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Welcome to NTD Evening News. Our top story tonight, the AI race with China and the dangers that come with it. President Trump meets with top tech CEOs at the White House, plus a new all-in-one government website. The Pentagon moving to counterattempts by foreign adversaries to interfere in the U.S. elections. Jason Blair has the details. The U.S. Senate passes the Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act by unanimous consent. Now, the bill must advance through the House before it arrives at the president's desk, lawmakers commending the passage of the bill. And what really happened inside hospitals during COVID? Patients and medical workers speaking out with their own stories. And New York Mayor Zoran Mamdani announces a citywide plan to combat anti-Semitism, more funding for hate prevention, and Jewish cultural institutions. The city plans to protect Jewish New Yorkers, Chris Bobb reports. This is NTD Evening News, live from our global headquarters in New York City. Here's Kerry Dunst. Good evening. Thank you for joining us tonight. Top tech U.S. leaders meeting at the White House today while President Trump's unveiling a new all-in-one government website. We now go live to NTD's Washington correspondent, Jack Bradley. He's at the North Lawn of the White House. Jack, please break it down for us. Sure, Kerry. Well, the focus of this is keeping America ahead of China in this AI race, while also keeping it in check over the dangers of where it could lead as it develops further. The president brought together the heads of America's top tech companies here at the White House to sign what he called the White House Accord on Superintelligence, or SI, as the term is now being called, instead of AI. Now, it involves self-policing and the creation of a committee to make up members of these companies to ensure that these systems don't go rogue like they did back in June when open AI had rogue bots hack private Australian government websites. President Trump says that the U.S. continues to lead China to counter the dangers of this authoritarian regime controlling the technology. Take a look. They want every data center. They want it because that's great for China. Well, it's great for us. And we're leading by a lot, and we're going to keep it that way. It's going to be very, very safe. There's a self-policing and there's also a group policing. The president also says that he doesn't want to cooperate with China on AI over concerns that they'll steal America's IP. The Chinese Communist Party has a track record of stealing America's technology and intellectual property from AI chips to F-35 fighter jets to missile sensor technology. Take a look. Somebody said, oh, let's do a joint venture. Let's work together with China. But if we do that, we're going to be giving a lot of secrets that that we have that they just would want to have or anybody else. And frankly, there is nobody in third place. I mean, it's all between us and China. And a lot of people said, let's do it together with China. But then they're going to be able to immediately gain access to things that we know that they don't know. And earlier, President Trump signed an executive order directing all federal agencies to put their services on one website, America.gov. It'll now host what's on 30,000 federal government websites, helping Americans obtain a passport, change their names, access benefits and even getting an I.D. President Trump's now calling for the passage of the Save America Act requiring voter I.D. in order to vote in federal elections. Take a look. And with this, nobody can any longer complain about providing proof of citizenship or voter I.D. They're always saying it's too complicated to complicate. It's not complicated anymore. And all of this comes amid ongoing concerns over the dangers of a rapidly advancing A.I. and how they could once again go rogue or be used maliciously by malicious actors when it becomes even more advanced. Kerry, back to you. All right. Quite a week at the White House, and it is only Tuesday. Thank you, Jack, for that update. And with five weeks until the midterm elections, the Pentagon will lead an effort to protect election infrastructure from foreign threats. The main focus is on cyber. NDD correspondent Jason Blair has more. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth orders a whole of government mobilization to counter foreign attempts to interfere in U.S. elections ahead of the midterms. The memorandum directs U.S. cyber command and combat support agencies to, quote, prioritize and deploy advanced intelligence and cyber capabilities to identify, disrupt and neutralize foreign interference in U.S. democratic processes. In July, the White House released declassified intelligence documents from multiple agencies on China's collection of U.S. voter registration data. The People's Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in China's illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files. Some of the declassified memos say Beijing analyzed voter files from as many as 18 states. They also show a Chinese actor pulled six states rolls off commercial websites and tried to download an Ohio registration application. U.S. spy agencies began learning about the compromise of voter registration files in 2020 when they discovered that tens of millions of voter data. Think of that. Tens of millions of voters data in 18 states have been bought, stolen or hacked by China. Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell says the Department of War will synchronize with federal, state and local partners. Nick Anderson, acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, says CISA is addressing longstanding vulnerabilities ahead of the midterms. I think at the end of the day, we have to be clear eyed and recognizing that nation state threat actors hold at risk our cyber infrastructure, including our elections infrastructure. The Pentagon says the effort aims to protect voting systems from foreign manipulation while ensuring Americans can vote free from foreign intimidation, coercion or fear. Reporting in Washington, D.C., Jason Blair, NTD News. Election day now just five weeks away and Republicans are hoping to keep control of the House through the end of President Trump's term. Such a case, though, hasn't happened since 2002. And now Speaker Mike Johnson has kicked off his own midterm campaign blitz. NTD's congressional correspondent Melina Weiskopf has the report. House Speaker Mike Johnson kicked off a midterm blitz this week with two stops in the Northeast. Johnson described New York's 17th district, currently held by Congressman Mike Lawler, as one of the most important races on the ballot this cycle. Lawler's seat is generally always a tight race and is one of 22 toss ups in the House this year. Republicans are trying to break a trend that's held for the past 24 years, where the party of the sitting president generally loses control of the House during the midterms. Historically, the president's party has a tough time keeping congressional power during midterm cycles, generally losing House seats in roughly 90 percent of midterm elections since World War II. The House speaker, though, says he's confident that Democrats putting DSA-backed candidates on the ballot will help boost their chances of keeping control of the lower chamber. Telling you that we can win the midterms and I'm very bullish about that. I believe we're going to defy the historic trend. Remember, it's only happened twice in 90 years. The sitting president's picked up seats for his party. But this election is unlike any other. This is not our father's Democratic Party. They're going full Marxist-Socialist-Communist on the other side, and that helps us in this race. Now, Republicans are honing in strongly on the anti-Socialist, anti-Communist messaging, but also on the tax cuts they were able to sign into law last summer. Certainly, we need to get out and tell people that, you know, we passed the largest tax cut in American history. Johnson also made a priority of campaigning with New Jersey Republican Congressman Tom Keene Jr. His seat is one of six Republican-held districts that are leaning towards Democrats. Johnson plans to visit all of the states with toss-up races, but he'll also use half of the time on the campaign trail to hit some Democrat-held districts — areas that Republicans see as pickup opportunities, like in Texas, Maine, Florida and North Carolina. The House speaker has actually broken fundraising records this year. He's raised more than any Republican speaker or leader during a midterm cycle. His campaign trail blitz will take him to a total of 40 districts, with five weeks to go until Election Day. Reporting from Washington, D.C., Melina Weiskopf, NTD News. An open forum on COVID-19 addresses hospital care and treatment during the pandemic. Guests describe untold abuses that they saw or that they experienced firsthand during hospital admissions. One woman said a hospital repeatedly asked for permission to take her husband's organs. NTD's Arlene Richards has that story and more. Families, patients and even medical workers sharing their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic at a Monday roundtable discussion hosted by Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson. A wife tells some of her story. On August 25th of 2021, Raymond and I were both feeling sick. Our primary care office was locked down because of COVID. So we went to the emergency room. Raymond tested positive for COVID. He was admitted to the hospital three days later. His wife, Peggy, said that on the first day of her husband's hospital admission, an infectious disease doctor told her he was going to die. On September 2nd, records instructed the staff to call LifeShare if his condition got any worse. Raymond was not an organ donor. Peggy said she was repeatedly asked to consent to organ donation and she always said no. Raymond died after 24 days in the hospital. After Raymond was taken to the crematorium, I received a call from them and they said, did they take something out of your husband? She requested her husband's medical records five times. Peggy says she was told that the rest of the records they wouldn't give her was garbage and she would have to pay for them. I paid for the garbage and what I found was photographs of Raymond's body and records documenting open wounds and sores that I had never been told about. One record stated they couldn't do a spontaneous breathing test because he had an open wound in his abdomen. She said in less than 10 minutes, they called the organ donation people. A former trauma surgeon said he treated hundreds of COVID patients and he performed quality reviews. My reviews uncovered fraud extending to senior hospital leadership. I reported these findings. A Texas patient, Gail Seiler, says she was mistreated. When the hospitalist in the ICU learned that I was unvaccinated, he looked directly at me and said, I'm so sorry, Mrs. Seiler, but you're going to die. I experienced physical, verbal and psychological abuse at the hands of some of the nurses as I was not vaccinated. Senator Johnson previously held a series of public hearings and roundtables examining what's been called federal health officials' flawed response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the first event devoted entirely to what happened inside hospitals. Arlene Richards, NTD News. And now the Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act must advance through the House before arriving at the president's desk. Yesterday, the bill