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Highlight for Curtis and Larry · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Oh, Larry. Wow. First day of fall yesterday. My wife, Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: was dancing the Tarantella, the polka, because temperatures have dropped.
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  Speaker 1: You felt it today. The threat of a nor'easter coming up. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to have Ray Stajic later on in the
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  Speaker 1: program to give us the pre-pre-pre-pre hype of whether it's
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  Speaker 1: going to hit us hard. or whether it's just going
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  Speaker 1: to float offshore.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to be listening at 7.50 because this
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  Speaker 2: could go either way. And Ray Stajic is one of
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  Speaker 2: the best in the business. He's been covering it since
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  Speaker 2: it was down, since they thought it was going to
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  Speaker 2: be a hurricane. And so he will be able to
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  Speaker 2: tell you if it's going to hit, if there's going
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  Speaker 2: to be any flooding, especially coastal flooding. And he's coming
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  Speaker 2: up in just a little bit over an hour. Let's
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  Speaker 2: talk about the UN yesterday and Donald Trump's speech. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to be covering this a few times today because
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  Speaker 2: there's several news stories coming out of it. But Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump held the speech, spoke for just under an hour.
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  Speaker 2: It was heralded as a pretty darn good speech, even
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  Speaker 2: by some of the people that he's banning from being
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  Speaker 2: at the White House. And there were a couple of
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  Speaker 2: walkouts about 10 minutes in. The contingent from Iran walked
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  Speaker 2: out when he talked about Iran. And then a little
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  Speaker 2: bit later, the contingent from Cuba walked out. But it
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  Speaker 2: was a packed house. And that's to be expected when
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  Speaker 2: the president of the United States gets up. But more
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  Speaker 2: than anything else, and this has been the signature of
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  Speaker 2: this president in two terms, it was America first.
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  Speaker 3: America is back and our country is stronger today than
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  Speaker 3: ever before.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was the theme throughout. America first, America first,
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  Speaker 2: America first. What is getting the most attention, however, is
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  Speaker 2: when he talked about Iran. And that took up a
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  Speaker 2: huge portion of his speech. But this, you may have
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  Speaker 2: heard it already because it's played a lot, but it's
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  Speaker 2: worth playing again and worth talking about.
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  Speaker 1: But I have a big decision to make.
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  Speaker 3: Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them
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  Speaker 3: rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever
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  Speaker 3: was before, maybe one of the greatest in the Middle
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  Speaker 3: East or even the world? Or do I annihilate the
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  Speaker 3: Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a
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  Speaker 3: chance to kill and destroy people and countries again?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and right after that, his son-in-law, Jared and Witkoff,
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  Speaker 2: spoke with an Iranian contingent for about three hours at
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  Speaker 2: the U.N. They're trying to work out a deal, but
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  Speaker 2: as Trump said, they're not going to make a deal
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  Speaker 2: until after the midterms. They're going to try to hurt
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  Speaker 2: me in the midterms, which is smart on his part
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  Speaker 2: for a couple of reasons, because what he's saying to
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  Speaker 2: the American people is if you vote against Republicans, you're
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  Speaker 2: helping Iran.
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  Speaker 3: I call on all nations to join us in enforcing
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  Speaker 3: the complete economic isolation of Iran until they stop their
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  Speaker 3: attacks on commercial shipping, relinquish their nuclear ambitions, and cease
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  Speaker 3: their support of terror.
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  Speaker 2: Well, many of those nations met at the UN in
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  Speaker 2: a private meeting, especially the European nations. And afterwards, the
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  Speaker 2: president of France, Emmanuel Macron, said that they don't agree
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  Speaker 2: completely with the president. Here's the big thing they want.
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  Speaker 2: They want diesel fuel and they want oil. And they
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  Speaker 2: want this to stop. And so they want to do
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  Speaker 2: anything possible to stop this as quickly as possible.
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  Speaker 4: For me, the main objective of our discussion with your
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  Speaker 4: president and other colleagues is to find the right deal
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  Speaker 4: in order to reopen arms trade and decrease the pressure
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  Speaker 4: on diesel, on jet fuels, on crude.
