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Sid & Friends In The Morning Reacts to Midterm Massacre of the Republican Party · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the Morning.
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  Speaker 2: Entertaining and informative.
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  Speaker 3: On the Red Apple Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 2: The future of New York, the future of the country,
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  Speaker 2: the future of the world is me.
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  Speaker 4: This morning, Americans waking up to a very different political
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  Speaker 4: map as Democrats regain control of the House and the Senate.
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  Speaker 2: The American people reduced the red brick wall. to a
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  Speaker 2: pile of bricks.
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  Speaker 4: Overnight, ABC projecting that Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan's Senate race,
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  Speaker 4: beating Republican Mike Rogers, despite Haley Stevens' last-minute defection, and
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  Speaker 4: becoming the first Muslim ever elected to the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Senate.
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  Speaker 4: So, Mike, enjoy your retirement.
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  Speaker 3: I know you got a house in Florida and two yachts.
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  Speaker 5: See, you chose hate, and Michigan chose hope.
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  Speaker 1: May we never have to see the likes of you
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  Speaker 1: in the state again.
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  Speaker 4: In Texas, James Tallarico is the first Democrat the state
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  Speaker 4: has sent to the Senate since 1988, defeating Ken Paxton,
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  Speaker 4: who President Trump endorsed over incumbent John Cornyn.
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  Speaker 2: We just took back Texas.
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  Speaker 6: We just proved that all the money in the world
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  Speaker 6: is no match for the people of Texas. We just
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  Speaker 6: showed that a politics of division is no match for
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  Speaker 6: a politics of love.
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  Speaker 4: That wasn't the only surprise in Texas. Governor Greg Abbott
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  Speaker 4: conceding to Gina Hinojosa who will be the first Democratic
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  Speaker 4: governor of the Lone Star State since Ann Richards left
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  Speaker 4: office in 1995. In South Carolina, Democrat Annie Andrews has
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  Speaker 4: won the Senate seat Lindsey Graham held for more than
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  Speaker 4: two decades, defeating his sister Darlene, who took over the
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  Speaker 4: seat after his death this summer.
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  Speaker 2: I would trade this.
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  Speaker 7: All a thousand times over to have my brother back,
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  Speaker 7: but God had a different plan.
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  Speaker 4: Paxson, Abbott, Graham, all strongly supported by President Trump, some
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  Speaker 4: saying that's exactly why they lost.
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  Speaker 2: The Trump era is over and it's over tonight.
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  Speaker 4: In Maine, five-term Republican Senator Susan Collins conceding to Democrat
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  Speaker 4: Troy Jackson, saying, I'm proud of all I have been
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  Speaker 4: able to accomplish for our state and for our country
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  Speaker 4: in the past 30 years. On the other side of
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  Speaker 4: the Capitol building, Democrats decisively retaking control of the House.
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  Speaker 4: Democrat Hakeem Jeffries now set to become Speaker of the House.
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  Speaker 8: The American people have spoken. And made clear they've had
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  Speaker 8: enough of the extremism, enough of the corruption.
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  Speaker 4: And as of 4 a.m. Eastern, Senate races in Alaska
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  Speaker 4: and that race in Mississippi were still not called.
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  Speaker 9: Hannah, Sophie?
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  Speaker 10: Still a lot to watch. Lionel, thank you. Overnight, President
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  Speaker 10: Trump reacting.
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  Speaker 11: Saying, I wasn't on the ballot, and if I was,
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  Speaker 11: we would have won in a landslide.
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  Speaker 10: But he also said Democrats have.
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  Speaker 5: Already called him.
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  Speaker 11: Trump telling the New York Times, we'll work with the
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  Speaker 11: Democrats and we'll look forward to working with them.
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  Speaker 10: We'll probably work something out. He spoke to Fox News.
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  Speaker 12: I don't view it as.
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  Speaker 9: A hit on me.
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  Speaker 12: I think we've had the greatest two years in the
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  Speaker 12: history of the presidency in terms of the economy, in
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  Speaker 12: terms of all the things that we've done. And I
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  Speaker 12: think the Democrats did a good job. I really do.
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  Speaker 12: I think they did a good job. They fought hard.
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  Speaker 12: They were, you know, they've been fighting for a long time.
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  Speaker 12: They've been fighting me for a long time. This fight's
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  Speaker 12: been going on for ages.
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  Speaker 13: The president also saying he understands gas prices were a
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  Speaker 13: big issue.
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  Speaker 11: And a big storyline of the night was those battleground states.
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  Speaker 10: So let's get to more reaction about that. Here's ABC's
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  Speaker 10: Karen Huang.
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  Speaker 11: Overnight, Democrats proclaiming Georgia the new South. Democrats sweeping every
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  Speaker 11: statewide office on the ballot. Senator John Ossoff, the Republicans'
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  Speaker 11: top target.
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  Speaker 10: Winning re-election easily.
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  Speaker 11: Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former Atlanta mayor, elected governor, even
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  Speaker 11: after being massively outspent.
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  Speaker 10: She's among eight black women elected statewide.
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  Speaker 14: We have Republicans now who control all levers of state
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  Speaker 14: government here who are telling me that this is now
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  Speaker 14: a blue state.
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  Speaker 11: In Ohio, a Democratic sweep at the top of the ticket.
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  Speaker 11: Sherrod Brown, the former senator, winning a seat back from
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  Speaker 11: Republican John Husted. Amy Acton beating Vivek Ramaswamy for governor
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  Speaker 11: after that controversial ad featuring Acton's estranged mother. Voters also
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  Speaker 11: citing AI infrastructure among their top issues.
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  Speaker 15: These AI data centers that have... popped up by the
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  Speaker 15: dozens here in Ohio. It was kind of a wild
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  Speaker 15: card issue, something that Democrats managed to effectively link to
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  Speaker 15: John Husted because he was lieutenant governor in this state
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  Speaker 15: while a lot of those tax breaks that brought those
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  Speaker 15: data centers to Ohio were given.
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  Speaker 11: In Iowa, Democrat Josh Turek flipping a Senate seat in
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  Speaker 11: a state that hasn't elected a Democrat to the Senate
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  Speaker 11: since 2008. Fuel and fertilizer prices topping voters' minds. And
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  Speaker 11: in Kansas, Adam Hamilton, a Methodist pastor... beating Senator Roger Marshall.
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  Speaker 11: He'll be the first Democrat Kansas will send to the
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  Speaker 11: Senate since 1932. The incumbent, Roger Marshall, he had the
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  Speaker 11: support of President Trump and national Republicans, but none of
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  Speaker 11: that support was enough.
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  Speaker 5: He says he was elected.
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  Speaker 13: Because Kansans are saying that they are tired of the
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  Speaker 13: bullies and they want to love thy neighbor.
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  Speaker 11: Meanwhile, one other person defeated in this election, Elon Musk,
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  Speaker 11: who spent half a billion dollars backing Republican candidates, but
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  Speaker 11: failing to convince voters.
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  Speaker 10: Let's get right to your local election results. In the hotly.
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  Speaker 16: Contested 17th congressional district in New York, Republican Congressman Mike
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  Speaker 16: Lawler conceded to his Democratic.
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  Speaker 10: Challenger, Kate Conley. Here's a look at some of those results.
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  Speaker 16: With 57 percent of the votes in.
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  Speaker 10: Conley winning this race.
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  Speaker 16: At 52% versus Mike Lawler's 48%. But again, Mike Lawler
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  Speaker 16: conceding this race. Let's get over to Doug Williams. He's
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  Speaker 16: live at Camp Conley in Pleasantville.
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  Speaker 17: Doug.
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  Speaker 18: Christine, I'm not saying this to be dramatic. The Conley
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  Speaker 18: campaign was insistent that this race would not be called tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Then Mike Lawler conceded.
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  Speaker 18: And Kate Conley took to the stage to basically say,
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  Speaker 18: we did it.
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  Speaker 10: I hope your hearts are filled with pride.
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  Speaker 3: And what we built here, what started.
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  Speaker 2: A movement that we saw carry this country tonight, we
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  Speaker 2: took back the.
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  Speaker 13: House and the Senate.
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  Speaker 19: Something that I have never been afforded in any of
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  Speaker 19: my elections, a concession on election night. And I fundamentally
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  Speaker 19: believe it's the right thing to do. And so I
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  Speaker 19: congratulate Kate on her win and wish her well as
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  Speaker 19: our next member of Congress. The Army combat veteran and
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  Speaker 19: former national security official now flips back the seat that
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  Speaker 19: her opponent flipped back in 2022.
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  Speaker 5: Christine.
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  Speaker 10: All right, Doug Williams, thank you for the update.
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  Speaker 16: Let's look now at Democratic incumbent Hakeem Jeffries, the projected
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  Speaker 16: winner against Republican challenger Louis Mizrahi for New.
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  Speaker 10: York District 8.
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  Speaker 16: He spoke about the blue wave that's sweeping across the country,
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  Speaker 16: saying America is back.
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  Speaker 20: We understand that this election, a dramatic change election, means
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  Speaker 20: that the American people are crying out for transformational change.
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  Speaker 5: We hear you.
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  Speaker 2: We see you, we feel you.
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  Speaker 20: And House Democrats are committed to making life better for you.
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  Speaker 13: Morgan McKay, live at Hochul headquarters, the AP calling the
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  Speaker 13: race for Hochul within seconds of polls closing.
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  Speaker 10: What was that moment like, Morgan?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Steve and Natasha.
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  Speaker 13: I'm not sure if anyone was quite expecting it to
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  Speaker 13: be called that early. At least here, people were definitely
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  Speaker 13: caught by surprise.
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  Speaker 5: In fact, we called.
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  Speaker 13: It on our air before people even knew about it
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  Speaker 13: over here. People were still trickling in at that point.
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  Speaker 13: Doors had opened just about 45 minutes before polls closed.
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  Speaker 9: And so.
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  Speaker 1: People here were.
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  Speaker 13: Definitely caught off guard and then, you know, it became
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  Speaker 13: more of a party. But Governor Hochul had been leading
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  Speaker 13: in the polls leading up to today. And Hochul, though,
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  Speaker 13: still breathing a sigh of relief because this is not
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  Speaker 13: a repeat of what it was four years ago in
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  Speaker 13: 2022 when Hochul... only won by six points against her opponent,
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  Speaker 13: Lee Zeldin. But Mayor Mamdani speaking just a short time
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  Speaker 13: ago and talking about their historic partnership. We spoke with
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  Speaker 13: Senator Gillibrand after and spoke about just what this is
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  Speaker 13: like for them and having this partnership and what she
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  Speaker 13: thinks about it.
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  Speaker 5: Here's that soundbite.
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  Speaker 13: Their mom, Donnie, was just speaking about his partnership with
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  Speaker 13: Governor Hochul.
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  Speaker 10: What do you think of their partnership?
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  Speaker 13: I know you didn't endorse him during the primary and after.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think of the job he's doing?
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  Speaker 21: I think it's a great partnership. It's a very important
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  Speaker 21: thing that the federal government, the state government and the
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  Speaker 21: local government all work together to help people. And I
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  Speaker 21: think the governor and the mayor have worked seamlessly on
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  Speaker 21: child care issues. on grocery prices, on education. And I
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  Speaker 21: think they will continue to work together to help New Yorkers.
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  Speaker 13: Now, after that, we asked Jilla Brandt if she thinks
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  Speaker 13: that Hochul should raise taxes on the wealthy to help
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  Speaker 13: pay for child care. And she said that's a decision
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  Speaker 13: left up for Hochul. But that's something that Hochul has
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  Speaker 13: really avoided answering directly on, on whether or not she's
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  Speaker 13: going to be raising taxes next year, especially since that
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  Speaker 13: Mayor Mamdani's allies believe that this is something important for
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  Speaker 13: him to be able to help her during the election
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  Speaker 13: that she delivers on raising taxes as sort of a
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  Speaker 13: thank you for his help.
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  Speaker 5: But Hochul has avoided.
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  Speaker 13: Answering directly whether or not she's going to do that.
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  Speaker 5: But a lot of excitement.
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  Speaker 13: State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli and State Attorney General Letitia James
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  Speaker 13: both won their races.
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  Speaker 22: Got off the phone with Governor Hochul. I told her
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  Speaker 22: that she ran a great race. And now the race
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  Speaker 22: is over. The election's over. So we all have to
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  Speaker 22: unify and work together and make for a better state
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  Speaker 22: of New York. I couldn't have better running mates than
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  Speaker 22: Sheriff Todd Hood. Let's hear it for Todd.
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  Speaker 2: Serif the common ready.
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  Speaker 12: And Joe Hernandez.
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  Speaker 22: So, first of all, thank you, Chairman Kyler.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 22: Thank each and every one of you for your very
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  Speaker 22: hard work and your dedication to this cause.
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  Speaker 2: You know what? You win some, you lose some.
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  Speaker 22: The fact of the matter is that now we pull together,
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  Speaker 22: we move forward, we have the best interests of the.
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  Speaker 9: People in our heart.
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  Speaker 22: One of the things I learned in this campaign, and
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  Speaker 22: I am blessed that I did it and I would
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  Speaker 22: do it all over again, But one of the things
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  Speaker 22: that I'm blessed to have known so many good people
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  Speaker 22: throughout the state of New York, not only is it
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  Speaker 22: an incredibly beautiful state. But it's also got incredibly beautiful people,
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  Speaker 22: hardworking people, people who care about their families. We care
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  Speaker 22: about their families. And we hope going forward that they prosper,
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  Speaker 22: that they do well, and that this state does well.
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  Speaker 2: Because in the final analysis, we're all Americans.
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  Speaker 22: May God bless you all and God bless America.
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  Speaker 23: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I was in Rockland County, the lovely Pearl River Hotel.
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  Speaker 2: where I thought we were going to dance and celebrate
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  Speaker 2: a Mike Lawler victory. I thought that even 9.30 last night.
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  Speaker 2: But we know what happened. So I went to bed
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  Speaker 2: about midnight, and then I had to be downstairs at
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  Speaker 2: 3 a.m. for my car to drive me from Rockland
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  Speaker 2: County to the offices here. I got here very early
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  Speaker 2: this morning. The time was a year ago, you got
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  Speaker 2: to guess.
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  Speaker 1: You came in maybe 4 o'clock?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Been here for over two hours already, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: already sick of the place. And what can I tell you?
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  Speaker 2: Just a dreadful day yesterday. Just dreadful. You know, my
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  Speaker 2: new deal is not done yet at this station, so
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  Speaker 2: Miami is looking better and better every day. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: How could I live here? And I've been saying for days,
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  Speaker 2: and you guys laugh, but I really mean it. New
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  Speaker 2: Yorkers are stupid. You were laughing. I mean it. New
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  Speaker 2: Yorkers are stupid. If last night doesn't prove it, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what will. Not just New Yorkers. Americans. Now look,
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  Speaker 2: I know everybody is blaming President Trump today. I've seen
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  Speaker 2: it already. I've seen some of his own people come
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  Speaker 2: out and blame Trump for this. Specifically Iran. Gas prices
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  Speaker 2: and that's fine. I will not stab my friend in
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  Speaker 2: the back today. I put that on Twitter already this morning,
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  Speaker 2: at SidRosenberg19. I'm not going to do it. Look, I'm
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  Speaker 2: aware of where he's fallen short. I had one lady, Carol,
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  Speaker 2: who said to me on Twitter at 4 o'clock this morning,
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  Speaker 2: you know, President Trump would have listened to you, Sid.
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  Speaker 2: We may have fared better last night. I go, what
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  Speaker 2: do you mean? She said, well, when you came out
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  Speaker 2: Months ago, and Lou Nome, you remember this, on that
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday night, you remember this, and I said, I can't
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  Speaker 2: wait for Trump to level Iran. And then he came
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  Speaker 2: out about 30 minutes before the deadline, and he said, nah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm giving him 10 days. And she said, if Trump
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  Speaker 2: were to listen to you and just wipe them out
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  Speaker 2: months ago, months ago, this would have been over by now.
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  Speaker 2: You guys remember that, right?
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  Speaker 9: I do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember. I'm not sure if that's true or not,
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  Speaker 2: but I was adamant. Listen, I got upset with John
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  Speaker 2: Katzmatidis and I love John. Love him. And I got
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  Speaker 2: upset almost everybody with KT McFarlane when they kept saying
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  Speaker 2: we already won the war. You guys remember that? Did
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  Speaker 2: I not push back?
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  Speaker 23: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Have I not been critical of President Trump over the
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  Speaker 2: war and a bunch of other things the last couple
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  Speaker 2: of months? And I may be his biggest sycophant. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you today, I'm not going to stab him
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  Speaker 2: in the back. But I've been critical of President Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Have I not?
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  Speaker 1: You have, especially when it comes to the war.
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  Speaker 2: I really have. He blew opportunities time and time again
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  Speaker 2: to end it. And dragging this thing on now, it
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  Speaker 2: was supposed to be a four-week war. Now it's been
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  Speaker 2: months and months and months. Hurt. There's no question. The
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  Speaker 2: truth is, after Midnight Hammer... And even that Saturday morning
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  Speaker 2: Operation Epic Fury, we should have been done. But we're
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  Speaker 2: sitting around. How many times, Lou and Noam, have I
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  Speaker 2: used the word stuck? Who was the first to use that? Now,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying I'm right about all this, but clearly
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  Speaker 2: my pitching the last couple of months must have had
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  Speaker 2: something to do with the poor showing by the Republicans
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  Speaker 2: last night. Although I will say this. I called in late.
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  Speaker 2: I was on twice last night. Rita Cosby did a
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  Speaker 2: very nice job hosting for many hours. And when I
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  Speaker 2: was sitting on hold, she was talking to Jenea Butler.
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  Speaker 2: You guys know who that is?
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  Speaker 24: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: Smart African-American lady.
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  Speaker 23: Very nice.
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  Speaker 2: And she was blaming gas prices. And as soon as
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  Speaker 2: I came on, I said, Jenea, no disrespect, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't care if gas was $ 1. 99. We still would have
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  Speaker 2: gotten thumped last night. This is my opinion. I could
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  Speaker 2: be wrong. Maybe it is all about the gas prices.
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  Speaker 2: For me, I really thought last night was a referendum
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  Speaker 2: on President Trump.
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  Speaker 20: I did.
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  Speaker 2: I think the country, the Democrats, and even part of
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  Speaker 2: his own party hate him. And they've had enough. Again,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to stab him in the back. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to turn my back on him today. That's
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  Speaker 2: too easy. Too easy. But forget about gas prices. Forget
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  Speaker 2: about inflation. Forget about Iran. It's not one of these things.
