Larry Mendte goes over the biggest news stories of the day including the results of two big special elections in Jersey City and a Tennessee Congressional seat, Zohran Mamdani meeting with Eric Adams at Gracie Mansion, and Pete Hegseth not backing down in the face of controversy following the boat strikes in Venezuela. Jeffrey Lichtman joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about the pre-trial hearing of Luigi Mangione and the status of the case against him. Greg Giangrande joins Larry to talk about the Instagram CEO making the move to completely get rid of remote work early on in the new year.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Halfway through the week. Is it today any kind of
a special day, because it seemed like every single day
has been something, right, I mean yesterday, what was it?
It was travel Tuesday, and the day before that was
a cyber Monday, and then we had Black Friday. What's Wednesday?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
You know what Wednesday is?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
What? It's tree lighting Day? Oh that's yeah, that's why
it's special. Yeah, that's special. But I meant like a
big national thing. Is it? Is it like Giving Wednesday
or something like that.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Tuesday?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Oh, they they honed in the travel people honed in
on the charity. Nice because it was also travel Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Right, No, it was Giving Tuesday yesterday, so wlacky Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Haluky Wednesday. I'm sure something. But tree lighting is a
good one. You're right. The tree was lit in the
big three, two big special elections. Jersey, the second largest
city in New Jersey, has a new mayor. I believe
in the people of the Jersey City, believe.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
The entire state of New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, Councilman James Solomon. He's the new mayor. Jim McGreevy.
He was very gracious in saying thank you, but he
looked upset when he left this. This will probably no,
it will be the end of his political career. He
tried so hard for this comeback. We'll talk about it
later in the show, but he has been building for
(01:40):
this moment and now it's not going to happen for him.
And in Tennessee, a special election for a congressional seat,
in what was supposed to be a razor close race
for the House seat. Remember that CNBC and NBC and
everybody has CNN. They were all saying, oh, this this
(02:02):
is the one to watch. It's gonna be razor close.
It wasn't.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Well, Hello Tennessee, what a night, what a night. We
we did it, Thank you, thank you all. This is
just an incredible win, an incredible win tonight. You've sent
a message loud and clear. The people of Middle Tennessee
stand with President Donald J.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Trump.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Right, this was a big one for Donald Trump. He
came out heavy and so Van Epps ran with Trump
two h and he won by all we're saying it
was gonna be won two three points. He won by
nine points. So it was it was almost double digits.
And the Republicans are all breathing a sigh of relief.
The Democrats put a fortune into this race, millions and
(02:50):
millions of dollars. But Republican Matt Van Epps is now
a new Congressman, and Aten Ben, another socialist, is going
away now. We'll probably won't hear much from her from
now on because she got beat a lot more than
anybody thought. The race scene is an important bell weather,
by the way, for the midterm election, so Republicans are
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breathing a sigh of relief, especially after the off year elections.
In New York. The incoming mayor Zor and Mam Dannie
meets with the outgoing Mayor Eric Adams at Gracie Mansion.
Is the working man socialist going to live in that mansion?
That is the decision I haven't yet made.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
The meeting came about as just part of a typical transition,
a transition where we're looking to have a conversation with
the current mayor about what it looks like to have
a smooth transfer between this administration and the next administration.
I appreciated the work of his staff and ensuring that it continues.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
To be smooth.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
It was raining that was his umbrella. That noise that
wasn't static, that was actually it was raining and that's
what you heard hitting the umbrella. That's going to be
an interesting decision for him whether he's going to live
at Gracy Mansion. Secretary of War Pete Hegseeth doesn't back
down amidst a controversy about the second air strike on
a boat that was already crippled in the Caribbean. I
(04:10):
watched that first strike life. As you can imagine, the
Department of War. We got a lot of things to do,
so I didn't stick around for the hour and two
hours whatever where all the sensitive side exploitation digitally occurs.
So I moved on to my next meeting.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
A couple of hours later, I learned that that commander had.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Made the which he had the complete authority to do.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
And by the way, Admiral Bradley made the correct decision
to ultimately sink the boat.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
And eliminate the threat. Right so, and everybody is saying
now that no, he wasn't in the room, and he
did tell Admiral Bradley that you know you have my consent,
you know you're in charge right now. But man again,
once again, not only is the Washington Post embarrassed by this,
(04:55):
because they their story, their big story was so wrong.
But the Democrats were for war crimes on this. It
will talk more about this coming up, but this is
just embarrassing for them once again. The terrorists who killed
a National Guard member and wounded another in Washington, d
C appeared in court on video from his bed in
(05:16):
the hospital. It was a conference call to plead not
guilty to charges of terrorism and murder, and more charges
may be coming. We are pursuing everything. There is nothing
off the table right now. This is an individual about
whom we don't know a lot, but we will trust me.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
For it's over.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Wait a second. They should know everything about him, shouldn't they.
I mean, he was so properly vetted. Remember, we should
know everything about him. How the why do they have
to search for information at this point? Because we werelied to.
