Hour 4: Remote work is done?

 Remote work is done?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks for joining us today.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's gonna be a cold one. It's gonna be cold
the rest of the week. Somebody talked about a polar vortex.
We'll have to get race stage you can to explain
exactly what that is. But stay warm. No more precipitation.
Yesterday was it. We do have two big special elections
to talk about, and that kicks off the Big Three,
one local, one national. In Jersey City, the second largest

(00:25):
city in New Jersey, they got a new mayor. It's
not Jim McGreevy, Councilman Robert Solomon one.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
I believe in the people of Jersey City today, the
entire state of New Jersey.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Jim mcgreevy's comeback, former Governor Jim mcgreevy's come back in
political career may now be over. Here we go again, though,
another progressive, another near socialist, winning a big election and
in Tennessee a special election for a congressional seat that
was supposed to be razor close for a House seat.

(01:10):
The world was watching this all millions and millions, tens
of millions of dollars poured into it and it wasn't
close at all. Republican Matt Van Epps won by almost
ten points.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Well, hello Tennessee, what a night, What a night.

Speaker 5 (01:29):
We did it.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Thank you, thank you all. This is just an incredible win,
an incredible win tonight. You've sent a message loud and clear.
The people of Middle Tennessee stand with President Donald J.

Speaker 6 (01:43):
Trump.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
And that's important for President Donald J. Trump because this
race is seen as an important bell weather for the
all important midterm elections. I'll tell you what, if the
Republicans lose the midterms, Donald Trump's term in office will
be much more different, dificult. In the last two years,
He's not going to be able to get anything through.
In New York, the incoming mayor zuruin mam Donnie meets

(02:07):
with the outgoing Mayor Eric Adams at Gracie Mansion. And
the big question is not how they get along. The
big question is will Zurin Mamdanni the Socialists live in
a mansion? That is the decision I haven't yet made.

Speaker 7 (02:22):
The meeting came about as just part of a typical transition,
a transition where we're looking to have a conversation with
the current mayor about what it looks like to have
a smooth transfer between this administration and the next administration.
I've appreciated the work of his staff and ensuring that
it continues to be smooth.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
And Secretary of War Pete Hagsath isn't back and down
at all. Amidst a controversy about a second airstrike on
a boat that was already crippled by a first air
strike in the Caribbean.

Speaker 8 (02:47):
I watched that first strike life.

Speaker 9 (02:49):
As you can imagine, the Department of War, we got
a lot of things to do, so I didn't stick
around for the hour and two hours whatever where all
the sensitive side exploitation digitally occurs.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
So I moved on to my next meeting.

Speaker 9 (03:00):
A couple of hours later, I learned that that commander
had made the which he had the complete authority to do.
And by the way, Admial Bradley made the correct decision
to ultimately sink the boat.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
And eliminate the threat.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
And now let's get to Sarah Isker, ABC News contributor
in Washington with us every Wednesday at this time. Good morning, Sarah,
how are you?

Speaker 10 (03:21):
Good morning?

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Hey? Listen.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
I want to start with something that was said at
the cabinet meeting yesterday. The cabinet meetings that are now
open to the press. It came from Pam Bondy, and
I was kind of shocked at it, and I want
to see, I want to get your reaction.

Speaker 5 (03:37):
We have been sued five hundred and seventy five times,
five hundred and seventy five times, more than every administration
going back to Reagan combined. Most recently, yesterday, I was
sued by an immigration judge who we fired. One of
the reasons she said she was a woman. Last I checked,
I was a woman as well.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Five hundred and seventy five lawsuits against the Trump administration.
What do we read into that? Is this now a
new political weapon or has the administration just been that egregious?

