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- 0:00Speaker 1: Giovanni Galante, and he's a man that started this petition.
- 0:04Speaker 1: I'm on board one hundred percent to keep the mayor
- 0:06Speaker 1: away from the nine to eleven commemoration memorial service coming
- 0:13Speaker 1: up this year twenty five years. What is your message
- 0:15Speaker 1: if he's listening right now, and if he's not, it
- 0:18Speaker 1: will get to him. What is your message to Mam Donnie.
- 0:22Speaker 2: We respectfully just asked that he stay away. We don't
- 0:26Speaker 2: want the publicity, we don't want the circus, we don't
- 0:31Speaker 2: want any of that. This is a day, like I
- 0:33Speaker 2: said before, all of us get together and we go
- 0:36Speaker 2: honor the people that were murdered. That's it. It's a
- 0:40Speaker 2: simple one. I'm not asking for anything huge. You know,
- 0:44Speaker 2: he doesn't have to be there. He knows that, we
- 0:47Speaker 2: know that. But obviously we'll see what happens. There's nothing
- 0:52Speaker 2: we could do other than just ask for people to
- 0:54Speaker 2: sign a petition.
- 0:56Speaker 3: I will proudly honor the families, the service, the first
- 1:01Speaker 3: responders forever impacted by that horrific terror attack by standing
- 1:06Speaker 3: alongside them.
- 1:07Speaker 1: No disrespect Elizabeth Miller and Ornie Muscali and others.
- 1:10Speaker 4: But if he's there, he is this story.
- 1:12Speaker 1: They've got it. All backwards. If he's there, he is
- 1:16Speaker 1: the story. He should not be there, and that was
- 1:19Speaker 1: Giovanni Galante. I play his clips every day. And his
- 1:23Speaker 1: wife Grace will forever be twenty nine years old because
- 1:28Speaker 1: she was murdered that day in the South Tower. She
- 1:31Speaker 1: would have been fifty four this year, but she's gone.
- 1:34Speaker 1: And the mayor celebrates people like that. I mean, what
- 1:38Speaker 1: kind of rational person is okay with that because he
- 1:41Speaker 1: won a stupid election. So Bill Donahue, who's here every
- 1:45Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Day? And I love Bill. He is the
- 1:48Speaker 1: head of the Catholic League. He is gonna stop by
- 1:51Speaker 1: but the second time this year. That never happens. But
- 1:54Speaker 1: he has written a six page.
- 1:57Speaker 4: Letter compelling the mayor to you're the right thing and
- 2:00Speaker 4: not show up. So here he is.
- 2:02Speaker 1: I love this guy, Bill Donnaue. Bill, good morning, buddy, how.
- 2:06Speaker 4: Are you well?
- 2:07Speaker 5: Thank you for having me on. You're the best, said, now.
- 2:09Speaker 4: Look who's talking. I'm not the best, You're the best,
- 2:11Speaker 4: and no, you really are. You're you're great and you
- 2:14Speaker 4: stand everything you believe in.
- 2:15Speaker 1: I believe in. And before we get to the mayor
- 2:18Speaker 1: and sid's a whiney jew. You know that's how they
- 2:20Speaker 1: describe me people like Alex Jones, Israel first Advocate Winey
- 2:24Speaker 1: Jew sid Rosenberg. Let's talk about the Catholics and what
- 2:27Speaker 1: the mayor has done there. Last I checked when Cardinal
- 2:31Speaker 1: Dolan was forced out, which he was okay, and they
- 2:34Speaker 1: could have kept him, and they took the guy from Chicago, Ronaldhicks.
- 2:38Speaker 1: When Ronald Ticks was installed at Saint Patrick's Cathedral, this
- 2:43Speaker 1: is a ceremony. Mayor's never miss this mayor wasn't there.
- 2:47Speaker 1: He gave a big middle finger to the Catholics the Christians.
- 2:52Speaker 4: Did he not?
- 2:53Speaker 5: That was the third one he did, the third middle finger.
