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Interview: Andrew Giuliani (World Cup 2026 Exclusive) · Rich Valdés: This is America!

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  Speaker 1: This is America.
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  Speaker 2: He's got the best head of hair and podcasting. This
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  Speaker 2: is America with Rich Valdez.
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  Speaker 3: What's up, America. Welcome back. It's Rich Valdez keeping your
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  Speaker 3: company tonight. And today we're talking about football, right, soccer.
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  Speaker 3: The FIFA World Cup starts tomorrow. And President Trump appointed
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  Speaker 3: somebody who's an accomplished and experienced federal executive. He's been
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  Speaker 3: around for a long time. And somebody I know. He's
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  Speaker 3: actually a former colleague of mine. Andrew Giuliani is the
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  Speaker 3: executive director of the White House Task Force on the
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  Speaker 3: World Cup.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Juliani, Welcome to the program.
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  Speaker 2: Rich. Awesome to be with you, man. It's tough to
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  Speaker 2: believe that we are on the eve of what's going
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  Speaker 2: to be the largest sporting events not just in American history,
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  Speaker 2: but also in world history. Here. What an exciting time.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And you know, I was doing some prep for this,
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  Speaker 3: and I realized that this might be the biggest event
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  Speaker 3: I've seen that I've ever had any involvement in discussing
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  Speaker 3: and really covering. Because I got to tell you, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I remember the Olympics kind of a big deal. Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 3: big deal. We did Super Bowl in New Jersey when
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  Speaker 3: I worked for the state government. Governor Christy was there.
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  Speaker 3: I was there as part of that team. Big deal.
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  Speaker 3: But this is I think President Trump said it was.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how many super Bowls give us some
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  Speaker 3: of those numbers.
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  Speaker 2: Sure well, whether you look at it from a viewership
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  Speaker 2: or a security perspective, this really is the largest event
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  Speaker 2: we've ever seen in the country. Here, the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 2: gets normally about one hundred and thirty million people watching it.
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  Speaker 2: Somewhere two one hundred and twenty one hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 2: million people watching a super Bowl. One point six billion
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  Speaker 2: people watched the last World Cup Final. We're expecting over
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  Speaker 2: two billion people to watch the World Cup Final. Between
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  Speaker 2: the one hundred and four games that are going to
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  Speaker 2: be going on the seventy eight in the United States
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  Speaker 2: of America, we're expecting over ten billion views on television alone.
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  Speaker 2: Forgetting about social media and all the other ways that
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  Speaker 2: people will consume games. And then from a security perspective,
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  Speaker 2: Rich you'll appreciate this considering what you did in New
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  Speaker 2: Jersey there preparing for that Super Bowl, understanding the security
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  Speaker 2: around a super Bowl, and then doing that seventy eight
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  Speaker 2: times over a thirty nine day period. Whether you're going
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  Speaker 2: to a game, whether you'll be around the stadium, whatever,
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  Speaker 2: it'll be. Those perimeters around the stadium will look just
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  Speaker 2: like a Super Bowl. You'll have multiple, multiple security checks,
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  Speaker 2: multiple perimeters from counter uas. Every single game will have
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  Speaker 2: counter drone mitigation as well. Last year only five events
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  Speaker 2: in the United States, five sier level events, had counter
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  Speaker 2: uas mitigation. This year, all seventy eight matches, we'll have it,
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  Speaker 2: including one fan fest in every single host city throughout
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  Speaker 2: the duration of the tournament. So there really really has
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  Speaker 2: been nothing like this, and to do this time and
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  Speaker 2: time again. You saw in New Jersey the build up
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  Speaker 2: to the Super Bowl, what that took, the whole interagency process,
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  Speaker 2: two states working together, all the different local law enforcements
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  Speaker 2: working together to try to pull that off. Imagine doing
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  Speaker 2: that seventy eight times over a thirty nine day period.
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  Speaker 2: And then on top of that, by the way, you
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  Speaker 2: have sail Force to fifty, you have Freedom to fifty,
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  Speaker 2: you have the Great American State Fair, the Semi Quinn Centennial.
