Hour 3: Which organ would you give?

Which organ would you give?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks for being here. I hope you got to where
you needed to go for the Labor Day weekend. If
you're staying home, thanks for spending the morning with us.
In the Big Three. A day after the horrific mass
shooting at a church in Minneapolis, we are hearing stories
of true bravery.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Over the past day. I've heard many stories accounting the
swift and heroic actions of children and adults alike from
inside the church. Without these people and their selfless actions,
this could have been a tragedy of many magnitudes more.
For these people, I'm thankful.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
And how about Mayor Eric Adams. He's taking a Trump
like action after a series of murders and shootings in
the Bronx.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
We have a thousand new offices in the Bronx, and
we're going to ensure that they are in the hotspots.
We're going to get on be on the ground to
talk with and without crisis management team so they could
identify so many gang rivalries.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
More problems at Newark's Liberty International Airport as incoming planes
couldn't land because air traffic control wasn't able to communicate
with the pilots.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
We need to invite President Trump man we invite.

Speaker 5 (01:19):
They told us there was some sort of frequency issue
with the airport, and we just kept circling, circling, probably
for about an hour.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
The All Important Path station in Hoboken, New Jersey, is
closed for repairs that may take up the five days.
They're now saying they're going to be done at five
a m. On Tuesday. But those that have to travel
back and forth from New Jersey to Manhattan over the
next couple of days, they got to find another way
into the city.

Speaker 5 (01:47):
I just have to add another maybe thirty to sixty
minutes to make sure I'll be I'll be down time.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
And today is the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Speaker 6 (01:58):
A lot of mixed emotions, and we think about what
went right, what went wrong. But I said, I don't
want to let these days of commemoration go by without
remembering those who lost their lives.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
That is actor Wendell Pearce, who volunteered to help during
Hurricane Katrina. Over one eight hundred people died in that
hurricane and the floods that followed. And at Penn's Station,
I'll tell you what we can end with something nice
at Penn Station, the soon to become Trump Station if

(02:33):
he gets his way. The new Ocella train is getting
rave reviews.

Speaker 7 (02:37):
It's gorgeous.

Speaker 5 (02:38):
It's such luxury compared to the old train, kind of
compared to an airplane because I fly a lot.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
It is gorgeous, super smooth. Yeah, it was beautiful. Now
let's go to Rick Cline, ABC News Washington Bureau chief
with us with us every Friday at this time. I'll
tell you what I would imagine that Rick Kline spends
a lot of time on the Acela train. I know
he spends a lot of time at Union Station and

(03:05):
probably spends a lot of time at Penn Station as well.
And Rick Klin joins us.

Speaker 8 (03:10):
Now.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Now, Rick, I I don't know if you heard about
the new Aessella train. I'm sure you have. I guess
you travel a lot right on train on the Northeast corridor.
You've got to be excited about what's happening to Union Station,
what's happening to Penn Station, and with all these new trains.

Speaker 8 (03:28):
Hey, look, I think I think train travels great. It's
a convenient way to get around, especially in our part
of the in our part of the country. You know,
it's disappointed that tindu Etella is like something like only
ten minutes faster because it's going on the old tracks
and ad around Flower Train. But but no, I would look,
I think it's a good investment in American infrastructure. And
you know, I think you know, the mayor here has
said in DC, has said that she welcomes the federal

(03:52):
the federal takeover viewing station if it means getting a
massive renovation through a faster and you know, she's had
a much more nuanced response about the whole nation of
art presence than most Democratic governors and mayors have and said, look,
there are good things about it, bad things about it
too in her judgment, picularly the ice raids and the
ice enforcement going on to the city streets. But if
the city's safer, if the city's cleaner, if the city

(04:12):
is nicer as a result, she's on board. And I
think a lot of folks would agree with that.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, And Rick, I know, I commend her for coming
out and saying that that must have been a tough
thing to do as a Democrat, but she did. She said, well,
you can't argue with facts, right, but it is amazing
to us here at wo R and everybody We've been
talking to today how good Donald Trump is at changing

(04:39):
the topic of getting the media to look over here
when something goes wrong over there.

