Larry Mendte goes over the biggest news stories of the day including congress voting to release the Epstein files, Zohran Mamdani asking for more money for his transition, and current Mayor Eric Adams wrapping up his trip to Israel and now moving on to Uzbekistan. Bill Bratton joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about the news of Jessica Tisch staying on as NYPD Commissioner under Zohran Mamdani. Greg Giangrande joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about the way you can go about asking your manager for a promotion and how to make a department switch.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And good morning to you, Natalie. When you came in,
was this drizzling still? Was there any rain at all?
Because when I came in, it was just like spitting
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yeah, it was spitting on me too. Although when I
left my house this morning, I thought I might have
seen a snowflake or two, but as soon as we
got to the city, it was all gone.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
It was just rain.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
You're like, you have a sixth sense. You see snowflakes
when other people don't see snowflakes.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
No, no, no, that's not true. I just happened to
live in that northwest.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Of two eighty of eighty.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, northwest of eighty, and you always get the snow.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I still remember the time when the flakes were here
out here and I couldn't see them. That's yeah, you
did not, which means I have a problem. I have
a sight problem. Anyway, we're having this conversation because it
is a little wet out there, and so just just
remember to bring an umbrella because I forgot one and
I had to go and it wasn't pouring. Just again,
(00:56):
it's a horrible term, but it was just spitting just
a little bit, And so you don't want that on you,
So go ahead and bring it umbrella today. In the
Big three Congress votes to release the Epstein files, passing
both the House and the Senate in one long day.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
There's no reason it can't be on the President's desk
in an hour. Second, the President has to sign it.
You never know with him, he said he would, Let's
wait and see. But third, we have to make sure
that the whole all of the documents are released.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I'm not sure the Democrats want that as much as
they think they want that. There's a lot of Democrats
allegedly in those Epstein files and port Chuck Schumer right,
they're just grasping for relevance before the party ouse to him.
Zorin mom Danni, the socialist mayor elect who once ran
on making the city more affordable for struggling New Yorkers
(01:49):
and he wants to give them more money and more
free stuff, still needs more money from those struggling New
Yorkers for his transition.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
I hope very soon not to have to ask you
for money. I'm asking for you to go to Transition
twenty twenty five dot com and give whatever you can
to help with the New York that everyone can afford.
This is your city and I can't wait to get
to work.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, that's what we put out on social media. He
wants four million dollars for his transition. Mayor Adams wraps
up his trip to Israel and is now on to Zbekistan.
But New York and the Mayor elect is always on
his mind.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
If I was a Jewish New Yorker with children, I
would be concerned right now. I'll be concerned right now.
And that's something we should not normalize and it should
not be accepted, and I'm not willing.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
To accept it.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
What is our time home and promises major ice raids
in New York before Mom Donnie has sworn in, So
we're gonna becoming New York sit. We're already there now.
I mean teams are there now. But we were increasing
enforcement present in New York City again because our sanctuary
city and we know we have an issue. There are
public state to trust sit in the street every dingy.
New information uncovered about Thomas Crooks, the young man who
(03:03):
tried to assassinate President Trump and Butler Pennsylvania. Information that
the FBI hid from us.
Speaker 8 (03:10):
Now we find out from a source that there is
actually voluminous material that gives us an inkling about the
trajectory that Thomas Crooks took to become a twenty year
old assassin. And it's not what the FBI had told us, No.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Not at all. We'll have more on that in the
eight o'clock hour. That's Miranda Devine from the New York
Post who broke the story of crooks hidden online posts.
She and others are calling now for a new investigation
in civil New Jersey investigation continues and what started a
fire that destroyed three row homes right before Thanksgiving, leaving
(03:48):
a little girl in tears.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Yesterday, I was crying so much because you know, I
lost everything. I don't have time to go with anything,
and I'm crying so much, and my little brother was,
It's okay, it's okay, your life.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
The community is coming together to try to raise money
for the three families that were affected. In Center Reach,
Suffolk County, a grinch has stolen huge Christmas decorations from
a home twice in one week. Ray Oldegan puts a
huge display up every year for the neighbors and his
two little girls.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, I just just all are people, some people that
do bad stuff. They look forward to daddy. We can
put up the head of already for the holidays. And
then this guy just stud this for I don't know
what you can do about it, but come on, it's
for kids.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And here's what I want to talk about to start off,
because my wife and I got into a huge discussion
about this, because we're both journalists. ABC's Mary Bruce raising
the ire of President Trump by asking the Crown Prince
of Saudi Arabia about the murder of Washington Post journalist
Jamal Kashogi. As the first question.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
Intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journalist.
