Larry Mendte goes over the biggest news stories of the day including Zohran Mamdani announcing an end to homeless encampment sweeps, the pre trial hearing of Luigi Mangione continues tomorrow in Manhattan, and a new survey ranking Newark International airport as the most stressful airport in the country. Randy Mastro speaks with Mendte in the Morning about his resignation letter that will go into effect right before Zohran Mamdani takes office on January 1st 2026 and his parting message towards the new Mayor. Warner Wolf talks with Mendte in the Morning about more losses for the Jets and Giants, and the increase in size of the College Football Playoff.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gonna be cold, really cold, coldest night so far of
this winter season. So just make sure when you get
out there that you're you know, you're dressed properly, and
especially have to spend any time in it. Uh makes
certain might be a good day to call him sick
if you have to spend a lot of time out
out in the cold. Because it is going to be better,
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it's gonna get a little bit better, but today especially
is a bad day for that. In the Big Three,
Mayor Alexor and Mom Donnie says when he gets into office,
he's going to stop those cities sweeps of homeless in
New York.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
If you are not connecting homeless New Yorkers to the
housing that they so desperately need, then you cannot deem
anything you're doing to be a success.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
So now is he going to provide free housing for
the cities homeless? That's just another thing that we won't
be able to pay for. A sixty year old man
in Jamaica, Queens, just crossing the street is hit and
killed by a moped.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So when I heard it was head trauma, I was
mad because I'm like, this person hit my dad had
him died with one of the best brains anybody could
want to, you know have.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, that was his daughter, by the way, And it's
just we got stop with these mopeds and e cars
just flying through intersections. There has to be some type
of regulation or at least enforcement of the regulations that
are already in the book. The pre trial evidence hearing
(01:33):
of Luigi Mangioni continues in Manhattan. Last week in court,
they played the nine to one one tape from Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
See's fill in the back of our Lobbie wearing a
black lettered jacket with a medical math and a tan
khaki color like Beanie?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Do you have to be Beanie?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Pulled down so the only thing he can see is
his eyebrow.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Only thee can see as his eyebrows. The guy thought
of everything except to trim those hair monsters above his eyes.
That's all he had to do, and he would have
gotten away scott free. The police officer who responded to
that call and question mom, Donnie is going to be
in the courtroom today. A new survey of air travelers
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ranks Newark Liberty International Airport as the most stressful of
all airports.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
And I agree with that statement.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Coming to Newark was so easy.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
I just got hit from alstin getting through the terminal.
Just follow the signs airfnings lit up makes it so easy.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
We really have any complications. Our bags came pretty quick.
Everything was kind of self explanatory.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
The schedule for the World Cup games across the country
and at MetLife Stadium have been announced, and soccer fans
in the area are excited, especially those from other countries
who want to root for their home team or what
used to be their home team. I hope even if
they may not be able to afford tickets.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Even if I'm not able to make it to the final,
which I probably won't be because it's the tickets are
going to be very prohibitively expensive, It'll be a huge
party here, I'm sure of that. I'm going to be
watching it with my friends, maybe at a bar somewhere.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
A barrage of Russian air strikes in Ukraine overnight, and
there seems to be no question that if Ukraine isn't
ready to give up land, the Russians plan to try
and take it by force.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Person We're going to start doing it on land. We
have to will attack on land. Also, we will hit
them very hard. When they come in by land.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
We're going to start doing those strikes on land too.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You know, the land is much easier. It's much easier.
That is Donald Trump talking about the fact that now
that the air strikes have been so successful in the Caribbean,
he may go in to make Maduro leave. It sounds
like at that this point it's going to happen. Apparently
the two of them had another phone call and Maduro
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said that he's ready to leave. He just wants some promises.
I guess that Donald Trump is not ready to give him.
And the Jets are now officially eliminated from the NFL
playoffs with a thirty four to ten drubbing by the
Miami Dolphins at Metlaf Stadium. Coach Aaron Glenn says he
may have the answer now.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Listen.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I want his job. I interviewed for a number of them,
but I wanted this job. When I was going to
my second interview, I want to make sure this is
gonna this is gonna be the second view, is gonna
be the first of the second interviews, because I didn't want.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
To be lave. Yeah, what he said was that we
just have to play better there you go just play better.
The legendary Warner Wolf will be here to talk about
the jets at seven thirty five. Well, today is the
day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and it was
on this day, in nineteen forty one, that Franklin Delano
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Roosevelt made his address to Congress and utter the words
that till this day still echo through history.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Yesterday these us some nineteen forty one, a date which
will live in infamy.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
And it has, it has lived in infamy. He was
absolutely correct, and it should we need to keep remembering that,
just like we remember nine to eleven. This story bothers
me so much. In Queens and anybody that has to
walk the streets of New York and all five Burroughs
know what I'm talking about. In Manhattan, I find it
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particularly bad. I can't tell you how many times in
my car I've almost hit an e bike or a moped.
I can't tell you how many car At times I've
been crossing the street just to get out of this
building and have almost got hit by an e bike.
