October 16, 2025 • 32 mins
Ken Rosato fills in for Mark Simone and talks about the ongoing government shutdown and Trump playing hard ball with Chuck Schumer. Ken takes your phone calls. Micah talks with Ken Rosato about the games being played by Trump against Chuck Schumer as the government shutdown continues.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Filling in for Mark. Here's Ken Rosatto and 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 worked even a Channel five some people,
some people still stop me on the street and say,
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weren't 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
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of the season, and we do a lot of news
breaking there. It's a New Jersey wide channel, I think,
so 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 wor so it's O n
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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,
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take part in the conversation. One eight hundred three two
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, Mam
Donnie versus Cuomo versus Curtis. We'll see what happens tonight.
It's from seven to nine on Channel four.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
The Trump Gateway Tunnel project looks like Trump is playing hardball.
Chuck Schilma. 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 alter and it means which
is pissing off the Democrats in a big way. They
want they want the military not to get paid so
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that people will get upset. But Trump always has a
Plan B. I 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 Democrat. So just learn,
get over it, spend the next three and a half
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years with a bottle of tums, and accept it. All right.
It is the reality. So Trump's response to Chuck Schuma
and his 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
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his plan for twenty years to have something that he
could hang his hat on. Now that's not to say
we don't 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.
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The money that was allocated for the Gateway Tunnel project
is not allocated by Congress. It was a grant that
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.
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We don't have a government functioning. And as the chief
of the Executive Branch, he has that authority. So Chucky boy, checkmate,
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.
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He knows more about New Jersey politics than anybody. He
used to be Jim mcgree communications guy, and so he's
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
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the complaint, the lawsuit against Mikey Cheryl. So that happened
on my show on Tuesday, and so I know you
probably heard him on Larry Menty about an hour ago
talking about it. So we're going to talk with Mike
O Rasmussen about that. Did you know that AI knows
and by AI meet artificial intelligence, not some guy named
(04:38):
al Influenza. AI knows if your phone battery is low,
and it can impact how much you pay for stuff
based on that. 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 of New York City. Curtis Sliwa, Andrew Cuomo and
Zoron Mamdani will take the debate stage. It's seven to
nine pm on Channel four. And what are they going
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to be talking about. Well, you know, mom, Donnie is
going to be going after Cuomo Andrew.
Speaker 3 (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 Cuomo have to say?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Mister Mandai'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
and say and say drop out Curtis, come on, is
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that 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 now to believe in the system of victim and victimizer.
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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
espouse all the beliefs of communism. So call yourself a
democratic socialist. Okay, if that's what we're calling communism today,
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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. Out If you
saw Mom Donnie yesterday, he was on Fox News Channel
with Martha McCallum. Martha did an enormous job. She's a
phenomenal journalist and Zoron I give him credit for going
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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 you congratulate President Trump on his successes in the
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Middle East? And of course he wouldn't give a direct
nam 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 3 (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 Israeli military.
And that's what gives me pause about issuing any kind
of praise or celebration at a moment when it is
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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.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
And it's thousands of people, and it's you know, billions
of dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
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. And Governor Kathy Hochel
miss Hockels ineffect of herself, had this.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
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 of the country collapsed. So why be so shortsighted?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Kathy Hochel 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 WR.
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 Chitdarelli 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 Chittarelli 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
ten twenty one. You're listening to seven to ten. Woar
the voice of New York Ken Rosatto in for mister
Simone himself on your Thursday. We'll take your calls next
one eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten
beautiful sunny day to day, highs upper fifties to low
sixties seven ten war. It's ten twenty two. We'll be
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right back Ken from Mark Today. Here's Ken Rosatto and
good to be with you. It's ten twenty nine on
your Thursday. And by the way, I don't know if
you saw that NBC News announced that they began laying
off about one hundred and fifty people from the news
division as part of the spin off of MSNBC into
ms Now or whatever they're going to be called. But
it always makes me sick, whether they're liberal or not. Look,
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I worked in the industry for decades and I just
wish well to my colleagues and just hope they all
land on their feet. But it is time to check
the phones. Right now, it's eight hundred three to two
one zero seven ten wor. We go to Jay in
New Jersey. Jay, good morning to you. Hey Ken hill Ay,
I'm good.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
You know, but about the debate tonight, you know, what
has to be made clear is that zoramm Donnie has
openly professed to hate America. And yes, arises why he
wants to run for the you know, to be mayor
of New York City. And the answer is, obviously he
wants to destroy it. And I do not have faith
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in Andrew Cuomo to make this, to make this clear
to the people of New York City. And that saddens
me because if zoram Ram Donnie gets elected, you know,
he's not hiding what he's doing. You saw the Fox
News interview and that's just a preview to what you're
going to see tonight.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Look, there are people on the internet, Jay, and only
because we're short of time and I mean to step
on you, but there are people on the internet. On
the Internet, anyone could say anything, but who have said,
you know, and this is it's it sounds very anti Islam.
