Hour 1: NYC Bikers

NYC Bikers.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gonna be cold, really cold, coldest night so far of
this winter season. So just make sure when you get
out there that you're you know, you're dressed properly, and
especially if to spend any time in it, uh makes
certain might be a good day to call. And second
if you have to spend a lot of time out
out in the cold. Because it is going to be better,

(00:21):
it's going to get a little bit better, but today
especially is a bad day for that. In the Big
Three Mayor Alexa and Mom, Donnie says when he gets
into office, he's going to stop those cities sweeps of
homeless in New York.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
If you are not connecting homeless New Yorkers to the
housing that they so desperately need, then you cannot deem
anything you're doing to be a success.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
So now is he going to provide free housing for
the cities homeless? That's just another thing that we won't
be able to pay for. A sixty year old man
in Jamaica, Queens, just crossing the street is hit and
killed by a moped.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
So when I heard it was head trauma, I was
mad because I'm like, this person hit my dad had
him died with one of the best brains anybody could
want to, you know, have.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, that was his daughter, by the way, And it's
just got stop with these mopeds and e cars just
flying through intersections. There has to be some type of
regulation or at least enforcement of the regulations that are
already in the book. The pre trial evidence hearing of

(01:33):
Luigi Mangioni continues in Manhattan. Last week in court, they
played the nine to one one tape from Altoona, Pennsylvania
see fill in the back of.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Our lobbie by them wearing a black lettered jacket with
a medical math and a tan khaki color like.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Beanie, do you have to move?

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Beanie pulled down so the only thing he can see.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Is his eyebrow.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Only thee can see as his eyebrows. The guy thought
of everything except to trim those hair monsters above his eyes.
That's all he had to do, and he would have
gotten away scott free. The police officer who responded to
that call and question Mom, Donnie is going to be
in the courtroom today. A new survey of air travelers

(02:19):
ranks Newark Liberty International Airport as the most stressful of
all airports.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
And I agree with that statement.

Speaker 5 (02:28):
Coming to Newark was so easy. I just got hit
from Austin getting through the terminal. Just follow the signs
air ning is lit up makes it so easy.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
We really have any complications. Our bags came pretty quick.
Everything was kind of self explanatory.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
The schedule for the World Cup games across the country
and at MetLife Stadium had been announced, and soccer fans
in the area are excited, especially those from other countries
who want to root for their home team or what
used to be their home team. I hope, even if
they may not be able to afford tickets.

Speaker 6 (03:00):
Even if I'm not able to make it to the final,
which I probably won't be because it's the tickets are
going to be very prohibitively expensive, It'll be a huge
party here, I'm sure of that. I'm going to be
watching it with my friends, maybe at a bar somewhere.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
A barrage of Russian air strikes in Ukraine overnight, and
there seems to be no question that if Ukraine isn't
ready to give up land, the Russians plan to try
and take it by force. Meerson, We're going to start
doing it on land too. We have to will attack
on land also, we will hit them very hard. When
they come in by land, We're going to start doing
those strikes on land too. You know, the land is

(03:34):
much easier.

Speaker 7 (03:35):
It's much easier.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
That is Donald Trump talking about the fact that now
that the air strikes have been so successful in the Caribbean,
he may go in to make Maduro leave. It sounds
like at this point it's going to happen. Apparently the
two of them had another phone call and Maduro said
that he's ready to leave. He just wants some promises.

(04:00):
I guess that Donald Trump is not ready to give him.
And the Jets are now officially eliminated from the NFL
playoffs with a thirty four to ten drubbing by the
Miami Dolphins at Metlaf Stadium. Coach Aaron Glenn says he
may have the answer now. Listen.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
I want his job. I interviewed for a number of them,
but I wanted this job. When I was going to
my second interview, I want to make sure this is
gonna this is gonna be the second of you. It's
gonna be the first of the second interviews because I
didn't want to leave.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, what he said was that we just have to
play better there. You go just play better. The legendary
Warner Woolf will be here to talk about the jets
at seven thirty five. Well, today is the day after
the attack on Pearl Harbor, and it was on this day,
in nineteen forty one, that Franklin Delano Roosevelt made his

(04:51):
address to Congress and utter the words that till this
day still echo through history.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yesterday these us some.

