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Hour 2: Real reason the GOP lost · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right, let's bring in our WOR White House correspondent
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  Speaker 1: and Washington correspondent John Decker, because there's so much going
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  Speaker 1: on right now. Of course, we have a new government
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  Speaker 1: coming in. We have J.D. Vance also getting out there
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  Speaker 1: talking about what was the cause of the Republicans losing
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  Speaker 1: in a landslide. And you have the president. that was
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  Speaker 1: out in front of the construction of the ballroom, very
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  Speaker 1: oddly happy yesterday considering what happened.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I'm going to do a complete pirouette
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  Speaker 2: on this because I was very critical of all the
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  Speaker 2: self-improvements for D.C. that the president is engaged in. He
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  Speaker 2: said this relaxes me. And the president is better when
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  Speaker 2: he's relaxed than when he's aplactic. But I think we
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  Speaker 2: got John Decker on the line now. We do have
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  Speaker 2: John Decker on the line. And since you started off
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  Speaker 2: with that, let's ask John Decker about it. John, were
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  Speaker 2: you out there by the construction site with the president yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: No, I wasn't in the pool yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: I was watching it in real time. And it was
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  Speaker 4: the president initially not speaking about the The elephant in
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  Speaker 4: the room, and that is the historic losses that Republicans
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  Speaker 4: suffered in the midterm elections on Tuesday. The president did
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  Speaker 4: take questions on that ultimately, but he really wanted to
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  Speaker 4: talk about all the progress that has been made concerning
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  Speaker 4: his ballroom more than anything else.
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  Speaker 2: But, John, you know me, I've been very critical about
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  Speaker 2: not just the ballroom, but all the other fixing up
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  Speaker 2: in D.C. When he said to the gathered press, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this relaxes me. I said to myself, John, I'm in
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  Speaker 2: favor of this now because when Trump is relaxed, he's
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  Speaker 2: really good. When he's aplectic, he's over the top. He's
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  Speaker 2: out of control.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I never thought about it that way. You might be right.
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  Speaker 3: But look, it is something that is ongoing.
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  Speaker 4: Every day that I enter into the White House complex,
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  Speaker 4: I look around and I see all of the projects
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  Speaker 4: that the president has either completed or or that are ongoing,
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  Speaker 4: and you can't miss them. I mean, he really has
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  Speaker 4: made his mark in just two years at the White
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  Speaker 4: House with beautification projects that will last well beyond his presidency.
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  Speaker 4: But that being said, there are other big problems that
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  Speaker 4: the president is dealing with, and the problems start with
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  Speaker 4: the war in Iran. They continue with the affordability issue,
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  Speaker 4: which isn't going away, and those are the big issues
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  Speaker 4: that the president will have to contend with for the
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  Speaker 4: remainder of his presidency.
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  Speaker 1: It was interesting yesterday, almost immediately, Burnham in Great Britain
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  Speaker 1: and also a spokesperson for the EU was out in
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  Speaker 1: front talking about how they hope that the United States'
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  Speaker 1: attitudes towards Ukraine change after this. So it was fascinating
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  Speaker 1: to me because it seems like that was the most
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  Speaker 1: important thing for them. They came out and actually made
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  Speaker 1: statements to the media yesterday. Do you think that's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen, that the attitudes toward Ukraine are going to
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  Speaker 1: change because the Democrats took over?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think that what we saw yesterday from
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  Speaker 4: the incoming Speaker of the House, Hakeem Jeffries, talking about
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  Speaker 4: the focus for Democrats once they take over. The focus,
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  Speaker 4: he says, in terms of legislation is going to be affordability.
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  Speaker 4: But there certainly are members of Congress of both political
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  Speaker 4: parties that want to increase America's commitment, its resolve in
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  Speaker 4: terms of supporting Ukraine. And I think that's going to
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  Speaker 4: come out. I think there are certain Republicans that during
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  Speaker 4: the course of the president's first two years in office
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  Speaker 4: were reluctant to speak out, to defy the president. And
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  Speaker 4: I think you're going to see more of that. And
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  Speaker 4: that indeed could put pressure on the president. He's the
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  Speaker 4: decision maker, however. He's the person who speaks on behalf
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  Speaker 4: of America, on behalf of our foreign policy. So it's
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  Speaker 4: really up to the president in terms of whether to
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  Speaker 4: increase that commitment.
