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Hank Sheinkopf | President at Sheinkopf Ltd. & Veteran Consultant | 06-03-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Hank Shinkoff is making his second appearance on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Now let me preface this in two ways. First of all, Hank,
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  Speaker 1: you have forgotten more about politics in New York than
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  Speaker 1: I'll ever know. I admit that, okay. And also preface
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  Speaker 1: this by saying that Frank Corone is a dear friend. Frank,
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  Speaker 1: his brother Anthony, and his brother Joseph. But I was
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  Speaker 1: the guy calling out Eric Adams for anyone. Curtis too,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, And I was angry with people like you
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  Speaker 1: quite frankly, Hank, and Kats and the guys upstairs and
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  Speaker 1: Tad Shapiro and all these Eric Adam, Bill Ackman, these
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  Speaker 1: Eric Adams lovers. And I would say he has no chance.
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  Speaker 1: He's lost the Republican voter. Because I'm a real Republican.
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  Speaker 1: I knew he was just being nice to us because
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  Speaker 1: Trump saved them from prison. The Democrats weren't no part
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  Speaker 1: of him, because now we's sucking up to Trump. For
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  Speaker 1: three plus years, he seemed to care more about illegals
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  Speaker 1: and all that nonsense and Americans. His police department was
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  Speaker 1: a joke. He went through four commissioners. His whole administration
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  Speaker 1: almost want to prison. I mean, what are we talking
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  Speaker 1: about here? So he came alive the last year because
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  Speaker 1: Trump and Holman and Jessica Tish saved his ass. And
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  Speaker 1: now he's running around town like he's Rudy Giuliani because
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  Speaker 1: the guy before him, the Blasio, was so bad and
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  Speaker 1: this creek now maybe.
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  Speaker 2: The worst ever.
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  Speaker 1: But this idea that Eric Adams was a good mayor,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what anybody tells me.
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  Speaker 2: Furthest thing from the truth, the.
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  Speaker 1: Furthest and I believe now he's trying to get back
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  Speaker 1: in the game.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. He's very busy these days. What am
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  Speaker 2: I missing?
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  Speaker 3: Hank Well first of the morning, Sidon, thank you for
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  Speaker 3: having me on you. I think that Adams is a
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  Speaker 3: is a historical figure, the second African American mayor.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care about that. Please please, I'm begging. I'm
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  Speaker 2: begging you. I don't care.
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  Speaker 3: He got into trouble in the beginning, not because his
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  Speaker 3: color was black, because his color was blue. It's a
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  Speaker 3: cop and the world around him was about cops and
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  Speaker 3: that was his world. And I don't think you can differently.
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  Speaker 1: Let me stop you again, let me stop you again.
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  Speaker 1: He was a lousy I know, but not Kerrick is dead. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: but Kerck was on my show quite a bit. He
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  Speaker 1: said he caused more trouble in the police apartment than
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  Speaker 1: any amount of rest he ever made.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, he was black. Big deal.
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  Speaker 1: How many times did Eric Adams referred to people like
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  Speaker 1: me as crackers? How many times you talk about his
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  Speaker 1: chocolate audience. Let's stop with the nonsense, Okay. There was
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  Speaker 1: nothing historical about the guy. He had a chip on
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  Speaker 1: his shoulder about just about everybody, including the cops.