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  Speaker 2: It is they've had enough. And that's what I said
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  Speaker 2: last night about midnight on WABC. And that's how I
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  Speaker 2: feel this morning. If gas was $ 1. 99, I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 2: I could be wrong. I'm not sure the results would
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  Speaker 2: have been different. What do you think, Noam?
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  Speaker 25: Well, you know, the president said all along during these
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  Speaker 25: last couple of months, vote like my name is on
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  Speaker 25: the ballot. And so it looks like they did, which was,
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  Speaker 25: you know, absolutely a slap to the president that they're
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  Speaker 25: not interested in him very much anymore and they want
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  Speaker 25: to move.
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  Speaker 1: On from him.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it looks like to me. So I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what he does moving forward. He's come out. He's
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  Speaker 2: congratulated the Democrats. He has told the New York Times
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  Speaker 2: and Fox News that he's looking forward to working with Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: But these aren't Democrats. I kept hearing last night, and
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  Speaker 2: it's true, history repeats itself. These incumbents, whether they're Republicans
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  Speaker 2: like President Trump last night or Barack Obama back in 2016,
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  Speaker 2: they get hammered during the midterms. They do. Republicans, Democrats,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. But this one feels worse, and it
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  Speaker 2: feels worse because the Democrats, even Chuck Schumer, who's a Palestinian,
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  Speaker 2: even Hakeem Jeffries, who most people would describe as moderate Democrats,
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  Speaker 2: they caved, okay? They caved to the DSA, who now
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  Speaker 2: own that party. The faces of the Democrat Party, folks,
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  Speaker 2: are not Chuck Schumer. They're not Akeem Jeffries, even though
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Akeem Jeffries now will become the Speaker of the House.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: He gets promoted. Mike Johnson gets demoted. It's not them.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: The faces of the Democrat Party are now Mamdani, who
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: hates America, hates the Jews, and had a wonderful night
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: last night. Abdul El-Sayed, Muhammad Abdul El-Sayed, who won in
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Michigan last Angie Nixon almost won in Florida. I got
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: to tell you, Florida closed first. They closed at eight.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: We closed at nine. When I saw those results, that
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Byron Donalds, who did win, so they continue the string
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: of Republican governors, Rick Scott, Ron DeSantis, now Byron Donalds,
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: he did win by the skin of his teeth over
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: David Jolly. But the scarier one was Ashley Moody. She
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: won by the skin of her teeth over... Angie Nixon,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: who's a very dangerous person, right there with Chevalier, who
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: won here in New York, the aforementioned El Sayed. These
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: are very bad DSA people, very bad people. They don't
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: want traditional America to thrive. They want to change America.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: They want to change it. And when I say before
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: nine o'clock last night that Angie Nixon made it close. No,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: I swear to you, I had a really bad feeling
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: in my stomach, even in a loss, that, oh, my God,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: we're in for a long night. Did you?
• 20:05
  Speaker 25: Yeah, because you thought that, at least in Florida, they
• 20:08
  Speaker 25: had done a good job of portraying her as a
• 20:12
  Speaker 25: progressive crazy lefty, but apparently not.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: And maybe, again, this was all about punishing the president,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: that you had people come out and they say they.
• 20:21
  Speaker 25: Wanted to tell the president what they thought of him,
• 20:23
  Speaker 25: and so they were going to vote for whoever was
• 20:25
  Speaker 25: on the other side.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: So, one of the reasons why I chose to do
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: my GLaDOS event last night. Look, I told you guys
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: yesterday in the show, you all made fun of me.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: You laughed at me. You all did, okay? I said,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: I got a call. If I'm saying something wrong here,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: don't stop me. I will. I got a call yesterday
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: morning from somebody in the know. That's how I described it, okay?
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Somebody in the know that said they're going to call
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Blakeman's race tonight right away. Like one minute. After 9 o'clock,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: they're going to call the race. Did I or did
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: I not say that? You did.
• 20:59
  Speaker 25: You actually said the reason we made fun of you
• 21:01
  Speaker 25: is because you said you were going to call the
• 21:02
  Speaker 25: race at 8, but the polls don't.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Close until 9. Right, but the point was it was
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: not going to be close. And you guys laughed. And
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: the polls, listen, I don't want to hear about the
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: polls anymore. Okay, they're right. They're not right 100% of
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: the time. They're right about 90% of the time. I
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: heard the same garbage with Curtis Sliwa. And the truth
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: is he did even worse than we thought he would do.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: not 14%, 7%. Bruce Blankman, his whole campaign, don't believe Sienna,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: don't believe Quinnipiac. They were right. They were right. The
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: polls had Kate Conley beating Mike Lawler the day before
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: the election, something I thought I'd never see. So stop
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: telling me the polls aren't right. They are. Now, they're
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: not always right in terms of margin of victory. Sometimes
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: in the poll, the candidate loses by more than the
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: poll states. But usually, overwhelmingly, when the poll picks a winner,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: that poll is right. I've been arguing about this on
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: this show, Noam, for three years. Have I not? You have.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Enough with the polls don't mean anything. Yeah, they do.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: If you're losing in the polls, odds are you're going
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: to lose. Again, maybe not by the margin the poll says.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: And in certain cases, even worse. Even worse. So as
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: I move forward, if I move forward, don't come on
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: here and tell me the Poles lie. They don't lie.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: They really don't. So I pick Lawler because, A, I'm
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: very close with Michael. I love him. B, his people
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: were the most enthusiastic. And C, I really thought he
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: was going to win. And there was nothing worse than
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: being at one of these galas where the candidate loses.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: It's miserable. So for me, it was a relatively easy choice. Plus,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: they had the limo, hotel room at the very lovely
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Pearl River Hotel. So this was an easy choice. So
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: I get picked up at my house in Queens at
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: about 4 o'clock. I arrive in Pearl River at the
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: hotel at about 6 o'clock. which is two hours before
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: the event is supposed to start and about three hours
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: before the polls close. And I meet with this lovely girl,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Lauren Marie. She also lost last night. All the people
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: that were there last night working Mike Lawler's event, George,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: all those folks, they also maintained local offices in Rockland County,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: New City, Spring Valley, Pearl River. They all lost, every
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: single one of them. lost last night. He couldn't believe it.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: So I sat with Lauren and a few others when
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I first arrived at the hotel, still wearing sweatpants and
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: sweatshirt like I'm wearing right now. We had about a
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: 20-minute meeting talking about how we were going to script
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: the night and eventually bring out Michael to celebrate a win.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: And then at that point, I went to eat. They
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: had food all over the place.
• 24:09
  Speaker 9: It was very nice.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Now, can I interrupt you here? Because I'm curious.
• 24:12
  Speaker 25: So when you got to this party, people were in
• 24:13
  Speaker 25: a pretty festive mood, I'm guessing, right?
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Well, I got there way before the place was crowded, obviously.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: But as the people started coming in, yes, everybody thought
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: we were there to celebrate a victory. So I go upstairs,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I eat, and then I change, put on my beautiful
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: red velvet jacket that I bought at the garage. Thank you, Anthony.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Black slacks, white button down. I look great. And I
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: was in a good mood and happy. So to your point,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: when I come down about 8 o'clock, everybody's festive. Everybody's
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: in a great mood. And they open the night with
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Lauren Marie, a young girl singing the national anthem, and
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: they go right to me. Right to me.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Now, have you seen Mike Lawler at this point or no?
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: So I see Mike Lawler about an hour before I
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: take the stage. He walks in, and then right behind
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: him was his lovely wife, Doina. I love her. And
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: his two little kids. He's got two beautiful little kids.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: When I say to Mike, I go, hey, this stuff
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: with the ballots in Westchester, is this going to stop
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: us from determining your victory tonight? Do I got to
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: wait till tomorrow morning to tell people you won? And
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: he said, no. He said, you know, we're going to
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: get those votes in. We'll be able to tally those
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: votes tonight.
• 25:28
  Speaker 25: Now, do you think at that point he already knew
• 25:30
  Speaker 25: that he had lost?
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: I didn't.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Do you think he did, though?
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: I don't think so, no, because he still looked pretty enthusiastic,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: unless he was lying. I couldn't tell. But I will
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: tell you this. So I get up there about 8 o'clock,
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: and I make this speech, and I'm like, listen, folks,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Kate Connolly's not winning tonight. I actually started by saying
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: it was all over Twitter last night. Congratulations to everybody
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: here at the Pearl River Hilton. You picked the one
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: party where a Republican is going to win.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: You jinxed them.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: I guess I did.
• 26:03
  Speaker 9: So.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: That's 8 o'clock. And then it's 9 o'clock, and the
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: results are coming in, and we're getting hammered everywhere, killed.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Blakeman's already lost. About 9.30, I haven't seen or talked
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: to Mike. So I call Mike on the phone, and
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: this is where I started to think, oh, my God,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: we're in trouble. You never really hear an anxious or
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: irritable Mike Lawler.
• 26:25
  Speaker 24: He was both.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: I said, Mike, what are we doing? I mean, are
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: we waiting until tomorrow morning? The Westchester vote? Sid, I
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know. Give me a couple of minutes.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: I'll get back to you. He wasn't nasty by any
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: stretch because Mike's a terrific guy. I love him. Not
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: nasty by any stretch, but I can tell in his
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: voice something was up. And then I start seeing all
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: the people in his party that helped put this thing together.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: They're like walking around in tears because they're losing their
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: own races. They're getting clobbered. Again, supervisor races, you know,
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: town supervisor and legislators and all that type of thing.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: So by 9.30 last night, you can feel, Noam, in
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: that hotel a shift. But at that point, I still
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: had no idea that Mike lost. So I called Danielle,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: and I give her a little update on what's going on,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: and she's like, I'm sick to my stomach. I go, well,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: what's the matter? She goes... Lawler's down by seven. I go, no,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: he's up by seven. This is Danielle. She goes, no,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: he's down by seven. So now I'm going, well, hold
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: on a second. I can't get in touch with Lawler.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: He's locked in the war room and he sounded irritable
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: five minutes ago. His people are basically walking around crying.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Maybe Danielle's right. I didn't know. Maybe he is down
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: by seven, but no way. He was the one guy
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: that there's no way he was going to lose. He's
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: a great congressman. Mr. Salt, no way. So then, I
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: don't know, even before 10 o'clock, we are told, just
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: the family members, I met Mike Lawler's mom last night.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: What a sweetheart. What a beautiful lady. I met his
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: mom and, of course, his wife and kids. We're told
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: just before 10 o'clock last night, to go into this
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: one room where I was earlier in the night where
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: all of his young people were making phone calls to
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: get Lawler votes right up until 9 p.m. They got
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: food in there, drinks in there, and they make everybody leave. Everybody.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Even some of Lawler's closest allies and friends. They were annoyed.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: They couldn't understand what was going on. But it became
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: evident what was going on. When they shut the doors.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: So who's in the room?
• 28:43
  Speaker 9: You?
• 28:44
  Speaker 23: Me?
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Waller? How many people? No, Mike's not in there yet.
• 28:46
  Speaker 23: Oh.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Mike's wife, Mike's kids, Mike's mother. I would say, in total,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: 25 people.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: So you're like essentially a family member at this point.
• 28:55
  Speaker 9: Oh, yeah.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: No, I'm a big deal.
• 28:56
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Obviously. Yes. Of course. And then the door opens up
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: again after the young lady was like, you all got
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: to leave. If you're not family or VIP, you got
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: to leave. And in walks Mike. And still, at that point,
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: he looked fine. And Mike stands there. He looks at everybody.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: And he says, and I quote, this is not his
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: concession speech. You're getting inside baseball now. This is inside
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: the room before the concession speech. He looks at all
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: of us and he says, I want to thank you
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: all for all you've done for me. But we are
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: going to come up short tonight.
• 29:36
  Speaker 24: What?
• 29:37
  Speaker 9: What?
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Are you talking about what about all the westchester votes
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: what about what do you mean we're coming up short
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: we're coming up short tonight so you know you heard
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: the gasp and his mother started to cry and his
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: wife started to cry and of course i started to
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: cry and did he cry he did he did wow
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: that is crazy He did. He got emotional when he
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: talked about his staff and the people that worked for
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: him all these years and his two victories. Listen, just
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: like Bruce Blankman winning in Nassau County, the idea that
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Lawler even won once, let alone twice, it's all Democrats there.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: It's all Democrats. It's a miracle he enjoyed the success
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: he had. But it's over now. whether it's Trump, Iran,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: gas prices, I don't know. I can't imagine Kate Connolly
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: is that great of a candidate. No one even knows
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: who she is, let's be honest. So he got all emotional,
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: and he finished in about five minutes, and people walked out,
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: and they were destroyed. In the meantime, in the big room,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: people are still partying. You got the fake news all
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: over the place, and no one has any idea what's
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: going on. So I grab Mike around the shoulder. And
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: I said, Michael, do you want me to introduce you now?
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Because he was about to go out there and tell
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: the crowd that we had lost. And he said, yeah,
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: I'd like that. I said, I'm just going to say,
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: here's Mike Lawler. I'm not going to even intimate what
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: happened here tonight. He goes, yeah, please, let me just
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: deliver the message. So we did that.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: And so at this point, everybody's still at the party.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Everybody's at the party. They're drinking. They're having a good time.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: And they are under the impression that Mike won or
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: is winning. I shouldn't say that. That Mike is winning.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: All of them. So Mike and I walk together to
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: the stage area. I go out first. I made it very,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: very short. I said, ladies and gentlemen, I want to
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: bring up to the stage one of the most decent
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: men that I've ever met and a great congressman, a
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: guy I'm sure you're all very, very proud of. Let's
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: have a round of applause for the great Mike Lawler.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: That's it. But you can tell. Well, the way you
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: delivered it, probably. Because I was so bombastic and enthusiastic
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: an hour and a half before that, guys. And when
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: I walked on stage this time, you can tell my
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: mood had completely changed.
• 32:01
  Speaker 25: Now, normally you cannot keep a secret. So, like, was
• 32:05
  Speaker 25: a part of you wanted to say.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: No, not in this case. He walked out and he
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: delivered the message right away that we lost. And people
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: were like, well, wait a second. What about the Westchester
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: count and all that? And he's like, listen, we can't
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: catch her.
• 32:21
  Speaker 25: My guess is that, and I don't know this very fact,
• 32:23
  Speaker 25: and I'm sure we'll talk to Mike if not today
• 32:25
  Speaker 25: and in the coming days.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: I did invite Mike on the program today. I'm waiting
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: for him to get back to me.
• 32:30
  Speaker 25: Is that the early voting totals were incredibly high and
• 32:34
  Speaker 25: there was a margin that he had to make up.
• 32:36
  Speaker 25: And he saw right away last night that that margin
• 32:38
  Speaker 25: wasn't going to be made up.
• 32:40
  Speaker 23: Yeah.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: So I'm guessing that's what happened.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: He showed me something on his phone with percentage points,
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: and I had no idea what he was talking about.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: But he said, Sid, I got to be at about
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: 63 here. I'm not even close. This is about 10
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: o'clock last night, folks, not midnight. So, you know, Ken
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Jenkins was upset in Westchester County about what happened with
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: the machines, but it didn't matter. It wasn't like he
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: kindly cheated. Don't go there this morning. You're going to
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: sound stupid. Mike Lawler never once last night talked about
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: the Democrats cheating. Not once. He got beat. He got beat.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: It's like everybody else did around the country. Now, to
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Mike's credit, he played a lot closer than most. He
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: was right there. Could have gone either way, but he
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: did win. Most of our candidates got humiliated. I mean humiliated. Listen,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: I love Bruce Blankman. I love him. Great Nassau County executive.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Would have been a much better governor than Hochul. We
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: are brothers and dear friends, and I'm excited to see
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: what Bruce wants to do next. I can't imagine he's
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: done as Nassau County Executive, but he got murdered last night.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Wasn't close. Saritha.
• 33:47
  Speaker 26: Oh, my.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: And look at how many people had to tell the
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: last couple of days that she wasn't going to win. Lou,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: you know this.
• 33:52
  Speaker 9: Of course.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I was trying not to accept it, but I knew
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: you were right. Lou was mad at me. Mary Glynn,
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: who runs a Republican club in Rockaway. I wasn't mad
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: at you. I'm mad at the outcome. You're right. I
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: stand corrected. You're right. That's all I know. But people
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: on Saturday morning outside the polling center in Rockaway were like, Sid,
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: how are we going to do it? I said, we're
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: going to lose. I'm not a genius. Now, I come
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: on the air and I remain enthusiastic and hopeful. I'm
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: not going to bring on these candidates and go, you're
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: not going to win. But I've been telling my guys here,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: and both of you can attest to this, for a while,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: that I didn't think they'd even be close. Any of
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: these races, Bruce, Saritha, Joe, not because I'm a genius,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: but because this is where we live. It's a rotten place.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: I'm serious. I mean, I have never been more serious
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: about at least thinking about returning to Florida than I
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: am this morning. Because I don't know how you can
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: live here. And I love New York, and I'm in
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: the city. There's great energy, and we live in a
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: great community. Thank God where we live, Louis, you and I,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: it's still Trump country, still Republican country. They're mourning this
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: morning just like we are. But how do you live here?
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: How do you live here? I've been saying for days
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: how stupid New Yorkers are. Congratulations, you proved it. I'm
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: not stupid. You want to blame Trump?
• 35:21
  Speaker 23: Go ahead.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter to me anymore. There's always someone else
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: to blame. Kathy Hochul ran a horrible campaign. Blakeman last
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: night said, great job, and I wish he wouldn't have
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: said that. But I guess in the moment you want
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: to be bigger and congratulate the person who beat you.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: But she did not run a great campaign. Her campaign
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: was ridiculous. All she did was bash Trump. At no
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: point during Kathy Hochul's campaign did she tell us what
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: she's done well and why she deserves to win again.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: That would have been a great campaign. Mike Lawler ran
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: a great campaign. He still lost, but he ran a
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: great campaign. He told us, I got you salt. He
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: told us, I got you tax breaks. He told us,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: anti-Semitism is down in Rockland County. He had... He had proof.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Bruce. She didn't run a great campaign. She
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: talked about Trump. And she beat you because at this point,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: it's almost impossible for a Republican to win in New York.
