Hour 3: Political violence on the rise

Political violence on the rise.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well in the Big Three. Of course, it's day two
of the Schumer shutdown of the federal government. Thought there
is some hope.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
President, House, Republican, Senate, Republicans, we're all united on this.
And what's interesting now is some of the Democrats are
joining us. Our vote last night was a bipartisan vote.
There were three Democrats that came over and voted with
us because they know this strategy is a losing one.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
And there's word out today that more Democrats may join
the crowd to end the shutdown. We will see when
the next vote happens. The Republicans will keep voting in
hopes that there are going to be more Democrats. In
the wake of the Schumer shutdown, the Trump administration is
holding back eighteen billion dollars in funding for transportation projects

(00:44):
in New York, including the Gateway Tunnel. The reason that
they give is a review to see if contracts were
based on DEI hiring.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
They're trying to make culture wars be the reason why
culture wars over the tens of thousands of jobs that
we've created with these infrastructure products that were literally talked
about for decades.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Last night, something scary happened at LaGuardia Airport, two Delda
jets collided. One the wing of one airliner clipped the
cockpit of another airliner. One person was injured.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
And you guys fit clip correct.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yeah, we did their right wing clips o our nose
and the cockpit we have it was to our point
screen we have wire.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
And in the Bronx, of course, we reported on this
yesterday late in the show, and the Bronx are frightening.
Partial building collapse caused by a gas explosion.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
Everybody's trying to go downstairs.

Speaker 6 (01:48):
People got babies, people ain't got no shoes on and
got no colds, no hats.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
It's cold outside.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
We just hurt a bomb. It's not like a bomb.
So after that, like once it happened, I kind of
like trip. She tripped too, and then we just ran
out the vote and I'm like, I can't believe this.
In the mayor's race, candidate zorin mam Donne was on
the view and they asked him if he ever apologized
gave a formal apology to police officers for once calling
them racists, anti queer and a threat to public safety.

Speaker 7 (02:18):
Have you formally apologized to the NYPD?

Speaker 8 (02:20):
These are conversations that I'm having individually with officers.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Why did it take the view to ask that question?
That's what I want to know. The media in New
York has been awful, awful in holding the candidates accountable,
especially zorin Mam Donnie, they're giving him a ride. Oh
and by the way, Mayor Adams had his first media
availability since dropping out of the race.

Speaker 7 (02:45):
This city's in Goochepe, and we need to make sure
we don't go backwards. And I'm gonna say you in
the Rhodes Bloombergy when I became mayor, don't it up.
It has become so good for you guys that you
don't even realize it.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
But you know what, You're gonna miss me. Well, we'll
see if that's going to happen. And with that, because
we want to talk to her about Mayor Adams and
Andrew Cuomo, let's get right to Laura Kerr and political
commentator and former NASA County executive with us every Thursday
at this time before I get there this morning.

Speaker 9 (03:15):
Doesn't Adam sound like a scorned lover there? You're gonna
miss me. You don't know how good you had it
with me? Baby?

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, No, he did not want to quit the race.
There's no way he wanted to quit. I wonder, I
wonder on what went on behind the scenes. You may
know not exactly what happened, but you may know what
goes into those type of conversations. What do you think happened?

Speaker 9 (03:37):
Well, I think they looked at the polling numbers and
saw that he was last all for a long time
and wasn't making up any ground, and you know, you
just can't continue like that. It's hard to raise money,
it's hard to climb out of that hole. I think
they saw the way the wind was blowing and it
just wasn't going to blow for him.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
But that he's realized that for a long time. Did
something must have happened And I'm trying to figure out
if he was offered something or if finally there was
a deal that was made that he couldn't turn down,
because why would he just give up for nothing if
he could get something.