Not a lot of families are furious that you are
here in.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
The oblongs Americans who you were and the same genus
who you were?
Speaker 9 (05:10):
I an ABC News sir with who as fake news?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
ABC fake news, one of the worst, one of the
worst in the business, right, And he wasn't done with her.
After some questioning, he went back at Mary Bruce.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
It's a president one week for Congress to release the
Epstein files.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Why not just do it now?
Speaker 9 (05:28):
Well, it's not the question that I mind, it's your attitude.
I think you are a terrible reporter. It's the way
you ask these questions. You start off with a man
who's highly respected asking him a horrible, uh, insubordinate and
just a terrible question. And you could even ask that
(05:48):
same exact question nicely. You're all psyched. Somebody psyches you
over at ABC, You're gonna psych it. You're a terrible
person and a terrible reporter.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
See now, I'd love to know what you feel about this.
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the argument that ensued in our house. My wife Don,
who is also a talk show host down in Philadelphia,
thought that the way she asked the question was mean
and that she deserved that, and I shot back said
I didn't think she was mean at all. Look, it
(06:41):
is tough as a reporter, and I've been there hundreds
of times to have to be at a news conference
and ask a tough question. But it's your job. That's
what separates this country from all the other countries in
the world. It is your job. And I watched Mary
(07:03):
Bruce and I didn't think she was out of line
at all, not in the least. Now it's a tough
question for the Crown Prince to get when he makes
his first visit to the United States. But she is
absolutely correct in her questioning. There is our intelligence believes
(07:25):
he was behind the killing of the journalist Jamal Koshogi
from the Washington Post. There's no question about that. She
was factually accurate. But I'll tell you what, I don't
think anyone was out of line. The president had to
do what he did. The president is trying to make
(07:46):
a deal with Saudi Arabia. The president isn't one that
allows global morality to get in the way of a
good deal. He's of the opinion you keep your friends
close and your enemies closer. That wasn't the case in
the past under the Biden administration. They there's some actors
(08:10):
in the world that he would not talk to or
negotiate with. I think that's a horrible strategy. So Donald
Trump was doing that specifically for Koshogi. And here's a
surprising thing. I don't think Koshogi was out of line.
He actually answered the question. I don't think he told
the truth, but he actually answered the question and didn't
(08:31):
get upset. So I saw nothing wrong with the three
of them or her follow up question. I didn't find
anything wrong with that. And I think, deep down and
tell you the truth, if you get Donald Trump in
a back room when he's not in front of a microphone,
he would admit it too. He would admit that that
was a good question, and then he would say I
(08:51):
had to do what I did. And so I know
that a lot of you are going to disagree with
me on this because you just you know, don't like
the meat. And I agree with you that the media
is biased. I'm not sure either of those questions were biased.
To tell you the truth, I thought they were really
good questions, and so I may I hadn't argue with
(09:13):
my wife about this. I might have arguments today with
you about this, but being in that position and listening
to her questions very carefully, she was not out of line.
I think that there's members of the media that are
way out of line. I think that there's members of
the media and maybe Donald Trump has a trigger sensitivity
(09:35):
to it because he's had to deal with this in
the past, like Jim Acosta, who is just a showboat
from CNN. So yeah, there are some there are some
out of bound questions, and I'm sure he's hyper sensitive
to it, but that wasn't one of them. I know
you're gonna hear some different things on conservative radio, and
(09:57):
you're gonna hear some different things some conservative television, but
many of the people you're gonna hear from have never
been in that position. For I've been in that position.
That's a tough thing to do, and I thought she
handled it really well. If you are a coin collector
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(10:18):
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just minutes after we talk with former police Commissioner Bill
Bratton about Jessica Tish possibly staying on as police commissioner,
she announced she's staying on, and the former police commissioner,
Bill Bratton was kind enough to make himself available again
to react, so without any further ado commissioner. First of all,
(10:42):
thank you, and what is your reaction?
