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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And good morning to you. I know you have a
lot of choices to listen to in the morning, and
we're so glad you're spending the time with us in
the Big Three today. Well, a day after a shocking
Democratic primary, it's still sinking into a lot of people
that the Democratic nominee is a avowed socialist and he's
now the front runner to be the next mayor of
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New York.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
But he is one of the most dangerous people that
I have seen in a very long time.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
How did he even get to the point where he
even has a shot?
Speaker 4 (00:32):
I mean, he's a freaking socialist.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
That's former New York Assemblyman Dove Hikend political strategement. I'm sorry,
I just thought that was so funny. Political strategist Hank
Shinkoff is here at eight thirty five to talk about
the race to come. The FBI is investigated to find
the leak of a classified intelligence briefing of a damage
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assessment of the strike on Iran's nuclear facility.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Understand, the FBI is investigating who was the source of
that leak because it's an illegal leak to CNN and shot.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Of consequence to the leak or face.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Not only was the leak illegal, but the information that
CNN and The New York Times went with was just
playing wrong. According to US Israel and UN assessments.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
There's no doubt that it was obliterated. So the reporting
out there that that that in some ways suggests that
we did not achieve the achieve the objective is just
completely preposterous.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well, asked your Dana Miller about the report, the assessment
that's coming out of Israel and the possibility of a
long standing agreement between Iran and Israel for peace. She's
coming up in just a couple of minutes on the
third day of a record setting heat wave. Just imagine this.
Imagine being stuck in a crowded Amtrak train that gets
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stuck in a tunnel with no power. It was on
its way from Baltimore to New York.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
That's insanely hot on hare and I can't imagine that
the few people here can last much longer.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Because, yes, sorry for all the noise, but there was
a whole lot of people on their phones trying to
tell their loved ones they were going to be late
and that they were hot and they were sweating. Jeff
Maher is going to have an extended weekend forecast coming up.
It's going to be a lot nicer. We're gonna get
some rain, but it's going to be a lot nicer.
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There's a little bit of a preview. Closing arguments begin
in the Sean Diddy Combs trial, and the jury is
expected to have the case by the end of the day.
So what's expected to happen when it's all said and done.
Speaker 8 (02:45):
Guilty transportation to engagement, prostitution. I think the sex trafficking
counts are going to be difficult, both for Jane and
for Cathy, but especially for Jane because there's just so
many issues as to her text messages and how she
came off on the stand that she just wanted to please.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Her lover in a horrible accident. Did you hear about this?
On a beach in Asbury Park, New Jersey, when a
lifeguard falls off the stand and is impaled by an umbrella.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
It was just a free thing. As she was putting
it in, caught it, pulled it up, so when she
grabbed it, she was off balance and again she was
on the top step of the bench, so she fell
backwards off the bench and the umbrella came with her.
When she came down and she just landed on her arm.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
It went right through her arm and they had to
cut the umbrella to get her to the hospital. And
she was in good spirits. As a matter of fact,
she was in good spirits on the stretcher. As they
were taking her away.
Speaker 9 (03:37):
They said, she's going to come back in a couple
of weeks.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, absolutely, she will be back in just a couple
of weeks. Now, let's get straight to Jordana Miller, ABC
News correspondent in Jerusalem. Jordana, there's as you may have heard,
there is a lot of consternation in this country about
the reporting that the nuclear sites were only going to
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be out for a couple of weeks. And now we've
heard from several other people interested parties, including the UN
that no, no, no, it was badly damaged. You were
the first one to tell us about that yesterday. Could
you reiterate that and also if there are any new
assessments of the damage.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
Well, I think the early reports from people we were
talking to behind the scenes was that the Ford out
nuclear site, natans Eni Sahan all suffered severe blows. Now,
these reelis didn't necessarily use the word utterly destroyed, and
at least our sources didn't the prime the Israeli Prime
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minister did. We were told they were damaged beyond repair,
that they were inoperable, they were knocked out right. Then
later in the day after we spoke yesterday Larry, the
Israeli Atomic Energy Agency put out its assessment and said
again that these sites had been severely damaged and that
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the Aron's nuclear program had been set back by years
and not months. And that continues to be the assessment here.
You know, we're still gonna have to follow as more
work is done. But when you ask sources, how do
you know that? How can you know? So soon? You know,
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the Israelis say, well, listen, you know, we've got lots
of intel in Iran, and you know, and we proved
that during the war. We're also you know, we're listening,
We're seeing things. We have lots of different tools at
our disposal to find out what the Iranians are saying.
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And so their assessment is this was a major major success.
Now there is some question about whether or not the
Iranians were able to move out some of the enriched material. Right,
they had four hundred tons of rich material to sixty percent,
which is just you know, a step away from ninety
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percent weaponization levels. You know, well, there isn't really a
clear answer on that. You know from the IAEA, the
UN's atomic watchdog agency, that some of that material is missing,
not all of it, and other sources will tell us
that have told us that that material is being stockpiled
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and stored at is Sahan at natans at FDAU, and
so that material is now buried and inaccessible.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Right, So there's so many I guess we just have
to wait some days. This takes some time to get
a final report and get a final assessment, and there
has to be eyes on the ground. In any of
the reports, has it been of firsthand knowledge eyes on
the ground.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
I don't think anyone in the Israeli intelligence, whether that's
the military intelligence or the Masade, will will tell us
that that's probably classified information, but they will say we
have intelligence means to know what's happening. There was there
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was an Israeli lawmaker and a minister who said, well,
there's you know, boots, you know, there's like you know,
boots on the ground or people on the ground. You know,
he's not in a position to know that information, and
I think here in Israel, he's not that those comments
are not being taken very seriously. They're seen as a
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bit of bravado. Yes, the head of Israel's army, that
Eyl al Zamir, said yesterday that commandos were part of
command Israeli commando's on the ground. We're part of the
opening salvo Israel's surprise attack the morning of June thirteenth.
But you know, are there still Israelis on the ground?
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Are are they looking at four doh? And what happened
at the other nuclear sites? We have not been told that,
but you can imagine that the massat haus agents everywhere
and it's likely right.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, So anyway, we have a ceasefire now. Let's let's
let's get to some other other news out of the area.
We have a ceasefire now, which seems to be holding.
The next step are negotiations for a longer lasting agreement.
We've been here before, and I just watch video from
the Iranian parliament where they voted almost unanimously, one abstained
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not to let the UN to look at the sites,
and then afterwards they all chanted death to Israel and
death to America over and over again. So given that
is the feeling in the parliament there, what are the
real chances of a lasting peace?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Right?
