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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning to you. Wow, a lot happening. A lot
happened overnight. The charges against Newark Mayor Ros Baraka for
trust passing at a Newark ice facility, they've been dropped.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I think that was the right thing to do for
I'm gonna drop the charges. Obviously.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Uh we agreed to move forward, but ultimately I didn't
do anything wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
There was no charges that should be brought against me in.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
The first place. But charge last night is Newerk Congresswoman
Lamonica mcgiver for assaulting a federal officer in that big
melee outside the ice facility. We'll have more on this
than just one second. The Jersey Transit trains are running
again today after a three day strike and then of
course yesterday's day off that screwed over riders for seemingly
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no reason.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Now I'm gonna have to take an uber to get here,
take the path train, wait for the one or two
trains to get back to uptown. So that's gonna take
more time.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And more money. I know that they needed to check
the tracks and the train, but why weren't they doing
that already? The engineers were on strike, not everybody else
at Jersey Transit. They could have figured this out. The
investigation continues into the tall ship that crashed into the
Brooklyn Bridge over the weekend. It was supposed to be
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going out to see and nowhere near the bridge.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
What appears to have happened is instead of the engine
going forward, it went in reverse or stern and that
could be a result of a mechanical issue, it could
be human error.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
We just don't know. Even at this early stage, it
seems clear that the Mexican Navy assume the best and
didn't plan for the worst, and the worst happened. And
after an over two hour phone call with Russian President Putin,
Donald Trump wants to take the Pope up on his
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offer and have peace talks at the Vatican.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Having it at the Vatican would be in Rome, would
be a very big, great idea.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
In the meantime, JD. Vance delivers an invitation to Pope
Leo to visit the White House. JD. Vance and Marco
Rubio were at the Vatican just yesterday. Wow, so much
has happened after what was it two weeks ago, all
of that chaos outside of the ice facility in New Jersey.
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I'll tell you what a lot of pushing and shoving
and hitting. There was some hitting. Now only one person
was arrested, and that person, of course, is the mayor
of Newark, Ros Baraka, And yesterday late in the day,
charges against him were dropped. And now he and the
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US attorney Alena Habber are like besties. Alena Habba is
saying to him, I'll give you a personal tour of
the ice facility. You know, I'm not even sure what happened,
but he definitely trust passed. But I will say this,
he wasn't like everybody else he just heard in that audio.
He wasn't yelling and screaming, and he was doing what
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he was asked to do. He'd go on the other
side of the fence they had come back if he
was told you got to get over there. But he
did go back a couple of times, and so he
did trust pass. But I guess Alena Habba said, look,
I just want to get this over with and he
didn't hurt anybody, so that's fine. They dropped the charges,
and you know, ros Baraka of course is happy about that.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I think that was the right thing to do for
him to drop the charges.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Obviously, we agreed to move forward, but ultimately I didn't
do anything wrong. There was no charges that should be
brought against me in the first place. Well that's not true.
You did trespass. But that's okay. I mean, I get it.
I understand in the moment they wanted you arrest ed,
after looking at the video and deciding that have to
go all through these charges, you'd probably just get a
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slap on the hand anyway, that the whole thing wasn't
worth it. However, what does seem to be worth it
is going after Newerk Congresswoman La Monica macguiver.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Now, I'm not sure you saw the video of what
happened after that. After they went after Rosparaka, they all
encircled him. There's even a guy yelling circle the mayor,
circle the mayor so they can't get him. And they
all go and they have this human shield around them,
and the ice officers start talking to the mayor and
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say this is silly, and you know, they're trying to
pull him out. And La Monica mcguiver, she is a
brand new congresswoman in Newark who is replacing Donald Payne,
who was there forever a guy that I've got to
know and I really liked, who died he always had
medical problems, including type two diabetes where he'd have to
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get blood transplants and stuff transfers and things like that.
But mcguiver was pushing and she even hit at an officer,
and so they said they might charge her. They said
all along they might charge her, and then they ended
up doing it. They ended up bringing, you know, charge
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charges of assaulting a federal officer is a pretty hefty charge.
And so you know, Barack ross Baraka says, take a
look at the video. Take a look at the video.
It's not that bad, Mayor. I've looked at the video.
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I mean, did she hurt the officer?
Speaker 6 (05:40):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
But are you supposed to hit an officer? Are you
supposed to shove an officer?
Speaker 6 (05:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You can be charged for that. But he says, he
keeps saying, you look at the video, look at the video,
and I.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Think the video will play itself out with see the
entire video. When the case comes and people look at
the video, they'll see what happened. Right now, people are
speaking about a small segment of a video that they've
seen that are being played over and over and over
again on repeat.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, but I don't care what else you have I mean,
maybe there's other video out there where you can't see everything,
but I don't care what else you have. Isn't the
only thing that's relevant is the part of the video
where she hits an officer and she pushes an officer.
Isn't that the only relevant part? Does it matter what
else you have? Though I have to see your home
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videos too, it doesn't matter. That's what she can be
charged with. Here's what's really fascinating. And this flew under
the radar on Friday, by the way, the Washington Post
reported it. The Justice Department was considering at that point,
and I wonder if they did changing its policy, so
if you indict a member of Congress, you can do
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it without approval from lawyers in the public Public Integrity section.
So this public Integrity section was set up so that
a president an administration couldn't go after political foes, or
if they did, it had to be substantial charges. And
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so I'm not sure that was Friday they talked about
considering doing that. I'm not sure a if they went
through the Public Integrity Section of the Justice Department to
make this arrest, or if the Public Integrity Section is
now no more, and that led to this arrest. But
it's an interesting part of the story. And I'm not
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sure if you've seen La Monica mcgiver. There isn't a protest.
She doesn't love Donald.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
Trump, that he is a dictator. Well, we are going
to prove him wrong. I came here into.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Congress in September and I want Donald Trump to know
that this Jersey girl needs business.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Right. Well, that was a protest against Doege. She was
at every single one of them, and every single one
of the protests in Newark she was She was a
counselwoman before, she was at every one of those. So
here's the thing. This works out for everybody. Everybody is
gonna win in this situation. She's not gonna go to
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trial and she's not gonna go to jail. I don't
think so. Maybe she'll spend a day in jail, but
that helps her too. Her brand is being a rabble rouser.