Speaker 8 (05:04):
Nineteen forty one, a date which will live in infamy.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
And it has, it has lived in infamy. He was
absolutely correct, and it should we need to keep remembering that,
just like we remember nine to eleven. This story bothers
me so much. In Queens and anybody that has to
walk the streets of New York and all five Burroughs
know what I'm talking about. In Manhattan, I find it

(05:34):
particularly bad. I can't tell you how many times in
my car I've almost hit an e bike or a moped.
I can't tell you how many car At times I've
been crossing the street just to get out of this
building and have almost got hit by an e bike.
But this time it's somebody that died. This is the
second time this year somebody's been hit by one of

(05:55):
these motorized bikes or a moped and has died. A
father just crossing the street. By the way, He's from Jamaica.
He's been in this country his whole life. Now. He
was excited because they were taking a trip home with
his family. So he decided, even though he doesn't normally
go out on a Friday night, he decided to go

(06:16):
get some some stuff for the trip. So he just
goes out in his neighborhood. He's walking this, he's walking
across the street. This is in Jamaica, Queens on ninety
third Avenue at one hundred and sixty eighth Street when
he just gets run over by a moped crossing the street.
I've got a couple of things. The moped was going

(06:38):
that fast that it killed him. His name is Rodriguez,
and that's the that's actually the daughter's name, Jamik Rodriguez
was also injured in this. But givette Sam is the

(07:01):
person that was killed. And it is just it is
such a horrible, horrible, horrible story that somebody is just
out walking and is run over by one of these.
But if you know that that's a possibility, now the
city is going to tell you over and over and
over again, that everything is down, that crime is, that

(07:25):
the crime is down, and that the incidents with e
bikes that's down too. You know why, because we've learned
to deal with them. They haven't gotten any better. If
you're out on the streets just for a little bit,
you know they haven't gotten any better. They're still going
too fast, even in their own lanes. So when you

(07:47):
go in between park cars to get the sidewalk, you
have to look both ways or you're gonna get hit
because they're not going to stop. They don't see you,
and they don't care. How many times have you gone
to a green light to go through a green light
and one of these e bikes comes shooting through, Just

(08:09):
come shooting through. They don't care that it's a red light,
they don't care that it's a one way street. So
why do you have to be the one that is
constantly worried about what someone on an e bike or
a moped is going to do? So the city is
constantly going to say to you, well, the statistics guy's

(08:30):
gotten so much better. Everything's fine. No, it's because we've
had to get better the mopeds and the e bikes.
They haven't gotten better at all. They keep breaking the law,
and as long as you keep allowing them to break
the law, you're going to have people killed like Trevor
Lloyd Samuels, and you're going to have people like Cavette Samuels,

(08:54):
his daughter upset and his grandchildren without a grandfather. That's
what's gonna keep happening over and over again. And you're
gonna have car accidents, You're gonna have injuries and people
hurt because you're not enforcing the law. And as a
matter of fact, the laws should get a little bit

(09:15):
tougher because if you get hit by an e bike,
there's no repercussions. You can't sue. So you need to
have they need to have insurance, they need to have
a license. And until that happens, every pedestrian, every motorist

(09:38):
in New York City is in harm's way all of
the time. Until you take care of this and decide
that this is important, nothing's gonna work. You can't lowering
the lowering the traffic lights that you tried, that was
a joke. You have to be order on them. I

(10:00):
don't know what is the matter. I don't know why
you won't make this next step it's an easy one
to make. Do it or more people are going to
die and be injured. Well, you never know what treasures
you're going to find at a thrift store, but one
shopper's quirky purchase turned into a big surprise. Find out

