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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And good morning to you. We wake up this morning
in the Big Three with a kind of a shock
or A new independent poll shows a statistical tie, a
three way tie in the New York Mayor's race between
Get This, Mom, Donnie, Cuomo, and Sliwa and with Adams
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in fourth place, there are new calls for him to
drop out of the race. The last man we had
of color was thirty years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
How would I look to be stepping down to him
who stepped down from his obligation as the governor.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
He's talking, of course about Cuomo. Eric Adams, however, is
having a really bad day. Not only is he fourth
in that poll, but he's being sued by former Interim
Police Commissioner Thomas Donnellan, who alleges racketeering, fraud, and corruption
by Adams and other brass in the NYPD.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
This is a monstrous allegation, and what I'm reading is
that none of it has been corroborated. You don't see
anything in reports or attachments that would corroborated.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
In the meantime, Mom Donnie was in Washington, d C.
Having a breakfast with the socialist Democrats. It was a socialist,
it was a communist. Get together, and those at the Median,
those at those the meeting came out just positively giddy
about Mom Donnie.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
It's just beautiful to have someone who is so authentic.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
You know that money cannot buy that.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
The doctor that was serving Jill Biden and her chief
of staff now has been called in the investigation as
to who was really running the White House. And again,
and this is fascinating, again, he takes the fifth.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Did any unelected officials or family members ever execute the
duties of the presidency?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Simple question?
Speaker 6 (02:03):
He knew he was going to be asked that everybody
in America wants to know that he played the fifth.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
The Epstein Maga revolt has now grown on social media
and it's grown into the halls of Congress with Trump
supporters MAGA. Senators like Josh Hawley also upset the.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
Idea that DOJ and the FBI, who've prosecuted cases relating
to this, don't have any idea who Epstein's clients were,
and that he had no record of it of the clients.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I don't know. I find that kind of hard to believe.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
I mean, my view is make public everything you can
make public.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
It sounds like that's eventually going to happen, and one
of the top selling female singing artists of the fifties
and sixties has died. When you can go to the
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to ten wor so. A lot going on in the
city right now, especially politically. Let's talk about this poll first,
because the poll is actually just it's stunning here it is.
This is in a four way race, and this is
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done by Harris X, which teams up with Forbes. So
it's the Forbes poll. Mam Donnie twenty six percent, Cuomo
twenty three percent, SLIWA, Curtis Lee with a Republican twenty
two sent. Eric Adams is at thirteen percent fifteen percent undecided. Now,
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the poll has a four point four percentage margin of error,
which means everybody in the top three are within the
margin of error, which means this is statistically a three
way tie. There's some other things they did in the
poll which I find fascting, fascinating. They did head to
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head matchups, and for some reason they let up. They
let out Curtis Lye with which I think is unfair.
I think they were shocked at how well Sleiwa did,
and had they known he was going to do so
well in this poll, I think they would have included
him in two way matchups, but they didn't originally. So
what we have is just Mom Donnie against Adams. And
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this is why it's so important, because a lot of
people are pressuring either Adams to drop out or Cuomo
to drop out. But in this poll, the one that
would help the Democrats, the ones that would stop Mendanni
is Cuomo because Mom Donnie topples Adams forty three percent
to thirty six percent, closer than I thought it would be.
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But Mom Donnie would win against Adams. Listen to this.
Against Cuomo, Donnie would get thirty five percent of the vote. No, no,
no change that they had that written here Rome, but
that's not the way it is. Mom Donnie would get
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thirty five percent of the vote. Cuomo would get fifty
percent of the vote. One more time, just because I
think this is significant. Andrew Cuomo in the new poll
gets fifty percent to Mom Donnie's thirty five percent. That
is a fifteen point advantage for Cuomo. So you expect
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to hear him talking a lot about this over the
next couple of days. But as I said in The
Big Three, Andrew Cuomo is just having a really bad day,
a really bad day, because he got hit with a
lawsuit right in the middle of all of this. It
is by remember, at about a year and a half ago,
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maybe two years ago, when police commit Sure Caban had
to step down and an interim police commissioner was put in.
He was Thomas Donlan and he was put in and
he claims he was just completely ignored by the Adam administration.
He didn't really have any power, and he said that
they ran it like a criminal organization. And he claims,
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he claims in this lawsuit he kept going to Mayor
Adams saying, you know, you've got a lot of stuff
going on here you have to address. I mean, there
is some criminal behavior in the police department that you
need to address. And so he lasted three months and
then he was fired. And it's really a thick document
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and it alleges racketeering, corruption, bribery and with Eric Adams,
he claims ignoring all of it and at the head
of what he says was almost an organized crime organization.
And Eric Adams is suspicious of the timing of this. Basically,
it's just going to a little lloy when you played
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out in court. Is baseless. This is the season, well,
you're going to see a lot of this stuff. People
wait until this time of the season. They know it's
a political season.
Speaker 8 (07:09):
But it's base list.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And I'll tell you this. James Cassiros, who was a
well known criminal defense attorney in the area, looked through
the whole thing and he said, there's a lot of
smoke there, but no fire.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
This is a monstrous allegation. And what I'm reading is
that none of it has been corroborated. You don't see
anything in reports or attachments that.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Would corroborate it.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
You know, there's an allegation, for example, that this plaintiff
presented his claims to the mayor, and the mayor, you know,
put his stamp of approval on them. This is testimony,
this is you know, he said, she said, and quite frankly,
it's not enough.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
So it does seem like it was time just to
hurt Adams, doesn't it. I mean, if there's really not
a lot there, and this is a guy's disgrundled. He
is discruddled and he's upset, and I get why he's upset.
He was put in, he was a figurehead. They waited
until they could get somebody else. They moved him out
and they did really well. Jessica Tish, I mean, how
can she might be the best police commissioner of all time,
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but she's really great, and so Donlin's just upset. But
the thing is, for a while there he was moved
to another job. He didn't get fired, he was moved
to another job in the administration, and he was happy then.
