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Peter King | Former Congressman Speaks on Petition to Bar Mamdani from 9/11 Memorial Ceremony · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Here. He is the great Peter King. Pete, good morning, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: How are you is this? Jesus said, how you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I got to tell you all seriousness. I'm only kidding
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  Speaker 1: about myself. But I love you that. Maybe I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, I'm not. Pete knows me too well. But
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  Speaker 1: I love the way the crowds react were walking in
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  Speaker 1: the street or going to an event. I've done a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of Bruce already. He's invited me to Cooper's Town
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  Speaker 1: and other spots across the state. But they go nuts
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  Speaker 1: for this guy. They love them, they love them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Bruce has that in Tantua. I don't see anybody
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  Speaker 2: going nuts for Kathy Hoko. And I'm serious about that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Bruce has that ability. And I go back
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  Speaker 2: to when he running in Flaura Cura and who actually
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  Speaker 2: was a very popular Accunty executive. He had done a
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  Speaker 2: pretty decent job and Bruce kept He was down by
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  Speaker 2: twenty four points in that race, and he won because
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  Speaker 2: he just kept going and going, making his case and
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  Speaker 2: not attacking the opponent, just making his case. And people
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  Speaker 2: love him, they really do. They're attracted to him. And
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  Speaker 2: my daughter worked with him for years they were both
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  Speaker 2: on the town board together, and she always said with Bruce,
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  Speaker 2: you can trust him. There's no malice and Bruce, but
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  Speaker 2: he can be he's a great guy. Also, you mentioned Cairo.
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  Speaker 2: I was with Joe all yesterday morning. And Joe doesn't drink,
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  Speaker 2: but if he did, and he'd have to together know
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  Speaker 2: he had an afternoon with you him for many events. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Joe is at first he's the best political leader in
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  Speaker 2: the country. And unlike you or I or even Bruce,
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  Speaker 2: he's the most mild manned guy. He's funny when he's
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  Speaker 2: in the room, he walks down the street, he's just calm, quiet,
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  Speaker 2: very quiet, right, and you would never know there's the
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  Speaker 2: most powerful political leader in the United States, and he
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  Speaker 2: really is. He is the record. But anyway, you were
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  Speaker 2: down at the Horbalite. I used to go there. Bernie Jorham,
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  Speaker 2: the owner was a great guy. A lot of fire
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  Speaker 2: fighters were there after nine eleven. I was there quite
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  Speaker 2: a bit. And that this is a great place. That's me,
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  Speaker 2: the Harbleite, Bell Harbord, that whole neighborhood, that's me constitutes
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  Speaker 2: what America is all about. That is the best of America.
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  Speaker 2: Right there. You'll look you're really living in like a valhalla.
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  Speaker 2: That is great where you are with those people around you,
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  Speaker 2: It says to me, it's just it was always comforting
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  Speaker 2: just going in there, talking to Bernie, talking to all
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  Speaker 2: his customers in there. That's again, they are real people.
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  Speaker 2: And you mentioned that there two Tom Sullivan's you were
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  Speaker 2: talking about before, Tom Sullivan from their locality, Saws of
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  Speaker 2: the year, Tom Sullivan running for the Assembly. He won
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  Speaker 2: in the twenty twenty two I guess it was and
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  Speaker 2: got robbed, and then you're in a good race in
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  Speaker 2: twenty four. I think he's going to do it this year.
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  Speaker 2: That whole family, they're great, the brothers. Just again, it's
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  Speaker 2: a great family and that's what America is about, and
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  Speaker 2: that's what we have to fight for and us is
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  Speaker 2: going to do. I think he's going to win and
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  Speaker 2: he's going to be a phenomenal governor. Agreed, He's going
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  Speaker 2: to save the state, agreed.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the my area, every house has American flag,
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  Speaker 1: some have three, you know, and every street corners got it,
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  Speaker 1: and it's very similar to yours. I remember the first
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  Speaker 1: time I really got to know your area well was
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  Speaker 1: when you and your beautiful wife, Rosemary well, kind doct
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  Speaker 1: to invite me and Danielle to the Jonathan Diddle funeral.
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  Speaker 1: What a sad day that was. I remember all your
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  Speaker 1: neighbors walking out into the street with sandwiches and water
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  Speaker 1: and soda for all the folks that were going to
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  Speaker 1: the funeral. And there were American flags. I know what
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  Speaker 1: makes Sunny host it uncomfortable, that trader. But on a
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  Speaker 1: serious note, there were American flags everywhere. So my neighborhood,
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  Speaker 1: your neighborhood very similar. And you talk about horble light,
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  Speaker 1: you know this, Pete, you mentioned nine to eleven. Two
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  Speaker 1: months after that, the plane crashed right across the.