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  Speaker 2: There's a small UFC fight you might have heard about
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  Speaker 2: on the White House South Lawn in a couple of days,
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  Speaker 2: just a few things going on here, Rich, So you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you my address to send me some coffee
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  Speaker 2: whenever you get a minute.
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  Speaker 3: I love that fabid that we're out with Andrew Giuliani,
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  Speaker 3: Executive Director of the White House Task Force on the
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  Speaker 3: FIFA World Cup, And that is a great way to
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  Speaker 3: set the stage because I want to touch on each
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  Speaker 3: of those points. But I want to start with everybody
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  Speaker 3: who you know is a local listener of mine. They
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  Speaker 3: know you from radio, they know you from running for governor,
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  Speaker 3: and they probably know you from a young version of
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  Speaker 3: you that was, you know, next to the mayor back
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  Speaker 3: when you know Mayor Giuliani was around in office. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, I have kids. I'm in the broadcast business.
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  Speaker 3: Neither one of my kids will touch a microphone. One
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  Speaker 3: has the same personality as me, and she won't do it.
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  Speaker 3: The other one is the more intellectual side of me,
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  Speaker 3: the research side, and she's like, oh no, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: But when did you know? I mean you come from
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  Speaker 3: parents that were on TV. Talk to me about when
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  Speaker 3: you figured out, Hey, not a bad gig. I think
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to do this public life and be involved.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I had the opportunity to volunteer on the
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  Speaker 2: twenty sixteen Trump campaign. Obviously known the President for close
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  Speaker 2: to three decades. I consider him like an uncle figure
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  Speaker 2: to me in many ways, and after the president one
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  Speaker 2: had the opportunity to work for him in the first
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  Speaker 2: term in the White House, and a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: things that I had the opportunity to work on, from
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  Speaker 2: the visa side of getting athletes and coaches in during
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  Speaker 2: the Great American Reopening in twenty twenty after COVID, to
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  Speaker 2: the safety and security side of major events, even working
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  Speaker 2: on landing the twenty eighteen World Cup bid. I remember
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  Speaker 2: being with President Trump in the Oval Office that evening
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  Speaker 2: after we landed the World Cup bid, and it was
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  Speaker 2: an exciting but also slightly bittersweet moment because he knew
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  Speaker 2: what it meant for the United States. Over our two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fiftieth birthday, he was excited, but he was disappointed, frankly,
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  Speaker 2: that he was not going to be the President of
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  Speaker 2: the United States at the time. We know what happened
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty, then we know twenty twenty four happens
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  Speaker 2: that incredible comeback by President Donald J. Trump, and he
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  Speaker 2: is the forty seventh president of the United States gets to
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  Speaker 2: not only host this incredible World Cup, not only the
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  Speaker 2: Olympics in la in twenty twenty eight, but also be
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  Speaker 2: the president of the United States over our two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fiftieth birthday. I couldn't think of a better host
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  Speaker 2: to be able to show off American exceptionalism than our
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  Speaker 2: forty fifth and forty seventh president of the United States
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  Speaker 2: over or two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
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  Speaker 3: Really well said, and I like to call him Trompito,
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  Speaker 3: did all of this, Magnus, the forty fifth and forty
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  Speaker 3: seventh president, because you know, I think that God has
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  Speaker 3: a way of working things out, right, he said, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to give you that second term.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta wait a minute.
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  Speaker 3: You got to wait a minute so that you can
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  Speaker 3: you know, you can hold this down, because honestly, it's
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  Speaker 3: a lot. I really I'm really floored by a how
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  Speaker 3: much the administration is doing, but b how much you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: How much?
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's kind of like very Trump right to
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  Speaker 3: say we've got a million things to do, all right,
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  Speaker 3: just Andrew.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew can do a million things. Just give him coffee, right.
