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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, depending on where you are right now, you might
be driving through some rain.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Be careful out there. It's gonna rain.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Off and on, and some of the thunderstorms are gonna
be severe over the next two days. But it looks
like come Thursday, Friday into the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's gonna be nice.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
So for the biggest travel day of the year on Thursday,
it should be beautiful at least in our area. And
the weekend's also gonna be nice for the fourth July weekend,
So we got that going for us. Just make it
through this, make it through these couple of days, and
then it's gonna be really nice.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Believe it or not.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
They're still going vote rama, or as I called it
by mistake a second ago, but I really like voter
drama in the session in the US Senate is still
going on. It's been going all night on an amendment
after amendment in the big beautiful bill, with the Democrats
(00:57):
just trying to stall this thing which is so babyish.
In the end, it's expected to pass and go to
the House, but that's not a sure thing either.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I don't think any of us can anticipate that it
will just flow through smoothly.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
So I am personally not optimistic.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
We'll have this bike your life for We have the
Senate proceedings up live and we'll update you if anything
important happens. But right now they're all just milling around
and voting on these amendments. In the rent Guidelines board meeting,
they have proved a rent increase in the city of
three percent for one year leases and four and a
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half percent for two year leases. And as usual, nobody's happy.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Let's a waste of time. This is done every year
for no good.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
People are making money, but we're not making more money.
I look at six hundred dollars a year more on
the one year lease, or nine hundred dollars more a year,
and that means what are we going to cut back on? Yeah,
they're the ten But the landlords and the building owners
they're not happy either. They said their expenses have gone
(02:07):
up eight and a half percent, so they wanted a
six percent increase to pay for some of that. They
didn't get it. Three percent. Oh and by the way,
three percent is exactly what people riding Jersey Transit had
to pay today, an extra three percent because their fares
went up.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Oh, it's going to be a burden my Bilts type
as it is right now, and I can't even go
another notch, and I really have to decide if I'm
going to take transit again.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
In the Diddy trial, the jury is complaining to the
judge about Jurer number twenty five, who, by the way,
happens to be a scientist from Manhattan.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
This is someone who's speaking, sticking to the guns, and
not agreeing with a lot of what the other jurors
are saying. That's the kind of person the defense wants.
So that's the last person they would want thrown off
a jury.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
And speaking of the Diddy trial, let's go to Peter
Haralambu's who is an investigative reporter for ABC News and
has been covering the trial brilliantly throughout. Peter just to
tell us what happened yesterday exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Good morning, Larry.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
It's a lot, it's a lot of TV threading. At
this point, we got four different notes back from this
jury yesterday. There are more than five hours into their
deliberations as of last night, and it's looking at what
kind of a mixed bag for Diddy. As you mentioned,
there was that note about a thirty one year old
PhD graduate, someone who was PhD in neuroscience and molecular biology, who,
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according to the note from the foreman, is not following
the judges instructions. There was also a note that suggested
that they might be making some progress on the racketeering count.
So we'll have to see where things go today when
things pick up at nine am. The jury sets come
back for a full day of the liberations today.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Apparently there was a note set about one of the
predicate charges to the racketeering and I didn't quite understand
what the analyst was saying that I was listening to,
because she claims that that's really bad news for Diddy
because they wouldn't have got to that predicate charge if
they didn't already agree on finding him guilty on that.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Does that make any sense to you?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Yeah, I think there's two ways of looking at I
think that analyst is right on one hand. So I
have the verdict form in front of me. This is
a three page document that the jury's actually going to
fill out as they go through the deliberations process, and
basically the first question they have to ask is do
you found find Shancolmb's guilty of racketeering? Conspiracy. If you
answer yes to that question, you then are faced with
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eight questions about each of the alleged underlying crimes the
racketeering predicates, basically saying like do you think the racketeering
involves arson? Do you think it involves bribery? Do you
think it involves narcotics distribution? So in this case, the
jury is asking about kind of specifics of that narcotic distribution. Basically,
if someone asks you for drug, it doesn't make a
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difference in terms of how the law looks at narcotics distribution.
So I think you can look at that note and say, oh,
they're asking about a narcotics distribution. Naturally they answered yes
to question one, they think he's guilty to racketeering. Alternatively,
they might just be working through this in kind of
a more intuitive way, and that is, you know, if
you believe if you think he's actually guilty of racketing conspiracy,
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you have to have already concluded that he committed two
of these underlying crimes. So you know, I think he
can cut both ways.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
For what it's worth.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Combs, as he was reading this note yesterday, seemed a
little bit stricken, kind of realizing what this perhaps means,
but alternatively, especially in the context of that other note
about a stubborn juror, you know, maybe it's not as
cut and dry just yet.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Right, I guess going into this, they kept talking about
the fact that some of the prostitution charges are kind
of a layup, that's a give me, and that it's
tough to get away from them, but they're not the
most serious charges. The most serious charges are the federal
charges of racket hearing the RICO stuff, and there was
a there was thought that that was a toss up.
(06:06):
So any that's one note you're talking about, and one
analyst that I was talking about that saw something that
you're saying may not necessarily be there. Do we have
any indication from the notes that were sent yet, aside
from that one, where they're at when it comes to
the more serious federal charges.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
I mean, that's probably the most indicative of the racketeering stuff,
but I really think it's still The most interesting note
of the day was really that second note, the one
after they declared a foremant basically saying that this jurors
or number twenty five was cannot Basically the note said,
the jury cannot follow your Honor's instructions. Cannot's an interesting
word choice there, right, It seems like it might be
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an intentional choice where this jury is maybe being stubborn
or refusing to yield in his convictions, or just basically
not agreeing with the rest of the jury on something.
So basically the foreman was asking, you know, can you
actually bring this guy in here and interview him, or
can you talk to me so I can convey it back.
