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Alan Dershowitz | Lawyer & Former Law Professor Sat Front Row with Sid for Israeli P.M. Netanyahu's U.N. Address · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: You can call me a pedophile as much as you want.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I put a picture up of me and
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  Speaker 1: Dershowitz on Twitter. And almost every.
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  Speaker 2: Comment, this is how sad the world has become.
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  Speaker 3: Almost every comment is, oh, look at the two pedophiles.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. That's it. Maybe a couple smattered and said, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: wasn't B.B.
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  Speaker 4: Great?
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  Speaker 3: Otherwise, a bunch of anti-Semite losers. Real low lives.
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  Speaker 5: Like the people I saw across the street on 2nd
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  Speaker 5: Avenue yesterday. But baby, BB, I should say, baby BB.
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  Speaker 3: Was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't believe me, because I'm funny with BB,
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  Speaker 1: my next guest, the guy that you're making fun of
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  Speaker 1: with me on Twitter, is much closer with BB than
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  Speaker 1: even I am. And I'm proud to call this guy
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  Speaker 1: a friend, an amazing attorney, but an even better human.
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  Speaker 5: Being, my dear friend, Alan Dershowitz. Good morning, Alan. How
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  Speaker 5: are you?
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  Speaker 6: Well, that was great yesterday. Two tough Jews sitting in
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  Speaker 6: the front row cheering for Bibi Netanyahu while these cowards
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  Speaker 6: walked out. These bigots walked out. They can't stand hearing
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  Speaker 6: the truth from Jews. And so they have to leave.
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  Speaker 6: And the people, Sarah, you know, what's her name? Susan Sarandon.
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  Speaker 6: Total ignoramus leading the charge of other ignoramuses on Second Avenue.
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  Speaker 6: But we're on the right. We're the right people. And
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  Speaker 6: yesterday was remarkable for me. First time in my life
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  Speaker 6: I heard Bibi Netanyahu speak as a Republican. Up until now,
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  Speaker 6: from 1970 until yesterday, every time I heard Bibi speak,
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  Speaker 6: I was listening to him as a Democrat. Yesterday, I
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  Speaker 6: was listening to him as a Republican, and I was
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  Speaker 6: so proud when he talked about the close relationship between
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  Speaker 6: the current administration and Israel. So, as you know, I've
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  Speaker 6: written this book called Why I Quit the Dems and
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  Speaker 6: So Should You. And yesterday, I was there as somebody
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  Speaker 6: who had quit the Dems and so should you.
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  Speaker 5: And we're lucky to have you on our team, I
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  Speaker 5: tell you that. We are so lucky.
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  Speaker 1: But he hit so many good points yesterday. Like you
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  Speaker 1: just said, I'm glad he did it too, that he
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  Speaker 1: professed his love for President Trump and the administration. He
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  Speaker 1: talked about Iran, what a danger they are to the world.
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  Speaker 1: He talked about the lies, and it's complete lies. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I've asked so many people over the last couple of months,
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  Speaker 1: show me the.
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  Speaker 2: Data that Where are you getting information from that we're
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  Speaker 2: killing people at this unbelievable rate?
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  Speaker 1: Because I know it's the complete opposite. So he talked
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  Speaker 1: about the genocide, lies, and all that as well. And
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  Speaker 1: then my favorite part was he spent a lot of time,
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  Speaker 1: as he should have, because he has been the victim. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: New York media. He has been the victim of many
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  Speaker 1: unprovoked attacks. He went hard after Mayor Mamdani died. I
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  Speaker 1: love that part, Alan.
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  Speaker 5: Loved it.
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  Speaker 6: You're right. I mean, and also he cited data. He
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  Speaker 6: cited John Spencer, who is the head of the West Point,
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  Speaker 6: you know, anti-terrorist unit. He's the world's leading expert on terrorism.
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  Speaker 6: And he said quite unequivocally, no country in history has
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  Speaker 6: done more to protect civilians than Israel during this war.
