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Hour 3: Legionnaires in the Bronx · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it matters to you at all
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  Speaker 1: what race the holdout person was in the Lindsay Clancy trial.
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  Speaker 1: The person that said, no, I'm not going to agree
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  Speaker 1: that she did this because she was insane or she
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  Speaker 1: had a post-traumatic whatever it is that I can't or
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  Speaker 1: postpartum whatever it is, whether it's postpartum depression or postpartum psychosis.
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  Speaker 2: He....
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you probably ever thought, you know it
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  Speaker 1: was a guy, did you even ever care or consider
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  Speaker 1: what race they were? But apparently it's extremely important to
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people, and Gayle King found out from
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  Speaker 1: one of the jurors exactly what race that person was.
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  Speaker 3: One person of color was a person of color, a
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  Speaker 3: woman or a man? A man. A man. Is a
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  Speaker 3: holdout juror? A person, a black man?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: A black man is a holdout juror? Yes. Well, I
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  Speaker 3: have to sit with that for just a second.
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  Speaker 1: What? Why is that so overwhelming? Why does somebody have
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  Speaker 1: to sit with that for a second?
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  Speaker 5: So she is demeaning black people when she says that.
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  Speaker 5: Like in this case, this African-American juror, a male. did
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  Speaker 5: not have a right to have reasonable doubt, right? To
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  Speaker 5: be the lone holdout. I can't believe that an African-American
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  Speaker 5: would have been the holdout juror. Why not, Gayle King?
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  Speaker 5: Can't every black man and black woman think for themselves
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  Speaker 5: on a jury? I mean, how ridiculous!
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  Speaker 1: No, it's extremely reasonable to want to convict. Lindsay Clancy,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to go along with the crowd. I
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  Speaker 1: went to an event over the weekend. It was one
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  Speaker 1: of my wife's events, so it was all women, and
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  Speaker 1: it was all women there. But I got a chance
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  Speaker 1: to talk to a forensic psychologist, and they said, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's extremely reasonable. that there are people that believe that
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  Speaker 1: no matter what the psychosis, no matter what somebody goes through,
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  Speaker 1: there must be punishment for killing three children, especially when
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  Speaker 1: it's your own three children. Doesn't that seem reasonable to everybody?
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  Speaker 1: Why would race have to play into that at all?
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  Speaker 1: But Curtis, this has become a big deal.
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  Speaker 5: Apparently, this gentleman... Maybe under threat that Governor DeSantis in Florida,
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  Speaker 5: in Tallahassee, threw him a lifeline and said, hey, we'll
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  Speaker 5: give you sanctuary.
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  Speaker 4: We'll transport you down to Florida where you'll be safe
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  Speaker 4: and secure.
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  Speaker 5: Like, why would anybody be looking to harass this guy?
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  Speaker 5: He's entitled to his point of view. It's not like
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  Speaker 5: it was hidden. It was discussed in open court. That
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  Speaker 5: he disagreed with the other jurors. They tried to get
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  Speaker 5: him back in the fold. He wouldn't do it. He
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  Speaker 5: stayed independent and autonomous. It's a hung jury. Now they
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  Speaker 5: have to determine how they're going to proceed further. The
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  Speaker 5: DA has to make that decision. But you say to yourself... Oh,
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  Speaker 5: my God. The guy needs sanctuary in Florida. Because he's black.
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  Speaker 5: He needs sanctuary in Florida. It didn't matter that it
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  Speaker 5: was just a male. That was OK. Must be a
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  Speaker 5: white guy. But now that he's African-American and for Gayle
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  Speaker 5: King and by the way, there's other prominent African-Americans who
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  Speaker 5: are also black. For some reason, shocked by this. No,
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  Speaker 5: you know how I feel about the case. I feel
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  Speaker 5: like he's a national hero. Think of this, Larry. Put
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  Speaker 5: aside what people's opinions are. This was not a racially
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  Speaker 5: charged case. This was not an OJ case, right, where
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  Speaker 5: you have blacks, you have whites. This has race wasn't
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  Speaker 5: involved with this at all. So the guy is making
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  Speaker 5: a decision void of race. And yet Gayle King is
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  Speaker 5: still it's like a knee jerk reaction. I can't believe
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  Speaker 5: an African-American man would be the holdout juror because you
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  Speaker 5: don't give. Black men and black women, an opportunity to
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  Speaker 5: be independent and autonomous. You think they're all going to be.
