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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'd like to be excited that it's Friday, but it's
a tough day if you commute from New Jersey by train.
That leads off the Big Three. What we've all been
talking about for months now, what we all feared was
going to happen, has happened. The first Jersey transit strike
in over forty years, leaving three hundred and fifty thousand
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drivers riders. I should say they're now drivers trying to
figure out how to get to work.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I have to drive either to Harrison or to Hoboken
or straight in and like it's gonna stink.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It's a lose lose situation.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Off to go to Hoboken and take the path which
is add next for like forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
We'll take the bus, take back or driving. I'll try to,
you know, work from home as much as possible. Well,
we have you covered here. Traffic reporter Bernie Viider will
be on top of how the strike is affecting your
commute with reports every fifteen minutes. The mayor of Newark,
Ross Baraka, had his first appearance in federal court after
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being arrested for trust passing. Afterwards, he spoke to a
gathering of protesters outside.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
We cannot arrest people simply because they disagree with us.
We cannot target people because their political views are separate
from ours. We cannot subjugate people, take their pictures, munk shots,
and fingerprints because we believe that somehow they oppose to
our position that ladies and gentlemen is authoritarianism.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
He's good, isn't he. That's a good political speech that
I mentioned that he is running for governor and that's
what this is all about. In the Sean did He
Combs trial, the defense got its chance now to shoot
holes into what was compelling testimony of ex girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Cassie's doing a great job on cross examination. It's very
long cross examination, so hopefully it ends tomorrow and so
she can be done by the end of the week
and put this entire chapter.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Of our life rider.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That was prosecutor Dougla Wigdor He was leaving court. Peter
Harralambus was in the court room, and we'll have more
on the trial at eight oh five. Well, the big
hold up in Trump's big beautiful bill that contains most,
if not all, of his legislative agenda, is being held
up by new York representatives.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
New York holds the balance for Republicans the and they're
the majority makers in the House Representatives. They gave us
the majority three years ago and in last year, and
so they need to be taken care of. They need
to be taken care of in a way that's sufficient
for their constituents. They can't go home and say, you know,
I raise your taxes.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Well. Ukraine's president Vladimir Zelinsky was in Turkey for peace talks,
but Putin was a no show.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
I don't believe anything's gonna happen with you, alank it
or not until he and I get together.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
But we're gonna have to get it solved because too
many people in dining. I know this is a lot,
but there's a lot going on. How about this story?
Former f director James Comy shares on Instagram a bizarre
post of seashells arranged on the beach to read eighty
six forty seven. Think about that for a second. Does
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that mean what I think it means?
Speaker 8 (03:18):
We the American people cannot take this lightly, whatever your politics.
We cannot allow people to get by without being held
accountable for this kind of public call to assassinate the
president of the United States.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
There you go, he's going to get a visit from
the FBI. James Comy is former FBI director. May end
up in jail. You know, we'll talk about it later.
But when a president had two assassination attempts against him
when he was running for president, do you think that's funny?
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Do you think it's funny to write that? And he
denies he did it, He said, ohoy, he just came
upon this, right, right, He's always always been a liar.
Let's talk about the story of the day, the story
that's going to be affecting a whole lot of people.
You know, I really thought this was going to be
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settled last night. I think a lot of people do did.
I think both sides thought it was going to be
settled last night. They were closed, they stopped talking to
the media for a while. It had all the signs
of being settled, and then no deal.
Speaker 9 (04:27):
The last fifteen hours we've been bargaining in good faith,
trying to reach a deal. We didn't have a press
confert set up because we fully expected to reach a deal.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, that's one of the negotiators. You haven't heard his voice,
and you know, he's got that little bit of a
Southern twang. He is with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
and trainmen. He was part of the negotiations. I think
everybody thought they were going to have the deal. Now
the guy you're used to hearing is Tom Hass and
he's going to say the same thing he's been saying
all along, because it hasn't changed. The only issue, the
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only issue that has to be settled is pay.
Speaker 10 (05:06):
That's all we were seeking was and all that we're
still seeking is to close that gap, to bring engineers
equal pay for equal work.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
And the New Jersey Transits position is, we can't afford that.
We can't afford to give you that much. We can't
afford to give you what you're asking for. We can
come close, but we've done the numbers, and if we
do that, we're gonna have to raise fares a lot,
and it's just unfair to the taxpayers and it's unfair
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to Jersey Transit commuters.
Speaker 11 (05:39):
I don't quite agree with the notion that somebody who
lives in New Jersey and works in New Jersey should
be entitled to make a wage that is as if
they live and work in New York, so be it.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah, you know how, there's some negotiations where you can
see the point of both sides where you can and
see that they both have a gripe. The engineers definitely
have a gripe. They definitely have a case here. But
when you hear Jersey Transit and say, look, we're gonna
have to raise fares, We're gonna have to raise taxes.
They're already taxed enough in New Jersey. They're already paying
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high enough fares to commute it. And I used to
take Jersey Transit. They kept raising it all the time.
This is just gonna raise it even more. But then
on the labor side, on the engineer side, they need
a pay raise.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
They can't be ignored that these workers have lost about
twenty percent of their purchasing power though, so they can
afford just less in their daily lives today than they could,
you know, at the end of the last contract. And
that's just a fact.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
And what does the governor have to say about all this?
He always has tremendous words of wisdom. He can really
sum things up. He gets right in there, right to
the point.
Speaker 10 (06:54):
We must reach a final deal that is both fair
to employees and at the same time, I'm affordable for
New Jersey's commuters and taxpayers.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Well, there you go, why didn't we think of that.
We have to come up They have to come up
with a fair deal that is fair to both sides.
That is what wisdom from the governor, who has been
absent for the most point throughout this whole negotiation. All
of a sudden, by the way, he's getting involved because
he's getting a lot of flack about not being involved
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enough and not being in there to try to stop
this from happening. Right now now he's front and center.
All of a sudden, Governor Murphy is front and center
only because of the criticism. It is incredible. Did you
know that they were how close they were last night?
