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Hour 3: Fireworks in Congress · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, the Salesforce Dreamforce conference in San Francisco with all
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  Speaker 1: of the top leaders of AI was yesterday. And stealing
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  Speaker 1: the show for the most part was CEO Sam Altman
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  Speaker 1: because he said some really frightening things. He said that
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  Speaker 1: the world has the right to be afraid of AI
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  Speaker 1: companies gaining too much power and Undo Economic Influence, which
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  Speaker 1: was a fascinating statement because he's not saying in particular
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  Speaker 1: that AI is the problem, but the companies that run
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  Speaker 1: AI and the power that they will then have over everybody,
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  Speaker 1: which is really fascinating because it's the very first time
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  Speaker 1: I've heard that. I heard everybody talking about the mechanism
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  Speaker 1: of AI not the people that run AI.
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  Speaker 2: And that, to me, what he said.
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  Speaker 1: Is a little bit scarier than what everybody else has
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  Speaker 1: been talking about. Because I think that there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fear with AI because it is the unknown. And
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  Speaker 1: that it will unleash itself somehow. It will break containment,
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  Speaker 1: as they kept saying. But that being said, Curtis, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure... Sam Altman, who is the CEO of open
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  Speaker 1: AI is the best spokesperson for AI just because of
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  Speaker 1: the way he sounds. Tell me if this doesn't sound familiar.
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  Speaker 1: The world should trust that we are going to do
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  Speaker 1: the right thing because it's the right thing.
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  Speaker 2: And because we.
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  Speaker 3: Feel the magnitude of this.
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  Speaker 2: When have you heard that voice before? Boy, it's creepy. It's,
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  Speaker 2: Hal from 2001.
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  Speaker 1: That's who that is.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. Well, first off, understand the lineage of Sam Altman.
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  Speaker 4: He's a creepy guy. Obviously very successful. Put into business
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  Speaker 4: by Peter Thiel, best friend of Donald Trump, strong Republican
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  Speaker 4: who has now gone to Argentina with his family. Remember,
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  Speaker 4: in his way, he's thinking there's going to be some
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  Speaker 4: kind of Antichrist return.
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  Speaker 2: These are all eccentric people. They're very successful. But when you're.
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  Speaker 4: Successful, you're eccentric. And he was a Democrat, big Democrat.
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  Speaker 4: But then he came over to the Trump side. So
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  Speaker 4: but he's been putting this out there, you know, this fear,
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  Speaker 4: this fright, this hysteria.
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  Speaker 1: Have you heard that before, though, that they say it's
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  Speaker 1: not the fear of the tool? It's the fear of
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  Speaker 1: the people who will be wielding the tool.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: No, he never got that specific. That was incredible. And
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  Speaker 2: that makes sense.
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  Speaker 4: So the anthropic guy was there who has been joining
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  Speaker 4: him in a chorus line because they're way ahead of
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  Speaker 4: the race with AI in America. And they don't want
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  Speaker 4: the competition. The one I want to hear from because
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  Speaker 4: he's really not way up there with AI is Elon Musk,
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  Speaker 4: who signed on to everything they said. And we know
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  Speaker 4: he's a Trumper. He's he's pouring his money. into this midterms,
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  Speaker 4: $ 100 million to get out to vote. He's been quiet,
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  Speaker 4: but he signed on to what they had written over
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  Speaker 4: the weekend about the possible dangers of AI and why
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  Speaker 4: it has to be reined in. Yesterday, who was up
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  Speaker 4: on the hill? I mean, you talk about us, the
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  Speaker 4: odd couple? Is this not the odd couple? Bernie the
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  Speaker 4: Alta Cocker Sanders, leading of the Socialists of America, standing
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  Speaker 4: with Steve Bannon, you know, who's like the far, far,
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  Speaker 4: far right, standing together in opposition of AI in Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but they have one thing in common that I
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  Speaker 1: saw when they spoke from the stage.
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  Speaker 2: They're both crazy. They look crazy.
