Larry Mendte goes over the biggest stories of the day including Bruce Blakeman reportedly getting set to announce his run for NY Governor, Zohran Mamdani deciding to move into Gracie Mansion once he is officially in office next year, and Alina Habba resigning as US Attorney in NJ after an appellate court ruled she was disqualified for the job. Jimmy Failla speaks with Mendte in the Morning about Bruce Blakeman announcing his run for NY Governor and how he stacks up against Elise Stefanik. Jordana Miller talks with Mendte in the Morning about Netanyahu’s scheduled meeting with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago and what could result from the visit.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tell you what. I have no idea what race Stagic
was talking about yesterday. Remember he was laughing us off, saying, oh,
it's not that cold, you're just all whimps. It's cold.
It is really cold. Man. I was freezing today and
I kept thinking of race Stagic and not saying nice
(00:21):
things about him as I was walking. Wow, I'm not crazy, right,
I mean it was really it was. It was bone chilling. Bitter, Yeah, exactly.
Bitter is the best word for it. Went right for
your clothes, like, it didn't matter what you were wearing.
It was man, And yesterday, Race Stage I kept saying
(00:42):
to us, own, no, no, no, it's not going to
be that cold. That like you silly people.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
You're chilly.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
At one point, you have to remember he's a big
He's a big snow bunny. He is, that's true, So
this is like nothing to him. But he has to
think of the people he's talking too, like me. Wow,
I went out thinking, oh you know, Ray said, is
not that gold, it's not that bad? Oh my god,
(01:10):
we do. We got to hit him back.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I have a feeling we're in for a long winter.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Oh no, that you said yesterday. Tell me he wasn't
pooh poohing every forecast about it being freezing. He was,
you know, because he's made of stronger stuff. Yes, in
the Big three. NASA County Executive Bruce Blakeman just won
re election and today he is going to announce that
he is going to run to be the Republican nominee
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to take on Governor Kathy Hoche in the fall, even
though Congresswoman Elise Staphonic is already in the race.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
We don't have coronations in our party. We're not like
the Democratic Party that had a coronation for Kamala Harris.
How did that work out for the Democrats? Competition is
a good thing.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
The socialist is going to live in a Socialists or
in mom Donnie has decided that he will live in
Gracie Mansion after all. The reason because he needs the
extra security.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I get threats on my life.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
It makes sense that he's moving to where all the
mayors live historically, but I don't doubt where his loyalties lie.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, he's lived in a mansion his entire life. This
is what he's used to. He just pretends to not
have a lot of money. He just pretends to be poor. Wow,
everybody falls for his act. Elina Haber has resigned as
US Attorney in New Jersey after an appellate court ruled
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she was disqualified for the role. This started when New
Jersey's two Democratic senators withheld their approval through a system
called blue slip approval. You've got a blue slip thing.
That's horrible. It's a horrible thing. It makes it impossible
to appoint the judge or US attorney. And it's a shame.
(02:58):
And the Republicans should be ashamed of themselves that they.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Allowed us to go on because I can't appoint a
US attorney that's not a Democrat.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Here's the thing. The blue slip isn't in the law.
It's never been legislated, there's no statute. It is just
a senatorial courtesy. And so the blue slip is something
that the chairman of the committee sends to the senators
to say, do you approve of this person? Right up?
What you think? If they don't send it back or
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they write negative things as a courtesy, the judicial appointment,
the US attorney appointment is just negated. That's it. That's
all it takes. Is the one person now in New
Jersey with Lena Habba. It was a strategy well after
the confirmation, all of a sudden, well after she was
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put into office, I should say, there was no confirmation.
Senator Booker and Senator Kim both turned in negative blue slips,
and that's why she not because of a vote, not
because of any judicial action other than them withholding the
blue slip. Wow, he's President Trump is absolutely right. We
(04:13):
need to get rid of that. The pre trial hearing
of Luigi Mangione drags on much longer than most evidentiary hearings.
That's exactly right, That's exactly what it is.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
It's a mini trial and we're on witness number seven.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I think of twenty five, twenty seven, twenty seven, there's
going to be twenty seven witnesses and this is already
dragged on a week. My feeling is the defense sees this,
as the trial sees this is so important keeping some
of the evidence out, especially what was found in the
Altoona McDonald's, that they're putting all this time and money
(04:50):
into the evidentiary healing hearings. Well, if Congress doesn't act
to fix the healthcare system as they promised they would
do after shutdown. Now that the Affordable Care Act is
about to expire. State healthcare systems and patients will feel
the effect.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
Any effects of increasing insurance premiums and so forth not
only have a profound effect on patients itself, it's also
the healthcare system and also the healthcare workers itself.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, they got to do some negotiations, as they promised
they were going to do. They said before Obamacare expires,
they were going to fix this. Where are they? The
Minnesota fraud case continues to grow. Members of the state's
large some million immigrant community defrauded the federal government of
a billion dollars. As Governor Tim Walls, well, he just
(05:41):
looked the other way.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
We believe that the Somali fraud operation in Minnesota is
the single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars through welfare fraud
in American history.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Well, the Democrats refuse to admit defeat on the Bogus
Narco terrorist boat strike controversy. They are now pushing for
the video to be made public.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
I've spent years looking at videos of lethal action taken
often in the terrorism context, and this video was profoundly shaking, shaken,
and I think it's important for Americans to see it.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
And how about that crazy Jasmine Crocket, the congressman from Texas.
