Hour 2: Driverless Ubers?

Driverless Ubers?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, welcome back. Most of you got rain yesterday, but
it seems like it's going to be cold, but nice
enough for the tree lighting. In the Big three, two
big special elections, one in Jersey City, the second largest
city in New Jersey, where.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
I get messages that say.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Jim McGreevy, sorry about that. Jim McGreevy was hoping to
have a big comeback former mayor that had to resign,
and that didn't happen. I believe in the people of
Jersey City, believe.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
He's so nice to the entire state of New Jersey.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
It wasn't even close. And this is something you're gonna
have to watch because again, this was a democratic, progressive,
almost a socialists that won in Jersey City, James Solomon,
the councilman. And in Tennessee another closely watched election, a
special election for a congressional seat in what was supposed

(01:07):
to be a razor close race. That's what we were
told all over again and over. It was almost a
double digit win, so it wasn't razor thin.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
Well, Hello, Tennessee, what a night, What a night. We
did it, Thank you, thank you all. This is just
an incredible win, an incredible win, tonight, you've sent a
message loud and clear. The people of Middle Tennessee stand
with President Donald J.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
Trump.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, he ran with Trump the entire time. I'm telling
you what Republicans are breathing a sigh of relief because
they were watching that and they were worried that maybe,
you know, the media was correct. It really was razor thin,
and they thought, oh no, this pretends badly for the
midterm elections. But luckily they were wrong again, and so

(02:00):
looks like everything is okay in the Republican Party. Because
the person that was running against Van Epps, she said
that she was the AOC of the South. Another progressive
socialist in New York, the incoming mayor Zor and Mom

(02:20):
Donnie meeting with the outgoing mayor Eric Adams at Gracie Mansion,
and is the working man socialist going to live in
Gracie Mansion?

Speaker 2 (02:31):
That is a decision I haven't yet made. The meeting
came about as just part of a typical transition, a
transition where we're looking to have a conversation with the
current mayor about what it looks like to have a
smooth transfer between this administration and the next administration. I've
appreciated the work of his staff and ensuring that it
continues to be smooth.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Secretary of War Pete Hegsath doesn't back down amidst a
controversy the second airstrike of a boat in the Caribbean,
because the boat was crippled for one strike and there
was a second strike. But he says, look when that happened,
I wasn't even in the room I watched.

Speaker 6 (03:06):
That first strike life as you can imagine, at the
Department of War, we got a lot of things to do,
so I didn't stick around for the hour and two
hours whatever where all the sensitive side exploitation digitally occurs.

Speaker 7 (03:17):
So I moved on to my next meeting.

Speaker 8 (03:19):
A couple of hours later, I learned that that commander
had made the which he had the complete authority to do,
and by the way, admal Bradley made the correct decision
to ultimately sink the boat.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
And eliminate the threat. Now let's get to Jeffrey Lickman,
high profile criminal defense attorney, host of Beyond the Legal
Limit podcast found on the iHeartRadio app. Jeffrey, I, you know,
I look at sound every day for the show, and
I'm going through things and I look at one cut
and it was you.

Speaker 5 (03:49):
The only victories you know that I see as a
defense lawyers, when a jury stands up and says not guilty,
I think anything short of that is it's sort of
a wash.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
I didn't even know about the story about l Chappo
Junior taking a plea deal. Can you tell us what happened?

Speaker 5 (04:06):
Well, he took a plea the other day. I'm in
Chicago actually right now. Still, the plea was taken here
in federal court, and his case now went from a
mandatory life if he's convicted to now he's got a
ten year minimum, which is what I'm hoping to get
when we finally get two sentencings. So I think that

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the main point is he's cooperating with the government. But
I think the main victory was getting the government to
accept him as a cooperator. As you can imagine, that
wasn't an easy sell.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
No, I can't imagine you were involved in that.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
Well, Larry, I'm not sure if you I'm his lawyer,
so I suppose yes, yes I am. I amn't technically
I am involved.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
That was my way of getting to you to tell
me what was going on. What happened you know all that.