passed in the U.S. Senate by unanimous consent. And to these, Fiona Ji has the details. The Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act sanctions those who participate in forced organ harvesting inside of China. And it directs the secretary of state to report on the Chinese Communist Party's According to the bill, forced organ harvesting refers to the The main victims of forced organ harvesting in China are practitioners of Falun Gong, which is also known as Falun Dafa. This is a spiritual practice based on Buddhist tradition and the principles of truthfulness, compassion and forbearance. The CCP has been persecuting Falun Dafa since 1999. And this has drawn widespread criticism from U.S. lawmakers. The persecution of the Falun Gong is horrific. Forced organ harvesting is a massive human rights abuse. And I am very glad to see the Senate standing unanimously against those, that horrible abuse. CCP is a horrible person, kills his own citizens, steals organs, puts people in prison because they're Uyghurs and Falun Gong and things like that. So I'm proud that people stood up to call Xi what he is. The Falun Dafa Information Center, which documents the persecution of Falun Dafa, posted on X that the bill is This is a bill with bipartisan support and it has 11 co-sponsors. I've also spoken to victims who personally experienced and then escaped the persecution. And they say that organ harvesting is closer to the U.S. and to the American people than Americans may realize. Because if you're an American who needs an organ and you travel to China to get one, you don't actually know where that organ is coming from. And it is possible that that organ came from a prisoner of conscience. Reporting from Washington, D.C., Fiona Ji, NTD News. Former Special Counsel Jack Smith back on Capitol Hill. Smith is testifying before a Senate committee today on his investigation of President Trump. The hearing comes as recently released transcripts detail how the team obtained Republican lawmakers' phone records. Senator John Kennedy questioning Smith on why he only sought the records of Republicans calling it unconstitutional. Well, then you had to know it violated the speech and debate clause. In fact, when you went to Judge Boasberg, you didn't even tell him you were seeking the phone records of members of Congress, did you? Because you knew he wouldn't agree. He would say, hey, counselor, anybody who knows a law book from a J.Crew catalog knows that this violates the Constitution. But you didn't tell him, did you? We sought non-disclosure orders from the court. You didn't tell him, did you? In seeking non-disclosure orders, we did not. You didn't tell him, but you're unbiased. You have no personal feelings. You make me want to throw up in my mouth. Kennedy also pressing Smith on whether President Biden's White House was consulted on charging President Trump. Smith said he had no idea and that the decision was his own. Democrats, including Senator Chris Coons, defended Smith. Coons saying the orders followed Justice Department policy at the time. Another Republican senator said Justice Department officials had advised against a new indictment so close to the 2024 election. Smith called that inaccurate. And at the hearing, Republican lawmakers raising questions over whether federal agencies were weaponized against President Trump and members of Congress. Hear from our panelists tonight on Capitol Report at 7 p.m. Eastern. And coming up, Lindsey Clancy is back in court after her murder trial ended in a mistrial. Now her defense is challenging whether prosecutors proved she killed her three children. And New York Mayor Zoran Mamdani announces a citywide plan to combat anti-Semitism. More funding for hate prevention and Jewish cultural institutions. How the city plans to protect Jewish New Yorkers. Chris Bob reports. Picture this, the heart of Manhattan, full of energy, movement and life. 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Her defense attorney filed several motions ahead of today's hearing, including one focused on the loan holdout juror from her first trial and a request to dismiss the case. The lone juror's attorney appeared today and asked the judge for more time to file her own motion. So my motion is basically to get the impounded documents, the impounded affidavit, the memorandum, the exhibits that the defense is utilizing in order to obtain my client's information. In order to do that, I need more time. So that's why we're requesting the contingency. The judge will hear arguments on several motions, including the one from the juror's attorney on November 2nd. Prosecutors have not announced whether they will retry Clancy, who admitted to killing her children, but she says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis. Legal experts say both sides are likely considering whether another jury would reach the same conclusion as they did in the first trial. 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Joining us for analysis is Jan Jekielek the senior editor at the Epoch Times and he's author of the New York Times best-selling book Killed to Order, China's Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America's Biggest Adversary. Jan, thank you for joining us this evening. For those who are unfamiliar with the topic can you frame the issue as well as the significance of the Senate passing the Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act with unanimous consent bipartisan as it was done? It's an astonishing crime that's been going on for the better part of 26 years. We only really fully grasped it was real perhaps 20 years ago. Communist China has a living organ bank of prisoners of conscience Falun Gong practitioners primarily then the Uyghur population was added to it and perhaps others such as house Christians and