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Hour 2: The Cornell case · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, our own John Decker, WOR White House and Washington correspondent,
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  Speaker 1: once again, was the star of the White House pool. John,
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  Speaker 1: you've got a lot of questions, and I want to
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  Speaker 1: start off by asking you about Iran, because Iran, it's interesting,
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  Speaker 1: has really, you know, when you watch the local news,
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  Speaker 1: even the national news, it's now the third, fourth story.
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  Speaker 1: It's It doesn't lead like it used to anymore. It's
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  Speaker 1: a story that almost plays out in the background, and
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  Speaker 1: we don't always get updates. So as of right now,
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  Speaker 1: where does the war stand, and is there any hope
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  Speaker 1: of it ending soon?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the president says that talks related to ending the
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  Speaker 2: war will really begin in earnest after the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't expect an end to the war before November
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  Speaker 2: the 3rd. The president has said that essentially Iran is decimated.
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  Speaker 2: And he also speaks about how a significant amount of
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  Speaker 2: oil is getting through the Strait of Hormuz. He says
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  Speaker 2: sometimes as much as or more than before the war
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  Speaker 2: began in late February. That all being said, although you're right, Larry,
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  Speaker 2: the war does not lead the newscast local or national.
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  Speaker 2: What often does is just issues related to affordability, which
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  Speaker 2: is the main issue in this midterm campaign, no matter
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  Speaker 2: what race you're talking about all across the country.
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  Speaker 3: Now, John Decker, the president has stepped into Texas three
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  Speaker 3: times now. I never originally would have thought that he'd
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  Speaker 3: be spending so much time there trying to help Paxton.
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  Speaker 4: But.
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking at the poll with Abbott, Governor Abbott, a
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  Speaker 3: very popular governor. And I think now, I think I
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  Speaker 3: realize why I and Larry a month ago were talking
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  Speaker 3: about why he was putting the brakes on the AI
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  Speaker 3: data centers, the flock cameras. He's in a very close
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  Speaker 3: race with Gina Hinojosa. I'm probably mispronouncing her name. Right,
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  Speaker 3: the Democrat who's running against him. Is there a ripple
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  Speaker 3: effect taking place in Texas in which Trump may not
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  Speaker 3: be able to help the Republicans?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's if the polls are to be believed. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if the polls are accurate, but it is
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  Speaker 2: pretty consistent that poll after poll, you just look at
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  Speaker 2: all the polls that have been taken regarding, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: the Senate race. And it's just all blue in terms
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  Speaker 2: of the advantage that Tallarico has over Ken Paxton. As
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  Speaker 2: for the governor's race, You know, the president went down
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  Speaker 2: to San Antonio yesterday to campaign for both of these candidates.
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  Speaker 2: Skipping that event was Governor Abbott. I think that's a
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  Speaker 2: big mistake, you know, but that's what he decided to do.
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  Speaker 2: He said he had a fundraiser elsewhere in the state
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  Speaker 2: the same time as this event in San Antonio. I
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  Speaker 2: say you reschedule your fundraiser to be with the president
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  Speaker 2: because the president's the one that's going to energize Republicans.
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  Speaker 2: You spoke of the Republican Governor Abbott as being popular.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's the case. If he was popular,
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  Speaker 2: polls wouldn't show this race as close as it is
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  Speaker 2: right now, Curtis.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what, you nailed it when you
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  Speaker 1: talked about affordability being the number one issue right now,
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  Speaker 1: and that may be one of the big reasons since
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  Speaker 1: we're in the middle of the midterm or we're nearing
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  Speaker 1: the end of a midterm election that that it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: get the coverage that it used to, and certainly nothing
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  Speaker 1: really is going on. There's no talks. But affordability is
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  Speaker 1: the number one issue. And so Donald Trump got some
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  Speaker 1: bad news when it came out that 30-year mortgage rates
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  Speaker 1: have hit the highest number in three years. And that's
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  Speaker 1: just horrible timing for him and the rest of the Republicans.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I asked the president about this yesterday as he
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  Speaker 2: was departing the White House. The 30-year fixed rate mortgage
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  Speaker 2: rate right now, average nationwide, 7.49%. As you point out, Larry,
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  Speaker 2: it's the highest rate in three years. And that's just
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  Speaker 2: decimating the housing market. And the president acknowledged that. He
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  Speaker 2: says that mortgage rates will come down after the war concludes.
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  Speaker 2: And that may be the case, but there's no end
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  Speaker 2: to the war in sight. And in the meantime, it
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  Speaker 2: just makes it that much more difficult to to buy
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  Speaker 2: a new home or to move to a new home
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  Speaker 2: if you're contemplating that just because you might be locked
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  Speaker 2: in to a mortgage that's 3% or less. It's difficult
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  Speaker 2: to make that leap to another home if you're paying
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  Speaker 2: a mortgage rate in the neighborhood of 7.5%.
