Latest / Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning / Hour 3: Trump on the road
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- 0:00Speaker 1: So this election, like almost every election, Larry and Natalie
- 0:05Speaker 1: in our audience, is really a referendum on Donald Trump,
- 0:08Speaker 1: or more so ever since he decided that he would
- 0:12Speaker 1: barnstorm the country and do 30 gatherings in 30 days.
- 0:18Speaker 1: In fact, in Texas, he did two in one day recently,
- 0:22Speaker 1: and he has preached a to his crowd and said,
- 0:27Speaker 1: consider me at the top of the ticket. I know
- 0:29Speaker 1: I'm not at the top of the ticket, but just
- 0:31Speaker 1: consider me at the top of the ticket. So going
- 0:35Speaker 1: into the weekend, originally scheduled, he was going to have
- 0:38Speaker 1: a rally in Iowa on Saturday, Kansas on Sunday. And
- 0:44Speaker 1: then they decided to cancel it. The Reuters, remember the
- 0:50Speaker 1: Reuters reporter, I was on the tarmac with him when
- 0:54Speaker 1: he was getting on Air Force One, I think heading
- 0:57Speaker 1: to Florida to do the rally in Daytona Beach for
- 1:00Speaker 1: the GOP ticket in Florida. And the president got really
- 1:05Speaker 1: angry at the question that the Reuters reporter asked.
- 1:09Speaker 2: He's way out of shape.
- 1:10Speaker 3: Now remember, Larry, originally.
- 1:36Speaker 1: The president described what caused him to lose part of
- 1:42Speaker 1: his voice.
- 1:43Speaker 5: It wasn't laryngitis.
- 1:45Speaker 1: It wasn't any kind of, like my wife gets, like
- 1:49Speaker 1: Bill Clinton gets, you know, from the seasonal problems of
- 1:54Speaker 1: the pollen in the air. Remember how Bill Clinton would
- 1:58Speaker 1: lose his whole voice. He'd have to have to anti-estimate.
- 2:01Speaker 6: No, no.
- 2:01Speaker 5: He said, I got it while yelling at this guy.
- 2:05Speaker 1: And that resonated with me because I had all kinds
- 2:08Speaker 1: of voice problems. I went to the number one doctor,
- 2:10Speaker 1: a guy named Dr. Kessler, the miracle doctor. He says,
- 2:14Speaker 1: you know, you can lose your voice for.
- 2:15Speaker 2: A number of reasons.
- 2:17Speaker 1: But when you bruise your vocal cord, it's like a muscle.
- 2:21Speaker 1: There's no medicine that's going to cure that. The more
- 2:24Speaker 1: you raise your voice, the more damage you do to
- 2:28Speaker 1: your muscle, your vocal muscle. And I think what happened
- 2:32Speaker 1: is the president decided, no, no, I'm going to continue
- 2:35Speaker 1: the rallies.
- 2:35Speaker 2: And he did.
- 2:37Speaker 1: But then all of a sudden, there was a danger
- 2:39Speaker 1: that he could do damage, permanent damage to his throat.
- 2:43Speaker 1: So he decided, OK, I'm not going to do Iowa.
- 2:45Speaker 1: I'm not going to do Kansas Saturday, Sunday. So instead,
- 2:49Speaker 1: apparently he decided, probably with his team, that I'm going
- 2:54Speaker 1: to take Saturday for myself. I'm going to go down
- 2:56Speaker 1: to Florida, play golf in the day. I'm going to
- 2:58Speaker 1: do the trick-or-treating with the kids in Mar-a-Lago at night,
- 3:01Speaker 1: get some rest, and then I'll give you two for
- 3:04Speaker 1: one on Sunday. I'll do Iowa, and then I'll fly
- 3:07Speaker 1: to Kansas. And he's going to apparently finish up, and
- 3:11Speaker 1: this will be perfect for John Decker tomorrow at the
- 3:14Speaker 1: reflection pool. He's going to make his final remarks before
- 3:17Speaker 1: the last, you know, the beginning of election day votes.
- 3:21Speaker 1: So will he use this to backdrop the reflection pool?
- 3:25Speaker 5: I hope not.
- 3:27Speaker 7: You're obsessed with the reflection pool. I've never heard anybody
- 3:30Speaker 7: bring up the reflection pool.
- 3:31Speaker 5: More than you. Oh, they do all the time. You're
- 3:33Speaker 5: obsessed with it. No, they don't. If he brings that up.
- 3:37Speaker 1: He should be in front of the Lincoln Memorial because
- 3:40Speaker 1: the Republican Party is not his party.
- 3:42Speaker 5: It's the party of Lincoln. I agree with you.
- 3:44Speaker 7: I just– the reflection poll we talk about so much
- 3:47Speaker 7: on here. I will say this, that that Reuters reporter
- 3:52Speaker 7: was way, way out of line, way out of line.
- 3:56Speaker 5: Was he a doctor?
- 3:58Speaker 7: To assume that his throat is a medical condition, to
- 4:03Speaker 7: say that I think was such a– off center question.
- 4:09Speaker 7: I'll put it that way. I almost cursed, but an
- 4:10Speaker 7: off center question and Trump reacted the way he should
- 4:14Speaker 7: have reacted, I believe. And then I have a feeling
- 4:18Speaker 7: that because of that question, you know, the guy had
- 4:20Speaker 7: just been on the road for 30 days giving speeches
- 4:24Speaker 7: that last sometimes two hours, two hours.
- 4:27Speaker 6: Yes.
- 4:28Speaker 7: Every single night, of course, you're going to have, you're
- 4:31Speaker 7: going to lose some of your voice. And then because
- 4:34Speaker 7: of this moron, I think, I really think that he
- 4:37Speaker 7: took that to heart. You could tell it really affected him.
- 4:40Speaker 5: He went to Kansas.
