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Hour 2: Iran's capabilities · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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Speaker 1: So we knew that there'd be a lot of flexing
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Speaker 1: in the United States Senate. The committee was sitting there
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Speaker 1: because Pete Hexss, Department of War Secretary, and his adjuncts
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Speaker 1: were there to explain why they needed close to forty
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Speaker 1: billion dollars to pay for this continued war, and they
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Speaker 1: had to also acknowledge that next year in the budget
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Speaker 1: they're going to be asking although the President had preempted
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Speaker 1: that when he visited the War College in Pennsylvania and
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Speaker 1: said that was last week. Yeah, one point five trillion
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Speaker 1: in additional defense spending. So I remember it's Congress that
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Speaker 1: has to ratify the spending. Both the House and Senate.
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Speaker 1: They have hearings, and heccess looks forward to engaging them
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Speaker 1: in battle. The head of the Chief Joint chiefs of
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Speaker 1: Staff is the good cop. He's the guy who comes in.
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Speaker 1: He's cool, com and collected Kane, you know, he he
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Speaker 1: speaks softly. But it's hag Seth who comes in swinging,
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Speaker 1: because that's Trump's guy, and Trump wants to see him
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Speaker 1: go for the jugular.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Here he is with Senator Gary Peters, who was
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Speaker 2: saying that HeiG Seth and Trump aren't showing the proper
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Speaker 2: leadership and that the men in the field deserve more.
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Speaker 3: QUI show some leadership and stand up for your fellow
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Speaker 3: Democrats who won't fund the troops, who stand and play
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Speaker 3: partisan politics. Why you don't give us the money you
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Speaker 3: want to stand up here and talk about the troops.
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Speaker 3: You won't show any political courage to actually fund our
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Speaker 3: department because you have Trump Trump arrangement syndrome and can't
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Speaker 3: actually commit to anything meaningful.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, I put this on you, Senator. I thought Gary
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Speaker 2: Peters was weak. I mean, how many other senators would
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Speaker 2: allow him to keep saying that? But he sat back
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Speaker 2: and was taking it.
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Speaker 1: You know, the President was watching office because he had
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Speaker 1: already finished meeting with the president of Lebanon. Historic there's
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Speaker 1: an Elebanin has not been to the White House in
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Speaker 1: twenty years. This is the first trip. We'll discuss it momentarily.
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Speaker 1: But you know, his performance was for one person, one
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Speaker 1: person alone, the President of the United that's his guy.
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Speaker 2: That's true. It was for us too. I mean, this
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Speaker 2: was all theater. Everything is theater. Everybody knows how they're
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Speaker 2: gonna vote. Actually, the Republicans know they have the votes.
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Speaker 2: They know this is going to go through because they
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Speaker 2: unless somebody in the Senate goes rogue, they're gonna get this.
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Speaker 2: But they have to go through this process. And this
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Speaker 2: process is for the Democrats to show we're going up
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Speaker 2: against the Trump administration. They're horrible. I'm gonna get my
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Speaker 2: points in. This is again. If you can keep this
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Speaker 2: in your mind, a lot of things are gonna make sense.
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Speaker 2: Everything that's happening right now, everything is about the midterm elections.
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Speaker 2: It's all going to be about showing. So yesterday when
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Speaker 2: he was on, when he was on the stand or
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Speaker 2: sitting at the table, he had to show that the
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Speaker 2: Democrats are weak and that they're afraid, and that they're
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Speaker 2: not supporting our troops, while they had to say we're
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Speaker 2: losing this war. Trump is out of control, we can't
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Speaker 2: keep funding. We can't talk about an endless war. We
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Speaker 2: can't fund an endless war. That's exactly what the both
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Speaker 2: sides were doing. They were both taking positions for the
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Speaker 2: midterm election. So when you're trying to figure out why
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Speaker 2: is all this happening, why are they all yelling at
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Speaker 2: each other, That's exactly I think.
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Speaker 1: The strategy with Hegshet is don't shout because he loves
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Speaker 1: to shout back, keep it low. There was one particular
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Speaker 1: US senator, a female I forget her name, she's very good.
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Speaker 1: She said, Look, I understand the problems that you have
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Speaker 1: at the Department of Defense. I get all that, but
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Speaker 1: could you ask me one simple question. A secretary of war. Heagshot,
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Speaker 1: where did he Ironians keep finding these missiles and drones?
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Speaker 1: Because you said early on, as did the President, you've
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Speaker 1: depleted their supplies, and I think hexcept was taken by it.
