Larry Mendte goes over the biggest news stories of the day including a peace deal being agreed to for the Gaza war, the final debate for the NJ Governors race between Jack Ciattarelli and Mikie Sherrill, and Rudy Giuliana endorsing Curtis Sliwa in the Mayors race. Jordana Miller joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about the feelings in Israel as a peace deal has been struck to end the war in Gaza. Jeremy Piven joined Larry to talk about his stand up comedy tour and some funny stories from the road.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Going on, good morning to you in the Middle East.
Peace that leads off the Big Three. Donald Trump negotiates
peace for the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Great for Muslims, for the Arab countries, and so great
for this country, for the United States of America, and
that we could be involved in, you know, making a
deal like this happened because it was you know, many
years they talked about peace in the Middle East. This
is more than Gaza. This is peace in the Middle East,
and it's an incredible thing.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
The first phase is expected to happen within days now,
and the hostages will be released. All of the hostages,
even the ones that aren't alive anymore, will be released,
and Israel will pull out of Gaza. It is an
enormous day, a huge day for Israel, for America, and,
(00:56):
as Donald Trump said, for the rest of the world.
The final debate in the campaign to be New Jersey's
next governor with Republican Jack Chinarelli and Democrat Mikey Cheryl, Well,
it got downright nasty.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Got paid to develop an app so that more people
could get more opioids and die. But here's the fact college,
even during.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Even I got the walk at my college and I'm
you're so.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Black, so that you then went on to kill tens
of thousands of people in New Jersey, including chel.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
We'll explain that tens of thousands of people coming up
and in the New York City Mayor rays former Mayor
Rudy Giuliani, once known as America's Mayor, is endorsing Curtis Leiwa.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Has been a hero for New York from the time
almost he was born.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Think of Rudy Giuliani two point zero, I learned from
the best. New York Congressman Mike Lawler confronts Minority Leader
Hakim Jeffries in the halls of Congress over the shutdown. No,
I'm here on my behalf from situations.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Shut the governor down, and my constituents are suffering as
a result of your ridiculous ploy because you're so afraid
of Zorron Mondammie.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
By the way, why are you endorsing them?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
By the way, if you endorse them, first.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Of all, are you going to endorse them for medicon
You're You're a complete and total embarrassment right now, you
don't want to answer that question.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
The government shutdown now stretches into the ninth day, and
patience is getting thin.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I'm sorry, I'm aggravated.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
The first responsibility of the government is to protect the people,
and the people who are supposed to be protected are
being completely cheated.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
And Dolly Parton wants you to know that she's doing
just fine. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
I know lately everybody thinks that I am sicker than.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I am do I look sick to you. I'm working
hard here.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
And I've held off on the Yankees. The Yankees are
not moving on. No World Series this year, not in
a American League championship. They lost last night to the
Toronto Blue Jays. The season is over. Now we think
about next year. And by the way, you can go
to the iHeartRadio app and leave us a talkback. You
(03:13):
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seven to ten. Woor Well, what else to talk about
but the news that we now have peace in the
Middle East, maybe for the first time. Late last night,
(03:36):
Iran signed on to the deal. It is incredible. The
whole world has come together and everyone, everyone in Europe,
in the Middle East, throughout the world is giving credit
to Donald Trump for this. And right now there's a
celebration in Israel. So that's the celebration in Israel. Also
(04:08):
they're celebrating in Palestine. It is a wonderful day throughout
the world. This may be the first time ever we
have a real peace in the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
So great for Israel, so great for Muslims, for the
Arab countries, and so great for this country, for the
United States of America, and that we could be involved in,
you know, making a deal like this happened because it
was you know, many years they talked about peace in
the Middle East. This is more than Gaza. This is
peace in the Middle East. And it's an incredible thing.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
It's amazing the way he says this came about. He
says that tariffs is what brought everyone together.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Tariffs have he brought peace to the world. I'm telling you,
they brought peace to the world. And not only here,
but with so many other deals. You know, I've made
seven peace deals where countries were in many cases thirty
thirty one years, one thirty five, one thirty seven years,
they've been fighting in millions of people being killed, and
I brought peace, and I did it through in not
(05:20):
all cases, but probably and at least five of the
seven that we've done so far it was through trade.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So he goes on to explain he uses the tariffs
as both a carrot and a stick. He can give
a cutter in Saudi Arabia and Egypt a great tariff
deal and work with them on trading business like he
did months ago, and that brings them closer to the
(05:50):
United States. And since they're closer to us, when we
say to them, you've got to help us get peace
in the Middle East, they don't want to ruin that
relationship because it's going to make trillions for them. Also,
he uses it as a stick to say, if you
don't do this, we're going to up your tariffs. So
we're just not going to trade with you. And that's
(06:12):
how we was able to bring all of these countries
to the table, even Iran. And when it comes to Iran,
it was different than the terriffs because we weren't trading
with Iran. It was taking out the nuclear facilities.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Well, Iran was about one month maybe two months away
from having a nuclear weapon, and if I allowed that
to happen, this deal would not have been possible, or
if it was, it would have a tremendous cloud over
it because you'd have a country with a nuclear weapon
that was not obviously very friendly.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Now around the world, you heard the celebrations, and around
the world they are praising Donald Trump. It's going to
be really interesting to see what the Democrats do because
our whole existence is condemning, criticizing Donald Trump, calling him
(07:08):
an authoritarian, calling him a fascist. What are they going
to do now? Are they going to celebrate this or
are they going to shut up? Nobody was talking last
night with the exception, with the brilliant exception of Senator
from Pennsylvania John Fetterman.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Oh, I'm in on the two anniversary after twenty seven,
so like those poor souls finally have a chance to
maybe go home and as the first opportunity for enduring peace.