Speaker 7 (08:53):
I think that's a really important point. And we even
heard the President say, you know, maybe we'll get it
deal with Iran. Maybe we don't need a deal anymore
with Iran. You know, if the Iranians don't sign some
kind of deal, you know, I think it could it
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could mean that in the future, down the road, several
years down the road, maybe sooner than that, we may
the international community, the West Israel maybe facing another critical point. Right.
The other option is that maybe as a face saving gesture,
maybe the Iranians won't sign a deal, but there'll be
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an understanding that they can't really move forward right now
with their Iranian nuclear with their weapons program, because it's
pretty much in shambles. I don't I don't think the Iranians,
you know, will stop trying. So this is I think
this is not an issue that has been taken off
the table, but I think, you know, delayed and you know,
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if diplomacy can solve it later, but there is a
chance that later, you know, there may be more rounds
with Iran.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
YEP.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Jordanah Miller, ABC News correspondent. Excellent and important reporting from Jerusalem.
Thanks so much to Danna, talk to you again.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Thanks Tuck.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Well, we've got another rat tour in New York. It's
amazing that these things are so popular, but this one
is led by someone called a rat whisperer. We'll explain,
plus an extended forecast with w o r's Weather Channel
meteorologist Jeff mah Stay with us. We're get a lot talkbacks.
(10:40):
Thank you so much for that. We always appreciate your talkbacks.
We got one, well, actually we've got several on the
fact that Rutgers had two players playing basketball for them
that went top five in the NBA draft and they
had a losing record.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
It's very simple why Rutgers did terrible.
Speaker 10 (11:01):
You said, the one guy has a bad attitude.
Speaker 11 (11:04):
Well, you had two superstars on that team.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
One with a bad attitude takes down the whole team.
That seems to make a lot of sense, because it
did they know you had two superstars, you had the
number two and the number five pick in the NBA draft,
and you have a losing record. You don't go to
the NCAA playoffs. That's that's unheard of.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Oh and he's right, you know, with one you know,
bad attitude. It happens to everyone else. And I keep
saying it. These guys were paid a lot of nil money.
Imagine the other players who are busting their butts not
getting half of what they're getting that, you know, and
their kids.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I wish I would have watched Rutgers play just to
find out what was going on on the court.
Speaker 11 (11:45):
Question about why Rutgers had to lose in season is
because these players today are tough, more of an individual
game than they are team games. Their main goals just
to get to the NBA and the showcase the talent.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Wow, that's a great point. That's really a good point.
So you want to up your stats, you want to
play well for yourself. Yeah, and not for the team.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Except I don't think they were showcasing their talents. But
that's besides the point.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Let's get the latest on the forecast because we're out
of the heat wave now. So what's next. Jeff Maher
is with the Weather Channel. He also is a w
R meteorologist. Jeff, thank you so much for joining us.
So what is next?
Speaker 12 (12:32):
Yeah, what's next is a little bit of rain to
get past. As we headed to the weekend, and boy,
is it gonna feel a lot better as you make
her out today. Right now we're in the low eighties,
but we'll probably drop a few more degrees in that
we got for seventies behind this front with a few
showers early and then we'll dry out and then a
few scattered showers and thunderstorms tomorrow sixty eight the high. Boy,
that's a big change for us, and then back into
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the low eighties this weekend with more scattered showers and thunderstorms.
We'll keep that chance for rain early next week Monday
a Tuesday, but then we trend dryer and warmer towards
the fourth of July. Well, I think we'll have some
highs of the uper eighties to low nineties starting next
Wednesday and heading towards the fourth next Friday.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Really, there you go, you write that good news finally, finally, Wow,
you should feel good about yourself. Jeff, you're the first mediurologists.
This gave us good news in a long time. Job
well done, Yes.
Speaker 12 (13:21):
Just a time after mid upper nineties to start off
the week a lot better today.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Thanks a lot, Jeff, maher wr and Weather Channel mediorologists.
So there's another rat tour which means these must be popular,
not just with the rats but with the humans. And
this is a woman named Carrie Bradshaw that calls herself
a rat whisperer, and she makes forty bucks a person
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to take people around the city, tourist around the city.
She sells out all of the time, takes them around
the city to see the rats.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Wait a minute, I'm paying her forty dollars to see rats.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
Yep, I've gotten all wrong. I don't even know why
I went to school.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
And you know, she has fascinating facts about rats, so
you know she cares way too much about rats. She
even dresses up in a little bit of a rat
costume with the ears and all that kind of stuff
in the tail.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
And then she gets tourists and she takes him around.
Of all the stuff that's in this article about the
rat whisperer, the thing that jumped out to me the
most was rats have sex twenty times a day, says
the rat whisperer.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
How does she know?
Speaker 9 (14:35):
Yeah, that's what I want. That's what inquiring mind's watching.
It's gotta beds. You'll catch them not doing it. That
those numbers.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Man, that's why the population increases so much. She also
gives tips about how to keep rats out of your house.
And what is the most obvious tip to keep rats
out of the city and rats out of your house.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
It don't have food around.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Cut the food source exactly, which is the one thing
we will never be able to do. But yeah, so
Carrie Bradshaw, God bless her. She's an entrepreneur. She's making
money on the our plight. And wow, I'm looking at
one of her tours. It's packed. It's packed. That she
goes out at night walking through the city with all
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of these tourists. Huh, that's amazing, it is.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
And she's got the name of a character on Sex
and the City exactly. That's Carrie Bradshaw, the main character
set played by Sarah Jessica Parker.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Oh, I didn't even think of that until now. Great,
great call. Let's get the latest news now with Jacqueline
Carl at seven thirty Larry, Good Morning.
Speaker 9 (15:41):
President Trump says Iran's nuclear program was destroyed after US
air strikes. Trump stood by his statements Wednesday, calling it
quote a total obliteration. He's been fighting back following multiple
reports claiming early Pentagon intelligence suggested Iran's nuclear program was
only a setback for months now. President Trump is also
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slamming the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor.
Speaker 13 (16:04):
The President took to truth Social callings or on Mam
Donnie a one hundred percent communist lunatic. He also said
Democrats have crossed the line by electing the assemblyman who
was a self proclaimed Democratic socialist, with Trump adding dummies
are all backing Mom Donnie. The New York Young Republican
Club has called Mam Donnie radical, adding he will destroy
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their beloved city of New York. Mom Donnie secured the
Democratic vote over eight other candidates, including front runner Andrew
Cuomo Natalie Migliori wo R News.
Speaker 9 (16:35):
So I'm going to take you all back to childhood
with this one. A thief in a roundabout way, a
thief dress and a Scooby Doo costume broke into the
quick stop on Highway eighty two and Duncanville, Alabama, early
Sunday morning. He set off the security alarm about three
forty five am, smashed in and stole cash and coins,
but oddly left snacks untouched. Described as a white man
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around five foot nine, he took off before officers.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Arrive, probably while saying.
