Hour 2: Moon time zone?

Moon time zone?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning to you.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
If you saw the video, it is just sickening and
the fact that these thugs have been arrested time and
time again and just let back out on the streets.
I'm talking about that video from Times Square where seven
illegals attacked police. Young and ages twelve to nineteen. You know,

(00:26):
well saw it. The borders are Tom Homan, and he's
coming to town today.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
This is just another example of sanctuary cities not properating
with ice. And look what happened. NYPD officers are attacked.
If you're brave enough to attack an armed law enforcement officer,
you're much more dangerous to an unarmed civilian.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Absolutely, coming up at eight oh five, I'm sure City
Councilwoman Vicki Palladino agrees with that. She'll be here to
talk about Homan and the city council lawsuit to keep
ice out of Rikers, which I'm certain she disagrees with.
The world braces for another possible war after India fires
missiles into Pakistan.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Just heard about it.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
I guess people knew something was going to happen based
on a little bit of the past. They've been fighting
for a long time, you know, they've been fighting for many,
many decades and centuries.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Actually, if you really think about it.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Both countries have nuclear weapons, making the thought of escalation
that much more terrifying. Secretary of State Mark Rubio has
begun talks with both sides to try to quell any escalation.
In Rome, the cardinals are now going into seclusion after
having discussions over the last couple of weeks about who

(01:43):
the next Pope might be, and now they go into
seclusion ahead of the conclave where they will officially vote
to pick the next Pope. Well, I hope there's a
pope that is like Jesus, because the pope is supposed
to be the Vicar of Christ on Earth. That's New
York Cardinal Dolan, who is one of the Americans that's

(02:05):
talked about possibly being the next pope, but any American
is considered a long shot. Wr's robaest Reno will have
more from the Vatican coming up. At seven point thirty five,
the Secretary of Transportation says help is coming soon to
Newark Liberty International Airport even today, and we have Natalie
Migliori out there. She says it's still plagued by delays

(02:27):
and cancelations.

Speaker 5 (02:29):
So they don't want to see families go to the
airport and wait four hours just to have their flights canceled.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
That's unfair to them.

Speaker 5 (02:36):
So we want to have the right number of flights
landing and taking off at Newark that we can manage.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Right, we have her coming up, Natalie Miglioria will be
coming up at eight point fifty. Now let's get to
a high profile criminal defense attorney, Jeffrey Lichtman. We have
so much going on today, I wanted to get your
man not only what's happening at universities across the country,
but what happened at the University of Washington where pro

(03:07):
Hamas protesters stormed a building and took it over, and
they dealt with it a lot different than they did
at Columbia. There's been thirty arrests. What are your thoughts
on this, Jeffrey, Well.

Speaker 6 (03:20):
I think it's a good start. I think they caused
about a million dollars worth of damage in the building.
But again, the fact that these students are allowed to
even protests, knowing that they're coming, you know, supporting Muslim
terror group. You know now that Trump rightly is investigating

(03:42):
University of Washington for antisystematic behavior, because.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
That's all this is.

Speaker 6 (03:45):
You know, you don't ever see these these pro Palestinian students.
They're never advocating for any other massacre all over the world.
It's always the fake genocide in Gaza. And the reason
they're doing it, the reason it's against Israel's for one reason,
because it's an anti Semitic movement. But Washington did arrest them.
They didn't allow them to exist too long in the building,

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and I guess that's a positive, but it should be
chilling for every American to see that it's campus after
campus for you've got Muslim terrorists taking over buildings and
causing mayhem.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
I know you'd be interested in this story.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
We just talked about it with Jordanah Miller a moment
ago that Donald Trump apparently worked out a dealer or
maybe they just reached out to him with the Hooties
where they're not going to strike American ships anymore, but
that does not include Israel. Apparently they say they're going
to continue missile strikes into Israel. What are your thoughts

(04:41):
on this?