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  Speaker 4: In one box.
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  Speaker 1: They all have to think unison because they're a black person.
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  Speaker 1: So Gayle King, according to Gayle King, who I guess
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  Speaker 1: is the leader of all blacks in the country, has
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  Speaker 1: decided you went off the reservation. There's something wrong with
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  Speaker 1: you that you went and voted against what everybody else
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  Speaker 1: voted for and didn't get this woman help. Get her
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  Speaker 1: the help she needed.
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  Speaker 5: I think this requires an explanation from Gayle King. We
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  Speaker 5: know she's bright. She's intelligent. We know she's handled a
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  Speaker 5: lot of interviews in her life, dealt with a lot of–
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  Speaker 5: high-profile cases, I think we're all in need of Gayle
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  Speaker 5: King explaining. I think I'm going to have to sit
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  Speaker 5: back and think about that.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that the definition of racism?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: When you say a person has to act the exact
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  Speaker 1: same way because of the color of their skin, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: and the fact that they don't Then you're like worried
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  Speaker 1: about them. Like, oh, my God, they for some reason
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  Speaker 1: went off the reservation and they didn't follow our lead.
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  Speaker 1: It is shocking and it's disappointing for Gayle King, but
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  Speaker 1: she wasn't the only one. A lot of people in
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  Speaker 1: the African community were shocked. That it was a black man.
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  Speaker 5: And the conversation about this case, even though it ended
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  Speaker 5: in a hung jury, and again, we don't know what
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  Speaker 5: the DA has intentions of doing, whether trying it again
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  Speaker 5: or looking for a plea bargain or whatever. Lindsey Clancy
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  Speaker 5: is in a psychiatric facility until they figure that out.
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  Speaker 4: But even the president.
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  Speaker 5: Way off in Ireland as he was there for the
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  Speaker 5: Irish Open at his country club and golf course. Even
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  Speaker 5: he was being asked to comment about Lindsay Clancy, which
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  Speaker 5: continues to be the talk of the town.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it continues to be all across the country. It
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  Speaker 1: is one of those cases. And now it is even
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  Speaker 1: more interesting. because of this, because who knew there would
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  Speaker 1: be a racial aspect to this man. If this was
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  Speaker 1: a movie, it has everything. I mean, now that there's
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  Speaker 1: a racial, first, it was the sexes battling against each other.
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  Speaker 4: Then it was, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Whether a mother can even kill her own kids, whether
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  Speaker 1: she could possibly be that psychotic that she would kill
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  Speaker 1: her own kids. Now, all of a sudden it was
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  Speaker 1: missing race. Now race has entered into it. So, This
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  Speaker 1: is one of those strange stories that keeps twisting and turning,
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  Speaker 1: and none of it makes any sense. Talk about insane.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, there's a lot of insanity going around,
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  Speaker 1: not just Lindsey Clancy. There's a lot of insanity going
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  Speaker 1: around in reactions to this.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I would think that the high-profile people here, the
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  Speaker 5: defense attorney for Lindsey Clancy, wants to end this as
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  Speaker 5: soon as possible. I would think the DA would want
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  Speaker 5: to end this as soon as possible and not go
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  Speaker 5: to a retrial. But, you know, there's so much attention
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  Speaker 5: to it. There are a lot of people whose careers
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  Speaker 5: are going to be embellished by this, by this case,
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  Speaker 5: if it continues. Hopefully they'll sit down and they'll figure
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  Speaker 5: out something because it's clear that Lindsay Clancy, no matter
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  Speaker 5: what the decision, is going to end up in that
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  Speaker 5: psychiatric facility for a long, long, long, long time. It's
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  Speaker 5: not like Are they going to find her totally cured
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  Speaker 5: in like two years or three years and then she's
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  Speaker 5: back out on the streets?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that'll occur. No, I think you're right. However,
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  Speaker 1: some of these things snowball a little bit. Like you
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  Speaker 1: would think that they'd come up with a settlement at
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  Speaker 1: this point. There'd be some kind of settlement not to
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  Speaker 1: have to go through this again, not to put it
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  Speaker 1: up for trial.
