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Full Show · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Look who's here.
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  Speaker 2: Man, the last time you were with us, Chris, the
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  Speaker 2: Quiet Storm, unknown from the Mark Simone Show, you just,
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  Speaker 2: it was like your debutante ball. You came out and
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  Speaker 2: you were flexing about hot dogs and baseball parks. And
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  Speaker 2: I got to tell you, Larry and I, we were
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  Speaker 2: like stunned at how you were exuberant.
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  Speaker 1: We had to cut you off at times. You were
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  Speaker 1: so talkative. Let's calm down a little bit. Exuberant by
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  Speaker 1: his standards. Yeah, I set a low bar for myself,
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  Speaker 1: but I exceeded it. But you were good. Yes, you did.
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  Speaker 1: Talkative by his standards. You blew away a lot of
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  Speaker 1: our listeners. He went from saying no words to about 50.
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  Speaker 2: To a handful, yeah. You were on loan to us
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  Speaker 2: because Natalie is out today. So you got to do
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  Speaker 2: the heavy lifting. I understand you're looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 2: after the show because the Rockettes are showing up from
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  Speaker 2: Radio City Music Hall.
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  Speaker 1: So you notice, Chris, a little perky today, Larry. That
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  Speaker 1: would be interesting. Are you really into the Rockettes?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been stretching my legs extra hard. I want
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  Speaker 3: to do the kicks with them today.
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm kidding. No, now that you said that. No,
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  Speaker 1: I can't kick that eye. I cannot kick that eye.
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  Speaker 1: We need to get a video of you doing kicks
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  Speaker 1: with the Rockettes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you something, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: sweet spot, Larry. There is an individual somewhere in New
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  Speaker 2: Jersey who has won a jackpot that almost reached Elon
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  Speaker 2: Musk numbers, right?
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  Speaker 1: No, not quite. Close to a billion dollars. Well, except
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  Speaker 1: you don't get that. That's the problem. The big number
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  Speaker 1: you see, you're not ending up with. But you end
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  Speaker 1: up with a lot of money. I mean, it's still great.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to change their life. Absolutely. Do we know
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  Speaker 1: who this person is? No, no, no. They're in Jersey again.
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  Speaker 1: What is it about Jersey? I know. California and Jersey,
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  Speaker 1: I think they're the two top states in winning, and
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  Speaker 1: Ohio's like third. Jersey, Jersey, Jersey. If you're going to
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  Speaker 1: get a lotto ticket, get it in Jersey. But the
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  Speaker 1: problem when you get a lotto ticket out of state
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  Speaker 1: is that that's another state tax you have to pay
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  Speaker 1: on it. So forget what I just said. Just buy
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  Speaker 1: it in your own state.
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  Speaker 2: So the payout on this, the winning ticket, because I
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  Speaker 2: understand this guy who bought a ticket, he only bought one.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't buy a whole handful of tickets like people do.
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  Speaker 2: he is able to receive a prize and naturally all
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  Speaker 2: the taxes taken out.
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  Speaker 1: What did it hit? So it hit $ 863 million. And
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  Speaker 1: $ 863 million, you get, if you want that, you get
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  Speaker 1: it over 30 years. And they also increase it by 5%
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  Speaker 1: every year, whatever the payout is to set with inflation.
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  Speaker 1: So that's kind of nice. But most people that win
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  Speaker 1: the lottery, feel like I'm not going to be around
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  Speaker 1: in 30 years. And so they don't take the big payout.
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  Speaker 1: What they'll take is the single payout, which, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: is much, much lower. It's less than $ 400 million. But
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  Speaker 1: then hold on. Then you've got federal taxes. 24% of
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  Speaker 1: that's going to come out on federal taxes. And then
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  Speaker 1: you have state taxes. And in New Jersey, that would
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  Speaker 1: be 8%. So you're losing 30% of that. So even
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  Speaker 1: though it's up there and it tells you on the
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  Speaker 1: billboards you could win $ 863 million, he's going to walk
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  Speaker 1: away with about $ 200 million.
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  Speaker 2: One thing we could say, whoever this gentleman is, when
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  Speaker 2: it finally emerges who he is, he will not... Any
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  Speaker 2: longer lists affordability and cost of living as his main concern.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's true. That's absolutely true.
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  Speaker 2: So he'll be able to walk away with about $ 300 million, right?
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  Speaker 1: And we'll probably never know who it is. No, probably
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  Speaker 1: a little bit less than that. But yes, yes, in
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  Speaker 1: the $ 200 million to $ 300 million range. So yeah, except
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  Speaker 1: that it's not that number that you see. It never is. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I won one time in New York. And the problem is...
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  Speaker 1: I didn't live in New York. And so I had
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  Speaker 1: to pay a federal tax on it. I had to
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  Speaker 1: pay a state tax on it. I had to pay
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  Speaker 1: a city tax on it. And then I had to
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  Speaker 1: pay another state tax on it. So I won at
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  Speaker 1: the time. It was five numbers, but they didn't give
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  Speaker 1: you a million dollars back then. It was $ 250, 000. And
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  Speaker 1: I ended up with about $ 157, 000. Not a bad payday. No,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't complaining. It's just that the advertised price that
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  Speaker 1: you see, the advertised payout that you see, you ain't
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  Speaker 1: going to get that. Chris, have you ever played a
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  Speaker 1: lot of all these games, Powerball?
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  Speaker 3: I've played the Powerball Mega Millions a few times when
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  Speaker 3: it gets really high.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that funny? I mean, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I would take, even if today, when it resets, if
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  Speaker 3: I won today, I would be... I don't know what
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to do with myself.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to reset at $ 20 million and people go, oh, no.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently that's not worth it for me, even though I'm
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  Speaker 3: never going to make that much money in my life.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So now we got hot dogs, baseball parks around the country.
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  Speaker 2: And lotto tickets. Wow, there's so many things we're learning
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  Speaker 2: about you, quite some.
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  Speaker 1: But how about the fact that he's now wearing his
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  Speaker 1: Giants hat? Did you notice that a lot of Giants
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  Speaker 1: hats are now coming out now? You haven't seen them
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  Speaker 1: the last few years. Now all of a sudden everybody's flexing.
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  Speaker 2: But let's provide public service as we did yesterday, because
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  Speaker 2: they don't do it at WABC. They don't take calls
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  Speaker 2: in the morning. You know, it's the Israel First radio
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  Speaker 2: program there. We continued to take talkbacks all morning long.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, we even cleared out segments where we did
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  Speaker 2: only talkbacks. You have an opportunity. I call it PTSD,
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  Speaker 2: post-Trump stress disorder, to be able to vent. Whether you're
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  Speaker 2: going to dance the aura and the tarantella, which I
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  Speaker 2: don't think many of our listeners are, or you have
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  Speaker 2: recommendations and suggestions because it's.
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  Speaker 1: Starting to marinate in.
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  Speaker 2: When the New York Post has on its front cover,
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  Speaker 2: blue tsunami, you know it's beginning to marinate in.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, what are your thoughts about this?
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  Speaker 2: You know, we haven't even completed the week. This is
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  Speaker 2: all anybody wants to talk about. And everybody is a
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  Speaker 2: Monday morning quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they all have recommendations on what everybody needs
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  Speaker 1: to do. I hope we're at that point. I haven't
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  Speaker 1: felt that yet. I don't think that's happened yet. I
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  Speaker 1: think people are still angry and we'll find out today. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be a good thermometer today. Go to the iHeartRadio
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  Speaker 1: the morning. And while you're on the free iHeartRadio app,
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  Speaker 1: be sure to set a preset for 710WOR. And don't
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  Speaker 1: forget the best talkback of the morning takes home the
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  Speaker 1: C-Crane radio. I'm getting really tired of the blue tsunami thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's only said by people who have no sense of
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  Speaker 1: history whatsoever and recent history. I mean, this happens. This happens.
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  Speaker 1: And it's happened many, many times. And as I pointed
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  Speaker 1: out yesterday, this doesn't make the top 10 of overwhelming midterms.
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  Speaker 1: So it is a wave. I'm not I will not
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  Speaker 1: question that at all. It's a blue wave. But, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to make it something that's historic and has never happened before.
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  Speaker 1: And it's it's this big rejection of Donald Trump. It
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  Speaker 1: is a rejection of his policies. There's no question. Well,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not it's not historic.
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  Speaker 2: Later on, we're going to talk about the race for
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  Speaker 2: the presidency in 2028 has already begun.
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  Speaker 1: As of yesterday. As it always does, by the way.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Unofficial, yes. But with the blessings of the president who
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  Speaker 2: allowed Vance to issue his release, we'll go into the details.
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  Speaker 2: DeSantis was flexing in Florida. I think he used a
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  Speaker 2: word far more draconian than blue tsunami. I want to
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  Speaker 2: find that word when we talk about him. But there
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  Speaker 2: have been words issued by Republicans who would never have
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  Speaker 2: used that language before if Donald Trump wasn't a lame
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  Speaker 2: duck who lost the House and the Senate. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: even on our new newswoman. From WABC, Liz Radabali came
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  Speaker 2: up to me and she said, oh, you were on
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  Speaker 2: the low side. Remember when my predictions came out of
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  Speaker 2: the political marketplace? You know, I said the Democrats will
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  Speaker 2: win 53 seats and the House will be 240. She
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  Speaker 2: said to me, you know, you're on the low side.
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  Speaker 2: And it turns out, presently, I am on the low side.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody thought I was crazy when I made those predictions,
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  Speaker 2: but I am on the low side. I think the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats are like at 254.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking right now. They're still counting. You know, there's
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  Speaker 1: still seats that are out there. Could go up to 260.
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  Speaker 1: You know where it is exactly right now? It's 240
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  Speaker 1: right now. 240.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That'd be my prediction, but we know there's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a lot more. There's a lot more out there
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  Speaker 1: that still have to be counted, so. It may take
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  Speaker 1: several days. There may be recounts. They've been so close
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  Speaker 1: in some of these districts that there may be recounts. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: the ones that there's going to be recounts in are
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  Speaker 1: districts that were held by Republicans. So those are potential
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  Speaker 1: losses for the Republicans.
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  Speaker 2: But I tell you, this is a perfect opportunity for
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  Speaker 2: all of you to vent out there. More importantly, we'll
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  Speaker 2: have John Decker with us at 7. He went on
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  Speaker 2: the tour of the ballroom yesterday with President Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: as he addressed the loss, what J.D. Vance had done
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  Speaker 2: with his blessings, and more importantly, how he said, and
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  Speaker 2: that's why I'm going to give him a pass from
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  Speaker 2: now on. Guys, gals, you have to understand when I
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  Speaker 2: do these construction projects, it relaxes me.
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  Speaker 1: I had never thought of that. This is like his hobby.
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  Speaker 1: It's to replace golf. He doesn't get to golf much anymore.
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  Speaker 1: You know how many construction sites that man has been
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  Speaker 1: on in his life? This is probably his home away
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  Speaker 1: from home. He loves this.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, but I want the president to be relaxed because
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  Speaker 2: when he's over the top, it doesn't help.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't help.
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  Speaker 2: And now we have some ideas coming up of how
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  Speaker 2: the president can take advantage of Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer,
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  Speaker 2: get him into that White House office. and make a
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  Speaker 2: deal on a few issues that are not going to
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  Speaker 2: hurt the Republicans, but it's like a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a giveover to the Democrats so that the president can
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  Speaker 2: fulfill his promise, which he said yesterday. He goes, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's some things on immigration I'll talk about. Some things
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  Speaker 2: about the economy and tariffs I'll talk about. Take advantage
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  Speaker 2: of it now, because after January 1st, when all these
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: new jacked Democrats get sworn in.
