Larry Mendte talks about the day including sentencing day for George Santos, a 19 year old under arrest because police believe he intentionally started the Ocean County wildfires; the New York City Council banning noisy helicopters; Bruce Blakeman speaks with Larry about Las Vegas Sands no longer pursuing the development of a casino at the Nassau Coliseum and what he is doing to get the deal back together and Gary Myers talks about the first round of the NFL Draft last night and the picks made by the Giants and Jets.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning everyone, It's Friday, and thanks for spending your
Friday morning with us in the Big Three. Today. Well,
it is sentencing day for former Congressman George Santos, and
in a big interview that he did, you can tell
he's a little bit more than concerned that he might
be going to prison for stealing campaign funds.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Perably in protective custody, because I do fear for my safety.
I'm not somebody who's I didn't grow up in an
environment where I had to fend for myself.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Really, he seems tougher than that. Would you ever imagine
that that he wasn't that he got beat up as
a kid, or that he was not a tough kid.
I couldn't. I was gonna say, what does that even mean?
I think that it means that he fears he's going
to get beat up a lot in prison. Santos could
get sentenced over seven months, seven years, excuse me, in prison.
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Nineteen year old is on to arrest right now in
Ocean County, New Jersey. Police believe he intentionally started one
of the largest wildfires in New Jersey history.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I'm not prepared to discuss the motive at this time,
nor does the state have to prove what the motive is.
We can just confidently say that we think the fire
was set intentionally.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Well, in custody is Joseph Kling of Where Town, New Jersey,
is now charged with second degree aggravated arson. And in
response to a fatal helicopter crash that killed six, the
New York City Council bans noisy, old helicopters from New
York City.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
The most outdated, loudest, and dirtiest helicopters will no longer
be allowed to fly out of our downtown Manhattan Heliport
or East thirty fourth Street Heliport starting in twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Well, what's interesting because congress Woman Nicole Mallyattakis says the
problem that they have in Staten Island is not with
the helicopters coming from Manhattan. They come from New Jersey.
And she has a solution to that. The Congresswoman is
coming up at eight thirty five. Cardinal Dolan is in
Rome right now. He held a mass for New Yorkers there.
(02:12):
He's there, of course for the Pope's funeral and then
the conclave to choose the new pope. Once you get
into the conclave, you better kind of know. So to
that point, do you have an idea on a direction
you're leaning at this point? None of your business. I
(02:35):
have to love him. Yeah, that was a great answer,
and I love the real, deep, honest sincere laugh laugh,
Yeah he was. He got a kick out of himself.
That was Mike Brza, who was over there for WABC.
And Donald Trump says, once again, we may be close
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to a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
We want to end that more, want to end it quickly.
And I think we've met alone a lot of progress
and we'll see what happens this next few days. It
is going to be very important. Meetings are taking place
right now.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
And let's stay with this for a second only because
it's huge in the world if they can come up
with a ceasefire and then a peace deal between Ukraine
and Russia. And Donald Trump, I know he said this
before and he felt like he's been close to this before,
which he gets a lot of criticism over, which I
of course believe is completely unfair because here's a guy
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trying to bring trees, peace, save millions of lives, and
it's like people are looking at their watch going, well,
why didn't happen yet. How come it hasn't happened yet
because it's difficult. At least he tried. At least it
didn't just keep funding Ukraine like a meat grinder. There
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was no way Ukraine was ever going to win this war.
It just was never going to happen. And we kept
funding it and funding it and funding that, making them
falsely believe they could hold on. But Russia can go
to war forever. So God blessed Donald Trump for actually
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taking the initiative to say this has got to end.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
I think we have a deal with Russia. We have
to get a deal with Zelensky, and I hope that Selensky.
I thought it might be easier to deal with Selensky.
So far it's been harder. But that's okay, it's all right.
But I think we have a deal with both.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
We have a deal with Russia. That's extremely important. But
Russia is basically getting everything they asked for. Russia's getting
the eastern part of Ukraine, which is not a huge part,
but it's big enough. Russia gets the concession that Ukraine
can't join NATO. Those two things we know for a fact.
(05:01):
Now there may be some other things, because I know
Vladimir Putin wanted to make certain that Zelenski didn't continue
on as president. I don't know if that is in
the deal they're talking about right now. But someone asked
the question, and it was an interesting question, said what's
in this for Ukraine? What is Russia conceding? What does
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Ukraine get out of this deal? It seems like they're
giving up a lot. And Donald Trump had an answer
I didn't think of, but it's so obvious we all
should have thought of this.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Stopping the war, stopping taking the whole country pretty big concession.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
That is a huge concession. So what he's saying, if
Ukraine signs this deal, they can continue to exist because
if this war continues, it seems like that was where
it was going, no matter how many arms are given
to them, that's where this was going because eventually that
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money is going to run out. And if you think
about it, with the billions we gave and with the
billions NATO gave, Ukraine was still losing. They were losing ground,
they were losing infrastructure, and they were losing a massive
amount of people. And so this war had to end.