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  Speaker 1: From either ends of the spectrum, but man, were they
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  Speaker 1: saying some outlandish stuff. That's why nobody's really covering them today,
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  Speaker 1: because all they were doing was fear-mongering. You've been talking
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  Speaker 1: about for a while, and it's a fascinating point. I
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  Speaker 1: think you're the first person I heard say this. that
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  Speaker 1: some of the people that want restraints now put on
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  Speaker 1: AI are way out in front.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, in the race, nobody has come close. You can't
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  Speaker 4: even see their backsides. Like if this were a horse race,
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  Speaker 4: they're not even, they're almost lapping the rest of the
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  Speaker 4: competition in America.
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  Speaker 1: So in the middle of a race, being in first,
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  Speaker 1: being able to say, oh, now we need rules. We
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  Speaker 1: need rules that's just going to benefit them. And the
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  Speaker 1: guy that you keep talking about that you have been
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  Speaker 1: listening to on AI, J.D. Vance, is also suspicious.
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  Speaker 6: The fact that you have so many frontier AI tech
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  Speaker 6: companies kind of coming to the government and begging the
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  Speaker 6: government to regulate.
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  Speaker 1: Them, it feels a little bit to me like a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a Trojan horse.
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  Speaker 4: So Trump, who's taking the lead on this and saying, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: No guardrails. We're in a race with Red China. They're
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  Speaker 4: not operating with guardrails. And he's got the meeting with
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  Speaker 4: Xi coming up in almost a week. You know, there's
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  Speaker 4: going to be a prime part of their discussion when
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  Speaker 4: Xi from Red China comes to the White House. He
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  Speaker 4: has allied himself with Wang, who makes all the chips,
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  Speaker 4: not the potato chips, but those super chips. Wang is
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  Speaker 4: the one saying, no guardrails, no rules, no regulations, charge forward.
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  Speaker 4: And he was there yesterday in San Francisco. So I'm
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  Speaker 4: saying this is not Donald Trump's ballywick. He knows about
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  Speaker 4: as much about this as I do, as you do, Larry,
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  Speaker 4: as others do.
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  Speaker 2: He's on the periphery. J.D.
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  Speaker 4: Vance grew up in Silicon Valley from being the hillbilly, remember?
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  Speaker 4: He goes to Silicon Valley. He meets Peter Thiel, who
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  Speaker 4: bankrolls all these guys. He works with Peter Thiel. Peter
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  Speaker 4: Thiel mentors him. He was introduced to all of them.
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  Speaker 4: So he knows their eccentricities. He knows their language. So
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  Speaker 4: right away he said, look, I'm telling you that there's
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  Speaker 4: a race here and they're so far ahead, they want
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  Speaker 4: everyone to pump the brakes because they're so far ahead. But,
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  Speaker 4: and I like what he said, and I think the
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  Speaker 4: president would be wise at this point, to just delegate
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  Speaker 4: him to deal with all of these different personalities. He
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  Speaker 4: must have done that because he gave an interview to
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  Speaker 4: the New York Post, J.D. Vance, our vice president on
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  Speaker 4: Air Force Two, exclusively to the Post. You know he
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  Speaker 4: had to clear that through the chief of staff at
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  Speaker 4: the White House with the permission of Trump, in which
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  Speaker 4: he said, look, just as you said, I'm skeptical of
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  Speaker 4: companies coming to us wanting the government to regulate them.
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  Speaker 2: No companies have ever said that before.
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  Speaker 4: But I understand how Americans view this as possibly the movie,
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  Speaker 4: the Terminator, you know, where, oh, we're going to get
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  Speaker 4: wiped out by these AI robots. He said, I can
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  Speaker 4: assure you that part is not going to happen. But
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  Speaker 4: what I do want to address with all of these
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  Speaker 4: individuals is how this will foster greater economic inequality. That's
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  Speaker 4: something the Democrats would say. That's not a Republican ethos.
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  Speaker 4: That sort of goes back to hillbilly elegy. And also,
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  Speaker 4: I am concerned, as Americans are, of surveillance technology, which.
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  Speaker 4: brings that whole flock camera issue and surveillance into it.