Speaker 10 (10:45):
Well, I think like Motionaka's relief that a decision has
been made and release that this is the decision that
she obviously has had several meetings, according to the news report,
with the mayor elect, and they have come to find
common ground. As we talked about earlier interview. It'll be
interesting as to what that common ground is common cause
(11:06):
and certainly the members of the police department, the unions
would be very happy. I think the majority of the public,
majority of you in the medium those that might not
be so happy. A lot of the mayor lex supporters
who were are opposed to But again, I think he's
looking out for the best interests over all of the
city and it's its many residents.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
You know Jessica Tash very well. Do you believe that
she drew a red line and said, I can't do this,
I can't give on this, I can't give on this.
Speaker 10 (11:36):
I would have to assume that there were negotiations and
that there was some coming together in the sense of
her concerns, his priorities. I've counseled that I would hope
that the mayor elect has got a lot of things
on his plate. Leave her to on the police department.
She's been doing a great job. Crime is down to
sort of is down. There are three new threats that
(11:59):
emerging very rapidly, AI your own concerns around major events
and immigration. Mister Trump has been talking about bringing his
immigration forces to New York. So I think the mayor
probably figured that this was not the time to change
horses in midstream. Go with somebody that's proven that she
(12:20):
can run the department, and Jesse is as symbol of
a great team, and it's given more leeway to get
rid of some of the Adams holdovers and bring on
some of the talent that she'd like to bring on.
It could be a very good few months ahead.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yeah, I think it's a very good thing from New York.
And I know you have to be careful of what
you say, but I believe that they are so far
apart on policing that she would have only stayed if
she was promised that she could run the department and
keep certain things in place.
Speaker 10 (12:52):
And she was able to deal with mister Adams with
his constant intrusions into the department. So she's used to
a mayor that has been very engaged with the police department.
This new mayor elect may be less engaged. He has
no law enforcement background, unlike mister Adamson. Effectively, he might
(13:12):
actually leave her alone more than mister Adams did.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
So that would although he does seem to be obsessed
with the police department in a bad way.
Speaker 10 (13:22):
Well in some respects, but he's got a lot of
other priorities. His free buses and rent control issues, the
education issues, his budget deficits of That's what I'm saying
that leave her at her on the department for a
while while he sorts out some of his other priorities.
There'll be time to work in some of his other issues,
even his Community Affairs office that he wants to create. Uh,
(13:43):
that's the creation of a whole new bureaucracy that doesn't
happen overnight, takes time, takes legislative authority in the city
council et set up. No, he's got a pretty full plate.
Jesse has proven that she can handle her plate and
handle it very well. Also, as much as I think
of her, and I think a lot offer this is
(14:06):
good news from my perspective.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Oh, I understand you're going to meet with her a
little bit later today, please.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
Pass she is scheduled to be at an event. Is
you a a chanel lated state that I'm attending that
the as IS Conference, which is a conference of basically
private security. But my successor, Jimmy O'Neill is the KENO speaker,
and I believe Jesse was slated to attend that hopefully
she'll be there. That its usually a very good event.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, but please pass along the big sigh of relief
from the city and from us and our listeners, and
it's wonderful news. Thank you so much for jumping back
on former police Commissioner Bill Bretton. Yeah, I really appreciate it.
Thank you, sir, all the best. Well, let's get right
to Greg g and Grande career advice expert with us
every Wednesday at this time. You can check them out
(14:54):
on go to Greg dot com. And when you go
to go to Greg dot com, you can ask a
question like this question. I've been in the same role
for five years with no promotion. How do I ask
my manager if there is a path forward?
Speaker 11 (15:11):
Good morning Larry, Good morning Greg. My question is what
took this person so long to wonder what's going to
happen about their career path. Five years is a long
time to wait.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I get that, but a lot of people don't like
to have this conversation. Sometimes they find it a difficult
conversation to have, like they're not happy in the job
they've been in. But you're the way you answered. That
means that bosses are expecting this conversation.
Speaker 11 (15:43):
We are, and that's where I feel some of the
greatest value in the advice I can bring is really
give employees the insight scoop of how employers think. The
assumption we have is that everyone is at different stages
in their career depending on where they are in their life.
(16:05):
But most people want to learn and to grow and
certainly to earn more money. That's the assumption. So you
need to own your career. You need to own what
happens to you. You need to own the conversation about
your growth and your prospects. So if your employer isn't
(16:29):
doing that, if your boss isn't saying, hey, you've been
here for a year or two, let's talk about what's next,
it is perfectly acceptable and expected that you would have
that conversation with your boss. So there's nothing to fear
you're not going to I mean, unless you have a really,
really awful boss, and it's a different conversation, you should
be looking for a different job. But you know, unless
(16:53):
you're in that type of situation, every employer, most bosses
understand and are ready for a conversation from their employees
about what they want out of their career, what's next.
