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Sid & Friends In The Morning Won't Play Nice · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the Morning.
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  Speaker 2: Entertaining and informative.
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  Speaker 3: On the Red Apple Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 1: The future of New York, the future of the country,
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  Speaker 1: the future of the world is me.
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  Speaker 4: The number one most important question that is out there.
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  Speaker 4: Ron DeSantis was talking about it.
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  Speaker 5: J.D.
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  Speaker 4: Vance is talking about it. Who is going to be
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  Speaker 4: the heir to Donald Trump? Donald Trump's term in office
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  Speaker 4: still has two more years, but effectively nothing is going
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  Speaker 4: to happen for the next two years. Democrats will investigate
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  Speaker 4: them in the House. Democrats will investigate them in the Senate.
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  Speaker 4: They'll have a bunch of hearings. Nothing is getting passed.
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  Speaker 4: That is why the stock market is soaring today because
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  Speaker 4: business people are saying, great, politicians aren't going to do
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  Speaker 4: anything for two years.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to have gridlock.
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  Speaker 4: So what begins today is the question of who can
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  Speaker 4: best assemble the Trump 2024 coalition, put it back together
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  Speaker 4: again and win the presidency in 2028. And that is
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  Speaker 4: why J.D. Vance put this post up. That is why
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  Speaker 4: Ron DeSantis had a press conference. I expect both those
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  Speaker 4: guys to run. Marco Rubio will have to make a decision.
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  Speaker 4: I expect Ted Cruz to run. I expect a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people on the Republican side to throw their hats
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  Speaker 4: into the ring. I expect an even bigger cast of
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  Speaker 4: Democrat characters. We're going to have no incumbent and we're
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  Speaker 4: going to have a huge Democrat and Republican battle.
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  Speaker 6: To see who the nominees are going to end up being.
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  Speaker 7: I don't ask if, I ask when you will announce
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  Speaker 7: that you're running for president in 2028.
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  Speaker 8: The only way that I would run for any office
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  Speaker 8: is if you can actually deliver big results. If we're
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  Speaker 8: getting blown out in Texas, how does a Republican have
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  Speaker 8: any chance at winning the electoral college? And so that's
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  Speaker 8: just the reality that I think everyone needs to face.
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  Speaker 8: And that's something that obviously I'm thinking of. The other
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  Speaker 8: thing is this, you know, my view is, you run
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  Speaker 8: for office to do something, not to be somebody. But
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  Speaker 8: to do that, you can't do it as one president
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  Speaker 8: of the United States. It would require working with a
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  Speaker 8: Congress that was agreeable. And I think the problem that
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  Speaker 8: this election has shown us is, in 2029, if you
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  Speaker 8: have a Democrat president or a Republican president, there's a
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  Speaker 8: 99% certainty at this point you're going to have a
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  Speaker 8: Democrat House and a Democrat Senate. So the question is,
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  Speaker 8: if there are Four or five things that really need
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  Speaker 8: to get done, and most of them require the assent
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  Speaker 8: of Congress, well, you're going to be running into a
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  Speaker 8: brick wall. But it was not anything that I was
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  Speaker 8: necessarily planning on doing in 2018.
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  Speaker 9: To my fellow Republicans, this is not the time to whine, complain,
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  Speaker 9: or point fingers. You can't blame media, you can't blame academia,
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  Speaker 9: you can't blame Hollywood. All of those have been against
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  Speaker 9: us years before, and we've won. The bottom line is...
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  Speaker 9: Republicans didn't listen to the American people. They listened to Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 9: And while the American people were saying groceries is high,
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  Speaker 9: gas is high, health care is high, you're not listening.
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  Speaker 9: What you saw in D.C. was self-dealing and corruption and celebrating.
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  Speaker 9: And what I will say is. get a good night's sleep,
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  Speaker 9: take our medicine, and let's get to work. This can
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  Speaker 9: shift in two years, but you have got to start
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  Speaker 9: focusing on what the American people want and not these
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  Speaker 9: issues in D.C. that nobody cares about. Now, for our Democrats,
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  Speaker 9: you can celebrate, but be careful what you wish for.
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  Speaker 9: You just elected a large handful of socialist, Democrat socialist
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  Speaker 9: candidates that believe in getting rid of law enforcement, getting
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  Speaker 9: rid of prisons, basically getting rid of private insurance, that's
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  Speaker 9: not what the American people want either. And so the
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  Speaker 9: Democrats are going to have to realize, are you going
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  Speaker 9: to jump in and do impeachments or are you going
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  Speaker 9: to start listening to the American people and see where
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  Speaker 9: it goes? So I think both parties need to do
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  Speaker 9: some self-reflecting and see where they decide to go, because
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  Speaker 9: two years, a lot can change again in two years.
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  Speaker 10: It's all that.
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  Speaker 9: And so it really is going to depend. But I'm
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  Speaker 9: a big believer in, you know, buckle up. Let's get
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  Speaker 9: it right and finish what we started.
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  Speaker 11: Vice President wrote a very lengthy post about how the
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  Speaker 11: war impacted.
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  Speaker 5: The response last night.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know he was thinking about it? I knew
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  Speaker 1: he was.
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  Speaker 12: I know how he feels about it. I think it
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  Speaker 12: was fine. I thought it was good. We knew that.
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  Speaker 12: I knew that when I went in. And we stopped
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  Speaker 12: them from having a nuclear weapon. And they will never
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  Speaker 12: have a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 13: Have you spoken to Vice President Pence about the AIM?
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  Speaker 1: I speak to him about a lot of things. But.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 12: Everybody, you don't know who's talking about running.
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  Speaker 1: You can have people running. You can have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people, maybe a lot of people running. Maybe nobody's
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  Speaker 1: going to run. Maybe he won't run. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: who's going to run. But I can tell you that
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  Speaker 1: as far as that war is concerned, I would have
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  Speaker 1: done nothing different.
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  Speaker 14: Breaking news in New York City's proposed tax on luxury
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  Speaker 14: second homes. An appeals court just gave Mayor Mamdani a
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  Speaker 14: legal victory, ruling that he can proceed. The decision overturns
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  Speaker 14: one from September, which found flaws with how the peer
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  Speaker 14: to tear tax was rolled out and ordered the city
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  Speaker 14: to start from scratch. In a statement, a lawyer for
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  Speaker 14: a group opposed to the tax criticized the ruling for
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  Speaker 14: failing to tackle the merits.
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  Speaker 2: Of the case.
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  Speaker 14: The lawyer believes they will prevail next month when another
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  Speaker 14: court decides if the surcharge is actually legal.
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  Speaker 15: In Nassau County, where a court striking down the country's
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  Speaker 15: ban on, or excuse me, the county's ban on transgender athletes.
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  Speaker 15: This law requiring teams to designate themselves as male, female,
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  Speaker 15: or co-ed when playing at county-run facilities. How about this
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  Speaker 15: news reporter, Krista McNally, joining us now with details on
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  Speaker 15: this ruling and what happens next.
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  Speaker 1: Krista?
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  Speaker 11: Mike, we are outside of where the Long Island Roller
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  Speaker 11: Rebels play, and an appeals court struck down Nassau County's
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  Speaker 11: ban on anti-trans sports. That lawsuit was filed on behalf
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  Speaker 11: of the roller rebels.
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  Speaker 7: Today, the court made it abundantly clear that any attempt
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  Speaker 7: to ban trans women and girls from public spaces is
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  Speaker 7: prohibited by the state's anti-discrimination laws.
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  Speaker 11: The New York Civil Liberties Union brought this lawsuit in 2024,
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  Speaker 11: following Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman signing the bill that
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  Speaker 11: he introduced, which prohibits transgender athletes from playing in women
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  Speaker 11: and girls sports at county-owned athletic facilities. The county executive
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  Speaker 11: had this to say at the time of its passage.
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  Speaker 16: We will protect women from bullying by transgender males.
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  Speaker 7: For years, the Long Island Roller Rebels have been fighting
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  Speaker 7: to play in the communities that they live in, work in,
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  Speaker 7: contribute to as their true and authentic selves.
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  Speaker 11: Gabriella Larios, a senior staff attorney at the New York
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  Speaker 11: Civil Liberties Union, says today's decision is a win for
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  Speaker 11: transgender rights.
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  Speaker 1: I would want people to understand that this ban is
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  Speaker 1: unjust and that it's a trans people from places that
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  Speaker 1: they feel safe in.
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  Speaker 6: T women's roller derby team.
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  Speaker 7: You know, been steadfast in their solidarity with all kinds
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  Speaker 7: of teammates, but especially their trans teammates.
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  Speaker 11: Nassau County Attorney Thomas Adams released a statement saying, quote,
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  Speaker 11: we are reviewing the decision with the intention to continue
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  Speaker 11: the appeals process.
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  Speaker 17: Rachel Apa was running her first New York City marathon
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  Speaker 17: for someone she loved. Near mile 24 in Central Park,
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  Speaker 17: she collapsed. She was 24 years old. Before she took
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  Speaker 17: up marathon running, Rachel played Division I field hockey at
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  Speaker 17: Bucknell University. She ran in New York to raise money
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  Speaker 17: for the Parkinson's Foundation in memory of her grandfather. In
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  Speaker 17: her fundraising appeal, she wrote about how much he shaped
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  Speaker 17: her love of sports and how hard it was to
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  Speaker 17: watch Parkinson's take away his freedom to move. Around mile
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  Speaker 17: 14 in Queens, her mother filmed Rachel smiling and waving
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  Speaker 17: as she ran by. Her dad was following her progress
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  Speaker 17: from Pennsylvania, After Rachel collapsed, spectators started CPR. The race
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  Speaker 17: medical team took over, and paramedics took her to Mount
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  Speaker 17: Sinai Hospital. She died there later that day. Her father
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  Speaker 17: said doctors told the family she had rhabdomyolysis. That's a
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  Speaker 17: serious condition where damaged muscle breaks down and releases substances
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  Speaker 17: into the bloodstream. New York City's medical examiner had yet
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  Speaker 17: to issue a final determination. Rachel chose to run in
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  Speaker 17: her grandfather's memory. In the days after the race, donations
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  Speaker 17: to her fundraiser carried it past the goal she had set.
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  Speaker 1: Every time I see a story on Instagram or someplace
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  Speaker 1: else on the television, I once again get all caught
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  Speaker 1: up in it. I can't get away from it. You know, again,
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  Speaker 1: we live, it's a marathon family. Danielle ran the marathon
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, her seventh New York City marathon, her 41st
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  Speaker 1: marathon overall. I told you this the last couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: She started wanting bees the same age as Rachel Lapa
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  Speaker 1: when I met Danielle. We actually did it for the
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  Speaker 1: first time when she was 18 years old. 18. And
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  Speaker 1: my daughter Ava will be 23 in April. Just about
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  Speaker 1: the same age as Rachel Lapa. So we ended the
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  Speaker 1: open because I'm obsessed. I can't believe that young girl died.
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  Speaker 1: She sent a text message to her father. Dad, I've never...
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  Speaker 1: felt this good before in my whole life. You believe that? Dad,
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  Speaker 1: I've never felt this good before in my whole life.
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  Speaker 18: And not long after that, a couple of miles.
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  Speaker 1: Later, she sent two words, ow, ow. And then she
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  Speaker 1: was dead. So, you know, I mean, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people say don't get caught up in what the person
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  Speaker 1: looks like, that's shallow. That's all true. That's all true.
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  Speaker 1: But I think part of the reason why so many
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  Speaker 1: people have kind of hooked into this is because she
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  Speaker 1: was so beautiful. And she was an athlete playing collegiate
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  Speaker 1: field hockey at Bucknell University. Not just some, you know,
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  Speaker 1: 65-year-old lady out of shape running a marathon.
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  Speaker 18: Would be equally as tragic.
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying that now before you start to rip me apart,
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  Speaker 1: which you guys love doing on social media. You love
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  Speaker 1: doing that. I'm saying it'll be equally as tragic. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm also being honest. And we are the type of people...
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  Speaker 1: Americans and most people, when you see a young, specifically
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  Speaker 1: beautiful person die doing something they did on an ordinary basis,
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  Speaker 1: not running, it was the first marathon, but she was
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  Speaker 1: an athlete. It just clobbers you. And I know there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing new on this story, right, Noam?
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  Speaker 2: No, nothing that I've seen.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, just.
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  Speaker 19: The tragic story, of course, and what makes it even
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  Speaker 19: more heartbreaking is how excited the parents were.
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  Speaker 2: They were on the route.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, just the mother. The dad was back in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 1: following her on his phone. Her mother was there with her,
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  Speaker 1: and her mother took the video at mile 14 where
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  Speaker 1: you see her smiling and waving and looking like a
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  Speaker 1: million bucks.
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  Speaker 19: And then you just sort of piece together just the horror. Of,
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  Speaker 19: you know, that excitement.
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  Speaker 1: You know how.
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  Speaker 19: Excited it is you are when you go to meet
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  Speaker 19: Danielle at the finish line?
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  Speaker 1: Of course.
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  Speaker 19: That's a great moment where you get to give her
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  Speaker 19: a hug and to think that she got there and
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  Speaker 19: then was told this tragic news.
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  Speaker 2: It's just, it's hard to fathom.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a kid was just two miles away from the
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  Speaker 1: actual finish. 24 miles in. She didn't die 10 miles in.
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  Speaker 1: 24 miles. Two more miles to go. The mother was
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  Speaker 1: waiting there and her daughter never showed up. So we
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  Speaker 1: will continue to honor the memory. It breaks me up.
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  Speaker 1: of Rachel Apa, and on her page, she is getting
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  Speaker 1: a ton of donations for her cause. She ran the
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  Speaker 1: race in memory of her grandfather. Her grandfather died of
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  Speaker 1: Parkinson's disease. So the donations, obviously, went up exponentially once
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  Speaker 1: this story became as widespread as it is now. So
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  Speaker 1: if you go to Rachel Apa's page, you can help
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  Speaker 1: donate money to Parkinson's, even though that's not what killed her.
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  Speaker 1: I can't even pronounce the name of what happened.
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  Speaker 18: Can you do that, Noam? What is that called?
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  Speaker 2: There's a short name for it.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah, they abbreviate it.
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  Speaker 1: Robdo.
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  Speaker 2: Robdo, I think you're right.
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  Speaker 1: What a horrible story. All right, let me get to
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  Speaker 1: the meat of today's show. There are two stories today
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  Speaker 1: I want to cover that will be the meat. One is,
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm going to get in trouble for this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to save it. My own station, WABC, put
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  Speaker 1: out this beautiful Instagram post yesterday. Beautiful.
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  Speaker 18: Had the picture of every host.
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  Speaker 1: Every host. And it read, election day is over. A
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  Speaker 1: new day beginning. WABC supports this. Let's have Democrats and
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  Speaker 1: Republicans come together and do what's best for America. So
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  Speaker 1: I see this, and I respond right away, comment, knowing
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  Speaker 1: that it may piss off Katz and management, but hey,
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  Speaker 1: I got to do what I got to do, okay?
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  Speaker 1: And I reply with, I don't remember saying this, because
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  Speaker 1: I don't feel that way, okay? I don't feel any
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  Speaker 1: better about the Democrats today than I did for the
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  Speaker 1: last three months when all of us, including Katz, spent
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  Speaker 1: time on this station pointing out what lunatics they are.
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  Speaker 1: So I am not the president of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to work with Democrats in Congress. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not John. I don't have business deals with Democrats all
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  Speaker 1: over town.
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  Speaker 18: I'm a morning show host. I hate the Democrats. Nothing's changed.
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  Speaker 1: Just because Republicans came up short because Republicans are soft
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  Speaker 1: and they hate President Trump, that doesn't change things for me.
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  Speaker 18: I'm not going to work with Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: I hate Mamdani every much today as I did two
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  Speaker 1: days ago. I hate Abdul El-Sayed just as much today
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  Speaker 1: as I did two days ago. I hate Chuck Schumer
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  Speaker 1: just as much today as I did two days ago.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing's changed for me. So I want to get to
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  Speaker 1: that story later, but don't put my picture there. I
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  Speaker 1: never said that.
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  Speaker 2: Was it just your picture?
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  Speaker 1: And I don't agree with that. No, it's the whole station. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's everybody. I'm sure Greg Kelly feels the same way.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll get to that later. Let me start with
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  Speaker 1: the Vice President of the United States, this bum, this
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  Speaker 1: disloyal jerk. So again, at the sake of repetition, you
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  Speaker 1: guys know that I went to the White House. God,
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  Speaker 1: it's got to be two months ago already. At the
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  Speaker 1: behest of the vice president. I didn't ask. Okay? You
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  Speaker 1: know the whole story. It started in Las Vegas. Then
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  Speaker 1: we went to Dallas. And his people, specifically Will Martin,
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  Speaker 1: who I guess is the head of his team, and
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  Speaker 1: his chief of staff, nice guy Nick Luna, were upset
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  Speaker 1: because I tweeted after Vegas that J.D. Vance did not
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  Speaker 1: want me in the green room after he spoke. And
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  Speaker 1: I said, you know what? I didn't care much anyway
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  Speaker 1: because I didn't love his speech. And his people reached
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  Speaker 1: out to Lee Zeldin. They're on the same flight together,
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  Speaker 1: coming home from Vegas, and said, could you give me
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  Speaker 1: Sid's number? And I get a text from a guy
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  Speaker 1: I never knew, Will Martin, saying, hey, Sid, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know who told you this, but it's not true. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: the vice president wants to talk to you so badly
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  Speaker 1: that that we want to invite you to the White
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  Speaker 1: House to have a one-on-one. And it happened.
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  Speaker 18: Did it not, Noam?
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  Speaker 1: It did.
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  Speaker 18: It happened.
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  Speaker 1: And we had a one-on-one, and it was very nice.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about the Cincinnati Reds. I'm serious. We talked
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  Speaker 1: about Brooklyn mob movies. We talked about Italian food. We
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  Speaker 1: talked about everything that wasn't important. There was no Tucker
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  Speaker 1: Carlson conversation. There was no Israel conversation.
