NYC Mayoral Candidates Face Off in Debate; Trump to Meet with Putin _ NTD Good Morning (Oct. 17)

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The first televised debate in New York City’s mayoral race turned fiery on Thursday night. Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo questioned Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s lack of management experience, while Mamdani accused Cuomo of serving wealthy donors over working-class New Yorkers. Republican candidate and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa criticized both for backing policies like bail reform and closing Rikers Island prison.

President Donald Trump is set to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Friday, where the pair are expected to discuss sending long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. The meeting comes just one day after Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone. Trump and Putin are expected to meet in Budapest, Hungary, in about two weeks. Trump said the meeting will take place after Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Trump's former national security adviser, John Bolton, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland on Thursday. Bolton has been charged with 18 counts of transmitting and retaining national defense information. In a statement on Thursday night, Bolton called the charges an attempt by the president to intimidate his opponents. He said he looks forward to defending his “lawful conduct.”
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00:00Welcome to NTD Good Morning.

00:02Here are today's top stories.

00:04President Trump is eyeing a ninth peace deal as he says he's plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

00:12Former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton indicted.

00:16We take a look at the charges he faces.

00:18President Trump, crime, Hamas and prostitution were just a few of the topics at last night's lively debate.

00:24His candidates in New York City raced to be the next mayor.

00:30An up-close look at the race for attorney general in Virginia in last night's debate.

00:34Incumbent Jason Meyers faced off against challenger Jay Jones.

00:38We're going to have the highlights.

00:41Democrats reject a bill to reopen the government for a tenth time.

00:45House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries makes it clear that Democrats will consider ending the shutdown only when their policy demands are met.

00:53The maker of ChatGPT has released a new social media platform called Sora intended to compete with Instagram and TikTok.

01:00We'll speak with an author on the positives and the negatives of these new AI capabilities.

01:04This is NTD Good Morning.

01:17Live from our global headquarters in New York City, here are Stefania Cox and Kerry Dunst.

01:23Good morning. Thanks for joining us.

01:25Today's Friday, October 17th. You're watching NTD Good Morning.

01:28In today's top news, President Trump is welcoming Ukraine's President Zelensky back to the White House today.

01:34It comes just one day after speaking on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

01:39And Trump issues a new warning to the Hamas terror group.

01:42NTD's Washington correspondent Mari Otsu has the latest.

01:45President Trump is saying that he's going to meet Russia's President Vladimir Putin in about two weeks in Budapest, Hungary,

01:53and that this meeting will come after Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, quote, very soon.

02:00Take a look.

02:01We're going to be meeting in Hungary.

02:04Viktor Orban is going to be hosting.

02:06And we think we're going to get it, we hope we're going to get it stopped.

02:12This coming after President Trump called President Putin saying they spoke about U.S.-Russia trade when the war with Ukraine is over.

02:20The president calling it, quote, very productive.

02:22And as Ukrainian President Zelensky arrives in D.C. for his Oval Office meeting with President Trump Friday,

02:28where they're expected to talk about sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine.

02:32Meanwhile, President Trump issuing a harsh warning on Hamas.

02:35We're going to find out if they behave, if they behave good, if they don't behave, we'll take care of it.

02:40Saying if Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, quote, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them.

02:46But the president clarifies there will be no U.S. boots on the ground in Gaza.

02:50Meanwhile, President Trump is announcing that the largest fertility drug manufacturer in the world, EMD Sirono,

02:57will significantly reduce the cost of fertility medication to help make IVF more affordable.

03:02We want to make it easier for all couples to have babies, raise children, and set the families they've always dreamed about.

03:10The fertility drugs will be available on TrumpRx.gov, EMD Sirono says, at an 84% discount.

03:17The White House saying that last year, 3.6 million babies were born in the U.S.,

03:21half a million less babies, then, is ideal to replace our current population.

03:26But it turns out that it's about one in three families, a much higher number, that don't have the number of babies they desire.

03:33They're under-babied.

03:35President Trump is also saying that the White House is working to expand insurance for fertility care

03:41so that people could get fertility insurance like they would dental or vision.

03:45And this is now the third time in the past few weeks that the Trump administration

03:50has struck a deal with pharmaceutical companies to significantly lower drug prices.

03:54Mari Otsu, thank you.

03:58John Bolton, President Trump's former national security advisor,

04:02has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland.

04:05The Justice Department sought the indictment over alleged unlawful handling of classified information.

04:11An investigation says that Bolton used a private AOL email account

04:15to store and transmit classified notes during his 2018-2019 White House tenure

04:21in the first Trump administration.

04:23In August, the FBI conducted a search on Bolton's home in Bethesda, Maryland,

04:29and in his Washington office, where agencies, devices, and documents marked secret or confidential,

04:35including materials on weapons of mass destruction.

04:38The indictment charges Bolton with 18 counts of transmitting and retaining national defense information.

04:45And in a statement last night, Bolton called the charges an attempt by President Trump to intimidate his opponents.

04:52He said he looks forward to defending his, quote, lawful conduct.

04:56And the first televised debate of the candidates to be mayor of New York City took place last night.

05:02That's right.

05:03NTD's Daniel Monaghan has key takeaways from the lively faceoff between former Governor Andrew Cuomo,

05:08Democrat Zoran Mamdani, and Republican Curtis Sliwa.

05:10Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo took aim at Zoran Mamdani's experience.

05:17I have the experience of having served in the New York State Assembly for five years

05:21and watching a broken political system, the experience of seeing a governor in Andrew Cuomo

05:27who would rather have served his billionaire donors and the working-class New Yorkers who voted for him.

05:32This is not a job for someone who has no management experience to run 300,000 people,

05:36no financial experience to run, $115 billion budget.

05:40He literally has never had a job.

05:43On his resume, it says he interned for his mother.

05:45Thank God I'm not a professional politician.

05:48We have the architect and we have the apprentice of no cash bail, which has been a disaster.

05:54We have the architect and the apprentice here of raise the age.

05:58My own son was almost killed because of that in a gang attack.

06:02On failing to call for Hamas to lay down their arms, Mamdani said this.

06:07Of course I believe that they should lay down their arms.

06:10I'm proud to be one of the first elected officials in the state who called for a ceasefire.

