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Hour 2: Schumer Shutdown · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Well, we got a.
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Speaker 2: Lot to talk about today. Our phone lines are open.
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Speaker 2: We'd love for you to call up take part in
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Speaker 2: the conversation today, and the number is always is one
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Speaker 2: eight hundred three two one zero seven ten eight hundred
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Speaker 2: three two one zero seven ten. Well, of course, tonight
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Speaker 2: is the big Mayl Debate. It's on Channel four from
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Speaker 2: seven to nine, and David Ushery is going to be
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Speaker 2: taking care. David is awesome, so he'll do a great job.
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Speaker 2: Love David works with him. In fact, when I started
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Speaker 2: at Channel seven, David had just left Channel seven to
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Speaker 2: go to Channel four, and I had only met him
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Speaker 2: a couple of times, But anytime we see each other,
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Speaker 2: he could not be a nicer guy. And I know
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Speaker 2: he's going to do great. So, of course you have Curtis, Mom,
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Speaker 2: Donnie and Andrew Cuomo. Tonight, we have a lot of
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Speaker 2: people who are supporting Curtis. Even though he is third
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Speaker 2: in the polls, he still believes he has that shot,
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Speaker 2: and we keep our fingers crossed for him. Jeanne MONDAMMI
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Speaker 2: and Andrew Clomo believed that migrants should vote. I say no.
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Speaker 1: They of phon no cash bail, I say no.
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Speaker 2: Mom. Donnie in the meantime has his own beliefs, of course,
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Speaker 2: and he has not been secretive about it. Yesterday, of
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Speaker 2: course he was on Fox News Channel. They could not
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Speaker 2: nail him down on a few things. Here's Mom Donnie
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Speaker 2: talking about Andrew Cuomo.
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Speaker 3: Andrew, you had your chance to lead this state. You
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Speaker 3: took that time to sell out working class New Yorkers
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Speaker 3: to your billionaire donors, and instead of actually meeting the
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Speaker 3: needs of people who couldn't afford to live in the city,
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Speaker 3: you gave nine hundred and fifty nine million dollars in
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Speaker 3: tax breaks to Elon Musk. And now you want us
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Speaker 3: to believe that we can't spend less money than that
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Speaker 3: to make every bus fast and free in the same.
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Speaker 2: City fast and free. First of all, buses can't be
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Speaker 2: fast because the roads are congested. As long as you
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Speaker 2: make bike lanes everywhere. They're ubiquitous in New York City.
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Speaker 2: You know streets that are supposed to be made for vehicles,
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Speaker 2: and buy vehicles, I mean cars and trucks. You know,
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Speaker 2: liberals love their little bithickles. Let's get a little bithickles jingcingching.
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Speaker 2: Even people on bikes can't get from point A to
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Speaker 2: point B quickly. We do need roads for things like
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Speaker 2: cars and trucks. I will never understand it. I have
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Speaker 2: relatives and friends who live in Manhattan, and they get
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Speaker 2: very manhattan centric and arrogant and selfish about it, and
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Speaker 2: they say, basically, they just want their street locked down
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Speaker 2: and shut down forgetting that. You know what, You still
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Speaker 2: have to get food delivered to the restaurants. You still
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Speaker 2: want your Amazon package delivered to you, but you don't
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Speaker 2: want any means for that. You don't want the roads
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Speaker 2: to be utilized by motor vehicles. Can't have it both ways, folks.
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Speaker 2: If you want to live in a three thousand foot
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Speaker 2: tall building and have twenty thousand people in that building,
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Speaker 2: somehow you have to get supplies to them, and you're
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Speaker 2: not going to get it with somebody walking in or
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Speaker 2: coming in with a donkey. Okay, that's not the way
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Speaker 2: it works. You need motor vehicles. And then, of course
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Speaker 2: Cuomo is going to be there tonight as well, and
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Speaker 2: I'm sure he'll have his opinions about his two people
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Speaker 2: he's running against.
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Speaker 4: Mister Mandami's plan for Rikers Island is either incoherent and
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Speaker 4: incompetent or diabolically manipulated.
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Speaker 2: It almost took twenty seconds for him to say diabolically manipulative.
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Speaker 2: I was talking to my almost ninety five year old
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Speaker 2: father the other day about this, God bless him, and
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Speaker 2: we were talking about the cadence of Andrew Cuomo's voice
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Speaker 2: and how Mario Cuomo rest his soul. And I had
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Speaker 2: met Mario Cuomo a number of times. Mario Cuomo kind
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Speaker 2: of had that unusual cadence, that strange accent, strange by us.
