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- 0:00Speaker 1: Ah, there we go. We couldn't get the button open,
- 0:03Speaker 1: couldn't get the mic on. Wow, all right, now it
- 0:06Speaker 1: seems to be working. You can hear me. All right,
- 0:08Speaker 1: there you go. Hey, a lot going on. We're running
- 0:13Speaker 1: out of time. The mayoral race, we're running out of time.
- 0:17Speaker 1: It's about three weeks left. The debate is Thursday night,
- 0:22Speaker 1: that could decide the election. We'll get to that. We'll
- 0:25Speaker 1: get to Alec Baldwin, another accident with this Alec Baldwin.
- 0:29Speaker 1: We'll get to Israel, of course, the hostages. We'll get
- 0:32Speaker 1: to There's a big protest coming up Saturday, a big
- 0:38Speaker 1: protest everywhere in America. There's expected to be twenty five
- 0:42Speaker 1: hundred of these protests called the Company, these names the
- 0:45Speaker 1: No Kings Protest. It is pretty silly. There're No Kings protest.
- 0:52Speaker 1: We'll get to that. We'll get to all the crazy
- 0:54Speaker 1: left wingers in their bizarre reactions to the peace agreement,
- 1:00Speaker 1: has thrown them completely off. We'll get to well, well,
- 1:04Speaker 1: let's get to the mayoral race now. This Thursday night
- 1:08Speaker 1: is the debate.
- 1:09Speaker 2: This.
- 1:09Speaker 1: If Curtis is going to win this thing or turn
- 1:11Speaker 1: it around, it's going to have to happen. This Thursday
- 1:14Speaker 1: night in the first debate. Now, Mom Donnie's a very
- 1:17Speaker 1: good debater and Curtis is a great debater, professional debater
- 1:21Speaker 1: for decades. Cuomo is not a good debater, so he
- 1:25Speaker 1: could look very weak compared to these two good debaters.
- 1:29Speaker 1: But Curtis has to hit Mom Donnie with some knockout punches.
- 1:33Speaker 1: I don't know if he can do it, but if
- 1:34Speaker 1: he can, it'll be this Thursday night. Then then it
- 1:38Speaker 1: has to go viral because the debate's on Channel four.
- 1:41Speaker 1: Not a lot of people see television anymore, but it'll
- 1:44Speaker 1: have to go viral and get all over the place.
- 1:46Speaker 1: A lot going on this. Curtis was on the Breakfast
- 1:49Speaker 1: Club this morning, right over there in the next studio,
- 1:52Speaker 1: Charlemagne the Breakfast Club. That's a big deal. Millions and
- 1:55Speaker 1: millions of people see that, and a lot of Democrats voters,
- 2:00Speaker 1: if they're gonna leave Mom Donnie or go to Curtis,
- 2:02Speaker 1: it's a chance to pick them up. So that's a
- 2:05Speaker 1: big opportunity there. I don't know if has Mom Donnie
- 2:09Speaker 1: been on that. I don't think so. Ma'm Donnie very
- 2:11Speaker 1: careful about doing interviews, and Charlemagne doesn't fool around, he'll
- 2:16Speaker 1: ask the tough question. So I don't think you'll see
- 2:19Speaker 1: Mom Donnie do that Mom Donnie rally yesterday. Now this
- 2:22Speaker 1: was interesting. He does a big rally. And who does
- 2:26Speaker 1: he have rally with him? Who's his co star? On stage?
- 2:30Speaker 1: The indicted Letitia James, and it was her first appearance,
- 2:35Speaker 1: first public appearance since the indictment, and she was quite defiant,
- 2:41Speaker 1: yelling and screaming, I will not bend, I will not kneel,
- 2:44Speaker 1: I will I won't give up, and I won't give in.
- 2:50Speaker 3: So we have no time to linger and focus on
- 2:53Speaker 3: pettiness and revenge.
- 2:55Speaker 4: We've got to put.
- 2:56Speaker 1: On west forward, continue to claim the.
- 3:01Speaker 3: Victory and go like bear no man.
- 3:06Speaker 1: Now, when you're that guilty, you gotta scream. You gotta
- 3:08Speaker 1: yell and scream and be totally defiant and yell as
- 3:13Speaker 1: she will not. She was the whole thing in there.
