Hour 2: Mother’s Day weekend

Mother’s Day weekend.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Happy Friday, Happy Mother's Day weekend. Hope you have a
great weekend to all the moms out there. It's supposed
to be beautiful on Sunday, so hope the forecast holds
in the Big three. Well, you heard by now we
have a new pope, and for the first time, the
pope is an American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost born in Chicago,

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now Pope Leo the fourteenth.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
He has a heart of as large as the whole world.
He has a heart that immediately gravitates to the people
who are the most overlooked, forgotten.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
We're going to talk to rob Astorino coming up in
about two minutes, who was at the Vatican for the
big announcement. The New York US Attorney and the Justice
Department have officially opened a criminal investigation into New York
Attorney General Letitia James for mortgage fraud.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Claiming that I engaged in mortgage fraud, that I somehow
decided that I was a resident of Virginia, which would
be some commute every morning to the office of twenty
eight Liberty.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Well, it's more than that. We've all seen the paperwork.
You said you lived in Virginia to get a better rate.
But we'll get into that later. In the meantime, help
is coming from the Trump administration to Newark Liberty International Airport.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Immediately.

Speaker 5 (01:29):
We're in the process of bringing together all the airlines
that serve Newark and putting them in a room and
having a conversation about how they reduce their capacity in Newark.
So if you book a flight, you know it's not
going to be delayed or canceled. You're actually going to
get on that fight and it's gonna fly.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Tom Homan, the borders are, says, any of the students
with visas who took part in the violent protest at
Columbia Butler Library this week will be deported.

Speaker 6 (01:55):
So if they want to come here and support our enemies,
so terrorist organization, they want to take over college campuses,
they want so now security guards, they want to damage
college property, they're gonna be deported.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
And he's still stumbling and bumbling after all these years,
and Jill still has to save him. You're gonna hear
for yourself coming up at eight thirty five. But this
is the comeback that absolutely nobody wanted, not even the Democrats.
Here's Joe Biden on the view or then the reaction, Well,

(02:27):
let's just get right to the reaction from se Cup
on CNN.

Speaker 7 (02:31):
Democratic voters are over him, Democratic lawmakers are angry at him,
and Democratic donors are over him. They're passed and they're
done with him. They don't want him around again.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
I'm gonna talk much more about that coming up at
eight thirty five, But let's talk about the big story
of the day with the man who was there. Rob Astorino,
host of The Rob Astorino Show on WOR Saturdays four
to five, host of Saturday Agenda one to three on Newsmax,
and former Westchester County executive. So where were you for

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the black smoke and explain the experience?

Speaker 8 (03:11):
Well, what you mean for the white smile? I was
there for the black smoke, but dembily the white smoke yesterday.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
I was three times for the black smoke, right, were
you there each time?

Speaker 8 (03:21):
Okay, yes, so I saw the black smoke and then honestly,
nobody expected white smoke yesterday. That just was not in
the carts at least the conventional thinking, which is always
like throw it all out anyway, because nobody has really
any clue because they're so secluded what's going on in
that Sistine Chapel with those one and thirty three cardinals.

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So everyone was speculating, but the conventional wisdom going it
was no way this is going to go at least
to Friday, maybe Saturday, and there was talk of Monday.
But you know what, they worked it out. They figured
it out. And so when that smoke went, I was there,
and as the afternoon started getting later, just thousands and
thousands of people were making their way in anticipation, and

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then it was just like a roar, like a roar
when people saw the white smoke, just excitement and it
was just great. And then of course we had to
wait until Cardinal MOMBERTI came out to make the announcement.
And when he said, you know, Robert Franz's cardinal rebos like.

Speaker 9 (04:29):
What again, mackerel.

Speaker 8 (04:35):
It was an exciting day.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
You know what, it proves. It proves the experts are
wrong every single time about everything, about how long it's
going to take, about who it's going to be. You
can't guess at this kind of thing. You can't bet
on this kind of thing. I was just telling Natalie,
I'm always going to take the field every time we
have a new cope.

