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Sid & Friends In The Morning Opens A Somber 9/11 Week · 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 4: Congratulations especially to Sid Rosenberg on his induction to the
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Speaker 4: New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame. I can't believe
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Speaker 4: he didn't make it years ago. Today, Sid forever joins
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Speaker 4: a roll call of some of the greatest legends in
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Speaker 4: the history of New York broadcasting and talk radio. the
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Speaker 4: best in the business, and he's the best in the business.
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Speaker 4: Over many years, Sid has distinguished himself as one of
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Speaker 4: the most authentic and recognizable voices in American airwaves, and
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Speaker 4: he's built a smart, loyal, gigantic audience, and I happen
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Speaker 4: to be one of those people in the audience, and
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Speaker 4: I had for a long time, long before I became president.
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Speaker 5: Republicans fighting to keep control of Capitol Hill this fall
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Speaker 5: are gearing up for their big midterm convention in Texas
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Speaker 5: this week. The Lone Star State has long been a
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Speaker 5: sore spot for Democrats trying to flip it blue. News
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Speaker 5: Nation Washington correspondent Xavier Walton reports from Dallas where the
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Speaker 5: convention kicks off Wednesday.
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Speaker 6: So this is going to look, it's also going to
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Speaker 6: feel like a presidential campaign rally as opposed to, say,
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Speaker 6: a midterm event. Fences started going up late last week.
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Speaker 6: Preparations for security well before that. Now, the guest list
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Speaker 6: of Republican leaders and from the GOP that are going
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Speaker 6: to be here in Texas, in Dallas.
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Speaker 7: Midweek, it is star studded.
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Speaker 6: Obviously, you got to start at the top there with
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Speaker 6: President Trump expected to speak both nights of the inaugural
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Speaker 6: GOP midterm convention.
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Speaker 2: Vice President J.D.
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Speaker 6: Vance, he's scheduled to deliver that keynote speech on the
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Speaker 6: second night. But the goal, it is crystal clear. Use
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Speaker 6: President Trump's star power to really energize Republican voters ahead
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Speaker 6: of the November midterms. Here are some of the other
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Speaker 6: big names, notable names that are going to be here
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Speaker 6: in Dallas.
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Speaker 2: House Speaker Mike Johnson, you see it here.
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Speaker 8: Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
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Speaker 6: Republican leaders like Steve Polis, just to name a few.
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Speaker 6: With that said, dozens of Republicans say they're skipping the
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Speaker 6: event to meet with voters.
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Speaker 9: We don't need a congressman in a tight race to
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Speaker 9: be there in all cases. Sometimes it might be better
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Speaker 9: if that guy's out there raising money. What we want
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Speaker 9: is every person in a tight race to go out
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Speaker 9: there and make the best case they can to their
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Speaker 9: constituents so they can get reelected.
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Speaker 6: And, of course, Democrats aren't just going to sit back
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Speaker 6: and be spectators. They're also going to be offering up
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Speaker 6: their own counterprogramming to this GOP midterm convention. I'm going
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Speaker 6: to start with James Tallarico, the Texas Democratic Senate candidate.
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Speaker 6: Tallarico is launching a statewide food drive, an effort designed
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Speaker 6: to put a spotlight on.
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Speaker 10: Food insecurity and community service.
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Speaker 6: Now, remember, Tallarico is in this hotly contested Senate race
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Speaker 6: with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Trump's super PAC announced
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Speaker 6: a $ 10 million ad campaign supporting PACs to make it
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Speaker 6: its first major spending of the midterms. Meantime, it won't
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Speaker 6: just be Tallaricos counter-programming this week.
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Speaker 2: Illinois Governor J.B.
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Speaker 6: Pritzker and Texas Democratic Party Chair Kendall Scudder are expected
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Speaker 6: here Wednesday. House Democrats planning an event for Thursday.
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Speaker 8: Details still coming in, so.
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Speaker 10: More to come on that.
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Speaker 6: Regardless, Dallas is going to be at the center of
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Speaker 6: the political world by midweek.
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Speaker 11: Controversy over two concerts headlined by Ed Sheeran at MetLife
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Speaker 11: over the weekend. Some concert goers are calling for show
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Speaker 11: opener Macklemore to be removed from the tour after he
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Speaker 11: used part of his performance to share his pro-Palestinian views
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Speaker 11: about the war in Gaza. Now, others, though, are applauding
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Speaker 11: Macklemore for speaking his mind. Lisa Rosner reports.
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Speaker 1: Free Palestine.
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Speaker 12: Those words were not what Long Island resident Lauren Chisner,
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Speaker 12: who is Jewish, expected to hear from show opener Macklemore
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Speaker 12: when she attended the Ed Sheeran concert at MetLife Stadium
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Speaker 12: Friday night. She says his speech made the event feel
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Speaker 12: more like a one-sided political rally rather than an evening
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Speaker 12: of music about love.
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Speaker 13: Everybody around us starts cheering, and we're like, oh, God.
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Speaker 14: Like, okay, is he just going to say that?
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Speaker 13: But then we proceed to be on the big screen,
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Speaker 13: this huge screen with, like, She says a group of
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Speaker 13: Jews and Israelis left their seats for the rest of
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Speaker 13: his set and returned when Sheeran took the stage.
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Speaker 12: The next night, Israeli-American Nili Ganuth said Macklemore did it again.
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Speaker 12: She and Chisner asked Ticketmaster for refunds, and Ticketmaster referred
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Speaker 12: them to the event organizers.
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Speaker 5: I don't need any comment, like political comment, not even
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Speaker 5: if you're on my side.
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Speaker 12: The Israeli-American council started a petition addressed to Shirin, his
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Speaker 12: management and leadership of all concert venues. to remove Macklemore
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Speaker 12: from the remainder of the tour. It says in part
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Speaker 12: the message relies on selective imagery, biased messaging, and disputed
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Speaker 12: claims presented to a massive audience as a fact. Keep
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Speaker 12: Ed Sheeran's loop tour about music, not political propaganda. Savannah
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Speaker 12: Sommer attended the concert and was among the people who
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Speaker 12: applauded Macklemore. We should commend artists who are using their
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Speaker 12: platform to speak on something that they.
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Speaker 7: Feel very passionately about. Shut up, Biatch.
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Speaker 12: Macklemore had previously released a song that referenced the pro-Palestinian
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Speaker 12: demonstrations at Columbia University. Macklemore has been criticized in the
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Speaker 12: past for using imagery and rhetoric that some consider anti-Semitic.
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Speaker 12: Macklemore Monday posted on Instagram, in part, wanting all humans
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Speaker 12: to be treated equal should never be controversial. The post
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Speaker 12: included a video of his speech that also said.
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Speaker 7: To all of my Jewish brothers and sisters... Not me.
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Speaker 7: Criticism of Israel.
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Speaker 7: Criticism of apartheid, being against genocide, in no way is
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Speaker 7: a criticism of you.
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Speaker 16: I don't understand, honestly, why it is so surprising that
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Speaker 16: someone like Macklemore would want to speak out about an
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Speaker 16: issue like this. Because in all honesty, when artists speak about,
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Speaker 16: for example, wanting to either defund the police, abolish ICE.
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Speaker 7: They don't receive that controversy.
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Speaker 12: The Anti-Defamation League calls Macklemore's comments, quote, completely unacceptable. Sheeran
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Speaker 12: and his team did not return our requests for comment.
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Speaker 12: What would your current message be to Mayor Mondami?
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Speaker 2: Don't go. The people don't want you to go.
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Speaker 17: This is for them. It's not for you, Mondami. This
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Speaker 17: is not for me either. And it's not for Bloomberg
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Speaker 17: and it's not for Pataki. But we participated in it
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Speaker 17: at least.
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Speaker 7: You didn't.
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Speaker 17: You have made statements that, unless we're fools, clearly minimize this.
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Speaker 17: You obviously support Islamic terrorists.
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Speaker 2: Who have murdered Americans. And you're a communist.
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Speaker 17: And these people, it's their feelings that are at stake here.
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Speaker 17: It doesn't matter if I'm upset if he goes. But
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Speaker 17: it is horrible that 90,000 of them are upset that
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Speaker 17: he's going because it dishonors the sacrifice of their loved ones.
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Speaker 17: It would be as if a group of Nazi supporters
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Speaker 17: showed up at a Holocaust situation. I mean, he's a
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Speaker 17: supporter of Islamic extremism.
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Speaker 2: No doubt about it.
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Speaker 17: Islamic extremists want to kill Americans, and they have. And
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Speaker 17: now he's going to show up with a group of
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Speaker 17: families who were killed. Their family members were killed by
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Speaker 17: the very Islamic extremists who he hangs around with and
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Speaker 17: gives awards to. This is completely outrageous.
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Speaker 18: Mayor, I'm sure by now you're familiar with what former Mayor.
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Speaker 9: Giuliani said yesterday, that not only should you not attend on.
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Speaker 18: Friday, but he said that whereas the hijackers were open
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Speaker 18: about their disregard for America, you're trying to hide yours.
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Speaker 7: What is your response to that?
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Speaker 19: I'm proud to be the mayor of this city. I
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Speaker 19: love this city. I love this country. And what I
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Speaker 19: want this week to be a focus on is on
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Speaker 19: the families whose loved ones were stolen from them 25
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Speaker 19: years ago in the horrific act of terror of September 11th,
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Speaker 19: and a focus also on the first responders who gave
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Speaker 19: everything they could to this city and to the people
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Speaker 19: who came together to try and help their fellow New Yorkers.
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Speaker 19: And so in the days to come, My focus will
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Speaker 19: be on attending events that memorializes that incredible courage. And
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Speaker 19: I will be there on Friday at the memorial, just
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Speaker 19: as I.
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Speaker 7: Was last year.
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Speaker 20: Dude, we don't want you there. When I say we,
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Speaker 20: I mean myself and the only and the almost 90,000
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Speaker 20: people who have signed the Change.org petition. I don't know
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Speaker 20: how else we can say this to you. We've, you know,
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Speaker 20: we've gone to the media. We've, you know. had a
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Speaker 20: petition started. Literally, Scott Lobato put it in skywriting. I
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Speaker 20: don't know how much clearer we can tell you. We
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Speaker 20: don't want you there. Like, dude, I don't, like, what
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Speaker 20: don't you get?
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Speaker 21: Well, Sid Rosenberg is going to be hosting the Giants
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Speaker 21: pregame show on Sunday at 1130 in the morning outside
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Speaker 21: the bubble at Giants Stadium. Go out and beat the
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Speaker 21: hell out of Sid. You know, MSNBC has just flashed
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Speaker 21: on my screen. It looks like there is a A
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Speaker 21: plane has crashed into the World Trade Center?
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Speaker 22: Donald Trump is on the line, and we know him
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Speaker 22: as the man behind lots of real estate in Manhattan. And,
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Speaker 22: of course, Donald, I understand you were actually a witness
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Speaker 22: to what happened this morning.
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Speaker 23: Well, I have a window that looks directly at the
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Speaker 23: World Trade Center, and I saw this huge explosion. I
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Speaker 23: was with a group of people, and I really couldn't
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Speaker 23: even believe it. And even, I think, worse than that,
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Speaker 23: for years I've looked right directly at the building. I'd
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Speaker 23: see the Empire State Building in the foreground and the
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Speaker 23: World Trade Center in the background, and now I'm looking
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Speaker 23: at absolutely nothing. It's just gone, and it's just hard
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Speaker 23: to believe.
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Speaker 24: Donald, you have one of the landmark buildings down in
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Speaker 24: the financial district, 40 Wall Street. Did you have any damage,
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Speaker 24: or what's.
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Speaker 1: Happened down there?
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Speaker 23: Well, it was an amazing phone call I made. 40
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Speaker 23: Wall Street actually was the second tallest building in downtown Manhattan.
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Speaker 23: And it was actually before the World Trade Center was
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Speaker 23: the tallest.
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Speaker 15: And then when they built the World.
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Speaker 23: Trade Center, it became known as the second tallest, and
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Speaker 23: now it's the tallest. And I just spoke to my people,
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Speaker 23: and they said it's the most unbelievable sight. It's probably
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Speaker 23: seven or eight blocks away from the World Trade Center,
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Speaker 23: and yet Wall Street is littered with two feet of
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Speaker 23: stone and brick and mortar and steel. And there are
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Speaker 23: thousands of people walking over the debris over the Brooklyn Bridge,
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Speaker 23: where they're sending them out over the Brooklyn Bridge to Brooklyn,
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Speaker 23: and then I guess they're going to have to figure
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Speaker 23: out how to get home from there. But they have
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Speaker 23: between a foot and two feet of debris right in
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Speaker 23: front of a building that's probably, you would say, Alan,
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Speaker 23: six or seven blocks away.
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Speaker 7: Twenty-five years since that awful day. And as we know, people,
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Speaker 7: we talk about this all the time, people are still sick,
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Speaker 7: they're still dying. 25 years later, great job by people
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Speaker 7: like Peter King, even the not funny John Stewart, to
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Speaker 7: take care of many of these families. We just found
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Speaker 7: out a couple days ago that the governor at the time,
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Speaker 7: hopefully he'll be on this show on Friday, my friend
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Speaker 7: George Pataki is sick from the toxins down by ground
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Speaker 7: zero 25 years ago. This despite what the governor of
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Speaker 7: New Jersey, Christine Todd Whitman, told us in complete confidence.
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Speaker 7: 25 years ago. But without placing blame on people, look,
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Speaker 7: the fact is it was a terrible day for a
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Speaker 7: lot of us. It was a million years ago and
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Speaker 7: yesterday at the same time. I distinctly remember the blue
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Speaker 7: sky that Tuesday morning. I really do. Pulling into the
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Speaker 7: WFAN parking lot in Astoria, Queens. The guy that ran
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Speaker 7: the parking lot. I love that guy. Don't know his name,
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Speaker 7: but he was a carbon copy of the former late
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Speaker 7: great actor Bruno Kirby. I mean, they looked alike. They
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Speaker 7: sounded alike. He was a fast-talking, very enthusiastic. Made me nervous,
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Speaker 7: but I liked him. Remember his name, Lou?
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Speaker 25: I don't.
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Speaker 8: I don't know his name.
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Speaker 26: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: He made me nervous. You never know what he was.
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Speaker 26: Never.
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Speaker 7: It was a nice guy. Nice guy. Sweet guy.
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Speaker 8: But kind of followed you down the block. Yes.
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 8: Because he kept saying things to you.
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Speaker 7: Right. Right.
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Speaker 8: You didn't know if he was finished talking.
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Speaker 7: But I just kept walking anyway.
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Speaker 2: Of course.
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Speaker 7: I didn't care.
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Speaker 8: If you stop, you're doomed.
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Speaker 7: A sweet guy.
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Speaker 26: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Very nice guy.
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Speaker 7: I remember leaving him in the parking lot. And I did,
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Speaker 7: in fact, in my mind at least, take notice of
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Speaker 7: the beautiful day. And walked in that morning. I was
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Speaker 7: still doing sports on Imus. At that time, I was
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Speaker 7: not yet the host of the Midday Show because Mark Chernoff,
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Speaker 7: who ran WFAN, the hook that he used to get
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Speaker 7: me when he wanted to hire me to stay in
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Speaker 7: New York. Because I was going back to Florida once
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Speaker 7: WNEW got rid of me. He said, listen, you'll do
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Speaker 7: sports on Imus. You'll make some money. And I promise you,
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Speaker 7: so you can make what you're making at WNEW, you
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Speaker 7: will host a midday show. I said, how are you
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Speaker 7: going to do that? He said, well, in November, George
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Speaker 7: Steinbrenner is going to start a brand new network. He said,
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Speaker 7: I think it's going to be called the Yes Network.
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Speaker 7: I don't know. And at that point, at that time,
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Speaker 7: one of my midday hosts, Susan Waldman, is going to
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Speaker 7: leave WNEW. And when she does, I'm going to put
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Speaker 7: you with Jody McDonald, and you'll have Imus and the
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Speaker 7: Midday Show, and you'll be doing even better than you
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Speaker 7: did at WNEW, so stick it out.
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Speaker 2: I said, fine.
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Speaker 7: So that was about two months before that really happened.
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Speaker 7: You know, Time Runner started, yes, and Susan really left,
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Speaker 7: and sure enough, really put me on Middays, a show
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Speaker 7: that I did for almost five years with two hosts,
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Speaker 7: Jody McDonald, then Joe Beningo. But I was only doing
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Speaker 7: the Army stuff at the time, September of 2001. And
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Speaker 7: I came in ready to discuss the football game from
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Speaker 7: the night before, the first Monday night game of that season.
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Speaker 7: It was my New York Giants who had gotten blown
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Speaker 7: out in the Super Bowl by the Baltimore Ravens taking
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Speaker 7: on Brian Greasy and the Denver Broncos in Denver. I've
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Speaker 7: told you this a million times. And sure enough, we
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Speaker 7: were talking about the game. Me, I, Miss Charles McCord,
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Speaker 7: everybody laughing at me, you know, the whole thing. When
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Speaker 7: the first plane hit. And I can see myself sitting
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Speaker 7: in those studios with Charles straight ahead of me and
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Speaker 7: Imus to my right, having this discussion and having no
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Speaker 7: idea what was about to happen next. And as I
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Speaker 7: told you many times, Bernard, who used to go back
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Speaker 7: and forth with me quite a bit on the Imus days,
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Speaker 7: in fact, we went back and forth so much, eventually
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Speaker 7: we had a boxing match, which the 20... Three-year anniversary
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Speaker 7: of that is coming up this October. Fear at the Pier.
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Speaker 7: It was named by the great Bob Gelb. We'll go
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Speaker 7: back and forth on everything that Lou would jump into.
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Speaker 7: But he wasn't there that morning. Mark Chernoff was in
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Speaker 7: studio because Bernard was on 96th Street and Broadway because
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Speaker 7: that day was a mayoral primary, you may remember. So
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Speaker 7: he was out in the street interviewing average New Yorkers.
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Speaker 7: Cherny was in the studio. And we know what happened next.
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Speaker 7: So the reason why I played Trump At the end
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Speaker 7: of the open is, I think it's a well-known story
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Speaker 7: now that President Trump will not be here this Friday.
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Speaker 7: He has elected instead to go to the Pentagon. There's
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Speaker 7: lots of stories as to why that's the case. I'll
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Speaker 7: get the truth because I'm going to see President Trump
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Speaker 7: and speak to President Trump over the next couple of days.
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Speaker 7: The consensus is, from the left at least, that he's
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Speaker 7: angry because he wasn't allowed to speak here. Now, no
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Speaker 7: politician has ever spoken here, ever. In fact, the mayor,
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Speaker 7: that piece of garbage, he's not going to speak on
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Speaker 7: Friday either. But, of course, just his presence there is
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Speaker 7: enough to make every decent New Yorker nauseous. Or it should,
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Speaker 7: at least.
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Speaker 2: It should.
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Speaker 7: Unless you're a traitor or whatever you are. I don't know,
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Speaker 7: a socialist, a DSA, a loser. But Trump is going
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Speaker 7: to speak at the Pentagon, so he's not going to
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Speaker 7: be here. But the good news is, if you're in
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Speaker 7: New York and you want to hear from President Trump
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Speaker 7: on Friday, you will. Well, how's that going to happen?
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Speaker 7: If he's not going to be here, he'll be at
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Speaker 7: the Pentagon. How will these great New Yorkers who listen
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Speaker 7: to us every morning hear from President Trump?
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Speaker 15: How?
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Speaker 1: Is it possible that he's going to talk to you?
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Speaker 7: Not only possible, 100% certain. 8.30 Friday morning, right here
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Speaker 7: on 9-11, President Trump again.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 7: How many times has Trump been on this show? I've
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Speaker 7: got to lead the league, no? I've lost count. Radio guys,
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Speaker 7: no one even comes close. No one's even, radio I'm
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Speaker 7: talking about. He doesn't do a lot of radio shows.
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Speaker 7: He loves Hugh Hewitt. He's on that show quite a bit.
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Speaker 7: He does John and Rita, too. But, you know, Greg Kelly,
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Speaker 7: he just does the Newsmax stuff, I think. Doesn't even
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Speaker 7: do his radio show. I don't think anyone comes close.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 1: I think you're right. I mean, even Hugh Hewitt, that's like.
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Speaker 7: Once a year he talks to him. Maybe twice. But
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Speaker 7: Margo Martin contacted me yesterday and said he wants to
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Speaker 7: be on with you on 9-11. This is it, folks.
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Speaker 7: If you're going to be on radio in New York,
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Speaker 7: this is it. Bottom line, again, I come off like
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Speaker 7: a narcissist and a douchebag. I don't care. I'm telling
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Speaker 7: you the way it is. If you're going to do
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Speaker 7: a radio show in New York, this is it. Trump
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Speaker 7: knows it'll be here on Friday. Now, I'm also leaving
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Speaker 7: for Dallas after this show today. You heard at the
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Speaker 7: very beginning of the open, the midterm convention. They're all
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Speaker 7: going to be there, President Trump. In fact, Trump is
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Speaker 7: going to speak both nights, tomorrow night and Thursday night.
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Speaker 4: J.D.
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Speaker 7: Vance will be the keynote speaker on Thursday night. Mike Johnson,
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Speaker 7: he'll be there, the Speaker of the House. Very good
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Speaker 7: chance that Mike Johnson will sit with me in Dallas,
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Speaker 7: either tomorrow or Thursday. And 9,000 congressmen and senators, not all,
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Speaker 7: many have elected to stay home and just work on
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Speaker 7: their own races. One of those guys happens to be
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Speaker 7: Bruce Blakeman. He's going to join me on this program today.
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Speaker 7: He's staying home to continue his fight to win the
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Speaker 7: gubernatorial race. But he will join us coming up later
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Speaker 7: on today. But it's going to be packed with the
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Speaker 7: biggest names in Republican politics. And we'll be sitting right there, Noam,
18:20
Speaker 7: sitting right there. Maybe J.D. Vance, I know a lot
18:23
Speaker 7: of you don't like him. That's fine. I'm not a
18:26
Speaker 7: huge fan either. We've been over this a million times.
18:30
Speaker 7: But he is, at least today, the Vice President of
18:33
Speaker 7: the United States, still a very, very prominent Republican figure.
18:38
Speaker 7: And right now, the odds aren't favored. Even if Rubio runs,
18:42
Speaker 7: every poll I've seen has Vance beating my guy Rubio easily. Easily.
18:48
Speaker 7: So I can't just ignore J.D. Vance and I'm not
18:51
Speaker 7: going to vote for AOC over J.D. Vance or Gavin
18:55
Speaker 7: Newsom or any one of those Democrat losers. So, you know, I...
19:01
Speaker 7: There's been some talk between the J.D. team and me
19:04
Speaker 7: about sitting down one-on-one in Washington, D.C. That's going to happen,
19:07
Speaker 7: but it may happen before, maybe in Dallas over the
19:10
Speaker 7: next few days. No, who knows?
19:12
Speaker 1: That would be big.
19:13
Speaker 7: It would be big, yeah.
19:14
Speaker 1: So you would do a private conversation, and then you
19:16
Speaker 1: would interview him or not?
19:18
Speaker 7: Maybe I'd interview him first. I mean, I did send
19:20
Speaker 7: his team the message that Trump is coming on Friday,
19:24
Speaker 7: so if the vice president wants to stop by first,
19:27
Speaker 7: live in person Wednesday or Thursday— I gave him the opportunity.
19:30
Speaker 7: I don't think it'll happen. I think we'll meet first
19:33
Speaker 7: privately in Washington, D.C., but we'll see. Either way, we're
19:37
Speaker 7: going to have a boatload of big, big, big names
19:41
Speaker 7: the next two days. Then I get back for the
19:43
Speaker 7: 9-11 show here on Friday, which will include President Trump.
19:48
Speaker 7: How do you beat that? I don't know.
19:50
Speaker 15: How.
19:50
Speaker 7: There's no way to beat that. Can't beat it, right? No.
19:53
Speaker 7: So while Macklemore made a whole bunch of news this weekend,
19:56
Speaker 7: we'll get to that, that untalented idiot. And Ed Sheeran,
20:00
Speaker 7: you know, Danny Bonaduce-looking mother effer, hasn't said a damn word.
