Larry Mendte goes over the biggest news stories of the day including the latest poll in the NYC Mayoral race, a lawsuit against current Mayor Eric Adams brought forward by former interim NYPD Commissioner Thomas Donlon, and the latest pushback against withholding of the Epstein client list. Bruce Blakeman talks to Larry about his support of ICE officers as Democrats continue to try and hinder their ability to carry out deportations. Rich DeMuro joins Larry to talk about the increased use of AI in our everyday lives and the best ways to use it to make life easier.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And good morning to you. We wake up this morning
in the Big Three with a kind of a shock
or A new independent poll shows a statistical tie, a
three way tie in the New York Mayor's race between
Get This, Mom, Donnie, Cuomo, and Sliwa and with Adams
(00:20):
in fourth place, there are new calls for him to
drop out of the race. The last man we had
of color was thirty years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
How would I look to be stepping down to him
who stepped down from his obligation as the governor.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
He's talking, of course about Cuomo. Eric Adams, however, is
having a really bad day. Not only is he fourth
in that poll, but he's being sued by former Interim
Police Commissioner Thomas Donnellan, who alleges racketeering, fraud, and corruption
by Adams and other brass in the NYPD.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
This is a monstrous allegation, and what I'm reading is
that none of it has been corroborated. You don't see
anything in reports or attachments that would corroborated.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
In the meantime, Mom Donnie was in Washington, d C.
Having a breakfast with the socialist Democrats. It was a socialist,
it was a communist. Get together, and those at the Median,
those at those the meeting came out just positively giddy
about Mom Donnie.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
It's just beautiful to have someone who is so authentic.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
You know that money cannot buy that.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
The doctor that was serving Jill Biden and her chief
of staff now has been called in the investigation as
to who was really running the White House. And again,
and this is fascinating, again, he takes the fifth.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Did any unelected officials or family members ever execute the
duties of the presidency? Simple question? He knew he was
going to be asked that everybody in America wants to
know that he played the fifth.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
The Epstein Maga revolt has now grown on social media
and it's grown into the halls of Congress with Trump
supporters MAGA. Senators like Josh Hawley also upset the idea
that DOJ and the FBI, who've prosecuted cases relating to this,
don't have any idea who Epstein's clients were, and that
(02:31):
he had no record of it of the clients.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I find that kind of hard to believe. I mean,
my view is make public everything you can make public.
It sounds like that's eventually going to happen, and one
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to ten wor so. A lot going on in the
city right now, especially politically. Let's talk about this poll first,
because the poll is actually just it's stunning here it is.
(03:19):
This is in a four way race, and this is
done by Harris X, which teams up with Forbes. So
it's the Forbes poll. Mam Donnie twenty six percent, Cuomo
twenty three percent, SLIWA, Curtis Lee with a Republican twenty
two sent. Eric Adams is at thirteen percent fifteen percent undecided. Now,
(03:46):
the poll has a four point four percentage margin of error,
which means everybody in the top three are within the
margin of error, which means this is statistically a three
way tie. There's some other things they did in the
poll which I find fascting, fascinating. They did head to
(04:08):
head matchups, and for some reason they let up. They
let out Curtis Lye with which I think is unfair.
I think they were shocked at how well Sleiwa did,
and had they known he was going to do so
well in this poll, I think they would have included
him in two way matchups, but they didn't originally. So
what we have is just Mom Donnie against Adams. And
(04:31):
this is why it's so important, because a lot of
people are pressuring either Adams to drop out or Cuomo
to drop out. But in this poll, the one that
would help the Democrats, the ones that would stop Mendanni
is Cuomo because Mom Donnie topples Adams forty three percent
to thirty six percent, closer than I thought it would be.
(04:53):
But Mom Donnie would win against Adams. Listen to this.
Against Cuomo, Donnie would get thirty five percent of the vote. No, no,
no change that they had that written here Rome, but
that's not the way it is. Mom Donnie would get
(05:14):
thirty five percent of the vote. Cuomo would get fifty
percent of the vote. One more time, just because I
think this is significant. Andrew Cuomo in the new poll
gets fifty percent to Mom Donnie's thirty five percent. That
is a fifteen point advantage for Cuomo. So you expect
(05:36):
to hear him talking a lot about this over the
next couple of days. But as I said in The
Big Three, Andrew Cuomo is just having a really bad day,
a really bad day, because he got hit with a
lawsuit right in the middle of all of this. It
is by remember, at about a year and a half ago,
(05:57):
maybe two years ago, when police commit Sure Caban had
to step down and an interim police commissioner was put in.
He was Thomas Donlan and he was put in and
he claims he was just completely ignored by the Adam administration.
He didn't really have any power, and he said that
they ran it like a criminal organization. And he claims,
(06:18):
he claims in this lawsuit he kept going to Mayor
Adams saying, you know, you've got a lot of stuff
going on here you have to address. I mean, there
is some criminal behavior in the police department that you
need to address. And so he lasted three months and
then he was fired. And it's really a thick document
(06:39):
and it alleges racketeering, corruption, bribery and with Eric Adams,
he claims ignoring all of it and at the head
of what he says was almost an organized crime organization.