(10:21):
what it was next, plus tickets to see the Rascals
Rocking the Holidays concert at A twenty five. Well, thanks
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Speaker 9 (11:01):
It was forty five years ago today that I went
to the city with my friends and I had just
bought a brand new double Fantasy John Lennon album at
the disco matt on fifty seventh and Madison Avenue, not
knowing that he would be killed that night.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, yeah, thanks for the reminder of that that John
Lennon was killed on this day. I still remember I
was watching. I guess it was during a Monday night
football game that they broke into the Monday night football
game to announce that John Lennon was killed. I was
at a bar at the time, at a college bar,

(11:43):
and everybody everything shut up, the whole place shut up,
just to gather around and watch the announcement. I think
it was Howard Cosell. It was Howard Cosell. Yeah, yeah,
it was Howard Cosell that announced it to the world.
Because remember back then, I mean, Monday eight football is
still big, but man, and back then, everybody watched Monday
night football. So thanks for that reminder. Do we have it,

(12:06):
let's hear.

Speaker 6 (12:07):
It, but we go to book.

Speaker 10 (12:12):
Yes, we have to say it.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Remember this is just.

Speaker 10 (12:15):
A football game, no matter who wins, saw loses. An
unspeakable tragedy confirmed to us by ABC News in New
York City. John Lennon outside of his apartment building on
the West side of New York City, the most famous,
perhaps of all of the Beatles, shot twice in the
back rush the Rosevelt Hospital, dead on arrival.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
And you know, and then what do you do? Continue
watching the football game after that? It's like it was
just stunning. I remember being it was a crowded bar
in the Villanova campus and I remember being there and
the place just going silent. Nobody talked, there was you know,
everybody was there to meet people and to have fun
and to play the games. And everything stopped.

Speaker 11 (13:03):
And I think forty five years later, and you know,
at that point his big stardom had happened years prior.
He's still so influential to young people listening to music.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
Oh absolutely today.

Speaker 11 (13:16):
It's just amazing that somebody's you know, life can carry
on like that.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah, all the Beatles, the Beatles really, I mean, look,
George Harrison went on to have a great career Ringo Starr,
you know, had a career. But McCartney and Lennon they
were the two. They were the two that were the Beatles.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
First, I would like to know if the person that
hit that poor person was legal or illegal in this country. Second,
I work for a delivery company. I deal with those
bikes all day long. You can't walk onto the sidewalk
without constantly almost getting hit. The best part is they

(13:53):
follow zero rules. They go the wrong way all the time.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
They don't need look when they go the wrong way
down a street through a red light, they don't even look.

Speaker 11 (14:07):
It's like they don't even care if they're gonna hit somebody.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
Let's just keep going.

Speaker 11 (14:12):
It's amazing because I cannot cross the street anywhere.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Well, that's what he was talking about, the exact same thing.
I knew exactly what he was talking about.

Speaker 11 (14:19):
Without looking both ways, because you know they're gonna come
down the wrong way.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
By the way, who is the idiot city planner that
decided to put the bike lane next to the curb
and then the park cars after that. It makes no sense.

Speaker 11 (14:34):
And then make jaywalking legal. I know, because at least
if you're at the corner you can see. But if
you're going in the middle of the street, which now
is okay.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
I know. I don't mind the jaywalkers as much as
I hate these moped and e bikes. I'll tell you what,
if it ever became legal that you could hit them,
they'd all die. I mean, there's people that are so
upset on the roads. They just think, oh if I
could if I could just teach this guy a lesson
because there's an arrogance about it. They know that nobody's

(15:08):
going to enforce the law. Well, let's get to this story.
It's a great story. It's another story about a goodwill
shopper who makes an incredible purpose purchase, spends ten ninety
nine for this quirky, pink piggy bank. She described it,
by the way, as hideous and scary, and I guess
that's what attracted to her. But inside was a enormous find.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
Why would you buy that piggybank?

Speaker 9 (15:35):
It's hideous and scary.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
There you go, hideous and scary, but inside it was wonderful.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
Well I took the plug.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Oh I saw the plastic bags.

Speaker 9 (15:45):
Yes, the bags are from HB.