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There was no question to that. And of course, the media,
which gives them no credit, which just seems to mock
him over these peace negotiations, saying, you know, looking at
their watch, going when's it going to happen? When's it
going to happen? Well, nobody even tried, No one even
tried before to end this. This president came in and
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said I want to end this war. He should be
heralded for that, he should be a hero for that.
But no. As a matter of fact, what he was
asked was, well, are you conceding too much to Russia?
Are you cozying up to Russia?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
You don't know what pressure I'm putting on Russia they're dealing.
You have no idea what pressure I'm putting on Russia.
We're putting a lot of pressure. We're putting a lot
of pressure on Russia.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
It is incredible. The media has become so embarrassing, so
incredibly embarrassing. Now I don't expect them to suck up
to him, But my god, every question is negative. And
that was not the case under Biden. I could see
if it was consistent. If it was consistent, and they
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just were tough on both all the time, that's fair.
But they gave Biden a pass, and they didn't only
give him a pass and the questioning, they gave him
a pass in never saying he had cognitive problems. And
they saw it. They knew it, They talked to their sources,
all of them knew it, and all of them hid this.
(08:00):
Thank God, from Marco Rubio. I cannot be more impressed
by the Secretary of State now, I will be honest
with you. I never thought a lot about Marco Rubio.
I thought he was fine, But man, did he step
up in this position and he lectured the media on
what Donald Trump's been doing.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Of all the leaders in the world today, no leader
is working harder to prevent wars or end them than
President Trump is. Right now. We're trying. That's why we're
talking to Iran, That's why we're engaged with Ukraine and Russia.
It's the desire to prevent these wars from breaking out
into end the ones that exist already. And again, I
just think it's tremendous for our country to be led
by a president who desires to bring peace and establish
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peace and protect peace.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
So it's hard work. It's one of the reasons I
voted for him. It's one of the reasons I support
him because he's never sent a young man or woman
to war, and I had two young boys, and so
it was very personal to me and I come end
him for that. There are too many presidents that willy
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nilly send men and women to their death in war,
and he just will not do it. And he tries
to end wars around the world. And our media doesn't
give him credit. But when he was there with the
Prime Minister of Norway yesterday, one of their reporters said,
should Donald Trump get the Nobel Peace Prize?
Speaker 8 (09:22):
Absolute President Trump for having been taking very important initiatives
to get this conflict towards and which both parties to serve.
We need to have a ceasefire, save lives and move
towards something which is more secure for Europe, for the
people concerned, and on that we work together and I
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look forward to, you know, go into some details because
we are at the critical moment on that price. You
know that is a committee taking care of that, which
is completely working on its own terms, and I cannot
comment on that.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Thank you very much for that question. I like that point,
said the Prime Minister, of course wouldn't answer, But Donald
Trump commended the reporter for the question. So let's watch
this weekend is going to be key. Hopefully Monday we
can talk about a ceasefire. Wouldn't that be wonderful. I'm
sure the media will hate it, the Democrats will hate it,
but wouldn't that be wonderful? You know what we need
(10:19):
right now? We need rain. Will the rain that's expected
this weekend help the wildfires in New Jersey? And how
much do we need to make a difference. We'll have
an extended conversation with War's Weather Channel meteorologist Jeff Mahr
when we return. Plus tickets to see the Brotherhood of
Rock tour at age twenty five, Let's get to Bruce Blakeman,
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who is the NASA County Executive. County Executive, I thank
you so much for being here this morning. I know
you Lary, good morning to you. Thanks for being here.
I know you have to be a little bit disappointed
that the Las Vegas Sands has pulled out. It seems
like maybe you can correct me on that maybe they
haven't pulled all the way out, developing a casino at
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the Nasau Coliseum. Tell us what happened and what the
future holds.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
Yeah, so First of all, I'm not really disappointed, because,
first of all, we knew that there were things going
on that were out of our control, such as the
online gaming that now is so popular and it's taking
a large portion of gaming revenue away from land based
(11:27):
bricks and mortar casinos. And for the last couple of months,
we've been hearing noises that the Fans was rethinking their
business model for the United States. As you probably know,
they sold all their casinos in Las Vegas, and because
Nassau County was such an attractive site, they wanted to
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give it a try here in Nassau County to get
the license, And certainly I thought it was worth a try,
but I always knew that it wasn't a done deal,
and we have a plan B. We've always had to
plan B. Sands still has to develop the site with
a luxury hotel and entertainment center, housing and some other
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accouterments to the to the area. And we also have
a number of gaming entities that are very interesting that
are interested in taking the Sands place. So I'm in
negotiations with them now, and we're going to pursue that
because the revenue that it would throw off and the
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jobs that would throw off are are so great it
would be malpractice on my part not to consider it.
