November 19, 2025 • 10 mins
Larry Mendte goes over the biggest news stories of the day including congress voting to release the Epstein files, Zohran Mamdani asking for more money for his transition, and current Mayor Eric Adams wrapping up his trip to Israel and now moving on to Uzbekistan.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Get shy Mandy In the morning on seven to ten
wat the Voice of New York and good morning to you, Natalie.
When you came in, was this drizzling still? Was there
any rain at all? Because when I came in, it
was just like spitting a little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, it was spitting on me too. Although when I
left my house this morning, I thought I might have
seen a snowflake or two. As soon as we got
to the city, it was all gone.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It was just rain.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
You're like, you have a sixth sense. You see snowflakes
when other people don't see snowflakes.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
No, no, no, that's not true. I just happened to
live in that northwest of two eighty of eighty. Yeah,
north west of eighty, and you always get the snow.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I still remember the time when the flakes were here
out here and I couldn't see them.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
That's yeah, you did not.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Which means I have a problem. I have a sight problem. Anyway,
we're having this conversation because it is a little out there,
and so just remember to bring an umbrella because I
forgot one and I had to go and it wasn't pouring.
Just again, it's a horrible term, but it was just
spitting just a little bit, and so you don't want
(01:12):
that on you, So go ahead and bring an umbrella today.
In the big three Congress votes to release the Epstein
files pass, passing both the House and the Senate in
one long day.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
There's no reason it can't be on the President's desk
in an hour.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Second, the President has to sign it. You never know,
with him said.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
He would, let's wait and see. But third, we have
to make sure that the whole all of the documents
are released.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'm not sure the Democrats want that as much as
they think they want that. There's a lot of Democrats
allegedly in those Epstein files, and poor Chuck Schumer right there,
just grasping for relevance before the party ouse to him.
Zorin mom Danni, the socialist mayor elect who once ran
on making the city more affordable for struggling New Yorkers
(02:01):
and he wants to give them more money and more
free stuff, still needs more money from those struggling New
Yorkers for his transition.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
I hope very soon not to have to ask you
for money, But until then, I'm asking for you to
go to Transition twenty twenty five dot Com and give
whatever you can to help with the New York that
everyone can afford me. This is your city and I
can't wait to get to work.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, that's what he put out on social media. He
wants four million dollars for his transition. Mayor Adams wraps
up his trip to Israel and is now on to Zbekistan.
But New York and the mayor elect is always on
his mind.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
If I was a Jewish New York cup with children,
I would be concerned right now. I'll be concerned right now.
And that's something we should not normalize and it should
not be accepted, and I'm not willing to accept it.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
What is our Tom Homan promises major ice raids in
New York before Mom Donnie has sworn in, So we're
gonna be coming new We're already there now, I mean
teams are there now. But were increasing the enforcement president
in New York City again because our sanctuary city and
we know we have an issue. There are public state
to trust sit in the street. Every time new information
uncovered about Thomas Crooks, the young man who tried to
(03:14):
assassinate President Trump and Butler Pennsylvania, information that the FBI
hid from us.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Now we find out from a source that there is
actually voluminous material that gives us an inkling about the
trajectory that Thomas Crooks took to become a twenty year
old assassin. And it's not what the FBI had told.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Us, No, not at all. We'll have more on that
in the eight o'clock hour. That's Miranda Devine from the
New York Post, who broke the story of crooks hidden
online posts. She and others are calling now for a
new investigation in civil New Jersey. Investigation continues, and what
started a fire that destroyed three Row homes right before Thanksgiving?
(03:59):
Leaving a little girl in tears?
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Yesterday I was crying so much because you know, I
lost everything. I don't have time to go with anything,
and I'm crying so much, and my little Brodd was,
It's okay, It's okay, your life.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
The community is coming together to try to raise money
for the three families that were affected. In Center Reached,
Suffolk County. A grinch has stolen huge Christmas decorations from
a home twice in one week. Ray Oldegan puts a
huge display up every year for the neighbors and his
two little girls.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, just just all are people. Some people that do
bad stuff. They look forward to Daddy. We can put
up the head of already for the holidays, and then
this guy just steals for I don't know what you
can do about it, but come on, it's for kids.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And here's what I want to talk about to start off,
because my wife and I got into a huge discussion
about this because we're both journalists. ABC's Mary Bruce raising
the ire of President Trump by asking the Crown Prince
of Saudi Arabia about the murder of Washington Post journalist
Jamal Kashogi as the first question.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
The US Intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder
of a journalist, not eleven families are furious that you
are here.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
In the oblongist who watched the Americans?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Who you were?
