Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
What a busy news day it is. Thanks for tuning
in this morning. I'm glad you're choosing US. Israel and
Iran keep trading missile launches with Israel taking out the
state run media in Iran. Did you see this video?
It was chilling.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Fa Yeah, that happened while they were live on the
air in Iran.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Early voting continues in the New York mayor Old primary,
and The New York Times surprisingly refused to endorse any
of the candidates running in the Democratic primary, but said
one of the candidates was unfit to serve Zorin Mamdani.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
These are the opinions of about a dozen New Yorkers,
and the democracy will be decided by close to a
million New Yorkers.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
They certainly have the right to their opinions, and New
Yorkers the right to their votes. Are you shocked like
I was that the New York Times, the crazy liberal
New York Times, especially their editorial board, wouldn't endorse or
In mom Donni. I thought that if you invented a
candidate for the New York Times, it would be Zorin Mamdani.
(01:18):
But no, no, even they said, nah, he's a little
bit too crazy. For even US the G seven conference,
Trump finalizes the tariff deal with the United Kingdom. A
very good day for Postlar country is a real sign strength.
So thank you again, Donald, A really important day for
post of US. Great people, great people, great people. That
(01:40):
was the British Prime Minister Starmer. And the prosecution may
rest today or tomorrow in the Sean Diddy Combs trial,
but now there's a question that still lingers. Will Combs
take the stand in his own defense. I know he's
going to want to. As a defense attorney, I prep
all of my clients to testify, I run them through
the gamut. But I could not tell him to get
(02:02):
near that witness down with a ten foot pole. And
former New Jersey Senator Bob Menndez reports to a medium
security federal prison in Pennsylvania today. Can you imagine this
day for him? He's going to serve up to eleven
years behind bars after being found guilty of bribery and
(02:23):
corruption charges. After getting all of those gold bars in bribery,
He's now going to be behind iron bars. Let's talk
now to Joe Burrell, he managing director of Chartwell Strategy
Group and former Minority leader of the New York City Council. Hey, Joe,
what do you make of the New York Times coming
(02:43):
out and saying zorin, Mom, Donnie's even too crazy for us?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah, I mean it's an interesting editorial wherein they don't
really endorse anyone. They sort of come up with a
list of who is the least worse, and in their estimation,
it's seems as though, you know, Cuomo might be the
least worse, with Brad Lander coming in a very close second.
And and as you point out the irony, and I
(03:09):
think you framed it right in your opening monologue. Here,
this is a guy who was almost made to be
a New York Times endorsed candidate for mayor because the
people who read The New York Times are all probably
supporting Zohra and mamdani by like, you know, two to
one compared to Andrew Cuomo. It just it just it.
(03:32):
The problem with Zowrin's plan is that it doesn't add up.
The reverer doesn't meet the road. When you're you know,
talking about magic and sprinkles and how you're gonna save
the city and and and have you know, free grocery
stores and things like that, it just doesn't add up.
This is a guy who was a radical throughout his
entire short career in the state Assembly. Uh, and he
(03:53):
will govern the mayoralty as a radical, non a progressive,
a radical everything.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
And then you're gonna tax the rich and you're gonna
chase them all out of the city and there goes
your tax base and none of it. You're absolutely right
about him. None of what he talks about makes any sense.
But it is so it is so seductive for somebody
who's just barely making it by or it's so seductive
(04:20):
for the liberal mind that he does well in the polls.
I don't think he could ever be mayor.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
No, And the problem is, you know, God forbid he
is the mayor, right, which is there is a very
good chance that happened. There's a real chance, right. You know,
things like a rent freeze doesn't actually produce more housing,
It doesn't actually solve the housing crisis. Right. I don't
agree with the City of Yes, you know, the Mayor
Adams's plan for more density in the city, But objectively,
(04:51):
I'd have to admit that the City of Yes will
add more housing and lower the pressure on the housing market. Right.
That's that's economics. One on one Zobrin's plan. We're gonna
freeze the rent for everyone. It's gonna create fewer houses,
create you know, a worse housing stock with buildings that
are crumbling. And like, finally the New York Times just
(05:14):
called them out and says this is not gonna work.
I'm afraid for the future, Larry. I mean, we've talked
about this week after week. I can come out and
say now, I'm very afraid for the future of New York.
I said this a few months ago. We're gonna be
in a position where where Eric Adams is the best
choice for mayor. He might very well be. Certainly I'll
be supporting probably Curtis Leewa in the race. But we
(05:36):
are in this position where we have people that are
far worse than anything we've ever seen on the ballot.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I will tell you this. We just talked to Curtis
about an hour ago, and Curtis and I believe him.
Curtis is convinced he can win this, and nobody's paying
attention to him right now. But he's been out in
the outer burroughs talking about things that are important to them.
He just was on the a second ago talking about
Staten Island and the fact that they all laughed about
(06:03):
Staten Island during the Democratic primary. I do believe he
has a real shot. I don't think this is this
is bluster. Do you believe it, Joe.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I do think he has a real shot and getting
a plurality of votes is very possible for him. And
I've told him this in private. I've told him this
in public. He's taken some of my suggestions, some of
them I still want to see. But he needs to
stop going, you know, only to Staten Island, only to
the neighborhoods where he gets a positive reception. He's got
to go to other neighborhoods, just like Donald Trump did. Right,
(06:37):
Donald Trump did a rally in the South Bronx, an
area that's not known for its Republicanism, and he's got
to talk about the For example, if Staten Island. In
parts of Brooklyn, he's talking about public safety, great, battery
storage great. These aren't issues in other parts of the
city that he feels he might need to win. And
he does need to win, so he needs to identify
(06:59):
those issues that are driving voters away from the Democratic Party.
And they're gonna be different in every community, ethnic community,
and every neighborhood. He's got us, you know, basically figure
out what those are and beat the drum on them
from now until November.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And he has been and I'll tell you what, he's
gonna skate through, and he's gonna nobody. The mud that's
being slung in this race is going to be among
the Democrats. He's going through and he's going to be clean.
