Hour 3: NJ Governor voting opens

NJ Governor voting opens.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
A facts so much for being here today. I always
appreciate you tuning in spending part of your day with us.
In the Big Three today, early voting starts in the
New Jersey primary today, and Congressional Congresswoman Mikey Cheryl is
talking like she already won the Democratic primary and she

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already knows what Republican she's going to be running against.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
I plan to beat Jack Chittarelli in the fall to
make sure that we can stand up to Washington.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
So Jack Chitarelli and Mikey Cheryl, I think it is
going to be Jack Chitarelli. Mikey Cheryl is ahead in
the polls, not that far ahead. I'm not sure that's
a sure thing. Newark Airport is one step closer to
being fixed. Today we're celebrating the opening of.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Newark's runway, and this is a sixty day project that
actually is completed thirteen days early.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
It is a amazing how quickly they are fixing some
of the problems at Newark International Airport. But across the
country that's going to take a lot more money and
a lot more time, and all of that money is
tied up in the big beautiful bill. I don't believe
that's controversial. It's going to get through. So we're going
to finally be able to upgrade our air traffic control

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system across the Crunchy the brutal attack on a peaceful
gathering of Jewish Americans in Boulder, California, it really did
expose the anti Semitism in the Free Palestine movement.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
We need to face the facts that this so called
Free Palestine movement is in fact a pro terror movement,
and we need to draw the line in the sand.
There can be no longer any tolerance for this movement.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
And as much as the Democrats attack Donald Trump and
they attacked the Republicans, a new CNN poll shows America
still does not trust the Democrats to lead.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
Party is better described as the party with strong leaders.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Look at this wow.

Speaker 5 (02:04):
Sixty percent of Americans say Democrats, forty percent say that
of the Republican Party.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
You see what happens when you're on the wrong side
of every single issue. By the way, if you want
to comment on any of the Big three stories today
or anything we've been covering all day long, you can
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While you're there, now let's bring in Joe Barrellogy Joe Barelli,
managing director of Chartwell Strategy Group and former Minority leader

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of the New York City Council. Joe, I know a
lot was made about Elon Musk being Hitler and being
a Nazi because they claim he made a Nazi sign.
Now another politician has done the same thing. I guess
he's a Nazi too.

Speaker 6 (02:48):
Yeah. Now, of course, neither Elon Musk nor Corey Booker
are actual Nazis, nor are probably even anti Semitic, even
in the slightest bit. Let's be clear with that. But
the problem is the absurd double standard that we saw
play out in the news media over the last three
or four days because Corey Booker made the exact same

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gesture as Elon Musk, which was covered, you know, wall
to wall on the CNNs, on the MSNBC. You know
they'd have the story written in the New York Times.
You know this was a Nazi a salute, and then
sure enough the panels on CNN and MSNBC would spend
ten minutes per hour debating whether it really was meant

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to be a Nazi symbol or just look like a
Nazi symbol or he meant to be anti Semitic or
just has anti Semitic tendencies in his sleep or whatever.
And yet again, same thing, Corey Booker, not one minute
of coverage or an MSNBC, no coverage in the New
York Times, Washington Post or in a whole bunch more
outlets that you know went to town on Elon Musk.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Now, I agree with you of one thousand percent, and
I was stunned. I was stunned all of the Elon
Musk blowback. I could not understand it. Here's a guy that,
I would say, at a certain point in his life,
ninety five percent of the country loved this guy and
thought he was an innovator, thought he was a new Einstein,

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and now fifty percent hate him only because of what
he did politically. I can't get over that. And it's
exactly because of what you said. The Democrats just felt
like he was somebody they had to take out, and
they had the media in tow.

