Historic Voices and Modern Challenges: Jesse Jackson, Robert Duvall, Tax Battles, and Global Diplomacy | 02-17-26

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, Comedy, News

4.2 • 828 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 162 minutes

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On this Tuesday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Sid details the death of civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson at 84 after a rare neurological disorder, recounting his civil rights work, political campaigns, and later activism; Gov. Kathy Hochul finding $1.5 billion in state aid for New York City as Mayor Zohran Mamdani prepares his first budget amid debate over taxing the rich and a reported $5.5 billion budget gap; critiques of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Gov. Gavin Newsom at the Munich Security Conference over the weekend; the partial government shutdown affecting the Department of Homeland Security entering a third day with essential workers like TSA and the Coast Guard working without pay amid an immigration-enforcement policy dispute; US-Iran nuclear negotiations are set to continue in Geneva-area talks mediated by Oman as both sides keep militaries on standby, dispute uranium enrichment and Iran’s missile program, citing a report that President Trump told Israel he would support strikes on Iran’s missile program if talks fail; and the death of Oscar-winning actor Robert Duvall at 95, highlighting his career including The Godfather films and Apocalypse Now. Bo Dietl, Chazz Palminteri, Lara Trump, Mike Lawler, Miranda Devine & Shabbos Kestenbaum join Sid on this Tuesday installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.9	Sid and Friends in the morning.
0:33.7	Entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
0:39.2	The future of New York, the future of the country, the future of the world is me.
0:45.1	This is the Foxxelior. I'm Ashley Stremire live in New York.
0:48.2	Prominent American civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson has died.
0:52.4	The 84-year-old founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition had been
0:56.2	suffering from a rare neurological disorder. We are against racism. Jesse Jackson said he dedicated
1:02.8	both heart and soul to the fight for justice. We must put a diploma in one hand, symbolize
1:10.8	in knowledge and wisdom, and put a voter in one hand symbolized in knowledge and wisdom and put a voter registration card
1:15.0	in that other hand symbolizing power and responsibility. Born in 1941 in South Carolina,
1:22.7	Jackson grew up under Jim Crow laws. By the time he'd graduated from college, he was involved in the civil
1:28.2	rights movement. In 1965, he joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s inner circle, taking on a leadership
1:34.9	role. He was with Dr. King in Memphis when he was assassinated a few years later.
1:41.0	Ordained as a minister, Jackson began Operation Push in Chicago in 1971 and created his political
1:47.5	pulpit, pressuring companies to hire more black workers and extend business ties with the African-American
1:53.2	community.
1:54.3	In 1984, he founded the National Rainbow Coalition and launched his first presidential run.
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