Larry Mendte goes over the biggest news stories of the day including Ras Baraka suing Alina Habba, Vickie Paladino calling for Zohran Mamdani’s deportation, and the first of two NYC Mayoral debates. Mark Kriegel talks to Mendte in the Morning about his new book on the life of boxer Mike Tyson.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And good morning to you in the Big Three Today,
Newark Mayor ros Baraka is now suing New Jersey attorney
US attorney Alena Habba for arresting him, you know, when
he trespassed at an ice facility, a charge that later
had to be dropped.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I don't know if Alena Habba and Ricky Pottel have
enough resources to pay me for the damages they've caused me,
but at the end of the day, they should at
least apologize. Yeah, that's not gonnappen. I should a LEAs
write a letter and apologize to me. Nope, that's not
gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
New York City Councilwoman Vicki Palladino post on X that
Canada for Mayor Zor and mom Donnie, who was born
in Uganda, should be deported.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yes, frankly disgusting to see the kind of rhetoric that
has been normalized in this city and in this country.
I will be the first immigrant mayor of the city
in generations. But more important than who I'll be is
what I'll do. I'll stand up for immigrant New Yorkers,
treat them like every other New Yorker.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Now, she has clarified her position that she knows he
can't be deported, and she is coming on to talk
about this controversy at eight oh five. We'll be talking
to Councilwoman Vicki Palladino at eight oh five. Tonight is
the first of two New York City mayoral debates between
the nine candidates. The current Mayor, Eric Adams won't be
(01:23):
there as he decides to run as an independent, So
what will he be doing.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
I'm going to be running the City of New York.
They are running for my office. I'm running the city.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
And the Justice Department is now investigating if President Biden
was aware of the pardons that were signed on his
behalf in the last days of his presidency. Subpoenas could
be issued for several Biden White House staff members.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Why should these Biden aids even need a subpoena. They
should be out in public saying I did not commit forgery.
I did not take advantage of, as Robert Hurst said,
a well meaning elderly man with a poor memory to
abuse the power of the United States government. But they're
not going to show up on their own, So they
need to have a subpoena to force them.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, exactly, Where have all these aids been. They all
went into hiding after it. Most of the time you
see them everywhere. No, no, no, there's something going on here.
It's going to be really interesting to hear about the
Justice Department investigation. And after the anti Semitic terror attack
in Boulder, Colorado, the borders are tom Homan says he
(02:32):
fears more attacks may be coming.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
The Biden administration will bringing people unvetted handing out work
for the selector candy while they sat here and planned
something bad. We are going to be dealing with this
for the next ten years because of the chaos they
created in four years.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, let's talk more about that. Tom Homan said something
that scared the hell out of me. He said, there's
been two million got aways over the last four years. Now.
God aways are people that the border patrol knows they're
coming over the border, but they can't catch them. They
see them on security cameras, they see them, they have
(03:12):
motion sensors. They see them on motion sensors, so they
know people got away, but they weren't able to apprehend them.
And especially during the Biden administration, when the border patrol
was pulled from their jobs and they had to do processing,
they had to take all those amnesty claims because everybody
could get amnesty. And that's the point that Tom Holman
(03:33):
was making. Why would you want to get away? Why
it is more beneficial just to go up to a
border patrol agent and say, hey, I'm declaring amnesty, because
everybody was getting it, as he said a moment ago,
they were giving it away like candy. So why would
you risk getting, you know, getting caught and sent back
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by being a getaway. Why wouldn't you take the free
ride to New York, or the free ride to Chicago,
or the free ride to Los Angeles, and and a
meal and maybe a job, and of you know, they
took care of you. You could stay in hotel in
New York. Why the world was your oyster? If you
just went in and declared amnesty, they were going to
(04:19):
send you to a sanctuary city and they were going
to take care of everything and your family. You were fine,
You were you would be doing really well. Why and
the why is what worries Tom Holman and should worry you.
These are people that didn't want all that, They wanted
(04:40):
to keep their identity a secret. Why, he believes, and
and He's not the only one. Christopher Ray, the former
FBI director, testified in front of Congress the very same thing.
He's he's he was fearful of it too. He's he said,
(05:00):
the terrorist security risk, this is Christopher Ray. Under Biden,
the head of the FBI, said the terrorist security risk
in this country is on high alert.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
He didn't go as far as to say it was
because of the border. He was pressed on that and
he said, that is a problem. But of course that's
the problem. Of course it is. We had people coming
from all over the world to get through. Of course
we're worried about that, and they can't. They have no
records of them. That's what they wanted. That's why they
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didn't go through amnesty. They didn't want to give their names.