06:14I'm hopeful that it is just, and for it to be just, we also have to ensure that it addresses

06:19the conditions that preceded this, conditions like occupation, like the siege, and apartheid.

06:25The assemblymen will not denounce Hamas.

06:27The assemblymen will not denounce Hassan Piker, who said America deserved 9-11.

06:34The assemblymen just said in his response, well, it depends on occupation.

06:39That is code, meaning that the Israel does not have a right to exist as a Jewish state.

06:47The candidates also discussed the deployment of federal agents to handle crime.

06:51When Donald Trump sent ICE agents on people in Los Angeles, Andrew Cuomo said that New Yorkers

06:57need not overreact.

06:59That is the furthest answer that New Yorkers are looking for.

07:02I went through this with him.

07:03He sent the National Guard to 20 cities when I was governor.

07:07You know what city he didn't send them to?

07:09New York.

07:10Why?

07:10Because I said to him, don't you dare.

07:13On protests, Lewa says civil disobedience has its limits.

07:18We have rampaging groups that go running through the streets, that enter all kinds of facilities

07:24and violate other people's rights.

07:26And there's no one who's willing to stop it.

07:29If you had a leader like Andrew Cuomo, who was telling people not to overreact, when they

07:33see ICE agents abducting girls as young as six years old to deport them, many New Yorkers

07:38will take to the streets.

07:39On crime, the candidates had this to say.

07:43We will have dedicated teams of mental health outreach workers in the top 100 subway stations

07:48with the highest levels of the mental health crisis and homelessness.

07:51The NYPD is now down at one of the lowest levels in modern political history.

07:56I would add 5,000 police, put 1,500 in the subways.

08:01The mayoral hopefuls also touched on the cost of living.

08:05We'll freeze the rent for more than 2 million rent-stabilized tenants.

08:07And I will also build 200,000 truly affordable homes.

08:12Freeze the rent only postpones the rent, because then you have to have an increase to cover

08:18the costs.

08:19And discuss the sex trade and its consequences on the streets.

08:23Prosecuting women for prostitution is something that actually leads to less safety.

08:27And what we need to do is provide an economy of opportunity.

08:31You don't go after the women.

08:33The women are the victims here.

08:34You lock up the johns, you shame the johns.

08:37The election is now just two weeks away on November 4th.

08:41Daniel Monaghan, NTD News.

08:45And NTD's Flora Hua spoke with some New York residents who shared their preferred candidates

08:50and their biggest concerns in this election.

08:53Let's take a closer look.

08:54I guess I have to, to keep Mondommy out of office.

08:58The new candidate, the younger candidate, I think his views are radical.

09:03I think that he's connected with the younger generation because of that.

09:08I think Andrew Cuomo.

09:10I mean, I want someone who's more moderate.

09:12I don't love Cuomo as the option.

09:15If you look at New York City, this is the 18th largest country in the world as far as the economy goes.

09:24So you want to have somebody in office, you better get somebody that knows what they're doing.

09:28I would like more safety for police officers, and I would like more safety with, like, public transit.

09:38I think that if he gets rid of the police or some of the other things that I understand his plan is,

09:45I think that New York would become a far more dangerous place.

09:48For me, in New York, I think crime.

09:50I think crime in the subways.

09:51I think the mentally ill population slash homeless that are on the streets, I think that's a real problem.

09:58I think we need to open up the mental health facilities again because we're not really doing anybody any favors

10:03by letting them sleep on the streets or in the subways.

10:06I think definitely crime.

10:08I think that's the biggest issue for New York right now.

10:10I mean, you look around this neighborhood, and there's just so much vacancy in terms of commercial

10:14and people are leaving the city.

10:16What I'm doing is I'm telling Republican voters in the state of New York, in the city of New York,

10:22to vote against Mamdani for Andrew Cuomo.

10:26And if Zoran Mamdani is successful here, they will replicate that playbook in every major Democrat-run city.

10:33That's why this race is so important to send a national message that we do not accept communism in the United States of America.

10:41This is a Judeo-Christian capitalist society and country, and we must protect it with all that we have.

10:48You can't be an entrepreneur.

10:50You can't come up with new ideas.

10:52You can't thrive in a socialist or communist environment.

10:59I have my own business.

11:00I started my own business with $50.

11:04I grew it to a multimillion-dollar enterprise.

11:07You know, he's getting his point across because he's really pushing the whole free rent, free buses, free grocery stores, and so forth.

11:17And I don't know if that's economically even feasible.

11:21Free also equals laziness.

11:24And when you can sit on your couch, watch TV, and get everything for free,

11:28that means you're not going to go out and get a job and serve the community and pay your fair share of taxes.

11:32And joining us for commentary on last night's mayoral debate is Mike Leon, NTD News contributor and the host of the Can We Please Talk podcast,

11:40as well as John Deaton, an attorney with Deaton Law Firm and a former federal prosecutor.

11:44Gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us.

11:46Mike, let's start on your overall reactions, and then we'll drill in on a few specifics.

11:49Your thoughts?

11:52Yeah.

11:52Good morning to everybody.

11:54Yeah, I mean, good debate last night, good, healthy debate.

11:57You know, I thought there was moments of, you know, animosity, then there was moments of how is that feasible,

12:04and then there was moments of really?

12:06So there was a mixed bag of emotions.

12:09But I thought the standard thing for me is everything that just played in that package there,

12:14which I thought that package kind of summarized a bunch of New Yorkers over 60,

12:18you know, maybe one or two people that are in their 40s that lean in different directions,

12:22and then one student who's kind of unsure, right?

12:24And that's, I think, the takeaway for New Yorkers right now.

12:28Do you want somebody who doesn't have true experience on their resume,

12:32but has some different ideas that they want to try in City Hall?

12:35Do you want somebody who's done some experience at the governor level,

12:39but has had some scandal and controversy?

12:41Or do you want somebody who's been in New York politics for over, you know, 25, 30 years,

12:46but has never really held any serious position in courtesy?

12:49Well, so those are the choices for New Yorkers.

12:51It is an important race, like that guy said in the package, because I think it is a zoom out

12:56to what could potentially lead in 2026 with respect to all the elections that are going

13:01to be happening in the House and Senate.

13:03Great point, a microcosm of what could come in the midterms.

