Hour 3: Charges Dropped For Newark Mayor Ras Baraka

Charges Dropped For Newark Mayor Ras Baraka.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, a whole lot going on today. Thank you for
being with us this morning, and the Big Three. The
charges against Newark Mayor ros Baraka for trespassing at a
Newark ice facility have been dropped. I think that was
the right thing to do for I'm going to drop
the charges. Obviously we agreed to move forward, but ultimately
I didn't do anything wrong. There was no charges that

(00:21):
should be brought against me in the first place. They
were dropped by Alina Habba, the US Attorney for New Jersey,
and she's also reached. I said, if you want to
have a tour of the facility, I'll give you one personally.
So it seems like all is well in Newark. Except
charge today is Newark Congresswoman la Monica mcgiver from she

(00:46):
replaced Donald Payne in Congress, for assaulting a federal officer
in the melee at that ice facility. So stay tuned
for fireworks. The Jersey Transit trains are running again today
after a three day strike and then yesterday's day off.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
My entire objective is to make sure they get back
to work, and so do all the other union members,
so we can get our customers moving safely and efficiency, a.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Gap, and that happened today. So far everything's been running
on time, everything's back to normal. It was a three
day strike with then the day to get the tracks
ready ready, and now it's like nothing happened. The investigation
continues into the tall ship that crashed into the Brooklyn
Bridge over the weekend. It was supposed to be going
out to see nowhere near the bridge. What appears to

(01:40):
have happened is instead of the engine going.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Forward, it went in reverse or stern and that could.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Be a result of a mechanical issue, it could be
human error.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
We just don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
The NTSB is still investigating, and after over a two
hour phone call with Russian President Putin, Donald Trump wants
to take the Pope up on his offer and have
peace talks at the Vatican.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
Having it at the Vatican would be in Rome, would
be a very I think it'd be a great idea.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
In the meantime, JD. Vance delivers an invitation to Pope
Leo to visit the White House. And now let's get
to Joe Burrelli, Managing director of Chartwell Strategy Group and
former Minority leader of the New York City Council and
the New star of CNN, Joe, I've enjoyed you sitting
in for Scott Jennings.

Speaker 6 (02:34):
Well, well, last night I was lucky I was actually
on with him. But you know the problem is when
you're when you're on with him, I always feel like,
you know, the the nineteen ninety five Chicago Bulls, like
as though if Horace Grant was trying to steal the
ball away from Michael Jordan. Sometimes you just got to
sit back and let him going to.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
I'm a huge fan of his. Maybe you can get
that seat. I watched you when you were actually filling
in for him. Maybe you can get that seat when
he when he moves on, because he is like the
conservative Bruce Lee, with all these liberals coming at him
from every direction and he and he seems to take
them on flawlessly. He's fun to watch. You were great, though,
you were really good.

Speaker 6 (03:16):
He he's very fun to watch. And the key with
him is that people stop talking over each other when
he starts speaking. And that's that's a real skill that
he has. And he knows how to just you know,
insert that that that that little jab or that little
question or that little supposition at the right moment to
just sort of make the lefties look a little silly

(03:37):
on their own program.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah, it's amazing that he gets I don't want to
make the whole thing about Scott Jennings, but it's amazing
that they keep trying to interrupt them. They can't. He's
like a machine. He just keeps going unless they say
something he wants to respond to, and then they're in trouble.

Speaker 6 (03:54):
Look, he knows his seat. He's very prepared. So before
you know, every segment, every block of TV, he is
scribbling notes. He's you know, on his phone, googling, looking
up information, looking up facts. So he brings his a
game every single night. And I think that's why he
makes the big CNN bucks and why I just basically
get my taxi fair paper.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
You were really good. That's a tough seat to fail,
and you were really good. So kudos to you. I
hope to see on CNN more.

Speaker 7 (04:21):
Let's well, it's funny.

Speaker 6 (04:23):
Last night I was on with the guy we're going.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
To talk about with Ross Baraka.

