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Rich Lowry | Editor-In-Chief of National Review on the Embarrassing Vanity of Anthony Fauci · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Rich Lowry is the editor of the National Review. He's
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  Speaker 1: on every week. Why because I like him, But he's
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  Speaker 1: also brilliant. He really is great. His stuff is open
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  Speaker 1: syndicated in the New York Post. He's on Box News
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  Speaker 1: multiple times a week. But he does his best work.
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  Speaker 1: Like all my guests right here, Rich, good morning, buddy,
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  Speaker 1: how are you good?
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  Speaker 2: Said, how are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited. I want to see Ron Johnson and everybody
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  Speaker 1: else on the hill today beat Anthony Fauci to death.
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  Speaker 1: How about that? You know what?
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  Speaker 2: The only thing worse than Anthony Fauci's obsession with his
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  Speaker 2: media appearances in his diary must be your diary.
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  Speaker 1: Said, Oh, yes, you're right. But here's a difference. I
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  Speaker 1: admit it publicly, he does it in the diary. I
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  Speaker 1: admit I'm a megalomaniac. I'm a psycho, and I love
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  Speaker 1: every second of it. When I got said, I get
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  Speaker 1: stopped a hundred times in the street every day. But
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  Speaker 1: on a serious note, this guy lied from day one,
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  Speaker 1: put our kids in a very dangerous situation, pumped out
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  Speaker 1: these vaccines, and now we're seeing years and years later
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  Speaker 1: the health issues with that lied about the origins of covid.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about some of the real scoundrels
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  Speaker 1: over my lifetime almost six decades, he's got to be
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  Speaker 1: near the top of the list. From my exaggerating, it's bad.
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  Speaker 2: I think the worst lie is he said publicly because
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  Speaker 2: everyone now knows that such a catastrophic choice, that he
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  Speaker 2: had nothing to do with any lockdowns or school closures.
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  Speaker 2: And then he having a diary, you know, the Blasio
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  Speaker 2: calling him, and Newsom's chief of staff calling him and
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  Speaker 2: and thout he's encouraging them to shut down the schools.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like technically literally true, he didn't go any
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  Speaker 2: and padlock any school doors himself, but he was the
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  Speaker 2: motive force for that happening, and it was terrible. We're
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  Speaker 2: still staying the price for our kids.
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  Speaker 1: The morons, Oh kids are morons, not mine, I mean mine.
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  Speaker 2: If can't I can't read, you can't.
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  Speaker 1: Read, they can't write, They can't compete with any of
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  Speaker 1: these other countries. And you know, and of course who
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  Speaker 1: jumped on board with this evil fauci. Well it's also
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  Speaker 1: two traders. I mean this, they're traders, people like Randy Winingaarden,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Mulgrew. You know that whole education union. Those people
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  Speaker 1: should be put in prison with Anthony Fauci.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you had a lot of teachers who didn't
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  Speaker 2: want to work basically, or were paranoid about the virus
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  Speaker 2: so that they didn't want the kids in their schools,
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  Speaker 2: you know, or they wanted to work remotely too, or
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  Speaker 2: whatever it was. It was a debacle. And then he's
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  Speaker 2: also in the origins. He you know, if you squinch
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  Speaker 2: just the right way on things, he said publicly, there's
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  Speaker 2: always a little wiggle room. I mean, that's one way
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  Speaker 2: this guy operates. But you look at his diary, it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty forthright. It wasn't the wet market, right, it came
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  Speaker 2: somewhere else, and it might have been the LAB. And
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  Speaker 2: they're very serious people who thought it was the LAB
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  Speaker 2: right from the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: Me too.