They didn't want anybody to know where they are. They
didn't want to be tracked. And now they're spread out
across the country, two million of them. And Tom Holman says,
that's what keeps me up at night, not those that
(06:02):
Ice is grabbing. We know where they are and they
have records. You know, the ones we're after right now
committed crimes, or they overstayed their orders, or they didn't
show up for their amnesty hearings. We have records of them,
We kind of know where they are. We can track them.
(06:25):
The people who are the getaways that you kept hearing
about over and over again during the Biden administration. The
number that was when they told you how many people
across the border, and then there was a number as
they broke it down, there was a sub number that
said getaways. They're the people that Homan is worried about,
and they're the people we should be worried about too,
(06:48):
because who knows where they are in our communities right
now or what they're planning.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
That's not what Mohammed t Savari Solomon did. He overstayed
his work visa. He came here from Egypt. They apparently
didn't do a proper profile on him or interview him,
probably even at all. They just stamped his paper. That's it.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
You're in.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Because he was an raging anti Semite. He's a terrorist
and he came here and he's told police, I've been
planning this for a long time. Yeah, I hate juice.
And now his whole family is going to be deported.
They might have been deported already. His five kids and
his wife. They picked him up, Christy nom picked them up.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Mohammed's despicable actions will be prosecuted to the fullest.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Extent of the law.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
But we're also investigating to what extent his family knew
about this horrific attack, if they had any knowledge of it,
or if they provided support to it.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah, it sounds like that investigation is over. They were
saying they may have been deported as early as last night.
We're still waiting for confirmation on the fact that they
were deported. Uh, this is v This is a wake
up call for us all.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
Under the Trump administration, aliens will only be admitted into
the United States through the legal process, and only if
they do not bear hostile attitudes towards our citizens, our culture,
our government, our institutions, or most importantly, our founding principles.
Under President Trump, the United States has zero tolerance for
foreign visitors who support terrorism.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Duh.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yes, of course, how come that wasn't happening before we
were Think about it for a second, think about how
dangerous this was. Everybody was just let in, even a
guy like Mohammed Sabri Solomon and anti Semite from Egypt
who was coming here, and they just stamped his go ahead,
(08:50):
go ahead, come on in, come on in. And so
it's not just the border, it's all these visas that
were granted too that happened under the Biden administration at all.
They didn't check anybody, They didn't check anybody. That's why
we're having problems in our campuses. That's why we're having
(09:11):
problems in our streets. That's why people were almost burnt alive.
Well they were burnt alive. They were almost killed in Boulder, Colorado.
This is what the last administration wrought. And I know
the Democrats keep saying, oh, let's look ahead, let's look ahead.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
We can't.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
We can't look ahead because it's inflicting us right now.
And your lack of interest during those four years and
your lack of interest right now is why you're in
the position you are right now where Americans don't trust
you and they don't vote for you. By the way,
(09:53):
i'd love to hear from you. Don't forget. You can
leave us a talk back all morning long. Go to
seven to ten wor on the iHeartRadio app and click microphone.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Now, let's get.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
To the woman of the hour, the Woman of the day,
Vicki Palladino, New York City a council member. She represents
District nineteen of Northeast Queens. Well, VICKI, congratulations, you made
the New York Times.
Speaker 9 (10:16):
Thank you, Ladry, good.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Morning, good morning.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
How are you? You know what the controversy is? Go
ahead and respond, you know.
Speaker 9 (10:23):
Look, first of all, let me be clear. The tweet
was as simple as could be. It was simply about
him himself. Let's talk about how insane it is to
elect someone to any major office who hasn't been a
US citizen for less than five years. He's only been
New York citizens a citizen for less than ten years.
(10:45):
It says much less a radical leftist who actually hates
everything about this country here and is here specifically to
undermine everything we've ever been about. Now, after that, I
simply put, but deport period. We know that he is
now an American citizen, We cannot depour him to port
(11:07):
was sarcasm. It was about what I do believe in.
And if he had been in college universities at this
particular juncture, whereas his anti American, anti Semitic rhetoric would
have come under fire, yes he would be on the
(11:28):
deportation list. Let's remember something here. This is a guy
running for mayor. He's been in this country since he's
seven years old. He only became an American citizen in
twenty twenty. Why is that? Why did he wait so long? Okay,
(11:48):
this is a guy who's got a radical agenda. It's
lace with anti Semitism, Marxism, and anti Americanism. He gained
traction with the very same segment of the city that's
been responsible for years of chaos and violence against the
Jewish community, students, and our police. Now, particularly since October
(12:11):
seventh and the massacre in Israel, his candidacy as an
incident to underscore the need for the deportation efforts currently
being undertaken by the Trump administration, particularly of college campuses
where these ideas metastasize, so that we can prevent future
(12:32):
Zorans from taking root here in America. Now, when I
talk about Zoran, I'm talking about not just Zoran. I'm
talking about the people that he stands with, the leaders
of Hezbelah, the leaders of Hamas. He's calling for groceries
to be government run, he's talking about free rent, he's
(12:54):
talking about free buses. This guy is up and out
at thirty two years old, only as citizens in twenty twenty,
and he's running for mayor in the largest city and
the great city in this country. He's looking to radicalize.
