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Hour 3: President Trump will be meeting with Mamdani today · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: So late yesterday, Larry and Natalie, the news came that
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  Speaker 1: the president of the United States, Donald Trump, would come
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  Speaker 1: in a day early for his speech, which will be
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday before the United Nations, in which apparently he's going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about stopping the nuclear weapons effort of Iran,
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  Speaker 1: or at least that's what's been hinted at. But nobody
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  Speaker 1: had any idea that he would be coming to Gracie Mansion.
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  Speaker 1: this afternoon to meet with Mayor Zoran Mandami. This will
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  Speaker 1: be their third meeting. Now think about it. There's nothing
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  Speaker 1: pressing in New York City that would require the President
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  Speaker 1: of the United States to meet with the mayor. He's
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  Speaker 1: not even going to meet with Bibi, the Prime Minister
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  Speaker 1: of Israel, when he comes in and out on Thursday
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  Speaker 1: to give his speech before the General Assembly. And there's
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  Speaker 1: a long history here. If you go back to when
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  Speaker 1: Zoran Mandami won the election, the president invited him to
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  Speaker 1: the White House, and it was peace, love, and happiness
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  Speaker 1: at first meeting. You may have remembered how the press,
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  Speaker 1: as Zoran Mandami's standing at his side, you've called the
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  Speaker 1: president fascist before.
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  Speaker 2: Do you still think he's a fascist?
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  Speaker 1: And President Donald Trump gently touched his arm, said, you
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  Speaker 1: can call me whatever you want. Don't worry about it, Zoran.
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  Speaker 1: And it was truly a love fest to the point
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  Speaker 1: that it shocked the political establishment. Like, what's going on here?
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  Speaker 1: Many Republicans at that point said, well, this is Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 1: the art of the deal. He's playing chess while everybody
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  Speaker 1: else is playing checkers. But towards the end of that
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  Speaker 1: first meeting, he was asked about what Congresswoman Stefanik had said. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: she was the go-to gal. She was going to be
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  Speaker 1: taking on Hochul for the governorship. She had raised $ 15 million,
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  Speaker 1: and the campaign had already been launched to attack Zoran Mandami,
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  Speaker 1: friend of the terrorists and terrorist sympathizer. When the president
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  Speaker 1: was asked, He said, no, I disagree with the Congresswoman.
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  Speaker 1: That's not what Zorhan is. Oh, that was it for Stefanik.
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  Speaker 1: That was her whole campaign. She said, guess what? I'm
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  Speaker 1: no longer running for governor. I'm not even going to
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  Speaker 1: run for my two-year congressional seat. And she basically has
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  Speaker 1: been out of sight, out of mind. Then came Bruce
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman in.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it was when Bruce Blakeman got in that she
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  Speaker 2: dropped out because she expected— the endorsement from the president
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  Speaker 2: at that point, and he said, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: endorse anybody.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: It was immediately after that she was done.
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  Speaker 1: Right. But the campaign for all Republicans is Zoran Mandami
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  Speaker 1: is the face of the new Democratic DSA, the Islamist communist,
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  Speaker 1: Islamist communist. They keep repeating that. It's almost like you
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  Speaker 1: hear that everywhere. So you say to yourself, then he
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  Speaker 1: had a second meeting at the White House. It was
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  Speaker 1: all about housing. The mayor came with a plan. The
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  Speaker 1: Sunnyside Yards, which is where a lot of the trains
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  Speaker 1: are parked late at night. You can actually see it
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  Speaker 1: when you take the 7 train out to either the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Open or Citi Field. You have New Jersey Transit there.
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  Speaker 1: You have Amtrak there. You have every conceivable train that's
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  Speaker 1: docked there. They wanted to put a deck over that
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  Speaker 1: and build 12,000 housing units. So Zoran went as a
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  Speaker 1: salesman and he paid tribute to Donald Trump, the builder.
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  Speaker 1: and said, we need $ 16 billion to build affordable housing there.