- 3:14Speaker 1: I will not bend, I will not bow. I'm not
- 3:17Speaker 1: afraid of any Well, this one you might be a
- 3:19Speaker 1: little afraid of. He's got you pretty much on the
- 3:21Speaker 1: mortgage fraud. It's pretty clear now you could say that, well,
- 3:25Speaker 1: that's that mortgage trus not that big A well seemed
- 3:28Speaker 1: to be a monumental crime when you were accusing Trump
- 3:31Speaker 1: of it. And I love how they say he's weaponized
- 3:34Speaker 1: the justices. He's targeting his political opponents. Hey, the two
- 3:38Speaker 1: years of Biden and Letitia James and everybody going after Trump,
- 3:41Speaker 1: did they once any of these same news people, any
- 3:45Speaker 1: of these same commentators, any of these same politicians, Do
- 3:48Speaker 1: they ever say she's going after her political opponent? They
- 3:51Speaker 1: never mentioned it. And another thing, she's not his political opponent.
- 3:56Speaker 1: You think he's ever going to run for attorney general
- 3:58Speaker 1: in New York. She's a tiny speck of sand on
- 4:01Speaker 1: the beach compared to him. He's the president of the
- 4:03Speaker 1: United States. She's one of fifty attorney generals in the
- 4:07Speaker 1: United States. But this was the mom Donnie Rallies locking hands,
- 4:11Speaker 1: you know, standing by Letitia James and he's defending mortgage fraud.
- 4:17Speaker 3: And four years you have fought the good fight for
- 4:20Speaker 3: New Yorkers, and now it's our time to fight for you.
- 4:26Speaker 1: Good fight for Nobody can see where she fought this
- 4:29Speaker 1: good fight in New York. She just seemed to devote
- 4:31Speaker 1: a hell of a lot of time to go in
- 4:32Speaker 1: after Donald Trump. And it's a tribute to Trump actually
- 4:36Speaker 1: that she really investigated him. You can be sure the
- 4:40Speaker 1: whole Biden Justice apartment they really investigated Trump. They looked
- 4:45Speaker 1: at everything, and they couldn't find a crime nothing. It's
- 4:49Speaker 1: pretty impressive that they couldn't find anything in his business anything.
- 4:54Speaker 1: So they had to drum up this ridiculous charge of
- 4:57Speaker 1: he overvalued his apartment in a bank loan. I mean
- 5:02Speaker 1: it was a ridiculous charge, as the appeals court judge said,
- 5:06Speaker 1: has anybody on earth ever been charged with this? No,
- 5:09Speaker 1: of course not. And there was also a crime that's
- 5:12Speaker 1: actually impossible to commit. You couldn't defraud the bank with
- 5:17Speaker 1: a false number, because it's known to both sides, to everybody,
- 5:21Speaker 1: they'll never look at your numbers. They don't use your numbers,
- 5:23Speaker 1: They never even look at them. They do their own evaluations.
- 5:27Speaker 1: And then what was the other chair that Alvin Bragg charged?
- 5:29Speaker 1: Did anybody ever mention Alvin Braggett he's going after his
- 5:32Speaker 1: political opponents. Did anybody ever say Alvin Braggett weaponized the
- 5:38Speaker 1: He made up a charge. It doesn't even exist. Our
- 5:40Speaker 1: greatest legal scholar, Democrat Alan Dershwood, said he's read the
- 5:44Speaker 1: charge one hundred times. He still cannot figure out what
- 5:47Speaker 1: the crime is. Totally manufactured nonsense. But in the case
- 5:50Speaker 1: of Letitia James, it's pretty clear she lied on a
- 5:53Speaker 1: mortgage application about what she was going to use this
- 5:57Speaker 1: place for. She called it her primary residence to get
- 6:00Speaker 1: big breaks on mortgage taxes, all that stuff, when she
- 6:04Speaker 1: obviously couldn't. It couldn't be her primary residence. It's in Virginia.
- 6:08Speaker 1: Here's more of her.
- 6:09Speaker 4: We see powerful voices trying to silence truth and punish dissent, and.
- 6:16Speaker 1: Yes, weaponize justice for political gain. I will not bow,
- 6:22Speaker 1: I will not wake, I will not.
- 6:24Speaker 4: Been, I will not capitulate, I will not give in.
- 6:29Speaker 1: I will not give up. Oh god, I was actually
- 6:32Speaker 1: married to her. Boy. She knows how to yell, she
- 6:35Speaker 1: knows how to scream. That's a lot of yelling. That's
- 6:37Speaker 1: a good look for Democrats. Screaming, screaming like rabid dogs,
- 6:43Speaker 1: that's a good look. That's a good look. Here's the
- 6:45Speaker 1: rally was yesterday. We can demand a government that makes
- 6:49Speaker 1: our lives better. We can tell billionaires that this city
- 6:54Speaker 1: doesn't just belong to them.
