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Hour 2: Columbus Day parade · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: There is so much to talk about right now in
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  Speaker 1: the Donald Trump world. Apparently, that deal he had, that
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  Speaker 1: energy deal he had, and he said, I've got a
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  Speaker 1: big announcement. We've reached a deal between Ukraine and Russia
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  Speaker 1: over not hitting each other's oil supplies or energy supplies. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't sound like that happened.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Because... Minutes after he said it, the Russians hit an
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  Speaker 1: energy area in Ukraine and took it out. And Zelensky
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  Speaker 1: had a great line. He said, apparently Putin doesn't read
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  Speaker 1: truth social.
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  Speaker 3: And then look at Saudi Arabia. The Houthis have hit.
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  Speaker 3: that main airport, three days in a row. They have
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  Speaker 3: no defense system up. And I can't wait to find
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  Speaker 3: out how. I've labeled this the pretend I'm on the
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  Speaker 3: ballot tour of President Donald Trump to get the Republicans
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  Speaker 3: over the top.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the amazing thing about that tour. John Decker has
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  Speaker 1: hit a new echelon in his career. As a matter
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  Speaker 1: of fact, I think we have to call him Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Decker now when we introduce him. Of course, he's the
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  Speaker 1: WOR White House and Washington correspondent and host of the podcast,
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  Speaker 1: The White House Briefing Room with John Decker. It can
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  Speaker 1: be found in the iHeartRadio app. But, John, you got
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  Speaker 1: an exclusive with the president coming up?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it will be in Alaska. I'm traveling on Air
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  Speaker 4: Force One to Alaska in just a few hours. It's
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  Speaker 4: a long trip out there. And then the president will
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  Speaker 4: do a campaign event for Senator Dan Sullivan, a campaign
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  Speaker 4: rally there.
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  Speaker 1: In Wasilla, Alaska.
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  Speaker 4: And right before he hits the stage, right before he
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  Speaker 4: does that campaign rally, he's going to do an exclusive
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  Speaker 4: television interview with me. So glad I was able to
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  Speaker 4: secure that. And I'm looking forward to that much later today.
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  Speaker 1: That's wonderful. You know, I don't want to get too
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  Speaker 1: inside baseball on this, but how do you go about
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  Speaker 1: securing that interview?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you make a pitch. It's like being a salesman.
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  Speaker 4: And you make that sales pitch to the people that
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  Speaker 4: would make that decision on behalf of the president. And
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  Speaker 4: I'm really good at selling myself and selling the idea
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  Speaker 4: of why this interview is important for the president. I'll
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  Speaker 4: give you essentially what the sales pitch was. So I
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  Speaker 4: work for a company that owns the most powerful television
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  Speaker 4: station in Alaska. It's a powerhouse. Fifty percent of Alaskans
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  Speaker 4: watch that station. And what better place to do an
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  Speaker 4: interview with me representing that station? And so I think
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  Speaker 4: that really had an impact on their decision. And I
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  Speaker 4: think that is ultimately why the president said, yeah, I'll
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  Speaker 4: sit down with John Decker. Sure.
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  Speaker 1: That's a tremendous sales pitch, by the way. But he also,
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  Speaker 1: we've said this before, Curtis, if you've noticed that the
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  Speaker 1: president likes John Decker. Oh, no doubt. He keeps asking,
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  Speaker 1: keeps saying, John, points to him and says, go ahead,
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  Speaker 1: ask a question. You know what John's answer to that
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  Speaker 1: is always? Go ahead, John, you can say it.
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  Speaker 4: No, tell me what you're getting at.
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  Speaker 1: He says, what's not to like?
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  Speaker 3: What's not to like, exactly. If the moment presents itself,
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  Speaker 3: because I'm sure you're going to be talking about Saudi
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  Speaker 3: Arabia and what would Trump do as the Houthis have
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  Speaker 3: hit the major airport three days in a row. It
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  Speaker 3: doesn't seem the Saudis have an ability to defend themselves
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  Speaker 3: from the incoming cruise missiles.
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  Speaker 1: We had on... 9-11, the families asked only one thing.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't talk about Zoran Mandami.
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  Speaker 3: They said, please investigate the Saudi family's involvement in the
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  Speaker 3: attack on 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: They turned to J.D. Vance.
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  Speaker 3: Please bring it back to the president. Remember, the president
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  Speaker 3: said that he would. I wonder if he's had the
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  Speaker 3: time to do that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. You know, I have to also
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  Speaker 4: explain to you just something. You raise a really good question,
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  Speaker 4: a really good topic. But part of my pitch was this,
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  Speaker 4: and it was really important to me to do this.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you build a relationship with the White House team.