Speaker 6 (04:28):
Yes, he was there last night. He was there last
night talking about Congresswoman Mackaiver's impending arrest in his own dismissal.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
So what did you think of what he said last night.

Speaker 6 (04:39):
Look, I mean, in fairness, I didn't know what to expect.
I'd never met him before and we had some times
to chat, and fairness, I actually kind of liked the
guy a bit. But I did call it what it was.
It was a stunt, right, it's a stunt. The mayor
of Newark doesn't have the right to just barge into
an ICE facility and demand to see detainees. Now, congress

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member have some lot of a right enshrined in law,
but you can't still go break down the defence and
wrestle with with ICE agents. And if you watch the video,
you can clearly see Congresswoman Makaiver throwing some elbows, throwing
some you know, it looked like she was doing some
of the WWE moves with with the flying flying elbow
coming down on one of the guy's heads. You can't

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do that, so I actually, you know, look, the evidence
didn't support any criminal charge against you know, Mayor Baraka.
I mean, it just didn't. It just you don't. I
have no reason to doubt that Lena Haba didn't want
to criminally charge him, but the evidence there just wasn't there.
But unlike him, the congresswoman. That video is pretty damning,

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and I think actually Scott Jennings asked the right question
last night, as always, if a normal person did that
to a police officer, would they be charged, And we
all know the answer is yes. The answer is yes,
because you can't just assault the police officer, unless, of course,
you're it's an NYP and it's a protest in Manhattan,
then you're actually open open season.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
The bizarre part about this story is that Alina Haba
says she and her office reached out that the congresswoman
in her office and tried to discuss this and work
out something, and she mcgiver wouldn't take the phone call.
It sounds like and she wanted this.

Speaker 6 (06:22):
That's consistent. That's consistent with with what Mayor Baraka said.
He said, Look, they ended up giving us a tour.
We talked about it. I was able to inspect the facility,
and in fairness, he was not I wouldn't say magnanimous,
but he was respectful of the office of the US
Attorney of New Jersey, which again I didn't expect. And

(06:44):
that's sort of what Scott and I were trying to say,
Like there was a compromise to be had. You know,
the Trump administration can't bar members of Congress going into
is attegic facilities as long as they do it through
the proper channels. Nobody was trying to do that. But look,
I was in politics and elective office for over a decade.
I know a good political stunt when I see it.

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I did them many times. That was a political stunt
to try to get arrested, try to get ruffed up.
And when you play stupid games, sometimes you win stupid prizes.
And in this case, Mayor I'm sorry, Congress wool In
McIvor is going to be a little bit indicted by
the way. You would think somebody with the last name
mcgiver would be a little bit more commuated getting into

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an ice detention facility. That was my joke for people
over the ages.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
You hit the right audience. You absolutely hit the right audience. Hey,
you know I said earlier. This really does play to
all their brands. Alena Habba wins in this. Mcgiver wins
in this. She gets to go up against Donald Trump
and the man, and Ross Baraka does well in this.
Because a lot of people in New Jersey had no
idea who he was he's running for governor. Now everybody

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knows who he was, who he is.

Speaker 6 (07:55):
Yeah, and we talked about that a little bit. Offset
that he talked about out how you know, a lot
of young people suddenly found his campaign and the campaigns
of Mickey Cheryl are just you know, is the plane
leaving the hangar there? I don't know. I mean, maybe
there is room on the Democratic side for a governor
of Baraka. I mean, to'd be interesting to see. Like
I said, I won't say things privately to him that

(08:17):
I wouldn't say publicly. And I found him very pleasant
and very nice to deal with him, and I genuinely
wished him walk in the primary. Now that said, with
his political views, I'm not sure it's the right move
for New Jersey to vote for him just because I
thought he was a nice guy for a few minutes.
But you're absolutely right. This played right into his hands
going into you know whatever it is three weeks before

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the Democratic primary in New Jersey. This was a great
opportunity to put some momentum behind his camping.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
No, absolutely, I wouldn't be surprised if he wins the primary.
Now because it's so close but let's get to your
favorite person. I think soor in Mom Donnie. He is
now asking supporters to donate to someone else, to speaker Adams.
What is what is that all about? What's the strategy there?

