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Hour 1: Veterans Day · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, it's Veterans Day, and we're all in the house today.
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  Speaker 1: And I just want to bifurcate this, if I can,
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  Speaker 1: Larry and Natalie, because Veterans Day, unlike Memorial Day, how
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  Speaker 1: many times have you heard people say, oh, happy Memorial Day? No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Schmuck putts.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 1: Schmendrick. It's a day we honor our dead. Memorial Day.
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  Speaker 1: Honor the dead. Those who actually served in combat, you
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  Speaker 1: honor them. Veterans Day is for anyone who ever served, wartime, peacetime,
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  Speaker 1: National Guard, anybody who had any kind of military involvement.
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  Speaker 1: And it's celebrated differently in different parts of the country. So,
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  Speaker 1: for instance, I found out that in Wisconsin, it's the
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  Speaker 1: only state that is not an official paid holiday for
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  Speaker 1: government employees. And you would say, gee, I wonder why, Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that goes from left to right. That's the
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  Speaker 1: one state politically that always vacillates. But here in New
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  Speaker 1: York City, I can speak directly to it and naturally
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  Speaker 1: to New Jersey. I prefer the New Jersey way in
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  Speaker 1: many of the areas of the state. New York City,
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  Speaker 1: all the kids are off from school. Are they learning
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  Speaker 1: about Veterans and Veterans Day? So what I did yesterday, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: is I went to the Gray Pupaya This is right
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  Speaker 1: on 72nd and Broadway where a lot of the kids
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  Speaker 1: come after high school because they get a few dogs,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for less than $ 10 and something to wash
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  Speaker 1: it down with. And they stand outside, and these were
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  Speaker 1: pretty bright kids. I said, they talk about Veterans Day
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  Speaker 1: this week at all, you know, Monday or Tuesday, you know,
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  Speaker 1: leading up to the holiday?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what Veterans Day is? They sort of flummoxed.
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  Speaker 1: I say, is there any intent to discuss Veterans Day,
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  Speaker 1: do you think? Like in history class, you have current events. Naturally,
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  Speaker 1: when I brought up current events, they said to me
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  Speaker 1: exactly what my sons have said to me who go
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  Speaker 1: to public schools, that they don't discuss current events because
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  Speaker 1: it might upset some people. So if we have a
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  Speaker 1: Veterans Day holiday where school is out, How is that
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  Speaker 1: benefiting a new generation to understand what Veterans Day is,
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to what I've seen and I participated in
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  Speaker 1: many years ago in New Jersey, some of the smaller towns,
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  Speaker 1: where you go to school on Veterans Day and they
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  Speaker 1: dedicate the whole curriculum to veterans visiting, coming in, speaking
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  Speaker 1: in the assembly, educating the youngsters and even the teachers
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  Speaker 1: and the teacher's aides into their service and the history.
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  Speaker 1: Veterans Day. So I prefer the New Jersey way. I
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  Speaker 1: know the big cities there, they don't do it. Newark, Elizabeth, Patterson,
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  Speaker 1: I think Trenton, they follow, you know, New York City.
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  Speaker 1: But they're the ones who probably need it the most,
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  Speaker 1: those kids in the inner city.
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  Speaker 2: But you can do both. You can talk about Veterans Day.
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  Speaker 2: You can honor veterans the day before and then have
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  Speaker 2: off on that day. You can say, this is why
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  Speaker 2: you're going to have off tomorrow. You can bring a
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  Speaker 2: veteran in. I know they'd love to come in and
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  Speaker 2: talk about their service. And that's the way you should
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  Speaker 2: do it. Because the federal government and the states, they
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  Speaker 2: take off. All the government buildings, they're off. But they
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  Speaker 2: don't insist that everybody else take off. And the horrible
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  Speaker 2: part about it, the worst part about it, if you
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  Speaker 2: have a company... And you have a veteran showing up
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  Speaker 2: to work today. You didn't give him the day off
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  Speaker 2: for all that he potentially did for us or was
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  Speaker 2: willing to do for us. Shame on you. Every veteran
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  Speaker 2: should be, if they don't have a state law, if
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  Speaker 2: they don't make it so that everybody's off, then you
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  Speaker 2: should give the veterans in your department the day off.