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  Speaker 1: You had a great point a moment ago, and I
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  Speaker 1: think you're exactly correct that the president needs to get
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  Speaker 1: out on front on this. He needs to come. He
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  Speaker 1: needs to have an address to the nation to talk
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  Speaker 1: about the proposals he would like to talk about with
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  Speaker 1: the new Congress and make it some things that everybody wants.
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  Speaker 1: Put them on their heels for a second. That's a
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  Speaker 1: great idea.
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  Speaker 2: And I think he should do so after he's toured
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  Speaker 2: the ballroom.
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  Speaker 1: Relax yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Remember, sometimes the president, when he's done those nationwide addresses,
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  Speaker 2: he's a little too tense, a little too angry.
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  Speaker 1: If that's his form of prozac, this is good. This
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  Speaker 1: is good. As we just said, we're going to get
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  Speaker 1: all your talkbacks. You already have some of them coming in.
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  Speaker 1: Some of your talkbacks are coming in at this moment.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll be able to get them. Because it'll be
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  Speaker 1: your turn to be heard.
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  Speaker 2: Your opinion counts here at 710WOR with Larry and Curtis
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  Speaker 2: in the morning.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 1: As Curtis said a moment ago, your talkbacks were incredible yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people want to still vent.
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  Speaker 1: So we're just going to do talkbacks right now because
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  Speaker 1: we want to make you the star of the show.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I guess they didn't like the low unemployment rate,
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  Speaker 7: GDP reaching 5%, tax refunds, especially to people in blue states, $ 15, 000, $ 20, 000.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what they rejected.
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  Speaker 7: And you know what? Even inflation. The inflation rate is 3%.
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  Speaker 7: It's not 9%. Wake up, America.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I jumped to 3.4% and you would have thought
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  Speaker 1: we were in a recession. the way that the media
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  Speaker 1: covered it. Remember, it's not just the Democratic Party. It's
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  Speaker 1: the way the media covered all of this stuff. It
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  Speaker 1: is incredibly sick. And a lot of it was biased
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  Speaker 1: by omission. They just leave out certain things. Anything that's
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  Speaker 1: too positive, they'll just leave out. Like some of the
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  Speaker 1: things that you just talked about. Do you want some
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  Speaker 1: perspective on the economy or you just want to say
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  Speaker 1: it's horrible?
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  Speaker 2: No, you sit at your kitchen table on Saturday, the
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  Speaker 2: family figure it out. You don't have enough money for gas.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have enough money for groceries. That's how you
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  Speaker 2: lose elections. Yeah, but you see, I reject that narrative too. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: prices went up. There's no question. I'm not questioning that.
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  Speaker 2: Prices went up, gas prices went up and food went up,
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  Speaker 2: but also salaries went up more, way more. So to
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  Speaker 2: say you don't have enough money is really untrue across
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  Speaker 2: most of the country. But if you hear it over
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  Speaker 2: and over again, oh.
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  Speaker 1: The gas prices are up, the food prices are up,
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  Speaker 1: and then you see it with your own eyes, you think, man,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have enough money for this. But you do.
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  Speaker 2: Spending was up during that entire time. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what world you live in.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not living in the media world. Why do you
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  Speaker 1: think there was a blue tsunami? There wasn't a tsunami,
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  Speaker 1: and that's another thing. Groceries and gas. You buy into everything, man.
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  Speaker 1: You are. You are listening to the wrong stations. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not in denial at all. Go to your average family.
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  Speaker 2: They'll tell you every week, gasoline, groceries.
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  Speaker 1: I know they're up. This was the guy who promised
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  Speaker 1: that they would go down. Would you stop for one second?
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  Speaker 1: I just said, I know they're up, but so are
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  Speaker 1: salaries and so is spending. So something didn't make sense.
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  Speaker 1: Something that you're saying right now doesn't make sense. Knock
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  Speaker 1: yourself out trying to figure it out. Well, I already
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  Speaker 1: figured it out. It's just that there was an omission
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  Speaker 1: in giving all the information. I don't know, guys.
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  Speaker 8: I'm sick and tired of hearing about the blue wave.
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  Speaker 8: All I'm thinking about is that McRib sandwich. I may
• 15:48
  Speaker 8: just fly to the Netherlands because it's on the regular menu.
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  Speaker 8: You don't have to wait for it to come around.
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  Speaker 1: See that?
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  Speaker 2: Dreaming of Mickey D's, which does not have McRibs on
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  Speaker 2: the menu all year long.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a certain number of months.
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  Speaker 2: And it turns out it's not ribs. It's a concoction
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  Speaker 2: of products that appear to be ribs, but it's not ribs.
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to know if anybody ever really thought they
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  Speaker 1: were ribs. Because I don't think anybody thought that. But
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: they're being sued over this. And guess what? It was
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  Speaker 1: the first judge not to throw out the suit. So
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: they may actually have to defend themselves over something that
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: everybody else in the world knows.
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  Speaker 6: The Democratic wacko left party is much like a psycho
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: ex that keeps trying to get back together with you.
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  Speaker 6: But at the same time, they keep telling you all
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  Speaker 6: the things that is wrong with you, everything you're doing, bad, wrong,
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: you're wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
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  Speaker 1: But we need you.
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  Speaker 2: Man, I've been in that situation. I know exactly what
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  Speaker 2: he's talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Is he right?
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, is he spot on? You know, it's like a
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: honey trap, but.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Someone you've already been with.
• 17:08
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, no, no, don't worry. That's all forgiven, forgotten. Don't worry.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: And the moment you pivot and shift and go in,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: you just get clobbered again.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: So he's perfect. He was brilliant.
• 17:21
  Speaker 8: Well, it's official.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: This country is full of morons.
• 17:24
  Speaker 10: If anybody thinks that this election cycle is going to
• 17:27
  Speaker 10: be good for this country in.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: The long run, you are officially a moron. Time will tell,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: and I know I'm right. A moron? Yeah.
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: I completely agree with them. I think that people just
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: drank the Kool-Aid on this one.
• 17:43
  Speaker 11: Congratulations now with the United States of Europe.
• 17:46
  Speaker 12: We're going to end up like them.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: We're going to be broke.
• 17:48
  Speaker 12: We're going to have people in the streets in a
• 17:50
  Speaker 12: few years protesting they're not getting enough, and our borders
• 17:53
  Speaker 12: will be overrun.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Looking forward to it. No, it's not going to happen. Remember,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: they really have no power. Even though they control the
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Senate and even though they control the House, their power
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: is still limited. They can't get anything through that the
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: president doesn't want to get through because it'll be vetoed.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: They have investigative power. They have power of the purse
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: and they have oversight power. So, yes, they do have
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: some power. but not enough to do all the things
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: that you were just talking about a second ago.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: We already went through ours. It was the summer of 2020.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: George Floyd, remember? It was months and months. Riots, breaking
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: into stores, looting. We went through that.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: We're out of it. Europe is now going through that.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: For a much different reason. Yeah, he's talking about the economy.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Let's get to Daria Albinger now with the 630 News. Daria.
• 18:41
  Speaker 9: Morning, guys.
• 18:42
  Speaker 13: Chance for showers today will see a high of 64 degrees.
• 18:45
  Speaker 13: Investigators want to know if a lithium-ion battery may have
• 18:49
  Speaker 13: caused A deadly fire at an apartment building in Brooklyn
• 18:52
  Speaker 13: early today. At least six people are dead, several hurt,
• 18:55
  Speaker 13: and some residents are unaccounted for. After flames swept through
• 18:59
  Speaker 13: the building in Sunset Park at about 2 a.m., the
• 19:02
  Speaker 13: battery was found near where authorities believe that fire began.
• 19:07
  Speaker 13: Police are still looking for clues into last week's fatal
• 19:10
  Speaker 13: stabbing of a jogger in Brooklyn.
• 19:12
  Speaker 14: A vigil was held Wednesday for 28-year-old Katie Suarez, who
• 19:15
  Speaker 14: was fatally stabbed while running near the Belt Parkway Friday night.
• 19:19
  Speaker 14: The NYPD says there's no surveillance video or witnesses identified
• 19:23
  Speaker 14: to help piece together the attack, which happened near the
• 19:26
  Speaker 14: Caesars Bay Shopping Center, close to where Suarez worked. Police
• 19:30
  Speaker 14: continue searching the area near the Verrazano Bridge and believe
• 19:34
  Speaker 14: someone knows something about the killing. urging them to come forward.
• 19:38
  Speaker 14: Natalie Migliore, WOR News.
• 19:40
  Speaker 13: Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massey says he'll force a House vote
• 19:44
  Speaker 13: to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as soon as next week.
• 19:48
  Speaker 13: He's already introduced articles of impeachment against Hegseth, accusing him
• 19:52
  Speaker 13: of high crimes and misdemeanors for his role in the
• 19:54
  Speaker 13: Iran war. The ballots in New York's Westchester County, which
• 19:58
  Speaker 13: could not be processed Tuesday due to a programming glitch,
• 20:01
  Speaker 13: are finally being counted.
• 20:02
  Speaker 15: Tens of thousands of ballots are being counted in a
• 20:05
  Speaker 15: Board of Elections warehouse in Artsley after arriving late Wednesday
• 20:08
  Speaker 15: morning in orange bags along with voting booths. But GOP
• 20:12
  Speaker 15: Congressman Mike Lawler isn't waiting for the outcome to concede,
• 20:16
  Speaker 15: flipping New York's 17th CD to Democrat Kate Conley. I'm
• 20:20
  Speaker 15: a big believer in humble in victory, gracious in defeat.
• 20:23
  Speaker 15: Lawler says he conceded early because it was clear he'd
• 20:26
  Speaker 15: fall short of a win when Westchester's outstanding votes were counted.
• 20:30
  Speaker 16: Sarah Lee Kessler, WOR News.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: And it wasn't me.
• 20:34
  Speaker 13: Because I'm here, maybe it was producer Natalie. She is not.
• 20:39
  Speaker 13: Someone in New Jersey is very rich today. He, she,
• 20:43
  Speaker 13: or they holds the only winning ticket. That matched all
• 20:46
  Speaker 13: of the numbers on last night's $ 847 million Powerball jackpot.
• 20:51
  Speaker 13: The Knicks and the Nets both won. Next news, 7
• 20:53
  Speaker 13: o'clock bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Daria, how about that?
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: So you were thinking that maybe Natalie hit the lottery.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: And that's the reason she took off today. By the way,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: let me just say that I love Natalie and that
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: she is my favorite producer that I have ever worked with.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: just in case she did win.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: She's been the only producer who has been here since
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: all three gamblings were on the air in the morning.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: She's a lifer. But this makes sense. But we have
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: to kiss up to her all morning. And Natalie, we're
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: both Greeks, and we're cousins. You know, we're related. Come on. Yeah,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: why would she be in hiding now? She may never
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: be coming back. We may be stuck with Quiet Chris. Yeah,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Quiet Storm Chris. What do you mean stuck with me?