- 4:41Speaker 1: Thank you very much.
- 4:44Speaker 3: And a very special hello to Kansas.
- 4:47Speaker 5: Thank you. Yeah, he went there and he went to Iowa.
- 4:51Speaker 5: He did exactly.
- 4:52Speaker 7: So, so listen, I don't blame him for getting mad
- 4:56Speaker 7: at that. I don't blame him at all for getting
- 4:58Speaker 7: mad at that. What I love about this president is
- 5:02Speaker 7: you see him. Everybody else hides themselves. We hear about
- 5:05Speaker 7: Biden cursing constantly in the White House, getting mad. We
- 5:09Speaker 7: never saw that in person. We heard about Obama cursing
- 5:12Speaker 7: in the White House. We never see that in person. Trump,
- 5:15Speaker 7: you get to see exactly who he is all the time.
- 5:18Speaker 7: I don't think we would have liked the other candidates
- 5:20Speaker 7: if they would have showed themselves.
- 5:22Speaker 5: But they hit it. They hit it. It's an acting job.
- 5:25Speaker 1: But the longer he talks on these campaign tours... Especially,
- 5:30Speaker 1: as you mentioned, 90 minutes, sometimes two hours. He is
- 5:34Speaker 1: apt to say something where you cringe and you say, nah,
- 5:39Speaker 1: you didn't say that.
- 5:40Speaker 5: President, did you? He said about the Vietnam War. Well,
- 5:45Speaker 5: should we just play it? Please.
- 5:48Speaker 6: I could have won the Vietnam War in a week.
- 5:51Speaker 3: You know, they drop whatever the hell that red crap
- 5:56Speaker 3: is that they dropped.
- 5:57Speaker 5: They kept dropping it in the forest.
- 5:59Speaker 3: Agent Orange, even though it's red, Agent Orange, they drop
- 6:04Speaker 3: it in the forest for years and years and years
- 6:08Speaker 3: instead of going after Ho Chi Minh City and the
- 6:10Speaker 3: different places.
- 6:12Speaker 1: First off, I think Ho Chi Minh City is now
- 6:15Speaker 1: the former Saigon. It was really Hanoi that I think
- 6:18Speaker 1: he referred to. John McCain got shot down along with
- 6:21Speaker 1: American flyers while bombing Hanoi.
- 6:25Speaker 5: And secondarily... To.
- 6:27Speaker 1: Say that you could have ended the Vietnam War in
- 6:31Speaker 1: a week, the French were chased out, Eisenhower got us
- 6:36Speaker 1: slightly involved, Kennedy upgraded it, LBJ, Nixon, and then finally
- 6:41Speaker 1: Gerald Ford got us out. Total of about 20 years
- 6:44Speaker 1: of our involvement there. Why would you say something like that?
- 6:48Speaker 5: I don't know if he could have ended it in
- 6:49Speaker 5: a week.
- 6:50Speaker 7: It was kind of a silly thing to say, but
- 6:53Speaker 7: it does resonate with a lot of people who live
- 6:56Speaker 7: long enough to know the Vietnam War and how awful
- 6:59Speaker 7: it was and the hundreds of thousands of people that
- 7:02Speaker 7: died in that war. And it was just a meat grinder.
- 7:05Speaker 7: And then to find out from the Pentagon Papers that
- 7:08Speaker 7: they lied about it.
- 7:10Speaker 5: So listen, he said.
- 7:12Speaker 7: Something that he probably didn't even mean.
- 7:16Speaker 5: It wouldn't have been a week.
- 7:17Speaker 7: But what he was saying, I believe, what I believe
- 7:21Speaker 7: he's saying is that it should never have lasted that long.
- 7:25Speaker 7: And that was horrendous. And we should never, ever be
- 7:28Speaker 7: in that position again. where we send men to war
- 7:32Speaker 7: just to die. That's what that war was all about.
- 7:35Speaker 7: Just keep sending more men, just keep sending more men,
- 7:37Speaker 7: just keep sending more men, just to die. So I
- 7:40Speaker 7: thought he put his finger on something that everybody thinks about,
- 7:44Speaker 7: the Vietnam War of a certain generation.
- 7:47Speaker 5: Baby boomers, baby boomers. Because it was awful. It was awful.
- 7:50Speaker 7: Oh, no doubt. Friends of mine, brothers, died in that war.
- 7:53Speaker 7: And I remember the mothers listening to the radio every
- 7:56Speaker 7: night to see what the latest is. And so it
- 8:01Speaker 7: was maybe the greatest, one of the greatest sins.
- 8:04Speaker 2: Of this country.
- 8:04Speaker 5: Oh, absolutely.
- 8:05Speaker 1: Both parties shared in that. But the other thing, it
- 8:07Speaker 1: reminds you of what he said about the war in Ukraine.
- 8:10Speaker 1: I'll end it in a week. You elect me, I'll
- 8:12Speaker 1: end it in a week. It was still going on
- 8:14Speaker 1: with it. So I think it's these kinds of statements
- 8:17Speaker 1: that he makes that after a while, it's sort of like,
- 8:20Speaker 1: there's no way you're going to be able to end
- 8:22Speaker 1: it in a week.
- 8:23Speaker 5: Right.
- 8:23Speaker 1: And now we're talking about Iran that regardless of how
- 8:27Speaker 1: the midterms turn out, He wants to go back to
- 8:30Speaker 1: bombing Iran with Israel, which is already taking people off
- 8:35Speaker 1: because this whole idea of going to war with Iran
- 8:38Speaker 1: was never really explained to me and everyone else. Like,
- 8:43Speaker 1: what are we trying to accomplish here?
- 8:44Speaker 5: What are we doing?