And Eric Adams is suspicious of the timing of this. Basically,
it's just going to a little lloy when you played
(07:00):
out in court.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Is baseless.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
This is the season, well, you're going to see a
lot of this stuff. People wait until this time of
the season. They know it's a political season.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
But it's base list.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And I'll tell you this. James Cassiros, who was a
well known criminal defense attorney in the area, looked through
the whole thing and he said, there's a lot of
smoke there, but no fire.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
This is a monstrous allegation. And what I'm reading is
that none of it has been corroborated. You don't see
anything in reports or attachments that.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Would corroborate it.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
You know, there's an allegation, for example, that this plaintiff
presented his claims to the mayor, and the mayor, you know,
put his stamp of approval on them. This is testimony,
this is you know, he said, she said, and quite frankly,
it's not enough.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
So it does seem like it was time just to
hurt Adams, doesn't it. I mean, if there's really not
a lot there, and this is a guy's disgrundled. He
is discruddled and he's upset, and I get why he's upset.
He was put in, he was a figurehead. They waited
until they could get somebody else. They moved him out
and they did really well. Jessica Tish, I mean, how
can she might be the best police commissioner of all time,
(08:17):
but she's really great, and so Donlin's just upset. But
the thing is, for a while there he was moved
to another job. He didn't get fired, he was moved
to another job in the administration, and he was happy then.
So why the lawsuit now, the lawsuit now seems to
be to hurt Adams because he's upset with Adams that
he didn't get to keep the police commissioner job, and
(08:38):
he was upset with him, and now he's gonna file
this suit against him when it would hurt him the most,
right in the beginning of his mayoral campaign. So we
we'll keep talking about this because it's there. It's there,
it's going to be litigated, but well, you know, we'll
keep it in the back burner to see where this goes.
In the meantime, the campaign continues, and the new thing
(09:01):
from Cuomo is you're gonna hear this word a lot
from him. Mom, Donnie is dangerous. I believe he is
dangerous for the city. I believe being a type business,
anti corporation. The city has no future if it's not grown.
But not the craziest of the Democrats down in Washington, DC,
(09:23):
like the squad, they love them.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Anybody that's staying out at this point instead of endorsing
this incredible, dynamic leader is missing an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well. That would include the Governor, Kathy Hockel, that would
include the Speaker of the House, Takim Jeffries, those that
are worried about their own political future and think he
might really be bad for the city, and so they're
staying out of it. Kathy Hokl met with him and
still didn't endorse him.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I said, you have a lot of healing to do
with the Jewish community. Many of your words have been
hurtful and hateful to people and their interpretation of it.
So joh number one is to straighten that relationship out
if you can.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Anyway, the race just got a lot more interesting with
this poll. We'll see if other polls come out and
substantiate it. One of the most successful female solo artists
has died. We'll remember the great Connie Francis when we
come right back. Plus tickets to see The Who at
a local venue of your choice at a twenty five
(10:23):
Stay with us now on Capitol Hill, the Democrats do
have a bill and one of the co sponsors of
that bill is New Jersey's own Senator Spartacus who. What
they want to do is make certain that ice officers
do not wear their masks and that they wear identification
at all times, even though it puts their lives at risk.
(10:46):
They want to push forward this bill. Corey Booker is
one of the co sponsors of that bill. In NASA County,
they want to do the exact opposite, and this is
being pushed by NASA County Executive Bruce Black Bikman. Thanks
so much for coming on, County Executive, I really appreciate
your time. Tell us about what you want to do
(11:07):
in NASA County.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Well, we passed a ban on wearing masks in public
about a year ago, primarily because we found that anti
Semites were engaging in harassing activity, violent activity against Jewish students,
against Jewish institutions. And we also found that criminals were
(11:32):
wearing masks to hide their identity, specifically when they're involved
in robberies, carjacking, shoplifting. So we ban the wearing a
mask except for wearing a mask for religious reasons or
healthcare reasons or safety, Okay, So to clarify the safety
(11:53):
aspect of it. When we saw what was happening all
around the United States with these crazy peace people who
are pro criminal, anti cop, anti law enforcement, attacking ICE
agents and local law enforcement because they were wearing masks,
we sat in Nassau County. Wait a second, are ICE
(12:15):
agents that operate in Nassau County, any federal or state
or local law enforcement agency, if they're involved in a
specific operation pursuance to the rules and procedures of their department,
such as a raid on gang activity, things of that nature,
a drug deal, then they could wear a mask and
(12:37):
they would not be prosecuted. Though basically we are protecting
law enforcement. We've got their back here in Nassau County
and that's why we're the safest county in the United
States of America.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, across the country. They are taking the pictures of
ICE officers, figuring out who they are, doxing them online,
telling them where, telling people where they live, and their
families have been threatened. So identifying an ICE officer in
a raid is threatening their lives. This makes no sense. Now,
(13:10):
I know that Corey Booker's bill is not going to
go anywhere because he's a Democrat and the Republicans have
the majority. And I think there's some sensible Democrats that
are also going to say no, that's going too far.
But if there were a federal law, what would happen
in NASA County. Would your law supersede the federal law
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or the other way around.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Well, first of all, I'm the chief executive officer and
I set for the rules and policies or a police department.