13:05John, your thoughts on last night's debate?

13:07Yeah, I would agree with Mike.

13:09Listen, I think that if you were a Mondami fan, that he did what he had to do.

13:14I don't think he lost anything.

13:17I think he came off much consistent like he has.

13:21Andrew Cuomo, you know, tried to take shots at his inexperience, you know,

13:25with the line that you've never had a job, your resume has you interned for your mom.

13:31And, you know, a lot of people watching who are common sense, sort of like Curtis,

13:35but they know he doesn't have a chance.

13:37And so I actually feel bad for New Yorkers this morning after watching the debate

13:41and the choices they have.

13:42Yeah, you bring up that point.

13:45In some ways, in a New York race, it almost seems like the Republican candidate

13:50is sort of not the one that's the third-party candidate.

13:54It's sort of the independent versus the Democrat.

13:56Mike, affordability was one of probably the top two things, and we'll get into crime.

14:00It's also tied, of course, to maintaining the corporate tax revenue

14:05and not having an exodus of capital.

14:07Ma'am, Donnie's calling for expanding programs such as free buses.

14:10Sliwa and Cuomo painted Ma'am, Donnie, as either disingenuous or naive,

14:16but Ma'am, Donnie, as John pointed to, was able to stay smooth and practiced in his communication.

14:22Who do you think came out strongest in terms of affordability in the city

14:26and keeping revenues in the city?

14:28It's a great question because, Kerry, the thing is, I don't live in New York anymore.

14:36I grew up in New York my entire life.

14:38Where do I live right now, Kerry?

14:39I live in Miami, Florida.

14:40You're the perfect example.

14:40That's what we're talking about.

14:42But let's go into why, Kerry.

14:45In 2020, during the pandemic, New York started to open up and get rentals back in,

14:49and they were offering 15- to 18-month lease with no rent increase.

14:54And the apartment that I was living in was a two-bedroom, two-bathroom.

14:57I was paying $3,300 a month for me and my family of four.

15:00That apartment is now $5,700, Kerry, on Zillow.

15:05You can look it up.

15:05It's 540 West 50th Street for folks out there.

15:08So that is what Ma'am, Donnie, has been campaigning on

15:11when he walked all the way down from the top of Manhattan all the way down to the bottom.

15:16There's an affordability crisis for people, and this is the reason why he has won so many districts

15:20of black and brown voters, whether it be Crown Heights or Prospect Heights,

15:25anywhere in Brooklyn, the Bronx where I grew up, he has won those areas

15:29because he's talking about the affordability crisis.

15:31My paycheck hasn't gone up.

15:33Rent is not, you know, for the rent-stabilized units, that's different.

15:36He's talking about for new units, there is just folks that want to make a profit,

15:40and they're overcharging in different areas, and we can't afford to live there.

15:44So what do we look to do?

15:46For people like me, you know, that has family in Florida, you can move to Florida.

15:49But what I think he has talked the most about the affordability crisis,

15:53and again, he has drilled into the fact that he's been an assemblyman.

15:56Cuomo has actually done things at the governorship level to help New York City

16:00with the affordability crisis.

16:01So it goes back to what John was mentioning, right?

16:03Like, do you want the experienced candidate who has tried certain things

16:07and has actually signed legislation and worked with New York City on their budget?

16:10Or do you want somebody who has some ideas that maybe don't make fiscal sense

16:15and won't get buy-in from the Tenants Association or the Renters Association?

16:19Like, those are the things that New Yorkers have to choose with.

16:22And back to John's point, Siwa is a typical guy who, like,

16:26if he wasn't so in politics for forever, like adjacent to it with the Guardian Angels,

16:32I think he would have a fighting chance.

16:34But he has this connotation that he's just not as serious to be taken as a candidate.

16:39Yeah, he probably had the best idea on the stage in terms of increasing supply of housing quickly

16:44in converting unused, you know, corporate space.

16:49But, John, just as we're starting to run short on time, I really want to get to public safety.

16:54You know, I think one moment that really stuck out for me was where Mamdani compared a program

17:00in Eugene, Oregon, which is essentially a college town in a mostly rural state.

17:06And Siwa immediately was like, hey, that's not going to work here in New York.

17:09But, you know, they brought up prostitution.

17:12They brought up the mental health crisis, although related to public safety.

17:15Who do you think came out atop on that one, John?

17:19Well, listen, I think Curtis actually won it on substance.

17:23And this is the weakest spot for Mamdani.

17:25I would say it's the softest spot.

17:27He actually was a defund the police person, his criticism of the police, and that he believes

17:34that more police doesn't equal more safety.

17:38I certainly agree with him that we have a mental health issue for people in the subways.

17:42They need to be addressed.

17:43But this is the weakest spot.

17:45I mean, he wants to stick on affordability.

17:47No one's going to touch Mamdani on affordability issues.

17:49But on crime, I think it's his weakest issue.

17:52And I was hoping, or not hoping, was thinking, expecting Cuomo to drill that home more.

17:59And I thought it fell flat, to be honest with you.

18:02Yeah, I see your point there.

18:04And, Mike, in terms of Trump having a big part of the debate, Mamdani said he will resist Trump.

18:10But Cuomo pretty eloquently said, if you're elected, that's what's going to lead to a more Trumpian.

18:15Basically, you're electing Trump as mayor.

18:18Did that land, do you think?

18:19If it landed, Mamdani's winning the election.

18:23Because Donald Trump just won in 2024, Kerry.

18:26I mean, so, and everyone has compared their political rise talking about affordability issues

18:32and going to poor voters, let's be honest, and saying, I can do something for you.

18:37But I thought the biggest exchange, I mean, there was a bunch.

18:40Obviously, we didn't even talk about Israel and Gaza and stuff like that.

18:42And again, 5,600 miles New York City is from Israel.

18:46So why are we asking the mayor about that?

18:48We can get into that later.

18:48But the big thing that I noticed yesterday was about this push and pull of the National

18:53Guard and sending troops.

18:55John knows this as a lawyer.

18:56I've interviewed a lot of former federal prosecutors about the National Guard being deployed to cities.

19:01L.A. was different because they were protecting federal property and protecting ICE agents and

19:05enforcement.