Tibetans. They keep this living pool of incarcerated prisoners of conscience to be used as unwilling organ donors at a very significant scale. So that's the crime, that's the reality. It sounds like science fiction and unfortunately it's very far from that. And one of the biggest challenges even though institutions such as the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation which for example accept no transplant research papers from China because they understand this is real there's very few institutions that have actually taken a position on this. Thankfully this is this very prominent one based out of Chicago. So the legislation that just passed the Senate the Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act S4009 is very significant. It does two major things. One is it sanctions very specifically the people that are known to be involved in this. The second thing it does is it actually gets the U.S. intelligence community to report on this within a year. This would be incredibly important because the evidence is actually voluminous that not only has this been going on for a very long time but that it continues to go on. It would be very powerful to have an institution such as the U.S. government put its implementer on the veracity of this. This is real and that will basically cause a situation where it's easier for us to stop being complicit because we have all sorts of relationships here in America with communist China all the way from training some of the surgeons to financial relationships between partner hospitals and research institutions and it would be great to end that. We don't want to be a part of that. I mean that's something we could start without this legislation to be perfectly fair but this would really help in getting some of the people that still find this too astonishing too hard to believe to actually accept it and so we can move on this. Yeah for someone who may have never heard about this it is truly astonishing and at the same time we can feel a sense of pride that after all these years something is actually being done that is meaningful. Now last year the House passed its own version it was called the Falun Gong Protection Act and it didn't pass the Senate before the legislative session had come to its conclusion. Considering there is some precedent over in the House does this make passage through the House more likely? Though there is only two months left and we are approaching a lame duck session after the midterms. So this is an excellent question so let's do a little bit of this congressional insider baseball. Okay so this the original bill was the Falun Gong Protection Act it went to the Senate originally it was Senator Rubio that actually started with this bill. Senator Cruz picked it up from him built a large bipartisan as you mentioned agreement six and six from both key parties and now that it has passed with unanimous consent it needs to go back to the House. It has been changed somewhat so the House actually has to decide we're going to accept it as is and then send it that way it would go directly to the President's House but it's possible that legislators on the House side will also want to make changes and at the same time we do know that the Chinese Communist Party is deeply uninterested in seeing this bill pass because it would basically shine a light on one of its most egregious practices. So yes you're right there's a very short period of time left and I think it's going to be you know basically a no holds barred rush to the finish to see this legislation pass however this plays out. Yes certainly the Chinese regime fears this in some ways more than economic or military aggression and I want to explore one of the things you brought up in in your first response so the wording of this bill would direct the State Department to determine if forced organ harvesting constitutes an atrocity with quotes around that word I mean anyone who just hears about this can easily tell that it does but if it is deemed an atrocity what does the State Department designation then signify? Well I think the most important thing is to establish that it's happening at all okay and I actually think that is even more meaningful because there is no official position of the U.S. government on this now of course establishing as an atrocity elevates the gravity of the situation and that would have communist China now committing multiple atrocities you know the most prominent being you know officially the U.S. government position on what the Chinese Communist Party is doing to the Uyghur people in the northwest of China is genocide now that's genocide you know in the way that word is sort of brandished about casually these days when I say casually large amounts of people dying for example is called genocide but according to this you know UN convention definition we're talking about the deliberate elimination and whole or in part of an entire group of people that's an atrocity okay so I believe that the Chinese Communist Party is committing multiple atrocities it would certainly be good to have that on the record but I would say most important is simply to establish that there is this large-scale forced organ harvesting from innocent people against their will by the regime that is a critical import here yeah truly a crime against humanity and as you pointed out with the word science fiction a crime that really has never existed prior to this time hard to believe now Jan as we start to finish up what can people do if they want to help? well as a starting point you know familiarize yourself with the issue so I've just written a book it's called Killed to Order China's Forced Organ Harvesting and the True Nature of America's Biggest Adversary now this book is of course showcases the evidence there's voluminous evidence but more importantly