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Stephen A. Smith | Sports Television Personality | 05-07-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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Speaker 2: Stephen A. I believe has now distinguished himself as the
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Speaker 2: biggest and best, most influential sports voice and face in
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Speaker 2: the business. And you put those two together, Smith and Russell,
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Speaker 2: and it's a screen historical and they're both very knowledgeable too.
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Speaker 2: And Stephen loves coming on this show, not because she
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Speaker 2: loves talking about the next she does that all day.
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Speaker 2: He Mey likes it, but because we get into other
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Speaker 2: stuff like I don't know, like this poll I saw
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Speaker 2: on Stephen A. Smith's page his Twitter page. It reads
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Speaker 2: is the twenty twenty six midterms but to take place tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: What issue is top of mind for you heading to
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Speaker 2: the polls, and he gave you more choices. Gas prices.
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Speaker 2: Iran wore jerrymandering White House ballroom and when I checked
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Speaker 2: in it was over a half a million. A lot
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Speaker 2: of folks participated. I did, in fact vote. I took
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Speaker 2: gas prices and that was in the lead at the time.
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Speaker 2: So here he is, the ultra talented, dear friend of mine,
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Speaker 2: the great Stephen A. Smith. Steve, good morning, buddy. How
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Speaker 2: are you?
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Speaker 3: What's going to say? Good morning man? How you doing?
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Speaker 2: I'm doing great. It's great to have you. I haven't
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Speaker 2: checked the poll I'm sure you have. Of those four,
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Speaker 2: did gas prices take home the win?
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Speaker 3: Gas prices was number one, was number two, jerry Mandarin
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Speaker 3: was number three, and obviously number four was what it was.
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Speaker 2: So we do need that though, you know, they're trying
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Speaker 2: to kill the president and every opportunity, So the lesson
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Speaker 2: he's in public, especially at the hotels, I think, the
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Speaker 2: better off. And don't forget, you know, with the whole ballroom.
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Speaker 2: Think Steve, I know you know this, it's not about Trump.
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Speaker 2: If they do it, by the time they do it,
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Speaker 2: President Trump will have about three months left in office.
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Speaker 2: This will be for the presidents after Trump, many of
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Speaker 2: which will be Democrats. So I'm not sure why Democrats
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Speaker 2: are upset about the possibility of securing safety for presidents
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Speaker 2: of both parties moving forward. How does that make sense?
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Speaker 3: Well, that that depends on how seriously you take the Democrats.
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Speaker 3: What I mean by that is, you know, you have
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Speaker 3: some Democrats that are just true politicians, and then you
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Speaker 3: have others who hate Trump so much it truly is
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Speaker 3: it truly is true that if he had a cure
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Speaker 3: for cancer, they would resist. You have those kind of
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Speaker 3: folks out there on extreme left. I don't call you know,
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Speaker 3: I don't consider them democrats. I consider them progressives that
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Speaker 3: are to the extreme and anything that Trump suggests, they're
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Speaker 3: going to be against it no matter what. And so
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Speaker 3: you have to be able to delineate the difference between
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Speaker 3: two before moving forward, because that's just the reality of
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Speaker 3: the situation.
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Speaker 2: So you really want to talk this morning about what
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Speaker 2: you believe is the real likelihood maybe probability, not possibility.
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Speaker 2: Not the Republicans my party, because I'm maga that we
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Speaker 2: get she locked come November in the mid tim You're
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Speaker 2: you're going to lose. How do you know that?
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Speaker 3: I just think that you have too much that has
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Speaker 3: been going on in this country.
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Speaker 2: Once I was like, before you move, brother, and you
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Speaker 2: know just about this is May every day, every day.
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Speaker 2: In our business politics, it's like six months. So to
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Speaker 2: really try to predict with any real accuracy what's going
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Speaker 2: to happen six months from now would be like you
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Speaker 2: telling me that the Nixon won the championship in three years.
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Speaker 3: Fair enough, but fair enough, But said, last time I checked.
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Speaker 3: You came from the world of sports, did you not?
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Speaker 2: I did?
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Speaker 3: Are we scared to put notice?
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Speaker 2: We're not like other people.
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Speaker 3: We let you know where we stand and how we feel.
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Speaker 3: That's why we are who we are. So what I'm
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Speaker 3: saying to you is that I be wrong. Of course,
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Speaker 3: I'm not flawless, not perfect. I've been wrong in the past,
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Speaker 3: but I took my percentage up against most. And the
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Speaker 3: fact of the matter is that in our business, we
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Speaker 3: look at the tea leaves and beyond and we deduce
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Speaker 3: what we believe is going to happen. And when we
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Speaker 3: look at our audience, we say, from the vantage point
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Speaker 3: of the facts that are presented to us, what we
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Speaker 3: believe in, what we feel. We're not married to it
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Speaker 3: from the standpoint of recognizing that we could potentially be wrong,
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Speaker 3: but we highly doubt it, so we say so that's
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Speaker 3: what I'm doing, and I'm saying to you, it's not
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Speaker 3: about so many people talk about Trump, Trump, Trump. It's
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Speaker 3: so tired of it. And here's the reason why you
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Speaker 3: got four hundred and thirty five representatives in the nation's capital.
