September 3, 2025 • 10 mins
Larry Mendte goes over the biggest news stories of the day including the wildfires in New Jersey, Donald Trump’s announcement about the National Guard going into Chicago, and the meeting between Congress and Jeffrey Epstein’s victims
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Larry Minty. He's waking you up in a New York
state of mind.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
He's Minty in the morning.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
I'm sevent ten woor Well, good morning to you. I
will tell you it's been a tough morning for firefighters
in West Milford Township. The New Jersey Forest Fire Service
is battling right now a wildfire in the area of
Clinton Road in West Milford Township. Late last night, they
(00:28):
reported that seventy acres were a blaze and none of
it was contained. We've got no report since then. There's
supposed to be a report out at eight thirty. Wildfire
is considered a major wildfire if it exceeds one hundred
acres in size. This was seventy, so you would think
that it's gotten bigger than that, unless unless the firefighters
(00:52):
did phenomenal work overnight. But again, the next update is
at eight thirty. It hasn't really threatened any homes. This
is in the Clinton Reservoir in Passaic County, and so
as of the last report on this, it was a
wildfire that was just contained to the reserve and firefighters
(01:13):
again are doing their darnedness right now to contain this thing.
We'll get we'll have an update at eight thirty this morning.
Also in the Big Three, Well, Donald Trump says he
doesn't care what they say in Chicago, He's going in.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Well, we're going in.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I didn't say when we're going in. When you lose. Look,
I have an obligation. This isn't a political thing.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I have an obligation.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
He has an obligation, he says, to fight crime. After
meeting with ten victims of Jeffrey Epstein's the House Oversight
Committee releases to the public all of the documents they have,
but they say that's still not enough.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
What's going to change everything is tomorrow at ten thirty,
when we have the survivors testifying in public, some of
whom have never spoken publicly, and they've already met with
the Oversight Committee and it was allegedly a very emotional meeting.
And that's all behind closed doores. But it's going to
(02:17):
be open to the public.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah. That's Republican Thomas Massey, who has been out on
front and fighting for these files. By the way, when
he says tomorrow at ten thirty, that was yesterday. So
that's today at ten thirty, which will be a public
hearing with many of the victims testifying. We don't know
exactly how many. We don't know how many. There were
(02:41):
ten that testified behind closed doors. Not all of them
are willing to testify in public. Well. In the New
York mayorage race, candidate Jim Walden, who was running fifth
with about three percent of the vote, has ended his
campaign and he's urging other candidates to do the same.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
But at this point, it's really important that there'd be
one free market candidate against the socialist agenda of mister Mumdani.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
And it was the first day back to school yesterday
for many kids in New York. And it was the
first day of the no cell phones policy, which got
mixed reviews.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I don't really like it. How come is like is born?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Today? I felt like like I paid attention.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah productive. Is that a good thing?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, it's a good thing. Now let's talk about the
mayor's race, because something significant happened yesterday. Jim Walden dropped
out of the race. He was running fifth, getting about
three percent of the vote. Uh. But good for him.
He said from the beginning, if I didn't pick up steam,
I wasn't gonna waste anybody else's money. And I was
(03:49):
going to drop out of the race, so he did.
But he's also urging others to drop out of the
race as well, and he said they need to decide
by the end of the month. And when he said
when he says others, he's specifically talking about Eric Adams
and Curtis Sliwa. He said, look, if you aren't there
(04:10):
by the end of the month, if you're not competing,
then get out. There is too much at stake.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I think that most New Yorkers do not want a
mayor who is advancing anti Semitic policies, who has in
prior years embraced actual terrorists, and someone who is so
imbued by anti police bigotry, because that's really.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
What it is.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
He said he wanted to dismantle the police. He called
them wicked and corrupt. You can't walk away from those words.