Her brand is going against Trump. So if Trump goes
after her and Trump the Trump administration, the Justice Department
under Donald Trump, charges her, that helps her brand. This
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is a win for her. Ros Baraka he wasn't making
any headway in the gubernatorial race. He's running in the primary.
All of a sudden, everybody knows his name. This is
a win for him. Alena Habba gets to look tough
as the US attorney, the brand new US attorney in
New Jersey. This is a win for her, win, win,
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win win. It is almost like political theater. It was
almost set up for this exact consequence, for this ending,
and it's gonna end. I mean, I don't think anything's
going to happen after this except for you know this,
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all this chaos at the moment. But believe me, every
one of them is happy tonight. Do Americans love the
New York accent? Not so much. Not so much. That's
according to a new poll. We're gonna be talking a
lot about that coming up. I think that's a fascinating story,
to tell you the truth.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
What accent?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yeah, no, you grew up in Staten Island. I did,
so you definitely have one. I love you had one.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
Well it comes out.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
There's all these stories about the accent going away.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
You know what I remember as a kid, and there
are some funny videos of kids from the seventies, eighties, yeah,
with thick accents, and I was one of them.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Because I've heard tapes of myself.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
We don't want to talk too much about this right
now because we're going to talk about this. Yeah, in
the next segment. Let me wrap this up and then
I'll get back to that. So so watch over the
next few days. You're gonna see Ma guy for grandstand
on this. You're gonna see ros Baraka grandstand on this,
You're gonna see Alna Hobber grand stand on this. As
I said, this is a win for everyone, So don't
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feel bad. Just sit back, watch and eat your popcorn.
So we'll talk about that New York accent coming up,
and plus tickets to see the Brotherhood of Rock tour
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Speaker 7 (11:19):
I love the Superman reference.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yeah, yeah, no, wouldn't that be great? I agree because somebody,
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The button shirt. Yeah faint.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
It's just crazy, huge moment for you and the and
the only thing you have to do to enter is
to leave a talkback. You go to seven to ten
wo R on the talkback on the iHeart app and
you hit the talkback feature, which then you'll get a
microphone and you record it. And after that that we
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put you on the air. And if you have a
New York accent, that's even better because the New York accents.
I don't know if you've heard, the New York accent
seems to be going away. It's fading away.
Speaker 9 (12:13):
Oh we can bring them back so easy. It's all
a little coffee with talk. It comes right back.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
That was pretty good. I think I think if you
go to Natalie, if she goes back to her youth,
Oh yeah, she's got She's got a great one.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
Staten Island roots. It's hard. It's hard to.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Bring it back, Jacqueline.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Just did I know? It's so romantic? People love it.
Come on, OK, I gotta try. There's people who could do.
It's so much better. But leave us a talk back.
You will not still have your good old Staten Island as.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Don't deflect, you will not be judged. You did it
just a second ago.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
No, it's hard. It's hard. It took so many years
for me to get rid of it right right, right.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And you can't do it on demand. You just did
it a second ago.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
Not as well as I'd liked your premium price. She
can do on And I think I'm doing it justice.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
I feel like I'm making a mockery of it when
I put it on.
Speaker 7 (13:14):
I get that. I get that.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Can we be the judge of that? Let us be
the judge of that. If you're making a mockery, this
is really interesting that you don't want to do it.
You've left your past too. This is like a band
childhood memory for you.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
No, because I didn't know I had it when I
was a kid. It was just there.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
It wasn't until I got to college where people were
making fun of me that I realized I had it.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Oh really, is that what did it for you?
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (13:43):
I had an oral comm teacher my freshman year at
Seaton Hall Goes. I was a really confident public speaker.
I never had the fear, you know, the whole thing.
I got up and I.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Did my speech. I was like, Oh, that was easy.
Nasal must be from New York.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
They're like, oh, okay, and you know, from then on,
I was like, I guess I have to figure that out.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
I was a communication major. Obviously, your confidence, like any
good professor, right, Yeah, did me a favor.
Speaker 10 (14:11):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
I knew.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
I know what you're saying.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
I knew I had to work on that if I
wanted to go into broadcasting around and now you're.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
At the point where you're so embarrassed of your roots,
you won't bring.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Back brings up her roots.
Speaker 9 (14:24):
It's just that I get what she's saying was she
doesn't want to make a mockery of it because the
way I just spoke.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
I've never spoken like that in my life.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I've just heard stuff like that.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
You see, now she's a New Yorker, but she was
from a different part of New York.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Right, Well, all New Yorkers are trying You're not in
the minority. All New Yorkers are trying to lose their accent,
according to a new study.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
I think it's just happening. I don't even know if
we're trying to lose it. I think it's just fading away.
I mean, I grew up. My family was from Brooklyn,
and believe me that the accent was fierce.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Well there's some people that hold on to it. You've
been you've been in a cab or you've been in
a deli and you've talked to somebody, and do you hear.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
The Archie Bunker accent anymore? You know that Queen's accent.
It just doesn't Nanny Grand. But we have Natalie Migliroy
out there this morning, so I'm hoping she finds the authentic.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
Maybe she should stand at the Staten Island Ferry.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
Oh there, you got it, that very every morning.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Look at that. She just took a little prodding. It
was really good. That was that was very authentic. That
was extremely authentic. By the way, I understand why you're
losing it because or you've lost it is because there's
a new survey out that said sixty percent of Americans
hate the New York accent.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
Yeah, most people aren't a fan of it.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, and most New Yorkers almost most A plurality, not
a majority, but the plurality of New Yorkers hate the
New York accent.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
I understand it, and I understand it was a ridiculed
it was made fun of.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
I always wanted to be British.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
That's that's another conversation for another day. Although you could
do the news, you could do the entire news in
a British go ahead.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
Only Good morning, New Jersey.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
Trying to trains back in operation today after an engineer's strike,
New Jersey transit crew spent yesterday, much to Larry's chagrin,
on track and safety inspections.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
New York City is gearing up for the thirty seventh
annual Fleet Week.
