Larry Mendte discusses the ongoing war between Israel and Iran, the New York Times claiming that one NYC Mayoral candidate is unfit for office, and new details on the alleged Minnesota assassin. Curtis Sliwa talks to Larry about the NYC Mayoral race and his path to victory with so many Democrats on the ballot. Robert Blecker speaks about the history of June 17th, 1775, and his play about the death of Dr. Joesph Warren at Bunker Hill on the 250th anniversary.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And good morning to you.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
A few showers this morning. As you just heard from
rased Agic, it's gonna be showers again tonight, showers, tomorrow, showers, Thursday.
How about this though, if you can make it to Friday,
Friday is gonna be sunny. So we always have Friday. Finally,
(00:23):
maybe we have a good weekend. And did you see
next week? What about next week? There's some days it's
close to one hundred. Really going to a heat week.
Well that's not good either, No, it was, I mean
hot hot. All right, Well the weekend, we're gonna have
the weekend, Friday sunny at eighty five. Let's just talk
about Friday. Friday is gonna be a good day. In
(00:43):
the Big Three, Israel and Iran just keep trading missiles.
That's happened throughout the day today, with Israel taking out
the state run media television network an Iran while they
were on the air. Faso Jordana Miller will have the
(01:12):
latest live from Jerusalem coming up at six point thirty five.
Early voting continues in the New York mayoral primary, and
The New York Times surprisingly refused to endorse any Democratic candidate,
but said that one is unfit to serve zorin Mamdani.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
These are the opinions of about a dozen New Yorkers,
and a democracy will be decided by close to a
million New Yorkers.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
They certainly have the right to their opinions, and New
Yorkers have the right to their votes. There's new details
today about the Minnesota assassin.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
It is no exaggeration to say that his crimes are
the stuff of nightmares.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Delter stalked his victims like prey. Yeah, he did stalk.
And he had a manifesto with several other prominent politicians
listed on it, more of a hit list than a manifesto.
New details about the Minnesota assassin came to light all
day during the day yesterday, and now he is eligible
(02:14):
for the death penalty. At the G seven conference, Trump
finalizes the tariff deal with the United Kingdom. Very good
day for post of our country is a real side strength,
So thank you again, Donald, A really important day for
post of US.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Great people, great people.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And then he had to leave quickly with an ominous
posting on truth socials saying everybody should get out of
Tehran now and the prosecution may rest either today or tomorrow.
In the Sean Diddy Combs trial, and now the question
is will Combs take the stand in his own defense?
(02:52):
As a defense attorney, I prep all of my clients
to testify. I run them through the gamut, but I
could not tell him to get near that witness day
with a ten foot poll. And finally, former New Jersey
centator Bob Menendez reports to a medium security federal prison
in Pennsylvania today to serve up to eleven years behind
bars after being found guilty of bribery and corruption charges.
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to set a preset for seven to ten wor. Now
we're gonna have Jordana live from Israel in just a
few minutes, but I want to set things up if
I can, and talk about what is happening right now.
Missiles are still being traded and Israel is now focusing
on military intelligence. They took out the military Intelligence Center,
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much like it would be you know, our Pentagon, or
it would be our CIA ar FBI headquarters. That's what
they're going after. Right now, as we speak, this is happening,
and so there's been air strikes throughout the nights, both
in Israel and An Iran. And I told you about
that truth social post and how strange it was and
(04:27):
how ominous it was, and suddenly, if all of the
sudden in the middle he was supposed to stay in
Canada for the G seven summit for its duration, but
he said, I have to leave, and he said there's
I have to get back, and Marco Rubio also is
(04:48):
headed back. I guess they're going into the situation room
to find out what was what's going to be happening today.
We don't know exactly what it's all about, of course not,
but it does sound like some something big is in
the offing. And that, as I said, was followed up
by this truth social post. Iran should have signed the deal.
(05:09):
I told them to sign. What a shame and what
a waste of human life. Simply stated Iran cannot have
a nuclear weapon, and he wrote that in caps. I
said it over and over again. Now everyone should immediately
evacuate Tehran. And as you go to Reuters, they're doing
(05:32):
a hour by hour and what's happening in Tehran right now?
And everybody took Trump at his word because it is
gridlock trying to get out of Tehran, and it has
been like that for the last nine hours. This is
Donald Trump leaving the G seven.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Maybe you heard from the Iris. I'd like to talk,
but they should have done that before.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
I had sixty days and they had six days.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
And on the sixty first day, I said, we don't
have a deal.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
They have to make a deal.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
It's painful for both parties.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
But I'd say Iran is not winning this war and
they should talk, and they should talk immediately before it's
too late.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Right And from there, the New York Times and others
have been reporting that Donald Trump reached out to the
Iranians to try to talk some more. He went on
social media and said the fake news media once again
got it wrong. I did not reach out to them.
Here's the truth social from Donald Trump. This is just
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fifty one minutes ago. I have not reached out to
Iran for peace talks in any way, shape or form.
This is more highly fake, fabricated fake news. If they
want to talk, they know how to reach me. They
should have taken the deal that was on the table
that would have saved a lot of lives, including theirs.
