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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning to all of you, and thanks for being
with us today on the Big Three Today, problems in
New Jersey. New Jersey transit engineers are ready to go
on strike on May sixteenth, and right now, Jersey transit
officials are not budging on the main sticking point wages.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Somehow believe that they are entitled to make wages like
they live in New York and work in New York.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
A walkout on May sixteenth would force almost one million
passengers searching for some other way to work. We'll have
the contingency plans coming up. A federal judge orders the
release from jail of Columbia student Masen mam Dawi while
he awaits a deportation.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Hearing to President to Trump and his cabinet, i am
not afraid of you.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Another soft on crime group is suing the NYPD to
get rid of their gang database because they claim ready
for it. It's racist.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Let's call it what it is. The database is another
version of stop and frisk. The NYPD has continued stop
and frisk under a new name.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
We'll have the counter argument in just a couple of
minutes from former NYPD officer with new economic data out.
President Trump says, don't blame me if you don't like
the economy.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
This is Biden's economy because we took over on January twentieth,
and I think.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
You have to get us a little bit of time
to get moving. And the Democrats are searching for a
leader of the party and it's been fruitless. Several have
stepped up for the job, including Democratic Vice presidential candidate
Tim Walls. Maybe this will be a slogan I was
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gonna play.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Tried to do the best I can, but I've not
been perfect, and I'm a knucklehead at times.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
That would be a slogan. Man. That would have worked
so much better if it would have happened quicker than that.
But you know, just get that. The computer just stalled
there for a second. Here it is, let me, let
me do it again. Maybe this will be his slogan.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I've tried to do the best I can, but I've
not been perfect, and I'm a knucklehead at times.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
That didn't even work best At that time, I thought
that would make it better. No, Yeah, he is a knucklehead.
See that. That's why he wasn't there on time. If
he would have, if he wasn't a knucklehead. He would
have been there on time. Poor Tim Walls. I mean,
he wants to try to run for president. He thinks
he's a serious candidate, but it would be great to
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have him on the debate stage again, you know, just
for comic relief every once in a while when things
got so is that go Tim, and Tim would be
the funny one in the cast. Let's talk about the
Democrats for a second only because all of the time
we start with something else, and either the news of
the day, we start with Donald Trump. And there's been
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so much focus on Donald Trump, so many attacks on
Donald Trump, so many the media keeps saying, well, donald
Trump is failing. Look at this, look at his poll numbers.
Look at the numbers on the border. They're not as
great as he says they are, which is a lie.
Over and over again. Every success he has, they try
to diminish in some way. So let's talk about the
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Democrats instead. Let's focus on them because everybody's talking about
Donald Trump's approval ratings. The democrats approval ratings are historically low.
They're a joke right now, and quick, just tell me
for a second what do they stand for? What did
the Democrats stand for give me one thing. What do
they want? I know they want to save democracy? What
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does that mean? Exactly? There's nothing. They have no proposals,
they have no leadership there rudderless. There's a lot of
people trying. Oh and guess who came out of her hole.
Guess who made an appearance.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
You are not alone and we are all in this
together and straight talk, Things are probably going to get
worse before they get better.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
How about that for an inspiring speech that just gets
you want to rally around her. Things are gonna get worse. Thanks, Kamala.
That was wonderful. It's funny she thinks she has a
chance to run again, just like Tim Walls. She's a
bit of a joke now. She ran one of the
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worst campaigns in history, and she wants to blame Joe Biden.
She wants to blame the fact that he took too
long to hand it over to her. No, she was awful.
She was awful in interviews. Remember the Joe Rogan interview.
It helped Donald Trump immensely. We were talking to Joe
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Kanha about it the other day. He offered it to
her and she said, no, I can't do three hours.
I just have to do an hour, and I need
to see the questions ahead of time, and I can't
come to your studio. You'll have to come to me,
and we'll have to do it in my offices in
New York. And he said, no, no, thanks. You have
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to do it exactly the same way that Donald Trump
did it. So it's not going to be Kamala Harris
as the leader of the party. Her time is done.
It's certainly not going to be Tim Walls and a knucklehead.
Here's a guy that's trying his darnedest to become the leader,
Gavin Newsom, who said something so moronic again yesterday as
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he tries to erase everything he's done in the past
and become this new moderate candidate. I know we're doge
but better, and we've been doge but better for literally
six years. You know what he's done over the last
six years. He has lost one hundred and seventy three
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thousand private sector jobs in California, one hundred and seventy
three thousand. You know how he made that up by
hiring one hundred and eighty one thousand governmental workers. He
did the same thing that Biden did Biden hired all
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those workers to try to hide the fact that the
state and the country they were bleeding jobs. That is
the exact opposite of Doge. But he just keep he tries.
He's trying to be somebody brand new. Now. He's a
great candidate. He looks good, he speaks well, he's great
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on his feet, but his record is abysmal. The one
I think to watch right now, who has been smart
about everything, but again, once she gets on the main stage,
I think she's going to falter is New York's own
Alexandria Ocassio Cortes. Do you think about running for president
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or senate?
Speaker 6 (07:22):
I name Listen, it's a video, and frankly, I think
what people should be most concerned about is the fact
that publicans are trying to cut medicate right now and
people's healthcare is in danger, and that's really what my
central focus is.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
The video she was talking about was all these videos
she's been putting out as she tours the country with
Bernie Sanders. That got a lot of people thinking that
maybe maybe she's running for president. Actually, we don't have
to say, maybe she's definitely going to run for president,
So rest easy, Chuck, Schumer. You thought she was going
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to run against you, in the polls show she would
beat you. She is definitely running for president. I just
love right now more than anything else. How the Democrats
are eating their own. Remember David Hogg. After the Parkland massacre,
he came out. He was one of the students and
he came out and he was one of the leaders
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for gun control in the country. Well now he's out
of college, he's twenty five years old, and they have
made him vice chair of the Democratic Party. And the
first thing he said coming out of the box was
we got to get rid of some of these old
people that have been in Congress forever. We have to
start primarying them with younger people, which is one of
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the dumbest ideas you could come up with. There's a
lot of safe seats out there. You don't want to
run somebody against them. And that, by the way, it
got the notice of one of those old guys, James
carvill Ow.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
The sky Hag wants to do is they want to
beat like Democrats are not the problem right now, somebody
sue David Halk. He's an officer of the Democrat National Committee.