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Speaker 1: That's a very good question, and I think for anybody
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Speaker 1: looking at it who hasn't taken a dedicated position one
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Speaker 1: way or the other, that is the one thing I
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Speaker 1: hear constantly is where the hell are they getting these
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Speaker 1: missiles and these drones from? Because they're hitting everybody in
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Speaker 1: the Middle East and Persian Gulf. Who has any American
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Speaker 1: troops said, look at what they did in Jordan. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I was struck at the fact because I've spent time
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Speaker 1: in a lot. I love a lot in Israel. It's
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Speaker 1: right by the Red Sea, but you can go back
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Speaker 1: and forth to Akabah, which is in Jordan. I saw
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Speaker 1: Tony Blair there. He had a second home there. He
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Speaker 1: was no longer Prime Minister of the UK, and Charmel's
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Speaker 1: shaken Egypt. A lot of people go back and forth
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Speaker 1: because it's cheaper to rent, you know, a hotel room
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Speaker 1: in Egypt or Jordan than it is a lot. But
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Speaker 1: they hit, uh, they hit Jordan right there, and people
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Speaker 1: are like, oh my god. So it's sort of like,
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Speaker 1: I think the biggest question that neither Trump nor hag
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Speaker 1: Seth can answer at this point, or the head of
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Speaker 1: the Joint Chiefs of Staff Kane, is where are the
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Speaker 1: Iranians getting these missiles and drones from?
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Speaker 4: Now?
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Speaker 1: We know that Ukraine has figure out a way to
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Speaker 1: manufacture drones. That's the way they've turned the war on Russia.
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Speaker 1: And I think Iran in its own way has figured
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Speaker 1: out a way to manufacture these drones, which you can
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Speaker 1: turn around very quickly. It's changed warfare for all time.
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Speaker 1: We always thought, you know, you had to have the
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Speaker 1: scud missiles first with Sadam Hussein, a Tomahawk missiles, the
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Speaker 1: Cruz missiles, man, Patriot missiles, you're talking a million bucks
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Speaker 1: per missile. The drones, I mean, man, they're churning them
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Speaker 1: out and they do as much damage. Sometimes it's harder
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Speaker 1: for defensive systems to pick them up than an incoming missile.
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Speaker 1: So I think that was the one time that he
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Speaker 1: recognized that we don't have an answer for that yet.
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Speaker 1: Wit if finding.
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Speaker 2: All these missiles and John True he was asked a
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Speaker 2: couple of times and he said at one point that
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Speaker 2: we know they've been hiding them. We know that they
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Speaker 2: have many of these missiles they've been hiding underground. And
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Speaker 2: then he said, remember they've been accumulating these for forty
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Speaker 2: seven years, so they do have a large arsenal of missiles.
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Speaker 2: Kirsten Gillibrand also tried to take on hag Seth unsuccessfully.
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Speaker 1: Was it obliterated or wasn't it? What's the status?
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Speaker 5: The nuclear sites under mid Night Hammer were obliterated, but
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Speaker 5: Iranians foolishly continued to attempt to pursue nuclear capabilities, which
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Speaker 5: is why we destroyed their defense industrial base and so
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Speaker 5: many of the other capabilities to be sure they can't
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Speaker 5: get to a nuclear weapon. So we're standing laser focused
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Speaker 5: on the objective and you're trying to make campaign commercials.
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Speaker 1: No right, and again they're talking now this Pickaxe mountain right,
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Speaker 1: which is just a mile away from the main nuclear
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Speaker 1: weapon development center that was smashed as smithereens by those
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Speaker 1: B two stealth bombers that Trump ordered to come in
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Speaker 1: from Missouri dropped the two thousand pound bunker busters and
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Speaker 1: the pretty much buried everything. So now Israeli an American
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Speaker 1: intelligence is saying that, well, they probably moved them to
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Speaker 1: the storage facility in Pickax Mountain. So I suggest send
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Speaker 1: the B to stealth bombers in. Again, there's no population
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Speaker 1: base in those areas. You know, it's mountainous, it's out there.
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Speaker 1: Anybody you kill would be one of those IRGC people
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Speaker 1: assigned there either for security or to maintain it. So
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Speaker 1: level it. The reason they don't want to level it
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Speaker 1: completely is if you level it completely, you may never
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Speaker 1: be able to recover. As the President calls it, the
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Speaker 1: nuclear dust. They still want that as a potential, but
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Speaker 1: I get it. Yeah, Radium the big story that came
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Speaker 1: out though didn't receive as much attention to me, This
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Speaker 1: is big because this is a nuclear armstrex. Now if
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Speaker 1: Iron gets a weapon that they can actually send than
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Speaker 1: a ballistic missile, and Saudi has always wanted that because
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Speaker 1: remember they're the Sunis uh Ierana Deshi is they've been enemies.