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  Speaker 3: Contact, I want you to look back. We had anointed
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  Speaker 3: you our expert on the reflecting pool before our nation's.
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  Speaker 1: Birthday, July 4th, 250th birthday.
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  Speaker 3: And the president was rushing to get the reflection pool
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  Speaker 3: in shape. There's been all kinds of problems since, but
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  Speaker 3: he won't give up talking about vandals when it was
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  Speaker 3: just even the contractor themselves have said, hey, we just
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  Speaker 3: weren't up for the job. And I guess yesterday he
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  Speaker 3: was talking about, oh, yeah, we're going to make it
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  Speaker 3: vandal proof.
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  Speaker 1: Why doesn't he just let this go?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. You'd have to ask the president that question.
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  Speaker 2: The U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, as you know,
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  Speaker 2: dropped charges against an individual charged with vandalism. The federal
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  Speaker 2: judge overseeing that case said you can't bring charges against
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  Speaker 2: that individual again. And as you point out, this was
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  Speaker 2: a botched job by the contractor. That's the reason why
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  Speaker 2: there's so much work that's going on concerning vandalism. the
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  Speaker 2: reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial. So I don't know
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  Speaker 2: why he continues focusing on that particular issue. He was
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  Speaker 2: asked about it yesterday. That's the reason why he brought
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  Speaker 2: it up. But I don't know why he continues, speaking
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  Speaker 2: of vandals, being responsible for all that damage at the
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  Speaker 2: reflecting pool.
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  Speaker 1: There is still a concern globally and in this country
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  Speaker 1: about the pneumonic plague that we don't know exactly what
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  Speaker 1: happened in Russia, and we're trying to get answers on it.
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  Speaker 1: And Donald Trump said... yesterday they had a call set
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  Speaker 1: up with Putin, I guess two days ago, to coincide
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  Speaker 1: with Putin's birthday on Wednesday, which would have been yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Did that phone call happen?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the president said that he was scheduled to speak
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  Speaker 2: with Putin. That was when he left the White House
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  Speaker 2: en route to San Antonio. I imagine the call happened,
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  Speaker 2: given the time difference, you know, between D.C.
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  Speaker 1: And Moscow.
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  Speaker 2: And I would imagine the president brought this up. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: certainly I know that Our diplomats have brought it up
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  Speaker 2: with Russia. They want more information concerning this death of
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  Speaker 2: this lab worker at that lab in Siberia. The World
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  Speaker 2: Health Organization wants more information regarding the death of that
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  Speaker 2: lab worker.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: hopefully the president i've got satisfactory answers from president prudent
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  Speaker 2: i'd imagine he did speak with him yesterday and maybe
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  Speaker 2: we'll get a readout on that call larry today.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a second john you keep saying i imagine he
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  Speaker 1: did and he said he was going to but there's
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  Speaker 1: been no confirmation that he actually spoke with them.
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  Speaker 2: Well no so no readout coming from the white house
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  Speaker 2: concerning that call that's what i'm referring to typically you
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  Speaker 2: do you get a readout either uh... or both From
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  Speaker 2: the U.S. side and, in this case, from the Russian side,
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  Speaker 2: but we haven't seen that just yet. And the president,
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  Speaker 2: as you mentioned, said that he was scheduled to speak
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  Speaker 2: with President Putin to coincide with his birthday.
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  Speaker 1: You know, yesterday they had the debate in Iowa for
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. Senate.
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  Speaker 3: The sitting senator, Ashley Hinson, the Republican versus Josh Turek,
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  Speaker 3: the Democrat. And the two big issues there, the heartland
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  Speaker 3: of America, was the war in Iran and tariffs. How
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  Speaker 3: do you see the rest of the way in this
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  Speaker 3: sprint where there are so many close Senate races, which
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  Speaker 3: was unexpected a while back?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really unexpected. And as a result, Democrats really
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  Speaker 2: do have a path to win back control of the Senate.
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  Speaker 2: I think at the very beginning of this cycle, it
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  Speaker 2: was really hard to imagine that they would be able
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  Speaker 2: to flip four seats, which would allow them to regain
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  Speaker 2: control of the Senate. But I was one of those places, Ashley.
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  Speaker 2: Hinson is a congresswoman. She's running for the U.S. Senate.
