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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Molly tell you, I'm looking forward to the weekend. It's
going to be a gorgeous week and try to get
out there and enjoy it. In the Big Three today,
a lot going on today in the New York mayor's race.
I don't know if you read the New York Times,
but they have a story about Donald Trump getting involved
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in the fight to stop Zorin Mamdani from becoming mayor.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Whatever Donald Trump seeks to do to influence the outcome
of this election, I have more faith in New Yorkers themselves.
What they want is someone who can stand up to
an authoritarian administration and to the billionaires that gave us
that administration.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
The article says that Donald Trump has had phone calls
with Andrew Cuomo, and with Independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, and
with Independent candidate Eric Adams about consolidating and getting out
of the race. Everybody denies that happened, all three of them,
but they did have four sources on this. We're going
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to talk talk to political commentator Laura Kurrn, who's going
to be here at eight o five to talk about
this new twist in the mayoral race. President Trump has
told European leaders that he's going to meet with Russian
President Putin and hopefully Ukrainian President Voladimir Zelenski about a
ceasefire as early as next week.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
And we haven't determined where, but we had some very
good talks with President Putin today and there's a very
good chance that we could be ending these ending the round,
ending the end of that road.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Road was.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Long and continues to be long, but there's a good
chance that there will be a meeting very soon.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Attorney General Pam Bondi put out a list of sanctuary
cities and they include New York State, New York City, Newark,
New Jersey, Patterson, New Jersey, and Jersey City, New Jersey
in the entire state of Connecticut, and she is threatening
legal action for impeding ICE officers, which by the way,
is a crime.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Much rather have sanctuary policies that make their communities less safe.
It's not right, it's not what the American people voted for,
and it's not going to keep the American citizen safe.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
That is, ICE Director todd lyons well. Trump has done
it again. After threatening to put a twenty five percent
tariff on iPhones because they are manufactured overseas, Apple CEO
Tim Cook has decided to build iPhone factories across America.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
And I'm very proud to say that today we're committing
an additional one hundred billion to the United States, bringing
our total US investment to six hundred billion over the
next four years.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And I love this story. The pride of West mel Milford,
New Jersey and Hofstra University graduate Jen Powell. Let me
get the name right. Jen Powell will make Major League
Baseball history when she becomes the first woman Major League
Baseball umpire on Saturday.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Once I started umpiring, I was like, this is for
me and I can't explays in my DNA.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, she's been umpiring in the minor leagues for five
years and finally she's gotten called up to the big show.
Congratulations to Jen and Hamilton. The one of a kind
musical that reinvigorated Broadway celebrates its ten year anniversary with
its creator Lynn Manuel Miranda joining the cast. After the
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show was over, everybody involved with the show got up
on the stage. It was a huge moment and they
sang the perfect song to celebrate the occasion. Well, now
let's talk about the story of the day. Donald Trump
being involved in the mayoral race in more ways than
we knew. We're going to talk about that with Laura Curran,
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political commentator and former NASA County executive. She's with us
every Thursday at this time.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
Good morning, Laura, Hi, good morning. How are you, Larry.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It was I'm good. It was kind of a surprise.
I'm doing better, I think than Andrew Cuomo and Eric
Adams at this point, because I don't think they saw
this coming and didn't want this out. But The New
York Times quotes four different sources as saying that Donald
Trump behind the scenes has been making phone calls about
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possibly consolidating candidates to beat zorin Mom Donni and had
personal phone calls with Andrew Cuomo and with Eric Adams.
By the way, they're all denying this, but The New
York Times says they have several sources. I'm just going
to lay that out. If there, you tell me what
that means.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Well, when I first heard that, I was very skeptical
because I would think strategically it would be helpful for
Republicans to have Mom Donni as the mayor because then
for the midterms next year, they could tie all of
the Democrats running to a socialist New York City mayor.
And but maybe I'm being too cynical, maybe my eye
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is too jaded. And I also don't see Trump, and
maybe I'm not fully understanding him. I just don't see
him as a person who is really concerned about taking
a sort of moderate course and being helpful and being moderate,
Like that's sort of off brand for him, unless there's
something going on that I don't know. I mean the
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fact that The New York Times has four sources, and
you know that whatever people think about The New York Times,
they are ironclad when it comes to sources, and they're
not going to publish something that they don't think is
true or at least very well sourced. So I just
find this whole thing sort of puzzling, and I'd really
love to know what the truth is, because honestly, I
would think Mom Donny would be his pick just for
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political purposes, or Adams, because Eric Adams has proven to
be quite loyal and helpful and Adams kind of owes
him for pardoning him from all those corruption charges.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, it is interesting. They also have phone calls that
he made with Mark pen and with a former city
councilman that he's friendly with all these phone calls, they
had a whole lot of information. And let's play chess
with this for a second, because I think you're right.
I think the Republicans deep down once they're in Mom
Donnie to win nationally, not in the city, but nationally,
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they want him to win. So yeah, exactly, so they
can run against him. Who does this help the most?
And who does this hurt the most that this story
is out there that Donald Trump wants Andrew Cuomo.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
Yeah exactly, it could. It sort of smells a little
bit like mischief making because this actually hurts Cuomo and
it hurts Adams. And so maybe in the end it
helps mom Donnie. And he's not wasting any time in
making political hay out of this and scoring points on this.
This is like a slam dunk for him, and he's
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already had in the polls. So I don't know, Trump,
It's not popular with a lot of New York City voters.
I don't have to tell you that. And maybe this
is the way to muddy the waters in such a
way to really help my money, in a very chess
like three D chess.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Left way, because look what happened to Eric Adams as
soon as he was tied to Donald Trump. He has
no shots. He's in single digits in some of the
polls in running, and everybody says it's because he's tied
to Trump.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
Yeah, so maybe the initial thing we were talking about
is true. They want Mom Donnie to win and this
is just a three D chess kind of way to
get to make it happen.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah. So, Laura, how do you feel about Zora and
Mom Donnie.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
Well?
Speaker 7 (07:38):
I find him Obviously, I'm not a socialist, so that's
not my jam at all. The anti Semitism stuff is troubling.
I have to be honest about that. But also it's
unmistakable that he's a very talented politician.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Absolutely.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
I mean the way he's been able to communicate so
clearly that people know who he is, they know what
he stands for, They like him. He seems very approachable,
he seems very much of the people, and I think
he's going to be hard to beat. I mean, we
are seeing a newly energized Cuomo campaign, which I think
is good. He is all over the place, He's putting
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out really good content. So but he's you know, what
is it ten points behind right now? I know November.
