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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And good morning to you. I hope you're in an
area that got snow, because most of us didn't get snow,
and apparently it wasn't the kind of snow that caused
some serious problems. It was just enough snow to make
things pretty. And so you know, I hope you were there.
Let's start off of Big three with that. The fact
that several areas, especially in North Jersey and upstate New York,
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including Orange County where this child is, they didn't have school.
So he was really happy that there was snow. How
did you find out that school was canceled? Come on,
tell me and what did you say?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
How do they?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Yeah, that's why a lot of kids were talking about yesterday.
So if you had off, if you got to enjoy snow,
first of all, give us a call, tell us what
it was like, and tell us how you made it
around it, because I heard it wasn't really that bad.
It didn't even stay on the roads that long. Also
in the Big three two big special elections, Jersey City,
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the second largest city in New Jersey, now has a
new mayor, James Solomon. I believe in the people of
Jersey City.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
He's the entire state of the Jersey.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Now Jim McGreevy, since he had to retire as governor,
it's been a long road back and this was the
end of a big comeback and it just didn't happen
for him. So it was McGreevy running against Solomon. He
lost by a lot. It's an important race to take
a look at, including the race in Tennessee that I'm
going to talk about in the second, because there is
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a progressive slash socialist movement in the country and Robert
Anderson or Robert Solomon, excuse me, is very or James
Solomon is very, very progressive. Now in Tennessee, a special
election for a congressional seat and was supposed to be
a razor close race for a house seat. It wasn't
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that close.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Well, Hello Tennessee, what a night, What a night.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
We did it.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Thank you, Thank you all. This is just an incredible win,
an incredible win tonight. You've sent a message loud and clear,
the people of Middle Tennessee stand with President Donald J.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Trump.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Now, this is really interesting to me when we're looking
at the progressive movement across the country because Matt van
Epp won there. He beat by nine points, almost ten,
a woman named Afton Ben we've been talking about on
the air here who considers herself the AOC of the
South and love Zurin Mamdani is a socialist herself. So
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we can now look and get an idea that in
republican areas and Republican states, the progressives will not be
able to take over. They're still being fought back. But
it's in the big cities. It's in places like New York,
it's in Chicago, it's in democratic places, it's like Jersey City.
So I don't think I think this has been overplayed
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about how the socialists are taking over the country. That
doesn't seem to really be happening at all. In New York,
the incoming mayor Zori and Mamdani meets with the outgoing
Mayor Eric Adams at Gracie Mansion, which begs the question,
is the working man's socialist going to live in Gracie Mansion?
Speaker 7 (03:29):
That is a decision I haven't yet made.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
The meeting came about.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
As just part of a typical transition, a transition where
we're looking to have a conversation with the current mayor
about what it looks like to have a smooth transfer
between this administration and the next administration. I've appreciated the
work of his staff and ensuring that it continues.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
To be smooth. Secretary of War Pete Hegsath doesn't back
down amidst a controversy about the second airstrike of a
boat already crippled by a first air strike in the Caribbean.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I watched that first strike lot.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
As you can imagine, at the Department of War, we
got a lot of things to do, so I didn't
stick around for the hour and two hours whatever where
all the sensitive side exploitation digitally occurs. So I moved
on to my next meeting. A couple of hours later,
I learned that that commander had made which he had
the complete authority to do, and by the way, had
mcbradley made the correct decision to ultimately sink the boat
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and eliminate the.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Threat the terrorists. The Afghan national who killed a National
Guard member and wounded another in Washington, d C appeared
in court on video through teleconference. He was in his
bed in the hospital. He pled not guilty to charges
of terrorism and murder, and more charges are to come.
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We are pursuing everything.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
There is nothing off the table right now. This is
an individual about whom we don't know a lot, but
we will trust me.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
For it's over. And that's Gennine Piro. She obviously is upset.
She is the US attorney in Washington, and she said
at the time that this was at the time of
the killing, that we can't find a lot on this guy.
And now as they keep digging, they still haven't found
a lot on this guy. And so you go back
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to the claim by the Biden administration or all the
Democrats trying to protect Joe Biden right now that he
was fully vetted. How could he be How could he
have been fully vetted. They didn't have enough information on
him in Afghanistan and they don't have enough information on
him here. So that was a croc to say that,
oh boy, the millions that came over, they have all
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been vetted. It is a lie, and it's an embarrassing
lie because a whole lot of people have had to suffer.
Thank god that Donald Trump got into office and could
expose some of this stuff, because we would have never
known if Kamala Harris got in or crazy Tim Walls,
the governor of Minister and the failed Democratic Vice president nominee.
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He's now responsible for a billion dollars in fraud under
his watch, most of the fraud from Somalian immigrants that
Waltz welcomed in.
Speaker 9 (06:16):
Al Shabab controls all the financial infrastructure in Somalia. That's right,
This money has gone back to Somalia Airgo. Common sense
would tell you that millions of dollars taxpayer dollars from
Minnesotan's has gone to terrace known as Al Shabab in Somalia.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Trump has announced Trump Accounts we talked about him a
second ago, one thousand dollars to be put into accounts
for babies born after January twenty twenty five. January first,
if you have a baby, you can apply for one
of these if you make under one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, and it can be withdrawn when they're ready
to go to college.
Speaker 10 (06:56):
Trump Accounts will be the first I guess you could
say real trust funds for every American child, allowing family members, employers, corporations,
generous donors to contribute money that will be invested and
grow over the course of a child's life to be
used for their benefit after they turn eighteen.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, It's amazing, isn't it. Now We're still waiting on
Vicky Pawadino. But let me let me tell you something
I thought about Vicki Palladino. There's got to be somebody
in New York that comes to the forefront as the
Republican leader. And it has to be someone in position
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who better than Vicki Pawadino to be the person that
represents us in this city, that has some common sense,
that can call for federal investigations, which is what she's
doing right now, by the way, And that takes us
back to a couple of days ago, Saturday, to be exact.
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Right after, by the way, the two National Guard members
were gunned down in the nation's capital. A twenty year
old who was summa cum law they who had a
bright future ahead of her. She died. The other gentleman
is in better condition and is expected to survive. Now
they was touch and go there for a while, but
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he's expected to survive. And then a couple of days
after that, some people in New York decided, well, this
would be a good opportunity to take on more federal
law enforcement, and so they decided to get in the
way of ice trucks that were trying to just do
their jobs and push came to show that got very
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serious there for a while because they weren't going to
move out of the way of the trucks. They manhandled
some of the National Guard's troops. The NYPD showed up
and they were arrests and Vicki Palladino has been very
vocal saying that she's against that and she wants an investigation.
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Where's she going to get an investigation where in this city?