20:04
Speaker 7: You know, I've got to be honest. I got friends
20:06
Speaker 7: who texted me Saturday morning and Sunday morning, I should say,
20:10
Speaker 7: and they were so angry, Jewish friends, you know. And
20:13
Speaker 7: I swear the first thing I thought of before I
20:15
Speaker 7: got mad at Macklemore or Ed Sheeran was, I'm sorry,
20:19
Speaker 7: what kind of loser– would go to the Meadowlands to
20:23
Speaker 7: see Macklemore and Ed Sheeran. I'm sorry. That's the first
20:27
Speaker 7: thing I thought of before I got angry with those
20:29
Speaker 7: two guys. What kind of loser would go see Macklemore
20:32
Speaker 7: and Ed Sheeran? Is that bad, Lou?
20:34
Speaker 8: No, because I thought kind of the same thing.
20:35
Speaker 25: Right?
20:36
Speaker 7: I mean, Ed Sheeran?
20:37
Speaker 8: I didn't even know the other guy was still performing.
20:39
Speaker 7: Macklemore? I didn't even know anything about the guy. I
20:41
Speaker 7: looked him up and, okay, he's another Jew hater. You know,
20:44
Speaker 7: he's the same excuse. Just because I'm critical of Israel
20:47
Speaker 7: doesn't mean I hate the Jews. You know, every Jew
20:49
Speaker 7: hater says that. Every one of them. Sounds good, right? Listen,
20:54
Speaker 7: I'm critical of Joe Biden. I don't hate America. Sounds good.
20:57
Speaker 7: None of them, none of them are being honest. None
21:01
Speaker 7: of them, including Macklemore. But first thing I thought of,
21:04
Speaker 7: who the hell would go see that? But Pitbull, right, Pitbull,
21:07
Speaker 7: he's doing a show somewhere this weekend. The complete antithesis
21:12
Speaker 7: of Macklemore. In fact, I saw Pitbull once. I'm not
21:15
Speaker 7: going to lie to you. Me and Bernard... actually did
21:19
Speaker 7: our show live because of my relationship with James Allen.
21:22
Speaker 7: James Allen runs all the hard rock casinos all over
21:25
Speaker 7: the world. And I did a lot of shows. In fact,
21:28
Speaker 7: every Monday night, during Monday Night Football for three years,
21:32
Speaker 7: I did my sports show live from the center bar
21:36
Speaker 7: at the Hollywood Hotel, the casino in Hollywood, Florida, which
21:41
Speaker 7: is where James Allen is headquartered. But every time a
21:44
Speaker 7: Hard Rock opens anywhere around the world, he goes. So
21:47
Speaker 7: he called me one day and said, Sid, we're opening
21:49
Speaker 7: in Atlantic City. I know we call Bo Dito, too.
21:52
Speaker 7: He'll be on today, Bo.
21:53
Speaker 26: Great.
21:53
Speaker 7: We're opening in Atlantic City. We want you to be there,
21:56
Speaker 7: do the show from there, blah, blah, blah. And then
21:58
Speaker 7: we do this really special ceremony where we have celebrities
22:02
Speaker 7: go up on stage. And instead of like a ribbon-cutting thing,
22:06
Speaker 7: we have celebrities smash guitars live on stage. So me
22:11
Speaker 7: and Bernie did the show that Friday. And that Friday night,
22:14
Speaker 7: sure enough, me, Bernard, Max Weinberg, Bruce Springsteen's drummer, he
22:19
Speaker 7: performed at the Hard Rock that weekend. Who was the
22:22
Speaker 7: guy that was in Black Panther? Very popular, good-looking guy.
22:25
Speaker 7: He played Apollo Creed's kid, too, in the Rocky movies.
22:29
Speaker 7: Handsome guy. What's his name again? Michael B. He was there, too,
22:35
Speaker 7: standing right next to me, actually, smashing his guitar. Michael B. Jordan, right?
22:39
Speaker 7: Isn't that his name? Anyway, long story short. We did
22:43
Speaker 7: that weekend in Atlantic City, and we smashed all the guitars.
22:48
Speaker 8: Chadwick Boseman, you mean?
22:50
Speaker 7: No, he died. No, it is Michael B. Jordan.
22:52
Speaker 26: Okay.
22:52
Speaker 8: Oh, no, Michael B.
22:53
Speaker 25: Jordan.
22:53
Speaker 10: You're right.
22:54
Speaker 26: It is.
22:55
Speaker 7: So that weekend, the special concert to open up the
22:59
Speaker 7: Hard Rock in Atlantic City was Pitbull. And I remember
23:03
Speaker 7: Michael Martucci, my friend Mike Martucci, who does Sinatra like
23:07
Speaker 7: Joe Piscopo does, and travels with the Sopranos and does
23:10
Speaker 7: all that stuff. He knew that I was going to
23:13
Speaker 7: be there, and I didn't know he was going to
23:15
Speaker 7: be there, but he made his way to me, Danielle, Ava,
23:17
Speaker 7: and Gabe to bring us to the front of the stage,
23:20
Speaker 7: and my son was mesmerized with Pitbull's dancers. He couldn't
23:24
Speaker 7: believe it. These girls were naked. They were practically naked,
23:27
Speaker 7: and he was like, Daddy, why aren't they dressed? And
23:30
Speaker 7: I'm like, I don't know, son, but in a couple
23:32
Speaker 7: of years, you don't want to come back.
23:34
Speaker 8: You won't ask that question.
23:36
Speaker 7: Trust me. You're going to be like, I love this guy.
23:39
Speaker 7: So here's Pitbull this weekend, the antithesis of Macklemore. This
23:43
Speaker 7: was at a concert in Los Angeles. And look what
23:46
Speaker 7: he had to say about not Jews, but people who
23:49
Speaker 7: don't appreciate this country. Pitbull cut number five.
23:52
Speaker 27: Whoever the fuck doesn't like the United States of America,
23:55
Speaker 27: may God bless you.
23:56
Speaker 7: We'll fuck you at the same time.
24:04
Speaker 25: If you don't like the United States.
24:05
Speaker 7: Of America, go back to the countries that we the
24:08
Speaker 7: f * * * from and you'll see how much
24:09
Speaker 7: you appreciate the United States of America. So the message
24:16
Speaker 7: is to Macklemore and all these douchebags, Bruce Springsteen, you know,
24:19
Speaker 7: Macklemore was talking about Israel. Bruce talks about Trump in America.
24:23
Speaker 7: Stop complaining. Go up on stage. Do your songs. Bruce
24:27
Speaker 7: happens to be one of the all-time best. Macklemore's a nobody.
24:30
Speaker 7: I mean, a nobody. I couldn't even tell you one
24:32
Speaker 7: of his songs. So to put them in the same
24:35
Speaker 7: sentence is kind of embarrassing, but the point is they've
24:37
Speaker 7: got millions of fans, both of them. Go up on stage,
24:40
Speaker 7: do your music, and shut up. Stop trying to make
24:42
Speaker 7: Cynthia Nixon happy. Could you imagine spending your whole life
24:46
Speaker 7: trying to make Cynthia Nixon, who played a lesbian on
24:49
Speaker 7: Sex in the City, happy? Could you imagine that, Noam?
24:52
Speaker 14: No.
24:52
Speaker 7: Seriously.
24:53
Speaker 1: Did you see that also Pink spoke out?
24:55
Speaker 7: But I think Pink spoke up. Was she with Macklemore
24:57
Speaker 7: against it?
24:57
Speaker 1: No, no, against saying, you know, just shut up and
24:59
Speaker 1: do the concert.
25:00
Speaker 7: Yeah, way to go, Pink. And, you know, I like Pink.
25:03
Speaker 7: She's very, very talented. I saw one of her shows
25:05
Speaker 7: years ago on TV, and she was, like, hanging in
25:09
Speaker 7: a ball or something from the ceiling.
25:11
Speaker 1: I saw that she, like, flies during her concerts.
25:13
Speaker 7: She flies, yeah. She's good, Pink. Yeah, Pink's great. Way
25:16
Speaker 7: to go, Pink. But just shut up. Like Laura Ingraham said,
25:20
Speaker 7: LeBron James, shut up and dribble. Barbra Streisand, shut up
25:24
Speaker 7: and sing. And same thing with Macklemore and you people. Now,
25:27
Speaker 7: I know the people at the concert love it. I mean,
25:30
Speaker 7: according to all my friends, all five of them that
25:33
Speaker 7: were there over the weekend who were Jewish, one wasn't.
25:37
Speaker 7: My friend Krisha Lenzo, who runs the Republican Club on
25:40
Speaker 7: the Upper East Side and hosts Mornings on Newsmax, 6
25:44
Speaker 7: to 9. A lovely girl, Krisha. She was there. She
25:47
Speaker 7: was really upset. But they all told me the same thing,
25:51
Speaker 7: that for the most part, there was an overwhelming amount
25:55
Speaker 7: of applause. And that's why people say things like, ah,
25:59
Speaker 7: people are starting to wake up, Sid, it's over. Now
26:02
Speaker 7: we know that Israel's genocidal and Bibi's a monster and
26:06
Speaker 7: everybody's starting to wake up, Sid. Even a Macklemore concert,
26:09
Speaker 7: you heard them in New Jersey on Friday night. I'm
26:11
Speaker 7: not sure that's the barometer. I don't know. I still
26:14
Speaker 7: tend to think that Americans are good, sane, rational people
26:17
Speaker 7: and understand that Israel just defends themselves. And the word
26:21
Speaker 7: genocidal should be used for Hamas. And the Nazis and
26:24
Speaker 7: not Israelis. But you people are too stupid to understand that.
26:28
Speaker 7: So I don't agree that the world is woken up
26:30
Speaker 7: and everybody hates Israel. But if you're sitting there in
26:34
Speaker 7: that arena on Friday or Saturday night, no, that can't
26:36
Speaker 7: be fun.
26:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know what some of the people said?
26:39
Speaker 1: They said, OK, if he had just said, you know,
26:41
Speaker 1: I believe in Palestinian rights and then he jumped into
26:44
Speaker 1: a song, that would have been OK. But then he
26:45
Speaker 1: put out a video. He put on the screen was
26:47
Speaker 1: a whole video about. Gaza and the Palestinians.
26:50
Speaker 7: No, no, he made it worse. He actually portrayed IDF soldiers,
26:54
Speaker 7: the Israeli soldiers, as Nazis. That's where it's over, folks. Yeah,
26:59
Speaker 7: if you want to go out there and look, you're wrong.
27:02
Speaker 7: The Palestinians who vote 87% of the time with Hamas,
27:06
Speaker 7: not because they're standing at their door with a gun,
27:08
Speaker 7: because they love them. Okay, they love them. They're not innocent.
27:12
Speaker 7: They're innocent like O.J. was innocent. Okay, the children are, obviously,
27:15
Speaker 7: but it's not the Israelis' fault that Hamas... has Palestinians
27:20
Speaker 7: in schools and Hamas is in schools and hospitals. You've
27:23
Speaker 7: been over this a million times. I'm tired of explaining it.
27:25
Speaker 7: If you hate the Jews, you're going to find a
27:26
Speaker 7: way to hate them, okay? I can't convince Tucker Carlson
27:30
Speaker 7: that Hamas is bad, Palestinians are accomplices, and the Israelis
27:35
Speaker 7: are just trying to defend themselves. I can't do it, okay?
27:37
Speaker 7: I can't do it. But if you want to go
27:39
Speaker 7: out there and say, you know, they've got their rights,
27:41
Speaker 7: that's fine.
27:42
Speaker 25: You're right.
27:43
Speaker 7: I don't agree. I don't think the Palestinians are innocent.
27:45
Speaker 7: I don't. I really don't. But if you want to
27:48
Speaker 7: say that, fine. But the way they do it and
27:51
Speaker 7: just attack Israel. And then, of course, they want to
27:54
Speaker 7: say they don't hate the Jews. But it's so nasty
27:57
Speaker 7: that how can a Jewish person possibly feel? No, you
28:00
Speaker 7: tell me.
28:01
Speaker 1: Well, and Macklemore has a history of doing this.
28:03
Speaker 10: Apparently, all the way.
28:04
Speaker 7: He did it Friday night.
28:05
Speaker 1: Well, dating back to like 2014. He's used this kind
28:09
Speaker 1: of imagery in his concerts. So it's not new for him.
28:11
Speaker 7: He's garbage. That's what he is. He's a loser and
28:13
Speaker 7: he's garbage. All right, what's going on in the city?
28:16
Speaker 7: There's some West Indian Day parade. I'm sorry. There's a
28:20
Speaker 7: lot of parades all year long, and some have some
28:22
Speaker 7: violence and some icky stuff. But this particular parade, can
28:26
Speaker 7: somebody explain to me why every single year, every single year,
28:32
Speaker 7: there are shootings and violence? Can somebody explain that to me?
28:36
Speaker 1: Well, I can explain a little bit of it, what
28:38
Speaker 1: police will tell you anyway. They do this early morning
28:41
Speaker 1: festival before the parade called Juvee. which is like people
28:45
Speaker 1: stay up all night drinking and smoking and having a
28:47
Speaker 1: good time. And that's where a fair amount of this
28:50
Speaker 1: violence usually takes place. And that was the case this year, too.
28:52
Speaker 1: Five people were stabbed early Monday morning before the parade
28:59
Speaker 1: even began. But then once the parade began, three people
29:02
Speaker 1: were shot.
29:03
Speaker 7: I mean, come on.
29:04
Speaker 1: I mean, thank God everybody's going to be OK. They're
29:05
Speaker 1: going to recover. But imagine going to a parade where
29:09
Speaker 1: every year this happens.
29:10
Speaker 7: Every year.
29:11
Speaker 1: Last year, six people were shot. One person was slashed.
29:15
Speaker 1: And I think if I go back a decade ago,
29:18
Speaker 1: I'd probably have the same numbers.
29:20
Speaker 7: Oh, for sure. No, I think it's getting worse, actually.
29:23
Speaker 7: I think that one number is a decade ago, but
29:25
Speaker 7: I think it's getting worse now. But I'm not sure.
29:28
Speaker 1: Whatever it was, this year the police told the parade.
29:31
Speaker 1: people that they had to shut this thing down by 5.30.
29:33
Speaker 1: They didn't want it to go into the evening, thinking
29:36
Speaker 1: that that might help with the violence in the past.
29:38
Speaker 1: Apparently it has. But these shootings took place broad daylight yesterday.
29:43
Speaker 7: So what happened a couple of days ago, I believe,
29:46
Speaker 7: is another example of why Mayor Mamdani forfeits his right
29:52
Speaker 7: to go to this ceremony on Friday. I mean, is
29:57
Speaker 7: anybody in their right mind Anybody in their right mind
30:01
Speaker 7: not think that that whole pen incident, that ceremonial pen
30:06
Speaker 7: a couple of days ago, which ended up in the
30:08
Speaker 7: hands of Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and this scumbag, low-life, anti-American,
30:15
Speaker 7: al-Qaeda-representing attorney, Ramzes Qasem, the same guy that represented the
30:20
Speaker 7: brother-in-law of one of the hijackers on American Flight 77.
30:25
Speaker 7: This is the ceremony. This is what the mayor decided
30:28
Speaker 7: the ceremony would be. Use that pen, that ceremonial pen,
30:33
Speaker 7: handed to an Al-Qaeda attorney who represented the family of
30:37
Speaker 7: one of the hijackers who killed our people on our
30:41
Speaker 7: own soil. The police commissioner, you know, I guess she
30:44
Speaker 7: wasn't thinking or she just took part. And I've had
30:47
Speaker 7: people say to me, you know, Jesse, what you should
30:50
Speaker 7: have done was take that pen. Throw that pen on
30:52
Speaker 7: the floor. Say, go F yourself and walk out. She
30:55
Speaker 7: didn't do it, okay? She hasn't done it. She loves
30:57
Speaker 7: the city. She loves the job. She feels like it
31:00
Speaker 7: is her obligation to protect New Yorkers. You want to
31:03
Speaker 7: hate her, hate her. I don't. I spoke to Jesse. We, uh...
31:07
Speaker 7: Went back and forth over the weekend. I never really
31:09
Speaker 7: reveal our conversations. She's in an incredibly difficult spot. And
31:13
Speaker 7: if you want her to leave, then you're really being stupid.
31:16
Speaker 7: Because if you're upset with Jessica Tisch, I can promise you,
31:20
Speaker 7: I can promise you, whoever this monster puts in her
31:23
Speaker 7: place will be a hundred times worse. A hundred times worse.
31:27
Speaker 7: Because she does push back. She really does. But in
31:29
Speaker 7: this particular incident, she didn't. She didn't, and it looked bad.
31:33
Speaker 7: It was a bad visual. But if you don't think
31:36
Speaker 7: he was punking you, giving you the middle finger, saying, hey,
31:39
Speaker 7: New York, look at me. I've got an al-Qaeda terrorist attorney.
31:44
Speaker 7: I love al-Qaeda. I'm using the pen. The pen, you
31:47
Speaker 7: can wipe your ass with that pen. How about this,
31:50
Speaker 7: New York? F you. That's exactly what he did a
31:53
Speaker 7: couple days ago. If you don't believe that, you're stupid.
31:58
Speaker 7: There is no other way to explain that. Why use
32:00
Speaker 7: that pen with a guy that represented one of the
32:03
Speaker 7: family members of the hijackers? How does that make sense, Noam?
32:06
Speaker 1: It makes no sense at all.
32:07
Speaker 7: No, it makes sense. He wants to stick it up
32:09
Speaker 7: your ass.
32:10
Speaker 1: Well, obviously, and then to make the police commissioner actually
32:14
Speaker 1: take it from him and then hand it.
32:15
Speaker 15: To this guy.
32:16
Speaker 7: Right, she should have thrown that on the floor.
32:17
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know in that moment she knew who
32:19
Speaker 1: she was handing it to, but she may not have.
32:21
Speaker 7: No, no, she's a smart girl.
32:22
Speaker 1: You think so?
32:23
Speaker 7: Everybody knows who Ramsey is. I don't know.
32:25
Speaker 1: In that moment, you may not.
32:27
Speaker 7: I don't know.
32:27
Speaker 1: Because you saw he just handed her the pen. He said,
32:29
Speaker 1: do you mind handing this over?
32:30
Speaker 7: It's not about Jessica. It's about the mayor. He punked
32:33
Speaker 7: New York. And, you know, you get a lot of
32:35
Speaker 7: people that are rebuking Rudy Giuliani this morning in New York.
32:39
Speaker 7: And the mayor deserves to be there. Maybe not deserves,
32:41
Speaker 7: but should be there. What else do you have to see?
32:45
Speaker 7: I don't understand whether you're Marsha Kramer or Morgan McKay
32:49
Speaker 7: or Katie Honan. I don't care what Jumaane Williams says.
32:53
Speaker 7: Jumaane Williams is a moron and he's a bad guy.
32:56
Speaker 7: You think I care what Jumaane Williams says or any
32:58
Speaker 7: one of these Democrat politicians who's a pubic hair away
33:02
Speaker 7: from being DSA and anti-American themselves? I don't care what
33:05
Speaker 7: they say. But there's journalists and other smart people in
33:09
Speaker 7: this city that should know better. That was the ultimate
33:12
Speaker 7: punk job. Remember that show with Ashton Kutcher? The mayor
33:16
Speaker 7: just punked all of New York and again used 9-11.
33:20
Speaker 7: He used 9-11 like the lie he made up about
33:23
Speaker 7: his auntie on the subway, which I'm the only person
33:25
Speaker 7: still talking about that. I'm the only one. No one
33:27
Speaker 7: else brings that up. He uses 9-11 for his own boobaminds.
33:34
Speaker 7: And how is that okay? And people are still saying, well, Rudy,
33:37
Speaker 7: you know, Rudy, that's over anyway. Rudy was once great,
33:39
Speaker 7: but now he's washed up and he's insane and What
33:43
Speaker 7: does one thing have to do with the other? Rudy
33:45
Speaker 7: was the best mayor ever, ever, and handled that time
33:49
Speaker 7: like no one else can. In fact, one more time,
33:52
Speaker 7: this is Rudy on with our old friend Lydia Sarani
33:55
Speaker 7: on news. No, I'm sorry. It was not Lydia. This
33:58
Speaker 7: was News Nation where he said, Mamdani, New York doesn't
34:02
Speaker 7: want you there. Rudy Giuliani, cut number six.
34:05
Speaker 13: What would your current message be to Mayor Mamdani?
34:09
Speaker 2: Don't go.
34:11
Speaker 17: The people don't want you to go. This is for them.
34:13
Speaker 17: It's not for you, Mandani. This is this is it's
34:16
Speaker 17: not for me either. And it's not for Bloomberg and
34:18
Speaker 17: it's not for Pataki.
34:20
Speaker 2: But we participated in it at least. You didn't.
34:23
Speaker 17: You have made statements that unless we're fools, clearly minimize this.
34:28
Speaker 17: You obviously support Islamic terrorists who have murdered Americans. And
34:35
Speaker 17: you're a communist. And these people, it's their feelings that are.
34:40
Speaker 17: that are at stake here. It doesn't matter if I'm
34:42
Speaker 17: upset if he goes, but it is horrible that 90,000
34:47
Speaker 17: of them are upset that he's going because it dishonors
34:51
Speaker 17: the sacrifice of.
34:52
Speaker 2: Their loved ones.
34:53
Speaker 17: It would be as if a group of Nazi supporters
34:57
Speaker 17: showed up at a Holocaust situation. I mean, he's a
35:02
Speaker 17: supporter of Islamic extremism.
35:06
Speaker 15: Nobody.
35:08
Speaker 2: No doubt about it.
35:09
Speaker 17: Islamic extremists want to kill Americans, and they have. And
35:13
Speaker 17: now he's going to show up with a group of
35:15
Speaker 17: families who were killed. Their family members were killed by
35:19
Speaker 17: the very Islamic extremists who he hangs around with and
35:23
Speaker 17: gives awards to.
35:24
Speaker 14: This is completely outrageous.
35:27
Speaker 7: It is outrageous. And then one of these reporters tracked
35:30
Speaker 7: down Mamdani and said, hey, Rudy Giuliani says you shouldn't
35:33
Speaker 7: be there. I think Mamdani cares. Here is... Mamdani's response
35:39
Speaker 7: cut number seven.
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Speaker 18: Mayor, I'm sure by now you're familiar with what former Mayor.
35:44
Speaker 9: Giuliani said yesterday, that not only should you not attend on.
35:48
Speaker 18: Friday, but he said that whereas the hijackers were open
35:53
Speaker 18: about their disregard for America, you're trying to hide yours.
35:56
Speaker 7: What is your.
35:57
Speaker 8: Response to that?
35:58
Speaker 19: I'm proud to be the mayor of this city. I
36:00
Speaker 19: love this city. I love this country. And what I
36:02
Speaker 19: want this week to be a focus on is on
36:05
Speaker 19: the families whose loved ones were stolen from them 25
36:08
Speaker 19: years ago in the horrific act of terror of September 11th,
36:12
Speaker 19: and a focus also on the first responders who gave
36:15
Speaker 19: everything they could to this city and to the people
36:17
Speaker 19: who came together to try and help their fellow New Yorkers.
36:20
Speaker 19: And so in the days to come, my focus will
36:22
Speaker 19: be on attending events that memorializes that incredible courage, and
36:25
Speaker 19: I will be there on Friday at the memorial just
36:28
Speaker 19: as I was last year.
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Speaker 7: You're a disgusting prick is what you are. Here is
36:32
Speaker 7: Jeanette Pick. Her father, Joseph, was murdered in one of
36:35
Speaker 7: those buildings on 9-11. I asked her, do you think
36:40
Speaker 7: Mamdani should be there? Cut number eight.
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Speaker 20: Dude, we don't want you there. When I say we,
36:46
Speaker 20: I mean myself and the almost 90,000 people who have
36:50
Speaker 20: signed the Change.org petition. I don't know how else we
36:53
Speaker 20: can say this to you. We've gone to the media. We've,
36:58
Speaker 20: you know... had a petition started literally scott labato put
37:02
Speaker 20: it in skywriting i don't know how much clearer we
37:04
Speaker 20: can tell you we don't want you there like dude
37:07
Speaker 20: i don't like what don't you.