Nobody's going after him right now until the first poll
comes out and shows he has a real shot. Then
they'll start to come after him. But right now he
(07:34):
gets to just campaign freely and not have to worry
about any attacks. And I think that's a real and
a strong benefit for him right now. Let them all
eat their own well. He skates through.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
And the criticism of him is that he's you know,
a little kookie, a little out there, right, you know what.
People are willing to give that a shot when they're
faced with the community they lived in their whole life
fundamentally changing for the worst. If you're a renter or
a homeowner, especially if you're a homeowner, you PLoP your
life savings, you know, on a home in Springfield, Gardens,
(08:09):
Queens or wherever you live, and you are now under
threat that your way of life, your neighborhood is going
to change for the worst. Yeah, you're willing to go
with a guy who's you know, biggest criticism against him
is that he's a little kookie and a little out there.
You know, we gave it a shot with Donald Trump.
A lot of people will say he's cookie and out there,
and darn it, he's doing a much better job than
(08:29):
Kamala Harris would have been. And I think that's an
objective reality.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I'll take kookie over dangerous anytime. One last thing, Letitia
James going after some local cops for working with ICE.
I did every time. The Democrats seem to be on
the wrong side of every issue. Working with ICE, I
think is supported by most of the people in this community.
And now she wants to bring charges against them.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Yeah. I mean, this is her to me signaling that
she's never gonna run for anything ever again, because this
is the kind of stuf that will eliminate any chance
of her ever running for a statewide office that she
doesn't already have, or a city wide office. Because this is,
as he pointed out, an eighty twenty issue where you know,
an overwhelming majority of New Yorkers, including New Yorkers who
(09:14):
are non white people of color, agreed that we should
be cooperating with central law enforcement, especially when it involves
corralling up people who have been convicted of additional primes
in addition to coming here illegally. It's a stupid play
by the Attorney General. I don't know what happened to her.
When she was in the City Council. She was a
lovely woman, very popular amongst her colleagues, not too radical,
(09:37):
just a good person. And then, you know, ever since
she decided to go after the Trump family in twenty
twenty one, it has just been nothing but downhill from her.
And this might be the look.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, she seems to have only one play in her playbook.
But anyway. Joe BURRELLI, Managing director Chartwell Strategy Group and
former Minority Leader of the New York City Council, Thanks
so much. Always enjoyed talking to you.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Joe Jecuary.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Now let's go to another Joe. Joey Chestnuts is back
in the Coney Island hot eating contest. We're going to
talk about that next. Plus, once again, we have tickets
to see The Counting Crows always love your talkbacks. You
inspire conversation, You make the show just a whole lot. Better,
go to seven to ten wor on the iHeartRadio app
(10:25):
and look for the talkback feature and you're on the air.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
First of all, how do you put a price on friendship?
Second of all, if you can't afford the wedding, don't
have a big wedding reception.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I should have set that up. I I should have
set that up. Let me play it again because it's
only seven seconds long. But what that was about was
a Jacqueline carl story about a bride that was upset
that people didn't show up for the reception, and she
believes they should be charged for their plate because they
(10:56):
didn't show up for the reception. And we had a
little conversation about it, and I said, I would never
stand for that. I probably wouldn't do anything about it,
but I would never stand for that, and I would
want to. I would want the money too. In my heart,
I would want the money, although I don't ever have
the guts of asking for it. So now that you
understand the story, let me play that again.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
First of all, how do you put a price on friendship.
Second of all, if you can't afford the wedding, don't
have a big wedding reception.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
First of all, if you're that good of a friend,
you would have shown up to the wedding. And do
you need a really good excuse?
Speaker 7 (11:32):
But the people do have excuses, and it's part of
the game. You know there's going to be a few
no shows. You build that into the budget. That's just
what happens when you have a big party, don't you think, Yeah,
I mean it.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Does, and most of them will send a gift. What's
the acceptable number of no shows wise?
Speaker 7 (11:52):
I mean, I guess if you have one hundred people,
maybe two?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Oh see, there you go. Hey, we don't know how
we were judging this poor woman. We have no shows.
Maybe there's something wrong with her.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Oh shotspire don't love people have to say they're coming, Yeah,
they are svp'ed. Yes, And some people didn't show. But
someone the mother was sick and the boyfriend couldn't make
it and blah blah blah blah blah. But you know,
I just feel like you send a gift.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Excuses, excuses, excuses.
Speaker 9 (12:24):
I am incredibly happy that I live in Newfolk County
born and raised in Brooklyn. I don't even go back
to look at anything. I avoid going into the Five
Burrows with every fiber of my being. I am happy
to be out of the Burrows. It's insane there. Thank God,
(12:49):
I'm out.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I would fight back with him, but he scares me
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Man.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Don't be a no show to his party.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Yeah, that's right. We've that kiimail, by the way. That
came up because we were talking about the barrel. I
know it's just you. He would scare small children with
that voice. That's really good, though. I mean unless he
was putting it on. Maybe he was putting it on
just to scare the heck out of there. Still, I
don't want to go to his house for Halloween. He
just a T shirt.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Curtis wins. He won't be my mayor, but we need
a mayor for New York. I'm upstate New York. You
need someone that's actually gonna work with Donald Trump and
not tie his hands behind his back. We need to
get rid of all the criminal elements. When I was
growing up in Queen's three strikes, you were out, you
caught ninety days, that was it. These people have twenty
(13:40):
seven strikes and they're still out on the freaking street.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Huh. I didn't get Is he gonna vote for Curtis Leabor?
He's not. He's upstate. I know that, But does he
support Curtis Leaway or not? I couldn't get it from that.
I couldn't get it from the message. Oh well, I
know a lot of people are supporting Kurt Slee when
I'm so glad he came on the show today and
I look forward to having him back. Now, let's talk
(14:04):
about Joey Chestnuts. He'll be back at the hot dog
eating contest on July fourth on Coney Island after being
banned last year because he was supporting some other company
and some of their meatless hot dogs. How dare he?
But now he's back and he's going to win, probably easy,
(14:24):
because he still has the world record of seventy six
seventy six hot dogs eaten in ten minutes, and that's
back in twenty twenty one. You want to hear a
couple of the oddest ones, the ones that people enter.
How about the West Virginia Roadkill cookoff? What they cook roadkill?