Not gonna happen in this city council, nobody's gonna listen
to her. It's all Democrats. That's why she has to
have a relationship with Donald Trump. That's why we need
Vicky Palladino to be our voice in the city when
things like this happen. She needs some power. If the
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meeting with zorin Mom, Donnie looks so chummy chummy and
he's against everything that Donald Trump is for, Vicky Palladino,
who is like our Donald Trump in New York City,
would be perfect to be his right hand woman in
New York City to make certain that everything is going well.
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And he needs to give her that power that she
can come to him and say this needs to be looked,
that this needs to be investigated, because I'm surprised that
there's not a federal investigation into what happened that day
right now, because that can happen again. Someone's going to
get killed, and that someone may be an ice officer
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if nothing happens. So, Vicki Palladino, I know something happened
that you're not with us today, but I hope you're
listening because we need you now more than ever. Vicki Palladino, though,
is going to be back next Wednesday at eight oh five.
We'll talk to her about it. Then a liquor store
had bottles shattered, booze spilled everywhere. Wait to hear who
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the culprit was. Plus tickets to see the Trans Siberian Orchestra.
Seems like there's fewer people on the roads. I wonder
if people took a longer vacation, you know, they went,
they took a flight somewhere and decided to stay there.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
For a week, Because why fly back in a few
days right or come back midweek when one? You know,
the traffic's can be lighter and the flights are a
lot cheaper. When you fly home on a Tuesday Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah, that's a good call. That's right. If you went
back like a Wednesday morning or a Thursday morning, you
can get a lot cheaper flight. Ever do that.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
You look at you know, you click around, You're like, Okay,
I want to come back on Sunday. You're like, oh,
let's see it on a Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I can't. My whole life is half Tues. I have
to be somewhere, I have to go somewhere, I have
to do something, so I never can do that. I'd
love to do that. I would love to have those options,
but I can't. Let's get to the talkbacks. Thanks so
much for your talkbacks. iHeartRadio app seven to ten wo R.
You go to the talkback section, you hit the microphone,
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record what you want to say, and we got you
on the.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Elite to Facebook and whatever else Twitter. It took me
two weeks. The first three days were tough. I wanted
to look at the phone. But after that, it's like smoking.
Once you're done with it, you're done with it and
you feel better. Try it, oh man, when completely.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Cold turkey, I know, I'm you know, I'm thinking maybe
I should try, But is it Okay, if I do
little by little, like first I'll do one app and
then another, But not all the apps at one time.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
You can't because part of your job is to be
on there.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
No, but I'm thinking during vacation when I'm not working.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Oh yeah, well of course you should, are you so
when you go on vacation you keep checking social media?
Heck yeah, I don't. Now that's the one time where
I don't when I'm on vacation. I'm one vacation. It
is time. There was no way I would get in
the driver of this car. What happens if it gets
a virus? What happens if somebody hacks it?
Speaker 11 (12:44):
I mean, give me a break. Why people don't know
how to drive themselves anymore? That's as bad as you
guys are not having a paper and pencil write down
your passwords.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
That was a reference from yesterday.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
But none of us being able to run passwords, specifically
me the other day. Oh I got stuck, couldn't open
up my phone, couldn't remember my password, was horrifying.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I want to hear from that same guy in about
four years. I want to hear what he has to
say then, Because you ever notice at the beginning of
everything new. Everybody says, Oh, it's the stupidest thing I
ever heard in four years. They're using it. Oh, I
don't know how I live without this. Oh, I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I'm sure. When people were riding their buggies, I'm not
getting in that car face.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
That's right, you're kidding me.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
How does it know I'm.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Not making fun I'm guilty. I do exactly the same thing.
All right, let's talk about this break in. This break
in in Ashland, Virginia into a liquor store, and they
were just nasty. They knocked over all the bottles on
the floor. I mean, if you could steal it, if
you're going to, but don't knock it over, don't don't
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just ruin the place, in this liquor store. And by
the way, the Ashland police responded and this is what
they wrote. On Saturday morning, Officer Martin responded to an
unusual call at the Ashland ABC store, which must be
their liquor control. Upon arrival, she discovered the suspect had
broken in, ransacked several shelves, and then passed out in
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the bathroom. The suspect a very intoxicated raccoon. Officer I
love how they wrote this. Officer Martin safely secured our
masked bandit and transported him back to the shelter to
sober up before questioning him. After a few hours of
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sleep and zero signs of injury other than maybe a
hangover and poor life choices, that's the he was safely
released back to the wild, hopefully having learned that breaking
and entering is not the answer to your life's problem.
You're drinking A big shout out to Officer Martin for
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handling this chaotic scene with professionalism and good humor. Just
another day in the life at Hanover Animal Protection.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Okay, you know what, I'm gonna have to post the
picture because the best part of this is not only
the broken bottles all over the floor. They found the
raccoon face down next to the toilet as it should
be right, which.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
By the way, that is a picture that you can
do without a raccoon. From every party you ever went
to in college when you had to step around somebody
in the bathroom.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
You could sympathize from that photo.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
And then still use the bathroom even though that person
sends that on the floor. Now, Jacqueline Carl with the
eight thirty News Jacqueline Larry.
Speaker 12 (15:54):
Every National Guard member deployed in Washington, DC is now
armed the Pentagon on May. The announcement Tuesday, after last
week's shooting of two service members near the White House.
One was killed and the other remains a critical condition.
Guard members will also be conducting joint patrols with local
police and the man accused of killing United Healthcare CEO
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Brian Thompson is trying to get evidence tossed from his
upcoming trial in Manhattan.
Speaker 13 (16:21):
Luigi Mangioni and his lawyers were in court Monday and
Tuesday for a pre trial hearing centered around Mangioni's arrest
in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Lawyers claim police questioned Mangioni for twenty
minutes before reading him his rights. His lawyers are looking
to have the evidence found in Mangoni's backpack, including a
gun and notebook, excluded from the trial. The pre trial
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hearing will resume Thursday, the one year anniversary of Thompson's killing.
I'm skat Pringle wrdwes So you're gonna.
Speaker 12 (16:48):
Feel so bad for IRS agents when you hear this story.
According to media, things just got harder for IRS agents.
Some of the agents will now have to watch only
fans and other online content creator videos to decide if
they count as pornographic under a new tax law. The
issue comes from the no tax on Tips law that
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was part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which
says tips from prostitution or pornographic activity don't qualify for
the deduction. If the IRS audits someone claiming the tips deduction,
which is capped a twenty five thousand dollars, an agent
will have to look at their content and decide if
it's pornographic. So do you think there's going to be
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a run on IRS jobs?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Could you imagine the number of people that are putting
in for the porn task Force at the IRS right now? Yeah,
obviously I think a lot of people are going to
be want to be part of that. It's ask force, yes,
porn task for.
Speaker 12 (17:47):
And you can't even get in trouble if it's on
your computers now there right, It's going to be like, well,
you know, it's one of my job.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Excellent points. Excellent points. I wonder how what.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I didn't think that?
Speaker 12 (18:00):
I mean, but I didn't realize there was there was
like a caveat to the no tips no tax on tips,
can't be pornography, can't be prostitution.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Oh I didn't know that either.