So why the lawsuit now, the lawsuit now seems to
be to hurt Adams because he's upset with Adams that
he didn't get to keep the police commissioner job, and
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he was upset with him, and now he's gonna file
this suit against him when it would hurt him the most,
right in the beginning of his mayoral campaign. So we
we'll keep talking about this because it's there. It's there,
it's going to be litigated, but well, you know, we'll
keep it in the back burner to see where this goes.
In the meantime, the campaign continues, and the new thing
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from Cuomo is you're gonna hear this word a lot
from him. Mom, Donnie is dangerous. I believe he is
dangerous for the city. I believe being a type business,
anti corporation. The city has no future if it's not grown.
But not the craziest of the Democrats down in Washington, DC,
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like the squad, they love them.
Speaker 9 (09:25):
Anybody that's staying out at this point instead of endorsing
this incredible, dynamic leader is missing an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well. That would include the Governor, Kathy Hockel, that would
include the Speaker of the House, Takim Jeffries, those that
are worried about their own political future and think he
might really be bad for the city, and so they're
staying out of it. Kathy Hokl met with him and
still didn't endorse him.
Speaker 9 (09:49):
I said, you have a lot of healing to do
with the Jewish community. Many of your words have been
hurtful and hateful to people and their interpretation of it.
So joh number one is to straighten that relationship out
if you can.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Anyway, the race just got a lot more interesting with
this poll. We'll see if other polls come out and
substantiate it. One of the most successful female solo artists
has died. Will remember the great Connie Francis when we
come right back, plus tickets to see the Who at
a local venue of your choice at a twenty five
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stay with us. Connie Francis, who by the way, has
died at the age of eighty seven, was born in Newark,
New Jersey, and her name was Concetta franken Aero in Newark,
New Jersey. And she went on to be one of
the best selling female music artists of all time, not
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only in the United States but internationally. And if you
allow for inflation, like if you took the prices at
the time in the fifties and sixties to today, she
would be the number one selling artist of all time.
She had top ten hit after top ten hit. But
I'm sure the one everybody knows because it's ageless, is
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this one that later in life, she seemed to be
on every game show, and she was on talk shows
all the time because she was a hoot. She was
really funny. Remember Natalie. We just did a story on
her a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Just a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Because she joined TikTok and then they interview were about
and she was funny, yeah, and she was still with it.
It's just shocking that just a couple of weeks later
that we lost her. Curtis, who's now in a statistical
tie to be the next mayor of New York, was
a big fan of Connie Francis, which I didn't know
you had a big frien of this era, of this
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type of music. So it's really nice. Looked one more
of Connie Francis, just to remember. It hit the top
one hundred and then became number one, and that was
that was the first female artist in history to hit
number one. Now I'm telling you all this right, and
I'm saying how big she was. She was the biggest
female star of the fifties and going into the sixties.
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Do you know she's not in the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
I just found that out right now.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Well, they're just sort of changing in the last like
I don't know how many years of not just doing
rock stars. They're doing all kinds of different genres. Maybe
that's what it was.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Well, she was considered as the Timeman. Yeah, it could well,
I think it might be. It is because she's a woman,
and because you know, she's a little bit older than
the rest of them. She was a big star when
the voters weren't there. But they're not supposed to They're
not even supposed to think about that. You know, they're
supposed to go back and as in success and so
she now women are men. She has the most top
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ten hits of any person not to be in the
Hall of Fame. And they have to correct that posthumously.
That would be nice, wouldn't it be? They should do
it this year. They really should. If anybody from the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is listening, and I
hope they are, because I'm taking personal pride in the
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fact that I think I got Chubby Checkers into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You probably did, and
I've because I've been pushing that in commentaries for a
long time. I did national commentaries across all the Tribune
stations and pushed it. I did it when I was
at the station in New Jersey. I've done it on
the air here, and I'm sure they had nothing to
do with it, But in my mind, of course, I'm
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the one that got it.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
So much goes on in my mind that I'm responsible for.
I get it. No, hopefully they will, hopefully they will.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
You know, it's more like Alanis mars Set, you know,
the revenge anthems that what well, I mean, that's kind
of what people listen to, is that Who's sorry. Now,
it's like I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna kill you.
You should die.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Even Alanis Morris Set dates us a little bit because
I don't think that's what most people are listening to
right right. But she was incredible. Man. When she burst
on the scene, she was she is an icon of
rock and roll. She is she in the rock and
roll I.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Was just thinking it was we gotta get them all in.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yeah, we'll work on wond at a time. Let's start
with Connie Francis. Yeah, because she just got anyway, Connie Francis,
if you don't know why we're talking about her, she's
dead at the age of eighty seven, one of the
biggest stars ever in music history. Now, let's get the
news at six point thirty with Jacqueline Carl Jacqueline Hilary.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Good morning, President Trump, says the media and some Republicans
are either pushing or falling for what he calls the
Epstein hoax. Trump spoke to reporters Wednesday in the Oval
Office and was asked about the contentious DOJ investigation into
the late sex offender. Trump said he was surprised some
Republicans got duped and more turnover among prosecutors inside the
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Southern District of New York.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
Wednesday, Borenkomi was fired from her post as assistant US
attorney and the high profile Manhattan based Federal Prosecutor's Office. Comy,
the daughter of former FBI Director James Comy, had been
there more than a decade. She had been involved in
the recent prosecution of Sean Diddy Comb's and her past
work included the prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Julaine Maxwell.
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President Trump, who's frequently targeted James Comy on social media,
is facing backlash over the Justice Department decision not to
release more information on the Epstein case. Andrew Whitman wo
R News.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
This next story answers the age old questions what you
should not do if you find the skull of a
mythical creature?
Speaker 5 (15:41):
According to the Sun, you know we all wondered.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
According to the Sun last weekend, Canadian tourist John Goodwin
made what he thought might have been the find of
a lifetime. While roaming the grounds near King Arthur's Castle,
Goodwin discovered something resembling a unicorn skull and took it.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Two problems with that.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
First, it was a really well crafted horse skull that
had a cow's horn attached to it. Second, the find
was made on a site of special scientific interest and
anyone caught removing an item from there can be hit
with a fine or jail time. But even though he
felt it was the find of a lifetime, before flying home,
Goodwin reportedly traded the skull for a beer at a pub,
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but the manager of the pub says he's happy to
return it to its rifle owners because it's freaking him out.