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Did I say stuck? Yeah, you did. That's not what
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I meant. Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay. All right. When
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: we come back, well, there was a big beating for
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: the Republican Party, and the Democrats beat them well over
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: this election. Man, there was wipeouts. There's only one Republican
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: congressman left in New Jersey. So what is the Republican
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Party going to do in New Jersey? What is the
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Republican Party going to do in New York? We're going
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: to talk about that when we come back. Dr. Arthur Perry.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: It is really interesting, Curtis, as you look at the
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: two states, New Jersey and New York. But across the
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: board in New Jersey, across the board in New York,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Democrats basically sweep. Yes, there are some surviving Republicans in
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: New York. There is one survivor, Chris Smith in Ocean
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: County in New Jersey. But none of the people that
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: did survive, certainly not Chris Smith in New Jersey, is
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: considered now a leader in the Republican Party. And so
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: you have Republican parties in these two states, which right now,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: now there's a void and it will be filled, but
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: right now are leaderless. So why don't we start with
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: New York? Who do you see in New York, Curtis,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: as being a new leader, somebody that's going to step forward? Well,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: I think you have to have a group of leaders.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Right now, you have a leader in name only, a
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: guy named Ed Cox, whose claim to fame is that
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: he was married to Richard Nixon's daughter.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: And that's it.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: This guy's like 80 years old. He can barely function
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: any longer. The day before the wipeout in New York
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: of Republicans, he was announcing that this would be an
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: unprecedented victory for Republicans. I mean, look, everybody tries to
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: look on the high side, but the problem is this
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: guy's always looking on the high side and you end
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: up with the low side.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: So it's a generational change.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: It was ironic because they're all saying that now, the
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: old codgers, but they don't want to necessarily give up
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: their leadership.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: So he's got to go. And I think he.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Got four really astute, sort of in their 40s, maybe
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: beginning of 50s, who have been through bruising political battles
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: in the past and can definitely give great advice into
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: restructuring the party. Because as I've said, Larry, over and over,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: keep your powder dry. Next year, the fiscal implosion takes place.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Hochul is not going to have $ 8 billion to pay
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: back Zoran for being attached to her like an appendix
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: during this race. And the state's not going to have
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: to have enough money. And you've got to balance your budget.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Unlike the federal government, you can't print money. So it
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: will be a fiscal collapse. And that's when all of
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: a sudden Republicans have thought of, oh, yeah, well, you know,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: they're fiscally conservative. You know, they'll handle our money better.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: So I would say, number one, you look upstate. And
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: you have to have somebody from upstate as part of this.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: That would be former Congresswoman Stefanik. She was the superstar.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: She was told, no, the president said, I can't pick
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: between you and Blakeman to run for governor. And she
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: was crestfallen, as she should be, because she gave up
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: being U.S. ambassador to the United Nations to come back
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: to the House to give him that one vote he
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: needed for that beautiful bill. And she gave it. She
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: delivered it. the president did not deliver for her. So
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: that's number one. She is astute. And by the way,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: she knows how to deal with interviews.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: She's phenomenal.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Then you have Nicole Maliotakis in Staten Island, the only
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: survivor Republican running for re-election. She's been through difficult battles. Remember,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: she beat Max Rose. She wasn't a bad Democrat, you know,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Afghan veteran. sort of a conservative Democrat. She beat him
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: to get into office. She's always had some tough races.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: And then a dynamic duo out of Westchester, Rockland, Putnam,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: our own Rob Astorino, who's been through battles with Democrats
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: and won races. And of course, the guy who coined
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: the phrase, and he was so correct, when he was
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: in the throes of loss, And he was a real gentleman,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Mike Lawler, who extended the good wishes to Caitlin Conley
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: because he realized that all the ballots coming in were
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: from Westchester. He could not win that election. And he
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: has been humble before in victory. That would be the
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: perfect foursome.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Although I think somebody
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: has to emerge from that to go to the top,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: just like in New Jersey. And New Jersey's got a
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: bigger problem. Because tell me right now, Curtis, you know
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: New Jersey. Tell me somebody in New Jersey right now
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: that you think is the leader of the Republican Party.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: There is none. There is none. There is none is
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: the answer. Christine Giordano Hanlon is the chairman of the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Republican Party. Nobody knows who she is. She has not
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: been effective. She has not really been out in front
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: with the Republican Party. So she's not going to be it.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I know that there's a talk show host there that
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: believes he is the new leader of the Republican Party
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: because he's been saying so. But God forbid that Bill
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Spadius steps up. He ran for governor. He failed. And
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: he was so upset he wouldn't support anybody else in
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the Republican Party, including Jack Cittarelli. So he should be
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: dead to the Republicans. So someone is going to have
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: to step up. And it's probably going to be somebody
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: with some money who's not in politics right now. But
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: the guy that I like a lot, and I've always
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: really liked him, and he's always been in the front
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: of every issue in New Jersey, but I'm not sure
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: he wants to take that step. He's a successful businessman,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: and he is a successful New Jersey state senator. Declan O'Scanlan,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: a good Irish guy from Monmouth County. If you notice,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: on every single issue in New Jersey, he leads the
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: way for the Republicans. He's extremely well-spoken. He's a great interview,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: by the way. He's a good guy. Very funny. I
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: would love to see some people rally around him and
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: he be the new force in the Republican Party because
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: they need someone like that. I accept that.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: But I really I look at enemies now and I
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: would say Shamu El-Hefei Chris Christie is the only one
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: who's beaten Democrats. The only one who knows how to
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: get Democrats to vote for Republicans. And he's not MAGA.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: And then there's another one.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: But I tell you what, with most Republicans, he's dead
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: to them. So I'm not sure that he could rally
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: support in the Republican Party. He might have more support
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: in the Democratic Party. He's delusional. He's up in New Hampshire.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: He still thinks he can run for president. But they
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: can go find Jack Cittarelli, right? Has anybody seen Jack
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: since he became MAGA? I haven't heard from Jack. And
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I've tried to call him. I mean, I have not
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: heard from Jack.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: It's unfortunate because he got lured into that MAGA thing
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: and he got clobbered against Murphy. Remember, previously he lost
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: on paper. He was a supporter of president, respectfully, but
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: he wasn't MAGA.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, he it looked like he was going to
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: win the last time. And this time the polls show
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: he had a really good chance. And then on election night,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: it just didn't work out. Maybe it was the six
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: thousand six hundred illegal voters they had on the rolls. Yeah,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't count on that.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: But anyway, up next, oh man, as much as Schumer
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: and especially Hakeem Jeffries is saying, no, we're not going
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: to war, peace, love, and happiness. We want mediation and moderation.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: That ain't what their troops are saying. And one guy
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: in particular from California who says, everybody lawyer up and
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: he's going to be part of the oversight as chairman
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: of a committee that's going to deal with most of
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: that we'll deal with that up next It.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Is kind of amazing when you hear the leadership get up.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer gets up and says, no, no, it's affordability.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: We know what the American people want. There's not going
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: to be impeachment. Jeffrey's got up yesterday, the House minority
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: leader who's expected to be the new speaker. He gets
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: up yesterday and he says, not one person in my
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: party has ever talked to me about impeachment. Nobody wants impeachment.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Nobody wants impeachment. And then, of course, all the underlings
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: in the Democratic Party under leadership are saying, oh, just wait.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Impeachment's coming. But one of those guys that have said
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: it actually has some power. And that is Robert Garcia,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: congressman from California. If you see him, you'd know him.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: And suddenly he's going to be one of the major
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: figures in the democratic party because he's going to be
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: leading all of these investigations. And yesterday he held a
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: press conference and he gave his list of priorities and
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: they are fascinating. And I think all of us will
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: agree with the first one. And I think that's going
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: to be the first one out of the box because
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: he knows it's going to be popular.
• 31:10
  Speaker 17: We don't care if you are a Republican, a Democrat,
• 31:15
  Speaker 17: how much money you have, your wealth, your power. If
• 31:17
  Speaker 17: you abuse children, you will be held accountable by the overseer.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. Of course.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: And it has haunted the Trump administration, even though they
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: released gazillions of files that the Biden administration kept hermetically sealed.
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: And he said he doesn't care who you are. We're
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: getting you in front of this meeting. Now, I talked
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: to my wife about it yesterday, who you know is
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: a talk show host in Philadelphia, very successful. And she's
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: more MAGA than certainly I am and more MAGA than
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: probably anybody I know. And she heard this and she said,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: thank God. Wow, that's wonderful that he's doing that. So
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: even she agreed with this. So I think this is
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: going to be extremely popular if he leads off with that.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: The next one that he said is going to be ICE.
• 32:13
  Speaker 17: Now, they might think, because they're no longer in the government,
• 32:17
  Speaker 17: that they can just wipe their hands clean of what
• 32:18
  Speaker 17: they created. But we are going to ensure that both
• 32:22
  Speaker 17: Noam and Lewandowski face real accountability and justice.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Noam and Lewandowski, he wants before the committee to talk
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: about how she started the ICE investigations and the ICE
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: raids all across America. That's pretty amazing. I mean, how
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: many times have you heard before that a chairman got
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: up there and wanted to go after people that are
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: no longer in the government? Usually you leave the government. Yeah, no,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: it's over. It's over. He wants to reach back out. Now,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: remember where he is from. He's from Peru. He came
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: here when he was five years old on a visa.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: They overstayed their visa and they were illegal. But because
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: of a law that was passed that gave forgiveness for
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: some people that overstayed their visas, they got to be U.S. citizens.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: He got to be a U.S. citizen in college at
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: UCLA when he was 20 years old.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Now, this leads me into what Trump almost was on
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: the cusp of doing. Let's go back to his first
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: term in office. He hated the Speaker of the House,
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Paul Ryan. Most Republicans hated Paul Ryan. Remember, he had
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: run for vice president. He was a loser then, a
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: loser as Speaker, and McConnell when he was lucid. So
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: they're sitting in his office, and opposite them is Schumer
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: and Pelosi, who obviously Trump didn't get along with.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: It was a love fest, though. They were talking about them. Oh, man,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: the dreamers.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: And they were ever so close to normalizing them, just
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: so our audience understands. Dreamers were very much like the
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: story you just told. Young children who came here, maybe five, six,
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: seven younger, They had no idea what the parents were doing,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: but they lived here for more than 20 years. They
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: speak our language. They know our history. Many of them
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: are doing very well in the corporate world. They've served
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: in the military, police.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Many of them are in Congress.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: So the president was going to do it. I forget
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: exactly what prevented it, but this would be the because
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: he said, and we'll check with John Decker yesterday on
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: his walkthrough of the ballroom renovations when he said, you know,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: I'd like to talk about some of the immigration issues.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: This way you give Chuck Schumer something. Because all the
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: president has to do is lean over to Chuck. You know,
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: we have something in common. You're the most hated Democrat
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: in New York. I'm the most hated Republican. So I'm
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: going to give you something you can go back to
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: your critics with. Let's get the dreamers done. It's a
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: wonderful idea.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: And I hope somebody from the president's staff is listening
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: because that's a great idea. And that should happen. We'll
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: bounce it off of John Decker. Over the next week. Yeah,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: we can bounce it off of John Decker. Let me
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: give one more thing from Garcia.
• 35:04
  Speaker 17: Arms broken. People snatched up on their way to immigration
• 35:09
  Speaker 17: appointments that we, the government, gave them. That's inhumane. It's wrong.
