May 16, 2025 • 10 mins
Larry goes over the biggest news stories of the day including the NJ Transit strike beginning, Ras Baraka having his first appearance in federal court following his arrest at an ICE facility, and the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mark.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
You said, Yo, mindy in the morning on seven to
ten wor on New York. Well, I'd like to be
excited that it's Friday, but it's a tough day if
you commute from New Jersey by train that leads off
the Big Three. What we've all been talking about for
(00:21):
months now, what we all feared was going to happen,
has happened. The first Jersey transit strike in over forty years,
leaving three hundred and fifty thousand drivers riders I should
say they're now drivers trying to figure out how to
get to work.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I have to drive either to Harrison or to Hoboken
or straight in and like it's gonna stink. It's a
lose lose situation.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I have to go to Hoboken and take the path,
which is adding extra like forty minutes.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I'll take the bus, take or drive in to try
to you know, work from home as much as possible. Well,
we have you covered here. Traffic reporter Bernie Viider will
be on top of how the strike is affecting your
commute with reports every fifteen minutes. The mayor of Newark,
Ross Baraka, had his first appearance in federal court after
(01:10):
being arrested for trust passing. Afterwards, he spoke to a
gathering of protesters outside.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
We cannot arrest people simply because they disagree with us.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
We cannot target.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
People because their political views are separate from ours. We
cannot subjugate people, take their pictures, munk shots, and fingerprints
because we believe that somehow they oppose to our position
that ladies and gentlemen is authoritarianism.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
He's good, isn't he. That's a good political speech that
I mentioned that he is running for governor and that's
what this is all about. In the Sean did He
Combs trial, the defense got its chance now to shoot
holes into what was compelling testimony of ex girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Cassie's doing a great job on cross examination. It's very
long cross examination.
Speaker 7 (02:00):
Hopefully it ends tomorrow and.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
So she can be done by the end of the
week and put this entire chapter of her life.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Roger.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
That was prosecutor Douglas Wigdor He was leaving court. Peter
Haralambus was in the court room, and we'll have more
on the trial at eight oh five. Well, the big
hold up in Trump's big beautiful bill that contains most
if not all, of his legislative agenda is being held
up by New York representatives.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
New York holds the balance for Republicans in the and
they're the majority makers in the House representatives. They gave
us the majority three years ago and in last year,
and so they need to be taken care of. They
need to be taken care of in a way that's
sufficient for their constituents. They can't go home and say,
you know, I raise your taxes.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Well. Ukraine's president Vladimir Zelinsky was in Turkey for peace talks,
but Putin was a no show. I don't believe anything's
gonna happen with you, like it or not until he
and I get together. But we're gonna have to get it.
Solve Beca. There's too many people in Dyming. I know
this is a lot, but there's a lot going on.
How about this story? Former FBI director James Comy shares
(03:13):
on Instagram a bizarre post of seashells arranged on the
beach to read eighty six forty seven. Think about that
for a second. Does that mean what I think it means?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
We the American people cannot take this lightly, whatever your politics,
we cannot allow people to get by without being held
accountable for this kind of public call to assassinate the
president of the United States.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
There you go, he's going to get a visit from
the FBI. James Comy is former FBI director. May end
up in jail. You know, we'll talk about it later.
But when a president had two assassination attempts against him
when he was running for president, do you think that's funny?
(04:03):
Do you think it's funny to write that? And he
denies he did it, He said, ohoy, he just came
upon this, right, right, He's always always been a liar.
Let's talk about the story of the day, the story
that's gonna be affecting a whole lot of people. You know,
I really thought this was going to be settled last night.
(04:25):
I think a lot of people do did. I think
both sides thought it was going to be settled last night.