Speaker 10 (04:14):
Why can't it be both? So we have started to
govern by lawsuit, there's no question about that. You know,
as Congress has done less and less, presidents have started
running the country by executive order. Well, guess what that's
really right? For lawsuits among other things. And so you've seen,
you know, red state governors sue when it's a Democrat

(04:36):
in the White House, Blue state governors sue when it's
a Republican in the White House. There's been entire cottage
industries pop up. We now have state solicitor generals whose
main job, it seems like, is to sue administrations from
the opposing party. It gets you headlined, it's good for fundraising.
The president wins, so now he has an enemy that

(04:57):
he gets to, you know, battle with, and the opposing
side looks like they're you know, quote doing something rather
than what we used to do, which is actually compromised
log role work through Congress, have stable pieces of legislation
that would be the product of you know, that messy
process that was taking place in Congress.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, and you kept saying that one side would do
the other. It's pretty common. They've done this, they've been
but you just heard Pambondi. It's five hundred and seventy
five lawsuits now and that's more than the last three
administrations combined. So what you were talking about is going
into hyperdrive under Donald Trump. And that's why the question

(05:38):
is that now a new strategy. Have the Democrats found
a new strategy or they just using an old one
and making it.

Speaker 10 (05:46):
Hyper So under each president it's basically increased quite a bit.
So in a Barack Obama, if you remember he said,
you know, I have a pen and a phone. I'll
rally the American people if Congress doesn't do what I
want them to do. That was sort of the starting
gun for a lot of this, And so you had
plenty of lawsuits against the Obama administration in the first

(06:08):
Trump administration. It increased even more in the Biden administration.
The student loan debt, forgiveness, eviction, moratorium, vaccine mandate. All
of those were major lawsuits, but there were plenty, plenty
more than that that the Biden administration for instance. Once
here we have the Trump administration and the dial gets
turned up once again. So yeah, this continues to increase again,

(06:31):
I think because we don't have the normal political valve
of Congress where people were supposed to go. And you
see what's happening is that the courts are getting pulled
into these political fights and so then they get viewed
as more partisan. And it's not a sustainable model.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
No, I understand that. So, but that portends bad things
for the future. You're saying that this isn't going to
stop anytime soon unless they fix the system. This will continue.
By the way, it is exact exactly why those confirmation hearings.
If people are wondering why they're so important because it's
usually just some federal court judge, but they become hyper

(07:10):
important now because of this right.

Speaker 10 (07:14):
That's exactly right. Our confirmation hearings get more contentious, by
the way, one of the only things that Congress still
does other than put out Instagram reels, as best I
can tell, And again, it's putting stress on our institutions
that they cannot bear because judges are not politically accountable.
They're not supposed to be the one refereeing our most
bitter political disputes. That's supposed to happen in Congress. Now,

(07:37):
what's interesting about this Supreme Court term is that they
have two cases that hopefully are going to police some
of those separation of powers boundaries force Congress to do
its job by saying that presidents can't rule by executive order,
for example the tariff's case, and that presidents actually have
to be politically accountable for their own branches. And so

(07:58):
these so called in dependent agencies that Congress created where
they shield you know, executive branch employees from presidential direction,
that that can't happen either.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
And so you make the.

Speaker 10 (08:10):
President the head of the executive branch, make him a
better president and a worse legislator if you will.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, the Trump is case. You're talking about Trump versus Slaughter.
That's the case you're talking about. Yes, Yes, So we're
going to get.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Oral arguments on that on Monday, and everybody's going to
be listening because we'll figure out exactly where the Court
is leaning on this. Do you have any guesses or assumptions?

Speaker 11 (08:35):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (08:35):
I think at this point any court watcher will tell
you that it's very likely that the Court will hold
some version that these independent agencies have to be politically
accountable to the president. I think there's a you know,
a wider win and a narrower win for the administration.
But I don't think there's much question that these you know,
alphabet agencies aren't going to exist in their current form,

(08:58):
where you know, we say that these are the most
important elections of our lifetime whenever there's a presidential election.
But the president doesn't actually have control over wide swaths
of the American economy. And if you don't like what
the National Labor Relations Board did or what the Securities
in Exchange Commission did, there's nothing for you to do
about that. Voting for a different president doesn't help voting

(09:19):
out your member of Congress doesn't help. There's no political
accountability right now. And I think what you'll see a
majority of the court say is that that doesn't work
under our constitution. There is no such thing as an
independent agency.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Then what do they do?