(14:48):
And then you have a contest to see how much
you can eat of it now. So these are like
squirrels found on the side of the road. They have
deer sausages, they have possum stew, and I're gonna get
winners buried. I don't know where the winters are buried.
That's a really that's an interesting question. Or the Rocky
Mountain oyster fry. No, you know what Rocky Mountain oysters are?
(15:09):
No anybody?
Speaker 7 (15:11):
No, No, they sound good though they're are bulls testicles.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Oh no, yeah, get that. So, but that's a big contest.
There's people that win that contest every year, and you
could win some tickets right now. Well, it's grot great
to hear from Joe Bartlett again, the former wo R
news director now enjoying retirement in South Carolina. How's it going, Joe.
Speaker 10 (15:32):
Oh, this is my busy day tuesdays, this is my
appointment day. We actually have some appliance guys doing work
in a kitchen this morning, so I've asked them to
be quiet.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Wow, you are You are a busy, busy man. That's
a that's a rough life that you have going on there.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
So what do you want to talk about?
Speaker 10 (15:51):
Well, well, I got to talk about Trump for just
a second. All right, I don't want to get bogged down,
because it's just I'm going to end up like Terry Moran,
lose my job.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
What time you have to lose? Well, that's true. Okay.
By the way, I've seen him on some podcasts. He's
gone full lunatic. Now. He's been holding this in for
a long time. You should hear him. He's I have
to play some of that tomorrow. Go ahead. What do
you need to say about Trump?
Speaker 10 (16:15):
Well, Trump can do it to you, I can tell you.
But anyway I look at I don't I don't like
his use of the military in Los Angeles. I remember
when I went to Russia back in the nineties and
I saw the military everywhere in Russia, and it really
gave me pause because as an American, we weren't used
to seeing the military on the streets. You know, they
were there, they kept us safe, but they weren't part
(16:38):
of everyday life. And then, of course we had nine
to eleven in the military became more of a visual
from time to time. But I don't think you know,
out of control protesters are a threat to the country
that requires the mobilization.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Of the military.
Speaker 10 (16:54):
That's I mean that's where I am.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
How do you believe he used the National Guard.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
To control the violence, the sporadic violence. I mean, there's
a lot of peaceful protesting going on. They're all not
car burning and looting. So I don't think the National
Guard was necessary to do that.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
But they weren't involved in that. They weren't involved in
that at all. All they did was protect the federal building.
They stood there and protected the Federal building. It's the visuals,
the visuals. It's not good, not good that you know there.
We have military people that are stand off or are
involved in.
Speaker 10 (17:32):
Any sort of peaceful protests or even the violent was
We have police officers who can do that. They have
good police officers in Los Angeles and so anyway, that's
just ya, that's just how I.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Ten police officers were hurt. They could have probably used
the National Guard, and two of them very seriously, Hey,
do you want a couple of talkbacks there were you? Okay,
a message for Joe Bartlett.
Speaker 11 (17:54):
Hey, Joe, hope you're enjoying retirement.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
But remember one thing Trump.
Speaker 11 (18:00):
With Trump, he's way better than Kamalah.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well, i'm'll give you that. That's truck No argument with that.
Speaker 10 (18:10):
They have no argument with that. And here's the thing.
I mean, the bottom line with Trump is a lot
of people kind of like what he's doing. They just
don't like he's doing it.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah, I think that there was a some big, huge
misconceptions of how he used the National Guard. That's why
I wanted to point that out. Here's another one.
Speaker 12 (18:28):
I want to know what Joe thinks about the recent
reporting the Pentagon and other government agencies have engaged in
activities that contributed to the public belief in UFOs and
associated conspiracy theories, primarily as a means to mask classified
weapons programs.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
What do you say, Joe, what do you think about that?
What they you know what?
Speaker 10 (18:49):
We may have weapons programs that they don't want to
let people know about. I can't understand that, and they
could use the UFO story to hide that. But that
report also said that there are like four hundred billion
stars in the Milky Way and four hundred billion stars
out there. There has to be life other than what
(19:11):
we have here on Earth. By the way, my file
in law was a pilot in the Air Force way
back then. He encountered an unexplained aircraft around him and
he said, definitely looked like a UFO followed them, you know,
the whole what you hear in these stories. Well, when
he landed, he got called into the office and was debriefed,
and somehow it was all explained away, but in his
(19:33):
mind it was an alien aircraft.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, we know where this all comes from. Yeah, yeah,
there are some things that his dad, Yeah, there are
some things that I know that are unexplained. But they're
talking about their caller talked about Joseph Guteims, who is
a former NASA official who investigated this, and you're right,
he said, there are definitely the chances are that are
(20:00):
a life on other planets. He just doesn't believe they
ever made it here. That's that's what he says, and
he says most of the time. And he knew what
he said for a fact that many of the times
that UFOs were reported they were actually aircraft's, either ours
or China's or Russias. That they would rather go with
the UFO story than go with this story.
Speaker 10 (20:18):
Well, I understand that.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, but look at we are.
Speaker 10 (20:21):
We are not the most intelligent a thing in the universe.
I would would you agree with that?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Yeah, what chances are or not yep, No, I agree
with you. And so you're saying that somebody may have
the technology to uh to defeat time and distance and
and make it sure. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Have you
ever seen any.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
No?
Speaker 7 (20:44):
No, but I believe, like I said, now, we know
why you know that story from his dad. It's probably
stuck in him all these years. You know, why would
his dad make a story up like that.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Oh, I don't think he's made up the story. No,
I don't think anybody made up the story. I think
all the people that believe they saw something actually did
see something that they couldn't explain, and they go to
this as an explanation. I just don't think it's always
the explanation that we should go first's.
Speaker 10 (21:16):
But by the way, it was Jean's dad, not min Bad.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Oh then he's a nut. No no, no, no, no, no,
I'm teasing. I don't mean that at all. Hey, have
you been following it all? This may eoral race?
Speaker 10 (21:33):
Yeah. I was listening to Curtis this morning. Pretty interesting.