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  Speaker 3: It just amazes me that that that's how and everybody
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  Speaker 3: rolls with it, right, Everybody's like, no, I got to
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  Speaker 3: keep up with the boss, you know, get me that
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  Speaker 3: diet coke and let's roll. And I think it's phenomenal
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  Speaker 3: because you really see, it's a stark difference, honestly, with
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  Speaker 3: any administration I've seen. There's so much cranking out, so
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  Speaker 3: much good stuff, so much publicity, so much pro America
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  Speaker 3: putting us back on the map. Being in this business,
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  Speaker 3: you know, nobody knows you have a radio or a
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  Speaker 3: TV show if you're not out there telling people, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: I'm on Fox, I'm on Newsmax, I have a radio show,
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  Speaker 3: I have a TV show. You got to be out there.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the United States is no different in
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  Speaker 3: that regard. Right, we've got to tell people, Hey, we
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  Speaker 3: can host the heck out of the FIFA World Cup.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is what we're gonna do. So you
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  Speaker 1: talked about.
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  Speaker 3: Some of the security concerns, and this is something that
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  Speaker 3: I think a lot of people have a concern about
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  Speaker 3: because this is I remember you talked about that drone
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  Speaker 3: coverage and I remember that during Super Bowl and they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it was a big deal for one event
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  Speaker 3: that you know, you think the super Bowl is the
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  Speaker 3: biggest thing we do, and now it's it's not the
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  Speaker 3: biggest thing we do. We have all these big things
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  Speaker 3: going on, and to me, that is just a difficult
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  Speaker 3: idea to wrap the mind around. But when you do
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  Speaker 3: wrap your mind around it, you realize, Wow, you're talking
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  Speaker 3: about And just from my own knowledge of doing these
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  Speaker 3: things you're talking about. Just I live about eight or
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  Speaker 3: nine minutes away from MetLife Stadium. That's where my home is.
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  Speaker 3: And I can tell you that going to the mall
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  Speaker 3: where my daughter works in that mall. So when I
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  Speaker 3: go there there's a concert, it's a nightmare. Right, that's
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  Speaker 3: one concert, just one day. The state police, the local police,
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  Speaker 3: just all sorts of things going on. How are you
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  Speaker 3: navigating all of that minutia, all of that crazy?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, first let me get in the drone side
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  Speaker 2: of this, because I think there's been unbelievable progress since
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  Speaker 2: President Trump took office. Back on June sixth of last year,
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  Speaker 2: the President signed an executive order creating the Air Sovereignty
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  Speaker 2: Task Force, and that executive order did two things. It
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  Speaker 2: created that task force, but it also gave five hundred
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  Speaker 2: million dollars of counter UAS coverage in the one big
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  Speaker 2: beautiful Bill to state and local law enforcement stor states,
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  Speaker 2: I should say, to be able to be reimbursed by
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  Speaker 2: the federal government for drone mitigation equipment. What we did
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  Speaker 2: when we saw that was we immediately ended up speaking
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  Speaker 2: to the Air Sovereignty Task Force saying that, hey, look,
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  Speaker 2: there are two pots two hundred and fifty million for
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  Speaker 2: fiscal year twenty six, two fifty for fiscal year twenty seven.
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  Speaker 2: Understanding all the special events that are going to be
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  Speaker 2: going on in the eleven host cities in the National
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  Speaker 2: Capital Region, we asked to make sure that those eleven
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  Speaker 2: host states that are hosting World Cup and World Cup
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  Speaker 2: related events and the National Capital Region get prioritized for
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  Speaker 2: the first two hundred and fifty million dollars. They agreed
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  Speaker 2: with that. We've then, on top of that, been able
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  Speaker 2: to pass what's called the Safer Skys Act back in December,
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  Speaker 2: passed through the NDAA at the end of last year,
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  Speaker 2: which gave state and local law enforcement the authority to
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  Speaker 2: be able to mitigate drones. Before that, state and local
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement did not have the authority to be able
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  Speaker 2: to do that. So you had sense exactly a FAA
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  Speaker 2: thing that's exactly right. You had the SADS doing that.