He is the vice chairman of democract National Committee, and
he's run against other Democrats. But I might give the
DMC ten dollars and sue him. He's a contemptible little tourque.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
So there's this infighting going on and they all are
fighting against Donald Trump. And in the middle of it all,
there was this wonderful moment the other day when Donald
Trump showed up in Michigan and said he was going
to save a military base there. And you know who
he gave credit to. He gave credit to a Democrat, Governor,
Kristin Whitmer. It was a wonderful moment. The two of
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them were on stage thanking each other. The country has
been so divided, and we have this wonderful moment, and
you know what happened. The network's all cut away because
it doesn't fit their narrative. They want the fight. I noticed,
Kid Rock noticed, but.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
I thought this was a really positive thing for our
country when we've all been so divided.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Not one, not one of.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
The mainstream media, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, none of them,
not one word about it. And I have to imagine
that comes from the top. And I've just had enough
with the mainstream media at this point. I believe truly
they are public Enemy number.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
One for our country. Absolutely. They want the divide because
the divide gets ratings, It gets us to watch, it
gets us to fight, It gets us to talk about them,
and so this every time there's a nice moment, you're
not going to see it, but we'll talk about it.
Here seventy three year old NFL coaching legend Bill Belichick
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and his twenty four year old girlfriend are back in
the news. We'll tell you what it is this time,
plus a chance to win sold out tickets to see
Creeden's Clear What a Revival Founder and lead singer John
Fogerty at the Beacon Theater at a twenty five Well,
we always appreciate your talkbacks, as you probably know by now,
but just in case you don't, you go to the
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then you click the talk back feature. There's a microphone,
you record your message and we play it on the air.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
When you're a kid, you touch a hot stove, it burns.
You learn when you listen to somebody lie to you
for year after year after year, you stop listening to them.
It's very simple. I don't know why people even listen
to the media. You all know where they stand. It's
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ridiculous listening to them.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Well, you touched on my favorite topic. We talked about
that yesterday. I just talked about it a second ago. Yeah,
I don't know what happened to the media. Well I do,
I do. I'll tell you just a quick story. Years ago,
right when Fox News was becoming extremely popular, I was
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giving a talk at a college and somebody in the
audience asked me, what do you think of Fox News?
And this was my sir, And I've told this story
probably a thousand times since then, in different symposiums and
in different things I've attended. I'd said to them at
the time, I understand why Fox News exists because there
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was absolutely a liberal slant among the networks and someone
had to come in and fill that void. You couldn't
only just get one side. But it wasn't like it
is now. But I said with that, I said that
being said, it is the worst thing that ever happened
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to journalism, because there's going to be an equal and
opposite reaction. This is before MSNBC made their big change,
this is before CNN made their big change. I said
at that time, and this was again probably twenty twenty
five years ago. I said at the time, there's going
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to be other networks that are going to spring up
to be the yin to Fox News is Yang. They
are going to be far to the left and Fox
News will be to the right. And of course here
we are. I also said, then what happens next is
you're going to be special interest channels? Is the NRA
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going to have Is Planned Parenthood going to have a network?
And what do you know, NRA does have a network.
So I saw this coming a long time ago, and
it has polarized us because now you can go to
a network that will not always enlighten you, although all
of the networks try to do it at least a
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little bit during the day, but they will feed into
your bias and allow you to be comfortably biased, comfortably
one sided, comfortably one minded. But I think we're so
far gone right now there's no getting back. And so
that was a longer answer than you probably wanted. But yes,
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what I'm the most disappointed with are CBS, ABC and NBC.
They're supposed to be impartial, and you're right, you are
absolutely right. They manipulate the news they lie, which is
a form of lying. But the biggest bias is the
bias biomission, and it's the way they cover things, covering
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only one side and not the other side. To me,
for the three networks, it's embarrassing. Well, let's talk about
something that looked like it was embarrassing at first, but
now he's come out and explained. It is the interview
we talked about yesterday with Bill Belichick and who's seventy
three years old and his twenty four year old girlfriend.
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Then it was a Natalie saw it. I didn't see
it except for clips of it, but they were asking
Bill Belichick questions and she was in the background and
every once in a while, like a muppet should raise
her head and should answer, or should say he's not
answering that right.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
And you had the exact way of describing it like
a publicist when we do interviews with publicists might come
they kind of stand in the corner and they'll look
at you like, Nope, we're not going down down that road.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
Nope, No.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And it was ridiculed and she would only pop up
really when they asked about their relationship. That's what they
didn't want to talk about. And at the time it
was that Belichick and her were ridiculed, they were made
fun of. But he has come out now and gave
a statement, and this really does kind of make sense
and kind of vindicates them a little bit. He said,
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I agreed to speak with CBS Sunday morning to promote
my new book, The Art of Winning, Lessons from My
Life in Football. Prior to this interview, I clearly communicated
with my publicist and Simon and Schuster that any promotional
interviews I participated in would agree to focus solely on
the content tense of the book and on football. Belichick
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said he was surprised about getting the questions about his
relationship and his girlfriend. Hudson then stepped in. He says
she was doing her job. She was doing what I
asked her to do. He went on to accuse CBS
of creating a false narrative and so called selectively editing clips.
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See it all plays into the talkback. It's the media
again not following instructions and not following the rules.
Speaker 9 (16:31):
The publisher did, though, come back and say they had
approval of a wide ranging interview.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
So well they didn't tell Bill Belichack apparently well miscommunication. Guys.
I think his next book will be with another publisher. Now,
let's get the news at six point thirty with Jacqueline
Carl Jacquelin, Good Morning.
Speaker 10 (16:50):
Thousands of protesters are expected to gather in cities across
the US today to rail against Trump policies. May first
is May Day, which is so operated around the world
as International Labor Day. In the US, May Day rallies
will focus on the thousands of federal workers who lost
their jobs because of DOGE cuts and other concerns about
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the Trump administration, including immigration rais and DEI rollbacks. And
if you ride the Long Island Railroad in and out
of New York's Penn Station or Amtrak to New Rochelle
and beyond, get ready for a commuting nightmare.
Speaker 11 (17:25):
That's because Amtrak plans to do major Superstorm Sandy tunnel
repairs beginning next month that would continue for three years.
Two out of four tunnels are crumbling because of storm
flooding and needs to be gutted and rebuilt. Amtrak, which
owns the tunnels, is proposing shutting the tunnels down one
at a time and working around the clock to fix them.
