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Speaker 2: A number of people who are survivors of nine to
eleven are calling on you not to go to nine
to eleven memorial services. I wonder how you feel about
the fact that they're trying to keep you away.
Speaker 3: I will proudly honor the families, the survivors, the first
responders forever impacted by that horrific terror attack by standing
alongside them at this year's nine to eleven commemoration, reaffirming
that we will never forget the solemn day felt by
all of us who call this city home, and frankly
by all of us who call this country home.
Speaker 4: M HM, welcome our friends of the Monday edition of
bosner Le's Rush, Our fastest hour in American media, that,
of course, the New York City Mayor and Minister of
New York City's Foreign Policy and also New York City's
Grocery Commissioner, the Honorable uh Zorondami. We have more from
mister Mondami on his acting in his role as Grocery
Commissioner of New York City as well. However, there is
a little bit more on the his foreign policy role
Minister of New York's Foreign policy cut to Carlos, we
can play this now because there's so much more to do.
I want to quickly deal with Mondami's latest.
Speaker 5: To understand that you're making it clear that you're criticizing
a particular politician, not the ethnic group. But there have
been growing concerns amongst elected officials, some of your ing reporters,
General Letitia James, about the fact that comments and rhetoric
may be rise in temperature. Do you take those concerns
to heart and what is your plan to bring down
those temperatures?
Speaker 3: So, I think to your point, when I make criticisms
of Prime Minister net Yahoo, they are criticisms of Prime
Minister Net and Yahoo, and what I shared were not
even frankly personal assessments. They were objective facts. And my
responsibility as a Warlorker and as a mayor of this
city is a responsibility to take care of each and
every person who calls the city their home, and that
is not based upon whether or not they agree with me,
how they feel about me. My job is to make
sure that they are safe, that they are thriving, and
they continue to call this city home, and that's always
going to be my north star on how we can
do that, because this is an incredible city, and it's
a city where everyone needs to know that their belonging
to it is not conditional on how they feel about
the mayor.
Speaker 5: And is there a reason that you told The New
York Times that you were still an active conversation with
the legal department in regards to possibly following up on
that arrest warrant when you were previously told that that
necessarily couldn't happen.
Speaker 4: Said that all I have to say on that topic.
Thanks this all the time we have. The reporter asked
him when he comment on rising the temperature, it's raising
the temperature. Honey, lord, what did you hear her saying that?
Could you come on rising the temperature? Raising the temperature?
Miss young reporter? At where do these kids graduate school? Anyway? Uh?
So there's Mondai. Never mind what he actually says at
other times. That's what he's saying today. He also spoke
about the citywide grocery stores. We'll get to that in
a moment. Uh The Republicans, my Daily Caller released the
story I became aware of shortly before this program began.
This afternoon thanks to Princess Toiana, uh gives Republicans talking. Well,
you know, they're getting ready to go on vacation again
again again again. It's like they come back and they work.
First of all, these guys work. Oh please, James, don't
go there, because it's a little bit unfair. They work
in Washington only a few days a week. Now. Some
of them do work in their home districts, and so
the illusion that they only do work once in a
while is an incorrect But we can't say that about
all of them because we don't know. But they like
to take vacations. They like to be in recess, away
from their job, and of course August is a traditional
time for recess in Congress. One must also say that
to be fair. However, not when there's important legislation going
on and the Save Act is the president's number one priority.
Doesn't seem to be much of the priority of John Thune,
the establishment Republican and the NR city the Senate Committee.
The Republican Senate Committee, earns has issued a talking points memo,
which is also not uncommon to the members of the
Republican Senate Caucus. But in it this little talking points
memo says, or when they get questions on party in
fighting the Save Act or the filibuster, the media, they say,
is going to try to redivide Republicans by asking your boss.
This is sent to staffords to tell their bosses what
to say by asking your boss to pick a side
in any given question. It is crucial, a crucial to
reject these false choices between the President and Senate leaders.
Express support for both of them. Reject the false choice
between the Save Act and the philibuster. It is not
a false choice. Reject express support for both the filibuster
and for the Save Act into each answer by attacking
Democrats for blocking Save, point to Republican unity and opposing
the extremely dangerous Democrat socialist agenda which will make more
life more dangerous and unaffordable for Americans. So that's how
they're instructing their members pretty much ignore the President's call
to end the filibuster by pretending that it doesn't exist.