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  Speaker 6: And when the most blatant lie is proposed, you don't
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  Speaker 6: look at the lie. You look at the liars. You
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  Speaker 6: look at why are they lying? Why is Mamdani such
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  Speaker 6: a bigot, such a liar, such a perjurer? And there's
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  Speaker 6: only one answer. He doesn't like Jews. He was brought
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  Speaker 6: up in a family that didn't like Jews. He lived
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  Speaker 6: in contexts in which Jews were demonized. And it's not
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  Speaker 6: surprising that he would blame everything for on the Jews
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  Speaker 6: and talk about genocide.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my God.
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  Speaker 6: There's never been a situation the opposite of genocide like
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  Speaker 6: there is in Israel. Israel feeds its enemies, inoculates its enemies,
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  Speaker 6: warns its enemies, and then they're accused of genocide by
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  Speaker 6: a group of people who murdered, raped, beheaded innocent people
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  Speaker 6: of every background. This kind of transformation, everything black is white,
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  Speaker 6: everything white is black, Bibi pointed that out better than
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  Speaker 6: better than anybody could have. And I was so proud
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  Speaker 6: to be in the audience for what? Maybe the 20th
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  Speaker 6: time listening to him speak. And I'm hoping that I'll
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  Speaker 6: be in more audiences with him and other Israeli leaders
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  Speaker 6: as they speak, as they speak truth to power.
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  Speaker 5: You will be.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll be sitting right next to you like I
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  Speaker 2: did yesterday. And then, you know, Alan, no, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for saying that. It was actually surreal for me to
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  Speaker 2: have Alan Dershowitz tell me that was an honor, much
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  Speaker 2: bigger honor for me.
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  Speaker 5: Trust me.
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  Speaker 1: But you and I were there earlier and we had
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  Speaker 1: to wait, of course, on 46th and 2nd for the
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  Speaker 1: ambassador to come out to take us. to the UN,
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  Speaker 1: so we were directly across the street from these pro-Palestinians.
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  Speaker 1: There were really two big rallies, one on First Avenue.
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  Speaker 6: They're not pro-Palestinian, they're anti-Semitic. They don't care about the Palestinians.
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  Speaker 6: If they cared about the Palestinians, they would be the
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  Speaker 6: enemies of Hamas.
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  Speaker 5: They would be.
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  Speaker 6: Trying to destroy Hamas so that the Palestinians can live
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  Speaker 6: decent lives in Gaza. They are the most anti-Palestinian group around.
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  Speaker 6: The pro-Palestinian group are the Jews who are trying to
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  Speaker 6: make peace and trying to resolve this issue in a
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  Speaker 6: way that maybe allows innocent civilians among the Palestinians to
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  Speaker 6: live in peace. But these idiots who are protesting, the
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  Speaker 6: last thing they want is peace for the Palestinians. Not
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  Speaker 6: a single one of them calls for a two-state solution.
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  Speaker 6: Not a single one of them would recognize Israel as
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  Speaker 6: the nation-state of the Jewish people. None of them. They
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  Speaker 6: all want to see the end of Israel. That's the
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  Speaker 6: difference between Palestinianism and Zionism. Zionism built the state. Palestinianism's
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  Speaker 6: goal is to destroy a state.
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  Speaker 1: So how am I supposed to feel about this upcoming
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  Speaker 1: election with, again, he's your friend a lot longer than mine.
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  Speaker 1: He really does love you. Bibi, I can't imagine, really
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  Speaker 1: I can't, at this important time, just about three years
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  Speaker 1: removed from that horrible October 7th day, I can't imagine
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  Speaker 1: somebody else in that role. But I may have to
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  Speaker 1: start thinking about it. How am I supposed to feel
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  Speaker 1: about this upcoming election, Alan?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I think the election is not going to bring
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  Speaker 6: about a new government. I suspect that the goal of
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  Speaker 6: the Netanyahu party is to avoid any other party getting
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  Speaker 6: enough votes votes to control the Knesset so that then
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  Speaker 6: Bibi serves as acting prime minister until there's the next election.