Speaker 11 (16:44):
Naval and Coastguard ships will travel up the Hudson River
and pass by the Intrepid Museum as part of the
Parade of Ships this Wednesday. Hundreds of servicemen and women
in the Armed forces will man the rails of the
ships as they sail into New York City. The arrival
of ships kick starts in array of activities at the Intrepid,
including interactive displays on Peer eighty six, a free screening
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of Top Gun on the flight deck, and an annual
Memorial Day ceremony. At least five ships that dock in
New York City will be open for the public to
tour throughout Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 9 (17:15):
Natalie MCGLIORI w a war news so I got a
story about a guy who puts his foot in his mouth.
I know it's rare, That's why I'm doing the story.
This guy, Gordon Lyons, who's the Minister of Communications for
Northern Ireland, was speaking at the Impact Players Conference, which
is a sports related female empowerment event in Belfast, and
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according to the BBC and his remarks, lines equipped that
the good looking conference attendees had been seated at the
front of the audience, well grown from the crowd made
it clear that was a bad move, so Glenes quickly
offered up an apology, which seemed to be well received.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Either that or people just wanted to move on. And
I want to know what you guys think. What do
you think Larry Do you think he put his foot
in his mouth? Or was it a very nice thing
to say?
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Was it true?
Speaker 9 (18:08):
Oh god, I mean, don't sit on the bench with gold.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I'm just asking what if it was true? That would
have been unfair.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
The attractive people were put in the front, yes, and
the what was put in the back?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
The the non attractive people were put in the back.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
I wouldn't put it past somebody, see you put the
attractive people in the front. I hate to say it,
but I would. I could believe that a conference organizer
who is shooting video would want whatever the look is,
whatever they're looking for.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
Like whether it's millennia, so they wanted they want to
show that they're that they're but most people don't comment
on it.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
No, maybe he was unfairly maligned. Maybe he was standing
up for the unattractive people and saying they have as
they deserve the set upfront too.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
Did you notice how I ended the story? I said,
what do you think Larry in his mouth? Because I
had the funny feeling Larry might be on the wrong
side of history with this one. I don't know why
I thought he and Gordon might be of like mine.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
I think you were right.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
If they're looking for the millennial crowd for whatever this
conference is, they're.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
Going to put the millennials in the front, right. If
they're looking for attractive ways, what are.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You saying younger people are better looking than older people.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
People know it's for an old person right now, marketing.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
If they want to show that, yes, young people like
our new sports drink, or older people prove of our this,
or that, they'll they'll do what they have to to
make it that way. But I just think old Gordon
was just back in the nineteen fifties with his like thinking.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Unless he was pointing out what was really wrong, that
maybe the attractive people shouldn't be upfront.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Moving the back.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yes, that's right, mix everybody up all right. Yeah, so
good for him, Good for him for standing up for
the unattractive people.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Gravel and apologize.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
But okay, he shouldn't have apologized. See that was just
public pressure. You shouldn't, shouldn't, shouldn't even have publish. I'm saying,
if it was true, what is wrong with speaking the
truth these days? I'm a truth speaker. Until this week,
we had no idea how much the White House was
hiding about Joe Biden. We'll talk about that next and
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So I talked about this yesterday. You know that President Biden.
They put out a statement saying that he has prostate
cancer and it's pretty far along and it has spread
to the bones. You know, you feel awful for him,
you wish him the best. But two things that can
be true. You can have two feelings at once. You
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can say, well, you know, he's older, he's in his eighties,
and hopefully he can have a few more good years
and hopefully he lives on and hopefully he can beat that,
if that is even possible at this stage. But then
you can also be suspicious of why now, why was
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that announcement he made yesterday. He's obviously had this for
a while. I think they deny it. They're going to
try to say no, no, no, this just happened. But
he's obviously had this for a while. He probably had
it when he was president and he didn't want it out.
And we talked about this a lot yesterday, To take
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you the truth, Even when I was saying it yesterday,
because it had just happened, I felt a little bad
about it. I thought, well, you know, the poor guy,
you want to feel bad for him. Should I even
be saying this at this point? Except little did I
know that yesterday it was going to be the topic
of the day. And I know on MSNBC when we
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were on, Joe Scarborough was on for the Morning Joe
and they went on forever about it. They did a
lot of their show on this about Joe Biden because
they love Biden at MSNBC, and Joe Scarborough personally loves
Joe Biden. But I think even he was surprised because
he had Ezeel Ezekeel Emmanuel on, who was a former
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Biden health advisor. And it's not you might be thinking
to yourself, it's ezek Yield. No, it's Ezekeel Emmanuel, former
Biden health advisor. And Scarborough was genuinely surprised by his answer,
oh more than several years. You don't get prostitute.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Answer again, I just want to stop you. So your
this is not speculation. If you have prostate cancer that
has spread to the bone, then he's most certainly you
were saying, had it when he was president of the
United States.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Oh yeah, he did not develop it in the last
one hundred two hundred days. He had it while he
was president. He probably had it at the start of
his presidency. Whoa wait a minute. So they were not
only hiding from us the fact that he had cognitive
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decline and sometimes according to staff members, wasn't there and
it was very difficult to meet with him because they
were hiding the fact that his mental decline was significant
to the point where some of the staffers joked that
he was the zombie and and they were hiding that
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from us. And at the same time they were hiding
that he may have had prostate cancer the entire time.
What else were they hiding from us. This is a
national scandal that you had a man in the office
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that couldn't do the job, that they just had to
prop up every once in a while and pray for
the best so that they could use him to do
what they wanted. The question is who was running the
White House, And I think it was a cabal of
people that were coming up with all of these bizarre,
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woke policies and inflicting them on the American public and
using him as their frontman. You know, shoot him up,
let's get him out there, not too long until he
finally all saw at the debate with Trump who he
was and what everybody was dealing with, and what everybody
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is hiding. But the fact that he had prostate cancer,
probably had prostate cancer maybe for his entire presidency. Shouldn't
the American people know that? Of course they should. And
it makes you wonder, now, what else were they hiding
from us if they were hiding this, Person after person
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after person is not only surprised at this, but said,
there's no way this just happened. They released this yesterday.
