July 3, 2025 • 10 mins
Larry Mendte goes over the biggest news stories of the day including the House of Representatives debating and voting on the Big Beautiful Bill overnight, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs being found not guilty on the most serious federal charges, and Idaho mass murderer Bryan Kohberger accepting a plea deal and openly admits to killing four college students in court.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Gets said, go mindy in the morning on sevent ten,
awad the voice on New York. Are you ready for
a three day weekend? I think everybody here is. I'll
tell you what, don't be fooled by today. This is
supposed to be, by the way, a record setting travel day,
(00:24):
the biggest travel day ever, not just to the year ever,
seventy two million. I think they're say they're gonna be
traveling either by plane or by car. So wherever you're
gonna go, try to get at there early, and don't
be fooled by today because there's gonna be some showers,
there's gonna be some storms. Some of the storms might
(00:45):
be really severe. Tonight it's gonna be ninety degrees, it's
gonna be muggy, it's gonna be sticky.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
But you just gotta make it through this.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's it's the gauntlet you gotta get through to Paradise
because Friday, Saturday, Sunday all expected to be beautiful, all
expected to be eighty five degrees and sunny. So just
get through today. Just keep telling yourself, be careful while
you're out there, be careful on the roads when you're driving.
(01:15):
Wherever you're driving to, but it is going to be
just gorgeous after this.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
So do you think you would give up, Well, you
would take all rainy weekends in June, which we goind
to almost add, just to have that month spectacular fourth
of July weekend.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
No, okay, yeah no, but I don't have to. I'm
gonna get the weekend anyway. That's here for me, that's
laid out for me already. And by the way, let
me just say this ahead of time. If for any
reason this forecast is wrong.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Oh no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
We got to get raced agic back in on Monday
for like a game of Thrones shaming, and I think
we should play that while he's talking. Just have them
saying shame, shame, shame the entire time he's talking.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Well, we'll talk to him a lot this morning, so
you can tell him then see how he thinks.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I will I will in the Big Three today. You're
not gonna believe this. They are still debating on the
House floor. As a matter of fact, let's tap into it,
because HIKEM. Jeffries is up.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
In the middle of the night. The American people are
forced to confront a bill that targets their healthcare and
will result in their well being deteriorating.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Okay, I've had enough of him, you know, do you
realize do you know that he stops after every few
words for a long pause. Hakim Jeffries has this very effective, affected,
not effective affected way of talking that drives you nuts.
It's like if you were having a conversation with the
team dreffrees, you'd want to jump in constantly, like you'd
(03:04):
think he was done.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
So, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
You mean if I started talking and I made these pauses,
you wouldn't like it.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
It would drive me. Play him again? Is he still talking?
Put him up again?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
These are Americans on private insurance, employer provided insurance, but
because of the healthcare attacks in this bill, their premiums,
their co pays, their deductibles will go up, some will
not be able to afford it, and they will lose
(03:45):
their healthcare.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Radio, by the way, that makes me nervous.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
He always talks like that, always, and his hands are
always going crazy, like he's bringing in a plane.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
His hands are more excited than his voice.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
That dead air makes any radio producer extremely nervous.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Say no, I know, We'll wait till Hakim.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I'm sorry, I did that to you. We'll wait till
Hakim Jeffries stops talking. But it has been kind of
comical throughout the night. They have been voting and debating
throughout the night, just like the Senate did, although it
was more grueling in the House only because there's so
many members one hundred and thirty five and there's so
many members, and for the one vote, the Republicans didn't
(04:36):
have the vote, so they had to do it a
lot of arm wrestling, and they had to bring the
president in for some phone calls. So they broke a
record for a vote overnight. It took seven hours and
fifteen minutes, not for the major vote on the bill,
for a procedural vote on the bill, you know where
everybody kind of says where they stand, so you know
(04:59):
if you're gonna have it passed or not.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And after some.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Arm twisting, they got they got the procedural vote through,
and they sound like they're going to be able to
pass the bill a little bit later today, the procedural
vote was two hundred and nineteen to two hundred and thirteen.