Speaker 9 (04:12):
Well, that's a very good question, because even though he
wasn't pulling well, he's still the mayor. His support and
also the support of his supporters is incredibly important for
the other folks in the race, and so you know,
it was interesting. When he did drop out of the race,
he did not endorse anybody, and that's kind of a
smart way to get some leverage. If you come out

(04:33):
of the gate endorsing someone, you have no more power.
But if you have not endorsed anyone yet, people are
going to try to curry favor for you. To you,
they're going to offer things for you. You're in a
much better position to make a deal that's good for you.
And I think that's exactly what he did.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Now.

Speaker 9 (04:47):
It's interesting because there's all these sort of like little
sniffing rumors going around saying, well, is he going to
come out and endorse Cuomo? And there's some you know,
tea leaves that you can read. You can tell that
when his first public state after he dropped out Larry,
he was saying not nice things about Manzani, but he
didn't really say anything nasty about Cuomo. So that's a

(05:09):
little interesting breadcrumb, I think, yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
And you know what breadcrumb to me was when he
said this. I think he was talking about mam Donni
and Cuomo when he said this, when he was announcing
that he was going to step down.

Speaker 7 (05:22):
Major change is welcome and necessary but beware of those
who claim the answer to destroy the very system we
built together over generations. That is not changed.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
That is chaos.

Speaker 7 (05:38):
Instead, I urged New York to to choose leaders not
by what they promised, but by what they have delivered.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
What'd you take from that.

Speaker 9 (05:49):
Well, that says Cuomo. Yes, Mom, Donnie, No. I mean
the best argument for Cuomo is, look what he's actually
done and built, actual, real things that in the world
that you can look at, the ride over, touch, et cetera,
and Mom, Donnie. The slam against him is that he's
all promises, you know, building castles in the sky, not

(06:11):
based on reality. So that sounds to me like he's
edging towards Cuomo. If there is going to be an endorsement.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, that's exactly what I thought when he said it.
But he also has said things like this, Andrew Cuomo
is a snake in Elijah. It's tough to get around.

Speaker 10 (06:28):
It's really it really is.

Speaker 9 (06:29):
But you know, you see this in politics all the time.
I was just speaking with Natalie about this earlier. In primaries.
You know, people say the nastiest thing about each other.
Look at what Kamala Harris said about Joe Biden in
the debates about how basically he was a racist, and
then she's the vice president. So, you know, people have
a way of getting over things. Power is an interesting thing.

(06:51):
It's leveraged in certain ways to get certain things. And
you know, maybe he can get over this, or maybe
he could. He might not do anything. Who knows. If
I were a betting woman, I'd say that he's edging
towards a Clomo endorsement, and that will be very helpful
to Cuomo in this moment when now he is consolidating
a lot of the traditional support, the union support, the
sort of institutional democratic support he could be. You know,

(07:15):
this could be a game changer.

Speaker 10 (07:16):
We'll see.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, there's a whole lot of examples. You're exactly right.
It doesn't matter what you say during the campaign. I
thought of a Kamala Harris thing too. I was that
little girl member with that bussing story. She almost ended
his campaign. That was an awful moment for Joe Biden,
and then he selected her. So you're right, anything can happen.

Speaker 9 (07:35):
What do you think we can go back. We can
go back to George W. H. W. Bush is calling
Reagan's planned voodoo economics you know, this is not a
new thing. This has been going on forever.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yep, exactly, though there's a whole there's a whole lot
of examples of it. So it doesn't matter what they
say during the campaign. And I think they all understand that.
I think when they have conversations, well you would know
when you have conversations and somebody has already said some
horrible things about you, you understand that's just part of
the campaign, right, I.

Speaker 9 (08:06):
Do, absolutely, except when people lie. That's one thing that
I can't get over. Actual out and out lies, exaggerations,
reframing things. Sure, that's all fair game, but lying, to me,
that's the unforgivable sin.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
So what are the the betting odds are right now?
Do you think that Mayor Adams is going to endorse Cuomo?

Speaker 8 (08:28):
If I had to guess, I would put one hundred
dollars on. Yes, he will endorse him.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
He will endorse him. I think so too. Yeah, I
think it makes a lot of sense if he doesn't, and.