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  Speaker 2: What is drone mitigation? Is this a shotgun? Is it
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  Speaker 2: an accounter drone? Is it a missile? How do you
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  Speaker 2: do it? Well, there are all different kinds of ways
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  Speaker 2: to do that, and it's very different in around stadiums
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  Speaker 2: and civilian settings that it is let's say, in the
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  Speaker 2: field of combat, right, And I think that's one of
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  Speaker 2: the things that's very very clear as well. They are
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  Speaker 2: all different ways to do it, and we have multiple
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  Speaker 2: different technologies deployed to be able to defeat different types
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  Speaker 2: of text. Frankly, this is a space that's moving very
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  Speaker 2: very fast. The half life's in this it's six weeks
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  Speaker 2: to three months, which is amazing. And really this, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this is sounds like a brag, but it really really
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  Speaker 2: is true. Federal government generally is not equipped to move
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  Speaker 2: that fast unless you have a leader that's willing to
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  Speaker 2: push it that way. And that's really what Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 2: that's what Secretary Mullen, that's what their mandates have been
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  Speaker 2: to be able to make sure that we're able to
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  Speaker 2: do this. But the story is really amazing because what
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  Speaker 2: this has all led to, Right, the FBI created a
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  Speaker 2: schoolhouse to train these local law enforcement to get them
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  Speaker 2: up to speed. The DOJ deputize them in a task
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  Speaker 2: force model. That way they would have the ability to
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  Speaker 2: do this. And here's the story. Last year, in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, five events, five special events were covered for drones.
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  Speaker 2: This year in twenty twenty six, all seventy eight matches
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  Speaker 2: for the World Cup are gonna be covered against drones
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  Speaker 2: for drone mitigation, and one FanFest in every single city
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  Speaker 2: for the duration of the World Cup will be covered
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  Speaker 2: as well. So this is an unbelievable story of progress.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna keep pushing and pushing and pushing because we
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  Speaker 2: have to. But it's really really amazing what this task Force,
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  Speaker 2: with the Air Sovereignty Task Force, and what our federal
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  Speaker 2: interagency partners, led by the leadership of President Donald J. Trump,
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  Speaker 2: has done to make our country safe and our sky
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  Speaker 2: safe for this World Cup.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Executive Director Andrew Giuliani, I listened to what
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  Speaker 3: you're saying, and I think I'm old enough to remember
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  Speaker 3: a Chinese weather balloon just floating through our skies, right,
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  Speaker 3: And it's amazing that that was acceptable and that was
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  Speaker 3: a reality in this country and now you're telling me,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think I feel that much safer if
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  Speaker 3: I know that we've got this drone mitigation technology. I
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  Speaker 3: want to know that you're on it, you know, because
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  Speaker 3: they were on it. And that's a relief. Because people
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  Speaker 3: want to have fun with their kids. You know, nobody's
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  Speaker 3: going to soccer to get plastered. It's not an adult affair.
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  Speaker 3: This kid's going, this family's going. This is a big deal.
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  Speaker 3: And I remember watching the Copa Medica whenever that was here,
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  Speaker 3: was that last year, the year before, whatever it was,
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  Speaker 3: And they did that in Miami and they were doing
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  Speaker 3: these cutaways on the Spanish channel I think it was
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  Speaker 3: on Nibi Sjongen and people were climbing the walls and
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  Speaker 3: scaling the building. And I was like, that's a big
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  Speaker 3: security concern. I mean, they did not have a handle
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  Speaker 3: on that at that time, and I'm thinking this is
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  Speaker 3: much bigger than that. Obviously, that's a challenge. What do
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  Speaker 3: you have in place? Clearly you have a lot in place,
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  Speaker 3: How does that work and what does it look like?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was in twenty twenty four, obviously different leadership
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  Speaker 2: in the country at that point there. Yeah, but you're
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  Speaker 2: right that Copa America. I think was a real wake
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  Speaker 2: up call, not just for the country, but I think
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  Speaker 2: also for the area of Miami. There's different leadership there.