Speaker 8 (04:56):
Absolutely, And you know what, whenever there's the papabili, you know,
the front runners, they never make it. And there's a
reason for that. They I think both sides almost want
their their trojan horses. And and it's always going to
be somebody else. You know, we were going through the
list of the ten Americans, and I mean I said

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from the beginning, it's never going to be a cardinal archbishop.
So it wouldn't as much as I wanted. It wouldn't
be a Dolan or Toven, you know, somebody running a diocese.
It would be somebody like Prevost. He would really be
the candidate. But I never expected that he would be
picked as the American first pope. But if you look
at his credentials, if you look at his resume, he

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checks a lot of boxes. You know, he was in
a diocese, he grew up in Chicago. He did mission
work as they do in the Augustinians. He was worldwide,
visited fifty countries. He spent time in the Vatican in
a very high position. So he knows how it runs
and how it works, and he knows all the players.
So he really did fit just about every box.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
And he's just so likable, and I think that's a
big deal, the fact that all the cardinals seem to
like him.

Speaker 8 (06:09):
Yeah, and you know, he was in charge of the
dicastrip for the bishop, so basically he was the one
vetting all of the potential bishops worldwide, or I should
say candidates for bishop worldwide. So he would basically put
the dottye together, do the vetting, and present some candidates
who were the pope to make a pick in every diocese.

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So just imagine everybody he knows. So he's walking in there,
you know, already knowing who he probably wants to elevate
his cardinal as he goes forward. But the one thing
I was disappointed in yesterday Larry and is in his
I thought, really good first public announcements, if you will,

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the prayer and everything. But it was an Italian. It
was in Spanish, it was in Latin, but I did
not hear a word of English, and I thought, I
thought that would be good. I didn't want to hear you.
But I think he could have said something in English
that would have just said to the world, you know, yes,
I'm an American. He speaks I think eight languages. But

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other than that, I spoke to very two conservative cardinals
and they said to me, he's going to be okay.
And I think because conservatives were like, oh no, we
got Obama too, we got Francis the sequel. No, I
don't think it's going to be that he is leftist
and he's missionary work. But I think he's going to

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bring it back to the more central focus of what
the church is.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
I believe that too. And I think it was significant
that he picked Leo the fourteenth because yeah, yeah, you
know why I'm saying that, because Leo is exactly the
way that you said.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
The last Leo.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
The Leo the thirteenth was exactly what you were talking about.

Speaker 8 (07:52):
Yeah, And I remember reading Raream Navaram at one point,
and that in cyclical talked about the workers talk about
and this is where the left and the right kind
of tears it apart and picks at their view. It
denounced capitalism in some respects, but it also denounced socialism.
It was more about the human dignity and the worker
and those kind of things helping the poor. So there's

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a little bit of everything in there. But I mean,
he's a traditionalist, and I don't think he's going to
go off and create chaos like Francis did.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
And you saw he was a traditionalist right when he
came out, just because he was the traditional garments he
put back on.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
I think that was a statement.

Speaker 8 (08:32):
I think exactly great point. And I think he's going
to live in the Vatican where Francis didn't. And it'll
be interesting if he makes a visit to the United States.
Maybe wouldn't it be great next year for the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of America if he showed up there.
I think that would be great.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
No, it'd be wonderful, and I'm sure he knows that,
and I'm sure he's thinking the same thing. So we'll
wait for the announcement and we'll give you credit for
calling it out before anybody else did. That's wonderful, rob Astorino,
Thank you so much. Rob Astorino, host of The Rob
Astorino Show on WOR Saturday is from four to five,
host of Saturday Agenda on newsmac's former Westchester County executive. Hey, Rob, yeah,

(09:13):
I actually we have just a little bit more time.
Donald Trump said yesterday that he was invited to the
Vatican and he's going. Have you heard anything about that.

Speaker 8 (09:24):
I haven't heard that he's invited for the installation mass.
Maybe what he's talking about, because we're all wondering when
that might be the new popad. His first Mass this
morning with all the cardinals, but his installation Mass could
be a week from now or sooner.

