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Andrew Giuliani, Executive Director of the White House Task Force interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Man who has to be very proud today of a
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  Speaker 1: job well done. Andrew Giuliani is the executive director for
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  Speaker 1: the White House Task Force on the FIFA World Cup
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. And Andrew, congratulations, nothing but positive reviews,
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  Speaker 1: record setting attendance, record setting TV ratings, the money that
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  Speaker 1: was brought into the country billions of dollars. But maybe, Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: the most important thing, and we all saw it on
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  Speaker 1: social media, are the amazing positive reviews of not just
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  Speaker 1: the World Cup, but of America. People saying this isn't
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  Speaker 1: what I was told. It's not as bad as I
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  Speaker 1: would say. They go home now and they tell their
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  Speaker 1: families and friends how great this country is. So job
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  Speaker 1: well done.
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  Speaker 2: Well thank you, and you know, really, it was amazing
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  Speaker 2: to see the world's love affair with the United States
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  Speaker 2: of America. And the beautiful thing was this can happen
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  Speaker 2: in a vacuum. Obviously we got to do this. We
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  Speaker 2: to put on this World Cup over our two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fiftieth birthday. It's such a special moment. And I
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  Speaker 2: remember being a junior staffer back in twenty eighteen in
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  Speaker 2: the White House working on the big working to land
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  Speaker 2: this World Cup and understanding today, we wouldn't just have
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  Speaker 2: the largest soccer term the largest sporting event in our
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  Speaker 2: country's history, but we'd have it over our two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fiftieth birthday and what that actually meant, the venues,
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  Speaker 2: what it could mean for the rest of the world.
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  Speaker 2: You know, even with that big vision, even the vision
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  Speaker 2: the President Trump, after this, I think it exceeded all expectations.
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  Speaker 2: Went off incredibly well. I told our team on the
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  Speaker 2: White House Task Force yesterday. You know, Spain may have
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  Speaker 2: been named the World Cup champions, but even they let
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  Speaker 2: in the goal, and the White House dask Force federal
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  Speaker 2: government did not let in one goal this entire tournament.
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  Speaker 2: It really really was an incredible, incredible month and a half.
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  Speaker 3: Andrew a second.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody compliments except Curtis. I can't wait.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I love you, and I remember when you
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  Speaker 3: were a junior at Shane Joe's in Montvale and you
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  Speaker 3: were playing our game, American smash mouth football. I don't
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  Speaker 3: ever remember you playing Shaka. When did this saker fever
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  Speaker 3: in golf?
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, you guys need to go. And I guess
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  Speaker 2: Curtis is not doing his research anymore. Curtis, I remember
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  Speaker 2: you doing a lot of research here before you do
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  Speaker 2: your hits. But I don't know what ended up happening.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta go back a few short weeks ago when
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  Speaker 2: I was interviewed by Klayt Travis and Buck Sexton. Now,
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  Speaker 2: unlike Curtis Leila, buck Sexton likes to do his research.
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  Speaker 2: And what buck Sexton dug back to was the seventh
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  Speaker 2: grade moment of Andrew Giuliani playing goaltender. When they used
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  Speaker 2: to call me the Great Wall of Giuliani. It's Saint
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  Speaker 2: David's on the upper west side. You got to talk
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  Speaker 2: to that side of him. Now now I will say,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm a big giant fan. You know I
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  Speaker 2: still end up American football is my game over here.
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  Speaker 2: But Curtis, we cannot deny just the global reach of soccer.
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  Speaker 2: When you look at the when you look at the
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl, about one hundred and seventy million people around
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  Speaker 2: the world watch the Super Bowl, one hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 2: million or so from the United States and about forty
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  Speaker 2: million internationally. This World Cup final is projected to have
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  Speaker 2: drawn over two billion people, who really, really is absolutely amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Can I extrapolate from this Andrew Giuliani that the President, I.
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  Speaker 2: Would love it.
