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Sid & Friends In The Morning Live From the RNC Mid-Term Convention in Dallas, Texas · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the Morning. Entertaining and informative.
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  Speaker 2: On the Red Apple Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations especially to Sid Rosenberg on his induction to the
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  Speaker 3: New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 4: I can't believe he didn't make it years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Today, Sid forever joins a roll call of some of
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  Speaker 3: the greatest legends in the history of New York broadcasting
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  Speaker 3: and talk radio.
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  Speaker 4: The best in the business, and he's the best in
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  Speaker 4: the business.
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  Speaker 3: Over many years, Sid has distinguished himself as one of
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  Speaker 3: the most authentic and recognizable voices in American airwaves, and
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  Speaker 3: he's built a smart, loyal, gigantic audience, and I happen
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  Speaker 3: to be one of those people in the audience.
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  Speaker 4: And I had for a long time, long before I
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  Speaker 4: became president.
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  Speaker 5: Good evening. I'm Christine Johnson. And I'm Jessica Moore. We
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  Speaker 5: begin with those newly released documents, adding to the concerns
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  Speaker 5: that toxic air lingered over downtown for months after the
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  Speaker 5: 9-11 attack.
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  Speaker 6: The city released more than 170,000 documents, and it follows
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  Speaker 6: the discovery of 68 boxes of files found last year.
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  Speaker 6: Allie Bauman, live outside City Hall, with all the details.
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  Speaker 7: Allie.
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  Speaker 5: Christine and Jess, in the 25 years since September 11th,
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  Speaker 5: more people are believed to have died from related illnesses
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  Speaker 5: than the attacks themselves. Today's release suggests that city officials
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  Speaker 5: knew more about the toxicity in the air around Ground
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  Speaker 5: Zero than they told the public, information that stayed hidden
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  Speaker 5: for two decades and four mayoral administrations. On September 11, 2001,
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  Speaker 5: Chuck Flickinger walked into his local firehouse and volunteered to
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  Speaker 5: join the rescue effort at Ground Zero.
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  Speaker 1: He just wanted people to be okay.
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  Speaker 5: Flickinger was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2016 and died
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  Speaker 5: within the year.
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  Speaker 4: No human had ever breathed all those things before.
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  Speaker 5: His widow and daughter stood in City Hall Tuesday as
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  Speaker 5: Mayor Mamdani released 170,000 pages of documents related to air
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  Speaker 5: quality around the World Trade Center.
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  Speaker 8: These are documents that show what the city knew about
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  Speaker 8: the toxic air around Ground Zero. when they knew it,
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  Speaker 8: and how they acted to limit liability.
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  Speaker 5: The documents include air quality reports and contamination records that
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  Speaker 5: show health officials were still finding evidence of asbestos at
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  Speaker 5: least 10 months.
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  Speaker 9: After the attack.
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  Speaker 5: As city officials assured New Yorkers, the air around Ground
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  Speaker 5: Zero was safe to breathe. Internal memos include discussions of
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  Speaker 5: the city's potential liability from toxic exposure.
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  Speaker 7: Rather than take the steps to ameliorate the damage that
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  Speaker 7: that would cause.
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  Speaker 1: To its citizens.
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  Speaker 8: And.
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  Speaker 7: To the people that were down there, They instead covered
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  Speaker 7: it up to get back to business as usual.
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  Speaker 5: City Hall will appoint people to help eligible New Yorkers
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  Speaker 5: use these documents for proof of their presence in the
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  Speaker 5: exposure zone in order to access federal health programs. The
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  Speaker 5: records were stored in 68 boxes in City Hall that
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  Speaker 5: officials said they only found last year. Their release is
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  Speaker 5: part of a settlement with advocates who have been suing
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  Speaker 5: for their publication.
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  Speaker 10: Four different administrations actively worked together to.
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  Speaker 1: Prevent this from coming forward.
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  Speaker 11: Really, it comes down to money, because never forget was
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  Speaker 11: the slogan until the bill came.
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  Speaker 5: A spokesman for former Mayor Eric Adams said in part,
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  Speaker 5: any documents related to post-9-11 air quality must be released
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  Speaker 5: and scrutinized. But Mayor Adams did not create, conceal, or
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  Speaker 5: control records from prior administrations. We've reached out to former
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  Speaker 5: mayors Giuliani, Bloomberg, and de Blasio for comment and have
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  Speaker 5: not yet heard back. The documents are available on the
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  Speaker 5: City Hall website, and the law department says they will
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  Speaker 5: continue to release more documents over the next 12 months.
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  Speaker 6: Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, Governor Hochul announcing a safety plan
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  Speaker 6: for synagogues that includes a record amount of funding.
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  Speaker 1: And it comes as a city, home to.
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  Speaker 6: The largest Jewish population outside of Israel, sees a rise
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  Speaker 6: in anti-Semitism. Lisa Rosner has more.
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  Speaker 12: Anyone entering Kehilloth Jeshurun on East 85th Street in Manhattan
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  Speaker 12: needs to be screened by security and provide identification.
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  Speaker 1: We're being vigilant. We're being careful.
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  Speaker 12: It's what Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz calls an anti-Semitism tax, the
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  Speaker 12: cost of keeping synagogues safe, especially this Rosh Hashanah. Governor
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  Speaker 12: Hochul says New York State Police will provide extra support
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  Speaker 12: this year.
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  Speaker 10: Star troopers will maintain high visibility, a presence in the
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  Speaker 10: Jewish communities across the state, and will conduct regular checks
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  Speaker 10: of synagogues.
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  Speaker 12: Just last month, a man violently stormed into a central
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  Speaker 12: synagogue service and allegedly attacked two people.
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  Speaker 8: Hate crimes are on the rise.
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  Speaker 5: And more than half of those crimes are targeted against
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  Speaker 5: Jewish New Yorkers.
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  Speaker 12: And that's why I'm proud today to announce $ 70 million
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  Speaker 12: in grant funding. Governor Hochul says the money is being
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  Speaker 12: distributed among 290 organizations that are vulnerable to hate crimes.
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  Speaker 12: It's more than tripled the amount she set aside five
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  Speaker 12: years ago. The money will go to security measures like lighting, locks,
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  Speaker 12: panic buttons, fencing, and cybersecurity. There's also demand for surveillance cameras,
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  Speaker 12: after the governor says a Brooklyn yeshiva was able to
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  Speaker 12: help police find the person who sprayed swastikas on its
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  Speaker 12: building this past November.
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  Speaker 13: Guards are the most expensive, and guards are the ones
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  Speaker 13: that make everyone feel safe.
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  Speaker 12: Sydney Altfield is with the non-profit Teach Coalition, which helped
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  Speaker 12: a record number of organizations, including Kehilloth Jeshurun, apply for
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  Speaker 12: the max $ 250, 000 in grants.
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  Speaker 13: Teach Coalition did a survey after October 7th. The average
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  Speaker 13: cost of security a year is over $ 400, 000 for an institution.
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  Speaker 13: That ranges from the cameras, the guards, everything. It's increased
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  Speaker 13: over 125%, which we have to keep up with.
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  Speaker 1: My message this year is hope.
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  Speaker 14: There's always an opportunity for hope.
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  Speaker 15: We need to look forward to the next year and
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  Speaker 15: say it's going to be a lot better than this year.
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  Speaker 5: As for how the NYPD will step up patrols for
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  Speaker 5: the high holidays, the police commissioner is holding a briefing
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  Speaker 5: with the mayor on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 10: Texas, where some Republicans are heading to Dallas for the
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  Speaker 10: party's first ever midterm convention. President Trump expected to take
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  Speaker 10: center stage both nights, despite his low approval rating hovering
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  Speaker 10: near the lowest point of his second term.
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  Speaker 1: Here's D.C. Bureau reporter Ross Ketchke.
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  Speaker 15: A first in the nearly two centuries of Republican politics.
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  Speaker 15: The GOP releasing this video ahead of their first ever
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  Speaker 15: midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, with candidates descending on the
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  Speaker 15: Lone Star State for two days to energize voters as
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  Speaker 15: they fight to hold on to a razor-thin majority in Congress.
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  Speaker 16: And it's a real simple math. If one side shows
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  Speaker 16: up on election day and the other side stays home,
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  Speaker 16: you lose that election.
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  Speaker 15: President Donald Trump is set to headline both nights of
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  Speaker 15: the convention.
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  Speaker 14: Thank you.
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  Speaker 15: But with his approval ratings falling to just 33%, Democrats
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  Speaker 15: say they're welcoming the chance to make the midterms a
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  Speaker 15: referendum on the president.
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  Speaker 8: President Trump putting himself front and center and making himself
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  Speaker 8: the face of these midterms is great news for us
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  Speaker 8: as Democrats.
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  Speaker 15: For decades, Democrats have fought but failed to flip Texas blue.
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  Speaker 15: But there are signs that dream could soon be a reality.
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  Speaker 1: We need a senator.
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  Speaker 15: State lawmaker James Tallarico is leading Republican Attorney General Ken
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  Speaker 15: Paxton in the race for Senate.
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  Speaker 1: Republican Senator Ted Cruz telling Fox.
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  Speaker 15: News that Tallarico is a talented candidate but is too
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  Speaker 15: liberal for Texas.
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  Speaker 16: This guy is a woke left-wing activist. Comrade Mondami knows
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  Speaker 16: exactly who he is.
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  Speaker 15: President Trump is throwing his weight into the race with
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  Speaker 15: his super PAC announcing plans to spend $ 10 million supporting Paxton.
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  Speaker 15: Democrats need to flip four Republican seats to win back
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  Speaker 15: the Senate, eyeing swing states like Maine and North Carolina.
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  Speaker 15: But a win in ruby red Texas would mark a
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  Speaker 15: major shift. as candidates ramp up their attacks on affordability
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  Speaker 15: and the president's economic record.
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  Speaker 4: The American people are paying higher prices over and over again.
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  Speaker 17: And that will be on the ballot boxes coming November.
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  Speaker 15: And in addition to President Donald Trump, we're also expecting
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  Speaker 15: to hear from other top Republicans at this convention, including
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  Speaker 15: Vice President J.D. Vance and top Republican candidates running for
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  Speaker 15: both the House and Senate in major swing races all
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  Speaker 15: across the country. Meanwhile, Democrats are holding their own rallies
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  Speaker 15: in and around the Dallas area to try to counteract
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  Speaker 15: that GOP messaging in the Lone Star State.
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  Speaker 10: And, Ross, you mentioned Democrats focusing on affordability. One of
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  Speaker 10: their biggest attacks on the president is over his tariffs
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  Speaker 10: on Canadian goods. Today, Canada hitting back with tariffs of
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  Speaker 10: their own. What's the latest on this widening trade war?
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, Louis, as you mentioned, those Canadian retaliatory tariffs officially
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  Speaker 15: went into effect today. They were announced just a few
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  Speaker 15: weeks ago, and they impact roughly $ 20 billion in American
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  Speaker 15: exports into Canada. President Trump, in the meantime, is upping
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  Speaker 15: his own attacks on Canada and Canadian manufacturers.
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  Speaker 1: He is directing.
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  Speaker 15: all departments in the federal government to stop using and
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  Speaker 15: purchasing Canadian products.
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  Speaker 1: The president is.
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  Speaker 15: Also threatening to ban the purchase of jets and parts
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  Speaker 15: from the Canadian company Bombardier. That could potentially threaten thousands of.
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  Speaker 1: Jobs right here in the U.S.
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  Speaker 15: Where Bombardier runs dozens of factories.
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  Speaker 18: How does it feel that Sid Rosenberg is also banned
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  Speaker 18: from Fox News? Sid Rosenberg, welcome to the club, Sid.
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  Speaker 18: Me and Sid, dude.
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  Speaker 19: Dude.
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  Speaker 20: The colors that this man takes on, I am in awe.
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  Speaker 1: Of, okay?
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  Speaker 18: He's such a beautiful shape, and he's always such a
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  Speaker 18: beautiful color.
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  Speaker 20: He's really Thanos.
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  Speaker 1: He's got it all, dude.
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  Speaker 20: I love this guy. Sid's an ally, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: The, uh... Work of Kevin Drosh, who really did a
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  Speaker 1: great job getting me here this morning. That's a whole
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  Speaker 1: other story. And Nino Danino. But from here, it sounds great.
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  Speaker 1: How do we sound back there, Lewis? Sounds great. It does?
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  Speaker 14: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And the levels are good and all that, huh? Everything
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  Speaker 1: sounds great. All right. So I'm in Dallas Cowboy Land,
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  Speaker 1: even though I'm doing the show today and tomorrow. And
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  Speaker 1: you can watch this baby live right now. Nino Danino
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  Speaker 1: right here has this live on facebook i guess it's
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  Speaker 1: the wabc facebook page wabc radio facebook you can watch
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  Speaker 1: me do the show live and if somebody famous shows
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  Speaker 1: up it'll be fun if not you're just gonna stare
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  Speaker 1: at my face but we uh we're not at the
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  Speaker 1: home of the dallas cowboys that's in arlington texas and
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  Speaker 1: i've been there it's about 20 miles away from this
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  Speaker 1: spot we're at right now it's a beautiful stadium jerry
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  Speaker 1: jones has built you know it's funny lou i never
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  Speaker 1: went to a dallas cowboy football game there i was
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  Speaker 1: there years and years ago for an hbo fight between
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  Speaker 1: manny pacquiao and i should know this and i've forgotten
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  Speaker 1: oh and uh margarito margarito and pacquiao and i sat
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  Speaker 1: right there in the front row, and all I did
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  Speaker 1: was watch the screen because the screen inside the football
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  Speaker 1: stadium is the coolest thing you've ever seen. I was
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  Speaker 1: literally like 15 feet from the boxing ring, and I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't help but watch the screen. I'd never seen a
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  Speaker 1: football game there, but we're about 20 miles away right
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  Speaker 1: now at the home of the Dallas Mavericks. This is
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  Speaker 1: the American Airlines Center. Not to be confused with where
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  Speaker 1: the Miami Heat play their home basketball games, Pat Riley's club,
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  Speaker 1: which would be the American Airlines Arena. This is the
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  Speaker 1: American Airlines Center here in Dallas. And the days of
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  Speaker 1: Dirk Nowitzki are gone. Now, of course, their best player
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  Speaker 1: had a great rookie year last year, 21 a game
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  Speaker 1: out of Duke Cooper Flagg. That's the big superstar here.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a beautiful arena here in downtown Dallas. Nice area.
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  Speaker 1: And right now there's nobody here. Don't forget, folks, we're
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  Speaker 1: an hour behind in Dallas. So it's just after 5
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  Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning here in Texas. I was up
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  Speaker 1: today just after 2 o'clock in the morning in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Drosh had an Uber pick me up at my hotel,
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  Speaker 1: which is about 10 miles away. And some lovely young
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  Speaker 1: lady picked me up. To be exact, it was 4 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: local time, so 5 a.m. your time. And we drove
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  Speaker 1: for about 10 minutes, and she said, we're here. I said, great.
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  Speaker 1: And I got out of the car, and here I
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  Speaker 1: am in some industrial park. There is nobody out there.
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  Speaker 1: It's pitch black. It's 5 o'clock in the morning. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a New York Giant fan in Dallas, and there's nobody
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  Speaker 1: in sight. And I say to Kevin, where are you?
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  Speaker 1: He goes, do you see a white tent? I go,
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  Speaker 1: white tent? There's nobody here. I was on a back
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  Speaker 1: road literally behind some health spa, behind a piano place.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, bro, this doesn't look right. He goes, well,
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  Speaker 1: walk up a little bit. So I'm walking. And I
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  Speaker 1: want to tell you this, too. I was in Las Vegas,
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  Speaker 1: as you guys know, last week. It was 107 degrees.
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  Speaker 1: It was ultimately cooler than it is here this morning.