But but it's you know, and this Trump stuff, now,
this is that's going to be such a distraction for
the Cuomo campaign and the Adams campaign. You know, they
have to get through all of this now. It's hard
enough without having to deal with this.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I don't know where this goes from here, but you're right,
this is a bomb that dropped in the middle of
this campaign. It's not just a one off story. This
is going to come up. I'm it's interesting that Cuomo
didn't come out in front of this. He put out
a statement. I don't think he wants his face on
camera right now until he figures out his hell he's
going to handle this. But it is a bombshell. But
I also agreez Mom, Donnie is really good. He's a
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great politician, and he tapped into something with affordability that
the rest of the Democratic Party is going to going
to follow. He just can't do anything he says he's
going to do. He just can't. It's it defies gravity.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
And you know the other interesting thing the polls that
Jewish voters say for him by quite a lot compared
to Cuomo.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I don't believe that poll I don't I don't buy
that poll for a second.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
May not it may not be true. I don't know,
but but mom, Donnie is certainly hanging out with a
lot of Jewish people, loves the people on his campaign,
so I think he sees this as a vulnerability and
he's going to work as hard as you can sit
to mitigate it as much as possible. And that you know,
who knows. It's one poll, but it'll be interesting to
see in the end who votes for whom.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah, it's a poll he's tied to, so I you know,
I'm discounting that one completely. Laura Kerrn, political commentator and
former NASA county executives. He's with us every Thursday at
eight oh five. We're gonna be talking about this a lot, Laura.
Oh yeah, all right, Larry, thanks a lot. Major glass
ceiling in Major League Baseball will be shattered on Saturday.
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Will explain, plus your shot at tickets to see the
who all coming up next. Always, thanks for being with
us and thanks for the talkbacks. You gotta get him
in now if you want to win talkback in the
morning and then be in the running for that Sea
Crane Radio for Talkback of the Week. Sea crane radio,
the radio that matters when you really need it. I
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mean when there's an emergency. It's a must have. You
have to have a good radio. Every home should have
one of these sea crane radios. So an hour ago
we played what has been an amazing talkback someone that
did a theme song for MENTI in the Morning.
Speaker 9 (10:45):
Larry's Big Three starts in morning. You know that Natalie
has never lets get boring and Jacqulyne always seems to
find the weirdest news of all times, has the best
comeback lines. I listen to the hard podcast online. It's
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meant the Morning, the absolute favorite of that.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Now, that's a great song. Chris Sweitzer's palding a little
bit because he's you know, he's involved in the show
every single day. He pulls the sound for the show.
He's a producer behind the scenes, and he steps up
when Natalie's off and he is fuming. He is so
upset right now that he wasn't included in that song.
Go ahead, tell them.
Speaker 10 (11:35):
He's lucky that I'm not on the committee for the
talkback of the Morning, because that it would be disqualified.
You know, I'm trying to make my case to the
committee that he shouldn't win. I don't know if they're
buying of them.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
They're locked away.
Speaker 10 (11:47):
I'm trying, you know, I'm sending my carrier pigeon. I'm
hoping it comes. You know, they're very seclud I know,
I get it. I like I said, I'm lobbying that
he doesn't win because, like I said, I was excluded
from the song.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
But you know, I may have to notify the higher
ups about your carrier pigeons. They shouldn't be in this
building anyway. You know, he talked about Crash having the
great comebacks, and Crash immediately said in my ear that
he thinks that's the naked cowboy. So the guy called
back to make sure we know he's not the naked cowboy.
Speaker 11 (12:23):
Hi, good morning. I just want to let you know
that was not the naked cowboy, but the California kid
felt in that tune out from the happiest city in
the USA, Fremont, California. Have a good one and I
love this show.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Doesn't he sound like a sixties DJ?
Speaker 12 (12:43):
Yeah, he sounds good. I mean like he's got a
nice singing voice. I couldn't sing anything, but.
Speaker 10 (12:47):
The way he just said that coming at you from
Free Moon. I mean, it could a voice like that
be anywhere but California. Really, Oh that's probably true, right,
that's probably true. Yeah, I bet he's a little bit
in the day.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
That was just wonderful. Yeah, you know, like surfing right now, probably.
Speaker 13 (13:07):
Let's all of us give a shout out to Curtis Leewa.
He's looking pretty good. His stand on what's happening with
the horses in Central Park, his stand on crime is
just his demeanor with people. It's all based on love.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
It is. I'll tell you what Curtis has to do
because he's never run anything. Really, the Guardian Angels he ran,
but I mean he's never had an organization with that
many people that you would have in a mayor's office.
He's got to start announcing who he has around him.
He's got to come out and say, this is going
to be my chief of staff, this is going to
be there's gonna be my deputy mayors in charge of
this and in charge of that. I think he really
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needs to let people know that it is going to
be an extremely competent administration that may be coming. Remember
it doesn't get serious until September. So there's my advice
to Curtis Leewa, But I agree with you now. You know,
it's hard to believe. When I heard this story, I
thought to myself, I can't believe we haven't done this yet.
I can't believe that there hasn't been a woman umpire
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in Major League Baseball. Of course there should be. There
should have been by now, and there hasn't been. The
first one is going to be this weekend, and we
should be so proud, and especially Hostra University should be
proud because it is a Hostra alum. And she's from
West Milford, New Jersey. Her name's Jen Powell, and she
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has wanted to do this well. She's wanted to be
involved in sports all her life. She was a big
star at Hofstra. She made All Conference. She was a
catcher on the softball team. And so she is going
to call a game this week now. The only reason
she's calling it is because whenever there's a doubleheader, they
need five umpires because whoever is behind the plate and
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calls takes the next day off, and so you need five.
So this is just temporary. But everybody that knows her
and everybody that's seen her said she's the next one up.
I mean when there's an opening. She has been so good.
She's been umpiring in the minor leagues now for five years.
She has been so good. She is definitely going to
get called up. And she said the first time she
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went to the minor leagues and she saw a game,
she thought to herself, I want to do that.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Once I started umpiring, I was like, this is for
me and I can't explain it in my DNA.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So the game, by the way, just in case you
want to watch, it is against the Marlins and the Braves.
I'm sure it's going to be telecast nationally now. But
congratulations to Jen. Let's get right to Jacquelin Karl with
the eight thirty News, Jacklin Larry.
Speaker 12 (15:40):
Massive tariffs are now in effect. Impoor taxes will reach
levels not seen in the country in almost one hundred years,
with over sixty countries and the European Union facing rates
of fifteen percent or more. A wide variety of products
will be hit, ranging from applying to his cars, food
and furniture, and United Airlines is resuming flights with some
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residual delays after resolving a tech issue that led to
massive disruptions at Newark and several other airports.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Last night, the.
Speaker 14 (16:08):
Airline suffered an outage in its system that calculated several
data points around six point fifteen that resulted in a
ground stop at Newark Airport, impacting hundreds of flights at Newark,
also big disruptions elsewhere, including in Chicago and Denver. This
woman was stuck on the tarmac for hours at Newark.