Speaker 6 (04:33):
Yeah. I mean, you know, it's amazing how someone who's
actually meeting the goals of the you know, climate agenda
without actually you know, calling it the climate agenda, right,
I mean, he's basically making electric cars that people want
to buy because they're nice cars and they work. I mean,
that's that's kind of the criticism of other electric cars,
that they're crappy and they don't do anything and they're
not nice. So this is the guy who on his own,

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you know, has advanced sort of you know, some policies
that demo crats actually like, social media, CEO, all this
great stuff. And yet the minute he affiliated himself with
Donald Trump, there was just no room for any any
independent thought by Elon Musk. He was instantly, you know,
an evil person. He made a hand gesture, suddenly he

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was a Nazi. And you know, I just heard in
the opening of this segment you had Harry Enton from CNN.
You have the audio clip of Harry Nton on CNN
going over these Democratic latest poll numbers, and like this
is why, like it's hard to convince people that someone
they liked and respected ten minutes ago is now literally hitler, right,

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I mean, turning on someone takes time and and you
know a history of of you know, wrong actions and abuses. Right,
you can't just have group things, and that's what the
Democrats think they can can pull on the American public
and it's just not working. They're trying to convince people
that the sky is purple and up is down, and
people are finally starting to see through that the distrust

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of the media is finally being exposed for what it is.
Every single day it seems like, you know, another media
outlet is sort of exposed for just overplaying their hand,
if not outright lying on things. And I just think
that segment with Harry Enten was so telling last yesterday
where he went over with these Democratic Party poll numbers.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, I agree with you. I also I can't get
over the fact that the Democratic Party has become so
closed mind. And I guess it's been like this for
a long time. If you go off the reservation at all,
they are going to damn you, They're going to condemn you,
They're going to do hit pieces on you in the media.
That's exactly what John Fetterman is going through right now.

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He was on the air complaining about it the other day.
I got a feeling this guy, only because they would
be more accepting of him, might become a Republican.

Speaker 6 (06:55):
I mean, John Fetterman would be absolutely welcomed in the
actual big tent Party. The Republican Party where we do
have disagreements over policy, and where we don't, you know,
you know, just crucify people who don't toe the line
one hundred percent. I mean, the truth is, you know,
what is John Feedderman accused of doing supporting an ally
that that has been an ally of the US since

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nineteen forty eight. I mean, that's essentially the controversial thing
he's doing, or that he's talking openly and honestly about
what's going on, namely that you know, the Jewish governor
of Pennsylvania's house was burned down by a Palestidian extremist
by two people were killed in front of the in
front of an Israeli party who Israeli diplomats because they

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were Jews, because the Jews were lit on fire. All
John Fetterman had the courage to say was Wow, this
is wrong and these are bad people, and the Democratic
Party can't even get to that. It reminds me of
at least Stephonic, who I was with last night when
she talked to those and she grilled those college presidents
a couple of years ago, and we talked about it

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last night. That wasn't her first round of ques questions
that wasn't her second round of questions, that was his
third round of questions. The media wasn't even there, and
she basically said, I was going to ask them a
simple question, hoping to get them on the follow up question.
And her simple question was like, you know, it's calling
for the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews,
against your ethics policy and your college, and expecting the

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answer to be yes. And then she was going to
go into but what are the penalties for X, Y
and Z. They just couldn't even answer that question whether
that context was They said, it depends on the context,
which is insane. It's insane. And this is what the
Democrats want you to think is the norm. And this
is why when people like John Fetterman have the courage
to stand up for their own party, they're ostracized and exiled.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Absolutely, It's amazing how little power now the media has.
It used to have a lot of power, but people
have left. And it's so no matter how much they
tell you Trump is bad and amount how much do
they tell you the Democrats are great, the poll numbers
show you otherwise. I think there's going to be a
huge surprise in New Jersey. I think we're going to
have a Republican governor. I think Chitarelli's way ahead, right now?

(09:04):
Do you think so too?

