December 9, 2025 • 10 mins
Larry Mendte goes over the biggest stories of the day including Bruce Blakeman reportedly getting set to announce his run for NY Governor, Zohran Mamdani deciding to move into Gracie Mansion once he is officially in office next year, and Alina Habba resigning as US Attorney in NJ after an appellate court ruled she was disqualified for the job.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yes, they were meant to be each time for Minty
in the morning, Verry Minty on seventen wo.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
R tell you what.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I have no idea what race Stagic was talking about yesterday.
Remember he was laughing us off, saying, oh, it's not
that cold, you're just all whimps. It's cold. It is
really cold.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Man.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I was freezing today and I kept thinking of race
Stagic and not saying nice things about him as I
was walking. Wow, I'm not crazy, right, I mean it
was really it was. It was bone chilling, bitter. Bitter, yeah, exactly.
Bitter's the best word for it. Went right for your clothes, like, it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Didn't matter what you were wearing.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
It was, man, And yesterday Race Stage I kept saying
to us, own, no, no, no, it's not going to
be that cold. They're like you silly people.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
He said chilly at one point, Chili, you have to he's.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
A big he's a big snow bunny. That's true. That's true.
So this is like nothing to him. But he has
to think of the people he's talking to.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Like me.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Wow, I went out thinking, oh you know, Ray said,
is not that gold, It's not that bad?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Oh my god, we do we got to hit him back.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I have a feeling we're in for a long winter.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Oh no, that said yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Tell me he wasn't pooh poohing every forecast about it
being freezing. He was, you know, because he's made of
stronger stuff. Yes, in the Big three. NASA County Executive
Bruce Blakeman just won re election and today he is
going to announce that he is going to run to
be the Republican nominee to take on Governor Kathy Hoche
(01:50):
in the fall, even though Congresswoman Elis Stephonic is already
in the race.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
We don't have coronations in our party. We're not like
the Democrat party that had a coronation for Kamala Harris.
How did that work out for the Democrats? Competition is
a good thing.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
The Socialist is going to live in a mansion Socialists
or in mom Donnie has decided that he will live
in Gracie Mansion after all. The reason because he needs
the extra security.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I get threats on my life.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
It makes sense that he's moving to where all the
mayors live historically, but I don't doubt where his loyalties life.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, he's lived in a mansion his entire life. This
is what he's used to. He just pretends to not
have a lot of money. He just pretends to be poor. Wow,
everybody falls for his act. Elina Habba has resigned as
US Attorney in New Jersey after an appellate court ruled
(02:47):
she was disqualified for the role. This started when New
Jersey's two Democratic senators withheld their approval through a system
called blue slip approval.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You've got a blue sling. That's horrible. It's a horrible thing.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
It makes it impossible to appoint the judge or US attorney.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And it's a shame.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And the Republicans should be ashamed of themselves that they.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Allow us to go on because I can't appoint a
US attorney that's not a Democrat.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Here's the thing. The blue slip isn't in the law.
It's never been legislated. There's no statute. It is just
a senatorial courtesy. And so the blue slip is something
that the chairman of the committee sends to the senators
to say, do you approve of this person?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Right up? What you think?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
If they don't send it back or they write negative
things as a courtesy, the judicial appointment. The US attorney
appointment is just negated. That's it. That's all it takes
is the one person now in New Jersey with Lena Haba.
It was a strategy well after the confirmation, all of
(03:57):
a sudden, well after she was put into office, I
should say, there was no confirmation. Senator Booker and Senator
Kim both turned in negative blue slips. And that's why
she's out, not because of a vote, not because of
any judicial action other than them withholding the blue slip. Wow,
(04:20):
he's President Trump is absolutely right. We need to get
rid of that. The pre trial hearing of Luigi Manngione
drags on much longer than most evidentiary hearings.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
That's exactly right, that's exactly what it is. It's a
mini trial and we're on witness number seven. I think
of twenty five, twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Twenty seven, there's going to be twenty seven witnesses and
this is already dragged on a week. My feeling is
the defense sees this, as the trial sees this is
so important keeping some of the evidence out, especially what
was found in the Altoona McDonald's that they're putting all
this time in mind into the evidentiary healing hearings. Well,
(05:04):
if Congress doesn't act to fix the healthcare system as
they promised they would do after the shutdown, Now that
the Affordable Care Act is about to expire, state healthcare
systems and patients will feel the effect.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Any effects of increasing insurance premiums and so forth not
only have a profound effect on patients itself, it's also
the healthcare system and also the healthcare workers itself.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah, they got to do some negotiations as they promised
they were going to do. They said before Obamacare expires,
they were going to fix this.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Where are they?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
The Minnesota fraud case continues to grow. Members of the
state's large some million immigrant community defrauded the federal government
of a billion dollars. As Governor Tim Walls well, he
just looked the other way. We believe that the Somali
fraud operation in Minnesota is the single greatest theft of
taxpayer dollars through welfare fraud in American history. Well, the
(06:02):
Democrats refuse to admit defeat on the Bogus Narco terrorist
boat strike controversy. They are now pushing for the video
to be made public.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
I've spent years looking at videos of lethal action taken
often in the terrorism context, and this video was profoundly shaking, shaken,
and I think it's important for Americans to see it.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
And how about that crazy Jasmine Crockett, the congressman from Texas.