(06:57):
And so he seems to be back in the country
right now now and get ready to have these talks.
In the meantime, Netan Yahoo has been doing the circuit
on American media. He was first on Fox News with
Brett bhar then CNN and some of the networks.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
They want to continue to have these fake talks in
which they lie, they cheat, they stringer the US along,
and you know, we have very solid intel on that.
But of course they want to keep on building their
nuclear weapons and building their mass ballistic missile arsenal, which
they're firing at our people.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It does seem like he's right. It does seem like
these talks were never serious on the Iranian side, and
this has happened before. I mean, they were placated for
twelve years under Biden and Obama. You remember all the
money that just showed up at the Tehran airport from Obama.
(07:53):
You remember him Biden coming in. One of the first
things he did. One of the first things he did
was to give them all their money back again, to
try to placate them, to try to make certain that
they didn't do anything like they're doing right now. But
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at the same time, what they were doing was building
a nuclear weapons program, and why why were.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
They doing that?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And there have been doing it even when they said
they have not been. Net Yahoo and Israel have intelligence,
they have pictures of it happening. And he really has
not understood all along. He's held off on these strikes
all along because Donald Trump has asked them to. And
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that's why I don't buy that Donald Trump didn't know
about these strikes or wasn't in on them, or didn't
approve them, because the timing is just so weird, and
the fact that net and Yahoo listened to us on
everything else. He held off on the strikes, He held
off on an assassination of the Supreme Leader. He held
off on everything because Donald Trump asked him not to.
(09:04):
So you think all of a sudden he would just
attack on his own. No, No, not at all. Now.
Netnyahu can't understand why the US isn't more involved today.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
It's te le Aviv Tomorrow's New York look. I understand America First,
I don't understand America dead.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah, his line all along has been United States's. Next,
they say death to America on the streets of Tehran.
They say death to America in all of their protests.
So the point is that right now, if you're going
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to do this, you have to finish it. This can't
be just some strikes to weaken them. This has to
be strikes to make sure they are demilitarized and crippled.
And you know who's going to support us, even though
they can't come out and say it, Cutter Saudi Arabia,
all the people in the Middle East who want to
(10:04):
get rich, all the people in the Middle East, all
the Arab countries in the Middle East that now find
themselves some of the richest countries in the world. They
don't want this. They don't want Iran, they don't want
the crazies in the neighborhood. We will find out what
the meeting was that Trump had to get back to
(10:25):
later today. Expect a massive air strike in Tehran. Well,
a bold puppy theft on the streets of Newark. We
will talk about it next. Well, I'm very proud to
talk to a friend of mine who might just be
the next mayor of New York. Curtis Lee, Republican candidate
for Mayor of New York City. Curtis, where are you right.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Now, Oh, Larry, I'm right outside of a train station
on the Upper West Side, ready to jump in the subway.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
You know that's my limbo no jeems down there.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
But also since we since we last talk, I have
qualified on an independent line, first ever Protect Animals, which
stands for no kill shelters and.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Prosecuting abuses of animals.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
First time it's ever been done in any election cycle
in the United States.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
So people will have two lines to vote for me on.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
If they can't vote for me as a Republican, they
can vote for me on the independent Protect Animals signed.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
The election laws in this city are so screwed up.
Everybody gets an independent line. Everybody gets to run. The
primaries don't even matter anymore.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Curtis, That is correct, And I know everybody's getting call
tied up and not what happens if Mondami somehow pulls
an upset against Cuomo in the Democratic primary, Larry wor audience,
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
In the general election, there will be five of us.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
There will be Mondami, there will be Cuomo, there will
be Adams, there will be a guy nobody really knows,
Jim Walton, and then there will be me and I
start out with thirty percent of the vote.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
So just do the mat.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
If you do the math, you can understand why Curtisy
was going to be the next mayor of New York.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Shiit No.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You told me this a few months ago, and I thought, oh,
that's interesting. That's an interesting theory. It's playing out to
be absolutely true. And the great thing is you're skating through.