Oh my god, he's still talking. Kim Jefferies has been
up there for like a half an hour because he's
a minority leader.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
They don't really time them.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
You know, the Speaker and the minority leader just get
to go as long as they want.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Again, we'll just keep checking in.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Here is somebody that talks a lot faster, but it's
just as boring, and that's the Speaker of the House,
Mike Johnson.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
We are going to deliver the big, beautiful bill, the
President's America First Agenda, and we're going to do right
by the American people. This is going to be a
great thing for the country.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Look forward to moving it forward.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
And then he just kept walking.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The final vote should come in just a couple of hours,
and it should be on the President's decks desk by
the July fourth deadline. Sean Diddy Combs not give on
the most serious federal charges. Innocent on two counts of
sex trafficking, innocent on racketeering, guilty on the rape charges.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
You saw that the Southern District of New York prosecutors
came at him with all that they had. They're not stopping.
But one thing stands between all of us and a prison,
and that is a jury of twelve citizens.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
But here's the thing, Combs will stay in jail until
sentencing because the judge says he has shown that he
has prone to violence. In Idaho, mass murderer Brian Cooberger
makes a plea deal and appeals appears in court to
openly admit to killing four college students in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Let me ask you, did you on November thirteenth, twenty
twenty two enter the residents at one one two two
King Road in Moscow, Idaho, with the intent to commit
the balony crimate murder.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
In New Jersey, a sky diving plane loaded with people
on a trip crashes into a wooded area near a
South Jersey airport and in a miracle, everybody survived.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
You saw that the Southern.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I had the radio sound of that. Apparently it's not playing,
but in the radio sound they thought ten people were injured.
It was actually fifteen people that were injured. Three had
to go to the hospital. Most of them were treated
at the scene. Everybody is crediting, everybody is crediting the
pilot with just doing amazing work. And everything is set
(07:46):
now for the July fourth fireworks extravaganza over the East
River with a security tight because of world events.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
The NYPD and our federal partners are closely monitoring the
threat from lone wolf actors who are motivated by world events.
But I want to emphasize there are no known, specific
or credible threats to this year's celebration.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Now, today, as I was saying earlier, is expected to
be the busiest travel day of the year, also the
possibly the busiest travel day in history, and it was
already crowded yesterday.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
The traffic is.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Actually pretty bad going out to Long Island right now.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
We see like two and a half three hours as
of right now, which is a little bit more than
it is normally, which is kind of annoying.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Bla traffic, you know, But New Jersey is expected. We're
going to check in with racet Agic on the weather
for the fourth of July in about five minutes, and
we'll check in with Susie Sarone on the traffic a
little bit later in the show when it starts to
pick up.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Because I'll tell you the truth, when I drove in
it was it was really nice.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I kind of flewid faster than I normally do, so
I guess everybody's taking off work today and it's going
to head to the shore or to the beach or
something like that a little bit later in the day.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Are you going to the beach today?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I will be, and you know my expectation. If I
make it down in under four hours, all good. I'm
bracing myself.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Everybody says the worst time to hit the roads is
in the early afternoon.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Well, there you go. You know what, I'll put a
podcast on and just roll on down. I think Natalie's
going to be happy just to be left alone in my.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Car by myself. Will you be alone in the car.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah, because I'm going to be leaving from here.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Oh that's the best. I do like taking drives myself.
You don't like it.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
No, No, it's good, it's good.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
No, I do.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I do. But you're a talker. You do like the
talk talk to myself. You're always interesting to yourself.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Very By the way, you can go to the iHeartRadio
app and leave us a talk back.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
All morning long.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
You could win a limited edition Meant to the Morning
t shirt, which will be awarded every day to our
favorite talkback of the morning. And while you're on the
free Iart radio app, be sure to set a preset
for seven to ten wor so.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
The big, beautiful bill.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
After all the screaming, after all the yelleying, after all
the discontent, is going to pass today. And one of
the most important things about the bill is that it's
going to stop a tax raise that could be twenty
percent for all of us. It was a tax raise
that was put into effect by the Biden administration. We'll
(10:38):
keep on checking in through the day, but what we
really need to get to right now is is it
going to be the most perfect holiday weekend forecast ever.