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  Speaker 4: But a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: Times these things snowball. And it seems to me that
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  Speaker 1: the defense attorney, Reddington, he seems to think that she's
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  Speaker 1: not guilty. I mean, I think he's a true believer
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  Speaker 1: in that, that he's not guilty. So is he going
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  Speaker 1: to settle for any type of criminal charges? I don't
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  Speaker 1: think so. I don't think so. And I think the
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  Speaker 1: prosecutor is adamant that there has to be some criminal charge,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's a lesser charge, that's fine, but there has
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  Speaker 1: to be some criminal charge. So we might, I thought
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  Speaker 1: there was going to be some kind of settlement. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't sound like it. I think we might be going
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  Speaker 1: back to trial. And this time, watch some of the
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  Speaker 1: cable news networks they're going to go live with this.
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  Speaker 5: Oh no doubt uh and this is the go fund
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  Speaker 5: me for lindsey clancy that is well over a million
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  Speaker 5: dollars now and going by the day i mean there
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  Speaker 5: are people out there contributing uh to her welfare in
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  Speaker 5: whatever form that takes they really don't know what this
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  Speaker 5: money is going to go to because if she's in
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  Speaker 5: a psychiatric facility It's limited in terms of what it
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  Speaker 5: can go for, but they just keep sending money.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to her family at this point, and it's
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  Speaker 1: up to $ 1. 3 million. But they want, listen to this.
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  Speaker 1: This takes a lot of gall, by the way. They
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  Speaker 1: want $ 3 million. Now, I want to know exactly why
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  Speaker 1: you need $ 3 million.
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  Speaker 4: Please itemize that.
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  Speaker 1: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: Tell everybody why. Everybody is entitled to know.
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  Speaker 5: Because if whatever comes down the pipe in terms of
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  Speaker 5: a plea bargain or whatever, if she's in a psychiatric facility,
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  Speaker 5: we're paying for that, meaning the taxpayers of the Commonwealth
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  Speaker 5: of Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 4: So what are all of her needs?
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  Speaker 5: We know that there is a GoFundMe effort for her
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  Speaker 5: mother and father who were traveling back and forth for
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  Speaker 5: the trial. Apparently that continues today. gather steam and there's
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  Speaker 5: more money being contributed to that. So I'm scratching my
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  Speaker 5: head and saying, where could this money be going? Is
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  Speaker 5: it going for the welfare of who? The children are dead.
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  Speaker 5: The husband is now off on his own. He's remarried.
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  Speaker 5: He's living in Manhattan. So where is this money going?
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't it smell like somebody's trying to get rich off
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  Speaker 1: of this?
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  Speaker 4: Is it going for legal fees?
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  Speaker 1: $ 3 million worth?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know. Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: But, man, it sure does stink. At least it's suspicious.
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  Speaker 5: And with everything going on, everywhere I went, right, in
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  Speaker 5: the aftermath of 9-11, with AI hysteria, everything else, it's
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  Speaker 5: the number one topic on the minds of people.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: It's not going to go away.
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  Speaker 5: It's not going away until the DA decides what they're
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  Speaker 5: going to do with this case now.
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  Speaker 1: That's why the media is praying for a retrial.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you better believe it. Careers will get made on
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  Speaker 4: this retrial.
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  Speaker 5: Anyway, up next, you know, I've dealt in the subways
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  Speaker 5: since I was five years old. That's when I took
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  Speaker 5: my first subway ride in 1959. I never have seen
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  Speaker 5: or heard of a case like this Where this young
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  Speaker 5: couple just sat down in the tracks on Spring Street
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  Speaker 5: and got hit by an incoming number four train. Never, ever, ever.