But this time it's somebody that died. This is the
second time this year somebody's been hit by one of
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these motorized bikes or a moped and has died. And
father just crossing the street. By the way, he's from Jamaica.
He's been in this country his whole life.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
He was excited because they were taking a trip home
with his family. So he decided, even though he doesn't
normally go out on a Friday night, he decided to
go get some some stuff for the trip. So he
just goes out in his neighborhood. He's walking this, he's
walking across the street. This is in Jamaica, Queens on
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ninety third Avenue at one hundred and sixty eighth Street
when he just gets run over by a moped crossing
the street. I've got a couple of things. The moped
was going that fast that it killed him. His name
is Rodriguez and that's that's actually the daughter's name, Jamik
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Rodriguez was also injured in this. But Givett Sam is
the person that was killed. And it is just it
is such a horrible, horrible, horrible story that somebody is
just out walking and is run over by one of these.
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But if you know that that's a possibility, now the
city is going to tell you over and over and
over again, that everything is down, that crime is that
the crime is down, and that the incidents with e
bikes that's down too. You know why, because we've learned
to deal with them. They haven't gotten any better. If
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you're out on the streets just for a little bit,
you know they haven't gotten any better. They're still going
too fast, even in their own lanes. So when you
go in between park cars to get the sidewalk, you
have to look both ways or you're gonna get hit
because they're not going to stop. They don't see you,
and they don't care. How many times have you gone
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to a green light to go through a green light
and one of these e bikes comes shooting through, Just
come shooting through. They don't care that it's a red light,
they don't care that it's a one way street. So
why do you have to be the one that is
constantly worried about what someone on an e bike or
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a moped is going to do? So the city is
constantly going to say to you, well, the statistics guy's
gotten so much better. Everything's fine. No, it's because we've
had to get better the mopeds and the e bikes.
They haven't gotten better at all. They keep breaking the law,
and as long as you keep allowing them to break
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the law, you're going to have people killed like Trevor
Lloyd Samuels, and you're going to have people like Cavette Samuels,
his daughter upset and his grandchildren without a grandfather. That's
what's gonna keep happening over and over again. And you're
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gonna have car accidents, You're gonna have injuries and people
hurt because you're not enforcing the law. And as a
matter of fact, the law should get a little bit
tougher because if you get hit by an e bike,
there's no repercussions. You can't sue. So you need to
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have they need to have insurance, they need to have
a license. And until that happens, every pedestrian, every motorist
in New York City is in harm's way all of
the time. Until you take care of this and decide
that this is important, nothing's gonna work. You can't lowering
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the lowering the traffic lights that you tried, that was
a joke. You have to order on them. I don't
know what is the matter. I don't know why you
won't make this next step. It's an easy one to
make do it or more people are going to die
and be injured. Well, thanks so much for joining us
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this morning. He is one of New York's great public servants,
serving under Rudy Giuliani and as the top aid for
Eric Adams. And now he has written a letter of
resignations saying that he can't serve under Zurun Mamdani. If
Zorn Mamdani was considering him, he said, well, please take
me out of consideration. With that, let's get to Randy Mastro. Sarah,
(10:38):
thanks so much for joining us this morning. I appreciate
your time. Pleas Before I get to the letter of resignation, Sarah,
I'd like to talk about the news now that Zurun Mamdani,
he didn't tell us this during his campaign, is going
to stop the homeless sweeps. What will that mean for
the city of New York.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
It's not humane policy. It's not humane to leave the
homeless out on the streets. People who can't help themselves
need our help. It's bad for their quality of life.
It's bad for New Yorker's quality of life to leave
homeless encampments out on the street. Hopefully some common sense
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will ultimately prevail. But this is just bad policy all
the way around. It hasn't worked in other cities that
have allowed these encampments. It's not good for the homeless
population that's left out on the streets, particularly as we
approach the dead of winter. And you know, Mayor Adams
has had the right policy, which is to try to
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intervene to get these folks from many of them suffering
from mental illness or addiction problems, the help they need
but can't get for themselves, and not to allow those
encampments that only you know, foster and promote something that
is bad for those individuals, bad for our city, and
bad public policy.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
And Randy he also says he's going to find them
permanent housing. This guy lives in a fantasy land. Well
is this This seems to be just another promises making
that he's not going to be able to pay for it. And
I applaud the governor for coming out and saying that
this is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Well, the reality is that we have an obligation to
find housing, you know, for the homeless under the laws
of New York. And there are lots of ways to
help those who are out on the streets get the
social services they need and the housing that they need.
(12:45):
So that is something that the city has long been
committed to doing. But there's no housing solution for people
who won't help themselves and go into the social services
and housing that they need. And that is you know,
just as you said, you know, a pipe dream to
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think that suddenly thousands of individuals who choose to live
on the streets, not because they want to live on
the streets, but because they most of them suffer from
mental illness or addiction problems. They can't help themselves, so
we have to help them. But it doesn't help them
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to encourage the encampments and to allow them to stay
out on the streets.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Now do you have more than one dog or is
that one dog making all that racket?