• 36:26
  Speaker 12: It really is.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: Sarita, better candidate, got killed. Caroline Schenkel loved her campaign.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Loved it. Enthusiasm. A little too many videos, if you
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: ask me, to be honest, with some of these influencers.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: You guys got to stop that, too. Okay, stop it.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Just stop. Not helping you. But she was terrific. She
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: lost by more than any of these people. Michael Lasher
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: beat her 77 to 20. Thomas Sullivan couldn't get a
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: win against a guy that no one's ever heard of.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Pesach something.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, he won last night?
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Thomas lost.
• 37:02
  Speaker 24: Yeah.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't know that.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: We got no wins.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Even Pesach won.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Even Pesach won. But Tom made it close. Tom lost
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: by like two points. He was in it. He had
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: a shot. But Michael Petri, never had a shot. Janine Driscoll,
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: never had a shot. Bruce Blakeman, never had a shot. Saritha,
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: never had a shot. Joe Hernandez, never had a shot.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: These are the real numbers. This is something I did
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: tell my cast weeks ago. And again, we did not
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: put it on the air. And they were they kept
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: saying to me, I don't want to hear that. I
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: don't want to hear that. OK, but this is New
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: York moving forward. There's no reason to believe that any
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: time soon New Yorkers are going to vote in sane candidates.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: I don't see any reason to believe that. Do you know?
• 37:53
  Speaker 25: I do only because look what happened in really red
• 37:58
  Speaker 25: states yesterday.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was the opposite of what you wanted
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: to happen.
• 38:01
  Speaker 25: But Democrats hadn't won in Texas since 1988. They won
• 38:05
  Speaker 25: both the governor and the Senate race last night.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: So that switched.
• 38:08
  Speaker 25: Down in South Carolina, I mean, you can make an
• 38:10
  Speaker 25: argument Darlene Graham was not a great candidate, but South
• 38:13
  Speaker 25: Carolinians are incredibly conservative.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: They never vote for Democrats. They did last night.
• 38:21
  Speaker 25: So that suggests that if you get a formidable candidate
• 38:25
  Speaker 25: in South You're able to do things.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Maybe that could change here in New York as well.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I just think that all the Democrats
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: hate Trump and a lot of Republicans turned on him, too.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, he picked Darlene Graham and her brother Lindsey
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: was a terrific guy. And Darlene's a very sweet lady.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: She has no right being a Congress lady. She did
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: one debate. She actually said during the debate, this was unbelievable.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: I don't know much about foreign policy. She said that
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: she was handpicked by President Trump. President Trump also handpicked
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Ken Paxton. Do I know for sure 100% that Corwin
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: would have beaten Tallarico? No, but I'll tell you this,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: it would have been closer and he may have won. Yes,
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: he may have won. So all these handpicked Trump candidates
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: got killed. So there's no way, even though I'm telling
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: you again for the third time already, I'm not going
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: to stab my friend Trump in the back. If you're
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: going to have a logical, reasonable explanation, despite what Trump
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: said last night on Fox News, there's no way he
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: is not the culprit. I mean, is there? Is there
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: any way to really describe what happened around the country
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: last night, Norm?
• 39:44
  Speaker 25: Yeah, I think people were angry and they took it
• 39:48
  Speaker 25: out on the president. Depending on where they were, that
• 39:51
  Speaker 25: was either picking somebody.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: But you're talking about both parties. Republicans, too. Yeah, well...
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: Don't kid yourself. Some of these Republicans in these states
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: voted for Democrats.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, look at Kansas, right? They had not picked
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: a Republican senator in 100 years.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: 100 years!
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: And they picked a Democrat last night.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Just really sad. So here we are, the party that...
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: for the most part, doesn't like or care about Israel
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: or the Jewish people, the party that has no issue
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: with other people making decisions on the sex of your child,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: the party that wants to open the borders again and
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: invite in millions of people who just want to hurt
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: us in every which way possible, the party that wants
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: to raise taxes, the party that wants to defund the police,
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: defund the police. These are the people that won in
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: our city, in our state, and across our country yesterday.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: So you can blame Trump, but the truth is Trump's
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: policies are still the best for America. You may not
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: like it on the whole war, and you may be
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: an anti-Semite, don't like the fact that he did this
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: because Bibi wanted him to. All that could still be true.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: But why turn this country over to complete lunatics and
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: this city where right now we do have a monarchy?
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: We have a monarchy in New York City. I don't
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: care what anybody says. And his name is King Mamdani.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: He's the king. Right now, this morning, Kathy Hochul, she
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: can't say enough good things about Mamdani. She said a
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: couple of days ago when she was making around with
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Mamdani and watching the Buffalo Bills play football on Sunday
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: with AOC. She said, Bruce Blakeman, he can talk bad
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: about Mamdani all he wants. But I got to tell you,
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Mamdani is a lot more popular across the state, not
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: just New York City, than Bruce Blakeman. And you know what?
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: Maybe she was right. Because hooking her trailer to Mamdani
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: clearly worked. King Mamdani last night with his stupid mustache,
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: which looks terrible because he's got more hair on one
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: side of his nose than the other. I noticed that
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: last night. It looks stupid. But he's the man. He's
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: the man. Letitia James, she's going to lick his feet.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: Kathy Hochul, she's going to lick his feet. Chuck Schumer,
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: the new majority speaker, Hakeem Jeffries, they're all going to
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: lick the feet, if not the ass, of Mamdani. This
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: is the city that you want to live in?
• 42:49
  Speaker 9: Really?
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: No, Sid, listen, it's fair and square. They won. We
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: got to work together. I love when I hear that.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: I don't want to work with these people. No, thanks. No,
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: we're not working together. What about these people? What about
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: their policies? What makes me feel like we can work
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: with these people and New York will be a better place?
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: You know, a million people are going to say that today,
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: maybe even on this station. Ah, look, they want fair
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: and square. We've got to work with them. We've got
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: to make the city and state better. Shove it up
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: your ass. How about that? There's other places where they've
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: got better people in charge who know what makes America great.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: Not this nonsense that we voted in here in New
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: York City and New York State and in other cities
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: and states around our country. Yesterday was a Republican bloodbath
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: that was ugly. It was ugly. And I don't know
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: how you come back from that. And now I want
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: to see Noam and Lewis. How long before we start
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: to have serious discussions, serious discussions about the White House?
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: That's all we got left. The House is gone. The
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: Senate is gone. Local races all over New York and
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: others gone. They're all gone. We still have a Republican
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: on Pennsylvania Avenue. Will we have one in 2028? I mean,
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: I think J.D. Vance is in big trouble today. Even
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: though he disagrees with President Trump on a load of issues,
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: including Iran, which could actually help J.D. Vance, people think
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: Trump picked J.D. Vance. Now, he didn't. As I explained
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: yesterday to Brian Kilmeade, he didn't. You want to know
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: the inside truth? Who picked J.D. Vance? Trump's kid. Donald
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: Trump Jr. And, you ready for this? Tucker Carlson. Those
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: are the guys that convinced President Trump to take J.D. Vance.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: I never get the impression that Trump loves J.D. Vance.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: But J.D., he's going to have to make a decision
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: real soon. Because if you want to hold on to something,
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: we need Republicans to start talking about the White House.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: Marco Rubio, I know you love being Secretary of State.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: In my lifetime, you're the best.
• 45:08
  Speaker 24: That's it.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: You are the best. I don't want to hear anymore.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to do it. Marco, announce you're running.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: Let's go. We got Ted Cruz, people like Josh Hawley,
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: people like Glenn Youngkin. Maybe DeSantis runs. He's got no charisma.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: He can't win. Maybe Nikki Haley comes back, brother-ass kicking.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: I don't know. You know the big names. Vance, Rubio,
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: even Ted Cruz. He ain't going to win. Not going
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: to win. Josh Hawley, he's not going to win. It's
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: two guys. Basically two guys.
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: J.D.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Vance or Marco Rubio. And both of those guys or
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: one of those guys needs to get serious about their
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: run very, very soon. You agree with that, Noam?
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 45:52
  Speaker 25: I think they're now going to have to separate themselves.
• 45:56
  Speaker 25: from the president while they're at the White House over
• 45:59
  Speaker 25: the next two years. And I think for a lot
• 46:01
  Speaker 25: of voters, they'll look at them and they'll say they're
• 46:02
  Speaker 25: tarnished by Trumpism. They don't want that anymore, and they're
• 46:05
  Speaker 25: going to look for something different. I think both of
• 46:07
  Speaker 25: them are in serious trouble. Even though Marco Rubio seems
• 46:11
  Speaker 25: like an independent good guy, he's part of the administration.
• 46:15
  Speaker 25: And I think Republicans who thought they were looking for
• 46:18
  Speaker 25: that Trump stamp of approval or Trumpism now, And we're
• 46:22
  Speaker 25: worried they wouldn't get it.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: Now say, well, I have a shot. I could actually
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: win the nomination.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: AOC right now feels great. Trust me. Forget about running
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: against Chuck Schumer. If I'm AOC, I'm looking at president.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: I really am. Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, all of them.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: You know what story, though, yesterday? I got to tell
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: you guys this. Depressed me every bit as much as these.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: results last night, and I couldn't stop reading about it.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: If you go to my Instagram, for example, at Rosenberg.Sydney,
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: at Rosenberg.Sydney, you're going to see on my story four,
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: I counted this morning, four different stories on my Instagram story.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: That's not different. It's the same story. And that is
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: the fate. And the fact that she's beautiful doesn't matter, okay?
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: She's It does, you know, people take notice of that, obviously.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: But this beautiful 24-year-old girl out of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, that died.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: She died at the marathon on Sunday. Now, my wife,
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: I've been with Danielle since I'm 18. Beautiful. She's won
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: a lot of races. She ran at that age. She
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: runs now. And I always worry a little bit about Danielle.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: I really do. Especially now she's getting a little older.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: She's still great and Did a good job on Sunday.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: But when I was with Danielle, she was that age.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: And I can't imagine young, healthy, again, not that important,
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: but beautiful, telling a father on a text moments before
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: she died.
• 48:02
  Speaker 9: Moments.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: Dad, I've never felt better in my whole life. I
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: think that was mile 18, maybe 19, maybe 20. I
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: don't know the exact mile. And then by mile 24,
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: she sends two words to her father, ow, ow, ouch.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: And six hours later, she's dead. So I don't know
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: much about this medical issue. Danielle knew all about it.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: But basically, because of the proteins and the blood, it
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: shuts down all your major organs, your liver, your kidneys,
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: and your urine basically turns black if you can pee
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: at all. And you die. This kid never had a
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: health issue. This kid played field hockey at Bucknell University.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: She was the picture of a young athletic girl. And
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: her parents, I believe it was mile 14, where they
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: show a video of her running by and smiling and
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: waving and they're yelling, go Rachel.
• 49:07
  Speaker 8: That story killed me yesterday.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: I just And I kept looking at it and looking
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: at it and looking at it. And you know, when
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: you combine that, of course, with the Learjet that crashed
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: in Florida a couple of days ago, and while a
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: lot of us are paying attention to the 20-year-old co-pilot,
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: and the father, the multimillionaire who bought the jet, he
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: had two little kids, like Mike Walters' kids' age, babies.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: who were killed in that crash. Just a yesterday, I
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: got to tell you. Yesterday, and obviously the death of
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: this young marathon runner and the death of that family, much,
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: much more brutal and horrific than the results last night.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: But my point is, it was just a terrible day.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: I couldn't wait, slept just two hours, to wake up
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: today and start over, make this day a better day.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: But then, of course, you wake up and all you
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: see is The same stories. Rachel Lapper, God rest her soul.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: More details on the Learjet. God rest their souls. Nine
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: people perished. And all these results. And it doesn't feel
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: any better this morning than it did last night. So, Noam,
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: do you have anything, and I mean anything, that's going
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: to make me and my humongous listening audience feel any
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: better today?
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: Well, two things.
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: One is.
• 50:30
  Speaker 25: Nicole Maliotakis won last night, so it was a Republican win.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: Well, we knew that was going to happen.
• 50:35
  Speaker 25: And there's still pizza left over from last night's election party,
• 50:39
  Speaker 25: if you want some.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: I almost had a slice. I'm not going to lie
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: to you. You know, I ate so much last night,
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: I'm getting fat again. All right, we got pizza and
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: Nicole Maliotakis. Oh, we'll take it. We'll take it. We've
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: got a whole bunch of guys stopping by today. Hank Sheinkopf,
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: he's always terrific. He knows his stuff backwards and forwards.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: Ron Johnson, the amazing senator from Wisconsin. Alex Trayman in Israel.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: Randy Fine, one of my favorite congressmen, the Hebrew Hammer.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: He won in Florida yesterday. I'm efforting. Blakeman, Lawler, and
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: a whole bunch of others. So my recommendation is keep
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: it here. It's the best show on radio anyway.
• 51:18
  Speaker 26: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 51:22
  Speaker 26: Podcast Network.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: I'm controlling myself, obviously, but I'm relatively hysterical. But a
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: brutal night last night. If you're just waking up, we've
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: lost everything. When I say we, I'm a Republican, so
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: I say we. I'm a MAGA Republican. We lost everything.
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: We lost the House. We lost the Senate. We lost
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: just about every local race in every blue sanctuary city
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: and state around the country. We just got hammered. So
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: it's very nice to see that President Trump has already
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: come out and said that he's looking forward to working
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: with the Democrats. And he's already spoken to four or
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: five major Democrats. And we're going to figure it out
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: and work with the Democrats. And, you know, two days
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: ago they were Democrats. And today they're Democrats again. I
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: don't know how that works, but they're still Democrats to me. See,
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: I'm not in office, so I don't got to be
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: nice today. I don't got to work with Hakeem Jeffries.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: I don't got to work with Kathy Hochul, Letitia James.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: Nothing changes for me. They're scumbags. Scumbags. And just because
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: they won doesn't make them better people. Does that make
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: sense to them?
• 52:30
  Speaker 23: Yeah.
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, they won. They're not better people today because
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: they won. We're just dumber. And I said it yesterday
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: and weeks leading up to this. Just because you read
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: the New York Times on the subway, it's a very
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: big newspaper. You've got to fold it. It takes a
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: lot of talent, I know. You walk past the New
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: York Stock Exchange. New Yorkers think they're the smartest people
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: in the world. I used to think the same thing.
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: And then I came back to New York from South
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: Florida in 2016. I'll be back, God willing, 11 years
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: in January. And I've come to the realization, and I've
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: said this time and time again, that New Yorkers are
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: stupid people. They're not the smartest. They may have the
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: New York Stock Exchange here. They may read the New
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: York Times. They may live in fancy buildings on Park Avenue.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: It means nothing. They're dumb. They keep electing people, and
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: their quality of life gets worse and worse. Tappy Hochul
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: beat Bruce Blakeman easily. Much easier than even Lee Zeldin.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: And I'm still waiting for one smart Democrat to tell
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: me what she's done well. I know this. If she
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: was doing such a good job, and she won easily
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: last night, New York would not lead the nation in out-migration. Oh,
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: that rhymes. I like that, Lou. We would not lead
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: the nation in out-migration. They lead this state in numbers
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: more than any other. And yet she won easily. The
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: streets are still not safe. Hate crimes are at an
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: all-time high. Jewish people are more nervous now than ever.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: And Letitia James clobbered Saritha. So it's not about what
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: they do. It's not about what they've accomplished. It's about
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: who you like. I hate Trump. Therefore, I like Kathy Hochul. What?
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: What does that mean? I hate Trump. Therefore, I love
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: Kathy Hochul. How does that make any sense?
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: That was her whole campaign, and it worked.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: I guess so. I don't know, but I guess it did, yes. Yes,
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: because it lends credence to your theory. New Yorkers are... Stupid.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: That's it. Stupid.
• 54:50
  Speaker 24: Because that's what they have.
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: They fancy themselves so smart. I go to these events.
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: I think they're the smartest. And no, they're not the smartest, because...
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: No one can tell me what the Democrats are doing well.
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: I don't call them stupid because they're Democrats. I call
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: them stupid because they remain loyal to a party and
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: they vote for a party who accomplishes nothing. That makes
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: him stupid. I mean, my next guest, Hank Shankoff, he's
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: a lifelong Democrat. He's anything but stupid. I've grown to
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: love this guy. He's a very smart guy. And he'll
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: probably tell me they're not stupid.
• 55:24
  Speaker 23: No, they're stupid.
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: Why would you vote for Kathy Hochul? What has she
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: done to make life better in New York City? And
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: now it's going to get worse. She's going to raise taxes.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: You can bet your ass on that. It's going to
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: get worse. And Mamdani, he will do whatever he wants.
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: And he's been great, right, folks? All those free buses.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: Isn't that fantastic? The real estate market booming here in
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: New York. Taxes. It's not like people are getting stabbed
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: when they're jogging to train for the marathon. Right? It's
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: not like a 15-year-old boy is going to get shot
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: last week or girls get raped in Central Park. That's
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: all happening, you dumb mother-reppers. That's all happening. And yet,
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: you couldn't wait. You couldn't wait to vote for Democrats
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: last night. I know Democrats are listening right now. Oh,
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: I couldn't wait to hear Sid this morning. MAGA Sid Sidd.
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: You know why you lost last night? Because of you.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: I got tons of that on Twitter already. The reason why,
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: you're not going to believe this, they're blaming me. Me
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: and Mark Levin. Neocons like Rosenberg and Levin cost Republicans
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: the elections. Neocons like Rosenberg and Levin. They couldn't wait
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: to listen to me this morning. Well, you got it.
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: I hope you're happy. Yes, I'm very upset. I'm very upset.
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: I think I want to leave again. I really do.
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: Where are you going to go again? Where am I
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: going to go?
• 56:55
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: There's only one state left in this country. Texas is gone.
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: You got Tennessee.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: That's okay. I'm going to Florida, bro. I love it
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: there anyway. Randy Fine will come on next hour. He'll
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: tell me to come. Rick Scott will tell me to come.
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: Sean Hannity will tell me to come. Ron DeSantis will
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: tell me to come. They already do. You guys hear
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: them on the show all the time. What are you
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: doing up there, Sid? Well, somebody's got to fight. Well,
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure I want to fight anymore.
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: Wait, so we're going to move the whole show down there?
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, you hope so, don't you?
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: Kind of, yeah.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: A lot of those discussions.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: Like Delray Beach or something like that?
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: Well, I live in Boca. Most of my 16 years
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: in Boca are right there by Delray Beach. Hop, skip,
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: and then jump away from Atlantic Avenue on a Saturday night, Gnome. So, yeah.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: That's Palm Beach County. That's where we spend a lot
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: of years, the Rosenberg family. We'll take a short break.