Speaker 9 (17:06):
Investigators shared photos and are asking anyone with tips to
contact the TUSCALUSCA police, and they're wondering, where are you?
Speaker 14 (17:17):
Nobody?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Nothing.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
You didn't watch that when you were a kid.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Of course, of course I did, which is why this
guy's not a method actor at all, because he would
never have left snacks.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
The Scooby snacks.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Nothing.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
That's why we I just thought this was a funny story.
But you both kind of like, are we tired today?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
So much of a reaction?
Speaker 9 (17:36):
Anyway, That's my story.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I'm sticking to it.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
No, it was.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
It was cute. That was very cute. Okay, it was
all right, what do you want?
Speaker 11 (17:45):
You?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Wait? Where are you?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I loved that show when I was a kid. No,
it was great.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
So was the story. Jacqueline. Thank you, very good job.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
All of the crimes that Sean Diddy Combs is charged
with are confusing and the evidence is mountainous. Luckily, we
have ABC's Peter Haralambus to sort things out for us.
Peter's up next, and in a new episode of On
Purpose with Jay Shetty, he sits down with award winning
actress and singer Cynthia or I'm Gonna mess this up
(18:22):
Cynthia Arrival for a raw and inspiring conversation. Cynthia talks
about her world win year, filming back to back movies,
performing at the Oscars, and pouring her soul into her
deeply personal new album. Open the iHeartRadio app and search
for on Purpose with Jay Shetty to listen. Now, you
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know how there are some words or some names that,
no matter how you try, is still mispronounced them. And
that's why I laughed before I got the Cynthia arrivo. Yes,
that's why I laughed before I got to that, because
I knew that was one of them. But I can.
I can pronounced Peter Haralambo's perfectly every single time.
Speaker 9 (19:05):
Well, then you don't need to pronounce it anything else, right,
because it's a tough one.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Right, it's a tough one to pronounce, right. And look
at this is from a guy named Menti with a
silent D. I've got Mente, mendit, mendy. I get all
kinds of stuff all my life. So having a name
like Peter Haralambuos that starts with a c H, that's
pronounced with an H. Peter growing up.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Larry men, larryn many.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
That was flawless.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Thank you. So give me some of the mispronunciations of
your name.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Oh boy, it's too many to count, I guess uh.
You know, honestly, I pronounced that Charles Ambus for most
of my life because you know, we never really had
a family discussion about this, So I was the chief
mispronouncer for the first eighteen years of my life until
we had a family meeting about this to be there.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
So was it like an intervention. They finally had to
call you in and say, Peter.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
For doubting your day.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Seriously, it was having to write a pronouncer for radio
stuff that I realized this. We had a family meeting
and we agreed that this is the proper way to
do it. So thank you Radio, and thank you for
having me because it's provided this opportunity to fix an
eighteen year wrong.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Well, Peter Haralamboos, what happened in the p Didy trial.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yeah, we're coming to a close this thing. After more
than thirty days of testimony, thirty four witnesses, over a
thousand exhibits, we're going into closing arguments today. It's going
to be like the trial itself, a bit of a marathon.
Four hours of closing arguments from prosecutors today followed by
another three hours from defense attorneys tomorrow. They're really just
trying to tie together all of this evidence to prove
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their case that shown Combs used his business empire, his
music empire as secretly a criminal enterprise, the coercial woman
into sex and then use violence and threats to basically
ensure they stay silent about all the sexual activity. This
is something they've been trying to prove at this point
for two months, and this is their time to tie
into the tie in that thousand pieces of evidence, all
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of that testimony, and try to show a clear picture
for the jury that must be exhausted after all of
this testimony and evidence.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I exhausted it. And then I'm told that the closing
arguments are going to take hours, and then that these
instructions that they came with up with are over one
hundred pages.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, it's it's really a slog for a jury. I mean,
the closing statements, especially from federal prosecutors I've noticed do
run long. Four hours is unusually long in my opinion.
And then the jury charge is some of the driest
stuff you'll hear. It's technical stuff, the legal instructions for
what it takes to convict. So this is a possibility
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this jury doesn't even begin deliberating until Monday morning at
this point. Originally there is a possibility that would start
on Friday. That prediction seems to have gone completely away
because at this point there's a bit of like a
back and forth where basically everyone wants to have the
last word. The defense didn't want to close on Thursday
because they thought the jury might be tired in the afternoon,
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so everything's just pushing. And then of course next week's
the July fourth holiday. So assuming this isn't a quick deliberation,
this thing could drag on when it comes to the
surious deliberation.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yeah, look at I've been in jury rooms before, and
if there's a July fourth holiday coming up, they're going
to want to get out of there, and so they're
going to be pushing and pushing and pushing and trying
to get any holdouts or they'll join the holdouts to
join in. I've heard a lot of legal analysts, and
we've talked to several in this show that have said
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from the very beginning that there are a couple of
the smaller charges that they think he's going to be
found guilty of, like you know, paying a prostitute, like prostitution,
but that some of the other charges that it's going
to be really tough to hook them to the evidence.
The predicate charges may may or may not have been,
so it could be a toss up. Would you agree
(23:02):
with that assessment?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Yeah, I think it's fair, and I've heard similar things.
I think at this point the betting money is on
this idea that perhaps there's a split verdict and he
gets convicted on those lesser counts transportation to engage in prosecution,
for example, and potentially gets an acquittal or a hung
jury on that top count, the one that actually carries
the possibility of life in prison. That being said, we're
getting a bit more information about what it takes for
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this jury to convict. Yesterday was this very long charge
conference where they kind of battled out what the jury
instruction should be, and it's a bit of a pick
your own adventure when it comes to that racketeer account.