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Speaker 1: So now the President has agreed to allow Saudi Arabia,
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Speaker 1: the Crown Prince to develop its own enrichment nuclear fuel
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Speaker 1: without the oversight that the UAE has. They have a
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Speaker 1: nuclear reactor, but they have complete overside, and he wants
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Speaker 1: to sell them f thirty five jets. Remember he said
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Speaker 1: that Tota BB's gonna go nuts when he hears this.
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Speaker 1: You know, he hasn't had a chance to respond yet,
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Speaker 1: but it's clear I see what the President is doing.
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Speaker 1: We need friends in the area, right.
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Speaker 2: And they've been a better ally than NATO at this point.
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Speaker 1: Right, and we're gonna need them against the hoodies because
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Speaker 1: the hoodis are talking about they're gonna act up. Now,
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Speaker 1: they're gonna block again the Red Sea. You know, obviously
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Speaker 1: we can wipe them out, but they can cause a problem.
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Speaker 1: So he's working with the Crown Prince to allow Saudi
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Speaker 1: Arabia to enrich its own few which at a certain
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Speaker 1: point could be turned into a nuclear weapon. And then boy,
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Speaker 1: that's starts and armstrang shall it used to be with
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Speaker 1: Indian package stand they both have nuclear missiles aim at
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Speaker 1: one another. That's why whenever they spark up against one another.
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Speaker 1: Nobody wants to go too far because you risk nucleon nion.
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Speaker 2: And you're right, and you're right. That is a much
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Speaker 2: bigger story. It's not a story that's being covered. You
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Speaker 2: know why it's not being covered because this is being Yes,
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Speaker 2: these are people yelling at each other sound by. That's
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Speaker 2: always going to make the news. It's always we're going
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Speaker 2: to be talking about it too, because it's exciting to
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Speaker 2: look at. And everybody there knows that. They know that
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Speaker 2: all these other things aren't going to get covered. This
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Speaker 2: is the moment. So every single senator goes in there
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Speaker 2: looking for the.
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Speaker 1: Moments, the time right, and I want the clips so
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Speaker 1: it goes back to my constituents so they can see
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Speaker 1: I'm fighting for their value, you know. And he said,
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Speaker 1: is perfect for the Democrats because he's like all fire
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Speaker 1: and Brimston Caine, not because he's cool, calm and collecting.
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Speaker 1: He says some of the same things. But the head right,
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Speaker 1: but the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staph, he's
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Speaker 1: the good cop. Heg Seth comes in you know, with
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Speaker 1: tomahawk missiles boom, and the Democrats they love that because
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Speaker 1: then they satisfied their constituents, and heg Seth satisfies the
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Speaker 1: most important person to him, Donald Trump.
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Speaker 2: No, absolutely, and so they all got what they want.
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Speaker 2: But you heard heg Seth even say, I'm here to
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Speaker 2: try to save lives. You're here to try to make
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Speaker 2: a campaign ad. Yes, you know, so he called around.
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Speaker 2: That was a good one. That was a good I mean,
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Speaker 2: that was a good line. Yeah, it was excellent. It
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Speaker 2: was excellent. All right when we come back, well, did
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Speaker 2: you hear this? Did you hear this? Bruce Springsteen is
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Speaker 2: taking a lot of backlash for his current tour blasting
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump, even from other musicians. We'll talk about that next,
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Speaker 2: plus a chance to see John Mellencamp at a twenty five.
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Speaker 2: And eating is one of the most basic things we do.
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Speaker 2: Love to eat, but behind every meal, your body is
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Speaker 2: free iHeartRadio app. Well, you know the group Journey right,
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Speaker 2: don't stop Believing. Just some great songs, just a hometown
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Speaker 2: girl living in a lonely world. Tremendous, tremendous, songs. Well,
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Speaker 2: the keyboardist from that group, Jonathan Kane, is getting a
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Speaker 2: lot of attention right now because he spoke out against
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Speaker 2: the boss Bruce Springsteen. He was on the Tom Bernard podcast,
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Speaker 2: and he didn't call out Jess Springsteen. He called out
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Speaker 2: Robert de Niro. He called out any of the performers
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Speaker 2: that talk about politics, that preach while they're on the stage.
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Speaker 2: Remember earlier this week, over the WEEKND, Mick Jagger said
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Speaker 2: the same thing about Springsteen, although he was a little
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Speaker 2: kinder than Cain. He said, I, by the way, he's
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Speaker 2: a conservative Republican now, he said, I used to be
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Speaker 2: a Democrat back in the old days, but I just
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Speaker 2: couldn't go there anymore. You know, they've gotten crazy. I'll
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Speaker 2: tell you what. I just reminded me of a great
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Speaker 2: line from former mayor of Philadelphia Frank Rizzo, who said
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Speaker 2: a conservative is a liberal who was mugged yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Frank Rizzo hated me when I came to Philly
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Speaker 1: and then loved me when he became a talk show
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Speaker 1: host from Philly WCAU. He used to Bob Grant of Philadelphia, boy,
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Speaker 1: you talk about a tremendous term, but you're right about that.
