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Joe Tacopina | Defense Attorney | 07-17-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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Speaker 1: Best offense attorney anywhere in the world, and just the
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Speaker 1: most loyal, beautiful guy and an army guy. You know.
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Speaker 1: In fact, Joseph, I got a text I don't know
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Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes ago from our friend, our mutual friend,
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Speaker 1: mister Peelis Boilers, the great Pete Morgan, another great American,
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Speaker 1: and he said, Sid, make sure you ask Joseph about.
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Speaker 2: This amazing army charity.
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Speaker 1: That he's involved in. That he said, Meetoor, Joe and
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Speaker 1: I have had that conversation. I'm going to actually donate today.
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Speaker 1: But while Pete brought it up and I brought it up,
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Speaker 1: let's get right to it. Extortion seventeen. What an amazing
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Speaker 1: job with this amazing Did I say that correctly?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he said perfectly. I mean Extortion seventeen is the
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Speaker 3: call sign of a Shinook helicopter, army helicopter that was
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Speaker 3: unfortunately tragically shot down by Taliban fighters in Afghanistan twenty eleven.
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Speaker 3: And you know what I'm doing here, Sid, it's this event,
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Speaker 3: a fundraiser and a rouckmore that isn't about living this tragedy.
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Speaker 3: It's about remembering the extraordinary Americans whose names deserve to
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Speaker 3: be spoken fifteen years later. So basically, on the night
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Speaker 3: of August sixth, twenty eleven, a Shnook helicopter, which is
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Speaker 3: the Army's biggest, most you know, transporting helicopter with the
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Speaker 3: call sign Extortion seventeen, lifted off to Reinforce Rangers Army
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Speaker 3: rangers where I had and engaged with the enemy in Afghanistan.
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Speaker 3: Minutes later, it was struck by Taliban RPG, killing all
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Speaker 3: thirty eight people on board, including the dog and thirty
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Speaker 3: Americans eight you know, Afghan fighters who are partnering with US,
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Speaker 3: and today, to this day, remains the single deadliest loss
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Speaker 3: of American lives in one instant during the Afghan War.
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Speaker 3: So you know, to me, why should we care? Fifteen
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Speaker 3: years later, because I've been saying this, and when I've
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Speaker 3: heard about this, this charity, I was in Espat in
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Speaker 3: Germany and with our Army base there, our headquarters, and
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Speaker 3: I just you know, freedom has a price, and these guys,
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Speaker 3: these men paid for that price in full. And they
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Speaker 3: were sons, fathers, husband's, teammates, friends. They volunteered to run
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Speaker 3: forwards dangers so others could come home. You know, these guys.
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Speaker 3: And when I look at people that have anything negative
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Speaker 3: to say about members of our military. It makes me
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Speaker 3: sick because they literally put their lives on the line
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Speaker 3: so we could sleep well at night and enjoy the
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Speaker 3: freedoms that we enjoy in this country and say what
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Speaker 3: we want to be able to say and do what
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Speaker 3: we want to be able to do. And it's just
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Speaker 3: a daunting to me that that level of sacrifice exists. So,
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Speaker 3: you know, as a former ranger, I know what it
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Speaker 3: means to carry a weight. So what I have to
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Speaker 3: do for this thing is to carry a ruck, a
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Speaker 3: thirty pound ruck for thirty one miles, thirty one miles,
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Speaker 3: honoring the the you know, the soldiers that were killed,
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Speaker 3: American soldiers that were killed in this in this strategy,
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Speaker 3: and you know, the rook is basically in the thirty
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Speaker 3: one miles is obviously indicating the number of people lost.
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Speaker 3: And of course Bark the dog, the military joke. So
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Speaker 3: it's right, it's really well, it's something I'm so proud
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Speaker 3: to be doing. City it's it's fundraising effort that is
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Speaker 3: so along with the rock that I have to do,
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Speaker 3: the the fundraising component to it, and it's just it's
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Speaker 3: for the families of these fallen soldiers, and you know,
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Speaker 3: every dollar raised tells these gold star families that America
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Speaker 3: still remembers they love ones. And that's really what matters
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Speaker 3: to me.
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Speaker 1: And where can Thirty one miles is longer than a marathon.