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  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden the president said, yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: a good idea. You know, most of it would come
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  Speaker 1: from the federal government and they traded ideas. And obviously
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  Speaker 1: we see the president fancies himself as a builder and
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  Speaker 1: a developer. He's got a lot of friends in the
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  Speaker 1: business and a lot of the unions are dependent on
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  Speaker 1: that kind of employment. And Zoran wants to fulfill his
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  Speaker 1: promise to have more affordable housing. So At that particular meeting,
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  Speaker 1: people asked, the reporters asked, well, how often do you
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  Speaker 1: guys communicate? And Donald Trump said, I speak to him
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  Speaker 1: a lot. Bad policy, but nice guy. Then Zoran said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we talk by phone all the time. You say to yourself,
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  Speaker 1: you talk to Zoran Mandami all the time and Zoran
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  Speaker 1: talks to you all the time. So you have this
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  Speaker 1: kind of relationship by phone. It's amazing you're shocked by that. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not shocked because, remember, I had predicted this. It's
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  Speaker 1: all about developers, realtors and housing and jobs and the
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  Speaker 1: $ 16 billion that Trump can give Zoran Mandami so that
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  Speaker 1: he can then eventually say, you see, I delivered all
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  Speaker 1: my promise of affordable housing.
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  Speaker 2: But he also talks to everybody. He talks to opponents.
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  Speaker 2: He famously talked to Kim Jong-un. He said he would
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  Speaker 2: go to Iran and talk to the Supreme Leader. He
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  Speaker 2: talks to everyone, and usually he comes out on top
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  Speaker 2: in these.
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  Speaker 1: Yom Kippur, you go to Gracie Mansion, the guy who
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  Speaker 1: has been accused of being an anti-Semite.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. That's number one.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Number two, why are you going to Gracie Mansion? It
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  Speaker 1: seems like... You're honoring the mayor, Zoran Mandami, by going
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  Speaker 1: to Gracie Mansion.
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  Speaker 2: He's not honoring him by going to Gracie Mansion. He
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  Speaker 2: has business to speak of. So if he meets with
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  Speaker 2: any governor that he is a Democrat or he meets
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  Speaker 2: with any world leader, is he honoring them?
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  Speaker 1: He's going to Gracie Mansion. Do you understand that? They
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  Speaker 1: just had a protest outside of Gracie Mansion on Friday
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  Speaker 1: where they were accusing Zoran Mamdani of being an anti-Semite
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  Speaker 1: and fueling hate towards Jews in New York City.
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  Speaker 2: So also Zoran Mamdani shouldn't be meeting with Trump, right?
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  Speaker 2: Because Zoran Mamdani blasts Trump all the time. And Zoran
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  Speaker 2: Mamdani acts as if he is the enemy of the country.
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  Speaker 2: So Zoran Mamdani shouldn't be having this meeting. Why is
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  Speaker 2: he having the meeting?
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  Speaker 1: Because he comes out on top.
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  Speaker 2: No, he didn't last time. Last time he tried to
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  Speaker 2: get money for Sunnyvale, he ended up getting Penn Station,
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  Speaker 2: which might be named Trump Station.
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  Speaker 3: Larry.
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  Speaker 2: No, don't say Larry, Larry Mears.
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  Speaker 1: Is this my strong point?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: I know the inside game here.
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  Speaker 2: Your strong point is loving Mom Donnie and not liking
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump. Here we go again. That's what the truth is.
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  Speaker 2: Every single one of these.
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  Speaker 4: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to stop talking because you're the expert on
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  Speaker 1: Mom Donnie. You're the expert on what's going on. Curtis
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  Speaker 1: Lewa spent a year running against Mondami, Cuomo, and Adams.
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  Speaker 1: I know the inside game, but you're going to tell
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  Speaker 1: me it's because I love Mondami.
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  Speaker 2: I don't doubt that. It's just that why don't you
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  Speaker 2: ever bless this guy who is the mayor? And why
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  Speaker 2: do you find every opportunity to go after Donald Trump?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there are certain things today like we're not
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  Speaker 2: covering because they're pro-Trump. And there are certain things we
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  Speaker 2: are covering because they're anti-Trump. Exactly. We have to just
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  Speaker 2: be fair in this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, fair. Larry, if you're Bruce Blakeman, are you happy today?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think Bruce Blakeman cares.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, millions of dollars in mailings and all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: advertisements attaching Zorhan Mandami to Hochul and saying he is
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  Speaker 1: an Islamist and a communist, and yet the mayor... is
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  Speaker 1: hosting a meeting with the most powerful man in the world,
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump, about something. We'll find out by tomorrow. We'll
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  Speaker 1: discuss it. But there's no emergency going on in New
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  Speaker 1: York City. He's not even going to meet with Bibi Netanyahu,
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  Speaker 1: who he should be meeting with, who's going to be
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  Speaker 1: in here on Thursday. So what's the point?
