Hey, it's a beautiful sunny Friday. We've got lots to talk about. We'll get to President Trump. That quid pro quo. We'll get to the some monument stuff. It's very funny stuff. We'll get to Syria. We'll get to, we'll get to Rikers Island. This may be one of the greatest acts of political corruption ever taking place right here in New York

City and NBC Matt Lauer NBC's got a real problem coming up. We'll get to that. And what the

hell's going on with these Yankees? What is the problem? Can't hit. Okay, but they're also not too

good on defense either. The other team seemed to be scoring a lot of runs. Yeah, well, they did.

And there's a lot of striking out there.

That's correct. You know, Reggie Jackson still works for the Yankees. There's Mr. October.

Get him in there. We need some October people there. You're right.

Yeah, get him in there. Doesn't look good. No. Well, we'll see. Tonight, do or die tonight.

This quid pro quo.

Everybody totally misinterpreted with Nick Mulvaney was saying.

He didn't say, this is quid pro quo right here.

He said, it's always quid pro quo.

People missed his larger point.

Did you ever stop and think, why would we send a billion dollars to a foreign country?

Not simply because we like them, right?

Yeah, like we're the number one talk station in New York.

We're bigger than all the other talk stations.

We're a million miles ahead of them in the ratings.

We're huge and dominant and they're small.

Do we send them money? No. Why would we do that? You know, there's a couple other talk

stations. One's got no ratings at all. Do we say, well, we'll send them some aid. Send them some

aid. In what area does anybody do this? They don't. Take the Catholic Church. It's a big,

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