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One Leg Up on News - Reaction to Mayor Adams Indictment and Tel Aviv Under Attack 9-25-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. All right, well, there is
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  Speaker 1: some major news in New York City tonight because.
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  Speaker 2: After was found out.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday federal investigations were on Mayor Adams regarding six foreign governments.
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  Speaker 1: A day later, Wednesday morning, there was panic all across
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  Speaker 1: the City Hall because they knew a.
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  Speaker 2: Top official was about to be indicted in city Hall.
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  Speaker 2: But would you believe it that top.
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  Speaker 1: Official was Mayor Eric Adams, New York City's mayor. You know,
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  Speaker 1: my only grape when he came into office in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one was that he didn't rehire the unvaccinated that
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  Speaker 1: lost their jobs under de Blasio. To truly turn the page.
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  Speaker 1: I felt he had to rehire. Then I gave him
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  Speaker 1: a break on the fact that these migrants were coming
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  Speaker 1: in because yes, Biden and the White House were not
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  Speaker 1: doing enough. And while I do believe some of these
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  Speaker 1: investigations against Adams, the fact he wasn't at the DNC
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  Speaker 1: on the stage speaking was retribution for speaking up against
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  Speaker 1: the Biden administration.
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  Speaker 2: But the handling of City Hall.
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  Speaker 1: Since you know, even form my NYPD Commissioner Kaban. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, there are now three commissions that have run
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  Speaker 1: through City Hall and the NYPD one Police Plaza. Remember
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  Speaker 1: kishon sole start of the year, the network Kaban took
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  Speaker 1: over and then now it's Domalin who was raided on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: just a few days after his introduction as interim. But
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Eric Adams being indicted is very concerning.
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  Speaker 2: Why Turkey.
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  Speaker 1: Turkey, if you don't know, is led by if I'm
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  Speaker 1: not mistaken, Ertawan.
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  Speaker 2: Why would he want anything to do with Artawan, who
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  Speaker 2: is clearly an extremist and you know, pretty much a dictator.
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  Speaker 1: Why would the mayor of New York turn to Turkey
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  Speaker 1: for this to be elected?
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  Speaker 2: Here? Why you know?
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  Speaker 1: I met Mayor Eric Adams in twenty twenty four, actually
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  Speaker 1: on Saint Patrick's Day.
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  Speaker 2: I saw him earlier last year as well. But behind
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  Speaker 2: the scenes he was hiring his friends.
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  Speaker 1: He was hiring people who then would to ask favors
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  Speaker 1: of other people. And did Adams do anything about those
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  Speaker 1: friends of friends who were trying to get favors from Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the NYPD.
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  Speaker 2: No, he did nothing.
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  Speaker 1: That's mismanagement right there. As mayor and lackluster, did he
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  Speaker 1: truly do anything to eliminate the migrant crisis? We report
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  Speaker 1: on this a while back. They weren't funneling people out
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  Speaker 1: of the city. They were crowding up the burroughs with illegals,
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  Speaker 1: making new shelters happen. So yes, I can see Mayor
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  Speaker 1: Adams's point while saying the migrant crisis is not on
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  Speaker 1: the hands of New Yorkers, but the bullsy move would
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  Speaker 1: have been to ship them out of New York and
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  Speaker 1: not into the boroughs.
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  Speaker 2: Even more so there he didn't handle it completely.
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  Speaker 1: I think the other reason why I gave Adams some
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  Speaker 1: leeway here is because.
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  Speaker 2: He was a.
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  Speaker 1: Higher bar than Deblasio. At least he respected law enforcement.
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  Speaker 2: At least he.
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  Speaker 1: Knew it because he was in the NYPD and then
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  Speaker 1: he became broke pressing in Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 2: But he was there on the ground in law enforcement.
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  Speaker 1: You would never see anybody turned their back on Adams
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  Speaker 1: like the prior Mayor Deblasio. The deflections, the resignations of
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  Speaker 1: almost everybody. I mean, by the time this podcast is done,
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  Speaker 1: another resignation could be happening. It could be Mayor Adams
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  Speaker 1: by the time this podcast is done. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but it's disappointing because personally, I didn't feel like I
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  Speaker 1: had to combat him on everything.
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  Speaker 2: Great to talk to.
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  Speaker 1: Actually was very excited the Gabby and I got engaged
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  Speaker 1: because he met us last year, met her last year.
