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Nicole Malliotakis | Congresswoman, New York District 11 | 06-02-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: And about the same time that Obama and Castro last
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  Speaker 1: I checked not exactly, our friend, they were doing the
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  Speaker 1: wave together. There was an explosion. Isis was blowing up
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  Speaker 1: in airport and Brussels. You remember this, Gnome right, You
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  Speaker 1: may remember there was a brother sister combination out of
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey. Local kids, good looking kids, not that it matters,
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  Speaker 1: but they were and they were both killed, and Barack
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  Speaker 1: Obama couldn't care less, kind of like when Foley the
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  Speaker 1: journalist was beheaded by Jahadi John and Isis and Obama
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  Speaker 1: was annoyed. They bothered him on the ninth hole on
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  Speaker 1: the golf course. That's your great black Jesus, Barack Obama.
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  Speaker 1: But the point is he budied up the Cuba. Years later.
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  Speaker 1: They're still doing it. The Democrats, they're still doing it,
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  Speaker 1: especially Jayapol, who's a ordent anti Semite and a terrible
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  Speaker 1: rep out of the state of Washington. And I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: to see that a Cuban America in Congresswoman Nicole mal
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  Speaker 1: O'takis is calling them out. She wants investigations. Nicole, good morning,
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  Speaker 1: how are you.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Sid, Good to be with you, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Nice to have you back to sweetheart, you got tickets
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  Speaker 1: for June fourteenth.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, you know that it's funny. I guess they're doing
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  Speaker 2: some type of lottery, is that right?
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  Speaker 1: Because I know they're giving out of the five hundred
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  Speaker 1: and two fifty. I think go to the military, and
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  Speaker 1: now you're up, but only two hundred and fifty.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm only kidding.
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually more concerned about this, this Cuba story. I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad that you want to see some investigation.
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  Speaker 2: Trying to say one thing said. You are no longer
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  Speaker 2: allowed to request any tickets after you were a no
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  Speaker 2: show at the State of the Union this year, after
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  Speaker 2: Mike Lawler and I head over heels we went, we
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  Speaker 2: actually went so out of our way to get you
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  Speaker 2: at a ticket, and then you didn't show up, true lovable,
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  Speaker 2: And now you can have request tickets for the UFC.
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  Speaker 1: Going to be kidding me, So of course I didn't
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  Speaker 1: show up because it was a thirty seven thousand in them.
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  Speaker 3: But you know what's funny what you just said.
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  Speaker 1: So two weeks ago, Lawler sends me this invitation to
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  Speaker 1: come to Rockland County because the President is coming, and
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  Speaker 1: I said, listen, Mike, if you put me somewhere in
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  Speaker 1: that crowd where I can't see him and talk to
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  Speaker 1: him and touch him and feel them. I'm not coming.
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  Speaker 1: And he said to me, exactly what you just said.
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  Speaker 1: He goes, wait a second, you have no leverage. Last
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  Speaker 1: I checked me and Nicole tried to get you to Washington,
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  Speaker 1: and you screwed us.
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  Speaker 3: He said, just come. It'll be fine.
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  Speaker 1: As it turned out, of course, I did have a
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  Speaker 1: chance to shake hands and speak with the President, but
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  Speaker 1: he said the same exact thing that you did.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm never going to live that down that mind, Nicole.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: You're officially off the list. Okay, and don't last this
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  Speaker 2: next year when you don't get tickets for the State
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  Speaker 2: of the Union.
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  Speaker 1: God, that is funny. I am coming straight to you
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  Speaker 1: next year. Just see you know this fight that you
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  Speaker 1: want to put out there with these Democrats that are
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  Speaker 1: buddying up to the Cuban folks, tell the listeners exactly
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  Speaker 1: what that is all about and exactly what you'll worried about, Nicole.
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  Speaker 2: So right around the time that our great Secretary of
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  Speaker 2: State Marc Arubia and our great President said that they
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  Speaker 2: were going to push this regime to make changes. Remember
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  Speaker 2: sixty seven years, the Cuban people, including my relatives, have
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  Speaker 2: lived under oppression. They have been starved, they have been
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  Speaker 2: treated as slaves. You know, they make about twenty dollars
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  Speaker 2: a month and they're treated as slaves for the government.
