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Claudia Tenney | New York District 24 Congresswoman Talks Her Campaign for Re-Election & Last Night's Debate · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Let me get to this lady. She's an amazing congresswoman.
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  Speaker 1: One of my favorites. You know that. Always great on
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  Speaker 1: this show. Fresh off her debate victory last night, my
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  Speaker 1: friend Claudia Tenney. Good morning, Claudia. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. Well, congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: This is exciting.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe I'm on your show listening to B.B.
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  Speaker 2: Netanyahu on his birthday. And who can believe he's 77?
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  Speaker 2: What an amazing guy. He looks fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: He really does. And he is fantastic. And all the
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  Speaker 1: garbage and... You know, all the criticism he takes from
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  Speaker 1: all these morons around the world, the Jew haters like
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  Speaker 1: Mamdani and El Sayed and, you know, the opponent. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: your opponent, another one, Elliman and Tucker Carlson, all these
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  Speaker 1: people there. They're idiots, and they don't want to know
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  Speaker 1: the truth. They're very comfortable talking about genocide. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: exist there. It's not true. Talk to Putin about that.
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  Speaker 1: But they're very comfortable spewing all those lies, including your opponent.
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  Speaker 1: So tell us about your debate last night against your opponent, Elman,
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  Speaker 1: in upstate New York.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Sid, it was tough to debate somebody that
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  Speaker 2: is just so unprepared to be a member of Congress.
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  Speaker 2: She just repeats top line talking points from the Working
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  Speaker 2: Families Party and then tries to claim, you know, she's
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  Speaker 2: leaned into this the entire campaign season. And then she
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  Speaker 2: tried to pretend, oh, I'm not really that. I don't
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  Speaker 2: really believe in that. No one believes in open borders.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, you're carrying the Working Families Party banner. They
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  Speaker 2: believe in open borders and amnesty and Medicare for all
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  Speaker 2: and free education and free everything. And that's exactly what
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  Speaker 2: everybody in France has. You know what they have now?
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  Speaker 2: It's never enough. They're fighting and burning everything down. They're
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  Speaker 2: trying to destroy Western civilization. That's why I really think
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  Speaker 2: that Bibi Netanyahu and together with President Trump are some
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  Speaker 2: of the greatest leaders. We are fighting the war to
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  Speaker 2: preserve Western civilization. And I don't think people realize how
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  Speaker 2: that very war that we're seeing in Paris. I have
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  Speaker 2: a friend in Milan who's been sending me photos of
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  Speaker 2: what's going on there and videos. It's horrific. But these
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  Speaker 2: people are here. They're already here. They're running for office here.
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  Speaker 2: Some are in Congress. And we have people right in
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  Speaker 2: New York City that are going to be in Congress
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  Speaker 2: spewing the same kind of ugliness and hatred and this
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  Speaker 2: sort of Islamic extremism and communist type of rhetoric that you're,
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  Speaker 2: it scares me. I have never seen it this bad.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what's, what really worries me said
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  Speaker 2: back in Nazi Germany in those days, they didn't have
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  Speaker 2: the 24 seven access to all the media and people
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  Speaker 2: that they do now through social media platforms and, and
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  Speaker 2: all the technology we have. And they have the technology
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  Speaker 2: to really, you know, wreak havoc on our country. I
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  Speaker 2: really worry about this right now. We are on a
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  Speaker 2: critical front and to me and to have people that
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  Speaker 2: are strong and have clarity like Netanyahu right now, he's
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  Speaker 2: vilified because he's standing in the way of them destroying
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  Speaker 2: our country and our world.
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  Speaker 1: No question about it. Now, look, this Alyssa Ellman, she's
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  Speaker 1: not beating you. You're a rock star. You're a superstar.
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  Speaker 1: She's not beating you.
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  Speaker 2: She's just, you know, the thing with her is she...
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  Speaker 2: I love to debate. I'm a lawyer. I'm very transparent.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you know, Sid, you probably do,
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  Speaker 2: but I think I'm still the only member of Congress
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  Speaker 2: that explains every single vote I take in the House
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  Speaker 2: in detail.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Over 1,000 votes we've done just this year alone.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, every year.
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  Speaker 2: I weigh in on everything.
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  Speaker 1: I don't wait.
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  Speaker 2: Last night, we got asked questions. She's totally for the
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  Speaker 2: war in Ukraine and let's– which– I think that we
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  Speaker 2: need to make sure Ukraine wins. I think Putin is
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  Speaker 2: an evil dictator. I think he's a force for bad
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  Speaker 2: in the world and evil, and he's helping the Iranians.
