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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Big Three. It has happened again, a mass
shooting targeting children from a Catholic school who were inside
a church celebrating the first day of school, killing two
children Injuring seventeen, including three adults, and the murderer the
night before put out a sick video manifesto on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Tomorrow. I'm sorry to my family, but that's it. That's
the only people. I'm sorry to those kids.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
The murderer, twenty three year old Robin Westman, who identified
as a woman but was born Robert Westman and legally
changed his name five years ago. There have been it's
just sick. There have been five shootings in the Bronx
in a twenty four hour span as well. The last
thing we need now in New York is a soft
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on crime socialists mayor. We need a crime fighter.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm dealing with what is becoming the number one issue, crime,
public safety, and quality of life.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I'm the expert in that field.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
These other three candidates have failed the public in that regard.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
In the nation's capital, how about this. What a turnaround?
The Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser is now admitting that the
federal involvement in fighting crime in her city has worked.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
The difference between this period, this twenty day period of
this federal surge and last year represents a eighty seven
percent reduction in carjackings in Washington DC. We know that
when carjackings go down, when the use of gun goes down,
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when homicide or robbery go down, neighborhoods feel safer and
are safer.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So how can Eric Adams continue to say say no?
How can Brandon Johnson in Chicago continue to say no?
If I was a mayor and I saw what was
happening in Washington, I'd want them in my city. And
New York, however, is getting a new Ascella train and
twenty eight other brand new trains. The Asella is going
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to show up today, and they're gonna get a brand
new Penn station at record speed in just a couple
of years, thanks to Donald Trump. So what I'm trying
to figure it out? What should they call that station?
I imagine you're asking, is this going to be Trump's station?
I think that is a nice ring to it.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
But listen, we're all working on building this project and
get into Ton and sure to have a conversation about
name changes.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That's a conversation that could happen at some other point.
Let's go to J. C. Polanco, political analyst and University
of Mount Saint Vincent assistant professor. Jac thanks a lot
for being with us this morning. I appreciate your time.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Thank you so much for having me. How are you today, Larry?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I'm doing well. What do you think would you like
it to be Trump's station that you're going into when
you travel down to Washington?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I like the Larry Mantia that I would like it.
I think we want to make most people smile, and
considering how polarizing the president is, it maybe ruin some
people's mornings on their way to work.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I've been known to do that too. I'm i gonna
be so I'm not sure I would be the best choice.
Let's talk about this new pole that is out that
shows that if everybody else got out of the race,
Andrew Cuomo would beat Zorin Mom Donnie easily. So that's
just that's fantasy land, right, It's never gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Fantasy land. Yeah, it's almost like me thinking I'll have
muscles and abs by November. It's not gonna happen either, Larry.
It's just a fact. You know what's crazy about this.
I'm looking at this pole and like most of your listeners,
they're thinking, you know, I mean, I like Andrew Como
for A, B and C, but andrewmo is infinitely better
than socialism and the criminalization of prostitution and drugs and
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everything else that we've been hearing from some of the
socialists and communists that have been supporting A some the
minimum Dani. So they're looking at this poll and they
don't understand why in the world isn't it happening. Look,
if Eric Adams is mayor Adams is listening right now,
I want to just share something with him. For two decades,
you put your life on the line in the law
enforcement to keep us safe. He did a great job
in the legislature. You came in here with a bang
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as mayor of New York City, and maybe you were
a Delta bad hand. Maybe you hired the wrong people.
Maybe maybe maybe, but this is the hand we have. Look,
if the former President of the United States, leader of
the free world, and chief of all of our armed
services can step aside when he saw that the poll
numbers were not on his favor in Joe Biden, if
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our former commander Chief could do it. Why can't you,
mayor Adams? Why can't you just see the numbers are
just not there. It will be a brave thing, will
be selfless for you to do. Just to step aside
and let this be a three person race between Curtis Leewa,
Andrew Como and Assembly the Mamdani and let's see what's
gonna happen. But continue to stay in this race, knowing
you're not gonna get matching funds, knowing that you're acting
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as a spoiler at this point. Save the reputation. You've
been a leader this whole time. Make it happen, follow
Joe Biden's lead and step aside.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
You're right, I didn't think about that, that he could
go out on a white horse. He could look like
a hero in this whole thing if he were to
make that choice. Yeah. I mean, look, the poll numbers
on him right now are in the tank. They that
could turn them around. But it's early for that, isn't it.
That can still happen in the next month.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
No, it won't turn around. Listen, it's too late when
you're in the single digits like this to turn around
and think you're gonna win this.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I mean, oh, no, no, no, no, no, you misunderstood. I
didn't mean his poll numbers in the race. I mean
his approval ratings.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Oh, his approval rating with skyrocket. If he were to
step aside for this reason, if he says for the
safety of the I disagree with the criminalizing process, I
disagree with the criminalizing misdemeanors. Me staying in this race
makes them more likely. I'm going to do the best
thing for the city and continue that leadership he's always shown,
even in his days in law enforcement. You know, it's
just he has to think about the future of the city.
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Make this a three person race. We know that Curtis Sleeve,
whod the Republican candidate, is not going anywhere. He's a
major party candidate. He was on my show. He's not
going You can make this a three person race. If
Curtise sleeveo world a step aside, if he sees that
the numbers are too low. I don't think that's going
to happen, because his numbers continue to, you know, be
in a in a solid range. But a three person
race makes it less likely that we will have a
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communist and socialist take over. In New York City. And
that's what your listeners have to remember. Everybody wants to
say democratic socialists, almost like you know, a chaser after
you take that tequila shop. If you you know that
democratic work, you could put it aside. The man creeps
up to Marxism regularly. He talks about decommod and fighting housing,
which means taking over housing and making it, you know,
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communal land. He talks about things as far as seizing
the message of production. This isn't just hype. This is
what he believes. And the decriminalization of crimes in New
York City will make things worse for us. What are
we talking about? No idea you can make a difference here.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah, no, I completely agree with you, and I think
he'd be frightening to get in. I'm disappointed with the
media in this. I'm disappointed that the media on pressing
him on exactly how he's going to do all these things,
because they can't be done everything he's promised. If you
look at how he has to go the hoops he
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has to go through, for instance, to raise the corporate tax,
he can't do that. To raise the personal income tax
on those making over a certain amount of money, he
can't do that. He keeps saying it, and nobody holds
his feet to the fire.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
And you know, I have a lot of friends in
depression that there are a lot of great journalists out there,
and I know them personally, but there are a couple
who have become fans. They've taken off their journalism caps
where they're keeping people's foot to the fire, feet to
the fire. They're studying the issues and asking the questions. Larry,
you just asked, and now they've literally become fans. They
put zor hats. I'll give you a quick example. Former
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Governor Cuomo was out in Long Island and he was
talking about making coalitions with independent moderates and Trump supporters
to come in with some Democrats will support him and
maybe winning this thing. The press reported this as if
it was a summit among some of the most worst people,
the worst people on earth, trying to make deals with Trump.
