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Sid & Friends Week in Review: John Catsimatidis, Deirdre Imus, Brian Kilmeade · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is Sid and Friends in the Morning. Week in Review.
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  Speaker 2: Justin Ellick, your executive producer for Sid and Friends in
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  Speaker 2: the Morning. And this is your best of Sid and
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  Speaker 2: Friends in the Morning. Kicking things off as always. John Katsimatidis,
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  Speaker 2: owner and operator of Red Apple Media, joins Sid to
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  Speaker 2: explain how President Trump and the GOP are under attack
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  Speaker 2: from our adversaries leading up to the midterm elections in November.
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  Speaker 3: How about this guy, the great John Katsimatidis?
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Red Apple Media does not one but two great shows
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  Speaker 3: on this station every week, 5 p.m. every weekday afternoon
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  Speaker 3: alongside Rita Cosby. It's the Kats and Cosby Show. And then,
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  Speaker 3: of course, his masterpiece, 8 a.m. every Sunday morning, the
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  Speaker 3: Kats Roundtable. just a quick one, John, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: You were not in the Hamptons. I don't think this weekend, but.
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  Speaker 5: God, it went a disaster. We were, we, well, we
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  Speaker 5: were waiting, you know, we have a house right on
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  Speaker 5: the beach and we were waiting for the worst case scenario. And, uh,
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  Speaker 5: I think we survived. You know, our pictures, we have
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  Speaker 5: cameras all over the place. Okay, good. And it looks
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  Speaker 5: like everything became okay. But some people, I guess, got
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  Speaker 5: a lot of damage.
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  Speaker 4: A lot.
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  Speaker 3: So do you have somebody by your house in Suffolk
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  Speaker 3: County that can kind of drive by and take a
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  Speaker 3: look for you in Margo?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, my friend Gus and my friend Joe that take
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  Speaker 5: care of the house and everything. You don't want to
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  Speaker 5: see that bill. Oh my God. You know, what about
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  Speaker 5: my friend who lives right next door? The great Stuart
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  Speaker 5: and Shirley Podolsky.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, yeah. Well, Stuart Podolsky sent me pictures.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he did.
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  Speaker 5: On, uh, on Sunday morning. And, uh, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 5: for some reason, his house, which is right next door
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  Speaker 5: to me, the, the, the, the, So Ocean takes away
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  Speaker 5: the sand from him and gives it to me.
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  Speaker 3: No kidding.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, for some reason. I mean, it's the way tides,
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  Speaker 5: you know, you can't judge how tides go.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, you can't do anything about that. Whose house
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  Speaker 3: is more expensive?
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  Speaker 7: Huh?
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  Speaker 3: Whose house is more expensive?
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  Speaker 5: Whose house is going to be left after a big storm?
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  Speaker 3: That's what matters, right?
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  Speaker 5: That's what matters.
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  Speaker 3: Not who starts the game, who finishes the game.
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  Speaker 5: Stuart has a nice house, and it burned down a
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  Speaker 5: few years ago. But when he rebuilt, he had to
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  Speaker 5: build it all the way back under the new rules.
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  Speaker 7: Ah, gotcha.
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  Speaker 5: My house is still right up front. Gotcha. Which is,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I enjoyed it. You know, when I bought
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  Speaker 5: my house about 10, 15 years ago, Me and Margo
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  Speaker 5: went to see it on a Friday. We signed a
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  Speaker 5: contract on Monday.
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  Speaker 8: That quickly?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, we saw it. We loved it.
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  Speaker 3: Love it for a sight.
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  Speaker 5: We got a view of both sides. We have a
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  Speaker 5: view of the ocean and a view of the bay.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, come on.
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  Speaker 5: And you can sit in your dining room and look
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  Speaker 5: at both sides.
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  Speaker 4: How do you beat that? How do you beat that?
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  Speaker 5: You got to come over sometime.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I was close.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: A couple years ago for your birthday, I went to
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  Speaker 3: the church, but I haven't seen the house yet. Let
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  Speaker 3: me get to our mutual friend, President Trump, had a
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  Speaker 3: busy weekend, went to see Tennessee play Texas, big college
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  Speaker 3: football game, and then had a bunch of other meetings.
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  Speaker 3: 37 days away now from the election, John.
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  Speaker 5: President Trump is under attack. And I spoke to him
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  Speaker 5: last Monday when I was with him. And we're under attack.
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  Speaker 5: I spoke to your friend, Joe Gruder, who.
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  Speaker 5: It's not only the evil empire, you know, Russia, North Korea, China, Iran.
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  Speaker 5: They want a weaker Trump because Trump is too smart
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  Speaker 5: for them and too strong for them. And every American
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  Speaker 5: has to realize that. Trump is too smart for them
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  Speaker 5: to— And Europe, too. And, you know, I'm disappointed that Carney,
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  Speaker 5: the prime minister of China, is supporting, wants to do
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  Speaker 5: business with China. Yeah. China will wipe him out.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 9: You know?
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  Speaker 5: And he's very close to Macron. And I'm disappointed. They're
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  Speaker 5: both bad guys. But here's what happened. No, I don't
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  Speaker 5: want to use bad guys. They're doing things that are
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  Speaker 5: stupid because I'll tell you why. They're looking to save
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  Speaker 5: money on tariffs because President Trump has their number. They
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  Speaker 5: realize that. You know why we have a 40... Nobody
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  Speaker 5: talks about it. Me and Larry Kudlow talk about it
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  Speaker 5: all the time when we go to dinner. You know
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  Speaker 5: what really happened, why we have a $ 40 trillion deficit.
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  Speaker 6: Why?
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  Speaker 5: Because, you know, first of all, we started with $ 5 trillion.
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  Speaker 5: When Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton sat down, they sat
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  Speaker 5: down and they made a deal as Americans. Maybe they
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  Speaker 5: didn't like each other, but they made a deal for
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  Speaker 5: America and took the Deficit from $ 5. 5 trillion down to
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  Speaker 5: $ 5 trillion. Okay? That's the last time we ever saw
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  Speaker 5: $ 5 trillion. Now it's $ 40 trillion. Now let me let
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  Speaker 5: everybody out there know why. Because we were very generous
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  Speaker 5: to Canada. We're very generous to Europe. We're very generous
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  Speaker 5: to everybody. Foreign aid. But foreign aid went as far
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  Speaker 5: as when we sell Germany goods, a car, they charge,
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  Speaker 5: I'm just going to make up numbers because I don't
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  Speaker 5: know the exact numbers. A $ 50, 000 Chevrolet, they put a $ 50, 000
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  Speaker 5: tariff on it. And then when they sell his Mercedes-Benz,
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  Speaker 5: the tariff is very little. So the smart thing what
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  Speaker 5: President Trump is doing is leveling the playing field. We
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  Speaker 5: want to be fair to you. You be fair to us.
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  Speaker 5: And he's put his foot down. And NATO, too. They
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  Speaker 5: were not contributing to NATO.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, terrible.
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  Speaker 5: We provided the defense of Japan, Australia, all of Europe.