The whole reason they released this yesterday was to make
us feel sympathy for him now, the sympathy that they
didn't want before because it hurt them politically. Now they
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want it because it helps them politically.
Speaker 12 (25:52):
I don't believe that they just found out Friday, but
because they're not credible on anything, they've done, and you
highlight it. It's kind of concurrent with this release of
the Hurt tapes, which frankly Congress subpoena did and Merrick
Garland as Attorney General, was in contempt at Congress. He
had no problem holding everybody else accountable for contempt of Congress,
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but he wouldn't even comply with the subpoena.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
So you know, the whole thing was a big cover up.
Speaker 12 (26:17):
And I suspect that this cancer diagnosis is part of
that whole scheme.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
That was Congressman Warren Davidson, by the way, a Republican.
That's a big deal that Merrick Garland wouldn't come forward
with these health records, because it shows you if they
were good like Trump's were. If they were good, everybody
would have seen them. They would have been bragging about them.
They would have had them out there. They could have
done one of those moments where you go, aha, you
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thought this was true, it's not look at this. But
they couldn't do that because he had mental decline and
he also had prostate cancer, and they hid that from
the American public. That is contempt contemptible. It explains so
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much of the problems we had in this country. There
was incompetence through the White House and there was no
leadership and we all suffered from that. This will be
a big story for weeks. In the meantime, let's get
the latest on the investigation into the crash of that
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Mexican tall ship into the Brooklyn Bridge. It now centers
on why the ship was going the wrong way. We
have details next well, that Mexican tall ship is still
in the East River. It's not going to go anywhere
for a long time. The cruise back in Mexico. When
they arrived, there were people waiting for them, They got cheers.
It was very emotional. The video of it. You can
see them all crying as they were there. And they
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have people that are still in the hospital here. Less
are in critical condition right now. The eleven were originally,
they're saying there's two, so that's really great news. But
of course two of the crew members also died in
that horrific, odd crash of the tall ship hitting the
Brooklyn Bridge. But we know a lot more today. As
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I said, the NTSB is here, the National Transportation Safety
Board is here, and they held a mini news conference
yesterday because they can't say a lot. These investigations take
some time, but they had some things they were able
to reveal.
Speaker 10 (28:25):
There is no significant structural damage to the load bearing
elements of the bridge. There is some damage on one
of the travelers which they use to access and survey
the bridge at this point, but nothing structural from the
bridge is an issue at this planet.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Right it's iron versus wood and iron winds every single
time they said that there's something that's underneath. If you
saw it, there was this thing that moves back and forth.
It looked like a part of an erector set. But
that's where people can be in there do work under
the bridge that did suffer some damage. Mayor Adams also
(29:06):
had an update yesterday.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
It was headed out to sea and we don't know
what happened mechanically that caused it to move in the
opposite direction, but from our understanding, it was headed out
to sea, and that is why it's quite possible that
it was a mechanical issue that caused it to drift.
Our tides are extremely strong.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah they don't look like it, but those tides can
really pull a ship, especially a wooden ship. But they're
not even sure exactly now that's what happened. We do
know that the ship was going the wrong way. So
if you're wondering why a ship with that toll of
a mast was trying to make it under the Brooklyn Bridge,
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it never was. It never was supposed to. It was
supposed to head out to sea. It was supposed to
go the other way. And they're trying to figure out that.
It's the big part of the investigation right now, what happened.
And they think there are several factors as to what happened.
So it had just left, it just left the duck.
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And the reason that all those Mexican sailors and sailers
in training were way up there, the cadets were way
up there on the top of the mast. They always
do this when they arrive or they take off. It's
kind of a celebration. They want to put on a show.
This is all training. This is a naval training vessel,
and so they didn't expect to be anywhere near the bridge.
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But it happened very quickly. And I said, there's three
contributing factors, and one of them were those strong tides
the mayor just talked about less than.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Two minutes before the ship actually drove into the bridge,
also pushed by the wind and some high gusts.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Right he talked about the wind. The wind, the gusts
were or sometimes up to thirty thirty five miles per
hour yesterday or Saturday night, and so that's the reason.
That's one of the reasons. The other reason, as I
mentioned in the mayor mentioned was the tide.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Based on video evidence, what we see is a wake
coming from the vessel. You don't get a wake on
a ship that's being pushed by just wind and current.
That indicates that there's some sort of propelling.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Force that seems to be it more than anything else.
For some reason, that ship was going in reverse rather
than going forward, and they put out a distress call.
So yesterday we were talking about why weren't their tugs there.
There were. There was a tug that was escorting it,
but it was on the other side of the ship.
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It was going. It was trying to go out the
other way and it had to turn around. But the
whole thing took two minutes. The distress call didn't go
out until forty five seconds before it hit. So it
was a number of issues. It was strong tides that
were pulling it toward the bridge. It was wins that
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were pushing it toward the bridge, and they believe there
was a mechanical failure, so it didn't go forward. It
went in reverse and it pushed it into there. And
that was really fascinating what he talked about about. That,
by the way, is a professor of maritime history is
named sal Mercleiano. You'll see him on TV A Loti's
(32:32):
from Campbell University in South Carolina. So we hope and
pray that the people still in the hospital from Mexico
are okay. Donald Trump, by the way, that was a
big deal, had a two hour talk with Putins. So
what are the real prospects for the end to the
war in Ukraine? We'll ask White House correspondent John Decker.
