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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Filling in for Mark. Here's Ken Rosatto. Happy Thursday to you.
It's good to be with you. Mark is off former
New York City TV news anchor Ken Rosatta reporting for
Duty Today. You probably best remembered me from the twenty
years I spent doing the morning show over Channel seven,
and I've worked even a Channel five some people. Some
people still stop me on the street and say, weren't
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you on Good Day? Yeah, about one hundred years ago.
I was before they had TV. It was like two
tin cans in a string. That's what I was on
Good Day, but it was I did do that for
about a year, and these days I have the privilege
of hosting a daily show on a New Jersey based
news channel. It's called on New Jersey. They were the
ones that brought you the first New Jersey governor debate
of the season, and we do a lot of news
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breaking there. It's a New Jersey wide channel. I think
it's you only TV channel. It's on the entire state.
You can also stream it live from anywhere in the
country and rerun it. Also the morning show that I
do at o NNJ dot com. Do so after you've
listened to everything here at WR so it's O n
NJ dot com. I also run a food website for
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all you foodies. It's called the food Dude. It has
links to thousands of recipes from all over the world.
It's free and you could find it at Thefooddude dot us.
Make sure the word is there, Thefooddude dot us. It's
so good to be here. There is a lot to
talk about today. Phone lines are open. Give us a call,
take part in the conversation. One eight hundred three two
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one zero seven ten. Today we're going to hit the
mayoral debate. Of course for those of you who are
political junkies like myself that you couldn't wait for this day,
this is a big one. So the mayoral debate, Mom
Donnie versus Cuomo versus Curtis. We'll see what happens tonight.
It's from seven to nine on Channel four. The Trump
Gateway Tunnel project looks like Trump is playing hardball Chuck Schilma.
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Chuck thought he had the last laugh shutting down the government,
but only like two percent of the government is shutdown.
Nobody even notices it's shut down. The military is getting
paid by Altar, and it means which is pissing off
the Democrats in a big way. They want they want
the military not to get paid so that people will
get upset. But Trump always has a Plan B. I
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think the Democrats won't figure this out for one hundred
and fifty years. Trump has a Plan B, a Plan C,
a Plan F, a Plan L. So you come at
him with something, he will come back at you with
ten times that Democrats, So just learn, get over it,
spend the next three and a half years with a
bottle of tums, and accept it. All right. It is
the reality. So Trump's response to Chuck Schuma and his
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insistence on keeping the government shut down by telling his
fellow Democrat senators not to vote for the Continuing Resolution
in the Senate is to cancel the Gateway Tunnel project,
which is Chucky's twenty year He worked on his plan
for twenty years to have something that he could hang
his hat on. Now that's not to say we don't
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need it. We do need the Gateway Tunnel project, and
I'm sure Trump will get that money to us. But
right now we're saying, hey, Chucky boy, if you want
this Gateway Tunnel project, you better play some ball. Otherwise
I'm canceling the money. Here's why Trump can do it.
The money that was allocated for the Gateway Tunnel project
is not allocated by Congress. It was a grant that
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was signed off on by President Biden. Well, because the
government is shut down and all the outgoing money is
in essence effectively locked, President Trump could say, nope, we're
not going to continue that grant, stop it no more.
We don't have a government functioning. And as the chief
of the Executive Branch, he has that authority. So Chucky boy, checkmate,
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see what you're gonna do next. The New Jersey governor's
race is big. We're going to be talking about that.
In fact, we are going to have a person I
believe is the dean of New Jersey politics, Micah Rasmussen,
who heads the Rebevich Institute at Writer University for politics.
He knows more about New Jersey politics than anybody. He
used to be Jim mcgree communications guy, and so he's
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going to be on talking about the race. Big, big
stuff happening over there between Chitarelly and Mikey Cheryl. We
had Chitarelli on my show the other day in New Jersey,
and in fact, he broke the news on my show
that that was when he was going to officially launch
the complaint, the lawsuit against Mikey Cheryl. So that happened
on my show on Tuesday, and so I know you
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probably heard him on Larry Minty about an hour ago
talking about it. So we're going to talk with Mike
Rasmussen about that. Did you know that AI knows and
by AI meean artificial intelligence, not some guy named al Influenza.
AI knows if your phone battery is low, and it
can impact how much you pay for stuff based on that.
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What are you talking about, ken, Okay, let's just say
it's two o'clock in the morning, you need a ride
share to get home, your phone has three percent battery
power left. Artificial intelligence can forward that information to the
app for your ride share and say, hey, this dude
is desperate. You get it. So now you'll be quoted
the highest price instead of a competitive price. So that's
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the way it works. So we're going to talk about that.