Speaker 8 (13:39):
Exactly?
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Well?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That that is my That is that dog. Cato was
adopted from the city shelter system where we had an
overclouding problem back in June. We put more money into
the shelters. We've expedited a completion of a new Bronx
shelter and a new free vet clinic. We love our
animals and this administration has you know, I tried to
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help him, and I took Cato home with me, and
we love him, even though he barks a lot when.
Speaker 8 (14:04):
I get good for Cato. He wants airtime, he wants attention.
He doesn't want you paying attention to anybody else. I'm
sure that's all that's going on. No, Cato's fine. Tell
him to keep it up. It's all right, we can
hear you.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Just fine.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Let's talk about your resignation letter. Why did you feel
the need to write it.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Well, let me be clear about that too. I savener
resignation letter effective minutes before midnight on December thirty first,
So I intend to serve this mayor till the last
possible minute. Mayor elect mon Donni's team sent us a
list of one hundred and seventy nine individuals that they
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intended to replace come January one. Incredibly, the Mayor and
I were on that list. Neither of us, neither of
us intended to ever or could deserve so. And I
have said many times that I'll never work for a socialist. So,
you know, I felt that it was the right thing
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to do to, you know, set the record straight that
you know I was. I was resigning effective you know,
midnight December thirty one, and that I would be that
we would be leaving together Eric Adams and Randy Bastar.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
You just wanted to make sure he knew, even though
he wasn't going to keep you anyway, you wanted to
make sure he knew. But it seemed to be even
more of a statement than that. I think it was
important for you to stake your ground that you would
not work for him for a number of reasons. Am
I right about that?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Well? I wanted to make clear one that I had
no intention of working that administration, but two to highlight
why I worked for this administration and why I'm so
proud of this team and to have been a part
of this mayor's administration, because serving in these capacities, I think,
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as I understand it, I'm, you know, the first person
in modern city history to have been both a top
deputy man acting mayor under two different mayors. It's because
you're committed to achieving that agenda and the agenda of
this mayor public safety, economic growth, affordable housing. I wanted
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to say to the mayor, thank you for the honor
of serving. I love this city, and thank you for
the honor of helping advance that agenda because this administration
has taken crime to record lows, jobs to record highs,
and affordable housing being produced at an unprecedented rate. That's
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a record of accomplishment to be proud of. And these
policies are important because this mayor has protected public safety,
added thirty four hundred more cops in the budget, five
thousand more in the November budget mod to keep our
city safe. He funded universal after school programs so important
to our kids. He's cut red tape and taxes so
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that businesses could thrive, and through rezonings and subsidies and
other programs, he's created affordable housing at an unprecedented rate.
And finally he's recognized as gorge in our city. Something
I never thought I would see in my lifetime. It's
called anti Semitism, and it's raging in our city and
most most of the hate crimes in our city are
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now committed against Jews. All the other hate crimes combined
don't equal to hate crimes against Jews. So he formed
the Mayor's office to combat anti Semitism, and we have
implemented executive orders and programs and policies to combat anti semitism.
These are programs that have to continue. Our city is
so much better because of them emphasizing public safety, economic growth,
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affordable housing, our kids, and combating anti semitism. So I
thought it was important to lay that out in a
resignation letter and say to this mayor, these are policies
that we can all be proud of and that it's
so vital must continue in New York.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
We'll see if they continue. Yeah, I think he got
a raw deal. Do you think the Biden administration purposely
came after him because of the immigration thing.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Look, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna dwell on the past.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I'm just, for a second, dwell in the past, just
for a moment.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Well, I'm a I'm a former federal prosecutor from the
Seven Dishes of New York. I was in the Justice Department.
And while I have great respect for my old office, uh,
you know, I don't think that that that particular prosecution
was its finest hour. I never should have been brought,
never should have been made as a federal case for
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whatever reason, And unfortunately, I had profound effects on the
ability of the mayor at the time to be able
to do all the things that he wanted to do.
But look look at the progress since over the last
nine months. It's just been an amazing period. He has
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a professional team. They've done amazing work, so professional that
the mayor elect, you know, is reappointing at least some
of them.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, absolutely, no, Yeah, the proof is in the pudding,
as you say that, Randy Mastro, thanks so much for
talking with us. Would love to talk to you, Winsor
and mom. Donnie is in office, so if you ever
want to go on the air with us, please we're
always open to you.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Thank you, sir, will be pleased to do that, and
thank you for having me on.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
All right, let's get right to the legend himself. A
lot going on in sports. He's got a lot to
talk about, Warner Wolf, legendary sportscaster with us every Monday
at this time.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Take it away, Warner, all right, thank you, Larry. Second
basement Jeff Tent the only one voted into the Baseball
Hall of Fame by the Contemporary Era Committee. Camp seventeen
years in the majors, including the Mets and Giants, at
three hundred and fifty home runs. That's more than any
other second Basement in history. Lifetime batting average, He's also
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remembered for two other things, hit by a pitch one
hundred and twenty times and his famous clubhouse fight with
Barry Bonds, in which Kemp emerged with a black eye
and said he slipped and fell while washing his truck
in the fourth inning. Now, guys like Don Mattingley and
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Dale Murphy, they still have a shot with the Baseball
Writers of America. These are the older guys, and they'll
have the ballots next month. So and the two big cheaters,
Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, did not get enough votes.