She's thinks she's so popular that she's going to run
for the Senate, trying to unsee powerful Republican Texas Senator
John Cronin. There are a lot of people to say it.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
You got to stay in the House.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
We need our voice, we need you there, and I understand,
But what we need is for me to have a
bigger voice. Yeah, it's not gonna happen. Here's what's really
going on. Remember the redistricting in Texas. Her seat was
one of those redistricted. She is not going to win
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reelection as a congressman, so she might as well go
out with a bang. And so God bless her. She's
not gonna beat John Cronin. She's gonna get It's gonna
be a route and Trump make America Healthy Again movement
is now taking aim at the nation's airports. Airports can
get federal money to pay for a number of projects
(07:17):
to make those airports more family and fitness friendly.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
It might be I want to expand the play areas
for kids. I want additional nursing pods for nursing mothers.
Maybe I want to workout area where people might get
some blood flow and doing some pull ups or some
step ups.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I'm just thinking of people doing pull ups at the airport.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I'm thinking. Here's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking, I'm gonna
get rid of my gym membership and just go to
Newark Airport on the way home. Did you see them yesterday?
By the way, I did not, So it was our
FK and it was Secretary Duffy And they were at
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JFK where they now have pull ups so you can
do pull ups while you're waiting for it.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
This is just so funny to me.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I'm not sure why, but and they both had a contest.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Oh great, who won?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I think they tied. I think they both did eight,
which is pretty look it. I'm not gonna make fun
of that. I can't make it do eight right now?
So see, I mean, there's nothing wrong with this.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
But I'm just hoping I'm never in the airport long
enough to actually have to have a workout done, you know,
like I want to get in, I want to get
on my plane, I want to leave. I don't want
to be there ten hours, so I have to do
a workout.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Well, that's that's proble. That's what I thought of right
away when I heard it happening. I thought to myself,
Wait a second, do they know something we don't. Are
the flights going to take a lot longer? Are we
going to be waiting at the airport a lot more nowadays?
A try I've walked.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I've definitely because there's a lot of walking space at
an airport, and I've gotten up and walked around, just
knowing that you're going to be sitting down on a
plane for a long period of time. I also been
in airports where I've seen the kids playgrounds, which is
great because you know, the kids need something to do.
But I just looked at it and thought, germfest.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I looked at that playground and thought, who wiped it down?
My kids are gonna have switch all over their hands.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Oh, it was hard for.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Me to look at it. Here's the other thing they
said yesterday when they were talking about the airports, and
they talked about the food, and I disagree with this.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
I fied, typically, over the past thirty years, probably average
two hundred and fifty days a year in airports that
I can tell you too, that this is where healthy
diets go.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
To die.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I don't agree at all. I think the food's pretty
good in the airports, and there's a big selection. I mean,
if you want, if you want this, the food that's.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Available in the airport, A lot of it tastes very good.
It's not very good for you. It's deep fried food.
It's sugar bombs.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Oh, it doesn't have to be.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Don have to be and I know I have to break.
But it's also once again it's one meal.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I'm having there. One meal. Oh, but you don't have
to have a sugary thing. You can have a salt They.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Have salads there, sandwiches.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
This is getting silly. I like the workout thing though.
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Fayla and host of Fox News Saturday Night with Jimmy
Fayler on the Fox News Channel. He joins us every
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Tuesday at this time. And Jimmy, I know you're from Levittown.
We're in Nassau County and the now the county executive
out there, Bruce Blakeman, who I'm sure you probably have
run into and know he's now running for governor. What
are your thoughts?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Well, I mean, listen, it's like when you see Kathy
Hulkel on the ballot, like I'm thinking about running, everybody
feels like they could win.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
There's this old funny Joe Chris rock One's told he
said when he found out Jana Jackson was dating Jermaine
dupri every guy was like, damn, I have a shot,
you know. And that's the wholecal thing. When you see
who this state has married, you all feel like you
can kind of step in and brank up the union.
And I think that's what this is a testament to
(11:42):
and I will say this. I met Bruce Braklin here
at Fox recently, and uh, he is a he's a
fan of your favorite Nasau Community College graduate, Jimmy Faylo. Really,
I am very intrigued by this.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I got one.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I'm very intrigued by Maybe he'll ask you to be
part of the administration that if.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
He knows what's good for him. I would be a
great Albany press secretary a man.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
It would be the most popular of press gathering ever.
People would go to every press conference.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
We would that that we could do because like listen,
I don't have the looks to be a White House
press secretary like Carolyn Levit Kaylee Mcananey. We're another class.
But you could stick me in Albany. He's going to
be like one press for a month. You tell a
couple of joke, like you remember remember when they did
the Dukes of Hazard, but the actors were on strikes,
so instead of Bow and Luke they had Koi and Vance. Oh.
