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Rich Lowry | Editor-In-Chief of National Review Unpacks llhan Omar’s Shady Family History Yielding Probe from Trump · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Rich Lowry's here, Mr. National Review. Great every Wednesday morning. Rich,
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  Speaker 1: happy Wednesday, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 3: Same to you. I'm good. How was the parade?
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  Speaker 2: The parade was great. I loved it.
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  Speaker 1: I was in a convertible Cadillac and took a long
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  Speaker 1: time this year. It took over three and a half
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  Speaker 1: hours to go from 45th and 5th to 72nd and 5th,
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  Speaker 1: but it was a great day.
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  Speaker 2: Great day.
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  Speaker 3: You can't really go 45 miles per hour.
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  Speaker 2: No, you can't. The best part of the day.
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  Speaker 3: The lights are in your favor, but you got to
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  Speaker 3: go slow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the best part of the day, believe it or not, was...
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  Speaker 1: That Mamdani wasn't there.
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  Speaker 2: That was the best part.
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: What a creep. So I was reading the New York
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  Speaker 2: Post a couple of days ago. I came across this.
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  Speaker 1: Elon Omar's shady family history gives Trump plenty of reasons
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  Speaker 1: to probe her past.
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  Speaker 2: And who wrote that? You did.
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  Speaker 1: So I got to tell you, I had Brian Kameet
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  Speaker 1: on the show yesterday. And so many times, Rich, so
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  Speaker 1: many times in the 11 years I've been here, dating
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  Speaker 1: back to my days with Bernard, I wanted to see repercussion.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted Hillary Clinton to go to prison for wiping
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  Speaker 1: out all those emails. I wanted to see Andrew Cuomo
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  Speaker 1: do time. I wanted to see.
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  Speaker 2: Bill de Blasio's wife do time. It never happens. Only
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  Speaker 2: Bob Menendez. He's the only putz.
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  Speaker 1: So I said to Brian Kilmeade yesterday, I go, is
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  Speaker 1: there a chance that Elon Omar is really in trouble?
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  Speaker 1: And he said yes, because there were two probes going on,
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  Speaker 1: not just the age and whether she was here legally
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  Speaker 1: or not, or she can stay in Congress or not,
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  Speaker 1: but there's a fraud issue that.
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  Speaker 2: They really think they can get her on.
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  Speaker 1: You tell me, Rich Lowry, is Ilhan Omar in any
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  Speaker 1: serious trouble?
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  Speaker 3: She might be. It's hard to know. If Brian's right,
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  Speaker 3: she would be. I don't think... I don't think the
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  Speaker 3: immigration stuff is going to be criminal, even if she's
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  Speaker 3: guilty of it. I think it would be more of
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  Speaker 3: a bid to denaturalize her. And even if you denaturalize
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  Speaker 3: her and there's a process, hearings, et cetera, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: sure she's going anywhere because she's married to a U.S.
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  Speaker 3: citizen and has U.S. citizen children. But if there's something
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  Speaker 3: else involving money, well, that would make it much more
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  Speaker 3: serious and perhaps criminal in nature. It's just hard to know.
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  Speaker 3: You know, as has been pointed out, presumably a Democratic
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  Speaker 3: judge approved this warrant. So that suggests at least there's
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  Speaker 3: enough evidence for the warrant. But people need to understand
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  Speaker 3: the immigration thing. Everyone kind of knows about marrying the
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  Speaker 3: alleged brother. She may have done that. The whole thing's
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  Speaker 3: a little murky. She may have done that. But as
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  Speaker 3: you pointed out, this has to do with her father,
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  Speaker 3: very likely, because she describes in her memoir her father
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  Speaker 3: as an educator, right? Makes him sound as though he
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  Speaker 3: was the assistant principal of Mogadishu High, right? That's all
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  Speaker 3: he did in Somalia. He was really a servant of
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  Speaker 3: this dictatorial, blood-soaked regime and a colonel, a Soviet-trained colonel
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  Speaker 3: in the military. And most people, right, you have a
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  Speaker 3: relative of those in the military, especially a dad, and
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  Speaker 3: apparently he was decorated and... in the Somali-Ethiopian war, you
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  Speaker 3: least mention that. You probably exaggerate it. You know, you're
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  Speaker 3: proud of it, and it's very suggestive that she doesn't
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  Speaker 3: mention it at all. So it raises the possibility he came,
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  Speaker 3: sought asylum here, and said, hey, look, I'm just a teacher.