And I am not anti Islam here because I have
many friends who are very faithful Muslims. But there are
many who say, if you look at what happened in
all the European capitals where you had people who were
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of the faith who came in and then they imposed
the faith on many of the capitals, and they're suggesting
that that's what he is. I don't believe that, but
I do believe that he comes up from a different mindset,
that he comes up with a very socialist mindset, and unfortunately,
you know, people are falling for it, and that is
not the way this country was founded. Alan Yonker's good
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morning to you.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
Yeah, hi, Ken, thanks for taking my calling. You know,
I just wanted to say I'm a registered Republican and
I follow what's going on nationally and locally, and I
really think the speaker is the speaker. Johnson is being
irresponsible by not even being in Washington. I mean, that's ridiculous.
He shouldn't be getting paid.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Well, let me ask you this now, al let me
let me ask you this. The House did its job.
They all they needed to do was pass a continuing resolution.
It wasn't this isn't about passing a whole new budget.
They just needed a continuing resolution. The House did that,
so he did his job. And you know, listen, when
the Democrats were in power, they just did what they
wanted to do, and then if the Republicans didn't sign on,
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they said screw you and they moved on. But when
the Demo, when the Republicans are in charge, and the
Democrats want to still play by the rules as if
they're in charge, but sorry, it doesn't work that way.
They are not in charge anymore. And the bottom line
is House did its job. The Senate has to do
its job, and five senators of the Democrat persuasion refused
to do that. Vincent, we got about thirty seconds left,
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but I got to get you on. Good morning Vincent
in Brooklyn, Good.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Morning Ken, Ken. I think when opioids are used correctly,
they have a place in medicine. I think a lot
of these severe laws that now in New York you
could only get a prescription for opioids for a seven
day prescription. So if you have terminal cancer, like my
uncle did. And you depend on those drugs at edd
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state in end stage cancer to relieve your pain, or
do you got to go back to your doctor every
week to get a prescription. You're in rack and ruin
from the pain. And a lot of these people who
had problems with these drugs, they would have problems with
a lot of other drugs. They have addictive personalities, they're junkies.
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I had three oral surgeries in the past year, and
if it wasn't for drugs like percocet or oxycondin that
have opioids in them, I would be up to proverbial
Creek because I was in extreme pain. And once the
prescription was finished, and once the pain was gone, I
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stopped using it. Stop. People have to realize it's written
right on the bottle that you're not supposed to take
these drugs after a certain period of time. You're not
supposed to take them with alcohol, and it's said they're
highly addictive.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, you know, you know the one. By the way,
I should even mention there is a new drug out
that is non opioid that some doctors are getting and
I'm not just talk to your doctor about. It's called
Jernoviks and it is not opioid. It doesn't make you groggy,
and it's pretty good. But it doesn't work on spinal pain,
but it does work on non spinal pain photoghy. My
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insurance covered it because when I had I had hernia
surgery recently and it worked. But that's a good option,
but only because I got to go to news here,
we got to jump. I love you, you know when you
call all the time, Vincent, and I appreciate that. But
Vincent's right, if you are non addictive, it's fine to
follow the instructions of the opioids. The problem is, I
get it, some people become addictive, But you don't look
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at the person running against you and say you're a
murderer when he just simply published a study from a
university seven ten wr When we come back, more on
the New Jersey governor's race with New Jersey political guru
Micah Rasmussen, whose son was killed by a serial drunk
driver Happy Happy Thursday. He was Press secretary for former
New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevy. In these days. Micah Rasmussen
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is the director of the Rebevich Institute for New Jersey
politics Rider University. He's contributed to the public affairs of
the state for more than two decades and has more
than fifteen years experience as an adjunct professor of political science.
Mike Rasmussen, Good morning.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
To you, Hey, San, how are you.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I'm great. It feels like I just talked to you
in the last two days, maybe because I did almost
of them, right there, you go. Hey, So we got
to ask you. Actually I was going to talk to
about the New Jersey governor's race, but we've had some
breaking news since then about the Gateway Tunnel project and
President Trump basically telling hey, Chuckie Schielma, screw you, pal.
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What do you think you think? This is just politics?
