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Peter King | Former Congressman Saved Lives Following 9/11, Still Remembers Almost 25 Years Later · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Peter King, amazing congressmen for the better part of just
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  Speaker 1: about four decades homeland security and all that great work
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  Speaker 1: he did making sure that victims, families of the nine
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  Speaker 1: to eleven tragedy will be compensated for I think over
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  Speaker 1: one hundred years, Peter, what exactly is that number? How
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  Speaker 1: many years will these people actually get to see that money?
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  Speaker 2: Basically the way he's been done now, it will go
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  Speaker 2: on really to the end of the century. The money
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  Speaker 2: will be there, and you're fortunately unforced me. By then
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  Speaker 2: everyone will be gone. So the lifespan of everyone who
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  Speaker 2: was alive and down there on nine to eleven, they
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  Speaker 2: will be covered. And it was a long hot fight.
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  Speaker 2: And listen, I know, I mean, let me be bipoused here.
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  Speaker 2: Jerry Nattler was a big help on this, and Caroen
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  Speaker 2: Maloney we agree, and other issues. Vet Off, a seller,
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  Speaker 2: was absolutely outstanding on it. But as far as so
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  Speaker 2: many other people in the Congress, Republicans and Democrats north
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  Speaker 2: and south, they really somehow looked upon this as a
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  Speaker 2: New York issue. And so anyway it worked out, long
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  Speaker 2: hot fight. President Trump signed I guess the final legislation
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  Speaker 2: when I was there. It was in twenty nineteen, President
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  Speaker 2: signed it in the Rose Garden, and before then it
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  Speaker 2: was it was a tough fight. I mean, it took
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  Speaker 2: him to twenty ten before we got a post bill,
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  Speaker 2: and that was only good until twenty fifteen, and we
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  Speaker 2: had to keep extending it. And now actually Congress from
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  Speaker 2: Garbarino and Maloda in Washington have got it extended now
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  Speaker 2: really far into the future.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: One of the reasons for this is that when we
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  Speaker 2: passed the initial law in twenty ten, certainly in twenty fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: all the actuaries everyone said that there was more than
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  Speaker 2: enough money there for everyone. But we didn't realize nobody,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm talking about the doctors, the scientists, everyone, how
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  Speaker 2: many victims would be affected by this, that this was
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  Speaker 2: a late showing illness and I say illness. There was
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  Speaker 2: countless nine to eleven illnesses unique nine to eleven, and
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  Speaker 2: people who were there on nine to eleven somewhat cops,
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  Speaker 2: five fires, constructive workers, others were students, others are people
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  Speaker 2: just passing by, people worked in an office blocks away.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't until ten fifteen years later that they start
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  Speaker 2: getting symptoms. So we set up now there are doctors,
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  Speaker 1: which is the least that could happen in that case.
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  Speaker 1: So if God forbid, that happens to me the case
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking about you last week because the last week,
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  Speaker 1: I should say, because the air quality here was so
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  Speaker 1: bad because of those Canadians wildfuyers. And I was happy
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  Speaker 1: to see President Trump say We're going to tire up you,
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  Speaker 1: you son of a bitches in Canada. I loved it,
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  Speaker 1: but it reminded me of Christine Todd Whitman, the governor
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  Speaker 1: of New Jersey, who said, right after those buildings came down.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry, the air quality is fine. She said that,
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  Speaker 1: and people are still dying twenty five years later.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, there was a tremendous rush to get
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  Speaker 2: the country back to normal as quickly as possible, including
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  Speaker 2: with Rudy, and really all of us are involved in
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  Speaker 2: that get people back. I think Christian tiwoot we should
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  Speaker 2: have done a better job in analyzing the numbers before
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  Speaker 2: saying it was good to go back. We could have
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  Speaker 2: gotten people back, but done it in a more programmed
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  Speaker 2: away and more resistical way. So no, listen, there's definitely respect.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, but you know what, people, pet you
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  Speaker 1: could say the same thing a very I think you'll agree.