Speaker 6 (04:43):
Well, first of all, somebody needs to tell the Huthies
that they apparently reached a truce with Trump because they
came out after or so that Trump is a liar
and that it never happened, that he didn't speak to anybody.
So I'm not exactly sure what Trump is talking about.
But the bizarre part is that Israel yesterday, because of
the attack on Israel's airport by the houthis a missile

(05:05):
that landed there, goes in there with an umbrella of
security from America and bombs the Huthi's airport to smithereens,
I mean, destroys it completely. I think they have one
commercial plane that's left in the entire country. So after
Israel does that, in conjunction with America and its design,
stopped the Houthies not only attacking Israel and attacking America,

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but also attacking all of the other ships in the
Red Sea, which is fouling all sorts of commercial passageways,
which is why they're doing it. Then Trump comes out
and unilaterally claims, without discussing it with Israel, well, we're
gonna stop bothering the Hoothies because they promise we're gonna
trust them all of a sudden, then we're not going
to bomb them anymore. So not only does he do

(05:51):
it behind Israel's back, even though we just helped Israel.
But he's saying that We're going to allow this heinous
Muslim terror group to proxy of Iran, to re arm,
to exist, and to terrorize people in the Middle East
in the future. It just doesn't make any sense to me.
And bizarrely, I suppose what I think it is is

(06:14):
it's some sort of entreaty to Iran, because Trump is
so hell bent on working out some kind of nukes
deal with Iran, and Iran doesn't seem to be very
interested because two days before they have seven Iranians are
arrested in London for terror attacks. Iran has all of
its proxies still continuing to cause terror all over the world.

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That does not suggest to me that the Iranians are
serious about peace when they're continuing to only be all
about war. So to me, Trump trying to make peace
with Iran and the Houthies when they clearly have no
interest in peace. I'm not exactly sure that Trump is
aware of what Iran and the Houthis are.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
That would be if you trust the Houthies and what
they're saying, and you trust around in what he's saying too. Now,
Trump says he's going to have a big announcement coming up,
either at the end of this week or possibly over
the weekend. A lot of people think it may be
the Iranian peace deal. If that were to happen, then
you would think that's a good thing, right.

Speaker 6 (07:16):
Well, no, because it's first of all, it's not a
peace deal. It's a nukes deal, and it's the same
deal that Trump broke that Obama put together. There's really
nothing different about it. So it doesn't make any sense.
And I've got a question, Larry. If let's say somehow
the Iranians lie their way into some kind of peace steal,
excuse me, nukes deal with America. What about the Houthis,

(07:39):
What about Hamas? What about Hesbola. It's not like these
terror proxies are not capable of terrorizing the world. Remember
it was Hamas that did October seventh, killed all the
Israelis and Americans and all other sorts of people. They're
still holding him hostage. What does a nukes deeal do
that actually protects the world from Iran and It's proxies.

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It does absolutely nothing. So I don't really understand putting
us back to a situation where we're back to October sixth.
How does that help the world? I mean, what is
Trump thinking? That's I mean, Oaran has already said any
nukes deal that we're making with America is going to
exempt our proxies. The Huthis has bolon HMAS. So what's
the point of making a deal with them when they're

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just saying they're going to continue to terrorize the world
and that's what they're doing.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Well, we don't know what the deal is just yet,
and he has been calling it a peace deal. So
why don't we talk again after this happens or doesn't happen,
and then we can figure out exactly what it is.
But let's talk about p Diddy for a second, because, well,
you've had high profile cases in the past, how would
you deal with this case.

Speaker 6 (08:47):
Well, I don't think this case is so bad, and
I actually think he's not going to be convicted. I
don't think there's any question that this is a very
strong defense case. And I thought, you know, it wasn't
like I'm the only one that thinks this. The government
apparently tried to work out to deal with Diddy in
the last few weeks, which he rejected. I can tell you,
having had many high profile trials where the government thinks

(09:07):
that they can't lose. They're not making pleae offers on
the eve of trial. They're doing it, I think because
they recognize this is no longer than Me Too era.
And the fact is that most, if not all, of
these women, maybe they were abused, but they did so voluntarily.
You know, same thing with the Harvey Weinstein case. This

(09:28):
isn't a situation where these women had guns to their head.
I mean, after whatever they did with Ditty, they're coming
back for more.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Now.