So I would fight that, and I would allow our officers,
and I would allow federal, state, and local law enforcement
agencies under the guidelines that I just said that it's
for a specific operation, that it was related to some
(13:56):
kind of operation which could be highly dangerous, or dealing
with a drug cartel, dealing with gang activity, and basically
it's just common sense to let them cover themselves, because,
as you said, Larry, there are these crazy people, anti American,
anti cop, people who are trying to out these law
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enforcement officers. They tell them where they live, and these
people have families, and their families are entitled to protection,
and we're going to protect them here in Nassau County.
So if they tried to do it, and I don't
think they'd be successful, but if they tried to do it,
I would fight at too thin now all the way
to the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I'll tell you what. I just don't understand the Democratic
Party right now being on the wrong side. It seems
of every single issue, including this one. I don't know.
I'll tell you what, Bruce. They seem lost right now.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Well, they've become the party of the pro criminal. Everything
they do is pro criminal. We're in New York State.
They pass laws that are pro criminal, like cashless bail,
like raise the age. Everything they do is to make
it easier for criminals to operate, and it makes it
more difficult on law enforcement and it hurts the victims.
(15:18):
You know, the type of crimes we're talking about. Some
of these ice agents are going after people who've been
engaged in murder, rape, drug dealing. Here in Nassau County,
our drug overdoses, opioid and Sentinel are down forty percent.
A because we have a great police department that does
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a great job. And b because the open border policy
of Biden Harris is over and President Trump is closing
up the borders and therefore the Sentinel and the other
illegal drugs aren't getting to Nassau County like they used
to or other parts of the country. It's just common sense.
But if they don't care about our kids who are
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dying from overdose, they don't care about young girls who
are sold basically into slavery. They don't care about carjackings,
they don't care about shoplifting. They are very pro criminal
oriented and it's a disgrace. And that's why they're failing
(16:23):
miserably in elections because they're on the wrong side of
the issues.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
And their approval ratings at like twenty percent. And something
that's not reported enough right now in the media is
the fact that crime is down in every major city.
They kind of ignore that, but it is all across
since these ice raids. You had Pam Bondi visiting recently,
how did that go.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Boland. Great To get someone of her stature to Nassau
County for the opening of our new police training village,
which is the state of the art training village in
the United States, was something that we're very proud of.
She was very gracious, very kind. She spent a lot
of time with us, and she recognized the hard work
(17:09):
that we're doing here in Nassau County. We've probably got
one of the most sophisticated police departments in the United States,
and I would say, with some amount of bias and
pride that we have the best police department in the
United States, but also our Sheriff's department, our probation officers
all working together, our civilian officers and employees all working
(17:30):
together to keep Nassau County safe. And that's why we're
the safest county in America. That's why Niche magazine said
we're the most desirable place to live in New York State.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
That's wonderful this training village. Describe it to me, Why
is this great for police work?
Speaker 5 (17:48):
So we have created a whole village so police could
train realistically in a real time setting in a real place. So,
for instance, we have a house of worship that can
be one day a Christian church, the next day a
Muslim musque, the next day a Jewish synagogue. So police
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officers can train under realistic conditions. We've got a gas station,
we've got a mini market, we've got a restaurant. We've
even got a train station with a train. We've got
a bank, we've got houses. So when our cops train,
they're training in situations and in a village that will
(18:28):
replicate real life. And we are not only going to
train our police officers, but we've opened it up to federal, state,
and local law enforcement. We had the FDI there, we
had the Secret Service there, we even had CIA, we
had state police, we had police departments from all over
the country. They came there. They could not believe what
(18:49):
we were able to do. We've got a great commissioner,
pat Ryder. It was his vision and I said, pedal
to the metal. Let's get this built. We got it
built in two and a half years. And it's beautiful
and it's gonna save life, gonna be safer for our cops,
and it's gonna be safer for our communities.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Oh that sounds amazing. And my guess is you're gonna
get visits from police departments all across the country, and
they're going to want to do the same thing in
their states and cities. Bruce Blakeman, You're always ahead of
the game, NASA County Executive. Thanks so much, sir. Thanks
for spending time with us today.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Thanks so much, Larry, I'm sure your summer.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Now, let's talk to rich de Muro from rich On Tech.
Rich On Tech has heard Sunday nights from eight to
eleven pm right here on WOOR. You can also reach
out the rich at rich On Tech on Instagram.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Good morning to you're rich Good morning to you, Larry.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Hey, listen, I think everybody is fascinated by AI, but
most people, and I'm including myself in this, we don't
really know how to use AI. I mean, I know
when a Google search ai'll pop up at the top.
That's like the extent of my AI experience at least
I think. But you have a couple of programs, you
(19:58):
have a couple of ways that people can use AI
in their lives.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Yeah. Well, first off, I mean, look, before I get
into the specifics of some of the new features that
are coming along play with AI, just download the app
or go to chat dot com. That'll bring you CHATCHYBT
and just ask it some questions and just you don't
even have to sign in anymore, and you can have
a lot of fun with that and just ask about history,
ask about things on your mind, and just see what
(20:26):
the powerful nature of these AI, you know, systems can do.