He condoned everything that is wrong by the radical left.
(13:16):
And if they get insulted with honesty or their feelings
get hurt because I use the word deport, well that's
just too damn bad, all right, because now it's time
to shine a light on what's actually running for the
mayor of the City of New York.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Well, I'll tell you what we had. Let me let
me just see interrupt for one second. We had Jeffrey
Lichtmann on who is you know, he's been combating anti
semitism his entire career. He is a high powered defense
attorney in New York City. You probably know his name.
And he agreed with almost everything you said about Zorin Mamdanni.
He thought you made a mistake by allowing Zorin Mamdanni
(13:56):
to be a victim now and saying that this was
his life, That you were going after immigrants. How do
you respond to that.
Speaker 9 (14:04):
Well, I'm not going after immigrants. And you know what
it's the it's interpretation of the tweet, and I appreciate
what he said. I truly do what I say is this,
You know, it's interesting that one single tweat from a
councilwoman should become such a tremendous outrage to so many.
(14:30):
I don't mean to make that this guy is by
no means in any way, shape or form, a victim. Okay,
this is a guy who's got an agenda. He hangs
around with the worst of the worst. And you know
what to me at this point in time, if we
do not do what needs to be done here, How
(14:51):
did Cuomo lose a forty point lead? Why did Mandabi?
Why did this guy's all ran contribute seventy thousand dollars
to Adrian Adams mayorial race because they are What they
are doing is legally rigging the system in the rank
(15:11):
choice voting. This is a very bad thing. Cuomo, to
his mistake. Everybody knows who Cuomo is, all right. He
didn't need to run the last two months on name recognition.
What he needed to do was take a part this
unknown unknown but is now naturally known and take him
(15:33):
apart limb by limb as to what he stands for
and how he can and will burn this city to
the ground. We're almost there already, but to put somebody
in light like him into the office of mayor of
dar city is only going to make this we're dead
(15:53):
in the water. I'm going to tell you that right now.
And you know, this only underscores, you know, deportation and
why these people need to be removed. He stands with
these students. Okay, everything about him is absolutely, absolutely out
of control, and he says it. He's been an open book.
(16:17):
He has not been hiding anything. But yet nobody, but
nobody has come out who's running for the mayor of
the City of New York to actually condemn what he
stands for.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, that's been surprising. And lack of media interest too,
I mean, it's really as shocking to me. I agree
with the dangers of what you're saying, with the dangers
of this candidate, but even he has not received the
scrutiny he should be receiving. And so if your tweet's
going to bring that type of scrutiny, then God bless
(16:52):
you for doing it. Vicky Palladino, New York City Council
represents District nineteen of Northeast. Queen's talk to you again
next week. Thanks for coming on today, Vicky.
Speaker 9 (17:01):
Oh, of course, Larry, thank you so very much. Have
a great day.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Take a moment and think about who is the most
fascinating figure in sports and the answer, I'll save you
the time. The answer has got to be Mike Tyson.
I mean the fact that how he grew up, what
he became, how he fell again and kept getting back up,
(17:25):
and now he's gotten to the be this mythical figure
that is loved around the world. After all he went through.
It is a fascinating story and somebody needed to tell
that story, and there's nobody better than Mark Kriegel. He
is a former sports columnist for The New York Post
and The Daily News. He's a boxing analyst, an essay
(17:48):
for says for ESPN, author of a couple of books before,
one of which I read, the Pete Maravich book, Nameth
a Biography, Pistol The Life of Pete Marrivich, and The
good Son The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini. And
we're very proud to have Mark Kriegel with us right now. Mark,
thank you so much for taking the time to talk
(18:09):
to us today.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Thank you so much. Lie I really appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah, the story is a fascinating one. It is a
story that if you were to do a novel on
this story, nobody would believe it. But the fact of
him getting to where he is right now from where
he became one is unfathomable.
Speaker 10 (18:30):
Well, it's certainly not anything I could have imagined him.
