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K.T. McFarland | Former Deputy National Security Advisor Makes Weekly Friday Morning S&FIM Appearance · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Let's go to the great KT McFaul and work for
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  Speaker 1: four presidents. Most recently, President Trump on Fox News all
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  Speaker 1: the time and on this show does a great job
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  Speaker 1: every Friday. KT, good Friday morning, sweetheart. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm delighted to be with you and happy Halloween
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  Speaker 2: and happy election and happy daylight savings time.
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  Speaker 1: Well said. Happy all those things. You know, it's funny
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  Speaker 1: how certain companies cover certain elections. So you know me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a big BB guy. I'm friendly with BB. Very friendly.
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  Speaker 1: He taped that video for me when I made the
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. We've had many dinners and lunches together.
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  Speaker 1: We're legitimately friends. I speak to him and his office
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  Speaker 1: all the time. All the time. And I kept telling everybody,
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  Speaker 1: my own daughter, she hates him. He's going to win, okay? No,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's had enough. Israel's had enough. New York's had enough.
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  Speaker 1: He's not going to win. Washington Post says today, well,
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  Speaker 1: he's still the prime minister, but the truth is it's
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  Speaker 1: in jeopardy. No, it's not. He won. He won. Eisenkot
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  Speaker 1: can't beat him. Now, what's alarming is not the opposition,
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  Speaker 1: the Arabs. 19 seats to Arabs who, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: are pro-Hamas, pro-terrorism, anti-war against Iran. That's the scary part.
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  Speaker 1: But in terms of Bibi not being the prime minister,
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing out there that says that's not going to
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  Speaker 1: be the case. Or am I wrong?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I think you're right. He'll be asked to form
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  Speaker 2: the government and he'll put together a coalition that'll be
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  Speaker 2: maybe not quite as strong as his previous coalition, but
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  Speaker 2: strong enough. And the alternative is kind of strange because Eisencott,
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  Speaker 2: if he were asked to form a coalition government, he
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  Speaker 2: would have to take those Israeli Arabs that you're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: And that would be very, very, very frightening.
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  Speaker 1: He still may do that in an attempt to make
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  Speaker 1: sure Bibi doesn't get the whatever power he is going
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  Speaker 1: to get. I mean, Again, you're right. He will have
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  Speaker 1: less power. He doesn't get to 61. It's not an
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  Speaker 1: outright victory. And there are even some that say if Bibi,
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  Speaker 1: for example, let's say Wednesday, President Trump decides we're going
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  Speaker 1: back to hit Iran. Israel would love to piggyback and
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  Speaker 1: do the same thing. But even though Bibi won, he
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  Speaker 1: did win. He may not have the power. to do
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  Speaker 1: that right away. Is that true?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah. I mean, he may not have as much
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  Speaker 2: authority to do it as many people who would stand
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  Speaker 2: in the streets and clap. But on the other hand,
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  Speaker 2: he may also conclude, well, it's now or never. And
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  Speaker 2: what will happen is if it's a successful attack, a
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  Speaker 2: kinetic attack, then I think Bibi is strengthened, whether he
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  Speaker 2: has the seats or not. His whole position would be strengthened.
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  Speaker 2: It has to be successful, though. And I think President
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  Speaker 2: Trump is probably going to look at three options. When
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  Speaker 2: I wrote memorandum for him to say, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: need a decision, which direction do you want to go?
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  Speaker 2: You would always give him three options, sort of small, medium,
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  Speaker 2: and large. And the small option would be to continue
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  Speaker 2: what you've got now, which is economic strangulation, figuring that
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  Speaker 2: eventually something's got to give. That maybe it doesn't happen
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  Speaker 2: next week, but next month. But at some point, 93
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  Speaker 2: million Iranians are not going to starve to death. And
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  Speaker 2: that there would be something that happens, something that changes.
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  Speaker 2: The next would be like apparently we're warning our Arab allies,
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  Speaker 2: a short, effective, strong kinetic action right after the election.