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  Speaker 2: She's running to fill the seat of Joni Ernst, a
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  Speaker 2: Republican who's stepping down. And recent polls actually show there's
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  Speaker 2: a governor's race and there's a race for the Senate
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  Speaker 2: in Iowa. And Democrats in both of those races, according
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  Speaker 2: to polls, are leading. That's pretty remarkable given how much
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  Speaker 2: President Trump won Iowa by in 2024, won it all
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  Speaker 2: three times he competed. But, you know, those two issues
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  Speaker 2: really are affecting Iowans the war in the sense that
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  Speaker 2: high diesel prices for all that farm equipment and tariffs
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  Speaker 2: also related to the agriculture industry in Iowa impacted by
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  Speaker 2: the president's terrorist policy. And then, you know, you could
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  Speaker 2: just go around the country, all the other places. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to travel with the president coming up, not only
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday, right now it's scheduled. We'll see if it
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  Speaker 2: gets rescheduled, but he's traveling down South to Tennessee and
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  Speaker 2: to Alabama for the Alabama Georgia game. And then next week,
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  Speaker 2: Larry and Curtis, I'm on a two-day trip out west,
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  Speaker 2: including all the way out to Alaska, and there's a
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  Speaker 2: really competitive Senate race in Alaska as well, and the
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  Speaker 2: president wants to help out Senator Dan Sullivan, help him.
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  Speaker 2: to try to get over the finish line and win
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  Speaker 2: a third term in the U.S. Senate.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's doing everything he can. He even offered $ 5, 000
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  Speaker 1: to every adult American if he wins, and I'm surprised
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  Speaker 1: that kind of just went away. People talk about it
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  Speaker 1: every once in a while. I thought for sure even
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  Speaker 1: the idea of that would have been challenged in court,
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  Speaker 1: but has it been?
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  Speaker 2: Well, because there's nothing to challenge. As they say in.
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  Speaker 2: In legal circles, the case isn't ripe yet because the
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  Speaker 2: president hasn't done that yet. He's just making a promise.
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  Speaker 2: So there's no lawsuit to be had. Now, there may
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  Speaker 2: be one if two things happen. One, Republicans need to
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  Speaker 2: retain control of the House and the Senate, and that
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  Speaker 2: seems difficult. And then two, that proposal is actually introduced
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  Speaker 2: as legislation in Congress. And I'll see if that happens.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see if that happens. I don't think that the
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  Speaker 2: votes are there to pass such a proposal. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's one of those things that the president is promising
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  Speaker 2: out on the campaign trail in an effort to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just really energize voters to support for Republicans who are
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  Speaker 2: running in various offices, whether it's in the House or
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  Speaker 2: the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: And then he'll be able to blame somebody else when
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't pass. He wanted to do it, but it
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  Speaker 1: didn't get passed. This is brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean, I think that's right. He'll blame voters.
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  Speaker 2: They don't vote for Republicans and retain control of Congress.
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  Speaker 2: But I also think that, you know, when we look
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  Speaker 2: down the road, you know, and you and I and
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  Speaker 2: Curtis are speaking a few weeks from now after the midterms,
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  Speaker 2: there will be blame that the president will, you know,
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  Speaker 2: point fingers at. And I think he's going to point
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  Speaker 2: his fingers at some of the candidates that were running.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I would not be surprised if You know,
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  Speaker 2: the president points fingers at Ken Paxton, even though he's
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  Speaker 2: the one who put the thumb on the scale so
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  Speaker 2: that Ken Paxton was the Republican nominee over John Cornyn,
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  Speaker 2: the sitting incumbent Republican senator. But Ken Paxton has turned
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  Speaker 2: out to be a really bad candidate this election cycle.
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  Speaker 1: That's for sure.
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  Speaker 3: He's like a blabbermouth, and all of his private conversations
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  Speaker 3: get recorded. Does he pat down donors before he talks
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  Speaker 3: to them? Because we hear all of his complaints that
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  Speaker 3: get aired nationally.
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  Speaker 2: He should do that.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, John, we got to go. Go to a metal
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  Speaker 1: detector or something. Yeah, that's right. John Decker, W.O.O. White
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  Speaker 1: House and Washington correspondent, host of the podcast, The White
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  Speaker 1: House Briefing Room with John Decker. That could be heard.
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  Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. Talk to you again soon, John.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Barry. Thanks, Curtis. Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Curtis's favorite performer, Ella Langley, you're going to be
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  Speaker 1: upset at this. She's fallen from number one. Ella who?
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  Speaker 1: Ella Langley. You love the song. I still don't know her.
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  Speaker 6: Choose in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard you singing it. Choose in Texas. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: was number one for 25 weeks. Longest run ever. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it has fallen. To somebody you like. Raspberry. We have
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  Speaker 1: heard us talk about her before. She was already a
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  Speaker 1: huge country music star. But overnight, she became one of
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  Speaker 1: the biggest stars in the country. Come on.