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Speaker 2: It's sort of the Queen's accent from the nineteen fifties,
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Speaker 2: which for those I'm like an accent nut, the Queen's
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Speaker 2: accent from the nnineteen fifties has almost a Boston sound
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Speaker 2: mixed in with a strange slow cad So Mario Cuomo
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Speaker 2: sort of had that. Andrew Cuomo sounds like he's trying
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Speaker 2: to copy his dad. But going at one third the speed.
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Speaker 2: So you have this very slow cade. Thence Mark does
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Speaker 2: andrew much better than me. I'm not going to try
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Speaker 2: to keep going, but nonetheless, we'll see what happens tonight.
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Speaker 2: You have Zoron Mamdani in the polls leading by anywhere
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Speaker 2: from nine to eleven points right now, but who knows.
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Speaker 2: Hopefully people will watch tonight and they'll learn more about
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Speaker 2: what's going on, and also, more importantly, hopefully more people
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Speaker 2: come out and vote. Don't let the next mayor of
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Speaker 2: New York get decided on by about ten or fifteen
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Speaker 2: percent of eligible voters. That is just antithetical to our
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Speaker 2: democratic republic. Seven ten wore the Voice of New York.
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Speaker 2: It's Ken Rozotto. I'm in for Mark, and Mark will
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Speaker 2: be back tomorrow. For those wondering, Ken, we like you,
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Speaker 2: I like listening to the Mark two. I've tried my best,
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Speaker 2: so bear with me. We will take your calls at
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Speaker 2: eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten. Eight
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Speaker 2: hundred three two one zero seven ten. Well, now we
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Speaker 2: also have big news about the shutdown. The government shutdown.
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Speaker 2: The Senate held yet another vote yesterday. They're holding another
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Speaker 2: one today on whether to accept the continuing resolution to
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Speaker 2: reopen the federal government. Once again, the Democrats stood firm,
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Speaker 2: voting against the plan, thus keeping the government closed. So
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Speaker 2: when Marcus said this before, I've said this on my
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Speaker 2: show in New Jersey, this is the Schumer shutdown. Why
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Speaker 2: everybody in the House on the Republican side passed the
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Speaker 2: continuing resolution to continue the spending plan that was voted
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Speaker 2: on and approved by Democrats a year ago under Biden?
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Speaker 2: So why was it okay then? And we're only talking
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Speaker 2: about passing a continuing red that will last a few
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Speaker 2: weeks so we can continue the debate for the new budget.
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Speaker 2: Why was it okay then when Biden was president? But
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Speaker 2: it's not okay now. Democrats huhm. It is a as
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Speaker 2: they call a clean bill, meaning it was exactly a
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Speaker 2: continuation of the existing budget, and Democrats won't vote for
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Speaker 2: that in the Senate. Remember, in the Senate, you need
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Speaker 2: sixty votes to pass a spending measure, not just a
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Speaker 2: simple majority. Republicans have the simple majority, but they don't
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Speaker 2: have sixty votes. And CHUCKI, Chuck Schumer is ensuring that
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Speaker 2: they will not give any votes to the Republicans to
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Speaker 2: pass this. It's not just the Republicans, Chuck E Chuck,
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Speaker 2: it's to the nation. You complain for years that the
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Speaker 2: very thing we can have is a government shut down.
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Speaker 2: Well your party is causing it. This is the Schumer
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Speaker 2: shut down. So now Donald Trump has a middle finger
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Speaker 2: back to Chucky Chuck, saying that, you know what, the
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Speaker 2: Gateway Tunnel project, which is for billions of dollars and
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Speaker 2: is going to employ thousands of people in New York
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Speaker 2: and New Jersey for that matter. The Gateway Tunnel project
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Speaker 2: was made possible by a grant, a grant, not a
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Speaker 2: congressionally approved amount of money, but a grant signed in
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Speaker 2: by President Biden. And now that the government is shut down,
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Speaker 2: President Trump is the chief executive. He runs everything when
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Speaker 2: Congress is out because they're they're broke, right, the government's
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Speaker 2: shut down. So he has canceled the grant. He didn't
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Speaker 2: say temporarily. He said it's terminated, Chucky Chuck. This was
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Speaker 2: something that Chucky Chuck worked on for twenty years. This
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Speaker 2: was going to be what he left his legacy, and
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Speaker 2: it's now shut down.