I thought that this was a deal that Cuomo could
win because of the name recognition. But the theory that
Curtis put out this morning makes sense to me. That
you're going to get a big, jumbled general election, and
(21:53):
he he could get that thirty percent that's needed.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I agree he's been saying that now. I thought it
was just an interesting theory before, but now as you
look at the numbers, he's absolutely correct. They could all
just be eating their own they could all be attacking
each other, and the last man standing is going to
be Curtis Sliwa, because they're probably not going to go
after him until it's too late. In the whole thing,
(22:19):
I just thought that you would be, you know, because
you've changed so much since you went down to South Carolina.
I thought you were a zorin mom. Donnie Guy, No, No,
I'm not that far going. Larry, all right, Joe, look
forward to talking to you again. Enjoy retirement. Can't wait
to talk to you again. I'll see you later. I
(22:39):
just love talking to him, even though we disagree sometimes.
I just really enjoy talking to him when we come back.
Former Senator Bob Menendez, once a power player in DC,
is now headed to prison eleven years for bribes, gold
bars and corruption. Natalie Migliori gets the Beat on the
Street next, and the iHeartRadio Music Festival is back September
(23:02):
nineteenth and twentieth in Las Vegas, two Big Nights, One
Big Stage, live performances by Brian Adams, John Fogerty, Sammy Hagar,
Ed Sheeran, Maroon Five and more. Now's your chance to
buy tickets at AXS dot com. That's AXS dot com.
Get them now before they sell out.
Speaker 13 (23:23):
Now it's seventen w oars Beat on the Street with
Natalie Migliore.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Well, gold bar, Bob will now be behind bars. Senator
Menendez has to report to prison today and that is
the topic of Natalie Migliore's Beat on the Street.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Natalie, Yeah, good morning, Larry. You know when you say
gold bar Bob and I hear it rather than me
saying it, I'm wondering are those bars gonna be gold
that he's behind now? Former New Jersey Senator Bob and
Ndez is reporting to prison in his federal corruption in
(24:03):
case today after a weekend of partying at his stepdaughter's
wedding in Massachusetts. Will now serve an eleven year sentence
at a federal facility in Pennsylvania at seventy one years old.
One of Menendez's attorneys has called this a life and
death sentence. People, though, feel no sorrow for the convicted politician.
Speaker 13 (24:24):
You got to go to the big house. Judge says,
you gotta go, you gotta go. Ah, Lisa, do you
do the crime, You gotta do the time.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
It's simple as that. Lewis time like everybody else. Do
what is it? Do your crime to your time.
Speaker 12 (24:34):
I haven't examined the case, and I am not sure
if the charges are substitutive.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
But if he had a bunch of gold bars in
his possession, that's an interesting way to get paid in
gold bars.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
It seems kind of nefarious. And his wife was also involved.
Speaker 13 (24:46):
Yeah, and the wife's in bat shape too.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
The former senator's wife, Nadine, is scheduled to be sentenced
in September. Now, Bob Menendez has tried to be pardoned,
both by former President Joe Biden and President Trump. So
do people think the Republican would or should do it?
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (25:07):
Has Trump pardoned everybody from January sixth?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Come on?
Speaker 11 (25:10):
No, he took money from people in the Middle East?
Speaker 13 (25:13):
Now, oh no, that's not going to happen though, No,
of course that's not going to happen. No, no, no,
I mean what reason would it be you know what
I'm saying. Or does he owe him a favor? If
he owes him a favor, yes, if he doesn't owe
him a favor, No, it doesn't work like that.
Speaker 11 (25:25):
I don't think that Colination should be in the business
of getting people that have convicted out of prison.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I don't think he should be in the business of
doing that. I don't think he should get bodon. Criminals
are not supposed to get Boden.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
You know you'll pay for what you do, well, Larry,
He'll be paying in more ways than one. The New
Jersey Globe has actually a great article about the senator's accommodations.
He'll be at a medium security facility with the ability
to make outgoing calls and send and receive emails, but
(25:58):
those emails will not be connected to internet access. The
article says, we need about twelve hundred dollars a month
for his commissary fund, which is money that allows him
to buy toiletries, casual clothing, and alternate food options. I've
never heard of that in prison. It's kind of like rent.
Speaker 13 (26:17):
I'm surprised they would allow it, yes, but uh, I'm
not surprise that that attempt is there.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
I ain't know that the prison do that real so
new to me.
Speaker 12 (26:25):
I think he should pay rents to say in prison,
but you shouldn't be getting all the offensive stuff that's
he wants.
Speaker 11 (26:32):
He shouldn't be allowed to do any of that. You're incarcerated.
You don't get luxuries in jail. It's not the hotel.
Speaker 13 (26:38):
My tax dollar is like, well, his farm's going to
be with the guys in the big house. Though, if
he did anything wrong to them, he's gonna have now
he got to see them because they're all in jail,
or his old friends.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
There you go, and as Menendez relentlessly tries to appeal
his conviction, still people say they're no longer surprised by
what politicians do.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
Maybe it would have shocked me before the president became president,
but now there's nothing shocks me.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
It just sucks. It sucks that we have people like
that representing us.
Speaker 13 (27:09):
Most Volata is a crooked No, it was easy. He's
on old time. He's been around a long time. He
just didn't think it was coming back to haunt them.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Though.
Speaker 13 (27:17):
You know what I'm saying, Today's United States, you can't
do nothing. Though people talk too much.
Speaker 11 (27:20):
We need a reset. This country needs a reset. People
need to remember what we were founded on and they
need to take care of our country before we worry
about anybody else.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Well, now, Senator Menendez at least at this point, has
eleven years to think about it.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Larry, Yeah, eleven years in their federal charges. You don't
get a lot off on federal charges. He might have
to spend the entire eleven years in prison. It's amazing.
I've covered him and talked to him before. It's just
it's amazing when somebody that you've seen and you've covered,
when this happens to nobody had any idea. Thanks so much, Natalie.
(27:59):
W'll be back back tomorrow morning. At eight fifty, two
hundred and fifty years ago, doctor Joseph Warren died a
hero at Bunker Hill, but history forgot him. Now, a
new Off Broadway play brings him back to life. Playwright
Robert Blecker joins us after the nine o'clock
What a busy news day it is. Thanks for tuning
in this morning. I'm glad you're choosing US. Israel and
Iran keep trading missile launches with Israel taking out the
state run media in Iran. Did you see this video?