Speaker 8 (04:46):
Yeah, And look, it's it's a nuanced and difficult thing
because you know, there are important stories, you know that
that are in other places, and it's important to focus
on them. But when the president of State said something,
there's a lot of power that goes through that. And
it's not just saying, but when it's doing. Whatever that's
doing is there's a lot going on in Washington at
any even time, you know. And it took him a

(05:07):
couple of weeks to change this top topic from Epstein.
I think it'll be back. But he is a master
at kind of creating new storylines and they're not necessarily
illegitimate ones at all. If he's the president acting and
you know, national Guard troops on the streets in DC,
it seems like there's going to be some movement in
Chicago next. Those are undeniably stories, even if they're competing
for a limited attention with other big things.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
No, it's brilliant of them, and I love that he's
doing it, and that makes him the law and order
commander in chief, and so many Democratic strategists are out
there saying, don't fall for the bait, don't don't get
on the other side of this issue, and yet it
does seem like they're being They're putting themselves on the
other side of this issue, and that could be a

(05:49):
big win for Trump and Republicans going into the midterms.

Speaker 9 (05:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (05:54):
Look, I've heard Trump critics say this. You know, even
when he's you know, really stretching the facts, going very far,
he often has almost always has a kernel of truth there,
and it resonates with people. I remember when on the
eve of the Republican Convention about a year ago, he
insulted the city of Milwaukee, and everyone said, oh my gosh,
he's going to kill himself in Wisconsin by insulting Milwaukee. Well,
guess what, most people are a lot of people in Wisconsin.

(06:15):
Milwaukee has problems, just like a lot of New Yorkers
think New York has problems, are a lot of Washington residents.
Washington has problems. You know, how do you over rea
sort of reaction to it that is it an appropriate
general response in every case? That's debatable, But you're right,
I think Democrats would be falling into a trap and
look at what Kevin News is doing in California. He's
acknowledging maybe the places that the National Guard has to

(06:36):
go into his own city.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, Eric Adams just sent a thousand police officers to
the Bronx. So it seems like everybody is me too
at this point. But it's a smart thing to do.
I'll tell you what. It helps fight crime. Who cares?
Who cares? Whose idea was? It certainly seems to work.
We haven't talked too much this morning about what happened
with the CDC and the FED. There was a there
was a walkout yesterday over RFK get rid of the

(07:00):
head of the.

Speaker 8 (07:01):
FED, right, the head of the head of the CDC. Yeah,
so legal doubt this. Legals doubt as to whether the
CDC director who's just confirmed by the Senate at the
trump'scommendation about three weeks ago, it's only been Abob three
weeks and Trump and RFK wanted her to meet in
the job. Her lawyers saying she's not actually fired until
Trump says the words, and he hasn't put himself in

(07:23):
that position yet. The White House Press Secretary says it's happened,
of course, Bobby Kennedy says it's happened, but there's still
a legal limbo around that. And Yeah, in the meantime,
we've seen resignations and yeah, demonstration, a walk out at
the CDC headquarters in Atlanta over these policies. These are
public health professional soctorers who say they're being forced into
taking essentially political fans or rejecting science, and they're trying

(07:45):
to do what they can to raise arms around that.
But I think at the end of the day's only
so much you can do. Bobby Kennedy's the AHHS Secretary.
A lot of members of Congress, including senators who confirmed him,
are really concerned about this, But the executive branch has
a lot of power in cases like this, and target
Philip the Trump wants her fired. She's going to be fired.
That's not gonna that's not going to be sustainable. And
if there's new policies that the President and the HHS

(08:09):
Secretary and the new CDC director director want when it
comes to vaccines, that's going to happen. It's just a
matter of time.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, that's why the FED was on my mind because
that's where I wanted to go next. So I'm men Fed.
When I talked about Lisa Cook, the governor of the
Federal Reserve that has been let go because of alleged
mortgage fraud. The Administration's out there over and over again
as she fights this saying one thing is she's never

(08:35):
denied it. Even in her court filing, she doesn't deny it.
So if it is true that she committed mortgage fraud,
are that is that grounds for the president to get rid.