Speaker 12 (18:11):
Yeah, so so now the irs poor poor people that have.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
To put up with a check on this. Yeah, thanks
a lot, Jacqueline. Congratulation to Ron Marquis from Staten Island,
New York who just won a pair of tickets to
see the Trans Siberian Orchestra's annual holiday show performing at
the USB Arena in Elmont on December eighteenth at the
Prudential Center in Newark on December nineteenth. Can go to
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either show. Tickets on sale at ticketmaster dot com. Another
chance to win tomorrow morning at A twenty five. We
haven't a chance to talk about this morning, but are
we close to peace in Ukraine? Or is Putin just
playing us again? It's not a good sign that he
is threatening war with Europe right now. We're going to
talk about it all next well. Extremely important talks happening
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in the Soviet Union between some envoys from the United States,
including Steve Widcoff and the Secretary of State and others.
And by the way, Jared is also there. But is anything,
has anything been accomplished? Has the bomb moved at all,
let's check in with Tom Southie Burridge, ABC News korin
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Foreign correspondent. He is in Paris right now, Tom, thanks
for talking to us today.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
What happened in the talks?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Well, I mean, look, according to the Kremlin, the talks
between Wikoff Kushner and Vladimir Putin and his top advisors
lasted for five hours. The Kremlin said that they discussed
several versions of this US peace plan, which you know,
Donald Trump's top team of being kind of taking to
the Ukrainians, working a little bit with the Europeans, and
now taking to the Russians. I mean, look, the Russians
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basically said that they didn't like some elements of what
was in this plan, but they could accept some of it.
In essence, we've got no indication that the Russians willing
to move away from their maximalist demands in these negotiations.
And you know, the maximust demands are things like the
idea that Ukraine should seed even more territory than the
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Russian military have already occupied up until now, about a
fifth of the country. And that is something that for
the Europeans and Ukraine, they have a common position would
be tuned out to a capitulation that they're not going
to go there unless there's a major, major payback in
some form or another. But there's no indication that Russia
is offering anything like that.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Anyway, I heard a report that Vladimir Putin said if
Europe once war, were more than willing to have a war.
What was that all about.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah, yeah, he did so. I mean actually before the
meeting with Wikoff and Kushnir, he came out Jared Kushna,
he came out of Vladimir Putin and addressed reporters from
Russian state media and he answered a few questions, and yes,
one of his one of his answers basically said, oh,
if Europe wants to go to war with us, and
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obviously I live in Europe, there's no indication that Europe
wants a war with Russia. I mean, Europe wants to
defend itself against Russia and has become wise about Vladimir
Putin's tactics over the last couple of decades and will
take nothing for granted when it comes to Russia's promises,
given given its past form. But yes, he said, basically,
we're ready for war now if that eventuality comes, and
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Vladimir Putin also he also was asked about recent Ukrainian
attacks using these autonomous explosive boats basically kind of drones
on the water to attack oil tankers, which are not
officially registered as Russia, but they're part of this so
called shadow fleet. They're used effectively by Russia to unofficially
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transport sanctioned oil around the world and get around US sanctions.
And Vladimir Putin said, if those type of attacks continue,
he's willing to retally it in a similar way against
the nations back in Ukraine.
Speaker 14 (22:03):
I e.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
He was kind of threatening implicitly to go after European
commercial vessels if those type of attacks continues. So there
is a threat that this could escalate and actually not
move towards a peace.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Still, well, that's exactly the opposite of what we had
hoped for. We've been at this point before, though, haven't we.
We've had this summit that happened in Alaska, and each time,
and it's been several times since then, something happens that
gives the Trump administration and give Americans hope that we
might finally have peace in Ukraine, and it never happens,
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and so the question always is, is Putin just playing
the Trump administration and dragging this along, pretending there could
be peace so he could keep the war going. Is
there any answer to that question, any way of knowing?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
It's a great question, and it's one I've been asking
myself for weeks, if not months. There's a good case
to suggest that basically, and that is basically that you know,
Vladimir Putin's forces in eastern Ukraine are on the advance
very slowly though, and at great cost.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
So it's a war of attrition.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
It's also a new type of warfare that the world
hasn't seen before, where you know, there's very few troops
kind of trying to move forward at any one time,
because in the sky there is the buzz of annwn unquantifiable,
unquantifiable number of drones on both sides that can attack
anything that moves, and so it's very very difficult warfare
that the Russians are making very slow progress right now.
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Vladimir Putin wants to take the whole of the Donbas
region in eastern Ukraine. That is the part of the
territory that in the negotiations he's insisting that Ukraine give
up which Ukraine I don't think is willing to.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Do unless the US would be willing.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
To enter into what the Europeans and the Ukrainians are
pushing for, and they're calling security guarantees, and that is
the idea that if there were to be a peace deal,
if the front line was drawn where it is now,
or even if Russia would be given more territory, that's
unlikely that the Ukrainians could accept that. The Ukrainians need
to know that Russia can't just launch another invasion, the
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third invasion in just over a decade. They need the guarantees.
The main guarantee, which the Europeans are already working on,
is building up the Ukrainian military, better equipping it, you know,
supplying fighter jets in the coming years, more military equipment
at training the Ukrainian troops. But the other element of
the security guarantees is also a reassurance force, the idea
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that European troops could be based a small number of
them away from the contact line in Ukraine in the
event of another Russian invasion, and what the Europeans are
negotiating with the US on now, but there is no
sign that there is any agreement on that is what
would be the extent of the US involvement. We know
that Donald Trump isn't going to put US boots on
the ground in Ukraine. That's definitely off the table. But
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the idea that the Europeans are pushing for is some
kind of assurance the Trump administration that in the event
of another Russian invasion and in the event of European
troops being caught up in it, how would the US
assist that European force Either way?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Even if these are serious peace talks going on right now,
it's going to take some time, so we hope to
talk to you again soon. Tom Soufie Burridge, ABC News
foreign correspondent in Paris. Thanks for your time, Tom, Thanks Larry.
He said, a war of attrition, and when you think
about a war of attrition, that's going to take a
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long time, and that plays into the theory that these
peace talks may not be real. I hope it's not true.
I hope that's not true. But it does seem like
he keeps coming back and he's and there always is
a glimmer of hope. He always offers a glimmer of hope.
You know, some of these things are acceptable a few
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of them are not, which means you have to talk more,
which means you have to go back to the others
side and say which of these things do you want?
And so it seems to me, and I think it
seems to many people that are much smarter than me
when it comes to foreign policy, that what might be
going on. And Tom Sufi Berridge talked about it a
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little bit too, that what Putin wants more than anyone
thing else is that Dombast region and the reason he
wants it is because they speak Russian. They are the
area that's right up against the Russian border. There have
been polls in the past, as a matter of fact,
they even voted on this once, but it just wasn't
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gonna happen. If you could go back to mother Russia, Russia,
would you and they voted yess. So to him, he's
bringing them back into the fold. And so you can
tell why this is so important to him. Would he
loved to have all of Ukraine? Yes, I believe that,
but I think right away the goal at this moment
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is to get done best and if he can pull
that off, he feels it a victory. It's a victory.