Speaker 9 (08:37):
I think he's but he's going to make sure he
gets something out of it. That's why he didn't do
it quickly. He's not folding quickly.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
And is that common that a deal is made, a
deal is struck for an endorsement.

Speaker 9 (08:46):
Oh, yes, absolutely absolutely, And who knows, you know, this
whole that we've talked about so many times, was Trump
involved somehow in this? You know, who knows what the
conversations are there. Adam seems to have a pretty cozy,
well cozy ish relationship with Trump, so we'll see that
is interesting.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
You've brought on Trump because a lot of people, especially
in the Republican Party, thinks that he wants Man Donni,
that he's doing all of this to prop up Mom
Donnie because he wants to run against him. Cuomo said this.
Clomo's come out and said this in the midterms.

Speaker 9 (09:18):
Absolutely, yeah, you and I have also talked about this. However,
there's one thing that gives me pause about that. Yes,
it will certainly help Republicans to have someone who identifies
as a socialist Democrat in the mayor's office. But there
are a lot of very wealthy people in New York City,
real estate people, media people, other finance people, people who

(09:39):
have a lot of money and a lot of influence
in politics and in Republican politics, who are scared of
a Mom Donnie mayoralty. So who knows who's in who's
ear on that, and Trump is friends with those guys.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Well, we're both going to find out together what's going
to happen. But I think you're right. I do believe
that Mayor Adams is going to endorse Andrew Cuomo because
he really has no other choice in this, this whole thing.
Laura Carr and political commentator and former NASA county executive
with us every Thursday at eight oh five. Talk to
you next week, joll Yeah, I do think that's going

(10:11):
to come sooner rather than later, that endorsement's going to come.
I don't think he's going to wait until the debates.
I think he's going to do it before then. And
I think you're gonna see an event with the two
of them together with their hands raised, clenched in the air.
But I'm not sure how much good that's going to
do for Andrew Cuomo. I'm not sure that's enough to

(10:33):
beat Mom, Donnie. But keep hope alive. Now, when I
think about our story in the next segment, all I
can say is I'm screwed. A new study says lack
of sleep can aige your brain by a year. Well,
I'm a year older details next, Plus we got tickets
to see David Byrne at Radio City. Stay with us.

(10:54):
Thanks so much for your talkbacks. You really do make
the show. It's been wonderful to hear from you. Let's
hear from a couple more.

Speaker 11 (11:02):
The only way to get Curtis Lee with to drop
out so that Mondammi might lose to Cuomo is for
President Trump to appoint Sliwa to a high level position
in Washington. How about creating a new job called National
Street Crimes are.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
That's interesting, Although do you think you'd take that? I'm
not sure he wants to work for the Trump administration.
It'd be interesting, it'd be interesting to ask him. We'll
have him back on. I will ask him that very question.

Speaker 12 (11:30):
Hey, Larry, what do.

Speaker 13 (11:31):
You think of the idea that Democrats using the shutdown
to try to disrupt ICE operations and Trump's city crime crackdown? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (11:41):
I know, interesting you said that. I thought of the
exact same thing. If they're trying to do that, it's
certainly not working. I will tell you this, Donald Trump
is protecting that more than anything else. Look, he knows
that this is part of his legacy, him promising to
undo what Joe Biden did to this country, and he's

(12:04):
far behind on it right now. Even though he's deported
hundreds of thousands, there's millions. So, by the way, do
you know how many people self deported because they didn't
want to go through this, Almost as many as he's deported.
Once they heard this was happening, they said, hey, you
know what, we're out of the country, Larry.