Speaker 5 (04:58):
Yeah, so it was he's actually his second son that's
pled guilty. I represent all four of his sons and
the father and the wife. Yeah, so it's like a
family business for me.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah. You said that they were skeptical during the talks
that he would actually provide good information.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
Well, I mean I think that the harder sell was
how do you convince the federal government to let people
that high up in the hierarchy be permitted to cooperate
instead of just dying in prison as they insisted that
his father go to trial, and that's exactly what's going
to happen to him. So you know, the government this

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is these are kind of odd times, Larry. You know,
you've got, as you've mentioned before, as I was on hold,
you've got boats being blown up in the water that
are coming from Venezuela purportedly with drugs loaded on them.
And then the next day you've got the Hunduran former
president who was convicted of being a massive drug dealer
and getting a forty your sentence. He's pardoned by President Trump.

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So these are confusing times, is what I'll say, in
terms of what the government's thinking.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
No, I think you're right I think there's politics that
plays a lot in all of this, But I think
you would have agreed that the military pressure to get
Maduro out of office will be good for the world.

Speaker 5 (06:23):
Not even a question. I agree with you one hundred percent.
The guy's a maniac, and Trump is certainly applying the
pressure there. I agree with him one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Let's talk about Luigi Mangioni a little bit. They're going
through evidence hearings right now, and what they're trying to
get thrown out is what happened at a McDonald's and Altoona, Pennsylvania,
when the police first were able to get a hold
of Mangione and they had a conversation with him. While
they were trying to he gave a fake ID and

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they were trying to substantiate the fake ID, and while
they were doing that, they were talking to him and
getting information, and then at one point when they realized
it was him, they took his bag and they went
through it. They're arguing that since the miranda rights were
not read and since there was no warrant, all of
that should be thrown out. Is there any chance that

(07:13):
that gets thrown out?

Speaker 5 (07:15):
I think there's a chance. I mean, I don't think
it was the best search happens in nearly every case
where law enforcement does not read Miranda you see it
on TV. In real life, it never happens. Once he's
in custody. They have to read miranda rights before they
question him. Now they're going to say, well, we cornered him,

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but he was permitted to leave. We were asking these questions.
What they were doing is they were questioning him. They
should have read him the rights immediately once they refuse
to let him leave. I suspect if Luigi wanted to
stand up at that point, when they knew that it
was him and they were questioning him, there's no question
in my mind that they would have stopped him from leaving.
So the search, all the answers that he gave after

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that without reading Miranda should be suppressed. And that all
led to the arrest, which led to them seizing the
bag which had the gun and the cash and you know,
the writings and all the other stuff all in there.
So that was that should also be suppressed. In practice,
it's a long shot. Although I do think that the

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law is on the defense side, it doesn't mean that
Luigi's going to be acquitted. There's certainly plenty of other evidence,
you know, DNA evidence, et cetera, et cetera, that put
him at the scene with the gun in his hand,
shooting the insurance CEO. But the fact that the government
to state is putting on a hearing that's with like

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dozens of witnesses that are going to last, like, you know,
multiple weeks, does suggest to me that they're a little
bit nervous.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
They're a little bit nervous because this might get thrown out.
Is that why they're a little bit nervous.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
I think so. I mean, but there's also a federal
death penalty case. You know, I don't know it's ever
going to get anywhere near death penalty. It's not. But
there's no way. Here's the bottom line, Larry, for your listeners,
there's no way Luigi is getting out of this without
spending the rest of his natural life in jail. That's
my prediction.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
No, I think everybody's there, and I think they only
concern is the same one that you just mentioned a
moment ago, is that every time you hear about evidence,
every time you hear about the case, every time you
hear about the money put into it, you think, well,
wait a second, what's going on. You know, even you
said a moment ago, there's a chance this gets thrown out.