Speaker 8 (08:46):
Of her potentially, But right now she hasn't been charged
with anything, much less uh much less convicted of anything.
She hasn't denied because there hasn't been a specific legal
allegation yet, you know, so I think the standard has
to be, you know, has to shift a little bit
for that to be established. But that's the key difference. Now,
there's there's a difference between the CDC and the FED

(09:07):
because the FED is set up as a quasi independent agency.
It was supposed to be insulated from political pressures, and
it's specifically a president can fire a board of governor's
member of the FED, but only four cause, to your point,
mortgage fraud. A conviction might be that cause, sure, but
that hasn't been established. No president even has ever tried
in a hundred years of FED history to to fire

(09:31):
a Board of governor for any reason. So you're pushing,
you're pushing alot of new buttons here if you're Donald Trump.
But the legal situation is a little bit different. But yeah, look,
if she did something illegal that that I think would
be likely to be upheld by the court as something
that would that would qualify as quote unquote four.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Cause, Yeah, I don't know, Rick, if I was accused
of something I didn't do, I would get out there
and say no, I didn't do that. But I'm sure
you're going to talk more about that on this week.
What's coming up this week?

Speaker 8 (09:58):
Yeah, we're going to be talking to number Tom Hammer
from Minnesota with the site of that horrific shooting the
other day, you know, which just kind of brings us
back to the numbing politics of mass shootings and schools.
It's just an absolutely horrific, horrific situation. And I know,
Martha Ratis, we're gonna be talking to one of the
CDC officials who resigned in protests earlier this week about

(10:19):
that continuing to fallout. I do think that story is
going to be a really big one to your point earlier.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Well, we'll all be watching Rick Klin, ABC News Washington
Bureau Chief with us every Friday at this time. Thanks
a lot, Rick, have a good weekend.

Speaker 8 (10:33):
Hey, thanks so much. Thank to you.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Okay, let's just say for kicks, you had to give
up a bodily organ which one would it be? There's
apparently ten you don't really need. We'll go through the
list next. Thank you so much for your talk facts today.
You have inspired a lot of great conversation. Really appreciated
if you want to get in on this and get
in the running, not only for the menting in the

(10:57):
morning T shirt which is given away every day, but
today we give away the talk back of the week
and to get in on that you have to leave
a talkback. You just go to seven to ten WR
on the iHeartRadio app. You look for the talkback feature,
and then you were on the air. The first person
wants to talk about the fact that Mayor Eric Adams
is talking about having the leadership of gangs come over

(11:22):
to Gracie Mansion for a summit to try to stop
the violence. Art Did I hear that?

Speaker 10 (11:27):
Right? I hear Mayor Armani Adams saying they're going to
talk to the gang leaders. They're going to talk to them.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
What are you kidding me?

Speaker 10 (11:36):
Any? Donald Trump to designate them as terrorist organizations, spent
send special ops there in the military, go get every
single one of them and put them in prison. Come on, talk,
would you kidding me?

Speaker 1 (11:50):
It did sound like a stupid idea when I first
heard it, but look he's doing so many of the
Democrats now, including Gavin Newsom, are doing what Donald Trump does.
They're like little mister me too's yeah, I can do
that too, I can do that too. And they all
deny that they're copying Donald Trump. So you know, he
has a summit. Eric Adams has his own summit. He

(12:13):
sends troops into Washington. Eric Adams sends one thousand police officers.
He makes a big deal about it, one thousand police
officers into the Bronx. Gavin Newsom sends one thousand highway
patrolmen into the cities and then says no, no, no, no, no, no,
I'm not doing Donald Trump. I'm no, no, no, no,
of course they are. Of course they are.

Speaker 11 (12:35):
Good morning, Larry and crew. Did you notice that Cuomo
took his vacation just a couple of days after the
judge rebuked him for the case that she dismissed against him.
And also, why is there no may oral debates scheduled?

