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Peter King | Former Congressman Praises Secretary of State Marco Rubio on S&FIM · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Peter King. Peter, I just saw Marco Rubio, they played
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  Speaker 1: a clip. of Marco on Fox and News a couple
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  Speaker 1: of days ago, and that was the same day that
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  Speaker 1: he came on my show. He finished Fox and News,
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  Speaker 1: and then he called into my show, and you made
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  Speaker 1: it a point to text me. That's a big deal
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  Speaker 1: for me. That's how much I respect you, to tell
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  Speaker 1: me that you loved the Marco Rubio interview, and you
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  Speaker 1: did that because you dealt with a lot, not just
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  Speaker 1: in Congress, but Homeland Security, foreign nations. So you know
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  Speaker 1: when a guy is doing a really good job Providing diplomacy,
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  Speaker 1: I should say, all over the world. What an amazing
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  Speaker 1: job Marco Rubio is doing, yes?
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  Speaker 2: He's absolutely the best you can have in that position
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  Speaker 2: right now. And Marco can do it all. As you say,
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  Speaker 2: Secretary Rubio can do it all. I saw him up
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  Speaker 2: close in Washington. He knows the politics. He can play
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  Speaker 2: the political game, and that's important. But most important of all,
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  Speaker 2: he knows what the national interest is. He knows how
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  Speaker 2: to work at the diplomatic level. And he's really a patriot. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if you're hard-pressed to find anything wrong, anything
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  Speaker 2: you and I would think is wrong in these senses,
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  Speaker 2: he's in there. And he's in a tough spot. And
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  Speaker 2: yet he's able to espouse American values, fight for what
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  Speaker 2: we believe in, and yet at the same time maintain
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  Speaker 2: relations with those countries. Also, just off to the side
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  Speaker 2: for a second, congratulations to you today. It's really a
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  Speaker 2: moment in history that you're going to be there in
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  Speaker 2: the U.N., with Bibi Netanyahu. This will be recorded years
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  Speaker 2: from now about Netanyahu being in New York, being there,
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  Speaker 2: basically confronting the Palestinians, confronting the world, and confronting Ben Domi.
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  Speaker 2: And you were there with him, so congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Peter. That means a lot coming from you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. You know, I'm getting a bunch of texts
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  Speaker 1: from people, be careful, and Bobby Hartman and Wes Sullivan,
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  Speaker 1: be careful, because of this mob that's going to be
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  Speaker 1: running the streets here leading up to Bibi's big speech
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  Speaker 1: later on. I'll get back to that, but I want
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  Speaker 1: to get to Ukraine because you know so much about
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  Speaker 1: that and Zelensky. And he was with Trump a couple
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  Speaker 1: of days ago at the UN, and Trump is asking
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  Speaker 1: for an energy ceasefire, and Trump has been blaming Zelensky
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks for the diesel problem around
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  Speaker 1: the world because he's bombing these Russian diesel plants. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if anything good happened with Zelensky the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of days here in New York to you.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't. And again, you know, listen, I understand
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  Speaker 2: Zelensky's position. I mean, Russia is bombing Kyiv, is sending
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  Speaker 2: rockets into Kyiv. He's running out of Patriot missiles to
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  Speaker 2: defend himself. And the only alternative he has is to
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  Speaker 2: go at Russia. And Russia, they rely on their fuel supplies.
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  Speaker 2: He's going at them. And so to me, to say
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  Speaker 2: that Zelensky, that's like asking him to disarm. And we
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  Speaker 2: keep forgetting he's the victim of this. He's been invaded.
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  Speaker 2: He's being attacked. And it is a problem for the
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  Speaker 2: world that Russia's fuel supplies are diminishing. But the fact
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  Speaker 2: is also, obviously, the main reason is our war in Iran,
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  Speaker 2: which I support. And we're doing the right thing. And
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  Speaker 2: I also hope that President Trump does follow through when
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  Speaker 2: he says he's going to annihilate. I'm not sure what
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  Speaker 2: he means by that, but he's got to go all out.
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  Speaker 2: And you can't keep saying he's going to do it
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  Speaker 2: and then not do it. Otherwise, it sounds like he's just.
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  Speaker 2: They're talking about it rather than doing it. But as
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  Speaker 2: far as Ukraine, I mean, they have put up an
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  Speaker 2: heroic fight. And it's not just Ukraine. I mean, that
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  Speaker 2: was just one thing we see now already. They're making
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  Speaker 2: moves in Lithuania, in Poland, in Germany. I mean, this
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  Speaker 2: is Russia. Not that they're going to take over Europe.
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  Speaker 2: They want to expand their influence and they want to
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  Speaker 2: send a signal that NATO and the United States are
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  Speaker 2: not that strong. And that is going to affect us
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  Speaker 2: because then those European countries are going to try and
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  Speaker 2: move more toward Russia, to accommodate Russia, and send a
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  Speaker 2: signal to our allies in Asia. So to me, it's
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  Speaker 2: important that we at least let Ukraine defend itself. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this is really all they have left besides holding their
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  Speaker 2: own on the ground. But again, with the winter coming up,
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  Speaker 2: What Putin wants to do is basically freeze Ukrainians to death.
