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Andrew Giuliani | Executive Director of the White House Task Force for the FIFA World Cup 2026 | 07-17-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Andrew Giuliani. Let me start with congratulations. What a kick
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  Speaker 1: ass tournament you have put on around this whole country.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations, Thank you, Sid, I appreciate. Look, if I get
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  Speaker 2: you to watch soccer, then I know we've done our
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  Speaker 2: job over here. You, along with about three billion other people,
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  Speaker 2: are gonna be watching this final. And I gotta tell you.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta tell you. I think you and I I
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  Speaker 2: think we've got to bet lined up. I can't bet
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  Speaker 2: in this job over here, but you and I have
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  Speaker 2: a pre existing relationship with White House Council called pre
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  Speaker 2: existing relationship. And know you're Italian, I mean basically you
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  Speaker 2: are Italian, You're Jewish, I'm Italian. We got the same
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  Speaker 2: three ideals, food, family, and guilt. So let's bet a
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  Speaker 2: little food. We're gonna bet. How about Kats's Diner you
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  Speaker 2: put up right there, I'll put up mamas in Queen's
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  Speaker 2: over here. I got Argentina, you got Spain over there.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do another one. I think MESSI gets on the
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  Speaker 2: score seat as well. How about that a little double bet.
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  Speaker 1: I can't do it. I'll tell you why, why not?
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  Speaker 1: Because even though I am convinced, convinced, and at this point,
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  Speaker 1: it are just as much soccer as you wanna kill
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  Speaker 1: me combined. Even though I'm convinced that Spain is gonna win,
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  Speaker 1: I can't moot for him. I can't do it, hear you,
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  Speaker 1: I hear you well.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you could still. I mean root for them
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  Speaker 2: and buy me a nice, beautiful Paswami sandwich the next
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  Speaker 2: time you and I go to Cassa's diner. I tell
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  Speaker 2: you what, nothing in the big bucks of WABC for
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  Speaker 2: a lowly government service like myself. Come on, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: I am gonna get a hot dog with it too,
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  Speaker 2: and I always get akindition. Just let you know it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be an expensive trip to Cats.
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  Speaker 1: I don't get we're gonna. I want to do it anyway,
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  Speaker 1: no matter who wins on Sunday. And you know, on
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  Speaker 1: a serious note, I become this maniac. People say, don't
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  Speaker 1: ever mix politics and sports, and I've done it to
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  Speaker 1: the point where I can no longer root for the
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  Speaker 1: Mets because mom, Donnie's too close to the Mets. And
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  Speaker 1: now I can't vote for Spain because he didn't allow
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  Speaker 1: us to refuel our jets in the Iran conflict. Plus
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  Speaker 1: they are anti Semites. Argentina loves the Jewish people. They
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  Speaker 1: drape Israeli flanks, apiss off the Egyptian coach. So I
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  Speaker 1: now take politics and I'm making a part of all
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  Speaker 1: my sporting events. So clearly I have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: reasons to voot a root for Argentina and against Spain.
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  Speaker 2: No, well, I'll tell you what I've DA's asked me
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  Speaker 2: in the shop who you were and if it's not
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  Speaker 2: the US national team, But I mean, it's even like diplomatic,
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  Speaker 2: Who are you rooting for a Ran versus New Zealand? Guys?
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  Speaker 2: Who the hell do you think I'm rooting for a
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  Speaker 2: Frand versus New Zealand? Come on, who do you think?
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  Speaker 2: Who do you think? Just take a guess. Waste your
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  Speaker 2: breast over here. All this stuff funny. What I will say,
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  Speaker 2: I think when you're thinking about government taxpayer dollars, we
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  Speaker 2: leant about twenty billion dollars. Secretary of Descent out of
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  Speaker 2: the US Treasure learned about twenty billion dollars to Argentina,
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  Speaker 2: I would imagine with spending going up, I think things
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  Speaker 2: would be better if Argentina wins. I think it's better
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  Speaker 2: for the United States of America being repaid if Argentina
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  Speaker 2: in fact wins this World Cup. I think that's diplomatic
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  Speaker 2: enough to say. I don't know, maybe I'll get a
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  Speaker 2: call the police department before the president slapping my hand?
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  Speaker 2: What else is do I go on with SID? I
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  Speaker 2: got my hands beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: No, I think you made a very good political argument.
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  Speaker 1: I will say this talking about not only amy watching
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  Speaker 1: the event, and I mean this like I'm into it,
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  Speaker 1: like I'm I'm really into it. I'm enjoying every second.
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  Speaker 1: Even I have a completely dominent outlook on the game now.