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  Speaker 2: Oil, Yeah, oil, oil, oil, oil, oil. That's all they
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  Speaker 2: talked to in the NATO coalition that was there. And
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  Speaker 2: they met privately both before and after the speech. One
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  Speaker 2: last thing that President Trump said, and I'll play this
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  Speaker 2: and we can then talk more about the speech and
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  Speaker 2: the long lasting effects of the speech. He did take
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  Speaker 2: a veiled shot at the media and he took a
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  Speaker 2: shot at the leakers. And he is especially upset at
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  Speaker 2: one lie that was told. And that is that the
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  Speaker 2: munitions are way down. And he's upset about that because
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  Speaker 2: getting that out into the world, especially to our enemies,
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  Speaker 2: weakens us in the world. So it is actually a
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  Speaker 2: national security issue.
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  Speaker 3: The cowards and traitors would love to say the United
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  Speaker 3: States is low on munitions, but that's not true. We
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  Speaker 3: have more munitions than... we could ever possibly even think
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  Speaker 3: of using. And we're building them at levels that we
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  Speaker 3: have never done before.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: That was important for him to say to the world,
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  Speaker 2: because whoever leaked that information, whoever printed that information, did
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  Speaker 2: harm to the United States and put us at a
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  Speaker 2: level of weakness in the world by printing that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And it really isn't just true. The Pentagon put out
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  Speaker 2: its numbers for munitions, and we still have more munitions
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  Speaker 2: than any other country. As a matter of fact, more
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  Speaker 2: than the top other three combined. Number two, three, and four,
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  Speaker 2: you add them together, we have more munitions than them.
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  Speaker 2: So that was just a lie. So if you're wondering
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  Speaker 2: about why some organizations were kept from the White House,
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  Speaker 2: their hard passes were taken, that was probably one of
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  Speaker 2: the biggest reasons.
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  Speaker 1: What was your takeaway, Curtis? The escalator worked this time.
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  Speaker 1: So Madam First Lady Melania and President Donald Trump got
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  Speaker 1: a normal escalator ride, remember the last time, The escalators,
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  Speaker 1: Trump believes, were interfered with because the first family was
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  Speaker 1: going to go up the escalators. Number two, he got
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  Speaker 1: really testy with Caitlin Conlon, whatever the hell her name is,
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  Speaker 1: from CNN, was in the scrum before he went into
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  Speaker 1: the General Assembly. Shouldn't have done that. Because, of course,
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  Speaker 1: CNN is going to be there. The whole world, every
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  Speaker 1: media outlet is there, from the smallest to the biggest.
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  Speaker 1: But to single her out, petty, petty, petty. Look, a
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  Speaker 1: federal judge is going to determine that today. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to hear the arguments as to whether they can keep
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  Speaker 1: them out of the White House scrum. You know, with
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  Speaker 1: our own WOR White House correspondent, we'll find out very
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  Speaker 1: quickly from him. But, again, it all gets down to
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  Speaker 1: foreign policy. That's why you're at the U.N., I know
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  Speaker 1: he spent a lot about talking about his domestic issue.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure if you were watching it, it played
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  Speaker 1: to the home crowd of all the things that he
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  Speaker 1: feels that he has done that he's not getting credit for.
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  Speaker 1: But it's really this war in Iran. And the fact
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  Speaker 1: that he would once again go back to this, well,
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  Speaker 1: either we have peace or I annihilate them. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: how many times has he said that? You know, bomb
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  Speaker 1: them back to the Stone Age. it's sort of like,
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  Speaker 1: I think Americans are tired. Oh, we'll see. Tired of
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  Speaker 1: hearing this. If you look at polling results, he's doing
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  Speaker 1: most poorly with foreign policy. Only about 30% of Americans,
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  Speaker 1: and that would probably account for his MAGA supporters, are
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  Speaker 1: supporting his foreign policy. Now, obviously, when you think foreign policy,
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  Speaker 1: you're not thinking of the totality of it. You're really
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  Speaker 1: just thinking this war in Iran. 70% are not happy.