It's really up to the jury which of the nine
predicates they believe actually you know, the prosecutors have proven
they only need to believe that Pomes engaged in two
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of those predicate acts to convict, so you know, they
theoretically could disagree whether or not the testimony of Kassi,
Ventura and Jane amounted to sex trafficking. But maybe they
find him guilty or believe he's guilty of transportation of
narcotics for example, which is one of those predicate acts,
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or the arsin related to the Kid Cutty firebombing incident
that we heard a lot about last month. You know,
they have flexibility there, and the Dury instruction, I will say,
for federal racketeering conspiracy is a bit broader than you
might expect. It gives the jury a lot of leeway
to look at this case.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Peter Haralambus, ABC News investigative reporter in New York. We
can thank each other for pronouncing our names, right, Peter,
Thank you so much. We'll talk to you again.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Larry Ticker, Well, I want to play for you something
real quick because I mentioned it and we actually have
audio of it. And this is one of the reasons
where you may think, well, they can talk all they want,
but this five decade, all long disagreement we can call it,
which which flares up and war every once in a
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while between Iran and Israel, is not going to be
said anytime soon. It was a vote by the Iranian
parliament just yesterday, and the vote was to keep the
UN out from doing on the ground damage assessments of
the sites. And the UN has an agreement with Iran
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that they can do just that, and so they had
to vote in the parliament. Now there's two hundred and
twenty two members in the Iranian parliament. The vote was
two hundred and twenty one to nothing to keep the
UN out of looking at the sites, with one person
abstaining from the vote. I wonder how long that person
is going to be alive. Afterwards, they all started chanting
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and they wouldn't stop, and this went on for a
long time. Death to America and death to Israel. So
they were doing that from their seats for the most part,
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and then they all got up like a little parade
and walked up to the front and looked at where
the cameras are, because they're on live for these things.
They looked at where the cameras are, and they did
it to the cameras. So there's a deep hatred here
that may go well beyond any negotiations. I wanted to
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play you that because if negotiations don't go well, now
you know why. Well, President Trump leaves NATO today with
a series of successes. Now we'll talk with Rory O'Neill
about the trip, the ceasefire, and the military strike coming up. Also,
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Speaker 10 (27:26):
So first you sit here and blame the Democrats for
the largest tax hike because the Republican can't pass the bill.
And then you finally admit they don't need the Democrats
to pass the bill. It's the holdouts on the Republicans. Larry,
you are messed up. And Natalie, why don't you ever
play something from the opposite side.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yeah, yeah, Natalie, Oh my.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Fuck, I gotta tell you we don't get a lot
on the opposite side.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I don't want to get into this too much, but
that's not what I said. What I said was that
it was a poison pill bill that they paid for
it with the next administration. Joe Biden didn't have it
in the first four years. He made sure that the
tax hike was in the fifth year, so it was
a bomb on the next administration if he didn't win election.
(28:18):
And then he could swallow that if he didn't win election,
because he couldn't he didn't have to run again. So
that's what I said. And then I can't even remember
the second party for part of your point. But obviously
I will accept the other side because I played you
and and leave us more talkbacks in the future. If
you disagree with me, no matter how wrong you are.
I will go ahead and play that talkback. Now, let's
(28:41):
get to Rory O'Neil, wr national correspondent, who's covering the
ceasefire and a brand new poll. Let's start with the ceasefire,
because we've had ceasefires in the past in the Middle East.
The ceasefires don't last too long. How's this one look?
Speaker 4 (28:58):
So far?
Speaker 12 (28:59):
So good?
Speaker 14 (28:59):
You know, every time I wake up and I get
right to the internet and find out where where do
we stand? And it looks like things are still holding.
So fingers crossed that this can continue. You know, there
was some discussion there might be a meeting about the
UH with Iran and the White House next week, but
now the President said, why am I meeting with Iran?
Essentially they lost this thing. There's not really much to
(29:21):
hammer out, so we'll see what happens. We're also standing
by for an update from the Defense Secretary Hegseth to
talk more about that the effectiveness of the US military strikes.
That update is starting in just a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah, that was surprising from the President, wasn't it, Because
we thought the ceasefire was going to lead to talks.
As a matter of fact, the President himself has said
that in the past. I don't know what to read
into that now that he is now saying we don't
even need an agreement, we really don't need one.
Speaker 14 (29:48):
Well, and then go ahead, and Ron said this morning, well,
we weren't going to talk anyway, So who knows where
that goes.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
But the ceasefire is still holding.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Yeah, the ceasefire is holding. And what about the poll?
What's this poll you're talking about?
Speaker 14 (30:02):
Quinnipiac University out with a quick poll as started on Sunday.
They started asking how Americans felt about the strikes on
those nuclear sites. Forty two percent of voters support the
US joining Israel in those military strikes, Fifty one percent
oppose it, believe it or not concerns about the US
getting drawn into a bigger war. Nearly eight to ten
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voters are either very concerned or somewhat concerned that the
strikes in Iran could lead to something else. And an
interesting note in the poll, forty two percent of voters
now think that the US is too supportive of Israel.
Forty five percent think our support is just right. But
that forty two percent number is the highest it's been
since Quinnipiac.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Started asking the question back in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
That's really interesting. Are fascinating numbers. But I've seen a
couple of polls and some that were taken beforehand when
we were talking about doing it, and you're right, they
were all against and then they were they were more
positive once the results were What are the dates of
this poll? Does it line up after the strikes?
Speaker 14 (31:06):
Yeah, now we do know the dates, so yes, the
June twenty second to the twenty fourth, so Sunday through Tuesday,
nearly one thousand registered voters took part. And look, these
are going to change wildly because there's a learning curve here,
people figuring out, Wait, what's the name of the three
different places?
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Where are they? What did we do?
Speaker 14 (31:24):
You know, we'll see how effective these were, and you know,
the updates and all the different variations of the word
obliterated that we're going to hear coming up in the
next hour. So it's a there's still a lot of
swing I think in these poll numbers about attitudes towards
these strikes. As long as the US stays out of it,
if it was a one and done, I think the
support is going to go through the roof.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Yeah, no, I agree with you. I think that if
if peace comes to the Middle East, of course that's
going to happen. But that's a day to day thing.
So we have to wait. Now, since there's no agreement,
we're going to have to just keep waiting and waiting
and waiting and waiting to see if how long term this.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Is and Quinnipiactor is going to keep and.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
You'll keep talking and talking and talking about it, all right,
Rory O'Neil, thank you so much, wo r National correspondent. Now,
I remember with that guy that we just played a
second ago. If you weren't listening, the complain not only
that I blame the Democrats for the tax hike, which
was their fault because they're the ones that passed it.
And if the Republicans don't come together and come up
(32:29):
with a bill really fast, the big beautiful bill, that
tax kite, that tax hike, the largest in history, is
going to go through. So it's obviously their fault. It's
all their fault. And then he tied that to me
saying that the big beautiful bill can pass without a
Democratic vote somehow, thinking they were related, And it's true.
The Republicans have the majority and they can do it.
So you conflicted those two together and they really did
(32:52):
not relate together at all. But we appreciate your talk back,
and you were in the running for Talkback of the Day.
Laura Curran predicted early on that Andrew Cuomo would win
the nomination, but a funny thing happened on the way
to City Hall. Laura is up next.
And good morning to you. I know you have a
lot of choices to listen to in the morning, and
we're so glad you're spending the time with us in
the Big Three today. Well, a day after a shocking
Democratic primary, it's still sinking into a lot of people
that the Democratic nominee is a avowed socialist and he's
now the front runner to be the next mayor of
(00:21):
New York.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
But he is one of the most dangerous people that
I have seen in a very long time.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
How did he even get to the point where he
even has a shot?