Can you imagine this spur unicorn skull?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Hey, I'll trade this for a beer.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
There's no unicorn skull, right, I mean no.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Not that I know. Come on, I like to believe
there are. Well, I don't want skulls. I want actual unicorns.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Well, you know, I have breaking news and I'm stunned
by this. Alanis Morrissett is not in the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
What neither are unicorns? That's true, It's just an unjust world.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Alanis Morissett. Apparently she was suppose to perform a couple
of years ago with Carly Simon and Olivia Rodrigo, and
she was passed over that year and decided not to
show up. So she's upset about this. I'm sorry, I'm stunned.
I am shocked that she's not in.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Was her first hit at least twenty five years ago,
because that's the that's the rule.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Oh, that's a that's a good one. Although, no, no,
she was on the list to be inducted. She must be.
It must be. She was on the list to be
inducted and didn't get in.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
And then she withdrew from performing because she wanted to
avoid an environment she felt reduced women.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
To what.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I don't know, Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
All right, Alana, I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I'm not sure what you mean.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
I don't know what you mean, but I'm firmly in
your corner.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
But I'm gonna support you. No, that's that's wow. That's
horrible that she's not in. And speaking of while the
Epstein controversy is not going away. Thanks so much, Jack,
Lncarl the Epstein File. Controversies not going away. We'll tell
you what's happening in Congress next. And you want to
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Speaker 10 (18:27):
If anybody was just in this studio during the break
heard Larry and our engineer Crash.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Going at it.
Speaker 10 (18:37):
And you know what, who wasn't politics, who wasn't Trump,
wasn't Mondami, it wasn't sports.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
We're talking about alanis more.
Speaker 10 (18:46):
Set and whether or not she's big enough to be
in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which fabulous.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Which I believe she is. She was groundbreaking, She had
the biggest albums of all time and Crash said one
album doesn't make a Hall of Famer. One album, and
I said she had bigger hits after that, and by
the way, I just came up with Uninvited, which was
a huge hit.
Speaker 10 (19:08):
Is there anything you can't be passionate about? Because this
is amazing.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Funny thing is you'll ask me about it tomorrow and
I'll go when when did.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
I do that?
Speaker 10 (19:18):
So if you want to go to our talk back,
you know how to do that.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
You go to the Oart radio app.
Speaker 10 (19:24):
Hit that microphone, join in on the conversation about this one.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I need to know well? And who else should be
in the Rock and Wall Hall of Fame.
Speaker 10 (19:31):
I'm not fighting with you ever, It's just not on
my list of things to do.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
No, I'm saying that could be another question too, like
who else should be that his? And I'm not asking
you man, you are really worried about me getting did it?
Was I that bad? Just when I was looking at this,
I just get intense, That's all.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
That's exactly it. It's very intense in the morning.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
How dare he question me about Alanis Moris?
Speaker 10 (19:59):
Anyway?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
On to bigger and better.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah, let's talk about Brian Adams. Now, I'm not as
passionate about Brian Adams. That was crashing my ear. I
can't believe that this Epstein thing has lasted this long.
And not only has it lasted this long, it's grown,
It's grown bigger, it's feeding upon itself. It's in the
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halls of Congress right now. And Donald Trump is unbelievably
frustrated by you know, he's dealing with tariffs right now.
He's trying to bring peace in Ukraine. He's arming Ukraine
at the same time he's trying to bring peace in
the Middle East. He's worried about the border. He's got
Ice agents, and this is what he has to deal with.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
It's all been a big hoax. It's perpetrated by the Democrats,
and some stupid Republicans and foolish Republicans fall into the net,
and so they try and do the Democrats work well.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I guess a big supporter of his, Senator Josh Hawley
is one of those stupid Republicans.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
The idea that that dj and the FBI, who prosecuted
cases relating to this don't have any idea who Epstein's
clients were, and that he had no record of it
of the clients.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
I don't know. I find that kind of hard to believe.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
I mean, my view is make public everything you can
make public.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
That's where this all seems to be going. And Speaker
of the House and Mike Johnson came out and said
basically the same thing.
Speaker 11 (21:22):
It's a very delicate subject, but we should we should
put everything out there and let the people decide. I
mean that the White House and the White House team
are privy to facts that I don't know. I mean,
this isn't my lane. Haven't been involved in that, but
but I agree with the sentiment that we need to
we need to put it out there.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
He backed off of that a little bit right afterwards,
and I guess he got a call from the White
House because when he was walking down the hallways he said, well,
you know what, now I understand there's some really sensitive
information in there, which is what I thought all along.
I think that they really wanted to put this out there,
all the files they wanted to put out there, and
then they had lawyers from the Justice Department looking at it,
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going through it all before they could put it out there.
And they looked at it and they said, you know what,
you got huge legal problems if you put this out,
huge legal problems because you're naming some people in here
who have not who have only been accused, but it's
never been adjudicated. And if you do that, you're opening
up the federal government to lawsuits. You're opening us up
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to lawsuits, and you're opening us to a huge, bigger embarrassment.
It's better to just not do this at all. That's
what I believe happened. I believe they want to, in
their hearts release that, but they're being warned that there's
some sensitive information in there, and that there are some
people names in there that you might be sliming unintentionally,
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And because of that, I think that's what's going on.
But to tell you what, the Democrats who never ever
cared about the Epstein files, right all the entire time
under Obama, under Biden, nobody cared, Nobody talked about the
Epstein files in the Democratic Party. They didn't want it out.
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They didn't even seem to care, which made you wonder
how many of them made the trip. But now they're
all in and it's the usual suspects like Jamie Raskin.
Speaker 12 (23:16):
Let's release the Epstein files. That guy is a child
sex offender who's convicted of it and then took his
life before the larger trial could take place. His associate
MS Maxwell's in jail for twenty years. The whole country
is saying, release the files. That's what Donald Trump said,
That's what JD. Van said, That's what the Attorney general said,
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that's what the FBI director said. And now suddenly they
want to sweep the whole thing under the rug.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yet what they see right now is an opportunity. They
see a division in the Republican Party right now, and
they want to exploit it. That's what's happening. He didn't care,
he didn't care about the Epstein files at all. I
guarantee you can go back and before this week, he
never mentioned the Epstein files, never, And all of a sudden,
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the Democrats are all in on the Epstein files, all
of a sudden. They want everything out. Of course, everything's
got to be out now. It is of his it's politics.