37:09
Speaker 7: Get so the man that started that petition he's been
37:11
Speaker 7: on this show twice already giovanni galante nice guy from
37:15
Speaker 7: staten island his wife grace 29 years old was murdered
37:19
Speaker 7: that day he will join us this morning coming up
37:22
Speaker 7: um i think about 8 30 giovanni galante is today
37:26
Speaker 7: that um today's the 8th right It is. So I
37:29
Speaker 7: guess today is the big rally, right?
37:31
Speaker 1: That's right. It's about City Hall, right?
37:34
Speaker 7: The Brooke Goldstein NJU Hatred Lawfare Project big rally, right? See,
37:40
Speaker 7: I'm all confused. I know Brooke, she was on the
37:42
Speaker 7: show a couple days ago. NJU Hatred has a rally today.
37:46
Speaker 7: And then, but also Giovanni Galante, I believe, will be
37:51
Speaker 7: outside City Hall today. I'm not sure if it's the
37:53
Speaker 7: same rally. The same rally?
37:55
Speaker 1: No, I think it's two separate ones.
37:56
Speaker 7: Two separate ones. Oh, you're right. Oh, no, excuse me.
37:58
Speaker 7: So Giovanni Galante's rally will be outside the steps of
38:03
Speaker 7: City Hall. I can't go to that because I'm on
38:05
Speaker 7: the way to Dallas to see the president. And Brooks'
38:08
Speaker 7: rally is going to be outside the DSA headquarters, which
38:12
Speaker 7: I think is on Jefferson Street, something like that. No,
38:16
Speaker 7: do you know? I have no idea. Yeah, two different rallies,
38:19
Speaker 7: both taking place, I guess, today. The families of the
38:23
Speaker 7: 9-11 victims by City Hall and End Jew Hatred. Somewhere
38:28
Speaker 7: else downtown. Okay, quickly, what else is going on?
38:30
Speaker 1: The NTSB has recovered the flight data, audio recorders. I
38:34
Speaker 1: don't know if you saw this over the weekend. Amazon
38:37
Speaker 1: 767 plane ran through the runway, off the runway in
38:42
Speaker 1: Miami at the airport there. And now we're finding out
38:44
Speaker 1: that the five people were killed. They were in a van.
38:47
Speaker 1: They were cleaning people, plane cleaning people. That's the reason
38:50
Speaker 1: they were so close to the end of the runway.
38:52
Speaker 1: They were going off to do their job. Those were
38:54
Speaker 1: the five that were killed. Five others were injured. Now
38:57
Speaker 1: they're just trying to figure out, by listening to these
38:59
Speaker 1: recordings and listening to eyewitness accounts, figure out exactly what
39:02
Speaker 1: took place there.
39:03
Speaker 7: Jeez.
39:04
Speaker 25: Yeah.
39:04
Speaker 7: Terrible story.
39:06
Speaker 1: Canada's new tariffs on billions of dollars in American goods,
39:09
Speaker 1: that went into effect at midnight this morning.
39:12
Speaker 7: They are calling them retaliatory tariffs upwards of $ 20 billion.
39:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, 15% to 50%. The target products, if I'm not mistaken,
39:24
Speaker 1: it's steel, dairy, appliances, farm equipment, paper products. I think
39:28
Speaker 1: electronics is thrown in there.
39:30
Speaker 7: As well.
39:31
Speaker 1: And Canada says, yeah, this is all in response to
39:33
Speaker 1: the 50 percent duties imposed by President Trump. I think
39:36
Speaker 1: a lot of people thought this day would never come,
39:38
Speaker 1: that there would be some sort of negotiated settlement before
39:41
Speaker 1: the 8th. But that has not happened. Those tariffs went
39:44
Speaker 1: into place overnight. So we'll see what that means tomorrow.
39:47
Speaker 1: for the economies of both nations, whether it makes a difference,
39:49
Speaker 1: a lick.
39:50
Speaker 10: Of a difference or not.
39:52
Speaker 1: Gas prices went up again last night. So now we're
39:55
Speaker 1: talking the AAA says the average price of a gallon
39:59
Speaker 1: of gas sits at $ 4. 15 a gallon. So people still,
40:04
Speaker 1: by the way, this Labor Day weekend, one of the
40:06
Speaker 1: biggest ever.
40:07
Speaker 7: Huge.
40:07
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how much you put the price on
40:09
Speaker 1: a gallon of gas, people were out and about, especially
40:11
Speaker 1: in the tri-state where it was just, It was fantastic,
40:14
Speaker 1: one nice day after another.
40:15
Speaker 7: It was gorgeous.
40:16
Speaker 1: Gas prices didn't stop them from being out and about.
40:21
Speaker 1: And then, of course, you know, you're going, you're on
40:22
Speaker 1: your way there. This big midterm Republican National Convention is
40:26
Speaker 1: going to take place starting tomorrow into Thursday. The president
40:31
Speaker 1: says he'll speak at both nights, both Tuesday night and
40:34
Speaker 1: Wednesday night.
40:35
Speaker 7: No, Wednesday and Thursday.
40:36
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sorry, Wednesday and Thursday. I keep thinking today's Monday.
40:39
Speaker 1: At Wednesday and Thursdays, you know, and both nights. You'll
40:43
Speaker 1: get a lot of him. Now, there are some Republicans
40:46
Speaker 1: that are staying away for the most part, though. Republicans
40:48
Speaker 1: in mass will be there.
40:49
Speaker 7: The big names are going to be there. Yeah, the
40:51
Speaker 7: big names. The other ones that are running races. A
40:55
Speaker 7: lot of them are not going. Mike Lawler will go.
40:57
Speaker 7: He'll be there. But like I said, Bruce Blakeman running
40:59
Speaker 7: for governor now, not Congress. And President Trump keeps saying
41:03
Speaker 7: all he cares about are the races for Congress. But
41:05
Speaker 7: he does love Bruce Blakeman. Blakeman will join me later
41:07
Speaker 7: on this morning. But he's not going because he continues
41:10
Speaker 7: to campaign here in New York.
41:13
Speaker 1: The 72-hour pause in fighting between Russia and Ukraine that
41:17
Speaker 1: ended overnight. Russia attacked Kiev with ballistic missiles early this morning.
41:22
Speaker 1: That was just a couple hours after the U.S. envoy
41:25
Speaker 1: Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner had visited Moscow.
41:28
Speaker 7: Wasted time.
41:28
Speaker 1: And then went to Ukraine's capital. I'm begging you.
41:31
Speaker 7: I'm begging you.
41:32
Speaker 1: They're trying to resume these stalled peace negotiations. Clearly not successful.
41:36
Speaker 7: Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it.
41:38
Speaker 7: Great guys. Love them both. Great guys. Waste of time.
41:43
Speaker 7: Are you one of the millions of people in New
41:46
Speaker 7: York who are excited about the possibility of a tandem
41:54
Speaker 7: that includes AOC and Jack Schlossberg? Supposedly, Democrats are trying
42:02
Speaker 7: to set this thing up.
42:03
Speaker 1: What, like she president, he vice president?
42:06
Speaker 7: No, to bang each other.
42:07
Speaker 1: Well, he's gay, isn't he?
42:08
Speaker 7: He's gay? Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that.
42:10
Speaker 2: I don't know.
42:11
Speaker 1: I mean, I hope I'm not outing him, but I
42:12
Speaker 1: think he's out.
42:13
Speaker 7: Really?
42:13
Speaker 15: Yeah.
42:14
Speaker 7: They're trying to set him up, not on a ticket,
42:16
Speaker 7: but like set him up. No, I think he's... You
42:18
Speaker 7: sure he's gay?
42:19
Speaker 1: I'm like 99.9% sure.
42:22
Speaker 7: Have you seen him in the clubs that you go to?
42:23
Speaker 2: Yes, all the time.
42:25
Speaker 26: Well, there you go.
42:25
Speaker 1: On Grindr, too, yeah.
42:28
Speaker 7: Well, double check that star, because I could have sworn
42:30
Speaker 7: I've been seeing for days... that a lot of folks
42:33
Speaker 7: are trying to set up AOC with Schlossberg, and I
42:35
Speaker 7: don't think it's political. So check that out, okay? All right,
42:39
Speaker 7: we've got a huge guest that's coming up today. Brian
42:41
Speaker 7: Kilmeade will join me on a Tuesday, our colleague here
42:43
Speaker 7: at WABC, and two great shows on Fox News. Most
42:48
Speaker 7: of my guests this week, if not all of them,
42:50
Speaker 7: I am going to focus on 9-11, because that's the
42:54
Speaker 7: big one coming up on Friday, 25 years. Also Thursday
42:58
Speaker 7: marks one year, not that I'm comparing the two, it's
43:00
Speaker 7: not close, but Thursday does mark the one-year commemoration of
43:05
Speaker 7: the assassination of Charlie Kirk. So there are two very–
43:09
Speaker 7: and they will do something in Dallas on Thursday for that.
43:12
Speaker 7: So it will be two very difficult days for a
43:15
Speaker 7: lot of my guests and New Yorkers and Americans. So
43:19
Speaker 7: it's not to kill me. Nicole Parker, former FBI agent,
43:22
Speaker 7: she told me this weekend, I only joined the FBI
43:25
Speaker 7: because of 9-11. And she was also a friend of
43:28
Speaker 7: Charlie Kirk. She'll be here today. Bo Dito will be
43:30
Speaker 7: here today. Giovanni Galante, the man that started the petition
43:34
Speaker 7: to keep the mayor away from Ground Zero on Friday,
43:37
Speaker 7: he'll be here. Bruce Blakeman will be here. And a
43:40
Speaker 7: surprise guest in the 9 o'clock hour as well. All
43:43
Speaker 7: that coming up, the Tuesday edition. What's up, everyone?
43:48
Speaker 2: This is Emmitt Smith here, the NFL all-time leader in Russia.
43:50
Speaker 27: And you're listening to See It and Friends in the
43:53
Speaker 27: morning on 77 WABC.
44:00
Speaker 7: On a celebratory note, the National Football League kicks off
44:03
Speaker 7: this week. As I just mentioned, my Giants will host
44:06
Speaker 7: the Dallas Cowboys Sunday night, 820 Meadowlands, whatever they call
44:11
Speaker 7: it now, MetLife Stadium. Jets will play Sunday at 1.
44:15
Speaker 7: They'll take on the Tennessee Titans. Year 2 for Aaron Glenn,
44:20
Speaker 7: the head coach of the Jets, and, of course, year 1,
44:23
Speaker 7: for John Harbaugh and the Giants. The NFL season, though,
44:26
Speaker 7: usually starts on a Thursday the last couple of years.
44:29
Speaker 7: This year they start on a Wednesday. That's right. Tomorrow
44:33
Speaker 7: night is the first NFL game of the year, and
44:36
Speaker 7: you want a pretty good matchup? How about this? Tomorrow
44:39
Speaker 7: night the NFL opens the season with a rematch of
44:43
Speaker 7: last year's Super Bowl. Drake May and the Patriots will
44:48
Speaker 7: take on Sam Donald and the Seahawks. It is out
44:51
Speaker 7: in Seattle. The Seahawks just hammered the Patriots last year
44:57
Speaker 7: to win the Super Bowl. So Seahawks hosting New England
45:01
Speaker 7: tomorrow night, brand-new NFL season. We'll see if New England
45:06
Speaker 7: can do better this time around. They've had a pretty
45:08
Speaker 7: shaky offseason with the coach, Mike Braybill, the love affair,
45:11
Speaker 7: all that nonsense. So Seahawks and Patriots tomorrow. And then
45:16
Speaker 7: you get a game, I believe, on Thursday that's in Australia,
45:20
Speaker 7: and that's the Rams and the 49ers. before everybody plays Sunday,
45:25
Speaker 7: including the Jets and the Giants. So NFL 2026, after
45:30
Speaker 7: a very exciting college football weekend, my Miami Hurricanes blew
45:35
Speaker 7: out Stanford on Friday night. They blew the doors off them.
45:37
Speaker 7: In fact, almost every big favorite this weekend covered and
45:42
Speaker 7: won easily. Like Georgia, favored by more than 50. They
45:46
Speaker 7: won by 60. Ohio State, favored by more than 50.
45:50
Speaker 7: Beat Ball State by about 55. It was a crazy weekend.
45:53
Speaker 7: Miami won big. Texas won big. How about this matchup
45:56
Speaker 7: on Saturday? Texas and Ohio State. You talk about a
46:01
Speaker 7: huge game week two of the college football season. Texas
46:06
Speaker 7: with Arch Manning, they played great. They beat a bad team,
46:09
Speaker 7: Texas State. Ohio State would say in a quarterback they
46:13
Speaker 7: beat a bad Ball State team. That's the marquee matchup Saturday,
46:17
Speaker 7: Texas and Ohio State. Huge football week coming ahead. We'll
46:23
Speaker 7: take a break. When we get back, of course, he
46:24
Speaker 7: follows me each and every morning right here on ABC.
46:27
Speaker 7: He's on Fox News, does a great job. His vivid
46:30
Speaker 7: memories of 9-11 and more.
46:33
Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
46:37
Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
46:39
Speaker 7: So as I mentioned earlier, as I get set to
46:42
Speaker 7: jet set to Dallas, Texas, I'm going to see the
46:45
Speaker 7: President of the United States in these two big days
46:49
Speaker 7: for the midterm elections. President Trump will join me on
46:52
Speaker 7: this show Friday, this Friday, 9-11. This is a particularly
46:57
Speaker 7: brutal week when you consider Thursday is the one-year commemoration
47:03
Speaker 7: of the assassination of Charlie Kirk and Friday, of course,
47:07
Speaker 7: on a much larger scale. 25 years since 9-11. Trump
47:12
Speaker 7: will be on, and I imagine, whether it's Mike Johnson,
47:16
Speaker 7: maybe even J.D. Vance, a lot of big names over
47:18
Speaker 7: the next few days, really focusing on Friday. So I
47:22
Speaker 7: want to get every impactful New Yorker and person in
47:27
Speaker 7: this country to talk about their experience. And who bigger
47:31
Speaker 7: than this guy, one of my best buddies, he's really tremendous,
47:34
Speaker 7: follows me every weekday at 10 a.m. here on 77 WABC,
47:38
Speaker 7: has his own amazing show on Fox News, 10 p.m.
47:42
Speaker 7: on Sunday nights, One Nation, and of course, part of
47:44
Speaker 7: that great trio, Fox and Friends, every morning, my dear
47:48
Speaker 7: friend Brian Kilmeade. So Brian, let's rewind this tape. About
47:53
Speaker 7: 25 years. I play often. I did it this morning already.
47:56
Speaker 7: Me on the air with Imus and Charles talking about
48:00
Speaker 7: the Giants-Broncos game from the night before when the first
48:04
Speaker 7: plane hit the World Trade Center. Where were you on
48:07
Speaker 7: that fateful Tuesday morning, and what did your day look like?
48:10
Speaker 10: Oh, it's so interesting you bring that up. I was
48:12
Speaker 10: on the air.
48:13
Speaker 27: So I'm on the air, and we're in the break,
48:16
Speaker 27: and we're watching the Channel 5 feed. And we're seeing
48:19
Speaker 27: a plane hit the building to go, guys, look, we're
48:21
Speaker 27: pumping in the live feed. This is on Channel 5.
48:24
Speaker 27: This is what they're seeing. They're not back from break
48:26
Speaker 27: yet either, but watch this. And it looks like a
48:29
Speaker 27: small Cessna hit the side of a plane. So we
48:31
Speaker 27: came back, and we came back at 40, you know,
48:35
Speaker 27: 35 minutes. And for 25 minutes, we were on the
48:37
Speaker 27: air talking about the first plane hit. And we stood
48:41
Speaker 27: there afterwards as we tossed it over at 9 o'clock,
48:43
Speaker 27: and then we watched the second plane hit. And then
48:46
Speaker 27: after that, I just went right to the desk. I said,
48:48
Speaker 27: can I get a camera? Can I go downtown? And
48:51
Speaker 27: like you said, I was known as a sports.
48:54
Speaker 10: Guy here at the time.
48:55
Speaker 27: And they were like, Brian, no offense, good job, but
48:58
Speaker 27: you're really more the sports guy. I'm like, well, I'm
49:00
Speaker 27: doing everything now. Why don't you do it? So they
49:02
Speaker 27: gave me a cameraman because nobody else really wanted to go,
49:05
Speaker 27: and I went downtown. And I just, like, in the
49:08
Speaker 27: middle of it, we watched as we're working our way down.
49:11
Speaker 27: They kept pushing us to the side and watching. pushing
49:13
Speaker 27: us away from Broadway. We're trying to go down Broadway.
49:16
Speaker 27: They pushed us away. We went back. And then my
49:18
Speaker 27: shooter said, you know, this is a We're watching these
49:21
Speaker 27: towers burn.
49:22
Speaker 10: I need to shoot this.
49:23
Speaker 27: So we stopped. And we stopped at, I would say,
49:26
Speaker 27: around 26th. And we just stopped. And he's shooting it.
49:31
Speaker 27: And then I see a guy with a short-sleeved jean shirt.
49:34
Speaker 27: And he's on the phone.
49:35
Speaker 10: He's cursing.
49:36
Speaker 27: You know, looks like an official guy. Looks like an
49:38
Speaker 27: Army guy. And I walked up, I go, you know,
49:40
Speaker 27: what's going on? He goes, they just hit the Pentagon.
49:43
Speaker 27: I go, I just had 10-10 winds on. They don't
49:45
Speaker 27: have that. He goes, I'm on the phone with the Pentagon.
49:48
Speaker 27: So I'm thinking to myself, this is, we are flat
49:51
Speaker 27: out under attack. I'm thinking there's going to be dozens
49:54
Speaker 27: of planes hitting every building.
49:56
Speaker 10: And we worked our way down.
49:57
Speaker 27: When I finally got there, the towers dropped and we
50:01
Speaker 27: had to go the other way again. By the time
50:03
Speaker 27: I catch up on my truck, Our war correspondent, David
50:07
Speaker 27: Lee Miller, had separated from his camera guy, and he goes, Brian,
50:10
Speaker 27: I hate to do this, but I'm taking your camera guy.
50:11
Speaker 10: He says, all right, understood.
50:14
Speaker 27: And I got another one, but I just saw it,
50:17
Speaker 27: and I was just downtown for most of it, and
50:19
Speaker 27: you just saw, I don't know if you went down there, Sid,
50:22
Speaker 27: but all you saw was shoes.
50:24
Speaker 10: Shoes and white.
50:25
Speaker 27: People were blown out of, literally blown out of their shoes.
50:29
Speaker 7: Terrible. I did see that. I was down there, and
50:31
Speaker 7: I lived in Chelsea at the time on 21st and 8th,
50:34
Speaker 7: and I was on WFAN, a sports guy like you,
50:37
Speaker 7: and we stopped doing all sports. It was Imus basically
50:41
Speaker 7: all day. Mike and the Mad Dog even stopped doing sports.
50:43
Speaker 7: I remember Francesca saying, if another plane hits, this may
50:47
Speaker 7: be the end of Sports Talk Radio. That's how serious
50:50
Speaker 7: that situation was. And fast forward two months later, in
50:54
Speaker 7: my neighborhood, literally five blocks, five blocks from my house,
50:59
Speaker 7: When that plane crashed right across the street from Harbor
51:03
Speaker 7: Lights in Rockaway, Imus was on the phone with Tom Ridge.
51:07
Speaker 7: What are the odds of that? We're on the Intrepid, me, Bernard, Louis, Imus,
51:11
Speaker 7: doing a special show. The plane crashed. I whisper in
51:15
Speaker 7: Imus's ear, another plane down. Now, as it turned out,
51:18
Speaker 7: it was a mechanical issue. But we thought two months
51:21
Speaker 7: after that, oh, my God, here we go again. You
51:24
Speaker 7: remember that?
51:25
Speaker 10: Yeah, I do. Yeah, I remember that. Was that a
51:28
Speaker 10: TWA flight?
51:29
Speaker 7: I think TWA was a couple of years prior to that,
51:33
Speaker 7: I believe.
51:33
Speaker 27: Yeah, another one. Yeah, it was, you know, in one
51:36
Speaker 27: of the boroughs. Yeah, that was another tragedy. But it
51:38
Speaker 27: was clearly, I think, clearly unrelated, we assume. Yeah, it
51:44
Speaker 27: was an absolute crazy time. Everything went nuts. We had
51:47
Speaker 27: non-commercials here. We'd be on for five hours, no commercials.
51:52
Speaker 27: And they would just sit people down.
51:53
Speaker 10: Well, the person next to you is a widow. Not
51:56
Speaker 10: a widow. She's looking for a husband. Here's the picture.
51:58
Speaker 10: We're going to show it.
51:59
Speaker 27: You know, there was all hope they were going to
52:01
Speaker 27: be able to dig people out. There was hope that
52:03
Speaker 27: those hospitals were going to be full. That would have
52:05
Speaker 27: been actually good news, people trying to recover, people being found.
52:09
Speaker 27: But as you know, the hospital stayed empty and almost
52:12
Speaker 27: nobody was recovered. Little did they know, without a mask
52:15
Speaker 27: and sitting on the pile, even though the governor of
52:17
Speaker 27: New Jersey, former governor of New Jersey, said the air
52:21
Speaker 27: was fine, people were slowly dying from cancer they got
52:24
Speaker 27: from the toxic dust that was there. But, you know,
52:28
Speaker 27: obviously people were so focused on retrieving. I'm not even
52:32
Speaker 27: sure anyone would have done anything different because they thought
52:35
Speaker 27: they might be able to find people underneath there.
52:37
Speaker 7: Yeah, you mentioned Christine Todd Whitman. In the meantime, the
52:40
Speaker 7: governor of New York at the time, who did such
52:42
Speaker 7: a tremendous job, along with Rudy Giuliani, our wonderful mayor
52:46
Speaker 7: and the police commissioner. We lost him last year, Bernard
52:49
Speaker 7: Carrick on that day. George Pataki turns out that he
52:52
Speaker 7: is sick. He announced a couple of days ago that
52:55
Speaker 7: he is suffering from the toxins from being down there
52:58
Speaker 7: on 9-11. So that was a really rough call for
53:02
Speaker 7: Christine Todd Whitman today. And it looks like the former
53:05
Speaker 7: governor of New York is paying the price.
53:07
Speaker 2: Yeah.
53:07
Speaker 10: I mean, that was a little shocking.
53:09
Speaker 27: He told the New York Post that he's suffering because
53:11
Speaker 27: he was down there constantly.
53:12
Speaker 10: By the way, he got no credit. And that's fine.
53:15
Speaker 27: Rudy Giuliani deserved a lot of credit, but someone should
53:17
Speaker 27: have found time to give the sitting governor credit. Because
53:20
Speaker 27: there's something about when you're in the times like that,
53:23
Speaker 27: and you're a politician.
53:24
Speaker 10: Politicians got to.
53:25
Speaker 27: Draw attention to themselves, help them raise money, raise their profile. And,
53:29
Speaker 27: you know, Pataki ended up running for president. But The
53:32
Speaker 27: whole time, he was at whatever it takes. Hey, Mayor,
53:35
Speaker 27: you take the lead. Whatever it takes, I'm here. That
53:38
Speaker 27: takes a lot of guts and self-assurance just to say,
53:41
Speaker 27: I don't need the publicity.
53:42
Speaker 10: Don't worry about introducing me at a press conference.
53:44
Speaker 7: What do you need?
53:45
Speaker 27: Let's get this thing done. Let's get this place cleared out.
53:47
Speaker 27: Let's get this thing rebuilt. And he just did an
53:50
Speaker 27: understated great job, I thought.