And it's really really cool. Like I've got my chatchybt
always on my side next to my web browser and
I just use it as sort of like an everyday
assistant to ask it questions, get opinions, whatever I need
and it just continues to get smarter and you just
use just chatchybt. You know, there's Claude, there's Google Gemini,
(20:48):
so Larry, you've got lots of options there.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, that's great advice. That is great advice. I'm going
to do that immediately. I think everybody should because AI
is coming and it's such a tremendous resources.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
I'm sure you've found out absolutely. And let me tell
you about this new feature from Google Gemini. So this
is another brand of AI, kind of like CHATGBT, but
you can take a photo now, upload it to Google
Gemini and it will animate that photo in an eight
second video clip. So, for instance, I was in London
a couple of weeks ago. I took a picture of
the streets there. I uploaded that to Gemini. I said,
(21:22):
make a big fluffy cute monster walking down the street.
Not only did it put a fluffy cute monster, giant
monster walking down the street, it also animated the cars,
the people walking, and it puts audio in as well.
So this is a brand new feature. It's kind of
the future of everything when it comes to video generation,
and it's really cool. You do have to be a
(21:44):
paid subscriber to try that tool, but Google often makes
them first available to the paid subscribers and then eventually
to everyone, So if you're not paying, stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
And what about this new Microsoft AI.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Yeah, so Microsoft has a new thing called Vision, and
it's basically a way that we're seeing this big trend
of sharing your computer or your phone screen or what
you're seeing with AI, so it can comment on things. So,
for instance, chat Ebt and Gemini both have this feature
where you can have it look at your outfit and say, hey,
(22:18):
what can I match with this? Or does this look good?
Or whatever you want? Or you know, the other day
I was trying to fix something with my sprinkler system
and I aimed Google Gemini at it the camera and
I said, hey, tell me what's wrong here? And I said, oh,
that valves turned off. It should be turned on. And
so again, it's just like the smartest human being or
the smartest thing you've ever experienced as a companion. So anyway,
(22:40):
Microsoft is doing this thing called Desktop Share where if
you're stumped on something or you just need help on something,
you can share your screen with AI and it can
give you inputs in real time. So if you're working
on spreadsheet, doing something creative, playing a game, and you're stuck,
you can just ask AI for help.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
That is incredible. I had no idea I could do
all that. Let's switch topics for a second, because you're
constantly telling us about new phones coming out, and there's
a new phone coming out by Google.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Yeah. So Google makes the Pixel phones. If you can
believe it, They are on the Pixel ten and they
just set a date for their next launch, which is
August twentieth in New York City in Brooklyn, which is
funny because this is exactly where the Samsung launch was
just a couple of weeks ago, and so I don't
know why they picked the same area, but they did.
(23:34):
And we're expecting to see a bunch of new phones
from Google, all the Pixel phones, including their foldable, and
their foldable is supposed to get dust resistance, which I
know sounds silly, but back when foldables were new, if
you've got like a speck of dust in the hinge,
it would ruin the entire screen. So these things just
continue to get better. And of course, as we just
(23:55):
spoke about, Google is really big into AI, so we'll
probably see some new AI I capabilities. And this is
all a prelude to the you know, the elephant in
the room, which is Apple expected to come out with
the iPhone seventeen of course in September. So all these
tech companies have shifted their phone launches to be before
Apple in an attempt to tempt you to get their
(24:17):
phone before Apple reveals there.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
So I have Apple, and I am always tempted to
get the new phone. But you don't need to get
every new iteration, do you Like I have the sixteen,
I don't have to get the seventeen. It can't be
that big of an improvement.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
No, Well, look, it's Apple's job to convince you that
you need the new phone by coming out with compelling
new features, and sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Like,
for instance, when touch id came out, when face ID
came out. When you know those types of like transformative
features came out, people wanted to upgrade. Now phones are
mostly iterative, and you know most people are keeping them
(24:56):
for up to thirty nine months before they change to
a new phone. So you definitely don't need to get
a new phone. But then again, I don't know what
Apple's going to do with the iPhone seventeen. If they
come out with a holographic screen, sure you definitely need that.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
And you know what, I'm waiting for you to convince
me I need a new Pixel, because what'd you say
they're going to be coming out with the eleven?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I just looked I have a.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Six, So yeah, Pixel ten. But here's the beauty about
Pixel is that so much of the beauty of Pixel
is in the software, and Google updates that software for
seven years. So I don't recommend people almost ever need
a new pixel until it breaks because ninety nine percent
of what the capabilities of that phone is is built
(25:35):
into the software. Not necessarily the hardware.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Oh that's great advice. I'm going to ask you quickly
because my wife has this problem. She refuses to download
Eddie pictures because she's afraid she's going to lose them.
How do you go from a smartphone to a flash drive?
Speaker 6 (25:51):
Okay, I just did a couple of Instagram videos about
this because I get so many questions about this, So
check out my instagram at rich on Tech. You need
a flash drive. I use one from PNY. It's super fast,
it can hold up to two terabytes, and basically you
plug that into the bottom of your phone. You open
up your photos app on iPhone and basically select the
(26:12):
photos that you want, and you press that little share
button and there's an option that says export unmodified originals
that will copy your photos right to that flash drive.