Speaker 6 (09:34):
I understand they felt that they were coerced because Diddy
had power over them, which of course is wrong, but
I don't know that it rises to the level of criminality.
Now on the opposite side, I would say that Diddy
hires a new lawyer it seems every week. If what
that suggests to the public. You know, if I'm in
the public and I'm watching this, I'm thinking, my god,

(09:55):
this is a guy who clearly has no faith in
his lawyers. He doesn't think that his lawyers are strong,
and he's hiring a new lawyer every few days when
they can't possibly be prepared for the trial. So it
sort of cuts both ways. I actually think that it'll
be a long shot for Diddy to be convicted of everything. Wow,
he may be convicted of some of the stuff, but
I don't think I don't think he's going down all

(10:15):
the Well.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
We'll all watch together.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Thanks so much, Jeffrey Lickman, high profile criminal defense attorney.
I should also say, host of Beyond the Legal Limit
podcast found on the iHeartRadio app. Thanks a lot, Jeffrey.
Should the moon get its own time zone? We're going
to talk about that next. When this week started, we
announced a new contest that has been spantacularly It's been

(10:42):
spectacularly successful.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Right, what did you say? I'm sorry?

Speaker 7 (10:46):
On fire?

Speaker 1 (10:47):
It is? It was on fire.

Speaker 8 (10:49):
The lines are lighting up like Christmas trees. People fighting
in the streets.

Speaker 7 (10:54):
It's in pandemonium.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
It is because everybody wants one of these T shirts
because they are so exclusive and they're so prestigious.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
To get one of them.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
And it is a MENTI in the Morning t shirt,
and you win it by becoming Caller of the Morning.
And as I've said before, I have nothing to do
with choosing Caller of the Morning. If I did the
one yesterday, wouldn't have won. Because they mentioned everybody else
but me. But anyway, so that was proof positive that
I don't vote on this. We have a whole panel

(11:25):
and they're in secret, and they it's like a conclave.
They're in secret choosing who is going to win this,
So like a conclay, it's exactly like a conclave. They
have to vote several times, Smoke rises all of that.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
That's crazy. Yeah, it's it's a lot.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
But anyway, all you have to do to enter is
is call in and have a great talkback. Now we've
given away three T shirts so far because we had
a tie on Monday and now today.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
So who could it be today? Today? Possibly this one?

Speaker 9 (11:55):
Why is New Jersey representative Gottheimer and others requesting more
money from the federal government to fix Newark? Where's all
the Biden infrastructure money? Didn't we just pass this gigantic
infrastructure bill. Where's all that money that should be fixing
the sinkholes are Route eighty and Newark Airport? Where did

(12:16):
all the money go?

Speaker 1 (12:17):
I'm so glad you brought that up.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
One point two trillion dollars. Some of that most of
it did not go to infrastructure. Most of it went
to pay off some people who contributed to the Biden campaign.
A lot of it went to those wind turbines that
are never going to be used off of New Jersey

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and off of New York and off of Connecticut. That's
where a lot of that money went to. A lot
of it went to DEI studies, but only a pittance
went to improve airports.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
So a little bit did.

Speaker 10 (12:56):
But of one point two trillion dollars, it was like
three billion dollars went to improve and it needs a
lot more than that went to improve air traffic control.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
So that's a great question, and it's a question that
I believe needs to be answered because it's embarrassing that
we had the money, we had the opportunity, and all
the problems we're having right now, and possibly the crash
in Washington is because they cared more about liberal policies

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with one point two trillion dollars than they did about
the safety of people flying. There should be an investigation
into a lot of things that happened and didn't happen
during the Biden administration.

Speaker 11 (13:41):
Well, I fully support Israel. The United States has to
take care of their own shipping. First, they had to
make a deal with the hooties to protect our shifts.
If Israel wants to ride the cotails of that and
make their own deal with the hooties, go ahead and
do it Wellates cannot include them in any deal. We

(14:02):
have to take care of our problem first.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
He ran on America first.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
He did say that he was going to put America first,
and if he can make a deal to keep our
servicemen safe, he's gonna take it.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
Of course, of course you're correct.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Now, Uh you know, I said who the thes are
hooties is because we had two people saying it differently
on the air. I'm going with Jordana Miller. She says huties.
She doesn't say who thy's.

