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Full Show · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Oh, Larry, later on, you got to tell us about
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  Speaker 1: your visit to the concert in Philadelphia with Ed Sheeran.
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  Speaker 1: Natalie's going to tell us she was going to go
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  Speaker 1: to that restaurant where they had the crash on the
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  Speaker 1: Jersey Shore. And I'll tell you about the San Gennaro
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  Speaker 1: Festival as I went back to back. But last night,
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  Speaker 1: 60 Minutes was really dedicated to, I guess, the response
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  Speaker 1: of Patrick Clancy. to all the rumors, the innuendos, the
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  Speaker 1: negative social postings that have been filed against him as
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  Speaker 1: he's basically trying to set the record straight in terms
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  Speaker 1: of what he was doing and how he was trying
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  Speaker 1: to help his wife, Lindsay Clancy, and also the responses
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  Speaker 1: of his new wife, who he met in New York
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  Speaker 1: City when he moved here. She's an infertility specialist. They're
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  Speaker 1: both joggers. They met in Central Park. And boy, it
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  Speaker 1: was quite a sit down. Larry, what did you make
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  Speaker 1: of it?
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  Speaker 2: The thing I made of it was the and I
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  Speaker 2: think what the most important thing that we learned there
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  Speaker 2: was that he didn't think she was guilty. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that was stunning because remember, the prosecution called him and
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  Speaker 2: everybody thought he was a weak witness. Now we know why.
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  Speaker 2: He said she would never have killed those three kids.
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  Speaker 2: It was the psychosis. She was mentally ill. That's what
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  Speaker 2: caused it. which is what the prevailing feeling was in
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  Speaker 2: the jury room. So it was a little bit stunning
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  Speaker 2: that this prosecution witness was now saying, no, there's no
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  Speaker 2: way she's in a right mind and killed her kids.
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  Speaker 2: We should go through this interview because for the first time,
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  Speaker 2: we're getting some soundbites. So I haven't been able to
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  Speaker 2: preview these, but take a listen and we can react
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  Speaker 2: as we hear.
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  Speaker 3: I saw headlines that said, you know, killer mom and
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  Speaker 3: baby murderer, monster. and none of them were accurate. I
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  Speaker 3: believe that it was her mental illness that caused that.
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  Speaker 2: So there's the most important sound bite. That was the
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  Speaker 2: most important one.
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  Speaker 1: You are correct, because that seemed to be the sentiment
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  Speaker 1: of the jury.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: We did hear from the holdout juror again, and he
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  Speaker 2: was fascinating, too. Let's talk about him in a second,
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  Speaker 2: and let's get through the rest of this sound.
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  Speaker 3: And I think when it comes to forgiveness, I also
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  Speaker 3: felt that if I didn't get there, I would be
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  Speaker 3: eaten up inside her.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so he forgave her. That's what that was from.
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  Speaker 2: That was the question that was asked. How can you
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  Speaker 2: forgive her for that? And he said he had to.
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  Speaker 2: For himself and for her and for the memory of
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  Speaker 2: the children, he had to forgive her.
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  Speaker 3: I asked her if she remembered it. And what did
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  Speaker 3: she say? She said it was like a dream. And
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  Speaker 3: she remembered it much in the way you would remember
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  Speaker 3: a dream after waking up.
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  Speaker 2: So that answer is yes. She does remember it. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember that coming out of the trial. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the fact that she knows what she did.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I thought she blanked it all out. That's what was
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  Speaker 2: reported earlier, that she blanked it all out. There was
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  Speaker 2: some real revelations out of this interview last night.
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  Speaker 3: I think I did the best I could with what
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  Speaker 3: I had at the time. And I live with the outcome.
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  Speaker 3: I live with it every day.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he was sent away. I'm not sure what he's
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  Speaker 2: talking about. I guess no matter what, if you're the dad,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to beat yourself up. What could I have done?
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  Speaker 2: He came off really good in this interview, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, much better than when he was the lead off
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  Speaker 1: witness for the prosecution in Plymouth and talking about his wife.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was, even though he had to be
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  Speaker 1: on the witness stand, they should not have started out
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  Speaker 1: with him because I think He was not the strongest
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  Speaker 1: witness at all.
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  Speaker 2: Now we know why. He was tormented. So he never
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  Speaker 2: thought she killed those children in their right mind. And
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  Speaker 2: that went against what the prosecution was trying to get.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so grateful for those four days that I had
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  Speaker 3: with him. And I'm so grateful he hung on.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I'm going to start this again because it's
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  Speaker 2: important to tell you what he's talking about. He's talking
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  Speaker 2: about the one child that survived.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the baby Kaylin.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And he's talking about the baby that survived and the
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  Speaker 2: fact that she hung on for four days before she died.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so grateful for those four days that I had
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  Speaker 3: with him. And I'm so grateful he hung on. Did
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  Speaker 3: you talk to him in those four days?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Can you tell me anything you said?
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  Speaker 2: I said, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 3: And I got to hold him. I got to lay
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  Speaker 3: down next to him. And he died in my arms.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's eight-month-old Kalen that he's talking about. How unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: That was the most compelling part, I think, of the interview.
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  Speaker 1: Because he described the four days that the baby was
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  Speaker 1: holding on. And they enabled him to hold the baby,
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  Speaker 1: to go into the hospital, to lay down with the baby.
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  Speaker 1: And then to have your own child die in your arms,
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  Speaker 1: that just compounded it. And you could just feel the
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  Speaker 1: pain even now in his voice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's amazing. Throughout the interview, you get the feeling
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  Speaker 2: that he blames himself, that he doesn't blame her, that
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  Speaker 2: he blames himself for not being there for her, for
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  Speaker 2: not being there for her children, for being away, for
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  Speaker 2: falling for this plot, which is the fact that she
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  Speaker 2: remembers what happened and the fact that she plotted it out.
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  Speaker 2: leads me to believe she's still guilty of murder.
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  Speaker 3: I think every parent can agree you have different relationships
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  Speaker 3: with your kids, but they're all your kids. And I
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  Speaker 3: can't wait to tell them about their brothers and sister.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I've found that a little odd.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't. I don't. I mean, what he's saying
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  Speaker 2: is when they get of a certain age, I would
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  Speaker 2: do the same thing. I think any parent would do
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  Speaker 2: the same thing. When they get of a certain age,
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  Speaker 2: He wants to be able to tell them. They're going
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  Speaker 2: to find out anyway. You know what I mean? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: there's no doubt. There's no doubt. So he wants to
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  Speaker 2: say to them, you had wonderful brothers and sisters. They
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  Speaker 2: were just wonderful. And so I just want to let
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  Speaker 2: you know about them and tell you about them. He
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  Speaker 2: may not have phrased that perfectly, but I understand the
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  Speaker 2: sentiment completely, and I would feel exactly the same way
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  Speaker 2: in his position.
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  Speaker 1: Well, part of the reason that he chose to do
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  Speaker 1: this along with his new wife, Rachel— was to deal
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  Speaker 1: with what was first brought to our attention by our
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  Speaker 1: own Natalie Migliore. I was unaware of it. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you were, Larry, but the escalating campaign of
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  Speaker 1: conspiracy theories, misinformation about possibly him being involved. Remember, I
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  Speaker 1: was shocked. Natalie was telling us, oh, yeah, this is
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  Speaker 1: being discussed on a regular basis. A lot of people
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  Speaker 1: are doubting Thomas's about him being, you know, basically out
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  Speaker 1: of the circle of what transpired. Many people I went
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  Speaker 1: online and actually looked at some of these comments after
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  Speaker 1: Natalie had mentioned to us, and she was right. They
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  Speaker 1: were going to indict him as the person responsible. So
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  Speaker 1: I think part of the reason that the couple decided
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  Speaker 1: to do that was to try to address the escalating
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  Speaker 1: campaign that hasn't stopped. Remember, the next court date is
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  Speaker 1: September 29th. That's when the DA for the county there
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  Speaker 1: has to determine, are we going to go back to trial,
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  Speaker 1: go for a plea? Who knows what they're going to discuss?
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  Speaker 1: but apparently hasn't slowed down at all.
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  Speaker 2: No, they're going to go for a retrial. The prosecutor's
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  Speaker 2: office has kind of come out and said, there's no
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  Speaker 2: way we're going to settle unless we get exactly what
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  Speaker 2: we want or near to what we want. And we're
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  Speaker 2: so far apart right now, that's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: So I believe 99% that there is going to be
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  Speaker 2: a retrial at this point. But you're exactly right about
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  Speaker 2: Patrick Clancy. It is bizarre. But when you think about it,
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  Speaker 2: it makes some sense because everything is screwed up today. Everything,
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  Speaker 2: everything happens on social media. People take it as legitimate news.
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  Speaker 2: So when they read something on social media, and I've
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  Speaker 2: seen this myself a million times, how I've been at
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  Speaker 2: things I've been at stories and you read about it
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  Speaker 2: online and it's something completely different. It's, it's somebody skewing
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  Speaker 2: exactly what happened to fit what they believe should have
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  Speaker 2: happened or what they believe was true. So, Please, whatever
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  Speaker 2: you do, don't take social media, unless it comes from
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  Speaker 2: a legitimate source, like a news source, as fact. Because
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  Speaker 2: you're right, that grew around the country. People around the
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  Speaker 2: country thought he was involved, he made it happen, he
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  Speaker 2: forced her to do it, because they already had their
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  Speaker 2: own bias when it came to fathers and mothers and
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  Speaker 2: the case.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll tell you this, if I'm the defense attorney,
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  Speaker 1: if in fact it does go back to trial, I
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  Speaker 1: want him on the stand saying exactly what he said
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  Speaker 1: in the 60 Minutes interview, and he won't be able
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  Speaker 1: to maneuver away from that. I'll say, well, didn't you
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  Speaker 1: say on the 60 Minutes interview?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they can play it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: They can play it and say, they don't even have
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  Speaker 2: to put him on the stand at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let me do a pivot and shift to your guy,
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  Speaker 1: the no-doubts guy. The holdout juror, there's been a fundraising
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  Speaker 1: campaign for him. He had to flee Massachusetts. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if he took Governor DeSantis up on his off-road sanctuary.
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  Speaker 1: Remember DeSantis said, I know you may want to leave Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 1: You're welcome in Florida. They raised $ 350, 000. His attorney has
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  Speaker 1: posted a picture of him, the Haitian-American juror, smiling with
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  Speaker 1: his new baby girl. He's been under death threats, doxing, harassment.
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  Speaker 1: So he's using the money to pay for security, legal fees,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously lost work. Again, he stated, I'm a black Republican.
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  Speaker 1: I support Trump. And that jury had a leftist bent
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  Speaker 1: from day one. So they call that jury nullification. I
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  Speaker 1: went through a case myself where the jury ruled on
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  Speaker 1: my side. And you knew from day one, they already
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  Speaker 1: made their decision. They weren't even going to listen to anything.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what you call jury nullification. Remember, the jurors
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  Speaker 1: kept saying he wasn't listening. He kept drifting off. He
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  Speaker 1: would be scribbling on a pad. Well, he says, every
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  Speaker 1: time I tried to talk. They cut me off. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: would listen to what I wanted to say. They'd ask
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  Speaker 1: me a question, I'd start to answer, and then they'd
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  Speaker 1: cut me off. I would say to him, you're no
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  Speaker 1: Henry Fonda. You didn't convert the other 11, remember? What
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  Speaker 1: was the name of that great movie? 11 Angry Men
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  Speaker 1: or something like that?