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  Speaker 2: So Zelensky is fighting backwards. To me, he'd be remiss
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  Speaker 2: not to. I mean, that's his obligation, is to defend
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  Speaker 2: his country.
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  Speaker 1: He's very similar to Bibi in that fashion. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's the underdog, and Russia's the big favorite in the
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  Speaker 1: Middle East, and the world is the big favorite to
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  Speaker 1: beat up on Israel. And then you get these two
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  Speaker 1: guys in that respect, Zelensky and Bibi, that are trying
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  Speaker 1: to defend their countries, which are in trouble. Let me
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  Speaker 1: get to tonight. You just heard Gordon Chang. Pete King,
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  Speaker 1: any opinion on this big summit between President Trump and
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  Speaker 1: President Xi?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree totally with Gordon Chang. I think, first
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  Speaker 2: of all, whether or not Trump calls Xi his friend,
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  Speaker 2: the fact is they can't be friends or they shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be friends. And I don't like the idea of the
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  Speaker 2: royal welcome he gets because, I can see, listen, you
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  Speaker 2: have to deal with the enemy, with your adversary, with
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  Speaker 2: your competitors. But he is right now responsible for the
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  Speaker 2: death of Americans. He's giving technology to Iran, which has
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  Speaker 2: killed American servicemen and women. And that is, to me,
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  Speaker 2: something that's totally indefensible. Also, we have to make it
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  Speaker 2: clear we're standing with Taiwan. It's not just Taiwan. Taiwan
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  Speaker 2: is important. But again, if we don't stand with Taiwan, Japan,
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  Speaker 2: the Philippines, South Korea, they're going to see that and
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  Speaker 2: they're going to start moving into China's orbit. because it
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  Speaker 2: shows that our word is not good. Also, as far
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  Speaker 2: as AI, which I wish I could begin to understand
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  Speaker 2: it fully, but I do think that if they can
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  Speaker 2: set up some kind of communication, fine, even though it's
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  Speaker 2: Gordon Shanks, and it may be a one-way communication. But
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  Speaker 2: to me, there's no harm in at least starting those
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  Speaker 2: type talks and getting it going. But the main thing
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  Speaker 2: is we have to tell them they can no longer
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  Speaker 2: be supplying aid and technology to our enemy. And Iran
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  Speaker 2: is our enemy right now. It's the enemy of the
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  Speaker 2: world right now. And also, they're one of the biggest
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  Speaker 2: suppliers toward Russia. So to me, the president, I know
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  Speaker 2: he means well by going out to the airport and
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  Speaker 2: greeting him. Even though she didn't go to the airport
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  Speaker 2: to meet him. And China look upon these things as
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  Speaker 2: act of friendship, or they look upon it as somehow
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  Speaker 2: some sort of weakness. I agree with Gordon Chang. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think he has any feelings towards Trump at all.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that guy has any feelings. No. He's
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  Speaker 2: like stone. He's stone cold.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, same thing with Mamdani. You know, President Trump bends
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  Speaker 1: over backwards. Oh, this guy's got potential to be a
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  Speaker 1: great mayor. And I love President Trump. I hope you're listening.
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  Speaker 1: He's shown none of that. Not one sign of being a,
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  Speaker 1: how about this, a decent mayor, let alone great. Not
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  Speaker 1: one sign. But you don't see Mamdani doing that. He
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  Speaker 1: looks straight ahead. He doesn't go, well, you're a great president.
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  Speaker 1: He says nothing nice about Trump when he leaves. So
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  Speaker 1: Trump bends over backwards to appease these guys. And these guys,
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't care less.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's actually a question of Mamdani not being
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  Speaker 2: a good mayor or being competent or incompetent. He's dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: What he stands for is antithetical to everything we believe in.
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  Speaker 2: He's anti-American. He's anti-Semitic. He's anti-capitalist. He's a socialist. And
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  Speaker 2: what he has done right now with NetYahoo, standing with
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  Speaker 2: the United States in our war against Iran, calling him
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  Speaker 2: a war criminal, threatening to arrest him, this goes beyond
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  Speaker 2: Israel and NetYahoo. It's really an attack on, to me,
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  Speaker 2: the day-old Christians. This is an attack on our Western civilization,
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  Speaker 2: because that's what that war is all about over there.
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  Speaker 2: And he is, again, the guy that caught the global intifada.
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  Speaker 2: So when President Trump goes to see him, it's not
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  Speaker 2: just going to a political adversary. Even though I will say,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what President Trump would have thought if
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  Speaker 2: suddenly you sat down with Kamala Harris a week before
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  Speaker 2: the election on Hillary Clinton. I mean, Bruce, Blakeman, and
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  Speaker 2: Janine Driscoll, Al Kennedy, Mike Lawler, they raised Mandami as
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  Speaker 2: an issue. But it's not just a political issue. It's
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  Speaker 2: a real issue. which goes right to the heart of
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  Speaker 2: what our government is all about. And they undermine that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, how can we be saying how dangerous Manzami
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  Speaker 2: is if the president says he's potentially going to be
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  Speaker 2: a great mayor? And, again, you've never seen him be
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  Speaker 2: as friendly to, for instance, to Zelensky or to other
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  Speaker 2: people as he is to Manzami. I know.