I mean, he was the designated villain in my column
at the Post in the News back in the nineties,
and when the when the publisher first broke to the
idea of would you do a Tyson bio? My response
was absolutely not. In no way, I'm not revisiting all
of that stuff. I started thinking about it. Why is
(18:53):
he beloved? Why is he here? I mean, I don't
think that. You know, whenever you were considering Mike Tyson's more,
the one thing that everybody agreed on back in the
day was that he was not long for the world,
including Tyson himself. And when I started really considering the subject,
the man the topic, there's got to be some virtue
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alone in him having survived, and that I looked at
it a little closer, and I think what he actually
did survive the death of a child, the kind of
fame that that can really kill you, boxing itself, prison
as a kid, prison as an adult. Again, there's got
to be something to There's some kind of virtue in
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having survived. And also I think he's he's a better guy.
The question is what went into that fame? What are
the ingredients, what are the MIxS? Why are we addicted
to him? This is my attempt to answer that.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Did you find virtue in him? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I find I mean more than virtue, I think uh.
Speaker 10 (19:59):
I think our track to him, or a fascination with him,
has something to do with empathy.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
You know, he's.
Speaker 10 (20:07):
He can be crazy, he can be all sorts of things,
but there's something human and humane.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
That brings you back.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I have.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I had this odd experience.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
With him after running around covering you know, first as
a police reporter, like the implosion of his private life
eighty eight, his marriage to Robin Robin Gibbons, and later
later on there was great trial and then as a fighter.
(20:40):
I went to see his one man show and it
was still in preview in Vegas, and I found myself
holding back tears and I meet him after the show
when we talked about it, I said, you remember when
this you remember when that he's like, yeah, he says
to me, how did it make you feel? I really
wasn't prepared for the question, what do you mean how
it make me feel? And I thought about it and
(21:02):
it was, uh, it was a rush. It was kind
of like a drug. And he sort of acknowledged that,
and uh, and we went on. But I was taken.
I was taken with the question itself. And I think
it's one of the reasons why we're all addicted to him.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Yeah, what what fueled his anger? Because he seemed to
be always anger, angry? And then he lost that. There
was a there was a point where he took a turn,
completely took a turn.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
Look, I think that not being a fighter helped him
lose some of that anger.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
I think that it is.
Speaker 10 (21:41):
When when you were a fighter, especially the kind of
fighter the Tyson was, when you rely on fear and
you rely on intimidation. It's it's not only that you
can't let yourself be seen as as vulnerable.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
You have to make yourself be seen as scary. That
takes a.
Speaker 10 (22:00):
Lot of energy. And I think you know you saw,
you saw the effect of that in his persona when
he stopped being a fighter.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
He probably became a nicer guy. That's that's part of
the answer.
Speaker 10 (22:14):
But the I mean, the rage it comes from comes
from not being able to you know, his mother died young,
he was impoverished, he was surrounded constantly by violence.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
There was no dad there.
Speaker 10 (22:29):
You know.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
I went back to the history of Brownsville, and to.
Speaker 10 (22:32):
Me, especially in that decade of the seventies, you know,
writing an off as of ghetto seems sort of woefully
insufficient to me. It's like it was a dystopia. It
was nothing. But he lived in a kind of shelter
for single women. But around him or you know, block
after block of rubble strewn lots, abandoned buildings. In the
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middle of this you have the greatest like concentration of
housing projects anywhere elseide the Soviet Union.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
So it was, it was, it was. It was a
nutty way to grow up. Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
You know, this might be too simplistic, but I remember
his reputation and how it changed, and it was amazing
how it how it switched. And I thought that the
movie The Hangover was a big turn for him in
the way the public saw him. Do you agree.
Speaker 10 (23:24):
I think I think it was a turn in the
way the public saw him. I think it was a
big turn and an unanticipated turn, and probably a stroke
of comic genius from from the producers or the directors
of the movie that had introduced him to a new generation.
But I don't think that was a turn in him.
(23:44):
I think the turn in him had to do I
think that my book ends in eighty eight. It really
deals with what went into the making of Tyson. But
to answer your question, I think the turn came when
you hit a kind of rock bottom.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
He lost UH, he lost a daughter through.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
UH and and just crazy a crazy accident, and he
got married. And I think that that the combination of
hitting rock bottom and a relationship that actually sustained him
or fortified him, that that had that had to do
with with his transformation, not the way that people saw him.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
We all want to read the book Mark Kriegel, and
the new book is Baddest Man, The Making of Mike Tyson.
And by the way, Mark's book launches tonight at Saint
Joseph's University, which is a two forty five Clinton Avenue
in Brooklyn, New York. You can get tickets to that.
He'll be interviewed by Rosie Perez. You just go to
event bright dot com mark. Thanks so much for your time.