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  Speaker 2: And if you didn't do it this year, I understand.
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  Speaker 2: You probably weren't thinking about it. Do it next year.
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  Speaker 2: Just everybody that served in your office, everybody that served
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  Speaker 2: in your company, just call them in and say, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, take tomorrow off. Because why? If you're going
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  Speaker 2: to have this special day to honor veterans, do something
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  Speaker 2: for the veterans. Do something for the people that served.
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  Speaker 2: About one and a half percent of the people actually
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  Speaker 2: protect this country. And God bless them. God bless that
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  Speaker 2: they're there standing fortress against anything that may happen to
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  Speaker 2: this country. They deserve something. Good litmus test. Tomorrow, Larry,
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  Speaker 2: there'll be a vote in the New York City Council,
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  Speaker 2: which hates the military. They've given millions of dollars to
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  Speaker 2: illegal aliens. They've given bupkis. They've given hugats to veterans.
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  Speaker 1: So Frank Murano, who's a city council person from South
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  Speaker 1: Shore of Staten Island, Republican, conservative, has a bill that'll
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  Speaker 1: be voted on the floor. If you are a disabled veteran,
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  Speaker 1: you should not have to pay property taxes in New
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  Speaker 1: York City. Makes sense, right?
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: That's great. That's a great law.
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  Speaker 1: Disabled, too. If you're able, you know, you got to
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  Speaker 1: pay property tax. So it's bifurcated the proposed law. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to try to be in city council chambers to
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  Speaker 1: name and shame any of those who actually vote against this.
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  Speaker 1: You would think. what's your opposition to this? Disabled veterans
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  Speaker 1: not having them pay New York City property tax? Makes
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  Speaker 1: sense to me. But there are going to be some
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  Speaker 1: in that city council who are going to say absolutely
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  Speaker 1: a thousand times no.
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  Speaker 2: And there's small things you can do today, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: to make veterans feel special. If you know somebody in
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  Speaker 2: your neighborhood or your family or you know somebody at
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  Speaker 2: work that is a veteran, just say thank you. Just
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  Speaker 2: thank you for being there, even if you didn't go
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  Speaker 2: to war just in case. that you were there to
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  Speaker 2: serve us. And you know what else we'd love? We
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  Speaker 2: would love to hear from you, not only about what
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about today, what should be done for Veterans Day,
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  Speaker 2: but also if you served, we would love to hear
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  Speaker 2: your story. So go ahead and leave us a talk back.
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  Speaker 2: home a C-Crane radio. Now, we don't do enough on
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  Speaker 2: Veterans Day, and I'm glad we're talking about this today
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  Speaker 2: because municipalities that don't do enough... municipalities where the city
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  Speaker 2: council and the mayor and all the administrators are taking off,
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  Speaker 2: but they don't have it so the schools take off,
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  Speaker 2: shame on you. If you don't have a parade in
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  Speaker 2: your town, if you don't have some type of ceremony,
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  Speaker 2: praising veterans, remembering veterans, taking the veterans in your town
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  Speaker 2: and giving them a day and applauding for them, shame
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  Speaker 2: on you.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Natalie, you're out there in traditional New Jersey. What's
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  Speaker 1: it been like in the school systems there? Because in
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  Speaker 1: New York City, public Catholic schools, charter schools, they do
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  Speaker 1: not have discussion of Veterans Day either before, naturally, the
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  Speaker 1: day of. They're off or after.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I believe my kids went to school on
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  Speaker 5: Veterans Day. It's been a while since they were in
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  Speaker 5: the public school system.
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  Speaker 1: But I do remember.
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  Speaker 5: They always had one of those veterans assemblies. And it
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  Speaker 5: was so nice. It was so personal because they asked
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  Speaker 5: anybody in the school, if they had a veteran in
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  Speaker 5: their life, to invite them to come to the assembly.
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  Speaker 5: And then they would sit and they would talk to
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  Speaker 5: the kids. And I remember my kids always knew, oh,
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  Speaker 5: you know, so-and-so's grandpa, he was in, you know.