I understand that, But it is so glaringly obvious that
this is just an anti Trump thing. They wouldn't be
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doing this at all if Donald Trump wasn't embarrassed by it,
and they want to further that embarrassment. Jamie Raskin is
talking about having hearings to find out why they weren't released.
He doesn't care about that. He could care less about that.
And Hakim Jeffries same thing. Hakim Jeffries at his weekly
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press conference started with.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
That Option one, they lied for years, Option two engaging
in a cover up.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Listen there, does anybody listen really to the Democratic Party anymore?
I mean, they keep trying to get an issue that
Democrats can rally around, and they're hoping this is the one.
This is it. They've failed. They picked the wrong side
of every issue, and they're thinking, well, you know what,
we've got people that are already galvanized on this issue.
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We might as well just jump on the bandwagon. But
there are some people that are upset about it that
I understand, people like Sigrid McAuley. She's a managing partner
for boy Scheller and Flexner and they represented hundreds of
Epstein victims.
Speaker 13 (25:44):
There's a plethora of information that has not been made
public and the government is sitting on that and so
to see this flip flop, it's been really disappointing. I mean,
we were told that that information would be disclosed and
now we're being able to just ignore it.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
So one of the things that has been said that
was really important, what she said. One of the things
that have been said over and over and over again
is well, we can't release this because of the victims.
We can't do this because of the young girls involved.
She represents those young girls, one hundred of them, and
she's saying release it.
Speaker 13 (26:17):
We also know that the government has seized his computers,
and of course on those computers you're going to see
people who were communicating with him, emailing with him, people
he was giving money to people who were giving money
to him. All of that information is really critical, and
I think that's what the outcry is for now. The
outcry is for that information to be disclosed.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Of course, of course this really changes everything, doesn't it.
I mean, if the attorney representing the victims once it released,
then I think that carries a lot more weight than
Jamie Raskin.
Speaker 13 (26:52):
We've said that for years that Epstein could not have
run a twenty plus year sex trafficking operation without the
assistance of others. And so that's what we're seeing here now.
We're seeing a bipartisan call for the information that this
underneath this, that will disclose how this went on for
so long without accountability.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Well, I'll tell you what that changes. Everything. What she's
saying is there's others that financed and helped Epstein, and
they got away scott free. And that's why she wants this,
and that's why the victims want it. And now I'm
saying I want that too, because I yield to them.
We'll talk more about Jerome Powell and Jeffrey Epstein in
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just a couple of minutes. But Jerome Powell, a man
you might be thinking about your next job. That's the latest.
We'll have it. Next. I'll tell you what all this
talk about inflation and the tariffs it has turned in.
And doesn't it ring shallow to you at this point
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because you've been warned time and time and time again
how prices we're going to be affected immediately, and now
they were going to go up thirty percent and twenty percent,
and our inflation rate was gonna go up higher than
under Joe Biden. Remember Democrats saying that it's going to
get higher under Joe Biden. And he had the highest
inflation rate since Jimmy Carter, the highest in forty years.
(28:15):
You know, it was all this doom and gloom because
of these tariffs, and then what happened. Nothing really inflation
went up, a little bit, went down a couple times,
went up yesterday, not a lot much lower than it
was for three and a half years of Joe Biden.
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At the very end he was able to bring it down.
But it's been lower since under Donald Trump, and now
it's up about three percent. You know, we need it
down just a little bit under that. But nothing like
we were warned, nothing like they said was going to happen.
It was going to be awful. People have to move
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out of their houses, they're going to have to find
other place to find food, they'll have to go to
food pantry as it was going to be just awful.
And it never was. It just never was. The economy
just kept rolling along and prices went up a little bit,
food went up, other prices went down. Gas prices are down.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
We want to see lower interest rates. Our country deserves it.
We're making a lot of money. We're doing great as
a country where no inflation record, stock market record, business,
everything's a record. Now. We had the worst inflation in
history under Biden and now we have almost no inflation.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
All right, is the master of hyperbole. That wasn't exactly true,
but I you know, you get his point, it wasn't
the highest in history. Under Jimmy Carter it was the highest.
And we're not near zero percent either, but we're low.
We are low, and under Biden it was high. And
under Biden, if you remember, they kept saying, you got
to raise the interest rates, you got to stop it
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was runaway inflation. They kept saying to Jerome Palin, to
the Fed, you got to raise the interest weights. What
are you waiting for? And it got worse and worse
and worse and worse. He didn't want to do it,
and he was getting pressure from the Biden administration, and
the one that didn't have the mental capacity to understand
what was going on, they listened to him. They listened
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to his administration, Donald Trump, who's saying, inflation's been low
now for month after month after month, why don't you
lower it? Oh, because of the tariffs, Because what's going
to happen next? So listen, Donald Trump is talking about
firing this guy, and he's not there yet, but he
(30:45):
wants to fire him now because he says he's spent
over two billion dollars without congressional approval, without any approval
to renovate the FED building.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I don't know anything, but I think it's highly unlike
unless he has to leave fraud, I mean as possible
to fraud involved with the two point five two point
seven billion dollar renovation. This is a renovation. How do
you spend two point seven billion dollars? And he didn't
have proper clearance, et cetera, et cetera. So you know
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that's going on. So you know there could be something
to that.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Yeah, there could be something. And the reason he's laying
that out right now is because he needs cause to
fire him. He just can't let him go. He needs cause.