Speaker 2 (09:33):
They don't rule on a remedy, right, will they just
say you have.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
To fix this.

Speaker 10 (09:39):
What they'll say is the president is allowed to remove
any member of the executive branch at his discretion. If
they won't follow his policy direction, he can fire them,
and that will basically end these independent agencies because they
will be politically accountable to the president. Now, the problem
has been that Congress, because they were shielded from removal
from presidents, gave these agencies huge broad power.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, that's that's fascinating. Yeah, it's an extremely important case,
But it doesn't sound like that fixes the problem either.
Sarah Isker, ABC News contributor in Washington with US every
Wednesday at nine oh five. Thanks for that, Sarah. That
was fascinating. It's a sound that sparks fear in millions.
Now researchers say they have found a way to silence it.

(10:30):
We'll tell you all about it and hear what it is. Next, Well,
that sound we were talking about that may really bother you.
Natalie is now telling me I have to give a
trigger warning before we play it.

Speaker 12 (10:44):
Oh definitely, really mmm, got to brace yourself.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
We do trigger warnings kind of joking, Larry. Oh thank god,
I didn't know you were joking at all, I thought, man,
because that's the word. World we live in now, where
now somebody can sue you if it triggered some reason.

Speaker 12 (11:04):
We don't want to be trigger warning can now I.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
Have to say what it is?

Speaker 3 (11:09):
No, just play it?

Speaker 12 (11:10):
You just just just brace yourself.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Oh, say, that's not a trigger warning at all. This
is the sound.

Speaker 12 (11:19):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
I don't like it, man. I didn't think i'd react
that way, but I feel.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
The same way.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yes, it's like it is awful.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
It's basically bad experience.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Worse, it's like, what sound could we invent that could
make this hurt even more?

Speaker 12 (11:41):
Just hearing that sound, I have like a full sensory
overload going on. I can feel the spray in your face,
you know, you kind of feel.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
The meld the dentisty.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Oh gosh, are you going to be hurt now for
some for some time? Will you feel this for some
time because maybe you have a lawsuit and you even said,
oh man, I'm really screwed on this. You even said
there should be a trigger warner.

Speaker 12 (12:04):
I knew what was coming. I've heard it before, and
it still bothered me.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Well, as you can imagine, that's the sound of a
dental drill. By the way, it seems like some relief
is on the way. Scientists in Japan are working to
make those drills quieter and less stressful.

Speaker 12 (12:23):
Well good, because why does it have to sound like that.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
I hate in the doctor or doctor's office when they
try to drownd it out with music.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Because it never works.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
It just makes it even worse that there's the other
sound going on.

Speaker 12 (12:36):
I have, well, thankfully, I haven't had a cavity in
a while. But you know, you never know, you never
know when you go in. I should bring, you know,
like AirPods. I don't know why I haven't done that. Oh,
that's a good idea, toys canceling ones.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Yeah, and it would sound that Dennis from talking to
you too, which which is really aggravating. That's worse than
a dental l By redesigning parts of the drill, this
is what they're doing redesigning parts of the drill. They
hope future visits to the dentist will be a lot calmer. Well,

(13:08):
wait a second, they're still drilling in your tooth and
that doesn't feel great. And as Crash mentioned, there's that
smell that comes.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Out of your mouth.

Speaker 8 (13:19):
That with nitrous though, yeah, what is that now? They
solved all that with nitrous a long time ago.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
Really nitrous oxide.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
You don't get the smell anymore.

Speaker 8 (13:31):
I don't know, I don't remember. She's crank it up
to the legal limit.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Keep turning it up, crank that.