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  Speaker 3: And you insist that this was number one 25 straight weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I insist. Billboard says it was. It's not growing on
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  Speaker 1: you yet?
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 3: I think if we were to send Natalie Magliore into
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  Speaker 3: the streets, and what is her name again?
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  Speaker 1: Ella Langley. And ask people, do you know Ella Langley?
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  Speaker 1: You won't even get one person to say who. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: come on. Not true. Oh, I'll bet you. But anyway, what's... No,
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  Speaker 1: I think people of a certain age group don't know
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  Speaker 1: who she is. But hip people know who she is.
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  Speaker 1: Hip people? Hip people know who she is. She's big.
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  Speaker 1: She's really big. She's everywhere on TV.
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  Speaker 3: I've asked our program director, Tom Cuddy, who knows quite
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  Speaker 3: a bit about the music industry all the years, that
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  Speaker 3: he programmed FM stations. If, in fact, you can make
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  Speaker 3: comparisons to what they claim now versus years ago, and
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  Speaker 3: hopefully he'll get back to us with a detailed report,
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  Speaker 3: because I don't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: There's no answer after that buildup? I don't believe it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they do go by streaming now, which is a little
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  Speaker 1: bit different. I agree. It's a hard comparison.
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  Speaker 8: It is.
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  Speaker 1: But it is the number one of.
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  Speaker 1: But you're still competing against your contemporaries. So, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: just like it was in the past. Before it was
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  Speaker 1: album and single sales. Now it's streaming. Declare me a doubting, Thomas.
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  Speaker 1: I doubt it. So who replaced her as the queen? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: your other favorite, the real queen. She won't give that
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  Speaker 1: stuff up. Attacking men.
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  Speaker 3: She's like the head of the man-haters club of America.
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  Speaker 1: When was the last one she did attacking men? A
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  Speaker 1: few years ago. Joe Jonas. No, she did four. Four drops.
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  Speaker 3: One of them was against Joe Jonas now.
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  Speaker 9: She's married.
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  Speaker 1: Give it up, lady. Whatever inspires you to hit. She's
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  Speaker 1: become very rich doing exactly what you said. Why would
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  Speaker 1: she give that up? We know that. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: you think there's a prenup there with Kelsey? Oh, I don't. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: come on. It has to be. I thought it's true love,
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  Speaker 1: the way she makes it sound. They both are very,
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  Speaker 1: very rich. She is obnoxiously rich, but he's got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money, too. I have no problem if they
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  Speaker 1: feel they need half. All I'm saying is, Kelsey, Kelsey,
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  Speaker 1: your day is coming. There will be four drop albums
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  Speaker 1: on your head. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Is
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  Speaker 1: that negative on everything? She is the president of the
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  Speaker 1: Man Haters Club of America. No, she's not. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: to some talkbacks.
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  Speaker 10: With less than a month to go before these elections,
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  Speaker 10: can we do a little test of polling? Because I
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  Speaker 10: keep hearing this word polling, this mind-numbing, ridiculous word called
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  Speaker 10: polling that doesn't make any sense and doesn't mean anything
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  Speaker 10: to anybody. Can you start checking out the polls from
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  Speaker 10: now until Election Day and see how.
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  Speaker 1: Wrong they actually are?
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  Speaker 10: And then maybe after Election Day, we could stop using
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  Speaker 10: that word forever.
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  Speaker 1: No, we shouldn't start using it forever. But I understand
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  Speaker 1: exactly your anxiety about polling and the reason you don't
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  Speaker 1: believe polling, because polling has been wrong. They've been bad
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  Speaker 1: over the last few years, ever since cell phones were
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  Speaker 1: came around. They were they've been actually bad. And they
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  Speaker 1: always seem to undercount Republicans. So that's the only thing
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  Speaker 1: you can have some faith in. All these agreed-to debates.
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  Speaker 3: There are more debates than I've ever seen before between
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  Speaker 3: candidates who view their races as close. That means their
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  Speaker 3: own internal polls, which they control, are suggesting that it's
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  Speaker 3: neck and neck.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but they might be just as bad as the
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  Speaker 1: regular polls.
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  Speaker 6: The governor's race in New York was lost for the
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  Speaker 6: Republicans the day Donald Trump snubbed Elise Stefanik and refused
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  Speaker 6: to endorse her and basically tacitly gave the run to Blakeman.
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  Speaker 6: People upstate don't know Blakeman. He's a great guy, I'm sure,
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  Speaker 6: as a county executive, but he can't. never going to
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  Speaker 6: get the city vote he's never going to get the
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  Speaker 6: downstate vote it's just lost yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That was really well said i'm not sure elise stefanik
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  Speaker 1: would do that much better although i love.