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  Speaker 2: They express themselves in any way in opposition what the
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  Speaker 2: government is doing, they go to jail, they get beaten,
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  Speaker 2: and in many cases people have been murdered. There's no
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  Speaker 2: freedom oppressed, there's no fate, free and fair elections. But
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  Speaker 2: also they're national security fut to us because they are
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  Speaker 2: working in kahoots with Iran, with communist China, with Russia,
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  Speaker 2: all our adversaries. They help these terrorist organizations like hamas
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  Speaker 2: So and they are ninety miles from outshore, so they've
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  Speaker 2: provided you know, base of operation our adversaries and including
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  Speaker 2: spy capabilities. And you know, this is a serious issue,
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  Speaker 2: and this is our moment right now where we're trying
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  Speaker 2: to get regime changed, not just to bring freedom to
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  Speaker 2: the Cuban people, which my family would obviously love to see,
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  Speaker 2: but because they are a threat in this hemisphere. And
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  Speaker 2: what happens you have at the same time that this
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  Speaker 2: is going on, you have Jayapaul and you have a
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  Speaker 2: member Johnson from Illinois, Jonathan Johnson, they go to Cuba
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  Speaker 2: on taxpayer expense, a taxpayer expense they got on the
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  Speaker 2: rationional delegation trip to go meet with the communist regime
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  Speaker 2: to talk about how they could undermine our government and
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  Speaker 2: avoid sanctions. That President Trump tweeted an article this morning
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  Speaker 2: where I talk about that they should be investigated for treason.
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  Speaker 2: This is unbelievable that they're doing this. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: the Speaker needs to cut off any travel to these
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  Speaker 2: adversarial kind trees. You know, this is I think it's crazy, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: that this is happening and they should not have been there, yep.
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  Speaker 2: And it's it has to be investigated. No.
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  Speaker 1: It reminds me of when that idiot from Maryland, Chris
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  Speaker 1: van Holland went to visit that gang member right in
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  Speaker 1: Al Salvador. He goes to visit the gang member in
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  Speaker 1: Al Salvador, also going against what the Trump administration is
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  Speaker 1: trying to do, which you know is trying to keep
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  Speaker 1: American safe every day. But you're right, I do think
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  Speaker 1: it's treason. So I'm glad to hear that Trump actually
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  Speaker 1: retweeted what you wrote this morning, and I like what
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  Speaker 1: you're saying about Mike Johnson too, about the travel. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think that those guys will do something about this?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm certainly going to speak, you know, to the
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  Speaker 2: speaker personally about this. But look, I do believe that
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  Speaker 2: we're seeing Treasury, by the way, go after Code Pink,
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  Speaker 2: go after Hassan Piker. But Code Pink is another organization
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  Speaker 2: that is heavily funded by Communist China, and they again
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  Speaker 2: are here undermining our country, putting out propaganda to undermine
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  Speaker 2: out policies. They've met with the leaders of Code Pink,
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  Speaker 2: have met with not only the communist Cuba regime, they've
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  Speaker 2: met with Iran, They've met with Hamas leadership over the years,
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  Speaker 2: and so you know, and the thing with Cuba is
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  Speaker 2: that it's obviously there's an embargo, there are sanctions, and
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  Speaker 2: so it's not just like you're going to meet you know,
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  Speaker 2: people go to Communist China, but we still have relations
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  Speaker 2: with Communist China. With Cuba, I mean, there's an embargo,
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  Speaker 2: there's sanctions. It's different. And so that's why I think
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  Speaker 2: that this has gotten very much out of hand. You
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  Speaker 2: saw elan omargo a couple of years ago, and they
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  Speaker 2: come back basically blaming the United States for the problems
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  Speaker 2: in Cuba, when it is the communist regime that has
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  Speaker 2: starved and tortured its people. Now, obviously what's going on
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  Speaker 2: right now has exacerbated it. It is worse because oil
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  Speaker 2: is not being let into the country. What has happened
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  Speaker 2: in Venezuela. But it's not the fault of their problems
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  Speaker 2: are the fault of obviously communism, and the socialists in Congress,
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  Speaker 2: and the Communists in Congress don't seem to recognize that
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  Speaker 2: they still want to bring those ridiculous policies here to
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  Speaker 2: the United States. Let them defend while the Cuban people
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  Speaker 2: are earning fifteen dollars to twenty dollars a month, when
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  Speaker 2: there's billions and billions of dollars that are kept by
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  Speaker 2: entities in the regime and the leadership, the communist leadership
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  Speaker 2: live like kings. Okay, they have tons of money. They
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  Speaker 2: live like billionaires. They are billionaires. And meanwhile the people
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  Speaker 2: are suffering and don't even have access to food, to medicine,
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  Speaker 2: and to basic necessities.
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  Speaker 1: Nicole Malotakis, of course of Cuban descent, as is Yappa mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: amazing Secretary of State Marco Rubio as is another guy
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  Speaker 1: I think running for president in twenty twenty eight that
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  Speaker 1: I like a lot out of Texas, Ted Cruz, so
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  Speaker 1: a lot of amazing Republican folks that come from Cuba.