You can now transfer them to a computer or just
store them there. On Samsung, it's even easier. Just open
up my files app and tap your images. You can
select all and you can transfer them as well. So
(26:35):
really easy. And a lot of these questions, by the way,
Larry come from the radio show. People email me and
I say, hmm, let me see how to do that,
and I figure it out and now I share it
with everyone.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
And you can get those answers at rich on Tech,
on Instagram, rich Demiro, thank you so much. Rich On
Tech has heard Sunday nights from eight to eleven on
wor
And good morning to you. We wake up this morning
in the Big Three with a kind of a shock
or A new independent poll shows a statistical tie, a
three way tie in the New York Mayor's race between
Get This, Mom, Donnie, Cuomo, and Sliwa and with Adams
(00:20):
in fourth place, there are new calls for him to
drop out of the race. The last man we had
of color was thirty years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
How would I look to be stepping down to him
who stepped down from his obligation as the governor.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
He's talking, of course about Cuomo. Eric Adams, however, is
having a really bad day. Not only is he fourth
in that poll, but he's being sued by former Interim
Police Commissioner Thomas Donnellan, who alleges racketeering, fraud, and corruption
by Adams and other brass in the NYPD.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
This is a monstrous allegation, and what I'm reading is
that none of it has been corroborated. You don't see
anything in reports or attachments that would corroborated.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
In the meantime, Mom Donnie was in Washington, d C.
Having a breakfast with the socialist Democrats. It was a socialist,
it was a communist. Get together, and those at the Median,
those at those the meeting came out just positively giddy
about Mom Donnie.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
It's just beautiful to have someone who is so authentic.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
You know that money cannot buy that.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
The doctor that was serving Jill Biden and her chief
of staff now has been called in the investigation as
to who was really running the White House. And again,
and this is fascinating, again, he takes the fifth.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Did any unelected officials or family members ever execute the
duties of the presidency? Simple question? He knew he was
going to be asked that everybody in America wants to
know that he played the fifth.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
The Epstein Maga revolt has now grown on social media
and it's grown into the halls of Congress with Trump
supporters MAGA. Senators like Josh Hawley also upset the idea
that DOJ and the FBI, who've prosecuted cases relating to this,
don't have any idea who Epstein's clients were, and that
(02:31):
he had no record of it of the clients.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I find that kind of hard to believe. I mean,
my view is make public everything you can make public.
It sounds like that's eventually going to happen, and one
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to ten wor so. A lot going on in the
city right now, especially politically. Let's talk about this poll first,
because the poll is actually just it's stunning here it is.
(03:19):
This is in a four way race, and this is
done by Harris X, which teams up with Forbes. So
it's the Forbes poll. Mam Donnie twenty six percent, Cuomo
twenty three percent, SLIWA, Curtis Lee with a Republican twenty
two sent. Eric Adams is at thirteen percent fifteen percent undecided. Now,
(03:46):
the poll has a four point four percentage margin of error,
which means everybody in the top three are within the
margin of error, which means this is statistically a three
way tie. There's some other things they did in the
poll which I find fascting, fascinating. They did head to
(04:08):
head matchups, and for some reason they let up. They
let out Curtis Lye with which I think is unfair.
I think they were shocked at how well Sleiwa did,
and had they known he was going to do so
well in this poll, I think they would have included
him in two way matchups, but they didn't originally. So
what we have is just Mom Donnie against Adams. And
(04:31):
this is why it's so important, because a lot of
people are pressuring either Adams to drop out or Cuomo
to drop out. But in this poll, the one that
would help the Democrats, the ones that would stop Mendanni
is Cuomo because Mom Donnie topples Adams forty three percent
to thirty six percent, closer than I thought it would be.
(04:53):
But Mom Donnie would win against Adams. Listen to this.
Against Cuomo, Donnie would get thirty five percent of the vote. No, no,
no change that they had that written here Rome, but
that's not the way it is. Mom Donnie would get
(05:14):
thirty five percent of the vote. Cuomo would get fifty
percent of the vote. One more time, just because I
think this is significant. Andrew Cuomo in the new poll
gets fifty percent to Mom Donnie's thirty five percent. That
is a fifteen point advantage for Cuomo. So you expect
(05:36):
to hear him talking a lot about this over the
next couple of days. But as I said in The
Big Three, Andrew Cuomo is just having a really bad day,
a really bad day, because he got hit with a
lawsuit right in the middle of all of this. It
is by remember, at about a year and a half ago,
(05:57):
maybe two years ago, when police commit Sure Caban had
to step down and an interim police commissioner was put in.
He was Thomas Donlan and he was put in and
he claims he was just completely ignored by the Adam administration.
He didn't really have any power, and he said that
they ran it like a criminal organization. And he claims,
(06:18):
he claims in this lawsuit he kept going to Mayor
Adams saying, you know, you've got a lot of stuff
going on here you have to address. I mean, there
is some criminal behavior in the police department that you
need to address. And so he lasted three months and
then he was fired. And it's really a thick document
(06:39):
and it alleges racketeering, corruption, bribery and with Eric Adams,
he claims ignoring all of it and at the head
of what he says was almost an organized crime organization.
