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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. Tell you halfway through the week, it's a
short week. It's gonna feel weird come Friday because it's
such a short week. In the Big Three, we start
off with I guess some good news, although the story
is just awful. The NYPD has been able to get
one of their men who jumped, beat, and stomped on
(00:23):
an NYPD officer who was just going home from work
over the weekend in the bronx Us Marshalls caught him
in Virginia and when he gets back to the city
has special cuffs waiting for him. As Mayor Adams promise yesterday,
we will find a person responsible.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And when we do, we're gonna put that office's.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Cuffs on him. Another suspect in the attack is still
on the loose. The other suspect is supposed to be
the father of the man who was caught in Virginia.
Like fatherlike son. Will have much more on this in
just a moment. In Waterbury, Connecticut, at a mass shooting
at the Brass Mill Center Mall in Waterbury.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
There are several victims suffering from gunshot wounds. They were
all transported to local hospitals. Currently they're being worked on
and receiving medical treatment, and there are no fatalities at this.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Time, and still no fatalities. All five are still recovering.
Donald Trump calls Russian President Putin crazy and warns that
he is playing with fire by continuing strikes on Ukraine
in the middle of ceasefire talks. And I'm not happy
with what Putin's doing.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
He's killing a lot of people, and I don't know
what the hell happened to bouton. I've known him a
long time, always gotten along with him, but he's sending
rockets into cities and killing people, and I don't like
it at all.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Okay, something's gonna happen here. Another day, another judge blocks
the Trump administration from trying to stop the cash grab
with the euphemism congestion pricing.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
These attacks on congestion pricing are New York's sovereignty. New
York has the right to govern itself, to implement policies
that improve the lives of its residents, and to make
decisions that benefit our infrastructure and our economy.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
We look at that. Somebody woke Jerry Nadler up. I
haven't heard from him for a long long time. In
the p Diddy trial, more and more observers believe that
Sean Diddy Combs is going to be found not guilty
of the federal charges against him.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
You're hearing about all this domestic violence, but at all
that has nothing to do with what Diddy is charged with.
There's a possibility, and I'm saying a very strong possibility
right now, that Diddy could walk, that he could be
spending for the July at home having a barbecue.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, a lot of criminal defense attorneys and prosecutors are
now saying that. And the first person I know of
it said that was Jeffrey Lichtmann right on our air
on WR and he's coming up at seven oh five.
The FBI, how about this, is reopening the investigation into
who brought cocaine into the Biden White House.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Smuggling any kind of foreign substance into the White House
is of concern. It could be rice, and it could
be anthrax, It could be anything, could be a weapon.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Why do I think Hunter Biden is a little bit
more nervous today? He thought everything was over And now this,
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Natalie's back, Hello, how are you.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
I'm doing all right?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
You were not feeling well?
Speaker 7 (03:53):
I was not.
Speaker 8 (03:54):
I got hit with I don't know, some crazy I
would say ten day virus that and just threw me.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
And you still have it today a little bit.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
Yeah, well just raspy. It was my raspy voice.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Oh that's gonna be fun. Yeah, right, Could you wear
a mask?
Speaker 6 (04:13):
You know what?
Speaker 7 (04:15):
No one in my house has gotten it. I was
the only one.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Really.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Did you get tested? Was it COVID?
Speaker 9 (04:23):
No?
Speaker 8 (04:23):
I tested, yeah, yeah, I always test. No, wow, no,
And I was just crazy. It was all congestion.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
It only attacks Natalie. It's just it's a Natalie virus.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
No, my wife got I told you before said think
you're the carrier. Might be true. Maybe I should have
a mask.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
So thank you for Chris for you know, I can't
talk too much. I'm gonna stop now.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Is that right?
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Yep?
Speaker 8 (04:52):
So to yours, Larry.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Well, believe me, I'm used to it because Chris doesn't
talk at all.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
As the morning goes on, it gets better.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
So listen to the raspy voice now because it'll go away.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, we tried to get Chris to talk. He's just
he's not a talker, not good for talk radio. But
he's a great he's a great guy and he did
a great job. I'm just teasing him. We teased him
a little bit yesterday as well. So this is tremendous news.
Tremendous news after a horrible, horrible incident over the weekend.
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I don't know if you've seen the video, and if
you haven't, don't go watch it. It's hard to watch.
Of this NYPD officer whose name is not being released
for obvious reasons. It is just walking home from work
and these two people sneak up on him and sucker
punch him. He's out, he's laying there out and then
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they're going through. They took his gun, they took his wallet,
and then before they left, one of them just stomped
on his face really hard, just stomped on his face,
broke his eye socket, broke his cheekbone. He had to
go through surgery yesterday. It was a horrible, horrible crime,
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and you think to yourself, what is happening? Like, why
is why are people like that? Look, I get people
are in bad situations, they need money, they do desperate things.
That doesn't forgive going after somebody. But he was on
the ground and out and they stomped on his face.
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You think to yourself, Oh my god, what is happening
to society? And I'm sure we're gonna find out. And
they just caught one of the guys. Listen to this.
Twenty three year old Tavon Hargrove was caught by US
marshals in Virginia that if you go you attack a
cop like that, you got the whole nation after you.
(06:53):
There's nowhere to hide, There's nowhere to hide. They got
you quickly. And man, he's back now or of a
big welcoming by the police. He's a pariah. He'll be
a pariah in the jail, in the prison system if
he goes to prison. I'm sure we're gonna see that
he was in and out of prison several times, that
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he was arrested several times. I'm sure we're gonna find
that by the way. The other suspect is his father.
His name is Trayvon Hargrove. His father is the other suspect.
So like father lake son twenty three and fifty three,
there you go. There's a nice father son outing going
out to attack a police officer, and you just know,
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you just know already we're going to find out that
both of them have been arrested several times. You know
it's gonna happen. And this is worse things than this
has happened. But this is all caught on video. We've
had people murdered and raped by people who've been put
out let out of prison time and time and time again,
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or we're up for parole and they can't give them
parol right now. So now they're out on the street
and they're attacking, and they're attacking, and they're attacking, and
then we raise our hands up and we get more
police offers. We try to do everything we possibly can
to stop this, but you can't stop it if there's
no punishment. Now, I'm sure these two are gonna be punished,
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but how many other victims did they have before this?