Don't even mention that picked, don't pick a side. Oh no, no,
no argue for both of them. This is the kind
of crap that Republican staff to Republican rhinos. In the
Republican rhino oriented Senate due to try to mask the
fact that they are the fact that they are blocking
what Americans want. This is why they're not fighting. They're
too busy trying to figure out how to cover their behinds,
when to get some mon dummy and the grocery stores.
But first, you know, over the weekend there was an
attack in Berlin, the Berlin they were having a pride.
The fact that there and a German citizen with Lebanese
roots m birthrate citizen, I guess uh anyway, excuse me
for that brief aside up due blout, a German citizen
with Lebanese roots was killed following a search that lasted
twenty four hours after that event was attacked. He was
suspected of driving a van into a crowd near Berlin's
Pride festival. Now this isn't the first time there have
been these kind of attacks. Remember the Christmas that happened
over there. And this, by the way, is considered a
bit of Islamic oriented terrorism. In this case in Seattle
over the weekend, near the Space Needle, and I've been
there many times. In fact, there's a great Chinese restaurant.
I wonder if it's still over there. Man, this Chinese restaurant.
This is a bomb. One of the best Chinese restaurants
I've ever been to in my life over there near
this but yeah, it's amazing. Near the Space Needle anyway,
don't know whether it's still there or not. So much
of the city has deteriorated. I spent munch time there.
A suspect was arrested after a shootout. They had a
three day festival in Seattle near the Space Three people
killed killed at this event, others wounded, and now a
fifteen year old boy has been arrested. I shouldn't say boy,
but a fifteen year old teenager is being held in
Juvie in Juvie as they investigate this matter. He's being
held on an investigation of firearms violations and first degree assault.
They're looking for a second suspect. The Seattle Police Chief
Sean Bond said investigators believe the two suspects were shooting
at each other. Two people died at the scene, the
third died in the hospit pitole. The two men that died,
one is age nineteen, the other forty four women. Fifty
six were killed. Four people were wounded, including a two
year old boy. Two other men, twenty three, twenty seven
women thirty nine were discharged from the hospital. Vendors were
allowed to go back today to clean up and it. Man,
it's called a Bite of Seattle three day festival. Hundreds
of food and retail vendors and performers and a fifteen
year old now held in Juvie after three people killed
at that event. Uh, we're gonna take a break. But
before we do that, I'm all over the place today, folks.
I got so much new. There's so many news. As always,
I don't talk about the grocery stores, but hold on
because I want to play some sound bites, so I
don't have time to play them in the first half
hour of the show. So we're gonna talk about the
grocery stores in mom Donnie, but I'm gonna hold that
till the next half hour. In this the fastest hour
of American media period, I will set a story alert
to a story, and I said, I can't believe the
headline of this story. Not Howard, not famed Howard University.
Listen to this, folks. Bet you haven't heard this anywhere else.
Howard University is standing by a decision. You know how
people are you know how democrats use you know how
people democrats like to use language like, instead of saying
they're homeless, they're unhoused. You've heard that before. Listen to
this headline. Howard University stands by decision to unenroll. I'm
not laughing at that predicament, but just the word unenrolled
hundreds of incoming students over guess what, unpaid fees and
they're gonna review in certain instances. Well, I mean really,
Howard University facing backlash. People are complaining and calls to
reverse course after the HBCU historically black college, reportedly informed
hundreds of incoming students that their enrollment had been revoked
over unpaid fees. You read a change dot org petition
was launched by a user. Her name is Fatima Fatima Ahmed.
She says that, along with hundreds of other students, they
were suddenly unenrolled from Howard University thirteen days before moving week.
We found ourselves dropped from our registered classes and labeled
as inactive all day to pass balances on our accounts.
This woman, complaining for the others, says that many of
the effected students relying on scholarships loans and financial support
to attend our dream school, and unforeseen circumstances can often
delay those funds. The petitions asked that before students receive
the un they say. It says that before they receive
their unenrollment notice, the university's financial aid officers and officers
of the bursar had assured us as long as their
balances were below five gs they could register and go
to classes. This pay up before spring. And they're calling
on Howard University to rectify this what they call unwarranted
disenrollment and immediately reinstate affected students. So these students haven't
paid their bills, they haven't paid their last year's tuition
or from the term that's already expired. They owe money
and they haven't paid, and they're trying to re enroll
in The student unenrolled them left them schoolless and their
bi itching. They want to go to school even though
they haven't paid the money to go to school, and
they think it's their right.