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  Speaker 5: And I've seen and heard almost everything. Plus, a chance
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  Speaker 5: to see Richard Marks with penalties. You know, Larry and Natalie,
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  Speaker 5: I've been riding the subways in New York City since
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  Speaker 5: I was five years old by myself. 1959, the old
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  Speaker 5: L train, lousy line out of Rockaway Parkway. And I've
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  Speaker 5: seen and I've heard and I've been made aware of
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  Speaker 5: a lot of weird and very bad things that have
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  Speaker 5: happened in the subway. I can't recall, I'm 72 now,
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  Speaker 5: anything that's comparable to what occurred at 3.15 a.m. Saturday
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  Speaker 5: going into Sunday at Spring Street Station, the number four train,
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  Speaker 5: number six train going downtown. on the weekends and the
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  Speaker 5: wee morning hours, the express train oftentimes will go on
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  Speaker 5: the local track. We see an actual shot. A video
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  Speaker 5: was taken, but they sort of stopped the shot. You
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  Speaker 5: see two young people staring at the train as it's
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  Speaker 5: bearing down at them. They're sitting in the middle of
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  Speaker 5: the track as if they were having a picnic. And
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  Speaker 5: they are crushed to death as the number four train
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  Speaker 5: could not stop in time. The motorman said he just
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  Speaker 5: didn't see him in time. And unfortunately, it resulted in
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  Speaker 5: their death. Horrible death. Turns out it was a 24
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  Speaker 5: year old man from Sayreville, New Jersey. That's like in
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  Speaker 5: middle New Jersey, right? In Middlesex County. and the young lady,
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  Speaker 5: also 24 years old, from Dayton, New York, which is
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  Speaker 5: way upstate, near like Amish countries, only like 2,000 people
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  Speaker 5: in all of Dayton. My assumption, without having any more details,
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  Speaker 5: they've not released the names, they haven't said why they
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  Speaker 5: were down in the track, is it's at such a
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  Speaker 5: place where there are bars and restaurants, you know, it's Soho,
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  Speaker 5: it's below NYU, it's north of Canal Street, that they
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  Speaker 5: were probably... going to a bar or enjoying themselves and
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  Speaker 5: for some strange reason ended up down on those tracks
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  Speaker 5: sitting so it didn't appear that they were tossed in
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  Speaker 5: because the last photo was of them actually sitting and
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  Speaker 5: facing the train that was bearing down on them so
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  Speaker 5: hopefully we find out the details But I've never seen
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  Speaker 5: anything like that before, nor heard of anything similar to
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  Speaker 5: that in the subways.
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  Speaker 1: I had to look to see if there's ever been
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  Speaker 1: a suicide pact that had to do with the subway.
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  Speaker 1: And I had to go way back, but it's happened.
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  Speaker 1: It's happened a couple of times. It happened in 1991
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago, where a couple just, they wanted to go
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  Speaker 1: out like Romeo and Juliet, they said. I don't remember
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  Speaker 1: the subway in Romeo and Juliet, but they said they
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  Speaker 1: They wanted to go out as lovers, and they wanted
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  Speaker 1: to go out in a dramatic and big way. And so,
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  Speaker 1: as you said, we don't know enough to go there,
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  Speaker 1: but nothing else seems to explain it.
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  Speaker 5: I'll try to get information from sources that I have
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  Speaker 5: in the subway system, the MTA system. The workers, the
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  Speaker 5: maintenance people, the others who will probably give me some
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  Speaker 5: information that the officials would not divulge. Now, I bogarted you, Larry.
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  Speaker 5: Do we have some talkbacks?
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  Speaker 1: We absolutely have a couple of talkbacks, starting with AI
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  Speaker 1: and China. And this guy raises a really good point.
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  Speaker 5: China.
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  Speaker 1: China.
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  Speaker 2: You want China to join in and be in our side.
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  Speaker 2: Why did you ask Al-Qaeda to join you?
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 2: You think China is going to do anything that's going
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  Speaker 2: to benefit us or the world? Seriously? You're going to
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  Speaker 2: go with China. Forget it. Just forget it. There's too
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  Speaker 2: many ignorant people on the planet. And they're running the place.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I would only say this.
