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Hour 2: NYC e-bike laws · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, we're happy to bring in John Decker, WLO White
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  Speaker 1: House and Washington correspondent, host of the podcast, The White
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  Speaker 1: House Briefing Room with John Decker. You can find that
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  Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. John, we had this miracle on
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  Speaker 1: fly Dubai that everybody is talking about that comes a
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  Speaker 1: week after. That's in the wake of an Iranian terror
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  Speaker 1: plot to bomb a U.S. base in the United Kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: And there is suspicion that this guy that tried to
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  Speaker 1: take over that plane and may have been successful, if
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  Speaker 1: not for the passengers, was also connected with Iran. And
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  Speaker 1: yet we keep hearing Homeland Security, Mark Wayne Mullen, saying, no,
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  Speaker 1: there's no serious threats, no known threats to the mainland.
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  Speaker 1: How can those two things be true?
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, I asked a number of Trump senior officials
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  Speaker 2: yesterday whether the U.S. is on elevated vigilance because of
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  Speaker 2: what happened in the UK over the weekend. And they
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  Speaker 2: say our force posture has not changed. But certainly, after
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  Speaker 2: what we saw happen over the weekend in the UK,
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  Speaker 2: the plane incident that you just referenced, that happened just
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  Speaker 2: in the past 24 hours, you'd have to think that
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  Speaker 2: US intelligence is looking into whether Iran is trying to
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  Speaker 2: attack the Americans, American interests around the world.
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  Speaker 3: John Decker, yesterday the president announced we're out of Iraq,
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  Speaker 3: all of our troops after 25 years, thank God. But
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  Speaker 3: Iran applauded that, and the many Shia Iranians supported militias
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  Speaker 3: throughout Iraq. What problems, if any, does that create since
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  Speaker 3: we're still at war with Iran?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a good question. You know, it means that
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  Speaker 2: there is a vacuum and the vacuum could indeed be
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  Speaker 2: filled by those with bad intent, ill intent towards the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: or towards the West. But the president had vowed to
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  Speaker 2: remove U.S. troops from Iraq. And indeed, he's fulfilling that pledge,
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  Speaker 2: that promise. And it does mark the end of quite
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  Speaker 2: a chapter as it relates to U.S. involvement in Iraq
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  Speaker 2: that began in in the aftermath of nine eleven.
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  Speaker 1: They are very aware of our midterms in iran the
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  Speaker 1: i r c g came out and urged americans to
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  Speaker 1: vote against donald trump i would imagine that's not the
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  Speaker 1: kind of help the democratic party once.
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  Speaker 2: Well that that that's probably right you know but it's
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  Speaker 2: no surprise uh... you know they have uh... they may
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  Speaker 2: be publicly saying what we already knew the president uh...
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  Speaker 2: believe that iran doesn't want to come to the negotiating table, Larry,
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  Speaker 2: until after the midterms. They want to impact the president,
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  Speaker 2: Republicans in a negative way as it relates to the midterms. Now,
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  Speaker 2: just a little over one month away, hard to believe.