- 6:57Speaker 4: We can tell Donald Trump he cannot buy this.
- 7:02Speaker 1: They got themselves all worked up into a frenzy, and
- 7:04Speaker 1: they got a whole world of news media, mainstream media
- 7:08Speaker 1: feeding them with all this stuff, so they're actually convinced
- 7:10Speaker 1: of this. I saw a crazy liberal friend of mine,
- 7:12Speaker 1: you know, they post this stuff online. This one was,
- 7:15Speaker 1: if you taxed every billionaire two percent, you would have
- 7:20Speaker 1: enough money to get rid of homelessness, to change all
- 7:24Speaker 1: the pipes, to get rid of all the lead pipes,
- 7:26Speaker 1: and where you can do everything. If you just tax
- 7:28Speaker 1: every billionaire two percent for a year, and it wouldn't
- 7:32Speaker 1: affect them at all. Well, first of all, it's not
- 7:35Speaker 1: a case of money. You got more money than you
- 7:37Speaker 1: could ever spend. You just waste it all. You know,
- 7:40Speaker 1: in New York State, our budget is double what it's
- 7:42Speaker 1: supposed to be. It should be about twenty five billion,
- 7:45Speaker 1: it's fifty billion. We have double the budget of Florida double.
- 7:51Speaker 1: Florida's got more population, it's got more cities. It's just
- 7:55Speaker 1: they waste the money you could get here. You can
- 7:57Speaker 1: hand them a trillion dollars to fix homelessnessness, nothing will happen.
- 8:00Speaker 1: They'll just hand out contracts to people that shouldn't have them.
- 8:03Speaker 1: They'll get nothing done. It's like even fixing the road.
- 8:08Speaker 1: It's forty thousand dollars a mile to pave a highway
- 8:11Speaker 1: forty thousand a mile. We spend almost two million a mile.
- 8:15Speaker 1: They just waste all the money, and when they do it,
- 8:17Speaker 1: they don't even do it right. The road is cracked
- 8:19Speaker 1: and broken, filled with potholes. Six months later, so hey,
- 8:23Speaker 1: Curtis was on the Breakfast club this morning. I think
- 8:26Speaker 1: this is a bit of it with the beret. Did
- 8:28Speaker 1: I take off my wo I mean.
- 8:32Speaker 2: You said you're going to take it off permanently when
- 8:33Speaker 2: you're elected courtxactly.
- 8:34Speaker 4: If people have sold this stove by me wearing this
- 8:37Speaker 4: beret like me, may I promise, coush, my heart helped it.
- 8:40Speaker 1: I'll never wear it again. That's great. Yeah, there's a
- 8:43Speaker 1: lot of people. I know. It's just silly. It's ridiculous.
- 8:45Speaker 1: They're arguing about the hatrat. It means absolutely nothing. It's
- 8:48Speaker 1: not a factor in the election, doesn't mean anything. Well,
- 8:52Speaker 1: it looks silly. Hey, a guy just got elected president
- 8:55Speaker 1: wearing a red hat. You can wear a hat. It's
- 8:58Speaker 1: not a big deal. But Curtis now getting threats everywhere,
- 9:01Speaker 1: and it's frenzy.
- 9:02Speaker 4: Oh, Zora Mondami, the world will end now some are
- 9:07Speaker 4: directing threats to myself and my wife, Nancy more important
- 9:10Speaker 4: than me.
- 9:11Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not good. It's terrible. I never had armed
- 9:14Speaker 1: security thereafter.
- 9:15Speaker 4: Never you've seen me in the trains, Oh security. Now
- 9:19Speaker 4: everywhere I go, armed security, Nancy where she goes, armed security.
- 9:23Speaker 1: Because of these.
- 9:25Speaker 3: Crazies out there who are threatening my life. In Nancy talk,
- 9:29Speaker 3: and not on behalf of anybody, but because of the
- 9:32Speaker 3: rhetoric that is being stirred up, you've gotta drop out.
- 9:36Speaker 1: Yeah, the CUOMO people pushing them to drop out, the
- 9:39Speaker 1: CUOMO donors pushing them to drop out, the push I
- 9:42Speaker 1: saw Curtis the other day. I said, hey, I got
- 9:43Speaker 1: to talk to you about something, and he said, you're
- 9:45Speaker 1: not gonna try to bribe me too. I said, no, no,
- 9:48Speaker 1: But they're all pushing them to get out. He drop out.
- 9:51Speaker 1: I'm the second major party.
- 9:53Speaker 4: Kennedy the Republican. When you go in and you look,
- 9:55Speaker 4: you see zor on Mandami Democrat, a Republican, courteous lee.
