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Andrew Giuliani | Executive Director of the White House Task Force for the FIFA World Cup 2026 | 06-09-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: The World Cup is supposed to be a celebration of
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  Speaker 1: the world as a whole, and some of the decisions
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  Speaker 1: that we've seen been taken by the federal administration, be
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  Speaker 1: it the denial of visas for journalists from certain countries
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  Speaker 1: or the rejection of a visa for a coach of
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  Speaker 1: a team, as well as single day visas for specific
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  Speaker 1: foreign national teams. This is anathema to what this tournament
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  Speaker 1: is supposed to be about. If we cannot even allow
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  Speaker 1: the players, the teams, and the journalists covering those teams
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  Speaker 1: to come into this city, in this country, then it
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  Speaker 1: begs a larger question about our commitment to the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of this tournament. And we want this to be a
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  Speaker 1: tournament that reflects our commitment to us being part of
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  Speaker 1: something larger than ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: The World Cup is starting in a couple of days,
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  Speaker 2: and all house about the break loose hockey, and the
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  Speaker 2: guy in charge of it all is somebody I love dearly,
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  Speaker 2: and I keep saying this over and over again. We've
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  Speaker 2: been talking to this guy for a while about this.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump could not have picked a better person to
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  Speaker 2: take care of all this. Then the former Great Rudy
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  Speaker 2: Giuliani's son, Andrew Giuliani. So here he is, my buddy,
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  Speaker 2: Andrew Andrew. We've talked about this from months and months
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  Speaker 2: and months. It's about here. But there was Mamdani again yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I keep yelling at the president and
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  Speaker 2: I text him stop saying nice things about him. He
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  Speaker 2: did it again just three days ago. Called Mamdani a
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  Speaker 2: nice guy, a smart guy. He does tend to attack
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  Speaker 2: him now occasionally, but he always has to preface it
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  Speaker 2: by saying he's a nice guy. He's not a nice guy.
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  Speaker 2: He hates Americans, he hates cops, he hates jos, he
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  Speaker 2: hates everybody. He's not a nice guy. But he does
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  Speaker 2: love soccer. But he took the administration to task yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: You heard that cut. What are your thoughts on that shit?
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  Speaker 3: First off? And they're always great to be on with you,
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  Speaker 3: but I can tell you this is just an example
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  Speaker 3: of the Mayor Lyne directly to New Yorkers. There has
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  Speaker 3: not been one player again, one player that's been denied
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  Speaker 3: of Lisa coming in for the World Cup. Thirty five
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  Speaker 3: of the forty teams that will start in the United
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  Speaker 3: States have come into the United States. Not one player
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  Speaker 3: has been denied of eason, not one one coach, not
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  Speaker 3: one coach.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what about this coach from what about this coach
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  Speaker 2: from Somaya? This guy who's a big deal.
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  Speaker 3: I guess, not a coach. This guy is a ref
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  Speaker 3: and this guy was talking to very bad people. There's
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  Speaker 3: a very good reason why he didn't. Secretary of Rubio
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  Speaker 3: made very very clear the other day that we are
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  Speaker 3: not going to allow terrorists to use the guys of
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  Speaker 3: a soccer tournament to come into the United States. And
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  Speaker 3: that is the position of the US government if Mamdonni
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  Speaker 3: wants to ultimately allow a soccer tournament to give people
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  Speaker 3: the opportunity. Look, we've facilitated thirty five of the forty
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  Speaker 3: teams that will start in the United States of America already.
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  Speaker 3: The other five teams will be coming in in the
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  Speaker 3: coming days. There's been not one player that's been denied.
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  Speaker 3: There's not been one coach that's been denied. There's been
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  Speaker 3: one referee that's been denied. And it's for very good reason.
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  Speaker 3: And we can't talk about that without being in a skiff.
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  Speaker 3: I can't talk about the reasons on the radio, but
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  Speaker 3: I can tell you we are executing the President and
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  Speaker 3: Secretary Rubio's vision on we are not going to let
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  Speaker 3: a soccer tournament get in the way of national security,
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  Speaker 3: and we're not gonna let the soccer tournament be a
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  Speaker 3: reason for having bad actors come into the United States
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  Speaker 3: to potentially do harm against Americans. Is that clear? It's
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  Speaker 3: that simple. Maybe Mayor mcdonnie does not care about the
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  Speaker 3: welfare of New Yorkers. Maybe that's just the case. But
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  Speaker 3: guess what President Trump does. He's going to make sure
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  Speaker 3: this tournament is successful. He's going to make sure this
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  Speaker 3: tournament is safe in spite of having to work around
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  Speaker 3: mayors like mcdonnie, And we're going to do everything we
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  Speaker 3: possibly can to make sure that this tournament and America's
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  Speaker 3: two hundred and fiftieth birthday is an incredible celebration of
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  Speaker 3: American exceptionalism all around.