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  Speaker 6: The war.
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  Speaker 1: And they all knew them. And they, you know, it
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  Speaker 1: was something special.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great. That's wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Except that we need to do more. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: understand that. And everybody tries to do something just to
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  Speaker 2: make up for the fact that they're not doing enough.
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  Speaker 2: But this should be a day like we should have parades.
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  Speaker 2: We should be watching the TV at nine o'clock and
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  Speaker 2: watching a parade.
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  Speaker 1: I would have one caveat to that, whether it's a
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  Speaker 1: wreath laying or a parade, depending on the size of
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  Speaker 1: the community. Politicians haven't served. They shouldn't be there. The
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  Speaker 1: parade should be for veterans. I've been in enough of
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  Speaker 1: these to see like half the people in the parade
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  Speaker 1: have never served anything. It's like, how about a parade
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  Speaker 1: for the veterans, whether they served in peacetime? And then
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  Speaker 1: the politicians always in front. Many of them who vote
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  Speaker 1: against veteran benefits and taking care of veterans. and taking
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  Speaker 1: positions that are anti-military. Why would you be in the
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  Speaker 1: freaking parade? Just stay home.
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand at all. And, you know, one of
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  Speaker 2: the reasons I think the veterans aren't treated as well
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  Speaker 2: as they should be is because, and this is the
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  Speaker 2: most abhorrent reason in the world, it's because they're not
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  Speaker 2: enough of a voting bloc. There's not enough of them
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  Speaker 2: to have power. They're willing to serve our country. They're
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  Speaker 2: willing to sacrifice their lives for our country. But guess what?
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  Speaker 2: There's just not enough of you. So we don't really
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  Speaker 2: have to pay attention. Now, two things to look at today.
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  Speaker 2: The mayor, I'm sure, has been invited, Zoran Mandami, to
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  Speaker 2: the wreath laying that begins the parade in Lower Manhattan.
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  Speaker 1: What will he say if he speaks? And then the
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  Speaker 1: president of the United States, the tradition of the presidency
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  Speaker 1: is they go to Arlington National Cemetery and And they
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  Speaker 1: lay a wreath. He's going with his wife, Melania. But
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  Speaker 1: he is aware of a huge statue. that was erected
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  Speaker 1: in the National Mall. It's called the Foot Soldier, painted
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  Speaker 1: in all gold, that talks about his five deferments that
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  Speaker 1: he was granted during the Vietnam War. I hope, I
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  Speaker 1: hope he doesn't bring up the fact, if he is
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  Speaker 1: making statements at the Arlington National Cemetery today, that he
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  Speaker 1: could have ended the Vietnam War in a week.
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  Speaker 2: No, he's not going to. You love bringing that up,
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  Speaker 2: but no, he's not going to, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't hear any Republicans criticizing him for that. That
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  Speaker 1: was the dumbest, most stupid thing out of the many
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  Speaker 1: stupid things that he said.
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  Speaker 2: Right, keep going.
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  Speaker 1: And the crowd behind him, yay! All the MAGA Colts,
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  Speaker 1: Kool-Aid drinkers.
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  Speaker 2: So this, you bringing this up today is tainting Veterans Day.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it is. It's silly. It's just silly. Just keep
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  Speaker 2: your eye on the ball.
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  Speaker 1: You don't even think there's a possibility?
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  Speaker 2: Don't go into your derangement syndrome. I don't think he's
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  Speaker 2: going to talk. I think he's going to lay the
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  Speaker 2: wreath and he's going to leave.
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  Speaker 1: I see.
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  Speaker 2: Because he's done that in the past.
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  Speaker 1: And if he talks... Because he may be answering questions.
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  Speaker 2: He wouldn't say anything about the Vietnam War. It's just,
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  Speaker 2: it's silly. It's silly that you said that he tweeted
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  Speaker 2: it last night. Would you agree it was silly that
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  Speaker 2: he said that? That he could end the Vietnam War
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  Speaker 2: in one week? I have learned to not, I've learned
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  Speaker 2: just to pay attention to what Donald Trump does. Because, why?