Can't wait to read the rest of the oh no,
(24:48):
I really appreciate it.
And good morning to you in the Big Three Today,
Newark Mayor ros Baraka is now suing New Jersey attorney
US attorney Alena Habba for arresting him, you know, when
he trespassed at an ice facility, a charge that later
had to be dropped.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I don't know if Alena Habba and Ricky Pottel have
enough resources to pay me for the damages they've caused me,
but at the end of the day, they should at
least apologize. Yeah, that's not gonnappen. I should a LEAs
write a letter and apologize to me. Nope, that's not
gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
New York City Councilwoman Vicki Palladino post on X that
Canada for Mayor Zor and mom Donnie, who was born
in Uganda, should be deported.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yes, frankly disgusting to see the kind of rhetoric that
has been normalized in this city and in this country.
I will be the first immigrant mayor of the city
in generations. But more important than who I'll be is
what I'll do. I'll stand up for immigrant New Yorkers,
treat them like every other New Yorker.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Now, she has clarified her position that she knows he
can't be deported, and she is coming on to talk
about this controversy at eight oh five. We'll be talking
to Councilwoman Vicki Palladino at eight oh five. Tonight is
the first of two New York City mayoral debates between
the nine candidates. The current Mayor, Eric Adams won't be
(01:23):
there as he decides to run as an independent, So
what will he be doing.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
I'm going to be running the City of New York.
They are running for my office. I'm running the city.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
And the Justice Department is now investigating if President Biden
was aware of the pardons that were signed on his
behalf in the last days of his presidency. Subpoenas could
be issued for several Biden White House staff members.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Why should these Biden aids even need a subpoena. They
should be out in public saying I did not commit forgery.
I did not take advantage of, as Robert Hurst said,
a well meaning elderly man with a poor memory to
abuse the power of the United States government. But they're
not going to show up on their own, So they
need to have a subpoena to force them.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, exactly, Where have all these aids been. They all
went into hiding after it. Most of the time you
see them everywhere. No, no, no, there's something going on here.
It's going to be really interesting to hear about the
Justice Department investigation. And after the anti Semitic terror attack
in Boulder, Colorado, the borders are tom Homan says he
(02:32):
fears more attacks may be coming.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
The Biden administration will bringing people unvetted handing out work
for the selector candy while they sat here and planned
something bad. We are going to be dealing with this
for the next ten years because of the chaos they
created in four years.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, let's talk more about that. Tom Homan said something
that scared the hell out of me. He said, there's
been two million got aways over the last four years. Now.
God aways are people that the border patrol knows they're
coming over the border, but they can't catch them. They
see them on security cameras, they see them, they have
(03:12):
motion sensors. They see them on motion sensors, so they
know people got away, but they weren't able to apprehend them.
And especially during the Biden administration, when the border patrol
was pulled from their jobs and they had to do processing,
they had to take all those amnesty claims because everybody
could get amnesty. And that's the point that Tom Holman
(03:33):
was making. Why would you want to get away? Why
it is more beneficial just to go up to a
border patrol agent and say, hey, I'm declaring amnesty, because
everybody was getting it, as he said a moment ago,
they were giving it away like candy. So why would
you risk getting, you know, getting caught and sent back
(03:58):
by being a getaway. Why wouldn't you take the free
ride to New York, or the free ride to Chicago,
or the free ride to Los Angeles, and and a
meal and maybe a job, and of you know, they
took care of you. You could stay in hotel in
New York. Why the world was your oyster? If you
just went in and declared amnesty, they were going to
(04:19):
send you to a sanctuary city and they were going
to take care of everything and your family. You were fine,
You were you would be doing really well. Why and
the why is what worries Tom Holman and should worry you.
These are people that didn't want all that, They wanted
(04:40):
to keep their identity a secret. Why, he believes, and
and He's not the only one. Christopher Ray, the former
FBI director, testified in front of Congress the very same thing.
He's he's he was fearful of it too. He's he said,
(05:00):
the terrorist security risk, this is Christopher Ray. Under Biden,
the head of the FBI, said the terrorist security risk
in this country is on high alert.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
He didn't go as far as to say it was
because of the border. He was pressed on that and
he said, that is a problem. But of course that's
the problem. Of course it is. We had people coming
from all over the world to get through. Of course
we're worried about that, and they can't. They have no
records of them. That's what they wanted. That's why they
(05:40):
didn't go through amnesty. They didn't want to give their names.