He wasn't vetted. And that's what people have been saying
all along. There was no vetting. There's no records in
Afghanistan of him. And crazy Tim Walls, the governor of
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Minnesota and the failed Democratic Vice president nominee, is responsible
for a billion dollars in fraud under his watch, most
of the fraud from Somalian immigrants that Waltz welcomed in.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Al Shabab controls all the financial infrastructure in Somalia. That's right,
this money has gone back to Somalia. Ergo common sense
would tell you that millions of dollars taxpayer dollars from
Minnesotans has gone to terrace known as Al Shabab in Somalia.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Now Trump has announced the new Trump Accounts. One thousand
dollars is going to be put into the accounts of
babies born after January to lower or middle class families
and can be withdrawn when they are ready for college.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
Trump Accounts will be the first I guess you could
say real trust funds for every American child, allowing family members, employers, corporations,
generous donors to contribute money that will be invested and
grow over the course of a child's life to be
used for their benefit after they turn eighteen.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
We should mention that philanthropists Steven and Susan Dell are
also contributing six billion dollars for all of the children
not born after January twenty five, So they're putting two
hundred and fifty dollars into accounts for children up to
ten years old by January twenty twenty five, so that'll
(07:30):
cover all the way back to twenty fifteen. You get
two hundred and fifty dollars in your account. How great
was that though, that they that they gave all that money.
How great would it would be to have six point
two billion dollars laying around that you're able to contribute
in a fund? And most of us got rain, but
some people, some people got their first snowfall of the season,
(07:56):
and they couldn't be happier.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
It snows a lot more here than it didn't Wane.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
But I'll put up with it because it's just such
a nice area to live in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
How about that? Aren't you in that area?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I am. We had snow yesterday.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
How much snow? Not much?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I saw the town next us reported just under an inch,
But honestly, it turned to slush so fast.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I don't know if you ever really got to see
the inch. Yeah, they were complaining about the kind of
snow it It was like that wet, yeah, yucky snow.
But I guess when you go upstate in New York,
even to Orange County, they got to then, pools were closed,
kids were off.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
And they were saying, hey, people who aren't going to
go skiing this weekend. It's a you know, a nice
addition because you got some fresh snow, which you know
you usually don't have this early in the season.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That pre made snow. Yeah right, I was. I don't
know if you caught it when I was talking to
Race stage of uyesterday and talking about a winter forecast,
and I said, as the TV stations we had meteorologists do,
especially at the beginning of sweeps, the big winter forecast,
and you promoted it like hell because weather, by the way,
in case people don't know when they when they do
(09:08):
surveys about what you why you watch local news far
and away, it's the weather. It's like eighty five percent
of the people say that's the most important thing, and
so we promote weather. But raced Age of guests today
was being extremely diplomatic. They are not any good those
(09:29):
winter forecastes. Oh that's all made up.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Thing.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Well, he even said, you know, he doesn't like to
do predictions that, you know, seasonal predictions, I think he
called it. But the hurricane season, which everybody was predicting
was gonna be you know, slightly active, was pretty quiet
this year. Oh no, they were, you know, I mean
Obviously there was a terrible thing that happened in Jamaica,
but the people in Florida went whoa.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah through this one. It was like that storm and
then that was it. Nothing else really hit land, and
there was a lot of th vets, but nothing hit land.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I guess this is in a news flash whether people
are wrong a lot, uh, you know what?
Speaker 5 (10:09):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Else, By the way, while we're on it, the ten
day forecast is no good at all. Just don't ignore it.
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twenty five. Now let's get to Jeffrey Lickman, high profile
criminal defense attorney, host of Beyond the Legal Limit podcast
(10:53):
found on the iHeartRadio app. Jeffrey, I, you know, I
look at sound every day for the show, and I'm
going through things, and I look at one cut and
it was you.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
The only victories you know that I see as a
defense lawyers, when a jury stands up and says not guilty,
I think anything short of that is it's sort of
a wash.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I didn't even know about the story about l Chappo
Junior taking a plea deal. Can you tell us what happened?
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Well, he took a plea the other day. I'm in
Chicago actually right now. Still, the plea was taken here
in federal court, and his case now went from a
mandatory life if he's convicted to now he's got a
ten year minimum, which is what I'm hoping to get
when we finally get two sentencing. So I think the
(11:42):
main point is he's cooperating with the government. But I
think the main victory was getting the government to accept
him as a cooperator. As you can imagine, that wasn't
an easy sell.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
No, I can't imagine you were involved in that.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Well, Larry, for a few I'm his lawyer, so I suppose, yes, yes,
I am I amn't. Technically I am involved.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
That was my way of getting to you to tell
me what was going on, what happened in all that.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Yeah, so it was it's actually his second son that's
played guilty. I represent all four of his sons and
the father and the wife. Yeah, so it's it's like
a family business for me.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah. You said that they were skeptical during the talks
that he would actually provide good information.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Well, I mean I think that the harder sell was
how do you convince the federal government to let people
that high up in the hierarchy be permitted to cooperate
instead of just dying in prison? As they insisted that
his father go to trial, And that's exactly what's going
to happen to him. So you know, the government this
(12:56):
is These are kind of odd times, Larry. You know,
you've got, as you've met before, as I was on hold,
you've got boats being blown up in the water that
are coming from Venezuela purportedly with drugs loaded on them.
