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- 0:00Speaker 1: I got a guy sitting with me who actually flew airplanes.
- 0:05Speaker 1: Not only does he own Gristiti's and D'Agostino's and WABC
- 0:10Speaker 1: and Energy and.
- 0:11Speaker 2: Oil, this guy flew airplanes. So I had Scott Singer
- 0:14Speaker 2: on last hour. He was the former mayor of Boca Raton.
- 0:18Speaker 1: Hopefully he's going to beat Jared Moskowitz tomorrow and take
- 0:20Speaker 1: his act to D.C. And he doesn't live very far
- 0:24Speaker 1: away from where that plane.
- 0:26Speaker 2: This is an unbelievable video. It's still online. It's terrifying.
- 0:31Speaker 1: Nine people die in this, all nine. This plane crashes.
- 0:35Speaker 1: It was such a violent crash. It created a crater,
- 0:39Speaker 1: a crater in the street. It crashed in West Palm Beach,
- 0:43Speaker 1: only a couple of miles away from Mar-a-Lago. And John,
- 0:49Speaker 1: when a plane crashes anywhere near Mar-a-Lago with all the
- 0:54Speaker 1: assassination attempts on President Trump, You told me this this morning,
- 0:58Speaker 1: no great surprise.
- 1:00Speaker 2: You start thinking, oh, my God, terrorist act. But really,
- 1:04Speaker 2: nine people from Austin to the Bahamas, highly doubtful.
- 1:08Speaker 3: Well, you always, you know, our intelligence organizations, our Secret Service,
- 1:13Speaker 3: et cetera, always has to double check with that. If
- 1:16Speaker 3: you're just three miles away from Mar-a-Lago, you know, you
- 1:20Speaker 3: scratch your head and say, we better double check. And
- 1:23Speaker 3: that's the job of, uh, uh, they have to do. Uh,
- 1:26Speaker 3: but it's a horrific crash. Um, I think there's, there's
- 1:31Speaker 3: also one about in TikTok, but I don't use TikTok
- 1:35Speaker 3: and I don't open TikTok, uh, of the woman, uh, pilot, uh, uh, screaming, uh, before,
- 1:42Speaker 3: just before the crash. Uh, yeah. I mean, if you
- 1:46Speaker 3: have anybody with TikTok in the, uh, in the studio here. We'll,
- 1:50Speaker 3: we'll give it to him and see what it sounds like,
- 1:52Speaker 3: but I hate to say it. No, I don't want to,
- 1:53Speaker 3: I don't want to hear that. And, but, uh, at
- 1:56Speaker 3: the end of the day, if it's not terrorism and
- 2:00Speaker 3: it's probably not, but they have to check anyway. Um,
- 2:06Speaker 3: it comes back down to the experience of the pilots.
- 2:09Speaker 3: Don't forget. Thunderstorms are not forgiving. They go up. Sometimes
- 2:14Speaker 3: they grow at 10,000 feet, uh, a minute or whatever.
- 2:20Speaker 3: It just grows and throws off all kinds. The energy
- 2:24Speaker 3: of a thunderstorm is unbelievable.
- 2:25Speaker 1: Right, but they also said beyond thunderstorms that, and again,
- 2:29Speaker 1: it took off in Austin, Texas on the way to
- 2:31Speaker 1: the Bahamas, there was ice.
- 2:33Speaker 3: Well, it's always ice in a thunderstorm. They come up
- 2:36Speaker 3: from above. It throws ice cubes at tremendous speeds.
- 2:41Speaker 2: Wow.