Speaker 5: Ah.
Speaker 4: Man, it just goes to show you they haven't learned
a damn thing about life. We'll be back. Next segment's
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Speaker 4: Here's how it will work.
Speaker 6: Once a month, our five city run grocery stores will
set prices for this core set of goods at thirty
percent below typical retail prices, no exceptions, no gimmicks. The
savings will last for the entire month. That means no
weekly fluctuations nor sticker shock at the checkout line.
Speaker 4: That is Mondami on how the five government run grocery
restores are going to work thirty percent below retail for
a core group of items. He says they're gonna last
the entire month, that thirty percent below market price on
and I don't know what items they are on. We're
gonna have so much more about this. Here is one
question that I have. What happens in a big city
when you have something that people can get for thirty
percent less than it normally costs. What happens? What's one
of the first things that happened? Come on, Carlos, this
is simple, This is easy. You gotta put yourself in
the mind of a crook. What happens when you can
get something below what it costs. What do you do
with it? Well, it you resell it, you scout, You
go in and you buy tons of them, you get
the market, you steal them, you do whatever, and then
you go out and you resell it and make a bonanza.
I wonder if they're gonna demand photo ID to get
this stuff in this store. There's one question that I have.
And we have a lot to go with these grocery stores. Folks,
this is interesting. We'll be right back to them. Go away.
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Speaker 4: Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, I had groove, sorry, little groove,
little groove theory there, But I don't like nasty food.
What kind of food is going to be thirty percent off?
So let's listen to Mayor of New York City and
the Commissioner of Groceries, Mayor zorn Mondami cut four. Here
he is.
Speaker 8: Since twenty nineteen, food prices have soared at grocery stores
around the country by roughly thirty percent. In fact, talk
to shoppers around the city and you'll often hear the
same frustration. Wages have not kept up, making matters. Even worse,
some corporations have built out technology that allows for something
called surveillance pricing, collecting personal data to charge some people
more than others for the same carton of X, for
the same gallon of milk. All of this leaves too
many New Yorkers feeling like groceries are out of reach,
and that is frankly unacceptable, which is one city government
is stepping in to make people's lives more affordable. Today,
I am proud to announce a collection of essential staples
that will be predictably thirty percent cheaper at all five
of our city run grocery stores.
Speaker 4: Yay, CEO of the new Grocery story is Mondami Domy's
gonna make things thirty percent cheaper. Okay, So again, let's
examine what happens if it's not nasty food. If it's
nasty food and it's thirty percent cheaper, no one wants
nasty food except for a few people. The nasty boys
that Janet Jackson was talking about. They eat nasty food
and they like nasty food. But most of us don't
like nasty food. We like Janet Jackson, we like her,
and we don't like her in that regard. We don't
like nasty food. We're not gonna eat nasty food. So
if the thirty percent off is on nasty fold food,
no one's going to want it at no matter what
price it is, except for the nasty food eaters. But
if it's good food and it's thirty percent off, here's
what's going to happen. This is called supplying demand. Here's
what's gonna happen. There's gonna be there's a demand for
good food. And so if you can get it thirty
percent off, individuals are gonna look at that as an
opportunity and they're gonna go in and they're gonna buy
it at thirty percent off, and then they're gonna go
tell their friends. You know, this is not nasty food.
This is true that you and I like. And you
know what you if you go in to the grocery
store and like, you playing like twenty dollars for this thing,
I got it here. I can get to the same thing,
and the expiration date is cool, and I can get
it to you for I don't give it to you
for like eighteen dollars. You don't even need a coupon.
You know, every one of these you buy, you say,
you could end up saving some serious money if you
shop with me. They go in and buy it, and
then they resell it, they figure the mark up. Whatever. Now,
if individuals are gonna do this, and it won't be long.
The criminals are already figuring it out. And the people
that are good with math, you don't even have to
be a criminal to do that. All you just have
to do is right. They're saying, Okay, we can get
it for thirty percent off, and then we can sell
it for maybe twenty twenty five percent a We can
make a profit. We can become the new middleman. So
how's the city gonna stop that at the city grocery stores? Why?