Speaker 8 (13:43):
Up, and they're like, we're gonna go have to ask
the doctor. The last time I was there, they went
and asked the doctor so many times for me. She's like,
no more.

Speaker 12 (13:52):
She just visits the dentist just for fun.

Speaker 8 (13:54):
Now, I think I got a Saturday night before you
look in.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Would you please give me some night tress. Let's get
to a talk back morning.

Speaker 6 (14:04):
Joe just will never learn.

Speaker 13 (14:07):
All they've been talking about all morning is Pete hag
Seth and this whole thing about the second shot being
fired into the boat. Well, what would they rather have
more fetanyl come into this country? They're going against what
we're trying to do. What this president is trying to
do is close this country of all this ventanyl.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
It's a shame.

Speaker 13 (14:30):
Don't they have anything better to talk about?

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Man?

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Did they take a turn to the Morning Joe? Joe
Scarborough was a Republican, a Republican from Florida, and he
turned as soon as he married Mika Brzynski. And as
you've heard many times, it's the Meka virus he got.
He completely turned. And yeah, I know it's also as MSNBC,

(14:53):
he wants to keep his job. So yet you wonder
how much he really believes what he's saying because he's
now at a station that is very liberal. Hell, they
have Rachel Maddow and so is extremely liberal, and he
has to now follow a line to keep his job.
So yeah, I don't care what they say. Nothing's going
to happen to this. Look at Pete hag Seth. Not

(15:13):
only is there evidence he wasn't in the room, Not
only does he say he wasn't in the room, there's
many other people that talk to him when that was
going on. So he's got a lot of people that
are backing him up. I worried about I worry about
Admiral Bradley. Are they going to go after him? But
I don't think so. They wanted a bigger fish. They
want either hag Seth or they want Trump. Admiral Bradley.

(15:37):
Is that going to help them at all? They don't
want him. I don't even know if he's a Republican
or a Democrat. It doesn't matter what he is. So
the whole thing, the whole thing started with a lie anyway.
It started with a false tip to the Washington Post.
And that's got to end. There has to be some
accountability for that kind of stuff. Now, let's get the

(15:59):
new nine thirty with Jacqueline Carl Jacqueline Larry.

Speaker 8 (16:03):
Every National Guard member deployed in Washington, DC is now armed.
The Pentagon made the announcement Tuesday after last week's shooting
of two service members near the White House. One was
killed and the other remains in critical condition. Guard members
will also be conducting joint patrols with the local police.
And flu season only started a few weeks ago, but

(16:23):
the State Department of Health says the virus is already
prevalent across New York.

Speaker 14 (16:29):
Data shows there have already been seventeen thousand and positive
flu cases across sixty two counties so far. That's a
one hundred and seventeen percent increase from the week before.
There have also been at least one thousand hospitalizations, but
doctors are preparing for more flu patients. Doctors say flu
season can run through April, but the CDC says peak

(16:50):
flu season is typically December through February. It's recommended folks
get their flu shot and a list of clinics is
available at vaccines dot gov.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Natalie mcglior wour News.

Speaker 8 (17:01):
Well, it's December, which brings up the age old question.
Is die Hard a Christmas movie?

Speaker 7 (17:08):
Now?

Speaker 8 (17:08):
That's one of the many Christmas songs you hear in
the movie, however, so I think you know where I stand. However,
according to the Guardian, the British Board of Film Classification
recently surveyed two thousand movie fans to get their thoughts
on all things related to Christmas movies. Among the questions asked,
of course, was the question of die Hard. Of those

(17:29):
that responded, forty four percent said die Hard was not
a Christmas movie, thirty eight percent said it was. If
I were there, it would have been thirty nine percent
and seventeen percent were undercided, what say you.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Oh, it's not a Christmas movie.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
What's really fascinating about it, though, is that the scriptwriter
says it is it is yeah, but Bruce Willis says
it's not.