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Because it doesn't mean anything. That didn't mean anything. It
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  Speaker 2: didn't mean a thing. It didn't mean a thing except
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  Speaker 2: to people that don't like him like you.
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  Speaker 1: And the Ukraine war in a day when he's elected, right?
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  Speaker 1: You'll talk about that forever. Drink the Kool-Aid, Larry.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm not drinking the Kool-Aid. I can criticize what
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  Speaker 2: he does. But not what he says. What he tweets.
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  Speaker 1: He said it, Larry. It's silly. At the rally in Iowa.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Before all of his Kool-Aid drinking MAGA supporters.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's the biggest story of the week.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Larry.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: You don't listen to anything that the president says. That
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  Speaker 1: is the biggest story of the week. Only what he does.
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  Speaker 2: It is so small in comparison to what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: You don't agree with that? It is so small in
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  Speaker 2: comparison to what's important.
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  Speaker 1: I love the fact that you said you don't pay
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  Speaker 1: attention to what he says, only what he does. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Now I know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. No.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I learned that a long, long time ago. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel like you gained something from that? Like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: thank you. Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: But up next, it's a good time story. An autistic
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  Speaker 1: boy who could have perished, saved by a community and
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  Speaker 1: the police, as you know, with autism. They're attracted to
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  Speaker 1: the water. And he may have been moments away from perishing. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to feel great about this story. Well, we're
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  Speaker 1: just learning.
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  Speaker 2: About this search in Totawa, New Jersey, and it was
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  Speaker 2: a frantic search for a six-year-old nonverbal boy with autism,
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  Speaker 2: only identified as Jacob, who climbed out of his bedroom
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  Speaker 2: window and then just was wandering around the neighborhood. Apparently,
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  Speaker 2: he was knocking on doors and then running away before
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  Speaker 2: people People could answer. And, you know, his parents were frantic.
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  Speaker 2: They they they called the local police and then the
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  Speaker 2: search was on and they were the whole the whole neighborhood.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of the people in Totawa got involved in
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  Speaker 2: this trying to find this little boy. The police officers
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  Speaker 2: even said at one point and they seemed emotional. They said, look,
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  Speaker 2: we're all parents here. We're all parents. We all came together.
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  Speaker 2: This is a tight community. And so everybody is involved
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  Speaker 2: in this. And then somebody got the idea, maybe he
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  Speaker 2: was attracted to the river. And immediately they were fearful
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  Speaker 2: because it's the Passaic River. And a little boy, a
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  Speaker 2: six-year-old boy can drown in that. And as they got
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  Speaker 2: closer and they got closer, they saw a slide mark.
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  Speaker 2: That he had slid down and they found him clinging
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  Speaker 2: to a branch in the water that he had slid
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  Speaker 2: down the mud. And they don't know how long he
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  Speaker 2: was there. But again, he's nonverbal. He's autistic. And the
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  Speaker 2: police immediately started a human chain because they didn't want
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  Speaker 2: to fall on the river either. And they save this
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  Speaker 2: little boy. And patrolman Fina Montrania put it well.
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  Speaker 7: Completely drenched from head to toe, full of mud, what
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  Speaker 7: appeared to be vomit on his chest. I sat with
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  Speaker 7: him and I was able to comfort him and clean
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  Speaker 7: him up a little bit as much as I could.
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  Speaker 7: I have some sensory toys in my duty bag for
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  Speaker 7: these cases. I was able to give him some toys.
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  Speaker 2: She had sensory toys in her patrol car just in case,
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  Speaker 2: just in case she was ever with a child that
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  Speaker 2: was that upset to give them something to do to
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  Speaker 2: take their mind off. how horrible it is.
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  Speaker 1: And autism, one of the factors is they're attracted to
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  Speaker 1: water so that if they do get away from any supervision,
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  Speaker 1: they'll go to the closest body of water. And many
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  Speaker 1: of them are found to have drowned because of that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Great story.
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  Speaker 1: Great story.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Luckily this boy was able to grab onto a branch.
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  Speaker 2: We have a lot of people that want to talk
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  Speaker 2: about Veterans Day.