I don't care what the politics are because we hate,
We don't agree on everything, but we certainly share a
commitment for Israel.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
How did John Fetterman become the most brilliant person John
Fetterman in his sweatshirt, who came in right after suffering
a stroke, become the smartest person in the Democratic Party.
He's going to win reelection in Pennsylvania easily because he's rational.
(08:07):
He can say I'm pro Israel, he can say Donald
Trump did a great job. He can say I'm against crime,
he can say I'm against illegal immigration. All those things
just make sense. Donald Trump forces the Democrats on the
wrong side of every issue. Betterman says, no, I'm not
going to go there. I agree with you. I disagree
(08:30):
with you on a lot of things. But what I
agree with you on and what you do, well, I'll
praise you for. Isn't that rational? Now? The interesting thing
is going to be tomorrow the Norwegian Nobel Committee gives
out the Nobel Peace Prize. I'm sure they already have
(08:52):
a selection. Do they change it, because aren't they going
to look silly now now that there is peace in
the Middle East for the first time, well ever, that
they don't give it to Donald Trump, won't they look ridiculous?
(09:15):
And yet I don't hold out too much hope. I
think they disagree with Donald Trump so much on things
like climate change that the most important thing in the
world to them, that they won't give it to him.
They won't give it to him for the same reason
that many Democrats won't come out today and say what
(09:37):
an amazing thing happened because they dislike Donald Trump. Because
they dislike the man, they can't accept that he just
did something wonderful. A lot of people in this country
are not going to accept that he did something wonderful,
and yet he was the only one in the world
(09:59):
who could do it. And now it's done. Donald Trump
will go down in history as bringing peace to the
Middle East, and watch half this country and much of
the world won't acknowledge it because they dislike the man
so much. How sad. You can go to the iHeartRadio
(10:20):
app and leave us a talkback. You could win a
limited edition Mente in the Morning t shirt. You know,
it's difficult enough to have to portray an icon like
Bruce Springsteen. It's even tougher when he's right there on
the set watching hear what the actor who plays Springsteen
has to say about that. Next, I'm excited to get
to Jordana Miller. I'm sure she's excited about what's happening today.
(10:40):
Jordana Miller is the ABC News correspondent in Jerusalem. She
also lives in Israel with her kids, where they are
celebrating today. And so there's Jordana Miller, who is the correspondent.
There's Jordana Miller, the mom and someone who lives in Israel.
And Jordana, you and your neighbors and everybody we've gotten
(11:03):
to know you over the last couple of years. We
feel wonderful for you and everybody there. And tell me
what the feeling is in your house and in your
neighborhood and in the country.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
I think there's an incredible sense of relief and I
would say disbelief that it happened so quickly, and gratitude
to President Trump. I mean, it has been a night
you know that. I know I will always remember as
clearly as I did the day the war started two
(11:38):
years ago. You know, the joy that broke out in
Hostage Square, people dancing and singing, parents calling in to
you know, Israeli television radio, crying and thanking President Trump
as well. I mean, it's hard to believe that after
(12:01):
two years that it's actually the war really feels like
it is over, and there's a sense of you know,
people can breathe.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
I know, for me, oh, we just lost her.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
That was that was wonderful too. We'll get we'll get
her back and we'll be able to talk to her.
But yeah, we have gotten to know Jordana and her kids.
You'll hear them sometimes in the background as she's reporting
from her home, and you know, I just feel I
feel wonderful for her and everybody in Israel. And you've
(12:36):
heard the celebrations in the streets in Israel that is
going on throughout Israel, and by the way, those type
of celebrations are going on in Palestine as well. Jordana,
what you were saying was wonderful. When you cut out,
(12:58):
please continue.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Oh, I was just saying that there's you know, there's
been so much relief and celebration, and you know, it
just so happened that. I mean, I think a lot
of people in Israel think that nothing really happens by accident.
But both of my children woke up around three point
thirty in the morning last night here and I said
(13:22):
to them, you know, hey, guys, there's no more sirens.