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  Speaker 2: So let's find out tomorrow. Let's find out. You just
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  Speaker 2: said something extremely important. We don't know what they're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: We will find out tomorrow. So everything you're talking about now,
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  Speaker 2: we don't even know. We don't know the reasons.
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  Speaker 1: You know no trip by the president is decided overnight.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't decided to go to see Zora Mamdani. It
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  Speaker 2: was decided to come to New York. I mean, Zora
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  Speaker 2: Mamdani was part of the trip now, but he has
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  Speaker 2: to go to the UN. He has to speak to
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  Speaker 2: the UN. So he made him that part of his trip.
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  Speaker 2: That's fine. I mean, look, he's the mayor of New York.
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  Speaker 2: He is one of the most important people right now
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  Speaker 2: in the Democratic Party, unfortunately. And he is a leader
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  Speaker 2: in that party. So why would you not meet with him?
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  Speaker 2: He'd meet with Schumer any time he wanted to meet
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  Speaker 2: with Schumer. Would you blast that?
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: Schumer's not Zoran Mandami.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, a lot of people would argue right now Zoran
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  Speaker 2: Mandami is more powerful.
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  Speaker 1: Than Chuck Schumer. Millions and millions of Republican dollars are
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  Speaker 1: being spent to paint the face of Zoran Mandami as
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  Speaker 1: the Islamist communist leader of the Democratic Party. And you
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  Speaker 1: feel it is important for you, with so few days
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  Speaker 1: left to the midterms, To go and meet with him,
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  Speaker 1: break bread, say nice things back and forth, to visit
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  Speaker 1: him at his house?
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  Speaker 2: But isn't it horrible that Zorin Mamdani would invite him?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's okay. Oh, that's a big feather in his cap.
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  Speaker 2: He blasts him all the time. He says he's an
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  Speaker 2: existential threat. I mean, he has blasted this man, and
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden he says, well, no, come to
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  Speaker 2: my house. Come on into my house. That's okay, though.
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  Speaker 2: But Trump going is bad.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to make sure of what you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: Because to his constituency— And especially to a lot of
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  Speaker 1: Jews who are going to say, on the Day of Atonement,
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  Speaker 1: when we have to be in our house and we
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  Speaker 1: have to fast and we can't be on the phone.
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  Speaker 2: He's not Jewish. He's not Jewish. Why are we working today?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, any Jew who's working today may have to
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  Speaker 1: explain that to Hashem. But anyway, Larry, please, as I
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  Speaker 1: deferred to you earlier into the show on the things
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  Speaker 1: that you're an expert on, I would think I am
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  Speaker 1: an expert on what's going on here.
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  Speaker 2: But you have a bias.
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  Speaker 1: And you don't?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, I do, but I admit to it. Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: You try to hide yours.
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  Speaker 1: Who would know more about what's going on in the city,
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  Speaker 1: in the city politics, than Curtis Sleeve, who's run two
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  Speaker 1: mayoral campaigns?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I mean, I guess no other reporter knows as
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  Speaker 2: much as you do. But also, as long as you
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  Speaker 2: come forward with your bias, which you've denied, as long
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  Speaker 2: as you say, no, I'm going to be biased in
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  Speaker 2: this story, but here's what's happening, that's fine. I'll admit
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  Speaker 2: to my bias. So I love Zoran Mondami. This is
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  Speaker 2: what you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: You won't criticize him. I've criticized him many times.
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  Speaker 3: When?
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  Speaker 2: All right, Larry, let's break.
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  Speaker 1: Let's break because I don't even want to talk Zoran
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  Speaker 1: Mondami with you any longer because you're the expert. You
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  Speaker 1: know all about Curtis Lee's love for Zoran Mondami. This
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  Speaker 1: is amazing to me. I lived my whole life in
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  Speaker 1: New York City. I'm an expert on New York City politics.
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  Speaker 2: You can keep railing, but I didn't say it.
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  Speaker 1: I get interviewed by journalists all over the world. But
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  Speaker 1: Larry is going to say I'm a lover of Zoran Mondami.
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  Speaker 2: This is an insult to me. Did I say lover?