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  Speaker 5: There's an International Atomic Weapons Commission that inspects their payloads, Russia,
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  Speaker 5: every country that has nuclear weapons. Maybe something along that
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  Speaker 5: matter could be established.
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  Speaker 1: Now we have somebody that liked my use of an
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  Speaker 1: adjective in describing the politicians at 9-11.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, superfluous. I think that's a good adjective to use for.
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  Speaker 6: Politicians being at the 9-11 ceremony because they don't need
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  Speaker 6: to be there. And frankly, I doubt that many of
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  Speaker 6: them even care. I wonder how many times Joe Biden
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  Speaker 6: looked at his watch this time.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: And we got that idea from a gentleman in the
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  Speaker 1: beat on the street with Natalie Migliore who said, why
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  Speaker 1: do any politicians have.
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  Speaker 4: To be there?
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  Speaker 1: Great idea. I completely, completely agree. Now let's get Larry
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  Speaker 1: Kofsky in. In for Daria Albinger with the 830 News.
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  Speaker 4: Larry.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning, Larry.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Curtis.
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  Speaker 7: We have 68 degrees under cloudy skies at 830. The
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  Speaker 7: cleanup continuing in parts of northern New Jersey and the
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  Speaker 7: Hudson Valley after torrential rains flooded streets with up to
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  Speaker 7: three feet of water. Patterson and Paramus were among the
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  Speaker 7: community's hardest hit runners in a half marathon in Paramus.
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  Speaker 7: had to wade through knee-deep water in some places to
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  Speaker 7: complete the race. Patterson's mayor is asking for federal assistance
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  Speaker 7: to help the region recover. Mayor Andre Saia says fire
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  Speaker 7: crews had to rescue 15 stranded motorists before the rains
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  Speaker 7: let up. He says federal help could aid in fixing
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  Speaker 7: Patterson's chronic flooding problems. New York City health officials continue
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  Speaker 7: confronting their second outbreak of Legionnaire's disease this year, this
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  Speaker 7: time in the Melrose and Morrisania sections of the Bronx.
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  Speaker 7: One person has died, three people hospitalized out of nine
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  Speaker 7: confirmed cases so far. Ten cooling towers, including one at
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  Speaker 7: Yankee Stadium, have tested positive for the bacteria that causes
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  Speaker 7: the disease. They've been ordered drained and disinfected. Also in
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  Speaker 7: the Bronx, police are searching for several suspects seen fleeing
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  Speaker 7: the scene of a double shooting not far from Yankee Stadium.
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  Speaker 7: Authorities say it happened shortly after six last night. At
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  Speaker 7: 157th and Girard Avenue, the victims, aged 64 and 72,
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  Speaker 7: suffered non-life-threatening injuries. President Trump is back at the White
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  Speaker 7: House following a two-day visit to Ireland. The president said
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  Speaker 7: over the weekend that he would love to see a
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  Speaker 7: united Ireland and thinks it's going to happen eventually, sparking
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  Speaker 7: some controversy. Republican Congressman Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin is recovering
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  Speaker 7: after he suffered minor injuries when a small plane he
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  Speaker 7: was in had to make an emergency landing Saturday night.
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  Speaker 7: Tiffany posted on X that the plane lost power as
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  Speaker 7: it approached the Wausau Downtown Airport and was forced to
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  Speaker 7: land in a lake. The FAA is investigating the pilot
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  Speaker 7: also suffered minor injuries. Our next news at 9, I'm
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  Speaker 7: Larry Kofsky on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Larry, and congratulations to Jeff Siegel from Hewlett,
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  Speaker 1: New York, who just won a pair of tickets to
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  Speaker 1: see Richard Marks December 20th at the Paramount Theater in Huntington.
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  Speaker 1: Tickets on sale now at Ticketmaster.com. Another chance to win
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow at 825. Why can't the city tackle this Legionnaires problem?
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  Speaker 1: Another outbreak, and Yankee Stadium is part of the outbreak?