Speaker 15 (17:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (17:52):
I never thought, absolutely definitely not in that category for me.

Speaker 8 (17:55):
You surprise, Bruce stood with those who say no. But
they have the other songs Let It Snow, Let It Snow,
Let It Snow, which plays in the end credits. The
soundtrack also famously uses Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony,
as well as Winter Wonderland. So I see the.

Speaker 12 (18:14):
Problem is just because the movie say takes place at
Christmas time or reference Christmas, doesn't make it a Christmas move.

Speaker 13 (18:21):
Run.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
I agree with you. I agree with you.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
That's why it's been such a big radio topic for
all the issues. Every radio station does this topic around
this time, but they play Hollis Queen.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
They do not no You. That was an original. That
was all you.

Speaker 6 (18:36):
Thank you.

Speaker 8 (18:37):
Let's head over to Wall Street at the opening bell,
the Dow opened down fourteen points, the S and P
opened down seven points, and the Nasdaq opened down seventy
four points.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Thanks so much, Jacqueline Carl when we come back. One
tech leader says the era of remote work is over
and the new plan could shake up office life not
only for that company, but across the country.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
What's changing.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
We'll talk with career advice expert Greg gan Grande about
it next.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
All right, now, let's.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Check in with Greg g and Grande, career advice expert
with us every Wednesday at this time. Check them out
on go to Greg dot com. Fascinating story Greg with Instagram,
the CEO announcing that everybody has to be back in
the office now this is Instagram. So you can work
at home in your computer pretty well with Instagram, but

(19:31):
everybody has to be back in the office five days
a week. They say it's about boosting creativity and building
a winning culture now. To make it work, he's also
cutting unnecessary meetings and pushing for faster, more focus collaboration.

(19:51):
This is a big shift for a company that embraced flexibility.
So what do you think of this? Will it spark
innovation or are they just going to get a backlash
in people quitting over this.

Speaker 11 (20:06):
It'll be It'll be a combination, Larry, because there is
no doubt that not working together in person full time
absolutely stifles innovation and creativity, and there is a lot
that entry level people, recent grads, early career people miss out,

(20:29):
lose out on not working side by side with colleagues,
not learning by osmosis, picking up cues, letting the boss
see you like in in like in a natural, organic
way rather than having to schedule appointment via via zoom.
The issue is do you need to do that. Is

(20:51):
it best doing it every single day of the week,
or is a hybrid schedule that takes advantage and uses
the best of both, giving people flexibility that they need
to operate in a way that is most efficient and
effective for them while also bringing people together. That's the

(21:13):
holy grail, and most companies are experimenting with a different
formula for that, not five days a week. It's still
the minority. Only about a third of corporations are asking
employees to come five days a week, and many who
make these announcements actually make lots of exceptions because they

(21:35):
realize they're going to lose a lot of talent. So
he doesn't seem to be making from a big company,
but the reality is most companies aren't doing this.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
He doesn't seem to be making exceptions, And that's what's
fascinating about it. This is a huge company, this is
a huge Internet company, and you'd think he'd be amenable
to having people working from home, but he's saying no,
he wants there five days a week. And I guess,
yess the question is if they're doing this is is

(22:04):
this a sign that everybody wants to go this way?

Speaker 11 (22:08):
No, it's definitely not a sign the genies out of
the bottle. We've all learned that we can operate very
effectively on a hybrid schedule with technology, and that most
employees prefer. And the fact that still most employers recognize

(22:30):
that there's value to the employer as well as the employee.
Most employers are still keeping a hybrid schedule where whether
it's two days a week in the office or three
days a week or four part time days, it will vary,
but most companies recognize that there is value for everyone

(22:51):
in having that kind of flexibility. So what it's going
to do is create more competition for the companies that
are trying to stick to the old traditional model of
five days a week, every day, they're just gonna it's
gonna be harder for them. Listen, A company like Instagram,
because it has such popularity and name recognition, they can

(23:12):
try something like this because for every person who leaves
because that doesn't work for them. There's a lot of
people who want to work for Instagram, but most companies
aren't Instagram, which is why in a talent war, they're
going to create conditions that are more conducive to what
most employees want, and that is a hybrid schedule.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Let me give you.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Part of his argument. He says that having people together
in a workplace inspires not only creativity, but collaboration. Does
collaboration suffer if people are at home and they're separated
from everyone else.