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  Speaker 2: And the president, as you know, meanwhile, hitting the campaign
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  Speaker 2: trail in earnest starting today. And that's going to last
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  Speaker 2: all the way up to November the 3rd. I'll be
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  Speaker 2: with the president traveling to Ohio. a critical Senate race there,
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  Speaker 2: and that's going to be on Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: Well, speaking of Ohio, apparently the polls indicate that the
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  Speaker 3: Democrats are ahead both in the Senate race and in
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  Speaker 3: the gubernatorial race. And one of the issues is the
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  Speaker 3: artificial data filing centers that have popped up all over
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  Speaker 3: the Buckeye State. And with the president indicating that anybody
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  Speaker 3: who's opposed to it wants to end up being backwards
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  Speaker 3: and poor... I don't think, John Decker, that helps, Vivek
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  Speaker 3: Ramaswamy running for governor or the Republican senator in Ohio
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  Speaker 3: holding that seat.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it certainly doesn't. You're right about that. Vivek Ramaswamy, who,
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  Speaker 2: of course, ran for president against President Trump at one
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  Speaker 2: point and then returned to Ohio to run for governor, doesn't,
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  Speaker 2: in my view, and I think that I've spoken to
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  Speaker 2: many people in Ohio, doesn't have the kind of personality
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  Speaker 2: that attracts people. You know, in some cases, it turns
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  Speaker 2: off people. So, you know, when you talk about political races,
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  Speaker 2: and this goes not just for Ohio, but anywhere across
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  Speaker 2: the country, likability is a major factor. And likability, I think,
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  Speaker 2: is a factor in that governor's race. As far as
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  Speaker 2: the Senate race is concerned, a lot of headwinds that
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  Speaker 2: John Husted is facing as he runs for a full
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  Speaker 2: six-year term. He's running against someone who's formerly served as
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  Speaker 2: a U.S. senator, Sherrod Brown. And, you know, the headwinds are,
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  Speaker 2: you know, high gas prices, high oil prices, inflation, the
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  Speaker 2: impacts of the president's tariffs policy, and, of course, history,
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  Speaker 2: because the party in power typically loses seats in the
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  Speaker 2: midterm elections. So those are a lot of headwinds right
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  Speaker 2: now that Republicans are dealing with, not just in Ohio, Curtis,
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  Speaker 2: but also in many other Senate races as well.
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  Speaker 1: The Trump administration is insisting that there are people that
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  Speaker 1: are illegal voting in the elections, and there are some
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  Speaker 1: arrests that are being made by Todd Blanch across the country.
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  Speaker 1: He made 10 yesterday in Minnesota. And yet we have
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  Speaker 1: right here in New Jersey, we have 6,000 people who
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  Speaker 1: have been registered for six years that are being removed.
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  Speaker 1: But the president wants the entire list. He wants the
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  Speaker 1: entire list of, not the president, but the Justice Department
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  Speaker 1: wants the list of All the people that are on
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  Speaker 1: those rolls. It sounds like this is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a big focus over the next month.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think it is, you know, to a certain extent.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know to what extent the fraud
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  Speaker 2: that you just referenced is widespread and how large it is.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big number.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that can impact a race, certainly in a
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  Speaker 2: close race. We're talking about the numbers in New Jersey today.
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  Speaker 2: And as you know, New Jersey is run by a
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  Speaker 2: Democratic governor. So no surprise that she rebuffed the request
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  Speaker 2: from the DOJ, from Attorney General Todd Blanch. But this,
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  Speaker 2: as you point out, Larry, is going to be an
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  Speaker 2: issue as we get closer and closer to November the 3rd.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the president has consistently raised this idea of
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  Speaker 2: voter fraud just about every election that he's run in
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  Speaker 2: or been involved in. And this, of course, is no
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  Speaker 2: different with the midterms. less than 35 days away.
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  Speaker 1: Will ICE officials be outside the polling places?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Todd Blanch was asked that very question, and Mark
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  Speaker 2: Wayne Mullen, who is the Secretary of Homeland Security, has
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  Speaker 2: been asked that question under oath, and the answer to
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  Speaker 2: that is no. They say that that will not be
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  Speaker 2: the case in the days leading up to or on
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  Speaker 2: November 3rd itself.
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  Speaker 3: Now, John Decker, I'm sure you're going to Texas with
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  Speaker 3: the president. If there's one candidate he's gone to the
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  Speaker 3: mat for, above all others, it's Attorney General John Paxton.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And there was that audio in which Paxton was at
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  Speaker 3: a fundraiser saying that that midterm convention that Trump hosted
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  Speaker 3: right in Texas actually hurt everybody, meaning Republicans' numbers that
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  Speaker 3: are down. I gotta believe the president took that shot
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  Speaker 3: personally because he's put everything on the line for Paxton.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he has, I mean, first of all, to begin with,
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  Speaker 2: he decided not to endorse the incumbent Republican Senator throwing
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  Speaker 2: a support behind Ken Paxton. So that was the difference
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  Speaker 2: maker in the primary leading Paxton to be the Republican nominee.