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  Speaker 2: But he was pulling it for about a year and
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  Speaker 2: so I think May twenty one he finally said, I
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  Speaker 2: can't rule out the LAB leak. But all of us
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  Speaker 2: who we are as suspicious as the LAB or thought
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  Speaker 2: it was the LAB, were as we're a conspiracy. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: all of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I get called that every day. I don't care,
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  Speaker 1: but I still think it's a LAB. I thought it's
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  Speaker 1: a lab in the very beginning. But the issue with
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  Speaker 1: this is which Lowry and I had one of my
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  Speaker 1: best listeners, Ralph the Politano, text me this morning, and
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  Speaker 1: he's right, is that there will never repercussions. So this
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  Speaker 1: clown who really hurt a lot of people here, he
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  Speaker 1: goes up on the hill today, Ron Johnson and others
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  Speaker 1: are gonna kill him. They're gonna kill him, and there's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna be any repercussions. Like, no one ever goes
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  Speaker 1: to prison, no one ever, really the light never really
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  Speaker 1: completely falls apart. They go to the Hamptons. So that's
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  Speaker 1: that's the frustration with Americans who care about this type
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  Speaker 1: of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll be welcome in the Hamptons forever. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, if he didn't commit crimes, he can't throw
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  Speaker 2: him in jail. All you can.
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  Speaker 1: But he did commit crimes. But he did commit crimes.
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  Speaker 1: He committed awful crimes. It's just that, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: not always always not easy to prove it. But he
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  Speaker 1: committed awful crimes. I can guarantee you that awful.
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  Speaker 2: I will say the accountability on its own, just knowing
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  Speaker 2: the truth, the transparency, that's important and two, this is
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  Speaker 2: a guy who cares so much about his reputation. He's
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  Speaker 2: not a happy camper yesterday when these diaries were released.
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  Speaker 2: So at least there's that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Ran Paul is such an asshole, but
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  Speaker 1: I like him today.
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  Speaker 2: I mean he has had this bone in his teeth
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  Speaker 2: for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And there's nothing like someone who has a righteous cause
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  Speaker 2: and they're gonna hunt it down no matter what and
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  Speaker 2: just never give up. And that's the way Paul's been on.
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  Speaker 1: This this he has. Let's get to yesterday Lindsay Graham's funeral.
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  Speaker 1: I know you loved Lindsay Graham. I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: did you guys were close, Did you have a relationship,
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  Speaker 1: because okay, yeah, very similar. You're very similar in the
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  Speaker 1: way you thought about, you know, a wars and aggression.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not demeanian, I mean no, he was a little
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  Speaker 2: too interventionist even for me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh he was.
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  Speaker 2: We're broadly on the same side. And if if you're
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  Speaker 2: just interested in how to advance the ball on some issue.
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  Speaker 2: It was so great to talk to Lindsay because he
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  Speaker 2: was always talking about it, right, always thinking about it,
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  Speaker 2: always coming up with some scheme. I mean that kind
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  Speaker 2: of in a not in a majorative way, but some
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  Speaker 2: plan to advance the ball. So he's a way is
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  Speaker 2: fascinated to talk to you and highly entertaining.
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  Speaker 1: He was a funny guy, wasn't he Wasn't he? So
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  Speaker 1: you also went BB there yesterday and Trump it was funny.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll talk about this for Victoria coach too. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, President Trump has gone out of his way
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of months to show the world he's
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  Speaker 1: number one. In fact, they tell people when he's really
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  Speaker 1: rough on BB. And it bothers me, it does, But
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  Speaker 1: I know what he's doing. You know all those people
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  Speaker 1: out there that say it's Bbe's war like Curtis Sleeve
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  Speaker 1: with not Moro. H okay. So Trump goes out of
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  Speaker 1: his way to bash Pebe. Not because he's mad at BB.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't love BB, but he's right on the top dog.