- 2:55Speaker 5: The first one was on his inauguration day and up
- 2:58Speaker 5: on the stage he had clerics from every single religion
- 3:01Speaker 5: except for the Catholic religion. We're only one out of
- 3:04Speaker 5: every three New Yorkers's Catholic, with more and more Catholics
- 3:07Speaker 5: than anybody else in New York City. And he stiffed
- 3:09Speaker 5: us that day. And in the day that you mentioned
- 3:11Speaker 5: on the that was the name of the installation of
- 3:13Speaker 5: the new archbishop. That morning he had an interfaith breakfast.
- 3:17Speaker 5: Again he invited clerics from every single religion except for
- 3:20Speaker 5: the Catholic religion. No priest was involved. He didn't invite
- 3:23Speaker 5: Cardinal Dolan to Hicks's installation, so he's been snubbing us.
- 3:28Speaker 5: And then on Saint Patrick's Day, I was on at
- 3:30Speaker 5: you proudly. And what did he do. He gave a
- 3:32Speaker 5: speech about Palestine and how the Irish have been oppressed
- 3:35Speaker 5: the way the Palestinians have been depressed. He just hates
- 3:37Speaker 5: Jews to such an extent. If you talk to about
- 3:40Speaker 5: ice cream, somehow he'd blamed the lousy ice cream on Jews.
- 3:44Speaker 5: He hijacked the Catholic the Catholic Day, Saint Patrick's Day,
- 3:48Speaker 5: and turned it into a Jew bashing exercise. Demand's a disgrace,
- 3:52Speaker 5: he really is.
- 3:53Speaker 1: But I'm glad we're bringing this up because I don't
- 3:55Speaker 1: want it to be all about the Jews all the time,
- 3:57Speaker 1: because again I just go a whiny and antisemitters and
- 4:00Speaker 1: they've had enough. I mean, you know, you look at
- 4:02Speaker 1: the enclave maps, and he screwed the Italians twice, little
- 4:05Speaker 1: Italy and author revenue in the Bronx. He screwed the Germans,
- 4:08Speaker 1: he screwed the Irish, he screwed the Jews.
- 4:10Speaker 4: No, Williamsburghee, I mean you name it.
- 4:13Speaker 1: He screwed the Puerto Ricans the week of the Puerto
- 4:15Speaker 1: Rican Day Parade when he canceled the breakfast.
- 4:17Speaker 4: So I need to make it very very clear that.
- 4:19Speaker 1: It's not just about the Jews, that this guy outside
- 4:22Speaker 1: the Muslims has pretty much pretty much denounced or this
- 4:27Speaker 1: or or I should say, was not very nice, okay,
- 4:31Speaker 1: to a whole bunch of different ethnicities and religions, especially yours.
- 4:36Speaker 5: Well, and just even getting off of religion, I happened
- 4:38Speaker 5: to be a houtob discharge for the United States Air Force.
- 4:41Speaker 5: They served during the Vietnam War period. And so and
- 4:45Speaker 5: I sat here in my office where I am right
- 4:47Speaker 5: now on the thirty fourth floor on thirty fourth and
- 4:49Speaker 5: seventh they looking south, and I look right out at
- 4:51Speaker 5: the twin towers. I saw them go down like pancakes,
- 4:53Speaker 5: one after another. So the idea that you have a
- 4:56Speaker 5: guy there who's more radical Islamist than he is a
- 5:00Speaker 5: out Americans, to have him preside over this ceremony, and
- 5:03Speaker 5: he would be presiding. I know he's not gonna be
- 5:04Speaker 5: able to speak, but the idea that his presence would
- 5:06Speaker 5: be there, as you correctly said, all the attention would
- 5:09Speaker 5: go on him, But this is about veterans too, and
- 5:12Speaker 5: proud Americans. Every single time this guy gives a speech
- 5:15Speaker 5: about America, as he did on the July the fourth,
- 5:17Speaker 5: what did they do? He talks about our ugly past.
- 5:20Speaker 5: You have to wonder why did any immigrants ever bother
- 5:23Speaker 5: to come to this country. Why are people crashing their
- 5:25Speaker 5: borders today still tried to get into our country if
- 5:27Speaker 5: we're so rotten and racist. And he did the same thing.