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about it when we come back. Plus, don't
• 18:58
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  Speaker 1: Saturday nights. Why can't the city get the... Legionnaires outbreaks
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  Speaker 1: under control? It's just happening in New York. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's Legionnaires disease across the country, but not like this.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have major outbreak after major outbreak after major
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  Speaker 1: outbreak in a row. And the latest one, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: go through them in a second, but the latest one
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  Speaker 1: is in the South Bronx area. where health officials are
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  Speaker 1: investigating a cluster, you know this story by now, at
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  Speaker 1: two area codes. These are important if you live in
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  Speaker 1: that area, 10451 and 10456. So, so far, there's nine
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  Speaker 1: confirmed cases and there's been one death. But that's the
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  Speaker 1: way the one started in the Upper East Side, too.
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  Speaker 1: And we ended up with five deaths in 84 cases.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way the one in central Harlem, that cluster started.
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  Speaker 1: There we had 100 people affected and seven deaths. So
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  Speaker 1: I understand the city's on top of this one. They're
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  Speaker 1: already very well aware. Yankee Stadium is involved in this.
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  Speaker 1: They've been ordered to have their cleaning towers disinfected and cleaned.
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  Speaker 4: Out, as have a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: But if this plays out like the last couple, we're
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  Speaker 1: not over with this yet. So I get it that
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  Speaker 1: the city seems at least to be better than it
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  Speaker 1: was last year. If you remember last year, they said, no,
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  Speaker 1: we handled the problem. We've ordered all water towers to
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  Speaker 1: be disinfected. Everything's fine. And then came the Upper East
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  Speaker 1: Side in the summer, this past summer. And then it
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh, my God, I thought you had this
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  Speaker 1: under control. Now it's happening again. So I can pose
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  Speaker 1: the question to you, Curtis. Yeah. We don't have this
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  Speaker 1: under control.
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  Speaker 5: No, and ironic that last Friday, Saturday, I was in
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  Speaker 5: downtown Philadelphia. As you know, I was there with Nancy.
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  Speaker 5: I was giving a lecture at the University of Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 5: They came back for session at Ivy League school there.
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  Speaker 5: So we were staying in a hotel. Right near what
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  Speaker 5: was the Bellevue Stratford. I think they changed their name
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  Speaker 5: to the Bellevue. And that was where really we all
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  Speaker 5: became aware of Legionnaires disease. They were having an American
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  Speaker 5: Legion convention.
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  Speaker 4: I think it was 1976. 200 of the Legionnaires became ill.
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  Speaker 4: 36 died.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think they've had another problem since. I stand
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  Speaker 5: to be corrected. But I remember we were staying up
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  Speaker 5: near the Curtis Musical Center. So we were at about
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  Speaker 5: 300 southward. So that was down at 200 southward. And
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  Speaker 5: you're right. How come it's just New York City? And again,
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  Speaker 5: three totally different neighborhoods. Under Eric Adams, it was West Harlem.
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  Speaker 5: As you pointed out, the most recent case was the
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  Speaker 5: Upper East Side. And now the South Bronx and what
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  Speaker 5: attracted everybody's attention is the Yankee Stadium was cited as
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  Speaker 5: having an outbreak in one of its water towers.
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  Speaker 4: So you said, what can it be?
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  Speaker 5: Water towers, many of them are still wood, but they
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  Speaker 5: were wood for many years.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they are on top of these buildings. They
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  Speaker 4: look like.
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  Speaker 5: Remember the things in the old black and white movies
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  Speaker 5: when the locomotive would pull up and the steam engine
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  Speaker 5: and then the water would go down and people sometimes
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  Speaker 5: would be swimming in those huge wooden containers. So a
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  Speaker 5: lot of them look like that on top of buildings.
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  Speaker 5: But I don't think it's that. I don't know if
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  Speaker 5: it has to do with the kind of weather we've
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  Speaker 5: had of late, but certainly they're going to have to
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  Speaker 5: go into each and every container that holds water and
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  Speaker 5: completely de-louse it. They have no choice because they don't
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  Speaker 5: have an idea as to how this is developing.