(09:35):
But there is so much writing on this, and it
seems so obvious, and in the court of public opinion,
he's already been convicted and because everybody has seen him.

Speaker 5 (09:46):
But the point, that's the point that you make, is
that let's say they throw out a statements, let's say
they throw out the contents of the backpack. Is there
a single person on the planet and especially on the
future jury that doesn't know about all the things in
the backpack and all of his statements? Absolutely not right.

(10:06):
So I think he's getting convicted either way. And if not, listen,
he's getting convicted in federal court one way or another.
As I said, he's not getting out of this.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Jeffrey Lickman, high profile criminal defense attorney, is with us
every Wednesday at seven oh five. Thanks a lot, Jeffrey,
good talking to you. Yeah, that would be fascinating if
this evidence was thrown out, because then all of a
sudden people would be going, oh my god, is he
going to get off? But there's so much else. There's
so many else, including video, including other statements, he made,

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including but what happens if that manifesto gets thrown out?

Speaker 5 (10:40):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Uber has a big announcement. But are we ready for it?
We're going to find out when we talk with ABC
News transportation reporter Clara McMichael. Next, let me ask you
a question. Do you use Uber? I think we all
have at one point or another, right, everybody uses Uber?
So if if the car drove up and there was

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no driver, would you get in? It's a big question
people are going to have to start asking. Clara McMichael,
who is the ABC News transportation reporter in New York,
has more on the driverless cars with ubers. So Clara,
let me ask you. Starting off, have you driven in
a driverless car?

Speaker 9 (11:22):
Hey, good morning, Larry May I personally, I personally have not,
but I would and I will tell you this. I
will disclose that I probably would trust a Row taxi
more than I would trust my own driving.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
Really, I don't want to get in a cart with
you that Maybe we should, maybe we should get more
into that. Maybe what what? Why wouldn't you trust yourself?
What happened exactly?

Speaker 10 (11:53):
Hey?

Speaker 9 (11:54):
You know, I'm I live here in New York. I'm
not driving every day. As we know, New York drivers
areind of crazy, so you know, I'm not the most
confident behind the wheel, but hey, let me get to
the point here.

Speaker 5 (12:06):
Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 9 (12:09):
This morning is that Uber is launching robotaxis in Dallas,
not here quite yet, and how it works there is
that if you go to request a regular Uber X
or Uber Comfort, you might get match with one. And
Uber says this comes at no additional costs and you
won't be prompted to tip. So that's nice of them.

Speaker 11 (12:32):
Would you like a driver, I'm not tipping my car.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
I will tell you this that I get Dallas and
I get some other cities. New York is unique. I
would think that people that have to be the most
concerned by the driverless cars are the people on e
bikes because I don't know if the driverless car is
going to see them coming. They you have to have
a driver to see out of the side that they're

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going to drive in front of your car. And it happens,
they go the wrong way, they go through red lights.
Nobody enforces it. I think that's the biggest problem on
the streets of New York is there is there a
way they're going to be able to deal with that.

Speaker 5 (13:12):
Well.

Speaker 9 (13:12):
So Ramo, which is an autonomous vehicle company, they've been
testing in New York already. So New York may be
you know, around the corner as far as this rollout goes,
but yeah, I mean New York is very specific. There
are so many you know dangers here. People you know,
stopping in the lane, eat bikes, pedestrians, you know, crossing

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the street, that the whatever, They haunt your right right.
But you know, they say that there's so much technology
on these vehicles to prevent accidents from happening. This one
in Dallas, it's a Hyundai Ionics five. It has thirteen cameras,
five lightars for radars on board, and it also uses
AI to kind of predict people's actions. So it's it's

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learning from that and they say that that makes it safe.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
So you're saying it might be better than even having
a driver, and which gets us back to you saying
that you'd rather get in a car with a driver
that has no driver than drive yourself, right.