- 2:41Speaker 3: But pilot error. It could be. Could be. I'm going
- 2:45Speaker 3: to tell you why. because as a pilot, and I
- 2:48Speaker 3: talked to my friend Billy this morning as a pilot,
- 2:51Speaker 3: and I talked to a few other guys, Roger, my
- 2:54Speaker 3: chief pilot, and you know what we, pilot error is
- 2:58Speaker 3: a lot, very likely, because when you're in a thunderstorm area,
- 3:05Speaker 3: you better stay 20 miles away, not five miles, not
- 3:09Speaker 3: two miles, not, you don't go, and they went right
- 3:12Speaker 3: into it, so it's either, I mean, if the female
- 3:18Speaker 3: pilot was screaming out before she died, she was awake.
- 3:23Speaker 2: So you don't go, I understand the computer shows.
- 3:32Speaker 3: He went right into it.
- 3:33Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
- 3:34Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 3:34Speaker 3: That is stupidity. Uh, or I don't know why it
- 3:37Speaker 3: would happen.
- 3:38Speaker 2: Similar to what happened.
- 3:40Speaker 3: Her radar wasn't working. You're probably right. Yeah.
- 3:43Speaker 1: Uh, similar when, when Kobe Bryant really wanted to get
- 3:46Speaker 1: to his destination with his beautiful daughter, that young kid, uh,
- 3:50Speaker 1: that pilot also decided to take off that day and
- 3:52Speaker 1: the conditions were not good and the helicopter crash and
- 3:56Speaker 1: everybody died.
- 3:57Speaker 3: So as a pilot, uh, my, um, Very little likely
- 4:04Speaker 3: it was terrorism, but I think it can end up
- 4:08Speaker 3: being pilot error for not staying away. from that violent thunderstorm.
- 4:13Speaker 2: I think you're right, John Katzmatidis. Two great shows on
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- 4:28Speaker 2: Show, 8 a.m., The Catch-Round Table. Three shows for you,
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- 5:04Speaker 3: job security.
- 5:04Speaker 2: Okay.
- 5:05Speaker 3: I like you too. Thank you for that. And the
- 5:08Speaker 3: other thing is I was out over the weekend, and
- 5:11Speaker 3: I know your bride, Danielle, was in the– You know,
- 5:16Speaker 3: running all weekend. And there was a zillion people. Me
- 5:20Speaker 3: and Margo went out to vote yesterday. And there was
- 5:23Speaker 3: a zillion people out there. People were walking around. It
- 5:28Speaker 3: was a beautiful day in New York. It shows you
- 5:30Speaker 3: what a beautiful day New York could have. And we voted.
- 5:34Speaker 3: We went out for coffee. We went out for some
- 5:36Speaker 3: croissants on your side. Nice.
- 5:39Speaker 2: And what time was this? What time did you go vote?
- 5:41Speaker 3: Let me see. I would say about high noon. About
- 5:44Speaker 3: high noon. Yeah.
- 5:44Speaker 1: That's about the time when I made my way to
- 5:46Speaker 1: 86th Street and First Avenue.
- 5:48Speaker 3: I was not too far away.
- 5:50Speaker 1: I know. I know.
- 5:51Speaker 2: That's why I saw Daniel Money.
- 5:53Speaker 3: Where did we vote? About 75th Street, 78th Street?
- 5:55Speaker 2: Right there.
- 5:56Speaker 3: Yeah. Right there.
- 5:56Speaker 2: Yeah, it was beautiful.
- 5:58Speaker 3: And look. if anybody tells you they know how the
- 6:03Speaker 3: election is going to turn out, they're lying to you.
- 6:05Speaker 2: I know that. But what does your gut tell you?
- 6:06Speaker 3: My gut is that the American people are going to realize,
- 6:11Speaker 3: and I could be wrong. American people are going to
- 6:13Speaker 3: realize that. How did my, how did Mike Pence say
- 6:17Speaker 3: it on my show? That the Republicans make a lot
- 6:20Speaker 3: of mistakes and we do make a lot of mistakes, but, uh, the,
- 6:25Speaker 3: The Democrats have lost their mind.
- 6:27Speaker 2: They're lunatics.