They didn't want anybody to know where they are. They
didn't want to be tracked. And now they're spread out
across the country, two million of them. And Tom Holman says,
that's what keeps me up at night, not those that
(06:02):
Ice is grabbing. We know where they are and they
have records. You know, the ones we're after right now
committed crimes, or they overstayed their orders, or they didn't
show up for their amnesty hearings. We have records of them,
We kind of know where they are. We can track them.
(06:25):
The people who are the getaways that you kept hearing
about over and over again during the Biden administration. The
number that was when they told you how many people
across the border, and then there was a number as
they broke it down, there was a sub number that
said getaways. They're the people that Homan is worried about,
and they're the people we should be worried about too,
(06:48):
because who knows where they are in our communities right
now or what they're planning.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
That's not what Mohammed t Savari Solomon did. He overstayed
his work visa. He came here from Egypt. They apparently
didn't do a proper profile on him or interview him,
probably even at all. They just stamped his paper. That's it.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
You're in.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Because he was an raging anti Semite. He's a terrorist
and he came here and he's told police, I've been
planning this for a long time. Yeah, I hate juice.
And now his whole family is going to be deported.
They might have been deported already. His five kids and
his wife. They picked him up, Christy nom picked them up.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Mohammed's despicable actions will be prosecuted to the fullest.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Extent of the law.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
But we're also investigating to what extent his family knew
about this horrific attack, if they had any knowledge of it,
or if they provided support to it.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah, it sounds like that investigation is over. They were
saying they may have been deported as early as last night.
We're still waiting for confirmation on the fact that they
were deported. Uh, this is v This is a wake
up call for us all.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
Under the Trump administration, aliens will only be admitted into
the United States through the legal process, and only if
they do not bear hostile attitudes towards our citizens, our culture,
our government, our institutions, or most importantly, our founding principles.
Under President Trump, the United States has zero tolerance for
foreign visitors who support terrorism.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Duh.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yes, of course, how come that wasn't happening before we
were Think about it for a second, think about how
dangerous this was. Everybody was just let in, even a
guy like Mohammed Sabri Solomon and anti Semite from Egypt
who was coming here, and they just stamped his go ahead,
(08:50):
go ahead, come on in, come on in. And so
it's not just the border, it's all these visas that
were granted too that happened under the Biden administration at all.
They didn't check anybody, They didn't check anybody. That's why
we're having problems in our campuses. That's why we're having
(09:11):
problems in our streets. That's why people were almost burnt alive.
Well they were burnt alive. They were almost killed in Boulder, Colorado.
This is what the last administration wrought. And I know
the Democrats keep saying, oh, let's look ahead, let's look ahead.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
We can't.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
We can't look ahead because it's inflicting us right now.
And your lack of interest during those four years and
your lack of interest right now is why you're in
the position you are right now where Americans don't trust
you and they don't vote for you. By the way,
(09:53):
i'd love to hear from you. Don't forget. You can
leave us a talk back all morning long. Go to
seven to ten wor on the iHeartRadio app and click microphone.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Now, let's get.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
To the woman of the hour, the Woman of the day,
Vicki Palladino, New York City a council member. She represents
District nineteen of Northeast Queens. Well, VICKI, congratulations, you made
the New York Times.
Speaker 9 (10:16):
Thank you, Ladry, good.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Morning, good morning.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
How are you? You know what the controversy is? Go
ahead and respond, you know.
Speaker 9 (10:23):
Look, first of all, let me be clear. The tweet
was as simple as could be. It was simply about
him himself. Let's talk about how insane it is to
elect someone to any major office who hasn't been a
US citizen for less than five years. He's only been
New York citizens a citizen for less than ten years.
(10:45):
It says much less a radical leftist who actually hates
everything about this country here and is here specifically to
undermine everything we've ever been about. Now, after that, I
simply put, but deport period. We know that he is
now an American citizen, We cannot depour him to port
(11:07):
was sarcasm. It was about what I do believe in.
And if he had been in college universities at this
particular juncture, whereas his anti American, anti Semitic rhetoric would
have come under fire, yes he would be on the
(11:28):
deportation list. Let's remember something here. This is a guy
running for mayor. He's been in this country since he's
seven years old. He only became an American citizen in
twenty twenty. Why is that? Why did he wait so long? Okay,
(11:48):
this is a guy who's got a radical agenda. It's
lace with anti Semitism, Marxism, and anti Americanism. He gained
traction with the very same segment of the city that's
been responsible for years of chaos and violence against the
Jewish community, students, and our police. Now, particularly since October
(12:11):
seventh and the massacre in Israel, his candidacy as an
incident to underscore the need for the deportation efforts currently
being undertaken by the Trump administration, particularly of college campuses
where these ideas metastasize, so that we can prevent future
(12:32):
Zorans from taking root here in America. Now, when I
talk about Zoran, I'm talking about not just Zoran. I'm
talking about the people that he stands with, the leaders
of Hezbelah, the leaders of Hamas. He's calling for groceries
to be government run, he's talking about free rent, he's
(12:54):
talking about free buses. This guy is up and out
at thirty two years old, only as citizens in twenty twenty,
and he's running for mayor in the largest city and
the great city in this country. He's looking to radicalize.