Speaker 10 (09:39):
So that would be.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Great if Trump, If Trump came, No Trump was I
thought Trump was perfect. I thought Trump said how great
it was to have an American It was quite an honor.
He said he was invited already. He said he's going
to go. So I even though there are people, as
you pointed out on social media, that are upset and
saying he's anti MAGA and he's anti America, I think

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you're absolutely right. Somebody changes when they become pope, and
I'm not sure I think that's the way go ahead.

Speaker 8 (10:08):
You know if you saw this, But he was a
registered Republican, he voted in Chicago in the presidential elections
going back twenty years, and he's a dual citizenship America
and Peru. So he's a little bit of everything.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
Rob Astorino, host of The Rob Estorino Show on WR
four to five. Thanks Rob. Should a dog on dog
attack be a crime? A New York City councilwoman thinks.
So we'll tell you what happened to bring this on next. Well,
we have this new contest now and it's getting the
attention it should because the prize is invaluable. It is
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can get just by having the best talkback of the morning.
We've had tremendous talkbacks all week, so the bar, the
bar is very high. Thank you so much for leaving
them today. Let's get to the first one about the Pope.

Speaker 11 (11:05):
Well, further proof Trump's tariffs are working and possibly divinely inspired.
Even the Pope is made in America. Don the President,
bob the Pope?

Speaker 4 (11:16):
What a time to be in America. I think we
have a contender. Yeah, that's right America. First.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
I love that Donald Trump praised the pick and said
he's going to go there and talk with the new Pope.
It's all good, everything's wonderful. Forget all of the junk
on social media for right now. As I, as I've
said about so many different stories, just wait, give it
a little bit of time.

Speaker 12 (11:42):
I think the country's got to realize by now Democrats
would rather see our country suffer than Donald Trump be successful.
I mean, wrap your head around that. That is unbelievable,
But it's a fact.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
You know what. I don't completely disagree with you. It
seems like it shouldn't happen, and it seems so abhorrent
that you would say, oh, no, it can't happen. But
the way they've been on the side of issues that
would help America, I mean, railing against the tariffs that
are only going to help America, railing against deporting criminals,

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I have a tendency.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
To agree with you. The American pope.

Speaker 13 (12:33):
You imagine, now, have you thought about this, Larry, You've
already talked to his brothers, and they're cool, they're funny,
they're regular people.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
The guy went to Villanova.

Speaker 13 (12:42):
His dorm room is going to be like an iconic
historical place. I mean, think about it. At the bar
he went to drinking. If he did, it's amazing.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
I'm sure there's a local bar near Villanova that he
went to have drinks in.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
But yeah, you're right.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
The fact that it's an American pope and he's just
we grew up seemingly like a normal guy whose family
is wonderful, and yeah, the fact that he's American, then
he's just like us, which is really what the pope
is supposed to be. However, you hear all these stories
when he was young, people saying that they really believed

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he was going to be a pope, how holy he was,
how great he was, how his brother was going to
get beat up by some gangbangers and he went up
and talked them out of it.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
I mean, maybe you know.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
He was destined for this, it could have been and
why not America? Why not? And I think it's going
to be great for the Catholic church in America. Well,
we were all stunned. Thanks for the talkbacks, Please keep
leaving them all day. We have a couple great contenders
for Talkback of the Morning and we're going to announce
it at the end of the show.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
But I you know, we were all stunned. It was
such a horrible video of.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
A little chihuahua being attacked by two pit bulls. Penny Penny,
I know, I know, And it's an inspired a law.
We'll talk about that. It's gonna be Penny's Law if
it passes, And why wouldn't it pass but you know,
the owner, of course, was just beside herself.

Speaker 8 (14:16):
The NYPD needs to be able to take a report
on dog on dog attacks and that way we can
take that report to file civilly if we need to.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
And that's where it all started, her being that outraged
and saying that is exactly where this all started. And
there's legislation right now in the city council, and there's
legislation in Albany to change dog on dog tax to
just something civil, to get the.

