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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He's minty in the morning on seventen wr.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's Friday, and it's gonna be a hot one today.
But you heard Ray Stagic, Tomorrow is going to be beautiful.
And he told us in an extended forecast, and we
have him coming up again in just a little while.
He told us in an extended forecast that if you
look ahead to next week, there is a few days
(00:26):
of beautiful weather, nice almost fall weather where it's just
gonna feel nice outside for several days. We're gonna have
Race Agac coming up in about half an hour. In
the Big Three twenty years sentence a twenty year sentence
for Gislaine Maxwell. But she is in Florida now answering
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questions from behind bars for six hours about Jeffrey Epstein
and his clients, which, by the way, is all upsetting
to the women who were victimized as teenagers.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I think that to be told that suddenly she's being
brought to the table as a potential source of information
when she's previously been charged with perjury by the government
is very confusing and unsettling.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It is. And that is Annie Farmer, one of the victims,
who is watching all of this and is just horrified
that she may get time off for sentence. We don't
know that yet, but you want to pay attention to that.
Former Congressman George Santos reports to prison today after his
plea for a pardon from Donald Trump failed. I don't
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think it made it to the president.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Unfortunately, gatekeepers have blockaded for ever getting to the President.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
He has to report to the low security prison at
two o'clock today. The Trump administration is suing New York
City for its sanctuary city policy in the wake of
a CBP agent being shot in the face by two
assailants with a long rap she even though they were
in the country illegally for just two years.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
He was arrested four different times in New York City
and because of the mayor's policies and sanctuary city policies,
was released back to do harm to people into individuals
living in this city. Make no mistake, this officer is
in the hospital today fighting for his life because of
the policies of the mayor of the city.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
In the federal lawsuit against New York City for its
sanctuary city policies, Mayor Adams is the first name listed.
A young police officer in Suffolk County is shot in
the face while serving a search warrant at the home
of a murder suspect in North Bay Shore. So I
spoke to him a little while ago. He's got a
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smile on his face. I think he's in a lot
of pain, but I think he understands that, yeah, this
could have gone a lot worse. So I think, you know,
he's happy to be alive, and we're happy that he
is alive. And pro wrestling's greatest star has died.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
At again.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That is the Great Hulk Hogan at the Republican National
Convention in twenty twenty. He died of a heart attack
at seventy one years old. And yet another celebrity death.
Everybody knows the song and the artist, the great musician
Chuck Mangioni, is dead at the age of eighty four. Man,
that song you just it's you hear it all the time.
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It's just played constantly, and by the way, you never
get tired of it, and that's why it is timeless. Now,
let's talk to Rick Klein, ABC News National Bureau Chief. Rick,
were you either a big Chuck Mangioni fan or a
big Hulk Hogan fan?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
A Hulk I mean, look, I grew up in the eighties,
Are you kidding me? I mean he was like you
know that. I was last summer when Hulk Hull came
into the Republican National Convention and tore off his shirt
and he looked just like he did to my mind
in nineteen eighty six, and it was it was one
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of those pinching moments for me to be able to
winnits that that was a huge part of my childhood
and uh just a just an enormous figure in pop
culture and made pro wrestling into what it was and
for kids in the eighties. Wow, that was That was
pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Rick. I wouldn't have seen you as a pro wrestling fan.
This is fascinating.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Oh my goodness. I mean I I you know, I've
a National Coliseum for some some events in the eighties.
For sure. Yeah, it was it was all. It was pervasive.
Got the magazine and the band club, the little you know,
the dolls to you know, to have your little fake
wrestling matches in your basement.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Oh wow, Oh yeah, Oh that's great. Well, that's great
that you have such wonderful memories of him. Let's talk
about somebody that's not going to leave great memories and
has not. And that's Jeffrey Epstein and the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
This thing is not going away. I heard some of
the Republican congressmen, including James Comer's said I don't care
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if there's a recess. We are going to have hearings
on this when we come back. And I guess the
question is how does the Trump administration handle this?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, it's really striking. I mean, Congress is that of
session early to avoid those tough votes, But clearly those
tough votes are going to continue because the pressure isn't
going to abate. I think in some ways, with members
back in their districts, they're going to be hearing this fstituent.
And I think the move to dispatch the number two
and the Justice Department Todd Blanch who happened to be
happened to be Donald Trump's personal lawyer until recently, won't
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quiet it either, because you know, we don't know what
the what an affair now serving time is having to
say about this, what she could possibly offer to the
Justice Department a lesson her sentence as more information comes out,
The willst internal The New York Times have had new
details of aspects of the relationship and how close Trump
and Epstein themselves where it is baffling. Trump is used
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to having your total control of pease control over media narratives,
and he's lost those for now three weeks, which is
an eternity in Trump Land, where he's able to change
subjects as quickly as he typically can.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
He kept trying. I mean, he was throwing stuff out
left and right, including changing in the name of the
Washington Commanders back to the Redskins. Nothing seems to have worked.
And I don't know what it is about this story. No,
I guess I do. I guess there is a sense
that justice has to be done and too many men
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got away with having sex with underage girls and they
want them outed. I heard something interesting from Pete Sessions,
and I want to get your response to this. I
always thought you can't put these names out because of
all the legal actions, because they're just accusations. Nobody's going
through a court process. Pete Session says, what about the videos.