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  Speaker 2: No, 12 Angry Men.
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  Speaker 1: And it was Henry Fonda, the lone holdout, who convinced
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  Speaker 1: the other 11.
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  Speaker 5: I guess.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't able to do that.
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  Speaker 2: They wouldn't even let him talk. Imagine if Henry Fonda,
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  Speaker 2: every time he talked, they jumped in. Hey, when we
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  Speaker 2: matters most. Well, a great voice in sports history here
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  Speaker 2: to talk about the Jets and what happened to the
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  Speaker 2: Jets yesterday I feel so bad for Jets fans. I
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  Speaker 2: really do. Because there's hope every once in a while.
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  Speaker 2: And think about it this year. They start 1-0. It
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  Speaker 2: looked like they were going to win yesterday. They would
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  Speaker 2: have been 2-0 yesterday. Curtis, you know what the percentage
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  Speaker 2: is when you go 2-0 in the NFL of the
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  Speaker 2: teams that are 2-0 making the playoffs? 67%. 67% of
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  Speaker 2: the teams that go 2-0 go on to make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: But nope, wasn't going to happen. They were up 17-7
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  Speaker 2: at half, and they held that lead until 11 minutes
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  Speaker 2: left in the game. And they blew it. They had
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  Speaker 2: opportunity after opportunity after opportunity. The game went to overtime.
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  Speaker 2: They got the ball first. And you know under the rules,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't score and the other team gets the ball,
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  Speaker 2: they just have to score and they win. And that's
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  Speaker 2: exactly what happened. And they lost. Remember, it was 17-7
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  Speaker 2: with 11 minutes left in the game. And they lost 20-17.
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  Speaker 2: There is some good news. They look pretty good. The
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  Speaker 2: quarterback looks good. They've played good teams so far. Not
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  Speaker 2: great teams, but good teams so far. So I think
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  Speaker 2: they're going to not have a winning season, but win
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  Speaker 2: a lot more than they did last year. How about that? Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And tonight, oh, the big game. Matthew Stafford, MVP with
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  Speaker 1: the LA Rams, who got killed in Australia against the 49ers,
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  Speaker 1: playing at home against Jason Dart. And the revived New
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  Speaker 1: York Giants. Jackson Dart. I'm sorry, Jackson Dart. And the
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  Speaker 1: revived New York Giants. And so all eyeballs will be
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  Speaker 1: watching because it's Monday Night Football. And the betting is
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  Speaker 1: going to be intense because a lot of people are saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: the Rams, after they got killed in Australia, now want
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  Speaker 1: to be able to come back. Because if they're owing
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  Speaker 1: to it to start of the year, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: they're making the Super Bowl. And I don't think the
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  Speaker 1: Jets are frauds. Like the Giants, I should say. The
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  Speaker 1: Jets were frauds in that first game, but the Giants are.
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  Speaker 1: The Giants are a good team. The Giants are going
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  Speaker 1: to win probably eight to ten games this year. So
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  Speaker 1: they're legitimate. They may not win tonight, but they're legitimate. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I got to tell you, nothing has gone right for
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  Speaker 1: the New York Mets this season. The entire season, a debacle.
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  Speaker 1: And then Steve Cohen, the owner, set it up so
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  Speaker 1: that the final day at home at Citi Field would
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: be to honor the great Howie Rose. Howie Rose, who
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  Speaker 1: was part of a great threesome in radio. Ron Darling,
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  Speaker 1: the former player, Keith Hernandez, former player, but not Howie Rose.
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  Speaker 1: He is the average guy. Grew up in Queens, went
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  Speaker 1: to Cardoza High School, Queens College, would listen to the
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  Speaker 1: games on his father's radio in his car. He was
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  Speaker 1: such a fan and then was able to realize this dream,
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  Speaker 1: had bladder cancer in 2021. That oftentimes, will kill you.
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  Speaker 1: Radical surgery came back. What a great voice. And yesterday
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to be his day. Oh, they canceled it
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  Speaker 1: because they said in Clement Weather. Well, they had the
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  Speaker 1: game anyway. The fans were there for Howie Rose. But
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  Speaker 1: no ceremony. Nothing's gone right. This guy is so good.
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  Speaker 1: He deserves better than this.
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  Speaker 2: Here he is signing off for the last time.
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  Speaker 6: So hopefully this is not it for this year. I
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  Speaker 6: will be back you're not getting rid of me that
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  Speaker 6: easily they'll dust me off here to do the various
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  Speaker 6: ceremonies beginning with opening day and mets hall of fame
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  Speaker 6: day and number retirements and if we do an old
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  Speaker 6: timers day and i'll visit in the booth from from
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  Speaker 6: time to time as long as it's in new york
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  Speaker 6: or miami my days of going to other places are
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  Speaker 6: just about over with but just know that i love you.
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  Speaker 2: All He got choked up there in the end. He
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  Speaker 2: is definitely one of the great ones. Should be in
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  Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame. So let's see what happens from
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  Speaker 2: here on out. And if they do right by him,
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  Speaker 2: if they now come around and give him some type
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  Speaker 2: of ceremony because they screwed the pooch.
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  Speaker 1: Or as he would say at the end of games,
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  Speaker 1: put it in the books. He's great.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's get to Daria Albinger with the 630 News.
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  Speaker 4: Daria.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know what I can add to that. That
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  Speaker 7: is like the biggest story of the day.
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  Speaker 1: Seriously, you know?
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 7: Partly sunny and breezy today, high 69, but we will
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  Speaker 7: find some stuff to tell you about now. It may
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: be a good day to work from home if you can.
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  Speaker 7: There's a gridlock alert with the UN General Assembly getting
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  Speaker 7: underway today, and if you have to come into the city,
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  Speaker 7: take mass transit. President Trump is among the dignitaries that'll
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  Speaker 7: be here. He'll meet this afternoon with Mayor Mamdani. Senator
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  Speaker 7: Cory Booker says President Trump is violating the Constitution by
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  Speaker 7: banning some major news outlets from the White House.
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  Speaker 8: The New Jersey Democrats slammed the new policy on NBC's
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  Speaker 8: Meet the Press on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: This president has no regard for the First Amendment. He's
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  Speaker 1: going after reporters, and this ban just doubles down.
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  Speaker 8: Booker also accused the president of using the Justice Department
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  Speaker 8: in unprecedented ways to retaliate against reporters. Trump said on
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  Speaker 8: Truth Social Friday he was barring CNN, MSNOW, and Politico
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  Speaker 8: due to what he says is their constant reporting of
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  Speaker 8: fiction and lies when covering him. The president said other
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: news media outlets will also be banned from the White
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: House soon.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Mark Mayfield.
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: Police are looking for a suspect in a fatal shooting
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: outside of Wawa, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 9: Police were called to a location in Toms River just
• 18:01
  Speaker 9: before 7.30 in the morning on Friday and found a
• 18:05
  Speaker 9: man who was shot in the head. The 42-year-old victim
• 18:08
  Speaker 9: was rushed to the hospital where he was later pronounced dead. Now,
• 18:12
  Speaker 9: the Ocean City Prosecutor's Office is looking to find and
• 18:15
  Speaker 9: book 51-year-old Douglas Cobb. He's facing multiple charges, including murder
• 18:20
  Speaker 9: and unlawful weapon possession. The circumstances leading up to the
• 18:24
  Speaker 9: shooting remain unclear. Anyone who knows where he could be
• 18:27
  Speaker 9: is being asked to contact Crimestoppers. Jonathan O'Halloran, WUR News.
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: Three students from Columbia University are suing the school over
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: their response to pro-Palestinian protests. They're accusing campus security of
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: locking protesters in a room at the school library for
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: hours during demonstrations last year. And they say they were
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: beaten by officers who were allegedly acting on Columbia's orders.
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: The university maintains the students were being detained so authorities
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: could get their identities. The Jets, Mets, and Yankees all
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: lost the Giants' take on the L.A. Rams in Monday
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: Night Football. Next news, 7 o'clock bulletins at once. I'm
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Daria. When it comes to businesses,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: New Jersey hasn't gotten any better. They're one of the
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: worst in the country when it comes to dealing with
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: corporations and businesses, and they just lost another one. That
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: makes four major companies leaving this year, which hurts the
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: tax base, and it costs jobs. We'll tell you who
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: those companies are when we come right back. Well, New
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Jersey constantly ranks at the very bottom of the list
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: when it comes to company friendliness or places where companies
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: want to set up. And that's mostly because of their
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: tax rate. It is the second highest in the country.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, WalletHub just did a study.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Hawaii was 50th. New Jersey was 49th. And that's where
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: they are on almost every poll about corporate friendliness, either
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: at the very bottom or close to the bottom. Well,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: another company has now moved out. Burlington Coat Factory, they
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: now call Burlington the discount retailer. They are moving from
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: South Jersey, Curtis, to somewhere where you just were, Philadelphia's
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: University City neighborhood.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Wow, that's not far away, across the Delaware.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: No, the taxes are better, and they got some incentives
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: from the state.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Some huge incentives from the state.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: So Shapiro stole them from the helicopter pilot.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Absolutely, but- But that's not the only company. I mean,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: there's been a whole lot of companies recently. Samsung Electronics
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: announced in June that it was moving in its headquarters.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: with about 1,000 jobs to Plano, Texas.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Now, that's that huge tower in Englewood Cliffs, right? Yeah,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: that's exactly it. You can see it from Washington Heights
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: to George Washington Bridge. What are they going to put
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: in that huge building now?
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Well, they better start attracting some businesses because they keep
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: losing businesses. By the way, there have been clubs and
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: corporations and business associations... In New Jersey, they've been warning
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: about this for years, that if they don't change the
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: business climate, they're going to start bleeding companies and jobs.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: And no mayor, by the way, Murphy was the worst.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: So I'm not going to blame Mikey Sherrill completely, but
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: she hasn't changed anything yet. And so let me go
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: through the rest of them. ExxonMobil made a decision to
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: move its corporation to Texas after 140 years in New Jersey.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: So that's one in Pennsylvania, two to Texas. Honeywell in
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: 2018 moved out. Mercedes-Benz just recently moved out. So It's
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: company after company after company. Ocean Spray Bottling Company just
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: moved out. Dietzen-Watson Distribution Center moved out. I mean, the
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: list of all of these companies that are moving out
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: of New Jersey because they have the highest corporate tax
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: rate in the country is is incredible, and it doesn't
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: seem like they are ready to do anything about it.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you some of the other reasons. New
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Jersey ranks near the bottom for job growth right now,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: with a non-farm workforce that shrank by 0.4%, or that's
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: about 20,000 workers, over the 12 months ending in July. Pennsylvania, meanwhile,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: they went up. Texas went way up. Most of the countries,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: you've seen the job growth, the job numbers coming out
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: from the federal government. They're going up around the country,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: just not in New Jersey. And Curtis, and I think
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: you know this well, that's a huge problem for a
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: state if they're not only losing their corporate tax base.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: But they're losing all of those jobs. And just from
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: the companies we talked about, and that's in the last
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: few years, that's almost 50,000 jobs.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, a lot. I remember it became, it dawned on
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: me when we began patrolling Camden, New Jersey.