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  Speaker 2: Street and I actually wrecked the horblelite. I ever had
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  Speaker 2: a business for a while later, rebuilder.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, That's right. That was a rough, rough time
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  Speaker 1: for my community that I wasn't living there at the time.
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  Speaker 1: But I do want to get to nine to eleven though,
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  Speaker 1: because I know you listen every day and you heard
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  Speaker 1: yesterday Giovanni Gallante on this show, and he came on.
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  Speaker 1: They had about fifteen thousand signatures on this petition to
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  Speaker 1: keep that creep, that anti American, anti semi Jihatmeyer away
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  Speaker 1: from that site. Now, it's up to about forty five
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  Speaker 1: thousand since he came on the show yesterday. Still not
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  Speaker 1: nearly enough. I want that thing close to a million
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  Speaker 1: by the time it's said and done. Maybe it gets her,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a doesn't, but I gotta thank Peter King. Then
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  Speaker 1: you're on the same page as me. You don't want
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  Speaker 1: this mayor anywhere near that sacred site, right.
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  Speaker 2: He actually had two thoughts on absolutely, he just don't
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  Speaker 2: belong that he should not be there. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: was there with President Bush right after nine eleven. It
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  Speaker 2: was down there so many times after that. It was
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  Speaker 2: close to so many families. To me, that was my
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  Speaker 2: main course, if you will, in Congress fightings and nine
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  Speaker 2: eleven healthcare fighters, to get the money for the cops
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  Speaker 2: and firefighters. All of that is so important. And he
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  Speaker 2: has no business being anywhere near as glad zero on
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  Speaker 2: nine to eleven. My only concern is I don't want
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  Speaker 2: this to become about him. I don't even want his
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  Speaker 2: name mentioned on nine to eleven. So he just like
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  Speaker 2: what you know, net Yahoo, He had this phony thing.
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  Speaker 2: He knew he can ever arrest him, but he had
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  Speaker 2: he got two weeks in the news cycle. It was
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  Speaker 2: all about Mandami. That's the only concern I have going
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  Speaker 2: forward on this. But no, he does not belong there.
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  Speaker 2: People should tell me doesn't belong there. I just hope
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  Speaker 2: that whatever happens is over for at nine to eleven,
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  Speaker 2: that whole day. He should not even be mentioned to me.
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  Speaker 2: That's his sacred day. There's just nothing to me in
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  Speaker 2: our history, certainly an American homeland compares to nine to eleven,
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  Speaker 2: and the suffering is on today. There are still people
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  Speaker 2: suffering today. Every week, here's me dying from nine to
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  Speaker 2: eleven illness and others being treated for it. There's thousands
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  Speaker 2: and thousands of people still suffering besides the incredible suffering
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  Speaker 2: that those nine to eleven families have gone through over
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  Speaker 2: the years. And again I know many of them. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I'll be with one of them this weekend out in
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  Speaker 2: the Hamptons, and that's the only time I go to Hampton.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm like, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well I know you are, and you know you bring
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  Speaker 1: up all the work you've done, and I have to
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  Speaker 1: keep bringing it up every time you mentioned it, because God,
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  Speaker 1: you're such a great American. So on the twelfth, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to host this big event at the Theater for
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  Speaker 1: the pipes and drums for all the cops. It's a
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  Speaker 1: big deal, very big deal. The eleventh is that big day.
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  Speaker 1: But the tenth your friend John Stewart who refers to
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  Speaker 1: me as datos. John Stewart and Pete Davidson have lost
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  Speaker 1: his father on nine to eleven. They're holding a bigger
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  Speaker 1: bend at Madison Square Garden. And I always give John
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  Speaker 1: Stewart credit because he did a great job along with
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  Speaker 1: you and others in making sure these nine to eleven
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  Speaker 1: families get money. Brother, I know I asked you about
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  Speaker 1: this a week or two ago, but it's worth repeating.
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  Speaker 1: Where are we exactly in that process?
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  Speaker 2: We are as doing as well as we possibly could
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  Speaker 2: right now. There is enough money in there. Andrew work
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  Speaker 2: have full examinations of everyone who's down at the ground zero.
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  Speaker 2: That's important anyone, even to this day, if you were
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  Speaker 2: anywhere near ground zero, please go in you entirely at
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  Speaker 2: free healthcare checkup because there are illness you could have
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  Speaker 2: that I don't even know about that get detected later on.
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  Speaker 2: So get that initial checkup so John wreck you can
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  Speaker 2: go forward. They have special doctors who treat nine to
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  Speaker 2: eleven patients will detect diseases, treat the patients, and now
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  Speaker 2: there's enough money in the fund. Finally that will lasts
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  Speaker 2: to the end of the century. It so there's about
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  Speaker 2: eight years even get to build through, which I found
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  Speaker 2: so infuriating in the first place, and then we put
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  Speaker 2: money in. Each time money was put in there is
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  Speaker 2: what the accountant said was enough to cover all potential victims.