It felt like a bit of a plea, like, come on,
please help us work this out. And of course, I
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think for any defense team, kind of an outlier like
that is a good sign. And you know, if we
think back to the Harvey Weinstein jury, you know, it
seemed like it came down to press wonderers. Well there really,
at the end of the day, it's a game of
you know, quittal would be great for Shuancombs, but hung
Drew would be an equally not equally, but also a
pretty good outcome all things considered for this defense team.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Right, and so, and it's a fascinating that you said that,
because that's what I kept hearing time and time again
that this this doesn't sound like a guy, especially because
he's a neuroscientist that doesn't understand the instructions. He's just
disagreeing with the rest of the jurors. That's what I'm
reading from what you just said, right, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Think that's right.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
And again PhD neuroscience like in a biology also a veterinarian,
he said, thirty one years old, someone who knows their stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, so so he understands they can when it seemed
like they were saying at first that he'd you know,
you have to teach him the charges. You have to
go through that again with them, and that just doesn't
seem credible at this point. So that is really fascinating, Peter,
that you're saying this guy that the defense should be
very happy about that they have one guy that's disagreeing
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with the old lawyer with all the other jurors to
the point where they have to come out and complain
about him, and as you pointed out, almost plead with
the judge, can you straighten this guy out.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
So we can get out of here. And you would.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Imagine from that, since they're talking about one Jew specifically,
that he may be the only holdout.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, he
might be the basically the last thing preventing them from
getting to a conviction. It's, you know, really impossible to
say at this point, but you know, if we're looking
at these notes and reading into them, yeah, I think
it's something that they should look at as kind of
a good sign at least that things might be going
in their favor in that deliberations room. Again, we're going
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to pick up today at nine am.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
For what it's worth.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
The response that the judge sent to that note about
the kind of the stubborn juror was basically, continue deliberating
and follow my instructions, and there wasn't necessarily much too
firm in response to that note, suggesting that perhaps it
might be an issue that they continue to struggle with.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Well, it's really fascinating. I can't wait to see what
happens today. There's continuing drama in this story. Peter Haralambu's
hope to talk to you tomorrow. ABC News investigative reporter
in New York. Thanks a lot, Peter, Thanks much.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Slaty Sticker.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
More proof that Hollywood has just run out of ideas.
Two more classic movies are about to get sequels. More sequels.
We'll talk about both next plus tickets to see Jackson
Brown at A twenty five, So stay with it. In
the movie theaters these days, it's like some movie three, four,
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five mission impossible.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
What did that get to?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I mean, it is amazing how Hollywood has just run
out of ideas. And I think it's more than that.
I think it's they don't want to take a chance
on anything anymore because they're losing money because nobody's going
to the theaters anymore, and they're not getting as much
money as they used to get in streaming, so they
need a sure thing and that's why they keep going
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into the past to get like what can we remake?
What can we make a two or a sequel or
a number three of And there's two movies coming out
that I will admit one of them I'm kind of
excited about the other one, and the other one is, well,
you know what, I'll play the song.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And then you'll know what the other one is right away.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
A lot of guys in the movie can be a
chick flick depending on what those guys do. If they're
just looking cute and being nice to women through the movie,
then it's a chick flick. But you're right a lot
of guys. It's Emilio Estevez, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson,
Ali Sheety, Andy McDowell, Rob Lowe, well, Rob law it
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was getting to because he's the one that's kind of
leaking this out. Oh, he's the one that's kind of
hinting that it's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
And so I'm not.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Post everybody's on board.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
It's an early development, which means it may not happen.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
They haven't talked about salary yet.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Then yeah, that's exactly right, that's exactly right, or yeah,
how much production is going to call it exactly But
they are with Sony Pictures though, so it is actually
a pretty big studio and it does make a lot
of sense. But it's not just salary. They also have
to test the idea. They're gonna go out to the
audience to make sure they can make money and test
the idea. It does bring up the question what movies
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would you like to see remade or have a sequel to?
And that is actually a pretty cool, cool idea with
sint Elmo's Fire, because they're all live and they're all
older now, and it'd be fun to get that brat packed.
Remember that they were called the brat Pack to get
them back together. And it's certainly gonna draw an audience
like like Jacqueline. I mean, there's a lot.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
It was a big movie.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
It made a lot of money and so and it's
lived the test of time. People are still talking about
it today. Most importantly, the actors and actresses lived and
kept and kept working in a very popular many of
them extremely popular. I mean to me, Moore probably was
the biggest one, right, yeah, I love her. She was
the biggest. She made the most. You know who I
(12:35):
always liked. I really liked Mayor winning him. Yes, she
never really took off.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Oh she said a lot, a lot of work, but
he just doesn't like you know, well, none of them, now.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Of them are really failures. Everybody had a career, but
she never you know. Judd Nelson's the one that always
surprised me. You know, I thought he was going to
be much bigger than he was. He kind of just
flamed out. So let's talk about the second movie and
think about and I'd love to hear from you on
the talkbacks. By the way, I'd just go ahead to
the IHET radio app. Look for seven to ten wor
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leave us a talkback. What movie would you like to
see remade? What movie is still hanging out there? Maybe
we can help Hollywood, because this is all they're doing
all the time, is looking for projects.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
Not coming up with anything new, just remaking, redoing, yea booting.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
And if our audience wants it, or if an audience
wants it, it could possibly happen. Uh, here's the other one.
And this was my favorite line from that movie.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
And this might.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Also be a chick flick, but I liked it, so
I really did like it a lot.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
It's so thin, do I?
Speaker 7 (13:41):
Oh it's a paris.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Well, I'm on this new diet.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
It's very effective.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Well, I don't eat.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Any wait, and when I feel like I'm about to faint,
I eat a qube of geese. Well it's definitely working.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
I know.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I'm just one stomach away from people away.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I have a leave London, ann Hathaway. I love that line,
and that's that line's been stolen. So yeah, times one
stomach flew away from goal weight. Well, that one is
definitely going to happen. Yes, that's already been announced. And
everybody is back. All of the big stars are back.
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You mentioned a couple of them, and Hathaway, Merle Streep,
Emily Bunt, Blunt, Stanley Tucci, all they're going to be
back in it. Kevin Branna is also going to join
the cast, and so that's going to be a huge movie, right.
I'm trying to think about how much money that made.
It was number one at the box office was for
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a while.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
I stop at that movie anytime I see it on
Tell every single time.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Was Merle Streep incredible in the movie best? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (14:48):
I just hope they don't remake it and you know,
clean it up and make it to two thousand and five. Politically,
you have to worry because it really none of that
stuff would go down now and then off.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
No, you're absolutely right, and I hope it doesn't go woke.
But I think we're on the other side of that era.
I hope we are on the other side of that era.
Maybe Hollywood's not. We'll find out. We will find out
soon enough. But right now, let's get the news at
seven thirty with Jacqueline Carl Jacklin.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Hey, Larry, good morning.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
This Senate has been working through the night in an
effort to advance President Trump's big beautiful bill. Majority Leader
John Thune to reporters before break for dinner that Republicans
are trying to find a way to stick the landing.
