December 3, 2025 • 10 mins
Larry Mendte goes over the biggest news stories of the day including the results of two big special elections in Jersey City and a Tennessee Congressional seat, Zohran Mamdani meeting with Eric Adams at Gracie Mansion, and Pete Hegseth not backing down in the face of controversy following the boat strikes in Venezuela.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here comes Minty in the morning. Halfway through the week.
Is it today any kind of a special day? Because
it seemed like every single day has been something, right.
I mean yesterday, what was it? It was travel Tuesday,
and the day before that was a cyber Monday, and
(00:23):
then we had Black Friday. What's Wednesday?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
You know what Wednesday is?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
What? It's tree lighting day?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Oh that's yeah, that's why it's special.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Yeah, that's special. But I meant like a big national thing.
Is it? Is it like Giving Wednesday or something like that?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It was Tuesday?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Oh, they they honed in the travel people honed in
on the charity. Nice because it was also travel Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Right, No, it was Giving Tuesday yesterday, So wlacky Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Haluky Wednesday. I'm sure something. But tree lighting is a
good one. You're the tree was lit in the big three,
two big special elections. Jersey City, the second largest city
in New Jersey, has a new mayor. I believe in
the people of Jersey City today. He's as to the
(01:19):
entire state of New Jersey. Yeah, Councilman James Solomon. He's
the new mayor. Jim McGreevy. He was very gracious in
saying thank you, but he looked upset when he left this.
This will probably no, it will be the end of
(01:39):
his political career. He tried so hard for this comeback.
We'll talk about it later in the show. But he
has been building for this moment and now it's not
gonna happen for him. And in Tennessee, a special election
for a congressional seat, in what was supposed to be
a razor close race for the house seat that uh,
(02:01):
CNBC and NBC and everybody have CNN, they were all saying, oh,
this this is the one to watch. It's gonna be
razor close. Uh, it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Well.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Hello Tennessee, what a night, what a night. We we
did it. 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 5 (02:30):
Trump.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Right. This was a big one for Donald Trump. He
came out heavy and so Van Epps ran with Trump
two uh, and he won by All were saying it
was gonna be one, two, three points. He won by
nine points, so it was it was almost double digits.
And the Republicans are all breathing a sigh of relief.
The Democrats put a fortune into this race, millions and
(02:56):
millions of dollars. But Republican Matt Van Epps is now
a new Congressman, and Aten Ben, another socialist, is going
away now. We'll probably won't hear much from her from
now on because she got beat a lot more than
anybody thought. The race scene is an important bell weather,
by the way, for the midterm election, so Republicans are
(03:20):
breathing a sigh of relief, especially after the off year elections.
In New York, the incoming mayor Zorn Mam Dannie meets
with the outgoing Mayor Eric Adams at Gracie Mansion. Is
the working man socialist going to live in that mansion?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
That is the decision I haven't yet made. 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
appreciated the work of his staff and ensuring that it
continues to be smooth.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
It was raining that was his umbrella, that noise that
wasn't static, that was actually it was raining, and that's
what you heard hitting the umbrella. That's going to be
an interesting decision for him whether he's going to live
at Gracie Mansion. Secretary of War Pete Hegseeth doesn't back
down amidst a controversy about the second air strike on
a boat that was already crippled in the Caribbean.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
I watched that first strike life. As you can imagine,
at the Department of War, we got a lot of
things to do, so I didn't stick around for the
hour and two hours whatever where all the sensitive side
exploitation digitally occurs. So I moved on to my next meeting.
A couple of hours later, I learned that that commander
had made the which he had the complete authority to do.
And by the way, Admiral Bradley made the correct decision
(04:38):
to ultimately sink the boat and.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Eliminate the threat. Right so, and everybody is saying now
that no, he wasn't in the room, and he did
tell Admiral Bradley that you know you have might consent,
you know you're in charge right now. But man again,
once again, not only is the Washington Post embarrassed by
(05:00):
this because their story, their big story, was so wrong.
But the Democrats were calling for war crimes on this.
