because
- 21:10Speaker 1: this is for the soul of the Republican Party that
- 21:13Speaker 1: we'll dive into up next. Oh, wow. A seismic shift.
- 21:19Speaker 1: amongst the GOP in New York State. There are 62 counties.
- 21:24Speaker 1: When you go up upstate New York, which is red,
- 21:28Speaker 1: the iconic figure there is the congresswoman, Elise Stefanik, who
- 21:33Speaker 1: steps down from her seat on January 1st, who, as
- 21:37Speaker 1: you remember, was on her way to battling Kathy Hochul. Boy,
- 21:41Speaker 1: that would have been one for the ages. And then
- 21:44Speaker 1: she got sidetracked. by the president who would not give
- 21:48Speaker 1: her his not his blessing. And he said, oh, I'm
- 21:51Speaker 1: friends with Bruce Blakeman. I'm friends with Elise Stefanik. And
- 21:55Speaker 1: she felt that the president had thrown her under the
- 21:58Speaker 1: bus because she had already raised 15 million. She had
- 22:02Speaker 1: already done everything she could to help the president, especially
- 22:05Speaker 1: remember the big, beautiful bill needed one vote, one vote.
- 22:10Speaker 1: That's how close it was in the House. And she
- 22:13Speaker 1: was going to be the new Jean Kirkpatrick in the
- 22:15Speaker 1: United Nations. My God, there would have been cameras every
- 22:18Speaker 1: day just waiting for her to erupt. And she did
- 22:22Speaker 1: the right thing. She said, I'm going to help the
- 22:24Speaker 1: president's agenda. I'm going to return to Congress. This is
- 22:27Speaker 1: something I wanted to do. But hey, country first. And
- 22:31Speaker 1: she thought, let's face it, it's a quid pro quo.
- 22:33Speaker 1: I give up United Nations ambassadorship for the U.S., I
- 22:38Speaker 1: want to run for governor. There's nobody who could do
- 22:40Speaker 1: better than me. And I think everybody agreed to that. But, boy,
- 22:44Speaker 1: let me tell you something. This goes back to the
- 22:48Speaker 1: old statement that usually applies to relationships between men and women.
- 22:52Speaker 1: Learn this, quiet storm, Chris, if it ever gets serious
- 22:57Speaker 1: in your life. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
- 23:02Speaker 1: I've learned that. Larry, I'm sure you've learned that over
- 23:05Speaker 1: the years. And Chris, you're going to learn that real soon. Now,
- 23:10Speaker 1: mostly that applies to personal relationships. But in politics, it
- 23:16Speaker 1: becomes a professional personal relationship. And man, she's an angry woman.
- 23:23Speaker 1: And I believe rightfully so. So what she did yesterday
- 23:27Speaker 1: in the aftermath of the implosion of the Republican ticket Remember,
- 23:32Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman and the rest of his ticket members lost
- 23:35Speaker 1: by 20 percentage points to Hochul and her team. She
- 23:40Speaker 1: immediately said, let me tell you something. There needs to
- 23:44Speaker 1: be a generational change, meaning Ed Cox, who is the
- 23:49Speaker 1: GOP chairman, who I said I think is like 100
- 23:51Speaker 1: years old. He's only known for having achieved one thing,
- 23:55Speaker 1: marrying Richard Nixon's daughter. Other than that, he's a person
- 23:58Speaker 1: of no consequence. She said, I will help the GOP
- 24:02Speaker 1: get back on its feet. She recommended Mike Lawler. We'll
- 24:06Speaker 1: talk to Rob Astorino about that in the 7 o'clock
- 24:10Speaker 1: hour because that's part of my strategy, Larry, to try
- 24:14Speaker 1: to get the GOP back on track. And then she said,
- 24:18Speaker 1: this is a political reckoning. The state GOP is broken,
- 24:23Speaker 1: needs to be rebuilt from scratch. And by the way,
- 24:27Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman was low energy and ran the worst possible campaign. Now,
- 24:35Speaker 1: you can call a candidate many things, but she took
- 24:38Speaker 1: a page out of President Donald Trump's campaign, remember, back
- 24:42Speaker 1: in 2016, where Jeb Bush was favored to sweep it.
- 24:46Speaker 1: and Trump tagged him with low-energy Jeff. That was classic,
- 24:50Speaker 1: low-energy Jeff. And it turned out that Blakeman was pretty low-energy.