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  Speaker 4: So I think he's better balanced. He also said, look,
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  Speaker 4: these companies want to shield themselves from antitrust laws, which
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  Speaker 4: were brought together by Theodore Roosevelt to break the monopolies.
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  Speaker 2: They want a monopoly. It's clear they want a monopoly.
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  Speaker 4: So I say, you know, Mr. President, you got to
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  Speaker 4: meet with Xi. That's a big thing on your plate.
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  Speaker 4: And then you got to go on the road for
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  Speaker 4: all these candidates. You're not going to have a lot
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  Speaker 4: of time to deal with this. Delegated to him. He
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  Speaker 4: wasn't a good negotiator in Pakistan with Iran. Foreign relations
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  Speaker 4: is not his expertise. That should have been Marco Rubio.
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  Speaker 4: Have you met Donald Trump?
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  Speaker 2: Have I met him?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: He's not going to say, you go ahead and handle
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  Speaker 1: the campaigning. It's just not going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Not the campaigning, but meeting with the CEOs. Oh, I
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  Speaker 2: thought you were saying going out and go. No, Trump
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  Speaker 2: does that best.
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  Speaker 4: But he's going to be so involved in that because
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  Speaker 4: he said there's upwards of 38 candidates who need him
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  Speaker 4: in this, both in the Senate races and the House races.
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  Speaker 4: And as you pointed out earlier, before we even started
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  Speaker 4: the program, a lot of the Republicans on this issue
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  Speaker 4: of AI and AI data filing centers are beginning to
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  Speaker 4: distance themselves from the president of the United States because
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  Speaker 4: they feel This might be one of the defining issues
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  Speaker 4: that caused him to lose.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's not just on this issue. They're now
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  Speaker 1: also voted for the War Powers Act. Seven of them
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  Speaker 1: crossed over to vote for the War Powers Act. I
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  Speaker 1: think that what you're seeing right now, and it has
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with AI, and I don't think it
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  Speaker 1: has anything to do with the Iran war. It has
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  Speaker 1: to do with all of these Republicans who in purple
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  Speaker 1: districts where they're behind in the polls and they have
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  Speaker 1: to show that they're willing to stand up to Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: This is all about the political environment. It is not
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  Speaker 1: about any issue specifically.
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  Speaker 4: Remember, there was a fundraiser last Thursday here in New York.
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  Speaker 4: Barack Obama was hosting it. He had Hakeem Jeffries, all
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  Speaker 4: the prime Democrats, moderate Democrats. He said, if I was running...
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  Speaker 4: reelection in 2028, my issue would be AI. So basically,
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  Speaker 4: that's like marching orders from the guy who is the
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  Speaker 4: titular head now, because there is no head of the
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  Speaker 4: Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't need those orders from him. Let me
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  Speaker 1: just tell you what Speaker Johnson said. Speaker Johnson said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm surprised to come to Capitol Hill, come back to
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  Speaker 1: Capitol Hill, and hear all these Democrats now talking about
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  Speaker 1: AI and They've talked more about AI in the last
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  Speaker 1: week than they had in the last 10 years.
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  Speaker 4: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, they've decided, uh-oh, now we have
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  Speaker 1: an issue. They keep switching issues week by week. I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure out what it's going to be next week.
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  Speaker 1: Last week it was Flock. The week before that it
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  Speaker 1: was the data centers. I'm hoping, I'm hoping they're all
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  Speaker 1: over the place like this.
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  Speaker 4: But in reality, comparing Johnson to Barack Obama as somebody
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  Speaker 4: who is the titular head of the Democrats because they
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  Speaker 4: don't really have a leader of the party now. Nobody
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  Speaker 4: listens to Schumer. Nobody listens to Hakeem Jeffries because they
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  Speaker 4: know they're vulnerable to potentially lose their own races.
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  Speaker 2: He speaks with authority to them. He does. Ride AI
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  Speaker 2: to victory.
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  Speaker 1: For the House Democrats, Johnson speaks with the most authority
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  Speaker 1: because he tomorrow can say, hey, we're all going home today. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he does have an amazing amount of authority there.
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  Speaker 2: As would any Speaker of the House. You mean for
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  Speaker 2: the Republicans in the House, not the Democrats?