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: When we get back, got a bunch of great guests
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: hopping on. I just mentioned this guy, Hank Sheinkopf. You
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: talk about a guy that knows the political landscape of
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: New York. I think he knows the most. I really do.
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: Hank Sheinkopf.
• 58:00
  Speaker 26: Sid and friends in the morning on the Red Apple
• 58:03
  Speaker 26: Podcast Network.
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: Hank Sheinkopf, good morning, buddy.
• 58:07
  Speaker 9: How are you? Thank you, Sid. It's a wonderful morning
• 58:10
  Speaker 9: to wake up in America.
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: No, it's not. What are you, nuts? Yes, it is.
• 58:15
  Speaker 9: Yes, it is. You know why?
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 58:17
  Speaker 9: Because what happened yesterday is not necessarily the greatest thing
• 58:20
  Speaker 9: in the world, but it tells you that people, when
• 58:22
  Speaker 9: they vote, take action. And this is a message to
• 58:25
  Speaker 9: Democrats the same way it was a message to Republicans,
• 58:28
  Speaker 9: that people are just pissed off. And if these guys
• 58:31
  Speaker 9: don't perform, they're going to meet the same fate that
• 58:33
  Speaker 9: everybody met yesterday.
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: Well, they're not going to, but they're not going to perform.
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, look, let me give you the governor, for example.
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: How did she have any right? I mean, I know
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: she was going to win. You had to be an
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: idiot to really think Boosie was going to win. Let's
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: be honest. Okay, I love Boosie. We had a great campaign,
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: but she's not losing in this state, bottom line. But
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: what has she done? What has she done to deserve
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: a victory by one point, let alone 10?
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: What?
• 58:55
  Speaker 9: What has any of these people done overall? Look around
• 58:59
  Speaker 9: the country. What is Tallarico's great claim in Texas? What
• 59:03
  Speaker 9: about the guys in Kansas and Nebraska? And I mean,
• 59:07
  Speaker 9: the Democrat win, is not about the Democrats. It's about
• 59:10
  Speaker 9: a revolt against government overall. And politicians should pay very
• 59:14
  Speaker 9: clear attention. It tells you several things. The era of
• 59:17
  Speaker 9: the baby boomers is over. The era of patriotism is over. OK,
• 59:21
  Speaker 9: the sense of unity is over. The anger of the
• 59:24
  Speaker 9: electorate is real. And if they're going to take it,
• 59:27
  Speaker 9: they took it out on the Republicans, not because they
• 59:29
  Speaker 9: hated Republicans, because they hated Trump. And they'll do the
• 59:31
  Speaker 9: same thing to the Democrats starting in two years if
• 59:34
  Speaker 9: they don't perform. This is about holding government officials feet
• 59:38
  Speaker 9: to the fire. That's a lack of a better word.
• 59:40
  Speaker 9: I mean, look, I've worked in 44 American states and
• 59:43
  Speaker 9: I've worked for a president. So this is not just
• 59:46
  Speaker 9: about Democrats. It's about the whole political system. And it
• 59:49
  Speaker 9: should be a warning to Americans to wake up.
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: You're a lot smarter than I am. And I think
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: everything you said is right, except I don't think it's
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: a whole political message. You just named it. It's one guy.
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Last night to me, and I'm still backing
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: this guy. I refuse to stab him in the back.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: I put it on Twitter this morning. I'm being called
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: all kinds of horrible names. Kike, Neocon, you name it.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: It's about Trump. That's it. I mean, I don't care.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: You can talk to your blue in the face about
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: gas prices. You can talk about Iran, which is a problem.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: And I've been saying it's a problem for months. We
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: never won that. Still haven't won it. Came back to
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: bite him in the ass. But in the end, it's
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: about Trump. These losses last night were both Democrats and
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: Republicans that have had enough with President Trump. How could
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: you argue that?
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 9: I'm not arguing that at all. I think you're exactly right.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 9: What is interesting to me is the intensity of the
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 9: almost violent response to Trump. And this is beyond imagination.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 23: Why?
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 9: Look at places where Democrats won. Unheard of before. The
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 9: nation had gone through a real critical realignment years ago
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 9: in the South. When Raphael Warnock, the senator from Georgia,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 9: said the road to renewal runs to the South from
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 9: his perspective, he was right. I mean, this is a
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 9: major earthquake, and Americans should pay attention because they are angry.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 9: And when people get angry, if that voting box doesn't
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 9: work and they can't get what they want, they're in
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 9: the streets next. That's what this is about, because the
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 9: civic culture that had people sit down and talk about
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 9: things honestly and directly and create change is over. This
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 9: was a revolt. And people should pay very careful attention.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: But I look at the streets.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 9: I agree.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: But I look at the city, for example, Hank, and
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: you still live in New York City. And, you know,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: everybody loves you. I get it. I love you. But
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: here's Mom Donnie. He's not a good person. OK, I
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: don't care how much he smiles and and how many
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: people love him. I don't care. He's not a good person.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: His wife is even worse. Letitia James, she's a waste,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: a complete waste. All she's done is go after Trump.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: Rapes all over Central Park. A kid shot last week.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: A girl training for the marathon stabbed to death. James
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: says nothing. She does nothing. She still talks about Trump.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: She wins again. She wins easily. Hochul, you just talked
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: about it. She's done nothing. I mean, how do you
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: feel good if you live in New York City and
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: you don't hate President Trump? If you hate Trump, great.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: But if you don't hate President Trump, how do you
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: feel good about these people remaining in power?
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 9: It's not about feeling good. That's the point, Sid. That's
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 9: what's so distressing. It's not about feeling good about any
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 9: of these people. It's about Donald Trump. It's all about
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 9: Trump and the revulsion that New Yorkers and people around
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 9: the country felt about Washington. And they see Trump as
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 9: the argument. And they went after him with an ax.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 9: This wasn't about, I don't like you. This was about,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 9: I hate you.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: I want to kill you.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I told you I want.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 9: To kill you. That's exactly what they did.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: They did. I told you that last night. It's not
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: about gas prices. So then if you want the Republican
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: Party and you start to plan now, Hank, for 2028, see,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: I think J.D. Vance gets hurt, even though I don't
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: think President Trump picked him. I'm on record three times
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: saying I think it was Trump's kid and Tucker Carlson
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: that picked J.D. Vance. And even though J.D. Vance disagrees
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: with Trump on a bunch of stuff, including Iran, I
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: still think J.D. is too close. Marco, a little separation,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: but any of these candidates who are right there with
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: President Trump may have big difficulties now winning in 28, unless,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: like you say, the Democrats have two bad years. But
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: by then, it's going to be too late.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 9: Well, the Republican Party is shattered unquestionably so. The Democrats
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 9: have gone through this in the past. The question is,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 9: what is the Republican Party? What are either parties? If
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 9: the Democrats do nothing but spend their time whacking Trump
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 9: under leadership of Schumer in the Senate and Hakeem Jeffries
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 9: in the House, if that's what they do, they're going
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 9: to meet the same fate. Because the people are telling,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 9: you know, it's less about partisanship than it is about
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 9: Trump and about telling those in power, enough, guys, we're
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 9: pissed off and we're not going to take anymore. It's
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 9: like the character in Network, you know, the guy paid
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 9: by Finch who said, I'm fed up and I'm not
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 9: going to take anymore.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly right.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 24: That's what they did.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 9: This is not about ideology. This is about Donald Trump
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 9: and Medicare and Medicaid and the cost of food and
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 9: the cost of gas. And the fact that people are
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 9: having problems feeding their families. It wouldn't matter if Trump
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 9: was a socialist. They would have thrown it out and
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 9: everything about it. Let me ask you about the Democrats
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 9: of the.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: City, though, because a lot of people are very upset
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: this morning. They're telling me about Ed Cox. I like that.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: He's a good guy and we have a good relationship.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: But a lot of people are very upset. They're like,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: where are the good candidates in New York? Where are they?
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: You know, Joe Cairo, he had a bad day. LaPetri
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: got killed. Janine Driscoll got killed. Bruce got killed. So
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: people are really upset, even with Curtis Sliwa, that last
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: ridiculous mayoral election. People are really upset with Republican candidates
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: in the city and the state. What would you say
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: about that?
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 9: I would say that the era of the professional politician
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 9: has overtaken the local patriot. And unless we bring patriotism back,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 9: to our politics, we're going to see more of this
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 9: kind of chaos. It can't be about staying in power.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 9: It's got to be about doing something for people. But
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 9: the political industrial complex, which I've called it on your
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 9: show in the past, is taking over our politics in
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 9: a way that can do no good. Public financing has
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 9: made sure not that government is better, but that people
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 9: stay in government longer. It's just that simple. The growth
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 9: of the political industrial complex, the amount of money spent,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 9: the intensity of the consultant industry as its own lobbying entity,
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 9: they're going to start forming more powerful lobbies, you can bet,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 9: in the political industry.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 9: Because they're making more money than they ever deemed possible.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 9: So you have people who produce nothing that is of
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 9: tangible good to the entire community making more money by
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 9: producing more air. That kind of behavior can only result
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 9: in more revolts. You know, again, government has to do something.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 9: You can't be talking. Joe Cairo is one of the
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 9: best people I've met in public life. He'll get past this.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 9: They weren't going to win those congressional races anyway, frankly.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 23: Right.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 9: That's true. It wasn't going to happen.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 23: No.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 9: But providing local services is what has to be done.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 9: And that's the new thing that people should be focusing
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 9: on because that's the old thing that government was supposed
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 9: to do. It wasn't supposed to keep people in office
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 9: for life. It was supposed to force them to perform
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 9: under the threat of loss.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: So in a practical conversation, if you were running the
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: Republican Party here in New York, not Long Island like
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: Joe Cairo, but at Cox's position, what would you do
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: moving forward to get better candidates and give New York politicians,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: Republicans specifically, a chance to win?
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 9: I think you have to reorganize the parties at the
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 9: most local level. I think what you take the model
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 9: of what Jesse Garcia, the terrific chairman of Suffolk County
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 9: of the Republicans, and Joe Cairo, the extraordinarily talented chairman
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 9: of the Republican Party in Nassau and others have done,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 9: which is they've organized to the bottom up. They found
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 9: young people and where they won, they put them in
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 9: jobs where they can get something accomplished. I think you
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 9: have to have a new a new an entirely new
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 9: framing of what a Republican is. And by doing so,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 9: you'll reframe who the Democrats are. And they're going to
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 9: be on, people are going to be watching to see
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 9: what the Democrats do. This isn't a free ticket. This is, oh,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 9: by the way, guys, have a nice day and do
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 9: whatever you want. We'll pay for it.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 18: No.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 9: The warning here is that people are saying clearly, perform
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 9: or die.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: It's really that simple.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 9: And this is very violent. Very violent.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: No, it's scary, right? I mean, last thing, what were
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: your thoughts when it became official that that Abdul El-Sayed
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: won in Michigan last night?
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 9: I'm very concerned for different reasons. I'm concerned because, obviously,
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 9: he is no friend of the Jewish people, and people
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 9: who say otherwise are fools. You cannot say the things
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 9: he said like, you know, it's okay to go and
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 9: blow up, to try to blow up a synagogue and
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 9: kill people because you were hurt in another country. By
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 9: that logic, American Indians, indigenous people should go out and
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 9: murder most of the people in Wyoming and Montana because
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 9: they were hurt once. And, you know, Catholics who have
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 9: been persecuted around the world should find those who did
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 9: it and kill them. I mean, it's idiotic logic. But
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 9: what it tells you is that there is a definite
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 9: demographic shift going on in this country that people need
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 9: to pay attention to. We have a population that is
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 9: not integrated into Western political thinking, which will frighten because
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 9: they're angry. And history has to somehow be modified. And
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 9: what I mean by that is we need to teach
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 9: people the truth about what different populations have done throughout
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 9: the world. And we've got to start to teach people
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 9: to be Americans, which means... we've got to change the
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 9: curriculum in our schools, reinstitute civic education, and get people
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 9: to function as a country rather than a bunch of sects, SCCTS.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 9: If we don't do that, that plus the revolt we
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 9: experienced yesterday could be the demise of the greatest experiment
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 9: in the history of politics, which is the American democracy.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 9: This is that serious.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: Agreed. Last one, I said last hour that with the
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: landslide win for the Democrats yesterday, I said this last hour,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: I said, if I'm AOC, forget about Chuck Schumer, okay?
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: Forget about that Senate race. I'm going for it. I
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: know Gavin Newsom, he's thinking the same thing, and Kamala Harris,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: but something tells me she's got the best chance to win.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: Based upon what you saw last night, if you were AOC,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: would you start your presidential campaign? I'm being serious today.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 9: I don't know, Sid, if this was about left or right.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 9: This is about a left hook and a right jab.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 9: It's not about left or right politics. This is about Trump,
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 9: get out, and Democrats perform or else. Because the intensity
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 9: of the rage was so extreme. It's not about the
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 9: left winning. It's not about that at all. It's not
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 9: about the right losing. It's about Trump losing and people saying,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 9: stop talking, do something. I'm sick and tired of it,
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 9: and I'm not going to tolerate it anymore. And by
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 9: the way, they said, you're next if you don't perform.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: Hank Shankoff, you're amazing. I love when you come on
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: this show. Willie, you really are the best. I love you.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: Thank you for your job last night, too. I was
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: told that you spoke fluent Hebrew with Noam. I love that.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: So thank you for a great appearance, as always, this morning.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: We'll do it again very soon, my friend.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 9: Thank you, Sid. Have a wonderful day.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: You too. God bless you. What a great guy. What
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: a brilliant man. Hank Shankoff right here on Sid and
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: Friends in the Morning. Still to come, Alex Trayman live
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: in Jerusalem. Randy Fine down in Florida. Ron Johnson in Wisconsin.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 26: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 26: Podcast Network.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: Well, he's the first Muslim. I don't care if you're Muslim.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: I'm sick of all that. I am so sick of it. Well,
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: you got to break the glass ceiling. Who cares? Who
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: cares if you're a racist or you hate America? Who cares? Congratulations.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: The Muslim one hates America, hates the Jews, hates Israel.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: What a great day for the Muslims. I'm so tired
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: of it, man. You know, I guess it was kind
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: of cool way back when, when Geraldine Ferraro or my
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: dear friend Sarah Palin, even Hillary, I guess, in 2016
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: when she ran for president. But now, any time, well,
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: that's the first Hungarian female. I mean, who cares? My God,
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: just give me some good candidates. I mean, look, Trump
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: is the target. That's why Republicans had a horrible day yesterday.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: My friend Trump, that's it. There's no reason to even
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: look any further. You can talk about specific policies. Well,
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: My gas is too high, my groceries are too high,
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: and those types of things. But it all comes back
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: to Trump. We know that. But on the other side,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: all these ridiculous glass ceilings that get broken, I just
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: don't care. We need better candidates on our side. I've
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: talked about it all morning. You know, I'm not Bo Dietl.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: I don't hate Ed Cox, okay? I don't. I like
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: the guy. Happen to like him. But we need better candidates.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: We do. On a state level, city level, federal level,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: Mike Rogers, boring. Did nothing for me. I told you that.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: On air I said this. On air I said this.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: The other guy, Ken Paxton, that was a terrible candidate
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: in Texas. Terrible. Darlene Graham, come on. She should be
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: making cookies on Sunday afternoon for the grandchildren. Not sitting
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: in Congress. I'd come over for that. Yes. She looks
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: like a nice, sweet lady. Grandma, make us some cookies.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: Not running for Congress? I mean, there really is no
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: shock and awe for me. I'm just disappointed in the
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: margin of losses. And people like Mike Lawler, who I
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: thought were definitely going to win. But you got a
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: lot of issues with this party. And we'll see when
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: Trump goes away in two years, if all that gets
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: fixed overnight. Because President Trump We'll be gone. I don't know.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: I don't have that confidence either. Why is it a
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: big deal? Would you like to know you got your job.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 18: Because you're the first Latino?
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: You're the first this. You're the first. But they're not
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: saying they got their job because of that. Right. But
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: to even mention it at this point actually bothers me.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: To your point, yes, that's like a DEI hire, right? Yeah,
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: I know. But they're not saying that. I'm confusing it.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: All I'm saying is I don't want to hear it.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: I don't care. No. First Q's guy, I don't care.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's cute. Joe Lieberman, fantastic. I don't care. What
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: if you do a horrible job? Right. Right.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 10: That's really the basis on how you should be, Senator, Governor, Congressperson.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 5: That's it.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: That's all there is. Show me somebody who's capable of
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: doing the job. I don't care. Because that's the only
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: thing you have control. You can't control that you came
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: into the world.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, you were born somehow.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: You're right. I don't care if you've got eight fingers,
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: one leg. Yeah, I don't care. Two vaginas.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 9: Nothing. Nothing.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: The decisions are what you're voted on. What are you
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: looking at? What's the matter? Two of them. Yeah, there's
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: somebody who has that, actually. That is almost too much
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: to handle. That's a lot, I know. It's too much. Too, too,
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: too much. Ron Johnson's going to join us, the amazing
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: senator from Wisconsin. I know he's smarting today. But first,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: what did all these Republican losses, this bad day for
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: President Trump, What does that mean for Bibi and Israel?
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: We go to Alex Treyman, live in Jerusalem. He's coming up.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 5: Sid and friends in.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 3: The morning on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: When that's the case, it's all my friends from Israel.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: They're all on my WhatsApp. And specifically, my dear friend,
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: the CEO of JNS.org, Alex Treyman, who's been on quite
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: a bit lately with the Bibi elections and what's going
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: on here. So very few things happen in the United
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: States that don't matter in Israel. So by the time
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: I woke up this morning, Alex had sent me, sorry,
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: people are sending me condolences like somebody died, and maybe
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: the Republican Party did die last night. But my question
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: to Alex, who's on the phone right now, live in Jerusalem, is...
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: What happened here in the United States does not affect
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: what's going on with Bibi and the elections in Israel. So,
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: good afternoon, Alex. Welcome back. What is the answer to
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: that question?
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 24: Well, good morning, Sid.