They were so close to a deal. Both sides admit
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to this. They were close to a deal, and at
ten o'clock it was Jersey Transit that walked away from
the table.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Nobody's leaving. Well midnight, you.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Heard the transit workers say they didn't even schedule a
press conference. They were sure it was going to be settled.
They were shocked at this And I don't even know
why you walk out.
Speaker 12 (08:14):
Isn't there someone overseeing this saying no, no, get back
in there, you have two more hours.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Well, they don't have that kind of authority. I mean
it's the National Mediation Board and they don't have that
kind of authority. They're probably saying where are you going?
This is so close? Why are you going? But they
can't say sit down. You know, it's not like a
nun in Catholic grade school. You're gonna get smacked on
the knuckles. It's just it's just so frustrating.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Even New Jersey Transit will admit that they cannot handle
all of the volumes. So they're estimating they can accommodate
about twenty percent of the people who are going to
be affected by the strike. I think that's probably roughly accurate.
So they're hoping that eighty percent of those three hundred
fifty thousand people will find a way to get into
the city that doesn't involve using their services.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
That means eighty percent of the three hundred that, by
the way, was Mike Smart, he's the professor of transit
planning at Rutgers University. That means eighty percent of three
hundred and fifty thousand don't know how to do they're
going to get into work now. I know there's an
enhanced bus service. I know you can go to the
parking rides and get a bus. You can go to
the path trains. There's all kinds of ways to get
in Amtrak if you want to pay some extra money.
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But it's going to be it's going to be a nightmare.
Maybe not today. Hopefully you get to stay home today.
Let's hope they solve this over the weekend. They're that close,
just just settle it. Did you know, by the way,
this is fascinating that one of our mayor old candidates
was once a successful rapper, No kidding, he haven't even
had a song on the charts. And guess what, we
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have tickets to see the Beach Boys at a twenty
five welcome back. We didn't get a chance to talk about.
We have such a huge story going on today, the
Jersey transit strike. I feel so bad for people if
they have to get in today. God bless you if
you're able to take today off, because maybe they can
settle this over the weekend. They were just so close
from everybody that was involved in the negotiations. They say
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they were so close, and for some reason, Jersey Transit
at ten o'clock ended negotiations. They had two hours before
the deadline. I don't know why they didn't try to
hammer something out. So because of that, I didn't get
to promote the fact that we're still giving away the
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Speaker 3 (10:50):
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Speaker 12 (10:54):
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Speaker 3 (11:00):
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It'll look fabulous.
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Just vogue it up.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
So so we have the talkbacks. Please keep them coming.
You go to seven to ten wor on the iHeartRadio app.
You look for the talkback feature and of course the
story of the day, and I expect a lot of
talkbacks about this because so many people are affected. Is
the Jersey Transit strike.
Speaker 10 (11:31):
Why you have to raise taxes because the engineers need
more money, that's unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Raise the fairs. That's the people who are using it.
If they want more money to drive the trains.
Speaker 13 (11:45):
The people who are using the trains.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Are the ones should be paying for, not everybody else.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yeah, I agree with you, But they raise fairs and
they still sometimes don't have enough money. They still have
a shortfall, so some sometimes the state has to subsidize that.
And so I'm not sure they have to raise taxes.
But if they keep taking enough money out to give
the Jersey Transit, that's going to be that's going to
be a continuing problem. So, you know what, we'll we'll
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see what happens with all of this. Hopefully they're going
to have a settlement. But Governor Murphy scared me because
you know, he said so little about this strike. But
one of the things he did say that was really
really concerning.
Speaker 10 (12:25):
Was this, like many mass transit systems across the nation,
NJ Transit is facing a sobering fiscal reality. That is
a challenge we must balance with paying our engineers and
every NJ transit worker what they deserve.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Hey, he's leaving office, Who cares give them all money.
We'll give everybody money if we will get them they
could be the highest paid in the country. What do
I care, I'm leaving office. Uh man, I can't I
can't wait to get rid of that guy. So I
told you that one of the people running for mayor
right now was a rap You can probably guess who
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that was, Zorhan.
Speaker 13 (13:05):
Mom Donni happened to be a I have a rapper, proper,
proper rappa.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
That's who. It seems a little bit of an accent.
That's when he was in Uganda. Remember he grew up
in Uganda. And by the way, I didn't know till
Natalie looked it up that English is the dominant language
in Uganda. So that explains why his English is so great.
But he speaks several languages. And look, before I get
the phone calls, he's a socialist. I never wanted to
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be mayor, right, I don't like the guy. People call
and say, why do you keep talking about Mom Donni. Well,
first of all, he keeps going up in the polls.
He's really the only one that keeps going up. And
that's scary. That is frightening to me. But you want
to hear him rap. I'm not an expert on rap,
so I have no idea. It charted, It got up
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into the charts in Uganda, and he did the movie.
He did the song for a movie. His mom is
a director for Disney, but she does movies in Uganda.
Speaker 14 (14:09):
And I didn't even know this so specifically for them,
specifically for Uganda.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I didn't know Disney did movies around the world.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I'm not surprised.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
No, I'm not surprised at all.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Just didn't either.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
But as he did this interview with Kaya Radio, which
is the national radio in Uganda, he did talk about
New York.
Speaker 13 (14:27):
No, I'm from Uganda, but I also grew up in
New York. In New York, you don't really you know,
you go out, some guys are very hesitant to dance.
You know, if they're not grinding, they're just standing. In Kampala,
you will just not find that people are all dancing.
Everybody's dancing, men, women, it's and it's fantastic that way.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
How about that accent, though he doesn't talk like that here,
so he must talk one way in New York and
another way when he goes back to Uganda. It's pretty fascinating. Again,
I don't want to be the mayor, but I think
that's a fascinating story, that he's a rapper.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
No, you seem a little obsessed with stop it.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Well, he is the story. He really is the story
of the Mayorage race. You can't ignore that. Let's get
to Jacqueline Carl with the six thirty News, Jacqueline.
Speaker 15 (15:14):
Good Morning, New Jersey. Transit is on strike. The Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen announced it's four hundred and
fifty engineers and trainees will be on strike starting today
after fifteen hours of non stop talks went nowhere on
a wage increase, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is maintaining
that Newark Airport is safe, despite recently switching his wife's
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flight from the struggling airport.