- 8:45Speaker 7: We're trying to end their nuclear. I think they've been
- 8:47Speaker 7: pretty clear about that. We're trying to end once and
- 8:50Speaker 7: for all their nuclear power program so they wouldn't have
- 8:53Speaker 7: nuclear weapons. That's what we're trying to end. And I
- 8:56Speaker 7: think that is a noble cause. And by the way,
- 8:58Speaker 7: he's not the first president to say this. He's just
- 9:01Speaker 7: the first president to do something about it.
- 9:02Speaker 5: I know.
- 9:03Speaker 7: President after president after president promised this, said they were
- 9:06Speaker 7: going to take care of this.
- 9:08Speaker 5: Nobody did. Nobody had the guts to do it.
- 9:09Speaker 1: But you are aware that this is on the minds
- 9:12Speaker 1: of a lot of voters, that you said you would
- 9:14Speaker 1: never get us in these endless wars.
- 9:16Speaker 5: And here it is. It's not endless.
- 9:18Speaker 7: I mean, listen, we just said the Vietnam War was
- 9:21Speaker 7: 20 years. And by the way... You can't compare some
- 9:26Speaker 7: of the wars of the past to this one. We have, what,
- 9:30Speaker 7: a dozen people, a couple dozen people, the casualties? You're
- 9:34Speaker 7: talking about different wars with tens and hundreds of thousands
- 9:39Speaker 7: of people dead. This one, we're fighting from afar. So
- 9:43Speaker 7: I don't think there's any real comparison.
- 9:45Speaker 1: Well, you're also doing it with Israel. And that's something
- 9:49Speaker 1: that a lot of Americans are opposed to. And you've
- 9:51Speaker 1: seen that in poll after poll after poll. This is,
- 9:54Speaker 1: you know what you're talking about? You're talking about a campaign.
- 9:58Speaker 1: And in a campaign, you're going to get... a lot
- 10:00Speaker 1: of stuff that really isn't the case put out there
- 10:05Speaker 1: to win an election. And so this war, of course,
- 10:08Speaker 1: it's fair game. It's fair game to run against them
- 10:12Speaker 1: on this. And it's not the war that people are
- 10:14Speaker 1: upset about. It's the prices that the war caused. It's
- 10:18Speaker 1: the prices at the gas pump. And people forget, of course,
- 10:21Speaker 1: that the prices were higher under Biden. People forget that
- 10:24Speaker 1: inflation was higher under Biden. People forget that the economy
- 10:28Speaker 1: is doing really well except for the prices from the war,
- 10:32Speaker 1: which won't last that– which shouldn't last that long. Well, again,
- 10:36Speaker 1: that's what you said initially, that war wouldn't last very
- 10:38Speaker 1: long with Iran.
- 10:40Speaker 5: And it continues. Is it continuing? Is it really? I mean,
- 10:44Speaker 5: tell me the casualties. They're firing missiles. Tell me the casualties.
- 10:46Speaker 1: I thought we destroyed all the missiles. We destroyed their Navy.
- 10:50Speaker 1: We destroyed their ability with drones. We did destroy their Navy.
- 10:53Speaker 1: There's no Navy. There's no Navy. Tell me their Navy.
- 10:56Speaker 2: Larry.
- 10:57Speaker 6: No, no, no.
- 10:57Speaker 5: You just said something.
- 10:58Speaker 1: Didn't you agree with the president that this would be
- 11:01Speaker 1: over in four to six weeks?
- 11:03Speaker 7: Listen, the military action has been over. Military action has
- 11:10Speaker 7: been over. You said the gas prices would go down
- 11:12Speaker 7: my Labor Day.
- 11:13Speaker 5: This is B.B. Netanyahu's war. Would you stop yelling and
- 11:17Speaker 5: pointing and turning red? That's why the Republicans are going
- 11:19Speaker 5: to get swept. This is silly. That's why the Republicans
- 11:22Speaker 5: are going to get swept. What you're doing is beneath you.
- 11:24Speaker 5: This Iran war, we should have never got involved. God,
- 11:27Speaker 5: oh my God. You don't recognize that? No, do you
- 11:30Speaker 5: recognize that the Navy's gone? You said something crazy. Oh, wow,
- 11:33Speaker 5: the Navy's gone.
- 11:33Speaker 7: No, but you said something completely inaccurate. Yeah, a little
- 11:36Speaker 7: mosquito boat. How can I trust you?
- 11:37Speaker 1: Of firing at tankers and turning them in fire in
- 11:40Speaker 1: the Straits of Hormuz.
- 11:42Speaker 5: Are you oblivious to all this?
- 11:43Speaker 7: Yeah, well, no, you seem to be oblivious to what
- 11:46Speaker 7: the real story is. Because you're so, you are so
- 11:49Speaker 7: full of anti-Trump.
- 11:50Speaker 5: You drink the Trump Kool-Aid. No, I don't.
- 11:53Speaker 1: And BB.
- 11:54Speaker 7: I know exactly what's going on. Drink the BB Kool-Aid, too.
- 11:56Speaker 7: Would you stop interrupting me and yelling over me?
- 11:59Speaker 5: Seriously. That's beneath you. Don't do that. Oh, really?
- 12:02Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 12:03Speaker 5: Don't do it. I know what you said in the past.
- 12:05Speaker 5: You won't amend it and said I was wrong.
- 12:08Speaker 1: What? That gas prices, energy prices would go down after
- 12:13Speaker 1: Labor Day.
- 12:14Speaker 5: Did you not say that? No, I said he said that. Oh, okay.
- 12:17Speaker 2: Yes.
- 12:18Speaker 5: And that didn't happen. Yes, you're right.
- 12:21Speaker 8: Okay.
- 12:21Speaker 5: What is that? I rest my argument.
- 12:24Speaker 8: Really?
- 12:24Speaker 5: I do. What did you gain by that? I rest
- 12:27Speaker 5: my argument. Let the audience decide. Right. That's fine.