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  Speaker 14: I mean, we're here in an election stalemate. And I
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 14: think that the numbers, both for the pro-Netanyahu coalition and
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 14: the anti-Netanyahu coalition, are not affected by what happened in
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 14: the United States today. So, you know, both sides don't
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 14: have a pathway to a government right now. The question
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 14: is whether there could be a unity government or whether
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 14: we could spiral into a second election cycle, which, you know,
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 14: I would suggest is looking more likely by the day.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 14: But I think where this does impact Israel tremendously is
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 14: that in President Trump's decision to carry out additional strikes
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 14: against Iran and whether there's a goal to collapse the
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 14: Iranian regime, which is certainly a goal of Prime Minister Netanyahu.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 14: So if Trump realizes that he got hammered because, as
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 14: everybody is saying, the war in Iran hurt his party's
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 14: showing in the midterms and he buckles and he says, OK,
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 14: we're not going to do this. Well, you know, that
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 14: definitely hurts Israel because this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 14: collapse this regime, which is an existential threat to the
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 14: entire Middle East, as well as, of course, to the
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 14: state of Israel. But then in terms of the politics,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 14: it does harm Netanyahu because The biggest ace that Netanyahu
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 14: had up his sleeve was that President Trump was willing
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 14: to do this and said that the only person that
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 14: he wanted to work with on this is Netanyahu. So
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 14: I definitely think it harms Netanyahu's position, but much more
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 14: important than that, I think it harms Israel in terms
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 14: of losing, potentially losing power. a once-in-a-generation opportunity to right
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 14: a major wrong in the Middle East and to return
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 14: Iran from this horrific Islamic Republic over back to the
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 14: Iranian people, who are good people.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: I think you're right. I think Trump will be very
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: hesitant to do anything now that's big in this war.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: One more for you. The ambassador now is Mike Huckabee,
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: but the former ambassador... A dear friend of both the bars,
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: David Friedman, said last night, I guess late, that some
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: of these victories, I know you're aware of El Sayed
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: in Michigan. Mamdani won here in New York last year.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: Some of these victories really, really tell a story. about
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: anti-Semitism and Jew hate, which now has become a really
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: workable policy, a good policy for the Democrat Party. If
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: you're critical of Israel, critical of Bibi, try to hide
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: your anti-Semitism by mentioning Zionism, you're not fooling anybody. You
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: tend to win. What are your thoughts on what David
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: Friedman said?
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 14: Well, there's a really dangerous alliance right now. We call
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 14: it here the Red-Green Alliance, where you have the socialists
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 14: slash communists who have aligned themselves together with the Islamists.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 14: And even though they don't really agree on much, the
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 14: Islamists are using the socialists and the communists to get
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 14: a foothold into American politics. They certainly... are against the
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 14: state of Israel, have elicited just unbelievable anti-Semitism. But then
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 14: you have this other threat, which is on the right
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 14: side of the political spectrum here, which are the isolationists.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 9: And they are.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 14: Just looking at Israel's war against the Islamists here in
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 14: the Middle East, and specifically against Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 14: And they don't want the United States to have any
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 14: part of it. So they're blaming Trump's electoral defeat here,
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 14: in the midterms on Netanyahu, on Israel, because Israel convinced
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 14: the United States of the merits of fighting against Iran.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 14: So you've got both the isolationists together with the Islamists
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 14: slash socialists pressing against Israel, allowing anti-Semitism on the basis
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 14: of an opposition to Israeli policy. And unfortunately, it's getting
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 14: normalized on both sides of the political spectrum. And I
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 14: don't really see how it can be reversed because the
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 14: mainstream Republicans and the mainstream Democrats, the moderates on both sides,
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 14: are getting squeezed out of public positions.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: Final 30 to 60 seconds, and you mentioned stalemate at
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: the very top of the conversation. What is the latest?
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: Is there any end in sight to these elections, or
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: are you guys primed in Israel for another election?
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 24: Well, we don't know.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 14: It's probably going to take several weeks, if not a
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 14: couple of months, to figure out for sure if we're
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 14: going to another election, even though it does look every
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 14: day like that's an increasing possibility. But I think the
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 14: situation here is going to get uglier before it gets
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 14: any cleaner. You're going to see the anti-Israel, sorry, the
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 14: anti-Netanyahu situation. opposition tried to replace the speaker of the
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 14: Knesset to take out Amir Ohana, who's a member of
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 14: Netanyahu's Zikoud party, and put in Yair Lapid, who is
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 14: a staunch opponent of Netanyahu, as the speaker of the Knesset.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 14: This is something that was never done before these five
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 14: election cycles, to put in a speaker that is not
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 14: part of a coalition government. And the reason why they
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 14: want to do that is to try to advance some
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 14: laws to that could potentially invalidate Netanyahu from running in
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 14: a future election, either on the basis of retroactive term limits, saying, okay,
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 14: a prime minister can be, let's say, only 10 years,
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 14: and Netanyahu has been 20 years, so he can't run again,
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 14: or to say that you cannot have a prime minister
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 14: who is under trial serving as prime minister. So they
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 14: would try to, again, retroactively invalidate Netanyahu. So the situation
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 14: could get a lot more difficult, a lot more toxic,
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 14: before we get a resolution and before we know if
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 14: we're heading to another election.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: Ah, what a mess. Alex Trayman, I love you. Thank
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: you for hopping on this morning. And I know a
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: lot of you guys, like you, are Trump supporters like
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: me and Republicans and very upset with what happened here
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: in America yesterday. But again, you guys seem to have
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 2: your own problems. So we will be in touch. Alex Trayman,
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: you're the best in the business. Thank you so much. Thanks, Sid.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 14: I think democracy in the entire West, in the United States,
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 14: in Israel, across Europe, not looking that great today, not
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 14: looking that great this year. Hopefully, we'll be able to
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 14: turn it around.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 2: I think you just said it right. Alex, thank you
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: so much, pal. Have a great day. Thanks, Sid. All right.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: Alex Trayman right there, the CEO of JNS.org. We'll take
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: a quick break. Sid and friends.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 3: In the morning on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: Before I hit the stage in New York, I started
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: getting the Florida results back. And I was so happy
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 2: to hear, my dear friend, that we are very, very,
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: very close. The Hebrew Hammer, the great congressman Randy Fine, win.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: But I'll be honest. When I saw that Byron Donalds
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: barely beat David Jolly, and even more alarming than that,
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: that Ashley Moody barely beat that lunatic DSA psycho, Angie Nixon,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: I swear to God, I turned to one of Lawler's people,
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: 10 to 9, I go... I don't like what I'm
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 2: seeing out of Florida. I don't like it. I'm sorry.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: Those two races in particular, if they're that close, that
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: could be bad for the rest of us. And I
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: turned out to be right. Anyway, the guy that did win, though,
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: is the amazing Congressman Randy Fine. And he's on the
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: phone with me right now this morning. Randy Fine, congratulations,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: my friend. Well-deserved.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 9: Thank you, Sid. It was a great night. And I
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 9: was honored. I was the first race in America to
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 9: be called.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: In fact.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 27: Decision Desk HQ called my race before any results came back.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 27: And I'm one of, I think, only two members of Congress,
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 27: Republican members of Congress, who had their margin of win
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 27: increase from their first election to their second.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 9: I won by 19 last night.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 27: I won by 14 in my first election. And that's despite,
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 27: you know, 20 million dollars being spent to beat me
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 27: up over the last two years. So I'm very happy
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 27: about how I did. I'm broken hearted, frankly, though, for
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 27: the country right now. And I'm struggling to wrap my
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 27: head around how these two things happened, how I could
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 27: win so decisively, but how America could lose so badly
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 27: last night.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: Well, you're great. And right now, America's not. I know
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: we're the greatest country in the world, but there's a reason.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: What about what I just said as you were preparing
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: to come on? That Ashley Moody, Angie Nixon race scared
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: the daylights out of me before we started getting all
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: the terrible results at 9 o'clock. Did that make sense
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 2: to you?
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 9: It did. Look, it was not a good night for
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 9: our side last night. I don't think you can make
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 9: any argument that it was. It was terrible.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 27: And I think the fact that Florida held its own,
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 27: we did not lose any members of Congress. We won
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 27: every statewide elected position, showed that we could be a
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 27: clawback to that wave that came over us. I think
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 27: what matters is that they won, and we will be
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 27: able to keep Florida moving.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 9: In the right direction.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: Well, tell me this. You know, I know you're good
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: friends with Mike Lawler, very good friends, such a great
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 2: pro-Israel guy. And I saw Mike cry last night. It
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 2: was really actually very, very sad with his beautiful wife, Dawna,
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: his children, his lovely mother. So many great candidates and
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 2: incumbents that lost last night. And I know people like
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: me and you are very, very staunch President Trump supporters.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: You and I are both, both friends, real life friends
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: with President Trump. I tweeted this morning, I'm not going
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: to stab him in the back. But, but there is
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 2: no question we took a beating last night because a
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 2: lot of people, maybe even now on both sides of
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 2: the aisle, hate our president. Bottom line, forget about Iran,
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: gas prices, oil prices. They hate him. Can you argue
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: that this morning, Randy Fine?
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 9: No, and it's because they don't know him like we
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 9: know him. And we don't know the good man that
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 9: he is and how much he fights every day for this.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 9: I guess that our government didn't care about them. I
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 9: think that's really what it is. They didn't care about
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 9: the problems that they're facing. And maybe that's why my
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 9: margin increased, because the people in my district saw me
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 9: all the time and they saw how hard I worked.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 9: And so they said, we know you're fighting for us.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 9: We see how hard you're working. We're going to support you.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 9: But no, again, this was not a good night.
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  Speaker 27: I'm not going to try to whitewash it and spin
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 27: it and say that it was.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 2: It wasn't.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 27: And look, the real message, God puts us where he
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 27: wants us to be. And and, you know, that's that's
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 27: what I'm struggling with this morning. I know that he
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 27: had me win because he knows I've fought my whole
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 27: life and I've built been built for a fight. But
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 27: God apparently wants to test our country and we need
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 27: to wake up and get ready to lean into that fight. And,
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 27: you know, I mean, like I said, I feel a
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 27: bit of whiplash, happy about my results.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 2: Of course. Right.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 9: So many people who were good people who lost like Lawler.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: Great guy. So tell me this, the great Florida Congressman
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 2: Randy Fine, off a very impressive victory yesterday, which we
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: can't say about a lot of Republicans across the country.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 2: When you go to work today, nothing changes, right? Nothing changes.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 2: But come January, when you go to work and the
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: great Mike Johnson is no longer running the show. Now
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: it's Hakeem Jeffries. And you look to your right and
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 2: there's no Mike Lawler. There's a Kate Conley. And you
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 2: look to your left. And whoever that Democrat is, no
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 2: friend of yours, trust me, is standing to your left.
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: In terms of your daily work, how does all this
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 2: change come January 1?
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 9: You know, I don't know the answer to that yet.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 9: You know, I don't even know at this point.
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 2: Come back to me, Randy. Come on. You're doing great.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 2: I wanted to hear this answer. Willie Bandit, there you go.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 9: We're going to spend the day just trying to figure
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 9: out Who won?
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 2: Who lost?
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 9: What does that mean? I don't know. What I do
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 9: know is this, you know, I mean, I'm now part
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 9: of the insurgency.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 27: We're not running the show. We don't get to decide
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 27: what bills come on the floor. Democrats will likely be
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 27: able to pass just about anything they want out of
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 27: the House. And so our challenge will be to explain
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 27: why those policies are bad, support the president when he
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 27: vetoes them, and.
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 9: Build for the future. But it's going to be, you know,
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 9: this job wasn't fun for me.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 24: When we were in the majority.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 9: It's certainly not going to be fun in the minority.
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 2: But I do want to talk about Johnson because, again,
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 2: you know, the last couple of years, Kevin McCarthy, he
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 2: got ousted and You know, you guys talk to Jim Jordan,
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 2: you talk to Steve Scalise, and eventually Mike Johnson got
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 2: the job, and he just came under fire every day.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 2: People like Trader Marjorie Taylor Greene beat his ass before
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 2: they decided to quit. So his job has been so difficult.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 2: Newt Gingrich says, Mike Johnson, toughest job in America, but
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 2: the guy does a tremendous job. What about Mike Johnson
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 2: now being demoted, in essence, because now Hakeem Jeffries takes
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 2: over as majority? What are your thoughts on the job
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 2: that Mike Johnson did?
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 9: Well, I think from a. The phone, come on, Randy,
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 9: small majority and and Democrats didn't agree with anything we
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 9: were doing.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 27: I think from a political perspective, we can't say that
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 27: he did great given the results last night.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 2: Are you going to so would you place some of
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 2: the blame on him?
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 27: Oh, I place the blame on all of us. You know,
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 27: you you're measured by results. Um, and you know, you,
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 27: the results weren't good. So you can't, you can't avoid that. And,
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 27: you know, I mean, look, I think the speaker is
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 27: of course he shares. So we all share some of
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 27: the blame for what happened last night, even though I
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 27: won as decisively as I did, I'm on that team
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 27: and that team didn't win.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 9: So I fear some of the blame.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: Have you reached out to some of your friends like
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 2: Michael or this morning or even late last night?
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 9: And, um, No, I haven't. I mean, maybe a couple people, but,
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 9: you know, I was just watching the results come in.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 9: I got up not that long ago. I'm not like you.
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 9: I don't have to get up in.
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 2: The middle of the night.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 9: And, you know, I only got up a little while ago. And,
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 9: you know, just having stayed up till like two o'clock
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 9: in the morning watching the results. So, no, I'll be
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 9: on the phone all day. And I go back to D.C.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 9: in a couple of days.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 27: And I told my team, let's set everything aside. We
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 27: now have to build a plan for the future because
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 27: it's going to be a different world. than we expected
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 27: it to be.
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 2: And on the way out, Randy, if you guys thought
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 2: the out-migration from New York to Florida was bad before,
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, who's going to stay here? What sane Republican?
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: Democrats are happy. DSA are happy. Jew haters are happy.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 2: Anti-Americans are happy. Trump haters are happy. But what sane Republican,
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 2: God forbid MAGA like me, who's going to stay here?
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 2: They're coming to see you.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 9: Well, I'd say two things about that. That's why we
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 9: don't call you all New Yorkers anymore. We call you
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 9: all pre-Floridians. But honestly, when you get back to the
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 9: Byron results last night, part of the reason the margin
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 9: was small, you know, Byron won overwhelmingly with people who
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 9: got here in the last five years. It was people
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 9: who've lived in Florida their whole lives who were less happy.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 9: And the reason is, It's more crowded. It's more expensive.
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 9: The problem is everyone with a brain wants to move
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 9: to Florida. It makes it harder to live in Florida
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 9: for those of us who've already lived there. And so
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 9: that's the challenge. That's part of Byron's result last night.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 9: Housing's gone up. Everything's gone up because when you put...
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 9: millions more people in this state. We're not that big.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 9: It's going to make everything more expensive. But yes, I
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 9: do expect to see, because Republicans still rule the day
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 9: in Florida. We want every statewide elected. We still have
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 9: the House. We still have the Senate. We still have
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 9: every member of Congress we did coming in. But, you know,
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 9: we're like an island of sane in a world of crazy.
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 2: You really are. Last one, though. Island of sane. How
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 2: does Debbie Wasserman Schultz keep winning? I can't explain that
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 2: one to me.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 9: Oh, remember like every Democrat won last night. So, I mean,
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 9: that's not a surprise, but she moved districts to a
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 9: very safe democratic seat. There were always of our 28
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 9: congressional seats that were four. There were four that were
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 9: unwinnable by a Republican. She moved to one of those four,
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 9: but we didn't pick up any of the four that they,
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 9: that they designed for us to pick up. We started
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 9: with 20, we ended with 20 and some of those 20,
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 9: we barely won.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 24: I know.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 2: In fact, the former mayor of Boca Raton was on
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 2: with me a couple of times. I like the guy,
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 2: Scott Singler. He was telling me he was beating Jared Moskowitz.
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 2: He didn't beat Jared Moskowitz. Moskowitz stayed.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, he did. All of the Democratic incumbents stayed
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 9: as well. So, you know, like I said, it was
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 9: a good night for them. It was a good night
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 9: for them in Florida.
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 27: But they didn't increase their place on the playing field.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 27: But Moskowitz won, and Darren Soto won, Kathy Castor won. Again,
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 27: there were four seats the Republicans were targeting in Florida.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 9: And we did not win any of them. But look,
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 9: the fact of the matter is the guy who ran
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 9: the campaigns for the United States the chairman of the
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 9: Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. He lost. The guy who was
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 9: in charge of winning lost. So, I mean, it was
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 9: a crazy night.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 2: But you won, and we're happy about that because you
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 2: really are a tremendous congressman and even a better guy.
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 2: You know, you're one of my all-time favorites. Randy Fine,
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 2: congratulations on the victory, and we need you now more
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 2: than ever. So keep fighting, my man. I love you.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 9: Thanks, pal.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 2: It's all I know how to do.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 9: I'll talk to you later.
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 2: I know. God bless you. The Hebrew hammer right there.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 2: Randy Pine, and he was one of the few Republicans
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 2: that actually won. He got a big win in the
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 2: state of Florida yesterday. We'll take a break. More to do.
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 2: We'll go to Wisconsin. We've been to Jerusalem. We've been
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 2: to Florida. We've been to New York City.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 26: Sid and friends in the morning on the Red Apple
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 26: Podcast Network.
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 2: I've said it last night. I said it all morning long.
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 2: No one's going to change my mind. They just hate Trump.
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 2: Because these lunatics, these DSA, anti-American, anti-Semite haters have accomplished nothing.
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 2: Even incumbents like the governor here, Kathy Hochul, she's done nothing.
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 2: The attorney general, black racist, I hate Trump, Letitia James,
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 2: she's done nothing. Nothing. So yes, to quote Genesis, I
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 2: am in a land of confusion, but I'm not really
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 2: because again, it's Trump. That's it. That's it. Ron Johnson
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 2: is one of my favorite people in politics. You guys
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 2: know that an amazing Senator from the great state of Wisconsin.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 2: I guess I'll start with this Ron. Congratulations on your
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee Brewers winning the world series.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 24: Yeah, that, that, that was a bright spot. And, uh,
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 24: puts a smile on my face. It really, it was
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 24: fun to watch. It's a great, they were a team,
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 24: no prima donnas on that, just a team playing fundamental
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 24: baseball and they, they won the world championship. So the
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 24: fans here in Wisconsin are great fans. They've been waiting
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 24: for this for a long time. So that really was
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 24: wonderful versus last night, which was awful. And by the way, Sid,
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 24: I completely agree with you. I think that this was,
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 24: this election was driven by hate of Trump, but, Where
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 24: I disagree with you is when you say that these
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 24: leftist politicians haven't accomplished anything, they've accomplished a great deal
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 24: in terms of infiltrating and taking over our education system
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 24: over the decades, our media, government, the deep state. So again,
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 24: they're very, very relentless. They've got a very long-term view.