I'm sure we're gonna find that out. There's no way
that a father and son who teamed up together to
go after a police officer, that they have never done
anything before. I can promise you. They were in front
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of a judge. The judge said, all right, you know,
come back to court, and they didn't show up because
it is getting predictable. Now that's the city we live
in where nobody is safe because of this. The police
do a wonderful job. I'm not blaming them. They keep
making arrest. In the next segment, we're going to talk
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about how safe this last weekend is because they had
so many officers out. And this commissioner, by the way,
Jessica Tish, is wonderful, but she's complaining about it too.
She's saying, allbody's got to do something. This isn't our fault,
this is your fault, and for some reason they keep
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ignoring it and there has to be an incident like
this one. If you watch this video like this one,
that is a wake up call. You keep waiting for
it and it never seems to happen because they have
they don't live in New York City. The people in Obany,
most of them don't. They don't care. Maybe this will
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get him to care. We can only hope. Oh Man.
Coming up next, one of rock's great guitarists who had
a top ten hit, had a number one song, has died.
We'll play his songs and talk about Rick Deringer. Plus
we got tickets to see Cindy Lauper at A twenty five.
(10:12):
Thanks so much for your talk, Maats. As I always say,
you stimulate conversation and you make the show so much better.
If you want to leave a talkback, go to seven
to ten WOOR on the iHeartRadio app and look for
the talkback feature. Hit the microphone, and then you're on
the air. And this person wants to talk about the
police officer that was attacked over the weekend.
Speaker 10 (10:32):
Good morning, Larry. I guarantee you that this was revenge
that they gave to the officer, just by the end
of them stomping on his face after they had him
out cold. I do believe that this was revenge. I
guarantee you it'll come out.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Well, we're gonna find out. Look, no matter what happened,
it was just horrific. It was just awful, and I
hope these people are put away for the rest of
their lives. Somebody else wants to talk about Curtis Leewa.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Curtis can become made of New York City, but he
needs to get rid of the red beret. Doesn't mean
he's soft on crime. It's one thing to talk about it.
Another thing is to show it. He needs to progressives
and they're afraid of the red beret. But if he
talks about crime being strong as good, but he won't
(11:27):
be as extreme in other areas such as health and education.
He still talk about it, just doesn't have to show it.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah, Well, the red beret, that's never going to go away.
Although I was I'm interested to see, you know, because
the last time we had him here, he didn't wear
the red beret, and he sometimes doesn't happen on I mean,
he has it usually when he's out there as part
of the you know, of the Guardian Angels. But I
(11:57):
am no I think the red beret think. I think
that's a symbol of what he is and what he
means and what he does. I would I would never
get rid of that. One. Last one on congestion pricing.
Speaker 9 (12:09):
Hey, Larry Meanty Bill and New Jersey congestion pricing and
cars are like cigarettes and tobacco. Cigarettes and tobacco will
never be completely banned. There's still way too much tax
revenue in them, so the federal government will never ban them.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Similarly, if New York was serious.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
About congestion pricing, they would just ban cars, not trucks,
cars coming into New York City.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
But they won't do that. There's much too much money
to be made. Yeah, they don't want to bann cars
because the rich people. That's the whole thing was to
allow the roads to be clear for the rich people
that can afford congestion pricing. Everybody else, the peons need
to take public transit. So they're not going to ban cars.
Certain cars are fine. The limos are fine, you know,
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the cars to pick up people and take them to
the theater and take them out to dinner. They're fine.
They just don't want, you know, the Elantra out there.
They don't want the Hyundai's out there, they right.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
The people who work in you know, bodegas, and your
nurses and.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah yeah, construction workers, yes, and cops and firefighters radio,
yeah exactly us specifically, Thanks so much for your talkbacks.
Please keep them coming now. I always like this guy.
I don't know why. There's Rick Derringer. He kind of
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symbolized the nineteen seventies rock and roll, right. I mean,
there was something about him that just was a rock
musician from the seventies. First of all, he was a
tremendous guitarist. And I didn't know this until I read
his obituary. And by the way, Rick Deringer died yesterday,
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he had been suffering from some ailments for a long time.
And uh, but he was a household name if you remember,
for a little bit, just for the shortest time. But
I didn't know. They had a hit back in the
back in the sixties, and everybody knows the song with
hang on sloopy stupid.
Speaker 11 (14:20):
Don't you know sloopy?
Speaker 10 (14:32):
That's a lesson?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Are you laughing about?
Speaker 7 (14:38):
If someone named me sloopy? I would have killed them
right out of the wound.
Speaker 8 (14:43):
But how many people you think the word was snoopy?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I did, I did until untill just yesterday when I
was listening to it. I wait a second, sloopy.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
Snoopy is so much better.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I could have made sense snoopy. It made sense. Who's
name sloopy?
Speaker 12 (15:03):
By the way, That's why I was laughing, because now
I can never listen to that song again.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
We think it snoopy.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I know we have to get them to news, but
I want to play his other very famous song. Now,
let's get the news at six point thirty with Jacqueline
Carl Jacqueline Good Morning.
Speaker 13 (15:18):
The Trump administration is reportedly putting student visa interviews on hold.
Politico reports the decision comes as the administration considers requiring
foreign students to undergo social media screening. Details about what
the possible social media vetting with screen for were not provided,
and Governor Kathy Hokeel is reacting to a federal judge
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issuing a temporary restraining order that keeps congestion pricing in
place for now.
Speaker 14 (15:44):
Hokel released his statement saying we've won again. She says
the toro that blocks the US Transportation Department from stripping
the MTA of federal funding because the tolling cameras aren't
turned off, it's a mess of victory. She says, New
Yorkers have a right to control their own traffic patterns,
fight gridlock, and protect clean air. Once again, Hockel is
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symphasizing that congestion pricing is legal, it's working, and that
the cameras will stay on. Sarah Lee Kessler wor News.