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, they just announced them. There's going to be two.
The first one, I believe, is going to be in
October and it is going to be on NBC, and
then the second one is gonna happen right after that. No,
the first one's gonna be in September. The second one
is gonna be in October. So there's only going to
be two. The first one's gonna have like all the candidates,
so it's gonna be the top five, including Jim Walden,

(13:18):
who's pulling it about three percent. And if there's a
couple other they're going to be there too. The second one,
there's a threshold. The second one will probably be only
four and so that's the one that's that's really the
one to watch. But yeah, there's gonna be debates. It's
coming up. I'll get the exact dates for you in
a little bit. But let's talk about this story, which

(13:39):
is a It is a fascinating story, and the story
is that you don't need all your organs. There are
some organs you have that you can live without. And
so if you had to give up an organ, let's
just say somebody said, you know, for ransom, you have

(14:00):
to give up an organ. What oregon would you choose.
Chris Schweitzer is filling in for Natalie Vaka this week. Chris, Oh,
I have no idea. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (14:11):
We got too many.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
I don't want to give it if anyway, or I
want everything to stay where it is.

Speaker 12 (14:15):
I like where it's at.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
Under your head. You had to give up one give
up an organ? Gosh, I don't know. I need to
give it a break. I need to give it a
break anyways, I put it through too much. Liver is
a bad choice. That didn't make the top ten. That
didn't make the top ten of organs you can do without, Jacqueline,

(14:37):
the avocation, the spleen didn't make the last either. I'll
just give you the top three because it gets silly
after that. The appendix you don't have to Yeah, we
don't know what it does. Yeah. Next is the gallbladder. Yeah, yeah,
do you even know what it does? No, they don't need.

Speaker 12 (14:54):
It, I forget.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
And the third one, apparently is the kidney. You don't
need your kidney and then it gets a little silly
after that, because you know the thing they end the
number ten is a lung. You can give up a lung,
and I'm not going to do that. And now Jacqueline
Carl with the eight thirty News, Jacqueline.

Speaker 13 (15:11):
Hey, Larry ath already say the gunman who carried out
the Minnesota school shooting was a former.

Speaker 12 (15:17):
Student at the Catholic school.

Speaker 13 (15:19):
Two children were killed in this week's shooting and over
a dozen others were injured. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara
says the shooter who killed himself after the shooting used
to go to the school and his mother worked at
the Catholic church. Now, many people are traveling Labor Day
weekend for one final getaway for the summer.

Speaker 14 (15:39):
Port Authority expects a record high six point six million
travelers to use its New York City area airports and
vehicle crossings this weekend, and includes Newark, JFK, LaGuardia Airports
Triple A spokesperson Robert Sinclair.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
We think that it's going to be busy.

Speaker 8 (15:53):
Airfairs, hotels, rental car rates semestically are all significantly lower
compared to a year ago.

Speaker 14 (16:00):
As far as the roads Go Triple A is advising
drivers to try and travel early in the morning over
the next few days, with the afternoons and evenings expected
to be the heaviest with traffic. Gas prices are lower
than they were this time a year ago. I'm scappringle wrdws.

Speaker 13 (16:14):
All right, Larry, it's a thirty on Friday. Are you
ready for real or fake news headlines?

Speaker 1 (16:19):
Go ahead? Got it?

Speaker 13 (16:20):
One Professional Whistling Championship introduces new category for underwater performances.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
It sounds so ridiculous, but I'm gonna say true.

Speaker 12 (16:33):
It's false. Oh darn it, but it's coming.

Speaker 13 (16:37):
Number two Security drone stops theft at auto dealership in
Kansas City. True, that is, according to AI authority. On
July twenty seven, two suspects broke into a Corvette's window
at a Kansas City automotive dealership, but the drone detected
the intrusion, diverted from its patrol route, and alerted operators.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
I can't believe I said true to underwater whistling.

Speaker 12 (17:02):
But it did say.

Speaker 13 (17:03):
I was like, I know, I'm going to get him
on that one, because that seems like a real it
could happen.

Speaker 12 (17:08):
It was so crazy.

Speaker 13 (17:09):
I can't whistle underwater, I probably can if I can
only whistle in, I can't whistle out.

Speaker 12 (17:15):
All right.

Speaker 13 (17:15):
Three Hairless dog with a full back tattoo causes controversy.

Speaker 12 (17:21):
True, that is this is so upsetting.