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  Speaker 1: It's 98 degrees, but the humidity, and you people in
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  Speaker 1: Texas know this, is so brutal that I've been sweating
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  Speaker 1: since I woke up. And I'm not a sweater. Like Drosh,
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  Speaker 1: he's sweating like some dumb kid taking the SATs. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sweating all morning long, and now I'm nowhere. I'm in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere, nowhere near what I'm supposed to be.
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  Speaker 1: I'm starting to freak out. It's 4.30 in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: I'm 30 minutes away from the start of the show.
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  Speaker 1: And I say, Josh, this doesn't look right. So he
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  Speaker 1: went into action, called another Uber. Sure enough, I was
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  Speaker 1: like five miles away. Easily five miles. With not a
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  Speaker 1: human being in sight. Next thing you know, I'm driving
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  Speaker 1: into a nice part of town here. And we pull
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  Speaker 1: up in front of the American Airline Center. I said,
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  Speaker 1: now this makes sense. Because I do all of President
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  Speaker 1: Trump's rallies. I spoke at one at Madison Square Garden,
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  Speaker 1: the home of the Knicks. I was at one at
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  Speaker 1: Nassau Coliseum. the former home of the New York Islanders,
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  Speaker 1: now we're at the home of the Dallas Mavericks. This
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  Speaker 1: is what Trump does. He gets these places that are
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  Speaker 1: arenas for local sports teams because they are perfect venues.
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  Speaker 1: I mean perfect venues for what's going on here the
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  Speaker 1: next couple of days. So there's nobody here. We walk
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  Speaker 1: past a whole bunch of kiosks. Real America voice, I
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  Speaker 1: guess that's Steve Bannon. I don't see him yet. Him
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  Speaker 1: and I are not exactly on good terms. Then I
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  Speaker 1: walked past some kiosk for Dean Cain. He's not, no
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  Speaker 1: one's here. I guess I'll start coming in about 7 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: local time. I don't know what time the president is
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  Speaker 1: set to arrive, but I was told that the speeches
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  Speaker 1: start locally at about 4 p.m. which is about 16
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  Speaker 1: hours from now, and President Trump will speak both today
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  Speaker 1: and tomorrow. Usually Trump comes out and just closes the venue,
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  Speaker 1: but he's going to speak both days, and I believe
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow here they're going to spend a lot of time,
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  Speaker 1: and it makes sense because it was one year ago
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow when the world witnessed the brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk,
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  Speaker 1: So tomorrow, I believe, they'll do a whole thing here
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  Speaker 1: for Charlie. Erica Kirk is supposed to be here. Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump Jr., he's going to speak, I guess. He'll be here.
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  Speaker 1: So that is tomorrow. So Trump is going to speak tonight.
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  Speaker 1: He'll speak again tomorrow. I'll be out of here before
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  Speaker 1: Trump even speaks tomorrow to get back to New York
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  Speaker 1: City to do the show live from the studios on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: And then, of course, President Trump, the aforementioned President Trump,
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  Speaker 1: will join me on this program tomorrow. 8.30 a.m. Friday morning,
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  Speaker 1: which is great. As far as I know, we're the
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  Speaker 1: only show, there'll be others, I'm sure, but at least
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  Speaker 1: right now, to have President Trump on in New York.
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  Speaker 1: He's not coming to New York on Friday, we know that.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get the real reason why. Is he pissed because
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  Speaker 1: he's not speaking? We'll find out why. He's not coming here.
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  Speaker 1: New York, I should say, I'm in Dallas. He'll be
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  Speaker 1: speaking at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. And J.D. Vance
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  Speaker 1: will come to New York and Mamdani will be there. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you see, I got to tell you, man, Mamdani was
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  Speaker 1: so happy yesterday. He didn't care that these toxins have
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  Speaker 1: been killing New Yorkers for 25 years. He didn't care.
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  Speaker 1: He was so gloating that he's the mayor that dropped
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  Speaker 1: the bomb, right? Rudy Giuliani, he lied to you. Mike Bloomberg,
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  Speaker 1: he lied to you. Bill de Blasio, he lied to you.
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  Speaker 1: Eric Adams, he lied to you. It took me, the
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  Speaker 1: radical Islam Muslim, to fix this to tell you the
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  Speaker 1: truth 68 boxes and and then that turncoat that son
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  Speaker 1: of a bitch that unfunny john stewart he's another one
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  Speaker 1: i want to punch across the base another one and
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  Speaker 1: you know him and i exchange these cute emails every
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  Speaker 1: now and then since you know he attacked me and
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  Speaker 1: no one thought he was funny i didn't i thought
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  Speaker 1: first line was funny and then it was like Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we got it. Give me something else. But it was
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  Speaker 1: when I was on live on Fox News when they
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  Speaker 1: used to have me before they banned me. That's a
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  Speaker 1: whole other story. It was Super Bowl Sunday, and I
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  Speaker 1: was on Brian Kilmeade's show, Sunday Night One Nation with
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  Speaker 1: the great Clay Travis, and I was hammering the NFL
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  Speaker 1: for putting Bad Bunny on because that idiot didn't speak
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  Speaker 1: a word of English, not a word of English, which
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  Speaker 1: was ridiculous. Anyway, so I'm on Fox News that night.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Halftime of the Super Bowl. I just put this in
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: front of me and messed up my whole train of thought,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: and I have no idea where I was going with
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: this conversation. You know that, George, right? Yeah. Why was
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: I– Norm, help me out here. What was I getting to?
• 17:36
  Speaker 9: I don't know what you're getting to.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: I was talking about Mom Donnie.
• 17:38
  Speaker 14: You were talking about Jon Stewart.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Jon Stewart, that's right. Thank you, Lewis. He hammered me
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: that night. So here he was yesterday with Mom Donnie.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Lou. Lou pays attention.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: What did you just say?
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: See what he did there? So he's standing side by
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: side with Mamdani yesterday and taking everybody to task. And
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: I know, John, Peter King will join me later on
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: this morning, the former congressman who's done so much for
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: a 9-11 family, so much. I believe they get paid
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: for about 100 years thanks to the hard work of
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Peter King and John, John Stewart. But he also, standing
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: by the mayor, this solidarity with Mamdani, just nauseating. I mean,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: yesterday on this program, when I was still in New York,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: you guys who listened heard Giovanni Galante on this show.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Giovanni is the nice man whose wife was murdered on 9-11.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: She was 29 years old, Grace. He started the petition,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: now over 100,000 strong, and they had this big event
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: at City Hall. I was supposed to be there, me
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: and Bruce Blakeman. And obviously, I'm traveling. I couldn't make it.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: So Vicky Palladino was there. Vicky did a nice job,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: you know, and it's all over Fox News and Harris
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Faulkner and way to go, Vicky. So as it turns out,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: they had this big rally there yesterday. Once again, they
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: dropped off this petition at City Hall to keep the
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: mayor away, but he wants no part of it. The
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: mayor views himself as a hero. Look at me. I'm
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: the guy that released all the papers that four administrations
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: lied about. I'm the one. I'm the guy. And I'm
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: going to be there on Friday because I care about
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: these families. And Dick-based John Stewart, I'm going to stand
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: next to him because the truth is he's just a traitor.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: No matter what he does well, he's just a traitor.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: You know, that group of people yesterday outside of City Hall,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: much like Justin is in the studios.
• 19:30
  Speaker 17: Yeah, I'm right here.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: After they were done with that, about five of them,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: including Jeanette Pick, who's been on the program, and Charles Wolfe,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: led by Giovanni Galante, they went out for lunch, and
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: we bought lunch, didn't we, John? Yes, we did a
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: very good thing yesterday. We've got big hearts here I'm
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: sitting with friends in the morning.
• 19:47
  Speaker 20: And we love Giovanni, and we love Jeanette, and we
• 19:49
  Speaker 20: love all of the 9-11.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Victims' families that are speaking out against Mom Donnie here.
• 19:53
  Speaker 18: We were at City Hall yesterday, and we were happy
• 19:57
  Speaker 18: to do it, yeah?
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: $ 200, of course, me.
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 20:00
  Speaker 9: I think you got off cheap for $ 200.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I know. Me too. I got to tell you. There
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: was some change. After I offered on the air to
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: buy them lunch, I got a text right away from
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Michael Rappaport. He goes, man, you really are a mensch.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: You really are, man. I go, mensch, stretch. It cost
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: me $ 500 for this lunch. They're going to a sushi
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: place like 10 of them. So when I got the order,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: it was $ 200. To your point, Norm, I felt like, okay,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: we did pretty well here. But they had a nice lunch,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: and then there was another rally last night, Brooke Goldstein's
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: rally and Jew Hatred's rally, some terrorist rally. I don't know.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I'm sure Lizzie Sobecki was there. So there were two
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: rallies yesterday, City Hall and outside the VSA headquarters, and
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: basically it was to protest the mayor. But the mayor, man,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: he's feeling like a hero. Is he not? Did you
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: not get the sense that he feels today like some
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: type of New York hero?
• 20:51
  Speaker 19: Oh, yeah.
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: I mean, he thinks he's shown a light on this paperwork,
• 20:55
  Speaker 9: you know, 170,000 pages of air quality records. Now it's
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: going to take time to sort of sort through all
• 21:01
  Speaker 9: this stuff. And the city could find itself facing a
• 21:04
  Speaker 9: whole bunch of lawsuits now about what it knew and what.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: It didn't know. Listen, we live in a very litigious
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: society as it is. People sue for everything these days, okay?
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: When your dog makes poop outside my house and you
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: don't pick it up, I sue you. So, you know,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: certainly if people are dying from cancer, there's going to
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: be tons of lawsuits, which we don't need. The court
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: system is already a mess. Trust me, my wife is
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: a lawyer. But there's no doubt that this guy feels
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: like a hero. Can you answer this for me? How
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: did he actually break this? I mean, four administrations, 25 years. Yeah.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: How was Mamdani the one to do this? Well, he
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: didn't really break it.
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: Apparently, these documents were stored in like 68 boxes in
• 21:46
  Speaker 9: a city office.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Who knew these boxes existed and who found them?
• 21:51
  Speaker 9: It's not 100% clear, but it was almost like they
• 21:53
  Speaker 9: were accidents. accidentally discovered last year. And so they started
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: rifling through these documents to say, wait a minute, maybe
• 22:00
  Speaker 9: lawmakers at the time knew how toxic the air was
• 22:03
  Speaker 9: around ground.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Zero and played it down.
• 22:07
  Speaker 9: Now, whether these documents can really show that was the case,
• 22:10
  Speaker 9: I don't know, because I haven't read through them all.
• 22:13
  Speaker 9: But you definitely had people pushing back yesterday. You had
• 22:15
  Speaker 9: the former fire commissioner, Thomas Van Essen, said, no, there
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: was no cover up. They didn't try to conceal any
• 22:22
  Speaker 9: information about the toxins around Ground Zero, suggesting that they
• 22:25
  Speaker 9: didn't really have a great knowledge about exactly what was
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: going on. But others say, no, no, no, they kind
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: of knew. And they kept it quiet because they were
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: worried about all kinds of lawsuits coming their way in
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: the aftermath of that cleanup downtown.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: So either way, it is a mess.
• 22:43
  Speaker 9: And I will say, look, you can go online today,
• 22:46
  Speaker 9: and you can search this portal that has all the documents.
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: You can type in any term you want to, and
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: it will show you what information they have on it
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: because there's so many pages of these air quality records
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: out there now for you to see.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, let's go back to unfunny John Stewart Lewis.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: This is him talking about all this. This is cut
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: number five, talking about this massive cover-up. Dating all the
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: way back, it was the governor of New Jersey, where
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: no one lives, Christine Todd Whitman, who told us, don't worry,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: the air is safe. She sounded very, very confident. I
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: think she really did believe that. I'm not sure she
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: was covering up anything. I don't know. But she was
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: the first to say that. So here is Jon Stewart yesterday.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Can't wait to place blame on somebody. The massive cover-up, Lewis.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Cut number five.
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: Rather than take the steps to ameliorate the damage that
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: that would cause to its citizens and to the people
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: that were down there, they instead covered it up to
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: get back to business as usual.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Right, and here is the mayor who's also basking in
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: the glory, cut number six.
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: These are documents that show what the city knew about
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: the toxic air around Ground Zero, when they knew it,
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: and how they acted to limit liability.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: All right, so what's next in this story? You know,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: to me, this is such a bad story because if
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: it is a cover-up, well, that's not good. If it's
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: not a cover-up, then you've got a lot of years
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: of ineptitude, and that's not good. People got sick and
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: people are dying. That's not good. So there's really no
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: good ending here, other than, again, this radical Islam mayor
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: beating his own chest. There is no good outcome here.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: So what's next, though? Well, look, it's heartbreaking.
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: We're seeing these numbers of people who have 9-11 cancers,
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: they're growing. I mean, it's not going down.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: The numbers are going up. You know something? Michael Barish,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I do his commercials on this show every day, Barish
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: and McGarry, and he told Yvette, I think, in sales
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: a couple of days ago, that right now, Noam, even now,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: 25 years later, he's losing two clients a day.
• 25:00
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Two a day. You talk about heartbreaking. It's outrageous.
• 25:05
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: And The question you can ask, there's so many questions
• 25:08
  Speaker 9: you can ask after seeing this paperwork, is one, these
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: first responders, these rescue heroes that were down on the
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: pile after the attacks, even if they had had this
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: information in those initial days when they were looking for survivors,
• 25:21
  Speaker 9: would that have made them change their mind about being there?
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: See, that's my point. Like, what are you happy about here?
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: I hope not. I mean, my guess is no. They
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: were going to go there and try to save people.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: no matter how dangerous the situation was. And we should
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: be applauding those people still today, 25 years later, not
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: looking to place blame on a bunch of bureaucrats.
• 25:45
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: But then you fast forward, right, when we now know
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: there's nobody that's survived amid that pile, not too long afterwards.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: It's pretty clear.
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: And you see this burning mess that continues. And remember
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: how foul the air was in New York City, no
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: matter where you were in Manhattan and other parts. You
• 26:01
  Speaker 9: could smell the stench of that smoke. And you knew
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: that it wasn't good. And then you say, well, okay,
• 26:07
  Speaker 9: after that, you probably could have let people know just
• 26:09
  Speaker 9: how bad it was, give them the option, do they
• 26:11
  Speaker 9: want to be part of this cleanup crew, right? Because
• 26:13
  Speaker 9: now you have people that are cleaning this area.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: In a very delicate way, right?
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: Because they're seeing that maybe there's something left from these
• 26:23
  Speaker 9: people who died in the attacks, who were killed in
• 26:25
  Speaker 9: the attacks. But maybe some of those people would have said, no,
• 26:28
  Speaker 9: I don't want to be part of this because this
• 26:30
  Speaker 9: air is so toxic, it's not worth it to me.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Well, let's also go back to the steps of City
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Hall yesterday, the story we covered before this one, those
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: two rallies that took place yesterday. Again, the first one
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: led by my guy Giovanni Galante and the petition over 100,000
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: strong asking the mayor not to show up on Friday.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: That stubborn prick is going to be there. But you
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: can see these families, the overwhelming majority. I'm sorry, Sade
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Baranwad from Channel 7. Not a select amount of families.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: The overwhelming majority don't want the mayor there. He doesn't care.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: So this was the big rally yesterday, which I did miss.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: This is Queens Councilwoman, one of my favorites, Vicki Palladino-Lewis,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: yelling and screaming at the mayor, don't come. Cut number two.
• 27:18
  Speaker 21: We, the people, do not... care for Zoran Mondani. 101,000
• 27:27
  Speaker 21: names is not a drop in the bucket. Do not,
• 27:31
  Speaker 21: Zoran Mondani, take us New Yorkers for granted. We were
• 27:35
  Speaker 21: there that day. The sky looked very similar to this.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Stay put.
• 27:41
  Speaker 21: Stay in City Hall and promote your propaganda.