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  Speaker 1: One more on Cuba. You know, we just did this
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  Speaker 1: in Venezuela and took out Maduro. It was one of
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  Speaker 1: the great things that any president has ever done, forget
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  Speaker 1: about Trump has ever done. And we're not going to
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  Speaker 1: have to see the same firepower obviously to do what
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  Speaker 1: we did in Venezuela in Cuba. But how far do
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  Speaker 1: you want to see Nicole America go to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that whatever operation they do succeeds in Cuba.
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  Speaker 2: Look, the human rights crimes committed by Raul Castro are awful.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's responsible for the murder of countless individuals.
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  Speaker 2: But there's a particular situation. The reason why he was
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  Speaker 2: charged by the United States government. They've killed three American citizens,
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  Speaker 2: one permanent American resident a humanitarian mission back in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: ninety six. Every president since then has turned a blind eye.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump refuses to do that. The DOJ has charged
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  Speaker 2: Roal Cashtro, and we should bring him to justice. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the guy's ninety four years old. So if it's between
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  Speaker 2: having him come and sit in a jail for a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years and actually getting them to use this
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  Speaker 2: as leverage to get them to flee the regime and
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  Speaker 2: allow for people to organize and create political parties and
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  Speaker 2: have free and fair elections and just have some type
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  Speaker 2: of say in their destiny. I prefer that we see,
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  Speaker 2: you know, use this as leverage have regime change. And
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  Speaker 2: this is why it's so crazy that Gyapol is going
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  Speaker 2: over there. And actually, you know, at this time where
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  Speaker 2: we're trying to put pressure and drive the regime out,
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  Speaker 2: you have members of Congress who are actually going there
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  Speaker 2: to try to give them a lifeline.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Congresswoman Nicole mali otagis, let's cover this closer to home.
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  Speaker 1: I know you've been back, you know, you back to
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  Speaker 1: blue when you've got legislation out there, back to blue
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  Speaker 1: legislation to protect our federal law enforcement officers. We see
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  Speaker 1: what's happening to call every day out there in New
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  Speaker 1: Jersey at the Laney Hall, and we don't want this
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  Speaker 1: to turn into Minnesota where Preddy and Good died. But again,
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  Speaker 1: this narrative coming from the left that ICE or not I,
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  Speaker 1: as Trump calls them, they're out there killing people and
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  Speaker 1: wonderful people like pretty and good as if we dragged
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  Speaker 1: them out of their homes or church, and that's why
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  Speaker 1: they died that day. We know that's not the case.
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  Speaker 1: They were instigators. They deserve to die, but they were
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  Speaker 1: in the wrong place at the wrong time. And for
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  Speaker 1: the most part, overwhelmingly, ICE does amazing work getting rid
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  Speaker 1: of horrible people, deporting them, binding children. It's not even close.
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  Speaker 1: The numbers point to an amazing job by ICE. Yet
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  Speaker 1: all these democrats vilify them every day, demonize them every day,
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  Speaker 1: and it's putting these offerers' lives in danger.
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  Speaker 3: You want to change that, don't you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. In fact, my legislation is safer for everyone involved.
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  Speaker 2: Right protesters want to protest, they need to stay fifteen
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  Speaker 2: seat out of the way of law enforcement doing their job.
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  Speaker 2: That's all federal law enforcement. I love to do it.
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  Speaker 2: For local guys. NYPD would love this, but the problem
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  Speaker 2: is my obviously, the member of Congress, you can only
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  Speaker 2: reach on the federal level. There is a similar legislation,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, at the state level. But what I
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  Speaker 2: will say is that this is a common sense peace
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  Speaker 2: of legislation. People want to protest, they have that right,
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  Speaker 2: they do not have the right to be agitators and
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  Speaker 2: hinder law enforcement when they're trying to do their jobs.
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  Speaker 2: And so this is safer for everyone involved, and I
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  Speaker 2: hope that we can get some traction. I've already spoken
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  Speaker 2: with Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan about this issue. I think
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  Speaker 2: he likes the idea because it makes sense. But this
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  Speaker 2: goes to a bigger issue here. You know, these guys
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  Speaker 2: do not want to cooperate the state people, our governor,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's New York's governor or New Jersey's governor, our mayor.