Speaker 7 (14:33):
And yet I think we should go with Jordana.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
I do so when I interview introduced Jeffrey Lick, but
I said who ties and he said who They's. So
I'm going I'm I'm sticking with Huties. Anyway, the whoties
claim there is no deal, but we'll see, we'll see
what's going to happen with that. Let's let's get to
what I said I was going to talk about in
this segment, and that is the fact.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
That there will be a time zone for the Moon.

Speaker 7 (15:01):
Thank goodness, it's about time I've been waiting.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
And the reason is is because they went ahead and
they passed legislation to set up an encampment with people
on it on.

Speaker 7 (15:16):
The Moon, and they need to know what time it is.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Apparently it's a big deal, and I didn't I didn't
know it until I started reading about it.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
This is a big deal.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
First of all, I didn't know because of gravity that
affects the time zone. I didn't know because they don't
spin around that affects the time zone. I didn't know
that time moves faster on the moon.

Speaker 7 (15:36):
Wow, keep me off the moon. Just tell me when
dinner is. I don't know. That is very interesting, though,
So what time?

Speaker 2 (15:46):
They haven't come up with the time zone yet? Oh,
come on, it's just been passed by Congress. They started
talking about it last year. Now NASA says they're on it,
So we will. We will have the answer for you
as soon as NASA gives it to us, and they'll
send it directly to us. Maybe they'll do a talk
back because they want to win a T shirt exactly.

Speaker 7 (16:05):
I would bet on that.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
It's a big deal.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Now, let's go to Jacqueline Carl with the News at
seven to thirty Jackline.

Speaker 7 (16:10):
Good Morning.

Speaker 8 (16:11):
Motown legend Smokey Robinson is being accused of sexual assault.
Four women, all employed as housekeepers, submitted a fifty million
dollar lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday.

Speaker 12 (16:22):
Now.

Speaker 8 (16:22):
Among their allegations are sexual assault, false imprisonment, and creating
a hostile work environment. Meanwhile, a jury is expected to
be seated today in this sex crimes trial of Shawan
Didty Combs in Lower Manhattan.

Speaker 13 (16:35):
Both signs have already spent two days trying to put
together a jury pool and appear to have thirty five
prospective jurors in place. It's expected ten more will be
added today, paving the way for opening statements to start
on Monday. Sean Ditty Combs has pleaded not guilty to racketeering,
sex trafficking, and other charges. Prosecutors alleged that the star
rapper threatened and coursed women for sex, but as lawyers say,

(16:58):
his relationships were consensual. I'm Scoffpringle wr News.

Speaker 8 (17:02):
This next story tickles my funny bone because I just
can't stop trying to picture it. Did you know there's
a dance your PhD competition who says scientists can't cut loose?
According to the blog Boying Boying, all right, the twenty
twenty five Dance Your PhD contest is run by Science magazine.
They had scientists, I could say, explain their research through dance,

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and European scientists stole the show. Sulo Ruka from the
University of Helsinki is a rock star now winning both
the chemistry category and the overall prize with the dance
about how food chemicals like spicy chili or coolmant create
sensations in our mouths.

Speaker 7 (17:52):
That could be a great dance. I can see that
as a dance. I'm trying to picture how you do
an interpretive dance about that.

Speaker 8 (17:57):
But it may seem like the idea came from TikTok,
But the contest actually started in two thousand and eight.
Interpretive dance done by scientists, and it's a thing.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
I can't break if any of the scientists would actually
do it. But you're saying, I guess Europe is way
ahead on this.

Speaker 8 (18:14):
They well this time for the for this the twenty
twenty five Dance or PhD, it's Sulo Ruka from Helsinki.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Did you see the did you see it? By the Jacks?

Speaker 8 (18:25):
I was going to look it up, but I was
afraid I wouldn't get through the stories.

Speaker 7 (18:29):
If I saw it first.

Speaker 8 (18:30):
I'm going to look at it now because I just
I could barely say the story.

Speaker 7 (18:35):
It's so it's hysterical to me.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, we should put it up too, I mean, that's
that's priceless.

Speaker 7 (18:42):
I'm actually looking at the rules right now.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Oh my, why you think of entering.