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  Speaker 2: And that would probably include destroying Pickaxe Mountain, whatever is
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  Speaker 2: remaining of nuclear sites or whatever the Iranians are trying
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  Speaker 2: to rebuild, and then remaining military and military industrial sites
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  Speaker 2: and maybe assassination of some of the IRGC. So we
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  Speaker 2: get to now the third, the fourth tier of leadership.
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  Speaker 2: And then I would, if I were the president, I
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  Speaker 2: would do that and I would then declare victory. The
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  Speaker 2: war is done. We've won our major objectives. The Strait
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  Speaker 2: of Hormuz is not going to be important going forward.
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  Speaker 2: Other countries in the Middle East are using alternative routes
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  Speaker 2: or building pipelines. Some countries are buying oil from us
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  Speaker 2: now instead of from the Middle East and declare victory.
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  Speaker 2: And we don't need a peace conference with the Iranians
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  Speaker 2: or the IRGC.
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  Speaker 3: And then the.
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  Speaker 2: The quote nuclear option, although not nuclear weapons, will be
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  Speaker 2: to go all in and go for regime change, which
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  Speaker 2: then we would force. And I think that's got a
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  Speaker 2: bigger risk, even though that's what Bibi has been talking about.
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  Speaker 1: That's all Bibi wants. That's what the Israelis want. They're
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  Speaker 1: afraid that these psychos will do similar stuff in the future. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: I like all four of those options. I think President
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  Speaker 1: Trump will do all four. My only question is, because
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  Speaker 1: it sounds so good to me, why did he decide then?
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  Speaker 1: to wait till after the midterms. The prices are still
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  Speaker 1: too high and the war is not over. If he
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  Speaker 1: would have done all those things and declared victory, how
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  Speaker 1: would that not help Republicans come Tuesday?
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  Speaker 2: Well, because what happened, you know, there's a risk in
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  Speaker 2: any one of these strategies. And President Trump is not
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  Speaker 2: a trigger-happy guy. I think he weighs the risk. There's
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  Speaker 2: always a risk. Is it a risk he's willing to take?
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  Speaker 2: And the problem we have right now, there's plenty of
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  Speaker 2: oil in the world. There's just not plenty of oil
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  Speaker 2: refineries in the world. And this is what the whole
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  Speaker 2: Ukrainian conversation is about. President Trump talking to Zelensky is
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  Speaker 2: to Zelensky, don't destroy the Russian refineries in your drone
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  Speaker 2: attacks because that has the effect of diesel prices. And
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  Speaker 2: that's what's driving up the oil prices. I mean, the problem,
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  Speaker 2: the real problem is the United States hasn't built a
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  Speaker 2: new oil refinery in 30 or 40 years. And we
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  Speaker 2: need to build oil refineries. We need we've got the oil.
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  Speaker 2: We just need to refine the oil. So we're not
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  Speaker 2: dependent on other countries. We need to secure our supply chain.
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  Speaker 2: And if we can, you know, if a refinery is
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  Speaker 2: built in the United States, it's not at risk like
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  Speaker 2: the Russian refineries are Middle East refineries or others. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we can protect our refineries.
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  Speaker 1: Right. So you work with President Trump. He was the
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  Speaker 1: fourth and last president you worked with. And I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I've never seen a person like him. Forget about president
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  Speaker 1: or whatever he is.
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  Speaker 2: No, nobody has.
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  Speaker 1: This guy's 80 years old. He's going to different states
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  Speaker 1: every day. MSNOW and CNN, they're killing him this morning
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  Speaker 1: because he's not going to Kansas tomorrow or Iowa on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: This guy's done like 30 states in the last 20 days.
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  Speaker 1: Could you see Joe Biden do that? Can you see
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  Speaker 1: that moron Kamala Harris do that? I mean, they got
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  Speaker 1: nothing else to do. They criticize him over nonsense. This
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  Speaker 1: guy has been a machine throughout this whole process.