Not everyone wants to be a CEO now. Not everyone
wants to climb. Some people are really content with having
(17:13):
a really good job with kind of predictable raises and
that kind of security, which is fine too. But it
shouldn't be a guessing game between you and your boss.
So take the initiative. Be be respectful, be professional, be positive,
schedule some private time and just start the conversation.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
That's really interesting that you believe your role here is
to tell us what bosses think. And I agree with you,
that's a very important role. When employees are together, they
like to make fun of their bosses. When the bosses
are together, do they make fun of the employees.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Never?
Speaker 11 (17:53):
Never. We're completely professional. We resuspect everyone and all the
differences and all the little micro complaints and aggressions they
bring to work. Every day, we respect.
Speaker 9 (18:06):
It all.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Telling me the truth.
Speaker 11 (18:12):
So there's enough goss throwing around virtually every workplace, up down,
across no one's everyone's guilty at some point or another.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I will tell you this, and I believe this. I
think some of that is healthy. Uh oh, there's silence.
Speaker 11 (18:30):
Yeah, you know, if it's gossip, isn't healthy. Constructive dialogue
about what people are doing well and what people aren't
doing well and how they can be better isn't gossip.
That's good feedback. But like talking about everyone behind their back,
and like wondering what people are saying about you when
(18:50):
you're not in the room, that's not a healthy environment.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, but okay, So but some general joking about something
in work, about a person in work, if it's not
malicious that you can't tell me. That doesn't happen with
bosses all of the time about some of the employees.
This took a wild turn.
Speaker 11 (19:12):
I know, But no, it does. It happens with their
colleagues and other bosses too, of course it does. But
a healthy environment is you know, where you can be
have good natured fun and not attack and not denigrate
and not be disrespectful. Of course, that goes on.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Everywhere right, And to my point, I think it's healthy.
I don't think it's destructive at all because I don't
think it will affect your relationship with that person, or
it shouldn't. You can just say things that you wouldn't
normally say directly to that person because of your relationship
as the boss of the employee. But you can let
out steam and talk about how you really feel with
(19:54):
people that are in a similar position to you. That's
all I'm saying. And I do think that's a way
of letting off steam.
Speaker 11 (20:01):
Well, but there's letting off steam, but that doesn't solve
if there's a problem. If you need to let off
steam about someone on your staff, then what you really
need to do is after you let off steam, is
come up with a constructive way to change that dynamic
so you don't have steam building up anymore.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
That yeah, because steam can explode eventually. I want to
switch departments. This is another question. I want to switch departments,
but I'm worried my current boss will take it personally.
How do I approach this?
Speaker 11 (20:39):
You know, it's interesting, but this is a very common fear.
Even though employers promote internal mobility, they have internal job
boards and they have a usually have a process. Most
employees continue to fear that their current boss is somehow
going to be offended or feel like it's disloyal, as
(21:00):
opposed to your current boss is only your boss for
a period of time as you continue along your career,
and they are there, they're supposed to be nurturing your career.
So the first thing I would do is check what
the company policy is for internal mobility, and then follow
that process and schedule time with your boss and be
(21:21):
positive about all the things that you learned and how
you grew and how you appreciated the time, but talk
about why, as part of your career you're interested in
moving to another job, and how it's not only going
to benefit you, but it will benefit the company. So
it's always got to be about not just you, but
also how it benefits the company, and there's really nothing
(21:44):
to fear. Again, there's always this outlier boss who makes
employees feel like they're being disloyal, but most bosses aren't
like that, and most companies have a really healthy process
for managing internal moves.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
So if you want to switch to apartment, you're talking
about going to a new boss. Those bosses are competitive,
aren't they?
Speaker 11 (22:06):
No? I mean, come on, they are When you say
competitive in terms of like their function or or just
you know, wanting to have the best talent in the
company standing in the company, Well, they maybe, but there's
some degree of competition at different levels across the company,
(22:29):
of course. But you have to also remember that a
new boss is going to talk to your boss before
they actually hire you into the role, so you want
to make sure that you're not getting involved in any
dynamic that might be between the two of them. You
just stay positive, you stay professional, and then the rest
(22:50):
is out of your control.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Greg you and Grande career advice expert with us every
Wednesday at nine thirty five. Thanks a lot, Greg. When
we come back, my final thoughts, a recap of today's show,
and of course, the talk back of the morning
And good morning to you, Natalie. When you came in,
was this drizzling still? Was there any rain at all?