Speaker 9 (14:43):
Dog off the street and to figure out how to
hold the owners accountable.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
Right the lack of accountability has been unbelievable on all
of this, and so let's hope. I don't know anybody
that's going to see this is a bad idea. I
don't know anybody, but City council Member Gail Brewer is
drafting legislation at the local level to make certain that

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you raise like right now, they look at dog attacks
as just oh, it happens like it's property, right, Like
it's exactly that's what they have it classified as, is property.
This will change that significantly.

Speaker 10 (15:23):
Why is it then a dog can attack another dog
and nothing get done, So we need to change.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
That law, right, you know, the dog should the dog.
These dogs, by the way, they believe, attacked a dog
and killed a dog in Central Park. And after a while,
the owners have to be held accountable and the dogs
if they have now attacked two other dogs. I'm sorry
to say, but they have to be put down.

Speaker 4 (15:51):
I mean.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
And so we'll see when they end up with this
legislation what it calls for. But there should be charges,
and they should. They shouldn't never allow this to happen.
And what were the dogs doing without a leash?

Speaker 14 (16:07):
I've actually heard I was talking to Natalie megle Orry
about this. Apparently there are hours in the park in
Central Park that are no leash hours. Yeah, off leash
just because that. You know, people, there's no place for
your dog to run if you live in New York.
But you're supposed to only take your dogs if they're
well trained and get along with other dogs.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
Right, Well, Jacqueline, you are the biggest animal lover among
all of us.

Speaker 4 (16:33):
How do you feel about this?

Speaker 14 (16:35):
I feel that if a dog attacks and hurts or
kills another dog, the owners should be held accountable. And
if the dog, you know, depending on the circumstances, you
have to look at it like just what you would
would with people. If there was some mitigating circumstances, have
the dogs retrained or rehabbed or whatever. But if it's
a continual thing, or it's done more than once, I

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can't bring myself to say it should be put down.
But there has to be accountability, right, But you.

Speaker 4 (17:04):
Know how many dogs do you want to be attacked after?
You're right?

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Though you're right, it is the owner's responsibility in the
long run, and the owner's responsibility, But if it happens
more than once, I'm agreeing with you. I don't think
I think putting a dog down is an extreme but
if it's going to protect other dogs at a certain point,
you've got to consider that, at least I know. Jacqueline

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carl now with the seven to thirty News, Hey.

Speaker 14 (17:30):
Larry, good morning. Pope Leo the fourteenth is starting his
papacy with his first mass. It was attended by cardinals
from around the world this morning at the Sistine Chapel.
Those in attendance included cardinals who were considered contenders during
this week's conclave, and New Jersey tried to train riders.
Are one week away from dealing with a major disruption

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with engineers threatening to go on strike next Friday.

Speaker 10 (17:55):
There's a pedy disagreement between NJ Transit and the union,
with engineers threatening to walk off the job, and that
would bring a complete stop to NJ rail service, impacting
hundreds of thousands of riders, including these folks.

Speaker 5 (18:06):
I do need the train to go to school and
to come back from school, so I really hope that
the strike doesn't end up happening.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
I certainly hope not for everybody's sake.

Speaker 10 (18:14):
The agency plans to add capacity to existing New York
commuter bus routes to nearby rail station should there be
a strike, but that would only accommodate a limited number
of riders. NJ Transit says priority would then be given
to essential workers. I'm Scottpringle WRDWS.

Speaker 14 (18:30):
This story is so cool. It's the next step and
a virtual reality experience which I'm dying to try. According
to Tech Explore, researchers at Northwestern University have created a
new super then wearable device called a haptic patch that
lets you feel touch in virtual reality or other digital settings.