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  Speaker 2: John Decker, I have a way that the president who
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  Speaker 2: said there were some subjects he would be open to
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  Speaker 2: sitting down and have conversations with Democratic leadership. Immigration was one,
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  Speaker 2: a few others. Remember in that first term, He was
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  Speaker 2: sitting in the Oval Office. He had Pelosi to his
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  Speaker 2: right with Schumer, and he had McConnell and Paul Ryan
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  Speaker 2: to his left. He was ignoring McConnell and Paul Ryan
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  Speaker 2: to their distress. He was so happy with Schumer and
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  Speaker 2: Pelosi because they were within millimeters of getting a deal
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  Speaker 2: on the Dreamers, which suddenly fell apart. I think if
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  Speaker 2: he were to revive that and sit with all four
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  Speaker 2: of the leaders now and then look to Chuck, you know,
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  Speaker 2: New Yorker to New Yorker and say, Chuck, there's one
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  Speaker 2: thing we have in common. We're both hated in New York.
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  Speaker 2: You're the most hated Democrat. I'm the most hated Republican.
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  Speaker 2: Let me give you a gift. The dreamers. You go
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  Speaker 2: back with that. All of a sudden you'll be king
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  Speaker 2: for a day. And that will show that the president.
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  Speaker 2: is really trying to negotiate some things that should have
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  Speaker 2: been already in place.
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  Speaker 4: President, initially in the first 24 hours after having those
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  Speaker 4: results sink in, did speak about an area he believes
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  Speaker 4: of common ground. And he actually did mention, to your point,
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  Speaker 4: he mentioned immigration, which is pretty interesting. Usually the area
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  Speaker 4: that comes to mind when you think of bipartisanship and
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  Speaker 4: common ground is infrastructure. But the president mentioned immigration. So
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  Speaker 4: maybe we could see that as an area in which
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  Speaker 4: Republicans and Democrats could come together and have some sort
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  Speaker 4: of an agreement. As you know, so many presidents, have
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  Speaker 4: tried moving in this direction before, and they have not
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  Speaker 4: been successful. So maybe the president with this Democratic-controlled Congress
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  Speaker 4: will be successful in moving that kind of measure forward.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I think Curtis has a wonderful idea. I
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  Speaker 1: kind of hope the president or somebody from his staff
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  Speaker 1: is listening this morning, because that would be a wonderful idea,
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  Speaker 1: and it would set an agenda rather than have them
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  Speaker 1: make the agenda themselves. I do know that Jeffries yesterday
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  Speaker 1: had a press conference. The expected incoming speaker and the
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  Speaker 1: expected incoming majority leader in the Senate both said the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. Chuck Schumer said the same thing, that no,
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  Speaker 1: there's none of our members that came forward talking about impeachment.
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  Speaker 1: We're not just going in there with impeachment. It's affordability. Well,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the Democrats disagreed with that, including the
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  Speaker 1: incoming chairman of the Oversight Committee, Robert Garcia, who tweeted out,
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  Speaker 1: lawyer up. So it seems like there's going to be
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  Speaker 1: some disagreement about going after the administration.
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  Speaker 4: Well, when Congressman Garcia said lawyer up, I think he's
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  Speaker 4: talking about all of the investigations. that will be taking
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  Speaker 4: place with Democrats in control of all of the investigative
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  Speaker 4: committees and oversight committees. And they will be doing investigations
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  Speaker 4: into certain business deals being done by the Trump family
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  Speaker 4: and how it's alleged they've enriched themselves. I don't think
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  Speaker 4: that he was referring, however, to this idea of another
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  Speaker 4: impeachment of President Trump. You know, that was not why
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  Speaker 4: Democrats and independents came together and some Republicans came and
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  Speaker 4: handed the keys over to Democrats to control Congress. It
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  Speaker 4: really was this issue of affordability, high gas prices. I
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  Speaker 4: think that was the overriding issue, and they were not
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  Speaker 4: sending a message to those Democrats that will control Congress.
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  Speaker 4: Now we want you to impeach and remove the president.
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  Speaker 4: I think if Democrats move in that direction, they won't
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  Speaker 4: be holding on to Congress for very long.