Speaker 4 (00:32):
I mean, he's a freaking socialist.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
That's former New York Assemblyman Dove Hikend political strategement. I'm sorry,
I just thought that was so funny. Political strategist Hank
Shinkoff is here at eight thirty five to talk about
the race to come. The FBI is investigated to find
the leak of a classified intelligence briefing of a damage
(00:56):
assessment of the strike on Iran's nuclear facility.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Understand, the FBI is investigating who was the source of
that leak because it's an illegal leak to CNN and shot.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Of consequence to the leak or face.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Not only was the leak illegal, but the information that
CNN and The New York Times went with was just
playing wrong. According to US Israel and UN assessments.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
There's no doubt that it was obliterated. So the reporting
out there that that that in some ways suggests that
we did not achieve the achieve the objective is just
completely preposterous.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well, asked your Dana Miller about the report, the assessment
that's coming out of Israel and the possibility of a
long standing agreement between Iran and Israel for peace. She's
coming up in just a couple of minutes on the
third day of a record setting heat wave. Just imagine this.
Imagine being stuck in a crowded Amtrak train that gets
(01:56):
stuck in a tunnel with no power. It was on
its way from Baltimore to New York.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
That's insanely hot on hare and I can't imagine that
the few people here can last much longer.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Because, yes, sorry for all the noise, but there was
a whole lot of people on their phones trying to
tell their loved ones they were going to be late
and that they were hot and they were sweating. Jeff
Maher is going to have an extended weekend forecast coming up.
It's going to be a lot nicer. We're gonna get
some rain, but it's going to be a lot nicer.
(02:29):
There's a little bit of a preview. Closing arguments begin
in the Sean Diddy Combs trial, and the jury is
expected to have the case by the end of the day.
So what's expected to happen when it's all said and done.
Speaker 8 (02:45):
Guilty transportation to engagement, prostitution. I think the sex trafficking
counts are going to be difficult, both for Jane and
for Cathy, but especially for Jane because there's just so
many issues as to her text messages and how she
came off on the stand that she just wanted to please.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Her lover in a horrible accident. Did you hear about this?
On a beach in Asbury Park, New Jersey, when a
lifeguard falls off the stand and is impaled by an umbrella.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
It was just a free thing. As she was putting
it in, caught it, pulled it up, so when she
grabbed it, she was off balance and again she was
on the top step of the bench, so she fell
backwards off the bench and the umbrella came with her.
When she came down and she just landed on her arm.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
It went right through her arm and they had to
cut the umbrella to get her to the hospital. And
she was in good spirits. As a matter of fact,
she was in good spirits on the stretcher. As they
were taking her away.
Speaker 9 (03:37):
They said, she's going to come back in a couple
of weeks.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, absolutely, she will be back in just a couple
of weeks. Now, let's get straight to Jordana Miller, ABC
News correspondent in Jerusalem. Jordana, there's as you may have heard,
there is a lot of consternation in this country about
the reporting that the nuclear sites were only going to
(04:01):
be out for a couple of weeks. And now we've
heard from several other people interested parties, including the UN
that no, no, no, it was badly damaged. You were
the first one to tell us about that yesterday. Could
you reiterate that and also if there are any new
assessments of the damage.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
Well, I think the early reports from people we were
talking to behind the scenes was that the Ford out
nuclear site, natans Eni Sahan all suffered severe blows. Now,
these reelis didn't necessarily use the word utterly destroyed, and
at least our sources didn't the prime the Israeli Prime
(04:42):
minister did. We were told they were damaged beyond repair,
that they were inoperable, they were knocked out right. Then
later in the day after we spoke yesterday Larry, the
Israeli Atomic Energy Agency put out its assessment and said
again that these sites had been severely damaged and that
(05:05):
the Aron's nuclear program had been set back by years
and not months. And that continues to be the assessment here.
You know, we're still gonna have to follow as more
work is done. But when you ask sources, how do
you know that? How can you know? So soon? You know,
(05:25):
the Israelis say, well, listen, you know, we've got lots
of intel in Iran, and you know, and we proved
that during the war. We're also you know, we're listening,
We're seeing things. We have lots of different tools at
our disposal to find out what the Iranians are saying.
(05:47):
And so their assessment is this was a major major success.
Now there is some question about whether or not the
Iranians were able to move out some of the enriched material. Right,
they had four hundred tons of rich material to sixty percent,
which is just you know, a step away from ninety
(06:08):
percent weaponization levels. You know, well, there isn't really a
clear answer on that. You know from the IAEA, the
UN's atomic watchdog agency, that some of that material is missing,
not all of it, and other sources will tell us
that have told us that that material is being stockpiled
(06:30):
and stored at is Sahan at natans at FDAU, and
so that material is now buried and inaccessible.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Right, So there's so many I guess we just have
to wait some days. This takes some time to get
a final report and get a final assessment, and there
has to be eyes on the ground. In any of
the reports, has it been of firsthand knowledge eyes on
the ground.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
I don't think anyone in the Israeli intelligence, whether that's
the military intelligence or the Masade, will will tell us
that that's probably classified information, but they will say we
have intelligence means to know what's happening. There was there
(07:16):
was an Israeli lawmaker and a minister who said, well,
there's you know, boots, you know, there's like you know,
boots on the ground or people on the ground. You know,
he's not in a position to know that information, and
I think here in Israel, he's not that those comments
are not being taken very seriously. They're seen as a
(07:38):
bit of bravado. Yes, the head of Israel's army, that
Eyl al Zamir, said yesterday that commandos were part of
command Israeli commando's on the ground. We're part of the
opening salvo Israel's surprise attack the morning of June thirteenth.
But you know, are there still Israelis on the ground?
(07:59):
Are are they looking at four doh? And what happened
at the other nuclear sites? We have not been told that,
but you can imagine that the massat haus agents everywhere
and it's likely right.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah, So anyway, we have a ceasefire now. Let's let's
let's get to some other other news out of the area.
We have a ceasefire now, which seems to be holding.
The next step are negotiations for a longer lasting agreement.
We've been here before, and I just watch video from
the Iranian parliament where they voted almost unanimously, one abstained
(08:36):
not to let the UN to look at the sites,
and then afterwards they all chanted death to Israel and
death to America over and over again. So given that
is the feeling in the parliament there, what are the
real chances of a lasting peace?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Right?