Speaker 15 (16:24):
It's very frustrating after a long day in a flight
to not be able to get that last few feet
to the gate and get off the plane.
Speaker 14 (16:31):
The issue was resolved around ten pm. The cause under investigation,
but officials do not believe it was any kind of
cybersecurity breach. I'm scapprinkle wrdws.
Speaker 12 (16:40):
And guess what the new hot commodity is on the
dating apps. According to a new study by Headway, a
book summary app, seventy five percent of people say they'd
rather date someone well read than someone who's physically attractive.
A quarter instantly swiped right on profiles showing someone reading,
and one in three swiped right just because the person
was holding a book. Now, if you were single, would
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you do this to get more dates? And which book
do you think would do the trick? Not the cat
in the hat, go like War in Peace?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Like, what would you be reading.
Speaker 12 (17:11):
To make people think I am a well read person?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Oh? Oh, you like while you're flexing War in Piece?
You know, something like that, something that you never really read.
Speaker 12 (17:20):
Right, I mean, who knows what these people are doing?
But I don't honestly believe it's seventy five percent of
people say they rather dates own well read than someone
who's it's It's a nice thing, but I don't believe it.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
That's like saying I love classical music. Nobody really loves
classical music. I mean most people, I'd say eighty five
percent of people don't really listen to much classical music,
but they say they love it because when it plays,
I guess it's pretty nice.
Speaker 12 (17:43):
But you're probably usually getting like a massage or a pedicure,
so maybe that you've got a nice association with it.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Thanks so much, Jacqueline carl And congratulations to Florence are
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sale at ticketmaster dot com. Well, we've been talking about
this all morning, a mass shooting at Fort Stewart Army Base.
Lieutenant General Richard Newton will be with us next to
talk about the military response to these shootings. And we
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after the shooting at Fort Stewart that wounded five American soldiers,
we are very proud to be joined by Lieutenant General
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Richard Newton, former US Air Force Assistant Vice chief of Staff,
and News Nation senior National security contributor. Thank you so much, sir,
for being with us today.
Speaker 16 (19:48):
Good morning, Larry. Delighted to be with you regardless of
the circumstances. But this is a tough story.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
It is a tough story, and it hit all of us.
As soon as you hear a story like this, you
run to the TV set under the radios to hear more,
and you're hoping, you're hoping for the best. And I
guess we did get the best that could have happened
in a situation like this, and that nobody died. But
I know how we all felt. I don't know how
people that served felt when they heard this, Because my
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guess is you must see this as a real violation
considering the fact you've been on these camps and you've
been with these men. Could you please explain your first
feelings when you heard about this story.
Speaker 16 (20:30):
Well, my first thought harkened back immediately when I was
a senior general officer in the Pentagon. I was part
of the initial senior officer investigative review team that we
put together. As I mentioned the Pentagon in November of
two thousand and nine, if you recall our listeners may
recall when Major Nadal Hassan, an Army major at the
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time psychiatrists, killed thirteen fellow soldiers and wounded thirty at
Fort Hood in that early morning hours. And so my
first thought was concern for the soldiers at Fort Stewart.
There are fifteen thousand soldiers there by the way, in
sixteen thousand family members. And then once I heard and
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started to hear just the initial reports come out, my
first thought in terms of what it was was likely
an insider attack, much like we saw with Hassan, in
terms of a weapon firing on fellow soldiers and then
being subdued and apprehended almost immediately.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Exactly. The only good thing that came out of this,
and the only thing that should make people proud, is
that you had young men I'm assuming they're young men
that were there that were being shot at. There was
somebody with a gun an active shooter, and instead of
running out of their or hiding or going for cover,
several of them went at the man and tackled him.
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And if not for that, this could have been a
lot worse. Being someone that's of being someone that's led
these men.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
You must be so proud, I am, and you know
it's we have two million men and women in uniform
and all volunteers, and in this case, and also, as
we've demonstrated in a rock in Afghanistan, and by the way,
our men and women serving overseas a and over one
hundred and thirty five locations around the world as we
speak right now this morning, they run to the sound
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of gunfire and this was a demonstration, however, of not
a combat situation, but still their training kicked in and
the fact that they were able to nearly immediately subdue
this army sergeant in what I'm going to term, and
this is preliminary obviously, but an extreme case of you know,
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work center violence in this case.
Speaker 16 (22:48):
But the other aspect of this I want to underscore
is that at Fort Stewart, and you would expect this
at other installations. I've been a major installation commander where
I had a lockdown situation. We immediately at a forced
protection condition delta, which is what happened at Fort Stewart.
But for the Army leadership as well as the chaining
command all the way down to those soldiers who subdued
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this Army sergeant in terms of the timing of this,
in terms of putting medical attention immediately on the scene
for those five wounded soldiers, for Fort Stewart to lock
down the installation, to protect other soldiers in the sixteen
thousand family members there, and to get those soldiers who
are in critical condition. Knowing that there when Army hospital
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wasn't as a Level four trauma center wasn't going to
be provided to care they needed, they were able to
get those remaining critical soldiers I understand there's two of
them to Savannah Memorial Hospital, which is forty miles away,
into a Level one trauma center. I believe is going
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to also be something that will be textbooked. But nonetheless,
now the hard work begins. What happened, how did it happen,
why did it happen, and how can we prevent this
from ever happening again.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Let's start with the gun because you've talked about how
wonderful they were after the fact that I agree with
you one thousand percent enduring the shooting. But there must
have been a screw up somewhere before the shooting, because
he never should have had this personal gun on his person.
It's supposed to be locked away, isn't it.
Speaker 16 (24:22):
Absolutely, Larry, and first and foremost again as a major
installation commander in this case, it was breeder General Lubis
who's the third Army or a third infantry division commander
was on area yesterday, you know, communicated, you know, we
will go back and really understand what happened. But the
concern is is, indeed, how does an American soldier bring
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his own personal handgun and fired on his fellow soldiers.
It's not just the gun itself, but the whole aspect
of why and how it led up to this. And
so you're right in this case you should not expect
or will even anticipate someone bringing their personal handgun to
use it on their fellow soldiers. But this is uh
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They're going to be looking at rules and regulations, but
protocols and processes and so forth in terms of how
handguns can get into the hands of of of those
who in a very very uh again very limited, unique
way want to do harm against their fellow soldiers. But
the fact is that it was reportedly a nine nil
personal handgun. How it got to the work center is
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still to be determined.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Now apparently some a little bit of motive is coming
out in news reports that he had some disagreements with
people that he served with and he was a little
bit disgruntled that he wasn't moving up ranks quick enough.
Is are there processes on the in these uh, in
these campuses, and you shouldn't call to campus uh inside
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these facilities that that pinpoints that that can deal with
that before it gets to this point.