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  Speaker 5: It was our money, our taxpayer money. We defended Saudi Arabia,
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  Speaker 5: the United Arab Emirates, all of them. We defended the
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  Speaker 5: entire free world, and the bottom line is the American
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  Speaker 5: taxpayer has the bill.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 7: $ 40 trillion.
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  Speaker 3: They complain about the bill for Israel.
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  Speaker 5: And all of a sudden, they're looking at us, oh,
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  Speaker 5: you're a debtor. You owe $ 40 trillion.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, please.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we saved your ass.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we keep paying the bill for everybody. We saved
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  Speaker 3: your ass, and we.
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  Speaker 5: Kept paying your bill.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And President Trump was the only smart guy that says,
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  Speaker 5: because he's a businessman.
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  Speaker 4: Smart.
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  Speaker 5: I'll tell you.
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  Speaker 3: And courageous.
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  Speaker 5: The Venezuelan deal. The Venezuelan deal. He got $ 65 billion
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  Speaker 5: of crude oil. You know what that is? That's the
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  Speaker 5: next 20 or 30 years. It's worth trillions and trillions
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  Speaker 5: of dollars.
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  Speaker 3: It's huge.
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  Speaker 8: It's huge.
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  Speaker 4: Huge.
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  Speaker 5: But he was the only smart in Canada, in Mexico.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's just, you know, when Detroit, a lot
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  Speaker 5: of Democrats and, you know, I'm sure some Republicans, too.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you know, look, I was a Bill Clinton Democrat.
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  Speaker 5: I still am. You know, they say, OK, the board
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  Speaker 5: of directors, a meeting at the board of directors office.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to move this Chevrolet factory from Detroit to
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  Speaker 5: Mexico and we're going to save 20 percent. You know
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  Speaker 5: what President Trump is doing? He says, well, you're going
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  Speaker 5: to save 20%, and Detroit loses all their union jobs.
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  Speaker 5: You know, President Trump is smart enough to be— he' s on
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  Speaker 5: the blue-collar worker's position.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he has been. That's why Anthony Scaramucci wrote the
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  Speaker 3: book about the blue-collar president.
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  Speaker 5: He tells them, you're going to save 20% to General
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  Speaker 5: Motors or whoever it is.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And you know what he says to them? We're going
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  Speaker 5: to charge you a 20% tariff.
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  Speaker 8: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: Good for him.
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  Speaker 5: So we don't want to lose our jobs.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 5: And he's bringing over trillions of dollars, trillions of dollars
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  Speaker 5: of new businesses that we're going to need new jobs,
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  Speaker 5: et cetera, et cetera.
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  Speaker 3: You talked about the oil from Venezuela.
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  Speaker 4: You're right. It's a huge deal.
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  Speaker 5: 65 billion barrels. 30 years worth of oil.
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  Speaker 3: Trillions of dollars, like you said. And I did hear
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  Speaker 3: President Trump say this weekend, all you guys complaining about
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  Speaker 3: the oil prices. I got to tell you, it's still
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  Speaker 3: lower than it was when Biden was president. You're Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Oil.
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  Speaker 3: Is that true?
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  Speaker 5: Right now, we're in the oil business for 50 years.
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  Speaker 5: I was on Fox on Friday. It's right now. There's
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  Speaker 5: a game, a game being played. They figure if they
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  Speaker 5: raise the price of gasoline and the game is being
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  Speaker 5: played by the evil empire. If they raise the price
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  Speaker 5: of gasoline, diesel is like $ 7, $ 6.
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  Speaker 7: 50.
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  Speaker 5: If they raise the price of gasoline and the stupid Fed,
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  Speaker 5: and I say that, and I know President Trump forgave them, but.
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  Speaker 3: Not really.
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  Speaker 5: I know that. I talked to him. And they raise
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  Speaker 5: interest rates. So to buy a home- With a 30-year mortgage,
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  Speaker 5: it's 7%.
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  Speaker 4: Outrageous. Yeah. Come on, that's outrageous.
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  Speaker 3: Kevin Warsh, you're killing us. What are you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Well, that's it. Gasoline, and they want Trump to lose
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  Speaker 5: or Trump's people that he's supporting to lose.
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  Speaker 8: Of course.
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  Speaker 5: Now, I want the American people to be smart enough
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  Speaker 5: to realize that America is under attack. and let's don't
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  Speaker 5: vote democratic independent vote for america don't vote for your party.
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  Speaker 3: Israel Tucker Carlson, some things I didn't like. So I
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  Speaker 3: figured I'd give him an earful. 30 minutes later, what
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  Speaker 3: a nightmare! We're laughing. We're talking. We're getting to know
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  Speaker 3: each other. And somehow, I think I charmed him more
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  Speaker 3: than he charmed me. That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Listened.
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  Speaker 5: I listened.
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  Speaker 3: We had a real conversation. And I walked out of
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  Speaker 3: the White House thinking, you know what? I can work
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  Speaker 3: with this guy. Then I got to spend some more
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  Speaker 3: time with President Trump in the Oval Office. Not exactly
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  Speaker 3: a bad day at the office.
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  Speaker 1: In the Morning. This is Sid and Friends in the Morning.
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  Speaker 1: Week in Review.
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  Speaker 2: Up next, Congressman Mike Lawler, representing New York's 17th Congressional District,
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  Speaker 2: joins Sid to discuss his campaign for reelection and his
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  Speaker 2: debate against challenger Democrat Kate Conley.
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  Speaker 3: Mike Lawler is correct and great on this show 100%
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  Speaker 3: of the time.
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  Speaker 9: 100%, 100%, 100%.
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  Speaker 3: Now, in my case, when I say 100%, am I
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  Speaker 3: right or wrong, Mike? You are correct, sir. The king
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  Speaker 3: of Rockland County, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Saul.
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  Speaker 3: That was quite a debate last night. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know how this lady faces her constituents today, how
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  Speaker 3: she faces her party. I'm not saying this because I
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  Speaker 3: love you, because I do love you. You wiped the
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  Speaker 3: floor with her last night. Did you feel that way
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  Speaker 3: when you left?
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  Speaker 4: I did.
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  Speaker 7: I did.
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  Speaker 4: And.
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  Speaker 11: In part because I have a real record of delivering
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  Speaker 11: for my district. And no matter how many times she
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  Speaker 11: tries to impugn my integrity or attack that record, the
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  Speaker 11: fact is that I have delivered and I have fought
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  Speaker 11: for my district, as the president calls me, a pain
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  Speaker 11: in the ass. It's because I will not back down
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  Speaker 11: to anyone when it comes to defending my constituents. And
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  Speaker 11: You know, you saw that last night. Jess and Tom Gorman,
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  Speaker 11: whose beautiful 18-year-old daughter Sheridan was brutally murdered. They asked
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  Speaker 11: a very direct question. Do you support Kathy Hochul's new
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  Speaker 11: sanctuary law? The reason their daughter is dead is because
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  Speaker 11: of Chicago's sanctuary law, because of Joe Biden's open borders,
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  Speaker 11: because of cashless bail. That's why their daughter is dead.