And if we've learned anything in our politics, it's when
someone says something, believe them.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
So. Jim Walden, former assistant US attorney and very high
profile attorney in this town. He's also a mixed martial
arts fighter, is now out of the race, but Build
the Blasio. Build the Blasio has now endorsed to candidate
(05:07):
Boy just guess who that is. Guess who that would be,
Zorin mom Donnie.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Yes, we need police for a variety of situations, but
why don't we flood the zone with mental health workers
to help get a lot of those people off the
streets and create more of a sense of order. I
think what people got to say from Zaram when he's
mayor is actually, he will be able to do things
that previous mayors didn't.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Oh yeah, he's going to do a lot of things
that previous mayors didn't do. He's not going to get
a whole lot accomplished, but he's going to ruin the city.
There is absolutely no question about that that the city
will be ruined under him because specifically what he wants
to do to the police force. I am so happy
that crime has taken center stage now in this race,
(05:54):
because that is where Zorin mom Donnie is the weakest.
Everything else he says is fantasy, but a lot of
people buy into it. So he's not weak on that
because that's really what's fueling his campaign, and nobody's been
able to break through by saying, look, he can't do
all these things, but crime, crime is visceral, and crime
(06:19):
scares people. They don't want you to take a chance
on crime. They don't want you to promise social workers
when they need police.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Part of that is taking mental health response, homelessness out
of the police department set of responsibilities such that they
can actually follow through other responsibilities that give New Yorkers
a real sense of trust and peace in the city
that they call home.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, so he wants to send social workers, which he
said all along, and he keeps doubling down on to
domestic violence calls, and any police officer will tell you
that that is one of the most dangerous situations. That's
(07:01):
when you need a police officer. So when you send
a social worker to an already volatile situation and they
try to talk them down, that doesn't always work. So
you're gonna end up sending a police officer anyway, and
hopefully the social worker has not been assaulted or killed
(07:25):
at that point. It is dangerous what we're talking about
right now. And I don't know why this doesn't sink through.
There is something going on where logic has gone out
the window because he keeps promising things he can't deliver,
and the things he can deliver on are scary.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
He is a danger to New Yorkers.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
He is dangerous and he is reckless because of his
inexperience and his political philosoph.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, it's the phone former, it's the political philosophy, the latter,
I should say, that's what's so scary about him. Yeah.
I don't care about his lack of experience. I really
don't care about that. I care about what he says
he's going to do. He puts it all out there
for you. He's not trying to hide what he wants
to do. And it's the lack of experience of the
(08:23):
voters that scares me. Because there's all these young voters
that go, that sounds good, that sounds good. We're all
going to Disneyland. You know, it's it is pie in
the sky stuff. But when you're young and inexperienced, you
can buy into that. And that's what he's hoping for.
(08:45):
He's hoping for a huge block of voters that don't
know any better. They just see the big free sign
on the storefront window and believe it's really for free
when it's not. There's a huge cost for the things
he can get done. You know, he can't raise taxes.
(09:08):
He can't he can't do that by himself. The corporate
tax that he keeps saying he is going to raise
to get money for all the free buses and the
free childcare, and the government stores and all the socialist
things he wants to do. He can't get the money
for that. He'll never be able to get the money
for that. That's all a lie. It will never happen.
(09:29):
And yet there are so many people that just see
free and they don't care how he does it, and
so they're going to vote for him because he promises free.
Everything about this guy is scary. So I believe what
Jim Walden is saying. Other people do need to drop
out now, and I'm sorry that includes Curtis Lee. If
(09:52):
he doesn't, if he doesn't rise dramatically in the polls,
it should be time for him to get out. Although
I love his policies, especially about the police. Do you
want social workers to deal with these gang problems that
are plaguing your burrow, Because that's what Zaa Mondomi wants.
He wants social workers. He does not want additional cops, right,
(10:13):
and Curtis Lee will want seven thousand more cops, and
that's exactly what we need. More cops, not more social workers.