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Speaker 3: You've got one hundred senators. Trump, unless he's going to
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Speaker 3: circumvent the twenty second Meendment of the Constitution, is gone
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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty eight. And the people that whether it's
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Speaker 3: the GOP on the right, whether it's the people on
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Speaker 3: the extreme left, are going to have to live with
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Speaker 3: all the decisions that they made and the rationales behind
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Speaker 3: it to justify their actions. And you're not going to
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Speaker 3: have Trump to lean on. You're going to have to
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Speaker 3: lean on your own. This is why I get on
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Speaker 3: Republicans the way that I do. When I bring up
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Speaker 3: the corner, I don't even get the policy. My issue
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Speaker 3: with Trump is always the quorum. It's always the statesmanship
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Speaker 3: position that is the presidency. It's always about how he acts,
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Speaker 3: and it's always about those who capitulate or acquiesce to
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Speaker 3: or co sign how he goes about doing things because
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Speaker 3: I'm saying to them, what about when he's gone throughout
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Speaker 3: history we paid attention to president Now, even with the
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Speaker 3: Supreme Court, a lot of decisions that are made a
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Speaker 3: lean on precedent, we forget. I don't care how great
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Speaker 3: you think he is, if you're a maga, if you're
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Speaker 3: the right, he ain't gonna always be there. And it
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Speaker 3: ain't no jd Evance, no Ron DeSantis, no Mark or
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Speaker 3: Ruby or no anybody is going to be able to
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Speaker 3: sit up there and mimic what he's done and get
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Speaker 3: away with the things that he's done. So when people
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Speaker 3: don't hold you accountable the total line and the act,
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Speaker 3: with the level of the Kormer professionalism and statesmanship that's
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Speaker 3: imported to make sure you're not holarizing the nation to
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Speaker 3: such a degree that we can't come back from that,
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Speaker 3: it's going to come back to bite you in the cast.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm saying, okay, and what you're saying is smart
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Speaker 2: and fair. I'm gonna turn on on you, Steve. Okay,
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Speaker 2: So I'm going to give you a guy that had
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Speaker 2: a lot of decorum, was elegant, was eloquent, and he
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Speaker 2: was a horrible president. I don't care what you say
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Speaker 2: Barack Obama. Under Barack Obama, what was born BLM. Missouri
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Speaker 2: was on fire, Maryland was on fire, Staten Island was
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Speaker 2: on fire. He bailed us out a couple of times.
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Speaker 2: We had the slowest moving economic growth in the history
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Speaker 2: of the country. He called isis the JV. And even
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Speaker 2: though this guy's got bin laden years later, they were
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Speaker 2: killing people from Paris to Brussels to California. The race
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Speaker 2: issue in this country for a black president was at
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Speaker 2: an all time high. So what do I care about
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Speaker 2: elegance and decorum? I want results. Those are two ends
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Speaker 2: of the spectrum. One guy got nothing done in eight years.
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Speaker 2: One guy has been around but twelve years getting a
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Speaker 2: whole bunch of stuff done. What's more important to you.
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Speaker 3: Well, what's more important than me of results and getting
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Speaker 3: stuff done? So I will give you that. But what
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Speaker 3: you're missing, and I think it's important that I say
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Speaker 3: this is that. And this is where the divide comes in.
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Speaker 3: That's how you feel. There's millions, tends upon tens of
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Speaker 3: millions of people who had no issue with what Barack
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Speaker 3: Obama did, And that is where the divide in our
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Speaker 3: country comes into play because the bottom line is this.
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Speaker 3: You have people who are hard for liberals and you
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Speaker 3: are a hard core writing that's where you stand, and
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Speaker 3: I respect it. I don't know always agree with it,
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Speaker 3: of course, but I respect it. The point is that
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Speaker 3: in the end, when you're in that position, especially when
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Speaker 3: you can get things done without all of that pomp
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Speaker 3: and circumstance, without all of that drama, and you choose
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Speaker 3: to be that way anyway, Like, for example, you're President Trump,
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Speaker 3: really you know you're going after the Jimmy Kimbols of
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Speaker 3: the world, the Stephen Coberts of the world, the Bill
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Speaker 3: Mars of the world. Okay, but y'all are the same
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Speaker 3: party that's talking about First Amendment rights, the First Amendment privileges.
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Speaker 3: You talk about this kind of stuff. So when you
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Speaker 3: can turn around and you try to get people fired
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Speaker 3: from the White House, that is the kind of stuff
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Speaker 3: that's going to come back to bite you in the ass.
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Speaker 3: Because the minute the Democrats get into power, because you
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Speaker 3: know eventually it will happen, one of the first things
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Speaker 3: they're going to say is you see what they did when.
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Speaker 2: They have power.
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Speaker 3: See, this is how assessfool foments in proliferation grows. You
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Speaker 3: got to think about more than just yourself. I'm not
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Speaker 3: talking about policy. I'm not talking about the things that
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Speaker 3: Trump is And I understand that people on the left
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Speaker 3: are going to complain about it, people on the right
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Speaker 3: are going to celebrate it. What I'm saying to you
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Speaker 3: said is that there are things that he has gotten
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Speaker 3: done that you have been very pleased with, that doesn't
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Speaker 3: require all of that. Yes, he's got maga, he's lost
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Speaker 3: the independence. They're disgusted with him. When he lost in
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty, I didn't say Biden won. I said Trump
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Speaker 3: lost because the manner in which he conducted himself alienated
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Speaker 3: so many people. They didn't want the chaos. As the result,
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Speaker 3: we got Biden and some of the nonsense that they did.
