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Peter King | Former Congressman Talks NYS Gubernatorial Debate & Starlink Controversy in Ukraine · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Let me get to the great congressman, Giuliani King, King Giuliani,
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  Speaker 1: any way you want to put it. Two best politicians
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  Speaker 1: in my.
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  Speaker 2: Lifetime here in New York, and I'll be 60 in April.
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  Speaker 1: Are Peter King and Woody Giuliani. He's here every Wednesday. Peter,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, buddy. How are you?
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  Speaker 3: Come on, you said, listen, you'll be 60 in April
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  Speaker 3: if you make it. You know, the way you're going,
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  Speaker 3: your heart was beating, you were here to blow up,
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  Speaker 3: I tell you.
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  Speaker 1: I know, you know, you're right. I was so worried
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  Speaker 1: that after October 7th, some maniacal terrorist in New York
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  Speaker 1: was going to kill me. Now I'm worried, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: my heart's going to blow up because... I'm angry about
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  Speaker 1: so many things and happy about so many things and
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  Speaker 1: excitable every morning, happy about what I saw from Bruce
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman last night. I know you were out there with
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  Speaker 1: Joe Cairo and Patty Ryder and Anthony D'Esposito at one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite places, Umberto's. Tell me what you saw
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  Speaker 1: last night, Peter.
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  Speaker 3: I'd say it was like a massive boxing performance. Spruce
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  Speaker 3: controlled that debate from beginning to end. He was jabbing.
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  Speaker 3: He was hitting with hooks. He totally controlled the pace
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  Speaker 3: of it. And for somebody who's been in a lot
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  Speaker 3: of debates, who's been in politics a long time, I
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  Speaker 3: never saw anybody in a major fight control it from
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  Speaker 3: the opening bell the way he did. It was just
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  Speaker 3: total control. He dominated the debate. He controlled the narrative.
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  Speaker 3: He had every issue. He made it go his way.
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  Speaker 3: They should have gone his way anyway. But often it
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  Speaker 3: can be hard to articulate it when you have like
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  Speaker 3: one minute or 30 seconds. He was able to do it.
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  Speaker 3: And you're right. She just never seemed to get started.
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  Speaker 3: I think part of it is there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: different reasons. The main one is Bruce has run almost
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  Speaker 3: his whole life in Democratic areas. So he's used to
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  Speaker 3: dealing with both sides of an issue, knowing how to–
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  Speaker 3: he has to– You'll be forced to articulate his position.
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  Speaker 3: He can do that. Kathy Hochul lives in an echo chamber.
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  Speaker 3: All she hears is other Democrats, other people who hate Trump,
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  Speaker 3: other progressives and left-wingers like Mandami. So I don't even
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  Speaker 3: think she was ready for what Putin's going to come
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  Speaker 3: after her on. She should have had much... You have
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  Speaker 3: better defenses than that. Certainly on Cornell, she just wasn't ready.
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  Speaker 3: And Bruce, he didn't miss a trick. He was great.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought up Cornell because a couple of
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  Speaker 1: times last night, I'm sitting at my kitchen table with
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  Speaker 1: Danielle and Gabriel, where I got up and I did
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  Speaker 1: a Phil Simms fist pump. And I did one of
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  Speaker 1: those when he said, Hey, Kathy. Aren't you on the
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  Speaker 1: board at Cornell? You're so worried about this young lady.
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  Speaker 2: We all are.
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  Speaker 1: We all are, of course. But we also know that
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  Speaker 1: both Kathy Hochul and the corrupt attorney general who she
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  Speaker 1: put on this case as a special prosecutor, Letitia James,
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  Speaker 1: have already, they've already indicted and tried and found guilty
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  Speaker 1: these seven guys. They may be guilty. We don't know yet.
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  Speaker 1: She's already tried this case. He goes, aren't you on
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  Speaker 1: the board at Cornell? Where were you? Where the hell
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  Speaker 1: were you, Kathy? I thought that was a big moment
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  Speaker 1: for Bruce last night.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because she went beyond the case itself. Earlier now,
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  Speaker 3: she's talking about this whole culture that has developed. So
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  Speaker 3: she was basically finding Cornell guilty, and yet it turns
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  Speaker 3: out she was a trustee during the time this whole
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  Speaker 3: culture was supposedly developing. You're right. We don't know what happened.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of mixed versions of what happened. And
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  Speaker 3: I do know that I had constituents of mine who
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  Speaker 3: were named in that so-called Duke rape case years ago,
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  Speaker 3: and they were all exonerated after their lives were ruined.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a terrible thing. What happened had to be
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  Speaker 3: wrong one way or the other. We don't know the
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  Speaker 3: full story yet. But the fact is, until the verdict
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  Speaker 3: is in, you shouldn't have people like Letitia James prejudging
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  Speaker 3: it and Kathy Hochul acting so pompous and ceremonious about
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  Speaker 3: a culture of rape that was developing when she was
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  Speaker 3: a trustee at the school where she claimed it was prevailing.