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  Speaker 2: And then just in the past week, a significant amount
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  Speaker 2: of campaign funds, uh, dumped into this race to help
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  Speaker 2: out Ken Paxton. He has consistently been trailing James Tallarico
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  Speaker 2: in that Senate race, the president heading back down to
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  Speaker 2: Texas today, all in an effort to boost the candidacy
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  Speaker 2: of Ken Paxton. And here's another instance, you know, in
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  Speaker 2: which likability is a factor, you know, and I think
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  Speaker 2: that that is just one of the many reasons why
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  Speaker 2: he has been trailing in this Senate race.
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  Speaker 1: Have we seen a schedule for the 32 days? I
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  Speaker 1: know there might be security reasons why they can't let
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  Speaker 1: that out, but I'm only interested because it seems like
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  Speaker 1: he's focused on the Senate races and not so much
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  Speaker 1: the House races.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think that the Senate's important to the President.
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  Speaker 2: That allows his nominees for various agencies and departments that
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  Speaker 2: require Senate confirmation to get confirmed, and without it, it
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  Speaker 2: makes it that much more difficult. That even goes for
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  Speaker 2: ambassadors that the president's appointing. The focus is primarily, you're right,
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  Speaker 2: on the Senate. I have not seen the president's schedule
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  Speaker 2: beyond Monday. Monday, he's going to be traveling to Nebraska.
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  Speaker 2: And to me, it's a head scratcher, Larry and Curtis,
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  Speaker 2: because just look at the next few days, the president
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  Speaker 2: will travel to Oklahoma, to Alabama, and to Nebraska. Those
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  Speaker 2: states are always red states. And he's not traveling to
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  Speaker 2: The purple states not traveling to states just yet until
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  Speaker 2: Saturday that have very close Senate races. Texas is one
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  Speaker 2: of them. But for the most part, you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: not going to Maine, to Iowa, to North Carolina and
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  Speaker 2: to Alaska. Those visits will happen. But it's strange to
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  Speaker 2: me that he is spending a lot of time in
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  Speaker 2: these red states.
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  Speaker 3: Now, John Decker, there's no White House spokesperson now, and
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  Speaker 3: I don't care who the president is. I'm sure in
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  Speaker 3: the many years you've covered the White House beat, the
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  Speaker 3: White House press secretary always calls you up and tries
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  Speaker 3: to clean up a misspeak. The president misspoke, whether it's
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  Speaker 3: Trump or Biden or Obama, and immediately they try to
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  Speaker 3: rectify it. When is he going to get a press
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  Speaker 3: spokesperson who can actually do that because he never does
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  Speaker 3: it to himself no.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't and you know the people that work in
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  Speaker 2: the the press office uh that that serve the president
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  Speaker 2: uh they can certainly do so their names that you
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  Speaker 2: may not be familiar with but you know they're still
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  Speaker 2: functioning in that way But, you know, it's been over
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  Speaker 2: a month since Caroline Leavitt has left the White House,
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  Speaker 2: and the president seems in no rush to name a replacement.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if there's going to be a replacement
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  Speaker 2: named between now and the midterms. And, you know, that's
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  Speaker 2: unfortunate for Republicans and unfortunate for the president. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Caroline Leavitt, I thought, did a good job advocating for
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  Speaker 2: the president, and he lacks that right now.
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  Speaker 1: John Decker, WOR White House correspondent. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Good to talk to you. Thanks, Larry. Thanks, Curtis. Have
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  Speaker 1: a good one. Bye-bye. You can check out his podcast
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  Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app, the White House Briefing Room with
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  Speaker 1: John Decker.
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  Speaker 3: Up next, you go out of Huntington Station as a
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  Speaker 3: pizza maker who throws that pizza in the air like
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  Speaker 3: he just doesn't care and set a world's record for height.
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  Speaker 3: But all of a sudden, he's being denied the title.
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  Speaker 1: Starting this Monday. So there's a pizza place out in
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  Speaker 1: Huntington Station called Johnny D's Pizzeria. And it's run by
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  Speaker 1: a guy named Johnny Dawson. Johnny Dawson is well known
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  Speaker 1: in the area for making great pizzas. And he does
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  Speaker 1: it by hand, you know, all the natural ingredients by hand.