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  Speaker 18: There was none of it. It was all nonsense.
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  Speaker 1: But it was nice. And when the meeting was over, J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance said to me, I'll never forget it. Let's keep
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  Speaker 1: in touch. Let's keep the dialogue going. And what that
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  Speaker 1: said to me was, okay, now we've broken the ice.
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  Speaker 1: Our next conversation, we can get down to business. Right?
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  Speaker 18: Sounds that way, right, Noam?
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  Speaker 2: It sounded that way to me, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: There's been no more conversations. They barely reach out to me.
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  Speaker 1: They've turned me down three times when I tried to
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  Speaker 1: bring the vice president on this show.
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  Speaker 18: So what am I saying? It was all nonsense. It
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  Speaker 18: was all smoke and mirrors. It meant nothing.
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  Speaker 1: So now the Republicans, we get our asses kicked on
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 18: So yesterday, Wednesday morning, there's a big meeting.
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  Speaker 1: In the White House talking about what had happened the
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  Speaker 1: night before, okay? A few hours, not a few days,
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  Speaker 1: not a few months, not a few years. A few
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  Speaker 1: hours after this meeting, J.D. Vance puts out a tweet
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  Speaker 1: where he says that I spoke to a, some analyst,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, some smart guy. And the data shows
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  Speaker 1: there are four reasons why we got our asses kicked
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  Speaker 1: last night. And, of course, two of those four reasons, Ilan,
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  Speaker 1: the war, he was never fought from day one, and
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  Speaker 1: you want to take a guess? Israel. Correct.
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  Speaker 18: So this is, to me, a slap in the face statement.
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  Speaker 1: Undermining and being disloyal to the President of the United States.
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  Speaker 5: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: You don't think that Trump knows that in the Iran
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: war specifically more than Israel, but either way, you don't
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: think he knows what happened on Tuesday and why? But
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: if you're the Vice President of the United States, he
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: was a nobody. He was a nobody. President Trump is
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: the reason why he even won in Ohio. And President Trump,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: because of his kid Don Jr., who's also a problem,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: and I'm saying it now at the risk of pissing
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: off the president, I don't care.
• 19:20
  Speaker 18: Don Jr.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Is a major problem, okay?
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: Major.
• 19:25
  Speaker 18: Don Jr. and Tucker Carlson.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: thought it was a good idea to bring in Mr.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Turning Point, J.D. Vance, God rest Charlie Kirk's soul. He
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: was a good guy. Charlie Kirk was a good guy,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: but there's a lot of people in and around that
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Turning Point operation that I don't deem very good people.
• 19:43
  Speaker 18: I don't.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Okay? Megyn Kelly loves that. Tucker Carlson loves that. And
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: so does J.D. Vance. So Vance only waits a couple
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: of hours, pens this tweet, which has a couple of
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: million likes already, and blames the president's actions with Iran
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: and Israel for losing in the fashion that we did
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: on Tuesday night. I'm sorry. That's very disloyal. Not true
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: and very disloyal. In fact, you want to talk about Iran?
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: I could point the finger directly at the vice president
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: and say that his MOU, his constant And I mean
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: constant asking for ceasefires is why Iran is still going on.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: And you know how mad I am about that, guys.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: I've been very honest for months about this. When people
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: would come on this show and say we won the war,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I couldn't stand it. We never won the war. We
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: still haven't won the war. And it bit us in
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: the ass on Tuesday night. We could have won the war.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Don't tell me about economic sanctions. We're straining them economically.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Stop it. Stop it. I'm sick of yelling about the
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: same thing. We never won this war, ever. We could have,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: but it didn't help that J.D. Vance, his stupid MOU,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: where he keeps asking for ceasefires, that doesn't help us.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: So I can blame J.D. Vance for the Iran controversy
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: and issue right off the bat.
• 21:15
  Speaker 18: Can I not know?
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: I think so, yeah.
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: So J.D. puts out this tweet, and again, it's a complete...
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Slapping the face to President Trump. So I put out
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: my own tweet.
• 21:29
  Speaker 18: And you ready for this?
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 21:31
  Speaker 18: Over one million likes.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Take a listen to that, folks. I penned a tweet
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon. It already has over one million likes. That's
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: a lot.
• 21:44
  Speaker 15: No, no.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: That's a hell of a lot of likes, yeah.
• 21:47
  Speaker 18: So here's what I wrote.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I never thought I'd see the day where POTUS would
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: allow anyone in his administration to undermine him, but clearly
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: that day has arrived. If you haven't read J.D. Vance's
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: tweet this morning, I urge you to do it. Vance
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: lays out four reasons why the Republicans got walloped yesterday,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: and of course, two were Iran and Israel. I mean...
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: It wouldn't be a Vance tweet without at least one
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: shot directed at our best ally in the world. I
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: met with the guy and neither Israel or Tucker Carlson
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: ever came up in our conversation. Why? Because he knew
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: he couldn't appease me on either front. Today's tweet from
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the vice president is further proof I could never vote
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: for this guy, the president of the United States. What
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: a disloyal jerk J.D. Vance is.
• 22:45
  Speaker 18: Any opinion, no?
• 22:46
  Speaker 19: Well, that tweet told me that he's definitely running for
• 22:49
  Speaker 19: president because he wants to separate himself from President Trump. Now,
• 22:52
  Speaker 19: did they have some sort of backroom conversation where he said, yeah,
• 22:56
  Speaker 19: you can go on the attack a little bit?
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: No way. You don't think so?
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: No, no.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Trump was surprised. Now, Trump handled it nicely. He actually
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: said it was good. He goes, yeah, it was good.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: He goes, I wouldn't change a thing, but I'll give
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: you some more inside baseball, folks, because when Sid Rosenberg
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: tells you something, I know what I'm talking about.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: Okay?
• 23:14
  Speaker 20: Okay.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I got enough people, big-time people, very big people that
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: tell me a lot of things. And no matter what
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: President Trump said yesterday, where he said, no, it was good,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: it was good, it was good.
• 23:26
  Speaker 18: President Trump can't stand J.D.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Vance. Can't stand him. That's a fact.
• 23:32
  Speaker 18: He may deny it.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: This may get back to the president and he'll say,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Sid has no idea what he's talking about. Oh, no,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 23:38
  Speaker 18: Have I been wrong about anything? The whole way here.
• 23:42
  Speaker 18: Let's be honest, guys. Have I been wrong about anything?
• 23:46
  Speaker 20: No.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: I told you before anybody else that there were screaming
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: matches in the White House about Iran and J.D. Vance
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: was against it. Way back when, months and months ago,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I told you Andrew Cuomo was running for mayor. I
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: told you Bruce Blankman was running for governor. A lot
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: of people come on the radio and tweet like they
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: know stuff. I know stuff, okay? And if I come
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: on the air and say it right now, like I
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: am saying it with that much conviction, I'm right.
• 24:20
  Speaker 18: I mean, I must have had, between phone calls and.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Text messages, 10, 10 conversations with Mark Levin yesterday.
• 24:31
  Speaker 15: Why?
• 24:31
  Speaker 18: Why?
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Because the anti-Vance crowd, excuse me, no, the pro-Vance crowd,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: goes after Levin right away. And I saw a bunch
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: of tweets yesterday. Look at those neocons, Mark Levin and
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Sid Rosenberg. Mark Levin and Sid Rosenberg, the neocons. They
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: are the reason why Republicans lost on Tuesday night. All
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: they care about is Israel. Israel first. Israel first, Sid.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Israel first, Levin. Tel Aviv, Mark. That's all they care about.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Not about America. They don't care about America. And for
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: some reason, President Trump listens to Sid Rosenberg and Mark Levin.
• 25:14
  Speaker 18: Now, how ridiculous is that?
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Come on. Really? You think President Trump listens to me
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: and Mark Levin? He listens to everybody. He listens to everybody.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: He's great like that. But PB doesn't make up his mind.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I don't make up his mind. Levin doesn't make up
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: his mind. President Trump does what he thinks is best
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: for the country, and I still feel that way, I
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: should say. So J.D., because he wants to run for president, says, uh-oh,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the Trump Republican Party is dying if it's not dead already. Okay?
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: That's probably true. Tuesday night wasn't exactly good for Trump,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the MAGA people, our party. So selfish J.D., right?
• 26:04
  Speaker 18: Selfish J.D.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Says, I want to run for president and I got
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: to join all my good buddies. Again, losers, Megyn Kelly,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson, all these people, even his own.
• 26:16
  Speaker 18: Kid, Don Jr. And I got to run away from
• 26:20
  Speaker 18: President Trump.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to send out a tweet even after
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: meeting with the president in the White House where I
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: distance myself from the president and his policies. Not a
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: lot of vice presidents over the history of our country
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: have done that. And let me tell you, presidents and
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: vice presidents disagree all the time. But usually they'll talk
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: or the VP will disagree. shut his mouth. Now you're
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: going to say, well, why should he shut his mouth?
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: What he said is true. I got a lot of those,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: a lot.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: J.D.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Vance is right. Why should he shut his mouth? Clearly
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: he must be right. Why else would the Republicans lose?
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: But there is a loyalty factor. J.D.
• 27:06
  Speaker 18: Vance was a nobody. And whether it was Don Jr.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Or Tucker Carlson or who knows who that convinced President
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Trump to make him his VP, President Trump is the
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: guy that did it.
• 27:20
  Speaker 18: He made J.D. Vance a household name.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: And even though he reacted nicely to J.D. Vance's tweet yesterday,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: take it from me, he wasn't happy about it. So
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: now what we have is a Republican Party that got
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: demolished on Tuesday night and an issue inside the party
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: that they will try to quell, but certainly exists. And
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: now you got a bunch of people that are scared
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: to run for president. You heard Ron DeSantis yesterday. I
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: put him in the open. How am I going to
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: run for president if we can't win Texas? Now, the
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: truth is, DeSantis was humiliated. He's a great governor, and
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I love Ron DeSantis. Great governor. I love him. He
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: got humiliated the last time he ran because he lacks
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: one quality that you need to win those races. He's
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: got no charisma. That hasn't changed. He's still a great governor.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: He's still a great American. He still has no charisma.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: He's looking at Tuesday night going, I don't know. Now,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: you heard from Nikki Haley.
• 28:26
  Speaker 18: She was in the open. She said, well, we can
• 28:28
  Speaker 18: fix this, right?
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: In the next two years, if the Democrats turn out
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: to be really bad and try to get all their
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: policies done, that's bad for America. That's why don't put
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: me in the paper and say I'm going to work
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: with Democrats because I'm not. Because their policies are equally
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: as bad today as they were before they won. I
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: don't just jump on the winning team. Don't do that.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: They're lunatics. Already we're arguing about transgender sports on Long Island.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: There's your future, folks. That party wants boys playing sports
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: with girls.
• 29:08
  Speaker 18: Don't tell me I'm good with the Democrats.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: No way. No way. Nothing has changed for me. We
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: need better candidates. We did make some mistakes at the
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: federal level. No question about it. But nothing has changed
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: for me. But get ready, folks. Boys playing with girls.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: That's going to be okay again. Taxes. Kathy Ockel is
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: going to tax New Yorkers up the ass.
• 29:32
  Speaker 18: That's coming.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: All those terrible things that you complained about throughout the
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: whole process, they didn't go away because they win.
• 29:40
  Speaker 18: I'm not on their team. I'm pissed about that, Noam.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I've got to be honest. I'm pissed about that. Should
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I not be?
• 29:50
  Speaker 19: Yeah, well, there's lots of things to be pissed about
• 29:53
  Speaker 19: over the last 48 hours, and that's just one of them.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: What do you think happens now with... jd the republicans
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: and all this moving forward well.
• 30:02
  Speaker 19: I mean like i said it was clearly a move
• 30:03
  Speaker 19: on his party wants to separate himself from the president
• 30:06
  Speaker 19: now because he sees now i mean either way president
• 30:09
  Speaker 19: trump was gonna wake up wednesday morning a lame duck
• 30:11
  Speaker 19: president but of course is way worse than they expected
• 30:14
  Speaker 19: so now everybody wants to separate themselves because they think
• 30:17
  Speaker 19: this era is over they don't need a stamp of
• 30:19
  Speaker 19: approval from the president and so he needs to separate
• 30:22
  Speaker 19: himself even though he's sitting in the white house with
• 30:24
  Speaker 19: them because he knows This has woken up a lot
• 30:27
  Speaker 19: of other Republicans who say, wait a minute, I don't
• 30:29
  Speaker 19: need Trump's approval to run. I think I'm going to
• 30:32
  Speaker 19: mount my own campaign, and you're going to see people
• 30:34
  Speaker 19: coming from all over. So I think he had to
• 30:37
  Speaker 19: do what he did if he really has an ambition
• 30:39
  Speaker 19: to be the next president.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: You mean J.D. Vance?
• 30:41
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: So you're okay with him being disloyal?
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: No, I'm not okay with him being disloyal, but I
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: see what he's doing.
• 30:48
  Speaker 18: No, of course. I see it, too.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: It's very selfish.
• 30:51
  Speaker 18: You can do it.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: You can do whatever you want.
• 30:53
  Speaker 18: Good for you. And again, Don Jr.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: My God. I'll be honest. I never got along with
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Don Jr. I get along with Eric and Laura. And
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: they may get mad at me. I don't know. I
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: gotta be honest. I'm caring less and less these days.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: I still love the president. He may get mad at me.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: I'm caring less and less these days. Because a lot
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: of these diehard loyalties are part of the reason why
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: we got clobbered on Tuesday night.
• 31:19
  Speaker 18: But for Don Jr.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: To put 100% 10 times. And I got to say
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: this too about Junior. I've texted him many times over
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the years, many times.
• 31:30
  Speaker 18: To come on the show.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: You want the truth? He doesn't even text me back.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: You know, if he said, hey, Sid, I'm busy. Leave
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: me alone. I'd be okay with that. He doesn't even
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: text me back. His father does. He doesn't. The only
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: time I got a timely return on my text from
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Don Jr., this is the God's honest truth, was when
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: I sat down with J.D.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: Vance.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: I told you guys this.
• 31:56
  Speaker 18: Do you remember?
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: He leaned over and whispered in my ear the first
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: thing he said to me?
• 32:04
  Speaker 18: Don Jr.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Loves you.
• 32:06
  Speaker 18: Swear to God.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: On my late father, on anybody I love, first thing J.D.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Vance said to me was, Don Jr. loves you.
• 32:15
  Speaker 18: I go, I'm surprised. You know, I'm very close with
• 32:17
  Speaker 18: Eric and Laura.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I like Don Jr., but I'm surprised to hear that. No,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: he loves you. So I texted Don Jr.
• 32:23
  Speaker 20: That.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Again, he never gets back to me. He got back
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: to me in three minutes. I'm so glad to hear
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: you went to see him. You're going to see he's
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: a great guy. He's a great guy. Got right back
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: to me. That's the only time in years that I
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: got a text back from Don Jr. And then to
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: look at J.D. Vance's tweet, I expect Megyn Kelly to
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: love it. I expect Tucker Carlson to love it. All
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: these losers. But to see Donald Trump Jr. 100% three
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: or four times? When your father is getting maligned and
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: murdered by Republicans and Democrats alike?
• 33:03
  Speaker 18: You think that was right? The day after?
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Whether you agree with J.D. Vance or not, you're his son, man.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: He's getting killed out there. Killed. And maybe he does
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: deserve it. And look, a lot of these issues... He
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: did that to himself. I love the guy, but I'm
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: having an honest conversation. He screwed up a bunch of times.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: But your son is going to go out there and
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: agree with J.D. Vance that my father's policy on Israel,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: on Iran, and all these issues is why we got killed?
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Come on, Noam.
• 33:40
  Speaker 18: I mean, if you were the.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: President and Gabriel or Jeremy liked a tweet that basically
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: put it all on you, how would you feel?
• 33:51
  Speaker 19: Yeah, well, my skin is not as thick as the president's,
• 33:55
  Speaker 19: but do we know what the relationship is between the
• 33:58
  Speaker 19: president and Don Jr.? Is he at the White House often?
• 34:01
  Speaker 19: Is he still in conversations about what's going on?
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: What I've been told is that Trump loves his kids.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: He's close. He's close with all his kids, Donald Jr., Eric,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: all of them. But I was also told that the
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: president yells at Trump Jr.
• 34:14
  Speaker 18: All the time.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: And let's not forget, Not that far removed from Donald
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Trump Jr. taking money from a Russian oligarch to help
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: paper his wedding. And the president was epping furious. He
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: wasn't pissed. He was epping furious. And I could just
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: imagine the conversation. Jr., asshole, what are you doing? What
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: are you doing? Get that money back right now. I'm
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: not giving you a penny. Get that money back right now. Now,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: we know that Trump did have that conversation. We don't
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: know exactly what words he used, but he was pissed.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: And people tell me that Trump yells at Junior all
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: the time. I don't know that. Okay? I don't know that.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: But that's what I hear.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: He didn't go to that wedding either, by the way.
• 35:03
  Speaker 18: No, he did not. No, he did not. And there
• 35:06
  Speaker 18: was a lot, you know, he was traveling. There were
• 35:08
  Speaker 18: other excuses.
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, come on.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: At the time, I thought it was very strange.
• 35:13
  Speaker 18: I know you did.
• 35:14
  Speaker 19: You would always make room to go to your kids' wedding,
• 35:16
  Speaker 19: even if you're the president of the United States. You say,
• 35:18
  Speaker 19: take this off the schedule. I've got to be down
• 35:19
  Speaker 19: in the Bahamas for a couple hours. I think that's
• 35:21
  Speaker 19: where it was, right?
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: It was.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: For a wedding. Yeah. But again, I keep hearing they're close.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: You go back to the court proceedings and Don Jr.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: sitting in that back room with his father. almost every day.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: So that's what I hear. But again, I hear that
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: President Trump criticizes and yells at Jr.