Speaker 6 (09:02):
Well, he's smart, I mean you can't say that Zora
Mamdani's not smart. And all he did was read the
rule book of how to run in a ranked choice race,
and he's figuring out that the more money his opponents,
who hate Andrew Cuomo more than they hate him, the
more money they have to spend in matching funds, the
better of a job they'll do bashing Andrew Cuomo. That's
just the reality of how ranked choice voting plays out.

(09:25):
And that's why, you know, many people think it's kind
of a stupid plan to begin with. But he's under
the correct assumption that Adrian Adams would probably you know,
maybe at this point she's realizing is not really a path.
Maybe she has a backroom deal with him, maybe the
sort of open deal that they've all been saying is
like rank anyone but Andrew Clomo. Maybe this is a
function of that where she basically said, look, I'm not

(09:48):
getting any momentum if you get me some matching funds.
I'll use it towards bashing Andrew Clomo. That's what I
think is happening. And frankly, Mom, Donnie's kind of smart
to play that ant.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Joe BURRELLI, star of CNN, managing director Chartwell Strategy Group,
and former Minority leader of the New York City Council.
Thanks a lot, Joe. Hey, when you become a bigger star,
don't stiff us.

Speaker 6 (10:10):
Okay, oh, I won't thank you very much.

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Speaker 3 (10:49):
Good morning. I just want to start off saying I'm
very sorry to hear about President Biden. That is awful
and I pray for his recovery, and I hope he
is okay. But at the same token, I also would
like to say I'm very grateful that Donald J.

Speaker 8 (11:04):
Trump is our president. Thank god we have him in
that White House and not Kamala Harris, because God only
knows we would never survive another four years.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Thanks. That's a great talk back, and we have the
next one on. Remember when we talked about not hitting
the snooze alarm, and one of the things is go
into the light. That's one of the ways you can
prevent it. Well, she clears that up. She clears up
what that meant to go into the light. It's not
like outa poulder, guys, It's not going into the other world.

(11:36):
It's something else.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Good morning, Larry, Natalie, and Jacqueline.

Speaker 9 (11:40):
The reference to getting in the light actually doesn't mean
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Speaker 8 (11:48):
Light sunlight to help.

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By bye.

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Wow was she a doctor?

Speaker 10 (11:58):
Would be fantastic if the light was up when I
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Speaker 1 (12:02):
But well, here's the other Oh, that's true.

Speaker 10 (12:04):
So many of us to wake up at five o'clock
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Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah, I try. I'm two thirty. I wake up at
two thirty in the morning. But that's it. That's fascinating.

Speaker 7 (12:15):
That makes sense.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
It does make sense. But forget all the sarcidian rhythms
and stuff like that. You're up out of bed at
that point, you know, So that's it. You're not going
back to hit this news alarm.

Speaker 11 (12:27):
When the charges of P Diddy first came about, everybody
was talking about all the stars who were in trouble,
all the people who attended his his P Diddy parties,
whatever the name was. And now look, P Diddy may
even get off.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
I like that, the P Diddy parties, Yeah right, the
freak offs. And Jeffrey Lickman thinks he's gonna get off too.
He thinks that considering the charges they brought against him,
they don't fit for what he did. He might get
charged locally after this, but Jeffrey Lickman, who I know
is a great defense attorney, says he doesn't think he's

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going to be convicted.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
Good morning, Larry, it's Billy. You know I hear and
I see what's coming. You could hear it.

Speaker 11 (13:15):
The new phrase is let's move forward, let's move forward
and the books and everything else.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Listen, this is designed so that we forget it.