(12:36):
I could be the Koi Advance press secretary.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Can we audition you right now? Can I ask you
a question and you answer it?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Let's go all right, let's do this for real. And
I'll have some fun go aheads.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
All right, all right, here we go. Excuse me, what
is what is Governor Blakeman going to do about casualist
bail and about bail reform? Is he going to keep
it or is he going to fight legislation on that?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Well, the thing about Governor Blakeman is all of his
energy is behind protecting New Yorkers and their families. And
I think what he wants to throw his energy behind,
first and foremost, knowing what Kathy Hochel did to the
state is extra security for himself and his family because
this place is a dumpster fire. But once we get
that out of the way, you know, they say, charity
begins at home. Once we get that out of the way,
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you guys, you're gonna do a little DIY policing.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
In the meantime because of Mom Donnie.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
But once we get mister Blakeman's situation squared away, we'll
be right down there to New York to help out.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Than good job, good job, you got the job. You
got the job. Hey, I love Bruce Blakeman, but I
also really like Elis Staphonic, And so those two are
gonna have to battle each other to get the nomination
Bruce Brake. Blakeman comes off a lot nicer than Alistaphonic does.
At least Stephonic is a pit bull, and I kind
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of wanted to see her going up against Kathy Hill
like she did during some of the congressional hearings. So
I'm really torn. What do you think about that matchup?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Well, seriously, on a strategic level, it's easier for a
woman to attack Kathy Hulkl because they can't deflect to
sexism like they're going to cheaply do when Blakeman attacks
her on the merits. To be clear, he's a great guy.
He's not going to go after her because of her gender.
He's going to go after her because of what her
policies have done to all genders. But they're going to
try to do those those cheap straw mend defenses. So
(14:29):
it's going to be really interesting. But I think, you know,
the challenge is going to be in this primary, because
we're going to have like an actual primary, not like
we did for mayor where Cromo was looking at Florida
real estate and mom Donnie was making TikTok videos and
the next thing you know, we've got a socialist in
city Hall. The point is, whoever the Republican nominee is,
they're going to earn it because they're going up against
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a formidable opponent. So for that, I'm thankful, and I
just gosh, you know, for this, for the sake of
this whole entire state, not just our city and then
county where I grew up in Levittown, we really need
a Republican governor if Mom Donnie is going to be mayor, Like,
we really need this to work. So if those two
could just figure out how to pull this off, I'll
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forgive whoever the loser is.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
That's a great point. We really need a Republican governor
if Mom Donnie is going to be mayor. Is a
wonderful point. Hey, do you have this fraud case going
on in Minnesota that might grow to two billion dollars?
Ilhan Omar might be involved in it. But Tim Walls
still has that face like he made an accident in
his pants every time he's on TV, and he did
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not pay attention to this for seven years. He didn't
want to deal with it. I want to take I
want you to take us to a future that didn't
happen with Kamala Harris and Tim Walls in office, what
would the country be like right now?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Well, if Kamala and Tim Waltz are in office right now,
worried about the ten months mark, we need to have
this conversation in Mandarin.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
If it's going to be.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Actual, China would have taken over the country finance, the
border'd be overrun. You and I would be broadcasting from
a remote bunker somewhere under the old D train. I
don't know. I mean, the truth is, yeah, the fraud
would have been worse, the border would have been worse. See,
there's a lot of things Trump is doing right that
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we're able to take for granted as Americans, like you know,
a good example would be border crossings. The border crossings
are now down to zero, which means no one's getting trafficked.
You know, kids aren't going missing, not as much fentanyls
coming in. Those are things we all benefit from and
we don't even necessarily see that every day, you know,
and that you know, even some of the things you
just passed no tax on tips that goes into effect
(16:44):
next year, so you haven't really seen the benefit yet,
you know, in your day to day. But it's common
and so you know, every time they send her out
on tour, I always try to clip it and play
it on radio. Tonight, I'll play some Kamal Eclipse at
nine pm Fox, crossing Maria and I always grab him
for my TV show on the weekends because we do
need that perspective. You know, whenever somebody says Kamala twenty
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twenty eight, I assume they're talking about our blood alcohol contrary,
she's a nap.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
You know, It's funny. If I was Donald Trump, I
would have a picture in my wallet all the time
of Tim Walls and Kamala Harris, and every time I
took criticism, I'd just hold it up. I'd hold the
picture up and say this is what could have happened.
And I think you win every single argument that way,
don't you.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah, whenever you get that kind of currency, I'll give
you a good example. Okay. I used to date a
girl back in the day for about seven or eight
years who always used to yell at me and compare
me to George. Now I'm using a fake name here,
but she'd be like, why can't you be more like George?
You know, George did this great thing for Marissa, George
proposed with like skywriting or having this glamorous wedding. Well, anyway,
we went to the nicest wedding in the world. After
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seven years of why can't you be more like George?
And a month into that relationship, George left her for
another man. So I finally had George in my wallet,
and whenever he would say something, I'd be like, oh,
like George, you know what I mean?
Speaker 8 (18:09):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, No, you're right, I should be more like George.
I should probably get out of here and go sing
show tunes on the Lower East Side karaoke bar with
my man Peek. And that's what Kamala and Waltz are
for Trumps. They're his George. You're right. I am so
wholeheartedly behind this. Now, I'm going to offer you a
job in the Blakeman administration after I get mine.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Oh what's my job?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I got to think about it.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Oh no, you can't come up with a job on melting.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I was trying to level with you, Okay, Okay, I
didn't want you to be insulted by this, because it's
a necessary job. Okay. The most important thing any of
us can do right now for Albany is to go
into Cuomo's old office for breeze it and kind of
wipe it down because you don't want to blacklight on
you know, there's a reason you always see hope and
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like long sleeve, but she doesn't want her skin to
touch anything he left behind.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Well, thank you, I know how important that job is.