It was chilling.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Fa Yeah, that happened while they were live on the
air in Iran.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Early voting continues in the New York mayor Old primary,
and The New York Times surprisingly refused to endorse any
of the candidates running in the Democratic primary, but said
one of the candidates was unfit to serve Zorin Mamdani.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
These are the opinions of about a dozen New Yorkers,
and the democracy will be decided by close to a
million New Yorkers.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
They certainly have the right to their opinions, and New
Yorkers the right to their votes. Are you shocked like
I was that the New York Times, the crazy liberal
New York Times, especially their editorial board, wouldn't endorse or
In mom Donni. I thought that if you invented a
candidate for the New York Times, it would be Zorin Mamdani.
(01:18):
But no, no, even they said, nah, he's a little
bit too crazy. For even US the G seven conference,
Trump finalizes the tariff deal with the United Kingdom. A
very good day for Postlar country is a real sign strength.
So thank you again, Donald, A really important day for
post of US. Great people, great people, great people. That
(01:40):
was the British Prime Minister Starmer. And the prosecution may
rest today or tomorrow in the Sean Diddy Combs trial,
but now there's a question that still lingers. Will Combs
take the stand in his own defense. I know he's
going to want to. As a defense attorney, I prep
all of my clients to testify, I run them through
the gamut. But I could not tell him to get
(02:02):
near that witness down with a ten foot pole. And
former New Jersey Senator Bob Menndez reports to a medium
security federal prison in Pennsylvania today. Can you imagine this
day for him? He's going to serve up to eleven
years behind bars after being found guilty of bribery and
(02:23):
corruption charges. After getting all of those gold bars in bribery,
He's now going to be behind iron bars. Let's talk
now to Joe Burrell, he managing director of Chartwell Strategy
Group and former Minority leader of the New York City Council. Hey, Joe,
what do you make of the New York Times coming
(02:43):
out and saying zorin, Mom, Donnie's even too crazy for us?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah, I mean it's an interesting editorial wherein they don't
really endorse anyone. They sort of come up with a
list of who is the least worse, and in their estimation,
it's seems as though, you know, Cuomo might be the
least worse, with Brad Lander coming in a very close second.
And and as you point out the irony, and I
(03:09):
think you framed it right in your opening monologue. Here,
this is a guy who was almost made to be
a New York Times endorsed candidate for mayor because the
people who read The New York Times are all probably
supporting Zohra and mamdani by like, you know, two to
one compared to Andrew Cuomo. It just it just it.
(03:32):
The problem with Zowrin's plan is that it doesn't add up.
The reverer doesn't meet the road. When you're you know,
talking about magic and sprinkles and how you're gonna save
the city and and and have you know, free grocery
stores and things like that, it just doesn't add up.
This is a guy who was a radical throughout his
entire short career in the state Assembly. Uh, and he
(03:53):
will govern the mayoralty as a radical, non a progressive,
a radical everything.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
And then you're gonna tax the rich and you're gonna
chase them all out of the city and there goes
your tax base and none of it. You're absolutely right
about him. None of what he talks about makes any sense.
But it is so it is so seductive for somebody
who's just barely making it by or it's so seductive
(04:20):
for the liberal mind that he does well in the polls.
I don't think he could ever be mayor.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
No, And the problem is, you know, God forbid he
is the mayor, right, which is there is a very
good chance that happened. There's a real chance, right. You know,
things like a rent freeze doesn't actually produce more housing,
It doesn't actually solve the housing crisis. Right. I don't
agree with the City of Yes, you know, the Mayor
Adams's plan for more density in the city, But objectively,
(04:51):
I'd have to admit that the City of Yes will
add more housing and lower the pressure on the housing market. Right.
That's that's economics. One on one Zobrin's plan. We're gonna
freeze the rent for everyone. It's gonna create fewer houses,
create you know, a worse housing stock with buildings that
are crumbling. And like, finally the New York Times just
(05:14):
called them out and says this is not gonna work.
I'm afraid for the future, Larry. I mean, we've talked
about this week after week. I can come out and
say now, I'm very afraid for the future of New York.
I said this a few months ago. We're gonna be
in a position where where Eric Adams is the best
choice for mayor. He might very well be. Certainly I'll
be supporting probably Curtis Leewa in the race. But we
(05:36):
are in this position where we have people that are
far worse than anything we've ever seen on the ballot.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I will tell you this. We just talked to Curtis
about an hour ago, and Curtis and I believe him.
Curtis is convinced he can win this, and nobody's paying
attention to him right now. But he's been out in
the outer burroughs talking about things that are important to them.
He just was on the a second ago talking about
Staten Island and the fact that they all laughed about
(06:03):
Staten Island during the Democratic primary. I do believe he
has a real shot. I don't think this is this
is bluster. Do you believe it, Joe.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I do think he has a real shot and getting
a plurality of votes is very possible for him. And
I've told him this in private. I've told him this
in public. He's taken some of my suggestions, some of
them I still want to see. But he needs to
stop going, you know, only to Staten Island, only to
the neighborhoods where he gets a positive reception. He's got
to go to other neighborhoods, just like Donald Trump did. Right,
(06:37):
Donald Trump did a rally in the South Bronx, an
area that's not known for its Republicanism, and he's got
to talk about the For example, if Staten Island. In
parts of Brooklyn, he's talking about public safety, great, battery
storage great. These aren't issues in other parts of the
city that he feels he might need to win. And
he does need to win, so he needs to identify
(06:59):
those issues that are driving voters away from the Democratic Party.
And they're gonna be different in every community, ethnic community,
and every neighborhood. He's got us, you know, basically figure
out what those are and beat the drum on them
from now until November.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And he has been and I'll tell you what, he's
gonna skate through, and he's gonna nobody. The mud that's
being slung in this race is going to be among
the Democrats. He's going through and he's going to be clean.