• 27:45
  Speaker 14: Thank you very much, Vicky Palladino.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Vicki. And one of my favorite people, Lou,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I think one of your favorites, too, the head of
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the Catholic League, he's on every year on St. Patrick's Day.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Every year for the 10-plus years I've been in New
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: York City, this guy's been on my program, me and Bernie,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Bill Donahue. And he showed up yesterday. He really can't
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: stand the mayor. He unloaded on Zoran. This is Catholic
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: League President Bill Donahue on the steps of City Hall yesterday, Lewis.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Cut number three.
• 28:16
  Speaker 11: On that fateful day at 9-11, I looked out my
• 28:18
  Speaker 11: window on 34th Street. And 7th Avenue, I saw the
• 28:21
  Speaker 11: Twin Towers go down. I'm a veteran, United States veteran.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: And I don't have a whole.
• 28:27
  Speaker 11: Lot to say about Zoran Mandani. He should not be here.
• 28:31
  Speaker 11: I wrote him a letter on August the 3rd. It's
• 28:33
  Speaker 11: up on our website explaining why he's such a divisive figure.
• 28:37
  Speaker 11: He said that something happened on 9-11. I'll tell you
• 28:40
  Speaker 11: what happened. Radical Muslims came in here to bomb the
• 28:43
  Speaker 11: United States of America.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: I don't say Muslims because that's wrong.
• 28:47
  Speaker 11: I'm talking about radical Muslims. He can't bring himself to
• 28:50
  Speaker 11: say that. He is more concerned about Islamophobia than he
• 28:54
  Speaker 11: is the death of 3,000 people, innocent people on that day.
• 28:58
  Speaker 11: This man is a disgrace to veterans. And believe me,
• 29:01
  Speaker 11: as a Catholic, we contacted the NYPD.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: The FDNY, and Port Authority a year later.
• 29:07
  Speaker 11: Eighty-five to 90 percent of the first responders who were murdered,
• 29:10
  Speaker 11: they were Catholic. So we have a special interest in that, too.
• 29:14
  Speaker 11: And we stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters against
• 29:17
  Speaker 11: the likes of Hassan Piker, who says nothing but good
• 29:20
  Speaker 11: things about the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: It's a disgrace.
• 29:25
  Speaker 11: Mondami, do us all a favor and just stay home.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: So what's interesting there, Lou and Noam and Justin is,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: you mentioned Assam Piker. Do you remember the Open? I
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: know it was like 30 minutes ago. But the very
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: end of the Open, you heard somebody talk about how
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: how about me and Sid? We're both banned from Fox News,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: and Sid is such a colorful figure. And truth is,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: he always looks good, and he's got nice colors on,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: and he's got nice color himself. You guys have any
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: idea who that was at the end of the Open
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: this morning?
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: Hmm.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Hmm.
• 29:59
  Speaker 14: No.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Hassan Piker. What? You know, he kills me on his Twitch.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: I guess it's a podcast. Kills me on his Twitch
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: podcast all the time. I know he talks about Rappaport
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: and others, but I believe he's mentioned me more than
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: anybody else. And his Uncle Senk, Senk Igar, he mentions
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: me almost every day. Every day he tweets about me.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: He did a whole show last week with Anna Kasparian
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: about me. Uncle Senk. And his little nephew, Hassan Piker,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: they talk about me all the time. But for some reason,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: a couple days ago, Piker, this low-life, America-hating, Jew-hating douchebag,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: I know he was being sarcastic, but he was showing
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: pictures of me speaking in Las Vegas. I was wearing
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: a dark green IDF suit and a light green button-down,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: and he was remarking on how I look. And he
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: may have been sarcastic. I don't think he was. He
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: was actually being complimentary. We'll do it one more time.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: So this is the aforementioned Hasan Piker. Bill Doughty, you
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: just mentioned him. Actually going out of his way to
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: compliment me. You've got to think he's being sarcastic. But
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: who knows? Hasan Piker Lewis, cut number 10.
• 31:14
  Speaker 18: How does it feel that Sid Rosenberg is also banned
• 31:17
  Speaker 18: from Fox News? Sid Rosenberg, welcome to the club, Sid.
• 31:20
  Speaker 18: Me and Sid, dude.
• 31:21
  Speaker 20: Dude, the colors that this man takes on, I am
• 31:26
  Speaker 20: in awe of, okay?
• 31:27
  Speaker 18: He's such a beautiful shape, and he's always such a
• 31:30
  Speaker 18: beautiful color.
• 31:31
  Speaker 20: He's really Thanos.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: He's got it all, dude.
• 31:35
  Speaker 20: I love this guy.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Sid's an ally, I guess.
• 31:38
  Speaker 14: Hold on.
• 31:38
  Speaker 19: What?
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not an ally. I'm your worst nightmare. I'm
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: your worst enemy, but yeah.
• 31:44
  Speaker 14: I thought you were joking.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: He'd love me today. Today I'm wearing white linen pants.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: with a light blue button-down shirt and a beautiful blue
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: and white blazer. You can watch me right now. Again,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: the next two days, this show is live on Facebook.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Go to WABC Radio's Facebook page, and you can see
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: me sitting here by myself. Kevin's here, Nino's here, but
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: you can see me doing the show. He would love
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: me today. The tan is rocking, light blue, white, all
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: those nice colors. Yeah, right.
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: I'm sure you look like something to behold.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: That's great. What do you mean, welcome to the club, dude?
• 32:21
  Speaker 14: I know.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: What are you guys, bros?
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: No, I hate his guts. I don't know. Lou, it
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: wasn't like he reached out to me and said, hey, Sid,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: today I'm going to say something about you on my podcast,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: and it's going to be complimentary. He didn't reach out
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: to me first, Lou. My friend Rios out in Jersey
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: found that and made me laugh yesterday.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: That is crazy.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy?
• 32:42
  Speaker 22: Yeah, that's pretty crazy.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Hassan Piker. I mean, public enemy number one.
• 32:47
  Speaker 14: He is. Right?
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Number one. So we're in the bowels right now of
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: American Airlines Center. And, again, it's dead quiet here, an
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: hour behind New York. So it's 540 a.m. local time
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: in Dallas, Texas. And in about eight hours, this place
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: is going to be jumping. Really, there will be some
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: other radio shows. I think there's five altogether that allow
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: guests in. Here this morning, my good friend, the congressman
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: out of Florida, the Hebrew Hammer. I was the Hebrew
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Hammer when I fought Bernard McGurk back in 2003. Now
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: they call Randy Fine the same thing, the Hebrew Hammer.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: He'll be walking around here in about an hour or so.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: But it'll be pretty quiet until everybody starts showing up
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: later this afternoon. And, again, the speeches start at 4
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: o'clock with President Trump set to speak tonight and tomorrow.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: The keynote speaker tomorrow night will be the vice president, J.D.
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: Vance.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: He's invited to come on this show sometime tomorrow. I
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: have not heard back from his guy, Will Morton, yet.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: We'll see. And if he doesn't come on tomorrow, the
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: rumor is I'll be heading to Washington, D.C. in the
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: next week or two to meet with J.D. We'll see.
• 33:56
  Speaker 9: Is that a rumor or is that you're telling us?
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Well, it's not official yet.
• 34:00
  Speaker 19: But.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: I'm not really into it where, like, it has to happen.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: You know, like, if President Trump beckoned me to come
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: to the White House to meet in the Oval Office,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: I'd be making those plans 15 minutes ago, you know.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: But with J.D., I'm not nearly as enthusiastic because everybody
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: knows that I despise Tucker Carlson. I am pro-Israel, pro-Jewish,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: and I'm not sure J.D. Vance is any of those things.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: I don't think J.D. is a raging anti-Semite. I really don't.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: I don't. But he's also not a friend of Israel.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: And my fear is, is that if J.D. Vance goes
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: on to become the nominee in 2028 and J.D. Vance
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: goes on to win the presidency, the last thing I
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: want to see is J.D. in the Oval Office and
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: sitting there with him yucking it up is his good
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: buddy Tucker Carlson. I don't want to see that. No
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Jewish person wants to see that. No decent American wants
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: to see that. So I've got my issues with Vance.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: which will all come up in conversation if it ever happens.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: We'll see. But that's my fear, Noam, is that there's J.D.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: sitting there with Tucker in the Oval Office, and that
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: is an OMG.
• 35:11
  Speaker 9: Yeah, well, he already told you at the conference in
• 35:13
  Speaker 9: Las Vegas that nothing's going to change.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: He's Tucker's friend.
• 35:17
  Speaker 9: So even if you talk to him, you're not.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Going to convince him to disavow himself. Who knows? I'm
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: going to talk to Trump about it tomorrow, too. Say, hey, Friday, whatever. Say, Mr. President,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: you were friends with Tucker Carlson. He was. Long time,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: good friends. I've seen Tucker at every event, every event.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Now Tucker calls him the Antichrist. I mean, Tucker says
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: things about Trump that are really nasty. Antichrist is about
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: as bad as it gets. So Trump was able to
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: disavow Tucker. Why can't Vance? You know, when you become president,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: you've got an obligation to a whole country. It's not
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: just your buddies anymore. And I understand, friends. I've got
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: friends for 50 years myself. People love me. I get it, okay?
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: But if Trump was able to do it with Tucker,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: and him and Tucker were good buddies for a long time,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: I don't want to hear that J.D. can't do it,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: that we're not like that in America. Yeah, we are. Yeah,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: we are. You get somebody out there that's hating on America,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: hating on the president, hating on Israel. You know, it's funny.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Mark Cuban used to own this Dallas Maverick basketball team.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: I guess he still owns a small percentage. But the
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: person that owns the majority of this basketball team, I believe,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: is my friend Miriam Adelson. You know who she is, no?
• 36:32
  Speaker 19: I do.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: And all the Jew haters out there, they love to
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: mention Miriam. Every decision President Trump makes, every decision is
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: all about Miriam Adelson. She calls the shots. Not even Bebe.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Not even Bebe. It's his number one donor, which she is,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: millions and millions of dollars. Miriam Adelson runs this country.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Steve Bannon says stupid stuff like that, you know. One
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: of the same people that call me Sid Israel First Advocate,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: the Steve Bannons, the Alex Jones, the General Michael Flynn's,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: the Jew haters and anti-Semites. I'm not Israel First. I'm
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Israel Second. And that's the way the whole country should be.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: America First, Israel Second. No daylight between Israel and the
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: United Kingdom or any of these other countries that J.D.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Vance mentioned in Las Vegas last week. We are America
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: First or Israel Second. But they don't do that, the
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Jew haters. They go right to Israel first, Sid Rosenberg.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: And Miriam Adelson owns this basketball team. Did you know that, Noam?
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: I did. And she is the number one target of
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: these people. Number one target. It's interesting if you ask me.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: What else is going on back there in New York City, Noam?
• 37:43
  Speaker 9: Well, so much of it, of course, is the 9-11
• 37:46
  Speaker 9: 25th anniversary, which will take place on Friday.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: And you had yesterday.
• 37:49
  Speaker 9: Some 9-11 families calling for the U.S. government to finally
• 37:53
  Speaker 9: pursue justice and accountability from Saudi Arabia for the country's
• 37:57
  Speaker 9: alleged role in the attack. And so they gathered yesterday
• 38:00
  Speaker 9: afternoon outside the Saudi consulate building here in Midtown and saying,
• 38:05
  Speaker 9: come on, let's get this going already. And you might
• 38:08
  Speaker 9: remember this, Sid, last year a federal judge gave the
• 38:11
  Speaker 9: green light to a lawsuit from the 9-11 families against
• 38:14
  Speaker 9: the Saudi government claiming that the kingdom sponsored And supported
• 38:18
  Speaker 9: those al-Qaeda hijackers. So now the question is, when will
• 38:21
  Speaker 9: this all get underway? Well, they're demanding that from the U.S.
• 38:24
  Speaker 8: Government.
• 38:24
  Speaker 9: And they're hoping now with President Trump in the White
• 38:27
  Speaker 9: House that maybe he'll do something about it.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: So far, no other president has. He will.
• 38:33
  Speaker 19: Maybe.
• 38:34
  Speaker 14: I don't know.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: He may want to do a deal with them. What
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: else is going on, Nomi?
• 38:38
  Speaker 9: You know, this won't come as any kind of shock
• 38:41
  Speaker 9: to you. We had told you yesterday at the West
• 38:43
  Speaker 9: Indies Day Parade on Monday that five people were stabbed
• 38:47
  Speaker 9: during Juve, three people shot during the parade, and a
• 38:51
  Speaker 9: 19-year-old who was arrested in connection with one of the
• 38:54
  Speaker 9: shootings has been on bail for an alleged shooting that
• 38:58
  Speaker 9: took just place a month ago. He shot someone, allegedly,
• 39:02
  Speaker 9: I guess. a month ago and was out on bail
• 39:05
  Speaker 9: to then shoot another person at the West Indies Day
• 39:08
  Speaker 9: Parade on Monday, which is just outrageous.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: So you have people in.
• 39:12
  Speaker 9: The community there saying, wait a minute, you know, yeah,
• 39:14
  Speaker 9: you claim that there's all this violence every year at
• 39:16
  Speaker 9: the parade. Well, how about putting these people who are
• 39:18
  Speaker 9: causing the violence behind bars so they can't be out
• 39:21
  Speaker 9: there to shoot someone else? And so he was picked
• 39:24
  Speaker 9: up yesterday, and let's hope this time they keep him
• 39:26
  Speaker 9: behind bars and not let him out on bail.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: You would think he'd shoot.
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: Somebody or attempt to shoot somebody, it may be a
• 39:32
  Speaker 9: little hard to get out.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: From behind bars. But a month later, he's out on
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: the streets. That's New York.
• 39:37
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: That's New York. Yeah.
• 39:39
  Speaker 9: I was going to say, New York State yesterday, I
• 39:42
  Speaker 9: heard you play a little bit of this in the opening,
• 39:44
  Speaker 9: the Governor, Governor Hochul. saying that they're going to bolster
• 39:47
  Speaker 9: security big time around religious institutions.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: She doesn't care. I know she's going to spend the
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: most amount of money and a ton of cops because
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: she's Friday is Rosh Hashanah and anti-Semitism is on the rise.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Part of the reason why anti-Semitism is on the rise
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: is that she does nothing about it. The mayor loves it.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: He loves every second of it. She does nothing about it.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: So what good is what she's doing now if she
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: actually did something about the anti-Semitism? Then we wouldn't have
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: these types of issues. So to me, it just rings
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: shallow again.
• 40:20
  Speaker 9: Yeah, well, no doubt it's in response to this huge
• 40:23
  Speaker 9: spike in anti-Semitic incidents over the last year, over the
• 40:27
  Speaker 9: last couple of years here in New York City. So
• 40:29
  Speaker 9: they say you'll see this huge beefed up police presence
• 40:33
  Speaker 9: around Jewish institutions beginning Friday. That's when Rosh Hashanah begins
• 40:37
  Speaker 9: and through Yom Kippur, which is another 10 days later.
• 40:40
  Speaker 9: So you'll see that here in the city, beefed up presence.
• 40:42
  Speaker 9: People go to synagogues.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: That's very, very nice. Hey, what do you care about us?