Speaker 16 (15:40):
Duffy defended the move before a House panel Wednesday.
Speaker 17 (15:43):
With all the delays at Newark, my wife had to
do an event and she was in the city of
New York, and so I did. I moved her from
from Newark to La Guardia. Not for safety, but because
I needed her fight to fly.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
She had to get there.
Speaker 16 (15:55):
He claimed. Previous comments were taken out of context.
Speaker 17 (15:58):
Now someone had clipped some audio of itam made it
seemed like I was talking about safety. I fly out
of New Orkle all the time.
Speaker 16 (16:03):
Meanwhile, the FAA and Airlines continuing to meet Thursday to
talk about reducing the number of flights at Newark to
help alleviate the ongoing disruptions caused by an air traffic
controller shortage and outdated equipment that's to blame for recent
radar and communications blackouts. Kristen marks Waar News.
Speaker 15 (16:20):
So this story I found fascinating because it's like a
treasure that you get for no money. A copy of
the Magna Carta that's been sitting in a Harvard library
for eighty years turns out to be one of the
originals from thirteen hundred. The New York Times says the
faded parchment was purchased by Harvard for about twenty seven
dollars in nineteen forty six and received little attention until
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about two years ago, when two British professors stumbled on
it by accident while looking through the school's digital archives.
After some high tech authenticating, they discovered it was one
of the seven original copies of the Magna Carta from
over seven hundred years ago and could be worth millillions
of dollars. And if you don't remember from school, what
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the Magna Carta is the landmark legal document signed by
King John of England in twelve fifteen, and it laid
the groundwork for the development of constitutional law and individual
rights in both England and the English speaking world. Isn't
that amazing, the Magna Carta? You get it for twenty
seven dollars and it's worth millions? Why does that ever
happen to me?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Why am I looking for the Magna Carta?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
It would be incredible if it was like a farmer
in Lancaster. But instead what we got is Harvard like
they don't have enough money.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I don't know if they do these days.
Speaker 12 (17:35):
And you know what I was thinking, Harvard has been
sitting on this for what seventy years or something. They
didn't know it was original. Come on, Harvard, you should
know better than that. You should have been able to
figure this out yourself.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Well, they have so many that's probably not their only Magnicarta.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
They probably at all seven.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Thanks so much, Jack Lincarl. President Trump is back home
after his incredibly successful Middle East trip, and he ended
it with a real possibility of a relationship with a
new nuclear free Iran. We'll recap next. You just sit
back in awe for a second, and I truly mean
the word awe. Of what Donald Trump did over the
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last three days. It is truly amazing. And the keep
talking about the plane. It just drives you crazy, doesn't it.
But it's truly amazing. If you think over the last
few days. He went to the Middle East and possibly
in three days changed the Middle East, just changed. It
made it friendlier for the United States, made it safer
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for everyone in the region. He took up He took
one of the strongest shots at terrorism and dismantling a
terrorists terroristic system than any politician recently. And it was
not with any arms. It wasn't with anything fired. It
was a little bit of a threat against Iran, but
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it was just him going over there and saying some
things that need to be said. And with that, he
came back with a one point five trillion dollars He
normalized relations with Syria, which has always been a rogue
country and a thorn in the side of the rest
of the world because it was a hotbed of terrorism.
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He normalized relations, met with the new president, and that
that alone is amazing. But then he did the same
with Lebanon, another hotbed of terrorists, and that's that's the
home of Hesbolah. And he says he is pretty close
to a deal with Iran. He's saying three or four weeks.
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Everything seems good right now. And of course what he's
saying is we will have relations with you too, and
trade with you, will bring you into the rest of
the world, will make your country richer if you get
rid of your nuclear program. That's all they have to do.
And for that they get the world. And it sounds
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as if when you hear from Marco Rubio, when you
hear from the other negotiators for America, when you hear
from the president, we seem to be close to that.
They seem amenable to that. So what he has done,
you know, how we know what he's done is so amazing.
Even Democrats are giving him credit, some of them not
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on the record, you know, because they're afraid that they'll
get eaten alive by other Democrats, but some of them
on the record. Axios spoke with several top Biden administration
officials about what they call this is their word, the
audacious foreign policy moves that no other president could make,
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and it astounded some of his harshest critics. Here's one
from a Biden official, gosh, I wish I could work
for an administration that can move that quickly. Another one
in three days, he brazenly shattered so many harmful taboos
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to this country. That was Rob Malley, former Special Envoy
to Iran under Biden, who believes a peace deal is
going to be made. Ned Price, former State Department spokesperson
for the Biden administration. He does all this, He does
amazing things, and it's kind of silence. It's met with
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a shrug, as if it's expected. He has the ability
to do things politically that previous presidents did not because
he has unquestionable authority and doesn't seem to care about
the politics. It goes on and on and on and on.
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Two Obama administration officials, Tommy Viider and Ben Rhoades, who
do the pod Save the World podcast, they said, this
is a vader. It's a very big deal. So I
think Trump deserves a lot of credit for this decision.
It was politically difficult, but it's unequivocally the right thing
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to do, and Rhodes agreed. It is so clear that
this is the right decision. I have no idea why
the Biden administration didn't even consider this. Well, because he
wasn't available. He was never available. So that's that's now.
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Do you hear any of this, by the way, on
CNN or MSNBC or the networks. No, you hear about
the plane from cutter. Here you have people working for
the Biden administration that no politics, that know oh the
Middle East, that used to be an envoy to Iran
Democrats who come out and say, this is amazing what
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he just did. I wish we could have done that,
And yet nothing from the media. They have to get
the memo. Somebody has to send them the memo that hey,
guess what democrats are saying? Good things? You're allowed to now.
It just it gets so embarrassing. I'm embarrassed for the media.
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They don't even know their bias. Sometimes they think they
think they're actually covering the news. The other part of
the trip though, By the way, I need to get
to is the fact that Vladimir Putin didn't show up
for the peace talks, for the ceasefire talks, at least
in Turkey. And Donald Trump says he knew that was
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gonna happen.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Z Lyinsky was going and I said, if I don't go,
I guarantee Putin's not going.