- 12:31Speaker 1: Up next, going to talk about Jerry Kuzma. I got
- 12:35Speaker 1: some stories from you from Juan Subota. Here's... bohemian teammate
- 12:40Speaker 1: of what he did when he lived in Bayside. And
- 12:43Speaker 1: by the way, Bayside, they lived in a cul-de-sac when
- 12:47Speaker 1: ballplayers would actually live in the boroughs that they played in.
- 12:51Speaker 1: Plus a chance to see Def Leppard and the Google
- 12:54Speaker 1: Dolls next. Well, you heard Warner Wolf give tribute to
- 12:58Speaker 1: the passing of Jerry Koosman, a great righty-lefty, one-two punch
- 13:03Speaker 1: Tom Seaver. He was a normal guy. You know, he
- 13:07Speaker 1: was the marquee guy. followed by the lefty Jerry Kuzmin,
- 13:11Speaker 1: and they were like an unbeatable duo, especially in the
- 13:13Speaker 1: 69 World Series, when unexpectedly they beat the Baltimore Orioles,
- 13:19Speaker 1: who were loaded, I mean packed. He won game two,
- 13:22Speaker 1: and he won the last game, and it was a
- 13:25Speaker 1: great world championship, even though I hate the Mets. I
- 13:28Speaker 1: have to give props where props is due, Larry and Natalie.
- 13:32Speaker 1: But there was something very peculiar about Jerry Kuzmin. Now,
- 13:37Speaker 1: when you're a success, we say you're eccentric. So Ron Swoboda,
- 13:42Speaker 1: who was the right fielder who couldn't catch a fly
- 13:45Speaker 1: ball if his life depended on it in that 69
- 13:48Speaker 1: World Series, he caught an unbelievable catch. And he told
- 13:52Speaker 1: the story of Jerry Kuzma. They lived in a cul-de-sac
- 13:54Speaker 1: in Bayside in Queens when ballplayers would actually live in
- 13:58Speaker 1: the burrows they played in. And Jerry Kuzma was a
- 14:01Speaker 1: hunter from Minnesota. He'd go upstate New York. He'd hunt deer.
- 14:04Speaker 1: He'd bring it back on the top of his car,
- 14:06Speaker 1: you know, the rack. And people were looking like, what
- 14:08Speaker 1: the hell is this? He'd put it in the pool
- 14:09Speaker 1: in the backyard, skin it, and leave it there. And naturally,
- 14:13Speaker 1: the rats and the mice, and then eventually when it
- 14:15Speaker 1: got warm, the mosquitoes. But people said, I'm not going
- 14:18Speaker 1: to complain about Jerry Kuzma.
- 14:19Speaker 2: Come on.
- 14:20Speaker 5: You don't do that.
- 14:21Speaker 1: But then, and Natalie remembers this, there was a period
- 14:24Speaker 1: of time, Larry, in 2000, beginning of 2000, a number
- 14:27Speaker 1: of authors wrote books about, you don't have to pay
- 14:30Speaker 1: your federal taxes. And Jerry Kuzma, unlike athletes who listen
- 14:34Speaker 1: to sports talk radio, couldn't get enough conservative talk radio.
- 14:38Speaker 5: Say, what books?
- 14:40Speaker 1: And he's buying all these books and he's reading it.
- 14:42Speaker 1: And he decided, I'm not paying $ 90, 000 in taxes to
- 14:46Speaker 1: the IRS, 2002 to 2004. They came after him to
- 14:50Speaker 1: make an example of him because he's high profile. Put
- 14:53Speaker 1: him in federal prison for six months for tax evasion.
- 14:57Speaker 1: And then he came out and said, I guess I
- 15:00Speaker 1: was a little naive. But there were a lot of
- 15:03Speaker 1: people who believed that nonsense in the books back then.
- 15:06Speaker 1: It was like, you remember Natalie was a part of
- 15:08Speaker 1: talk radio.
- 15:09Speaker 9: I totally forgot it. If somebody remembers the name, because
- 15:12Speaker 9: I've been searching and a couple of names seem familiar,
- 15:15Speaker 9: I would love to have my memory jumped a little bit.
- 15:19Speaker 5: Because I remember thinking, like, this is nuts. What are
- 15:23Speaker 5: we talking about? You know what else is nuts? That
- 15:25Speaker 5: Jerry Kuzma is not in the Hall of Fame. Correct.
- 15:28Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
- 15:29Speaker 6: Correct.
- 15:29Speaker 5: He was so good. Should be. Should be in the
- 15:31Speaker 5: Hall of Fame. He was so good, Larry.
- 15:32Speaker 7: The debate comes up all the time, but it doesn't
- 15:35Speaker 7: make it. Crash disagrees. Crash says no.
- 15:38Speaker 5: He's a Mets fan. What's wrong with you, Crash?
- 15:41Speaker 1: You should impale yourself with Mike Piazza's broken bat that
- 15:45Speaker 1: Clemens broke.
- 15:47Speaker 5: My God. What kind of a Mets fan is he?
- 15:50Speaker 5: Let's get to some talkbacks really quick.
- 15:52Speaker 8: Please have these honey buns share a honey bun together.
- 15:56Speaker 8: And not get into this childish banter. I like you both.
- 16:06Speaker 5: I love the ending. I like you both.
- 16:10Speaker 2: I just want to say great job yesterday.
- 16:12Speaker 3: I sat there, I listened to you guys every morning,
- 16:14Speaker 3: but I said, oh, come on, what am I going
- 16:16Speaker 3: to listen to for hours during the marathon?
- 16:18Speaker 2: That's going to be so boring and drag on.
- 16:21Speaker 3: But I have to say, you guys made it fun, interesting,
- 16:25Speaker 3: and the time just flew by.