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That would cut capacity by twenty five percent, causing commuting
delays and disruptions. Governor Hochele is urging Amtrak to look
for a different solution, such as late night or weekend shutdowns,
but Amtrak says there's no other way. Sarah Lee Kessler
wor News.
Speaker 10 (18:04):
And this has sparked a big media debate. According to Today,
This woman Jessica Molina, recently shared her mom's Mother's Day
rule for gifts. If it's something used for cleaning, decorating,
or maintaining the house, it is not a Mother's Day present.
While some of her TikTok followers have a different perspective,
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One woman says, if it makes my life easier, I
want it. She shares another comment, give me anything for
my kitchen and I'm delighted. But plenty of her TikTok
followers agreed they don't want stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
To clean the house. What do you guys think.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
Clean the house?
Speaker 8 (18:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
No.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I support that.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
I love kitchen things. So somebody wants to give me
a really nice, expensive you know, lach crousette pan or something.
I mean, I wouldn't be totally against that, although there
might be other things I'd like better, but cleaning supplies
or I go vacuum anything.
Speaker 10 (19:02):
Anything that has to do with a cleaning no house
or a cleaning service would be fine.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I will tell you this though, there's a difference with mothers.
When they get a gift from their husband, like a
cleaning supply, they're gonna face hell for doing that. Yeah,
when one of the kids give me it's the nicest
thing you ever gave me. Of course, of course, thank
you so much. And I'm like, I just gave you
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the same thing, doesn't matter, but his is so much nicer.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
Absolutely, it was from the heart.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I've told the story several times, but I love it.
It's when Dawn and I first started dating, and now
we've been married for twenty years, and that was when
she said to me, I won three things when you
give me a gift jewel, la ree, And so I've
learned that lesson now over the years. Anything that I
give her, we love don Thanks so much, Jacqueline Carl
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was a cabinet meeting to remember, and it was all
open to the media. We'll go over the highlights next
and don't forget. You can leave us a talk back
all morning long. Go to seven ten wor on the
iHeartRadio app and click the microphone and when you were there,
put seven ten wor on your presets. The greatest thing
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that has happened with Donald Trump. A lot of good
things have happened, but one of the best things when
it comes to media coverage, when it comes to knowing
what your government's doing, to come to when it comes
to openness of your government and access to your government,
is the fact that he opens up his cabinet meetings
to the media so we can all see what's going on.
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And everybody talks about the fact that he has such
a big ego and it's all about him. And how
about the fact that he opens up these meetings and
lets everybody talk. He lets everybody have their moment to
talk about what's important in their field. He goes all
the way around the room. I've never seen that before,
and I think it's amazing. I know everybody has let
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cameras in to the cabinet meetings, but they say something
in the beginning and then the media's shuffled off. They're
all pushed out of the room quickly. These cabinet meetings
sometimes are open for an hour and everybody gets to
talk and they get to watch some of the negotiations
in the back and forth. Now, you know, I know
that there's some things that the media can't hear, and
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there's some state secrets, and there's some very confidential things
that happen, and so they do have to be escorted
out for a moment. But you know, just let's sit
back for a second and just say that this is
the most open administration in history, Absolutely the most open
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administration we've ever had in the history of the United States.
No one has been this accessible to the media ever.
And I hope this continues. Wouldn't that be wonderful if
future presidents see what Donald Trump did and said that's
the way it should happen, instead of hiding people away
from us, instead of keeping everything a secret. As if
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the American people they're not going to be able to
understand all of this, we have to leave them. We
have to make certain that we keep some things from them.
I agree, some things, not everything, especially like the last
couple of administrations. So as they went around the room,
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everybody seemed to make some news. That's what was the
best part about it. So we can start with Marco Rubio,
and Marco Rubio dealt with the fact that the Democrats
are so obsessed with Kilmar Abrigo Garcia and getting him back,
and he wanted to let them know that what he
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does when it comes to that and El Salvador is
none of their business. He can't tell them about conversations
he has with a head of state or some people
in the other that are high ranking like his, the
other Secretary of States, or the other defense ministers. He
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can't share all of that because then nobody would talk
to him. And he made that abundantly clear.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Well, I would never tell you that, and you know
who else. I'll never tell a judge, because the conduct
of our foreign policy belongs to the President of the
United States and.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
The executive branch, now some judge.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
So we will conduct foreign policy appropriately if we need to,
but I'll never discuss it, and no one I'll love
her to make us discussing, because that's how foreign policy works.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Speaking of judges, Pam Bondi, of course, was also there.
She is the Attorney General and she's part of the cabinet.
She gave a rundown of how many lawsuits there have
been from liberal Democratic judges against this administration, over two hundred.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
Law seas over fifty injunctions, and now we've got multiple
cases in front of this Supreme Court and we will succeed,
and we are doing great in front of the Supreme Court. President,
and we'll continue on with that.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
That is the weapon. Well, you knew that. You knew
that was the weapon before because they went after Donald
Trump with all of these bogus cases and lawsuits, and
the only ones that were successful happened in New York.
Everything else failed. But that was You'd have to be
an idiot not to see that that was all contrived
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and it was all a political plan, and there has
to be some investigation into that because that can't be
allowed to ever happen again. Christy nom wanted to set
the media straight while they were there about the fact
that there's a story out there that there were more
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deportations under Biden, which is so ridiculous under Biden than
Donald Trump.
Speaker 12 (24:56):
The one thing that I want to point out is
the fake news has been saying that Biden deported more
people than you, and it's an absolute lie. And they're
letting the Biden administration get away with manipulating and cooking
the books. What they're counting for the Biden administration is
every single person that came to that border that they
processed and led into this country. They're allowing Biden to
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say that was a deportation just by processizing somebody and
letting them come into the country. It's absolutely false.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
It's not true at all. And it takes just a
little bit of reporting, just a little bit of an
investigation to find out that that was false. And the
media didn't do it. Because here's the thing. If the
Trump administration had tried to tell them something, they would
investigate that, they wouldn't report it, especially if it was positive.
But if the Biden administration tells them something, or the
Democrats tell them something, it must be true, and they
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printed and they've gotten burnt time and time again. You'd
think by now they've learned now. Jdvance of course was there,
and JD. Vance also wanted to lecture the media. He's
upset that ridiculous things get covered and that there's all
of these illegal immigrants that are being sent out of
the country that becomes celebrities because the Democrats encircle them
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and make them a cause, and yet they're ignoring what
he believes are the bigger stories.