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  Speaker 1: That's why going into this midterm election, which you said
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  Speaker 1: is what, five weeks away? This Iranian war hangs over everything. Pricing,
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  Speaker 1: cost of living, affordability. As Macron was talking about the
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  Speaker 1: diesel fuel, very important for us. And then he forgot
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  Speaker 1: to mention, with fall upon us, home heating fuel oil.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're going to need more home heating fuel oil
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  Speaker 1: because that's mostly how people stay warm other than natural gas.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the same petroleum supply that you get diesel
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  Speaker 1: from when it goes to the refinery. So there's a
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  Speaker 1: number of different issues there. I know that they were
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  Speaker 1: going back channeling for about three hours, as you had mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: Witkoff and the president's son-in-law, Kushner, with the Iranian emissaries
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  Speaker 1: before the Iranian president comes today. He's going to speak
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  Speaker 1: at the General Assembly. But I just felt, OK, we've
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  Speaker 1: heard this speech before. What are you going to do? And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the war is going to end after the
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  Speaker 1: midterm elections. It's just you're not getting that feeling from Iran.
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  Speaker 1: You're getting the feeling that like in Cuba, right? Cuba
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to roll over, you know, with no oil
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  Speaker 1: at all. And yet they somehow is still afloat out there.
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  Speaker 1: So I would just suggest. Mr.
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  Speaker 2: President, you've got to deal with this quickly. You've wanted
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  Speaker 2: them to surrender from the beginning. You've wanted them to
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  Speaker 2: pull out from the beginning. So you're not saying anything new.
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  Speaker 2: This is what your position was when we first went in.
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  Speaker 1: Declare victory. We've done that before. Declare victory and get
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  Speaker 1: the hell out of here.
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  Speaker 2: But we obviously don't have victory, especially when we set
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  Speaker 2: the goal as making sure they will never have a
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  Speaker 2: nuclear weapon. Let's see how these talks go. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't expect you to give the president's speech a
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  Speaker 2: glowing review, although surprisingly, many of the people who are
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  Speaker 2: normally his enemies gave it a resounding thumbs up. And also,
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  Speaker 2: many of the people there that have laughed at him
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  Speaker 2: in the past aren't laughing anymore.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought... it.
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  Speaker 2: Was an excellent speech about American dominance in the world.
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  Speaker 2: And that is absolutely true at this point. We have
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  Speaker 2: the best economy. We have the most powerful military. And
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  Speaker 2: now what we're looking to do is get out of
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  Speaker 2: Iran without Iran ever having a nuclear weapon. And the
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  Speaker 2: talks are taking place right now. So we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just remind you. There was a time in
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  Speaker 1: which he was sugar and nice with the evil seed
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  Speaker 1: of Kim Jong mentally ill, and he didn't want him
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  Speaker 1: to have a nuclear weapon. So he said, instead of
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  Speaker 1: this hard tact, we'll use the soft tact. The president
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  Speaker 1: most recently said that Kim Jong mentally ill in North
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  Speaker 1: Korea now has 57 nuclear weapons, and they have the
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  Speaker 1: capability of now hitting the West Coast. So how did
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  Speaker 1: that work out?
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  Speaker 2: How many countries has Korea attacked?
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  Speaker 1: North Korea?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they threaten everybody in this year.
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  Speaker 2: How many have they attacked?
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  Speaker 3: None. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: How many has Iran attacked?
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  Speaker 1: Wait a second. Actually, North Korea is involved with Russia
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  Speaker 1: now in attacking Ukraine. They have 30,000 troops in the Ukraine. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're helping them. But how many has the country themselves
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  Speaker 1: started a war with or shot?
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  Speaker 2: Nobody.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody. Nobody.
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  Speaker 2: Iran has continually through themselves and their proxies.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a completely, completely different issue. We know there
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  Speaker 1: are different points of view in Iran. They battle with
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  Speaker 1: each other. There's only one point of view in North Korea.
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  Speaker 1: So if the cult leader decides, hit the button, they
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  Speaker 1: hit the button and they launch a nuclear war.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody can do that. Anybody in the world that has
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  Speaker 2: a nuclear weapon. So I don't think that they stand
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  Speaker 2: different than anybody else. When we come back, Oh, here
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  Speaker 1: The conversation continues.