Nobody's going after him right now until the first poll
comes out and shows he has a real shot. Then
they'll start to come after him. But right now he
(07:34):
gets to just campaign freely and not have to worry
about any attacks. And I think that's a real and
a strong benefit for him right now. Let them all
eat their own well. He skates through.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
And the criticism of him is that he's you know,
a little kookie, a little out there, right, you know what.
People are willing to give that a shot when they're
faced with the community they lived in their whole life
fundamentally changing for the worst. If you're a renter or
a homeowner, especially if you're a homeowner, you PLoP your
life savings, you know, on a home in Springfield, Gardens,
(08:09):
Queens or wherever you live, and you are now under
threat that your way of life, your neighborhood is going
to change for the worst. Yeah, you're willing to go
with a guy who's you know, biggest criticism against him
is that he's a little kookie and a little out there.
You know, we gave it a shot with Donald Trump.
A lot of people will say he's cookie and out there,
and darn it, he's doing a much better job than
(08:29):
Kamala Harris would have been. And I think that's an
objective reality.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I'll take kookie over dangerous anytime. One last thing, Letitia
James going after some local cops for working with ICE.
I did every time. The Democrats seem to be on
the wrong side of every issue. Working with ICE, I
think is supported by most of the people in this community.
And now she wants to bring charges against them.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Yeah. I mean, this is her to me signaling that
she's never gonna run for anything ever again, because this
is the kind of stuf that will eliminate any chance
of her ever running for a statewide office that she
doesn't already have, or a city wide office. Because this is,
as he pointed out, an eighty twenty issue where you know,
an overwhelming majority of New Yorkers, including New Yorkers who
(09:14):
are non white people of color, agreed that we should
be cooperating with central law enforcement, especially when it involves
corralling up people who have been convicted of additional primes
in addition to coming here illegally. It's a stupid play
by the Attorney General. I don't know what happened to her.
When she was in the City Council. She was a
lovely woman, very popular amongst her colleagues, not too radical,
(09:37):
just a good person. And then, you know, ever since
she decided to go after the Trump family in twenty
twenty one, it has just been nothing but downhill from her.
And this might be the look.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, she seems to have only one play in her playbook.
But anyway. Joe BURRELLI, Managing director Chartwell Strategy Group and
former Minority Leader of the New York City Council, Thanks
so much. Always enjoyed talking to you.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Joe Jecuary.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Now let's go to another Joe. Joey Chestnuts is back
in the Coney Island hot eating contest. We're going to
talk about that next. Plus, once again, we have tickets
to see The Counting Crows always love your talkbacks. You
inspire conversation, You make the show just a whole lot. Better,
go to seven to ten wor on the iHeartRadio app
(10:25):
and look for the talkback feature and you're on the air.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
First of all, how do you put a price on friendship?
Second of all, if you can't afford the wedding, don't
have a big wedding reception.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I should have set that up. I I should have
set that up. Let me play it again because it's
only seven seconds long. But what that was about was
a Jacqueline carl story about a bride that was upset
that people didn't show up for the reception, and she
believes they should be charged for their plate because they
(10:56):
didn't show up for the reception. And we had a
little conversation about it, and I said, I would never
stand for that. I probably wouldn't do anything about it,
but I would never stand for that, and I would
want to. I would want the money too. In my heart,
I would want the money, although I don't ever have
the guts of asking for it. So now that you
understand the story, let me play that again.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
First of all, how do you put a price on friendship.
Second of all, if you can't afford the wedding, don't
have a big wedding reception.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
First of all, if you're that good of a friend,
you would have shown up to the wedding. And do
you need a really good excuse?
Speaker 7 (11:32):
But the people do have excuses, and it's part of
the game. You know there's going to be a few
no shows. You build that into the budget. That's just
what happens when you have a big party, don't you think, Yeah,
I mean it.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Does, and most of them will send a gift. What's
the acceptable number of no shows wise?
Speaker 7 (11:52):
I mean, I guess if you have one hundred people,
maybe two?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Oh see, there you go. Hey, we don't know how
we were judging this poor woman. We have no shows.
Maybe there's something wrong with her.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Oh shotspire don't love people have to say they're coming, Yeah,
they are svp'ed. Yes, And some people didn't show. But
someone the mother was sick and the boyfriend couldn't make
it and blah blah blah blah blah. But you know,
I just feel like you send a gift.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Excuses, excuses, excuses.
Speaker 9 (12:24):
I am incredibly happy that I live in Newfolk County
born and raised in Brooklyn. I don't even go back
to look at anything. I avoid going into the Five
Burrows with every fiber of my being. I am happy
to be out of the Burrows. It's insane there. Thank God,
(12:49):
I'm out.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I would fight back with him, but he scares me
a little bit.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Man.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Don't be a no show to his party.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Yeah, that's right. We've that kiimail, by the way. That
came up because we were talking about the barrel. I
know it's just you. He would scare small children with
that voice. That's really good, though. I mean unless he
was putting it on. Maybe he was putting it on
just to scare the heck out of there. Still, I
don't want to go to his house for Halloween. He
just a T shirt.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Curtis wins. He won't be my mayor, but we need
a mayor for New York. I'm upstate New York. You
need someone that's actually gonna work with Donald Trump and
not tie his hands behind his back. We need to
get rid of all the criminal elements. When I was
growing up in Queen's three strikes, you were out, you
caught ninety days, that was it. These people have twenty
(13:40):
seven strikes and they're still out on the freaking street.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Huh. I didn't get Is he gonna vote for Curtis Leabor?
He's not. He's upstate. I know that, But does he
support Curtis Leaway or not? I couldn't get it from that.
I couldn't get it from the message. Oh well, I
know a lot of people are supporting Kurt Slee when
I'm so glad he came on the show today and
I look forward to having him back. Now, let's talk
(14:04):
about Joey Chestnuts. He'll be back at the hot dog
eating contest on July fourth on Coney Island after being
banned last year because he was supporting some other company
and some of their meatless hot dogs. How dare he?
But now he's back and he's going to win, probably easy,
(14:24):
because he still has the world record of seventy six
seventy six hot dogs eaten in ten minutes, and that's
back in twenty twenty one. You want to hear a
couple of the oddest ones, the ones that people enter.
How about the West Virginia Roadkill cookoff? What they cook roadkill?
(14:48):
And then you have a contest to see how much
you can eat of it now. So these are like
squirrels found on the side of the road. They have
deer sausages, they have possum stew, and I're gonna get
winners buried. I don't know where the winters are buried.
That's a really that's an interesting question. Or the Rocky
Mountain oyster fry. No, you know what Rocky Mountain oysters are?
(15:09):
No anybody?
Speaker 7 (15:11):
No, No, they sound good though they're are bulls testicles.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Oh no, yeah, get that. So, but that's a big contest.
There's people that win that contest every year, and you
could win some tickets right now. Well, it's grot great
to hear from Joe Bartlett again, the former wo R
news director now enjoying retirement in South Carolina. How's it going, Joe.
Speaker 10 (15:32):
Oh, this is my busy day tuesdays, this is my
appointment day. We actually have some appliance guys doing work
in a kitchen this morning, so I've asked them to
be quiet.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Wow, you are You are a busy, busy man. That's
a that's a rough life that you have going on there.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
So what do you want to talk about?
Speaker 10 (15:51):
Well, well, I got to talk about Trump for just
a second. All right, I don't want to get bogged down,
because it's just I'm going to end up like Terry Moran,
lose my job.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
What time you have to lose? Well, that's true. Okay.
By the way, I've seen him on some podcasts. He's
gone full lunatic. Now. He's been holding this in for
a long time. You should hear him. He's I have
to play some of that tomorrow. Go ahead. What do
you need to say about Trump?
Speaker 10 (16:15):
Well, Trump can do it to you, I can tell you.
But anyway I look at I don't I don't like
his use of the military in Los Angeles. I remember
when I went to Russia back in the nineties and
I saw the military everywhere in Russia, and it really
gave me pause because as an American, we weren't used
to seeing the military on the streets. You know, they
were there, they kept us safe, but they weren't part
(16:38):
of everyday life. And then, of course we had nine
to eleven in the military became more of a visual
from time to time. But I don't think you know,
out of control protesters are a threat to the country
that requires the mobilization.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Of the military.
Speaker 10 (16:54):
That's I mean that's where I am.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
How do you believe he used the National Guard.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
To control the violence, the sporadic violence. I mean, there's
a lot of peaceful protesting going on. They're all not
car burning and looting. So I don't think the National
Guard was necessary to do that.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
But they weren't involved in that. They weren't involved in
that at all. All they did was protect the federal building.
They stood there and protected the Federal building. It's the visuals,
the visuals. It's not good, not good that you know there.
We have military people that are stand off or are
involved in.
Speaker 10 (17:32):
Any sort of peaceful protests or even the violent was
We have police officers who can do that. They have
good police officers in Los Angeles and so anyway, that's
just ya, that's just how I.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Ten police officers were hurt. They could have probably used
the National Guard, and two of them very seriously, Hey,
do you want a couple of talkbacks there were you? Okay,
a message for Joe Bartlett.
Speaker 11 (17:54):
Hey, Joe, hope you're enjoying retirement.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
But remember one thing Trump.
Speaker 11 (18:00):
With Trump, he's way better than Kamalah.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well, i'm'll give you that. That's truck No argument with that.
Speaker 10 (18:10):
They have no argument with that. And here's the thing.
I mean, the bottom line with Trump is a lot
of people kind of like what he's doing. They just
don't like he's doing it.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah, I think that there was a some big, huge
misconceptions of how he used the National Guard. That's why
I wanted to point that out. Here's another one.
Speaker 12 (18:28):
I want to know what Joe thinks about the recent
reporting the Pentagon and other government agencies have engaged in
activities that contributed to the public belief in UFOs and
associated conspiracy theories, primarily as a means to mask classified
weapons programs.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
What do you say, Joe, what do you think about that?
What they you know what?
Speaker 10 (18:49):
We may have weapons programs that they don't want to
let people know about. I can't understand that, and they
could use the UFO story to hide that. But that
report also said that there are like four hundred billion
stars in the Milky Way and four hundred billion stars
out there. There has to be life other than what
(19:11):
we have here on Earth. By the way, my file
in law was a pilot in the Air Force way
back then. He encountered an unexplained aircraft around him and
he said, definitely looked like a UFO followed them, you know,
the whole what you hear in these stories. Well, when
he landed, he got called into the office and was debriefed,
and somehow it was all explained away, but in his
(19:33):
mind it was an alien aircraft.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, we know where this all comes from. Yeah, yeah,
there are some things that his dad, Yeah, there are
some things that I know that are unexplained. But they're
talking about their caller talked about Joseph Guteims, who is
a former NASA official who investigated this, and you're right,
he said, there are definitely the chances are that are
(20:00):
a life on other planets. He just doesn't believe they
ever made it here. That's that's what he says, and
he says most of the time. And he knew what
he said for a fact that many of the times
that UFOs were reported they were actually aircraft's, either ours
or China's or Russias. That they would rather go with
the UFO story than go with this story.
Speaker 10 (20:18):
Well, I understand that.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, but look at we are.
Speaker 10 (20:21):
We are not the most intelligent a thing in the universe.
I would would you agree with that?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Yeah, what chances are or not yep, No, I agree
with you. And so you're saying that somebody may have
the technology to uh to defeat time and distance and
and make it sure. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Have you
ever seen any.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
No?
Speaker 7 (20:44):
No, but I believe, like I said, now, we know
why you know that story from his dad. It's probably
stuck in him all these years. You know, why would
his dad make a story up like that.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Oh, I don't think he's made up the story. No,
I don't think anybody made up the story. I think
all the people that believe they saw something actually did
see something that they couldn't explain, and they go to
this as an explanation. I just don't think it's always
the explanation that we should go first's.
Speaker 10 (21:16):
But by the way, it was Jean's dad, not min Bad.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Oh then he's a nut. No no, no, no, no, no,
I'm teasing. I don't mean that at all. Hey, have
you been following it all? This may eoral race?
Speaker 10 (21:33):
Yeah. I was listening to Curtis this morning. Pretty interesting.