Speaker 13 (26:19):
Why did we go from a military where people didn't
want to serve to now all of a sudden, they
do want to serve. That's a story you guys should cover.
But compared to that, how much time have you instead
focused on the fact that we deported an MS thirteen
gang member with a valid deportation order. And why is
it that the press is so focused on the fake bs.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Rather than what's really going on in the country. It
is amazing. And since he was talking about this and
asking that it be covered, let me tell you right
now that recruitment for all branches of government is up
over one hundred percent. As soon as Donald Trump got
in and got rid of those ridiculous DEI policies and
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went back to the standards that we've always had with
the military for field battle preparation, recruitment went back up
because now they knew they were looking for war fighters again,
they knew they were serious about lethality. Biden wasn't. Nobody
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was joining. The recruitment was down almost fifty percent under Biden,
and they were having a real problem. They were trying
to do anything anything to get people to join. Nobody
would join. Four years of recruitment going down. We were suffering.
It was an emergency. Donald Trump comes into office, it
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turns around immediately. These are things that don't get covered.
And it's important to know that with item after item,
he is fixing some man major, major problems we've been having.
So God bless JD. Evans for bringing that up. What
happens if the New Jersey Transit engineers go on strike?
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While New Jersey Transit has a backup plan, we'll share
it with you next. Just under a million people take
Jersey Transit into New York. They commute on New Jersey Transit,
just under a million people. If the engineers go on
strike and shut things down, it can It could be chaos.
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And right now they had a negotiating meeting yesterday and
things didn't go well. Both signs are still far apart.
So the date for a possible strike is May sixteenth.
The New Jersey commuters are fearful.
Speaker 8 (28:48):
Don't go on strike.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Let's figure something out, something, come back to the table,
whatever the case may be, but please don't go on shrike.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
It would be tragic. But whatever, what are the conductors
and the drivers and so forth are asking for? They
should just shut up and give it to them, Well,
they're asking for a lot. They're asking for a lot
of money.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
They are.
Speaker 9 (29:12):
I mean, what I've been seeing is that they're saying
that other conductors and train employees and other you know,
say the labr or whatever, are making a twenty percent
more than them.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
So I guess they're asking well, even other unions on
Jersey trans that are making twenty percent more than them,
But some of the people on Amtrack and that work
in the city make substantially more than them, substantially more.
And so the answer from Chris Caruley, who is the
president and CEO of New Jersey Transit.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Is this somehow believe that they are entitled to make
wages like they live in New York and work in
New York.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
What he is saying is you can't compare yourself to Amtrak,
and don't compare yourself to some of the New York engineers.
This isn't New York, this isn't New Jersey. This is
New Jersey. The cost of living is and is high.
I'm not defending what he said, I'm just kind of
explaining what he said. Trust me, I don't know what
the negotiations are right now, because both sides aren't going
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to tell you exactly the truth. Like, for instance, they're
claiming Jersey Transit is claiming that the union is asking
for one hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Now, that would
be ridiculous to ask for a one hundred percent raise,
So I have a hard time believing that is true.
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This is what Tim Hass, Tom Hass, excuse me, the
General chairman of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, says.
Speaker 14 (30:48):
They need to come to us with an agreement that
really addresses the wage disparity that engineers at New Jersey
Transit see when they're compared to almost every other passenger
railroad in the end United States. This is the reason
why New Jersey Transit is bleeding engineers right now.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
And if they don't.
Speaker 14 (31:05):
Correct it, even if we're able to avert a workstopage,
it's going to lead to more and more summers of hell.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
So I don't know, I mean, you kept hearing about
this twenty percent disparity. I don't know if twenty percent
would do it. If twenty percent would do it, they
should just offer it to them. That's not going to
kill them. And they haven't had a contract for a long,
long time. In the meantime, let's just talk about the
commuters and what they're going to have to do, because
I'm sure commuters are panicked, and I'm not sure you're
going to like the solution that Chris colorI, the president
(31:37):
and CEO of New Jersey Transit, lays out. He says,
take the bus.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
We intend to take the current bus lines that exist
and enhance them where appropriate, and target our focus on
New York City because forty percent of our bus riders
go to New York every day and seventy two percent
of our rail riders go to New York every day. Second,
we'll have four parking rides throughout the state that will
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have supplemental bus service.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Four four, Then he adds four there. He also adds,
maybe you should work at home. I have so much
to say. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 9 (32:19):
First off, I live near probably one of those parking rides. Yeah,
tell me where all the people are going to park
at the parking ride.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
It's a parking ride. There's not enough.
Speaker 9 (32:29):
Spots for all those people. With those extra buses, You'll
get to the parking ride and you won't be able
to park.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Okay, where you're gonna go and they think, well that
solves the problem.
Speaker 9 (32:42):
Train carries one thousand people, a bus carries about one hundred.
You're gonna have ten extra buses for each train. That's
not gonna be running.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Fired up like it. Did you hear the part about
saying you could stay home and work. Yeah, okay, I'll
try to do that.
Speaker 9 (32:57):
Let me see what my employer thinks about that.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
Can you give me a.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Note buses or trains when you come in, right?
Speaker 9 (33:04):
And could you give me a note from my employer?
Speaker 10 (33:06):
Then I'm gonna be working from home.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
You're speaking for everything. I'm done because this is an
election for you, right, are you? Okay? No, I'm not.
I've never seen her so fired up. I know who
knew because it's a ridiculous suggestion. Well, he's saying you
can also work at home too, okay, so he should
just give up the money. You're like the people that
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we that we talked to on the street. Just give
him the money. Just give him exactly what they want.
You're gonna pay for it.
Speaker 9 (33:32):
I think you just have a better plan.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Maybe they should have limo drivers. Maybe they should have
limo drivers and pick people up at their homes. One
hundred days of Donald Trump.