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Speaker 3: And it's unforgivable how he opened the border. Unforgivable. I
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Speaker 3: know that, but it had never been in office. It's
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Speaker 3: your man that acted with some decorum and some decency, okay,
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Speaker 3: And in the end, when you have people that you've
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Speaker 3: turned off, Yeah, he might survive, but these publicans ain't him.
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Speaker 3: And whether it's the midterms or it's twenty twenty eight,
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Speaker 3: Brump is not going to be there. He's going to
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Speaker 3: have an impact, but he's not going to be able
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Speaker 3: to pull it off for them. Ultimately, they're going to
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Speaker 3: have to stand on their own toes. What are you
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Speaker 3: going to do?
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Speaker 2: Then, Well, I'm heard I'm going to do it. I'm
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Speaker 2: going to give you a guy that agrees with every
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Speaker 2: Trump policy everyone and has that decorum you're looking for,
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Speaker 2: that attitude you like. His name is Marco Rubio. I'm
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Speaker 2: not going to give you a Democrat who's going to
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Speaker 2: tell me that like that. I know you do. I
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Speaker 2: know you do so, but but I want to ask that,
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Speaker 2: So are you telling me, stephen A that if the
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Speaker 2: Republicans lose the midterms and I know you said they're
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Speaker 2: going to, I'm saying if, okay, because I'm still confident
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Speaker 2: it's going to be because of Trump's the quoral or
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Speaker 2: because of gas prices and the Iron War.
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Speaker 3: Well, again, of course it's going to be more substantive
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Speaker 3: than his decoral. I understand that, okay, and so I'm
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Speaker 3: certainly not gonna say that the coroner stuff like that
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Speaker 3: alone is what's going to cost you. What I'm going
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Speaker 3: to say, however, is that when you're inclined to give
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Speaker 3: others the benefit of the doubt. You're not going to
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Speaker 3: be so easy and so quick to do that way
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Speaker 3: he's concerned, and that's where it's going to come back
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Speaker 3: to bite him. And so for me personally, I think
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Speaker 3: that's what this comes down to. Of course, is going
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Speaker 3: to come down to your wallets. Of course, it's gonna
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Speaker 3: come down to gas prices which are at four dollars
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Speaker 3: and fifty three cents, just five cents from twenty four
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Speaker 3: hours earlier. Of course, that's the kind of stuff that's
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Speaker 3: gonna hurt him more than anything, especially since you don't
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Speaker 3: expect that from him. And it also, let's be honest,
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Speaker 3: you also got people on the right that are ticked
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Speaker 3: off because they feel he's broken promises to them. Whether
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Speaker 3: it's no New Wars, whether it's the Epstein files, you
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Speaker 3: got people on your side of the sense that have
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Speaker 3: a problem with him. This fad is not like it's
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Speaker 3: just less now. You got people on the right to
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Speaker 3: play about him every single damn day, and so all
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Speaker 3: of that stuff comes back in the end, and it
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Speaker 3: most certainly will come back to bite him in my.
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Speaker 2: Opinion, So do you believe that there's second term for
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Speaker 2: president Trump, who you know, had that first term, Like
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Speaker 2: you said, he lost to Biden. He doesn't think so,
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Speaker 2: he thinks it was rad that's fine, But he comes
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Speaker 2: back with a just he wallaped Harris, he walloped her.
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Speaker 2: And maybe that's because Biden was so bad what he was.
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Speaker 2: Maybe that's because Trump's policies were so good, which they are.
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Speaker 2: But are you telling me now at this point that
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Speaker 2: his legacy is tarnished to the point where he may
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Speaker 2: not be considered an all time great in terms of
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Speaker 2: the presidency? H Come on, Steve, Come on.
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Speaker 3: Hey, hey, listen, come on, you got you got millions
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Speaker 3: of people who feel differently than you. Just because you
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Speaker 3: love everything he does doesn't mean everybody.
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Speaker 2: I don't love everything he does. But by the way,
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Speaker 2: just you know, with Obama, with Obama the goddamn healthcare,
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Speaker 2: how about that.
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Speaker 3: Steve, Excuse me, I'm not I'm not a fan of
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Speaker 3: everything Obama has done, and a matter of fact, I've
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Speaker 3: called him out on some of the things that he
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Speaker 3: has done. Also, I pursued interviews with him for years
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Speaker 3: to sit down and talk about because I'm not going
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Speaker 3: to fall in over him like a whole bunch of people,
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Speaker 3: just like I would have fallen over anybody else. I'm
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Speaker 3: gonna call balls and stripes and call the one I
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Speaker 3: see it. And if Barack Obama ever sat down with me,
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Speaker 3: trust me, he'd have some questions to answer, no doubt
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Speaker 3: about it. But in the same breath, when you looked
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Speaker 3: at Trump, every damn thing that he's done.
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Speaker 2: Is right, you sure?