Nobody's going after you. They're all eating each other. They're
all attacking each other. And I got a feeling until
the first poll comes out and shows you're either ahead
(12:28):
or competitive, you're going to keep skating through without anybody
going after you.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Oh yeah, because remember they're all Democrats, Larry.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
All four of the others who will be in the
general election are registered Democrats.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
That means they're going to continue.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
The blood battle, cut each other up, Adams, Cuomo, Mundami,
and this guy Walden. Meantime, I'm the only Republican and
I can basically believe it or not. Larry curtisly would
take the high road in this campaign.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Wow, that would be nobody would believe it. Nobody would
be able to believe that was you. At that point,
you will be able to help yourself. Come on, seriously,
you're not going to take the high road.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Well, the interesting thing is I'm out there in the
outer Boroughs and I'm talking about all the issues that
are important to people in the Bronx, Brooklynd, Queens and
Staten Island.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Nobody's doing that.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Notice how in that last Democratic debate they will all
ask what borough do you travel to least, and they
said Staten Island and then laughed and giggled about it,
because that's the way they view the outer boroughs. If
it isn't Manhattan, if it isn't Manhattan centric to them,
it doesn't count. I'm talking about the fact we're going
to have no more migrant shelters. We're going to cap
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the number of shelters we have for Americans and manage
them well and eliminate the City of Yes, which is
going to lead to the destruction of residential housing in
the outer boroughs because of corporate developers and no lithium
ion battery warehouses. They have ninety of them schedule to
be built in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island,
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not one of them larry On Park Avenue or Sutton
Place or a Billionaires Row in Manhattan.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
That's what I love about your campaign, and I've been
following it very closely. I love about your campaign that
you're going after issues that are not talked about at
all in the debates, not talked about it all by
these candidates, but in the neighborhoods in Queens, in Brooklyn
and Staten Island and the Bronx, they are extremely important,
including the ion battery factory, just for people who may
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not be aware of what's going on because it's not
getting as much coverage it as should. Explain what's happening, Curtis.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
They are building these lithium ion battery warehouses to basically
store energy in the outer boroughs. They're doing it in
Nassa on Suffolk and other areas around the country. They've
had forty explosions and when these batteries explode, as you've
seen in small fires just in New York City with
lithium I ion battery propelled the e bytes and scooters
(15:04):
and occasionally a Tesla car with the A battery. It
takes them hours to put it out, and you can't
put it out with water. Now, imagine a hundred refrigerator
sty sized batteries when they go up in smoke, and
they do, it takes five to six days for it
to burn itself out.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
They don't know how to put these fires out. There'll
be an.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Eight square mile pluma hydrochloric acid. It'll be a minichure nobile.
You'll have to evacuate. When you come back, your property
will be worthless. And God only knows the health dangers
that will accompany anybody who decides to stay back. You're
going to have basically many love canals all over.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
We lose them. Just then, those damned Democrats cut his phone.
That was what was great about what he was just
talking about is he's talking about issues that are extremely
important and extremely important to the neighborhoods that nobody's talking
about on the Democratic side, nobody. All they are talking
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about is money, money, money, money, money, money, money for
the city. What they're going to give way for free.
It seems to me that the Democratic Party is running
in Manhattan and Manhattan only that that's all they care about,
because all they talk about are Manhattan issues. If you
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follow Curtis Leewa, and you should if you don't, on
social media, he is constantly out in the outer boroughs
and talking about things that no one else is talking about.
You heard him just a moment ago talking about the
City of Yes and how people are being run out
of their own neighborhoods by developers. You heard him talking
about the ion batteries. These are things. Did you hear
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one mention of any of those topics, any of those
topics in the Democratic primary?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
None?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
In the debate? None. All right, you're back. We just
could be lost your phone there for a second. Did
you get on the subway?
Speaker 6 (17:05):
No, no, no, no, I stay out of the subway
when I'm talking to you and your wor audience. Larry.
A guy actually inadvertently bumped me. I had to pick
him up. He was falling down. So we're back on track.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Ah, you're still out there saving lives. Look at that.
You know we have to wrap this up real quick,
do you do you have a closing message for the voters.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Yeah, don't get into a panic over this Democratic primary.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
We still have a marathon.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
You want to find out more about what I stand
for which is different than any of the other candidates
in the general of race.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Race.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Just go to sleewolf for NYCED dot com at sleiwolf
for NYCED dot com and there is sanity in my campaign,
whereas there is complete insanity, chaos and corruption and everybody
else's campaign. Let's not continue to make the same mistakes.
Let's finally realize your vote for the New York City guy,
(18:01):
Curtis LEEU. I didn't live in Portly and I didn't
live in a Hampton Site Cuomo.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Thanks a lot, Curtis Lee of a Republican candidate for
New York City Mayork. Look forward to talking to you
again today. You may not know, because I don't think
most people know. Today is an anniversary of one of
the most important moments in American history. It was June seventeenth,
seventeen seventy five that the Battle of Bunker Hill took place.
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It still stands as a seminole moment in the construction
of our country, in the birth of our nation. But
there were some unsung heroes that day that will now
be part of an off Broadway play. The whole scene
that the Battle of Bunker Hill and some of the
people who did not get enough recognition that day, will
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also be honored. Professor Robert Blecker is the playwright of
a new play called Father Anonymous. Professor, thanks so much
for join today. I appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Larry.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yeah, let's talk about Father Anonymous. First, let's talk about
the significance of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
It was the first major battle of the American Revolution.
We all know about Lexington and conquered on April eighteenth
and nineteenth, seventeen seventy five, and Paul Revere's famous ride.
By the way, very few of us know who actually
sent Paul Revere on that ride, and that was doctor
Joseph Warren. He sent Paul and then he stayed back
and he ran the American Revolution for the first two months,
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ran the war. And on June seventeenth, seventeen seventy five,
Joseph awoke flagued by the Migraine headaches that plagued him,
and the cannonade had begun. He could hear it, and
over the protests of those closest to him, he rushed
to Bunker Hill and to engage in the fight. And
although he had been commissioned a major general. He refused
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command when he got there and insisted on fighting as
a volunteer, and over the entreaties of Colonel Prescott, who
said famously, don't fire till you see the white of
their eyes, most often misquoted as the whites of their eyes,
he refused to return to Cambridge to run the war
and instead went into the hottest spot, this fort that
had been constructed by the way in the wrong spot,
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on Breed Hill rather than Bunker Hill, and his men,
who thought they were being sacrificed because they were almost
out of ammunition the British were about to storm for
the third time, saw their beloved leader join them and
so assumed that therefore they were not being sacrificed. And
the British did storm, they did run out of ammunition.