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  Speaker 2: We had no idea how many people are going to
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  Speaker 2: come down with nine eleven illnesses ten fifteen years after
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  Speaker 2: nine to eleven, these rare blood deserted diseases, disorders, and
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  Speaker 2: there's other cases now we're working on. We're trying to
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  Speaker 2: get them improved as far as being related to nine
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  Speaker 2: to eleven, because they're like there's one in a million
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  Speaker 2: illnesses that we're getting who are down there. So no,
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  Speaker 2: it's we are in excellent, excellent shape. We're an excellent
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  Speaker 2: fiscal shape. We're an excellent shape as far as providing
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  Speaker 2: the care. But the people who are suffering from those
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  Speaker 2: illnesses are not in great shape. But they will be
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  Speaker 2: kept alive and treated and hopefully all so many illnesses
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  Speaker 2: will be detected before it's too late.
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  Speaker 1: You got down to Washington, DC more than once over
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of years Peking and they were talking
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  Speaker 1: about China and Russia and Hamas send it on all
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  Speaker 1: these enemies that are trying to destroy America. Okay, America first,
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  Speaker 1: not Israel, America. But you keep reminding people that, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we've got an issue right here. You know, you believe
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  Speaker 1: that HESBLA, for example, is here. You believe that other
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  Speaker 1: terror groups are here, and you have said more than
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  Speaker 1: once on this show that you would not be surprised,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you even expect another major major attack right here
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  Speaker 1: in New York and in this country. Do you still
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  Speaker 1: feel that way?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And first of all, I hope it never happens.
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  Speaker 2: I hope I'm not proven right, Okay, let me just
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  Speaker 2: say that clearly up front. But no, and that's why
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  Speaker 2: out in Nashall County, for instance, I'm involved in advising
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  Speaker 2: on terror issues. And this is real, I mean, is
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  Speaker 2: a real terror threat. It's there, and I guess a
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  Speaker 2: KaiA is still there. Isis is still there, and they
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  Speaker 2: have all these self starters, these lone wolves, and in
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  Speaker 2: many ways they are better organized than they were on
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  Speaker 2: September tenth.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me tell people one second, you're right, because
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  Speaker 1: people say to me, well, what are they waiting for.
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  Speaker 1: It's twenty five years since the big one, and there's
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  Speaker 1: been some other attacks here obviously the driver on the
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  Speaker 1: West Side Highway years ago, and there's been some stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But what are they waiting for? And I say, hold
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  Speaker 1: on a second. Okay, if you talk to Jessica Tish,
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  Speaker 1: or you talked to the FBI, or even talked to
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  Speaker 1: Ray Kelly, they have thwarted attempts time and time again.
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  Speaker 1: They don't tell you every time somebody parks a truck
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  Speaker 1: outside in Times Square, ready'll blow up a whole block.
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  Speaker 1: But that happens all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it happens quite a bit. And certainly just under
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  Speaker 2: Ray Kelly alone, I believe they stopped like seventeen eighteen
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  Speaker 2: potential attacks will blowing up the Brooklyn Bridge, the New
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  Speaker 2: York City subway system. I mean it was actually with
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  Speaker 2: Ray Kelly with that when there was work goals flows.
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  Speaker 2: It was coming in from Colorado to blow up the
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  Speaker 2: New York City subway system. That would have been absolutely catastrophic.
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  Speaker 2: It was stopped right near the they were following these
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  Speaker 2: guys coming in because they wanted to wait until they
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  Speaker 2: got here. Only because the one time who else was involved,
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  Speaker 2: but they were afraid they might have waited too long.
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  Speaker 2: I remember that was the only time I ever saw
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  Speaker 2: Ray Kelly ever showed any concern to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: they didn't wait too long before they apprehended these guys.
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  Speaker 2: And that was that. I'm not only saying that too.
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  Speaker 2: There was they had one emam that the police thought
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  Speaker 2: they could trust and they asked him for information about someone.
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  Speaker 2: He was the guy who tipped them off. The one
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  Speaker 2: guy they thought they could count on tipped off the
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  Speaker 2: other plotters to get away. So that also shaped a
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  Speaker 2: lot of mine thinking about who he can trust and
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  Speaker 2: not trust that in that community. But no, as far
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  Speaker 2: as it's there, and it's different too between now and
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  Speaker 2: nine to eleven is that we are coordinated all around
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  Speaker 2: the world, even when we have hard feelings with them.
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  Speaker 2: We work closely with French intelligence, British intelligence, German intelligence
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  Speaker 2: is fifty to fifty. Some of it's good, some of
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  Speaker 2: us not. And also countries like Jordan. Jordan is phenomenal,
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  Speaker 2: Egypt is very good. Obviously Israel is a phenomenal ally
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  Speaker 2: on this so they could not have been able to
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  Speaker 2: do a nine to eleven plot the way they did.