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  Speaker 2: Now, John, in this new spirit of being cool, calm,
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  Speaker 2: and collected, the president, was asked yesterday by reporters, did
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  Speaker 2: you okay Vice President J.D. Vance's posting on his social
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  Speaker 2: networking that the war in Iran was a mistake and
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  Speaker 2: that we have to redo our relationship with Israel, which
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  Speaker 2: was really his first semi-official shots for the 2028 nod,
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  Speaker 2: GOP nod to run for president.
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  Speaker 3: And the president said, yeah, he ran it by me.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't have a problem with it.
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  Speaker 2: Although later on he went back and he said, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: if left to do it again, I would have the
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  Speaker 2: war in Iran.
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  Speaker 3: Can you explain that?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, I think that the president doesn't really
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  Speaker 4: ever go back on the decisions that he makes and
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  Speaker 4: ruminates and considers whether he made the right decision or not.
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  Speaker 4: He feels that his gut has always worked well for him. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, to a certain extent, you don't win the
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  Speaker 4: presidency twice, by going against your gut. And so the
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  Speaker 4: president has that. Now, as it relates to the vice president,
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  Speaker 4: I think you're right, Curtis. This is the beginnings of J.D.
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  Speaker 4: Vance moving away from President Donald Trump as he embarks
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  Speaker 4: on his own path to the White House for 2028.
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  Speaker 4: And will this be enough? just separating him himself from
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  Speaker 4: the policies of the administration on the war?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the point person in terms of negotiations to
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  Speaker 4: end the war.
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  Speaker 3: It's a guy named J.D.
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  Speaker 5: Vance.
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  Speaker 3: And now J.D.
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  Speaker 4: Vance putting out this lengthy social media post saying the reason.
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  Speaker 3: We lost is the war.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, the vice president has a role in
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  Speaker 4: that in the sense that he traveled all the way
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  Speaker 4: to Islamabad, met with Iranian negotiators for 24 straight hours and.
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  Speaker 3: Came away with nothing.
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  Speaker 4: So that's going to be around his neck as he
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  Speaker 4: considers his run for the presidency in 2028.
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  Speaker 1: You're absolutely right that that was the unofficial start of
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  Speaker 1: the 2028 election, and many of the Democratic governors that
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  Speaker 1: are said to be in the front of the pack
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  Speaker 1: for running for the Democrats, including Shapiro and Moore, who
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  Speaker 1: says he's not running, but we will see. And Pritzer
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  Speaker 1: all won substantial elections, and they were all out there flexing.
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  Speaker 1: But among the Republicans, someone that we kind of forgot
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  Speaker 1: about with the Republican race was DeSantis, who was all
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  Speaker 1: over the place yesterday and was one of the last
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  Speaker 1: standing Republicans. I think he's running.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, he is absolutely 100% running. He won his second term,
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  Speaker 4: as you may recall, by 20 points in the state
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  Speaker 4: of Florida. And, you know, he's carved out this place
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  Speaker 4: for himself. He believes in the Republican Party as someone
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  Speaker 4: who is not afraid of, you know, speaking his mind
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  Speaker 4: in the primary process and in that election in which
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  Speaker 4: he ran against President Donald Trump. He wasn't afraid to
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  Speaker 4: go up against Donald Trump. He lost that nomination. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I agree with you, Larry. I think there's no doubt
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  Speaker 4: that he will be among those Republicans seeking the nomination
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  Speaker 4: in 2028.
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  Speaker 1: And he has a good story to tell right now
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  Speaker 1: of being the last man standing among the Republican governors
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  Speaker 1: in the big states.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and it's interesting, Larry, because he may have a
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  Speaker 4: decision to make. And that decision is whether to be
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  Speaker 4: a part of the Trump administration. The reason I say that,
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  Speaker 4: there's talk about Pete Hegseth moving on one way or
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  Speaker 4: the other from his position heading up the Pentagon. And
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  Speaker 4: the name that I hear most often in terms of
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  Speaker 4: replacement for Pete Hegseth is a guy named Governor Ron DeSantis.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll see if that happens.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he shouldn't take that job. If he wants to
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  Speaker 1: run for president, I think you're right. If he wants
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  Speaker 1: to run for president, he should avoid that job. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much, John Decker, WOR White House and Washington
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  Speaker 1: correspondent and host of the podcast, The White House Briefing
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  Speaker 1: Room with John Decker. which can be found on the
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  Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. And we are going to get right to
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  Speaker 1: your talkbacks.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, guys, what's going on with this country?