Speaker 13 (17:23):
According to oddity Central, a Mexican hairless dog with a
full back dragon tattoo sparked outrage at Shanghai's twenty seven
The Asian Pet Show, with the owner claiming the animal
felt no pain during the procedure. The elaborate yakuza style
tattoo covers the dog's back and extends to his limbs,

(17:44):
with the pet also wearing a gold chain and wristwatch
for the exhibition. Experts refuted the owner's claims about painless tattoos,
explaining dogs have thinner skin than humans with denser nerve endings.

Speaker 12 (17:56):
That guy should be taken in, all right.

Speaker 13 (17:59):
Number four teenage girl sells boyfriend into slavery scam to
scam ring for fourteen thousand dollars.

Speaker 12 (18:10):
True it is this is so crazy.

Speaker 13 (18:12):
According to oddity Central, a seventeen year old Chinese girl
sold her nineteen year old boyfriend into slavery to a
Myanmar scam ring for approximately fourteen thousand dollars, resulting in
four months of captivity and torture. He was forced to
work sixteen to twenty hours daily conducting online scams against
Chinese citizens, facing severe beatings with metal rods when failing

(18:35):
to meet quotas. Now, as horrific as this story is,
men have been doing this to women for a long time.

Speaker 12 (18:40):
Just how to put that in?

Speaker 13 (18:42):
Five deep sea research vessel discovers fish that communicate using
bioluminescent morse code false it is, and I know you
know why because it was the last one and we
already had three real Ones's good for you, Larry. You
did really good except for the whistling under unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
I missed a perfect score with whistling underwater unbelievable. I'll
get there. I don't think I've been perfect since the
very first one, but I've been close.

Speaker 12 (19:11):
I don't like very good, though you do very well on.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
These, not as good as I want. Thanks so much,
Jacqueline Carl yep. The terror climate in this country is rising,
and false emergency reports are adding to all of those fears.
ABC News consultant John Cohen joins us next to talk
about that because of everything that's going on. This may

(19:35):
not be and have been on your radar, but apparently
the terror climate in this country just continues to rise.
And for that we're going to talk to John Cohen,
ABC News consultant. He is former counter terrorism coordinator at DHS. John,
thank you so much for taking some time to talk

(19:56):
to us today.

Speaker 9 (19:57):
It's great to be with you. Thank you so.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
Explain at that headline that the terror climate continues to rise.
What is causing that.

Speaker 9 (20:06):
Well, there's a variety of factors. But if we take
a step back and look at what's been going on
in this country through last year and into this year,
we are continuing to see mass shootings, some ideologically motivated,
some motivated by a combination of ideology and personal grievance,

(20:26):
some motivated by some type of dispute occurring at a
public place. But we are seeing a mass shooting occur
somewhere in this country almost every single day at the
same time. Just yesterday or a few days ago, the
FBI and members of the intelligence community warned US industries
that countries like China and Russia have essentially infiltrated using

(20:49):
cyber attacks are telecommunications infrastructure and the Internet and they're
warning people to actually use encrypted signaling apps on their
phones to protect their their conversations. We continue to see
cyber criminal organizations, hostile foreign powers and others use techniques

(21:13):
like swatting, which is using the Internet to create hoax
nine when one calls and the hopes that law enforcement
will descend upon the location, you know, in force causing
disruption and or John.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
John, that's called swatting, right, Is that what you're talking about?

Speaker 9 (21:31):
Yes, Yes, swatty. We've been seeing just so in the
past week, we've seen universities across the United States targeted
by a cyber criminal group at the same time that
the city of Minneapolis experienced an actual, real mass shooting.
So this is the environment that law enforcement is dealing
with right now, and it's it's it's as you and
I have talked about in the past, it continues to

(21:53):
be highly volatile, highly complex, and quite frankly dangerous.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
Let's talk about the cyber attacks for a moment, because
I don't think that gets enough attention. And I've talked
to local homeland security officials about this before, and they
say that it is amazing how many attacks are not reported,
mainly because the companies involved don't want them reported, but
they say it happens every day and several times a day.

(22:19):
Is that still the case?