She's thinks she's so popular that she's going to run
for the Senate, trying to unsee powerful Republican Texas Senator
John Cronin.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
There are a lot of people that say it, you've
got to stay in the House. We need our voice,
we need you there, and I understand, but what we
need is for me to have a bigger voice.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah, it's not going to happen. Here's what's really going on.
Remember the read disc in Texas. Her seat was one
of those redistricted. She is not going to win re
election as a congressman, so she might as well go
out with a bang. And so God bless her. She's
not going to beat John Cronin. She's gonna get it's
gonna be a route and Trump make America Healthy Again
(07:18):
movement is now taking aim at the nation's airports. Airports
can get federal money to pay for a number of
projects to make those airports more family and fitness friendly.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
It might be I want to expand the play areas
for kids. I want additional nursing pods for nursing mothers.
Maybe I want to workout area where people might get
some blood flow and doing some pull ups or some
step ups.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Are you laughing, I'm just thinking of people doing pull
ups at the airport.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I'm thinking. Here's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking, I'm gonna
get rid of my gym membership and just go to
Newark Airport on the way home.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Did you see them yesterday?
Speaker 9 (08:07):
By the way, chance I did not so so it
was our FK and it was Secretary Duffy And they
were at JFK where they now have pull ups so
you can do pull ups while you're waiting for it.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
It's just so funny to me.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I'm not sure why.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
But and they both had a contest.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Oh great, we won.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I think they tied.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I think they both did eight, which is pretty look it,
I'm not gonna make fun of that.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I can't make it to eight right.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Now, so see, I mean, there's nothing wrong with this,
But I'm just hoping I'm never in the airport long
enough to actually have to have a workout. Done, you know,
like I want to get in, I want to get
on my plane, I want to leave. I don't want
to be there ten hours, so I have to do
a workout.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Well, that's that's proble.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
That's what I thought of right away when I heard
it happening. I thought to myself, Wait a second, do
they know something we don't. Are the flights going to
take a lot longer? Are we going to be waiting
at the airport a lot more now?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Susdays a try.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I've walked.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I've definitely because there's a lot of walking space at
an airport, and I've gotten up and walked around, just
knowing that you're going to be sitting down on a
plane for a long period of time. I've also been
in airports where I've seen the kids playgrounds, which is
great because you know, the kids need something to do.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
But I just looked at it and thought, germfest. You know.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I looked at that playground and thought, who wiped it down?
My kids are gonna have switch all over their hands.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Oh, it was hard for.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Me to look at it. Here's the other thing they
said yesterday when they were talking about the airports, and
they talked about the food, and I disagree with this.
Speaker 10 (09:37):
I fly typically over the past thirty years, probably average
two hundred and fifty days a year in airports, and
I can tell you who this is where healthy diets.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Go to die. I don't agree at all.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I think the food's pretty good in the airports and
there's a big selection. I mean, if you want, if
you want this, the food.
Speaker 10 (09:59):
Is a over the airport. A lot of it tastes
very good. It is not very good for you. It's
deep fried food, sugar bombs.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Oh, it doesn't have to be.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
It doesn't have to be and I know have to break.
But it's also once again it's one meal. I'm having there.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
One meal. Oh, but you don't have to have a
sugary thing. You can have a salt.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
They have salads there, sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
This is getting silly. I like the workout thing though.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
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where plus tickets to see the Rascals Rock in the
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Yes, they were meant to be each time for Minty
in the morning, Verry Minty on seventen wo.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
R tell you what.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I have no idea what race Stagic was talking about yesterday.