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 24: This is a long-term plan of theirs. Dumb down our population.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 24: Take a look at these on-the-street interviews with young people.
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 24: It's frightening what little they know. It's frightening the fact
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 24: that a large percentage of them are embracing socialism. A
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 24: large percentage of the American population. I mean, how can
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 24: that be? I mean, 100 years ago, I can understand
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 24: after the Great Depression looking for a different economic model,
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 24: but now... A century later, when we see the devastation
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 24: of socialism, it destroys economies, nations, people's lives, results in
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 24: the murder of tens of millions of people. And now
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 24: we in America have a rising tide of socialism. So again, no,
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 24: the left has been incredibly effective at undermining this country,
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 24: undermining institutions. And the last night was devastating. I mean,
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 24: it is going to take a long time to claw
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 24: to claw freedom back from these guys.
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 2: You're right. What you said, too, about the left, they
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 2: have done all that. Forget about socialism. Let's graduate to communism.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about anti-Semitism. One candidate alone, Abdul El-Sayed, he
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 2: represents all of that. And he wins relatively easily in
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 2: Michigan over Mike Rogers. But you did agree about President Trump.
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 2: So now Trump comes out this morning. You know how
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 2: much I love President Trump. He says, nah, I'll work
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 2: with the Democrats. Two days ago, they were Democrats. Now
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 2: he's going to work with the Democrats. What does Trump
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 2: do the last two years to restore some sanity to
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 2: our Republican Party?
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 24: It's going to be difficult. I think the question is
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 24: going to be what are Democrats going to do? You know,
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 24: because we lost the Senate, my guess is I'll be
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 24: sitting in another impeachment trial for President Trump, maybe for
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 24: Secretary of State Hegseth. And that's what they're talking about.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 24: I mean, I think one of the Democrat senators, one
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 24: word to tweet, subpoenas.
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I saw another one that said two words,
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: lawyer up. That was scary.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 24: So again, American people want their lot in life improved.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 24: I mean, that is what they want. Socialism won't do it.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 24: Big government spending. Democrats' concept of making life affordable is
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 24: having another government program that will be rife with fraud.
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 24: mortgaging our children's future, but subsidizing the people they don't
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 24: want to subsidize. You know, look at Obamacare. It's been
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 24: a complete disaster. It's not affordable to protect patients, but
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 24: they hid what a disaster has been by these enhanced subsidies.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 24: You know, like nobody's going to notice. And quite honestly,
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 24: most people didn't notice. They don't understand the details of
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 24: these things. So again, we're not educating, we're not educating
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 24: our children, we're not educating the public through the media. And,
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 24: you know, again, I'm, I'm not an optimist, quite honestly.
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 24: I'm not the most uplifting person, but last night was
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 24: not good.
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 2: No, it's terrible. It's awful. I'm with you. I'm not
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 2: an optimist either. I think we're in very, very, very, very,
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 2: very big trouble in this country. I really do. And
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 2: I got to tell you, Republicans, even more than Democrats,
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: that I spoke to Ron Johnson the last couple of weeks,
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 2: they don't like John Thune. Sorry, they don't like him.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 2: Now you've got Chuck Schumer, so maybe they will like
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 2: John Thune a little more this morning. But how's that
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 2: going to be, walking into the Senate on January 1st
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 2: and having everybody's favorite Palestinian, Chuck Schumer, as the new boss?
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 24: It's going to be awful. It's not going to be fun.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 24: As I said, I keep trying to point out to
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 24: people that I sprang from the Tea Party. And unfortunately,
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 24: the Republican establishment pretty well quashed the Tea Party. You know, obviously, obviously,
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 24: I had to join the conference that I'm closest with,
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 24: which is the Republican Party. It's not going to caucus
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 24: with Democrats. But, you know, Republicans did not, you know,
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 24: in the end, they didn't embrace what the Tea Party
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 24: stood for. You know, principled patriotism, principled reverence for the
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 24: values of our founding fathers, the genius of what they
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 24: set up for us, you know, a limited government. fiscal conservatism.
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 24: The Republican Party pretty well just ignored that and they
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 24: became big spenders too. I mean, you know I was
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 24: not a real big fan of the one big beautiful
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 24: bill because we didn't return, we didn't use that vehicle,
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 24: our only chance to return to a reasonable pre-pandemic level spending.
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 24: We went from $ 4. 4 trillion to $ 6. 5 and never looked back.
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 24: This year we spent about $ 7. 4 trillion. There's no justification
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 24: for that, but Republicans didn't dig our heels in. It's
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 24: a huge blown opportunity, one that I'm not happy with
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 24: at all. And of course, trying to buy votes with
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 24: the temporary tax cuts and a road to housing bill
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 24: and the sports bill, that didn't work, did it? No,
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 24: not at all. We need a serious reassessment. They've scheduled
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 24: leadership elections for the next Tuesday. Personally, I think that's
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 24: completely unacceptable. We need to have a discussion at our
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 24: conference and figure out hey, guys, are we going to finally, like,
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 24: embrace some principles to guide our conference?
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 9: Are we going to establish some goals here? Are we
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 9: going to have a strategy? I've been here now, this is,
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 9: you know, 16 years, and we haven't had one yet.
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 2: Wow. I didn't realize that. You know, going back, though,
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 2: to the tweet that one Democrat put out there, lawyer up,
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 2: and the other one, which you talked about, which was impeach.
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 2: He's going to be impeached. There's no doubt about it.
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 2: But the consensus is, is that there will not be
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 2: enough votes in the Senate, even though the Senate flipped
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 2: last night to actually remove President Trump from office. That
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 2: sounds right, right? Probably.
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 24: It kind of depends on what they all find. Now, again,
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 24: had we retained the majority, we probably would have done
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 24: what Schumer did with Secretary Marrakesh when the House impeached him.
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 24: Schumer just dismissed the charges. We probably would have done
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 24: that if we were in control. Now Democrats are in control.
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 24: They're going to be happy to have a trial in
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 24: the Senate for whoever the House decides to impeach. And
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 24: it will depend on what they find.
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 2: Why do I keep hearing Ron Johnson that, like you said,
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 2: it'll be Donald Trump, it'll be Pete Hegseth. Heck, they
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 2: could subpoena, I know it sounds crazy, Sid Rosenberg. Because
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 2: I've been in the president's company, we like each other.
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 2: Do you think it'll be that widespread and that crazy
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 2: the next two years?
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 9: Look at it.
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 24: History shows us leftists are brutal. I mean, they're vicious
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 24: and they crave power. That's that's their unifying motivation. Leftists,
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 24: the liberals, Democrats crave power. And, you know, as Lord
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 24: Atkins said, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 9: Absolutely.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 24: And they've got a lot of power. I mean, obviously,
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 24: they don't absolutely power because you have Trump as president
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 24: for two years, threatening video. you know, saying he's going
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 24: to try and work with them. You know, my concern
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 24: is the definition of working Democrats is just furthermore, Jerry
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 24: kid's future.
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 24: You know, right.
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, do you think in the end though, Ron Johnson, that,
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 2: you know, you talked about how you were a tea
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 2: party guy and the closest thing you had was Republican party,
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 2: but they're not the tea party. Do you think with
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 2: all the Trump talk, let's be honest here that our
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 2: candidates were good enough because I saw a lot of
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 2: guys out there and some women that That I just
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 2: didn't really, they didn't appeal to me. Now, of course,
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 2: I'd vote for them if I was in those cities
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 2: because I'm a MAGA Republican. But to be honest, they
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 2: didn't really appeal to me. You think that was part
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 2: of the issue?
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 24: Without a doubt. I mean, without a doubt. You know, listen,
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 24: you know, I like Darlene Graham. You know, she was
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 24: mourning her brother's loss. she admitted, I don't know anything
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 24: about foreign policy. What was Trump doing all of a
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 24: sudden endorsing her? Ralph Norman would have been a great senator.
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 24: He's a true conservative. And he lost the close primary there.
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 24: This is such a tsunami. I'm not sure whether he
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 24: would have won, but South Carolina did elect a Republican governor.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 24: But Ken Paxton was obviously had all kinds of ethics issues.
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 24: I mean, the Republicans I really respect said they could
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 24: not vote for him. So that was a real issue.
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 24: And again, Tallarico won by a large margin. So obviously
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 24: that was a problem. But again, the sweeping nature of
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 24: the loss here, we don't even know whether we're going
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 24: to win Mississippi.
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 9: Wow.
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 2: That is unbelievable. It really is. So wrapping up this conversation,
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 2: Ron Johnson, and thank God we still love you. I
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 2: mean that sincerely. You know I love you, but thank
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 2: God we still love you. Tsunami is the word. Not
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 2: even we've gone to tsunami. Do you expect it to be,
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 2: and I've kind of intimated it already, but just to
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 2: wrap this up, a very chaotic couple of years?
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 9: It's just hard to predict.
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 24: You know, I mean, the problem is, you know, Republicans,
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 24: we don't like chaos. You know, we... we don't want
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 24: government shutdowns because it actually ends up costing us more
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 24: than anything else. So, I mean, there's always, there's always.
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 24: there always seems to be just enough Republicans to go
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 24: ahead and sign on to the Democrat agenda. But again,
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 24: what that means is we're not going to get spending
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 24: under control. Democrats' only solution is spend more money, throw
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 24: more money at government programs where they waste it. I mean,
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 24: we got Aspen as much as a trillion dollars per
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 24: year in fraud. Democrats have no problem with that. So
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 24: there's always going to be, you know, we got big
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 24: spending Republicans too. That's our problem. You know, the Republican
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 24: party did not embrace the Tea Party movement. They quashed it.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 2: Yep, they did.
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 24: They, you know, So again, that's what I find and
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 24: I've always found enormously frustrating. People like me are vastly
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 24: outnumbered on both sides of the aisle in Washington, D.C.,
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 24: which is why we're $ 40 trillion in debt on a
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 24: path to incur $ 26 trillion in additional debt over the
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 24: next 10 years.
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 7: $ 26 trillion is the projected deficit.
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 2: Ron Johnson, would you like to see the Republican Party
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 2: get very serious about about their next presidential candidate as
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 2: soon as possible?
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 9: J.D.
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 2: Vance announced something. Marco Rubio announced something. Do you want
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 2: to see us move on after getting hammered in the
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 2: House and the Senate to the next election sooner than later?
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 24: We're going to have to, but again, I would like
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 24: a Republican candidate that's going to embrace pretty much the
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 24: principles of the Tea Party.
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 2: Who's the guy out there right now, in your opinion,
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 2: because you're the smartest you really are, who's the guy
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 2: out there right now, a gal, that represents that? Who
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 2: is it?
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 24: We'll have to see who steps forward and what they say.
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 2: Well, you're not about to... It's not J.D. Vance, is it?
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 24: In the end, I will continue, and quite honestly, I'm
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 24: working right now. I'm the chairman of the Senate Budget
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 24: Committee for the next couple of months. I'm working on
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 24: a report. I'll issue it. We'll hold hearings, laying out
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 24: the fiscal situation. We're going to be talking about why
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 24: Social Security is a legal Ponzi scheme and how grossly
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 24: mismanaged it's been. We're going to lay out the facts...
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 24: Because if you're going to solve a problem, we have
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 24: this enormous problem to solve. You have to agree on
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 24: the facts. You have to lay out the principles and
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 24: goals of what your solutions are. Then you work on solutions.
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 24: The problem in Washington, D.C. is everybody's got their solution,
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 24: which is not a solution like the Affordable Care Patient
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 24: Protection Affordable Care Act. It's got a great name. It
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 24: was a complete failure because it was a solution before
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 24: you laid out the reality situation. So that's all I
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 24: can do is what I can do. I'm going to
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 24: keep telling the truth. I'm going to keep laying out
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 24: the facts and we'll see whether other. People running for
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 24: office are going to embrace him. Or whether they're just
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 24: going to use demagoguery and rhetoric and just continue to
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 24: run this nation to the ground.
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, boy. Ron Johnson, you really are great. You're a
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 2: great American. I mean that. You know, I really feel
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 2: that way, too. I'm not just patronizing you. Ron Johnson,
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 2: thank you so much for coming on this terrible morning.
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 2: But you were terrific. Thank you so much.
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 24: Have a great day. Wish I could be more uplifting.
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you're great. God bless you, Ron. Don't ever change, man.
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 2: We need honesty, and you are honest. We'll take a break.
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 2: Still more to come. Pete King wants to stop by
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 2: Long Island. Took a thrashing. Bruce Blakeman did not win yesterday.
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 2: We still love Bruce. Didn't win. Mike Lepetri got hammered.
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 2: Janine Driscoll got hammered. Thank God for Nick LaLotta, I guess.
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 2: We'll talk to Pete King. And we will talk to
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 2: a woman who did win. Hey, we had Randy Fine
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 2: on earlier today.
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 5: Sid and Friends.
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 3: In the Morning on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 2: Rachel Appel. I don't know her. Never met her. Never
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 2: knew who she was before yesterday. And I can't stop
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 2: thinking about this young girl. I can't. I was on
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 2: 86th Street and 1st Avenue Sunday afternoon, not long before
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 2: Rachel collapsed. And I was there to see my beautiful wife, Danielle,
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 2: who was running her 7th New York City Marathon, her
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 2: 41st overall. And I will tell you, in the past,
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 2: I've been concerned and nervous about Danielle and other friends
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 2: that run the race, but never to the extent where
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 2: I thought, oh my God, she may die. And Danielle
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 2: started one of these marathons when I met her, and
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 2: she was about the same age as Rachel Appa. My daughter,
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 2: in fact, is only a year and a half younger
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 2: than Rachel. And to see the video of Appa running
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 2: around mile 14, and her family yelling and screaming, call Rachel,
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 2: and her smiling and waving. And then to read this
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 2: morning that she sent her father a text late in
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 2: the race. I mean, probably mile 20, 21. Dad, I've
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 2: never felt better in my whole life. And less than
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 2: an hour later, she was basically dead. This condition that
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 2: killed her, I never heard of it before. I can't
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 2: even pronounce it, I gotta be honest. But It shuts
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 2: down your liver and your kidneys. And a otherwise very
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 2: healthy young lady. No medical condition. No pre-existing conditions. Nothing.
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 2: She played heels hockey at Bucknell. And not that it matters.
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 2: She was a beautiful young girl. Beautiful. Doesn't matter. But
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 2: you notice that. You can't help but notice that. And
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 2: as a father of a child who's about that age.
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 2: And as the husband of a wife who's been running
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 2: since that age. I can't even imagine what this last
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 2: day has been like. I really can't. Two days, I
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 2: should say. So, while I'm really broken up over the
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 2: election results, and I do think it's a lot worse
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 2: than people are even saying, and our country is in big, big, big,
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 2: big trouble, big trouble, these poor APA family, these parents,
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 2: I just, can we do something? Justin Lewis, can we
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 2: do something? Well, you could set something up, obviously. That's
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 2: what's probably in order.
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 19: Yeah, you have to learn a little bit about the
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 19: condition and if there's something, you know, maybe there's a
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 19: foundation already out there that we could donate to.
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 2: Reach out to the family. Maybe one of you guys
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 2: can actually run next year. I'm too old, okay? I'm
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 2: being serious, Dustin. Train and run the marathon next year
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 2: for Rachel Appel.
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 23: Yeah.
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 2: We got to do something, man. This is just a
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 2: terrible story and I want to help those people. I mean, again,
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 2: this is a day after we learned about that Learjet
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 2: that crashed. That killed nine innocent people, including two babies.
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 2: Almost the same exact age as Mike Lawler's kids. They're babies.
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 2: So one day after another, it's just been really depressing.
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 2: Thank God for Randy Fine down in Florida. And thank
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 2: God for my next guest. who's a rock star. She
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 2: was on with us yesterday. She's an amazing lady. Star
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 2: on Staten Island, star in Brooklyn, and she won yesterday.
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 2: How about that? A Republican that actually won my friend
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 2: Nicole Maliotakis. Nicole, good morning. Congratulations.
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 23: Good morning, Sid. Thank you. And thank you to the
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 23: people of Brooklyn and Staten Island who had my back.
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 23: Remember when we started this journey, we had to go
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 23: to court. We had to go all the way to
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 23: the U.S. Supreme Court just to protect the district lines,
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 23: to preserve the voices of the people of Staten Island
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 23: and Brooklyn. And yesterday they came out resoundedly. And I
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 23: very much appreciate that they have my back and are
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 23: sending me to Washington to continue to fight for our
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 23: community and our country.
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 2: Why do you think? And I asked Randy Fine the
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 2: same thing, although most of the people in those districts
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 2: that were supposed to win did win. Why do you
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 2: think you had all the success and yet some of
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 2: your best friends, incumbents, who are great at their job,
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 2: did not?
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 23: You know, I think it's hard to say. You have
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 23: to look at the specific district's dynamics, but it is
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 23: surprising in the bluest of cities when we have an
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 23: enrollment disadvantage that really is double-digit Democrat advantage in my
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 23: district that we were able to win and win handedly.
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 23: And then you see ruby red districts in red states
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 23: where we've lost good people. And a lot of my
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 23: colleagues that did not prevail yesterday, these are Very good Americans.
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 23: They're passionate about their work. They were in Congress for
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 23: the right reasons. And to me, it's very sad to
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 23: see them go because they're the members you want. They're
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 23: the members that you actually want in Congress, people who
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 23: are fighting for the right thing. Look, I think a
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 23: lot of it has to do with the local climate.
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 23: In this state, people in my district were very unhappy
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 23: with the election of Zoran Mandani. They were very unhappy
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 23: with Kathy Hochul, very unhappy with Chuck Schumer. And they
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 23: didn't vote for Joe Biden. They voted for President Trump twice.
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 23: And they feel, I believe, that I'm one of the
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 23: few voices of common sense fighting for this city. And
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 23: I think it's also the fact that we've delivered a
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 23: lot for this district. At the end of the day,
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 23: I have to get Democrat votes to win. And I
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 23: think Democrats cross over and vote for me because I've
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 23: delivered for the district. I brought home hundreds of millions
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 23: of dollars for transportation, infrastructure, NYPD, FDNY, our senior centers,
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 23: and a Fort Hamilton Army base, and our Brooklyn VA.
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 23: And also, we have great constituent services. We've helped 25,000
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 23: people in our district resolve very complicated cases. Everything from,
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 23: you know, when people, sometimes the IRS thinks you're dead,
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 23: we have to resolve that issue. So you have difficulty
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 23: getting your social security disability. We're there. You're at the,
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 23: you know, you have a vacation in a week. You
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 23: realize your passport's expired. We can help with that. Immigration issues.