You know, that's it, you know, no more bad guys,
no more sirens.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
And what did they do? How did they react?
Speaker 6 (13:36):
They said, yeah, you know, not even if they totally understood.
But you know, I think there's a sense of real
you know joy. Now we're going to see the Israeli
Prime Minister put President Trump's the first phase of President
Trump's feel up for a government vote today to ratify
(13:57):
it around six pm local so eleven am. The stern
After that vote, which we expect will of course pass,
even if the far right pulls out of the vote,
doesn't matter. The opposition will vote, will step in and
pass the pass and ratify it. Then we will begin.
(14:18):
The ceasefire will take place right after that's ratified. So
all the you know, right now there's still some intermittent
IDF attacks and bombings, but it will it is set
to stop. The minute the deal is ratified, the Israeli
army will start. They'll have twenty four hours to pull
(14:38):
back to what's called the yellow line. It's a oh.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
The yellow line, that's they have to pull back out
of certain areas of Gaza. But they have a lot
of time to get all the way out of Gaza.
And so yeah, Jordana, I think a lot of people
are making fulls out of Israel today, But go ahead
continue please.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
Yeah, oh, I was saying that, you know, everyone's you know,
anxiously waiting for the Israeli government to ratify the deal
at around six pm Local time eleven am Eastern and
that will essentially larry usher in the end of the war.
The IDEF will halt all its operations, Hamas will agree
(15:24):
to halt all its operations. The fighting will end, and
the Israeli army will begin to withdraw to its first redeployment,
the first withdrawal from Gaza what's being called the Yellow Line,
and it is it'll roughly move the Israelis out of
about thirty percent of the Gaza Strip right now they're
(15:47):
holding about eighty percent. It'll move them back east towards
the Israeli border, out of Gaza City, out of parts
of northern Gaza, out of parts of central Gaza, and
move them for their east. Israel will still be controlling
about fifty percent of the Gaza Strip with their troops
(16:07):
until Phase two is signed off on. And we understand
that on Sunday or Monday, all of the living Israeli hostages,
all twenty will come out in one stole swoop. And
it's being reported here though we haven't confirmed it with
the White House, that President Trump will be here in
Israel to see the living hostages come out, and then
(16:30):
he will give what many I'm sure we'll call a
historic address to Israel's Parliament on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
It is all just so wonderful. Is there skepticism in
Israel right now that this won't last?
Speaker 6 (16:45):
I think so fear is not that Hamas or Israel
will screw up Phase one. I do think we're going
to see the hostages come out. Unfortunately, the bodies of
the hostages, those twenty eight I think that will take
longer because Hamas doesn't know where all of them are.
But what I think the fear here is that Phase
(17:06):
two is going to be a lot more difficult. Phase
two will require Hamas to disarm, it will require an
international security force to come in and begin to run
the military affairs of the Gaza Strip, and it'll be
a challenge to set up that governing council. There's going
(17:28):
to be disputes about who's in charge of that council
right now, it's supposed to be basically President Trump, right,
he'll sit on he'll oversee this council with but Hamas
is going to argue that they want Palestinians on that
council and then the Israelis have to complete their second
withdrawal to a much smaller part of the Gaza strip
(17:51):
to the security buffer. Those are big, and the reinvestment
plan to rebuild Gaza.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, a lot still to happen, but let's just elebrate
this day because it's wonderful and we are so happy
for you and your family and everyone in Israel. Embarrassed
to say, I'm a little bit of a fanboy right
now because I have loved this actor for a long
long time. Jeremy Pivots.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Oh, come on, we just met in the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Literally, But that's how all great relationships start, right, said
the bishop to the show girl.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
What I'm sorry, Sorry.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I apologize with the bathroom.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Okay, had humor. I apologize that's not right for anyone.
But I literally just ran into you. By the way,
that's how my first TV show ever, the Larry Sanders
Show with Gary Shanling, I met him in the bathroom,
just like that, just before I auditioned. So this is
going to go really well. Oh I'm just telling.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
You don't expect big things from this.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Oh this is no this is gonna be viciously mediocre.
This entire interview.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
No, I know that, I know.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I'm glad you have low expectations. By the way, he's
an Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor. You know him
from the hit shows like Entourage, for which he won
three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. And he's
New York because he's got another passion, stand up comedy.
He'll be performing on stages across the globe, but right
now he is bringing his national tour to New York
(19:16):
Sony Hall on October nineteenth. It's a different kind of
audience in New.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
York, the best audience actually, because the reality is I
mean I was born here, went to NYU, and grew
up in Chicago. But any excuse that I can get
to come here. The audience here are confident, vocal, sharp,
and they will give it to you straight. And there's
an old saying you got to go where you're loved,
(19:41):
and I really do feel loved here. I have to
say it. So that's you know why I wanted to
go to Sony Hall. It's intimate, about five hundred people,
and you know you got to get your tickets fast.