And then the next day you've got the Hunduran former
president who was convicted of being a massive drug dealer
and getting a forty year sentence. He's pardoned by President Trump.
(13:18):
So these are confusing times, is what I'll say in
terms of what the government's thinking.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
No, I think you're right. I think there's politics that
plays a lot in all of this. But I think
you would have agreed that the military pressure to get
Maduro out of office will be good for the world.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Not even a question. I agree with you one hundred percent.
The guy's a maniac, and Trump is certainly applying the
pressure there. I agree with them one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Let's talk about Luigi Mangioni a little bit. They're going
through evidence hearings right now, and what they're trying to
get thrown out is what happened at a McDonald's and Altoona, Pennsylvania.
And the police first were able to get a hold
of mangione and they had a conversation with him. While
they were trying to he gave a fake ID, and
(14:08):
they were trying to substantiate the fake ID, and while
they were doing that, they were talking to him and
getting information, and then at one point when they realized
it was him, they took his bag and they went
through it. They're arguing that since the miranda rights were
not read and since there was no warrant. All of
that should be thrown out. Is there any chance that
(14:29):
that gets thrown out?
Speaker 5 (14:31):
I think there's a chance. I mean, I don't think
it was the best search happens in nearly every case
where law enforcement does not read Miranda. You see it
on TV. In real life, it never happens. Once he's
in custody. They have to read him miranda rights before
they question him. Now they're going to say, well, we
(14:52):
cornered him, but he was permitted to leave. We were
asking these questions. What they were doing is they were
questioning him. They should have read him the rights immediately
once they refused to let him leave. I suspect if
Luigi wanted to stand up at that point, when they
knew that it was him and they were questioning him,
there's no question in my mind that they would have
stopped him from leaving. So the search, all the answers
(15:15):
that he gave after that without reading Miranda should be suppressed.
And that all led to the arrest, which led to
them seizing the bag which had the gun and the
cash and you know, the writings and all the other
stuff all in there. So that was that should also
be suppressed. In practice, it's a long shot. Although I
(15:36):
do think that the law is on the defense side.
It doesn't mean that Luigi's going to be acquitted. There's
certainly plenty of other evidence, you know, DNA evidence, etc. Etc.
That put him at the scene with the gun in
his hand, shooting the insurance CEO. But the fact that
the government to state is putting on a hearing that's
(15:57):
with like dozens of witnesses that are going to last,
like you know, multiple weeks, does suggest to me that
they're a little bit nervous.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
They're a little bit nervous because this might get thrown out.
Is that why they're a little bit nervous.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
I think so. I mean, but there's also a federal
death penalty case. You know. I don't know it's ever
going to get anywhere near death penalty. It's not. But
there's no way. Here's the bottom line, Larry, for your listeners,
there's no way Luigi is getting out of this without
spending the rest of his natural life in jail. That's
my prediction.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
No, I think everybody's there, and I think they only
concern is the same one that you just mentioned a
moment ago, is that every time you hear about evidence.
Every time you hear about the case, every time you
hear about the money put into it, you think, well,
wait a second, what's going on? You know, even you
said a moment ago, there's a chance this gets thrown out.
(16:51):
But there is so much writing on this, and it
seems so obvious, and in the court of public opinion,
he's already been convicted and because everybody seen him.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
But but you point, that's that's the point that you make,
is that let's say they throw out his statements, let's
say they throw out the contents of the backpack. Is
there a single person on the planet and especially on
the future jury that doesn't know about all the things
in the backpack and all of his statements? Absolutely not right.
(17:22):
So I think he's getting convicted either way. And if not, listen,
he's getting convicted in federal court one way or another.
As I said, he's not getting out of this.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Jeffrey Lickman, high profile criminal defense attorney, is with us
every Wednesday at seven oh five. Thanks a lot, Jeffrey,
good talking to you. Yeah, that would be fascinating if
this evidence was thrown out, because then all of a sudden,
people would be going Oh my god, is he going
to get off? But there's so much else. There's somebody else,
including video, including other statements he made, including but what
(17:53):
happens if that manifesto gets thrown out?
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
All right, Now, let's check in with Greg gn Grande
Career Advice X with us every Wednesday at this time.
Check them out on go to Greg dot com. Fascinating
story Greg with Instagram the CEO announcing that everybody has
to be back in the office. Now this is Instagram.