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  Speaker 2: I just say you don't criticize him.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and you couldn't come up with one.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't you look at my feed on my social networking, Larry?
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  Speaker 2: I just asked you, and you said, all right, and
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  Speaker 2: then you moved on. So we'll get the list later.
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  Speaker 1: From now on, we won't talk Zorah Mondami because I'm
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  Speaker 1: biased towards Zorah Mondami.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, it's a talk radio show.
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  Speaker 1: What an insult.
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  Speaker 2: You're allowed to be biased, but please, one segment will
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  Speaker 2: get all the things you say wrong about Zorah Mondami.
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  Speaker 2: Love to hear it. When we come back, Bruce Blakeman
• 11:49
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: There was an interview with Errol Lewis in New York
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  Speaker 1: One with Bruce Blakeman, who's doing very well in the
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  Speaker 1: polls now. He's made up a lot of ground on
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  Speaker 1: the governor. Kathy Hochul, and was more of a personal
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  Speaker 1: and up-close kind of an interview about something that everybody
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  Speaker 1: knew about, but really didn't talk about that often. The
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  Speaker 1: most unlikely situation is that Bruce Blakeman has something in
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  Speaker 1: common with Paul McCartney. And people say, well, wait a second,
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman, he's MAGA, he supports Trump. Paul McCartney has
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  Speaker 1: never been friendly to Trump. it just so happens that
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman's first wife, he was married with for like
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  Speaker 1: 23 years, had children. Uh, she was appointed to the
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  Speaker 1: MTA board. Uh, she was the daughter of a trucker
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  Speaker 1: who had made a lot of money and had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of political influence. It turned out that the woman
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  Speaker 1: never showed up at any of the board meetings. And then, uh,
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  Speaker 1: she just left, uh, lived out in the Hamptons. Apparently
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  Speaker 1: that's where she met Paul McCartney after she had divorced. Um,
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman. It was a divorce that they both agreed upon.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce went on to marry a woman who is now
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  Speaker 1: a judge in Nassau County. They're all happy, but Bruce
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  Speaker 1: actually was commenting on this. He said, who would ever
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  Speaker 1: have thought that my first wife would end up marrying
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: Paul McCartney? That was amazing because I think most people.
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  Speaker 2: Were not aware of that at all. I think that, love,
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: put yourself in this position. Love, You might be in
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  Speaker 2: this position. Who am I talking to? You put yourself
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  Speaker 2: in this position and you think to yourself, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to hate the guy that marries your ex-wife.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: And then you find out it's Paul McCartney. And then
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  Speaker 2: it changes completely.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 2: Well, man, there's so many things. There's so many things
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  Speaker 2: with your own ego. And then also just the fact
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: that you're going to be that close to a celebrity,
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  Speaker 2: even though there's still a distance. Every once in a while,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to be able to meet them. Then it
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  Speaker 2: becomes a huge plus.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but the fact that they broke up and they
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  Speaker 1: had nothing but nice things to say about one another,
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  Speaker 1: which is not always the case. Nice things in terms
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  Speaker 1: of continuing the care for the children and their marriage.
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  Speaker 1: And then, you know, Bruce, he's traveled everywhere. People are
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: going to come up to him. Hey, what do you
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  Speaker 1: think about the fact that Paul McCartney married your ex-wife?
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  Speaker 1: So he's handled it very well. But the fact that
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  Speaker 1: he comes out in that up close and personal part
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  Speaker 1: of a campaign that oftentimes is out of sight, out
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  Speaker 1: of mind, because it's always soundbites, soundbites, soundbites. adds a
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  Speaker 1: layer to where you say, hey, wow, Bruce is like,
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  Speaker 1: he's a regular kind of guy. He can deal with
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  Speaker 1: that without being all negative and adversarial and huffing and
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  Speaker 1: puffing and even talking politics. As he said, whenever we're
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  Speaker 1: together at a family event, we never talk politics.
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  Speaker 2: But the only caveat to all that is it's Paul McCartney.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of the most famous people in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get some talkbacks.
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  Speaker 3: Boys, all this going back and forth regarding Trump and
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  Speaker 3: the mayor, I think you should stop and consummate this
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  Speaker 3: relationship one more time before the next segment.
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  Speaker 2: You can't consummate twice.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, you can.