Remember he was laughing us off, saying, oh, it's not
that cold, you're just all whimps. It's cold. It is
really cold.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Man.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I was freezing today and I kept thinking of race
Stagic and not saying nice things about him as I
was walking. Wow, I'm not crazy, right, I mean it
was really it was. It was bone chilling, bitter. Bitter, yeah, exactly.
Bitter's the best word for it. Went right for your clothes, like, it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Didn't matter what you were wearing.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
It was, man, And yesterday Race Stage I kept saying
to us, own, no, no, no, it's not going to
be that cold. They're like you silly people.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
He said chilly at one point, Chili, you have to he's.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
A big he's a big snow bunny. That's true. That's true.
So this is like nothing to him. But he has
to think of the people he's talking to.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Like me.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Wow, I went out thinking, oh you know, Ray said,
is not that gold, It's not that bad?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Oh my god, we do we got to hit him back.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I have a feeling we're in for a long winter.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Oh no, that said yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Tell me he wasn't pooh poohing every forecast about it
being freezing. He was, you know, because he's made of
stronger stuff. Yes, in the Big three. NASA County Executive
Bruce Blakeman just won re election and today he is
going to announce that he is going to run to
be the Republican nominee to take on Governor Kathy Hoche
(01:50):
in the fall, even though Congresswoman Elis Stephonic is already
in the race.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
We don't have coronations in our party. We're not like
the Democrat party that had a coronation for Kamala Harris.
How did that work out for the Democrats? Competition is
a good thing.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
The Socialist is going to live in a mansion Socialists
or in mom Donnie has decided that he will live
in Gracie Mansion after all. The reason because he needs
the extra security.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I get threats on my life.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
It makes sense that he's moving to where all the
mayors live historically, but I don't doubt where his loyalties life.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, he's lived in a mansion his entire life. This
is what he's used to. He just pretends to not
have a lot of money. He just pretends to be poor. Wow,
everybody falls for his act. Elina Habba has resigned as
US Attorney in New Jersey after an appellate court ruled
(02:47):
she was disqualified for the role. This started when New
Jersey's two Democratic senators withheld their approval through a system
called blue slip approval.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You've got a blue sling. That's horrible. It's a horrible thing.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
It makes it impossible to appoint the judge or US attorney.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And it's a shame.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And the Republicans should be ashamed of themselves that they.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Allow us to go on because I can't appoint a
US attorney that's not a Democrat.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Here's the thing. The blue slip isn't in the law.
It's never been legislated. There's no statute. It is just
a senatorial courtesy. And so the blue slip is something
that the chairman of the committee sends to the senators
to say, do you approve of this person?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Right up? What you think?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
If they don't send it back or they write negative
things as a courtesy, the judicial appointment. The US attorney
appointment is just negated. That's it. That's all it takes
is the one person now in New Jersey with Lena Haba.
It was a strategy well after the confirmation, all of
(03:57):
a sudden, well after she was put into office, I
should say, there was no confirmation. Senator Booker and Senator
Kim both turned in negative blue slips. And that's why
she's out, not because of a vote, not because of
any judicial action other than them withholding the blue slip. Wow,
(04:20):
he's President Trump is absolutely right. We need to get
rid of that. The pre trial hearing of Luigi Manngione
drags on much longer than most evidentiary hearings.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
That's exactly right, that's exactly what it is. It's a
mini trial and we're on witness number seven. I think
of twenty five, twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Twenty seven, there's going to be twenty seven witnesses and
this is already dragged on a week. My feeling is
the defense sees this, as the trial sees this is
so important keeping some of the evidence out, especially what
was found in the Altoona McDonald's that they're putting all
this time in mind into the evidentiary healing hearings. Well,
(05:04):
if Congress doesn't act to fix the healthcare system as
they promised they would do after the shutdown, Now that
the Affordable Care Act is about to expire, state healthcare
systems and patients will feel the effect.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Any effects of increasing insurance premiums and so forth not
only have a profound effect on patients itself, it's also
the healthcare system and also the healthcare workers itself.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah, they got to do some negotiations as they promised
they were going to do. They said before Obamacare expires,
they were going to fix this.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Where are they?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
The Minnesota fraud case continues to grow. Members of the
state's large some million immigrant community defrauded the federal government
of a billion dollars. As Governor Tim Walls well, he
just looked the other way. We believe that the Somali
fraud operation in Minnesota is the single greatest theft of
taxpayer dollars through welfare fraud in American history. Well, the
(06:02):
Democrats refuse to admit defeat on the Bogus Narco terrorist
boat strike controversy. They are now pushing for the video
to be made public.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
I've spent years looking at videos of lethal action taken
often in the terrorism context, and this video was profoundly shaking, shaken,
and I think it's important for Americans to see it.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
And how about that crazy Jasmine Crockett, the congressman from Texas.
