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Mike Lawler | Congressman, New York District 17 | 05-14-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 3: The King of Rockland County, Mister Salt Mike Lawler is
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  Speaker 3: as good as any congress person, if not the best,
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  Speaker 3: on the country. And I'm not just saying that because
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  Speaker 3: he's on the phone right now. But well, maybe I am.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't think I am. I think
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  Speaker 4: I really believe that, don't you, Mike?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely?
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  Speaker 4: Do you believe that? For sure? Would you?
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  Speaker 3: Would you actually say to somebody like I do? I
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  Speaker 3: always tell people in the best radio hoss in the country,
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  Speaker 3: I do with no no, uh, no problem. Would you
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  Speaker 3: tell people I'm the best congress person in the country.
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  Speaker 5: Now that I wouldn't?
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  Speaker 4: Is it because you don't believe you are?
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  Speaker 3: Because you try to maintain some type of professionalism which
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  Speaker 3: I don't have.
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  Speaker 6: Try to?
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  Speaker 5: You know, there's an old saying, humble and victory, gracious
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  Speaker 5: in defeat, try to be slightly humble.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Well, who's a better politician? You are Rand Paul
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  Speaker 4: me by Paula.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I've never liked that son of a bitch.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like Thomas Massey. I don't like Rand Paul.
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  Speaker 3: Way before Ran Paul's kid lashed at you want a
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  Speaker 3: drunken anti Semitic rant in DC two nights ago. All
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  Speaker 3: those guys do, Massy, Ran, Paul, Rakowski.
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  Speaker 4: Collins Romney.
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  Speaker 3: All they do is if Trump likes vanilla, I like chocolate,
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  Speaker 3: and there Republicans. They're supposed to be on our team.
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  Speaker 3: I can't stand Ran Paul. I was the only guy
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  Speaker 3: in the country who was happy. Don't get upset. He
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  Speaker 3: got his ass kicked on his front lawn. I was
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  Speaker 3: actually happy and his kid to do what he did
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  Speaker 3: to you in DC a couple of nights ago. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if William Paul heard that type of talk
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  Speaker 3: in his house. I can't blame rant for that because
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  Speaker 3: I'm not there, but usually when a kid goes off
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  Speaker 3: like that, he hears that somewhere close to home.
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  Speaker 4: Were you shocked?
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  Speaker 3: This mad?
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  Speaker 4: Disgusted?
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  Speaker 3: I know he's apologized now, the kid, But have you
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  Speaker 3: heard from I don't know his father, Ran Paul.
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  Speaker 5: No, I've not heard from his father. And you know,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, his son is an adult, so I'm not
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  Speaker 5: gonna cast dispersions on his father except to say if
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  Speaker 5: that was my child, I'd be absolutely mortified and embarrassed
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  Speaker 5: and would actually pick up the phone and say something,
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  Speaker 5: of course, But you know, nobody has heard from him,
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  Speaker 5: and from a number of reporters apparently asked him for comment,
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  Speaker 5: and he said he had no comment.
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  Speaker 3: No comment, So give me tell me it's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 4: It is my bottling.
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  Speaker 3: It's grotesque and Ram Paul should be ashamed of himself.
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  Speaker 3: But again, he's not a good guy. I'm sorry. Give
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  Speaker 3: me exactly what happened was on the news, people read
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  Speaker 3: about it. But you're in a ball in Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 3: Here comes when Paul's son William Paul. Are you guys
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  Speaker 3: even talking? What happens next?
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  Speaker 5: So Washington, d C. Is not like New York. It's
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  Speaker 5: actually very difficult to find food after ten o'clock at night.
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  Speaker 5: And I had just wrapped up an hour plus long
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  Speaker 5: staff call and I went to go grab dinner and
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  Speaker 5: meet a friend. And you know, I got to the
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  Speaker 5: tune in which is right next to the Capitol and
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  Speaker 5: the House office buildings, and so there was only one
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  Speaker 5: seat at the bar, and so I went to sit down,
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  Speaker 5: and sitting next to me is this fully inebriated kid,
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  Speaker 5: and and by kid I mean thirty, you know year
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  Speaker 5: old adult.
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  Speaker 4: And so.
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  Speaker 5: He goes, are you Mike Lare? And I said no.
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  Speaker 7: And he goes, will you look like him?
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  Speaker 5: I said I said yes, and he goes.
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  Speaker 7: He goes, oh, nice to meet you. I'm Rid Paul's son.
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  Speaker 7: And I go oh, okay, nice to meet you. And obviously,
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  Speaker 7: you know, anybody.
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  Speaker 5: Who's ever been at a bar when somebody is completely bombed,
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  Speaker 5: you have zero interest in talking to zero.
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  Speaker 3: So you knew at that point. You knew right away
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  Speaker 3: at the beginning, I.
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  Speaker 5: Knew this was going downhill at some point. So I'm
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  Speaker 5: sitting there, you know, my friend comes to meet me.
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  Speaker 5: We're getting food. Uh, And I get a text from
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  Speaker 5: a reporter, Reese Gorman, asking if I'm out and want
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  Speaker 5: to meet up for a drink, and I said, I'm
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  Speaker 5: at tune in And he happens to live right around
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  Speaker 5: the corner, so he came over. So he's standing right
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  Speaker 5: behind me. My friend is sitting right next to me,
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  Speaker 5: and then you have Ran Paul's drunk son sitting right
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  Speaker 5: next to him. And so the three of us excluding
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  Speaker 5: William Paul are having a conversation and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 5: he jumps in and starts chastising me that if Thomas
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  Speaker 5: Massey loses next week, it's because of your people.