And I still say they should be put in a
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cheaters wing in the Hall of Fame. That's what you mean,
all right? News flash? The three and ten. Yet it's
eliminated from the playoffs. Little fifteenth straight year.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Oh darn it.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
No, what do you do the fans a favor and
sell the team. But you know what, despite not scoring
an offensive touchdown, I think the Jets should still start
twenty four year old rookie Brady Cook the next four games.
Give him a shot and give him the all important
reps with the first team and see what he can do.
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And I don't know about you, but I had to
turn the sound off of the game. The TV analyst
obviously paid by the word that guy never stopped talking
even when there was nothing significant to say. Did you
hear that?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Did you have no watch it?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I did watch it. I was actually flipping around on
red zone. But that it was more obvious because you
heard the other games where they weren't talking over the plays,
and then you gave these these two that wouldn't show up.
You're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Oh gosh.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Now, at least the two and eleven Giants didn't lose
and they had a buy but once again questionable strategy
by this interim coach Mike Kapka in their last game, Remember,
they were trailing the Patriots twenty seven to seven a
minute thirteen less than a half. They had a fourth
and one at their own forty and they punted. Man,
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it's twenty seven seven. The Giants offense was going nowhere,
fourth and one, go for it. Instead, the Giants punted
and the Patriots kicked. The field goal was thirty to
seven at the half. Turn your sets off there now.
Speaking of betting, all week long, the Vikings were two
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point favored over Washington. Then on Saturday it changed because
Washington announced that their quarterback Jaydon Daniels would start, so
the Vikings became a point and a half underdog. Now
since the Vikings won thirty one nothing. If you took
the Vikings early and gave two points and then took
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the Vikings with the point and a half, you want
both bets. That's why they try to keep the gamblers
know before you know. Now, here's what's wrong with increasing
the college football playoffs. The twelve teams Duke had five
losses five losses, but they automatically make the final twelve
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playoff teams because they beat Virginia in overtime. They won
Atlantic Coast Conference title. Oh Man, let them all in,
and when will they learn the big time college football
programs they hire coaches the long term deals and then
they fire them before the contract is up, and they
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have to pay these massive payoffs. Oh Man, LSU had
to pay Brian Kelly fifty four million, penn State owed
the James Franklin forty nine million. It just goes on
and on. Uh, you know, these guys got to wake up.
Don't hire a coach for more than five years. If
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he's good, give him another five years if he's a
failure you don't have to give him the ranch. Gosh, hey, Larry,
you remember Walter Austen. I know it's baseball, the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, of course, the yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
The manager, right, you know he managed twenty three years
one year contract for twenty three years. Man, what a
what a contrast to the football guy. All right? Time
now for the three stooges. Stooge number one Giants general
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manager Joe Shane, who has gone six and eleven, three
and fourteen and two and eleven the last three years,
he gave not exactly a reassuring New Rockney speech for
a long time, suffering Giant fans by saying, nobody's perfect.
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The chances of me batting one thousand are gone. Everybody
makes mistakes, he says, when I'm better now than I
was when I got here. No, Joe, when you got
here you were nine seven and one. Since then, you've
lost thirty six out of forty seven games.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Remember the movie come Back, Shane, Come Back Shane. No,
this is don't come back, Joe, Shane, don't come back?
All right, Steez Stew's number two. The dumbest political platform
by anyone ever running for office in the United States,
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Tennessee State Representative Afton Bean who said, I hate Nashville,
I hate Tennessee, and I hate country music. They often
Nashville is the home of the glend Ole Hobbry and
home of country music. No wonder you lost. That would
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be like someone running in Iowa and saying you hate
corn cornfields, farmers and the ballpark in the field of dreams.
You know what a suspicious mind like myself might ask,
did she bet big bucks against herself to lose? And
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finally stooge number three? And this is on you, Larry
the Philadelphia Eagle fans who runs through snowballs at Santa Claus.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Let go my god?
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Hole? Now is this is being replaced? Now? They egged
the house of the Eagle offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo, whose
Eagle offense has scored only ten points, fifteen points and
sixteen points in three of the last four games.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
So he deserved it.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Oh, by the way, you think you think the younger
people in the audience know what egging house is?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Oh? I do?
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Do you have to?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (27:32):
It's throwing eggs at the guy's house.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Explanatory?
Speaker 6 (27:37):
Are you those are your people? Larry?
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Well, you're forgetting that during the parade when they won
the Super Bowl, they hit the general general manager in
the face with a beer can. Oh no, I don't
think that was on purpose, but still, you know you
don't throw beer cans. Hey, thanks a lot.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Water.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
That was great. Water Wolf, legendary sportscaster with us every
Monday at seven thirty five.