Speaker 13 (16:15):
All right, so this neighborhood in Cape Coral, Florida is
being terrorized by a duck, which, by the way, or
no joke. If you've ever been chased by a duck
or a goose, as I have, you would know this.
According to Fox four, Now, the culprit is a muscovie duck,
which is reported to be overly aggressive and has attacked
several people, even sending one person to the hospital. The
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Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission has deemed the muscovy duck
a protected species, but there are exceptions. This particular duck
is normally found in Texas, not in Florida, and plans
are now said to be in the works on how
to have it humanely removed before it's able to cause
more problems for the intimidated human population. Now, I'm sure
this duck is out on its own, kind of like
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been through some stuff. I feel like it has trauma.
I feel like it has its reasons trauma.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
I really did.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Where was this again?
Speaker 7 (17:08):
What did you say in Cape Coral, Florida. Oh, it's
supposed to be in Texas.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Ducks are good eating.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Oh this is a protected species.
Speaker 9 (17:18):
Let's go.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
Yeah, they're not giving that ducks.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Some people maybe an accident.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Oh man, you're dark.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Well you don't eat duck.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
I really, I know. I've had peking duck.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
It's delicious, delicious. You can't eat these animals and then
go afterwards. Oh ah, you have to feel sorry for them. No,
you eat them.
Speaker 13 (17:44):
They're just trying to live, Larry, and this duck is
on its own. It's it's somehow supposed to be in
Texas and it's probably fighting for its life. I feel
bad for anybody that was attacked, especially the person in
the hospital.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
But like people think like.
Speaker 13 (17:57):
Ducks, they're so cute and goose and gear east and
I'm telling you they can be very protective and they
can chase you down.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I know why it left Texas. Everybody's got a gun
in Texas. Florida's not that much better.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Well, anyway, I've named him Floppy.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Floppy, how about Sloopy? No, you have a song would make.
Speaker 13 (18:24):
Him feel better, try to make him less scary. So
I'm like, come here, Floppy.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Okay, well we need a Floppy update. Let us know
in a couple of days, tell us what's going on.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Stay on it.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Thank you, Thanks Jacqueline carl I'll have about some good news.
The Memorial Day weekend crime in the city was the
lowest in history, and the commissioner is beaming about it
because she believes it portends a low crime summer. We'll
hear from the commissioner next. And you want to add
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day to our favorite talkback of the morning. Well, Natalie
just got a couple of interesting phone calls. Thanks a
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lot for your phone calls. By the way, eight hundred
three to two one zero seven ten. Eight hundred three
to two one zero seven ten is the number to reach.
If somebody called and said the Rick Derringer song Sloopy,
Sloopy in the Islands. I guess Jamaica in the Islands
is slang for a woman. It's a horrible term.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
I would want to be called, Hey, sloopy.
Speaker 13 (19:39):
I don't like it, but yeah, A lot of rappers
call women shorty, Like, why can't we get a better name?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Well, women are shorter, I don't that's why. That's the
only reason it's got to be right. Why else would
you do that?
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Well, does sloopy means shorter in the Caribbean?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
No, I don't know what that means. I have no
idea what sloopy means. She got another phone call saying
that they loved her raspy voice. Yeah, like Kathleen Turner, Lauren.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Vicall, Yeah, I just came up bost games fast.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah, I was thinking about it during the break. Jannis Joplin,
can you sing me? Come on just one verse.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
If you want to keep.
Speaker 12 (20:20):
Your listeners never So here's the good news.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
And and you know what, we've been longing for good
news for some time now, and this comes from Jessica Tish,
the police commissioner, who I love, by the way. I
just think she's wonderful. And you know, she doesn't have
to work. She'dn't have to work all her life, but
here she is in public service and doing an incredible
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job as police commissioner. And she was able to teut this.
Speaker 11 (20:51):
We had the safest Memorial Day weekend in terms of
gun violence at New York City has ever seen. And
the men and women of the N one IPD we're
out there in full force this weekend, working shifts in
the hours. We know the violence usually occurs evenings, overnight
and into the early morning.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Now, remember her background before she got this job as
police commissioner. You know, she was sanitation right there, she
was Sanitation commissioner. But before that, before that, she was
with the Police Department doing data based crime fighting. She
was in the terrorism unit looking at data and looking
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constantly at data. And she's brought that to the commissioner's job.
This is all data based. This is finding out where
the crime is and flooding that zone. But it's a
little bit more difficult that And this all started, if
you remember, with comstat with Bratton, and he was extremely
successful as complete police commissioner. I don't know where we
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got away from this, but there are people in the
police Department. We even have a commissioner with that name
of the data driven Commissioner that all this is all
they do is look at crime statistics and try to
react to it. And she said what they did Memorial
Day weekend is going to happen all summer.
Speaker 11 (22:13):
So as part of our summer violence reduction plan, which
started on May fifth, we have flooded the areas in
the city known for gun violence with cops. So we
have more cops out there than ever before, fifteen hundred
additional cops this summer. And we were also very precise
about the locations where we deployed our cops, looking at
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historical data about where the gun violence has occurred. And
I am very pleased that since May fifth, when this
plan started, shootings in those zones are down almost sixty percent.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Sixty percent. That these are incredible crime stats, and it
makes you wonder why we weren't just doing this all along.
I just don't understand.
Speaker 11 (23:00):
We shift our deployments based on where we're seeing pockets
of violence and pockets of problems, and so given the
results we've had over the first few weeks of this
program and especially this weekend, we think that for this
first go, we picked the locations correctly.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
I mean, it makes total sense. It's supply chain companies
do it all the time.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
No, I get it, I get it, But why did
we stop? I mean, it seems like we weren't doing
this over the last few years. I for the life
of me, I can't understand why they.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
Get Breton back on.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yeah, we sure.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
I'm going to reach out to him because I want
to know that too. That's really really interesting.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
No, he was amazing. That comstat was amazing. I remember,
you know, you had Timody here as well, and Timmody
came down to Philly and I got a chance to
interview him. I got a chance to know him, actually,
and he gives all the credit to Breton for coming
up with comstat. And and it was used around the
country constantly. It was used everywhere. I mean, everybody copied
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what New York was doing, except apparently New York. New
York kind of let it go.