But even if we don't get a license for a casino,
we have a very vibrant plan for that site. Number one.
Number two, I've gotten a lot of a lot of
interest from various development entities, not only here in the
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United States, but in other countries. And we're talking about
major investors. So it's a site that's probably right now
the most valuable property in Nassau County. It's something that's
attractive to everybody. We have a very, very prosperous county
with the safest county in America, and we have kept
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taxes down, which is very attractive to people who want
to live here and people who want to work here.
So I'm not disappointed. Basically, I look at it as
opening other opportunities.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah, it might turn out to be a good thing
from what you just said a moment ago, because you
said I noticed you said entities, and that it's more
than one casino that's talking about coming in there, and
then there's people overseas that are interested in the land.
What would you like to see happen? What is your
preference for the area.
Speaker 9 (13:48):
Well, my preference would be a world class hotel, entertainment center,
and casino with beautiful rest restaurants and a world class spa.
Only because not that I not that I favored gaming
over some other use. I'm not a gambler. I don't
understand it. I work too hard for my money. But basically,
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it would throw off one hundred million dollars a year
in revenue. Excuse me, it would create thousands of construction jobs,
thousands of permanent jobs. I would be foolish not to
entertain a casino at that site. And we've said all
along it's the best site in America for a casino.
(14:34):
It would probably be the highest grossing casino in the
United States. So again, I'm going to continue to pursue that,
but we do We've always had another option, and either
one will be vibrant and exciting.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
In these negotiations you're having right now. How close are
you do you believe this is going to happen?
Speaker 9 (14:56):
Well, let me just say this. It has to happen
within the next thirty days because the license process dictates
that there are certain timelines that any new operator would
would have to adhere to him by the way, if
we did get another operator, they're stepping in the shoes
of the Sands. The Sands is completely cooperating in this effort.
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They would like to see somebody step in their shoes.
So basically, we're talking about a situation where there'd be
not there'd be no starting over it. They would be
just stepping into the sands shoes. And the Fans has
made a lot of progress. And again I have no
fault with the Sands. Their business model changed because of
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external forces that were out of everybody's control.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I'm sure you were encouraged when Donald Trump got in
the fight to have the mana Massapequa of High School
keep its name as the Chief the Massapeak with chiefs Vermont.
I understand in Massapequa, everybody is a chief and they're
proud of it. But the state wants them to get
rid of the name because they consider it an insult
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to indigenous people. That doesn't seem to be the case
in Massapequa. Can you stop this?
Speaker 9 (16:15):
Well, we're trying very very hard. We've done a lot
of different things. First of all, we were able to
get President Trump engaged in this fight. He loves Massapequa,
he loves Nassau County, and he sees as he sees
it as I do, is as more of a cancel
culture thing that basically is something that would hurt our
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Native American heritage here in Nasau County. We're very proud
of our Native American heritage, and we believe that we
are celebrating Native Americans here in Nasau County with the
names Chiefs in Massapequa and Warriors and want To. A
Chiefs to me means a leader. Warrior means to me
someone who is brave and courageous. So I know there
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are Native America and some disagree with our opinion, but
I think that we are entering into a dialogue and
talking about it. And again I feel very strongly that
Chiefs should remain as the logo and mascot in Massapequin.
Warriors should remain as the logo and mascot of want
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TO High School. That's what they want, and I'm behind
them on that.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I think everybody agrees with you. It gets ridiculous, doesn't it,
And so keep fighting the good fight. We're rooting for you.
Next time you come home, we'll talk about you running
for governor. How about that?
Speaker 9 (17:31):
Thank you so much, please talk about me running for
Reelectionist County executive, and then.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
We'll talk to you about running for Governor Bruce Blake
min Nasa County. You too, Thanks a lot. I do
love the NFL draft. There's hope on both sides of
the issue. The teams are hoping they can change their fortunes,
and these kids will their lives have just changed. And
(17:56):
to talk more about that and how the Jets and
the Jibs did in the draft, they both had top
ten picks. Is Gary Myers, former NFL columnist for the
New York Daily News. He has a new book coming out,
by the way, September sixteenth. Oh, this is a good one.
What a great topic, Brady versus Belichick, the dynasty debate.
(18:16):
Gary will have to have you back to talk about
the book when it comes out.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
That great Larry, how are you doing? Good morning?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I'm doing well. Good morning. How are the Giants and
the Jets doing. I know a little bit about the
Giants pick only because my son went to the same
high school, so I watched him a lot in high school.
I watched him a lot at Penn State. I don't
know how you feel about him, Gary, but I think
he's a superstar.