It's really deceptive. I think it's unfair. Of course, who
doesn't think it's unfair, But that's business. We're going to
talk about it. Tish James and her big grand niece,
Big Tish and her big grand niece Big Trouble. Potentially,
we'll talk about that, the grand new niece finally responding
to all the allegations about her being a fugitive from
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North Carolina and living in Anti Tish's home, that Anti
Tish says it's her primary residence in Virginia, and we
know it's not, because you can't be the Attorney General
of New York if you're a primary residence is in Virginia.
And then we're going to talk about, Oh, there's a
few actually a few other surprises I'm not even gonna
mention yet. So let's get to the big stuff. Tonight
is the night it is the big debate for Mayor
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of New York City. Curtis Sliwa, Andrew Cuomo and Zoron
Mamdani will make the debate stage. It's seven to nine
pm on Channel four. And what are they going to
be talking about. Well, you know, mom, Donni is going
to be going after Cuomo Andrew.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
You had your chance to lead this state. You took
that time to sell out working class New Yorkers to
your billionaire donors and instead of actually meeting the needs
of people, who couldn't afford to live in the city.
You gave nine hundred and fifty nine million dollars in
tax breaks to Elon Musk and now you want us
to believe that we can't spend less money than that
to make every bus fast and free in the same city.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And what does Culomo have to say?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Mister Mandami's plan for Rikers Island is either incoherent and
incompetent or diabolically manipulated.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Now, now the question is, and of course we have Curtis.
I don't have a piece of sound for Curtis right now,
but we love Curtis and we keep our fingers crossed
for him. The question is, looking at the polls, if
you add up the support for Curtis and the support
for Andrew Cuomo, the two could If you take the
two and combine them, they could potentially beat Mamdani. Right,
So what's in your mind? Well, Curtis should bow ow.
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Curtis should bow ow because Andrew Cuomo has higher numbers.
But honestly, the person who has more legitimacy up there
is Curtis. Because Curtis is endorsed by one of the
major parties in New York the Republican Party. He won
that primary fair and square, and he has a right
to run. So every time you're ready to condemn him,
say and say drop out, Curtis, Come on, is that
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really fair to him? But you could look at it
as if Curtis stays in and Mamdanni wins. I think
a lot of people may look back and say, it's
your fault, Curtis, that we got Mamdani. Well, no, it's
not his fault. The fault is the education system in
New York City that has brainwashed young people for generations
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now to believe in the system of victim and victimizer.
And then you have a socialist like this, a democrat socialist.
Let's just face it, he's a communist. He keeps insisting
he is a democrat. So but you know, if it
walks like a duck and talks like a duck, chances
are quack quack, it's a duck. You can call yourself
a ham, sandwich zoron all that you'd like, but you
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espouse all the beliefs of communism. So call yourself a
democratic socialist. Okay, if that's what we're calling communism today,
you're still a communist. Just branded as a democratic socialist.
The reality is you are what you are and it
is still going to destroy our economy. And if you
saw Mom Donnie yesterday, he was on Fox News Channel
with Martha McCallum. Martha did an enormous job. She's a
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phenomenal journalist and Zoron I give him credit for going
to the belly of the beast right Fox News Channel.
Most Democrats won't set foot in there. And of course
he went in with his big fake smile, his coach smile,
and his coached answers, and Martha pushed him and asked
over and over again. She asked him, number one, do
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you congratulate President Trump on his successes in the Middle East?
And of course he wouldn't give a direct dam answer,
and ultimately he did say that he said, it's too
early to give him any kind of congratulations. Well, let's
listen to what Mum Donnie said.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
And when it comes to the ceasefire, I am thankful
and I have hope that it will actually endure and
that it will be lasting. And I continue to have
concerns because I've seen reports still just this in the
last few days, that five Palestinians were killed by the
Israeli military. And that's what gives me pause about issuing
any kind of praise or celebration at a moment when
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it is still so in its infancy.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
And here's where he is a communist and deceptive, and
here's where he's very careful to parse his words. Mister
mum Donnie talks about the five Palestinians who died, he
doesn't tell you how they were killed. The five Palestinians
were part of a mob that ran up on Israeli
soldiers at a time when according to the peace plan
that Hamas signed that the Hamas folks are supposed to
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be disarmed as of Monday. It was supposed to disarm,
but no, they still have weapons. And the Israeli soldiers
are now going in to move forward with the next phase.
But how do you move forward with the next phase
when a bunch of people with weapons come running up
on you. So, if you're an Israeli soldier and you
know that thousands of your countrymen have just gotten murdered
in the last two years, and you see a bunch
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of people who were supposed to disarm, who have not
yet disarmed, running up on you, what are you supposed
to do. The Israeli soldiers told those Palestinians stop, they
did not stop. They continued running, so they got shot. Now,
I don't want anyone to die. I don't want anyone
to get shot. But this is the reality. You know,
Hamas it was not choked to sign this. They signed
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a piece plan. They agreed to disarm. They did not.