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  Speaker 1: For the entire House, because he sets the schedule. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he has power over them as well. Yeah, he has
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  Speaker 1: immense power. Hey, Dancing with the Stars started last night.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to say those words to you to see
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  Speaker 1: how you would react.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, and did I get served wolf tickets by our
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  Speaker 4: own producer, Natalie, and including our FM sisters in solidarity
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  Speaker 4: from Z100, Elvis Duran, Diamond and Gandhi, all three of
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  Speaker 4: them profess, we will get you on Dancing with the
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  Speaker 4: Stars for the 35th season, which debuted last night. And
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  Speaker 4: guess what? I wasn't even invited to try out. Well, Natalie,
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  Speaker 4: you have an opportunity to defend yourself up next, plus
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  Speaker 4: a chance to see Richard Marks next. Anyway, Alicia Keys
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  Speaker 4: and friends are joining the 2026 Global Citizens Festival lineup.
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  Speaker 4: They join previously announced performers, Ms. Lauren Hill and Wyclef Jean.
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  Speaker 4: Lenny Kravitz, John Legend, Laney Wilson, and many others with
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  Speaker 4: Hugh Jackman hosting. That's Saturday, September 26th on the Great
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  Speaker 4: Lawn in Central Park. Tickets are free and can be
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  Speaker 4: earned by taking action. Download the Global Citizen app for
• 12:08
  Speaker 4: more information. Marana Mai. What a bunch of kakarans, female Pinocchios. First,
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  Speaker 4: our own Natalie. Producer here since the very first gambling
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  Speaker 4: was broadcasting at WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, in 1922.
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  Speaker 4: And there I am on the I Heart Float. Gay
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  Speaker 4: Pride stole the parade with my dancing from beginning to end.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone acknowledged that. Natalie then says, oh. I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: get you on Dancing with the Stars. And then like
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  Speaker 4: a roller derby match, the two other gals from Z100,
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  Speaker 4: Elvis Duran, Gandhi, and Diamond said, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: We'll get you on Dancing with the Stars. Well, let's
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  Speaker 4: look at last night's debut of season number 35. No, Curtis,
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  Speaker 4: no attempt by any of you to get me into
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  Speaker 4: that lineup, a lineup I can't even pronounce the names
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  Speaker 4: of the people participating.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 7: I do apologize because I did find out about your
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  Speaker 7: dancing ability at the Pride Parade this year, which was
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  Speaker 7: in June. I will say. that they started teasing the
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  Speaker 7: contestants in April. So this season was already packed up.
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  Speaker 7: So we got to work on next season. Can I
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  Speaker 7: promise getting you on? No, but I do promise I
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  Speaker 7: am going to reach out and I'm going to try
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  Speaker 7: to get somebody to consider auditioning.
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  Speaker 4: You should consider getting into politics because you sound like
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  Speaker 4: a politician.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Because I've been working in talk radio my entire life,
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  Speaker 7: so I'm good at this. I've been working with a
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  Speaker 7: lot of politicians.
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  Speaker 2: You sold me wolf tickets.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know.
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  Speaker 7: But I also want to say, I'm sorry, Larry, but...
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  Speaker 7: I am also preserving your marriage.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 7: Because you would be doing the waltz, the foxtrot, the tango,
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  Speaker 7: the quick step with probably some of the hottest women
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  Speaker 7: in the world. And I know, you know, Nancy being
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  Speaker 7: a wife, I don't know. Would she be able to
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  Speaker 7: handle that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's the worst excuse in the world.
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  Speaker 4: No. Have you noticed on the entire Gay Pride, I
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  Speaker 4: did not dance with any of the women or men,
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  Speaker 4: by the way, on the floor.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: You're pretty close to some of the men up there.
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  Speaker 2: But no, you're right. It's something. Those women are something.