Speaker 6 (05:20):
And the same team as who you were?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
I'm an ABC NEWSIR with who ABC newsir.
Speaker 8 (05:24):
Fake news, ABC fakeness, one of the worst, one of
the worst in the.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Business, right And he wasn't done with her. After some questioning,
he went back at Mary Bruce, Mister.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
President, why a week for Congress to release the Epstein files?
Speaker 8 (05:38):
Why not just do it? Now, well, it's not the
question that I mind, it's your attitude. I think you
are a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions.
You start off with a man who's highly respected asking
him a horrible, insubordinate and just a terrible question. And
(05:59):
you could even ask same exact question nicely. You're all psyched.
Somebody psyches you over at ABC. You gonna psych it.
You're a terrible person and a terrible reporter.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
See now, I'd love to know what you feel about this.
You can go to the iHeartRadio app and leave us
a talk back. You could win a limited edition Minty
in the Morning t shirt which you'll be awarded every
day to our favorite talk back of the morning. And
then if, by the way, if you get the talk
back of the week, you get a Sea Crane radio.
Seacrane radios deliver the reception and clarity you deserve. Here's
(06:32):
the argument that ensued in our house. My wife Don,
who is also a talk show host down in Philadelphia,
thought that the way she asked the question was mean
and that she deserved that, and I shot back said
I didn't think she was mean at all. Look, it
(06:53):
is tough as a reporter, and I've been there hundreds
of times to have to be at a news conference
and ask a tough question. But it's your job. That's
what separates this country from all the other countries in
the world. It is your job. And I watched Mary
(07:14):
Bruce and I didn't think she was out of line
at all, not in the least. Now it's a tough
question for the Crown Prince to get when he makes
his first visit to the United States, but she is
absolutely correct in her questioning. There is our intelligence believes
(07:36):
he was behind the killing of the journalist Jamal Koshogi
from the Washington Post. There's no question about that. She
was factually accurate. But I'll tell you what, I don't
think anyone was out of line. The president had to
do what he did. The president is trying to make
(07:58):
a deal with Saudi Arabia. The president, it isn't one
that allows global morality to get in the way of
a good deal. He's He's of the opinion you keep
your friends close and your enemies closer. That wasn't the
case in the past under the Biden administration. There's some
(08:20):
actors in the world that he would not talk to
or negotiate with I think that's a horrible strategy. So
Donald Trump was doing that specifically for Koshogi. And here's
a surprising thing. I don't think Koshogi was out of line.
He actually answered the question. I don't think he told
the truth, but he actually answered the question and didn't
(08:42):
get upset. So I saw nothing wrong with the three
of them or her follow up question. I didn't find
anything wrong with that, And I think, deep down and
tell you the truth, if you get Donald Trump in
a back room when he's not in front of a microphone,
he would admit it too. He would admit that that
was a good question, and then he would say I
(09:02):
had to do what I did. And so I know
that a lot of you are going to disagree with
me on this because you just you know, don't like
the media, and I agree with you that the media
is biased. I'm not sure either of those questions were biased.
To tell you the truth, I thought they were really
good questions, and so I may I hadn't argue with
(09:25):
my wife about this. I might have arguments today with
you about this, But being in that position and listening
to her questions very carefully, there she was not out
of line. I think that there's members of the media
that are way out of line. I think that there's
members of the media, and maybe Donald Trump has a
(09:45):
trigger sensitivity to it because he's had to deal with
this in the past, like Jim Acosta, who is just
a showboat from CNN. So yeah, there are some there
are some out of bound questions, and I'm sure he's
hypercent to it, but that wasn't one of them. I
know you're gonna hear some different things on conservative radio,
(10:08):
and you're gonna hear some different things on conservative television,
but many of the people you're gonna hear from have
never been in that position. For I've been in that position.