- 6:28Speaker 3: And the problem I have is that the common sense Democrats,
- 6:31Speaker 3: and I have a lot of common sense friends as Democrats,
- 6:36Speaker 3: and they're too scared. Just stand up against them. Right.
- 6:40Speaker 2: So when they do that, they're not common sense Democrats.
- 6:43Speaker 2: They become just like the bad guys.
- 6:45Speaker 3: You know, being scared is being scared.
- 6:47Speaker 2: But you can't.
- 6:47Speaker 3: You know, not innocent. Me, you were standing next to
- 6:51Speaker 3: me when those protesters came to my home. How did
- 6:55Speaker 3: we say it in the movies?
- 6:56Speaker 2: My home.
- 6:56Speaker 3: Right. My house. My children. What did I do? I
- 7:00Speaker 3: grabbed that one guy.
- 7:01Speaker 2: Yes.
- 7:02Speaker 3: I locked his arm with him on. I say, make
- 7:04Speaker 3: sure our facial recognition equipment gets your face on it
- 7:07Speaker 3: so we can track you forever.
- 7:10Speaker 2: You did a great job that day because you were
- 7:12Speaker 2: very strong in that respect. You were also very nice.
- 7:15Speaker 2: Like they wanted to get angry with you. But I
- 7:18Speaker 2: was nice.
- 7:19Speaker 3: Right.
- 7:19Speaker 2: You were being nice. You were being very nice. So
- 7:21Speaker 2: you were effective that day. And you can be both.
- 7:24Speaker 3: I think I have the capability of being both because
- 7:27Speaker 3: I want to be nice. But do you know something?
- 7:29Speaker 3: As a CEO, you can't be nice all the time. No.
- 7:33Speaker 3: You have to, you know, because you know why? And
- 7:37Speaker 3: it's very, very sad. I want to be nice all
- 7:39Speaker 3: the time. But, you know, people take advantage. Sure. And
- 7:43Speaker 3: that's why any company that has a lousy CEO, short
- 7:50Speaker 3: the stock. Short the stock. Every time. Look at Jamie Dimon.
- 7:56Speaker 3: He is a very nice guy. I know his father.
- 7:59Speaker 3: I knew for 40 years. I know him for 30 years.
- 8:02Speaker 3: And he was sitting next to me at a table
- 8:05Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago. And we told him at
- 8:09Speaker 3: all times, but he's a very tough boss too. So
- 8:14Speaker 3: any stock that has a CEO that's not, it has
- 8:19Speaker 3: to be tough and nice. Otherwise sell it short. Well,
- 8:22Speaker 3: but look, look at the CEO of our country. He
- 8:25Speaker 3: could be tough, and he's very nice. President Trump. Absolutely. Right? And,
- 8:30Speaker 3: you know, that's what it is. Like we said last week,
- 8:35Speaker 3: that our enemies are trying to shoot him down, trying
- 8:39Speaker 3: to raise the price of oil. And you'll see that
- 8:43Speaker 3: if he wins... By Wednesday morning, you'll see oil drop tremendously.
- 8:48Speaker 2: What if he loses?
- 8:49Speaker 3: If he loses, then the truth is, I think we
- 8:52Speaker 3: have to wait and see how he handles it. Right.
- 8:54Speaker 3: He already announced that if he loses, that he's going
- 8:58Speaker 3: to issue pardons for all his people at the White
- 9:01Speaker 3: House because he doesn't, you know, the Democrats, all they
- 9:04Speaker 3: want to do Which is sad, because I was a Democrat.
- 9:07Speaker 3: I was a Bill Clinton Democrat. Me too. All they
- 9:10Speaker 3: want to do is go after each other. Yeah, yeah.
- 9:15Speaker 2: But they want to destroy everybody around Trump.
- 9:17Speaker 3: I am very, very disappointed. A lot of Democrats, all
- 9:20Speaker 3: they do. They're not telling you what they're going to
- 9:23Speaker 3: do that's positive. They're telling you, they're accusing everybody else
- 9:28Speaker 3: of being a MAGA.