Folks that reported it as a sinister meeting. Meanwhile, some
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of Mamdani's most closest people and advisors are are are
online right now as you speak to be careful with
humanizing the Jews in Israel, And it's like nobody's listening,
I mean, are you kidding me? Which why isn't? Why
isn't some of the things that are something Mamdani is
saying about crime, about the Jewish state, about how he's
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going to go ahead and look for a way to
seize the methods of production, make it more, make it
more difficult for businesses in New York City. None of
that is happening. All that we see is a smile.
He is the scavenger hunt. How wonderful and exciting these
Marxist policies are and no one's really talking about it.
So I'm concerned about what's happening with journalism. That was
all it was a handful. They have become fans as
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opposed to journalists.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
That's really frightening. Thanks for saying that. We're running out
of time. But I'll tell you what. The next time
you come on, I want names. We gotta start naming names.
I'll let you off the hoel. This time they.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Invite me to Thanksgiving dinner, Mary, I can't do it.
But they know who they are. Now you know this? Yeah,
I do better, you see it.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I do. I do what happens nationally all the time.
Of course, it's going to happen locally.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
J C.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Polanco, political analyst and University of Mount Saint Vincent assistant
professor jac It's always a pleasure. Thanks so much. Thanks
how about that? I mean he deals with these people
all of the time. To say that some of the
top journalists in our city have now put on their
Zorr and Mom Donnie caps and are not pressing him
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on the issue. There to blame. They might as well
just join the campaign that's sickening. Sleepovers, by the way,
listen to this. Sleepovers are becoming a popular trend among adults. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Not that kind of sleepover. These are people looking for
a new home. We'll fill you in on the details next. Well,
(10:19):
you've been great with your talkbacks this morning. Please keep
them coming. So far they have been excellent. Well I
shouldn't say so far because just about every other every
other day they are excellent. Thanks so much. You go
to the iHeartRadio app, you look for seven to ten
wo R and then you click the microphone record what
you want to say and we play it, which you put.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
The Democrats on the drones. But you know a lot
of these movie stars say that you want to relocate
to another country because of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
So if you put them on the drones.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
And then let them go to wherever they want to
go and drop them off in I don't know, another
country wherever they wanted to go. So just it's an
easy way to get rid of a lot of Democrats.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, you need a big drone for half of them.
But listen, I don't know why you just don't leave.
Why do you have to make this big pronouncement that
you're leaving because of Donald Trump? Like, do it like
George Clooney did. George Clooney went to Italy, He's living
a tremendous life in Italy, comes back to visit. Why
do you have to make a big, huge announcement that
this is because of Donald Trump. It calls into question
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everything that you're making personal life choices for politics. It's stupid.
Speaker 9 (11:30):
It's the breakdown of the family as well as a
mental health issue. If the family was close knit, paid attention,
talk to each other, they would have gotten this idiot.
Some help, wake up America. Take care of your family.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Absolutely, absolutely, nobody wants to blame the parents, but the
parents are to blame. The parents should have been seeing
what this kid was doing. The parents should be Listen
my poor kids. I talk to them every single day,
the adult kids, and well they're all adults now. The
last one just turned eighteen, but I talked to them
every single day. I'm a pain in the neck, but
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that's what this kid needed, a pain in the neck.
Good morning, Hey, calling from New Jersey. I don't know
what the big deal is about legalizing prostitution. You know,
it's if they're grown adults, they're doing what they have
they want to do. You know, I don't get it.
You have legalized abortion in this country and and nobody
says anything. Well, people do say something, yes, I mean
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that there that is extremely controversial, legalized abortion, But legalized prostitution.
I guess it all depends on way you handle it.
I mean, first of all, it would have to go
through the legislature. You can't just make that proclamation. And
then even if it goes through the legislature, the problem
is this with prostitution, it leads to other crimes. It's
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the broken window policy. If you've got people on the
streets soliciting, there's always a john. A lot of these
people don't a lot of the women don't want to
do it. They're being forced into it. It's they're being
sex trafficked. And then there might be a John who's
taken all their money, people that are that are beating them.
And even if you do it like Las Vegas did
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and give out licenses and make sure it's just in
homes and that the health Department goes in and all that,
there's a moral issue. And because there's a moral issue,
it's difficult for politicians to pass. So there's a lot
of things that go along with it. But legalizing prostitution
can lead to other bigger crimes.
Speaker 10 (13:33):
Really, journalism, that word needs to be redefined. Journalism. He
keeps talking about journalism. We don't have journalism. We have pundits.
We have left leaning communists leaning pundits. We do not
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have journalism. This country has lost that.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
We don't have journalists, we have pundit It is amazing
that these days people that writing for the New York
Times that I used to love until they've decided to
go way far to the left.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
People with the Washington Post and other publications around the
country in MSNBC and CNN, CNN I loved, I used
to love CNN. It's so disappointing. Have decided that they're
going to throw out all pretense of journalism and just
become a wing of the Democratic Party, and it gets
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so disturbing. It gets disturbing. We know, it's really disturbing.
With J. C. Polonco, the political analyst, just told it
that there are people covering the mayor's race that have
become fans, big well known journalists that he wouldn't name,
that have become fans of Zorin Mamdani, so they won't
write a big thing about him, a bad thing about him.
(14:59):
That is incredibly disappointing, But it explains a whole lot
real quick. Let's talk about these sleepovers. You know, when
you hear about it adult sleepovers, you go, well, and
people have them all the time. But no, no, no,
this is to buy a home. And it makes a
lot of sense, doesn't it. If you're going to buy
a home, it might be the biggest investment of your life. Yeah,
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that you want to stay there for a day, you
know what I mean, or stay overnight. Some people rent
it for a month before they move in.
Speaker 11 (15:28):
You gotta know if it taunted first, Yeah, I get
it exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
That's your big concern. Now, let's go to Jacqueline carl
with the eight thirty news.
Speaker 11 (15:38):
Jacqueline Larry, Good Morning.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Two children are dead and seventeen people injured after a
shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school on Wednesday morning. The
shooting happened at Annunciation Catholic School during a mass celebrating
the first week of school. Among the injured were fourteen
children between the ages of six and fifteen, along with
three parishioners in their eighties. Police day the shooter died
(16:02):
of a self inflicted gunshot wound. A New York Penn
station will get a multi billion dollar makeover starting by
the end of twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 12 (16:11):
Trump Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and New York's former trained
daddy Andy Beifer making the announcement Wednesday, promising a complete transformation.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Making the station operationally sound, safe, clean and easy to navigate,
and I once in the future this station to OOZ Excellence.