Gonna be cold, really cold, coldest night so far of
this winter season. So just make sure when you get
out there that you're you know, you're dressed properly, and
especially have to spend any time in it. Uh makes
certain might be a good day to call him sick
if you have to spend a lot of time out
out in the cold. Because it is going to be better,
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it's gonna get a little bit better, but today especially
is a bad day for that. In the Big Three,
Mayor Alexor and Mom Donnie says when he gets into office,
he's going to stop those cities sweeps of homeless in
New York.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
If you are not connecting homeless New Yorkers to the
housing that they so desperately need, then you cannot deem
anything you're doing to be a success.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
So now is he going to provide free housing for
the cities homeless? That's just another thing that we won't
be able to pay for. A sixty year old man
in Jamaica, Queens, just crossing the street is hit and
killed by a moped.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So when I heard it was head trauma, I was
mad because I'm like, this person hit my dad had
him died with one of the best brains anybody could
want to, you know have.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, that was his daughter, by the way, And it's
just we got stop with these mopeds and e cars
just flying through intersections. There has to be some type
of regulation or at least enforcement of the regulations that
are already in the book. The pre trial evidence hearing
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of Luigi Mangioni continues in Manhattan. Last week in court,
they played the nine to one one tape from Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
See's fill in the back of our Lobbie wearing a
black lettered jacket with a medical math and a tan
khaki color like Beanie?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Do you have to be Beanie?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Pulled down so the only thing he can see is
his eyebrow.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Only thee can see as his eyebrows. The guy thought
of everything except to trim those hair monsters above his eyes.
That's all he had to do, and he would have
gotten away scott free. The police officer who responded to
that call and question mom, Donnie is going to be
in the courtroom today. A new survey of air travelers
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ranks Newark Liberty International Airport as the most stressful of
all airports.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
And I agree with that statement.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Coming to Newark was so easy.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
I just got hit from alstin getting through the terminal.
Just follow the signs airfnings lit up makes it so easy.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
We really have any complications. Our bags came pretty quick.
Everything was kind of self explanatory.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
The schedule for the World Cup games across the country
and at MetLife Stadium have been announced, and soccer fans
in the area are excited, especially those from other countries
who want to root for their home team or what
used to be their home team. I hope even if
they may not be able to afford tickets.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Even if I'm not able to make it to the final,
which I probably won't be because it's the tickets are
going to be very prohibitively expensive, It'll be a huge
party here, I'm sure of that. I'm going to be
watching it with my friends, maybe at a bar somewhere.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
A barrage of Russian air strikes in Ukraine overnight, and
there seems to be no question that if Ukraine isn't
ready to give up land, the Russians plan to try
and take it by force.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Person We're going to start doing it on land. We
have to will attack on land. Also, we will hit
them very hard. When they come in by land.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
We're going to start doing those strikes on land too.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You know, the land is much easier. It's much easier.
That is Donald Trump talking about the fact that now
that the air strikes have been so successful in the Caribbean,
he may go in to make Maduro leave. It sounds
like at that this point it's going to happen. Apparently
the two of them had another phone call and Maduro
(03:56):
said that he's ready to leave. He just wants some promises.
I guess that Donald Trump is not ready to give him.
And the Jets are now officially eliminated from the NFL
playoffs with a thirty four to ten drubbing by the
Miami Dolphins at Metlaf Stadium. Coach Aaron Glenn says he
may have the answer now.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Listen.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I want his job. I interviewed for a number of them,
but I wanted this job. When I was going to
my second interview, I want to make sure this is
gonna this is gonna be the second view, is gonna
be the first of the second interviews, because I didn't want.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
To be lave. Yeah, what he said was that we
just have to play better there you go just play better.
The legendary Warner Wolf will be here to talk about
the jets at seven thirty five. Well, today is the
day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and it was
on this day, in nineteen forty one, that Franklin Delano
(04:50):
Roosevelt made his address to Congress and utter the words
that till this day still echo through history.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Yesterday these us some nineteen forty one, a date which
will live in infamy.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
And it has, it has lived in infamy. He was
absolutely correct, and it should we need to keep remembering that,
just like we remember nine to eleven. This story bothers
me so much. In Queens and anybody that has to
walk the streets of New York and all five Burroughs
know what I'm talking about. In Manhattan, I find it
(05:34):
particularly bad. I can't tell you how many times in
my car I've almost hit an e bike or a moped.
I can't tell you how many car At times I've
been crossing the street just to get out of this
building and have almost got hit by an e bike.
But this time it's somebody that died. This is the
second time this year somebody's been hit by one of
(05:55):
these motorized bikes or a moped and has died. And
father just crossing the street. By the way, he's from Jamaica.