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  Speaker 2: Going on at the same time, of course, because your
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  Speaker 2: tournament staunts this Thursday, and it goes right through July
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  Speaker 2: the nineteenth, so it's fifteen days after we're going to
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  Speaker 2: celebrate Independence Day in this country. So it's an amazing
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  Speaker 2: time to be an American. And you got to think
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  Speaker 2: to yourself, he's a big soccer guy. You've gone to soccer.
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  Speaker 2: He talks about the Knicks. He's a liar. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: give me a break. He thinks we played basketball games
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  Speaker 2: in stadiums. He doesn't realize we played basketball in arenas.
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  Speaker 2: He's a moron, but he loves soccer. No one can
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  Speaker 2: argue that you would think he would go into this
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  Speaker 2: really positive and excited games in New York his favorite sport,
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  Speaker 2: the world sport. But still looking for a reason to
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  Speaker 2: piss on Trump's parade, right, still.
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  Speaker 3: Well, well, sit, it's not even him. It's his handlers
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  Speaker 3: who gave him something to read, right. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 3: very good at reading whatever his handlers give him to read.
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  Speaker 3: So it's it's that simple. As handlers told him that
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  Speaker 3: the best thing to do was to go and criticize
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  Speaker 3: the president. So he did it, and he did it
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  Speaker 3: with a smile, and he did it with whatever charm
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  Speaker 3: he could.
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  Speaker 2: Monch does a president know? I mean, you know, he
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  Speaker 2: criticizes the president about Ice. He's called the President's administration evil.
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  Speaker 2: He's used a word about ice. He used the same
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  Speaker 2: word evil when we started Operation Epic Fury. That's Saturday
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  Speaker 2: morning in Tehran. He's ripped the president time and time again.
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  Speaker 2: For other countless policies, and yet the President continues to
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  Speaker 2: say he's a nice guy. And people tell me the
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  Speaker 2: President's playing chess and no one has more respect for
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  Speaker 2: President Trump than I do. But he's not. He's not
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  Speaker 2: playing chess against this guy. I'm sudden to feel like
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  Speaker 2: Mamdonni's playing chess because he keeps getting the last laugh.
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  Speaker 2: Does the President not know what this guy is saying?
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  Speaker 3: Look, all I can tell you is I have full
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  Speaker 3: faith and confidence in President Trump. I mean, I've seen
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  Speaker 3: him manage relationships from Putin Taji to you know, world
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  Speaker 3: leaders that have all different types of feelings on the
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  Speaker 3: United States of America and now intent to the United
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  Speaker 3: States of America. So I have absolute, the utmost confidence
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  Speaker 3: in President Trump in a way that he's able to
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  Speaker 3: handle this. You know this this boy mayor basically, but
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  Speaker 3: what I what I can tell you is that in
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  Speaker 3: this instance, in this scenario, he's utilizing the World Cup
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  Speaker 3: to tell lies about what this administration is doing. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: what we've done is we've struck a balance between national
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  Speaker 3: security and also still facilitating the travel of people to
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  Speaker 3: the United States. Let me just say a couple of
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  Speaker 3: different statistics which will blow your mind in terms of
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  Speaker 3: what we've actually done to get people to come to
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  Speaker 3: the United States for these World Cup games. Of the
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  Speaker 3: nineteen s to countries, so those are mostly the European countries.
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  Speaker 3: The nineteen s to countries that have qualified, think England, Scotland, Portugal, France, etc.
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  Speaker 3: We have processed in the first half of this fiscal
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  Speaker 3: year over five million ESTA applications. Again, five million ST
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  Speaker 3: applications in the first six months of this year. Truly incredible. Argentina, Brazil,
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  Speaker 3: two countries that they liked their soccer. I would say Argentina,
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  Speaker 3: the defending champions. Buenos Aires had a B one B
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  Speaker 3: two visitor visa wait time of over three hundred days
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  Speaker 3: under Biden, three hundred days under Biden. Yet Biden was
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  Speaker 3: welcoming the world three hundred days. Those wait times today
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  Speaker 3: are down to two days. That's right, two days now.
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  Speaker 3: Guess what everybody's gonna have to go through this security procedures.