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  Speaker 5: I don't believe that any veteran that has been in battle.
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  Speaker 8: Should have to pay truly any kind of tax.
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  Speaker 6: They put their butts.
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  Speaker 9: On the line, their lives, and the.
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  Speaker 4: Least we can do is that. They deserve a lot more.
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  Speaker 10: They deserve everything.
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  Speaker 9: And really, I think it's really disgraceful.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what? It's a great thought, and it
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  Speaker 2: would increase enrollment, too. People would join up.
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  Speaker 1: Good litmus test tomorrow. City Council, Frank Marano's bill. so
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  Speaker 1: that the infirm veterans don't have to pay their property taxes,
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  Speaker 1: residents of New York City. I have a feeling that
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  Speaker 1: may not pass.
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  Speaker 4: Larry Curtis, on this Veterans Day, my family is remembering
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  Speaker 4: the Honorary Grand Marshal of the 2026 Throgs Neck Veterans
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  Speaker 4: Day Parade that was held this past Sunday. Donald A.
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  Speaker 4: Mahoney was a hero who served the Vietnam and passed
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  Speaker 4: earlier this last year.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thanks for calling in and telling us about him
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  Speaker 2: and remembering him.
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  Speaker 3: I kind of finally probably one thing I agree with Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Menti about giving the veterans day.
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  Speaker 1: Off if they don't have it. My question is, why
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  Speaker 1: haven't why didn't they do that.
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  Speaker 2: From the very beginning? Only the veterans should have the
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  Speaker 2: day off.
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  Speaker 4: Only them.
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  Speaker 3: Not everybody else that didn't fight or didn't, you know,
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  Speaker 3: serve in our country.
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  Speaker 2: They are the ones that should have the day off.
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  Speaker 1: We agree.
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  Speaker 2: The Mr. Mentee guy.
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  Speaker 1: Are there bells and whistles going on?
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  Speaker 2: Confetti is coming.
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  Speaker 1: Down from the studio. This is a miracle.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to stop while I'm ahead. Let's get to
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  Speaker 2: Daria Alvinger with the 630 News.
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  Speaker 4: Morning, guys.
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  Speaker 8: Sunny today with a high of 62 degrees. And then
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  Speaker 8: the forecast takes a big change in the coming days.
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  Speaker 8: It is Veterans Day today, and we are honoring those
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  Speaker 8: who served with events across the country. The big parade
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  Speaker 8: stepping off later today from Madison Square Park. Mayor Milm
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  Speaker 8: Donnie will not be in the parade. Instead, he's going
• 17:29
  Speaker 8: to serve meals in the Bronx to vets. Syed Musahib
• 17:33
  Speaker 8: is now charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of
• 17:35
  Speaker 8: a Brooklyn jogger, a grand jury handing up its indictment. Meanwhile,
• 17:39
  Speaker 8: there is a wake today for the jogger.
• 17:41
  Speaker 9: 28-year-old Katie Suarez was running near Shore Parkway on October
• 17:44
  Speaker 9: 30th when she was allegedly attacked by 27-year-old Syed Mohassib,
• 17:49
  Speaker 9: who has been indicted on a top count of second-degree murder.
• 17:52
  Speaker 9: Court documents show Mohassib told detectives he went to the
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: bike path carrying a knife. because he thought people were
• 17:58
  Speaker 9: going to kill his family. The case leaves parents and
• 18:01
  Speaker 9: city officials with questions about how he was able to
• 18:03
  Speaker 9: work in a school. Suarez's family remembers her as a
• 18:06
  Speaker 9: beautiful soul with a full heart of love, whose kindness
• 18:09
  Speaker 9: touched everyone fortunate enough to know her.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Natalie Migliori, WOR News.
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: A week after that stinging defeat in the midterms, House
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: Republicans came together to table plans to impeach Defense Secretary
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: Pete Hegseth.
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  Speaker 2: The motion is adopted.
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: Ahead of the vote, Hegseth, defiant, going before cameras, attacking
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: the effort to impeach him as slander and sabotage.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: It's a farce, and it's a stunt. And everybody.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: knows it.