And so he's slowly bringing out cause as a warning
shot that Jerome Powell. We'll see if he listens, and
we will see if the rates get lowered. By the way,
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o'clock news
And good morning to you. We wake up this morning
in the Big Three with a kind of a shock
or A new independent poll shows a statistical tie, a
three way tie in the New York Mayor's race between
Get This, Mom, Donnie, Cuomo, and Sliwa and with Adams
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in fourth place, there are new calls for him to
drop out of the race. The last man we had
of color was thirty years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
How would I look to be stepping down to him
who stepped down from his obligation as the governor.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
He's talking, of course about Cuomo. Eric Adams, however, is
having a really bad day. Not only is he fourth
in that poll, but he's being sued by former Interim
Police Commissioner Thomas Donnellan, who alleges racketeering, fraud, and corruption
by Adams and other brass in the NYPD.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
This is a monstrous allegation, and what I'm reading is
that none of it has been corroborated. You don't see
anything in reports or attachments that would corroborated.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
In the meantime, Mom Donnie was in Washington, d C.
Having a breakfast with the socialist Democrats. It was a socialist,
it was a communist. Get together, and those at the Median,
those at those the meeting came out just positively giddy
about Mom Donnie.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
It's just beautiful to have someone who is so authentic.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
You know that money cannot buy that.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
The doctor that was serving Jill Biden and her chief
of staff now has been called in the investigation as
to who was really running the White House. And again,
and this is fascinating, again, he takes the fifth.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Did any unelected officials or family members ever execute the
duties of the presidency?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Simple question?
Speaker 6 (02:03):
He knew he was going to be asked that everybody
in America wants to know that he played the fifth.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
The Epstein Maga revolt has now grown on social media
and it's grown into the halls of Congress with Trump
supporters MAGA. Senators like Josh Hawley also upset the.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
Idea that DOJ and the FBI, who've prosecuted cases relating
to this, don't have any idea who Epstein's clients were,
and that he had no record of it of the clients.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I don't know. I find that kind of hard to believe.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
I mean, my view is make public everything you can
make public.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
It sounds like that's eventually going to happen, and one
of the top selling female singing artists of the fifties
and sixties has died. When you can go to the
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to ten wor so. A lot going on in the
city right now, especially politically. Let's talk about this poll first,
because the poll is actually just it's stunning here it is.
This is in a four way race, and this is
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done by Harris X, which teams up with Forbes. So
it's the Forbes poll. Mam Donnie twenty six percent, Cuomo
twenty three percent, SLIWA, Curtis Lee with a Republican twenty
two sent. Eric Adams is at thirteen percent fifteen percent undecided. Now,
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the poll has a four point four percentage margin of error,
which means everybody in the top three are within the
margin of error, which means this is statistically a three
way tie. There's some other things they did in the
poll which I find fascting, fascinating. They did head to
(04:08):
head matchups, and for some reason they let up. They
let out Curtis Lye with which I think is unfair.
I think they were shocked at how well Sleiwa did,
and had they known he was going to do so
well in this poll, I think they would have included
him in two way matchups, but they didn't originally. So
what we have is just Mom Donnie against Adams. And
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this is why it's so important, because a lot of
people are pressuring either Adams to drop out or Cuomo
to drop out. But in this poll, the one that
would help the Democrats, the ones that would stop Mendanni
is Cuomo because Mom Donnie topples Adams forty three percent
to thirty six percent, closer than I thought it would be.
(04:53):
But Mom Donnie would win against Adams. Listen to this.
Against Cuomo, Donnie would get thirty five percent of the vote. No, no,
no change that they had that written here Rome, but
that's not the way it is. Mom Donnie would get
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thirty five percent of the vote. Cuomo would get fifty
percent of the vote. One more time, just because I
think this is significant. Andrew Cuomo in the new poll
gets fifty percent to Mom Donnie's thirty five percent. That
is a fifteen point advantage for Cuomo. So you expect
(05:36):
to hear him talking a lot about this over the
next couple of days. But as I said in The
Big Three, Andrew Cuomo is just having a really bad day,
a really bad day, because he got hit with a
lawsuit right in the middle of all of this. It
is by remember, at about a year and a half ago,
(05:57):
maybe two years ago, when police commit Sure Caban had
to step down and an interim police commissioner was put in.
He was Thomas Donlan and he was put in and
he claims he was just completely ignored by the Adam administration.
He didn't really have any power, and he said that
they ran it like a criminal organization. And he claims,
(06:18):
he claims in this lawsuit he kept going to Mayor
Adams saying, you know, you've got a lot of stuff
going on here you have to address. I mean, there
is some criminal behavior in the police department that you
need to address. And so he lasted three months and
then he was fired. And it's really a thick document
(06:39):
and it alleges racketeering, corruption, bribery and with Eric Adams,
he claims ignoring all of it and at the head
of what he says was almost an organized crime organization.
And Eric Adams is suspicious of the timing of this. Basically,
it's just going to a little lloy when you played
(07:00):
out in court. Is baseless. This is the season, well,
you're going to see a lot of this stuff. People
wait until this time of the season. They know it's
a political season.
Speaker 8 (07:09):
But it's base list.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And I'll tell you this. James Cassiros, who was a
well known criminal defense attorney in the area, looked through
the whole thing and he said, there's a lot of
smoke there, but no fire.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
This is a monstrous allegation. And what I'm reading is
that none of it has been corroborated. You don't see
anything in reports or attachments that.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Would corroborate it.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
You know, there's an allegation, for example, that this plaintiff
presented his claims to the mayor, and the mayor, you know,
put his stamp of approval on them. This is testimony,
this is you know, he said, she said, and quite frankly,
it's not enough.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
So it does seem like it was time just to
hurt Adams, doesn't it. I mean, if there's really not
a lot there, and this is a guy's disgrundled. He
is discruddled and he's upset, and I get why he's upset.
He was put in, he was a figurehead. They waited
until they could get somebody else. They moved him out
and they did really well. Jessica Tish, I mean, how
can she might be the best police commissioner of all time,
(08:17):
but she's really great, and so Donlin's just upset. But
the thing is, for a while there he was moved
to another job. He didn't get fired, he was moved
to another job in the administration, and he was happy then.
So why the lawsuit now, the lawsuit now seems to
be to hurt Adams because he's upset with Adams that
he didn't get to keep the police commissioner job, and
(08:38):
he was upset with him, and now he's gonna file
this suit against him when it would hurt him the most,
right in the beginning of his mayoral campaign. So we
we'll keep talking about this because it's there. It's there,
it's going to be litigated, but well, you know, we'll
keep it in the back burner to see where this goes.