Speaker 13 (33:45):
W o R.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
White House correspondent John Decker has covered every president, going
back to Bill Clinton. He'll talk with us after the
seven o'clock news
Good morning to all of you, and thanks for being
with us today on the Big Three Today, problems in
New Jersey. New Jersey transit engineers are ready to go
on strike on May sixteenth, and right now, Jersey transit
officials are not budging on the main sticking point wages.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Somehow believe that they are entitled to make wages like
they live in New York and work in New York.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
A walkout on May sixteenth would force almost one million
passengers searching for some other way to work. We'll have
the contingency plans coming up. A federal judge orders the
release from jail of Columbia student Masen mam Dawi while
he awaits a deportation.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Hearing to President to Trump and his cabinet, i am
not afraid of you.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Another soft on crime group is suing the NYPD to
get rid of their gang database because they claim ready
for it. It's racist.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Let's call it what it is. The database is another
version of stop and frisk. The NYPD has continued stop
and frisk under a new name.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
We'll have the counter argument in just a couple of
minutes from former NYPD officer with new economic data out.
President Trump says, don't blame me if you don't like
the economy.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
This is Biden's economy because we took over on January twentieth,
and I think.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
You have to get us a little bit of time
to get moving. And the Democrats are searching for a
leader of the party and it's been fruitless. Several have
stepped up for the job, including Democratic Vice presidential candidate
Tim Walls. Maybe this will be a slogan I was
(02:07):
gonna play.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Tried to do the best I can, but I've not
been perfect, and I'm a knucklehead at times.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
That would be a slogan. Man. That would have worked
so much better if it would have happened quicker than that.
But you know, just get that. The computer just stalled
there for a second. Here it is, let me, let
me do it again. Maybe this will be his slogan.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I've tried to do the best I can, but I've
not been perfect, and I'm a knucklehead at times.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
That didn't even work best At that time, I thought
that would make it better. No, Yeah, he is a knucklehead.
See that. That's why he wasn't there on time. If
he would have, if he wasn't a knucklehead. He would
have been there on time. Poor Tim Walls. I mean,
he wants to try to run for president. He thinks
he's a serious candidate, but it would be great to
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have him on the debate stage again, you know, just
for comic relief every once in a while when things
got so is that go Tim, and Tim would be
the funny one in the cast. Let's talk about the
Democrats for a second only because all of the time
we start with something else, and either the news of
the day, we start with Donald Trump. And there's been
(03:16):
so much focus on Donald Trump, so many attacks on
Donald Trump, so many the media keeps saying, well, donald
Trump is failing. Look at this, look at his poll numbers.
Look at the numbers on the border. They're not as
great as he says they are, which is a lie.
Over and over again. Every success he has, they try
to diminish in some way. So let's talk about the
(03:38):
Democrats instead. Let's focus on them because everybody's talking about
Donald Trump's approval ratings. The democrats approval ratings are historically low.
They're a joke right now, and quick, just tell me
for a second what do they stand for? What did
the Democrats stand for give me one thing. What do
they want? I know they want to save democracy? What
(04:02):
does that mean? Exactly? There's nothing. They have no proposals,
they have no leadership there rudderless. There's a lot of
people trying. Oh and guess who came out of her hole.
Guess who made an appearance.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
You are not alone and we are all in this
together and straight talk, Things are probably going to get
worse before they get better.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
How about that for an inspiring speech that just gets
you want to rally around her. Things are gonna get worse. Thanks, Kamala.
That was wonderful. It's funny she thinks she has a
chance to run again, just like Tim Walls. She's a
bit of a joke now. She ran one of the
(04:49):
worst campaigns in history, and she wants to blame Joe Biden.
She wants to blame the fact that he took too
long to hand it over to her. No, she was awful.
She was awful in interviews. Remember the Joe Rogan interview.
It helped Donald Trump immensely. We were talking to Joe
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Kanha about it the other day. He offered it to
her and she said, no, I can't do three hours.
I just have to do an hour, and I need
to see the questions ahead of time, and I can't
come to your studio. You'll have to come to me,
and we'll have to do it in my offices in
New York. And he said, no, no, thanks. You have
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to do it exactly the same way that Donald Trump
did it. So it's not going to be Kamala Harris
as the leader of the party. Her time is done.
It's certainly not going to be Tim Walls and a knucklehead.
Here's a guy that's trying his darnedest to become the leader,
Gavin Newsom, who said something so moronic again yesterday as
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he tries to erase everything he's done in the past
and become this new moderate candidate. I know we're doge
but better, and we've been doge but better for literally
six years. You know what he's done over the last
six years. He has lost one hundred and seventy three
(06:18):
thousand private sector jobs in California, one hundred and seventy
three thousand. You know how he made that up by
hiring one hundred and eighty one thousand governmental workers. He
did the same thing that Biden did Biden hired all
(06:38):
those workers to try to hide the fact that the
state and the country they were bleeding jobs. That is
the exact opposite of Doge. But he just keep he tries.
He's trying to be somebody brand new. Now. He's a
great candidate. He looks good, he speaks well, he's great
(06:59):
on his feet, but his record is abysmal. The one
I think to watch right now, who has been smart
about everything, but again, once she gets on the main stage,
I think she's going to falter is New York's own
Alexandria Ocassio Cortes. Do you think about running for president
(07:21):
or senate?
Speaker 6 (07:22):
I name Listen, it's a video, and frankly, I think
what people should be most concerned about is the fact
that publicans are trying to cut medicate right now and
people's healthcare is in danger, and that's really what my
central focus is.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
The video she was talking about was all these videos
she's been putting out as she tours the country with
Bernie Sanders. That got a lot of people thinking that
maybe maybe she's running for president. Actually, we don't have
to say, maybe she's definitely going to run for president,
So rest easy, Chuck, Schumer. You thought she was going
(08:00):
to run against you, in the polls show she would
beat you. She is definitely running for president. I just
love right now more than anything else. How the Democrats
are eating their own. Remember David Hogg. After the Parkland massacre,
he came out. He was one of the students and
he came out and he was one of the leaders
(08:21):
for gun control in the country. Well now he's out
of college, he's twenty five years old, and they have
made him vice chair of the Democratic Party. And the
first thing he said coming out of the box was
we got to get rid of some of these old
people that have been in Congress forever. We have to
start primarying them with younger people, which is one of
(08:41):
the dumbest ideas you could come up with. There's a
lot of safe seats out there. You don't want to
run somebody against them. And that, by the way, it
got the notice of one of those old guys, James
carvill Ow.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
The sky Hag wants to do is they want to
beat like Democrats are not the problem right now, somebody
sue David Halk. He's an officer of the Democrat National Committee.