The legislation is projected to add over three trillion dollars
to the national debt over the next decade. A Memorial
Sloan Kettering and United Healthcare have failed to come to
(15:41):
an agreement, leading to the loss of care for tens
of thousands of cancer patients.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
The Cancer Treatment Center says about nineteen to twenty thousand
patients who have United Healthcare or Oxford are now out
of network. However, patients with fully insured United Healthcare or
Oxford plans have in network coverage until August thirty first,
as part of New York State's cooling off rule. United
Healthcare claims the Cancer Center's proposal would drive up costs,
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but Memorial Sloan Kettering says that's not the case and
it's only asking for fair compensation. Natalie Migliori wour News.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Okay, so we're gonna switch gears here. This is a
story about leprechauns and what they're really like, which I'm
sure you've all been wondering. According to the Abergaveny Chronicle.
In the town of Abergaveny, Wales, there's a curious man
by the name of Johnny Turnip. I could stop right there.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
That's a name.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
He's paranormal investigator, which I love. With a long and
rich history of having strong opinions about things most of
us might dismiss his folklore like leprechauns, not me. When
asked about the little folk turn Up describes leprechauns as quote,
fairies who've been driven insane by greed, alcohol, abuse and resentment.
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And in his extensive experience, they're very real and very
very dangerous. The human equivalent, we just call them unemployable
or undateable, but here they're fairies who've been driven insane
by greed, alcohol, abuse, and resentment.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I didn't know fairies could do that.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I'm picturing the fairies in a bar with a pot
belly like pounding back some drinks and some shots to
talking about what used to be. That's how it used
to be exactly. I loved your first line. That sounded
like the read your first line to his story again.
It sounds like the beginning of a children's story.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
This is a story about Leprecauns and what they are
really like. And the guy's name, Johnny Turnip who investigatory.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
The beginning of a children's name.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
It is, It truly is, and I love it. I
would love to meet this guy or interview him and
find out about all the other creatures that I know exist,
but no one.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Else believes that may be very possible.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Wowing to all right, Jacqueline Carl, thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
When we come back, the much loved former Wo R
News director Joe Bartlett, what does he think about Zorhen Mamdani, Well,
considering how he did a one to eighty on Trump,
I don't know. Maybe he loves the guy, maybe he
loves the socialist. We'll find out. In a new episode
of On Purpose, Jay Shetty sits down with award winning
actress and singer Cynthia Arrivo for a raw and inspiring conversation.
(18:19):
Cynthony talks about her world wind year, filming back to
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Purpose with Jay Shetty to listen today. We really don't
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know what happened to Joe Bartlett when he went to
South Carolina. My theory still is that he didn't want
to pay for cable when he just got MSNBC. But
he certainly his mind has changed on several different things.
And that's why Joe and I heard you laugh in
the background. Welcome. I'm glad I had to talk to
you today because I'm fascinated by this. The whole country
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is talking about Zorin Mom Donnie and his his shocking
win in New York. He's an avowed socialist, and I
how do you feel about him? I really don't know
what you're going to say.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Well, I don't know that I could pull the lever
for him. I don't know that I could pull the
lever for Cmo Adams has not really done anything. You know,
there's not a very good choice. But you know, I
think the point here is it's easy to dismiss zorn Mom,
Mom Donnie. Is that Mom Donnie, Yeah, Trunk call him
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a communist lunatic. But I think and you may agree
with this. He has tapped into a growing feeling of
resentment among the voters of the city and the country.
I basically, billionaires are running this thing right now and
the little guy is getting passed over. And you know,
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maybe not necessarily communism, but popular movement I think is underway,
and he's tapped into something. The other thing, too, is
he shows that the political system has been corrupted by money.
In my opinion, this is one of my big issues here.
Big business, insurance, pharmaceutical, tech unions, all these guys donate
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to the politicians and they get their way. The little
guy is left out of the equation. And I think Mom,
Donnie has tapped into some of that.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah, you took it bigger that I think what he
tapped into, although I do agree with everything you said,
But what he tapped into was something more basic. And
by the way, Donald Trump tapped into this too, and
that was affordability, the fact that people can't afford things
that they used to be able to afford in the past,
and they were struggling, and as they watched this income
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disparity in this country, they wonder why so many people
seem to be doing well when they're not doing well.
So I agree with you, he did tap into that.
But right now his base of support are these young Democrats.
I'm not sure that's going to be enough in the
general election. And he certainly is a flawed candidate, seriously flawed.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Well, we've elected seriously flawed candidates in the past, haven't.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
We not an anti semit and and.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Well, yeah, okay, look at we got a sexual abuser,
we got a crook.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
You know.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
So the choices are not good.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
The one thing here, those last two things don't necessarily
lose you votes anti Semites.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
The uses you votes, especially in New York City. But
the other thing too here is ordinarily in the past,
when you won the Democratic primary for mayor, you were elected,
it was over. So fortunately for New Yorkers they do
have another round to go through, so it will be
interesting to see how it plays out.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Now.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Is Cuomo in or out? I've lost track of him.
Is he in or out?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
That's a really fascinating question. So we believe he's in.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
He hasn't made an official announcement yet, but he had
till Friday to decide whether he was going to be
off the line, and the line is still up, so
someone had to say he was staying in. Now he
obviously can still say I'm not going to run and
be on the line, but as of right now it's
being reported and assumed he's in Natalie.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Yeah, and today I believe the rank choice voting numbers
come out, so I think this was the day that
they were waiting to see how it all.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, he did say that many times he wanted to
see the numbers, but he also wanted to see their
research on this as well. So maybe he's still not
going to run. But it's interesting he's on the line,
so it's a good question.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Well, the question is, then, does Cuomo's appearance on the
ballot help Mam Donni. I think it does.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Well, it's interesting there's a poll out on that. There
is a poll out on that, and I found it
fascinating as well that when you're right, Mam Donni, wins
if almost not on the ballot, but if Cuomo is
in the ballot, it's tied between him and Cuomo because
a lot of people that voted. You know, with a
small number of people voting in the primary, it's easy
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if you have an energized force of young people coming
out to vote. It's a lot harder when you have
independence and older people voting, which happens in the general election.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Don't you agree.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Yes, more Obviously, more people come out. There's a broader
spectrum of voters in the general election than in primaries.
But the voter turnout traditionally has not been very large
in New York City. So you you know, you're getting
just a small percentage of the population voting here.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
But that's going to change. But hold on, that's going
to change in this election. This is a competitive election.
There will be there'll be a higher voter turnout, don't
you think.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Yeah, But you have to wonder the energized portion of
the vote is probably gonna be the people who are
disaffected by the system, you know.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I look at the Democratic primaries in the past have
had there haven't been enough people voting, So that plays
into your theory that it may not go over to
the general election. I think there's so much excitement about
this election and the fact that it's probably the most
exciting election may or election that New York has had
in decades. I don't know how far you have to
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go back. I think there's gonna be a big turnout
this time. And when I say big, I mean forty
fifty percent, not you know, it's not going to be
eighty percent. But I think there's gonna be a big
turnout this time because I think, especially when the money
comes into this, as you talked about before, there's gonna
be a lot of bad ads about Zora and Mom Donnie,
and it's not gonna be enough just walking the streets
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and lying about how you're gonna get the money.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Well, look, I don't think this guy is a true socialist.