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So this patch is flexible six to your skin like
a bandage and can send different feelings like vibrations, pressure,
or twisting. The researchers are now working to make it
even smaller and wireless for everyday use. It uses tiny
electronic parts controlled by a smartphone to make precise sensations
like feeling a virtual object's texture texture. The team tested

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on volunteers and they could tell apart different shapes and
motions like a square and other things with ninety six
percent accuracy. Now, this tech could obviously make VR games
more real because so far, like and semi immersive virtual
reality is like you're still aware of your surroundings, but
you can see things, you can hear things. Total immersive

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VR you are no longer aware of your surroundings, and
this would make you be able to.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
See here and touch things.

Speaker 14 (19:43):
It could help people with disabilities feel digital signals or
improve robot assisted surgeries. So I'm thinking, like, eventually we're
all going to just mainly be in virtual reality and
robots are going to do all this stuff, like all
the work we do now. I don't you know, That's
what I think. It's going to be weird but interesting.

Speaker 4 (20:03):
What will we do?

Speaker 1 (20:04):
I don't want to live with robots, just watch I do.

Speaker 14 (20:08):
This sounds like the End of Days. I know there
was a movie done about this, like cal Surrogates with
Bruce Willis. It's kind of like this. Yeah, it's if
you haven't seen it, it's amazing because I think Hollywood
prepares us for what's coming with these movies. I just
love the fact that you know, you can see how

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this can help people with disabilities.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
I mean that is amazing. The video game part I no,
thank you. I know, and there's other applications that I'm
not going to talk about, but.

Speaker 14 (20:40):
Yeah, I know they made billions, billions could be made.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Oh yeah, Trump just appointed Fiery Fox. Thanks a lot, Jacqueline.
Trump just appointed Fiery Fox News host and former Westchester
District Attorney Janine Piro known as Judge Judge Piro on
Fox News as top process secutor in DC. We'll talk
about that next. And you want to add to the conversation,

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the morning.

Speaker 4 (21:26):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Fox News isn't going to have anybody left soon. According
to some reports, he has now picked nineteen former Fox
News hosts, journalist and commentators for senior positions in the
White House for the second time he's been there.

Speaker 14 (21:45):
You want a job because there might be some opening up.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
I'm sure there is.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Fox News must be going, come on, what are you doing.
We're already under staffed and you're taking everybody we have.
And now Janine Piro, who is on the five on
Fox News every day, or she was, and now she
has been tapped for a job by the Trump administration.
Let's get the latest right now on all of this

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with Shannon Kingston, ABC News correspondent in Washington. Hey, Shannon,
you want a job in the administration, Go work at Fox,
put a little bit of time in, and then you'll
get a job with Trump.

Speaker 8 (22:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (22:22):
I guess that's the pathway here if that's what the
goal is. But there might be hope for Fox News
is staffing yet, and that's because we don't know how
long this position that Jeanine Piro was taking, how long
it's gonna last. Because the President. The White House have
not yet indicated is whether they're going to go ahead

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and pursue Senate confirmation. Well, whether this is going to
be really just an introm role. The cap on that
is one hundred and twenty days.

Speaker 4 (22:51):
Really, so.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
Every time they say there's somebody interim, you think that they're, oh,
they're eventually going to have the job forever, I mean
at least throughout the administration. But that's not the case, Hans,
So this might just be a placeholder, right.

Speaker 9 (23:09):
Because usually the way things go, you are the acting
such and such position, you go through, you have your
confirmation hearing, the vote happens, you get the job or
you don't. That has not exactly been the case this
time around. The President has relied on a pretty generous
interpretation of his appointment powers, his ability to put the
people he wants in the seats where he wants them,

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and that's really cut the Senate out of the process.
So we are expecting here that it's very likely that
this could be challenged by the courts, especially if after
Judge Piros twenty days are up, if the President moves
to just appoint someone else in that position position in
an interim role, and the question there then becomes, how

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will the courts decide. If they rule with the president,
that's going to significantly cement his broader powers. But if
they rule against him, it could just rupped a lot
of criminal cases, potentially overturning any indictments that happened between
roughly now and then.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
This all happened because he pulled Ed Martin, who was
of the first nominee for US Attorney for the District
of Columbia. Explain what happened with him.