That's why I wanted to come here and let people
know I'm going to be here and we need to
laugh now more than ever. And people don't realize that
I'm a stand up and you know, when they see
(20:02):
me playing Ari Gold or any of these characters, they
assume that I'm improvising when the reality is. With Entourage specifically,
it was all written every word, but I was always
trying to like pitch jokes and ideas, and this is
a way for me to just have total freedom and
there's nothing better.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
How many shows have you done so far? Are you
on the tour? Now?
Speaker 4 (20:23):
I'm on the tour. Now. You know I do a
couple hundred shows a year.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I do.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
I do like to five to eight shows a week,
but that's nothing. Look at New York has the best
comics in the world. That's just the way it is.
You know, I'm jumping up on stage at the Stand
and various places around town all week.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
And you know you can.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Get four five spots in a night here in New
York because you know, New Yorkers love their comedy and
You've got the Comedy Seller and all the iconic spots
in the world.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
So I love it.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Well if you want to get tickets, and I'm definitely
gonna go. I love this guy, Jeremy Dashpiven dot com.
That's Jeremy dash Piving gout. Yeah, that's how you can
get some tickets for the show.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
And you and you caught me stretching, and I apologize,
but I'm getting older and this is how you know
you're getting older. I used to look at a woman
in a short skirt and I'd be.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Like, Wow, she's hot. And now I'm like, I wonder
if she's cold.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Good night everyone, Thank you for coming. Yes, enjoy the veal.
Yes she is cold.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Can we tell you?
Speaker 5 (21:23):
I had sorry, I had to slip in a joke
because people are like, this guy funny, I spend my money. Hey, Ari,
you're a douchebag. I'm a douchebag because of you.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Ari.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Are you funny? Yes, I'm funny, sir.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
No.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
I literally was just in Boston, another great town where
you know that in Philly, uh, you know, very outspoken cities.
You know you're gonna you're gonna get it straight. And
there was a dude. I was at the Wilberth Theater
there and I was taking a selfie out front because
I was on the marquee and this dude goes, yo, man, me,
my girl love a rush hour that scene and I go, oh,
(22:00):
thanks man. He was sitting down. I go, thanks man.
He goes, yo, man, do that scene for me. I
swear to god. I was like, I'm sorry. He goes
do the scene right now, and he lifts his phone
up to record me. I go, you want me to
do a seven minute scene for you?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Sir? You're a stranger. He stood up. He was six
foot seven. I looked at him. I said, so you've
got the mokeijina skin and the big broad shoulders. Let's
put a dead animal on you. Butter cream.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Butter cream cracked again, butter cream? What's blow the way?
It's mystery means. I was like, can I do it again?
And he's like, no, no, you only get one take.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Bitch.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Now, I heard you do interviews about this, about that
very scene.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
You had lived that well that I have lived every
every single word. And that's you know when people are like, look,
and I've been touring as a stand up for ten years,
and yet I've been on stage since I was eight
years old, and I've been writing on my feet and
essentially doing stand up like basically like rush Hour, wor
stand up comedy because I'm improvising in real time. Now,
(23:01):
Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker each made twenty million. I
made two hundred and seventy dollars for that cameo. And
I'm very bitter and that's why I'm here because I
need money.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Now, I understand it. Early on, when you had these parts,
you would add lib if they didn't cut the camera
off because you wanted to stand out, and you did.
Every movie you were in early on, you stood out.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
It's not about standing out, it's about making the most
of the moment. It's like every role is the leading
role in my mind. So even though my character in
Rush Hour had one line, may I help you? And
the character was saleswoman. Literally that's the name of the character, saleswoman.
I was the wrong gender and I had a half
(23:43):
a line. So but it's but like you're in the game.
You're in the game, You're you know you're gonna get
a rep. So why not just have as much fun
as you can. You know, the play the character like
it's the lead and just start swinging for the fences.
And then I was kind of us, is this guy
where you know if Cameron Crowe and singles or say
(24:04):
anything or any of these you know movies that you
mentioned with John Cusack. If they needed some comedy, they
would just call me and just throw me in there
and just have me improvise. And so I was that
guy for forty movies and then I got entourage, and
then at forty years old, I was voted the fresh
Face of the Year, and I was like, there's nothing
fresh about my face, but thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Hey, so you were born here, you moved to Chicago.
Are you a Yankees fan a Cubs fan?
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Well, look at look at God bless the Yankees and
and God bless the Chicago Cubs. I don't want to
jump on the bandwagon for the Yankees yet I love
them and I'm happy they're winning. I'm a Chicago guy.