Speaker 9 (14:13):
It takes us back to my personal issues. You know,
there are definitely incidents that happen with robotaxis, and you know,
in a very few number of cases, they have been
involved in fatalities, not necessarily the cause, but involved, and
so not to minimize that, but it's such a small
number compared to the number of road fatalities that occur

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every year with regular drivers and regular crashes, and just
by the numbers here, for the first half of this year,
over seventeen thousand people died on the road. And with robotaxis,
of course the scale is is much smaller. But you
aren't seeing that huge number.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Right, Well, it's coming, so we've been warned. Thanks a lot,
Clara McMichael, who you do not want to get in
a car with ABC News transfer tation reporter. Thanks so much, Claire,
good talking to you.

Speaker 12 (15:03):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
Let's try it.

Speaker 13 (15:05):
I say one if these cars can predict potholes, that's
another issue in the city because if you're going too fast,
which is hard to do usually in the city in general,
but you know, sometimes you're you're a I say, a
twenty five mile clip and you hit a pothole in Bhoom,
you'd be like, oh no.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
I was amazed at what she said. They have. They
have radar, they have thirteen cameras.

Speaker 11 (15:26):
Are they going to be more expensive?

Speaker 7 (15:28):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (15:28):
I don't know. I don't they are, then what's the
point that's interesting? I don't think they will be, but
we'll find out. We'll find out. Called somebody in Dallas.
There's so many so Jim Ryan Dallas, we should call him.
Maybe he's been in one.

Speaker 11 (15:40):
Oh, I'm sure he has.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Real quick, let's squeeze in a talk back, Larry.

Speaker 14 (15:44):
Everybody's missing the point on this drug boat blowing up
incident thing. It's not one of these or bad guys.
But under both domestic law and international law, you are
not allowed to kill unarmed opponents just because they're doing
something you think is bad. Do you think they're doing
something bad, arrest them and prosecute them in a corps

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of law.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
So then the question becomes, if you go by that,
the question then becomes did they see them hanging off
the side? Were they able to see that they were
survivors from the camera they had because in the video
that I have seen, and I haven't seen everything, so
I'll admit that upfront, and the video I have seen,
there's a lot of fire and there's a lot of smoke.

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So the fact that they are supposed to notice that
there are survivors on board when their job is to
destroy the boat and everything on board is a question
that you're right, would still have to be answered. Thanks
ver much for your talkbacks. Keep them coming. Go to
the iHeartRadio app look for seven to ten woar the

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microphone and then we'll play what you have to say. Now,
let's go to Jacqueline Carl with the seven thirty News.

Speaker 12 (16:55):
Jacqueline Larry, the man accused of killing a National Card
member in Washington, DC, is being formally charged with murder.
The twenty nine year old Afgown National appeared in court
Tuesday on video from a hospital bed where he's recovering
from gunshot wounds suffer during last week's shooting. He pleaded
not guilty to the charges, and the Rockefeller Center Christmas

(17:16):
Tree will be lit tonight following his ceremony that includes
big stars.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
Definitely not one of the best days to drive into Midtown,
where there are numerous security checkpoints and street closures around
Rockefeller Center. Many folks flocking to Midtown to see the
seventy five foot tall Norway Spruce and the five thousand
led lights on it light up. Judy Russ donated this
tree from Ropstate Farm.

Speaker 8 (17:38):
Yes, I knew the tree was special, but I never
thought this would happen.

Speaker 9 (17:41):
There aren't words for how excited we are as someone
who grew up going to the tree every year.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
A three hour show leads up to the tree lighting
with performances from Gwen Stefani, Marc Anthony and the Roquettes
and others. I'm Skatpringle WRDWS.

Speaker 11 (17:54):
So is social media getting to you? If so, I
got you?