• 23:09
  Speaker 10: Oh, man.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Horror in terms of crime and deterioration. Other than the
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: hospital there, there was nothing. But Campbell's Soups, right? I
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: remember they had the factory there and the corporate headquarters.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: And you could actually go in and see, you saw
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: the soup can towers. You could go in and see
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: how all the Campbell's Soups were made. Most of the
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Campbell's Soups were made there and then shipped out from there.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: And then they closed their factory. I guess they kept
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: their corporate headquarters there. But you say to yourself, the
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: traditional companies of New Jersey. I mean, just look across
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: the Hudson River, right? You see the Maxwell House sign, right,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: in Jersey City. Well, there's Maxwell House sign, but no
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Maxwell House. So you're right. You can go listing after
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: listing other than the pharmaceutical companies, which have a big
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: presence in New Jersey. Yeah, they're really bleeding out corporately,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: really bleeding out corporately.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Here are the biggest companies in New Jersey, and if
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: they ever lose any of these, they're going to be
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: in real trouble. Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick.
• 24:15
  Speaker 11: Oh, Woody.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Woody with the Jets.
• 24:17
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Well, right now they're staying. Yeah, they're staying.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: But I'm telling you, state after state after state is
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: coming to all these companies with packages. that show a
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: lower tax base and show a workforce that was willing
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: to work for them. And in New Jersey, they just
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: don't have much of that and the cost of living.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: And that's a extremely important thing for a business, for
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: all their workers, to attract workers. When they find out
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: the cost of a house in New Jersey compared to Texas, well,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: they're going to go to New Jersey. Merck and Rahway
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: is another big one.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: You know, I have to beg forgiveness on this. I
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: thought originally the Burlington Coat Factory was in Burlington, Vermont.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: You know what straightened me out on that? It was
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Bernie the Atacaca Sanders, who was the mayor of Burlington.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Never a Democrat, always an independent. And I met him
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: at the University of Vermont. I was speaking there. He
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: was like an adjunct professor. This morning was congressman. I said, oh,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: you were the mayor of Burlington. Is that where the
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Burlington Coat Factory started? He goes, no, we have one, but...
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: It wasn't in Vermont.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: No, it was North Carolina.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: He had to straighten me out.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it started in North Carolina. As a matter of fact,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: the guy that started it started Elon University as well,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: which is where my son goes. That's the only reason
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: I know that.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Wait, I thought that was Elon Musk again.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: You can't go by that. Let me give you an
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: idea about these companies and how much money they make. Like,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: for instance, Prudential Financial, you've seen the building in Newark.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: They bring in $ 60. 8 billion a year in revenue. And
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: when you have an 11% tax rate, that's billions of dollars.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: I'm just trying to sound the alarm on this. I mean,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: I know they know it over there. But if these
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: companies keep leaving, and we've had three huge companies leave
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: in the last year, New Jersey is in some real trouble.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: And if you don't think this affects you personally, your
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: taxes are going up.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Would the new line be New Jersey without you? Don't
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: let the door hit you on the way out, corporations.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: I will say it's not Mikey Sherrill's fault yet because
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: this has been happening for a long, long time. And
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: I'm sure those deals were in the work before Mikey.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: But when she was contacted about the story, she didn't
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: want to comment on the story. So that means she
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: ain't got no answers yet. When we come back, well,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: we are glad to have Natalie Vaca with us this
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: morning because she got out of the way of disaster
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: just in time when a 93-year-old driver plowed into a
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Shore restaurant. We'll have the details when we come back. Well,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: in Lavalette, New Jersey, a 93-year-old woman attempting to park
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: a Buick Encore outside a restaurant Press the gas pedal
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: instead of the brake. This happened so much. Accelerating into
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: an outdoor dining area and building, one person was killed.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Seven others were injured. But the restaurant that we're talking
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: about is very popular. And guess who was waiting to
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: get into that restaurant and finally gave up and missed
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: certain disaster? Our own Natalie Vaca. Natalie, man, you missed tragedy.
• 27:50
  Speaker 12: You know, we went down Friday night, Saturday morning. My
• 27:53
  Speaker 12: husband went for a run. When he came back, I said, oh,
• 27:55
  Speaker 12: let's go grab some breakfast. I really want some coffee.
• 27:57
  Speaker 12: Let's sit down somewhere. He was really hungry. He's like, okay, fine.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: You know, he wasn't really having it.
• 28:03
  Speaker 12: But he went. And it was, you know, it's the
• 28:06
  Speaker 12: end of the season. So not a lot of places
• 28:08
  Speaker 12: are open. So the ones that are open are really crowded.
• 28:12
  Speaker 12: Because I figured, oh, it's September. It won't be so crowded.
• 28:14
  Speaker 12: But I was wrong. So we got there. And, you know,
• 28:17
  Speaker 12: tons of people. Everybody was eating outside. It was, you know,
• 28:20
  Speaker 12: pretty nice out. And he was just so hungry. I said, fine,
• 28:23
  Speaker 12: let's just leave. I was kind of annoyed. I was like,
• 28:25
  Speaker 12: all right, fine. We got back in the car. We
• 28:27
  Speaker 12: went down about a mile and a half. We grabbed
• 28:29
  Speaker 12: a breakfast sandwich. And we sat outside and we ate.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Got back home.
• 28:34
  Speaker 12: And they were like, did you hear what happened in
• 28:36
  Speaker 12: La Valette? I'm like, oh, we were just there.
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: What are you talking about?
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: They're like, there's medevacs. There's this. at Meg's.
• 28:41
  Speaker 10: I'm like, Meg's?
• 28:43
  Speaker 12: We were just standing there. So we must have missed
• 28:46
  Speaker 12: it by about 20 minutes. So by the time we
• 28:49
  Speaker 12: got in the car and went and ate somewhere else, you.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Know, something happened.
• 28:53
  Speaker 12: But Everybody was saying, oh, goodness, I hope nobody got
• 28:58
  Speaker 12: really hurt. And then, unfortunately, the tragedy happened. A 56-year-old
• 29:02
  Speaker 12: woman died.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an elderly person that's driving a car and
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: hits the gas pedal instead of the brake. If you
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: now go online and just put that in, elderly person
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: hitting the gas pedal instead of the brake, you'll see
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: that there were four tragic cases just in the last year.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: And Curtis, when I was a reporter in Chicago, I
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: think it was in 1992 at O'Hare Airport, there was
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: a man, I remember his last name still, Horvath, because
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: it was such a horrible accident. He hit the gas
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: instead of the brake and ran in. a group of
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: kids waiting to get on a bus. 90 people were
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: injured by him and a nine-year-old girl died. So there's
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: something that has to be, I know that DMVs and
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: motor vehicle associations across the country are all over this.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: But it's still happening.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: The most difficult conversation you're ever going to have is
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: with your mother or father. Once they're getting up there
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: in age and they still want to drive and you
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: have to say, hey, dad, you can't be driving or mom,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: you can't be driving. And boy, they fight because that's
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: their independence. That's your ability to go out on their own,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: not depend on anyone. Oh, man, did I get into
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: some battles with my father? And my mother, before they
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: passed away, because in the last years, they were not
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: capable of driving on their own. Yet they insisted. What
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: are you talking about? You don't even have a driver's license, Curtis.
• 30:37
  Speaker 12: For all we know, the family might have had a
• 30:40
  Speaker 12: conversation with this woman. She lived in the town. Lavalette
• 30:44
  Speaker 12: is not big. So maybe they said, oh, she's just
• 30:47
  Speaker 12: driving in town.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe she didn't have even family around anymore. I
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: will tell you, I had the same situation with my dad.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: And by the way, my father, it was so horrible
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: to see when dementia hit because he was the most
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: brilliant man I had ever met in my life. And
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: he taught me things constantly. And I was just so
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: proud of his success and also just looked up to him.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: We had to hide his car keys. That was the
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: hardest thing that myself and the family ever did was
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: to hide his car keys and then have to lie
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: to him. Because if you said, look, with your dad,
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: he's going to get angry. He's going to get really mad.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: And then you have to have a bigger conversation with him.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, belligerent.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: So we would constantly say, look, we just can't find him, Dad.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: We just can't find him. And then he would finally
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: give up. Well, there is one positive to come from
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: this story. Natalie, remember I tagged you with the handle
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: when Tom Cuddy did the shit I can put me
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: and Larry together. back in March, I called you Calamity Natalie, right?
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: You remember that, Calamity Natalie.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: You realize your husband being so famished, so hungry, avoided
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: a calamity because you were getting so annoyed with your husband,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: you just decided we're not waiting on line at that
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: very restaurant where the woman plowed into. We'll just go
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: down the road. So you are no longer in my book,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Calamity Natalie.
• 32:14
  Speaker 12: I'm glad to get the name off, but it's the
• 32:16
  Speaker 12: first time his hangry We all understand people who get
• 32:19
  Speaker 12: hangry really, you know, because it is the one thing
• 32:22
  Speaker 12: I get annoyed by him all the time.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: You realize she has a one-up on her husband all
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: the time now when he says, what are you nagging
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: me for? Remember when I saved your life? Remember when
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: I nagged you and I saved your life?
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: No, he'll turn it around. Oh, he should because it
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: was him being hungry and not wanting to wait that
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: caused you to leave the queue. And thank God, thank
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: God that did happen because who knows? Who knows? Boy,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: you're no longer Calamity Natalie. But up next, our own
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Larry Menti was in Lincoln Field Park to see Ed
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Sheeran in concert on Saturday night. And you're going to
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: give us your review because we've seen every other review.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: And I want to see if yours matches with what
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: we've seen in the mainstream media. But first, the news
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: at 7 o'clock.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Well, as Curtis just mentioned a second ago, I was
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: at the Ed Sheeran concert at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: And before I get to talking about what happened in
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: the concert, let me tell you something I learned just
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: walking in the front door, actually just driving up to
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: the stadium, that the media is worse than I thought.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: The media just lies for some political advantage. It's what
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: they hope to be true and not what they know
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: to be true. And let me tell you how I
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: knew that. That as I'm driving up, I heard, we
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: got there earlier because we heard there was going to
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: be all these protesters, right? Didn't the media say that?
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Expect hundreds, maybe thousands of protesters outside. I saw eight.
• 34:02
  Speaker 11: Eight!
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Now, apparently a little bit earlier, just to be clear
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: and just to be honest and do not what the
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: media does, apparently a little bit earlier, there were as
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: many as 30. But I guess when they looked around
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: and they saw that it wasn't a big showing, most
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: of them went home. So it was just about eight
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: crazies that were out there. And I know it was
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: eight because I was stopped in traffic and I counted them.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: So that didn't happen. Then I get inside and I'm
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: expected to find almost an empty stadium. Remember? They were saying,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: there's no way this is going to be sold out.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: There's so much blowback against Ed Sheeran. that it's going
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: to be almost empty, half full. It was sold out.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: It was absolutely sold out. And so the reporting on
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: this story is suspect from the very beginning. But you
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: know the story by now that Macklemore, a washed up
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: rapper who's trying to make a comeback, hasn't had a hit.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: In a decade, even then, he had one, maybe two,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: thrift shop, and that was probably it. He was trying
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: to make a comeback. Ed Sheeran was kind enough to
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: put him on his bill as the opening act, and
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: he makes a political statement against Israel and pro-Palestine, which
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: then started off a torrent of activity after that, where
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: The promoter was dropping Macklemore. Robert Kraft said he couldn't
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: perform in Boston. Other owners of venues said they can't
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: have Macklemore. And then people quit on him. After that,
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Ed Sheeran, all the other opening acts, even his band
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: left him. His band left him. But he still performed
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: in Philadelphia with no band and no opening act. But
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: he did have an opening statement.