Speaker 16 (25:58):
It absolutely all the short versus United States Army, the
Marine Corps, the Air Force and Navy and the Space
Force and so forth. That this is the responsibility of
the chain of command as well as your fellow soldiers
in this case. Uh, it's almost like having lived in
New York City, you know, you know the terminology. If
you see something, say something. But if there's an indication
of say your fellow soldier, your your you know men
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and women are serving with that, there's our issues. If
there are hints of mental health issues for instance, if
there's things that in terms of off duty UH, there
are issues with their behavior. In this case, it's reported
that Sergeant Rafford had been charged with a DUI back
in May UH and had not reported that to his
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chain of command as he is required to do so UH,
and there could have been some some lingering aspects of
what was going on within the army unit and so forth.
He's a logistics sergeant and this is logistics unit supposedly
with UH with a third Infantry Division. Those things will
be looked at. But nonetheless, you and however, you know,
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in the United States Army and the Air Force and
other services, you don't necessarily lean away from those you
serve with. You lean into. And the fact is is
that it's one team, one fight, and so forth. And
I have to think that his fellow soldiers really had
not perhaps even contemplat or even anticipated this type of violence.
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And I want our listeners also, I'll close on this
point for this commentary. But this is very very unique situation,
and this is not something that we would anticipate that
is prevalent throughout the ranks at all. You know, we
recruit from the best and brightest that America has to offer.
But there's only about a twenty three percent of the
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population between ages for men and women at eighteen to
twenty five. And we really try to make sure that
those that we recruit and we bring into the armed
forces that indeed, you know, meet all the ethical standards
and health and mental and so forth. But something happened
and along the way. This sergeant has served in the
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Army for about eight years or so, but something has
had to happen along the way that the Army will
find out much like we did in the Deep Investigation,
Thorough investigation Congression.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah, Major, Yeah, I understand that. Thank you so much.
You've been great, Lieutenant General Richard Newton. You gave us
some insight into this. Former US Air Force Assistant Vice
chief of Staff and News Nation senior National Security contributor,
Thank you, Sarah Hope to talk again.
Speaker 16 (28:30):
Good morning, Larry. Good to be with you.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
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Now it's sevent ten wars. Beat on the Street with
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Natalie Migliori. Another carriage horse dies on the streets of Manhattan,
and some people want to get rid of carriage horses
all together. What a New Yorkers think? Well, Natalie Migliori
gets the Beat on the Street.
Speaker 17 (29:32):
Now, Good morning, Natalie, Yeah, good morning Larry. It's really
been a debate for years. You know, a horse collapses
in the middle of New York City and dies and
it barks, you know, outrage. And this latest incident comes
after a fifteen year old horse named Lady collapsed and
died on fifty first Street and Eleventh Avenue Tuesday afternoon
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in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. Many New Yorkers like say
it's time for horse drong carriages to go.
Speaker 15 (30:04):
I don't think it's fair for the horses.
Speaker 18 (30:06):
Hey, I see them. I don't like it at all.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Cool and we live right here.
Speaker 8 (30:11):
We see how they are shouldn't be in the street
with us, and it's just too dangerous.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Totally against it.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
It's old school already, girl, So that horses.
Speaker 15 (30:20):
I gotta be honest. I walk past that place every
single day and it's extremely clean, and I see them
take really good care of them, So I'm not gonna lie.
I don't really see the abuse, which is pretty crazy
because it's really talked about widespread, but I see it
every day and I just don't see there being any
abuse in there.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 17 (30:38):
Advocates and officials, including Republican mayoral candidate Curtis leewah rallied
outside one of the stables where dozens of Central Park
horses live. They're calling on city councils to have to
build that would base out the licensing of horse strong carriages.
It's called Rider's Law, named after one of the horses
that died near Times Square three years ago. If you remember,
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that was a big outrage when he died. Even though
and the kids say it's long overdue. The New Yorkers say,
it's got to say.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
It's history, it's tradition, and it's also romance.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
How much romance do we have left.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
In this town?
Speaker 10 (31:15):
So take your guy or take your girl out on
a carriage.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Right.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
The horses are wealth taken care of. I know the
concern for animals.
Speaker 10 (31:22):
People and animals are different.
Speaker 15 (31:24):
A lot of jobs will be gone, and I think
a lot of people will be unhappy because it is
kind of a New York tradition type of thing. I feel,
at least from my childhood, and I think people kind
of come to this area expecting that, especially when you
go up to Central Park and stuff something I grew
up with. I don't I don't want to see it leave.
Speaker 17 (31:41):
Other New Yorkers say history is not always a good
reason to keep something.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
Slavery was also a part of New York City history,
and slavery is illegal, So I feel like now everything
that is part of history is always a good part
of history.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
I think we're technologically advanced enough to where we don't
need to have animal will drag us around, you know,
And it's I don't think it's like as glamorous as
it used to be.
Speaker 18 (32:05):
Now we have cars, and we have buses, and we
have trains. That's what times have changed, just the way
we have a reach as h where we can retire
because we're tired of working. The horses should also be
retired and live freely.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Now.
Speaker 17 (32:19):
Adan passes by one of the stables every day and says,
at least tend to twenty people work at the facility.
So he's concerned about an entire industry just disappearing and
what those who work there will do.
Speaker 6 (32:29):
There's plenty of other opportunities out there. There's a million.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Places you can work in New York.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
You know, it's just a city like this.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
There's plenty of jobs.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
You can find something else.
Speaker 13 (32:38):
They'll find something else.
Speaker 18 (32:39):
There has to be a solution for them as well.
Either become a cab driver, work for a limousine company.
I see amazons riding on bikes delivering package really with
their legs. You know, I understand they have to make
an income too, but there's so many other jobs available
instead of abusing these poor horses.
Speaker 17 (32:57):
Oh, Alrie, there you have it a hot button issue
New York City.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
It is those people were extremely thoughtful by the way.
That was a good bunch of people that gave so
many diverse opinions. I thought that was wonderful. I'll tell you,
I don't know how I feel about it. I love
the horse drawn carriages, and I've seen the stables and
they seem to treat them extremely well. But I get it.
I understand how this may be archaic, and with the
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so much pollution and so many cars on the street,
it is a little bit dangerous for them. So this
is one of those issues where I'm not sure I
want them to stay. But you know, I feel guilty
about that.
Speaker 17 (33:38):
I don't know if you have to walk in the
street where the horse manure is, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Another problem altogether. Natalie Migliori, thank you so much. He's
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Molly tell you, I'm looking forward to the weekend. It's
going to be a gorgeous week and try to get
out there and enjoy it. In the Big Three today,
a lot going on today in the New York mayor's race.