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  Speaker 11: And they asked a very pointed question. And they got
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  Speaker 11: a lot of bullshit from Kate Conley. She refused to
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  Speaker 11: answer it. And so I answered it for her and
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  Speaker 11: pointed out that she does, in fact, support Kathy Hochul's
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  Speaker 11: disastrous sanctuary state law. She would not support legislation at
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  Speaker 11: the federal level to ban sanctuary cities. And I made
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  Speaker 11: the point that I stand with the Gormans. The fact
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  Speaker 11: is that Kathy Hochul has released over 7,000, 7,000 convicted, illegal,
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  Speaker 11: immigrant criminals back out onto the streets. Murderers, rapists, drug dealers,
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  Speaker 11: gang bangers, gun traffickers. She doesn't give a shit about
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  Speaker 11: New Yorkers. She doesn't care if somebody ends up dead
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  Speaker 11: because she released a criminal back out onto the street. Remember,
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  Speaker 11: Kathy Hochul said, If.
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  Speaker 6: Anybody commits a crime, I'll be the first person to
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  Speaker 6: call the federal government.
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  Speaker 5: Bullshit.
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  Speaker 11: Straight up liar. She's a straight up liar. And she
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  Speaker 11: not only hasn't called the federal government, she's refused to
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  Speaker 11: honor these detainer requests. And she released these criminals back
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  Speaker 11: out onto the streets.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Have you become Bruce Blakeman's campaign manager? I'm just curious
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  Speaker 3: because your little rant just now is all Bruce needs,
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  Speaker 3: I believe, to win. I believe that. And I know
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  Speaker 3: the Gormans love you.
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  Speaker 11: He should be hammering her over this issue.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 11: And this issue alone.
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  Speaker 5: I agree.
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  Speaker 11: She does not care what happens to New Yorkers.
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  Speaker 3: No, you're right. And I had a chance to meet
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  Speaker 3: the Gormans at your rally in Rockland County. It was
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  Speaker 3: an incredibly emotional moment there, too, and you were great.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm glad you brought that up last night. And
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  Speaker 3: when she said you vote with Trump 100% of the time, look,
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  Speaker 3: the president loves you. He did call you a pain
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  Speaker 3: in the ass, but he loves you, Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Salt.
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  Speaker 3: I know you love him. You do not. You do
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  Speaker 3: not vote with Trump 100% of the time. In fact,
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  Speaker 3: some people out there call you a rhino. So she
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  Speaker 3: lied about that.
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  Speaker 6: There's no question.
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  Speaker 11: It's provably false. And here's the point to me. You know,
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  Speaker 11: at the end of the day, I'm elected to represent
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  Speaker 11: my district and I fight for my district every day.
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  Speaker 11: But fighting for your district also requires you working to
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  Speaker 11: get things done. Is her position that I should never
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  Speaker 11: work with the president? Is her position that I should
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  Speaker 11: just stand on a street corner, hold a sign and
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  Speaker 11: say Orange Man bad? I mean, she has come out
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  Speaker 11: in favor of impeachment. She's not even a member of
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  Speaker 11: Congress and she has come out in favor of impeachment.
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  Speaker 1: If she wins, we.
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  Speaker 11: Will have two years of absolutely nothing. It'll be straight
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  Speaker 11: up gridlock. There will be no ability to get anything
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  Speaker 11: done on behalf of the district because she will waste
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  Speaker 11: everybody's time on impeachment. And the fact is that we
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  Speaker 11: need to deal with real challenges facing the American people
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  Speaker 11: from health care costs to energy costs. to housing costs,
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  Speaker 11: all of which are exponentially higher in the state of
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  Speaker 11: New York than anywhere else in the country. And Democrats
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  Speaker 11: control everything in Albany and everything in New York City.
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  Speaker 11: And by the way, I gave her four opportunities yesterday
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  Speaker 11: to denounce Zoran Mamdani and his radical anti-Semitism, and she refused.
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  Speaker 3: She refused.
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  Speaker 11: She refused to denounce him.
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  Speaker 3: All four times. She kept talking about, well, I don't
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  Speaker 3: really like the DSA. Yes, but denounce Mamdani. She refused
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  Speaker 3: all four times. And to your credit, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: talk about being a politician for all. You're a politician
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  Speaker 3: for Republicans and Democrats in Rockland County. You said, listen,
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  Speaker 3: I just got an endorsement from a big time Democrat
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  Speaker 3: in Maine. My best friend in Congress is Josh Gottheimer.
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  Speaker 3: He's a Democrat from New Jersey. They did a very
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  Speaker 3: good job last night of pointing out you're not just
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  Speaker 3: there for Republicans.
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  Speaker 6: No, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And look.
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  Speaker 11: I've consistently been rated among the most bipartisan and effective
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  Speaker 11: members of Congress, precisely because I'm able to navigate through
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  Speaker 11: very difficult situations and build consensus. In order to build consensus,
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  Speaker 11: you have to bring Republicans and Democrats together. It's what
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  Speaker 11: I've always been able to do. It's why I've won
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  Speaker 11: in a two to one Democratic district that has 80,000
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  Speaker 11: more Democrats than Republicans. That's home to the Clintons and
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  Speaker 11: George Soros, because I go into every community. I've delivered
• 16:59
  Speaker 11: for every community. You know, Sid, I've done over 2,000 in-person,
• 17:04
  Speaker 11: in-district events in less than four years. I've closed over 10,000
• 17:08
  Speaker 11: constituent cases. We've brought back over $ 120 million to the
• 17:12
  Speaker 11: district in benefits due and community projects and critical infrastructure
• 17:17
  Speaker 11: projects and support for law enforcement. I've passed over two
• 17:20
  Speaker 11: dozen bills, 17 of which have been signed into law.
• 17:24
  Speaker 11: That doesn't happen if you're a partisan hack. That happens
• 17:27
  Speaker 11: from actually doing the work. And I can't, for the
• 17:30
  Speaker 11: life of me, understand Kate Conley's argument. It's her position
• 17:34
  Speaker 11: that you should just oppose Donald Trump at all costs,
• 17:38
  Speaker 11: no matter how badly it hurts the people you are
• 17:41
  Speaker 11: elected to represent.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: Yes, that's her position.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: And I've got to tell you something else. I know.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: You talk about denouncing Mamdani, and anybody who argues... that
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Mamdani is not an anti-Semite who says he's not one,
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: who argues that he is, I should say, is either
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: biased or an idiot. He is a raging anti-Semite. He
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: is the epitome of an anti-Semite. He's the worst anti-Semite.
• 18:10
  Speaker 11: Listen, think about it in this very simple terms. He
• 18:14
  Speaker 11: called for Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested, okay? A duly elected...