I thought that this was a deal that Cuomo could
win because of the name recognition. But the theory that
Curtis put out this morning makes sense to me. That
you're going to get a big, jumbled general election, and
(21:53):
he he could get that thirty percent that's needed.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I agree he's been saying that now. I thought it
was just an interesting theory before, but now as you
look at the numbers, he's absolutely correct. They could all
just be eating their own they could all be attacking
each other, and the last man standing is going to
be Curtis Sliwa, because they're probably not going to go
after him until it's too late. In the whole thing,
(22:19):
I just thought that you would be, you know, because
you've changed so much since you went down to South Carolina.
I thought you were a zorin mom. Donnie Guy, No, No,
I'm not that far going. Larry, all right, Joe, look
forward to talking to you again. Enjoy retirement. Can't wait
to talk to you again. I'll see you later. I
(22:39):
just love talking to him, even though we disagree sometimes.
I just really enjoy talking to him when we come back.
Former Senator Bob Menendez, once a power player in DC,
is now headed to prison eleven years for bribes, gold
bars and corruption. Natalie Migliori gets the Beat on the
Street next, and the iHeartRadio Music Festival is back September
(23:02):
nineteenth and twentieth in Las Vegas, two Big Nights, One
Big Stage, live performances by Brian Adams, John Fogerty, Sammy Hagar,
Ed Sheeran, Maroon Five and more. Now's your chance to
buy tickets at AXS dot com. That's AXS dot com.
Get them now before they sell out.
Speaker 13 (23:23):
Now it's seventen w oars Beat on the Street with
Natalie Migliore.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Well, gold bar, Bob will now be behind bars. Senator
Menendez has to report to prison today and that is
the topic of Natalie Migliore's Beat on the Street.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Natalie, Yeah, good morning, Larry. You know when you say
gold bar Bob and I hear it rather than me
saying it, I'm wondering are those bars gonna be gold
that he's behind now? Former New Jersey Senator Bob and
Ndez is reporting to prison in his federal corruption in
(24:03):
case today after a weekend of partying at his stepdaughter's
wedding in Massachusetts. Will now serve an eleven year sentence
at a federal facility in Pennsylvania at seventy one years old.
One of Menendez's attorneys has called this a life and
death sentence. People, though, feel no sorrow for the convicted politician.
Speaker 13 (24:24):
You got to go to the big house. Judge says,
you gotta go, you gotta go. Ah, Lisa, do you
do the crime, You gotta do the time.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
It's simple as that. Lewis time like everybody else. Do
what is it? Do your crime to your time.
Speaker 12 (24:34):
I haven't examined the case, and I am not sure
if the charges are substitutive.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
But if he had a bunch of gold bars in
his possession, that's an interesting way to get paid in
gold bars.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
It seems kind of nefarious. And his wife was also involved.
Speaker 13 (24:46):
Yeah, and the wife's in bat shape too.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
The former senator's wife, Nadine, is scheduled to be sentenced
in September. Now, Bob Menendez has tried to be pardoned,
both by former President Joe Biden and President Trump. So
do people think the Republican would or should do it?
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (25:07):
Has Trump pardoned everybody from January sixth?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Come on?
Speaker 11 (25:10):
No, he took money from people in the Middle East?
Speaker 13 (25:13):
Now, oh no, that's not going to happen though, No,
of course that's not going to happen. No, no, no,
I mean what reason would it be you know what
I'm saying. Or does he owe him a favor? If
he owes him a favor, yes, if he doesn't owe
him a favor, No, it doesn't work like that.
Speaker 11 (25:25):
I don't think that Colination should be in the business
of getting people that have convicted out of prison.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I don't think he should be in the business of
doing that. I don't think he should get bodon. Criminals
are not supposed to get Boden.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
You know you'll pay for what you do, well, Larry,
He'll be paying in more ways than one. The New
Jersey Globe has actually a great article about the senator's accommodations.
He'll be at a medium security facility with the ability
to make outgoing calls and send and receive emails, but
(25:58):
those emails will not be connected to internet access. The
article says, we need about twelve hundred dollars a month
for his commissary fund, which is money that allows him
to buy toiletries, casual clothing, and alternate food options. I've
never heard of that in prison. It's kind of like rent.
Speaker 13 (26:17):
I'm surprised they would allow it, yes, but uh, I'm
not surprise that that attempt is there.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
I ain't know that the prison do that real so
new to me.
Speaker 12 (26:25):
I think he should pay rents to say in prison,
but you shouldn't be getting all the offensive stuff that's
he wants.
Speaker 11 (26:32):
He shouldn't be allowed to do any of that. You're incarcerated.
You don't get luxuries in jail. It's not the hotel.
Speaker 13 (26:38):
My tax dollar is like, well, his farm's going to
be with the guys in the big house. Though, if
he did anything wrong to them, he's gonna have now
he got to see them because they're all in jail,
or his old friends.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
There you go, and as Menendez relentlessly tries to appeal
his conviction, still people say they're no longer surprised by
what politicians do.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
Maybe it would have shocked me before the president became president,
but now there's nothing shocks me.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
It just sucks. It sucks that we have people like
that representing us.
Speaker 13 (27:09):
Most Volata is a crooked No, it was easy. He's
on old time. He's been around a long time. He
just didn't think it was coming back to haunt them.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Though.
Speaker 13 (27:17):
You know what I'm saying, Today's United States, you can't
do nothing. Though people talk too much.
Speaker 11 (27:20):
We need a reset. This country needs a reset. People
need to remember what we were founded on and they
need to take care of our country before we worry
about anybody else.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Well, now, Senator Menendez at least at this point, has
eleven years to think about it.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Larry, Yeah, eleven years in their federal charges. You don't
get a lot off on federal charges. He might have
to spend the entire eleven years in prison. It's amazing.
I've covered him and talked to him before. It's just
it's amazing when somebody that you've seen and you've covered,
when this happens to nobody had any idea. Thanks so much, Natalie.
(27:59):
W'll be back back tomorrow morning. At eight fifty, two
hundred and fifty years ago, doctor Joseph Warren died a
hero at Bunker Hill, but history forgot him. Now, a
new Off Broadway play brings him back to life. Playwright
Robert Blecker joins us after the nine o'clock
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.