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  Speaker 2: Curtis Lewa and Larry Mendte.
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  Speaker 1: Larry, Natalie, our audience, President of the United States finished
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  Speaker 1: his responsibilities at the U.N. General Assembly, and he's got
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  Speaker 1: to get ready. He's got to go back to D.C.
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  Speaker 1: because President Xi is coming in a day earlier to
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  Speaker 1: prepare for their huge summit. at the White House on Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: And it is huge. AI and so many other issues
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  Speaker 1: that they have to discuss that are critical to us
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  Speaker 1: and actually the world. But today it is the president
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  Speaker 1: of Iran who will take to the bully pulpit. There
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  Speaker 1: will be demonstrators outside from the UJA and the Anti-Defamation League,
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  Speaker 1: a demonstration against anti-Semitism. They'll be flying the American and
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  Speaker 1: the Israeli flags. But all of this is the lead
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  Speaker 1: up to Bibi Netanyahu's appearance at the UN General Assembly
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday. Now, originally, the plan was he was going
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  Speaker 1: to fly to Texas, conduct some kind of fundraiser rally
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  Speaker 1: for some of the Jewish organizations there who are supporting
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  Speaker 1: efforts in Israel. They decided, nope, we're not going to
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  Speaker 1: make any stops. We're flying in to the New York
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  Speaker 1: area Thursday morning. The prime minister will be taken immediately
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  Speaker 1: to the UN General Assembly. We know what's happened before.
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  Speaker 1: He gets to the bully pulpit. Maybe half of the
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  Speaker 1: delegates will walk out. Then he'll proceed to make his comments.
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  Speaker 1: Although it's clear that other than targeting Iran, which he
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  Speaker 1: has done for years, and other enemies of Israel in
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  Speaker 1: those client states, he has said, He is going to
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  Speaker 1: be talking about the mayor of the city of New York,
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  Speaker 1: Zoran Mamdani, as A, being a supporter of Hamas, and B,
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  Speaker 1: for stirring up anti-Semitism in his city.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I will tell you this. Mamdani, as you said
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  Speaker 2: just a moment ago, has been on Bibi since he
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  Speaker 2: was running. And remember, he said he was going to
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  Speaker 2: arrest Bibi Netanyahu when he came to town until he
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  Speaker 2: found out that he couldn't arrest him. But just as
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  Speaker 2: of last week— Early this week, he was still saying
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  Speaker 2: he should be arrested, if not by me, by somebody.
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  Speaker 6: When it comes to Benjamin Netanyahu, I have described him
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  Speaker 6: as I believe him to be, a war criminal and
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  Speaker 6: an architect of a horrific genocide of the Palestinian people.
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  Speaker 6: And I've also been honest with New Yorkers that New
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  Speaker 6: York City does not have the authority to carry out
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  Speaker 6: the ICC's warrant, which, as you said, has been issued
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  Speaker 6: for Prime Minister Netanyahu. And that I do believe that
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  Speaker 6: that is something that should be honored.
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  Speaker 2: You weren't honest when you were running. You said you
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  Speaker 2: were going to arrest him until you found out you couldn't.
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  Speaker 2: So you haven't been exactly honest from the very beginning.
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  Speaker 2: Just another campaign promise he broke. But Bibi Netanyahu made
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  Speaker 2: a video that has gone global. Of course, everything does
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  Speaker 2: these days once you put it up on the Internet.
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  Speaker 2: And going after Mom Donnie. And tell me if this
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  Speaker 2: isn't for his campaign for re-election.
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  Speaker 1: Shame on you, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Mamdani.
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  Speaker 7: Shame on you for supporting the Hamas terrorist monsters who
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  Speaker 7: butchered our people. Shame on you for inciting riots against
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  Speaker 7: New York Jews. I'm coming to the UN. I'm going
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  Speaker 7: to tell the truth about our heroic soldiers. And I'm
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  Speaker 7: going to tell the truth about you.
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  Speaker 2: So, of course, Orim Amdani was asked to respond to that.