• 18:21
  Speaker 11: prime minister of a Democratic ally, called for him to
• 18:25
  Speaker 11: be arrested. Nicolas Maduro, a dictator and thug responsible for
• 18:31
  Speaker 11: the deaths of thousands of Americans with the illicit drug trade,
• 18:37
  Speaker 11: and was multiple times indicted by the Southern District of
• 18:41
  Speaker 11: New York, he calls for him to be released The
• 18:45
  Speaker 11: only reason you would take that position, other than being
• 18:47
  Speaker 11: a fucking lunatic, is that you are a raging anti-Semite and.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: You hate Jews.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Right. Well, my point was... That's the only reason you
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: would take that position.
• 18:55
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: So my point was last night, not only did she
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: not denounce Mom Donnie, and again, you gave her four opportunities,
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: I got to tell you, I listened to her very
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: carefully over the Israel argument. Do we continue to provide
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: aid to Israel? You're a champ with that. An absolute champ.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: She did not convince me last night... that she cares
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: even a little about Israel despite two or three attempts?
• 19:21
  Speaker 11: No, listen, she would fall right in line with all
• 19:25
  Speaker 11: the radical socialists, all the Democrats that want to remove aid.
• 19:31
  Speaker 11: Her biggest booster in Congress, Pat Ryan, just to the
• 19:34
  Speaker 11: district north, voted to cut off aid, also said he
• 19:37
  Speaker 11: no longer wants support from AIPAC, which, by the way,
• 19:40
  Speaker 11: is just saying you don't want support from Jewish Americans. Uh,
• 19:43
  Speaker 11: and you know, she, uh, she will go hook line
• 19:46
  Speaker 11: and sinker with these folks. She's got no backbone, no
• 19:49
  Speaker 11: ability to. stand up to them politically. And again, I
• 19:53
  Speaker 11: gave her the opportunity to do it last night.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: It was easy.
• 19:56
  Speaker 11: All she had to say is, of course, I reject.
• 19:58
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 19:58
  Speaker 11: I'm Donnie.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Right. She didn't do it. Horror Jimmy Kimmel last night.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: You guys also had a nice spirited debate with the Haitians.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: The Haitian T.P.S., in New York State. Tell us about that.
• 20:12
  Speaker 11: Well, that was entertaining. I mean, she's literally saying that
• 20:15
  Speaker 11: I did nothing. I mean, I've been the most vocal
• 20:18
  Speaker 11: in support of extending Haitian TPS in pushing back against
• 20:22
  Speaker 11: the administration. I passed the bill through the House. I
• 20:25
  Speaker 11: discharged the bill to extend Haitian TPS. I had people
• 20:29
  Speaker 11: in my own party attacking me over it. I got
• 20:31
  Speaker 11: it passed through the House. It's in the Senate. And
• 20:34
  Speaker 11: she's saying I did nothing. I didn't do my job.
• 20:36
  Speaker 11: I mean, it's a joke. She clearly doesn't understand the
• 20:40
  Speaker 11: legislative process. But, you know, moreover, I mean, it's just
• 20:43
  Speaker 11: issue after issue after issue where she just continually lied.
• 20:46
  Speaker 11: She tried to blame me for New York's high utility bills.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: I saw that.
• 20:50
  Speaker 11: I mean, it's laughable. I'm advocating to reopen and rebuild
• 20:55
  Speaker 11: Indian Point to lift the moratorium on natural gas extraction
• 20:58
  Speaker 11: to build pipelines. And she she wants, you know, solar
• 21:03
  Speaker 11: fields everywhere. There's not enough solar panels and wind turbines
• 21:07
  Speaker 11: to generate the level of electricity that we need in
• 21:09
  Speaker 11: this country. 70% of electricity is generated by natural gas.
• 21:14
  Speaker 11: She wants to ban it. You look at the fact
• 21:17
  Speaker 11: they talk about gas prices. Yes, there is volatility in
• 21:20
  Speaker 11: the oil market. We want that to come down. In
• 21:23
  Speaker 11: the Strait of Hormuz, oil is flowing 94% of what
• 21:27
  Speaker 11: it was prior to the beginning of the war. So
• 21:30
  Speaker 11: we are making progress. We want the oil flow to happen.
• 21:32
  Speaker 11: But here's the thing. This is a perfect example of
• 21:36
  Speaker 11: why we need to increase domestic production of oil and gas.
• 21:41
  Speaker 11: Democrats want to shut off oil and gas in the
• 21:44
  Speaker 11: United States. They don't want to increase productivity of oil
• 21:48
  Speaker 11: and gas in the United States, which means we would
• 21:50
  Speaker 11: be far more reliant on foreign governments. I don't want that.
• 21:55
  Speaker 11: I want us to be reliant on our own sources
• 21:57
  Speaker 11: of energy. I want to net energy exporters.
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: Of course.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: This is ridiculous.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Sit in friends in the morning. We can review. This
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: is sitting friends in the morning. We can review.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: On Wednesday morning, Randy Mastro, the attorney leading the lawsuit
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: against the Mamdani administration's Pieta terror attacks, calls into the
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: morning show to discuss a Staten Island judge. ordering the
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: city to restart its process for determining who must pay
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: the second home tax.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: So let me get right to my friend. And what
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: can I say, Randy? Congratulations. You did an amazing job
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: on behalf of a lot of New Yorkers. I was
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: with comedic actor Robert Wall last night at the Yankee game.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: He lives in L.A., but he's got a second house,
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: an apartment right here in New York City. And he
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: was thrilled. So on behalf of a lot of New Yorkers,
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Thank you for your hard work in making sure we
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: got the win yesterday. I know you want to feel
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: like a million bucks.
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: And I am just so happy for thousands of New
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: Yorkers who never should have been subjected to this botched
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: rollout by the Mondani administration. And this judge, Justice Ozzie,
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: right down the line, he gave it straight. It's a
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: compelling decision. They botched the rollout. They screwed up. They
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: scared thousands of people who should never have to pay
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: this tax. And now they're going to have to do
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: it over. So I'm just extremely gratified by the decision.
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: But more importantly, that thousands of New Yorkers, you know,
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: can rest easier because they know they were victimized. And
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: now they've gotten justice.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: They really were. I mean, this mayor actually put the
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: onus on homeowners to prove they own the homes, which
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: is just ass backwards and ridiculous and really awful. He's
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: a terrible guy. I don't get it. But I was
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: talking to a gnome this morning, and they sent it
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: out to about 17,000 people. Yeah. And I believe you
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: told me last time that maybe as many as 7,000
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: or 8,000 never should have gotten it in the first place.
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: Well, the city has admitted it. They admitted when we
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: had the court hearing back in August 31st that about 7,000
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: of those 17,000 had already been told they shouldn't have
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: gotten that letter or had applied for exemptions, which is
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: not something that is a process that exists under that
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: state statute. It's something the Mondani administration does. made up
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: to ensnare people, but when you apply, you had to
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: prove yourself with tax returns. You had to submit your
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: own tax returns to Zoran Mandani. Can you imagine that?
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: This is antipathy to wealth and private property ownership. You
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: had to submit your tax returns to this city hall,
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: but those people aren't going to owe the tax, and
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: they had already admitted that. That left $ 10, 000, and thousands
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: more of them probably won't owe the tax, but now
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: the city has to do it over because The city
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: was supposed to make that determination in the first instance. And, Sid,
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: I want to add one more thing. Thank you for
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: squeezing me in. I'm on the way to the airport.