I don't know if you read the New York Times,
but they have a story about Donald Trump getting involved
(00:21):
in the fight to stop Zorin Mamdani from becoming mayor.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Whatever Donald Trump seeks to do to influence the outcome
of this election, I have more faith in New Yorkers themselves.
What they want is someone who can stand up to
an authoritarian administration and to the billionaires that gave us
that administration.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
The article says that Donald Trump has had phone calls
with Andrew Cuomo, and with Independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, and
with Independent candidate Eric Adams about consolidating and getting out
of the race. Everybody denies that happened, all three of them,
but they did have four sources on this. We're going
(00:59):
to talk talk to political commentator Laura Kurrn, who's going
to be here at eight o five to talk about
this new twist in the mayoral race. President Trump has
told European leaders that he's going to meet with Russian
President Putin and hopefully Ukrainian President Voladimir Zelenski about a
ceasefire as early as next week.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
And we haven't determined where, but we had some very
good talks with President Putin today and there's a very
good chance that we could be ending these ending the round,
ending the end of that road.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Road was.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Long and continues to be long, but there's a good
chance that there will be a meeting very soon.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Attorney General Pam Bondi put out a list of sanctuary
cities and they include New York State, New York City, Newark,
New Jersey, Patterson, New Jersey, and Jersey City, New Jersey
in the entire state of Connecticut, and she is threatening
legal action for impeding ICE officers, which by the way,
is a crime.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Much rather have sanctuary policies that make their communities less safe.
It's not right, it's not what the American people voted for,
and it's not going to keep the American citizen safe.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
That is, ICE Director todd lyons well. Trump has done
it again. After threatening to put a twenty five percent
tariff on iPhones because they are manufactured overseas, Apple CEO
Tim Cook has decided to build iPhone factories across America.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
And I'm very proud to say that today we're committing
an additional one hundred billion to the United States, bringing
our total US investment to six hundred billion over the
next four years.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And I love this story. The pride of West mel Milford,
New Jersey and Hofstra University graduate Jen Powell. Let me
get the name right. Jen Powell will make Major League
Baseball history when she becomes the first woman Major League
Baseball umpire on Saturday.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Once I started umpiring, I was like, this is for
me and I can't explays in my DNA.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, she's been umpiring in the minor leagues for five
years and finally she's gotten called up to the big show.
Congratulations to Jen and Hamilton. The one of a kind
musical that reinvigorated Broadway celebrates its ten year anniversary with
its creator Lynn Manuel Miranda joining the cast. After the
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show was over, everybody involved with the show got up
on the stage. It was a huge moment and they
sang the perfect song to celebrate the occasion. Well, now
let's talk about the story of the day. Donald Trump
being involved in the mayoral race in more ways than
we knew. We're going to talk about that with Laura Curran,
(03:51):
political commentator and former NASA County executive. She's with us
every Thursday at this time.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
Good morning, Laura, Hi, good morning. How are you, Larry.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
It was I'm good. It was kind of a surprise.
I'm doing better, I think than Andrew Cuomo and Eric
Adams at this point, because I don't think they saw
this coming and didn't want this out. But The New
York Times quotes four different sources as saying that Donald
Trump behind the scenes has been making phone calls about
(04:23):
possibly consolidating candidates to beat zorin Mom Donni and had
personal phone calls with Andrew Cuomo and with Eric Adams.
By the way, they're all denying this, but The New
York Times says they have several sources. I'm just going
to lay that out. If there, you tell me what
that means.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Well, when I first heard that, I was very skeptical
because I would think strategically it would be helpful for
Republicans to have Mom Donni as the mayor because then
for the midterms next year, they could tie all of
the Democrats running to a socialist New York City mayor.
And but maybe I'm being too cynical, maybe my eye
(05:05):
is too jaded. And I also don't see Trump, and
maybe I'm not fully understanding him. I just don't see
him as a person who is really concerned about taking
a sort of moderate course and being helpful and being moderate,
Like that's sort of off brand for him, unless there's
something going on that I don't know. I mean the
(05:25):
fact that The New York Times has four sources, and
you know that whatever people think about The New York Times,
they are ironclad when it comes to sources, and they're
not going to publish something that they don't think is
true or at least very well sourced. So I just
find this whole thing sort of puzzling, and I'd really
love to know what the truth is, because honestly, I
would think Mom Donny would be his pick just for
(05:47):
political purposes, or Adams, because Eric Adams has proven to
be quite loyal and helpful and Adams kind of owes
him for pardoning him from all those corruption charges.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, it is interesting. They also have phone calls that
he made with Mark pen and with a former city
councilman that he's friendly with all these phone calls, they
had a whole lot of information. And let's play chess
with this for a second, because I think you're right.
I think the Republicans deep down once they're in Mom
Donnie to win nationally, not in the city, but nationally,
(06:20):
they want him to win. So yeah, exactly, so they
can run against him. Who does this help the most?
And who does this hurt the most that this story
is out there that Donald Trump wants Andrew Cuomo.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
Yeah exactly, it could. It sort of smells a little
bit like mischief making because this actually hurts Cuomo and
it hurts Adams. And so maybe in the end it
helps mom Donnie. And he's not wasting any time in
making political hay out of this and scoring points on this.
This is like a slam dunk for him, and he's
(06:55):
already had in the polls. So I don't know, Trump,
It's not popular with a lot of New York City voters.
I don't have to tell you that. And maybe this
is the way to muddy the waters in such a
way to really help my money, in a very chess
like three D chess.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Left way, because look what happened to Eric Adams as
soon as he was tied to Donald Trump. He has
no shots. He's in single digits in some of the
polls in running, and everybody says it's because he's tied
to Trump.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
Yeah, so maybe the initial thing we were talking about
is true. They want Mom Donnie to win and this
is just a three D chess kind of way to
get to make it happen.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah. So, Laura, how do you feel about Zora and
Mom Donnie.
Speaker 8 (07:38):
Well?
Speaker 7 (07:38):
I find him Obviously, I'm not a socialist, so that's
not my jam at all. The anti Semitism stuff is troubling.
I have to be honest about that. But also it's
unmistakable that he's a very talented politician.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Absolutely.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
I mean the way he's been able to communicate so
clearly that people know who he is, they know what
he stands for, They like him. He seems very approachable,
he seems very much of the people, and I think
he's going to be hard to beat. I mean, we
are seeing a newly energized Cuomo campaign, which I think
is good. He is all over the place, He's putting
(08:16):
out really good content. So but he's you know, what
is it ten points behind right now? I know November.