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  Speaker 1: But trust is now going away. There was some trust
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  Speaker 1: when the first one happened because they seemed like they
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  Speaker 1: really did. They were having community meetings. They were all
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  Speaker 1: over it. They were dealing with all of the cooling
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  Speaker 1: tower's But then when you have three within 14 months,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you don't listen anymore. I mean, here is
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  Speaker 1: the health commissioner, Dr. Alistair Martin, talking about the latest outbreak.
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  Speaker 1: Just last night, we initiated an investigation for Legionnaire's disease
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  Speaker 1: right here in this community. So that typically means it's
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  Speaker 1: a cooling tower that's the source.
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  Speaker 3: And so the work of identifying that potential source is underway.
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  Speaker 1: This was yesterday. We're working on identifying the source of it.
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  Speaker 1: You're working on identifying the source. You have no idea
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  Speaker 1: where this is coming from. That's what scares me the most.
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  Speaker 1: What scares me the most is they seemed like they
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  Speaker 1: knew exactly what happened in 2005, 2025. They seemed like
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  Speaker 1: they knew exactly what the problem was. This time they
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  Speaker 1: say we're investigating. Now they're going to investigate the water towers.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that's specifically what he meant. But what if it's not?
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  Speaker 5: And by the way, Yankee Stadium, where they go through
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  Speaker 5: that with a fine-tooth comb before and after games, because
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  Speaker 5: obviously they're charging a premium price. I mean, basically, out
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  Speaker 5: of contact for most people, you'd have to take a
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  Speaker 5: reverse mortgage and a payday loan just to go there.
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  Speaker 4: Is this airborne? Is this actually moving in the air?
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  Speaker 4: They were really not.
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  Speaker 5: Explaining it or defining it to us so that we
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  Speaker 5: have a better understanding. Because how does it jump from
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  Speaker 5: place to place? In fact, does it jump from place
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  Speaker 5: to place? Or does it originate within the cooling apparatus itself?
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  Speaker 1: It's a great question. All of those are great questions.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that we don't have those answers and we've
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  Speaker 1: now been dealing with this. By the way, this isn't
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  Speaker 1: a new disease. And there's been outbreaks in other cities.
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  Speaker 1: Not like this. But there's been outbreaks in other cities
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  Speaker 1: ever since the Philadelphia case happened. started all of this.
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  Speaker 1: So we know what the symptoms are. We know what
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  Speaker 1: causes it. We know how it spreads. And for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: this health department seems to be clueless. Not only, as
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  Speaker 1: you heard a moment ago, we're going to investigate now
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  Speaker 1: to find out how it's happening, but also to say
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  Speaker 1: that we really don't know why it's now jumped to
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  Speaker 1: this area. Well, they better get a handle on it
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  Speaker 1: because I'm sure everybody in the whole area is worried
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  Speaker 1: about it. By the way, just in case you don't know,
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  Speaker 1: it starts out like the flu. You just get a cough.
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  Speaker 1: And if that happens, go get tested because the earlier
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  Speaker 1: you can catch this, the better your chance of survival.
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  Speaker 5: Now, does this mean if you happen to be sitting
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  Speaker 5: there in Yankee Stadium and you have a cough, you're
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  Speaker 5: immediately going to run to your lawyer and start suing Yankees,
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  Speaker 5: the Yankees, the Steinbrenner family, since they have deep pockets?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it depends on how bad you get it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it is really a type of pneumonia. That's exactly what
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  Speaker 1: it is. And people die of pneumonia all the time.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way this is. It just starts... with a
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  Speaker 1: different germ, the Legionella germ. So that's why, if you
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  Speaker 1: get sick, please, and if you were, especially in one
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  Speaker 1: of those infected areas, get to the doctor immediately.
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  Speaker 5: Well, up next, if you're a Republican candidate seeking reelection
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  Speaker 5: or trying to get elected to the House or the Senate,
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  Speaker 5: You're saying now I got to deal with these data
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  Speaker 5: filing centers, AI, and the flock cameras because the president
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  Speaker 5: has come out and says that he's in favor of
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  Speaker 5: the flock cameras continuing as they are. Typical Republican candidate
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  Speaker 5: is saying, woe is me.