• 35:40
  Speaker 18: All the time.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know that. This is what I've been told.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: But either way, you know, Don Jr., 100%, because he
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: loves J.D. Vance, that's great. But your father is the president,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: and deserve it or not, right or wrong, he's getting
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: killed today. Killed. Killed. So who points that out? Sid Rosenberg.
• 36:03
  Speaker 18: Who points that out?
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Mark Levin.
• 36:05
  Speaker 18: And what are we?
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Neocon, Israel first, don't care about America, Jew, kike, bastards.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: That's all I've read for two days. Go to my Twitter,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: at SidRosenberg19. I used to delete this stuff because... When
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: I read it myself, I got nauseous. Now I don't
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: care anymore. I leave it there because I want people
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: to go read what sick bastards you are living amongst.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Really sick, horrible, and stupid, uninformed people. So I leave
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: it there. And I go back and read it. It
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: doesn't bother me because I know that half of them
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: are bots anyway. But if they're real people and they're
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: writing that, they are the lowest form of life. the
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: lowest form of life. Jew haters, for the most part,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: real anti-Semites, but America haters too, and jealous people who
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: hate the fact that I'm a huge star, and for
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: the most part, these people are still living in their
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: mother's basements. So I don't care, but it's still ugly
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: in our home. What else is going on this morning, Nomi?
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: There's a lot going on.
• 37:16
  Speaker 19: I mean, you mentioned the struck down that transgender ban
• 37:20
  Speaker 19: in Nassau County.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: That was a big deal yesterday.
• 37:24
  Speaker 19: It was Bruce Blakeman, who signed this into law, said
• 37:27
  Speaker 19: that trans members could not play on sports teams at
• 37:31
  Speaker 19: Nassau County-owned facilities.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: And a court said, no, no, no, you can't do that.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: That violates their civil rights.
• 37:37
  Speaker 19: So the Nassau County attorney said yesterday they'll fight back
• 37:40
  Speaker 19: against this.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: But for the meantime now, trans athletes.
• 37:43
  Speaker 19: Can now take part in sports at Nassau County athletic facilities.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Get ready for all this stuff.
• 37:50
  Speaker 18: All the lunatic policies.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Don't say that I'm ready to work with the Democrats
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: and do best for America. I hate them every much
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: today as I did two days ago. Hate them.
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: Seriously.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: And this transgender story is just one of many where
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: they're going to unravel things that the president has done
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: to make our country better. They're going to unravel all
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: of it. At the city level, at the state level,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: these are very dangerous, sick people.
• 38:19
  Speaker 18: I'm not working with them. Not even a little.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Not even a little.
• 38:24
  Speaker 18: So I'm glad this story came up right away.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Right away. We just lost the midterms two days ago
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: and already the transgender community who wants boys playing with girls,
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: they feel empowered. Two days later. I mean, come on.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: What else, Noam?
• 38:42
  Speaker 19: There's these two Murder mysteries that continue to grip the city.
• 38:46
  Speaker 19: And so last night there was a vigil for Katie Suarez.
• 38:49
  Speaker 19: She was the 28-year-old bank teller who was stabbed to
• 38:52
  Speaker 19: death last Friday night while out for a run near
• 38:54
  Speaker 19: the Belt Parkway.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Well, not just out for a run. She was training
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: for the marathon.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: She was, yeah.
• 38:59
  Speaker 19: So they just haven't solved this. I mean, the killing
• 39:02
  Speaker 19: has baffled the community. It's baffled the NYPD. It happened
• 39:05
  Speaker 19: right near the Caesars Bay Shopping Center. That's close to
• 39:08
  Speaker 19: a bank where she was a teller.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: That's not called Caesars Bay anymore, is it?
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: That's what I thought it was called.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Am I wrong about that? I think Caesar's Bay is
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: long gone. I think there's a Wendy's and a TD Bank.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: But I know what you're talking about. There's a big
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: tennis bubble there now.
• 39:22
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 39:23
  Speaker 18: Big tennis bubble, but I don't think it's still there.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Maybe it is.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Maybe I'm wrong.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's possible.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: It won't be the first time.
• 39:29
  Speaker 20: Yeah.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: So there was a vigil for her last night.
• 39:32
  Speaker 19: A lot of people showed up, people who knew her
• 39:34
  Speaker 19: from the bank, family members, and also a lot of
• 39:37
  Speaker 19: people who didn't know her who are just horrified by
• 39:40
  Speaker 19: this crime. And then you had the other story that
• 39:42
  Speaker 19: continues to grip the city is this 15-year-old who was
• 39:46
  Speaker 19: shot to death on his way to school.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Hold on a second. This is crazy. Didn't I just
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: hear like last week from Mom Donnie and everybody else
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: how safe this city is?
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: You did, yeah.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: So last week a girl got raped in Central Park.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: A couple days ago this young lady training for the
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: marathon was stabbed to death. That's right.
• 40:04
  Speaker 18: A 15-year-old boy got shot.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: So how exactly is our city much safer than it's
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: ever been?
• 40:13
  Speaker 19: I don't know, especially since the fact that none of
• 40:15
  Speaker 19: these crimes have been solved yet.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: So these people are still out there.
• 40:20
  Speaker 19: And in the case of this 15-year-old Bronx boy, this
• 40:23
  Speaker 19: is the one he had moved here from Ghana a
• 40:25
  Speaker 19: year ago for a better life, had been bullied at school.
• 40:28
  Speaker 19: The school had called three days earlier to his dad
• 40:30
  Speaker 19: saying he was being bullied, and then he was shot.
• 40:33
  Speaker 19: And his father's convinced it was the bullies who were
• 40:35
  Speaker 19: behind the shooting because they were suspended. Well, they still
• 40:38
  Speaker 19: haven't solved that one. But meanwhile, a visa was given
• 40:40
  Speaker 19: to the boy's mother, and she boarded a plane yesterday.
• 40:44
  Speaker 19: And so she's coming here for her son's funeral.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Yeah.
• 40:47
  Speaker 19: Meanwhile, this Memorial continues to grow near the site of
• 40:50
  Speaker 19: the shooting right on East 173rd Street near Cortona Park.
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: Terrible.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: All right. Any good news?
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, actually, there is some good news.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: The Knickerbockers won big last night. They won by 30.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: And Jalen Brunson had 33 points.
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: He did.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: He had a great night last night. And after the
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: 0-3 start for the reigning world champion Knicks, they won
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: four out of five.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: And the Nets, they won last night.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they won their second in a row. Two straight
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: for the Brooklyn Nets. Is that all that's good news?
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: That's it?
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: No.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Just baskets?
• 41:21
  Speaker 19: So, you know, we go from Halloween right to Christmas.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: We don't even celebrate Thanksgiving anymore.
• 41:25
  Speaker 19: So the 76-foot-tall Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, it's been cut
• 41:29
  Speaker 19: down from a home in Ostago County, and it's on
• 41:32
  Speaker 19: its way, a slow ride to New York City.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: It's going to arrive here on Saturday.
• 41:36
  Speaker 18: Already, huh?
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That is early, right?
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: Well, no, it's about this time every year.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 41:41
  Speaker 19: And then yesterday, the Radio City Rockettes kicked off their
• 41:44
  Speaker 19: 101st– Christmas Spectacular show at Radio City Hall.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: I think some of those ladies are still dancing, throwing
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: those legs up there at 100 years old.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: Still do that kick.
• 41:54
  Speaker 18: Still do the kick, yeah.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: I haven't gone there in many, many years. And I
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: know we took, Daniel and I took our kids there,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: even Gabriel, when they were younger, I guess. But one
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: of these days, what I'm going to do before I
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: move back to Florida, which I'm going to do, is
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: I'm going to take advantage of all these things on
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: my Goodbye Sid Rosenberg tour.
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 42:14
  Speaker 17: Right.
• 42:15
  Speaker 18: Like, I've already done the ball drop a couple years ago.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to do that again.
• 42:18
  Speaker 18: But I'll go to Radio City Christmas.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: You've never seen the Christmas Spectacular?
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: No, I have.
• 42:23
  Speaker 18: But I'm going to do it one more time.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: When I leave New York and move back to Florida,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: which is not an if, it's a when, I'm going
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: to do all those things one more time. One more time.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: The last time. I'll go back and see the Christmas Spectacular.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: I think the last time I saw it was 20
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: years ago. You know? So whatever's in it, maybe I'll
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: go to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I did that
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: with Ava and Gabriel about 10 years ago. So all
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: these things that are staples in New York, I'm going
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: to have to go on a horse and carriage ride, too,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: because they took that away from us. All these lovely
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: things that made New York great, before the mayor takes
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: them all away, and before I move back to Florida,
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: I'm going to take advantage and do them.
• 43:06
  Speaker 18: All one more time.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: What do you think? Do I want to come?
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, sure.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Isn't that lovely?
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: Especially that carriage ride.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: I know. It'd be so romantic, you and I.
• 43:14
  Speaker 20: Yes.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we could rub each other's bald heads. Go over
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: the news for the day together. Get Louie in there.
• 43:20
  Speaker 18: Come on, Louie.
• 43:21
  Speaker 21: As long as it was just the bald heads.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. I know what you're saying. What else?
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Anything else?
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: One more story.
• 43:28
  Speaker 19: Super El Nino. We're going to have a Super El Nino.
• 43:31
  Speaker 19: This is the weather pattern that happens every, I don't know,
• 43:35
  Speaker 19: last time was like more than a decade ago. And
• 43:37
  Speaker 19: so you've noticed, right, today it is November 5th, and
• 43:40
  Speaker 19: it's going to be 71 degrees today. And that's really
• 43:44
  Speaker 19: unusual to be so warm in November. And it's even
• 43:46
  Speaker 19: going to be warm for the next couple of days.
• 43:48
  Speaker 19: So now they're trying to figure out what this weather
• 43:50
  Speaker 19: pattern is going to mean for the winter. So the
• 43:52
  Speaker 19: last time we had a super El Nino in New
• 43:55
  Speaker 19: York City, you have to go back to 2016. And
• 43:58
  Speaker 19: that was the year we got hit with the biggest
• 44:00
  Speaker 19: snowfall ever on record in New York City, 27 inches
• 44:03
  Speaker 19: of snow fell. So they're trying to decide, is that
• 44:06
  Speaker 19: going to be what we're in store for this winter? Well,
• 44:09
  Speaker 19: they're not ready to predict it yet because they've got
• 44:11
  Speaker 19: to look at the weather models. But this super El
• 44:13
  Speaker 19: Nino is going to mess with the weather. It makes
• 44:15
  Speaker 19: it a little warmer, a degree or two warmer. But
• 44:19
  Speaker 19: I guess it also brings a lot more moisture into
• 44:21
  Speaker 19: the air. So if the atmosphere is all correct like
• 44:24
  Speaker 19: it was back in 2016, we could get smacked with
• 44:27
  Speaker 19: a ton of snow like we did that season.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, I can't do it. I can't do it.
• 44:32
  Speaker 18: One more winter like last winter? I think I'm going
• 44:34
  Speaker 18: to die.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: I really do. Rich Lowry, Brian Kilmeade, I think Ari Fleischer,
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Mike Lawler, Bill O'Reilly, and more.
• 44:42
  Speaker 18: It's a great guest list today. It's Thursday morning.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: We are still caught, I think, in the hangover from
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: the drubbing we took on Tuesday night. But here's what
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: you're going to get. If you listen to me, you're
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: going to get the truth. And I don't care who
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: it is. I don't care who gets upset. I'm going
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: to be 60 years old. I'm not your child. All right?
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to tell you what's really going on,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: what's really going on, who the good guys are and
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: who the bad guys are. And J.D. Vance, he's not
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: a good guy. Sid and Friends in the morning on
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: a Thursday.
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the morning on the Red Apple
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
• 45:23
  Speaker 18: I'm angrier than ever.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: This is not about unifying. This is about figuring out
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: how to save our party. Unify? So all of a sudden,
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: all the crazy things we yelled about on this station
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: that they want to implement, now it's okay because they won?
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Are you nuts? No, it's terrible. Two days on Long Island,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: we're talking about boys playing sports with girls. Just wait
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: to see what happens. I agree with Clay Travis. I
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: know KT McFarlane disagrees. Sorry, I think she's wrong. The
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: last two years now of President Trump's presidency will amount
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: to nothing. Nothing. He can veto up the ass. They're
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: going to investigate up the ass. And nothing's going to
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: get done. He's going to be afraid now. Maybe afraid's
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: the wrong word. He's going to be hesitant to do
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: what he should have done in Iran months ago, which
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: I begged him to do. Not that I have any say,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: but I told you that Tuesday night, I'll never forget it.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: I was at Pico, local Mexican restaurant with Gabriel. I
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: couldn't wait to see what was going to happen that night.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: And 30 minutes before, President Trump says, nah, we'll give
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: him 10 days. I knew it. I knew it. J.D.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Vance with his ridiculous MOU. You can make a very
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: good argument about that a major reason why Iran has
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: been such a disaster, sorry, we didn't win anything, is
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: because of J.D. Vance and his ridiculous memorandum of understanding
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: and his constant hopes for ceasefires. All that's done is
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: dragged this thing on. Nobody cares that the Iranian people
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: are poor. Nobody cares. or that a couple of economic
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: indicators in this country are doing well for rich people.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: And I know our 401k is good.
• 47:23
  Speaker 5: So what?
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: It was good before. Not under Biden, but the first
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: time Trump won. We all did well. We all did well.
• 47:34
  Speaker 5: J.D.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Vance is going to criticize what happened in Iran.
• 47:39
  Speaker 18: He was against it, that's true.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: He was. But since we did it, He's been nothing
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: but a deterrence. He hasn't been a help. His participation
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: has hurt us, J.D. Vance. He's a Republican. But the Democrats,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: their policies remain crazy. They're not all of a sudden
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: good people today. I'm supposed to be okay with Kathy
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Hochul today because she won?
• 48:11
  Speaker 18: And unify with Kathy Hochul?
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Really? Or Letitia James? While Noam continues to go over
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: all these violent stories in the news? Young people, 15, 28, shot, murdered.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: What is Letitia James doing? She doesn't care. She's a celebrity.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: She really is. Every press conference, she stands there mugging
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: for the camera with Kathy Hochul and, you know, the
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: picture of her and Tom DiNapoli, who happens to be
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: a nice guy, raising their arms in victory a couple
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: nights ago.
• 48:50
  Speaker 18: I'm not happy about that today.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: I'm nauseated.
• 48:53
  Speaker 21: Let's work with them.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's work with these people now. Come on. No,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: I don't have billions of dollars. I don't have business
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: dealings in New York City. I'm not the president of
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: the United States anymore. Well, now I got to sit
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: with a bunch of these lunatics in Congress and the Senate.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: Nothing's changed for me. And I don't do this to
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: get ratings. I would do this no matter what. This
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: is how I feel. You may hate my guts. Call
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: me a neocon, a Mark Levin butt boy, a Donald
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: Trump sycophant, Israel Burr Sid. None of that bothers me.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: None of it. I sleep well at night when I
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: get to go to sleep, which is not very often.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Because I know this, when I come on the air
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: every day, there is nobody more authentic, nobody more original
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: than me. Nobody. That's why my ratings are so great.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: Because whether you agree or disagree, you know this, I'm
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: going to give you the truth. And if it's not
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: the truth, I feel strong enough about it that I
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: really believe it's the truth. Because the truth, which we
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: always strive for on WABC, is in the eyes of
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: the beholder. My truth is not the same as Thomas
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: Massey's truth. Okay?
• 50:13
  Speaker 18: My truth is not the same as J.D. Vance's truth.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: My truth is not the same as Megyn Kelly's truth.
• 50:21
  Speaker 18: And she thinks she's telling the truth.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: So we all have different versions of the truth.
• 50:31
  Speaker 18: And maybe I'm wrong sometimes. Maybe my truth is not
• 50:33
  Speaker 18: the truth. But it's how I feel. It's how I feel.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: And I am disgusted this morning with Republicans like J.D.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Vance and others who are now going to just cowardly
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: quit and say, hey, they won.
• 50:53
  Speaker 18: Let's work together.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: No, thanks. No, thank you.
• 50:56
  Speaker 18: You watch.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: You see. Stephen A. Smith said it. Of all people,
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith. He says, you watch these Democrats. Watch
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: what they do now over the next two years. Play it.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: Cut number four. This guy makes $ 20 million.
• 51:12
  Speaker 18: A year because of sports.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: But every now and then, he talks politics and he
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: makes sense.
• 51:18
  Speaker 18: Stephen A. Smith, cut number four.
• 51:21
  Speaker 22: I believe that the Democrats are going to be arrogant
• 51:24
  Speaker 22: enough to believe it's a mandate as opposed to vote
• 51:27
  Speaker 22: against Trump, there are going to be enough of them
• 51:29
  Speaker 22: that think that it was a vote for them, their mandate,
• 51:33
  Speaker 22: that they've reclaimed power, and they're going to be stupid
• 51:36
  Speaker 22: and arrogant enough to go after him with stuff like impeachment.
• 51:40
  Speaker 22: They're definitely going to try to impeach Pete Hegseth. They're
• 51:44
  Speaker 22: definitely going to go after Marco Rubio with an investigation.
• 51:47
  Speaker 10: They're probably going to do the same with Trump.
• 51:50
  Speaker 22: And we're going to be inundated with similar chaos to
• 51:54
  Speaker 22: what was transpiring leading up to the years between when
• 51:58
  Speaker 22: he departed in 2020 and he reclaimed the presidency in 2024.
• 52:03
  Speaker 22: And that same kind of chaos is going to cost
• 52:05
  Speaker 22: them the presidency in 2028 in all.
• 52:08
  Speaker 10: Likelihood to Marco Rubio or Ron DeSantis. That is what
• 52:12
  Speaker 10: I believe.
• 52:13
  Speaker 18: Well said, Stephen.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: So there you go. He's not talking about let's work
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: with us. He's been a Democrat his whole life, okay?