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  Speaker 3: Thank I know. I've talked to a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: around the job during this period of time there. He
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  Speaker 3: was not well regarded. He wasn't well liked. Kress saw
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  Speaker 3: him as a problem. That's all true. I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: talk about this from a historical perspective. The most corrupt
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  Speaker 3: administration since Jimmy Walker was the ed coach three, so
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  Speaker 3: let's put that in some context. Number one, number two
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  Speaker 3: Adams and the corruption side of his administration was due
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  Speaker 3: largely to cronyism. He hired the wrong people who were friends.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of them came out of the job. It
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  Speaker 3: was an unfortunate set of circumstances and terrible for the
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  Speaker 3: city at the time. Hopes were a very and it
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  Speaker 3: didn't just pan out the way it should have. There
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  Speaker 3: was no way he could have been re elected. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I've been pretty fair in my in my in my
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  Speaker 3: comments about him and everybody else over the last forty years.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that the opportunities lost by Eric Adams
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  Speaker 3: are overwhelming on questioned me so and a great disappointment. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 3: when we look at the facts, there are there is
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  Speaker 3: some good that comes out of the administration. He finally
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  Speaker 3: woke up in the last year and a half. I
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  Speaker 3: think a lot of that had to do with Grandy
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  Speaker 3: Mastro quite frankly, we chose it at the mayor. I
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  Speaker 3: think it had to do a lot with Jessicatitian. It's
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  Speaker 3: a good choice of her as the police commissioner. A
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  Speaker 3: lot of the other commissioner choices were just frankly lousy.
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  Speaker 2: But the but the oh, listen, hold on not the
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  Speaker 2: first one.
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  Speaker 1: And he blew that the truth is And you know
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  Speaker 1: how closely I am with Jessica key Shan soul was terrific.
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  Speaker 2: She would have been great, but he blew that.
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  Speaker 3: He blew that she was terrific. I mean, I have
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  Speaker 3: a personal fondness for her and thinks the world of her.
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  Speaker 3: You know, she was a great cop, well regarded, serious
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  Speaker 3: person and was absolutely not used and was undermined by
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  Speaker 3: by people who are close to the mayor unquestionably. So
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  Speaker 3: that's not the issue. Where are we right now is
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  Speaker 3: the issue, And the issue is we're not. We're in
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  Speaker 3: a terrible place with potential for a seventy five like
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  Speaker 3: bankruptcy and politicians who have let's just like to earn
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  Speaker 3: seventy five who are clueless and refuse to accept the facts.
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  Speaker 2: Simple, it really is. That's simple.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm trying to figure out Hank what he's done. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I see people and I know New York Want is
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  Speaker 1: a communist channel.
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  Speaker 2: You may like it, but ERL. Lewis is a bad guy.
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  Speaker 2: It's a communist channel and.
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  Speaker 1: They have people on all the time saying what a
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  Speaker 1: great job this guy is doing. Now, Yeah, childcare is important.
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  Speaker 1: I've got two kids, so let's give him a decent
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  Speaker 1: grade on what he's trying to accomplish for childcare. Outside
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  Speaker 1: of that, should I list the twenty five things he's
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  Speaker 1: done a terrible job with Again, although it's the same question,
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  Speaker 1: like about Eric Adams, what am I missing?
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  Speaker 3: Well, here's what you're missing, and you're a very smart guy,
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  Speaker 3: so you're not missing programs in policy. Which you're missing
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  Speaker 3: is behavior. He is a brilliant propagandist. He has hired
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  Speaker 3: people who are very confident at doing that and who
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  Speaker 3: are very loyal to him. He has a brilliant smile.
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  Speaker 3: He is the creator of a social movement, not of
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  Speaker 3: a political operation that will likely sweep portions of this
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  Speaker 3: country in the next few years, doing no good for
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  Speaker 3: an awful lot of people. And the things that he's
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  Speaker 3: talked about that he's done are largely undone. The idea
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  Speaker 3: of a thirty million dollar expenditure to create a public
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  Speaker 3: grocery is ridiculous because it will drive a lot of
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  Speaker 3: decent people out of work and out of their own
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  Speaker 3: businesses and out of their jobs, and the chamers of
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  Speaker 3: commerce throughout the city are organizing against them.
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  Speaker 1: Not only that, not only that, but it's not thirty million.
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  Speaker 1: It turns out it's thirty million, pert one, it's more
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  Speaker 1: like one hundred and twenty million.