Speaker 6 (09:05):
Yeah? I do. I mean, you know, look, the last
Psychle Murphy was an incumbent, not terribly popular, but he
was an incumbent and Donald Trump was kryptonite, right, I
mean the year after twenty twenty right, twenty twenty one
was the last election. Donald Trump's poll numbers were incredibly
low in places like New Jersey and other parts of

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the tri state area, and Chittarelli still did pretty darn good.
And now I think you have a way different sentiment.
In addition, I don't think Mickey Cheryl, who's the likely
Democratic nominee, is all that, you know, all that cracked
up to be what the Democratic Party wants to say.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
She is.

Speaker 6 (09:44):
On paper, she is sort of cheat. She checks all
the boxes right right, She's exactly who the Democratic parties
thinks they want as their standard bearer. But then you
get to know her, you meet her, and you see
she doesn't have that pizzazz, that flare that you know,
that unquant fiable characteristic that makes certain politicians successful. She
doesn't have that, And that's and I'm not saying that

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as a knock against her. I'm just saying she doesn't.
Whether whether she can fake it or not, we'll see,
but she doesn't have it naturally right.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
It's still a crowded field, and nobody went over twenty
two percent, so it's very possible that someone else could
win that. It'll be fun to watch the results. Thanks
so much, Joe Burrelli, Managing director chart Well Strategy Group
and former Minority leader of the New York City Council.
Miley Cyrus says she regrets almost all of her tattoos,
and she's not alone and tattoo regret, we'll talk about that,

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plus tickets to see the Beach Boys stay with us,
welcome back. We were just saying, I don't I don't
think anybody here has a tattoo. Oh no, no tattoos.
No' I'm even in the newsroom.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
And crash, no tattoo.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
No, He's absolutely not, and he almost laughed at it.
As a matter of fact, nobody in my family has
a tattoo. And I'm not just talking about my kids
and myself, but the nobody in my extended family. I
don't think anybody has a tattoo.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, but my parents, my brother, none of my kids,
my husband were inkless.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
But they're so huge right now. I know, I mean,
everybody's getting tattoos, but.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
I couldn't do it just because I know, not that
I would. No, I would regret it. I would think
that's not what I want now, Just like how I
look at my couch and like, you like that couch anymore?
Why did I buy those curtains? Why did I think
I liked that? With that dress?

Speaker 1 (11:42):
And all the time at a certain age, you know,
skin SAgs. Oh so that cute little butterfly you got
looks gonna look like a gargoy.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Or it fades. Yeah, but yeah, there are people who love.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
Claying.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Miley Cyrus, Yeah, who has seventy four of them?

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Seventy four seventy four apparently, and she that's according to AI,
she has seventy four, but she regrets eighty percent of them.
Eighty percent, eighty percent of her tattoos. Does that mean
she went through them all and said I like this one,
I like this one, I like this one. She is

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quoted in an article saying, I love my dog, but like,
I don't know, just having a pitbull at every picture
for the rest of my life is kind of intense. Yeah. Yeah,
So you get these when you're young and you're maybe drunk,
and you're and you're not as fully. A lot of

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people get them when they're drunk. A lot of people
get them when they work.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
I don't know enough about getting tattoos or anything like that,
but there should be some kind of law that if
the tattoo artist thinks are intoxicated, that maybe they have
to wait.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
That's probably fifty percent of their business.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
They're going to give that that Okay, I guess not.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
But nobody thinks ahead at the time. Nobody thinks ahead
that this is not going to look good a little
bit later.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
I wonder if really people would regret eighty percent of
their tattoos. That's a huge number. I don't think that's true.
I don't think that's the average for most people.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
I don't think it's the average for most people, because
you have to have a substantial amount of tattoos to
dislike eighty percent.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
I know a lot of people who have, you know,
in the whole arm, you know, the sleeve.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
You know a lot of people Yeah, really, yeah, what
are you hanging out in the bike crowd or something
with bait gangs.