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: He's like, they're going to be arrogant, they're going to
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: be stupid, and they're going to waste everybody's time. And
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith is right.
• 52:25
  Speaker 18: And yes, I'm aware of the.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia story where anti-Israel groups are going to boycott Jewish businesses.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: I don't need to get those stories every day, every second.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: It's all over the country. What does it mean?
• 52:40
  Speaker 18: Has the governor, Shapiro, come out and yelled and screamed?
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Maybe he has. I don't know.
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: He has, actually.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, I don't live in Philadelphia. My daughter goes to
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: school there, which is scary enough. But these stories, they're
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: every day all over the country. I can yell and
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: scream about them, but what does it do? It doesn't
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: do anything. The political leaders in those cities, they're the
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: ones who can change it. So I'm glad that Shapiro
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: has yelled and screamed, but Whether it's New York City
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: where Mamdani can change it, but he doesn't want to.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: Kathy Hochul can change it. She's not interested. Letitia James
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: can change it. She's not interested. But I get these
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: stories all day every day about how Jewish people are
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: being treated unfairly around the country and.
• 53:29
  Speaker 18: Around the world.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: And then I start to yell about it. And what
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: I get is, there's sin again. Israel first. Now, I
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: don't care.
• 53:37
  Speaker 17: I am out.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: I'm in the fight, bro. Okay, folks, okay? I'm in
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: the fight. I think most Jewish people know I'm in
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: the fight. I mean, I physically have been in the
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: fight on a Ford train. So I don't have to
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: worry about proving myself. But these stories, it's every day.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: It's all over the country. And there's just so much
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: as a radio host that I can do. That's why
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: elections matter. And we just voted in. We just voted
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: in a bunch of people like Abdul El-Sayed. that don't care.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: So don't tell me that the election is over, it's
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: a new beginning, and it's time to work with Democrats.
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: I'm not doing it. They are dangerous, they're stupid, their
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: policies are anti-American, they're anti-Semitic, and I remain just, just
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: as angry today as I was a couple days ago
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: before we took this thumping. Rich Lowry, I love this guy,
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: National Review, he's our first guest. A lot of great
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: guests today, which Larry leads off.
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: WABC supports this. I don't. Let's have Democrats and Republicans
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: come together and do what's best for America. Well, that's nice.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: That's a beautiful story. But in real life, no, I'm not.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: I'm not about unity because they're not about unity. They're lunatics.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: They're animals. So I'm upset that they put my picture
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: in this promo because I don't agree. I am not
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: looking forward to working with Democrats. I hate them. Nothing's changed.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: But just because they've won doesn't make me okay with it.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: In fact, it makes me more angry. So those are
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: the two big issues today. Let me talk to the
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: great Rich Lowry, National Review. Richard, good morning, buddy. How
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: are you? Good, Sid.
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: How are you?
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: How do I sound, Rich? I'm pissed.
• 55:39
  Speaker 23: Last time I saw you, it was happier times. We
• 55:41
  Speaker 23: were at your induction into the Hall of Fame.
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was so nice. It feels like a million
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: years ago, Rich.
• 55:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely.
• 55:49
  Speaker 23: I was at table 17, you were at table 1,
• 55:51
  Speaker 23: so I had a lot of chance to study you
• 55:53
  Speaker 23: from behind, Sid.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what'd you say?
• 55:57
  Speaker 23: Fine, a fine physical specimen. And you look a little
• 55:59
  Speaker 23: bit like Vin Diesel from behind, I have to say.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got the bald head, the big broad shoulders.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: I've got all that, right? You were awesome.
• 56:08
  Speaker 5: It was moving.
• 56:09
  Speaker 23: Great to see everyone there. Great to meet your mom.
• 56:11
  Speaker 23: Congratulations again. But as you say, it feels like a
• 56:14
  Speaker 23: very long time ago.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been a horrible couple of days. I mean, look,
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: I'll ask you the most important question of all. A
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: lot of people believe that President Trump's presidency is over.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: It's done. He'll spend two years fighting investigations and doing
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of vetoes. But in terms of getting
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: anything done that's really going to change our country for
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: the better, it's done. Other people like Israelis, they're scared
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: to death. They'll now be hesitant to do anything against Iran.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: So it's a very simple question. For all intent purposes, okay,
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: is President Trump's presidency over?
• 56:47
  Speaker 5: No.
• 56:48
  Speaker 23: Just because so much of what he was doing had
• 56:50
  Speaker 23: nothing to do with Congress, right? He gets a big,
• 56:53
  Speaker 23: beautiful bill. Lake and Riley Act, which was great. Wanted
• 56:57
  Speaker 23: to get the SAVE Act, didn't get it. I think
• 56:59
  Speaker 23: there's one other thing in there. A housing bill passed, right?
• 57:02
  Speaker 23: But otherwise, he had zero interest in legislating through Congress.
• 57:06
  Speaker 23: And the big things he did, most memorable and consequential
• 57:08
  Speaker 23: things he did on his own, immigration enforcement, high on
• 57:13
  Speaker 23: the list, Iran war, high on the list, a whole
• 57:16
  Speaker 23: bunch of other foreign initiatives, whether it's trying to get
• 57:19
  Speaker 23: peace in Ukraine, Russia, or Yankee... Zelensky's chain or threatening
• 57:24
  Speaker 23: Greenland or having a trade war with Canada and then
• 57:29
  Speaker 23: a bunch of other stuff, you know, small scale. The
• 57:31
  Speaker 23: grass in D.C. is going to be better. I'm fixing
• 57:33
  Speaker 23: the reflecting pool. I'm building a ballroom. And he just
• 57:36
  Speaker 23: looms so large because his media and cultural presence. So
• 57:40
  Speaker 23: I think all that stays the same. It's no doubt
• 57:42
  Speaker 23: it's a big blow. I heard you yesterday. I think
• 57:45
  Speaker 23: you're absolutely right. The election is about Trump. There's a
• 57:47
  Speaker 23: repudiation about Trump. There's no reason to try to dance
• 57:50
  Speaker 23: around Trump. But he's not vaporized. He's not going away.
• 57:53
  Speaker 23: It could be painful, especially the investigations. But his presidency
• 57:58
  Speaker 23: is not over.
• 57:59
  Speaker 18: So you agree with me.
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: Good. So we heard about gas prices and, you know, J.D.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: Vance is talking about Iran and Israel. All that goes
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: into play. We know that. But really, like I said yesterday,
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: I'll double down today. I hate Trump.
• 58:12
  Speaker 18: That's it. That's what he lost. Some of those things
• 58:15
  Speaker 18: are the reason why.
• 58:16
  Speaker 20: Yes.
• 58:17
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: But it's a much larger picture. But for Republicans to
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: vote against President Trump, which they had to do, there's
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: no way the Democrats would have enjoyed that much success
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: without Republicans voting Democrat. What was that all about?
• 58:36
  Speaker 23: Deep unhappiness. You know, I have people I'm very close to.
• 58:41
  Speaker 23: who for the last 10 years have thought I'm too
• 58:43
  Speaker 23: critical of Trump. And last six months, last year, they
• 58:49
  Speaker 23: now hate Trump and think I'm too favorable to Trump.
• 58:52
  Speaker 23: And it's largely prices. And then also since he's out,
• 58:58
  Speaker 23: he's in this for himself because a lot of the
• 59:00
  Speaker 23: grift going on around him. So I think that those
• 59:03
  Speaker 23: were major driving factors in this election in turning Republicans
• 59:07
  Speaker 23: against Democrats. And also, I also don't think we should
• 59:10
  Speaker 23: dance around, and I don't think you do. The Iran
• 59:13
  Speaker 23: war is a huge problem. It was never popular. He
• 59:17
  Speaker 23: didn't win it. He hasn't won it yet. Thank you
• 59:19
  Speaker 23: for saying that. And it cost people, in terms of
• 59:21
  Speaker 23: their pocketbooks, Everyone in the country. There's no way that
• 59:26
  Speaker 23: wasn't an accelerant on what happened.
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: Of course it was. And look, you can call me
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: a Trump sycophant all day. I'm okay with that. I am.
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: But have I not been... immensely critical. I mean, I
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: got mad at Katsimatidis and KT and others that came
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: on this show months ago and said, we've already won
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: the war. Ridiculous. Of course you didn't win the war.
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: We haven't won anything. I mean, it was great. We
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: strangled so the Iranian people can't eat and the stock
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: market went up. What does that mean?
• 59:53
  Speaker 18: We still haven't won the war. I'm okay with that.
• 59:56
  Speaker 18: It's true.
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: Yep. Totally agree.
• 59:59
  Speaker 5: Totally agree.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 23: And he's in real trouble now, right? Unfortunately, Tuesday night
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 23: was a fantastic night for the IRGC, right? They blew
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 23: up the MOU because they thought they could keep prices
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 23: up and it'd lead to a debacle for Trump in
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 23: the election. And that would constrain him. And that seems
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 23: to be exactly what's happened. Certainly had the debacle. And
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 23: it's hard to see how his leverage hasn't drastically reduced.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 23: Is he really going to bomb them again after this election?
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 23: It's hard to see. Maybe he does. And maybe he
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 23: can just sit on the blockade. And if we do
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 23: it for the next two years, there's some chance that
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 23: regime cracks. And that would be a huge accomplishment, a
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 23: world historical accomplishment. But after this, is Trump really going
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 23: to be comfortable just sticking with that with gas above
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 23: $ 4 a gallon for the rest of his term? Maybe.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 23: It's hard to see. I don't know how he gets
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 23: out of it.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: Neither do I. And if he does, Zach, it hurts
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: Republicans and their chances of winning the presidency in 28
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: and maybe, God forbid, correcting what we saw on Tuesday night.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: That ain't going to help. Well, let me get to J.D.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 5: Vance.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: I know that you like him more than I do.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: I went to visit him. I did like him. He
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: was very affable and very nice, but he's full of crap.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: And I don't like him, okay? I'm on record many,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: many times saying that. I don't know if Marco Rubio
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: was going to run, but he's my choice. It's never
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: been close, and it's still not close. And even though J.D.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: Vance may have said some things yesterday in that tweet
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: that you agree with, I'm sure he did. I'm sure
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: he did. He had just met in the White House
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: with the president and others. He could have waited a day,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: a couple of days, a couple of hours later. He's
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: already taken the president to task. And then you get
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: Don Jr., the president's son, who's out there with emojis 100%.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: Because you know Don Jr. loves J.D. Vance. But doesn't
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: he know his father is getting murdered today? I'm just
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: saying it seemed a little disloyal to me from J.D.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: Vance and his own son, Don Jr., to call out
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: the reasons why we got killed on Tuesday night that
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: point directly at President Trump.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 23: So I don't discount the possibility. In fact, I think
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 23: it's true that Vance's pollster sampled some small sample of
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 23: Republicans who voted Democrat, and these are the four answers
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 23: that came back from those people. They're clearly... part of it, right?
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 23: They're not the entirety of it. If that's your account
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 23: of the election, it's really distorted because corruption was high
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 23: on the list, prices, which includes tariffs, were high on
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 23: the list, and the Iran war was there too. So
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 23: I don't think there's anything wrong with that necessarily. But
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 23: there are lines in there that would read as direct
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 23: challenges to the president. Like the thing like, oh, if
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 23: you think this is worth it, you know, losing all
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 23: these seats for this war, make your case, like in
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 23: a challenging way.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: And by the way, he has made that case. I
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: think the president has made that case a thousand times.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: I'd rather lose six Senate seats and not give Iran
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 23: Yeah, so this is the most direct challenge to a
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 23: president we've ever seen from a vice president.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 18: So you're agreeing with me. So you're agreeing with me.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: What J.D. Vance did, while some of it may have
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: been factual, was entirely grotesque and disloyal.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 23: Yeah, well, it's because the starting gun's gone off in 2028,
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 23: and he thinks that the people, and this is another
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 23: key line at the end where he says, if you've
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 23: been telling us all along, you know, you're nuts, this
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 23: is crazy, this is going to be very bad, well,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 23: I forget the exact verbiage. That's Tucker Carlson, right? That's
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 23: Marjorie Taylor Greene. That's that whole faction that he's directly
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 23: talking to.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: That's your friend Megyn Kelly, too, by the way. I
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: hate to say it. I know she's your friend, but her, too.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: She would love that.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 23: I was on with her at an election night. I'm
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 23: friends with her. But she, too, has been on this.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 23: And look, by the way, unfortunately, just about the war,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 23: they've been right. All the other stuff, you know, the
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 23: Jews have been conspiring to do this. And, you know,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 23: they tried to kill him in Butler. And that's why
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 23: he was too afraid to resist. You know, all that
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 23: is just noxious nonsense. But anyway, it's a signal to
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 23: those people, I'm with you, right? And that's how it's
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 23: going to run. They're going to be a key part
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 23: of his campaign. And, you know, I don't think Vance
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 23: is one of them.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: But he wants them on board. No, he's one of them.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: He's one of them. He has to be a little
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: more careful because he's a vice president, just like Mom Donnie.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: Mom Donnie will be wearing a filthy keffiyeh and yelling
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: in the streets, but he's mayor, so he can't do that.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: Vance is absolutely one of them. I got to tell you,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: God rest Charlie Kirk's soul. He was a good man.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: He really was. And they say things about Charlie now
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: that are just not true. Now he felt about certain
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: things when he said about certain things. That whole turning
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: point family, a lot of those people are very dangerous.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. And J.D. Vance is one of them.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 20: Yeah.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 23: So, you know, he ran this by the president, by
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 23: the way, apparently. That's the reporting. But he's in such
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 23: a ticklish spot because, you know, if you're a married man,
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 23: you know this. If you've been through life, you know this.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 23: Sometimes you run something by someone and they say, yeah, sure,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 23: you know, go ahead. But they actually don't like it.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 23: And they resent it. They're a little pissed about it.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 23: And it kind of grows over time. So the answer
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 23: is you have to be really careful. Maybe Trump turns
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 23: against the war at some point. But there's no sign
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 23: of that so far. And he's going to run against
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 23: the war. So how's that going to work out? Because
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 23: he desperately needs Trump's endorsement. And the other thing that's
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 23: going on in 2008 is DeSantis very aggressively out there,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 23: speaking in really frank terms about what went on, including
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 23: saying last night with Laura Ingraham that this was a
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 23: rebuke of Trump. which is kind of an extraordinary thing
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 23: for a politician who still has national aspirations to say.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 23: So I think DeSantis may be thinking, you know, there's
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 23: an opening here for someone who's like, thank you for
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 23: your service, sir, but we're moving on, right? And that
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 23: would distinguish him from Vance and maybe other candidates in
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 23: the race. But it's beginning. It's already started.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: It really has. DeSantis did say, too, that how do
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: you expect me to win a presidency? if he got
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: his asses kicked in Texas on Tuesday night. Nikki Haley
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: seemed to be a little more up for it. She
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: did an interview yesterday, too, and she took apart Republicans
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: and Democrats and said we can still come back from
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: all this in two years. We'll see.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 18: Rich Lowry, there's nobody better.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: I love you, buddy. Thank you so much. Excellent job,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: Rich Lowry, right there. National Review. We've got to get
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: to the news. We've got, like, five great guests stopping by.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: I'm actually excited about today's guest list. Thursday morning, sitting
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: friends in the morning.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 18: But one of the people that I saw in Vegas.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: That I really like, I really love this guy, I
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: really do. He's not on this show very often. Maybe
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: only once, in fact, in the history of this program.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: But I love him. Fox News, he goes on the
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: afternoon show here with John and others. Ari Fleischer, he
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: was Bush 43's press secretary. He's one of the smartest.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: He's also a decent guy, mind you. Nice Jewish man.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: We're one of the smartest people you'll ever meet. So
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: I sent out my tweet about J.D. Vance yesterday, and
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: I was all happy about myself. I've got, like, you know,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: over a million views. About the same time, my friend
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: Ari Fleischer sent out a tweet about J.D.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 5: Vance.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: He's got, like, 4 million views because people love and
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: respect Ari Fleischer. So on today, we're going to hear
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: from Brian Kilmeade, Bill O'Reilly, Mike Lawler. After his heartbreaking loss,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: I was there on Tuesday night. Ari Fleischer makes his
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: return to Sid and Friends in the morning.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the morning on the Red Apple
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 18: Ari Fleischer. Ari, good morning, buddy.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: How are you?
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 23: Good morning to you.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: Nice to talk to you again. I saw you in Vegas.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: That motivated J.D. Vance to actually reach out to me.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: You know the story, Ari. You spoke to me that morning. Yeah,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: we spoke that morning. I was on the way to D.C.,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: and I met with J.D.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 20: Vance.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 18: It was lovely.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: We talked about the Cincinnati Reds. We talked about mob movies.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: We talked about the food.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 5: In New York.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: Here's my point. He wanted no part of discussing Tucker Carlson, Israel.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: any of that with me so when I leave he
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: says let's keep the dialogue going Sid I enjoyed this
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: yeah me too there's been no dialogue since why because
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: he knew that day he would never ever be able
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: to appease me on either one of those fronts and
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: he continues to show us on a semi-regular basis that
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: he doesn't care about what President Trump feels, or Iran,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: or Israel.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 18: You pointed that out yesterday.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: So did I. That tweet from J.D. Vance, from me,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: Ari Fleischer, speaks to disloyal to the President of the
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: United States. Your thoughts?