Now put yourself in the side of the Ukrainians if
you know that is his ambition and that is his goal.
Do you save lives, save time, get the chance to
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rebuild your country by just letting him have that. It's
a tough pill to swallow. I get it, But just
think how much you can save and how much you
can move on or do you just wait and let
it happen anyway. It's a horrible question. It's a horrible
place to be in for Vladimir Zelensky and for President Trump.
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But I'm sure they've already thought of this, and I'm
sure the talks that don't happen in the open that
that has been talked about. It is a horrible, horrible
decision to have to make, but I believe it's a
decision that's going to become sooner rather than later. Will
you give this up or do you want it to
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be taken if it means ending the war earlier? Let's
talk about something nice. Today's the day and the lighting
of the Rockafeller Christmas Tree. Natalie Migliori talks with New
Yorkers and tourists who are ready to celebrate her beat
on the street next Now it's sevent ten Wars Beat
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on the Street with Natalie Migliori. Well, it's that day
again for some people. This is one of the biggest
days of the year. The Christmas tree lighting at Rockafeller
Center used to be. As Natalie was telling me, people
would camp out on this. So are there people already there? Now?
Let's find out from Natalie Migliori and her Beat on
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the Street.
Speaker 15 (28:50):
Natalie, Yeah, good morning, Larry. It's going to really start
looking a lot like Christmas tonight. The halls are decked
and the Rockefeller Center tree is topped with its nine
hundred pounds far off sky Star and it's ready to
get lit. I will say nobody's sleeping outside right now.
Because of security measures that's really changed. Nobody's really going
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to be able to get as close as they used
to be. They make everybody leave the area and then
come back in for for security to be screamed. So
that's not it. But the fifty thousand lights that line
the seventy foot tree that helds from East Green Bush,
roughly two and a half hours north of here, is
a big deal around here. But some people came farther
(29:36):
than that.
Speaker 14 (29:37):
Atlanta, Georgia, Dayton, Ohio.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Do look Grand Rapids, Michigan in Clinton, all the.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Way from Loving Texas.
Speaker 9 (29:43):
We're from Texas.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
We're here from Chicago.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
I live in Maine.
Speaker 14 (29:45):
Well, I've been seeing this three for forty one years though,
so it's forty one three. I'll see it here.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
It's beautiful trees when it gets lit. What's the feeling like?
Speaker 14 (29:52):
Oh man, excited, like something you've never see in a
long time. I mean, though you see so many times
it's beautiful.
Speaker 15 (29:58):
Did you walk past it purposely or not?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
No?
Speaker 14 (30:00):
Well, work right now, rock. So that's why I was
forty one years.
Speaker 15 (30:03):
Forty one year, you say, at the same drop of
forty one he is. That's a dedicated employee.
Speaker 12 (30:09):
Yes, I say, Christmas bonus.
Speaker 14 (30:10):
I hope to hear that one and not a small
one eagle.
Speaker 15 (30:15):
Yeah, a little. Maybe his Christmas bonus, Larry, is that
he gets to see the tree. Maybe that's the boss's
all human and he's all there all the time. But
he's obviously the closest to the tree, working right there.
But as a New Yorker, I always have to ask
people why New York during the holidays, what's drawing them here?
Especially to this tree.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Because it's beautiful and getting in the Christmas holiday spirit.
It's so iconic, you know.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
It's just one of those things that and just be
nice to see in person.
Speaker 16 (30:42):
I think just because of traveling wise with friends, family.
It's something we haven't done before. Everybody talks about it
on the TV, you know, the big Tree. You see
him movies and stuff, so we want to experience it ourselves.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
I turned fifty this year, and this is what I
wanted for my birthday. We're here and I'm crying because
I'm here.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Why was this what you wanted?
Speaker 5 (31:02):
We don't do things like this in Lubbock. I mean,
we've got, you know, trees that you know we have
or we have a Santa Land and we have things
like that. But this is where people from all over
the world come to see this.
Speaker 15 (31:13):
Well these Chicago and tell me they just happen to
be in New York, even if they've been following the
story of the nearly seventy five year old evergreen that
was donated by the Russ family, who owns the property
it grew on.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Absolutely not, although we did hear the whole story on
TV about the family it came from and everything. So
it's actually Yeah, it's actually kind of special. I think
it's a beautiful story because they're giving something that they
have grown, that they have you know grown, it's been
a part of their family for so many years and
now we get to get to be a part of it.
And then it's going to go back to Habitat for Humanity,
(31:47):
So they're going to continue giving even after today.
Speaker 15 (31:51):
Yeah, that tree does get turned into a home for somebody,
so they're emotional for somebody to see up clothes that
they've never before. And now streets around the tree we'll
close leading up to the Star Study tree lighting ceremony
to make sure everyone who attends goes through some sort
of security screening. When people found this out, others not
(32:11):
really planning to attend, but others are still planning to
see this tree be lit in Berson.
Speaker 11 (32:16):
Yeah, we're here looking at it and now just stumbled
upon it, just coming before all the crowds hit, trying
to see what's we're going for tonight.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
We'll see it tomorrow after we've seen it in direkness,
So we'll go down tomorrow and it's not as busy
as tonight, but yeah, we seen it.
Speaker 16 (32:31):
We plan on coming to see it tonight.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
We will be here. I don't know how close. We've
got a lot of things we want to see today,
so we're still gonna keep on doing things. So I
don't know how close we're gonna be able to be
to the whole celebration and to see all the singer,
the you know, artists coming and everything. But yeah, we're
going to be here.
Speaker 15 (32:49):
They are all the way from Texas or wherever everybody's from, Larry.
They all came to see this tree.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
That's amazing. Have you ever gone.
Speaker 15 (33:00):
To the tree lighting? But every year you walk it
at some point.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Yeah, you it at some point.
Speaker 15 (33:07):
Two different by lighting ceremonial is a little bit more commitment,
a little bit more to a lot of commitment. Yeah,
and it gets cold. It always seems to be so cold.
Today they light the tree.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Thanks so much. Natalie and Migliore will be back tomorrow
at age fifty. There have been over five hundred lawsuits
against the Trump administration, unprecedented. We'll talk to Sarah Isker
about that after the nine o'clock News
And good morning to you. I hope you're in an
area that got snow, because most of us didn't get snow,
and apparently it wasn't the kind of snow that caused
some serious problems. It was just enough snow to make
things pretty. And so you know, I hope you were there.
Let's start off of Big three with that. The fact
that several areas, especially in North Jersey and upstate New York,
(00:22):
including Orange County where this child is, they didn't have school.