Speaker 14 (18:48):
I don't have a PhD, so nor am I a
candidate for PhD.

Speaker 7 (18:53):
But maybe we can create our own contests.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah, that's not gonna happen.

Speaker 8 (18:58):
We already have the menting the Morning Extravaganza, T shirt contest.

Speaker 7 (19:03):
How many contest?

Speaker 14 (19:04):
Can we think about it? Create a dance for the
news story of the day. Every new story could have
its own dance.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
I'm in so give us your talk back through interpretive dance. Yes,
and we'll try to figure out what that would make
the best talk back of the day. Thank you so much,
Jacquelyn Carl. The conclave begins and rob Astorino is ath
the Vatican to cover it. We'll talk with rob coming

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up also at A twenty five we have tickets to
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(19:55):
David Blaine sits down for a deep and insightful conversation
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David Blaine reveals how he prepares for the extreme feats
that defy human expectations. Well, the conclave will begin today

(20:16):
to select a new pope to replace Pope Francis, or
to follow Pope Francis, I should say not replace. And
Rob Astorino is there. He is host of the Rob
Astorino Show on wo R Saturday's four to five. He's
also host of Saturday Agenda one to three on Newsmax,
and he is the former Westchester County Executive.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Rob.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Good morning to you as always, well, I guess it's
good afternoon to you. Good morning to you and as always,
could you just set the scene there?

Speaker 12 (20:46):
So last time, when I was here a week ago
whatever for the funeral, it was just so different, you know,
it was just a more somber you know, it was
all about Pope Francis. That chapter has been turned and
it's now okay, as you said, who who follows him? Right,
because it's it's say ay vicante, that's called empty seat

(21:09):
and they are Actually the Vatican has their own post office,
believe it or not, right in Saint Peter's Basilica, and
you can buy postcards or stamps and so for a
very limited time because there is no pope, and I
did buy some. You can get stamps that say sad Vicante,
open seat, no Pope, so it's kind of a collector's item.

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But of course they stop selling them now because the
conclaves started, and whoever the new pope is.

Speaker 15 (21:35):
They'll be on that stamp.

Speaker 12 (21:36):
But it's becoming a lot more exciting here because as
you said, Larry, it starts. It starts this afternoon in
a few hours here, and you know the world is
watching it is. I can tell you there will be
no chance that we'll see white smoke today. The first
round of voting is always just kind of a feel,
feel it out, see who who's you know, kind of

(21:57):
taking the lead and that and then the nitty gritty
really is tomorrow in the next several days.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah, I know, the average is just a few days,
just four days, but they're saying that this one may
go longer just because there's so many new cardinals and
they don't really know each other.

Speaker 12 (22:17):
No, they don't. And there's not only so many new cardinals,
but unfortunately Pope Francis didn't do what other popes did,
and that's basically have cardinals come to Rome for meetings
together and that's how they do get to know each
other through the years.

Speaker 15 (22:32):
And that hasn't happened.

Speaker 12 (22:33):
Plus, he installed several new cardinals, dozens over the last
year or so. So they're from far away places. I mean,
you know, you've got some from Africa, you've got some
from Mongolia, and they very different culturally, less of a
European kind of influence, which has always been the base here.

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So you know, the cardinals that I have sort of
talked to over the last couple of days and others
said that they really had no consensus coming in today
with all the meetings that they've been having, and they
have for the last nine ten days. They've had meetings
all day to get to know each other. They have
no consensus, and the thinking is this could go longer

(23:17):
than normally. If it's not Saturday, they will probably not
do any voting on Sunday and they would start up
again on Monday. So we'll see.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
No, And that's why it's a fool's game. They've put
up betting odds. People are talking about who they think
it's going to be. You might as well just throw
that all out the window, because when you hear from
these cardinals, they have no idea who it's going to be.
And normally, as you said, there is an idea. Already
knew it was going to be Francis because he was
like the vice pope, you know, he was like second

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in command, and the pope before him didn't last that long.
This time, it really is anybody's game. I saw the
photo of you with Cardinal Dolan. You know how you
not love that guy?

Speaker 1 (24:01):
He is.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
He is one of the great personalities in New York.
They keep saying Americans will be a long shot, why
not Dolan.