Speaker 13 (12:22):
People are missing the point on the shutdown. It's not
whether it's a Schumer shutdown or Republican shutdown. It should
be an issue of cutting spending. We need to cut
spending massively. That means Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, all of them. Okay,
we cannot keep rolling over the debt at the same
levels that we have now without seeing massive interest in increases.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
You know, it's really interesting you brought that up, because
that's exactly why Chuck Schumer said he didn't want to
shut down the government back when they had a continuing
resolution in March, exactly for that reason. He said Donald
Trump would use this to lay off people and to
cut the budget even more and to cause some of
these departments to lose even more power. He said, exactly that,

(13:13):
and I think Donald Trump's going to do that, although
I got a feeling it's going to end in either
today or tomorrow. I think they really are close to
a deal on this and getting the votes that they need.
Thanks so much for your talkbacks. Keep them coming. You
go to the iHeartRadio app, you look for seven to
ten wor and then the talkback feature. Well, there's a

(13:33):
new study out and everybody here, everybody here at the
station is just completely screwed. It's a new study, a
new neurology study about how sleep and lack of sleep
affects your aging. They had almost six hundred participants, average
age forty, and they studied them over fifteen years, and

(13:56):
they found those with three or more sleeping issues aged
almost three years two point six years faster than everybody else.
Brain scans revealed shrinkage of the brain and other signs
of aging linked to long term poor sleep. So what

(14:17):
do you think I thought it was. I thought it
was a positive. I mean I thought it was gonna
be worse.

Speaker 14 (14:23):
Yeah, I did too. I felt like, ok, all, look
like we're about one hundred and fifty right now. Something
like that that was so bad, shaved a couple of
years off my life.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
I'll take it age brain it's brain age, yeah, brain age.
I don't know if I can lose any more brain
cells than I've already lost. I'm not sure I can
take that now. Jacqueline Carl with the eight to thirty News,
Jacqueline Larry.

Speaker 14 (14:44):
The federal government shut down is now in its second day.
House Speaker Mike Johnson went on social media to blame
Democrats with a shutdown. Democratic leaders Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck
Schumer are claiming Republicans shut down the federal government quote
because they do not want to protect the healthcare of
the American people. And there's a report saying the Trump
administration will keep the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island

(15:05):
open during the government shutdown.

Speaker 12 (15:07):
The New York Post quotes an Interior Department spokesperson who
says the White House will keep the two monuments in
New York Harbor open during shutdowns. In twenty thirteen and
twenty eighteen, New York State had to foot the bill
when cash stopped from Washington. Governor Kathy Hokel Wednesday announced
the state would not pay this time, saying people need
to see the consequences of the shutdown, Andrew Whitman wr News.

Speaker 14 (15:32):
So the robots continue to roll out and many humans
seek to destroy them. According to The Daily Dot, door
dash announced a new delivery robot called Dot this week,
but people are online are already joking about destroying it.
The robot will be delivering in Tempe and Mesa, Arizona,
and can go up to twenty miles per hour. It
should go faster based on what these people are saying,

(15:55):
and it's all electric. DoorDash says it will help local
businesses and result in fewer on the road, but the
announcement got harsh reactions online. A lot of people recall
what happened to Hitchbot, a Canadian hitchhiking robot that was
destroyed when it reached Philadelphia. Now, restaurant workers say they're
not going to go outside to load the food into
the robots. Some people are threatening violence against the robots,

(16:17):
with one person saying the first robot that tries to
deliver food is getting wrecked. Another joke that DoorDash just
announced a free food distribution program and the negative reaction
comes after door dash spent over one million dollars in
twenty twenty four to fight Seattle some minimum wage law
for delivery drivers.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
So people are just not having this. And what do
you guys think about delivery robots?

Speaker 14 (16:40):
They do seem like they're like a free food delivery
service if you can catch one of them.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yes, this is why we can't have nice things. Ah now,
But do you think that that it's a good idea?

Speaker 14 (16:51):
Not?

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yes, of course everything's going to change. It's happening before
our very eyes. AI robots, it's all going to change.
If you're smart, you join in, so.