19:06Chicago, there's like a little bit of a divergent there, right?

19:10When it comes to New York, neither of them, as mayor of New York City, would be able to protect from National Guard troops being deployed if there is a federal asset that needs to be protected.

19:21That is something that both of them can't do anything about.

19:24So anything, it's politics just saying that you would be able to protect the city from Donald Trump because it depends on the circumstance, right?

19:31It depends on the actual issue, cutting off federal funding and things like that.

19:34There are certain things that are not within the mayor's purview to be able to handle the president of the United States at that level.

19:40So a lot of grandstanding last night on that stage when we all know none of them would have any type of power as mayor, depending upon the situation of why the National Guard troops would be deployed in New York City.

19:50And just, John, as we finish up in the last 10 to 20 seconds, there were several attempts by the moderators to give them opportunities to kind of show their personality, sports questions, you know, what they spend on rent.

20:01Did anybody, in your view, come out the warmest on that?

20:03I think that Curtis Silva was the most sincere New Yorker on stage who loves New York.

20:12But, you know, I think Mondami did what he had to do to secure this victory, which is in a couple of weeks.

20:18And it really comes down to that affordability issue.

20:21And I think politicians across the world, America, need to pay attention because, you know, people are hurting out there.

20:28That affordability issue, if you tell people, listen, if you have cancer and a doctor tells you I can cure your cancer, you're going to listen.

20:35If people can't pay their groceries, if they can't afford their rent, and someone comes along charismatic and says, I can fix that for you, people are going to pay attention to them.

20:44Indeed.

20:45Affordability and certainly public safety probably among the top two to three issues here.

20:49Mike Leon, John Deaton, great to see you guys.

20:51Have a great weekend.

20:52Thanks for joining.

20:54And Virginia voters just got an up-close look at what the state attorney general's race is happening.

21:01Incumbent Jason Meares and challenger Jay Jones faced off on key issues from public safety and civil rights to energy policy.

21:08Here's a closer look on that.

21:10At a debate hosted by the Virginia State Bar, Democratic candidate Jay Jones and Republican State Attorney General Jason Meares squared off on civil rights, energy policy, and the state's relationship with the federal government.

21:22Public safety was a major focus, with Jones emphasizing strategies to reduce violent crime and protect children.

21:29Those three key pillars, cracking down on violent crime and supporting victims.

21:33Ghost guns, which are untraceable and illegal.

21:35We took out the largest ghost gun manufacturer in the country.

21:38We can get that done and deliver results here in Virginia, and I look forward to doing that.

21:42And the last pillar is very important to me as a father, keeping our children safe.

21:47We need to establish a dedicated child safety unit to crack down on predators, domestic abusers, and the folks who make our kids less safe and less secure.

21:55Meares highlighted his record prosecuting crime in his initiatives aimed at keeping Virginians safe, focusing more on illegal immigration.

22:02My office alone has prosecuted and removed enough fentanyl off the streets that would have taken the lives of 7 million Virginians.

22:11And so I think it's important for us to recognize that what we are attempting to do is remove illegal immigrants that have committed violent acts and broken and committed felonies against Virginians.

22:21Energy policy also drew attention, particularly the regional greenhouse gas initiative, which Virginia withdrew from, and utility rates.

22:28One of the biggest drivers of people's cost increase right now is their energy bill, and I will hold them accountable.

22:34I will make sure that we have a clean environment, we hold these corporate polluters accountable, and we lower costs and deliver results here for Virginians who are feeling the squeeze.

22:43I think working-class Virginians can't afford a carbon tax on their every day of their monthly energy bills, which Jay Jones supports.

22:50It will be between $200 and $500 million a year on the rate payers.

22:56They simply can't afford that.

22:57Jones said he wants to protect access to abortion.

23:01We have an opportunity to enshrine a constitutional right to an abortion here in Virginia, and that is something that I look forward to protecting as attorney general.

23:09Civil rights enforcement was another key topic.

23:12Miara's brought up a case earlier this year in which he successfully sued a landlord who evicted two families after discovering one family member was black.

23:19It's my office that secured the single largest civil rights protection verdict in the history of the attorney general's office on housing discrimination.

23:28As the debate concluded, both candidates outlined their visions for the future of the office.

23:32Jones said Virginia needs an attorney general who can stand up to President Trump.

23:36Virginians deserve an attorney general who will hold him accountable, who will protect us from the excess and overreach that you are seeing every single day, to fight for those Virginians who are illegally fired, to protect our pocketbooks, to protect our health care, to make sure that we use every ounce of our bodies to protect civil rights and civil liberties here in this commonwealth.

23:54Miara has touted his record as the state's attorney general, saying Virginians need someone who will fight for all of them.

24:00Virginians, four years ago, you hired me to be your people's protector, and we're so proud of the victories we've done.

24:07You heard us talk about it tonight, a double-digit drop in our murder rate and our violent crime rate in Virginia, the biggest drop in addiction deaths of any state in the entire country.

24:17Because this office, it's not a partisan office.

24:21It's about protecting all Virginians.

24:22Virginia voters will decide on November 4th, and current polling shows the outcome could go either way.

24:29Jones opened the debate with an apology for text messages he sent in 2022 when he was a state lawmaker.

24:37At the time, he suggested that House Speaker Todd Gilbert should be shot and also made critical remarks about his family.

24:45Jones called his words deeply wrong and expressed regret for the harm they caused.

24:50Still to come, Democrats reject a bill to reopen the government for a tenth time.

24:56The House Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries, makes it clear that Democrats will consider entering the shutdown only when their policy demands are met.

25:05And President Trump says his administration is negotiating to dramatically lower the cost of Ozempic in the U.S.

25:11He says the weight loss drug could soon be available for almost 10 percent of its current price.

25:16We're going to have that and more. We'll be right back.

25:18Welcome back. We're now in day 17 of the government shutdown as Democrats have dug in on their positions while Republicans are trying new ways to fund at least the essential parts of the federal workforce.

25:36Our Washington correspondent, Luis Eduardo Martinez, has the details.

25:40Continue to maintain the position. We will sit down, have a bipartisan discussion to reopen the government, to address the Republican health care crisis and to enact a spending agreement that actually makes life better for the American people because the American people are suffering.