Because when I came in, it was just like spitting
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yeah, it was spitting on me too. Although when I
left my house this morning, I thought I might have
seen a snowflake or two, but as soon as we
got to the city, it was all gone.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
It was just rain.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
You're like, you have a sixth sense. You see snowflakes
when other people don't see snowflakes.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
No, no, no, that's not true. I just happened to
live in that northwest.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Of two eighty of eighty.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, northwest of eighty, and you always get the snow.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I still remember the time when the flakes were here
out here and I couldn't see them. That's yeah, you
did not, which means I have a problem. I have
a sight problem. Anyway, we're having this conversation because it
is a little wet out there, and so just just
remember to bring an umbrella because I forgot one and
I had to go and it wasn't pouring. Just again,
(00:56):
it's a horrible term, but it was just spitting just
a little bit, And so you don't want that on you,
So go ahead and bring it umbrella today. In the
Big three Congress votes to release the Epstein files, passing
both the House and the Senate in one long day.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
There's no reason it can't be on the President's desk
in an hour. Second, the President has to sign it.
You never know with him, he said he would, Let's
wait and see. But third, we have to make sure
that the whole all of the documents are released.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I'm not sure the Democrats want that as much as
they think they want that. There's a lot of Democrats
allegedly in those Epstein files and port Chuck Schumer right,
they're just grasping for relevance before the party ouse to him.
Zorin mom Danni, the socialist mayor elect who once ran
on making the city more affordable for struggling New Yorkers
(01:49):
and he wants to give them more money and more
free stuff, still needs more money from those struggling New
Yorkers for his transition.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
I hope very soon not to have to ask you
for money. I'm asking for you to go to Transition
twenty twenty five dot com and give whatever you can
to help with the New York that everyone can afford.
This is your city and I can't wait to get
to work.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, that's what we put out on social media. He
wants four million dollars for his transition. Mayor Adams wraps
up his trip to Israel and is now on to Zbekistan.
But New York and the Mayor elect is always on
his mind.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
If I was a Jewish New Yorker with children, I
would be concerned right now. I'll be concerned right now.
And that's something we should not normalize and it should
not be accepted, and I'm not willing.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
To accept it.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
What is our time home and promises major ice raids
in New York before Mom Donnie has sworn in, So
we're gonna becoming New York sit. We're already there now.
I mean teams are there now. But we were increasing
enforcement present in New York City again because our sanctuary
city and we know we have an issue. There are
public state to trust sit in the street every dingy.
New information uncovered about Thomas Crooks, the young man who
(03:03):
tried to assassinate President Trump and Butler Pennsylvania. Information that
the FBI hid from us.
Speaker 8 (03:10):
Now we find out from a source that there is
actually voluminous material that gives us an inkling about the
trajectory that Thomas Crooks took to become a twenty year
old assassin. And it's not what the FBI had told us, No.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Not at all. We'll have more on that in the
eight o'clock hour. That's Miranda Devine from the New York
Post who broke the story of crooks hidden online posts.
She and others are calling now for a new investigation
in civil New Jersey investigation continues and what started a
fire that destroyed three row homes right before Thanksgiving, leaving
(03:48):
a little girl in tears.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Yesterday, I was crying so much because you know, I
lost everything. I don't have time to go with anything,
and I'm crying so much, and my little brother was,
It's okay, it's okay, your life.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
The community is coming together to try to raise money
for the three families that were affected. In Center Reach,
Suffolk County, a grinch has stolen huge Christmas decorations from
a home twice in one week. Ray Oldegan puts a
huge display up every year for the neighbors and his
two little girls.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, I just just all are people, some people that
do bad stuff. They look forward to daddy. We can
put up the head of already for the holidays. And
then this guy just stud this for I don't know
what you can do about it, but come on, it's
for kids.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And here's what I want to talk about to start off,
because my wife and I got into a huge discussion
about this, because we're both journalists. ABC's Mary Bruce raising
the ire of President Trump by asking the Crown Prince
of Saudi Arabia about the murder of Washington Post journalist
Jamal Kashogi. As the first question.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
Intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journalist.