Speaker 14 (17:03):
The robots look upon you kindly. It's gonna exactly when
they take over. We have to serve the robots. That's
the only way we're gonna survive. Thanks so much, Jacqueline Carl.
Congratulations to Kathy rad Ice from Staten Island who just
want a pair of tickets to see The Talking Heads
frontman David Byrne October eleventh at Radio City Music Hall.

(17:26):
Tickets on sale at ticketmaster dot com. Another chance to
win tomorrow morning at eight twenty five. Congratulations Kathy. Political
violence is on the rise, We've already seen that, and
young men apparently are being pulled into online extremism. ABC's
Brad Garrett joins us to explain what is fueling this

(17:49):
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been there's been more political violence, There's been assassination attempts,
and what is fueling that. Let's talk to Brad Garrett,

(18:33):
ABC News Crime and terrorism analyst in Washington, DC. Brad,
thanks for joining us this morning. I know you've been
studying this.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
So is are we really seeing an increase in crime
and terrorism right now that is politically based?

Speaker 10 (18:52):
I think the answer is yes. Now. It can take
many forms, and I think Larry, it's important to premise
when we talk out excessive online presence, excessive use of
cell phones as something that will cause a large number
of people's they go commit violence, and it's not true. Obviously,

(19:12):
there's a subset of people who engage and way too
many hours every day in online sites and talk about
white supremacy, anti semitism, you pick a topic, and they
spend hours and hours online playing video games, some of
them violent video games. It may cause them all sorts

(19:33):
of behavior problems, both as a kid and as an adult,
but they're not violent. But we could come up or
I can come up with a number of examples in
the last three weeks of kids young adults who do
or have spent excessive amount of time online and playing
video games that did commit violence. So it's a variable

(19:58):
that can really into maybe people that are are maybe
a little more predisposed to go commit violence. But it's
a complex subject. It isn't like, Okay, you're online too much,
use your phone too much, You're going to go harm somebody.
That's just not true.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
It sounds like there's a couple of things going on
with the violent video games and the site Discord, because
I do know a lot of young people to play
video games all the time, and they're on Discord all
of the time, and they have told me that there's
some horrible things said on Discord and if you go
into the wrong rooms or you go into the right room,

(20:35):
depending on what you want to do. There are talks
about political violence. Is is that a site where they
are actually recruiting people or are these just like minded
people that get together talking about how they want to
commit violence.

Speaker 10 (20:51):
I think it's a combination. No, Discord, if you had
them in this conversation would tell you that they police
some of this behavior. You know, law enforcement could tell
you that better, whether they are or they are not.
It's obviously also a huge task for social media sites
to police the multi hundreds of millions of people that

(21:11):
may use their site. But I you know, I think
the important thing here, Larry, is that this whole idea
of excessive social media online presence, hour after hour after
hour every day, you know, it really does have a
toxic effect on kids, right And if you look at

(21:32):
the level of depression, anxiety, and other behavioral maladies for
lack of better terms, that kids have developed in the
last ten plus years, it to some of it. In
some cases, a lot is attributable to being online because

(21:52):
it takes away what the rest of us had, as
you know, kids and young adults, where everything was in person.
We interacted with each other, we were forced to deal
with somebody else's behavior in your face or disagreement or whatever.
And you know, you become normalized because you have to

(22:15):
confront people one on one or as a group, but
not in the anonymous online world. And you take away
that skill set to do that, and you've also created
a vulnerability of somebody that's probably isolated, doesn't think highly
of themselves. This is obviously a generalization, and they get

(22:36):
caught up in these online chats, and if you add
to it violent video games, it can really have the
profound effect and run kids down rabbit holes of thinking, well,
it's okay to think this way, and it's okay to
hate people, it's okay to not be empathetic about others around,

(22:56):
which can happen to anybody that isolates.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Right, go ahead, No, I was going to say, it's
a little bit frightening, especially for parents and grandparents. What
do you suggest they do? Because again, my own son
plays video games and it is on discord all the time,
and I asked him about it and he says it's fine.
And I've even looked at some of the conversations and
it seems fine to me. But you know, I'm not

(23:21):
there twenty four hours a day. What should we be doing.