I think he's tapping into a popular movement. Maybe if
you can only see Larry's right now, he says.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
He's a socialist. He comes out and says I'm a socialist.
There's many people that think he's a communist.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Okay, well, all right, all right, maybe he is. I
don't know, but look, I find it very interesting and
I'm glad I'm not living in New York City right now.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Somebody just texted me and said, what happened to Joe Bartlett?
Is this really Joe? Or is this Ai?
Speaker 4 (25:39):
No?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I think I.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Actually am going to defend Joe here because I think
a lot of the things he said were actually great
political analysis that he's right about, except for the fact
that he wasn't a socialist. I was with you until
you said that everything else you said about the voters
that are going to come out and the reasons are
going to come out, and what he did and what
he tapped into, all of that's true, but he's plain lying.
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He can't get this money.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
I am somewhere between Mandami and Trump today. Okay, that's
where me and Elon Musk.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
You've been living there for a while now, in the
in this strange I would think that if you're going
down to where you live now, there's more conservatives there
than Republicans, aren't there?
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Well then excuse me. Yeah, the whole the whole state
is clearly a Republican state. It's definitely. It's as right
as you can get here. It's it's interesting because there
is a split. I mean, I was at a party
the other day. Most of the people there were liberals,
you know, want to go to the golf course I got.
There's some Trump guys or some Trump haters. It's it's interesting.
(26:44):
There's a there's a good split where I am here.
I'm in the southern part the Hilton Head area, So
so I know what you're hanging out with now.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Thanks a lot, Joe, look forward to talking to you
next week.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
They call it later.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
They call it Alligator Alcatraz and it's where the Trump
administration wants to house some of the illegal criminals. And
we'll also get an update on that strange Idaho shooting.
Suspect Rory O'Neill is here to explain it all next,
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now before they sell out. Have you heard about Alligator
Alcatraz yet? It is a cool name, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
This is real.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I mean, they're calling this location in Florida Alligator Alcatraz,
where they're talking about putting some of the illegal criminals there,
and so it's tough to escape because there's like pythons
and alligators all around them. There's only one way in
and one way out. So the name is fitting. But
it does sound like a movie, doesn't it. Wouldn't that
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be a great movie that you would want to go
see the escape from Alligator Alcatraz. It's a wonderful idea.
But the Trump administration, Wow, are they into this? It
came up at the press briefing yesterday.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
Well, look, when you have illegal murders and rapists and
heinous criminals in a detention facility surrounded by alligators, yes,
I do you think that's a deterrent for them to.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Try to escape?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
The Trump administration is all in on Alligator Alcatraz and
covering the story for us today as Rory O'Neil, w
R National correspondent. First of all, Rory, we were just saying,
it's a really cool name. It's like it's like a
movie title, isn't it. I'd go see Alligator Alcatraz.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Well, do you want to stay in Alligator Alcatraz?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
No? No, I wouldn't want to stay at Amityville either,
But I like that movie and I like the title.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
You need alliteration, right, you need alliteration everything beautiful bill
Alligator Alcatraz. It's all about preliteration.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
It's very good. So tell us about Alligator Alcatraz. Is
this really going to happen?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Oh? It's opening today. The President is going to fly
in there today aboard Air Force one and see the
facility there. This is an old airstrip that's been around
for decades, but it was the Attorney General of Florida
who came up with the idea of turning this into
a migrant camp essentially, And they're probably going to build
a second one in North Florida in just a matter
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of weeks. So the benefit here it's on an airstrip
that they can fly people in and fly them back
to another country, maybe their home country, maybe a third one.
I don't know, but but there are an awful lot
of unanswered questions about exactly who is going to be
detained here for how long, and even the conditions that
they'll be living in.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yeah, I was just going to mention that since they've
done this so quickly and it used to be an
old airstrip, is it going to be able to house
these people? Is it going to have a cafeteria, Is
it going to have bathrooms? I mean, there's so much
that has to be built. How long have they been
building this? This idea seemed like it's pretty new.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
It is just a few weeks really, but yeah, between
the food, the medical care, and then Apparently the staff
is going to live on the property in trailers that
are there. This is all being arranged by FEMA, or
not FEMA, but the Florida Emergency Management Agency. They're the
ones coordinating all this. They're hoping to get reimbursed by
the Department of Homeland Security. But this facility is expected
to cost about a half billion dollars a year. Florida
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is writ in the check for it first to get reimbursed.
The governor, by the way, not getting legislative approval for it,
just saying there's an emergency authority he has to open
this place. And then who's coming? Is it men? Is
it women? Are they all convicts? Are they criminals? Are
they the rapists, drug dealers and murderers that they talk about,
or is it someone just over state of visa for
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the last six or seven years? And are they all
in one tenth? And again, this is not run by
the Department of Corrections, it's Emergency Management which has contracted
with companies. What kind of security did they provide? What
if there's fights inside these tents? There are a lot
of questions.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Boy, bringing a lot of of murderers and gang members
into a facility that's not ready and not secured just yet.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
What could go wrong?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Well? Right, I mean, okay, granted they're not going to
escape to downtown Miami, I get it, but they certainly
could be a danger to one another. And know what
kind of security facility is there is a real open question.
Plus it'll be ninety eight degrees, one hundred percent humidity
and mosquitoes the size Ofsessmas.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
So you know, yes, that is one of the problems.
But I'm not I wasn't talking about them escaping. I
don't think that's going to be the problem. But could
you imagine being a prison guard there? Could you imagine
being an administrator there and knowing that the security has
never been tested, knowing that the place hasn't been built
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out yet. I I when they when you say they're
opening it today, they're not putting anybody there today or
in the in the weeks.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Today, todayay, wow, yep, this is.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
The grand opening day. Today, they're calling you, uh yeah.
And then will there be women? Will there be will
there be women? Will there be children?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
This is the start to a horror movie. It's it's
gonna this is this is kind of unbelievable. That's going
to happen. I'm I'm just going to hope and pray
that they have this better planned out than we're saying
right now, But we will find out. Rory O'Neill w
o R, National Correspondent, thanks so much, Wow, Alligator Alcatraz.
(32:43):
Well Jason Goodman. I'm excited about this. I wanted to
talk to him again and for a long time. He
had a run in with zorin Mam Donnie you'll remember,
months ago, and was threatened by one of Mom Donnie's thugs.