Speaker 12 (24:08):
That is so New York, isn't it. We have something great,
we just forget about it. Let it go right now.
Everybody does it right. It's not special anymore. But thank
you so much, Commissioner for bringing that back. She also
was saying that, by the way, during this interview, this
was on Fox Fox Local Fox five, she was also
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talking about that horrible crypto torture chambery in Manhattan and
the fact that an Italian tourist was lured here by
the way. They had already scammed him once and then
they told him they were going to give his money back,
and so he came and he visited and then they
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held him in torture.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Now they have two people, two people that are under arrest.
So both of the people that were involved in this,
and they were both into crypto. So is the guy
they were torturing.
Speaker 15 (25:03):
To be tortured for seventeen days in terms of a
chain saw cutting your leg and chain in terms of
putting your feet in the water and letnch couting them
in terms of making the person just narcotics horrible crime.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
So it's William Duplessi, aged thirty two, who turned himself
in UH and he joins the Joe Waltz, age thirty seven,
who was arrested on Friday. They were renting this luxurious
town home for forty thousand dollars a month, and you'd
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wonder where they were getting their money. Were they just
doing this? Were they scamming people out of crypto all
around the world, because they had done it at least
once before and now they were trying to do it again.
But now they're behind bars, and I'm sure they're going
to be behind bars for a long time. Oh I
say that, but again it's New York. Who knows. Who knows?
Maybe they'll be let out tomorrow when we come back
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President Trump. The book Original Sin is number one on
the New York Times bestsellers list, and he's been talking
about it and it is stunning in its revelations, but
one in particular is jaw dropping. We'll tell you about
it next. So here's the thing I have ranted and
raved about Jake Tapper. What a hypocrite he is, the
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fact that he's now out in front uncovering what went
on at the Biden White House, how they were trying
to keep the fact that, as one of the staffers said,
the president was a zombie that they were protecting because
they just wanted the power and they wanted to win
the next election. And he wasn't important, the man we elected,
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you know, he wasn't important. The only thing that was
important was the agenda and that Donald Trump not win
because they believed he was an existential threat. Remember, I
was killing him is playing some of the things he said,
calling him a hypocrite, saying he's the worst messenger for this.
(27:10):
But he's been through the gauntlet now everybody, everybody has
slammed him, and I will give him credit for this.
He's going he's going on some tough shows. He went
on with Megan Kelly who ripped him and he took it.
So he's not hiding the fact that he was wrong.
As you remember the famous Laura Trump interview where Laura
(27:34):
Trump was saying that there was obvious mental declimb which
everybody saw, and he said, no, it's a stutter, and
he shut her down and he made fun of her,
and then he called He did call her and apologized later,
but he was out in front with a lot of
other people, not only from the White House but in
the media, protecting Joe Biden and hiding the truth from us.
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But the important people to go after are the people
in the White House. And that gets me to this
point that Jake Tapper has run the gauntlet, right, He's
taken all the criticism and he's still standing. And his
book is number one, and everybody I've talked to you
that read the book said it is tremendous. Now it's
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probably mostly Alex Thompson, who is the co author and
he's with Axios, and it sounds like he did a
lot of the heavy lifting, especially in getting people to talk.
And there's I just I'm saying all that to say,
I'm going to read the book. I'm going to read
the book because because apparently some of the stuff that
has been uncovered is incredible and to be able to
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fairly cover this story and I think it's going to
be a big story over the next couple of years,
I have to read this book. And this is on
page eighty five. Now, Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper were
on with Pierce Morgan, and he talked about something on
page eighty five that was stunning, as he called it,
jaw dropping.
Speaker 16 (29:03):
A long time Biden aide says he just had to
win and then he could disappear for four years. He'd
only have to show proof of life every once in
a while. That is a kind of jaw dropping line
when when you read it, you can't unread it, because
what they're basically saying is they were prepare to put
(29:25):
a zombie back in the White House who would have
zero ability to do anything but show proof of life,
and that person would be the leader of the free world,
the president of the United States.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Now, Jake Tapper talked about that, and he said he
agreed that it was a stunning moment, but he said
that wasn't that wasn't me. I didn't get him. And he,
by the way, that was one of the few interviews
they had while Biden was still in office and running
for re election. But that was Alex Thompson that got that.
Speaker 17 (29:57):
What was also sort of shocking that you can't get
on the p age is honestly, how casually this person
said it as if it was They were not speaking
of it as if this was like a profound statement.
It was just like, well, obviously, you know we are
we just when you elect a president, you're electing the
people around him, even if they are unelected or not
Senate confirmed.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Right. The thing was was winning keeping their jobs. They
didn't care that the country was in ruin. We had
two wars, we had open borders, we had high crime,
we had record high inflation, we had gas prices that
were higher than they ever were before, the highest gas
prices in history. They didn't care. They wanted to hold
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on to power no matter how it hurt the country.
And the question is who was in charge. Jake Tapper,
by the way, in the interview and where have you
heard this before. I've been saying this for a couple
of years that it was a bigger scandal than Watergate,
and so it has to be investigated. So now, with
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all this pressure, and I'm gonna start by the way
I downloaded the book, I'm gonna start listening to it
in the ride home today.
Speaker 16 (31:06):
With all this.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Pressure, there has to be an investigation and people have
to be outed for this. This can never ever happen again. Well,
President Trump cuts off three billion dollars in federal funds
to Harvard. He's saying Harvard is very antisemitic. We'll find
(31:27):
out what high profile defense attorney Jeffrey Lickman thinks about that,
coming up after the seven o'clock News
Good morning. Tell you halfway through the week, it's a
short week. It's gonna feel weird come Friday because it's
such a short week. In the Big Three, we start
off with I guess some good news, although the story
is just awful. The NYPD has been able to get
one of their men who jumped, beat, and stomped on
(00:23):
an NYPD officer who was just going home from work
over the weekend in the bronx Us Marshalls caught him
in Virginia and when he gets back to the city
has special cuffs waiting for him. As Mayor Adams promise yesterday,
we will find a person responsible.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And when we do, we're gonna put that office's.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Cuffs on him. Another suspect in the attack is still
on the loose. The other suspect is supposed to be
the father of the man who was caught in Virginia.