Speaker 9 (22:21):
Absolutely? I mean foreign militaries, foreign intelligence services, even terrorist
groups are targeting our critical infrastructure. They're targeting the industry sector.
They're targeting our telecommunications infrastructure. They're targeting the information and
communications systems that that are are operated by federal, state

(22:41):
and local governments. I think part of the problem and
part of the challenge when talking about cyber is that
the people and this is my profession who are engaged
in cybersecurity usually speak about it in very technical terms.
But the danger of cyber attacks are far more in
the physical world than they are in the in the

(23:02):
digital world. What do I mean by that? We have
seen foreign cyber actors, threat actors targeting police nine one
one systems. They will not what we call denial of
service attacks, so they'll use cyber attacks to make those
nine on one systems inoperable, which means you can't pick
up the phone and call the police in an emergency.
We're seeing cyber attacks directed at state and local government,

(23:24):
so they can't share information, they can't issue business licenses,
they can't you know, their jail management systems don't work,
which run, which means it runs the risk of them
releasing bad people into our communities. We have seen cyber
attacks that have resulted in sensitive information regarding in criminal

(23:45):
investigations by foreign by foreign criminal organizations, and they're using
that information to threaten law enforcement or to disrupt investigation.
So the danger for cyber is, yes, it can shut
down an information that work. Yes it can mean sensitive
credit card information and other data can be stolen, but

(24:05):
there's also very real world implications that can impact the
public safety and the public health of people across the country.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Now, we're pretty good at stopping this.

Speaker 9 (24:18):
We are, actually and this is what is so troubling
to me is that over the past decade, you know
that the first in the first Trump administration, during the
Obama administration, to some degree in the Biden administration, you know,
we started putting in place, you know, really good strategies
and tools to empower state and local governments in particular,

(24:42):
but also the private sector to protect themselves against these
cyber attacks. My concern and the concern of others today
is that those resources are being reduced and in some
cases being diverted. So we have, for example, law enforcement
personnel with the FBI, UH and and other federal agencies
who in the past were actively involved in counterintelligence cyber

(25:06):
investigations and criminal cybercrime investigations, those resources being reassigned to
work on things such as immigration enforcement. So we need
to you know, every administration has a has a priority,
and that's their right. But I think, you know what,
we should be making decisions on resource allocation based on

(25:27):
those threats that are impacting our communities the most. In
cyber is clearly one of those areas well.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
It seems like it may be the biggest area of
concern for the federal government right now because you can
imagine I don't have to tell you all of the
things that could be hacked and the chaos that would cause. So, John,
it's always fascinating to talk to you. ABC News consultant,
former counter terrorism coordinator at DHS. I look forward to

(25:53):
talking to you again. Thank you for your time.

Speaker 9 (25:55):
Have a good holiday weekend you too, John.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Yeah. I talked to somebody that was in charge of
homeland security in New Jersey one time, interviewed him for
the TV show there, and he told me off the air.
He said, you know, companies won't report these because they're
embarrassed by them, and they don't want their clients to
know that they were hacked, and they don't want their
customers to know they were hacked. But he told me

(26:19):
this happened several dozen times a day, and that is
just in the state of New Jersey. It's really it's
extremely eye opening. Imagine what the federal government's dealing with.
New York City is suffering a strange shortage. Apparently we
don't have enough millionaires. Is that something New Yorkers are
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Speaker 6 (27:47):
It's seventen wors Beat on the Street with Natalie Migliori.

Speaker 15 (27:53):
Well, apparently we don't have enough millionaires in New York
City and that appears to be a pro problem, But
the New Yorkers really care about that, Natalie Migliori finds
out in her Beat on the Street.

Speaker 7 (28:06):
Natalie Yeah, Good morning, Larry Well. A new report from
a fiscal watchdog group called Citizens Budget Committee shows New
York may need more millionaires. The study shows there were
about seventy thousand people earning one million dollars or more
in New York State in twenty twenty two. That's the
latest numbers we have, with only half living in the city.

(28:30):
So do New Yorkers think we need more millionaires.

Speaker 16 (28:34):
Absolutely, well, we need tax revenue. Yeah, and the more
millionaires we get, the more jobs are created.

Speaker 17 (28:39):
Sure we do, because there's always room.

Speaker 12 (28:42):
For money in New York City.