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  Speaker 6: That's what I think the goal is. I think the
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  Speaker 6: polls don't suggest that Bibi can win an outright victory,
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  Speaker 6: but who knows? Look, there's one other thing I wanted
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  Speaker 6: to talk about today because America, our beloved country, is
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  Speaker 6: in great danger. There is a case pending now that
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  Speaker 6: is so important. They're going after two women who are
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  Speaker 6: religiously and ideologically dissidents. and they're putting them in jail
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  Speaker 6: for their ideas. And, you know, this could easily be
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  Speaker 6: used as a precedent against other minority groups like Mormons
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  Speaker 6: and Catholics. Remember, early in our history, Christmas was abolished
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  Speaker 6: by the Puritans, and anybody who celebrated Christmas would go
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  Speaker 6: to jail. Mormons went to jail. And now we're seeing
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  Speaker 6: efforts by this government to try to go after religious dissidents.
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  Speaker 6: And so I've been leading a campaign to try to
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  Speaker 6: get people, religious leaders from all over the country, to
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  Speaker 6: stand up against the government and stand up in favor
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  Speaker 6: of religious freedom. So I just wanted to say that
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  Speaker 6: because it's so important to making America an even greater
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  Speaker 6: country than it is today.
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  Speaker 5: Are these women in New York? Where are they, Alan?
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  Speaker 5: They're in New York.
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  Speaker 6: They're in jail now.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 6: They got arrested. They got put in jail. for, for
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  Speaker 6: the crime was slavery. What happened is people volunteered to
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  Speaker 6: work for them the way people volunteer to work for
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  Speaker 6: Hasidic Jews. People volunteer to work for the Catholic church.
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  Speaker 6: People volunteer to work for Mormons. But as a result
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  Speaker 6: of these people volunteering, the government said, ah, you're keeping
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  Speaker 6: them as slaves because a few of them afterwards said, ah,
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  Speaker 6: we regret having volunteered. But that's what, you know, America
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  Speaker 6: is all about volunteerism. And Many religions were built on volunteers, obviously.
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  Speaker 6: You know, Christianity was built on volunteers, and so was Mormonism.
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  Speaker 6: And so I am devoting myself very strongly to trying
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  Speaker 6: to undo this injustice, and I'm hoping that the government
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  Speaker 6: will think twice about this and the courts will think
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  Speaker 6: twice and maybe the president will do something to avoid
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  Speaker 6: what could be a real stain on America.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God, that sounds terrible. Thank God you're on
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  Speaker 1: the case, Alan. Thank God you're on the case. If
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  Speaker 1: there's something I can do.
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  Speaker 6: Please let me know. And we have really good people
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  Speaker 6: because we stand for what's best in America.
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  Speaker 5: 100%.
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  Speaker 2: You are just an amazing guy and I want to
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  Speaker 2: thank you again for that experience yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: I will remember... As much as seeing B.B.
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  Speaker 2: For the first time at the U.N., the man I
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  Speaker 2: sat next to, and that's you, my friend Alan.
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  Speaker 5: Alan, I love you so much. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 6: I was, you know, I called you down. I said,
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  Speaker 6: I reserved a seat for you. I want to sit
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  Speaker 6: next to Sid. Two tough, badass Jews cheering for one
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  Speaker 6: of the great Jews in history, B.B. Netanyahu. So I
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  Speaker 6: was so proud to be sitting next to you and
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  Speaker 6: cheering and showing support for the right thing.
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  Speaker 5: I love you. Thank you. God bless you, Alan. That
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  Speaker 5: was great. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: What a great appearance. Good Shabbos and happy Sukkot, my friend, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Alan Dershowitz right there, the amazing attorney and an even
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  Speaker 1: better man.
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  Speaker 5: I love him so much.
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  Speaker 6: What the heck is going on here?