What does Jason think about Mom Donnie now winning the nomination.
We'll talk duam after the eight o'clock news
Well, depending on where you are right now, you might
be driving through some rain.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Be careful out there. It's gonna rain.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Off and on, and some of the thunderstorms are gonna
be severe over the next two days. But it looks
like come Thursday, Friday into the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's gonna be nice.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
So for the biggest travel day of the year on Thursday,
it should be beautiful at least in our area. And
the weekend's also gonna be nice for the fourth July weekend,
So we got that going for us. Just make it
through this, make it through these couple of days, and
then it's gonna be really nice.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Believe it or not.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
They're still going vote rama, or as I called it
by mistake a second ago, but I really like voter
drama in the session in the US Senate is still
going on. It's been going all night on an amendment
after amendment in the big beautiful bill, with the Democrats
(00:57):
just trying to stall this thing which is so babyish.
In the end, it's expected to pass and go to
the House, but that's not a sure thing either.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I don't think any of us can anticipate that it
will just flow through smoothly.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
So I am personally not optimistic.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
We'll have this bike your life for We have the
Senate proceedings up live and we'll update you if anything
important happens. But right now they're all just milling around
and voting on these amendments. In the rent Guidelines board meeting,
they have proved a rent increase in the city of
three percent for one year leases and four and a
(01:36):
half percent for two year leases. And as usual, nobody's happy.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Let's a waste of time. This is done every year
for no good.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
People are making money, but we're not making more money.
I look at six hundred dollars a year more on
the one year lease, or nine hundred dollars more a year,
and that means what are we going to cut back on? Yeah,
they're the ten But the landlords and the building owners
they're not happy either. They said their expenses have gone
(02:07):
up eight and a half percent, so they wanted a
six percent increase to pay for some of that. They
didn't get it. Three percent. Oh and by the way,
three percent is exactly what people riding Jersey Transit had
to pay today, an extra three percent because their fares
went up.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Oh, it's going to be a burden my Bilts type
as it is right now, and I can't even go
another notch, and I really have to decide if I'm
going to take transit again.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
In the Diddy trial, the jury is complaining to the
judge about Jurer number twenty five, who, by the way,
happens to be a scientist from Manhattan.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
This is someone who's speaking, sticking to the guns, and
not agreeing with a lot of what the other jurors
are saying. That's the kind of person the defense wants.
So that's the last person they would want thrown off
a jury.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
And speaking of the Diddy trial, let's go to Peter
Haralambu's who is an investigative reporter for ABC News and
has been covering the trial brilliantly throughout. Peter just to
tell us what happened yesterday exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Good morning, Larry.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
It's a lot, it's a lot of TV threading. At
this point, we got four different notes back from this
jury yesterday. There are more than five hours into their
deliberations as of last night, and it's looking at what
kind of a mixed bag for Diddy. As you mentioned,
there was that note about a thirty one year old
PhD graduate, someone who was PhD in neuroscience and molecular biology, who,
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according to the note from the foreman, is not following
the judges instructions. There was also a note that suggested
that they might be making some progress on the racketeering count.
So we'll have to see where things go today when
things pick up at nine am. The jury sets come
back for a full day of the liberations today.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Apparently there was a note set about one of the
predicate charges to the racketeering and I didn't quite understand
what the analyst was saying that I was listening to,
because she claims that that's really bad news for Diddy
because they wouldn't have got to that predicate charge if
they didn't already agree on finding him guilty on that.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Does that make any sense to you?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Yeah, I think there's two ways of looking at I
think that analyst is right on one hand. So I
have the verdict form in front of me. This is
a three page document that the jury's actually going to
fill out as they go through the deliberations process, and
basically the first question they have to ask is do
you found find Shancolmb's guilty of racketeering? Conspiracy. If you
answer yes to that question, you then are faced with
(04:40):
eight questions about each of the alleged underlying crimes the
racketeering predicates, basically saying like do you think the racketeering
involves arson? Do you think it involves bribery? Do you
think it involves narcotics distribution? So in this case, the
jury is asking about kind of specifics of that narcotic distribution. Basically,
if someone asks you for drug, it doesn't make a
(05:00):
difference in terms of how the law looks at narcotics distribution.
So I think you can look at that note and say, oh,
they're asking about a narcotics distribution. Naturally they answered yes
to question one, they think he's guilty to racketeering. Alternatively,
they might just be working through this in kind of
a more intuitive way, and that is, you know, if
you believe if you think he's actually guilty of racketing conspiracy,
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you have to have already concluded that he committed two
of these underlying crimes. So you know, I think he
can cut both ways.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
For what it's worth.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Combs, as he was reading this note yesterday, seemed a
little bit stricken, kind of realizing what this perhaps means,
but alternatively, especially in the context of that other note
about a stubborn juror, you know, maybe it's not as
cut and dry just yet.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Right, I guess going into this, they kept talking about
the fact that some of the prostitution charges are kind
of a layup, that's a give me, and that it's
tough to get away from them, but they're not the
most serious charges. The most serious charges are the federal
charges of racket hearing the RICO stuff, and there was
a there was thought that that was a toss up.
(06:06):
So any that's one note you're talking about, and one
analyst that I was talking about that saw something that
you're saying may not necessarily be there. Do we have
any indication from the notes that were sent yet, aside
from that one, where they're at when it comes to
the more serious federal charges.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
I mean, that's probably the most indicative of the racketeering stuff,
but I really think it's still The most interesting note
of the day was really that second note, the one
after they declared a foremant basically saying that this jurors
or number twenty five was cannot Basically the note said,
the jury cannot follow your Honor's instructions. Cannot's an interesting
word choice there, right, It seems like it might be
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an intentional choice where this jury is maybe being stubborn
or refusing to yield in his convictions, or just basically
not agreeing with the rest of the jury on something.
So basically the foreman was asking, you know, can you
actually bring this guy in here and interview him, or
can you talk to me so I can convey it back.