- 9:30Speaker 2: And who's at the very top of that list? Kathy Hochul.
- 9:33Speaker 2: Every commercial is about Trump, not about Blakeman.
- 9:36Speaker 3: Let me say something. MAGA, make American great again. I
- 9:40Speaker 3: want to know what American out there It's against making
- 9:44Speaker 3: America great again.
- 9:45Speaker 2: Every Democrat.
- 9:46Speaker 1: Why?
- 9:47Speaker 3: Why? I don't know.
- 9:48Speaker 2: I have no idea.
- 9:49Speaker 3: Because they're crazy. The other people I'm disappointed in is
- 9:53Speaker 3: our own European community, our own NATO members, because... they'd
- 10:00Speaker 3: rather have a weakened Trump so he doesn't break their
- 10:03Speaker 3: chops on tariffs, et cetera. But what tariffs are, Trump
- 10:08Speaker 3: is a businessman. Oh, excuse me. What tariffs are, Is
- 10:14Speaker 3: making it even, Stephen. Yeah. We sell to you. You
- 10:17Speaker 3: sell to us. We don't take advantage of each other.
- 10:20Speaker 3: You know how we got a $ 40 trillion deficit? By
- 10:24Speaker 3: being too soft. We defended. Sid, we defended the whole world.
- 10:30Speaker 3: We defended Japan. We defended Australia. We defended the European community.
- 10:36Speaker 3: We defended France. We've been defending Canada. I love Canada.
- 10:41Speaker 3: They're great people. They're our brothers and sisters up there.
- 10:46Speaker 3: But everybody has to come up with a program that
- 10:51Speaker 3: is equal, Stephen. We can't go from a $ 40 trillion
- 10:54Speaker 3: deficit to an $ 80 trillion deficit. No.
- 10:58Speaker 2: Okay?
- 10:58Speaker 3: So stop taking advantage of us. And President Trump is
- 11:02Speaker 3: the only one, the only one that could stop those
- 11:07Speaker 3: countries from taking advantage of us. I mean, you know, Mercedes. Mercedes.
- 11:15Speaker 3: They sell his Mercedes, the tariff is this much. Little.
- 11:17Speaker 2: Yeah, small.
- 11:18Speaker 3: We sell them a Chevrolet, the tariff is triple coupons.
- 11:23Speaker 3: I mean, that's what it comes down to. It makes
- 11:25Speaker 3: no sense. And the other thing that Trump is doing well,
- 11:29Speaker 3: bringing back the pharmaceutical companies from India, from China, bringing
- 11:34Speaker 3: back the automobile companies. And you know what he's telling
- 11:37Speaker 3: the automobile companies? There's no tariffs if you manufacture the
- 11:41Speaker 3: automobile in America. Right. What's wrong with that? It's great.
- 11:45Speaker 2: That's how you make America great again.
- 11:47Speaker 3: That's why, that's why all the union workers, guess whose
- 11:51Speaker 3: side they're really on?
- 11:52Speaker 4: Trump.
- 11:52Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 11:53Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 11:53Speaker 2: No, there's no doubt about it. You're a hundred percent right, John.
- 11:55Speaker 3: All right.
- 11:55Speaker 2: So on the way out, then here we go. The
- 11:58Speaker 2: fearless prediction.
- 11:59Speaker 3: You got to do it.
- 12:00Speaker 2: You have to Wednesday morning. Is president Trump waking up
- 12:05Speaker 2: happy or not?
- 12:07Speaker 3: I think we're going to be more happy than that.
- 12:09Speaker 2: Okay, good. Good.
- 12:11Speaker 3: I love my gut feeling, but I'm, I'm a natural optimist.
- 12:15Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 12:15Speaker 3: I'm a natural optimist. Yeah. So, I mean, I would
- 12:19Speaker 3: be disappointed in the American people if they didn't realize
- 12:23Speaker 3: that America is under attack by all these characters.