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, here's the thing about J.D., who, of course, very
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 5: much vehemently opposed Donald Trump. J.D. is a maneuverer. What
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 5: is missing in JD, in my opinion, is deep-rooted ideology,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 5: care about principle, putting issues first. JD is always ready
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 5: to maneuver, take the next position, defend the Vaikarama Swamis,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 5: add that ran in Ohio. And when it comes to
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 5: the Middle East and when it comes to Israel, J.D.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 5: represents the Tucker Carlson wing of the Republican Party, which
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 5: is a very small wing. Most of it has left
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 5: the party. They're becoming Democrats. It's the Abdul El-Sayed wing
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 5: of the Democratic Party. J.D. is more comfortable there than
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 5: he is in the Donald Trump wing of the Republican Party.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 5: So I've got a lot of bones to pick on
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 5: policy with J.D., and I thought J.D. crossed the line
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 5: yesterday when he put out that statement that was disloyal
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 5: to President Trump. And two, to basically throw Israel overboard. No,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 5: the United States and Israel are a fantastic team. We
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 5: should not be throwing Israel overboard.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: He does it all the time, though, and that's why
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: I was surprised that the RJC picked him to be
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: the speaker. I know they're trying to maybe fix that relationship.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: He's a VP. It makes sense on paper, but he
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: does that all the time. And then, as you pointed out,
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: and so did I, the Iran war is not the problem.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: President Trump did the right thing, okay? They were getting
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: very close to a nuclear weapon. The detractors say, I've
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: been hearing that for 30 years. Well, you're stupid. They
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: were very, very close to getting it. He decided enough
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: is enough. Other presidents did nothing about it. They just
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: paid him. That's not the issue. The issue is, and
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: I've been yelling about this for months, these constant ceasefires.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: Trump called out Iran on that Tuesday night, Ari, a
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: month ago. He should have done what he promised to do.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: Here's where I will critique the president and blown their
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: doors off. Instead, these constant ceasefires. And who wants to
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: do these? J.D.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 15: Benz.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 15: Yep.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 5: The problem was not the war. The problem was the ceasefire.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 5: The ceasefire didn't work. It didn't hold. And it's left
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 5: us in this muddled middle, which is what Americans are
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 5: really uncomfortable with. We don't like and we don't want
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 5: to ever go to war. But if we go to war, Sid,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 5: you want to get in, get out, get it done
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 5: and get home. And we could have done that. We
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 5: should have done that. And here's the bigger picture about Iran.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 5: For 47 years, they've been an enemy to the United States.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 5: We had a chance to bring a different regime, a
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 5: pro-Western regime, a regime that believed in peace, a regime
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 5: that could have gotten along with all its neighbors, including Israel.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 5: A new Middle East could have been born, a peaceful,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 5: enduring Middle East. Iran is the crux of the problem.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 5: They're the one who funds the terrorists. They're the ones
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 5: who fund Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis. Get rid of that regime.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 5: There are pro-Western young people full in Iran. We had
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 5: a chance, and then we blinked. That's why we're in
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 5: trouble now in the Middle East. What are we going
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 5: to do? Withdraw all the naval flotilla that we have there,
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 5: the blockade, and then let Iran have hegemony over Bahrain
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 5: and the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia? We can't
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 5: do that. Keep them there forever? We don't want to
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 5: do that. We need to finish this job, and we
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 5: need to get the new regime in Iran.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 17: 100%.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: We never won this war. We need to finish this job.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: We should have done it months ago, and now we
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: put ourselves in a very poor position. I've got to
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: tell you something else, Ari. If you take a good
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: look at J.D. Vance's tweet, look at the people who
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: liked it. Look at the people who added emojis. You know,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: Megyn Kelly doesn't surprise me. Don Jr., I'm sorry if
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: my son Gabriel... liked a tweet from somebody who worked
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: for me, who I made famous, that actually took a
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: shot at me, I'd be very, very upset. Wouldn't you?
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, that's what I mean. It's the Abdul Saeed
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 5: wing that liked that tweet. You know, all the exit
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 5: polls show that Republican voters powerfully, strongly support Israel. They
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 5: understand the beauty of the United States-Israel relationship. They understand
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 5: how Israel is on the front line defending us, defending
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 5: our freedoms, Western Christian Jewish way of life in a
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 5: very bad neighborhood. I get America first. I'm America first.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 5: But that doesn't mean America only. And it doesn't mean
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 5: that we ditch America's best friends. That's where J.D.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 15: Is.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: So how does this relationship continue? I know President Trump
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: said all the right things yesterday.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 18: Oh, he's right.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: He's right. I got no problem with it. I knew
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: when I was going in this may happen. But you
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: know that Trump is pissed. I know Trump. And by
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: the way, I also know that Trump doesn't like J.D. OK,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: I know that people have told me that inside the
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: White House. So I'm breaking news. So how does that
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: relationship go on now for the next two years?
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 5: Well, here's the thing about Trump. He still loves the
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 5: show The Apprentice. And so he doesn't mind having all
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 5: these people maneuver around him and see who's up, who's down,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 5: who pulled it off, who did it right, who did
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 5: it wrong. And then he lets them swim or sink.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 5: And so that's what he's doing. He's seeing what J.D.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 5: can do with this. You know, he's mindful of it.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 5: He's the decision maker. But, you know, if you're the
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 5: Pentagon or you're the State Department now and J.D. asks
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 5: you for something, what do you do? You know now
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 5: he doesn't support what the president is doing in Iran.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 5: So he's putting everybody in a very difficult spot because
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 5: their job is to work for the president, not the
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 5: vice president. And if the vice president is hell-bent on
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 5: just end the war, bring everybody home, change the relationship
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 5: with Israel, it makes it hard for the state, all
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 5: the agencies to work for both president and vice presidents. Look,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 5: at the end of the day, these decisions are presidential decisions.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 5: What you and I are really talking about is the
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 5: on-deck circle. Who's next? Who's going to run in the
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 5: Republican race in the presidency? And J.D. is going to run.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 5: But like I said, I think he's going to represent
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 5: the Tucker Carlson wing of the party, and that's not
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 5: going to take him very far. There's a massive opening
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 5: in the Republican Party. And frankly, I think the fact
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 5: that what you said about J.D. and what I said
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 5: about J.D. were furtherated in social media to such a
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 5: great degree– shows that there's still a strong peace through strength,
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 5: muscular foreign policy wing of the Republican Party. And Ted Cruz,
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 5: Marco Rubio, Glenn Youngkin, there are several people, Ron DeSantis,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 5: all of whom are possibilities. Keep your eye on all
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 5: of them. It's a wide open race.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: So to your point, Dari Flesher, you're exactly right. If
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: our tweets, yours and mine yesterday, have generated now over
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: 6 million likes, which basically defended the president.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 18: I got four of them.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 5: By the way. You only got one or two of them.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you got like five million. I know. You're
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: the big star here. Trust me, Harry. I said it
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: all morning long. You're the star. No, no, no.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 18: You're the big star. But on a serious note, I
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 18: mean this.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: Doesn't it show that even though Tuesday night was a
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: Republican bloodbath, that President Trump isn't dead just yet?
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 23: Or is he?
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 5: No, he's not dead. I mean, I've been through so
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 5: many political cycles where I've seen people lose and come back.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 5: And remember, Barack Obama got his clock cleaned at every
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 5: midterm he ran in. But then he was reelected and
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 5: he left office a popular guy. Look, I think if
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 5: Donald Trump leaves office with the economy booming, with the
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 5: war over in Iran, with a successful new regime in
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 5: place in Iran, new Abraham Accords, You don't know how
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 5: he's going to leave office. He could leave office a
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 5: very popular guy. I hope that's the case. Because if
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 5: he leaves an unpopular guy, it means the Democrats are
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 5: going to take the White House and have the Congress
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 5: and the White House. And that's a huge problem. So
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 5: we all have a lot of stake in this. And
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 5: by the way, Sid, just as a New Yorker, born
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 5: and raised, born in Manhattan, raised in Westchester, you're the
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 5: famous guy, not me.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you for that. I appreciate that, Ari. You know,
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: I respect, I look up to you, I admire you.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: So thank you for saying that. I want to go
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: back to what he said about change relationship with Israel because.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 18: My first cousin, Norm Coleman, asked him on stage.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: He was sitting right there in the audience, you and I,
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. And he went on about, hey, listen,
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: things are different than they were 30 years ago. He
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: spoke about the Israel relationship for about 10 minutes. I
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: got to be honest. I'm not as smart as you.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: I left there more confused than when I entered the room.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: I had no idea exactly how J.D. Vance felt about Israel.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: So when he says change the relationship, does he mean...
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: Just end it? What exactly does he mean?
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he spoke in code. He came to the Republican
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 5: Jewish Coalition meeting in Las Vegas. It was just last,
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 5: when was that? In August.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 18: September.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: End of August, September 1st, yes. Yeah.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 5: And he said, we need to change the relationship. The
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 5: things that we did, the things that we said 30
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 5: years ago no longer have the same meaning. And my
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 5: question was, what exactly are you referring to? What doesn't
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 5: have the same meaning? He was imprecise. He was vague.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 5: And that was on purpose because I think what he
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 5: would tell you is if you've got a chance to
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 5: ask him and he gave an honest answer is the
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 5: United States doesn't need Israel. Israel is no longer the
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 5: United States' best friend in the region. The United States
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 5: and Israel have different interests.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: By the way, he did say some of that. He
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: actually included the UK in the same sentence as Israel.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but where does it take him? What does he mean?
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 5: And I guess he starts to spell it out in
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 5: his tweet yesterday when he said, change the relationship with Israel.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 5: But to what? That's what I don't understand.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 18: J.D.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 5: 's heart is not with Israel. J.D. 's heart is
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 5: not with the Jewish people. And everybody understands that. And
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 5: that's fine. Israel is a sovereign, separate country. But it
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 5: raises questions to me about J.D. 's judgment, his wisdom,
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 5: and his sense of what the American alliances around the
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 5: world should look like. If it's all based on just
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 5: whatever is selfishly in America's interest, there are no mutual
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 5: interests anymore. There are no things that we can do
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 5: for Israel that Israel can do for us. No things
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 5: that we can do for another ally, things that allies
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 5: can do for us. Then I'm very suspect about his isolationism.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 5: And isolationism has gotten the United States into serious troubles
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 5: in the past. We all know the wars get bigger
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 5: and longer the longer America waits when there is trouble abroad.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 5: We almost set out World War I and World War II.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 5: The price was the Holocaust and World War II, not
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 5: to mention the loss of so many Americans because... we
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 5: didn't act when we had a chance to go after
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 5: Adolf Hitler.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: 100% we did nothing.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 5: We didn't.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: We did nothing.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 5: Isolationism has a long tradition in America.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 15: Yes.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 5: And I respect the fact that people don't want America
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 5: to go to war. But that doesn't mean you abandon Israel.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: Now, we have dangers on both sides. You've got the
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: lunatics on the left who just hate Israel and hate
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: the Jews.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 18: You've got the isolationists on the right, people like J.D.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: And Tucker. They're equally as dangerous. But it does beg
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: the question, while we know that President Trump is a
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: friend of the Jews, he loves us, and he's done
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: great things for Israel, why would he come out on
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: Election Day and tell everybody something you and I knew
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: already for months, it's no big secret, that U.S. aid
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: to Israel is about to end?
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the timing of when it's going to end confused
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 5: me because there was an agreement in place. And I'll
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 5: offer the aid and let Israel buy what it needs
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 5: to buy. But that's the next fight set. It's not
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 5: going to be whether Israel gets aid to buy stuff.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 5: It's going to be whether Israel is allowed to buy stuff.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 5: There are a lot of Democrats in Congress now who
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 5: don't want Israel to get any weapons. They don't want
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 5: Israel to defend itself in any way. I mean, in fact,
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 5: they would embargo and boycott the entire state. No trade
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 5: with Israel. Talk about not liking tariffs. They'd shut down
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 5: all trade with Israel. But that's the issue. Let Israel
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 5: buy its own weapons. They're a sovereign country, and that's fine.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 5: Let them buy them wherever they think the place is right.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 5: That's going to be most likely the United States because
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 5: we're pretty good. So what he's talking about is don't
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 5: give Israel the money that Israel then puts back into
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 5: the United States to buy stuff.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 18: Fine.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 5: But I hope we do that to Egypt. I hope
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 5: we do it to Jordan.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 5: But remember, the reason we give that aid to Egypt
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 5: and Jordan is because we have an interest in stability.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 5: And those are the allies. Jordan and Egypt were the
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 5: first nations that made peace with Israel. And so we've
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 5: longstanding had an agreement with Israel, Jordan, Egypt to give
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 5: them aid.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: But I would say this. If we're going to stop
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: and you said it correctly, we give Israel three point
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: eight billion dollars and morons out there. Take a listen.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: because you're stupid, okay? 3.4 billion of that never leaves
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: the United States. Never leaves. 3.4 out of 3.8 billion
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: never leaves, okay? So stop bitching. But if we're going
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: to do that, why not shut down all of our
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: bases all over the Arab countries?
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, right. And this is where J.D. is hollow. He
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 5: needs to spell out what he is advocating for. When
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 5: he puts something as provocative as end the relationship with Israel,
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 5: What does that mean? And I hope that he has
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 5: to spell this out. I hope reporters pin him down
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 5: on it. I hope he gives a speech about it.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 5: And if that's his view, fine. We all have had
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 5: hints this is his view. But then I don't see
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 5: him going very far in a Republican primary. That is
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 5: a misread of Republican primary voters. And the exit polls
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 5: show that.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: But they're going to say to you on the way out,
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: this is an accurate.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 5: Read of Democrat voters, not an accurate read of Republicans.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: But I would ask you then this, because we're in
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: the conversation, and you're brilliant. I loved having you on.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: Please come back more often. If it's not an accurate
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: read of the Republican voters, and it's not this, what
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: exactly happened, that bloodbath, on Tuesday night?
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 5: Well, because it wasn't about Israel. It was about affordability.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 5: It was about costs. It was about a variety of
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 5: different issues, all of which added up to affordability. It
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 5: was an issue in which Republicans ran a 24 playbook
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 5: on cultural issues that didn't work because people were more
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 5: focused on just paying their bills in 26. It was
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 5: an economic election. We've been through those before. And that's
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 5: why we've got to get the Iran war behind us
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 5: in the sense that that helps oil, the price of
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 5: oil come down. We need to explore for more energy.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 5: That brings oil prices down and that brings prices down.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 5: All of that is what it was about. But to
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 5: blame it on one thing, that's wrong.
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 18: Are you confident?
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  Speaker 1: Moving ahead in the future as a proud Republican. And
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: you were a great, great, great press secretary for George Bush.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: Are you confident the Republicans can come back from this?
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 5: No, I'm sorry to say it like that, but you
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 5: have to earn it. And America is a closely divided country.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 5: And as this midterm shows, there can be big sweeps.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 5: I mean, Mississippi might go Democrat. That's crazy.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: Crazy.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 5: So, This is what campaigns are about. This is why
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 5: picking the best right candidate is about. You know, just
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 5: imagine a Marco Rubio with his intellect and his articulateness
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 5: standing up and running and making the case in a
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 5: strong economy that Donald Trump might leave behind. That's how
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 5: we get back into the game. I do worry if
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 5: the economy is weak going forward and we have the
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 5: wrong candidate. Yeah, that's a high hurdle to get over.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 18: Ari, I couldn't agree more.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: It was an honor having you on this morning. Really,
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: you're so great. You know, I really feel that way.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: I love you.
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  Speaker 18: Ari Fleischer, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 5: My pleasure. Great to be with you, Sid.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: Take care. Ari Floscher right there, the amazing, amazing press
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: secretary for George Bush 43. Just one of the nicest
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: and smartest guys you'll ever meet. We'll take a short break.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: We'll continue these conversations. Our colleague here at WABC and
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: a big star at Fox News, my good buddy Brian Kilmer.
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: Sid and friends.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 3: In the morning on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: I got a million plus yesterday because I took... Vice
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: President J.D. Vance to desk. I did go to Washington, D.C.
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: about six weeks ago at the VP's behest, by the way.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: He invited me. I didn't want to go. And we
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: had a cute meeting. It was cute. We discussed nothing
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: really important. And as the days and weeks pass, now
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: I know why. OK, because he knew that he wasn't
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: going to gain in a Tucker Carlson conversation or an
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: Israel conversation. So when J.D. Vance leaves the White House
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: meeting yesterday and breaks from President Trump, he undermines President Trump,
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: basically throws Trump under the bus, even though Trump later said,
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: I was OK with it. I can't imagine he was.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: And J.D. Vance says, hey, I spoke to a really
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: smart guy and he gave me the four reasons why
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: we got our asses kicked last night. And two of those,
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: of course, are the Iran war, which J.D. never wanted,
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: and Israel, because J.D. hates Israel and, quite frankly, is
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: not a fan of the Jews. He listens to Tucker,
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: Megyn Kelly. I got news for you. Donald Trump Jr.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: yesterday 100%ed J.D. Vance's tweet yesterday. Four times. So on
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: one side, you got me and Mark Levin getting killed
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: on Twitter. We are the neocons that cost the Republicans
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: the election. On the other side, J.D. Vance says, Israel, Iran,
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: that's why we lost. Brian Kilmeade does a tremendous job,
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: follows me each and every morning. 10 o'clock here on
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: 77 WABC. Fox and Friends, his own amazing show, 10 p.m.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: Sunday nights, One Nation. What are your thoughts on Vance's
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: tweet and what really happened on Tuesday night?
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  Speaker 16: I'm so on the same page as you, Sid. Number one,
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 16: in life, it's so easy to stand by somebody when
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 16: they win. Hey, you're my friend. What's going on? Congratulations
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 16: on your victory in life. The biggest job, you get
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 16: the house you want, you have the kid.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's great. High five.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 16: Your kid gets a full scholarship to be a running
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 16: back at Clemson. It's easy to be, hey, listen, congratulations. Wow,
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 16: that's a good friend. But when things, I guess, in
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 16: the short term may not appear to pan out and
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 16: you wait a few hours and then come out and
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 16: just go to try to save yourself for a future
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 16: electoral victory by divorcing yourself from the guy that gave
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 16: you the biggest break.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: Of your life. Keep in mind, J.D.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: Vance does not win.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 16: The Senate race barely gets by in Ohio without Donald Trump.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 16: So I, you know, I do think he's talented. I mean,
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 16: I don't think he's presidential material. All the likes and
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 16: you knows and the bro culture. That's not what I
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 16: want in the White House. But I really disagree with
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 16: him upon foreign policy. I really disagree with on the
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 16: part of policy with Israel. I really disagree with his
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 16: opinion of Bibi Netanyahu, which is which is I don't
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 16: like Netanyahu, but I like Israel wrong.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: All right. I really disagree with his view on the
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: world in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 16: And for him to take such a shallow view and
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 16: look at Iran, well, we shouldn't have done it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Mr.