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  Speaker 3: Her yeah but that was a major mistake uh but
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  Speaker 3: bruce blakeman apparently if this is true the president will
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  Speaker 3: be joining him upstate new york which is unusual because
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  Speaker 3: he's avoided going to blue states to be continued.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's get to Daria Albinger with the 7.30 news, Daria.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, Curtis.
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  Speaker 11: He'll be here tomorrow. He'll be in the state tomorrow.
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  Speaker 11: He's going to campaign up in Syracuse, actually. So you
• 16:58
  Speaker 11: are right about that. Sunny, warmer, and breezy today. High
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  Speaker 11: 75 degrees. One local team has been eliminated from the playoffs,
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  Speaker 11: and another one is on the brink. The Yankees closed
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  Speaker 11: the books on their 2026 season after last night's 4-3
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  Speaker 11: loss to Tampa Bay. The Rays sweeping the ALDS. And
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  Speaker 11: the Liberty must win tomorrow night if they want to
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  Speaker 11: move on to the WNBA Finals. They trail Atlanta 2-0
• 17:20
  Speaker 11: after last night's loss. Game 4 is tomorrow night at Barclays.
• 17:24
  Speaker 11: We are all Jane Doe. That is the focus of
• 17:27
  Speaker 11: rallies across the country in support of a woman who
• 17:30
  Speaker 11: claims she was gang-raped at Cornell University at a fraternity
• 17:33
  Speaker 11: house in 2024. and other sexual assault victims.
• 17:36
  Speaker 12: As Cornell students stage hours-long sit-ins and demand the expulsion
• 17:40
  Speaker 12: of Chi Phi fraternity members who remain on campus, Jane
• 17:44
  Speaker 12: Doe's attorney Thomas Jufra says his client is receiving death threats.
• 17:48
  Speaker 12: It comes as Cornell taps former acting U.S. Attorney General
• 17:51
  Speaker 12: Sally Yates to lead an independent review into how it
• 17:54
  Speaker 12: handled the initial report.
• 17:56
  Speaker 13: I think that's a systemic problem. I don't think it's
• 17:58
  Speaker 13: just Cornell that handles things that way.
• 18:01
  Speaker 12: Meantime, Jufra described a swanning incident at his client's home
• 18:05
  Speaker 12: where her family was faced with a heavily armed law
• 18:07
  Speaker 12: enforcement response. Natalie Migliore, WOR News.
• 18:11
  Speaker 11: A Bronx man is under arrest. He's accused of pushing
• 18:14
  Speaker 11: his ex-girlfriend and their infant daughter off a balcony, killing her.
• 18:18
  Speaker 11: The baby is in critical condition. Angel Carrasco is charged
• 18:22
  Speaker 11: with murder, attempted murder, and a number of other offenses.
• 18:25
  Speaker 11: All eyes are on Isaias, which could be the first
• 18:28
  Speaker 11: Atlantic hurricane of the season.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: Millions bracing for Hurricane Isaias. Expected to make landfall along
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: the northern Gulf Coast late Friday or early Saturday, possibly
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: as a Category 2 storm. with a storm surge of
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: up to 7 feet and up to 10 inches of rain.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: Emergencies already declared in parts of Florida and Alabama.
• 18:48
  Speaker 11: ABC's Sophie Flay. Now, this storm, which is not going
• 18:51
  Speaker 11: to be anywhere near us as far as the hurricane
• 18:53
  Speaker 11: is concerned, but we could feel some effects of it.
• 18:56
  Speaker 11: It's expected to bring some heavy rain to New Jersey
• 18:58
  Speaker 11: late this weekend and early next week. The Isles host
• 19:01
  Speaker 11: Chicago tonight. Next news, 8 o'clock, bulletins at once. I'm
• 19:04
  Speaker 11: Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Daria. Well, Stephen A. Smith, who I like
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: very much, owes an apology, and I mean a real apology,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: to one of the greatest football players of all time
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: who just retired because of a bout with mental illness.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: And Stephen A. Smith was incredibly inappropriate. We'll tell you
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: what he said. We'll play you what he said next.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: You may not know who Lane Johnson is because offensive
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: linemen aren't star players. They don't get a lot of
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: headlines or publicity. But Lane Johnson may be the best
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: offensive lineman to ever play. And if he's not, he's
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: at least in the conversation. When Lane Johnson played over
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: 17 years, the Philadelphia Eagles won two out of every
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: three games. Even in down years, they would win. And
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: they would make the playoffs almost every year. And a
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: lot of it was because of Lane Johnson. Some years
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: would go by and he wouldn't give up a sack. Well,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: against the Rams, not this last weekend. Yeah, last weekend,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: he said he couldn't play for personal reasons. Now, a
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: couple of years ago, he missed five games because of
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: mental health problems. So everybody went, uh-oh. And now he
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: has announced that he is retiring. And again, it's because
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: of mental health reasons. And he says, I just have
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: to take care of myself. So everybody was applauding him.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Everybody was talking about what a great career. Everybody understood,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: except apparently Stephen A. Smith.