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  Speaker 2: But I also think President Trump needs to finish the.
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  Speaker 1: Job in Iran.
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  Speaker 2: And she just went on and on, spewing the 36
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  Speaker 2: organizations have said, you know, there's genocide in Gaza. And
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  Speaker 2: I just looked, I said, have you been to Gaza?
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  Speaker 2: Have you looked at the facts of what's going on?
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever.
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  Speaker 2: Seen a country that has done so much to protect
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  Speaker 2: Iranians even its enemies in Gaza. Have you ever seen
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  Speaker 2: a country awash with dictatorships and monarchies where they oppress
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  Speaker 2: their own people? That is a democracy where people who
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  Speaker 2: literally wish to kill them are elected into office in
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  Speaker 2: their own government. There is nothing like it. And the
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  Speaker 2: fact that Israel is able to be a shining example
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  Speaker 2: of what a democracy can be in a sea of
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  Speaker 2: authoritarianism and brutality that we're seeing in the Middle East,
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  Speaker 2: they are giving hope for prosperity. When President Trump Sign
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  Speaker 2: the Abraham Accords. That, to me, was the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: what could be a potential for prosperity in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 2: Iran is still the problem. We have to eliminate that problem.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you know, Sid, my son is
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  Speaker 2: actually a Naval Academy graduate. He decided to commission as
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  Speaker 2: a Marine. I did. He's a major in the Marine Corps.
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  Speaker 2: Our Marines were slaughtered in 1983 in Lebanon by these
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  Speaker 2: Iranian mullahs, and they continue to slaughter Americans, American citizens,
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  Speaker 2: our allies, and chant death to Israel, death to America
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  Speaker 2: every single day unapologetically. How are these people that we're
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  Speaker 2: going to defend and not make sure we take them
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  Speaker 2: out of power?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you got to be careful, Claudia, because they're going
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  Speaker 1: to label you what they've already labeled me, Alex Jones,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Flynn, and thousands more on Twitter. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: call you Israel first, Claudia. Listen, I'm not Israel first.
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  Speaker 1: I'm America first. Ask Trump. He loves me. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: Israel second. I'm Israel second. And every American should be
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  Speaker 1: America first and Israel second. I don't care if you're
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  Speaker 1: from Greece or Italy or Ireland or London. America first,
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  Speaker 1: Israel second, because those two guys, like you said, Trump
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  Speaker 1: and Bibi, are the last hope for Western civilization. And
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned your competitor, that you're going to beat her easily.
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  Speaker 1: But like you said, this lady Chevalier, for example. who
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  Speaker 1: washes her dirty hands with the American flag, who went
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  Speaker 1: to an October 8th rally, a pro-Palestinian October 8th rally.
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  Speaker 1: Do people not realize, Claudia, that Hamas, they're Palestinians. They
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  Speaker 1: may be progressive. They may be murderous. They may be radical.
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  Speaker 1: They're Palestinians. Just like radical Islam, they're Muslims. Why do
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  Speaker 1: we all bend over backwards to differentiate when the truth
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  Speaker 1: is these people have become an issue in this country
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  Speaker 1: and around the world? Yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 2: And the thing is, I can't stand listening to people
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  Speaker 2: say they're democratic socialists. There's nothing democratic about them. I
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  Speaker 2: call them the Marxist subversives because everything they stand for
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  Speaker 2: is against everything our Constitution stands for. How is Chevalier
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  Speaker 2: and these other communists, how does Mondami take an oath
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  Speaker 2: of office when our country's founding principles are individual rights...
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  Speaker 2: property ownership. And yet the Working Families Party is about
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  Speaker 2: the collectivism. It's about taking away your private property rights.
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  Speaker 2: Those are foundational principles to liberty and freedom. And they
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  Speaker 2: actually advocate for the opposite. I just don't understand how
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  Speaker 2: these people can even take an oath of office. It's
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  Speaker 2: really astounding that this, you know, my parents, you know,
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  Speaker 2: came from that generation, you know, the post-depression generation, you know, eating,
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  Speaker 2: you know, spam and, you know, we had a lot of, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: My parents were just, they never got out of it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they were always worried, you know, their money
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  Speaker 2: would be gone because of the, you know, the federal government,
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  Speaker 2: something would collapse and their money and their savings accounts
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  Speaker 2: would be gone. They're very, you know, very careful people,
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  Speaker 2: but also extremely, you know, giving to our community, involved
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  Speaker 2: in every charity. And we all went to the soup
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  Speaker 2: kitchens and we did all the things as kids that,
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  Speaker 2: When you're young, you don't appreciate how much more you
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  Speaker 2: appreciate when you're older. But if they saw today what
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  Speaker 2: we're seeing with this rise of that red-green alliance, this
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  Speaker 2: extreme Islamism and extreme Marxism and communism, I look at
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  Speaker 2: these old hippies. I see them all in their No
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  Speaker 2: Kings rally, even in my communities up in rural upstate
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  Speaker 2: New York. And I'm like, what are you talking about? Losers.