Speaker 12 (16:31):
A competition is being launched to hire a master builder
by next May. No decision yet on whether Madison Square Garden,
which sits a top PEN station, will be moved, as
for whether the name would be changed to Trump's Station,
Duffy responded, I think that is a nice ring to it,
but he also declined to commit right now. Sarah Lee
Kessler wor News.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
So once again, this story just proves I have made
all the wrong moves.
Speaker 11 (16:57):
According to hay To Report, if you.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Know how to do it, there's serious cash to be
made from OnlyFans.
Speaker 11 (17:03):
Everybody knows what an OnlyFans account is?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Not me, no, okay, don't.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Know, and it doesn't necessarily have to mean doing X
rated content. This girl, Sophie Rain, she's just twenty years old.
When do you hear this? She said she made almost
as much money as Lebron James in the last year.
Rain says she's a Christian and pure and chaste, but
people still pay to see her content, to the tune
(17:27):
of almost eighty two million dollars over the last twelve months.
Now you have to, I think you have to pay
to get onto these OnlyFans accounts. So I couldn't like,
look and see what she's posting, But eighty two million dollars.
What is she posting that's so interesting?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
She's not pure and Chase does she's making eighty two
million dollars in an only fan site? I hate to
tell you, and she's hoping that you're not going to
get in, and if you do get in, you're not
gonna tell anybody because there's no do you go along
with me on that one, Chase, there's no way.
Speaker 11 (18:01):
I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
I can't get onto her account to see. But she
said she's a Christian and I changed pure to pure
and Chase. They actually will very more specific about her
sexual status in the story, but.
Speaker 11 (18:15):
She said that you know, she's she made eighty two
million dollars.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
I would I would almost pay to see what she's
posting that made that kind of money.
Speaker 11 (18:24):
That's that is not you know, x rayed content.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I think a lot of people were paying to see
what she's doing, and I gotta feel and it ain't
Pure and Chased anyway. Thank you so much, Jacqueline Carl.
It's the biggest news in the country right now, the
horrific shooting at a church yesterday. ABC News Christianne Cordero
is on the ground in Minneapolis and has the latest
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o'clock news. Everybody is now trying to make sense of
what happened in Minneapolis with Well, he's a lunatic. He
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had a problem and that nobody noticed. He planned this,
he spragged about it on a video, and then he
did the unthinkable. He went to a church, fired through
the windows and killed two children, shot fourteen other children
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and three adults. Right now, let's get the very latest
on all of this with Christi Anne Cordero. She is
on the ground in Minneapolis. ABC News reporter Christy Anne,
thank you so much for taking some time to talk
to us today. Can you just give us the latest
what's going on there right now?
Speaker 13 (20:15):
For sure, Larry, So it's great to be with.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
You.
Speaker 13 (20:18):
Look, it's a community in morning, and I think even
though I know this community while I lived here for
several years, and you know, it's one of those things
where every community has its own little kind of special
touch to it, but unfortunately is also something that is
familiar and somewhat universal. So there is a memorial setup
near the church, and now investigators are focusing on, you know,
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making sure all of the victims recover while while of
course conducting their investigation into the suspect and how this happened.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
We got a lot of information right off the bat
about the shooter. Can you share some of that and
tell us what new may have come out in the
last twenty four hours.
Speaker 13 (21:00):
Sure, So we know that the shooter was twenty three
years old, went by the name Robin Westman. You know,
we our team at ABC News found driver's license information
because we know that there has been some conflicting information
over who.
Speaker 14 (21:16):
The shooter was.
Speaker 13 (21:17):
But it appears that Westman was born as Robert Westman.
And so that's kind of where a lot of the
varieties I guess in pronouns and names kind of get
thrown in. So the shooter went to this church, at
eight thirty am yesterday or just before it shot through
some stained glass windows. School had started three days prior,
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and in that process, you know, carrying three weapons between
a rifle of shotgun and another one that I'm blinking
on right now, but you know, killed two students and
two children eight and ten years old, and then another
seventeen were injured. Of the seventeen or injured, fourteen were children.
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So it's just terrible on so many levels. The good
news that we can draw from it is that it
appears that everyone who was injured and was taken to
the hospital is expected to survive. And that's something that
we also got from investigators very early on. So that
was a good education under under some terrible circumstances.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
It's going to be a long time before they completely
recover from this. I'm not talking physically, but I mean mentally.
And some of the people at our school and everybody
that was involved, the first responders, the whole community. I
get that. The thing that I think that the people
that are listening right now, and I've been talking with
them can't understand is that nobody paid attention to this
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guy that he was able to fly under the radar
all these times. I know, he never didn't have an
arrest record, but right the things he said in the
manifesto were disturbing. Was there no one else in his life?
Do we know anything about him?
Speaker 13 (23:03):
Investigators are still looking for a motive, of course, and
that's the core of it. A lot of times when
you have these writings or these videos that are published
after the fact, there's a lot there, right, and so
it's kind of like searching through the haystack and trying
to find what the stream of consciousness was. You know,
we should note, and this has been widely reported now
that Weston died of a self inflicted gunshot wound. So
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sometimes when you know, we've spoken with many different kinds
of law enforcement throughout the years and throughout many different
kinds of tragedies, and the preference is always, of course
to have a suspect living, because that is really your
only way of really knowing why. But in this case,
what they're going to do is they're going to comb
through the writings and the video that was taken down
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very quickly off of YouTube. Wesson's mother worked at the school,
so that's always kind of like a starting point, if
you will, and she's alive, So so there's a lot
to kind of go through and it will take time.
I mean, I think that's that's the human nature, right,
is just to immediately ask why and I and I
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would hope for the family's sake that they will get
some closure in all of this, and that always has
to come with some kind of answers and accountability.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, Christian, I'm going to ask a lot of questions
I think at this point that you may not have
the answers to. I've been in your position many times,
and I know it's very, very early in all of this,
But do we know much about his family? Did he
did he We keep hearing about the mother. Did he
have a father in his life?
Speaker 13 (24:36):
We know that he had a father, I'm not sure,
to be honest with you, how present like in his life?
