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Jack Schlossberg | 06-19-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: And here he is. Here's the man, all right. Jack
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  Speaker 1: Schlossburg is coming into our studio right now. The first
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  Speaker 1: question I have for him is where did you go
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  Speaker 1: to high school?
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  Speaker 2: Collegiate school?
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  Speaker 3: Collegiate? The best one collegiate? Oh, nice, fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to guess Trinity Music colligion.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. And I remember where you lived because you used
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  Speaker 3: to shop at Christitis. I still do.
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  Speaker 2: I live above a Gristities. Yeah, that's best store in
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  Speaker 2: the city.
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  Speaker 3: My god. And your opponent at the debate last week
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  Speaker 3: said he shopped at NAMP. It hasn't been an AMP
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  Speaker 3: in two three years, nine years. I mean, what kind
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  Speaker 3: of opponent do you have?
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  Speaker 2: I know, he literally said. Alex Boras said he shops
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  Speaker 2: at A, A and P on ninety six. There isn't one.
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  Speaker 3: It hasn't been there. It hasn't been one there in
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  Speaker 3: twenty years, ten years.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he should check the expiration date on his milk
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  Speaker 1: if he did, Yeah, exact, Uh, Jack, You're you're in
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  Speaker 1: a big primary on Tuesday. Tell us a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about what I mean. Is it just in your genes
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  Speaker 1: that you have to go into.
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  Speaker 3: The introduced them for somebody's out there doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: Know This is Jack Shlasburg. He is running for Congress,
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  Speaker 1: And tell us which district it is and what part
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  Speaker 1: geographically of the city is.
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  Speaker 2: The District twelve, New York twelve, which runs from ninety
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  Speaker 2: sixth Street to fourteenth Street, all avenues east and west
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  Speaker 2: of Manhattan.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so that's a big big that's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different that's like six different worlds of you are listening,
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  Speaker 1: not from New York City and not from Manhattan. That
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  Speaker 1: might sound oh it's eighty two blocks of the same city,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean that's like thirty five different nationalities presented,
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  Speaker 1: every kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of person and the best kind of people in the
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  Speaker 2: whole world. You know, this district is it? It is
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  Speaker 2: home to the United Nations, to the Empire, State Building,
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  Speaker 2: Central Park. The whole world starts counting time every year
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  Speaker 2: from New York twelve in times square. And so we
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  Speaker 2: really need leadership that can punch above its weight and
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  Speaker 2: get things done in Congress because Democratic Party is needs
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  Speaker 2: a lot of help.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, tell us about have you studied about all your
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  Speaker 3: all the things that your grandfather was stood for and everything?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I have, And it all started. My studies of
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  Speaker 2: him started when a teacher in high school asked me
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  Speaker 2: a question on JFK's diplomatic policy in Laos, and I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know the answer, and I went home and started reading,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a bunch of books about him and watching
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  Speaker 2: his speeches. But I've studied him very closely and worked
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  Speaker 2: closely on the Kennedy Library, and you know, his legacy
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  Speaker 2: is something that he's remembered as an icon now, but
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  Speaker 2: people forget He sent him man to the Moon, drafted
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  Speaker 2: the Civil Rights Act, stared down Kruschev and did not blink.
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  Speaker 2: He was a war hero and the youngest person ever
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  Speaker 2: elected president, and the first Catholic Well.
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  Speaker 1: Jack Jack shalosperg joining us right now. Of course, his
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  Speaker 1: most famous quote is ask not what your country can
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  Speaker 1: do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sympathetic as I asked this question to you,
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  Speaker 1: because especially when you run for Congress, it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: hard to follow that paradigm, right, I mean, you today's politicians,
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  Speaker 1: even for much higher office, it seems like it's it's
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  Speaker 1: hand out city, And how do you how do you
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  Speaker 1: run for an office at a local level, even though
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  Speaker 1: this Congress and not ignore what your grandfather said. I
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  Speaker 1: mean how did you do? Because it's all about when
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  Speaker 1: am I gonna get this? When am I going to
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  Speaker 1: get my free that it's it's this is something that
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  Speaker 1: I think plagues anyone running for office totally.
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  Speaker 2: You know, people forget JFK was the ultimate outsider when
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  Speaker 2: he started and when he ran for president, and people
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  Speaker 2: might laugh hearing this coming from me because I'm, you know,
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  Speaker 2: his grandson, But I'm the outsider in this race too.
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  Speaker 2: And the institutions here in New York twelve in New
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  Speaker 2: York City, they they don't want to change. They have
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  Speaker 2: no new answers. They just tell people what they want
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  Speaker 2: to hear. I'm running against someone Michael Lasher, who's whose
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  Speaker 2: final closing argument to everybody was everybody, I've got a
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  Speaker 2: plan so that everyone is guaranteed a job and a house.
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  Speaker 2: No one asked any follow up questions. I think we
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  Speaker 2: got to start running our government more efficiently, more effectively,
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  Speaker 2: and come together because there's no reason we need to
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  Speaker 2: be so divided. You know, it didn't always it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: always this way. A huge reason money in politics. This
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  Speaker 2: is something that I've been known for. In the campaign,
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  Speaker 2: they call me no pac Jack. I don't have a
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  Speaker 2: super pac and this race has been flooded with thirty
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  Speaker 2: million dollars of outside spending, which as a New Yorker
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  Speaker 2: offends me, and as an American and a Democrat, I
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  Speaker 2: think we really we can do better than this.