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 23: And I think at the end of the day, constituent
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 23: services matter. And I don't know, you know, it's hard
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 23: to tell what happens in other districts. And then of course,
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 23: there's some people who are genuinely upset with the president
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 23: and They think he went too far, too fast on
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 23: certain issues, whether it be the Doge cuts or whether
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 23: it be immigration. And that was all obviously a big
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 23: thing that was expressed last night. Um, and so, you know,
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 23: we go to Washington now, we, we need to obviously
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 23: assess everything that's going on, but, but, but it's going
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 23: to be much harder for people like me to be
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 23: able to do my job. You know, not only am
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 23: I in this sea of Democrats here in New York city,
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 23: but now we have some really radical members, Democrats that
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 23: were elected last night and they're going to be empowered
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 23: because they're going to have this large majority and that's
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 23: going to make it much harder to fight for our
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 23: city and and for our country and stop this socialism train.
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 23: But we will prevail, I believe. But it has become
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 23: significantly more difficult to stop this socialist train wreck that
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 23: is trying to attack us.
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 2: We are not going to prevail, by the way. We
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 2: have great people like you, thank God, and Randy and others.
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 2: We're not going to prevail. We're in big trouble. That's
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 2: my opinion. Maybe I'm not the optimist that you are.
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 2: But I will ask you this, you know, a couple
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 2: years ago when I really started to get into this
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 2: and started to gain some popularity in New York and
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 2: even around the country, even with President Trump. I go
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 2: back to that dinner we had, Nicole, the night before
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 2: they threw me out of the State of the Union.
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 2: And sitting at that table was you, Anthony D'Esposito. He
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 2: lost the next time around to Laura Gillen, who won
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 2: again yesterday. She beat Janine Driscoll. And Mike Lawler. And
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 2: Mike Lawler, I was there last night hosting his event.
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 2: When I arrived, we never even considered a loss. Didn't
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 2: even consider it. And by 9.30 last night, just about
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 2: everybody there was crying. So I go back to that dinner,
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 2: how close you were with Anthony, with Mike. Forget about
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 2: people outside the state. Inside the state, they're gone now.
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 2: What does that mean to you?
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 23: Yeah. Look, Mike Lawler is a great member. I mean, again,
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 23: it goes back to the ones who lost last night
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 23: are the members you really want. Mike Lawler is the
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 23: type of member who was pragmatic. He was willing to
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 23: work across party lines. He fought like hell for his district.
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 23: He delivered results. And he was always a voice of
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 23: reason and common sense within the conference. That was, I think,
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 23: a more shocking loss. I really thought Mike was going
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 23: to win this race. I was shocked that he conceded
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 23: so early and that it was done so early. But
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 23: then when you look at my colleagues in Long Island,
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 23: and thankfully, Nick LaLotta, Andrew Garbarino, both great members from
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 23: Long Island, they pulled through. But it was a really
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 23: tight margin. really tight margins. And, you know, it was look,
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 23: I think it was a shock. And I think we
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 23: need to learn from this as Republicans. We need to
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 23: look at the members who won and and say, what
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 23: are they doing right? And then look at the members
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 23: who lost and say, is there something that could have
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 23: been done better, whether it's a communication, whether it's helping
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 23: them have the resources to get their message out next
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 23: time around. I think the silver lining in all this
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 23: is we're gonna have a rough two years, but I
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 23: think the Democrats are gonna behave so terribly and they
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 23: will disappoint the American people so much that it will
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 23: guarantee that we keep the White House safe Republicans keep
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 23: the White House in 2028. So I think that's the
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 23: silver lining here. New York's in trouble. That is a
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 23: different story. New York is in trouble. And I was
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 23: on your show, I was on multiple shows saying Republicans
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 23: needed to come out in presidential numbers and they didn't.
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 23: And that was our failure because if everyone who came
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 23: out in the presidential year and voted for President Trump
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 23: voted yesterday for Bruce Blakeman, he would be governor today.
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 23: That is a fact. That is a fact. The numbers
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 23: show that. Sadly, they did not come out. And now
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 23: we have to deal with the consequences of apathy, voter apathy.
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 2: Listen, you know how much I love President Trump. So
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 2: do you. We're both very close friends of the president.
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 2: But anybody who held a rally in their district and
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 2: had Trump there lost yesterday. So I've been talking all
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 2: morning long with every guest I had. I called into
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 2: WABC from Lawler's headquarters last night. I'm not going to
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 2: lie to you. I spoke to a few Republicans. Forget
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 2: about Democrats, Nicole. Republicans. First thing they said to me
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 2: was Trump. So, you know, we can talk about Iran.
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 2: We can talk about gas. We can talk about eggs.
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 2: We can talk about inflation. We can talk about those,
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 2: whatever you want. But even Republicans were saying last night,
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 2: the country has just grown tired of Trump and they're angry.
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 2: And that's why you guys took it on the chin
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 2: last night. That's what they said.
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 23: No, and I don't disagree with that assessment. I think that,
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 23: you know, there's a lot of things that could have
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 23: been done differently. And I think, you know, it was
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 23: hard to get him sometimes to stay focused on our
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 23: successes and focus on what we were doing that was
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 23: good that we needed to get out there more and
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 23: talk about. You know, sometimes these rallies are filled with
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 23: a lot of rhetoric and talk about nonsense when we
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 23: need to really focus on the wins. Because under President
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 23: Donald Trump, we have delivered a lot of success.
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 2: No doubt.
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 23: Yes, we have challenges, but we did deliver the largest
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 23: middle class tax cut. We did secure the border. The
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 23: number of criminals that have been removed from New York
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 23: City because we were in control. Look, convicted murderers, rapists,
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 23: sex offenders, drug traffickers, the worst of the worst. They've
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 23: been removed. They were walking free because of Kathy Hochul
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 23: and Zoran Mondani. If it were not for President Trump,
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 23: this city would be much, much less safe. And so
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 23: those are facts. Fentanyl deaths have come down 24% in
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 23: just the first year after he secured the border. There
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 23: have been a lot of good wins, trillions of dollars
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 23: in private investment. The problem is when we talk about
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 23: all sorts of other things, like the reflecting pool.
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 9: It's not helpful.
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 22: I know.
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 5: I'm with you.
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 2: Trust me. I know.
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 23: And the Kennedy Center and things like that that are just,
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 23: you know.
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 9: Silly.
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 23: So I think we need to be more disciplined. in
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 23: our communication, talk about what we've done to make this
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 23: country safer, more secure, make it more affordable. Look, we
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 23: inherited a disaster from Joe Biden. I mean, people know that.
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 23: I mean, the border was a disaster, 9% inflation, things
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 23: were not good. It's going to take time to undo
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 23: that mess, but we did have a lot of good
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 23: things that we accomplished in two years. Sadly, much of
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 23: it could be potentially erased. Who knows what they're going
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 23: to try to pull with the Department of Homeland Security
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 23: and taxes and all that. We just need to, I think, reevaluate.
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 23: We know what went wrong here. Let's try to figure
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 23: out how we're going to you know, try to push
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 23: back on these people so we could survive.
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 2: Survive is the key word. Two more in the house,
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 2: I'll let you run. And I asked Randy Fine this earlier,
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 2: and his answer will probably be the same as yours.
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 2: Your new boss, basically, boss is the wrong word, obviously, speaker,
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 2: is Hakeem Jeffries. It was Mike Johnson. How much of
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 2: a change is that going to be for you, going
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 2: from Johnson to Jeffries?
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 23: I mean, it couldn't be a bigger swing. This is
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 23: what I'll say. Hakeem is actually my neighboring district, right?
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 23: I served with him one term, my first term in
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 23: the New York State Assembly. He was in the assembly.
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 23: You know, I think I can get along with him.
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 23: I think that we're going to disagree a lot. And
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 23: I think what I'm most concerned about is the radical
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 23: bunch that he has in that conference. I think that
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 23: even he... is not as left-wing as you think he is.
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 23: I think it's going to be these crazies that push
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 23: him more and more to the left.
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 2: When you say these crazies, two in particular, that one
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 2: last night, Chevalier, who wipes her dirty hands with the
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 2: American flag, she hates our country, Valdez. These people are
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 2: much worse than Hakeem Jeffries, right?
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 9: Exactly.
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 2: No, exactly.
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 23: And then you've got the other guy from New Jersey,
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 23: character witness for the Blind Sheik.
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 23: I mean, come on. This is like crazy stuff. And
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 23: these people are going to be the ones that really
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 23: dictate the agenda. It's going to be those radicals that
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 23: are going to be empowered. Because if Hakeem wants to
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 23: be speaker, he's going to have to make deals to
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 23: keep them and their support. And that's what I'm more
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 23: concerned about. So, you know, it's going to be rough
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 23: out there. It's going to be rough for two years.
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 23: But thankfully, we still have President Trump in the White
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 23: House and he's going to be able to veto a
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 23: lot of their nonsense. There's going to be a real
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 23: showdown here.
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 23: And, you know, they're going to waste a lot of time, investigations,
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 23: investigations and hearings and all that sort of stuff. And
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 23: so we'll see.
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 2: No, but you say, you know, you say they're going
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 2: to waste a lot of time. I just had Ron
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 2: Johnson on. I love the guy. He's a senator from Wisconsin. So, look,
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 2: you know, a couple years ago when the House would
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 2: impeach President Trump, the Senate would just throw out the charges. Well,
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 2: now you've lost the Senate, too. We've lost the Senate, too.
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 2: So all of a sudden, those waste-of-time investigations may be
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 2: a lot hairier than the president, who I love, his family,
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 2: friends like me. Anybody can be subpoenaed. You just don't know.
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 2: And now that we don't have the House or the Senate,
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 2: this could get a little hairy, Nicole.
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 23: Yeah.
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 23: Yeah, no, definitely. I mean, they do not have the
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 23: votes to impeach, I mean, to convict in the Senate.
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 23: But yeah, look, it's going to be a showdown. There's
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 23: no doubt about it. And we've, you know, we're concerned
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 23: about this the entire time. We were hoping that we
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 23: could be a little more reasonable when it comes to
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 23: certain policies. I think we do need to do something
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 23: about immigration. We can't continue down this path. We're going
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 23: to need to continue what we're doing in enforcing immigration laws,
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 23: but look for legal pathways for people to come to
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 23: this country, to contribute to our society, to help our economy.
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 23: Our healthcare system needs workers. There's going to, we need
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 23: to look at, look at the big picture here. And
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 23: I think on, on, You know, but but hopefully this
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 23: war is going to end soon, because that was, I think,
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 23: a big problem in this election.
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 2: You know, I said I said months ago on that
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 2: Tuesday night that he should have just leveled them. I'm
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 2: going back like six months ago. He said, nah, I'll
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 2: give him 10 more days. If he would have done
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 2: that good, better and different and we weren't still talking
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 2: about Iran, it wouldn't have hurt us as much as
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 2: it hurt us yesterday. We never should have kept this
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 2: thing going this long.
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 9: Bottom line.
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 23: Yeah, no one thought it was going to take this long,
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 23: and that's the other issue. So, I mean, there was
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 23: more complications there than we anticipated, but people do need
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 23: to remember that we did not have boots on the ground,
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 23: which was the number one thing that American people did
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 23: not want. So, you know, we had to do it
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 23: in a different way. But every time you thought there
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 23: was a deal, the deal blew up, right?
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 23: Well, they're never going to make a deal.
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 2: They're never going to make a deal.
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 23: Yeah, sometimes with– and same thing, though, with the tariffs, right? Canada, Mexico,
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 23: every time you think there's close to a deal, it
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 23: falls apart. So it's hard. It's– governing is not easy.
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 23: Negotiating with other countries and particularly the number one state
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 23: sponsor of terrorism.
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 9: Is not easy.
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 23: He did this for the right reason because our national
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 23: security– look, this is a– I don't want to have
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 23: this debate again, but I'm just going to simply lay
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 23: it out here that they were very close to having
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 23: a nuclear weapon. They have attempted to assassinate the president
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 23: and the first family. They threatened to attack us on
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 23: our own soil. They were supporting Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis,
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 23: the worst terrorist organizations. And, you know, something needs to
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 23: be done. We could not continue with these threats that
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 23: were out there and how close they were to a
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 23: nuclear weapon. Now, we had wished that it would just had...
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 23: finish sooner and we wouldn't be dealing with this right now.
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 9: And I agree with you.
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 23: That was a big complication. But I think a lot
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 23: of it is also the rhetoric. A lot of it
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 23: is the lack of focus on the important issues. Again,
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 23: I think there's other things out there that could have
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 23: been a lot of unforced errors.
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 2: A lot of those. That's a good way to put it.
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 2: Unforced errors. Unforced errors.
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 2: Last 30 seconds, my friend Jay Feeley, the great football
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 2: player for the Jets and Giants, and played on 10 teams.
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 2: He lost... Excuse me. He lost in Arizona yesterday. But
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 2: your good buddy, a man who was on the last
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 2: Yankee team to win the World Series, Mark Teixeira, is
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 2: now a colleague of yours.
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 23: Yeah, well, that definitely is a silver lining, that at
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 23: least Mark Teixeira will be in Congress. And as a
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 23: Yankee fan, he was always my favorite player. As a
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 23: Yankee fan, I'm very excited to serve with Mark Teixeira.
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 23: He's going to be a great member. He's very well-spoken.
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 23: He's charismatic. It's good looking, and he's going to be
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 23: a very, very strong member. I think you're going to
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 23: see a lot of good things from him in the future.
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 23: So that was a positive victory.
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 2: Otherwise, Texas took a beating yesterday outside of Mark Teixeira.
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 2: Texas completely fell apart. We lost them. Nicole, congratulations to you.
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 2: I'm not surprised you won. You're amazing at what you do.
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 2: You're not even good. You're amazing. And now the work
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 2: gets harder. Like I said to Randy Pine, we needed
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 2: you before. Now we really need you. So good luck,
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 2: and we'll talk often, I'm sure. Nicole, I love you.
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 2: Great job.
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 23: Thank you, my friend. Appreciate you.
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 2: God bless you. You too. Nicole Maliotakis right there, and
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 2: she got a win, which did not come very often yesterday.
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 2: We'll break Peter King. He says, quote, I've got a
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 2: lot to say. I've got to hop on. We'll bring
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 2: on the former congressman. Not a good day on Long Island. Yes,
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 2: Garbarino won, and And Lolota won, but a lot of
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 2: folks didn't win.
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 26: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 26: Podcast Network.
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 17: 24-year-old Rachel Apa passed away after collapsing in Central Park
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 17: during the New York City Marathon on Sunday. Let's talk
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 17: about rhabdomyolysis and what happened. A former Division I field
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 17: hockey athlete at Bucknell University, she was pursuing an MBA
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 17: at Charleston Southern University. Rachel ran the marathon with the
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 17: Parkinson's champions team in honor of her grandfather, who was
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 17: her role model growing up, but passed away in 2022.
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 17: Around mile 24, her tracker stopped moving. Bystanders witnessed her
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 17: collapse and began performing CPR on her before marathon medical
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 17: personnel arrived on scene and continued to provide emergency care,
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 17: including use of a defibrillator. She was taken by ambulance
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 17: to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she unfortunately passed away that evening.
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 17: According to media outlets, the family reportedly was told that
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 17: she had died due to rhabdomyolysis. So what is rhabdomyolysis?
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 17: Also known as rhabdo, this is a condition that can
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 17: occur when skeletal muscle tissue breaks down and releases its
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 17: contents into the bloodstream. These products include creatine kinase and myoglobin.
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 17: When myoglobin is filtered by the kidneys, it leads to
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 17: generation of damaging reactive oxygen species, as well as formation
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 17: of solid casts that can block the renal tubules. There
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 17: are many potential causes such as trauma, severe burns, overexertion, overheating,
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 17: certain medications, infections, and metabolic and genetic disorders. With high-intensity
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 17: exercise like running a marathon, repetitive muscle use and exertion
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 17: is certainly a consideration. In some individuals, under-training can be
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 17: a contributor. Symptoms include the classic triad of muscle pain
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 17: that is more severe or significant than what one typically experiences,
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 17: muscle weakness or stiffness, and dark urine, which can be
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 17: due to myoglobin. Other warning signs include swelling, nausea or vomiting,
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 17: and confusion or dizziness. Diagnosis is typically made by checking
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 17: creatine kinase levels, and electrolyte and urine abnormalities can be
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 17: seen as well. Most patients do well, with the mainstay
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 17: of treatment being aggressive hydration, typically with IV fluids like
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 17: normal saline. Some patients can have electrolyte imbalances such as hyperkalemia,
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 17: which can lead to heart block or cardiac arrhythmias. Therefore,
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 17: electrolytes are monitored and managed as well. In more severe cases, patients.
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 1: May need dialysis.
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 17: In general, some ways you can help reduce the risk
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 17: of rhabdo include gradually building up training volume and intensity,
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 17: having adequate rest and recovery between hard efforts, hydrating appropriately,
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 17: being careful in heat and humidity, understanding and recognizing warning signs,
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 17: listening to your body, and knowing your medications and other
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 17: medical risk factors that may be present. This is a
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 17: terrible tragedy. My deepest condolences, thoughts, and prayers go out
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 17: to Rachel's family and loved ones. Please consider supporting her
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 17: by contributing to our fundraising page for Parkinson's, a cause
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 17: that was clearly meaningful.
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 1: And impactful for her.
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 2: This young, beautiful girl dying on the marathon trail two
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 2: miles before completion, and obviously on a much different note,
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 2: not nearly as tragic, not nearly as tragic, although it
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 2: could be really cataclysmic down the road, is the election
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 2: results last night, which basically hands our Congress, both chambers,
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 2: over lunatics. That's it. The Lunatics are in charge. What
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 2: is that song, Lou, that... Pink Floyd? Yes! We can't
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 2: play them because Roger Waters hates the Jews, but... Just
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 2: more good news. I know, more good news. Roger Waters.
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 2: But that's a perfect song. What is it? Lunatics on
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 2: the Fringe. What is it called again? It's... The Lunatic
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 2: is in my brain. Something like that, yeah. Anyway, they're
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 2: in charge and... It's on Dark Side of the Moon.
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 2: It is on Dark Side of the Moon. You're right.
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 2: But you could send something to Rachel Appa. She ran
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 2: the race. Everybody runs a race for something. Danielle and
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 2: her friend Jessica ran the race this year with Tom
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 2: Biggers and the NYPD. They do it every year. My
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 2: friend Tiki Barber ran the race for kids, I think.