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  Speaker 4: You build a relationship with the White House.
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  Speaker 1: I said, we're in Alaska.
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  Speaker 4: The reason why you're going to Alaska is because of
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  Speaker 4: the Senate race. This Senate race in Alaska with Senator
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  Speaker 4: Dan Sullivan running for a third term could determine who
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  Speaker 4: controls the Senate. It's pretty unbelievable to think about that.
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  Speaker 4: And I said to them, my interview with the president
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  Speaker 4: is focusing exclusively on that race. So I want to
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  Speaker 4: ask those types of questions, Curtis, and I will get
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  Speaker 4: an opportunity to ask those questions, but not in this
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  Speaker 4: upcoming interview.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, understood. Tell me what the disconnect is here, because
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the president comes out and makes an
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  Speaker 1: announcement about an energy deal between Ukraine and Russia without
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  Speaker 1: really believing it's true. It would be foolish to, because
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  Speaker 1: you end up looking bad. But almost immediately, Russia attacked
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine's energy supplies.
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  Speaker 5: And I.
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  Speaker 1: Was saying before you came on, that Zelensky had a
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  Speaker 1: great line when he said, apparently Putin doesn't read truth social.
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  Speaker 1: So what is going on? Is there no energy deal?
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  Speaker 1: And why would the president say something like that when
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  Speaker 1: there's no deal?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think the president is, we've talked about this before, Larry.
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  Speaker 4: He is the eternal optimist. And he has a conversation
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  Speaker 4: with Putin, which he did last week. He spoke about
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  Speaker 4: maybe the contours of a deal. Then he gets on
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  Speaker 4: the line and speaks with Zelensky. speaks about what he
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  Speaker 4: spoke with with President Putin. And Zelensky says, yeah, that
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  Speaker 4: sounds good to me.
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  Speaker 1: I'd be for that.
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  Speaker 4: And the president, I'm just getting in his head, probably
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  Speaker 4: thinks we got a deal. But the problem is the
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  Speaker 4: president says this often, Larry and Curtis, it takes two
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  Speaker 4: to tango. And Putin just doesn't want to end the war.
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  Speaker 4: Putin just doesn't want to do a deal, even at
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  Speaker 4: this rate, this level in which you're just stopping all
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  Speaker 4: attacks on each country's energy sectors. And that's the reason
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  Speaker 4: why this war continues. You know, February of next year
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  Speaker 4: will mark the fifth year that this war has been
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  Speaker 4: going on.
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  Speaker 3: John Decker, I call this President Donald Trump's pretend I'm
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  Speaker 3: on the ballot tour as he stumps for Republican candidates.
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  Speaker 3: How overall is that concept working with the, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the ingrained MAGA Republicans that he's trying to get out
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  Speaker 3: to help win the midterms?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll see.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we won't know the answer to that, obviously,
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  Speaker 4: until all the votes are counted after November the 3rd. But,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I've traveled with the president this past Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: I was on Air Force One, went down to Tennessee,
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  Speaker 4: and crowds love him. You know, it's true. The MAGA
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  Speaker 4: base has not left the president. That is the bottom line.
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  Speaker 4: The problem is independents have left the president in terms
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  Speaker 4: of what I see in the polling, and independents typically
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  Speaker 4: determine who wins elections. And right now, those independents are
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  Speaker 4: dissatisfied with President Trump and his policies that he's pursued,
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  Speaker 4: high gas prices. So although the president's trying to get
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  Speaker 4: the energy level up among Republicans to get them out
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  Speaker 4: to vote for the midterm elections, the key, I think,
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  Speaker 4: in this entire midterm election will be how do independents vote?
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  Speaker 4: Do they come out to vote? And do they vote
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  Speaker 4: against the Republican candidate?