53:52
Speaker 7: Totally agree. And I do go out of my way
53:55
Speaker 7: to give him credit because it was more than just
53:57
Speaker 7: one man. Although we do know that Rudy did a
54:00
Speaker 7: brunt of the work. And if you're watching the last
54:03
Speaker 7: couple of days, Brian, some of these other networks, the
54:05
Speaker 7: lousy networks, not yours, they are really focusing on tearing
54:10
Speaker 7: down Rudy this weekend. Once a hero, once a national treasure,
54:15
Speaker 7: and it's all gone away. Now he's a failure. Now
54:19
Speaker 7: he's no good. There have been books written about this
54:22
Speaker 7: in the past, but this weekend and the last couple
54:24
Speaker 7: of days, MSNOW, CNN, they are really focusing on tearing
54:29
Speaker 7: down Rudy Giuliani. And again, as far as I can see,
54:33
Speaker 7: the worst crime Rudy Giuliani ever committed, Brian, maybe you
54:37
Speaker 7: can correct me on this, was that he was loyal
54:39
Speaker 7: to President Trump. Outside of that, why is he still
54:42
Speaker 7: not the greatest mayor ever? in the history of any
54:45
Speaker 7: city in this country.
54:46
Speaker 27: Well, personally, he was a fantastic mayor. I thought he
54:50
Speaker 27: was unbelievable. He had this vision, everything from fixing the
54:53
Speaker 27: sanitation in our streets to fixing the crime in our streets.
54:57
Speaker 27: Being relentless and indefatigable. Remember, he was, you know, he
55:01
Speaker 27: was a McCain guy. It wasn't for Bush. And, you know,
55:04
Speaker 27: people thought Bush was going to hold it against him.
55:05
Speaker 2: He didn't.
55:06
Speaker 27: He said, oh, you know, Rudy's not going to want
55:07
Speaker 27: to work with Bush. That is not true. They ended
55:10
Speaker 27: up being great friends. And he wrote that leadership book
55:13
Speaker 27: that was great. You know, what he did, I think,
55:16
Speaker 27: with the election stuff was terrible. I just thought he
55:19
Speaker 27: made stuff up and he misled the president.
55:22
Speaker 10: And I think it caused a lot of problems. That
55:24
Speaker 10: press conference he.
55:25
Speaker 27: Had with this suntan lotion dripping down his face was
55:29
Speaker 27: flat out without substance. And I think that that type thing,
55:34
Speaker 27: when the president trusts you and you mislead him, that's
55:39
Speaker 27: a huge problem. Because the president will go to bat
55:42
Speaker 27: for you to the end and he'll believe you. But
55:44
Speaker 27: the stuff that Rudy promised never came true. So I
55:48
Speaker 27: think you could do two things. You could be a
55:49
Speaker 27: great mayor, write a fantastic leadership book, be a great commentator.
55:55
Speaker 27: But when it came to representing the president, I thought
55:57
Speaker 27: he did a terrible job.
55:58
Speaker 7: Let's talk about the mayor now. If I would have
56:01
Speaker 7: said to you 25 years ago, Brian, as you were
56:03
Speaker 7: making your way downtown and people– elected to jump out
56:07
Speaker 7: of the 100th floor because they'd rather die that way
56:10
Speaker 7: than get burned alive by jet fuel. That's how brutal
56:13
Speaker 7: that day was. As you're making your way downtown, did
56:16
Speaker 7: you ever think 25 years later, you would have the
56:20
Speaker 7: mayor of this city radical Islam buddies. Bottom line, folks,
56:23
Speaker 7: I'm not exaggerating. Buddies with co-conspirators in the World Trade
56:27
Speaker 7: Center bombing. Buddies with people who said we deserve 9-11.
56:31
Speaker 7: He may show up on Friday. He may say all
56:32
Speaker 7: the right things, but he's a dirtbag. He hates his country,
56:35
Speaker 7: and that's the bottom line. And a governor who just
56:38
Speaker 7: last week, I know she was at a mosque, but
56:40
Speaker 7: so what? dressed up in a hijab. I mean, you
56:43
Speaker 7: see all the memes all over the Internet. I mean,
56:46
Speaker 7: just be a little smart. The timing is not exactly good.
56:49
Speaker 7: Did you ever think 25 years later that would be
56:51
Speaker 7: the governor and mayor here in New York?
56:54
Speaker 27: No, not in a million years. And by the governor,
56:56
Speaker 27: just she never should have been governor. I mean, she
56:59
Speaker 27: was thrown in, as you know, with Governor Cuomo because
57:01
Speaker 27: he thought he needed to shore up Buffalo and he
57:04
Speaker 27: never talked to her. She's totally inept, totally over her
57:07
Speaker 27: head every day. And it opens up a, what I
57:11
Speaker 27: like about it, the only thing good about it is
57:12
Speaker 27: it opens up an avenue for Bruce Blakeman to show
57:15
Speaker 27: this chameleon will do absolutely anything to to keep that seat.
57:19
Speaker 27: And that's why he's within 10 points so far. And
57:21
Speaker 27: that's what, and when the governor, the next governor, I
57:24
Speaker 27: hope Bruce Blakeman should point out every day, what that
57:28
Speaker 27: governor made him do. And that is tell the Nassau
57:31
Speaker 27: County cops don't work with ice. And number two is
57:34
Speaker 27: you show that picture and you show where her loyalty lies,
57:37
Speaker 27: because when you combine that with her mayor and you
57:40
Speaker 27: really wonder, you know what we're up against now, if
57:42
Speaker 27: she wins reelection, this is her and her best behavior.
57:45
Speaker 27: Can you imagine her in a worse behavior? It is
57:48
Speaker 27: going to be an absolute mess. And I will say
57:51
Speaker 27: this about the mayor. He's trolling us. When he handed
57:55
Speaker 27: that pen to that lawyer who represented one of the
58:00
Speaker 27: hijackers' relatives, who represented an al-Qaeda representative. And, you know, look,
58:07
Speaker 27: I know defense attorneys got to represent horrible people, but
58:09
Speaker 27: this guy was in on it. And when he gave
58:11
Speaker 27: it to the commissioner to hand a pen to that guy,
58:15
Speaker 27: That almost made the commissioner complicit in this or she
58:19
Speaker 27: knew she put her in.
58:20
Speaker 7: A terrible position. Let me stop you right there because
58:22
Speaker 7: people know I'm very good friends with Jessica Tisch and
58:25
Speaker 7: I did speak to Jessica this weekend. I'm not going
58:27
Speaker 7: to reveal the conversation, but I reached out to her
58:29
Speaker 7: and I said, just so you know, I'm getting a
58:32
Speaker 7: lot of messages from people who are very upset with you.
58:34
Speaker 7: They said you should have taken that pen, literally thrown
58:37
Speaker 7: that pen on the floor, said go F yourself and
58:40
Speaker 7: walked out. A lot of people did text me that
58:42
Speaker 7: they were upset with Jessica Tisch. What do you think?
58:45
Speaker 27: She really I don't blame her at all. I mean,
58:48
Speaker 27: here you're in a ceremonial situation. She handed it to him.
58:52
Speaker 27: She could say, you know, she could have maybe said
58:54
Speaker 27: in retrospect, hey, Mr. Mayor, you want to do that?
58:56
Speaker 27: You could do that.
58:57
Speaker 10: I'll lean back.
58:58
Speaker 27: I'll step back. You could do that. You know, so
59:01
Speaker 27: I don't know. I put her in a tough spot.
59:04
Speaker 27: I put it more in the mayor's lap.
59:07
Speaker 7: Of course.
59:08
Speaker 10: This guy's playing games. He's trolling people.
59:10
Speaker 7: Yes, he is. He's punking all of us. Final 60 seconds.
59:14
Speaker 7: I know you were friendly with Charlie Kirk. I know
59:16
Speaker 7: him a little bit. He used to do the show,
59:18
Speaker 7: believe it or not, after me and Bernard right here
59:20
Speaker 7: on WABC. He was on with us a couple of times.
59:22
Speaker 7: He met him maybe once or twice, but hardly good friends.
59:26
Speaker 7: I think you were. Thursday, hard to believe, a year
59:29
Speaker 7: already since he was assassinated in front of all of us.
59:33
Speaker 7: That was terrible. I'm sure I'll see Erica and the
59:36
Speaker 7: rest of those folks Thursday in Dallas. Any thoughts as
59:40
Speaker 7: we come up to one year on the death of
59:42
Speaker 7: Charlie Kirk, the murder of Charlie Kirk?
59:44
Speaker 10: I think as big as he was in life, I
59:45
Speaker 10: think he's bigger in death.
59:47
Speaker 27: And I just don't think he's been replaced, too, in
59:49
Speaker 27: terms of X's and O's. actually shoring up the young vote,
59:52
Speaker 27: finding out what they think. For example, on data centers,
59:55
Speaker 27: I'm all for them, but obviously they got to be
59:57
Speaker 27: messaged differently.
59:59
Speaker 10: He'd be all over that.
1:00:00
Speaker 27: He was always two or three steps ahead about the
1:00:02
Speaker 27: next generation. He'd be the first one in the president's
1:00:05
Speaker 27: office to go, hey, Mr. President, you got a problem
1:00:06
Speaker 27: with Hispanic votes. Hey, with that beef situation, when you
1:00:09
Speaker 27: drop taverns and bring Argentinian beefs in, your ranchers are
1:00:12
Speaker 27: going to be ticked off. He'd be the first one
1:00:14
Speaker 27: to do that and not without dictating to the president.
1:00:17
Speaker 27: They just had that relationship where Charlie walked in. He's like,
1:00:20
Speaker 27: this is what you got to worry about. This is
1:00:21
Speaker 27: how it's being perceived. I think he misses that governor
1:00:25
Speaker 27: of the, you know, that the governor has like what
1:00:27
Speaker 27: it does for engines controls, controls the momentum and the power.
1:00:32
Speaker 27: And I don't think, and, and on a personal note,
1:00:34
Speaker 27: he was unbelievable. You know, this guy, I am convinced
1:00:38
Speaker 27: Charlie Kirk would have been president.
1:00:39
Speaker 15: Yeah.
1:00:40
Speaker 27: There's just no doubt about it. And that whole messaging
1:00:43
Speaker 27: on you don't need college. And he wrote a book
1:00:46
Speaker 27: about it while going into colleges and talking to them.
1:00:49
Speaker 10: Guess what's happening now?
1:00:50
Speaker 27: There's a whole there's generations now who are going into
1:00:53
Speaker 27: trade school who never don't want college, don't want a
1:00:55
Speaker 27: gender studies degree that they can't use. And we're seeing
1:00:59
Speaker 27: the grow with the biggest area with the young people
1:01:02
Speaker 27: is among the trades. That's what Charlie was saying. Along
1:01:07
Speaker 27: with Mike Rowe and people like John Ratzenberger and those guys.
1:01:11
Speaker 10: But he was one of the first to say that.
1:01:14
Speaker 27: And that's one of the last times I talked to
1:01:16
Speaker 27: him when he had his book tour. And then he
1:01:18
Speaker 27: would come on as a commentator, too. And he'd be
1:01:21
Speaker 27: able to negotiate that podcast world, many of which have
1:01:24
Speaker 27: lost their minds, as well as the traditional, what the
1:01:30
Speaker 27: administration's trying to do. So you think that it's a
1:01:33
Speaker 27: little bit fracturous now? Sid, do you know how crazy
1:01:36
Speaker 27: it's going to be after November when we talk about 28?
1:01:40
Speaker 27: There's going to be division. There's division on the left
1:01:42
Speaker 27: now with socialism. There's going to be huge divisions on
1:01:45
Speaker 27: the right with the radical podcast crowd. We don't need
1:01:48
Speaker 27: a foreign policy. We don't need defense. And Al-Said's a
1:01:51
Speaker 27: good guy. He's just misunderstood. There's going to be there
1:01:54
Speaker 27: is going to be the party is going to be
1:01:56
Speaker 27: so hard. The party difference is going to be very
1:01:58
Speaker 27: hard to define.
1:02:00
Speaker 7: Can't argue that. I'm looking forward to sitting down with J.D.
1:02:03
Speaker 7: Vance sooner than later. And it's going to happen. because
1:02:06
Speaker 7: he's kind of in the center of all this and
1:02:08
Speaker 7: he's still talking to people. I'm still friends with Tucker
1:02:10
Speaker 7: and Tucker is the face of all that. There are others,
1:02:13
Speaker 7: Candace Owens and Fuentes and all these other losers, but
1:02:16
Speaker 7: Tucker is the face of that, and that's J.D. 's guy.
1:02:19
Speaker 7: And if J.D. really has his sights set on being
1:02:22
Speaker 7: the next president, I don't know if he can continue
1:02:25
Speaker 7: to tell everybody how much he loves Tucker Carlson. We're
1:02:28
Speaker 7: going to see. Either way, thank you for doing this
1:02:30
Speaker 7: this morning, Brian. You're a great New Yorker. You really
1:02:32
Speaker 7: are an amazing guy and a great talent for Fox,
1:02:35
Speaker 7: but a great New Yorker. So thank you for doing
1:02:37
Speaker 7: this this morning, and have a pretty good week, okay, pal? Yeah, too.
1:02:41
Speaker 27: And remember, we're going to be rehearsing with you for
1:02:43
Speaker 27: November 8th. That is going to be, excuse me, on
1:02:47
Speaker 27: October 17th in Westbury at the Westbury Music Fair.
1:02:50
Speaker 10: So get ready. It's going to be history.
1:02:53
Speaker 27: It's going to be Uniting the States tour that's going
1:02:57
Speaker 27: to be kicking off right here in Westbury, New York,
1:02:59
Speaker 27: as well as Red Bank, New Jersey, the day before
1:03:01
Speaker 27: October 16th at Count Basie Center.
1:03:04
Speaker 10: So I hope to see everybody there.
1:03:05
Speaker 7: Can't wait. Brian, stay within yourself. Have a great week.
1:03:08
Speaker 7: I love you, pal. Thank you so much. Go get them.
1:03:09
Speaker 10: Good luck in Dallas.
1:03:10
Speaker 7: Thank you, buddy. Brian Kilmeade right there does an amazing
1:03:13
Speaker 7: job following me each and every morning here on 77
1:03:16
Speaker 7: WABC at 10 a.m. And, of course, part of the
1:03:19
Speaker 7: great trio Fox & Friends every morning on Fox News
1:03:22
Speaker 7: and his own spectacular show, 10 p.m. Sunday nights. One Nation.
1:03:26
Speaker 7: Still a lot more to do today. Big guests all
1:03:28
Speaker 7: morning long, including former FBI agent Nicole Parker and hopefully
1:03:32
Speaker 7: our next governor. He was referenced by Brian during this conversation.
1:03:36
Speaker 7: Bruce Blankman. All that and more. Tuesday edition, Sid and
1:03:39
Speaker 7: Friends in the Morning.
1:03:41
Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
1:03:45
Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
1:03:47
Speaker 7: For the sixth time in or around October 7th to
1:03:51
Speaker 7: commemorate that three-year tragedy, But those are the airlines I
1:03:55
Speaker 7: usually fly, JetBlue or El Al. Delta last week, and
1:04:01
Speaker 7: they have this habit of landing early. They tell you
1:04:03
Speaker 7: it's early, and then they park with a bunch of
1:04:05
Speaker 7: other planes, and you sit there on the runway for
1:04:07
Speaker 7: like a half hour, and they blame, you know, the,
1:04:10
Speaker 7: I don't know, the terminal, the lights went out, or
1:04:13
Speaker 7: some nonsense, I don't know. And today, southwest of Dallas...
1:04:17
Speaker 7: To go see President Trump and all of our favorite Republicans,
1:04:20
Speaker 7: which I'll do for the next two days. One more
1:04:22
Speaker 7: Republican I really like. I told you this. If you're
1:04:25
Speaker 7: in New York and you're a Republican and you reach
1:04:28
Speaker 7: out to me for help, I'm going to help you.
1:04:30
Speaker 7: So a couple months ago, Joseph Hernandez, who I like
1:04:34
Speaker 7: very much, he's running for state controller. His girl reached
1:04:38
Speaker 7: out to me. Sweet girl. And I ended up hosting
1:04:41
Speaker 7: a fundraiser for Joe Hernandez at Dorian's. on the Upper
1:04:46
Speaker 7: East Side a couple of months ago. Same thing has
1:04:48
Speaker 7: happened with Caroline Schinkel. I know you love her. She's
1:04:51
Speaker 7: a great lady. Her mom was here last week. Dropped
1:04:55
Speaker 7: off a book of recipes. She's so cute. So I'm
1:04:58
Speaker 7: going to host a big fundraiser for Caroline Schinkel coming
1:05:03
Speaker 7: up on September the 30th at the same place, Dorian's,
1:05:07
Speaker 7: Upper East Side. So if you want to come see
1:05:09
Speaker 7: me and Caroline, I'm sure there'll be a ton of
1:05:12
Speaker 7: other Republicans running in local races. Check it out. I
1:05:17
Speaker 7: guess you can go to Caroline's social media. September the
1:05:20
Speaker 7: 30th at Dorian's, I'll be hosting an event for Caroline Schenkel.
1:05:25
Speaker 7: I want Republicans to win. Bottom line, if I like
1:05:28
Speaker 7: you and you're a Republican, if I don't like you
1:05:32
Speaker 7: and you're a Republican, odds are I'm going to help you.
1:05:34
Speaker 7: That's it. And I happen to like Caroline a lot.
1:05:38
Speaker 7: So check that out coming up on September the 30th.
1:05:40
Speaker 7: Let me take a quick break. When I get back,
1:05:42
Speaker 7: this lady is a great one. Great American. Her book
1:05:46
Speaker 7: came out a couple of months ago, The Two FBIs.
1:05:48
Speaker 7: She joined the FBI into what she saw on 9-11.
1:05:52
Speaker 7: She's a must have on this show this week. My friend,
1:05:55
Speaker 7: Nicole Parker.
1:05:57
Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
1:06:00
Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
1:06:03
Speaker 7: I want to thank the president for doing that. I
1:06:04
Speaker 7: reached out to Margo about a month ago and I said,
1:06:07
Speaker 7: I know he's not coming, but You know, there's one
1:06:09
Speaker 7: show in New York, one. He should do a 9-11.
1:06:12
Speaker 7: She goes, I know. And she contacted me yesterday and
1:06:15
Speaker 7: she said the president is looking forward to being on
1:06:18
Speaker 7: your program this Friday at 830. Nicole Parker is an
1:06:22
Speaker 7: amazing lady, was a great FBI agent. Her new book
1:06:25
Speaker 7: is out a couple of months now, The Two FBIs.
1:06:27
Speaker 7: In fact, Trump loves that book. She told me this
1:06:30
Speaker 7: weekend that the reason why she became an FBI agent
1:06:35
Speaker 7: was a direct result of what she saw on 9-11.
1:06:39
Speaker 7: So joining me right now live from Miami, my friend,
1:06:41
Speaker 7: Nicole Parker. Nicole, good morning. How are you?
1:06:45
Speaker 14: I'm doing pretty well.
1:06:47
Speaker 25: How are you?
1:06:48
Speaker 7: I'm doing pretty good. Pretty good. Uh, even though it's
1:06:50
Speaker 7: a very, very tough week with, uh, Charlie's assassination Thursday
1:06:53
Speaker 7: and a much larger, larger scale 9-11 on Friday. So
1:06:57
Speaker 7: you did tell me the last couple of days that
1:06:59
Speaker 7: what you saw that day, that's why you joined the FBI.
1:07:02
Speaker 22: Yes.
1:07:04
Speaker 14: Yeah, I said, um, I was barely 23 years old.
1:07:08
Speaker 14: I'm originally from Houston, Texas, and I'd taken a job
1:07:11
Speaker 14: at Merrill Lynch. And I was actually working on an
1:07:14
Speaker 14: executive team with Wynn Smith, who at the time was
1:07:17
Speaker 14: the chairman of Merrill Lynch International.
1:07:19
Speaker 25: And I.
1:07:23
Speaker 14: Even to this day, 25 years later, it's almost as
1:07:26
Speaker 14: if no time passed. I think that's what happens when
1:07:30
Speaker 14: you experience something highly traumatic. I can remember exactly where
1:07:35
Speaker 14: I was the weekend before 9-11, two weekends before 9-11.
1:07:40
Speaker 14: I remember what I was wearing. I still have the
1:07:42
Speaker 14: clothing that I was wearing. I had the navy blue
1:07:44
Speaker 14: suit with a white sweater and the navy blue heels
1:07:46
Speaker 14: that I was wearing when I was running out of
1:07:48
Speaker 14: my building. Um, I remember what I was listening to
1:07:52
Speaker 14: that morning. This is back in the day when there
1:07:53
Speaker 14: were mixtapes and you had a Walkman and I was
1:07:55
Speaker 14: on the subway commuting from the Upper West Side down
1:07:58
Speaker 14: to the World Trade Center. I went to the one, uh,
1:08:01
Speaker 14: I was on the one line on the red line
1:08:03
Speaker 14: going down to the Cortland Street. I remember walking out
1:08:07
Speaker 14: of the subway. I went through the underground mall of
1:08:09
Speaker 14: one World Trade Center, the commute that I did every
1:08:13
Speaker 14: single morning. And And I will never forget crossing that
1:08:18
Speaker 14: footbridge over the World Financial Center. I was there early
1:08:22
Speaker 14: that morning. I arrived down at the World Trade Center
1:08:25
Speaker 14: around 7.45 in the morning. It was my brother's birthday.
1:08:28
Speaker 14: It was an election day. I was going to take
1:08:30
Speaker 14: care of some personal business before my workday started. And
1:08:37
Speaker 14: What we all experienced and what I saw firsthand, it's
1:08:40
Speaker 14: just indescribable. It's incomprehensible. And when I didn't see the
1:08:45
Speaker 14: first plane, I only heard it because I was at
1:08:47
Speaker 14: my desk. But it completely changed the world. It changed America.
1:08:53
Speaker 14: And it changed me as a person.
1:08:55
Speaker 26: Of course.
1:08:55
Speaker 14: It was the most impactful day of my life. From 846,
1:08:57
Speaker 14: I still have the email that I sent to my father.
1:09:00
Speaker 26: In Houston.
1:09:00
Speaker 14: I literally sent it at 849. I was absolutely terrified.
1:09:06
Speaker 7: Where were you exactly, Nicole? How far from the Trade Center?
1:09:09
Speaker 14: I was very close. So the World Financial Center, I'm
1:09:11
Speaker 14: sure you're very familiar with the financial district. The World
1:09:14
Speaker 14: Financial Center and the World Trade Center are actually connected
1:09:17
Speaker 14: by just a simple footbridge that crosses over the West
1:09:19
Speaker 14: Side Highway. And so that's where I was. I was
1:09:21
Speaker 14: at Merrill Lynch in the World Financial Center. And so
1:09:24
Speaker 14: I wasn't directly up against the building. So I could
1:09:27
Speaker 14: see everything because I was close, but I wasn't, you know,
1:09:31
Speaker 14: I was in Tower One one hour before, but then
1:09:34
Speaker 14: I walked over to my office and I was in
1:09:35
Speaker 14: my office when the actual first plane hit at 846.
1:09:39
Speaker 14: And so it was, I just, it was indescribable. At
1:09:44
Speaker 14: first we're like, what was that? And everyone thought it
1:09:47
Speaker 14: was an accident. Oh, you know, a plane must've, a
1:09:49
Speaker 14: small plane must've hit. We had no idea. I remember
1:09:52
Speaker 14: we turned on the news in the conference room and
1:09:55
Speaker 14: I was seeing it real time as the news was
1:09:57
Speaker 14: trying to catch up to what was happening. And I
1:10:00
Speaker 14: remember thinking this, this is horrible. The first thought I
1:10:04
Speaker 14: had was there are people dying up there and there
1:10:07
Speaker 14: is nothing that we can do. And we didn't know
1:10:11
Speaker 14: the cause, but we were terrified. And we were thinking,
1:10:14
Speaker 14: you know, this must have been a terrible accident. How sad,
1:10:17
Speaker 14: that's so tragic. And you couldn't wrap your head around it.
1:10:21
Speaker 14: I mean, this is the World Trade Center. And there
1:10:23
Speaker 14: was just black smoke everywhere, flames. And we saw whole
1:10:27
Speaker 14: sheets of paper, toilet paper rolls. And it was like confetti.
1:10:31
Speaker 14: It looked almost like confetti.