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He's coming up right after the seven o'clock news
Good morning to you. Wow, a lot happening. A lot
happened overnight. The charges against Newark Mayor Ros Baraka for
trust passing at a Newark ice facility, they've been dropped.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I think that was the right thing to do for
I'm gonna drop the charges. Obviously.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Uh we agreed to move forward, but ultimately I didn't
do anything wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
There was no charges that should be brought against me in.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
The first place. But charge last night is Newerk Congresswoman
Lamonica mcgiver for assaulting a federal officer in that big
melee outside the ice facility. We'll have more on this
than just one second. The Jersey Transit trains are running
again today after a three day strike and then of
course yesterday's day off that screwed over riders for seemingly
(00:45):
no reason.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Now I'm gonna have to take an uber to get here,
take the path train, wait for the one or two
trains to get back to uptown. So that's gonna take
more time.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And more money. I know that they needed to check
the tracks and the train, but why weren't they doing
that already? The engineers were on strike, not everybody else
at Jersey Transit. They could have figured this out. The
investigation continues into the tall ship that crashed into the
Brooklyn Bridge over the weekend. It was supposed to be
(01:16):
going out to see and nowhere near the bridge.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
What appears to have happened is instead of the engine
going forward, it went in reverse or stern and that
could be a result of a mechanical issue, it could
be human error.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
We just don't know. Even at this early stage, it
seems clear that the Mexican Navy assume the best and
didn't plan for the worst, and the worst happened. And
after an over two hour phone call with Russian President Putin,
Donald Trump wants to take the Pope up on his
(01:50):
offer and have peace talks at the Vatican.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Having it at the Vatican would be in Rome, would
be a very big, great idea.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
In the meantime, JD. Vance delivers an invitation to Pope
Leo to visit the White House. JD. Vance and Marco
Rubio were at the Vatican just yesterday. Wow, so much
has happened after what was it two weeks ago, all
of that chaos outside of the ice facility in New Jersey.
(02:31):
I'll tell you what a lot of pushing and shoving
and hitting. There was some hitting. Now only one person
was arrested, and that person, of course, is the mayor
of Newark, Ros Baraka, And yesterday late in the day,
charges against him were dropped. And now he and the
(02:54):
US attorney Alena Habber are like besties. Alena Habba is
saying to him, I'll give you a personal tour of
the ice facility. You know, I'm not even sure what happened,
but he definitely trust passed. But I will say this,
he wasn't like everybody else he just heard in that audio.
He wasn't yelling and screaming, and he was doing what
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he was asked to do. He'd go on the other
side of the fence they had come back if he
was told you got to get over there. But he
did go back a couple of times, and so he
did trust pass. But I guess Alena Habba said, look,
I just want to get this over with and he
didn't hurt anybody, so that's fine. They dropped the charges,
and you know, ros Baraka of course is happy about that.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I think that was the right thing to do for
him to drop the charges.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Obviously, we agreed to move forward, but ultimately I didn't
do anything wrong. There was no charges that should be
brought against me in the first place. Well that's not true.
You did trespass. But that's okay. I mean, I get it.
I understand in the moment they wanted you arrest ed,
after looking at the video and deciding that have to
go all through these charges, you'd probably just get a
(04:01):
slap on the hand anyway, that the whole thing wasn't
worth it. However, what does seem to be worth it
is going after Newerk Congresswoman La Monica macguiver.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Now, I'm not sure you saw the video of what
happened after that. After they went after Rosparaka, they all
encircled him. There's even a guy yelling circle the mayor,
circle the mayor so they can't get him. And they
all go and they have this human shield around them,
and the ice officers start talking to the mayor and
(04:34):
say this is silly, and you know, they're trying to
pull him out. And La Monica mcguiver, she is a
brand new congresswoman in Newark who is replacing Donald Payne,
who was there forever a guy that I've got to
know and I really liked, who died he always had
medical problems, including type two diabetes where he'd have to
(04:55):
get blood transplants and stuff transfers and things like that.
But mcguiver was pushing and she even hit at an officer,
and so they said they might charge her. They said
all along they might charge her, and then they ended
up doing it. They ended up bringing, you know, charge
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charges of assaulting a federal officer is a pretty hefty charge.
And so you know, Barack ross Baraka says, take a
look at the video. Take a look at the video.
It's not that bad, Mayor. I've looked at the video.
(05:38):
I mean, did she hurt the officer?
Speaker 6 (05:40):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
But are you supposed to hit an officer? Are you
supposed to shove an officer?
Speaker 6 (05:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You can be charged for that. But he says, he
keeps saying, you look at the video, look at the video,
and I.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Think the video will play itself out with see the
entire video. When the case comes and people look at
the video, they'll see what happened. Right now, people are
speaking about a small segment of a video that they've
seen that are being played over and over and over
again on repeat.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, but I don't care what else you have I mean,
maybe there's other video out there where you can't see everything,
but I don't care what else you have. Isn't the
only thing that's relevant is the part of the video
where she hits an officer and she pushes an officer.
Isn't that the only relevant part? Does it matter what
else you have? Though I have to see your home
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videos too, it doesn't matter. That's what she can be
charged with. Here's what's really fascinating. And this flew under
the radar on Friday, by the way, the Washington Post
reported it. The Justice Department was considering at that point,
and I wonder if they did changing its policy, so
if you indict a member of Congress, you can do
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it without approval from lawyers in the public Public Integrity section.
So this public Integrity section was set up so that
a president an administration couldn't go after political foes, or
if they did, it had to be substantial charges. And
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so I'm not sure that was Friday they talked about
considering doing that. I'm not sure a if they went
through the Public Integrity Section of the Justice Department to
make this arrest, or if the Public Integrity Section is
now no more, and that led to this arrest. But
it's an interesting part of the story. And I'm not
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sure if you've seen La Monica mcgiver. There isn't a protest.
She doesn't love Donald.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
Trump, that he is a dictator. Well, we are going
to prove him wrong. I came here into.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Congress in September and I want Donald Trump to know
that this Jersey girl needs business.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Right. Well, that was a protest against Doege. She was
at every single one of them, and every single one
of the protests in Newark she was She was a
counselwoman before, she was at every one of those. So
here's the thing. This works out for everybody. Everybody is
gonna win in this situation. She's not gonna go to
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trial and she's not gonna go to jail. I don't
think so. Maybe she'll spend a day in jail, but
that helps her too. Her brand is being a rabble rouser.