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  Speaker 2: They're losers.
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  Speaker 1: They're losers.
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  Speaker 2: There are a bunch of old hippies that are out
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  Speaker 2: there dragging out these. They have no idea. They have
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  Speaker 2: no facts. You go interview them. My opponent yesterday, we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about nuclear energy. Okay. The only nuclear power plants
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  Speaker 2: in the entire state of New York are in New
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  Speaker 2: York 24 in my district along the lake. We've got,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Janae, Nine Mile, and also Fitzpatrick. They are
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  Speaker 2: providing up to 28% or more of our baseload power
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  Speaker 2: for the state of New York. It's emission-free. My opponent
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  Speaker 2: got up there and said she doesn't like nuclear power.
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  Speaker 2: She leaves a carbon footprint and it's dangerous. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: if we took down nuclear power, New York City would
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  Speaker 2: actually close because New York City is almost I think
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  Speaker 2: it's between 95 and 98 percent dependent on fossil fuels
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  Speaker 2: to run your grid. All those New York City members
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  Speaker 2: are all saying you can't have fossil fuels for me,
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  Speaker 2: but not for the city.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I got to tell you, I think that is
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  Speaker 1: a huge play for my friend, or I'll actually be
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  Speaker 1: competing with him tonight, Bruce Blakeman, in his state fight
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  Speaker 1: with Kathy Hochul. You know, the guy before her, Andrew Cuomo,
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  Speaker 1: he shut them all down. Kathy continues not to frack.
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  Speaker 1: She buys energy from Pennsylvania when we've got it right here.
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  Speaker 1: So you talk about energy, Claudia, and that is, I believe,
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  Speaker 1: an easy win for Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. And the thing that people need to remember is
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  Speaker 2: we took back after eight years of Obama and four
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  Speaker 2: years of literally shutting down our ability to produce our
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  Speaker 2: own energy. We don't need foreign countries. We don't need
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  Speaker 2: the Middle East anymore. We have our own resources. We
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  Speaker 2: could be doing this right here. Joe Biden went in
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  Speaker 2: first day, shut down the Keystone pipeline, shut down all
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  Speaker 2: the gas power plants. They shut everything down in New
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  Speaker 2: York state. And now after four years of that, Trump's
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  Speaker 2: trying to get us back online with all these different
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  Speaker 2: types of energy resources we need in all of the
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  Speaker 2: above strategy. We're doing everything we can. It doesn't happen overnight.
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  Speaker 2: Our refinery capacity is at 110 and 120 percent. We
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  Speaker 2: literally cannot you know, maintain what we need to in
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  Speaker 2: the future. It's going to take a little time. Once
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  Speaker 2: we get caught up and we get into this and
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  Speaker 2: we start recognizing that we have to have energy, you know,
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  Speaker 2: don't forget Andrew, when Andrew Cuomo shut down Indian point, we,
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  Speaker 2: we have a need, we need about, we've put on,
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  Speaker 2: I think 4.4 gigabytes. That's what we need. We're at 2.9.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we are below what we need to maintain
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  Speaker 2: the state. If we want prosperity, we, and we have
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  Speaker 2: Micron coming up in our area. They first put in
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  Speaker 2: $ 100 billion. Remember something about Kathy Hochul, what a hypocrite
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  Speaker 2: she is. She has been to every Micron event I've
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  Speaker 2: been to. I worked hard. I got the manufacturing tax
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  Speaker 2: credit in the big, beautiful bill and a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: other things to get Micron fighting tooth and nail to
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  Speaker 2: make that happen in our region because it's so important
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  Speaker 2: to bring our advanced manufacturing chip supply chain here. You
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  Speaker 2: have 100 billion was put in by Micron. They put
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  Speaker 2: in another 250 billion. But you know what they needed?
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  Speaker 2: They needed a pipeline for natural gas because they have
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  Speaker 2: to have reliable, safe pipelines. affordable energy, but they get it.