The Patriots they fled. Joseph was last to leave, treating
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the wounded and the dying, turning back into the doctor
that he ultimately was, and took a bullet in his
head and died at thirty four. The great first martyr
of the American Revolution.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Why don't we know more about him?
Speaker 5 (20:56):
We don't, in one sense because we're lucky, and another
since because he was unlucky. We don't know more about
him because he didn't survive the war, having died in
the first major battle at Bunker Hill, and so he
didn't play the part that he was supposed to play.
Samuel Adams had chosen him to lead America and play
the role that George Washington ends up playing. America got
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really lucky. We had two great leaders at the same time,
excuse me, and the one dies ironically the very same
day June seventeenth, seventeen seventy five, two hundred and fifty
years ago today. Joseph dies on Bunker Hill at the
same day that George Washington in Philadelphia is being handed
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his commission as Commander in Chief. And he went on,
as we know, to be the great iconic leader of America.
And so Joseph didn't play the part that he had
been designated to play because he had sacrificed himself early
on in the American Revolution. But there was no conciliation
after that because Joseph had fallen. And if Joseph had
martyled himself and supplied the leadership that he did it,
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then we weren't going to conciliate. We were going to
keep going and win this fight for American liberty.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
But the story is so fascinating, and being one of
the first great martyrs for the American experiment and the
American Revolution, you would think that we would know his name,
just like we know Sam Adams, just like we know others,
just like we know we know Benedict Arnold. But we
don't know doctor Joseph Warren. And it's so wonderful that
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you're remembering him, and it's so wonderful that you wrote
a play. Tell me what your inspiration was, why you
took this so far that you wanted to write a
play about this.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Well, I was a constitutional history professor for over forty years,
and in that context I studied some of the major
documents of the American Republic and the American experience. And
one of them, which has also become lost to American
memory for most people, was the Suffolk Resolves. Joseph wrote
those in seventeen seventy four in Paul Revere rushed them
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down from Boston to Philadelphia. You know, we all know
Paul Revere's famous ride, but his more important ride was
actually earlier, and he rushed the Suffolk Resolves, and it
was in essence a declaration of American legislative independence, and
the First Continental Congress embraced them and enacted them. It
was the first enactment by the Continental Congress, and as
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a result, America was on record of no obedience to
acts of parliament that violated our fundamental rights. Obedience to
the king only conditioned upon the respect for the American
traditions that we inherited from Britain. And you know you
asked the question about being lost to history. At the
time Joseph was so well known and so widely mourned.
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There were fourteen counties named after Joseph Warren in the
United States. Only three presidents have more Warren County, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
New Jersey, et cetera, et cetera. And yet he has
fallen into obscurity, as you point out, ironically, so did
Paul Revere. He had been lost to America and consciousness
until Longfellow's famous poem. And when I started writing the play,
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so had Samuel Adams. But then the beer came about.
And now he's on the lips of many people in
many bars in America.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
So we have a.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Habit of losing sight of our heroes, and the play,
it seems to me, is important because it takes these
cardboard characters that we learned in American history, and we
learned to dismiss in some ways, America. At least, I
was taught to dismiss our heroes, not to learn from them,
not to emulate them and follow from their examples, not
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to realize and recognize the sacrifices they made and the
obligation they felt for the sacrifice sacrifices that have been
made in the past, and the obligation they felt to
future generations. And so driven by that, driven by love
of America, driven by the rediscovery of Joseph Warren, and
the felt need to celebrate our heroes and learn from
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them and emulate them. I worked on this play and
wrote it, and if it's a seeds for the audience,
it brings them to an emotional relationship with the American Revolution.
You'll see these cardboard characters come to life on stage
and realize that the war was a product of emotional
relationships and deep constitutional commitments, and it's time to celebrate America.
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You know, the cast comes from different political persuasions and
disagreements with that policy. But what unites us, and what
hopefully we'll restore the common feeling about America is how
much we really have in common constitutionally, how much we're
deeply committed to the basic principles of this Republican.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Well, I love that you're doing this, and I love
that you're remembering a man that history for good and
should be remembered. Tell people how they can get tickets
and where they can see the play.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
It's at the AMT Theater, which is a charming off
Broadway theater, literally right off Broadway on forty fifth Street
between eighth and ninth Avenue. Go to the website, which
is Fatheranonymous play dot com. Put in two hundred and
fifty and you get discount for the tickets. The tickets
are not expensive, and the experience is live and lively
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and real and funny and cheerful, and celebrate America, celebrate
the best of our traditions in our history.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I love that you wrote this. I do want to
go see it. Professor Robert Blecker, playwright of Father Anonymous,
Thank you so much. I could talk to you all day,
but that's all the time we have, and I appreciate
you spending time with us.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Thank you, Larry. I appreciate your having and remembering Joseph
on this day.