- 5:30Speaker 5: And when he hit a racial equity report, I read
- 5:33Speaker 5: it three hundred and seventy five pages. I'm one of
- 5:35Speaker 5: the few people who read it. What is it? It's
- 5:36Speaker 5: all about how rotten New York is right from the
- 5:39Speaker 5: very beginning, and how we stole land and everything else.
- 5:41Speaker 5: The man really does hate America, and anybody who hates
- 5:44Speaker 5: America has no business being at the nine to eleven ceremony.
- 5:48Speaker 1: I'm glad you were listening when I made that argument
- 5:50Speaker 1: to a friend of mine, Ornie Muscali, from high.
- 5:53Speaker 4: School, who was like, no, it's okay if he's there.
- 5:55Speaker 4: Or Liz Miller, who was all over the news yesterday.
- 5:57Speaker 1: And I love these people, and it breaks my art
- 6:00Speaker 1: that Aunie's brother died and Liz's dad died.
- 6:02Speaker 4: He was a birefighter. But they don't make any sense.
- 6:04Speaker 1: I mean again, if you want to take the bullseye
- 6:08Speaker 1: off of the mayor, then he can come. I've been
- 6:10Speaker 1: making the point for a week. If he shows up,
- 6:13Speaker 1: the bulls eye is on him the whole time. Every
- 6:16Speaker 1: single TV shot is going to be the mayor's expression.
- 6:19Speaker 1: Every family that wants buy is going to have some
- 6:22Speaker 1: type of emotion. Some may even turn their bats. The
- 6:25Speaker 1: only way to get rid of that and really make
- 6:27Speaker 1: it about the victims if is if he's not there.
- 6:30Speaker 4: Am I not making total sense?
- 6:32Speaker 5: Well you are, but you know, let's remember anything else.
- 6:34Speaker 5: He always claims victim's status. This is a direct quote
- 6:37Speaker 5: from him. I haven't might let it to him. My
- 6:40Speaker 5: experience of nine to eleven is one I share with
- 6:42Speaker 5: many New Yorkers. My teacher let me know something happened
- 6:46Speaker 5: that morning. Something happened that morning, and I might be
- 6:49Speaker 5: bullied because of it. Well, something happened because your buddies,
- 6:52Speaker 5: these radical Islamists who hate America and hate Israel, they
- 6:56Speaker 5: bombed this Okay, they took out almost three thousand innocent Americans.
- 7:00Speaker 5: That's something happened. We know who they are. And he's
- 7:03Speaker 5: far more concerned about Islamophobia and about somebody looking askance
- 7:07Speaker 5: at him walking down the street because he looks like
- 7:09Speaker 5: a Muslim. He should be more concerned about the people
- 7:11Speaker 5: who attacked us and why they attacked us, and why
- 7:13Speaker 5: they hate us. That's that's what bothers me about him.
- 7:16Speaker 5: He always turned He's always the victim, and you know
- 7:19Speaker 5: he goes over to Riker's Island. Those people he looks
- 7:22Speaker 5: as victims, they're victims because we made them that way
- 7:25Speaker 5: in the first place. Look, everybody, every organization, my own,
- 7:29Speaker 5: including you're gonna have some nut jobs here and there
- 7:32Speaker 5: who might belong or be associated with. You can't hold
- 7:35Speaker 5: somebody responsible. However, when you stack the deck with him.
- 7:39Speaker 5: I looked at his transition team, I looked at his
- 7:41Speaker 5: inauguration team, I looked at his administration today. We have
- 7:44Speaker 5: a section on a website called Nannie Watch, and we
- 7:47Speaker 5: list all the people, all the people that he's that
- 7:49Speaker 5: he's just endorsed. People who come out there and say
- 7:53Speaker 5: that I want to eradicate Western civilization. The United States
- 7:57Speaker 5: is an effing disgrace. Hands Pike comes out there and
- 8:01Speaker 5: says we deserved nine to eleven. That's one of his buddies. Now,
- 8:04Speaker 5: let me tell you something, when you one after another
- 8:06Speaker 5: after another, it's cereal. These people out there, these are
- 8:09Speaker 5: his friends. And it also begins with his mark's father
- 8:12Speaker 5: from Columbia. His mother hates Israel. His wife who said
- 8:16Speaker 5: it was spectacular. That was our words. It was spectacular
- 8:18Speaker 5: what happened in October the seventh, twenty twenty three, when
- 8:21Speaker 5: twelve hundred innocent Jews and men, women and children, many
- 8:24Speaker 5: of them women and children, were killed by Hamas. So
- 8:28Speaker 5: we know who he associates with. It's in his DNA,
- 8:32Speaker 5: and that's why it doesn't belong at nine to eleven.