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  Speaker 3: So now this was... And Bruce went out and he
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  Speaker 3: did it in a very straightforward, dignified way. He didn't
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  Speaker 3: try to... highlight the issue, but she brought it up
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  Speaker 3: and he went after her on it. And again, it's
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  Speaker 3: so much like you and Trump. I mean, this whole
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  Speaker 3: thing of Trump to this Trump to that, it became
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  Speaker 3: like a Johnny one note. It was embarrassing. I don't
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  Speaker 3: blame a Democrat. Yeah. Take a shot at Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: and get it over with. But, uh, again, she went
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  Speaker 3: over and over, which to me showed she had nothing
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  Speaker 3: in her bag of tricks. And then at the end,
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  Speaker 3: I was, uh, Bruce had the opportunity to bring up
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  Speaker 3: Mandami early. But think of this at the end. You
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  Speaker 3: have the mayor of the city of New York, the
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  Speaker 3: most powerful and important city in the world. And Bruce
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  Speaker 3: calls him anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, everything. And she didn't make
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  Speaker 3: one attempt to defend him. And she's admitting she's traveling
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  Speaker 3: around the state with him. Just think of that. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: she stood there silent when he called her biggest supporter
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  Speaker 3: and the mayor of New York an anti-Semite, anti-Christian, anti-American person.
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  Speaker 3: So to me, talk about scoring a technical knockout. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: she was just on the ropes defensively.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he did knock her out.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't even technical. It was a hard right Mike
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  Speaker 2: Tyson hook, and he knocked her out.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, he mentioned it once. I would have
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  Speaker 1: gone there two or three times, but he did mention it. Look,
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, Peter King, if Kathy, baby,
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  Speaker 1: if you're doing such a great job, I'd look right
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  Speaker 1: in the face. Baby, if you're doing such a great job,
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  Speaker 1: why does our state lead the nation in out-migration work?
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  Speaker 1: They are running out of this state. They're running away
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  Speaker 1: from this state. So if you're doing such a great
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  Speaker 1: job and we're safer and we're number one in economic
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  Speaker 1: growth and all these things are great, why does your state,
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  Speaker 1: Kathy baby, lead the nation in out-migration?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that is actually the bottom line. That
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  Speaker 3: is the key issue. We're the empire state. We should
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  Speaker 3: be leading the nation. Instead of, oh, we're leading the nation,
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  Speaker 3: it's people leaving here. And the people who leave it,
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  Speaker 3: for the most part, are the people who provide the jobs,
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  Speaker 3: who provide the incomes, the people who keep the state
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  Speaker 3: alive and keep New York City alive. So it's totally counterproductive.
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  Speaker 3: It's her policies. And I shouldn't even say they're her policies.
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  Speaker 3: They're the policies that are forced on her by the
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  Speaker 3: progressives in the assembly and the Senate, and she is
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  Speaker 3: unable to prevail. I never heard one thing about New York.
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  Speaker 3: It has a strong governor's office. Every governor we've had,
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  Speaker 3: like them or not, they've been powerful. Andrew Cuomo was powerful.
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  Speaker 3: Mario Cuomo was powerful. Pataki was very powerful. You went
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  Speaker 3: to Al Smith, FDR. Tom Dewey, it's all the Rockefeller.
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  Speaker 3: The governor's office in New York is built to be strong,
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  Speaker 3: unlike in some states. And yet she gets dominated by
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  Speaker 3: these left-wing wackos in the Assembly and the State Senate
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  Speaker 3: and by the mayor of New York. I mean, the
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  Speaker 3: mayor of New York usually lives at the mercy of
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  Speaker 3: the governor. Instead, we have a situation in our state
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  Speaker 3: under Kathy Hochul where she lives at the mercy of
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  Speaker 3: an anti-Semitic, anti-American, just a horrible human being as mayor
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  Speaker 3: of New York.
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  Speaker 2: Well said, Peter King.
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  Speaker 1: And these Long Island guys keep kicking her ass, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's Lee Zeldin from Suffolk County or Bruce Blakeman from
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  Speaker 1: Nassau County. These Long Island guys keep kicking her ass.