Speaker 9 (18:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
I mean I think that when you look back at
the Giants list, there's two Super Bowl teams. It was
really built on the pressure that they were able to
get up front, you know, first with Strahan and Tucking
you Manua and then Tuck You Manua and JPP. And
you know they made big trade for Brian Burns last year.
(19:02):
They have Kevon Tabo, they have Dexter Lawrence in the middle,
and now getting him Drew Carter with the third pick
in the draft. Yeah, it models what they models what
they did. But also with as I said, also with
the Eagles showed last year that you can never have
too many pass rushers to get constant pressure on the quarterback.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
And I watched this kid. He is so quick. I've
never seen anybody get off blocks like he has in history.
And I know that seems like a lot to say,
but he was amazing in getting off the blocks.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Well, I had a former Giant tell me the other day,
and we've heard just so many times in the last
thirty summer years, and of the comparisons to Lawrence Teller
and nobody. I want to say this, nobody will ever
be Lawrence Telor. But this former Giant told me he
sees a lot of the same traits, just the ability
to wreck a game, to get after the quarterback, the
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endless energy. So if it's a Giants guy, get anything
like the guy out of Lawrence Teler, you know, even
like sixty to sixty five percent of Lawrence Taylor, that
would be amazing. And we've heard so many times over
the years, this guy's the nicks Lawnce Teler. This guy's
Nick Lawnce Teler. And there never has been, never will be.
(20:20):
Like I said before, but the Giants really haven't had
that outside past rush presence as a group probably in
fifteen years. So this gives him a chance to get
to have that.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah, I can't wait to see this kid play now.
I want to get to the giants second pick in
a little bit. But let's do the Jets because they
had the seventh overall pick. And you know, the fan
base never gets excited when you take an offensive lineman.
But what if you if you watch the best teams
and how they draft, it's offensive line first and then
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they build around that. So what do you think about
this pick?
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Yeah, I mean again, using the Eagles as a comparison, Larry.
Their offensive line was the strength of their team. Last
year they won the Super Bowl. Leaguess molt people, and
so they just have tried with the offensive line over
the years. You know, Mkayie Beckton they thought was gonna
be great. Laja Barry Tucker, he's just been hurt. I
still think he's a really good player. You know, they
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took Olu last year to play left tackle, and now
they have Membo to play right tackle. And the thing is,
you know, it's not You're right, it's not a sexy
pick when you take an offensive lineman, especially in the
top ten. But then the second week of the season
when your quarterback, when they can't protect the quarterback and
they're not opening roles in the holes in the running game,
the fans are screaming, why didn't take an offensive lineman
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in the first round. So it never gets the fan
base excited in April especially. You know, there were two
really good tight ends that they just had their choice
of and they passed on both in Tyler Warren in
Coast and Lovelin, And certainly a productive tight end would
have been you know, very useful. But it's a good
it's a good draft for tight end, so they can
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get somebody a little bit, maybe even tonight in the
second round. But I think creating a dominant offensive line
is the way to go. And this is not a
one year project for the new Jets hierarchy. So if
they can't fill all the holes this year, then you know,
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I hate to say it for Jets fans, but you
know there's always next year's draft.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
You said it was a strong draft for offensive lineman,
not as strong draft for quarterbacks though, and yet the
Giants took one with their second pick in the first round.
What can you tell us about Jackson dart.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Well? Start off with and I actually put this on
what do we call it x now used to be Twitter.
He went to he finished up high school at Zach
Wilson's High School in Utah, and he finish stuff college
is the last few years at Eli Mannings College at
Old Miss. So I'm sure there'll be lots of stories
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in the next few days going back to his high
school and college roots. But obviously the Giants had a
lot of success the last time they went to Ole
Miss for a quarterback and getting Eli. This was not
a great quarterback draft, and after cam Ward at number one,
you can make a case that none of them deserve
to go in the first round. But you know, I
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think the Giants made a good move here. Jackson Dart
had had really good coaching at Old Miss, and he's
got a strong arm, and he's pretty athletic, and he's
a tough guy, and he's got an outgoing personality that
I think will play well here in New York. And listen,
we all know that Joe Shane and Brian Dable the
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jobs are on the line this year. And Brian Dabele
came here with the reputation of developing quarterbacks and it
looked for a while he was gonna be able to
take Daniel Jones to the next level after their first
year together. And then Jones had a bunch of injuries
and he regressed and the Giants got rid of him
after signing him to a huge contract. So they needed
to get a young quarterback in here this.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Year, and they have a year to work with him, right,
so he's not going to be around till next year.
But Gary Meyer's former NFL columnist for the New York
Daily News, Thanks so much for your time. Can't wait
for the new book. Brady Versus Belichick, the Dynasty debate.
Thanks a lot, Gary, take care of have a great day.