- 8:34Speaker 1: You know the picture I put up last week? I
- 8:36Speaker 1: put up a video, Bill donniue. I know you know this,
- 8:39Speaker 1: but it's really sickening. I put up a video of
- 8:41Speaker 1: the plane, the second plane hitting the tower, okay, and
- 8:44Speaker 1: I made the point that mcdonnie shouldn't be there. And
- 8:46Speaker 1: I don't do that because I actually complained that it
- 8:49Speaker 1: was too perverse watching those planes hit those buildings time
- 8:53Speaker 1: and time again. But I went against my better judgment
- 8:56Speaker 1: and I put up that video. Do you know that
- 8:58Speaker 1: over half the comments, well, your people did this. The
- 9:02Speaker 1: Israelis did this. I mean, I can't believe the propaganda,
- 9:06Speaker 1: the sick, disgusting propaganda, which, mind you, he's a part of.
- 9:12Speaker 1: But there is a healthy amount or at least too
- 9:15Speaker 1: many Americans and people all over the world that blame
- 9:19Speaker 1: Israel for nine to eleven.
- 9:21Speaker 5: Yeah, it is absolutely astounding. And I saw that second
- 9:25Speaker 5: plane hit there. The first one I missed. I just
- 9:27Speaker 5: heard people scream. I saw the second one hit the tower.
- 9:30Speaker 5: We know who did it, and we know what they wanted.
- 9:32Speaker 5: They were very clear about it. This had nothing to
- 9:35Speaker 5: do with Jews, had nothing to do with the Irish,
- 9:36Speaker 5: said no through Italians or anybody else, and has to
- 9:38Speaker 5: do with radical Muslims, the Islamist They made it very
- 9:41Speaker 5: clear what they wanted to do. Now, what we have
- 9:44Speaker 5: is a lot of propaganda, and we know where it begins.
- 9:46Speaker 5: I spent many years as a college professor. It always
- 9:49Speaker 5: begins in the academy hit higher education. That's where the
- 9:52Speaker 5: poison is delivered, and it seeps into the society from
- 9:55Speaker 5: there with their stupid little seminars and workshops and breakout sessions.
- 9:59Speaker 5: And then they go out there and now they've infected
- 10:01Speaker 5: our culture. Itself the dominant culture. But there is a pushback.
- 10:05Speaker 5: You know, there's no such thing as an iron lore
- 10:06Speaker 5: of history. We can still beat these people. And that's
- 10:09Speaker 5: why I'm helping out here. It's not just you know,
- 10:11Speaker 5: Catholic League helping out Jews and Jews helping out Catholics.
- 10:14Speaker 5: It's about America. It's about our future. If this guy
- 10:17Speaker 5: is the face of the Democratic Party. And by the way,
- 10:19Speaker 5: I'm not a Democrat or a Republican, and I'm an
- 10:22Speaker 5: independent proudly so, and I don't endorse anybody, but I
- 10:25Speaker 5: do speak to the issues. But if this guy, who
- 10:27Speaker 5: is poisoned to this country and particularly to New York City,
- 10:30Speaker 5: is the face of the Democratic Party, we're in serious trouble.
- 10:33Speaker 5: But I am absolutely confident that more people find out
- 10:36Speaker 5: what's going on, they're going to get galvanized and they're
- 10:39Speaker 5: going to speak out against him.
- 10:41Speaker 4: Don I hope you're right.