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  Speaker 1: Similar circumstance with COVID, Like we wanted so bad to
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  Speaker 1: get people back to work, not shut everything down. We
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  Speaker 1: did the Democrats, they just wanted to shut everything down
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  Speaker 1: for as long as possible. But kind of similar in
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  Speaker 1: that we were looking for some semblance of normalcy after COVID,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously nine to eleven the same thing. And who
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  Speaker 1: would have thought, Pete that one of the people that
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  Speaker 1: would do that for us was Mike Piazza.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, you know, you cannot underestimate over restumate
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  Speaker 2: that that that home run that night said so much.
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  Speaker 2: It really lifted the spirits of the city. Uh. And
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  Speaker 2: again logically it shouldn't have. But maybe it's me, maybe
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  Speaker 2: it's you. To me that that that, to me, symbolized
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  Speaker 2: New York you and to have Piazza do it, he
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  Speaker 2: was a similar to the Mets. He was a tough
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  Speaker 2: Italian guy, Tian American guy, a slugger guy who was
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  Speaker 2: like drafted four hundred and thirty fifth or something in
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  Speaker 2: the draft. And there he was hitting that home run
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  Speaker 2: and he guess with the eighth inning, and it was
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  Speaker 2: just a phenomenon. It was almost scripted, It was made
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  Speaker 2: to happen, and that did so much. Plus give Bobby
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  Speaker 2: Valentine a lot of credit. He had the Mets down
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  Speaker 2: there every day. They're in the pocket lot of loading things,
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  Speaker 2: you know, goods and supplies. Also the Yankees, the Yankees
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  Speaker 2: and the way they went down to the seventh game
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  Speaker 2: of the World Series, those late, late enning home runs.
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  Speaker 2: But having said that, no, I think Mike Piazz's home
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  Speaker 2: run was as dramatic a moment in New York's history
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  Speaker 2: as any, not only but primarily because of what was
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  Speaker 2: going on at that time, the feelings of the people
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  Speaker 2: with spirits. It was like, what was going to happen next?
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  Speaker 2: And suddenly what happened next was a dramatic home run
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  Speaker 2: of the Braves and the eighth inning. It was great
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  Speaker 2: and it was such a shot into the night.
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  Speaker 1: I know it was so great. And you're right about
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  Speaker 1: the Yankee home runs. That was if I remember correctly,
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  Speaker 1: young Young Kim who was the Diamondbacks closer, and I
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  Speaker 1: think Brocious Jeter and Tino all hit late ening home runs.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't matter. The Diamondbacks still won. But I compel
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  Speaker 1: everybody to go back. I tell everybody to watch the
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  Speaker 1: show Rescue Me. But Dennis Leary, which was made in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand four, we just finished watching all seven seasons.
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  Speaker 1: Again it's great. It's all about nine to eleven. But
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  Speaker 1: if you go back and watch nine Innings from Ground Zero,
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  Speaker 1: which was a movie made by HBO. My friend Ross
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  Speaker 1: made it, and this is an unbelievable piece. And what
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  Speaker 1: was crazy about it is is there it was Peter
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  Speaker 1: World series in the Bronx, Yankees and Diamondbocks, the metal detectors,
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  Speaker 1: the long guns they're getting about the people in the
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  Speaker 1: stands who lost loved ones holding up signs I miss you,
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  Speaker 1: I love you, You're here with me tonight, which was
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  Speaker 1: so heartbreaking. But looking at what the Bronx looked like,
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  Speaker 1: it was a war zone.
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  Speaker 2: Man, it was nuts, it really was. And I happened
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  Speaker 2: to be in the Oval Office that afternoon. We're working
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  Speaker 2: on some new airline security bill which came from nine
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  Speaker 2: to eleven. And President Bush what he was most concerned
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  Speaker 2: about was he was going to throw out the first
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  Speaker 2: pitch that night. And he was a rill sports fan,
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  Speaker 2: baseball fan, and he.