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  Speaker 2: No. He's unbelievable. I mean, I would get the phone
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  Speaker 2: calls at midnight and, you know, he'd say, are you
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  Speaker 2: you're awake, right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then you get this, you know, then you get
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  Speaker 2: another phone call. Five, six in the morning. Did I
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  Speaker 2: wake you up? Oh, no, I'm fine. He's just a machine.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the joke is that Marco Rubio says that
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  Speaker 2: when he flies on Air Force One with the president,
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  Speaker 2: he always he tries to take catnaps on the plane.
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  Speaker 2: And so he'll put a blanket over his head because
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  Speaker 2: President Trump won't. Rubio strolls the aisles and he looks
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  Speaker 2: to see who's sleeping.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: He thinks it's a sign of weakness. So Rubio puts
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  Speaker 2: a blanket over his head so Trump can't see that
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  Speaker 2: it's Rubio catching the catnap. Nobody can keep up with
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  Speaker 2: President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody can. He's been amazing. It's still might not be enough.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. I'm not confident. I have
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  Speaker 1: to be honest. I'm not confident. I can't believe that
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  Speaker 1: El Sayed may win. I hope he doesn't. It's very,
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  Speaker 1: very close. Or Tyler Rico. And come on, KT. What
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  Speaker 1: they did in Alaska, this liar, Mary Paltola, they actually
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  Speaker 1: found some guy in this small Alaskan city with the
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  Speaker 1: same name and put him on the ballot, Dan Sullivan.
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  Speaker 1: This is about as low as it gets.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe that's not illegal.
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  Speaker 1: I think it is.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure it's illegal. They're probably giving the number two
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  Speaker 2: Dan Sullivan money to put his name on the ballot.
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  Speaker 2: He's not campaigning. His name is just on the ballot.
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  Speaker 2: And that, to me, is election interference. There's got to
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  Speaker 2: be a way that's illegal. And why his name is
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  Speaker 2: still on the ballot, I don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Dunleavy has the opportunity, the governor in Alaska. So
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  Speaker 1: she wins this cheater. That's all she is, is a lying,
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  Speaker 1: thieving cheater. He's got the choice to not certify... the
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  Speaker 1: election results based upon obvious cheating. He was asked that
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  Speaker 1: on News Nation yesterday. He stopped short of saying, I
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  Speaker 1: won't do that. He said, well, got to investigate. We
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  Speaker 1: got to see. So he's aware of it. He's not happy.
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  Speaker 1: But he did stop short of saying, I would not
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  Speaker 1: certify the election results.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I guess we'll just have to see. But I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you, if that is allowed to stand— you can
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  Speaker 2: believe that in every other state, in every other congressional district,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to find somebody with the same name and
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  Speaker 2: put that name on the ballot.
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  Speaker 3: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: Of course. What do you think? You spend all your
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  Speaker 1: time on Long Island. You're a big, big star in Southampton.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think about Bruce Blakeman's chances? I know
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  Speaker 1: you love him. I know it. And we all love him.
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  Speaker 1: We all want him to win. We need him to win, right?
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  Speaker 1: The state is.
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  Speaker 2: And he would be such a great guy.
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  Speaker 1: He'd be great. But do you think he's going to win, honestly?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's not going to be won or lost
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  Speaker 2: in Manhattan. It's not going to be won or lost
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  Speaker 2: in the metropolitan areas. It's going to be won or
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  Speaker 2: lost in upstate New York. And it'll be turnout. Will
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  Speaker 2: Republicans turn out and vote for Bruce? The thing I'm
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  Speaker 2: worried about is that on election night, instead of declaring
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  Speaker 2: a winner or loser, they'll be, oh, we haven't we
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  Speaker 2: need to keep the polls open a little longer. or, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we're still counting, we're still counting.