• 36:03
  Speaker 13: I don't want to disappoint fans, and I've never wanted
• 36:06
  Speaker 13: to be an activist musician, but this has put me
• 36:08
  Speaker 13: in the middle of an important and passionate argument about
• 36:11
  Speaker 13: freedom of speech and the most complex political issue on
• 36:14
  Speaker 13: the planet.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: By the way, if you just heard there, there was
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: silence when he read this statement. So there was almost
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: 100,000 people, and there was silence.
• 36:25
  Speaker 13: I have tried in my career not to be a
• 36:26
  Speaker 13: political commentator of any kind, because I want my music
• 36:30
  Speaker 13: and shows... to be about unity, not division, about humanity,
• 36:34
  Speaker 13: not politics.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: And then he made the comment that made news after that.
• 36:40
  Speaker 13: What happened in Israel and at the Nova Music Festival
• 36:42
  Speaker 13: on October 7th was horrific and compounded centuries of Jewish pain.
• 36:48
  Speaker 13: What is happening in Gaza is catastrophic and unjustifiable and disproportionate.
• 36:55
  Speaker 13: My heart has been broken by the scale of devastation
• 36:57
  Speaker 13: and loss of civilians' lives. of children's lives.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: But then he said it's important no matter what because
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: he owed it to his fans for the tour to
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: go on.
• 37:10
  Speaker 13: My concerts have always been a safe space for everyone
• 37:14
  Speaker 13: and that matters hugely to me. Honoring my commitment to
• 37:18
  Speaker 13: my fans is also completely central to who I am
• 37:22
  Speaker 13: and that is why I'm here tonight on my own
• 37:26
  Speaker 13: and continuing my current tour.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: And then he got a standing ovation at the end
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: of that because people were appreciative that they weren't going
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: to hear. He said, that's it. That's no more politics.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: I made my statement. There's no more politics. And then
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: he said, but I wasn't going to let you down.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: I was going to show up tonight. And he got
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: a standing ovation. And I will tell you, he said
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: at the very end that this is the best show
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: I've ever done. Curtis, he didn't have a band with him.
• 37:54
  Speaker 11: So he.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Had to play every instrument recorded, and he did it live.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: So he would play backup guitar, record it, Then he'd
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: put the guitar down. He'd go sing backup vocals. And
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: you saw this all play out as he's doing it.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: As if he were in the studio.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: And then he sang the song and he's hitting foot
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: pedals for the drums, for the backup guitar. The whole
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: time he's singing. It was amazing. It was an amazing.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: This is one of the most talented people I have
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: ever seen in my life.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Stadium. I could see you do that in a club, right?
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: but a stadium with all the acoustics and all that
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: is absolutely phenomenal.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: And the energy he has, he was running around the stage.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: He did a couple of rap songs, which I didn't
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: like that much, but he was performing and he was
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: going crazy. You could see it was pouring himself out,
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: but at the whole time he's doing all the music.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Now he did have a band show up for a
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: few songs, friends of his that said, look, what do
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: you need? Anything you need, just tell us. And they
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: flew out from L.A., And he said, I wasn't going
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: to ask them to do the whole concert because they
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: had three days to learn my songs. He said, so
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: let's do three or four songs with them. So they
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: played with them.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: So everybody was happy by the time the concert was
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: wrapped up.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Everybody left getting better than they expected. Well, let me
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: tell you one thing that happened. Another thing that happened
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: that hasn't got as much play. And I tried to,
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: I recorded it and I tried to pull sound of it,
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: but it doesn't hear that, doesn't sound that well. So
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to describe it. So at one point
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: near the end of the concert, he's exhausted now. You
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: can see that. And he sits down and everybody applauds
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: as he's sitting down. And he said, look, I really
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: didn't know what was going to happen tonight. And he said,
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: when I heard the news, I thought that there might
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: be a terrorist attack. I thought there was going to
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: be hundreds of protesters outside. And he said, I even
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: had a walkway to go through the middle of the crowd.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: And I said, no, let's not do that because I
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: didn't know how you were going to react. I didn't
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: know if somebody was going to throw something at me
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: or tackle me or attack me on the walkway. So
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: I said, get rid of that. And I'm not doing that.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: He said, but the love you've showed me tonight gives
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: me a lot of hope about this country and about
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: the world. And he goes, I can't tell you how
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: much I appreciate you and the love you showed me tonight.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: And the place went crazy. They stood up, they applauded.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: He broke down in tears.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Well, I can't tell you how much we appreciate that
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: you went to the concert so you could report to
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: us what actually took place in the event, as opposed
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: to all these other third party or fourth party sort
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: of responses. The one thing that he did make his
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: political statement, I think it reflects what most Americans think.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: He said October 7th was horrific. So he dealt with
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: that right away. But then he said what's going on
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: in Gaza is a catastrophe, unjustifiable, and it's disproportionate to
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: what had originally happened on October 7th, horrific, when Hamas
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: invaded Israel and slaughtered and raped and destroyed and then
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: took hostages. I thought that was very well said. I
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: think it's reflected in polling of Americans now who are
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: very down on Israel and Bibi Netanyahu. We'll see that
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: this week when he comes in for the U.N. General
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Assembly speech on Thursday. So he felt he had to
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: say something. And I think what he said was a
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: balanced response, which really is a reflection what I think
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: a lot of Americans are thinking.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: He is. Let's talk about Macklemore for a second. That scum.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: I really hate the man. I do, because I think
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: he made it very difficult, and I saw how difficult
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: it was for Ed Sheeran when he broke down in
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: tears that nothing like this has happened to him. Good friends,
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: he said during the concert. Good friends turned on me. And,
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: you know, people I called to say help, they weren't
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: going to help. And he said, my whole band left me.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: But you know what? That band may not work again
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: because he now found out he can do this all
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: by himself. And he said at one point, this is
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: the best concert I've ever done in my life. But Macklemore,
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: there's a lot more to say about him because Macklemore
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: has a history of anti-Semitic stuff, not just anti-Israel, anti-Semitic stuff.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: And maybe the most was in 2014. This ruined his career,
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: by the way, when he walked on a stage in
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: Seattle wearing a dark wig, a fake beard, and a
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: prominent prosthetic hook nose. And everybody said at the time, oh,
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: he's dressing up like a Hasidic Jew. He's dressing up
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: like a Jew. He's making fun of Jews because he's
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: made fun of them in the past. He denied that,
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: but the backlash on that really ended his career. faltering
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: career after that. So this isn't the first time he's
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: done something like this. And anybody that supports this scum
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: now should be ashamed of themselves.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, he's a martyr now. He's going to
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: get dates. He's going to make a lot of money.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: And the one who didn't expect the blowback is Kraft
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: and his son. Because now everything that we already knew
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: was negative about Bob Kraft, and there's a lot, has
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: just poured forth. And they've associated him. We hadn't heard
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: the name Epstein in a long time, right? We haven't
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: heard anything about the Epstein files. Well, Kraft happens to
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: appear in the Epstein files a few times. He's not
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: a prominent friend of Epstein, you know, like Woody Allen
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: and Bill Gates. But now that's come forward. And then
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: negative things about his son who helps him in running
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: the New England Patriots and Gillette Stadium. By the way,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: I think Ed Sheeran will be at the Gillette Stadium,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: I think, the 27th and 28th.
• 43:58
  Speaker 13: So....
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: The Krabs are catching a lot of blowback. I don't
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: think he ever fathomed how much stuff would come back
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: up and be aimed at him.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: I don't believe anything anymore. After going to that concert,
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: I don't believe anything anymore. I don't believe he's getting
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: the blowback that they claim he's getting. I don't believe
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: any of this. I think that there's a loud, angry
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: voice in this country that are misled that has been
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: leading the coverage and everything online. And I found out
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: with my eyes that it just wasn't true. that it
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: just wasn't true, that Ed Sheeran had huge support, bigger
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: than Macklemore could ever have. By the way, when we
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: come back, I want to talk about a hero pilot
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: that risked his own life to save the lives of hundreds.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: And this just happened over the weekend. Plus, we have
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: a chance to see Kenny G at age 25. Also,
• 44:56
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• 45:01
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• 45:06
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• 45:16
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• 45:23
  Speaker 2: well the pilot of an F-16 in Michigan whose name
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: is not being released as of yet I just checked
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: again is being hailed as a hero because he was
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: flying an F-16 and apparently he is a well-established pilot
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: that had some military training. And he was flying this
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: F-16 over Traverse City when he lost control of it.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: And he was able, he was going down, but he
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: was able to glide it miles away from any homes
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: to a field and where one man, only one house
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: was there anywhere near it, the home owned by Benjamin Vierberg,
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: who was the first one to run over to find
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: out if this pilot was okay, because it was quite
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: a crash landing.
• 46:11
  Speaker 14: I went over to him, and I was like, don't move,
• 46:14
  Speaker 14: because I remember I took some CPR stuff back in
• 46:17
  Speaker 14: the day, and they were like, tell the guy not
• 46:20
  Speaker 14: to move. So I told him, don't move. He said
• 46:22
  Speaker 14: he could wiggle his toes, so I assumed... Like he
• 46:26
  Speaker 14: wasn't paralyzed. He had this pain in his lower spine. Yeah.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: The condition is that he has right now is he's serious,
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: but he's, it's not critical and he's expected to live.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: But Mr. Weyerberg said what everybody else said about him.
• 46:42
  Speaker 14: Just want people to know that this guy is a
• 46:44
  Speaker 14: hero because he could have crashed into Traverse City and
• 46:49
  Speaker 14: a lot of people would have died potentially.
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: So it's kind of amazing, I mean, to have that wherewithal.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Now, on a much smaller scale, we didn't have time
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: to cover this, but the congressman who was running for
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: governor of Wisconsin, the Republican, was coming home from a
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: Lincoln Day dinner in Wisconsin. And remember, he was in
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: a single-engine plane with the pilot, and they crashed into
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Lake Wasua. And then they swam to shore. I mean,
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: that guy, the congressman could have been dead. Boy, there's
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: something going on in the Midwest there. I mean, that's Michigan,
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: as you mentioned, Traverse City. And this was Wisconsin, where
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: it's a neck-and-neck race for the governorship. Now, thankfully, he's okay.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: The pilot was okay. Boy, there must be something going
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: on there in the ether.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and there was a glider that went down recently,
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: and that scared the hell out of me because I
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: took glider lessons one time down in Florida because my
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: uncle did it, and he took me up. Man, when
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: you're in a glider and that plane in front of
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: you detaches the rope, the pulling you, and then you're
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: just here, like you're nothing, no engine, nothing. It's the
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: scariest thing in the world, but it was fun. Landings
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: aren't fun.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't think so. I've seen them from World War
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: II where the gliders land. It's a rough, rough land.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: Let's get some talkbacks.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: You wanted to talk about the elderly person who ran
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: into a restaurant in Lavalette.
• 48:18
  Speaker 15: I'm glad Natalie Vaca's okay, but obviously this is a
• 48:23
  Speaker 15: good argument for having to take away old people's licenses
• 48:27
  Speaker 15: or make them take a test again at a certain age.