25:56Democrats maintain that they will not consider reopening government unless their policy demands are met.

26:03This, despite the fact that the lapsed levels of government funding were set by Democrats and despite the fact that the health care program that they allege is not providing for the American people and which has enhanced health care tax credits expiring by the end of the year, was established and set by Democrats.

26:20We are not asking Democrats to swallow any new Republican policies.

26:24We're not asking them to swallow any partisan policy riders.

26:30We're simply asking them to extend current funding levels for a few weeks while we work on full year appropriations.

26:37The Republican proposal to reopen government would extend current levels of government funding to allow for a regular appropriations process that would also include negotiations addressing Democratic health care concerns.

26:50We're going to debate and discuss that. And there are debates and discussions going on on our side of the aisle.

26:54And on theirs. But to get everybody together and build that consensus is not possible until we get the government operating again.

27:00And we stop holding. We stop. I'm sorry. We stop. I'm sorry. I get very upset about that.

27:05We stop holding the American people hostage for these ridiculous political games.

27:10Senate Republicans put the House past defense appropriations bill to a vote as part of the new strategy of continuing the regular appropriations process, despite being in a government shutdown.

27:21So that if we can't reopen the entire government, we can at least make some progress toward securing paychecks for our troops and for defending our country.

27:32So this is Democrats' chance to make good on that promise.

27:38Democrats in the Senate rejected the House past defense appropriations bill that would have extended annual funding for the Department of War.

27:46This means that active duty military personnel could miss their first paycheck starting next week.

27:51Reporting from Washington, D.C., Luis Eduardo Martinez, NTD News.

27:57Thank you, Luis.

27:59Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Admiral Alvin Halsey will be stepping down as head of the U.S. Southern Command at the end of the year.

28:07Halsey also confirmed his retirement on social media, saying it will be effective December 12th, 13 months after he assumed the post.

28:14Halsey expressed gratitude for his good career and praised the Southern Command team for their contributions to national defense.

28:22Halsey, age 60, a Georgian native and four-star admiral, previously served as deputy chief of the Southern Command and commander of the Navy Personnel Command.

28:32Neither the Navy nor the Southern Command have responded to requests for comment.

28:37The announcement comes amid ongoing U.S. military operations targeting drug trafficking in the Caribbean.

28:42The federal appeals court has denied the Trump administration's effort to deploy National Guard troops in Illinois.

28:49However, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday the troops can remain in the state under federal control.

28:56The opinion details the court's reasoning in a decision issued over the weekend.

29:00The judges wrote they cannot say the administration is likely to succeed in demonstrating that Trump lawfully federalized the National Guard troops.

29:09The judges also disagreed with the administration's argument that protests against its policies amounted to rebellion.

29:17And a federal judge has ordered immigration officers in the Chicago area to wear body cameras.

29:22The judge said she was, quote, a little startled after seeing tear gas and other measures being used against protesters.

29:30District Judge Sarah Ellis pointed to images and footage of clashes between agents and demonstrators.

29:37Ellis said, quote, I live in Chicago if folks haven't noticed and I'm not blind, right?

29:42Ellis ruled last week that agents in the area must wear badges as well.

29:49A Justice Department attorney said the images and footage in question were from, quote, one-sided and selectively edited media reports.

29:57He also said it wouldn't be possible to immediately distribute body cameras.

30:02Protesters have gathered outside ICE facilities and have filmed incidents involving agents in the nation's third largest city.

30:09The Department of Homeland Security says demonstrators are impeding their enforcement efforts.

30:15DHS added that immigration officers have been subjected to increasing violence and doxing.

30:21And Texas Governor Greg Abbott is deploying the Texas National Guard and state troopers to Austin ahead of a planned No Kings protest tomorrow.

30:30The governor described the protests as Antifa-linked.

30:33Antifa is a far-left extremist group that originated under the Soviet Union and functioned as the violent wing of Germany's Communist Party to target political rivals.

30:44The group generally labeled its perceived enemies as fascists.

30:48Antifa's mission is to stop people it deems to be fascists by any means necessary, including violence, its leaders say.

30:56Abbott's action followed President Trump's designation of Antifa as a domestic terrorist group last month.

31:03The No Kings protests against ICE arrests of illegal immigrants are also planned tomorrow in Dallas, Houston, and other locations across Texas as well as the country.

31:13President Trump says his administration is negotiating to make the weight loss drug Azempic available in the U.S. at a dramatically reduced price.

31:21Yeah, Trump says the drug will be sold at the lowest price available in other developed countries.

31:27The president highlighted the stark price difference between the countries, saying a drug that costs $130 in London sells for $1,300 in New York.

31:37Trump said under the new pricing, Americans will pay roughly $150.

31:42Yeah, this goes to Trump's most favored nation clause that he's looking to implement with pharmaceuticals.

31:47But Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, clarified that the negotiations for Ozempic and similar medications are still ongoing and they're not yet finalized.

31:58And California is set to become the first state to offer affordable insulin through a state-backed program.

32:04Governor Gavin Newsom says the program will directly lower the cost for patients.

32:08NTD's Christina Corona has more on that.

32:10California Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Thursday that beginning next year, residents with diabetes can buy state-branded insulin at sharply lower prices.

32:20Starting January 1, 2026, Californians will be able to buy five packs of insulin pens for a maximum of $55 per pack or $11 per pen.

32:30An agreement between Civica RX, a non-profit generic drug maker, and Biocon Biologics allows Californians to buy an interchangeable insulin glarging pen under the CalRX brand at affordable prices.

32:44This, again, is part of a new initiative to fundamentally lower health care costs.

32:51Newsom says the state-backed insulin program is different from past efforts because it actually lowers prices for patients rather than just shifting costs around.

33:01The CalRX program was created following Newsom's 2019 executive order aimed at lowering prescription drug costs and increasing price transparency.

33:10We are taking out the middlemen and we are fundamentally reducing the cost to individuals, ultimately extending that to taxpayers themselves.

33:21The CalRX insulin glargine pens can be used in place of Lantus, a daily insulin, which costs pharmacies over $92, though consumer prices vary by insurance.

33:32California pharmacies will be able to buy the state-branded insulin for $45 each.

33:37You don't need a new prescription.