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  Speaker 1: Was a man of your family owns the Texas Rangers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. But he throwed out the first pitch in
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  Speaker 2: the in Baltimore that year, and he didn't realize so
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  Speaker 2: he got there to show up that he had to
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  Speaker 2: wear a bulletproof vest. So he bounced the pitch and
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  Speaker 2: they were booing him coming off off the mound, and
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  Speaker 2: he said, you know, all kidding aside. He said, you
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  Speaker 2: can't have the commander in chief. The country was a war.
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  Speaker 2: The country is a war. We just went through the
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  Speaker 2: worst tragedy in the history of the country. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to be there literally in uh you know the city
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  Speaker 2: where it happened. And he's and he was gonna be
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  Speaker 2: wearing an FDNY jacket, and so he spent the afternoon
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  Speaker 2: out in the rose garden with the bulletproof vest and
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  Speaker 2: the jacket on to make sure he got over the plate.
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  Speaker 2: And he was just And so I was watching on
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  Speaker 2: television that it was my apartment of Washington. My son
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  Speaker 2: Sean was down there with me, and I was like
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  Speaker 2: more nervous over that watching him come to the round
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  Speaker 2: and throw it over and he actually it was a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a breaking ball and it was over the.
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  Speaker 1: Plate, right over the plate.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and again that's for you guys's home run. Who
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  Speaker 2: cares that the President of United States bounces the ball?
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  Speaker 2: But at that time, if he had done it again,
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  Speaker 2: it all those things did to signaling.
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  Speaker 1: They did. But I'll tell you cared, I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: what care, because how the story goes, Peter, is that
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  Speaker 1: when George Bush was in the bowels of Yankee Stadium
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  Speaker 1: about to exit and head towards the mound, who did
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  Speaker 1: he see Derek Jeter, Peter, And what did Derek Jeter
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  Speaker 1: stay of the president. Don't bounce it.
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  Speaker 2: Don't bounce that by the way I'm not. I reached
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  Speaker 2: at a friend of mine, Tom Curt, and he had
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  Speaker 2: a box at the Giant Stadium. So I was a
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  Speaker 2: Giant game, I guess in late November, and Joe Torrey
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  Speaker 2: was in the box and I was talking to Tory
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  Speaker 2: and uh, we're talking to He said, but how many
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  Speaker 2: mpires are on the field? So I said five? Now
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  Speaker 2: there was six. One of those umpires had a submachine
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  Speaker 2: gun and I had no idea of that secret Service guy.
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  Speaker 2: So when you see all those umpires around, one of
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  Speaker 2: them had a automatic rifle.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was crazy. This is the great Peter King
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  Speaker 1: reliving some of those just crazy times as we get
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  Speaker 1: set to commemory twenty five years. And I'm really happy
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  Speaker 1: Peter is on this show every week because he has
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  Speaker 1: been a nine eleven.
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  Speaker 2: Year endless funerals, which one after the I know you
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  Speaker 2: and Ludy, I.
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  Speaker 1: Know that, and especially where we live. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: know we've got the Tribute Park right in my neighborhood
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  Speaker 1: by one hundred and sixteenth Street. Yeah, Belle Harvard, I
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  Speaker 1: mean so many firefighters black ways.
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  Speaker 2: You get slaughtered.
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  Speaker 1: We got slaughtered. Yeah, we got slaughtered. So I passed
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  Speaker 1: by that Tribute Park every day and to go there
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  Speaker 1: every nine to eleven. I you got to get to
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  Speaker 1: the mayor, got to do what I heard you yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: It was very good with my buddy Domina Carter. I know,
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  Speaker 1: I know, but you know, it's just Pete. You've been
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  Speaker 1: around a long time. You've seen a lot of evil people.
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  Speaker 1: You've worked with foreign governments. You know, I'm sure you've
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  Speaker 1: met some of the worst people in the history of
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  Speaker 1: the world. This guy, Mom Donnie hasn't killed anybody soroughly,
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  Speaker 1: but he's got to be right there on that list.