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 3: And what's going on in Connecticut and the Northeast?
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  Speaker 6: I guess people just want to live expensive and everything
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  Speaker 6: like that.
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  Speaker 3: Have a good day. Curtis and Larry.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, people keep voting Democratic in the Northeast,
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  Speaker 1: and then they get frustrated at the cost of things,
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  Speaker 1: and then they move to the South, and they move
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  Speaker 1: to a red state, and yet they keep being a Democrat.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why some of those states, as Curtis has
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  Speaker 1: mentioned many, many times, are changing. Don't they realize it
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  Speaker 1: is their votes that cause that? I don't understand it myself.
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  Speaker 1: There's a complete of the political system.
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  Speaker 2: Well, coming up next, we're going to talk about Maine
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  Speaker 2: and how Collins got beaten. And it may well have
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  Speaker 2: been over the ad that groups supporting Iran, which you
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  Speaker 2: pointed out, Larry, and the fact that home heating fuel
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  Speaker 2: oil up there you needed just skyrocketed right before the election.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good point. Trump was telling everyone to
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  Speaker 1: vote like he was running himself.
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  Speaker 7: And that's what everyone did.
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  Speaker 8: With his 33% approval rating, people voted as though he
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  Speaker 8: was running.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you do understand he was just trying to get
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  Speaker 1: out his vote, which didn't all turn out. That's, to
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  Speaker 1: your point, they didn't all turn out.
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  Speaker 2: Guys, I'm a conservative independent.
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  Speaker 9: I think the best way to solve all this election
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  Speaker 9: stuff is just put a cap on how much money
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  Speaker 9: all candidates can use on their campaigns. That way, they
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  Speaker 9: really can't get influenced by any lobbyists.
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you why that's never going to happen,
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  Speaker 1: because the people that benefit from it are the politicians
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  Speaker 1: themselves who get to keep much of that money. They
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  Speaker 1: can't use it for their personal use, but for future campaigns.
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  Speaker 1: So they're never going to get rid of that. The
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  Speaker 1: Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court, though, in the
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  Speaker 1: fact that corporations have free speech and they can spend
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  Speaker 1: almost endless money on these elections is obscene.
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  Speaker 2: I like this obscene. I like his idea. They got
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  Speaker 2: to cap it. It's just now. I mean, we're talking soon.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be trillions of dollars, but.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to cap it. Well, you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: never going to happen. Well, we'll see people.
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  Speaker 2: The people themselves are going to get so upset with
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  Speaker 2: this corruption for the first time ever was right up there. One, two,
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  Speaker 2: and three. That never happened before. And it's because of
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  Speaker 2: all this big money on both sides.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, people might get upset about it, but there's no referendums,
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  Speaker 1: political referendums or public referendums federally. It's a federal law.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, it should.
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  Speaker 2: But if that becomes a key issue, then kick the
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  Speaker 2: bums out. And whoever's coming in has to swear that
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  Speaker 2: they're going to try to do something.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you. I completely agree with you. I
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  Speaker 1: wish that there was a set amount of money that
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  Speaker 1: the government gave candidates and that's all they had to
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  Speaker 1: run on. But I just I can promise you it's
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  Speaker 1: just never going to happen.
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  Speaker 6: Well, there goes the Clarity Act and there goes the
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  Speaker 6: SAVE Act. They couldn't get it passed when they controlled
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  Speaker 6: both branches. How are they going to get it passed now?
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  Speaker 3: Forget about it. It's over.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm tired of Trump coming out every day saying, oh,
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  Speaker 6: I could end this war at any time. Well, if
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  Speaker 6: you could end this war at any time, why didn't
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  Speaker 6: you end it months ago when you could have saved
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  Speaker 6: all of this bloodbath going on? I don't think Republicans
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  Speaker 6: are ever going to win anything ever again.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he had to save it with some type of
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  Speaker 1: positive outcome. But to your point, though, he could have
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  Speaker 1: come out and said, look, I set them back. I
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  Speaker 1: took out their Navy. I took out their weapons. I
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  Speaker 1: made them less weak and then move on from there. So, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're right. It would have been a great idea if
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  Speaker 1: he would have gotten out sooner. I kept thinking he
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  Speaker 1: was going to get out before the midterm started.