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  Speaker 1: He tosses the pizza. People watch him as he tosses
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  Speaker 1: the pizza and then puts them in the oven. And
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  Speaker 1: he happened to notice recently that the Guinness Book of
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  Speaker 1: World Records has a record in the book for the
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  Speaker 1: highest toss of a pizza. And the highest toss of
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  Speaker 1: a pizza is 21 feet 5 inches. And he looked
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  Speaker 1: at that and he said, I can break that. I
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  Speaker 1: can break that easy. Who has that record? Who has
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  Speaker 1: that record? That's Joe Carlucci. Oh, Carloci Italian. Who did
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  Speaker 1: it at the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota on
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  Speaker 1: April 20th, 2006. But remember that.
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  Speaker 4: Italian.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he's Italian, but he's also in Minnesota. All right.
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  Speaker 1: So an Italian in New York, in the New York area,
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  Speaker 1: is more impressive than an Italian in Minneapolis. But you see,
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  Speaker 1: he's not Italian. That's where I think the prejudice is here. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: because his last name's Dawson? Exactly. Well, I'll tell you what,
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  Speaker 1: you look at him, he looks Italian. Maybe his mom
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  Speaker 1: was Italian. We'll have to really dig into that. We
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  Speaker 1: have to dig into that. So he threw it how high? Well,
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  Speaker 1: he's practiced for a long time. You can see videos
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  Speaker 1: of him practicing. He put the Rocky music behind it
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  Speaker 1: and all of that. So he finally tossed one that
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  Speaker 1: went above his building. The ceiling of his building is
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  Speaker 1: 10 feet, but the building itself is over 20 feet.
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  Speaker 1: He tossed it higher than the building, and he claims
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  Speaker 1: he tossed it 22 feet 1 inch. Done. Which would
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  Speaker 1: be the world record. That's him.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 1: The Guinness Book of World Records says, no, we need
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  Speaker 1: to confirm that. We have to be able to confirm it.
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  Speaker 1: They take this very seriously at the Guinness place.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just sorry that Ray Liotta, the actor, is no
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  Speaker 3: longer alive. Do you know that his claim to fame
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  Speaker 3: before he became the star of Goodfellas is He would
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  Speaker 3: work in Cranford at the pizza house, the pizza chef,
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  Speaker 3: and the owner operator said, He tossed pizza better than
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  Speaker 3: anybody else for $ 3. 50 an hour in the summers. And
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  Speaker 3: when Ray Liotta was asked, why did you practice so
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  Speaker 3: much pizza tossing? He goes, that's how you get the girls,
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  Speaker 3: which is true. Pizza night was Friday in Canarsie, and
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  Speaker 3: all the young ladies would show up. Davini would style,
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  Speaker 3: or Giuseppe would be flipping the pizzas, and they would
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  Speaker 3: end up with a date on Saturday because of their
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  Speaker 3: ability to toss those pizzas high in the air.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll have to ask Johnny Dawson if that's true because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's the biggest of them all, so he
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  Speaker 1: should attract more girls. But, and don't smile like that, Natalie.
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  Speaker 1: I meant nothing wrong with that. That was not an innuendo.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you. Anyway, let me tell you what they
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  Speaker 1: have to do. The idea must be measurable, breakable, standardizable,
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  Speaker 1: whatever that means, verifiable, And universal. And so they, he
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  Speaker 1: already has video of it. He could send the video,
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  Speaker 1: but they may send someone that has to verify it.
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  Speaker 3: He, as far as I'm concerned, he's the champion. I
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  Speaker 3: think his last name being Dawson is a very good chance.
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  Speaker 3: He's not Italian. Like Carlucci was the champion at the
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  Speaker 3: mall of America outside of Minneapolis. This is prejudice against non-Italians.
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  Speaker 3: I would bet you on that.