But he wants to take that money. He keeps saying
he doesn't want to defund the police, but he wants
to take the money away from the police and hire
more social workers. So yeah, that's that's defunding. We'll talk
more about that over the next couple of hours. Well,
(10:36):
there was a magical moment at a wedding at Saint
Peter's Cathedral when a young woman was about to get
married and something wonderful happened. We'll tell you what that
was next
Larry Minty. He's waking you up in a New York
state of mind.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
He's Minty in the morning.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
I'm sevent ten woor Well, good morning to you. I
will tell you it's been a tough morning for firefighters
in West Milford Township. The New Jersey Forest Fire Service
is battling right now a wildfire in the area of
Clinton Road in West Milford Township. Late last night, they
(00:28):
reported that seventy acres were a blaze and none of
it was contained. We've got no report since then. There's
supposed to be a report out at eight thirty. Wildfire
is considered a major wildfire if it exceeds one hundred
acres in size. This was seventy, so you would think
that it's gotten bigger than that, unless unless the firefighters
(00:52):
did phenomenal work overnight. But again, the next update is
at eight thirty. It hasn't really threatened any homes. This
is in the Clinton Reservoir in Passaic County, and so
as of the last report on this, it was a
wildfire that was just contained to the reserve and firefighters
(01:13):
again are doing their darnedness right now to contain this thing.
We'll get we'll have an update at eight thirty this morning.
Also in the Big Three, Well, Donald Trump says he
doesn't care what they say in Chicago, He's going in.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Well, we're going in.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I didn't say when we're going in. When you lose. Look,
I have an obligation. This isn't a political thing.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I have an obligation.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
He has an obligation, he says, to fight crime. After
meeting with ten victims of Jeffrey Epstein's the House Oversight
Committee releases to the public all of the documents they have,
but they say that's still not enough.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
What's going to change everything is tomorrow at ten thirty,
when we have the survivors testifying in public, some of
whom have never spoken publicly, and they've already met with
the Oversight Committee and it was allegedly a very emotional meeting.
And that's all behind closed doores. But it's going to
(02:17):
be open to the public.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah. That's Republican Thomas Massey, who has been out on
front and fighting for these files. By the way, when
he says tomorrow at ten thirty, that was yesterday. So
that's today at ten thirty, which will be a public
hearing with many of the victims testifying. We don't know
exactly how many. We don't know how many. There were
(02:41):
ten that testified behind closed doors. Not all of them
are willing to testify in public. Well. In the New
York mayorage race, candidate Jim Walden, who was running fifth
with about three percent of the vote, has ended his
campaign and he's urging other candidates to do the same.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
But at this point, it's really important that there'd be
one free market candidate against the socialist agenda of mister Mumdani.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
And it was the first day back to school yesterday
for many kids in New York. And it was the
first day of the no cell phones policy, which got
mixed reviews.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I don't really like it. How come is like is born?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Today? I felt like like I paid attention.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah productive. Is that a good thing?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, it's a good thing. Now let's talk about the
mayor's race, because something significant happened yesterday. Jim Walden dropped
out of the race. He was running fifth, getting about
three percent of the vote. Uh. But good for him.
He said from the beginning, if I didn't pick up steam,
I wasn't gonna waste anybody else's money. And I was
(03:49):
going to drop out of the race, so he did.
But he's also urging others to drop out of the
race as well, and he said they need to decide
by the end of the month. And when he said
when he says others, he's specifically talking about Eric Adams
and Curtis Sliwa. He said, look, if you aren't there
(04:10):
by the end of the month, if you're not competing,
then get out. There is too much at stake.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I think that most New Yorkers do not want a
mayor who is advancing anti Semitic policies, who has in
prior years embraced actual terrorists, and someone who is so
imbued by anti police bigotry, because that's really.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
What it is.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
He said he wanted to dismantle the police. He called
them wicked and corrupt. You can't walk away from those words.