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  Speaker 3: They're not going to go around that, but we are
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  Speaker 3: functioning the ability to adjudicate that faster than any other
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  Speaker 3: administration ever. Brazil, we know there are morse Town, New Jersey,
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  Speaker 3: five time World Cup champions. They travel in mass seven
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  Speaker 3: hundred day. Weeight time under Biden, Brazil had just to
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  Speaker 3: get your B one D two visa appointment. That's now
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  Speaker 3: down to two weeks today. There's no other administration other
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  Speaker 3: than the Trump administration. They could do this and could
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  Speaker 3: strike that balance between making sure bad actors do not
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  Speaker 3: get in the country for this while still welcoming the
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  Speaker 3: world for our two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
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  Speaker 2: Are you worried because you've mentioned that those two words
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  Speaker 2: bad actors a couple of times, and you keep talking
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  Speaker 2: about national security, which makes me happy because you know
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  Speaker 2: I'll enjoy it. I'm not the biggest soccer fan in
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  Speaker 2: the world, you know that, Andrew, But I'll enjoy this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a big patriot. I'm gonna love every second of
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  Speaker 2: American soccer. But I'm more worried about the safety of Americans.
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  Speaker 2: So are you a little worried or not really?
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  Speaker 3: Well, Look, I can tell you that we have tripled
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  Speaker 3: down on the intelligence side of this. I can tell
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  Speaker 3: you the incredible work that not just the federal government
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  Speaker 3: has done to the credit of the NYPD, Jersey State Troopers,
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  Speaker 3: and all of our law enforcement partners around the country.
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  Speaker 3: We've worked with four hundred different law enforcement organizations around
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  Speaker 3: the country to prepare for this, to make sure that
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  Speaker 3: the country is prepared for this, and what you see
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  Speaker 3: with this Somali referee is that we are able to
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  Speaker 3: strike that balance to make sure that again, bad people
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  Speaker 3: do not get in the country. There are some people,
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  Speaker 3: there are fans that have gotten denied for their visa
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  Speaker 3: because they've used the World Cup as a guys to
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  Speaker 3: try to come into the country. So for me, I
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  Speaker 3: think we are in a fantastic place to be able
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  Speaker 3: to celebrate this. What I would tell in New Yorkers is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just if you see something, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: go back to the old Rue de Giuliani line from
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  Speaker 3: the nineteen nineties. If you see something, say something very
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  Speaker 3: very important. To be vigilant throughout this process. We want
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  Speaker 3: to make sure that this is an unbelievable event and
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  Speaker 3: that starts first and foremost with public safety.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about ticket sales, you know, I know obviously
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  Speaker 2: Bizill plays, like you said, Argentina plays, and we open
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  Speaker 2: up on the West Coast. I don't know how France
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  Speaker 2: and Senegal is selling at Giant Stadium coming up in
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  Speaker 2: a couple of days. So what what do ticket sales
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  Speaker 2: look like with this big tournament about to start.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they've they've been through the roof. For context, the
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  Speaker 3: most tickets ever sold in the World Cup was actually
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  Speaker 3: back at nineteen ninety four World Cup when it was
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  Speaker 3: hosted here in the United States, a three point five
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  Speaker 3: million tickets sold. They've played six other iterations of the
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  Speaker 3: World Cup. They actually expanded from twenty four to thirty
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  Speaker 3: two teams. They never were able to top that three
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  Speaker 3: point five million mark. Always between the three and the
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  Speaker 3: three point five million mark that they sold. This year
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  Speaker 3: they're forty eight teams, so more games. FIFA has already
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  Speaker 3: sold six million tickets, six million tickets to the World Cup.
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  Speaker 3: So that's why when I hear people are saying, well,
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  Speaker 3: people don't want to travel to the United States of
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  Speaker 3: America because of this or that, I say, the metrics
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  Speaker 3: tell you the story, and the story is the exact opposite.
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  Speaker 3: That story is when you add a global event like
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  Speaker 3: the World Cup, and you add the leadership of the
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  Speaker 3: forty fifth and forty seventh President of the United States,
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  Speaker 3: you have truly the Golden Age of America. And that's
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  Speaker 3: exactly what we're seeing in the metrics.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about the travel though, because I know that
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  Speaker 2: some of these Democrats cities and Andrew, it's you are
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  Speaker 2: chop to speak to all of them, right, You can't.