It's a lot of pressure for meteorologist Ray Staging. We'll
talk to him next. Plus tickets to see Jackson Brown
at A twenty five, so stay with us.
Gets said, go mindy in the morning on sevent ten,
awad the voice on New York. Are you ready for
a three day weekend? I think everybody here is. I'll
tell you what, don't be fooled by today. This is
supposed to be, by the way, a record setting travel day,
(00:24):
the biggest travel day ever, not just to the year ever,
seventy two million. I think they're say they're gonna be
traveling either by plane or by car. So wherever you're
gonna go, try to get at there early, and don't
be fooled by today because there's gonna be some showers,
there's gonna be some storms. Some of the storms might
(00:45):
be really severe. Tonight it's gonna be ninety degrees, it's
gonna be muggy, it's gonna be sticky.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
But you just gotta make it through this.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's it's the gauntlet you gotta get through to Paradise
because Friday, Saturday, Sunday all expected to be beautiful, all
expected to be eighty five degrees and sunny. So just
get through today. Just keep telling yourself, be careful while
you're out there, be careful on the roads when you're driving.
(01:15):
Wherever you're driving to, but it is going to be
just gorgeous after this.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
So do you think you would give up, Well, you
would take all rainy weekends in June, which we goind
to almost add, just to have that month spectacular fourth
of July weekend.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
No, okay, yeah no, but I don't have to. I'm
gonna get the weekend anyway. That's here for me, that's
laid out for me already. And by the way, let
me just say this ahead of time. If for any
reason this forecast is wrong.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Oh no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
We got to get raced agic back in on Monday
for like a game of Thrones shaming, and I think
we should play that while he's talking. Just have them
saying shame, shame, shame the entire time he's talking.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Well, we'll talk to him a lot this morning, so
you can tell him then see how he thinks.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I will I will in the Big Three today. You're
not gonna believe this. They are still debating on the
House floor. As a matter of fact, let's tap into it,
because HIKEM. Jeffries is up.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
In the middle of the night. The American people are
forced to confront a bill that targets their healthcare and
will result in their well being deteriorating.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Okay, I've had enough of him, you know, do you
realize do you know that he stops after every few
words for a long pause. Hakim Jeffries has this very effective, affected,
not effective affected way of talking that drives you nuts.
It's like if you were having a conversation with the
team dreffrees, you'd want to jump in constantly, like you'd
(03:04):
think he was done.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
So, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
You mean if I started talking and I made these pauses,
you wouldn't like it.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
It would drive me. Play him again? Is he still talking?
Put him up again?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
These are Americans on private insurance, employer provided insurance, but
because of the healthcare attacks in this bill, their premiums,
their co pays, their deductibles will go up, some will
not be able to afford it, and they will lose
(03:45):
their healthcare.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Radio, by the way, that makes me nervous.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
He always talks like that, always, and his hands are
always going crazy, like he's bringing in a plane.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
His hands are more excited than his voice.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
That dead air makes any radio producer extremely nervous.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Say no, I know, We'll wait till Hakim.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I'm sorry, I did that to you. We'll wait till
Hakim Jeffries stops talking. But it has been kind of
comical throughout the night. They have been voting and debating
throughout the night, just like the Senate did, although it
was more grueling in the House only because there's so
many members one hundred and thirty five and there's so
many members, and for the one vote, the Republicans didn't
(04:36):
have the vote, so they had to do it a
lot of arm wrestling, and they had to bring the
president in for some phone calls. So they broke a
record for a vote overnight. It took seven hours and
fifteen minutes, not for the major vote on the bill,
for a procedural vote on the bill, you know where
everybody kind of says where they stand, so you know
(04:59):
if you're gonna have it passed or not.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And after some.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Arm twisting, they got they got the procedural vote through,
and they sound like they're going to be able to
pass the bill a little bit later today, the procedural
vote was two hundred and nineteen to two hundred and thirteen.