They were closed, they stopped talking to the media for
a while. It had all the signs of being settled,
and then no deal.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
In the last fifteen hours. We've been bargaining in good faith,
trying to reach a deal. We didn't have a press
confert set up because we fully expected to reach a deal.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, that's one of the negotiators. You haven't heard his voice,
and you know he's got that little bit of a
Southern twang. He is with the brotherhood of locomotive engineers
and trainmen. He was part of the negotiation. I think
everybody thought that we're going to have a deal. Now
the guy you're used to hearing is Tom Hass and
he's going to say the same thing he's been saying
all along, because it hasn't changed. The only issue, the
(05:13):
only issue that has to be settled is pay. That's
all we were seeking was and all that we're still
seeking is to close that gap, to bring engineers equal
pay for equal work. And New Jersey Transits position is,
we can't afford that. We can't afford to give you
that much. We can't afford to give you what you're
(05:34):
asking for. We can come close, but we've done the numbers,
and if we do that, we're gonna have to raise
fares a lot, and it's just unfair to the taxpayers
and it's unfair to Jersey Transit commuters.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
I don't quite agree with the notion that somebody who
lives in New Jersey and works in New Jersey should
be entitled to make a wage that is as if
they live and work in New York. So be it.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, you know how, there's some negotiations where you can
see the point of both sides, where you can see
that they both have a gripe. The engineers definitely have
a gripe. They definitely have a case here. But when
you hear Jersey Transit and say, look, we're gonna have
to raise fares, We're gonna have to raise taxes. They're
(06:24):
already taxed enough in New Jersey. They're already paying high
enough fares to community. And I used to take Jersey Transit.
They kept raising it all the time. This is just
gonna raise it even more. But then on the labor side,
on the engineer side, they need to pay raise.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
It can't be ignored that these workers have lost about
twenty percent of their purchasing power though, so they can
afford just less in their daily lives today than they could,
you know, at the end of the last contract. And
that's just a fact.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And what does the governor have to say about all this?
He always has trom tmendous words of wisdom. He can
really sum things up. He gets right in there right
to the point we must reach a final deal that
is both fair to employees and at the same time
affordable for New Jersey's commuters and taxpayers. Well, there you go.
Why didn't we think of that. We have to come
(07:18):
up They have to come up with a fair deal
that is fair to both sides. That is what wisdom
from the governor, who has been absent for the most
point throughout this whole negotiation. All of a sudden, by
the way, he's getting involved, because he's getting a lot
of flack about not being involved enough and not being
(07:40):
in there to try to stop this from happening. Right now,
he's now he's front and center. All of a sudden,
Governor Murphy is front and center only because of the criticism.
It is incredible. Did you know that they were how
close they were last night? They were so close to
a deal. Both sides admit to this. They were close
(08:03):
to a deal, and at ten o'clock it was Jersey
Transit that walked away from the table. Nobody's leaving. Well midnight,
you heard the transit workers say they didn't even schedule
a press conference. They were sure it was going to
be settled. They were shocked at this, and I don't
even know why you walk out? Isn't there someone overseeing
(08:26):
this thing?
Speaker 7 (08:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Ye, no, get back in there. You have two more hours. Well,
they don't have that kind of authority. I mean, it's
the National Mediation Board, and they don't have that kind
of authority. They're probably saying, where are you going? This
is so close? Why are you going? But they can't
say sit down. You know, it's not like a nun
in Catholic grade school. You're gonna get smacked on the knuckles.
(08:48):
It's just it's just so frustrating.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Even New Jersey Transit will admit that they cannot handle
all of the volumes. So they're they're estimating they can
accommodate about twenty percent of the people who are going
to be affected by the strike.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
I think that's.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Probably roughly accurate. So they're hoping that eighty percent of
those three hundred fifty thousand people will find a way
to get into the city that doesn't involve using their services.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
That means eighty percent of the three hundred that, by
the way, was Mike Smart he's a professor of transit
planning at Rutgers University. That means eighty percent of three
hundred and fifty thousand don't know how to do. You're
going to get into work now. I know there's enhanced
bus service. I know you can go to the parking
rides and get a bus. You can go to the
path trains, there's all kinds of ways to get in
(09:32):
Amtrak if you want to pay some extra money. But
it's going to be it's going to be a nightmare.
Maybe not today. Hopefully you get to stay home today.