So you can work at home in your computer pretty
(18:17):
well with Instagram, but everybody has to be back in
the office five days a week. They say it's about
boosting creativity and building a winning culture. Now to make
it work, he's also cutting unnecessary meetings and pushing for faster,
more focus collaboration. This is a big shift for a
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company that embraced flexibility. So what do you think of this?
Will it spark innovation or they're just going to get
a backlash and people quitting over this.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
It'll be a combination, Larry, because there is no doubt
that not working together in person full time absolutely stifles
innovation and creativity. And there is a lot that entry
level people recent grads. Early career people miss out, lose
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out on not working side by side with colleagues, not
learning by osmosis, picking up cues, letting the boss see
you like in like in a natural, organic way, rather
than having to schedule appointment via zoom. The issue is
do you need to do that? Is it best doing
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it every single day of the week, or is a
hybrid schedule that takes advantage and uses the best of both,
giving people flexibility that they need to operate in a
way that is most efficient and effective for them while
also bringing people together. That's the holy grail, and most
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companies are experimenting with a different formula for that, not
five days a week. It's still the minority. Only about
a third of corporations are asking employees to come five
days a week, And many who make these announcements actually
make lots of exceptions because they realize they're going to
(20:23):
lose a lot of talent. So he doesn't seem to
be making from a big company, But the reality is
most companies aren't doing this.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
He doesn't seem to be making exceptions, and that's what's
fascinating about it. This is a huge company. This is
a huge Internet company, and you'd think he'd be amenable
to having people working from home, but he's saying no,
he wants there five days a week. And I guess
the question is if they're doing this, is is this
(20:52):
a sign that everybody wants to go this way?
Speaker 7 (20:56):
No, it's definitely not a sign the genies out of
the bottle. We've all learned that we can operate very
effectively on a hybrid schedule with technology, and that most
employees prefer it, and the fact that still most employers
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recognize that there's value to the employer as well as
the employee. Most employers are still keeping a hybrid schedule
where whether it's two days a week in the office
or three days a week or four part time days,
it will vary, but most companies recognize that there is
value for everyone in having that kind of flexibility. So
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what it's going to do is create more competition for
the companies that are trying to stick to the old
traditional model of five days a week every day. They're
just it's going to be harder for them. Listen, a
company like Instagram, because it has such popularity and name recognition,
they can try something like this because for every person
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who leaves because that doesn't work for them. There's a
lot of people who want to work for Instagram, but
most companies aren't Instagram, which is why in a talent war,
they're going to create conditions that are more conducive to
what most employees want, and that is a hybrid schedule.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Let me give you part of his argument. He says
that having people together in a workplace inspires not only creativity,
but collaboration. Does collaboration suffer if people are at home
and they're separated from everyone else.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Absolutely, there are things I miss where I know that
the energy of just running into somebody's office or workspace,
pulling people together spontaneously because you're all there. Absolutely, if
you're working full time remotely, that suffers collaboration and innovation
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absolutely suffers. You don't have to give it up if
you have a compromise, even if you do three days
a week and then the other two days can be
flexible days where people can still have more quiet time
on their own to follow up and do whatever things
they need to do, you know, for their responsibilities without
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the distractions and without the commute is really the best model.
But for sure, companies that allow all employees to work
remotely full time, you certainly lose some cultural aspects. You
lose collaboration, you lose innovation, and for early career people,
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they don't even recognize, they don't even know what they're
losing because they don't have any context. But you lose
so much learning and career development by not being in
an environment with colleagues, learning from them and having those
spontaneous interactions.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
So, yeah, there's a point there. He has a point.
And what's interesting about what he's saying is, for some
reason he is zeroed in on meetings, especially lengthy meetings,
and trying to get rid of slide presentations and making
sure that if there is a meeting, it's kept very tight.
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I don't think that is what people are thinking about
when they want to stay home. They just don't want
to travel in and they want some freedom. But do
you believe that taking away meetings or making them tighter
and making sure there's not just a prerequisite weekly meeting
is going to help.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Everyone complains about meetings, but they complain often about the
wrong thing. It's not the number of meetings, it's how
meetings are conducted. And you often sit there and say,
like why am I here? I'm not getting anything done
and I'm not learning anything. So there's absolutely a whole
kind of reimagining of meeting culture to make sure that
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everyone who's in a meeting knows why they are in
that meeting and they're getting something out of it. And
usually there's three things. You're either there because you need
to be there for awareness, some people need to be
there to provide inputs so work can get done, and
other people need to be there who own the decision
of whatever needs to get done. So whether it's a
stand up meeting that's five ten to fifteen minutes or
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it's a lengthy meeting for an hour is not the point.
The point is are we advancing what everybody needs to
do to get their work done in that meeting. So
it's how we're doing meetings, not the number of meetings
that's the issue, and it is a big issue in companies.
Everybody complains about meetings.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yeah, he wants to change that too, so that at
least that part you'll agree he's onto something. Greg gian Grande,
career advice expert with us every Wednesday at this very time.
You can check them out and go to Greg dot com.