1:10:33
Speaker 7: You know what's crazy about that story? My parents lived
1:10:37
Speaker 7: in Brooklyn. On Quentin Road by Madison High School, believe
1:10:41
Speaker 7: it or not, there were papers from the World Trade
1:10:44
Speaker 7: Center on my parents' lawn in Brooklyn. You know, you're
1:10:49
Speaker 7: an FBI agent, and look, there's a lot of real
1:10:52
Speaker 7: scumbags out there, Nicole, okay, that say that, oh, Sid, Mr.
1:10:56
Speaker 7: Israel First, that's what a lot of folks call me
1:10:59
Speaker 7: these days, okay? you know, Israel was the one that
1:11:02
Speaker 7: did this, or there were no planes. How can you
1:11:05
Speaker 7: be that stupid? Clearly there were explosives.
1:11:08
Speaker 14: I saw it.
1:11:09
Speaker 7: No, I saw it.
1:11:10
Speaker 14: It really is infuriating to me to hear these conspiracy theorists,
1:11:13
Speaker 14: because I was like, I was there. That is insulting
1:11:16
Speaker 14: to the victims, to the survivors, to the fallen FDNY,
1:11:21
Speaker 14: Port Authority Police Department, NYPD, all of those heroes. We
1:11:25
Speaker 14: were there. We saw it. Like, I felt it, I thought,
1:11:29
Speaker 14: and then when that second plane came in, we're like, okay,
1:11:32
Speaker 14: this is not an accident. And that was the point
1:11:34
Speaker 14: when I truly started to panic. I was terrified. I
1:11:39
Speaker 14: just thought, what is going on? Like I'm, you know,
1:11:42
Speaker 14: this young girl from Texas, just, you know, living the
1:11:44
Speaker 14: dream in New York City on Wall Street. And then
1:11:46
Speaker 14: all of a sudden it turned into a horrible nightmare.
1:11:49
Speaker 14: But the worst part was when people started jumping.
1:11:52
Speaker 25: Yeah.
1:11:53
Speaker 14: And that.
1:11:54
Speaker 15: Yeah.
1:11:56
Speaker 2: That changes you.
1:11:57
Speaker 7: Believe it or not, that was the next day, Nicole,
1:12:00
Speaker 7: the cover of the New York Post, September 12th, 2001,
1:12:06
Speaker 7: was pictures of people jumping out of the building because
1:12:10
Speaker 7: They thought that was an easier death than being burned
1:12:13
Speaker 7: alive by jet fuel.
1:12:14
Speaker 15: That was the cover of the post.
1:12:17
Speaker 14: Because we could see it. I was close enough that
1:12:19
Speaker 14: we could see it, whether they were hanging and gripping
1:12:22
Speaker 14: to the side, hoping. I think what a lot of people,
1:12:24
Speaker 14: I can't be in someone's head, but I know for
1:12:27
Speaker 14: me witnessing it, I'm like, why can't a helicopter get
1:12:31
Speaker 14: in there and get these people off the side of
1:12:33
Speaker 14: the building? And my understanding was they couldn't get that close.
1:12:36
Speaker 14: It was too hot. They couldn't do it. And so
1:12:39
Speaker 14: I think it was just like, look, and we heard
1:12:41
Speaker 14: a lot of the frantic phone calls in the aftermath
1:12:43
Speaker 14: of those that were up there and they were just,
1:12:45
Speaker 14: they were desperate. And I mean, when it comes around 9-11,
1:12:49
Speaker 14: especially this anniversary, I am glued to documentaries. I've been
1:12:53
Speaker 14: to the 9-11 Memorial Museum. I want to learn more
1:12:55
Speaker 14: and more and more because I have such deep respect
1:12:58
Speaker 14: for and frankly, heartbreak and love for these people and
1:13:02
Speaker 14: what they endured and what they had to go through
1:13:05
Speaker 14: at the hand of evil. Sid, can you imagine you're
1:13:07
Speaker 14: just going to work, going about your day, and then
1:13:10
Speaker 14: all of a sudden you're vaporized by an airplane at
1:13:13
Speaker 14: no fault of your own, and you're just sitting there
1:13:15
Speaker 14: and all of a sudden, one minute you're here and
1:13:17
Speaker 14: the next minute you're gone. And I learned some very valuable,
1:13:21
Speaker 14: valuable lessons from We need to stop worrying about stupid
1:13:25
Speaker 14: stuff that doesn't matter. Because I can tell you, when
1:13:28
Speaker 14: your life is on the line, there was a moment
1:13:30
Speaker 14: that I had. Believe it or not, I took the elevator.
1:13:33
Speaker 14: You're never supposed to take an elevator in the middle
1:13:35
Speaker 14: of something like that because of a potential catastrophic event
1:13:39
Speaker 14: where you could be stuck in the elevator.
1:13:41
Speaker 15: I didn't care.
1:13:41
Speaker 14: I followed my colleagues. I didn't know what to do.
1:13:44
Speaker 14: We went and we took the elevator. Thankfully, we were fine.
1:13:47
Speaker 14: But there's a defining moment. I talk about it in
1:13:49
Speaker 14: my book. Because you witnessed so much. I mean, people
1:13:52
Speaker 14: were jumping out of the North Power is what I
1:13:54
Speaker 14: saw out of One World Trade Center. And I just thought, wow,
1:13:57
Speaker 14: is my building going.
1:13:59
Speaker 15: To be next?
1:13:59
Speaker 14: Like, we're just right across the street. Is my building
1:14:02
Speaker 14: going to be next? And my thought was, if I
1:14:04
Speaker 14: die today, am I ready to die?
1:14:07
Speaker 26: Mm-hmm.
1:14:08
Speaker 14: And you literally have that thought in your mind. You're
1:14:10
Speaker 14: not thinking of anything. You're thinking, am I prepared? I
1:14:13
Speaker 14: believe that when we die, we meet our maker. And
1:14:15
Speaker 14: I just kept asking myself, am I prepared to meet
1:14:17
Speaker 14: my maker? And that is what changed me. It was
1:14:20
Speaker 14: that moment in the elevator, in the midst of chaos.
1:14:23
Speaker 14: I'm a very strong woman of faith. And I literally
1:14:27
Speaker 14: felt God's love, even in the darkness. That is when
1:14:32
Speaker 14: I made a commitment. I said, one day I will
1:14:34
Speaker 14: go back and I will serve my country. And it
1:14:37
Speaker 14: was because of the people from the NYPD. I would
1:14:39
Speaker 14: have been standing at the base of the World Trade
1:14:41
Speaker 14: Center if it wasn't for them. Because although it was
1:14:43
Speaker 14: so horrifying to look at, you.
1:14:45
Speaker 25: Couldn't not look.
1:14:46
Speaker 14: Like you couldn't wrap your head around it. It was
1:14:48
Speaker 14: a terrible nightmare. But it was those first responders and
1:14:52
Speaker 14: the law enforcement officers that I know many people were killed,
1:14:55
Speaker 14: but many people survived. And it's because of them.
1:14:58
Speaker 25: And they are heroes.
1:15:00
Speaker 14: And we cannot forget all of the people that said,
1:15:03
Speaker 14: get away from the buildings. They were yelling at us.
1:15:05
Speaker 14: They were telling us to move. And there were sirens blaring.
1:15:07
Speaker 14: It was chaos. There was debris everywhere. There's people jumping.
1:15:11
Speaker 14: And it was those people that stayed behind to make
1:15:13
Speaker 14: sure that other people got out safely. And I'm telling you,
1:15:16
Speaker 14: that is the moment that I knew on that elevator
1:15:19
Speaker 14: getting out and going outside, I said, I have to
1:15:23
Speaker 14: do something to give back. These people have done everything
1:15:26
Speaker 14: to sacrifice for our country. The least I can do
1:15:28
Speaker 14: is go back and serve and do something. And that's
1:15:30
Speaker 14: when I made the decision. I didn't go to the FBI.
1:15:33
Speaker 14: I applied in 2009. I got in in 2000. I
1:15:34
Speaker 14: started in 2010. And that is why I joined the FBI.
1:15:39
Speaker 26: God bless you.
1:15:40
Speaker 7: God bless you, Nicole Parker.
1:15:41
Speaker 14: And that's what we all have to do. We have
1:15:43
Speaker 14: to give back. We may not all be FBI agents.
1:15:45
Speaker 14: We may not all be FDNY or NYPD. But everyone
1:15:49
Speaker 14: can make a difference in their sphere of influence wherever
1:15:51
Speaker 14: you live. Helping your neighbor. Helping your friend. Thinking of others.
1:15:55
Speaker 14: That's all you have to do. Make a difference in
1:15:58
Speaker 14: your sphere of influence or your community. And that's, in
1:16:02
Speaker 14: my opinion, what we can do to best honor our
1:16:05
Speaker 14: fallen heroes.
1:16:05
Speaker 7: In the final couple of minutes, a very emotional Nicole Parker,
1:16:08
Speaker 7: former FBI agent, read her book. It's a great book,
1:16:10
Speaker 7: The Two FBI. She's a wonderful lady down in Miami.
1:16:13
Speaker 7: One of the things you and I discussed quite a bit, too,
1:16:15
Speaker 7: is besides the horror that you witnessed firsthand, and I
1:16:19
Speaker 7: was on the air that morning, Ikea, I say this
1:16:21
Speaker 7: all the time, talking about the football game the night before,
1:16:24
Speaker 7: the Giants and the Broncos, with Imus, when that first
1:16:26
Speaker 7: plane hit. And I lost a lot of friends in
1:16:29
Speaker 7: that building that day, especially a bunch that were not
1:16:31
Speaker 7: supposed to be there. They were traitors, but worked down
1:16:33
Speaker 7: on Bond Street, other places. They were there for a
1:16:35
Speaker 7: big breakfast at Windows on the World. But we, you
1:16:38
Speaker 7: and I have talked about this for a while, and
1:16:40
Speaker 7: that is above and beyond the horror, which is bad enough.
1:16:44
Speaker 7: Now the anger to see the governor, this tone-deaf governor,
1:16:48
Speaker 7: wearing a hijab in a mosque, and this mayor who's
1:16:51
Speaker 7: radical Islam, who befriends people who said we deserve 9-11.
1:16:55
Speaker 7: These two animals are going to be there on Friday.
1:16:58
Speaker 7: How disgusting is that?
1:16:59
Speaker 14: That is, it's incomprehensible to me what I saw that morning,
1:17:04
Speaker 14: but I think what was Just the most beautiful thing
1:17:08
Speaker 14: out of that is that all of America united, the
1:17:10
Speaker 14: whole world united. We all were there for each other.
1:17:13
Speaker 14: We didn't care what political, there was none of that.
1:17:16
Speaker 14: It was like, you genuinely felt the love of complete
1:17:18
Speaker 14: strangers on the street of New York, which never, ever happens.
1:17:21
Speaker 26: Okay.
1:17:21
Speaker 14: The city went into hibernation mode. I think for a
1:17:24
Speaker 14: long time, like people just didn't go out. The city
1:17:26
Speaker 14: was dead silent. And then when people started coming out,
1:17:29
Speaker 14: we were all there.
1:17:30
Speaker 2: For each other.
1:17:31
Speaker 14: We helped each other. That's not like New York. That's
1:17:33
Speaker 14: not how it was pre 9-11. It was an amazing
1:17:35
Speaker 14: and beautiful thing. 25 years later, I cannot wrap my
1:17:40
Speaker 14: head around the fact that people say that we deserve
1:17:43
Speaker 14: September 11th. That is absolutely abhorrent. It is disgusting.
1:17:47
Speaker 7: It is evil.
1:17:48
Speaker 14: And I'm telling you, Sid, there is a battle going
1:17:51
Speaker 14: on between good and evil and people need to pick
1:17:53
Speaker 14: what side they're on. I know what side wins in
1:17:55
Speaker 14: the end. It's the good people. But anyone that thinks
1:17:58
Speaker 14: that we deserve that, I'm sorry, you need to check yourself.
1:18:02
Speaker 14: And that is disgusting to me. And the fact that look,
1:18:06
Speaker 14: everyone has their own opinions. You can elect whoever you want,
1:18:08
Speaker 14: but you know what? You're going to face the consequence
1:18:10
Speaker 14: by electing certain individuals. And that's something that you have
1:18:12
Speaker 14: to deal with.
1:18:13
Speaker 15: Across the board.
1:18:14
Speaker 14: And so I personally was planning to attend the September
1:18:18
Speaker 14: 11th 25-year anniversary because I was there. It's a part
1:18:21
Speaker 14: of my history. It was the most impactful day of
1:18:23
Speaker 14: my life. And then when I found out who was
1:18:27
Speaker 14: going to be in attendance, who was not going to
1:18:29
Speaker 14: be in attendance, as of right now, I am not
1:18:31
Speaker 14: planning to be there, but I will pay my respects
1:18:33
Speaker 14: to from Florida, if I make a last-minute decision to
1:18:37
Speaker 14: be there, because I do. It's about the families, the
1:18:42
Speaker 14: loved ones and our heroes. At the end of the day,
1:18:44
Speaker 14: we need to shut out the nonsense of these people
1:18:46
Speaker 14: that are making it into a political circus. And look,
1:18:50
Speaker 14: their wishes are all that matters. As an FBI agent,
1:18:53
Speaker 14: I always had a victim-centered approach. It's what the families want.
1:18:57
Speaker 14: If they don't want certain people there, they should not
1:19:00
Speaker 14: be there.
1:19:00
Speaker 7: Well, I'm glad you brought that up.
1:19:01
Speaker 25: It's about the families and the loved ones.
1:19:03
Speaker 7: Let me play this for you. Let me play this
1:19:04
Speaker 7: for you. This is a young lady. She was on
1:19:06
Speaker 7: this show about three weeks ago. Her name is Jeanette Pick.
1:19:09
Speaker 7: Her father, Joseph, was murdered in the North Tower, I believe,
1:19:13
Speaker 7: that day. And I asked to find out, because as
1:19:15
Speaker 7: far as I know, Giovanni Galante will join me in
1:19:18
Speaker 7: about 30 minutes. He's the man that started the petition.
1:19:21
Speaker 7: Over 100,000 people have signed it. He's going to join
1:19:24
Speaker 7: me in about a half hour. As far as I know,
1:19:26
Speaker 7: the overwhelming majority of the 9-11 families don't want this
1:19:31
Speaker 7: creep mayor there. But here's Jeanette Pick, 26 seconds, Louis.
1:19:35
Speaker 7: Cut number eight.
1:19:36
Speaker 20: Dude, we don't want you there. When I say we,
1:19:39
Speaker 20: I mean myself and the only and the almost 90,000
1:19:43
Speaker 20: people who have signed the Change.org petition. I don't know
1:19:46
Speaker 20: how else we can say this to you. We've, you know,
1:19:49
Speaker 20: we've gone to the media. We've, you know, had a
1:19:53
Speaker 20: petition started. Literally, Scott Lobato put it in Skywriting. I
1:19:57
Speaker 20: don't know how much clearer we can tell you. We
1:19:58
Speaker 20: don't want you there. Like, dude, I don't like what
1:20:01
Speaker 20: don't you get?
1:20:02
Speaker 7: There you have it.
1:20:04
Speaker 25: That's it.
1:20:04
Speaker 14: That's it.
1:20:05
Speaker 15: You know what?
1:20:06
Speaker 25: They don't want you there.
1:20:07
Speaker 14: You shouldn't show up. That is it. Bottom line, end
1:20:11
Speaker 14: of story. It's not about someone as a political leader.
1:20:14
Speaker 14: I get that it is your job to take care
1:20:17
Speaker 14: of your city, your state, whatever it might be. But
1:20:20
Speaker 14: when those that are impacted, this is for them. This
1:20:23
Speaker 14: is for them. And if they say no, then the
1:20:25
Speaker 14: answer is no, please do not show up. I actually
1:20:28
Speaker 14: think it's disrespectful to show up when someone is telling
1:20:30
Speaker 14: you not to, because you know what? This is a
1:20:33
Speaker 14: day of mourning for them. They never heal. This is
1:20:36
Speaker 14: an unimaginable loss, Sid. These individuals who have lost their
1:20:40
Speaker 14: loved ones, and I can tell you, it's the same
1:20:42
Speaker 14: thing at the FBI, the Parkland school shooting victims. Anyone
1:20:45
Speaker 14: that loses someone at the hand of evil, loses someone period,
1:20:48
Speaker 14: but definitely at the hand of evil. you don't heal
1:20:51
Speaker 14: from that. And so whatever they wish to do in
1:20:55
Speaker 14: their day of mourning and their day of remembrance, it's
1:20:58
Speaker 14: a sign of respect to do what they wish. And
1:21:01
Speaker 14: if that is their wish, then I think that those
1:21:03
Speaker 14: that are being asked not to attend need to listen
1:21:06
Speaker 14: because it's not about them. It's about the survivors, the victims,
1:21:10
Speaker 14: the loved.
1:21:10
Speaker 15: Ones, families.
1:21:12
Speaker 14: It is all about what they want.
1:21:14
Speaker 26: End of story.
1:21:16
Speaker 7: That's it. Nicole Parker is always amazing appearance, so emotional
1:21:20
Speaker 7: and Really beautiful this morning. Thank you for doing this today.
1:21:23
Speaker 7: And listen, keep keep by Nicole Parker. You're one of
1:21:26
Speaker 7: our greats. Thank you so much.
1:21:28
Speaker 14: Thank you. And again, I have to say thank you
1:21:30
Speaker 14: to all of our heroes and all of those that
1:21:32
Speaker 14: lost their loved ones on September 11th. I will never
1:21:36
Speaker 14: forget and I will do all of my power to
1:21:37
Speaker 14: make sure that everyone around me does not forget either.
1:21:41
Speaker 7: Thank you. God bless you, too. Two FBI's is on
1:21:43
Speaker 7: Nicole's book. You know, there's a big ceremony today in D.C.
1:21:47
Speaker 7: They're bringing a big portion of steel. You know this, guys?
1:21:51
Speaker 7: A big portion of steel from the actual World Trade Center.
1:21:56
Speaker 7: And not only was Bo Dietl the best cop in
1:21:59
Speaker 7: New York City, and now, of course, one of our
1:22:02
Speaker 7: bravest people, but he was a steel worker. And the
1:22:07
Speaker 7: story is, the legend is, is that Bo Dietl worked
1:22:10
Speaker 7: on the World Trade Center with that steel. So today,
1:22:14
Speaker 7: President Trump, before he goes to Dallas with all of us,
1:22:16
Speaker 7: we'll be there together the next couple of days, he's
1:22:18
Speaker 7: going to have this big ceremony. in D.C., where Tunnel
1:22:22
Speaker 7: to Towers is dropping off a huge steel beam taken
1:22:27
Speaker 7: from the World Trade Center. We're going to find out
1:22:29
Speaker 7: all that from the man himself, the great Bo Deedle.
1:22:32
Speaker 1: Sid and Friends.
1:22:34
Speaker 3: In the Morning on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
1:22:38
Speaker 7: So, Bo, I'm following in my uncle's footsteps, the great
1:22:41
Speaker 7: cop Uncle Bo, the great Bo Dietl. They love this
1:22:44
Speaker 7: Tuesday segment, so here he is. And Bo was around
1:22:47
Speaker 7: us quite a bit during those 9-11 days with Imus.
1:22:50
Speaker 7: And obviously, again, as I said, I think he worked
1:22:53
Speaker 7: with those steel beams on the World Trade Center. So
1:22:57
Speaker 7: good time to have you on this morning, three days
1:22:59
Speaker 7: before the 25-year commemoration. How are you, Bo? What's going on?
1:23:02
Speaker 25: Well, I'm going to be a little more solemn today.
1:23:05
Speaker 25: I'm not going to go crazy because it's 25 years
1:23:08
Speaker 25: of remembrance because we got to always remember the victims
1:23:12
Speaker 25: that are not here and the people that are very.
1:23:14
Speaker 26: Sick from this.
1:23:15
Speaker 25: So we're going to bring this to a very solemn
1:23:17
Speaker 25: type thing. But at the end, I'm going to tell
1:23:19
Speaker 25: you where we are 25 years later. I'll never forget
1:23:23
Speaker 25: that morning. Now, you got to understand something. I worked
1:23:26
Speaker 25: as a concrete contractor. laborer in the local 6A, concrete labor.
1:23:30
Speaker 25: Then Ralph Scopo, yep, the gangster guy, told me, Bo,
1:23:34
Speaker 25: call me Black Mike down at the World Trade Center.
1:23:37
Speaker 25: They got two towers coming up there. I could get
1:23:40
Speaker 25: you on a permit as an iron worker. I said, well,
1:23:42
Speaker 25: what the hell does an iron worker do? He goes,
1:23:44
Speaker 25: you get a stud wrench, you become a connector, you
1:23:47
Speaker 25: connect the beams. So I went down there and I
1:23:50
Speaker 25: worked down there and made a lot of money. I
1:23:52
Speaker 25: bought a brand new Corvette and I was down there
1:23:55
Speaker 25: And I became an iron worker. So the morning of 9-11,
1:23:59
Speaker 25: I'll never forget, I had my convertible Mercedes and I'm
1:24:02
Speaker 25: driving on the Long Island Expressway. I hit the top
1:24:05
Speaker 25: of the viaduct before I go into the Midtown Tunnel.
1:24:08
Speaker 25: And then all of a sudden I saw smoke and
1:24:10
Speaker 25: it said a small Cessna hit the World Trade Center.
1:24:13
Speaker 25: And I actually was armed with Imus, some part of it.
1:24:17
Speaker 25: I went on air with Imus.
1:24:18
Speaker 2: I said, she's smoking.
1:24:19
Speaker 25: And the next thing I saw, I didn't see the
1:24:21
Speaker 25: plane hit, but the explosion was half the size of
1:24:24
Speaker 25: the other tower. And I said, oh, my God. Then
1:24:27
Speaker 25: you realize what it was. So I go down to
1:24:29
Speaker 25: the Midtown Tunnel. They close the Midtown Tunnel. I show
1:24:32
Speaker 25: my badge. I go through there at 90 miles an hour.
1:24:35
Speaker 25: My office is where the Daily News building at 228
1:24:38
Speaker 25: 42nd Street. So I used to wear, I wear a
1:24:41
Speaker 25: suit every day with a tie.
1:24:42
Speaker 26: You know that.
1:24:43
Speaker 25: So I'm there and all of a sudden we're at
1:24:45
Speaker 25: my office. We're looking downtown. Now we're hearing. The next
1:24:48
Speaker 25: thing is everybody in my office starts screaming. The tower,
1:24:51
Speaker 25: the one tower imploded. And I said, oh, my God.
1:24:54
Speaker 25: So Mike Cirovola was the president of my company at
1:24:56
Speaker 25: that time.
1:24:57
Speaker 26: I said, Mike, we've got to get down.
1:24:59
Speaker 25: And we've got to help people. So we went to
1:25:01
Speaker 25: the Army and Navy store in Second Avenue. We bought
1:25:03
Speaker 25: NYPD sweatshirts and dungarees and construction boots. And we shot
1:25:08
Speaker 25: down there. And I'll never forget, people don't remember, when
1:25:11
Speaker 25: that plume was up there after those buildings came down,
1:25:15
Speaker 25: it was like it was nighttime down there because of
1:25:17
Speaker 25: the dark plume when you rode in there. So now
1:25:20
Speaker 25: we get on the site. These towers are down. Nobody
1:25:24
Speaker 25: knew what they were doing. It was really crazy down there.
1:25:27
Speaker 25: So all of a sudden, we were using handkerchiefs over
1:25:31
Speaker 25: our noses. Now, as an iron worker back then, I
1:25:34
Speaker 25: remember we sprayed those beams with that stuff, the asbestos.
1:25:39
Speaker 25: That only came out in 1973 was when they banned it.
1:25:47
Speaker 25: But we had sprayed asbestos on those beams, and they
1:25:50
Speaker 25: were supposed to remove it. And a lot of contracts
1:25:53
Speaker 25: went by the wayside, if you know what I mean.
1:25:55
Speaker 26: They didn't remove it.