Speaker 9 (24:18):
So basically, Ed Martin is a conservative activist, and he
failed to attract the level of support from Senate Republicans
that he would need to ultimately win confirmation. They're concerns
about his ties to divisive political issues, his defense of
January sixth riders, and also just some overall questions about

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his level of experience. But Ed Martin he's not totally out.
The President has announced that he'll be serving as the
Pardon Attorney at the Department of Justice, and that he's
also going to be leading a DOJ working group on weaponization,
so looking into how and if that department has been
u against political adversaries in the past.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
So Janine Piero if she doesn't have to. By the way,
I was really looking forward to the confirmation hearing. I
thought that was going to be musty television to see
Janine Pierro taking on the confirmation committee. So I'm extremely
disappointed that you're saying that that may not happen after all.
But is there is there is there a reason why

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Janine Piro to be the interim US attorney? Is there
something specific he wants him in there for her in therefore.

Speaker 9 (25:36):
Look, she's an ally of the president, she's always been
for decades, really has been close to President Trump. She's
obviously has a lot of experience being on TV. That's
something that can endear people to the president. But she
really does have a significant amount of experience as well.
She was elected as judge in New York's Westchester County,

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so not too far away from you, in nineteen ninety
before serving three terms as a county's elected district attorney,
So she does have experience there. But then when you
get to concerns, some of those are the same as
Ed Martin because she has her own connection to baseless
conspiracy theories of election fraud. She was named in that
lawsuit against Fox News by the voting technology company Smart

(26:20):
Mattic USA because of things that she and other Fox
News hosts and reporters have said about the alleged that
stop the steel movement.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Right, I get that, I guess I keep going back
to the question of why then it's just just though
she can have the title. Is it because he wants
her to fight something that's specifically on the docket right
now or I'm not sure why it would just be
interim I understand the confirmation hearing would still be difficult,

(26:55):
but this has got to be just an ego thing,
just so she can say that she was once the
US Attorney for the District of Columbia.

Speaker 9 (27:05):
Well, it is a very important position. The office has
more than three hundred and fifty prosecutors working for it,
and a unique ability to prosecute both local and federal
crimes here in d C. Public corruption, national security, all
other sense of matters. So it really is a significant
role and one that you know, if Piro was giving

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the president significant insight, significant oversight into that's something that
expands his power, you know, gives him maybe the ability
to pursue cases that he sees more in fitting with
his agenda, and it is possible that the White House
could try to to forge ahead with confirmation. I do
think that the lack of support for Ed Martin among

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the Republicans is something of a surprise for the White House.
So I think it's very possible they still could be
formulating their strategy, figuring out where they want to go next.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Oh, I hope, So, I really really hope. So that's
must see television. I can't wait for that. I I
hope there's a confirmation hearing. I can't tell you how
disappointed I was when you said that, Shannon, how because
I was looking forward to this more than most things,
more than any of the big games ruined.

Speaker 9 (28:16):
I hate to be the bearer of that.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
Bit of hope there, Shannon Kingston, a VC News correspondent
in Washington, leaving me with a little bit of hope
that I can be. I can watch this, Thanks so much, Jennon.
It is Mother's Day coming up.

Speaker 4 (28:34):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
That is a reminder for you. So what are kids
giving their.

Speaker 4 (28:38):
Moms this year?

Speaker 1 (28:40):
WR correspondent Rory O'Neal knows, and he'll tell us next.
Because we have this hot contest for the very sought
after Amanti in the morning t shirt. Let's try to
squeeze in a talk back. Another contender for Talkback of
the Day.