Speaker 10 (23:26):
Well, I will tell you what some social psychologists that
have thoroughly studied this stuff say, and then we'll talk
about the reality of trying to enforce this. That nobody
should have a phone until they're sixteen, that shouldn't be
on social media until they're sixteen, the school shouldn't have

(23:46):
phones at all, that you have either checked them at
the door or not bring them to school period. Now,
if you think about trying to enforce that, let's just
go into your own house. It sounds like I mean right,
And then it becomes a part time job for the
parent to try to even police the stuff. And if
you're older parents, you're probably less internet social media savvy anyway. Uh,

(24:12):
It's it's really a daunting task and it is a huge,
huge problem, you know, far beyond the obvious of this
violence that may be a small subset out of it,
along with other variables. This isn't the only thing that
drives kids to become violent, but it is in this
society today, whether it's here or someplace else in the world.

(24:37):
It's a problem.

Speaker 12 (24:38):
Right.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
The best we can do, I would think, is just
to have open communication with your kids, to talk to
them about that, to talk to them about what they've
been what they've been talking about online, right, and.

Speaker 10 (24:50):
Push them into doing things one on one in person.
Whatever that ends up being, sports, chess, games, you name it,
but things where they're with other folks their own age,
in person doing and not doing it online.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
That is great advice. And I understand why you said that,
because sometimes that becomes their only world, and when that's
their only world, it becomes normalized, and who knows what
they might do after they take these horrible things being
talked about as being normal exactly. Yeah, that's great advice.

(25:27):
That's wonderful advice. Brad Garrett, ABC News Crime and Terrorism
analyst in Washington. Always enjoy our conversation. Thank you so much, Brad.

Speaker 10 (25:36):
You're welcome to take care.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yeah, my son plays violent video games and in discord
all the time. But I've talked to them about it.
I've actually sat there with them one time. I said,
I want to sit here and look, and they're just
kids talking about video games. So I guess they've the
fear is what's happening when I'm not in the room
and when I'm not looking at it all the time.
You know, I want to get Brad back up, love

(26:00):
to talk to him. If that's the only site, and
that might be the only thing we're talking about, there
may be other sites out there as well that are
being used. Well, the government shutdown we've all been talking
about that. Are New Yorkers feeling the impact? Do they care?
And who were they blaming? Natalie mcglori gets the Beat
on the Street next.

Speaker 14 (26:21):
Now it's seventen w o rs Beat on the Street
with Natalie migliori.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
So what the New Yorkers think of the government shutdown?
Has it affected them at all? And who do they blame?
Let's check in with Natalie mcgliori and her Beat on
the Street. Good morning, Natalie, Good morning Larry.

Speaker 8 (26:43):
Well, it's day two of the government shutdown with I know,
I'm like, you never know because it goes into effect
down midnight and then you get you know, you don't
know anyway, with the clock actually on one part of
the White House website showing to the very second just
how long the government has been shut down. If you

(27:04):
had online. New Yorkers they've heard about it, but are
they affected.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
I mean, that's what happens when representatives don't agree, Like
the government shuts down. This is not the first time
it's happened. Doesn't impact me at all.

Speaker 15 (27:18):
It doesn't affect us immediately, but it affects certain people,
like the you know, government workers in the sinnat the parks.
The National parks will close, but no, they buck up
the wrong tree.

Speaker 6 (27:31):
So the postal service is usually sometimes government when they
want to, and you know, when things like this happens,
we don't get affected.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
Let's hope they get it resolved as soon as possible.

Speaker 8 (27:44):
Yeah, one of those uppostal worker telling me they're still working.
They're on the route today. I'm expecting mind now. No, Well,
the Trump administration said it would keep the Statue of
Liberty open for now. I was actually ringing that this morning.
It comes after can tingency plans call for more than
ninety two hundred of the National Park Services fourteen thousand,

(28:06):
five hundred employees to be furloughed. So when it comes
to it, who do New Yorkers think is to blame?