You can see the faces of these men in the videos,
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and you can identify them then and there you have
them caught in the act. How come we don't know
those names. I thought that was a great point, Rick,
It is.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
A great point, and it's a reminder, you know, we've
been looking for a client list or something like that.
It might not exist, right like, it probably doesn't. And
the experts that have been that, I thought to you
would have been on the records. It's not like he
was running a ring. He was a guy that had
certain gravities and he may have gotten perks for some
of his friends. But you're right, if there are if
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there's video evidence or you know, other or photographic evidence
out there that implicate other individuals, I think people would
want to know that.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
I think you're right.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I mean, it's not you know, the sense of this
and the reason it kind of took took on like
orbit speed as a as a story for so many
people is is, you know, you had the allegations of
children being exploited and powerful men, mostly men who were
taking advantage of that and running in these social circles
and they are not you know, and then murky circumstances
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around Epstein's death and about the other details, all the
big names that are out there and no one has
faced any kind of consequences. Maybe they didn't know anything wrong.
There are almost certainly is more information that isn't being
released that would get to that, and that's what the
clamor's about.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, it's amazing, as you said that this just doesn't
seem to be going away. In New York, of course,
the big story today is the lawsuit over the sanctuary
city policy, and it's a fascinating lawsuit in that it
uses the supremacy clause and it seems that in the
past they've been able to fight against that, but it
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seems now that keeping the officers out of the prisons
may have been a step too far for these cities.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, I think that's one of the questions. You know,
the officers, will you know, have the right to go
where other members of the public do. And obviously another
level of that as themselves actual law enforcement officers and
in the idea, and we saw this very dramatically in Wisconsin.
Is any law enforcement official on the state level is
trying to hide someone? But it's an area where you've
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got a real conflict and state, city and federal law
and and how you go about the question of enforcing
those laws is central because you want, you know, if
the city you want to protect people under the laws
of the city. But the federal government has its own obligations.
So this is going to say a while to play
out in court. And you know, some of the examples
I know the Justice Department has been citing or are
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outrageous people that are arrested many times and you know,
end up being released again because of a sanctuary state
so called sanctuary city status. But but but has broad
an implication. You know, it protects the innocence as well
and people that might be kind of caught up in
a in a very harsh legal process that results in
very quick deportation.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Hey, real quick, Rick, what's coming up this week on Sunday?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, John Carls in the chair is going to be
talking to Rocanna and Thomas Massey, a Democrat and a
Republican Congressman who have a bill they're trying to force
onto the floor to force this discussion of uh of
more files And they say they have the votes if
they just have the opportunity to get House back consession U.
And you know you've mentioned the Washington Commanders slash Redskins.
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We're going to be talking to Stephen A. Smith from ESPN.
He's been talking to the New York mayoral candidates among others,
but also the way Donald Trump is trying to play
the politics of sports in this moment. I think it's
pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah, steven A is always great, look forward to it. Ricklin,
ABC News Washington Bureau Chief, thanks so much. Well, we've
got dangerous heat as we said today, and we got
raced agic as promised coming up and tickets to see
Kat Stevens at the Beacon Theater stay with us wo R. Nancy,
(10:34):
thanks so much for your talkbacks. See you have been
great today.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
If there was a woman today that was underage and
had sex with Donald Trump, don't you think that she
would have come forward?
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Yes, she would have.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I love that she whispered sex that sex with no,
but you're absolutely right that would have been out there.
That would have been out there before.
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Stagic Ray? What do people? Should people take precautions today?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Yeah, certainly, and guess what, It's already close to eighty
degrees in some spots right now with the heat indecks
already in the mid number eighties across the area. I'm
still holding seventy seven Central Park on the other side
of the river. Eighty degrees right now in Hoboken. Nice
tell you over there. Eighty degrees in Harrison too, and
also eighty in Brooklyn. So we're getting up there this afternoon.
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Mid nineties could be some records set. It feels like
temperature add or just above one hundred degrees with the
heat advisory, So there are gonna be outdoors, plenty of fluids,
preferably water. They recommend light colored, loose fitting clothing. If
you do have to work, construction worker working out in
the yard, frequent breaks, keep yourself cool anyway you can.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
All right, let's get to the good stuff. You gave
us a tease. You gave us a teas a couple
of hours ago. About what's coming, share.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
I think early next week we'll get back to the
nineties after a little cool off over the weekend. Later
next week, maybe a real nice cool off coming. They
spend a couple of days hovering around eighty degrees with
low humidity, we'll see it. Looks like late next week
into next weekend could see a cooler airmass come back
in very comfortable.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
All right, what about two weeks from now? Is that
gonna be nice? Yes?
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Chance of darkness toward the end of the day.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Such a thanks.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
What do you want the winter out?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Thanks? Oh, yeah, we'll do that. When when does that
normally come out? Just about every meteorologist on television is
forced to do that, and they all hated by the
way having to do their winter out looks. Yeah, that
comes out in the fall sometime, right, not not yet.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Yeah, you could probably get a glance, but soon.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I'll ask you that. Have a great weekend, Meteorologist Race Stagic,
thanks again.