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Speaker 1: That's not an easy job. Danielle's training for the New
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Speaker 1: York Marathon again. It'll be our sixth or forty first marathon. Overall,
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Speaker 1: this is five miles longer than a marathon. And you're
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Speaker 1: counrying a thirty pound weight. But I did see you
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Speaker 1: on Tuesday night. You and I had dimm it together,
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Speaker 1: and it looks like it's not going to be a
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Speaker 1: problem for you. You're like a walking piece of muscle. But
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Speaker 1: how can people help and want to help donate?
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Speaker 3: Today? There's you know, look, I sent you a link
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Speaker 3: that's basically a link to this Sharry. Basically it's it's
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Speaker 3: it's you know, there's something called run sign up dot com,
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Speaker 3: so it's extortion seventeen memorial run ruck so you could
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Speaker 3: do the runner, you could ruck with weight. So it's
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Speaker 3: it's just basically, if you go to run sign up
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Speaker 3: dot com you can There's many obviously charries on there,
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Speaker 3: but the extortions seventeen Memorial Run, which goes from August
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Speaker 3: six to August thirty. First. By the way, let me
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Speaker 3: be very clear, I'm not doing thirty one miles with
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Speaker 3: a thirty pound rucksack in one day.
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Speaker 2: I die.
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Speaker 3: I mean, even Rangers, that was a ragio. We did
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty mile rucks got over a period of ten days.
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Speaker 3: So it's going to be you could do it all
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Speaker 3: in one day if you want to die, or do
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Speaker 3: three point one miles a day for ten days. Right,
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Speaker 3: that's the run I'm taking. My brother's good enough. But
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Speaker 3: it's an amazing, amazing Charry. I don't often get a
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Speaker 3: bolbum the stuff because you know, I don't know what's real.
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Speaker 3: But this is a Travis Mannion Foundation, and Travis Mannon
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Speaker 3: Foundation is really the one of the most important fundraising organizations,
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Speaker 3: especially for the special warfare community, you know. So it's
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Speaker 3: it's it helps empowered these veterans and their families and
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Speaker 3: and families that look full and you know, to develop
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Speaker 3: character and future generations. So it's so important that you
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Speaker 3: said that. I've said this with donation because I don't
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Speaker 3: care if anyone donates a dollar or I've had some
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Speaker 3: petle Morgan made a pretty big donation, so you know,
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Speaker 3: it's I don't care what the amount is. It's just
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Speaker 3: the principle for me. And yeah, so far we're the
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Speaker 3: top fundraisers, so it's it's really important to me.
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Speaker 1: Well, now you're going to be the top, top, top,
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Speaker 1: top fund raiser. I got a million people listening, right,
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Speaker 1: he had, Joseph.
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Speaker 3: I don't even know if they when they sign up,
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Speaker 3: they probably won't even connected with me. From the foundation
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Speaker 3: point of view, I don't care. I just don't care.
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Speaker 3: I know again, this is something that's so important to me.
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Speaker 3: I wore that range of scroll decades and decades ago.
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Speaker 3: But once you're part of that brotherhood, you never really
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Speaker 3: connected to those who served.
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Speaker 2: Sure, I didn't know anyone on Board.
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Speaker 3: Of Extortion seventeen, but I know the kind of men
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Speaker 3: they were, and that's why this matters. It's about honoring
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Speaker 3: warriors who answered the call, supporting their families they left behind,
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Speaker 3: and making sure America never forgets that sacrifice. Love it
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Speaker 3: because these men gave that to so the rest of
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Speaker 3: us could have our sid and that's the least we
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Speaker 3: can do to remember them.
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Speaker 1: Can't argue, do you do any of the runs of
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Speaker 1: walks every year for tunnel to towers.
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Speaker 3: You know, I don't haven't. I would love to.
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Speaker 1: You know, I got to set that up. I got
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Speaker 1: to set you up with Frank Celler. I got to
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Speaker 1: set you up with Frank Celler. You're perfect for that.
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Speaker 1: I'm serious'd be great.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, I'll do whatever I can do that. That
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Speaker 3: to me is honor and duty. It's not even pleasure.
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Speaker 2: It's not like, Oh, how are you going to feel?
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Speaker 1: How are you going to feel on that day when
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Speaker 1: we Comember twenty five years this September eleventh, when you
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Speaker 1: see mom Donnie sitting next to Woody Giuliani.