That's a tough thing to do, and I thought she
handled it really well. If you are a coin collector
and you like the group Queen, You're gonna love Our
Next Story and the Country music nominations are out. Plus
(10:29):
tickets to see air Supply at a twenty five
Get shy Mandy In the morning on seven to ten
wat the Voice of New York and good morning to you, Natalie.
When you came in, was this drizzling still? Was there
any rain at all? Because when I came in, it
was just like spitting a little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, it was spitting on me too. Although when I
left my house this morning, I thought I might have
seen a snowflake or two. As soon as we got
to the city, it was all gone.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It was just rain.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
You're like, you have a sixth sense. You see snowflakes
when other people don't see snowflakes.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
No, no, no, that's not true. I just happened to
live in that northwest of two eighty of eighty. Yeah,
north west of eighty, and you always get the snow.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I still remember the time when the flakes were here
out here and I couldn't see them.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
That's yeah, you did not.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Which means I have a problem. I have a sight problem. Anyway,
we're having this conversation because it is a little out there,
and so just remember to bring an umbrella because I
forgot one and I had to go and it wasn't pouring.
Just again, it's a horrible term, but it was just
spitting just a little bit, and so you don't want
(01:12):
that on you, So go ahead and bring an umbrella today.
In the big three Congress votes to release the Epstein
files pass, passing both the House and the Senate in
one long day.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
There's no reason it can't be on the President's desk
in an hour.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Second, the President has to sign it. You never know,
with him said.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
He would, let's wait and see. But third, we have
to make sure that the whole all of the documents
are released.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'm not sure the Democrats want that as much as
they think they want that. There's a lot of Democrats
allegedly in those Epstein files, and poor Chuck Schumer right there,
just grasping for relevance before the party ouse to him.
Zorin mom Danni, the socialist mayor elect who once ran
on making the city more affordable for struggling New Yorkers
(02:01):
and he wants to give them more money and more
free stuff, still needs more money from those struggling New
Yorkers for his transition.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
I hope very soon not to have to ask you
for money, But until then, I'm asking for you to
go to Transition twenty twenty five dot Com and give
whatever you can to help with the New York that
everyone can afford me. This is your city and I
can't wait to get to work.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, that's what he put out on social media. He
wants four million dollars for his transition. Mayor Adams wraps
up his trip to Israel and is now on to Zbekistan.
But New York and the mayor elect is always on
his mind.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
If I was a Jewish New York cup with children,
I would be concerned right now. I'll be concerned right now.
And that's something we should not normalize and it should
not be accepted, and I'm not willing to accept it.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
What is our Tom Homan promises major ice raids in
New York before Mom Donnie has sworn in, So we're
gonna be coming new We're already there now, I mean
teams are there now. But were increasing the enforcement president
in New York City again because our sanctuary city and
we know we have an issue. There are public state
to trust sit in the street. Every time new information
uncovered about Thomas Crooks, the young man who tried to
(03:14):
assassinate President Trump and Butler Pennsylvania, information that the FBI
hid from us.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Now we find out from a source that there is
actually voluminous material that gives us an inkling about the
trajectory that Thomas Crooks took to become a twenty year
old assassin. And it's not what the FBI had told.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Us, No, not at all. We'll have more on that
in the eight o'clock hour. That's Miranda Devine from the
New York Post, who broke the story of crooks hidden
online posts. She and others are calling now for a
new investigation in civil New Jersey. Investigation continues, and what
started a fire that destroyed three Row homes right before Thanksgiving?
(03:59):
Leaving a little girl in tears?
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Yesterday I was crying so much because you know, I
lost everything. I don't have time to go with anything,
and I'm crying so much, and my little Brodd was,
It's okay, It's okay, your life.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
The community is coming together to try to raise money
for the three families that were affected. In Center Reached,
Suffolk County. A grinch has stolen huge Christmas decorations from
a home twice in one week. Ray Oldegan puts a
huge display up every year for the neighbors and his
two little girls.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, just just all are people. Some people that do
bad stuff. They look forward to Daddy. We can put
up the head of already for the holidays, and then
this guy just steals for I don't know what you
can do about it, but come on, it's for kids.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And here's what I want to talk about to start off,
because my wife and I got into a huge discussion
about this because we're both journalists. ABC's Mary Bruce raising
the ire of President Trump by asking the Crown Prince
of Saudi Arabia about the murder of Washington Post journalist
Jamal Kashogi as the first question.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
The US Intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder
of a journalist, not eleven families are furious that you
are here.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
In the oblongist who watched the Americans?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Who you were?