• 48:30
  Speaker 15: Because some of these old timers are more dangerous than
• 48:33
  Speaker 15: people that are impaired. They just shouldn't be on the
• 48:36
  Speaker 15: road at a certain point.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: Most states make you go back to get your license
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: every two years. Some are one year if you're over
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: a certain age, which is a smart thing to do.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: Maybe they should have a driver's license.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: I think the worst part is because they know they
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: can't drive at the same rate as everyone else, they
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: stay in a lane and go extraordinarily slow, which causes
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: everyone to almost get into a fender bender. I'm glad
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: you brought this up. It's like Mr. Magoo, you know?
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: It's like.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought this up because I want to
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: give my public service announcement, which I've done about a
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: dozen times. The left lane is for passing, all right?
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: You can't drive in that lane going below the street.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: limit when everybody's trying to get somewhere. You're going to
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: cause an accident. Thank you.
• 49:26
  Speaker 17: So if you grew up in the 60s, protest songs
• 49:30
  Speaker 17: about wars, I've always.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: Been the case with artists, Woodstock, you name it.
• 49:35
  Speaker 17: So Macklemore, I mean, A two-minute song and saying free Palestine,
• 49:41
  Speaker 17: that deserves Kraft overreacting.
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: That never deserved to be banned.
• 49:47
  Speaker 17: He didn't say anything that was anti-Israel, and he's not
• 49:50
  Speaker 17: the only one who's saying it. What's happening?
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think what happened here is because of Kraft's response,
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: and he lobbied the other owners of stadiums that had
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: booked the concert, with Macklemore opening up for Sheeran, Did
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: I get that right? Thank you. It has made Macklemore
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: a martyr. He is going to make a lot of
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: money now. He's going to get a lot more attention.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: I think Kraft should have just stuffed it and not
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: said anything.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: He was the opening act at the behest of someone else.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: It's not your concert.
• 50:28
  Speaker 18: Larry, you're 100% right that you can't believe anything anymore.
• 50:32
  Speaker 18: I went to two different parties on two days this
• 50:35
  Speaker 18: weekend with a bunch of people from 30s up until 50s,
• 50:39
  Speaker 18: so older, and not one was talking about this.
• 50:44
  Speaker 19: Not one.
• 50:45
  Speaker 18: Not a single person brought up Macklemore, brought up any
• 50:48
  Speaker 18: of this. People did bring up that they were trying
• 50:50
  Speaker 18: to get to the concert. Some were leaving to go
• 50:52
  Speaker 18: down to Philly.
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: No one brought up Macklemore.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you get this false belief of reality from social media,
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: which is always wrong and always has an agenda. Now
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: let's get the news at 7.30 with Daria Albinger.
• 51:07
  Speaker 11: Daria.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: Morning, guys.
• 51:08
  Speaker 7: Partly sunny, breezy today. We'll see a high of 69 degrees.
• 51:11
  Speaker 7: It's a gridlock alert day with the U.N. General Assembly
• 51:14
  Speaker 7: getting underway.
• 51:15
  Speaker 10: It's going to be chaotic in the mayhem, but we'll
• 51:17
  Speaker 10: just muster through it. The U.N. 's neighbors are bracing
• 51:20
  Speaker 10: for lockdowns and backups.
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: You have to plan a lot.
• 51:24
  Speaker 10: So does the NYPD and the Secret Service. President Trump
• 51:28
  Speaker 10: addresses the General Assembly on Tuesday... and meets with Ukrainian
• 51:32
  Speaker 10: President Volodymyr Zelensky. As the U.S. tries to broker a
• 51:36
  Speaker 10: deal to de-escalate the fighting with Russia, the president will
• 51:39
  Speaker 10: also meet with interim Venezuelan President Delsi Rodriguez.
• 51:44
  Speaker 7: ABC's Sonia Rincon, the president will meet with Mayor Mamdani
• 51:47
  Speaker 7: this afternoon. If this isn't a sign of the times,
• 51:50
  Speaker 7: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will address the General Assembly this week.
• 51:55
  Speaker 7: He's going to talk about the advantages and the potential
• 51:57
  Speaker 7: problems with artificial intelligence. A community is in mourning a
• 52:01
  Speaker 7: teenage girl died after the e-bike that she was on
• 52:05
  Speaker 7: slammed into a truck in the East Village.
• 52:07
  Speaker 20: NYPD officials say the incident happened Friday night near East
• 52:11
  Speaker 20: 14th Street and First Avenue in the East Village. 15-year-old
• 52:15
  Speaker 20: Daria Surkov and a 16-year-old girl were on the e-bike
• 52:18
  Speaker 20: when they collided with a garbage truck. Both girls were
• 52:21
  Speaker 20: taken to a hospital and Surkov later died from her injuries,
• 52:24
  Speaker 20: with friends and family holding a vigil to honor Surkov,
• 52:27
  Speaker 20: who has been described as sassy. An online fund has
• 52:30
  Speaker 20: also been set up to help pay for funeral expenses.
• 52:33
  Speaker 20: The truck driver remained at the scene and no arrests
• 52:36
  Speaker 20: have been made. Natalie Migliore, WOR News.
• 52:39
  Speaker 7: President Trump has some new plans for the Triumphal Arch
• 52:42
  Speaker 7: that he wants to build in D.C. He says the
• 52:44
  Speaker 7: military has requested that it be used for national security
• 52:47
  Speaker 7: purposes and to house, store, and have the ability to
• 52:51
  Speaker 7: deploy large numbers of drones. He's also saying it would
• 52:54
  Speaker 7: allow snipers on the roof and the plaza areas. The Jets,
• 52:57
  Speaker 7: the Mets, and the Yankees all lost. The Giants are
• 53:00
  Speaker 7: in L.A. to take on the Rams in Monday Night Football.
• 53:02
  Speaker 7: Next news, 8 o'clock, bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger
• 53:05
  Speaker 7: on 710WOR.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Daria. Well, as you know, I can defend
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump on just about everything because I believe in
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: most of the things he does, but not this one.
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump has banned certain news outlets and certain reporters
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: from the White House. We'll talk about how that's going
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: to fail when we come right back. Alicia Keys and
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: friends are joining the 2026 Global Citizen Festival lineup. They
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: joined previous announced performers, Ms. Lauryn Hill and Wycliffe Jean.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: Lenny Kravitz, John Lennon, Lainey Wilson, and many others, with
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: Hugh Jackman hosting. This is Saturday, September 26th, on the
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: Great Lawn in Central Park. Tickets are free, and they
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: can be earned just by taking action. Download the Global
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: Citizen app for more information. Well, Donald Trump has finally
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: had it with CNN, MSNOW, and Politico. the three most
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: biased of the left-leaning media. And so he has done
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: something that I think anyone who's been a reporter in
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: their life just gets squeamish about, just rails at. It
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: is the worst thing that somebody can do, and it's
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: a government official denying access to the media, the fourth estate.
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: So they can't be held accountable. Now, I'm not sure
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: he's doing it because he can't be held accountable because
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: he's the most accessible president in history and he answers
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: every question and all of those outlets will still have
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: other access to him. But right now, they've been going
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: to the White House and as they pass there, as
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: they go over the scanner with their press credential, their
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: White House press credential, they're getting a big red alarm
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: and they're being told, They're being denied access. They are
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: going to be back in. But let's go to the
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: beginning of this story. Here's Donald Trump.
• 55:06
  Speaker 16: Politico and MS Now, which nobody ever heard of, and CNN,
• 55:13
  Speaker 16: which is doing very poorly. The reason they do so
• 55:15
  Speaker 16: poorly is because they have no credibility. And if they
• 55:18
  Speaker 16: had credibility, I wouldn't be sitting here right now. So
• 55:21
  Speaker 16: we are banning them.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: Yes, we are.
• 55:23
  Speaker 16: And there may be others to follow.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: Well, if they have no credibility and they can't hurt you,
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: why are you so annoyed at them? Brian Stelter, though, however,
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: back when Trump was in office the first time was saying–
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: or I guess it was when Obama was in office– said, yes,
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: they should pull the credentials of Fox News. So he's
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: not the first one to be annoyed with this. Fox
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: should be viewed as a political tool.
• 55:48
  Speaker 19: And that raises a question.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: Should it be a part of the White House press pool?
• 55:52
  Speaker 19: You know, should it be afforded the privileges that come
• 55:54
  Speaker 19: with news gathering, even though they do have some news
• 55:57
  Speaker 19: reporters at the White House? You're saying they're primarily a
• 55:59
  Speaker 19: political tool. So should that be reassessed, Zerwick?
• 56:03
  Speaker 14: Listen, I really do.
• 56:04
  Speaker 6: I think it's a discussion we need to have.
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: So on the left, there was a lot of people
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: that have been talking a lot of times about pulling
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: the press credentials of Fox News and just never did it.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, to his credit, over the weekend,
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: President Obama had a news conference and he was at
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: some event and just decided he would speak to the
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: reporters for a moment and said, look, this is just silly.
• 56:30
  Speaker 11: You just can't come to... the White House press briefings
• 56:35
  Speaker 11: anymore because you're giving the current president unfavorable coverage. I'm
• 56:41
  Speaker 11: trying to think what would have happened if I had said,
• 56:43
  Speaker 11: you know what, Fox News, you're out of here.
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: It's unimaginable.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: Now, here is why the whole thing is so ridiculous.
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: The Supreme Court has already ruled on this. President tried
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: it back in 1977. to ban the media, certain media
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: outlets that he didn't like, certain reporters that weren't liked.
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: And in Sheryl versus Knight, they ruled that the First
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: Amendment limits the ability of the White House and Secret
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: Service to arbitrarily deny a press pass to a journalist.
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: The court established that once the White House sets up
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: press facilities for credentialed reporters, it cannot deny or revoke
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: access based on the content or viewpoint of a journalist's reporting.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: So the courts have already decided on this. It's been
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: judicial law now for almost 50 years. And so for
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: him to do this now, I think he must know that, right?
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: I mean— Yeah, but again, it's a distraction that the
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: Republicans don't need. I think he's tailgating on what Pete
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: Hegseth did as the Secretary of War. Remember, he banned
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: a certain number of media outlets from coming to the
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: Pentagon for briefings. Then later on, we find out from
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: servicemen and servicewomen, they're sending pictures of the destruction done
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: by the Iranians to American bases in the Middle East.
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: So you need the press to be there. You need
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: the press to ask questions, whether they're right-wing, left-wing. You know, Larry,
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: the difference is when I've traveled the world, they'll straight
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: up tell you, oh, we're left-wing, we're right-wing. But in America,
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: everybody likes to say, oh, no, we're fair and balanced. Remember,
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: that used to be the Fox line. They changed that. No,
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: everybody has a certain bent. Let the people decide what
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: they're going to watch or what they're going to listen
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: to or what they're going to read and then come
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: to their own conclusions. Yeah. I mean, but you need that.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: I think the problem is you don't have enough space
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: because of all the new media types.
• 58:58
  Speaker 19: Oh, yeah.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: But the White House itself doesn't doesn't determine who makes
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: it into the White House briefing room. I mean, they
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: can open it up for more people. But it's usually
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: the White House Press Association.