Speaker 7 (08:53):
I think that's a really important point. And we even
heard the President say, you know, maybe we'll get it
deal with Iran. Maybe we don't need a deal anymore
with Iran. You know, if the Iranians don't sign some
kind of deal, you know, I think it could it
(09:14):
could mean that in the future, down the road, several
years down the road, maybe sooner than that, we may
the international community, the West Israel maybe facing another critical point. Right.
The other option is that maybe as a face saving gesture,
maybe the Iranians won't sign a deal, but there'll be
(09:37):
an understanding that they can't really move forward right now
with their Iranian nuclear with their weapons program, because it's
pretty much in shambles. I don't I don't think the Iranians,
you know, will stop trying. So this is I think
this is not an issue that has been taken off
the table, but I think, you know, delayed and you know,
(10:01):
if diplomacy can solve it later, but there is a
chance that later, you know, there may be more rounds
with Iran.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
YEP.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Jordanah Miller, ABC News correspondent. Excellent and important reporting from Jerusalem.
Thanks so much to Danna, talk to you again.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Thanks Tuck.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Well, we've got another rat tour in New York. It's
amazing that these things are so popular, but this one
is led by someone called a rat whisperer. We'll explain,
plus an extended forecast with w o r's Weather Channel
meteorologist Jeff mah Stay with us. We're get a lot talkbacks.
(10:40):
Thank you so much for that. We always appreciate your talkbacks.
We got one, well, actually we've got several on the
fact that Rutgers had two players playing basketball for them
that went top five in the NBA draft and they
had a losing record.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
It's very simple why Rutgers did terrible.
Speaker 10 (11:01):
You said, the one guy has a bad attitude.
Speaker 11 (11:04):
Well, you had two superstars on that team.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
One with a bad attitude takes down the whole team.
That seems to make a lot of sense, because it
did they know you had two superstars, you had the
number two and the number five pick in the NBA draft,
and you have a losing record. You don't go to
the NCAA playoffs. That's that's unheard of.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Oh and he's right, you know, with one you know,
bad attitude. It happens to everyone else. And I keep
saying it. These guys were paid a lot of nil money.
Imagine the other players who are busting their butts not
getting half of what they're getting that, you know, and
their kids.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I wish I would have watched Rutgers play just to
find out what was going on on the court.
Speaker 11 (11:45):
Question about why Rutgers had to lose in season is
because these players today are tough, more of an individual
game than they are team games. Their main goals just
to get to the NBA and the showcase the talent.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Wow, that's a great point. That's really a good point.
So you want to up your stats, you want to
play well for yourself. Yeah, and not for the team.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Except I don't think they were showcasing their talents. But
that's besides the point.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Let's get the latest on the forecast because we're out
of the heat wave now. So what's next. Jeff Maher
is with the Weather Channel. He also is a w
R meteorologist. Jeff, thank you so much for joining us.
So what is next?
Speaker 12 (12:32):
Yeah, what's next is a little bit of rain to
get past. As we headed to the weekend, and boy,
is it gonna feel a lot better as you make
her out today. Right now we're in the low eighties,
but we'll probably drop a few more degrees in that
we got for seventies behind this front with a few
showers early and then we'll dry out and then a
few scattered showers and thunderstorms tomorrow sixty eight the high. Boy,
that's a big change for us, and then back into
(12:52):
the low eighties this weekend with more scattered showers and thunderstorms.
We'll keep that chance for rain early next week Monday
a Tuesday, but then we trend dryer and warmer towards
the fourth of July. Well, I think we'll have some
highs of the uper eighties to low nineties starting next
Wednesday and heading towards the fourth next Friday.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Really, there you go, you write that good news finally, finally, Wow,
you should feel good about yourself. Jeff, you're the first mediurologists.
This gave us good news in a long time. Job
well done, Yes.
Speaker 12 (13:21):
Just a time after mid upper nineties to start off
the week a lot better today.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Thanks a lot, Jeff, maher wr and Weather Channel mediorologists.
So there's another rat tour which means these must be popular,
not just with the rats but with the humans. And
this is a woman named Carrie Bradshaw that calls herself
a rat whisperer, and she makes forty bucks a person
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to take people around the city, tourist around the city.
She sells out all of the time, takes them around
the city to see the rats.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Wait a minute, I'm paying her forty dollars to see rats.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
Yep, I've gotten all wrong. I don't even know why
I went to school.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
And you know, she has fascinating facts about rats, so
you know she cares way too much about rats. She
even dresses up in a little bit of a rat
costume with the ears and all that kind of stuff
in the tail.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
And then she gets tourists and she takes him around.
Of all the stuff that's in this article about the
rat whisperer, the thing that jumped out to me the
most was rats have sex twenty times a day, says
the rat whisperer.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
How does she know?
Speaker 9 (14:35):
Yeah, that's what I want. That's what inquiring mind's watching.
It's gotta beds. You'll catch them not doing it. That
those numbers.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Man, that's why the population increases so much. She also
gives tips about how to keep rats out of your house.
And what is the most obvious tip to keep rats
out of the city and rats out of your house.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
It don't have food around.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Cut the food source exactly, which is the one thing
we will never be able to do. But yeah, so
Carrie Bradshaw, God bless her. She's an entrepreneur. She's making
money on the our plight. And wow, I'm looking at
one of her tours. It's packed. It's packed. That she
goes out at night walking through the city with all
(15:19):
of these tourists. Huh, that's amazing, it is.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
And she's got the name of a character on Sex
and the City exactly. That's Carrie Bradshaw, the main character
set played by Sarah Jessica Parker.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Oh, I didn't even think of that until now. Great,
great call. Let's get the latest news now with Jacqueline
Carl at seven thirty Larry, Good Morning.
Speaker 9 (15:41):
President Trump says Iran's nuclear program was destroyed after US
air strikes. Trump stood by his statements Wednesday, calling it
quote a total obliteration. He's been fighting back following multiple
reports claiming early Pentagon intelligence suggested Iran's nuclear program was
only a setback for months now. President Trump is also
(16:01):
slamming the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor.
Speaker 13 (16:04):
The President took to truth Social callings or on Mam
Donnie a one hundred percent communist lunatic. He also said
Democrats have crossed the line by electing the assemblyman who
was a self proclaimed Democratic socialist, with Trump adding dummies
are all backing Mom Donnie. The New York Young Republican
Club has called Mam Donnie radical, adding he will destroy
(16:25):
their beloved city of New York. Mom Donnie secured the
Democratic vote over eight other candidates, including front runner Andrew
Cuomo Natalie Migliori wo R News.
Speaker 9 (16:35):
So I'm going to take you all back to childhood
with this one. A thief in a roundabout way, a
thief dress and a Scooby Doo costume broke into the
quick stop on Highway eighty two and Duncanville, Alabama, early
Sunday morning. He set off the security alarm about three
forty five am, smashed in and stole cash and coins,
but oddly left snacks untouched. Described as a white man
(16:58):
around five foot nine, he took off before officers.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Arrive, probably while saying.