So he was really happy that there was snow. How
did you find out that school was canceled? Come on,
tell me and what did you say?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
How do they?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Yeah, that's why a lot of kids were talking about yesterday.
So if you had off, if you got to enjoy snow,
first of all, give us a call, tell us what
it was like, and tell us how you made it
around it, because I heard it wasn't really that bad.
It didn't even stay on the roads that long. Also
in the Big three two big special elections, Jersey City,
(00:56):
the second largest city in New Jersey, now has a
new mayor, James Solomon. I believe in the people of
Jersey City.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
He's the entire state of the Jersey.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Now Jim McGreevy, since he had to retire as governor,
it's been a long road back and this was the
end of a big comeback and it just didn't happen
for him. So it was McGreevy running against Solomon. He
lost by a lot. It's an important race to take
a look at, including the race in Tennessee that I'm
going to talk about in the second, because there is
(01:38):
a progressive slash socialist movement in the country and Robert
Anderson or Robert Solomon, excuse me, is very or James
Solomon is very, very progressive. Now in Tennessee, a special
election for a congressional seat and was supposed to be
a razor close race for a house seat. It wasn't
(02:01):
that close.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Well, Hello Tennessee, what a night, What a night.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
We did it.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Thank you, Thank you all. This is just an incredible win,
an incredible win tonight. You've sent a message loud and clear,
the people of Middle Tennessee stand with President Donald J.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Trump.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Now, this is really interesting to me when we're looking
at the progressive movement across the country because Matt van
Epp won there. He beat by nine points, almost ten,
a woman named Afton Ben we've been talking about on
the air here who considers herself the AOC of the
South and love Zurin Mamdani is a socialist herself. So
(02:47):
we can now look and get an idea that in
republican areas and Republican states, the progressives will not be
able to take over. They're still being fought back. But
it's in the big cities. It's in places like New York,
it's in Chicago, it's in democratic places, it's like Jersey City.
So I don't think I think this has been overplayed
(03:09):
about how the socialists are taking over the country. That
doesn't seem to really be happening at all. In New York,
the incoming mayor Zori and Mamdani meets with the outgoing
Mayor Eric Adams at Gracie Mansion, which begs the question,
is the working man's socialist going to live in Gracie Mansion?
Speaker 7 (03:29):
That is a decision I haven't yet made.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
The meeting came about.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
As just part of a typical transition, a transition where
we're looking to have a conversation with the current mayor
about what it looks like to have a smooth transfer
between this administration and the next administration. I've appreciated the
work of his staff and ensuring that it continues.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
To be smooth. Secretary of War Pete Hegsath doesn't back
down amidst a controversy about the second airstrike of a
boat already crippled by a first air strike in the Caribbean.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I watched that first strike lot.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
As you can imagine, at the Department of War, we
got a lot of things to do, so I didn't
stick around for the hour and two hours whatever where
all the sensitive side exploitation digitally occurs. So I moved
on to my next meeting. A couple of hours later,
I learned that that commander had made which he had
the complete authority to do, and by the way, had
mcbradley made the correct decision to ultimately sink the boat
(04:22):
and eliminate the.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Threat the terrorists. The Afghan national who killed a National
Guard member and wounded another in Washington, d C appeared
in court on video through teleconference. He was in his
bed in the hospital. He pled not guilty to charges
of terrorism and murder, and more charges are to come.
(04:45):
We are pursuing everything.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
There is nothing off the table right now. This is
an individual about whom we don't know a lot, but
we will trust me.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
For it's over. And that's Gennine Piro. She obviously is upset.
She is the US attorney in Washington, and she said
at the time that this was at the time of
the killing, that we can't find a lot on this guy.
And now as they keep digging, they still haven't found
a lot on this guy. And so you go back
(05:17):
to the claim by the Biden administration or all the
Democrats trying to protect Joe Biden right now that he
was fully vetted. How could he be How could he
have been fully vetted. They didn't have enough information on
him in Afghanistan and they don't have enough information on
him here. So that was a croc to say that,
oh boy, the millions that came over, they have all
(05:39):
been vetted. It is a lie, and it's an embarrassing
lie because a whole lot of people have had to suffer.
Thank god that Donald Trump got into office and could
expose some of this stuff, because we would have never
known if Kamala Harris got in or crazy Tim Walls,
the governor of Minister and the failed Democratic Vice president nominee.
(06:03):
He's now responsible for a billion dollars in fraud under
his watch, most of the fraud from Somalian immigrants that
Waltz welcomed in.
Speaker 9 (06:16):
Al Shabab controls all the financial infrastructure in Somalia. That's right,
This money has gone back to Somalia Airgo. Common sense
would tell you that millions of dollars taxpayer dollars from
Minnesotan's has gone to terrace known as Al Shabab in Somalia.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Trump has announced Trump Accounts we talked about him a
second ago, one thousand dollars to be put into accounts
for babies born after January twenty twenty five. January first,
if you have a baby, you can apply for one
of these if you make under one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, and it can be withdrawn when they're ready
to go to college.
Speaker 10 (06:56):
Trump Accounts will be the first I guess you could
say real trust funds for every American child, allowing family members, employers, corporations,
generous donors to contribute money that will be invested and
grow over the course of a child's life to be
used for their benefit after they turn eighteen.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, It's amazing, isn't it. Now We're still waiting on
Vicky Pawadino. But let me let me tell you something
I thought about Vicki Palladino. There's got to be somebody
in New York that comes to the forefront as the
Republican leader. And it has to be someone in position
(07:38):
who better than Vicki Pawadino to be the person that
represents us in this city, that has some common sense,
that can call for federal investigations, which is what she's
doing right now, by the way, And that takes us
back to a couple of days ago, Saturday, to be exact.
(08:01):
Right after, by the way, the two National Guard members
were gunned down in the nation's capital. A twenty year
old who was summa cum law they who had a
bright future ahead of her. She died. The other gentleman
is in better condition and is expected to survive. Now
they was touch and go there for a while, but
(08:22):
he's expected to survive. And then a couple of days
after that, some people in New York decided, well, this
would be a good opportunity to take on more federal
law enforcement, and so they decided to get in the
way of ice trucks that were trying to just do
their jobs and push came to show that got very
(08:46):
serious there for a while because they weren't going to
move out of the way of the trucks. They manhandled
some of the National Guard's troops. The NYPD showed up
and they were arrests and Vicki Palladino has been very
vocal saying that she's against that and she wants an investigation.
(09:09):
Where's she going to get an investigation where in this city?
Not gonna happen in this city council, nobody's gonna listen
to her. It's all Democrats. That's why she has to
have a relationship with Donald Trump. That's why we need
Vicky Palladino to be our voice in the city when
things like this happen. She needs some power. If the
(09:32):
meeting with zorin Mom, Donnie looks so chummy chummy and
he's against everything that Donald Trump is for, Vicky Palladino,
who is like our Donald Trump in New York City,
would be perfect to be his right hand woman in
New York City to make certain that everything is going well.