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  Speaker 1: Now we have to get Johnny Dawson on. We've got
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  Speaker 1: to get Johnny D on. I already reached out. Let's
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  Speaker 1: see if he gets back to us. We have to
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  Speaker 1: find out. All right, let's get some talkbacks. The first
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  Speaker 1: one about illegals voting.
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  Speaker 6: To comment on illegal voting, are you crazy?
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  Speaker 1: It is widespread. Just come to Connecticut.
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  Speaker 6: It has to be dealt with.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they're trying. They're making arrests all around the country.
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  Speaker 1: And they said over the next 30 days, they're going
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  Speaker 1: to look at every state. So I'm sure they're going
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  Speaker 1: to get to Connecticut.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they want to hire not illegals, green card holders
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  Speaker 3: in Danbury to the police department.
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  Speaker 1: They can't vote.
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  Speaker 3: So why not let them all vote?
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: You could become a cop, too, in Connecticut.
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  Speaker 7: I just thought, side note, that it's interesting.
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  Speaker 8: Over here in Jersey and some of these small towns,
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  Speaker 8: I'm seeing signs they're putting up for the election.
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  Speaker 5: Saying, no data center, no data center.
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  Speaker 2: And then when you look up, they're small towns that
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  Speaker 2: have absolutely no room.
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  Speaker 1: They're full of everything.
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  Speaker 8: They couldn't even build one, but they're just running on
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  Speaker 8: it to run on it.
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  Speaker 2: It's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: That's really fascinating. So places where it's not even a problem,
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  Speaker 1: they're running on it because it's a big issue. That's funny.
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  Speaker 7: The problem with a guy like Vivek Ramaswamy is that
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  Speaker 7: he's too intelligent. As they dumb down this country further
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  Speaker 7: and further, intelligent people will be marginalized. Hence, we have
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  Speaker 7: a whole sea and Kamalama Ding Dong as potential 2028
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  Speaker 7: presidential candidates.
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  Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Are you absolutely kidding me in
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  Speaker 1: this country?
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  Speaker 7: Intelligence is a lost skill.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, you're jealous of those names he made up.
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  Speaker 1: That should have been you.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Although, Viva Swami, excellent debater.
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  Speaker 3: The Democrat who's heading the polls against him for governor
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  Speaker 3: in Ohio refuses to debate him. And you know why.
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  Speaker 3: Because he would wipe the deck with her. He's that
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  Speaker 3: good a debater.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's get to Daria Albinger with the 730 News.
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  Speaker 3: Daria.
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  Speaker 4: Morning, guys.
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  Speaker 9: Mostly cloudy, mild, and muggier today with a high of
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  Speaker 9: 76 degrees. A New York City man has been indicted
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  Speaker 9: in a parking meter scam.
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  Speaker 4: Manhattan prosecutors accused Mihai Inescu of running an almost impressively
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: efficient scheme to steal from people who were eager to pay.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: They say he put QR code stickers on city parking
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  Speaker 4: meters last year that were labeled WebPay Scan to Pay.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: That code was a link to a fake payment site.
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  Speaker 4: that featured a copy of the Real Park NYC logo.
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  Speaker 4: Not clear how much, if any, money Inescu made from it.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: He says he's an Amazon driver and doesn't know anything
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  Speaker 4: about the scheme. Andrew Whitman, WOR News.
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  Speaker 9: A rent freeze takes effect today in about a million
• 17:51
  Speaker 9: rent-stabilized apartments here in the city. It was one of
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  Speaker 9: Mayor Mamdani's main campaign promises. Landlords are suing to get
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  Speaker 9: it overturned, though they're arguing the Rent Guidelines Board was influenced.
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  Speaker 9: Tennessee's only female death row inmate is in the hospital
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  Speaker 9: after surviving two lethal injections.
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  Speaker 6: Krista Pike was scheduled to be put to death on
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  Speaker 6: Wednesday by lethal injection, but the procedure was unsuccessful. Witnesses
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  Speaker 6: described what they saw.