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: Four games in to the 20, to the 2026 season,
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: a dude that has been in the league forever sits
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: back and says.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I need to focus on my mental health. He laughed
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: at him at the end of that. Now he was
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: sitting with four other people and you should have seen
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: their faces.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: And they generally, Never give him a hard time because
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: they know with Stephen A. Smith, your time today could
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: be ended tomorrow being part of his colleagues.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. But man, they did not like what he
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: was saying. And he went on for a long time,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: blasting Lane Johnson, accusing him of only quitting because the
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: team wasn't playing well. There's no way. You're undefeated. You're
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: winning football games. You're thriving. Everybody's got Super Bowl in
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: their sights. You walk away. You walk away.
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: Because it's a very, very, very bad situation. And it
• 21:41
  Speaker 8: doesn't look to be getting any better. And this brother say, hey,
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: my life matters.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: It's time.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I'm going to call it quits.
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: My mental health, my mental. Lord. That's trouble for the
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: Philadelphia Eagles, and everybody in the city of brotherly love
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: knows it.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Well, that's a lie. That's an outright lie, because in
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia right now, all everybody is doing is praising Lane Johnson,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: doing accolades to him. hoping he gets better. That was
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: a lie. And Stephen A. Smith is from Philadelphia. He
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: should know better than that. He owes an apology. He
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: gave a half-hearted one last night. You need a full-throated apology.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: We don't need to hear that you had mental health problems, too.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: To tell you the truth, you're just trying to jump
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: on his bandwagon at this point and get some sympathy.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: He had real mental health problems. He had to give
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: up five games three years ago because of mental health problems.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: And he's been going across the country trying to help
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: other people with mental health problems and other players.
• 22:46
  Speaker 9: It feels like doom. You just want to run away
• 22:50
  Speaker 9: and not come back kind of thing. It's a lot of. Nausea,
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: a lot of throwing up every day.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: You threw up every day from this?
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:57
  Speaker 9: It got so bad. I was really starting to throw
• 23:01
  Speaker 9: up blood. Nerves really have tremors in my hands. This
• 23:04
  Speaker 9: is something I've dealt with for a long time.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: This is what happens when you're a shock jock and
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: you're looking for clicks. As you said, Stephen A. Smith
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He was the sports guy.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: He spent a lot of time in that town. He's
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: got a lot of contacts. He knows better. This reminds
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: me of when we were on the hunt to find
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Tom Kane Jr. Remember, he was missing in action. We
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: were having some fun at his expense because nobody knew.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: And then when he finally had that press conference, you remember?
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: And he finally revealed it was a mental health situation.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Remember how both you and I were like, oh, and
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: even his opponents and everybody said, yeah, that's a real
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: problem in America. Now, should he have continued running? I
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: say no, but that's a choice he made. And the
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: voters will have to determine if he gets elected or unelected.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: But I remember the both of us were like, oh, man,
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: how misjudged we were about his situation. It had nothing
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: to do with his physical health. It was a mental
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: health issue that Americans of all different backgrounds are going
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: through now. to make really cast dispersions and make fun.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: And then a half hearted apology late at night where
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: he suddenly he, Oh, you know, I had mental health issues.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Come on guy. He should completely come clean and stop this.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: And he said people misunderstood what he said and he
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: was never putting him down. That's not true. We heard it.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: There's a, there's tape of it. You absolutely made light of,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: of the fact that he had serious men and still
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: has serious mental health problems and everybody. And the biggest
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: lie he said was when he said, and everybody in
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia knows it and everybody, Philadelphia is not buying this.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: That's such BS. And he knows better. I don't know
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: what he was trying to do. I, I've, ascribe to
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: what you said a moment ago that it was probably
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: just this is his thing and this is for bites
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: and he's going to get lots of views now on
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: youtube but is that worth it is it worth it
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: to make people feel small that have mental health problems
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: across the country for your own personal gain for a
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: few more clicks for a few more benjamins in your
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: paycheck Is that worth it? Really, you have to. And look,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: I like Stephen A.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: Smith.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith has always been very good to me.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: I know him in Philadelphia. He's come through for me
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: a couple of times when nobody else would. So I
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: really appreciate him. But Stephen, you're wrong on this one.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: You were wrong. And I think you know you're wrong.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: We'd love to get some talkbacks on this. You just
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: go to the iHeartRadio app. You look for 710WOR. And
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: then you see the talkback feature. There's a microphone. You
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: record what you want to say. We'll play it on
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: the air. If you don't like it, you can re-record it.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: So the talkbacks are coming up.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: Now, it's 710WOR' s.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Beat on the Street with Natalie Migliore. Well, it is
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: the story that everybody's talking about, the alleged gang rape
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: at Cornell University and the Cornell 7. And Natalie Migliore
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: went out to find out what New Yorkers thought about
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the case in her Beat on the Street.