1:25:56
Speaker 25: And then snaggled, the other snaggled, the governor said, oh,
1:25:59
Speaker 25: the air is good. I went on radio, and I
1:26:01
Speaker 25: was on CBS radio. I said, anybody down here that
1:26:04
Speaker 25: has asbestos, cover your face. So now when we get
1:26:07
Speaker 25: down there, the towers were down already. And the next
1:26:11
Speaker 25: thing is Tower 7 came down. And we're climbing all
1:26:15
Speaker 25: over the– there was a pile of bent steel, everything.
1:26:18
Speaker 25: But there was smoke coming up all the way on
1:26:20
Speaker 25: the end. And I'm crawling around with a little flashlight
1:26:23
Speaker 25: in my hand.
1:26:24
Speaker 2: And I'm saying, is.
1:26:24
Speaker 25: Anybody down there? I figured maybe someone wrote it down.
1:26:27
Speaker 25: There was really nobody to be saved. I'll get to
1:26:31
Speaker 25: the last two people that I remember that were saved.
1:26:33
Speaker 25: And I went, I crawled over to the edge. I
1:26:35
Speaker 25: looked over and it was a fire. And I realized
1:26:38
Speaker 25: what the hell must look like because the fire was
1:26:41
Speaker 25: raging from deep down. And then I crawled back and
1:26:44
Speaker 25: I'm just yelling, is anybody there? Can I help somebody?
1:26:48
Speaker 25: So we went back onto the sidewalk with the crew
1:26:51
Speaker 25: of firemen and cops. And then there was two people
1:26:55
Speaker 25: that were alive still was a support authority sergeant and
1:26:58
Speaker 25: a port authority cop. And then we went on.
1:27:00
Speaker 7: They were alive in that rubble. Yep, yep.
1:27:04
Speaker 15: Oh, my God.
1:27:06
Speaker 25: A Port Authority sergeant, a Port Authority cop were deep
1:27:09
Speaker 25: down in there. And the real heroes were the NYPD
1:27:12
Speaker 25: emergency service and the fire department emergency service. We were
1:27:16
Speaker 25: lowering guys down into this hole where they didn't know
1:27:19
Speaker 25: where the hell they were going. And we were part
1:27:22
Speaker 25: of passing oxygen and water. And we were the passing gang.
1:27:26
Speaker 25: And we stayed on that. The sun came up. And
1:27:29
Speaker 25: then I'll never forget that. We got those two guys
1:27:34
Speaker 25: out of there alive. They lived. And the next thing
1:27:37
Speaker 25: is that when this all happened, we stayed down here
1:27:39
Speaker 25: for a couple of days, Mike Servolo and I, and
1:27:43
Speaker 25: then Imus called the days to come. He wanted to
1:27:46
Speaker 25: thank the first responders and Mike Piazza. We brought a
1:27:49
Speaker 25: lot of people down here. But people cannot forget 25 years.
1:27:54
Speaker 25: And that's when I see, you know, now we're going
1:27:57
Speaker 25: to go and we're going to kick into 25 years
1:27:58
Speaker 25: later that– You have only 20% of the people in
1:28:04
Speaker 25: New York City that were present on September 11, 2001.
1:28:07
Speaker 25: They all moved out or they passed away. 80% of
1:28:11
Speaker 25: these people now are people that are from other states, legal,
1:28:17
Speaker 25: illegal immigrants. That's what we have right now. And they're
1:28:21
Speaker 25: spending all this money supporting all these people. And here's
1:28:25
Speaker 25: a big one, Sid. Only two states legally require that
1:28:31
Speaker 25: 9-11 be taught in the public schools. You know, what
1:28:34
Speaker 25: they're doing is they twist these lessons. Now they're downplaying
1:28:37
Speaker 25: to this bullcrap is vomit phobia. and the real tragedy.
1:28:41
Speaker 25: Then you got only the two states, Arizona and Florida,
1:28:44
Speaker 25: mandate that the 9-11. Then you got this fat pig,
1:28:47
Speaker 25: George Kami Soros, and his extremism there.
1:28:51
Speaker 26: And they're saying that.
1:28:52
Speaker 25: 9-11 occurred because America has Islamophobia.
1:28:56
Speaker 7: They support Israel. They blame us, and they blame Israel, too.
1:29:00
Speaker 7: They blame America and Israel for 9-11.
1:29:03
Speaker 25: Here's very important for people to understand. They said this
1:29:07
Speaker 25: was caused by U.S. support, like you just said, with Israel. Also,
1:29:11
Speaker 25: they're saying that America was the colonizers, and that's why
1:29:15
Speaker 25: these attacks happened. And these scumbag college professors are teaching
1:29:19
Speaker 25: 9-11 was bad. our fault that's why it all happened
1:29:23
Speaker 25: they don't talk about that scumbag osama bin laden and
1:29:28
Speaker 25: al qaeda that's not taught and that right now 25
1:29:32
Speaker 25: years later you have a whole generation of kids that
1:29:36
Speaker 25: don't even have a clue what happened on 9 11
1:29:39
Speaker 25: and it's not being taught in our schools because you
1:29:41
Speaker 25: know why now it's shifted around to the scumbags and
1:29:45
Speaker 25: when you got a mayhem on dummy really showed again
1:29:48
Speaker 25: who he is with that aid. Raz me, Raz me,
1:29:52
Speaker 25: Cassie me, whatever the hell. He's a former lawyer there.
1:29:55
Speaker 25: And when that whole thing happened with our police commissioner,
1:29:59
Speaker 25: that was the smirk. That was the smirk on his
1:30:02
Speaker 25: face to his other scumbag people out there where he
1:30:05
Speaker 25: actually said he was inspired by 9-11. not to fight terrorism,
1:30:10
Speaker 25: but to defend the terrorists. And this guy is one
1:30:13
Speaker 25: of our officials in New York City, 25 years later,
1:30:16
Speaker 25: when all these beautiful people died and people are dying
1:30:19
Speaker 25: every day. How dare you, Mondavi? I might be going
1:30:22
Speaker 25: down to the 9-11. I may be going with our
1:30:26
Speaker 25: friend Bruce Blakeman.
1:30:27
Speaker 2: I don't know.
1:30:28
Speaker 25: But I guarantee you one thing. If I go there,
1:30:30
Speaker 25: I'm going to be very quiet, keep my mouth shut.
1:30:33
Speaker 25: Because of respect to the families, I'd like to do
1:30:36
Speaker 25: what you.
1:30:36
Speaker 2: Want to do.
1:30:37
Speaker 25: You know what we'd like to do. But you know what?
1:30:41
Speaker 25: We've got to respect these families. And on top of it,
1:30:45
Speaker 25: we're facing right now a forgetful period. 25 years ago,
1:30:50
Speaker 25: we forgot all about it. Everybody was together. Now it's
1:30:55
Speaker 25: all about free-stop communism, turning our country over. We're all Islamic-phobic.
1:31:02
Speaker 25: How dare you take my country and turn it around?
1:31:05
Speaker 25: We do very good with the West Indian Day Parade.
1:31:08
Speaker 25: When I was a cop, we used to make bets.
1:31:10
Speaker 25: Two or three dead every year. We only had six
1:31:13
Speaker 25: stabbed and shot this year.
1:31:14
Speaker 26: They're doing good.
1:31:16
Speaker 7: But why is that? We have all these parades all
1:31:19
Speaker 7: year long, all year long. Why is it that the
1:31:22
Speaker 7: West Indian Day Parade, every year, there are stabbings and
1:31:25
Speaker 7: shootings every year? I mean, come on. I'll say it
1:31:27
Speaker 7: right out.
1:31:28
Speaker 25: Gangs. You got the gangs. And now Mondami wants to
1:31:32
Speaker 25: get rid of the gang data list. They want to
1:31:34
Speaker 25: get rid of this. They could get these gangs and
1:31:37
Speaker 25: rattle and round them up. This is your same criminal element.
1:31:41
Speaker 25: And on top of it, all of a sudden, New
1:31:43
Speaker 25: York City safer.
1:31:44
Speaker 7: By the way, one thing you never see this type
1:31:47
Speaker 7: of violence before the Israeli day parade. I'm just saying
1:31:50
Speaker 7: not to. Not to point out the difference between groups
1:31:52
Speaker 7: of people, but you don't see stabbings and shootings with
1:31:56
Speaker 7: Jews on the street before the Israeli Day Parade. I'm
1:31:58
Speaker 7: just saying. I'm just saying.
1:32:01
Speaker 15: Or St.
1:32:01
Speaker 7: Patrick's Day.
1:32:03
Speaker 25: One of the biggest things are these gangs. These little
1:32:06
Speaker 25: punks don't care about human lives, don't care about going
1:32:09
Speaker 25: to jail.
1:32:09
Speaker 14: It's cool.
1:32:10
Speaker 25: It's cool to go to jail. And you know what
1:32:13
Speaker 25: we got to thank for a low-crime thing? We can
1:32:16
Speaker 25: thank ICE because they actually captured up 2,200 of these scumbags,
1:32:22
Speaker 25: full murderers, rapists, child predators, they're bringing them out against
1:32:27
Speaker 25: all odds of the mayor and the governor holding their
1:32:30
Speaker 25: securities there. And there's 13,000 criminals, 13,000 have been released
1:32:36
Speaker 25: back onto the streets by Mayor Mondami. Now, here's the
1:32:40
Speaker 25: big one.
1:32:40
Speaker 26: Here's the big one.
1:32:41
Speaker 25: Please stay with me. Right now, we don't understand what's
1:32:44
Speaker 25: going on. I'm going to tell the people what's going on.
1:32:46
Speaker 25: Mondami here is a very smart, smiley piece of garbage.
1:32:51
Speaker 15: Okay.
1:32:52
Speaker 25: He has 200 influencers. He pays them on the city payroll, $ 5, 000, $ 20, 000. See,
1:32:59
Speaker 25: they realize one thing. They don't have to go to
1:33:02
Speaker 25: the regular Channel 2, 4, Fox.
1:33:04
Speaker 26: They don't have to go there.
1:33:05
Speaker 25: They hit social media with all these morons out watching everything.
1:33:09
Speaker 7: Not just social media, but they also hit major events.
1:33:12
Speaker 7: If you've been paying attention to the U.S. Open, and
1:33:14
Speaker 7: millions do, almost every night, Mamdani's influencers make a bunch
1:33:18
Speaker 7: of assholes of themselves. But they make sure they get noticed.
1:33:21
Speaker 25: What they're doing, and people, listen to me.
1:33:24
Speaker 26: Please listen to me.
1:33:25
Speaker 25: I'm staying in New York, what you said. But listen
1:33:27
Speaker 25: to me.
1:33:28
Speaker 26: They control social media. Majority of people now, the idiots.
1:33:33
Speaker 25: Are getting their information from social media. Half of it's
1:33:36
Speaker 25: AI generated. All those hot chicks... Yeah, they're not even real.
1:33:41
Speaker 25: On top of it, what they're doing is they're sending
1:33:43
Speaker 25: out psychologically to people on social media about how good
1:33:47
Speaker 25: communism is and socialism. And that's what's conditioning our young generation.
1:33:53
Speaker 25: 25 years later, we're all forgetting about what happened. I'm
1:33:57
Speaker 25: not forgetting. I was down there. I saw families. I
1:34:01
Speaker 25: help people. I raised $ 300, 000 for the fine apartment museum
1:34:05
Speaker 25: on Hutchins Street. And you want to know something? Those
1:34:08
Speaker 25: firemen and those cops that ran in those buildings, they
1:34:11
Speaker 25: didn't care about their own lives or their families. They
1:34:14
Speaker 25: cared about saving people.
1:34:17
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Bo.
1:34:19
Speaker 7: I'm sorry. That's what you're going to get this week
1:34:21
Speaker 7: from Bo Dietl just now, who is the toughest guy
1:34:23
Speaker 7: you'll ever meet. Trust me. Driven to tears. Nicole Parker
1:34:28
Speaker 7: before him, driven to tears. Bo especially. Bo's just the
1:34:30
Speaker 7: toughest guy you'll ever meet. But that's what you're going
1:34:32
Speaker 7: to get, you know. And I was there that day, too.
1:34:35
Speaker 7: And I was on the air with Imus that day, too,
1:34:37
Speaker 7: like Bo Dietl was. And I made the long walk.
1:34:41
Speaker 7: My beautiful wife, Danielle, her buddy, Paige Richmond, was dating
1:34:47
Speaker 7: a guy. And the guy's brother, the guy's name was Michael.
1:34:51
Speaker 7: His brother, I forget the brother's name, was in Canada
1:34:55
Speaker 7: Fitzgerald that morning. So Danielle and I, Danielle made it
1:34:58
Speaker 7: out of her building. I was very nervous. She worked
1:35:00
Speaker 7: by the Empire State Building. I said, D, you got
1:35:02
Speaker 7: to get out. Get out. And we ended up meeting
1:35:05
Speaker 7: on the Upper East Side in Paige's apartment, waiting for
1:35:07
Speaker 7: the phone call from Michael's brother. Now we know that
1:35:10
Speaker 7: everybody died at Canada Fitzgerald, so he did not make
1:35:13
Speaker 7: that call. And then Danielle and I actually walked home
1:35:17
Speaker 7: that night from 82nd and 3rd or 83rd and 2nd.
1:35:21
Speaker 7: We had a quick burger at Jackson Hole. back to
1:35:24
Speaker 7: Chelsea on 21st and 8th and walked right by that site.
1:35:28
Speaker 7: And I can still hear the whistle from the firemen's...
1:35:40
Speaker 7: This is terrible. And to hear scumbags talk about these
1:35:46
Speaker 7: ridiculous conspiracy theories and the building... Jim Brewer is doing
1:35:49
Speaker 7: that stuff now. He used to be very close with Jimmy, me,
1:35:52
Speaker 7: and Bernard, the comedian. He sounds like an idiot. It
1:35:55
Speaker 7: was terrible, man. And if you weren't there, just don't
1:35:59
Speaker 7: even talk about it. Do the right thing and teach
1:36:03
Speaker 7: our kids what really happened. It had nothing to do
1:36:04
Speaker 7: with Israel. You know, somebody sent me this tweet. They go,
1:36:08
Speaker 7: I have a friend, and he says, all Sid does
1:36:10
Speaker 7: is talk about Israel. You know, if I mention Israel
1:36:12
Speaker 7: twice in a four-hour show, and the person tunes in
1:36:15
Speaker 7: for that one second, that's all they hear, you know. Meantime,
1:36:20
Speaker 7: I do 90 topics a day, 90. But it's going
1:36:26
Speaker 7: to be a very emotional week, I can tell you that.
1:36:27
Speaker 7: I'll be talking to a lot of politicians in Dallas
1:36:31
Speaker 7: tomorrow and Thursday, a lot. President Trump will be on
1:36:34
Speaker 7: this show on Friday. We have him, President Trump, on Friday.
1:36:39
Speaker 7: And a lot of people will end up breaking down,
1:36:41
Speaker 7: like Bo Dietl and Nicole Parker just did. In fact,
1:36:44
Speaker 7: after the news, we're going to talk to a man
1:36:45
Speaker 7: who was directly affected. His wife was murdered that day.
1:36:49
Speaker 7: 29-year-old Grace, Grace Galante, the man that started the petition,
1:36:54
Speaker 7: which I believe now has over 100,000 signatures. He came
1:36:58
Speaker 7: on this show. There were 1,400. Now there's over 100,000.
1:37:01
Speaker 7: Giovanni Galante will join us and Bruce Blakeman. You know,
1:37:06
Speaker 7: Bruce's brother, Brad, was on Fox News this morning with
1:37:10
Speaker 7: Steve Doocy. And Brad worked with George Bush during that
1:37:14
Speaker 7: whole 9-11 period. Bruce was at, I believe, the Port Authority.
1:37:19
Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
1:37:22
Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
1:37:24
Speaker 7: How old would Benji have been today?
1:37:26
Speaker 8: I don't know, but he died at 53 in 2000.
1:37:29
Speaker 7: All right, so he would have been 79 today. But
1:37:33
Speaker 7: we are celebrating a birthday today for somebody who's alive,
1:37:36
Speaker 7: thank God, and we love this guy. Happy birthday. To
1:37:40
Speaker 7: the president.
1:37:41
Speaker 8: Are you okay?
1:37:42
Speaker 7: Almost died just now.
1:37:43
Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
1:37:44
Speaker 7: I would have been joined Benjamin Orr right there. Happy
1:37:47
Speaker 7: birthday to the president of Red Apple Media, the man
1:37:51
Speaker 7: that showed the guts and the balls to bring me
1:37:54
Speaker 7: back to New York City when other people promised but
1:37:58
Speaker 7: didn't do it. The only guy who did it. And
1:38:00
Speaker 7: hopefully I've made him proud. Chad Lopez, Navy vet, runs
1:38:05
Speaker 7: this place, has been doing it since I arrived. And
1:38:08
Speaker 7: you did too, Lewis. when Mary Burner and Cumulus ran
1:38:11
Speaker 7: the joint before John and Margot took it over. Happy birthday,
1:38:14
Speaker 7: very happy birthday to Chad Lopez. No idea. Oh, I
1:38:17
Speaker 7: think he's 55 today, and he looks great. Happy birthday
1:38:21
Speaker 7: to our guy Chad Lopez. Bruce Blakeman will join us
1:38:24
Speaker 7: in the 9 o'clock hour, running for governor. His brother
1:38:27
Speaker 7: was all over Fox News this morning. But coming up next,
1:38:30
Speaker 7: been a very emotional Tuesday. We're going to talk to
1:38:33
Speaker 7: the man that started the 9-11 petition. He's making his
1:38:36
Speaker 7: third appearance on the show. His wife, Grace, was murdered
1:38:39
Speaker 7: 25 years ago Friday. And when he joined the show,
1:38:43
Speaker 7: as I told you, he had about 1,400 signatures on
1:38:47
Speaker 7: his petition to keep Mamdani away from ground zero. Now
1:38:51
Speaker 7: there's well over 100,000. I'm proud of that. The man himself,
1:38:55
Speaker 7: Giovanni Galante, makes his return to Sid and Friends in
1:38:59
Speaker 7: the Morning. Giovanni is coming up next.
1:39:02
Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
1:39:06
Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
1:39:08
Speaker 7: It's all about him. He's going to be there all
1:39:10
Speaker 7: week at all the events. We've been over this so
1:39:14
Speaker 7: many times. I mean, I hate the guy. I legitimately
1:39:16
Speaker 7: hate him. I know that's a strong word. But I
1:39:19
Speaker 7: hate him. I hate his guts. Everything about him makes
1:39:22
Speaker 7: me nauseous. Everything. There's not one decent bone in that
1:39:26
Speaker 7: man's body. Not one genuine, authentic bone. He's garbage. He's
1:39:32
Speaker 7: a terrorist. I'll say it again. I don't care, Fox.
1:39:35
Speaker 7: I am banned by Fox, you know. Never made an
1:39:38
Speaker 7: official statement because I don't work for Fox. So they're
1:39:41
Speaker 7: not going to, but... I haven't been invited back, right?
1:39:45
Speaker 7: They fired Maria last week. They banned me.
1:39:47
Speaker 2: That's fine.
1:39:48
Speaker 7: I'll talk to President Trump about that tomorrow. But at
1:39:51
Speaker 7: any rate, he's a bad guy. He's a very bad person.
1:39:55
Speaker 7: And these poor families, they don't want him there. For
1:39:59
Speaker 7: every Liz Miller, there's a thousand that don't want him.
1:40:03
Speaker 7: Like Giovanni Galante, this brave man, who's about to make
1:40:07
Speaker 7: his third appearance on this show. His wife, Grace, was murdered.
1:40:11
Speaker 7: on that day. He started this petition. He started it.
1:40:14
Speaker 7: And I believe he told me the day he came on,
1:40:16
Speaker 7: he had 1,400 signatures. Now it's over 100,000. So I'm
1:40:19
Speaker 7: going to take some of the credit for that, Lou,
1:40:22
Speaker 7: because that's just, that's me, you know.
1:40:24
Speaker 8: Well, you can't argue with the facts.
1:40:26
Speaker 4: Right.
1:40:27
Speaker 7: So here he is. Now, our dear friend, very brave man,
1:40:32
Speaker 7: Giovanni Galante. Giovanni, good morning, pal. How are you?
1:40:36
Speaker 26: Good morning, Sid. Thanks for having me back on. And yes,
1:40:38
Speaker 26: you are responsible for most of those numbers going up.
1:40:41
Speaker 7: Well, I'm not sure that should.
1:40:43
Speaker 26: I'm going to give you the credit. I will give
1:40:44
Speaker 26: you the credit because I saw it happen.
1:40:47
Speaker 7: Well, thank you for that. My audience, for the most part,
1:40:50
Speaker 7: for the most part, are great New Yorkers, great Americans,
1:40:54
Speaker 7: and they all feel horrible for you, and they all
1:40:56
Speaker 7: hate Mom Donnie, and they don't want him there. Even
1:40:59
Speaker 7: people like me, I didn't lose family members that day.
1:41:02
Speaker 7: I did lose friends, a bunch of friends. In fact,
1:41:04
Speaker 7: they were in the windows on the World Restaurant that morning,
1:41:07
Speaker 7: a bunch of stock guys that worked out on Bond Street.
1:41:10
Speaker 7: But your wife... Your wife was murdered that day. You've
1:41:13
Speaker 7: been so beautiful and remembering her on this program a
1:41:16
Speaker 7: couple of times. And we've been talking about this for
1:41:18
Speaker 7: two months and here we are three days away. And unfortunately, Giovanni,
1:41:22
Speaker 7: it seems like he's not budging.
1:41:24
Speaker 26: He's childish. What can we say? I mean, him showing
1:41:27
Speaker 26: us that he signed a piece of paper for remembrance,
1:41:31
Speaker 26: not knowing that every family member and everyone in New
1:41:34
Speaker 26: York remembers that day. And the family members remember it
1:41:37
Speaker 26: every day since that day. We don't need him to
1:41:40
Speaker 26: sign anything.
1:41:41
Speaker 2: To show that.
1:41:42
Speaker 26: And then handing a pen to an Al Qaeda attorney
1:41:44
Speaker 26: is slap in the face and childish. But, you know,
1:41:48
Speaker 26: he's the one that looks like the idiot, not us.
1:41:50
Speaker 7: That's true. That was so evil. You're being nice and
1:41:53
Speaker 7: you call it childish. When he handed that pen to
1:41:56
Speaker 7: Ramsey's the other day, that was evil. That was him.
1:42:00
Speaker 7: punking you and saying, oh, your family member died? Oh, well,
1:42:06
Speaker 7: I'm the mayor.
1:42:06
Speaker 15: Hey, Mr.
1:42:07
Speaker 7: Al Qaeda attorney, grab the pen. It was so disgusting.
1:42:11
Speaker 7: I don't know how Jessica Tish, I love Jessie, love her.
1:42:14
Speaker 7: how she stood there through all that, because I know
1:42:16
Speaker 7: she's a good soul, but my.
1:42:18
Speaker 28: God, what he did that day, just a couple of
1:42:20
Speaker 28: days ago, okay, just a couple of days ago, basically
1:42:24
Speaker 28: he gave you, Giovanni, and your late great wife, Grace,
1:42:28
Speaker 28: the middle finger.
1:42:28
Speaker 7: That's what he did.
1:42:29
Speaker 26: Actually, over 3,000 people, and the people that are still
1:42:33
Speaker 26: dying today, he kind of showed us the man that
1:42:36
Speaker 26: he is, and obviously the people that voted for him
1:42:39
Speaker 26: should really open their eyes and see who they vote for,
1:42:42
Speaker 26: but You know, New York is a hard state to turn.
1:42:47
Speaker 7: Well, that's why you spend a lot of time in Naples,
1:42:49
Speaker 7: you know, dummy. So have you been getting, since you
1:42:53
Speaker 7: started this, you become famous for all the wrong reasons, obviously.
1:42:56
Speaker 7: You'd much rather have grace back. I understand that.
1:42:58
Speaker 26: I don't know about famous, but.
1:43:00
Speaker 7: No, you're pretty famous. Are you getting, like, phone calls
1:43:03
Speaker 7: from other family members that are okay with the mayor
1:43:06
Speaker 7: there saying, Hey, Giovanni, do me a favor. Don't speak
1:43:09
Speaker 7: for me.