- 12:26Speaker 2: Does El-Sayed beat Rogers?
- 12:29Speaker 3: I don't think so. I don't think the people of Michigan, unless,
- 12:33Speaker 3: you know, unless the people of Michigan come out, I mean,
- 12:39Speaker 3: unless they're cheating, I think the people of Michigan... love
- 12:45Speaker 3: President Trump.
- 12:45Speaker 2: Right, so Rodgers wins.
- 12:46Speaker 3: And Rodgers wins.
- 12:47Speaker 2: Does Paxton beat Tallarico in Texas?
- 12:49Speaker 3: I think the people of Texas, I think Paxton wins.
- 12:52Speaker 3: You do?
- 12:53Speaker 2: And does Kathy Hochul stay on? I know you love Bruce, too.
- 12:56Speaker 2: I know we all love Bruce. But does Kathy Hochul
- 12:58Speaker 2: stay on as governor?
- 12:59Speaker 3: I love Bruce. I know Kathy Hochul very well. And
- 13:03Speaker 3: I think it's going to be closer than everybody thinks.
- 13:06Speaker 3: It could go either way. Okay. And I think a
- 13:08Speaker 3: lot of these closet people will come out and a
- 13:15Speaker 3: lot of them are going to vote for Blakeman.
- 13:17Speaker 2: Like they did with Trump.
- 13:18Speaker 3: They won't tell the pollsters.
- 13:19Speaker 2: Right, right.
- 13:20Speaker 3: Exactly right. Look, Kathy Hochul does have a big advantage.
- 13:26Speaker 3: So the chances are she will be there. A Chinese general,
- 13:30Speaker 3: I think Tish James wins.
- 13:31Speaker 2: You think she wins?
- 13:31Speaker 3: No, listen.
- 13:33Speaker 1: Does Sarita make it close?
- 13:34Speaker 3: Sarita makes it closer than any other ones have it.
- 13:38Speaker 2: That's good.
- 13:38Speaker 3: Because people have to remember their name. My advice to
- 13:41Speaker 3: her was, you know, come up with a short name. Right.
- 13:45Speaker 3: If you gave me a million dollars, I can't tell
- 13:48Speaker 3: you her name right now.
- 13:48Speaker 2: Oh, Coma Toretti. That's not easy.
- 13:50Speaker 3: I can't tell you. What do you think? Tom DiNapoli wins.
- 13:53Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 13:53Speaker 2: He wins, too. He beats Joe Hernandez.
- 13:54Speaker 3: Tom DiNapoli's a friend. Look, Hernandez is very good, too.
- 13:57Speaker 2: He's going to be in this show tomorrow.
- 13:59Speaker 1: In studio.
- 13:59Speaker 2: Remember, we brought him in when you went for Mayo.
- 14:02Speaker 3: Hernandez is very good. Yes. But Tom DiNapoli, I know
- 14:06Speaker 3: for 40 years.
- 14:07Speaker 2: Everybody likes Tom DiNapoli.
- 14:08Speaker 3: So that's my question.
- 14:09Speaker 2: One more for you. What do you think? Because I
- 14:11Speaker 2: think Jessica.
- 14:12Speaker 1: Tish is going to run and may end up being
- 14:14Speaker 1: the only person that can beat Mom Donnie. But there
- 14:16Speaker 1: are some saying that if Sarita loses to James... She
- 14:20Speaker 1: could consider running for mayor.
- 14:21Speaker 2: What are your thoughts?
- 14:22Speaker 3: Well, people have to remember her name.
- 14:23Speaker 2: Right. And is there enough charisma there? That's the only...
- 14:26Speaker 2: Mayor's a.
- 14:26Speaker 3: Big charisma job. The thing is that Jessica Tish's dad
- 14:30Speaker 3: has worked $ 12 billion. Right.
- 14:31Speaker 2: That helps too.