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: They may need that ballroom once it's finished to be
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: able to house. Because you have the old media, right,
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: the mainstream. You have all the new media. You have podcasters.
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: You have everybody else. You may need that ballroom essentially
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: to house all the different people who want to be
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: available at a White House press conference.
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: By the way, the one that denied access, the case
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: in 1977 that was settled finally by the courts– That
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: was Lyndon Johnson. So that was a Democratic president who
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: was also upset. The guy used to work for the
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: nation and did a derogatory report, they felt. And so
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: they denied him access. But that's been settled. This is
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: settled law. So the president's just trying to make a point.
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: I don't like you and I have some power over you.
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: But this is quickly going to be thrown out. But
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: it's not going to be immediate unless he gets an
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: emergency ruling immediately. by an appellate court or the first
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: court that it goes to unless somebody tries to take
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: it right to the Supreme Court. But as of right now,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: they're out. So for the next week or so, at least,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: you're going to have no CNN reporting. no Politico reporting,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: and no MS Now reporting from the White House.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: Ah, up next, Natalie Migliore in the streets talking about
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: the march of the despots, dictators, and tyrants. It's UN
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: General Assembly week. The traffic will be tied up in knots.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: I'm still taken by that three-year-old boy whose life was
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: saved out in California by LIFEVAC because more than anything else,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: that highlights how important it is to have a life vac.
• 1:00:49
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• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: frantic mom called 911 and said, my child is choking,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: the police showed up and were able to save that life.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: Now think about that. Seconds matter. If they didn't have
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: the life vac, that little boy would have died. That's
• 1:01:15
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  Speaker 2: the mom in California tried everything, including the Heimlich and
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: clearing the child's throat. It just wasn't working. Now, these
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  Speaker 19: Mendoza.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: It's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore. Natalie,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: up from the streets and the suites, finding out how
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: New Yorkers are reacting to the march of the despots, dictators,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: and tyrants again to the U.N. General Assembly tying the streets.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: Up in a knot.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 21: Yeah, everybody loves it.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 10: It's really.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: Hold on a second. We got to get you amplification here.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, here I am. Here I am.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 21: And so are the more than 100 world leaders who
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 21: are converging on New York City. They tried to mute me,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 21: but I got stuff to say.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: And so do the people.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: Look, OK.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 21: World leaders converging on Midtown Manhattan for the U.N.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: General Assembly.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 21: Drivers and pedestrians, that includes all of us really, should
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 21: expect roving street closures near U.N. headquarters and around town.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 21: Midtown Manhattan for the rest of the week. New Yorkers
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 21: will also see more police officers on the streets. And
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 21: if you're walking past certain high echelon or high class
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 21: hotels that might be considered, you might see some security
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 21: tents outside and they might hold you up as the
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 21: dignitaries are moving to and fro and wherever. OK, so
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 21: nothing necessarily new here for the people who live and
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 21: work in New York.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: I just work here. I'm usually in and out.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 21: So I don't really have too much of an opinion
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 21: on that.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: But it can become overwhelming when you're trying to travel.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: What doesn't it do?
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 22: Train delays, crowding, unnecessary blockage of certain areas. But I
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 22: understand safety of our ambassadors and stuff like that. But
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 22: it does bring a large crowd to the city.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: I feel like that's just New York.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 15: You get used to it, honestly.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 10: I've been here my whole life.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 15: There's traffic all the time.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: A bunch of people.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 13: Just deal with it if you're coming to New York.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're dealing with it.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 21: Now, the president is starting his week in New York
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 21: meeting with Mayor Mamdani at Gracie Mansion, their first official
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 21: meeting since the pair met at the White House in February.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 21: Trump is also set to meet with Ukrainian President Zelensky
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 21: and French President Emmanuel Macron.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 10: In New York.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 21: So far, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is coming to
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 21: New York later this week, but those two don't have
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 21: any meetings on the books so far, okay? However, Jewish
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 21: New Yorkers are awaiting Netanyahu's arrival.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 5: He's going to be well received. There's a lot of
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 5: support for him. Bibi's doing a great job under tough circumstances.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 5: The whole world is against him. Can't wait for him
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 5: to come and greet him at the UN.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: With open arms. If there's any type of gathering when
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: he comes here, I would like to be there.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 23: The government, the prime minister of Israel is not perfect.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 23: The government, the mayor of this city is far from perfect.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: The president... Love him. Not like him. Not perfect. Me,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: Michael Rapaport, I'm not perfect. He'll be received.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 21: Now, that was comedian Michael Rapaport. He was also on Traders.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 21: I caught up with him on the street. He couldn't
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 21: quite get out that Netanyahu would be respected. He went
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 21: to go say it a few times and he stopped
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 21: short of saying that.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: He probably wasn't aware that the prime minister, Bibi, will
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: come in Thursday morning. Give his speech at the General
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: Assembly and leave right away. He's not even spending the day.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 11: Right, right.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 21: And that's partially a lot of Jewish New Yorkers have
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 21: said that's, you know, the rhetoric that has sort of
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 21: been built up blaming Mamdani for this sort of divisive.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 21: narrative that he's created around Israel. A lot of New
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 21: Yorkers on the street say that now. Just to decide
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 21: really quick, Michael Rappaport is running for mayor.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he says that. He has said that. Get into
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: the ring of fire, pal. Get into the ring of fire.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 10: He did say that.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 20: I have him.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 21: We have him on social media saying that we have
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 21: a video.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 7: We'll post that of him saying that.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 21: But he did say that if there was a better
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 21: candidate to do the job, He would step aside like
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 21: he's he just wants somebody to run this city.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: He wants attention is what he wants. Come on.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 21: Now, they feel that or Jewish New Yorkers feel that,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 21: you know, the mayor incites division and Rappaport has been
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 21: a very vocal opponent, not just towards Mamdani, but the U.N.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 21: vocalizing long standing criticisms the U.N.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 24: Has faced.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: The UN is a corrupt organization. The UN should be
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: shut down.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 23: The UN is a garbage organization that should be shut down.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 23: And I urge James Dolan to try to purchase the
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 23: building and turn it into a practice facility for the
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 23: Knicks and the Rangers. Bring the Knick players to Manhattan.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 23: They can live in Manhattan. They don't have to live
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 23: in the suburbs. No disrespect to the suburbs. The Knicks
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 23: should be practicing in New York City. And I urge
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 23: James Dolan to buy the building of the UN and
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 23: shut that dump, corrupt... building an organization down for good.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: Oh i hope he's serious about running this would be
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: so much fun problem.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 21: With james it would be so much fun.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: Yes to listen to that imagine the debates i know.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: Right the problem with that is james stolen doesn't pay
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: property tax now on madison square garden 48 million a
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: year he's going to pay property tax on the united
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: nations building not I.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 21: Just love how my interview went from, like, really heavy
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 21: politics and talking about the U.N. and all of the
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 21: political tensions to, like, let's turn it into a Knicks facility.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: Well, up next, guess who's coming to lunch?
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 6: Who?
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: The president of the United States, Donald Trump, is going
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: to Gracie Mansion to meet with Mayor Mondami. We'll break
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: it down for you up next, but, Natalie... We'll see
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: you same time, same place tomorrow at 7.50. So late yesterday,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: Larry and Natalie, the news came that the president of
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: the United States, Donald Trump, would come in a day
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: early for his speech, which will be Tuesday before the
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: United Nations, in which apparently he's going to talk about
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: stopping the nuclear weapons effort of Iran, or at least
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: that's what's been hinted at. But nobody had any idea
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: that he would be coming to Gracie Mansion this afternoon
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: to meet with Mayor Zoran Mandami. This will be their
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: third meeting. Now, think about it. There's nothing pressing in
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: New York City that would require the president of the
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: United States to meet with the mayor. He's not even
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: going to meet with Bibi, the prime minister of Israel,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: when he comes in and out on Thursday to give
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: his speech before the janitors. Assembly. And there's a long
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: history here. If you go back to when Zoran Mandami
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: won the election, the president invited him to the White House,
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: and it was peace, love, and happiness that first meeting.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: You may have remembered how the press as Zohar Mandami's
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: standing at his side, you've called the president fascist before.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: Do you still think he's a fascist? And President Donald
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: Trump gently touched his arms. You can call me whatever
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: you want. Don't worry about it, Zohar. And it was
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: truly a love fest to the point that it shocked
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: the political establishment. Like, what's going on here? Many Republicans
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: at that point said, well, this is Donald Trump, the
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: art of the deal. He's playing chess while everybody else
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: is playing checkers. But towards the end of that first meeting,
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: he was asked about what Congresswoman Stefanik had said. Boy,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: she was the go-to gal. She was going to be
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: taking on Hochul for the governorship. She had raised $ 15 million,
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: and the campaign had already been launched. to attack Zoran Mandami,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: friend of the terrorists and terrorist sympathizer. When the president
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: was asked, he said, no, I disagree with the congresswoman.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: That's not what Zorhan is. Oh, that was it for Stefanik.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: That was her whole campaign. She said, guess what? I'm
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: no longer running for governor. I'm not even going to
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: run for my two-year congressional seat. And she basically has
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: been out of sight, out of mind. Then came Bruce
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: Blakeman in.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: Well, it was when Bruce Blakeman got in that she
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: dropped out because she expected the endorsement from the president
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: at that point, and he said, I'm not going to
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: endorse anybody.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: It was immediately after that she was done.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: Right. But the campaign for all Republicans is Zoran Mandami
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: is the face of the new Democratic DSA, the Islamist communist,
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: Islamist communist. They keep repeating that. It's almost like you
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: hear that everywhere. So you say to yourself, then he
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: had a second meeting at the White House. It was
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: all about housing. The mayor came with a plan. The
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: Sunnyside Yards, which is where a lot of the trains
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: are parked late at night. You can actually see it
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: when you take the 7 train out to either the U.S.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: Open or Citi Field. You have New Jersey Transit there.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: You have Amtrak there. You have every conceivable train that's
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: docked there. They wanted to put a deck over that
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: and build 12,000 housing units. So Zoran went as a
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: salesman and he paid tribute to Donald Trump, the builder.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: and said, we need $ 16 billion to build affordable housing there.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, the president said, yeah, that's
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: a good idea. Most of it would come from the
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: federal government, and they traded ideas. And obviously, we see
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: the president fancies himself as a builder and a developer.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: He's got a lot of friends in the business, and
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: a lot of the unions are dependent on that kind
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: of employment. And Zoran wants to fulfill his promise to
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: have more affordable housing. So At that particular meeting, people asked,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: the reporters asked, well, how often do you guys communicate?
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: And Donald Trump said, I speak to him a lot.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: Bad policy, but nice guy. Then Zoran said, yeah, we
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: talk by phone all the time. And you say to yourself,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: you talk to Zoran Mondami all the time and Zoran
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: talks to you all the time. So you have this
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: kind of relationship by phone. It's amazing you're shocked by that. No,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: I'm not shocked. Because remember, I had predicted this. It's
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: all about developers, realtors and housing and jobs and the
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: $ 16 billion that Trump can give Zoran Mandami so that
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: he can then eventually say, you see, I delivered on
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: my promise of affordable housing.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: But he also talks to everybody. He talks to opponents.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: He famously talked to Kim Jong-un. He said he would
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: go to Iran and talk to the Supreme Leader. He
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: talks to everyone. And usually he comes out on top
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: in these.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: Yom Kippur, you go to Gracie Mansion, the guy who
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: has been accused of being an anti-Semite.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. That's number one.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: Number two, why are you going to Gracie Mansion? It
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: seems like. You're honoring the mayor, Zoran Mandami, by going
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: to Gracie Mansion.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: He's not honoring him by going to Gracie Mansion. He
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: has business to speak of. So if he meets with
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: any governor that he is a Democrat or he meets
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: with any world leader, is he honoring them?