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• 18:26
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• 19:28
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Daria. Well, the gang rape story scandal continues
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: to grow as it should. And now the governor, who
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: is a board member of Cornell... has gotten involved. We'll
• 19:44
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  Speaker 1: it counts. The Cornell University rape case just continues to
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: grow and is certainly getting national attention. And from the beginning,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: it is obvious that Cornell, the university, didn't handle this
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: very well. They did have, this happened back in 2024,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: in October of 2024, it was at a frat house party.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: This young woman was invited over. They plied her with drugs, ketamine,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: and alcohol, and then a number of men had sex
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: with her. Seven were investigated by the university. Two were expelled.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: At least one of them got a writing assignment as
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: a punishment, but there were no federal charges or local charges.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: It could have been either at that point. But the
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: local DA says that he investigated it. He went to
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Cornell University. And this is a big story broke by
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: CBS that everybody has now. And he went there and
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: he didn't find any evidence that it was a rape.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Except for the fact that this young woman who's being
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: called Jane Doe spoke to the campus police and said,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I can say with 100% confidence that that I was raped.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: That was never turned over to the prosecutor or to
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: the investigating force from the county. And he says, I
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: never saw that. And had I seen it, I absolutely
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: would have charged. So it keeps growing and growing and growing.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: And I should mention that Kathy Hochul, a lot of
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: you emailed me yesterday to tell me this, and I
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: thank you for that. Kathy Hochul is a board member
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: at Cornell University, the governor of the state. But also,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: just to let you know, for everybody that emailed me,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: every governor becomes a non-voting board member of Cornell University.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: So you can't pin too much on her. She got it.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: It's not like she has some affinity to the organization.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: And certainly now, she's taking this extremely seriously.
• 23:09
  Speaker 10: What happened to this young college student at Cornell University
• 23:12
  Speaker 10: is nothing short of horrifying and shocking. And I believe
• 23:16
  Speaker 10: that she deserves justice and there must be accountability. That
• 23:20
  Speaker 10: is why I called for an outside independent counsel to
• 23:23
  Speaker 10: conduct an investigation of what exactly transpired.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: And Columbia University and the local prosecutors have agreed to that.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: You mean Cornell? Cornell, not Columbia.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I keep saying that. Cornell University.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Just to mention Columbia. That's because I told you yesterday
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: there was a woman who claimed she was raped as
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: an undergraduate. They didn't listen to her. She carried a
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: mattress on her back the whole campus year just to
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: point out I was raped and you did nothing about
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: it at Columbia.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Well, good for her. And this woman is now suing
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Cornell University and good for her. I'll tell you what,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Kathy Hochul is now going to have her own investigation. Cornell,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: thank God, has already said okay to that. They said
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: that it could be a completely independent investigation. Also, the
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: local DA said, I'm going to keep up with my
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: criminal investigation, but we can work hand in hand. So
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: that's going to happen. I think there's going to be
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: some resolution to this, but I want to call your
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: attention to something called, and it's in New York, it's
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: not in every state, the voluntary intoxication loophole, which could
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: be a holdup in this case. It is a state
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: law that does not cover rape victims who choose to
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: drink or get high themselves. It is maybe the most
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: ridiculous law I have ever heard But there's actually a
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: fight right now in Albany, and there has been for
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: a time, to get rid of that law. Assemblyman Jeffrey
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Dinowitz is the one that is pushing for reform, and
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: he explains some of the pushback.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: Some people do not want more people going to jail.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the reality. My opinion is if you
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: did something really bad, like rape somebody, you should go
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: to jail. And getting drunk, Curtis, shouldn't be an invitation
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: for people to rape you. And because that's what the
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: law allows. If you voluntarily get drunk and you get raped, well,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: according to the state, in many cases, that's on you.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Well, I think with the New York Times, they released
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: a number of the reports that were done on this
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: report of the woman that she had been raped by