- 14:32Speaker 3: So he could write a $ 100 million check and not
- 14:35Speaker 3: feel it. Right.
- 14:35Speaker 1: And not have to worry about getting donations from people.
- 14:38Speaker 3: On the street. Well, when I ran... You know, 2013, that's,
- 14:42Speaker 3: Jesus Christ, 13 years ago. And I didn't have fundraisers.
- 14:48Speaker 3: I had friendraisers. And I spent, it was a lot
- 14:53Speaker 3: of money at the time, but I think I got accomplished.
- 14:58Speaker 3: I spent like $ 12. 5 million in my own money. But
- 15:06Speaker 3: I wasn't running against Joe Loder. And I like Joe Loder.
- 15:09Speaker 3: I never say anything bad about any of my opponents.
- 15:12Speaker 3: You know what I did? And I tell this to
- 15:14Speaker 3: all candidates. Tell people what a good job you're going
- 15:17Speaker 3: to do, not what a bad job your opponents are
- 15:20Speaker 3: going to do.
- 15:20Speaker 2: I love that. But none of the people do that.
- 15:22Speaker 3: But none of the people does that. I agree with you.
- 15:24Speaker 3: You know, attack, attack, attack. That's it. I'm going to
- 15:27Speaker 3: tell you how good of a job I'm going to do.
- 15:29Speaker 3: I'm not going to tell you how bad of a
- 15:30Speaker 3: job my opponents can do. Or if you're Trump, you
- 15:32Speaker 3: can do both. You can boast about what you've done
- 15:34Speaker 3: and attack. I'm still friends with de Blasio. I'm still
- 15:36Speaker 3: friends with.
- 15:38Speaker 2: Wiener.
- 15:39Speaker 3: I'm still friends with everybody. Schumer. But I believe in
- 15:44Speaker 3: common sense, and I'm disappointed in a lot of my
- 15:47Speaker 3: Democratic friends. that don't fight harder for common sense.
- 15:50Speaker 2: Fair enough. It's great to see you. Great job this morning.
- 15:52Speaker 2: Great job. Great job. That's Sean Katz and Matides, Katz
- 15:55Speaker 2: and Cosby, 5 p.m. What's the name of the show
- 15:58Speaker 2: at 6 p.m.? Is there a name for the show?
- 15:59Speaker 3: I've listened. The Final Countdown?
- 16:01Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 16:01Speaker 3: The Final Countdown. You know, we're going to see. There's
- 16:05Speaker 3: going to be changes there, too. We'll see. We're going
- 16:08Speaker 3: to expand that show permanently, probably.
- 16:10Speaker 2: Oh, you are?
- 16:11Speaker 3: Okay.
- 16:11Speaker 1: So that's 6 o'clock tonight and 8 a.m.
- 16:14Speaker 2: Every Sunday morning for Masterpiece.
- 16:17Speaker 3: From 5 p.m. to 1 a.m.
- 16:19Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
- 16:20Speaker 3: A six-hour special talking about the election.
- 16:23Speaker 2: 5 p.m. to 1 a.m.? Yes. That's eight hours.
- 16:27Speaker 4: Uh.
- 16:28Speaker 2: That's eight hours.
- 16:28Speaker 3: You know something? That's eight hours. Yes. The eight-hour show.
- 16:32Speaker 2: Wow, that is a big show.
- 16:34Speaker 3: Yes.
- 16:35Speaker 2: You think by 1 a.m. in the morning we'll know
- 16:36Speaker 2: all of the results?
- 16:37Speaker 3: I think maybe you're not going to know Alaska.
- 16:39Speaker 2: Right.
- 16:40Speaker 3: But, you know, they're four hours ahead of us or
- 16:42Speaker 3: five hours. Right. But we're going to know a substantial amount.
- 16:46Speaker 2: All right. You're great, John. Thank you very much. Excellent
- 16:48Speaker 2: job right there by my man, John Katzmatidis.
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