- 24:55Speaker 1: He finally got back on track after Labor Day. But
- 24:59Speaker 1: I got to tell you, and she was right about this,
- 25:03Speaker 1: he lost his own county to Kathy Hochul Nassar that
- 25:06Speaker 1: He was the expected shoe-in. They thought by having him
- 25:09Speaker 1: as the candidate, the White House, that they could flip
- 25:13Speaker 1: the two Democratic congressional seats in Nassau County, the Swazi
- 25:16Speaker 1: seat and the seat of the other Democrat. They trounced.
- 25:22Speaker 1: And he lost Suffolk.
- 25:25Speaker 2: You know when he showed some energy? After this. After
- 25:29Speaker 2: Elise Stefanik said something. I wish he would have shown
- 25:32Speaker 2: that same energy when he was campaigning yesterday. Because his
- 25:36Speaker 2: response was, I thought, over the top. I mean, I
- 25:41Speaker 2: get it. He lost an election. You don't want to
- 25:44Speaker 2: hear from somebody in your own camp. But to give
- 25:48Speaker 2: Elise Stefanik a bit of an excuse in this whole thing,
- 25:52Speaker 2: she's now a commentator. She's not a politician anymore. She
- 25:56Speaker 2: was hired by CBS. So she's going to have to
- 25:59Speaker 2: say things like this. She's going to take some Republicans off,
- 26:04Speaker 2: and she's going to take Blakeman off. But you know
- 26:06Speaker 2: what she said? It's true. It's absolutely true.
- 26:10Speaker 1: But the one thing that Blakeman said, She had one
- 26:14Speaker 1: moment of glory in what was otherwise an unremarkable career.
- 26:18Speaker 1: Are you nuts? Tell that to the president of Harvard
- 26:22Speaker 1: who resigned after her examination of.
- 26:25Speaker 2: Her, remember? Well, that's the one moment he's talking about,
- 26:27Speaker 2: but she's been tremendous.
- 26:30Speaker 1: Remember when she dressed down Cuomo and she said, you
- 26:34Speaker 1: will never be elected to political office again in that
- 26:38Speaker 1: congressional hearing? And boy, was she correct.
- 26:41Speaker 2: She has had many moments. She raised $ 100 million for
- 26:44Speaker 2: the GOP. She's an amazing prosecutor. Let me give you
- 26:48Speaker 2: some more of the Blakeman quotes. She's a selfish, do-nothing politician.
- 26:54Speaker 2: And that's absolutely untrue. And I think that Stefanik was
- 27:00Speaker 2: gracious afterwards. After the incoming came from him, She said,
- 27:04Speaker 2: you know, I'm going to give this a little bit
- 27:05Speaker 2: of time. I know what it's like to lose. I
- 27:07Speaker 2: know what it's like to lose, and it hurts. Well, Larry,
- 27:11Speaker 2: I'm not a conciliator. As you know, I'm going to
- 27:13Speaker 2: throw gasoline on the fire. She said, though, part of
- 27:17Speaker 2: what I said needs to be the reconstruction. Remember, I
- 27:19Speaker 2: said Rob Astorino, Mike Lawler, and Elise Stefanik. That's the
- 27:24Speaker 2: generational chance. We're going to throw that by Rob Astorino,
- 27:28Speaker 2: who's very close to Elise Stefanik. In the 7 o'clock hour. Yeah, no,
- 27:32Speaker 2: Rob Astorino's coming up. And yesterday you said he should
- 27:35Speaker 2: be running the Republican Party in New York.
- 27:38Speaker 1: With Mike Lawler, with Elise Stefanik.
- 27:39Speaker 2: But you said he should take the lead spot.
- 27:42Speaker 1: Yeah, because he speaks Spanish.
- 27:44Speaker 2: Because Lawler still wants to run for office. Stefanik still
- 27:48Speaker 2: wants to run for office. I'm not sure Rob does.
- 27:50Speaker 2: I think Rob would be great as heading up the
- 27:53Speaker 2: Republican Party in the state. I'm not sure he wants
- 27:56Speaker 2: to give up. all the other jobs.
- 27:58Speaker 1: This will be another notch in my belt on the
- 28:01Speaker 1: new Curtis Sliwa political marketplace for politics. No betting. Hey, look,
- 28:08Speaker 1: I actually underpredicted the victories of the Democrats. People thought
- 28:13Speaker 1: I was nuts. Remember Larry?