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  Speaker 1: Not a good mayor, but Adams had this thing about
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  Speaker 1: him and by the way, breaking news. He just said
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  Speaker 1: he's not stepping down. He's not stepping down, which is
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  Speaker 1: a he expected response. That just breaking as I'm recording tonight,
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  Speaker 1: expected response from Adams. He won't up down if charged.
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  Speaker 1: AOC is going after Adams as well, saying he should resign.
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  Speaker 1: The mayor clapped back in him at her, saying, I
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  Speaker 1: have a city to run, but I feel like it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be inevitable that he will be pushed to resign.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see his longevity here as an indicted mayor. Now,
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  Speaker 1: someone make the argument, well, Trump's a convicted villain and
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  Speaker 1: he's still running for president, so there is that likeness there.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, this is a really wild first.
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  Speaker 1: He's the first mayor, the first sitting mayor in New
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  Speaker 1: York City history, to be indicted in office, and yet
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  Speaker 1: he won't step down. And we'll see if that changes
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  Speaker 1: to as I'm sure pressures are gonna come.
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  Speaker 2: From, but we really can't. We can't handle this.
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  Speaker 1: And he cannot handle a Scott Stringer for mayor down
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  Speaker 1: the road. They can't handle Brad Lander, who's just really
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  Speaker 1: awful controller, so much so he wants to depute weaponize
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  Speaker 1: the Controller office against Adams. You know that's happening, right. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about sports adaptability, but I have my eyes
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  Speaker 1: on city politics too, because it's my lifeblood. New York
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  Speaker 1: City is my lifeblood. I've met all the living mayors
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  Speaker 1: in this city. In fact, I was thinking, what of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty nine and I would be thirty seven would
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  Speaker 1: be a perfect time to run and be a storybook
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  Speaker 1: kind of s thing running for mayor. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if I'd win, but I I mean I fully expected
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Adams to win a second term.
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  Speaker 2: I fully expected it.
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  Speaker 1: I think the other issues I've had with him was
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  Speaker 1: he was calling it a perception that the city was
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  Speaker 1: not safe, and partly of it true. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: don't feel afraid walking through the.
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  Speaker 2: City, but.
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  Speaker 1: There are real crimes happening and that's not perception. A
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  Speaker 1: person being shoved off the subway platform is not a perception,
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  Speaker 1: that's a reality. A ferry evasion where you actually lead
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  Speaker 1: to guns being confiscated is a reality, it's not a perception.
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  Speaker 2: So there are things where I felt he could have
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  Speaker 2: just been honest and said, you know what, we're working
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  Speaker 2: to get the crime numbers down. But this again is
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  Speaker 2: the first mayor.
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  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, Aaron Judge hits a three
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  Speaker 1: run Homer tonight as the mayor of New York gets indicted.
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  Speaker 1: You can't make this up. You cannot make this up.
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  Speaker 1: What is the Nick Castiano's three.
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  Speaker 2: Run bopmans with the orcs? Mayor first ever gets invited
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  Speaker 2: and can't make this up? Well, anyway, I digress.
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  Speaker 1: This is bad news, and it's bad news because we
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  Speaker 1: now have from a local perspective, a city that's a
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  Speaker 1: mess and a vulnerable city is not a safe city.
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  Speaker 2: It's a city that criminals want to take advantage of.
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  Speaker 1: The NYPD and turmoil is not good for safety of
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  Speaker 1: the city. City Hall in jambles, not good for the
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  Speaker 1: safety of our city.
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  Speaker 2: Crap man.
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  Speaker 1: The Biden administration still defends the Afghanistan withdrawal.
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  Speaker 2: He said that Biden Yestery said it at the UN
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  Speaker 2: but they did that would draw terribly.
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  Speaker 3: And then that was when we looked vulnerable on the
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  Speaker 3: global stage for the that set the stage for the
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  Speaker 3: wars we're seeing now in Ukraine versus Russia and of
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  Speaker 3: course Israel now versus an.
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  Speaker 1: Homus, because the enemy is looking at us as vulnerable
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  Speaker 1: all across the board.
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  Speaker 2: In New York City, the greatest city in the.
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  Speaker 1: World, looking vulnerable doesn't help. An indicted mayor doesn't help
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  Speaker 1: with the appearance of a great, safe, and truly thriving city.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it is almost one.