- 16:26Speaker 5: So that's a really good job.
- 16:28Speaker 7: I also want to do a shout out to Tim McClune.
- 16:31Speaker 7: We were talking about everybody involved yesterday and how excellent
- 16:35Speaker 7: he is. He does make it fun. His story is
- 16:38Speaker 7: Tim McClune is a legend in New Jersey as a restaurateur.
- 16:43Speaker 7: He is a track coach. He ran the very first
- 16:46Speaker 7: five-barrel marathon 50 years ago, and he was excellent, excellent, excellent.
- 16:52Speaker 7: So a lot of what you're talking about is Tim McClune.
- 16:56Speaker 1: Larry, Curtis, you guys mentioned the passing of Jerry Kuzman,
- 17:00Speaker 1: who was the winning pitcher in Game 5.
- 17:02Speaker 5: Of the 69 World Series. Who was the guy that
- 17:06Speaker 5: made the final out who would later become a World
- 17:10Speaker 5: Series winner with the New York Mets in 86? Have
- 17:15Speaker 5: a good day. Crash. David Johnson. I just thought of him.
- 17:24Speaker 5: Half in the bag, David Johnson.
- 17:26Speaker 1: While the 86 Mets were doing cocaine, David Johnson was
- 17:30Speaker 1: drinking old-fashioned hard liquor.
- 17:34Speaker 7: Now let's get right to Daria Albinger with the 8.30 news.
- 17:38Speaker 5: Daria. Morning, guys. Sunny today.
- 17:39Speaker 10: We'll see a high of 66 degrees. A day before
- 17:42Speaker 10: the elections, the candidates are making the final push for votes.
- 17:45Speaker 10: The latest polls show that New York Governor Kathy Hochul
- 17:47Speaker 10: is leading Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman in double digits. But
- 17:51Speaker 10: Blakeman says, no, the race is a lot closer than
- 17:54Speaker 10: the polls indicate. A former Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan
- 17:58Speaker 10: is getting pushback from her party after she announced that
- 18:01Speaker 10: She's supporting the Republican in the race, Mike Rogers, and
- 18:04Speaker 10: not her party's nominee, Abdullah Syed.
- 18:07Speaker 9: The breaking point came over this controversial ad from an
- 18:10Speaker 9: outside group backing El Syed.
- 18:12Speaker 2: Don't we give Israel $ 4 billion a year anyways?
- 18:14Speaker 9: Stevens called the ad anti-Semitic and urged El Syed to
- 18:17Speaker 9: denounce it. He has said he disagrees with it. Asked
- 18:21Speaker 9: about Stevens' endorsement of his Republican opponent, the Democratic nominee
- 18:25Speaker 9: brushing it off.
- 18:26Speaker 5: At the end of the day, I actually don't think
- 18:28Speaker 5: about Haley Stevens.
- 18:29Speaker 9: But Democrats are outraged. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer calling
- 18:33Speaker 9: it a despicable betrayal.
- 18:35Speaker 10: ABC's Mary Bruce. Now, a race that could help decide
- 18:38Speaker 10: control of the House is for New York's 17th congressional district.
- 18:42Speaker 10: Incumbent Republican Mike Lawler and Democratic challenger Kate Conley are
- 18:46Speaker 10: in what is being seen right now as a statistical
- 18:49Speaker 10: dead heat a day before the vote. Make sure that
- 18:52Speaker 10: you keep it here tomorrow night for complete coverage of
- 18:54Speaker 10: all of the races. It's going to be anchored by
- 18:56Speaker 10: Larry Mendte starting at 7 p.m. Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy,
- 19:00Speaker 10: who is not running for re-election, at least not this time.
- 19:04Speaker 5: He's not up this time.
- 19:05Speaker 10: He's at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland, recovering from a
- 19:08Speaker 10: stroke that he suffered at his son's hockey game. A
- 19:11Speaker 10: trial begins today in Brooklyn for two Cleveland Guardians pitchers
- 19:14Speaker 10: who are accused of taking bribes from gamblers and purposely
- 19:18Speaker 10: throwing balls. Emmanuel Classé and Luis Ortiz pleaded not guilty,
- 19:21Speaker 10: but they could face decades in prison and a lifetime
- 19:24Speaker 10: ban from baseball if they are convicted. And the Upper
- 19:28Speaker 10: West Side Barn Owl family is back at its home
- 19:30Speaker 10: atop a building on 75th Street. Conservation workers built the
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- 20:24Speaker 1: Graham and her Democratic challenger.
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- 22:16Speaker 1: And because down in South Carolina, we go to Joe Bartlett, retired,
- 22:23Speaker 1: playing bocce every day with the boys. I'm sure some
- 22:26Speaker 1: of them are from up north, but you're right in
- 22:29Speaker 1: the middle of what has become now a neck and
- 22:32Speaker 1: neck race between Darlene Graham, the sister of Senator Graham.
- 22:38Speaker 1: and the Democratic challenger. Can you give us any insight
- 22:41Speaker 1: of why all of a sudden it's tightened up neck
- 22:44Speaker 1: and neck?
- 22:46Speaker 2: Well, I think it's because of the president and his policies.
- 22:49Speaker 2: And who knew that when I moved down here to
- 22:51Speaker 2: South Carolina, this would be a political battleground state. This
- 22:56Speaker 2: is always solid Republican. And I think there's a number
- 23:01Speaker 2: of factors. The choice of Darlene Graham was bad. And
- 23:06Speaker 2: if If this goes badly for the Republicans, it's on Trump,
- 23:10Speaker 2: just like Texas is on Trump if that goes badly
- 23:13Speaker 2: because he's propped up poor candidates. He's messed up North Carolina.
- 23:18Speaker 2: Roy Cooper, Democrat, is going to win there too. It's
- 23:21Speaker 2: his choice. So Darlene Graham is not a very dynamic person.