it also shows how this practice is a bit of a window into the mind of the communist regime right and this is one of the biggest mistakes I guess biggest problems that we've had in the United States and practically around the world is not realizing entirely who we're dealing with so I think that the value I would say that one of the most valuable things we can do is deeply educate ourselves across the society about how China under the Chinese Communist Party is different it's not a government like ours okay the human rights violations are integral to the government functioning that's the topic I explore in there for example well Jan Jekielek thank you so much for joining us this evening and for your important work on human rights thank you Gary and the second annual Make America Healthy Again Summit underway in Washington the all-day event included discussions on healthcare costs affordability real food and fraud and it is Christina Corona has more Vice President J.D. Vance and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are back in Washington for the second annual Maha Summit in a fireside chat Vance spoke about medical fraud and abuse but some of the best fraud fighters have been people who work for Dr. Oz who saw oh wait a second there's this part of the Medicaid program or part of the Medicare program that isn't actually giving health care to Americans who need it it's actually giving a lot of money to fraudsters who aren't even providing the services they claim that they're providing Vance said better eligibility checks can help reduce improper payments if we could just have a smarter way of verifying identity and eligibility for these programs we could save the American people a lot of money and importantly we could ensure that the people who are receiving these benefits actually deserve them health care leaders acknowledge the challenges Americans face with the cost of care panelists saying getting ahead of chronic disease could help lower costs for a nation of chronic diseases it accounts for about 90 percent of our five plus trillion dollars is spent on chronic diseases why? well I'm an emergency physician and our nation's overcrowded emergency departments they're full of people that weren't diagnosed or couldn't get access to care when it was not a crisis another focus was changing what goes into fast food with some companies moving away from certain additives and cooking oils we're gonna do 100 percent tallow fries and people go there and it tastes amazing I think it's the best fry in the industry but then naturally consumers gonna be like wait a second what was in the other fries? why was that ever added? and then we announced the seed oil free bun and again it's like well wait what's all these other buns? what's in that? the summit also featured the Maha athlete with former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson discussing his health at a young age I went from starting off at 14 being extreme fasting all the time 30-40 days the summit also focused on Maha's accomplishments and priorities for the year ahead accusations of Russia trying to expand the war keep mounting NATO member Estonia today blaming Russia for an arson attack in the country NATO and the Kremlin are already weighing in NTD's international correspondent Arjen Pazdar has more Russia continues its reckless campaign of hostile actions against NATO allies NATO chief Mark Rutte suggesting Russia is trying to weaken the alliance and its allies NATO member Estonia on Tuesday blaming Russia for an August arson attack on a drone manufacturer which supplies Kiev Estonia's foreign minister says such actions are absolutely unacceptable in response Estonia will today summon Russia's charge d'affaires the perpetrators have been apprehended and no longer pose a threat to our national security the best response to any action in this gray zone of what Russia is doing is more support for Ukraine instead of less support for Ukraine because in the end what they want to do is divide us the Kremlin is also weighing in denying the allegations such statements are baseless ill-considered bear no relation whatsoever to reality and lack any form of reasoning consequently we cannot and will not take such statements seriously the suspects in the arson attack were citizens of Latvia they were handed over to Estonia after having been arrested in Latvia in August shortly after the fire meanwhile the fighting continues in Ukraine and according to president Vladimir Zelensky Russia is looking to ramp up the violence once again using soldiers from North Korea we also have new data on the deployment of North Korean troops to Russia preparations are underway to deploy another 10 000 troops they are being selected for training and subsequent deployment to Russia Zelensky says 8 000 North Korean soldiers are on Russian ground already which would bring the possible future total to almost 20 000 Marian Pastar, NTD News and coming up in baseball the playoffs begin with a bang in game one as 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the walls this is a best of three series so it's the first to win two games meanwhile the Phillies they did not exactly end the regular season on a high note losing six of their final nine games as their offense struggled to score runs so they're definitely going to need some tomorrow now going on right now the Chicago White Sox are at the Houston Ashes got a big lead in this one 5-0 in the fifth inning that actually could have been a lot worse because they had the bases loaded there in the fifth tonight then we got the Yankees versus the Red Sox starting at 8 p.m eastern time and then starting at 10 p.m Padres hosting the Cubs so four series going on four series you know I've always felt like and we talked about this in basketball when it used to be you