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  Speaker 2: He should have taken my advice, declare victory and get
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  Speaker 2: out of there. And the Republicans would have done much better.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, I want to thank all of
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  Speaker 2: our callers for the talkbacks because I identify with some
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  Speaker 2: of the voices. I know that they were listeners at
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  Speaker 2: WABC because, look, I'm 35 years in talk radio. I'm
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  Speaker 2: good with picking up voices. Continue the refugee exodus from there.
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  Speaker 2: They don't take calls in the morning. God forbid Sid
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  Speaker 2: has to deal with anybody negative. And all he talks
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  Speaker 2: now is Israel. He's upset that Bibi has just lost
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  Speaker 2: his reelection and it's all Israel first talk.
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  Speaker 3: So you're welcome here where we talk about everything.
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  Speaker 1: I want to point out something that you just said
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  Speaker 1: a moment ago that is an extremely important point that
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  Speaker 1: people wouldn't know unless we tell them. Many, many times,
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  Speaker 1: Natalie and Chris will say to us, hey, this is
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  Speaker 1: a call that attacks you. Should we play it? And
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  Speaker 1: we both say immediately, of course.
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  Speaker 8: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: Because you have a voice in this show equal to ours.
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  Speaker 1: If you disagree with us, we want to hear it
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  Speaker 1: and we will play it. There's a promise, unless you
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  Speaker 1: curse or something like that. But other than that, if
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  Speaker 1: you don't go overboard or you don't curse at us
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  Speaker 1: or you say something that's outlandish, yes, it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be played.
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  Speaker 3: Well, those are the better callers. Just, oh, I love you, Larry.
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  Speaker 3: I love you, Curtis. Get out. Get off my phone.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get the news now with Daria Albinger at 730.
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  Speaker 3: I love you guys both. Can I say that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're such a suck-up.
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  Speaker 10: I know my place in the pecking order here. Chance
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  Speaker 10: for showers today with a high of 64 degrees. A
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  Speaker 10: search continues for residents missing after a deadly fire overnight
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  Speaker 10: in Brooklyn. The blaze at the building in Sunset Park,
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  Speaker 10: which started at about 2 a.m., left six people dead.
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  Speaker 10: Several others are injured. Investigators have focused on a lithium-ion
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  Speaker 10: battery that was found where they believe the fire began.
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  Speaker 10: New York Congressman Hakeem Jeffries is now the House Minority Leader,
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  Speaker 10: but he's officially launched his bid to be Speaker of
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  Speaker 10: the House. and he says the incoming Democratic majority will
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  Speaker 10: be focused on bringing costs down.
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  Speaker 6: We have been.
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  Speaker 11: Focused relentlessly on dealing with the affordability crisis and driving
• 18:29
  Speaker 11: down the high cost of living. We made a promise
• 18:32
  Speaker 11: to the country that we would fight for an affordable America,
• 18:36
  Speaker 11: and we intend.
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  Speaker 3: To keep it.
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  Speaker 10: Jeffries would be the first black Speaker of the House.
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  Speaker 10: The man accused of pushing his infant daughter and the
• 18:42
  Speaker 10: child's mother off a balcony in the Bronx has pleaded
• 18:45
  Speaker 10: not guilty. Angel Carrasco was arraigned yesterday on murder, attempted
• 18:49
  Speaker 10: murder and other charges. Natalie Ramirez died in the 15-story
• 18:52
  Speaker 10: fall last month. The baby is still recovering from critical injuries.
• 18:56
  Speaker 9: The U.S.
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• 18:59
  Speaker 10: for travel disruptions, sudden curfews and possible violence with a
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  Speaker 10: nationwide strike. Planned for today, the nation's four largest railway
• 19:06
  Speaker 10: unions will be taking part. And Macy's is putting out
• 19:09
  Speaker 10: the seasonal help wanted sign.
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  Speaker 12: On November 19th, there will be hiring events at all Macy's,
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  Speaker 12: Bloomingdale's and Blue Mercury stores across the country.
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• 19:20
  Speaker 13: earn a little extra for the holiday season. The seasonal
• 19:23
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• 19:26
  Speaker 13: deliver the holidays for our customers.