It felt like a bit of a plea, like, come on,
please help us work this out. And of course, I
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think for any defense team, kind of an outlier like
that is a good sign. And you know, if we
think back to the Harvey Weinstein jury, you know, it
seemed like it came down to press wonderers. Well there really,
at the end of the day, it's a game of
you know, quittal would be great for Shuancombs, but hung
Drew would be an equally not equally, but also a
pretty good outcome all things considered for this defense team.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Right, and so, and it's a fascinating that you said that,
because that's what I kept hearing time and time again
that this this doesn't sound like a guy, especially because
he's a neuroscientist that doesn't understand the instructions. He's just
disagreeing with the rest of the jurors. That's what I'm
reading from what you just said, right, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Think that's right.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
And again PhD neuroscience like in a biology also a veterinarian,
he said, thirty one years old, someone who knows their stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, so so he understands they can when it seemed
like they were saying at first that he'd you know,
you have to teach him the charges. You have to
go through that again with them, and that just doesn't
seem credible at this point. So that is really fascinating, Peter,
that you're saying this guy that the defense should be
very happy about that they have one guy that's disagreeing
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with the old lawyer with all the other jurors to
the point where they have to come out and complain
about him, and as you pointed out, almost plead with
the judge, can you straighten this guy out.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
So we can get out of here. And you would.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Imagine from that, since they're talking about one Jew specifically,
that he may be the only holdout.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, he
might be the basically the last thing preventing them from
getting to a conviction. It's, you know, really impossible to
say at this point, but you know, if we're looking
at these notes and reading into them, yeah, I think
it's something that they should look at as kind of
a good sign at least that things might be going
in their favor in that deliberations room. Again, we're going
(09:11):
to pick up today at nine am.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
For what it's worth.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
The response that the judge sent to that note about
the kind of the stubborn juror was basically, continue deliberating
and follow my instructions, and there wasn't necessarily much too
firm in response to that note, suggesting that perhaps it
might be an issue that they continue to struggle with.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Well, it's really fascinating. I can't wait to see what
happens today. There's continuing drama in this story. Peter Haralambu's
hope to talk to you tomorrow. ABC News investigative reporter
in New York. Thanks a lot, Peter, Thanks much.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Slaty Sticker.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
More proof that Hollywood has just run out of ideas.
Two more classic movies are about to get sequels. More sequels.
We'll talk about both next plus tickets to see Jackson
Brown at A twenty five, So stay with it. In
the movie theaters these days, it's like some movie three, four,
(10:06):
five mission impossible.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
What did that get to?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I mean, it is amazing how Hollywood has just run
out of ideas. And I think it's more than that.
I think it's they don't want to take a chance
on anything anymore because they're losing money because nobody's going
to the theaters anymore, and they're not getting as much
money as they used to get in streaming, so they
need a sure thing and that's why they keep going
(10:28):
into the past to get like what can we remake?
What can we make a two or a sequel or
a number three of And there's two movies coming out
that I will admit one of them I'm kind of
excited about the other one, and the other one is, well,
you know what, I'll play the song.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And then you'll know what the other one is right away.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
A lot of guys in the movie can be a
chick flick depending on what those guys do. If they're
just looking cute and being nice to women through the movie,
then it's a chick flick. But you're right a lot
of guys. It's Emilio Estevez, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson,
Ali Sheety, Andy McDowell, Rob Lowe, well, Rob law it
(11:14):
was getting to because he's the one that's kind of
leaking this out. Oh, he's the one that's kind of
hinting that it's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
And so I'm not.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Post everybody's on board.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
It's an early development, which means it may not happen.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
They haven't talked about salary yet.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Then yeah, that's exactly right, that's exactly right, or yeah,
how much production is going to call it exactly But
they are with Sony Pictures though, so it is actually
a pretty big studio and it does make a lot
of sense. But it's not just salary. They also have
to test the idea. They're gonna go out to the
audience to make sure they can make money and test
the idea. It does bring up the question what movies
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would you like to see remade or have a sequel to?
And that is actually a pretty cool, cool idea with
sint Elmo's Fire, because they're all live and they're all
older now, and it'd be fun to get that brat packed.
Remember that they were called the brat Pack to get
them back together. And it's certainly gonna draw an audience
like like Jacqueline. I mean, there's a lot.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
It was a big movie.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
It made a lot of money and so and it's
lived the test of time. People are still talking about
it today. Most importantly, the actors and actresses lived and
kept and kept working in a very popular many of
them extremely popular. I mean to me, Moore probably was
the biggest one, right, yeah, I love her. She was
the biggest. She made the most. You know who I
(12:35):
always liked. I really liked Mayor winning him. Yes, she
never really took off.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Oh she said a lot, a lot of work, but
he just doesn't like you know, well, none of them, now.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Of them are really failures. Everybody had a career, but
she never you know. Judd Nelson's the one that always
surprised me. You know, I thought he was going to
be much bigger than he was. He kind of just
flamed out. So let's talk about the second movie and
think about and I'd love to hear from you on
the talkbacks. By the way, I'd just go ahead to
the IHET radio app. Look for seven to ten wor
(13:08):
leave us a talkback. What movie would you like to
see remade? What movie is still hanging out there? Maybe
we can help Hollywood, because this is all they're doing
all the time, is looking for projects.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
Not coming up with anything new, just remaking, redoing, yea booting.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
And if our audience wants it, or if an audience
wants it, it could possibly happen. Uh, here's the other one.
And this was my favorite line from that movie.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
And this might.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Also be a chick flick, but I liked it, so
I really did like it a lot.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
It's so thin, do I?
Speaker 7 (13:41):
Oh it's a paris.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Well, I'm on this new diet.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
It's very effective.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Well, I don't eat.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Any wait, and when I feel like I'm about to faint,
I eat a qube of geese. Well it's definitely working.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
I know.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I'm just one stomach away from people away.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I have a leave London, ann Hathaway. I love that line,
and that's that line's been stolen. So yeah, times one
stomach flew away from goal weight. Well, that one is
definitely going to happen. Yes, that's already been announced. And
everybody is back. All of the big stars are back.
(14:16):
You mentioned a couple of them, and Hathaway, Merle Streep,
Emily Bunt, Blunt, Stanley Tucci, all they're going to be
back in it. Kevin Branna is also going to join
the cast, and so that's going to be a huge movie, right.
I'm trying to think about how much money that made.
It was number one at the box office was for
(14:36):
a while.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
I stop at that movie anytime I see it on
Tell every single time.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Was Merle Streep incredible in the movie best? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (14:48):
I just hope they don't remake it and you know,
clean it up and make it to two thousand and five. Politically,
you have to worry because it really none of that
stuff would go down now and then off.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
No, you're absolutely right, and I hope it doesn't go woke.
But I think we're on the other side of that era.
I hope we are on the other side of that era.
Maybe Hollywood's not. We'll find out. We will find out
soon enough. But right now, let's get the news at
seven thirty with Jacqueline Carl Jacklin.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Hey, Larry, good morning.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
This Senate has been working through the night in an
effort to advance President Trump's big beautiful bill. Majority Leader
John Thune to reporters before break for dinner that Republicans
are trying to find a way to stick the landing.