The only way to stop it is if they have IDs.
And if you have to have an ID, you have
to say these are rationed, you have to start rationing.
Will only have these if they're rationed. But you know
there's another group of people that like stuff like this off. Well,
we got a whole bunch of products. We got a
lot of product moving thirty percent off. If we get
the market on that and we can create a shortage
on it, we can find ourselves in some real good money.
We can get him cheap at the five stores. How
many families we have five? How many grocery stores are
they have? Five? Every family can get a store, bro
And there's nothing like a family grocery store for knowing
efficiencies rather than the government grocery store. You've known what
I'm saying. You understand what I mean. Not that s
what's intended, but that's every piss on off. And you
know we could do things with that. We can make
some money with this. This is some serious action there.
It won't be long with my friends. This is just
a prediction. It's just a prediction. Here's another prediction. Here
is another prediction. It comes by way of a news
story that broke last week that I bet the Mayor
of New York hasn't heard about. Let us go to
cut six, my friends, this is what took place in
Chicago last week. Towards the end of last week, I
news the report another city where they thought government grocery
stores were the answer.
Speaker 9: In Chicago, progressive policies are on full display, where grocery
stores and predominantly minority neighborhoods have been forced to close,
leaving residents scrambling, and the city is blaming Trump's cuts
to the SNAP program despite pumping thirteen million dollars worth
of taxpayer money into them.
Speaker 4: It's unbelievable.
Speaker 9: Now these grocery stores, of course, are reaching out for
a private investment. We'll get to that, but just don't
take it from us, Take it from the Chicago residents
who are dealing with it and impact it directly.
Speaker 4: Listen to this.
Speaker 10: Don't be an impact on the community and people close
nearby that they won't be able to get necessities on
what they need at a convenience for themselves.
Speaker 8: Just opened up nas about to close down again. We
have nothing, you know, so I don't know what we're
gonna do. There's nothing around him.
Speaker 11: I mean gonna it's gonna affect the community for sure.
Ably gonna have to travel out now to go to
big grocery stores. And what about the people who don't
got transportation that ain't able to make it to the
big grocery stores.
Speaker 2: That's a reasonable store in the neighborhood, you know, Yeah,
that's some I'm around here.
Speaker 12: It's so expensive.
Speaker 13: So Chicago's the City of Chicago ended up funding this
grocery store. It's called Save a Lot, and there was
a lot of investment into it, and yet in a
very short period of time they had to close. There's
multiple reasons why this happened. One is, if you go
online and you look up this particular store this change,
we see a lot of TikTok videos with people's stealings.
There was also a lot of theft going on, and
as you know, grocery stores operate on a very slim margin,
and so you have a city that doesn't monitor or
or have a lot of repercussions for crime, and then
it causes this to happen. The other part, though, and
it's fortunately, is that there were changes to the Snap
program and this particular grocery store they said thirty percent
of their sales depended on people using their Snap and
ebt and those changes, they say also impacted the bottom
line for the store. But the bottom line, though is Charlie,
you know, this is not exactly a free market grocery
store and it's not operating well. And if that's the future,
I don't know. And it's a sad reminder that governments
are really terrible.
Speaker 4: They were, there was there was They were i think
to thirty percent to save a lot, to save a
lots to my friend, you didn't. Yeah you could save
a lot, but you couldn't get a lot for long.
Let's examine this. That poor girl sounded so that girl reporter,
she was stumbling around trying to get it out because
she felt so uncomfortable having to tell the truth. Why
did the store close? Well, you know, there are a
lot of factors that top that go into op that
there was theft. What she could have said, the yns
were stealing like no tomorrow. She could have said that
if she wanted to get thrown off out of a job.
No one wants to say things like that. But she said, well, yeah,
that was theft, a lot of theft. And then you
have a crime written. Gee, what a shock. You put
a store, a brand new, shiny store in a crime
ridden neighborhood where the mayor and the governor don't want
help in bringing down the crime rate because it would
make them look bad. But you open up a bunch
of new save a lots. You know, we'll call it
the store save a lot, kind of like Camelot, except
we can save a lot instead of cam will save
a lot of camelot in your crime ridden neighborhood. But
they problem. When you put a store in a crime
ridden neighborhood and you open the doors, the criminals come
in too. Criminals like the shop, Criminals like to eat,
some of them eat nasty food, and they look in
they say, well, I'm a criminal. I don't have to pay,
I can just take. And if you live in a
city where it's okay to be a criminal, because after all,
law enforcement they're the problem, not the criminals, then the
criminals say, hey, we got the joe. Doesn't take long
for word to spread. There's somewhere new we can steal from.