know best of three it really you know that's a tough place to be in to just win two games and then you're out it's 162 game season right and then all of a sudden you've got a best of three in the first round but it's actually better than it used to be it used to be a single game for the wild card round one loss and you're out after all that so it's it's improving and you know what I think they're eventually going to extend it to five games every time you extend it means more TV money so I'm sure it's going to happen soon so that's that's where things stand out look the NBA like we said the NBA's first round used to be three games then it's five games now it's seven games as well because you can't turn down that TV money right and then you get the potential for the best thing in sports as we've talked about many times a game seven game seven right so I mean so a game three is sort of it doesn't have the same cache oh game three tonight it doesn't really sound like you know it's going to be this you know earth-shattering performance but so I don't know we'll see if we do if they do game seven then the playoffs are going to take probably six weeks at that point if they do seven games for each round but I mean the NBA playoffs take two months and nobody complains about that that was the knock on college football right they're like oh we can't keep extending the games and what about the bowl series but at the end of the day people want playoffs you know I mean at least in college football you have kids then going into their second semester not not to mention the over the over the Christmas break I suppose so I don't know maybe there's some validity to that I would be okay with it don't worry so I would be okay with the baseball playing at best of seven if I were in charge but they don't really take my advice I gotta say that bottom line if you like baseball the playoffs are underway let's move to football I was a little sad to see that Odell Beckham Jr. maybe getting released by the Giants I mean the 2.0 Beckham Jr. in New York is a lot different than his first day what's going on yeah hard to believe they could not find a spot for him here he's reportedly getting cut injuries certainly have altered Beckham's career but Beckham played just six snaps in their 12 to win 12 to 7 win on Sunday so the Giants will take will then in a corresponding move will will take return specialist Braxton Berrius moving back to the squad but back to Beckham he was the first round pick of the Giants back in 2014 really his first three years there was tremendous was an all-pro his first season a pro bowl selection each of his first three injuries have kind of derailed his career after that he's still actually only 33 years old the Giants are kind of a busy team right now too having just traded for quarterback J.J. McCarthy now head coach John Harbaugh said Jameis Winston will get the start Sunday against Arizona but McCarthy could be backing him up that'd be kind of quite of a quite a thing if McCarthy actually got called into the game I would think given he's only practiced with them I think they said he showed up today at practice but doesn't know any of the schemes doesn't know anything right I mean maybe he had a similar offensive coordinator yeah that would be quite an amazing thing if he got if he got if he got into the game on Sunday well the Harbaugh's like J.J. McCarthy don't they they certainly do I mean listen he was he was like we said yesterday Jim Harbaugh was his coach in college in Michigan they won the national title together now he's getting traded to John Harbaugh's team now meanwhile Kerry I didn't get back to baseball I didn't get to actually mention yesterday I said Aaron Judge was going to be returning for the Yankees as it turns out Judge will not be added to the list you know I know you think I'm always right every so every so often I get it wrong I know I really thought I had this right I read it yesterday and as it turns out it's not happening today it would have been a bit of a surprise I mean he injured his groin less than two weeks ago that's usually considered I don't know three weeks at minimum so that's probably obviously why he's not gonna be back for the series but that doesn't rule him out rule him out for the ALDS should they get past the Red Sox tonight meanwhile the Yankees also get back Giancarlo Stanton who's been out since April now if you're if you're a Yankees fan you know Stanton is one heck of a hitter especially come the postseason I mean his postseason career I think is plugging percentage over 600 which is very good by the way well Yanks Red Sox in a three-game playoff still I mean that's that's a grudge match like you know one for the ages I would take I would prefer the ALCS like you were saying but I'll take it in the wild card round instead all right last word on the playoffs last word we make you make a prediction is that what you want to say? I'm not making you make a prediction I'm just saying what's your last word at this stage of the playoffs all right well my last word is that would be bold I mean you've already said Rays and Dodgers you know in the World Series I feel like I'm gonna be making predictions every day here for a while we're gonna just keep prodding you until we get you to go on record well I'm definitely gonna say the Yankees are winning this series that's what I'll say all right Yankees are beating the Red Sox here well in New York we like that obviously up in Beantown they will not be a big fan of sports matters anyhow we'll leave it there and we'll revisit tomorrow and see what happens thanks Dave that is all for today's evening news but for round the clock coverage you can always visit us at ntd.com even better use our entity app for Dave Martin I'm Cary Dunst be true, kind, hold the line have a good night