(09:53):
And he needs to give her that power that she
can come to him and say this needs to be looked,
that this needs to be investigated, because I'm surprised that
there's not a federal investigation into what happened that day
right now, because that can happen again. Someone's going to
get killed, and that someone may be an ice officer
(10:15):
if nothing happens. So, Vicki Palladino, I know something happened
that you're not with us today, but I hope you're
listening because we need you now more than ever. Vicki Palladino, though,
is going to be back next Wednesday at eight oh five.
We'll talk to her about it. Then a liquor store
had bottles shattered, booze spilled everywhere. Wait to hear who
(10:37):
the culprit was. Plus tickets to see the Trans Siberian Orchestra.
Seems like there's fewer people on the roads. I wonder
if people took a longer vacation, you know, they went,
they took a flight somewhere and decided to stay there.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
For a week, Because why fly back in a few
days right or come back midweek when one? You know,
the traffic's can be lighter and the flights are a
lot cheaper. When you fly home on a Tuesday Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah, that's a good call. That's right. If you went
back like a Wednesday morning or a Thursday morning, you
can get a lot cheaper flight. Ever do that.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
You look at you know, you click around, You're like, Okay,
I want to come back on Sunday. You're like, oh,
let's see it on a Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I can't. My whole life is half Tues. I have
to be somewhere, I have to go somewhere, I have
to do something, so I never can do that. I'd
love to do that. I would love to have those options,
but I can't. Let's get to the talkbacks. Thanks so
much for your talkbacks. iHeartRadio app seven to ten wo R.
You go to the talkback section, you hit the microphone,
(11:39):
record what you want to say, and we got you
on the.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Elite to Facebook and whatever else Twitter. It took me
two weeks. The first three days were tough. I wanted
to look at the phone. But after that, it's like smoking.
Once you're done with it, you're done with it and
you feel better. Try it, oh man, when completely.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Cold turkey, I know, I'm you know, I'm thinking maybe
I should try, But is it Okay, if I do
little by little, like first I'll do one app and
then another, But not all the apps at one time.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
You can't because part of your job is to be
on there.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
No, but I'm thinking during vacation when I'm not working.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Oh yeah, well of course you should, are you so
when you go on vacation you keep checking social media?
Heck yeah, I don't. Now that's the one time where
I don't when I'm on vacation. I'm one vacation. It
is time. There was no way I would get in
the driver of this car. What happens if it gets
a virus? What happens if somebody hacks it?
Speaker 11 (12:44):
I mean, give me a break. Why people don't know
how to drive themselves anymore? That's as bad as you
guys are not having a paper and pencil write down
your passwords.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
That was a reference from yesterday.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
But none of us being able to run passwords, specifically
me the other day. Oh I got stuck, couldn't open
up my phone, couldn't remember my password, was horrifying.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I want to hear from that same guy in about
four years. I want to hear what he has to
say then, Because you ever notice at the beginning of
everything new. Everybody says, Oh, it's the stupidest thing I
ever heard in four years. They're using it. Oh, I
don't know how I live without this. Oh, I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I'm sure. When people were riding their buggies, I'm not
getting in that car face.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
That's right, you're kidding me.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
How does it know I'm.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Not making fun I'm guilty. I do exactly the same thing.
All right, let's talk about this break in. This break
in in Ashland, Virginia into a liquor store, and they
were just nasty. They knocked over all the bottles on
the floor. I mean, if you could steal it, if
you're going to, but don't knock it over, don't don't
(13:56):
just ruin the place, in this liquor store. And by
the way, the Ashland police responded and this is what
they wrote. On Saturday morning, Officer Martin responded to an
unusual call at the Ashland ABC store, which must be
their liquor control. Upon arrival, she discovered the suspect had
broken in, ransacked several shelves, and then passed out in
(14:21):
the bathroom. The suspect a very intoxicated raccoon. Officer I
love how they wrote this. Officer Martin safely secured our
masked bandit and transported him back to the shelter to
sober up before questioning him. After a few hours of
(14:45):
sleep and zero signs of injury other than maybe a
hangover and poor life choices, that's the he was safely
released back to the wild, hopefully having learned that breaking
and entering is not the answer to your life's problem.
You're drinking A big shout out to Officer Martin for
(15:08):
handling this chaotic scene with professionalism and good humor. Just
another day in the life at Hanover Animal Protection.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Okay, you know what, I'm gonna have to post the
picture because the best part of this is not only
the broken bottles all over the floor. They found the
raccoon face down next to the toilet as it should
be right, which.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
By the way, that is a picture that you can
do without a raccoon. From every party you ever went
to in college when you had to step around somebody
in the bathroom.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
You could sympathize from that photo.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
And then still use the bathroom even though that person
sends that on the floor. Now, Jacqueline Carl with the
eight thirty News Jacqueline Larry.
Speaker 12 (15:54):
Every National Guard member deployed in Washington, DC is now
armed the Pentagon on May. The announcement Tuesday, after last
week's shooting of two service members near the White House.
One was killed and the other remains a critical condition.
Guard members will also be conducting joint patrols with local
police and the man accused of killing United Healthcare CEO
(16:15):
Brian Thompson is trying to get evidence tossed from his
upcoming trial in Manhattan.
Speaker 13 (16:21):
Luigi Mangioni and his lawyers were in court Monday and
Tuesday for a pre trial hearing centered around Mangioni's arrest
in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Lawyers claim police questioned Mangioni for twenty
minutes before reading him his rights. His lawyers are looking
to have the evidence found in Mangoni's backpack, including a
gun and notebook, excluded from the trial. The pre trial
(16:41):
hearing will resume Thursday, the one year anniversary of Thompson's killing.
I'm skat Pringle wrdwes So you're gonna.
Speaker 12 (16:48):
Feel so bad for IRS agents when you hear this story.
According to media, things just got harder for IRS agents.
Some of the agents will now have to watch only
fans and other online content creator videos to decide if
they count as pornographic under a new tax law. The
issue comes from the no tax on Tips law that
(17:11):
was part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which
says tips from prostitution or pornographic activity don't qualify for
the deduction. If the IRS audits someone claiming the tips deduction,
which is capped a twenty five thousand dollars, an agent
will have to look at their content and decide if
it's pornographic. So do you think there's going to be
(17:31):
a run on IRS jobs?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Could you imagine the number of people that are putting
in for the porn task Force at the IRS right now? Yeah,
obviously I think a lot of people are going to
be want to be part of that. It's ask force, yes,
porn task for.
Speaker 12 (17:47):
And you can't even get in trouble if it's on
your computers now there right, It's going to be like, well,
you know, it's one of my job.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Excellent points. Excellent points. I wonder how what.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I didn't think that?