Speaker 9 (17:06):
Investigators shared photos and are asking anyone with tips to
contact the TUSCALUSCA police, and they're wondering, where are you?
Speaker 14 (17:17):
Nobody?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Nothing.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
You didn't watch that when you were a kid.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Of course, of course I did, which is why this
guy's not a method actor at all, because he would
never have left snacks.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
The Scooby snacks.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Nothing.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
That's why we I just thought this was a funny story.
But you both kind of like, are we tired today?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
So much of a reaction?
Speaker 9 (17:36):
Anyway, That's my story.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I'm sticking to it.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
No, it was.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
It was cute. That was very cute. Okay, it was
all right, what do you want?
Speaker 11 (17:45):
You?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Wait? Where are you?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I loved that show when I was a kid. No,
it was great.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
So was the story. Jacqueline. Thank you, very good job.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
All of the crimes that Sean Diddy Combs is charged
with are confusing and the evidence is mountainous. Luckily, we
have ABC's Peter Haralambus to sort things out for us.
Peter's up next, and in a new episode of On
Purpose with Jay Shetty, he sits down with award winning
actress and singer Cynthia or I'm Gonna mess this up
(18:22):
Cynthia Arrival for a raw and inspiring conversation. Cynthia talks
about her world win year, filming back to back movies,
performing at the Oscars, and pouring her soul into her
deeply personal new album. Open the iHeartRadio app and search
for on Purpose with Jay Shetty to listen. Now, you
(18:43):
know how there are some words or some names that,
no matter how you try, is still mispronounced them. And
that's why I laughed before I got the Cynthia arrivo. Yes,
that's why I laughed before I got to that, because
I knew that was one of them. But I can.
I can pronounced Peter Haralambo's perfectly every single time.
Speaker 9 (19:05):
Well, then you don't need to pronounce it anything else, right,
because it's a tough one.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Right, it's a tough one to pronounce, right. And look
at this is from a guy named Menti with a
silent D. I've got Mente, mendit, mendy. I get all
kinds of stuff all my life. So having a name
like Peter Haralambuos that starts with a c H, that's
pronounced with an H. Peter growing up.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Larry men, larryn many.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
That was flawless.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Thank you. So give me some of the mispronunciations of
your name.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Oh boy, it's too many to count, I guess uh.
You know, honestly, I pronounced that Charles Ambus for most
of my life because you know, we never really had
a family discussion about this, So I was the chief
mispronouncer for the first eighteen years of my life until
we had a family meeting about this to be there.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
So was it like an intervention. They finally had to
call you in and say, Peter.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
For doubting your day.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Seriously, it was having to write a pronouncer for radio
stuff that I realized this. We had a family meeting
and we agreed that this is the proper way to
do it. So thank you Radio, and thank you for
having me because it's provided this opportunity to fix an
eighteen year wrong.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Well, Peter Haralamboos, what happened in the p Didy trial.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yeah, we're coming to a close this thing. After more
than thirty days of testimony, thirty four witnesses, over a
thousand exhibits, we're going into closing arguments today. It's going
to be like the trial itself, a bit of a marathon.
Four hours of closing arguments from prosecutors today followed by
another three hours from defense attorneys tomorrow. They're really just
trying to tie together all of this evidence to prove
(20:49):
their case that shown Combs used his business empire, his
music empire as secretly a criminal enterprise, the coercial woman
into sex and then use violence and threats to basically
ensure they stay silent about all the sexual activity. This
is something they've been trying to prove at this point
for two months, and this is their time to tie
into the tie in that thousand pieces of evidence, all
(21:11):
of that testimony, and try to show a clear picture
for the jury that must be exhausted after all of
this testimony and evidence.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I exhausted it. And then I'm told that the closing
arguments are going to take hours, and then that these
instructions that they came with up with are over one
hundred pages.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, it's it's really a slog for a jury. I mean,
the closing statements, especially from federal prosecutors I've noticed do
run long. Four hours is unusually long in my opinion.
And then the jury charge is some of the driest
stuff you'll hear. It's technical stuff, the legal instructions for
what it takes to convict. So this is a possibility
(21:49):
this jury doesn't even begin deliberating until Monday morning at
this point. Originally there is a possibility that would start
on Friday. That prediction seems to have gone completely away
because at this point there's a bit of like a
back and forth where basically everyone wants to have the
last word. The defense didn't want to close on Thursday
because they thought the jury might be tired in the afternoon,
(22:10):
so everything's just pushing. And then of course next week's
the July fourth holiday. So assuming this isn't a quick deliberation,
this thing could drag on when it comes to the
surious deliberation.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yeah, look at I've been in jury rooms before, and
if there's a July fourth holiday coming up, they're going
to want to get out of there, and so they're
going to be pushing and pushing and pushing and trying
to get any holdouts or they'll join the holdouts to
join in. I've heard a lot of legal analysts, and
we've talked to several in this show that have said
(22:41):
from the very beginning that there are a couple of
the smaller charges that they think he's going to be
found guilty of, like you know, paying a prostitute, like prostitution,
but that some of the other charges that it's going
to be really tough to hook them to the evidence.
The predicate charges may may or may not have been,
so it could be a toss up. Would you agree
(23:02):
with that assessment?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Yeah, I think it's fair, and I've heard similar things.
I think at this point the betting money is on
this idea that perhaps there's a split verdict and he
gets convicted on those lesser counts transportation to engage in prosecution,
for example, and potentially gets an acquittal or a hung
jury on that top count, the one that actually carries
the possibility of life in prison. That being said, we're
getting a bit more information about what it takes for
(23:25):
this jury to convict. Yesterday was this very long charge
conference where they kind of battled out what the jury
instruction should be, and it's a bit of a pick
your own adventure when it comes to that racketeer account.