And good morning to you.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
A few showers this morning. As you just heard from
rased Agic, it's gonna be showers again tonight, showers, tomorrow, showers, Thursday.
How about this though, if you can make it to Friday,
Friday is gonna be sunny. So we always have Friday. Finally,
(00:23):
maybe we have a good weekend. And did you see
next week? What about next week? There's some days it's
close to one hundred. Really going to a heat week.
Well that's not good either, No, it was, I mean
hot hot. All right, Well the weekend, we're gonna have
the weekend, Friday sunny at eighty five. Let's just talk
about Friday. Friday is gonna be a good day. In
(00:43):
the Big Three, Israel and Iran just keep trading missiles.
That's happened throughout the day today, with Israel taking out
the state run media television network an Iran while they
were on the air. Faso Jordana Miller will have the
(01:12):
latest live from Jerusalem coming up at six point thirty five.
Early voting continues in the New York mayoral primary, and
The New York Times surprisingly refused to endorse any Democratic candidate,
but said that one is unfit to serve zorin Mamdani.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
These are the opinions of about a dozen New Yorkers,
and a democracy will be decided by close to a
million New Yorkers.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
They certainly have the right to their opinions, and New
Yorkers have the right to their votes. There's new details
today about the Minnesota assassin.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
It is no exaggeration to say that his crimes are
the stuff of nightmares.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Delter stalked his victims like prey. Yeah, he did stalk.
And he had a manifesto with several other prominent politicians
listed on it, more of a hit list than a manifesto.
New details about the Minnesota assassin came to light all
day during the day yesterday, and now he is eligible
(02:14):
for the death penalty. At the G seven conference, Trump
finalizes the tariff deal with the United Kingdom. Very good
day for post of our country is a real side strength,
So thank you again, Donald, A really important day for
post of US.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Great people, great people.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And then he had to leave quickly with an ominous
posting on truth socials saying everybody should get out of
Tehran now and the prosecution may rest either today or tomorrow.
In the Sean Diddy Combs trial, and now the question
is will Combs take the stand in his own defense?
(02:52):
As a defense attorney, I prep all of my clients
to testify. I run them through the gamut, but I
could not tell him to get near that witness day
with a ten foot poll. And finally, former New Jersey
centator Bob Menendez reports to a medium security federal prison
in Pennsylvania today to serve up to eleven years behind
bars after being found guilty of bribery and corruption charges.
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to set a preset for seven to ten wor. Now
we're gonna have Jordana live from Israel in just a
few minutes, but I want to set things up if
I can, and talk about what is happening right now.
Missiles are still being traded and Israel is now focusing
on military intelligence. They took out the military Intelligence Center,
(04:01):
much like it would be you know, our Pentagon, or
it would be our CIA ar FBI headquarters. That's what
they're going after. Right now, as we speak, this is happening,
and so there's been air strikes throughout the nights, both
in Israel and An Iran. And I told you about
that truth social post and how strange it was and
(04:27):
how ominous it was, and suddenly, if all of the
sudden in the middle he was supposed to stay in
Canada for the G seven summit for its duration, but
he said, I have to leave, and he said there's
I have to get back, and Marco Rubio also is
(04:48):
headed back. I guess they're going into the situation room
to find out what was what's going to be happening today.
We don't know exactly what it's all about, of course not,
but it does sound like some something big is in
the offing. And that, as I said, was followed up
by this truth social post. Iran should have signed the deal.
(05:09):
I told them to sign. What a shame and what
a waste of human life. Simply stated Iran cannot have
a nuclear weapon, and he wrote that in caps. I
said it over and over again. Now everyone should immediately
evacuate Tehran. And as you go to Reuters, they're doing
(05:32):
a hour by hour and what's happening in Tehran right now?
And everybody took Trump at his word because it is
gridlock trying to get out of Tehran, and it has
been like that for the last nine hours. This is
Donald Trump leaving the G seven.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Maybe you heard from the Iris. I'd like to talk,
but they should have done that before.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
I had sixty days and they had six days.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
And on the sixty first day, I said, we don't
have a deal.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
They have to make a deal.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
It's painful for both parties.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
But I'd say Iran is not winning this war and
they should talk, and they should talk immediately before it's
too late.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Right And from there, the New York Times and others
have been reporting that Donald Trump reached out to the
Iranians to try to talk some more. He went on
social media and said the fake news media once again
got it wrong. I did not reach out to them.
Here's the truth social from Donald Trump. This is just
(06:35):
fifty one minutes ago. I have not reached out to
Iran for peace talks in any way, shape or form.
This is more highly fake, fabricated fake news. If they
want to talk, they know how to reach me. They
should have taken the deal that was on the table
that would have saved a lot of lives, including theirs.
(06:57):
And so he seems to be back in the country
right now now and get ready to have these talks.
In the meantime, Netan Yahoo has been doing the circuit
on American media. He was first on Fox News with
Brett bhar then CNN and some of the networks.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
They want to continue to have these fake talks in
which they lie, they cheat, they stringer the US along,
and you know, we have very solid intel on that.