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  Speaker 2: They were meeting all over Europe. They're being in Germany here,
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  Speaker 2: the meeting there and the IIS was a kitler was
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  Speaker 2: able to coordinate. They couldn't do that today. But they've
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  Speaker 2: also gone underground. They you know, they've adopted. So no,
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  Speaker 2: we have to worry about them. We'll be concerned about them.
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  Speaker 2: And there are any number of plots that are being
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  Speaker 2: stopped a lot of being stopped overseas. And when they
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  Speaker 2: say overseas in the NYPG, they have people working overseas
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  Speaker 2: with these various governments. So we hear about it, we
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  Speaker 2: stopped it or I'm not involved anymore like that, but
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's actually stopped. And so there's any number
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  Speaker 2: of plots have been stopped, both here in New York
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  Speaker 2: and in Europe and actually in the Middle East also
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  Speaker 2: and planning and coming here. But we can never ever
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  Speaker 2: let our go down. They have a long duel of history.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was a long time with the first
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  Speaker 2: World Trade Center attack was nineteen ninety three and the
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  Speaker 2: next one was two thousand and one. That was eight
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  Speaker 2: years and we're really un then. We were not ready,
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  Speaker 2: did not anticipate how severe that could be and how
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  Speaker 2: well organized and determined. A Kaita was last one.
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  Speaker 1: I'd be remission not to cover this with you, because
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  Speaker 1: you know this as well as anybody. Zlenski at the
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  Speaker 1: White House yesterday, and it's nice that him and Trump
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  Speaker 1: get along better, and Trump now actually goes out of
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  Speaker 1: his way to complement the Ukrainian people and their military
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  Speaker 1: and Zolensky. But watching yesterday and reading and paying very
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  Speaker 1: very close attention, I didn't get the feeling that when
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  Speaker 1: Zolenski was done with Trump, that we are anywhere closer
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  Speaker 1: to ending this war between Russia and Ukraine. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Putin is gonna sit down with Zelenski
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  Speaker 1: anytime soon. And I don't think anyone can convince Putin
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  Speaker 1: no matter what, to stop doing what he's doing. But
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  Speaker 1: you're the expert here, what do you think?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm an expert, but I would say the main
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  Speaker 2: thing was from that as Zelensky still has the approval
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  Speaker 2: to go ahead with Patriot missiles. In fact, you met
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  Speaker 2: with Luckey yesterday and that's been a rising okay by
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  Speaker 2: President Trump, that is significance. And with Jelenski has done
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  Speaker 2: what they've done as far as uh uh perfecting drone
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  Speaker 2: warfare is phenomenal. If they can get the Patriots, it's
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  Speaker 2: really all Russia has left. Are these missiles coming in
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  Speaker 2: and uh, because you know the one they they they're
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  Speaker 2: using North Koreans, they're using Africans. Everyone in the in
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  Speaker 2: the Russian army so depleted. And so if they can
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  Speaker 2: get the Patriot missiles system set up in Ukraine and
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  Speaker 2: Zolenski is able to penetrate far to Russia with the
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  Speaker 2: Patriot missiles, now he's not gonna win the war to axtember.
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  Speaker 2: If they can stop Russia, if Russia realizes it's time
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  Speaker 2: to come, give them some sort of fig leaf, give
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  Speaker 2: Russia some small part of Ukrainian it's incidental and call
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  Speaker 2: you call out a compromise. But I think right now
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  Speaker 2: it's it's no win really for both sides. But Ukraine
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  Speaker 2: cannot surrender it off. If they give up anything, well,
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  Speaker 2: if Russia just ends and Russia has the upper hand,
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  Speaker 2: they will be slaughter with the Ukrainians. Then they got
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  Speaker 2: a pig king.
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  Speaker 1: That is an humble, lible appearance. Man, You're great every week,
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  Speaker 1: but this one was right near the very very top.
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  Speaker 1: As always, I love you, Thank you, so much. Great job.
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  Speaker 2: She's a Horbleite. We go to Hobble Light one night.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you should come for sure. Lou will come with
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  Speaker 1: us too, Loul, Yeah, me too. Sewan does a great job.
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  Speaker 1: And you knew Bernie of Court, No Bernie, I should
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  Speaker 1: say so, yeah, let's do that one time. Peter King,
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it. I love you, Thank you, you're the man.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks you want to Pete King right there, the former
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  Speaker 1: amazing congressman. He's done so much for this country to
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  Speaker 1: post nine to eleven. He's a real hero when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to that stuff. I can't emphasize that and off
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  Speaker 1: and you guys know how much nine to eleven means
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  Speaker 1: to me.
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  Speaker 2: What the heck is going on here?