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  Speaker 2: That's a problem. I only dance with Nancy. Oh, is
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  Speaker 2: that right? That is correct. Even if you're on Dancing
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  Speaker 2: with the Stars? That's going to be a problem. I
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  Speaker 2: hadn't thought of that. All right. That's my promise to Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: I will only dance with her. That's a beautiful promise, actually.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing as I'm looking at the cast here. I
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  Speaker 1: can't believe they didn't pick you because I don't know
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  Speaker 1: any of these people. I mean, Ezra Frech? Who's Ezra Frech?
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  Speaker 2: Who's that? Jackson Olsen? What? I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Well, the guy who was kicked off last night, Connor Leavitt,
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  Speaker 7: he was from the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.
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  Speaker 1: I know. It's going to be all like B-list cable stars.
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  Speaker 7: But I will tell you, I only saw a little
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  Speaker 7: bit of it last night because it was from 8
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  Speaker 7: to 10, crazy long. The guy from the Savannah Bananas,
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  Speaker 7: you know, the baseball team?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're great. He was awesome.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no. They're great. They put on a great performance.
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  Speaker 2: Not exactly an A-list star, though. He will be now.
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  Speaker 2: Watch his social media blow up. Let's get to some talkbacks.
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  Speaker 1: Well, first we're going to talk about opening acts because
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  Speaker 1: we talk about Macklemore opening for Ed Sheeran.
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  Speaker 8: Sometimes people do go see the opening act. I saw
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  Speaker 8: Billy Joel at the Capitol Theater in Passaic.
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  Speaker 4: I can't even remember who he.
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  Speaker 1: Was opening for. We left.
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  Speaker 8: So sometimes it is the opening act that's appealing.
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  Speaker 1: But I agree with you.
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  Speaker 8: I think the concert will go on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, with young upcoming stars, you're right. Many times they
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  Speaker 1: become hotter than the main act. But Macklemore is kind
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  Speaker 1: of on the way down. I mean, he had a
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  Speaker 1: rise and he was big for a while.
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  Speaker 5: Macklemore and these others for Palestine are such fakers.
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  Speaker 1: Where have they been for years when this was going on?
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  Speaker 2: And then from the safety of a stage at a concert, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I have a lot of support. Okay, great, fly over there,
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  Speaker 2: do concerts over there.
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  Speaker 7: Sit there with him.
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  Speaker 2: They've never been there. They've never supported him. It's a
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  Speaker 2: way to make his name big. That's all it is,
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  Speaker 2: a publicity stunt. Now we're talking about Macklemore.
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  Speaker 7: No one was before.
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  Speaker 4: Well, number one, you can't fly over there and do
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  Speaker 4: a concert. You have to go through Israel. Number two,
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  Speaker 4: they've been consistent with this. It's just they never had
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  Speaker 4: the venue that they had with, obviously, Ed Sheeran leading
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  Speaker 4: the bill.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, let's get the news with Daria.
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  Speaker 8: Morning, guys. Few clouds warmer and humid today. High 78 degrees.
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  Speaker 8: Don't mean nothing when it comes to inflation. We're going
• 16:46
  Speaker 8: to have to see what the Fed says today. It
• 16:48
  Speaker 8: is expected to make an announcement that we haven't heard
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  Speaker 8: in three years that it's going to raise interest rates.
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  Speaker 6: President Trump has been pressuring the Federal Reserve for years
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  Speaker 6: to lower interest rates. Now the president's appointment. Kevin Warsh
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: is at the helm of the Fed. He and his
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: team will have to make this pivotal decision today, and
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  Speaker 6: the markets are anticipating an interest rate hike. That would
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: make borrowing more expensive, but it would hopefully put pressure
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  Speaker 6: on many of those consumer prices.
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  Speaker 8: ABC's Rebecca Jarvis. Police say a son may have led
• 17:20
  Speaker 8: them to his mother's killer. The man drove to Maria
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: Ines Granda's Brooklyn apartment after he hadn't heard from her
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  Speaker 8: in a few days, and then he found her body inside.