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  Speaker 1: But forget about it. I think I saw this morning
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  Speaker 1: six point two six million have watched these events? Is
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  Speaker 1: that right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's unbelievable when you actually look at it. That
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  Speaker 2: number is actually from what I'm told from FIFA Conservative
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  Speaker 2: They told me the two point seven billion people alone
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  Speaker 2: watch the Argentina Cape Verde match. I'm still waiting to
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  Speaker 2: get those numbers in from the semi finals. But think
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  Speaker 2: about that, if you're talking about forty percent of the
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  Speaker 2: world actually tuning in to watch a match. A couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks ago, when we talked about this first time,
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  Speaker 2: we were thinking about two billion people watching the final.
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  Speaker 2: SID and the last final had one point six billion.
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  Speaker 2: Even that alone is fifteen times the size of the
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl. I'm thinking this number is gonna be over
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  Speaker 2: three billion, maybe approaching three and a half billion people,
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  Speaker 2: half the world's population. It's unbelievable. But Sid, it's more
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  Speaker 2: than even just the numbers. I mean, think about this.
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  Speaker 2: The storylines have been endless over here, from Messi Mambape
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  Speaker 2: all these guys playing great, Holland playing great, to the
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  Speaker 2: Scotts drinking Boston Drive probably adding a couple billion dollars
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  Speaker 2: in GDP to the New England GDP as well, from
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  Speaker 2: the Japanese cleaning up the stadiums, the Dutch bus. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I love the knick. Sid didn't get to go to
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  Speaker 2: the parade. I wanted to go see that Dutch bust.
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  Speaker 2: Feel like I was at a parade to the Norwegians.
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  Speaker 2: Where were they going to row to in the country
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  Speaker 2: next to Cabo Verde taking on the Golias, taking them
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  Speaker 2: the extra time and Messi right there to the US
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  Speaker 2: national team. Sid, And I gotta tell you, while this
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  Speaker 2: team they didn't have their best stuff, as we know
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  Speaker 2: in that round of sixteen against Belgium. I'll tell you
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  Speaker 2: why I love these boys because even in their lowest moments,
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  Speaker 2: and you and I know we have low moments in life.
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  Speaker 2: But what they did was they went around, they thanked
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  Speaker 2: the fans, and what did they do. They got in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the pitch and they played together. That
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  Speaker 2: shows you the character.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I agree with all that. I agree with all that.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with that, and I like these guys. But
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  Speaker 1: but you say they're their best stuff that day. The
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  Speaker 1: truth is Belgium kicked our asses by three goals just
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  Speaker 1: a month before. Clearly Belgium is a better team. Are
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  Speaker 1: so some people are saying to me, listen, we won
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  Speaker 1: some games, we made the Sweet sixteen, they all lovely guys,
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  Speaker 1: but the truth is was still just not good enough.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was speaking of Todd Blanche about this, and
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  Speaker 2: we think they spiked their Belgium chocolate with a little
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  Speaker 2: something in there. I don't know what it was. A
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  Speaker 2: people are telling me. I'm just telling you, people are
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  Speaker 2: telling me I probably make news. Actually I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how that will make news, but that probably will.
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  Speaker 1: Then, how do you explain the three goal loss to
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  Speaker 1: Belgium the month before?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's it's been a long time coming. Over here,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and Barry Bonds didn't home run to it
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  Speaker 2: for years, so.
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  Speaker 1: You know I was not kidding when I repeated what
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  Speaker 1: Klay Travis said a couple of days ago. Clay will
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  Speaker 1: join me on Monday, and I agree with him. I
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  Speaker 1: think Woodlock said the same thing. We should host it,
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  Speaker 1: especially if you're going to be in charge, because you've
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  Speaker 1: now proven the President Trump beyond the shadow of a
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  Speaker 1: doubt that you were the right guy for the job,
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  Speaker 1: which we all knew was the case anyway. But man,
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  Speaker 1: did this come off with flying, flying success? Why don't
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  Speaker 1: we do it all the time?
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  Speaker 2: Is that I'll say this, right, I mean, I think
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  Speaker 2: with sifa's rules and they're malleable, let's be honest, but
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  Speaker 2: they try to get to every single continent. Maybe not
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Arctic, but they try to get to
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  Speaker 2: every single continent at some point. Now, what I'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you is they've already committed to Spain for your buddies,
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  Speaker 2: Portugal and Morocco, along with one match each in Paraguay,
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  Speaker 2: Uruguay and Argentina for the twenty thirty four. So they're
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  Speaker 2: knocking out three continents in twenty thirty. The Saudi's have
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  Speaker 2: twenty thirty four, and I'm telling you, I have a
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  Speaker 2: really good feeling that you know, at some point in
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  Speaker 2: twenty thirty eight, twenty forty two, they're gonna come back
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  Speaker 2: to the United States in America. And you could just
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  Speaker 2: look at the numbers on this in terms of what
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna be grossing from this, we're gonna be netting
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  Speaker 2: from this thing. It's unbelievable. They're gonna make over five
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  Speaker 2: times off of this World Cup what they made off
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  Speaker 2: of the last World Cup. And that's just the power
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  Speaker 2: of the US economy right there. I mean, it really
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  Speaker 2: really is amazing. The sellout numbers said for one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and two matches, and you know you're gonna have two
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  Speaker 2: sellouts for the last two matches. They are at ninety
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  Speaker 2: nine point eight percent capacity. That's for Cape Verde and
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  Speaker 2: Cursouth countries of less than five hundred thousand people. They've
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  Speaker 2: sold out every single stadium every single time. It's been
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  Speaker 2: a bigger success than even I could have ever imagined.