• 35:14
  Speaker 17: And I think the American public, regardless of party, are
• 35:17
  Speaker 17: sick of it.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: He has a list of people that he wants to
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: call for mice. But think about this. The two things
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: that he led with. He also, by the way, wants
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: to go after the Trump family. He says that he
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: wants to get Witkoff in. He wants to get Jared in.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: And he's going to go after them as well. But
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: the two things at the beginning are really popular, to
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: go after Epstein and to go after ICE. But he
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: finished by saying to everybody, lawyer up. Yeah, well, he
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: tweeted that out. When we come back, John Decker, as promised.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: All right, let's bring in our WOR White House correspondent.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: and Washington correspondent John Decker, because there's so much going
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: on right now. Of course, we have a new government
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: coming in. We have J.D. Vance also getting out there
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: talking about what was the cause of the Republicans losing
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: in a landslide. And you have the president that was
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: out in front of the construction of the ballroom, very
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: oddly happy yesterday considering what happened.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: And you know, I'm going to do a complete pirouette
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: on this because I was very critical of all the
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: self improvements for DC that the president is engaged in.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: He said, this relaxes me. And the president is better
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: when he's relaxed than when he's a plastic. But I
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: think we got John Decker on the line now. We
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: do have John Decker on the line.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: And, uh, and since you started off with that, let's,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Let's ask John Decker about it. John, were you out
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: there by the construction site with the president yesterday?
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: No, I wasn't in the pool yesterday.
• 37:03
  Speaker 18: I was watching it in real time. And it was
• 37:06
  Speaker 18: the president initially not speaking about the elephant in the room,
• 37:11
  Speaker 18: and that is the historic losses that Republicans suffered in
• 37:14
  Speaker 18: the midterm elections on Tuesday. The president did take questions
• 37:18
  Speaker 18: on that ultimately, but he really wanted to talk about
• 37:21
  Speaker 18: all the progress that has been made concerning his ballroom
• 37:24
  Speaker 18: more than anything else.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: But, John, you know me, I've been very critical about
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: not just the ballroom, but all the other fixing up
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: in D.C. When he said to the gathered press, you know,
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: this relaxes me. I said to myself, John, I'm in
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: favor of this now, because when Trump is relaxed, he's
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: really good.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: When he's aplectic, he's over the top. He's out of control.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 37:51
  Speaker 18: I never thought about it that way.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: You might be right.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: But look, it is something that is ongoing.
• 37:59
  Speaker 18: Every day that I enter into the White House complex,
• 38:03
  Speaker 18: I look around and I see all of the projects
• 38:06
  Speaker 18: that the president has either completed or that are ongoing.
• 38:09
  Speaker 18: And you can't miss them. I mean, he really has
• 38:11
  Speaker 18: made his mark in just two years at the White
• 38:14
  Speaker 18: House with beautification projects that will last well beyond his presidency.
• 38:20
  Speaker 18: But that being said, there are other big problems that
• 38:23
  Speaker 18: the president is dealing with. And the problems start with
• 38:26
  Speaker 18: the war in Iran. They continue with the affordability issue,
• 38:30
  Speaker 18: which isn't going away. And those are the big issues
• 38:33
  Speaker 18: that the president will have to contend with for the
• 38:36
  Speaker 18: remainder of his presidency.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: It was interesting yesterday, almost immediately, Burnham in Great Britain
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: and also a spokesperson for the EU was out in
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: front talking about how they hope that the United States'
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: attitudes towards Ukraine change after this. So it was fascinating
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: to me because it seems like that was the most
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: important thing for them. They came out and actually made
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: statements to the media yesterday. Do you think that's going
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: to happen, that the attitudes towards Ukraine are going to
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: change because the Democrats took over?
• 39:17
  Speaker 18: You know, I think that what we saw yesterday from
• 39:20
  Speaker 18: the incoming Speaker of the House, Hakeem Jeffries, talking about
• 39:23
  Speaker 18: the focus for Democrats once they take over, the focus,
• 39:28
  Speaker 18: he says, in terms of legislation. is going to be affordability.
• 39:31
  Speaker 18: But there certainly are members of Congress of both political
• 39:36
  Speaker 18: parties that want to increase America's commitment, its resolve in
• 39:42
  Speaker 18: terms of supporting Ukraine. And I think that's going to
• 39:44
  Speaker 18: come out. I think there are certain Republicans that during
• 39:48
  Speaker 18: the course of the president's first two years in office,
• 39:50
  Speaker 18: were reluctant to speak out to defy the president. And
• 39:54
  Speaker 18: I think you're going to see more of that. And
• 39:55
  Speaker 18: that indeed could put pressure on the president.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: He's the decision maker, however.
• 40:00
  Speaker 18: He's the person who speaks on behalf of America, on
• 40:02
  Speaker 18: behalf of our foreign policy. So it's really up to
• 40:05
  Speaker 18: the president in terms of whether to increase that commitment.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: John Decker, I have a way that the president who
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: said there were some subjects he would be open to
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: sitting down and have conversations with Democratic leadership. Immigration was one,
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: a few others. Remember in that first term, he was
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: sitting in the Oval Office. He had Pelosi to his
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: right with Schumer. And he had McConnell and Paul Ryan
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: to his left. He was ignoring McConnell and Paul Ryan
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: to their distress. He was so happy with Schumer and
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: Pelosi because they were within millimeters of getting a deal
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: on the Dreamers, which suddenly fell apart. I think if
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: he were to revive that and sit with all four
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: of the leaders now and then look to Chuck, you know,
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: New Yorker to New York and say, Chuck, It's one
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: thing we have in common. We're both hated in New York.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: You're the most hated Democrat. I'm the most hated Republican.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Let me give you a gift. The dreamers.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: You go back with that, all of a sudden you'll
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: be king for a day. And that will show that
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: the president is really trying to negotiate some things that
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: should have been already in place.
• 41:16
  Speaker 18: Initially, in the first 24 hours after having those results
• 41:24
  Speaker 18: sink in, did speak about an area he believes of
• 41:27
  Speaker 18: common ground. And he actually did mention, to your point,
• 41:31
  Speaker 18: he mentioned immigration, which is pretty interesting. Usually the area
• 41:35
  Speaker 18: that comes to mind when you think of bipartisanship and
• 41:37
  Speaker 18: common ground is infrastructure. But the president mentioned immigration. So
• 41:43
  Speaker 18: maybe we could see that as an area in which
• 41:45
  Speaker 18: Republicans and Democrats could come together and have some sort
• 41:50
  Speaker 18: of an agreement about As you know, so many presidents
• 41:53
  Speaker 18: have tried moving in this direction before, and they have
• 41:58
  Speaker 18: not been successful. So maybe the president with this Democratic-controlled
• 42:02
  Speaker 18: Congress will be successful in moving that kind of measure forward.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I think Curtis has a wonderful idea. I
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: kind of hope the president or somebody from his staff
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: is listening this morning, because that would be a wonderful idea,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: and it would set an agenda rather than have them
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: make the agenda themselves. I do know that Jeffries yesterday
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: had a press conference. The expected incoming speaker and the
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: expected incoming majority leader in the Senate both said the
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: same thing. Chuck Schumer said the same thing, that no,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: there's none of our members that came forward talking about impeachment.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: We're not just going in there with impeachment. It's affordability. Well,
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of the Democrats disagreed with that, including the
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: incoming chairman of the Oversight Committee, Robert Garcia, who tweeted out,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: lawyer up. So it seems like there's going to be
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: some disagreement about going after the administration.
• 43:00
  Speaker 18: Well, when Congressman Garcia said lawyer up, I think he's
• 43:05
  Speaker 18: talking about all of the investigations involved. that will be
• 43:08
  Speaker 18: taking place with Democrats in control of all of the
• 43:11
  Speaker 18: investigative committees and oversight committees. And they will be doing
• 43:15
  Speaker 18: investigations into certain business deals being done by the Trump
• 43:20
  Speaker 18: family and how it's alleged they've enriched themselves. I don't
• 43:24
  Speaker 18: think that he was referring, however, to this idea of
• 43:27
  Speaker 18: another impeachment of President Trump. You know, that was not
• 43:30
  Speaker 18: why Democrats and independents came together and some Republicans came
• 43:36
  Speaker 18: and handed the keys over to Democrats to control Congress.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: It really was this.
• 43:40
  Speaker 18: Issue of affordability, high gas prices. I think that was
• 43:44
  Speaker 18: the overriding issue, and they were not sending a message
• 43:48
  Speaker 18: to those Democrats that will control Congress. Now we want
• 43:51
  Speaker 18: you to impeach and remove the president. I think if
• 43:54
  Speaker 18: Democrats move in that direction, they won't be holding on
• 43:58
  Speaker 18: to Congress for very long.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: Now, John, in this new spirit of being cool, calm,
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: and collected, the president, was asked yesterday by reporters, did
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: you okay Vice President J.D. Vance's posting on his social
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: networking that the war in Iran was a mistake and
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: that we have to redo our relationship with Israel, which
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: was really his first semi-official shots for the 2028 nod,
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: GOP nod to run for president. And the president said, yeah,
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: he ran it by me. I didn't have a problem
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: with it. Although later on he went back and he said, No, no, no, no.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: If left to do it again, I would have the
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: war in Iran. Can you explain that?
• 44:42
  Speaker 18: Well, you know, I think that the president doesn't really
• 44:45
  Speaker 18: ever go back on the decisions that he makes and
• 44:48
  Speaker 18: ruminates and considers whether he made the right decision or not.
• 44:53
  Speaker 18: He feels that his gut has always worked well for him. And,
• 44:56
  Speaker 18: you know, to a certain extent, you don't win the
• 44:58
  Speaker 18: presidency twice in by going against your gut. And so
• 45:04
  Speaker 18: the president has that. Now, as it relates to the
• 45:06
  Speaker 18: vice president, I think you're right, Curtis. This is the
• 45:11
  Speaker 18: beginnings of J.D. Vance moving away from President Donald Trump
• 45:17
  Speaker 18: as he embarks on his own path to the White
• 45:19
  Speaker 18: House for 2028. And will this be enough? just separating
• 45:24
  Speaker 18: him himself from the policies of the administration on the war?
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 45:30
  Speaker 18: I mean, the point person in terms of negotiations to
• 45:33
  Speaker 18: end the war.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: It's a guy named J.D. Vance. And now J.D.
• 45:36
  Speaker 18: Vance putting out this lengthy social media post saying the
• 45:40
  Speaker 18: reason we.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Lost is the war.
• 45:41
  Speaker 18: Well, you know, the vice president has a role in
• 45:45
  Speaker 18: that in the sense that he traveled all the way
• 45:47
  Speaker 18: to Islamabad, met with Iranian negotiators for 24 straight hours,
• 45:52
  Speaker 18: and came away with nothing. So that's going to be
• 45:55
  Speaker 18: around his neck as he considers his run for the
• 45:58
  Speaker 18: presidency in 2028.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: You're absolutely right that that was the unofficial start of
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: the 2028 election, and many of the Democratic governors that
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: are said to be in the front of the pack
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: for running for the Democrats, including Shapiro and And more
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: who says he's not running, but we will see in
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Pritzker all one substantial elections and they were all out
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: there flexing. But among the Republicans, someone that we kind
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: of forgot about with the Republican race was DeSantis, who
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: was all over the place yesterday and was one of
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: the last standing Republicans. I think he's running.
• 46:40
  Speaker 18: Oh, he is absolutely 100% running. He won his second term,
• 46:44
  Speaker 18: as you may recall, by 20 points in the state
• 46:47
  Speaker 18: of Florida. And, you know, he's carved out this place
• 46:51
  Speaker 18: for himself. He believes in the Republican Party as someone
• 46:54
  Speaker 18: who is not afraid of, you know, speaking his mind
• 46:58
  Speaker 18: in the primary process. And in that in that election
• 47:02
  Speaker 18: in which he ran against President Donald Trump, he wasn't
• 47:05
  Speaker 18: afraid to go up against Donald Trump. He lost that nomination.
• 47:08
  Speaker 18: So yeah, I agree with you, Larry. I think there's
• 47:10
  Speaker 18: no doubt that he will be among those Republicans seeking
• 47:13
  Speaker 18: the nomination in 2028.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: And he has a good story to tell right now
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: of being the last man standing among the Republican governors
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: in the big states.