But but it's you know, and this Trump stuff, now,
this is that's going to be such a distraction for
the Cuomo campaign and the Adams campaign. You know, they
have to get through all of this now. It's hard
enough without having to deal with this.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I don't know where this goes from here, but you're right,
this is a bomb that dropped in the middle of
this campaign. It's not just a one off story. This
is going to come up. I'm it's interesting that Cuomo
didn't come out in front of this. He put out
a statement. I don't think he wants his face on
camera right now until he figures out his hell he's
going to handle this. But it is a bombshell. But
I also agreez Mom, Donnie is really good. He's a
(09:02):
great politician, and he tapped into something with affordability that
the rest of the Democratic Party is going to going
to follow. He just can't do anything he says he's
going to do. He just can't. It's it defies gravity.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
And you know the other interesting thing the polls that
Jewish voters say for him by quite a lot compared
to Cuomo.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I don't believe that poll I don't I don't buy
that poll for a second.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
May not it may not be true. I don't know,
but but mom, Donnie is certainly hanging out with a
lot of Jewish people, loves the people on his campaign,
so I think he sees this as a vulnerability and
he's going to work as hard as you can sit
to mitigate it as much as possible. And that you know,
who knows. It's one poll, but it'll be interesting to
see in the end who votes for whom.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah, it's a poll he's tied to, so I you know,
I'm discounting that one completely. Laura Kerrn, political commentator and
former NASA county executives. He's with us every Thursday at
eight oh five. We're gonna be talking about this a lot, Laura.
Oh yeah, all right, Larry, thanks a lot. Major glass
ceiling in Major League Baseball will be shattered on Saturday.
(10:05):
Will explain, plus your shot at tickets to see the
who all coming up next. Always, thanks for being with
us and thanks for the talkbacks. You gotta get him
in now if you want to win talkback in the
morning and then be in the running for that Sea
Crane Radio for Talkback of the Week. Sea crane radio,
the radio that matters when you really need it. I
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mean when there's an emergency. It's a must have. You
have to have a good radio. Every home should have
one of these sea crane radios. So an hour ago
we played what has been an amazing talkback someone that
did a theme song for MENTI in the Morning.
Speaker 9 (10:45):
Larry's Big Three starts in morning. You know that Natalie
has never lets get boring and Jacqulyne always seems to
find the weirdest news of all times, has the best
comeback lines. I listen to the hard podcast online. It's
(11:07):
meant the Morning, the absolute favorite of that.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Now, that's a great song. Chris Sweitzer's palding a little
bit because he's you know, he's involved in the show
every single day. He pulls the sound for the show.
He's a producer behind the scenes, and he steps up
when Natalie's off and he is fuming. He is so
upset right now that he wasn't included in that song.
Go ahead, tell them.
Speaker 10 (11:35):
He's lucky that I'm not on the committee for the
talkback of the Morning, because that it would be disqualified.
You know, I'm trying to make my case to the
committee that he shouldn't win. I don't know if they're
buying of them.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
They're locked away.
Speaker 10 (11:47):
I'm trying, you know, I'm sending my carrier pigeon. I'm
hoping it comes. You know, they're very seclud I know,
I get it. I like I said, I'm lobbying that
he doesn't win because, like I said, I was excluded
from the song.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
But you know, I may have to notify the higher
ups about your carrier pigeons. They shouldn't be in this
building anyway. You know, he talked about Crash having the
great comebacks, and Crash immediately said in my ear that
he thinks that's the naked cowboy. So the guy called
back to make sure we know he's not the naked cowboy.
Speaker 11 (12:23):
Hi, good morning. I just want to let you know
that was not the naked cowboy, but the California kid
felt in that tune out from the happiest city in
the USA, Fremont, California. Have a good one and I
love this show.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Doesn't he sound like a sixties DJ?
Speaker 12 (12:43):
Yeah, he sounds good. I mean like he's got a
nice singing voice. I couldn't sing anything, but.
Speaker 10 (12:47):
The way he just said that coming at you from
Free Moon. I mean, it could a voice like that
be anywhere but California. Really, Oh that's probably true, right,
that's probably true. Yeah, I bet he's a little bit
in the day.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
That was just wonderful. Yeah, you know, like surfing right now, probably.
Speaker 13 (13:07):
Let's all of us give a shout out to Curtis Leewa.
He's looking pretty good. His stand on what's happening with
the horses in Central Park, his stand on crime is
just his demeanor with people. It's all based on love.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
It is. I'll tell you what Curtis has to do
because he's never run anything. Really, the Guardian Angels he ran,
but I mean he's never had an organization with that
many people that you would have in a mayor's office.
He's got to start announcing who he has around him.
He's got to come out and say, this is going
to be my chief of staff, this is going to
be there's gonna be my deputy mayors in charge of
this and in charge of that. I think he really
(13:47):
needs to let people know that it is going to
be an extremely competent administration that may be coming. Remember
it doesn't get serious until September. So there's my advice
to Curtis Leewa, But I agree with you now. You know,
it's hard to believe. When I heard this story, I
thought to myself, I can't believe we haven't done this yet.
I can't believe that there hasn't been a woman umpire
(14:09):
in Major League Baseball. Of course there should be. There
should have been by now, and there hasn't been. The
first one is going to be this weekend, and we
should be so proud, and especially Hostra University should be
proud because it is a Hostra alum. And she's from
West Milford, New Jersey. Her name's Jen Powell, and she
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has wanted to do this well. She's wanted to be
involved in sports all her life. She was a big
star at Hofstra. She made All Conference. She was a
catcher on the softball team. And so she is going
to call a game this week now. The only reason
she's calling it is because whenever there's a doubleheader, they
need five umpires because whoever is behind the plate and
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calls takes the next day off, and so you need five.
So this is just temporary. But everybody that knows her
and everybody that's seen her said she's the next one up.
I mean when there's an opening. She has been so good.
She's been umpiring in the minor leagues now for five years.
She has been so good. She is definitely going to
get called up. And she said the first time she
(15:17):
went to the minor leagues and she saw a game,
she thought to herself, I want to do that.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Once I started umpiring, I was like, this is for
me and I can't explain it in my DNA.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So the game, by the way, just in case you
want to watch, it is against the Marlins and the Braves.
I'm sure it's going to be telecast nationally now. But
congratulations to Jen. Let's get right to Jacquelin Karl with
the eight thirty News, Jacklin Larry.
Speaker 12 (15:40):
Massive tariffs are now in effect. Impoor taxes will reach
levels not seen in the country in almost one hundred years,
with over sixty countries and the European Union facing rates
of fifteen percent or more. A wide variety of products
will be hit, ranging from applying to his cars, food
and furniture, and United Airlines is resuming flights with some
(16:00):
residual delays after resolving a tech issue that led to
massive disruptions at Newark and several other airports.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Last night, the.
Speaker 14 (16:08):
Airline suffered an outage in its system that calculated several
data points around six point fifteen that resulted in a
ground stop at Newark Airport, impacting hundreds of flights at Newark,
also big disruptions elsewhere, including in Chicago and Denver. This
woman was stuck on the tarmac for hours at Newark.