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  Speaker 1: I do want to switch gears, though, because no one
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  Speaker 1: knows more about this than you. I had a conversation
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  Speaker 1: off the air with Brian Kilmeade this morning, and he
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  Speaker 1: was upset. I mentioned this earlier, too, to which Lowry,
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  Speaker 1: that the United States stopped the Starlink in the efforts
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  Speaker 1: to help Ukraine win this war against Russia. What are
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts with that specific piece of news and that
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  Speaker 1: conflict overall?
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  Speaker 3: I think Donald Trump is making a terrible mistake here. Listen,
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  Speaker 3: it's not just Ukraine. The thing is, Ukraine is right
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  Speaker 3: now in the forefront. They are the ones being attacked
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  Speaker 3: by Russia. And we can agree or disagree with NATO
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  Speaker 3: over the years. The fact is, for 80 years... led
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  Speaker 3: by America. NATO and the United States stopped Russian aggression.
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  Speaker 3: And as a result of that, we've had the longest
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  Speaker 3: period of peace in Europe in centuries. We had two
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  Speaker 3: world wars in the U.S. after World War II said enough.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to set up NATO. We're going to be
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  Speaker 3: the leader. And we stopped Russian aggression. The only wars
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  Speaker 3: you had in Europe over the last 80 years or
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  Speaker 3: in the Balkans and in Northern Ireland. And Bill Clinton
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  Speaker 3: ended both of those. Other than that, NATO stood strong.
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  Speaker 3: I have problems with NATO. I have problems with Europe.
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  Speaker 3: But I never thought I'd see the day when Europe
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  Speaker 3: was doing more to resist Russian aggression. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what it is, why President Trump has this. I think
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  Speaker 3: somehow he thinks in terms of power politics. that the
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  Speaker 3: United States, Russia, and China, and countries like Ukraine are
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  Speaker 3: just getting in the way. The fact is, to me,
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  Speaker 3: I compare Ukraine to Czechoslovakia. I compare those countries before
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  Speaker 3: World War II that Hitler took over. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 3: history is the same, but it does repeat itself in
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  Speaker 3: many ways. And Putin, why President Trump gives in to Putin?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Putin is not complied with the one request
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  Speaker 3: made by President Trump. Zelensky has complied with all of them,
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  Speaker 3: and yet he gets somehow denounced. So I think President's
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  Speaker 3: making a mistake. I think part of it is he
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  Speaker 3: believes if you deal in big power politics, you can
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  Speaker 3: control it. You can't control Putin. He will keep going
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  Speaker 3: until someone stops him.
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  Speaker 2: You're right. Final 60 seconds, Peter, as a man that
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  Speaker 2: has served this state proudly for for.
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  Speaker 1: Decades and still lives here on Long Island. You could
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  Speaker 1: be living in a nice little place by your daughter
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  Speaker 1: Erin there in Charlotte, wherever she is in North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: But you stay here because you still love New York City.
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  Speaker 1: When you look at the beating, the beating that Blakeman
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  Speaker 1: delivered Hoko last.
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  Speaker 2: Night, and more importantly, that was just one night.
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  Speaker 1: The years of failure, the out-migration, the high taxes, still
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  Speaker 1: high crime, energy prices up the kazoo while Pennsylvania enjoys
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  Speaker 1: reaping benefits. She's been awful. If, in fact, God forbid,
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  Speaker 1: God forbid she wins, at that point, Peter King, do
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  Speaker 1: you lose all hope in New York?
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  Speaker 3: I don't even want to think about that because Bruce
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  Speaker 3: has to win. I'll tell you, it was really a
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  Speaker 3: great feeling of pride last night. I've known Bruce and
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  Speaker 3: his family. His father was my assemblyman in Queens years ago.
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  Speaker 3: He's a great guy to see him at the state
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  Speaker 3: level dominate the governor of the state of New York
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  Speaker 3: and know that he's going to be elected in three weeks.
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  Speaker 3: That was just a great moment for me and everyone
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  Speaker 3: in that room last night. We've known Bruce for years.
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  Speaker 3: That guy was one of ours, and he did it,
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  Speaker 3: and he's going to even do better.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you. Peter King, I love you. Great
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  Speaker 1: job as always. Really terrific job this morning and savor
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  Speaker 1: the day. Your friend Bruce Blakeman is coming up with
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  Speaker 1: me after Lawler in about 30 minutes. Great job as always,
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  Speaker 1: Peter King. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Sid.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Peter King right there, the amazing former congressman, Homeland Security,
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  Speaker 1: just a great American, great.
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  Speaker 2: Guy and So valued out there on Long Island. Him
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  Speaker 2: and Joe Cairo both do a tremendous job.
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  Speaker 1: What the heck is going on here?