You really should go go to Greg dot com and
you can ask him your own questions there because we
may not cover everything and he's great about responding. Thanks
(26:03):
a lot, great good to talk to you.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
Thank you, have a great week.
Halfway through the week. Is it today any kind of
a special day, because it seemed like every single day
has been something, right, I mean yesterday, what was it?
It was travel Tuesday, and the day before that was
a cyber Monday, and then we had Black Friday. What's Wednesday?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
You know what Wednesday is?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
What? It's tree lighting Day? Oh that's yeah, that's why
it's special. Yeah, that's special. But I meant like a
big national thing. Is it? Is it like Giving Wednesday
or something like that.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Tuesday?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Oh, they they honed in the travel people honed in
on the charity. Nice because it was also travel Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Right, No, it was Giving Tuesday yesterday, so wlacky Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Haluky Wednesday. I'm sure something. But tree lighting is a
good one. You're right. The tree was lit in the
big three, two big special elections. Jersey, the second largest
city in New Jersey, has a new mayor. I believe
in the people of the Jersey City, believe.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
The entire state of New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, Councilman James Solomon. He's the new mayor. Jim McGreevy.
He was very gracious in saying thank you, but he
looked upset when he left this. This will probably no,
it will be the end of his political career. He
tried so hard for this comeback. We'll talk about it
later in the show, but he has been building for
(01:40):
this moment and now it's not going to happen for him.
And in Tennessee, a special election for a congressional seat,
in what was supposed to be a razor close race
for the House seat. Remember that CNBC and NBC and
everybody has CNN. They were all saying, oh, this this
(02:02):
is the one to watch. It's gonna be razor close.
It wasn't.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Well, Hello Tennessee, what a night, what a night. We
we did it, Thank you, thank you all. This is
just an incredible win, an incredible win tonight. You've sent
a message loud and clear. The people of Middle Tennessee
stand with President Donald J.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Trump.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Right, this was a big one for Donald Trump. He
came out heavy and so Van Epps ran with Trump
two h and he won by all we're saying it
was gonna be won two three points. He won by
nine points. So it was it was almost double digits.
And the Republicans are all breathing a sigh of relief.
The Democrats put a fortune into this race, millions and
(02:50):
millions of dollars. But Republican Matt Van Epps is now
a new Congressman, and Aten Ben, another socialist, is going
away now. We'll probably won't hear much from her from
now on because she got beat a lot more than
anybody thought. The race scene is an important bell weather,
by the way, for the midterm election, so Republicans are
(03:14):
breathing a sigh of relief, especially after the off year elections.
In New York. The incoming mayor Zor and Mam Dannie
meets with the outgoing Mayor Eric Adams at Gracie Mansion.
Is the working man socialist going to live in that mansion?
That is the decision I haven't yet made.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
The meeting came about as just part of a typical transition,
a transition where we're looking to have a conversation with
the current mayor about what it looks like to have
a smooth transfer between this administration and the next administration.
I appreciated the work of his staff and ensuring that it continues.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
To be smooth.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
It was raining that was his umbrella. That noise that
wasn't static, that was actually it was raining and that's
what you heard hitting the umbrella. That's going to be
an interesting decision for him whether he's going to live
at Gracy Mansion. Secretary of War Pete Hegseeth doesn't back
down amidst a controversy about the second air strike on
a boat that was already crippled in the Caribbean. I
(04:10):
watched that first strike life. As you can imagine, the
Department of War. We got a lot of things to do,
so I didn't stick around for the hour and two
hours whatever where all the sensitive side exploitation digitally occurs.
So I moved on to my next meeting.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
A couple of hours later, I learned that that commander had.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Made the which he had the complete authority to do.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
And by the way, Admiral Bradley made the correct decision
to ultimately sink the boat.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
And eliminate the threat. Right so, and everybody is saying
now that no, he wasn't in the room, and he
did tell Admiral Bradley that you know you have my consent,
you know you're in charge right now. But man again,
once again, not only is the Washington Post embarrassed by this,
(04:55):
because they their story, their big story was so wrong.
But the Democrats were for war crimes on this. It
will talk more about this coming up, but this is
just embarrassing for them once again. The terrorists who killed
a National Guard member and wounded another in Washington, d
C appeared in court on video from his bed in
(05:16):
the hospital. It was a conference call to plead not
guilty to charges of terrorism and murder, and more charges
may be coming. We are pursuing everything. There is nothing
off the table right now. This is an individual about
whom we don't know a lot, but we will trust me.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
For it's over.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Wait a second. They should know everything about him, shouldn't they.
I mean, he was so properly vetted. Remember, we should
know everything about him. How the why do they have
to search for information at this point? Because we werelied to.