33:39You just simply transition to this biosimilar insulin that now is being provided under this first-in-the-nation branding CalRX.

33:49Right now in California, insulin prices vary widely.

33:53Newsom said the lowest average price is around $89, while some cost as much as $411.

33:59Eight million Americans and more than a million Californians depend on insulin every day.

34:05For them, insulin is a life-saving medicine, not a choice, not a luxury, and it's not something they can cut back on when finances are tight.

34:12The launch comes during the state's ongoing effort to lower prescription drug prices and improve medication access statewide.

34:20Christina Corona, NTD News.

34:23Still to come, President Trump says the U.S. will not adhere to a proposed global carbon tax on shipping.

34:30What that new proposal states and how soon it could go into effect.

34:33And a new report reveals that more than 500 U.S. universities have cooperated with researchers linked to the Chinese military in recent years, a major concern for national security.

34:53Welcome back to NTD.

34:54Good morning.

34:55I'm Kerry Dunst.

34:56You're just joining us now.

34:57Here are some of today's top headlines.

34:58President Trump set to meet with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky at the White House today, where the pair are expected to discuss sending long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine.

35:09The meeting comes just one day after Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone.

35:14Trump and Putin are expected to meet in Budapest, Hungary, in about two weeks.

35:18Trump says the meeting will take place after Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, quote, very soon.

35:25And President Trump's former national security advisor, John Bolton, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland yesterday.

35:32Bolton has been charged with 18 counts of transmitting and retaining national defense information.

35:39In a statement last night, Bolton called the charges an attempt by President Trump to intimidate his opponents.

35:45He said he looks forward to defending his, quote, lawful conduct.

35:49And the first televised debate in New York's mayoral race turned fiery last night.

35:54Former Governor Andrew Cuomo questioned Assemblyman Zoran Mondani's lack of management experience,

35:59while Mondani accused Cuomo of serving wealthy donors over working-class New Yorkers.

36:04Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa criticized both for backing policies like bail reform and closing Rikers Island Jail.

36:12And the government shut down now in day 17.

36:15No agreement is in sight.

36:17Democrats maintain they will not consider reopening the government unless their policy demands are addressed.

36:22Republicans are trying new ways to fund at least the essential parts of the federal workforce,

36:28putting up a defense bill for a vote.

36:30Democrats rejected the bill, which could lead to troops missing their first paycheck starting next week.

36:36Those were this morning's top headlines.

36:38Steph, with that, over to you.

36:39Thanks, Kerry.

36:41Next, President Donald Trump says the U.S. will vote against a proposed global carbon tax at the International Maritime Organization.

36:50In a Truth Social post, Trump called the proposal a green new scam tax, saying he's outraged the organization is voting on it at all.

36:59He said the U.S. would not adhere to it in any way, shape or form.

37:02The plan would require large ocean-going vessels of 5,000 tons or more to meet a global fuel standard to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

37:12Trump's statement follows a prior administration warning that the U.S. would retaliate against countries supporting the tax.

37:19Officials said the tax would impose fees on ships failing to meet emission standards, targets, potentially raising shipping and cruise costs.

37:27If approved, the global carbon tax would begin in 2027 and mark the first time greenhouse gas pricing and mandatory emission limits would apply to an entire industry sector.

37:40A new report reveals that more than 500 U.S. universities have cooperated with researchers linked to the Chinese military in recent years.

37:50Experts warn those partnerships may be helping Beijing advance its defense technology.

37:55NTD's Tiffany Meyer has that report.

37:59The study from private intelligence firm Strider Technologies found nearly 2,500 joint publications in 2024 alone.

38:07They covered fields like physics, engineering and computer science.

38:11That's down from 2019 when more than 3,500 joint research papers were published.

38:16But it's still a major concern for national security officials.

38:19Despite government efforts to limit these partnerships, Strider says the practice remains widespread.

38:26American institutions have been fueling China's military advancements in areas like anti-jamming communications and hypersonic weapons.

38:34A House committee has been sounding the alarm, too.

38:37It's urging tighter visa screening for Chinese scholars and stronger protections for U.S. research.

38:43The DHS warns that the CCP continues to target American universities and companies to steal sensitive technology.

38:51The Justice Department says roughly 80 percent of economic espionage cases in the U.S. have links to China.

38:58In response, Congress is moving to limit U.S.-China research.

39:02It's introducing a new bill that would block federal funding for projects tied to China's military and putting tougher rules in place for university partnerships.

39:10And for more exclusive China news and in-depth analysis, tune in to China in Focus with Tiffany Meyer at 9 p.m. Eastern right here on NTD.

39:20Members of the European Parliament have launched a Make Europe Healthy Again initiative.

39:24The movement calls for a major overhaul of public health governance in Europe.

39:29NTD's international correspondent David Vives reports from Paris.

39:33A new transnational movement called Make Europe Healthy Again, or MIHA, was launched Thursday at the European Parliament in Brussels.

39:40The initiative, supported by members of the EU Parliament, brings together doctors, researchers, and policy advocates from several continents.

39:48Its goal includes promoting transparency in health governance and reducing private influence over public health decisions.

39:56Co-chair of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, Robert Malone, attended the event.

40:02He said his view did not represent the U.S. administration or the CDC.

40:06In my opinion, in medical treatment matters, the patient is the lowest effective level of governance.

40:12For, if we're not allowed to govern our own bodies and what medical treatments we accept, then there can be no personal freedom and there can be no proportionality.

40:22The event drew a large audience and focus on concerns about the close ties between pharmaceutical companies and public institutions.

40:31One key motivation behind MIHA's creation was COVID-19 policies that participants said were unethical.

40:38The cornerstone of this ethical structure is the principle of patient-informed consent, which were widely violated during COVID.

40:47In a free society, citizens must have the freedom to decide what medical procedures they wish to accept for themselves and their children.

40:55For MIHA Vice President Rob Ross, there's a need to better monitor the European pharmaceutical industry.

41:01We have seen here in Europe what big pharma was able to do.

41:07They pushed for the vaccines, so-called vaccines, not really vaccines, but let's say they pushed for the COVID shots.

41:19And alternative ways to cure people or to keep them safe were just denied.