In the meantime, the campaign continues, and the new thing
(09:01):
from Cuomo is you're gonna hear this word a lot
from him. Mom, Donnie is dangerous. I believe he is
dangerous for the city. I believe being a type business,
anti corporation. The city has no future if it's not grown.
But not the craziest of the Democrats down in Washington, DC,
(09:23):
like the squad, they love them.
Speaker 9 (09:25):
Anybody that's staying out at this point instead of endorsing
this incredible, dynamic leader is missing an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well. That would include the Governor, Kathy Hockel, that would
include the Speaker of the House, Takim Jeffries, those that
are worried about their own political future and think he
might really be bad for the city, and so they're
staying out of it. Kathy Hokl met with him and
still didn't endorse him.
Speaker 9 (09:49):
I said, you have a lot of healing to do
with the Jewish community. Many of your words have been
hurtful and hateful to people and their interpretation of it.
So joh number one is to straighten that relationship out
if you can.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Anyway, the race just got a lot more interesting with
this poll. We'll see if other polls come out and
substantiate it. One of the most successful female solo artists
has died. Will remember the great Connie Francis when we
come right back, plus tickets to see the Who at
a local venue of your choice at a twenty five
(10:23):
stay with us. Connie Francis, who by the way, has
died at the age of eighty seven, was born in Newark,
New Jersey, and her name was Concetta franken Aero in Newark,
New Jersey. And she went on to be one of
the best selling female music artists of all time, not
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only in the United States but internationally. And if you
allow for inflation, like if you took the prices at
the time in the fifties and sixties to today, she
would be the number one selling artist of all time.
She had top ten hit after top ten hit. But
I'm sure the one everybody knows because it's ageless, is
(11:08):
this one that later in life, she seemed to be
on every game show, and she was on talk shows
all the time because she was a hoot. She was
really funny. Remember Natalie. We just did a story on
her a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Just a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Because she joined TikTok and then they interview were about
and she was funny, yeah, and she was still with it.
It's just shocking that just a couple of weeks later
that we lost her. Curtis, who's now in a statistical
tie to be the next mayor of New York, was
a big fan of Connie Francis, which I didn't know
you had a big frien of this era, of this
(11:46):
type of music. So it's really nice. Looked one more
of Connie Francis, just to remember. It hit the top
one hundred and then became number one, and that was
that was the first female artist in history to hit
number one. Now I'm telling you all this right, and
I'm saying how big she was. She was the biggest
female star of the fifties and going into the sixties.
(12:09):
Do you know she's not in the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
I just found that out right now.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Well, they're just sort of changing in the last like
I don't know how many years of not just doing
rock stars. They're doing all kinds of different genres. Maybe
that's what it was.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Well, she was considered as the Timeman. Yeah, it could well,
I think it might be. It is because she's a woman,
and because you know, she's a little bit older than
the rest of them. She was a big star when
the voters weren't there. But they're not supposed to They're
not even supposed to think about that. You know, they're
supposed to go back and as in success and so
she now women are men. She has the most top
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ten hits of any person not to be in the
Hall of Fame. And they have to correct that posthumously.
That would be nice, wouldn't it be? They should do
it this year. They really should. If anybody from the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is listening, and I
hope they are, because I'm taking personal pride in the
(13:09):
fact that I think I got Chubby Checkers into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You probably did, and
I've because I've been pushing that in commentaries for a
long time. I did national commentaries across all the Tribune
stations and pushed it. I did it when I was
at the station in New Jersey. I've done it on
the air here, and I'm sure they had nothing to
do with it, But in my mind, of course, I'm
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the one that got it.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
So much goes on in my mind that I'm responsible for.
I get it. No, hopefully they will, hopefully they will.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
You know, it's more like Alanis mars Set, you know,
the revenge anthems that what well, I mean, that's kind
of what people listen to, is that Who's sorry. Now,
it's like I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna kill you.
You should die.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Even Alanis Morris Set dates us a little bit because
I don't think that's what most people are listening to
right right. But she was incredible. Man. When she burst
on the scene, she was she is an icon of
rock and roll. She is she in the rock and
roll I.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Was just thinking it was we gotta get them all in.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yeah, we'll work on wond at a time. Let's start
with Connie Francis. Yeah, because she just got anyway, Connie Francis,
if you don't know why we're talking about her, she's
dead at the age of eighty seven, one of the
biggest stars ever in music history. Now, let's get the
news at six point thirty with Jacqueline Carl Jacqueline Hilary.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Good morning, President Trump, says the media and some Republicans
are either pushing or falling for what he calls the
Epstein hoax. Trump spoke to reporters Wednesday in the Oval
Office and was asked about the contentious DOJ investigation into
the late sex offender. Trump said he was surprised some
Republicans got duped and more turnover among prosecutors inside the
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Southern District of New York.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
Wednesday, Borenkomi was fired from her post as assistant US
attorney and the high profile Manhattan based Federal Prosecutor's Office. Comy,
the daughter of former FBI Director James Comy, had been
there more than a decade. She had been involved in
the recent prosecution of Sean Diddy Comb's and her past
work included the prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Julaine Maxwell.
(15:19):
President Trump, who's frequently targeted James Comy on social media,
is facing backlash over the Justice Department decision not to
release more information on the Epstein case. Andrew Whitman wo
R News.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
This next story answers the age old questions what you
should not do if you find the skull of a
mythical creature?
Speaker 5 (15:41):
According to the Sun, you know we all wondered.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
According to the Sun last weekend, Canadian tourist John Goodwin
made what he thought might have been the find of
a lifetime. While roaming the grounds near King Arthur's Castle,
Goodwin discovered something resembling a unicorn skull and took it.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Two problems with that.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
First, it was a really well crafted horse skull that
had a cow's horn attached to it. Second, the find
was made on a site of special scientific interest and
anyone caught removing an item from there can be hit
with a fine or jail time. But even though he
felt it was the find of a lifetime, before flying home,
Goodwin reportedly traded the skull for a beer at a pub,
(16:20):
but the manager of the pub says he's happy to
return it to its rifle owners because it's freaking him out.