Right could mean many different things. But one of our
affiliates I know, did go to the father's house. They
didn't really, you know, get anything noteworthy that's worth reporting
out of that encounter. And I don't even know if
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they encountered the father specifically as much as to knowing
where he lived. But so you know, the father lived
in Minnesota and the mother did as well. Of course,
from all of the pieces that we've been able to
kind of gather together, he went to school locally, perhaps
even had ties to Annunciation early on in his you know,
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childhood education experience, but then didn't go there later on.
But there's so much you know, that fluid and that
we have to learn about it. So it's unclear who
all was. But one thing that you did point out,
and rightfully so, is that there was no you know,
prior criminal history, so that kind of gives investigators a
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blank starting point, if you will.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
And it seems like he didn't have many people in
his life. I know his mother was there, but I
mean the fact that he was making this manifesto, the
fact that he had all these guns, it just seems
like that he was an outcast and he was by himself,
and he was planning this and nobody was there to
stop him. Christy An, thank you so much. Christie Cordero,
who is in Minneapolis, ABC News reporter, thanks again, Christianne.
Speaker 13 (26:05):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah, there's golohot gonna come out over the next couple
of days. But I think that there was nobody to
step in in this guy's life. I mean It doesn't
forgive what he does, but somebody could have stopped them.
If someone went in his life, they could have stopped them. Well,
the Trump administration is taking over renovations of Penn Station
and is promising a time fast timeline for completion. So
(26:29):
what do New Yorkers think about that? That's why Natalie
Migliori does her Beat on the Street next.
Speaker 15 (26:37):
Now it's seventen wors Beat on the Street with Natalie Migliori.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Hey, New York is getting brand new trains and a
brand new Penn Station. New Yorkers have to be happy
about that, right, Let's find out with Natalie Migliori and
her Beat on the Street.
Speaker 14 (26:56):
Natalie, good morning, Larry. You know, no matter how much
you think New Yorkers would be happy with it, we
always find something to write us out.
Speaker 13 (27:05):
But that's anywhere.
Speaker 14 (27:07):
The US Department of Transportation is gearing up to overhaul
Pen Station. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the team will
start soliciting design proposals with the expectation of starting construction
in twenty twenty seven. So what do people think about
revamping the transit hub that serves as Amtrak's largest station.
Speaker 16 (27:29):
I think that makes sense. I think the infrastructure and
everything that's going on, especially on this floor, needs to
be redone.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
If I could look more modern. I know we've had
to missues lately with the tracks and the switches. I
think they said so. I think the tech part, the
outside part could be more modern. I think the inside
is fine.
Speaker 17 (27:48):
Yeah, because I know they had the plan to take
the blocks south of here to add extended tracks for
extra capacity, which I think is absolutely needed, especially because
those tracks would mainly serve New Jersey Transit, which is
already overcrowded.
Speaker 13 (28:01):
Now.
Speaker 14 (28:01):
The Trump administration announced it would take over the project
back in May, with Andy Beifer, who really was in
charge of overhauling the subway system and introducing OMNI years ago,
serving as a special advisor on this particular project that
will aim to completely modernize the transit hub from what
he says, top to bottom. Some writers concerned with service,
(28:26):
while others say homelessness in the station will still be
an issue.
Speaker 17 (28:31):
I definitely think that added capacity for NJ Transit would
be one hundred percent necessary because of reliability issues with
the tunnels and the bridge, the trains themselves, and planning
ahead is something that I feel like America is not
very good at when it comes to transit infrastructure.
Speaker 15 (28:45):
I feel like they're more focused on the structure aspect
to the building more than the people aspect. You're bringing
these people, but you're gonna still have these stains on
your new structure. It's like having a new car away
burst on it.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 15 (28:57):
It doesn't make sense to me, but it's their money too.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Is what to do with it?
Speaker 11 (29:02):
Now?
Speaker 14 (29:02):
The Trump administration says we'll get this project going in
the next two years, with Duppy saying it's not going
to be a twenty plus year project. I think I
read somewhere they're calling it it's on Trump time. So
what do people think?
Speaker 7 (29:18):
Well, two years just seems like a long time away,
but I guess that's a whole lot better than twenty I.
Speaker 16 (29:22):
Think twenty twenty seven is a good time, but it
needs to be done right away.
Speaker 17 (29:26):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I don't really have that much faith in it, because
you know, saying something is one hundred percent different from
doing something. They're doing the right thing, especially with Trump.
Speaker 17 (29:34):
Definitely a lot of it might be just to save face,
which is the only thing I have a little bit
of reservation about because okay, earlier start date, but also
we're gonna defund all these other things and not approve
the funding for the second bridge or the second Tunnle
or whatever the case is. I think it's just very
important to piss it to the key details because they'll
try to do some flash flights over here and then
do some sidey things on the other side.
Speaker 14 (29:55):
Now, the big question which was circulating when the DOT
first took over, how does Trump's station instead of ten
station down to those traveling through.
Speaker 17 (30:06):
I'm severely already over the fact that this man is
trying to make everything an ego project, which was my
entire concern to begin with.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
Could they actually get it done within two years before
he's out of office. I mean, I guess, so then
you name it what you want, but I won't hold
my breath.
Speaker 16 (30:22):
I don't think that's a good name, and that's all
I'll say. I think Pen Station is iconic, and I
think that we should leave it as Pen Station.
Speaker 15 (30:28):
It's if it's his money, do it.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
I can't.
Speaker 11 (30:31):
I can't slow that.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
It's just then yet another thing he's going to attack
his name onto.
Speaker 14 (30:36):
There you have it. We'll see what happens as the
project kind of gets rolling, they're going to choose the
who who actually wins the design proposal. So it almost
sounds like Larry, you know last time we talked about
you know, there is a proposal to move ten to
move and the garden over so that they can make
more room for pen station and make it more airy.
(30:58):
But it sounds like everybody's going to have to reapply
to the DOT to see if their proposal will get approved.
So the MPa is no longer in charge of this project.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah, I thought it was fascinating when he said he
was taking over the whole project. And the reason he
was is because the MTA wastes so much money. There's
no love lost between the Trump administration and the MTA
these days. They still have that fight going on about
congestion pricing. But you know what, who cares. This is
great news, This is wonderful news. I used to take
(31:30):
Amtrak all the time, and I know they need help,
and I know they need help in all of their
stations up and down the northeast Carridor. This is tremendous news.