Speaker 6 (13:24):
Every time we forget it and move forward, they do
it again.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
This time we cannot forget it. People got to pay
not shit. Thanks for the talkback. I forgot to mention
that that I had written down is something I wanted
to talk about. You were absolutely right. Every Democrat that
was talking about the prostate cancer and hiding the mental
decline in the last twenty four hours has been using

(13:50):
that phrase. We have to move forward. We can't look back.
You never can look back. When it hurts you politically,
that's when you want to move forward. If it doesn't,
if it helps you politically, you want to look back.
But he's absolutely right. Democrat after democrat after democrat on
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Speaker 12 (15:18):
Good Morning.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
New Jersey transit trains are back in operation today after
an engineer's strike, and Jay Transit Cruz spent yesterday on
track and safety inspections. And New York Governor Kathy Hockel
is reacting after President Trump announced construction will continue on
the offshore wind farm Empire Wind One.

Speaker 13 (15:37):
The governor says she knew the critical project off the
shore of Long Island that will create thousands of jobs
and power hundreds of thousands of homes. Needed to move forward.
After the Trump administration issue a stop work order on
April sixteenth, Hochel says the Department of Interiors order has
been lifted after countless conversations with White House officials. She

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thanked the President for working with her to say fifteen
hundred good paying union jobs, adding New York's future is
powered by good, clean energy. Natalie Migliori wour.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
News, So this is interesting.

Speaker 4 (16:10):
According to KTLA this barber lounge, Styles Barber Lounge in
La has had an issue with the local homeless population
setting up outside its stores like encampments and stuff. So
the CEO and founder tried contacting police the city for help,
and he eventually had to take matters into his own hands.

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But when beeping security cameras and polite requests weren't working,
Styles got creative and whipped out the ultimate weapon, Baby
Shark and that light goes on and on now. Style
says that children's song makes everyone move and could just

(16:55):
be annoying enough to get the attention of the local
news media and the city, which means action might finally
be taken. Would that song make you scram if you
were loitering?

Speaker 6 (17:05):
You know?

Speaker 10 (17:05):
It's so funny because we just had Joe Bartlett on
and that was one of his favorite songs. He used
to hummit all the time when it first came out. Yeah,
he would sing it in the newsroom. Really absolutely.

Speaker 4 (17:17):
I didn't know what when I read this story, I
was like what I had to go, like find out
what this song was?

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Whoa and it is?

Speaker 14 (17:26):
It's quite.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
You know why kids love this song because it annoys
their parents, right, That's the only reason they get a
kick out of it. They I used to have kids
in the back seat singing that song all the time.
They get a kick out of annoying the parents because
they laugh and they giggle and so. But that was brilliant,
by the way of that barber. That's that's absolutely glance.

(17:52):
Oh yeah, look at all the attention we're talking about
them in New York. I know, thanks a lot, Jacqueline
carl the Sean. The Colms trial begins a week from now,
begins a new week with new evidence and lots of
graphic photographs. Peter Haralambus was in the courtroom and has
the latest next.

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Speaker 1 (18:26):
Welcome back. Doesn't it seem like the interest in the
Sean Diddy Combs trial has waned since Cassie was on
the stand. I mean, that got so much attention. Everybody
was talking about it every single day. And now people
are still interested in the trial, but not like when
Cassie was on the stand face to face with the
person that she says abused her. But there are still

(18:49):
some very important things going on, and that's why we
have Peter Hiralambus, who has been covering the trial for
ABC News. He is an investigative reporter based here right
here in New York. Peter, thanks thanks for being here
today as always. Could you tell us what's happened so
far since Cassie's left the stand.

Speaker 7 (19:11):
Yeah, of course. So at this point, prosecutors are trying
to kind of corroborate that testimony, and they're calling a
bunch of witnesses. The jurors heard from Don Rochard, a
former member of Dan day Kine. They heard from Ventura's
former best friend Carrie Morgan yesterday, and they're beginning to
hear from Combs's former assistant. All of this testimony as
a whole appears to be kind of corroborating that testimony,

(19:33):
but in a way, kind of the news from yesterday
somehow came back to that Cassie Ventura testimony. Yesterday we
saw the evidence that was used during the course of
that direct examination by the government. Really the first time
we're seeing this publicly. We're seeing the photos of the
injuries that Ventura suffered, bruises and gashes all over her body,
the effort she went to conceal those with makeup and

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wearing long dresses for Red Carperate premieres, and some of
the things that were found from Comb's hotel room when
he was arrested, including drugs, baby oil, and nine thousand
dollars in cash.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
Now, how is that all of that, what you just
put together is significant aside from the cooperating evidence, and
I get that. And aside from the cooperating testimony, and
I get that. What are they going after here with
some of the items that they presented.

Speaker 7 (20:22):
Yeah, I think when it comes to the testimony, I
think this actually goes to this whole idea of a
criminal enterprise, especially this witness who were going to see
today Combs's former assistant, David James. This is someone who
can kind of go to this idea that there was
a criminal enterprise here, that Combs was paying for people
to support his activities. I guess in terms of that evidence,
it's kind of vital, especially if you have a jury

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that could be skeptical of victim testimony. So the jurors
are seeing kind of two sides of inter They're seeing
the private side of Interro, where you know, she is
suffering from this alleged abuse. They're seeing the bruises, the
gashes all over her body, and then they're also seeing
red carpet photos. These things they're more used to seeing of
people like comes and you can kind of see and

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prosecutors highlighted this during their direct examination, the injuries that
she suffered and the photo she took of those injuries,
and then what she had to do to cover them
up on the red carpet, covering black eyes with makeup,
covering bruises with long dresses. I think that in particular
is particularly compelling because we select to think of these
celebrities usually in the context. We see them most often,

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those red carpets, those paparazzi shots. I think they're doing
a rather effective job of showing, I guess how she
was able to kind of live such a hot, public
and high profile life while still allegedly and during all
of this abuse.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
It's fascinating and it's interesting how the prosecution has to
handle this. They actually have a difficult job because there's
been sensational testimony that has nothing to do with the
charges against her, nothing to do with the federal charges,
and they have to keep trying to bring this jury
back to the charges and what's important. Have they been
effective in that?

Speaker 7 (21:59):
I think today will be an interesting test of that question, because,
you know, the last two witnesses we heard from, you know,
Ventura's best friend and this former member of Danity Kane.
You know, defense attorneys were relatively effective on a cross examination,
kind of going at their credibility, highlighting how, for example,
Venture's best friend received a thirty thousand dollars payment for

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her silence, and how the member of Dandy Kane was
angry at Combs for kind of rooting part of her
career by breaking up these groups she was a part
of so in a way, you know, they're suffering some
setbacks on a cross examination. You can see it on
some of the jurors faces as they land some of
these blows. At one point, a few of these jurors
were kind of cross shaking their heads at one of

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these witnesses after they highlighted an inconsistency in that testimony.
But overall, I think, you know, while we're sensation, while
certain parts of this testimony are sensationalized, right whenever a
celebrity comes up, who perhaps witness may be part of
this or was that a dinner where Combs was, you know,
that doesn't actually matter much to the actual case when
it comes to proving a criminal enterprise. In order to

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actually convict on that racketeering charge, what they really need
to show is the nitty gritty of all these people
who were working for Combs, who allegedly supported his criminal activities.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
Right, So I guess what I'm asking is there, does
the prosecution think that, and I'm surprised by the way
some of the testimony was allowed, is the does the
prosecution think that if they throw out this sensational testimony
and make him look like a really bad guy, the
jury is going to want to convict him on something,

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even if it doesn't match up to the charges.

Speaker 7 (23:35):
I think they want to hire yes. I mean at
the end of the day, at this point, they're highlighting
all the stuff in venturist testimony, kind of painting him
as a pretty bad guy, and this is something the
defense there's really no response to. They acknowledge that Combs
did illegal things, that he you know, committed domestic abuse,
and I think they're hoping that a combination of that
and all this other testimony of a broader enterprise will

(23:58):
be enough to convict I think the defense strategy, though,
is acknowledging all the flaws in Combs' character, acknowledging that
he is not a perfect guy, that he's committed all
of these bad things, and hoping that they can poke
enough holes in this idea of a criminal enterprise to
acquit even if that means this jury, you know, doesn't
necessarily sign off Combs's conduct. I think he's a good guy.

(24:20):
Just got to get them to be convinced that this
perhaps isn't a racketeering case or sex trafficking case. This
is just a person who's deeply flawed and has other problems,
but perhaps shouldn't be in court for racketeering.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Are you surprised that some of this testimony was allowed
in considering it doesn't lend itself sometimes to the charges
against him.

Speaker 7 (24:42):
I think it goes to this whole idea of prior
bad acts. So the prosecution has a way to bring
it in legally. But it is interesting to see kind
of what's able to come in even if the judge
limited after the fact. For example, during the testimony from
Don Rashard, that's the former member of Danity Kane, this
girl group that Combs founded, you know, she kind of
went into to allege instances of abuse that Ventura herself

(25:05):
never talked about on the witness stand. This kind of
prompted incessance objections from the defense team, and the judge
kind of agreed with them and in part at the
end of the day restricting part of her testimony. I
was a little surprised that that ruling came after the fact.
The jury already heard a lot of those allegations. It
doesn't do much good just to tell them after, you know,
to disregard certain things. At the end of the day.

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If the jury hears something, they hear something and they
can't just wipe it out of their memory, even if
the judge in strikes them after the fact.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
Absolutely, that's actually a win for the prosecution, the fact
that they were able to get that out there. That's
why I was asking if they've been striking any of
the testimony whatsoever. What's next?

Speaker 7 (25:42):
So today's going to be an interesting day. We're expecting
to hear from three people. The first is going to
be this former assistant of Combs. He's expected to talk
about arranging these hotel rooms to streak offs. That's not
necessarily the most interesting testimony, but it goes to this
idea of racketeering in a criminal enterprise. We're also expecting
to hear from Cassie Ventura's mother, who allegedly documented some

(26:04):
of this abuse. And then also a male escort who
went by the name to punish her then heror testified
about how he participated in a bunch of freak off
the juries. Can hear directly from him today.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Thank you so much, Peter Haralambu's ABC News investigative reporter
in New York. I'm sure we'll be talking to you
a lot about this trial, and I appreciate you being
here today.

Speaker 7 (26:24):
Thanks much for having me.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
He's so good. He really is good covering the trial.
But it is fascinating to me how this judge has
been allowing some of this testimony in that has nothing
to do, nothing to do whatsoever, again with the charges
against him. The charges against him are actually not that sensational.
It's really racketeering. It's running a syndicate and a criminal organization.

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That's what the charges are against him. All this stuff
about domestic abuse, all this stuff about the drugs and
how bad he is to people, that has nothing to
do with the trial. But it's fascinating this judge letting
a lot go. We've been talking today a lot about
a New York accent and if it's going away and
the fact that some people across the country don't even
like it. And that is the topic today. This will

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be fascinating on the streets with Natalie Migliori's Beat on
the Street.

Speaker 11 (27:18):
Now it's seventy wars Beat on the Street with Natalie Migliore.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Well, a new study shows that most of the people
across the country hate the New York accident. Another study
says it's going away and the New York accent is
the topic of Natalie Migliore's Beat on the Street Today, Natalie.

Speaker 9 (27:41):
Welcod, Morning Larry. If anybody knows me, they would know
that this really upsets me at the lifelong New Yorker. Uh,
maybe it's the way we walk or the teams we
root for, but it's most likely the way we talk
that has other states in a real it's dizzy. According

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to a survey from an AI voice platform called podcasts,
so sixty percent of Americans say they hate the New
York accent. Longtime residents and native New Yorkers say, what accent?

Speaker 15 (28:14):
I don't see no accent in New York.

Speaker 4 (28:16):
I mean everybody has their own accent, Like.

Speaker 16 (28:19):
I don't necessarily identify it, but I hear that we
do when people say, like the whole quarter thing and
the coffee thing. Apparently we say sandwich differently, so that's weird.

Speaker 15 (28:30):
I mean I love it.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
I think we stand out.

Speaker 15 (28:32):
So, you know, everywhere else we go, people are like,
oh my god, can you say this word again? Oh
can you say this word whereas they would use in
their state or whatever. And then they're like, oh my god,
I love your accents. So for us, we gotta love it,
you know?