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Speaker 5: Here was Trump yesterday, we're terminating those programs and they're
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Speaker 5: going to be terminated on a permanent basis. And it's
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Speaker 5: thousands of people, and it's you know, billions of dollars.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what it is. CHUCKI Chuck. So now his
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Speaker 2: legacy is mud okay, and we all have to suffer
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Speaker 2: for it. By the way, yes, we need that tunnel.
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Speaker 2: We had mikeah Rasmussen from the Rebevision Institute at Writer
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Speaker 2: University on in the last hour. He's a friend of mine,
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Speaker 2: a political expert, and he pointed out that, yeah, everybody's
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Speaker 2: going to suffer because we need this tunnel. The tunnel
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Speaker 2: right now that connects New York and New Jersey is
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Speaker 2: what actually connects the entire Northeast Corridor for Amtrak and
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Speaker 2: all the other trains. And the tunnel is over one
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Speaker 2: hundred years old. The tracks are crumbling. We need a
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Speaker 2: new tunnel with new tracks and new technology. And now
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Speaker 2: it looks like we have a major setback. Do not
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Speaker 2: blame Donald Trump for it. You want to have that
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Speaker 2: track back, you got to open up the government, Chuck E. Chuck,
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Speaker 2: get your couple of Democrats in the Senate. All you
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Speaker 2: need is four or five Democrats to vote along with
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Speaker 2: every one of the Republicans except for one. The one
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Speaker 2: is Rand Paul. But every other Republican is supporting this.
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Speaker 2: Get to work and you could have your money back
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Speaker 2: in the meantime. Sorry, but it's going to be shut down.
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Speaker 2: Governor hokel all of shit about it yesterday said this, I'm.
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Speaker 6: Not sticking it to New York. This is the Northeastern Corridor.
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Speaker 6: To make sure that our tunnels are safe. They're damaged
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Speaker 6: by Superstorm Sandy. They're over one hundred years old. We
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Speaker 6: need to replace them because if this system of transportation collapses,
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Speaker 6: the Northeastern economy and the economy the country collapsed.
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Speaker 1: So why be so shortsighted.
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Speaker 2: Well, maybe you could talk to Chucky Chuck Schumer about that, Kathy,
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Speaker 2: and get a couple of Democrats to support the continuing
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Speaker 2: Resolution to reopen the government and we could get it back.
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Speaker 2: Do not put the blame in the wrong place. This
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Speaker 2: lies strictly with the Democrats in the Senate. Eight hundred
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Speaker 2: three to two one zero seven ten, eight hundred three
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Speaker 2: to two one zero seven ten. You're listening to seven
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Speaker 2: Mark has a day off, but he will be back
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Speaker 2: tomorrow so you and I both get to listen to it. Hey,
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Speaker 2: are you a fan of the late Diane Keaton? Was
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Speaker 2: she not amazing? A wonderful actress? She had just such
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Speaker 2: a likable way about her and everything that she did.
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Speaker 2: And we now find out how she died. We find
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Speaker 2: seventy nine. You'll recall she died last Saturday. May she
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Speaker 2: wonderful actress. Katie Porter remains absolutely cuckookachew missus Robinson nuts.