41:31Speakers criticized what they described as a growing dependence of the European Medicines Agency on industry funding

41:38and raised concerns over lobbying transparency and the independent evaluation of medical products.

41:44We have, of course, the European medical agency, EMA, here in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands.

41:51But this is not independent.

41:5391% of their funding is coming from the big pharma industry.

41:59While people really believe this is a governmental institute funded by the European Union,

42:07as a matter of fact, the funding of the European Union is less than 10%.

42:11And if this money is coming from the big pharma itself, it is like Maria yesterday said,

42:21it's like that you let the dog watch the sausage, you know.

42:28They called for full public financing of regulatory functions.

42:31The initiative also includes the creation of a network of independent experts

42:35and a legislative task force to support national and EU-level health proposals.

42:40David Vives, NTD News, Paris.

42:44Still to come, the maker of ChatGPT has released a new social media platform called Sora

42:49intended to compete with Instagram and TikTok.

42:52We'll speak with an author on the positives and negatives of these new AI capabilities after this.

42:57Welcome back to NTD.

43:06Good morning.

43:07I'm Cary Dunst.

43:08The maker of ChatGPT has a new social media app called Sora intended to compete with Instagram and TikTok.

43:13It means users can make fully AI-generated videos of themselves doing a variety of implausible things,

43:19such as going to the moon or entertaining a stadium full of people.

43:23Joining us to discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of these new AI innovations is Kay Rubichak.

43:29She's an author, writer on human value and AI.

43:32Kay, always good to see you.

43:33It really is a brave new world where if you can imagine it and you can prompt it, you can create it.

43:38Let's start with some of the potential good opportunities for these new video creation capabilities.

43:43Well, it is certainly creative entertainment.

43:47So compared to Instagram and TikTok on those platforms, it's just a platform and you have to upload your own video.

43:55Whereas what Sora has done, they have not only created the platform, but allow you to create your own videos on the platform.

44:04And not the way that we've thought of creating videos, it's by typing in words that describe what you are imagining.

44:13And then the computer, which is using AI capabilities to generate, creates these images, videos that are extremely realistic.

44:23They're hyper-realistic, that we've never seen anything quite like this before.

44:27And it really, there's been more than a million downloads in less than five days.

44:33And this was invitation only and only in North America.

44:37So you can imagine if that had been opened up to the whole world, the type of numbers that we would have been looking at.

44:44So people are really, have been very excited about this coming out.

44:48Yeah, you can imagine charities, very small community organizations who've never had the budgets to do essentially professional grade video creation.

44:57Now have this democratized technology, but of course, with anything good comes bad side effects and risks.

45:03What might some of those be, Kay?

45:06Well, there are a lot of concerns that have come up.

45:09The main ones is this concept of deep fakes, where you can create something of someone else's likeness.

45:17So we're seeing brand logos and mascots, very famous characters, people like, for example, Robin Williams, his daughter took to this week to the internet to ask people to stop sending her deep fake recreations of her father doing all types of things that people had imagined.

45:41So it brings up a lot of legal issues as to whose likenesses are being used, because you can basically take any photo of anyone in the world that ever existed and make them do whatever you like in a video.

45:58So there's a lot of legal issues that we have never had to deal with before, and it seems that no one really knows how to deal with them.

46:06And this is just flooding out all over the internet as people are experimenting in real time.

46:11Yeah, and as you pointed out in our last conversation, the rate of these new capabilities are far outpacing governors, legislators in any way, shape or form to keep up with and then create guardrails.

46:25So it's somewhat of a self-regulated space that we find ourselves in.

46:28So we talked about the good.

46:29We talked about the bad of these new innovations.

46:31Let's just go to the ugly now.

46:32What might that be?

46:33Well, there is this new term that we're going to be hearing a lot more of, and it's called AI slop.

46:41Now, AI experts have been throwing this term around for quite some time now.

46:46Well, in terms of technology, it's been some time, a few months already.

46:50But it's only now that major media outlets are starting to talk about what this term means.

46:57And you would have seen it.

46:59Anyone who's using social media, you have witnessed AI slop, but you may not know it.

47:05And that's where you're seeing maybe ads where maybe something doesn't quite look right or the skin doesn't look right or maybe it just looks perfectly right because they're getting so realistic.

47:17And because they are so fast to generate, literally within seconds, you can generate a whole five-second video of any person doing anything that you can imagine.

47:29So people are just churning out so many of these videos.

47:35And that's where the term slop comes from, is that if you think about what we are digesting when we eat,

47:43we consider the types of food that we eat and the health benefits for our bodies, it's similar with our mental content.

47:52So whatever we are absorbing through screens, through our ears, through our eyes, that's the mental content.

48:00So the slop word comes from being sloppy food.

48:04This is fast food for our brains.

48:07And having too much of it does not do us any health benefits.

48:12But that's the new term, AI slop.

48:16You bring up many very interesting and important points right there, Kay.

48:20Obviously, we're in a mental health crisis in the country with many signs of gun violence and all of these societal things.

48:28And people obviously think about their caloric intake as to affecting their body,

48:32but maybe not as much emphasis on what we consume in terms of imagery and content and messages.

48:38And potentially a renewed focus on that needs to happen.

48:42But the other part is this Frankenstein effect, where it almost looks right, but as for almost that Halloween,

48:49there's like a little duct tape in the wrong place.

48:51And being almost human is very much not human, right?

48:55But either way, the genie's out of the bottle here, right?

48:58These technologies are proliferating.

49:00They're democratizing the ability to basically do what Hollywood has been doing, you know, right at your personal computer.

49:07So, you know, where do you see this going?

49:10And what can parents and people do to sort of make sure that they get the good while avoiding, you know, the bad and I guess the ugly here?

49:17Well, I think where is this going in terms of industry?

49:22Well, there's a lot to cover there with potential.

49:25Will this be replacing production people that may have had the jobs creating these videos in the past?

49:33That's a whole nother area.

49:35But for parents and families, I think really to consider, we think about you are what you eat.

49:42You are what you think.

49:43You are what you see.

49:45And when we start to talk to our families, talk to our kids about what they're eating, also talk to them about what they're looking at and what they're thinking about.

49:54Because when we only consume very fast five-second videos, then our brain starts to forget how to – we're not practicing critical thinking or deep thinking, which allows us to reflect and to really resolve a lot of the problems that we have and deal with mental health issues.