Speaker 6 (28:14):
It's politics.

Speaker 5 (28:15):
You know, everybody's trying to get their way.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Politics game is back and forth.

Speaker 12 (28:19):
The ones they got they act together for you know,
betterment of the folks.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
That'd be great.

Speaker 5 (28:26):
I mean, the government shutdown over a disagreement about healthcare,
right like, that's why where we are. So I would say,
who is to blame is anybody who wanted to take
away healthcare from Americans?

Speaker 15 (28:38):
They got the wrong idea, And this time it's the
Democrats that shut it down. And they're the ones that
always advocated never shut the government down.

Speaker 8 (28:47):
Yeah. Here in New York City, the federal government has
actually halted eighteen billion dollars worth of federal funding for
transit projects, including rail tunnels and subway improvements, and a
prolonged shutdown could lead to about seven hundred and fifty
thousand furloughs.

Speaker 5 (29:04):
I don't think there's much resolution happening with anything in
our politician, our politician state right now. So who knows.
But they've pulled a lot of funding from a lot
of blue states, So I don't know. I don't know
if there will be any sort of resolution.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
I guess love to.

Speaker 15 (29:16):
Say it depends on how further want to go. Trump
is not going to move on this to get it.
He's not giving a trillion dollars to Judge Truber.

Speaker 6 (29:22):
He's just not gonna deal when you're it's not until
you know, the politicians start really being truthful with themselves
on how their chain of thought affects the little man,
until we'll actually come to some type of agreement.

Speaker 8 (29:36):
And at the end of the day, do New Yorker
Field politicians even understand the impact that government shutdown could
have on the everyday person?

Speaker 6 (29:45):
No, I don't. I think that they are too comfortable
in their own regime. I mean, they're the ones that's
getting paid, the president and them while everyone else suffers.
So how could they possibly understand what the smaller people
going through?

Speaker 8 (30:02):
Yeah, so that's really it this morning, Larry. It was
a little quieter on the streets, that is young Kapor.
So it's a little quieter going out on the street.
But this government is shut down and we'll really see
if there is any sort of resolution within the coming days.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
That is interesting. Did you run into anybody who didn't
know the government was shut down?

Speaker 9 (30:26):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (30:26):
No, people heard about it. You know, even people who
didn't want to talk were like, yeah, I heard about it.
Or people didn't have much to necessarily contribute a lot
of people don't feel that they're not necessarily affected right
now in the you.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Know, yeah in the and they're right by the way, Yeah,
they're absolutely right, because you're not going to be affected
right now. It's not. It's going to take a while
before anything is affected, but if it goes on, it's
going to be that way. It's it's fascinating when you're
out there, Natalie to ore p people all the time.

(31:02):
I'm more interested in you and being out there with
the public. Are people reluctant to talk or they really
do want to talk about these issues?

Speaker 8 (31:12):
It depends. I think people do want to talk, but
I think people are reluctant to talk because they don't
necessarily want to give their opinion all the time. I
think that they feel giving their opinion is what gets
them caught up if somebody recognizes their voice or who
they are. I walked away from one woman today who
was like, I hope I don't get fired like that.
You know, you don't want to hear that. But people

(31:34):
are worried, like there is this idea of cancel culture
on both sides of the aisle, or if you don't
agree with something that somebody says, you know, I do
find being out on the street, Larry, that a lot
of people are very middle ground and if they don't
say one thing to the extreme or the other, then
they're afraid of getting canceled.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
That is fascinating that people are afraid to use their
free speech these days because they don't know what's going
to happen. That's pretty fascinating. Thanks so much, Natalie Migliore.
The government shutdown, are New Yorkers feeling the impact? Yes,
they are, according to Natalie Migliore. And Trump launches Trump
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