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: We've got a big guest list coming up today. The
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: former great congressman, Peter King, and he was down there and, again,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: worked with Jon Stewart. I can't stand Jon Stewart. I
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: can't stand him. So he'll stop by today. Scott Lobato
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: is back. Boy, that's a big one. Scotty suffered a
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: heart attack about a month ago. He was on the
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: show right afterwards. Has not been back since. But you
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: remember a couple of weeks ago, he had an airplane
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: fly over the city with a message telling Mamdani not
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: to come on Friday. So we'll talk to the brilliant
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: artist and great activist. Scott Lobato coming up today, the
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: president of the New York Yankees, my new best friend.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: He really is. We talk every day. Randy Levine, not
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: because Aaron Judge was back in the lineup last night
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: and the Yankees beat the Rockies five to three, but
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: because President Trump has put Randy Levine in charge of
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: of fixing college sports, especially college football. Well, you've got
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: two players right now that are on LSU's roster. LSU,
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: who blew out Clemson last week. That's a college coached
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: by Lane Kippen. These two players recently played in the
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: National Football League. It's such a mess. Quarterbacks making tons
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: and tons of money at 26 years old, going to
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: four different schools in four years. So we'll talk to
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Randy Levine in the 9 o'clock hour. And coming up next,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: this guy has been on for quite some time. He's
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: running for mayor. He was an amazing cop for over
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: 30 years, and he was down there at ground zero running.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: for months after 9-11, and he is saying the same
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: thing I said to Noam moments ago, which is, this
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: is a bad story. This is no time for Mamdani
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: to take a victory lap, for Jon Stewart to yell
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: and scream about New York City. This is a bad
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: story about all these papers that were found and the toxins.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: We'll talk to my friend, Chief Jon Schell. He'll start
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: off the guest list coming up in about five minutes.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: It's a big show.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: Podcast Network.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: The big question, T-shirts, and that became a marketing frenzy.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: And we are live in Dallas this morning and tomorrow,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: the next two days, back in the studios in New
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: York City where we need to be on Friday, 9-11.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: And Frank Siller's book is out. Hopefully we'll talk to
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: Frank on Friday. And we should probably talk to Mike
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Barish too, Justin, the 9-11 attorney. Because with what happened yesterday,
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: these new documents, 170,070 boxes and The mayor walking around
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: town beating his chest. Look what I found. Which, again,
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure who wins 25 years later. There's going
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: to be a whole bunch of more litigation, which me
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: and Noam talked about last segment. So it'll make sense
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: to talk to Mike Barris coming up maybe in the
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: next three days. Yeah, without a doubt. So I do
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: want to take a break here, though, because he said
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: he was running for mayor. You know, about last week
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: when I was in Vegas, I saw one of these
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: betting sites like Koushi, like Polymarket. Not sure which one
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: it was. And the betting site talked about who would
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: come in second place in the 2029 New York City
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: mayor election. Second place. Tied at the top, both at 14%,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: was Mamdani and Curtis. Curtis got half of that in
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: the last election, yet on this ridiculous poll on this
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: betting market, second place, 14% Mamdani, 14% Sliwa, and then
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: tied right after that at 4%, Sid Rosenberg and Michael Rappaport.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: At 3%, Jessica Tisch. And at 2%, Julie Menon and
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: a host of others. So the good news is I
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: was in second place. The bad news is, for some reason,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: in this ridiculous poll, Curtis Sliwa was getting mentioned. He
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: didn't get 14% when you combine his two efforts against
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Eric Adams and Mamdani. How ridiculous that is. But there
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: was no John Schell there. And I haven't heard much
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: from John. So the former great cop and dear friend
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: of mine is even still running. I don't know. But
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: I know this. He was down there, 9-11, for months,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: for months at ground zero. So we'll take a short break.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: And our first guest, not in Dallas, but back in
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: New York City, the former chief of department, John Schell,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: day one in Dallas.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: Sid and friends in the morning on the Red Apple
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: Podcast Network.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: The president will speak tonight and tomorrow night and then
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: join me on this program coming up on Friday, the
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: 25-year commemoration of 9-11. Talking about 9-11, the story broke yesterday. Mamdani,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: so happy, found 170,000 documents and nearly 70 boxes telling
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: everyone that the air was anything but safe, which I
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: think we all knew that. Obviously, people have been getting
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: sick for 24 years, but Now it's the cover-up. Mamdani,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: Jon Stewart talking about the cover-up for administrations. Giuliani, Bloomberg,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: de Blasio, Adams gloating about people dying. A tragedy that
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: was not our fault. Sorry, Mamdani, your friends think it
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: was our fault, like Hassan Piker. And then a lot
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: of stuff happened afterwards. You know, I don't know how
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: much of it was a cover-up, how much of it.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: Was not? I don't know. But I do know that
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: John Schell was a copper over 30 years, ended up
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: being Jessica Tisch's chief of department, and spent many, many
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: months down at Ground Zero nearly 25 years ago. And
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: he's joining me live from New York this morning. John,
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: it's Sid in Dallas, buddy. How are you?
• 46:50
  Speaker 19: Sid, how are you, brother?
• 46:51
  Speaker 14: Dallas, great town.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Great town.
• 46:53
  Speaker 19: And I'm a little dismayed. Apparently I'm polling at about.
• 46:56
  Speaker 19: 05 %. Maybe 1%. But I figured it out, and
• 47:01
  Speaker 19: I was waiting to come on. If I just wear
• 47:03
  Speaker 19: a red beret and run around and feel like a fool,
• 47:06
  Speaker 19: I can get 8%.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: You could. You can get 8%. I think I'm there. Right.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: You also have to buddy up to the radical Islam mayor.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: You've got to do stupid comedic videos with the mayor
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: for the inner circle. You've got to stare at people
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: like me and John in the back that were there
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: for you for a lot of years. You do all
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: that stuff, and you may end up with 8%. But
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: on a serious note, are you still serious about running
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: for mayor?
• 47:30
  Speaker 19: I'm dead serious. And I'm fully aware I'm a Hail
• 47:33
  Speaker 19: Mary piss. I'm a long shot, but I'm going to
• 47:36
  Speaker 19: go for this. I'm just going to be in that
• 47:38
  Speaker 19: middle ground voice, just being a Brooklyn kid and speaking
• 47:42
  Speaker 19: the truth on things. And here's the thing, Sid. I'm
• 47:45
  Speaker 19: not running for a career. I'm going to be running
• 47:48
  Speaker 19: to fix this city. Two different things. So I can
• 47:50
  Speaker 19: actually be honest with people. And if you like it,
• 47:52
  Speaker 19: you like it. And if you don't, you don't. And
• 47:54
  Speaker 19: if I lose, I'll go back to being retired.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: Which is not terrible anyway. So, well, you have, like, officially,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: have you done something? I don't know, paperwork or something?
• 48:04
  Speaker 19: I don't even know how this works. A little social media.
• 48:06
  Speaker 19: The paperwork I'll do at the end of the year.
• 48:08
  Speaker 19: Next year I'll start kind of moving around the city,
• 48:11
  Speaker 19: raising some money. Then 2028, it's game on. And we'll
• 48:15
  Speaker 19: meet up in November somewhere. And here's the thing. Guys
• 48:19
  Speaker 19: like us and all the people running, we want to
• 48:22
  Speaker 19: fix this place. We all come from the same DNA.
• 48:24
  Speaker 19: We all come from the same neighborhoods in New York City.
• 48:27
  Speaker 19: We know what's right, and we know what's wrong. We
• 48:29
  Speaker 19: might not agree on everything, but at least we're man
• 48:31
  Speaker 19: enough to have a discussion and meet in the middle.
• 48:35
  Speaker 19: And sometimes we disagree, but that's the way it goes.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, are you running, John Schell, because... like Michael Rapoport,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: for example, and me when I talk about it, because
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: I hate the mayor. That's the bottom line. If it
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: was just an okay mayor, even a bad mayor like
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: de Blasio, I wouldn't even consider running. But I hate
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: this guy so much. You talk about toxic, the year
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: down by 9-11. He's so toxic for this city. That's
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: why a lot of people are motivated to run for this.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: Is that your motivation?
• 49:06
  Speaker 19: Yeah, I denounce socialism. I come from a world where
• 49:08
  Speaker 19: my parents worked all day. I went to school. I
• 49:11
  Speaker 19: was working since 15. Nothing's for free. You have to
• 49:15
  Speaker 19: show up. You've got to be accountable.
• 49:16
  Speaker 22: You've got to be punctual.
• 49:17
  Speaker 19: You've got to work hard. When you work hard, good
• 49:20
  Speaker 19: things happen. And we're in a time now where nobody
• 49:22
  Speaker 19: wants to work hard. Everyone wants everything free. And guess what?
• 49:26
  Speaker 19: You know what that got us? About $ 22 billion in
• 49:28
  Speaker 19: a hole in three years. That's what that got us.
• 49:32
  Speaker 19: According to Mark Levine, don't believe me. I was horrible
• 49:35
  Speaker 19: at math. I got 800 SATs. Listen to Mark Levine.
• 49:40
  Speaker 19: Twenty-two billion.
• 49:41
  Speaker 17: Twenty-two billion.
• 49:42
  Speaker 19: If it stays the same, then it's not.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: It's bad. This is the former chief of department, John Schell,
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: joining me right here. And he is very, very serious.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: He's going to run for mayor of this state. City
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: coming up in about three years. I mean, the funny
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: thing is we talk about Mamdani like he's already served
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: four years. Hasn't even been one year. It's already a
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: complete nightmare. I mean, what is it? Give me the
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: top two or three things and we'll move to the
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: toxins in the air. But the top two or three
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: things that you would want to fix, John Schell, if
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: in fact you won this race right away.
• 50:19
  Speaker 19: Look, number one, public safety. We need more cops and
• 50:22
  Speaker 19: public safety. If you believe the quote unquote numbers, there's
• 50:25
  Speaker 19: more than numbers. There's quiet life. Number two, public housing
• 50:28
  Speaker 19: in the city. Three hundred twenty five thousand residents in
• 50:31
  Speaker 19: public housing with 80 billion in capital projects needed. Why
• 50:34
  Speaker 19: are they living that way? Number three, fiscal accountability. I
• 50:38
  Speaker 19: just said twenty two billion projected over the next three years.
• 50:42
  Speaker 19: What are we going to pay for? What can we
• 50:44
  Speaker 19: pay for? And if people are leaving the city and businesses,
• 50:47
  Speaker 19: where is that money coming from? It's coming from your
• 50:50
  Speaker 19: home in Rockaway, Sid. They're going to tax the hell
• 50:53
  Speaker 19: out of you. So here's the thing. Just bring the
• 50:57
  Speaker 19: city back to some normalcy. We are not in normal times.
• 51:00
  Speaker 19: And then we have a mayor and his socialist party,
• 51:04
  Speaker 19: if I'm not going to tell you, Sid, despises the Jews.
• 51:08
  Speaker 19: Let's be real.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, there's no doubt. Yeah, no, he despises. But he
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: despises Americans, too. Yeah, he despises everybody, Americans, Italians, Jews.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: I don't want to make it too much about the
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: Jews because I get... yelled out all the time that
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: the Jews are whiny and there's only anti-Semitism because the
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Jews are always bitching, which, of course, that's anti-Semitism. But,
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: you know, he hates everybody, this guy. Let me ask
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: you this. Yesterday was a big rally outside of City Hall. And,
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: you know, I had Giovanni Galanti on this show three times.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: I know you listen. He gave me the credit for
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: getting that petition up over 100,000 signatures, which I appreciate.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on the mayor's showing up on Friday.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: This idea that he should be there because he's the mayor... Why?
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Is that part of his job? I mean, I know
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: he has to balance the budget. I know he's got
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: to keep us safe, right? He wasn't there 25 years
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: ago like Rudy, where he took part in this thing.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: What is it about his position that he has to
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: be there on Friday? My contention is the overwhelming majority
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: of the families don't want him there. I don't want
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: him there. My guess is you don't either. But you
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: answer me. You want him there?
• 52:17
  Speaker 19: Well, look, everyone has their own feelings. I would never
• 52:24
  Speaker 19: tell someone how to feel, okay? Now, to your point,
• 52:28
  Speaker 19: he is the mayor. Should he be there? I guess so.
• 52:31
  Speaker 19: I'm torn. But then I see the other side, and
• 52:33
  Speaker 19: the other side is this. He brought up his aunt.
• 52:36
  Speaker 19: We use this as politics, right? Performance. He brought up
• 52:40
  Speaker 19: that his aunt was scared they were going to celebrate.
• 52:41
  Speaker 19: It wasn't his aunt. It was his father's cousin. He
• 52:45
  Speaker 19: signs executive orders the other day.
• 52:46
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 52:46
  Speaker 19: Why? Why this week? Why are you doing this? You
• 52:50
  Speaker 19: handed a pen to a terrorist sympathizer. Why are you
• 52:54
  Speaker 19: doing this? You put out this report that does no one,
• 52:58
  Speaker 19: I listened to you this morning, Sid, that does no
• 53:01
  Speaker 19: one any good. Now it's going to be a lawsuit.
• 53:06
  Speaker 19: And for the families that lost people at 9-11, post
• 53:08
  Speaker 19: 9-11 due to cancer, how do you think they feel
• 53:11
  Speaker 19: this morning? Why are you taking away from their week?
• 53:15
  Speaker 19: to mourn their loved ones, to come down to the
• 53:18
  Speaker 19: site quietly, listen to the violin, and make a mental
• 53:22
  Speaker 19: prayer to your loved ones. Why? Why would you do this?
• 53:26
  Speaker 19: It's all politics. I can't stand it because for those
• 53:29
  Speaker 19: of us, like myself, who were down there for months,
• 53:31
  Speaker 19: taking out bodies, smelling death in here, smelling burning metal,
• 53:36
  Speaker 19: having to register with the World Trade Center for those
• 53:39
  Speaker 19: who have cancer, we don't want to hear this nonsense.
• 53:42
  Speaker 14: We want to go there.
• 53:43
  Speaker 19: Friday, say our piece, and move on. Why are we
• 53:46
  Speaker 19: doing this? It bothers me.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: No, I feel the same way. I mean, you know, look,
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: if there is a cover-up, then exposing cover-ups is usually
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: a good thing. Let's be honest, okay? Maybe the timing
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: isn't great. Again, we're just two days away from the
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: 25-year commemoration. But if this is about exposing Republicans like
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: Giuliani and Bloomberg and even Eric Adams, who by the
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: time he was done, he was a Republican or Whoever
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: wanted to buy him, I guess. I don't know. I
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: know he's your boy, but God, give me a break. But, yeah,
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: I guess that is the question. Why is there a
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: victory lap for the mayor yesterday? What good comes out
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: of this?
• 54:25
  Speaker 19: Nothing good comes out of this. We are two days
• 54:28
  Speaker 19: away from the 25th anniversary of the most tragic event
• 54:31
  Speaker 19: in our history.
• 54:33
  Speaker 14: Okay?
• 54:34
  Speaker 19: And you're going to do this now? You found the
• 54:36
  Speaker 19: box on Monday?
• 54:37
  Speaker 14: No, no, no.
• 54:37
  Speaker 22: They found that box.
• 54:38
  Speaker 19: They had that lined up for months. They had this
• 54:41
  Speaker 19: teed up like a golf ball, and they hit the
• 54:44
  Speaker 19: ball yesterday.
• 54:45
  Speaker 14: Why?
• 54:46
  Speaker 19: Politics. And for the people that weren't down there that
• 54:50
  Speaker 19: want to make this political, I say shut the front door.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean, Sid?
• 54:54
  Speaker 19: Shut the front door.
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: You made me nervous. I thought you were going to
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: say shut the up up. So you're telling me, the
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: former chief of department, the great John Sher, running for
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: mayor in a couple of years, that you are sure–
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: that they didn't just find these boxes in the last
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: day or so. They've had these, and they couldn't wait
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: to bring up this story right before the most tragic
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: day in the history of this country.
• 55:18
  Speaker 19: Well, let's play it out, Sid. You think someone from
• 55:20
  Speaker 19: the staff went down to the basement and said, hey,
• 55:22
  Speaker 19: I found a box down here. Guess what it says? Wow,
• 55:26
  Speaker 19: I read through this whole set. What, 70,000 pages? I'm
• 55:28
  Speaker 19: a speed reader. And look what it says. This is
• 55:32
  Speaker 19: the BS of it all. Why this week? You know
• 55:36
  Speaker 19: the weather Friday is going to be beautiful just like
• 55:38
  Speaker 19: it was 25 years ago. You know people are hurting severely.