So thanks so much, Natalie Migliori. He'll be back tomorrow
morning at eight fifty with her Beat on the Street. Well,
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In the Big Three. It has happened again, a mass
shooting targeting children from a Catholic school who were inside
a church celebrating the first day of school, killing two
children Injuring seventeen, including three adults, and the murderer the
night before put out a sick video manifesto on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Tomorrow. I'm sorry to my family, but that's it. That's
the only people. I'm sorry to those kids.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
The murderer, twenty three year old Robin Westman, who identified
as a woman but was born Robert Westman and legally
changed his name five years ago. There have been it's
just sick. There have been five shootings in the Bronx
in a twenty four hour span as well. The last
thing we need now in New York is a soft
(01:02):
on crime socialists mayor. We need a crime fighter.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm dealing with what is becoming the number one issue, crime,
public safety, and quality of life.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I'm the expert in that field.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
These other three candidates have failed the public in that regard.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
In the nation's capital, how about this. What a turnaround?
The Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser is now admitting that the
federal involvement in fighting crime in her city has worked.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
The difference between this period, this twenty day period of
this federal surge and last year represents a eighty seven
percent reduction in carjackings in Washington DC. We know that
when carjackings go down, when the use of gun goes down,
(01:50):
when homicide or robbery go down, neighborhoods feel safer and
are safer.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So how can Eric Adams continue to say say no?
How can Brandon Johnson in Chicago continue to say no?
If I was a mayor and I saw what was
happening in Washington, I'd want them in my city. And
New York, however, is getting a new Ascella train and
twenty eight other brand new trains. The Asella is going
(02:19):
to show up today, and they're gonna get a brand
new Penn station at record speed in just a couple
of years, thanks to Donald Trump. So what I'm trying
to figure it out? What should they call that station?
I imagine you're asking, is this going to be Trump's station?
I think that is a nice ring to it.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
But listen, we're all working on building this project and
get into Ton and sure to have a conversation about
name changes.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That's a conversation that could happen at some other point.
Let's go to J. C. Polanco, political analyst and University
of Mount Saint Vincent assistant professor. Jac thanks a lot
for being with us this morning. I appreciate your time.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Thank you so much for having me. How are you today, Larry?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I'm doing well. What do you think would you like
it to be Trump's station that you're going into when
you travel down to Washington?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I like the Larry Mantia that I would like it.
I think we want to make most people smile, and
considering how polarizing the president is, it maybe ruin some
people's mornings on their way to work.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I've been known to do that too. I'm i gonna
be so I'm not sure I would be the best choice.
Let's talk about this new pole that is out that
shows that if everybody else got out of the race,
Andrew Cuomo would beat Zorin Mom Donnie easily. So that's
just that's fantasy land, right, It's never gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Fantasy land. Yeah, it's almost like me thinking I'll have
muscles and abs by November. It's not gonna happen either, Larry.
It's just a fact. You know what's crazy about this.
I'm looking at this pole and like most of your listeners,
they're thinking, you know, I mean, I like Andrew Como
for A, B and C, but andrewmo is infinitely better
than socialism and the criminalization of prostitution and drugs and
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everything else that we've been hearing from some of the
socialists and communists that have been supporting A some the
minimum Dani. So they're looking at this poll and they
don't understand why in the world isn't it happening. Look,
if Eric Adams is mayor Adams is listening right now,
I want to just share something with him. For two decades,
you put your life on the line in the law
enforcement to keep us safe. He did a great job
in the legislature. You came in here with a bang
(04:27):
as mayor of New York City, and maybe you were
a Delta bad hand. Maybe you hired the wrong people.
Maybe maybe maybe, but this is the hand we have. Look,
if the former President of the United States, leader of
the free world, and chief of all of our armed
services can step aside when he saw that the poll
numbers were not on his favor in Joe Biden, if
(04:48):
our former commander Chief could do it. Why can't you,
mayor Adams? Why can't you just see the numbers are
just not there. It will be a brave thing, will
be selfless for you to do. Just to step aside
and let this be a three person race between Curtis Leewa,
Andrew Como and Assembly the Mamdani and let's see what's
gonna happen. But continue to stay in this race, knowing
you're not gonna get matching funds, knowing that you're acting
(05:11):
as a spoiler at this point. Save the reputation. You've
been a leader this whole time. Make it happen, follow
Joe Biden's lead and step aside.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
You're right, I didn't think about that, that he could
go out on a white horse. He could look like
a hero in this whole thing if he were to
make that choice. Yeah. I mean, look, the poll numbers
on him right now are in the tank. They that
could turn them around. But it's early for that, isn't it.
That can still happen in the next month.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
No, it won't turn around. Listen, it's too late when
you're in the single digits like this to turn around
and think you're gonna win this.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I mean, oh, no, no, no, no, no, you misunderstood. I
didn't mean his poll numbers in the race. I mean
his approval ratings.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Oh, his approval rating with skyrocket. If he were to
step aside for this reason, if he says for the
safety of the I disagree with the criminalizing process, I
disagree with the criminalizing misdemeanors. Me staying in this race
makes them more likely. I'm going to do the best
thing for the city and continue that leadership he's always shown,
even in his days in law enforcement. You know, it's
just he has to think about the future of the city.
(06:15):
Make this a three person race. We know that Curtis Sleeve,
whod the Republican candidate, is not going anywhere. He's a
major party candidate. He was on my show. He's not
going You can make this a three person race. If
Curtise sleeveo world a step aside, if he sees that
the numbers are too low. I don't think that's going
to happen, because his numbers continue to, you know, be
in a in a solid range. But a three person
race makes it less likely that we will have a
(06:35):
communist and socialist take over. In New York City. And
that's what your listeners have to remember. Everybody wants to
say democratic socialists, almost like you know, a chaser after
you take that tequila shop. If you you know that
democratic work, you could put it aside. The man creeps
up to Marxism regularly. He talks about decommod and fighting housing,
which means taking over housing and making it, you know,
(06:56):
communal land. He talks about things as far as seizing
the message of production. This isn't just hype. This is
what he believes. And the decriminalization of crimes in New
York City will make things worse for us. What are
we talking about? No idea you can make a difference here.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah, no, I completely agree with you, and I think
he'd be frightening to get in. I'm disappointed with the
media in this. I'm disappointed that the media on pressing
him on exactly how he's going to do all these things,
because they can't be done everything he's promised. If you
look at how he has to go the hoops he
(07:31):
has to go through, for instance, to raise the corporate tax,
he can't do that. To raise the personal income tax
on those making over a certain amount of money, he
can't do that. He keeps saying it, and nobody holds
his feet to the fire.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
And you know, I have a lot of friends in
depression that there are a lot of great journalists out there,
and I know them personally, but there are a couple
who have become fans. They've taken off their journalism caps
where they're keeping people's foot to the fire, feet to
the fire. They're studying the issues and asking the questions. Larry,
you just asked, and now they've literally become fans. They
put zor hats. I'll give you a quick example. Former
(08:08):
Governor Cuomo was out in Long Island and he was
talking about making coalitions with independent moderates and Trump supporters
to come in with some Democrats will support him and
maybe winning this thing. The press reported this as if
it was a summit among some of the most worst people,
the worst people on earth, trying to make deals with Trump.