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  Speaker 5: We all know that what the prime minister has said
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  Speaker 5: in that video is not true. What we do know
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  Speaker 5: to actually be the truth when it comes to the
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  Speaker 5: prime minister is that he is the subject of an
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  Speaker 5: international criminal court arrest warrant for alleged war crimes and
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  Speaker 5: crimes against humanity. And as the prime minister, he is
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  Speaker 5: the architect of a horrific genocide against Palestinians.
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  Speaker 1: So why?
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  Speaker 2: Why did Bibi Netanyahu decide to make that video? Well,
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  Speaker 2: he hasn't won six elections because he's a dumb politician.
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  Speaker 2: This plays right into his hands now to put this
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  Speaker 2: video out to come and take on the Muslim mayor
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  Speaker 2: of New York, who now he claims is a supporter
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  Speaker 2: of Hamas. I think this is a win for Benjamin Netanyahu.
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  Speaker 2: Zoran Mamdani, whenever you're explaining, you're losing. Whenever you're apologizing,
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  Speaker 2: you're losing. And so it was interesting his response to that,
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  Speaker 2: which I thought was weak, and he said the same
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  Speaker 2: thing he always does. In my opinion, this was brilliant
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  Speaker 2: by Bibi. It only helps him.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Larry, the winner in all of this whole week
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  Speaker 1: is Zoran Mandami. He's now an international figure of tremendous status.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump, the most powerful man in the world, visits
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  Speaker 1: him in Gracie Mansion and says nice things about him. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you can be a great mayor. So all the people
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  Speaker 1: attacking Mandami, what? We spent our whole day attacking this guy.
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  Speaker 1: Bibi rolls, and you're right, this is being used for
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  Speaker 1: his domestic political consumption because he's four weeks away from
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  Speaker 1: his parliamentary elections. This is the only problem, though. He
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  Speaker 1: already has posters up in Tel Aviv and other Israeli
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  Speaker 1: cities where he has. Remember how we had the axis
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  Speaker 1: of evil? He has the axis of evil. So he's
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  Speaker 1: in the corner. And then you have Zorhan, who's next
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  Speaker 1: to the president of Iran, who's next to Erdogan of Turkey,
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  Speaker 1: because he has vilified Erdogan. So he's already playing that card.
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  Speaker 1: His problem is this, Larry. Locally in Israel, there are reports,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: and he's finding it difficult to... to actually battle them,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: that he may well have known 10 days in advance
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: of the attack of October 7th from intelligence sources in Egypt,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: which have relationships with him, and as you know, the UAE,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: that Hamas was planning an attack. He hasn't done well
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: in fending that off because naturally the opposition is going
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: off on it. And his main opponent, and again, it's
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: a parliamentary election, so it's not like a popular debate.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: vote like we have in the United States for our president.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: His main opponent has lost family members in the battle
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: against Hamas and against Hezbollah in Lebanon. But some of
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: those candidates are even more hardcore than Bibi. So believe
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: it or not, Amongst the many who are running to
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: replace him, they're more hardcore in terms of finishing his agenda.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: They're actually accusing him of getting weak and not fulfilling
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: his promise that he would topple the Iranian regime and
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: that he would keep Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon. So, yeah,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: he's doing this for his domestic political consumption. I think
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: here locally, for those who are supporting Bibi, there are.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: like the UJA and the Anti-Defamation League. You got to
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: turn out a big demonstration today. The weather will be good.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: It won't be raining because Thursday, the mother of all demonstrations,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: for the time he's speaking before the UN General Assembly,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: will meet at Bryant Park. These are all the pro-Palestinian people,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: and they will march to the UN, obviously be kept
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: about a block away. So I think the big winner
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: is Zoran Mandami. He's now an international figure. Bibi needs
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: this to try to get a little bit more traction
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: in his reelection bid. But you know what I've said
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: all along, and I think, Larry, you know this, because
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I never engaged in this during the general election. This
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: was basically Zoran and Cuomo going back and forth, you know,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: in terms of Hamas, in terms of Israel, Muslims, Jews, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I said, look, Zoran has failed with our schools, the homeless,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the EDPs. EDPs every day are pushing people in the
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: subway tracks. It's just so common now. It's no longer
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: a big story. The schools, the reading and mathematical levels
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: of achievement are lower than ever before. So this is
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: perfect for Zoran because he gets to be on an
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: international stage and not have to deal with what a