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  Speaker 1: I actually hope that's the case. I hope you're right,
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of people are saying to me, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to call that thing by 9 o'clock that night.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you're right, because then it's closer than what
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  Speaker 1: Siena or Quinnipiac or all these other polls are telling us,
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  Speaker 1: which is they're going to call a win for Hochul
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  Speaker 1: at 8. I hope you're right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know something? The polling thing is just not.
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  Speaker 2: How many people do you know who got the call
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  Speaker 2: from the pollsters and the pollsters said, can I have
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  Speaker 2: a few minutes of your time? And I hang up,
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  Speaker 2: everybody hangs up. And so I just, I'm not believing
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  Speaker 2: these polls. What I am believing is things like early voting,
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  Speaker 2: who's turning out. And I'm not seeing the numbers for
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  Speaker 2: New York, you know, the polling opened Early voting opened
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  Speaker 2: on this last past weekend. And I just want to
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  Speaker 2: see how many Republicans showed up, how many Democrats showed up.
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  Speaker 2: That's your indicator, because if the Republicans tend never to
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  Speaker 2: do early voting, they tend to show up on Election
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  Speaker 2: Day and that's around the country. And if Republicans are
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  Speaker 2: showing up in numbers to vote early, that's a very
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  Speaker 2: good sign.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with that. Katie McFaul in right here. So
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  Speaker 1: President Trump did say last week, we talked about Iran,
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  Speaker 1: you and I, that guess what's coming up next? Cuba,
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  Speaker 1: here we go. Cubans, get ready. Here we come. What
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  Speaker 1: do you think about that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I think it's ready to go. And Marco Rubio
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  Speaker 2: said tweeted last week, he said, Cuban American Cubans, go
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  Speaker 2: talk to the intelligence, go talk to the CIA and
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  Speaker 2: let them know you want to help. I mean, what
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  Speaker 2: does that say to you? Oh, boy. And the fact
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  Speaker 2: that the Cuban delegation at the U.N. started getting into
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  Speaker 2: a shouting match with the U.N. ambassador, Mike Walsh. Do
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  Speaker 2: they realize that Mike Walsh could like kill him with
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  Speaker 2: his finger? He's an Army Special Forces guy. He's one
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  Speaker 2: of the toughest guys around. I would not pick a
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  Speaker 2: fight with him. But I think that's a sign of
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  Speaker 2: desperation of the Cuban delegation. Cuba's ready to go. The
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  Speaker 2: younger generation, you know, the under 45-year-olds, they're talking to
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  Speaker 2: Americans all the time. And they're talking about what opportunities
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  Speaker 2: would be for Cuban Americans to come and reinvest in Cuba,
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  Speaker 2: for American businesses to come. Cuba could be just, you know,
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  Speaker 2: be like the California gold rush once they get rid
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  Speaker 2: of these These incompetent, aging, corrupt peer of Cuban communist leaders.
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  Speaker 2: That's the only thing that changes. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: be looking to see if there's some kind of movement
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  Speaker 2: of battleships around Cuba, because what that might mean is
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  Speaker 2: you do another snatch and grab.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're right.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Have you voted yet? By the way, Katie, have you
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  Speaker 1: voted yet?
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  Speaker 2: I voted last week.
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  Speaker 1: I voted.
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  Speaker 2: I banked my vote the first day.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I love it. I love it. I know
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of Republicans are doing that. I know
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  Speaker 1: you're right. That's not been the case with us usually,
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  Speaker 1: but Brian Kilmeade's already voted. My wife voted. I'm going tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Lou's going tomorrow. We're going to play their game. That's
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to do. We're going to early vote.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to, you know, ballot harvest. And if we
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  Speaker 1: have to cheat, we're going to cheat, too. Anyway, KT,
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  Speaker 1: you're great. You're great, everybody. We love you. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for this amazing appearance. Thank you, sweetheart.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to you next week. Bye.
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  Speaker 1: Can't wait. KT McFarlane right there on Sid and Friends
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  Speaker 1: in the morning.
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