Speaker 7 (13:36):
It's very common. It's much more mainstream than it was.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Absolutely, I know tattoos are mainstream. But to have somebody
that has a whole arm, a whole sleeve, they call it.
I know many, you know many. Wow, who are you
hanging out.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Just in Jersey?

Speaker 7 (13:52):
Some of that?

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Some of them are my relatives.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Really you have a relative that has a whole tattooed?
I don't have one, not one.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Oh, you have a very clean familys inkless. I'm sure
how for our audience have yeah, leaves, but I'm sure
the lot of them have tattoos, don't you think. Yeah,
I want to know if you regret. I put it
up on Facebook too, So if you want to go
to Facebook, that's the place you could, you know, talk
to us all day long.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
I'm sure there's deep regret. You're gonna have a lot
of people that are thinking, what was I doing? I
think some people regret it and don't admit it like
the next week.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
I want to hear why you regret it? That's what
I want to hear. Now, Yeah, what was going on
at the time?

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah, yeah, I know. Now Jacqueline Carl with the eight
thirty News Jacqueline Hey, Larry Good Morning.

Speaker 7 (14:45):
Prosecutors are leveling state and federal charges against the suspect
in the Colorado fire attack on supporters of Israeli hostages.
Mohammed Solomon is accused of using a makeshift flamethrower in
Molotov Cocktails and Sunday's attack and boulder, which injured twelve people.
He's charged with the federal hate crime on top of
sixteen counts of attempted murder and other charges. And closing

(15:08):
arguments are expected to begin today in Harvey Weinstein's sex
crimes retrial in Lower Manhattan.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
After about six weeks of trial, twenty four witnesses and
emotional testimony, defense attorneys and prosecutors are now giving their
closing statements before the jury gets handed the case. The
former movie producer star faces rape and sex assault charges
involving three alleged victims who took the stand. Weinstein's lawyers
argue he had consensual relationships with the women. Weinstein was

(15:35):
convicted in twenty twenty, but that was thrown out due
to the witness process not being handled correctly. I'm Scaffpringle
wr News.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
All right, here's a story for you.

Speaker 7 (15:43):
According to Aol dot com, if you've been to the
UK or Ireland, you may have come across a do
it yourself store by the name of B and Q.
That's the chain of stores that's been forced to apologize
after advertising a storage unit that they said was it's
so easy to put together that quote even if you're
a girl.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
You could do it.

Speaker 7 (16:06):
In their apology, yes, you could do it, even if
you're a girl. In their apology, being Q says the
remark came courtesy of a third party seller, but after
the outrage, the company was quick to remove the offending
listing as women, how long do we have to fight
this good fight, Natalie and get equal pay and not
be like I once saw on the news someone said

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even so and so knew that, and he was referring
to a female, you know, anchor and surprised that the
male anchor didn't know it. And this was not too
long ago. It's getting like we all know. I think
that I'm a bit of a feminist, but come on.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
I mean I could follow directions, I could figure it out.
I mean I wouldn't be able to build a house
on my own, but if somebody gave me directions I
could I could build something.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
I know you can't.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Larry's looking at me like absolutely not.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
I can see him. He was just like, no, I'm
not going in. I'm laying back on this. Thanks so much,
Jacqueline carl and congratulations to Anthony Ciano from Astoria, Queens.
You just want a pair of tickets to see the
Beach Boys on July fifth at Northwell Health at Jones
Beach Theater. Purchase tickets at ticketmaster dot com. Another chance

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to win Tomorrow at both seven twenty five and A
twenty five, Sean Diddy Coom's assistant testifies that she was
raped by the music mogul, and the defense wants to
know why she then kept sending love notes to Diddy.
We'll talk with Peter Harralambus about the defense cross examination

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of Mia next and don't forget you can leave us
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and when you're there, put seven to ten wor in
your presets. Isn't it amazing when you see the headline about
the Sean P. D. D Comb's trial. Every day they