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  Speaker 1: Disaster after another because the Blasio had the COVID crisis,
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  Speaker 1: which is terribly managed.
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  Speaker 2: Now this.
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  Speaker 1: And what have we been doing for the last four
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  Speaker 1: years trying to bounce back from that crisis.
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  Speaker 2: This is a crisis.
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  Speaker 1: This is not having one leg up from America for
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  Speaker 1: the on a global stage.
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  Speaker 2: It's just showing we are vulnerable.
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  Speaker 1: And I think, while he wants to keep going, and
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  Speaker 1: he does have a city to run, how do you
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  Speaker 1: make the city look stronger? Maybe resignation is the answer.
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  Speaker 1: If charged, how about that. But I will tell you this,
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  Speaker 1: I've ended up having one leg up against indictments by
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  Speaker 1: not voting for an indicta mayor.
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  Speaker 2: You heard that right. I did not vote for Adams
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one because I was a lot of Curtis.
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  Speaker 1: As you know, Curtis what got me into radio, and
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  Speaker 1: he was the man of New York. He is a
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  Speaker 1: staple of New York City, and I thought this was
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  Speaker 1: his time to do it in twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: But yes, him.
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  Speaker 1: Bringing me into my first job in radio, that's a
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  Speaker 1: loyalty thing right there.
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  Speaker 2: That's a loyalty thing right now.
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  Speaker 1: And so I did not vote for the first indicted
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  Speaker 1: mayor in New York City history. We'll see what happens
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  Speaker 1: when it's unsealed tomorrow. But this hurts, and it's pretty
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  Speaker 1: shameful to be home to an indictement, to where city
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  Speaker 1: Hall is an indicted mayor. A colleague said to me,
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  Speaker 1: how fast can you make a meme where spirit of
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  Speaker 1: Halloween has taken over city Hall?
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  Speaker 2: That was pretty good, But this is not good.
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  Speaker 1: And at all levels of the places we care about Washington,
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  Speaker 1: New York City, and for a lot of people Israel,
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  Speaker 1: there are vulnerabilities, and those vulnerabilities have to be reasons old.
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  Speaker 2: And tonight. With this indictment. While we can admire his.
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  Speaker 1: Pushing and soldiering on, I don't see another way for
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  Speaker 1: Adams to continue.
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: And that scares me because I think there's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a way left or mayor that's gonna come in, and
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna be dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: God Bless New York, God bless America.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, I mentioned Israel because thank God,
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  Speaker 1: thank God, they intercepted Hesbila missiles in Tel Aviv. Tel
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  Speaker 1: Aviv was under attack today. The White House was concerned.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know about that? Because if you didn't, this
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  Speaker 1: is why we have one look up on news to
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  Speaker 1: tell you things you probably haven't heard of yet. But
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  Speaker 1: while I have pictures with Rudy and Diplasio and Bloomberg
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  Speaker 1: and Adams and even Dinkins, I got a picture with
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  Speaker 1: him at the State of Girl while he was still around.
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  Speaker 2: The fact of the matter is.
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  Speaker 1: I am proud to not have voted for our first
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  Speaker 1: indicted mayor. That's how one Leg Up on indictments works
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  Speaker 1: in my view at the Alex Garrett One Leg Up Network.
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  Speaker 1: This is only the beginning. I don't know what happens tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: We'll keep an eye on it for you here on
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  Speaker 1: the One Leg Up Network. But my, oh my, Mayor
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  Speaker 1: Adams indicted over campaign contributions from Turkey from Turkey erda
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  Speaker 1: one is dictator. What is Adams doing messing around with
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  Speaker 1: the countries?
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  Speaker 2: Who's led by a dictator? What is that?
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  Speaker 1: I'd like answers, mister Adams, mister Mayor, and hopefully more
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  Speaker 1: answers and less defiance will make us less vulnerable, because
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  Speaker 1: New York City can't be vulnerable right now. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: we are the hotbed of anti Semitism. We are the
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  Speaker 1: hotbed as a target. It just feels like we are
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  Speaker 1: a prime target. And when our house is not in order,
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  Speaker 1: that just leaves the door open. We gotta close that
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  Speaker 1: door in many ways, by the way, as a country.
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  Speaker 1: And as I say, and if you catch my drift, congratulations,
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  Speaker 1: have a renight.
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