Her brand is going against Trump. So if Trump goes
after her and Trump the Trump administration, the Justice Department
under Donald Trump, charges her, that helps her brand. This
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is a win for her. Ros Baraka he wasn't making
any headway in the gubernatorial race. He's running in the primary.
All of a sudden, everybody knows his name. This is
a win for him. Alena Habba gets to look tough
as the US attorney, the brand new US attorney in
New Jersey. This is a win for her, win, win,
(09:00):
win win. It is almost like political theater. It was
almost set up for this exact consequence, for this ending,
and it's gonna end. I mean, I don't think anything's
going to happen after this except for you know this,
(09:25):
all this chaos at the moment. But believe me, every
one of them is happy tonight. Do Americans love the
New York accent? Not so much. Not so much. That's
according to a new poll. We're gonna be talking a
lot about that coming up. I think that's a fascinating story,
to tell you the truth.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
What accent?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yeah, no, you grew up in Staten Island. I did,
so you definitely have one. I love you had one.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
Well it comes out.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
There's all these stories about the accent going away.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
You know what I remember as a kid, and there
are some funny videos of kids from the seventies, eighties, yeah,
with thick accents, and I was one of them.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Because I've heard tapes of myself.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
We don't want to talk too much about this right
now because we're going to talk about this. Yeah, in
the next segment. Let me wrap this up and then
I'll get back to that. So so watch over the
next few days. You're gonna see Ma guy for grandstand
on this. You're gonna see ros Baraka grandstand on this,
You're gonna see Alna Hobber grand stand on this. As
I said, this is a win for everyone, So don't
(10:29):
feel bad. Just sit back, watch and eat your popcorn.
So we'll talk about that New York accent coming up,
and plus tickets to see the Brotherhood of Rock tour
at age twenty five. Come back. Hey, we love your talkbacks.
As we say all the time, you always seem to
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Speaker 7 (11:19):
I love the Superman reference.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yeah, yeah, no, wouldn't that be great? I agree because somebody,
you know, you say that at a party and people
find it hard to believe, right right, you know what
I mean? And so you say that and they go, no,
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The button shirt. Yeah faint.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
It's just crazy, huge moment for you and the and
the only thing you have to do to enter is
to leave a talkback. You go to seven to ten
wo R on the talkback on the iHeart app and
you hit the talkback feature, which then you'll get a
microphone and you record it. And after that that we
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put you on the air. And if you have a
New York accent, that's even better because the New York accents.
I don't know if you've heard, the New York accent
seems to be going away. It's fading away.
Speaker 9 (12:13):
Oh we can bring them back so easy. It's all
a little coffee with talk. It comes right back.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
That was pretty good. I think I think if you
go to Natalie, if she goes back to her youth,
Oh yeah, she's got She's got a great one.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
Staten Island roots. It's hard. It's hard to.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Bring it back, Jacqueline.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Just did I know? It's so romantic? People love it.
Come on, OK, I gotta try. There's people who could do.
It's so much better. But leave us a talk back.
You will not still have your good old Staten Island as.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Don't deflect, you will not be judged. You did it
just a second ago.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
No, it's hard. It's hard. It took so many years
for me to get rid of it right right, right.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And you can't do it on demand. You just did
it a second ago.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
Not as well as I'd liked your premium price. She
can do on And I think I'm doing it justice.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
I feel like I'm making a mockery of it when
I put it on.
Speaker 7 (13:14):
I get that. I get that.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Can we be the judge of that? Let us be
the judge of that. If you're making a mockery, this
is really interesting that you don't want to do it.
You've left your past too. This is like a band
childhood memory for you.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
No, because I didn't know I had it when I
was a kid. It was just there.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
It wasn't until I got to college where people were
making fun of me that I realized I had it.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Oh really, is that what did it for you?
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (13:43):
I had an oral comm teacher my freshman year at
Seaton Hall Goes. I was a really confident public speaker.
I never had the fear, you know, the whole thing.
I got up and I.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Did my speech. I was like, Oh, that was easy.
Nasal must be from New York.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
They're like, oh, okay, and you know, from then on,
I was like, I guess I have to figure that out.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
I was a communication major. Obviously, your confidence, like any
good professor, right, Yeah, did me a favor.
Speaker 10 (14:11):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
I knew.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
I know what you're saying.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
I knew I had to work on that if I
wanted to go into broadcasting around and now you're.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
At the point where you're so embarrassed of your roots,
you won't bring.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Back brings up her roots.
Speaker 9 (14:24):
It's just that I get what she's saying was she
doesn't want to make a mockery of it because the
way I just spoke.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
I've never spoken like that in my life.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I've just heard stuff like that.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
You see, now she's a New Yorker, but she was
from a different part of New York.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Right, Well, all New Yorkers are trying You're not in
the minority. All New Yorkers are trying to lose their accent,
according to a new study.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
I think it's just happening. I don't even know if
we're trying to lose it. I think it's just fading away.
I mean, I grew up. My family was from Brooklyn,
and believe me that the accent was fierce.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Well there's some people that hold on to it. You've
been you've been in a cab or you've been in
a deli and you've talked to somebody, and do you hear.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
The Archie Bunker accent anymore? You know that Queen's accent.
It just doesn't Nanny Grand. But we have Natalie Migliroy
out there this morning, so I'm hoping she finds the authentic.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
Maybe she should stand at the Staten Island Ferry.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
Oh there, you got it, that very every morning.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Look at that. She just took a little prodding. It
was really good. That was that was very authentic. That
was extremely authentic. By the way, I understand why you're
losing it because or you've lost it is because there's
a new survey out that said sixty percent of Americans
hate the New York accent.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
Yeah, most people aren't a fan of it.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, and most New Yorkers almost most A plurality, not
a majority, but the plurality of New Yorkers hate the
New York accent.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
I understand it, and I understand it was a ridiculed
it was made fun of.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
I always wanted to be British.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
That's that's another conversation for another day. Although you could
do the news, you could do the entire news in
a British go ahead.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
Only Good morning, New Jersey.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
Trying to trains back in operation today after an engineer's strike,
New Jersey transit crew spent yesterday, much to Larry's chagrin,
on track and safety inspections.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
New York City is gearing up for the thirty seventh
annual Fleet Week.