• 47:22
  Speaker 18: Well, and it's interesting, Larry, because he may have a
• 47:26
  Speaker 18: decision to make. And that decision is whether to be
• 47:30
  Speaker 18: a part of the Trump administration. The reason I say that,
• 47:33
  Speaker 18: there's talk about Pete Hegseth moving on one way or
• 47:37
  Speaker 18: the other from his position heading up the Pentagon. And
• 47:41
  Speaker 18: the name that I hear most often in terms of
• 47:43
  Speaker 18: replacement for Pete Hegseth is a guy named Governor Ron DeSantis.
• 47:48
  Speaker 18: So we'll see if that happens.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, he shouldn't take that job. If he wants to
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: run for president, I think you're right. If he wants
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: to run for president, he should avoid that job. Thank
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: you so much, John Decker, WOR White House and Washington
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: correspondent and host of the podcast, The White House Briefing
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: Room with John Decker. which can be found on the
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. And we are going to get right to
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: your talkbacks. Hey, guys, what's going on with this country?
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: I don't understand.
• 48:16
  Speaker 10: And what's going on in Connecticut and the Northeast?
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: I guess people just want to live expensive and everything
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: like that.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Have a good day, Curtis and Larry. I'll tell you what,
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: people keep voting Democratic in the Northeast, and then they
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: get frustrated at the cost of things, and then they
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: move to the South, and they move to a red state,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: and yet they keep being a Democrat. And that's why
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: some of those states, as Curtis has mentioned many, many times,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: are changing. Don't they realize it is their votes that
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: cause that? I don't understand it myself. There's a complete
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: misunderstanding of the political system.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: Well, coming up next, we're going to talk about Maine
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: and how Collins got beaten. And it may well have
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: been over the ad that groups supporting Iran, which you
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: pointed out, Larry, and the fact that home heating fuel
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: oil up there you needed just skyrocketed right before the election.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good point. Trump was telling everyone to
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: vote like he was running himself. And that's what everyone
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: did with his 33% approval rate. people voted as though
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: he was running. Yeah, you do understand he was just
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: trying to get out his vote, which didn't all turn out. That's,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: to your point, they didn't all turn out. Guys, I'm
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: a conservative independent. I think the best way to solve
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: all this election stuff is you should.
• 49:37
  Speaker 11: Put a cap on how much money all candidates can
• 49:42
  Speaker 11: use on their campaigns. That way, they really can't get
• 49:46
  Speaker 11: influenced by any lobbyists.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: I can tell you why that's never going to happen,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: because the people that benefit from it are the politicians
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: themselves who get to keep much of that money. They
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: can't use it for their personal use, but for future campaigns.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: So they're never going to get rid of that. The
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court, though, in the
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: fact that corporations have free speech and they can spend
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: almost endless money on these elections is obscene.
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: I like this obscene. I like his idea. They got
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: to cap it. It's just now. Uh, I mean, we're
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: talking sooner. It'll be trillions of dollars, but.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: They're not going to cap it. Well, you know, that's
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: never going to happen.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll see people, the people themselves are going to
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: get so upset with this corruption for the first time
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: ever was right up there. One, two, and three, that
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: never happened before. And it's because of all this big
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: money on both sides.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, people might get upset about it, but there's no referendums,
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: political referendums or public referendums federally. It's a federal law. No, no,
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: it should.
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: But if that becomes a key issue, then kick the
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: bums out. And whoever's coming in has to swear that
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: they're going to try to do something.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: I agree with you. I completely agree with you. I
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: wish that there was a set amount of money that
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: the government gave candidates and that's all they had to
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: run on. But I just I can promise you it's
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: just never going to happen.
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: Well, there goes the Clarity Act, and there goes the
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: SAVE Act. They couldn't get it passed when they controlled
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: both branches. How are they going to get it passed now?
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: Forget about it.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: It's over.
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: And I'm tired of Trump coming out every day saying, oh,
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: I could end this war at any time. Well, if
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: you could end this war at any time, why didn't
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: you end it months ago when you could have saved
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: all of this bloodbath going on? I don't think Republicans
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: are ever going to win anything ever again.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he had to save it with some type of
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: positive outcome. But to your point, though, he could have
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: come out and said, look, I set them back. I
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: took out their Navy. I took out their weapons. I
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: made them less weak and then move on from there.
• 52:01
  Speaker 8: So.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. It would have been a great idea
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: if he would have gotten out sooner. I kept thinking
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: he was going to get out before the midterm started.
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: He should have taken my advice, declare victory and get
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: out of there. And the Republicans would have done much better.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: And by the way, I want to thank all of
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: our callers for the talkbacks. Because I identify with some
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: of the voices. I know that they were listeners at WABC.
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: Because look, 35 years in talk radio, I'm good with
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: picking up voices. Continue the refugee exodus from there. They
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: don't take calls in the morning. God forbid Sid has
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: to deal with anybody negative. And all he talks now
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: is Israel. He's upset that Bibi has just lost his
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: re-election and it's all Israel first talk.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: So you're welcome here where we talk about everything. I
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: want to point out something that you just said a
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: moment ago that is an extremely important point that people
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: wouldn't know unless we tell them. Many, many times Natalie
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: and Chris will say to us, hey, this is a
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: call that attacks you. Should we play it? And we
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: both say immediately, of course, of course. Because you have
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: a voice in this show equal to ours. If you
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: disagree with us, we want to hear it, and we
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: will play it. There's a promise, unless you curse or
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: something like that. But other than that, if you don't
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: go overboard or you don't curse at us or you
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: say something that's outlandish, yes, it's going to be played. Well,
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: those are the better callers. Just say, oh, I love you, Larry.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: I love you, Curtis.
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  Speaker 13: Can I say that? Yeah, you're such a suck-up. I
• 53:41
  Speaker 13: know my place in the pecking order here. Chance for
• 53:45
  Speaker 13: showers today with a high of 64 degrees. A search
• 53:49
  Speaker 13: continues for residents missing after a deadly fire overnight in Brooklyn.
• 53:53
  Speaker 13: The blaze at the building at Sunset Park, which started
• 53:56
  Speaker 13: at about 2 a.m., left six people dead. Several others
• 53:59
  Speaker 13: are injured. Investigators have focused on a lithium-ion battery that
• 54:03
  Speaker 13: was found where they believe the fire began. New York
• 54:06
  Speaker 13: Congressman Hakeem Jeffries is now the House Minority Leader, but
• 54:09
  Speaker 13: he's officially launched his bid to be Speaker of the House,
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  Speaker 13: and he says the incoming Democratic majority will be focused
• 54:15
  Speaker 13: on bringing costs down.
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  Speaker 1: We have been.
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  Speaker 19: Focused relentlessly on dealing with the affordability crisis and driving
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  Speaker 19: down the high cost of living. We made a promise
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  Speaker 19: to the country that we would fight for an affordable America.
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  Speaker 1: And we intend to keep it.
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  Speaker 13: Jeffries would be the first black speaker of the House.
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  Speaker 13: The man accused of pushing his infant daughter and the
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  Speaker 13: child's mother off a balcony in the Bronx has pleaded
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  Speaker 13: not guilty. Angel Carrasco was arraigned yesterday on murder, attempted
• 54:41
  Speaker 13: murder and other charges. Natalie Ramirez died in the 15-story
• 54:45
  Speaker 13: fall last month. The baby is still recovering from critical injuries.
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  Speaker 1: The U.S.
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  Speaker 13: Embassy is warning Americans who are in France to prepare
• 54:52
  Speaker 13: for travel disruptions, sudden curfews and possible violence with a
• 54:55
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  Speaker 13: unions will be taking part. And Macy's is putting out
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  Speaker 13: the seasonal help wanted sign.
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  Speaker 20: On November 19th, there will be hiring events at all Macy's,
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  Speaker 20: Bloomingdale's and Blue Mercury stores across the country.
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  Speaker 10: We are looking for dependable people that want to earn
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  Speaker 10: a little extra for the holiday season. The seasonal supply
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  Speaker 20: also employee discounts on brands and the potential for a
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• 55:47
  Speaker 2: Probably the most extreme turnaround of any election was in Maine.
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: Remember Platner? He imploded, you know, the guy, the oyster farmer.
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: And then they found the lumberjack and the lumberjack beat
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: Susan Collins by an enormous number. And it's all due
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: to the radio ad that was playing that turned the
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: new Democrat into a victim. and now a victor, and
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: that was found by our own Larry Menti of NJNY.
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: I love looking at the rollercoaster ride of that U.S.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: Senate race in Maine with sitting Senator Republican Susan Collins,
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: who always tried to say, no, no, I'm not a
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: Trump pro, I'm not MAGA, served her well before. Well, Larry,
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: it didn't this time. She lost 53 to 46. But
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: just to sort of recap, Remember, at first, they thought
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: they had found the perfect male candidate. Macho, you know, beard, mustache.
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: He's out there, oyster farmer, platinum, platinum. Oh, my God.
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: He was the prototype. You know, El Saeed became a
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: platinum type, you know, buffed up, lifting weights, you know,
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: and all that. So they had a dream come true
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: until the entire time. campaign fell apart. This guy did
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: everything that you could do conceivably wrong in the past.
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: And I mean, from Grindr being on Grindr, the photos
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: that were out there to just assaults against women and
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: former girlfriends say this guy is the worst and maybe
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: the worst of all time, which made me have a
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: belly laugh.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: He's sitting at home. He's watching TV.
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: And one of his many girlfriends comes over to visit
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: in his cabin there way up in Maine. And she goes,
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: what are you doing with the axe? As he's watching TV,
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: he's got a sharpened axe in his hand. And he
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: looks at her serious, she said. And he goes, I'm
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: hoping that somebody breaks in and then I'll rape them.
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: You know, almost like Jack Nicholson, you know. And he
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: was talking about a male. Yeah. Walking in that he
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: was going to rape to show dominance. Not sexual, he said. Right.
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: But to show dominance. Yeah, dominance. I mean, this guy
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: was a wacko.
• 58:02
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: He's still out there, you know, farming for us. Well,
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: did they hide him away? Yeah. I don't know where
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: they buried him, but you never heard from him again,
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: and nobody found him. Reporters tried to find him. Well,
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: the Post found him. Oh, did they? And he basically
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: said to them, F you. Yeah. And I think the
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: Democrats appreciated that.
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: Because they had to really move quick. You would have
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: thought it's a slam dunk now for Susan Collins because
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: she's a safe vote. She's not going to do anything crazy.
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: There's nothing in her background that would suggest that all
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: of a sudden her campaign would implode. So they found
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: the lumberjack who was the president of the state legislative senate.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: And this guy was, oh God, you know, like the
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: way a lumberjack talks.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: I know he was awful. Of all the candidates, he
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: was the least charismatic. Remember we were going through them
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: at one point and we got to him and I said,
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: this is the guy that's expected to win. And we
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: played him and everybody went, oh my God. But he
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: is a logger and he was president of the Senate.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: So people did vote for him. They knew he had
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: a name. I think he was the safe pick. Safe pick.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: And both sides obviously had internal polling. because they had
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: five debates in nine days, which suggested that both sides
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: knew they had to have debates. They had to have
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: some separation. So Susan Collins wasn't sure she could win.
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: And obviously, the new Jack guy, the lumberjack, they didn't
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: think that he could win, who was Troy Jackson. And
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: then in that last debate, Troy Jackson made the mistake
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: of all mistakes, that male candidates are always told when
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: you're debating or you're talking about a female candidate, Never
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: tell them to shut up.