He's just playing games right now.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Yeah, I hope so, I hope so for the sake
of the region, for the sake of New Jersey, we're
sort of swept up in this. And it's as you know,
this project is that a long time coming. That rail
infrastructure is over one hundred years old. Sometimes it's got
to be knocked into placements with a sledgehammer. And I'm
not even kidding. And we can't afford for this thing
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to be caught up. So I hope that resolution is
on the way. And you know, this is pretty strong language.
It's different than what we heard a couple of weeks ago,
which was that it was a pause. Cancelation is a
different deal. That doesn't sound like something to come back from.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yeah, I think he used the word terminated. He used
the word terminated, so that is a serious word. And
he does have the right to do it because this
was a grant that was signed in by Biden. So
because it was a grant, he could freeze grants and
that's for I'm sure this was at a left field
for even those on the left. But nonetheless, we'll see
what happens in the days ahead. Hopefully it brings them
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to the negotiating table so we can get this government
open again. Where do you see the New Jersey governor's
race right now, Micah? Do you know we talked about
this on our show the other day in New Jersey,
But now Jack was on Jack Torelli was on Minty
in the morning today here at w o R, and
he talked about that lawsuit. He's moving forward with it.
Speaker 8 (24:03):
Yeah, you know, it's interesting because I think by most
of the public polling, he's got a little bit of
round still the makeup in these closing weeks. He's got
an enthusiasm match for sure, but he's still got some
ground to make up. You know, anywhere between three and
five or six points. He's in a good pace to
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do that. That this is the kind of distraction that
can derail him from that. The same thing with these
questions that we've talked about about his role in the
opioid crisis is his company's role in the opioid crisis.
This is the kind of thing that knocks you off
your game and prevents you from making the closing arguments
that you want to make in the last couple of
weeks of the race.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
So, if you are Jack Chittarelli, what should you be
doing right now? Just talking about nothing else but what
the fact that Mikey Cheryl won't promise that she won't
increase taxes, Talk about the fact that Mikey Cheryl's party
is the party that resulted in the high energy rates?
Is that what all you should be focusing on?
Speaker 8 (25:04):
Affordability? Yeah? Absolutely, that's that's what's on voter's minds. Sure,
And you know there's some evidence that talking about the
ethics or the stop trades or you know, Annapolis is
a distraction from what's really on voter's minds, and you've
got to show that you are sensitive to what voters
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are are concerned about. And I don't know if he's
doing that right now.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yeah, I'm by the way, I'm literally sitting seventy five
feet from where Charlemagne the God talked to Mikey Cheryl
and had that famous interview. I could walk literally out
this door and down the hall and that's right where
the interview occurred where she didn't know if she had
seven million dollars that she earned in stock Grade. Let
me just remind people that are listening to seven to
ten wo r it is Ken Rozotto in from Mark
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Simone on a Thursday, ten forty seven is our time,
and we have Micah Rasmuss and political expert from the
state of New Jersey, my good friend who's on with
us today. So let's let's talk about what the next
step is would be for now Mikey Cheryl, if you're
Mikey Cheryl, what do you have to do to kind
of get back on track in terms of the whole
thing with the military academy?
Speaker 8 (26:13):
You know, so same thing for her, she's got to
tap into voter's frustrations over affordability, and this is where
her message on high tax jack, which you know, I mean,
we can talk about whether that's fair or not, but
he definitely has resonated. He's got a bigger problem with
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approval at this point than she does. In most polling,
she is still right side up, he's upside down. So
I think those commercials are having an impact on him.
I think she's got to continue to continue to drill
down on that to the extent that she can, and
to the extent that it's fair to do.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
So, how hard is it for these candidates in New
Jersey to run for an office that is statewide because
they have to buy ads in the two large or
two of the largest TV markets New York is number one,
Phillies number five, in order to get their message out.
It's got to be super expensive, probably more expensive than anywhere.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
Else it is. And as you well know, because of
you know what you do every morning, viewers are not
just getting their TV anymore from cable. They're not just
getting it from broadcasts. They're getting in from digital, from streaming,
and so it is harder than ever because you've got
to be on all the platforms where people are watching.
(27:31):
It is a dispersed media market, and that means it
is more expensive and it's a tough thing to do.
One thing that you know, I have to remind people
all the time is said, we've got a public financing
system for governor. So theoretically, at least on the campaign side,
they're spending their they're cap is the same out about
(27:52):
eighteen million dollars. Jack Ciarelli has spent a lot more
of that down at this point in the race driving
his message. She not more or less than the closing
gaye of the race. That she's spoiled away. That could
make a big difference in this close So.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
You think that Jack could climb up in the next guy?