But of course they want to keep on building their
nuclear weapons and building their mass ballistic missile arsenal, which
they're firing at our people.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It does seem like he's right. It does seem like
these talks were never serious on the Iranian side, and
this has happened before. I mean, they were placated for
twelve years under Biden and Obama. You remember all the
money that just showed up at the Tehran airport from Obama.
(07:53):
You remember him Biden coming in. One of the first
things he did. One of the first things he did
was to give them all their money back again, to
try to placate them, to try to make certain that
they didn't do anything like they're doing right now. But
(08:15):
at the same time, what they were doing was building
a nuclear weapons program, and why why were.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
They doing that?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And there have been doing it even when they said
they have not been. Net Yahoo and Israel have intelligence,
they have pictures of it happening. And he really has
not understood all along. He's held off on these strikes
all along because Donald Trump has asked them to. And
(08:43):
that's why I don't buy that Donald Trump didn't know
about these strikes or wasn't in on them, or didn't
approve them, because the timing is just so weird, and
the fact that net and Yahoo listened to us on
everything else. He held off on the strikes, He held
off on an assassination of the Supreme Leader. He held
off on everything because Donald Trump asked him not to.
(09:04):
So you think all of a sudden he would just
attack on his own. No, No, not at all. Now.
Netnyahu can't understand why the US isn't more involved today.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
It's te le Aviv Tomorrow's New York look. I understand America First,
I don't understand America dead.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah, his line all along has been United States's. Next,
they say death to America on the streets of Tehran.
They say death to America in all of their protests.
So the point is that right now, if you're going
(09:43):
to do this, you have to finish it. This can't
be just some strikes to weaken them. This has to
be strikes to make sure they are demilitarized and crippled.
And you know who's going to support us, even though
they can't come out and say it, Cutter Saudi Arabia,
all the people in the Middle East who want to
(10:04):
get rich, all the people in the Middle East, all
the Arab countries in the Middle East that now find
themselves some of the richest countries in the world. They
don't want this. They don't want Iran, they don't want
the crazies in the neighborhood. We will find out what
the meeting was that Trump had to get back to
(10:25):
later today. Expect a massive air strike in Tehran. Well,
a bold puppy theft on the streets of Newark. We
will talk about it next. Well, I'm very proud to
talk to a friend of mine who might just be
the next mayor of New York. Curtis Lee, Republican candidate
for Mayor of New York City. Curtis, where are you right.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Now, Oh, Larry, I'm right outside of a train station
on the Upper West Side, ready to jump in the subway.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
You know that's my limbo no jeems down there.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
But also since we since we last talk, I have
qualified on an independent line, first ever Protect Animals, which
stands for no kill shelters and.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Prosecuting abuses of animals.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
First time it's ever been done in any election cycle
in the United States.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
So people will have two lines to vote for me on.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
If they can't vote for me as a Republican, they
can vote for me on the independent Protect Animals signed.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
The election laws in this city are so screwed up.
Everybody gets an independent line. Everybody gets to run. The
primaries don't even matter anymore.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Curtis, That is correct, And I know everybody's getting call
tied up and not what happens if Mondami somehow pulls
an upset against Cuomo in the Democratic primary, Larry wor audience,
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
In the general election, there will be five of us.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
There will be Mondami, there will be Cuomo, there will
be Adams, there will be a guy nobody really knows,
Jim Walton, and then there will be me and I
start out with thirty percent of the vote.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
So just do the mat.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
If you do the math, you can understand why Curtisy
was going to be the next mayor of New York.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Shiit No.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You told me this a few months ago, and I thought, oh,
that's interesting. That's an interesting theory. It's playing out to
be absolutely true. And the great thing is you're skating through.
Nobody's going after you. They're all eating each other. They're
all attacking each other. And I got a feeling until
the first poll comes out and shows you're either ahead
(12:28):
or competitive, you're going to keep skating through without anybody
going after you.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Oh yeah, because remember they're all Democrats, Larry.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
All four of the others who will be in the
general election are registered Democrats.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
That means they're going to continue.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
The blood battle, cut each other up, Adams, Cuomo, Mundami,
and this guy Walden. Meantime, I'm the only Republican and
I can basically believe it or not. Larry curtisly would
take the high road in this campaign.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Wow, that would be nobody would believe it. Nobody would
be able to believe that was you. At that point,
you will be able to help yourself. Come on, seriously,
you're not going to take the high road.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Well, the interesting thing is I'm out there in the
outer Boroughs and I'm talking about all the issues that
are important to people in the Bronx, Brooklynd, Queens and
Staten Island.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Nobody's doing that.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Notice how in that last Democratic debate they will all
ask what borough do you travel to least, and they
said Staten Island and then laughed and giggled about it,
because that's the way they view the outer boroughs. If
it isn't Manhattan, if it isn't Manhattan centric to them,
it doesn't count. I'm talking about the fact we're going
to have no more migrant shelters. We're going to cap
(13:43):
the number of shelters we have for Americans and manage
them well and eliminate the City of Yes, which is
going to lead to the destruction of residential housing in
the outer boroughs because of corporate developers and no lithium
ion battery warehouses. They have ninety of them schedule to
be built in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island,
(14:04):
not one of them larry On Park Avenue or Sutton
Place or a Billionaires Row in Manhattan.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
That's what I love about your campaign, and I've been
following it very closely. I love about your campaign that
you're going after issues that are not talked about at
all in the debates, not talked about it all by
these candidates, but in the neighborhoods in Queens, in Brooklyn
and Staten Island and the Bronx, they are extremely important,
including the ion battery factory, just for people who may
(14:32):
not be aware of what's going on because it's not
getting as much coverage it as should. Explain what's happening, Curtis.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
They are building these lithium ion battery warehouses to basically
store energy in the outer boroughs. They're doing it in
Nassa on Suffolk and other areas around the country. They've
had forty explosions and when these batteries explode, as you've
seen in small fires just in New York City with
lithium I ion battery propelled the e bytes and scooters
(15:04):
and occasionally a Tesla car with the A battery. It
takes them hours to put it out, and you can't
put it out with water. Now, imagine a hundred refrigerator
sty sized batteries when they go up in smoke, and
they do, it takes five to six days for it
to burn itself out.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
They don't know how to put these fires out. There'll
be an.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Eight square mile pluma hydrochloric acid. It'll be a minichure nobile.