Speaker 18 (23:57):
And he didn't go.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
And I understand that. But we're gonna get it. We're
gonna get it done. We've got to get it done. Yeah,
And Marco Rubio made the same point. He said, Look,
it doesn't matter even if the meeting happened, nothing's going
to happen until Trump and Putin talk. They need to talk.
And Donald Trump has to make it abundantly clear. Now
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he's tried being amenable. He's tried reaching out the carrot.
He's tried to say, look, we're we'll do more trade,
we'll do this with you, we'll get this, and none
of that seems to work. Now it's time to impose
sanctions and cut Rush off from the rest of the world.
I think that it was a noble tribe by Donald
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Trump and I and there was a point where everybody
thought it was really gonna happen. But now it's time
to get tough with Putin and to try to stop this.
And in the meantime, he has to keep giving arms
to Ukraine because they need to be able to defend
themselves while the sanctions take place, while Putin is ostracized
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from the rest of the world. But I love that
he tried. By the way, when he was on the plane,
he took a real shot at Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 15 (25:08):
I watch him.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
He's lost his confidence totally. I just watched Chuck Schumer.
I've known him so long and he's in the other party.
But you know, I've known the guy so long. He's
totally lost his confidence.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Wow, I'll tell you what. He has lost his confidence.
And wouldn't you did you see the poll numbers? Of
course you would lose your confidence. And so here's the question.
Is AOC going to run against him for the Senate
seat or is AOC going to run for president? Oh,
there's a good talkback question, because AOC is running for something.
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I don't know what it is. She's completely ignores the Bronx,
but she's running for something. Well, Jake Tapper does Ameya
Kulpa after criticism for me and others over the profound
hypocrisy of his new book on the cover up of
Joe Biden's mental decline, and you know, the one that
he was a part of. We'll talk about it next.
I blamed Fox News for a lot of this. There's
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no question that AOC might be the star right now
of the Democratic Party. The polls show that Bernie Sanders,
by the way, right now is polling higher than her.
But second is AOC. Think about that? That means they've
learned nothing from the last election. But AOC is after that,
and AOC has a lot of decisions to make, whether
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she's going to run for Senate, whether she's going to
run for president, and a lot of that is worrying
some people, including Sondra from New Jersey, who called in, Sondra,
you're on seventy ten wor thanks for calling in.
Speaker 18 (26:44):
Oh, Larry, you are a pleasure to listen to in
the morning. I can't get over I'm just waking up
to learn this. But yes, AOC has always been a
concern of mind. She mercilessly, mercilessly went after Schumer, and
she is leading in the polls. She got twenty six
percent of the polls Ernie Bernie got twelve, Jasmine got eight,
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Harris got six, Buddha Cheedge got five, and the House
Minority leader got also five percent. So yes, I am
concerned about her because she's very articulate, she's very chrismatic,
she's a lot of things that the voters seem to like.
So my thought, Larry is, we have to find someone
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exactly the same on our side to compete with her.
Who do you think that might be.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I think it's jd Vance. I love jd Vance. I
think he's a superstar. And sometimes when Donald Trump, you know,
because Donald Trump has a certain way of talking which
connects with voters, by the way, but he has a
certain way of talking, and I think that Donald Trump,
I think jd Vance sometimes can normalize some of the
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things that Donald Trump says. He is the Trump whisperer,
and I love the way he handles the media. I
think he's very strong. By the way, don't worry about AOC,
don't worry about Bernie Sanders. They are not going to
be the presidential candidates. They have limited appeal. Their appeal
the numbers you're looking at, that's just with the Democratic
Party when it goes to the general population. So in
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primaries they might do extremely well, but they can't win
a general election. Neither of them. Neither of them can
win a general election. I'm not even sure. Well, certainly
Bernie can't because that's been proven time and time again
that they can win a primary. But AOC I think
she's limited too. And also she'll be exposed over and
(28:39):
over and over again. You notice she doesn't do a
lot of big media interviews. I think she'll be exposed
over and over again, just like Kamala was. Once the
interviews start, it's going to be it's going to be
for the Democrats, a moderate governor. It's going to be
someone like Josh Shapiro, or it's going to be like
Wes Moore from Maryland. I went on for a long time,
(29:01):
but I I hope you're that answers your question. Don't worry,
don't worry about AOC.
Speaker 18 (29:07):
You're the best.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Thank you. I appreciate you calling in Sondra and thanks
for the compliments too. That was wonderful.
Speaker 14 (29:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Jake Tapper, by the way, has been taking so much
incoming over his book Original Sin, where you know he's
he's very upset and needed to investigates. He's the one
that needs to investigate the cover up at the White
House where they were hiding the mental decline of Joe Biden.
(29:34):
It's actually a pretty good book, at least from the
excerpts I've seen, it's a pretty good book. They came
out with a lot like he didn't he didn't even
recognize George Clooney when he saw him at a party, Uh,
Joe Biden didn't, And that Joe Biden sometimes sat at
meetings and just stared with his mouth agape. So it
was a pretty good book. But he is the worst
messenger for this. He is not the kind of guy
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that you won out in front on the yes. But
the nice thing is at least he said this.
Speaker 19 (30:04):
I think some of the criticism is fair, to be
honest of me, certainly, I'm not going to speak for
anybody else, but knowing then what I know now, I
look back at my coverage during the Biden years, and
I did cover some of these issues, but not enough.
I look back on it with humili You.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Covered it at the very end what everybody else did.
I watched you, Jake.
Speaker 14 (30:29):
You knew, you knew, you chose not to care, and
you attacked anybody that brought it up when you didn't
know if it was true or not.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
So please, please just say you were wrong. If you're
going to do Amya Kulpa, do it fully. Just say
you were wrong, and people would respect you a whole
lot more. We handle a lot of topics in the
first hour, by the way, including the Taper books and
the piece talks. We'll talk about all that and other
topics with W. L. Waur rob Astorino, who just got
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back from the Vatican after the seven o'clock news
I'd like to be excited that it's Friday, but it's
a tough day if you commute from New Jersey by train.