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Speaker 3: I listen, I've got Democrats and Republicans saying, hey, we
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Speaker 3: understand he had to go after youran. You can't let
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Speaker 3: them get a nuclear weapon. We know they're the number
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Speaker 3: one sponsor terrorism. We can't have that. They're proxy you know,
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Speaker 3: their proxies in the mobs that has Bloona. We can't
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Speaker 3: have that. Told to get it. But didn't you bomb
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Speaker 3: in the June. Didn't you say you had obliterated them?
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Speaker 3: Didn't you say they was finished? And then turned around
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Speaker 3: into all of a sudden we worried about them as
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Speaker 3: getting a nuclear weapon months later within thirty days. What's
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Speaker 3: that about. There's a level of honesty that people on
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Speaker 3: your side are questioning about him. We've got an economy,
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Speaker 3: we've got inflationary issues that can't be ignored. We've got
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Speaker 3: people on the right saying he was supposed to be
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Speaker 3: about America first. Yet everything has been going on overseas.
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Speaker 3: What the hell is he doing? There's problems at home,
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Speaker 3: Let's resolve those things. You got folks in the black
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Speaker 3: community that have looked at him and others and they said,
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Speaker 3: wait a minute, why is it your business to try
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Speaker 3: to depatch us from our history in terms of what
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Speaker 3: we should have access to about what's happened in this
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Speaker 3: country historically? It ain't just white people in this country.
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Speaker 3: There's Jewish folks in this country. There's Black folks in
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Speaker 3: this country. There's Catholic folks in this country. You fighting
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Speaker 3: with both and stuff like you don't think stuff like
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Speaker 3: that's gonna come back to bite and Corn said, you
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Speaker 3: got to be real with that. The fact is that
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Speaker 3: it hasn't been perfect. And yes, his legacy has been
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Speaker 3: tainted to some degree because even though it hasn't been
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Speaker 3: a disaster that democrats, particularly progressive predicted with transpire in
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Speaker 3: the same breath, it hasn't been as flawless as he portrayed.
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Speaker 3: And just because he comes out and says, oh, it's beautiful,
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Speaker 3: we're great, blah blah blah. Yeah, but your vice president
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Speaker 3: is talking to people and agriculture and farmers and every
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Speaker 3: day that, please be patient with us, please be fatient.
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Speaker 3: Oh so you're acknowledging the job they finished. You're acknowledging
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Speaker 3: this work to be done. You're acknowledging that you've come
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Speaker 3: up short for the time being, and you're going to
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Speaker 3: get your ducks in order. You're acknowledging that. Well, thank you,
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Speaker 3: welcome to the party, because a whole bunch of American
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Speaker 3: citizens are looking at in saying what the hell is
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Speaker 3: going on?
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Speaker 2: Nothing unfair about what you just said, nothing unfair about it.
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Speaker 2: But I will tell you this, Well, yes, Iran has
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Speaker 2: been a big focus, and you want to throw Israel
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Speaker 2: in there for the not for you, but the thy Semites.
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Speaker 2: I think that everything Trump does is because of Israel,
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Speaker 2: which is ridiculous. That's fine, but last I checked, it's
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Speaker 2: not just Trump or what he's doing. Okay, when you
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Speaker 2: go to vote come November, what Democrat? What Democrat are
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Speaker 2: you going to vote for because of something that they want?
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Speaker 2: I mean, look, you know, President Trump fixed a lot
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Speaker 2: of the crime issues in Washington, d C. Despite despite
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Speaker 2: people in the police office that tried to actually distort
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Speaker 2: the numbers. Thirteen were sent home, mind you, but he's
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Speaker 2: made some of these American cities safer when you've got illegals, Okay,
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Speaker 2: So when you've got illegals in our country, Stephen A.
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Speaker 2: Smith murdering eighty three year old Richard Williams of a
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Speaker 2: Vietnam vett on the subway tracks in New York, shooting
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Speaker 2: Sheridan Gorman in the back in Illinois, and you've got
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Speaker 2: Brandon Johnson, that idiot, and JB. Pritzker and Gavin Newsom
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Speaker 2: and Karen Bass and Mondani and Kathy Hokel telling us
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Speaker 2: that ice is the problem because two people did end
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Speaker 2: up dead compared to eight thousand bad guys they put away.
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Speaker 2: When they're telling us that, when the truth is that
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Speaker 2: Trump is doing a much better job keeping a major
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Speaker 2: city safe. It's not just all about Iran. He has
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Speaker 2: done some things in our own country that Democrats are
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Speaker 2: opposed to, which include keeping Americans safe when it comes
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Speaker 2: to illegals.
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Speaker 3: Totally agree, Totally agree. And the fact of the matter
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Speaker 3: is that listen, when you have when you have anybody
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Speaker 3: committing crimes in this country, anybody they're supposed to be
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Speaker 3: dealt with, I would caution us to be careful from
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Speaker 3: the standpoint of, yes, we talk about illegals, and we
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Speaker 3: understand it. We're talking about illegals, but there's a whole
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Speaker 3: bunch of people from the Latin community, okay, from the Hispanic,
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Speaker 3: the Latino community, et cetera, that are doing wonderful things
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Speaker 3: in this country. I am not for open borders. We
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Speaker 3: all know that. I've been adamantly against that. I have
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Speaker 3: no problem with Trump closing the borders because bid and
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Speaker 3: over them, which was an inexcusable and heinous thing for
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Speaker 3: him to do, which, by the way, also went against
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Speaker 3: Barack Obama, who had deported over three point one million,
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Speaker 3: one million people during his tenure. So why the hell
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Speaker 3: would his vice president turned around and have the open borders.