• 25:10
  Speaker 11: I'm on the road.
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: I'm trying to get my way back to my beloved hometown. But, Sid,
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: we also brought suit yesterday to kill the humanitarian tax altogether.
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: It's unconstitutional and illegal. So that's the next case. Nobody
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: should have to pay this tax.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: No, I love this. Thank God you said that. I
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: feel like successful New Yorkers are being punished. I mean,
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: God forbid you actually work really, really hard. and enjoy
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: some success, that means I've got to fit the bill
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: for everybody else? That's crazy. And now I kept hearing
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: from Marsha Kramer last night that even though, yes, Randy
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Mastro and the city won this first round, that come
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: January 1st, the bill is still out there. And I
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: kept thinking to myself, well, let's get rid of it.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: So I'm so happy that you filed that lawsuit yesterday
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: because it should go away.
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: Well, and let me just say this, Ted. It's not
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: just wealthy people. I don't represent, in the case I brought,
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: the billionaires. There's a second case related, brought by different lawyers,
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: representing a couple of billionaires. Okay, billionaires deserve justice too.
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: I'm representing people who just happen to have, by circumstance,
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: a second home in New York City, or who got
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: ensnared by this tax because They bought or sold on
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: dates where a tax retroactively applied means they have to
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: pay it. Because January 5th, last 2026, is the effective date.
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: Whoever owned it on the 26th. If you bought it
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: after that, you're going to end up, your unit or
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: your home, you're going to end up owing the tax
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: if the person who was in there on January 6th 5th, 2026,
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: you know, I owed the tax. And here's one that
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: just drives me nuts, Sid. Somebody bought their place from
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: an estate. The only place an estate lives is heaven.
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: But because the estate owned the place on January 5th, 2026,
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: sold to this new owner, a New Yorker who pays
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: New York City taxes, In February, that person owes the
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: surcharge for 2026. That is insane.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Insane.
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: Insane.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, insane. So do you really feel, I know you
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: don't get into these things to lose. You're a winner,
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Randy Mastro. You just are. You're a winner, whether you're
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: working for Giuliani or Eric Adams, depending on the city.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Do you really feel in your heart of hearts, you've
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: got a pretty good case to make this whole thing
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: go away?
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: Oh, I think we have a great case because the
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: core of the case, federal constitution, the founders, they embodied
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: in the constitution, you can't discriminate, a state can't discriminate
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: against citizens of another state. And the state can't burden
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: interstate commerce. Well, that's exactly what this tax was intended
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: to do. We don't have to guess. The intent and
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: effect of the tax is to go after out-of-staters who
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: have a second home in New York City. The governor
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: said it. State legislators said it. Mondani said it. They
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: all said it. So we don't have to guess. And
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: that's illegal under the federal constitution, something called the Privileges
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: and Immunities Clause and the Dormant Commerce Clause. And more
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: than that, you know, they actually tried to hide under
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: the state constitution that this is a tax. They called
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: it a surcharge. But a tax by any other name
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: would cost as much. This is a tax. And as
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: a tax, there's a cap under the state constitution. on
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: how much can be raised through real estate property taxes.
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: This legislation purported to exempt this tax from that cap.
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: That's illegal under the state constitution. So for all those
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: reasons and the retroactive application to have the tax apply
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: as of January 5th, even if the new owner is
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: a New York City taxpayer and lives in New York.
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: I mean, that is insane. So for all those reasons
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: and more, we should win several times over.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Love this. Two more quick ones. I know you got
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: to fly home. You're also representing the landlords in this
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: ridiculous frozen rent case where people are claiming, hey, the
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: mayor kept his promise. He said, he was going to
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: freeze rents and he did it. Now, correct me if
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: I'm wrong. It's only a few apartments, only a few
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: compared to all the apartments in New York City. And
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: the truth is, while he may be making some tenants happy,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: he's screwing off the landlord. So it's not a win
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: for the mayor and New York City either, is it?
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: It is not for the following reason. OK, we say
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: we want to have more affordable housing. Well, small landlords
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: can't afford upkeep and to improve their properties and keep
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: them on the market when they don't get any fair
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: rent increase, because they're This rent freeze, unprecedented in city history, zero, zero,
• 30:25
  Speaker 7: across-the-board freeze, never happened before. That really kills the small
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: landlords and has prevented them from— this is the count. You
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: see it on TV ads now that some affordable housing
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: group is running 60,000 empty apartments because the landlords can't
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: afford to keep them up and put them on the market.
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: This is insanity. Again, I hate to use that word,
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: but this policy makes no sense. And the Mondani administration
• 30:53
  Speaker 7: imposed it on what's supposed to be an independent rent
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: guidelines board for the first time in its history doing
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: a zero-zero across the board rent freeze. And here's the rub, right?
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: Last night, a little before midnight, the city was ordered
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: by a judge to produce documents. Top city hall officials said,
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: and the Rent Guidelines Board produced hundreds of documents, including
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: from their personal devices. We couldn't get into them last
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: night because the way they were produced, the codes didn't work.
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: We're getting into them this morning, and we will have
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: so much more to say about that later today. We
• 31:29
  Speaker 7: got those documents, and we can't wait to review them.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Sit in Friends in the morning. Week in Review. This
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: is Sit in Friends in the morning. Week in Review.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Thursday morning, her Deirdre Imus, widow of the late Don Imus,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: make her return to WABC Radio's Airwaves and Sid's morning
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: show to discuss the life and times of her late
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: great husband before she discusses an art show she's got
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: coming up in New York City.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: The great Deirdre Imus back on WABC. Deirdre, sweetheart, how
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: are you?
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: Are you going to ask me what I'm wearing or
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: are my peaches fuzzy?
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: I swear to God I was going to do that.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: I really was, but I figured....
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: I really was. Is that, you know, if I asked you,
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: it's a hard.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: Question because there's probably a lot of answers to this.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: But if I asked you what you miss the most
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: about your husband, Don, is it possible to answer that?
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: It is. It's a lot, though. I mean, it was
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: everything about him. Mainly, though, his angle, his mind, his
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: angle at which he came at life was so original
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: that so unique. I mean, to this day, there's nobody
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: that I say, oh, they're kind of like Imus or
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: they come in at a point of view or an observation.
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: And then he did it with humor always. Like that
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: was his thing. Like he did always want to make
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: people laugh or just see the funny in everything. And
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: of course, you cross a lot of red lines. You
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: cross those red lines when you do that because you
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: walk a tightrope, which he did. I feel like his
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: whole life, just knowing his whole life. And then the
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: 27 years that I was with him and 25 years married.
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: But yeah, he, he was just, and I, so I
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: missed that. And I missed that rapport back and forth,
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: that repartee that I had daily where I was always laughing.
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: I mean, even in the darkest of times, there was
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: always laughter. I mean, his light was shining the brightest.
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: I thought when he was always at the ranch with
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: these kids that were, you know, with cancer, when we
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: did the ranch and, And I'll never forget it because
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: then when he was diagnosed with cancer too, and it
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: was never about him and it never took him down.
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: And I remember some of these kids that were even
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: terminal that were at the ranch and had all these
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: horrible life stories on top of getting their diagnosis. And somehow,
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: even with the cancer and bringing that up in these
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: stories that he would tell the kids and inspire them,
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: he could get them to laugh. They could laugh through
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: their pain and they could laugh, you know, even about
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: their diagnosis. And it was genuine. I mean, that's him.
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: You can't pretend to be that, you know, which he
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: definitely wasn't. He was pretty raw.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: He was. I'm not going to compare myself to him
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: because he was a legend. But I have my fair
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: share of detractors. A lot of people actually hate me.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, hate me. They want me dead.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: And what they do is they go after you with
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: the stuff that you do the best. So, for example,
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: you mentioned the.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: Ranch, okay? I know for a fact you guys have
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: done and.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: Still do, even with Don gone, still do amazing work.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: Yet people like Howard Stern, that scumbag, and others, oh,
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: they got a day camp, they're making money. When you
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: heard those types of things and your husband, he was alive,
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: did that bother you or you just kind of brush
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: it off?
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: It never bothered me or Don. Because we knew what
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: we were doing. We knew the work we were doing.
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: We knew that, you know, I mean, my husband solely
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: was the fundraiser for the ranch. I mean, he raised
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: in hours $ 40 million back in 1998, which was unheard
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: of on the air. You know, and he used his
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: show all those years. I mean, he was on the
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: air for 50 years, but he used all those years
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: I was with him, too. Any chance he could get
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: to get someone on to help them to raise money,
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: especially when it came to kids. anything to do with
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: kids with cancer, autism, anything to help children or the military.
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: Those were big veterans. Those were big priorities for him. And,
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: you know, you look back on his career, even the
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: people that were unheard of him, people didn't even know
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: that he knew he could help and give them a
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: voice and a platform he did. And he extended himself.
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: I mean, Basically, he killed himself basically being at that
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: ranch because he couldn't breathe, you know, and people didn't
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: know all that, you know. So, you know, he cut
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: some years off his life by, you know, us doing that.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: So is it fair to say then, so with all
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: the Marconis and all the Braves and all the number
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: ones and all that great stuff that I miss had,
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, let's face it, they write the book, he's
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: right there at the very top. Would you say that
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: you're most proud of all that work you just talked about?
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: Oh, by far, I have to say, to this day,
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: the ranch. We founded the ranch together. I was pregnant
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: with Wyatt. Six months pregnant with Wyatt, when we were
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: both already venturing out west, and we were already supporting
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: some of these organizations on the Indian reservations, and we
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: were seeing all these children that needed help in poor areas,
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: but kids with cancer, you know, a lot of people
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: weren't talking about it and there wasn't a lot that was,
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: was happening to, to help a lot of these children. So, um, he,
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: by being raised on a cattle ranch, um, he came
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: up with the idea one day when he was writing
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: an interview for Paul Newman. I remember he was having
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: Paul Newman on and I was actually on the treadmill.
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: I mean, I'm like this fitness person, you know, exercise, gym,
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: gym princess, whatever. But anyway, I was doing that and he, um,
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: we were trying to figure out what we could do that.
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: And I had already been working with Hackensack University Medical
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: Center in the hospitals, the Tomorrow's Children Fund, you know,
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: with David, my dear friend, my bestie, David Juris. And
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: we were trying to figure out, because I had seen
• 37:35
  Speaker 6: a need where, yes, doctors have their roles. Parents, of course, they're,
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: you know, doing everything they can. But I saw that
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: there was, when children get diagnosed, they lose their self-esteem.
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: They lose their confidence. They lose a sense of direction,
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: a sense of purpose. And those are things we all
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: need in life, regardless of what happens to us, right?
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: So that's when Don and I were talking. He said,
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: I know what we're going to do. We're going to
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: do a ranch for kids with cancer, a working cattle ranch.
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: From growing up, that whole work ethic, getting up, feeding
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: the animals before you go to school, and that sense
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: of responsibility and that strong work ethic and that strong
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: sense of purpose. you gain your confidence and your self-esteem.
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: And you do it by the doing of having a
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: strong work ethic, frankly.
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: It starts there with all of us.
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: And that's the foundation that Don came up with. And
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: he lived it his whole life. That's who he was.
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: I mean, his work ethic was incredible. So that's what
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: we did when we built this ranch. And no one
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: had ever done it. No one had kids working on
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: ranches and getting up at 5.30, you know, which we
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: both ran the ranch. We worked the ranch. We moved
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: out there all summer. You know, we never went on
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: vacations or anything.
• 38:49
  Speaker 7: No.
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: That is what we wanted to do.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's true. And, you know, you mentioned David Jurist
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: and Joel Hollander, also a terrific guy, Tomorrow's Children's Fund.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: And SIDS, all three of you guys were great together.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: But I do have to ask you this. You were
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: with Don for many, many years. So maybe I don't
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: have the dates right, but one day you had to
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: be with Don when he was a regular New York
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: City guy. And then all of a sudden, the next morning,
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: you wake up with a guy who's wearing a cowboy
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: hat and carrying a gun. What was what was that
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: progression like where you went from a regular New York
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: guy to a cowboy?
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: Who was a regular New York guy?
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: Don! He wasn't walking around with a cowboy hat and
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: a gun his whole career.
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: First of all, Don was never a regular guy in
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: any stretch of the imagination whatsoever. It was he, I mean,
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: you could go through the list and check. You couldn't
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: do it.
• 39:45
  Speaker 7: He's right.
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: He didn't, he wasn't regular in any way. I mean,
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: he was just, uh, yeah. I mean, but, but remember
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: he was, um, a cowboy. He, he grew up on,
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: you know, 40, 45,000 acre cattle ranch, you know, in
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: California and, and, um, between Sligman and Kingman, Arizona. He
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: goes back. The legacy of the Imus cattle goes back
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: to 1874. That's how far back that Wyatt is now
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: holding that and carrying that for the Imus family is
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: Wyatt Imus. Like you said, he's getting married. Hey, I
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: wanted to congratulate you, though. You're still getting that Hall
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: of Fame.
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: Deal, right? I haven't taken it away yet.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: Not yet.
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: I'm going, yes. October 22nd, a week after Wyatt gets married, actually.
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: Right, and I'm very proud of you.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: I'm very proud of you, and I know Don would
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: be proud. He would be. He would be, and so
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: that's a big deal, Sid. You got to work on
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: those Marconis, though, don't you?
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: I have none, zero. I'll never get one because I'm too,
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: I'm saying this to Don Amos' wife, but I'm too polarizing,
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: and I like the wrong people. I like the same
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: people that you like, Donald Trump, Bill White, all those
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: people we like this day and age.
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: That's a that hurts you. Hurts you a lot. I
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: know you know that.
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: Well, just stick with your truth.
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: I don't care.
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: Keep fighting the fight.