• 26:16
  Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, rallies are taking place across the nation
• 26:19
  Speaker 12: in support of Cornell University's Jane Doe and other sexual
• 26:22
  Speaker 12: assault victims. As Cornell students stage hours-long sit-ins and demand
• 26:27
  Speaker 12: the expulsion of Chi Phi fraternity members who still remain
• 26:31
  Speaker 12: on campus because the fraternity has been shut down— Jane
• 26:36
  Speaker 12: Doe's attorney says his client is receiving death threats. And
• 26:40
  Speaker 12: so there seems to be really, if you're paying attention
• 26:43
  Speaker 12: to it, new details coming out every day and new
• 26:46
  Speaker 12: allegations that he said that she said stuff. So what
• 26:50
  Speaker 12: questions do New Yorkers have surrounding this case that stems
• 26:55
  Speaker 12: from an alleged gang rape at a frat house in
• 26:57
  Speaker 12: October of 2024?
• 26:59
  Speaker 14: Is there anywhere where people can look to like, see
• 27:02
  Speaker 14: like case details, things like that? Like, More witness statements
• 27:06
  Speaker 14: from the girls if she was in a sorority. Also,
• 27:09
  Speaker 14: what has Cornell actually done for providing a sense of
• 27:14
  Speaker 14: security for the women on campus?
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Terrible that in order to get an education, such a school,
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: which is a- Great reputation and great expense. They have
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: to risk getting raped. Disgusting and it's terrible that it
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: happened there. And I hope the administration is doing trying
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: to do something about it.
• 27:35
  Speaker 12: Yeah, well, as Governor Hochul appoints New York State Attorney
• 27:38
  Speaker 12: General Letitia James a special prosecutor. Cornell taps former acting U.S.
• 27:43
  Speaker 12: Attorney General Sally Yates to lead an independent review into
• 27:47
  Speaker 12: how it handled the initial report. Cornell administration says it
• 27:51
  Speaker 12: did investigate the allegations, saying it took the report seriously
• 27:56
  Speaker 12: and escalated it to the Title IX process all those
• 28:00
  Speaker 12: years ago. The chapter of the Chi Phi fraternity, why
• 28:06
  Speaker 12: couldn't I think of that word, was closed in 2024
• 28:08
  Speaker 12: and remains open. barred from campus so the question becomes
• 28:14
  Speaker 12: could cornell have handled it differently.
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: Do they really have an option uh i don't think
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: so because it's like one you'll lose funding and that's
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: kind of what it is you know it's just like
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: it's all money but what sucks is like even even
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: using money it's like you can't you know it's like
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: what are we gonna do boycott cornell like you know
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: It's not going to happen.
• 28:36
  Speaker 13: I think that's the systemic problem. I don't think it's
• 28:38
  Speaker 13: just Cornell that handles things that way. So, if anything,
• 28:42
  Speaker 13: there needs to be a nationwide movement rather than a
• 28:46
  Speaker 13: specifically Cornell-oriented movement in order to address the problem.
• 28:51
  Speaker 12: Now, a lot of people speaking out about it on
• 28:53
  Speaker 12: social media. But what's the deal with people not being
• 28:58
  Speaker 12: able to address the situation in person when I approach them?
• 29:01
  Speaker 14: Well, I mean, the internet.
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: is to contain people's discontent in general. You know, that's
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: why most things, political action, maintains itself on social media.
• 29:09
  Speaker 12: Well, either way, it's a delicate topic that leaves people frustrated,
• 29:13
  Speaker 12: but feeling as though there's nothing they can necessarily do.
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: Violence is normalized. Displacement is normalized. If it ever gets
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: covered in death by the mainstream media, at that point
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: it's already gotten to the point where it's politically safe
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: for the party, the state party.
• 29:32
  Speaker 14: Knowing that this happens on school regularly, I mean, this
• 29:35
  Speaker 14: stuff with the fraternities and stuff, it's not new. So
• 29:38
  Speaker 14: knowing that school isn't even a place that you can
• 29:40
  Speaker 14: find safety is crazy.