So what are Israeli soldiers supposed to do? All right?
So now Mamdani carefully mentions the shooting of those Palestinian
folks and they were apparently Hamas members who ran up
on the Israeli soldiers, or how do you know what
they are honestly, But he fails to mention that Hamas
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lined up up to thirty five fellow Palestinians and got
them blindfolded and on their knees and summarily executed each
one with bullets to the back of the head. Why
because somebody in Hamas thought they might have leaked to
Israel or sided with Israel. In other words, they weren't
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vociferously enough in support of Hamas' beliefs. So Hamas lined
up thirty five Palestinians and shot them at the back
of the head. Hey, mister Mamdani, where was your criticism? There?
No criticism, total silence. So when Israelis defend themselves, Mamdani
is quick to criticize. When Palestinians murder Palestinians and they
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stream it live, these people's heads getting blown off, streamed
live on the internet, there is radio silence from Mamdani.
Think about that when you go into a polling place
and you go to make your vote, it's awful. Going
back for a moment to the Gateway Tunnel project, President
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Trump made this comment when he discussed it yesterday. We're
terminating those programs and they're going to be terminated on
a permanent basis. And it's thousands of people, and it's
you know, billions of dollars. Yeah, And by thousands of people,
he means thousands of jobs are going to be impacted
that New York and New Jersey government had hoped for.
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And Governor Kathy Hockel, miss Hochels in effect of herself, had.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
This to say, this is not sticking it to New York.
This is the Northeastern corridor to make sure that our
tunnels are safe. They're damaged by Superstorm Sandy, they're over
one hundred years old. We need to replace them because
if this system of transportation collapses, the Northeastern economy and
the economy the country collapsed. So why be so shortsighted?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Kathy Hockel is the definition of why you should spend
more money and not less when you get porcelain veneers.
I'm just saying, that's why she talks like that. I'm
just guessing. I don't know, I know, I mean, Can
that's mean, don't do that, don't poke fun. My mother
right now is probably listening. She listens to wr like
I do every day. Can that's mean? All right, Governor,
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make fun of your
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big porcelain veneers. Ten eighteen right now, seven to ten,
wor and over in New Jersey, the polls are definitely
tightening in the race for governor. On Tuesday, as I mentioned,
I had Jack Chittarelli on my show in on New Jersey.
That's the name of the channel that I'm on and
I do the morning show there and the governor elect.
Oh did I say that? No? No, I'm sorry, I
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meant to say. Jack Chittarelli made the announcement that he
was about to launch his lawsuit that day against Mikey
Cheryl because if you watch the debate that was on
Channel seven, Mikey Cheryl turned to Jack Chittarelli calling him
a murderer. Now, for those who aren't following, or they
don't they heard something about you, You don't know why.
This is what this is about. Chittarelly used to own
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a company called Galen Publishing. It was a medical publishing company.
The University of Tennessee, their medical school, approached Galen and
wanted to publish a study on opioids. This is years
and years ago Chittarelli's company Galen, and he was the
head of the company. There were probably hundreds of people
under him who did this deal. They published the book.
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That's what they do, their book publishers for the medical industry.
And I should say Jack Chitarelli no longer owns this company,
has nothing to do with it. So they published a
study by the University of Tennessee on opioids, and basically
the study said that if you are not currently addicted
to stuff, that there is a relatively low chance that
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you will become addicted to opioids. Well, we've now found
out later that no, opioids are extremely addictive. At the time,
they may or may not have known that. Either way,
Mikey Cheryl is trying to blame him for the deaths
of tens of thousands of New Jersey people who got
addicted to opioids. Well, you know what, the tens of
thousands of New Jersey people who died of opioid overdose
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did not. Most of them did not die from prescription opioids.
They died from fentanyl. You moron. Sorry did I say
that doctor? Thankfully that didn't go out on the air.
Let me say that again. They died from fentanyl, ma'am.
They did not die from opioid overdose like from a
prescription from their doc. Now, some do, of course, but
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most don't. The vast majority of people die from fentanyl,
which is why Chitorelli turned to Cheryl and said, no,
you were the one and your party allowed people to
come in illegally and bring fentanyl into this country, which
was the appropriate response. Well, Mikey Cheryl is doubling down.
She now apparently is putting together a website calling Jack
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Chitdarelli Opioid Jack, like he's a drug dealer and he
is appropriately suing her for it, and I hope it
gets the court fast, though I doubt it'll happen before
the election. Either way, she better watch when she calls
somebody a murderer, because even though we have what are
called anti slap laws to protect you from things like that, whatever,
I think, he still has a chance in court, and
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so do many people in the legal industry. It is
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