Let's hope they solve this over the weekend. They're that close,
Just just settle it. Did you know, by the way,
this is fascinating that one of our mayor oal candidates
was once a successful rapper. No kidding, he haven't even
(09:53):
had a song on the charts. And guess what, we
have tickets to see the Beach Boys at HI twenty
five
Mark.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
You said, Yo, mindy in the morning on seven to
ten wor on New York. Well, I'd like to be
excited that it's Friday, but it's a tough day if
you commute from New Jersey by train that leads off
the Big Three. What we've all been talking about for
(00:21):
months now, what we all feared was going to happen,
has happened. The first Jersey transit strike in over forty years,
leaving three hundred and fifty thousand drivers riders I should
say they're now drivers trying to figure out how to
get to work.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I have to drive either to Harrison or to Hoboken
or straight in and like it's gonna stink. It's a
lose lose situation.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I have to go to Hoboken and take the path,
which is adding extra like forty minutes.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I'll take the bus, take or drive in to try
to you know, work from home as much as possible. Well,
we have you covered here. Traffic reporter Bernie Viider will
be on top of how the strike is affecting your
commute with reports every fifteen minutes. The mayor of Newark,
Ross Baraka, had his first appearance in federal court after
(01:10):
being arrested for trust passing. Afterwards, he spoke to a
gathering of protesters outside.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
We cannot arrest people simply because they disagree with us.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
We cannot target.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
People because their political views are separate from ours. We
cannot subjugate people, take their pictures, munk shots, and fingerprints
because we believe that somehow they oppose to our position
that ladies and gentlemen is authoritarianism.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
He's good, isn't he. That's a good political speech that
I mentioned that he is running for governor and that's
what this is all about. In the Sean did He
Combs trial, the defense got its chance now to shoot
holes into what was compelling testimony of ex girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Cassie's doing a great job on cross examination. It's very
long cross examination.
Speaker 7 (02:00):
Hopefully it ends tomorrow and.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
So she can be done by the end of the
week and put this entire chapter of her life.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Roger.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
That was prosecutor Douglas Wigdor He was leaving court. Peter
Haralambus was in the court room, and we'll have more
on the trial at eight oh five. Well, the big
hold up in Trump's big beautiful bill that contains most
if not all, of his legislative agenda is being held
up by New York representatives.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
New York holds the balance for Republicans in the and
they're the majority makers in the House representatives. They gave
us the majority three years ago and in last year,
and so they need to be taken care of. They
need to be taken care of in a way that's
sufficient for their constituents. They can't go home and say,
you know, I raise your taxes.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Well. Ukraine's president Vladimir Zelinsky was in Turkey for peace talks,
but Putin was a no show. I don't believe anything's
gonna happen with you, like it or not until he
and I get together. But we're gonna have to get it.
Solve Beca. There's too many people in Dyming. I know
this is a lot, but there's a lot going on.
How about this story? Former FBI director James Comy shares
(03:13):
on Instagram a bizarre post of seashells arranged on the
beach to read eighty six forty seven. Think about that
for a second. Does that mean what I think it means?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
We the American people cannot take this lightly, whatever your politics,
we cannot allow people to get by without being held
accountable for this kind of public call to assassinate the
president of the United States.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
There you go, he's going to get a visit from
the FBI. James Comy is former FBI director. May end
up in jail. You know, we'll talk about it later.
But when a president had two assassination attempts against him
when he was running for president, do you think that's funny?
(04:03):
Do you think it's funny to write that? And he
denies he did it, He said, ohoy, he just came
upon this, right, right, He's always always been a liar.
Let's talk about the story of the day, the story
that's gonna be affecting a whole lot of people. You know,
I really thought this was going to be settled last night.
(04:25):
I think a lot of people do did. I think
both sides thought it was going to be settled last night.
