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Natalie Migliore, WOR Reporter · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710 WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 2: I can imagine we're all still in a bit of
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  Speaker 2: an emotional wake after the 9-11 ceremony on Friday. Natalie
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  Speaker 2: Migliore was there in her beater in the street today.
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  Speaker 2: She talks about that very thing, Natalie.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, good morning, guys.
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  Speaker 4: This past Friday, we commemorated 25 years since one of,
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  Speaker 4: if not more, The darkest days in American history. Thousands
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  Speaker 4: of people attended the ceremony down at the reflecting pools
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  Speaker 4: in lower Manhattan, including Mayor Mom Donnie. So we're taking
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  Speaker 4: a political turn because there was mixed reaction to his presence.
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  Speaker 3: Mom Donnie should have avoided coming here. He had no
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  Speaker 3: right to be here. You're sitting down shaking hands with
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  Speaker 3: a man who said we deserved what happened. My friends
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  Speaker 3: didn't deserve what happened. Mamdani shouldn't be here. And we're
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  Speaker 3: really getting tired of him laughing in.
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  Speaker 2: Our faces and acting like he's conquered America.
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  Speaker 3: Let me tell you something, Mamdani, you will never conquer America.
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  Speaker 5: It's all politics. And I don't agree with politics. So
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  Speaker 5: they should have shown up, should have supported the remembrance
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  Speaker 5: of it. So I'm strongly in favor of it because
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  Speaker 5: he belongs there. He's for all the people, you know,
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  Speaker 5: and not just for a few. I think he definitely
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  Speaker 5: should have gone.
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  Speaker 3: And I think Trump should have been there as well. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: All former presidents were at the World Trade Center, along
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  Speaker 4: with former mayors Bloomberg and Giuliani. The president decided to
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  Speaker 4: honor the day at the Pentagon. So among the diplomats
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  Speaker 4: and elected officials was Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. who is now
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  Speaker 4: in a short clip, a video that went viral as
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  Speaker 4: she was seen laughing with Mom Donnie during the solemn ceremony.
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  Speaker 4: They caught heat from the president, who isolated a four-second
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  Speaker 4: clip of the little giggles, I guess.
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  Speaker 3: But the public is... Not so quick to judge.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't see it, but I see it pulled out
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  Speaker 5: of context. I don't know what he's laughing about.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I think whatever it is, we're all praying that
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  Speaker 6: he can do a good job and I wouldn't want
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  Speaker 6: to criticize him. However, I don't agree.
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  Speaker 3: With all of his policies at all, but.
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  Speaker 6: I don't want to be. He's a person too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But that was so sweet.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 3: Very diplomatic, everybody.
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  Speaker 4: But, you know, the politics isn't really ranking with everyone, though.
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  Speaker 4: We talked about the emotion behind the day and just
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  Speaker 4: really it's been an emotional weekend as as sort of
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  Speaker 4: everybody comes down from Friday.
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  Speaker 3: But there's something to be said for for never forget.
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  Speaker 4: And there are some things everyday people and first responders forget.
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  Speaker 4: who were down at the Trade Center on September 11, 2001,
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  Speaker 4: say are just more important.
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  Speaker 3: None of them had to be here. People say it
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  Speaker 3: was their jobs. Okay, great.
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  Speaker 1: They just never went home. And they have families that
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  Speaker 1: still suffer from this. And there's a lot that did
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  Speaker 1: go home that have been dying year over year. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if people remember that.
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  Speaker 7: I want them to remember that 9-11 wasn't just the day.
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  Speaker 7: For some people, it lasted for years. The struggles and
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  Speaker 7: getting back their lives, whether because they lost a family
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  Speaker 7: member or they were there that day. The impact is everlasting.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And that guy, the last guy who I talked to,
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  Speaker 4: Ryan Robert, he he was on the 74th floor. So
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  Speaker 4: I can't remember of what tower, but and he.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was the South Tower and he was.
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  Speaker 4: You could just see it was his first time back
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  Speaker 4: at the memorial since, and he was sort of getting
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  Speaker 4: ready 25 years later to see this space that has
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  Speaker 4: now been reimagined into two very large reflecting pools. But
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  Speaker 4: it was a very emotional day for everyone, and not
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  Speaker 4: everybody wanted to focus on politics. It was more about
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  Speaker 4: commemorating the lives that were lost and and sort of
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  Speaker 4: sharing how people have moved on, or not moved on,
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  Speaker 4: but how they've had a fight to get some of
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  Speaker 4: their life back, in a way.
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  Speaker 2: I love what he said, and I haven't heard anybody
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  Speaker 2: say that, and I tend to agree with him. Not
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  Speaker 2: just Mamdani or individual politicians, why do any of them
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  Speaker 2: have to be there?
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 2: They don't have to be there. I never thought of
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  Speaker 2: that before. That was a great thought on his part.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, in terms of.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I think this particular lead-up to the 25th
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  Speaker 6: commemoration was hijacked by all the politicians, all the politicians,
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  Speaker 6: because they were all talking about themselves and what they
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  Speaker 6: wanted to do or what they didn't do, instead of
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  Speaker 6: just talking about the victims and what it was like
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  Speaker 6: on that day.
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  Speaker 2: Would anyone miss them?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: Not the families, for sure. The ceremony was created for
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  Speaker 3: the families.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And then everybody else started showing up and making it
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  Speaker 3: their job.
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  Speaker 4: Moment i hope that catches on that's a great idea
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  Speaker 4: and they're not they don't they're not allowed to give
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  Speaker 4: speeches right so it's not like they're they're just there
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  Speaker 4: to show their respect in a sense so it's not
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  Speaker 4: like they're allowed to speak or or say anything and
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  Speaker 4: quite frankly i don't think it's comforting to families to
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  Speaker 4: hear any of it in a sense from them so
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  Speaker 4: they're more focused on remembering the people who they lost.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 2: It's not comforting at all. Even their presence isn't comforting.
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  Speaker 3: It's superfluous.
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  Speaker 2: It's worse than that. I mean, it is selfish. Just
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  Speaker 2: go away. All of the politicians. I love that. He
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  Speaker 2: should start a movement and I'll join.
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  Speaker 6: Stay away.
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  Speaker 3: Stay away. A petition online.
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  Speaker 4: Larry's going to start it.
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  Speaker 3: All of you politicians, stay away. The no politician petition.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.