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  Speaker 8: He called police and stayed on the scene until they
• 17:31
  Speaker 8: got there, and Granda's husband, Mauricio, showed up. Granda is
• 17:36
  Speaker 8: now charged with murder. Well, it's still officially summer, feeling
• 17:41
  Speaker 8: a little more like fall, but the city's already looking
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: for some winter temp workers, and they're going to pay
• 17:46
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  Speaker 3: Mayor Mamdani and Sanitation Commissioner Gregory Anderson have launched a modernized,
• 17:51
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• 17:56
  Speaker 3: paid December orientation, and a pay increase to $ 30 an hour.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: That's up from just over $ 19. Last winter, more than
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: 7,800 New Yorkers stepped up amid bad weather and freezing temperatures.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Candidates need to be at least 18 years old and
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: legally authorized to work in the U.S. The first snow
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: shoveler registration event is September 19th at Taft High School
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: in the Bronx. Liz Warner, WOR News.
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: First, President Trump renamed Lake Ontario Lake America. That was
• 18:24
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• 18:28
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• 18:30
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• 18:33
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• 18:36
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• 18:39
  Speaker 8: Members say they don't want to feel left out. Yankees
• 18:42
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• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Daria, and congratulations to Manny Kazanis from Holmdel,
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• 19:09
  Speaker 1: the nation's capital yesterday. We had Cory Booker unhinged. We
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: had papers introduced to Pete Hegseth and John Fetterman. talks
• 19:21
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• 19:23
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• 20:11
  Speaker 1: It's this Friday and Saturday night. Well, if you like
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: street fights, Congress was must-see TV yesterday.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, man, it is.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: So good when there's a congressional hearing when there's an
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: election coming up. when a midterm election's coming up, because
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: everyone is trying to have their viral moment.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: They're not getting anything done.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: There's really no oversight.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: It is just about the act.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: It's about being the one that you hit when you're
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: scrolling down on YouTube or you're scrolling down on X
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: or it gets posted on Facebook. That's all this is.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: And so let's start with a couple of them. How
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: about one of our favorite people, of course, is Cory Booker, Spartacus,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: who is so good at trying to get the cameras
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: to capture everything he says. And he was talking to
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Kash Patel. And the chair is Senator Chuck Grassley, who is,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know how old, 92 at this point, 92.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: And I've never really seen him get that angry. But
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Cory Booker was insufferable. He kept going after Patel and
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: his time was way up and he went after his
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: time because he said he was being interrupted. And Chuck
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Grassley finally had to put him in his place.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: This is ridiculous. What a mockery you are.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: You are the biggest mockery in the United States Senate,
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: and you're sitting next to Schiff.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, 8 million people in New Jersey don't think so.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: At least I didn't get my job the way you
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: got your job.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Are you going to interfere with Senator Graham asking her
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: questions too?
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: I certainly will not. Too, as well? I certainly will not.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Are you done now?
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: I am done.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Are you ready to shut up? Thank God.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: You know, Cory Booker with his eyeballs bugging out of
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: his skull.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Man, what drug is Cory Booker on? He is so sad.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: You know, and I like him.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I've met him several times, and he's the most likable
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: guy in the world. But for some reason, when he
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: gets in front of a camera... He turns into.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: A little kid.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's just craving attention all of the time.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: And he's going to run for president again. I can
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: promise you he's going to run for president again. And
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: he'll be out after the first primary. He's not likable.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: By the way, he could have asked some really important
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: questions of the FBI chief with everything going on in
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: the world.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: He didn't. He didn't.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: He just.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just slam the guy and what did we get
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: out of it?
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: Nothing.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: No, no.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: And all of the hearings were like that yesterday. Every
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: single one of the hearings, one of the most fascinating things,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: and I'll get back to the hearings just because they're
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: fun to listen to.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: But one of the things that.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Happened yesterday, and it was completely unknown that this was
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: going to happen. Thomas Massey from Kentucky, you remember he
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: lost his primary. after bragging, oh, I can take on
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. He'll come after me, but what will that mean?