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Speaker 3: We know why, because the progressives, the extreme leftons running
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Speaker 3: the damned country, and we certainly don't want that. I
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Speaker 3: get your point, okay, But the fact is that in
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Speaker 3: the process of Trump doing all of those things that
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Speaker 3: have been right, it doesn't negate the things that I said.
18:30
Speaker 3: And when you walk around I talking about people like
18:32
Speaker 3: yourself and others, and again I'm getting on you playfully though,
18:38
Speaker 3: from the standpoint of everything the man does is not right.
18:42
Speaker 3: And when, And you're also thinking about the presidency. You're
18:46
Speaker 3: not running against him in twenty twenty eight and in
18:48
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six. There are multiple states throughout this country.
18:52
Speaker 3: We don't know who the Democratic opposition is. What we
18:55
Speaker 3: do know is that a lot of them ain't progressive leftists.
18:58
Speaker 3: A lot of them are toitionalist as Democrats. They're opposed
19:03
Speaker 3: to the Democratic Party, you know, being at the mercy
19:06
Speaker 3: of the extreme left themselves. So guess what you do
19:09
Speaker 3: have a lot of people there's a reason why forty
19:11
Speaker 3: five or sixty percent of the electorate is considered independence.
19:14
Speaker 3: It's not that they're not going to vote Democrat or
19:16
Speaker 3: Republicans that they're saying. We have sense. We're not extreme
19:21
Speaker 3: on either side of the aisle. We're somewhat centrist in
19:24
Speaker 3: our thinking, meaning that we understand what we want and
19:27
Speaker 3: what we believe, but we're willing to negotiate with the
19:30
Speaker 3: other side. We're willing to hear what the other side
19:32
Speaker 3: has to say. We're willing to acknowledge when they have
19:34
Speaker 3: a point that we don't need to ignore shove aside.
19:38
Speaker 3: That is truly the American way. One of the greatest
19:41
Speaker 3: speakers of the House in history was considered to be
19:44
Speaker 3: Tip O'Neill. Why because of the relationships that he cultivated
19:48
Speaker 3: and how we can walk across the isle and make
19:51
Speaker 3: deals happen, and that could not be ignored. We've lost
19:55
Speaker 3: our weigh in that regard, and unfortunately Trump has done
19:59
Speaker 3: nothing to a a system in that regard. Now totally
20:01
Speaker 3: his fault because you've got some deranged individuals on the
20:04
Speaker 3: extreme left who will go to any means to smear
20:08
Speaker 3: him and all of that other stuff. I get that part,
20:10
Speaker 3: but the point is neither side is innocent, and in
20:13
Speaker 3: the end being affected most detrimentally is the American people
20:18
Speaker 3: who go to work every day, who bust I ask,
20:20
Speaker 3: work hard, trying to build a better life for ourselves
20:23
Speaker 3: and just want people to go on Capitol Hill and
20:25
Speaker 3: do their damn job and leave the drama to the
20:28
Speaker 3: soap bobers and the drama series at night and the
20:30
Speaker 3: people like us talking instead of them really foment and
20:35
Speaker 3: all of that. That's what we're talking about here. That's
20:37
Speaker 3: where the stop stop gap has to come. And are
20:40
Speaker 3: you and me going to contribute to it or we
20:43
Speaker 3: gonna do what we can to alleviate with bottom line, well.
20:47
Speaker 2: I got bad news. I don't know what the extreme
20:52
Speaker 2: left is. I hear that a lot. I hear about
20:54
Speaker 2: common sense democrats. It's only one, and he's a Republican.
20:57
Speaker 2: His name is John Fetterman. No one would consider Hakeem
21:01
Speaker 2: Jeffries extreme left. He's extreme left. No one would consider
21:04
Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer extreme left. He's extreme left. And no one
21:07
Speaker 2: would consider your guy in Maryland West extreme left. He's
21:11
Speaker 2: extreme left. So who are these people that you're talking about.
21:14
Speaker 2: Who are these democrats that you're talking about that are
21:16
Speaker 2: not extreme left?
21:18
Speaker 3: I know Wes Moore, I know.
21:21
Speaker 2: Josh Shapiro says, I.
21:25
Speaker 3: Agree with that. I agree with that, but he you know,
21:27
Speaker 3: not that he states, but that he's Jewish and that
21:29
Speaker 3: he won't win because of that thing with anti Semitism
21:32
Speaker 3: going on. And I think that that's that's what that
21:34
Speaker 3: will get in the way. When I am saying to you,
21:36
Speaker 3: though said, is that please understand. You know these guys
21:40
Speaker 3: that I mentioned, that you mentioned don't mind talking to
21:44
Speaker 3: you or anybody else you handed you or anybody else
21:46
Speaker 3: in between. They're not like the folks on the extreme left.