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  Speaker 2: When I first spoke to President Trump about this just
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  Speaker 2: eighteen months ago, we talked about the World Cup being
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  Speaker 2: the largest platform that we would have to show off
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  Speaker 2: American exceptionals into the rest of the world. We've done it.
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  Speaker 2: It's been amazing. We got two more incredible days to go.
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  Speaker 2: And somebody told me this. This is not my original quote,
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  Speaker 2: so don't quote me on this, but they said it's
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  Speaker 2: the best public relations the United States had since winning
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  Speaker 2: the Second World War.
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  Speaker 1: I a great I've heard that on this show as
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  Speaker 1: well from Gus No. I'm serious. I know it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of funny, but it's true. I know you got two
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  Speaker 1: minutes to go.
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  Speaker 2: I grew up.
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  Speaker 1: My daughter, Ava has her girlfriend and she listened to
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  Speaker 1: the UK. She's been up in nine days. They went
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  Speaker 1: and watched the England victory over who they beat Norway,
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  Speaker 1: and then when they lost, of course to Argentina, and
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  Speaker 1: she came home in a very, very bad mood. She's
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  Speaker 1: flying home tomorrow. She lands an hour at Heathrow before
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  Speaker 1: England takes on France. And even though it's a consolation game,
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  Speaker 1: she said that her and her country members are very
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  Speaker 1: excited to see this one. So while Sunday is the
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  Speaker 1: big one between Spain and Argentina, I can tell you
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  Speaker 1: that the French and the English they're looking forward to tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, look what the English must do. I mean, they
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  Speaker 2: must put up the name for the channel, right. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the French are going to put
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  Speaker 2: up there, but they got to put up the name
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  Speaker 2: for the channel. Whoever wins this third place match. Otherwise
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  Speaker 2: it's a third place match, right, I mean, what are
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  Speaker 2: we going to be, you know, watching for I guess
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  Speaker 2: maybe something for Cala. We can go and think of
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  Speaker 2: you know that, you know, Faithful Day on June sixth,
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  Speaker 2: nineteen forty four. But no, it really really will be
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  Speaker 2: amazing to see these guys play tomorrow. Look, I know
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  Speaker 2: for us in the US, you know, a third place match. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, we can do something else, but really
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  Speaker 2: it will be I think you're going to see you know,
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  Speaker 2: over a billion and a half people watching the match
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  Speaker 2: alone tomorrow. When you're talking about, you know, two of
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  Speaker 2: the great teams. We actually got the four highest ranked
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  Speaker 2: teams to get to the semifinals. It was absolutely amazing.
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  Speaker 2: If we couldn't have the United States, you can argue
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  Speaker 2: maybe Brazil in the semifinals as well, we got the
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  Speaker 2: four teams that you would want, at least from a
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  Speaker 2: playing competitive standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: Am I going to see them?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely I'm gonna see you tomorrow. I can't wait to
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  Speaker 2: see you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait till I can't wait. Listen, give them
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  Speaker 1: the President my best. We'll see him tomorrow till I imagine.
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  Speaker 1: And just really, congratulations. I wasn't all that excited coming in,
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  Speaker 1: but I leave this tournament. I'm a fan, and I
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  Speaker 1: just think you did a spectacular job. I'm not surprised.
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  Speaker 1: But now that it's over, you should take a bow.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Giuliani. Great Workpal, I love you, Thank you so.
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  Speaker 2: Much, Thank you. Sid You know the world the America
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  Speaker 2: fell in love with the World Cup, and the world
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  Speaker 2: fell in love with America again. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's a great quote. I may put
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  Speaker 1: that at the top of my show for the next
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Angel I'll see you tomorrow. Great job.
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  Speaker 2: I love you.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks pots, take care. He really did an amazing job.
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  Speaker 1: That was a huge responsibility. You know, you gotta set
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  Speaker 1: up all these venues, go to all the cities. He
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  Speaker 1: was sitting down with all the terrorist experts day you
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  Speaker 1: have to day to make sure there were no security issues.
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  Speaker 1: There was a monster, monster responsibility, and Trump showed a
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  Speaker 1: lot of confidence in Andrew. I knew he was the
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  Speaker 1: white guy for the job, but when you pull it
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  Speaker 1: off as well as he did, and he did, that's
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  Speaker 1: a big deal.
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