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Speaker 2 (13:56):
Now back to Minty in the morning on WOOR. You know,
it's fascinating they keep holding these depositions behind closed doors
into the auto pen that was used during the Biden administration,
and also about his mental competency, and person after person
after person continues to take the fifth in all of this,
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and that means that they're worried about criminal prosecution. It's
something to watch. Also something to watch is the mayor
for governor, which just got a little bit more interesting.
Because it was a shock to me. I don't know
about you, but when Mike Lawler decided he's not going
to run for governor, he's here and right now Representative
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Mike Lawler. He represents New York seventeenth district Representative Congressman.
Thank you so much. I appreciate you being with us today.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
Thanks for having me on, Larry.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, no, absolutely, I was shocked this week. I was
really surprised only because recent polls owed you ahead in
the race for the Republican nomination to run for governor
of the State of New York, and then you made
this announcement this week that you weren't going to run.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
What went into that, Well, this is something that obviously
I've been mulling over for six months or so and
really put a lot of thought into it. Went through
a very unemotional process, if you will, and much more
data driven and weighing a number of factors, including the
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fact that I love what I'm doing. You know, serving
in Congress is not only a great honor, but you're
dealing with so many national issues and issues impacting the country,
and serving on foreign affairs and financial services really gives
me a front row seat if you will too. So
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many of the challenges that we're facing and the big
issues that we're working. Obviously, in this most recent big,
beautiful bill, was able to deliver on one of my
big promises to my district, which was to lift the
cap on salt. And so, you know, as I weighed
all of the different factors and considerations and including how
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important my seat is to maintaining the House Republican majority,
you know, I made the determination that at this at
this moment, you know, this is the right decision for me,
for my family, for my district, and I think for
our country. There's no question Kathy Hochel is a disaster.
I do fundamentally believe she is beatable. She's consistently in
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the low forties in terms of her polling. Most people
just don't like her, and it's in large measure because
she's the most incompetent, effeckless governor in the country.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
But also, you know, yeah, I get it. There's a
narrative out there, however, that you've got a phone call
from Donald Trump, and he had promised that at least
a phonic if she stepped down as being the nominee
for ambassador to the un he would support her in
running for governor, and that your phone call with Donald
Trump was him trying to convince you not to run.
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Is there any truth to that?
Speaker 7 (17:17):
You know? So that's that's not the way the conversation
when first, when I met with the President in person
for ben hour in the Oval office. Second of all,
the least has no bearing on this. This really boils
down to my own considerations. Uh. And you know, the
President certainly expressed his perspective of how important the House
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majority is. But you know, ultimately this was my decision.
And you know, at the end of the day, as
I said, one of the reasons why you know, it
took me six months to work through it was because
I actually like what I'm doing. Yeah, So you know, look,
there's a I'm thirty eight years old, there's a there's
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a long road ahead, and I'm a big believer life
works out the way it's supposed to, and you know,
whatever the future holds, it holds. But the fact is,
in this moment, you know, my focus will continue to
be on delivering for my district, delivering for our state,
and delivering for our country in my capacity as a
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member of Congress and serving as chair of the Middle
East and North Africa Subcommittee on the Foreign Affairs Committee,
Vice Chair of Communications for the Financial Services Committee, and
doing the work that I was elected to do. And
there's a lot of work left to be done.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
So I understand that. Yeah, I get it, I get it.
You have that, And I want to talk about especially
the Jeffrey Epstein thing, because our listeners you just can't
get enough of that, as as it seems like everybody
across the country is now focused on the Jeffrey Epstein story.
But I want to clear up one other rumor, and
I'm glad that you cleared that up, that you were
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offered something from the president to not run. Is there
any truth to that?
Speaker 7 (19:07):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
No, okay, no.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
I again, ultimately, this was my decision. He's the President
the United States. Of course you're going to sit down
and discuss, you know, these issues, especially when we have
such a tight margin, and him being from New York,
he cares about New York. He cares about you know,
what's happening in the mayor's race, for instance. We talked
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extensively about that. But you know, ultimately, this was my
decision and mine alone, and I'm fully content with the
decision that I made.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Well, thank you. Now listen, the Epstein story is not
going to go away. As a matter of fact, I
heard James Comer say he's planning on holding hearings. He
doesn't care how long the recess is. He's going to
hold hearings when they come back. And he wants to
talk to Jillane Maxwell as well. What is your position
on this, do you? I think it's a good use
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of congressional time to try to allow all this information
to get out.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Look, as I said repeatedly, anyone who committed a crime,
anyone who acted in furtherance of Jeffrey Epstein or Chisplaine
Maxwell's crimes should be prosecuted. Anybody who sexually abused or
engaged in human trafficking of women and children should be prosecuted.
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And you know, frankly, what I find disturbing about this
whole thing is that the focus is not on the victims.
The focus does a political.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Oh what, we lost you there for a second. Can
you hear me, congressman, can you hear me? Yeah, I
can hear you.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Now.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
We just lost you there for a moment. It was
a very important time. But please continue, where did you
lose me? We lost you when you say the focus
should be on the victims.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
Yeah, the focus should be on the victims. And you know,
unfortunately you have people in both parties that are trying
to use this as a political bludgeon as opposed to
actually focusing on protecting the victims and prosecuting those who
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in fact committed criminal offenses. Does anybody really believe that
the Biden administration, having all of this information for four years,
having tried to indict and prosecute Donald Trump through the
Department of Justice, that they would not have done so
sitting on all this information if there was some connection
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between the president and Jeffrey Epstein with regards to Jeffrey
Epstein's crimes. I mean, does anybody really believe that? So
from my vantage point, this whole thing is become nothing
but a political tool as opposed to seeking the actual truth.