- 9:58Speaker 4: Try to find andreew CMO's name on that ballot. He's
- 10:01Speaker 4: lost amongst all these other independents. No, I'm not dropping out.
- 10:05Speaker 1: Don't threaten me.
- 10:06Speaker 4: And certainly don't threaten my wife Nanci.
- 10:08Speaker 1: Hey. Now that's another point. You know, you talk about
- 10:10Speaker 1: dropping out. They said, well, Curtis, I should drop out
- 10:14Speaker 1: because he's hurting Cuomo's chances. It's the other way around.
- 10:17Speaker 1: Cuomo should drop out because he's hurting Curtis's chances. Remember
- 10:20Speaker 1: there's only two major party candidates in this race. There's
- 10:24Speaker 1: the Democrat Mamdani, there's the Republican. Curtis Cuomo is on
- 10:30Speaker 1: some third party. He's a third party candidate. Bear that
- 10:33Speaker 1: in mind. When did you ever tell a major party
- 10:36Speaker 1: candidate to drop out for a third party candidate? And
- 10:40Speaker 1: Curtis is right about that ballot ballot problem. Cuomo is
- 10:43Speaker 1: a ballot problem. You know, when you get that ballot
- 10:45Speaker 1: and you go to vote, it's the Democratic candidate and
- 10:48Speaker 1: the Republican candidate. Cuomo's name is way down the ballot.
- 10:53Speaker 1: You're going to have to hunt for his name on
- 10:55Speaker 1: the ballot. It's not going to be easy. And I
- 10:58Speaker 1: don't think Cuomo has as far as I know, has
- 11:01Speaker 1: still not opened a campaign headquarters. I don't know if
- 11:03Speaker 1: he's actually running a campaign. Occasionally you'll see a commercial.
- 11:06Speaker 1: There's a lot of Curtis commercials on the air, a
- 11:09Speaker 1: lot of them from Curtis's campaign, And now there's a
- 11:13Speaker 1: super pack running commercials very anti Momdani and pro Curtis,
- 11:18Speaker 1: and I've seen a lot of them this Good Day
- 11:21Speaker 1: in New York. I was watching Good Day New York
- 11:23Speaker 1: in the morning. There's Curtis commercials all over it. If
- 11:25Speaker 1: you're watching the Big Yankee playoff game, there were Curtis commercials,
- 11:28Speaker 1: So he's spending some money. Hey, Israel an amazing, amazing story. Boy.
- 11:35Speaker 1: You watch the video of the hostages reuniting with the families,
- 11:40Speaker 1: the screaming, the crying, It is so moving, so powerful
- 11:43Speaker 1: to watch. Unless you're a Democrat, then it's very upsetting you.
- 11:47Speaker 1: You don't want to see them released. The Democrats would
- 11:49Speaker 1: love to have kept this thing going. It's a campaign
- 11:51Speaker 1: issue they can use. They wanted to continue. They don't
- 11:55Speaker 1: like a peace agreement because it hurts their ability to
- 11:59Speaker 1: attack Israel all day and night. But the hostages back
- 12:02Speaker 1: with their families, the other things. You know. You look
- 12:07Speaker 1: at these hostages, emaciated, obviously been through hell, ribs protruding
- 12:12Speaker 1: through the skin, and it looked like Holocaust survivors. It
- 12:15Speaker 1: was just awful. Awful images. You see what how brutal
- 12:19Speaker 1: Hamas was with them, And you know, all you've been
- 12:25Speaker 1: hearing about the way Israel has been so brutal when
- 12:27Speaker 1: you look at these hostages, seems to be the other
- 12:29Speaker 1: way around. You look at the Israeli prisoners that were released.
- 12:32Speaker 1: They all look pretty healthy to me. But Democrats are
- 12:35Speaker 1: very upset by this piece. They want gods that to
- 12:39Speaker 1: be attacked. I know, they can act like they're fighting
- 12:41Speaker 1: for the palace and they're fighting for gods. They weren't.
- 12:44Speaker 1: They just want to go after Israel. It was a
- 12:46Speaker 1: great way to do it. If gods is not being attacked,
- 12:49Speaker 1: it hurts their ability to go after him. You see
- 12:52Speaker 1: these crazy democrats, these crazy media people. Now you take
- 12:57Speaker 1: CNN or PBS's Christian Christian on Amanpur she had to
- 13:02Speaker 1: apologize yesterday for her awful comments. It gives you a
- 13:07Speaker 1: real insight on how bad these people are. She was
- 13:10Speaker 1: talking about the hostages and she said they were treated
- 13:18Speaker 1: better in Gaza than Israel treated Gas. It was some
- 13:22Speaker 1: kind of weird. It was just awful, awful totally, and
- 13:27Speaker 1: she apologized later. She got so much flak for it
- 13:30Speaker 1: by saying the way the hostages were fine. It was
- 13:34Speaker 1: the Gosins that were treated much worse than by Israel
- 13:37Speaker 1: than the hostages were absolutely insane comments. She later apologized.