Folks that reported it as a sinister meeting. Meanwhile, some
(08:29):
of Mamdani's most closest people and advisors are are are
online right now as you speak to be careful with
humanizing the Jews in Israel, And it's like nobody's listening,
I mean, are you kidding me? Which why isn't? Why
isn't some of the things that are something Mamdani is
saying about crime, about the Jewish state, about how he's
(08:49):
going to go ahead and look for a way to
seize the methods of production, make it more, make it
more difficult for businesses in New York City. None of
that is happening. All that we see is a smile.
He is the scavenger hunt. How wonderful and exciting these
Marxist policies are and no one's really talking about it.
So I'm concerned about what's happening with journalism. That was
all it was a handful. They have become fans as
(09:12):
opposed to journalists.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
That's really frightening. Thanks for saying that. We're running out
of time. But I'll tell you what. The next time
you come on, I want names. We gotta start naming names.
I'll let you off the hoel. This time they.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Invite me to Thanksgiving dinner, Mary, I can't do it.
But they know who they are. Now you know this? Yeah,
I do better, you see it.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I do. I do what happens nationally all the time.
Of course, it's going to happen locally.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
J C.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Polanco, political analyst and University of Mount Saint Vincent assistant
professor jac It's always a pleasure. Thanks so much. Thanks
how about that? I mean he deals with these people
all of the time. To say that some of the
top journalists in our city have now put on their
Zorr and Mom Donnie caps and are not pressing him
(09:59):
on the issue. There to blame. They might as well
just join the campaign that's sickening. Sleepovers, by the way,
listen to this. Sleepovers are becoming a popular trend among adults. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Not that kind of sleepover. These are people looking for
a new home. We'll fill you in on the details next. Well,
(10:19):
you've been great with your talkbacks this morning. Please keep
them coming. So far they have been excellent. Well I
shouldn't say so far because just about every other every
other day they are excellent. Thanks so much. You go
to the iHeartRadio app, you look for seven to ten
wo R and then you click the microphone record what
you want to say and we play it, which you put.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
The Democrats on the drones. But you know a lot
of these movie stars say that you want to relocate
to another country because of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
So if you put them on the drones.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
And then let them go to wherever they want to
go and drop them off in I don't know, another
country wherever they wanted to go. So just it's an
easy way to get rid of a lot of Democrats.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, you need a big drone for half of them.
But listen, I don't know why you just don't leave.
Why do you have to make this big pronouncement that
you're leaving because of Donald Trump? Like, do it like
George Clooney did. George Clooney went to Italy, He's living
a tremendous life in Italy, comes back to visit. Why
do you have to make a big, huge announcement that
this is because of Donald Trump. It calls into question
(11:24):
everything that you're making personal life choices for politics. It's stupid.
Speaker 9 (11:30):
It's the breakdown of the family as well as a
mental health issue. If the family was close knit, paid attention,
talk to each other, they would have gotten this idiot.
Some help, wake up America. Take care of your family.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Absolutely, absolutely, nobody wants to blame the parents, but the
parents are to blame. The parents should have been seeing
what this kid was doing. The parents should be Listen
my poor kids. I talk to them every single day,
the adult kids, and well they're all adults now. The
last one just turned eighteen, but I talked to them
every single day. I'm a pain in the neck, but
(12:05):
that's what this kid needed, a pain in the neck.
Good morning, Hey, calling from New Jersey. I don't know
what the big deal is about legalizing prostitution. You know,
it's if they're grown adults, they're doing what they have
they want to do. You know, I don't get it.
You have legalized abortion in this country and and nobody
says anything. Well, people do say something, yes, I mean
(12:29):
that there that is extremely controversial, legalized abortion, But legalized prostitution.
I guess it all depends on way you handle it.
I mean, first of all, it would have to go
through the legislature. You can't just make that proclamation. And
then even if it goes through the legislature, the problem
is this with prostitution, it leads to other crimes. It's
(12:51):
the broken window policy. If you've got people on the
streets soliciting, there's always a john. A lot of these
people don't a lot of the women don't want to
do it. They're being forced into it. It's they're being
sex trafficked. And then there might be a John who's
taken all their money, people that are that are beating them.
And even if you do it like Las Vegas did
(13:12):
and give out licenses and make sure it's just in
homes and that the health Department goes in and all that,
there's a moral issue. And because there's a moral issue,
it's difficult for politicians to pass. So there's a lot
of things that go along with it. But legalizing prostitution
can lead to other bigger crimes.
Speaker 10 (13:33):
Really, journalism, that word needs to be redefined. Journalism. He
keeps talking about journalism. We don't have journalism. We have pundits.
We have left leaning communists leaning pundits. We do not
(13:55):
have journalism. This country has lost that.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
We don't have journalists, we have pundit It is amazing
that these days people that writing for the New York
Times that I used to love until they've decided to
go way far to the left.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
People with the Washington Post and other publications around the
country in MSNBC and CNN, CNN I loved, I used
to love CNN. It's so disappointing. Have decided that they're
going to throw out all pretense of journalism and just
become a wing of the Democratic Party, and it gets
(14:36):
so disturbing. It gets disturbing. We know, it's really disturbing.
With J. C. Polonco, the political analyst, just told it
that there are people covering the mayor's race that have
become fans, big well known journalists that he wouldn't name,
that have become fans of Zorin Mamdani, so they won't
write a big thing about him, a bad thing about him.
(14:59):
That is incredibly disappointing, But it explains a whole lot
real quick. Let's talk about these sleepovers. You know, when
you hear about it adult sleepovers, you go, well, and
people have them all the time. But no, no, no,
this is to buy a home. And it makes a
lot of sense, doesn't it. If you're going to buy
a home, it might be the biggest investment of your life. Yeah,
(15:21):
that you want to stay there for a day, you
know what I mean, or stay overnight. Some people rent
it for a month before they move in.
Speaker 11 (15:28):
You gotta know if it taunted first, Yeah, I get
it exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
That's your big concern. Now, let's go to Jacqueline carl
with the eight thirty news.
Speaker 11 (15:38):
Jacqueline Larry, Good Morning.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Two children are dead and seventeen people injured after a
shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school on Wednesday morning. The
shooting happened at Annunciation Catholic School during a mass celebrating
the first week of school. Among the injured were fourteen
children between the ages of six and fifteen, along with
three parishioners in their eighties. Police day the shooter died
(16:02):
of a self inflicted gunshot wound. A New York Penn
station will get a multi billion dollar makeover starting by
the end of twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 12 (16:11):
Trump Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and New York's former trained
daddy Andy Beifer making the announcement Wednesday, promising a complete transformation.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Making the station operationally sound, safe, clean and easy to navigate,
and I once in the future this station to OOZ Excellence.