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  Speaker 1: I spoke a couple of days ago with a Democratic
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  Speaker 1: strategist who's now in Pennsylvania. He's working on a couple
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  Speaker 1: of the congressional races in Pennsylvania and then the one
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  Speaker 1: big one in New Jersey as well. And I talked
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  Speaker 1: about exactly what you're talking about now about Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: getting out in the campaign trail. And I said, well, listen,
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  Speaker 1: if this midterm is all about Donald Trump, doesn't that
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  Speaker 1: help the Democrats as much as the Republicans? And he said,
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  Speaker 1: this is a Democrat saying this. He is a generational
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  Speaker 1: talent when it comes to getting out the vote. And
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was really kind of stunning. But I
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  Speaker 1: imagine he's only talking about getting out the vote for
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  Speaker 1: the Republicans. He gets out the vote for the Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: I would think, too.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, that's right. You know, the president wants this
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  Speaker 4: midterm to be about him, but Democrats want this to
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  Speaker 4: be about him as well. And we already know what
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  Speaker 4: happened in the 2018 midterm election. That was the president's
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  Speaker 4: first term. Republicans did not do well. Republicans lost control
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  Speaker 4: of both the House and the Senate. And so could
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  Speaker 4: history repeat itself, you know, in the 2026 midterm elections?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. But, you know, just based upon polling
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  Speaker 4: right now, it certainly doesn't look good for a number
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  Speaker 4: of Republicans who are running, trying to hold seats in
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  Speaker 4: the U.S. Senate. And that's something that at the very
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  Speaker 4: beginning of the cycle, I did not foresee. I said
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  Speaker 4: there's no way that Democrats retake control of the Senate.
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  Speaker 4: But now it's a real possibility.
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  Speaker 3: Well, to the rescue, as he promised, Elon Musk, with
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  Speaker 3: close to $ 400 million, he's delivered two-thirds of it. The
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  Speaker 3: additional third will be delivered to save the Senate for
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  Speaker 3: the Republicans. How do they intend on using that money?
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  Speaker 3: That's a lot of money, $ 400 million to spread into about,
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  Speaker 3: I would say, eight contested races.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough.
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  Speaker 4: It's tough to go against that, you know, in terms
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  Speaker 4: of matching that on the Democratic side. That's a ton
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  Speaker 4: of money that's being spent. And I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: you've seen, the number out there about how little that
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  Speaker 4: is in terms of Elon Musk's net worth. It's a
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  Speaker 4: huge amount of money, but it means nothing to him.
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  Speaker 4: It's like you and I losing a penny. That's how
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  Speaker 4: amazing it is in terms of how wealthy Elon Musk is.
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  Speaker 4: But how is that money being used? It's going to
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  Speaker 4: be used to just get out the vote. to put
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  Speaker 4: campaign commercials on the air in all of these competitive
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  Speaker 4: battleground states. Texas in particular, that is one of the
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  Speaker 4: most expensive states to run statewide in the entire country.
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  Speaker 4: And a lot of that money, quite frankly, is being
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  Speaker 4: spent on Texas, trying to help out Ken Paxton, the
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  Speaker 4: attorney general there, who's hoping to keep that seat in
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  Speaker 4: Republican hands. It's now held by Senator John Cornyn. But
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  Speaker 4: we've seen polls which indicate that Ken Paxton is trailing
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  Speaker 4: James Tallarico. So that's where a lot of that money
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  Speaker 4: is going to be spent.
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  Speaker 1: I know you cover the White House, but this is
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  Speaker 1: a question about the U.S. Senate. If the Democrats take control,
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  Speaker 1: is there any chance that Chuck Schumer stays on as leader?
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  Speaker 4: That's a very good question. I think, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: think we're putting the cart before the horse. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I just think let's let's see what happens there. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he's going to if that's a big if. But if
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  Speaker 4: Democrats retake control of the U.S. Senate, who's going to
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  Speaker 4: be the first person in front of a television camera
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  Speaker 4: crowing about how he's responsible? It's going to be Senator
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  Speaker 4: Chuck Schumer, right? Do you have any doubt about that?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll see what happens. I think that first Democrats
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  Speaker 4: have to cross that threshold to win back the Senate,
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  Speaker 4: and then they'll confront, depending upon who those new Democratic
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  Speaker 4: members are, their allegiance to Chuck Schumer.
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  Speaker 1: Then we'll see.
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  Speaker 4: Whether or not he remains the leader of the Senate
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  Speaker 4: and the leader of the Democrats for the next two years.
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  Speaker 3: We appreciate it, John Decker, who won't have time to
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  Speaker 3: go fishing in Alaska with the president while you're there
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  Speaker 3: interviewing him exclusively. We do appreciate all of your knowledge
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  Speaker 3: and input on those questions we asked you.
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  Speaker 1: Have a safe trip.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 1: He fell into the abyss. He's already fishing out there.
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  Speaker 1: He baited the hook. He's got a plane to catch.