He is the vice chairman of democract National Committee, and
he's run against other Democrats. But I might give the
DMC ten dollars and sue him. He's a contemptible little tourque.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
So there's this infighting going on and they all are
fighting against Donald Trump. And in the middle of it all,
there was this wonderful moment the other day when Donald
Trump showed up in Michigan and said he was going
to save a military base there. And you know who
he gave credit to. He gave credit to a Democrat, Governor,
Kristin Whitmer. It was a wonderful moment. The two of
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them were on stage thanking each other. The country has
been so divided, and we have this wonderful moment, and
you know what happened. The network's all cut away because
it doesn't fit their narrative. They want the fight. I noticed,
Kid Rock noticed, but.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
I thought this was a really positive thing for our
country when we've all been so divided.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Not one, not one of.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
The mainstream media, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, none of them,
not one word about it. And I have to imagine
that comes from the top. And I've just had enough
with the mainstream media at this point. I believe truly
they are public Enemy number.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
One for our country. Absolutely. They want the divide because
the divide gets ratings, It gets us to watch, it
gets us to fight, It gets us to talk about them,
and so this every time there's a nice moment, you're
not going to see it, but we'll talk about it.
Here seventy three year old NFL coaching legend Bill Belichick
(10:36):
and his twenty four year old girlfriend are back in
the news. We'll tell you what it is this time,
plus a chance to win sold out tickets to see
Creeden's Clear What a Revival Founder and lead singer John
Fogerty at the Beacon Theater at a twenty five Well,
we always appreciate your talkbacks, as you probably know by now,
but just in case you don't, you go to the
(10:56):
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then you click the talk back feature. There's a microphone,
you record your message and we play it on the air.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
When you're a kid, you touch a hot stove, it burns.
You learn when you listen to somebody lie to you
for year after year after year, you stop listening to them.
It's very simple. I don't know why people even listen
to the media. You all know where they stand. It's
(11:27):
ridiculous listening to them.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Well, you touched on my favorite topic. We talked about
that yesterday. I just talked about it a second ago. Yeah,
I don't know what happened to the media. Well I do,
I do. I'll tell you just a quick story. Years ago,
right when Fox News was becoming extremely popular, I was
(11:52):
giving a talk at a college and somebody in the
audience asked me, what do you think of Fox News?
And this was my sir, And I've told this story
probably a thousand times since then, in different symposiums and
in different things I've attended. I'd said to them at
the time, I understand why Fox News exists because there
(12:15):
was absolutely a liberal slant among the networks and someone
had to come in and fill that void. You couldn't
only just get one side. But it wasn't like it
is now. But I said with that, I said that
being said, it is the worst thing that ever happened
(12:37):
to journalism, because there's going to be an equal and
opposite reaction. This is before MSNBC made their big change,
this is before CNN made their big change. I said
at that time, and this was again probably twenty twenty
five years ago. I said at the time, there's going
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to be other networks that are going to spring up
to be the yin to Fox News is Yang. They
are going to be far to the left and Fox
News will be to the right. And of course here
we are. I also said, then what happens next is
you're going to be special interest channels? Is the NRA
(13:18):
going to have Is Planned Parenthood going to have a network?
And what do you know, NRA does have a network.
So I saw this coming a long time ago, and
it has polarized us because now you can go to
a network that will not always enlighten you, although all
of the networks try to do it at least a
(13:39):
little bit during the day, but they will feed into
your bias and allow you to be comfortably biased, comfortably
one sided, comfortably one minded. But I think we're so
far gone right now there's no getting back. And so
that was a longer answer than you probably wanted. But yes,
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what I'm the most disappointed with are CBS, ABC and NBC.
They're supposed to be impartial, and you're right, you are
absolutely right. They manipulate the news they lie, which is
a form of lying. But the biggest bias is the
bias biomission, and it's the way they cover things, covering
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only one side and not the other side. To me,
for the three networks, it's embarrassing. Well, let's talk about
something that looked like it was embarrassing at first, but
now he's come out and explained. It is the interview
we talked about yesterday with Bill Belichick and who's seventy
three years old and his twenty four year old girlfriend.
(14:49):
Then it was a Natalie saw it. I didn't see
it except for clips of it, but they were asking
Bill Belichick questions and she was in the background and
every once in a while, like a muppet should raise
her head and should answer, or should say he's not
answering that right.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
And you had the exact way of describing it like
a publicist when we do interviews with publicists might come
they kind of stand in the corner and they'll look
at you like, Nope, we're not going down down that road.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
Nope, No.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And it was ridiculed and she would only pop up
really when they asked about their relationship. That's what they
didn't want to talk about. And at the time it
was that Belichick and her were ridiculed, they were made
fun of. But he has come out now and gave
a statement, and this really does kind of make sense
and kind of vindicates them a little bit. He said,
(15:39):
I agreed to speak with CBS Sunday morning to promote
my new book, The Art of Winning, Lessons from My
Life in Football. Prior to this interview, I clearly communicated
with my publicist and Simon and Schuster that any promotional
interviews I participated in would agree to focus solely on
the content tense of the book and on football. Belichick
(16:03):
said he was surprised about getting the questions about his
relationship and his girlfriend. Hudson then stepped in. He says
she was doing her job. She was doing what I
asked her to do. He went on to accuse CBS
of creating a false narrative and so called selectively editing clips.
(16:23):
See it all plays into the talkback. It's the media
again not following instructions and not following the rules.
Speaker 9 (16:31):
The publisher did, though, come back and say they had
approval of a wide ranging interview.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
So well they didn't tell Bill Belichack apparently well miscommunication. Guys.
I think his next book will be with another publisher. Now,
let's get the news at six point thirty with Jacqueline
Carl Jacquelin, Good Morning.
Speaker 10 (16:50):
Thousands of protesters are expected to gather in cities across
the US today to rail against Trump policies. May first
is May Day, which is so operated around the world
as International Labor Day. In the US, May Day rallies
will focus on the thousands of federal workers who lost
their jobs because of DOGE cuts and other concerns about
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the Trump administration, including immigration rais and DEI rollbacks. And
if you ride the Long Island Railroad in and out
of New York's Penn Station or Amtrak to New Rochelle
and beyond, get ready for a commuting nightmare.
Speaker 11 (17:25):
That's because Amtrak plans to do major Superstorm Sandy tunnel
repairs beginning next month that would continue for three years.