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: mayor is supposed to be dealing with. I get it.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: I get it.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I get it. I get it.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: And that is brilliant on his part. I would push
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: back that he is an international star, but there's I
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: don't even know how you would equate that or you
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: would how to figure that out. I don't think he's
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: getting the play internationally that you may think he's getting.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: It's going to be really fascinating this election coming up
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: because right now it is an absolute toss up. Um, and,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: and it is, if everybody that was supposed to vote
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: for Netanyahu voted for him in the parliament, he would win,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: but his base is the one that's split right now.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: And so if they totaled up votes, which they've done
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: in many of the Israeli newspapers, many times, if they
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: total up votes, nobody knows who's going to win this race.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: It is really a fascinating race at this point. It
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: depends on where some of the key votes go. And
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: right now, they would normally go for Netanyahu, but they
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: are decidedly undecided.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Well, they always stay away from this. There's an Arab
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: coalition bloc in the Knesset. These are Arab Christians and
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Palestinian Muslims. They get elected to Knesset. No Jewish candidate
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: has ever wanted to merge with them to make that
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: part of their coalition. So if the opposition to Bibi
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: embraces them, because they're going to win their fair share
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: of seats from obviously Palestinians who are either Christian or Muslim,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: that would put the opponent over the top. The question is,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: would they go to that length in order to win
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: the prime minister slot who then gets to appoint all
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: the cabinet positions? From my point of view, you know,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: I've made this very clear. He's been there 20 years.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Too long. Time to move in a different direction because
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: they've become a pariah state. The support they had after
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: October 7th, which was enormous here in the United States,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: as it should have been, has dissipated to the point
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: where almost as many people now support, believe it or not,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Hamas and the Palestinian cause. as to the Jewish and
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Israeli cause. And boy, that's a major turn in terms
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: of Americans' attitudes. That would be unbelievable.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: I want to double-check that one, but that would be
• 24:08
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• 24:11
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• 24:13
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• 24:43
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• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Well, there was a whole lot of excitement about the
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: New York Giants this year. They had Jackson Dart. They
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: had Scabadoo. They had so many. They had a great defense.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: They had a great receiver. But everything was Jackson Dart, right?
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Everything was the quarterback.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Everything.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: He was sliding this year. He was running out of bounds.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: He was trying to protect himself. They won their first game.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: They got on Monday Night Football this week. There was
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: so much excitement that this team might actually make the
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: playoff for the first time in years. And then on
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: the Giants' first drive, with 11.20 left in the first quarter,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Jackson Dart gets hit by two Rams defenders, one up high,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: one down low at the knees, and he went down. Now,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: there was hope Monday, remember? There was hope because they
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: x-rayed him and they said right away, the general manager
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Shane said right away, it doesn't look that serious. But
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: yesterday morning, we all got the bad news.
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: Breaking news for the New York Giants. Jackson Dart's MRI
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: was worse than initially feared. Sources tell me and colleague
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: Mike Garofalo that Dart is going to be out an
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: extended period of time, possibly the season.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Possibly the season. That was Ian Rappaport who breaks more
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: stories in sports than anybody in the business he went on.
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: The initial belief was that he was going to be okay.
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: It was an MCL sprain. Further testing today showed it
• 26:25
  Speaker 8: is a serious and significant injury. Surgery is considered likely.
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: Jackson Dart could very well be lost for the season.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: So all the billboards, all the advertisements, he's Mr. Madison Avenue,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: are all for naught this year. But we do have
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: an expert here. I never had knee surgery. I don't
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: believe you did, Larry. But our own Natalie just survived
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: that ordeal. Natalie, what can you tell us? I mean,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: you just went under the knife. You're the expert now.
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: He has a MCL strain, apparently. But that's a ligament issue.
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: I had a torn meniscus. So different.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: What the hell? You were hopping around? You're finally back
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: in stride?