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
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Good morning everyone, It's Friday, and thanks for spending your
Friday morning with us in the Big Three. Today. Well,
it is sentencing day for former Congressman George Santos, and
in a big interview that he did, you can tell
he's a little bit more than concerned that he might
be going to prison for stealing campaign funds.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Perably in protective custody, because I do fear for my safety.
I'm not somebody who's I didn't grow up in an
environment where I had to fend for myself.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Really, he seems tougher than that. Would you ever imagine
that that he wasn't that he got beat up as
a kid, or that he was not a tough kid.
I couldn't. I was gonna say, what does that even mean?
I think that it means that he fears he's going
to get beat up a lot in prison. Santos could
get sentenced over seven months, seven years, excuse me, in prison.
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Nineteen year old is on to arrest right now in
Ocean County, New Jersey. Police believe he intentionally started one
of the largest wildfires in New Jersey history.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I'm not prepared to discuss the motive at this time,
nor does the state have to prove what the motive is.
We can just confidently say that we think the fire
was set intentionally.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Well, in custody is Joseph Kling of Where Town, New Jersey,
is now charged with second degree aggravated arson. And in
response to a fatal helicopter crash that killed six, the
New York City Council bans noisy, old helicopters from New
York City.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
The most outdated, loudest, and dirtiest helicopters will no longer
be allowed to fly out of our downtown Manhattan Heliport
or East thirty fourth Street Heliport starting in twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Well, what's interesting because congress Woman Nicole Mallyattakis says the
problem that they have in Staten Island is not with
the helicopters coming from Manhattan. They come from New Jersey.
And she has a solution to that. The Congresswoman is
coming up at eight thirty five. Cardinal Dolan is in
Rome right now. He held a mass for New Yorkers there.
(02:12):
He's there, of course for the Pope's funeral and then
the conclave to choose the new pope. Once you get
into the conclave, you better kind of know. So to
that point, do you have an idea on a direction
you're leaning at this point? None of your business. I
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have to love him. Yeah, that was a great answer,
and I love the real, deep, honest sincere laugh laugh,
Yeah he was. He got a kick out of himself.
That was Mike Brza, who was over there for WABC.
And Donald Trump says, once again, we may be close
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to a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
We want to end that more, want to end it quickly.
And I think we've met alone a lot of progress
and we'll see what happens this next few days. It
is going to be very important. Meetings are taking place
right now.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
And let's stay with this for a second only because
it's huge in the world if they can come up
with a ceasefire and then a peace deal between Ukraine
and Russia. And Donald Trump, I know he said this
before and he felt like he's been close to this before,
which he gets a lot of criticism over, which I
of course believe is completely unfair because here's a guy
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trying to bring trees, peace, save millions of lives, and
it's like people are looking at their watch going, well,
why didn't happen yet. How come it hasn't happened yet
because it's difficult. At least he tried. At least it
didn't just keep funding Ukraine like a meat grinder. There
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was no way Ukraine was ever going to win this war.
It just was never going to happen. And we kept
funding it and funding it and funding that, making them
falsely believe they could hold on. But Russia can go
to war forever. So God blessed Donald Trump for actually
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taking the initiative to say this has got to end.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
I think we have a deal with Russia. We have
to get a deal with Zelensky, and I hope that Selensky.
I thought it might be easier to deal with Selensky.
So far it's been harder. But that's okay, it's all right.
But I think we have a deal with both.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
We have a deal with Russia. That's extremely important. But
Russia is basically getting everything they asked for. Russia's getting
the eastern part of Ukraine, which is not a huge part,
but it's big enough. Russia gets the concession that Ukraine
can't join NATO. Those two things we know for a fact.
(05:01):
Now there may be some other things, because I know
Vladimir Putin wanted to make certain that Zelenski didn't continue
on as president. I don't know if that is in
the deal they're talking about right now. But someone asked
the question, and it was an interesting question, said what's
in this for Ukraine? What is Russia conceding? What does
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Ukraine get out of this deal? It seems like they're
giving up a lot. And Donald Trump had an answer
I didn't think of, but it's so obvious we all
should have thought of this.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Stopping the war, stopping taking the whole country pretty big concession.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
That is a huge concession. So what he's saying, if
Ukraine signs this deal, they can continue to exist because
if this war continues, it seems like that was where
it was going, no matter how many arms are given
to them, that's where this was going because eventually that
(06:02):
money is going to run out. And if you think
about it, with the billions we gave and with the
billions NATO gave, Ukraine was still losing. They were losing ground,
they were losing infrastructure, and they were losing a massive
amount of people. And so this war had to end.