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And you know, to me, it's just it's a disgusting
use of Congress and an abuse of the system. If
there are crimes that have occurred, they should be prosecuted.
That's what everybody should be demanding. But in the absence
of that, what exactly are we seeking to do.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
We'll find out maybe maybe the end of the hearings
or maybe the end of an investigation would be exactly
what you're looking for, and that people be charged that
that have been able to skate in the past.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
But respectfully, you've hadntion for basically a decade.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I get it. I understand. Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
There was a trial.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yep, yep, you're right, there was a trial. So representive,
we're having a hard time with your phone line. I'm sorry, sir.
Representative Mike Lawler, representing New York's seventeenth District. Thanks so much.
President Trump shocked the media with a surprise visit to
the Federal Reserve to take a tour with Fed Chair
Jerome Powell. What was that all about. It's very simple.
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I'll explain next.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Now back to mentee in the morning on seventor so.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
It was pretty fascinating, wasn't it yesterday that the Federal
Reserve is going to decide on interest rates next week?
And you know that Donald Trump has been furious that
they won't bring down interest rates. It'll save the country problems.
And when we have to pay debt and we have
to pay off of anything, anything, we have to pay
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for and anything that requires a loan with the federal government,
it's going to cost more. He said, it cost us
three hundred billion dollars every time they do every time
they don't reduce the interest rates for every point, it
cost the country money. And he has railed about that,
and he's called Jerome poll and idiot, He's called him
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every nay, stupid, he's called him every name in the book.
He said he was going to replace him, he was
going to bring in somebody to see if he could
fire him everything. And then all of a sudden, now
knowing that next week on the twenty ninth and thirtieth,
the Federal Reserve meets, he shows up at the FED building.
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Now that is really unusual. The last president to do
that was Bush the father. He showed up one time,
but he was invited. This one was him just saying
I'm gonna come, I'm gonna be there. And it's amazing
because there is something charming about Donald Trump. Now I
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know that people that are on the left never see that,
and they think he's hitler, and they think he's an ogre,
and you know, he's gruff and he's a tyrant. But
you know, I go back to the interview with Bill
Maher when he hated Donald Trump and he went to
the Oval office and he met him, and he came
away going, I liked them. He's funny, he's charming, he goes.
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I may not agree with him, but he's a great guy.
When you're with him. He listens, he doesn't talk over you.
He's just a really good guy to be around. And
I enjoyed my visit. But that's not just Bill Maher
that that is the most extreme example of it, but
it's person after person after person that when they meet
Donald Trump and spend time with him, he's not the character.
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He's like Hulkchin, right, He's not the character that you see.
He is somebody else, and he's very nice. So he
showed up. I guarantee you to try to charm Jerome Poull. Now,
I know that what's played in the news all the
time is the argument they had. They had a little bit,
you know, not a screaming at each other argument. But
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he's been saying constantly that Jerome Powell wasted three billion
dollars on fixing the FED buildings and that that was
a waste of money, and that he might investigate him,
and so that came up and that this is what
you'll hear constantly on the news, that third buildings, what
that is.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
That's a third building.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
It's a building that's being built now. It's been he
was built five years ago. We finished Martin five years
later over as part of the overall so new And
then he tried to change the subject. So he said
that they wasted all this money and that they're currently
in construction and that's why they had hard hats on.
But he wanted to point out that we built a
whole another building and the other building was five years ago.
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And Donald Trump, who does not like anybody to interrupt
him and say he's wrong, went back and forth with
him for a while. So is that that constantly made
the news. What you didn't hear is when Donald Trump
talked about the meeting last week, and you'd think that
they were best friends.
Speaker 9 (26:57):
Well, I'd love him to lower interest right. Other than that,
what can I tell you? The country's doing really well.
I just brief the chairman on the deal we've made
with Japan. Japan is putting up five hundred and fifty
billion dollars in order to lower their tariffs a little
bit that way, they have a little bit lower tariff.
And they also opened their country to free trade, which
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nobody felt was even a possibility.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Right, And so constantly he brought that up, no matter
what he was talking about. He talked about meeting next week.
Speaker 9 (27:26):
I believe that the chairman is going to do the
right thing. I mean, it may be a little too late,
as the expression goes, but I believe he's going to
do the right thing.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
So all smiles and giggles and laughs, and we'll see
what happens next week. If the charm of Donald Trump
finally gets those interest rates lowered, we'll all do better
if it does well. Is mining the job of the future.
Futurist reporter Kevin Sirelli says yes, He's up next.
He's minty in the morning on seventen wr.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's Friday, and it's gonna be a hot one today.
But you heard Ray Stagic, Tomorrow is going to be beautiful.
And he told us in an extended forecast, and we
have him coming up again in just a little while.