- 10:42Speaker 1: This is the amazing president of the Catholic League, my
- 10:44Speaker 1: dear friend of many years, Bill Donahue. So, Bill, you
- 10:47Speaker 1: put together this six page letter urging the mayor not
- 10:51Speaker 1: to show up.
- 10:51Speaker 4: Would you mind sharing some of the highlights in that letter?
- 10:55Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I mean the people that he's appointed. I
- 10:58Speaker 5: mean again, it's even into his family, but the people
- 11:01Speaker 5: that he's appointed who are working him as Chief Council
- 11:05Speaker 5: and all these others, they're out there the hate speech
- 11:08Speaker 5: against America. It's again, I want to emphasize this, it's
- 11:11Speaker 5: not just about Jews. It's about the United States of America.
- 11:15Speaker 5: I have in front of me all the list of
- 11:17Speaker 5: this material and I've got it up on our website,
- 11:20Speaker 5: and what they've said about us and how much we
- 11:22Speaker 5: want to destroy Western civilization. That's not about Jews per se.
- 11:27Speaker 5: You know, America is an effing disgrace. That's not about
- 11:29Speaker 5: Jews per se. We've gone through this, and so if
- 11:32Speaker 5: you feel that way about America, and you are far
- 11:35Speaker 5: more concerned about Islamophobia than you are the actual attack
- 11:39Speaker 5: on our innocent Sidary city back on nine to eleven,
- 11:42Speaker 5: then you shouldn't be at this ceremony. After all, he
- 11:44Speaker 5: set president, didn't he when he was mayor elect? He
- 11:47Speaker 5: didn't march with the veterans. I'm glad he didn't want
- 11:49Speaker 5: to the veterans. I wouldn't want him as a veteran
- 11:51Speaker 5: marching with the veterans. He didn't watch as mayor with
- 11:54Speaker 5: Jews on the Israeli A Day parade. So now he's
- 11:57Speaker 5: set president, he doesn't have to go to this event
- 12:00Speaker 5: with absence, would then be at least a nice gesture.
- 12:03Speaker 5: Because he's a divisive man. Everything is about class, Everything
- 12:07Speaker 5: is about pitting the rich against the poor and making
- 12:10Speaker 5: a Western civilization the boogeyman. I read. I've read his speeches.
- 12:14Speaker 5: I read what he had to say on the fourth
- 12:16Speaker 5: of July. Everything he brings in is about how negative.
- 12:20Speaker 5: He brings out the worst about America, never talks about
- 12:23Speaker 5: the better things. So any man who's that unpatriotic has
- 12:26Speaker 5: no business being at nine to eleven.
- 12:28Speaker 1: Now, you know, Bill, no matter what he says, And
- 12:31Speaker 1: even people like Julie men and call me and Islama
- 12:33Speaker 1: phobe twice and I like her, but she's done it
- 12:35Speaker 1: twice publicly, and others jumped on at tweet one day.
- 12:39Speaker 1: Everybody from Leticia James, even Jessica Tish to Cappy Hokl
- 12:45Speaker 1: to Chuck Schulmer all called.
- 12:46Speaker 4: Me an Islamo phobist.
- 12:48Speaker 1: You know, Bill, that based on real statistics, not pie
- 12:52Speaker 1: in the sky made up stuff, Islamophobia really doesn't exist, you.
- 12:56Speaker 5: Know that, right, well, let me tell you so, a
- 12:58Speaker 5: phobia means an iration. I don't have an irrational fear
- 13:02Speaker 5: of Muslims. I don't care. Muslims to me are just
- 13:04Speaker 5: like Catholics and Jews. They're just good people. I'm talking
- 13:07Speaker 5: here about the radical extremists. I don't have an irrational
- 13:11Speaker 5: fear of Muslims. I have a rational fear of radical
- 13:16Speaker 5: Muslims who want who want to destroy our country.
- 13:18Speaker 4: And that's mom, Donnie, And you're saying that's Mamdani, right,
- 13:21Speaker 4: of course.
- 13:21Speaker 5: I mean, you can't surround yourself with people hate America.