Speaker 12 (17:58):
According to UP, a recent study has found that even
one week away from toxic social media can reduce feelings
of depression and insomnia. So if you're thinking a social
media detox might be good for you, here are a
few expert tips that'll give you a.

Speaker 11 (18:14):
Place to start. Ready, remove apps from your home screen.

Speaker 12 (18:18):
Well, that's not gonna happen, right, Disable all automatic notifications.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Not gonna happen because.

Speaker 11 (18:24):
You don't know how to do it right. You don't
know how to do it.

Speaker 12 (18:26):
That's why log off your accounts. So if you have
to take time to log in every time, you might
be less prone to do so much. Try use this
could be one. Try using apps that time, how long
you use them, and cut you off after a certain wind.

Speaker 15 (18:39):
I've done that, and I yeah, I do it every
single set, every single day, every single day.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
Do you get to the point where you say, what's
the point? Why am I doing this?

Speaker 15 (18:51):
I actually it's a game for me. Now, Like, how
early in the day does that actually go off? Like so,
oh wow, by nine as am I already made my limit?

Speaker 7 (19:01):
Great?

Speaker 1 (19:02):
Has there ever been a time where you've signed off
at that moment, like you go, oh, I've been on
too long? Nope, yep.

Speaker 11 (19:08):
Oh it doesn't just close. I don't never know.

Speaker 15 (19:11):
It tells you if you want to snooze it or
you know, reset it, So I just snooze.

Speaker 11 (19:16):
You're gonna use it no matter what for sleeping apps.

Speaker 12 (19:19):
But I think you know, it could be like people
who've done it say it's it's amazing.

Speaker 15 (19:25):
I seriously would like to try it now. Obviously I
should part of the job. Yeah, part of my job.
Maybe during the holidays when I have some time off. Yeah,
maybe I'll try it and see what happens.

Speaker 11 (19:38):
Yeah, I can't promise.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Oh, it's give it up.

Speaker 11 (19:42):
When you get that you think I should just give it.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
Up, like it's not gonna happen. Okay, give up the internet.

Speaker 11 (19:51):
Try to improve your mental health. Natalie no don't.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
It's just not gonna work. Then you're just gonna feel
bad about it.

Speaker 11 (19:57):
Surely you think it's not gonna work.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
Okay, go ahead, you do it. Please do it, Please
do it and report back honestly. If I'm see, if
i'm if I'm supposed to pay something now that you're doing.

Speaker 11 (20:07):
No, no, no, it's one week and you have off.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
I rest my case. Look at her all right, oh week,
I haven't heard her yell like that. Zorin Mam, Donnie
and Eric Adams meet at Gracie Mansion and once again

(20:35):
Zorin Mom. Donnie, who in the past has been a
copy pater, an anti Semite, he's able to now come
off normal and even charming him. We're all buying it.
Are we in for a route awakening? We'll talk about
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you've loved to have been in that meeting with Eric
Adams and Zor and Mom Donnie, those things are always uncomfortable.
I don't care how charming you can be. You're gonna
sit with somebody, and both of them can be charming.
Eric Adams the mayor, Zuriin Mam Donnie the incoming mayor.
Both of them can be charming. Both of them can

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put on false faces. Hell, we we got fooled by
zoriin Mom Donnie's false face, and so I'm sure it
was just sacriny sweet. But at the same time, you know,
the two of them still hate each other, can't stand
each other, and yet they're gonna come out and smile
and say, hey, the meeting went well.

Speaker 5 (22:00):
Killing there, it went well.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
I appreciated the conversation that I had with Mayor Adams
and his team, and we focused on how to make
this as smooth as possible of a transition and how
to continue.