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: the Cornell 7. And accordingly, she said, yeah, originally I
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: was okay having sex with the two I knew at
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: the frat. I knew them, and obviously I knew what
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: I was getting into, but they pressured me into snorting ketamine.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: I had never taken it before. I was then incapable
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: of consenting to others who came in the room at
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: the behest of the two. Remember, their fraternity, they were
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: on their Snapchat saying, hey, all Phi Beta, whatever the
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: hell the fraternity was, feel free to come on in.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: So I think it's very clear. If she was OK
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: with the two, she did not want ketamine. They pressured
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: it into snorting it. That's a date rape drug. So, boy,
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: these young men have some real serious problems ahead of them,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: no matter how good the lawyers that their parents hire
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: in their defense.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's going to be jail time if
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: there's any justice in the world, especially with all of
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: the attention this is getting. I will point out in
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: that statement, you're right, she did say she was okay
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: with the first two. She said... with the next batch
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: of people that came in. And again, they were invited
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: on Snapchat. They said, the store is open, is the
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: way they put it. When these other men showed up,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: they got physical. They started hitting her. It wasn't just rape.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: There was assault with the rest of the people that
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: came in. And she has a remembrance of that. And
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: because she has a remembrance of that, and this is
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: extremely important, she said 100% It was rape. And I
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: want you to remember those words because Cornell knew that.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: And they didn't release that part of their investigation. Shame
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: on them.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, only six pages of what were dozens of pages.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: They basically truncated it and eliminated the most damaging part of.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: It for the university.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: And now we're beginning to learn all about it. As
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: you said, Larry, shame, shame, shame on Cornell University.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: But up next.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Natalie Migliore takes to the streets about all these bills
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: in city council to rein in these crazed e-bike drivers
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: in the streets. She'll give you an update of what
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: people are talking about. And most importantly, you know, we
• 28:10
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• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Ah, Natalie from the streets dodging those crazed e-bike drivers
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: in order to report to us what the feelings of
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: those are towards Disney. what, all the bills that city
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: council wants to consider to rein them in?
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, New York City is one step closer to
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: tightening those restrictions for e-bikes, scooters, and those mopeds that
• 28:54
  Speaker 8: sometimes they want to be cars, but they're bikes, but
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: they act like they can follow any rule of the road.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: There's no rule of the road.
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: That's what a lot of New Yorkers say. We know
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: it well here, especially in Midtown. The city council is
• 29:07
  Speaker 8: considering nearly two dozen bills following several fatal collisions involving
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: e-bikes with a variety of bills that address several of
• 29:17
  Speaker 8: New Yorkers concerns. New Yorkers know those issues all too well.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: I think it's dangerous sometimes, like the way that they
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: go fast and don't always obey the traffic laws. And
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: I'm driving and I'm trying to make either a right
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: or a left. And all of a sudden somebody shoots
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: out or darts out of nowhere. I'm I'm worried, you
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: know what I mean? I'm worried for them, I'm worried
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: for me.
• 29:44
  Speaker 11: I have been hit by a bike, not in a bad,
• 29:47
  Speaker 11: like severe way, but I won't say, oh, they should
• 29:50
  Speaker 11: not exist because I think they are also very convenient.
• 29:53
  Speaker 11: I am a fan of e-bikes myself.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Ban all of them except for the city bikes.
• 29:58
  Speaker 8: Now, maybe he's saying that because city bikes actually cap
• 30:03
  Speaker 8: at the speed limit an e-bike 15 miles per hour.
• 30:07
  Speaker 8: fast as you can go on a city bike. But
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: part of these bills will help city leaders curb advertisements
• 30:14
  Speaker 8: for class three bikes, which go as fast as 25
• 30:18
  Speaker 8: miles an hour. Once you get that pedal assist on,
• 30:20
  Speaker 8: you don't even need to pedal.
• 30:22
  Speaker 9: It'll just go.
• 30:23
  Speaker 8: Now, one of the bills would also force third party
• 30:26
  Speaker 8: delivery apps to obtain liability insurance. And as you guys know,
• 30:30
  Speaker 8: we've been covering this for a long time. Insurance has
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: been in the conversation for years.
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: What happens if there is, God forbid, an accident? Whatever
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: company they work for, DoorDash or whatever, should at least contribute,
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: if not cover them in some ways, the way that
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: some organizations that you work for have some kind of
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: insurance policy for you, you know, at least some minimal amount.