That leads off the Big Three. What we've all been
talking about for months now, what we all feared was
going to happen, has happened. The first Jersey transit strike
in over forty years, leaving three hundred and fifty thousand
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drivers riders. I should say they're now drivers trying to
figure out how to get to work.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I have to drive either to Harrison or to Hoboken
or straight in and like it's gonna stink.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It's a lose lose situation.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Off to go to Hoboken and take the path which
is add next for like forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
We'll take the bus, take back or driving. I'll try to,
you know, work from home as much as possible. Well,
we have you covered here. Traffic reporter Bernie Viider will
be on top of how the strike is affecting your
commute with reports every fifteen minutes. The mayor of Newark,
Ross Baraka, had his first appearance in federal court after
(01:00):
being arrested for trust passing. Afterwards, he spoke to a
gathering of protesters outside.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
We cannot arrest people simply because they disagree with us.
We cannot target people because their political views are separate
from ours. We cannot subjugate people, take their pictures, munk shots,
and fingerprints because we believe that somehow they oppose to
our position that ladies and gentlemen is authoritarianism.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
He's good, isn't he. That's a good political speech that
I mentioned that he is running for governor and that's
what this is all about. In the Sean did He
Combs trial, the defense got its chance now to shoot
holes into what was compelling testimony of ex girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Cassie's doing a great job on cross examination. It's very
long cross examination, so hopefully it ends tomorrow and so
she can be done by the end of the week
and put this entire chapter.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Of our life rider.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That was prosecutor Dougla Wigdor He was leaving court. Peter
Harralambus was in the court room, and we'll have more
on the trial at eight oh five. Well, the big
hold up in Trump's big beautiful bill that contains most,
if not all, of his legislative agenda, is being held
up by new York representatives.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
New York holds the balance for Republicans the and they're
the majority makers in the House Representatives. They gave us
the majority three years ago and in last year, and
so they need to be taken care of. They need
to be taken care of in a way that's sufficient
for their constituents. They can't go home and say, you know,
I raise your taxes.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Well. Ukraine's president Vladimir Zelinsky was in Turkey for peace talks,
but Putin was a no show.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
I don't believe anything's gonna happen with you, alank it
or not until he and I get together.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
But we're gonna have to get it solved because too
many people in dining. I know this is a lot,
but there's a lot going on. How about this story?
Former f director James Comy shares on Instagram a bizarre
post of seashells arranged on the beach to read eighty
six forty seven. Think about that for a second. Does
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that mean what I think it means?
Speaker 8 (03:18):
We the American people cannot take this lightly, whatever your politics.
We cannot allow people to get by without being held
accountable for this kind of public call to assassinate the
president of the United States.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
There you go, he's going to get a visit from
the FBI. James Comy is former FBI director. May end
up in jail. You know, we'll talk about it later.
But when a president had two assassination attempts against him
when he was running for president, do you think that's funny?
(03:52):
Do you think it's funny to write that? And he
denies he did it, He said, ohoy, he just came
upon this, right, right, He's always always been a liar.
Let's talk about the story of the day, the story
that's going to be affecting a whole lot of people.
You know, I really thought this was going to be
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settled last night. I think a lot of people do did.
I think both sides thought it was going to be
settled last night. They were closed, they stopped talking to
the media for a while. It had all the signs
of being settled, and then no deal.
Speaker 9 (04:27):
The last fifteen hours we've been bargaining in good faith,
trying to reach a deal. We didn't have a press
confert set up because we fully expected to reach a deal.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, that's one of the negotiators. You haven't heard his voice,
and you know, he's got that little bit of a
Southern twang. He is with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
and trainmen. He was part of the negotiations. I think
everybody thought they were going to have the deal. Now
the guy you're used to hearing is Tom Hass and
he's going to say the same thing he's been saying
all along, because it hasn't changed. The only issue, the
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only issue that has to be settled is pay.
Speaker 10 (05:06):
That's all we were seeking was and all that we're
still seeking is to close that gap, to bring engineers
equal pay for equal work.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
And the New Jersey Transits position is, we can't afford that.
We can't afford to give you that much. We can't
afford to give you what you're asking for. We can
come close, but we've done the numbers, and if we
do that, we're gonna have to raise fares a lot,
and it's just unfair to the taxpayers and it's unfair
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to Jersey Transit commuters.
Speaker 11 (05:39):
I don't quite agree with the notion that somebody who
lives in New Jersey and works in New Jersey should
be entitled to make a wage that is as if
they live and work in New York, so be it.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah, you know how, there's some negotiations where you can
see the point of both sides where you can and
see that they both have a gripe. The engineers definitely
have a gripe. They definitely have a case here. But
when you hear Jersey Transit and say, look, we're gonna
have to raise fares, We're gonna have to raise taxes.
They're already taxed enough in New Jersey. They're already paying
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high enough fares to commute it. And I used to
take Jersey Transit. They kept raising it all the time.
This is just gonna raise it even more. But then
on the labor side, on the engineer side, they need
a pay raise.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
They can't be ignored that these workers have lost about
twenty percent of their purchasing power though, so they can
afford just less in their daily lives today than they could,
you know, at the end of the last contract. And
that's just a fact.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
And what does the governor have to say about all this?
He always has tremendous words of wisdom. He can really
sum things up. He gets right in there, right to
the point.
Speaker 10 (06:54):
We must reach a final deal that is both fair
to employees and at the same time, I'm affordable for
New Jersey's commuters and taxpayers.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Well, there you go, why didn't we think of that.
We have to come up They have to come up
with a fair deal that is fair to both sides.
That is what wisdom from the governor, who has been
absent for the most point throughout this whole negotiation. All
of a sudden, by the way, he's getting involved because
he's getting a lot of flack about not being involved
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enough and not being in there to try to stop
this from happening. Right now now he's front and center.
All of a sudden, Governor Murphy is front and center
only because of the criticism. It is incredible. Did you
know that they were how close they were last night?
They were so close to a deal. Both sides admit
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to this. They were close to a deal, and at
ten o'clock it was Jersey Transit that walked away from
the table.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Nobody's leaving. Well midnight, you.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Heard the transit workers say they didn't even schedule a
press conference. They were sure it was going to be settled.