He's been in this country his whole life.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
He was excited because they were taking a trip home
with his family. So he decided, even though he doesn't
normally go out on a Friday night, he decided to
go get some some stuff for the trip. So he
just goes out in his neighborhood. He's walking this, he's
walking across the street. This is in Jamaica, Queens on
(06:27):
ninety third Avenue at one hundred and sixty eighth Street
when he just gets run over by a moped crossing
the street. I've got a couple of things. The moped
was going that fast that it killed him. His name
is Rodriguez and that's that's actually the daughter's name, Jamik
(06:54):
Rodriguez was also injured in this. But Givett Sam is
the person that was killed. And it is just it
is such a horrible, horrible, horrible story that somebody is
just out walking and is run over by one of these.
(07:15):
But if you know that that's a possibility, now the
city is going to tell you over and over and
over again, that everything is down, that crime is that
the crime is down, and that the incidents with e
bikes that's down too. You know why, because we've learned
to deal with them. They haven't gotten any better. If
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you're out on the streets just for a little bit,
you know they haven't gotten any better. They're still going
too fast, even in their own lanes. So when you
go in between park cars to get the sidewalk, you
have to look both ways or you're gonna get hit
because they're not going to stop. They don't see you,
and they don't care. How many times have you gone
(08:01):
to a green light to go through a green light
and one of these e bikes comes shooting through, Just
come shooting through. They don't care that it's a red light,
they don't care that it's a one way street. So
why do you have to be the one that is
constantly worried about what someone on an e bike or
(08:22):
a moped is going to do? So the city is
constantly going to say to you, well, the statistics guy's
gotten so much better. Everything's fine. No, it's because we've
had to get better the mopeds and the e bikes.
They haven't gotten better at all. They keep breaking the law,
and as long as you keep allowing them to break
(08:43):
the law, you're going to have people killed like Trevor
Lloyd Samuels, and you're going to have people like Cavette Samuels,
his daughter upset and his grandchildren without a grandfather. That's
what's gonna keep happening over and over again. And you're
(09:05):
gonna have car accidents, You're gonna have injuries and people
hurt because you're not enforcing the law. And as a
matter of fact, the law should get a little bit
tougher because if you get hit by an e bike,
there's no repercussions. You can't sue. So you need to
(09:28):
have they need to have insurance, they need to have
a license. And until that happens, every pedestrian, every motorist
in New York City is in harm's way all of
the time. Until you take care of this and decide
that this is important, nothing's gonna work. You can't lowering
(09:52):
the lowering the traffic lights that you tried, that was
a joke. You have to order on them. I don't
know what is the matter. I don't know why you
won't make this next step. It's an easy one to
make do it or more people are going to die
and be injured. Well, thanks so much for joining us
(10:13):
this morning. He is one of New York's great public servants,
serving under Rudy Giuliani and as the top aid for
Eric Adams. And now he has written a letter of
resignations saying that he can't serve under Zurun Mamdani. If
Zorn Mamdani was considering him, he said, well, please take
me out of consideration. With that, let's get to Randy Mastro. Sarah,
(10:38):
thanks so much for joining us this morning. I appreciate
your time. Pleas Before I get to the letter of resignation, Sarah,
I'd like to talk about the news now that Zurun Mamdani,
he didn't tell us this during his campaign, is going
to stop the homeless sweeps. What will that mean for
the city of New York.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
It's not humane policy. It's not humane to leave the
homeless out on the streets. People who can't help themselves
need our help. It's bad for their quality of life.
It's bad for New Yorker's quality of life to leave
homeless encampments out on the street. Hopefully some common sense
(11:23):
will ultimately prevail. But this is just bad policy all
the way around. It hasn't worked in other cities that
have allowed these encampments. It's not good for the homeless
population that's left out on the streets, particularly as we
approach the dead of winter. And you know, Mayor Adams
has had the right policy, which is to try to
(11:44):
intervene to get these folks from many of them suffering
from mental illness or addiction problems, the help they need
but can't get for themselves, and not to allow those
encampments that only you know, foster and promote something that
is bad for those individuals, bad for our city, and
bad public policy.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
And Randy he also says he's going to find them
permanent housing. This guy lives in a fantasy land. Well
is this This seems to be just another promises making
that he's not going to be able to pay for it. And
I applaud the governor for coming out and saying that
this is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Well, the reality is that we have an obligation to
find housing, you know, for the homeless under the laws
of New York. And there are lots of ways to
help those who are out on the streets get the
social services they need and the housing that they need.
(12:45):
So that is something that the city has long been
committed to doing. But there's no housing solution for people
who won't help themselves and go into the social services
and housing that they need. And that is you know,
just as you said, you know, a pipe dream to
(13:07):
think that suddenly thousands of individuals who choose to live
on the streets, not because they want to live on
the streets, but because they most of them suffer from
mental illness or addiction problems. They can't help themselves, so
we have to help them. But it doesn't help them
(13:29):
to encourage the encampments and to allow them to stay
out on the streets.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Now do you have more than one dog or is
that one dog making all that racket?
Speaker 8 (13:39):
Exactly?
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Well?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That that is my That is that dog. Cato was
adopted from the city shelter system where we had an
overclouding problem back in June. We put more money into
the shelters. We've expedited a completion of a new Bronx
shelter and a new free vet clinic. We love our
animals and this administration has you know, I tried to
(14:00):
help him, and I took Cato home with me, and
we love him, even though he barks a lot when.