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: He's going to Gracie Mansion. Do you understand that? They
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: just had a protest outside of Gracie Mansion on Friday
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: where they were accusing Zorah Mamdani of being an anti-Semite
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: and fueling hate towards Jews in New York City.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: So also Zorah Mamdani shouldn't be meeting with Trump, right?
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: Because Zorah Mamdani blasts Trump all the time. And Zorah
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: Mamdani acts as if he is the enemy of the country.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: So Zorah Mamdani shouldn't be having this meeting. Why is
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: he having the meeting?
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: Because he comes out on top.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: No, he didn't last time. Last time he tried to
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: get money for Sunnyvale, he ended up getting Penn Station,
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: which might be named Trump Station.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 4: Larry.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: No, don't say Larry, Larry, me. Is this my strong point?
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 11: No.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: Do I know the inside game here?
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: Your strong point is loving Mom Donnie and not liking
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump. Here we go again. That's what the truth is.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: Every single one of these.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 11: No, no.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: I'm going to stop talking because you're the expert on
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: Mom Donnie. You're the expert on what's going on. Curtis
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: Lewa spent a year running against Mondami, Cuomo, and Adams.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: I know the inside game, but you're going to tell
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: me it's because I love Mondami.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: I don't doubt that. It's just that why don't you
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: ever bless this guy who is the mayor? And why
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: do you find every opportunity to go after Donald Trump?
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, there are certain things today like we're not
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: covering because they're pro-Trump. And there are certain things we
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: are covering because they're anti-Trump.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 11: Exactly.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: We have to just be fair in this.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, fair. Larry, if you're Bruce Blakeman, are you happy today?
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: I don't think Bruce Blakeman cares.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: Yes, millions of dollars in mailings and all kinds of
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: advertisements attaching Zorhan Mandami to Hochul and saying he is
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: an Islamist and a communist, and yet the mayor... is
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: hosting a meeting with the most powerful man in the world,
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump, about something we'll find out by tomorrow. We'll
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: discuss it. But there's no emergency going on in New
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: York City. He's not even going to meet with Bibi Netanyahu,
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: who he should be meeting with, who's going to be
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: in here on Thursday. So what's the point?
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: So let's find out tomorrow. Let's find out. You just
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: said something extremely important. We don't know what they're talking about.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: We will find out tomorrow. So everything you're talking about now.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: We don't even know. We don't know the reasons. You
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: know no trip by the president is decided overnight.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: It wasn't decided to go to see Zora Mamdani. It
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: was decided to come to New York. I mean, Zora
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: Mamdani was part of the trip now, but he has
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: to go to the UN. He has to speak to
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: the UN. So he made him that part of his trip.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: That's fine. I mean, look, he's the mayor of New York.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: He is one of the most important people right now
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: in the Democratic Party, unfortunately. And he is a leader
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: in that party. So why would you not meet with him?
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: He'd meet with Schumer anytime he wanted to meet with Schumer.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: Would you blast that?
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: Schumer's not Zoran Mandami.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: Actually, a lot of people would argue right now Zoran
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: Mandami is more powerful.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: Than Chuck Schumer. Millions and millions of Republican dollars are
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: being spent to paint the face of Zoran Mandami as
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: the Islamist communist leader of the Democratic Party. And you
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: feel it is important for you, with so few days
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: left to the midterms, to go and meet with him,
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: break bread, say nice things back and forth, to visit
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: him at his house?
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: But isn't it horrible that Zorah Mamdani would invite him? No. No,
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: that's okay. Oh, that's a big feather in his cap.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: He blasts him all the time. He says he's an
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: existential threat. I mean, he has blasted this man, and
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden he says, well, no, come to
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: my house. Come on into my house. That's okay, though.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: But Trump going is bad. Yeah. Okay. I just want
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: to make sure of what you're saying.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: Because to his constituency— And especially to a lot of
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: Jews who are going to say on the Day of Atonement,
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: when we have to be in our house and we
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: have to fast and we can't be on the phone.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: He's not Jewish. He's not Jewish. Why are we working today?
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, any Jew who's working today may have to
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: explain that to Hashem. But anyway, Larry, please, as I
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: deferred to you earlier into the show on the things
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: that you're an expert on, I would think. I am
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: an expert on what's going on here. But you have
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: a bias. And you don't?
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, I do. But I admit to it.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 11: Okay.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: You try to hide yours. Who would know more about
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: what's going on in the city, in the city politics,
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: and critically, who's run two mayoral campaigns?
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: Okay, I mean, I guess no other reporter knows as
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: much as you do. But also, as long as you
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: come forward with your bias, which you've denied, as long
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: as you say, no, I'm going to be biased in
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: this story, but here's what's happening, that's fine. I'll admit
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: to my bias. So I love Zoran Mondami. This is
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: what you're saying.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: You won't criticize him. I've criticized him many times.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 11: When?
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: All right, Larry, let's break. Let's break, because I don't
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: even want to talk Zoran Mondami with you any longer,
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: because you're the expert. You know all about Curtis Lee's
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: love for Zoran Mondami. This is amazing to me. I
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: lived my whole life in New York City. I'm an
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: expert on New York City politics.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: You can keep railing, but I didn't say it.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: I get interviewed by journalists all over the world.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, man, he's turning red.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: But Larry is going to say I'm a lover of
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: Zoran Mondami. This is an insult to me.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: Did I say lover? I just say you don't criticize him.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: Well, you're wrong.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: Okay, then you couldn't come up with one.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: Why don't you look at my feed on my social networking, Larry?
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: I just asked you and you said, all right, and
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: then you moved on. So we'll get the list later.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: From now on, we won't talk Zorah Mondami because I'm
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: biased towards Zorah Mondami.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: No, no, it's a talk radio show. What an insult.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: You're allowed to be biased, but please, one segment, we'll
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: get all the things you say wrong about Zorah Mondami.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: Love to hear it. When we come back, Bruce Blakeman
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: and Paul McCartney might be in-laws soon. And also, I
• 1:20:01
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  Speaker 1: Great opportunities. Wow. There was an interview with Errol Lewis
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: in New York One with Bruce Blakeman, who's doing very
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: well in the polls now. He's made up a lot
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: of ground on the governor. Kathy Hochul, and was more
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: of a personal and up-close kind of an interview about
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: something that everybody knew about, but really didn't talk about
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: that often. The most unlikely situation is that Bruce Blakeman
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: has something in common with Paul McCartney. And people say, well,
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: wait a second, Bruce Blakeman, he's MAGA, he supports Trump.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: Paul McCartney has never been friendly to Trump. it just
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: so happens that Bruce Blakeman's first wife, he was married
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: with for like 23 years. He had children. Uh, she
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: was appointed to the MTA board. Uh, she was the
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: daughter of a trucker who had made a lot of
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: money and had a lot of political influence. It turned
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: out that the woman never showed up at any of
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: the board meetings. And then, uh, she just left, uh,
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: lived out in the Hamptons. Apparently that's where she met
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: Paul McCartney after she had divorced. Um, Bruce Blakeman. It
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: was a divorce that they both agreed upon. Bruce went
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: on to marry a woman who is now a judge
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: in Nassau County. They're all happy, but Bruce actually was
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: commenting on this. He said, who would ever have thought
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: that my first wife would end up marrying Paul McCartney?
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: That was amazing because I think most people.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: Were not aware of that at all. I think that, love,
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: put yourself in this position. Love, you might be in
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: this position. Who am I talking to? They put yourself
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: in this position and you think to yourself, you're going
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 2: to hate the guy that marries your ex-wife. Yeah. Right.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: And then you find out it's Paul McCartney and then
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: it changes completely.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 5: Oh, really?
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: Well, man, there's so many things. There's so many things
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: with your own ego. And then also you just, the
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 2: fact that you're going to be that close to a celebrity,
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: even though there's still a distance every once in a while,
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: you're going to be able to meet them. Then it
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: becomes a huge plus.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but the fact that they broke up and they
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: had nothing but nice things to say about one another,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: which is not always the case. Nice things in terms
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: of continuing the care for the children in their marriage.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: And then, you know, Bruce, he's traveled everywhere. People are
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: going to come up to him. Hey, what do you
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: think about the fact that Paul McCartney married your ex-wife?
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: So he's handled it very well. But the fact that
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: he comes out in that up close and personal part
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: of a campaign that oftentimes is out of sight, out
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: of mind, because it's always soundbites, soundbites, soundbites, adds a
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: layer to where you say, hey, wow, Bruce is like,
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: he's a regular kind of guy. He can deal with
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: that without being all negative and adversarial and huffing and
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: puffing and even talking politics, as he said earlier. Whenever
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: we're together at a family event, we never talk politics.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: But the only caveat to all that is it's Paul McCartney. Yes.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: It's one of the most famous people in the world.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: Let's get some talkbacks.
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 4: Boys, all this going back and forth regarding Trump and
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 4: the mayor, I think you should stop and consummate this
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 4: relationship one more time before the next segment.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 2: You can't consummate twice.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: Yes, you can. No, you can't. Yes, you can. Of
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: course you can.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 6: No.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: How many people? Look, hasn't Zoran Mandami had how many weddings?
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: He had the wedding in Dubai. Not with the same person.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. I mean, you can have more than one
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: wedding ceremony. Remember, he married in Dubai, and then he
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: went back to Uganda after he won becoming mayor. He
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: had that interim period. So they consummated their marriage twice.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: So we could do it. We could actually do it, Larry.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: It doesn't count as consummating the second time. But you
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 2: can make up.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: You can kiss and make up. No, no, no, no, no.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: Does it sound like you're upset? I'm not French. It's
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: quite all right.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 7: Larry, I want you to understand President Trump does not
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 7: want liars spewing out more lies.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 14: In the media.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 7: Because these outlets, they don't have a conservative voice like
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 7: you to talk about the other side of the issue.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 4: So please, defend President Trump on this issue.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: He's right.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, so you're talking about banning the reporters. No, I'm sorry.
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 2: I go off the reservation a couple of times. Not
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: for the major things. That's why I support him. Because
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 2: when it counts, when it comes to policy, I support him.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 2: When it comes to these Stupid little sideshow fights. I
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 2: just roll my eyes. I'm still going to vote for him.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: I'm still going to talk positive about him. I'm still
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: going to support him. But no, that kind of stuff,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: that does bother me. Now let's get to Daria Albinger
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 2: with the 830.
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: News, Daria. Morning, Larry.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 7: It is partly sunny. It is going to be breezy today.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 7: We'll see a high of 69 degrees. And it might
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 7: be a good day to work from home if you
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 7: can because there's gridlock alert.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: With the U.N.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 7: General Assembly getting underway, but these New Yorkers are taking
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 7: it in stride.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 10: It's going to be chaotic and mayhem, but we'll just
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 10: muster through it.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: You have to plan a lot.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: As long as everything can stay peaceful, you know, it's okay.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 7: Then again, they probably won't have to commute into the city.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 7: If you do, you should think about taking mass transit.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 7: President Trump will be among the many world leaders at
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 7: the U.N. He'll address the body tomorrow. Later today, though,
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 7: he'll meet with Mayor Mamdani at Gracie Mansion. Three news
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 7: outlets that are now banned by the White House are
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 7: suing the Trump administration.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 25: Reporters for CNN, MSNOW, and Politico were denied access to
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 25: the White House after President Trump accused the organizations of
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 25: negative coverage.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 2: It's really just cumulative stories. Over the last few years,
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 2: you get.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 8: Sick of it.