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: 10 points, I'll still win by 10. Well, he lost
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: by 20 after Donald Trump went after him for going
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: off the reservation. So he kept this a secret because
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: he knows his time would have been killed. Speaker Johnson
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: would have made sure this never happened. He initiated impeachment
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: proceedings against Secretary of the War, Pete Hegseth.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: Well, frankly, I was concerned that Mike Johnson would end
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: Congress again, like shorten even our already truncated work period
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: if he found out I was doing this. So I
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: shared the idea with nobody.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: And when he got up there, they thought he was
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: going to talk about something else. And he introduced articles
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: of impeachment against Pete Hegseth. So now they have to
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: take it seriously. Now, Johnson can bury it. Johnson can
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: never have the hearings. But which the Senate did for
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump, if you remember. And so, not the Senate
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: for Donald Trump, I'm talking about the Senate did for
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Joe Biden. So who was the Secretary of State that
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: they did that for, remember? They tried to impeach the
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Secretary of State. Anyway, it doesn't matter. It went to
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: the Senate, so they're able to bury it if they
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: want to. So that was part of the drama yesterday.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Part of the drama also happened in the hallways. Now,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: John Fetterman... The poor guy, he has been hounded ever
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: since he's been more of a Republican than a Democrat.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: And now they keep saying, which I've heard, I've heard
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: this rumor from some pretty darn good sources have said that, well,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: you know what? After the midterms, he's going to become
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: a Republican. If the Republicans really need his vote, he's
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: going to become a Republican. So if I heard it,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: everybody in the press in Washington heard it. They were
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: following him down the hallway, yelling him questions about him
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: switching over to be a Republican. And Fetterman finally turned
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: when he got to the elevators and said this.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to be a Republican. And why can't
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: you guys just wait till the midterm?
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: You know, and if I turn a Republican and then
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I'll be a liar, then like it's just like my
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: name is not on the ballot.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Like chill and wait for the midterm here. I've always
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: been a Democrat.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: And he always generally votes with the Democrats on most issues.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: What's interesting here is even though they always shadow him,
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: they'll follow him, he'll always stop and address them, unlike
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: some of the others who are Republicans and Democrats who
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: just dismiss the press. He'll always answer their question at
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: some point. But what's your gut reaction? He sort of
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: opened the door a little bit. Let's wait until after
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: the midterm elections. I can't see him winning a Democratic primary,
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: but I could see him possibly keeping his seat as
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: a Republican.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, listen, I know that there's six people already
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: saying they're going to primary him, and some pretty big,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: big names in Pennsylvania are talking about primarying him. And
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: right now in the polls, it does not look good.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: He is more popular among Republicans in Pennsylvania than he
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: is among Democrats. So if he were to look at
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: the poll numbers and the poll numbers alone, switching to
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: the Republican Party personally would be a good move. But
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: now he pretty much stated, now he's going to be
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: a liar, as he just said. Now he's pretty much stated,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be a Republican. I am a Democrat.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I've always been a Democrat. So, you know, Joe Manchin
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: went through the same thing from West Virginia. If you remember,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: he went back and forth. He was a middle of
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the road. There's nobody middle of the road anymore.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: He is.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: John Fetterman is. And he's a dying breed. And so
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: he's getting frustrated, and rightfully so, because he, as you
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: pointed out, 87% of the time he votes for the
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Democratic Party.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Yep. 87% of the time.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: Up next, the other big issue in addition to artificial intelligence,
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: the artificial intelligence data filing centers that might be coming
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: to a neighborhood near you are the flock cameras. And
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: New Jersey has done something. I'm not quite sure what
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: it amounts to, but our New Jersey expert, obviously, Larry Mendte,
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: is going to weigh on that. And also some surveillance
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: cameras in the parks of Wayne, New Jersey, that some
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: people are not at all happy with. Man, unbelievable how
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: all these issues have surfaced simultaneously.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: So flock cameras have taken a backseat to AI right now,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: but there is still some controversy across the country. And
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: there's a new bill being introduced in Trenton right now
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: that would ban private companies and individuals, by the way,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: from operating automated license plate readers in New Jersey. Now,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: you might be hearing me say that and go, oh,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: what do you mean private companies? Yeah, private companies are
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: They can buy flock, too, and the police tap into
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: their flocks as well. So you have the ones that
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: the city puts up, but then you have private companies
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: that also can use flock to find out who's coming
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: on their properties and stuff like that. And now they
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: want to put a stop to that and restrict who
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: can and how they can use them. But also with
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: police departments, this bill would say that they can only
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: keep the information they get from Flock for two days.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: And here is the problem with this legislation, Curtis.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Flock keeps the information and they share it with police departments.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: So you would have to pass a national bill. Unless
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: somehow you can just say in New Jersey you can't
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: access that until the past two days. But how are
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: you going to... I mean, if they have a big
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: case or a missing child, do you not go after
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: the license plates? Do you not see where the person was?