It will talk more about this coming up, but this
is just embarrassing for them once again. The terrorists who
killed a National Guard member and wounded another in Washington,
d C appeared in court on video from his bed
(05:21):
in the hospital. It was a conference call to plead
not guilty to charges of terrorism and murder, and more
charges may be coming.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
We are pursuing everything. There is nothing off the table
right now. This is an individual about whom we don't
know a lot, but we will trust me for it's over.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Wait a second. They should know everything about him, shouldn't they.
I mean, he was so properly vetted. Remember, we should
know everything about him. How do they Why do they
have to search for information at this point because we
werelied to. He wasn't vetted, and that's what people have
been saying all along. There was no vetting. There's no
records in Afghanistan of him. And crazy Tim Walls, the
(06:05):
governor of Minnesota and the failed Democratic Vice president nominee,
is responsible for a billion dollars in fraud under his watch.
Most of the fraud from Somalian immigrants that Waltz welcomed in.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Al Shabab controls all the financial infrastructure in Somalia. That's right,
This money has gone back to Somalia. Ergo. Common sense
would tell you that millions of dollars taxpayer dollars from
Minnesotans has gone to terrace known as Al Shabab in Somalia.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Now Trump has announced the new Trump Accounts. One thousand
dollars is going to be put into the accounts of
babies born after January to lower or middle class families
and can be withdrawn when they are ready for college.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
Trump Accounts will be the first I guess you could
say real trust funds for every American child, allowing family members, employers, corporations,
generous donors to contribute money that will be invested and
grow over the course of a child's life to be
used for their benefit after they turn eighteen.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
We should mention that philanthropists Steven and Susan Dell are
also contributing six billion dollars for all of the children
not born after January twenty five, So they're putting two
hundred and fifty dollars into accounts for children up to
ten years old by January twenty twenty five, So that'll
(07:36):
cover the all the way back to twenty fifteen. You
get two hundred and fifty dollars in your account. How
great was that though, that they that they gave all
that money. How great would it would be to have
six point two billion dollars laying around that you're able
to contribute in a fund? And most of us got rain,
but some people, some people got their first snowfall of
(08:00):
the season, and they couldn't be happier.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
It snows a lot more here than it didn't Wane.
But I'll put up with it because it's just such
a nice area to live in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
How about that. Aren't you in that area?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I am. We had snow yesterday.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
How much snow?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Not much? I saw the town nextus reported just under
an inch, but honestly it turned to slush so fast.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I don't know if you ever really got to see
the inch. Yeah, they were complaining about the kind of
snow it was. It was like that wet, yeah, yucky snow.
But I guess when you go upstate in New York,
even to Orange County, they got to then pools were closed,
kids were off.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
And they were saying, hey, people who aren't going to
go skiing this weekend. It's a you know, a nice
addition because you got some fresh snow, which you know
you usually don't have this early in the season.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
You know that pre made snow. Yeah right, I was.
I don't know if you caught it when I was
talking to raced Age of yesterday and talking about a
winter forecast, and I said, do not the TV stations
we had meteorologists do, especially at the beginning of sweeps,
the big winter forecast, and you promoted it like hell
because weather, by the way, in case people don't know
(09:11):
when they when they do surveys about what you why
you watch local news far and away, it's the weather.
It's like eighty five percent of the people say that's
the most important thing, and so we promote weather. But
raced Age of Gifts today was being extremely diplomatic. They
(09:32):
are not any good those winter forecasts. Oh that's all
made up. Thing.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Well he even said, you know, he doesn't like to
do predictions that, you know, seasonal predictions, I think he
called it. But the hurricane season, which everybody was predicting
was gonna be you know slightly active. Was pretty quiet
this year.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Oh no, they were, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I mean, obviously there was a terrible thing that happened
in Jamaica, but the people in Florida went whoa.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah through this one. It was like that storm and
then that was it. Nothing else really hit land, and
there was a lot of threats, but nothing hit land.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I guess this is in a news flash. Whether people
are wrong a lot, you know what? You know what else.
By the way, while we're on it, the ten day
forecast is no good at all. Just don't ignore it.
One two days. That's it. Go to the iHeartRadio app.
Leave us a talkback. You could win a limited edition
MENTI in the Morning t shirt which is going to
(10:29):
be awarded each day to our favorite talk back of
the morning, and of course, the talk back of the
week gets a Sea Crane radio. Seacrane Radios deliver the
reception and clarity you deserve. Kids today aren't just getting
pocket change, They're cashing in big time. Why do you
hear what they're blowing it on? Find out next plus
(10:49):
tickets to see the Trans Siberian Orchestra at a twenty
five
Here comes Minty in the morning. Halfway through the week.