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  Speaker 1: He's salmon fishing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: How many times ever since we consummated this relationship at
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  Speaker 3: the suggestion of Tom Cuddy, our program director, Larry, have
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  Speaker 3: I talked about the time that I lived on Ingram
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  Speaker 3: Street in Forest Hills for many years, Natalie? And remember
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  Speaker 3: how all the Asian kids be on their bicycles running
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  Speaker 3: up to me thinking, oh, you must know Peter Parker, Spider-Man,
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  Speaker 3: because Stan Lee had included the address 20 Ingram Street,
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  Speaker 3: And in addition, in 1989, you know, the kids thought
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  Speaker 3: he was living there with Aunt May and Uncle Ben,
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  Speaker 3: like you saw in the movie. And so the next
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  Speaker 3: best thing was the guy with the red beret and
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  Speaker 3: the red sateen jacket. So they knock on my door. Please,
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  Speaker 3: I got a letter here for Spider-Man. I said, well,
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  Speaker 3: that's you got to bring it to the post office.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no. You know, 20 Ingram, which
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  Speaker 1: was blocks away.
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  Speaker 3: And it was the Parker family that owned that house.
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  Speaker 1: Jack Shy lives there now. He just bought the house
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. And he didn't realize, they
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  Speaker 1: didn't tell him at the time, this is Peter Parker's house.
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  Speaker 1: But he's getting all the requests that you used to get.
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  Speaker 1: And he loves it. Oh, yeah. That's what's so nice
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  Speaker 1: about it. He says, what's not to like about Spider-Man?
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  Speaker 1: He's gentle. He's kind. He's brave. Of course, everyone likes him.
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  Speaker 1: So it is wonderful. And now they the street they're
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  Speaker 1: going to rename Ingram Street. Actually, I shouldn't say they're
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  Speaker 1: going to rename it because it's going to stay that
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  Speaker 1: way on the map. But there's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: sign under it said that says Spider-Man way.
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  Speaker 3: And that was done this past weekend. Why was I
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  Speaker 3: not invited?
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's a little backstory here.
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  Speaker 3: Remember when I was testifying to end the horse carriage
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  Speaker 3: industry at City Council? The chairwoman who didn't really want
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  Speaker 3: to do that because she wants to support the horse
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  Speaker 3: carriage industry, Claire Shulman. Remember she had the microphone pulled
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  Speaker 3: from me first time ever? Two minutes into this.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: The secret hand came out. Right.
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  Speaker 3: So she was the one who hosted that. People wanted
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  Speaker 3: me to be there because they said, well, he was
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  Speaker 3: the closest thing we ever had a Spider-Man. She ixnayed
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  Speaker 3: that and had Julie Menon there instead. Now, I understand
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  Speaker 3: she's the Speaker of the Council. You could have invited
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  Speaker 3: me also, but no, I wasn't invited.
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  Speaker 1: It would have been better with you, but it was
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  Speaker 1: still a nice event, and Nick Lowe, the editor of Spider-Man,
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  Speaker 1: was there, and he talked about... Peter Parker's connection to
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  Speaker 1: the community.
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  Speaker 8: Peter Parker isn't a billionaire living in a tower. He
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  Speaker 8: isn't an alien descending from space. He's a kid from
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  Speaker 8: Queens who has homework, bills to pay, family problems, and
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  Speaker 8: a thousand reasons to say he can't help today. And yet,
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  Speaker 8: time and time.
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  Speaker 1: Again, he shows up.
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  Speaker 3: And I would have said, and every time he comes
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  Speaker 3: into Manhattan, he has to pay congestion pricing, too.
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  Speaker 1: They do that to people that web in, too?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Oh, of course.
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  Speaker 3: They attach you from the cradle to the grave. So
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  Speaker 3: maybe that's the reason I wasn't invited.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a plethora of reasons that you weren't invited.
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  Speaker 1: But let's get to some talkbacks. Curtis, sustenance aren't a time.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not.
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  Speaker 1: They're just a little bit better. Nice try, big boy. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: big boy.
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  Speaker 3: My grandfather, Fidelio Bianchino, said, hey, the cheaches, the zips,
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  Speaker 3: cold language for Sicilianos, they're not real Italians. A lot
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  Speaker 3: of Italians thought that.
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  Speaker 10: Curtis, most likely the reason they're not just raising the
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  Speaker 10: bridge is because of the approaches on both sides. You
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  Speaker 10: can't just raise the bridge. You have to elevate the
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  Speaker 10: roadways on both sides, and it may not be feasible
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  Speaker 10: to do that given the lay of the land in
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  Speaker 10: that particular area.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, so he's talking about the portal bridge.