Now I feel proud an incredible home Christmas display. Thanks
a lot, Jimmy. We'll listen tonight later this month. On
December twenty ninth, Benjamin Netanyahoo is going to be traveling
to America to meet with Donald Trump. In the meantime,
they are ending phase one of the peace plan. Let's
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talk to that. Let's talk about that with Jordana Miller,
ABC News correspondent in Jerusalem. Well, it's it's morning here.
Good morning to you, Jordana, and Jordana tell us where
we are right now in getting through phase one. I
hear it's close to the end.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
We are close to the end, Larry, because there's really
only one Israeli hostage body left in the Gaza strip.
All the others have been returned. As you know, those
twenty living hostages came out, which, by the way, still
feels like a miracle to many Israelis, and the searches
are going on in Gaza City, Hamas and the Red
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Cross and others looking in you know, parts of central
and northern Gaza. For that last Israeli he was a
policeman on October seventh, ron Kvili, he was actually injured
and not like on duty, but like many Israelis, ran
down to the south to try to help and defend
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one of the communities there and he was killed in
a firefight with Hamas. So once his body comes back,
and Israeli is a pretty confident that they're going that
Hamas is going to be able to find the body.
So far, the Israeli intel on the bodies, you've seen
almost all of them come out except Ron. So that's
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good news. Once that body comes back, that is the
completion of Phase one, right, which was supposed to happen
in the first seventy two hours, but everybody knew it
would take several weeks to get all the bodies. Now
now you know, the Israeli Prime Minister says he's coming
to mar Lago right to see the President on December
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twenty ninth, and they are going to discuss moving into
Phase two, and Phase two is really the critical phase.
I think it's where President Trump's peace plan for Gaza
either you know, lives or dies, right, because these are
the major issues that will set down and create a
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new reality for Gaza if they achieve, right, if they
reach the goals and some of them, you know, just
to lay out what we're looking at in phase two,
it's everything from Hamas disarming, right, which is a big issue,
to getting that international Stabilization Force into the Gaza strip,
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what's their mandate, you know, what's their command chain like,
and who makes up that stabilization force and setting up
a new police force which will also replace Hamas right,
and then of course the governing body, right, this technocratic
government that's supposed to be set up without any Hamas
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representation and overseen by this East Board right where President
Trump will be in the United States will lead overseeing this.
I mean, these are huge, huge issues that will take
I think several months to sort out. And one of
the big questions is, you know, are there going to
be pieces of all of these bigger issues that get
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implemented at the same time, or are they going to
focus on one issue at a time. And it looks
like it's going to be the former option.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
Right.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
All the pieces are moving, and we may see, you know,
some part of the police force come in before the
governing council.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Right.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
It looks like the President is trying to get you know,
whatever is ready to go, he wants to implement it,
and he's not necessarily creating an order or a priority
or a hierarchy. Of course, the most sorny issue will
be disarming Hamas. And we've heard really contradictory statements coming
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out of Hamas, right, some leaders saying we're not going
to give up our arms, We'll never give up resistance.
For example, that's what Colin Mischall, one of Hamas's senior leaders,
said over the weekend. And then in a you know,
the AP was reporting from their visit with another top
HAMAS leader in Doha that they're they're willing to freeze
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or hold their arms for perhaps up to ten years
in a kind of ceasefire. So what we'll have to see,
there's a lot of work for the Americans, right, for
President Trump's team, for the Israelis and regional partners, and
only the beginning of this will start in late December
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and mar Lagoa.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Now, the Hamas thing is a big deal, not disarming.
Can anything else happen if they don't agree to.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Disarm, right, Well, that's really a terrific point, right, It's
hard to see. And this is what even you know
generals will tell me, you know, behind closed doors, right,
really on background, which is that there's a growing assessment
really that nobody is going to come into the Gaza strip,
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not a police force, not a stabilization force, not a
new government until Hamas has been defamed, right, because they
don't want they don't want their people being killed by Hamas.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
Right.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
So a lot of President Trump's plan hinges on Hamas disarming.
So that's going to be a really critical issue. And
if they you know, and the other question is how
long is President Trump going to give Hamas to start
that process? Three months, six months, nine months? And the
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Israelis are saying, hey, Hamas is you know, clearly trying
to take back the streets of Gaza. They're killing people
like their their rivals, militia's they killed the head of
you know, the Abu Shabab of militia that is anti
Hamas long before the war and worked with the Israelis.
(25:30):
They killed him. He was the head of this militia
and they're killing other people right and they're trying to
take control back. So the Israelis are arguing, we need
to we need to fast track Hamas is disarming that
the process to disarm Hamas, we need to set up
the mechanism we need to begin because otherwise, you know,
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Hamas is going to be back in control of that
other fifty percent.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I think that's what everybody's concerned about. Your Dana, we
have to check in with you again to find out
how things are going. Your dnamill Or, ABC News correspondent
in Jerusalem, You're the best. Thank you. I'll talk to
you soon.