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  Speaker 2: No, you can.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you can. Of course you can.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 1: How many people? Look, hasn't Zoran Mondami had how many weddings?
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  Speaker 1: He had the wedding in Dubai. Not with the same person.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you can have more than one wedding ceremony.
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  Speaker 1: Remember, he married in Dubai, and then he went back
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  Speaker 1: to Uganda after he won becoming mayor. He had that
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  Speaker 1: interim period. So they consummated their marriage twice. So we
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  Speaker 1: could do it. We could actually do it, Larry.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't count as consummating the second time. But you
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  Speaker 2: can make up. You can kiss and make up. No, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: Does it sound like you're upset?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not French.
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  Speaker 2: It's quite all right.
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: Larry, I want you to understand President Trump does not
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: want liars spewing out more lies in the media. Because
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: these outlets, they.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Don't have a conservative voice like you to talk about
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: the other side of the issue. So please defend President
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Trump on this issue. He's right.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, so you're talking about banning the reporters. No, I'm sorry.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: I go off the reservation a couple of times. Not
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: for the major things. That's why I support him. Because
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: when it counts, when it comes to policy, I support him.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: When it comes to these stupid little sideshow fights, I
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: just roll my eyes. I'm still going to vote for him.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: I'm still going to talk positive about him. I'm still
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: going to support him. But no, that kind of stuff,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: that does bother me. Now let's get to Daria Albinger
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: with the 8.30 news, Daria.
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: Morning, Larry.
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: It is partly sunny. It is going to be breezy today.
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: We'll see a high of 69 degrees. And it might
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: be a good day to work from home if you
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: can because there's gridlock alert with the U.N. General Assembly
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: getting underway. But these New Yorkers are taking it in stride.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: It's going to be chaotic and mayhem, but we'll just
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: muster through it.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: You have to plan a lot. As long as everything
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: can stay peaceful, you know, it's okay.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: Then again, they probably won't have to commute into the city.
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: If you do... you should think about taking mass transit.
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: President Trump will be among the many world leaders at
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: the U.N. He'll address Abadi tomorrow. Later today, though, he'll
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: meet with Mayor Mamdani at Gracie Mansion. Three news outlets
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: that are now banned by the White House are suing
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: the Trump administration.
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: Reporters for CNN, MSNOW, and Politico were denied access to
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: the White House after President Trump accused the organizations of
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: negative coverage.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: It's really just cumulative stories. Over the last few years,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: you get sick of it.
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: The three news organizations notified the White House Monday morning
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: they will be suing to protect their First Amendment rights and, quote,
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: defend the principle that the government does not decide what
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: the press reports or publishes. I'm Rory O'Neill.
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: More Democrats say they plan to vote in person in
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: the November midterms.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: An NBC News poll of registered Democratic voters found 23%
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: planned to vote by mail compared to 34% at this
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: time in 2024. Some 26% plan to vote in person
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: at an early voting site.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: That's up 6%.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: All in all, the 36% say they plan to vote
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: in person on Election Day. This comes as the Supreme
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Court has blocked President Trump's latest efforts to restrict mail-in voting.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: I'm Tammy Trujillo.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: An investigation is underway into a fire over the weekend
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: on the historic drag roller coaster at Rye Playland. Officials
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: say it only caused minor damage to the ride, fortunately,
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: and the ride was closed at the time. The Jets,
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: the Mets, and the Yankees all lost. The Giants take
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: on the L.A. Rams in Monday Night Football. Next news,
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: 9 o'clock bulletins at once. I'm Daria Alvinger on 710WOR.