He told us in an extended forecast that if you
look ahead to next week, there is a few days
(00:26):
of beautiful weather, nice almost fall weather where it's just
gonna feel nice outside for several days. We're gonna have
Race Agac coming up in about half an hour. In
the Big Three twenty years sentence a twenty year sentence
for Gislaine Maxwell. But she is in Florida now answering
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questions from behind bars for six hours about Jeffrey Epstein
and his clients, which, by the way, is all upsetting
to the women who were victimized as teenagers.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I think that to be told that suddenly she's being
brought to the table as a potential source of information
when she's previously been charged with perjury by the government
is very confusing and unsettling.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It is. And that is Annie Farmer, one of the victims,
who is watching all of this and is just horrified
that she may get time off for sentence. We don't
know that yet, but you want to pay attention to that.
Former Congressman George Santos reports to prison today after his
plea for a pardon from Donald Trump failed. I don't
(01:35):
think it made it to the president.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Unfortunately, gatekeepers have blockaded for ever getting to the President.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
He has to report to the low security prison at
two o'clock today. The Trump administration is suing New York
City for its sanctuary city policy in the wake of
a CBP agent being shot in the face by two
assailants with a long rap she even though they were
in the country illegally for just two years.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
He was arrested four different times in New York City
and because of the mayor's policies and sanctuary city policies,
was released back to do harm to people into individuals
living in this city. Make no mistake, this officer is
in the hospital today fighting for his life because of
the policies of the mayor of the city.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
In the federal lawsuit against New York City for its
sanctuary city policies, Mayor Adams is the first name listed.
A young police officer in Suffolk County is shot in
the face while serving a search warrant at the home
of a murder suspect in North Bay Shore. So I
spoke to him a little while ago. He's got a
(02:43):
smile on his face. I think he's in a lot
of pain, but I think he understands that, yeah, this
could have gone a lot worse. So I think, you know,
he's happy to be alive, and we're happy that he
is alive. And pro wrestling's greatest star has died.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
At again.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That is the Great Hulk Hogan at the Republican National
Convention in twenty twenty. He died of a heart attack
at seventy one years old. And yet another celebrity death.
Everybody knows the song and the artist, the great musician
Chuck Mangioni, is dead at the age of eighty four. Man,
that song you just it's you hear it all the time.
(03:27):
It's just played constantly, and by the way, you never
get tired of it, and that's why it is timeless. Now,
let's talk to Rick Klein, ABC News National Bureau Chief. Rick,
were you either a big Chuck Mangioni fan or a
big Hulk Hogan fan?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
A Hulk I mean, look, I grew up in the eighties,
Are you kidding me? I mean he was like you
know that. I was last summer when Hulk Hull came
into the Republican National Convention and tore off his shirt
and he looked just like he did to my mind
in nineteen eighty six, and it was it was one
(04:05):
of those pinching moments for me to be able to
winnits that that was a huge part of my childhood
and uh just a just an enormous figure in pop
culture and made pro wrestling into what it was and
for kids in the eighties. Wow, that was That was
pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Rick. I wouldn't have seen you as a pro wrestling fan.
This is fascinating.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Oh my goodness. I mean I I you know, I've
a National Coliseum for some some events in the eighties.
For sure. Yeah, it was it was all. It was pervasive.
Got the magazine and the band club, the little you know,
the dolls to you know, to have your little fake
wrestling matches in your basement.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Oh wow, Oh yeah, Oh that's great. Well, that's great
that you have such wonderful memories of him. Let's talk
about somebody that's not going to leave great memories and
has not. And that's Jeffrey Epstein and the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
This thing is not going away. I heard some of
the Republican congressmen, including James Comer's said I don't care
(05:01):
if there's a recess. We are going to have hearings
on this when we come back. And I guess the
question is how does the Trump administration handle this?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, it's really striking. I mean, Congress is that of
session early to avoid those tough votes, But clearly those
tough votes are going to continue because the pressure isn't
going to abate. I think in some ways, with members
back in their districts, they're going to be hearing this fstituent.
And I think the move to dispatch the number two
and the Justice Department Todd Blanch who happened to be
happened to be Donald Trump's personal lawyer until recently, won't
(05:33):
quiet it either, because you know, we don't know what
the what an affair now serving time is having to
say about this, what she could possibly offer to the
Justice Department a lesson her sentence as more information comes out,
The willst internal The New York Times have had new
details of aspects of the relationship and how close Trump
and Epstein themselves where it is baffling. Trump is used
(05:56):
to having your total control of pease control over media narratives,
and he's lost those for now three weeks, which is
an eternity in Trump Land, where he's able to change
subjects as quickly as he typically can.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
He kept trying. I mean, he was throwing stuff out
left and right, including changing in the name of the
Washington Commanders back to the Redskins. Nothing seems to have worked.
And I don't know what it is about this story. No,
I guess I do. I guess there is a sense
that justice has to be done and too many men
(06:28):
got away with having sex with underage girls and they
want them outed. I heard something interesting from Pete Sessions,
and I want to get your response to this. I
always thought you can't put these names out because of
all the legal actions, because they're just accusations. Nobody's going
through a court process. Pete Session says, what about the videos.
You can see the faces of these men in the videos,
(06:50):
and you can identify them then and there you have
them caught in the act. How come we don't know
those names. I thought that was a great point, Rick,
It is.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
A great point, and it's a reminder, you know, we've
been looking for a client list or something like that.