Speaker 11 (22:10):
To serve yours.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
And of course reporters are thinking like I do that
they're going, wait a second, you said some horrible things
about him. You said that his administration was a failure.
What did he do that you liked.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
I've appreciated the mayor's work on city of Yes. I
also think that trash containerization has been a good step
forward in the way in which we handle garbage across
the city. And these are things that I deserve, that
New Yorkers deserve to have be built on as opposed
to be discarded.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
That's a short list. That's a really short list. And
when you have to include trash cans in the list
of what he does positively, then that's not like in
the top ten. He gave him no credit for many
of the things that he does well, including fighting crime.
But you see he fought crime by bringing in more

(22:59):
police officers and going after criminals, which is something Zurn
mam Donni doesn't really do. But Eric Adams of course
had to remind him of that.

Speaker 16 (23:12):
We want to show the incoming mayor of what we've done,
how we brought down crime, how we build more housing
than any other mayor in the history of the city,
How we have more jobs in the history of the city.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
We broke the records.

Speaker 16 (23:24):
Eleven times, how we have more small businesses, how we
outpaced the state and reading and math of all the
things we've done.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
I want him to continue that success. It's not going
to happen. None of that's going to happen. But that
was a chance for Eric Adams to remind you that,
you know, he didn't do that bad. A lot of
people disliked him, specifically because he worked with Donald Trump.

(23:53):
A lot of people vote for Zurun Mam Donni because
Trump hated him. A lot of Trump hating him, I
think was to get him elected. Donald Trump is playing
with zorin, mom, Donnie, like a cat plays with a mouse.
Did you see how zorin mom, Donnie was shell shocked

(24:16):
at his meeting when he was standing there like a
waiter in back of Donald Trump. And you know, Donald
Trump set it up that way. Here you stand over here,
little man, you stand here right in back of me,
and just don't say anything until you're asked to say something.
And then sometimes when he started to talk, Trump would

(24:38):
just talk over him and he would you know, cower.
It was amazing. That day was amazing. And so I
think about that meeting. When I think about this meeting
that he had with Eric Adams, and I'm sure this
one was tenser than that meeting because Eric Adams isn't

(24:58):
the game player that Donald Trump is. And I've been
thinking a lot about that meeting, because you remember, right
after the meeting, if you tuned in that morning, I
was going, what was that all about. I've had a
lot of time to reflect on it, because it's fascinating
to me what happened on that day because right up

(25:20):
to it, Donald Trump was blasting the guy, and rightfully so.
He hates the police, even though he says he apologized
to them.

Speaker 10 (25:32):
I apologize for the language that I used, and I
spoke to them about the fact that I want to
work with them to deliver public safety because what we're
seeing in the city right now is we're asking officers
to do nearly everything we can think of. We used
to ask officers to focus on serious crimes. Now we're
asking them to focus also on the mental health crisis,
to focus also on homelessness.

Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, we got all that, we got all that, but
the NYPD, wait, do you see in January how many
take retirement. It's going to set a record. They are
not buying that at all. He's going to be the
worst thing that happens to not only crime on the street,
but to the New York City Police Department. But I

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feel like Jewish New Yorkers feel betrayed by their fellow
new Yorkers that he has been put in. Here is
a guy that used to embrace globalize the into fada,
which is the elimination of all Jews. The phrase globalized
intefada from the river to the sea. Does that make

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it come uncomfortable?

Speaker 2 (26:37):
You know?

Speaker 7 (26:38):
I know people for whom those things mean very different things.
And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many
is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
But he's been able to survive all that, Right, he's
been able to survive the globalize the Intifada. He's been
able to survive saying that cops are racists and they've
actually caused the streets to be unsafe. Remember that he's
been able to survive all that. He's not going to
survive Trump. And that's what that meeting was all about,

(27:13):
because Donald Trump knows that by holding Mom Donnie close
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all on purpose. That was Mom Donnie setting him up,
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turn on him, it is going to be glorious. And
I tell you, I promise you that's going to happen.
It is a wonderful gesture by Donald Trump, by the way,

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and wealthy donors to spread some wealth health to the
American youth. WR National Correspondent tells us how your children
or grandchildren may be eligible. That's coming up. Also, let's
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and it's important that we know exactly how they work

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so that you can use them for your children, your
children to come, and your grandchildren. So let's get the
details on that, because we touched on it, but we
really didn't get into the details, and the details are important.
Rory O'Neil wr national correspondent with us every day at
this time. So Rory, I know a lot of people

(30:35):
are going to be interested in this, so maybe you
can walk it, walk us through it. Who is eligible
and how do you get the money? Right?