Speaker 12 (16:31):
A competition is being launched to hire a master builder
by next May. No decision yet on whether Madison Square Garden,
which sits a top PEN station, will be moved, as
for whether the name would be changed to Trump's Station,
Duffy responded, I think that is a nice ring to it,
but he also declined to commit right now. Sarah Lee
Kessler wor News.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
So once again, this story just proves I have made
all the wrong moves.
Speaker 11 (16:57):
According to hay To Report, if you.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Know how to do it, there's serious cash to be
made from OnlyFans.
Speaker 11 (17:03):
Everybody knows what an OnlyFans account is?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Not me, no, okay, don't.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Know, and it doesn't necessarily have to mean doing X
rated content. This girl, Sophie Rain, she's just twenty years old.
When do you hear this? She said she made almost
as much money as Lebron James in the last year.
Rain says she's a Christian and pure and chaste, but
people still pay to see her content, to the tune
(17:27):
of almost eighty two million dollars over the last twelve months.
Now you have to, I think you have to pay
to get onto these OnlyFans accounts. So I couldn't like,
look and see what she's posting, But eighty two million dollars.
What is she posting that's so interesting?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
She's not pure and Chase does she's making eighty two
million dollars in an only fan site? I hate to
tell you, and she's hoping that you're not going to
get in, and if you do get in, you're not
gonna tell anybody because there's no do you go along
with me on that one, Chase, there's no way.
Speaker 11 (18:01):
I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
I can't get onto her account to see. But she
said she's a Christian and I changed pure to pure
and Chase. They actually will very more specific about her
sexual status in the story, but.
Speaker 11 (18:15):
She said that you know, she's she made eighty two
million dollars.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
I would I would almost pay to see what she's
posting that made that kind of money.
Speaker 11 (18:24):
That's that is not you know, x rayed content.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I think a lot of people were paying to see
what she's doing, and I gotta feel and it ain't
Pure and Chased anyway. Thank you so much, Jacqueline Carl.
It's the biggest news in the country right now, the
horrific shooting at a church yesterday. ABC News Christianne Cordero
is on the ground in Minneapolis and has the latest
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o'clock news. Everybody is now trying to make sense of
what happened in Minneapolis with Well, he's a lunatic. He
(19:34):
had a problem and that nobody noticed. He planned this,
he spragged about it on a video, and then he
did the unthinkable. He went to a church, fired through
the windows and killed two children, shot fourteen other children
(19:55):
and three adults. Right now, let's get the very latest
on all of this with Christi Anne Cordero. She is
on the ground in Minneapolis. ABC News reporter Christy Anne,
thank you so much for taking some time to talk
to us today. Can you just give us the latest
what's going on there right now?
Speaker 13 (20:15):
For sure, Larry, So it's great to be with.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
You.
Speaker 13 (20:18):
Look, it's a community in morning, and I think even
though I know this community while I lived here for
several years, and you know, it's one of those things
where every community has its own little kind of special
touch to it, but unfortunately is also something that is
familiar and somewhat universal. So there is a memorial setup
near the church, and now investigators are focusing on, you know,
(20:41):
making sure all of the victims recover while while of
course conducting their investigation into the suspect and how this happened.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
We got a lot of information right off the bat
about the shooter. Can you share some of that and
tell us what new may have come out in the
last twenty four hours.
Speaker 13 (21:00):
Sure, So we know that the shooter was twenty three
years old, went by the name Robin Westman. You know,
we our team at ABC News found driver's license information
because we know that there has been some conflicting information
over who.
Speaker 14 (21:16):
The shooter was.
Speaker 13 (21:17):
But it appears that Westman was born as Robert Westman.
And so that's kind of where a lot of the
varieties I guess in pronouns and names kind of get
thrown in. So the shooter went to this church, at
eight thirty am yesterday or just before it shot through
some stained glass windows. School had started three days prior,
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and in that process, you know, carrying three weapons between
a rifle of shotgun and another one that I'm blinking
on right now, but you know, killed two students and
two children eight and ten years old, and then another
seventeen were injured. Of the seventeen or injured, fourteen were children.
(22:03):
So it's just terrible on so many levels. The good
news that we can draw from it is that it
appears that everyone who was injured and was taken to
the hospital is expected to survive. And that's something that
we also got from investigators very early on. So that
was a good education under under some terrible circumstances.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
It's going to be a long time before they completely
recover from this. I'm not talking physically, but I mean mentally.
And some of the people at our school and everybody
that was involved, the first responders, the whole community. I
get that. The thing that I think that the people
that are listening right now, and I've been talking with
them can't understand is that nobody paid attention to this
(22:47):
guy that he was able to fly under the radar
all these times. I know, he never didn't have an
arrest record, but right the things he said in the
manifesto were disturbing. Was there no one else in his life?
Do we know anything about him?
Speaker 13 (23:03):
Investigators are still looking for a motive, of course, and
that's the core of it. A lot of times when
you have these writings or these videos that are published
after the fact, there's a lot there, right, and so
it's kind of like searching through the haystack and trying
to find what the stream of consciousness was. You know,
we should note, and this has been widely reported now
that Weston died of a self inflicted gunshot wound. So
(23:27):
sometimes when you know, we've spoken with many different kinds
of law enforcement throughout the years and throughout many different
kinds of tragedies, and the preference is always, of course
to have a suspect living, because that is really your
only way of really knowing why. But in this case,
what they're going to do is they're going to comb
through the writings and the video that was taken down
(23:48):
very quickly off of YouTube. Wesson's mother worked at the school,
so that's always kind of like a starting point, if
you will, and she's alive, So so there's a lot
to kind of go through and it will take time.
I mean, I think that's that's the human nature, right,
is just to immediately ask why and I and I
(24:10):
would hope for the family's sake that they will get
some closure in all of this, and that always has
to come with some kind of answers and accountability.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, Christian, I'm going to ask a lot of questions
I think at this point that you may not have
the answers to. I've been in your position many times,
and I know it's very, very early in all of this,
But do we know much about his family? Did he
did he We keep hearing about the mother. Did he
have a father in his life?
Speaker 13 (24:36):
We know that he had a father, I'm not sure,
to be honest with you, how present like in his life?