Tell you what. I have no idea what race Stagic
was talking about yesterday. Remember he was laughing us off, saying, oh,
it's not that cold, you're just all whimps. It's cold.
It is really cold. Man. I was freezing today and
I kept thinking of race Stagic and not saying nice
(00:21):
things about him as I was walking. Wow, I'm not crazy, right,
I mean it was really it was. It was bone chilling. Bitter, Yeah, exactly.
Bitter is the best word for it. Went right for
your clothes, like, it didn't matter what you were wearing.
It was man, And yesterday, Race Stage I kept saying
(00:42):
to us, own, no, no, no, it's not going to
be that cold. That like you silly people.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
You're chilly.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
At one point, you have to remember he's a big
He's a big snow bunny. He is, that's true, So
this is like nothing to him. But he has to
think of the people he's talking too, like me. Wow,
I went out thinking, oh you know, Ray said, is
not that gold, it's not that bad? Oh my god,
(01:10):
we do. We got to hit him back.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I have a feeling we're in for a long winter.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Oh no, that you said yesterday. Tell me he wasn't
pooh poohing every forecast about it being freezing. He was,
you know, because he's made of stronger stuff. Yes, in
the Big three. NASA County Executive Bruce Blakeman just won
re election and today he is going to announce that
he is going to run to be the Republican nominee
(01:38):
to take on Governor Kathy Hoche in the fall, even
though Congresswoman Elise Staphonic is already in the race.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
We don't have coronations in our party. We're not like
the Democratic Party that had a coronation for Kamala Harris.
How did that work out for the Democrats? Competition is
a good thing.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
The socialist is going to live in a Socialists or
in mom Donnie has decided that he will live in
Gracie Mansion after all. The reason because he needs the
extra security.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I get threats on my life.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
It makes sense that he's moving to where all the
mayors live historically, but I don't doubt where his loyalties lie.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, he's lived in a mansion his entire life. This
is what he's used to. He just pretends to not
have a lot of money. He just pretends to be poor. Wow,
everybody falls for his act. Elina Haber has resigned as
US Attorney in New Jersey after an appellate court ruled
(02:37):
she was disqualified for the role. This started when New
Jersey's two Democratic senators withheld their approval through a system
called blue slip approval. You've got a blue slip thing.
That's horrible. It's a horrible thing. It makes it impossible
to appoint the judge or US attorney. And it's a shame.
(02:58):
And the Republicans should be ashamed of themselves that they.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Allowed us to go on because I can't appoint a
US attorney that's not a Democrat.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Here's the thing. The blue slip isn't in the law.
It's never been legislated, there's no statute. It is just
a senatorial courtesy. And so the blue slip is something
that the chairman of the committee sends to the senators
to say, do you approve of this person? Right up?
What you think? If they don't send it back or
(03:27):
they write negative things as a courtesy, the judicial appointment,
the US attorney appointment is just negated. That's it. That's
all it takes. Is the one person now in New
Jersey with Lena Habba. It was a strategy well after
the confirmation, all of a sudden, well after she was
(03:51):
put into office, I should say, there was no confirmation.
Senator Booker and Senator Kim both turned in negative blue slips,
and that's why she not because of a vote, not
because of any judicial action other than them withholding the
blue slip. Wow, he's President Trump is absolutely right. We
(04:13):
need to get rid of that. The pre trial hearing
of Luigi Mangione drags on much longer than most evidentiary hearings.
That's exactly right, That's exactly what it is.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
It's a mini trial and we're on witness number seven.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I think of twenty five, twenty seven, twenty seven, there's
going to be twenty seven witnesses and this is already
dragged on a week. My feeling is the defense sees this,
as the trial sees this is so important keeping some
of the evidence out, especially what was found in the
Altoona McDonald's, that they're putting all this time and money
(04:50):
into the evidentiary healing hearings. Well, if Congress doesn't act
to fix the healthcare system as they promised they would
do after shutdown. Now that the Affordable Care Act is
about to expire. State healthcare systems and patients will feel
the effect.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
Any effects of increasing insurance premiums and so forth not
only have a profound effect on patients itself, it's also
the healthcare system and also the healthcare workers itself.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, they got to do some negotiations, as they promised
they were going to do. They said before Obamacare expires,
they were going to fix this. Where are they? The
Minnesota fraud case continues to grow. Members of the state's
large some million immigrant community defrauded the federal government of
a billion dollars. As Governor Tim Walls, well, he just
(05:41):
looked the other way.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
We believe that the Somali fraud operation in Minnesota is
the single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars through welfare fraud
in American history.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Well, the Democrats refuse to admit defeat on the Bogus
Narco terrorist boat strike controversy. They are now pushing for
the video to be made public.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
I've spent years looking at videos of lethal action taken
often in the terrorism context, and this video was profoundly shaking, shaken,
and I think it's important for Americans to see it.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
And how about that crazy Jasmine Crocket, the congressman from Texas.