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Speaker 3: Oh, it's I don't. It's really really tough. It's really tough.
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Speaker 3: I mean, knowing what he has said in the past,
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Speaker 3: knowing what his supporters have said about nine to eleven,
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Speaker 3: and the American people, knowing what his wife has posted,
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Speaker 3: and then have sit there with that stupid smile, that
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Speaker 3: smug smile, you know, understanding in my heart of hearts,
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Speaker 3: this is my opinion said, and I know you, John Micsure,
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Speaker 3: you always played at this claimer before I come on
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Speaker 3: the air, the viewers that the opinions of our guest reflect,
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Speaker 3: I know that's only for me.
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Speaker 2: I know that's only for me.
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Speaker 3: I'm about to say it. My opinion is that he
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Speaker 3: could care less about America and the commemorative events to
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Speaker 3: nine to eleven, that he is honestly, I called him
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Speaker 3: a gee hottist, and based on his past statements and
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Speaker 3: his associations, he is so. So I don't think it's
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Speaker 3: gonna make me sad because I lost family members in
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Speaker 3: nine to eleven. We both lost great friends, you and I,
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Speaker 3: and then we know who they are. And I lost
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Speaker 3: family members, and I went to more damn funerals, and
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Speaker 3: I saw that second plane hit the tower, so that
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Speaker 3: I was on the west Side Highway, you know, heading
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Speaker 3: to Courton Brooklyn Federal Court in Brooklyn, and I saw
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Speaker 3: that the smoke from the first tower, and then I
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Speaker 3: saw the second plane go in as I just I
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Speaker 3: didn't know what it was. At first I thought it
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Speaker 3: was like a movie set, and then I'm thinking, oh
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Speaker 3: my god, it's maybe he there was a pilot who
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Speaker 3: couldn't see the towers because the smoke. And then when
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Speaker 3: I realized what had happened, it's just like this a day.
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Speaker 3: Obviously there well is going to be a shocker. It's
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Speaker 3: a day I could never ever forget. I could never forget,
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Speaker 3: and and it's it's it's it's a significant, significant day
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Speaker 3: coming up. And again, you know, I love I know
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Speaker 3: a lot of Special Forces guys and you know the
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Speaker 3: military guys will make this this day. Has been looking
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Speaker 3: forward to this for you know, many many years, and
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Speaker 3: may toots.
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Speaker 1: It's not just fun day there by the way, people
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Speaker 1: are still dying twenty five years later. But we'll get
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Speaker 1: to that nine eleven conversation later because they got so
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Speaker 1: much more to get to. I know, your buddy, all
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Speaker 1: my attorney friends are friends with this guy, Todd Blanch
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Speaker 1: been going through the whole Senate confirmation this week.
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Speaker 2: Trump loves him.
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Speaker 1: He you know, he was supposed to be the interim
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Speaker 1: for Pam Bondy and you were names like Lee Seldon
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Speaker 1: and even my friend har meet Dylan Janine Pierro. But
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Speaker 1: I knew once Todd took that interim position, he was
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Speaker 1: never leaving. And I think he's the right guy for
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Speaker 1: the job. But I know you love him. How do
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Speaker 1: you think he did this week?
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Speaker 3: I thought I did great. I mean, look, you know
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Speaker 3: those are five we're in a different world. Now everything
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Speaker 3: is so damn partisan and so nasty, you know, confirmation here,
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Speaker 3: and she used to have a little more civility to them.
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Speaker 3: Now it's like, you know, it's it's it's it's about
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Speaker 3: politics much more than it's about accomplishments. I'm not commenting
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Speaker 3: on Todd Blanche from a distance. Todd's a close friend
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Speaker 3: of mine. Okay. I spoke to Master that confirmation hearing.
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Speaker 3: I served alongside of him as co council representing President Trump.
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Speaker 3: I watched him work firsthand under pressure, unlike any anything
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Speaker 3: most layers will ever experience. We've we've we've experienced, and
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Speaker 3: I know his characters, his judgment, his intellect and integrity.
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Speaker 3: That's an exceptional, we qualified individual for Attorney General's officerity.