• 55:42
  Speaker 19: This is, you know, 25 years later. Why are we
• 55:45
  Speaker 19: doing this now? If this doesn't get you fired up,
• 55:48
  Speaker 19: and you got me fired up this morning when I
• 55:49
  Speaker 19: was listening, I don't know what to tell you. How
• 55:52
  Speaker 19: about this? For the next two days, let's leave the
• 55:54
  Speaker 19: politics out of it. Let's think of our friends, our families,
• 55:58
  Speaker 19: the heroism, all the stories. A thousand people have passed away.
• 56:02
  Speaker 19: Let's just keep them focused.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: But it's hard to, I hear you, and you're a
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: good soul and a nice man, John, but I can't
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: leave the politics out of it because the reason why
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: the World Trade Center is no longer there is because
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: of politics, okay? It's because radical Islam, right, radical Islam
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: wanted to destroy America. Nothing to do with Israel, you
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: anti-Semite morons out there. Nothing to do with Israel or Bibi.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: It's because radical Islam wants to destroy America. And when
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: the mayor's buddy says on a podcast, with the mayor
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: sitting right there, we deserved it, I don't know how
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: you make it nonpolitical. Now, for the families, you know,
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: it's kind of like this, John. When they took the
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: hostages after October 7th, okay, I don't agree with Rebecca
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: Goldberg on anything, or her husband, John, politically, on anything.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: They actually spoke at the DNC. But their son, Hersh,
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: had his arm blown off and was held captive until
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: Hamas put a bullet in the back of his head.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: And I said, for a year or so, I'm never
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: going to take the families. I disagree politically. They were
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: saying nice things about Biden, what I knew was all
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: about Trump. But I'll never take them to task. Same
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: thing here. I'll never take the 9-11 families to task.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: But to say, let's not make it about politics, is
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: silly because this whole event happened because of politics.
• 57:31
  Speaker 19: No, and it's my wish. I know we're not going
• 57:34
  Speaker 19: to get out of politics. It's my wish. From my
• 57:36
  Speaker 19: personal opinion, just my wish.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: I understand what you're saying.
• 57:39
  Speaker 19: How can you in this day and age? How can you?
• 57:42
  Speaker 19: You can't.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: But I wish.
• 57:45
  Speaker 19: And the wish is never going to happen. And it
• 57:46
  Speaker 19: happened because of politics. Absolutely.
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 57:50
  Speaker 19: They wanted us dead that day. They came for us
• 57:52
  Speaker 19: that day. And we returned the favor. But now we
• 57:54
  Speaker 19: still mourn 25 years later. And it just bothers me
• 57:58
  Speaker 19: as a person that was down there. It bothers me.
• 58:01
  Speaker 19: I went to a funeral the other day for Inspector
• 58:03
  Speaker 19: Mark DiPaolo who died of brain cancer down there. It
• 58:05
  Speaker 19: bothers me. That is my personal opinion.
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: Of course.
• 58:09
  Speaker 19: You know, for the families, the families are sacred. They
• 58:11
  Speaker 19: are untouchable.
• 58:13
  Speaker 14: Untouchable.
• 58:14
  Speaker 19: And the politics of it all, even though I don't
• 58:16
  Speaker 19: like it, we can discuss it. No doubt about it.
• 58:18
  Speaker 19: But again, why are we signing executive orders? Why are
• 58:21
  Speaker 19: we handing out pens? Why are we releasing what we
• 58:24
  Speaker 19: found months ago?
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: Not on Monday.
• 58:26
  Speaker 19: Why? Because you want to make it about you.
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, let me ask you about your former boss,
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: because you know this, John. It's not just on-air talk.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: You know how close I am with Jessica Tish. I
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: love her. I love her. But I would have loved
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: to have seen her take that pen and throw it
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: right back at that attorney a couple of days ago.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: And she just kind of went through the motion and
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: handed the pen. And a lot of people that are
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: close to me were very upset with Jessica. Now, she
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: was your boss. I know you love her. But she's
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: not your boss anymore. What did you think when you
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: saw Jessica Tisch right in the middle of that circus
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: with the radical Islam mayor and his al-Qaeda attorney boyfriend
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: doing what they did a couple days ago?
• 59:08
  Speaker 19: Like a deer in the headlights. Look at her face
• 59:11
  Speaker 19: when he handed her that pen. I think she was
• 59:12
  Speaker 19: completely caught off guard. Would it have been a magical
• 59:15
  Speaker 19: moment to take that pen and say, I had enough,
• 59:18
  Speaker 19: threw her on the desk and stormed out of the
• 59:20
  Speaker 19: blue room? It would have been magical. What her motives are,
• 59:23
  Speaker 19: what she wants to do, where she sees herself six
• 59:26
  Speaker 19: months from now, I can't answer that. But, yeah, it
• 59:30
  Speaker 19: would have been a defining moment to say enough is enough.
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 59:34
  Speaker 19: But when you're caught like that, Sid, sometimes you're, like,
• 59:37
  Speaker 19: so caught that by the time you pass the pen
• 59:39
  Speaker 19: in this instance, five minutes later, you're like, damn, I
• 59:42
  Speaker 19: wish I would have done this. Damn, I wish I
• 59:43
  Speaker 19: would have done that.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: It's true. No, you just don't know. Well, I got
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: to run, but I got to tell you, this is
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: the perfect time for you. All you have here, honestly,
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: my blondes. Strip joints, steakhouses, tacos, and football. John Schell, you.
• 59:57
  Speaker 14: Belong in Dallas.
• 59:58
  Speaker 19: You want a good steakhouse?
• 59:59
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 19: I go to Dallas a lot. The Town Hearth. The
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 19: Town Hearth. H-E-R-T-H. I guarantee you go or you'll be
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 19: calling me tonight after your second steak.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go tonight right before Trump speaks. How
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: about that?
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 19: Town Hearth.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: Town Hearth. Okay, my friend. I love you. Good luck.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: Be well. All right. Stay in touch. There he is,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: the former chief of department. My dear friend, he is
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: running for mayor, John Schell. You know, I'll tell you
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: one other quick story. So Danielle and I went to
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: the inauguration for Trump when he won again in 2024.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: And we're in Washington, D.C., and we're freezing. It was
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: like the coldest two days in the history. At one point,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: My face froze. I ran inside of a hotel because
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: I really thought I was going to go to the
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: hospital with frostbite. And I bumped into the guy that
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: played Furio, my friend Federico, on The Sopranos. And he said, oh,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: my God, Sid, your face is frozen. It was terrible.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: So we're trying to get back to the hotel. And
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: it was almost impossible because of secret service and security.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: Very difficult. And we meet this couple. And they're standing outside.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: And they're freezing cold. And the both of us are
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: trying to get an Uber, but it was impossible for
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: Ubers and taxis to get anywhere near that area in Washington, D.C.,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: when Trump was inaugurated a couple of years ago. So
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: the two of us, the two couples, are trying to
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: get an Uber. Finally, they get the Uber first. And
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: they were kind enough to take me and Danielle back
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: to our hotel. Their name, Joe and Corinna Slamans. They
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: live in Dallas, Texas. And they're listening to me right now.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: Isn't that unbelievable? Now, Joe and his daughter, they were
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: in studio a couple of years ago. One visit was great.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: But Corinne has become a very, very good friend. She
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: may be watching us, too, because you can watch this
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: show live on Facebook this morning and tomorrow. See my
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: beautiful face if you want to do that. But good
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: morning to the Slammins family. They live in Dallas, and
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: they love this show. We'll take a break. A lot
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: more great guests still to come. Hopefully some live surprises.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: It's still quiet here. It's very early in the morning
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: in Dallas. But we're here to stay, at least until Friday.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the morning.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: Sid and Friends in the morning on the Red Apple
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: Podcast Network.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: I'm a pretty big star. But this guy, to me,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: epitomizes the red, white, and blue. And he's so passionate
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: that he suffered a heart attack going after the mayor
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: about a month ago. And he's beloved, man. This guy's
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: got millions of followers and everybody loves him. He's been
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: trying for years to get a big, big flag down
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: there by the Freedom Tower, that sacred ground zero site.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: He's an amazing artist. I've got about four of his
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: paintings in my house right now. He's a great activist.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: He's a great friend and just a great American. Back
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: on Sid and Friends in the morning, my good buddy,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: Scott Lobato. Scotty, good morning, pal. How are you?
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 17: Hey, Sid.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 14: How are you doing, buddy?
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: The question is, how are you doing, buddy?
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 14: I'm good.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 19: I'm good.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 14: I'm good. Just still taking it slow, but I'm out there.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 14: I was out there yesterday.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 22: I was out there last.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 14: Week at Ground Zero with my message. Just trying to
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 14: add my security detail with me to make sure that
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 14: they kept me safe. Quiet. So my ticket wouldn't go off.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 14: So I'm coming along great. I'm coming along great. You know,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 14: I'd like to say something on this day, which we're
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 14: approaching 9-11. America deserved 9-11.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 22: Yeah.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah. Imagine I really meant that. How exiled I
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 14: would be thrown off of this Staten Island in a heartbeat.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 14: I'd be on my way off over the bridge right
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 14: now being escorted out of here. And all I've done
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 14: for this 9-11 community in this country with my, you know,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 14: with my activism and patriotic artwork and raising money and
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 14: all this and awareness. Imagine I actually said those words.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 14: What would happen to me? But here we are. The
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 14: man who is best friends. I mean, you people are
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 14: sick of hearing this with Hassan Piker. Everybody's sick of
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 14: hearing it, which really makes me crazy.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 19: And you.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 14: I know how crazy it makes you. And this guy's
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 14: going to sit there on 9-11 at Ground Zero with
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 14: that smile that you only see on guests on Sesame Street.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 14: That fake smile. You know, and he's going to sit
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 14: there and humiliate these family members, and they are going
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 14: to allow it. That'll top it off. I just found
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 14: out that he's coming to Staten Island.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I wanted to ask you about this. You got
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: the postcard memorial dinner on Friday night.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 14: Now, look.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: I've been loud about this, okay? I endorse Frank Marano.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: And I don't regret that even a little. He's a
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: great city council member. Great. And I endorsed him over
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: Griffin Pacella. Not because I didn't like Griffin. Griffin's a
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: wonderful kid. And I was friends with his father. But
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: anybody that endorsed Frank Morano, Vito Bocella has basically decided,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: I'm never going to talk to you again. He hasn't
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: returned any of my texts, doesn't talk to me anymore,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: and I love the guy. But am I to believe
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: that Vito invited Mamdani to Staten Island on Friday night?
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 14: Well, I don't know if there was a problem with
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 14: this conversation. I almost cursed with this guy is that
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 14: he is pushing himself into every nook and cranny of
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 14: this 9-11 ceremony. I mean, look what he did yesterday.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 14: I was, you know, announcing about the 200,000 pages with this.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 14: You know, everybody knew the ground was bad. Everybody knew
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 14: the air was bad. I know a lot of firemen.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 14: Believe me, this is Staten Island. Staten Island lost more
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 14: people than any other county in this country. And it's
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 14: all firemen, cops, and, you know, you name it. And
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 14: to bring that out, And to try to humiliate Giuliani
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 14: and other commissioners and so on was the most disgusting
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 14: thing he could have done. I agree. This is a
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 14: horrible thing. People are dying. But why couldn't he wait
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 14: a few days? He's doing everything. He's infiltrating. And what
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 14: sickens me is that people are falling for that shit-eating
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 14: grin and his fake compassion. This is the problem. This
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 14: is the problem with everything in this country. Everybody's afraid.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 14: Everybody's walking on eggshells. I don't want to be called
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 14: a homophobe. I don't want to be called an Islamophobe.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 14: I don't want to be called a bigot. It is
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 14: the pussification of this nation. I've been saying it for
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 14: 30 years. And here's another example of it, dude. This
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 14: guy is laughing in our faces. Look what he did
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 14: passing that pen. Poor Trish. She had to be right
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 14: smack in the middle of that. You know, you sort
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 14: of look on her face. When he handed her the
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 14: pen to give to that effing terrorist. What more can
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 14: I say?
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: He's done it twice this week. You mentioned passing the
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: pen to the Al Qaeda attorney and Jessica Tish being
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: put in a tough spot. You talked about exposing all
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: these documents yesterday with that idiot Jon Stewart. Now, like
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: you were about to say, I'm sorry to cut you off,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: he's going to show up Friday at that sacred site
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: for 9-11, and there's nothing Scott Lobato, Sid Rosenberg, or
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: anybody can do about it, and he smiles the whole time.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: I mentioned the show that Ashton Kutcher did years ago,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: Scott Lobato. It was called Punk'd, and really, Mamdani spends
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: his days and nights punking New Yorkers, and a lot
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: of them... are so stupid, or they hate our city,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: or they hate our country, or they hate our president
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: so much that they're okay with it. What in the
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: name of God, Scott Lobato, is going on?
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 14: I'm tired of hearing this never forget bullshit. Never forget,
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 14: never forget.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 17: It's bull.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 14: How it's 25 years later, everybody, more offensive, oh, Scott,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 14: you shouldn't be, you know, let the families have their say.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 14: You know, this is, yeah, yeah. But yet this guy,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 14: radical Islam, destroyed that building. They made the air bad
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 14: in that area. But people are effing wussies that they
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 14: can't even acknowledge that. We deserve what we get. We
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 14: deserve this piece of garbage. Oh, my God. How much
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 14: more absurd can we be? You know, if he shows
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 14: up at Ground Zero this Friday... We lose. This is
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 14: a major lose. I'm telling you, in four years, that museum's,
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 14: they're going to be washing their feet in those footprints.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 14: And the CEO of the 9-11 Memorial, who rakes in $ 900, 000
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 14: a year when that museum is in the red, and
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 14: she would say, knew all along that they were ghost-lit-ness
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 14: about this giant flag that should have been put up
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 14: there by this year. No, but they could light up
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 14: the building green on Muslim Day, and I don't... I
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 14: love everybody. You know me, Sid. I know you don't.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 14: But there are good Muslims, there's bad Muslims. But the
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 14: good Muslims ain't getting anywhere because they're sitting on the sidelines.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 14: They're not saying a damn word. And this is not
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 14: offensive for him to show up with that shit-eating grin
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 14: to those families. And this CEO, Elizabeth Hillman, is letting
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 14: that happen. But yet we can't put a flag up
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 14: because it might offend somebody from another country. But this
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 14: guy showing up is not offensive.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 19: We lose.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 14: He shows up. We lose for a long time.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: I wish I could argue anything you just said, Scott,
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: but you're right. And we are going to lose because
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: he is going to show up. It's not if. He's
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: going to be there. He's been adamant about it. And
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter that Giovanni Galante, who lives on Staten Island,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: got over 100,000 signatures. Didn't matter. They stood up yesterday.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 19: Yeah.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: Were you there for that, Scott?
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 17: Yeah, I was there.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 14: We marched in. We walked right in. Handed him the letter.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 14: and obviously he didn't come out. He didn't have the
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 14: balls to come out. He sent some two dweebs that
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 14: were shaking in their pants, handed them the letter, you know,
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 14: and then we left. But, you know, it's– I don't know, man.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 14: You know, it's like, hey, listen, I literally gave my life.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 14: I literally died for this city all these years that
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 14: I've been fighting for this city. And you know what?
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 14: I'm tired of dying for people who are not effing listening.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 14: The hell with you. Go ahead. Let them be there.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 14: Go ahead. You take it. You win. When you call
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 14: me because you got some illegal immigrants marching up your
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 14: street with their penises out in front of your little schoolgirl.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: Where do you go?