Not a lot of families are furious that you are
here in.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
The oblongs Americans who you were and the same genus
who you were?
Speaker 9 (05:10):
I an ABC News sir with who as fake news?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
ABC fake news, one of the worst, one of the
worst in the business, right, And he wasn't done with her.
After some questioning, he went back at Mary Bruce.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
It's a president one week for Congress to release the
Epstein files.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Why not just do it now?
Speaker 9 (05:28):
Well, it's not the question that I mind, it's your attitude.
I think you are a terrible reporter. It's the way
you ask these questions. You start off with a man
who's highly respected asking him a horrible, uh, insubordinate and
just a terrible question. And you could even ask that
(05:48):
same exact question nicely. You're all psyched. Somebody psyches you
over at ABC, You're gonna psych it. You're a terrible
person and a terrible reporter.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
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the argument that ensued in our house. My wife Don,
who is also a talk show host down in Philadelphia,
thought that the way she asked the question was mean
and that she deserved that, and I shot back said
I didn't think she was mean at all. Look, it
(06:41):
is tough as a reporter, and I've been there hundreds
of times to have to be at a news conference
and ask a tough question. But it's your job. That's
what separates this country from all the other countries in
the world. It is your job. And I watched Mary
(07:03):
Bruce and I didn't think she was out of line
at all, not in the least. Now it's a tough
question for the Crown Prince to get when he makes
his first visit to the United States. But she is
absolutely correct in her questioning. There is our intelligence believes
(07:25):
he was behind the killing of the journalist Jamal Koshogi
from the Washington Post. There's no question about that. She
was factually accurate. But I'll tell you what, I don't
think anyone was out of line. The president had to
do what he did. The president is trying to make
(07:46):
a deal with Saudi Arabia. The president isn't one that
allows global morality to get in the way of a
good deal. He's of the opinion you keep your friends
close and your enemies closer. That wasn't the case in
the past under the Biden administration. They there's some actors
(08:10):
in the world that he would not talk to or
negotiate with. I think that's a horrible strategy. So Donald
Trump was doing that specifically for Koshogi. And here's a
surprising thing. I don't think Koshogi was out of line.
He actually answered the question. I don't think he told
the truth, but he actually answered the question and didn't
(08:31):
get upset. So I saw nothing wrong with the three
of them or her follow up question. I didn't find
anything wrong with that. And I think, deep down and
tell you the truth, if you get Donald Trump in
a back room when he's not in front of a microphone,
he would admit it too. He would admit that that
was a good question, and then he would say I
(08:51):
had to do what I did. And so I know
that a lot of you are going to disagree with
me on this because you just you know, don't like
the meat. And I agree with you that the media
is biased. I'm not sure either of those questions were biased.
To tell you the truth, I thought they were really
good questions, and so I may I hadn't argue with
(09:13):
my wife about this. I might have arguments today with
you about this, but being in that position and listening
to her questions very carefully, she was not out of line.
I think that there's members of the media that are
way out of line. I think that there's members of
the media and maybe Donald Trump has a trigger sensitivity
(09:35):
to it because he's had to deal with this in
the past, like Jim Acosta, who is just a showboat
from CNN. So yeah, there are some there are some
out of bound questions, and I'm sure he's hyper sensitive
to it, but that wasn't one of them. I know
you're gonna hear some different things on conservative radio, and
(09:57):
you're gonna hear some different things some conservative television, but
many of the people you're gonna hear from have never
been in that position. For I've been in that position.
That's a tough thing to do, and I thought she
handled it really well. If you are a coin collector
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tickets to see air supply at A twenty five. Well,
just minutes after we talk with former police Commissioner Bill
Bratton about Jessica Tish possibly staying on as police commissioner,
she announced she's staying on, and the former police commissioner,
Bill Bratton was kind enough to make himself available again
to react, so without any further ado commissioner. First of all,
(10:42):
thank you, and what is your reaction?
Speaker 10 (10:45):
Well, I think like Motionaka's relief that a decision has
been made and release that this is the decision that
she obviously has had several meetings, according to the news report,
with the mayor elect, and they have come to find
common ground. As we talked about earlier interview. It'll be
interesting as to what that common ground is common cause
(11:06):
and certainly the members of the police department, the unions
would be very happy. I think the majority of the public,
majority of you in the medium those that might not
be so happy. A lot of the mayor lex supporters
who were are opposed to But again, I think he's
looking out for the best interests over all of the
city and it's its many residents.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
You know Jessica Tash very well. Do you believe that
she drew a red line and said, I can't do this,
I can't give on this, I can't give on this.
