May 13, 2025 • 10 mins
Larry Mendte talks about the biggest news stories of the day including the release of American hostage Edan Alexander, Trump striking a deal with China over trade negotiations, and the work to overhaul the national air traffic control system.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now it's Menty in the morning on the Voice of
New York seventr and good morning to you. Happy Tuesday morning.
Thanks so much for to Ken Rosato for filling in
at the last minute yesterday. Did a great job. I
really appreciate it, and I appreciate you being here today
(00:20):
in the Big Three. In Tenafly, New Jersey, and in
Tel Aviv, Israel. A flood of emotion as American hostage
edon Alexander was released by Jmas. That was the town
of Tenafly. Hundreds gathered around a huge video screen in
(00:44):
the town where he spent most of his life to
watch the release. Jordana Miller will be live from Jerusalem
with the latest at seven thirty five. Well would you
look at that? Trump struck a deal with China in.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Agreement on a ninety day pause and substantially move down
the tariff levels. Both sides on the reciprocal tariffs will
move their teriffs down one and fifteen percent.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Wow. And during that entire time, during the ninety days,
there will be continuing talks for a more solid long
term deal. Donald Trump, he had a really really good weekend.
The Newark Airport will be the priority if Congress gives
the Trump administration the money to overhaul airports across the
(01:36):
country and the entire national air traffic control system. If
Congress approves our plan, the president's plan to build a
brand new air traffic control system, work at Newark is
going to be a priority. We will do that first.
More charges are coming in that embarrassing political stunt outside
(01:56):
an ice facility in New Jersey by Democratic politicians.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You don't break into vacili when a bus full of
criminals are being brought into that faciy. This is about
the safety and security the employees. This is about the
safety and security of the illego aliens. It's about the
safety and security of the public.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It'll be the second day of testimony and now after
opening arguments and a couple of prosecution witnesses yesterday in
the p Diddy trial, and it's the day that everybody's
been waiting for. Ex girlfriend Cassie is expected to take
the stand, and the defense may have a real problem
with cross examination of somebody that's seven months pregnant. You're
(02:36):
not going to beat somebody over the head like that,
especially if somebody is about to give birth.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I mean, that's the last thing you're going to do.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Peter Haralambus was in the courtroom yesterday and will tell
us what happened at eight thirty five. So what kind
of weekend did all of you have? How productive were
you this weekend? Because Donald Trump Ump had a great
weekend bringing basically peace to the world, oh in lowering
(03:07):
production costs and getting hostages released, a pretty darn good weekend.
Let's start with India and Pakistan. Now, when they started
firing missiles at each other, everybody was concerned about the
breakout of World War three between two nuclear powers. Well,
doesn't look like that's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
On Saturday, my administration helped broker a full and immediate ceasefire,
I think a permanent one between India and Pakistan, ending
a dangerous conflict of two nations with lots of nuclear weapons.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
So we have the houthies who told us a while
ago they were going to stop filing at firing at America,
and then they did a little bit. They continued it,
and Donald Trump threatened, guess what if you keep this going,
We're going to eliminate you. We're going to annihilate you.
And the houthees now say sorry. That was some rebels
(04:02):
that we didn't have control over. We have control over them.
Now it's all going to stop.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
The Houties, for the first time ever, have ceased firing
and they've let it be known that they're not going
to be firing at American ships anymore, not going to
be firing at Americans anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And then we have Thursday, where Zelenski and Putin will
talk face to face for the very first time about
a longer peace deal.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Thursday's meeting with Russia and Ukraine is very important. I
was very insisted that that meeting take place. I think
good things can come out of that meeting.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
So Trump will be in the Middle East while that
meeting is going on. He's going to be meeting with
Saudi Arabia, with Cutter, and with the UAE, the United
Arab Emirate, and you know, something BIG's going to happen.