They were shocked at this And I don't even know
why you walk out.
Speaker 12 (08:14):
Isn't there someone overseeing this saying no, no, get back
in there, you have two more hours.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Well, they don't have that kind of authority. I mean
it's the National Mediation Board and they don't have that
kind of authority. They're probably saying where are you going?
This is so close? Why are you going? But they
can't say sit down. You know, it's not like a
nun in Catholic grade school. You're gonna get smacked on
the knuckles. It's just it's just so frustrating.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Even New Jersey Transit will admit that they cannot handle
all of the volumes. So they're estimating they can accommodate
about twenty percent of the people who are going to
be affected by the strike. I think that's probably roughly accurate.
So they're hoping that eighty percent of those three hundred
fifty thousand people will find a way to get into
the city that doesn't involve using their services.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
That means eighty percent of the three hundred that, by
the way, was Mike Smart, he's the professor of transit
planning at Rutgers University. That means eighty percent of three
hundred and fifty thousand don't know how to do they're
going to get into work now. I know there's an
enhanced bus service. I know you can go to the
parking rides and get a bus. You can go to
the path trains. There's all kinds of ways to get
in Amtrak if you want to pay some extra money.
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But it's going to be it's going to be a nightmare.
Maybe not today. Hopefully you get to stay home today.
Let's hope they solve this over the weekend. They're that close,
just just settle it. Did you know, by the way,
this is fascinating that one of our mayor old candidates
was once a successful rapper, No kidding, he haven't even
had a song on the charts. And guess what, we
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have tickets to see the Beach Boys at a twenty
five welcome back. We didn't get a chance to talk about.
We have such a huge story going on today, the
Jersey transit strike. I feel so bad for people if
they have to get in today. God bless you if
you're able to take today off, because maybe they can
settle this over the weekend. They were just so close
from everybody that was involved in the negotiations. They say
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they were so close, and for some reason, Jersey Transit
at ten o'clock ended negotiations. They had two hours before
the deadline. I don't know why they didn't try to
hammer something out. So because of that, I didn't get
to promote the fact that we're still giving away the
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Speaker 3 (10:50):
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Speaker 12 (10:54):
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Speaker 3 (11:00):
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Speaker 1 (11:09):
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Just vogue it up.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
So so we have the talkbacks. Please keep them coming.
You go to seven to ten wor on the iHeartRadio app.
You look for the talkback feature and of course the
story of the day, and I expect a lot of
talkbacks about this because so many people are affected. Is
the Jersey Transit strike.
Speaker 10 (11:31):
Why you have to raise taxes because the engineers need
more money, that's unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Raise the fairs. That's the people who are using it.
If they want more money to drive the trains.
Speaker 13 (11:45):
The people who are using the trains.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Are the ones should be paying for, not everybody else.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yeah, I agree with you, But they raise fairs and
they still sometimes don't have enough money. They still have
a shortfall, so some sometimes the state has to subsidize that.
And so I'm not sure they have to raise taxes.
But if they keep taking enough money out to give
the Jersey Transit, that's going to be that's going to
be a continuing problem. So, you know what, we'll we'll
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see what happens with all of this. Hopefully they're going
to have a settlement. But Governor Murphy scared me because
you know, he said so little about this strike. But
one of the things he did say that was really
really concerning.
Speaker 10 (12:25):
Was this, like many mass transit systems across the nation,
NJ Transit is facing a sobering fiscal reality. That is
a challenge we must balance with paying our engineers and
every NJ transit worker what they deserve.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Hey, he's leaving office, Who cares give them all money.
We'll give everybody money if we will get them they
could be the highest paid in the country. What do
I care, I'm leaving office. Uh man, I can't I
can't wait to get rid of that guy. So I
told you that one of the people running for mayor
right now was a rap You can probably guess who
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that was, Zorhan.
Speaker 13 (13:05):
Mom Donni happened to be a I have a rapper, proper,
proper rappa.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
That's who. It seems a little bit of an accent.
That's when he was in Uganda. Remember he grew up
in Uganda. And by the way, I didn't know till
Natalie looked it up that English is the dominant language
in Uganda. So that explains why his English is so great.
But he speaks several languages. And look, before I get
the phone calls, he's a socialist. I never wanted to
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be mayor, right, I don't like the guy. People call
and say, why do you keep talking about Mom Donni. Well,
first of all, he keeps going up in the polls.
He's really the only one that keeps going up. And
that's scary. That is frightening to me. But you want
to hear him rap. I'm not an expert on rap,
so I have no idea. It charted, It got up
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into the charts in Uganda, and he did the movie.
He did the song for a movie. His mom is
a director for Disney, but she does movies in Uganda.
Speaker 14 (14:09):
And I didn't even know this so specifically for them,
specifically for Uganda.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I didn't know Disney did movies around the world.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I'm not surprised.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
No, I'm not surprised at all.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Just didn't either.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
But as he did this interview with Kaya Radio, which
is the national radio in Uganda, he did talk about
New York.
Speaker 13 (14:27):
No, I'm from Uganda, but I also grew up in
New York. In New York, you don't really you know,
you go out, some guys are very hesitant to dance.
You know, if they're not grinding, they're just standing. In Kampala,
you will just not find that people are all dancing.
Everybody's dancing, men, women, it's and it's fantastic that way.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
How about that accent, though he doesn't talk like that here,
so he must talk one way in New York and
another way when he goes back to Uganda. It's pretty fascinating. Again,
I don't want to be the mayor, but I think
that's a fascinating story, that he's a rapper.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
No, you seem a little obsessed with stop it.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Well, he is the story. He really is the story
of the Mayorage race. You can't ignore that. Let's get
to Jacqueline Carl with the six thirty News, Jacqueline.
Speaker 15 (15:14):
Good Morning, New Jersey. Transit is on strike. The Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen announced it's four hundred and
fifty engineers and trainees will be on strike starting today
after fifteen hours of non stop talks went nowhere on
a wage increase, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is maintaining
that Newark Airport is safe, despite recently switching his wife's
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flight from the struggling airport.