Can you imagine this spur unicorn skull?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Hey, I'll trade this for a beer.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
There's no unicorn skull, right, I mean no.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Not that I know. Come on, I like to believe
there are. Well, I don't want skulls. I want actual unicorns.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Well, you know, I have breaking news and I'm stunned
by this. Alanis Morrissett is not in the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
What neither are unicorns? That's true, It's just an unjust world.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Alanis Morissett. Apparently she was suppose to perform a couple
of years ago with Carly Simon and Olivia Rodrigo, and
she was passed over that year and decided not to
show up. So she's upset about this. I'm sorry, I'm stunned.
I am shocked that she's not in.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Was her first hit at least twenty five years ago,
because that's the that's the rule.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Oh, that's a that's a good one. Although, no, no,
she was on the list to be inducted. She must be.
It must be. She was on the list to be
inducted and didn't get in.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
And then she withdrew from performing because she wanted to
avoid an environment she felt reduced women.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
To what.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I don't know, Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
All right, Alana, I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I'm not sure what you mean.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
I don't know what you mean, but I'm firmly in
your corner.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
But I'm gonna support you. No, that's that's wow. That's
horrible that she's not in. And speaking of while the
Epstein controversy is not going away. Thanks so much, Jack,
Lncarl the Epstein File. Controversies not going away. We'll tell
you what's happening in Congress next. And you want to
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Speaker 10 (18:27):
If anybody was just in this studio during the break
heard Larry and our engineer Crash.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Going at it.
Speaker 10 (18:37):
And you know what, who wasn't politics, who wasn't Trump,
wasn't Mondami, it wasn't sports.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
We're talking about alanis more.
Speaker 10 (18:46):
Set and whether or not she's big enough to be
in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which fabulous.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Which I believe she is. She was groundbreaking, She had
the biggest albums of all time and Crash said one
album doesn't make a Hall of Famer. One album, and
I said she had bigger hits after that, and by
the way, I just came up with Uninvited, which was
a huge hit.
Speaker 10 (19:08):
Is there anything you can't be passionate about? Because this
is amazing.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Funny thing is you'll ask me about it tomorrow and
I'll go when when did.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
I do that?
Speaker 10 (19:18):
So if you want to go to our talk back,
you know how to do that.
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You go to the Oart radio app.
Speaker 10 (19:24):
Hit that microphone, join in on the conversation about this one.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I need to know well? And who else should be
in the Rock and Wall Hall of Fame.
Speaker 10 (19:31):
I'm not fighting with you ever, It's just not on
my list of things to do.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
No, I'm saying that could be another question too, like
who else should be that his? And I'm not asking
you man, you are really worried about me getting did it?
Was I that bad? Just when I was looking at this,
I just get intense, That's all.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
That's exactly it. It's very intense in the morning.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
How dare he question me about Alanis Moris?
Speaker 10 (19:59):
Anyway?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
On to bigger and better.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah, let's talk about Brian Adams. Now, I'm not as
passionate about Brian Adams. That was crashing my ear. I
can't believe that this Epstein thing has lasted this long.
And not only has it lasted this long, it's grown,
It's grown bigger, it's feeding upon itself. It's in the
(20:23):
halls of Congress right now. And Donald Trump is unbelievably
frustrated by you know, he's dealing with tariffs right now.
He's trying to bring peace in Ukraine. He's arming Ukraine
at the same time he's trying to bring peace in
the Middle East. He's worried about the border. He's got
Ice agents, and this is what he has to deal with.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
It's all been a big hoax. It's perpetrated by the Democrats,
and some stupid Republicans and foolish Republicans fall into the net,
and so they try and do the Democrats work well.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I guess a big supporter of his, Senator Josh Hawley
is one of those stupid Republicans.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
The idea that that dj and the FBI, who prosecuted
cases relating to this don't have any idea who Epstein's
clients were, and that he had no record of it
of the clients.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
I don't know. I find that kind of hard to believe.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
I mean, my view is make public everything you can
make public.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
That's where this all seems to be going. And Speaker
of the House and Mike Johnson came out and said
basically the same thing.
Speaker 11 (21:22):
It's a very delicate subject, but we should we should
put everything out there and let the people decide. I
mean that the White House and the White House team
are privy to facts that I don't know. I mean,
this isn't my lane. Haven't been involved in that, but
but I agree with the sentiment that we need to
we need to put it out there.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
He backed off of that a little bit right afterwards,
and I guess he got a call from the White
House because when he was walking down the hallways he said, well,
you know what, now I understand there's some really sensitive
information in there, which is what I thought all along.
I think that they really wanted to put this out there,
all the files they wanted to put out there, and
then they had lawyers from the Justice Department looking at it,
(21:59):
going through it all before they could put it out there.
And they looked at it and they said, you know what,
you got huge legal problems if you put this out,
huge legal problems because you're naming some people in here
who have not who have only been accused, but it's
never been adjudicated. And if you do that, you're opening
up the federal government to lawsuits. You're opening us up
(22:21):
to lawsuits, and you're opening us to a huge, bigger embarrassment.
It's better to just not do this at all. That's
what I believe happened. I believe they want to, in
their hearts release that, but they're being warned that there's
some sensitive information in there, and that there are some
people names in there that you might be sliming unintentionally,
(22:43):
And because of that, I think that's what's going on.
But to tell you what, the Democrats who never ever
cared about the Epstein files, right all the entire time
under Obama, under Biden, nobody cared, Nobody talked about the
Epstein files in the Democratic Party. They didn't want it out.
(23:03):
They didn't even seem to care, which made you wonder
how many of them made the trip. But now they're
all in and it's the usual suspects like Jamie Raskin.
Speaker 12 (23:16):
Let's release the Epstein files. That guy is a child
sex offender who's convicted of it and then took his
life before the larger trial could take place. His associate
MS Maxwell's in jail for twenty years. The whole country
is saying, release the files. That's what Donald Trump said,
That's what JD. Van said, That's what the Attorney general said,
(23:38):
that's what the FBI director said. And now suddenly they
want to sweep the whole thing under the rug.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yet what they see right now is an opportunity. They
see a division in the Republican Party right now, and
they want to exploit it. That's what's happening. He didn't care,
he didn't care about the Epstein files at all. I
guarantee you can go back and before this week, he
never mentioned the Epstein files, never, And all of a sudden,
(24:06):
the Democrats are all in on the Epstein files, all
of a sudden. They want everything out. Of course, everything's
got to be out now. It is of his it's politics.