Is it today any kind of a special day? Because
it seemed like every single day has been something, right.
I mean yesterday, what was it? It was travel Tuesday,
and the day before that was a cyber Monday, and
(00:23):
then we had Black Friday. What's Wednesday?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
You know what Wednesday is?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
What? It's tree lighting day?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Oh that's yeah, that's why it's special.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Yeah, that's special. But I meant like a big national thing.
Is it? Is it like Giving Wednesday or something like that?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It was Tuesday?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Oh, they they honed in the travel people honed in
on the charity. Nice because it was also travel Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Right, No, it was Giving Tuesday yesterday, So wlacky Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Haluky Wednesday. I'm sure something. But tree lighting is a
good one. You're the tree was lit in the big three,
two big special elections. Jersey City, the second largest city
in New Jersey, has a new mayor. I believe in
the people of Jersey City today. He's as to the
(01:19):
entire state of New Jersey. Yeah, Councilman James Solomon. He's
the new mayor. Jim McGreevy. He was very gracious in
saying thank you, but he looked upset when he left this.
This will probably no, it will be the end of
(01:39):
his political career. He tried so hard for this comeback.
We'll talk about it later in the show. But he
has been building for this moment and now it's not
gonna happen for him. And in Tennessee, a special election
for a congressional seat, in what was supposed to be
a razor close race for the house seat that uh,
(02:01):
CNBC and NBC and everybody have CNN, they were all saying, oh,
this this is the one to watch. It's gonna be
razor close. Uh, it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Well.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Hello Tennessee, what a night, what a night. We we
did it. 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 5 (02:30):
Trump.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Right. This was a big one for Donald Trump. He
came out heavy and so Van Epps ran with Trump
two uh, and he won by All were saying it
was gonna be one, two, three points. He won by
nine points, so it was it was almost double digits.
And the Republicans are all breathing a sigh of relief.
The Democrats put a fortune into this race, millions and
(02:56):
millions of dollars. But Republican Matt Van Epps is now
a new Congressman, and Aten Ben, another socialist, is going
away now. We'll probably won't hear much from her from
now on because she got beat a lot more than
anybody thought. The race scene is an important bell weather,
by the way, for the midterm election, so Republicans are
(03:20):
breathing a sigh of relief, especially after the off year elections.
In New York, the incoming mayor Zorn Mam Dannie meets
with the outgoing Mayor Eric Adams at Gracie Mansion. Is
the working man socialist going to live in that mansion?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
That is the decision I haven't yet made. 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
appreciated the work of his staff and ensuring that it
continues to be smooth.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
It was raining that was his umbrella, that noise that
wasn't static, that was actually it was raining, and that's
what you heard hitting the umbrella. That's going to be
an interesting decision for him whether he's going to live
at Gracie Mansion. Secretary of War Pete Hegseeth doesn't back
down amidst a controversy about the second air strike on
a boat that was already crippled in the Caribbean.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
I watched that first strike life. As you can imagine,
at the Department of War, we got a lot of
things to do, so I didn't stick around for the
hour and two hours whatever where all the sensitive side
exploitation digitally occurs. So I moved on to my next meeting.
A couple of hours later, I learned that that commander
had made the which he had the complete authority to do.
And by the way, Admiral Bradley made the correct decision
(04:38):
to ultimately sink the boat and.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Eliminate the threat. Right so, and everybody is saying now
that no, he wasn't in the room, and he did
tell Admiral Bradley that you know you have might consent,
you know you're in charge right now. But man again,
once again, not only is the Washington Post embarrassed by
(05:00):
this because their story, their big story, was so wrong.
But the Democrats were calling for war crimes on this.
It will talk more about this coming up, but this
is just embarrassing for them once again. The terrorists who
killed a National Guard member and wounded another in Washington,
d C appeared in court on video from his bed
(05:21):
in the hospital. It was a conference call to plead
not guilty to charges of terrorism and murder, and more
charges may be coming.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
We are pursuing everything. There is nothing off the table
right now. This is an individual about whom we don't
know a lot, but we will trust me for it's over.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Wait a second. They should know everything about him, shouldn't they.