He condoned everything that is wrong by the radical left.
(13:16):
And if they get insulted with honesty or their feelings
get hurt because I use the word deport, well that's
just too damn bad, all right, because now it's time
to shine a light on what's actually running for the
mayor of the City of New York.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Well, I'll tell you what we had. Let me let
me just see interrupt for one second. We had Jeffrey
Lichtmann on who is you know, he's been combating anti
semitism his entire career. He is a high powered defense
attorney in New York City. You probably know his name.
And he agreed with almost everything you said about Zorin Mamdanni.
He thought you made a mistake by allowing Zorin Mamdanni
(13:56):
to be a victim now and saying that this was
his life, That you were going after immigrants. How do
you respond to that.
Speaker 9 (14:04):
Well, I'm not going after immigrants. And you know what
it's the it's interpretation of the tweet, and I appreciate
what he said. I truly do what I say is this,
You know, it's interesting that one single tweat from a
councilwoman should become such a tremendous outrage to so many.
(14:30):
I don't mean to make that this guy is by
no means in any way, shape or form, a victim. Okay,
this is a guy who's got an agenda. He hangs
around with the worst of the worst. And you know
what to me at this point in time, if we
do not do what needs to be done here, How
(14:51):
did Cuomo lose a forty point lead? Why did Mandabi?
Why did this guy's all ran contribute seventy thousand dollars
to Adrian Adams mayorial race because they are What they
are doing is legally rigging the system in the rank
(15:11):
choice voting. This is a very bad thing. Cuomo, to
his mistake. Everybody knows who Cuomo is, all right. He
didn't need to run the last two months on name recognition.
What he needed to do was take a part this
unknown unknown but is now naturally known and take him
(15:33):
apart limb by limb as to what he stands for
and how he can and will burn this city to
the ground. We're almost there already, but to put somebody
in light like him into the office of mayor of
dar city is only going to make this we're dead
(15:53):
in the water. I'm going to tell you that right now.
And you know, this only underscores, you know, deportation and
why these people need to be removed. He stands with
these students. Okay, everything about him is absolutely, absolutely out
of control, and he says it. He's been an open book.
(16:17):
He has not been hiding anything. But yet nobody, but
nobody has come out who's running for the mayor of
the City of New York to actually condemn what he
stands for.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, that's been surprising. And lack of media interest too,
I mean, it's really as shocking to me. I agree
with the dangers of what you're saying, with the dangers
of this candidate, but even he has not received the
scrutiny he should be receiving. And so if your tweet's
going to bring that type of scrutiny, then God bless
(16:52):
you for doing it. Vicky Palladino, New York City Council
represents District nineteen of Northeast. Queen's talk to you again
next week. Thanks for coming on today, Vicky.
Speaker 9 (17:01):
Oh, of course, Larry, thank you so very much. Have
a great day.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Take a moment and think about who is the most
fascinating figure in sports and the answer, I'll save you
the time. The answer has got to be Mike Tyson.
I mean the fact that how he grew up, what
he became, how he fell again and kept getting back up,
(17:25):
and now he's gotten to the be this mythical figure
that is loved around the world. After all he went through.
It is a fascinating story and somebody needed to tell
that story, and there's nobody better than Mark Kriegel. He
is a former sports columnist for The New York Post
and The Daily News. He's a boxing analyst, an essay
(17:48):
for says for ESPN, author of a couple of books before,
one of which I read, the Pete Maravich book, Nameth
a Biography, Pistol The Life of Pete Marrivich, and The
good Son The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini. And
we're very proud to have Mark Kriegel with us right now. Mark,
thank you so much for taking the time to talk
(18:09):
to us today.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Thank you so much. Lie I really appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah, the story is a fascinating one. It is a
story that if you were to do a novel on
this story, nobody would believe it. But the fact of
him getting to where he is right now from where
he became one is unfathomable.
Speaker 10 (18:30):
Well, it's certainly not anything I could have imagined him.