And Eric Adams is suspicious of the timing of this. Basically,
it's just going to a little lloy when you played
(07:00):
out in court.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Is baseless.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
This is the season, well, you're going to see a
lot of this stuff. People wait until this time of
the season. They know it's a political season.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
But it's base list.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And I'll tell you this. James Cassiros, who was a
well known criminal defense attorney in the area, looked through
the whole thing and he said, there's a lot of
smoke there, but no fire.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
This is a monstrous allegation. And what I'm reading is
that none of it has been corroborated. You don't see
anything in reports or attachments that.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Would corroborate it.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
You know, there's an allegation, for example, that this plaintiff
presented his claims to the mayor, and the mayor, you know,
put his stamp of approval on them. This is testimony,
this is you know, he said, she said, and quite frankly,
it's not enough.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
So it does seem like it was time just to
hurt Adams, doesn't it. I mean, if there's really not
a lot there, and this is a guy's disgrundled. He
is discruddled and he's upset, and I get why he's upset.
He was put in, he was a figurehead. They waited
until they could get somebody else. They moved him out
and they did really well. Jessica Tish, I mean, how
can she might be the best police commissioner of all time,
(08:17):
but she's really great, and so Donlin's just upset. But
the thing is, for a while there he was moved
to another job. He didn't get fired, he was moved
to another job in the administration, and he was happy then.
So why the lawsuit now, the lawsuit now seems to
be to hurt Adams because he's upset with Adams that
he didn't get to keep the police commissioner job, and
(08:38):
he was upset with him, and now he's gonna file
this suit against him when it would hurt him the most,
right in the beginning of his mayoral campaign. So we
we'll keep talking about this because it's there. It's there,
it's going to be litigated, but well, you know, we'll
keep it in the back burner to see where this goes.
In the meantime, the campaign continues, and the new thing
(09:01):
from Cuomo is you're gonna hear this word a lot
from him. Mom, Donnie is dangerous. I believe he is
dangerous for the city. I believe being a type business,
anti corporation. The city has no future if it's not grown.
But not the craziest of the Democrats down in Washington, DC,
(09:23):
like the squad, they love them.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Anybody that's staying out at this point instead of endorsing
this incredible, dynamic leader is missing an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well. That would include the Governor, Kathy Hockel, that would
include the Speaker of the House, Takim Jeffries, those that
are worried about their own political future and think he
might really be bad for the city, and so they're
staying out of it. Kathy Hokl met with him and
still didn't endorse him.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I said, you have a lot of healing to do
with the Jewish community. Many of your words have been
hurtful and hateful to people and their interpretation of it.
So joh number one is to straighten that relationship out
if you can.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Anyway, the race just got a lot more interesting with
this poll. We'll see if other polls come out and
substantiate it. One of the most successful female solo artists
has died. We'll remember the great Connie Francis when we
come right back. Plus tickets to see The Who at
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(10:23):
Stay with us now on Capitol Hill, the Democrats do
have a bill and one of the co sponsors of
that bill is New Jersey's own Senator Spartacus who. What
they want to do is make certain that ice officers
do not wear their masks and that they wear identification
at all times, even though it puts their lives at risk.
(10:46):
They want to push forward this bill. Corey Booker is
one of the co sponsors of that bill. In NASA County,
they want to do the exact opposite, and this is
being pushed by NASA County Executive Bruce Black Bikman. Thanks
so much for coming on, County Executive, I really appreciate
your time. Tell us about what you want to do
(11:07):
in NASA County.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Well, we passed a ban on wearing masks in public
about a year ago, primarily because we found that anti
Semites were engaging in harassing activity, violent activity against Jewish students,
against Jewish institutions. And we also found that criminals were
(11:32):
wearing masks to hide their identity, specifically when they're involved
in robberies, carjacking, shoplifting. So we ban the wearing a
mask except for wearing a mask for religious reasons or
healthcare reasons or safety, Okay, So to clarify the safety
(11:53):
aspect of it. When we saw what was happening all
around the United States with these crazy peace people who
are pro criminal, anti cop, anti law enforcement, attacking ICE
agents and local law enforcement because they were wearing masks,
we sat in Nassau County. Wait a second, are ICE
(12:15):
agents that operate in Nassau County, any federal or state
or local law enforcement agency, if they're involved in a
specific operation pursuance to the rules and procedures of their department,
such as a raid on gang activity, things of that nature,
a drug deal, then they could wear a mask and
(12:37):
they would not be prosecuted. Though basically we are protecting
law enforcement. We've got their back here in Nassau County
and that's why we're the safest county in the United
States of America.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, across the country. They are taking the pictures of
ICE officers, figuring out who they are, doxing them online,
telling them where, telling people where they live, and their
families have been threatened. So identifying an ICE officer in
a raid is threatening their lives. This makes no sense. Now,
(13:10):
I know that Corey Booker's bill is not going to
go anywhere because he's a Democrat and the Republicans have
the majority. And I think there's some sensible Democrats that
are also going to say no, that's going too far.
But if there were a federal law, what would happen
in NASA County. Would your law supersede the federal law
(13:31):
or the other way around.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Well, first of all, I'm the chief executive officer and
I set for the rules and policies or a police department.
So I would fight that, and I would allow our officers,
and I would allow federal, state, and local law enforcement
agencies under the guidelines that I just said that it's
for a specific operation, that it was related to some
(13:56):
kind of operation which could be highly dangerous, or dealing
with a drug cartel, dealing with gang activity, and basically
it's just common sense to let them cover themselves, because,
as you said, Larry, there are these crazy people, anti American,
anti cop, people who are trying to out these law
(14:19):
enforcement officers. They tell them where they live, and these
people have families, and their families are entitled to protection,
and we're going to protect them here in Nassau County.