You'll have to evacuate. When you come back, your property
will be worthless. And God only knows the health dangers
that will accompany anybody who decides to stay back. You're
going to have basically many love canals all over.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
We lose them. Just then, those damned Democrats cut his phone.
That was what was great about what he was just
talking about is he's talking about issues that are extremely
important and extremely important to the neighborhoods that nobody's talking
about on the Democratic side, nobody. All they are talking
(16:08):
about is money, money, money, money, money, money, money for
the city. What they're going to give way for free.
It seems to me that the Democratic Party is running
in Manhattan and Manhattan only that that's all they care about,
because all they talk about are Manhattan issues. If you
(16:29):
follow Curtis Leewa, and you should if you don't, on
social media, he is constantly out in the outer boroughs
and talking about things that no one else is talking about.
You heard him just a moment ago talking about the
City of Yes and how people are being run out
of their own neighborhoods by developers. You heard him talking
about the ion batteries. These are things. Did you hear
(16:50):
one mention of any of those topics, any of those
topics in the Democratic primary?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
None?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
In the debate? None. All right, you're back. We just
could be lost your phone there for a second. Did
you get on the subway?
Speaker 6 (17:05):
No, no, no, no, I stay out of the subway
when I'm talking to you and your wor audience. Larry.
A guy actually inadvertently bumped me. I had to pick
him up. He was falling down. So we're back on track.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Ah, you're still out there saving lives. Look at that.
You know we have to wrap this up real quick,
do you do you have a closing message for the voters.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Yeah, don't get into a panic over this Democratic primary.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
We still have a marathon.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
You want to find out more about what I stand
for which is different than any of the other candidates
in the general of race.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Race.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Just go to sleewolf for NYCED dot com at sleiwolf
for NYCED dot com and there is sanity in my campaign,
whereas there is complete insanity, chaos and corruption and everybody
else's campaign. Let's not continue to make the same mistakes.
Let's finally realize your vote for the New York City guy,
(18:01):
Curtis LEEU. I didn't live in Portly and I didn't
live in a Hampton Site Cuomo.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Thanks a lot, Curtis Lee of a Republican candidate for
New York City Mayork. Look forward to talking to you
again today. You may not know, because I don't think
most people know. Today is an anniversary of one of
the most important moments in American history. It was June seventeenth,
seventeen seventy five that the Battle of Bunker Hill took place.
(18:28):
It still stands as a seminole moment in the construction
of our country, in the birth of our nation. But
there were some unsung heroes that day that will now
be part of an off Broadway play. The whole scene
that the Battle of Bunker Hill and some of the
people who did not get enough recognition that day, will
(18:50):
also be honored. Professor Robert Blecker is the playwright of
a new play called Father Anonymous. Professor, thanks so much
for join today. I appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Larry.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yeah, let's talk about Father Anonymous. First, let's talk about
the significance of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
It was the first major battle of the American Revolution.
We all know about Lexington and conquered on April eighteenth
and nineteenth, seventeen seventy five, and Paul Revere's famous ride.
By the way, very few of us know who actually
sent Paul Revere on that ride, and that was doctor
Joseph Warren. He sent Paul and then he stayed back
and he ran the American Revolution for the first two months,
(19:35):
ran the war. And on June seventeenth, seventeen seventy five,
Joseph awoke flagued by the Migraine headaches that plagued him,
and the cannonade had begun. He could hear it, and
over the protests of those closest to him, he rushed
to Bunker Hill and to engage in the fight. And
although he had been commissioned a major general. He refused
(19:58):
command when he got there and insisted on fighting as
a volunteer, and over the entreaties of Colonel Prescott, who
said famously, don't fire till you see the white of
their eyes, most often misquoted as the whites of their eyes,
he refused to return to Cambridge to run the war
and instead went into the hottest spot, this fort that
had been constructed by the way in the wrong spot,
(20:20):
on Breed Hill rather than Bunker Hill, and his men,
who thought they were being sacrificed because they were almost
out of ammunition the British were about to storm for
the third time, saw their beloved leader join them and
so assumed that therefore they were not being sacrificed. And
the British did storm, they did run out of ammunition.