The legislation is projected to add over three trillion dollars
to the national debt over the next decade. A Memorial
Sloan Kettering and United Healthcare have failed to come to
(15:41):
an agreement, leading to the loss of care for tens
of thousands of cancer patients.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
The Cancer Treatment Center says about nineteen to twenty thousand
patients who have United Healthcare or Oxford are now out
of network. However, patients with fully insured United Healthcare or
Oxford plans have in network coverage until August thirty first,
as part of New York State's cooling off rule. United
Healthcare claims the Cancer Center's proposal would drive up costs,
(16:08):
but Memorial Sloan Kettering says that's not the case and
it's only asking for fair compensation. Natalie Migliori wour News.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Okay, so we're gonna switch gears here. This is a
story about leprechauns and what they're really like, which I'm
sure you've all been wondering. According to the Abergaveny Chronicle.
In the town of Abergaveny, Wales, there's a curious man
by the name of Johnny Turnip. I could stop right there.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
That's a name.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
He's paranormal investigator, which I love. With a long and
rich history of having strong opinions about things most of
us might dismiss his folklore like leprechauns, not me. When
asked about the little folk turn Up describes leprechauns as quote,
fairies who've been driven insane by greed, alcohol, abuse and resentment.
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And in his extensive experience, they're very real and very
very dangerous. The human equivalent, we just call them unemployable
or undateable, but here they're fairies who've been driven insane
by greed, alcohol, abuse, and resentment.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I didn't know fairies could do that.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I'm picturing the fairies in a bar with a pot
belly like pounding back some drinks and some shots to
talking about what used to be. That's how it used
to be exactly. I loved your first line. That sounded
like the read your first line to his story again.
It sounds like the beginning of a children's story.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
This is a story about Leprecauns and what they are
really like. And the guy's name, Johnny Turnip who investigatory.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
The beginning of a children's name.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
It is, It truly is, and I love it. I
would love to meet this guy or interview him and
find out about all the other creatures that I know exist,
but no one.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Else believes that may be very possible.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Wowing to all right, Jacqueline Carl, thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
When we come back, the much loved former Wo R
News director Joe Bartlett, what does he think about Zorhen Mamdani, Well,
considering how he did a one to eighty on Trump,
I don't know. Maybe he loves the guy, maybe he
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know what happened to Joe Bartlett when he went to
South Carolina. My theory still is that he didn't want
to pay for cable when he just got MSNBC. But
he certainly his mind has changed on several different things.
And that's why Joe and I heard you laugh in
the background. Welcome. I'm glad I had to talk to
you today because I'm fascinated by this. The whole country
(19:04):
is talking about Zorin Mom Donnie and his his shocking
win in New York. He's an avowed socialist, and I
how do you feel about him? I really don't know
what you're going to say.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Well, I don't know that I could pull the lever
for him. I don't know that I could pull the
lever for Cmo Adams has not really done anything. You know,
there's not a very good choice. But you know, I
think the point here is it's easy to dismiss zorn Mom,
Mom Donnie. Is that Mom Donnie, Yeah, Trunk call him
(19:40):
a communist lunatic. But I think and you may agree
with this. He has tapped into a growing feeling of
resentment among the voters of the city and the country.
I basically, billionaires are running this thing right now and
the little guy is getting passed over. And you know,
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maybe not necessarily communism, but popular movement I think is underway,
and he's tapped into something. The other thing, too, is
he shows that the political system has been corrupted by money.
In my opinion, this is one of my big issues here.
Big business, insurance, pharmaceutical, tech unions, all these guys donate
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to the politicians and they get their way. The little
guy is left out of the equation. And I think Mom,
Donnie has tapped into some of that.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah, you took it bigger that I think what he
tapped into, although I do agree with everything you said,
But what he tapped into was something more basic. And
by the way, Donald Trump tapped into this too, and
that was affordability, the fact that people can't afford things
that they used to be able to afford in the past,
and they were struggling, and as they watched this income
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disparity in this country, they wonder why so many people
seem to be doing well when they're not doing well.
So I agree with you, he did tap into that.
But right now his base of support are these young Democrats.
I'm not sure that's going to be enough in the
general election. And he certainly is a flawed candidate, seriously flawed.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Well, we've elected seriously flawed candidates in the past, haven't.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
We not an anti semit and and.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Well, yeah, okay, look at we got a sexual abuser,
we got a crook.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
You know.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
So the choices are not good.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
The one thing here, those last two things don't necessarily
lose you votes anti Semites.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
The uses you votes, especially in New York City. But
the other thing too here is ordinarily in the past,
when you won the Democratic primary for mayor, you were elected,
it was over. So fortunately for New Yorkers they do
have another round to go through, so it will be
interesting to see how it plays out.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Now.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Is Cuomo in or out? I've lost track of him.
Is he in or out?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
That's a really fascinating question. So we believe he's in.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
He hasn't made an official announcement yet, but he had
till Friday to decide whether he was going to be
off the line, and the line is still up, so
someone had to say he was staying in. Now he
obviously can still say I'm not going to run and
be on the line, but as of right now it's
being reported and assumed he's in Natalie.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Yeah, and today I believe the rank choice voting numbers
come out, so I think this was the day that
they were waiting to see how it all.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, he did say that many times he wanted to
see the numbers, but he also wanted to see their
research on this as well. So maybe he's still not
going to run. But it's interesting he's on the line,
so it's a good question.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Well, the question is, then, does Cuomo's appearance on the
ballot help Mam Donni. I think it does.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Well, it's interesting there's a poll out on that. There
is a poll out on that, and I found it
fascinating as well that when you're right, Mam Donni, wins
if almost not on the ballot, but if Cuomo is
in the ballot, it's tied between him and Cuomo because
a lot of people that voted. You know, with a
small number of people voting in the primary, it's easy
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if you have an energized force of young people coming
out to vote. It's a lot harder when you have
independence and older people voting, which happens in the general election.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Don't you agree.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Yes, more Obviously, more people come out. There's a broader
spectrum of voters in the general election than in primaries.
But the voter turnout traditionally has not been very large
in New York City. So you you know, you're getting
just a small percentage of the population voting here.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
But that's going to change. But hold on, that's going
to change in this election. This is a competitive election.
There will be there'll be a higher voter turnout, don't
you think.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Yeah, But you have to wonder the energized portion of
the vote is probably gonna be the people who are
disaffected by the system, you know.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I look at the Democratic primaries in the past have
had there haven't been enough people voting, So that plays
into your theory that it may not go over to
the general election. I think there's so much excitement about
this election and the fact that it's probably the most
exciting election may or election that New York has had
in decades. I don't know how far you have to
(24:35):
go back. I think there's gonna be a big turnout
this time. And when I say big, I mean forty
fifty percent, not you know, it's not going to be
eighty percent. But I think there's gonna be a big
turnout this time because I think, especially when the money
comes into this, as you talked about before, there's gonna
be a lot of bad ads about Zora and Mom Donnie,
and it's not gonna be enough just walking the streets
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and lying about how you're gonna get the money.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Well, look, I don't think this guy is a true socialist.