So if they tried to do it, and I don't
think they'd be successful, but if they tried to do it,
I would fight at too thin now all the way
to the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I'll tell you what. I just don't understand the Democratic
Party right now being on the wrong side. It seems
of every single issue, including this one. I don't know.
I'll tell you what, Bruce. They seem lost right now.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Well, they've become the party of the pro criminal. Everything
they do is pro criminal. We're in New York State.
They pass laws that are pro criminal, like cashless bail,
like raise the age. Everything they do is to make
it easier for criminals to operate, and it makes it
more difficult on law enforcement and it hurts the victims.
(15:18):
You know, the type of crimes we're talking about. Some
of these ice agents are going after people who've been
engaged in murder, rape, drug dealing. Here in Nassau County,
our drug overdoses, opioid and Sentinel are down forty percent.
A because we have a great police department that does
(15:40):
a great job. And b because the open border policy
of Biden Harris is over and President Trump is closing
up the borders and therefore the Sentinel and the other
illegal drugs aren't getting to Nassau County like they used
to or other parts of the country. It's just common sense.
But if they don't care about our kids who are
(16:02):
dying from overdose, they don't care about young girls who
are sold basically into slavery. They don't care about carjackings,
they don't care about shoplifting. They are very pro criminal
oriented and it's a disgrace. And that's why they're failing
(16:23):
miserably in elections because they're on the wrong side of
the issues.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
And their approval ratings at like twenty percent. And something
that's not reported enough right now in the media is
the fact that crime is down in every major city.
They kind of ignore that, but it is all across
since these ice raids. You had Pam Bondi visiting recently,
how did that go.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Boland. Great To get someone of her stature to Nassau
County for the opening of our new police training village,
which is the state of the art training village in
the United States, was something that we're very proud of.
She was very gracious, very kind. She spent a lot
of time with us, and she recognized the hard work
(17:09):
that we're doing here in Nassau County. We've probably got
one of the most sophisticated police departments in the United States,
and I would say, with some amount of bias and
pride that we have the best police department in the
United States, but also our Sheriff's department, our probation officers
all working together, our civilian officers and employees all working
(17:30):
together to keep Nassau County safe. And that's why we're
the safest county in America. That's why Niche magazine said
we're the most desirable place to live in New York State.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
That's wonderful this training village. Describe it to me, Why
is this great for police work?
Speaker 5 (17:48):
So we have created a whole village so police could
train realistically in a real time setting in a real place. So,
for instance, we have a house of worship that can
be one day a Christian church, the next day a
Muslim musque, the next day a Jewish synagogue. So police
(18:08):
officers can train under realistic conditions. We've got a gas station,
we've got a mini market, we've got a restaurant. We've
even got a train station with a train. We've got
a bank, we've got houses. So when our cops train,
they're training in situations and in a village that will
(18:28):
replicate real life. And we are not only going to
train our police officers, but we've opened it up to federal, state,
and local law enforcement. We had the FDI there, we
had the Secret Service there, we even had CIA, we
had state police, we had police departments from all over
the country. They came there. They could not believe what
(18:49):
we were able to do. We've got a great commissioner,
pat Ryder. It was his vision and I said, pedal
to the metal. Let's get this built. We got it
built in two and a half years. And it's beautiful
and it's gonna save life, gonna be safer for our cops,
and it's gonna be safer for our communities.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Oh that sounds amazing. And my guess is you're gonna
get visits from police departments all across the country, and
they're going to want to do the same thing in
their states and cities. Bruce Blakeman, You're always ahead of
the game, NASA County Executive. Thanks so much, sir. Thanks
for spending time with us today.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Thanks so much, Larry, I'm sure your summer.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Now, let's talk to rich de Muro from rich On Tech.
Rich On Tech has heard Sunday nights from eight to
eleven pm right here on WOOR. You can also reach
out the rich at rich On Tech on Instagram.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Good morning to you're rich Good morning to you, Larry.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Hey, listen, I think everybody is fascinated by AI, but
most people, and I'm including myself in this, we don't
really know how to use AI. I mean, I know
when a Google search ai'll pop up at the top.
That's like the extent of my AI experience at least
I think. But you have a couple of programs, you
(19:58):
have a couple of ways that people can use AI
in their lives.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Yeah. Well, first off, I mean, look, before I get
into the specifics of some of the new features that
are coming along play with AI, just download the app
or go to chat dot com. That'll bring you CHATCHYBT
and just ask it some questions and just you don't
even have to sign in anymore, and you can have
a lot of fun with that and just ask about history,
ask about things on your mind, and just see what
(20:26):
the powerful nature of these AI, you know, systems can do.
And it's really really cool. Like I've got my chatchybt
always on my side next to my web browser and
I just use it as sort of like an everyday
assistant to ask it questions, get opinions, whatever I need
and it just continues to get smarter and you just
use just chatchybt. You know, there's Claude, there's Google Gemini,
(20:48):
so Larry, you've got lots of options there.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, that's great advice. That is great advice. I'm going
to do that immediately. I think everybody should because AI
is coming and it's such a tremendous resources.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
I'm sure you've found out absolutely. And let me tell
you about this new feature from Google Gemini. So this
is another brand of AI, kind of like CHATGBT, but
you can take a photo now, upload it to Google
Gemini and it will animate that photo in an eight
second video clip. So, for instance, I was in London
a couple of weeks ago. I took a picture of
the streets there. I uploaded that to Gemini. I said,
(21:22):
make a big fluffy cute monster walking down the street.