He wasn't vetted. And that's what people have been saying
all along. There was no vetting. There's no records in
Afghanistan of him. And crazy Tim Walls, the governor of
(06:00):
Minnesota and the failed Democratic Vice president nominee, is responsible
for a billion dollars in fraud under his watch, most
of the fraud from Somalian immigrants that Waltz welcomed in.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Al Shabab controls all the financial infrastructure in Somalia. That's right,
this money has gone back to Somalia. Ergo common sense
would tell you that millions of dollars taxpayer dollars from
Minnesotans has gone to terrace known as Al Shabab in Somalia.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Now Trump has announced the new Trump Accounts. One thousand
dollars is going to be put into the accounts of
babies born after January to lower or middle class families
and can be withdrawn when they are ready for college.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
Trump Accounts will be the first I guess you could
say real trust funds for every American child, allowing family members, employers, corporations,
generous donors to contribute money that will be invested and
grow over the course of a child's life to be
used for their benefit after they turn eighteen.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
We should mention that philanthropists Steven and Susan Dell are
also contributing six billion dollars for all of the children
not born after January twenty five, So they're putting two
hundred and fifty dollars into accounts for children up to
ten years old by January twenty twenty five, so that'll
(07:30):
cover all the way back to twenty fifteen. You get
two hundred and fifty dollars in your account. How great
was that though, that they that they gave all that money.
How great would it would be to have six point
two billion dollars laying around that you're able to contribute
in a fund? And most of us got rain, but
some people, some people got their first snowfall of the season,
(07:56):
and they couldn't be happier.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
It snows a lot more here than it didn't Wane.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
But I'll put up with it because it's just such
a nice area to live in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
How about that? Aren't you in that area?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I am. We had snow yesterday.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
How much snow? Not much?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I saw the town next us reported just under an inch,
But honestly, it turned to slush so fast.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I don't know if you ever really got to see
the inch. Yeah, they were complaining about the kind of
snow it It was like that wet, yeah, yucky snow.
But I guess when you go upstate in New York,
even to Orange County, they got to then, pools were closed,
kids were off.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
And they were saying, hey, people who aren't going to
go skiing this weekend. It's a you know, a nice
addition because you got some fresh snow, which you know
you usually don't have this early in the season.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That pre made snow. Yeah right, I was. I don't
know if you caught it when I was talking to
Race stage of uyesterday and talking about a winter forecast,
and I said, as the TV stations we had meteorologists do,
especially at the beginning of sweeps, the big winter forecast,
and you promoted it like hell because weather, by the way,
in case people don't know when they when they do
(09:08):
surveys about what you why you watch local news far
and away, it's the weather. It's like eighty five percent
of the people say that's the most important thing, and
so we promote weather. But raced Age of guests today
was being extremely diplomatic. They are not any good those
(09:29):
winter forecastes. Oh that's all made up.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Thing.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Well, he even said, you know, he doesn't like to
do predictions that, you know, seasonal predictions, I think he
called it. But the hurricane season, which everybody was predicting
was gonna be you know, slightly active, was pretty quiet
this year. Oh no, they were, you know, I mean
Obviously there was a terrible thing that happened in Jamaica,
but the people in Florida went whoa.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah through this one. It was like that storm and
then that was it. Nothing else really hit land, and
there was a lot of th vets, but nothing hit land.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I guess this is in a news flash whether people
are wrong a lot, uh, you know what?
Speaker 5 (10:09):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Else, By the way, while we're on it, the ten
day forecast is no good at all. Just don't ignore it.
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twenty five. Now let's get to Jeffrey Lickman, high profile
criminal defense attorney, host of Beyond the Legal Limit podcast
(10:53):
found on the iHeartRadio app. Jeffrey, I, you know, I
look at sound every day for the show, and I'm
going through things, and I look at one cut and
it was you.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
The only victories you know that I see as a
defense lawyers, when a jury stands up and says not guilty,
I think anything short of that is it's sort of
a wash.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I didn't even know about the story about l Chappo
Junior taking a plea deal. Can you tell us what happened?
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Well, he took a plea the other day. I'm in
Chicago actually right now. Still, the plea was taken here
in federal court, and his case now went from a
mandatory life if he's convicted to now he's got a
ten year minimum, which is what I'm hoping to get
when we finally get two sentencing. So I think the
(11:42):
main point is he's cooperating with the government. But I
think the main victory was getting the government to accept
him as a cooperator. As you can imagine, that wasn't
an easy sell.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
No, I can't imagine you were involved in that.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Well, Larry, for a few I'm his lawyer, so I suppose, yes, yes,
I am I amn't. Technically I am involved.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
That was my way of getting to you to tell
me what was going on, what happened in all that.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Yeah, so it was it's actually his second son that's
played guilty. I represent all four of his sons and
the father and the wife. Yeah, so it's it's like
a family business for me.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah. You said that they were skeptical during the talks
that he would actually provide good information.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Well, I mean I think that the harder sell was
how do you convince the federal government to let people
that high up in the hierarchy be permitted to cooperate
instead of just dying in prison? As they insisted that
his father go to trial, And that's exactly what's going
to happen to him. So you know, the government this
(12:56):
is These are kind of odd times, Larry. You know,
you've got, as you've met before, as I was on hold,
you've got boats being blown up in the water that
are coming from Venezuela purportedly with drugs loaded on them.