(06:24):
There was no question to that. And of course, the media,
which gives them no credit, which just seems to mock
him over these peace negotiations, saying, you know, looking at
their watch, going when's it going to happen? When's it
going to happen? Well, nobody even tried, No one even
tried before to end this. This president came in and
(06:45):
said I want to end this war. He should be
heralded for that, he should be a hero for that.
But no. As a matter of fact, what he was
asked was, well, are you conceding too much to Russia?
Are you cozying up to Russia?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
You don't know what pressure I'm putting on Russia they're dealing.
You have no idea what pressure I'm putting on Russia.
We're putting a lot of pressure. We're putting a lot
of pressure on Russia.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
It is incredible. The media has become so embarrassing, so
incredibly embarrassing. Now I don't expect them to suck up
to him, But my god, every question is negative. And
that was not the case under Biden. I could see
if it was consistent. If it was consistent, and they
(07:36):
just were tough on both all the time, that's fair.
But they gave Biden a pass, and they didn't only
give him a pass and the questioning, they gave him
a pass in never saying he had cognitive problems. And
they saw it. They knew it, They talked to their sources,
all of them knew it, and all of them hid this.
(08:00):
Thank God, from Marco Rubio. I cannot be more impressed
by the Secretary of State now, I will be honest
with you. I never thought a lot about Marco Rubio.
I thought he was fine, But man, did he step
up in this position and he lectured the media on
what Donald Trump's been doing.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Of all the leaders in the world today, no leader
is working harder to prevent wars or end them than
President Trump is. Right now. We're trying. That's why we're
talking to Iran, That's why we're engaged with Ukraine and Russia.
It's the desire to prevent these wars from breaking out
into end the ones that exist already. And again, I
just think it's tremendous for our country to be led
by a president who desires to bring peace and establish
(08:41):
peace and protect peace.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
So it's hard work. It's one of the reasons I
voted for him. It's one of the reasons I support
him because he's never sent a young man or woman
to war, and I had two young boys, and so
it was very personal to me and I come end
him for that. There are too many presidents that willy
(09:03):
nilly send men and women to their death in war,
and he just will not do it. And he tries
to end wars around the world. And our media doesn't
give him credit. But when he was there with the
Prime Minister of Norway yesterday, one of their reporters said,
should Donald Trump get the Nobel Peace Prize?
Speaker 8 (09:22):
Absolute President Trump for having been taking very important initiatives
to get this conflict towards and which both parties to serve.
We need to have a ceasefire, save lives and move
towards something which is more secure for Europe, for the
people concerned, and on that we work together and I
(09:43):
look forward to, you know, go into some details because
we are at the critical moment on that price. You
know that is a committee taking care of that, which
is completely working on its own terms, and I cannot
comment on that.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Thank you very much for that question. I like that point,
said the Prime Minister, of course wouldn't answer, But Donald
Trump commended the reporter for the question. So let's watch
this weekend is going to be key. Hopefully Monday we
can talk about a ceasefire. Wouldn't that be wonderful. I'm
sure the media will hate it, the Democrats will hate it,
but wouldn't that be wonderful? You know what we need
(10:19):
right now? We need rain. Will the rain that's expected
this weekend help the wildfires in New Jersey? And how
much do we need to make a difference. We'll have
an extended conversation with War's Weather Channel meteorologist Jeff Mahr
when we return. Plus tickets to see the Brotherhood of
Rock tour at age twenty five, Let's get to Bruce Blakeman,
(10:41):
who is the NASA County Executive. County Executive, I thank
you so much for being here this morning. I know
you Lary, good morning to you. Thanks for being here.
I know you have to be a little bit disappointed
that the Las Vegas Sands has pulled out. It seems
like maybe you can correct me on that maybe they
haven't pulled all the way out, developing a casino at
(11:02):
the Nasau Coliseum. Tell us what happened and what the
future holds.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
Yeah, so First of all, I'm not really disappointed, because,
first of all, we knew that there were things going
on that were out of our control, such as the
online gaming that now is so popular and it's taking
a large portion of gaming revenue away from land based
(11:27):
bricks and mortar casinos. And for the last couple of months,
we've been hearing noises that the Fans was rethinking their
business model for the United States. As you probably know,
they sold all their casinos in Las Vegas, and because
Nassau County was such an attractive site, they wanted to
(11:47):
give it a try here in Nassau County to get
the license, And certainly I thought it was worth a try,
but I always knew that it wasn't a done deal,
and we have a plan B. We've always had to
plan B. Sands still has to develop the site with
a luxury hotel and entertainment center, housing and some other
(12:08):
accouterments to the to the area. And we also have
a number of gaming entities that are very interesting that
are interested in taking the Sands place. So I'm in
negotiations with them now, and we're going to pursue that
because the revenue that it would throw off and the
(12:29):
jobs that would throw off are are so great it
would be malpractice on my part not to consider it.
But even if we don't get a license for a casino,
we have a very vibrant plan for that site. Number one.