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  Speaker 2: I wish the rest of us could have it, but
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  Speaker 2: Kathy Hochul can't do enough victory laps at Micron and
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  Speaker 2: then turns around and shuts down the data centers. What
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  Speaker 2: is Micron producing? Advanced manufacturing chips to go in data
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  Speaker 2: centers so we can have AI, so we can have
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  Speaker 2: life-saving cures, so we can help our defense industry, so
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  Speaker 2: we can have the modern technology to keep up with
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  Speaker 2: China and our adversaries. I mean, It's insane. And she
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  Speaker 2: took away local control. So now you can put a,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a Chinese solar factory or farm all over
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  Speaker 2: New York, upstate New York and our beautiful farmland.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure they already are.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, they're everywhere. But guess what the big secret is?
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  Speaker 2: Most of them aren't even hooked up to the grid.
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  Speaker 1: No, of course. And listen.
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  Speaker 2: But they all got their subsidies.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Millions of subsidies. Oh, I know. And yet here we are.
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  Speaker 2: And just go have your you. I do this every day.
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  Speaker 2: I go in and look at the New York independent
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  Speaker 2: service operator run by the Democrats in New York state.
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  Speaker 2: And they show how much energy we use in the states.
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  Speaker 2: Every single day, the max, you'll never see, if you
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  Speaker 2: put in wind, solar, and other, it's never, ever more
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  Speaker 2: than 10%, and usually it's 5% or less. And solar
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  Speaker 2: is negligible. Solar never hits 5%.
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  Speaker 3: It's a waste.
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  Speaker 1: It's a waste.
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  Speaker 2: All the money we're spending, it's not providing baseload reliable power.
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  Speaker 1: Not at all.
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  Speaker 2: We have a problem with our grid. It is the
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  Speaker 2: biggest issue Bruce Lakeman needs to talk about, and he is.
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  Speaker 2: He's doing a great job on the campaign trail. But
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  Speaker 2: this is a catastrophic issue. We have to have affordable
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  Speaker 2: energy or we are not going to make it as
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  Speaker 2: a state. It is that simple.
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  Speaker 1: He brought it up at the debate. He talked about
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  Speaker 1: data centers. And all she said was, you want them
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  Speaker 1: because Trump wants them. Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
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  Speaker 1: She's a moron. She's a moron. One more for you.
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  Speaker 1: You guys need to get this done. Congress, not you guys.
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  Speaker 1: I know you guys are already for it. The Save
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  Speaker 1: America Act. I know you tweeted about some of the
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  Speaker 1: issues there. In the great state of California, you said,
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  Speaker 1: we don't need the FBI to get involved, okay? Illegals
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't be voting. This is why the Save America Act
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  Speaker 1: needs to get done. Is it, Claudia Tenney, going to
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  Speaker 1: get done?
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  Speaker 2: The problem, we've passed it four times in the House.
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  Speaker 2: It's up to the Senate. And right now, you know,
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  Speaker 2: things are looking iffy. We need to have voter ID.
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  Speaker 2: That's the most important element there. The most egregious incidents
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  Speaker 2: of election integrity fraud are when we don't have voter
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  Speaker 2: ID and a reliable system. So many states after 2020.
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  Speaker 2: adopted that. Florida and others have voter ID and a
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  Speaker 2: credible system to verify we have one citizen, one vote,
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  Speaker 2: not a whole pack of illegal immigrants, a whole pack
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  Speaker 2: of people voting more than once. That is really what's
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  Speaker 2: going to make the day. If they could just take
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  Speaker 2: even that part out of the Save America Act and
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  Speaker 2: make sure that we have one citizen, one vote, and
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  Speaker 2: that we have voter ID, that will solve most of
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  Speaker 2: the election integrity problems. But they don't want to solve that, Sid.
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  Speaker 2: They've got to keep cheating. That's what it's all about.
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  Speaker 1: Bottom line.
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  Speaker 2: They can't win elections on policy. They have to win
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  Speaker 2: it on process. And that's what this is really down to.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Claudia, listen, you are you're going to win again
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  Speaker 1: because you're great. You're one of our really valued best
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  Speaker 1: Congress people. I think you're terrific. I really do. So
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  Speaker 1: congratulations on your debate performance last night. Congratulations on another
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  Speaker 1: great appearance on this show this morning. I look forward
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  Speaker 1: to seeing you and speaking with you again. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much, Claudia Tenney. Great job.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Sid. And happy birthday, Bebe.
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  Speaker 1: I'm with you. Happy 77th birthday to B.B. Netanyahu from
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  Speaker 1: the great Claudia Tenney.
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  Speaker 1: What the heck is going on here?