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  Speaker 16: Vice President, I know you served in Iraq. I don't
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 16: care that you didn't have a combat job. I'm not
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 16: going to judge you on that. That's great. You were
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 16: a Marine. Ivy League education. I give you credit for that.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 16: But you know 603 people died at the hands of
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 16: the Iranians and thousands more were wounded because they went
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 16: in and caused the insurgency that lengthened that war about
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 16: four or five more years or else Iraq would have
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 16: been settled down. And it wasn't until the surge led
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 16: by Petraeus and others that things got settled down and
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 16: we handed the keys to a calm Iraq despite Iran's infiltration.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 16: And then they tried to commit terror attacks in our
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 16: own country. They try to get across our border and
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 16: then they create a ring of fire around our only
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 16: real ally in the Middle East, a ring of fire
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 16: to destroy them. And they start rocketing Israel. That's called
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 16: an alliance.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: In life.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 16: You have to have an alliance. So with that, even
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 16: Joe Biden stood up and was knocking missiles out of
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 16: the sky. This guy wouldn't have done it. And now
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 16: that he feels his electoral future is in danger, he
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 16: divorces himself from the one man solely responsible, who he
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 16: once called Hitler, for his success and his elevation, which
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 16: is unthinkable. So I don't think he's.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: A bad person.
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 16: I think he is a very disloyal, me first person.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: Don Jr.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 16: Giving a hundred likes to those lengthy statements. Blaming the
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 16: war is stunning to me, but it's easy to say, well,
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 16: if the war didn't happen, gas price would have been lower.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 16: That would have been different.
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: Fine.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 16: And then if we have an attack here at home,
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 16: We have a situation where we're back in the Middle
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 16: East defending Israel again. If the Abraham Accords continue to
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 16: blow up, if our allies in the Gulf states continue
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 16: to get harassed, at what point do we ever do
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 16: anything about it? This president took an extremely crazy decision.
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 16: I agree with you and Mark Thiessen last night when
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 16: he just said flat out, this is the most disloyal
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 16: thing I've ever seen. Hours after the electoral verdict, which
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 16: was devastating, which tradition would have it, happened to Clinton
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 16: and Obama in their final year, in their final midterms,
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 16: they ended up with 60% approval rating.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: And I think this president's going to make this work.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 16: So I think he's got to be eliminated immediately, Sid,
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 16: from any talks, because immediately he's going to meet with
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 16: the IRGC, which he's doing. He's going to talk with
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 16: them face to face. He knows no idea, just wants
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 16: to end the war. And they know exactly where he stands.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 16: They're going to play him like a fiddle. They go, listen,
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 16: you want to end the war? Let's just do it.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 16: The Strait of Hormuz, we're going to run it. There's
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 16: going to be a fee, but don't worry about it.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 16: Just end your blockade and unleash the frozen funds and
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 16: you'll be done with us. We won't attack you anymore.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 16: And Sid, he's going to say, where do I sign?
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 16: You've got to eliminate him that right now from all
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 16: the talks immediately from all the talks. And what you
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 16: need is if you want to be critical, you can
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 16: talk about the plan. You can talk about the decision
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 16: to end the fighting, at least with 25 percent of
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 16: the targets remaining. You know, as usual, war plans from
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 16: World War Two to the current Persian Gulf War one
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 16: and two.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: There's always problems. Well, that's OK. It's OK.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 16: Get new military people in there. Come up with a
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 16: better plan.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: That's OK.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 16: That's called war. It happens all the time. Nobody's got
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 16: the perfect plan. So get the perfect plan. Get the people.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 16: Stop firing generals at the Pentagon with all the experience,
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 16: Pete Hegseth, and get the plan that's going to get
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 16: the president a victory. I agree with the editorial section
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 16: of the California Post when it says, hey, Mr. President,
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 16: you want to solve the Iran war?
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: Win.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 6: That's what you do.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 16: You win because you win for the entire Middle East.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 16: They have made it clear they are enemies with all
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 16: of our allies in the Middle East.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: Not just Israel. They're afraid of Israel.
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 16: So your topic is right on the money, and I
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 16: know I'm unpopular with this statement, and a lot of
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 16: people came back at you. But you know when you're right,
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 16: it doesn't matter, and you know you can spot disloyalty
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 16: when you see it.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: 100%. Boy, you just nailed that so perfectly, Brian Kilmeade.
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: I love you. Look, the war is not the issue.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: Where I do take issue with Trump is, and I
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: was adamant about this on Twitter and on my show,
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: yelling and screaming, Months ago, Tuesday night, about four months ago,
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: I'm having Mexican food with my son. And that was
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: the night where Trump was going to, quote, eliminate Iran.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: And he comes out a half hour before and he says, nah,
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give him 10 more days. And he
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: did that time and time again. For me, if Trump
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: would have just done what he was threatening to do
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: four or five months ago, This would have been over.
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: Never would have been a problem two nights ago. That's
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: my issue with Trump, not the war, these constant ceasefires. Exactly. Exactly.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 16: And you know, Sid, he should just keep his powder dry.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 16: And I know when he got on the debate stage
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 16: of your J.D. Vance, you could say, look, I'm here
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 16: to help the president. If you want to know my agenda...
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 16: My agenda is X, Y, and Z, but that's not
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 16: what I'm about. I learned a lot from working with
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 16: the president of the United States. Personally, I had a
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 16: different view of that war, but I agree with 97%
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 16: of everything else.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: That's what you do. You don't have to agree with
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: the president.
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 16: I remember when Hubert Humphrey, I was watching these videos
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 16: of him separating himself from LBJ. So he's trying to
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 16: win an election against Nixon. But yet he says, listen,
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 16: when I'm vice president, I'm loyal to the president. But
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 16: if you're asking me, these are my policies on the
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 16: Vietnam War. I mean, there's templates for this. Nixon and Eisenhower.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 16: Nixon had to go run. Eisenhower says, I'm not endorsing you.
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: You've got to go win it.
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: On your own.
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 16: He had to come and be critical of Dwight Eisenhower.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 16: But there was a way to do it while showing loyalty.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 16: He had no interest in showing loyalty. He didn't wait
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 16: to get on the debate stage. He waited hours. hours
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 16: and then put it on social media like a coward.
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 18: You are so right. Tomorrow, I'll let you run.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: This was clearly a referendum on President Trump. We can
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: talk about Iran and gas prices and a whole bunch
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: of stuff, but it's become clear Clay Travis talked about
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: this yesterday and others that there were even Republican Trump
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: supporters that voted Democrat. I've never left Trump. I'm still
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: loyal to Trump. I tweeted right away Tuesday night. I'm
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: not going to stab my friend in the back. But
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: the truth is, Brian. Republicans who used to love Trump
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: voted Democrat. What does that say for my party moving forward?
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 16: Well, I mean, and a lot of young people, too.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 16: I would look at the numbers with no passion. I
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 16: look at the numbers as raw numbers. I go over
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 16: every single exit poll. And I would say this. You know,
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 16: there's some things in retrospect, they came off too harsh.
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 16: I mean, chasing people down the street, some of which
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 16: didn't have criminal records. That just fed the, oh my goodness,
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 16: that's not the way I treat my neighbor. I know
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 16: that guy.
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: He's a landscaper, a good guy. I don't want him
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: under arrest.
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 16: Now the three people hanging out with him might have
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 16: been criminals, but the optics were terrible and Trump knew it.
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: He knew the optics were terrible.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 16: He was telling Susie Wiles, Susie Wiles was telling him,
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 16: you know, we got to dial this back. We got
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 16: to get Kristi Noem in here. And then others on
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 16: the right say, no, no, everybody's got to get out.
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 16: Everybody can't get out. We can't get out 17 million people.
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 16: There's got to be, okay, we get the worst of
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 16: the worst. So there's subtleties there. The other thing on
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 16: the tariff should have been much more targeted and explained.
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 16: Just tell me the numbers. What did EU do to us?
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 16: Tell me about the imbalance. Tell me about, give me six,
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 16: six tariffs. And you start with China and work your
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 16: way back. Personally, with that big liberation day, people a
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 16: little ticked off. And can I just say, as much
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 16: as I like the concept of Doge, I don't think
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 16: the American people loved 500 to 1,000 people being fired,
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 16: making $ 50, 000 a year.
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: Who they don't even know.
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 16: You know, by people they never met. So I think
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 16: Doge could have been a lot less ham handed. So
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 16: people saw some of that and go, well, you know,
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 16: that rubs me the wrong way. So there's certain things
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 16: in policies that you change every other president. I understand
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 16: your objective, but Mr. President, not everybody can go. And
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 16: now he's going to have an opportunity to immigration comprehensive reform.
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 16: And he's going to have to. And I think he
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 16: can do it. Look at the big picture. Give the
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 16: dreamers their break in exchange for changing the rules of
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 16: the border and get rid of sanctuary cities.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: There's definitely things you can do.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 16: And I think I want to see the dealmaker do
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 16: deals and he can walk out with 60 percent approval
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 16: rating and we don't have to worry about all his
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 16: executive orders being overturned. if the Republican doesn't replace him.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: All right, finally, Republican replacing him. You know, Ron DeSantis
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: on record yesterday said, wait a second, am I going
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: to run? We just got blasted in Texas. How realistic
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: is it that a Republican is going to win in
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: 2028 if we just got blasted in Texas? Nikki Haley
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: didn't exactly say the same thing yesterday.
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 18: J.D.
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: Vance, as far as I'm concerned, his tweet yesterday shows
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: he has no loyalty to the United States or that office.
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: Marco Rubio, he got to jump in. It's time. I
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: know he loves being Secretary of State, but it's time.
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: Let me give you the scenario.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 16: If it's money, if the big backers, and I know
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 16: that El-Sayed hates this, and I got to run downstairs
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 16: and do this promo, but... It's money. If the money
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 16: doesn't follow J.D., that's going to get to Trump. And
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 16: Trump says he's not going to endorse. He wants the
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 16: process to play out. If the money doesn't back J.D.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 16: and they come up to Rubio and they let him know,
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 16: if you don't get in, we're still not backing him.
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 16: Because Rubio's loyal to J.D. They get along great. So
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 16: if they just say, listen, I'm telling you, we're never
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 16: going to give the money to him. We'll give it
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 16: to somebody else. We'd like it to be you. We'll
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 16: give it to somebody else. And if Trump says, you know,
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 16: I'm going to stay out of it. You know, if
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 16: Trump goes and backs J.D. and then he's he's like
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 16: he'll be in the wilderness. So if Trump stays out
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 16: of it and the money doesn't back J.D., he might
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 16: jump into it. But Rubio's got this thing that J.D.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: Doesn't. And that's loyalty.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 16: And he feels like he gave his word to J.D.
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 16: He won't jump in. So it's got to be an
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 16: extreme circumstance. And the thing is, Sid, you're not going
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 16: to believe this. I don't think he needs it. Usually
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 16: people are desperate to be president. Ted Cruz, desperate to
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 16: be president. You know, AOC, desperate to be president. He's
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 16: one of these guys, Bush, really wanted to be president,
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 16: 41 and 43.
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 16: I don't think he needs it. And he just says, listen,
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 16: my career ends tomorrow. I'm totally okay with it. If
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 16: the president doesn't want to make me vice president, I'm
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 16: okay with it. And that endears him to Trump. And that,
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 16: I think, the public can pick up on it. I think,
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 16: you know, he's going to walk out. He's going to
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 16: be a multimillionaire. You don't realize the contacts he has overseas,
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 16: the credibility he has in Central and South America and
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 16: the Caribbean. This guy's going to be never have to
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 16: work another day in his life while he's been making, what, $ 400, 000
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 16: and an honest guy not taking any money on the side?
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 16: So he's about to, he can't lose either way. He's
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 16: got the Republic's respect. He's got the Trump people's respect
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 16: and the traditional Bush people's respect. So he's in the
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 16: perfect place right now. So let's let this thing play out.
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 16: Someone also told me yesterday there's an excellent chance J.D.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 16: doesn't run because he's really concerned about his family.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: Wow. Concerned about his family.
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 20: Okay.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: Listen, this was a great conversation, Brian Kilmeade. I love you.
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: You're the best. Go do your promo and thank you
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: so much. You, my friend, are a great American.
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 6: I love you.
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 17: Right.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 16: And prove it by getting United in the States and
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 16: keeping it number five in the country, baby. Six crucial
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 16: moments that forge the American miracle. I'm beating Sylvester Stallone
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 16: for the first time in my life.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: Life. See you, buddy. Uniting the States. Number five, my friend,
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: Brian Kilmeade, who does a spectacular job following me each
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: and every morning here on ABC comes your way at
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: 10 a.m. And of course, Fox and Friends every weekday
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: morning on Fox News. and his own great show, 10 p.m.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: Sunday nights, One Nation. A lot more to do today,
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: including my friend, the king of Rockland County, the man
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: President Trump calls Mr.
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 5: Salt.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: I was in his headquarters on Tuesday night. We suffered
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: that defeat, but to me, he remains one of the
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: best people I know.
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: I see him, Brian Kilmeade, is taking Laura Trump to
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: task over J.D. Vance's tweet. Look, I'm not saying that
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: Iran didn't lend to what happened on Tuesday night. Of
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: course it did, okay? But J.D. Vance is still a
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: disloyal little prick. And he's run by assholes like Tucker
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: Carlson and Megyn Kelly. And quite frankly, the only kid
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: that I don't really love, that's one of Trump's kids,
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: Don Jr. Don't love him.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 18: He's one of them. And for Don Jr. to like J.D.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: Vance's tweet, who basically took out his father, I don't
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: care what Trump says.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 18: Trump comes out and goes, no, he was right.
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: Let the president say that, okay? You're the vice president.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: You wait just hours, not days, not months, not for
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: the debate stage, not for president. Just hours later, and
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: you lame-bash the president, basically, because of Iran and Israel?
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 7: No.
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: And Don Jr. goes, yeah, 100%. Four times he said that. 100%.
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: That's my kid? I beat the shit out of him. Sorry.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: Dump that. Dump that. Dump it.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 18: My kid, Gabriel, who I love more than anything.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: Him, Danielle, and Ava. I'm pissed. Sorry. So J.D.
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 18: Vance, right or wrong?
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: Disloyal. And he's wrong. Don Jr.
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 18: you should be ashamed of yourself. That's your father. and
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 18: many others. There's a lot of reasons why.
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 1: We got our asses kicked on Tuesday night.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 5: A lot.
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: And to put it solely on Iran or Israel is dumb.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: But maybe I'm wrong. Look, one of my best friends,
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: a man I love dearly, I never would have predicted
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: in a million years he would have lost Tuesday night. Mr. Salt,
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: Mike Lawler. Maybe he agrees with J.D.
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 5: Vance.
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 18: I think either way, J.D. Vance is a selfish, disloyal,
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 18: That's me.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: Mike Lawler, still one of my favorite people, and no
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: matter what, one of the best congressmen I've ever seen,
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: talks for the first time since his disappointing loss on
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 1: Tuesday night.
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 18: Mike Lawler is.
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: One of the smartest and classiest men to ever serve
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: our country, and he is giving me his first talk.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: radio interview since Tuesday night, which I'm really grateful for.
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 18: Mike Lawler, good morning, my friend.
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: How are you?
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 5: I'm good, Sid.
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 20: How are you?
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: I'm good. I think you are good. I did tell people,
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: I hope you don't get angry with me, but I
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: did tell people yesterday morning when I went over the
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: night before that you did get emotional when you addressed
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: your staff and your mom was sitting there and your
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: beautiful wife and I was sitting there. This is before
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: you made your actual concession speech. You did get pretty emotional.
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: Are you okay with me saying that? Oh, sure.
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 20: It's life, you know. Look, I've put everything into this
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 20: job for the four years I've served in Congress and
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 20: the two years that I served in the State Assembly.
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 20: I made it a seven-day-a-week job, and I dedicated myself
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 20: fully to it and to my constituents and to the
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 20: people that I was blessed to represent. You know, of course,
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 20: it's disappointing. You know, I think I certainly deserved re-election
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 20: and certainly worked hard to earn it. But ultimately, it's
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 20: that determination. And I respect that. That is our process. And,
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 20: you know, you have to respect not only when you win,
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 20: but when you lose. And from my vantage point, You know,
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 20: I'm very proud of the work that I did over
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 20: these past four years in Congress. Very proud of my
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 20: staff and the hard work that they put in on
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 20: behalf of my constituents. You know, a lot of time
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 20: the focus is obviously on the member themselves and, you know,
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 20: the attention they get for something they say or do.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 20: But the thing that I am most proud of is
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 20: the work that we actually did and the constituent work
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 20: and helping people, whatever their problem was. I mean, being
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 20: able to secure a pardon for Mike McMahon, who never
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 20: should have been prosecuted by the Biden administration to begin with,
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 20: a decorated 9-11, you know, ground zero. police officer. He
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 20: never should have been prosecuted. Being able to get the
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 20: Presidential Medal of Freedom for Wells Crowder, standing up for
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 20: the Gorman family, the work that is done day in,
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 20: day out by my office and still going to be
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 20: done over the next two months to close out constituent casework,
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 20: the work that we did to pass over two dozen bills,
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 20: and I have more bills that are sitting in the
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 20: House and the Senate that are going to be passed
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 20: before the end of the year. That's the work I
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 20: am most proud of. You know, politics is rough. You know,
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 20: you put yourself out there and.
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 20: You have a lot of people who like you. You
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 20: have a lot of people who hate you, no matter
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 20: what you say or do, because you either have an
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 20: R or a D next to your name. And, you know,
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 20: in this instance, obviously, I think we ran one of
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 20: the strongest, if not the strongest congressional campaign in the country.