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go bombshell testimony. Every single day it's bombshell testimony, and
you know what it has been. That's the thing. It's
amazing the life this guy led and what a bad
guy he was. I mean, I don't know if they
can prove the federal charges, but a lot of stuff
has come out and if it's all true, man, he

(18:28):
should he should be sentenced to something. I mean, there
should be some charges against him, because everybody that takes
that stand has an incredible story to tell. But it's
the federal charges that matter. We have to keep reminding
ourselves of that. So a lot of the things that
have been talked about in the case so far don't
hit the threshold of those federal charges. Some do, and

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we have to wait for the whole thing to play out.
But Peter Harralambus has been in the courtroom with ABC News.
He's an investigative report order in New York. So tell
us about So they're cross examining Mia now, and Mia
is a pseudonym for an assistant, right.

Speaker 5 (19:10):
Yeah, that's exactly right. This is someone who worked as
a personal assistant for Combs for years. She's testifying under
a pseudonym, of course, and She's one of the three
victims who's testifying in this case, and just yesterday she
got off the stand finally after three days of grueling testimony,
particularly harsh cross examination. At one point, prosecutors asked the
judge to intervene, saying that it was basically humiliating in

(19:33):
borderline harassments for this witness to be enduring the kinds
of aggressive questioning that Combs's defense attorney was posing. But
that didn't really stop that defense attorney from continuing to
hammer at this witness, basically using years of text messages
and social media to cast out on our overall allegation
that Tomes basically tormented her and that he sexually assaulted

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and at least raped her on one occasion. It's hard
to say how that cross examination will land with the jury,
but it is certainly indicative of what to expect later
this week when the third and final victim in this case,
who's testifying under a pseudonym named Jane, is going to
take the stand.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Peter, you know, it's interesting as you hear the prosecution
go after him and all the witnesses they're bringing up,
and we've heard time and time again with yeah, that's bad.
That's bad, but it does it meet the federal charges.
After a while, there's so many bad things that the
jury is hearing that this guy allegedly did, it has

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to have an effect after a while. Do some of
the legal analysts believe there's going to be so much
there that they're going to feel and maybe that's the
strategy behind this. Maybe they're going to feel, well, we
can't let this guy just walk. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:53):
I mean, this is a really interesting thing about this
comstra right, because when you think about other cases, if
you think about Harvey Weinstein, for example, and someone who's
actually has his closing statements this afternoon, that is a
trial that was originally thrown out because of testimony about
a bunch of bad acts that were unrelated to the
actual allegation at the center of the case. All of
those bad things, traditionally, lawyers will argue are prejudicial and

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the jury shouldn't hear them because they're kind of irrelevant
to the overall case. But in this case, because it's
a ricketeer and conspiracy case, the prosecutors were able to
weave that in more generally and get that in under
the law, and defense attorneys have kind of adjusted to
that by accepting, by telling the jury, yes, our client
isn't a good guy. Yes he's a domestic abuser, Yes

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he abused drugs. All of these things. They were acknowledging it.
They're not fighting it in the hope that just saying
that that is true allows them to shed or at
least let those allegations sit better with this jury. But again,
when you're hearing it so many times, when you're hearing
about this pervasive lifestyle of abuse, of violence, of threats allegedly,

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it's hard not to think that the jury is gonna
want to go into that deliberation room and say, we
should really spare this guy. Because even if they have
trouble reaching this conclusion on the racketeering charge, on the
sex trafficking charge, all of that other information has a
cumulative effect in a way in terms of how this
jury is viewing Combs.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
And maybe that's been the strategy all along. Maybe they
feel like they don't have to prove, but I would
think that they'd be able to appeal on that. However,
they're admitting to it. They're saying, yeah, he's a bad guy,
it's gonna be it's gonna be really fascinating to see
how this all plays out. Peter Haralambu's ABC News investigative
reporter in New York. Thanks a lot, Peter, Hoop to

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talk to you again soon.