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  Speaker 3: And there's also a suggestion that she may have lied
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  Speaker 3: about her age, because if your dad gets naturalized back
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  Speaker 3: then and you're a minor, you're naturalized automatically as well.
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  Speaker 3: But she may not have been 17, as she said.
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  Speaker 3: She may have been 18 or 19, which would make
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  Speaker 3: the whole thing fraudulent. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So if the whole thing is fraudulent, she can no
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  Speaker 1: longer serve in Congress, right?
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  Speaker 3: If she's denaturalized, I think you have to be a
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  Speaker 3: citizen to serve in Congress, right? Yeah. So there you
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  Speaker 3: have it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to bring on Mark Wayne Mullen at 940
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  Speaker 1: this morning. If all that comes out and she lied
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  Speaker 1: and she was 18, blah, blah, blah, Can we deport
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  Speaker 1: her at that point?
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  Speaker 3: I was asking an immigration expert friend of mine this
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  Speaker 3: question yesterday. I was like, okay, so let's say they
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  Speaker 3: do denaturalize her. Does she have to go? And he
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  Speaker 3: didn't know because she is married to a U.S. citizen,
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  Speaker 3: as I mentioned, has U.S. citizen children. So I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 3: So that's a question I don't know the answer to.
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  Speaker 3: But look, this thing, if there's a there there and
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  Speaker 3: you get down the path to denaturalization, this is going
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  Speaker 3: to be thermonuclear.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be great. Hey, Richard, tell me what
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  Speaker 1: you think about shutting off Starlink in this Ukraine, the
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine-Russia conflict. And again, the United States shutting off Starlink.
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  Speaker 1: I talked about this with Brian Kilmeade this.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, too.
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  Speaker 1: He's obviously very, very heavy pro-Ukraine, very. And he thinks
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  Speaker 1: Putin is committing genocide.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with him. What do you think about the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: shutting off Starlink?
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  Speaker 3: I'm with Brian on this whole issue. I'm very pro-Ukraine.
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  Speaker 3: So maybe you want to restrain the munitions we're giving
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  Speaker 3: them because, you know, we're low on some important stuff,
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  Speaker 3: as we know. But I don't get tilting towards Putin
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  Speaker 3: or trying to punish Ukraine. And I understand why Trump
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  Speaker 3: doesn't like Ukraine hitting the refineries. But Ukraine's only hitting
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  Speaker 3: Russian refineries because Russia invaded Ukraine. Ukraine without cause and
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  Speaker 3: is destroying all this energy infrastructure in an effort to
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  Speaker 3: freeze it out this winter, you know. So in that circumstance,
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  Speaker 3: it's understandable what they're doing. So I just, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Trump's been all over the map on this. I thought,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he'd come in and think, OK, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to get a peace deal. And then you realize Putin
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  Speaker 3: is the ultimate obstacle. And he tilts against Putin, which
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  Speaker 3: he did for a while. But now he's kind of
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  Speaker 3: back complaining about Ukraine. So I just I don't get
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  Speaker 3: this one.
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  Speaker 1: And this one doesn't seem like it's coming to an
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  Speaker 1: end anytime soon because Putin, if Trump can convince Putin,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought that Trump had the best shot of anybody,
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  Speaker 1: no one can. No one.
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  Speaker 3: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And look, there's nothing wrong with trying to get a
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  Speaker 3: peace deal here. And for a while there, it was
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  Speaker 3: kind of illegal to even think that we should try
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  Speaker 3: to get a peace deal, which always struck me as crazy.
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  Speaker 3: And a peace deal, I'd be happy with a peace deal.
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  Speaker 3: You just draw a line on a map where it
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  Speaker 3: is now and give Russia everything that they've taken. Ukrainians
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't like that, but that'd be fine with me. But
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  Speaker 3: it's not fine with Putin because he wants more.