Speaker 6 (05:20):
And the same team as who you were?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
I'm an ABC NEWSIR with who ABC newsir.
Speaker 8 (05:24):
Fake news, ABC fakeness, one of the worst, one of
the worst in the.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Business, right And he wasn't done with her. After some questioning,
he went back at Mary Bruce, Mister.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
President, why a week for Congress to release the Epstein files?
Speaker 8 (05:38):
Why not just do it? Now, well, it's not the
question that I mind, it's your attitude. I think you
are a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions.
You start off with a man who's highly respected asking
him a horrible, insubordinate and just a terrible question. And
(05:59):
you could even ask same exact question nicely. You're all psyched.
Somebody psyches you over at ABC. You gonna psych it.
You're a terrible person and a terrible reporter.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
See now, I'd love to know what you feel about this.
You can go to the iHeartRadio app and leave us
a talk back. You could win a limited edition Minty
in the Morning t shirt which you'll be awarded every
day to our favorite talk back of the morning. And
then if, by the way, if you get the talk
back of the week, you get a Sea Crane radio.
Seacrane radios deliver the reception and clarity you deserve. Here's
(06:32):
the argument that ensued in our house. My wife Don,
who is also a talk show host down in Philadelphia,
thought that the way she asked the question was mean
and that she deserved that, and I shot back said
I didn't think she was mean at all. Look, it
(06:53):
is tough as a reporter, and I've been there hundreds
of times to have to be at a news conference
and ask a tough question. But it's your job. That's
what separates this country from all the other countries in
the world. It is your job. And I watched Mary
(07:14):
Bruce and I didn't think she was out of line
at all, not in the least. Now it's a tough
question for the Crown Prince to get when he makes
his first visit to the United States, but she is
absolutely correct in her questioning. There is our intelligence believes
(07:36):
he was behind the killing of the journalist Jamal Koshogi
from the Washington Post. There's no question about that. She
was factually accurate. But I'll tell you what, I don't
think anyone was out of line. The president had to
do what he did. The president is trying to make
(07:58):
a deal with Saudi Arabia. The president, it isn't one
that allows global morality to get in the way of
a good deal. He's He's of the opinion you keep
your friends close and your enemies closer. That wasn't the
case in the past under the Biden administration. There's some
(08:20):
actors in the world that he would not talk to
or negotiate with I think that's a horrible strategy. So
Donald Trump was doing that specifically for Koshogi. And here's
a surprising thing. I don't think Koshogi was out of line.
He actually answered the question. I don't think he told
the truth, but he actually answered the question and didn't
(08:42):
get upset. So I saw nothing wrong with the three
of them or her follow up question. I didn't find
anything wrong with that, And I think, deep down and
tell you the truth, if you get Donald Trump in
a back room when he's not in front of a microphone,
he would admit it too. He would admit that that
was a good question, and then he would say I
(09:02):
had to do what I did. And so I know
that a lot of you are going to disagree with
me on this because you just you know, don't like
the media, and I agree with you that the media
is biased. I'm not sure either of those questions were biased.
To tell you the truth, I thought they were really
good questions, and so I may I hadn't argue with
(09:25):
my wife about this. I might have arguments today with
you about this, But being in that position and listening
to her questions very carefully, there she was not out
of line. I think that there's members of the media
that are way out of line. I think that there's
members of the media, and maybe Donald Trump has a
(09:45):
trigger sensitivity to it because he's had to deal with
this in the past, like Jim Acosta, who is just
a showboat from CNN. So yeah, there are some there
are some out of bound questions, and I'm sure he's
hypercent to it, but that wasn't one of them. I
know you're gonna hear some different things on conservative radio,
(10:08):
and you're gonna hear some different things on conservative television,
but many of the people you're gonna hear from have
never been in that position. For I've been in that position.
That's a tough thing to do, and I thought she
handled it really well. If you are a coin collector
and you like the group Queen, You're gonna love Our
Next Story and the Country music nominations are out. Plus
(10:29):
tickets to see air Supply at a twenty five
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