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Claudia Tenney | New York District 24 Congresswoman Offers Insight Into the A.I. Debate · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Claudia Tenney, I love her. One of our great Congress people,
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  Speaker 1: Congresswoman from the northern part of the state. She's back
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  Speaker 1: on Sid and Friends in the morning. Claudia, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, good morning. It's so great to be on. You
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  Speaker 3: crack me up, I'll tell you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: You're playing John Lennon, and you're pointing out people you
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  Speaker 3: don't like.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Calling him dickhead.
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  Speaker 1: I know, but you just got it. This is why
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  Speaker 1: you're so much smarter than most people. Trump picks this up, too.
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  Speaker 1: Here's John Lennon, right? Imagine we love everybody. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to lay naked in bed for two weeks with Yoko Ono,
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  Speaker 1: and yet I just call Peter dickhead. You actually picked
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  Speaker 1: up on that. Great job, Claudia.
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  Speaker 2: Nice work.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a genius, but I think it's a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of age that I have. I have some experience,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're a genius.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're... No, no, no, I love it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, to be honest with you, it's one of
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  Speaker 3: the things that I think it's our generation. Maybe it's
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  Speaker 3: one of the things I love about Trump. You know,
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  Speaker 3: as much as he sometimes drives us all crazy, I
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  Speaker 3: still love the guy. He's just, he's so... I thought
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  Speaker 3: the best line of the convention, one of the best
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  Speaker 3: lines of a lot of great speeches was when I
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  Speaker 3: think RFK Jr. referred to Trump as, He said he
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  Speaker 3: talked about his courage and he said it was reckless courage.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that that is a great definition of Trump. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in order to change the world and do
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  Speaker 3: important things and groundbreaking things, you have to have reckless courage.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's one of the things that Trump has.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred percent. And one of the things that he's really, really.
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  Speaker 1: caught up on is this AI race, right? He's saying
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  Speaker 1: every day we got to beat China. We're winning, we're winning,
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  Speaker 1: but we got to beat China. Now you have the
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  Speaker 1: Democrats led by Barack Obama who may have left the
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  Speaker 1: presidency many years ago, but has never stopped running that party.
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  Speaker 1: I got news for all of you folks out there.
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  Speaker 1: He's never stopped running that party. And he's claiming, oh
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  Speaker 1: my God, AI, that's going to be the end of
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  Speaker 1: civilization as we know it. Even a couple of Republicans
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  Speaker 1: like Elon Musk are saying, slow down here, slow down
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit. So you tell me, I hear
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  Speaker 1: the same thing about data centers. I think overall data
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  Speaker 1: centers are good. AI are good. I understand both have
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  Speaker 1: their setbacks, but overall they're good data. It's part of
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  Speaker 1: the reason why the Dow Jones is up so much
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  Speaker 1: and the economy is doing so well is AI.
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  Speaker 2: You tell me, how dangerous is it?
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  Speaker 3: Look, AI is about technology. We're all on our phones.
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  Speaker 3: If you do not want AI and you don't want
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  Speaker 3: a data center, then put down your phone and pick
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  Speaker 3: up a telephone and just use a regular telephone with
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  Speaker 3: a cord that's attached to the wall because that's what
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  Speaker 3: they're collecting. It's collecting data. There's also groundbreaking cures. coming
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  Speaker 3: from medicines. There's also all kinds of technology for our military.
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  Speaker 3: So many things require that we have the memory and
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  Speaker 3: the chips. And I'll just say, I'm from upstate New York.
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  Speaker 3: I've lived there my whole life. And we just recently
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  Speaker 3: had a groundbreaking this year on Micron's new advanced microchips
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  Speaker 3: that they're putting in. And those are going to be
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  Speaker 3: to store information for AI and the same types of
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  Speaker 3: things they're doing in Taiwan, but we're moving those supply
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  Speaker 3: chains here. And Micron is investing huge amounts of money
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  Speaker 3: just to be able to have that advanced computing here
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  Speaker 3: in the United States to give us the competitive edge
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  Speaker 3: against China. We have it now, but China's growing rapidly.