Like fatherlike son. Will have much more on this in
just a moment. In Waterbury, Connecticut, at a mass shooting
at the Brass Mill Center Mall in Waterbury.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
There are several victims suffering from gunshot wounds. They were
all transported to local hospitals. Currently they're being worked on
and receiving medical treatment, and there are no fatalities at this.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Time, and still no fatalities. All five are still recovering.
Donald Trump calls Russian President Putin crazy and warns that
he is playing with fire by continuing strikes on Ukraine
in the middle of ceasefire talks. And I'm not happy
with what Putin's doing.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
He's killing a lot of people, and I don't know
what the hell happened to bouton. I've known him a
long time, always gotten along with him, but he's sending
rockets into cities and killing people, and I don't like
it at all.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Okay, something's gonna happen here. Another day, another judge blocks
the Trump administration from trying to stop the cash grab
with the euphemism congestion pricing.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
These attacks on congestion pricing are New York's sovereignty. New
York has the right to govern itself, to implement policies
that improve the lives of its residents, and to make
decisions that benefit our infrastructure and our economy.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
We look at that. Somebody woke Jerry Nadler up. I
haven't heard from him for a long long time. In
the p Diddy trial, more and more observers believe that
Sean Diddy Combs is going to be found not guilty
of the federal charges against him.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
You're hearing about all this domestic violence, but at all
that has nothing to do with what Diddy is charged with.
There's a possibility, and I'm saying a very strong possibility
right now, that Diddy could walk, that he could be
spending for the July at home having a barbecue.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, a lot of criminal defense attorneys and prosecutors are
now saying that. And the first person I know of
it said that was Jeffrey Lichtmann right on our air
on WR and he's coming up at seven oh five.
The FBI, how about this, is reopening the investigation into
who brought cocaine into the Biden White House.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Smuggling any kind of foreign substance into the White House
is of concern. It could be rice, and it could
be anthrax, It could be anything, could be a weapon.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Why do I think Hunter Biden is a little bit
more nervous today? He thought everything was over And now this,
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Natalie's back, Hello, how are you.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
I'm doing all right?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
You were not feeling well?
Speaker 7 (03:53):
I was not.
Speaker 8 (03:54):
I got hit with I don't know, some crazy I
would say ten day virus that and just threw me.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
And you still have it today a little bit.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
Yeah, well just raspy. It was my raspy voice.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Oh that's gonna be fun. Yeah, right, Could you wear
a mask?
Speaker 6 (04:13):
You know what?
Speaker 7 (04:15):
No one in my house has gotten it. I was
the only one.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Really.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Did you get tested? Was it COVID?
Speaker 9 (04:23):
No?
Speaker 8 (04:23):
I tested, yeah, yeah, I always test. No, wow, no,
And I was just crazy. It was all congestion.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
It only attacks Natalie. It's just it's a Natalie virus.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
No, my wife got I told you before said think
you're the carrier. Might be true. Maybe I should have
a mask.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
So thank you for Chris for you know, I can't
talk too much. I'm gonna stop now.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Is that right?
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Yep?
Speaker 8 (04:52):
So to yours, Larry.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Well, believe me, I'm used to it because Chris doesn't
talk at all.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
As the morning goes on, it gets better.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
So listen to the raspy voice now because it'll go away.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, we tried to get Chris to talk. He's just
he's not a talker, not good for talk radio. But
he's a great he's a great guy and he did
a great job. I'm just teasing him. We teased him
a little bit yesterday as well. So this is tremendous news.
Tremendous news after a horrible, horrible incident over the weekend.
(05:26):
I don't know if you've seen the video, and if
you haven't, don't go watch it. It's hard to watch.
Of this NYPD officer whose name is not being released
for obvious reasons. It is just walking home from work
and these two people sneak up on him and sucker
punch him. He's out, he's laying there out and then
(05:47):
they're going through. They took his gun, they took his wallet,
and then before they left, one of them just stomped
on his face really hard, just stomped on his face,
broke his eye socket, broke his cheekbone. He had to
go through surgery yesterday. It was a horrible, horrible crime,
(06:08):
and you think to yourself, what is happening? Like, why
is why are people like that? Look, I get people
are in bad situations, they need money, they do desperate things.
That doesn't forgive going after somebody. But he was on
the ground and out and they stomped on his face.
(06:31):
You think to yourself, Oh my god, what is happening
to society? And I'm sure we're gonna find out. And
they just caught one of the guys. Listen to this.
Twenty three year old Tavon Hargrove was caught by US
marshals in Virginia that if you go you attack a
cop like that, you got the whole nation after you.
(06:53):
There's nowhere to hide, There's nowhere to hide. They got
you quickly. And man, he's back now or of a
big welcoming by the police. He's a pariah. He'll be
a pariah in the jail, in the prison system if
he goes to prison. I'm sure we're gonna see that
he was in and out of prison several times, that
(07:14):
he was arrested several times. I'm sure we're gonna find
that by the way. The other suspect is his father.
His name is Trayvon Hargrove. His father is the other suspect.
So like father lake son twenty three and fifty three,
there you go. There's a nice father son outing going
out to attack a police officer, and you just know,
(07:38):
you just know already we're going to find out that
both of them have been arrested several times. You know
it's gonna happen. And this is worse things than this
has happened. But this is all caught on video. We've
had people murdered and raped by people who've been put
out let out of prison time and time and time again,
(08:02):
or we're up for parole and they can't give them
parol right now. So now they're out on the street
and they're attacking, and they're attacking, and they're attacking, and
then we raise our hands up and we get more
police offers. We try to do everything we possibly can
to stop this, but you can't stop it if there's
no punishment. Now, I'm sure these two are gonna be punished,
(08:23):
but how many other victims did they have before this?