• 19:28
  Speaker 12: On November 18th, the supply chain facility in Secaucus is
• 19:31
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• 19:34
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• 19:37
  Speaker 12: right on the spot. Outside of weekly pay, there are
• 19:40
  Speaker 12: also employee discounts on brands and the potential for a
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• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Probably the most extreme turnaround of any election was in Maine.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Remember Plattner? He imploded. You know, the guy, the oyster farmer.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: And then they found the lumberjack.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: And the lumberjack beat Susan Collins by an enormous number.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: And it's all due to the radio ad that was
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: playing that turned the New Democrat into a victim. and
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: now a victor, and that was found by our own
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Larry Menti of NJNY. I love looking at the rollercoaster
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: ride of that U.S. Senate race in Maine with sitting
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Senator Republican Susan Collins, who always tried to say, no, no,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: I'm not a Trump pro, I'm not MAGA, served her
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: well before. Well, Larry, it didn't this time. She lost
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: 53 to 46. But just to sort of recap, Remember,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: at first, they thought they had found the perfect male candidate. Macho,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: you know, beard, mustache. He's out there, oyster farmer, platinum, platinum. Oh,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: my God.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: He was the prototype. You know, El Saeed became a
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: platinum type, you know, buffed up, lifting weights, you know,
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: and all that. So they had a dream come true.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Until the entire campaign fell apart. This guy did everything
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: that you could do conceivably wrong in the past. And
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, from Grindr being on Grindr, the photos that
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: were out there to just assaults against women and former
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: girlfriends say this guy is the worst and maybe the
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: worst of all time, which made me have a belly left.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: He's sitting at home. He's watching TV. And one of
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: his many girlfriends comes over to visit in his cabin
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: there way up in Maine. And she goes, what are
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: you doing with the axe? As he's watching TV, he's
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: got a sharpened axe in his hand. And he looks
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: at her serious, she said. And he goes, I'm hoping
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: that somebody breaks in and then I'll rape them. You know,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: almost like Jack Nicholson, you know. And he was talking
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: about a male.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Walking in that he was going to rape to show dominance.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Not sexual, he said.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: But to show dominance.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, dominance. I mean, this guy was a wacko. Yes, absolutely.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: He's still out there, you know, farming for us.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Well, did they hide him away?
• 22:13
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know where they buried him, but you never
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: heard from him again, and nobody found him. Reporters tried
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: to find him. Well, the Post found him.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, did they?
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: And he basically said to them, F you. Yeah.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: And I think the Democrats appreciated that because they had
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: to really move quick. You would have thought it's a
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: slam dunk now for Susan Collins because she's a safe vote.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: She's not going to do anything crazy. There's nothing in
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: her background that would suggest that all of a sudden
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: her campaign would implode. So they found the lumberjack who
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: was the president of the state legislative senate. And this
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: guy was, oh, God, you know, like the way a
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: lumberjack talks.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I know. He was awful. Of all the candidates, he
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: was the least charismatic. Remember, we were going through them
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: at one point, and we got to him, and I said,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: this is the guy that's expected to win. And we
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: played him, and everybody went, oh, my God. But he
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: is a logger, and he was president of the Senate.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: So people did vote for him. They knew he had
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: a name. I think he was the safe pick.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Safic and both sides obviously had internal polling because they
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: had five debates in nine days, which suggested that both
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: sides knew they had to have debates. They had to
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: have some separation. So Susan Collins wasn't sure she could win.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: And obviously, the new Jack guy, the lumberjack, they didn't
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: think that he could win, who was Troy Jackson. And
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: then in that last debate, Troy Jackson made the mistake
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: of all mistakes. That male candidates are always told when
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: you're debating or you're talking about a female candidate, never
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: tell them to shut up.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: And he did. And all of a sudden, oh, the blowback.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: But then you, Larry Mendte.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: By the way, women voters really turned on him.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Which is a majority.
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: But then all of a sudden, Larry found a radio
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: ad that had been prepared by a Republican PAC. That,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, reverberated all over Maine. You not only laughed,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: you smiled, you had a good belly laugh, but it
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: turned Troy Jackson from being this violator.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: You know, of a woman. Shut up! Suddenly a victim.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Can we cue that up from the top?