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  Speaker 3: They use their resources to actually grow that. So, you know,
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  Speaker 3: here's something that some, you know, we're from a different generation,
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  Speaker 3: but I know people are really afraid of it, but
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  Speaker 3: I do think we have to be careful with AI,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't think you stop the race. It's like saying,
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  Speaker 3: we're not going to build, we're just going to lay
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  Speaker 3: down our arms and hope that, you know, everybody embraces,
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  Speaker 3: let it be. And we have peace, you know, said
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  Speaker 3: you and I are, that's like the same thing. Let's
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  Speaker 3: just say we decide not to protect ourselves and be
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  Speaker 3: the leading edge on AI. That's like Israel laying down
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  Speaker 3: its arms and saying, okay, I think now we're in
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  Speaker 3: a better place and we're not going to have Iran
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  Speaker 3: and fueling the Houthis and the Hamas and all of
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  Speaker 3: the enemies to destroy Israel. The famous line, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if Israel lays down its arms, there's no Israel. If
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  Speaker 3: Iran lays down its arms, we have peace in the
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  Speaker 3: Middle East. I mean, that's what we're looking at. And
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  Speaker 3: that's why you can't just say we're not going to
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  Speaker 3: do AI. Do we need to regulate it? And should
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  Speaker 3: the United States be the leader on that?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll remind you of a movie that I always,
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  Speaker 3: AI always reminds me of that movie, 2001, A Space Odyssey,
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  Speaker 3: which a lot of people probably haven't watched. But, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I always remember the famous line of the movie where
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  Speaker 3: this computer, this HAL 9000 computer, is basically dictating what
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  Speaker 3: this guy's doing in space. And he asked HAL to
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  Speaker 3: do something. And he says, hi, I'm sorry, Dave. I'm
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  Speaker 3: afraid I can't do that. And that's where the machine,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we create the machine. you know, man, and
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  Speaker 3: the machine takes over. That's not what we're dealing with
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  Speaker 3: exactly with AI, but that's what the threat the Democrats
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  Speaker 3: are trying to make.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's interesting.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, really, it's man makes machine, machine takes over.
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  Speaker 3: You still have to regulate it, and that's the concern.
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  Speaker 3: It's the big debate with, you know, anthropic versus open
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  Speaker 3: AI and the ethics of what we do and making
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  Speaker 3: sure that we control the ethics of it. But right now,
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  Speaker 3: if we decide we're going to, you know, this is
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  Speaker 3: a Chinese psyop. If we say we're not going to
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  Speaker 3: have data centers, we're not going to be able to
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  Speaker 3: keep our strategic edge over China. However, I do think
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  Speaker 3: it's important that if you're going to be creating these
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  Speaker 3: data centers and anything that's going to consume energy, you
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  Speaker 3: need to give the local taxpayers the option to actually
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  Speaker 3: control that and also the option to benefit from it.
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  Speaker 3: It's just like one thing, a huge mistake we made
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  Speaker 3: in New York State, you know, under Governor Cuomo and
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  Speaker 3: that we've made across the country, we created casinos. Now,
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  Speaker 3: let's be honest, casinos do nothing But they're predatory on
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  Speaker 3: our communities. People go and they spend their paychecks. People
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  Speaker 3: don't have the money. They become addicted. One of the
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  Speaker 3: things that was done in some parts of the world,
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  Speaker 3: in some parts of the country, is when you build
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  Speaker 3: a casino or something that could hurt people, you make
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  Speaker 3: them pay for the cost of that casino. So in
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  Speaker 3: local governments should be demanding that data centers come in
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  Speaker 3: and pay for the cost of energy and provide benefits.
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  Speaker 3: Speaker Johnson was giving us an example of a data
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  Speaker 3: center that is being built in Louisiana. where the actual
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  Speaker 3: benefit would go to the teachers in the community. And
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  Speaker 3: guess what? They're all in because they would all get
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  Speaker 3: a bonus from that. You know, oil drilling in Alaska,
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  Speaker 3: people get a benefit from that. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 3: a something that we have to look into. We have
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  Speaker 3: to do it in a cautionary. We have to have regulation.
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  Speaker 3: We have to be concerned about security. But you have
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  Speaker 3: to make sure that the communities benefit from it. And
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  Speaker 3: they're not just being ravaged by some big company that
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  Speaker 3: could even be a foreign player.