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Speaker 2: That's the congresswoman from California who's running for governor of
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Speaker 2: the Golden State. While she sat down for another interview
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Speaker 2: and she could not confirm to the reporter that there
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Speaker 2: weren't more videos of her screaming, losing her cool and
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Speaker 2: being angry, the reporter asked her several times, can you
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Speaker 2: tell me right now that we will not find another
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Speaker 2: video of you popping up on the days ahead, And
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Speaker 2: she just said, I've learned from my mistakes. I'm wrong,
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Speaker 2: I'm trying to do my best. The answer is yeah,
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Speaker 2: there are probably tons of videos out there. Why because
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Speaker 2: she's crazy. She is crazy. This is a woman you
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Speaker 2: could tell and boy, I'm going to give you my
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Speaker 2: dime store psychology here. This is a woman who was
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Speaker 2: never told no. This is a woman who was never
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Speaker 2: criticized by mommy and daddy, and you could just tell
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Speaker 2: she just got away. She was my daddy's little princess
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Speaker 2: and told that she could have anything she wants because
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Speaker 2: anyone who does anything around her that she disagrees with,
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Speaker 2: she just blows up at. Her own husband divorced her,
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Speaker 2: she dumped. According to the divorce filing, she allegedly dumped
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Speaker 2: boiling hot water with mashed potatoes on his head, causing
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Speaker 2: him to get scalded. Who does that? I mean, even
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Speaker 2: if you were seriously angry at somebody, if you ever
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Speaker 2: thought about taking a boiling hot pot of something and
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Speaker 2: dumping it on their heads, who does this? She may
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Speaker 2: have a very serious anger management issue, just based on
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Speaker 2: the videos we've seen and reading about that this is
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Speaker 2: just not acceptable. Yet she has a lead in the
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Speaker 2: polls right now in California fifteen percent granted, and there's
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Speaker 2: a big pool of people running for governor. It's not
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Speaker 2: in this November's election, by the way, it is next
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Speaker 2: November's election. But the idea that there are people in
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Speaker 2: the Democrat Party who are so crazy in California that
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Speaker 2: they are still standing behind her because as far as
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Speaker 2: she's concerned, she can do no wrong as far as
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Speaker 2: they're concerned, I should say. And while she is in
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Speaker 2: the lead, there are other candidates you people in California,
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Speaker 2: you know, including other Democrat candidates. By the way, although
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Speaker 2: if you're a political junkie like me, you probably would
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Speaker 2: support Steve Hilton, the guy who used to be on
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Speaker 2: Fox News Channel. He's the guy with the British accent.
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Speaker 2: Super brilliant. He just became a US citizen in the
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Speaker 2: last few years, very proud to be and he is
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Speaker 2: very proud to be running for governor of California. Remember
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Speaker 2: Arnold Schwarzenegger was a man who was a naturalized US
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Speaker 2: citizen as well, and he was a very successful governor
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Speaker 2: there in the past. So we'll see what happens. Steve
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Speaker 2: Elton's not too far behind. He's about ten percent in
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Speaker 2: the polls still have a year ago, but throw your
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Speaker 2: support behind somebody out there, hopefully somebody on the right.
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Speaker 2: Seven ten w R the Voice of New York. This
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Speaker 1: In for Mark. Here again is Ken Rosatto.
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Speaker 2: I we're gonna go to our phones in just a second.
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Speaker 2: I just want to give you some breaking news. The
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Speaker 2: Justice Department is apparently expected to present a possible criminal
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Speaker 2: case and seek a grand jury indictment against former National
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Speaker 2: Security advisor John Bolton as soon as this afternoon at
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Speaker 2: a federal courthouse in Maryland. That information, of course, is
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Speaker 2: based on according to sources. They're saying that John Bolton,
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Speaker 2: when he worked in the first Trump administration, he was
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Speaker 2: somewhat of an anti Trumper, and that he was alleged
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Speaker 2: using his AOL his private AOL account. Yes, I have
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Speaker 2: an Aol account too, he was using allegedly his private
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Speaker 2: AOL account to transmit information that may have been classified
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Speaker 2: so that he could have it at home and then
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Speaker 2: work on this book and memoir and everything else. So
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Speaker 2: now it looks like he may very well be indicted today.
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Speaker 2: They already rated at his house. So we'll see what happened.
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Speaker 2: And you heard it right here at seven ten Wy
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Speaker 2: to eleven thirty ed in Huntington. Good morning to.
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Speaker 7: You, Hey, good morning. I had three quick points about
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Speaker 7: the Affordable Care Act, but I didn't want to ask
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Speaker 7: you something else. Orn't you want to show with Matt
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Speaker 7: Pruss and years ago on Channel fifty five?
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Speaker 2: I sure was that was you're talking about nineteen ninety five.
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Speaker 2: You got a good memory thirty years ago?
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Speaker 7: Yes, I was, yeah, so quickly. This whole debate is
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Speaker 7: about the money to the Affordable Care Act. When my
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Speaker 7: wife was fiance, she had a four thousand dollars deductible
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Speaker 7: before she got any money back.
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Speaker 8: Wow.
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Speaker 7: And when the originally passed the law, they get young
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Speaker 7: people would sign up and not use the benefits so
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Speaker 7: that money would be used self. They can affordable. But
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Speaker 7: then they change the law because actually if they didn't join,
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Speaker 7: they were going to be taxed and it would go
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Speaker 7: up every year, but they changed the lot. They weren't
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Speaker 7: going to do that. And then finally the interest from
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Speaker 7: the student loan program and Obama took it over. Was
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Speaker 7: supposed to pay for this, but what did Biden do.