She's thinks she's so popular that she's going to run
for the Senate, trying to unsee powerful Republican Texas Senator
John Cronin. There are a lot of people to say it.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
You got to stay in the House.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
We need our voice, we need you there, and I understand,
But what we need is for me to have a
bigger voice. Yeah, it's not gonna happen. Here's what's really
going on. Remember the redistricting in Texas. Her seat was
one of those redistricted. She is not going to win
(06:56):
reelection as a congressman, so she might as well go
out with a bang. And so God bless her. She's
not gonna beat John Cronin. She's gonna get It's gonna
be a route and Trump make America Healthy Again movement
is now taking aim at the nation's airports. Airports can
get federal money to pay for a number of projects
(07:17):
to make those airports more family and fitness friendly.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
It might be I want to expand the play areas
for kids. I want additional nursing pods for nursing mothers.
Maybe I want to workout area where people might get
some blood flow and doing some pull ups or some
step ups.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I'm just thinking of people doing pull ups at the airport.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I'm thinking. Here's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking, I'm gonna
get rid of my gym membership and just go to
Newark Airport on the way home. Did you see them yesterday?
By the way, I did not, So it was our
FK and it was Secretary Duffy And they were at
(08:06):
JFK where they now have pull ups so you can
do pull ups while you're waiting for it.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
This is just so funny to me.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I'm not sure why, but and they both had a contest.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Oh great, who won?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I think they tied. I think they both did eight,
which is pretty look it. I'm not gonna make fun
of that. I can't make it do eight right now?
So see, I mean, there's nothing wrong with this.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
But I'm just hoping I'm never in the airport long
enough to actually have to have a workout done, you know,
like I want to get in, I want to get
on my plane, I want to leave. I don't want
to be there ten hours, so I have to do
a workout.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Well, that's that's proble. That's what I thought of right
away when I heard it happening. I thought to myself,
Wait a second, do they know something we don't. Are
the flights going to take a lot longer? Are we
going to be waiting at the airport a lot more nowadays?
A try I've walked.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I've definitely because there's a lot of walking space at
an airport, and I've gotten up and walked around, just
knowing that you're going to be sitting down on a
plane for a long period of time. I also been
in airports where I've seen the kids playgrounds, which is
great because you know, the kids need something to do.
But I just looked at it and thought, germfest.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I looked at that playground and thought, who wiped it down?
My kids are gonna have switch all over their hands.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Oh, it was hard for.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Me to look at it. Here's the other thing they
said yesterday when they were talking about the airports, and
they talked about the food, and I disagree with this.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
I fied, typically, over the past thirty years, probably average
two hundred and fifty days a year in airports that
I can tell you too, that this is where healthy
diets go.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
To die.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I don't agree at all. I think the food's pretty
good in the airports, and there's a big selection. I mean,
if you want, if you want this, the food that's.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Available in the airport, A lot of it tastes very good.
It's not very good for you. It's deep fried food.
It's sugar bombs.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Oh, it doesn't have to be.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Don have to be and I know I have to break.
But it's also once again it's one meal.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I'm having there. One meal. Oh, but you don't have
to have a sugary thing. You can have a salt They.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Have salads there, sandwiches.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
This is getting silly. I like the workout thing though.
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host from nine to midnight Fox Across America with Jimmy
Fayla and host of Fox News Saturday Night with Jimmy
Fayler on the Fox News Channel. He joins us every
(10:55):
Tuesday at this time. And Jimmy, I know you're from Levittown.
We're in Nassau County and the now the county executive
out there, Bruce Blakeman, who I'm sure you probably have
run into and know he's now running for governor. What
are your thoughts?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Well, I mean, listen, it's like when you see Kathy
Hulkel on the ballot, like I'm thinking about running, everybody
feels like they could win.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
There's this old funny Joe Chris rock One's told he
said when he found out Jana Jackson was dating Jermaine
dupri every guy was like, damn, I have a shot,
you know. And that's the wholecal thing. When you see
who this state has married, you all feel like you
can kind of step in and brank up the union.
And I think that's what this is a testament to
(11:42):
and I will say this. I met Bruce Braklin here
at Fox recently, and uh, he is a he's a
fan of your favorite Nasau Community College graduate, Jimmy Faylo. Really,
I am very intrigued by this.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I got one.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I'm very intrigued by Maybe he'll ask you to be
part of the administration that if.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
He knows what's good for him. I would be a
great Albany press secretary a man.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
It would be the most popular of press gathering ever.
People would go to every press conference.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
We would that that we could do because like listen,
I don't have the looks to be a White House
press secretary like Carolyn Levit Kaylee Mcananey. We're another class.
But you could stick me in Albany. He's going to
be like one press for a month. You tell a
couple of joke, like you remember remember when they did
the Dukes of Hazard, but the actors were on strikes,
so instead of Bow and Luke they had Koi and Vance. Oh.
(12:36):
I could be the Koi Advance press secretary.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Can we audition you right now? Can I ask you
a question and you answer it?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Let's go all right, let's do this for real. And
I'll have some fun go aheads.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
All right, all right, here we go. Excuse me, what
is what is Governor Blakeman going to do about casualist
bail and about bail reform? Is he going to keep
it or is he going to fight legislation on that?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Well, the thing about Governor Blakeman is all of his
energy is behind protecting New Yorkers and their families. And
I think what he wants to throw his energy behind,
first and foremost, knowing what Kathy Hochel did to the
state is extra security for himself and his family because
this place is a dumpster fire. But once we get
that out of the way, you know, they say, charity
begins at home. Once we get that out of the way,
(13:24):
you guys, you're gonna do a little DIY policing.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
In the meantime because of Mom Donnie.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
But once we get mister Blakeman's situation squared away, we'll
be right down there to New York to help out.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Than good job, good job, you got the job. You
got the job. Hey, I love Bruce Blakeman, but I
also really like Elis Staphonic, And so those two are
gonna have to battle each other to get the nomination
Bruce Brake. Blakeman comes off a lot nicer than Alistaphonic does.