He's not flying over there for nothing. He's going to
There's going to be some type of trade deal, some
type of deal, some type of security deal. We don't
(05:05):
know what it is. It could be an extension of
the Abraham Accord. A lot of people were saying that
might be what it is, but it's going to be
a big announcement over there, or he wouldn't be going.
But he said, you know, while he's there, since he's
going to be in the area anyway, he might fly
to those talks in Turkey between Putin and Zelensky.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I was thinking about flying over I don't know where
I'm going to be on Thursday. I've got so many meetings,
but I was thinking about actually flying over there. There's
a possibility of it. I guess if I think things
can happen.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And then the last living American hostages released by himas
adon Alexander and on the plane, Dan held up a
sign to the camera because he wanted the world to know,
thank you, President Trump, because this would not happen. Hamas
(06:00):
said this. Hamas said, they did this for Donald Trump
as a gesture of goodwill, because you know, he does
the carrot and the stick. If you don't do what
he wants, then there's going to be hell to pay.
And so Trump yesterday was very happy about that.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I thought he was dead just a short while ago.
His parents are so happy, they're so happy.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
So all of that happened in forty eight hours. And
then the piece day resistance is he's bringing down drug
prices to match the rest of the world. Do you
know how much more we pay for drugs, pharmaceuticals made
in this country than the rest of the world. It
(06:45):
is stunning, It is ridiculous. And to prove the point,
Donald Trump shared the story of a friend who was
in London.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
President, could I ask you a question. What I'm in
London and I just paid for this damn fat drug
I take. I said, it's not working, they said, He said,
I just paid eighty eight dollars and in New York
I paid thirteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
What the hell is going on?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
He said? So I checked and it's the same box,
made in the same plant, by the same company. It's
the identical pill.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah. And when he pressed the pharmaceutical companies about what
is going on why Americans are paying so much, he said, well,
it's it's for research and production. And he goes, well,
why can't the rest of the world share the cost
for research and production. So he's bringing down pharmaceutical prices
as much as eighty percent. And here's the great part
(07:52):
about it. The pharmaceutical companies won't lose money because the
rest of the world has to now charge more. They're
going to be charged more by the pharmaceutical companies because
the pharmaceutical companies still have to make their money and
they still have to pay for research and production. And
so now it's going to be fairer. We'll pay a
(08:13):
little bit less, substantially less, and the countries around the
world are going to pay more.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
So they're going to have to pay more for health
care and we're going to have to pay less. That's
all it is, believe it or not. You know, because
it's really the world we're talking about, not just the
European Union, but because it's the world. The numbers are.
The numbers are for the healthcare company not as bad
as you would think. They'll make the same I think
the healthcare companies should make pretty much the same money.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
So there you go. That was in the stretch of
forty eight hours, all of that happened. And what did
we hear constantly from the Democrats and the media constantly
from them? Oh he promised peace. Oh he promised all
this stuff in the world that Indian Pakistan wouldn't escalate.
(09:03):
Oh he promised he was gonna get a done out.
What happened to that that didn't happen. Many of those
questions settled in a weekend. In a weekend, dude, does
the media feel silly about being wrong all the time?
Why don't they just cover the news this weekend? Their
big story where all that amazing stuff was going on,
(09:26):
was Cutter giving a plane to Trump in the United States.
That was their big story. That was leading CNN and MSNBC.
Hostages are released, wars are ending, talks are on to
stop another war. All of that was going on. But
what about that plane anything. It's embarrassing. It is getting
(09:48):
to the point where it is so embarrassing. But more
and more people, if they have to look at their ratings,
it's because of your choices, it's not because of anything else.
Stop making excuses. You've done this to yourself, and so
is the Democratic Party. They've done it to themselves too.
(10:09):
The spot bear in in the polls right now is
because of stuff like this. Congratulations of the Donald Trump
job well done. Did you watch SNL or any clips
of it. I know it was a couple of days ago,
but I didn't get to talk about it yesterday. It
was actually kind of funny, you know, except for that
staten island shot. We'll talk about that. And even the
(10:32):
President Trump bit was funny and one joke was eye opening.