The Patriots they fled. Joseph was last to leave, treating
(20:41):
the wounded and the dying, turning back into the doctor
that he ultimately was, and took a bullet in his
head and died at thirty four. The great first martyr
of the American Revolution.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Why don't we know more about him?
Speaker 5 (20:56):
We don't, in one sense because we're lucky, and another
since because he was unlucky. We don't know more about
him because he didn't survive the war, having died in
the first major battle at Bunker Hill, and so he
didn't play the part that he was supposed to play.
Samuel Adams had chosen him to lead America and play
the role that George Washington ends up playing. America got
(21:17):
really lucky. We had two great leaders at the same time,
excuse me, and the one dies ironically the very same
day June seventeenth, seventeen seventy five, two hundred and fifty
years ago today. Joseph dies on Bunker Hill at the
same day that George Washington in Philadelphia is being handed
(21:37):
his commission as Commander in Chief. And he went on,
as we know, to be the great iconic leader of America.
And so Joseph didn't play the part that he had
been designated to play because he had sacrificed himself early
on in the American Revolution. But there was no conciliation
after that because Joseph had fallen. And if Joseph had
martyled himself and supplied the leadership that he did it,
(22:00):
then we weren't going to conciliate. We were going to
keep going and win this fight for American liberty.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
But the story is so fascinating, and being one of
the first great martyrs for the American experiment and the
American Revolution, you would think that we would know his name,
just like we know Sam Adams, just like we know others,
just like we know we know Benedict Arnold. But we
don't know doctor Joseph Warren. And it's so wonderful that
(22:29):
you're remembering him, and it's so wonderful that you wrote
a play. Tell me what your inspiration was, why you
took this so far that you wanted to write a
play about this.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Well, I was a constitutional history professor for over forty years,
and in that context I studied some of the major
documents of the American Republic and the American experience. And
one of them, which has also become lost to American
memory for most people, was the Suffolk Resolves. Joseph wrote
those in seventeen seventy four in Paul Revere rushed them
(23:01):
down from Boston to Philadelphia. You know, we all know
Paul Revere's famous ride, but his more important ride was
actually earlier, and he rushed the Suffolk Resolves, and it
was in essence a declaration of American legislative independence, and
the First Continental Congress embraced them and enacted them. It
was the first enactment by the Continental Congress, and as
(23:22):
a result, America was on record of no obedience to
acts of parliament that violated our fundamental rights. Obedience to
the king only conditioned upon the respect for the American
traditions that we inherited from Britain. And you know you
asked the question about being lost to history. At the
time Joseph was so well known and so widely mourned.
(23:44):
There were fourteen counties named after Joseph Warren in the
United States. Only three presidents have more Warren County, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
New Jersey, et cetera, et cetera. And yet he has
fallen into obscurity, as you point out, ironically, so did
Paul Revere. He had been lost to America and consciousness
until Longfellow's famous poem. And when I started writing the play,
(24:05):
so had Samuel Adams. But then the beer came about.
And now he's on the lips of many people in
many bars in America.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
So we have a.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Habit of losing sight of our heroes, and the play,
it seems to me, is important because it takes these
cardboard characters that we learned in American history, and we
learned to dismiss in some ways, America. At least, I
was taught to dismiss our heroes, not to learn from them,
not to emulate them and follow from their examples, not
(24:33):
to realize and recognize the sacrifices they made and the
obligation they felt for the sacrifice sacrifices that have been
made in the past, and the obligation they felt to
future generations. And so driven by that, driven by love
of America, driven by the rediscovery of Joseph Warren, and
the felt need to celebrate our heroes and learn from
(24:54):
them and emulate them. I worked on this play and
wrote it, and if it's a seeds for the audience,
it brings them to an emotional relationship with the American Revolution.
You'll see these cardboard characters come to life on stage
and realize that the war was a product of emotional
relationships and deep constitutional commitments, and it's time to celebrate America.
(25:17):
You know, the cast comes from different political persuasions and
disagreements with that policy. But what unites us, and what
hopefully we'll restore the common feeling about America is how
much we really have in common constitutionally, how much we're
deeply committed to the basic principles of this Republican.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Well, I love that you're doing this, and I love
that you're remembering a man that history for good and
should be remembered. Tell people how they can get tickets
and where they can see the play.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
It's at the AMT Theater, which is a charming off
Broadway theater, literally right off Broadway on forty fifth Street
between eighth and ninth Avenue. Go to the website, which
is Fatheranonymous play dot com. Put in two hundred and
fifty and you get discount for the tickets. The tickets
are not expensive, and the experience is live and lively
(26:06):
and real and funny and cheerful, and celebrate America, celebrate
the best of our traditions in our history.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I love that you wrote this. I do want to
go see it. Professor Robert Blecker, playwright of Father Anonymous,
Thank you so much. I could talk to you all day,
but that's all the time we have, and I appreciate
you spending time with us.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Thank you, Larry. I appreciate your having and remembering Joseph
on this day.
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