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: The articles of impeachment put forward by Republican Thomas Massey.
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: In them, Hegseth accused of illegally launching the war with Iran,
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: endangering American troops, and illegally killing civilians in boat strikes
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: against alleged drug smugglers in the waters off the U.S.
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: ABC's Alex Stone. Republicans will be the minority in the
• 18:56
  Speaker 8: 120th Congress, and yesterday they elected their new leadership. Ohio's
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: Jim Jordan will be the House minority leader and the
• 19:02
  Speaker 8: current Senate majority leader. South Dakota's John Thune will serve
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: as the chamber's minority leader. Pope Leo visits Peru today.
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: It's the last leg on his 12-day Latin American tour.
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: Knicks win, Devils lose. Next news, 7 o'clock, bulletins at once.
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  Speaker 8: I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Daria. Add another parade to the many parades
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: that the mayor will not attend. He will not be
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: at the Veterans Day parade. But up next, we're going
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: to talk the new minority leader of the House, Jim Jordan,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: without his jacket on. Soon, you rang... will remain the
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: minority leader now of the U.S.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Senate.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: And next week, it's Hakeem Jeffries and Schumer's audition, but
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: some are already rumbling that one or both should not
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: be in their leadership all up next.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: It wasn't a slam dunk curtis jim jordan was elected
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: house gop leader the vote was 106 to 73 so
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: it was certainly far from unanimous uh the outgoing speaker
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: voted for him thought it was a good choice.
• 20:05
  Speaker 11: He's an honest broker he's a good man he's a
• 20:06
  Speaker 11: fighter And I think that that's the signal that is
• 20:10
  Speaker 11: being sent here, that they're ready, we are ready to
• 20:12
  Speaker 11: dig in for the fight.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: So let's hear from Jordan real quick, and then I'll
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: tell you what I think about it. And Curtis, we'll
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: talk about him as the choice.
• 20:20
  Speaker 12: Over the next two years, House Republicans will fight for
• 20:23
  Speaker 12: American families. When Democrats offer more government, we'll offer more freedom.
• 20:28
  Speaker 12: And we will bring that fight in committee, on the floor,
• 20:32
  Speaker 12: and on the stump. Every single day.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: There's no question to me that with Stephen Miller now
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: as chief of staff and Jim Jordan as the Republican
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: leader in the House, they are ready for a fight.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: And so they have two of the best fighters they
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: have out there to take on the Democrats. And then
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I think Donald Trump, who is the best of them all,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump will be able to play good cop. So
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: he's going to surround himself with bad cops and he's
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: going to try to be the good cop. Now, how
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: long he can be the good cop and keep silent
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: and let the others do the talking, that's to be determined.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: But I believe that seems to be the plan. All right.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: No doubt a fighter, collegiate wrestler at Ohio State University,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Jim Jordan. But will he be forced to wear his jacket?
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Because in most public appearances, when he's surrounded by his
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: fellow congressmen and congresswoman Republicans, he's always wearing the white shirt.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: You know, white shirt, tie, no jacket.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: And sometimes the tie's not all the way up to
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: the top.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: So does he have to wear the jacket? Is there
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: a rule, a Robert's rule of order, a sergeant of
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: arms in the House that tells him, Mr. Speaker, excuse me, Mr.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Minority Leader, you have to wear your jacket?