Speaker 7 (15:47):
They were tied together and there's a total of eight bags.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Here's all the money.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
It's two twenty eight dollars. There's an ancient one hundred
dollars bill in there, and there's a bunch of two.

Speaker 11 (15:59):
Dollar bills as well.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
So it might be more valuable if there's an ancient
dour bill in there, you know what I mean, It
might be more valuable. But think about it, because the
money was in plastic bags. If you shook it, you
wouldn't hear anything, So the person just sold it without
ever looking inside, not knowing there's at least two thousand dollars,
might end up being more. I know what you're thinking.
Knowing happens to me.

Speaker 11 (16:21):
Say I'm going to Goodwill and find every ugly piggy
bank there is.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Oh, I gotta feel and that's a once in a lifetime.
You'll just be stuck with a lot of ugly piggy
bank because that's all you're gonna get. Thanks a lot.
Larry Kovsky is in for Jacqueline carl Now Larry's up
with the six thirty news.

Speaker 12 (16:39):
Larry, I got a look inside before you buy him,
to make sure you don't end up with a collection
of worthless piggybangs. Twenty twenty eight degrees mostly clear at
six thirty Good Morning. Pre trial hearing's resuming today in
the case of a Q CEO killer Luigi Mangioni, as
his attorneys try to have evidence against their client thrown out.

(17:01):
A judge over the weekend approved a so called to
do list, which prosecutors say link Banngione to the murder
of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The MTA is swapping
the F and M subway routes in Queens starting this
morning in the hopes that it will mean fewer delays
and less overcrowding on those lines as well as the
R and E. More than one million subway riders are affected.

(17:23):
An investigation is underway into the death early Sunday of
thirty two year old Rikers inmate Aramis First. The Daily
News reports he died at Mount Sinai Queen's Hospital about
an hour after corrections officers noticed him appearing unwell. Comes
about three weeks after another Riker's inmate died well in
custody versus the fourteenth inmate to die in New York

(17:43):
City jails this year and today is pretend to be
a time traveler day. There are plenty of movers and
TV shows to get you in the mood. Think about
Back to the Future and Quantumbly and if you're not
into time travel, my preference for today it is also
national brown.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Oh National what day? Brownie Day?

Speaker 12 (18:03):
Brownie Day.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Oh, that's a good day.

Speaker 11 (18:06):
Yeah, you could time travel and have brownies, Like like
what think about that day?

Speaker 1 (18:10):
I could time travel back to when my grandmother was
living and then eat her brownies. That's perfect.

Speaker 11 (18:17):
That's a perfect day.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
I could celebrate both days at the same time. Love it.
Thanks a lot, Larry Kowski, Well, Zora and Mom Donnie
hasn't even taken office and the craziness has already started.
You're ready for those homeless encampments to come back. Well,
they're going to make a comeback. We'll explain next. You
noticed when you well, in San Francisco, it's even in

(18:41):
a downtown, But in Los Angeles it's every underpass you
go through over a highway or a road, and there's
many of them, as you know in Los Angeles, and
there are homeless everywhere. Everywhere, there's these tents that they have,
they have these encampments. It's horrible. And in San Francisco

(19:04):
it's all through the downtown area. I mean, that's why
all those stores have moved out. That in the looting
constantly and the flash mobs that show up and rob
without any accountability, that's what happened to those cities. San
Francisco used to be one of the most beautiful cities
in the world. Everybody wanted to go there and the

(19:26):
shops were incredible, and yet they all had to close up.
Los Angeles is the same thing. It has been awful
what happened there. Now Mayor Adams decided that was not
going to happen to New York City. He did some
good things. Everybody turned on him because he sided with
Donald Trump. I mean Republicans didn't, but that's only a

(19:48):
small band in the city. Everybody else hated him because
he sided with Donald Trump. They forget that he did
some really good things. That was one of them. We
could have easily become like say Francisco and Los Angeles
if we had a mayor that would have allowed that
to happen, and he didn't. Well, guess what they're coming back.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
The issue with the encampment sweeps is that they are
simply pushing New Yorkers who are living in the cold
to another place where they will live in the cold.
In three hundred and sixty five days of twenty twenty four,
this administration did not connect a single New Yorker affected
by these sweeps with permanent housing. That is a failure.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
Oh so he never told us this when he was running, Right,
if he ever said, guess what, I'm going to stop
the homeless sweeps? I think there's a lot of people
that would not have voted for him. And the big
question now is what else didn't he tell us? I mean,