Speaker 12 (24:11):
So it's interesting because I mean, I was fortunate to
spend a couple of hours with him yesterday as he
was actually you know, packing up to leave and not
to return until there's a new pope. So it was
really really nice time with him. And why not an American. Well,
just historically it's been like America has too much power,

(24:34):
so we don't want to give them the power of
the church as well. I'm thinking that's kind of fading
a little bit, you know. And the one thing that
might be against him or any US cardinal is just
the Trump factor, quite frankly, and that's in play, you
know with some of these cardinals and some of these
international relations. But you put that aside, why not Cardinal Doan?

(24:56):
It should be a Cardinal Dolan. I mean, he checks
almost every box. He's about the age that they would like,
he raises a ton of money, he is one of
the best communicators in the church, and he's pastoral. You know,
he was a priest, meaning he was actually in the church.

Speaker 15 (25:16):
That's how he started.

Speaker 12 (25:17):
You have cardinals who really never were in a parish.
They went directly into a diplomatic corps, or came to
Rome or taught So that's part of the two of
what they're the type of pope they're looking to follow. Francis.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yeah, no, he would be. He would be amazing.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
He'd be so big for the Catholic Church because he
has such a great personality and he's just funny. He
is really funny. He's got a warm sense of humor
and a great laugh. I would love to see that happen,
and it would do wonders for attracting more Catholics in
the United States, which I know, even though the numbers

(25:55):
have gone up, they're still down from what they used
to be.

Speaker 15 (26:00):
Oh yeah, definitely.

Speaker 12 (26:00):
And you know it's funny.

Speaker 6 (26:01):
Last night I took I have.

Speaker 12 (26:02):
A lot of pictures with him because I spent a
lot of time with him over the last twenty years whatever.
And I said to him yesterday before he was leaving,
I said, you know, I want one more picture because
this could be the last picture of.

Speaker 15 (26:17):
You wearing black.

Speaker 12 (26:19):
I said, you know, you would look great and white,
and I want that last photo in black.

Speaker 15 (26:24):
So you know, he said, yeah.

Speaker 12 (26:25):
Don't bet on that one aster, you know.

Speaker 16 (26:30):
But you know what, you know what the good part
is his name and there are other names that have
not been mentioned, and that is that's actually been official
because all of the so called front runners, from everything
I've heard, they're no longer in contention because a lot happens.

Speaker 12 (26:47):
It's almost like opposition.

Speaker 6 (26:49):
Research, you know, in a political.

Speaker 12 (26:51):
Match, and so a lot of negative stories have come
out made people uncomfortable within the College of Cardinals. And
so there are names that have been really under the
radar that you might see. And that's a potentially a
Dolan and some other like Pizza Bala, who really he
was famous for saying, you know in Gaza, that take

(27:13):
me instead of these hostages. And he's very kind of
low key and quiet. His problem is he's too young,
he's sixty, and they may not want someone who'd be
there twenty five years. It's kind of like a federal
judge on paper looks good when the president right appoints
that person, and then all of a sudden they go
off the deep end.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yeah, you don't want to be in there forever.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
Thanks a lot, rob Astarina, we'll talk to you again tomorrow,
host of The Rob Astorino Show on WOR and Saturdays.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Four to five.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
Let's talk to Peter Hairalambu's next about the p Diddy trial.
That's coming up. Well, the p diddyk is taking place
in Federal Court in Manhattan has captured the attention of
the world. It's also captured the attention of this talkback person.

Speaker 17 (27:54):
Prosecutors in the Diddy case just focus on the video
of him dragging his ex girlfriend along the flow and beating.
That should be enough to put them away for a
long time. All these other verbal accusations without video proof
audio proof is just a waste of time. You need
to focus. These passecus are looking for too much.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
Well, there is so much. That's part of the problem.
But we'll pose that question in a moment. Peter Haralambus,
who is covering the case for ABC News. He is
the ABC News investigative reporter in New York.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Peter, good morning to you.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Let's start with a jury selection, because I guess the
judge gave a warning yesterday that it was moving along
too slow. Has it picked up?