I mean, he was the designated villain in my column
at the Post in the News back in the nineties,
and when the when the publisher first broke to the
idea of would you do a Tyson bio? My response
was absolutely not. In no way, I'm not revisiting all
of that stuff. I started thinking about it. Why is
(18:53):
he beloved? Why is he here? I mean, I don't
think that. You know, whenever you were considering Mike Tyson's more,
the one thing that everybody agreed on back in the
day was that he was not long for the world,
including Tyson himself. And when I started really considering the subject,
the man the topic, there's got to be some virtue
(19:15):
alone in him having survived, and that I looked at
it a little closer, and I think what he actually
did survive the death of a child, the kind of
fame that that can really kill you, boxing itself, prison
as a kid, prison as an adult. Again, there's got
to be something to There's some kind of virtue in
(19:36):
having survived. And also I think he's he's a better guy.
The question is what went into that fame? What are
the ingredients, what are the MIxS? Why are we addicted
to him? This is my attempt to answer that.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Did you find virtue in him? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I find I mean more than virtue, I think uh.
Speaker 10 (19:59):
I think our track to him, or a fascination with him,
has something to do with empathy.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
You know, he's.
Speaker 10 (20:07):
He can be crazy, he can be all sorts of things,
but there's something human and humane.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
That brings you back.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I have.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I had this odd experience.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
With him after running around covering you know, first as
a police reporter, like the implosion of his private life
eighty eight, his marriage to Robin Robin Gibbons, and later
later on there was great trial and then as a fighter.
(20:40):
I went to see his one man show and it
was still in preview in Vegas, and I found myself
holding back tears and I meet him after the show
when we talked about it, I said, you remember when
this you remember when that he's like, yeah, he says
to me, how did it make you feel? I really
wasn't prepared for the question, what do you mean how
it make me feel? And I thought about it and
(21:02):
it was, uh, it was a rush. It was kind
of like a drug. And he sort of acknowledged that,
and uh, and we went on. But I was taken.
I was taken with the question itself. And I think
it's one of the reasons why we're all addicted to him.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Yeah, what what fueled his anger? Because he seemed to
be always anger, angry? And then he lost that. There
was a there was a point where he took a turn,
completely took a turn.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
Look, I think that not being a fighter helped him
lose some of that anger.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
I think that it is.
Speaker 10 (21:41):
When when you were a fighter, especially the kind of
fighter the Tyson was, when you rely on fear and
you rely on intimidation. It's it's not only that you
can't let yourself be seen as as vulnerable.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
You have to make yourself be seen as scary. That
takes a.
Speaker 10 (22:00):
Lot of energy. And I think you know you saw,
you saw the effect of that in his persona when
he stopped being a fighter.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
He probably became a nicer guy. That's that's part of
the answer.
Speaker 10 (22:14):
But the I mean, the rage it comes from comes
from not being able to you know, his mother died young,
he was impoverished, he was surrounded constantly by violence.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
There was no dad there.
Speaker 10 (22:29):
You know.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
I went back to the history of Brownsville, and to.
Speaker 10 (22:32):
Me, especially in that decade of the seventies, you know,
writing an off as of ghetto seems sort of woefully
insufficient to me. It's like it was a dystopia. It
was nothing. But he lived in a kind of shelter
for single women. But around him or you know, block
after block of rubble strewn lots, abandoned buildings. In the
(22:55):
middle of this you have the greatest like concentration of
housing projects anywhere elseide the Soviet Union.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
So it was, it was, it was. It was a
nutty way to grow up. Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
You know, this might be too simplistic, but I remember
his reputation and how it changed, and it was amazing
how it how it switched. And I thought that the
movie The Hangover was a big turn for him in
the way the public saw him. Do you agree.
Speaker 10 (23:24):
I think I think it was a turn in the
way the public saw him. I think it was a
big turn and an unanticipated turn, and probably a stroke
of comic genius from from the producers or the directors
of the movie that had introduced him to a new generation.
But I don't think that was a turn in him.
(23:44):
I think the turn in him had to do I
think that my book ends in eighty eight. It really
deals with what went into the making of Tyson. But
to answer your question, I think the turn came when
you hit a kind of rock bottom.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
He lost UH, he lost a daughter through.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
UH and and just crazy a crazy accident, and he
got married. And I think that that the combination of
hitting rock bottom and a relationship that actually sustained him
or fortified him, that that had that had to do
with with his transformation, not the way that people saw him.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
We all want to read the book Mark Kriegel, and
the new book is Baddest Man, The Making of Mike Tyson.
And by the way, Mark's book launches tonight at Saint
Joseph's University, which is a two forty five Clinton Avenue
in Brooklyn, New York. You can get tickets to that.
He'll be interviewed by Rosie Perez. You just go to
event bright dot com mark. Thanks so much for your time.
Can't wait to read the rest of the oh no,
(24:48):
I really appreciate it.
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