Two out of four tunnels are crumbling because of storm
flooding and needs to be gutted and rebuilt. Amtrak, which
owns the tunnels, is proposing shutting the tunnels down one
at a time and working around the clock to fix them.
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That would cut capacity by twenty five percent, causing commuting
delays and disruptions. Governor Hochele is urging Amtrak to look
for a different solution, such as late night or weekend shutdowns,
but Amtrak says there's no other way. Sarah Lee Kessler
wor News.
Speaker 10 (18:04):
And this has sparked a big media debate. According to Today,
This woman Jessica Molina, recently shared her mom's Mother's Day
rule for gifts. If it's something used for cleaning, decorating,
or maintaining the house, it is not a Mother's Day present.
While some of her TikTok followers have a different perspective,
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One woman says, if it makes my life easier, I
want it. She shares another comment, give me anything for
my kitchen and I'm delighted. But plenty of her TikTok
followers agreed they don't want stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
To clean the house. What do you guys think.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
Clean the house?
Speaker 8 (18:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
No.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I support that.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
I love kitchen things. So somebody wants to give me
a really nice, expensive you know, lach crousette pan or something.
I mean, I wouldn't be totally against that, although there
might be other things I'd like better, but cleaning supplies
or I go vacuum anything.
Speaker 10 (19:02):
Anything that has to do with a cleaning no house
or a cleaning service would be fine.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I will tell you this though, there's a difference with mothers.
When they get a gift from their husband, like a
cleaning supply, they're gonna face hell for doing that. Yeah,
when one of the kids give me it's the nicest
thing you ever gave me. Of course, of course, thank
you so much. And I'm like, I just gave you
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the same thing, doesn't matter, but his is so much nicer.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
Absolutely, it was from the heart.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I've told the story several times, but I love it.
It's when Dawn and I first started dating, and now
we've been married for twenty years, and that was when
she said to me, I won three things when you
give me a gift jewel, la ree, And so I've
learned that lesson now over the years. Anything that I
give her, we love don Thanks so much, Jacqueline Carl
(20:00):
was a cabinet meeting to remember, and it was all
open to the media. We'll go over the highlights next
and don't forget. You can leave us a talk back
all morning long. Go to seven ten wor on the
iHeartRadio app and click the microphone and when you were there,
put seven ten wor on your presets. The greatest thing
(20:20):
that has happened with Donald Trump. A lot of good
things have happened, but one of the best things when
it comes to media coverage, when it comes to knowing
what your government's doing, to come to when it comes
to openness of your government and access to your government,
is the fact that he opens up his cabinet meetings
to the media so we can all see what's going on.
(20:42):
And everybody talks about the fact that he has such
a big ego and it's all about him. And how
about the fact that he opens up these meetings and
lets everybody talk. He lets everybody have their moment to
talk about what's important in their field. He goes all
the way around the room. I've never seen that before,
and I think it's amazing. I know everybody has let
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cameras in to the cabinet meetings, but they say something
in the beginning and then the media's shuffled off. They're
all pushed out of the room quickly. These cabinet meetings
sometimes are open for an hour and everybody gets to
talk and they get to watch some of the negotiations
in the back and forth. Now, you know, I know
that there's some things that the media can't hear, and
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there's some state secrets, and there's some very confidential things
that happen, and so they do have to be escorted
out for a moment. But you know, just let's sit
back for a second and just say that this is
the most open administration in history, Absolutely the most open
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administration we've ever had in the history of the United States.
No one has been this accessible to the media ever.
And I hope this continues. Wouldn't that be wonderful if
future presidents see what Donald Trump did and said that's
the way it should happen, instead of hiding people away
from us, instead of keeping everything a secret. As if
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the American people they're not going to be able to
understand all of this, we have to leave them. We
have to make certain that we keep some things from them.
I agree, some things, not everything, especially like the last
couple of administrations. So as they went around the room,
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everybody seemed to make some news. That's what was the
best part about it. So we can start with Marco Rubio,
and Marco Rubio dealt with the fact that the Democrats
are so obsessed with Kilmar Abrigo Garcia and getting him back,
and he wanted to let them know that what he
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does when it comes to that and El Salvador is
none of their business. He can't tell them about conversations
he has with a head of state or some people
in the other that are high ranking like his, the
other Secretary of States, or the other defense ministers. He
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can't share all of that because then nobody would talk
to him. And he made that abundantly clear.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Well, I would never tell you that, and you know
who else. I'll never tell a judge, because the conduct
of our foreign policy belongs to the President of the
United States and.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
The executive branch, now some judge.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
So we will conduct foreign policy appropriately if we need to,
but I'll never discuss it, and no one I'll love
her to make us discussing, because that's how foreign policy works.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Speaking of judges, Pam Bondi, of course, was also there.
She is the Attorney General and she's part of the cabinet.
She gave a rundown of how many lawsuits there have
been from liberal Democratic judges against this administration, over two hundred.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
Law seas over fifty injunctions, and now we've got multiple
cases in front of this Supreme Court and we will succeed,
and we are doing great in front of the Supreme Court. President,
and we'll continue on with that.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
That is the weapon. Well, you knew that. You knew
that was the weapon before because they went after Donald
Trump with all of these bogus cases and lawsuits, and
the only ones that were successful happened in New York.
Everything else failed. But that was You'd have to be
an idiot not to see that that was all contrived
(24:27):
and it was all a political plan, and there has
to be some investigation into that because that can't be
allowed to ever happen again. Christy nom wanted to set
the media straight while they were there about the fact
that there's a story out there that there were more
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deportations under Biden, which is so ridiculous under Biden than
Donald Trump.
Speaker 12 (24:56):
The one thing that I want to point out is
the fake news has been saying that Biden deported more
people than you, and it's an absolute lie. And they're
letting the Biden administration get away with manipulating and cooking
the books. What they're counting for the Biden administration is
every single person that came to that border that they
processed and led into this country. They're allowing Biden to
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say that was a deportation just by processizing somebody and
letting them come into the country. It's absolutely false.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
It's not true at all. And it takes just a
little bit of reporting, just a little bit of an
investigation to find out that that was false. And the
media didn't do it. Because here's the thing. If the
Trump administration had tried to tell them something, they would
investigate that, they wouldn't report it, especially if it was positive.