1:43:11
Speaker 26: Never received one phone call that said, don't speak for me.
1:43:14
Speaker 26: Most of the people that have reached out, I'm going
1:43:16
Speaker 26: to say all the people, like I said the last time,
1:43:19
Speaker 26: now we're at 101,000 signatures. Most of those people have
1:43:24
Speaker 26: said beautiful things. And all the family members that have
1:43:28
Speaker 26: chimed in, I love what you're doing. Please keep it up.
1:43:33
Speaker 26: They all want to be at the press conference. They're
1:43:36
Speaker 26: all going to the 9-11 ceremony, obviously. We've had the
1:43:39
Speaker 26: Port Authority retired police officers that lost 37 people reach out.
1:43:44
Speaker 26: They wrote two letters, one to Hochul, one to the mayor.
1:43:48
Speaker 26: Like I said before, I don't like to say his
1:43:50
Speaker 26: name because it's not worth mentioning.
1:43:53
Speaker 7: It really isn't. I'm trying to make my way down
1:43:55
Speaker 7: there on Friday, too, right after the show, just to
1:43:58
Speaker 7: see you. I love you so much.
1:44:00
Speaker 26: I'm sad to hear you're not coming today.
1:44:02
Speaker 7: I know.
1:44:03
Speaker 26: But if you can reach out to Blakeman... and see
1:44:05
Speaker 26: if he's really coming today would be great.
1:44:07
Speaker 7: He's on after you. He's literally on the show right
1:44:10
Speaker 7: after you, so I'll ask him right on air. And
1:44:12
Speaker 7: I was coming with Bruce, but the president and Dallas
1:44:15
Speaker 7: is in the waiting. So give me the exact deal,
1:44:20
Speaker 7: what's happening today, what time. I know it's at City Hall.
1:44:23
Speaker 7: Give me all the specifics.
1:44:26
Speaker 26: So family members will be on the steps of City Hall.
1:44:29
Speaker 26: We're all going to speak a little bit about this
1:44:31
Speaker 26: whole ceremony thing and him coming, where you will bring
1:44:35
Speaker 26: the petition into City Hall, signed letter stating that he
1:44:39
Speaker 26: takes a day off, maybe goes to the beach, I
1:44:41
Speaker 26: don't know.
1:44:42
Speaker 7: Oh, so you're actually going to bring the petition into
1:44:45
Speaker 7: City Hall?
1:44:46
Speaker 26: Yeah, we're going to bring the petition.
1:44:47
Speaker 2: Are they going.
1:44:48
Speaker 7: To let you do that? Are they going to stop
1:44:49
Speaker 7: you from doing that, the mayor's people?
1:44:51
Speaker 15: No.
1:44:52
Speaker 26: Areola's office set up the press conference, which was great.
1:44:55
Speaker 26: I mean, they've been a lot of help, and we'll
1:44:58
Speaker 26: be on the steps. And we wrote a letter. I
1:45:01
Speaker 26: signed the letter, and we're going to present it with
1:45:02
Speaker 26: the petition.
1:45:03
Speaker 7: Yeah, Joanne Areola, my council lady, and Phyllis Inserello, who
1:45:06
Speaker 7: works with her, have both been great. In fact, Phyllis
1:45:09
Speaker 7: was the one who gave me your number in the
1:45:10
Speaker 7: first place and contacted me about this, and Jack Joyce. Okay,
1:45:14
Speaker 7: so you've got any other politicians that, We'll be showing
1:45:16
Speaker 7: up today.
1:45:18
Speaker 26: Well, we have some other council people. We have Yannick Kanekovic,
1:45:23
Speaker 26: the sponsor. She's coming in.
1:45:25
Speaker 7: Ina Vernacall, yes, from Brooklyn, yes.
1:45:28
Speaker 26: And also some other councilmen that Walter had spoken to.
1:45:31
Speaker 26: I don't know their names. And it's Blake. Blake then comes.
1:45:36
Speaker 26: And we're going to have Donahue there from the church.
1:45:38
Speaker 7: Oh, Bill Donahue, that's right. He actually promoted on his page.
1:45:43
Speaker 7: I'd be there with him. I'm sorry I won't, but
1:45:45
Speaker 7: he's a great guy, Giovanni.
1:45:47
Speaker 26: Yes, and the group, the Jewish Hate, we're doing the
1:45:50
Speaker 26: Jewish Hate.
1:45:51
Speaker 7: And Jewish Hatred, right, with Brooke Goldstein.
1:45:53
Speaker 26: Yes, we're doing that tonight as well. I'll be at
1:45:55
Speaker 26: this press conference at 6 o'clock. Good. So they'll be
1:46:00
Speaker 26: there for us, and we definitely will be there for them.
1:46:02
Speaker 7: Yeah, two big rallies today. Your rally first at City
1:46:05
Speaker 7: Hall this afternoon. Their rally, I believe, tonight is outside
1:46:08
Speaker 7: the DSA headquarters, right, Giovanni?
1:46:10
Speaker 26: Correct, 6 o'clock.
1:46:11
Speaker 7: 6 o'clock tonight. So it's a big day for all
1:46:14
Speaker 7: you folks. And, you know, because of you, I got
1:46:17
Speaker 7: a chance to talk on this show to... Your friend
1:46:20
Speaker 7: Michael Wolff, he was terrific. Charles Wolff. Charles Wolff. I
1:46:24
Speaker 7: keep saying Michael. Michael Wolff was a bad guy. He
1:46:26
Speaker 7: wrote bad books about Trump. Charles Wolff. Thank you. And
1:46:30
Speaker 7: Jeanette Pick. Jeanette Pick was on this show, too. I
1:46:33
Speaker 7: asked Jeanette Pick. At the end of the conversation, I said,
1:46:38
Speaker 7: her father, Joseph, was murdered that day. I said, just
1:46:41
Speaker 7: tell me the truth, you know. Do you want the
1:46:43
Speaker 7: mayor to be there? We're going to play this, Lou,
1:46:45
Speaker 7: because she puts it perfectly. Cut number eight. This is
1:46:48
Speaker 7: your friend, Jeanette Pick, Giovanni, telling me how she feels.
1:46:51
Speaker 7: Should the mayor be there or not? Yeah, go ahead.
1:46:54
Speaker 20: Dude, we don't want you there. When I say we,
1:46:57
Speaker 20: I mean myself and the almost 90,000 people who have
1:47:01
Speaker 20: signed the Change.org petition. I don't know how else we
1:47:05
Speaker 20: can say this to you. We've gone to the media. We've,
1:47:10
Speaker 20: you know... had a petition started. Literally, Scott Lobato put
1:47:14
Speaker 20: it in skywriting. I don't know how much clearer we
1:47:16
Speaker 20: can tell you. We don't want you there. Like, dude,
1:47:18
Speaker 20: I don't, like, what don't you get?
1:47:20
Speaker 7: What don't you get, your friend?
1:47:23
Speaker 26: She put it in simple terms. If he doesn't understand it,
1:47:27
Speaker 26: we have to, you know, I guess translate it for him.
1:47:30
Speaker 26: I don't know.
1:47:31
Speaker 7: What if the mayor actually today kind of steps out
1:47:34
Speaker 7: and makes an appearance? I mean, are you prepared for that?
1:47:37
Speaker 26: You know, I mean, I don't need to talk to him.
1:47:39
Speaker 26: You can come out and do whatever he wants.
1:47:40
Speaker 11: Right.
1:47:41
Speaker 26: It's his, it's his place of work. It's not mine.
1:47:43
Speaker 26: I mean, look, we're, we're just family members, regular citizens,
1:47:47
Speaker 26: just asking politely. That's all we could really do, Sid.
1:47:51
Speaker 26: I mean, this whole thing going back and forth is
1:47:53
Speaker 26: kind of childish in my eyes, but.
1:47:55
Speaker 7: Yeah. No, you've been a gentleman the whole way. I mean, you're, you're,
1:47:59
Speaker 7: you got an amazing temperament. I imagine behind closed doors,
1:48:03
Speaker 7: you may be a psycho, but, What time does this
1:48:08
Speaker 7: event start today, Giovanni?
1:48:10
Speaker 26: Twelve o'clock.
1:48:11
Speaker 15: Twelve o'clock.
1:48:11
Speaker 26: We're going to miss you, Sid. We're going to miss you.
1:48:13
Speaker 7: No, I'm going to miss you guys, too. I'll be
1:48:15
Speaker 7: thinking about you the whole day. And really, the only
1:48:17
Speaker 7: thing that could have kept me away was President Trump.
1:48:20
Speaker 7: And even that, I feel bad about.
1:48:22
Speaker 26: I would have went with President Trump as well.
1:48:26
Speaker 7: Are you sad that President Trump is not going to
1:48:29
Speaker 7: be there, Fadi? J.D. Vance will be there, the vice president,
1:48:32
Speaker 7: but no Trump. Are you sad about that?
1:48:35
Speaker 26: I am, but he has to do what he has
1:48:36
Speaker 26: to do. You know, I don't hold it against anyone. Look,
1:48:39
Speaker 26: at the end of the day, this ceremony is really
1:48:41
Speaker 26: for us. It's not for the politicians. You know, it's
1:48:43
Speaker 26: great that they pay their respect. But, you know, this
1:48:46
Speaker 26: individual that wants to come and we don't want there,
1:48:49
Speaker 26: it's a different story. You know, we all know what
1:48:51
Speaker 26: he's done, what he believes in. You know, he says
1:48:54
Speaker 26: he supports, he loves New York. But if you love
1:48:57
Speaker 26: New York and you love America, why would you want
1:48:59
Speaker 26: to change its way of life? Why do you want
1:49:00
Speaker 26: to give free shit out? It doesn't make sense.
1:49:03
Speaker 25: No.
1:49:03
Speaker 26: Nothing is ever free. And if he doesn't know that,
1:49:05
Speaker 26: you know, and I always say I have a good
1:49:07
Speaker 26: friend in Italy that has businesses, very wealthy. He always
1:49:12
Speaker 26: says to me, if you at 20 years old have
1:49:15
Speaker 26: not learned that communism is bad, you haven't learned a
1:49:19
Speaker 26: fucking thing.
1:49:20
Speaker 15: Right.
1:49:21
Speaker 26: Ha, ha, ha.
1:49:25
Speaker 7: Your friend in Italy is a very, very smart guy,
1:49:27
Speaker 7: whatever that gentleman is. Very smart. Very smart. So have
1:49:30
Speaker 7: you ever, Giovanni, read the names during the service there?
1:49:34
Speaker 7: Do you have any responsibilities coming up this Friday?
1:49:37
Speaker 26: No, I've read the names before. It's very nerve-wracking. This
1:49:40
Speaker 26: whole thing for me is nerve-wracking, but I don't like
1:49:43
Speaker 26: being the center of attention. Right.
1:49:45
Speaker 7: No, I see that.
1:49:46
Speaker 2: No, I see that.
1:49:47
Speaker 26: I wish I had a different personality like you.
1:49:52
Speaker 7: But I'm not patronizing you. You say that. You come
1:49:55
Speaker 7: on the air and you're terrific. You really are. You
1:49:56
Speaker 7: know why? Because you're just being real. You're just being authentic.
1:49:59
Speaker 7: And that's what people love. They want authenticity and originality.
1:50:03
Speaker 7: That's it. They don't care about the, you know, sound
1:50:04
Speaker 7: great or, you know, use every word correctly and all
1:50:07
Speaker 7: that nonsense. You're great. You come on. And people love you.
1:50:10
Speaker 7: I'm trying to get text messages all the time when
1:50:12
Speaker 7: you're on this program. So you have read the names before,
1:50:15
Speaker 7: but no responsibilities this Friday.
1:50:18
Speaker 26: Not this Friday.
1:50:18
Speaker 7: What time do you get down there usually?
1:50:21
Speaker 26: We usually leave Staten Island. We take the ferry and
1:50:24
Speaker 26: we're there by 730.
1:50:27
Speaker 7: When you say we, I have to imagine there's a
1:50:28
Speaker 7: ton of people leaving from Staten Island that morning.
1:50:31
Speaker 26: Yeah, we're a group of people that have been going
1:50:33
Speaker 26: for a while together. And we used to have a
1:50:35
Speaker 26: bus service that used to take, you know, it was
1:50:39
Speaker 26: about 60, 70 people at a time. It was two,
1:50:41
Speaker 26: three buses that would leave the mall, but that stopped
1:50:44
Speaker 26: a while ago. But now we just, we get together,
1:50:47
Speaker 26: we meet by the ferry and we go in. Wow.
1:50:51
Speaker 7: And then when it's all over this ceremony on Friday,
1:50:55
Speaker 7: usually the last 24 years, I have to imagine you're
1:50:59
Speaker 7: exhausted and just hearing your wife's name and going through
1:51:02
Speaker 7: those emotions all over again. I got to think Friday night,
1:51:06
Speaker 7: you're wasted, right?
1:51:07
Speaker 2: Just exhausted.
1:51:09
Speaker 26: Yeah, you kind of, your body temperature goes down. You
1:51:13
Speaker 26: kind of start thinking about the past more and, you know,
1:51:17
Speaker 26: crazy things that happened. I mean, for me, I told
1:51:20
Speaker 26: you the story, you know, I was there and the
1:51:23
Speaker 26: whole thing happening in front of my eyes just felt
1:51:25
Speaker 26: like I was in, you know, my body. I was
1:51:27
Speaker 26: out of my body and I was.
1:51:28
Speaker 2: In a movie kind of.
1:51:30
Speaker 26: So it's a weird experience. Yeah. I'll never miss it
1:51:35
Speaker 26: for anything. I go every year. It doesn't matter even
1:51:38
Speaker 26: if I would live in Europe, I'd still come to
1:51:41
Speaker 26: do this. You know, it's something in my heart. And
1:51:44
Speaker 26: every year, me and her family, we celebrate her birthday
1:51:47
Speaker 26: on August 2nd. We try to go to the memorial,
1:51:51
Speaker 26: but sometimes we can't get there at this point. Her
1:51:54
Speaker 26: parents are a little bit older and her sister and
1:51:56
Speaker 26: her brother can't get too far away. They need to
1:51:59
Speaker 26: be there for them. And we let balloons go into
1:52:02
Speaker 26: the sky for her birthday and her remembrance.
1:52:06
Speaker 7: I know there's a big memorial on Staten Island because, again,
1:52:09
Speaker 7: you mentioned you lived there.
1:52:10
Speaker 26: Yeah, the Angel Circle.
1:52:11
Speaker 2: Yeah.
1:52:12
Speaker 7: Did the borough president, Budapest Seller, reach out to you
1:52:14
Speaker 7: to invite you to that?
1:52:16
Speaker 26: No. Sometimes I go to the one in Angel Circle.
1:52:20
Speaker 26: I get stuck in the city sometimes because I kind
1:52:23
Speaker 26: of hang around and linger and want to just soak
1:52:26
Speaker 26: it in.
1:52:27
Speaker 14: Yeah.
1:52:28
Speaker 15: Yeah.
1:52:28
Speaker 26: But You know, today is going to be a little
1:52:30
Speaker 26: different because I have interviews with certain people, and I'm
1:52:34
Speaker 26: trying to get to that other press conference as well.
1:52:37
Speaker 7: Well, you're not going to go back to Staten Island.
1:52:39
Speaker 7: You're just going to stay in the city all day, right?
1:52:41
Speaker 26: Yeah, yeah. No, I'll stay in the city.
1:52:42
Speaker 7: You'll go for a nice lunch maybe? I'll get you
1:52:45
Speaker 7: a hotel room if you want.
1:52:46
Speaker 2: What do you need?
1:52:46
Speaker 26: No, no, I'm good.
1:52:47
Speaker 2: You sure?
1:52:48
Speaker 7: I'll get you whatever you want. You sure?
1:52:50
Speaker 26: No, I'm great.
1:52:51
Speaker 2: Where are you going for lunch?
1:52:52
Speaker 7: You want to go for a nice lunch?
1:52:54
Speaker 15: Yeah.
1:52:54
Speaker 20: Come on.
1:52:54
Speaker 7: We'll send you out to lunch. Justin, we're going to
1:52:57
Speaker 7: send Giovanni out to lunch. I'm going to put you
1:53:00
Speaker 7: on hold. You're going to tell Justin where you want
1:53:02
Speaker 7: to go, and we'll pick it up for you, okay?
1:53:06
Speaker 26: All right.
1:53:07
Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
1:53:08
Speaker 25: You don't have to.
1:53:08
Speaker 7: No, I want to.
1:53:09
Speaker 26: You don't have to.
1:53:09
Speaker 7: No, it's okay. I want to. 12 o'clock on the
1:53:12
Speaker 7: front steps of City Hall, 6 o'clock tonight, and Jew Hatred,
1:53:16
Speaker 7: the headquarters of DSA, and you, Giovanni Galante, will be
1:53:20
Speaker 7: at both of those. Anything else you want to say?
1:53:22
Speaker 7: This will be the last time we'll be on before, obviously,
1:53:25
Speaker 7: until next year. Anything else you want to say to
1:53:29
Speaker 7: the listeners out there, your wife or anything?
1:53:32
Speaker 26: I just ask for everyone to pray for us, and
1:53:35
Speaker 26: hopefully everything will go our way. Maybe he'll change his mind.
1:53:39
Speaker 7: Let's hope so. You did an amazing job either way,
1:53:41
Speaker 7: and I'm sure the overwhelming majority, Giovanni, overwhelming majority of
1:53:47
Speaker 7: 9-11 families are proud to know you. I know I am,
1:53:50
Speaker 7: so God bless you, Giovanni.
1:53:51
Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
1:53:52
Speaker 7: All right, stay on hold. We'll get your information, okay?
1:53:54
Speaker 26: Thank you.
1:53:55
Speaker 7: Good luck today. Giovanni Galanti right there, who started the petition.
1:53:58
Speaker 7: now over 100,000 strong. We'll take a break. We've got
1:54:01
Speaker 7: the news still to come. You mentioned them a couple
1:54:03
Speaker 7: of times. Running for governor, the current Nassau County executive
1:54:06
Speaker 7: who's got major ties to 9-11, unfortunately, major ties, my
1:54:11
Speaker 7: dear friend Bruce Blakeman.
1:54:13
Speaker 3: Sid and friends in the morning on the Red Apple
1:54:16
Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
1:54:19
Speaker 21: Sid Rosenberg is going to be hosting the Giants pregame
1:54:21
Speaker 21: show on Sunday at 11.30. In the morning, outside the
1:54:25
Speaker 21: bubble at Giant Stadium, go out and beat the hell
1:54:28
Speaker 21: out of Sid. You know, MSNBC has just flashed on
1:54:31
Speaker 21: my screen, it looks like there is a plane that's
1:54:36
Speaker 21: crashed into the World Trade Center.
1:54:38
Speaker 22: Donald Trump is on the line. We know him as
1:54:41
Speaker 22: the man behind lots of real estate in Manhattan. And
1:54:43
Speaker 22: of course, Donald, I understand you were actually a witness
1:54:48
Speaker 22: to what happened this morning.
1:54:49
Speaker 23: Well, I have a window that looks directly at the
1:54:51
Speaker 23: World Trade Center, and I saw this huge explosion. I
1:54:55
Speaker 23: was with a group of people, and I really couldn't
1:54:58
Speaker 23: even believe it. And even, I think, worse than that,
1:55:01
Speaker 23: for years I've looked right directly at the building. I'd
1:55:04
Speaker 23: see the Empire State Building in the foreground and the
1:55:07
Speaker 23: World Trade Center in the background, and now I'm looking
1:55:10
Speaker 23: at absolutely nothing. It's just gone, and it's just hard
1:55:13
Speaker 23: to believe.
1:55:14
Speaker 24: Donald, you have one of the landmark buildings down in
1:55:16
Speaker 24: the financial district, 40 Wall Street.
1:55:19
Speaker 15: Uh.
1:55:20
Speaker 24: did you have any damage or did you know what what's.
1:55:22
Speaker 23: Happened down there well it was an amazing phone call
1:55:24
Speaker 23: i made forty wall street actually was the second tallest
1:55:27
Speaker 23: building in downtown manhattan and that it was actually before
1:55:31
Speaker 23: the world trade center was the tallest and then when
1:55:33
Speaker 23: they built the world trade center became known as the
1:55:35
Speaker 23: second tallest and now it's the tallest and i just
1:55:38
Speaker 23: spoke to my people and they said it's the most
1:55:41
Speaker 23: unbelievable probably seven or eight blocks away from the World
1:55:46
Speaker 23: Trade Center, and yet Wall Street is littered with two
1:55:49
Speaker 23: feet of stone and brick and mortar and steel. And
1:55:54
Speaker 23: there are thousands of people walking over the debris over
1:55:59
Speaker 23: the Brooklyn Bridge, where they're sending them out over the
1:56:01
Speaker 23: Brooklyn Bridge to Brooklyn, and then I guess they're going
1:56:03
Speaker 23: to have to figure out how to get home from there.
1:56:05
Speaker 7: We will have the president on this show. He won't
1:56:08
Speaker 7: be here. He'll be at the Pentagon, of course.
1:56:10
Speaker 15: J.D.
1:56:11
Speaker 7: Vance will be here. But President Trump We'll be on
1:56:14
Speaker 7: our show Friday morning at eight 30. So I, I
1:56:18
Speaker 7: told Giovanni Galante, the man who started the petition to
1:56:22
Speaker 7: keep the mayor away from ground zero, that I'd buy
1:56:25
Speaker 7: him lunch today after he's done with his big rally.
1:56:29
Speaker 7: I guess Vicky Palladino is involved too. We love Vicky
1:56:32
Speaker 7: a lot. She'll be down there with Joanne Areola and
1:56:34
Speaker 7: others on the steps of city hall with Giovanni and
1:56:39
Speaker 7: a whole bunch of people. Jeanette Pick is going to
1:56:41
Speaker 7: be there and, Charles Wolfe and who knows? They'll be packed.
1:56:44
Speaker 7: Ina Vernico. So we can't be there because I'm on
1:56:47
Speaker 7: the way to Dallas to spend two days with the president.
1:56:50
Speaker 7: But I offered Giovanni lunch. And it turns out that
1:56:55
Speaker 7: son of a bitch is going to a sushi restaurant. Yep.
1:56:58
Speaker 7: Can you go to like, I don't know, like a
1:57:00
Speaker 7: Jewish deli? Not that they're cheap, but sushi restaurant.
1:57:05
Speaker 8: He tried to back you up.
1:57:07
Speaker 7: He did?
1:57:07
Speaker 8: He tried to back you out of it.
1:57:09
Speaker 7: He did?
1:57:09
Speaker 15: Yes.
1:57:10
Speaker 8: Yeah. No, no, no.
1:57:12
Speaker 7: No, I don't think it was that big a deal,
1:57:13
Speaker 7: but five people? That's going to cost us like five bills.
1:57:18
Speaker 7: I wouldn't go that far, but... Three, four hundred? What
1:57:21
Speaker 7: do you think?
1:57:21
Speaker 6: Well, I also don't think, you know, I would probably
1:57:24
Speaker 6: assume that now that he knows you're paying for it,
1:57:27
Speaker 6: he's not going.
1:57:28
Speaker 7: To blow the bill up.
1:57:29
Speaker 25: I would.
1:57:30
Speaker 2: Of course he's going to.
1:57:31
Speaker 7: That's exactly what I would do. I'd be like, I'd
1:57:34
Speaker 7: order everything in the damn restaurant. You kidding me? And
1:57:38
Speaker 7: five people is going to be like 20 because Ina's
1:57:40
Speaker 7: listening right now and Vicki's listening right now and Joanne
1:57:43
Speaker 7: is listening right now. The whole damn city council. Well,
1:57:47
Speaker 7: at least the five Republicans. We heard that Sid's paying. Yeah,
1:57:49
Speaker 7: let's do it. And then I followed that up, that
1:57:53
Speaker 7: nice gesture, with getting Justin two seats downstairs tonight to
1:57:58
Speaker 7: watch Aaron Judge make his return for the Yanks. Huge.
1:58:01
Speaker 7: Thanks to Andy Levine, of course. Levine's on speed dial
1:58:04
Speaker 7: for me now. Right, exactly. But I thank you for that.