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  Speaker 3: After your successful tour of bringing together this international community
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  Speaker 3: to our home. We'll say, well, the second most followed
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  Speaker 3: and watched sport in the world is cricket. So Andrew,
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  Speaker 3: I want you to be in charge of a World
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  Speaker 3: cricket Championship in America. Would you be up for that task?
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  Speaker 2: Andrew, well's say, if you write me a recommendation letter
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  Speaker 2: to the President. I don't see how I couldn't get
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  Speaker 2: that job. Be perfectly honest, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, let's say the cricket out of that question. It's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a great question because you've had a huge
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  Speaker 1: success with this, an enormous success and unprecedented success, no
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  Speaker 1: matter what Curtis says, Uh, so what is next for you?
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  Speaker 1: Have you thought about it yet?
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  Speaker 2: I guess I guess you got to ask my wife, right.
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  Speaker 2: My wife said, we got to go find a beach
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  Speaker 2: and get a drink and we'll talk about it. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, look, look, I think more than anything, and
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  Speaker 2: I spoke with the President about this on Saturday. Here
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  Speaker 2: in terms of what it looks like, uh little work work.
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  Speaker 2: My hard is to make sure that we can keep
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  Speaker 2: the house uh this this midterm cycle here and see
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  Speaker 2: what happens after the midterms. You know, there's always a
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  Speaker 2: lot of shuffling around, uh for positions there. But for me,
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  Speaker 2: very very happy to have to have landed this mega
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  Speaker 2: event over here. Time to just kind of finish up
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  Speaker 2: what we're doing. And really, here's the thing that's so amazing,
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  Speaker 2: And it's funny what Curtis said, but it really is true.
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  Speaker 2: This is really a golden age, not just of America,
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  Speaker 2: but a golden age of sports in America. With the
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  Speaker 2: Olympics come up in twenty twenty eight, potentially a Women's
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  Speaker 2: World Cup in twenty thirty one, the Winter Games coming
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  Speaker 2: up in twenty thirty four. I do think that cricket
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  Speaker 2: is actually one of those things on the radar. I
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  Speaker 2: think rugby is another one of those things on the
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  Speaker 2: radar which gets a great global reach. So we really
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  Speaker 2: have this incredible run. And I have to tell you
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  Speaker 2: in talking the FIFA about this, and look at the
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  Speaker 2: economic numbers here for the United States. We originally were
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  Speaker 2: projecting about a thirty billion dollar cash injection. That number
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  Speaker 2: per Bank of America actually looks like it's closer to
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  Speaker 2: fifty billion dollars. Not to mention the legacy items. Speaking
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  Speaker 2: of Bob Kraft a few days ago, and he and
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  Speaker 2: the Patriot Organization are already talking about going to Scotland
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  Speaker 2: for an NFL regular season game and vice versa, having
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  Speaker 2: Scottish teams come over to New England and play. You're
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  Speaker 2: going to continue to see more and more and more
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  Speaker 2: of that, so we really really are and this golden
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  Speaker 2: age of sport in America and.
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  Speaker 1: All that's great. Just a clarification, though, you said getting
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  Speaker 1: to twenty thirty one Women's World Cup. I thought that
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  Speaker 1: had been confirmed.
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  Speaker 2: So it had been told to the President of the
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  Speaker 2: United States. It was in the Oval Office when Johnny
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  Speaker 2: and Fantino told them we are going to give it
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  Speaker 2: to you. I think the only thing that probably stands
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  Speaker 2: in the way at this point right now is just
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  Speaker 2: clarifying and codifying that it doesn't violate the policy of
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  Speaker 2: the United States of America in that only women can
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  Speaker 2: play in women's sports. If that gets codified, then I
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  Speaker 2: think we would be absolutely happy to welcome the Women's
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  Speaker 2: World Cup in twenty thirty one. I can tell you,
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  Speaker 2: as the father of a daughter, Curtis knows my grace
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  Speaker 2: very well. It would be an incredible honor to be
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  Speaker 2: able to land this for the country moving forward.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Andrew, you know me, I like to roam the
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  Speaker 3: city in the wee hours in the morning. I'm nocturnal.