I'll explain next. Plus tickets to see The Beach Boys
at a twenty five
Now it's Menty in the morning on the Voice of
New York seventr and good morning to you. Happy Tuesday morning.
Thanks so much for to Ken Rosato for filling in
at the last minute yesterday. Did a great job. I
really appreciate it, and I appreciate you being here today
(00:20):
in the Big Three. In Tenafly, New Jersey, and in
Tel Aviv, Israel. A flood of emotion as American hostage
edon Alexander was released by Jmas. That was the town
of Tenafly. Hundreds gathered around a huge video screen in
(00:44):
the town where he spent most of his life to
watch the release. Jordana Miller will be live from Jerusalem
with the latest at seven thirty five. Well would you
look at that? Trump struck a deal with China in.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Agreement on a ninety day pause and substantially move down
the tariff levels. Both sides on the reciprocal tariffs will
move their teriffs down one and fifteen percent.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Wow. And during that entire time, during the ninety days,
there will be continuing talks for a more solid long
term deal. Donald Trump, he had a really really good weekend.
The Newark Airport will be the priority if Congress gives
the Trump administration the money to overhaul airports across the
(01:36):
country and the entire national air traffic control system. If
Congress approves our plan, the president's plan to build a
brand new air traffic control system, work at Newark is
going to be a priority. We will do that first.
More charges are coming in that embarrassing political stunt outside
(01:56):
an ice facility in New Jersey by Democratic politicians.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You don't break into vacili when a bus full of
criminals are being brought into that faciy. This is about
the safety and security the employees. This is about the
safety and security of the illego aliens. It's about the
safety and security of the public.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It'll be the second day of testimony and now after
opening arguments and a couple of prosecution witnesses yesterday in
the p Diddy trial, and it's the day that everybody's
been waiting for. Ex girlfriend Cassie is expected to take
the stand, and the defense may have a real problem
with cross examination of somebody that's seven months pregnant. You're
(02:36):
not going to beat somebody over the head like that,
especially if somebody is about to give birth.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I mean, that's the last thing you're going to do.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Peter Haralambus was in the courtroom yesterday and will tell
us what happened at eight thirty five. So what kind
of weekend did all of you have? How productive were
you this weekend? Because Donald Trump Ump had a great
weekend bringing basically peace to the world, oh in lowering
(03:07):
production costs and getting hostages released, a pretty darn good weekend.
Let's start with India and Pakistan. Now, when they started
firing missiles at each other, everybody was concerned about the
breakout of World War three between two nuclear powers. Well,
doesn't look like that's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
On Saturday, my administration helped broker a full and immediate ceasefire,
I think a permanent one between India and Pakistan, ending
a dangerous conflict of two nations with lots of nuclear weapons.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
So we have the houthies who told us a while
ago they were going to stop filing at firing at America,
and then they did a little bit. They continued it,
and Donald Trump threatened, guess what if you keep this going,
We're going to eliminate you. We're going to annihilate you.
And the houthees now say sorry. That was some rebels
(04:02):
that we didn't have control over. We have control over them.
Now it's all going to stop.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
The Houties, for the first time ever, have ceased firing
and they've let it be known that they're not going
to be firing at American ships anymore, not going to
be firing at Americans anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And then we have Thursday, where Zelenski and Putin will
talk face to face for the very first time about
a longer peace deal.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Thursday's meeting with Russia and Ukraine is very important. I
was very insisted that that meeting take place. I think
good things can come out of that meeting.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
So Trump will be in the Middle East while that
meeting is going on. He's going to be meeting with
Saudi Arabia, with Cutter, and with the UAE, the United
Arab Emirate, and you know, something BIG's going to happen.
He's not flying over there for nothing. He's going to
There's going to be some type of trade deal, some
type of deal, some type of security deal. We don't
(05:05):
know what it is. It could be an extension of
the Abraham Accord. A lot of people were saying that
might be what it is, but it's going to be
a big announcement over there, or he wouldn't be going.