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we can, but let's also point out that after
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: we played this, and we only played it a couple
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: of times.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: It's stuck in our heads.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: So you can imagine what it was like in Maine
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: when they heard it over and over and over again.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: You know, I don't think it's the ad that put
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: him over the top. I do believe, because remember, Susan
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Collins is always in a tight race up there and
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: she always ekes it out. In this election, with the
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: feeling in the country, and even the exit polls showed this,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: They just decided it was time to put a Democrat in.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: They were trying to make a statement. They were trying
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: to talk to Donald Trump. This was all about Donald Trump.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: In the exit polls, it was fascinating because realize she's
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: been in the Senate now for 30 years. This would
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: have been her sixth reelection if she were to win.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: And she's 73 years old. When they did exit polls,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: people loved her. They still really loved her. They said
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: it's her time to go. You know what I mean?
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: It's just that she's been there too long.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Term limits. Term limits.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, a perfect example. But there were two issues
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: that she could not escape. The tariffs that were so
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: important to Maine because they have this trade with Quebec.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Which she was against, by the way.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: I know, against.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: But then again, you're holding her responsible because it's a
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Republican leadership in.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: The White House.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: And then in the waning days of the campaign, the
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: cold and the frost set in. So people's home heating
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: fuel bills came in, you know, as the truck came.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: And they said, holy blankety blank, blank, blank, blank, blank.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: And I think that was enough for good old Troy Jackson,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: a superseded.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: It wasn't even close, 53-46.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and by the way, she has only won by
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: less than that in the past. And she is one
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: of the people that has survived. They used to call
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: her a rat after a nuclear war. She would still
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: live when everybody else lost.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: And he was asked, are you going to support Schumer
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: to be the majority leader? He said, hell no.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Like a lot of the new guys and gals come
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: in because Schumer had backed the governor who bowed out,
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: who was older.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Than even Susan Collins.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: So it's not a sure shot that Schumer's going to
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: remain majority leader. There's a lot of Democrats who want
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: this guy gone as majority leader.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Well, politics is definitely the subject of the day. Everybody's
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: still got their minds wrapped around what happened and what
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: will happen now. And Natalie Migliore and her beat on
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: the street has talked to New Yorkers about both. She's
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: coming up next.
• 27:09
  Speaker 13: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Well, Natalie, today you will lead, and in the 8
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: o'clock hour, we will follow potential presidential candidates because now
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: the midterms are over.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: The race has begun.
• 27:27
  Speaker 14: Yeah, a lot of people, though, on the street of
• 27:29
  Speaker 14: New York City, like, what?
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: It just ended!
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Stop with the commercials!
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: And stop with the ads!
• 27:38
  Speaker 14: But now that midterms... Midtowns. Well, that's where I was.
• 27:42
  Speaker 14: But now that midterms are cooling down, things will start
• 27:45
  Speaker 14: heating up for the 2028 presidential election. Experts predict this
• 27:50
  Speaker 14: could be one of the most crowded and unpredictable races
• 27:54
  Speaker 14: when it comes to who's running and for which party.
• 27:57
  Speaker 14: Of course, we're two years out, so obviously it's unpredictable now.
• 28:01
  Speaker 14: But it's early days yet. Safe to say this election
• 28:05
  Speaker 14: cycle doesn't yet have legs. But who would the people
• 28:09
  Speaker 14: like to see throw their hat.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: In the ring?
• 28:12
  Speaker 12: Michelle Obama.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: Michelle Obama. I think she's smart. She's very articulate. She
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: knows the law. She has a Harvard degree.
• 28:22
  Speaker 14: Oh, I haven't even thought about it.
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: We don't even know if Trump is going to try.
• 28:28
  Speaker 12: Oh, God.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 28:31
  Speaker 14: I'm, like, really not, like, super knowledgeable.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: About that kind of stuff.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Is it exhausting? Yeah, yeah, honestly.
• 28:38
  Speaker 13: No, I don't care.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Why don't you care?
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: Because, I don't know, I don't feel like they care,
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: so I don't think I need to care.
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: One person, what, 28, so that's two years from now,
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: hasn't been born yet.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: What the hell was that last one?
• 28:57
  Speaker 14: Hasn't been born yet. So he really doesn't want to commit.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Okay, that's fine.
• 29:03
  Speaker 14: But he said the person who would be in office hasn't.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: Been born yet. Really?
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: They're going to be five?
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: I was like, well.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Notice how right out of the box, too, Michelle Obama,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: where you get two for one. You get the prince,
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Barack Obama, who's been there, and Michelle... This is what
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: happened the last time.