Be mean, we only have two and a half weeks
before this happens. Do you think he has a shot
At this.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
Point, she does have a shot. There's no question about that.
This race is impossible to predict. We're probably going to
go through several more lifetime or gateways between now and
the election. There's no question he's in the hunt. But again,
what I am concerned about for him is is he
being driven off of his message. Does he have the
(28:35):
fire power to keep going where she has sort of
spoiled that money away while she's on the offense with
her messaging. I think the positions are better, but I'm
certainly not counting him out at this point.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Well, I'm not going to let you go before I
ask you a thirty second question here. Are you going
to be watching the New York City mayoral debates tonight?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (28:53):
I absolutely am, And I think it's going to be
a big night in that race because people are trying
to sort out the new dynamics with the three candidates
left for the race. And we'll see what happens. I
think Mondani certainly is His messaging is novel. It's different, right,
whether or not it's what voters are interested in. But
you know, are you going to get more of the
(29:14):
same old, same open or are you going to get
something new? And then, of course, does that present an
opportunity between those two juking it out to have to
present an opportunity for Suliva just try to come up
the middle.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Amazing, all right? The director of the Rebevich Institute for
New Jersey Politics at Ryder University, my good friend Micaeh Rasmussen.
I appreciate you all the time, so I could talk
to you for hours. Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 8 (29:34):
Today, you too, Ken, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
You bet have a great day. He is just I
mean literally, if there's nothing he doesn't know, and it's
been decades. This guy knows everything, certainly about New Jersey politics,
but he knows about politics nationwide. Well, we want to
hear from you. Seven ten wore the Voice of New
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hundred three two one zero seven ten for seven ten WR.
We're gonna go right to our busy phones. Christina on
Long Island, good morning to you.
Speaker 9 (30:09):
Good morning. I was listening to your show and it's
so repetitive of not only your station but others. How
Mandami is going to win and how he has the support.
I mean, the primary was eighteen percent of the Democrats
and he that's such a small percentage. And the other
(30:32):
comment that I have is from what I understand in
the beginning. Mondami has been in for about five or
six sessions in the legislator and in that time he's
only proposed one bill, and he didn't even go up
to Albany to vote for that one bill. Why hasn't
anybody followed up on that?
Speaker 7 (30:54):
What was that bill?
Speaker 9 (30:56):
And why has he been so inactive?
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Well, you know that's these are only because we're short
on time. I'm gonna jump in. You're you're absolutely right
about the bill. And I don't know which bill that was.
I'm sure we could check that out. But just about
every bill that it is right, that is right now
brought before the State Assembly in all buty because the
Assembly is so far to the left, Christine, it's like
you take a look at any bill, just pick anyone,
(31:21):
and it's like how communism can help our lives, How
being to the left is wonderful. I mean, that's what
these bills are insane In the state Assembly. Twenty years ago,
even Democrats would have laughed at them. Today they're sort
of the mainstream in Albany. In terms of why everybody's
talking about Mamdani is because of the polls. Every single
poll has shown him between forty and fifty percent support,
(31:43):
and that is post a primary. We're now talking about
in among the three. So because of that, it is
the reality, and we only can talk about the information
we have. But I'm with you. Listen, believe me. I
don't vote in New York, but if I did, it
wouldn't be for that individual events in Fort Pierce, Florida.
The beautiful sunshine stay, good morning and.
Speaker 10 (32:03):
Good morning, you know real quick. On the New Jersey election,
your your previous guests might know a lot, but I
wouldn't take his advice. He's a Democrat, and I believe
the two topics that really put Chitdarelli on the map
were the two things that he said he shouldn't talk
about now. On the mayoral race in New York. I'm
from originally New York and then New Jersey and then here,
so I'm keeping track of both races. And the thing
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with New York, there's nine million voters and there's something
like one million people voted in the last election. Yeah,
three hundred thousand. Republic that's all they can get. And
then they're gonna sit here and cry and whine that
the rest of the country needs to bail them out.
They need to bail themselves out. There's not a lot
of sympathy. I gotta tell.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
You, Vince, I got to jump only because of the news,
But you're right on every one of those counts, seven
to ten. Wo R. It's now coming up on eleven o'clock.
Time for the news.
Filling in for Mark. Here's Ken Rosatto and 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 worked even a Channel five some people,
some people still stop me on the street and say,
(00:20):
weren't 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
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so you only TV channel. It's on the entire state.
You can also stream it live from anywhere in the
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take part in the conversation. One eight hundred three two
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, Mam
Donnie versus Cuomo versus Curtis. We'll see what happens tonight.