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Speaker 7: He stopped having them pay their loans back even if
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Speaker 7: the COVID it was over, so all the funds that
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Speaker 7: were supposed to support this program were gone. It's a
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Speaker 7: terrible law.
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Speaker 2: Hoe. This is what happens when democrats are in charge. See,
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Speaker 2: democrats believe you just print money and it's all good.
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Speaker 2: But the problem is when you just keep printing money,
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Speaker 2: that's like taking money out of someone's pocket. Because see
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Speaker 2: a lot of liberals don't get it that when you
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Speaker 2: print more money, it devalues the money that you personally
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Speaker 2: have in your pocket. Right now, if there's a billion
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Speaker 2: dollars on the planet and you have a dollar in
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Speaker 2: your pocket, now we're going to print an additional billion dollars,
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Speaker 2: that means the dollar in your pocket is now worth
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Speaker 2: fifty cents, and you did nothing about it. That's what
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Speaker 2: happens when democrats are in charge. Ed, I appreciate the
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Speaker 2: phone call, but he nailed it. Ed is right on it.
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Speaker 2: Stuart and South Carolina. Good morning, sir, Hey, how are you.
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Speaker 9: I've talked to you before.
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Speaker 8: I've been a PLOCEO off for forty eight years. And
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Speaker 8: what Donnie said about NYPD is exactly how he feels.
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Speaker 8: He can apologize all he wants, but it's not sincere.
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Speaker 10: He hates them to me?
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Speaker 8: Can a vote for Mom Donnie is a vote for
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Speaker 8: Muhammad Adda? They're the same people, they have the same ideology.
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Speaker 9: And Cuomo is responsible for thousands of deaths. How can
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Speaker 9: these two people even be on the ticket? I think
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Speaker 9: Curtis is the only answer. But I don't believe Curtis
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Speaker 9: has a chance. Out of eight million people, twenty two
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Speaker 9: percent of the eight million vote, fifteen or sixteen percent
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Speaker 9: of them elect the mayor. I think Mam Donnie is
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Speaker 9: a shoeing.
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Speaker 8: Unfortunately, he's going to destroy New York City.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see what happens tonight. May may be pivotal.
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Speaker 2: I just hope people watch for those who don't realize
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Speaker 2: the mayoral debates tonight. They're on Channel four. You can
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Speaker 2: watch it streaming on their website too. If you don't
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Speaker 2: have a lot of people don't have TV anymore, and
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Speaker 2: you could stream it on wnbctv's website, but they are
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Speaker 2: on channel four seventy pm. Yeah, seven pm to nine pm.
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Speaker 2: You could watch it down there in South Carolina. And
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Speaker 2: every time you call Stewart, I always say, you don't
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Speaker 2: sound like you could be the age that you are.
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Speaker 2: I guess in your sixties or or older. You don't
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Speaker 2: sat you sound about.
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Speaker 11: Half that I'll bed, don't you really don't say, you
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Speaker 11: don't even sound that you sound like you're in your
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Speaker 11: thirties or forties.
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Speaker 2: But we appreciate whenever you call them. Thank you for
18:45
Speaker 2: your service. You know, my dad was a police officer,
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Speaker 2: so I know.
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Speaker 8: And thanks to your dad.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. You have a great thank Steward, thank
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Speaker 2: you so much. Seven ten wo R the Voice of
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Speaker 2: New York. It's Ken Rosatto, Infra Mark on your What
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Speaker 2: is this, oh Thursday? Mark will be back tomorrow and
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Speaker 2: it's just a few By the way, we're going to
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Speaker 2: speak with New York Congressman Mike Lawler about the government shutdown.
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Speaker 1: Ken from today, Here's Ken Rosatto.
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Speaker 2: And good to be with you right now. Eleven forty
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Speaker 2: two on your Thursday morning. You know, the federal government
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Speaker 2: has been shut down now for fifteen days, all because
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Speaker 2: a handful of Democrats in the Senate refused to sign
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Speaker 2: with the near one hundred percent of Republicans who've already
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Speaker 2: voted to pass the continuing Resolution in the House, and
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Speaker 2: fifty two of the fifty three Republican senators voted for it.