And if we've learned anything in our politics, it's when
someone says something, believe them.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
So. Jim Walden, former assistant US attorney and very high
profile attorney in this town. He's also a mixed martial
arts fighter, is now out of the race, but Build
the Blasio. Build the Blasio has now endorsed to candidate
(05:07):
Boy just guess who that is. Guess who that would be,
Zorin mom Donnie.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Yes, we need police for a variety of situations, but
why don't we flood the zone with mental health workers
to help get a lot of those people off the
streets and create more of a sense of order. I
think what people got to say from Zaram when he's
mayor is actually, he will be able to do things
that previous mayors didn't.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Oh yeah, he's going to do a lot of things
that previous mayors didn't do. He's not going to get
a whole lot accomplished, but he's going to ruin the city.
There is absolutely no question about that that the city
will be ruined under him because specifically what he wants
to do to the police force. I am so happy
that crime has taken center stage now in this race,
(05:54):
because that is where Zorin mom Donnie is the weakest.
Everything else he says is fantasy, but a lot of
people buy into it. So he's not weak on that
because that's really what's fueling his campaign, and nobody's been
able to break through by saying, look, he can't do
all these things, but crime, crime is visceral, and crime
(06:19):
scares people. They don't want you to take a chance
on crime. They don't want you to promise social workers
when they need police.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Part of that is taking mental health response, homelessness out
of the police department set of responsibilities such that they
can actually follow through other responsibilities that give New Yorkers
a real sense of trust and peace in the city
that they call home.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, so he wants to send social workers, which he
said all along, and he keeps doubling down on to
domestic violence calls, and any police officer will tell you
that that is one of the most dangerous situations. That's
(07:01):
when you need a police officer. So when you send
a social worker to an already volatile situation and they
try to talk them down, that doesn't always work. So
you're gonna end up sending a police officer anyway, and
hopefully the social worker has not been assaulted or killed
(07:25):
at that point. It is dangerous what we're talking about
right now. And I don't know why this doesn't sink through.
There is something going on where logic has gone out
the window because he keeps promising things he can't deliver,
and the things he can deliver on are scary.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
He is a danger to New Yorkers.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
He is dangerous and he is reckless because of his
inexperience and his political philosoph.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, it's the phone former, it's the political philosophy, the latter,
I should say, that's what's so scary about him. Yeah.
I don't care about his lack of experience. I really
don't care about that. I care about what he says
he's going to do. He puts it all out there
for you. He's not trying to hide what he wants
to do. And it's the lack of experience of the
(08:23):
voters that scares me. Because there's all these young voters
that go, that sounds good, that sounds good. We're all
going to Disneyland. You know, it's it is pie in
the sky stuff. But when you're young and inexperienced, you
can buy into that. And that's what he's hoping for.
(08:45):
He's hoping for a huge block of voters that don't
know any better. They just see the big free sign
on the storefront window and believe it's really for free
when it's not. There's a huge cost for the things
he can get done. You know, he can't raise taxes.
(09:08):
He can't he can't do that by himself. The corporate
tax that he keeps saying he is going to raise
to get money for all the free buses and the
free childcare, and the government stores and all the socialist
things he wants to do. He can't get the money
for that. He'll never be able to get the money
for that. That's all a lie. It will never happen.
(09:29):
And yet there are so many people that just see
free and they don't care how he does it, and
so they're going to vote for him because he promises free.
Everything about this guy is scary. So I believe what
Jim Walden is saying. Other people do need to drop
out now, and I'm sorry that includes Curtis Lee. If
(09:52):
he doesn't, if he doesn't rise dramatically in the polls,
it should be time for him to get out. Although
I love his policies, especially about the police. Do you
want social workers to deal with these gang problems that
are plaguing your burrow, Because that's what Zaa Mondomi wants.
He wants social workers. He does not want additional cops, right,
(10:13):
and Curtis Lee will want seven thousand more cops, and
that's exactly what we need. More cops, not more social workers.
But he wants to take that money. He keeps saying
he doesn't want to defund the police, but he wants
to take the money away from the police and hire
more social workers. So yeah, that's that's defunding. We'll talk
more about that over the next couple of hours. Well,
(10:36):
there was a magical moment at a wedding at Saint
Peter's Cathedral when a young woman was about to get
married and something wonderful happened. We'll tell you what that
was next
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