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 20: and unfortunately the bottom fell out, and there was nothing
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 20: I could do. As I said to Manu Raju, Jesus
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 20: Christ could have run, and he.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: Would have lost. I think you're right. When you walked
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: into the hotel and I first saw you, look, I
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: know Bruce Blakeman is no dummy. He knew he wasn't
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: going to win, let's be honest. A lot of these
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: candidates knew they weren't going to win, but they put
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: up a good fight and did what they had to do.
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: You walked into the hotel. You thought you were going
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: to win. I spoke to your mom on the floor.
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: She thought you were going to win. and that whole
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: place thought you were going to win. And, you know,
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: we were still waiting for the Westchester count. There were
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: issues that morning in Westchester, and we thought it may
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: be the next day. But you didn't wait at all.
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: Before 10 o'clock, you addressed us and then the crowd.
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: Some people said, why did he do it that quickly?
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: I had to say, well, he did the numbers, and
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: he figured out that no matter what happened in Westchester,
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: he still couldn't win. It seemed to me, Mike, when
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: you started to get the feeling like you couldn't win,
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: You wanted to wrap that whole thing up as quickly
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: as possible.
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 20: Well, two things, okay? Number one, I've been doing this
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 20: a long time. I started as an intern for John McCain.
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 20: I've been doing this for 18 years. I know this
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 20: in and out. And as soon as I saw the
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 20: early vote numbers come out of Dutchess and Putnam, which
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 20: are the two of the most Republican areas of the district,
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 20: and that we were down... I knew we would win
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 20: those two counties and that I would win on election day.
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 20: But I knew my margin wasn't going to be big enough.
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 20: And I knew my margin in Rockland wasn't going to
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 20: be big enough. I won all three counties. I won
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 20: those three counties. And, you know, of course, I knew
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 20: I was going to win them. But the margin wasn't
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 20: big enough to overcome what was going to be a
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 20: big loss in Westchester. And secondarily, given the problems in
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 20: Westchester County and the problems with the machines, I did
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 20: not want to let this drag on. I didn't want
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 20: to listen to the conspiracy theories and the nonsense. There
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 20: was no shenanigans going on.
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: There was no cheating, right? There was no cheating, right? None.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 5: No, no.
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 20: There was a mistake made at the Board of Elections
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 20: with one of their vendors who on the formatting of
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 20: the ballot, and it screwed up the ability of the
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 20: machines to count it. I did not want this dragging
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 20: into the next day, and we didn't need national people
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 20: saying that it's being stolen. I didn't want to.
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 5: Deal with that.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 20: And so I made a decision to call Kate, concede, and,
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 20: you know, make sure that I did this the right way.
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: Now, correct me if I'm wrong. Even Kate Conley, when
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: you called her, was surprised you called her that early, yes?
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 5: Yes, that's true.
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 1: And what did she say?
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 20: Look, I'm not going to get too deep into the conversation,
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 20: but just the bottom line is I... conceded to her and,
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 20: you know, congratulated her and, and wish her well. Uh,
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 20: and look, I'm going to do everything in my power.
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 20: I'm sure we'll meet soon. I'm going to do everything
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 20: in my power to make sure it's a smooth transition.
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 20: something that I wasn't really ever afforded when I defeated
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 20: incumbent Democrats. And again, I care deeply about this job.
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 20: I care deeply about the people I represent. And, you know,
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 20: sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. But how you handle
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 20: it matters. And I've always believed in a very simple
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 20: line about politics. Humble in victory, gracious in defeat. And
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 20: you have to be gracious when you lose. And that's
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 20: how I will choose to go out. As I said
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 20: on election night, this certainly isn't the end. What that
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 20: means when there's opportunity again, who knows? And if there's
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 20: no opportunity in elected office, That's fine. You know, there's
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 20: other ways to serve. But I care deeply about this country.
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 20: I care deeply about this state. You know, obviously, this
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 20: election was very much focused on, you know, national considerations
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 20: and frustrations that people have nationally. I think New York
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 20: has a lot of problems that were masked by, you know,
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 20: things happening nationally. and people voted accordingly. But I do
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 20: think New York is in for a day of reckoning.
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 20: This can't continue the way it is in New York.
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 20: The reckless spending, the high taxes, the high cost of energy, housing, healthcare.
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 20: Kathy Hochul and New York Democrats answer to everything is
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 20: Donald Trump, but Donald Trump's going to be out of
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 20: office in two years.
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 15: Yep.
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 20: And you know, the day of reckoning in New York
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 20: is coming because, uh, you, you cannot run a state
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 20: the way these folks have and expect that people are
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 20: going to stay here.
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 5: They're not.
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 20: And the tax base is depleting and, you know, Democrats
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 20: in New York got away with it because the focus
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 20: was on national issues. But, um, You know, the future
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 20: of this state is very much.
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 6: Up in the air.
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 20: And I think, you know, we'll see. We'll see what
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 20: happens in the coming years. From my vantage point, you know,
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 20: I'm going to I've been doing this for 18 years.
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 20: I'm going to go take care of my family. I'm
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 20: going to go, you know, be home more and enjoy
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 20: my weekend.
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: Yes. Make some money. Make some real money.
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 20: Well, listen, it's time to do something else for at
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 20: least a while. But, you know, look, I've loved every
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 20: minute of this job. And like I said, I dedicated
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 20: myself sincerely to it and did everything I could to
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 20: fight for and represent my constituents. I'm very proud of
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 20: what we were able to do. And at the end
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 20: of the day, You know, I walk out of it
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 20: with my head held very high.
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: As you should. I'm proud to be your friend. And
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: I thought you did a tremendous job. Two more. Let
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: you run. As soon as I went to my hotel
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: room upstairs and it was over, Mike, I tweeted right away.
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to stab my friend Trump in the
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: back because.
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 18: Very, very quickly Republicans call me.
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: They blame Trump. Democrats were killing Trump. You know, J.D.
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: Vansky couldn't wait to blame Trump, which he did yesterday.
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 1: We'll get to that. So I tweeted right away that
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to stab my friend Trump in the back.
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: But if you had to do it all over again,
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: would you invite President Trump to a rally in Rockland County?
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: And here's why.
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 20: He's the president of the United States. And I have
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 20: fundamentally believed, and I still do, that you have to
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 20: be able to deal with the president of the United States.
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 20: And when I disagreed with him, I have said it.
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: Michael Lawler, one of our best congressmen ever. I mean that.
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: suffered a tough loss Tuesday night because we all lost.
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: Everybody lost. That's not, trust me, that is not a
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: signal of what Mike did while he was a congressman.
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: He's got two months to go. He's back with me.
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: So the vice president puts out a tweet. I've been
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: killing him for the last two days. I think he's disloyal.
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: I really do. Saying that two of the main reasons
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: of the four reasons he quoted some other genius while
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: we lost these elections was Iran and Israel. What are
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: your thoughts, Mike?
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 20: So just to put a fine point on your last question, look,
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 20: I would always welcome the president of the United States
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 20: to my district. And no matter what, I think for
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 20: Rockland County, it was a great opportunity to have the
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 20: president of the United States come here. And so, you know,
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 20: to me, it has no bearing on whether I won
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 20: or lost.
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 1: I agree.
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 20: You know, sometimes you just can't outkicked the coverage. And
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 20: it just, it is what it is. I have a
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 20: district that has 80,000 more Democrats than Republicans. Democrats voted Democrat.
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 20: It's just, it is what it is. So, you know,
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 20: as far as why we took such a shellacking, there's
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 20: a number of factors, you know. Number one, in certain instances,
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 20: candidate recruitment. I mean, somebody like Paxson is one of
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 20: the worst candidates I've ever seen run for office, and
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 20: he sank the governor in the process of Texas. And sometimes,
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 20: you know, it's a candidate. Sometimes, you know, you have
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 20: members of Congress that are in safe seats that, frankly,
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 20: take that for granted and haven't done the work. Part
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 20: of the reason why I work so hard is I
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 20: took nothing for granted, and I had to earn my
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 20: way every single day. And I think sometimes people take
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 20: the work for granted and they lose seats. They have
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 20: no business losing, even in a tough environment. You know, yes, there's,
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 20: you know, the president as a factor. You either like
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 20: him or you don't. I mean, it's that that cake
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 20: is pretty baked after, you know, 12 years on the
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 20: national stage. but I think it's easy for everybody to
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 20: put the blame on the president. I think at the
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 20: end of the day, there's a number of factors. When
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 20: you look back at the cost of living as the
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 20: number one factor, we had cumulative inflation of 21% under
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 20: Joe Biden. That raised the price on everything. And it
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 20: is very hard to get the price curve to bend
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 20: downward on certain things. And you look at, for instance, energy.
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 20: When you have a state like New York that bans
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 20: natural gas and blocks pipelines and shuts down nuclear power
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 20: and utility rates go up 58%, you know, that is
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 20: directly tied to policies in Albany. However, because of the
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 20: war and gas price volatility, I think people conflate everything.
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 20: And it's just kind of like, ah, energy prices are up.
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 20: It's the situation in the Middle East. And look, gas
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 20: prices are notoriously volatile. They'll go up, they come down.
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 20: At the end of the day, they're going to come down.
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 20: The war is going to come to an end and
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 20: gas prices will come down, but utility prices are not
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 20: going to come down unless you actually change policy, which
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 20: is why we're working towards permitting reform. We work to
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 20: address the cost of living, but obviously people aren't feeling
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 20: it as quickly as they'd like. And, you know, the
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 20: cost of everything is through the roof. I think that's
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 20: the number one factor of why people were frustrated. Yes,
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 20: the war in Iran plays a role. People, you know,
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 20: the administration did not do a great job of explaining
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 20: why this matters. And I think the messaging around that
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 20: has not been great.
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: Not just the messaging, but they allowed it to go
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 1: on too long. Trump should have done what he said
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: he was going to do four months ago.
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 20: Listen, I am a big believer when you make a decision,
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 20: you better stick with it and you better execute on it.
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: And by the way, one of the guys that was
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 1: part of the problem besides Trump, Mr. MOU, Mr. I
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 1: always want sea spiders, is the same guy going after
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 1: us about the Iran war, J.D.
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 15: Vance.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 20: Look, you have obviously strong differences of opinion within the administration.
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 20: You know, I think J.D. Vance has very strong opinions
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 20: on this. Marco Rubio has strong opinions.
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  Speaker 5: The other way.
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 20: All of this is going to play out in the
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 20: next presidential election and not only on our side, but
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 20: on their side. And I think this is going to
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 20: be a very sharp choice between the two parties. There's
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 20: going to be strong differences. And ultimately, each party is
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 20: going to go through their primary process and we'll see
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 20: who comes out of it. But these issues are going
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 20: to be front and center.
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 20: And, you know, I think obviously there's going to be
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 20: a lot of a lot of time to debate and
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 20: discuss over over the coming months. And I think there
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 20: needs to be a full post-op on what happened here,
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 20: why this went so, so poorly. You know, at the
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 20: end of the day, you not only had a greater
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 20: enthusiasm on the democratic side, but you clearly had Republicans, uh,
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 20: some staying home and some actually voting for Democrats. And, uh, so,
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 20: you know, people, people need to do a full analysis.
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 20: You're not going to figure that out in 24 hours.
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, let me just tell you what I've told
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 1: you time and time again. And I think I speak
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: on behalf of a lot of New Yorkers who really
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 1: love you and appreciate your hard work. And I saw
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 1: the enthusiasm very close up. You and I had become
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 1: extremely close. And I felt so bad for your mom
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: on Tuesday. I really did.
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 18: She was in tears. But you, and now I'm in tears.
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: You have done a tremendous job. And I would bet
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 1: my salary that Mike Lawler will be back in politics
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: because we are running out of good people. I mean that.
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: A lot of really bad people. won office on Tuesday night.
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 1: I'm not in line with the Democrats now, okay? I
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: don't need to be that way. I don't work in politics, okay?
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 1: A lot of really bad people won on Tuesday, and
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: you are the antithesis of that, a great New Yorker,
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: a great American, and a dear friend. I love you,
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: Mike Lawler.
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 20: I appreciate it, Sid, and thank you more than anything
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 20: for your friendship. I've thoroughly enjoyed coming on and being
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 20: as blunt as I am, and I appreciate you giving
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 20: me the space to do that. And I'll continue to
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 20: come on so long as you'll have me to talk
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 20: about whatever, the issue of the day or whatever's happening.
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 1: We'd love that.
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 20: We'd love that. More than anything, let me just say,
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 20: because I know so many of my constituents listen to
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 20: your show, just thank you for the opportunity to serve.
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 20: Thank you for your faith and trust in me over
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 20: these past four years. And thank you for really just
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 20: tremendous support that I've received across the district. It's been
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 20: the greatest honor. It really is an honor and a
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 20: privilege to to serve, to represent your community, to represent,
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 20: you know, the place you grew up in, the people
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 20: you grew up with, you know, and so I'm just
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 20: forever grateful. I have no gripes. I have no complaints.
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 20: This is politics. There's no pure victories. It's 50 plus one.
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 20: Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. And, you know, as
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 20: Rocky Balboa famously said, it's not about how hard you
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 20: get hit. It's about, you know, how hard you can
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 20: get up after getting hit hard, and that's really what
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 20: it boils down to.
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 5: We're up.
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 20: We're still standing. There ain't no bell. We're going to
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 20: keep going.
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 1: I love that. What a great message. Mike, you'll be
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: on this show often until you're in office again, okay?
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: So thank you for hopping on today. This wasn't easy.
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 1: God bless you. We love you. Thanks.
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 20: All right.
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 5: All right, Mike.
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 1: Michael Lawler right there, the amazing congressman who, again, coming
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 1: off that very, very disappointing defeat on Tuesday night. Not
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 1: his fault. Everybody went down in flames. At least he
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 1: was close. A lot of these other candidates got their
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: doors blown off. He was close, Mike Lawler.
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 18: We'll take a break. Bill O'Reilly, still to come.
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 3: Sid and friends in the morning on the Red Apple
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: So I will see my dear friend, Siggy Flickr.
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 18: One of three weddings. Three I've got in the next
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 18: two weeks.
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 1: Is that nuts, Lou? Three in two weeks.
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 21: Right before the winter, yep.
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 1: I guess. Get it done now. Ziggy Flickr's son getting
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 1: married first.
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 18: Then, our dear friend Mike Sullivan.
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: Brennan and Carmike. His son, Austin, getting married. In fact, Ross,
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 1: I'll see you there. And Thomas and Brian, the whole family.
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: And then, my cousin Scott Arbus, his son Adam. I
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 1: think it's Adam's wedding. Maybe his daughter Hannah. I get confused. No,
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: it's Adam. It's Adam.
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 18: Both of his kids are getting married this year. So
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 18: Scott and Orger Arbus.
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: Their son, was a great kid, Adam. He's getting married, too.
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 18: So three weddings in two weeks.
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 21: And John Blum's daughter is getting married Saturday.
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 1: Love John Blum. Now, his daughter's a cop, right?
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 21: Yep, Erin Blum.
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 1: Wow, what a nice name.
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 18: And she's marrying a cop too, right?
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 21: Police officer John DeVito. They're both from Brooklyn South.
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, really?
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 21: Yes, they're both Brooklyn.
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. Where are they getting married?
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 21: At the church near us.
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 1: 129, right? Right.
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 5: St. Francis?
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 21: Saturday, yes.
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 18: It's this Saturday too?
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 21: Yeah, Saturday.
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 20: Nice.
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 18: So you and MJ are going or no?
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 21: I don't think so.
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 1: You don't know? You don't think so? Okay.
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 5: I don't.
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 21: We could just walk in probably, I guess.
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 1: We should just walk in, yeah. The Muslims just walk
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 1: in with the camcorders and cameras. And Korans. Hey, folks,
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: try this. You're tired of the Bible?
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 18: Try this one.
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 21: But we still wish Aaron and John good luck.
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 1: Of course, Aaron and John, God bless them.
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 21: Congratulations.
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 1: That's a true story, a laughing, but that did happen.
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 18: Father Jim.
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: Yes. He wasn't happy about that, now, was he?
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 21: I don't think I would mess with Father Jim.
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no.
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 21: Or John Blum.
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah. They come walking in, the Muslims. People say to me, Sid,
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 1: now you really got to run. You got to run, Sid.
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 1: We just were getting killed. Republicans are getting killed. The
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: candidates are boring. And you got to run. You've got it.
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: You've got the charisma. You know the policy. I say, okay,
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 1: here's how it's going to go. Sid Rosenberg, he hates everybody.
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 18: He hates the Muslims.
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 1: He's got a very, very severe case of Islamophobia. He
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 1: hates Democrats. Who else would they say I hate? That's
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 1: really all I, you know, I don't even hate the Muslims.
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I'm skeptical, obviously, and I don't
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 1: like what the radical Islam people are up to. And
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 1: they're invading our country and eventually are going to destroy
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 1: our country. Oh, maybe I do. I don't know. Outside
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 1: of them, anybody else? Yeah, Democrats, I hate them.
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 5: That's true.
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: In fact, I was just telling somebody else, somebody else
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: walked up to me this morning and said, I got
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 1: to tell you, I love what you did this morning
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 1: about the ABC promo. where they said, now that the
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 1: election is over, we're all going to work with Democrats
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 1: and be one happy family. I said, don't you dare
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 1: speak for me. Don't put my picture in there. Don't
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 1: ever do that. If you want to do that, God
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 1: bless you. I have no issues.
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 7: None.
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 1: I never take anybody to task in this office who
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 1: has to do that because it's their business. But don't
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 1: include me. I'm not working with Democrats. I hate them.
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: I don't feel any better about Abdul El-Sayed or Kathy
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: Hochul today because they won on Tuesday. What are you, nuts?
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: So when I run, they're going to come out with
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 1: all that stuff, you know, Justin, and it's going to
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 1: be your job to fix it.
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 21: Newsflash for you.
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  Speaker 10: All right.
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, it is Hannah. Adam Arbus and Audra Arbus' daughter.