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Speaker 2: You're right about that. I love that line. I just
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Speaker 2: love that. He also said he could take the Philadelphia
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Speaker 2: Police force invade Cuba and win.
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Speaker 1: He probably could. But in terms of this, you know
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Speaker 1: what I think this is. You'll give you the quote. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'll give you the quote. Guys like Bruce Springsteen should
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Speaker 1: shut up?
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Speaker 2: You know him? And who's the other one, Robert de Niro?
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Speaker 2: I mean, who cares? Guys really do your art? I
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Speaker 2: try to keep politics out of my music.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people think that, but I think it's
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Speaker 1: easy to do. Like you mentioned, Mick Jagg, he did
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Speaker 1: this huge profile for The New York Times pretty much
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Speaker 1: hinted that's it. This is gonna be the last tour,
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Speaker 1: hanging it up. Journey started their final tour. In fact,
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Speaker 1: I believe it was Tom cutdyar program director, sent me
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Speaker 1: some video. You know, they had their concert in Hartford.
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Speaker 1: I think they had one in Stamford. About half the
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Speaker 1: place was full. But I think when you're gonna hang
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Speaker 1: it up and it's a final tour, you realize whatever
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Speaker 1: you've been carrying with you that you never wanted to
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Speaker 1: save before because you didn't want to alienate a potential audience.
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Speaker 1: His attitude now is let it rip. This is our
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Speaker 1: final tour. And you know, my attitude is, you're the artist.
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Speaker 1: You gotta fill the venue. Do whatever you want to do.
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Speaker 1: If you think it's going to attract an audience, you're
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Speaker 1: charging out rageous fees. Obviously, Journal Journey no longer what
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Speaker 1: they used to.
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Speaker 2: Be able to. They don't have Steve Perry anymore. Steve
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Speaker 2: Perry doesn't is not their lead singer. He had the
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Speaker 2: best voice in rock music. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: But my feeling is, hey, the nero you want to
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Speaker 1: pop off. Obviously the boss is the one popping off
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Speaker 1: the most. Go ahead, see if you get the audience.
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Speaker 1: You know, But I think this is you know what,
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Speaker 1: This is the equivalent of gangsters in organized crime. Used
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Speaker 1: to shoot at one another, Now they battle each other
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Speaker 1: on podcasts, said, this is pretty much it the old
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Speaker 1: warriors of rock and roll, you know, the old performance warriors,
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Speaker 1: like the Nero. They know that it's soon they're gonna
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Speaker 1: have to hang it up, and they're just battling each other.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I get that, except that Bruce disappoints me. Although
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Speaker 2: I will say this in defense of Bruce Springsteen. He
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Speaker 2: lets you know ahead of time, this whole tory. He said,
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Speaker 2: it's going to be political. You know, if you don't
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Speaker 2: want to go, don't go. But it's going to be political.
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Speaker 2: That's the only thing I appreciate. But I roll my
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Speaker 2: eyes every time I'm at a concert or even with
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Speaker 2: a stand up comic and they start to get political.
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Speaker 2: Unless politicals there act, But many times they just make statements.
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Speaker 2: You don't need it there. You never need it there. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: let's get some talkbacks. Listening to Mandami speech yesterday and
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Speaker 2: then reading it, I mean, it's quite clear that man
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Speaker 2: hates not only Israel, but the Jews period. It's ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, as much as you want to believe that,
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Speaker 1: mister talkback, the most recent poll indicated that in a
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Speaker 1: nationwide pole, more Jews support Mondami than they do Bibi.
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Speaker 1: And in the election, both in the primary and in
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Speaker 1: the general election. I know because I watched it analytically.
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Speaker 1: He got thirty percent of the Jewish vow. Jews have
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Speaker 1: never been in agreement on anything. You get ten Jews
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Speaker 1: in a room, you get twenty different opinions.
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Speaker 2: Truants, I'd been in those rooms. So many Jews would
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Speaker 2: call them self hating Jews.
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Speaker 1: Well, some would call each other and some would say, well,
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Speaker 1: you're not a real Jew if you're born of a
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Speaker 1: Jewish mother. Even you may be an atheist, you're a Jew.
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Speaker 6: This thing with Mandannie and that Yahoo just shows again
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Speaker 6: how the vast majority of the electorate, and unfortunately the
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Speaker 6: ones that decide elections, are just so naive, for lack
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Speaker 6: of a better term, it's not even at their lives.