It might not exist, right like, it probably doesn't. And
the experts that have been that, I thought to you
would have been on the records. It's not like he
was running a ring. He was a guy that had
certain gravities and he may have gotten perks for some
of his friends. But you're right, if there are if
(07:21):
there's video evidence or you know, other or photographic evidence
out there that implicate other individuals, I think people would
want to know that.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
I think you're right.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I mean, it's not you know, the sense of this
and the reason it kind of took took on like
orbit speed as a as a story for so many
people is is, you know, you had the allegations of
children being exploited and powerful men, mostly men who were
taking advantage of that and running in these social circles
and they are not you know, and then murky circumstances
(07:50):
around Epstein's death and about the other details, all the
big names that are out there and no one has
faced any kind of consequences. Maybe they didn't know anything wrong.
There are almost certainly is more information that isn't being
released that would get to that, and that's what the
clamor's about.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, it's amazing, as you said that this just doesn't
seem to be going away. In New York, of course,
the big story today is the lawsuit over the sanctuary
city policy, and it's a fascinating lawsuit in that it
uses the supremacy clause and it seems that in the
past they've been able to fight against that, but it
(08:26):
seems now that keeping the officers out of the prisons
may have been a step too far for these cities.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, I think that's one of the questions. You know,
the officers, will you know, have the right to go
where other members of the public do. And obviously another
level of that as themselves actual law enforcement officers and
in the idea, and we saw this very dramatically in Wisconsin.
Is any law enforcement official on the state level is
trying to hide someone? But it's an area where you've
(08:58):
got a real conflict and state, city and federal law
and and how you go about the question of enforcing
those laws is central because you want, you know, if
the city you want to protect people under the laws
of the city. But the federal government has its own obligations.
So this is going to say a while to play
out in court. And you know, some of the examples
I know the Justice Department has been citing or are
(09:21):
outrageous people that are arrested many times and you know,
end up being released again because of a sanctuary state
so called sanctuary city status. But but but has broad
an implication. You know, it protects the innocence as well
and people that might be kind of caught up in
a in a very harsh legal process that results in
very quick deportation.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Hey, real quick, Rick, what's coming up this week on Sunday?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, John Carls in the chair is going to be
talking to Rocanna and Thomas Massey, a Democrat and a
Republican Congressman who have a bill they're trying to force
onto the floor to force this discussion of uh of
more files And they say they have the votes if
they just have the opportunity to get House back consession U.
And you know you've mentioned the Washington Commanders slash Redskins.
(10:02):
We're going to be talking to Stephen A. Smith from ESPN.
He's been talking to the New York mayoral candidates among others,
but also the way Donald Trump is trying to play
the politics of sports in this moment. I think it's
pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah, steven A is always great, look forward to it. Ricklin,
ABC News Washington Bureau Chief, thanks so much. Well, we've
got dangerous heat as we said today, and we got
raced agic as promised coming up and tickets to see
Kat Stevens at the Beacon Theater stay with us wo R. Nancy,
(10:34):
thanks so much for your talkbacks. See you have been
great today.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
If there was a woman today that was underage and
had sex with Donald Trump, don't you think that she
would have come forward?
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Yes, she would have.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I love that she whispered sex that sex with no,
but you're absolutely right that would have been out there.
That would have been out there before.
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(11:20):
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Yeah, but there's some people that have complained about what
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Speaking of legends, holding on the phone is meteorologist Rays
(12:07):
Stagic Ray? What do people? Should people take precautions today?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Yeah, certainly, and guess what, It's already close to eighty
degrees in some spots right now with the heat indecks
already in the mid number eighties across the area. I'm
still holding seventy seven Central Park on the other side
of the river. Eighty degrees right now in Hoboken. Nice
tell you over there. Eighty degrees in Harrison too, and
also eighty in Brooklyn. So we're getting up there this afternoon.
(12:35):
Mid nineties could be some records set. It feels like
temperature add or just above one hundred degrees with the
heat advisory, So there are gonna be outdoors, plenty of fluids,
preferably water. They recommend light colored, loose fitting clothing. If
you do have to work, construction worker working out in
the yard, frequent breaks, keep yourself cool anyway you can.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
All right, let's get to the good stuff. You gave
us a tease. You gave us a teas a couple
of hours ago. About what's coming, share.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
I think early next week we'll get back to the
nineties after a little cool off over the weekend. Later
next week, maybe a real nice cool off coming. They
spend a couple of days hovering around eighty degrees with
low humidity, we'll see it. Looks like late next week
into next weekend could see a cooler airmass come back
in very comfortable.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
All right, what about two weeks from now? Is that
gonna be nice? Yes?
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Chance of darkness toward the end of the day.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Such a thanks.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
What do you want the winter out?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Thanks? Oh, yeah, we'll do that. When when does that
normally come out? Just about every meteorologist on television is
forced to do that, and they all hated by the
way having to do their winter out looks. Yeah, that
comes out in the fall sometime, right, not not yet.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Yeah, you could probably get a glance, but soon.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I'll ask you that. Have a great weekend, Meteorologist Race Stagic,
thanks again.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
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Speaker 2 (13:56):
Now back to Minty in the morning on WOOR. You know,
it's fascinating they keep holding these depositions behind closed doors
into the auto pen that was used during the Biden administration,
and also about his mental competency, and person after person
after person continues to take the fifth in all of this,
(14:21):
and that means that they're worried about criminal prosecution. It's
something to watch. Also something to watch is the mayor
for governor, which just got a little bit more interesting.