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  Speaker 3: So I came to Times Square this morning on the
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  Speaker 3: way up to our Ihearts studios. He a w or
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  Speaker 3: seven ten And some of these Argentine fans don't seem
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  Speaker 3: to want to go back now, and they're telling me
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  Speaker 3: they want to know where they can score a shot
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  Speaker 3: a leg and they can get some weed to smoke.
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  Speaker 3: So your job is not finished. You need to really
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  Speaker 3: contact your friend d h DHS chairman Mullin and start
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  Speaker 3: issuing retainers because you're only here on tourist visas, and
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  Speaker 3: would you get them the hell out of here because
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  Speaker 3: I want my city back.
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  Speaker 2: Curtis, you know I love your baby. I will I
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  Speaker 2: will say here's here's the beautiful thing over here. And look, well,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to talk about the nocturnal things that
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  Speaker 2: happened at Times Square at three am, four am and
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff. I guess we can all say all
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  Speaker 2: the city was great in the nineties, when maybe some
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  Speaker 2: of those illicit things did not happen overnight in Times
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  Speaker 2: Square in New York. It is one of the great things.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things that we did was get I
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  Speaker 2: mean and the numbers are really staggering. B one B
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  Speaker 2: two week times for Argentina for visitors versus went down
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  Speaker 2: from three hundred days to less than a week by
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  Speaker 2: the time we kicked off the tournaments. Why we were
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  Speaker 2: able to get so many people here. For Brazil it
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  Speaker 2: was seven hundred days for a B one B two
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  Speaker 2: visa appointment. We got it down to less than a month.
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  Speaker 2: For the nineteen est countries that qualified for the World Cup,
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  Speaker 2: think Germany, think Spain who won it obviously, the UK, Scotland, etc.
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  Speaker 2: The nineteen s the countries that qualified. In the first
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  Speaker 2: half of this fiscal year, we processed over five million
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  Speaker 2: ESTA applications. That was the back office work that happened
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  Speaker 2: to create the magic this summer that really really was incredible.
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  Speaker 2: And Curtis, I will tell you I know my good
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  Speaker 2: friends Secretary Mullen very well. If anybody says past ninety days,
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  Speaker 2: something tells me he's going to be working.
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  Speaker 3: Come home, Andrew training camp, giants, jet stuff, come home
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  Speaker 3: to American smash mouths football. Give give this up, Andrew,
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  Speaker 3: give this jobstat up.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go Big Blue Eye. I love what was seeing
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  Speaker 2: with Jackson Dart and that you know are incredible. New
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  Speaker 2: coach is going to be absolutely awesome. Curtis, you are
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  Speaker 2: going to have to go and give me a retatorial though,
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  Speaker 2: because I might start saying pitch that you gotta remember
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  Speaker 2: put the long field. It's a game, it's not a match,
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  Speaker 2: and it's not nil mill it's zero zero, right, and
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  Speaker 2: it's not a uniform, it's a kid.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thanks so much and congratulations. It's going to be
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  Speaker 1: fascinating to see what you do next. Andrew Giuliani is
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  Speaker 1: the executive director for the White House Task Force. Are
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  Speaker 1: you still that in that position or is that position gone?
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  Speaker 2: Now? No, it's you know, it's it still exists. We're
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  Speaker 2: doing our final action reports, but in a few weeks
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  Speaker 2: we'll hand this over to the Olympic Task Force and
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  Speaker 2: see kind of the incredible progress that we have made.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's been really, really an honor to be
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  Speaker 2: able to work for this president, to be able to
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  Speaker 2: work on this project, and to be able to spread
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  Speaker 2: the word to great people like yourselves and Curtis as well.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and Curtis as well, say I'll say it with confidence.
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  Speaker 1: Then Andrew Giuliani, Executive Director for the White House Task
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  Speaker 1: Force on the FIFA World Cup twenty twenty six. Again, congratulations,
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  Speaker 1: Party health decisions