21:49
Speaker 3: What really bothers me when you bring stuff like that
21:52
Speaker 3: up is when you're acting like is their politicians. So
21:56
Speaker 3: unfortunately a lot of them are committed to staying and
22:00
Speaker 3: office rather than doing what they're supposed to be doing
22:04
Speaker 3: once they get in office. Because you have a lot
22:06
Speaker 3: of career politicians on Capitol Hill, which you know better
22:08
Speaker 3: than me, and because that's our reality. The fact of
22:12
Speaker 3: the matter is you're going to have people who are
22:15
Speaker 3: locked in and zoned in on making sure they maintain power,
22:20
Speaker 3: and sometimes that calls for capitulations and acquiescence to decide
22:24
Speaker 3: that you don't really really want to listen to, but
22:26
Speaker 3: you have to for the time being. You're trying to
22:28
Speaker 3: tell me where you listen to a humor or you
22:31
Speaker 3: listen to a Joshapiro or these other guys that they
22:34
Speaker 3: want to be at the mercy of an AOC or
22:37
Speaker 3: Bernie said, come on, you know better than that. But unfortunately,
22:41
Speaker 3: in the world of politics, this kind of stuff happens.
22:43
Speaker 3: And that's what is that I think you have to
22:45
Speaker 3: remember because when it comes to the right, if they
22:48
Speaker 3: have to, if I set up there and Trump is
22:50
Speaker 3: gone and I'm pointing to all of these things that
22:53
Speaker 3: the okay, you're all going to say, what were they
22:56
Speaker 3: supposed to do. Trump was the man. Trump could have
22:58
Speaker 3: got them booted out of there. Of what he did
23:00
Speaker 3: in Indiana just recently with the district thing and these
23:03
Speaker 3: people that want to get them John bat sits to
23:06
Speaker 3: the seven candidates, that's right, you know, sickness seven candidates one.
23:10
Speaker 3: So again he has that kind of influence, that kind
23:12
Speaker 3: of cash shape. We noticed y'all would speak about it
23:16
Speaker 3: if it was your side. Don't ignore it when.
23:18
Speaker 2: It's the other side on your side. You know the
23:20
Speaker 2: guy that's doing that on your side. And even though
23:22
Speaker 2: I know you're from Philly and all that, you're great
23:25
Speaker 2: New York. You're right New York. That's right. You're a
23:27
Speaker 2: New York guy. You're from Queens, right, You're a New
23:29
Speaker 2: York You're worked in Funny, but you're a New York guy.
23:31
Speaker 2: You're a Nick fan. I think it's Stephen as a
23:33
Speaker 2: great New Yorker. And you talk about Trump on my side.
23:37
Speaker 2: You got a guy on your side that scares a
23:40
Speaker 2: living daylights out of jeffreeze out of Schumer, happens to
23:43
Speaker 2: be the mayor of your great city. And some of
23:46
Speaker 2: your people, not some, a lot of your people voted
23:49
Speaker 2: for this anti American anti top anti Israel, anti summit,
23:53
Speaker 2: piece of garbage.
23:54
Speaker 3: I'm done, man, Hey man, we don't have to call
23:57
Speaker 3: it him garbage.
23:58
Speaker 2: We don't have to call him garbage.
24:01
Speaker 3: Finish, let me finish. All we have to say is
24:04
Speaker 3: that it's night marrish. They shouldn't. I wouldn't have voted
24:08
Speaker 3: for him. Here sim saying he knows that, Okay, I
24:11
Speaker 3: would have. I would have voted for Andrew Cuomo in
24:13
Speaker 3: a heartbeat. I would have voted for an adult in
24:16
Speaker 3: the room, somebody that's experienced doing the damn job, rather
24:19
Speaker 3: than him. But the fact of the matter is is
24:21
Speaker 3: that you have a lot of youngsters. You can't have
24:24
Speaker 3: stuff going on on college campuses with these kids and
24:26
Speaker 3: think that they ain't gonna show up with the polls.
24:28
Speaker 3: If he if he was running for the state, he
24:30
Speaker 3: would not have set a change. He ran for the city.
24:33
Speaker 3: And so you got a bunch of young kids and
24:35
Speaker 3: what do what do? Young kids? What? What? What? Let
24:37
Speaker 3: me ask you this question, said, what's the young kid's
24:39
Speaker 3: favorite words?
24:40
Speaker 2: Money? Free? Is that right?
24:45
Speaker 3: Free? Free?
24:47
Speaker 2: You're free, You're right free?
24:49
Speaker 3: Child kids three, that's the radical students.
24:52
Speaker 2: By the way, by the way, by the way, by
24:53
Speaker 2: the way, is not exclusive to young people, Steven, I'm
24:58
Speaker 2: fifty nine. I love reach.
25:01
Speaker 3: Well, you know what I don't because you know why
25:03
Speaker 3: I don't love free because I don't think anything's free.
25:06
Speaker 2: I think that's true, it's true.
25:08
Speaker 3: I think every I think there's a price that comes
25:10
Speaker 3: along with everything. Why not? And it's not just in America,
25:14
Speaker 3: it's everywhere. Everything costs. So let's let's hear what reality
25:18
Speaker 3: and go from there. And unfortunately too many people won't
25:21
Speaker 3: do that, and that's the damn problem.
25:23
Speaker 2: Okay, So I got to ask you this, but what
25:25
Speaker 2: a great conversation. I love these segments, Steve, and so
25:27
Speaker 2: does everybody else. Just you know, the ratings are huge,
25:29
Speaker 2: and you come on this show huge when you because
25:33
Speaker 2: you're great, because you're you're great with politics and sports.