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  Speaker 2: I can tell you the ship Tarriff Sheriff Rosie is
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  Speaker 2: unbelievable out there. She's done a great job. We saw
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  Speaker 2: it with the Club World Cup last year. Probably the
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  Speaker 2: biggest complaints that we got in Miami during the Club
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  Speaker 2: World Cup was that the uber drop off was a
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  Speaker 2: little further than patrons would like. Frankly, that's a lot
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  Speaker 2: better than thirty thousand unticketed fans trying to rush the
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  Speaker 2: stadium gates here when there's only one layer of security. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the counter UAS coverage We mentioned what you'd see in
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  Speaker 2: Miami and what you'll see in all these other stadiums
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  Speaker 2: is you'll see three different perimeters that ultimately will guard
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  Speaker 2: against that. They had no perimeters out there, they basically
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  Speaker 2: were able to rush the gates. And this is something
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  Speaker 2: that we've wanted to make sure law enforcement is prepared
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  Speaker 2: for it. There's going to be triple the amount of
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement as was available that day as well. They'll
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  Speaker 2: also be limits in terms of tailgating in front of
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  Speaker 2: the stadiums. If you have a ticket, you'll have the
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  Speaker 2: ability to come on site and do that. But if
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  Speaker 2: you don't have a ticket, you'll be turned away. They
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  Speaker 2: have a fan festival at a front park in Miami,
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  Speaker 2: all other kind of activations in the Miami area. So
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  Speaker 2: that way, if you are unticketed, you can go there.
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  Speaker 2: You still can have a blast, you can watch the
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  Speaker 2: World Cup, you can gather for this incredible event. But
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  Speaker 2: we also want to make sure, to the point that
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  Speaker 2: you're saying, they're rich, that kids, that families have an
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  Speaker 2: unbelievable experience at this World Cup. It should be enthusiastic,
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  Speaker 2: it should be a lot of fun. The most important
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  Speaker 2: part of having an unbelievable experience is making sure that
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  Speaker 2: they're safe and they have an incredible story to tell
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  Speaker 2: when they go home.
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  Speaker 3: Andrew Giuliani, stick with me for a second. When to
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  Speaker 3: take a quick pause right here, I mean, gooes, We're
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  Speaker 3: coming right back.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Rich Valdez, this is Amaria, this is Amara. President Pomis,
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  Speaker 1: take your up, mister President. Welcome to the program.
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  Speaker 3: Service. Well, thank you, Rich, and thank you for everything.
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  Speaker 3: I know you very well and I have I listened.
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  Speaker 3: But I have a lot of people that listen, and
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  Speaker 3: they love your show, and I appreciate it very much.
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  Speaker 3: All Right, if I'm many that, welcome back, it's Rich Valdess.
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  Speaker 3: I'm still here, and so is Andrew Giuliani, Executive Director
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  Speaker 3: of the President's Task Force, the White House Task Force
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  Speaker 3: on the FIFA World Cup. And Andrew Juliani, listen. I
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  Speaker 3: give you tons of credit. You sit there with a
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  Speaker 3: bright face, a big smile. I think it's it's coffee
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of grit, right, because I saw your
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  Speaker 3: team in Texas, and I'm sure there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: great men and women, but it seems like you have
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  Speaker 3: a skeleton crew of like elite special Forces operators, whether
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  Speaker 3: it's comms or tech or whatever. You guys are fixing
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  Speaker 3: every problem you can find and dealing with the security issues,
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  Speaker 3: dealing with the logistical issues out there doing the pr work.
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  Speaker 3: Talk to me about you know, I guess at different
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  Speaker 3: angle here what a day in the life looks like,
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  Speaker 3: because I think everybody sees and they're like, oh, look
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  Speaker 3: at Andrew Giuliani. Looks so nice on TV. But I'm
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  Speaker 3: guessing you're in a different city every week or so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, once, once this World Cup gets kicked off tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a lot of travel. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that we're in every single host city
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  Speaker 2: at different points, seeing how their emergency operations centers have done. Frankly,
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  Speaker 2: leading into this World Cup, that's what we did once
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  Speaker 2: I got on the job. Last year, we had the
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  Speaker 2: Club World Cup, which was a small appetizer compared to
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  Speaker 2: this main event that we're having right now, but it
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  Speaker 2: gave us an opportunity to be able to see these
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  Speaker 2: emergency operation centers and looks at each of the eleven
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: regions that are hosting World Cup events and how they operate,
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: and see what potential holes exist and see where the
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: federal government can come in and do that. I lead
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: the day off with a staff sync, very very important
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: with my senior staff to make sure that we're in coordination. Then,
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: when you look at all of the agencies that this
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: ends up touching from our task force, it's everything from
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Homeland Security to the State Department, to the Department of War, Treasury, Commerce, Transportation,
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: doj FBI. Those are just our name task force members.