- 23:25Speaker 2: She's inexperienced, and her only qualification is she's going to
- 23:30Speaker 2: be a bobblehead and will do whatever Trump wants. So
- 23:34Speaker 2: that makes the Democrat– maybe more attractive.
- 23:38Speaker 7: Let's talk about the Democrat, because not a lot has
- 23:41Speaker 7: been reported on Annie Andrews. All it says, as I read,
- 23:46Speaker 7: is that she was a pediatrician. You just talked about
- 23:48Speaker 7: the experience of one. Does she have experience?
- 23:52Speaker 8: Political?
- 23:52Speaker 2: No, not at all. But here's the thing. We voted early,
- 23:57Speaker 2: and the line was extraordinarily long. And I said to
- 24:01Speaker 2: my wife, I said, You know, you've got to think
- 24:03Speaker 2: that people who are lining up and waiting this long
- 24:06Speaker 2: are not turning up because they like things the way
- 24:09Speaker 2: they are. I think there is a lot of motivation
- 24:13Speaker 2: for a change. And this is a pretty dramatic change,
- 24:17Speaker 2: if you ask me, for South Carolinians to start voting
- 24:21Speaker 2: for Democrats. So it's got to be bad.
- 24:25Speaker 5: Yeah, there's two chains of thought on that. And you're right.
- 24:28Speaker 7: In most midterm elections, it's anger with whoever's in office.
- 24:33Speaker 7: That's why it switches so much. That's why the Democrats
- 24:37Speaker 7: lose when Republicans are a president and the Republicans win
- 24:40Speaker 7: when Democrats are a president.
- 24:42Speaker 5: But there's two chains.
- 24:43Speaker 7: Of thought now on what is happening with the high
- 24:46Speaker 7: turnout across the country. One is that the Trump supporters
- 24:51Speaker 7: are getting out because he's galvanizing them. But normally it
- 24:56Speaker 7: is people that are voting on hatred. The midterm elections,
- 25:00Speaker 7: as you know, Joe, because you've covered so many of these,
- 25:03Speaker 7: is all about emotion.
- 25:04Speaker 2: Sure. Here's the other thing, too. You know, I know
- 25:08Speaker 2: Trump is trying to rile up his base. I watched
- 25:11Speaker 2: his last rally here in South Carolina, and I must
- 25:15Speaker 2: say there was no spark. You know, he rambled a lot.
- 25:20Speaker 2: it could tell. He had a teleprompter speech, but then
- 25:24Speaker 2: he would say something from that. Then he'd veer off
- 25:26Speaker 2: into these, I don't know, weird places that he would go,
- 25:30Speaker 2: and he rambled a lot. It's interesting, too. He was
- 25:35Speaker 2: in South Carolina. He was talking more about races around
- 25:37Speaker 2: the country. And, you know, it's the same old barbs,
- 25:39Speaker 2: same old jokes, no enthusiasm, and smaller crowds. But I
- 25:43Speaker 2: think the real problem, not only here in South Carolina,
- 25:47Speaker 2: but I think around the country for the Republicans and
- 25:50Speaker 2: Trump is his dismissal of this affordability issue. Now, I
- 25:55Speaker 2: keep saying it's fake news, but when he goes to
- 25:58Speaker 2: these rallies or when he has his news conferences, he says,
- 26:02Speaker 2: this is the best economy ever. Don't pay attention to
- 26:05Speaker 2: the fake news. And then he says, I like inflation.
- 26:09Speaker 2: Don't worry about high gas prices because we're making billions
- 26:13Speaker 2: of dollars. Well, that's his oil company buddies that are
- 26:16Speaker 2: making billions of dollars. Most Americans are paying $ 4 plus
- 26:20Speaker 2: for gasoline.
- 26:21Speaker 7: I think you're wildly misquoting him. You're wildly misquoting what
- 26:27Speaker 7: he said.
- 26:27Speaker 5: He said those things, Larry. No, he didn't.
- 26:30Speaker 4: He did.
- 26:31Speaker 7: So give me the quote again about the gas prices.
- 26:37Speaker 2: He doesn't worry. Actually, he said, I think the quote is,
- 26:40Speaker 2: I don't give a damn about high gas prices because...
- 26:43Speaker 2: They don't want me to say this, but we're making
- 26:45Speaker 2: billions of dollars.
- 26:46Speaker 5: Because we're making billions of dollars. He said that.
- 26:49Speaker 1: Yes.
- 26:49Speaker 5: Okay. Here's another thing he said, Larry.
- 26:52Speaker 2: He just put this out the other day.
- 26:55Speaker 5: He said, the.
- 26:56Speaker 2: Golden age of America is upon us. He said that Sunday.
- 27:00Speaker 2: The golden age of America is upon us. People don't
- 27:05Speaker 2: believe that.
- 27:07Speaker 1: Now, Joe, when I was running for mayor– and it'll
- 27:10Speaker 1: be a year now– I used to go on Fox
- 27:13Speaker 1: News Channel and appeal to people south of the Mason-Dixon line.
- 27:18Speaker 1: And I would say, look, help elect me mayor. I'll
- 27:21Speaker 1: keep everybody from fleeing New York so they don't come
- 27:25Speaker 1: down and turn your state purple.
- 27:28Speaker 5: You like that line, right? Good, good. Well, that's true.
- 27:31Speaker 1: So explain it, because South Carolina is a place that
- 27:34Speaker 1: a lot of people from Connecticut, New York, New Jersey,
- 27:37Speaker 1: parts of Pennsylvania are going, as is Georgia, as is
- 27:40Speaker 1: North Carolina. I get a sense that they're bringing with
- 27:44Speaker 1: them a lot of times their political values from up north.