Speaker 15 (16:24):
It's very frustrating after a long day in a flight
to not be able to get that last few feet
to the gate and get off the plane.
Speaker 14 (16:31):
The issue was resolved around ten pm. The cause under investigation,
but officials do not believe it was any kind of
cybersecurity breach. I'm scapprinkle wrdws.
Speaker 12 (16:40):
And guess what the new hot commodity is on the
dating apps. According to a new study by Headway, a
book summary app, seventy five percent of people say they'd
rather date someone well read than someone who's physically attractive.
A quarter instantly swiped right on profiles showing someone reading,
and one in three swiped right just because the person
was holding a book. Now, if you were single, would
(17:02):
you do this to get more dates? And which book
do you think would do the trick? Not the cat
in the hat, go like War in Peace?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Like, what would you be reading.
Speaker 12 (17:11):
To make people think I am a well read person?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Oh? Oh, you like while you're flexing War in Piece?
You know, something like that, something that you never really read.
Speaker 12 (17:20):
Right, I mean, who knows what these people are doing?
But I don't honestly believe it's seventy five percent of
people say they rather dates own well read than someone
who's it's It's a nice thing, but I don't believe it.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
That's like saying I love classical music. Nobody really loves
classical music. I mean most people, I'd say eighty five
percent of people don't really listen to much classical music,
but they say they love it because when it plays,
I guess it's pretty nice.
Speaker 12 (17:43):
But you're probably usually getting like a massage or a pedicure,
so maybe that you've got a nice association with it.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Thanks so much, Jacqueline carl And congratulations to Florence are
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this all morning, a mass shooting at Fort Stewart Army Base.
Lieutenant General Richard Newton will be with us next to
talk about the military response to these shootings. And we
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after the shooting at Fort Stewart that wounded five American soldiers,
we are very proud to be joined by Lieutenant General
(19:36):
Richard Newton, former US Air Force Assistant Vice chief of Staff,
and News Nation senior National security contributor. Thank you so much, sir,
for being with us today.
Speaker 16 (19:48):
Good morning, Larry. Delighted to be with you regardless of
the circumstances. But this is a tough story.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
It is a tough story, and it hit all of us.
As soon as you hear a story like this, you
run to the TV set under the radios to hear more,
and you're hoping, you're hoping for the best. And I
guess we did get the best that could have happened
in a situation like this, and that nobody died. But
I know how we all felt. I don't know how
people that served felt when they heard this, Because my
(20:18):
guess is you must see this as a real violation
considering the fact you've been on these camps and you've
been with these men. Could you please explain your first
feelings when you heard about this story.
Speaker 16 (20:30):
Well, my first thought harkened back immediately when I was
a senior general officer in the Pentagon. I was part
of the initial senior officer investigative review team that we
put together. As I mentioned the Pentagon in November of
two thousand and nine, if you recall our listeners may
recall when Major Nadal Hassan, an Army major at the
(20:51):
time psychiatrists, killed thirteen fellow soldiers and wounded thirty at
Fort Hood in that early morning hours. And so my
first thought was concern for the soldiers at Fort Stewart.
There are fifteen thousand soldiers there by the way, in
sixteen thousand family members. And then once I heard and
(21:14):
started to hear just the initial reports come out, my
first thought in terms of what it was was likely
an insider attack, much like we saw with Hassan, in
terms of a weapon firing on fellow soldiers and then
being subdued and apprehended almost immediately.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Exactly. The only good thing that came out of this,
and the only thing that should make people proud, is
that you had young men I'm assuming they're young men
that were there that were being shot at. There was
somebody with a gun an active shooter, and instead of
running out of their or hiding or going for cover,
several of them went at the man and tackled him.
(21:55):
And if not for that, this could have been a
lot worse. Being someone that's of being someone that's led
these men.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
You must be so proud, I am, and you know
it's we have two million men and women in uniform
and all volunteers, and in this case, and also, as
we've demonstrated in a rock in Afghanistan, and by the way,
our men and women serving overseas a and over one
hundred and thirty five locations around the world as we
speak right now this morning, they run to the sound
(22:24):
of gunfire and this was a demonstration, however, of not
a combat situation, but still their training kicked in and
the fact that they were able to nearly immediately subdue
this army sergeant in what I'm going to term, and
this is preliminary obviously, but an extreme case of you know,
(22:45):
work center violence in this case.
Speaker 16 (22:48):
But the other aspect of this I want to underscore
is that at Fort Stewart, and you would expect this
at other installations. I've been a major installation commander where
I had a lockdown situation. We immediately at a forced
protection condition delta, which is what happened at Fort Stewart.
But for the Army leadership as well as the chaining
command all the way down to those soldiers who subdued
(23:09):
this Army sergeant in terms of the timing of this,
in terms of putting medical attention immediately on the scene
for those five wounded soldiers, for Fort Stewart to lock
down the installation, to protect other soldiers in the sixteen
thousand family members there, and to get those soldiers who
are in critical condition. Knowing that there when Army hospital
(23:31):
wasn't as a Level four trauma center wasn't going to
be provided to care they needed, they were able to
get those remaining critical soldiers I understand there's two of
them to Savannah Memorial Hospital, which is forty miles away,
into a Level one trauma center. I believe is going
(23:52):
to also be something that will be textbooked. But nonetheless,
now the hard work begins. What happened, how did it happen,
why did it happen, and how can we prevent this
from ever happening again.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Let's start with the gun because you've talked about how
wonderful they were after the fact that I agree with
you one thousand percent enduring the shooting. But there must
have been a screw up somewhere before the shooting, because
he never should have had this personal gun on his person.
It's supposed to be locked away, isn't it.
Speaker 16 (24:22):
Absolutely, Larry, and first and foremost again as a major
installation commander in this case, it was breeder General Lubis
who's the third Army or a third infantry division commander
was on area yesterday, you know, communicated, you know, we
will go back and really understand what happened. But the
concern is is, indeed, how does an American soldier bring
(24:43):
his own personal handgun and fired on his fellow soldiers.
It's not just the gun itself, but the whole aspect
of why and how it led up to this. And
so you're right in this case you should not expect
or will even anticipate someone bringing their personal handgun to
use it on their fellow soldiers. But this is uh
(25:06):
They're going to be looking at rules and regulations, but
protocols and processes and so forth in terms of how
handguns can get into the hands of of of those
who in a very very uh again very limited, unique
way want to do harm against their fellow soldiers. But
the fact is that it was reportedly a nine nil
personal handgun. How it got to the work center is
(25:28):
still to be determined.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Now apparently some a little bit of motive is coming
out in news reports that he had some disagreements with
people that he served with and he was a little
bit disgruntled that he wasn't moving up ranks quick enough.