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama. She just did not want it.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: This is why the Democrats have a problem, because they
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: have to go all the way back to the Obamas
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: to find someone they like.
• 29:29
  Speaker 14: And that's... Even when I'm not doing man on the
• 29:32
  Speaker 14: street and we talk about potential presidential candidates, people love
• 29:36
  Speaker 14: Michelle Obama. So it's definitely a name that always is. circulating.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: She wrote the book. She got the podcast.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: The only person that the president, Donald Trump, both his
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: candidate and president never criticized was Michelle Obama. That tells
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: you something right there. He knew how popular she was.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: So there you have it.
• 29:55
  Speaker 14: But there's more to be had here, because that doesn't
• 29:57
  Speaker 14: mean there aren't some potential candidates. Speculation includes, obviously, the regulars,
• 30:04
  Speaker 14: California's Gavin Newsom, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. And locally, though,
• 30:11
  Speaker 14: people are wondering about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and where she may land.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: If she wants it, she can run, whether she wins,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: you know.
• 30:20
  Speaker 11: Yeah, she can try it.
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: Well, she's an impressive politician. And she's an impressive person. And,
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: you know, it all depends on what she stands for.
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: And I think she stands for decent things. I have
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: some problems with certain things. But basically, I think she
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: has a very strong chance.
• 30:39
  Speaker 8: AOC, I don't know enough about her. I know the speeches.
• 30:44
  Speaker 8: Sometimes I'm capable of speeches, too.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Well, that's fervent support for her there.
• 30:50
  Speaker 14: A lot of people saying they're not really familiar with
• 30:53
  Speaker 14: her policies.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: So I don't think she is. It's morphing. Remember, it was.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Wait a second. That was the beginning. Woke one. We're
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: now into phase two. Woke two. Well, what the hell
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: is woke two?
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Well, when does woke three begin?
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: It's all a phase.
• 31:12
  Speaker 14: But I just love the way this guy said he's
• 31:14
  Speaker 14: good at speeches, too, because it's like, well, aren't we
• 31:16
  Speaker 14: all right? So now listen. Kamala Harris is also on
• 31:22
  Speaker 14: the shortlist of possibilities.
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: I don't have the same feeling about her.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: And why is that? Well, it all had to do
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: with the policy towards Gaza, Palestine.
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: I think that's what really cost her.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: No way.
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: Because she proved that she's not capable.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: Kamala did her turn already. She had her chance already.
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: She had her chance, and if she was the pick,
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: she would have won the last turn. So she had
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: her fair chance already.
• 31:48
  Speaker 14: So voters not willing to take any chances given previous failures.
• 31:52
  Speaker 14: But there's talking in the Republican Party, right? Marco Rubio,
• 31:56
  Speaker 14: Ted Cruz, maybe J.D. Vance, current vice president. Do voters
• 32:00
  Speaker 14: think Republicans even have a chance following The blue tsunami
• 32:05
  Speaker 14: on Tuesday.
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: I would love to see who it would be, but
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: I don't have a candidate in mind for Republican right now.
• 32:11
  Speaker 8: So far, I cannot see that. They prove it with
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: the president, the way they reacted to whatever stupid was
• 32:19
  Speaker 8: said every day.
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: I think the Republicans are in bad shape right now.
• 32:24
  Speaker 7: And I don't know. I don't know what it would
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: take to get them even back into being considered by
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: most people.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: It's early on.
• 32:31
  Speaker 9: I'm just glad that the midterms are over.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: So we're taking a breath, and we'll move on from there.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: She's saying to you, give me a break. Right.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Somebody's like.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you two things that would propel the Republicans,
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: either AOC, all out crazy, or word salad Harris. Then
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: if you're the Republican, you're going to be in the
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: White House.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: Guaranteed.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Harris is at the top of some of the polls
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: I know, but people have a bad memory of her,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: and there's no way she can correct that.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: It's just name recognition at this point. Someone else is
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: going to emerge.
• 33:04
  Speaker 14: Somebody, they're waiting in the wings to see. We have
• 33:08
  Speaker 14: two years. So like the last lady said, take a
• 33:12
  Speaker 14: breath and.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: Then start from the top.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you talked about this today. Natalie's going to
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: be back tomorrow at 7.50 because that's what we're talking
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: about next. Some people have already threw their hat in
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: the ring, kind of. We'll explain coming up after the
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: 8 o'clock news.