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 14: Because you know what? I forgot.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: You forgot. Scott, I love you to pieces. What will
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: you be doing on Friday? I'm just curious on that day.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 14: Well, I called off going there and, you know, approaching
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 14: him and the 9-11 ceremonies because realistically it's not about me.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 14: It's not about us soldiers, the resilience for this communist,
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 14: radical Islamic takeover. That day is off, gloves off on
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 14: our side. That's why I reached out to him as well.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 14: Take one day for a ceasefire and just don't go there,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 14: man dandy. Don't. Then the next day we can go
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 14: back to battle. But just don't do it. So I'm
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 14: not going. I'm telling people not to go. Leave it
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 14: for the families. We are going to be at the
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 14: Brooklyn Courthouse on 45 Monroe Street at 10 o'clock because
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 14: a fireman, Tim Revici, is going to be dragged into
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 14: court on 9-11 by the city. Think about that. September 11th,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 14: they're dragging this fireman into court because they refused to
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 14: give him his back pay, because he refused the jab.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 14: and he lost his job. He got everything back, and
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 14: now they don't want to give him his back pay.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 14: It's disgusting, and he's doing it on purpose, the city,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 14: so the firemen can't show up because it's 9-11. The
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 14: media's not going to show up, so I'm going there
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 14: with a bunch of people, teacher's choice folks, and we
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 14: are going to support this guy. That, to me, is
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 14: something powerful to do on 9-11 for a hero.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: Very, very. I actually had Phyllis Insarella on this show
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: a couple days ago. She works for Joanne Areola, my councilwoman.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: And she told us about this story. This was maybe Monday,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: I guess. So we are aware of Mr. Avicii and
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: what they're doing to him that day. And I'm glad
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: you're going to show up for that because that is
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: a very, very important day and a very important event.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: And you'll be in the right place at the right time. Listen,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: you look great. I see you on Instagram every day, Scott.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: You look great. You sound great. I know that Friday
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: in the end is going to be a loss for
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: you and me and a lot of us, but not
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: because of effort. So it's a shame, but, you know, listen,
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: you just got to hope and pray that if enough
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: bad things happen, maybe these people will wake up. Even then,
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: there's no guarantee, but you've been nothing short of amazing
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: this whole time. So thank you for hopping on this morning,
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: and thank God you're feeling well, buddy.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 14: Absolutely. Enjoy yourself down there. I hope that turns out
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 14: to be a success because we need to come November.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 14: That's another big loss if that happens, dude. Whoa. So
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 14: keep doing what you're doing.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: You too, buddy. I wish you were here, actually. I
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: want to see you up on stage here like you
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: do at every arena, do that fast paint.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 14: I don't fly, so I'd never get down there in
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 14: time to get back here for 9-11.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: Right, right. All right, well, listen, bro, thanks for coming
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: on this morning. You were great today. Thank you so much, Scotty.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 14: All right, brother. Talk to you soon.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: God bless you. Love you. Scott Lobato right there, the
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: amazing artist and activist, and he's all fired up. And
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: he's right. If the mayor, when the mayor keeps, I'm sorry,
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: when the mayor shows up on Friday, that's a loss
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: for all New Yorkers. Don't worry about these politicians that
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: yell and scream. He should be there, Hochul and Schumer.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: They're losers. What are they? They've all sold their souls.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: They're not good people. There was a time, you know,
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: When Chuck Schumer was a pretty good guy, he was
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: a really good politician. He cared about people. I used
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: to like Chuck Schumer. Now he's a dirtbag. That's what
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: he is. Kathy Hochul, she's a C-word. That's what she is.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: I said it. I don't care. Tweet it, write it,
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: don't care. These people don't care about you or this
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: city or what's good for any of us. They don't care.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm in Texas right now. And I just
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: got a text from John Katsimatidis, and he's right. All
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: these major companies, JPMorgan Chase, they are, as we speak,
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: here in Texas, right? You've got the Dallas Stock Exchange.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: The Texas Stock Exchange here in Dallas, which is about
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: to surpass New York any day now. Goldman Sachs. Goldman
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: Sachs has ordered many of its top people to move
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: here or resign. Now, supposedly, Mamdani has set in motion
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: the decline and fall of New York City, even the
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: financial capital of the United States. That's what this tweet reads.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: It's not supposed. It's a thousand percent. All these major
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: brokerage houses, all of them right here in Texas and
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: the market here in Texas, too. So they are reaping
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: all the rewards of a lost and broken city led
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: by by a radical Islam mayor. God help us. I'll
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: take a break. I'll be back. Randy Bynum may stop by.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: The amazing congressman out of Florida, Peter King, is going
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: to be here. The president of the New York Yankee,
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: the great Randy Levine, is going to be here.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: Sid and friends in the morning on the Red Apple
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: Podcast Network.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: John Schell, still running for mayor and very upset about
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: The timing in terms of releasing those documents, which talks
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: about how unhealthy the air was down by ground zero.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: We all knew that. I mean, come on. Come on.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: So now we know for a fact 68 boxes and 170,000
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: documents and Mamdani with his S-eating grin. Radical Islam so happy.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: So happy. to ruin this whole week, him and Jon Stewart,
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: whether it's handing the pen to an Al-Qaeda terrorist attorney
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: and putting Jessica Tisch in an impossible spot, releasing all
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: these documents, the information yesterday, pretty much warning Americans, more
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: of you will die. He just, he's such a lowlife
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: piece of garbage. It's It's really unbelievable. Scott Labato was here.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: Peter King is going to be here. The president of
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: the New York Yankees, Randy Levine, will be here. Maybe
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: Randy Fine, congressman out of Florida as well. You know,
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: I was reminded, the last time I was here, I
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: mentioned it, was to actually cover a fight for HBO.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: It may have been Showtime. I forget. Between Pacquiao and Margarito,
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: where the Dallas Cowboys play, that Jerry Jones beautiful stadium,
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: about 20 miles away from here in Arlington, Texas. But
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: I did cover one Super Bowl here working for 560
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: AM WQAM in Miami during my 11-year stint when the
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: band got rid of me in 2005 before I came
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: back to New York at WABC in 2016. I spent
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: 11 years at three different sports stations, 790 The Ticket,
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: 640 Sports, and 560 WQAM doing sports. And one of
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowls I covered, I covered 19 in my career.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: Went to the site and did shows on Radio Row
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: all week. This is a media row, just so you know.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: Somewhat like the Super Bowl, except those rooms are packed.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: We're the only show live right now. But I was
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: here for Super Bowl XLV. The Packers beat the Pittsburgh
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: Steelers 31-25. I arrived Sunday in Dallas. It was 70
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: and sunny. And what transpired after that? Went down in
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: history and still is the coldest week in the history
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: of Texas. Ice storms. I'm not talking snow. I'm not
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: talking cold temperatures. Ice storms every day. We had one
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: event in Fort Worth. We were staying in Dallas. Should
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: be about a 40-minute trip. Took us four hours because
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: of the ice. But they played the game and Aaron
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: Rodgers won his only Super Bowl so far. He's with
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: the Steelers ironically this year again. So Aaron and the
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: Packers beat Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers 31-25. And I
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: was here for that. I actually made it my business
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: to go to the site where President Kennedy was assassinated.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: And don't think that it hasn't occurred to me because
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: unlike most of you who either love or hate President Trump,
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: he's actually a friend of mine, like a good friend.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: And I worry about him. I really do. And I'm
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: going to see him here. And I'll be on this
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: show coming up on Friday. And when you come to Dallas,
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: think of Kennedy. Yeah, you think of the Dallas Cowboys
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: and all that, but You think of Kennedy, and here
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: is President Trump right in the open here at this
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: arena the next couple of days. I mean, they've got
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: secret service for miles, but I thought about that. I did.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: Because the last time I did a convention in and
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: around President Trump was the RNC in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, just
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: about two years ago. And the president walked in with
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: a big white bandage on his ear because he was
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: shot in Butler, Pennsylvania the day before. That was the
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: last time we had a conference like this with President
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: Trump in attendance. So a lot of emotion, a lot
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: going on. But we know what's at stake. Like I
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: said earlier, the future of our country, the future of
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: our children, the future of our grandchildren. If you hand
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: this country, the House and the Senate, over to the lunatics,
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: the Democrat Party, forget about, like I said earlier, don't
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: try to separate it. Well, the DSA, the progressive.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 7: No.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: All Democrats are lunatics.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 14: All of them.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: Outside of John Fetterman, that's it. Complete psychos. There is
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: no difference because even if they act like they're not,
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: they're scared to death of those folks anyway, so they
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: don't do anything about it. Chuck Schumer does nothing about it.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi does nothing about it. They're no different than
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: Al-Sayed and Mamdani because they're scared to death. They're lunatics.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: You want to hand the country to them? You want
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: to ruin your kids and your grandkids? God bless you.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: We don't. That's why we're here today. That's why we're
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: here tomorrow. And that's why you Republicans, you lazy-ass Republicans,
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: will get up your bad asses in November and go
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: up and vote for our candidates. Peter King is next.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 2: Podcast Network.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 8: These are documents that show what the city knew about
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 8: the toxic air around Ground Zero. when they knew it,
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 8: and how they acted to limit liability.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 7: Rather than take the steps to ameliorate the damage that
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 7: that would cause to its citizens and to the people
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 7: that were down there, they instead covered it up to
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 7: get back to business as usual.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: Why those guys decided to unveil all of this three
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: days before the 25-year commemoration of 9-11, if you think
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: that was an accident or... in Mamdani's case, just good timing,
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: then you're stupid. You're not even naive, you're stupid. He
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: has spent the last couple of days punking every New Yorker,
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: doing everything he can to really make a joke about Friday.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: Going back to a couple of days ago, which I've
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: talked about, ad nauseum, that ceremony where he handed that
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: ceremonial pen to an Al-Qaeda attorney who represented the brother-in-law
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: of one of the people, one of these animals, who
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 and killed Americans. This attorney.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: And he made sure that he embarrassed the police commissioner,
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: Jessica Tisch, along the way. And many have contacted me
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: knowing I love Jesse. Many saying that was Jesse's opportunity
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: right there to throw that pen on the floor and say,
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: F you, I'm leaving. She didn't do that because she
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: really does love the cops in New York. And maybe
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: she was in shock. I don't know. But that whole
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: ceremony was a punk job. Gave all of us the
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: middle finger. All of us. Now you got this. Oh,
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: you think we didn't know, dummy, that the air wasn't
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: safe down there? We went through this with Christine Todd Whitman.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: We knew that. You could have 8 million boxes, say
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: 68 boxes, 170,000 documents. We knew that. Do you think
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: that these brave men and women would not have gone
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: down there in an effort to retrieve bodies or save
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: lives even knowing that? Of course they would have. Of course.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: Who are you looking to hurt now? What's the idea
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: of doing this three days before? And he's still, despite
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: over 100,000 signatures on Giovanni Galante's petition, rallies all across
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: the city yesterday. This punk-ass bitch mayor is still going
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: on Friday. He has spent the entire week literally crapping
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: on 9-11. And you morons out there, You morons who
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: love him, Democrat politicians, DSA politicians, a large part of
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: the media, all you do is giggle with the guy.
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: Marsha Kramer, Katie Honan, that's all you do. Melissa Russo,
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: you giggle with the guy. And he's making a mockery
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: of people who went to work that day and died.
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: I've given you three different events this week. Making a mockery.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: Is there any other way, the great Congressman Peter King,
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: is there any other way to look at this than
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: how I just explained it?
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 22: No, Sid, first of all, you're 100% right on this.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 22: Mandami is showing, I think he's shown them already, but
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 22: certainly this week he's shown his true colors on this.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 22: To him, 9-11 is at best a political event. He
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 22: feels none of the anguish and sorrow that every other
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 22: New Yorker felt that day, and so many have continued
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 22: to feel that way, the families, what they went through.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 22: And it's not just a tragic event, not just something
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 22: that happened. It was something that went right to the
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 22: heart and soul of the United States, and particularly to
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 22: New York. And he doesn't appreciate that at all. He
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 22: doesn't care about it. And again, to me, the fact
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 22: that he had the attorney for Al Qaeda operatives there
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 22: standing with him, made him his chief counsel and handed
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 22: him the pen. The fact that he made these so-called
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 22: all these disclosures yesterday on the eve of 9-11, to me,
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 22: it just shows that to me, you should do nothing
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 22: to detract. from 9-11 families. It's sacred ground. It's a
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 22: sacred day. It's something to be remembered and in many
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 22: ways admired forever, considering the courage and bravery that was
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 22: shown that day and in the weeks and months afterwards. So, no,
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 22: to me, he does not deserve to be mayor. He
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 22: was elected, unfortunately, but he was. But he certainly does
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 22: not deserve to be there, should not be there on Friday.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 22: He is going to be there. But I also hope, though,
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 22: that there are no demonstrations against him, not that I
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 22: care about him, But I didn't want anything to detract
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 22: at all from the memory of those who died that
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 22: day or interfere with the consolation that should be there
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 22: for the families that day as they gathered together.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: No, I agree with you. By the way, Scott Lobato
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: just confirmed that Beto Bo Sutherland, who I like a lot,
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: like the guy, did not, did not invite Mom Donnie
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: to Staten Island. Friday night. He just kind of infiltrated,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: made his way in there. So good job, Vito Pacella.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: Good job out of you. But this last story about
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: the boxes of information, about the toxic air and the 170,000 documents,
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: I know you listen all day. You heard Chief Sean Schell.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: You heard Scott Lobato. You've heard all these folks. We're
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: all trying to figure out the timing. And And, you know,
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: they just found the box literally three days before 9-11 commemoration.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: And what are they trying to get done here? What's
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: he looking for somebody to blame? I mean, can you
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: figure any of this out?
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 22: Yeah, I think what they're doing, if they can smear
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 22: the memory and the achievements of Giuliani and Pataki and
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 22: Vanessa and Carrick that day, what they did, then they
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 22: can sort of cloud over all of 9-11 and what
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 22: it stood for, what the resistance was, what the fighting
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 22: back was all about. As far as all those documents, listen,
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 22: there were mistakes made. There were mistakes made after Pearl Harbor.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 22: There's been mistakes made after every disaster. You do the
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 22: best you can. You go forward. I'm sure Churchill made
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 22: mistakes during the siege of London, the attack on London.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 22: The fact is that at the end of the week,
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 22: it came out stronger than ever. Americans survived. America came back.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 22: New York came back. And I would say the only
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 22: criticism I would make, and it's really a veiled criticism,
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 22: is that the months and years afterwards, they maybe should
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 22: have put more out there to urge people to get checked,
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 22: get health care, get your physicals, get your examinations. But
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 22: you're right. As far as those days afterwards, first of all,
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 22: they didn't have enough emergency equipment as far as masks
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 22: and respirators and everything. And what they did have, most
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 22: of those guys wouldn't wear them. They just went down
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 22: in there. They didn't care. I mean, it would be
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 22: like telling people not to charge into battle to rescue
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 22: prisoners because they may get shot or to rescue hostages.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 22: That's their job, and that's the way they looked at it.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 22: You had firefighters down there, retired firefighters, volunteers down there
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 22: for weeks and months afterwards. He had retired cops down there.
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 22: I mean, I know so many cops who went down there,
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 22: so many who are sick today, quite frankly. But the
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 22: fact is they did it, and they would do it again.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 22: So what he's doing is saying rather than, hey, we
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 22: did a great thing, we made some technical mistakes along
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 22: the way, but did he really think that they were
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 22: holding back information so people would die and people would
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 22: get sick? No, they're trying to make the best of
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 22: a horrible, horrible, unprecedented situation. In the end, we survived,
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 22: survived stronger than ever, and that should be the story.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: That is the story. Peter, you've worked very, very closely
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: with Jon Stewart. I've given you credit a billion times
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: on this show. I've been doing it for the last
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: literally two months because you deserve it. And he did, too.