I mean, he was so properly vetted. Remember, we should
know everything about him. How do they Why do they
have to search for information at this point because we
werelied to. He wasn't vetted, and that's what people have
been saying all along. There was no vetting. There's no
records in Afghanistan of him. And crazy Tim Walls, the
(06:05):
governor of Minnesota and the failed Democratic Vice president nominee,
is responsible for a billion dollars in fraud under his watch.
Most of the fraud from Somalian immigrants that Waltz welcomed in.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Al Shabab controls all the financial infrastructure in Somalia. That's right,
This money has gone back to Somalia. Ergo. Common sense
would tell you that millions of dollars taxpayer dollars from
Minnesotans has gone to terrace known as Al Shabab in Somalia.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Now Trump has announced the new Trump Accounts. One thousand
dollars is going to be put into the accounts of
babies born after January to lower or middle class families
and can be withdrawn when they are ready for college.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
Trump Accounts will be the first I guess you could
say real trust funds for every American child, allowing family members, employers, corporations,
generous donors to contribute money that will be invested and
grow over the course of a child's life to be
used for their benefit after they turn eighteen.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
We should mention that philanthropists Steven and Susan Dell are
also contributing six billion dollars for all of the children
not born after January twenty five, So they're putting two
hundred and fifty dollars into accounts for children up to
ten years old by January twenty twenty five, So that'll
(07:36):
cover the all the way back to twenty fifteen. You
get two hundred and fifty dollars in your account. How
great was that though, that they that they gave all
that money. How great would it would be to have
six point two billion dollars laying around that you're able
to contribute in a fund? And most of us got rain,
but some people, some people got their first snowfall of
(08:00):
the season, and they couldn't be happier.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
It snows a lot more here than it didn't Wane.
But I'll put up with it because it's just such
a nice area to live in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
How about that. Aren't you in that area?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I am. We had snow yesterday.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
How much snow?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Not much? I saw the town nextus reported just under
an inch, but honestly it turned to slush so fast.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I don't know if you ever really got to see
the inch. Yeah, they were complaining about the kind of
snow it was. It was like that wet, yeah, yucky snow.
But I guess when you go upstate in New York,
even to Orange County, they got to then pools were closed,
kids were off.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
And they were saying, hey, people who aren't going to
go skiing this weekend. It's a you know, a nice
addition because you got some fresh snow, which you know
you usually don't have this early in the season.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
You know that pre made snow. Yeah right, I was.
I don't know if you caught it when I was
talking to raced Age of yesterday and talking about a
winter forecast, and I said, do not the TV stations
we had meteorologists do, especially at the beginning of sweeps,
the big winter forecast, and you promoted it like hell
because weather, by the way, in case people don't know
(09:11):
when they when they do surveys about what you why
you watch local news far and away, it's the weather.
It's like eighty five percent of the people say that's
the most important thing, and so we promote weather. But
raced Age of Gifts today was being extremely diplomatic. They
(09:32):
are not any good those winter forecasts. Oh that's all
made up. Thing.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Well he even said, you know, he doesn't like to
do predictions that, you know, seasonal predictions, I think he
called it. But the hurricane season, which everybody was predicting
was gonna be you know slightly active. Was pretty quiet
this year.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Oh no, they were, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I mean, obviously there was a terrible thing that happened
in Jamaica, but the people in Florida went whoa.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah through this one. It was like that storm and
then that was it. Nothing else really hit land, and
there was a lot of threats, but nothing hit land.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I guess this is in a news flash. Whether people
are wrong a lot, you know what? You know what else.
By the way, while we're on it, the ten day
forecast is no good at all. Just don't ignore it.
One two days. That's it. Go to the iHeartRadio app.
Leave us a talkback. You could win a limited edition
MENTI in the Morning t shirt which is going to
(10:29):
be awarded each day to our favorite talk back of
the morning, and of course, the talk back of the
week gets a Sea Crane radio. Seacrane Radios deliver the
reception and clarity you deserve. Kids today aren't just getting
pocket change, They're cashing in big time. Why do you
hear what they're blowing it on? Find out next plus
(10:49):
tickets to see the Trans Siberian Orchestra at a twenty
five
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