Speaker 12 (18:00):
I mean, but I didn't realize there was there was
like a caveat to the no tips no tax on tips,
can't be pornography, can't be prostitution.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Oh I didn't know that either.
Speaker 12 (18:11):
Yeah, so so now the irs poor poor people that have.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
To put up with a check on this. Yeah, thanks
a lot, Jacqueline. Congratulation to Ron Marquis from Staten Island,
New York who just won a pair of tickets to
see the Trans Siberian Orchestra's annual holiday show performing at
the USB Arena in Elmont on December eighteenth at the
Prudential Center in Newark on December nineteenth. Can go to
(18:38):
either show. Tickets on sale at ticketmaster dot com. Another
chance to win tomorrow morning at A twenty five. We
haven't a chance to talk about this morning, but are
we close to peace in Ukraine? Or is Putin just
playing us again? It's not a good sign that he
is threatening war with Europe right now. We're going to
talk about it all next well. Extremely important talks happening
(19:03):
in the Soviet Union between some envoys from the United States,
including Steve Widcoff and the Secretary of State and others.
And by the way, Jared is also there. But is anything,
has anything been accomplished? Has the bomb moved at all,
let's check in with Tom Southie Burridge, ABC News korin
(19:24):
Foreign correspondent. He is in Paris right now, Tom, thanks
for talking to us today.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
What happened in the talks?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Well, I mean, look, according to the Kremlin, the talks
between Wikoff Kushner and Vladimir Putin and his top advisors
lasted for five hours. The Kremlin said that they discussed
several versions of this US peace plan, which you know,
Donald Trump's top team of being kind of taking to
the Ukrainians, working a little bit with the Europeans, and
now taking to the Russians. I mean, look, the Russians
(19:56):
basically said that they didn't like some elements of what
was in this plan, but they could accept some of it.
In essence, we've got no indication that the Russians willing
to move away from their maximalist demands in these negotiations.
And you know, the maximust demands are things like the
idea that Ukraine should seed even more territory than the
(20:17):
Russian military have already occupied up until now, about a
fifth of the country. And that is something that for
the Europeans and Ukraine, they have a common position would
be tuned out to a capitulation that they're not going
to go there unless there's a major, major payback in
some form or another. But there's no indication that Russia
is offering anything like that.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Anyway, I heard a report that Vladimir Putin said if
Europe once war, were more than willing to have a war.
What was that all about.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah, yeah, he did so. I mean actually before the
meeting with Wikoff and Kushnir, he came out Jared Kushna,
he came out of Vladimir Putin and addressed reporters from
Russian state media and he answered a few questions, and yes,
one of his one of his answers basically said, oh,
if Europe wants to go to war with us, and
(21:05):
obviously I live in Europe, there's no indication that Europe
wants a war with Russia. I mean, Europe wants to
defend itself against Russia and has become wise about Vladimir
Putin's tactics over the last couple of decades and will
take nothing for granted when it comes to Russia's promises,
given given its past form. But yes, he said, basically,
we're ready for war now if that eventuality comes, and
(21:29):
Vladimir Putin also he also was asked about recent Ukrainian
attacks using these autonomous explosive boats basically kind of drones
on the water to attack oil tankers, which are not
officially registered as Russia, but they're part of this so
called shadow fleet. They're used effectively by Russia to unofficially
(21:49):
transport sanctioned oil around the world and get around US sanctions.
And Vladimir Putin said, if those type of attacks continue,
he's willing to retally it in a similar way against
the nations back in Ukraine.
Speaker 14 (22:03):
I e.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
He was kind of threatening implicitly to go after European
commercial vessels if those type of attacks continues. So there
is a threat that this could escalate and actually not
move towards a peace.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Still, well, that's exactly the opposite of what we had
hoped for. We've been at this point before, though, haven't we.
We've had this summit that happened in Alaska, and each time,
and it's been several times since then, something happens that
gives the Trump administration and give Americans hope that we
might finally have peace in Ukraine, and it never happens,
(22:37):
and so the question always is, is Putin just playing
the Trump administration and dragging this along, pretending there could
be peace so he could keep the war going. Is
there any answer to that question, any way of knowing?
Speaker 2 (22:53):
It's a great question, and it's one I've been asking
myself for weeks, if not months. There's a good case
to suggest that basically, and that is basically that you know,
Vladimir Putin's forces in eastern Ukraine are on the advance
very slowly though, and at great cost.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
So it's a war of attrition.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
It's also a new type of warfare that the world
hasn't seen before, where you know, there's very few troops
kind of trying to move forward at any one time,
because in the sky there is the buzz of annwn unquantifiable,
unquantifiable number of drones on both sides that can attack
anything that moves, and so it's very very difficult warfare
that the Russians are making very slow progress right now.
(23:34):
Vladimir Putin wants to take the whole of the Donbas
region in eastern Ukraine. That is the part of the
territory that in the negotiations he's insisting that Ukraine give
up which Ukraine I don't think is willing to.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Do unless the US would be willing.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
To enter into what the Europeans and the Ukrainians are
pushing for, and they're calling security guarantees, and that is
the idea that if there were to be a peace deal,
if the front line was drawn where it is now,
or even if Russia would be given more territory, that's
unlikely that the Ukrainians could accept that. The Ukrainians need
to know that Russia can't just launch another invasion, the
(24:10):
third invasion in just over a decade. They need the guarantees.
The main guarantee, which the Europeans are already working on,
is building up the Ukrainian military, better equipping it, you know,
supplying fighter jets in the coming years, more military equipment
at training the Ukrainian troops. But the other element of
the security guarantees is also a reassurance force, the idea
(24:32):
that European troops could be based a small number of
them away from the contact line in Ukraine in the
event of another Russian invasion, and what the Europeans are
negotiating with the US on now, but there is no
sign that there is any agreement on that is what
would be the extent of the US involvement. We know
that Donald Trump isn't going to put US boots on
the ground in Ukraine. That's definitely off the table. But
(24:55):
the idea that the Europeans are pushing for is some
kind of assurance the Trump administration that in the event
of another Russian invasion and in the event of European
troops being caught up in it, how would the US
assist that European force Either way?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Even if these are serious peace talks going on right now,
it's going to take some time, so we hope to
talk to you again soon. Tom Soufie Burridge, ABC News
foreign correspondent in Paris. Thanks for your time, Tom, Thanks Larry.
He said, a war of attrition, and when you think
about a war of attrition, that's going to take a
(25:33):
long time, and that plays into the theory that these
peace talks may not be real. I hope it's not true.
I hope that's not true. But it does seem like
he keeps coming back and he's and there always is
a glimmer of hope. He always offers a glimmer of hope.
You know, some of these things are acceptable a few
(25:54):
of them are not, which means you have to talk more,
which means you have to go back to the others
side and say which of these things do you want?