I'm sure we're gonna find that out. There's no way
that a father and son who teamed up together to
go after a police officer, that they have never done
anything before. I can promise you. They were in front
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of a judge. The judge said, all right, you know,
come back to court, and they didn't show up because
it is getting predictable. Now that's the city we live
in where nobody is safe because of this. The police
do a wonderful job. I'm not blaming them. They keep
making arrest. In the next segment, we're going to talk
(09:06):
about how safe this last weekend is because they had
so many officers out. And this commissioner, by the way,
Jessica Tish, is wonderful, but she's complaining about it too.
She's saying, allbody's got to do something. This isn't our fault,
this is your fault, and for some reason they keep
(09:29):
ignoring it and there has to be an incident like
this one. If you watch this video like this one,
that is a wake up call. You keep waiting for
it and it never seems to happen because they have
they don't live in New York City. The people in Obany,
most of them don't. They don't care. Maybe this will
(09:51):
get him to care. We can only hope. Oh Man.
Coming up next, one of rock's great guitarists who had
a top ten hit, had a number one song, has died.
We'll play his songs and talk about Rick Deringer. Plus
we got tickets to see Cindy Lauper at A twenty five.
(10:12):
Thanks so much for your talk, Maats. As I always say,
you stimulate conversation and you make the show so much better.
If you want to leave a talkback, go to seven
to ten WOOR on the iHeartRadio app and look for
the talkback feature. Hit the microphone, and then you're on
the air. And this person wants to talk about the
police officer that was attacked over the weekend.
Speaker 10 (10:32):
Good morning, Larry. I guarantee you that this was revenge
that they gave to the officer, just by the end
of them stomping on his face after they had him
out cold. I do believe that this was revenge. I
guarantee you it'll come out.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Well, we're gonna find out. Look, no matter what happened,
it was just horrific. It was just awful, and I
hope these people are put away for the rest of
their lives. Somebody else wants to talk about Curtis Leewa.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Curtis can become made of New York City, but he
needs to get rid of the red beret. Doesn't mean
he's soft on crime. It's one thing to talk about it.
Another thing is to show it. He needs to progressives
and they're afraid of the red beret. But if he
talks about crime being strong as good, but he won't
(11:27):
be as extreme in other areas such as health and education.
He still talk about it, just doesn't have to show it.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah, Well, the red beret, that's never going to go away.
Although I was I'm interested to see, you know, because
the last time we had him here, he didn't wear
the red beret, and he sometimes doesn't happen on I mean,
he has it usually when he's out there as part
of the you know, of the Guardian Angels. But I
(11:57):
am no I think the red beret think. I think
that's a symbol of what he is and what he
means and what he does. I would I would never
get rid of that. One. Last one on congestion pricing.
Speaker 9 (12:09):
Hey, Larry Meanty Bill and New Jersey congestion pricing and
cars are like cigarettes and tobacco. Cigarettes and tobacco will
never be completely banned. There's still way too much tax
revenue in them, so the federal government will never ban them.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Similarly, if New York was serious.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
About congestion pricing, they would just ban cars, not trucks,
cars coming into New York City.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
But they won't do that. There's much too much money
to be made. Yeah, they don't want to bann cars
because the rich people. That's the whole thing was to
allow the roads to be clear for the rich people
that can afford congestion pricing. Everybody else, the peons need
to take public transit. So they're not going to ban cars.
Certain cars are fine. The limos are fine, you know,
(12:55):
the cars to pick up people and take them to
the theater and take them out to dinner. They're fine.
They just don't want, you know, the Elantra out there.
They don't want the Hyundai's out there, they right.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
The people who work in you know, bodegas, and your
nurses and.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah yeah, construction workers, yes, and cops and firefighters radio,
yeah exactly us specifically, Thanks so much for your talkbacks.
Please keep them coming now. I always like this guy.
I don't know why. There's Rick Derringer. He kind of
(13:32):
symbolized the nineteen seventies rock and roll, right. I mean,
there was something about him that just was a rock
musician from the seventies. First of all, he was a
tremendous guitarist. And I didn't know this until I read
his obituary. And by the way, Rick Deringer died yesterday,
(13:56):
he had been suffering from some ailments for a long time.
And uh, but he was a household name if you remember,
for a little bit, just for the shortest time. But
I didn't know. They had a hit back in the
back in the sixties, and everybody knows the song with
hang on sloopy stupid.
Speaker 11 (14:20):
Don't you know sloopy?
Speaker 10 (14:32):
That's a lesson?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Are you laughing about?
Speaker 7 (14:38):
If someone named me sloopy? I would have killed them
right out of the wound.
Speaker 8 (14:43):
But how many people you think the word was snoopy?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I did, I did until untill just yesterday when I
was listening to it. I wait a second, sloopy.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
Snoopy is so much better.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I could have made sense snoopy. It made sense. Who's
name sloopy?
Speaker 12 (15:03):
By the way, That's why I was laughing, because now
I can never listen to that song again.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
We think it snoopy.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I know we have to get them to news, but
I want to play his other very famous song. Now,
let's get the news at six point thirty with Jacqueline
Carl Jacqueline Good Morning.
Speaker 13 (15:18):
The Trump administration is reportedly putting student visa interviews on hold.
Politico reports the decision comes as the administration considers requiring
foreign students to undergo social media screening. Details about what
the possible social media vetting with screen for were not provided,
and Governor Kathy Hokeel is reacting to a federal judge
(15:39):
issuing a temporary restraining order that keeps congestion pricing in
place for now.
Speaker 14 (15:44):
Hokel released his statement saying we've won again. She says
the toro that blocks the US Transportation Department from stripping
the MTA of federal funding because the tolling cameras aren't
turned off, it's a mess of victory. She says, New
Yorkers have a right to control their own traffic patterns,
fight gridlock, and protect clean air. Once again, Hockel is
(16:05):
symphasizing that congestion pricing is legal, it's working, and that
the cameras will stay on. Sarah Lee Kessler wor News.