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: And he did. And all of a sudden, oh, the blowback.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: But then you, Larry Mendte. By the way, women voters
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: really turned on him. Which is a majority.
• 59:56
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: But then all of a sudden, Larry found a radio
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: ad that had been prepared by a Republican PAC that,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, reverberated all over Maine. You not only laughed,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: you smiled, you had a good belly laugh, but it
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: turned Troy Jackson from being this violator, you know, of
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: a woman.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: Shut up. Suddenly a victim. Can we cue that up? Yeah,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: we can. But let's also point out that after we
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: played this and we only played it a couple of times.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: It's stuck in our heads. So you can imagine what
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: it was like in Maine when they heard it over
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: and over and over again. You know, I don't think
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: it's the ad that put him over the top. I
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: do believe, because remember, Susan Collins is always in a
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: tight race up there and she always ekes it out.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: In this election, with the feeling in the country, and
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: even the exit polls showed this, They just decided it
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: was time to put a Democrat in. They were trying
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: to make a statement. They were trying to talk to
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. This was all about Donald Trump. In the
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: exit polls, it was fascinating because realize she's been in
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: the Senate now for 30 years. This would have been
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: her sixth re-election if she were to win. And she's
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: 73 years old. When they did exit polls, people loved her.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: They still really loved her. They said it's her time
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: to go. You know what I mean? It's just that
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: she's been there too long. Term limits. Term limits.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, a perfect example. But there were two issues
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: that she could not escape. The tariffs that were so
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: important to Maine because they have this trade with Quebec.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: Which she was against, by the way. I know, against.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: But then again, you're holding her responsible because it's a
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: Republican leadership in the White House. And then in the
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: waning days of the campaign, the cold and the frost
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: set in. So people's home heating fuel bills came in,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: you know, as the truck came. And they said, holy
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: blankety blank, blank, blank, blank, blank. And I think that
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: was enough for good old Troy Jackson, a superseded.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: It wasn't even close, 53-46. Yeah, and by the way,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: she has only won by less than that in the past.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: And she is one of the people that has survived.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: They used to call her a rat after a nuclear war.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: She would still live when everybody else lost. And he
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: was asked, are you going to support Schumer to be
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: the majority leader? He said, hell no.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: Like a lot of the new guys and gals coming
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: in because Schumer had backed the governor who bowed out,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: who was older.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: Than even Susan Collins.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: So it's not a sure shot that Schumer's going to
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: remain majority leader. There's a lot of Democrats who want
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: this guy gone as majority leader.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: Well, politics is definitely the subject of the day. Everybody's
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: still got their minds wrapped around what happened and what
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: will happen now. And Natalie Migliore and her beat on
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: the street has talked to New Yorkers about both. She's
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: coming up next.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 10: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: Well, Natalie, today you will lead, and in the 8
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: o'clock hour, we will follow potential presidential candidates because now
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: the midterms are over.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: The race has begun.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 21: Yeah, a lot of people, though, on the street of
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 21: New York City, like, what?
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 14: It just ended!
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 21: Stop with the commercials! And stop with the ads!
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: But now that midterms.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 21: Midtowns. Well, that's where I was.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 14: But now that midterms are cooling down, things will start
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 14: heating up for.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 21: The 2028 presidential election.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 14: Experts predict this could be one of the most crowded
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 14: and unpredictable races when it comes to who's running and
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 14: for which party.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 21: Of course, we're two years out, so obviously it's unpredictable now.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 14: But it's early days yet. Safe to say this election
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 14: cycle doesn't yet have legs. But who would the people
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 14: like to see throw their hat in the ring?
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: Michelle Obama.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 22: Michelle Obama. I think she's smart. She's very articulate. She
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 22: knows the law. She has a Harvard degree.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 23: Oh, I haven't even thought about it. We don't even
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 23: know if Trump is going to try.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 5: Oh, God.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm like really not like super knowledgeable about
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 16: Is it exhausting?
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, honestly. No, I don't care.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: Why don't you care?
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 22: Because, I don't know, I don't feel like they care,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 22: so I don't think I need to care.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 9: One person, what, 28, so that's two years from now,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 9: hasn't been born yet.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah. What the hell was that last one?
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 14: Hasn't been born yet. So he really doesn't want to commit.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's fine.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 14: But he said the person who would be in office
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 14: hasn't been born yet.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: Really? They're going to be five?
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 22: I know.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 16: I was like, well.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: Notice how right out of the box, too, Michelle Obama,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: where you get two for one. You get the prince,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: Barack Obama, who's been there, and Michelle... This is what
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: happened the last time.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama. She just did not want it.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: This is why the Democrats have a problem, because they
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: have to go all the way back to the Obamas
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: to find someone they like.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 14: And that's... Even when I'm not doing man on the
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 14: street and we talk about potential presidential candidates, people love
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 14: Michelle Obama.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 21: So it's definitely a name that always is circulating. She
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 21: wrote the book. She got the podcast.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: The only person that the president, Donald Trump, both his
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: candidate and president never criticized was Michelle Obama. That tells
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: you something right there. He knew how popular she was.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 21: So there you have it.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 14: But there's more to be had here, because that doesn't
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 14: mean there aren't some potential candidates.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 21: Speculation includes, obviously, the regulars.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 14: California's Gavin Newsom, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. And locally, though,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 14: people are wondering about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and where she may land.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 23: If she wants it, she can run, whether she wins,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 23: you know. Yeah, she can try it.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: Well, she's an impressive politician. And she's an impressive person.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 5: And, you know, it all depends on what she stands for.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 5: And I think she stands for decent things. I have
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 5: some problems with certain things. But basically, I think she
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 5: has a very strong chance.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 9: You see, I don't know enough about her. I know
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 9: the speeches. Sometimes I'm capable of speeches, too.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: Well, that's further support for her there.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 21: A lot of people saying they're not really familiar with
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 21: her policies.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: I don't think she is. It's morphing.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: Remember it was, wait a second, that was the beginning.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: Woke one, we're now into phase two, woke two. Well,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: what the hell is woke two? And when does woke
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: three begin?
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 21: It's all a phase.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 14: But I just love the way this guy said he's
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 14: good at speeches too because it's like, well, aren't we all, right?
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 21: So now listen.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 14: Kamala Harris is also on the short list of possibilities.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: I don't have the same feeling about her.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 21: And why is that?
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 5: Well, it all had to do with the policy towards Gaza, Palestine.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 5: I think that's what really cost her.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: No way.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 9: Because she proved that she's not capable.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 22: Kamala did her turn already. She had her chance already.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 22: She had her chance, and if she was the pick,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 22: she would have won the last turn. So she had
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 22: her fair chance already.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 14: So voters not willing to take any chances given previous failures.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 14: But there's talking in the Republican Party, right? Marco Rubio,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 14: Ted Cruz, maybe J.D. Vance, current vice president. Do voters
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 14: think Republicans even have a chance following?
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 21: The blue tsunami on Tuesday.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 22: I would love to see who it would be, but
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 22: I don't have a candidate in mind for Republican right now.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 9: So far, I cannot see that. They prove it with
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 9: the president, the way they reacted to whatever stupid was
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 9: said every day.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 5: I think the Republicans are in bad shape right now.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 5: And I don't know, I don't know what it would
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 5: take to get them even back into being considered by
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 5: most people.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 23: It's early on. I'm just glad that the midterms are over.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 23: So we're taking a breath and we'll.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: Move on from there. She's saying to you, give me
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: a break. Right.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 21: Somebody's like.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you two things that would propel the Republicans,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: either AOC, all out crazy, or word salad Harris.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: Then if you're the Republican, you're going to be in
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: the White House. Guaranteed. Harris is at the top of
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: some of the polls right now.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: I know, but People have a bad memory of her,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: and there's no way she can correct that.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: It's just name recognition at this point. Someone else is
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: going to emerge. Somebody.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 21: They're waiting in the wings. to see.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 14: We have two years. So like the last lady said,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 14: take a breath.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 21: And then start from the top.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you talked about this today. Natalie's going to
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: be back tomorrow at 7.50 because that's what we're talking
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: about next. Some people have already threw their hat in
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: the ring. Kind of. We'll explain coming up after the
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: 8 o'clock news. Well, the starting gun has gone off
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: for the 2028 presidential election. It was unofficial. You may
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: have heard it, but you certainly heard it from the candidates.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: And you heard it from the vice president, especially on
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: Truth Social, who wrote, the reason we lost is the war.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: The reason we lost this race is the war in Iran.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: But he also said, the president said so himself last night,
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: because people are angry, and they're angry at us for
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: starting this war. I'd like you to argue it was
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: worth it. I'd love to do that, that losing the
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: Senate for the next six years was worth it. You
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: can do that if you want to, then do so.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: Argue it was worthwhile, cost to pay. Agree or disagree,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: that's at least honest. But everyone knows why we lost. Now,
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: I want you to hear those words in the middle.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to read it again. I just read
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: it to you. But he was not committed in that
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: statement to supporting the war. He is now distancing himself
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: from the Trump administration and the war in Iran. That's
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: why he was just saying, you can argue that if
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: you want. Was it worthwhile? Wasn't it worthwhile? You can
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: make the argument on either side. But any honest conversation,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: he says, has to start with the fact that we
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: lost the midterm elections. So if you read between the
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: lines on his social media statement, what he's saying is,
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: as you know, I fought against going into war. Because
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: I didn't think that this was worth the cost. And
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: the cost was the midterm elections. And he's absolutely correct.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: He's absolutely correct that that cost them the midterms. There's
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: no question about it. It's just that the President of
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: the United States did take other opinions. He famously voiced
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: his opinion. And now he's going to run on that.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: And he is going to be maybe one of the
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: few that can say, listen, I said no, because it
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: was reported over and over and over and over again.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: And he's going to be more forthright because that was ambiguous.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: He's going to be more forthright as the election goes on. Now,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: everybody has been saying, OK, the race is going to
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: be between him and Marco Rubio, him and Marco Rubio.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: But there's someone that's run a couple of times now.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: that I think people forgot and shouldn't forget. And he
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: wants to make sure you don't forget his name. Because
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, it was the only
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: large Republican state that survived these midterms. The House members survived.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: The governor survived. The governor's race survived. Byron Donald's won that.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: And the Senate race as well. They won all of them.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: And so Ron DeSantis took a victory lap.