Speaker 11 (16:44):
Naval and Coastguard ships will travel up the Hudson River
and pass by the Intrepid Museum as part of the
Parade of Ships this Wednesday. Hundreds of servicemen and women
in the Armed forces will man the rails of the
ships as they sail into New York City. The arrival
of ships kick starts in array of activities at the Intrepid,
including interactive displays on Peer eighty six, a free screening
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of Top Gun on the flight deck, and an annual
Memorial Day ceremony. At least five ships that dock in
New York City will be open for the public to
tour throughout Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 9 (17:15):
Natalie MCGLIORI w a war news so I got a
story about a guy who puts his foot in his mouth.
I know it's rare, That's why I'm doing the story.
This guy, Gordon Lyons, who's the Minister of Communications for
Northern Ireland, was speaking at the Impact Players Conference, which
is a sports related female empowerment event in Belfast, and
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according to the BBC and his remarks, lines equipped that
the good looking conference attendees had been seated at the
front of the audience, well grown from the crowd made
it clear that was a bad move, so Glenes quickly
offered up an apology, which seemed to be well received.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Either that or people just wanted to move on. And
I want to know what you guys think. What do
you think Larry Do you think he put his foot
in his mouth? Or was it a very nice thing
to say?
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Was it true?
Speaker 9 (18:08):
Oh god, I mean, don't sit on the bench with gold.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I'm just asking what if it was true? That would
have been unfair.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
The attractive people were put in the front, yes, and
the what was put in the back?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
The the non attractive people were put in the back.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
I wouldn't put it past somebody, see you put the
attractive people in the front. I hate to say it,
but I would. I could believe that a conference organizer
who is shooting video would want whatever the look is,
whatever they're looking for.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
Like whether it's millennia, so they wanted they want to
show that they're that they're but most people don't comment
on it.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
No, maybe he was unfairly maligned. Maybe he was standing
up for the unattractive people and saying they have as
they deserve the set upfront too.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
Did you notice how I ended the story? I said,
what do you think Larry in his mouth? Because I
had the funny feeling Larry might be on the wrong
side of history with this one. I don't know why
I thought he and Gordon might be of like mine.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
I think you were right.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
If they're looking for the millennial crowd for whatever this
conference is, they're.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
Going to put the millennials in the front, right. If
they're looking for attractive ways, what are.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You saying younger people are better looking than older people.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
People know it's for an old person right now, marketing.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
If they want to show that, yes, young people like
our new sports drink, or older people prove of our this,
or that, they'll they'll do what they have to to
make it that way. But I just think old Gordon
was just back in the nineteen fifties with his like thinking.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Unless he was pointing out what was really wrong, that
maybe the attractive people shouldn't be upfront.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Moving the back.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yes, that's right, mix everybody up all right. Yeah, so
good for him, Good for him for standing up for
the unattractive people.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Gravel and apologize.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
But okay, he shouldn't have apologized. See that was just
public pressure. You shouldn't, shouldn't, shouldn't even have publish. I'm saying,
if it was true, what is wrong with speaking the
truth these days? I'm a truth speaker. Until this week,
we had no idea how much the White House was
hiding about Joe Biden. We'll talk about that next and
(20:33):
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So I talked about this yesterday. You know that President Biden.
They put out a statement saying that he has prostate
cancer and it's pretty far along and it has spread
to the bones. You know, you feel awful for him,
you wish him the best. But two things that can
be true. You can have two feelings at once. You
(21:19):
can say, well, you know, he's older, he's in his eighties,
and hopefully he can have a few more good years
and hopefully he lives on and hopefully he can beat that,
if that is even possible at this stage. But then
you can also be suspicious of why now, why was
(21:40):
that announcement he made yesterday. He's obviously had this for
a while. I think they deny it. They're going to
try to say no, no, no, this just happened. But
he's obviously had this for a while. He probably had
it when he was president and he didn't want it out.
And we talked about this a lot yesterday, To take
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you the truth, Even when I was saying it yesterday,
because it had just happened, I felt a little bad
about it. I thought, well, you know, the poor guy,
you want to feel bad for him. Should I even
be saying this at this point? Except little did I
know that yesterday it was going to be the topic
of the day. And I know on MSNBC when we
(22:21):
were on, Joe Scarborough was on for the Morning Joe
and they went on forever about it. They did a
lot of their show on this about Joe Biden because
they love Biden at MSNBC, and Joe Scarborough personally loves
Joe Biden. But I think even he was surprised because
he had Ezeel Ezekeel Emmanuel on, who was a former
(22:46):
Biden health advisor. And it's not you might be thinking
to yourself, it's ezek Yield. No, it's Ezekeel Emmanuel, former
Biden health advisor. And Scarborough was genuinely surprised by his answer,
oh more than several years. You don't get prostitute.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Answer again, I just want to stop you. So your
this is not speculation. If you have prostate cancer that
has spread to the bone, then he's most certainly you
were saying, had it when he was president of the
United States.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Oh yeah, he did not develop it in the last
one hundred two hundred days. He had it while he
was president. He probably had it at the start of
his presidency. Whoa wait a minute. So they were not
only hiding from us the fact that he had cognitive
(23:41):
decline and sometimes according to staff members, wasn't there and
it was very difficult to meet with him because they
were hiding the fact that his mental decline was significant
to the point where some of the staffers joked that
he was the zombie and and they were hiding that
(24:02):
from us. And at the same time they were hiding
that he may have had prostate cancer the entire time.