Number two, I've gotten a lot of a lot of
interest from various development entities, not only here in the
(12:52):
United States, but in other countries. And we're talking about
major investors. So it's a site that's probably right now
the most valuable property in Nassau County. It's something that's
attractive to everybody. We have a very, very prosperous county
with the safest county in America, and we have kept
(13:13):
taxes down, which is very attractive to people who want
to live here and people who want to work here.
So I'm not disappointed. Basically, I look at it as
opening other opportunities.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah, it might turn out to be a good thing
from what you just said a moment ago, because you
said I noticed you said entities, and that it's more
than one casino that's talking about coming in there, and
then there's people overseas that are interested in the land.
What would you like to see happen? What is your
preference for the area.
Speaker 9 (13:48):
Well, my preference would be a world class hotel, entertainment center,
and casino with beautiful rest restaurants and a world class spa.
Only because not that I not that I favored gaming
over some other use. I'm not a gambler. I don't
understand it. I work too hard for my money. But basically,
(14:14):
it would throw off one hundred million dollars a year
in revenue. Excuse me, it would create thousands of construction jobs,
thousands of permanent jobs. I would be foolish not to
entertain a casino at that site. And we've said all
along it's the best site in America for a casino.
(14:34):
It would probably be the highest grossing casino in the
United States. So again, I'm going to continue to pursue that,
but we do We've always had another option, and either
one will be vibrant and exciting.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
In these negotiations you're having right now. How close are
you do you believe this is going to happen?
Speaker 9 (14:56):
Well, let me just say this. It has to happen
within the next thirty days because the license process dictates
that there are certain timelines that any new operator would
would have to adhere to him by the way, if
we did get another operator, they're stepping in the shoes
of the Sands. The Sands is completely cooperating in this effort.
(15:19):
They would like to see somebody step in their shoes.
So basically, we're talking about a situation where there'd be
not there'd be no starting over it. They would be
just stepping into the sands shoes. And the Fans has
made a lot of progress. And again I have no
fault with the Sands. Their business model changed because of
(15:41):
external forces that were out of everybody's control.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I'm sure you were encouraged when Donald Trump got in
the fight to have the mana Massapequa of High School
keep its name as the Chief the Massapeak with chiefs Vermont.
I understand in Massapequa, everybody is a chief and they're
proud of it. But the state wants them to get
rid of the name because they consider it an insult
(16:07):
to indigenous people. That doesn't seem to be the case
in Massapequa. Can you stop this?
Speaker 9 (16:15):
Well, we're trying very very hard. We've done a lot
of different things. First of all, we were able to
get President Trump engaged in this fight. He loves Massapequa,
he loves Nassau County, and he sees as he sees
it as I do, is as more of a cancel
culture thing that basically is something that would hurt our
(16:36):
Native American heritage here in Nasau County. We're very proud
of our Native American heritage, and we believe that we
are celebrating Native Americans here in Nasau County with the
names Chiefs in Massapequa and Warriors and want To. A
Chiefs to me means a leader. Warrior means to me
someone who is brave and courageous. So I know there
(16:58):
are Native America and some disagree with our opinion, but
I think that we are entering into a dialogue and
talking about it. And again I feel very strongly that
Chiefs should remain as the logo and mascot in Massapequin.
Warriors should remain as the logo and mascot of want
(17:18):
TO High School. That's what they want, and I'm behind
them on that.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I think everybody agrees with you. It gets ridiculous, doesn't it,
And so keep fighting the good fight. We're rooting for you.
Next time you come home, we'll talk about you running
for governor. How about that?
Speaker 9 (17:31):
Thank you so much, please talk about me running for
Reelectionist County executive, and then.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
We'll talk to you about running for Governor Bruce Blake
min Nasa County. You too, Thanks a lot. I do
love the NFL draft. There's hope on both sides of
the issue. The teams are hoping they can change their fortunes,
and these kids will their lives have just changed. And
(17:56):
to talk more about that and how the Jets and
the Jibs did in the draft, they both had top
ten picks. Is Gary Myers, former NFL columnist for the
New York Daily News. He has a new book coming out,
by the way, September sixteenth. Oh, this is a good one.
What a great topic, Brady versus Belichick, the dynasty debate.
(18:16):
Gary will have to have you back to talk about
the book when it comes out.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
That great Larry, how are you doing? Good morning?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I'm doing well. Good morning. How are the Giants and
the Jets doing. I know a little bit about the
Giants pick only because my son went to the same
high school, so I watched him a lot in high school.
I watched him a lot at Penn State. I don't
know how you feel about him, Gary, but I think
he's a superstar.