- 28:15Speaker 2: Nobody gives themselves more credit than you.
- 28:18Speaker 1: I said 240 in the house. It looks like it'll
- 28:20Speaker 1: be 254, maybe 260. I said 53 in the Senate.
- 28:23Speaker 1: It may go up to 57. So you were off.
- 28:26Speaker 1: I was off. But everybody, when I said it, said,
- 28:29Speaker 1: you're nuts. Well, guess what? I'm not nuts. At least
- 28:33Speaker 1: not on that show.
- 28:35Speaker 2: Can we take that cut out? Guess what? I'm not nuts.
- 28:39Speaker 2: I just play that a lot.
- 28:41Speaker 1: Heck, Seth was flexing. You know, there's a whole group
- 28:44Speaker 1: that wants him impeached in the house, and he came out, man,
- 28:48Speaker 1: and he was flexing and said, come and get me
- 28:51Speaker 1: up next.
- 28:53Speaker 2: So there's a lot of talk right now about impeachment
- 28:57Speaker 2: and not necessarily impeachment of the president. It seems like
- 29:01Speaker 2: the Democrats might be reluctant to go for that, especially
- 29:04Speaker 2: right now. So they're looking at cabinet members. And here
- 29:09Speaker 2: is the thing that should concern you. that anything with
- 29:14Speaker 2: impeachment is going to have to start in the House.
- 29:15Speaker 2: So it's going to be investigation into the House of Representatives,
- 29:19Speaker 2: and they're going to call Hegseth before them, and that
- 29:21Speaker 2: is all going to start. It's Pete Hegseth they're focusing
- 29:24Speaker 2: on right now. And the thing that should concern you
- 29:29Speaker 2: is that if it gets to the Senate, and even
- 29:31Speaker 2: in the House, there are some Republicans who are wishy-washy
- 29:38Speaker 2: on the deal. Some of them are... agreeing that he
- 29:41Speaker 2: should be impeached. There's others that are saying, you know,
- 29:44Speaker 2: if it gets to us, maybe, you know, I have
- 29:47Speaker 2: to hear. Nobody's saying, no, that's ridiculous. This is Senator
- 29:53Speaker 2: Bill Cassidy, the Republican, who you wouldn't think would be
- 29:57Speaker 2: out in front saying, let's impeach him. You'd think that
- 30:01Speaker 2: he'd be supporting the president, but Bill Cassidy said on
- 30:05Speaker 2: CNN last night when asked about a possible impeachment what
- 30:09Speaker 2: he would do if it got to the Senate.
- 30:11Speaker 11: Clearly, there are people who I respect who feel that
- 30:14Speaker 11: he's done a very poor job, and if he's the
- 30:17Speaker 11: one that gave the president the guidance that we could
- 30:19Speaker 11: be out of the Iranian war in five weeks, that
- 30:22Speaker 11: was an incredible misjudgment. But that's what will be presented
- 30:25Speaker 11: before the House, and then we'll consider it in the Senate.
- 30:29Speaker 2: He's already at the Senate. He's already at the Senate
- 30:33Speaker 2: with that.
- 30:33Speaker 1: You know what that sounded like? Remember Bush 43 needed
- 30:36Speaker 1: a full guy for Iraq. Rumsfeld, you're gone. Yeah.
- 30:39Speaker 2: Well, that's what I think might happen. I think what
- 30:42Speaker 2: might happen is he's going to be kicked out before,
- 30:47Speaker 2: before they even get a chance to impeach him. I
- 30:49Speaker 2: think he's going to get a replace.
- 30:50Speaker 1: The question that I have is we know about impeachment
- 30:53Speaker 1: of the president. We've lived with that with Donald Trump. Uh,
- 30:57Speaker 1: How do you impeach a cabinet member? I mean, if
- 31:00Speaker 1: the president still wants him to serve and they take
- 31:03Speaker 1: a vote in the House and the Senate, can that
- 31:06Speaker 1: supersede the desire of the president to have him continue?
- 31:09Speaker 1: Because Trump said yesterday, no, he's my guy.