- 13:42Speaker 1: She said it was insensitive, it was wrong. She acknowledged
- 13:46Speaker 1: the physical and mental torture the hostages endured for two years.
- 13:50Speaker 1: She did apologize. But that's PBS, that's their host, the
- 13:54Speaker 1: PBS host, Christian ahmanpur that's CNN, and that's the way
- 13:59Speaker 1: they think. Hey, we'll get to Alec Baldwin coming up.
- 14:03Speaker 1: The hell is it with this Alec Baldwin. A lot
- 14:05Speaker 1: of accidents, a lot of accidents with guns, with cars.
- 14:09Speaker 1: He's driving his wife's turns out his wife's car, it's
- 14:12Speaker 1: a white Range Rover and he crashes into a tree.
- 14:18Speaker 1: This is in East Hampton. He's now saying there was
- 14:22Speaker 1: this enormous garbage truck. He called it a whale of
- 14:25Speaker 1: a garbage that way. This garbage truck was so big.
- 14:30Speaker 1: We've all seen garbage trucks. They're pretty much a standard size.
- 14:33Speaker 1: They're really a standard size. And apparently it was coming
- 14:36Speaker 1: from a construction site carrying away debris. But everybody listening
- 14:41Speaker 1: to me right now has seen garbage trucks on the road.
- 14:43Speaker 1: You've driven around garbage trucks, past garbage trucks, doesn't mean
- 14:49Speaker 1: you crash into a tree. See, if he was I
- 14:51Speaker 1: would have used the nor'easter excuse the wind, the rain.
- 14:54Speaker 1: He couldn't see that. People wonder if he was drinking.
- 14:58Speaker 1: No indication yet that he was drinking. He's actually, I
- 15:02Speaker 1: think an alcoholic and it's been sober for forty years now.
- 15:05Speaker 1: But he did crash into a tree. It's in East Tampton.
- 15:09Speaker 1: He's with his brother, Stephen Baldwin, these two geniuses, driving
- 15:12Speaker 1: in a storm and they crashed into this tree. East
- 15:16Speaker 1: Tampton police show up. Now he's a pretty connected guy,
- 15:20Speaker 1: a very powerful guy there in East Hampton. He was
- 15:22Speaker 1: there all week for the big East Hampton Film Festival.
- 15:25Speaker 1: It's a big thing for them east Hampton. They think
- 15:28Speaker 1: it's important. So the police like him, and who knows
- 15:31Speaker 1: how hard they investigated this, But he then put up
- 15:34Speaker 1: an explanation online.
- 15:35Speaker 2: It must have been something commercial, like taking away material
- 15:40Speaker 2: from construction something. It was the biggest garbage truck I've
- 15:43Speaker 2: ever seen any anyway, I won't come into the details now.
- 15:46Speaker 1: It was so big. It was what an actor it was.
- 15:49Speaker 1: It was the biggest garbage. They're all the same size,
- 15:51Speaker 1: pretty much for you.
- 15:52Speaker 2: But to avoid hitting him, I hit a tree. I
- 15:57Speaker 2: had a big, fat tree and crushed my car, my
- 16:00Speaker 2: wife's car.
- 16:01Speaker 1: He's so dramatic. Probably to avoid the garbage truck, I
- 16:06Speaker 1: deliberately crashed into a tree. Brilliant. So I don't know. Again,
- 16:10Speaker 1: the East Tampton Police like them. I don't know how
- 16:12Speaker 1: hard they're how hard they will investigate. But boy, this
- 16:15Speaker 1: guy has a lot of accidents. He's I guess he's
- 16:18Speaker 1: competing with the Billy Joel record. How many trees has
- 16:20Speaker 1: Billy Joel hit? How many crashes? Billy Joel's crashed a car,
- 16:24Speaker 1: a motorcycle, a boat. So far with Baldwin just a
- 16:28Speaker 1: but he's when it comes to accidents, the people have
- 16:31Speaker 1: died in some Alec Baldon accidents. Anyway, we'll get back
- 16:34Speaker 1: to him. Got a lot to talk about. Hey, we'll
- 16:36Speaker 1: take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three to two one
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