They were closed, they stopped talking to the media for
a while. It had all the signs of being settled,
and then no deal.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
In the last fifteen hours. We've been bargaining in good faith,
trying to reach a deal. We didn't have a press
confert set up because we fully expected to reach a deal.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, that's one of the negotiators. You haven't heard his voice,
and you know he's got that little bit of a
Southern twang. He is with the brotherhood of locomotive engineers
and trainmen. He was part of the negotiation. I think
everybody thought that we're going to have a deal. Now
the guy you're used to hearing is Tom Hass and
he's going to say the same thing he's been saying
all along, because it hasn't changed. The only issue, the
(05:13):
only issue that has to be settled is pay. That's
all we were seeking was and all that we're still
seeking is to close that gap, to bring engineers equal
pay for equal work. And New Jersey Transits position is,
we can't afford that. We can't afford to give you
that much. We can't afford to give you what you're
(05:34):
asking for. We can come close, but we've done the numbers,
and if we do that, we're gonna have to raise
fares a lot, and it's just unfair to the taxpayers
and it's unfair to Jersey Transit commuters.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
I don't quite agree with the notion that somebody who
lives in New Jersey and works in New Jersey should
be entitled to make a wage that is as if
they live and work in New York. So be it.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, you know how, there's some negotiations where you can
see the point of both sides, where you can see
that they both have a gripe. The engineers definitely have
a gripe. They definitely have a case here. But when
you hear Jersey Transit and say, look, we're gonna have
to raise fares, We're gonna have to raise taxes. They're
(06:24):
already taxed enough in New Jersey. They're already paying high
enough fares to community. And I used to take Jersey Transit.
They kept raising it all the time. This is just
gonna raise it even more. But then on the labor side,
on the engineer side, they need to pay raise.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
It can't be ignored that these workers have lost about
twenty percent of their purchasing power though, so they can
afford just less in their daily lives today than they could,
you know, at the end of the last contract. And
that's just a fact.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And what does the governor have to say about all this?
He always has trom tmendous words of wisdom. He can
really sum things up. He gets right in there right
to the point we must reach a final deal that
is both fair to employees and at the same time
affordable for New Jersey's commuters and taxpayers. Well, there you go.
Why didn't we think of that. We have to come
(07:18):
up They have to come up with a fair deal
that is fair to both sides. That is what wisdom
from the governor, who has been absent for the most
point throughout this whole negotiation. All of a sudden, by
the way, he's getting involved, because he's getting a lot
of flack about not being involved enough and not being
(07:40):
in there to try to stop this from happening. Right now,
he's now he's front and center. All of a sudden,
Governor Murphy is front and center only because of the criticism.
It is incredible. Did you know that they were how
close they were last night? They were so close to
a deal. Both sides admit to this. They were close
(08:03):
to a deal, and at ten o'clock it was Jersey
Transit that walked away from the table. Nobody's leaving. Well midnight,
you heard the transit workers say they didn't even schedule
a press conference. They were sure it was going to
be settled. They were shocked at this, and I don't
even know why you walk out? Isn't there someone overseeing
(08:26):
this thing?
Speaker 7 (08:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Ye, no, get back in there. You have two more hours. Well,
they don't have that kind of authority. I mean, it's
the National Mediation Board, and they don't have that kind
of authority. They're probably saying, where are you going? This
is so close? Why are you going? But they can't
say sit down. You know, it's not like a nun
in Catholic grade school. You're gonna get smacked on the knuckles.
(08:48):
It's just it's just so frustrating.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Even New Jersey Transit will admit that they cannot handle
all of the volumes. So they're they're estimating they can
accommodate about twenty percent of the people who are going
to be affected by the strike.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
I think that's.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Probably roughly accurate. So they're hoping that eighty percent of
those three hundred fifty thousand people will find a way
to get into the city that doesn't involve using their services.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
That means eighty percent of the three hundred that, by
the way, was Mike Smart he's a professor of transit
planning at Rutgers University. That means eighty percent of three
hundred and fifty thousand don't know how to do. You're
going to get into work now. I know there's enhanced
bus service. I know you can go to the parking
rides and get a bus. You can go to the
path trains, there's all kinds of ways to get in
(09:32):
Amtrak if you want to pay some extra money. But
it's going to be it's going to be a nightmare.
Maybe not today. Hopefully you get to stay home today.
Let's hope they solve this over the weekend. They're that close,
Just just settle it. Did you know, by the way,
this is fascinating that one of our mayor oal candidates
was once a successful rapper. No kidding, he haven't even
(09:53):
had a song on the charts. And guess what, we
have tickets to see the Beach Boys at HI twenty
five
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