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Speaker 6: Everyone knew he couldn't arrest, everyone knew he's not going
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Speaker 6: to make the buses free, everyone knew the tolls were
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Speaker 6: going to go up after the election.
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Speaker 2: But they just fall for it every time.
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Speaker 4: It's amazing.
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Speaker 1: Well, they listen to the noise and they get all
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Speaker 1: swept up and they get all emotional. As I mentioned,
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Speaker 1: Larry was kind enough, as was Mark Simone and interviewing
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Speaker 1: me during the long campaign, I never once brought up
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Speaker 1: to either one of you, or with John Hannity, or
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Speaker 1: with Buck and his partner who had me on, never
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Speaker 1: once talking about Israel and Palestine and whether Joran could
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Speaker 1: arrest bebe which rich ridiculous. Remember how much of the
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Speaker 1: campaign which consumed with that backhund.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely You know why, because it's emotional. It gets it
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Speaker 2: goes to the heart, and it makes people get angry,
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Speaker 2: as we were talking about a second ago, and when
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Speaker 2: they get angry, they'll get out.
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Speaker 1: But a mayor can't do anything about that.
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Speaker 2: He knows that, he knows that.
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Speaker 7: Mikey Cheryl saying this happened in the previous administration as
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Speaker 7: if she didn't benefit it from it in the election.
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Speaker 7: That's one of the reasons she got elected. And I
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Speaker 7: highly doubt it was only six thousand votes, but saying
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Speaker 7: it was the previous administration with election fraud in an
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Speaker 7: election she was in.
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Speaker 2: Are are you crazy? What is she talking about? Trying
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Speaker 2: to pass the buck?
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Speaker 7: She got illegal votes, probably, and she's trying to blame
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Speaker 7: the Murphy like, yeah, he's at fault, but so was she.
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Speaker 2: Here's what happened. They found those votes. They wanted to
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Speaker 2: get out in front of this so there wouldn't be
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Speaker 2: a bigger federal election of investigation. And that's what happened.
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Speaker 2: That's why she had the news conference yesterday because had
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Speaker 2: the Feds found that, trust me, there would be a
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Speaker 2: full investigation throughout the entire state. I actually believe there
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Speaker 2: still should be.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I concur we're going to discuss it in full
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Speaker 1: length in the eight o'clock hours, so we're not letting
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Speaker 1: the governor get away with that, that's for sure. But
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Speaker 1: right now it's seven thirty. Well, let's get the news, all.
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Speaker 7: Right, Curtis.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, morning Larry.
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Speaker 8: no new ones over the past week. The soldier who
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Speaker 8: was declared missing after an Iranian attack on a base
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Speaker 8: in Jordan is a New Yorker. He is believed to
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Speaker 1: The National Weather Service will be.
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Speaker 2: Wor thank you so much, Daria when we come back. Well,
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Speaker 1: Rob.
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Speaker 2: I find the most interesting person in the US Senate
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Speaker 2: to be John Fetterman. And I heard John thun saying
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Speaker 2: yesterday we would welcome him to the Republican Party and
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Speaker 2: he's been doing this mini tour with the Republican Senator
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Speaker 2: Dave McCormick. Is there a chance that could happen because
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Speaker 2: that would really help the Republicans hold on to the Senate.
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Speaker 4: Well, I think there's a couple things that play, Larry,
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Speaker 4: but you got Fetterman has a twenty percent approval rating
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Speaker 4: among Democrats in Pennsylvania, so he's definitely going to be primary,
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Speaker 4: likely will lose. The question is will he switch parties?
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Speaker 4: Will the Republicans in Pennsylvania accept him? I mean, when
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Speaker 4: you look at it, the guy votes ninety five percent
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Speaker 4: of the time with Democrats on most issues.
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Speaker 2: Rob, let me just jump in when you say that
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Speaker 2: about the Republicans, because the same poll that you're talking
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Speaker 2: about showed that seventy three percent of Republicans in Pennsylvania
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Speaker 2: support him.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know what, if I'm a Republican in Pennsylvania,
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Speaker 4: I'm like, Okay, I like the guy because he's been
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Speaker 4: somewhat normal. However, you know, would I be able to
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Speaker 4: trust the guy? I mean, he votes ninety five percent
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Speaker 4: of the times with Democrats. Right, He's the one guy
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Speaker 4: in the Democratic Party now that is sticking up on
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Speaker 4: issues like Israel and the border. So he's talking some sense.