Speaker 11 (23:50):
Absolutely, there are things I miss where I know that
the energy of just running into somebody's office or workspace,
pulling people to together spontaneously because you're all there. Absolutely,
if you're working full time remotely, that suffers. Collaboration and
innovation absolutely suffers. But you don't have to give it

(24:13):
up if you have a compromise, Even if you do
three days a week and then the other two days
can be flexible days where people can still have more
quiet time on their own to follow up and do
whatever things they need to do. You know, for their
responsibilities without the distractions and without the commute is really

(24:38):
the best model. But for sure, companies that allow all
employees to work remotely full time, you certainly lose some
cultural aspects. You lose collaboration, you lose innovation, and for
early career people, they don't even recognize, they don't even
know what they're losing because they don't have any context.

(25:00):
But you lose so much learning and career development by
not being in an environment with colleagues, learning from them
and having those spontaneous interactions.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
So he has a point there. He has a point.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
And what's interesting about what he's saying is, for some
reason he is zeroed in on meetings, especially lengthy meetings,
and trying to get rid of slide presentations and making
sure that if there is a meeting, it's kept very tight.
I don't think that is what people are thinking about

(25:35):
when they want to stay home. They just don't want
to travel in and they want some freedom. But do
you believe that taking away meetings or making them tighter
and making sure there's not just a prerequisite weekly meeting
is going to help.

Speaker 11 (25:52):
Everyone complains about meetings, but they complain often about the
wrong thing. It's not the number of meetings, it's how
meetings are touted, and you often sit there and say,
like why am I here? I'm not getting anything done
and I'm not learning anything. So there's absolutely a whole
kind of reimagining of meeting culture to make sure that

(26:16):
everyone who's in a meeting knows why they are in
that meeting and they're getting something out of it. And
usually there's three things. You're either there because you need
to be there for awareness, some people need to be
there to provide inputs so work can get done, and
other people need to be there who own the decision
of whatever needs to get done. So whether it's a
stand up meeting that's five, ten to fifteen minutes, or

(26:38):
it's a lengthy meeting for an hour is not the point.
The point is are we advancing what everybody needs to
do to get their work done in that meeting. So
it's how we're doing meetings, not the number of meetings
that's the issue, and it is a big issue in companies.
Everybody complains about meetings.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yeah, he wants to change that too, so that at
least that part you'll agree he's onto something. Greg GM
Career advice expert with us every Wednesday at this very time.
You can check them out and go to Greg dot com.
You really should go go to Greg dot com and
you can ask him your own questions there because we
may not cover everything, and he's great about responding.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Thanks a lot, Greg, good to talk to you.

Speaker 11 (27:18):
Thank you great week.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
When we come back, my final thoughts a recap of
today's show in the talk back of the morning, It's Minty.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
In the Morning on seven ten woor now with some
final thoughts.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Here's Larry.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
I'll tell you what this happens so much we could
have a media malpractice daily segment every single day. The
media is so infected by Trump derangement syndrome. They trip
over themselves to be the one to answer the phone
from some weasel in the bowels of the federal government
who gives them some tidbit something that they are willing

(27:55):
to run with even if they don't know it's true,
because they'll get hits, they'll start news cycles, they'll get
invited to big Washington parties. Journalistic standards be damned. Media
Trump haters unite. They believe hurting Trump is more important

(28:16):
than the truth. There was a day when we called
them traders. Now half the country believes their heroes, and heck,
the New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for printing
hogwash fed to them about the Steele dossier and Russia Gate.
It's a bizarre world right now where leakers are heroes