She's thinks she's so popular that she's going to run
for the Senate, trying to unsee powerful Republican Texas Senator
John Cronin.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
There are a lot of people that say it, you've
got to stay in the House. We need our voice,
we need you there, and I understand, but what we
need is for me to have a bigger voice.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah, it's not going to happen. Here's what's really going on.
Remember the read disc in Texas. Her seat was one
of those redistricted. She is not going to win re
election as a congressman, so she might as well go
out with a bang. And so God bless her. She's
not going to beat John Cronin. She's gonna get it's
gonna be a route and Trump make America Healthy Again
(07:18):
movement is now taking aim at the nation's airports. Airports
can get federal money to pay for a number of
projects to make those airports more family and fitness friendly.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
It might be I want to expand the play areas
for kids. I want additional nursing pods for nursing mothers.
Maybe I want to workout area where people might get
some blood flow and doing some pull ups or some
step ups.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Are you laughing, I'm just thinking of people doing pull
ups at the airport.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I'm thinking. Here's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking, I'm gonna
get rid of my gym membership and just go to
Newark Airport on the way home.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Did you see them yesterday?
Speaker 9 (08:07):
By the way, chance I did not so so it
was our FK and it was Secretary Duffy And they
were at JFK where they now have pull ups so
you can do pull ups while you're waiting for it.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
It's just so funny to me.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I'm not sure why.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
But and they both had a contest.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Oh great, we won.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I think they tied.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I think they both did eight, which is pretty look it,
I'm not gonna make fun of that.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I can't make it to eight right.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Now, so see, I mean, there's nothing wrong with this,
But I'm just hoping I'm never in the airport long
enough to actually have to have a workout. Done, you know,
like I want to get in, I want to get
on my plane, I want to leave. I don't want
to be there ten hours, so I have to do
a workout.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Well, that's that's proble.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
That's what I thought of right away when I heard
it happening. I thought to myself, Wait a second, do
they know something we don't. Are the flights going to
take a lot longer? Are we going to be waiting
at the airport a lot more now?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Susdays a try.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I've walked.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I've definitely because there's a lot of walking space at
an airport, and I've gotten up and walked around, just
knowing that you're going to be sitting down on a
plane for a long period of time. I've also been
in airports where I've seen the kids playgrounds, which is
great because you know, the kids need something to do.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
But I just looked at it and thought, germfest. You know.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I looked at that playground and thought, who wiped it down?
My kids are gonna have switch all over their hands.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Oh, it was hard for.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Me to look at it. Here's the other thing they
said yesterday when they were talking about the airports, and
they talked about the food, and I disagree with this.
Speaker 10 (09:37):
I fly typically over the past thirty years, probably average
two hundred and fifty days a year in airports, and
I can tell you who this is where healthy diets.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Go to die. I don't agree at all.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I think the food's pretty good in the airports and
there's a big selection. I mean, if you want, if
you want this, the food.
Speaker 10 (09:59):
Is a over the airport. A lot of it tastes
very good. It is not very good for you. It's
deep fried food, sugar bombs.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Oh, it doesn't have to be.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
It doesn't have to be and I know have to break.
But it's also once again it's one meal. I'm having there.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
One meal. Oh, but you don't have to have a
sugary thing. You can have a salt.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
They have salads there, sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
This is getting silly. I like the workout thing though.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
You can go to the iHeartRadio app and leave us
a talk back about anything you hear today. You could
win a limited edition MENTI in the Morning t shirt
which will be awarded each day to or a favorite
talkback in the morning. And don't forget the best talkback
of the week takes home a sea crane radio Seacrane
Radios deliver the reception and clarity you deserve. Coldplay, YouTube,
Ed Sheer and Taylor Swift dominate the stage. Find out
(10:46):
where plus tickets to see the Rascals Rock in the
Holidays concert at a twenty five
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