I'm from the North side of Chicago, so you know,
I would love to It wouldn't be great if we
both made it to the next round.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Yeah, it's not gonna happen this year, but well, let's.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Let's have a laugh at on the nineteenth together and
we'll we'll raise an adult beverage and celebrate.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Either way, I would love.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
That Jeremy Piven is going to be performing at Sony
Hall on October nineteenth. You can get your tickets at
Jeremy DASHPIVN dot com. It was really an honor to
meet you.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Thanks, thank you as well. Thank you for the time
Going on, good morning to you in the Middle East.
Peace that leads off the Big Three. Donald Trump negotiates
peace for the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Great for Muslims, for the Arab countries, and so great
for this country, for the United States of America, and
that we could be involved in, you know, making a
deal like this happened because it was you know, many
years they talked about peace in the Middle East. This
is more than Gaza. This is peace in the Middle East,
and it's an incredible thing.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
The first phase is expected to happen within days now,
and the hostages will be released. All of the hostages,
even the ones that aren't alive anymore, will be released,
and Israel will pull out of Gaza. It is an
enormous day, a huge day for Israel, for America, and,
(00:56):
as Donald Trump said, for the rest of the world.
The final debate in the campaign to be New Jersey's
next governor with Republican Jack Chinarelli and Democrat Mikey Cheryl, Well,
it got downright nasty.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Got paid to develop an app so that more people
could get more opioids and die. But here's the fact college,
even during.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Even I got the walk at my college and I'm
you're so.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Black, so that you then went on to kill tens
of thousands of people in New Jersey, including chel.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
We'll explain that tens of thousands of people coming up
and in the New York City Mayor rays former Mayor
Rudy Giuliani, once known as America's Mayor, is endorsing Curtis Leiwa.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Has been a hero for New York from the time
almost he was born.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Think of Rudy Giuliani two point zero, I learned from
the best. New York Congressman Mike Lawler confronts Minority Leader
Hakim Jeffries in the halls of Congress over the shutdown. No,
I'm here on my behalf from situations.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Shut the governor down, and my constituents are suffering as
a result of your ridiculous ploy because you're so afraid
of Zorron Mondammie.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
By the way, why are you endorsing them?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
By the way, if you endorse them, first.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Of all, are you going to endorse them for medicon
You're You're a complete and total embarrassment right now, you
don't want to answer that question.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
The government shutdown now stretches into the ninth day, and
patience is getting thin.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I'm sorry, I'm aggravated.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
The first responsibility of the government is to protect the people,
and the people who are supposed to be protected are
being completely cheated.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
And Dolly Parton wants you to know that she's doing
just fine. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
I know lately everybody thinks that I am sicker than.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I am do I look sick to you. I'm working
hard here.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
And I've held off on the Yankees. The Yankees are
not moving on. No World Series this year, not in
a American League championship. They lost last night to the
Toronto Blue Jays. The season is over. Now we think
about next year. And by the way, you can go
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seven to ten. Woor Well, what else to talk about
but the news that we now have peace in the
Middle East, maybe for the first time. Late last night,
(03:36):
Iran signed on to the deal. It is incredible. The
whole world has come together and everyone, everyone in Europe,
in the Middle East, throughout the world is giving credit
to Donald Trump for this. And right now there's a
celebration in Israel. So that's the celebration in Israel. Also
(04:08):
they're celebrating in Palestine. It is a wonderful day throughout
the world. This may be the first time ever we
have a real peace in the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
So great for Israel, so great for Muslims, for the
Arab countries, and so great for this country, for the
United States of America, and that we could be involved in,
you know, making a deal like this happened because it
was you know, many years they talked about peace in
the Middle East. This is more than Gaza. This is
peace in the Middle East. And it's an incredible thing.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
It's amazing the way he says this came about. He
says that tariffs is what brought everyone together.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Tariffs have he brought peace to the world. I'm telling you,
they brought peace to the world. And not only here,
but with so many other deals. You know, I've made
seven peace deals where countries were in many cases thirty
thirty one years, one thirty five, one thirty seven years,
they've been fighting in millions of people being killed, and
I brought peace, and I did it through in not
(05:20):
all cases, but probably and at least five of the
seven that we've done so far it was through trade.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So he goes on to explain he uses the tariffs
as both a carrot and a stick. He can give
a cutter in Saudi Arabia and Egypt a great tariff
deal and work with them on trading business like he
did months ago, and that brings them closer to the
(05:50):
United States. And since they're closer to us, when we
say to them, you've got to help us get peace
in the Middle East, they don't want to ruin that
relationship because it's going to make trillions for them. Also,
he uses it as a stick to say, if you
don't do this, we're going to up your tariffs. So
we're just not going to trade with you. And that's
(06:12):
how we was able to bring all of these countries
to the table, even Iran. And when it comes to Iran,
it was different than the terriffs because we weren't trading
with Iran. It was taking out the nuclear facilities.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Well, Iran was about one month maybe two months away
from having a nuclear weapon, and if I allowed that
to happen, this deal would not have been possible, or
if it was, it would have a tremendous cloud over
it because you'd have a country with a nuclear weapon
that was not obviously very friendly.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Now around the world, you heard the celebrations, and around
the world they are praising Donald Trump. It's going to
be really interesting to see what the Democrats do because
our whole existence is condemning, criticizing Donald Trump, calling him
(07:08):
an authoritarian, calling him a fascist. What are they going
to do now? Are they going to celebrate this or
are they going to shut up? Nobody was talking last
night with the exception, with the brilliant exception of Senator
from Pennsylvania John Fetterman.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Oh, I'm in on the two anniversary after twenty seven,
so like those poor souls finally have a chance to
maybe go home and as the first opportunity for enduring peace.