Speaker 10 (11:36):
I would have to assume that there were negotiations and
that there was some coming together in the sense of
her concerns, his priorities. I've counseled that I would hope
that the mayor elect has got a lot of things
on his plate. Leave her to on the police department.
She's been doing a great job. Crime is down to
sort of is down. There are three new threats that
(11:59):
emerging very rapidly, AI your own concerns around major events
and immigration. Mister Trump has been talking about bringing his
immigration forces to New York. So I think the mayor
probably figured that this was not the time to change
horses in midstream. Go with somebody that's proven that she
(12:20):
can run the department, and Jesse is as symbol of
a great team, and it's given more leeway to get
rid of some of the Adams holdovers and bring on
some of the talent that she'd like to bring on.
It could be a very good few months ahead.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yeah, I think it's a very good thing from New York.
And I know you have to be careful of what
you say, but I believe that they are so far
apart on policing that she would have only stayed if
she was promised that she could run the department and
keep certain things in place.
Speaker 10 (12:52):
And she was able to deal with mister Adams with
his constant intrusions into the department. So she's used to
a mayor that has been very engaged with the police department.
This new mayor elect may be less engaged. He has
no law enforcement background, unlike mister Adamson. Effectively, he might
(13:12):
actually leave her alone more than mister Adams did.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
So that would although he does seem to be obsessed
with the police department in a bad way.
Speaker 10 (13:22):
Well in some respects, but he's got a lot of
other priorities. His free buses and rent control issues, the
education issues, his budget deficits of That's what I'm saying
that leave her at her on the department for a
while while he sorts out some of his other priorities.
There'll be time to work in some of his other issues,
even his Community Affairs office that he wants to create. Uh,
(13:43):
that's the creation of a whole new bureaucracy that doesn't
happen overnight, takes time, takes legislative authority in the city
council et set up. No, he's got a pretty full plate.
Jesse has proven that she can handle her plate and
handle it very well. Also, as much as I think
of her, and I think a lot offer this is
(14:06):
good news from my perspective.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Oh, I understand you're going to meet with her a
little bit later today, please.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
Pass she is scheduled to be at an event. Is
you a a chanel lated state that I'm attending that
the as IS Conference, which is a conference of basically
private security. But my successor, Jimmy O'Neill is the KENO speaker,
and I believe Jesse was slated to attend that hopefully
she'll be there. That its usually a very good event.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, but please pass along the big sigh of relief
from the city and from us and our listeners, and
it's wonderful news. Thank you so much for jumping back
on former police Commissioner Bill Bretton. Yeah, I really appreciate it.
Thank you, sir, all the best. Well, let's get right
to Greg g and Grande career advice expert with us
every Wednesday at this time. You can check them out
(14:54):
on go to Greg dot com. And when you go
to go to Greg dot com, you can ask a
question like this question. I've been in the same role
for five years with no promotion. How do I ask
my manager if there is a path forward?
Speaker 11 (15:11):
Good morning Larry, Good morning Greg. My question is what
took this person so long to wonder what's going to
happen about their career path. Five years is a long
time to wait.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I get that, but a lot of people don't like
to have this conversation. Sometimes they find it a difficult
conversation to have, like they're not happy in the job
they've been in. But you're the way you answered. That
means that bosses are expecting this conversation.
Speaker 11 (15:43):
We are, and that's where I feel some of the
greatest value in the advice I can bring is really
give employees the insight scoop of how employers think. The
assumption we have is that everyone is at different stages
in their career depending on where they are in their life.
(16:05):
But most people want to learn and to grow and
certainly to earn more money. That's the assumption. So you
need to own your career. You need to own what
happens to you. You need to own the conversation about
your growth and your prospects. So if your employer isn't
(16:29):
doing that, if your boss isn't saying, hey, you've been
here for a year or two, let's talk about what's next,
it is perfectly acceptable and expected that you would have
that conversation with your boss. So there's nothing to fear
you're not going to I mean, unless you have a really,
really awful boss, and it's a different conversation, you should
be looking for a different job. But you know, unless
(16:53):
you're in that type of situation, every employer, most bosses
understand and are ready for a conversation from their employees
about what they want out of their career, what's next.