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  Speaker 1: What a terrible human being.
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  Speaker 2: To me, I never thought I would see this in
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  Speaker 2: the city of New York. And I'm not even talking
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  Speaker 2: about the fact that he's on the left. That's bad enough,
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  Speaker 2: but that's that's in birogative. The fact that in such
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  Speaker 2: an anti American tone to it, the fact that it's
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  Speaker 2: when we see the anti Semitism. And that's why this
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  Speaker 2: whole thing with net Yahoo. He says, now he's you know,
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  Speaker 2: backing down. He's not. He never he knew all along
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  Speaker 2: he couldn't arrest net YadA. Way he was doing it
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  Speaker 2: was sending signals to the anti Semitic base in New York.
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  Speaker 2: He was giving legitimacy to it. And he's also undermining
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  Speaker 2: that Yahoo in Israel because all that, everything we do
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  Speaker 2: here in New York the United States gets played all
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  Speaker 2: over the world, often much more than it should be.
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  Speaker 2: But it's over there. So right now, I'm sure there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of Israelies and also Palestinians thinking that there
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  Speaker 2: was a real move to arrest net Yahoo, that is
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  Speaker 2: national moved and only Trump is coming to his aid
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff and it's all bs. But the fact
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  Speaker 2: is this. People keep saying, Mandam, he's making mistakes, but no,
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  Speaker 2: I haven't seen him make a mistake yet. Everything he
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  Speaker 2: wants to do he's done now. Unfortunately it's it's evil
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  Speaker 2: purposes and wrong purposes, but he's getting it done. So
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  Speaker 2: this is exactly what he had planned. This was his
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  Speaker 2: game plan all along. When the you know, raised the issue.
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  Speaker 2: We're spending two weeks talking about whether or not the
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  Speaker 2: prime Minister of our closest ally little war is being
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  Speaker 2: engaged should be arrested. As I say, Churchill is coming
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  Speaker 2: to the United States and world wards, who are going
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  Speaker 2: to arrest him? This was totally as it was evil
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  Speaker 2: and he knows what he's doing, and he's appealing These
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  Speaker 2: are old dog whistles. He's sending to the anti Semitic,
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  Speaker 2: anti Jewish elements, and it is. It's anti Semitica, anti Israeli,
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  Speaker 2: anti Jewish, and ultimately anti American because in many ways,
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  Speaker 2: the Jews are the symbol of what people like Mendabi
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  Speaker 2: are against. He proved the Jews, proved the American dream.
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  Speaker 2: They're persecuted all over the world. They come to the
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  Speaker 2: United States, they face purse, they face oppression, they overcome it,
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  Speaker 2: and they achieved great success. That's the American dream. So
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  Speaker 2: that's why you have to shoot down for shoot the
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  Speaker 2: Jews down first, because they symbolize the American dream. And
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  Speaker 2: I tell everyone, and maybe the Jews now is all
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  Speaker 2: of us next.
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  Speaker 1: God, You're great, Peter King. I love you. That's an
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  Speaker 1: irishman right there. Folks just see you know, okay, but
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  Speaker 1: we love them in our community. Peter King. That was
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  Speaker 1: a great conversation. And really I'm I'm really happier on
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  Speaker 1: this show. Well I am anyway, but especially leading up
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  Speaker 1: to nine to eleven because you've been so integral, such
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  Speaker 1: a great guy with all these families, and I know
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  Speaker 1: how hard it hit you. You're right there in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: with what do you Juliani. So we got a very
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  Speaker 1: rough couple of months coming our way. But thank god
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  Speaker 1: you're here. Peter King, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you Sid keep it up, keep the fight you too.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you. I love that guy, former Congressman, Homeland
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  Speaker 1: Security and nine to eleven hero. Really what he's done
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  Speaker 1: for those families.
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