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  Speaker 3: Thirty million dollars just for one congressional rate.
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  Speaker 2: You believe that. I guess a lot of people want
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  Speaker 2: to buy real estate. I mean, kendidates are running in
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  Speaker 2: this district, only about one hundred and fifty thousand. There's
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  Speaker 2: it's a split field. There's I would say four three
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  Speaker 2: or four main contenders, myself, Alex Bores, Michael Lasher, and
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  Speaker 2: George Conway.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm not a registered Democrat, but if I was
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  Speaker 3: a registered Democratic, probably vote for you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thanks, Jean.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate Jack Shulasberg, you know, getting back to your
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  Speaker 1: grandfather here a little bit. And I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: make it all about that, but that's a segue to
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  Speaker 1: talk about something that's happening today. So I do want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about today. We've been talking for these last
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  Speaker 1: four hours about a radical socialist takeover of the Democratic Party,
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  Speaker 1: and if they were just being socialists all the time
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  Speaker 1: and focusing on the economic aspect, it to me that
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  Speaker 1: would be more understandable. But it seems like they call
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  Speaker 1: them so socialists, but they're really all they ever, all
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  Speaker 1: I ever hear from them is anti Israel rhetoric, anti
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  Speaker 1: Semitic rhetoric. Since when did those two things become so
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  Speaker 1: easily conflated? This is outrageous to me. We have someone
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  Speaker 1: in another the the in the thirteenth district election, dar
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  Speaker 1: Lisa Chevalier, who was at the pro Camas rally cheering
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  Speaker 1: the October seventh attacks on October eighth in twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 3: That's another thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you say you're fighting against the moneyed interest,
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  Speaker 1: but this is another major problem. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 1: something they would have horrified your grandfather. This is a
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  Speaker 1: cancer that needs to be cut out of the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't agree more. And I'm very worried, you know,
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  Speaker 2: about the upcoming fracturing of the Democratic Party being dragged
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  Speaker 2: into what I you know, the mud by what I
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  Speaker 2: consider to be you know, there there are a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people who hear certain things from these candidates, socialist
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  Speaker 2: candidates that they agree with that we probably all agree with.
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  Speaker 2: That sound that sound great, And then there are the
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  Speaker 2: other talking points that they lean into to pander to
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  Speaker 2: an audience that you're right, is defined by their stance
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  Speaker 2: against Israel, not what they're for, but against the state
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  Speaker 2: of Israel's existence in general. And I'm someone you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm writing the sweet spot on the US Israel question.
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  Speaker 2: In this race, I've made everybody mad at me. I'm
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  Speaker 2: very proud of that. I think we need to talk
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  Speaker 2: with Nuance about this stuff and not lean into tropes
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  Speaker 2: and the Democratic Party. You know, a lot of this
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  Speaker 2: stuff seems like it's organic, crowdsourced, and I've seen in
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  Speaker 2: this campaign myself that a lot of this stuff is
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  Speaker 2: driven by rhetoric online, and a lot of that rhetoric
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  Speaker 2: online is actually paid for in terms of paid for
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  Speaker 2: social media content creation and bots. If you look at
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  Speaker 2: any posts that I've made in the last two months,
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  Speaker 2: most of it is filled with anti Israel and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of anti Semitic comments from what are clearly fake
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  Speaker 2: accounts paid for by one of the opponents. So, look,
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  Speaker 2: I think this is a serious question. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to see the issue of the US Israel's relationship to
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  Speaker 2: the right either. And because we should be able to
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  Speaker 2: come together on this, used to be bipartisan doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: we can't criticize Israel's government. But we've got to get
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  Speaker 2: serious here because there's a lot of challenges facing our world,
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  Speaker 2: and we live in an increasingly hostile world with more
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  Speaker 2: and more conflict happening every day. We got to have
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  Speaker 2: a real strategy here, and the Democratic Party should not
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  Speaker 2: lose his credibility by embracing hate.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I have an easier way out for you. Simply
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  Speaker 1: say that this is a conflict that doesn't really hit
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  Speaker 1: your daily life here on ninety second down to fourteenth
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  Speaker 1: Street as much. I mean, the idea that this has
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  Speaker 1: become the number one topic in a number of these
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  Speaker 1: elections is ludicrous. So let me get back to that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to ninety second down all the way down
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  Speaker 1: to ninety six, all the way down to fourteenth Street,
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  Speaker 1: and talk about Listen, a lot of people ask people
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  Speaker 1: who are running for of us, what's the first thing
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  Speaker 1: you're going to do and what do you think the
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  Speaker 1: most important thing is. I'm gonna ask a nuance part
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  Speaker 1: type of question. What's the first thing that you think
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  Speaker 1: you can do, that you think you actually can do, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that will make an impact. That's a better.
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  Speaker 2: Question deduct your rent from your taxes. I'm the only
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  Speaker 2: candidate who's ever put forward this proposal. I think renters
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  Speaker 2: should be treated the same as those who borrow against
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  Speaker 2: their homes, who can deduct their mortgage interest payment. We
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  Speaker 2: talk about housing NonStop in New York City. We talk
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  Speaker 2: about building new housing. Great.
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