Speaker 16 (15:40):
Duffy defended the move before a House panel Wednesday.
Speaker 17 (15:43):
With all the delays at Newark, my wife had to
do an event and she was in the city of
New York, and so I did. I moved her from
from Newark to La Guardia. Not for safety, but because
I needed her fight to fly.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
She had to get there.
Speaker 16 (15:55):
He claimed. Previous comments were taken out of context.
Speaker 17 (15:58):
Now someone had clipped some audio of itam made it
seemed like I was talking about safety. I fly out
of New Orkle all the time.
Speaker 16 (16:03):
Meanwhile, the FAA and Airlines continuing to meet Thursday to
talk about reducing the number of flights at Newark to
help alleviate the ongoing disruptions caused by an air traffic
controller shortage and outdated equipment that's to blame for recent
radar and communications blackouts. Kristen marks Waar News.
Speaker 15 (16:20):
So this story I found fascinating because it's like a
treasure that you get for no money. A copy of
the Magna Carta that's been sitting in a Harvard library
for eighty years turns out to be one of the
originals from thirteen hundred. The New York Times says the
faded parchment was purchased by Harvard for about twenty seven
dollars in nineteen forty six and received little attention until
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about two years ago, when two British professors stumbled on
it by accident while looking through the school's digital archives.
After some high tech authenticating, they discovered it was one
of the seven original copies of the Magna Carta from
over seven hundred years ago and could be worth millillions
of dollars. And if you don't remember from school, what
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the Magna Carta is the landmark legal document signed by
King John of England in twelve fifteen, and it laid
the groundwork for the development of constitutional law and individual
rights in both England and the English speaking world. Isn't
that amazing, the Magna Carta? You get it for twenty
seven dollars and it's worth millions? Why does that ever
happen to me?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Why am I looking for the Magna Carta?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
It would be incredible if it was like a farmer
in Lancaster. But instead what we got is Harvard like
they don't have enough money.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I don't know if they do these days.
Speaker 12 (17:35):
And you know what I was thinking, Harvard has been
sitting on this for what seventy years or something. They
didn't know it was original. Come on, Harvard, you should
know better than that. You should have been able to
figure this out yourself.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Well, they have so many that's probably not their only Magnicarta.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
They probably at all seven.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Thanks so much, Jack Lincarl. President Trump is back home
after his incredibly successful Middle East trip, and he ended
it with a real possibility of a relationship with a
new nuclear free Iran. We'll recap next. You just sit
back in awe for a second, and I truly mean
the word awe. Of what Donald Trump did over the
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last three days. It is truly amazing. And the keep
talking about the plane. It just drives you crazy, doesn't it.
But it's truly amazing. If you think over the last
few days. He went to the Middle East and possibly
in three days changed the Middle East, just changed. It
made it friendlier for the United States, made it safer
(18:40):
for everyone in the region. He took up He took
one of the strongest shots at terrorism and dismantling a
terrorists terroristic system than any politician recently. And it was
not with any arms. It wasn't with anything fired. It
was a little bit of a threat against Iran, but
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it was just him going over there and saying some
things that need to be said. And with that, he
came back with a one point five trillion dollars He
normalized relations with Syria, which has always been a rogue
country and a thorn in the side of the rest
of the world because it was a hotbed of terrorism.
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He normalized relations, met with the new president, and that
that alone is amazing. But then he did the same
with Lebanon, another hotbed of terrorists, and that's that's the
home of Hesbolah. And he says he is pretty close
to a deal with Iran. He's saying three or four weeks.
(19:50):
Everything seems good right now. And of course what he's
saying is we will have relations with you too, and
trade with you, will bring you into the rest of
the world, will make your country richer if you get
rid of your nuclear program. That's all they have to do.
And for that they get the world. And it sounds
(20:14):
as if when you hear from Marco Rubio, when you
hear from the other negotiators for America, when you hear
from the president, we seem to be close to that.
They seem amenable to that. So what he has done,
you know, how we know what he's done is so amazing.
Even Democrats are giving him credit, some of them not
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on the record, you know, because they're afraid that they'll
get eaten alive by other Democrats, but some of them
on the record. Axios spoke with several top Biden administration
officials about what they call this is their word, the
audacious foreign policy moves that no other president could make,
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and it astounded some of his harshest critics. Here's one
from a Biden official, gosh, I wish I could work
for an administration that can move that quickly. Another one
in three days, he brazenly shattered so many harmful taboos
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to this country. That was Rob Malley, former Special Envoy
to Iran under Biden, who believes a peace deal is
going to be made. Ned Price, former State Department spokesperson
for the Biden administration. He does all this, He does
amazing things, and it's kind of silence. It's met with
(21:45):
a shrug, as if it's expected. He has the ability
to do things politically that previous presidents did not because
he has unquestionable authority and doesn't seem to care about
the politics. It goes on and on and on and on.
(22:06):
Two Obama administration officials, Tommy Viider and Ben Rhoades, who
do the pod Save the World podcast, they said, this
is a vader. It's a very big deal. So I
think Trump deserves a lot of credit for this decision.
It was politically difficult, but it's unequivocally the right thing
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to do, and Rhodes agreed. It is so clear that
this is the right decision. I have no idea why
the Biden administration didn't even consider this. Well, because he
wasn't available. He was never available. So that's that's now.
(22:47):
Do you hear any of this, by the way, on
CNN or MSNBC or the networks. No, you hear about
the plane from cutter. Here you have people working for
the Biden administration that no politics, that know oh the
Middle East, that used to be an envoy to Iran
Democrats who come out and say, this is amazing what
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he just did. I wish we could have done that,
And yet nothing from the media. They have to get
the memo. Somebody has to send them the memo that hey,
guess what democrats are saying? Good things? You're allowed to now.
It just it gets so embarrassing. I'm embarrassed for the media.
(23:29):
They don't even know their bias. Sometimes they think they
think they're actually covering the news. The other part of
the trip though, By the way, I need to get
to is the fact that Vladimir Putin didn't show up
for the peace talks, for the ceasefire talks, at least
in Turkey. And Donald Trump says he knew that was
(23:52):
gonna happen.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Z Lyinsky was going and I said, if I don't go,
I guarantee Putin's not going.