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Speaker 3: So how we handled some pretty nasty questions. Yes, today
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Speaker 3: he didn't do a Pam BONDI. He didn't start saying, yeah,
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Speaker 3: you're a paphile, you're you know you're and and like
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Speaker 3: lose her cool and and go back at them with
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Speaker 3: with stegrim offs or or you know, refusing to answer questions,
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Speaker 3: but by attacking others. Tom just to sit there take it.
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Speaker 3: He didn't see him raise his voice, lower's voice.
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Speaker 2: I never lost his course, he never lost his call.
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Speaker 3: No, And that's exactly the lawyer we.
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Speaker 1: Was either a really brilliant guy or he's a psycho,
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Speaker 1: one of the two, and sometimes that's.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes Bothas what makes those great lawyers. I mean, I
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Speaker 3: think you just define me and and that's not you know,
10:25
Speaker 3: but that's exactly the kind of lawyer we want to
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Speaker 3: leave them.
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Speaker 2: Just Apartment.
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Speaker 3: Was as a lawyer. He understands both sides of the system,
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Speaker 3: and I just I love him. But again, we need
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Speaker 3: his temperaments right now, right now, with all this going on,
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Speaker 3: it's you need it much more than legal brilliance to
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Speaker 3: be attorney general. It requires temperament. And Todd's calm as
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Speaker 3: you saw when one of them has become emotional. He's
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Speaker 3: deliberate when I was become reactive, and he listened to
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Speaker 3: these studies. And I have so much respect to the guy.
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Speaker 3: And you know, it's a lot for me to say that.
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Speaker 3: I don't have greatly respectful a lot of people in
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Speaker 3: my industry, but he is certainly one of them. He's
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Speaker 3: certainly one of them, and he should be. Hopefully with
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Speaker 3: this doesn't come political again. I just hope it doesn't
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Speaker 3: become political, because if it doesn't become political, this should
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Speaker 3: be a very easy confirmation.
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Speaker 1: He's gotten it. He's getting it, he's getting it. It'll
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Speaker 1: be no problem. But you're right, he did a tremendous job.
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Speaker 2: You know what. Tuesday night we had our Mondly.
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Speaker 1: Men's dinner, Keith Canschowitz and all the guys Mark Oranger
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Speaker 1: and Mike Kemper and Al Volpi and Elpstein we love
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Speaker 1: Andrew Elpstein and Big Chris and a whole bunch of
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Speaker 1: really cool folks.
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Speaker 2: And my dear friend Anthony Caron came by.
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Speaker 1: And I have spoken to Anthony a bunch of times
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Speaker 1: since he had the issue with his brother. I was
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Speaker 1: in Israel. He actually started to cry, and I spoke
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Speaker 1: to him as soon as I got home, and he
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Speaker 1: was kind enough to call me right back. And we've
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Speaker 1: spoken to her three times actually, But had a chance
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Speaker 1: to see Anthony Tuesday night, and I was so happy
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Speaker 1: you were there too. So you are familiar with the
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Speaker 1: case against two dear friends. Now, look, I'm biased. I
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Speaker 1: am biased because I love both guys. I love both guys.
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Speaker 1: I'm not an attorney. That's what you're about to speak
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Speaker 1: on it. But from what I know, this is not
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Speaker 1: a very good case against my friends Frank and Anthony Caron.
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Speaker 1: But again, you're the lawyer, Joseph, you tell me.
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Speaker 3: It is not a strong case at all. It's one
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Speaker 3: of these cases that you know, was brought years after
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Speaker 3: they started this investigation. You know, it's a case that
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Speaker 3: they bring to put pressure on one of them to
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Speaker 3: flip on the other one. And I'm not talking about
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Speaker 3: the two brothers. I'm talking about the other defendants as well.
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Speaker 3: I know the evidence against the Corones. First of all,
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Speaker 3: Frank has been a friend of mine since I was
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Speaker 3: a prosecutor, you know, one hundred years ago. And Anthony.
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Speaker 3: I've known of Anthony and spent some time with him.
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Speaker 3: Tuesday night with you, what a great guy, very impressive individual, really,
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Speaker 3: I mean, and I gotta tell you you don't see
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Speaker 3: a lot of men like that anymore who stand up
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Speaker 3: and rad to fight. He woked into that restaurant, said
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Speaker 3: with a smile on his face.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I actually commented to him. I said, you know, I
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Speaker 3: gotta be honest with you. I can give you some credit.