It's from seven to nine on Channel four.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
The Trump Gateway Tunnel project looks like Trump is playing hardball.
Chuck Schilma. 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 alter and it means which
is pissing off the Democrats in a big way. They
want they want the military not to get paid so
(02:05):
that people will get upset. But Trump always has a
Plan B. I 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 Democrat. So just learn,
get over it, spend the next three and a half
(02:25):
years with a bottle of tums, and accept it. All right.
It is the reality. So Trump's response to Chuck Schuma
and his 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
(02:49):
his plan for twenty years to have something that he
could hang his hat on. Now that's not to say
we don't 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.
(03:11):
The money that was allocated for the Gateway Tunnel project
is not allocated by Congress. It was a grant that
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.
(03:33):
We don't have a government functioning. And as the chief
of the Executive Branch, he has that authority. So Chucky boy, checkmate,
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.
(03:56):
He knows more about New Jersey politics than anybody. He
used to be Jim mcgree communications guy, and so he's
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
(04:17):
the complaint, the lawsuit against Mikey Cheryl. So that happened
on my show on Tuesday, and so I know you
probably heard him on Larry Menty about an hour ago
talking about it. So we're going to talk with Mike
O Rasmussen about that. Did you know that AI knows
and by AI meet artificial intelligence, not some guy named
(04:38):
al Influenza. AI knows if your phone battery is low,
and it can impact how much you pay for stuff
based on that. 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
(05:01):
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 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
(05:22):
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 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
(05:42):
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 of New York City. Curtis Sliwa, Andrew Cuomo and
Zoron Mamdani will take the debate stage. It's seven to
nine pm on Channel four. And what are they going
(06:05):
to be talking about. Well, you know, mom, Donnie is
going to be going after Cuomo Andrew.
Speaker 3 (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 Cuomo have to say?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Mister Mandai'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.
(07:07):
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
and say and say drop out Curtis, come on, is
(07:28):
that 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 now to believe in the system of victim and victimizer.
(07:53):
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
espouse all the beliefs of communism. So call yourself a
democratic socialist. Okay, if that's what we're calling communism today,
(08:15):
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. Out If you
saw Mom Donnie yesterday, he was on Fox News Channel
with Martha McCallum. Martha did an enormous job. She's a
phenomenal journalist and Zoron I give him credit for going
(08:37):
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 you congratulate President Trump on his successes in the
(08:57):
Middle East? And of course he wouldn't give a direct
nam 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 3 (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 Israeli military.
And that's what gives me pause about issuing any kind
of praise or celebration at a moment when it is
(09:30):
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
(09:55):
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
(10:16):
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
(10:36):
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
(11:01):
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
(11:21):
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
(11:44):
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
(12:05):
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.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
And it's thousands of people, and it's you know, billions
of dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
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. And Governor Kathy Hochel
miss Hockels ineffect of herself, had this.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
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 of the country collapsed. So why be so shortsighted?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Kathy Hochel 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
(13:10):
big porcelain veneers. Ten eighteen right now seven to ten WR.
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
(13:31):
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
(13:55):
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.
(14:18):
That's what they do, their book publishers for the medical industry.
And I should say Jack Chitdarelli 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
(14:39):
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
(14:59):
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 Chittarelli 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
(15:42):
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
(16:02):
so do many people in the legal industry. It is
ten twenty one. You're listening to seven to ten. Woar
the voice of New York Ken Rosatto in for mister
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(16:24):
right back Ken from Mark Today. Here's Ken Rosatto and
good to be with you. It's ten twenty nine on
your Thursday. And by the way, I don't know if
you saw that NBC News announced that they began laying
off about one hundred and fifty people from the news
division as part of the spin off of MSNBC into
ms Now or whatever they're going to be called. But
it always makes me sick, whether they're liberal or not. Look,
(16:45):
I worked in the industry for decades and I just
wish well to my colleagues and just hope they all
land on their feet. But it is time to check
the phones. Right now, it's eight hundred three to two
one zero seven ten wor. We go to Jay in
New Jersey. Jay, good morning to you. Hey Ken hill Ay,
I'm good.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
You know, but about the debate tonight, you know, what
has to be made clear is that zoramm Donnie has
openly professed to hate America. And yes, arises why he
wants to run for the you know, to be mayor
of New York City. And the answer is, obviously he
wants to destroy it. And I do not have faith
(17:25):
in Andrew Cuomo to make this, to make this clear
to the people of New York City. And that saddens
me because if zoram Ram Donnie gets elected, you know,
he's not hiding what he's doing. You saw the Fox
News interview and that's just a preview to what you're
going to see tonight.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Look, there are people on the internet, Jay, and only
because we're short of time and I mean to step
on you, but there are people on the internet. On
the Internet, anyone could say anything, but who have said,
you know, and this is it's it sounds very anti Islam.