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  Speaker 4: Woe is me. Woe is me.
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  Speaker 5: President of the United States while over in Ireland weighed
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  Speaker 5: in on a lot of subjects. The good, taking the
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  Speaker 5: tariff off of Irish whiskeys. He hesitated, saying, maybe I
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  Speaker 5: shouldn't do this, but I'm urging Irish unification between the
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  Speaker 5: North and the South. He weighed in on Lindsay Clancy,
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  Speaker 5: that case. And then he gave a resounding shout out,
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  Speaker 5: support for flock cameras to continue. And this in the
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  Speaker 5: face of a lot of growing opposition, which is almost
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  Speaker 5: like AI data filing centers, which has had a combination
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  Speaker 5: of Democrats and Republicans both in opposition. So how do
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  Speaker 5: you think this is going to float with the two
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  Speaker 5: months left in the midterm election cycle where the local
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  Speaker 5: guys and gals running are going to have to deal
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  Speaker 5: with this?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure it's going to have much of
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  Speaker 1: an effect on any of the local elections because people
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  Speaker 1: have to make their own policies on it. They're not
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  Speaker 1: going to go by Donald Trump on this. But let
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  Speaker 1: me play you what he said. Yeah, let me clear
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  Speaker 1: a couple of things up real quick. The only problem
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  Speaker 1: with flock cameras right now, every single one of the problems,
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  Speaker 1: all of the cases you've heard about are because of.
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  Speaker 4: Horny or jilted cops.
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  Speaker 1: That go in and nefariously use them to attract somebody.
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  Speaker 1: That every single problem with it has been that. And
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  Speaker 1: so I'm not sure how you wrangle that down. The
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  Speaker 1: people that own Flock have gone out and said, look,
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  Speaker 1: we're only going to keep it for seven days instead
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  Speaker 1: of for two months. We're only going to keep the info.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to limit on who can see it. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to make sure that you have to have a
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  Speaker 1: written request and you need to email the request to us.
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  Speaker 1: for every single time you want to access it. So
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  Speaker 1: they're doing their best.
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  Speaker 4: But let me.
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  Speaker 1: Remind you of a couple of things. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: you have no privacy when you're outside. That's not constitutionally protected.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason you have a license plate, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: is so they can read it. So they can find
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  Speaker 1: you in case you ever commit a crime. And it
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  Speaker 1: has been used, Flock has been used in hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: thousands of crimes to help solve crimes. And it's found
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  Speaker 1: that Tens of thousands of missing people. So you got
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  Speaker 1: to be careful. You got to be careful when you
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  Speaker 1: throw this out because you may really need it one day.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but the wave of anger is out there. You
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  Speaker 5: can just feel it amongst people who attend these kind
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  Speaker 5: of meetings. We'll see if it has any impact. on
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  Speaker 5: the midterm elections like the growth of the AI data
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  Speaker 5: filing centers. But the talkback of the morning and winner
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  Speaker 5: of the Curtis Leo and Larry Menti in the morning
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  Speaker 4: Hey, guys, I'll keep it real simple about AI. Terminator,
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  Speaker 4: I'll be back.
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  Speaker 7: You know what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: Where's my radio? Oh, the Terminator, I'll be back.
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  Speaker 1: Was AI in Terminator? Didn't he come from the future?
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  Speaker 4: That's not what happened.
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  Speaker 1: Can AI send people?
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  Speaker 4: In a sense, it's a bit of robotics, as you know.
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  Speaker 4: So anything is a possibility.
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  Speaker 1: The one thing that they promised they would never do,
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  Speaker 1: they're already doing. And the promise that they made, the
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  Speaker 1: whole industry, when they were talking about AI, will never
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  Speaker 1: combine it with robots. We'll never have the two departments together.
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  Speaker 4: Done.
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  Speaker 2: Done.
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  Speaker 6: Done.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, I think he's finding his stride. But right now,
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