50:14But when those just build up and we have no mental release for all of the input that we're gaining, we're unable – our brains aren't processing that and that is leading to anxiety and depression.

50:27So I think to really start to talk about the health of our brain being very much connected to the consumption of what we see on our screens.

50:35And if we can start to have those conversations, it can really make a big difference, I think.

50:40And just, Kay, in our last question here, it seems like if parents and workers don't lean in a little bit, they do risk falling behind.

50:49I've personally been using it almost instead of a search engine for research, but not for creation of original thought, but just for background research.

50:59But what are some ways that you can kind of have your cake and eat it too?

51:02Because, as I said, the genie's out of the bottle, AI not going away, but we also don't want to lose our humanity in that slop-like analogy you had made earlier.

51:11That is the fundamental point, I think, what you bring up there, that we all need to be looking at.

51:16And I think, really, we need to remember that information is not wisdom.

51:21Having more information doesn't make us better human beings, doesn't make us more wise and more able to make critical decisions.

51:29We are just consuming so much that we're not processing what we have.

51:32So, we can use all of these as tools, but when we start to allow these computer entities to make decisions for us, then we're really giving away our agency.

51:46And so, that is another new term that's coming up with AI, is this term of agents.

51:51And that's where they're making decisions on their own.

51:53So, we need to be conscious.

51:56We need to be conscious of our decisions and what we're doing and the way we use AI.

52:00And that a lot of it will come back to education about how to use these tools in a way that really benefits our lives, our work, and our communities.

52:11And there's certainly ways to do that, but we need to be having those conversations.

52:16Well, I'm glad we're having this conversation with you, Kay Rubachek.

52:18Such an important topic.

52:20Hope to do this much more in the future as we see this evolve.

52:23Thank you for joining.

52:24Have a great weekend.

52:28Fascinating.

52:28All right, folks, we'll be right back.

52:31Stay with us.

52:32We've got much more coming up in the next hour.

52:41Welcome back.

52:42At Rutgers University, the Director of Student Involvement and Leadership is pushing to remove two student officers from Charlie Kirk's group, Turning Point USA.

52:52The move follows the students setting up a petition to remove a professor known with alleged ties to Antifa.

52:59This, of course, happening in New Jersey.

53:01NTD's Daniel Monahan spoke with the pair about the case.

53:05Turning Point USA, Rutgers Treasurer Megan Doyle says students expressed concerns about Professor Mark Bray, especially after Antifa was declared a terrorist organization.

53:15Bray, nicknamed Dr. Antifa by students, is the author of Antifa, the Anti-Fascist Handbook, a book that openly calls for militant anti-fascism.

53:25I believe that his rhetoric of political violence and harassment and doxing against these people he calls fascists were concerning for conservative students.

53:38Despite authoring the anti-fascist handbook, Bray has denied his involvement with Antifa.

53:44But in his handbook, near the introduction, he states that he would be donating 50% of the author proceeds from this book to the International Legal Antifa Defense Fund.

53:56This legal Antifa Defense Fund has notably given legal support to 10 suspected Antifa members who were charged with terrorism and attempted murder at an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas on July 2025.

54:12Doyle says Bray is also advocating doxing.

54:15Page 87 of Mark Bray's Antifa, the Anti-Fascist Handbook.

54:19Doxing is a very important tool to create conflict within far-right movements because it establishes a constant mental burden.

54:27Doyle and Turning Point Outreach Director at Rutgers, Ava Kwan, started a petition calling for Bray's removal.

54:33He's very biased towards students with more conservative views, and we took issue with that.

54:39We decided that it was important that we take action, which is why we started the petition.

54:43Soon after, the Director of Student Involvement and Leadership, Karima Woodyard, began pushing to remove Doyle and Kwan from their roles at Turning Point, reportedly due to eligibility rules, and called for swift action on the subject.

54:57She knows exactly who we are.

54:59So for this investigation to be happening now is, of course, because of our outspoken opposition on Mark Bray, and it looks like to be a selective enforcement of the school's procedure, and it's completely unfair.

55:12Both women say the media has played one of the biggest roles in the pushback they have seen since the petition came out.

55:19They've been peddling Mark Bray's lies that he is not associated with Antifa.

55:26And, you know, we've had counter-petitions come out that have stated that we're inciting violence and making threats, all baseless claims that are completely defamatory to our chapter.

55:36And it has led to now Megan and I receiving threats, and I've also been doxxed by, you know, many of these leftist activists.

55:46So it's just been peddling this wave of negative attention and lies that Megan and I have been receiving.

55:52And in another move against Turning Point at Rutgers, Professor Tia Kolbaba, an associate professor of religion at Rutgers, also signed a petition to remove the campus chapter of Turning Point USA, accusing it of promoting hate speech.

56:06Kwon says she got involved in Turning Point because she wanted to help build a safe community for conservative students on campus who want to voice their beliefs.

56:15And the main reason why I chose to join Turning Point was because of Charlie Kirk's videos.

56:22You know, he left a lasting impact on me, and there was not a chapter in my high school, so I decided to join one in college as soon as I found out about it.

56:31Kwon is calling on conservative students across America to keep up the fight.

56:36We need to keep living the way that Charlie Kirk lived and keep speaking our minds.

56:42Rutgers responded to a request for comment, saying the two Turning Point USA officers weren't properly registered or eligible under school rules.

56:50Professor Mark Bray did not respond as of broadcast time on his affiliation with Antifa.

56:55Daniel Monaghan, NTD News.

56:58Thank you for that report, Daniel.

57:01Meanwhile, thousands turned out at the Turning Point USA tour stop at the Oklahoma University,

57:07the group's first college campus event since the death of co-founder Charlie Kirk.

57:12The event kicks off a national tour with 11 campus stops planned over the next two months.

57:17Speakers include reality TV star turned conservative activist Savannah Chrisley,

57:22British comedian and actor Russell Brand, and governor Kevin Stitt.

57:26What a great opportunity to celebrate the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk.

57:33And engage in this idea that is so foundational to our country.

57:45It's called free speech.

57:50This event was supposed to be in the field house, but it sold out so quickly that they moved it right here to Lloyd Noble.