And I am not anti Islam here because I have
many friends who are very faithful Muslims. But there are
many who say, if you look at what happened in
all the European capitals where you had people who were
(18:03):
of the faith who came in and then they imposed
the faith on many of the capitals, and they're suggesting
that that's what he is. I don't believe that, but
I do believe that he comes up from a different mindset,
that he comes up with a very socialist mindset, and unfortunately,
you know, people are falling for it, and that is
not the way this country was founded. Alan Yonker's good
(18:24):
morning to you.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
Yeah, hi, Ken, thanks for taking my calling. You know,
I just wanted to say I'm a registered Republican and
I follow what's going on nationally and locally, and I
really think the speaker is the speaker. Johnson is being
irresponsible by not even being in Washington. I mean, that's ridiculous.
He shouldn't be getting paid.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Well, let me ask you this now, al let me
let me ask you this. The House did its job.
They all they needed to do was pass a continuing resolution.
It wasn't this isn't about passing a whole new budget.
They just needed a continuing resolution. The House did that,
so he did his job. And you know, listen, when
the Democrats were in power, they just did what they
wanted to do, and then if the Republicans didn't sign on,
(19:08):
they said screw you and they moved on. But when
the Demo, when the Republicans are in charge, and the
Democrats want to still play by the rules as if
they're in charge, but sorry, it doesn't work that way.
They are not in charge anymore. And the bottom line
is House did its job. The Senate has to do
its job, and five senators of the Democrat persuasion refused
to do that. Vincent, we got about thirty seconds left,
(19:29):
but I got to get you on. Good morning Vincent
in Brooklyn, Good.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Morning Ken, Ken. I think when opioids are used correctly,
they have a place in medicine. I think a lot
of these severe laws that now in New York you
could only get a prescription for opioids for a seven
day prescription. So if you have terminal cancer, like my
uncle did. And you depend on those drugs at edd
(19:54):
state in end stage cancer to relieve your pain, or
do you got to go back to your doctor every
week to get a prescription. You're in rack and ruin
from the pain. And a lot of these people who
had problems with these drugs, they would have problems with
a lot of other drugs. They have addictive personalities, they're junkies.
(20:17):
I had three oral surgeries in the past year, and
if it wasn't for drugs like percocet or oxycondin that
have opioids in them, I would be up to proverbial
Creek because I was in extreme pain. And once the
prescription was finished, and once the pain was gone, I
(20:38):
stopped using it. Stop. People have to realize it's written
right on the bottle that you're not supposed to take
these drugs after a certain period of time. You're not
supposed to take them with alcohol, and it's said they're
highly addictive.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, you know, you know the one. By the way,
I should even mention there is a new drug out
that is non opioid that some doctors are getting and
I'm not just talk to your doctor about. It's called
Jernoviks and it is not opioid. It doesn't make you groggy,
and it's pretty good. But it doesn't work on spinal pain,
but it does work on non spinal pain photoghy. My
(21:13):
insurance covered it because when I had I had hernia
surgery recently and it worked. But that's a good option,
but only because I got to go to news here,
we got to jump. I love you, you know when you
call all the time, Vincent, and I appreciate that. But
Vincent's right, if you are non addictive, it's fine to
follow the instructions of the opioids. The problem is, I
get it, some people become addictive, But you don't look
(21:34):
at the person running against you and say you're a
murderer when he just simply published a study from a
university seven ten wr When we come back, more on
the New Jersey governor's race with New Jersey political guru
Micah Rasmussen, whose son was killed by a serial drunk
driver Happy Happy Thursday. He was Press secretary for former
New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevy. In these days. Micah Rasmussen
(21:56):
is the director of the Rebevich Institute for New Jersey
politics Rider University. He's contributed to the public affairs of
the state for more than two decades and has more
than fifteen years experience as an adjunct professor of political science.
Mike Rasmussen, Good morning.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
To you, Hey, San, how are you.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I'm great. It feels like I just talked to you
in the last two days, maybe because I did almost
of them, right there, you go. Hey, So we got
to ask you. Actually I was going to talk to
about the New Jersey governor's race, but we've had some
breaking news since then about the Gateway Tunnel project and
President Trump basically telling hey, Chuckie Schielma, screw you, pal.