Speaker 8 (14:04):
I get good for Cato. He wants airtime, he wants attention.
He doesn't want you paying attention to anybody else. I'm
sure that's all that's going on. No, Cato's fine. Tell
him to keep it up. It's all right, we can
hear you.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Just fine.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Let's talk about your resignation letter. Why did you feel
the need to write it.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Well, let me be clear about that too. I savener
resignation letter effective minutes before midnight on December thirty first,
So I intend to serve this mayor till the last
possible minute. Mayor elect mon Donni's team sent us a
list of one hundred and seventy nine individuals that they
(14:44):
intended to replace come January one. Incredibly, the Mayor and
I were on that list. Neither of us, neither of
us intended to ever or could deserve so. And I
have said many times that I'll never work for a socialist. So,
you know, I felt that it was the right thing
(15:05):
to do to, you know, set the record straight that
you know I was. I was resigning effective you know,
midnight December thirty one, and that I would be that
we would be leaving together Eric Adams and Randy Bastar.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
You just wanted to make sure he knew, even though
he wasn't going to keep you anyway, you wanted to
make sure he knew. But it seemed to be even
more of a statement than that. I think it was
important for you to stake your ground that you would
not work for him for a number of reasons. Am
I right about that?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Well? I wanted to make clear one that I had
no intention of working that administration, but two to highlight
why I worked for this administration and why I'm so
proud of this team and to have been a part
of this mayor's administration, because serving in these capacities, I think,
(15:56):
as I understand it, I'm, you know, the first person
in modern city history to have been both a top
deputy man acting mayor under two different mayors. It's because
you're committed to achieving that agenda and the agenda of
this mayor public safety, economic growth, affordable housing. I wanted
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to say to the mayor, thank you for the honor
of serving. I love this city, and thank you for
the honor of helping advance that agenda because this administration
has taken crime to record lows, jobs to record highs,
and affordable housing being produced at an unprecedented rate. That's
(16:38):
a record of accomplishment to be proud of. And these
policies are important because this mayor has protected public safety,
added thirty four hundred more cops in the budget, five
thousand more in the November budget mod to keep our
city safe. He funded universal after school programs so important
to our kids. He's cut red tape and taxes so
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that businesses could thrive, and through rezonings and subsidies and
other programs, he's created affordable housing at an unprecedented rate.
And finally he's recognized as gorge in our city. Something
I never thought I would see in my lifetime. It's
called anti Semitism, and it's raging in our city and
most most of the hate crimes in our city are
(17:24):
now committed against Jews. All the other hate crimes combined
don't equal to hate crimes against Jews. So he formed
the Mayor's office to combat anti Semitism, and we have
implemented executive orders and programs and policies to combat anti semitism.
These are programs that have to continue. Our city is
so much better because of them emphasizing public safety, economic growth,
(17:48):
affordable housing, our kids, and combating anti semitism. So I
thought it was important to lay that out in a
resignation letter and say to this mayor, these are policies
that we can all be proud of and that it's
so vital must continue in New York.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
We'll see if they continue. Yeah, I think he got
a raw deal. Do you think the Biden administration purposely
came after him because of the immigration thing.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Look, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna dwell on the past.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I'm just, for a second, dwell in the past, just
for a moment.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Well, I'm a I'm a former federal prosecutor from the
Seven Dishes of New York. I was in the Justice Department.
And while I have great respect for my old office, uh,
you know, I don't think that that that particular prosecution
was its finest hour. I never should have been brought,
never should have been made as a federal case for
(18:42):
whatever reason, And unfortunately, I had profound effects on the
ability of the mayor at the time to be able
to do all the things that he wanted to do.
But look look at the progress since over the last
nine months. It's just been an amazing period. He has
(19:03):
a professional team. They've done amazing work, so professional that
the mayor elect, you know, is reappointing at least some
of them.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, absolutely, no, Yeah, the proof is in the pudding,
as you say that, Randy Mastro, thanks so much for
talking with us. Would love to talk to you, Winsor
and mom. Donnie is in office, so if you ever
want to go on the air with us, please we're
always open to you.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Thank you, sir, will be pleased to do that, and
thank you for having me on.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
All right, let's get right to the legend himself. A
lot going on in sports. He's got a lot to
talk about, Warner Wolf, legendary sportscaster with us every Monday
at this time.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Take it away, Warner, all right, thank you, Larry. Second
basement Jeff Tent the only one voted into the Baseball
Hall of Fame by the Contemporary Era Committee. Camp seventeen
years in the majors, including the Mets and Giants, at
three hundred and fifty home runs. That's more than any
other second Basement in history. Lifetime batting average, He's also
(20:03):
remembered for two other things, hit by a pitch one
hundred and twenty times and his famous clubhouse fight with
Barry Bonds, in which Kemp emerged with a black eye
and said he slipped and fell while washing his truck
in the fourth inning. Now, guys like Don Mattingley and
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Dale Murphy, they still have a shot with the Baseball
Writers of America. These are the older guys, and they'll
have the ballots next month. So and the two big cheaters,
Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, did not get enough votes.