Speaker 18 (23:57):
And he didn't go.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
And I understand that. But we're gonna get it. We're
gonna get it done. We've got to get it done. Yeah,
And Marco Rubio made the same point. He said, Look,
it doesn't matter even if the meeting happened, nothing's going
to happen until Trump and Putin talk. They need to talk.
And Donald Trump has to make it abundantly clear. Now
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he's tried being amenable. He's tried reaching out the carrot.
He's tried to say, look, we're we'll do more trade,
we'll do this with you, we'll get this, and none
of that seems to work. Now it's time to impose
sanctions and cut Rush off from the rest of the world.
I think that it was a noble tribe by Donald
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Trump and I and there was a point where everybody
thought it was really gonna happen. But now it's time
to get tough with Putin and to try to stop this.
And in the meantime, he has to keep giving arms
to Ukraine because they need to be able to defend
themselves while the sanctions take place, while Putin is ostracized
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from the rest of the world. But I love that
he tried. By the way, when he was on the plane,
he took a real shot at Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 15 (25:08):
I watch him.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
He's lost his confidence totally. I just watched Chuck Schumer.
I've known him so long and he's in the other party.
But you know, I've known the guy so long. He's
totally lost his confidence.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Wow, I'll tell you what. He has lost his confidence.
And wouldn't you did you see the poll numbers? Of
course you would lose your confidence. And so here's the question.
Is AOC going to run against him for the Senate
seat or is AOC going to run for president? Oh,
there's a good talkback question, because AOC is running for something.
(25:45):
I don't know what it is. She's completely ignores the Bronx,
but she's running for something. Well, Jake Tapper does Ameya
Kulpa after criticism for me and others over the profound
hypocrisy of his new book on the cover up of
Joe Biden's mental decline, and you know, the one that
he was a part of. We'll talk about it next.
I blamed Fox News for a lot of this. There's
(26:07):
no question that AOC might be the star right now
of the Democratic Party. The polls show that Bernie Sanders,
by the way, right now is polling higher than her.
But second is AOC. Think about that? That means they've
learned nothing from the last election. But AOC is after that,
and AOC has a lot of decisions to make, whether
(26:30):
she's going to run for Senate, whether she's going to
run for president, and a lot of that is worrying
some people, including Sondra from New Jersey, who called in, Sondra,
you're on seventy ten wor thanks for calling in.
Speaker 18 (26:44):
Oh, Larry, you are a pleasure to listen to in
the morning. I can't get over I'm just waking up
to learn this. But yes, AOC has always been a
concern of mind. She mercilessly, mercilessly went after Schumer, and
she is leading in the polls. She got twenty six
percent of the polls Ernie Bernie got twelve, Jasmine got eight,
(27:08):
Harris got six, Buddha Cheedge got five, and the House
Minority leader got also five percent. So yes, I am
concerned about her because she's very articulate, she's very chrismatic,
she's a lot of things that the voters seem to like.
So my thought, Larry is, we have to find someone
(27:29):
exactly the same on our side to compete with her.
Who do you think that might be.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I think it's jd Vance. I love jd Vance. I
think he's a superstar. And sometimes when Donald Trump, you know,
because Donald Trump has a certain way of talking which
connects with voters, by the way, but he has a
certain way of talking, and I think that Donald Trump,
I think jd Vance sometimes can normalize some of the
(27:56):
things that Donald Trump says. He is the Trump whisperer,
and I love the way he handles the media. I
think he's very strong. By the way, don't worry about AOC,
don't worry about Bernie Sanders. They are not going to
be the presidential candidates. They have limited appeal. Their appeal
the numbers you're looking at, that's just with the Democratic
Party when it goes to the general population. So in
(28:18):
primaries they might do extremely well, but they can't win
a general election. Neither of them. Neither of them can
win a general election. I'm not even sure. Well, certainly
Bernie can't because that's been proven time and time again
that they can win a primary. But AOC I think
she's limited too. And also she'll be exposed over and
(28:39):
over and over again. You notice she doesn't do a
lot of big media interviews. I think she'll be exposed
over and over again, just like Kamala was. Once the
interviews start, it's going to be it's going to be
for the Democrats, a moderate governor. It's going to be
someone like Josh Shapiro, or it's going to be like
Wes Moore from Maryland. I went on for a long time,
(29:01):
but I I hope you're that answers your question. Don't worry,
don't worry about AOC.
Speaker 18 (29:07):
You're the best.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Thank you. I appreciate you calling in Sondra and thanks
for the compliments too. That was wonderful.
Speaker 14 (29:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Jake Tapper, by the way, has been taking so much
incoming over his book Original Sin, where you know he's
he's very upset and needed to investigates. He's the one
that needs to investigate the cover up at the White
House where they were hiding the mental decline of Joe Biden.
(29:34):
It's actually a pretty good book, at least from the
excerpts I've seen, it's a pretty good book. They came
out with a lot like he didn't he didn't even
recognize George Clooney when he saw him at a party, Uh,
Joe Biden didn't, And that Joe Biden sometimes sat at
meetings and just stared with his mouth agape. So it
was a pretty good book. But he is the worst
messenger for this. He is not the kind of guy
(29:57):
that you won out in front on the yes. But
the nice thing is at least he said this.
Speaker 19 (30:04):
I think some of the criticism is fair, to be
honest of me, certainly, I'm not going to speak for
anybody else, but knowing then what I know now, I
look back at my coverage during the Biden years, and
I did cover some of these issues, but not enough.
I look back on it with humili You.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Covered it at the very end what everybody else did.
I watched you, Jake.
Speaker 14 (30:29):
You knew, you knew, you chose not to care, and
you attacked anybody that brought it up when you didn't
know if it was true or not.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
So please, please just say you were wrong. If you're
going to do Amya Kulpa, do it fully. Just say
you were wrong, and people would respect you a whole
lot more. We handle a lot of topics in the
first hour, by the way, including the Taper books and
the piece talks. We'll talk about all that and other
topics with W. L. Waur rob Astorino, who just got
(31:01):
back from the Vatican after the seven o'clock news
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