I don't care what the politics are because we hate,
We don't agree on everything, but we certainly share a
commitment for Israel.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
How did John Fetterman become the most brilliant person John
Fetterman in his sweatshirt, who came in right after suffering
a stroke, become the smartest person in the Democratic Party.
He's going to win reelection in Pennsylvania easily because he's rational.
(08:07):
He can say I'm pro Israel, he can say Donald
Trump did a great job. He can say I'm against crime,
he can say I'm against illegal immigration. All those things
just make sense. Donald Trump forces the Democrats on the
wrong side of every issue. Betterman says, no, I'm not
going to go there. I agree with you. I disagree
(08:30):
with you on a lot of things. But what I
agree with you on and what you do, well, I'll
praise you for. Isn't that rational? Now? The interesting thing
is going to be tomorrow the Norwegian Nobel Committee gives
out the Nobel Peace Prize. I'm sure they already have
(08:52):
a selection. Do they change it, because aren't they going
to look silly now now that there is peace in
the Middle East for the first time, well ever, that
they don't give it to Donald Trump, won't they look ridiculous?
(09:15):
And yet I don't hold out too much hope. I
think they disagree with Donald Trump so much on things
like climate change that the most important thing in the
world to them, that they won't give it to him.
They won't give it to him for the same reason
that many Democrats won't come out today and say what
(09:37):
an amazing thing happened because they dislike Donald Trump. Because
they dislike the man, they can't accept that he just
did something wonderful. A lot of people in this country
are not going to accept that he did something wonderful,
and yet he was the only one in the world
(09:59):
who could do it. And now it's done. Donald Trump
will go down in history as bringing peace to the
Middle East, and watch half this country and much of
the world won't acknowledge it because they dislike the man
so much. How sad. You can go to the iHeartRadio
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Bruce Springsteen. It's even tougher when he's right there on
the set watching hear what the actor who plays Springsteen
has to say about that. Next, I'm excited to get
to Jordana Miller. I'm sure she's excited about what's happening today.
(10:40):
Jordana Miller is the ABC News correspondent in Jerusalem. She
also lives in Israel with her kids, where they are
celebrating today. And so there's Jordana Miller, who is the correspondent.
There's Jordana Miller, the mom and someone who lives in Israel.
And Jordana, you and your neighbors and everybody we've gotten
(11:03):
to know you over the last couple of years. We
feel wonderful for you and everybody there. And tell me
what the feeling is in your house and in your
neighborhood and in the country.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
I think there's an incredible sense of relief and I
would say disbelief that it happened so quickly, and gratitude
to President Trump. I mean, it has been a night
you know that. I know I will always remember as
clearly as I did the day the war started two
(11:38):
years ago. You know, the joy that broke out in
Hostage Square, people dancing and singing, parents calling in to
you know, Israeli television radio, crying and thanking President Trump
as well. I mean, it's hard to believe that after
(12:01):
two years that it's actually the war really feels like
it is over, and there's a sense of you know,
people can breathe.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
I know, for me, oh, we just lost her.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
That was that was wonderful too. We'll get we'll get
her back and we'll be able to talk to her.
But yeah, we have gotten to know Jordana and her kids.
You'll hear them sometimes in the background as she's reporting
from her home, and you know, I just feel I
feel wonderful for her and everybody in Israel. And you've
(12:36):
heard the celebrations in the streets in Israel that is
going on throughout Israel, and by the way, those type
of celebrations are going on in Palestine as well. Jordana,
what you were saying was wonderful. When you cut out,
(12:58):
please continue.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Oh, I was just saying that there's you know, there's
been so much relief and celebration, and you know, it
just so happened that. I mean, I think a lot
of people in Israel think that nothing really happens by accident.
But both of my children woke up around three point
thirty in the morning last night here and I said
(13:22):
to them, you know, hey, guys, there's no more sirens.
You know, that's it, you know, no more bad guys,
no more sirens.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
And what did they do? How did they react?
Speaker 6 (13:36):
They said, yeah, you know, not even if they totally understood.