And then the next day you've got the Hunduran former
president who was convicted of being a massive drug dealer
and getting a forty year sentence. He's pardoned by President Trump.
(13:18):
So these are confusing times, is what I'll say in
terms of what the government's thinking.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
No, I think you're right. I think there's politics that
plays a lot in all of this. But I think
you would have agreed that the military pressure to get
Maduro out of office will be good for the world.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Not even a question. I agree with you one hundred percent.
The guy's a maniac, and Trump is certainly applying the
pressure there. I agree with them one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Let's talk about Luigi Mangioni a little bit. They're going
through evidence hearings right now, and what they're trying to
get thrown out is what happened at a McDonald's and Altoona, Pennsylvania.
And the police first were able to get a hold
of mangione and they had a conversation with him. While
they were trying to he gave a fake ID, and
(14:08):
they were trying to substantiate the fake ID, and while
they were doing that, they were talking to him and
getting information, and then at one point when they realized
it was him, they took his bag and they went
through it. They're arguing that since the miranda rights were
not read and since there was no warrant. All of
that should be thrown out. Is there any chance that
(14:29):
that gets thrown out?
Speaker 5 (14:31):
I think there's a chance. I mean, I don't think
it was the best search happens in nearly every case
where law enforcement does not read Miranda. You see it
on TV. In real life, it never happens. Once he's
in custody. They have to read him miranda rights before
they question him. Now they're going to say, well, we
(14:52):
cornered him, but he was permitted to leave. We were
asking these questions. What they were doing is they were
questioning him. They should have read him the rights immediately
once they refused to let him leave. I suspect if
Luigi wanted to stand up at that point, when they
knew that it was him and they were questioning him,
there's no question in my mind that they would have
stopped him from leaving. So the search, all the answers
(15:15):
that he gave after that without reading Miranda should be suppressed.
And that all led to the arrest, which led to
them seizing the bag which had the gun and the
cash and you know, the writings and all the other
stuff all in there. So that was that should also
be suppressed. In practice, it's a long shot. Although I
(15:36):
do think that the law is on the defense side.
It doesn't mean that Luigi's going to be acquitted. There's
certainly plenty of other evidence, you know, DNA evidence, etc. Etc.
That put him at the scene with the gun in
his hand, shooting the insurance CEO. But the fact that
the government to state is putting on a hearing that's
(15:57):
with like dozens of witnesses that are going to last,
like you know, multiple weeks, does suggest to me that
they're a little bit nervous.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
They're a little bit nervous because this might get thrown out.
Is that why they're a little bit nervous.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
I think so. I mean, but there's also a federal
death penalty case. You know. I don't know it's ever
going to get anywhere near death penalty. It's not. But
there's no way. Here's the bottom line, Larry, for your listeners,
there's no way Luigi is getting out of this without
spending the rest of his natural life in jail. That's
my prediction.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
No, I think everybody's there, and I think they only
concern is the same one that you just mentioned a
moment ago, is that every time you hear about evidence.
Every time you hear about the case, every time you
hear about the money put into it, you think, well,
wait a second, what's going on? You know, even you
said a moment ago, there's a chance this gets thrown out.
(16:51):
But there is so much writing on this, and it
seems so obvious, and in the court of public opinion,
he's already been convicted and because everybody seen him.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
But but you point, that's that's the point that you make,
is that let's say they throw out his statements, let's
say they throw out the contents of the backpack. Is
there a single person on the planet and especially on
the future jury that doesn't know about all the things
in the backpack and all of his statements? Absolutely not right.
(17:22):
So I think he's getting convicted either way. And if not, listen,
he's getting convicted in federal court one way or another.
As I said, he's not getting out of this.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Jeffrey Lickman, high profile criminal defense attorney, is with us
every Wednesday at seven oh five. Thanks a lot, Jeffrey,
good talking to you. Yeah, that would be fascinating if
this evidence was thrown out, because then all of a sudden,
people would be going Oh my god, is he going
to get off? But there's so much else. There's somebody else,
including video, including other statements he made, including but what
(17:53):
happens if that manifesto gets thrown out?
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
All right, Now, let's check in with Greg gn Grande
Career Advice X with us every Wednesday at this time.
Check them out on go to Greg dot com. Fascinating
story Greg with Instagram the CEO announcing that everybody has
to be back in the office. Now this is Instagram.
So you can work at home in your computer pretty
(18:17):
well with Instagram, but everybody has to be back in
the office five days a week. They say it's about
boosting creativity and building a winning culture. Now to make
it work, he's also cutting unnecessary meetings and pushing for faster,
more focus collaboration. This is a big shift for a
(18:42):
company that embraced flexibility. So what do you think of this?