We're criminals. I got a list of stores that save
a lot. Man. This is they weren't messing around. They
opened up there. These things opened up just a little
bit ago. When they closed, they closed at eight thirty
two West sixty third Street, they closed it seventy nine
oh four South House that Avenue, and then up on
South had House that Avenue a little bit further up
on one oh seven hundred they closed up that one.
That's when the South in the South, you know what
that means. And then they closed in twenty eight fifty
eight East eighty third Street that saved a lot closed too,
and the one on Pulaski Road closed to now you
know Pulaski Road. Pulaski Road used to be a different ethnicity.
That's why they named it Pulowski. But in them people
moved out and said a lot of people moved in
and Save a Lot came in and now Save a
Lot moved out. The neighborhood a new story. Save a
Lot says, Save a Lot made the difficult decision to
end our arrangement with Yellow Banana. Two Yellow Banana agreed
to keep them stores for ten years. A company called
Yellow Banana twenty six million to buy and renovate stores
on the South side and West side of Illinois. Yellow
Banana ain't on it. Save a Lot, Yellow Bananas, Criminals,
Chicago life, my friends, we didn't get to so much.
We got to take a quick break here that I
wanted to get to the day, and that always happens.
But we will get to it. Their stuff going on.
The Democrats are broke heading into the twenty four elections.
And by the way, Donald Trump wants to take this
mail in of voting executive order that he did to
the Supreme Court. Don't go away. Clip of the day
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Speaker 4: The clip of the day you want to hear it
is the clip barther day, My friends. Today, we have
a clip of the day from one of the abcw's Yeah,
angry black congress women, one of them. Now, this one
is somewhere in the middle. She's not as old an
obnoxious as Maxine, She's not as young and super obnoxious
as s mend Crockett. She's in the middle. She's from
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she was in a debate on the Virgin Islands. You'll
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so without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, from a debate
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Woman Stacy Plasket delicate plasket.
Speaker 10: On November eighteenth, twenty twenty five, you dodge censor by
a narrow vote from your house colleagues after it was
revealed by the Washington Post that you were texting with
Jeffrey Epstein while questioning Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen.
The very next day, you went on CNN and rebuked Epstein, stating,
quote having a friendship with him is not something that
I would deem to have end quote. However, in the
US Department of Justice files, your own ward spined a
different picture. The Dog dropped a batch of Epstein files
in February twenty twenty six, which included a text exchange
released with Epstein where you stayed quote, I appreciate your
support and hope I'm not presumptuous to consider you a
friend end quote, to which her response quote privileged to
be called a friend end quote. Why did you change
the niche of your relationship with Epstein in your interview
with CNN?
Speaker 12: Thank you for the question. And let me first say
that this is a very difficult chapter in virgin I.
It's history being engaged having tagged Jeffrey Epstein here, and
that I completely support the work that the victims have
done to bring his crimes to life. I have been
a former prosecutor, I am a mother, I am no
way involved or would support any of the actions of
Jeffrey Epstein. Indeed, the victims themselves, in a civil lawsuit,
dismissed all claims against me and souling me being engaged
in anything nefarious that would have supported his actions. Asking
an individual to give you resources or campaign money to
your campaign and calling them a friend does not mean
that you have a friendship and mine. Saying thank you,
my friends, my friends, I'm asking for your support is
something that we do regularly.
Speaker 14: Begging him to be I don't think you don't think
his presumption WI was if I call you a friend,
a friend is not a friend. It doesn't mean you
want to be this woman.
Speaker 4: With even to day because it is Andy White's heavenly birthday.
Who's he? He's a guy playing drums on the first
single love Me Doom and also Yes, I Love You
sometimes characterizes the fifth Beatle. We have to go, my friends.
May God blessed protect teach and every single one of you,
your families and your loved ones and your friends, so
your real ones love and gratitude for your being here
with me, Allow me to be with you God. Welling
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