(20:48):
think about it. If he said to you, you know
the homeless that used to be all over the street
and had encampments in the city and in through all
the suburbs, I'm going to keep them, would you have
voted for him? I think a lot of people, but
wouldn't it? And so what else? What's the next surprise?
And yet this is another thing he's not going to

(21:09):
be able to pay for. He's talking about permanent housing.
There's not enough housing for people that are willing to
pay right now, let alone for all of the homeless
people that you're just going to give housing to. Where's

(21:30):
that money coming from? And I'll tell you what, Eric
Adams is like one of those dads or moms that's
looking at the problem that their child now has with
their own kids and smiling. God, it's not that easy,

(21:51):
is it. Look at you, look at you, not being
able to deal with any of this. And that's what
is happening in this city right now. What is happening
in the city is that we are now learning all
the promises that zorin Mom Donnie claimed he was going
to do, and the ones that he kept from us,

(22:14):
And we're trying to figure out, how are you going
to pay for all of this? And the answer is
he can't. He can't. We already knew from what he
promised that he wasn't going to be able to afford
any of those things. We knew that the free buses
weren't going to happen. We knew that the government owned

(22:37):
grocery stores weren't going to happen. We knew that the
increase in housing probably wasn't going to happen. The free
everything can't happen because you have to pay for it.
And now you can add all of the housing for

(22:57):
the homeless to that list. One thing that he didn't
tell us was going to happen because people would have
been upset he couldn't have that. And so it is
the same thing as lying to us, isn't it. If
you're keeping from us what you're going to do, isn't
that the exact same thing as lying to us? It isn't.

(23:19):
My book, I'm sure you might probably think the same way. So, now,
on top of everything else, on top of the city,
possibly going broke. We're going to have to deal with
homeless on the street and homeless in encampments because we
elected a socialist mayor who thinks that is a good idea.

(23:42):
And so as he begs for money now for all
of the free stuff he promised, he's going to now
have to beg for money for housing for the homeless,
because he said, if you listen to him, he says
permanent housing, hermaned housing for the homeless. How much is

(24:03):
that gonna cost. He's already been to following program as
sponsored by the Gillant. He's already been turned down by
Kathy Hochel for many of the things he said he
was going to do because she's running for reelection. Because

(24:24):
she's running for reelection, and now we have this that
he also has to pay for. It is insane and
you should feel lied to. If you voted for zorin Mamdani,
you should now feel lied to. Mayor Adams was commenting

(24:49):
on it, and Mayor Adams is looking at this now
and saying, see, I told you, I told you this
was going to happen. His action will create a quality
of life nightmare.

Speaker 13 (25:05):
Just look at cities and allow the campus and you'll
see the damage worse. Leaving people to suffer and the
cold isn't just neglectful, it's a disgrace.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, and it's not only that. It's not only that
that he didn't tell us. He didn't tell us how
much he was going to fight against ice. Now, he
mentioned it a couple of times, but he put out
a video. He put out a video to help those

(25:38):
that have to fight back against ice. So he's gonna
make this a campaign. Do you think that's gonna go? Well,
do you think Tom Holman's gonna sit there and go, Oh,
you're teaching the people how to avoid arrest. We'll just
let that slide. Maybe we'll go somewhere else. No, they're
gonna double or triple down.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
Sometimes ICE will show you paperwork it looks like this
and tell you that they have the right to arrest you.