Will it spark innovation or they're just going to get
a backlash and people quitting over this.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
It'll be a combination, Larry, because there is no doubt
that not working together in person full time absolutely stifles
innovation and creativity. And there is a lot that entry
level people recent grads. Early career people miss out, lose
(19:17):
out on not working side by side with colleagues, not
learning by osmosis, picking up cues, letting the boss see
you like in like in a natural, organic way, rather
than having to schedule appointment via zoom. The issue is
do you need to do that? Is it best doing
(19:40):
it every single day of the week, or is a
hybrid schedule that takes advantage and uses the best of both,
giving people flexibility that they need to operate in a
way that is most efficient and effective for them while
also bringing people together. That's the holy grail, and most
(20:02):
companies are experimenting with a different formula for that, not
five days a week. It's still the minority. Only about
a third of corporations are asking employees to come five
days a week, And many who make these announcements actually
make lots of exceptions because they realize they're going to
(20:23):
lose a lot of talent. So he doesn't seem to
be making from a big company, But the reality is
most companies aren't doing this.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
He doesn't seem to be making exceptions, and that's what's
fascinating about it. This is a huge company. This is
a huge Internet company, and you'd think he'd be amenable
to having people working from home, but he's saying no,
he wants there five days a week. And I guess
the question is if they're doing this, is is this
(20:52):
a sign that everybody wants to go this way?
Speaker 7 (20:56):
No, it's definitely not a sign the genies out of
the bottle. We've all learned that we can operate very
effectively on a hybrid schedule with technology, and that most
employees prefer it, and the fact that still most employers
(21:17):
recognize that there's value to the employer as well as
the employee. Most employers are still keeping a hybrid schedule
where whether it's two days a week in the office
or three days a week or four part time days,
it will vary, but most companies recognize that there is
value for everyone in having that kind of flexibility. So
(21:41):
what it's going to do is create more competition for
the companies that are trying to stick to the old
traditional model of five days a week every day. They're
just it's going to be harder for them. Listen, a
company like Instagram, because it has such popularity and name recognition,
they can try something like this because for every person
(22:02):
who leaves because that doesn't work for them. There's a
lot of people who want to work for Instagram, but
most companies aren't Instagram, which is why in a talent war,
they're going to create conditions that are more conducive to
what most employees want, and that is a hybrid schedule.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Let me give you part of his argument. He says
that having people together in a workplace inspires not only creativity,
but collaboration. Does collaboration suffer if people are at home
and they're separated from everyone else.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Absolutely, there are things I miss where I know that
the energy of just running into somebody's office or workspace,
pulling people together spontaneously because you're all there. Absolutely, if
you're working full time remotely, that suffers collaboration and innovation
(22:58):
absolutely suffers. You don't have to give it up if
you have a compromise, even if you do three days
a week and then the other two days can be
flexible days where people can still have more quiet time
on their own to follow up and do whatever things
they need to do, you know, for their responsibilities without
(23:21):
the distractions and without the commute is really the best model.
But for sure, companies that allow all employees to work
remotely full time, you certainly lose some cultural aspects. You
lose collaboration, you lose innovation, and for early career people,
(23:43):
they don't even recognize, they don't even know what they're
losing because they don't have any context. But you lose
so much learning and career development by not being in
an environment with colleagues, learning from them and having those
spontaneous interactions.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
So, yeah, there's a point there. He has a point.
And what's interesting about what he's saying is, for some
reason he is zeroed in on meetings, especially lengthy meetings,
and trying to get rid of slide presentations and making
sure that if there is a meeting, it's kept very tight.
(24:19):
I don't think that is what people are thinking about
when they want to stay home. They just don't want
to travel in and they want some freedom. But do
you believe that taking away meetings or making them tighter
and making sure there's not just a prerequisite weekly meeting
is going to help.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Everyone complains about meetings, but they complain often about the
wrong thing. It's not the number of meetings, it's how
meetings are conducted. And you often sit there and say,
like why am I here? I'm not getting anything done
and I'm not learning anything. So there's absolutely a whole
kind of reimagining of meeting culture to make sure that
(25:04):
everyone who's in a meeting knows why they are in
that meeting and they're getting something out of it. And
usually there's three things. You're either there because you need
to be there for awareness, some people need to be
there to provide inputs so work can get done, and
other people need to be there who own the decision
of whatever needs to get done. So whether it's a
stand up meeting that's five ten to fifteen minutes or
(25:25):
it's a lengthy meeting for an hour is not the point.
The point is are we advancing what everybody needs to
do to get their work done in that meeting. So
it's how we're doing meetings, not the number of meetings
that's the issue, and it is a big issue in companies.
Everybody complains about meetings.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yeah, he wants to change that too, so that at
least that part you'll agree he's onto something. Greg gian Grande,
career advice expert with us every Wednesday at this very time.
You can check them out and go to Greg dot com.
You really should go go to Greg dot com and
you can ask him your own questions there because we
may not cover everything and he's great about responding. Thanks
(26:03):
a lot, great good to talk to you.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
Thank you, have a great week.
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