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  Speaker 1: So the truth is, I think that it was BB
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  Speaker 1: in Israel that told America about Pickax Mountain, the latest
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  Speaker 1: spot where Iran has some nuclear spot popping up. But
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  Speaker 1: Trump comes out, yes, anything goes. We got the best cameras,
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  Speaker 1: we got the best cameras. Come on, he just won
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  Speaker 1: at least make it seem even if BB on Israel
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  Speaker 1: are providing us with top intelligence, that he is a
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  Speaker 1: top guy. He did it again.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday, Yeah, of course. And he's talking about the cameras
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  Speaker 2: a lot because his idea is, you know, maybe they
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  Speaker 2: have some nuclear infrastructure left, but we're watching it and
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  Speaker 2: if they ever touch it or becomes active again, then
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  Speaker 2: then we'll hit him again. But this is the last
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks he's just been all over the place
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  Speaker 2: again on Iran worry. You never know quite where it's
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  Speaker 2: going to land.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think about Bruce Blakeman's chances of beating
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  Speaker 1: Kathy Hokele, And you can be honest. I love Bruce
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  Speaker 1: for them all day. Yes, and he speak to Bruce
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  Speaker 1: two or three times every day. My son works for him.
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  Speaker 1: You can be honest. Do you think Bruce Blakeman has
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  Speaker 1: a good chance of beating Kathy Hokel?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's very tough in a year like this
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  Speaker 2: for a different kind of midterm, and they're a Democrat
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  Speaker 2: in office, and it was the midterm two years in
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  Speaker 2: and that Democrats approval is around thirty eight or forty
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  Speaker 2: or whatever whatever it is, then he'd have a shot
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  Speaker 2: you know, but I think it's gonna be very tough
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  Speaker 2: and in any kind of blue state this year.
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  Speaker 1: What would you recommend if you were sitting with Bruce
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman today at one of his campaign meetings, what would
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  Speaker 1: you tell him to do to give himself a better chance?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think he's't doing anything wrong. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's the environment that's the problem in a race like that.
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  Speaker 1: At the state these awful New Yorkers.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just look, you know, New York serves a choice,
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  Speaker 2: and he's going to give them one and run a
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  Speaker 2: vigorous campaign. It's a fantastic job.
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  Speaker 1: Years doing a fantastic job. He's up in Buffalo this
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  Speaker 1: morning with about sixty union leaders. I do want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about the Midtermso you brought it up. I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: You did, And it's always a sore spot with me because, well,
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  Speaker 1: to be honest, I'm scared to death. I know, if
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  Speaker 1: we lose the House, then basically the last two years
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  Speaker 1: of Trump's presidency amounts to a lot of aggravation. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: So I always asked you about Biden versus Trump, and
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  Speaker 1: then uh, howis versus Trump? And all these questions every
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  Speaker 1: week I'm doing the same thing with the midterms. How
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  Speaker 1: do you appeel today the same?
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  Speaker 2: I think Republicans will win the House. The Keem Jeffries
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  Speaker 2: is the next Speaker of the House.
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  Speaker 1: No, you've think Democrats will win the House.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what did I say?
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  Speaker 1: You said Republicans? You got me excited.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Democrats will Yeah, switching part it goes erection. See,
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  Speaker 3: Democrats will take the House. I don't think they'll take
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  Speaker 3: the Senate, but I think it could be a narrow
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  Speaker 3: thing in the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: Hakeem Jeffries is going to be the speaker.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Is that not the end of? Is that not the
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  Speaker 1: end of? That's the end of all times? No?
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  Speaker 2: But you know, Trump is so energetic, So much of
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  Speaker 2: what he's done has just been on his own executive initiative.
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  Speaker 2: It's not as his presidency isn't going to end, but
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be a major pain in the neck
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  Speaker 2: for him everyone around him. Everyone's gonna gets a peanut.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's going to be, you know, called up to testify
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  Speaker 2: the whole of the investigations, and there'll be another impeachment.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody called me yesterday and said, say it, don't be
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  Speaker 1: surprised if you. He even gets Penn what it really?
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  Speaker 2: Why not? Oh god, odium with the president.