Speaker 15 (28:57):
Good morning, Mary Mike from New Jersey, also a morse
Anti police officer. I just want to see if you
had mentioned that Sunday begins National Law Enforcement Officers Week. Today,
over five hundred riders will leave Fairfield, New Jersey on
the Police Unity Tour, a three hundred mile bike ride
to Washington, d C. To honor off fall and police officers.
We thank them for their service and may God bless

(29:19):
their families.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Oh what a wonderful talk back, And thanks for the reminder.
We'll talk about that on Monday. But I'm glad that
you promoted that, and as always, thank you, sir for
what you do to keep New Jersey and keep America
safe every day. I appreciate your service. And let's talk
about Mother's Day. You know what, I was shamed by

(29:41):
Rory O'Neil because first thing Rory says to Natalie is
happy Mother's Day. And I haven't said it all morning,
and I've been here for two hours and I've talked
about Mother's Day over and over again. You know, you
could have sent me a text. You could have saved
me that embarrassment. But happy, well now I know, no,

(30:06):
you thank you for that. Happy Mother's Day, Natalie, thank you.
I hope, I hope you have a great one. Thanks Rory.

Speaker 16 (30:17):
I'll get you for Father's Day. But yeah, it's a look,
this is a big deal. Thirty four point one billion
dollars will be spent for Mother's Day. That's according to
the National Retail Federation. When you break it down, by
the way, I thought this figure was a little high.
Two hundred and fifty nine dollars and four cents per mom.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
Wow, I bet yeah.

Speaker 14 (30:39):
I can't wait till Sunday.

Speaker 4 (30:41):
Oh no, oh no, let me take that back. Yes,
that's appropriate.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
Yes, I thought it was high.

Speaker 16 (30:49):
I thought it was crazy high.

Speaker 17 (30:50):
But when you add up the fact that the most
popular gift will be flowers, seventy four percent greeting cards
about the same, and sixty one percent have that special
Mother's Day dinner or Mother's Day brunch in mind.

Speaker 16 (31:03):
So I think when you.

Speaker 17 (31:05):
Add up the meal, the flowers, the card, you're probably
getting pretty close to that two fifty nine figure.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
The brunch alone that I'm going to that I have
to go to on Sunday is going to cost that
much that you have to have to go to you
that Rory, didn't you?

Speaker 18 (31:25):
Yeah, that's half change that That means that should be
part of the six point eight billion dollars spent on
jewelry to make up for that.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yep, you know we had this. It's really funny you're
bringing this up.

Speaker 4 (31:41):
Gift card? How much you go? Ahead? Sorry, I stepped
on you.

Speaker 16 (31:44):
Three three point five billion on gift cards. So maybe
you put a little more thought into it than go
for the gift card.

Speaker 4 (31:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
No, it's gonna be flowers. It's gonna be But you
know what, here's the thing. And we used to get
a lot of phone calls about this and just a
couple of weeks ago, and it's interesting we got none
today or no talkbacks today about this. But some people
argue that the husband shouldn't have to do anything for
Mother's Day because his wife is not his mother. That

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the kids, the the kids have to do something, but
it's not your responsibility. Where do you come in on this?

Speaker 16 (32:22):
How do you like the couch because that's where you'll
be sleeping. If you treat mom your your wife is
the mother of your children.

Speaker 8 (32:31):
That way.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Hey, I didn't say I do it.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
No, no, no, no, no no. I spent way too
much for Mother's Day and it's all and I get
no credit because it seems like the kids are doing it.
The kids get to prevent all get to present all
of the presents, and we do the brunch and all
of that. But I understand the argument, and a lot
of people have called in passionately saying no, I'm not

(32:54):
I'm not my wife's mother.

Speaker 4 (32:56):
It's not my responsibility. Well good luck with that argument.

Speaker 16 (33:00):
But high thirty four billion on Mother's Day, We'll spend
twenty two billion on Father's Day.

Speaker 17 (33:06):
So there is that breakaway. And Father's Day used to
have the old record. Father's Day used to have the
record for the most collect phone calls every year on father.

Speaker 14 (33:14):
Remember a collect phone call.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
That's amazing. Happy Father's Day, it's on you. Thanks so much.
I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
Rory.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
Good to talk to you and to those of in
your life. Happy Mother's Day. In the latest, see you
later in the latest Tariff's news. Is the US UK
deal announced the first of many. We're going to ask
Rick Klein, ABC News Washington Bureau chief after the eight
o'clock news