At least Stephonic is a pit bull, and I kind
(13:57):
of wanted to see her going up against Kathy Hill
like she did during some of the congressional hearings. So
I'm really torn. What do you think about that matchup?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Well, seriously, on a strategic level, it's easier for a
woman to attack Kathy Hulkl because they can't deflect to
sexism like they're going to cheaply do when Blakeman attacks
her on the merits. To be clear, he's a great guy.
He's not going to go after her because of her gender.
He's going to go after her because of what her
policies have done to all genders. But they're going to
try to do those those cheap straw mend defenses. So
(14:29):
it's going to be really interesting. But I think, you know,
the challenge is going to be in this primary, because
we're going to have like an actual primary, not like
we did for mayor where Cromo was looking at Florida
real estate and mom Donnie was making TikTok videos and
the next thing you know, we've got a socialist in
city Hall. The point is, whoever the Republican nominee is,
they're going to earn it because they're going up against
(14:50):
a formidable opponent. So for that, I'm thankful, and I
just gosh, you know, for this, for the sake of
this whole entire state, not just our city and then
county where I grew up in Levittown, we really need
a Republican governor if Mom Donnie is going to be mayor, Like,
we really need this to work. So if those two
could just figure out how to pull this off, I'll
(15:10):
forgive whoever the loser is.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
That's a great point. We really need a Republican governor
if Mom Donnie is going to be mayor. Is a
wonderful point. Hey, do you have this fraud case going
on in Minnesota that might grow to two billion dollars?
Ilhan Omar might be involved in it. But Tim Walls
still has that face like he made an accident in
his pants every time he's on TV, and he did
(15:34):
not pay attention to this for seven years. He didn't
want to deal with it. I want to take I
want you to take us to a future that didn't
happen with Kamala Harris and Tim Walls in office, what
would the country be like right now?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Well, if Kamala and Tim Waltz are in office right now,
worried about the ten months mark, we need to have
this conversation in Mandarin.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
If it's going to be.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Actual, China would have taken over the country finance, the
border'd be overrun. You and I would be broadcasting from
a remote bunker somewhere under the old D train. I
don't know. I mean, the truth is, yeah, the fraud
would have been worse, the border would have been worse. See,
there's a lot of things Trump is doing right that
(16:21):
we're able to take for granted as Americans, like you know,
a good example would be border crossings. The border crossings
are now down to zero, which means no one's getting trafficked.
You know, kids aren't going missing, not as much fentanyls
coming in. Those are things we all benefit from and
we don't even necessarily see that every day, you know,
and that you know, even some of the things you
just passed no tax on tips that goes into effect
(16:44):
next year, so you haven't really seen the benefit yet,
you know, in your day to day. But it's common
and so you know, every time they send her out
on tour, I always try to clip it and play
it on radio. Tonight, I'll play some Kamal Eclipse at
nine pm Fox, crossing Maria and I always grab him
for my TV show on the weekends because we do
need that perspective. You know, whenever somebody says Kamala twenty
(17:07):
twenty eight, I assume they're talking about our blood alcohol contrary,
she's a nap.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
You know, It's funny. If I was Donald Trump, I
would have a picture in my wallet all the time
of Tim Walls and Kamala Harris, and every time I
took criticism, I'd just hold it up. I'd hold the
picture up and say this is what could have happened.
And I think you win every single argument that way,
don't you.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah, whenever you get that kind of currency, I'll give
you a good example. Okay. I used to date a
girl back in the day for about seven or eight
years who always used to yell at me and compare
me to George. Now I'm using a fake name here,
but she'd be like, why can't you be more like George?
You know, George did this great thing for Marissa, George
proposed with like skywriting or having this glamorous wedding. Well, anyway,
we went to the nicest wedding in the world. After
(17:54):
seven years of why can't you be more like George?
And a month into that relationship, George left her for
another man. So I finally had George in my wallet,
and whenever he would say something, I'd be like, oh,
like George, you know what I mean?
Speaker 8 (18:09):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, No, you're right, I should be more like George.
I should probably get out of here and go sing
show tunes on the Lower East Side karaoke bar with
my man Peek. And that's what Kamala and Waltz are
for Trumps. They're his George. You're right. I am so
wholeheartedly behind this. Now, I'm going to offer you a
job in the Blakeman administration after I get mine.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Oh what's my job?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I got to think about it.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Oh no, you can't come up with a job on melting.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I was trying to level with you, Okay, Okay, I
didn't want you to be insulted by this, because it's
a necessary job. Okay. The most important thing any of
us can do right now for Albany is to go
into Cuomo's old office for breeze it and kind of
wipe it down because you don't want to blacklight on
you know, there's a reason you always see hope and
(19:00):
like long sleeve, but she doesn't want her skin to
touch anything he left behind.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Well, thank you, I know how important that job is.