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Is it weird? Different?

Speaker 15 (28:48):
We stand out and people love us?

Speaker 7 (28:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (28:51):
What are we a circus act? We come out, we're
giving you our accent, and then and then you just
say you hate it. I don't understand. I may love
his New York accent, I may love my New York accent,
but the same survey claims forty five percent of New
Yorkers think the New York accent is annoying as well.
That's that wing to a lot of people, even me,

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that is.

Speaker 16 (29:14):
What they feel. I can't really say much. I love
my accent. I can't even complain, like I think I
talk pretty normal, but I like it. I think it's
sounds nice. I love it. It's just so unique.

Speaker 15 (29:25):
Nah, I think it's just people that don't really get
with the culture. You feel mean. Yeah, I think it's
just people that are oyeside of the culture that you
feel left out.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
I feel that's what it is. I'm the herd of Manhattan.

Speaker 14 (29:35):
I am Manhattan, I am Brooklyn, I am Queens, I
am Stton Allen, I am the Bronx.

Speaker 9 (29:41):
He is everything. Maybe he is everywhere, but let's hear
from some New York transplants about our lovely accent.

Speaker 14 (29:50):
I actually enjoy it quite a bit. Some of the inflections.
It's just really funny. And then I feel like a
lot of people are either Italian or Irish, and I
feel like ess are also an entire added element to it.
I'm from the South, so I'm also used to like
slow drawn out and it's really fast, so I enjoy
that quite a bit.

Speaker 5 (30:11):
I never developed it. I'm from Chicago and I had
a Chicago accent, but never got the New York accent.
But I think it's part of our culture here. I
rather think it's entertaining.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
It's nice.

Speaker 9 (30:21):
I like it again with this sir. It's entertaining.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
It's nice.

Speaker 9 (30:26):
But I think they want to say, Larry. I think
they thought I might kick them out if they said
anything negative about the New York accent. But either way,
the same survey from podcastle says respondents are get this,
two hundred and fifty six percent more likely to trust
somebody with a Southern accent over someone who sounds like

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they're from New York. So what's up with that?

Speaker 5 (30:50):
Probably because of the moral fiber of this nation being
founded on Christianity.

Speaker 15 (30:56):
I mean, I love my Southern people. But I mean,
I don't know. We got some really good New Yorkers
out here, you know.

Speaker 16 (31:02):
I mean I believe it because they're nicer. They just
say things nicer, so I.

Speaker 14 (31:07):
Feel like they seem more open. But I've always been
a firm believer that like New Yorkers are not nice,
but they're kind, and Southerners are nice but not kind.

Speaker 9 (31:18):
Yeah, so, Larry, I've heard that a lot New Yorkers
are kind but not nice, and Southerners are nice but
not kind, sort of like the opposite. Like we'll step
in and do something if we see something happening, but
Southerners will be like you okay, and then walk past
and let you be. But it sounds like some Americans
need to take a need to come to New York

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and see what we're really like, especially in our natural elements.
You know, maybe they don't see it, see the.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Habitat in real life.

Speaker 9 (31:54):
Yeah, ce Cochrey Jungle, come visit.

Speaker 4 (31:57):
I know.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
I've ever seen you this fired up.

Speaker 9 (32:03):
This is like a big this is my identity, the
way I talk, how I talk to my family, how
we talk on the radio. I just think that the
accent you can hear passion in someone's voice and well,
you're from New York. It's just it's just an awesome feeling.
And I love going places and being like, yeah, I'm
from New York. No one can say that, right, Who

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gets to say.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
That, Larry, I'm from New York.

Speaker 9 (32:27):
Yeah, I'm from New York.

Speaker 10 (32:28):
I'm sure they always know you're from New York.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Natalie, I love when she slips into it. It's usually
when she gets upset, she slips into the accent. She
gets away from the professional voice and she slips into
the accent like you just did for this report. Thank
you so much, Natalie Migliori. That was great. The Trump doctrine,
what is that exactly? Rich Lowry from National Review explains,

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