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Speaker 4: He's a guy kind of with no home, So I mean,
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Speaker 4: he could do the independent thing maybe and then say
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Speaker 4: he's going to caucus with the Republicans, which would be
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Speaker 4: great for the Republicans. Bernie Sanders isn't a Democrat. He's
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Speaker 4: technically an independent, but he caucuses with the Democrats, so
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Speaker 4: it would be kind of like the same thing. But
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Speaker 4: if I'm a Republican in Pennsylvania, I'm like, Hey, I'm
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Speaker 4: a real Republican. I want to run and I want
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Speaker 4: to be my party's nominee. So I don't know. I mean,
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Speaker 4: that's the problem he's got. He's kind of a guy
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Speaker 4: with no home anymore. But at least the Republicans are
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Speaker 4: embracing him or giving him attention and saying, hey, look,
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Speaker 4: you know you don't have to hang out with those lunatics.
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Speaker 4: Come over here. We may not agree on everything, but
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Speaker 4: you know we got Susan Collins, so come on in a.
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Speaker 1: Man you know well, we know well. Actually he sort
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Speaker 1: of set the template for how a DSA guy can
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Speaker 1: beat in and coming Democrat. His name Jamal Bowman. He
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Speaker 1: was very upset that the New York Times did not
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Speaker 1: include him in the profile of the ups and downs
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Speaker 1: of the DSA. I think he would be a perfect example.
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Speaker 1: Remember he took out Elliott Engles, sixteen term congressman, and
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Speaker 1: then you know, he had his scuffles back and forth.
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Speaker 1: He was always proud, I'm the only member of the
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Speaker 1: squad that's a mail. He was so proud of that.
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Speaker 1: And then remember he pulled the fire alarm. He said,
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Speaker 1: I thought it was an exit out. He was a
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Speaker 1: principal of a school. He knew better than that. But
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Speaker 1: the interesting thing is he wins the seat and then
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Speaker 1: he loses to Latimer, who raised all kinds of money,
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Speaker 1: a lot of it from Jewish interests in APAC I mean, really,
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Speaker 1: just wiped him out. But that's a real test case
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Speaker 1: of how when the DSA wins and knocks out an
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Speaker 1: incumbent Congressman Elliott Engle, you can come back with a
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Speaker 1: moderate or a liberal, mainstream Democrat and beat them. So
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Speaker 1: there is reason that the New York Times should have
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Speaker 1: included his case in their profile. That basically acted like
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Speaker 1: he was a person in old consequence, and I think
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Speaker 1: he's very important to this debate. He is.
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Speaker 4: I think it depends on the district too. You know
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Speaker 4: the district you're talking about here in Westchester, it's.
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Speaker 2: Very heavily Jewish.
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Speaker 1: You know, I think, oh, here he is. Okay, we
24:28
Speaker 1: were losing you there for a second. You were in
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Speaker 1: the yellow submarine and the seat down under it.
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Speaker 4: Well, it did rain a lot yesterday. The you know,
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Speaker 4: this district, this particular congressional district that you're talking about,
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Speaker 4: you know, does have a heavy Jewish population on the
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Speaker 4: Democratic side especially, and it's a different type of democrat
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Speaker 4: I think than you would find maybe in Manhattan. So
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Speaker 4: I mean, when they really pulled their resources together, combined
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Speaker 4: with you know, you had Republicans switching over to yet
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Speaker 4: Jewish Republicans voting against you voting for Latimer. There were
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Speaker 4: switching parties that kind of stuff. So, I mean, it
25:09
Speaker 4: really was heavily concentrated in this stretcher, but it did
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Speaker 4: show you can beat them, you know. I mean, he
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Speaker 4: went so far out that it is possible. But I
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Speaker 4: think it depends on the district. I think in New
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Speaker 4: York City and some of these heavily concentrated districts, it's tough.
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Speaker 4: But here you had independence and crossovers as well working
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Speaker 4: against them.
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Speaker 2: Hey, in this midterm, nobody's talking about a blue wave
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Speaker 2: at this point, which they should be talking about. As
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Speaker 2: a matter of fact. Some of the polls show they're
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Speaker 2: going to Republicans are going to keep the Senate and
25:40
Speaker 2: the House is going to be close. And I think
25:43
Speaker 2: the Democrats have realized we got a problem with the DSA,
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Speaker 2: and it seems to be all the Republicans are running
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Speaker 2: against right now is the DSA and making the entire
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Speaker 2: Democratic Party look like them. That's why it was so
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Speaker 2: important what Van Jones said the other day when he
25:57
Speaker 2: came out and blested them. I think that was a
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Speaker 2: clarion call to the rest of the Democrats that we
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Speaker 2: have a problem. When we got to do something about it.
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Speaker 4: Well, they're finally trying to push back. They're like, Okay,
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Speaker 4: we've tried to appease them, we've tried to play with them.
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Speaker 4: We've actually nurtured them and created this monster, and now
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Speaker 4: it's going to overcome us. So we either fight back
26:20
Speaker 4: or we're going to be completely overwhelmed. So I think
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Speaker 4: the Van Jones because you're right, Van Jones is like
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Speaker 4: as he's really important because CNN is a messenger for
26:31
Speaker 4: the Democratic Party, just like the New York Times is.