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  Speaker 2: But I could tell you working with h with my
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: friend Lee Zelden over at EPA working on issues there
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: with Brooke Rollins over at the Department of Agriculture. It's
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: been unbelievable to see the work of the federal government
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: here and what it takes to get everybody pushing in
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: the right direction. Also, I got to say, for an
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: event of this magnitude, it can't just be the federal
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: government when you look at the size and scope of this,
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: the whole country, really the whole continent. Over the course
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: of this the work with local law enforcement has been unbelievable.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: State and local law enforcement. Look, we know there are
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: some political differences that I and certainly President Trump have
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: with the mayor of New York or the governor of California,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: but kudos to law enforcement in all of these great areas,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: the four hundred plus different law enforcement organizations that we
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: work with on a day to day basis, because they
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: come in every single day getting the job done, doing
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: everything they can for the people of New York, the
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: people of California, trying to make sure that their state,
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: that there's cities are safe, and we're happy to work
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: with them on a daily basis. Anybody who wants to
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: make this country safer, whether it's their cities, whether it's
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: their state or the United States as a whole. We're
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: here to work with.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Talk to me about the economic impact that this is
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: going to have in our country. You talk about all
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: these fan zone, these activations, lots of brands involved, your rebranding,
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: entire stadiums.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: This is a massive undertaking.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Obviously a lot of money going into this, it's got
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: to be a lot of money coming out of it
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: as well.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Talk to me about the economic impact.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know how you're going to like this,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: but I propose to FIFA that they rename MetLife Stadium
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Giant Stadium again. That seemed to work pretty well for me,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: But I don't know. The giants, I guess haven't earned
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: it over the last decade. We'll have to see with
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Harball and Dart at the Helm here if they can
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: maybe you know, change the name and back over here.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: But no, seriously, it really is a massive economic impact
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: that this World couple have. We're looking at over thirty
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: billion dollars in economic impact, seventeen billion dollars to GDP,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: and those numbers were before we've seen the record sales
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: that have been hit because of this World Cup. The
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: previous high for tickets sold at a World Cup was
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: three point five million. That was actually back in nineteen
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: ninety four here in the United States when they were
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: only twenty fourteens. The last six iterations of the World
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Cup had thirty two teams. Still they never topped what
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: was in the United States of America three point five million.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: IFIFA told me last week that they crossed the six
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: million ticket sold threshold out of a little less than
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: seven million tickets. So it's really really amazing to see
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: the demand. And they're not fifty bucks, No, they're not.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: And the President, the President's talked about that it's expensive, right.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I think that's what happens when you have a World
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Cup and the incredible demand for tickets, and you add
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: in the great leadership of President Trump and the Golden
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Age of America, you create this unbelievable and incredible demand.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you a couple things so that he did,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: or first off, one thing that FIFA did. They made
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: sixty dollars tickets available at every single match, a thousand
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: of them available. And you could see right now some
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: of the less in demand matches there's still tickets available
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: for less than two hundred dollars. If you end up
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: going on there now for the Brazil Moroccos, let's say,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: or the Columbia Portugals, there's going to be a lot
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: more expensive than that to get in there.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Let's take two to those.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you one thing the President did which
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: I think is absolutely amazing. We announced this last week,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: and I'm so so proud of the work that he
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: did in working with FIFA and Bank of America. Forty
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: five hundred and forty seven tickets will be available for
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: our military, veterans and first responders to all World Cup matches,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: and two hundred and fifty for each US men's national
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: team game to celebrate our two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: The President wants to make sure that this really I
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: would say once in a lifetime, but we remember the
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: night in four World Cup, This few times in a
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: lifetime experience is enjoyed by America's greatest heroes.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Well, and it is once in a lifetime that we're
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: having a World Cup on our two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: That won't ever happen again.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Rich This is why, this is why you've got to
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: be out here messaging this year with me. I mean,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: we gotta we gotta switch rolls over here.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: You're no, But I mean I think I think that's
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: it's a really big deal.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: And uh, it's a wild time to be doing what
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: you're doing. All right.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Look, I was leaving the studio a couple of days ago, yeah,
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Monday night, and I totally forgot that President Trump was
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: coming to the garden. Man. Wow, it felt like New
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Year's Eve by Harold Square. It was wild. Talk to
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: me about the Knicks. Uh, where do you see us going?