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  Speaker 1: Weren't you three times three times three times more than
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart? How about that? No, they were serious to
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  Speaker 1: like sid don't be surprised us whatever. Last one, I
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  Speaker 1: had this gentleman on the show yesterday. Rich's name is
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  Speaker 1: Giovanni Galante, and his wife, Grace was murdered in the
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  Speaker 1: South Tower, I believe back on nine to eleven. She
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  Speaker 1: was twenty nine years old. It was such an emotional,
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  Speaker 1: heartbreaking conversation. He both cried, he's the guy that started
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  Speaker 1: the petition to keep this, you know, this terrorist, anti American,
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  Speaker 1: anti semit mayor Mamdani away from that sacred soil come
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  Speaker 1: twenty five year commemoration nine to eleven. And I know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the nine to eleven families don't talk
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  Speaker 1: because are prayed of political repercussion. But they all agree
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  Speaker 1: with me and Golante. They don't want him there. This
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  Speaker 1: guy's friends with all these people who hate America, they
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  Speaker 1: don't want them there. So when Gallante called in yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: they had about sixteen thousand signatures. By this morning it's
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  Speaker 1: over forty thousand. That goes to show you the power
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  Speaker 1: of sid Rosenberg. But on a serious note, what do
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  Speaker 1: you think about that? I am one hundred percent behind it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want the mayor anywhere near that Freedom Tower.
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  Speaker 1: What about Rich Lowry?
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  Speaker 2: I totally understand the pulse and reflex and it's been
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  Speaker 2: amazing what he's done. But the Mayor's going to be there.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's just he's going to be there.
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  Speaker 1: But if he cared about New Yorkers and the families,
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  Speaker 1: and you get one hundred thousand people and all these
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  Speaker 1: families to say I don't want you there, how can
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  Speaker 1: you possibly say I'm going to stand on in arm
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  Speaker 1: to honor these people when they're making it very very
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  Speaker 1: clear on a very public level they don't want you there.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't depend on the decency and discernment of the
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  Speaker 2: mayor in this matter. You know, he's a dangerous idiologue
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  Speaker 2: associated with the kind of anti Americanism that at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day, motivates groups like al Qaida. He
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't be there, but he'll show up.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Bruce Blakeman has to win too, because he
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  Speaker 1: will hold Mom Donnie and check and let me say
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  Speaker 1: something too. If Mom Donnie does something that goes above
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  Speaker 1: and beyond. Blakeman is not looking to remove him because
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  Speaker 1: he believes in elections and the guy won. Unless doctor
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  Speaker 1: Naomi Wolf comes back on or Hone comes back on,
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  Speaker 1: is really able to prove that that election was not right,
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  Speaker 1: not becauna still happen. But Blakeman believes the guy wins.
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  Speaker 1: The guy wins. But if he does something above and beyond,
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  Speaker 1: unlike Hulkeel, Blakeman will remove Mam Donnie. You know that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be a radical staff. I mean just
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  Speaker 2: just having an Albany that was a check on Mandami
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  Speaker 2: would be huge, right, right, Richard?
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  Speaker 1: I love you the pieces. The Yankees are winning a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ball games lately. The whole team is hurt.
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  Speaker 1: They're still winning.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how they're winning with that line.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'll tell you how.
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  Speaker 2: We look at it every day and like this doesn't happening.
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  Speaker 1: Hell you how, Garret Cole, Yeah, Splitler, Max Freed. They
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  Speaker 1: start all the best pictures in.
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  Speaker 2: Baseball, something I was totally wrong about at the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of the season. I thought the bullpen was going to
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  Speaker 2: be bad or at least kind of average.
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  Speaker 1: Me too, fantastic, I know, I know, they did a
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  Speaker 1: good job with that. I was right about that too,
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  Speaker 1: And anyway, which you're always amazing. I love to thank
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  Speaker 1: you all right Wich Lowry right there, the editor of
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  Speaker 1: the National Review does a fantastic job on this show
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  Speaker 1: every week.
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