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Speaker 2: Yet the left keeps trying to blame the shutdown on Republicans.
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Speaker 7: Well.
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Speaker 2: Joining us out to talk about the shutdown as New
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Speaker 2: York Congressman Mike Lawler. He represents the low Hudson Valley,
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Speaker 2: my family all lives there. Good morning to.
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Speaker 10: You, Congressman, Thanks for having me.
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Speaker 2: Good to have you on. And before we before we
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Speaker 2: even go into the shutdown, I got to ask you,
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Speaker 2: so you might face to face with Hakeem Jeffries, what
19:52
Speaker 2: was that like because it looked like he was a
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Speaker 2: little tested. He wasn't. He wasn't having it, but neither
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Speaker 2: were you. He was.
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Speaker 10: He was, he was yelling, he was stuttering, he was stammering,
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Speaker 10: and he couldn't answer a single question. And you know,
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Speaker 10: my point in going to him was to call out
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Speaker 10: the hypocrisy of his position Number one on shutting the
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Speaker 10: government down under Joe Biden, thirteen times he and Chuck
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Speaker 10: Schumer voted to keep the government open and funded, passing
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Speaker 10: clean CRS and number two to point out that, look,
20:24
Speaker 10: if you're saying healthcare is the issue, I'm on a
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Speaker 10: bipartisan bill to extend these subsidies by a year. Join us,
20:32
Speaker 10: get on the bill, champion it with us. And he
20:35
Speaker 10: wouldn't do it. And in fact, you know, he just
20:38
Speaker 10: evolved into personal insults and you know, really had no
20:43
Speaker 10: substance to his position because it's indefensible what he and
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Speaker 10: Chuck Schumer have done, right, I mean, Chuck Schumer government down.
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Speaker 2: Congressman, if I made when Chuck Schumer was going into
20:53
Speaker 2: his news conference two and a half weeks ago, wasn't
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Speaker 2: he going in to say that he apparently that he
20:57
Speaker 2: was going to sign on to this, to the continuing
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Speaker 2: Resolution but apparently, I mean, he knows he has AOC
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Speaker 2: on his backside. So suddenly he goes up there and
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Speaker 2: he says, I am not going to sign in to this.
21:08
Speaker 2: No senator will. It was just so obvious that it's
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Speaker 2: all politics with them, and the idea that they would
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Speaker 2: try to blame this on the right with everybody on
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Speaker 2: the right, with the exception of what Rand Paul, everybody
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Speaker 2: on the right is supporting the continuing resolution. How on
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Speaker 2: earth do you blame Republicans for this?
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Speaker 10: It's absurd and in fact, John Fetterman last night said
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Speaker 10: that this is entirely the Democrat's fault. The Republicans are
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Speaker 10: not responsible for this. And so, you know, Chuck Schumer
21:38
Speaker 10: and Hakeem Jeffries have made a political calculation, and the
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Speaker 10: political calculation is that they need to show their progressive
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Speaker 10: left base that they are standing up to Trump, that
21:49
Speaker 10: they're fighting back against Donald Trump. That's all this is about.
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Speaker 10: It has nothing to do with healthcare, It has nothing
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Speaker 10: to do with government spending. It has to do with
21:58
Speaker 10: them showing their base that they are big and bad
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Speaker 10: and tough, I mean so much show that Chuck Schumer
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Speaker 10: changed his glasses to look hit. It's absurd, but this
22:10
Speaker 10: is what we're dealing with. And so you know, AOC
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Speaker 10: was asked last night on a town hall, are you
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Speaker 10: going to primary Schumer? And she wouldn't answer the question
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Speaker 10: because we know the answer is yes. And that's what
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Speaker 10: he's afraid of, that's what he's concerned about. He doesn't
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Speaker 10: want to lose his grip on power in the Democratic Conference,
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Speaker 10: and he took so much incoming in March when he
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Speaker 10: voted for a clean cr So their position is entirely absurd.
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Speaker 10: And that was my point in going and basically exposing
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Speaker 10: Jeffries for the partisan hack that he is.
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Speaker 2: Well and you did that, and the fact that the
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Speaker 2: fact that you did that, it was like you whipped
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Speaker 2: a band aid off a scab. He was so ticked
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Speaker 2: off the fact that he had no means of saying
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Speaker 2: anything productive and intelligent back, but to spit and get angry.