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: He did a good job with you. But he also
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: takes every opportunity to crush Trump, crush the country. And
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: there he was standing side by side with the mayor yesterday.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: And I thought he looked foolish. Were you disappointed that
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: Jon Stewart took part in this press conference yesterday?
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 22: I was. I mean, if they had a clinical presentation saying,
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 22: here's what we should have done, here's what we didn't do,
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 22: here's what we've learned, let's go forward, and we have
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 22: now the health care plan in place, program in place,
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 22: go out there, get checked out, get examined, and if
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 22: something like this happens again, we will be better prepared.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 22: But on that day, even if the air was toxic
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 22: and was afterwards, nobody was anticipating the impact it was
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 22: going to have And again, so yeah, and he does
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 22: do it to me. And again, I did work closely
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 22: with him on this. Again, I also work with others
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 22: on it. I mean, you went to Vito Pacella. He
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 22: was one of the original signers of the legislation that
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 22: had this program go forward. And by the way, I
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 22: agree totally. There's no way in the world Vito Pacella,
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 22: whatever the difference between you and him, there's no way
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 22: in the world he ever would have invited Mandami.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: No, listen, I like Vito, and I like Griffin. I
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: know him. You know, Frank Morano was older, more prepared,
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: and he's done a great job. I think Griffin has
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: a future in politics. I love Vito. He just refuses
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: to talk to anybody who did not endorse his son.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: But I like the guy. I think he's a terrific
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: borough president. I think he's a great American. And I
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: was happy to hear that he didn't do that. I
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: have no issue with Vito. He's got an issue with me. Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 22: Let me try and talk to Vito. Listen, I was
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 22: and I'm a very close friend of Vito. I did
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 22: support his son. I campaigned for Vito when he ran
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 22: for vice president. I was his strongest supporter when he
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 22: was in Congress. So, you know, these things can happen. And,
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 22: as you know, you and I didn't talk for.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 14: Eight or nine months.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 22: They were the best nine months of my life, by
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 22: the way. Let me just tell you. I got my
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 22: blood pressure went down. Everything went great, you know.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 14: He was talking to me.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 22: No. W. Zito is a good guy. He's one of
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 22: the good guys in politics, and he's a loyal friend.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 19: He is.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: Now, there's no question about that. I like the guy, too. So,
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: Friday is fast approaching. Here we are just a couple
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: of days away. We went over all the horrible things
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: the mayor has done. There's a bunch of them. And
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: he's going to be there on Friday, despite the best
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: efforts of a lot of New Yorkers and families of
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: the victims who were murdered that day. He's going to
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: be there on Friday. And you said you don't want
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: any wrong demonstrations. And I'm with you. You don't want
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: to take away from the families. But something that your
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: good buddy who's running for governor, Bruce Blateman, said on
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: this show first, first, even though it's been aired a
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: million times since, was what the families should do. And
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: he's a family member. His nephew was murdered, right? His
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: sister Linda's son, Tommy, was murdered. He said that the
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: families should turn their backs on Mamdani like the cops
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: did years ago with Bill de Blasio. What do you
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: think about that?
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 22: That's a silent protest. That should not offend anyone.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: Do it.
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 22: It sends a message. And then go back to the ceremony. No,
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 22: I totally agree with what Bruce is saying. If they
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 22: can do it in a way that is not loud
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 22: or boisterous or anything like that, yes. But, again, I
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 22: am thinking of the families, people like Rosemary Cain, the Haskells,
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 22: Jimmy Boyle's family, all these friends of mine who were
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 22: killed that day. To me, that is the emphasis. But, again,
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 22: turning it back is a silent protest. Anything else, anything
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 22: more than that somehow makes him a victim that day
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 22: of all people. So that's it. Bruce is right. Bruce, again,
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 22: he feels it very strongly because of his nephew and
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 22: also his brother Brad. The two of them really were
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 22: deeply hurt by that. murderer of their nephew, who was
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 22: a very brave court officer.
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: He was, and you mentioned Rosemary Cain. I told you,
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: I went to that dinner in Massapequa, God, 20-plus years ago,
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: for Billy Baldwin. I was friends with Billy Baldwin at
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: the time. What a douchebag he turned out to be.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: And the mascot for Michael Cain was at my seat,
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: me and Danielle. And for years, I didn't know who
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: he was. I just knew he was some brave firefighter
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: that died that day, and then it all made sense now,
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: and I've been made familiar with Rosemary and all the
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: people that you know, and so many of us knew
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: so many people who died that day. You know, talking
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: about Bruce Blakeman, he was on yesterday in the latest poll,
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: and it's McLaughlin. Nobody better than the McLaughlins, you know that.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 14: The best.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: The best. Has Bruce now down to 3.9%. He was
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: down 26 points when he started this mission. 3.9%. Say
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: what you want. This guy has made some incredible headway.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 22: It's tremendous, and it's just a guy who will not quit,
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 22: who keeps fighting and is able to resonate and connect
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 22: with so many people around the state who feel forgotten,
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 22: who feel neglected, working-class people, really blue-collar workers, cops, firemen,
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 22: construction workers. School teachers, people are out there doing their
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 22: job day in and day out, and they're not being
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 22: met with welcome wagons like illegal immigrants are. There's none
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 22: of that. And Bruce represents them, and he's shown what
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 22: he did in Nassau County. Again, not one tax increase
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 22: in four years, hiring so many more cops, sheriffs. probation officers,
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 22: keeping the crime rate down, great police department, great police commissioner,
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 22: Pat Ryder. And by the way, Pat Ryder is going
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 22: to be the main speaker on Friday. I'll be at
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 22: the Seaford High School commemoration, which is the largest on
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 22: Long Island. They've got hundreds and hundreds of people. It's
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 22: coordinated by Kenny Haskell and his sister. And Pat Ryder
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 22: is the main speaker that night.
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: They're great people, too. Talking about Long Island, here I
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: am at the American Airlines Center, home of the Dallas Mavericks,
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: Cooper Plague, getting ready for these big speeches tonight and tomorrow.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: President Trump will speak at both, and I'm going to
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: be seeing President Trump tomorrow. He'll be on this show
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: coming up on Friday. But this is all about us
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: Republicans retaining the House and the Senate. And they're on
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: Long Island, Peter. We talk about this a lot, you
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: and I, but now it's here, at least with this...
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: convention the next couple of days, there are some major races.
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: Driscoll has a chance to turn that seat, which is
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: right now occupied by Democrat Laura Gillum. Our guy Mike
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: Lopetri has a chance to turn that seat, which is
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: right now occupied by Democrat Tom Swasey. So there's a
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: lot of very important races around the country that can
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: reshape the House and the Senate. Mike, Laura too. But
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: you've got two spots on Long Island that can turn
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: blue seats red. How do you feel about those?
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 22: I feel Michael Petri has a real good chance against Swazi.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 22: I live in Janine Driscoll's district. She's an incredible campaigner.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 22: She really is like an ideal candidate. If you're out
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 22: there doing a poll trying to profile who would be
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 22: the strongest candidate, it's someone like Janine. I mean, she's
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 22: got the family. She's got a son in the NYPD.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 22: She's been an elected official. She's conscientious. She's very articulate.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 22: She gets out there. And she's a combination of being
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 22: a very regular person but also smarter than most of
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 22: the rest of us. She's argued cases before the U.S.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 22: Court of Appeals, and yet she's also raising a family.
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 22: And also, she has a firsthand knowledge of what Mandami
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 22: can do. She lives in the area of Florida Park,
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 22: which is right on the city line, right at the border.
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 22: So she just looks across, you know, almost like over
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 22: her backyard, and she sees the damage.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 14: That can be done.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 22: That's where all the illegal immigrants piled up just several
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 22: years ago, on that side of the border. She knows how— really,
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 22: that's almost like a border patrol you need there to
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 22: protect you. She knows it firsthand, and she resonates with people.
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 22: In fact, I'll be with her this— Saturday in Belmore,
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 22: there's a street block event, street party, block party. It's
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 22: organized actually by Melissa's husband, Lance, also Melissa. Melissa, Janine's
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 22: going to be there, and she'll meet all the people.
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 22: I'll use that as an example. She's there in the
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 22: real neighborhoods, in the real communities, doing what has to
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 22: be done. She'll be a great member of Congress, and
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 22: I'm 1,000 percent behind her.
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: You know, on the way out, Peter, you lost a
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: lot of people in Nassau County. Somebody said earlier, or
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: Lobato said Staten Island lost the most. I don't think so.
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: I think my neighborhood lost the most. But I'm not
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: in a competition with Nassau or Staten Island. But I
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: do think the Rockaways took the biggest beating. And, you know,
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: you've been to Harbor Lights many, many times. I just
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: had Bruce Blakeman there and Joe Cairo not that long ago.
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: The plane crash was there two months after 9-11. But
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: there's a tribute park, which is in and around 116th Street.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 14: Right.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: You know, Joanna, we all know her very well. And
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: it is really beautiful. And, you know, you love that area.
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: You love my area, Bell Harbor and the ponds at Rockaway,
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: American flags every block, just like yours. So are you
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: going to be just on Long Island on Friday or
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: try to make your way to other patriotic spots?
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 22: I'll be primarily on Long Island. I'm going to be
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 22: at the– I've almost always gone to the 9-11 one
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 22: in Manhattan, Ground Zero. This year, though, I'm going to
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 22: be staying local on this. Frank Haskell, who is a
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 22: cousin of the Haskells, He has built and arranged an
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 22: incredible memorial in John Burns Park in Massapequa. They have
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 22: a large, large commemoration event on the morning of 9-11.
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 22: I'm going to be there. I'll be speaking at that.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 22: There will be so many families and people I've come
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 22: to know over the years. Then Rosemary and I always
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 22: go to Holyrood Cemetery where Jimmy Boyle's son is buried.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 22: And then that evening I'll be in Seaford speaking at
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 22: the high school. We'll get Pat Ryder as the main speaker.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 22: Frank Haskell, his sister Dawn, and people in the school system,
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 22: Tom Condon and others, they were in that event. As
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 22: far as I know, it's the largest nongovernmental event on
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 22: Long Island on 9-11. The crowds go far and wide.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 22: There are helicopters, bands, everything. And they lost so many
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 22: people on that day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, listen, you've been just an unbelievable, seriously, a
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: rock since 9-11. All the money you've raised for the
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: families and all the work you did in Congress and
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: reminding people time and time again that while Iran is
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: a problem and China's a problem and Russia's a problem.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: Don't lose sight of the Al-Qaeda's and the ISIS and
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: all these other organizations that still want to destroy America.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: Specifically today, I know it was the best eight months
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: of your life, Pete, but specifically today, two days before 9-11,
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: I know I speak on behalf of all New Yorkers
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: and Americans when I say thank you.
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  Speaker 22: Thank you, Chester. Thank you for what you're doing and
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 22: what you have done.
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 14: Thank you.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Peter King right there. I love that man.
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: Former congressman, his lovely wife, Rosemarie, too. And he really
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: has sacrificed and worked his ass off for decades. to
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: make sure that these victims' families are taken care of.
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: We'll take a break. Another hour to go here live
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: in Dallas, Texas. President Trump will be here later on
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: this afternoon. This is a big one. Another president, not
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: the president of the United States, but the president of
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: the New York Yankees. My new best buddy, Randy Labine,
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: is going to stop by this hour. He's actually been
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: put to work.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 2: Sid and friends in the morning on the Red Apple
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 2: Podcast Network.
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: The president of the United States will join me Friday,
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: but maybe just as big, the president of the New
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: York Yankees, my new best buddy, Randy Levine, will join
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: me momentarily. I am in Dallas. So the last time
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: I did an RNC convention, this is the first ever
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: midterm convention, I'll be here in Dallas today and tomorrow,
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: was Milwaukee. That's where we had the RNC in 2024.
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: That's when President Trump on that Thursday night, in Wisconsin,
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: accepted the nomination, and went on to just blow the
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: doors off of ditzy Kamala Harris. Blew the doors off her.
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: Most Americans are happy they voted for him. There is
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: some buyer's remorse. Not nearly the amount the haters want
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 1: you to believe. Not even close. Every candidate that he
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: goes out there and endorses wins 91% of the time.
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 1: Every candidate that stabbed him in the back, they get killed. Right,
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: Thomas Massey? Right, Bill Cassidy? I know you want to
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: talk about Maria Madelson. She does own the basketball team
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: that plays here in this building I'm in this morning,
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks. the American Airlines Center, but the truth
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: is Trump is still hugely powerful, far and away the
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: most powerful Republican in the world, and millions and millions
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: and millions still adore and love him, like I do.
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: So we were in Milwaukee, 2024. So this morning, it
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: just happened, I was looking at some pictures from the
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: last Republican conference, and Lou and Justin, you weren't there
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: with me, you were back in the studios then too,
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: but you would remember this, The person that spent a
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: lot of time with me, a lot, on the air,
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: live in Milwaukee, sat with me two days at my
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: desk in Milwaukee. You remember this? Marjorie Taylor Greene. Remember that, guys? Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: that's over now. She's another psycho right there with Tucker
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: and Candace and all these losers. Yeah, that was only
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: a matter of time. I liked her, too. Remember how
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: much I liked her? Yeah, but she's always been nutty.
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: She's been nutty, but she's been our nut, you know,
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: showing up. I was at the State of the Union,
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: Biden's last one, when they threw me out. And she
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: was dressed in all this Trump MAGA stuff. And she
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: was great. And in Milwaukee, she was great. Two days
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: she sat with me. And I didn't know her before then.
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: We started texting each other, became friendly. And she called
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: in a couple of times. Right, Justin?
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 12: Right.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: And then she just went nuts. I don't know what
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: happened to these people. I don't know what happened. I
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: don't know. But it's sad and hard to figure out.
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: I know this. I don't know what they're going to do.
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: Maybe they'll vote Democrat. You know, those lunatics. Maybe they'll
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: start their own party. Tucker's been talking about that. He's
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: such an idiot. My God, is he a moron. I
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: know he's a smart guy and he comes off very
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: smart and with his nice little smirk and giggle like
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 1: I'm smarter than you, but man, I hate all those people.
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: What they've done to the Republican Party, what they've done
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: to this country. Forget about Israel for a second, okay?
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: Because God forbid if I say the word Israel, people say,
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: all he does is talk about Israel. It's the first
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: time this show is now, what, three and a half
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: hours old that I even mentioned Israel. So forget about
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: Israel for a second. What they've done to this country,
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: to our party, is indefensible. And they should be ashamed
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: of themselves, all of them, all of them. But we
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: are here fighting. We are here fighting to make sure
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: that we get the win in November and they can't
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: impeach my friend President Trump every day because that's what
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: they'll do. And then, you know, God forbid we lose
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: the Senate too. I don't know what's going to happen
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 1: to this country. I don't. I can't emphasize enough. Republicans,
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: you've got to get out and vote. Whatever race is
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: in your community, you've got to get out and vote.
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: You cannot allow these people who want to open the borders.
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: We talked about that. Who basically want Israel destroyed and
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: every Jew destroyed. They want to raise your taxes. They
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: don't mind if your teacher or your government official, not
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: mommy or daddy, cuts off your little boy's ding-a-ling. They
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: don't mind. These are the people we're up against, okay?
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 1: These are the people. Trump is not evil. Sorry, he's
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: trying to take out a regime that for 48 years
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: has terrorized the world and killed thousands of Americans. But
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: he's the evil one, right? Because he's fighting Bibi's war,
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: Maria Madelson's war. Shut up, okay? Do yourself a favor.
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: You're not that smart. Shut up. He's not the evil one.
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: That side is evil. They are evil. And we have
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to make sure in November we don't hand
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: our country to them. Let me take a quick break.
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: When we get back, he is my new best buddy,
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: the president of the New York Yankees.
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 2: Sid and friends in the morning on the Red Apple
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 2: Podcast Network.
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 1: Part of my issue with the Metropolitans and why I
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: left and went to become a Yankee fan and how
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: more and more people are doing the same. Yankees do
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: the right thing. President Trump was in the Bronx last year.