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  Speaker 1: Not even Bibi. You know, he rips Bibi.
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  Speaker 2: No, absolutely. I know.
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  Speaker 1: But, you know, and I love the president, but he
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  Speaker 1: hurt us. You just said it. He hurt Blakeman. Blakeman's
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  Speaker 1: running against Mamdani and Hochul, not just Hochul. So he
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  Speaker 1: hurt Blakeman. He hurt the Republicans. Here he was in Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: I was there with him. Made this magnificent speech. We
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  Speaker 1: spoke for an hour in Dallas. And then he comes
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  Speaker 1: back and is saying nice things about a guy who's
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  Speaker 1: friends with Hassan Piker, who's out there every day trying
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  Speaker 1: to destroy the Republican Party. No matter what he says,
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  Speaker 1: it made no sense. It made zero sense. I know
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  Speaker 1: he does talk to people he doesn't like very much.
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  Speaker 1: and are quote-unquote enemies, but to bend over backwards to
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  Speaker 1: be nice, it's becoming tough to watch. It was tough
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  Speaker 1: to watch at the White House. One more, you mentioned
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blankman. How about this? Bruce Blankman, a couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago, got an endorsement from Frank Lautenberg. The late,
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  Speaker 1: great Frank Lombard. His wife, she's a Democrat. And then
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  Speaker 1: just this week, a guy I really like and respect,
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  Speaker 1: even though he's a Democrat, maybe the greatest city council
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  Speaker 1: member we've had in years, Bob Holden stepped up with
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman. So we talk about this all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman won two times in a row. in a county
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  Speaker 1: that is mostly Democrat, why the Democrats buy in and Ms.
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  Speaker 1: Lautenberg and Bob Holden, two more examples in his gubernatorial race, yes?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and Bob Holden was a great counselor. He was
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  Speaker 2: a great guy, and he really represented some middle-income, middle-class values.
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  Speaker 2: That area that he represented to me, that was so
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  Speaker 2: American in there, so solid. And for him to come
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  Speaker 2: out for Bruce Blakeman, it was a big deal. It
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  Speaker 2: didn't get the coverage it should have gotten, but that
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  Speaker 2: was a big deal. He was the leading Democrat in
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  Speaker 2: the New York City Council for years. He endorsed Bruce. That,
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  Speaker 2: to me, meant an awful lot. to show that Bruce
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  Speaker 2: has that middle-income, middle-class neighborhood style that people want and
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  Speaker 2: like and need. And Bruce is going to win. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, these polls that come out, I mean, as
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  Speaker 2: you pointed out before, the poll that has him down
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  Speaker 2: by nine points was the same one that had Lee
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  Speaker 2: Zeldin down by 17 points. And Lee ended up only
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  Speaker 2: losing by six. And Hochul at that time was not
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  Speaker 2: anywhere near as well-known as she is now. And she's
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  Speaker 2: not known for anything good. I think Bruce is in
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  Speaker 2: excellent shape.
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  Speaker 1: Me too.
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  Speaker 2: And he's going like, and I tell these people who say,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know enough about him, they're like, open your eyes,
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  Speaker 2: open your ears. He's out there everywhere. Every day. And
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  Speaker 2: of course he's not going to have the same name
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  Speaker 2: identification as her now, but he's starting, where he started,
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  Speaker 2: where he is now, with five, six weeks to go.
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  Speaker 2: He's in great shape, and he's going to win it.
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  Speaker 2: And when he does, hopefully he'll remember those who are
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  Speaker 2: with him and those who are against him, and those
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  Speaker 2: faint-hearted people who say, you should be doing this, you
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  Speaker 2: should be doing that, you should be in Flatbush instead
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  Speaker 2: of Syracuse, or Syracuse instead of Bensonhurst. It drives me crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I know, me too.
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  Speaker 2: This guy's out there. He's terrific.
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  Speaker 1: It makes me crazy, too. My neighbors walk by me
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  Speaker 1: and go, you know, I was talking to my cousin today.
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  Speaker 1: She has no idea who Spike Minogue is.
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  Speaker 2: Shut up! Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Get to know him. That's your job, all right? You're
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  Speaker 1: a Republican. He's running for governor. Doesn't even matter what
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  Speaker 1: party he's with. You've got a governor who's destroying this state.
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  Speaker 1: who took over for a guy that destroyed the state already, Cuomo.
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  Speaker 1: Enough of this. Pete, I couldn't agree more. You're beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: I love you. Thank you for another great appearance this morning,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll do it again very, very soon. Pete King,
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  Speaker 1: my best to Rosemary, Aaron, and Sean. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Good luck today.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, buddy. Thank you. Pete King right there, the
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  Speaker 1: amazing former congressman, Homeland Security. And when he says good
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  Speaker 1: luck today, he's talking about me going to the U.N.
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  Speaker 1: to be there today for Bibi Netanyahu, which I'm very
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  Speaker 1: excited about.
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  Speaker 1: What the heck is going on here?