- 31:12Speaker 2: Absolutely, because the House and Senate has oversight over the
- 31:16Speaker 2: executive branch. It still takes a supermajority to convict. So
- 31:21Speaker 2: the impeachment happens with a simple majority, just like the
- 31:25Speaker 2: president in the House of Representatives. But then you need
- 31:28Speaker 2: a super majority in the Senate. That's 67 votes.
- 31:33Speaker 1: Well, at this rate, you're going to have 57 Dems.
- 31:36Speaker 1: It won't be difficult to get three, especially the outgoing
- 31:39Speaker 1: Republicans who got scorned by Trump. So that's obviously the Cassidy, Tillis,
- 31:46Speaker 1: and Cornyn.
- 31:46Speaker 2: Yeah, but you'd need 20. you'd need 20 Republicans to
- 31:51Speaker 2: come over and vote. And I don't think they're going to,
- 31:54Speaker 2: I don't think you're going to get that, but he'll
- 31:56Speaker 2: still be stained. He'll still be impeached. You know, he'll
- 31:59Speaker 2: have the impeachment on him. I have a feel. Well,
- 32:02Speaker 2: let me just play with Hegseth has to say, because Hegseth,
- 32:05Speaker 2: one of the things they were talking about impeaching him
- 32:09Speaker 2: on is the fact that he was looking down on
- 32:14Speaker 2: women and, and blacks. And he was looking down, on
- 32:18Speaker 2: some people, that he went along and said that we're
- 32:22Speaker 2: setting these standards that some people won't reach. And he
- 32:27Speaker 2: doubled them.
- 32:28Speaker 5: DEI is a Marxist ideology built to destroy us, so
- 32:32Speaker 5: we crushed it. Diversity is not our strength, our unity is.
- 32:37Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not, I mean, he's being Hegseth. He's not
- 32:39Speaker 2: backing down whatsoever.
- 32:41Speaker 1: But of course, the other side, in case you've noticed...
- 32:44Speaker 1: They're obsessed.
- 32:46Speaker 5: A disgruntled, defeated congressman, along with all his Democrat allies,
- 32:50Speaker 5: has also dropped sham articles of impeachment against yours truly.
- 32:56Speaker 5: Just like they tried against President Trump twice.
- 32:58Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Tom Massey is who he's talking about, who's
- 33:02Speaker 2: leaving and is starting it all. He says it doesn't
- 33:07Speaker 2: matter what's going to happen. I'm not backing down.
- 33:09Speaker 1: I understand. Just like the president.
- 33:11Speaker 5: We don't back down, and that especially applies.
- 33:15Speaker 6: Now. Well, you know what?
- 33:16Speaker 2: He's got to watch himself because I got a feeling
- 33:18Speaker 2: the president might back down on this one.
- 33:20Speaker 1: Remember, we do know that Hegseth was the one who
- 33:24Speaker 1: was all into bombing the hell out of Iran. Rubio
- 33:28Speaker 1: had reservations. Ratcliffe, the CIA director, said there won't be
- 33:32Speaker 1: an insurgency. And we know J.D. Vance said to the president,
- 33:35Speaker 1: you know, I'm opposed to this, but I'm your vice president.
- 33:38Speaker 1: I'll do what you asked me to do. It was
- 33:41Speaker 1: Hegseth who was all about going in there and bombing
- 33:44Speaker 1: them back into the snow nature.
- 33:46Speaker 2: It's bigger than that because not only was he yes
- 33:49Speaker 2: all into that, he said and he had the president
- 33:52Speaker 2: convinced it would take five weeks. And so him saying
- 33:57Speaker 2: it would take five weeks was the biggest of the mistakes.
- 34:01Speaker 2: If you were going to go in– and the timing
- 34:04Speaker 2: was awful on the whole thing as we found out
- 34:07Speaker 2: on Tuesday– But the timing was awful. If you're going
- 34:10Speaker 2: to go in, do it after the midterms. You know
- 34:14Speaker 2: what I mean? Don't do it now. So if this
- 34:17Speaker 2: indeed was his fault, yeah, he's going to be the
- 34:20Speaker 2: fall guy. I think you're going to hear Hegseth resign.
- 34:23Speaker 2: Even with all that bravado, I think that's what's going
- 34:25Speaker 2: to happen.
- 34:26Speaker 1: Wow. I'm going to hold you to that. It sounded
- 34:30Speaker 1: to me like, man, he's General Custer out there. He
- 34:34Speaker 1: ain't surrendering. But up next, it's the news at 7.