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Speaker 2: When I say spit, I mean spittle. I don't mean
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Speaker 2: he actually spitted you. You know that. But to do that
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Speaker 2: just uncovered everything about him. Nobody. Just remind everybody you're
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Speaker 2: listening to seven to ten wo R the Voice of
23:10
Speaker 2: New York. This is Ken Risotto on a Thursday in
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Speaker 2: for the great Mark Simone and with one of my
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Speaker 2: favorite congress members of all time, Mike Lawler, who represents
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Speaker 2: the Lower Hudson Valley. My family, all and friends all
23:22
Speaker 2: living in that friends and Putnam County, family in Westchester County,
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Speaker 2: and they all voted for you, by the way, just
23:27
Speaker 2: to put it on. But so now I love the
23:31
Speaker 2: fact that the Democrats will never seemingly understand the great
23:35
Speaker 2: Donald Trump that when they are playing cheap checkers, this
23:38
Speaker 2: guy is playing advanced chess and he's already figured out
23:43
Speaker 2: how to across them. Of course, not only with the shutdown.
23:47
Speaker 2: So he's getting the military paid, and he's putting the
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Speaker 2: Democrats in a situation where they have to say, no,
23:53
Speaker 2: you can't pay the military. That's not allowed. So that
23:56
Speaker 2: makes them even look more foolish. And on top of that,
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Speaker 2: now the big Gateway tunnel project, which was Chuck Schumer's
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Speaker 2: big championing project for twenty years, he said, no, now
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Speaker 2: it's all over. But bye, it's all on you, Chuck.
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Speaker 2: So do you think that that'll be permanent or do
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Speaker 2: you think that's something that could be renegotiated now when
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Speaker 2: we come back.
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Speaker 10: Well, this is the stupidity of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem
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Speaker 10: Jeffrey's position, and they're starting to hurt New Yorkers. And
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Speaker 10: you know, they should stop playing games, they should stop
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Speaker 10: putzing around, They should do their jobs. Go vote today
24:32
Speaker 10: to open the government back up. There is no benefit
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Speaker 10: to a government shutdown. You are hurting the American people.
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Speaker 10: You're hurting those serving in the military, You're hurting those
24:43
Speaker 10: who are reliant on programs like Wick and SNAP, and
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Speaker 10: you're hurting New Yorkers. And moreover, they're costing US about
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Speaker 10: fifteen billion dollars a day in GDP because of the
24:56
Speaker 10: stupidity of all of this. You know, at a time
24:58
Speaker 10: when Donald Trump is is securing Middle East peace and
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Speaker 10: getting a ceasefire and getting the hostages released, these idiots
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Speaker 10: are holding the American people hostage for nothing, for no
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Speaker 10: gain or reason other than their own political self interest
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Speaker 10: and trying to appease a radical left base.
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Speaker 2: And for what it's worth. And for those who don't understand,
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Speaker 2: we're talking about passing a continuing resolution, which means the
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Speaker 2: existing spending plan for which the Democrats voted in lockstep
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Speaker 2: a year ago, they would continue it for another few
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Speaker 2: weeks while you could all get together and negotiate a
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Speaker 2: brand new spending plan for next year. Do I have
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Speaker 2: that right, Congressman?
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Speaker 10: You got it spot on.
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Speaker 2: So that's all it is. How is it that the
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Speaker 2: Democrats when Biden was president, they were all for this,
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Speaker 2: and now the Trump, the Orange man bad is president. Oh,
25:48
Speaker 2: we can't support this. It is such pure hypocrisy, and
25:52
Speaker 2: the fact that in this day and age, this era
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Speaker 2: of the Internet, that CHUCKI, Chuck Schumer can think that
25:57
Speaker 2: people are not going to look it up and see
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Speaker 2: what's really going on is laughable. I think this is
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Speaker 2: going to backfire on them big ten.
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Speaker 10: And no question. You know, Chuck Schumer last week was
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Speaker 10: quoted as saying.
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Speaker 7: Every day gets better for us.
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Speaker 1: Who's us?