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  Speaker 2: You can't be the Republican gubernatorial condidate because you're dealing
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  Speaker 2: with blue cities. You got to talk to blue mayors
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  Speaker 2: and blue state governors. But we know, for example that
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  Speaker 2: Mikey Mohammad Cheryl in New Jersey and our terrible governor
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  Speaker 2: here in New York, Kathy Hulkel, they went out of
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  Speaker 2: their way to bump ticket prices. I'm talking about travel right,
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  Speaker 2: train and just getting back and forth to these events.
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  Speaker 2: Has all that kind of calmed down?
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  Speaker 3: Well, they've actually taken credit the work that the federal
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  Speaker 3: government did. So let me lay this out for you
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  Speaker 3: year as well too. Right, the federal government, led by
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  Speaker 3: Secretary Duffy and President Trump, back in March, so far
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  Speaker 3: before New Jersey decided to set this debacle of trained
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  Speaker 3: ticket prices, gave a one hundred million dollar transportation grant
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  Speaker 3: for the eleven.
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  Speaker 2: Host Well, Chuck Schumer says that's not true. Chuck Schumer
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  Speaker 2: says that's not true.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, look, if you want to believe Chuck
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  Speaker 3: Schumer right there. Then I got a bridge to sell
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  Speaker 3: you a little bit west or east. I'll tell you
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  Speaker 3: that the Holland Bridge. How about that. There's a bridge
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  Speaker 3: called the Holland Bridge. How about that. I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: tell you that. Okay, But basically one hundred million dollars
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  Speaker 3: for the eleven host cities, ten point four million of
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  Speaker 3: those dollars go to New York, New Jersey. Now, sid
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  Speaker 3: we're talking about the upwards estimate of travelers to Giant Stadium,
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  Speaker 3: and I still call it giants Stadium. There you go
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  Speaker 3: two Giant stadium for the eight games is forty thousand
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  Speaker 3: people for most games. It's ten to fifteen thousand for
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  Speaker 3: giant or jet games. But we know that Brazilians, we
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  Speaker 3: know the French, are going to use public transportation to
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  Speaker 3: get out there. So forty thousand is kind of that
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  Speaker 3: upward max estimate that the New York New Jersey host
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  Speaker 3: Committee along with the federal government had. If you average
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  Speaker 3: that over eight games, again, taking ten point four million
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  Speaker 3: dollars forty thousand riders per game over eight games, that
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  Speaker 3: ends up averaging out to thirty one dollars over thirty
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  Speaker 3: one dollars around trip ticket to go from Penn Station
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  Speaker 3: out to the Meadowlands. Now, if you look at what
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  Speaker 3: a normal cost of a giant game or a concert
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  Speaker 3: going out there, it's twelve dollars and ninety cents. So
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  Speaker 3: this was just a price gouge by New Jersey to
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  Speaker 3: do this. We leaned back in when we saw that
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  Speaker 3: and we said, wait a second, These federal dollars are
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  Speaker 3: to make sure that fans don't get ripped off. What
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  Speaker 3: can we do about this? And they were able to
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  Speaker 3: create a twenty dollars bus ticket for the majority of
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  Speaker 3: fans to go from the port Authority out to out
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  Speaker 3: to the meadowlands. So again, it's great work by the president.
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  Speaker 3: If you look at other cities, you know, Philadelphia, it's
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  Speaker 3: tough to compliment Philadelphia as a giant in the same
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  Speaker 3: segment over here, but they've done a great job with
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  Speaker 3: their public transportation. It's two dollars and fifty cents. Kansas
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  Speaker 3: City it's five dollars a bus ride including a tournament
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  Speaker 3: pass for fifty dollars. So I mean that's really where
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  Speaker 3: I think leadership in the state and city also is
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  Speaker 3: so important.
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  Speaker 2: On the way out, I've got a friend who wants
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  Speaker 2: to see Ecuador play in Philadelphia on Sunday, believe it
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  Speaker 2: or not, But I want to talk about the American team.
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  Speaker 2: I made myself aware two of our guys actually that
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  Speaker 2: play professional soccer in Italy, which pisses off to Tacopina.
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  Speaker 2: He's he owned teams, you know, Tacopino. You know this Andrew,
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  Speaker 2: and he won like three or four championships, he says.
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  Speaker 2: But the Italians, you know, they're coming here. They're playing
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  Speaker 2: every place else in Italy doesn't even have a team
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  Speaker 2: in this year's World Cup. But we got a couple
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  Speaker 2: of kids who play in Italy who are very very good.