But if the Biden administration tells them something, or the
Democrats tell them something, it must be true, and they
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printed and they've gotten burnt time and time again. You'd
think by now they've learned now. Jdvance of course was there,
and JD. Vance also wanted to lecture the media. He's
upset that ridiculous things get covered and that there's all
of these illegal immigrants that are being sent out of
the country that becomes celebrities because the Democrats encircle them
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and make them a cause, and yet they're ignoring what
he believes are the bigger stories.
Speaker 13 (26:19):
Why did we go from a military where people didn't
want to serve to now all of a sudden, they
do want to serve. That's a story you guys should cover.
But compared to that, how much time have you instead
focused on the fact that we deported an MS thirteen
gang member with a valid deportation order. And why is
it that the press is so focused on the fake bs.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Rather than what's really going on in the country. It
is amazing. And since he was talking about this and
asking that it be covered, let me tell you right
now that recruitment for all branches of government is up
over one hundred percent. As soon as Donald Trump got
in and got rid of those ridiculous DEI policies and
(27:04):
went back to the standards that we've always had with
the military for field battle preparation, recruitment went back up
because now they knew they were looking for war fighters again,
they knew they were serious about lethality. Biden wasn't. Nobody
(27:26):
was joining. The recruitment was down almost fifty percent under Biden,
and they were having a real problem. They were trying
to do anything anything to get people to join. Nobody
would join. Four years of recruitment going down. We were suffering.
It was an emergency. Donald Trump comes into office, it
(27:47):
turns around immediately. These are things that don't get covered.
And it's important to know that with item after item,
he is fixing some man major, major problems we've been having.
So God bless JD. Evans for bringing that up. What
happens if the New Jersey Transit engineers go on strike?
(28:10):
While New Jersey Transit has a backup plan, we'll share
it with you next. Just under a million people take
Jersey Transit into New York. They commute on New Jersey Transit,
just under a million people. If the engineers go on
strike and shut things down, it can It could be chaos.
(28:32):
And right now they had a negotiating meeting yesterday and
things didn't go well. Both signs are still far apart.
So the date for a possible strike is May sixteenth.
The New Jersey commuters are fearful.
Speaker 8 (28:48):
Don't go on strike.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Let's figure something out, something, come back to the table,
whatever the case may be, but please don't go on shrike.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
It would be tragic. But whatever, what are the conductors
and the drivers and so forth are asking for? They
should just shut up and give it to them, Well,
they're asking for a lot. They're asking for a lot
of money.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
They are.
Speaker 9 (29:12):
I mean, what I've been seeing is that they're saying
that other conductors and train employees and other you know,
say the labr or whatever, are making a twenty percent
more than them.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
So I guess they're asking well, even other unions on
Jersey trans that are making twenty percent more than them,
But some of the people on Amtrack and that work
in the city make substantially more than them, substantially more.
And so the answer from Chris Caruley, who is the
president and CEO of New Jersey Transit.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Is this somehow believe that they are entitled to make
wages like they live in New York and work in
New York.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
What he is saying is you can't compare yourself to Amtrak,
and don't compare yourself to some of the New York engineers.
This isn't New York, this isn't New Jersey. This is
New Jersey. The cost of living is and is high.
I'm not defending what he said, I'm just kind of
explaining what he said. Trust me, I don't know what
the negotiations are right now, because both sides aren't going
(30:18):
to tell you exactly the truth. Like, for instance, they're
claiming Jersey Transit is claiming that the union is asking
for one hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Now, that would
be ridiculous to ask for a one hundred percent raise,
So I have a hard time believing that is true.
(30:38):
This is what Tim Hass, Tom Hass, excuse me, the
General chairman of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, says.
Speaker 14 (30:48):
They need to come to us with an agreement that
really addresses the wage disparity that engineers at New Jersey
Transit see when they're compared to almost every other passenger
railroad in the end United States. This is the reason
why New Jersey Transit is bleeding engineers right now.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
And if they don't.
Speaker 14 (31:05):
Correct it, even if we're able to avert a workstopage,
it's going to lead to more and more summers of hell.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
So I don't know, I mean, you kept hearing about
this twenty percent disparity. I don't know if twenty percent
would do it. If twenty percent would do it, they
should just offer it to them. That's not going to
kill them. And they haven't had a contract for a long,
long time. In the meantime, let's just talk about the
commuters and what they're going to have to do, because
I'm sure commuters are panicked, and I'm not sure you're
going to like the solution that Chris colorI, the president
(31:37):
and CEO of New Jersey Transit, lays out. He says,
take the bus.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
We intend to take the current bus lines that exist
and enhance them where appropriate, and target our focus on
New York City because forty percent of our bus riders
go to New York every day and seventy two percent
of our rail riders go to New York every day. Second,
we'll have four parking rides throughout the state that will
(32:05):
have supplemental bus service.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Four four, Then he adds four there. He also adds,
maybe you should work at home. I have so much
to say. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 9 (32:19):
First off, I live near probably one of those parking rides. Yeah,
tell me where all the people are going to park
at the parking ride.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
It's a parking ride. There's not enough.
Speaker 9 (32:29):
Spots for all those people. With those extra buses, You'll
get to the parking ride and you won't be able
to park.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Okay, where you're gonna go and they think, well that
solves the problem.
Speaker 9 (32:42):
Train carries one thousand people, a bus carries about one hundred.
You're gonna have ten extra buses for each train. That's
not gonna be running.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Fired up like it. Did you hear the part about
saying you could stay home and work. Yeah, okay, I'll
try to do that.
Speaker 9 (32:57):
Let me see what my employer thinks about that.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
Can you give me a.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Note buses or trains when you come in, right?
Speaker 9 (33:04):
And could you give me a note from my employer?
Speaker 10 (33:06):
Then I'm gonna be working from home.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
You're speaking for everything. I'm done because this is an
election for you, right, are you? Okay? No, I'm not.
I've never seen her so fired up. I know who
knew because it's a ridiculous suggestion. Well, he's saying you
can also work at home too, okay, so he should
just give up the money. You're like the people that
(33:28):
we that we talked to on the street. Just give
him the money. Just give him exactly what they want.
You're gonna pay for it.
Speaker 9 (33:32):
I think you just have a better plan.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Maybe they should have limo drivers. Maybe they should have
limo drivers and pick people up at their homes. One
hundred days of Donald Trump.
Speaker 13 (33:45):
W o R.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
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