Not everyone wants to be a CEO now. Not everyone
wants to climb. Some people are really content with having
(17:13):
a really good job with kind of predictable raises and
that kind of security, which is fine too. But it
shouldn't be a guessing game between you and your boss.
So take the initiative. Be be respectful, be professional, be positive,
schedule some private time and just start the conversation.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
That's really interesting that you believe your role here is
to tell us what bosses think. And I agree with you,
that's a very important role. When employees are together, they
like to make fun of their bosses. When the bosses
are together, do they make fun of the employees.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Never?
Speaker 11 (17:53):
Never. We're completely professional. We resuspect everyone and all the
differences and all the little micro complaints and aggressions they
bring to work. Every day, we respect.
Speaker 9 (18:06):
It all.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Telling me the truth.
Speaker 11 (18:12):
So there's enough goss throwing around virtually every workplace, up down,
across no one's everyone's guilty at some point or another.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I will tell you this, and I believe this. I
think some of that is healthy. Uh oh, there's silence.
Speaker 11 (18:30):
Yeah, you know, if it's gossip, isn't healthy. Constructive dialogue
about what people are doing well and what people aren't
doing well and how they can be better isn't gossip.
That's good feedback. But like talking about everyone behind their back,
and like wondering what people are saying about you when
(18:50):
you're not in the room, that's not a healthy environment.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, but okay, So but some general joking about something
in work, about a person in work, if it's not
malicious that you can't tell me. That doesn't happen with
bosses all of the time about some of the employees.
This took a wild turn.
Speaker 11 (19:12):
I know, But no, it does. It happens with their
colleagues and other bosses too, of course it does. But
a healthy environment is you know, where you can be
have good natured fun and not attack and not denigrate
and not be disrespectful. Of course, that goes on.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Everywhere right, And to my point, I think it's healthy.
I don't think it's destructive at all because I don't
think it will affect your relationship with that person, or
it shouldn't. You can just say things that you wouldn't
normally say directly to that person because of your relationship
as the boss of the employee. But you can let
out steam and talk about how you really feel with
(19:54):
people that are in a similar position to you. That's
all I'm saying. And I do think that's a way
of letting off steam.
Speaker 11 (20:01):
Well, but there's letting off steam, but that doesn't solve
if there's a problem. If you need to let off
steam about someone on your staff, then what you really
need to do is after you let off steam, is
come up with a constructive way to change that dynamic
so you don't have steam building up anymore.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
That yeah, because steam can explode eventually. I want to
switch departments. This is another question. I want to switch departments,
but I'm worried my current boss will take it personally.
How do I approach this?
Speaker 11 (20:39):
You know, it's interesting, but this is a very common fear.
Even though employers promote internal mobility, they have internal job
boards and they have a usually have a process. Most
employees continue to fear that their current boss is somehow
going to be offended or feel like it's disloyal, as
(21:00):
opposed to your current boss is only your boss for
a period of time as you continue along your career,
and they are there, they're supposed to be nurturing your career.
So the first thing I would do is check what
the company policy is for internal mobility, and then follow
that process and schedule time with your boss and be
(21:21):
positive about all the things that you learned and how
you grew and how you appreciated the time, but talk
about why, as part of your career you're interested in
moving to another job, and how it's not only going
to benefit you, but it will benefit the company. So
it's always got to be about not just you, but
also how it benefits the company, and there's really nothing
(21:44):
to fear. Again, there's always this outlier boss who makes
employees feel like they're being disloyal, but most bosses aren't
like that, and most companies have a really healthy process
for managing internal moves.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
So if you want to switch to apartment, you're talking
about going to a new boss. Those bosses are competitive,
aren't they?
Speaker 11 (22:06):
No? I mean, come on, they are When you say
competitive in terms of like their function or or just
you know, wanting to have the best talent in the
company standing in the company, Well, they maybe, but there's
some degree of competition at different levels across the company,
(22:29):
of course. But you have to also remember that a
new boss is going to talk to your boss before
they actually hire you into the role, so you want
to make sure that you're not getting involved in any
dynamic that might be between the two of them. You
just stay positive, you stay professional, and then the rest
(22:50):
is out of your control.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Greg you and Grande career advice expert with us every
Wednesday at nine thirty five. Thanks a lot, Greg. When
we come back, my final thoughts, a recap of today's show,
and of course, the talk back of the morning
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