• 30:55
  Speaker 11: I think it's for the safety of both pedestrians and
• 30:59
  Speaker 11: the actual delivery guys. I mean, I really respect them.
• 31:03
  Speaker 11: I order food a lot of times, and it's unfair
• 31:06
  Speaker 11: to say, hey, they're doing this because it's the consumers
• 31:11
  Speaker 11: on the other side who are like, oh, I need
• 31:13
  Speaker 11: all of this fast.
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: Maybe too fast, though, okay, because the city council says
• 31:18
  Speaker 8: e-bike collisions are up more than 30% this year compared
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: to last year. It comes as the number of riders
• 31:25
  Speaker 8: continue to grow with roughly 65,000 e-bikes already on the streets,
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: and those many of them deliveristas, okay? New Yorkers are
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: concerned how any of these 23 laws work.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Would even be enforced.
• 31:41
  Speaker 11: A law is as good as how best it is enforced.
• 31:44
  Speaker 11: You can make any number of laws, but if there's
• 31:47
  Speaker 11: no good enforcing mechanism in place, it doesn't mean anything.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: They should be forced to follow it or be fine
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: like everyone else.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Get a ticket. I mean, we all live here.
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: The police are stretched pretty thin, and I don't know
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: that that's going to become like a priority or something,
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: to be honest with you. But, you know, I'm kind
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: of skeptical about government taking care of us anyway in general.
• 32:12
  Speaker 9: Well, we'll find out.
• 32:13
  Speaker 8: The final legislative vote is expected to be decided early
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: next year. And this is a really dense package of bills.
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: They're probably going to scrap some, decide on what makes
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: it and what doesn't. But one of the bills, which
• 32:27
  Speaker 8: I found really interesting because I'm sure you guys see
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: it too, is when the guys ride their e-bikes on
• 32:33
  Speaker 8: the sidewalks. And it happens rarely, but specifically on the
• 32:37
  Speaker 8: corner of 56th and 8th. I see that tremendously. And
• 32:42
  Speaker 8: they want to see if there's a way to get
• 32:45
  Speaker 8: a slowing mechanism down when it when when the mechanism
• 32:50
  Speaker 8: recognizes that the bike has left the roadway and gets
• 32:53
  Speaker 8: on the sidewalk.
• 32:55
  Speaker 9: Now, whoever if that's.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: In existence, that's crazy technology, you know.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: This goes back to when we had messengers in the
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: city before you faxed and that. And they would speed
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: around because they got paid based on their ability to
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: get that message to another company. Those were normal bicyclists
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: on 10-speed races. And it caused some problems. Then they
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: have the motorized guys. Why do you need a motorized vehicle?
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Why not an old-fashioned 10-speed racer to do your deliveries?
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: There would still be some problems, but nowhere near the
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: problems you have now. This is crazy. 40 miles an hour,
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: 45 miles an hour with helmets on. They know they're
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: going to get into accidents and they don't think that's
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: going to hurt other people.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 33:40
  Speaker 8: And they said that they've really seen the increase in
• 33:42
  Speaker 8: the uptick in 2020, which was a lot when we
• 33:45
  Speaker 8: had our migrant crisis here in New York City. And
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: a lot of those people went to work to be
• 33:49
  Speaker 8: delivery workers here. And that's like how they got their bikes.
• 33:52
  Speaker 9: Why? Nobody could see this, but Larry is shaking his
• 33:55
  Speaker 9: head at me.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: No, I'm not shaking my head at you. I'm not
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: shaking my head at you. I'm just we're talking about
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: legislation and the city council. If it's not enforced, you
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: can pass all the legislation you want. I've seen cops
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: watch people go the wrong way on a one way
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: street on a bike in the middle of the street.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Nobody does anything. So it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: until they take it seriously in the city.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: Well, tomorrow, Natalie Migliore will be back, same time, same
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: place at 7.50. Up next, we're going to talk about
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: that Israeli flight, that attempted hijack wasn't an act of terrorism,
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: and the five arrested in the U.K. outside of the
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: Air Force Base. Was that a potential act of terrorism?
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: But first, the news at 8.