Speaker 5 (22:43):
Thanks, Lerk.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, there's so much. I mean, you hear all of
this stuff. You hear the way he lived his life.
Any any woman near him, he seems like he raped
any woman near him. He seems like he just had
there for his pleasure and they and he was horrible
to them after them. He would threaten people in his life.
He fire bombed the guy's car. I mean, it's incredible

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when you hear all of this.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
It's incredible, and it's scary because you think of all
of the famous people who surrounded themselves, you know, around
him at these parties, and you know, just in his life,
they must have had a clue.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
Oh absolutely, And.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Why wasn't anybody saying anything or protecting these people? That's
what I mean. I mean, I can understand one or two,
but we're talking, you know, hundreds of people.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
Because people were lured into his web. People wanted to
take part in these parties. People wanted to go to
that party.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
But there were people just as famous and just as
much clout in life. Why would they need that, Why
would they know what was wrong?

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Because they're not going to do that on their own.
They're going to his parties because it was cool to
go to his parties. You know who that you know
come out the best in all of this. Of all
the celebrities that went, Denzel Washington comes out the best.
There is video of him leaving a party, disgusted with him,
talking to his face and saying, you're just You're a
despicable man.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Right Why didn't more people do that?

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Only one? That's all they have right now? I mean,
there are so many people, you believe me, right now
in Hollywood, there are so many scared people. There are
so many people worried that this stink is going to
get on them and that eventually somebody's probably working on
this story right now. There's a great investigative reporter that's
going to work on a book and they're investigating this

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right now, and I'm sure people are talking in Hollywood.
People are talking, So that would be fascinating. That's a
book I would read to find out exactly what was
going on there and who was involved, because you know,
some of the big names right off the top of
my head, you know, justin Bieber j Lo. There's so
many of them that were in that circle. And how

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could they not be involved when you see how pervasive
this thing was. Yeah, no, it's it's when when you
hear it, it is stunning and there and I don't
care what they say to that jury, there's no way
that jury is not going to go into the deliberation
room and say, well, look, we can't let that guy

(25:23):
just walk. Even if they didn't prove these charges. We
got to figure out a way.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, they're definitely, you know, have been tainted in such
a probably not the right word, but and.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
The and the fact is when the defense says, yeah, yeah,
he's a bad man, they almost eliminate the possibility of
appeal all of it. It's it's a wild case. Early
voting kicks off in New Jersey as the governor's race
heats up. W L wars Natalie Migliori gets the beat

(25:54):
on the street. Next now hear spat on the street
with Natalie Migliori and they're off. They'll be voting today
in the New Jersey Governor's race, and the two primaries
to decide the two people that they are going to
run to be the next governor of New Jersey, and

(26:15):
the races has national importance too. It's considered a bell
weather about how people feel right now that they lean Republican,
do they like Trump? Do they lean Democrat. A lot
of money is going to be spent on this race,
and Natalie Mglori has been talking to New Jersey voters
to find out how they feel about it in her
beat on the street.

Speaker 7 (26:35):
Good morning, Natalie, Yeah, good morning Larry.

Speaker 8 (26:38):
I almost feel like people don't even know what's happening. Yes,
we'll see when we get there. Early voting gets underwee
today in New Jersey's primary race for governor. It's a
crowd race with at least eleven candidates running just for
the parties right, but New Jerseys will start reading out
the field this week. Not everyone about politics this morning.

Speaker 9 (27:02):
I just moved in.

Speaker 5 (27:03):
I don't get moved all with the politics, but thankfully welcome.

Speaker 9 (27:05):
I'm probably the wrong person I ask, unfortunately my view
on politics.

Speaker 7 (27:09):
I hate the politics of politics.

Speaker 9 (27:11):
I don't want to see a Democrat. I want to
see a Republican. In this time I've lived in New
Jersey for too many years, and I'm tired of the
politics from one side in this you know, not well
on to negotiate with the other side. I was Democrat
my entire life, and then you know, decided to switch
party affiliations a few big years back, and hopefully we

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get a good you know challenger to the Democratic nod
this year.