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  Speaker 3: They have to open occasionally the truss swing bridge, which
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  Speaker 3: causes all kinds of problems. Where there's a will, there's
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  Speaker 3: a way. Red Chinese seem to be able to do
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  Speaker 3: it all the time. I think they could have done it.
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  Speaker 3: I think it would have been more expensive. Wow.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 11: I love John Decker, but the polls, are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 11: Let go of the polls. Put your finger on the pulse.
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  Speaker 11: That's what's happening. We are not going to lose. We're
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  Speaker 11: not going to win, but we're not going to lose.
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  Speaker 11: I mean, the Republicans. So that's what's happening. Go to
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  Speaker 11: the polls, John Decker. They are clueless.
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  Speaker 1: Can you explain that to me?
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  Speaker 3: Because she had me up until she said, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to win, but we're going to lose.
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  Speaker 1: Let her go. Let her go. Let her go. And
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  Speaker 1: let me make her feel a little bit better. Harry
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  Speaker 1: Enten has published just done something which I think is tremendous.
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  Speaker 1: He's looked at the polls. He's the guy at CNN,
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  Speaker 1: the map guy and the poll guy. He's looked at
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  Speaker 1: the national polls from the last four elections. That's midterms
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  Speaker 1: and presidential elections. The polls have undercounted Republicans by two
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  Speaker 1: to four points. If that holds up this time, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just giving you some hope. If that holds up this time,
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  Speaker 1: they keep the Senate and they win a total of
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  Speaker 1: 53 seats because they win Texas, they win Ohio, They
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  Speaker 1: win Alaska and they win Iowa. So if the polls
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  Speaker 1: are consistent, Republicans will keep the Senate. I hope that
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  Speaker 1: makes you feel better. Keep hope alive. That's Barack Obama.
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  Speaker 1: Keep hope alive! Well, it's numbers. It's stats. So if
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  Speaker 1: they keep making the same problems with the polls, Republicans
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  Speaker 1: will keep the Senate. Now let's get to Daria Albinger
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  Speaker 1: with the 730 News. Morning, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Mostly sunny, mild and muggy today with a high of
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  Speaker 2: 71 degrees. City officials are calling on Target to stop
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  Speaker 2: cooperating with ICE after agents shot a man near one
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  Speaker 2: of the chain stores in Upper Manhattan last week. And
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  Speaker 2: this comes, as Mayor Mamdani says. The city will conduct
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  Speaker 2: its own investigation into the incident.
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  Speaker 12: Mamdani over the weekend ripped ICE agents, saying when you
• 18:14
  Speaker 12: see the video of last week's shooting, it feels like
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  Speaker 12: you're looking at a mass shooter as opposed to seeing
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  Speaker 12: someone who's representing a federal agency.
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  Speaker 4: They view the law as a suggestion.
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  Speaker 2: There is a reason why the NYPD would not be
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  Speaker 2: shooting at a moving vehicle.
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  Speaker 12: The ICE agents were wearing plain clothes. Department of Homeland
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  Speaker 12: Security says Oscar Belgal, who has a criminal record, tried
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  Speaker 12: fleeing the arrest in Marble Hill, ramming an ICE vehicle
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  Speaker 12: before ICE agents shot him in the neck. Mamdani says
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  Speaker 12: the city's investigating. I'm Scott Pringle, WOR News.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: The mayor also calling out the Department of Homeland Security
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  Speaker 2: for searching the Washington, D.C. area home of Minnesota Congresswoman
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  Speaker 2: Ilhan Omar. He says Omar, who, like him, identifies as
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: a Democratic socialist, should not have her citizenship threatened because
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: of her political views. Three weeks to the midterms. Voters
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: say inflation is the top issue.
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  Speaker 7: Asked to consider 15 hot-button issues going into the midterms,
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  Speaker 7: the top issue by far with 37% was inflation. It's
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  Speaker 7: the highest polling for inflation since YouGov started asking the
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  Speaker 7: question in 2022. Second on the issues list, jobs and
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  Speaker 7: the economy at 12%. When asked, 47% say the economy
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: is in bad shape. tying a high in 2023. I'm
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  Speaker 7: Rory O'Neill.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight, New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Republican Bruce Blakeman
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  Speaker 2: will meet for their only debate. It's hosted by Spectrum One. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this is one great pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Minnesota farmers' gourd
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: won this year's world championship in Half Moon Bay, California.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: This pumpkin is half the size of a car, and
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: it tips the scales at over 3100 pounds think of
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  Speaker 2: all the pie you could make devils lose to ottawa
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  Speaker 2: four to one next news eight o'clock bulletins at once
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  Speaker 2: i'm daria albinger on 710.