(22:35):
What do you think you think? This is just politics?
He's just playing games right now.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Yeah, I hope so, I hope so for the sake
of the region, for the sake of New Jersey, we're
sort of swept up in this. And it's as you know,
this project is that a long time coming. That rail
infrastructure is over one hundred years old. Sometimes it's got
to be knocked into placements with a sledgehammer. And I'm
not even kidding. And we can't afford for this thing
(23:04):
to be caught up. So I hope that resolution is
on the way. And you know, this is pretty strong language.
It's different than what we heard a couple of weeks ago,
which was that it was a pause. Cancelation is a
different deal. That doesn't sound like something to come back from.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yeah, I think he used the word terminated. He used
the word terminated, so that is a serious word. And
he does have the right to do it because this
was a grant that was signed in by Biden. So
because it was a grant, he could freeze grants and
that's for I'm sure this was at a left field
for even those on the left. But nonetheless, we'll see
what happens in the days ahead. Hopefully it brings them
(23:42):
to the negotiating table so we can get this government
open again. Where do you see the New Jersey governor's
race right now, Micah? Do you know we talked about
this on our show the other day in New Jersey,
But now Jack was on Jack Torelli was on Minty
in the morning today here at w o R, and
he talked about that lawsuit. He's moving forward with it.
Speaker 8 (24:03):
Yeah, you know, it's interesting because I think by most
of the public polling, he's got a little bit of
round still the makeup in these closing weeks. He's got
an enthusiasm match for sure, but he's still got some
ground to make up. You know, anywhere between three and
five or six points. He's in a good pace to
(24:24):
do that. That this is the kind of distraction that
can derail him from that. The same thing with these
questions that we've talked about about his role in the
opioid crisis is his company's role in the opioid crisis.
This is the kind of thing that knocks you off
your game and prevents you from making the closing arguments
that you want to make in the last couple of
weeks of the race.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
So, if you are Jack Chittarelli, what should you be
doing right now? Just talking about nothing else but what
the fact that Mikey Cheryl won't promise that she won't
increase taxes, Talk about the fact that Mikey Cheryl's party
is the party that resulted in the high energy rates?
Is that what all you should be focusing on?
Speaker 8 (25:04):
Affordability? Yeah? Absolutely, that's that's what's on voter's minds. Sure,
And you know there's some evidence that talking about the
ethics or the stop trades or you know, Annapolis is
a distraction from what's really on voter's minds, and you've
got to show that you are sensitive to what voters
(25:24):
are are concerned about. And I don't know if he's
doing that right now.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yeah, I'm by the way, I'm literally sitting seventy five
feet from where Charlemagne the God talked to Mikey Cheryl
and had that famous interview. I could walk literally out
this door and down the hall and that's right where
the interview occurred where she didn't know if she had
seven million dollars that she earned in stock Grade. Let
me just remind people that are listening to seven to
ten wo r it is Ken Rozotto in from Mark
(25:50):
Simone on a Thursday, ten forty seven is our time,
and we have Micah Rasmuss and political expert from the
state of New Jersey, my good friend who's on with
us today. So let's let's talk about what the next
step is would be for now Mikey Cheryl, if you're
Mikey Cheryl, what do you have to do to kind
of get back on track in terms of the whole
thing with the military academy?
Speaker 8 (26:13):
You know, so same thing for her, she's got to
tap into voter's frustrations over affordability, and this is where
her message on high tax jack, which you know, I mean,
we can talk about whether that's fair or not, but
he definitely has resonated. He's got a bigger problem with
(26:33):
approval at this point than she does. In most polling,
she is still right side up, he's upside down. So
I think those commercials are having an impact on him.
I think she's got to continue to continue to drill
down on that to the extent that she can, and
to the extent that it's fair to do.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
So, how hard is it for these candidates in New
Jersey to run for an office that is statewide because
they have to buy ads in the two large or
two of the largest TV markets New York is number one,
Phillies number five, in order to get their message out.
It's got to be super expensive, probably more expensive than anywhere.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
Else it is. And as you well know, because of
you know what you do every morning, viewers are not
just getting their TV anymore from cable. They're not just
getting it from broadcasts. They're getting in from digital, from streaming,
and so it is harder than ever because you've got
to be on all the platforms where people are watching.
(27:31):
It is a dispersed media market, and that means it
is more expensive and it's a tough thing to do.