Speaker 15 (28:40):
You know, things are looking more positive than they looked
yesterday morning, when the judge was concerned that this might
take longer than expected. We understand that the.

Speaker 18 (28:49):
Lawyers believe they might actually have a full jury seated
by the end of the day Wednesday, they yet struggle
to reach a qualified pool of forty five. But at
this point things are moving faster than planned, and they're
going to start using what's called their peremptory strikes. It's
just like the strategic process of who to remove from
that pool of jurors to favor each side.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
You know, a moment ago, we talked to a high
profile attorney, Jeffrey Lichtman, who has had high profile cases
like the Chapo caase El Chapo case, and he said
to us, looking at this case, he thought, and it's
the first time I've heard this, that he didn't think
p did he was going to be convicted. And he said,
the one of the reasons you can see that and

(29:32):
that the Feds don't even believe their case is that strong,
is that they offered them a plea deal. Look, I'm
not going to put you on the spot to say that,
but you talk to other legal analysts. Are there's some
legal analysts out there that you've talked to that are
saying the same thing that this is not a slam dunk.

Speaker 15 (29:53):
You know, what I've heard from legal analysts I spoke
to is kind of the wild card in a way
that this case is in that. You know, the plea
deal was a bit of a surprise, and it's actually
not that surprising that Combs denied it, given how forcibly
he's denied these allegations. But we really don't necessarily know
what the prosecution has right as your you know, as
your caller mentioned, of course, we've seen that video from

(30:15):
CNN showing Passie in the hotel, and that really notorious
and vile video, but we really don't know if there's
more of that. You know, they searched Combs's homes. We
understand that many of the folks who filed civil lawsuits
against him claim that Combs took videos kind of religiously
of all of these sexual encounters to use them as blackmail.

(30:37):
I think if the prosecution can come up with evidence
like that in addition to testimony from victims, you know,
that will make a very compelling case for a jury.
If it's very much a case driven by victims testimony,
that's where things get trickier. That's where you enter a
kind of a area where, you know, if you have
one or two jurors who don't trust the testimony of
the victims, it could get challenging. Acution to secure conviction.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Let's talk about the jurors for a second. You've heard
some of the jurors questions, what are they asking them
and what is passor fail for them?

Speaker 1 (31:13):
How is someone rejected?

Speaker 15 (31:16):
Yeah, I think most commonly what's coming up here is
their familiarity with the Comb's case and whether or not
that's going to impact their ability to be fair jurors. Right,
So it's okay for these jurors to know who Sean
Combs is, to know about the allegations. They just have
to swear that. You know, at the end of the day,
they're going to put those things aside. But they're dealing
with two kind of parts of Combs's fame here. One is,

(31:37):
you know, the fact that he was a famous musician
for thirty years, the fact that he was this mogul
of hip hop and fashion and music. And then also
the notoriety all the coverage of these allegations over the
last few years, and time and time again over the
last two days of jury selection, we've heard people basically
come up and say that, you know, they've read about this,
they read about jury selection. They don't think they can

(31:58):
be fair because they saw the video for example, of
Cassie being beat in the hotel, and that seems to
be the thing that is disqualifying the most of these jurors.
You're really dealing here with someone who's famous, who's been
famous for decades at this point, and the allegations against
him are so shocking and staggering, and there's so much
evidence of it that we've already seen in public that

(32:21):
finding kind of a blank slate of jurors has been
incredibly difficult.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Yeah, it's amazing you said that, because we had a
talk back just a moment ago where viewers get to
call in and they say he should be convicted just
on that Cassie video, and that is probably the strongest
piece of evidence that we know about right now, and
you just mentioned it, so we kind of answered his question.
Thank you so much, Peter Haralambu's ABC News investigative reporter

(32:47):
in New York. We hope, we hope to talk to
you again as the trial goes on.

Speaker 15 (32:51):
Thanks so much, Larry.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
I look forward to it, all right, Peter, Well, that
was pretty fascinating. It was also fascinating that Jeffrey Lickman
say there was a chance that he could get off.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Trenday a.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
Trenda arragua attacks police in Times Square. At the same time,
city council wants the NYPD get rid of its gang database.
We'll talk with Vicki Palladino, council member, coming up after
the eight o'clock News