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 2: But in Rachel's case, her grandfather, who she was very,
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 2: very close with, I hear. I don't know her. And
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 2: she loved him very, very much. He died in 2022
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 2: from Parkinson's. And this was her first marathon. She was
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 2: a collegiate athlete, played field hockey at Bucknell University, but
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 2: never ran a marathon. This was her first marathon, and
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 2: she was running it for her late grandfather, who died
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 2: of Parkinson's. So you can go to her page, Rachel Appa,
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 2: and still donate. Now in her memory, 24 years old,
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 2: to her late grandfather, which is a tremendous cause, obviously Parkinson's.
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 2: And you can do the Apa family good, at the
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 2: very least, by doing that. Rest in peace, Rachel Apa.
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 2: We'll take a short break. When we get back, he's
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 2: on every Wednesday. We love him. King Giuliani, Giuliani King.
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 2: I don't care what, you know, how you have it. One, two,
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter to me. One of the greatest politicians
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 2: in the history of New York.
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 26: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 26: Podcast Network.
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 2: Nancy Mace. I don't talk to her at all. She's
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 2: a psycho. Anthony D'Esposito is in the Labor Department. Mike
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 2: Lawler just lost. I've got all these Congress numbers in
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 2: my phone and Willie outside and Nicole and Randy Fine.
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 2: And I barely talk to Garbarino all the loader, but
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 2: I'm running out of people to talk to in Congress.
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 2: Peter King, amazing congressman, Homeland Security. Peter, take the floor, man.
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 2: Not a very good night last night.
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 9: No, it really wasn't.
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 7: Let me just say up front about Bruce Blakeman. He
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 7: ran a phenomenal campaign. And when people say that he
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 7: never had a chance of winning, he had more of
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 7: a chance of winning in New York than the Democrats
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 7: did in Texas or Kansas or South Carolina. So to me,
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 7: and yet Kathy Hochul never had more than a 50
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 7: percent favorable rating. Bruce ran a great race. And here
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 7: in Nassau County, Even though there's 85,000 to 90,000 more Democrats,
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 7: Republicans won the county legislature. Your friend Mazi got over
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 7: 60% of the vote. We kept the towns of Oyster Bay.
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 7: We did Phenomenal Inn and North Hempstead, which is a
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 7: Democratic town. So we did well considering everything else. But
• 2:15:14
  Speaker 7: so I got to say, we have to stop the
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 7: personality cult with President Trump. I mean, that is the
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 7: reason we lost. And listen, I consider him a friend.
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 7: I always had very good relations with him. But the
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 7: fact is, you're talking about the price of gas. The
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 7: price of gas was up. That was a metaphor. The
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 7: price of gas was up because of the war, which
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 7: I support and you support. The president never really explained
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 7: the war. He kept saying it was going to be over.
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 2: Not only that, he had the opportunity to end it
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 2: when I wanted him to, that Tuesday night four months ago,
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 2: and it's still going on.
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 24: Right.
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 9: Yet he somehow denies that. He said, well, actually, it
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 9: is over.
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 7: Iran doesn't have a navy anymore. Who cared about Iran's navy?
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 7: The fact is they still have the missiles. We should
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 7: have taken them out. We should have gone after them.
• 2:15:58
  Speaker 7: And then acknowledge that to the American people. And don't
• 2:16:01
  Speaker 7: deny the fact that the economy is rough. I mean,
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 7: the tariffs have caused tremendous loss of jobs in places
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 7: like Michigan and around the country. And the president, basically,
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 7: he was, to me, the metaphor. What was really the
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 7: icing on the cake or the final nail in the
• 2:16:17
  Speaker 7: coffin was, was there was a day before the election,
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 7: his final speech, he's wearing a baseball cap in front
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 7: of the reflecting pool, talking about the piping in the
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 7: reflecting pool and the new grass on the White House lawn.
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 7: And when people are having a tough time economically, he
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 7: should always have the White Houses decorated in gold. Every
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 7: time you look, there's more gold in there. And then also,
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 7: we spent more time This spring, getting ready for the election,
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 7: by going after people like John Cornyn, Bill Cassidy, and others,
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 7: especially Cornyn. He's a guy who was 99% with the president,
• 2:16:51
  Speaker 7: but it wasn't a perfect match. So we actually took
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 7: him out. He would have won easily, I believe, and
• 2:16:56
  Speaker 7: it wouldn't have cost any money. Instead, we had to
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 7: put hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars in there,
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 7: money which could have gone to someone.
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 9: Like Janine Driscoll. I mean, Janine's district. Anthony won it
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 9: by two. We lost it by two. That was a
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 9: swing district. She never got a penny for Washington. Nothing.
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 2: Zero.
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 7: And so that's what we were up against. And we
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 7: have to start, I think, running and separate ourselves. Listen,
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 7: I agree with so much of what President Trump has
• 2:17:21
  Speaker 7: done on the other hand. He's got to stop talking
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 7: about how he got robbed in the last election. And
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 7: we have to stop here in New York saying that
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 7: Ben Domi won because the election was stolen, because of
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 7: his money.
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 2: I never say that. I never say that.
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 9: No, no. It's idiotic.
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 7: I agree with you on that. I've heard you say
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 7: that a number of times. We don't lose because of
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 7: stolen elections. We don't lose because of foreign money that's
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 7: sneaking into the country. We lose because they're getting the
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 7: better of the arguments. And we have to get our
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 7: good candidates out there. That's why, listen, George Carter was
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 7: a friend. I'm not saying all these things because he's
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 7: a friend, but the fact is, in spite of all
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 7: the odds around the country, I mean, again, a person
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 7: like Kansas never elected Democrats. Now they've elected a Democratic
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 7: senator for the first time in almost 100 years. And
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 7: there's a county with 85,000 to 90,000 more Democrats elected
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 7: We kept the county legislature. We kept almost all our candidates. Now,
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 7: we lost in town to Hempstead, a town supervisor, but
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 7: we won in North Hempstead. We won at Oyster Bay.
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 7: That's Tom Swasey's district. Oyster Bay, Joe Saladino got like 58,
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 7: 59% of the vote.
• 2:18:23
  Speaker 9: He's great.
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 2: Love that guy. Yeah, love that guy.
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 9: It can be done, and we focus on those issues,
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 9: but instead, we have this loyalty test with President Trump,
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 9: and it can't do that. The country is too... divided
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 9: to say you got to stay with Trump whenever you want.
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 2: Well, you heard me. I know you've been listening all
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 2: morning long. I've been very honest. I told you that
• 2:18:41
  Speaker 2: I spoke. Yeah, I spoke to candidates who told me,
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 2: first thing I said was Trump. And these were Republicans
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 2: who love him. Look, Blakeman had a couple rallies with Trump.
• 2:18:52
  Speaker 2: Maybe he wouldn't do that again. Mike Lawler had a
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 2: big rally with Trump. Maybe he wouldn't do that again.
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 2: I don't know. But I'm not arguing with you. I
• 2:19:01
  Speaker 2: love the president. I think he's done more good than bad.
• 2:19:04
  Speaker 2: But he picked some really odd people. Odd as being nice,
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 2: mind you, like Lindsey Graham's sister. He does tend to
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 2: lose his focus and talk about stuff that nobody cares about.
• 2:19:17
  Speaker 2: In the Iran war, John and KT can talk to
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 2: their blue in the face. We won nothing. I said
• 2:19:23
  Speaker 2: it months ago. I took them both to task. We
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 2: won nothing. And last night was a clear indication of that.
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 9: And yet we have to do it. That's the tragedy
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 9: of it.
• 2:19:33
  Speaker 17: Right.
• 2:19:33
  Speaker 9: But finish it.
• 2:19:35
  Speaker 2: Finish it, though.
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 9: It's an absolutely essential. I agree. And we can face
• 2:19:40
  Speaker 9: up to the American people saying no war is easy.
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 9: And we're going to do whatever we have to do
• 2:19:44
  Speaker 9: to win this. We are going to win it. It's
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 9: going to take sacrifice. Your gas prices may go up.
• 2:19:48
  Speaker 9: Things may be tough, but it's going to save your
• 2:19:50
  Speaker 9: children and grandchildren. We've got to get it done. And
• 2:19:53
  Speaker 9: no exaggeration, we're going to go into whatever we have
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 9: to do as long as it takes. And we have
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 9: to stand with our allies in the Middle East. Because
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 9: those Arab countries, they will drop us in a second
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 9: if they don't think we're going to win. If they
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 9: think we're going to bail out or we're going to
• 2:20:06
  Speaker 9: fall back, those people will sell us out. The only
• 2:20:08
  Speaker 9: real ally we have over there is Israel.
• 2:20:10
  Speaker 7: But as far as Iran, no.
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 9: It's serious. I mean, you can't beat in 10.
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 7: Days or five days A country of fanatics that has
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 7: all those rockets and missiles.
• 2:20:20
  Speaker 9: But we can do it if we stay with it.
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 9: And we can do it with a minimum of loss
• 2:20:24
  Speaker 9: of life. One life is too many. But certainly keep
• 2:20:26
  Speaker 9: it to a minimum. But it's going to be sacrificed
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 9: on the American people. 100%.
• 2:20:31
  Speaker 2: So what do you think... I know that LaPetrie lost
• 2:20:35
  Speaker 2: to Swazi and Driscoll lost to... What's her name? Gillum.
• 2:20:38
  Speaker 2: She's now won two times in a row. Marzi did win.
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 2: I do love Marzi Pilip. What do you think the...
• 2:20:45
  Speaker 2: I guess... operation moving forward for Joe Cairo, even Republicans
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 2: on a national level, a federal level. What do you
• 2:20:53
  Speaker 2: think they do now, Peter King, moving forward?
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 7: It's really a slow fight forward. I mean, we did
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 7: this back in the early 1990s. You have to build
• 2:21:01
  Speaker 7: an organization at the state level. You got to start
• 2:21:03
  Speaker 7: recruiting candidates. You got to get out there. You got
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 7: to be serious about it. I mean, Joe Cairo, and again,
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 7: I keep forgetting, also Jesse Garcia in Suffolk County. I mean,
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 7: Andrew Garbarino, whose district now is mostly in Suffolk, he
• 2:21:16
  Speaker 7: won Tight race, but he won. La Lona, who's entirely
• 2:21:19
  Speaker 7: in Suffolk, he won. And they lost a few small
• 2:21:24
  Speaker 7: legislative seats, but the fact is, overall, they did well.
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 7: Nassau and Suffolk, it's a full-time job. Joe Cairo is 24-7,
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 7: 365 days a year. Garcia is the exact same way.
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 7: And you can't just be coming in and picking up
• 2:21:39
  Speaker 7: some candidates. It's almost like some drunk ones in off
• 2:21:45
  Speaker 7: the street. They give a nomination to run for Congress
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 7: in Brooklyn or the Bronx or something. You have to
• 2:21:51
  Speaker 7: work on it. and you've got to be willing to
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 7: take a few losses, and you've got to get people
• 2:21:54
  Speaker 7: in there, and you've got to stay on it. And
• 2:21:57
  Speaker 7: we've got to get away from people like Curtis, people
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 7: running like that.
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, clowns. Clowns.
• 2:22:02
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 2: And you can't even move with your beautiful daughter Erin
• 2:22:06
  Speaker 2: and your great-grandchildren, those lovely kids, because Roy Cooper won there,
• 2:22:11
  Speaker 2: and he's a monster.
• 2:22:13
  Speaker 9: Yeah, he won by 20 points.
• 2:22:14
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 2:22:15
  Speaker 9: He won by 20 points, yeah. And also Virginia Fox,
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 9: she's been there forever. It looks like she's losing her seat.
• 2:22:20
  Speaker 9: We're losing all these seats. None of them ever should
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 9: have lost. We really shouldn't have. I mean, at worst,
• 2:22:27
  Speaker 9: in an off-year game, we lost four or five seats. Okay,
• 2:22:30
  Speaker 9: that's just part of the game, the law of averages.
• 2:22:34
  Speaker 9: But even with that, it wasn't like the Democrats. This
• 2:22:36
  Speaker 9: is no FDR or JFK or even LBJ. They have nothing.
• 2:22:40
  Speaker 7: They have say ads. If you had told me that
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 7: we're going to be running races and the biggest names
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 7: of the Democratic Party, El Sayyed and Mandami, I'd say, God,
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 7: we're going to win everything.
• 2:22:50
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 2:22:50
  Speaker 9: Instead, I mean, we didn't win. We got killed.
• 2:22:53
  Speaker 2: Killed. And the margin of losses was huge. Didn't just
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 2: lose races, but races you think, yeah, we lose by
• 2:22:59
  Speaker 2: four or five points. We lost by 15 and we
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 2: got killed. So like, what do we do for governor now?
• 2:23:04
  Speaker 2: We tried two great Long Island guys and it wasn't
• 2:23:07
  Speaker 2: their fault. They both ran great campaigns. Lee Zeldin and
• 2:23:11
  Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman. So what do we do next? Next time
• 2:23:14
  Speaker 2: the governor position pops up again.
• 2:23:16
  Speaker 7: First of all, we've got to stop having this exclusion policy.
• 2:23:19
  Speaker 7: You don't have to support anybody 100%. You can't have
• 2:23:21
  Speaker 7: a fear that if you say something damaging to Trump,
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 7: you're going to lose the nomination or the base is
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 7: going to come after you. Listen, there are still people
• 2:23:29
  Speaker 7: mad at Mazi. I mean, she should have beaten Swazi
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 7: in 2004, but the Republicans undermining her because she said
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 7: something three years before. She was still a registered Democrat.
• 2:23:38
  Speaker 7: She got a better vote than LaPetri got. And she
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 7: ran it in a year, and she's being undermined by
• 2:23:44
  Speaker 7: her own party. I've used that as an example. You
• 2:23:46
  Speaker 7: get a good candidate, if you agree with them on 50%,
• 2:23:48
  Speaker 7: 60% of the time, and they can win, support them,
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 7: go with them, and also get our candidates started early.
• 2:23:54
  Speaker 7: Get them a year or two out and start grooming them,
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 7: getting them around. And also, there's no reason why any
• 2:24:01
  Speaker 7: of those building construction trade unions, any of those members,
• 2:24:04
  Speaker 7: any top of five, even think of endorsing Kathy Hochul.
• 2:24:07
  Speaker 7: I'll leave the Jewish voters to you on how they
• 2:24:09
  Speaker 7: can get involved. And to me, it's just wrong. There's
• 2:24:12
  Speaker 7: so many natural coalitions we could have also in the
• 2:24:15
  Speaker 7: White House. Get rid of a guy like Stephen Miller.
• 2:24:17
  Speaker 7: I mean, he's scaring people off. On immigration, we've sealed
• 2:24:19
  Speaker 7: the border. What more do we have to do? Instead,
• 2:24:22
  Speaker 7: you find families who have been here 20, 25 years
• 2:24:24
  Speaker 7: being dragged out. I have a friend of mine. His
• 2:24:27
  Speaker 7: wife was here since she's 70 years old. She's now
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 7: back in South America. And this is 35 years ago
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 7: she came here with a family. She didn't even know
• 2:24:36
  Speaker 7: that she was here.
• 2:24:38
  Speaker 9: She was here. And if you raise your family, she's
• 2:24:40
  Speaker 9: going to leave the country. And she's trying to get
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 9: back in. And when she's out of the country, then
• 2:24:45
  Speaker 9: they stop giving visas. So she is down there. Her
• 2:24:47
  Speaker 9: husband is an extremely successful, great guy. I'm using that
• 2:24:51
  Speaker 9: as a metaphor. So, again, we've got to comment on it.
• 2:24:55
  Speaker 9: Be strong. Seal the border. Stand with the cops. Stand
• 2:24:58
  Speaker 9: with law enforcement. Stand with the military. And, again, forget
• 2:25:01
  Speaker 9: all the socialist stuff. Go after the socialists. We don't
• 2:25:04
  Speaker 9: have to compromise any of our core beliefs. We can't
• 2:25:07
  Speaker 9: have a personality call. That's basically it. We can't have
• 2:25:10
  Speaker 9: the perfect candidate, except maybe Sid Rosenberg. I mean, really,
• 2:25:14
  Speaker 9: we've got.
• 2:25:14
  Speaker 2: To get out of there. You say that jokingly, but
• 2:25:17
  Speaker 2: I keep saying, when is Joe Cairo going to call me?
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 2: When is Ed Cox going to call me? When is
• 2:25:22
  Speaker 2: Tony Nunziata going to call me? But on a serious note,
• 2:25:25
  Speaker 2: I think you're right about everything, Peter. I really do.
• 2:25:27
  Speaker 2: And I would just say to you and Joe Cairo,
• 2:25:29
  Speaker 2: keep up the fight. You guys put a lot of
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 2: winners out there. You just mentioned a bunch of them.
• 2:25:33
  Speaker 2: You guys still do a tremendous job. We won a
• 2:25:35
  Speaker 2: bunch of races on Long Island yesterday. And, you know,
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 2: we got to keep the faith. You're right about Trump.
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 2: You're right about Trump. And it's time for America to
• 2:25:43
  Speaker 2: figure out what we're going to do moving forward because
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 2: we hit the wall.
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 9: And causing Janine Driscoll to run a phenomenal race without
• 2:25:49
  Speaker 9: getting a penny. Yeah.
• 2:25:52
  Speaker 7: Local organizations can only give so much to a congressional candidate.
• 2:25:55
  Speaker 7: You rely on, unfortunately, the big money in Washington for
• 2:25:58
  Speaker 7: your funding. She didn't get a penny out of Washington.
• 2:26:01
  Speaker 7: That money was going to Texas and other places like Mississippi.
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it didn't work. It didn't work. Janine did do
• 2:26:08
  Speaker 2: a terrific job. I like her a lot, a lot,
• 2:26:10
  Speaker 2: a lot. Hopefully she'll try it again. Peter King, excellent
• 2:26:13
  Speaker 2: job as always. We need to hear your voice. Thank
• 2:26:15
  Speaker 2: you so much, my man. And give my love to
• 2:26:17
  Speaker 2: all the folks. No, thank you. There he is, the
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 2: amazing congressman, Homeland Security, and one of our best, best
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 2: people still, him and Joe Cairo out there on the
• 2:26:26
  Speaker 2: island do a tremendous job, our dear friend Peter King. Well,
• 2:26:30
  Speaker 2: we are done for today.
• 2:26:32
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• 2:26:36
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• 2:27:01
  Speaker 2: What the heck is going on here?