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  Speaker 1: Wor thank you daria well a flight coming into jfk
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  Speaker 1: with a well-known hollywood actress on it and she goes
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: berserk And now she's under arrest. We've got all the
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: audio and the details coming up for you next. You
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: probably know the actress Selma Blair, right? She was big,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: early 2000s especially. Movies like Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde, Hellboy,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: The Sweetest Thing. For a while there, she was on
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: quite a roll. But she hasn't had a big movie
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  Speaker 1: now for a while. Well, she was on a flight
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  Speaker 1: coming from Los Angeles. to New York's John F. Kennedy Airport.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: And she had an incident. And the only way you
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: can describe this is she went crazy. She apparently tried
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: to open the door to the airplane. She was fighting
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: with the passengers and she was screaming. And I'm going
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: to play you something that was recorded within the phone,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: by a phone within the airline. But I want you
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: to Please get your volume control in your hand just
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: in case, because this is really hard on the ears.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Here you go.
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  Speaker 9: You can hear the alarm going off in the background,
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  Speaker 9: and that is her having a fit as they try
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  Speaker 9: to contain her.
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  Speaker 1: And as they came into JFK air traffic control room,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: called ahead to make sure that there were police there
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  Speaker 1: and medical personnel.
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  Speaker 6: We'd like to have some medical personnel at the gate
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  Speaker 6: for a couple of the FAs involved in the passenger incident.
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  Speaker 6: They just need to get a couple things looked at.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, I will pass it along.
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  Speaker 6: Just get an estimated station count for me, please. How
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  Speaker 6: many ambulances will need? No ambulances, just some medical personnel
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  Speaker 6: available for two flight attendants at the gate should be fine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and there were some severe problems with a couple
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  Speaker 1: of people. As you said, they don't need an ambulance,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: but people had to get stitches from a human bite,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: and also somebody was slashed.
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  Speaker 8: The abusive passenger, did that result in the two flight
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  Speaker 8: attendants that are requested paramedics?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, one flight attendant and one passenger that sustained some
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: minor injuries, a bloody nose as well as some.
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  Speaker 1: Some bite marks, but she did break skin. Here's what
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  Speaker 1: you should know about her. By the way, she's already
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: been charged. She already appeared in court and she's been
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: let go on her own recognizance. But here's what you
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: should know about her, which I didn't know until today.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: She has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. And that's, as
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: you probably know, an autoimmune disease that affects the central
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: nervous system. She publicly revealed this in 2018, but it's
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: been afflicting her all her life. Now, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: much about multiple sclerosis. Maybe you do, Curtis, or maybe
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: some of our listeners do. But does it cause you
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  Speaker 1: to do this? Does it cause you, if it affects
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: your central nervous systems, to react like this? Because I
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: can't figure out what was going on with her.
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  Speaker 3: No, I think the most recent case of MS, I
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: stand to be corrected, wasn't that Janice Steen who had
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: to leave as the weatherwoman of the Fox News channel
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: in the mornings as a result of her continued problems
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: with MS, her physical disability. Now, to her credit, she
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: turned that diagnosis into... becoming an advocate for disability rights.
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  Speaker 3: But she also had had a problem one time taking
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: a flight down to Cancun, where she got out of control.
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  Speaker 1: Not to this extent. This is real. I mean, imagine.
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  Speaker 3: You're trying to open up a door mid-flight from LA
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  Speaker 3: to JFK on a Delta flight. You open that door
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  Speaker 3: by any way you were able to do that. You're
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: causing potentially mass casualties. And then, as you heard, screaming
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  Speaker 3: and out of control. But in that flight to Cancun,
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: she had gotten out of control nowhere near as bad
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  Speaker 3: as this, but blamed it on mixing alcohol with drugs.
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  Speaker 3: So I think it's probably a combination of issues. But, boy,
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  Speaker 3: she's in serious need of help. She jeopardized an entire
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  Speaker 3: flight and attacked the flight attendants who were trying to
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: get her under control again. punching out a passenger, biting
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: a flight attendant, screaming, yelling, clearly beset with all kinds
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: of mental issues. But I'm wondering, was it triggered by
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: possibly alcohol and drugs?
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  Speaker 1: Well, here she went to Queens Criminal Court, two counts
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: of second-degree assault, and this is what her defense attorney said.