Speaker 4 (26:06):
That is false.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Ice is legally allowed to life you, but you have
the right to remain some If you're being detained, you
may always ask am I free to go repeatedly until
I answer you.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
You are legally.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Allowed to film ICE as long as you do not
interfere with an.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Arrest when you're not in this country. Legally, you have
committed a crime. As soon as you walked over that
border and you didn't go through the process, you committed
a crime. So anyone who helps them of void ice,
including the mayor, is then breaking the law. Well, have

(26:47):
to see how Trump deals with this. Maybe he's not
his best friend anymore. Maybe Tom Holman's going to send
more people. I think you can be assured of that. Well,
he was one of the heroes of nine to eleven,
and we're going to hear more about him coming up
with Mike Kelly. But up next, as peace negotiations continue,
Russia tries to force Ukraine's hand with air assaults. We'll

(27:10):
have the latest when we come right back. And Wor
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Slash teachers. Well, it is amazing to me that we're
this far into the peace talks with Russia and Ukraine

(27:53):
and the two of them will not come together. They
won't agree on anything. So we first got this wish
list from Russia, right twenty two points that they wanted,
and then showed that to Ukraine into Europe and they said, no,
there's no way that's going to work. They took out

(28:13):
a lot of the stuff and they changed other things,
and now it's back to Russia and they're saying, we
can't do this. And it all has to do with
the Dombas region. That's it. There's just this one area
of Ukraine that borders on Russia that Russia has always

(28:38):
wanted back, and the people there still speak Russian. I
don't know how long ago it was, but they did
have a poll at one time if they wanted to
go back to Mother Russia and they most of the
people said yes, And so that's why Russia wants that
area back. Now, there are also some resources there, and
there's other reasons they wanted back for strategic reasons, but

(29:01):
they've always wanted that area back, and if Ukraine were
to give up some or all of it. It could
end the war, but they haven't. And so last night
there were six hundred airstrikes again, and they slowly are
moving and taking more of dom bastill they're finally going

(29:22):
to get it all. That's what's going to happen. They're
finally going to get all of this. So, you know,
Donald Trump's sitting there just frustrated, saying, look, I know
it's not the perfect solution, but people are dying, and
so we could end this tomorrow if we just gave

(29:43):
up that region. It's not perfect, it's not perfect. I
can understand why Ukraine's upset about it after all this
time to have to give up something, but they get
so much more. First of all, they get to live,
they get to continue to have a cont tree, they
get European and the United States protection, and they get

(30:05):
to prosper because trust me that Donald Trump's going to
make sure they prosper like they have never before.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
Russia Ukraine.

Speaker 8 (30:13):
I thought it was going to be a little bit easier,
but it's not being made easy.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
It's a very tough war, very nasty. Twenty seven thousand
people died last month.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
It's mostly soldiers, and this onslaught that Russia started right now,
they're not going to stop. They're not going to stop.
It's gonna be every single night. There's gonna be death
and destruction every single night because now they feel like
they came to the table and the other side won't negotiate.

Speaker 8 (30:41):
Russia, I guess would rather have the whole country when
you think of it. But Russia is I believe, fine
with it, but I'm not sure that Zelinsky's fine with it.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
His people love it.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
Right, Look, this is not going to end well at
this point. And what was interesting is so they had
peace talks by the way in Florida with European and
Ukrainian representatives meeting with the United States. Apparently nothing came
of that. And then Donald Trump Junior was overseas in

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the Middle East giving a speech and he said the following.

Speaker 7 (31:23):
Because America has set a precedent for decades that they'll
just write the check. But if the will of the
people isn't there, everyone needs to step up. Everyone has
to do their share. But if we default to the
old ways of America is just going to be the
big idiot with a checkbook. That's not going to work.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
It leads you to believe that Donald Trump is going
to end this thing one way or another. But the
United States will try to negotiate peace. It'll help, and
it'll keep sending arms to Europe, but you have to
pay for them, which is what's happening now, and then
you can give them to Ukraine. The belief in this

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country now is this is a European Ukraine problem. It's
not an American problem. We shouldn't have been involved in
the first place. And if U two sides are not
going to talk peace, we're out. Well. He was one
of the heroes of nine to eleven, and last week
nine to eleven killed him. New Jersey dot Com award
winning columnist Mike Kelly pays tribute to fire chief Jim

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