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• 22:07
  Speaker 1: So the San Gennaro feast is underway. Ten days, really.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, it started last Thursday, but that's just the warm-up.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: And then it's ten solid days from about noon each
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: day to 12 midnight. And it is packed right along
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Mulberry Street. I go there every year with the Guardian Angels.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: And Friday night, Saturday night, I spent four hours each
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: night just working the crowd. Larry Natalie, great focus group
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: for WOR because I had on me the WOR talk
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: radio cards with all of our information about our morning show.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: And I was like a Pez machine giving them out.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: People come from everywhere to the feasts. Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: upstate New York, Nassau, Suffolk, and obviously the five boroughs.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: So it's a good focus group. And time and time again,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: because I could easily be spotted in the crowd with
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the red beret and the red sateen jacket, people would say,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: you know, I've come over to listen to you and Larry.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: I can't listen to WABC any longer than Sid in
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the morning because it's always Israel first, Israel first, Israel first.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: And I heard it from so many different people. no
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: disrespect to Israel, but it's sort of like there's so
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: much in the news. And they applauded us because we
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: talk about so many different issues and they were pointing
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: it out. So, you know, they're listeners because they could
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: be faking you out. Like so many said to me,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: I voted for you. I voted for you. I voted
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: for you. I said, if you all voted for me,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I'd be in Gracie Mansion right now. But they weren't
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: faking us out on listening to us because they were
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: citing a lot of the issues that we talk about
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: that they don't talk about On other talk radio programs.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: The other thing is that the feast is deteriorating. There's
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: no doubt about it. It's not the way it used
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: to be. The bad part of it is the Genovese
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: crime family ran it. And then it had a lot
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: of Italian culture. Rudy became mayor. He eliminated the Genovese
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: crime family. And it was a cultural event. There's less
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: and less of the culture. There's more and more of
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: the vendors along the way. And not just selling products
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: that promote the Italian-American tradition. You know, vendors who would
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: be selling tchotchkes to tourists in Times Square.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: All of that.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: As long as you could afford to have a stand,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: you can be there. But I got to tell you.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: People are out of their minds, Larry. I mean, we're
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: talking humongous crowds. It's like a crawl. People bringing baby
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: carriages with babies in it. And then not understanding as
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: the crowd says, lady, why would you be bringing a
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: baby carriage in here with a baby? The poor baby
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: could be crushed. Other people in wheelchairs, you know, it's
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: sort of like they can barely function. Weed in the air.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: My red sateen jacket smelled like I had been smoking
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Maui Waui and Hindu Kush. I bet you a lot
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: of other people felt that. And something you would have
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: never seen. In the middle of each block with the crowds,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: guys had these coolers. They were selling nutcrackers, which is
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: a mix of hard liquors. You know, it's like a
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: juice bottle, plastic bottle. They put them in. I mean,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: knock your socks off. openly cops not doing anything vendors
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: the people who run the fair not doing anything and
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: you say.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: We gotta get more italian culture in here these nutcrackers
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: do they mix this themselves so it's already been opened
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: and they could do anything they wanted to that bottle
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: and the contents within man i would never buy one
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: of them off the street.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Oh they're hawking them right there nutcrackers nutcrackers and you're
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: saying like okay well the people who run the feast
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: They should run them off. But apparently that's not. And
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: the garbage. Oh, my God, Larry, Natalie, garbage piling up everywhere.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Now they're making enough money. They could have sanitation crews
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: who are constantly changing the baskets, you know, putting the
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: bags out and removing the debris. But, man, the piles
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: and piles of debris. So they got a lot of
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: work to do. And then, plus, naturally, Zora Mondami's ethnic
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: map eliminated Little Italy as a key center of Italian-American culture.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: And coming on the heels of the chairman of the
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: annual Columbus Day Parade, the big one, because there are
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: a lot of smaller parades throughout the tri-state area. announced
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: on Sunday that he has invited the mayor, Zoran Mandami,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: who hates Christopher Columbus, gave him the finger, the statue,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: the head of the story, to walk with him and
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the parade committee that starts out the parade. The mayor
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: has not responded yet, but the Italians were going absolutely
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: out of their mind.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, what words can I use? Sfacim.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Steve Hulse, other words that I cannot mention here on
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the air. I mean, curses were flying out. And the
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: only thing different is that the geriatric espresso sipping killers
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: of organized crime, who used to be very prevalent, were
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: now using walkers, wheelchairs, and oxygen tanks. They could barely move.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: But boy, they were cursing up a storm.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: That's fascinating. You said the one guy invited the mayor,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: but there was also a committee. They had no say
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: in this? Oh, yeah. They all said okay?