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  Speaker 12: Let's just be clear about what happened last night. This
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 12: is close to an extinction level event for Republicans in
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 12: many parts of the country, as we have seen probably
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 12: in the last hundred years. In January, when everyone in
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 12: office leaves who were either term limited or got voted out,
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 12: of the 10 largest states in this union, only one
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 12: state will have Republican control of their state, the state
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 12: of Florida.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: Then he went right on Fox News, and he was
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: on with Laura Ingraham last night. He was on CNN
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: last night. Make no mistake about it. By the way,
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: all of the victory speeches by the Democratic governors and
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: Republican governors that won was the starting bell for the
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: race for president. I'll say one last thing, Curtis, and
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: that is that Marco Rubio is someone that's out there,
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: and he didn't make a statement like this. He didn't
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: come out already, but he's going to run. There's no
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: question he's going to run. As you know, he ran
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: against Donald Trump before, and he was little Marco at
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: that point. But Marco Rubio is the most fascinating to me,
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: because you've pointed out a couple of times, and you're
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: absolutely right, that the Republicans lost a lot of Hispanic voters.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: in this last election where they were winning it. Donald
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: Trump won the Hispanic vote last time, which was incredible
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: for a, for a Republican to win that, especially when
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: he was so anti-immigration at the time. But there was
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: people that knew they didn't want bad people to come
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: here and that might happen. And a lot of them
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: were coming here. So they absolutely knew what was going
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: to happen. If Marco Rubio runs and he wins the nomination,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: I believe that is the best chance for the Republicans
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: to win in 2028 and get back that very important
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: Hispanic vote.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: His problem, though, is he's tied to AIPAC, he's tied
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: to Israel, and he knows that funding for race against
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: a vice president is dependent on the generosity of Jewish donors.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: And he's based out of Florida. That's where a lot
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: of them are. That is going to continue to be
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: a growing problem, and it will divide him and J.D.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 7: Vance.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: Why is that a problem for him? Well, because there's
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: so many people now running away from Israel. On the
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: Democratic side. Not so much on the Republican side. Not
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: as much.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: Larry, let me tell you, AIPAC is no longer going
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: to have PACs. They're reconsidering doing donations. They're going to
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: figure out another way to do it. It is taking
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: on a life of its own amongst Republicans now that J.D.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: Vance has said it.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: You've seen so many Republicans come out and disagree with
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: the president on the funding. You've seen so many congressmen
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: and senators come out. I think that there is absolutely
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: on the Democratic side an anti-Israel strain. And I think
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: that the Republicans would really hurt themselves if they took
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: the same position.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: Well, you're not going to win an election, I tell you.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: If Bibi stays in office, you're not. Look at the
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: popular opinion polls. You keep telling me the Israeli vote's
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: not so important. Every time we get to a race,
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: you say the Israeli vote's not that important.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: Can I speak what J.D. Vance said yesterday? War? Correct. Inflation? Correct.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: Relationship with Israel? Correct.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: He has always said we should not have the kind
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: of relationship with Israel that we have. He wanted to
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: remind Bibi months ago, let me remind Bibi that two-thirds
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: of your weapons protecting you comes from the USA. He
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: has clearly been against the war in Iran. He spoke
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: of that, but he respected the president. He said, is
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: this what you want to do? I'll be a good
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: vice president, and he has been. But now that the
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: president okayed this, okayed this. He looked at it and
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: he said, okay, I don't have a problem with it.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: Do you know who gave it like four emojis? His sponsor,
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump Jr., who reposted it. Every word of this
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: is true, he wrote. And remember, the other guy who
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: had promoted him to be vice president and who lobbied
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: on his behalf was Tucker Carlson when he was in
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: the good graces of the White House. So you had
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump Jr. and Tucker Carlson, who apparently convinced Donald
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: Trump at that point to take J.D.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: Vance on. Because, you know, J.D.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: Vance had not been the best supporter of Donald Trump,
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: actually referring to him as a Hitler when he put
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: out those hillbilly elegies.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a long time ago.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: It's going to divide the Republican Party, there's no doubt.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: And with DeSantis, I'm surprised you didn't take umbrage to
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: what he called this. You don't believe it was a
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: blue tsunami, even though the New York Post had it
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: on their front page. He said this is an extinction-level event.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: Everybody's using these hyperbolic terms, if it benefits them. The
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: Democrats are using it because it benefits them. DeSantis is
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: using it because it benefits him. I'm just talking about
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: when you look at it historically, there's been worse. Recently,
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: in 2010, it was worse under Obama. Nobody called it
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: a tsunami when it happened under Obama. It was a
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: red wave back then because that's the term for it.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: Is there a big difference?
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: Obama did not go into the ring sticking his chin out.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: And go to every rally and every place to try
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: to get Democrats elected.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: So what? That doesn't make it the word. This was
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: a referendum on Donald Trump. That was a referendum on
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: Barack Obama because he synced the economy. That was a
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: referendum on him. What is wrong with you? How are
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: you saying— Every Republican is saying that today. You're the
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: only holdout. You're the only holdout. Give me another one.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: You're the last man. You're like Robinson Crusoe. You say
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: things and you can never back— This was Trump's election.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: He said it 47 times. Stop yelling. Think of me
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: at the top of the ticket. Our talkbacks have said that.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: You're going to have a heart attack. I'm worried about
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: you with this. I'm not going to have a heart attack,
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: and I don't want you to give me mouth-to-mouth with reception, please.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: Trust me, I won't. But you're in denial. No, you
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: say things and you never back them up. It was
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: a blue tsunami. I said that a month ago. You're
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: going to yell again because you can't back it up.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: The New York Post said it on its front page. Please,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: if you're listening, note he just yells when he can't
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: back up what he's saying. Was I right about that
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: a month ago? You just said every Republican saying that.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: Who else is saying it? Every Republican is distancing. Who's
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: supporting Trump today?
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 7: No, no.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: Who else is calling it a tsunami? When you say
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: this is an extinction event. You were wrong. You were wrong.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: You could be the last man. Robinson Crusoe. You and
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: the few MAGA people that are left. No one else
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: is calling it. He's calling it. DeSantis is calling it.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: And Democrats are calling it. And you're calling it, which
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: would be expected. What do you think this Vance thing was?
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: You couldn't distance yourself more from Donald Trump and this
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: war in Iran.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: Well, you could distance yourself a whole lot more. This
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: was Bibi's war. I said it consistently. I know, I know.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: And it's Bibi who's brought down the Republican Party. This
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: is the Democrat new coming out. Come on, come on.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: Keep it coming. And let me give you one other update.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: Bibi is in double trouble. Are you going to say
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: I hate double trouble? No, he's in double trouble.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: He claimed the Arabs rigged the vote. Herzog, the president,
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: said that's racist. He certified the election. So his opponent
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: will get the first opportunity to put together a cabinet
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: and he will include some of the Arabs.
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: So bye bye, Bibi. Thank God.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: Maybe we can get on to normal life with a
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: new leader in Israel that nobody knows.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: Maybe. You know what? Exactly what you talk about with
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: Israel all the time is what I really don't care about.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: And I think that most Americans, not in New York,
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: most people in New York, but if you go across
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: the country, most people in the country don't really talk
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: about Israel that much. It's not the big deal to them.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: So the fact that you think that has such a
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: play in the big election coming up and that people
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: are going to distance themselves to them, For this reason
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: or that reason, the PAC money is important. I agree
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: with you. The PAC money is important. As far as
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: an issue, not as big an issue as you think.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: Well, then tell that to the Vice President, J.D. Vance,
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: who decided to list that. as the big three reasons
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: why we lost the midterms, meaning Republicans.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: That's a whole different team. The war around inflation and
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: relationship with Israel. Man, you would die on the big table. Larry,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: you're Robinson Crusoe. You're Maga Man. Stay on the island.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: It's not a blue tsunami. I said that a month ago.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: The New York Post had it on its front page.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: I listed the historic. I listed them for you. It
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: didn't make the top ten. It is hyperbole, and it's
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: hyperbole you're falling for. Sure, Larry.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 8: Sure.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: To make it a bigger deal so you and your
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: guys can win the next election. When we come back, well,
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: we have Maria Melito coming up, who is, you know,
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: you know her well. And she has got a cause
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: that she wants to talk about that I think every
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: single one of you is going to want to listen to.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: She's coming up after the break. Plus a chance to
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: see Def Leppard and the Goo Goo Dolls coming up.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: Larry and Quiet Storm, Chris, we have a great cluster
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: here with iHeart, all on the same floor in different studios.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 2: But probably the one that we have the best relationship
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: with is Q104. 3.
• 1:22:10
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• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: We've had Jim Kerr, the icon in here, many times
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: to discuss rock issues.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: And he's quickly.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: Followed by Maria Melito. who I was told when I
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: came and I joined with you and consummated our relationship
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: in March that you think you're the animal welfare expert.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: You can forget that.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: You're the junior varsity because Maria Melito has dedicated her
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: whole life to that. And, Maria, we thank you for
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: coming over and explaining what a great event you're going
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: to be hosting this Monday that we hope our many
• 1:22:43
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• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: 3 listeners.
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  Speaker 16: Well, thank you.
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  Speaker 24: First of all, you are way above me with animal advocacy.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 24: You carry the torch. But it's great to be here.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 16: Thank you, Larry. Thank you, Curtis.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 24: So Monday night at the Cutting Room, which is on
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 24: East 32nd Street here in Manhattan between Park and Madison.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 24: So we're showing a screening of By My Side. It's
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 24: a 30-minute documentary. It's about three veterans who had PTSD
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 24: and their families were distraught over how.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 16: Bad they were.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 24: And service dogs gave them their lives back. So it's
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 24: a 30-minute documentary that we're going to show. Also, Operation
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 24: Canine Beethoven, which is a local organization, they take dogs
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 24: out of shelters and train them for veterans and first
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 24: responders and people who need a service dog. You know,
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 24: because you know better than I do when you talk
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 24: to veterans... The government always just wants to pump them
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 24: with medication. And that's not the answer because they just
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 24: want to be able to live their lives, be part
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 24: of their family, go to the supermarket without the noises
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 24: affecting them.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 16: And, you know, we love dogs.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 24: Another great thing about a dog is a dog always
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 24: gives veterans their lives back and.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 16: They don't have to take as many medications.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 24: So it's a benefit because by my side, they usually
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 24: the documentary usually shows in community centers and libraries. So
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 24: they have an impact campaign. Operation Canine Beethoven is also
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 24: a nonprofit. So the two nonprofits were charging 10 bucks
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 24: to come in. Five dollars goes to Buy My Side
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 24: Impact and five dollars goes to Operation Canine Beethoven. Of course,
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 24: people can donate more. And the cutting room, you know,
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 24: it's a twenty five dollar food and drink. So for
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 24: thirty five bucks, it's a great night in New York City.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. This one's wonderful. I have done in my career
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: many stories on PTSD and talked to several people with PSTD,
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: and I think that everyone should know how devastating it is.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 5: It is.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: And it is amazing that you talked about the medication
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: they give these men, and they hate it. Of course
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: they do. Every single one of them hate it and
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: says it doesn't work.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 15: Correct.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: Explain why this works when they get a canine companion.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 16: Well, the canine companions actually... will do things that helps
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 16: the veteran.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 24: Like if the veteran is sleeping and having a terrible nightmare,
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 24: the dog senses that and will wake them up. Where
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 24: a medication is just going to put you to sleep
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 24: and you're going to have bad sleep with nightmares. If
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 24: the person is unsure about going out in the street
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 24: because a car might backfire and that scares them, the
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 24: dog is a very calming person. living creature next to them.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 24: And it just, it gives them their life back. That's
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 24: what every single veteran I've ever spoken with tells me.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: And they love the dogs.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 16: And they love the dogs.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: They don't love the medication, so sometimes they won't take
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: it and that's when the problems happen.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 22: Exactly.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 24: And a lot of times, it's not one or two medications.
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 24: Some of them have told me they're on like 25 medications.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 24: That's not a good way to live your life. And
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 24: here they served our country and they're on medications and
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 24: they can't live their life.
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 13: But a dog.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: They go through the treatment and they're not better.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 16: Exactly.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 24: Because also a lot of times there's guilt about having
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  Speaker 24: the PTSD because people don't understand.
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  Speaker 16: We don't understand. I've never been in a war. I
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  Speaker 16: don't know what it's like. And their families don't know.
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  Speaker 16: So they don't understand it.
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  Speaker 24: But a dog, it becomes part of their family like
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 24: any family dog does, but it also helps the veterans
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 24: do their daily chores and live their life. I mean,
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  Speaker 24: they always say, I can go to a restaurant now,
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  Speaker 24: and it's just their life is back.