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 1: I got confused. Hannah, the daughter's getting married first. I'll
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 1: be at that one with her husband to be Matt.
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: Adam is next August.
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 2: Well, thanks for straightening that out.
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 18: Yes, Hannah Arbus.
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 1: She's a great kid, too.
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 6: I couldn't fix that one.
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 18: Wait, can you fix my thing?
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: What thing?
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 6: All of your things?
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 1: All of your things? I know there's a lot of
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: things there. I know that.
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 5: That's all right.
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 1: Whatever.
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 6: You just say that was the old me. This is
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 6: the new me.
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 5: No, it's not.
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: I'm the same guy. Yeah, but... I'm not going to
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: go out there and lie if I run. It's not
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 1: the old me.
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 6: No, but I'm saying.
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 1: I'd rather lose, but at least go down with some dignity.
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 6: I understand that, but you can, you know.
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 1: You're lying, because you're worried you're going to upset some people,
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: and then you become.
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 18: What?
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 1: I don't respect that. No.
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 21: So what do you want him to fix?
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 1: He's got to be able to find a way to
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: soothe some of the criticisms I'm going to receive.
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 13: I'll try to soothe it, and then he'll come out,
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 13: start yelling and screaming at these people unhinged, and then
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 13: I'll have to soothe it all over again.
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 6: All I'll be doing is soothing. I'll be soothing 24-7.
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 7: Soothe.
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 6: He'll be seething, and I'll be soothing. The stuff that
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 6: you say.
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 18: That's very good, Justin.
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 1: What's that now?
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 21: The stuff that you say about.
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 1: Yes, he's got to figure out a way to soothe
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 1: the criticisms that will be.
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 18: I'm not going to run.
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 1: Yes. What am I going to run for?
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 17: What?
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 6: Sid will say one thing, and then I'll have to
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 6: step in and be like, this is what he really meant.
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 1: Right. Thank you, Ray Sherry. My sister filled me in
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: on how to argue, so I'm going to keep going
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 1: back to that. I love you, Ray Sherry. I miss you.
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: All right, so you can't do the job, is what
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: you're saying.
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 4: No.
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 6: I can do the job. Don't worry about it.
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 1: Well, let's give an example. So I get out there,
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 1: and Sid Rosenberg is now running. And right off the bat,
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 1: the current mayor, Mamdani, goes, this must be a joke, right?
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, everybody knows that Sid Rosenberg sits on the
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 1: air four hours a day and hates on everybody. Everybody, unless,
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 1: of course, your last name is Trump. And he talks
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 1: about the Muslims like we're evil. He is an Islamophobe
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 1: with a capital I. And you're going to come out
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 1: and say what?
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 6: Well, he's going to come out and say, what is this,
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 6: a joke? And then you just come back and say, well, no, no, no,
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 6: this is your job.
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 23: Right.
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 13: I would come back and say, listen, if you really
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 13: want to talk about what's been, quote unquote, a joke
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 13: here in New York City as of late, it's been
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 13: the way you've been running it straight into the ground.
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 1: Well done.
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 13: And this is why you have people like Sid Rosenberg,
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 13: these loud and boisterous men with strong points that tend
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 13: to be right most of the time, mind you.
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 1: Most of the time. Well.
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 6: All of the time, then that's why he feels the need.
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 24: To, uh, I think he's on the right track just
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 24: to say like well the reason he's you are the
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 24: reason why Sid Exists in this.
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: Ring right now, right?
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 21: Yeah, you are like the Joker to his Batman.
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 1: Well, I like that Because you are doing a disgraceful
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 1: job in New York City.
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 21: And that's why I have been, people have been pleading
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 21: with me to come. Okay, same thing.
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 1: You've seen it. Begging me to run.
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 5: Run.
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 24: It's like people who have not seen water in three,
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 24: four weeks.
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 1: Remember the old Bugs Bunny cartoon when he was deserted
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 1: on an island? And he looked at his friend like
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 1: he was a hot dog. Right. You remember that one?
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 5: No.
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 21: I'm going to leave that part out.
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 1: Because you don't remember that part.
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 6: Then I would have to come back. He would make
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 6: that point. Then I'd have to come back in and
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 6: be like, okay.
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 18: You got to sue that.
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 1: You got to sue that.
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 6: He still clearly watches Looney Tunes and that's fine.
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 21: Let me find the episode. Then you can understand what
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 21: Sid's talking about.
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 18: You know, talking about episodes.
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's Scott Arbus's birthday today. Back to Scott Arbus again.
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Scott. Thank you, Ray Sherry.
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 2: Wait, is he the one getting married?
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 1: No, his daughter, Anna, is getting married.
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 2: This is so confusing.
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 15: I know.
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 1: Even I'm confused. I have no idea what the hell
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: I'm saying at this point. But talking about episodes, I
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 1: believe it's tonight on Law & Order starring alongside Mariska Hagerty.
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 18: You ready for this one?
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 1: Making his acting debut fresh off a 33-point performance in
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: a 30-point Nick win over the Bulls last night. Jalen Brunson.
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: I think he's going to be a recurring character.
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 6: No, I think it's a one-time thing. Oh, it's a one-and-done?
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 1: Okay. Well, he's on tonight.
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 5: You never know.
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 6: He could come back.
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 5: Why not?
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 1: He did it.
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 18: Jalen Brunson.
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 19: As great of a basketball player he is. It's as
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 19: bad of an actor he is. How do you know that?
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 2: Because he was on SNL.
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 6: He was terrible.
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 13: And have you seen him try to talk to the
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 13: crowd at MSG?
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 6: I mean, my God.
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 1: Take it easy. This is why I get into trouble.
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 1: I'm not even saying this, Justin.
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 6: I'm just saying.
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 1: You're all sitting there like, spit it out, Jalen. Spit
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: it out.
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 18: Now he's making fun of the way black people talk.
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 1: No, I'm not.
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 5: No.
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 15: No.
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: No, you just.
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 2: Tell him to shut up and dribble.
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 18: I can't, man.
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 20: It's over.
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 1: It's over.
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 20: I'm done.
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 1: Somebody really likes him personally. I don't know why. I mean,
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: he's a nice guy. I sat with him. He was
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 1: affable and nice, but he has, well, his policies suck,
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: and he's so far up Tucker Carlson's ass, he could
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 1: be checking for polyps, and I can't like that guy.
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know how Greg does.
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 18: Does Greg like Tucker Carlson?
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 1: He probably has Greg this, but does he?
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 6: I don't think so.
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I've never heard him talk about him.
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 1: Has he talked about Tucker?
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 6: Not enough for me to actually have an idea.
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: I was told yesterday that Greg actually said, he said, hey, J.D.,
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 1: was it worth losing six Senate seats to make sure
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 1: that Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon? And Greg said,
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 1: you bet it was. So what's happening here that Greg
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 1: did say that, right? Somebody told me that. I forget
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 1: who it was, but. So even Greg is coming around
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: just a little bit on J.D. He can't be president.
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 1: He's not going to make it. He'll never make it.
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 1: That little party there, the turning point party of Megyn
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 1: Kelly and Tucker Carlson and, you know, all those people.
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 1: I know more. I know people personally in real life
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 1: that like those people. That ain't enough. I'm sorry, you know.
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 1: But listen, they think right now they are the overwhelming
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 1: majority because the Republicans got their asses handed to them, us,
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 1: Tuesday night. So they're all like, told you. I told
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 1: you America's had enough with Israel. Told you we hate Israel.
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 1: I told you nobody wanted this war. Told you. And
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 1: then it's hard to come back and fight them because
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 1: we did get our asses kicked, you know, kind of
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 1: like the scene in Coming to America, remember? Every time.
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 1: What man? Rocket Marciano. Rocket Marciano. Remember that one? He
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: did kick Joe Louis' ass. Yeah, he did kick Joe
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 1: Louis' ass. Joe Louis was 75 years old. Point is,
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 1: he kicked his ass and we got our asses kicked.
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 1: So it's hard now to come out and fight every
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 1: single point as to why that's the case. It's not
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 1: just Iran. It's not just Israel. There's a whole load
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 1: of stuff. I mean, at the very top of the
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 1: list is affordability, which most Americans, because they're not smart,
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 1: most Americans believe that the affordability crisis was created by
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 1: the Iran war because they're stupid. But what they should
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 1: really do with their homework or just look at their
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 1: own bank accounts. Before Trump went into Iran, we had
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 1: all these economic difficulties because of the prior president, including
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 1: staggering inflation, staggering, immensely high interest rates, immensely.
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 18: Eggs were unaffordable. They are now. So Trump took over
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 18: a horrendous economy.
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 1: Horrendous. Now, yes. The Iran conflict, that hasn't helped. Gas prices, oil,
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 1: we know that. But to say that we have an
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 1: affordability crisis now because of the Iran war, if you
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 1: say that, you really are stupid. You're dumb. It is
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 1: a part of it, yes. I'm not going to say
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 1: it's not. But that's not the reason why. So, J.D.
• 2:13:23
  Speaker 18: Vance comes out and.
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 1: He puts out this tweet. And he blames... Israel, and
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 1: he blames Iran and all that. That's what he highlights.
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 1: There were four reasons, I guess. But he highlights Israel
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 1: and Iran. So I've been spending the last two days
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 1: on Twitter and here on the air now this morning
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 1: just beating 11 Daylights out of J.D.
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 15: Vance.
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 1: I want nothing to do with this guy.
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 5: Nothing.
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 1: Don't like him. Don't trust him. Listen, anybody, anybody who
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 1: would readily admit and fight in public against that they're
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 1: friends with Tucker Carlson, I want no part of that guy. Norm,
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 1: do you disagree with any of that?
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 5: No.
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 2: I agree with what you're saying for the most part.
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 1: For the most part?
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 1: What part did you disagree with?
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 19: Well, the truth was somebody was talking to me during
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 19: that last sentence, so I just was answering the question
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 19: in the way that I thought best.
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 1: Well, next time, if you want to answer it best,
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 1: just say, yes, I agree with all of it.
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 2: Well, I didn't know what you had said.
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter.
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 2: I didn't know if I was going to agree with
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 2: all this.
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 18: Well, you still don't know. So why don't you just
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 18: make me happy and just say I agree with you?
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 2: I could do that.
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 1: But you'd rather not do that, would you?
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 16: No.
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 21: Well, you never know what you said.
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 21: Could be really terrible.
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 1: But it could have been.
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 21: Could have been so terrible that no.
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 1: One could agree with it. I've got this. Hello, Rabbi Hawaia.
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 1: The great Rabbi Joe Potashnik is here. I guess he
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 1: does his podcast today. Is that why he's here?
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 2: I would think so. Joe, are you doing your podcast?
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 21: I think he's here to talk to you.
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 1: Come in and bless all the Republicans. Come in and
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 1: bless Noam Layton. He needs blessing, Rabbi. I could use
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 1: a blessing, yeah.
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 18: You could use a big blessing.
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 1: About right now. Yeah. Hey, Rabbi, make sure you call J.D.
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 1: Vance an asshole on Sunday's show, okay? Do me a favor.
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you talk like that in your program, but... Oh,
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't either. That wouldn't be great if Reverend A.R.
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 1: Bernard or Rabbi Potashnik come out and they just start screaming, J.D.
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 18: Bantz is an asshole!
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 1: They would get ratings.
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 5: Through the roof!
• 2:15:18
  Speaker 21: Hey, Justin, can you go fix what the Reverend... what
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 21: he said so he doesn't get in trouble?
• 2:15:23
  Speaker 1: What can I tell you? I do this with no apology.
• 2:15:28
  Speaker 1: You know that, right? I don't care. I don't care
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 1: if people get pissed off.
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 18: I could care less.
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 1: There's so many people that agree with me. It's, you know...
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 1: There's many that don't. I'm okay with that, too.
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 21: That would probably be the greatest moment in radio.
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 18: You think so?
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 21: If he did that.
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 18: If the rabbi did that? It would be immense.
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 1: That's great. It would be immense. That's great.
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 21: Who cares if news trucks are waiting outside?
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 1: Who cares? That's right. This is all about. That's right.
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 1: You're not on radio for anonymity.
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 5: No.
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 1: You're on radio for people to talk about you, good, bad,
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 1: or different. Don't be afraid to do something wacky. You know,
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith, the amazing sports guy, he is. And
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 1: he's on this show quite a bit. He's very smart.
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 1: Very savvy when it comes to politics, too. Not the
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 1: biggest Trump fan, but I still love him. He made
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 1: a good point yesterday. Even the other guy, who I
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 1: don't love, Charlemagne the God. They both said the same thing.
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 1: That is, Democrats, don't get cocky. You had a big
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 1: night Tuesday night.
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 18: You did.
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 1: It wasn't even big. It was huge. It was tsunami.
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 1: Not even a wave, but tsunami. It was... A bloodbath.
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 1: It really was. But don't get too cocky because if
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 1: you do that and you spend all your time investigating
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 1: and making a mockery of this, then in two years,
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 1: instead of being in position, already having the House and
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 1: the Senate to win the presidential race, you will basically
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 1: kill your chances. So the point was, hey, Democrats, play
• 2:16:53
  Speaker 1: it smart, okay? Don't cause all these problems. Don't turn
• 2:16:58
  Speaker 1: the government into chaos. Because if you don't do that,
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 1: you got a chance to own all three, just like
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 1: President Trump had up until two nights ago. Bacteria, Stephen A. Smith.
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 18: This, Lewis, is cut number four, telling the Democrats, don't
• 2:17:16
  Speaker 18: be stupid.
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 22: I believe that the Democrats are going to be arrogant
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 22: enough to believe it's a mandate as opposed to a
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 22: vote against Trump. There are going to be enough of
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 22: them that think that it was a vote for them,
• 2:17:29
  Speaker 22: their mandate, that they've reclaimed power, and they're going to
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 22: be stupid and arrogant enough to go after him with
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 22: stuff like impeachment. They're definitely going to try to impeach
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 22: Pete Hegseth. They're definitely going to go after Marco Rubio
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 22: with an investigation.
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 10: They're probably going to do the same with Trump.
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 22: And we're going to be inundated with similarities chaos to
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 22: what was transpiring leading up to the years between when
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 22: he departed in 2020 and he reclaimed the presidency in 2024.
• 2:18:00
  Speaker 22: And that same kind of chaos is going to cost
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 22: them the presidency in 2028 in all likelihood.
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 10: To Marco Rubio or Ron DeSantis. That is what I believe.
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 1: From your mouth to God's ears. They play it stupid,
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 1: and we have this great comeback. Trump beat us a
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 1: whole bunch of stuff, and they go too wacky, and
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 1: the country loses all the confidence they had in these
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 1: guys on Tuesday night. From your mouth to God's ears.
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 1: Anthony Caron just texted me something very, very similar. I
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 1: hope you're right.
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 18: I don't share the same confidence.
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 18: But I hope you're right.
• 2:18:30
  Speaker 1: I really do. Let's take a quick break. Come back.
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 1: Still more to do.
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 18: Brian Kilmeade takes over in about 15 minutes.
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 2:18:40
  Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 1: Millions and millions of people, people on Instagram every day
• 2:18:45
  Speaker 1: doing tributes. And like I said earlier, I think that,
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 1: and this is not a good thing. It's shallow. I
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 1: understand that. But the fact that she was so beautiful
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 1: and young, 24 years old. I mean, that's, you know,
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 1: if you're 70 and you die running the marathon, I mean,
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 1: a 90-year-old guy was able to do it. But don't
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 1: kid yourself. It's shallow, but it's true. beautiful smile and
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 1: waving to her mother and 10 miles later she was
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 1: dead and going to these events a lot of them
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 1: and watching these people cross the finish line what it
• 2:19:16
  Speaker 1: means to them I tell you this all the time
• 2:19:19
  Speaker 1: folks it's the greatest day of the year in New
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 1: York I just I sit there for hours and watch
• 2:19:26
  Speaker 1: the agony of defeat sometimes when they come up just
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 1: short or even the agony when they win when they
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 1: cross the finish line But the exuberance and this incredible
• 2:19:38
  Speaker 1: sense of accomplishment when they finish. And this was the
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 1: first marathon for this young lady who was a great athlete.
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 1: Played field hockey at Bucknell. Was in tremendous shape. Had
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 1: no issues. Zero medically. And you would have thought she
• 2:19:53
  Speaker 1: was a shoo-in for a good time. And not long
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 1: before she collapsed, she texted her dad in Pennsylvania. Dad,
• 2:20:02
  Speaker 1: I've never felt better. better in my life think about
• 2:20:06
  Speaker 1: that dad I've never felt better in my life and
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 1: a half hour later she was basically dead it was
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 1: terrible so I played at the beginning of the show
• 2:20:18
  Speaker 1: I now played it at the end of the show
• 2:20:20
  Speaker 1: and I imagine at some point this story is going
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 1: to go away until we get to marathon time next
• 2:20:25
  Speaker 1: year you can donate to Rachel's cause she loved her
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 1: grandfather they were very close he died Parkinson's years ago.
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 1: She was raising money for Parkinson's. And obviously that money
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 1: has gone up exponentially since her tragic, untimely death. You
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 1: can do the same. Go to Rachel Appa's page and
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 1: donate to Parkinson's today, even though it was not Parkinson's
• 2:20:47
  Speaker 1: that killed that young lady. We are done for today.
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 1: It was, I think, an important show and a great show.
• 2:20:53
  Speaker 1: So many great guests today. And Bill O'Reilly will join
• 2:20:56
  Speaker 1: us tomorrow. Couldn't make it today. He'll join us tomorrow.
• 2:20:59
  Speaker 1: But Rich Lowry was terrific and Brian Kilmeade and Ari Fleischer.
• 2:21:03
  Speaker 1: We got the first interview with Mike Lawler since he
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 1: lost on Tuesday night. Great show as always. Lou Ruffino,
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 1: terrific job. Thank you so much.
• 2:21:12
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• 2:21:15
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• 2:21:41
  Speaker 1: What the heck is going on here?