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Speaker 4: So Van Jones is sort of the I don't want
26:37
Speaker 4: to say moderate. He's very progressive, but at least he's normal.
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Speaker 2: And it's amazing we're at a point where you're calling
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Speaker 2: Van Jones moderate.
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Speaker 4: I know, but you know what, it's funny. No, definitely
26:49
Speaker 4: not moderate. But when I worked at CNN, when I
26:51
Speaker 4: was the Republican on the air there, I worked with
26:53
Speaker 4: Van and I like him a lot. I really do.
26:56
Speaker 4: I like him as a person and I like going
26:58
Speaker 4: on the air with him because he was very very respectful,
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Speaker 4: very very liberal. But he's a good voice for them.
27:03
Speaker 4: And it's like Bill Maher, same thing. Bill Maher is
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Speaker 4: telling people, my vote is up for grabs in twenty
27:08
Speaker 4: eight if this is the way the Democratic Party is going,
27:10
Speaker 4: especially with places like Israel. But just how woke they
27:14
Speaker 4: are and crazy they are, so you know, that's.
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Speaker 1: A wake up call.
27:17
Speaker 4: Whether they'll hear hear it or not, I don't know.
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Speaker 4: Michigan's primary next week is going to be very very
27:23
Speaker 4: important or two weeks. It's going to be very very
27:25
Speaker 4: important whether that l si ed wins. Right now, he's
27:28
Speaker 4: only in the low forties Stevens though, hasn't cracked fifty,
27:32
Speaker 4: So it's going to be it's interesting there and a
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Speaker 4: PAC and APAX supported super PACs are putting tens of
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Speaker 4: millions of dollars in that race against him.
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Speaker 1: Now, real quick, crab as should we know, put on
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Speaker 1: your county executive at if I didn't bet money that
27:48
Speaker 1: a long time ago, right, But if i'd have bet
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Speaker 1: money on the prediction markets, I had predicted the Sawmill
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Speaker 1: River Parkway, the Bronx show of a parkway, the Taconic
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Speaker 1: State Parkway underwater. They're always underwatered. How come nothing's ever
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Speaker 1: been done to prevent that.
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Speaker 9: Don't forget the huts, Oh my god, it's the way
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Speaker 9: they built them that back then they built them, you know,
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Speaker 9: and it was never really corrected or fixed, and there's
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Speaker 4: The state's never done it. Those are all state parkways.
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Speaker 1: Maybe before we die, Rob, maybe before we die. But
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Speaker 1: do appreciate it, Rob Estino, you can catch them right
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Speaker 1: here on WR on Saturday four to five. Correct. Did
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Speaker 1: I get that right, Rob?
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Speaker 2: Yep, you got it?
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Speaker 1: Okay, but he's gone meantime. Up next, we're gonna talk
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Speaker 1: League Baseball game veteran tells a young whipper Snappers stand
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Speaker 1: Month well. I was so used to sporting events, especially
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Speaker 1: American football and baseball. Is he fans fighting in the
30:38
Speaker 1: stands or trading blows? This was not one of those times.
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Speaker 1: This was a very unique situation. Cubs Park, Wrigley Field,
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Speaker 1: north side of Chicago. It's sort of like the way
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Speaker 1: the Red Sox at Fenway Park. Everything is very close,
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Speaker 1: and they're playing the national anthem, which they've always kept
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Speaker 1: that tradition alive in Cubs Park Greatly Field, and this
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Speaker 1: young guy who appeared to be a gen zer was
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Speaker 1: sitting in front of an older guy, a boomer who
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Speaker 1: turned out was a Vietnam Vet. He had served honorably,
31:15
Speaker 1: and he took umbrage to the fact that this young
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Speaker 1: man was not standing up, not you know, giving the
31:21
Speaker 1: due respect to the national anthem gets and so he
31:25
Speaker 1: had a brief conversation with him, whispered something in his ear,
31:29
Speaker 1: told him get up, and then smacked him in the
31:32
Speaker 1: back of the head. And then naturally security comes rushing
31:36
Speaker 1: in because as a violation of another fan, that could
31:40
Speaker 1: spark a series of blows. And apparently what had happened
31:44
Speaker 1: we didn't see it on the video that went viral,
31:47
Speaker 1: is they continue to have a conversation before the security
31:51
Speaker 1: officers threw them out of the park because they weren't
31:53
Speaker 1: gonna wrest them, but they were going to eject him
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Speaker 1: from the park. He said, look, kid, I'm Robert Chavez.