Is are there processes on the in these uh, in
these campuses, and you shouldn't call to campus uh inside
(25:51):
these facilities that that pinpoints that that can deal with
that before it gets to this point.
Speaker 16 (25:58):
It absolutely all the short versus United States Army, the
Marine Corps, the Air Force and Navy and the Space
Force and so forth. That this is the responsibility of
the chain of command as well as your fellow soldiers
in this case. Uh, it's almost like having lived in
New York City, you know, you know the terminology. If
you see something, say something. But if there's an indication
of say your fellow soldier, your your you know men
(26:20):
and women are serving with that, there's our issues. If
there are hints of mental health issues for instance, if
there's things that in terms of off duty UH, there
are issues with their behavior. In this case, it's reported
that Sergeant Rafford had been charged with a DUI back
in May UH and had not reported that to his
(26:40):
chain of command as he is required to do so UH,
and there could have been some some lingering aspects of
what was going on within the army unit and so forth.
He's a logistics sergeant and this is logistics unit supposedly
with UH with a third Infantry Division. Those things will
be looked at. But nonetheless, you and however, you know,
(27:02):
in the United States Army and the Air Force and
other services, you don't necessarily lean away from those you
serve with. You lean into. And the fact is is
that it's one team, one fight, and so forth. And
I have to think that his fellow soldiers really had
not perhaps even contemplat or even anticipated this type of violence.
(27:23):
And I want our listeners also, I'll close on this
point for this commentary. But this is very very unique situation,
and this is not something that we would anticipate that
is prevalent throughout the ranks at all. You know, we
recruit from the best and brightest that America has to offer.
But there's only about a twenty three percent of the
(27:43):
population between ages for men and women at eighteen to
twenty five. And we really try to make sure that
those that we recruit and we bring into the armed
forces that indeed, you know, meet all the ethical standards
and health and mental and so forth. But something happened
and along the way. This sergeant has served in the
(28:04):
Army for about eight years or so, but something has
had to happen along the way that the Army will
find out much like we did in the Deep Investigation,
Thorough investigation Congression.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah, Major, Yeah, I understand that. Thank you so much.
You've been great, Lieutenant General Richard Newton. You gave us
some insight into this. Former US Air Force Assistant Vice
chief of Staff and News Nation senior National Security contributor,
Thank you, Sarah Hope to talk again.
Speaker 16 (28:30):
Good morning, Larry. Good to be with you.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
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(29:17):
Natalie Migliori. Another carriage horse dies on the streets of Manhattan,
and some people want to get rid of carriage horses
all together. What a New Yorkers think? Well, Natalie Migliori
gets the Beat on the Street.
Speaker 17 (29:32):
Now, Good morning, Natalie, Yeah, good morning Larry. It's really
been a debate for years. You know, a horse collapses
in the middle of New York City and dies and
it barks, you know, outrage. And this latest incident comes
after a fifteen year old horse named Lady collapsed and
died on fifty first Street and Eleventh Avenue Tuesday afternoon
(29:56):
in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. Many New Yorkers like say
it's time for horse drong carriages to go.
Speaker 15 (30:04):
I don't think it's fair for the horses.
Speaker 18 (30:06):
Hey, I see them. I don't like it at all.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Cool and we live right here.
Speaker 8 (30:11):
We see how they are shouldn't be in the street
with us, and it's just too dangerous.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Totally against it.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
It's old school already, girl, So that horses.
Speaker 15 (30:20):
I gotta be honest. I walk past that place every
single day and it's extremely clean, and I see them
take really good care of them, So I'm not gonna lie.
I don't really see the abuse, which is pretty crazy
because it's really talked about widespread, but I see it
every day and I just don't see there being any
abuse in there.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 17 (30:38):
Advocates and officials, including Republican mayoral candidate Curtis leewah rallied
outside one of the stables where dozens of Central Park
horses live. They're calling on city councils to have to
build that would base out the licensing of horse strong carriages.
It's called Rider's Law, named after one of the horses
that died near Times Square three years ago. If you remember,
(31:00):
that was a big outrage when he died. Even though
and the kids say it's long overdue. The New Yorkers say,
it's got to say.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
It's history, it's tradition, and it's also romance.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
How much romance do we have left.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
In this town?
Speaker 10 (31:15):
So take your guy or take your girl out on
a carriage.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Right.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
The horses are wealth taken care of. I know the
concern for animals.
Speaker 10 (31:22):
People and animals are different.
Speaker 15 (31:24):
A lot of jobs will be gone, and I think
a lot of people will be unhappy because it is
kind of a New York tradition type of thing. I feel,
at least from my childhood, and I think people kind
of come to this area expecting that, especially when you
go up to Central Park and stuff something I grew
up with. I don't I don't want to see it leave.
Speaker 17 (31:41):
Other New Yorkers say history is not always a good
reason to keep something.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
Slavery was also a part of New York City history,
and slavery is illegal, So I feel like now everything
that is part of history is always a good part
of history.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
I think we're technologically advanced enough to where we don't
need to have animal will drag us around, you know,
And it's I don't think it's like as glamorous as
it used to be.
Speaker 18 (32:05):
Now we have cars, and we have buses, and we
have trains. That's what times have changed, just the way
we have a reach as h where we can retire
because we're tired of working. The horses should also be
retired and live freely.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Now.
Speaker 17 (32:19):
Adan passes by one of the stables every day and says,
at least tend to twenty people work at the facility.
So he's concerned about an entire industry just disappearing and
what those who work there will do.
Speaker 6 (32:29):
There's plenty of other opportunities out there. There's a million.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Places you can work in New York.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
You know, it's just a city like this.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
There's plenty of jobs.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
You can find something else.
Speaker 13 (32:38):
They'll find something else.
Speaker 18 (32:39):
There has to be a solution for them as well.
Either become a cab driver, work for a limousine company.
I see amazons riding on bikes delivering package really with
their legs. You know, I understand they have to make
an income too, but there's so many other jobs available
instead of abusing these poor horses.
Speaker 17 (32:57):
Oh, Alrie, there you have it a hot button issue
New York City.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
It is those people were extremely thoughtful by the way.
That was a good bunch of people that gave so
many diverse opinions. I thought that was wonderful. I'll tell you,
I don't know how I feel about it. I love
the horse drawn carriages, and I've seen the stables and
they seem to treat them extremely well. But I get it.
I understand how this may be archaic, and with the
(33:23):
so much pollution and so many cars on the street,
it is a little bit dangerous for them. So this
is one of those issues where I'm not sure I
want them to stay. But you know, I feel guilty
about that.
Speaker 17 (33:38):
I don't know if you have to walk in the
street where the horse manure is, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Another problem altogether. Natalie Migliori, thank you so much. He's
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