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Speaker 10: US is the Democratic Party. They don't care about the
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Speaker 10: American people. They don't care about the impact on the
26:16
Speaker 10: American people. This is about protecting their own hide within
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Speaker 10: the base of their party and trying to stave off
26:24
Speaker 10: any primaries or plays on leadership. That's all this that's
26:29
Speaker 10: all this is about. And so you look at it
26:31
Speaker 10: and you know, to me, this isn't about polls. It's
26:34
Speaker 10: not about who's winning or losing. The only people being
26:38
Speaker 10: hurt here are the American people. And it is it
26:41
Speaker 10: is shameful, it is wrong. I pushed back against it
26:44
Speaker 10: when Republicans wanted to do it under Joe Biden because
26:47
Speaker 10: of his open border policies. While I agreed with them
26:50
Speaker 10: on the merits of Biden's policies being disastrous, that's not
26:55
Speaker 10: the way to fix it. You don't shut the government
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Speaker 10: down as a means of trying to fix it. And
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Speaker 10: Democrats all said, you can't do that. You can't do that.
27:04
Speaker 10: You can't try to exert policy changes at the you know,
27:08
Speaker 10: the barrel of a gun. And yet that's precisely what
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Speaker 10: they are doing right now.
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Speaker 2: Congressman, if you were a betting man, how long would
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Speaker 2: you say this might last?
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Speaker 10: I think it's going to go on for quite a while.
27:19
Speaker 10: There seems to be no willingness on their part. I mean,
27:23
Speaker 10: you had a Democratic staffer say we'll keep it shut
27:26
Speaker 10: down until a plane falls out of the sky. I mean, forbid,
27:29
Speaker 10: that's that's how foolish these people are. Just it's totally unnecessary.
27:34
Speaker 10: It needs to stop. Unfortunately, you know, I think we're
27:38
Speaker 10: in this for quite a while.
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Speaker 2: Well, let's hope that maybe more calm minds and hearts
27:44
Speaker 2: will prevail and we get this taken care of sooner
27:47
Speaker 2: rather than later. It is so good to have you on.
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Speaker 2: He represents New York's seventeenth congressional district, including the Lower
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Speaker 2: Hudson Valley. Congressman Mike Lawler, thank you so much for
27:55
Speaker 2: fighting the good fight and coming on the Marx Simone
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Speaker 2: Show today.
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Speaker 10: I appreciate thanks so much you.
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28:34
Speaker 2: By the way, if you're following all the news yesterday,
28:37
Speaker 2: you know we talked about Tiss James briefly at the
28:40
Speaker 2: top of the hour and what's going on. Well, apparently
28:42
Speaker 2: her grand niece has posted on social media that the
28:46
Speaker 2: information published about her saying that she is an absconder
28:50
Speaker 2: from North Carolina with a rap sheet. The grandee says
28:54
Speaker 2: that is false, but then she says the information is old. Well,
28:58
Speaker 2: which is it? Grand niece is it false or is
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Speaker 2: it old? It can't be both. Either it really happened
29:05
Speaker 2: years ago or it didn't happen. But she says it's
29:09
Speaker 2: both false and old. So we'll see. In the meantime,
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Speaker 2: Attorney General Tis James remains indicted on charges of bank
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Speaker 2: fraud and making false statements to a financial institution for
29:19
Speaker 2: allegedly misrepresenting her Virginia house where that grand niece lives,
29:24
Speaker 2: as her primary residence so she could get a preferable
29:27
Speaker 2: mortgage rate. You save like between and a half a
29:29
Speaker 2: point in a point, which could be a lot of
29:31
Speaker 2: money over a thirty year period. Look, if in fact
29:34
Speaker 2: she is convicted of this, that is a big deal.
29:37
Speaker 2: Anyone who says it's just sicking the Justice Department on
29:41
Speaker 2: her is full of crap. They just don't get it,
29:43
Speaker 2: or they're not honest with themselves. I've bought and sold
29:46
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of houses. I'm sure you have two
29:47
Speaker 2: over the years, and one of the first questions you're
29:49
Speaker 2: asked when you apply for a mortgage is if this
29:52
Speaker 2: will be your primary residence or not. And if you
29:55
Speaker 2: lie and they find out, you're in big trouble, that's
29:58
Speaker 2: mortgage fraud. As simple as that. Now you call it
30:01
Speaker 2: retribution or simply investigators doing their job and finding out
30:05
Speaker 2: that potential fraud was committed, whatever it is. If she
30:09
Speaker 2: signed off that this was going to be her primary
30:11
Speaker 2: residence and it couldn't be because remember she lives in
30:15
Speaker 2: New York in order to be the Attorney General, then
30:17
Speaker 2: Ms James may be in big trouble. But you are
30:19
Speaker 2: innocent until proven guilty. So we'll see what happens. And
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