• 29:42
  Speaker 13: I think it's been that way for a very long time.
• 29:44
  Speaker 13: A very long time. I think, if anything, people are
• 29:48
  Speaker 13: just speaking out more now than they did before. And
• 29:51
  Speaker 13: we have to get to the bottom of the white
• 29:53
  Speaker 13: privileged male issue. Although they weren't all white, we have
• 29:57
  Speaker 13: to get to the bottom of that issue.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: How did she all of a sudden inject that into
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: the discussion?
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: White privilege? It's... They weren't all white.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: And we haven't heard anybody mention that in all the
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: days leading up to this. But you had to find
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: the one SWA sister with an attitude who had to
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: inject race into this discussion.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: It probably isn't the only person. There's some people that
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: have agendas and it comes into everything you talk about.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: And it's a shame. I was really taken by very
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: early on. There was a woman that said, where can
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: we get more information? Where can we see this? There
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: is a thirst out there to learn everything about this case.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: But obviously, they can't put out everything right now. It's
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: going to go to trial. And they can't now discriminate
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: in the trial at all.
• 30:50
  Speaker 12: Right. And also, there are places where people are putting
• 30:53
  Speaker 12: out information, obviously, all over the Internet. Cornell has its
• 30:57
  Speaker 12: own information page that they update.
• 31:00
  Speaker 11: It seems to be Dally.com.
• 31:01
  Speaker 12: About how they feel they handled the initial incident. And
• 31:06
  Speaker 12: obviously they've now put Yates in charge of an independent review.
• 31:11
  Speaker 11: So there are, I think you're right though.
• 31:14
  Speaker 12: I mean, anybody sort of starts Googling, you know, who
• 31:18
  Speaker 12: Jane Doe is and they're trying to figure it out.
• 31:21
  Speaker 12: And there's a a slew of information, not just on
• 31:24
  Speaker 12: who her potential identity is or who she may be,
• 31:29
  Speaker 12: but also, you know, the messages that are tied. to
• 31:32
  Speaker 12: this incident that are also coming up, you know, Snapchat
• 31:34
  Speaker 12: messages that there are pictures of, you know, what was
• 31:37
  Speaker 12: discussed that night of, of this hours long incident. So
• 31:41
  Speaker 12: there are things that people want to know. And there's
• 31:44
  Speaker 12: certainly more questions that I got on the street that
• 31:48
  Speaker 12: I didn't have answers for because none of us have
• 31:50
  Speaker 12: answers for it.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Nobody has answers and that will all be answered at trial.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: And there's going to be a trial. There's going to
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: be charges. And people are going to have to put
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: forward everything. So just wait. Let the process play out
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: because way too much stuff is leaking out.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: I have a question. I'm the only one of the
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: four of us who has not gone to college. I
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: speak at colleges. And when I walk the campus area,
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: I always like to walk the campus area on campus,
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: off campus. Whenever I make reference, hey, what's that house
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: off campus?
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, that's a frat. And they roll their eyes.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: It's like apparently there's more eye rolling of frats off
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: campus than there are frats on campus.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Is there a differentiation?
• 32:35
  Speaker 12: I went to a Jesuit university, Fordham University, and we
• 32:38
  Speaker 12: did not have we did not have frats. We didn't
• 32:41
  Speaker 12: have Greek life, which was one of actually the reasons
• 32:43
  Speaker 12: why I chose it.
• 32:44
  Speaker 11: I wasn't interested in that.
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: Smart.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: That's so smart.
• 32:47
  Speaker 12: So and, you know, we used to party at at the.
• 32:51
  Speaker 12: at the, uh, the sports houses, like the sports teams
• 32:54
  Speaker 12: at houses, but we, there was never this, this, this
• 33:00
  Speaker 12: verse or us versus them mentality with sports teams and stuff.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: It was a different, it was different. And it wasn't
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: that long ago. Sports teams that had houses. Oh, nothing
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: bad's going to happen there. I don't know. I don't
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: know what happened. You were too drunk at the time.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: I plead the fifth. Oh, you're doing a Dr. Fauci now, huh?
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: You got it when we get into that stuff.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Well, it's really interesting what you got there. And I'm
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: sure you're going to be doing a beat on the
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: street for this in the near future as well. I mean,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: as this story grows.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:31
  Speaker 12: And I do think that people are just so concerned
• 33:34
  Speaker 12: about where this leads safety on and off campus around colleges.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: And around the country.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Natalie Migliore is going to be back tomorrow morning at 7.50.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: When we come back, there's a lot new when it
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: comes to the Cornell University case. So we're going to
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: continue on this story. That's going to happen right after
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: the 8 o'clock news.