- 27:49Speaker 2: Yeah, there are a lot of liberals that have moved
- 27:52Speaker 2: down here to South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina especially, I think. Um,
- 27:57Speaker 2: I think, but there's a lot, there's also a lot
- 27:59Speaker 2: of conservatives and I think there were a lot of
- 28:00Speaker 2: Trump supporters here, but you know, they feel like they've
- 28:04Speaker 2: been misled. And I, I sense this in my conversation
- 28:07Speaker 2: because living down here, you have to be careful if
- 28:10Speaker 2: you bring up politics because there's so many, you know,
- 28:12Speaker 2: always Trumpers and then every once in a while you
- 28:15Speaker 2: get a never Trump. So you gotta be careful when
- 28:17Speaker 2: you start talking politics here. But I got a sense from, uh,
- 28:22Speaker 2: talking to a lot of people that, that, Even though
- 28:25Speaker 2: there was this enthusiasm from Trump, his first term, let's
- 28:28Speaker 2: still for a second. But you know what? He got elected.
- 28:31Speaker 2: It's waned. He's disappointed a lot of people.
- 28:36Speaker 5: Well, we're going to see what's going to happen.
- 28:37Speaker 2: What do you think about that one, Larry? I want
- 28:39Speaker 2: to hear about your response to that.
- 28:41Speaker 7: No, let me give you one response real quickly. I
- 28:43Speaker 7: looked up the quote you were talking about. He did say,
- 28:46Speaker 7: I don't give a damn about gas prices because the country...
- 28:50Speaker 7: You said he. The country is making a frickin' fortune.
- 28:54Speaker 7: That's the exact quote. So that little change in making
- 28:57Speaker 7: it him that's making the money is a big, huge difference.
- 29:02Speaker 7: And as a news guy, you know that.
- 29:05Speaker 2: I said his buddies in the oil business are making billions.
- 29:08Speaker 2: He's making billions.
- 29:09Speaker 5: When I asked you to re-quote it, you said he.
- 29:11Speaker 7: That's what I... I didn't get it the first time,
- 29:14Speaker 7: but you said he.
- 29:15Speaker 5: I'll believe you.
- 29:16Speaker 7: I'll believe that you said it that way, but the...
- 29:19Speaker 7: The second time when I asked you for the re-quote,
- 29:21Speaker 7: you said he. Listen, I know you went down there
- 29:25Speaker 7: and you're one of the few people that went down
- 29:26Speaker 7: to South Carolina and became a Trump hater. But listen,
- 29:31Speaker 7: when you talk about the economy, you're right. Inflation is
- 29:34Speaker 7: a little bit too high. Not as high as it
- 29:35Speaker 7: was under Biden, but a little bit too high. But
- 29:38Speaker 7: every other economic. standard, including the GPA, is way up.
- 29:46Speaker 7: The gross national product is way up. So I don't
- 29:50Speaker 7: understand why you would say that the economy is horrible
- 29:55Speaker 7: just because of gas prices, because you know there are
- 29:58Speaker 7: other factors like unemployment and jobs and all that.
- 30:01Speaker 5: That's all up.
- 30:02Speaker 7: And unemployment's down. Jobs are up. The GDP is up,
- 30:06Speaker 7: way up. So you're just talking about gas prices, right,
- 30:10Speaker 7: when you say that the economy is awful?
- 30:12Speaker 2: No, I'm talking about everything. I'm talking about gas prices. Really?
- 30:14Speaker 2: That's not true then? I'm talking about The cost of groceries.
- 30:17Speaker 2: Grocery prices are higher. The only price he ever reduced
- 30:20Speaker 2: was eggs. Eggs have come down. And medicine. The cost
- 30:27Speaker 2: of healthcare. You know what? All those numbers, they don't
- 30:31Speaker 2: mean anything to a person who's trying to balance their
- 30:35Speaker 2: own budget.
- 30:35Speaker 5: But they're making more money. than ever before.
- 30:38Speaker 2: Who's making more money?
- 30:38Speaker 5: They are. The more people are employed. No, the salaries
- 30:42Speaker 5: are up across the country.
- 30:43Speaker 2: His Mar-a-Lago crowd is doing just fine. Listen to you.
- 30:46Speaker 7: See, you just got to press some facts against you
- 30:49Speaker 7: and it's going to come out. Your bias is going
- 30:51Speaker 7: to come out. It's not just his buddies that are
- 30:53Speaker 7: doing it. It's not just his buddies. Salaries are up $ 6, 000.
- 30:56Speaker 7: Why don't people feel it? Because they're being told by
- 31:01Speaker 7: people like you that all you should care about are
- 31:03Speaker 7: gas prices.
- 31:06Speaker 5: Look at.
- 31:08Speaker 2: The fake news is not this narrative. It's in the
- 31:13Speaker 2: gut of people, Larry.
- 31:15Speaker 1: You're ignoring everything else. Time out, Joe. We've got to
- 31:19Speaker 1: move on, as you know, under the clock. Maybe we'll
- 31:22Speaker 1: reach out to you after the results of the midterm.
- 31:25Speaker 1: And then you can tell us what everyone playing bocce
- 31:27Speaker 1: is thinking also.
- 31:30Speaker 2: I think there's a real good chance that South Carolina
- 31:33Speaker 2: could go Democrat. Texas, I guarantee, is going to be
- 31:37Speaker 2: a Democrat.
- 31:37Speaker 5: You're making Natalie nuts right now. I'm shutting you down, Joe.
- 31:41Speaker 1: You know, Larry, in the last 10 days is when
- 31:45Speaker 1: both parties focus on independence. Because most states, they don't
- 31:49Speaker 1: have nonpartisan primaries. The only ones who can vote in
- 31:51Speaker 1: a primary have to be registered Democrat, registered Republican. But oh,
- 31:55Speaker 1: in the last 10 days, the lit drops, the phone calls,
- 31:59Speaker 1: the texts, because they are listed in the Board of
- 32:02Speaker 1: Elections as blanks. They don't have a party affiliation. But
- 32:06Speaker 1: they become very valued in the last 10 days. And
- 32:09Speaker 1: especially starting yesterday. Boy, if you happen to be an
- 32:12Speaker 1: independent out there, you're going to get that mail drop today.