And I still say they should be put in a
(20:52):
cheaters wing in the Hall of Fame. That's what you mean,
all right? News flash? The three and ten. Yet it's
eliminated from the playoffs. Little fifteenth straight year.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Oh darn it.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
No, what do you do the fans a favor and
sell the team. But you know what, despite not scoring
an offensive touchdown, I think the Jets should still start
twenty four year old rookie Brady Cook the next four games.
Give him a shot and give him the all important
reps with the first team and see what he can do.
(21:28):
And I don't know about you, but I had to
turn the sound off of the game. The TV analyst
obviously paid by the word that guy never stopped talking
even when there was nothing significant to say. Did you
hear that?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Did you have no watch it?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I did watch it. I was actually flipping around on
red zone. But that it was more obvious because you
heard the other games where they weren't talking over the plays,
and then you gave these these two that wouldn't show up.
You're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Oh gosh.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Now, at least the two and eleven Giants didn't lose
and they had a buy but once again questionable strategy
by this interim coach Mike Kapka in their last game, Remember,
they were trailing the Patriots twenty seven to seven a
minute thirteen less than a half. They had a fourth
and one at their own forty and they punted. Man,
(22:28):
it's twenty seven seven. The Giants offense was going nowhere,
fourth and one, go for it. Instead, the Giants punted
and the Patriots kicked. The field goal was thirty to
seven at the half. Turn your sets off there now.
Speaking of betting, all week long, the Vikings were two
(22:49):
point favored over Washington. Then on Saturday it changed because
Washington announced that their quarterback Jaydon Daniels would start, so
the Vikings became a point and a half underdog. Now
since the Vikings won thirty one nothing. If you took
the Vikings early and gave two points and then took
(23:12):
the Vikings with the point and a half, you want
both bets. That's why they try to keep the gamblers
know before you know. Now, here's what's wrong with increasing
the college football playoffs. The twelve teams Duke had five
losses five losses, but they automatically make the final twelve
(23:37):
playoff teams because they beat Virginia in overtime. They won
Atlantic Coast Conference title. Oh Man, let them all in,
and when will they learn the big time college football
programs they hire coaches the long term deals and then
they fire them before the contract is up, and they
(23:59):
have to pay these massive payoffs. Oh Man, LSU had
to pay Brian Kelly fifty four million, penn State owed
the James Franklin forty nine million. It just goes on
and on. Uh, you know, these guys got to wake up.
Don't hire a coach for more than five years. If
(24:21):
he's good, give him another five years if he's a
failure you don't have to give him the ranch. Gosh, hey, Larry,
you remember Walter Austen. I know it's baseball, the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, of course, the yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
The manager, right, you know he managed twenty three years
one year contract for twenty three years. Man, what a
what a contrast to the football guy. All right? Time
now for the three stooges. Stooge number one Giants general
(24:59):
manager Joe Shane, who has gone six and eleven, three
and fourteen and two and eleven the last three years,
he gave not exactly a reassuring New Rockney speech for
a long time, suffering Giant fans by saying, nobody's perfect.
(25:20):
The chances of me batting one thousand are gone. Everybody
makes mistakes, he says, when I'm better now than I
was when I got here. No, Joe, when you got
here you were nine seven and one. Since then, you've
lost thirty six out of forty seven games.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Remember the movie come Back, Shane, Come Back Shane. No,
this is don't come back, Joe, Shane, don't come back?
All right, Steez Stew's number two. The dumbest political platform
by anyone ever running for office in the United States,
(26:00):
Tennessee State Representative Afton Bean who said, I hate Nashville,
I hate Tennessee, and I hate country music. They often
Nashville is the home of the glend Ole Hobbry and
home of country music. No wonder you lost. That would
(26:22):
be like someone running in Iowa and saying you hate
corn cornfields, farmers and the ballpark in the field of dreams.
You know what a suspicious mind like myself might ask,
did she bet big bucks against herself to lose? And
(26:47):
finally stooge number three? And this is on you, Larry
the Philadelphia Eagle fans who runs through snowballs at Santa Claus.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Let go my god?
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Hole? Now is this is being replaced? Now? They egged
the house of the Eagle offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo, whose
Eagle offense has scored only ten points, fifteen points and
sixteen points in three of the last four games.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
So he deserved it.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Oh, by the way, you think you think the younger
people in the audience know what egging house is?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Oh? I do?
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Do you have to?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (27:32):
It's throwing eggs at the guy's house.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Explanatory?
Speaker 6 (27:37):
Are you those are your people? Larry?
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Well, you're forgetting that during the parade when they won
the Super Bowl, they hit the general general manager in
the face with a beer can. Oh no, I don't
think that was on purpose, but still, you know you
don't throw beer cans. Hey, thanks a lot.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Water.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
That was great. Water Wolf, legendary sportscaster with us every
Monday at seven thirty five.
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