One thing that you know, I have to remind people
all the time is said, we've got a public financing
system for governor. So theoretically, at least on the campaign side,
they're spending their they're cap is the same out about
(27:52):
eighteen million dollars. Jack Ciarelli has spent a lot more
of that down at this point in the race driving
his message. She not more or less than the closing
gaye of the race. That she's spoiled away. That could
make a big difference in this close So.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
You think that Jack could climb up in the next guy?
Be mean, we only have two and a half weeks
before this happens. Do you think he has a shot
At this.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
Point, she does have a shot. There's no question about that.
This race is impossible to predict. We're probably going to
go through several more lifetime or gateways between now and
the election. There's no question he's in the hunt. But again,
what I am concerned about for him is is he
being driven off of his message. Does he have the
(28:35):
fire power to keep going where she has sort of
spoiled that money away while she's on the offense with
her messaging. I think the positions are better, but I'm
certainly not counting him out at this point.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Well, I'm not going to let you go before I
ask you a thirty second question here. Are you going
to be watching the New York City mayoral debates tonight?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (28:53):
I absolutely am, And I think it's going to be
a big night in that race because people are trying
to sort out the new dynamics with the three candidates
left for the race. And we'll see what happens. I
think Mondani certainly is His messaging is novel. It's different, right,
whether or not it's what voters are interested in. But
you know, are you going to get more of the
(29:14):
same old, same open or are you going to get
something new? And then, of course, does that present an
opportunity between those two juking it out to have to
present an opportunity for Suliva just try to come up
the middle.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Amazing, all right? The director of the Rebevich Institute for
New Jersey Politics at Ryder University, my good friend Micaeh Rasmussen.
I appreciate you all the time, so I could talk
to you for hours. Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 8 (29:34):
Today, you too, Ken, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
You bet have a great day. He is just I
mean literally, if there's nothing he doesn't know, and it's
been decades. This guy knows everything, certainly about New Jersey politics,
but he knows about politics nationwide. Well, we want to
hear from you. Seven ten wore the Voice of New
York and Risotto went from Mark on a Thursday, and
the numbers eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
We're going to take your calls next again. It's eight
(29:59):
hundred three two one zero seven ten for seven ten WR.
We're gonna go right to our busy phones. Christina on
Long Island, good morning to you.
Speaker 9 (30:09):
Good morning. I was listening to your show and it's
so repetitive of not only your station but others. How
Mandami is going to win and how he has the support.
I mean, the primary was eighteen percent of the Democrats
and he that's such a small percentage. And the other
(30:32):
comment that I have is from what I understand in
the beginning. Mondami has been in for about five or
six sessions in the legislator and in that time he's
only proposed one bill, and he didn't even go up
to Albany to vote for that one bill. Why hasn't
anybody followed up on that?
Speaker 7 (30:54):
What was that bill?
Speaker 9 (30:56):
And why has he been so inactive?
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Well, you know that's these are only because we're short
on time. I'm gonna jump in. You're you're absolutely right
about the bill. And I don't know which bill that was.
I'm sure we could check that out. But just about
every bill that it is right, that is right now
brought before the State Assembly in all buty because the
Assembly is so far to the left, Christine, it's like
you take a look at any bill, just pick anyone,
(31:21):
and it's like how communism can help our lives, How
being to the left is wonderful. I mean, that's what
these bills are insane In the state Assembly. Twenty years ago,
even Democrats would have laughed at them. Today they're sort
of the mainstream in Albany. In terms of why everybody's
talking about Mamdani is because of the polls. Every single
poll has shown him between forty and fifty percent support,
(31:43):
and that is post a primary. We're now talking about
in among the three. So because of that, it is
the reality, and we only can talk about the information
we have. But I'm with you. Listen, believe me. I
don't vote in New York, but if I did, it
wouldn't be for that individual events in Fort Pierce, Florida.
The beautiful sunshine stay, good morning and.
Speaker 10 (32:03):
Good morning, you know real quick. On the New Jersey election,
your your previous guests might know a lot, but I
wouldn't take his advice. He's a Democrat, and I believe
the two topics that really put Chitdarelli on the map
were the two things that he said he shouldn't talk
about now. On the mayoral race in New York. I'm
from originally New York and then New Jersey and then here,
so I'm keeping track of both races. And the thing
(32:25):
with New York, there's nine million voters and there's something
like one million people voted in the last election. Yeah,
three hundred thousand. Republic that's all they can get. And
then they're gonna sit here and cry and whine that
the rest of the country needs to bail them out.
They need to bail themselves out. There's not a lot
of sympathy. I gotta tell.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
You, Vince, I got to jump only because of the news,
But you're right on every one of those counts, seven
to ten. Wo R. It's now coming up on eleven o'clock.
Time for the news.
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