But he said, you know, while he's there, since he's
going to be in the area anyway, he might fly
to those talks in Turkey between Putin and Zelensky.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I was thinking about flying over I don't know where
I'm going to be on Thursday. I've got so many meetings,
but I was thinking about actually flying over there. There's
a possibility of it. I guess if I think things
can happen.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And then the last living American hostages released by himas
adon Alexander and on the plane, Dan held up a
sign to the camera because he wanted the world to know,
thank you, President Trump, because this would not happen. Hamas
(06:00):
said this. Hamas said, they did this for Donald Trump
as a gesture of goodwill, because you know, he does
the carrot and the stick. If you don't do what
he wants, then there's going to be hell to pay.
And so Trump yesterday was very happy about that.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I thought he was dead just a short while ago.
His parents are so happy, they're so happy.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
So all of that happened in forty eight hours. And
then the piece day resistance is he's bringing down drug
prices to match the rest of the world. Do you
know how much more we pay for drugs, pharmaceuticals made
in this country than the rest of the world. It
(06:45):
is stunning, It is ridiculous. And to prove the point,
Donald Trump shared the story of a friend who was
in London.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
President, could I ask you a question. What I'm in
London and I just paid for this damn fat drug
I take. I said, it's not working, they said, He said,
I just paid eighty eight dollars and in New York
I paid thirteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
What the hell is going on?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
He said? So I checked and it's the same box,
made in the same plant, by the same company. It's
the identical pill.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah. And when he pressed the pharmaceutical companies about what
is going on why Americans are paying so much, he said, well,
it's it's for research and production. And he goes, well,
why can't the rest of the world share the cost
for research and production. So he's bringing down pharmaceutical prices
as much as eighty percent. And here's the great part
(07:52):
about it. The pharmaceutical companies won't lose money because the
rest of the world has to now charge more. They're
going to be charged more by the pharmaceutical companies because
the pharmaceutical companies still have to make their money and
they still have to pay for research and production. And
so now it's going to be fairer. We'll pay a
(08:13):
little bit less, substantially less, and the countries around the
world are going to pay more.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
So they're going to have to pay more for health
care and we're going to have to pay less. That's
all it is, believe it or not. You know, because
it's really the world we're talking about, not just the
European Union, but because it's the world. The numbers are.
The numbers are for the healthcare company not as bad
as you would think. They'll make the same I think
the healthcare companies should make pretty much the same money.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
So there you go. That was in the stretch of
forty eight hours, all of that happened. And what did
we hear constantly from the Democrats and the media constantly
from them? Oh he promised peace. Oh he promised all
this stuff in the world that Indian Pakistan wouldn't escalate.
(09:03):
Oh he promised he was gonna get a done out.
What happened to that that didn't happen. Many of those
questions settled in a weekend. In a weekend, dude, does
the media feel silly about being wrong all the time?
Why don't they just cover the news this weekend? Their
big story where all that amazing stuff was going on,
(09:26):
was Cutter giving a plane to Trump in the United States.
That was their big story. That was leading CNN and MSNBC.
Hostages are released, wars are ending, talks are on to
stop another war. All of that was going on. But
what about that plane anything. It's embarrassing. It is getting
(09:48):
to the point where it is so embarrassing. But more
and more people, if they have to look at their ratings,
it's because of your choices, it's not because of anything else.
Stop making excuses. You've done this to yourself, and so
is the Democratic Party. They've done it to themselves too.
(10:09):
The spot bear in in the polls right now is
because of stuff like this. Congratulations of the Donald Trump
job well done. Did you watch SNL or any clips
of it. I know it was a couple of days ago,
but I didn't get to talk about it yesterday. It
was actually kind of funny, you know, except for that
staten island shot. We'll talk about that. And even the
(10:32):
President Trump bit was funny and one joke was eye opening.
I'll explain next. Plus tickets to see The Beach Boys
at a twenty five
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