Speaker 17 (30:43):
So Trump Accounts dot gov is the website. Trump Accounts
with an S dot gov is the website you can
put your email address in and at least get updates.
They have not started taking applications just yet. That's gonna
launch on July fourth of next year for America's two
and fiftieth. But the accounts are essentially savings accounts that

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will be managed investment accounts really that are are being
set up to help young kids that when they turn
eighteen will then be eligible to take out that money
to buy a home, to pay for college, even to
start a business now during the Trump administration two point zero,
so from January of this year through December of twenty

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twenty eight, all of those accounts come with a one
thousand dollars bonus for babies born during that time. Now,
if you have a ten year old, you can still
qualify for these Trump accounts and perhaps then be open
to other donations like what we saw yesterday from the
Dell family giving more than six billion dollars. That's going
to kick in two hundred and fifty dollars additionally to

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each of these accounts for kids under ten.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
Right, so the accounts from the from the Trump account, right,
the Trump accounts that that's one thousand dollars, but that's
only for people that were born from January twenty twenty five,
and on the Dell accounts go back further.

Speaker 17 (32:06):
Than that, right they do, So they'll be giving out
money to kids under the age of ten who open
up these accounts. But there are rules about zip codes
and how much money you can make in the household,
so it's a little bit more restricted. But for the
one thousand dollars startup bonus, I guess or seed money,
that's to all children born from January of twenty five

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through December of twenty twenty eight. Again, you can find
that information at Trump Accounts dot gov. They're just giving
information right now. The full application goes online July of
next year.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Do we know who manages these accounts?

Speaker 17 (32:42):
I haven't seen a specific name, but essentially the Treasury
Department is contributing the money, and then the money is
invested in stock funds, so that you're hoping to get
better than one and a half percent that you get
a savings accounts. Plus, parents can also contribute up to
twenty five hundred dollars each year, same way they would
for their retirement accounts. And these accounts are open so

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that say you have a baby next year and your
company wants to support you, like, oh, for little Timmy,
We're going to put five hundred dollars into his account,
sort of like we would have done with a savings
bond years ago.

Speaker 5 (33:14):
Right.

Speaker 17 (33:14):
Instead, you can make contributions to these kinds of accounts.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
And it could accrue a whole lot more money than
a savings bond. I mean potentially, at the age of eighteen,
you have a nice amount of.

Speaker 17 (33:24):
Money well, right, especially if the parents can put in
twenty five hundred bucks, or local governments, you know, because
now you could say, well, the city of whatever wants
to contribute to these funds as well, So maybe there's
a fun there or some sort of a charitable organization
or other philanthropists like the Dells come along a Elon
Moskquere's You're six and a half billion, you know, these

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kinds of things to really pump up the dollar bound
to these things.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
I feel good about myself when I give like five
hundred dollars to the Salvation Army Man. To have six
point two billion dollars laying around that you can contribute,
I'd love to be there, to be able to give
up that much money and not.

Speaker 17 (34:02):
Hurt, right, And they still have one hundred and eighty
billion leftover, so they're not eating Rahmen or anything for.

Speaker 11 (34:08):
The rest of the year.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
M Rory, Now, I don't feel that I am good
enough wr National Correspondent. We'll be back tomorrow morning again
at seven point fifty. Thanks so much, Rory. Hey Larry,
it was horrendous. After National Guard members are shot, protesters
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councilwoman Vicki Palladino is incense. She's calling for a federal investigation.
Vicky's up after the eight o'clock news