Speaker 5 (28:43):
Absolutely, I mean everybody you have to live comfortable. You know,
how many are they here? I don't even know. Seventy
eight thousand. That doesn't seem like a lot. I thought
there was more.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
Considering they what got billionaire row and everything.

Speaker 5 (28:55):
I thought it was more.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
I won't be one, so I'm not sure, not.

Speaker 7 (29:01):
With that mindset. No, the none partisan groups as New
York State's millionaire population is not keeping pace with other
large states like Texas, Florida, or California. So why is
the upper echelon of society deciding not to stay here?

Speaker 5 (29:19):
I guess he has to do with taxes in New York.
I mean, California has a bigger population, right, Yes, you
would expect more of there. But I think it's the
taxes that we pay here in New York.

Speaker 16 (29:29):
Yeah, we're losing a lot of people. I think it
has a lot to do with the rules that are
just I don't know. The society kind of fabric is
dissolved with all the violent crime, and so people want
to be in a place where it's safer, especially for
their children. And look at that shooting that just happened.
It can happen anywhere, but they want to protect their
children and give them good education. The education here is horrible.

Speaker 7 (29:49):
Yes, some people say it's about the money here, the
more money people pay. Some people say it's about the culture, safety,
feeling safe. But keep in mind Texas and Florida pays
far fewer taxes th New Yorkers. New York States stood
to make an additional thirteen billion dollars if it had
as many millionaires as those states did back in twenty
twenty two. The new study comes as New Yorkers really

(30:12):
consider how the next mayor could impact the economy, with
Democratic nominees who are on mom Donnie saying billionaires shouldn't exist.
He said that just last month, even proposing a two
percent tax on those who make more than a million dollars.
So do New Yorkers want to see the rich pay
more in taxes?

Speaker 17 (30:30):
Absolutely? That I do support, because I mean I pay
more taxes sometimes than the average millionaire. I believe based
off of what I'm paying versus what I see around.
It's a huge difference for.

Speaker 5 (30:43):
The millionaires to pay more taxes. But is that really
going to help the law class. I mean, that's the question.
I mean, if it's if it's going to help the
lawer class, I'm all for it.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
There should be one tax for everybody. Just because you
make more money than another personal got businesses. I don't
think that that that's right, that they get taxed more
money me personally, I don't think is right.

Speaker 7 (31:05):
Yeah, but this study also comes as middle class and
low income New Yorkers field. They're just simply getting priced
out of New York.

Speaker 17 (31:14):
Due to the rent increases, due to lack of availability.
It's almost impossible to get an apartment in New York
City because it's so overcrowded, the cost.

Speaker 5 (31:23):
Of living, rent, everything is going up except the paychecks. Honestly.
I mean, when it comes to politics, there's always somebody
that's feeding the politicians. You know, it's somebody with money
that's feeding the politicians, so they have to support them.

Speaker 12 (31:37):
What about the politicians feeding the people?

Speaker 1 (31:40):
What the politicians are feeding the people?

Speaker 5 (31:42):
Honestly, I think they are all the same.

Speaker 7 (31:45):
There you have it, So the politicians are all running
this race for mayor. That could really impact New York
State and city's economy. And you know, Larry, we'll just
see what happens with what these politicians, like I said,
are feeding the people, what they're telling the people, and
that will really impact what the people decide.

Speaker 12 (32:04):
To vote for.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Absolutely and wa Zurimm Donnie is talking about he might
chase away some more millionaires and billionaires because he wants
to raise their taxes. That's a huge concern if he
can do it, but the chances are he's not even
going to be able to do that because he has
to go through the legislature, and I'm not sure many
of the things he says are actually going to happen.
So the millionaires and the billionaires can feel safe and

(32:28):
more millionaires can move here and not have to worry
about it. Thanks so much, Natalie Migliori. Natalie Migliori is
going to be back Monday at this exact the same
time with her beat on the streets. Well, we talk
a lot about AI. Artificial intelligence is taking over right now,
faster than we thought.

Speaker 6 (32:48):
So.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Futurist reporter Kevin Sirelli tells us where AI is having
the most impact right now that is coming up after
the nine o'clock news