But you know, I think there's a sense of real
you know joy. Now we're going to see the Israeli
Prime Minister put President Trump's the first phase of President
Trump's feel up for a government vote today to ratify
(13:57):
it around six pm local so eleven am. The stern
After that vote, which we expect will of course pass,
even if the far right pulls out of the vote,
doesn't matter. The opposition will vote, will step in and
pass the pass and ratify it. Then we will begin.
(14:18):
The ceasefire will take place right after that's ratified. So
all the you know, right now there's still some intermittent
IDF attacks and bombings, but it will it is set
to stop. The minute the deal is ratified, the Israeli
army will start. They'll have twenty four hours to pull
(14:38):
back to what's called the yellow line. It's a oh.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
The yellow line, that's they have to pull back out
of certain areas of Gaza. But they have a lot
of time to get all the way out of Gaza.
And so yeah, Jordana, I think a lot of people
are making fulls out of Israel today, But go ahead
continue please.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
Yeah, oh, I was saying that, you know, everyone's you know,
anxiously waiting for the Israeli government to ratify the deal
at around six pm Local time eleven am Eastern and
that will essentially larry usher in the end of the war.
The IDEF will halt all its operations, Hamas will agree
(15:24):
to halt all its operations. The fighting will end, and
the Israeli army will begin to withdraw to its first redeployment,
the first withdrawal from Gaza what's being called the Yellow Line,
and it is it'll roughly move the Israelis out of
about thirty percent of the Gaza Strip right now they're
(15:47):
holding about eighty percent. It'll move them back east towards
the Israeli border, out of Gaza City, out of parts
of northern Gaza, out of parts of central Gaza, and
move them for their east. Israel will still be controlling
about fifty percent of the Gaza Strip with their troops
(16:07):
until Phase two is signed off on. And we understand
that on Sunday or Monday, all of the living Israeli hostages,
all twenty will come out in one stole swoop. And
it's being reported here though we haven't confirmed it with
the White House, that President Trump will be here in
Israel to see the living hostages come out, and then
(16:30):
he will give what many I'm sure we'll call a
historic address to Israel's Parliament on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
It is all just so wonderful. Is there skepticism in
Israel right now that this won't last?
Speaker 6 (16:45):
I think so fear is not that Hamas or Israel
will screw up Phase one. I do think we're going
to see the hostages come out. Unfortunately, the bodies of
the hostages, those twenty eight I think that will take
longer because Hamas doesn't know where all of them are.
But what I think the fear here is that Phase
(17:06):
two is going to be a lot more difficult. Phase
two will require Hamas to disarm, it will require an
international security force to come in and begin to run
the military affairs of the Gaza Strip, and it'll be
a challenge to set up that governing council. There's going
(17:28):
to be disputes about who's in charge of that council
right now, it's supposed to be basically President Trump, right,
he'll sit on he'll oversee this council with but Hamas
is going to argue that they want Palestinians on that
council and then the Israelis have to complete their second
withdrawal to a much smaller part of the Gaza strip
(17:51):
to the security buffer. Those are big, and the reinvestment
plan to rebuild Gaza.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, a lot still to happen, but let's just elebrate
this day because it's wonderful and we are so happy
for you and your family and everyone in Israel. Embarrassed
to say, I'm a little bit of a fanboy right
now because I have loved this actor for a long
long time. Jeremy Pivots.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Oh, come on, we just met in the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Literally, But that's how all great relationships start, right, said
the bishop to the show girl.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
What I'm sorry, Sorry.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I apologize with the bathroom.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Okay, had humor. I apologize that's not right for anyone.
But I literally just ran into you. By the way,
that's how my first TV show ever, the Larry Sanders
Show with Gary Shanling, I met him in the bathroom,
just like that, just before I auditioned. So this is
going to go really well. Oh I'm just telling.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
You don't expect big things from this.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Oh this is no this is gonna be viciously mediocre.
This entire interview.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
No, I know that, I know.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I'm glad you have low expectations. By the way, he's
an Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor. You know him
from the hit shows like Entourage, for which he won
three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. And he's
New York because he's got another passion, stand up comedy.
He'll be performing on stages across the globe, but right
now he is bringing his national tour to New York
(19:16):
Sony Hall on October nineteenth. It's a different kind of
audience in New.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
York, the best audience actually, because the reality is I
mean I was born here, went to NYU, and grew
up in Chicago. But any excuse that I can get
to come here. The audience here are confident, vocal, sharp,
and they will give it to you straight. And there's
an old saying you got to go where you're loved,
(19:41):
and I really do feel loved here. I have to
say it. So that's you know why I wanted to
go to Sony Hall. It's intimate, about five hundred people,
and you know you got to get your tickets fast.
That's why I wanted to come here and let people
know I'm going to be here and we need to
laugh now more than ever. And people don't realize that
I'm a stand up and you know, when they see
(20:02):
me playing Ari Gold or any of these characters, they
assume that I'm improvising when the reality is. With Entourage specifically,
it was all written every word, but I was always
trying to like pitch jokes and ideas, and this is
a way for me to just have total freedom and
there's nothing better.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
How many shows have you done so far? Are you
on the tour? Now?