1:58:08
Speaker 7: It's going to be great. Now you deserve it. You
1:58:10
Speaker 7: love that team and judges back. And let's hope that.
1:58:13
Speaker 7: Brownie points for my new girlfriend, too.
1:58:15
Speaker 14: Right.
1:58:15
Speaker 25: Right.
1:58:15
Speaker 2: And she's cute.
1:58:16
Speaker 7: We saw a lot of pictures this weekend. We were
1:58:18
Speaker 7: talking about, you know, Ava, Gabriel, Danielle. Like, oh, look
1:58:21
Speaker 7: how cute they look. Oh, that's nice. No, I can
1:58:24
Speaker 7: tell you actually really dig this chick. Yeah, for sure.
1:58:26
Speaker 15: Yeah.
1:58:27
Speaker 7: And she's already met your parents and all that, right? Yeah,
1:58:29
Speaker 7: I've met her parents. All right. Yeah, we're going to
1:58:31
Speaker 7: exchange Rosh Hashanah dinners this coming weekend. Oh, that's nice.
1:58:35
Speaker 7: I'm going to go to her. How about this? And
1:58:37
Speaker 7: has she been to a Yankee game with you before? Yes, yes, yes.
1:58:40
Speaker 7: But we sat in the left field. Right, but now
1:58:43
Speaker 7: you're going to go today like a champ, like when
1:58:45
Speaker 7: I go.
1:58:45
Speaker 26: Right.
1:58:46
Speaker 7: She's not used to this type of treatment. No, I
1:58:48
Speaker 7: don't think so. So, yeah. Fantastic. It's going to be great.
1:58:52
Speaker 7: All right, well, congratulations. I know you've been wanting a
1:58:54
Speaker 7: girlfriend for a while, and since that Russian shiksa broke
1:58:57
Speaker 7: your heart. Yeah, well, what are you going to do?
1:58:59
Speaker 7: That was awful. And your mother likes this girl. There's
1:59:02
Speaker 7: a Jewish girl. Your mother likes her, right? All right.
1:59:04
Speaker 7: Very good. Okay. All right. All right. Does she listen
1:59:08
Speaker 7: to the day? No, but I'll send her this. This
1:59:10
Speaker 7: is nice. What about her mom and dad? Do they listen?
1:59:12
Speaker 26: No.
1:59:13
Speaker 7: Why, the Democrats? What? No, I didn't say that. Well,
1:59:15
Speaker 7: you kind of did just now.
1:59:17
Speaker 25: Are they?
1:59:18
Speaker 7: They hate Trump, don't they? No, listen, I don't know.
1:59:20
Speaker 7: They hate Trump, they hate Israel, they hate me. No,
1:59:23
Speaker 7: they definitely do not hate Israel. They're a nice Jewish family.
1:59:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
1:59:28
Speaker 7: Bruce Blakeman is calling right now, so we'll take a break.
1:59:30
Speaker 7: So we're going to have to go now, right?
1:59:32
Speaker 15: Sure.
1:59:33
Speaker 7: And when we get back, we're going to talk to
1:59:35
Speaker 7: the man who's running for governor, but his brother, you
1:59:39
Speaker 7: can't make this up, his brother was on Fox News
1:59:42
Speaker 7: this morning for like 10 minutes with Peter Doocy. People
1:59:47
Speaker 7: don't realize... that as famous as Bruce is, his brother
1:59:52
Speaker 7: Brad is a stud dating all the way back to
1:59:55
Speaker 7: the George Bush days. So we'll talk 9-11, Kathy Hochul,
2:00:00
Speaker 7: and Brad Blakeman with my dear friend Bruce Blakeman.
2:00:04
Speaker 3: Sid and Friends in the Morning on the Red Apple
2:00:07
Speaker 3: Podcast Network.
2:00:09
Speaker 7: He is inching closer and closer to Kathy. So I
2:00:13
Speaker 7: love getting messages from Boyle because I know outside of Gabriel,
2:00:17
Speaker 7: of course, That when I get this message, it's going
2:00:20
Speaker 7: to be Bruce is even cutting further into what was
2:00:23
Speaker 7: once a 26-point lead. And McLaughlin is the best pollster
2:00:27
Speaker 7: in the country. You could actually trust him. Not like
2:00:29
Speaker 7: these left-leaning Democrat polls. And you know what, folks? It's
2:00:34
Speaker 7: four points from 26-point. to 12, to 10, to 8,
2:00:39
Speaker 7: to 4. Notice a trend here? Notice a trend? He
2:00:42
Speaker 7: job hokal. I'll say it. He job hokal ain't doing
2:00:47
Speaker 7: it these days. My friend Bruce Blankman, current Nassau County executive,
2:00:51
Speaker 7: soon to be the next governor of New York. That
2:00:54
Speaker 7: lead is just about gone. Congratulations, Brucey.
2:00:58
Speaker 15: Good morning, Sid. Yeah, things are looking great. Hey, look,
2:01:01
Speaker 15: I don't want to correct the great Sid Rosenberg, but
2:01:04
Speaker 15: it's 3.9%. What?
2:01:08
Speaker 7: Even better.
2:01:09
Speaker 25: 3.9%.
2:01:10
Speaker 7: On a serious note, besides that you're delivering the right message,
2:01:15
Speaker 7: I had a guy stop on his bicycle in front
2:01:18
Speaker 7: of my house. I was out drinking coffee on Sunday morning.
2:01:20
Speaker 7: He said, you know, I spoke to my friend in
2:01:22
Speaker 7: Brooklyn today and we haven't seen Bruce. I said, listen
2:01:25
Speaker 7: to me, shut up. He's an ice old man. Shut up.
2:01:28
Speaker 7: Republicans do this. All they do is bitch and complain.
2:01:31
Speaker 7: Instead of saying, this guy has cut a 26-point lead
2:01:33
Speaker 7: to four, this guy is in the northern part of
2:01:36
Speaker 7: the state, the southern part of the state, in every
2:01:38
Speaker 7: borough every day, they look for a reason to bitch
2:01:41
Speaker 7: and complain. There's a reason why this lead has been
2:01:44
Speaker 7: just about evaporated, and that's because of your message and
2:01:47
Speaker 7: your hard work.
2:01:49
Speaker 15: Well, you know, Sid, one of the problems that we
2:01:52
Speaker 15: have in New York State is for many years, People
2:01:56
Speaker 15: didn't believe that a Republican could win, so there were
2:01:59
Speaker 15: no campaigns. And Lee Zeldin proved four years ago that
2:02:04
Speaker 15: it is achievable to win in New York State. And
2:02:07
Speaker 15: he didn't have Kathy Hochul's report card. I've got it now.
2:02:10
Speaker 15: It's straight Fs. Highest tax state in the United States,
2:02:14
Speaker 15: electric bills 70% higher than the national average, crime rising,
2:02:19
Speaker 15: unsafety in every community. So her alliance with Zohra Mondami,
2:02:24
Speaker 15: giving billions of dollars away to legal migrants who aren't
2:02:26
Speaker 15: New Yorkers of our taxpayer money. So we've got a
2:02:29
Speaker 15: report card now. She gets straight F. And people know
2:02:33
Speaker 15: that I know how to run a big organization. My
2:02:35
Speaker 15: county is larger than eight states in population. People are
2:02:38
Speaker 15: happy in my county. We're doing very well. We're prosperous.
2:02:41
Speaker 15: We're creating jobs. I haven't raised taxes a penny in
2:02:45
Speaker 15: four years. I cut a $ 150 million tax increase to
2:02:47
Speaker 15: my predecessor. I've hired 900 new law enforcement professionals, cops,
2:02:52
Speaker 15: deputy sheriffs, corrections officers, probation officers. So we're going to
2:02:58
Speaker 15: go forward and take my report card, compare it to hers.
2:03:03
Speaker 15: And when people compare the two, I'm very confident that
2:03:06
Speaker 15: on January 1st, I will be sworn in as the
2:03:09
Speaker 15: next governor in New York State.
2:03:10
Speaker 7: Me too. And to show how hard you're working. You'd
2:03:14
Speaker 7: love to be in Dallas with me and the president
2:03:16
Speaker 7: the next two days. Trump would love to have you there.
2:03:18
Speaker 7: You're not coming. You didn't go to Las Vegas. You
2:03:21
Speaker 7: were invited for the RJC last week. You're not going
2:03:23
Speaker 7: to Dallas this week because you're back here running that
2:03:27
Speaker 7: big county and campaigning. That's what you do.
2:03:32
Speaker 15: Sid, I'm laser focused. We're working 24-7. We have to
2:03:37
Speaker 15: save our state. We've got to stop Kathy Hochul and
2:03:40
Speaker 15: the DSA and Zoran Mondami. You know, how about the
2:03:44
Speaker 15: fact that on the week before 9-11, the 25th anniversary,
2:03:50
Speaker 15: Zoran Mandami has a signing of a proclamation about 9-11
2:03:55
Speaker 15: and hands the pen to the very lawyer who defended
2:04:00
Speaker 15: the people who perpetrated the attack on New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C.,
2:04:07
Speaker 15: and America. He gave the middle finger to all of us.
2:04:11
Speaker 7: That's right.
2:04:12
Speaker 15: And Kathy Hochul endorsed him. He endorsed Kathy Hochul. I mean,
2:04:17
Speaker 15: they are so un-American. It's disgusting, especially on this sacred week.
2:04:23
Speaker 7: Oh, you're right. Are you going to be down there
2:04:25
Speaker 7: on Friday?
2:04:26
Speaker 26: Of course.
2:04:26
Speaker 7: Yeah, you're going to be there. I know Fenton is
2:04:28
Speaker 7: going to be providing security down there. He's so great.
2:04:31
Speaker 7: I don't know if you saw this, but this morning, Bruce,
2:04:34
Speaker 7: your brother Brad was front and center for the most
2:04:39
Speaker 7: watched part of Fox & Friends TV. out there in D.C.
2:04:42
Speaker 7: with Steve Doocy, because today Tunnel to Towers is going
2:04:46
Speaker 7: to unveil this huge steel beam that was taken from
2:04:50
Speaker 7: the actual World Trade Center that morning, 25 years ago.
2:04:54
Speaker 7: President Trump's going to be there. It's a huge ceremony.
2:04:57
Speaker 7: And Fox News interviewed your brother this morning. For folks
2:05:00
Speaker 7: that don't know this, Bruce's brother, Brad, was very, very tight.
2:05:04
Speaker 7: He worked with President Bush during those 9-11 days when
2:05:08
Speaker 7: Bruce was at the Port Authority. President Trump and Brad
2:05:11
Speaker 7: Blakeman are very, very close. Did you see your brother
2:05:13
Speaker 7: on television this morning?
2:05:15
Speaker 15: Of course. You know, my brother puts out media alerts
2:05:18
Speaker 15: every time he's on television. I thought my brother did
2:05:21
Speaker 15: a great job. You know, we lost our nephew. He
2:05:24
Speaker 15: was murdered on that day. He was rendering assistance. He
2:05:28
Speaker 15: was a New York State court officer. rendering assistance to
2:05:31
Speaker 15: a woman who was badly burned in Tower 2 when
2:05:34
Speaker 15: it collapsed on him. So this is a very, very
2:05:38
Speaker 15: sad week for my family and my sister Linda and
2:05:42
Speaker 15: her children, Joey and Brad and Jesse. It's just a very,
2:05:47
Speaker 15: very tough week for all of us, as it is
2:05:49
Speaker 15: for so many families. And to have Kathy Hochul and
2:05:52
Speaker 15: Zoran Mondami basically give us the middle finger, it's just
2:05:57
Speaker 15: completely disgraceful. I don't know what the Democratic Party is thinking,
2:06:02
Speaker 15: but I'll tell you some good news, Sid. Every day,
2:06:05
Speaker 15: another Democrat walks up to me and says, I'm a
2:06:07
Speaker 15: lifelong Democrat. I've never voted Republican before in my life.
2:06:12
Speaker 15: We're voting for you this year. We're voting Republican this year.
2:06:16
Speaker 15: We can't take it. Our party is insane.
2:06:19
Speaker 7: It's true. I mean, I buy it. I've seen it.
2:06:22
Speaker 7: I've been with you, and I've seen that. And again,
2:06:24
Speaker 7: just to remind people, you won this. easily in a
2:06:28
Speaker 7: county that is overwhelmingly Democrat. That's the bottom line. You've
2:06:32
Speaker 7: now won two times in a row in convincing fashion,
2:06:36
Speaker 7: mind you, in a county that's mostly Democrat by big numbers.
2:06:40
Speaker 7: I do want to mention his name, Bruce's nephew. His
2:06:43
Speaker 7: name is Tommy Juergens. That is Linda's son. He was
2:06:47
Speaker 7: murdered that day, so God rest his soul. But why
2:06:50
Speaker 7: would I be surprised that Democrats are saying it now
2:06:53
Speaker 7: when you've won with Democrat help the last two elections?
2:06:57
Speaker 15: Well, you know, I've provided tax relief to the residents
2:07:01
Speaker 15: of Nassau County. I've managed the fiscal affairs in a
2:07:05
Speaker 15: way that they can be proud of. We've gotten four
2:07:07
Speaker 15: budget surpluses, seven bond upgrades. And I promised that I
2:07:12
Speaker 15: would keep our community safe.
2:07:13
Speaker 25: And U.S.
2:07:13
Speaker 15: News and World Report says our county is the safest
2:07:17
Speaker 15: county in America. So I want to do the same
2:07:18
Speaker 15: thing for New York. Cut taxes, cut our electric bills
2:07:22
Speaker 15: in half. And make for safer communities. Now, who wouldn't
2:07:25
Speaker 15: want that? That's not a Republican thing. That's not a
2:07:28
Speaker 15: Democrat thing. That's something that everybody can embrace.
2:07:31
Speaker 2: 100%.
2:07:32
Speaker 7: 100%. And I know that Hochul was breaking your balls
2:07:36
Speaker 7: because you called her hijab Hochul. But, you know, you
2:07:39
Speaker 7: talk about just a couple of days before 9-11, this mayor, punks,
2:07:43
Speaker 7: all of us, he did it on purpose, gave us
2:07:45
Speaker 7: all the middle finger, giving the pen, like you said,
2:07:48
Speaker 7: to his attorney who represented the brother-in-law of one of
2:07:52
Speaker 7: the hijackers, American Airlines Flight 77. I mean, this was terrible.
2:07:56
Speaker 7: He also put Jessica Tisch in a terrible spot. He
2:07:59
Speaker 7: knew exactly... what he was doing. Timing. Same thing with Hochul.
2:08:03
Speaker 7: Why would you put on a hijab at a mosque
2:08:06
Speaker 7: less than two weeks before 9-11?
2:08:08
Speaker 4: Why?
2:08:08
Speaker 15: There's a time and place for everything, Sid. I worked
2:08:12
Speaker 15: very hard in my county to build bridges with the
2:08:16
Speaker 15: Muslim American community because If we don't back moderate Muslims
2:08:22
Speaker 15: who love America, then the crazy people take over. So
2:08:27
Speaker 15: I hired the first Muslim police chaplain. I had the
2:08:32
Speaker 15: first feast after Ramadan, county-funded and county-run. I want to
2:08:40
Speaker 15: build bridges for the Muslim community. Have nothing against the
2:08:43
Speaker 15: Muslim community. They are... The same as everybody else, they
2:08:47
Speaker 15: are people who are important for me to represent in
2:08:51
Speaker 15: a fair manner, in a manner in which their children
2:08:55
Speaker 15: and grandchildren can prosper and do well. But we should
2:09:00
Speaker 15: never forget that these murders were done in the name
2:09:04
Speaker 15: of Islam, by Islamic extremists, by people who want to
2:09:10
Speaker 15: destroy America. And this was not the time or place
2:09:15
Speaker 15: to do that, number one. And number two, by Mondami
2:09:20
Speaker 15: handing his pen to someone who was a lawyer to
2:09:25
Speaker 15: the people who were responsible for the attacks on 9-11
2:09:29
Speaker 15: is a disgrace. And the fact that Kathy Hochul has
2:09:32
Speaker 15: not come out and shamed him for it and told
2:09:37
Speaker 15: Zoran Mondami, we want nothing to do with you. You know,
2:09:41
Speaker 15: the Democrats talk about a big tent. OK, you don't
2:09:45
Speaker 15: let a poisonous snake into your tent. And that's what
2:09:47
Speaker 15: they've done with Zoran Mondami. And Kathy Hochul is supposed
2:09:51
Speaker 15: to be running that tent as the governor. But she's
2:09:54
Speaker 15: allowed that poisonous snake in the tent. And that's why.
2:09:58
Speaker 15: Democrats are saying enough is enough, and they're going to vote.
2:10:01
Speaker 7: For me this year.
2:10:02
Speaker 23: 100%.
2:10:02
Speaker 7: They're spending their time defending Mom Donnie, Chuck Schumer, and Kathy,
2:10:06
Speaker 7: and he should be there on Friday. He should be there.
2:10:09
Speaker 7: I had a guy on this morning, Giovanni Galante. He's
2:10:11
Speaker 7: got over 100,000 signatures on a petition, mostly from 9-11
2:10:16
Speaker 7: families that don't want the mayor anywhere near there. Now,
2:10:18
Speaker 7: today I was supposed to go to City Hall with
2:10:21
Speaker 7: you to this big rally with the 9-11 families. I'm
2:10:24
Speaker 7: flying to Dallas today to see your friend Trump, so
2:10:26
Speaker 7: I can't make it. Do you have any... Will you
2:10:29
Speaker 7: be in the city at all later on today? Are
2:10:30
Speaker 7: you campaigning someplace else?
2:10:32
Speaker 15: No, I actually... I have a class of probation officers
2:10:35
Speaker 15: I'm swearing in. Then I'm meeting Dominic, who's 105 years old.
2:10:41
Speaker 15: And at nursing homes, he plays the Star Spangled Banner
2:10:45
Speaker 15: on his saxophone at 105. Then I've got a couple
2:10:49
Speaker 15: of fundraisers, a couple of media events. So I'm kind
2:10:53
Speaker 15: of tied up today. And then, of course... Later in
2:10:56
Speaker 15: the week, it's all about 9-11.
2:10:57
Speaker 7: Right, Friday especially. So, you know, I'm going to be
2:11:00
Speaker 7: in Dallas, and this is all about retaining the House
2:11:03
Speaker 7: and the Senate, obviously. And you've got a couple of
2:11:05
Speaker 7: big races out there on Long Island, Bruce, and you're
2:11:08
Speaker 7: the top of the ticket, man. I mean, these people
2:11:11
Speaker 7: may win because of you. That's the bottom line. Whether
2:11:13
Speaker 7: you win or not, you're going to win, okay? But
2:11:15
Speaker 7: whether you do or not, Mike Lepetri, he's thrilled to
2:11:18
Speaker 7: death you're there. Janine Driscoll, she's thrilled to death that
2:11:21
Speaker 7: you're there. So these midterm races, really turn out to
2:11:27
Speaker 7: be at least a little bit a reflection of you, yes?
2:11:31
Speaker 15: Well, actually, it's more than you would think, Sid, because
2:11:34
Speaker 15: we've done the analysis, and it's really about the top
2:11:38
Speaker 15: of the ticket. So as we saw with Lee Zeldin
2:11:42
Speaker 15: when he ran a close race, we were able to
2:11:44
Speaker 15: pick up some congressional seats. So I would say to
2:11:49
Speaker 15: the Republican National Committee, the Republican Governors Association, this is
2:11:53
Speaker 15: now the time to contribute to Blakeman for New York, BlakemanForNewYork.com,
2:11:59
Speaker 15: because right now we are poised for a great victory
2:12:03
Speaker 15: to take a blue state and make it red. And
2:12:06
Speaker 15: we have the opportunity to pick up Mike Lepetri's seat,
2:12:10
Speaker 15: Janine Driscoll's seat. Those are two pickups. Hold Waller, hold Maliotakis,
2:12:16
Speaker 15: hold our other seats. And there's a couple of seats upstate, Sid.
2:12:20
Speaker 15: that I think that we're going to steal from the Democrats.
2:12:22
Speaker 15: We may pick up four seats this year if we
2:12:26
Speaker 15: run really strong at the top. And right now we're
2:12:28
Speaker 15: in a virtual dead heat. So I fully expect that
2:12:31
Speaker 15: the momentum will continue. All of you Democrats, all of
2:12:35
Speaker 15: you independent voters, all of you Republicans out there that
2:12:39
Speaker 15: are disgusted by what's going on in New York City
2:12:42
Speaker 15: right now and in our state, please, this is the
2:12:45
Speaker 15: time to rally together. We need the continued momentum, the contributions,
2:12:49
Speaker 15: the volunteers. Put up a lawn sign. Make sure everybody
2:12:53
Speaker 15: gets out to vote because we need to save New York,
2:12:57
Speaker 15: and by saving New York, we'll save America.
2:12:59
Speaker 7: You need to save New York. It's a lot of pressure, Bruce,
2:13:01
Speaker 7: I know, but you're the guy to do it. Hopefully,
2:13:03
Speaker 7: I'll see you Friday down there. I'm trying to get
2:13:06
Speaker 7: there right after my show is over. I don't know
2:13:08
Speaker 7: if I'll be on time or not, but more importantly, Bruce, again,
2:13:11
Speaker 7: as not just a man running for governor and not
2:13:13
Speaker 7: just a good soul, but As a man that buried
2:13:17
Speaker 7: his nephew, you know, Tommy was killed on 9-11, your
2:13:19
Speaker 7: sister Linda. So your family has been through an awful
2:13:22
Speaker 7: lot from that day. What is your message here on
2:13:26
Speaker 7: the way out to other 9-11 families and to New Yorkers, too,
2:13:31
Speaker 7: that are just struggling after the last 25 years?
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Speaker 15: So this is a very tough week for all the families.
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Speaker 15: I dread this week every year. But for 25 years,
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Speaker 15: I've gone to the memorial with my family. It's important
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Speaker 15: that we stay together, stay unified. Let's pray for the
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Speaker 15: souls of all of those who were murdered on that day.
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Speaker 15: And let's make a resolution that we will be stronger
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Speaker 15: and more unified than ever. And we will never forget.
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Speaker 15: And we will never, ever, ever let this happen to
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Speaker 15: our beautiful city, our state, and our country again.
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Speaker 7: And if Mamdani, he won't do this because he's endorsing
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Speaker 7: Hochul in a big, big way, but if he happened
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Speaker 7: to walk over to you on Friday and extend his hand,
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Speaker 7: what would you do? Or what will you do?
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Speaker 15: I will shake his hand and turn my back on him. Okay.
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Speaker 7: And you're recommending that all of the families should do
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Speaker 7: that on Friday, right?
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Speaker 15: I think that is a peaceful and respectful way to
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Speaker 15: show your disappointment and your disgust in the policies of
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Speaker 15: Zoran Mandami and that he does not belong there because
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Speaker 15: of of his philosophy, which is anti-American. And it is
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Speaker 15: antithetical to what our values are in America. And that
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Speaker 15: would be the appropriate thing to do. Show your distaste
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Speaker 15: by respectfully turning your back. Don't scream. Don't yell. It's
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Speaker 15: a solemn event. It's about those who were murdered that day.
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Speaker 15: But if you want to do it respectfully and you
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Speaker 15: want to show you are you're basically disgust in the
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Speaker 15: fact that he would even be there. Just turn your
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Speaker 15: back on him.
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Speaker 7: I think that's the right thing to do. 3.9%, Bruce Blakeman,
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Speaker 7: you're kicking ass. But I knew you would, man. You're
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Speaker 7: going to win. I'm so proud of you. I love you.
2:15:29
Speaker 7: Keep up the great work, and maybe I'll see you Friday.
2:15:31
Speaker 7: Either way, I'll talk to you very, very soon, my man.
2:15:33
Speaker 7: Thank you so much.
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Speaker 15: God bless you, Sid. Thank you.
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Speaker 7: God bless you. Bruce Blakeman right there, the next governor
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Speaker 7: here in the state of New York, the current Nassau
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Speaker 7: County executive. Quick break. I'll try to hop back on
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Speaker 7: for 30 seconds before we say goodbye this morning.
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