It's really up to the jury which of the nine
predicates they believe actually you know, the prosecutors have proven
they only need to believe that Pomes engaged in two
(23:46):
of those predicate acts to convict, so you know, they
theoretically could disagree whether or not the testimony of Kassi,
Ventura and Jane amounted to sex trafficking. But maybe they
find him guilty or believe he's guilty of transportation of
narcotics for example, which is one of those predicate acts,
(24:07):
or the arsin related to the Kid Cutty firebombing incident
that we heard a lot about last month. You know,
they have flexibility there, and the Dury instruction, I will say,
for federal racketeering conspiracy is a bit broader than you
might expect. It gives the jury a lot of leeway
to look at this case.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Peter Haralambus, ABC News investigative reporter in New York. We
can thank each other for pronouncing our names, right, Peter,
Thank you so much. We'll talk to you again.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Larry Ticker, Well, I want to play for you something
real quick because I mentioned it and we actually have
audio of it. And this is one of the reasons
where you may think, well, they can talk all they want,
but this five decade, all long disagreement we can call it,
which which flares up and war every once in a
(24:57):
while between Iran and Israel, is not going to be
said anytime soon. It was a vote by the Iranian
parliament just yesterday, and the vote was to keep the
UN out from doing on the ground damage assessments of
the sites. And the UN has an agreement with Iran
(25:17):
that they can do just that, and so they had
to vote in the parliament. Now there's two hundred and
twenty two members in the Iranian parliament. The vote was
two hundred and twenty one to nothing to keep the
UN out of looking at the sites, with one person
abstaining from the vote. I wonder how long that person
is going to be alive. Afterwards, they all started chanting
(25:42):
and they wouldn't stop, and this went on for a
long time. Death to America and death to Israel. So
they were doing that from their seats for the most part,
(26:02):
and then they all got up like a little parade
and walked up to the front and looked at where
the cameras are, because they're on live for these things.
They looked at where the cameras are, and they did
it to the cameras. So there's a deep hatred here
that may go well beyond any negotiations. I wanted to
(26:23):
play you that because if negotiations don't go well, now
you know why. Well, President Trump leaves NATO today with
a series of successes. Now we'll talk with Rory O'Neill
about the trip, the ceasefire, and the military strike coming up. Also,
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Speaker 10 (27:26):
So first you sit here and blame the Democrats for
the largest tax hike because the Republican can't pass the bill.
And then you finally admit they don't need the Democrats
to pass the bill. It's the holdouts on the Republicans. Larry,
you are messed up. And Natalie, why don't you ever
play something from the opposite side.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yeah, yeah, Natalie, Oh my.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Fuck, I gotta tell you we don't get a lot
on the opposite side.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I don't want to get into this too much, but
that's not what I said. What I said was that
it was a poison pill bill that they paid for
it with the next administration. Joe Biden didn't have it
in the first four years. He made sure that the
tax hike was in the fifth year, so it was
a bomb on the next administration if he didn't win election.
(28:18):
And then he could swallow that if he didn't win election,
because he couldn't he didn't have to run again. So
that's what I said. And then I can't even remember
the second party for part of your point. But obviously
I will accept the other side because I played you
and and leave us more talkbacks in the future. If
you disagree with me, no matter how wrong you are.
I will go ahead and play that talkback. Now, let's
(28:41):
get to Rory O'Neil, wr national correspondent, who's covering the
ceasefire and a brand new poll. Let's start with the ceasefire,
because we've had ceasefires in the past in the Middle East.
The ceasefires don't last too long. How's this one look?
Speaker 4 (28:58):
So far?
Speaker 12 (28:59):
So good?
Speaker 14 (28:59):
You know, every time I wake up and I get
right to the internet and find out where where do
we stand? And it looks like things are still holding.
So fingers crossed that this can continue. You know, there
was some discussion there might be a meeting about the
UH with Iran and the White House next week, but
now the President said, why am I meeting with Iran?
Essentially they lost this thing. There's not really much to
(29:21):
hammer out, so we'll see what happens. We're also standing
by for an update from the Defense Secretary Hegseth to
talk more about that the effectiveness of the US military strikes.
That update is starting in just a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah, that was surprising from the President, wasn't it, Because
we thought the ceasefire was going to lead to talks.
As a matter of fact, the President himself has said
that in the past. I don't know what to read
into that now that he is now saying we don't
even need an agreement, we really don't need one.
Speaker 14 (29:48):
Well, and then go ahead, and Ron said this morning, well,
we weren't going to talk anyway, So who knows where
that goes.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
But the ceasefire is still holding.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Yeah, the ceasefire is holding. And what about the poll?
What's this poll you're talking about?
Speaker 14 (30:02):
Quinnipiac University out with a quick poll as started on Sunday.
They started asking how Americans felt about the strikes on
those nuclear sites. Forty two percent of voters support the
US joining Israel in those military strikes, Fifty one percent
oppose it, believe it or not concerns about the US
getting drawn into a bigger war. Nearly eight to ten
(30:24):
voters are either very concerned or somewhat concerned that the
strikes in Iran could lead to something else. And an
interesting note in the poll, forty two percent of voters
now think that the US is too supportive of Israel.
Forty five percent think our support is just right. But
that forty two percent number is the highest it's been
since Quinnipiac.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Started asking the question back in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
That's really interesting. Are fascinating numbers. But I've seen a
couple of polls and some that were taken beforehand when
we were talking about doing it, and you're right, they
were all against and then they were they were more
positive once the results were What are the dates of
this poll? Does it line up after the strikes?
Speaker 14 (31:06):
Yeah, now we do know the dates, so yes, the
June twenty second to the twenty fourth, so Sunday through Tuesday,
nearly one thousand registered voters took part. And look, these
are going to change wildly because there's a learning curve here,
people figuring out, Wait, what's the name of the three
different places?
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Where are they? What did we do?
Speaker 14 (31:24):
You know, we'll see how effective these were, and you know,
the updates and all the different variations of the word
obliterated that we're going to hear coming up in the
next hour. So it's a there's still a lot of
swing I think in these poll numbers about attitudes towards
these strikes. As long as the US stays out of it,
if it was a one and done, I think the
support is going to go through the roof.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Yeah, no, I agree with you. I think that if
if peace comes to the Middle East, of course that's
going to happen. But that's a day to day thing.
So we have to wait. Now, since there's no agreement,
we're going to have to just keep waiting and waiting
and waiting and waiting to see if how long term this.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Is and Quinnipiactor is going to keep and.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
You'll keep talking and talking and talking about it, all right,
Rory O'Neil, thank you so much, wo r National correspondent. Now,
I remember with that guy that we just played a
second ago. If you weren't listening, the complain not only
that I blame the Democrats for the tax hike, which
was their fault because they're the ones that passed it.
And if the Republicans don't come together and come up
(32:29):
with a bill really fast, the big beautiful bill, that
tax kite, that tax hike, the largest in history, is
going to go through. So it's obviously their fault. It's
all their fault. And then he tied that to me
saying that the big beautiful bill can pass without a
Democratic vote somehow, thinking they were related, And it's true.
The Republicans have the majority and they can do it.
So you conflicted those two together and they really did
(32:52):
not relate together at all. But we appreciate your talk back,
and you were in the running for Talkback of the Day.
Laura Curran predicted early on that Andrew Cuomo would win
the nomination, but a funny thing happened on the way
to City Hall. Laura is up next.
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