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Speaker 3: The people who are under indictments for you know, serious
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Speaker 3: federal chargers facing serious time are sort of changing the
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Speaker 3: demeanor the cow or they'd become reclusive until this is
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Speaker 3: all done.
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Speaker 2: And let me tell you something that that's him. He died,
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Speaker 2: but he wasn't being phony.
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Speaker 1: He did say to me, he said to me, because
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Speaker 1: he's responding the whole time. He said, shid, the worst
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Speaker 1: part is over. He had to worry that every day
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Speaker 1: someone would come knocking on his door. Now they knocked
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Speaker 1: on his door. Okay, great, now we'll fight you because
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Speaker 1: the evidence will prove we were Okay, he said, to
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Speaker 1: be honest, I'm past the worst part.
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Speaker 2: How about that?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, look, that's right. The worst day is that day.
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Speaker 3: And believe me, when they wake up at five in
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Speaker 3: the morning, and that was another thing just goes to
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Speaker 3: show you the nastiness because Frank and Anthony Corone and
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Speaker 3: that lawriers who have spoken to and know have spoken
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Speaker 3: with the decision to go charge them. Let us don't
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Speaker 3: will surrender, right. But but you know it's it's it's
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Speaker 3: crazy that they had to go make a specta fifteen
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Speaker 3: FBI agents at five in the morning to go take
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Speaker 3: out Anthony Corone out of us. Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 3: I mean we didn't need that, and so I think
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Speaker 3: they're going to have a real strong defense in this case.
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Speaker 3: I know the defense. I know Anthony is definitely going
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Speaker 3: to trial, and he wants to go to trial, and
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Speaker 3: you know they're going to argue I'm sure from amongst
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Speaker 3: other things that prosecutes are drawing inference from circumstantial evidence.
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Speaker 3: And literally the evidence against Anthony Corone was presented to
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Speaker 3: them by his attorneys in what they call, you know,
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Speaker 3: either attorney proffers or these meetings to try and show innocence,
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Speaker 3: and they took that somehow turned it around, and honestly,
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Speaker 3: it's it's shocking if that's the evidence in this case
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Speaker 3: and you're gonna have to explain to a jury why
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Speaker 3: his lawyers presented that to you to show you what
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Speaker 3: was the truth, and then you turn that around to
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Speaker 3: make that the only evidence in this case. And now
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Speaker 3: I think they're going to try and remove you know,
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Speaker 3: Anthony's lawyers as a conflict. It's crazy, it's crazy, but
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Speaker 3: I feel so common of these guys. I really do
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Speaker 3: for Frank and Anton adamal the other guys, But Anthony
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Speaker 3: Corone is an impressive, impressive man, and I gotta give
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Speaker 3: him a lot of credit.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's the evidence against him as a joke.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that some people think that Frank is
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Speaker 1: it's a little more serious.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I have no idea because I love them both.
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Speaker 1: But I think the conventional wisdom is is that the
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Speaker 1: evidence against Frank is a little more serious. But I
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Speaker 1: still haven't heard from anybody exactly. But that is either
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Speaker 1: because there are kind of two different cases.
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Speaker 3: I don't know, so I don't think so, I mean,
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Speaker 3: look good, thanks the guy in the middle of it, right,
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Speaker 3: he was Adam's guy. He was the right hand to
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Speaker 3: Adams who obviously there's a lot of corruption going to
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Speaker 3: then prosecutes and that well it was I mean, we
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Speaker 3: know that both people come on and just get him started,
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Speaker 3: ask him a question about that and you go off, right.
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Speaker 3: But but but again he would be their theory. Frank
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Speaker 3: Coron set up this lucrative six point eight million dollars
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Speaker 3: contract for some guy and he got one hundred and
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Speaker 3: twenty thousand dollars. Come on for that, I mean, Frank Corona.
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Speaker 3: Frank won't go to make undred twenty tho thousand.
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Speaker 4: A month in sleep, I mean sleep. And it was
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Speaker 4: ten thousand dollars a month, Like that's what he got
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Speaker 4: for setting up one of the most lucrative contracts in
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Speaker 4: this you know, in this whole migrant hotel campaign. I mean,
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Speaker 4: it's it's a silly argument. I don't believe for a
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Speaker 4: second that's gonna grow out in court, but we'll see.