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Well, he wears a jacket when he goes in because
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: there is a rule. You're right. There is a rule. Remember,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: they changed the rule in the Senate so that Fetterman
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: could walk around with his sweatshirt on. But they didn't
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: change the rule in the House. And now he says
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: he doesn't like to wear a jacket. It feels like cumbersome,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: especially when he has to talk, like when he's chairman
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: and when he's ahead of those committees, he wants to
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: keep it off. So you see him, the most you
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: ever see him is when he's a chairman of the committee,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: because that gets covered all of the time because he,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: you know, he was in the judicial committee and he
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: was going after, especially during the Biden administration, He was
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: one of the stars of the Republican Party. So, yeah,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I think you're going to see him in his jacket
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: probably if and when he gets sworn in. That might
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: have happened in private already. But you are not going
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: to see him with that jacket on when there's committee hearings.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: And he will be confrontational. Now, on the other hand.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: The Republicans, now in the minority in the Senate, decided
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: to keep Thune from North Dakota.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: You rang.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: He reminds me of Lurch. Although I don't know how
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: he always has a tan now, if you're spending time
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: in North Dakota. But put that aside. Remember, he was
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the one who would not accede to the wishes of
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: the president on the filibuster vote. You know how the
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: president was saying, particularly on... his bill that would demand
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: that you have to show a national government photo ID
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: when you go to vote, in addition to other things.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: He said, no, no, no, no cloture, because, you know,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: if we do it, then the Dems are going to
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: do it. So now we'll see if, in fact, Chuck Schumer,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: who it's thought of as possibly remaining the majority leader,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: although the Democrats choose their leadership next week, Would he
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: immediately say that he would do what Trump wanted to
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: be done now that they're in the majority?
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Well, that was Trump's argument all along. He said, look,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: the Democrats are going to do it anyway. You know,
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: as soon as they get in. And many of them
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: campaigned on that and said they were going to do
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: it when they get in. So, yeah, it would be
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: like the Democrats to do it. It always turns back
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: around and bites them on the butt. That's why the
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Supreme Court is the way it is, because they got
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: rid of a filibuster that on Supreme Court nominees, and
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: then the Republicans won in a landslide, and they put
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: in person after person, nominee after nominee after nominee. But
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: it's interesting you talked about Chuck Schumer because we talked
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: about it yesterday that six of the new members have
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: all said they're not voting for Schumer, including Troy Jackson,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Amy Andrews, El-Sayed as well. But now Bernie Sanders.
• 24:39
  Speaker 11: I personally have known Chuck Schumer for over 30 years.
• 24:43
  Speaker 11: And I like Chuck. Nobody who works harder than Chuck Schumer.
• 24:48
  Speaker 11: But in my view, the time is now for change.
• 24:52
  Speaker 11: And I will not be supporting Chuck to be reelected
• 24:57
  Speaker 11: as the Democratic leader.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: You know how well they know one another? They went
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: to the same high school, Madison High School. Different years.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: They didn't go together. But they were both snorers in Brooklyn.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: But he's thrown down the gauntlet. I'm thinking here, though,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: just in terms of the majority of the people who
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: are already in the Senate, who are Democrats, most of
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: them moderates, they're going to keep him because he also
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: has another thing. He holds the purse, the Senate finance purse.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: A lot of these winners are going to have to
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: pay for on bills. You know, they've accumulated bills. Everything
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: hasn't been covered yet. And instead of having to go
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: out and do post-fundraisers to make up for your bills,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Chuck may just say, look, who's your daddy? Who's going
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: to take care of your bills? I control the Senate Democratic.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: But does he lose that control if he loses the
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Speaker's job? And here's the thing. Sanders has now seven votes.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: That would do it. So do you think that he
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: is cheering for Sullivan now to win in Alaska? No.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I never thought about that. Peltola's not going to vote
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: for him. And we know that in Mississippi, if the
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Democrats supersedes, and we're going to talk about that later
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: on in the show, I don't think he would vote
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: for Chuck. Because remember, it went to Chuck a month ago.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: And they said, Chuck, we're on the cusp of winning
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: the Senate seat, Mississippi African-American. And he said, no.
• 26:26
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 26:27
  Speaker 11: No.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: He's in some trouble unless the Republicans pull it out
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: in Mississippi and Alaska. One guy that's for him, though.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Of all people, John Fetterman.
• 26:38
  Speaker 10: I absolutely stand with Schumer. I'm going to vote for Schumer.