Because it was a shock to me. I don't know
about you, but when Mike Lawler decided he's not going
to run for governor, he's here and right now Representative
(14:42):
Mike Lawler. He represents New York seventeenth district Representative Congressman.
Thank you so much. I appreciate you being with us today.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
Thanks for having me on, Larry.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, no, absolutely, I was shocked this week. I was
really surprised only because recent polls owed you ahead in
the race for the Republican nomination to run for governor
of the State of New York, and then you made
this announcement this week that you weren't going to run.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
What went into that, Well, this is something that obviously
I've been mulling over for six months or so and
really put a lot of thought into it. Went through
a very unemotional process, if you will, and much more
data driven and weighing a number of factors, including the
(15:34):
fact that I love what I'm doing. You know, serving
in Congress is not only a great honor, but you're
dealing with so many national issues and issues impacting the country,
and serving on foreign affairs and financial services really gives
me a front row seat if you will too. So
(15:54):
many of the challenges that we're facing and the big
issues that we're working. Obviously, in this most recent big,
beautiful bill, was able to deliver on one of my
big promises to my district, which was to lift the
cap on salt. And so, you know, as I weighed
all of the different factors and considerations and including how
(16:15):
important my seat is to maintaining the House Republican majority,
you know, I made the determination that at this at
this moment, you know, this is the right decision for me,
for my family, for my district, and I think for
our country. There's no question Kathy Hochel is a disaster.
I do fundamentally believe she is beatable. She's consistently in
(16:39):
the low forties in terms of her polling. Most people
just don't like her, and it's in large measure because
she's the most incompetent, effeckless governor in the country.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
But also, you know, yeah, I get it. There's a
narrative out there, however, that you've got a phone call
from Donald Trump, and he had promised that at least
a phonic if she stepped down as being the nominee
for ambassador to the un he would support her in
running for governor, and that your phone call with Donald
Trump was him trying to convince you not to run.
(17:15):
Is there any truth to that?
Speaker 7 (17:17):
You know? So that's that's not the way the conversation
when first, when I met with the President in person
for ben hour in the Oval office. Second of all,
the least has no bearing on this. This really boils
down to my own considerations. Uh. And you know, the
President certainly expressed his perspective of how important the House
(17:40):
majority is. But you know, ultimately this was my decision.
And you know, at the end of the day, as
I said, one of the reasons why you know, it
took me six months to work through it was because
I actually like what I'm doing. Yeah, So you know, look,
there's a I'm thirty eight years old, there's a there's
(18:02):
a long road ahead, and I'm a big believer life
works out the way it's supposed to, and you know,
whatever the future holds, it holds. But the fact is,
in this moment, you know, my focus will continue to
be on delivering for my district, delivering for our state,
and delivering for our country in my capacity as a
(18:23):
member of Congress and serving as chair of the Middle
East and North Africa Subcommittee on the Foreign Affairs Committee,
Vice Chair of Communications for the Financial Services Committee, and
doing the work that I was elected to do. And
there's a lot of work left to be done.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
So I understand that. Yeah, I get it, I get it.
You have that, And I want to talk about especially
the Jeffrey Epstein thing, because our listeners you just can't
get enough of that, as as it seems like everybody
across the country is now focused on the Jeffrey Epstein story.
But I want to clear up one other rumor, and
I'm glad that you cleared that up, that you were
(19:02):
offered something from the president to not run. Is there
any truth to that?
Speaker 7 (19:07):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
No, okay, no.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
I again, ultimately, this was my decision. He's the President
the United States. Of course you're going to sit down
and discuss, you know, these issues, especially when we have
such a tight margin, and him being from New York,
he cares about New York. He cares about you know,
what's happening in the mayor's race, for instance. We talked
(19:30):
extensively about that. But you know, ultimately, this was my
decision and mine alone, and I'm fully content with the
decision that I made.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Well, thank you. Now listen, the Epstein story is not
going to go away. As a matter of fact, I
heard James Comer say he's planning on holding hearings. He
doesn't care how long the recess is. He's going to
hold hearings when they come back. And he wants to
talk to Jillane Maxwell as well. What is your position
on this, do you? I think it's a good use
(20:01):
of congressional time to try to allow all this information
to get out.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Look, as I said repeatedly, anyone who committed a crime,
anyone who acted in furtherance of Jeffrey Epstein or Chisplaine
Maxwell's crimes should be prosecuted. Anybody who sexually abused or
engaged in human trafficking of women and children should be prosecuted.
(20:30):
And you know, frankly, what I find disturbing about this
whole thing is that the focus is not on the victims.