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  Speaker 2: They want to do everything they can to make it
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  Speaker 2: impossible for ICE to get criminals off our streets. Look,
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  Speaker 2: Lake and Riley's murderer was actually arrested in New York
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  Speaker 2: and was released back onto the street. When to Georgia
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  Speaker 2: killed Lake and Riley, you had the poor eighty two
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  Speaker 2: year old man who was killed shoved in front of
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  Speaker 2: a subway by somebody who is here illegally. Again, this
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  Speaker 2: was completely preventable. When these people are arrested and they
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  Speaker 2: have criminal records, and you have the Democrats going out
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  Speaker 2: of their way to release them from jail through a
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  Speaker 2: back door, so ICE can't get them. Now ICE has
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  Speaker 2: to go on the street and find them. And so
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  Speaker 2: if they don't want this type of stuff playing out
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  Speaker 2: in streets, then they should cooperate and be somewhat reasonable.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's like, it's just completely insane that we're
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  Speaker 2: protecting our our government, our state, local primarily and this
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  Speaker 2: mayor are actually protecting these individuals. And then you have
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  Speaker 2: these judges by the way that are helping them again
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  Speaker 2: escape the back door of the courthouse. We'll talk about criminals,
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  Speaker 2: being specific about you know, these criminals, and what does
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  Speaker 2: Kathy Hockel do after multiple people have been murdered, whether
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  Speaker 2: it be in an arson fire, shoved in a subway,
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  Speaker 2: or murdered like Lake and Riley, what does she do?
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  Speaker 2: She doubles down. And now the Democrats in Albany changing
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  Speaker 2: the law once again to make it even harder for
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  Speaker 2: any local governments that do want to cooperate to turn
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  Speaker 2: over these criminals, like NASA County under Bruce Blake, and
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  Speaker 2: she's prohibiting that. And so it's a sad situation. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that if we had more cooperation from the
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  Speaker 2: city in the state, you wouldn't see this type of
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  Speaker 2: escalation that we're seeing right now.
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  Speaker 3: It's a sad situation for the whole state.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, thank God, Nicoll for people like you, and
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  Speaker 1: I mean that, you know, I think it torrific, I
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  Speaker 1: really do. You and our friend Mike Lawler and a
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  Speaker 1: few other law folks here, but the mayor. You wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: even say his name. Moments ago you said this mayor
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  Speaker 1: and the governor, she's a complete disaster. And as long
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  Speaker 1: as you've got that one two punch in this state,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, we're in all kinds of trouble. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I saw you, like everybody else upine on the fact
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  Speaker 1: that this creep Momdani didn't come to great on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: as a proud Jewish man. I didn't want him there.
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  Speaker 1: But that's not the point. The point is it's not
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  Speaker 1: whether or not sid Rosenberg wants him there. It's a
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  Speaker 1: fact that this mayor should have been there. This parade
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  Speaker 1: was not in Jerusalem. He hates Israel, fine, this parade
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  Speaker 1: was not in Jerusalem. It was Bibi wasn't the Grand Marshal,
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  Speaker 1: his police commissioner was. He cannot make one legitimate excuse
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  Speaker 1: why he wouldn't go to parade on Fifth Avenue in
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  Speaker 1: New York City. Whether Israel's name is on it or not,
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  Speaker 1: it was not an Israeli parade. It was a parade
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  Speaker 1: celebrating Jewish people in his own city.
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  Speaker 2: The only mayor in the sixty one year history of
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  Speaker 2: this parade, Republican or Democrat, that has not shown up
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  Speaker 2: at the parade. I think, particularly now at the height
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  Speaker 2: of anti Semitism that we're seeing right now, where we're
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  Speaker 2: leading the nation. Another sad stat about New York. We're
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  Speaker 2: not just leading the nation when it comes to high
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  Speaker 2: taxes and driving people out. We're leading the nation now
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to anti Semitism. And these are a
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  Speaker 2: result of the policies of this mayor, of this governor.
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  Speaker 2: And it really I thought it was very striking, and
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was a a wonderful contrast to see
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  Speaker 2: that the police commissioner showed up, that the speaker of
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  Speaker 2: the City Council showed up. So those are two citywide
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  Speaker 2: leaders that were present and and and showed a big
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  Speaker 2: contrast with the mayor. And again, you know, you had
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  Speaker 2: Mike Bloomberg, there, you had Eric Adams. There was good
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  Speaker 2: to see both Republican and Democrat former mayors participate. But
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  Speaker 2: I think it sends a real clear message to the
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  Speaker 2: Jewish community where this mayor stands. And in a way,
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  Speaker 2: like you said, I think I don't think he has
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  Speaker 2: missed much. But I do you think that you know,
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  Speaker 2: you know somebody who supports the BDS movement who basically
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: stood with him as unstilt the very end of his
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  Speaker 2: campaign when you finally condemned them. Uh. And then he
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  Speaker 2: also said he was going to arrest net and Yahoo
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  Speaker 2: when he came to New York City. I mean, we
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  Speaker 2: know where he stands. Unfortunately, and this is what people
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  Speaker 2: voted for and now were stuck for the next four years.