• 27:12
  Speaker 9: I had, you know, arthroscopic surgery. It did take seven weeks.
• 27:17
  Speaker 9: To tell you the truth, it's still not exactly right.
• 27:19
  Speaker 9: So I can't even imagine a more major injury. and
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: how it would feel.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: It sounds like i know you just read that that
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: it was a strain but it sounds like it has
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: to be something more than a strain if they want
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: to perform surgery on it yeah i mean we're not
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: getting any details that was the initial report that it was.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Let's just say it's a washout this season you're not
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: going to play him this year coming off of surgery
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: he's uh He is their all-star. Everything is built around him.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if there is surgery. Remember, even Rappaport said he
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: may need surgery. So I'm just surprised the Giants haven't
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: come out and given more information.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Because they can't believe this. It's John Harbaugh. I was
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: on my way to the Super Bowl. Now, flip the script,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: over to Yankee Stadium, a greater superstar because he's already
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: earned the superstar status, Aaron Judge. suffered a calf injury
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: upon his return. Remember, he was out like weeks and
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: weeks and weeks. So he comes back, he plays, he
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: has a calf injury. Now it turns out he'll be
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: out for the first round of the playoffs. Maybe all
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: the playoffs if the Yankees can survive. Boy, that's bad
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: news in double. And then the one person we said
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: never had any bad news attached to her other than
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: her health issues, Dolly Parton. But in death, a battle
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: over what? Her estate, the guy that we played, you,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: in fact, you may have been the first media person
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: to actually play the cut that came from her nephew,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: who was in charge of her security, in which he described,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: you know, her wishes upon death. And apparently Dolly Parton's
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: estate has gotten in a restraining order against that nephew.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: And like most families, you know, you go to probate
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: or surrogate court, total chaos may follow.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: It is weird to me. I've been reading all of
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: the stories, and I know you have too, and Natalie,
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: you have, so maybe you can help me clear this
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: up because I didn't find it. Was there nothing laid out?
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Is there no will? I mean, you shouldn't have this
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: kind of fight right now, especially Dolly Parton with $ 400 million.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, you would think that she would be able
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: to lay out where she wanted all that money to go. Actually,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: her worth is over a billion dollars They put the
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: properties in there as well. I mean, you would think
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: that there'd be attorneys all over her saying, we got
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: to figure out your estate. There shouldn't be this kind
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: of fight. Does anybody know if there's any will?
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Who is our expert here at WOR who's always reminding us,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: make sure you dot the I, you cross the T.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: And Margaret Caruso.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: And we've talked with her about the fact that sometimes
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the most brilliant, educated people upon death have not settled
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: their estate. And maybe they sign different papers at different
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: times in our battle. But this guy that we thought
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: was the heartbeat for Dolly Parton, her nephew, who was
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: in charge of everything, security, arrangements, details. He's been tossed.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: The executor has said he's out. There may be potential
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: corruption involved. The poor lady has just been laid to rest.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: She does not deserve this, but it'll be interesting. You know,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: TMZ and all the media outlets are going to be
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: all over this. We're going to find out sooner rather
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: than later. why the nephew was just kicked out, lock, stock,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: and barrel.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: You're talking about Seaver. And here's something from the New
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: York Times that really stuck out to me when he
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: described himself, this is when she died, as a killer
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: and said that on the day his aunt died, he
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: sold $ 27 million in arms and ammunitions to the Haitian police.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: What the hell?
• 31:13
  Speaker 9: This story is insane.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Your aunt just died? Somebody that really made your career
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: and the first thing you do is you sell $ 27
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: million in arms? To the Haitian police?
• 31:27
  Speaker 9: And who are these other people kicking out the person
• 31:29
  Speaker 9: that we thought was the person? How do they have
• 31:33
  Speaker 9: the right to do that? I am so confused by
• 31:35
  Speaker 9: this story.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: The executor, if there's an executor of the estate. What
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: a mess you guys, what a mess. Maybe we can
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: pick up on this tomorrow. I'm sure more details will
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: come out.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: We should get Ann-Margaret on to talk about this as well,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: because she's the expert of