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  Speaker 3: No question, no argument here, no argument here. The idea
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  Speaker 3: of not funding pensions for municial employees is among the
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  Speaker 3: most dangerous things you've heard a long time. Why because
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  Speaker 3: it could result in the seventy five like disaster when
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  Speaker 3: the when the Dow Bill comes, the backing off on
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  Speaker 3: his rhetoric, his anti police rhetoric is all well and good,
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  Speaker 3: but not but not having a reception around the time
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  Speaker 3: of the Puerto Rican Day parade is a way of
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  Speaker 3: telling you and also not, you know, not surprising about
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  Speaker 3: the Israel Day parade because he's his entire life has
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  Speaker 3: been about anti anti Israel activity and belief in the
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  Speaker 3: destruction of the Jewish state. So and he learned that
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  Speaker 3: from his parents. So there's nothing new there.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm glad you brought it. I'm glad you brought
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  Speaker 1: up the Puerto Rico thing because Rubin Diadge Junior actually
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  Speaker 1: tweeted something yesterday and he included me.
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  Speaker 2: On the tweet. The Puerto Rican community is really pissed.
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  Speaker 3: Pissed, but that's not important to him because the real
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  Speaker 3: objective of any significant social movement is to reduce the
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  Speaker 3: number of potential enemies in a particular area of population
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  Speaker 3: so that you can organize in a way to create
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  Speaker 3: a larger and more compact movement with greater intensity and
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  Speaker 3: forest that will then do exactly what the leader wants.
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  Speaker 3: This is a national problem that will undermine this country
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  Speaker 3: over time. The election of DSA candidates throughout the country
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  Speaker 3: is his desire, there is no other desire. And to
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  Speaker 3: make him the leader of that movement, he will undermine candidates,
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  Speaker 3: which they're already doing, and lie to them, which he's
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  Speaker 3: already done, to undermine endorsements and other behaviors. And let's
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  Speaker 3: see how well he does in June. If brad Lander
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  Speaker 3: is likely to win and beat Goldman in that congressional race,
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  Speaker 3: that's one. But let's see how it does with with
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  Speaker 3: s By's opponent, who's a stone called jew hater, anti
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  Speaker 3: stem mightin bigot against the white people also, and there
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  Speaker 3: are other races at the lower level. Smart thinkers would say,
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  Speaker 3: if we want to stop the DSA, we have to
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  Speaker 3: choke it off at its roots. How so, don't let
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  Speaker 3: them get into Democratic Party candidcies because they're not Democrats
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  Speaker 3: number one. Number two, choke them off by choking off
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  Speaker 3: the next generation win the race is at the most
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  Speaker 3: local levels, so they won't be a next generation. Absent
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  Speaker 3: that we will see the creation of a movement that
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  Speaker 3: is unstoppable. This guy who's now the mayor of the
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  Speaker 3: City York as his leader. And the potential for disaster
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  Speaker 3: in this country as we know today is extraordinary.
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  Speaker 2: Oh god, you know it's not gone for the Knicks,
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  Speaker 2: but you're right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen in New Jersey a couple of
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  Speaker 1: months ago that lady Anti Semit she won yesterday, Hamiwi.
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  Speaker 2: He's a terrible guy. This guy.
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  Speaker 1: This guy was on the defense team, on the defense
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  Speaker 1: team for a nineteen ninety three World Trade cent obomber.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's a guy who's threatened to kill a
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  Speaker 3: guy whose people threatened to kill the federal judge who
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  Speaker 3: was brave, Michael mccasey, who sat on that case and
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  Speaker 3: put his family's life at risk and had to reguarded
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  Speaker 3: by US Marshalls for an extended period of time, who
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  Speaker 3: later went on to become the Attorney General of the
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  Speaker 3: United States. You know, everything is really topsy turvy, and
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  Speaker 3: this country is going through an internal revolution. The question
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  Speaker 3: is will would be enough time to straighten it out?
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  Speaker 3: Is their balance? We have a generation of people led
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  Speaker 3: by a mom Donnie, who have never paid a price,
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  Speaker 3: never won a burden, have never had a tough day
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  Speaker 3: don't understand. I've never put a callous on their hands,
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  Speaker 3: have never served anyone or anything of the most over
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  Speaker 3: educated generation, the most house generation. Yes, at higher costs.