Speaker 13 (16:15):
All right, so this neighborhood in Cape Coral, Florida is
being terrorized by a duck, which, by the way, or
no joke. If you've ever been chased by a duck
or a goose, as I have, you would know this.
According to Fox four, Now, the culprit is a muscovie duck,
which is reported to be overly aggressive and has attacked
several people, even sending one person to the hospital. The
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Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission has deemed the muscovy duck
a protected species, but there are exceptions. This particular duck
is normally found in Texas, not in Florida, and plans
are now said to be in the works on how
to have it humanely removed before it's able to cause
more problems for the intimidated human population. Now, I'm sure
this duck is out on its own, kind of like
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been through some stuff. I feel like it has trauma.
I feel like it has its reasons trauma.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
I really did.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Where was this again?
Speaker 7 (17:08):
What did you say in Cape Coral, Florida. Oh, it's
supposed to be in Texas.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Ducks are good eating.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Oh this is a protected species.
Speaker 9 (17:18):
Let's go.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
Yeah, they're not giving that ducks.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Some people maybe an accident.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Oh man, you're dark.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Well you don't eat duck.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
I really, I know. I've had peking duck.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
It's delicious, delicious. You can't eat these animals and then
go afterwards. Oh ah, you have to feel sorry for them. No,
you eat them.
Speaker 13 (17:44):
They're just trying to live, Larry, and this duck is
on its own. It's it's somehow supposed to be in
Texas and it's probably fighting for its life. I feel
bad for anybody that was attacked, especially the person in
the hospital.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
But like people think like.
Speaker 13 (17:57):
Ducks, they're so cute and goose and gear east and
I'm telling you they can be very protective and they
can chase you down.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I know why it left Texas. Everybody's got a gun
in Texas. Florida's not that much better.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Well, anyway, I've named him Floppy.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Floppy, how about Sloopy? No, you have a song would make.
Speaker 13 (18:24):
Him feel better, try to make him less scary. So
I'm like, come here, Floppy.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Okay, well we need a Floppy update. Let us know
in a couple of days, tell us what's going on.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Stay on it.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Thank you, Thanks Jacqueline carl I'll have about some good news.
The Memorial Day weekend crime in the city was the
lowest in history, and the commissioner is beaming about it
because she believes it portends a low crime summer. We'll
hear from the commissioner next. And you want to add
to the conversation, just leave us a talk back. Go
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day to our favorite talkback of the morning. Well, Natalie
just got a couple of interesting phone calls. Thanks a
(19:17):
lot for your phone calls. By the way, eight hundred
three to two one zero seven ten. Eight hundred three
to two one zero seven ten is the number to reach.
If somebody called and said the Rick Derringer song Sloopy,
Sloopy in the Islands. I guess Jamaica in the Islands
is slang for a woman. It's a horrible term.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
I would want to be called, Hey, sloopy.
Speaker 13 (19:39):
I don't like it, but yeah, A lot of rappers
call women shorty, Like, why can't we get a better name?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Well, women are shorter, I don't that's why. That's the
only reason it's got to be right. Why else would
you do that?
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Well, does sloopy means shorter in the Caribbean?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
No, I don't know what that means. I have no
idea what sloopy means. She got another phone call saying
that they loved her raspy voice. Yeah, like Kathleen Turner, Lauren.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Vicall, Yeah, I just came up bost games fast.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah, I was thinking about it during the break. Jannis Joplin,
can you sing me? Come on just one verse.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
If you want to keep.
Speaker 12 (20:20):
Your listeners never So here's the good news.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
And and you know what, we've been longing for good
news for some time now, and this comes from Jessica Tish,
the police commissioner, who I love, by the way. I
just think she's wonderful. And you know, she doesn't have
to work. She'dn't have to work all her life, but
here she is in public service and doing an incredible
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job as police commissioner. And she was able to teut this.
Speaker 11 (20:51):
We had the safest Memorial Day weekend in terms of
gun violence at New York City has ever seen. And
the men and women of the N one IPD we're
out there in full force this weekend, working shifts in
the hours. We know the violence usually occurs evenings, overnight
and into the early morning.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Now, remember her background before she got this job as
police commissioner. You know, she was sanitation right there, she
was Sanitation commissioner. But before that, before that, she was
with the Police Department doing data based crime fighting. She
was in the terrorism unit looking at data and looking
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constantly at data. And she's brought that to the commissioner's job.
This is all data based. This is finding out where
the crime is and flooding that zone. But it's a
little bit more difficult that And this all started, if
you remember, with comstat with Bratton, and he was extremely
successful as complete police commissioner. I don't know where we
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got away from this, but there are people in the
police Department. We even have a commissioner with that name
of the data driven Commissioner that all this is all
they do is look at crime statistics and try to
react to it. And she said what they did Memorial
Day weekend is going to happen all summer.
Speaker 11 (22:13):
So as part of our summer violence reduction plan, which
started on May fifth, we have flooded the areas in
the city known for gun violence with cops. So we
have more cops out there than ever before, fifteen hundred
additional cops this summer. And we were also very precise
about the locations where we deployed our cops, looking at
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historical data about where the gun violence has occurred. And
I am very pleased that since May fifth, when this
plan started, shootings in those zones are down almost sixty percent.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Sixty percent. That these are incredible crime stats, and it
makes you wonder why we weren't just doing this all along.
I just don't understand.
Speaker 11 (23:00):
We shift our deployments based on where we're seeing pockets
of violence and pockets of problems, and so given the
results we've had over the first few weeks of this
program and especially this weekend, we think that for this
first go, we picked the locations correctly.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
I mean, it makes total sense. It's supply chain companies
do it all the time.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
No, I get it, I get it, But why did
we stop? I mean, it seems like we weren't doing
this over the last few years. I for the life
of me, I can't understand why they.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
Get Breton back on.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yeah, we sure.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
I'm going to reach out to him because I want
to know that too. That's really really interesting.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
No, he was amazing. That comstat was amazing. I remember,
you know, you had Timody here as well, and Timmody
came down to Philly and I got a chance to
interview him. I got a chance to know him, actually,
and he gives all the credit to Breton for coming
up with comstat. And and it was used around the
country constantly. It was used everywhere. I mean, everybody copied
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what New York was doing, except apparently New York. New
York kind of let it go.