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  Speaker 2: He wants more. Rich Lowry, National Review. So, Richard, as
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  Speaker 2: of today, we are 20 days away. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: 20 days away from Election Day. It's going to start
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  Speaker 1: getting very hairy, very nerve-wracking. A lot of very anxious people,
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  Speaker 1: including President Trump in Washington, D.C., because he knows this.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Rich, have an honest conversation. If we lose the midterms...
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  Speaker 2: I know this, and it breaks my heart.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to go after him, his family, his friends. Heck,
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  Speaker 1: it's not crazy to think I could be subpoenaed. They
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  Speaker 1: are going to spend their days and nights trying to
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  Speaker 1: ruin this guy's life. And even though he will still
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  Speaker 1: be the president and he can still get some stuff done,
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 2: He has not told me this. I promise you. I'm
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  Speaker 2: telling you.
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  Speaker 1: He's nervous for his family, his friends, and what could
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  Speaker 1: happen in about three weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think they're going to take the House,
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  Speaker 3: as we've discussed, and that's what they're going to do.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know whether they're going to impeach him. I
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  Speaker 3: think they might find it irresistible. If they're smarter, they'll
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  Speaker 3: just do the investigations, because the public usually doesn't oppose investigations.
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  Speaker 3: They might not like an impeachment. Impeachment could backfire, but
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  Speaker 3: usually investigations... don't. So they have every incentive to do that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it means the end of his presidency.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's so much he does that just doesn't
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  Speaker 3: have to do with Congress. You know, he wanted the big,
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  Speaker 3: beautiful bill. He wanted the SAVE Act. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 3: there are other things he really wanted, particularly from Congress.
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  Speaker 3: So much of what he does is on his own.
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  Speaker 3: But this will be a huge distraction. It will generate
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  Speaker 3: all sorts of headlines he won't like and will be,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a psychic and legal drain on people really
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  Speaker 3: close to him, including his children.
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  Speaker 1: And this Iran thing, you know, people aren't following it
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  Speaker 1: that closely anymore. They've lost interest, but I'm sure you
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  Speaker 1: know this. Do you realize that 10, that's a big number, Rich,
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  Speaker 1: not one or two, 10 ships have been attacked in
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  Speaker 1: the Strait of Hormuz this week alone?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they're trying to shut it back down, and apparently
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  Speaker 3: we've destroyed their radar, and now they're using, like, little
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  Speaker 3: ships just spotting stuff, you know? So we can blow
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  Speaker 3: those up, too, but.
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  Speaker 3: Eliminating their ability to do anything, any disruption in the Strait,
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  Speaker 3: would be a years-long effort, I believe. So I'm back
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  Speaker 3: to thinking, you know, I was a little more optimistic
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  Speaker 3: a couple weeks ago. Now I'm thinking, okay, well, we're
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  Speaker 3: still stuck.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, too.
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  Speaker 1: So this morning I was supposed to be in Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 1: I was personally invited by the Secretary of State, my
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  Speaker 1: friend Marco Rubio, to go to the State Department this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Him and Howard Lutnick are actually putting on a ceremony today.
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  Speaker 2: The 46 Americans that were killed in Gaza, October the
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  Speaker 2: 7th and after. So this is not Israelis. This is Americans.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Marco and Lutnik are doing at the State
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  Speaker 1: Department today.
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  Speaker 2: And people keep asking me every day, Marco going to run?
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  Speaker 2: Marco going to run?
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  Speaker 1: You said last week that because he's reached out to
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  Speaker 1: me a bunch, and he has. He has.
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  Speaker 2: That's a true story. I'm not lying. Including on the
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  Speaker 2: plane coming back from Greece last week.
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  Speaker 3: He was doing two things. He was firing Kimberly Guilfoyle
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  Speaker 3: and reaching out to you. That's multitasking.
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  Speaker 1: So do you still feel the same way that he's
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  Speaker 1: going to run because of.
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  Speaker 4: That?