I think he's tapping into a popular movement. Maybe if
you can only see Larry's right now, he says.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
He's a socialist. He comes out and says I'm a socialist.
There's many people that think he's a communist.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Okay, well, all right, all right, maybe he is. I
don't know, but look, I find it very interesting and
I'm glad I'm not living in New York City right now.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Somebody just texted me and said, what happened to Joe Bartlett?
Is this really Joe? Or is this Ai?
Speaker 4 (25:39):
No?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I think I.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Actually am going to defend Joe here because I think
a lot of the things he said were actually great
political analysis that he's right about, except for the fact
that he wasn't a socialist. I was with you until
you said that everything else you said about the voters
that are going to come out and the reasons are
going to come out, and what he did and what
he tapped into, all of that's true, but he's plain lying.
(26:02):
He can't get this money.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
I am somewhere between Mandami and Trump today. Okay, that's
where me and Elon Musk.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
You've been living there for a while now, in the
in this strange I would think that if you're going
down to where you live now, there's more conservatives there
than Republicans, aren't there?
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Well then excuse me. Yeah, the whole the whole state
is clearly a Republican state. It's definitely. It's as right
as you can get here. It's it's interesting because there
is a split. I mean, I was at a party
the other day. Most of the people there were liberals,
you know, want to go to the golf course I got.
There's some Trump guys or some Trump haters. It's it's interesting.
(26:44):
There's a there's a good split where I am here.
I'm in the southern part the Hilton Head area, So
so I know what you're hanging out with now.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Thanks a lot, Joe, look forward to talking to you
next week.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
They call it later.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
They call it Alligator Alcatraz and it's where the Trump
administration wants to house some of the illegal criminals. And
we'll also get an update on that strange Idaho shooting.
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Alcatraz yet? It is a cool name, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
This is real.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I mean, they're calling this location in Florida Alligator Alcatraz,
where they're talking about putting some of the illegal criminals there,
and so it's tough to escape because there's like pythons
and alligators all around them. There's only one way in
and one way out. So the name is fitting. But
it does sound like a movie, doesn't it. Wouldn't that
(28:03):
be a great movie that you would want to go
see the escape from Alligator Alcatraz. It's a wonderful idea.
But the Trump administration, Wow, are they into this? It
came up at the press briefing yesterday.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
Well, look, when you have illegal murders and rapists and
heinous criminals in a detention facility surrounded by alligators, yes,
I do you think that's a deterrent for them to.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Try to escape?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
The Trump administration is all in on Alligator Alcatraz and
covering the story for us today as Rory O'Neil, w
R National correspondent. First of all, Rory, we were just saying,
it's a really cool name. It's like it's like a
movie title, isn't it. I'd go see Alligator Alcatraz.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Well, do you want to stay in Alligator Alcatraz?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
No? No, I wouldn't want to stay at Amityville either,
But I like that movie and I like the title.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
You need alliteration, right, you need alliteration everything beautiful bill
Alligator Alcatraz. It's all about preliteration.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
It's very good. So tell us about Alligator Alcatraz. Is
this really going to happen?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Oh? It's opening today. The President is going to fly
in there today aboard Air Force one and see the
facility there. This is an old airstrip that's been around
for decades, but it was the Attorney General of Florida
who came up with the idea of turning this into
a migrant camp essentially, And they're probably going to build
a second one in North Florida in just a matter
(29:30):
of weeks. So the benefit here it's on an airstrip
that they can fly people in and fly them back
to another country, maybe their home country, maybe a third one.
I don't know, but but there are an awful lot
of unanswered questions about exactly who is going to be
detained here for how long, and even the conditions that
they'll be living in.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yeah, I was just going to mention that since they've
done this so quickly and it used to be an
old airstrip, is it going to be able to house
these people? Is it going to have a cafeteria, Is
it going to have bathrooms? I mean, there's so much
that has to be built. How long have they been
building this? This idea seemed like it's pretty new.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
It is just a few weeks really, but yeah, between
the food, the medical care, and then Apparently the staff
is going to live on the property in trailers that
are there. This is all being arranged by FEMA, or
not FEMA, but the Florida Emergency Management Agency. They're the
ones coordinating all this. They're hoping to get reimbursed by
the Department of Homeland Security. But this facility is expected
to cost about a half billion dollars a year. Florida
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is writ in the check for it first to get reimbursed.
The governor, by the way, not getting legislative approval for it,
just saying there's an emergency authority he has to open
this place. And then who's coming? Is it men? Is
it women? Are they all convicts? Are they criminals? Are
they the rapists, drug dealers and murderers that they talk about,
or is it someone just over state of visa for
(30:57):
the last six or seven years? And are they all
in one tenth? And again, this is not run by
the Department of Corrections, it's Emergency Management which has contracted
with companies. What kind of security did they provide? What
if there's fights inside these tents? There are a lot
of questions.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Boy, bringing a lot of of murderers and gang members
into a facility that's not ready and not secured just yet.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
What could go wrong?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Well? Right, I mean, okay, granted they're not going to
escape to downtown Miami, I get it, but they certainly
could be a danger to one another. And know what
kind of security facility is there is a real open question.
Plus it'll be ninety eight degrees, one hundred percent humidity
and mosquitoes the size Ofsessmas.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
So you know, yes, that is one of the problems.
But I'm not I wasn't talking about them escaping. I
don't think that's going to be the problem. But could
you imagine being a prison guard there? Could you imagine
being an administrator there and knowing that the security has
never been tested, knowing that the place hasn't been built
(32:03):
out yet. I I when they when you say they're
opening it today, they're not putting anybody there today or
in the in the weeks.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Today, todayay, wow, yep, this is.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
The grand opening day. Today, they're calling you, uh yeah.
And then will there be women? Will there be will
there be women? Will there be children?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
This is the start to a horror movie. It's it's
gonna this is this is kind of unbelievable. That's going
to happen. I'm I'm just going to hope and pray
that they have this better planned out than we're saying
right now, But we will find out. Rory O'Neill w
o R, National Correspondent, thanks so much, Wow, Alligator Alcatraz.
(32:43):
Well Jason Goodman. I'm excited about this. I wanted to
talk to him again and for a long time. He
had a run in with zorin Mam Donnie you'll remember,
months ago, and was threatened by one of Mom Donnie's thugs.
What does Jason think about Mom Donnie now winning the nomination.
We'll talk duam after the eight o'clock news
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