- 32:15Speaker 1: You're going to get that email. You're going to get
- 32:16Speaker 1: that text because they're able to get the list from
- 32:19Speaker 1: the Board of Elections. And with these elections being so close,
- 32:23Speaker 1: according to the polls in so many places, it may
- 32:26Speaker 1: be the defining difference when all is said and done.
- 32:29Speaker 1: And a lot of these elections, Larry, we'll have a
- 32:32Speaker 1: chance to discuss tomorrow. You're going to have to wait
- 32:34Speaker 1: because the absentee ballots are pretty much the way they
- 32:37Speaker 1: used to be in Pennsylvania.
- 32:39Speaker 5: You remember Pennsylvania. Seven, 10 days. California, 30 days. Alaska,
- 32:43Speaker 5: 10 days.
- 32:45Speaker 1: So what you think is the results may not be
- 32:48Speaker 1: the results as you wait for.
- 32:50Speaker 7: The tally to take place. That's in a tight race,
- 32:52Speaker 7: and they have to get rid of that. It's amazing
- 32:55Speaker 7: that countries around the world know who the winner is
- 32:58Speaker 7: on election night, and they know just a few hours later.
- 33:02Speaker 7: There's just too much mischief that can go on the
- 33:05Speaker 7: longer the vote tally goes on. And I will say
- 33:09Speaker 7: that you're exactly you're right about the independents playing a
- 33:12Speaker 7: part in the midterm elections. A lot of it is
- 33:16Speaker 7: about emotion. A lot of it is about emotion and
- 33:19Speaker 7: getting the base out. And so that's why Donald Trump's
- 33:22Speaker 7: been touring the country to try to get the Republican
- 33:24Speaker 7: base out, because he knows he knows the Democratic base
- 33:28Speaker 7: is already energized. So he's got to get his voters
- 33:33Speaker 7: energized as well to counteract that. And especially in states
- 33:38Speaker 7: like South Carolina and especially in states that are normally Republican,
- 33:42Speaker 7: like Ohio, in those states is where he can have
- 33:45Speaker 7: the most factor. So, you know, right now it's all
- 33:48Speaker 7: been a lot of talk, Curtis. We all have our
- 33:52Speaker 7: images and our guesses on what's going to happen. But
- 33:56Speaker 7: most of the time, many of us are wrong. Something
- 33:59Speaker 7: happens that we're not expecting. So it's all going to
- 34:02Speaker 7: play out tomorrow night. By the way, I'll be here
- 34:05Speaker 7: for the election coverage tomorrow night. If you get a chance,
- 34:08Speaker 7: tune in. We'll be following it from 7 to 11 o'clock.
- 34:14Speaker 5: And the Talk Back of.
- 34:15Speaker 7: The Morning and winner of the Curtis Sliwa and Larry
- 34:19Speaker 7: Mendte in the morning t-shirt and now in the running
- 34:22Speaker 7: for Talk Back of the Week who will win a
- 34:25Speaker 7: C-Crane radio had advice for us after an argument during
- 34:30Speaker 7: the show.
- 34:31Speaker 8: Please have these honey buns cooked Share a honey bun
- 34:34Speaker 8: together and not get into this childish banter.
- 34:39Speaker 5: I don't like you both. Oh, that was nice.
- 34:42Speaker 1: Larry, you haven't bought me a honey bun that consummated
- 34:44Speaker 1: our relationship in a long time.
- 34:47Speaker 5: Well, first of all, it didn't consummate the relationship. Secondly,
- 34:50Speaker 5: that was a one-off.
- 34:51Speaker 7: That was at present when you were first joining the show.
- 34:56Speaker 7: It was like a welcome home present. That's all that was.
- 35:00Speaker 7: There's no more of that. Did you miss Warner Wolf
- 35:04Speaker 7: or have a friend who is a Joe Bartlett fan?
- 35:07Speaker 7: Head to 710WOR.
- 35:08Speaker 8: Com.
- 35:09Speaker 5: You click on the podcast tab and listen and share.
- 35:13Speaker 1: Oh, that'll be great to re-listen to that. I'm going
- 35:16Speaker 1: to do it a few times. You were both magnificent, Larry,
- 35:19Speaker 1: and of course, Joe Bartlett, playing bocce right now with
- 35:21Speaker 1: his pals. We'll jump over to 710WOR on Instagram and
- 35:26Speaker 1: Facebook to catch up on our TCS New York Marathon
- 35:31Speaker 1: coverage that was magnificent and the story about the Upper
- 35:34Speaker 1: West Side Owl family that I'm in contact with. Not directly,
- 35:39Speaker 1: but viewing them with all the birdies. Tomorrow, tickets to
- 35:42Speaker 1: see a great double bill, Def Leppard and the Goo
- 35:45Speaker 1: Goo Dolls at 825. Coming up on Mark Simone at 9,
- 35:50Speaker 1: New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin and author Mark Malkoff.
- 35:56Speaker 5: Oh, man, what a show we're going to have tomorrow.
- 35:59Speaker 2: I know.
- 36:00Speaker 5: Election day. No matter what, almost any race we talk about,
- 36:06Speaker 5: so close. Incredibly close.
- 36:09Speaker 7: It comes down to about seven states across the country
- 36:12Speaker 7: and 18 House seats. Although it could be more, depending
- 36:15Speaker 7: on the turnout.
- 36:16Speaker 1: We're going to try to cover it all tomorrow. Meantime,
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