Speaker 4 (20:23):
I'm on the tour. Now. You know I do a
couple hundred shows a year.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I do.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
I do like to five to eight shows a week,
but that's nothing. Look at New York has the best
comics in the world. That's just the way it is.
You know, I'm jumping up on stage at the Stand
and various places around town all week.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
And you know you can.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Get four five spots in a night here in New
York because you know, New Yorkers love their comedy and
You've got the Comedy Seller and all the iconic spots
in the world.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
So I love it.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Well if you want to get tickets, and I'm definitely
gonna go. I love this guy, Jeremy Dashpiven dot com.
That's Jeremy dash Piving gout. Yeah, that's how you can
get some tickets for the show.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
And you and you caught me stretching, and I apologize,
but I'm getting older and this is how you know
you're getting older. I used to look at a woman
in a short skirt and I'd be.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Like, Wow, she's hot. And now I'm like, I wonder
if she's cold.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Good night everyone, Thank you for coming. Yes, enjoy the veal.
Yes she is cold.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Can we tell you?
Speaker 5 (21:23):
I had sorry, I had to slip in a joke
because people are like, this guy funny, I spend my money. Hey, Ari,
you're a douchebag. I'm a douchebag because of you.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Ari.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Are you funny? Yes, I'm funny, sir.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
No.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
I literally was just in Boston, another great town where
you know that in Philly, uh, you know, very outspoken cities.
You know you're gonna you're gonna get it straight. And
there was a dude. I was at the Wilberth Theater
there and I was taking a selfie out front because
I was on the marquee and this dude goes, yo, man, me,
my girl love a rush hour that scene and I go, oh,
(22:00):
thanks man. He was sitting down. I go, thanks man.
He goes, yo, man, do that scene for me. I
swear to god. I was like, I'm sorry. He goes
do the scene right now, and he lifts his phone
up to record me. I go, you want me to
do a seven minute scene for you?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Sir? You're a stranger. He stood up. He was six
foot seven. I looked at him. I said, so you've
got the mokeijina skin and the big broad shoulders. Let's
put a dead animal on you. Butter cream.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Butter cream cracked again, butter cream? What's blow the way?
It's mystery means. I was like, can I do it again?
And he's like, no, no, you only get one take.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Bitch.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Now, I heard you do interviews about this, about that
very scene.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
You had lived that well that I have lived every
every single word. And that's you know when people are like, look,
and I've been touring as a stand up for ten years,
and yet I've been on stage since I was eight
years old, and I've been writing on my feet and
essentially doing stand up like basically like rush Hour, wor
stand up comedy because I'm improvising in real time. Now,
(23:01):
Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker each made twenty million. I
made two hundred and seventy dollars for that cameo. And
I'm very bitter and that's why I'm here because I
need money.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Now, I understand it. Early on, when you had these parts,
you would add lib if they didn't cut the camera
off because you wanted to stand out, and you did.
Every movie you were in early on, you stood out.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
It's not about standing out, it's about making the most
of the moment. It's like every role is the leading
role in my mind. So even though my character in
Rush Hour had one line, may I help you? And
the character was saleswoman. Literally that's the name of the character, saleswoman.
I was the wrong gender and I had a half
(23:43):
a line. So but it's but like you're in the game.
You're in the game, You're you know you're gonna get
a rep. So why not just have as much fun
as you can. You know, the play the character like
it's the lead and just start swinging for the fences.
And then I was kind of us, is this guy
where you know if Cameron Crowe and singles or say
(24:04):
anything or any of these you know movies that you
mentioned with John Cusack. If they needed some comedy, they
would just call me and just throw me in there
and just have me improvise. And so I was that
guy for forty movies and then I got entourage, and
then at forty years old, I was voted the fresh
Face of the Year, and I was like, there's nothing
fresh about my face, but thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Hey, so you were born here, you moved to Chicago.
Are you a Yankees fan a Cubs fan?
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Well, look at look at God bless the Yankees and
and God bless the Chicago Cubs. I don't want to
jump on the bandwagon for the Yankees yet I love
them and I'm happy they're winning. I'm a Chicago guy.
I'm from the North side of Chicago, so you know,
I would love to It wouldn't be great if we
both made it to the next round.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Yeah, it's not gonna happen this year, but well, let's.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Let's have a laugh at on the nineteenth together and
we'll we'll raise an adult beverage and celebrate.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Either way, I would love.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
That Jeremy Piven is going to be performing at Sony
Hall on October nineteenth. You can get your tickets at
Jeremy DASHPIVN dot com. It was really an honor to
meet you.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Thanks, thank you as well. Thank you for the time
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