Speaker 9 (18:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
I mean I think that when you look back at
the Giants list, there's two Super Bowl teams. It was
really built on the pressure that they were able to
get up front, you know, first with Strahan and Tucking
you Manua and then Tuck You Manua and JPP. And
you know they made big trade for Brian Burns last year.
(19:02):
They have Kevon Tabo, they have Dexter Lawrence in the middle,
and now getting him Drew Carter with the third pick
in the draft. Yeah, it models what they models what
they did. But also with as I said, also with
the Eagles showed last year that you can never have
too many pass rushers to get constant pressure on the quarterback.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
And I watched this kid. He is so quick. I've
never seen anybody get off blocks like he has in history.
And I know that seems like a lot to say,
but he was amazing in getting off the blocks.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Well, I had a former Giant tell me the other day,
and we've heard just so many times in the last
thirty summer years, and of the comparisons to Lawrence Teller
and nobody. I want to say this, nobody will ever
be Lawrence Telor. But this former Giant told me he
sees a lot of the same traits, just the ability
to wreck a game, to get after the quarterback, the
(19:58):
endless energy. So if it's a Giants guy, get anything
like the guy out of Lawrence Teler, you know, even
like sixty to sixty five percent of Lawrence Taylor, that
would be amazing. And we've heard so many times over
the years, this guy's the nicks Lawnce Teler. This guy's
Nick Lawnce Teler. And there never has been, never will be.
(20:20):
Like I said before, but the Giants really haven't had
that outside past rush presence as a group probably in
fifteen years. So this gives him a chance to get
to have that.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah, I can't wait to see this kid play now.
I want to get to the giants second pick in
a little bit. But let's do the Jets because they
had the seventh overall pick. And you know, the fan
base never gets excited when you take an offensive lineman.
But what if you if you watch the best teams
and how they draft, it's offensive line first and then
(20:55):
they build around that. So what do you think about
this pick?
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Yeah, I mean again, using the Eagles as a comparison, Larry.
Their offensive line was the strength of their team. Last
year they won the Super Bowl. Leaguess molt people, and
so they just have tried with the offensive line over
the years. You know, Mkayie Beckton they thought was gonna
be great. Laja Barry Tucker, he's just been hurt. I
still think he's a really good player. You know, they
(21:21):
took Olu last year to play left tackle, and now
they have Membo to play right tackle. And the thing is,
you know, it's not You're right, it's not a sexy
pick when you take an offensive lineman, especially in the
top ten. But then the second week of the season
when your quarterback, when they can't protect the quarterback and
they're not opening roles in the holes in the running game,
the fans are screaming, why didn't take an offensive lineman
(21:42):
in the first round. So it never gets the fan
base excited in April especially. You know, there were two
really good tight ends that they just had their choice
of and they passed on both in Tyler Warren in
Coast and Lovelin, And certainly a productive tight end would
have been you know, very useful. But it's a good
it's a good draft for tight end, so they can
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get somebody a little bit, maybe even tonight in the
second round. But I think creating a dominant offensive line
is the way to go. And this is not a
one year project for the new Jets hierarchy. So if
they can't fill all the holes this year, then you know,
(22:25):
I hate to say it for Jets fans, but you
know there's always next year's draft.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
You said it was a strong draft for offensive lineman,
not as strong draft for quarterbacks though, and yet the
Giants took one with their second pick in the first round.
What can you tell us about Jackson dart.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Well? Start off with and I actually put this on
what do we call it x now used to be Twitter.
He went to he finished up high school at Zach
Wilson's High School in Utah, and he finish stuff college
is the last few years at Eli Mannings College at
Old Miss. So I'm sure there'll be lots of stories
(23:07):
in the next few days going back to his high
school and college roots. But obviously the Giants had a
lot of success the last time they went to Ole
Miss for a quarterback and getting Eli. This was not
a great quarterback draft, and after cam Ward at number one,
you can make a case that none of them deserve
to go in the first round. But you know, I
(23:29):
think the Giants made a good move here. Jackson Dart
had had really good coaching at Old Miss, and he's
got a strong arm, and he's pretty athletic, and he's
a tough guy, and he's got an outgoing personality that
I think will play well here in New York. And listen,
we all know that Joe Shane and Brian Dable the
(23:52):
jobs are on the line this year. And Brian Dabele
came here with the reputation of developing quarterbacks and it
looked for a while he was gonna be able to
take Daniel Jones to the next level after their first
year together. And then Jones had a bunch of injuries
and he regressed and the Giants got rid of him
after signing him to a huge contract. So they needed
to get a young quarterback in here this.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Year, and they have a year to work with him, right,
so he's not going to be around till next year.
But Gary Meyer's former NFL columnist for the New York
Daily News, Thanks so much for your time. Can't wait
for the new book. Brady Versus Belichick, the Dynasty debate.
Thanks a lot, Gary, take care of have a great day.
Thanks for having me on.
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