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  Speaker 1: That all makes sense, guardrails, and you want to make sure,
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  Speaker 1: but you just laid out a whole bunch of examples
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  Speaker 1: as to why, as long as the community does the
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  Speaker 1: right thing, these things can work. I'm looking at the
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  Speaker 1: Democrat policies as we get set for the midterms, and
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  Speaker 1: everybody I speak to was scared to death for us. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, even some Republicans come on this show and say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if they're going to lose the House,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not sure. You know, I was in Dallas
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  Speaker 1: also those two days, and I was right there with
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  Speaker 1: President Trump when he spoke on Wednesday night. I thought
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  Speaker 1: he was brilliant. I liked all the speakers for the
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  Speaker 1: most part. Some bored me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to lie to you.
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  Speaker 1: But I think we did what we had to do.
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  Speaker 1: I think we did what we had to do. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's still a healthy beer. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: lose this come November. And the Democrats are just, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're dying for something, for something to hang their hat on.
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  Speaker 1: It just seems like this AI stuff is their latest
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  Speaker 1: attempt at exhibiting some type of policy opinion.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there are probably going to be 100 more things
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  Speaker 3: that the Democrats are going to try to politicize to
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  Speaker 3: continue to get their base out because the mission of
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  Speaker 3: the base is two things. Hate Trump, total power using
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  Speaker 3: communist propaganda and those types of things, exactly how Mondami
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  Speaker 3: rose to power in New York City. He's kind of
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  Speaker 3: a phony who got out there and just talked about
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  Speaker 3: things that were already manipulated by propaganda from foreign entities,
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  Speaker 3: the anti-Semitism movement. the communist goals, the grocery stores owned
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  Speaker 3: by the city. All those things are, this is the
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  Speaker 3: same show played over and over to a young, naive
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  Speaker 3: audience that unfortunately has not learned the importance of history,
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  Speaker 3: has not learned what we all learned when we were
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  Speaker 3: in school, all the great possibilities of this country. It's
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  Speaker 3: the same kind of rhetoric, the same kind of violence
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  Speaker 3: that we saw. Remember the weather underground and those people
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  Speaker 3: that were Democrats creating violence, talking about the same things
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  Speaker 3: kind of the way they are, although they've added this
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  Speaker 3: twist of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel rhetoric in there because we're
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  Speaker 3: involved in a conflict in the Middle East. And that's,
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  Speaker 3: remember something, the Democrats are all about power. It doesn't matter,
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  Speaker 3: you know, especially the Democrats in leadership. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 3: what they stand for. It's about power. They don't have
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  Speaker 3: real principles. Again, I point to RFK Jr.
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  Speaker 2: 's speech.
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  Speaker 3: Could you imagine if John F. Kennedy, the beloved Democrat
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  Speaker 3: hero of the Democratic Party, his nephew is speaking at
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  Speaker 3: the Republican Convention. His father, the beloved Attorney General, is
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  Speaker 3: speaking at the Republican Convention because the Democrats are about communism, power, manipulation, propaganda.
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  Speaker 3: They don't stand for our principles of freedom, self-governance, human rights,
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  Speaker 3: and the ability to own property. That's just foundational to
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  Speaker 3: liberty and what we stand for as a country.
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  Speaker 1: So I saw this idiot, Tucker Carlson, who continues to
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  Speaker 1: say that people like you have your job because of AIPAC, Claudia.
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  Speaker 2: That's the reason why you have your job. And, you know, it's.
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  Speaker 1: BB's bidding and everything we do in this government, President
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  Speaker 1: Trump is for Israel. I mean, you just, the worst,
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  Speaker 1: the worst kind of anti-Semitism based on nothing but lies.
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  Speaker 2: He's got nothing to prove any of that nonsense.
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  Speaker 1: Now he says that, you know, the thing about this
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  Speaker 1: war is, is that Israel, they really want to nuke Iran.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, where does he get.
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  Speaker 1: That from that's completely ridiculous and on top of that
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  Speaker 1: that this whole war is really about the straight of
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  Speaker 1: hormuz and has nothing to do with the possibility if
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  Speaker 1: not potential of iran owning a nuclear weapon somewhere down
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  Speaker 1: the road what are your thoughts on that specifically the
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  Speaker 1: straight of hormuz First of all.