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: If you can save a life, if you can solve
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: a crime? Again, I think that we don't want to
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: throw out the baby with the bathwater. That there has
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: to be a middle ground.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: This bill.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: is nice, especially when it comes to the private companies.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: But again, everybody's searching for an answer. and it's not
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: easy to find.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: Well, it's all part of this wave of Americans being
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: opposed to this accelerated surveillance technology. Even the vice president yesterday, J.D. Vance,
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: with his exclusive interview with the New York Post, mentioned that.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: He goes, I'm well aware. I'm well aware.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: I'm concerned about accelerated surveillance technology. I know a lot
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: of Americans are, and that includes Democrats, Republicans, and Independents.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: But here's another case. Wayne, New Jersey, two parks. They
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: put up surveillance cameras. You would think, okay, people wouldn't
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: get all that upset, making sure nobody's... doing anything wrong
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: in the park. Well, there's opposition to that. What is this,
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: Red China? Every move that I make, every time I
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: hit a tennis ball on the tennis court, you know,
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: I'm under the camera. Or if I'm smooching in the
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: corner with my girlfriend or gumata, then all of a
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: sudden that's brought to the forefront. So whereas before there
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: probably wouldn't have been much opposition, now there is to
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: any kind of surveillance technology. There's a wave here now,
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: this anger in America, and they're not doing a very
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: good job of explaining it to sort of try to
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: negate that.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they try. They try. But there's this wave of ignorance,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: I believe. And we've seen this happen before where everybody
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: rallies for a cause. Everybody thinks that they're now in
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: the front of a cause and they don't stop to
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: think and they don't. And they keep saying, I mean,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: To your point, you just said maybe they're not getting
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: out in front of this. They keep saying how many
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: crimes are solved with Flock, how many missing people are
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: found every single week with Flock, and.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: All of that could go away. So you might have.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: A murderer that would normally be caught that now gets
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: away and can murder somebody else. You may now have
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: somebody that stole something from you that they get away
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: with it now because there wasn't flock. So you have to,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: you really have to think it out and go a
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: little deeper than your privacy is being invaded. And by
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: the way, and I'll say this again, there is no
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: constitutional protection of privacy when you're outside. They're allowed to
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: look at your life. That's why they have license plates
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: in the first place, just to identify you and to
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: be able to find out where you're going. So, look,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: I get the emotional reaction to this, but it is
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: going way overboard considering all of the problems have just
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: been some jilted police officers.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's Orwellian.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: And when you get Democrats and Republicans being upset about it,
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: You better get out ahead of this everywhere in advance
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: of it becoming an issue in a town hall meeting. Anyway,
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: the talkback of the morning and winner of the Curtis
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: Lee and Larry Menti in the morning T-shirt seemed to
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: be worried about me after confronting these two banditos stealing
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: mail this morning out of one.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Of those blue mailboxes in my neighborhood.
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: All I can say is we need more Curtis Lee
• 32:48
  Speaker 8: was on the street.
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Curtis, so much.
• 32:52
  Speaker 8: That was very brave of you, but also be careful.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: Well, look, my PSA was do not mail in the
• 33:00
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• 33:05
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• 33:08
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  Speaker 4: I got to get through my wife first, Nancy. Natalie
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: brought that up. She's backing out.
• 33:54
  Speaker 8: Unbelievable.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: She's backing out.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: I had a conversation with Nancy. I promised I would
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: never dance.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: With another woman.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: All the accusations against you, all of the vim and vigor.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: He was screaming. He was yelling. And now all of
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: a sudden, look at him. He's whimpering in the corner.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I got to check with my wife first. I got
• 34:11
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• 34:16
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