Speaker 8 (27:36):
Yeah, so, who's running? Well, six Democrats are buying to
be the party's candidate, while five Republicans are giving it
their best shot. But according to political only three Republicans
are considered major candidates in this race. But it honestly
doesn't seem like any candidates are making headway, at least
with these folks who say they're not even seeing political

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ads with candidates.

Speaker 10 (28:00):
Yeah, I hope someone starts, you know, maybe even on
like Facebook and like the television and like sput on
on social media, starts pushing it, because yeah, I live there,
my taxes go there, so I should know. It's really
ignorant for me to say I don't not of the bunch.

Speaker 9 (28:14):
Unfortunately, we don't have too many good Republican nods this year.
But you know what, maybe one out of three so
so will be good enough.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
For New Jersey. You know, voters, well.

Speaker 8 (28:26):
Voters may not be sure who is on the ballot,
but they definitely know what they want.

Speaker 9 (28:32):
I'm looking for people to be in touch with the
tax payers, the people that fund everything. And that's the
biggest problem is, you know, they are so out of
touch with what New Jersey voters want that they forget.

Speaker 5 (28:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (28:43):
I hope someone comes in, and I hope someone actually
gives a sound plan what they want to do. Like
I want to see evidence of someone.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Who's going to take care and get rid of a
lot of the illegal immigrants. You know, some of the
stuff that President Trump are kind of rolled back for
rights for women, things like that.

Speaker 7 (28:57):
That's not cool.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
And you know, the DBT community that's important to me.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
We need to defend them.

Speaker 9 (29:03):
They made a lot of strides in the last bunch
of years, and I would hate to see them go backwards.

Speaker 8 (29:09):
Yeah, so essentially the last guy saying that he really
wanted a governor to protect people from the national Forefront. Again, Larry,
in the beginning, we were saying this was a Bellweather race,
so this really could determine which way, you know, or
determine how the country is sort of rolling it could

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be a picture of that. However, Victoria one voter has
a slew of concerns for whoever takes office, especially when
it comes to affordability, housing and benefits.

Speaker 10 (29:41):
The fact that we still have areas with veterans not
getting assistants, are elderly not getting assistants, there's not a
lot of help for single parents, and the one of
the most, if not the most expensive states in the country.
So if they can figure out plans and programs that
actually helps in our long term, I think that's the
best thing they can do. And and also all these

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new builders who are building these new apartment complexes that
are saying empty Hackensack is like seventeen buildings of empty
apartments because they're new builds and no one's renting them
because no one can afford them. From what I remember
is that New Jersey gave them tax cuts, so they're
just like, Okay, well we can leave them empty. We
don't even have to rent them. Housing is huge in
New Jersey. Why are sixteen buildings empty?

Speaker 8 (30:21):
Yeah, And that led to the conversation of affordability Larry
and really being able to buy a house. So that's
definitely on that voter's mind as she heads to the
polls sometime this week. Poles will be open every day
through Sunday. They'll then close on Monday and reopen for
the actual primary election day next Tuesday, toune tenth, So
we'll really see who the candidates are and who will

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be running.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yeah, it's a little disheartening that nobody knows who's running
with all the people you talk to or from New Jersey.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yeah, oh oh boy, oh boy.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
Okay, Well, it's gonna be a low voter. It's our
you know. It's funny that one woman said that she
hasn't seen any ads since I've been sitting here. There's
been four that's run. I guess she was talking about
social media. If they don't have them on social media,
that's their fault. That's just stupid. Thanks a lot, Natalie.
Be back tomorrow morning at eight point fifty. The media
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coverage of the anti Semitic attack on Jews in Boulder, Colorado.
National Review editor Rich Lowry is up next to talk
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