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  Speaker 3: The people who fed were, who have had meals and
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  Speaker 3: eaten more regularly than any generation of mankind, and who
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  Speaker 3: stand to get the greatest transfer of wealth in the
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  Speaker 3: history of humanity over the next twenty years.
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  Speaker 2: Finals we're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, final sixty Final sixty seconds. Oh, I got it.
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  Speaker 1: I got to ask you about the.
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  Speaker 2: Future for this guy.
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  Speaker 1: You're great, by the way, Hank you Willy, I love,
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  Speaker 1: I love the fact you come on this show.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. It's an hunter.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, you're welcome.
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  Speaker 1: Final sixty seconds. He's already planning for his re election.
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  Speaker 1: He's not even in office for six months, but he'd
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  Speaker 1: be some he's so confident and so cocky that he's
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  Speaker 1: already looking forward to winning again. And I've wrote Jessica Tish,
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  Speaker 1: she may run. I'm not going to tell you what
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  Speaker 1: she said to me, but she may run. If Jessica
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  Speaker 1: Tish runs, she got a shot.
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  Speaker 3: Tough race for her. Yeah, tough race.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So what can the report lookings do if you're ed
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  Speaker 1: Cox right now? And this coup in New York you
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  Speaker 1: should be losing sleep already, right.
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  Speaker 3: Ed Cox is a very decent man. It's time for
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  Speaker 3: him to resign and put some younger people in those
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  Speaker 3: positions to create a real Republican party. You consider that
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  Speaker 3: Republicans had the state Senator, the State Assemblement, the councilmen,
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  Speaker 3: and the congressmen on the Upper East Side thirty years ago,
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  Speaker 3: and what they have in New York County alone is nothing.
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  Speaker 3: You have to rebuild something, and you have to organize,
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  Speaker 3: and you've got to get younger people in there with
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  Speaker 3: tremendous amounts of energy. Recreate the Liberal Party in some
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  Speaker 3: fashion or some other party that can be substantially related
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  Speaker 3: to Republicans and Democrats, and endorse and organize around people
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  Speaker 3: student create so the Trump problem, which is extraordinary significant
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  Speaker 3: in New York City, can be overcome. It's just you
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  Speaker 3: got to do these things. If they don't, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to continue to have this. And you've got to organize
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  Speaker 3: the Chinese and understand the nature of the changing politics
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  Speaker 3: and changing demographs of New York City. The Asians are
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  Speaker 3: going to be very significant and they will be in
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  Speaker 3: out with the Mandanni's because everything they stand for in
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  Speaker 3: the American dream is counter to what Mandani and his people,
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  Speaker 3: who don't believe in free enterprise, don't believe in in
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  Speaker 3: the in the acquisition and control of housing in any way,
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  Speaker 3: shape or form, don't believe in the things that made
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  Speaker 3: the this upcoming generation of African Americans and others who
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  Speaker 3: are able to build lives and some wealth out of
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  Speaker 3: civil service and out of investing in smaller properties and
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  Speaker 3: smaller businesses. They don't believe in any of that.
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  Speaker 2: Super job. Yep, you're right. No, you're right, they don't. Hank.
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  Speaker 1: You got to keep talking, man, I don't know, keep
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  Speaker 1: coming on this show and with John and Eda and
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  Speaker 1: reb you ware, just keep talking. You are You're very
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  Speaker 1: valuable to us here in New York City. You tell
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  Speaker 1: the truth and you know what the hell you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you for hopping on today. Another great appearance, Hank,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so.
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  Speaker 3: Much, Thank you, sir, all the best.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you. I love this guy. Thanks Shinkoff. He's
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  Speaker 2: a smart guy.
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  Speaker 1: He really does know the candidates, he knows the history,
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  Speaker 1: and he's a very important in the city.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of gutsy there, you know, I'm findly with Ed Cox.
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  Speaker 2: I like that a lot of just smon in Rockland
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  Speaker 2: County a couple of weeks, but he said he's a
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  Speaker 2: wonderful man, but it's time to resign. That's a big
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  Speaker 2: statement from Hank Shinkoll.
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