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  Speaker 4: Your people.
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  Speaker 5: Now, I'm not stupid, but I wanted to hear him
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  Speaker 5: say it, so I said, well, who are my people?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: And he goes jewshosh I looked at it. I go,
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, what, I go, Do you do you think
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  Speaker 5: I'm Jewish? And he said yes, and I said, well,
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  Speaker 5: I'm actually Irish, Italian Catholic and he goes, wait what,
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  Speaker 5: he goes, You're not Jewish. I said no, and he goes, oh,
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  Speaker 5: oh my god, I'm so sorry that I accused.
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  Speaker 4: You of that.
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  Speaker 5: And I was like, so, I go, wait, I go, so,
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  Speaker 5: I mean if I was Jewish, what exactly would be
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  Speaker 5: the problem. And he proceeded to go on a ten
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  Speaker 5: minute diatribe about, you know, how he hates the Jews.
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  Speaker 5: He was blaming the Jews. He was going after Paul Singer.
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  Speaker 5: And I politely reminded him that Paul Singer is an
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  Speaker 5: American citizen and allowed to engage politically, just like anybody
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  Speaker 5: else in this country. And he said, no, he's beholden
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  Speaker 5: to Israel. He only cares about Israel, screaming and yelling,
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  Speaker 5: and you know, ultimately I pushed back very directly on him.
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  Speaker 5: And one of the things I said to him, I said,
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  Speaker 5: let me ask you a question. I said, are you Christian?
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  Speaker 5: And he said well, yes, I said, and you read
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  Speaker 5: the Bible right, And he goes, well, I'm secular, I said. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: I said, but you do understand the Bible and he
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  Speaker 5: said yeah. I said, and you understand there's a part
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  Speaker 5: of the Bible called the Old Testament.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, the whole thing about Judeo Christian values.
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  Speaker 6: It's because it's at the core of our foundation, our constitution,
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  Speaker 6: our rule of law.
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  Speaker 5: Like you believe in those things, right, And he was like, well,
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  Speaker 5: I believe in Jesus Christ. And Jesus Christ is the
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  Speaker 5: only thing that matters. The Old Testament doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, okay, I will tell you that. Hold on.
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  Speaker 3: So I've had Father Cassado on the show many times.
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  Speaker 3: Monsignor Cassado, anytime there's a big holiday, you know, whether
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  Speaker 3: it's comes on on Good Friday, comes on Christmas, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, I say, can you explain to me why
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  Speaker 3: there are Christian people who hate the Jews? And he said, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they're stupid. This is coming from from Monsignor Bather Cassado.
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  Speaker 3: He goes, course, they have to know that what you
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  Speaker 3: just talked about the Old Testament, that a lot of Christianity,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of it is based on Judaism. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: Jesus was Jewish.
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  Speaker 5: Jewish right.
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  Speaker 3: And then you guys talk about Abraham, you talk about Moses.
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  Speaker 4: You do that in church, do you not?
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  Speaker 5: Of course, so I said, so I said to him,
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  Speaker 5: I said, well, obviously this conversation's not going anywhere. And
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  Speaker 5: then he went into Iran. And you know the reason
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  Speaker 5: where in Iran is because we're trying to steal the
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  Speaker 5: land for the Jews. And a gaze, the gaze, what
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  Speaker 5: about the gaze? And he goes, I hate the gaze
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  Speaker 5: and I hate the Jews, and I don't care if
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  Speaker 5: they die.
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  Speaker 3: And he said that, he said, he said, I hate
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  Speaker 3: the gaye. This is Rand Paul's son. Everybody, that great,
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  Speaker 3: great guy out of Kentucky, that jerkoff. His son said
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  Speaker 3: I hate the gaze, I hate the Jews. I don't
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  Speaker 3: care if they die.
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  Speaker 4: Correct.
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  Speaker 5: And I said, all right, guy, I think it's time
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  Speaker 5: for you to leave. This conversation is obviously going nowhere.
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  Speaker 5: Uh and uh, you need to just excuse yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, because no, no, no, no. But you got into words
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  Speaker 3: with Hakeem Jeffries a couple of months ago, which nearly
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  Speaker 3: came to fisticuffs. You admitted that on this program. Was
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  Speaker 3: that the case with William Paul or not really.
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  Speaker 5: No, listen, this kid was stumbling, bumbling. I mean, he
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  Speaker 5: couldn't even fucking stand or talk. But he goes, he goes,
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  Speaker 5: I said, listen, it's clear you hate the Jews. Don't
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  Speaker 5: you put words in my bouse? Mike Lawler. I said,
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  Speaker 5: I didn't put words in your mouth. You literally just
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  Speaker 5: said it. And he goes, I'm drunk. I don't know
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  Speaker 5: what I don't know what I'm saying. And I said,
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  Speaker 5: I said, I think it's time to go home, and
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  Speaker 5: he goes, yeah, yeah, I got to get out of here.
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  Speaker 5: I got I gotta go home. He paid his bill,
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  Speaker 5: he tripped over his stool on his way out the door.
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  Speaker 5: And I mean, now, mind you, a reporter was standing
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  Speaker 5: there witnessing the whole exchange. It was insane, crazy, and
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  Speaker 5: I did forget this one part. In the middle of
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  Speaker 5: his diatribe against me, he starts yelling at me about salt,
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  Speaker 5: so he knew he just totally out of left field,
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  Speaker 5: but he knew me about salt.
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