25:36
Speaker 2: So let me let me mix them up. Rble. Let's
25:38
Speaker 2: assume that you're me and you think President Trump is
25:41
Speaker 2: the greatest. Okay, that's me. Would you compare President Trump?
25:46
Speaker 2: It's a serious question. More favorably to Michael Jordan or
25:51
Speaker 2: Lebron James.
25:53
Speaker 3: No. No, Michael Jordan's a sixth time champion. Lebron James
25:59
Speaker 3: is a four time champion. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
26:02
Speaker 3: If you want to talk about elections, I'll give him
26:04
Speaker 3: credit for that because he won twice and to come
26:07
Speaker 3: back after what he went through and to win it
26:10
Speaker 3: again in his twenty twenty four. If that's to talk about, fine,
26:14
Speaker 3: that's the Lebron kind of thing, because Jordan never lost
26:17
Speaker 3: that Lebron dead. But the bottle line is that I
26:20
Speaker 3: wouldn't compare him to either one of them because I
26:22
Speaker 3: don't like. I don't, I don't. I'm not flawning over
26:25
Speaker 3: him the way a lot of y'all are based on
26:27
Speaker 3: what we're seeing. For the second go round.
26:29
Speaker 2: Give me the player, it give me the player. Give
26:31
Speaker 2: me the player. Then is the Isaiah? Is he bird?
26:35
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know, and I don't want.
26:37
Speaker 3: I don't want to disrespect a player like that. Let
26:40
Speaker 3: me see what he does.
26:41
Speaker 2: Ask me this question in the year that's fair. I
26:45
Speaker 2: can't wait to ask you this question. I can't wait
26:47
Speaker 2: because he's gonna win the war, Okay, hopefully sooner than later.
26:51
Speaker 2: That I agree with you. I have been critical to
26:52
Speaker 2: President Trump. He'd be proud of me, I said.
26:57
Speaker 3: For a month, they couldn't come up with two billion
27:00
Speaker 3: dollars to pay TSA, workers and other folks. But you
27:05
Speaker 3: spend the two billion of dollars a day.
27:07
Speaker 2: Second, Wait a second, that's your party's fault.
27:09
Speaker 3: That was that was Wait a minute, wait a minute.
27:12
Speaker 3: You you bombed, you wrong. And the fact of the
27:15
Speaker 3: matter is when you did it. Okay, that was his decisions,
27:19
Speaker 3: according to some people, against the wishes and the advice
27:22
Speaker 3: of his own team. Because again I'm not gonna say
27:26
Speaker 3: Nick Guat, who made him President Trump's own man. Fine,
27:29
Speaker 3: but he made that decision. So the point that I'm
27:31
Speaker 3: trying to make to you, because that's the reality of
27:33
Speaker 3: the situation that can't be escaped. And that's what happened.
27:36
Speaker 3: Let's call it what it is. That's his decision. That's
27:39
Speaker 3: what he did.
27:40
Speaker 2: All right.
27:41
Speaker 3: You spended two billion dollars a day, but could have
27:44
Speaker 3: come up with two billion dollars for the month for
27:47
Speaker 3: a bunch of work, for a bunch of American citizens
27:50
Speaker 3: who supported you. You go, you're gonna count that as
27:52
Speaker 3: a plus. Oh no, I'm not. I'm not, and I'm
27:56
Speaker 3: not gonna let you do it.
27:58
Speaker 2: Okay, you didn't do that, all.
27:59
Speaker 3: Right, that's two billion dollars a day.
28:01
Speaker 2: Man, it's a lot of money.
28:02
Speaker 3: Thirty nine trillion is a deficit. Will you think our
28:05
Speaker 3: deficits is gonna be? War was spust?
28:07
Speaker 2: Probably more.
28:09
Speaker 3: Let's let's is.
28:11
Speaker 2: Some of this stuff I can't argue. And I'm critical
28:13
Speaker 2: of President Trump about this war and that for me
28:16
Speaker 2: at least, it's taken way too long. It's end up
28:18
Speaker 2: with the extensions. Either do what you you threaten you're
28:21
Speaker 2: gonna do one hundred times, or just come home. But
28:23
Speaker 2: you know, I'm with you that every day that this
28:26
Speaker 2: continues with the threat and if I hear straight up
28:29
Speaker 2: horr moves one more time, I'm gonna I'm gonna go
28:32
Speaker 2: back to talking sports. That's what it. God, how about that.
28:34
Speaker 3: The Strait of remuse twenty percent of the world oil
28:38
Speaker 3: spot come suit here and Iran is blocking it. Okay,
28:43
Speaker 3: you talk about we do a fine, but they've been blocking.
28:45
Speaker 2: It a week. It's until weeks, man, that's true.
28:47
Speaker 3: It's ten week. I know, I know. But you'll walking
28:49
Speaker 3: around here talking like he winning.
28:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, honey, he's the greatest ever.
28:52
Speaker 3: No, he is. No. I just love his personality. You
28:56
Speaker 3: love his personality, You love the fact that he uses
28:58
Speaker 3: a bully fold pit because you're think the politicians have
29:00
Speaker 3: been soft for too long, which is right, correct, absolutely
29:03
Speaker 3: right about that, because and because he's not soft like
29:06
Speaker 3: that all and he says that he's a mover in
29:08
Speaker 3: shakeshep do you love that? I respect that. I respect that,
29:11
Speaker 3: But that does not mean he's doing a great job.