Right could mean many different things. But one of our
affiliates I know, did go to the father's house. They
didn't really, you know, get anything noteworthy that's worth reporting
out of that encounter. And I don't even know if
(24:57):
they encountered the father specifically as much as to knowing
where he lived. But so you know, the father lived
in Minnesota and the mother did as well. Of course,
from all of the pieces that we've been able to
kind of gather together, he went to school locally, perhaps
even had ties to Annunciation early on in his you know,
(25:19):
childhood education experience, but then didn't go there later on.
But there's so much you know, that fluid and that
we have to learn about it. So it's unclear who
all was. But one thing that you did point out,
and rightfully so, is that there was no you know,
prior criminal history, so that kind of gives investigators a
(25:40):
blank starting point, if you will.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
And it seems like he didn't have many people in
his life. I know his mother was there, but I
mean the fact that he was making this manifesto, the
fact that he had all these guns, it just seems
like that he was an outcast and he was by himself,
and he was planning this and nobody was there to
stop him. Christy An, thank you so much. Christie Cordero,
who is in Minneapolis, ABC News reporter, thanks again, Christianne.
Speaker 13 (26:05):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah, there's golohot gonna come out over the next couple
of days. But I think that there was nobody to
step in in this guy's life. I mean It doesn't
forgive what he does, but somebody could have stopped them.
If someone went in his life, they could have stopped them. Well,
the Trump administration is taking over renovations of Penn Station
and is promising a time fast timeline for completion. So
(26:29):
what do New Yorkers think about that? That's why Natalie
Migliori does her Beat on the Street next.
Speaker 15 (26:37):
Now it's seventen wors Beat on the Street with Natalie Migliori.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Hey, New York is getting brand new trains and a
brand new Penn Station. New Yorkers have to be happy
about that, right, Let's find out with Natalie Migliori and
her Beat on the Street.
Speaker 14 (26:56):
Natalie, good morning, Larry. You know, no matter how much
you think New Yorkers would be happy with it, we
always find something to write us out.
Speaker 13 (27:05):
But that's anywhere.
Speaker 14 (27:07):
The US Department of Transportation is gearing up to overhaul
Pen Station. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the team will
start soliciting design proposals with the expectation of starting construction
in twenty twenty seven. So what do people think about
revamping the transit hub that serves as Amtrak's largest station.
Speaker 16 (27:29):
I think that makes sense. I think the infrastructure and
everything that's going on, especially on this floor, needs to
be redone.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
If I could look more modern. I know we've had
to missues lately with the tracks and the switches. I
think they said so. I think the tech part, the
outside part could be more modern. I think the inside
is fine.
Speaker 17 (27:48):
Yeah, because I know they had the plan to take
the blocks south of here to add extended tracks for
extra capacity, which I think is absolutely needed, especially because
those tracks would mainly serve New Jersey Transit, which is
already overcrowded.
Speaker 13 (28:01):
Now.
Speaker 14 (28:01):
The Trump administration announced it would take over the project
back in May, with Andy Beifer, who really was in
charge of overhauling the subway system and introducing OMNI years ago,
serving as a special advisor on this particular project that
will aim to completely modernize the transit hub from what
he says, top to bottom. Some writers concerned with service,
(28:26):
while others say homelessness in the station will still be
an issue.
Speaker 17 (28:31):
I definitely think that added capacity for NJ Transit would
be one hundred percent necessary because of reliability issues with
the tunnels and the bridge, the trains themselves, and planning
ahead is something that I feel like America is not
very good at when it comes to transit infrastructure.
Speaker 15 (28:45):
I feel like they're more focused on the structure aspect
to the building more than the people aspect. You're bringing
these people, but you're gonna still have these stains on
your new structure. It's like having a new car away
burst on it.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 15 (28:57):
It doesn't make sense to me, but it's their money too.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Is what to do with it?
Speaker 11 (29:02):
Now?
Speaker 14 (29:02):
The Trump administration says we'll get this project going in
the next two years, with Duppy saying it's not going
to be a twenty plus year project. I think I
read somewhere they're calling it it's on Trump time. So
what do people think?
Speaker 7 (29:18):
Well, two years just seems like a long time away,
but I guess that's a whole lot better than twenty I.
Speaker 16 (29:22):
Think twenty twenty seven is a good time, but it
needs to be done right away.
Speaker 17 (29:26):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I don't really have that much faith in it, because
you know, saying something is one hundred percent different from
doing something. They're doing the right thing, especially with Trump.
Speaker 17 (29:34):
Definitely a lot of it might be just to save face,
which is the only thing I have a little bit
of reservation about because okay, earlier start date, but also
we're gonna defund all these other things and not approve
the funding for the second bridge or the second Tunnle
or whatever the case is. I think it's just very
important to piss it to the key details because they'll
try to do some flash flights over here and then
do some sidey things on the other side.
Speaker 14 (29:55):
Now, the big question which was circulating when the DOT
first took over, how does Trump's station instead of ten
station down to those traveling through.
Speaker 17 (30:06):
I'm severely already over the fact that this man is
trying to make everything an ego project, which was my
entire concern to begin with.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
Could they actually get it done within two years before
he's out of office. I mean, I guess, so then
you name it what you want, but I won't hold
my breath.
Speaker 16 (30:22):
I don't think that's a good name, and that's all
I'll say. I think Pen Station is iconic, and I
think that we should leave it as Pen Station.
Speaker 15 (30:28):
It's if it's his money, do it.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
I can't.
Speaker 11 (30:31):
I can't slow that.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
It's just then yet another thing he's going to attack
his name onto.
Speaker 14 (30:36):
There you have it. We'll see what happens as the
project kind of gets rolling, they're going to choose the
who who actually wins the design proposal. So it almost
sounds like Larry, you know last time we talked about
you know, there is a proposal to move ten to
move and the garden over so that they can make
more room for pen station and make it more airy.
(30:58):
But it sounds like everybody's going to have to reapply
to the DOT to see if their proposal will get approved.
So the MPa is no longer in charge of this project.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah, I thought it was fascinating when he said he
was taking over the whole project. And the reason he
was is because the MTA wastes so much money. There's
no love lost between the Trump administration and the MTA
these days. They still have that fight going on about
congestion pricing. But you know what, who cares. This is
great news, This is wonderful news. I used to take
(31:30):
Amtrak all the time, and I know they need help,
and I know they need help in all of their
stations up and down the northeast Carridor. This is tremendous news.
So thanks so much, Natalie Migliori. He'll be back tomorrow
morning at eight fifty with her Beat on the Street. Well,
here's a question for you. Should surrogate mothers be banned
(31:50):
as a way to have a child That is already
happening in some places. We're going to talk about it
with doctor Arthur Kaplan from New York University Lending Medical Center. Next, plus,
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