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  Speaker 2: Not the names that we're familiar with, the land In
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  Speaker 2: Donovan's and Tim Howardz. But tell us about this American team,
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  Speaker 2: and what do you think the chances truly are?
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  Speaker 3: Well, sid you know me long enough that I love
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  Speaker 3: my crazy sports prediction, right. I mean, I'm calling the
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  Speaker 3: Giant right now seventeen and oh, we're going twenty and
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  Speaker 3: oh and we're gonna win the Super Bowl. Right. That's me.
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  Speaker 3: That's where I am, that's where I live. It's it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I had Nixon four. I'm going Nixon five. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I guess Nixon ticks that it'd be fun to do
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  Speaker 3: this at home. But that's what I'm doing, So I
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  Speaker 3: am gonna predict that they and don't record this. I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna predict that the US men's national team is gonna
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  Speaker 3: win in penalty kicks on July nineteen. Wow in the Meadowlands.
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  Speaker 3: I actually really do think, I really do think this
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  Speaker 3: team can make a really really strong run, whether that's
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  Speaker 3: to the quarterfinals or whatever it is. I think they
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  Speaker 3: have a great chance. They got a great coach, They've
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  Speaker 3: got a team that's playing together, and I think if
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  Speaker 3: they end up getting through that group stage, when they
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  Speaker 3: get through that group stage and when they win that
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  Speaker 3: first knockout round match, now all of a sudden, you
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  Speaker 3: get to July fourth, you see that they're playing for
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  Speaker 3: something more than just themselves. They're playing for their country
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  Speaker 3: at their two hundred and fiftieth birthday. I think it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be a magical, magical moment. And I love
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  Speaker 3: that commercial with Eruzioni. At the end they're saying, what
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  Speaker 3: you don't believe in miracles? Yes, that's fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: I do love the commercial tour. I just got chills
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  Speaker 2: when you mentioned the twenty and fiftieth birthday and said,
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  Speaker 2: Michael Ruzioni Andrew Giuliani, I swear to you, I just
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  Speaker 2: got chills. Well, you've done a remarkable job. I'm no surprise.
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  Speaker 2: I knew you were the right guy for the job.
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  Speaker 2: So did President Trump, so did America. And we're excited
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  Speaker 2: for this. We are, and hopefully the city behaves themselves,
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  Speaker 2: acting like a bunch of animals during this Knick series.
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  Speaker 2: I've actually gone on the air a bunch of times
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  Speaker 2: today and said we should cancel these watch parties. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: We have proven now the last couple of nights we
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  Speaker 2: can't handle it. We just can't. They're out there beating
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  Speaker 2: up cops and beating up each other. The mayor doesn't care.
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  Speaker 2: He loves chaos. I mean this, This mayor is such
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  Speaker 2: a moron. We have gone through nights and nights of
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  Speaker 2: arrests and riots in the middle of the street, and
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  Speaker 2: now he wants to put fifty thousand people in central
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  Speaker 2: part for that final coming up July the nineteenth. What
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  Speaker 2: do you think about that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, look, and that's that's where we
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  Speaker 3: try to live here, and that's what we've really tried
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  Speaker 3: to do. We've tried to harness basically that enthusiasm, that
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  Speaker 3: excitement force for the World Cup that you're gonna see
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  Speaker 3: from these fans, while also making sure that they don't
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  Speaker 3: go over the line, that they respect our cops, that
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  Speaker 3: we make sure that the public is safe. And look,
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  Speaker 3: when you get emotion involved and you get sports involved,
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  Speaker 3: it's very easy to have mobs go over the line
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  Speaker 3: like that, but that's unacceptable. It's that simple. We always
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  Speaker 3: need to make sure that we're protecting our cops the
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  Speaker 3: way that they protect us. And anytime you get a
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  Speaker 3: scenario like that, you do need to reassess whether or
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  Speaker 3: not something like that is viable or not. You got
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  Speaker 3: you got. We have to stand up as you do,
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  Speaker 3: sid for our cops the way they stand they stand
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  Speaker 3: up for us.
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  Speaker 2: Andrew Giuliani, I couldn't love you anymore than Idyllia. Great
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  Speaker 2: congratulations on putting this whole massive thing together. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be phenomenal again. In conjunction with our
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: two hundred and fiftieth birthday World Cup Soccer America, we
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  Speaker 2: got a real shot this time around. I can't wait
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  Speaker 2: for the action to start Andrew Giuliani. Excellent job this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much, said you're the best my friend.
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  Speaker 3: I talk to you soon.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Look who's talking Andrew Juliani right there.
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