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  Speaker 1: Sean Barnes is the defense attorney. He emphasized that the
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: actions were entirely non-intentional, explaining that Blair had hopped on
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  Speaker 1: the flight after extensive and grueling hours on a film
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: set and had missed several critical doses of her medication.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know what that means. Maybe somebody out
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: there who has dealt with MS before would know if
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: it would cause this type of reaction. But what he's
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: saying is she was off her meds. Yeah, I don't
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: know if that was for MS.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Most times, people who have had MS, if they don't
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: have access to the meds or if they've been off
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: the meds, basically it destabilizes them, not in a capacity
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: where they're mentally reaching out, but physically they can't do anything.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: So I don't know. I'd go back to that Cancun
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: situation where She sort of gave a preview of how
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: she might behave under the influence of mixing alcohol and drugs. And,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: you know, on flights, she was probably in first class.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to give her whatever she wants to drink.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's also interesting that there's some claims that
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: she was mixing alcohol with the drugs, assuming that she's
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: taken those drugs for MS. And then her lawyer immediately
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: says she wasn't on her drugs. Somebody got the wrong story.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: To be honest.
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  Speaker 3: Continued, but obviously this woman is in serious need of help. Boy,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: she could have taken down that whole flight.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Anyway, up next, oh, she was in the streets of
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: the Columbus Day Parade yesterday, Natalie Omegliore, and she's going
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: to bring back all the comments to us and comments
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: from Bruce Blakeman, who tonight has his one and unfortunately
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: only opportunity to debate Governor Kathy Hochul. Now, it's 710WOR
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore. Well, back from
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: the Christopher Columbus parade yesterday, Natalie, did you have a
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: good time? Did you have your sausage and peppers while
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: you were there?
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  Speaker 13: No, I didn't have my sausage and peppers, but I
• 27:15
  Speaker 13: was among my paisans, so it was all good.
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  Speaker 1: Did you two see each other there?
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  Speaker 13: No, it's such a big parade. I think, Curtis, you
• 27:22
  Speaker 13: started on the other side of the people of the street.
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  Speaker 1: That's correct. I didn't go where the scrum of reporters were.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I stayed to the side, so if the reporters wanted
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: to come to me, they could.
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  Speaker 1: If they didn't, no big deal.
• 27:35
  Speaker 13: And I see him every day, and we get to
• 27:38
  Speaker 13: hear his opinions every day.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Every day. So you want some distance every once in
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: a while.
• 27:43
  Speaker 13: It's nice to see him out in the wild. But
• 27:46
  Speaker 13: I had to go chase. I had to go chase
• 27:48
  Speaker 13: one of our governor candidates. And we'll get to that
• 27:52
  Speaker 13: at the end of it, because. Our day, our weeks
• 27:56
  Speaker 13: are shorter, not for us. We were in the studio
• 27:58
  Speaker 13: yesterday because of Columbus Day or Indigenous People's Day or
• 28:02
  Speaker 13: Italian American Heritage Day. I don't know what people want
• 28:04
  Speaker 13: to call it these days. Many consider it, though, the
• 28:07
  Speaker 13: perfect day to celebrate Italian American heritage. But there have
• 28:11
  Speaker 13: been disputes over what to call the day for years now.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: It's Columbus Day all the way. It'll always be Columbus Day.
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  Speaker 1: None of us were here 500 years ago.
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  Speaker 10: We all don't know what actually happened, but let's preserve
• 28:25
  Speaker 10: the positive image of Italian American heritage.
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  Speaker 1: Columbus Day is fine. It's always been Columbus Day. Not
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Indigenous Day. It's Columbus Day. It's Columbus Day.
• 28:35
  Speaker 13: What do you think when you hear people call it
• 28:37
  Speaker 13: this Indigenous People's Day? I think they're * * * *.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: And I was being polite. Wow. He really was being polite.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Are you sure he didn't direct that at Joran Mondami?
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 28:51
  Speaker 13: Honestly, later on in the conversation, it could have gotten there.
• 28:55
  Speaker 13: Escalating quickly at that point. Now, Governor Kathy Hochul attended
• 28:58
  Speaker 13: yesterday's parade, along with a slew of lawmakers and candidates
• 29:02
  Speaker 13: running for various levels of office. It's an election year,
• 29:06
  Speaker 13: so everyone wants to make their presence known, especially at
• 29:09
  Speaker 13: an event like this. But Mayor Mamdani was absent from
• 29:13
  Speaker 13: the festivities despite getting an invite.