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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, you know, I lost a lot
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Speaker 1: of friends in Vietnam, and it's so important to me
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Speaker 1: that everybody showed respect to the flag, because you're showing
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Speaker 1: respect to my falling comrades. And apparently the young man
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Speaker 1: was listening told the security officers no need for that,
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Speaker 1: and they made up. That's the way you would hope
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Speaker 1: that most situations would be resolved, where the old time
32:27
Speaker 1: of the Vietnam veteran Robert Chobb has admitted he was
32:30
Speaker 1: wrong for smacking him in the back of the head.
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Speaker 1: He wasn't like defending that, and then they resolved it
32:35
Speaker 1: amongst themselves. The other fans weren't weighing in, and they
32:38
Speaker 1: went throwing be you know, in throwing blows like we've
32:42
Speaker 1: seen in so many stadium around the country. And it
32:46
Speaker 1: left me with a good feeling. Although the initial of
32:49
Speaker 1: video that when viral was getting responses from both sides, Larry,
32:53
Speaker 1: both sides were waiting, oh, you should have been arrested.
32:56
Speaker 1: The other side, no, he's a veteran, a young uncle
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Speaker 1: Berry should have been the one that gets thrown out.
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, it made me feel good that they
33:05
Speaker 1: were able to reajolve at themselves.
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Speaker 2: Have you been to Wrigley No, I've been to Fanway Park,
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Speaker 2: Wriggly I used to go to all the time I
33:13
Speaker 2: worked in Chicago for seven years. I think it is
33:17
Speaker 2: not only the best ballpark in the country, and that's
33:21
Speaker 2: from not growing up in Chicago. I will admit that,
33:24
Speaker 2: because it has such tradition and it's such a wonderful place,
33:28
Speaker 2: but because of the fans. The fans are amazing and
33:33
Speaker 2: they are incredibly respectful to each other. It's almost like
33:37
Speaker 2: it's a family reunion. Every time you go to Wrigley
33:40
Speaker 2: Field and you take the l you get off in
33:43
Speaker 2: Wrigleyville and it's all everything is Cubs, Cubs, cubs around that,
33:47
Speaker 2: all the bars. Some people just go to be outside
33:50
Speaker 2: Wrigley to go to a bar. So I understand exactly
33:54
Speaker 2: what happened. I know the community that is there, and
33:57
Speaker 2: I know that that kid thought, you know what, I
34:01
Speaker 2: was wrong. I was wrong, which he later said I
34:04
Speaker 2: should have stood up, and he said he's going to
34:06
Speaker 2: stand up from now on. A lot of the reporters
34:09
Speaker 2: talked to both of them afterwards. That's the kind of
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Speaker 2: story I would have been sent out on when I
34:14
Speaker 2: was there, I would have loved to have done this story.
34:17
Speaker 2: But you're right about Chavez, and he apparently in one
34:21
Speaker 2: of the interviews with WLS, which is the ABC station,
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Speaker 2: got emotional, got really emotional when he was talking about this,
34:29
Speaker 2: that this is how much he meant. It meant to him.
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Speaker 2: So you can understand what was. You could see it
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Speaker 2: too on the video. And by the way, if you
34:36
Speaker 2: haven't seen the video, are we posting the video?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Okay, yeah, you take a look at the video
34:41
Speaker 2: because it's a long conversation. It takes several seconds for
34:46
Speaker 2: him to do that. He didn't just wail off on him.
34:49
Speaker 2: He waited and waited. You could see it was building
34:51
Speaker 2: and finally he couldn't control himself. But to your point,
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Speaker 2: the way this was handled by everyone, by the fans
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Speaker 2: around by him, by mister Chavez, by security, by the
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Speaker 2: Chicago police who also showed up, and when they talked
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Speaker 2: to everyone, they realized, no, no, no, no, no, we're
35:12
Speaker 2: not charging it.
35:12
Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 1: That reminds me that I went to Cha Stadium one
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Speaker 1: time Cardinals match and there was a group of Jehovah
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Speaker 1: witnesses it. They don't stand for the national anthem. I
35:22
Speaker 1: was shocked and then somebody said chill out. Then Jehovah witnesses.
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what though, this story about Wrigley made
35:33
Speaker 2: me miss it. I mean, I want to go back
35:35
Speaker 2: out and go to Wrigley Field. It is one of
35:38
Speaker 2: the best parks that sit in. It just takes you back.
35:41
Speaker 2: You feel like you are at a baseball game the
35:45
Speaker 2: way baseball should have been played, should have always been played.
35:49
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take you to Jersey where the illegals were voting,
35:52
Speaker 1: and this is your sweet spot. Up next, Larry as
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Speaker 1: the Governor tries to get ahead of the curve and
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Speaker 1: explain Nyefall was half in the bag. Murphy, by the
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