Speaker 12 (24:08):
That is so New York, isn't it. We have something great,
we just forget about it. Let it go right now.
Everybody does it right. It's not special anymore. But thank
you so much, Commissioner for bringing that back. She also
was saying that, by the way, during this interview, this
was on Fox Fox Local Fox five, she was also
(24:30):
talking about that horrible crypto torture chambery in Manhattan and
the fact that an Italian tourist was lured here by
the way. They had already scammed him once and then
they told him they were going to give his money back,
and so he came and he visited and then they
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held him in torture.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Now they have two people, two people that are under arrest.
So both of the people that were involved in this,
and they were both into crypto. So is the guy
they were torturing.
Speaker 15 (25:03):
To be tortured for seventeen days in terms of a
chain saw cutting your leg and chain in terms of
putting your feet in the water and letnch couting them
in terms of making the person just narcotics horrible crime.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
So it's William Duplessi, aged thirty two, who turned himself
in UH and he joins the Joe Waltz, age thirty seven,
who was arrested on Friday. They were renting this luxurious
town home for forty thousand dollars a month, and you'd
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wonder where they were getting their money. Were they just
doing this? Were they scamming people out of crypto all
around the world, because they had done it at least
once before and now they were trying to do it again.
But now they're behind bars, and I'm sure they're going
to be behind bars for a long time. Oh I
say that, but again it's New York. Who knows. Who knows?
Maybe they'll be let out tomorrow when we come back
(26:01):
President Trump. The book Original Sin is number one on
the New York Times bestsellers list, and he's been talking
about it and it is stunning in its revelations, but
one in particular is jaw dropping. We'll tell you about
it next. So here's the thing I have ranted and
raved about Jake Tapper. What a hypocrite he is, the
(26:24):
fact that he's now out in front uncovering what went
on at the Biden White House, how they were trying
to keep the fact that, as one of the staffers said,
the president was a zombie that they were protecting because
they just wanted the power and they wanted to win
the next election. And he wasn't important, the man we elected,
(26:47):
you know, he wasn't important. The only thing that was
important was the agenda and that Donald Trump not win
because they believed he was an existential threat. Remember, I
was killing him is playing some of the things he said,
calling him a hypocrite, saying he's the worst messenger for this.
(27:10):
But he's been through the gauntlet now everybody, everybody has
slammed him, and I will give him credit for this.
He's going he's going on some tough shows. He went
on with Megan Kelly who ripped him and he took it.
So he's not hiding the fact that he was wrong.
As you remember the famous Laura Trump interview where Laura
(27:34):
Trump was saying that there was obvious mental declimb which
everybody saw, and he said, no, it's a stutter, and
he shut her down and he made fun of her,
and then he called He did call her and apologized later,
but he was out in front with a lot of
other people, not only from the White House but in
the media, protecting Joe Biden and hiding the truth from us.
(28:01):
But the important people to go after are the people
in the White House. And that gets me to this
point that Jake Tapper has run the gauntlet, right, He's
taken all the criticism and he's still standing. And his
book is number one, and everybody I've talked to you
that read the book said it is tremendous. Now it's
(28:22):
probably mostly Alex Thompson, who is the co author and
he's with Axios, and it sounds like he did a
lot of the heavy lifting, especially in getting people to talk.
And there's I just I'm saying all that to say,
I'm going to read the book. I'm going to read
the book because because apparently some of the stuff that
has been uncovered is incredible and to be able to
(28:43):
fairly cover this story and I think it's going to
be a big story over the next couple of years,
I have to read this book. And this is on
page eighty five. Now, Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper were
on with Pierce Morgan, and he talked about something on
page eighty five that was stunning, as he called it,
jaw dropping.
Speaker 16 (29:03):
A long time Biden aide says he just had to
win and then he could disappear for four years. He'd
only have to show proof of life every once in
a while. That is a kind of jaw dropping line
when when you read it, you can't unread it, because
what they're basically saying is they were prepare to put
(29:25):
a zombie back in the White House who would have
zero ability to do anything but show proof of life,
and that person would be the leader of the free world,
the president of the United States.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Now, Jake Tapper talked about that, and he said he
agreed that it was a stunning moment, but he said
that wasn't that wasn't me. I didn't get him. And he,
by the way, that was one of the few interviews
they had while Biden was still in office and running
for re election. But that was Alex Thompson that got that.
Speaker 17 (29:57):
What was also sort of shocking that you can't get
on the p age is honestly, how casually this person
said it as if it was They were not speaking
of it as if this was like a profound statement.
It was just like, well, obviously, you know we are
we just when you elect a president, you're electing the
people around him, even if they are unelected or not
Senate confirmed.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Right. The thing was was winning keeping their jobs. They
didn't care that the country was in ruin. We had
two wars, we had open borders, we had high crime,
we had record high inflation, we had gas prices that
were higher than they ever were before, the highest gas
prices in history. They didn't care. They wanted to hold
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on to power no matter how it hurt the country.
And the question is who was in charge. Jake Tapper,
by the way, in the interview and where have you
heard this before. I've been saying this for a couple
of years that it was a bigger scandal than Watergate,
and so it has to be investigated. So now, with
(30:59):
all this pressure, and I'm gonna start by the way
I downloaded the book, I'm gonna start listening to it
in the ride home today.
Speaker 16 (31:06):
With all this.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Pressure, there has to be an investigation and people have
to be outed for this. This can never ever happen again. Well,
President Trump cuts off three billion dollars in federal funds
to Harvard. He's saying Harvard is very antisemitic. We'll find
(31:27):
out what high profile defense attorney Jeffrey Lickman thinks about that,
coming up after the seven o'clock News
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