The focus does a political.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Oh what, we lost you there for a second. Can
you hear me, congressman, can you hear me? Yeah, I
can hear you.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Now.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
We just lost you there for a moment. It was
a very important time. But please continue, where did you
lose me? We lost you when you say the focus
should be on the victims.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
Yeah, the focus should be on the victims. And you know,
unfortunately you have people in both parties that are trying
to use this as a political bludgeon as opposed to
actually focusing on protecting the victims and prosecuting those who
(21:25):
in fact committed criminal offenses. Does anybody really believe that
the Biden administration, having all of this information for four years,
having tried to indict and prosecute Donald Trump through the
Department of Justice, that they would not have done so
sitting on all this information if there was some connection
(21:45):
between the president and Jeffrey Epstein with regards to Jeffrey
Epstein's crimes. I mean, does anybody really believe that? So
from my vantage point, this whole thing is become nothing
but a political tool as opposed to seeking the actual truth.
(22:08):
And you know, to me, it's just it's a disgusting
use of Congress and an abuse of the system. If
there are crimes that have occurred, they should be prosecuted.
That's what everybody should be demanding. But in the absence
of that, what exactly are we seeking to do.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
We'll find out maybe maybe the end of the hearings
or maybe the end of an investigation would be exactly
what you're looking for, and that people be charged that
that have been able to skate in the past.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
But respectfully, you've hadntion for basically a decade.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I get it. I understand. Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
There was a trial.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yep, yep, you're right, there was a trial. So representive,
we're having a hard time with your phone line. I'm sorry, sir.
Representative Mike Lawler, representing New York's seventeenth District. Thanks so much.
President Trump shocked the media with a surprise visit to
the Federal Reserve to take a tour with Fed Chair
Jerome Powell. What was that all about. It's very simple.
(23:17):
I'll explain next.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Now back to mentee in the morning on seventor so.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
It was pretty fascinating, wasn't it yesterday that the Federal
Reserve is going to decide on interest rates next week?
And you know that Donald Trump has been furious that
they won't bring down interest rates. It'll save the country problems.
And when we have to pay debt and we have
to pay off of anything, anything, we have to pay
(23:48):
for and anything that requires a loan with the federal government,
it's going to cost more. He said, it cost us
three hundred billion dollars every time they do every time
they don't reduce the interest rates for every point, it
cost the country money. And he has railed about that,
and he's called Jerome poll and idiot, He's called him
(24:10):
every nay, stupid, he's called him every name in the book.
He said he was going to replace him, he was
going to bring in somebody to see if he could
fire him everything. And then all of a sudden, now
knowing that next week on the twenty ninth and thirtieth,
the Federal Reserve meets, he shows up at the FED building.
(24:31):
Now that is really unusual. The last president to do
that was Bush the father. He showed up one time,
but he was invited. This one was him just saying
I'm gonna come, I'm gonna be there. And it's amazing
because there is something charming about Donald Trump. Now I
(24:55):
know that people that are on the left never see that,
and they think he's hitler, and they think he's an ogre,
and you know, he's gruff and he's a tyrant. But
you know, I go back to the interview with Bill
Maher when he hated Donald Trump and he went to
the Oval office and he met him, and he came
away going, I liked them. He's funny, he's charming, he goes.
(25:17):
I may not agree with him, but he's a great guy.
When you're with him. He listens, he doesn't talk over you.
He's just a really good guy to be around. And
I enjoyed my visit. But that's not just Bill Maher
that that is the most extreme example of it, but
it's person after person after person that when they meet
Donald Trump and spend time with him, he's not the character.
(25:38):
He's like Hulkchin, right, He's not the character that you see.
He is somebody else, and he's very nice. So he
showed up. I guarantee you to try to charm Jerome Poull. Now,
I know that what's played in the news all the
time is the argument they had. They had a little bit,
you know, not a screaming at each other argument. But
(25:59):
he's been saying constantly that Jerome Powell wasted three billion
dollars on fixing the FED buildings and that that was
a waste of money, and that he might investigate him,
and so that came up and that this is what
you'll hear constantly on the news, that third buildings, what
that is.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
That's a third building.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
It's a building that's being built now. It's been he
was built five years ago. We finished Martin five years
later over as part of the overall so new And
then he tried to change the subject. So he said
that they wasted all this money and that they're currently
in construction and that's why they had hard hats on.
But he wanted to point out that we built a
whole another building and the other building was five years ago.
(26:42):
And Donald Trump, who does not like anybody to interrupt
him and say he's wrong, went back and forth with
him for a while. So is that that constantly made
the news. What you didn't hear is when Donald Trump
talked about the meeting last week, and you'd think that
they were best friends.
Speaker 9 (26:57):
Well, I'd love him to lower interest right. Other than that,
what can I tell you? The country's doing really well.
I just brief the chairman on the deal we've made
with Japan. Japan is putting up five hundred and fifty
billion dollars in order to lower their tariffs a little
bit that way, they have a little bit lower tariff.
And they also opened their country to free trade, which
(27:18):
nobody felt was even a possibility.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Right, And so constantly he brought that up, no matter
what he was talking about. He talked about meeting next week.
Speaker 9 (27:26):
I believe that the chairman is going to do the
right thing. I mean, it may be a little too late,
as the expression goes, but I believe he's going to
do the right thing.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
So all smiles and giggles and laughs, and we'll see
what happens next week. If the charm of Donald Trump
finally gets those interest rates lowered, we'll all do better
if it does well. Is mining the job of the future.
Futurist reporter Kevin Sirelli says yes, He's up next.
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