Oh my god, he's still talking. Kim Jefferies has been
up there for like a half an hour because he's
a minority leader.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
They don't really time them.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
You know, the Speaker and the minority leader just get
to go as long as they want.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Again, we'll just keep checking in.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Here is somebody that talks a lot faster, but it's
just as boring, and that's the Speaker of the House,
Mike Johnson.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
We are going to deliver the big, beautiful bill, the
President's America First Agenda, and we're going to do right
by the American people. This is going to be a
great thing for the country.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Look forward to moving it forward.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
And then he just kept walking.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The final vote should come in just a couple of hours,
and it should be on the President's decks desk by
the July fourth deadline. Sean Diddy Combs not give on
the most serious federal charges. Innocent on two counts of
sex trafficking, innocent on racketeering, guilty on the rape charges.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
You saw that the Southern District of New York prosecutors
came at him with all that they had. They're not stopping.
But one thing stands between all of us and a prison,
and that is a jury of twelve citizens.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
But here's the thing, Combs will stay in jail until
sentencing because the judge says he has shown that he
has prone to violence. In Idaho, mass murderer Brian Cooberger
makes a plea deal and appeals appears in court to
openly admit to killing four college students in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Let me ask you, did you on November thirteenth, twenty
twenty two enter the residents at one one two two
King Road in Moscow, Idaho, with the intent to commit
the balony crimate murder.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
In New Jersey, a sky diving plane loaded with people
on a trip crashes into a wooded area near a
South Jersey airport and in a miracle, everybody survived.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
You saw that the Southern.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I had the radio sound of that. Apparently it's not playing,
but in the radio sound they thought ten people were injured.
It was actually fifteen people that were injured. Three had
to go to the hospital. Most of them were treated
at the scene. Everybody is crediting, everybody is crediting the
pilot with just doing amazing work. And everything is set
(07:46):
now for the July fourth fireworks extravaganza over the East
River with a security tight because of world events.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
The NYPD and our federal partners are closely monitoring the
threat from lone wolf actors who are motivated by world events.
But I want to emphasize there are no known, specific
or credible threats to this year's celebration.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Now, today, as I was saying earlier, is expected to
be the busiest travel day of the year, also the
possibly the busiest travel day in history, and it was
already crowded yesterday.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
The traffic is.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Actually pretty bad going out to Long Island right now.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
We see like two and a half three hours as
of right now, which is a little bit more than
it is normally, which is kind of annoying.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Bla traffic, you know, But New Jersey is expected. We're
going to check in with racet Agic on the weather
for the fourth of July in about five minutes, and
we'll check in with Susie Sarone on the traffic a
little bit later in the show when it starts to
pick up.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Because I'll tell you the truth, when I drove in
it was it was really nice.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I kind of flewid faster than I normally do, so
I guess everybody's taking off work today and it's going
to head to the shore or to the beach or
something like that a little bit later in the day.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Are you going to the beach today?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I will be, and you know my expectation. If I
make it down in under four hours, all good. I'm
bracing myself.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Everybody says the worst time to hit the roads is
in the early afternoon.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Well, there you go. You know what, I'll put a
podcast on and just roll on down. I think Natalie's
going to be happy just to be left alone in my.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Car by myself. Will you be alone in the car.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah, because I'm going to be leaving from here.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Oh that's the best. I do like taking drives myself.
You don't like it.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
No, No, it's good, it's good.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
No, I do.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I do. But you're a talker. You do like the
talk talk to myself. You're always interesting to yourself.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Very By the way, you can go to the iHeartRadio
app and leave us a talk back.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
All morning long.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
You could win a limited edition Meant to the Morning
t shirt, which will be awarded every day to our
favorite talkback of the morning. And while you're on the
free Iart radio app, be sure to set a preset
for seven to ten wor so.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
The big, beautiful bill.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
After all the screaming, after all the yelleying, after all
the discontent, is going to pass today. And one of
the most important things about the bill is that it's
going to stop a tax raise that could be twenty
percent for all of us. It was a tax raise
that was put into effect by the Biden administration. We'll
(10:38):
keep on checking in through the day, but what we
really need to get to right now is is it
going to be the most perfect holiday weekend forecast ever.
It's a lot of pressure for meteorologist Ray Staging. We'll
talk to him next. Plus tickets to see Jackson Brown
at A twenty five, so stay with us.
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