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they do this generally for whoever the mayor is.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Now it's up to Zoran to either accept or he's.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Not going to go.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: The one guy who would always go and get attacked viciously,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: even though he spoke Italian well, was comrade Bill de Blasio.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: He would march in the parade. He'd be oblivious. Booze
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: from both sides. You're a fugazi, Italian. He would be
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: oblivious to it. Let's see what Zoran does. That may
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: be brilliant.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: This might be a great strategy to offer him the
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: invitation just so he can say no, which will infuriate
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: a lot of people.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: We may know by tomorrow. I'm sure after Zoran meets
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: with the president today, some of the reporters will ask
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: him about that.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: See, that's thinking next level. When you invite somebody knowing
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: they're going to say no. When we come back, we'll
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: talk about that meeting that Curtis just mentioned. We'll also
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: talk about Trump speaking to the General Assembly, what he's
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: expected to say, and Benjamin Netanyahu coming to town. And
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  Speaker 2: I went to see Ed Sheeran on Saturday night, and
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: I wanted to see it for two reasons. First, I
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: like Ed Sheeran, and I respect him. I felt bad
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: for Ed Sheeran because... He has never talked about politics
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: his entire life, and he was thrown in the middle
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: of this. And third, I'm a reporter. You know, I've
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: been a lifelong reporter. That's a news event, and I
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: wanted to be there. But I'm shocked. I really am.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: I didn't see this coming. I've gotten four emails now
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: during this show asking, after he gave his position on Israel,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: which he didn't give a position on Israel, after he
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: gave his position on Israel, why didn't I walk out
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: of the concert?
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: You're kidding.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: No, why didn't I walk out? I don't know what
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: he said that was that offensive, to tell you the truth.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: But secondly, if you are so into one position that
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: you can't see the side of the other position, you've
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: got a problem. You really have a problem. You have
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: to weigh things by the weight of, first of all,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: the person saying it. And secondly, what is fair? What
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: is fairer? I mean, do both sides have a position?
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: In this case, they probably do. And so I didn't
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: think he said anything that offensive. But more than that,
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: I understand that he had to do that. That was
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: more a legal document than anything else. And he said
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: it before the concert started. to make sure he could
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: separate that from the concert. It was something he had
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: to do, first of all, for his career, and second, legally.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: And he was going through hell. You think I'm walking
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: out on this guy? By the way, nobody in the
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: stadium walked out. Nobody. So, I mean, I got a
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: feeling you really have to check yourself.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: The next wave of emails says, Larry, you should have
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: asked for your money back at the end. You should have,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: after you watched the whole concert, you should have gone
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: to the box office and asked for your money back.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: I should have watched most of the concert, then got offended.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Can't go ask for my money back.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: These people are nuts. This guy is crying on the stage.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Parts of his family have turned on him. Lifelong colleagues,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: many of whom he gave an opportunity to who would
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: never have had an opportunity.
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: This guy is a superstar.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, everybody loves this guy. It's hard to fight.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: And now they're turning on him. Of course, he's making
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: this statement at the start of the concert, sort of,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: let's get it out of the way so we can
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: have an enjoyable night.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: And you said... It was a great night. It was tremendous.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: He said it was the best concert he's ever given.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: I think so, too. He showed what an amazing performer
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: he is. All this happened to him. His band left him.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: All the opening acts left him. Half of America. I
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: don't think it's really half. I think it's like 10%
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: of America. Can't stand him. And he got up there
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: and gave an amazing performance by himself. So, yes, I
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: am a big Ed Sheeran fan. I'm glad I didn't
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: walk out and I would never walk.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: I want to applaud you for having gone there to
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: see for yourself. So it's not secondhand, thirdhand, fourthhand reports
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: that we were quoting. You were there. You saw it
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: for yourself. You knew the area. You knew the people.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: And you felt great afterwards, as did everybody else. And
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: that's really what counts.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: One last thing. You've got to separate in your life, please.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: If you want to be a little bit happier, separate
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: politics from the rest of your life. I've seen it
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: break up families. This is an example of it. Luckily,
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: it doesn't break up families. But, man, separate politics from
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: everything else. And the talkback of the morning and winner
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: of the Curtis Lee with Larry Mendte in the morning
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: T-shirt was worried about our relationship, Curtis.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: Boys, all this going back and forth regarding Trump and
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: the mayor, I think you should stop and consummate this
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: relationship one more time before the next segment.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure you can consummate a second time. Oh,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: I think we should try. No, please. I thought we
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: got rid of that word, actually. I was very happy
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: about that. But this is perfect. This is exactly what
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: we're talking about. We can have an argument like that
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: and still laugh afterwards because we can separate. You should
• 33:20
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• 33:31
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• 33:35
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• 33:39
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• 33:48
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• 33:52
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• 34:00
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• 34:08
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