• 26:42
  Speaker 10: He helped recruit a great class. And I can't imagine
• 26:46
  Speaker 10: why you would vote for someone like Van Hollen with
• 26:49
  Speaker 10: no record of doing anything.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Well, Fetterman's now putting all of his chips in the
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Schumer lot because now if Schumer doesn't win, there's already
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: a dislike of Fetterman. He's going to be on committees
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: that nobody ever heard of. When we come back, I
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: heard something about voting in New Jersey, and I see
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: now online it's been shared a couple of times. um
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: i still want to check into it but you know
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: what i'll tell you what i heard and and you
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: can determine if you believe this is true because it
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: is outrageous about the voting rolls we'll talk about it
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: when i come back i just pot i got a
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: call yesterday from somebody in state government in new jersey
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: we were just talking about things and then he said
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: have you heard this yet and he told me In
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: New Jersey, you remember the whole Mikey Sherrill thing when
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: she came out and said that there were people that
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: were automatically registered by accident that were non-citizens, 6,000 of them.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: and that she was going to fix that. Like, they
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: were going to go through all of it, and they
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: were going to fix everything. And then the government, the
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: federal government, went after her and sued her. And she's
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: been fighting that now in court. So there hasn't been
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: a definitive ruling yet. It's been appealed and appealed and appealed.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: So right now, we have to take Mikey Sherrill's word
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: for it. I guess we don't really have to. That
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: everything is fixed. Well, listen to this. 19 of 21
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: counties in New Jersey had over 100% more voters than
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: adult citizens. Union County had 111.3%, which means there were
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: people on the voter rolls more than there were adult
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: citizens in Union County. 49,000 more were on in Union County.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Let's take Essex County.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: 106%.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: They had 34,000 more people, more people than are in
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: the census as being, you know, adults there. Middlesex County, 105.7%.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: County after county after county. Statewide, here you go, here's
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: the adult population of New Jersey, 6,664,848. Registered voters for adults,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: 6,740,000. 164,848 registered voters for adults, 6,747,375, 100,000 more people registered
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: to vote than they are actually in it. So you
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: would think they have to be all non-citizens, right? And
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: it has to be. Now, some of them may be dead.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: I get that. But not that many.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Green card, visa, but a lot of illegals. You're on
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: to something here, Larry. You got to do the deep dive.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: You know Jersey back and forth. I'll bounce it off
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: of Mario Kranjak, who was Englewood Cliffs mayor. He ran
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: for governor, you know, very pro-Trump in the Republican primary laws,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: but he's been our legal aid to the Guardian Angels
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: for years. He can do the deep dive, but your
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: deep dive will be more impressive, more extensive. But boy,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: this might, it may be something to this.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Of all of the, now remember the problem that Mikey
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Sherrill said was automatic registration. The people go to get
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: their license to drive and they are automatically registered to vote.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: They can decline that. And a lot of the people,
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: to their credit, Many of the non-citizens said, no, I'm
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: not a citizen. And they were registered anyway. So when
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: we're talking about all these numbers, when we talk about
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: the 6,700,000, 48% of them were automatic registration. Almost half
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: of them were automatic registration. So let me just put
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: all of this together for you and say, they didn't
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: fix the problem. This is still happening. So She came
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: out to sound good and throw the former governor Murphy
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: under the bus and say, we discovered this. We're going
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: to fix it. Don't worry, New Jersey. It's all done.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: So then when the Trump administration said, okay, we need
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: proof of that. We need to see what you're doing.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: She said, no, no, no, no, no. You can just
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: trust me. Stay out of this.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: You know, this is like, um, It doubles up with
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: the story you brought to our attention from Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: where there were more votes than voters. Remember the big
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: investigation taking place there?
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: I'm really glad you brought that up. I'm glad you
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: brought that up because 20 states across the country, almost
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: all Democratic states and two swing states, don't require proof
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: of citizenship to get a driver's license, and they have
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: automatic registrations. So this is a much bigger problem than
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: New Jersey, and there has to be an investigation across
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: the country. But state after state after state, just like
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: voter ID for some reason, they didn't want voter ID
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: even though all Americans want it. State after state after
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: state is fighting this.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, this is good, Larry. You do the deep dive,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: and I'll give you tactical air support with Mario Kranjic,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: and we'll compare notes.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: When we come back. Well, Pete Hegseth will not go
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: quietly into the night. They've already tried to impeach him.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: More impeachments are coming, or impeachment attempts at least are coming.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: And he is fighting like the fighter he is. We'll
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: talk about that after the 7 o'clock news.