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  Speaker 3: What I said is the one piece of data that
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  Speaker 3: kind of made me go, huh? You know, he might
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  Speaker 3: be thinking about it and kind of planning for it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm still skeptical he's going to run, but I have
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  Speaker 3: to say just anecdotally, you know, cocktail parties around the
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  Speaker 3: country or whatever, people will– volunteer that they like Marco Rubio.
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  Speaker 3: I never hear that about J.D. Vance. It's not as
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  Speaker 3: though they're anti-Vance, but no one's ever come up to
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  Speaker 3: me and said, I really love J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: Whereas you hear that about Rubio all the time. Now,
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  Speaker 3: you look at the polls. There's another one the other day.
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  Speaker 2: J.D.
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  Speaker 3: Is ahead of this very early going. But I just
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  Speaker 3: don't get the sense that he's... People have an innate
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  Speaker 3: attraction towards J.D.
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  Speaker 2: You're 100% right.
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  Speaker 1: 100% right. So the question becomes, midterms are over. Win, lose,
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  Speaker 1: or draw. When do you think the presidential race of
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  Speaker 1: 2028 begins to really hit the spotlight?
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  Speaker 3: I think within weeks we'll get people saying I'm forming
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  Speaker 3: an exploratory committee or showing more leg in media interviews.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's going to start really fast. soon, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be touchy with the president, right? He's
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  Speaker 3: not going to like the idea of anyone succeeding him
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  Speaker 3: or the idea that, you know, it's within the horizon
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  Speaker 3: that he's going to be out of office, but that's
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  Speaker 3: the reality.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, some journalist contacted me two days ago and she said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you met with J.D. Vance and have they contacted you since?
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  Speaker 1: I said, no, to be honest, I've had a couple
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  Speaker 1: of conversations with J.D. 's chief of staff, Nick Luna,
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  Speaker 1: very good guy, I love him, so does Trump. I
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  Speaker 1: think I've spoken to Will Martin once or twice, but
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  Speaker 1: the truth is, I've invited J.D. on this show more
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  Speaker 1: than once, including last week, October 7th. I thought, hey,
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  Speaker 1: what a great way for J.D. to ingratiate himself with
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  Speaker 1: the Jewish community in New York to come on and
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  Speaker 1: talk about October 7th.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't even get back to me. I've now asked
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  Speaker 2: for J.D. three times.
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  Speaker 1: Since I met him at the White House, they don't
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  Speaker 1: even get back to me. So I said, well, listen,
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  Speaker 1: they're concentrating on the midterms. He doesn't want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about the presidential race right now. But if I give
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  Speaker 1: you a chance to talk about October 7th in New York,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to hop on that right away, no?
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  Speaker 3: I would think so, yeah. I would keep asking right
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  Speaker 3: after the election. I'd keep asking again.
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  Speaker 1: I think I will one more time, and then after that,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be like, F you, Rubo is running,
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  Speaker 1: and he's my guy anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Rich Lowry, you're great as always. I love you, pal. Hey, Rich,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, you're coming next Thursday to my Hall
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  Speaker 2: of Fame thing?
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  Speaker 3: I am, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you are?
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  Speaker 3: With bells on.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's awesome. I love you, pal. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Rich Lowry right there, the editor of the National Review,
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  Speaker 1: and yes, eight days away, a week from tomorrow, I
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  Speaker 1: will officially be inducted into the New York State Broadcaster's
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, it's a big deal. Iconic Rainbow Room
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  Speaker 1: at Rockefeller Center. And a lot of people are coming.
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  Speaker 1: I never heard this before. I think we've got five
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  Speaker 1: tables already. My men's crew, the Keith Kantrowitz crew, Bo Dietl,
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: Pete Morgan, my family, my crew here at the radio station,
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  Speaker 1: ABC's got their own table.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think any.
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  Speaker 1: Other honoree has ever had that many people attend this event.
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  Speaker 1: Once again, disemphasizing. How huge I am.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Lewis? Is it fair to say that? Yes, it's
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: more than fair. Thank you, Lewis. Usually I go to
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: Noam for that, but Al Volpe gets a kick out
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  Speaker 2: of that. Isn't that right, Noam? Al Volpe loves that.
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