Not only did it put a fluffy cute monster, giant
monster walking down the street, it also animated the cars,
the people walking, and it puts audio in as well.
So this is a brand new feature. It's kind of
the future of everything when it comes to video generation,
and it's really cool. You do have to be a
(21:44):
paid subscriber to try that tool, but Google often makes
them first available to the paid subscribers and then eventually
to everyone, So if you're not paying, stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
And what about this new Microsoft AI.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Yeah, so Microsoft has a new thing called Vision, and
it's basically a way that we're seeing this big trend
of sharing your computer or your phone screen or what
you're seeing with AI, so it can comment on things. So,
for instance, chat Ebt and Gemini both have this feature
where you can have it look at your outfit and say, hey,
(22:18):
what can I match with this? Or does this look good?
Or whatever you want? Or you know, the other day
I was trying to fix something with my sprinkler system
and I aimed Google Gemini at it the camera and
I said, hey, tell me what's wrong here? And I said, oh,
that valves turned off. It should be turned on. And
so again, it's just like the smartest human being or
the smartest thing you've ever experienced as a companion. So anyway,
(22:40):
Microsoft is doing this thing called Desktop Share where if
you're stumped on something or you just need help on something,
you can share your screen with AI and it can
give you inputs in real time. So if you're working
on spreadsheet, doing something creative, playing a game, and you're stuck,
you can just ask AI for help.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
That is incredible. I had no idea I could do
all that. Let's switch topics for a second, because you're
constantly telling us about new phones coming out, and there's
a new phone coming out by Google.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Yeah. So Google makes the Pixel phones. If you can
believe it, They are on the Pixel ten and they
just set a date for their next launch, which is
August twentieth in New York City in Brooklyn, which is
funny because this is exactly where the Samsung launch was
just a couple of weeks ago, and so I don't
know why they picked the same area, but they did.
(23:34):
And we're expecting to see a bunch of new phones
from Google, all the Pixel phones, including their foldable, and
their foldable is supposed to get dust resistance, which I
know sounds silly, but back when foldables were new, if
you've got like a speck of dust in the hinge,
it would ruin the entire screen. So these things just
continue to get better. And of course, as we just
(23:55):
spoke about, Google is really big into AI, so we'll
probably see some new AI I capabilities. And this is
all a prelude to the you know, the elephant in
the room, which is Apple expected to come out with
the iPhone seventeen of course in September. So all these
tech companies have shifted their phone launches to be before
Apple in an attempt to tempt you to get their
(24:17):
phone before Apple reveals there.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
So I have Apple, and I am always tempted to
get the new phone. But you don't need to get
every new iteration, do you Like I have the sixteen,
I don't have to get the seventeen. It can't be
that big of an improvement.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
No, Well, look, it's Apple's job to convince you that
you need the new phone by coming out with compelling
new features, and sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Like,
for instance, when touch id came out, when face ID
came out. When you know those types of like transformative
features came out, people wanted to upgrade. Now phones are
mostly iterative, and you know most people are keeping them
(24:56):
for up to thirty nine months before they change to
a new phone. So you definitely don't need to get
a new phone. But then again, I don't know what
Apple's going to do with the iPhone seventeen. If they
come out with a holographic screen, sure you definitely need that.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
And you know what, I'm waiting for you to convince
me I need a new Pixel, because what'd you say
they're going to be coming out with the eleven?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I just looked I have a.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Six, So yeah, Pixel ten. But here's the beauty about
Pixel is that so much of the beauty of Pixel
is in the software, and Google updates that software for
seven years. So I don't recommend people almost ever need
a new pixel until it breaks because ninety nine percent
of what the capabilities of that phone is is built
(25:35):
into the software. Not necessarily the hardware.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Oh that's great advice. I'm going to ask you quickly
because my wife has this problem. She refuses to download
Eddie pictures because she's afraid she's going to lose them.
How do you go from a smartphone to a flash drive?
Speaker 6 (25:51):
Okay, I just did a couple of Instagram videos about
this because I get so many questions about this, So
check out my instagram at rich on Tech. You need
a flash drive. I use one from PNY. It's super fast,
it can hold up to two terabytes, and basically you
plug that into the bottom of your phone. You open
up your photos app on iPhone and basically select the
(26:12):
photos that you want, and you press that little share
button and there's an option that says export unmodified originals
that will copy your photos right to that flash drive.
You can now transfer them to a computer or just
store them there. On Samsung, it's even easier. Just open
up my files app and tap your images. You can
select all and you can transfer them as well. So
(26:35):
really easy. And a lot of these questions, by the way,
Larry come from the radio show. People email me and
I say, hmm, let me see how to do that,
and I figure it out and now I share it
with everyone.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
And you can get those answers at rich on Tech,
on Instagram, rich Demiro, thank you so much. Rich On
Tech has heard Sunday nights from eight to eleven on
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