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  Speaker 3: Three and a half.
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  Speaker 1: Thank god. All right, last one sixty seconds. The great
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  Speaker 1: congress woman out of Staten Island and Brooklyn Nicole male otagas,
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  Speaker 1: where are we with the reconciliation with the budget?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're in DC today and we're gonna be meeting
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  Speaker 2: and talking about what the next step is. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I was disappointed that the Senate went home and we're
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  Speaker 2: waiting on the Senate basically to send us the final
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  Speaker 2: bill to fund ice to fund Customs and Border Protection.
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  Speaker 2: They are they do have funding right now, but they
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  Speaker 2: need more money. Obviously, we have the America two fifty
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  Speaker 2: coming up, we have the twenty fifth anniversary of nine
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  Speaker 2: to eleven. There's a lot of the world copy of
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  Speaker 2: a lot going on, a lot of activities, and we
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  Speaker 2: need to make sure that they have money to do
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  Speaker 2: their job. Now. The DHS is fully funded, but obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with the amount of people that Joe Biden
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  Speaker 2: had let in, people that were on the terror watch
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  Speaker 2: list that we caught at the border, hundreds of them.
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  Speaker 2: You have millions of people that have gone undetected into
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  Speaker 2: our country. We don't know who they are, where they are,
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  Speaker 2: for what they are in are and then you have
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats on top of it, making it so much
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  Speaker 2: harder for people to find criminals and potential terrorists. And
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  Speaker 2: so I think that, you know, we need to get
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  Speaker 2: this done as quickly as possible now. In Reconciliation three,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's ever going to happen, but
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  Speaker 2: my Committee Ways and Means we oversee tax and I'm
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  Speaker 2: already working on provisions that we could potentially help get
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  Speaker 2: in there if there is the opportunity One of my
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  Speaker 2: bills I just introduced yesterday was a bill to increase
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  Speaker 2: the exemption on the capital gains tax for seniors who
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  Speaker 2: are selling their homes. A lot of seniors hold on
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  Speaker 2: to their houses and they want to downsize because their
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  Speaker 2: children have grown, they moved on, they need a smaller space.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot of upkeep and expense for a senior citizen.
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  Speaker 2: And so my bill would actually give them an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to sell their homes and protect their nest egg, allowing
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  Speaker 2: a new family to move in, allowing them to do
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  Speaker 2: what they want to do, which is downsize. And so
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  Speaker 2: that's a good bill that I hope we can get there.
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  Speaker 2: It's very tailored for seniors, but we do have one
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  Speaker 2: that actually increases the capital gains tax exemption for everyone
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  Speaker 2: as well, because that hasn't been modernized since nineteen ninety seven.
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  Speaker 2: It was never indexed, it was never increased, and now
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  Speaker 2: it's that you know, if you earned two hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars profit on your sale of your home,
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  Speaker 2: anything above that gets taxed over five hundred thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: If you're a married couple here in New York City. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: my district Alan, an average sale price is about seven
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  Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars. So a lot of people build their equity,
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  Speaker 2: that's their life savings, that's their nest egg, and they
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  Speaker 2: don't want to be taxed on it, and they're right,
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  Speaker 2: so it shouldn't be taxed on it to the extent
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  Speaker 2: that the government is doing. So we're hoping to provide
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  Speaker 2: some relief to build on. You know what we were
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  Speaker 2: able to deliver in the first package, which was obviously
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  Speaker 2: the salt relief, as well as the Senior Bonus Deduction,
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  Speaker 2: which was a bill that I drafted that helped return
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  Speaker 2: the money paid on Social Security back to fifty one
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  Speaker 2: million seniors across the country. And so, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: continued to look for progress and ways to help seniors
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  Speaker 2: and taxpaying Americans who work so hard and should keep
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  Speaker 2: their money not give it to the government. As we
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  Speaker 2: see our hopefully our state people will match some of
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  Speaker 2: this stuff and we could see that added relief from
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  Speaker 2: the local level.
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  Speaker 1: So great job, Nicole, Mario takasays always, great job here
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  Speaker 1: on the radio, great job in DC, great job here
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  Speaker 3: We love you, Nick, Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks my friend, take care you too.
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  Speaker 1: The cole Mario Takis right there are the amazing congress
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  Speaker 1: woman out of Staten Island, then Brooklyn.
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