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  Speaker 5: I think that says a lot in itself, because as
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: a mayor, you should support everything and anything going on
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: in your city. Whether you agree with it or not,
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: I think it's just very professional of you to attend everything.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: He might have learned something about the Italian people if
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: he came here, but he doesn't care, doesn't want to know.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: It's too bad. I think it's better that he shows
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: up because he doesn't like us. He would have been
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: booed if.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: He showed up.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: You know what? It's their loss. Oh, that was a
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: good one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: That was a disgrace. Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: The last time I was at a parade, actually covering
• 29:49
  Speaker 13: a parade was the not. And somebody was booed was
• 29:52
  Speaker 13: the Veterans Day parade, and it was former Mayor de Blasio,
• 29:57
  Speaker 13: who was booed walking down the streets.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: He got booed all breaks, but he would be oblivious.
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  Speaker 1: He would just wave.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 30:02
  Speaker 13: Well, he would wave and keep the smile on his
• 30:04
  Speaker 13: face as if to say, ha-ha, I'm still your mayor.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: What was the booed total now? It was Hochul, Letitia James.
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: Who else?
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Anybody else? No, those two.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: But I felt it was Tish James who got a
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: little more booze than Hochul. But they were both Buddhist
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: surrogates for Zoran Mandami not being there.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Surrogates. The governor.
• 30:23
  Speaker 13: You know, you see, though, like these people, there was
• 30:25
  Speaker 13: actually one guy wearing a shirt that and I interviewed
• 30:29
  Speaker 13: him that said, make America Italian again. And it was
• 30:32
  Speaker 13: in the same font as Make America Great Again. So,
• 30:35
  Speaker 13: I mean, these are people who lean more conservative. You're not,
• 30:38
  Speaker 13: you know, even if they and there are some people
• 30:40
  Speaker 13: who even came over from Italy to see the Columbus
• 30:43
  Speaker 13: Day Parade, you know, or they happen to be here
• 30:45
  Speaker 13: and see the festivities. Now, the mayor, the mayor did
• 30:48
  Speaker 13: put out a prerecorded video acknowledging Italian-American heritage. Another person
• 30:54
  Speaker 13: who was there, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who is
• 30:57
  Speaker 13: running for governor. The Republicans actually preparing for his first
• 31:02
  Speaker 13: And only debate against Governor Kathy Hochul this evening. I
• 31:06
  Speaker 13: pulled him. We had, you know, Curtis saw the whole
• 31:09
  Speaker 13: reporter gaggly thing, but I had to pull him aside.
• 31:12
  Speaker 13: I asked him directly how he felt that this seven
• 31:15
  Speaker 13: o'clock meeting is only happening on Spectrum New York 1.
• 31:20
  Speaker 13: which only reaches about two million households in the city.
• 31:23
  Speaker 14: I got, I believe, seven invitations from every media outlet
• 31:29
  Speaker 14: in New York State, and I accepted all of them.
• 31:32
  Speaker 14: Kathy Hochul only accepted one, Spectrum. That is one of
• 31:37
  Speaker 14: the smaller media outlets, and it's designed so that people
• 31:42
  Speaker 14: won't look at her record and won't look at my
• 31:44
  Speaker 14: record and compare the two, because if they compare my
• 31:46
  Speaker 14: record with her record, they're going to vote for me.
• 31:48
  Speaker 13: Yeah, so he was very adamant. He even said yesterday
• 31:52
  Speaker 13: when we interviewed him, he is going to be the
• 31:55
  Speaker 13: governor come November 3rd. The polls are tightening, but Governor
• 32:00
  Speaker 13: Hochul has held a double-digit lead, and we'll see what
• 32:02
  Speaker 13: the debate does tonight. But all of the elected officials,
• 32:06
  Speaker 13: varying in people who want to be elected, many of
• 32:12
  Speaker 13: them were there yesterday.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: You said something interesting. You said that most of the
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: people there are conservative. Italian-Americans, mostly conservative? Yeah. They've been
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: conservative in New York City. So you could be like Magaliori.
• 32:25
  Speaker 13: Like what he calls me?
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: No, guys.
• 32:28
  Speaker 13: The I in Magaliori stands for independent.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Okay. Got it.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Nice.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I just came up with that on the spot.
• 32:37
  Speaker 13: That's funny. No, no, no, no.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Well, the MAGA girl, I mean, Natalie Migliore.
• 32:44
  Speaker 13: Migliore.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: I'm a reporter.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: We'll be back tomorrow morning at 7.50. Meantime, up next,
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: there is pressure to fire Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch by
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: the DSA, which have been the primary supporters. for the
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: rise politically of Zoran Mandami. We'll get to that after
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: the 8 o'clock news.