What else were they hiding from us. This is a
national scandal that you had a man in the office
(24:23):
that couldn't do the job, that they just had to
prop up every once in a while and pray for
the best so that they could use him to do
what they wanted. The question is who was running the
White House, And I think it was a cabal of
people that were coming up with all of these bizarre,
(24:45):
woke policies and inflicting them on the American public and
using him as their frontman. You know, shoot him up,
let's get him out there, not too long until he
finally all saw at the debate with Trump who he
was and what everybody was dealing with, and what everybody
(25:05):
is hiding. But the fact that he had prostate cancer,
probably had prostate cancer maybe for his entire presidency. Shouldn't
the American people know that? Of course they should. And
it makes you wonder, now, what else were they hiding
from us if they were hiding this, Person after person
(25:29):
after person is not only surprised at this, but said,
there's no way this just happened. They released this yesterday.
The whole reason they released this yesterday was to make
us feel sympathy for him now, the sympathy that they
didn't want before because it hurt them politically. Now they
(25:49):
want it because it helps them politically.
Speaker 12 (25:52):
I don't believe that they just found out Friday, but
because they're not credible on anything, they've done, and you
highlight it. It's kind of concurrent with this release of
the Hurt tapes, which frankly Congress subpoena did and Merrick
Garland as Attorney General, was in contempt at Congress. He
had no problem holding everybody else accountable for contempt of Congress,
(26:12):
but he wouldn't even comply with the subpoena.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
So you know, the whole thing was a big cover up.
Speaker 12 (26:17):
And I suspect that this cancer diagnosis is part of
that whole scheme.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
That was Congressman Warren Davidson, by the way, a Republican.
That's a big deal that Merrick Garland wouldn't come forward
with these health records, because it shows you if they
were good like Trump's were. If they were good, everybody
would have seen them. They would have been bragging about them.
They would have had them out there. They could have
done one of those moments where you go, aha, you
(26:43):
thought this was true, it's not look at this. But
they couldn't do that because he had mental decline and
he also had prostate cancer, and they hid that from
the American public. That is contempt contemptible. It explains so
(27:05):
much of the problems we had in this country. There
was incompetence through the White House and there was no
leadership and we all suffered from that. This will be
a big story for weeks. In the meantime, let's get
the latest on the investigation into the crash of that
(27:26):
Mexican tall ship into the Brooklyn Bridge. It now centers
on why the ship was going the wrong way. We
have details next well, that Mexican tall ship is still
in the East River. It's not going to go anywhere
for a long time. The cruise back in Mexico. When
they arrived, there were people waiting for them, They got cheers.
It was very emotional. The video of it. You can
see them all crying as they were there. And they
(27:48):
have people that are still in the hospital here. Less
are in critical condition right now. The eleven were originally,
they're saying there's two, so that's really great news. But
of course two of the crew members also died in
that horrific, odd crash of the tall ship hitting the
Brooklyn Bridge. But we know a lot more today. As
(28:09):
I said, the NTSB is here, the National Transportation Safety
Board is here, and they held a mini news conference
yesterday because they can't say a lot. These investigations take
some time, but they had some things they were able
to reveal.
Speaker 10 (28:25):
There is no significant structural damage to the load bearing
elements of the bridge. There is some damage on one
of the travelers which they use to access and survey
the bridge at this point, but nothing structural from the
bridge is an issue at this planet.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Right it's iron versus wood and iron winds every single
time they said that there's something that's underneath. If you
saw it, there was this thing that moves back and forth.
It looked like a part of an erector set. But
that's where people can be in there do work under
the bridge that did suffer some damage. Mayor Adams also
(29:06):
had an update yesterday.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
It was headed out to sea and we don't know
what happened mechanically that caused it to move in the
opposite direction, but from our understanding, it was headed out
to sea, and that is why it's quite possible that
it was a mechanical issue that caused it to drift.
Our tides are extremely strong.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah they don't look like it, but those tides can
really pull a ship, especially a wooden ship. But they're
not even sure exactly now that's what happened. We do
know that the ship was going the wrong way. So
if you're wondering why a ship with that toll of
a mast was trying to make it under the Brooklyn Bridge,
(29:51):
it never was. It never was supposed to. It was
supposed to head out to sea. It was supposed to
go the other way. And they're trying to figure out that.
It's the big part of the investigation right now, what happened.
And they think there are several factors as to what happened.
So it had just left, it just left the duck.
(30:13):
And the reason that all those Mexican sailors and sailers
in training were way up there, the cadets were way
up there on the top of the mast. They always
do this when they arrive or they take off. It's
kind of a celebration. They want to put on a show.
This is all training. This is a naval training vessel,
and so they didn't expect to be anywhere near the bridge.
(30:36):
But it happened very quickly. And I said, there's three
contributing factors, and one of them were those strong tides
the mayor just talked about less than.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Two minutes before the ship actually drove into the bridge,
also pushed by the wind and some high gusts.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Right he talked about the wind. The wind, the gusts
were or sometimes up to thirty thirty five miles per
hour yesterday or Saturday night, and so that's the reason.
That's one of the reasons. The other reason, as I
mentioned in the mayor mentioned was the tide.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Based on video evidence, what we see is a wake
coming from the vessel. You don't get a wake on
a ship that's being pushed by just wind and current.
That indicates that there's some sort of propelling.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Force that seems to be it more than anything else.
For some reason, that ship was going in reverse rather
than going forward, and they put out a distress call.
So yesterday we were talking about why weren't their tugs there.
There were. There was a tug that was escorting it,
but it was on the other side of the ship.
(31:47):
It was going. It was trying to go out the
other way and it had to turn around. But the
whole thing took two minutes. The distress call didn't go
out until forty five seconds before it hit. So it
was a number of issues. It was strong tides that
were pulling it toward the bridge. It was wins that
(32:09):
were pushing it toward the bridge, and they believe there
was a mechanical failure, so it didn't go forward. It
went in reverse and it pushed it into there. And
that was really fascinating what he talked about about. That,
by the way, is a professor of maritime history is
named sal Mercleiano. You'll see him on TV A Loti's
(32:32):
from Campbell University in South Carolina. So we hope and
pray that the people still in the hospital from Mexico
are okay. Donald Trump, by the way, that was a
big deal, had a two hour talk with Putins. So
what are the real prospects for the end to the
war in Ukraine? We'll ask White House correspondent John Decker.
(32:52):
He's coming up right after the seven o'clock news
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