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  Speaker 25: The three news organizations notified the White House Monday morning
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  Speaker 2: I'm Rory O'Neill.
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  Speaker 7: More Democrats say they plan to vote in person in
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  Speaker 24: An NBC News poll of registered Democratic voters found 23%
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  Speaker 24: plan to vote by mail compared to 34% at this.
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  Speaker 10: Time in 2024.
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  Speaker 24: Some 26% plan to vote in person at an early
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  Speaker 24: voting site. That's up 6%. While another 36% say they
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  Speaker 24: plan to vote in person on election day. This comes
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  Speaker 10: I'm Tammy Trujillo.
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  Speaker 7: An investigation is underway into a fire over the weekend
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  Speaker 7: on the historic Dragon roller coaster at Rye Playland. Officials
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  Speaker 1: The San Gennaro Festival. I was there to give you
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  Speaker 1: So the San Gennaro feast is underway. Ten days, really.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it started last Thursday, but that's just the warm-up.
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  Speaker 1: And then it's ten solid days from about noon each
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  Speaker 1: day to 12 midnight. And it is packed right along
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  Speaker 1: Mulberry Street. I go there every year with the Guardian Angels.
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  Speaker 1: And Friday night, Saturday night, I spent four hours each
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  Speaker 1: night just working the crowd. Larry Natalie, great focus group
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  Speaker 1: for WOR because I had on me the WOR talk
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  Speaker 1: radio cards with all of our information about our morning show.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like a Pez machine giving them out.
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  Speaker 1: People come from everywhere to the feast. Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut,
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: upstate New York, Nassau, Suffolk, and obviously the five boroughs.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a good focus group. And time and time again,
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: because I could easily be spotted in the crowd with
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: the red beret and the red sateen jacket, people would say,
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: you know, I've come over to listen to you and Larry.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: I can't listen to WABC any longer. That's it in
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: the morning because it's always Israel first, Israel first, Israel first.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: And I heard it from so many different people. No
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: disrespect to Israel, but it's sort of like there's so
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: much in the news. And they applauded us because we
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: talk about so many different issues and they were pointing
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: it out. So, you know, they're listeners because they could
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: be faking you out. Like so many said to me,
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: I voted for you. I voted for you. I voted
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: for you. I said, if you all voted for me,
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: I'd be in Gracie Mansion right now. But they weren't
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: faking us out on listening to us because they were
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: citing a lot of the issues that we talk about
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: that they don't talk about on other talk radio programs.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: The other thing is that the feast is deteriorating. There's
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: no doubt about it. It's not the way it used
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: to be. The bad part of it is the Genovese
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: crime family ran it, and then it had a lot
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: of Italian culture. Rudy became mayor. He eliminated the Genovese
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: crime family, and it was a cultural event. There's less
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: and less of the culture. There's more and more of
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: the vendors along the way, and not just selling products
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: that promote the Italian-American tradition. You know, vendors who would
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: be selling tchotchkes to tourists in Times Square, all of that.
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: As long as you could afford to have a stand,
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: you can be there. But I got to tell you,
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: people are out of their minds, Larry. I mean, we're
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: talking humongous crowds. It's like a crawl. People bringing baby
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: carriages with babies in it. And then not understanding as
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: the crowd says, lady, why would you be bringing a
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: baby carriage in here with a baby? The poor baby
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: could be crushed. Other people in wheelchairs, you know, it's
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: sort of like they can barely function. Weed in the air. Oh,
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: my gosh. My red sateen jacket smelled like I had
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: been smoking Maui Waui in Hindu Kush. I bet you
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: a lot of other people felt that. And something you
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: would have never seen. In the middle of each block
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: with the crowds. Guys had these coolers. They were selling nutcrackers,
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: which is a mix of hard liquors. You know, it's
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: like a juice bottle, plastic bottle. They put them in.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, knock your socks off openly. Cops not doing anything. Vendors,
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: the people who run the fair, not doing anything. And
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: you say, we got to get more Italian culture in here.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: These nutcrackers, do they mix this themselves so it's already
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 2: been opened and they could do anything they wanted to
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 2: that bottle and the contents within? Man, I would never
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: buy one of them off the street.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: Oh, and they're hawking them right there. Nutcrackers, nutcrackers. And
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: you're saying like, OK, well, the people who run the feast,
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: they should run them off. But apparently that's not. And
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: the garbage. Oh, my God, Larry, Natalie, garbage piling up everywhere.
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: Now they're making enough money. They could have sanitation crews
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: who are constantly changing the baskets, you know, putting the
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: bags out and removing the debris. But, man, the piles
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: and piles of debris. So they got a lot of
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: work to do. And then, plus, naturally, Zora Mondami's ethnic
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: map eliminated Little Italy as a key center of Italian-American culture.
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: And coming on the heels of the chairman of the
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: annual Columbus Day Parade, the big one, because there are
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: a lot of smaller parades throughout the tri-state area. announced
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: on Sunday that he has invited the mayor, Zoran Mandami,
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: who hates Christopher Columbus, gave him the finger, the statue
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: of the head of Astoria, to walk with him. And
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: the parade committee that starts out to parade, the mayor
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: has not responded yet, but the Italians were going absolutely
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: out of their mind. I mean, what words can I use?
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: Other words that I cannot mention here on the air.
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, curses were flying out. And the only thing
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: different is that the geriatric espresso sipping killers of organized crime,
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: who used to be very prevalent, were now gone. using walkers, wheelchairs,
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: and oxygen tanks. They could barely move. But boy, they
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 1: were cursing up a storm.
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  Speaker 2: That's fascinating. You said the one guy invited the mayor,
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 2: but there was also a committee. They had no say
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 2: in this? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: They all said okay? Yeah, they do this generally for
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: whoever the mayor is. Now, it's up to Zoran to
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: either accept or he's not going to go. The one
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: guy who would always go and get attacked viciously, even
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: though he spoke Italian well, was comrade Bill de Blasio.
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: He would march in the parade. He'd be oblivious. Booze
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: from both sides. You're a fugazi, Italian. He would be oblivious.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see what Zoran does. That may be brilliant.
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 2: This might be a great strategy to offer him the
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 2: invitation just so he can say no, which will infuriate
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 2: a lot of people.
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: We may know by tomorrow, I'm sure, after Zoran meets
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: with the president today, Some of the reporters will ask
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: him about that.
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  Speaker 2: See, that's thinking next level. When you invite somebody knowing
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 2: they're going to say no. When we come back, we'll
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 2: talk about that meeting that Curtis just mentioned. We'll also
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 2: talk about Trump speaking to the General Assembly, what he's
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 2: expected to say, and Benjamin Netanyahu coming to town. And
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  Speaker 2: Plus and on Hulu. Well, as you know, I went
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  Speaker 2: to see Ed Sheeran on Saturday night and I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to see it for two reasons. First, I like Ed
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 2: Sheeran and I respect him. I felt bad for Ed
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  Speaker 2: Sheeran because he has never talked about politics his entire
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 2: life and he was thrown in the middle of this.
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 2: And third, I'm a reporter. You know, I've been a
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 2: lifelong reporter. That's a news event. And I wanted to
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 2: be there. But I'm shocked. I really am. I didn't
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 2: see this coming. I've gotten four emails now during this
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 2: show asking after he gave his position on Israel, which
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 2: he didn't give a position on Israel. After he gave
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 2: his position on Israel, why didn't I walk out of
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 2: the concert? You're kidding.
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 11: No.
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  Speaker 2: Why didn't I walk out? I don't know what he
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 2: said that was that offensive, to tell you the truth.
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 2: But secondly, if you are so into one position that
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 2: you can't see the side of the other position, you've.
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: Got a problem. You really have a problem.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 2: You have to weigh things by the weight of, first
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 2: of all, the person saying it. And secondly, what is fair?
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 2: What is fairer? I mean, do both sides have a position?
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 2: In this case, they probably do. And so I didn't
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 2: think he said anything that offensive. But more than that,
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 2: I understand that he had to do that. That was
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 2: more a legal document than anything else. And he said
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 2: it before the concert started to make sure he could
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 2: separate that from the concert. It was something he had
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 2: to do, first of all, for his career and second, legally.
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 2: And he was going through hell. You think I'm walking
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 2: out in this guy? By the way, nobody in the
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 2: stadium walked out. Nobody. So, I mean, I got a
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 2: feeling you really have to check yourself.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: The next wave of email says, Larry, you should have
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: asked for your money back at the end. You should have,
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: after you watched the whole concert, you should have gone
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: to the box office and asked for your money back.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 2: I should have watched most of the concert, then got offended.
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 2: Can't go ask for my money back.
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: These people are nuts. This guy is crying on the stage.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: Parts of his family have turned on him. Lifelong colleagues,
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: many of whom he gave an opportunity to who would
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: never have had an opportunity. This guy is a superstar.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, everybody loves this guy. It's hard to fight.
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: And now they're turning on him. Of course, he's making
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: this statement at the start of the concert, sort of,
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: let's get it out of the way so we can
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: have an enjoyable night.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 2: And you said, It was a great night. It was tremendous.
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 2: He said it was the best concert he's ever given.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 2: I think so, too. He showed what an amazing performer
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 2: he is. All this happened to him. His band left him.
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 2: All the opening acts left him. Half of America— I don't
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 2: think it's really half. I think it's like 10% of
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 2: America— can' t stand him. And he got up there and gave
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 2: an amazing performance by himself. So, yes, I am a
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 2: big Ed Sheeran fan. I'm glad I didn't walk out,
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 2: and I would never walk out.
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: I want to applaud you for having gone there to
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: see for yourself. So it's not secondhand, thirdhand, fourthhand reports
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: that we were quoting. You were there. You saw it
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: for yourself. You knew the area. You knew the people.
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: And you felt great afterwards, as did everybody else. And
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: that's really what counts.
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 2: One last thing. You've got to separate in your life, please.
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 2: If you want to be a little bit happier... separate
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 2: politics from the rest of your life. I've seen it
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 2: break up families. This is an example of it. Luckily,
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 2: it doesn't break up families, but man, separate politics from
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 2: everything else. And the talk back in the morning and
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 2: winner of the Curtis Lee with Larry Menti in the
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 2: morning t-shirt was worried about our relationship, Curtis.
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 4: Boys, all this going back and forth regarding Trump and
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 4: the mayor, I think you should stop and consummate this
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 4: relationship one more time before the next segment.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure you can consummate a second time. Oh,
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 2: I think we should try. No, please. I thought we
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 2: got rid of that word, actually. I was very happy
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 2: about that. But this is perfect. This is exactly what
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 2: we're talking about. We can have an argument like that
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 2: and still laugh afterwards because we can separate. You should
• 1:41:28
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  Speaker 1: Did you miss Larry talking about going to the Ed Sheeran,
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• 1:42:16
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