I understand that, But it is so glaringly obvious that
this is just an anti Trump thing. They wouldn't be
(24:28):
doing this at all if Donald Trump wasn't embarrassed by it,
and they want to further that embarrassment. Jamie Raskin is
talking about having hearings to find out why they weren't released.
He doesn't care about that. He could care less about that.
And Hakim Jeffries same thing. Hakim Jeffries at his weekly
(24:52):
press conference started with.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
That Option one, they lied for years, Option two engaging
in a cover up.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Listen there, does anybody listen really to the Democratic Party anymore?
I mean, they keep trying to get an issue that
Democrats can rally around, and they're hoping this is the one.
This is it. They've failed. They picked the wrong side
of every issue, and they're thinking, well, you know what,
we've got people that are already galvanized on this issue.
(25:24):
We might as well just jump on the bandwagon. But
there are some people that are upset about it that
I understand, people like Sigrid McAuley. She's a managing partner
for boy Scheller and Flexner and they represented hundreds of
Epstein victims.
Speaker 13 (25:44):
There's a plethora of information that has not been made
public and the government is sitting on that and so
to see this flip flop, it's been really disappointing. I mean,
we were told that that information would be disclosed and
now we're being able to just ignore it.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
So one of the things that has been said that
was really important, what she said. One of the things
that have been said over and over and over again
is well, we can't release this because of the victims.
We can't do this because of the young girls involved.
She represents those young girls, one hundred of them, and
she's saying release it.
Speaker 13 (26:17):
We also know that the government has seized his computers,
and of course on those computers you're going to see
people who were communicating with him, emailing with him, people
he was giving money to people who were giving money
to him. All of that information is really critical, and
I think that's what the outcry is for now. The
outcry is for that information to be disclosed.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Of course, of course this really changes everything, doesn't it.
I mean, if the attorney representing the victims once it released,
then I think that carries a lot more weight than
Jamie Raskin.
Speaker 13 (26:52):
We've said that for years that Epstein could not have
run a twenty plus year sex trafficking operation without the
assistance of others. And so that's what we're seeing here now.
We're seeing a bipartisan call for the information that this
underneath this, that will disclose how this went on for
so long without accountability.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Well, I'll tell you what that changes. Everything. What she's
saying is there's others that financed and helped Epstein, and
they got away scott free. And that's why she wants this,
and that's why the victims want it. And now I'm
saying I want that too, because I yield to them.
We'll talk more about Jerome Powell and Jeffrey Epstein in
(27:34):
just a couple of minutes. But Jerome Powell, a man
you might be thinking about your next job. That's the latest.
We'll have it. Next. I'll tell you what all this
talk about inflation and the tariffs it has turned in.
And doesn't it ring shallow to you at this point
(27:54):
because you've been warned time and time and time again
how prices we're going to be affected immediately, and now
they were going to go up thirty percent and twenty percent,
and our inflation rate was gonna go up higher than
under Joe Biden. Remember Democrats saying that it's going to
get higher under Joe Biden. And he had the highest
inflation rate since Jimmy Carter, the highest in forty years.
(28:15):
You know, it was all this doom and gloom because
of these tariffs, and then what happened. Nothing really inflation
went up, a little bit, went down a couple times,
went up yesterday, not a lot much lower than it
was for three and a half years of Joe Biden.
(28:36):
At the very end he was able to bring it down.
But it's been lower since under Donald Trump, and now
it's up about three percent. You know, we need it
down just a little bit under that. But nothing like
we were warned, nothing like they said was going to happen.
It was going to be awful. People have to move
(28:57):
out of their houses, they're going to have to find
other place to find food, they'll have to go to
food pantry as it was going to be just awful.
And it never was. It just never was. The economy
just kept rolling along and prices went up a little bit,
food went up, other prices went down. Gas prices are down.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
We want to see lower interest rates. Our country deserves it.
We're making a lot of money. We're doing great as
a country where no inflation record, stock market record, business,
everything's a record. Now. We had the worst inflation in
history under Biden and now we have almost no inflation.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
All right, is the master of hyperbole. That wasn't exactly true,
but I you know, you get his point, it wasn't
the highest in history. Under Jimmy Carter it was the highest.
And we're not near zero percent either, but we're low.
We are low, and under Biden it was high. And
under Biden, if you remember, they kept saying, you got
to raise the interest rates, you got to stop it
(30:01):
was runaway inflation. They kept saying to Jerome Palin, to
the Fed, you got to raise the interest weights. What
are you waiting for? And it got worse and worse
and worse and worse. He didn't want to do it,
and he was getting pressure from the Biden administration, and
the one that didn't have the mental capacity to understand
what was going on, they listened to him. They listened
(30:23):
to his administration, Donald Trump, who's saying, inflation's been low
now for month after month after month, why don't you
lower it? Oh, because of the tariffs, Because what's going
to happen next? So listen, Donald Trump is talking about
firing this guy, and he's not there yet, but he
(30:45):
wants to fire him now because he says he's spent
over two billion dollars without congressional approval, without any approval
to renovate the FED building.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I don't know anything, but I think it's highly unlike
unless he has to leave fraud, I mean as possible
to fraud involved with the two point five two point
seven billion dollar renovation. This is a renovation. How do
you spend two point seven billion dollars? And he didn't
have proper clearance, et cetera, et cetera. So you know
(31:17):
that's going on. So you know there could be something
to that.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Yeah, there could be something. And the reason he's laying
that out right now is because he needs cause to
fire him. He just can't let him go. He needs cause.
And so he's slowly bringing out cause as a warning
shot that Jerome Powell. We'll see if he listens, and
we will see if the rates get lowered. By the way,
every time you send us a talkback, and we would love
to hear from you on any of the topics we've
(31:43):
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