And so it seems to me, and I think it
seems to many people that are much smarter than me
when it comes to foreign policy, that what might be
going on. And Tom Sufi Berridge talked about it a
(26:16):
little bit too, that what Putin wants more than anyone
thing else is that Dombast region and the reason he
wants it is because they speak Russian. They are the
area that's right up against the Russian border. There have
been polls in the past, as a matter of fact,
they even voted on this once, but it just wasn't
(26:36):
gonna happen. If you could go back to mother Russia, Russia,
would you and they voted yess. So to him, he's
bringing them back into the fold. And so you can
tell why this is so important to him. Would he
loved to have all of Ukraine? Yes, I believe that,
but I think right away the goal at this moment
(27:00):
is to get done best and if he can pull
that off, he feels it a victory. It's a victory.
Now put yourself in the side of the Ukrainians if
you know that is his ambition and that is his goal.
Do you save lives, save time, get the chance to
(27:22):
rebuild your country by just letting him have that. It's
a tough pill to swallow. I get it, But just
think how much you can save and how much you
can move on or do you just wait and let
it happen anyway. It's a horrible question. It's a horrible
place to be in for Vladimir Zelensky and for President Trump.
(27:46):
But I'm sure they've already thought of this, and I'm
sure the talks that don't happen in the open that
that has been talked about. It is a horrible, horrible
decision to have to make, but I believe it's a
decision that's going to become sooner rather than later. Will
you give this up or do you want it to
(28:07):
be taken if it means ending the war earlier? Let's
talk about something nice. Today's the day and the lighting
of the Rockafeller Christmas Tree. Natalie Migliori talks with New
Yorkers and tourists who are ready to celebrate her beat
on the street next Now it's sevent ten Wars Beat
(28:27):
on the Street with Natalie Migliori. Well, it's that day
again for some people. This is one of the biggest
days of the year. The Christmas tree lighting at Rockafeller
Center used to be. As Natalie was telling me, people
would camp out on this. So are there people already there? Now?
Let's find out from Natalie Migliori and her Beat on
(28:50):
the Street.
Speaker 15 (28:50):
Natalie, Yeah, good morning, Larry. It's going to really start
looking a lot like Christmas tonight. The halls are decked
and the Rockefeller Center tree is topped with its nine
hundred pounds far off sky Star and it's ready to
get lit. I will say nobody's sleeping outside right now.
Because of security measures that's really changed. Nobody's really going
(29:13):
to be able to get as close as they used
to be. They make everybody leave the area and then
come back in for for security to be screamed. So
that's not it. But the fifty thousand lights that line
the seventy foot tree that helds from East Green Bush,
roughly two and a half hours north of here, is
a big deal around here. But some people came farther
(29:36):
than that.
Speaker 14 (29:37):
Atlanta, Georgia, Dayton, Ohio.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Do look Grand Rapids, Michigan in Clinton, all the.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Way from Loving Texas.
Speaker 9 (29:43):
We're from Texas.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
We're here from Chicago.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
I live in Maine.
Speaker 14 (29:45):
Well, I've been seeing this three for forty one years though,
so it's forty one three. I'll see it here.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
It's beautiful trees when it gets lit. What's the feeling like?
Speaker 14 (29:52):
Oh man, excited, like something you've never see in a
long time. I mean, though you see so many times
it's beautiful.
Speaker 15 (29:58):
Did you walk past it purposely or not?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
No?
Speaker 14 (30:00):
Well, work right now, rock. So that's why I was
forty one years.
Speaker 15 (30:03):
Forty one year, you say, at the same drop of
forty one he is. That's a dedicated employee.
Speaker 12 (30:09):
Yes, I say, Christmas bonus.
Speaker 14 (30:10):
I hope to hear that one and not a small
one eagle.
Speaker 15 (30:15):
Yeah, a little. Maybe his Christmas bonus, Larry, is that
he gets to see the tree. Maybe that's the boss's
all human and he's all there all the time. But
he's obviously the closest to the tree, working right there.
But as a New Yorker, I always have to ask
people why New York during the holidays, what's drawing them here?
Especially to this tree.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Because it's beautiful and getting in the Christmas holiday spirit.
It's so iconic, you know.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
It's just one of those things that and just be
nice to see in person.
Speaker 16 (30:42):
I think just because of traveling wise with friends, family.
It's something we haven't done before. Everybody talks about it
on the TV, you know, the big Tree. You see
him movies and stuff, so we want to experience it ourselves.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
I turned fifty this year, and this is what I
wanted for my birthday. We're here and I'm crying because
I'm here.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Why was this what you wanted?
Speaker 5 (31:02):
We don't do things like this in Lubbock. I mean,
we've got, you know, trees that you know we have
or we have a Santa Land and we have things
like that. But this is where people from all over
the world come to see this.
Speaker 15 (31:13):
Well these Chicago and tell me they just happen to
be in New York, even if they've been following the
story of the nearly seventy five year old evergreen that
was donated by the Russ family, who owns the property
it grew on.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Absolutely not, although we did hear the whole story on
TV about the family it came from and everything. So
it's actually Yeah, it's actually kind of special. I think
it's a beautiful story because they're giving something that they
have grown, that they have you know grown, it's been
a part of their family for so many years and
now we get to get to be a part of it.
And then it's going to go back to Habitat for Humanity,
(31:47):
So they're going to continue giving even after today.
Speaker 15 (31:51):
Yeah, that tree does get turned into a home for somebody,
so they're emotional for somebody to see up clothes that
they've never before. And now streets around the tree we'll
close leading up to the Star Study tree lighting ceremony
to make sure everyone who attends goes through some sort
of security screening. When people found this out, others not
(32:11):
really planning to attend, but others are still planning to
see this tree be lit in Berson.
Speaker 11 (32:16):
Yeah, we're here looking at it and now just stumbled
upon it, just coming before all the crowds hit, trying
to see what's we're going for tonight.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
We'll see it tomorrow after we've seen it in direkness,
So we'll go down tomorrow and it's not as busy
as tonight, but yeah, we seen it.
Speaker 16 (32:31):
We plan on coming to see it tonight.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
We will be here. I don't know how close. We've
got a lot of things we want to see today,
so we're still gonna keep on doing things. So I
don't know how close we're gonna be able to be
to the whole celebration and to see all the singer,
the you know, artists coming and everything. But yeah, we're
going to be here.
Speaker 15 (32:49):
They are all the way from Texas or wherever everybody's from, Larry.
They all came to see this tree.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
That's amazing. Have you ever gone.
Speaker 15 (33:00):
To the tree lighting? But every year you walk it
at some point.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Yeah, you it at some point.
Speaker 15 (33:07):
Two different by lighting ceremonial is a little bit more commitment,
a little bit more to a lot of commitment. Yeah,
and it gets cold. It always seems to be so cold.
Today they light the tree.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Thanks so much. Natalie and Migliore will be back tomorrow
at age fifty. There have been over five hundred lawsuits
against the Trump administration, unprecedented. We'll talk to Sarah Isker
about that after the nine o'clock News
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