(28:40):
when again, they used to be traders. The latest false
story is in the Washington Post that Pete Hegsath watched
and Okayed signed off on the second strike of a
boat carrying narcotics bound for the United States, confirmed by
national intelligence that it was carrying narcotic and then they

(29:00):
hit it again when there were still survivors on the boat. Now,
the Secretary of War says and witnesses confirm he wasn't
even in the room for that strike, and one of
the most respected admirals in the US Navy made the call.
The Washington Post has a history of breaking huge stories

(29:23):
like Watergate, along with The New York Times the Pentagon Papers.
Look at what they've become. There should be some kind
of penalty for false information. Forget the news coverage or
the fact that you get hits. That right now is
modern currency. Truth is the job, and to retain any credibility.

(29:46):
The media has to police themselves. I'll keep pointing it out.
I wish the editors at the Washington Post would start
coming up next, Mark Simone welcomes editor of bart Business News,
John Carney and best selling author and culter, and now
a recap of today's show. High profile criminal defense attorney

(30:10):
Jeffrey Lickman says there's no clear path for Luigi Mangioni
to be acquitted of his murder charges, even with questions
on how the evidence can and cannot be used.

Speaker 6 (30:23):
I don't think it was the best search. Although I
do think that the law is on the defense side.
It doesn't mean that Luigi is going to be acquitted.
There's certainly plenty of other evidence, you know, DNA evidence,
et cetera, et cetera. But here's the bottom line, Larry,
for your listeners, there's no way Luigi is getting out
of this without spending the rest of his natural life
in jail. That's my prediction.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
ABC News foreign correspondent Tom Sufi Berrage explained why Russian
troops have had such a difficult time in their war
against Ukraine.

Speaker 16 (30:54):
Vladide Putin's forces in eastern Ukraine are on the advance
very slowly, though, and at great costs.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
So it's a war of attrition. It's also a new.

Speaker 16 (31:02):
Type of warfare that the world hasn't seen before, where
you know, there's very few troops trying to move forward
at anyone's time, because in the sky there is the
buzz of an unconsifiable number of drones on both sides,
and so it's very very difficult warfare.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Wo R National correspondent Rory O'Neil gave us the latest
on the Trump plan to provide money to newborns.

Speaker 15 (31:24):
Trump Accounts dot gov is the website. The accounts are
essentially savings accounts that are being set up to help
young kids that when they turn eighteen will then be
eligible to take out that money. Now during the Trump administration,
all of those accounts come with a one thousand dollars
bonus for babies born during that time.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Our Street reporter Natalie Migliore was live from Rockefeller Center
this morning, and we wondered if she had ever been
to a tree lighting herself. Have you ever gone not
to the.

Speaker 13 (31:53):
Tree lighting, but every year you at some point.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
Yeah, that's it, at some point get two.

Speaker 12 (32:00):
Different buys, rewriting ceremonials, a little bit more commitment.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
A little bit more, a lot of commitment. Yeah, yeah,
I guess I've been to it too.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
I've walked by it.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
Earlier, we talked about how accurate that ten day forecast
really is. Well, our talk back of the morning and
winner of the MENI in the Morning t Shirt says,
there's another profession that struggles with long term predictions.

Speaker 17 (32:25):
You were talking about weather forecasting. My grandfather was a
professor of economics, and we used to joke with him
that his people and weatherman could change jobs and nobody'd
ever know.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
It's absolutely true.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
And don't forget the best talkback of the week takes
on the sea crane radio Sea crane radios that work
when it matters most. Don't forget to check out our
podcast and catch up on things you missed. It's all
there at seven to ten woor dot com. Just click
the podcast tab coming up tomorrow and the Mente in
the morning wor White House correspondent John Decker and bioethicist
doctor Arthur Caplin make sure to join us.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
It's ten o'clock