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's a I think it's a very interesting case,
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Speaker 4: and I'm confident that these guys are gonna be okay though.
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Speaker 1: I agree, and I'm glad they I'm sure they're glad
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Speaker 1: to hear that coming from you, because you have one
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Speaker 1: for just about everybody.
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Speaker 2: Your record is comfortable to Sandy.
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Speaker 1: Kolvak's in the Major League. So if Joe Takapina says
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Speaker 1: you're okay, I think you're gonna be okay. And you
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Speaker 1: did look great on Tuesday, and I don't like a
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Speaker 1: million bucks, so.
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Speaker 2: And hopefully yourself coming to this dinner every month.
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Speaker 3: That was fun. That was really fun, some good guys.
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Speaker 3: There was really an interesting crew a'l vopie. I mean,
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Speaker 3: that was the character and a lot of these people.
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Speaker 3: And I spent you left actually to go somewhere else,
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Speaker 3: and I spent some time at home I'm started leaving. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: you went home and I spent some time with these
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Speaker 3: guys who were you know who were leaving, and they
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Speaker 3: one on one, one on one, they grabbed me to
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Speaker 3: talk about this or that or so good we knew
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Speaker 3: and some great guys.
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Speaker 2: How much long would you stay after we left?
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Speaker 3: Yes? A little long? Did I want to? Had to
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Speaker 3: drive up to Connecticut? So what about about a half hour?
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Speaker 2: Wow? Good?
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Speaker 1: Right, A right, I'll both be on the China Club, Joseph,
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Speaker 1: you love that place. No in the day, in the
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Speaker 1: day we all had our day. Joe, You're amazing, you
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Speaker 1: really are. One more time, go back to where we
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Speaker 1: started this great conversation, extortion seventeen. How can people help today?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, extortion seventeen. They basically could go to, you know,
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Speaker 3: a website. There's what I know anyway how to do this.
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Speaker 3: But if you go to something called so shoot hold on,
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Speaker 3: so I gotta get it again. It's run sign up
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Speaker 3: dot com. Run sign up dot com. Yeh, run sign
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Speaker 3: run the word run sign up dot com. That's one word.
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Speaker 3: That's where you know, my donations go, all my my donors.
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Speaker 3: But the Extortion seventeen memorial rock run and yeah, it's
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Speaker 3: a it's I put my name in there. Obviously they'll
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Speaker 3: know it came from this, this endorsement. But I don't
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Speaker 3: care about that. I don't care about in the cryord.
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Speaker 3: I just want this organization and these families to know
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Speaker 3: we've never forgotten them, that we will support them. This
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Speaker 3: is something so near and dear to me, you know,
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Speaker 3: as you know, as we SI gets ready to go
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Speaker 3: into there, you know, this is really we have to
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Speaker 3: just remember how important what these people do are. It's
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Speaker 3: it's there's really no one like a military, United States military,
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Speaker 3: and the sacrifices they make for all of us, you
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Speaker 3: know that we take for granted and we just do
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Speaker 3: it because it's and it's not bad, and we take
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Speaker 3: from it. It's just like, you know, we live our
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Speaker 3: normal lives every day. We go here, we go there, Oh,
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Speaker 3: the World Cup Final Sunday Grade. We do that and
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Speaker 3: we have the ability to do that because of these
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Speaker 3: great great soldiers, men, women, whatever, even Bark the dog
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Speaker 3: sacrifices life right because they give theirs and and to
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Speaker 3: protect our freedom. And it's just something that you know,
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Speaker 3: it's not cliche, it's it's real and when you think
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Speaker 3: about it, like that. It's it's daunting to me, really
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Speaker 3: is daunting. It gets me a little emotional, So I'll
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Speaker 3: do anything to help these guys.
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Speaker 1: Your beautiful inside and out. Joseph Tacopina, great job. Today
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Speaker 1: is always this amazing segment w Friday.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I love you. Pout you see you.
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Speaker 1: Joseph Tacapina, right there, great, great, great, the best defensive
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Speaker 1: attorney in the world and we are lucky to have
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Speaker 1: them every Friday on this radio show.
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