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: I don't care.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: You don't want to compromise your your principles, your morals,
• 41:14
  Speaker 6: your values. And, you know, it doesn't it doesn't matter
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: then to me. I never look at it that way.
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: You know, if you it's OK to have enemies, by
• 41:22
  Speaker 6: the way.
• 41:22
  Speaker 8: Of course.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: It's great. What do you mean?
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: It's OK.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: It's it's actually I mean, it's actually great. I love it.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: I enjoy my enemies more than the people that love me.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: I can't wait to talk to my enemies. It's a
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: lot of fun.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: This is sitting friends in the morning. We can review.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: Finally, WABC radio host Brian Kilmeade joined Sid for his
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: weekly Friday morning discussion to touch upon New York City
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Mayor Zoran Mamdani calling for the United States to join
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: the ICC, once again calling for the arrest of Israeli
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu during his Theo Vaughn podcast appearance,
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: where he called Netanyahu the, quote, architect of a horrific genocide.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: So as I said earlier, I very rarely, if ever,
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: get upset with President Trump. I love him. I consider
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: myself an ardent sycophant. I love the guy. We know
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: this already. I'm not breaking news here on Sid and
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: Friends in the Morning this morning. The only time I
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: get upset with Trump is when he goes out of
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: his way, out of his way to compliment Mamdani. And
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: he did it again a couple days ago. He talked
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: about his policies being crazy. But for some reason, he's
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: compelled to preface that with, I like the guy. He's great.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: He's not great. He's a piece of garbage. That's what
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: the mayor is. So that's the only time I get
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: upset with President Trump. So this morning, the top story
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: on NewYorkPost.com has Mamdani at it again with this loser,
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: and I mean loser, Theo Vaughn on some podcast saying
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: the United States should join the ICC and... Move forward
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: with his idea of arresting Bibi Netanyahu. He knows that'll
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: never happen. Never, ever, ever. But this jihad terrorist socialist
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: Marxist won't stop. And then again, I get like upset
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: with Trump. It brings me back to last Monday at
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: Gracie Mansion. I know Brian Kilmeade loves Bibi like I do.
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: In fact, I saw Bibi Netanyahu on Facebook. Kilmeade's morning
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: show on Fox News yesterday. I know Kilmeade knows there's
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: no genocide. He's not a war criminal. He knows all that.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: But he's going to tell you that. So joining me now,
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: my dear friend follows me each and every morning at
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: 10 o'clock here on ABC. Also, Fox and Friends and
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: his own terrific show, The Best on Cable, 10 p.m.
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: Sunday nights, One Nation. My man, Brian Kilmeade. Brian, here
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: we go again. This mayor doesn't stop knowing full well
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: He can't do it, and it's never going to happen.
• 43:57
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and put it this way. The mayor is really dangerous,
• 44:02
  Speaker 8: and here's why. He does not look like— I look at El-Sayed.
• 44:06
  Speaker 9: That guy looks like he's threatening everybody. He's got a
• 44:08
  Speaker 9: swagger and a cockiness.
• 44:10
  Speaker 8: He's really a repellent. Yeah, for his supporters, they love it,
• 44:13
  Speaker 8: but he's really a repellent. You look at that guy
• 44:15
  Speaker 8: and go, okay, I can't stand him.
• 44:18
  Speaker 9: But the thing about Mondami that makes him dangerous, and
• 44:20
  Speaker 9: I have a few people in my life who come
• 44:22
  Speaker 9: off so nice, but they are really destructive, is that
• 44:25
  Speaker 9: he comes off as this guy, he's harmless, whatever you need,
• 44:29
  Speaker 9: I'm here to help.
• 44:30
  Speaker 8: Oh, I'm sorry you're mad at me. You know, let's
• 44:32
  Speaker 8: do a scavenger hunt through the city.
• 44:35
  Speaker 9: But he's really a guy that has really said very
• 44:37
  Speaker 9: little good about our country ever. I don't really think
• 44:41
  Speaker 9: he even loves the city that much. And if you
• 44:43
  Speaker 9: want to know what he's really like, look at them
• 44:45
  Speaker 9: exploding at Tom Holman a year and a half ago
• 44:48
  Speaker 9: when Holman went up to Albany to try to say,
• 44:51
  Speaker 9: you got to stop being a sanctuary city and try
• 44:53
  Speaker 9: to work with Eric Adams in order to be able
• 44:54
  Speaker 9: to scoop up our guys, you know, when Joe Biden
• 44:57
  Speaker 9: was president.
• 44:57
  Speaker 8: So that's the guy I know.
• 44:59
  Speaker 9: And for him to sit down there and talk like
• 45:01
  Speaker 9: a tough guy after Netanyahu came and went and he
• 45:03
  Speaker 9: wasn't arrested with Theo Vaughn shows what a wuss he is,
• 45:07
  Speaker 9: number one, because he'd said nothing when Netanyahu was here.
• 45:10
  Speaker 8: He says he was going to personally go out there
• 45:11
  Speaker 8: and protest. He had disappeared.
• 45:13
  Speaker 9: So I'm disappointed the president bolsters him because it hurts Blakeman.
• 45:20
  Speaker 9: It hurts Lepetri right here. Mike Lepetri right here in
• 45:24
  Speaker 9: New York running against Tom Suozzi, who was on the yesterday.
• 45:27
  Speaker 8: I like him. Mike's a great guy, Republican.
• 45:30
  Speaker 9: But all those guys say I'm running against what's growing
• 45:33
  Speaker 9: in New York City, this growing.
• 45:34
  Speaker 8: Sense of socialism, communism.
• 45:37
  Speaker 9: And and this Islamist flair, this anti-Semitic push, it's coming
• 45:42
  Speaker 9: out of New York City. It's hard to do that
• 45:44
  Speaker 9: when the president is visiting him at Gracie Mansion. Now,
• 45:48
  Speaker 9: I have no problem talking to people that disagree with you,
• 45:51
  Speaker 9: especially to.
• 45:52
  Speaker 8: Get to a common goal. But I don't understand the attraction.
• 45:57
  Speaker 9: But I do know that the president appreciates success because he.
• 45:59
  Speaker 8: Came out of nowhere to win. Not a big fan
• 46:01
  Speaker 8: of Cuomo. And number two. He feels as though he
• 46:06
  Speaker 8: can win him over and stop making New York.
• 46:10
  Speaker 9: The anti-Trump enclave that many people in New York say
• 46:14
  Speaker 9: he is. But it's very similar to how the president
• 46:16
  Speaker 9: deals with Vladimir Putin and President Xi.
• 46:18
  Speaker 8: He's like, these guys are people I've got to deal with.
• 46:20
  Speaker 8: They give me respect. So I'll give it back.
• 46:23
  Speaker 9: Even though Vladimir Putin is poisoning his enemies on a
• 46:25
  Speaker 9: daily basis, rocketing into apartment buildings, trying to kill Ukrainian civilians,
• 46:30
  Speaker 9: putting his own people into a meat grinder where thousands
• 46:34
  Speaker 9: die every month for no reason that they can think of.
• 46:37
  Speaker 9: And then you have President Xi, who's got the Uyghurs
• 46:40
  Speaker 9: living under Holocaust-like conditions, steamrolled Hong Kong on a daily basis,
• 46:45
  Speaker 9: threatening to take over ally Taiwan. The President Says, I
• 46:50
  Speaker 9: got to deal with these guys. And if they're nice
• 46:51
  Speaker 9: to me, I'll be nice to them. And that's when
• 46:53
  Speaker 9: they write the story about him. I think it'll show,
• 46:57
  Speaker 9: judging by what happens with China and Russia and here
• 47:00
  Speaker 9: in New York City, if he's able to get his
• 47:02
  Speaker 9: way in New York City, he's going to say the
• 47:04
  Speaker 9: ends are just by the means. But in the meantime,
• 47:08
  Speaker 9: I really resent the fact that he's legitimizing him by
• 47:11
  Speaker 9: meeting with him.
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: That makes no sense. I mean, there I was in
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: Dallas a week before. He talked about the dangers of
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: communism and he hates these DSA candidates. And here he
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: is less than a week later. And believe me, Ken
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: Paxton saw the same thing. So there's a lot of inconsistencies.
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: But you're right about President Trump. That is his... persona
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: and that's uh he does it well he does and
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: you know you mentioned bruce blakeman dear dear friend of
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: mine and i'm kind of his uh unofficial campaign manager
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: i know that the president and bruce will be in
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: syracuse together october the 9th i plan on being there
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: too but he's another guy that is running for office
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: and needs the president to stay on course He's got
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: to make it about Republicans. He can't be saying nice
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: things about the competition. And here was the president yesterday
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: in Texas, in Oklahoma. Today he's going to Alabama. So, Brian,
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: we're about 30 days out. Most of the people I
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: speak to that are not Republican politicians or candidates don't
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: feel very good about our chances coming up in about
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: a month. They say, almost all of them, we are 1,000%
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: going to lose the House election. They feel okay about
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: retaining the Senate, although some think we're going to lose
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: all of it. What do you think about 30 days out?
• 48:28
  Speaker 8: Put it this way, Sid. You and I came through sports.
• 48:32
  Speaker 9: Anybody who's going to tell us exactly what's going to happen...
• 48:35
  Speaker 9: because you're Ed Street and Smith the day before. And
• 48:38
  Speaker 9: that's what this is. Everything is within three points. So
• 48:42
  Speaker 9: anyone says, oh, this is done and it's.
• 48:44
  Speaker 8: Not going to happen, because this game has not been
• 48:47
  Speaker 8: decided yet.
• 48:48
  Speaker 9: And they're beginning to define things, because people don't pay
• 48:50
  Speaker 9: attention until after Labor Day, and now the president's got
• 48:52
  Speaker 9: to be hands-on for 33 straight days.
• 48:54
  Speaker 8: And J.D.
• 48:55
  Speaker 9: Vance yesterday, he definitely can make.
• 48:58
  Speaker 8: His message crisp.
• 48:59
  Speaker 9: And he says, look, make Democrats say what they would do.
• 49:03
  Speaker 9: Mark Thiessen, I encourage everyone to read the Washington Post today,
• 49:06
  Speaker 9: broke down how much President Trump is responsible for when
• 49:09
  Speaker 9: it comes to affordability. 4% of the inflation is on Trump.
• 49:14
  Speaker 9: The other 21% is on Biden. When Biden took office,
• 49:19
  Speaker 9: rates for... for your mortgage was 2.8%.
• 49:22
  Speaker 8: Now it's seven.
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 49:24
  Speaker 9: Because this idiot rocketed up inflation, spent one point nine
• 49:28
  Speaker 9: trillion on packages we didn't need of over three point
• 49:31
  Speaker 9: six overall.
• 49:32
  Speaker 8: And then the inflation got out of control.
• 49:34
  Speaker 9: So was the Fed do they raise rates? So what
• 49:37
  Speaker 9: does Trump have? He's got a situation where no one's
• 49:39
  Speaker 9: dumping their two percent mortgage for a seven percent mortgage.
• 49:42
  Speaker 8: And they go, why isn't Trump's housing? Well, he was
• 49:45
  Speaker 8: handed a hand grenade.
• 49:47
  Speaker 9: So now inflation was at 5.4% cumulatively high when it
• 49:51
  Speaker 9: comes to Joe.
• 49:52
  Speaker 8: Biden at 9%. Trump's at 2.7%. And they're like, why
• 49:56
  Speaker 8: are you having to control things?
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: He goes, I did.
• 49:58
  Speaker 9: I cut it in half. You know, what's with gas prices?
• 50:01
  Speaker 9: Still less than Joe Biden.
• 50:03
  Speaker 8: And then you've got to ask yourself this. Well, gas
• 50:05
  Speaker 8: prices are high. Why?
• 50:06
  Speaker 9: Well, because we've got a war and we've got the
• 50:08
  Speaker 9: trade problem. We're beginning to straighten that out, pun intended.
• 50:11
  Speaker 9: But as you know, I'm drilling offshore. I'm getting the
• 50:14
  Speaker 9: pipelines flowing through Alaska. We got this incredible deal with Venezuela.
• 50:18
  Speaker 9: We're going to have that strategic oil reserve build up.
• 50:22
  Speaker 9: And we are going to have gas prices around $ 3
• 50:24
  Speaker 9: or $ 2.
• 50:25
  Speaker 8: 80 as soon as this conflict has ended.
• 50:27
  Speaker 9: And you just have to ask yourself, the party that said,
• 50:31
  Speaker 9: stop drilling offshore, stop drilling on federal lands.
• 50:36
  Speaker 8: Let's not build a refinery.
• 50:37
  Speaker 9: Let's convert them or shut them down and do a
• 50:42
  Speaker 9: deal with the devil with Maduro in Venezuela, drain the
• 50:45
  Speaker 9: Strategic Oil Reserve. Are those the policies that are going
• 50:48
  Speaker 9: to get you $ 3 a gallon gas?
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: Of course not.
• 50:52
  Speaker 9: What Trump and everybody else got to do is said,
• 50:55
  Speaker 9: look what my guy's going to do. Look what that
• 50:57
  Speaker 9: guy's going to do. I'll tell you exactly what I'm
• 50:59
  Speaker 9: going to stand behind it. I'm reconfiguring trade in real time.
• 51:03
  Speaker 8: And there's some short-term pain and some tariff revenue coming in.
• 51:07
  Speaker 8: But these are all policies.
• 51:09
  Speaker 9: Not one trade deal did Joe Biden do. No, no
• 51:13
  Speaker 9: drilling was Joe Biden doing, right? He wasn't letting the
• 51:16
  Speaker 9: Middle East run wild, even though he begged Iran for
• 51:20
  Speaker 9: a deal. That's how he got the Hamas attack. They
• 51:23
  Speaker 9: were flush with cash and training. Trump is attacking all
• 51:27
  Speaker 9: of it. So what they just got to do is
• 51:28
  Speaker 9: explain it.