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  Speaker 3: This is ridiculous. This is unfortunately what this information age
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  Speaker 3: has produced. And we have decentralized media coming from everywhere,
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  Speaker 3: all these different resources, foreign influence, no verification. I owned
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  Speaker 3: a newspaper, so I can tell you. We used to
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  Speaker 3: fight to make sure we had our accreditation and our
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  Speaker 3: verification to prove we had circulation, to prove we're credible.
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  Speaker 3: I used to spend millions of dollars in slander and
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  Speaker 3: libel insurance to make sure that we didn't put something
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  Speaker 3: in our paper that was untrue or couldn't be verified.
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  Speaker 3: But yet now we have media out there, social media
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  Speaker 3: and people that we call grifters, people who make some
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  Speaker 3: sensational remark on social media. It gets traction. It gets influencers.
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  Speaker 3: And all of a sudden they're making money. They're manipulating
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  Speaker 3: the outcomes and there's no verification. And this is what
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  Speaker 3: these people do. They just get everyone whooped up and
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  Speaker 3: scared and they're making money off them. They don't care
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  Speaker 3: about the fourth estate and the fact that media has
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  Speaker 3: certain privileges and rights in our society, especially under the
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  Speaker 3: First Amendment. But there's no attempt by any of these
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  Speaker 3: social media influencers or grifters to really, they don't have
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  Speaker 3: to be responsible for And that's what worries me because
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  Speaker 3: we do have media that isn't responsible. You see articles
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  Speaker 3: from the New York Times that are just blatantly anti-Semitic. But,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they were anti-Semitic against the Jewish people back
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  Speaker 3: in the days of Nazi Germany. So these are times
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  Speaker 3: when we have to learn how to be discerning of
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  Speaker 3: what media is. We have to find ways of getting
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  Speaker 3: to the truth. And I'll bring it back to AI.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes AI is not always truthful. We have to learn
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  Speaker 3: how to use original sources. That's the challenge of the age.
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  Speaker 2: And so.
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  Speaker 3: I think this is all just nonsense coming from these grifters.
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  Speaker 3: And I hope that, you know, people can see through
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  Speaker 3: that and get through to what the real mission is.
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  Speaker 3: We have enemies in the world. We have enemies like
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  Speaker 3: China and Russia, China interfering and in a way and
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  Speaker 3: actually helping the Iranians. They're buying, they bought their black
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  Speaker 3: market gas and oil for years. They're buying things from China.
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  Speaker 3: They're helping them on the side because they're a market
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  Speaker 3: for the Chinese. And the Chinese benefit from we're divided
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  Speaker 3: and where we're fighting with each other. Same with Russia,
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  Speaker 3: although much smaller, you know, smaller entities. China's, you know,
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  Speaker 3: massive and has a growing economy that's competing with us.
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  Speaker 3: So these are, you know, these are just, I just,
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  Speaker 3: it's so hard. I know my son actually is in
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  Speaker 3: the AI field and he's getting a master's in AI.
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  Speaker 3: So I, you know, and he's also in the intelligence world.
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  Speaker 3: So thank God that he's learned, you know, how to
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  Speaker 3: discern these things and what's true and what isn't. But,
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  Speaker 3: I just feel like there's so many young people and
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  Speaker 3: actually people in general that really don't know what's going on.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know. I know that's not a direct
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  Speaker 3: answer to it, but I just think there's so much
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  Speaker 3: psyop out there, so many people out there just trying
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  Speaker 3: to manipulate us just for money. And we have to
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  Speaker 3: be very cautious about that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you just nailed it.
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  Speaker 3: You do a great job. I love coming on with
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  Speaker 3: John Katsimatidis as well. He's always a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: And Rita Cosby. I never know who he's got in
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  Speaker 3: the room. I get on the show and all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden someone chimes in. I go, who's that?
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  Speaker 1: There's like seven people. In fact, he's coming up right
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  Speaker 1: after you. So that works out just perfectly that you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned him. Claudia Tenney, as always, you're spectacular.
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  Speaker 2: You're great. I love you. I really do. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for coming on this morning and keep up the great work.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks so much, Sid. Great to be on.
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  Speaker 2: You too.
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  Speaker 1: Claudia Tenney right there, Congresswoman from the northern part of
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  Speaker 1: state New York. Just a wonderful lady. Really smart. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: really smart.
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  Speaker 2: What the heck is going on here?