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: I don't make it too political for Andy Levine to
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: get him into trouble, but the truth is, you know,
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk tomorrow and 9-11 on Friday and the Yankees
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: just seem to do the right thing time and time again.
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: And now Randy has been put in charge, my buddy,
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: of saving college sports. And I love college sports. I'm
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: in this building where the Dallas Mavericks play. I watch
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: Cooper Flagg play a lot of college basketball at Duke.
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: And I watch every college football game every weekend. I
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: can't wait to see Texas take on Ohio State on Saturday.
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: My Miami Hurricanes delivered a beating to Stanford on the
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: road on Friday night. I love it. But it's a mess.
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: And Trump said to Randy, fix it. Help me fix this.
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: You remember a couple of months ago there was a
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: big conference at the White House. Trump, Rubio, Trump. Tiger Woods,
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: Urban Meyer, Nick Saban, and Randy, Mike Johnson, too. So
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: here he is, my buddy, the president of the New
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: York Yankees, one of the great New Yorkers, Randy Levine. Randy,
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: good morning, buddy. How are you?
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 17: I'm good, Sid. How are you today? It's great to
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 17: be with you.
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: It's great to have you, too. I love you so much.
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: I love this friendship of ours, which started when I
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: decided to leave the Mets and come to your team because,
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: as I mentioned moments ago, you don't have to talk,
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: you guys always seem to do the right thing. Tell
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: me this, though, before we get to college sports. What
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: was the energy like in the Bronx last night? My producer,
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: Justin Alec, was there, thanks to you. What was the
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: energy like with 99 back on the field in the
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: Bronx last night?
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 17: Well, we were sold out. It was a tremendous buzz
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 17: when the captain came to the plate. It had been
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 17: a long time. We miss him dearly. And, you know,
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 17: the team, I think, feels whole now. You know, they
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 17: did a great job surviving while he was, you know,
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 17: out hurt. But when he steps into the lineup, he's
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 17: probably the best player. Him or, you know, show a
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 17: tiny in the game. Everybody just relaxes and feels better. And,
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 17: you know, the more he plays, we'll get his timing back.
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 17: And we got to get him right for the playoffs
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 17: because I have a feeling he's going to have a
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 17: big playoff this year.
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: I think he's a guy, like you said, Aaron Georgie,
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: like Reggie said, you know, starts drinking. I think this
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: Yankee team is poised to do big things. I look
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: around the American League, and like you said, you know,
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: you had pitching injuries. When Aaron Judge went down and
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: Stanton went down and Bellinger went down and Freed was
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: out and Wendon had a comeback, and you had injuries
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: all over the baseball team. Judge, of course, is the
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: biggest name, but you guys were able to stay right there,
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: second place behind Tampa Bay. I don't care if you
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: win the division or not. I still think your baseball team,
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: is the most dangerous inside the American League. That's my thought, Randy.
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 17: Well, we like to win the division. That's what it's about,
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 17: winning the division. We're in striking range. We have four
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 17: games with Tampa left. We're four behind them. So we're
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 17: going to do everything we can to win the division
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 17: and hopefully get some players, additional players back and get
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 17: poised for the playoffs. How about Cam Shetland? What a
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 17: performance again last night. Cam Shetland, he's going to win
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 17: the Cy Young and What an unbelievable, great young man.
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 17: What a great, great season.
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: Out of nowhere. That kid came up last year, and
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: we couldn't even say his name. Now, he has really been,
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: from the time he arrived, Randy, last year, one of
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: the best pitchers in baseball. One more of the Yankees...
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: 9-11 coming up on Friday, and again, your organization, the Steinbrenners,
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: and you, Randy, you, Cashman, you guys do a really
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: terrific job when it comes to the civic responsibility in
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: our city and doing the right things by the right people.
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: And correct me if I'm wrong, but we've got a
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: Subway Series this weekend starting on 9-11 with the Yankees
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: and the.
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 19: Mets, right?
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 17: We have a Subway Series, and we're going to have
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 17: a really, really... special program to honor the heroes, the victims,
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 17: and all of us who lived through those tragic times
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 17: and hopefully spur the memory of people who weren't around
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 17: at that time to understand the significance of that event.
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 17: We can never forget that event. So it's going to
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 17: be a very, very special program. I urge everybody to
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 17: tune in and watch it. Uh, it's going to be
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 17: beautiful and, uh, nothing. There's nothing that can accommodate for
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 17: the pain that that time caused, but it's time to
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 17: move forward. It's time to keep going. Nobody's going to
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 17: beat us. And I think that, uh, it'll be a
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 17: nice program for people to watch. And then, you know,
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 17: then it'll be baseball.
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: Baseball, baseball.
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 7: Right. Right.
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: But I don't think most people.
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 17: During that time. And, and, and I think, uh, you know,
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 17: Subway Series, no matter where the teams are in the standings,
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 17: it's always a great fight. So it should be great.
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: Should be great. I don't know if a lot of
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: people know this, Randy, that before you became the president
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: of the New York Yankees, this amazing baseball president, that
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: you were a big-time official in our city, a deputy mayor,
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: back to the Rudy days. So you have experience in
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: government in and around that time, yes?
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 17: Yes, I was president of the Yankees at the time
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 17: of 9-11, but I was deputy mayor of the city.
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 17: I was labor commissioner. I was in the Justice Department.
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 17: So I've served in government quite a long time and
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 17: understand it. But I was president of the Yankees when
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 17: the terrible events happened in 9-11. But the Yankees stepped
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 17: up at that time. I never forget. We had our guys,
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 17: all of them, Joe Torre, Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Paul O'Neill,
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 17: Andy Pettit, they all went and they visited the armory
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 17: where people were waiting to find out the fates of
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 17: their loved ones. And they went to see all the
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 17: workers that came in from all over to help at
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 17: the Javits Center and victims who were hurt at St.
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 17: Vincent's Hospital. It was a big morale booster for those folks.
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 17: And more important, it made our guys feel really good
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 17: to help out.
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: Actually, both teams, Bobby Valentine and the Mets and John
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: Franco and Mike Piazza with their big home run. And,
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: you know, I've talked to all your guys many times
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: over the years, Randy, and I think Bernie Williams was
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: the first to say to me, he said, Bernie, Bernie,
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: you won four World Series, right? You beat the Braves twice.
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: You beat the Padres. You beat the Mets. And he said,
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: would you be willing to give up one of those
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: World Series wins for just to rewind the tape and
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: beat the Arizona Diamondbacks after 9-11. And he said to me,
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: I would, except for the Mets. But it's true because,
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: you know, even I hated the Yankees back then, hated them.
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: I was rooting for the Yankees. Everybody was rooting for
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: the Yankees after 9-11. And Mariano had that one bad throw,
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: one in his whole career, and the Diamondbacks prevailed. But
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: what an emotional time. I know you've seen this HBO
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: piece with Andy Levine, nine innings from ground zero. What
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: an amazing piece.
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 14: Yes.
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 17: Yes, it was, and it was an amazing time. And,
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 17: you know, it was unfortunate we lost, but looking back,
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 17: it gave the city a chance to distract and feel
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 17: good and cheer and, you know, forget a little bit
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 17: about the tragedy for a couple hours each day.
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: That is true. You're right. And those are monster home
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 1: runs of young, young Kim from Derek to Tino to Brocious.
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: It's just a very exciting series. Let's get to what
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: President Trump has basically put you in charge of. Now,
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: you know how much I love college sports, football and
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: basketball specifically. I don't miss a college football game. I don't.
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: I went to Miami for a short time. I was
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: there when Bernie Kosar died. Beat Nebraska, won the national championship.
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: So that's my school. But I watch every team, every game.
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: But it's a mess. You know, the one-year portals. You
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: got kids that now play at four different schools over
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: four years and make more money playing quarterback in college
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: football than they could playing for the New York Giants.
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: or the Dallas Cowboys, the portal system. It's a complete mess,
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: and yet, yet, there are politicians like Senator Dick Blumenthal
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: in Connecticut who like to keep it the old way
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: when you guys are trying to fix it. Tell me
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: about all this, Randy.
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 17: Well, you're right, and you can just see what happened
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 17: over the last week where, unbelievably, you know, you had
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 17: courts and LSU where, you're going to allow professional athletes,
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 17: guys who actually played in games in the NFL or
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 17: in the NBA, come back and play in college. I mean,
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 17: we seem to be forgetting that there's a difference between
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 17: a professional athlete and a student athlete. You know, people
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 17: go to college for that great college experience and play
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 17: ball and very few of them become professional athletes, but
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 17: a lot of them become leaders and, and go on
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 17: to great careers and get a great education. What's happened here,
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 17: because of bad, bad legal decisions, the whole system of
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 17: college sports is about to collapse. What do I mean
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  Speaker 17: by that, Sid? There are universities, and this is all fact,
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  Speaker 17: just this year, UCLA, North Carolina State, right here, Rutgers,
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  Speaker 17: who are losing tens of millions of dollars on these
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  Speaker 17: athletic departments, and they can't afford it. So what do
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  Speaker 17: they do? They do three things. One, they take money
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  Speaker 17: from their endowments, which is supposed to be used for
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  Speaker 17: education of students, to pay NIL payments to try and compete. Two,
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  Speaker 17: they eliminate Olympic or non-revenue sports, and, you know, therefore
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  Speaker 17: it's going to hurt us. We won't have great athletes,
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  Speaker 17: great Olympic teams. They won't do that. Well, they raise
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  Speaker 17: fees on students. And, you know, that's unacceptable also. And
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  Speaker 17: this is going to collapse. I mean, the president has
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  Speaker 17: talked about it. The Senate's talked about it. The House.
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  Speaker 17: It's going to collapse. ADs, coaches, so forth. So Nick
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  Speaker 17: Saban has been very vocal on it. We have an
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  Speaker 17: ad coming out where Coach Prime, Deion Sanders, who not
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  Speaker 17: only is a coach, has kids in college, is... very
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  Speaker 17: concerned about it. So we have a bill in the Senate.
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  Speaker 17: It's going to be voted on next week called the
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  Speaker 17: Protect College Sports Act. It's bipartisan, where today, as you know,
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  Speaker 17: there's no such thing as bipartisan. And at the end
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  Speaker 17: of the day, this will do significant things. It will
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  Speaker 17: close the transfer portal. It will ban professional athletes from
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  Speaker 17: playing in college sports. It will basically allow eligibility so
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  Speaker 17: you don't have 18 and 19 year old kids playing
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  Speaker 17: against 28 and 29 year old kids it will be
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  Speaker 17: very fair it doubles the what we call the cap
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  Speaker 17: the amount of money that schools can pay for college
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  Speaker 17: athletes it'll be the largest investment in women's sports it
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  Speaker 17: protects that's the u.s olympic committee is behind it and
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  Speaker 17: because it protects olympic sports and if this doesn't pass
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  Speaker 17: You're going to have a situation now where every day
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  Speaker 17: a local judge somewhere, instead of one national standard for
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  Speaker 17: rules where everybody plays on a level playing field and
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  Speaker 17: some form of parity, you're going to have every day
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  Speaker 17: a different judge in a local college town make a
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  Speaker 17: decision to basically give that university an edge, have pros play,
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  Speaker 17: have guys play who went from one school to the other.
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  Speaker 17: You know, Michigan won the national championship in basketball with
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  Speaker 17: five guys who just came in. And even Dusty May,
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  Speaker 17: the great coach left, he said, this system doesn't work.
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  Speaker 17: And then you get, I just, we're locals. I'll give
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  Speaker 17: you two examples, right? We're in Connecticut, right? University of
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  Speaker 17: Connecticut basketball is historic. Dan Hurley and Gino Auriemma, two
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  Speaker 17: of the greatest coaches there are. And yet, you know,
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  Speaker 17: Senator Murphy and Senator Blumenthal, despite those coaches saying this
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  Speaker 17: has to happen, This bill has to be passed.
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  Speaker 14: They're resisting.
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  Speaker 17: It's insane. Here in New Jersey, Rutgers, right? Rutgers, which
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  Speaker 17: is basically in the Big Ten, it's losing tens of
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  Speaker 17: millions of dollars every year. The Senator Cory Booker, right,
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  Speaker 17: is the leading, leading person trying to defeat this bill
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  Speaker 17: in the Senate. despite the fact that 70% of what's
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  Speaker 17: in the bill he wrote. So it makes no sense.
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  Speaker 17: This is going to be the last hope. The president
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  Speaker 17: got involved because they've been in Congress for seven years
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  Speaker 17: and nothing happened. Anybody, 360 universities have endorsed this. As
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  Speaker 17: part of this, a billion dollars will go to the
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  Speaker 17: historic black colleges and universities. I mean, this is a
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  Speaker 17: win-win situation. to basically save college sports, which is our tradition.
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  Speaker 17: If not, this is going to be no different than
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  Speaker 17: the G League or AAA in baseball or the USFL
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  Speaker 17: in the old days and just basically a minor league
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  Speaker 17: for professional sports.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we had tickets, me and my dad, for
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  Speaker 1: the New Jersey Generals owned by Donald Trump. They actually
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  Speaker 1: had two Heisman Trophy Award winners on that team, too,
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  Speaker 1: with Doug Flutie and Herschel Walker. In the final two minutes, Randy,
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  Speaker 1: you know, my daughter Ava played tennis. You've met Ava.
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  Speaker 1: She loves you. My whole family loves you. And she
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  Speaker 1: was a really good tennis player. And when you talk
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  Speaker 1: about the collapse of college sports, the non-Olympic events... the
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  Speaker 1: people who really get screwed in this are the females
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  Speaker 1: because these colleges will start to get rid of all
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: their female athlete sports. I mean, not Connecticut because of,
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: you know, Ari Emma, but all these other schools, the
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  Speaker 1: overwhelming majority, they'll just whack all the female sports just
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 1: so they can keep their basketball and football teams alive. 100%.
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  Speaker 17: It's happening now. I mean, just a couple of months ago,
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  Speaker 17: University of Arkansas, one of the great SEC schools, Cut tennis,
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  Speaker 17: men's and women's tennis. Just get rid of it. There
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  Speaker 17: was an uproar on how to restore it, but this
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  Speaker 17: is happening every day because it's an unsustainable system. I mean,
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  Speaker 17: I'm not just saying it. These are the facts. You
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  Speaker 17: can go to it, look it up, and listen to
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  Speaker 17: college presidents, listen to athletic directors. They will tell you
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  Speaker 17: it can't work. So either we're going to fix it
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  Speaker 17: now is the last hope, or the system's going to
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  Speaker 17: blow up. And all of the opponents, they all think
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  Speaker 17: it's a great bill. But like anything in life, you
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  Speaker 17: can't get 100 percent. You can't let you know there's
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  Speaker 17: no such thing as perfection. This gets about 80 percent
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  Speaker 17: of what everybody thinks is appropriate. So we just got
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  Speaker 17: to hope the Senate steps up next week, passes it,
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  Speaker 17: and then we get.
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  Speaker 14: It over to the House.
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  Speaker 17: And hopefully the president can sign it during college football season.
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  Speaker 1: I hope he does. That would be great. Great job,
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  Speaker 1: Randy Levine. Great job with this. Again, I love college sports,
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  Speaker 1: and my son is going to college next year, so
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  Speaker 1: I pay very close attention. You've done an amazing job
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  Speaker 1: on this. Good luck, too, with the New York Yankees
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the regular season, which is winding down
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: and the stretch run into the playoffs. And I look
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  Speaker 1: forward to seeing you, my dear friend, in the Bronx.
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  Speaker 1: Randy Levine, I love you. Great job. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 14: You're the best.
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  Speaker 17: Thank you, Sid.
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  Speaker 1: All the best. You're the best. Thank you. Look who's talking.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the best. You're the best, Randy.
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  Speaker 1: What the heck is going on here?