Now I feel proud an incredible home Christmas display. Thanks
a lot, Jimmy. We'll listen tonight later this month. On
December twenty ninth, Benjamin Netanyahoo is going to be traveling
to America to meet with Donald Trump. In the meantime,
they are ending phase one of the peace plan. Let's
(19:26):
talk to that. Let's talk about that with Jordana Miller,
ABC News correspondent in Jerusalem. Well, it's it's morning here.
Good morning to you, Jordana, and Jordana tell us where
we are right now in getting through phase one. I
hear it's close to the end.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
We are close to the end, Larry, because there's really
only one Israeli hostage body left in the Gaza strip.
All the others have been returned. As you know, those
twenty living hostages came out, which, by the way, still
feels like a miracle to many Israelis, and the searches
are going on in Gaza City, Hamas and the Red
(20:09):
Cross and others looking in you know, parts of central
and northern Gaza. For that last Israeli he was a
policeman on October seventh, ron Kvili, he was actually injured
and not like on duty, but like many Israelis, ran
down to the south to try to help and defend
(20:29):
one of the communities there and he was killed in
a firefight with Hamas. So once his body comes back,
and Israeli is a pretty confident that they're going that
Hamas is going to be able to find the body.
So far, the Israeli intel on the bodies, you've seen
almost all of them come out except Ron. So that's
(20:51):
good news. Once that body comes back, that is the
completion of Phase one, right, which was supposed to happen
in the first seventy two hours, but everybody knew it
would take several weeks to get all the bodies. Now
now you know, the Israeli Prime Minister says he's coming
to mar Lago right to see the President on December
(21:14):
twenty ninth, and they are going to discuss moving into
Phase two, and Phase two is really the critical phase.
I think it's where President Trump's peace plan for Gaza
either you know, lives or dies, right, because these are
the major issues that will set down and create a
(21:38):
new reality for Gaza if they achieve, right, if they
reach the goals and some of them, you know, just
to lay out what we're looking at in phase two,
it's everything from Hamas disarming, right, which is a big issue,
to getting that international Stabilization Force into the Gaza strip,
(21:58):
what's their mandate, you know, what's their command chain like,
and who makes up that stabilization force and setting up
a new police force which will also replace Hamas right,
and then of course the governing body, right, this technocratic
government that's supposed to be set up without any Hamas
(22:19):
representation and overseen by this East Board right where President
Trump will be in the United States will lead overseeing this.
I mean, these are huge, huge issues that will take
I think several months to sort out. And one of
the big questions is, you know, are there going to
be pieces of all of these bigger issues that get
(22:42):
implemented at the same time, or are they going to
focus on one issue at a time. And it looks
like it's going to be the former option.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
Right.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
All the pieces are moving, and we may see, you know,
some part of the police force come in before the
governing council.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Right.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
It looks like the President is trying to get you know,
whatever is ready to go, he wants to implement it,
and he's not necessarily creating an order or a priority
or a hierarchy. Of course, the most sorny issue will
be disarming Hamas. And we've heard really contradictory statements coming
(23:23):
out of Hamas, right, some leaders saying we're not going
to give up our arms, We'll never give up resistance.
For example, that's what Colin Mischall, one of Hamas's senior leaders,
said over the weekend. And then in a you know,
the AP was reporting from their visit with another top
HAMAS leader in Doha that they're they're willing to freeze
(23:43):
or hold their arms for perhaps up to ten years
in a kind of ceasefire. So what we'll have to see,
there's a lot of work for the Americans, right, for
President Trump's team, for the Israelis and regional partners, and
only the beginning of this will start in late December
(24:04):
and mar Lagoa.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Now, the Hamas thing is a big deal, not disarming.
Can anything else happen if they don't agree to.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Disarm, right, Well, that's really a terrific point, right, It's
hard to see. And this is what even you know
generals will tell me, you know, behind closed doors, right,
really on background, which is that there's a growing assessment
really that nobody is going to come into the Gaza strip,
(24:36):
not a police force, not a stabilization force, not a
new government until Hamas has been defamed, right, because they
don't want they don't want their people being killed by Hamas.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
Right.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
So a lot of President Trump's plan hinges on Hamas disarming.
So that's going to be a really critical issue. And
if they you know, and the other question is how
long is President Trump going to give Hamas to start
that process? Three months, six months, nine months? And the
(25:10):
Israelis are saying, hey, Hamas is you know, clearly trying
to take back the streets of Gaza. They're killing people
like their their rivals, militia's they killed the head of
you know, the Abu Shabab of militia that is anti
Hamas long before the war and worked with the Israelis.
(25:30):
They killed him. He was the head of this militia
and they're killing other people right and they're trying to
take control back. So the Israelis are arguing, we need
to we need to fast track Hamas is disarming that
the process to disarm Hamas, we need to set up
the mechanism we need to begin because otherwise, you know,
(25:51):
Hamas is going to be back in control of that
other fifty percent.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I think that's what everybody's concerned about. Your Dana, we
have to check in with you again to find out
how things are going. Your dnamill Or, ABC News correspondent
in Jerusalem, You're the best. Thank you. I'll talk to
you soon.
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