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  Speaker 2: Man's best friend is a dog. And so if people
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  Speaker 2: want to join and I'm going to use this for
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: my wife, Nancy, she loves all animals.
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  Speaker 1: I know I'm going to tell her, oh, let's go
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  Speaker 1: on a date night.
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  Speaker 16: I'm so happy you're going to come.
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  Speaker 1: Seriously. Absolutely. I wouldn't miss it.
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  Speaker 2: But how can others listening to us now get involved
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  Speaker 2: in showing up for your cause?
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  Speaker 24: Okay, so they can just actually show up at the
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 24: cutting room, but they can also go to thecuttingroomnyc.com. And
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 24: it's right there. It's the billboard from the movie. And
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 24: you'll see it's like kind of mustard color with a dog.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 24: And you can just click on it and you can
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  Speaker 24: get your tickets that way.
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  Speaker 1: Maria Melito, Q104. 3. Let's do another promo. How can people
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: listen to you?
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 24: They can just go over to Q1043 after you.
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  Speaker 1: We share an audience.
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  Speaker 16: We share an audience.
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  Speaker 1: That would be great.
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  Speaker 2: Out of all the stations here, R2, your FM, where
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: I am, we share the same audience.
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  Speaker 24: So people can come over if they want nice rock
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  Speaker 24: and roll and, you know, no politics, just rock and roll.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 24: Come over to me at 9 o'clock after you guys.
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  Speaker 24: By the way, this is the first time I'm here
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  Speaker 24: on WOR.
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  Speaker 5: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 16: So I'm pretty honored. So thanks.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we have to have you back.
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  Speaker 16: I would love to come back.
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: And right now, let's get the 8.30 news from Daria.
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  Speaker 10: All right, guys.
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  Speaker 13: Good morning. Maria, nice to have you here. Chance for
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 13: showers today. We'll see a high of 64 degrees. Investigators
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 13: are focused on a lithium-ion battery as a possible cause
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 13: of a fire overnight in Brooklyn, which left at least
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 13: six people dead. More than 200 firefighters responded to the
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 13: blaze in the two-story home in Sunset Park. Well, back
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 13: in 2006, the war in Iraq led President George W.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 13: Bush to fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. And now after
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 13: the midterms, a lot of people are saying that Pete
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 13: Hegseth's job may be on the line.
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 25: Republican Thomas Massey, member of the House. He intends to
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 25: introduce an impeachment resolution of Pete Hegseth as early as Monday.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 25: I spoke to him overnight. He expects that he has
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 25: enough Republican support to pass that. And there's a lot
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 25: of speculation that before that actually comes to fruition, that
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 25: Hegseth himself could be gone.
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  Speaker 1: But I also spoke with President Trump this morning.
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  Speaker 25: And President Trump told me, and this is a direct
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 25: quote about Pete Hegseth, I have absolutely every intention to
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 25: keep them.
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  Speaker 13: That's ABC's Jonathan Karl.
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: The U.S.
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 13: Embassy in Paris issuing an urgent security alert for Americans
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 13: in France with a nationwide strike planned for today. They
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 13: say it could lead to travel disruption, sudden curfews, and
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 13: possible violence. And a New York holiday tradition is on
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 13: its way.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: It's beginning to look a lot like.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 14: Christmas The 76-foot-tall Norway spruce is leaving Ostago County and
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 14: heading for Midtown. The tree is roughly 75 years old
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 14: and weighs 11 tons, hailing from West Edmiston, just about
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 14: four hours away from Rockefeller Center. Once the tree arrives,
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 14: it'll be covered in scaffolding so crews can decorate it
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 14: in over 50,000 LED lights and top it with a
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 14: 900-pound Swarovski crystal star. The lighting ceremony is Wednesday, December 2nd.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 14: and it'll be on display through January 9th. Natalie Migliore,
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 14: WOR News.
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  Speaker 13: Somebody in New Jersey got an early Christmas, $ 847 million.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: They have the only winning.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 13: Ticket that was sold in last night's Powerball jackpot, and
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 13: I don't know. Natalie hasn't checked in yet.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: Just saying.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 13: Knicks and Nets win. Next news, 9 o'clock, bulletins at once.
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  Speaker 13: I'm Daria Albinger on 710 WOR.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: All right, thanks a lot, Daria. Who's the winner, Chris? Now,
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: congratulations to Jim Dooley in Long Beach, New York, who
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: just won a pair of tickets to see a great
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: double bill, Def Leppard and the Goo Goo Dolls. How
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: about that, Maria? March 13th at the Prudential Center. Tickets
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: on sale at Ticketmaster.com. You get another chance to win
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: tomorrow at 825. The midterm elections, some of the races
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: still have to be decided. Alaska still has to be decided.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: Mississippi still has to be decided. We'll give you an
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: update on who is winning right now and what we
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: expect when we come back.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 2: Remember when we were talking about Mississippi and the unexpected
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 2: close race a month ago? They would have thought you
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 2: were in a drug-induced psychosis. The sitting Republican senator was
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 2: guaranteed a victory. Nope, neck and neck. And Larry, when
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 2: you were playing touch football, you said five Mississippis. We
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 2: played 10 Mississippis in the street before we charged the quarterback. M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-I-S-
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  Speaker 2: The Republican sitting senator is slightly behind.
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: They still have to count the mail-in ballots.
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 2: And then remember what I've talked about, affidavits, which are
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 2: critical in this race. So if you go to your
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: polling location, this is information for the future, and they
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 2: can't find you or you feel like you're not listed
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: where you used to, just fill out an affidavit. They
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 2: have a special box there. The affidavit ballots might determine
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 2: the winner, but there's a third candidate here who's maybe
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 2: wishing he wasn't because he was out in the streets.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: He was going door to door.
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 2: His name is Ty Pinkins, African-American himself, active campaigner, not
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 2: like the Sullivan in Alaska who was hiding out in
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 2: an igloo.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: He's an independent.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: And a lot of the African-Americans would say, why are
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 2: you running, Ty?
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: We've got our candidate, you know, the Democrat column. He said,
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: but I'm different. I'm an independent. This is what I
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: stand for.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 2: You had to the palm cards, you know, and obviously
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 2: this is how I disagree with the sitting Senate. He
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: got 20,000 votes. That's 2.1% of the total. And now
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: the Democrats are making his life miserable. He's had to
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: take down all of his social networking. He's had to
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 2: leave his house. He can't walk in the streets because
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: they're saying, you sold out. The Republicans paid you to
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 2: run because they want to win this election and they
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 2: knew you would siphon off black votes. And he goes, no,
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 2: I've run a legitimate campaign. I just differ with the
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 2: Republican and Democrats. The poor guy is going to have
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 2: to leave M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-D.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: And he says, no, no, no. I took Republican votes.
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: That's what he's been saying publicly because he's a Republican.
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: He used to be a Republican that's now an independant.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: So that's what he gets on every TV station. He
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: gets on every radio station. It looks to me like
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: they know where this may be going because Mississippi is
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: normally a red state. If you looked at every one
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: of the prognosticators, they said it's a safe Republican seat.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: that it's definitely going to go to the Republicans.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, in fact, Jose, a month ago, an African-American Democratic
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: delegation went to see Chuck Schumer himself in D.C. He
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 2: controls the finances for Senate races. And they said, Chuck,
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 2: Our guy's doing really good. Can you throw some money
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 2: on it?
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: Ah, hopeless.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not even going to give you two nickels to
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 2: rub together. Now look at this.
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  Speaker 1: No, absolutely. But this guy, this poor guy, I do
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: feel bad for him, the Pinkins, because Ty Pinkins actually
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: has a great argument. He said, look at my past registration.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: I was running on more Republican issues than Democratic issues.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: And so he has a great argument, but you're right.
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, the threats against him and the fact that
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: they want to take this to court now if the
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: Democrat loses, I think this is a lot of them
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: looking at the reality and knowing this may go the
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: other way when they count the rest of the votes. Now,
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: imagine this.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: The other independent candidate up in Alaska is the fake
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 2: Sullivan versus the sitting Republican senator, the real Sullivan. And
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 2: he's been labeled decoy Dan. Nobody has seen him of late, Larry.
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 2: He's on this island near the Aleutian Islands. Next stop
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 2: is Mother Russia. And my God, they are counting to
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 2: the point.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: They're not counting. That's what I want to know. What
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: the hell's going on in Alaska? They're still at 75%.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 11: 75%.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: What are these votes coming in by dog sled? How
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: does that happen in a modern world where we have
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: computers and we have an internet? Can you explain that
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: to me? No, not at all.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 2: Now, I can understand how in some of these rural
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 2: areas in Alaska, you know, they have no way to
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: get there.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: There's no roads.
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 2: Okay, so those mail-in ballots, you give them a little
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 2: bit of time to get in.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: But this is how it's going to go. November 18th.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: Wait a second. Yeah. Explain to me the mail-in ballots now.
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: So you're telling me you send in a mail-in ballot.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: You might do this a week before.
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 2: No, you had to do it before the postmarked on
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 2: the day of the election. It had to be mailed
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 2: by then.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, they're letting people to mail on the day of
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: up there, not like the mail-in ballots down here. And
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: there is a legitimate concern.
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 5: The U.S.
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: Parcel Service is horrible.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 2: Okay, so you would think they'd have it wrapped up
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 2: in a week. No, November 18th, they start the ranked
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 2: choice vote. What the ranked choice vote is, if you're last,
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: like the fake Sullivan is now, they go through all
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 2: of it. If you voted for him, who was your second, third,
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 2: or fourth choice if he even chose that? Then the
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 2: next one was also Republican. Then Sullivan, then Peltola. But
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 2: it doesn't get certified totally till November 25th, as all
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 2: the absentee ballots will have been counted and the affidavits.
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 2: So this is not going to be resolved till November 25th.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: Well, it might be pushed back further than that. Who
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: knows when all these other votes are going to come in.
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 1: This is the worst system I have ever seen. Somalia
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: had a quicker election. Oh, absolutely.
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 5: Iraq.
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 2: This was done the same night. Remember Iraq in the war,
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 2: you know, they get their finger, what was it, purple,
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 2: you know? No, it's a disaster. And I must tell you,
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 2: it's so.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: Neck and neck.
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 2: And there aren't that many votes there. I mean, we're talking, what,
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 2: 100,000 votes apiece for the leaders of the PAC? Peltola,
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 2: who's slightly ahead now, and the sitting senator, the real Sullivan,
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 2: Dan S.
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: Sullivan. Slightly. Yeah, but Dan J. Sullivan, you're right, got
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: 3,600 votes, so he's 1.68. Look who is third on
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: the list. Gerald Hikes, a Republican. Another Republican made it.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: He got 4,846 votes. You would think, since he's another Republican,
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: those votes would go to Sullivan.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 2: And if they took advantage, though, of ranked choice, they
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 2: may have had, those people who voted for them, a
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 2: second choice, a third choice, a fourth choice.
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: So that all has to be tabulated. That's what I'm saying.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: But I mean, there is a salvation for Sullivan.
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: Because if he gets those 4,000 votes.
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting to see where the other
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: Dan Sullivan votes go. If they go to the Democrat,
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: you know that's going to be used as evidence in court. Completely.
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: Up next, we have so many talkbacks.
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 2: We're clearing the deck again, as we did yesterday, so
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 2: that your voice can be heard. Your opinion counts here
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 2: at 710WOR with Larry and Curtis in the morning, because
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 2: you can't be heard over at WABC, Israel First Talk,
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 2: because they don't take calls.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: It is too afraid.