- 13:25Speaker 5: One appointment of that, he brings in Sea of Weaver,
- 13:28Speaker 5: who says we need more Communists than the government, and
- 13:30Speaker 5: he appoints her. He had a guy who thinks he's
- 13:33Speaker 5: a girl, who ran to Saint Patrick's Cathedral and destroyed
- 13:37Speaker 5: the mass and saying all kinds of thoris about the
- 13:40Speaker 5: mother of whoes and everything else. He puts that person,
- 13:43Speaker 5: that guy who thinks he's a girl, and on his
- 13:46Speaker 5: transition team. That's not a phobia. I'm being very specific.
- 13:49Speaker 5: His name is Dori Show. They go right down the
- 13:51Speaker 5: line with this, this now, this idea that we have
- 13:53Speaker 5: an irrational fear of Muslims. Now I have a real
- 13:57Speaker 5: fear of Muslim extremists.
- 13:58Speaker 1: That's the difference, exactly right. So is there any hope
- 14:02Speaker 1: your six page letter me banging this home every day
- 14:06Speaker 1: and bringing on actual nine to eleven victims who have
- 14:10Speaker 1: taken a part of this petition, which is now about
- 14:12Speaker 1: ninety thousand strong.
- 14:14Speaker 4: That's a huge number. Is there any hope that.
- 14:17Speaker 1: This idiot, this hateful moron, may come to with senses
- 14:21Speaker 1: and do all these lovely people to favor and just
- 14:23Speaker 1: not show.
- 14:25Speaker 5: I don't think so. But I'll tell you what. One
- 14:26Speaker 5: of my goals here said was to take the shin
- 14:29Speaker 5: off of him, and we're doing it right now, and
- 14:31Speaker 5: largely too because of the wonderful audience that you have.
- 14:34Speaker 5: We're taking the sign off for him. He wants to
- 14:36Speaker 5: be the like the poster boy for nine to eleven. Now,
- 14:39Speaker 5: I'm all of a sudden, for one day is gonna
- 14:41Speaker 5: be patriotic American? No, there's enough people, Now, this is
- 14:44Speaker 5: get a cascade. I wasn't gonna put my letter out
- 14:47Speaker 5: until the end of the month, by the way, because
- 14:48Speaker 5: I thought it might be a little bit too early.
- 14:50Speaker 5: But once I saw the petition and I want people
- 14:52Speaker 5: to go to change dot orgon at to sign that
- 14:55Speaker 5: this is get a cascade the entire month of August,
- 14:57Speaker 5: spilling right into September. And so if he shows up,
- 15:01Speaker 5: let me tell you something. He's not gonna have that
- 15:03Speaker 5: stupid grin, that phony grin that he has on his face.
- 15:05Speaker 5: I'd like to smack him. I'll tell you time I
- 15:07Speaker 5: see that that face, My God, oldmighty, what don't we
- 15:10Speaker 5: put on the ever last? You know, I said it
- 15:12Speaker 5: to Bill Moore one time we could rent out Madison
- 15:14Speaker 5: Square guard, which is right, of course the street. For me,
- 15:16Speaker 5: I'm seventy nine years old, and I'll still kick the
- 15:18Speaker 5: you know what out of him.
- 15:22Speaker 1: Bill.
- 15:22Speaker 4: I got to end on that I couldn't love you
- 15:24Speaker 4: anymore than I do. God.
- 15:26Speaker 1: I say something like that too, and people raise an eyebrow.
- 15:29Speaker 1: But God bless you. The head of the Catholic League.
- 15:32Speaker 1: Really a legend, one of the greatest New Yorkers ever.
- 15:35Speaker 1: I mean that, my dear friend, Bill Donna you Bill,
- 15:37Speaker 1: keep up the great work. I love you, buddy, Thank
- 15:39Speaker 1: you so much, thank you so much, Thank you, God
- 15:41Speaker 1: bless you. Bill Donnau. Right there on sitt and friends
- 15:44Speaker 1: in the morning and not my friends. He's a great guy,
- 15:48Speaker 1: isn't he, lou Don't you love that guy?
- 15:50Speaker 4: How could he not? He says it every he says
- 15:52Speaker 4: everything so well, so well, Bill Di excellent. He is
- 15:56Speaker 4: one of the great New York he is.
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