29:15
Speaker 2: I want you to say this checked last time I checked.
29:17
Speaker 3: You have to finished job.
29:18
Speaker 2: I want you to say this, slowly, Stephen A. President
29:23
Speaker 2: Trump is doing a magnificent job.
29:27
Speaker 3: I will not say that how I feel no chance
29:31
Speaker 3: will those words will not come out of my mouth.
29:34
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, how about this one? How about this one?
29:37
Speaker 2: And not so? Okay? Fine? Are you sold on the
29:39
Speaker 2: way out? Then that the Knicks, right now, halfway towards
29:44
Speaker 2: a Summerfinal win and heading towards the Eastern Conference Finals,
29:48
Speaker 2: can really win the championship this year.
29:53
Speaker 3: I'm back and forth on it. I don't believe anybody
29:55
Speaker 3: could beat Oklahoma City. I mean, as great as the
29:58
Speaker 3: Knicks are looking right now out, the Atlanta Hawks and
30:01
Speaker 3: the depleted Philadelphia seventy sixes are not Shay Gilgers Alexander
30:06
Speaker 3: in Oklahoma City Thunder. I have since I was born
30:09
Speaker 3: at night, not last night. These brothers are the real deal, man. Yeah, yeah, okay,
30:15
Speaker 3: I'm just telling you there's levels to this man, there's
30:19
Speaker 3: levels to this city.
30:20
Speaker 2: Yep. I'm not even sure they'll beat San Antonio. I
30:23
Speaker 2: mean the Spurs are really good too.
30:25
Speaker 3: That is true, that is true. But San Antonio got
30:26
Speaker 3: to get through Minnesota in Minnesota right now, even though
30:30
Speaker 3: they got blown out last night. Remember Minnesota blew out
30:34
Speaker 3: Oklahoma City by forty that's right last year in game
30:37
Speaker 3: three and then lost and then lost it kicked four.
30:41
Speaker 3: You can't get caught up with that.
30:42
Speaker 2: No, you're right, You're right about that.
30:43
Speaker 3: So one game is one game.
30:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, one game one day means nothing. On the way
30:49
Speaker 2: out here, I got Bill O'Reilly coming up next. He
30:51
Speaker 2: never misses a show. He's listening right now. What is
30:54
Speaker 2: your message? What's your message? Bill Stephen eight to Bill
30:57
Speaker 2: o'ready listening right now.
31:01
Speaker 3: I think Bill, let me say this because I think
31:05
Speaker 3: it's important to say. Bill o'reiley has forgotten more politics
31:12
Speaker 3: than most people know. I'm a huge fan of Chris Cuomo,
31:16
Speaker 3: he's a friend, I'm a fen, but I respect the
31:21
Speaker 3: hell out of Bill o'reiley. And I can't thank him
31:23
Speaker 3: enough because when you hear me come on these air
31:26
Speaker 3: waves and I talk about what I talk, a lot
31:28
Speaker 3: of people have blessed me with their insight, their perspectives
31:33
Speaker 3: and their knowledge. That is what makes me better. And
31:38
Speaker 3: Bill o'rellley is one of those people. And you know,
31:41
Speaker 3: people could say what they will about him, but he's
31:44
Speaker 3: incredibly thoughtful, he's very knowledgeable, he's very experienced accepted. I
31:50
Speaker 3: have one knock against Bill o'rellley, and one knock only
31:53
Speaker 3: I think that Bill O'Reilly is a guy that appreciates
31:58
Speaker 3: himself so much because he thinks that others don't wow.
32:03
Speaker 3: And I'm here to tell and I'm yes, and I'm
32:06
Speaker 3: here to tell you he's wrong about that. There are
32:11
Speaker 3: people like myself and others do appreciate it and me
32:16
Speaker 3: even when we think he's wrong, Yeah, even when we
32:19
Speaker 3: think he's wrong, he's incredibly knowledgeable. He sees it. He's
32:23
Speaker 3: been around a long time, and I respect the hell
32:25
Speaker 3: out of him. He certainly has helped make me smarter
32:29
Speaker 3: about issues, and I'm thankful for it, and I'm thankful
32:32
Speaker 3: for the relationships that we had. Even when we disagree,
32:36
Speaker 3: I'm good with it so I.
32:38
Speaker 2: Feel about you too. Everything you just said about Bill
32:40
Speaker 2: I think applies to you too. I think you're beautiful.
32:42
Speaker 2: I really did. That was a great, great conversation again today,
32:44
Speaker 2: Let's let's keep doing this, Steven. You're a very very
32:47
Speaker 2: important voice for this country, not just about the Nicks
32:49
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers, but everything you discussed with me you
32:52
Speaker 2: want terrific.
32:53
Speaker 3: You really are, so thank you so much, my friend,
32:55
Speaker 3: and thank you said you take it easy man. Good
32:57
Speaker 3: day you.
32:58
Speaker 2: Too, Stephen H. Smith. You're on SID and Friends in
33:01
Speaker 2: the Morning. That is one of the best segments you'll
33:02
Speaker 2: ever hear.
33:04
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