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: What's happening?
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what I'm actually I'm hoping for
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Nixon five, not just because I'm I'm a Knick fan,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: but also because Game six there's also a game at
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: the Meadowlands day, so you could think about what Penn
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Station would look like once fans get out and you
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: have Nick fans coming into Penn Station at the same
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: time right there. So that's why I'm open for Nixon five. Look,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's been unbelievable to see the city rally
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: behind the Knicks. We want to make sure that people
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: are doing it in a safe way. Didn't like seeing
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: what happened in Brian Park. That's unacceptable, frankly, But let's
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: make sure that we don't enjoy this incredible moment. I
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: remember as as a kid it was my father's first
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: year in office, when the Knicks went to the finals,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: the Rangers won the Stanley Cup and the World Cup,
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: all at the same time. Was in New York, was
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: in the United States. I actually the last NBA the
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: only NBA Finals game that I ever have been to,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: was Game five of the nineteen ninety four NBA Finals,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: And what people will remember from that day is it
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: was a pretty monumental day in sports. Arnold Palmer played
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: his last US Open round outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: he grew up, had their parade down the Canyon of
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Heroes for the nineteen ninety four Stanley Cup champions. You
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: had the World Cup kicking off in Chicago with the
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: President there and Oprah Winfeed making the declaratory statements. You
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: had the NBA Finals Game five, Patrick Ewing, John Starks
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: and the New York Knicks taking on the Houston Rockets.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: And then what happened. Oj Simpson is driving his white
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Bronco down the four h five freeway. They actually went
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: picture and picture on NBC and they took Oj as
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: the big picture, with the small picture in the corner
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: being Game five of the NBA Finals. So needless to say,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: when the sports world collides around the World Cup, crazy
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: things happen. Let's just hope we're not covering something down
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: the four h five here in a couple of short days.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Well, put great place to leave it, Andrew Giuliani, Is
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: there anything else you want to mention?
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Is there anything people need to know to make this
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: process better? Yeah?
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I would say more than anything. Just enjoy it. This
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: is going to be an unbelievable summer to be able
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: to show off American exceptionalism to the world. What an
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: unbelievable time it is to be an American. What an
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: unbelievable time it is to be visiting the United States
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: of America. What we've tried to do on the task
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Force is make sure that we strike that balance between
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: inviting the world. We want people that want to come
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: here enjoy the United States of America. Spend your hard
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: earned dollars here, have a blast, learn about the United States,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: learn about our culture, learn about our greatness. Come here
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: while making sure bad actors do not get in the country.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: At the same time, this is an unbelievable celebration of
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: our country. And Rich, let's really really keep that perspective
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: and let's really enjoy it.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Amen, Praise God, Hallelujah, Familia. That's Andrew Giuliani, Executive director
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: of the White House task for US on the FIFA
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: World Cup. As you can see, piece of cake. He's
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: got his feed up on the desk. He's taking it easy. Uh,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Andrew Julian and God speed to you, my brother. Thank you, Rich,
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: You're the best. Always rape me in with you.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: This is a merry distant to Benet to Belie.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah,