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Peter King | Former Congressman Makes Weekly S&FIM Appearance · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Pete King, Pete was an amazing congressman for about four decades.
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  Speaker 1: Homeland Security, and he's still out there on Long Island
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  Speaker 1: with Joe Cairo running the show, making it possible for
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  Speaker 1: people like Bruce Blakeman, hopefully he'll be our next governor,
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  Speaker 1: people like Mike Lepetri and Janine Driscoll, Anthony D'Esposito and Lolota, Garbarino,
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  Speaker 1: all of them. And he's my friend. I love him,
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  Speaker 1: Pete King. Pete, good morning, buddy. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great. Thanks for the introduction there. But just
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  Speaker 2: so you know, Joe Cairo is the top guy in
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  Speaker 2: Nassau County, and Bruce is going to be our next governor,
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  Speaker 2: no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 1: He was on with me this morning for like 25 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: He was great. Thank you. I'm glad you listened. You know, Pete,
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned this to you, and I will continue to
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  Speaker 1: do so until we get there. We are now 16
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  Speaker 1: days away from 9-11, and I remind my audience every
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  Speaker 1: week that nobody did more for the families who are
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  Speaker 1: still We lost loved ones after 9-11. There are still
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  Speaker 1: people sick and dying still 25 years later. And you
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  Speaker 1: made sure that some of these families will be compensated,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, for about 100 years. If I'm right, if
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  Speaker 1: I'm wrong, you can correct me. So thank you for
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  Speaker 1: doing all that. And as we get closer and closer again,
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  Speaker 1: just 16 days away. How do you feel, Pete King?
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  Speaker 2: Every time it gets closer, you realize how terrible that
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  Speaker 2: day was, how horrible it was, and how many just
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  Speaker 2: regular people were murdered that day. It's bad enough when
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  Speaker 2: a soldier, somebody in combat, or a police officer was
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  Speaker 2: killed in the line of duty. That's terrible. But these
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  Speaker 2: were innocent people going off to work that day. The
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  Speaker 2: furthest thing from their minds or their families' minds was
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  Speaker 2: they wouldn't come back that night. We're not talking about
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  Speaker 2: a car accident. We're not talking about something that may
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  Speaker 2: happen in the ordinary course of life and death. This
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  Speaker 2: was an attack right in the greatest city in the world,
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  Speaker 2: downtown Manhattan, the World Trade Center. I mean, those people
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  Speaker 2: were killed, and all of us had good friends that day,
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  Speaker 2: and the way they died was horrible. And at that time,
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  Speaker 2: I thought we would never, ever, ever forget how terrible
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  Speaker 2: this day is. But today, there's so many people that
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  Speaker 2: look upon that as ancient history, like, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: Battle of Gettysburg or Pearl Harbor. The fact is, it
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  Speaker 2: happened in all our lifetimes, and... And it continues today,
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  Speaker 2: as you said, there are people still sick and dying
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  Speaker 2: from the illnesses caused by that attack. And the other fact,
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  Speaker 2: and again, I'm not trying to scare people at all,
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  Speaker 2: but ISIS and al-Qaeda and the entire radical Islamist movement
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  Speaker 2: still wants to destroy the United States. And they're very aggressive. Active,
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  Speaker 2: they're very effective. And if we ever let our guard down,
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  Speaker 2: and sometimes the more and more we are, we leave
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  Speaker 2: ourselves vulnerable to another 9-11. Not that they could ever
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  Speaker 2: do what they did at 9-11. That we are fully
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  Speaker 2: protected against. And we have so many defenses set up,
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  Speaker 2: and we're very proactive. But the fact is ISIS, al-Qaeda,
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  Speaker 2: and all those Islamists, they are also active to work
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  Speaker 2: around it. So we have to constantly... try to stay
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  Speaker 2: ahead of them. In New York, I mean, no one
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  Speaker 2: did a better job than Ray Kelly and the NYPD.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they had more Arabic speakers than the FBI.
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  Speaker 2: They had cops planted all over the world trying to
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  Speaker 2: anticipate what might happen. They were proactive here in New York.
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  Speaker 2: Now they were attacked for it by the liberal media,
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  Speaker 2: by liberal politicians, accusing them of being racist and bigots.
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  Speaker 2: The fact is, that there's been over 20 attacks against
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  Speaker 2: New York have been stopped over the years. And if
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  Speaker 2: you would say that on September 12th, nobody ever thought
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  Speaker 2: that we would be that 25 years go without a
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  Speaker 2: major attack in New York. Yes, there have been the
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  Speaker 2: incidental ones, and they're terrible, but there's been no coordinated
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  Speaker 2: attack that's been successful. And that's because of the NYPD
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  Speaker 2: and Nassau County. Pat Ryder is on top of it
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  Speaker 2: all the time here. And Washington, sometimes I think even
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  Speaker 2: in this administration, they're focusing so much on immigration, which
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  Speaker 2: has to be done. But we can't take our minds
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  Speaker 2: off the terror plot, the plots, the threats against us. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: that's it. But also, probably what's my main thought from
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  Speaker 2: 9-11 is the heroism and the courage that was shown
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  Speaker 2: that day and the days, weeks, and months afterwards as
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  Speaker 2: we fought back. Just imagine if the image had been
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  Speaker 2: cops and firemen running away from Ground Zero, not going
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  Speaker 2: into those buildings. And also, if everything wasn't being done properly,
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  Speaker 2: to take care of those victims afterwards. We came back,
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  Speaker 2: we fought back, and to me, that's like the spirit
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  Speaker 2: of New York, the spirit of America, and that's going
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  Speaker 2: to sustain us, I hope.
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  Speaker 1: That is well said, Pete. You know, just to emphasize
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  Speaker 1: what you're talking about, we saw an arrest in Albany
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  Speaker 1: just last week, some lady that was radicalized by ISIS,
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  Speaker 1: and she was looking to do something terrible, and we've unveiled,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, 20, maybe 30 or 40, I don't know, plots,
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  Speaker 1: everything from, you know, white vans with explosives in it
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  Speaker 1: in Times Square, to People trying to get across the border.
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  Speaker 1: But I will tell you, I went on a rant
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days ago. I went looking for a
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  Speaker 1: specific piece of audio, Peter, about some gentleman or lady,
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  Speaker 1: now I've forgotten, who called their loved one from Canada
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  Speaker 1: Fitzgerald and basically said goodbye. And I play those because
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  Speaker 1: they are gut-wrenching, because I want New Yorkers who have forgotten,
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  Speaker 1: people who voted for Mamdani, for example, they've forgotten. Now,
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  Speaker 1: some of them are young. Most of them are young.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't even born yet. I get that. But there's
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  Speaker 1: a percentage of people who are around. They forgot. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I play that stuff. You know, maybe Mom
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  Speaker 1: Don will hear it and he won't show up. But
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  Speaker 1: as I'm looking for it and I'm scrolling through Twitter,
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  Speaker 1: all I see page after page after page are these
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous conspiracy theories that 9-11 never happened. There were no planes.
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  Speaker 1: They're showing videos of a plane going into a building
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  Speaker 1: and no explosions. Never happened. There were no planes. Clearly
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  Speaker 1: this was done by the American government. Israel, I see
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  Speaker 1: 9 million different tweets that Israel did this on 9-11,
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  Speaker 1: even though we know the 19 hijackers all hated Israel
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  Speaker 1: with a passion. We've become such a sad, demented, sick society.
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  Speaker 1: And I know people who believe this is true, that
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  Speaker 1: there was no 9-11, that Israel and America together blew
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  Speaker 1: up those buildings. When you see that, what do you think?
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  Speaker 2: It's absolutely disgraceful. Let me tell you, the first time
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  Speaker 2: I saw that actually was in Nassau County about two
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  Speaker 2: weeks after 9-11. It was an interfaith meeting held. The
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  Speaker 2: bishop was there. Various Protestant leaders were there. Rabbis were there.
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  Speaker 2: Priests were there. And they also had imams there. And
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  Speaker 2: at that time, everyone was united. Everyone was staying together.
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  Speaker 2: And then the interfaith coordinator for the biggest mosque in
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  Speaker 2: Nassau County got up and said, there's no evidence at
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  Speaker 2: all that Muslims were involved in this. It could have
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  Speaker 2: been the Zionists. It could have been the CIA. And
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  Speaker 2: I think, my God, this isn't some crazy guy in
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  Speaker 2: his basement. This was the interfaith coordinator for one of
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  Speaker 2: the leading mosques on Long Island saying this. And I
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  Speaker 2: never thought that would take hold. But then, of course,
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  Speaker 2: you have the other conspiracies that the Bush family owned dynamite,
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  Speaker 2: which blew up the building seven, all this crazy stuff
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  Speaker 2: that's out there. And I don't know why people want
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  Speaker 2: to go down those rabbit holes. It was complicated, but
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  Speaker 2: it was also simple. This was carried out by radical Islamists.
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  Speaker 2: They were operating out of Afghanistan, but they're situated around
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  Speaker 2: the world. And this is well-coordinated, well-planned. It was carried
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  Speaker 2: out by them. They had diabolical murderers, and they plan
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  Speaker 2: on doing it again. Every time we take our eye
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  Speaker 2: off that, all we do is help the enemy. And
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  Speaker 2: why this thing? Those were the first times maybe in
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  Speaker 2: recent history where I saw somehow the Jews being blamed
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  Speaker 2: for this. And they've been blamed for a lot through history.
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  Speaker 2: Every phony conspiracy comes up. But this one, how anyone
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  Speaker 2: can say that Israel was involved in the attack on
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  Speaker 2: the World Trade Center is insanity. But there's always a
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  Speaker 2: certain element. We're going to believe that. Then it puts
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  Speaker 2: doubts out there. And then you have, how can we
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  Speaker 2: give them money in Israel? How can we let Israel
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  Speaker 2: do this, do that? And to me, the bottom line
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  Speaker 2: in Israel is really very simple. No matter what the
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  Speaker 2: religion of Israel happens to be, they are our closest ally.
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  Speaker 2: They cooperate with us so much. The fact that it
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  Speaker 2: is a Jewish state and what happened to the Jews
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  Speaker 2: in the Holocaust is makes it all the more important
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  Speaker 2: we stand with Israel. But even if we're not, just
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  Speaker 2: the fact what they do to help us, the intelligence
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  Speaker 2: we share. I mean, if we didn't have Israel in
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  Speaker 2: the Middle East, we'd have to create one. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's the reality.
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  Speaker 1: It's true.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true. It's the only country in the Middle East,
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  Speaker 2: Jordan and Egypt, But there's no country you can really
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  Speaker 2: count on at all. And that's Israel.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, he says a Jewish state. There's
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  Speaker 1: Christians there. There's Muslims there. And they all live together.
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  Speaker 1: They're all fine. The only people that give Israelis any issues,
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  Speaker 1: when I say Israelis, I'm including Christians. The only people
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  Speaker 1: that give them an issue are the Palestinians who graduate
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  Speaker 1: to Hamas. Those are Palestinians that graduate to Hamas. Right?
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  Speaker 1: They're not Jews. They're not Christians. They're not Israelis. That's
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  Speaker 1: who that is. You know, I do have to bring up, though,
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  Speaker 1: one of the issues going on right now. I brought
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  Speaker 1: up with Jim Jordan and Brian Kilmeade earlier talking about
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  Speaker 1: foreign policy. What's going on right now with Canada? It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't seem like there's a healthy appetite to take this
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  Speaker 1: too far. You know, you've got the convention in Dallas
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  Speaker 1: less than two weeks away, the midterms 70 days away,
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  Speaker 1: this whole Canada deal. What is your thought?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope that President Trump can resolve it. Canada
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  Speaker 2: has been a good ally over the years. They lost
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people in Afghanistan fighting on our side.
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  Speaker 2: But also, in very practical political terms, we have to
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  Speaker 2: win that Senate seat in Michigan. I know Mike Rogers,
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  Speaker 2: he was chairman of the Intelligence Committee when I was
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  Speaker 2: on it, former FBI agent, great guy. We need him
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  Speaker 2: in the Senate. But people in Michigan and Canada have
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  Speaker 2: a very, very close relationship. I think these tariffs could
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  Speaker 2: actually severely hurt industry and jobs in Michigan, hurt the economy,
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  Speaker 2: and that's the last thing we need at this time.
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  Speaker 2: So for very practical reasons, political reasons, I think it's
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  Speaker 2: important it be resolved. Secondly, as far as foreign policy
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  Speaker 2: is concerned, Canada needs us. We need them. We can
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  Speaker 2: survive without Canada. The fact is it's very helpful to
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  Speaker 2: have a strong Canada working with us. So I hope
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  Speaker 2: they can resolve that. And, again, any time you have
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  Speaker 2: these terror fights, maybe in the end we win, but
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  Speaker 2: there's always people that will lose along the way. And
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  Speaker 2: Michigan can lose on this, certainly in the short run.
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  Speaker 2: And the whole country will lose if that guy El
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  Speaker 2: Sayed is ever elected in Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God, Joe. Last one, you know, people are
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  Speaker 1: coming home now. This is about it. The summer's about over.
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  Speaker 1: I just depressed a whole bunch of people listening. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: but it really is, you know. Well, listen, three weeks
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  Speaker 1: away from 9-11 and three weeks away from... home opener
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  Speaker 1: for the Giants and the Jets in Tennessee. So it's
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  Speaker 1: basically down to the last couple of weeks. And you
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  Speaker 1: know this, Peter, as a guy that won a lot
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  Speaker 1: almost every time, that people start to take this very
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  Speaker 1: seriously after the summer, right? So, you know, I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about it all summer long. You're talking about it all
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  Speaker 1: summer long. But there's a healthy amount of voters in
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  Speaker 1: New York, for example, in the Hamptons, upstate New York,
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  Speaker 1: the Jersey Shore. They're not paying close attention. They'll put
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  Speaker 1: on Fox News. They'll put me on. That's about it, okay?
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  Speaker 1: But they get home in September, and for the next
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  Speaker 1: two months, it is balls-to-the-wall politics leading up to the midterms. So,
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  Speaker 1: for example, in your community, people like Mike Lopetri, Janine Driscoll,
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  Speaker 1: what did they do to kind of up their games
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  Speaker 1: as we head towards September, towards the midterms?
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  Speaker 2: But I have to get out everywhere, which they are.
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  Speaker 2: Janine is working hard. Mike is working hard. And, again,
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  Speaker 2: the people in the community have to get involved in
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  Speaker 2: the local parties, go to door-to-door, make the phone calls. Also,
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  Speaker 2: anyone who has money contributes to their campaigns. Democrats are
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  Speaker 2: going to have a fortune coming in. I know Janine's
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  Speaker 2: opponent will. Obviously, Lepetri's opponent will.
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  Speaker 1: Swazi gets a ton of money, right? He gets a
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  Speaker 1: ton of money, Swazi.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, Swazi is loaded with money. Also, the opponent
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  Speaker 2: of Janine Driscoll is going to have money. And I
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  Speaker 2: know it's important for Janine to raise money, but the
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  Speaker 2: fact is I don't want her spending all the time
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  Speaker 2: on the telephone calling people to raise money. Let people
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  Speaker 2: see her. Let them hear her. I mean, she's on
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  Speaker 2: your show. She's great. She's a natural. But if she
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  Speaker 2: has to spend all her time trying to raise money,
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  Speaker 2: she's not going to be out there. People aren't going
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  Speaker 2: to see her. Then you can run almost anybody. So
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  Speaker 2: I want people to see her, and I also want
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  Speaker 2: the people out there The day after the election, they complain, oh,
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  Speaker 2: how do these people get elected? What happened? How come
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  Speaker 2: the Republicans didn't win? They will win if we get
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  Speaker 2: out there because we have a message. I've been in
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  Speaker 2: politics for a long time. There's some years where it's
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  Speaker 2: not that easy to get a message to show the
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  Speaker 2: difference between us and them. But the fact is, this year, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: it's very easy for us. These democratic socialists are going
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  Speaker 2: to destroy the United States of America. They're opposed to
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  Speaker 2: all the values that we have. And whether or not
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  Speaker 2: your opponent is a democratic socialist, he's allied in a
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  Speaker 2: party now which has been taken over by them. So
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  Speaker 2: if you want to stop democratic socialism, if you want
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  Speaker 2: to restore and keep and maintain democracy, traditional American values.
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  Speaker 2: You have to vote Republican. But we've got to get
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  Speaker 2: that message out. And I don't have people sitting home
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  Speaker 2: bitching and complaining. It should be done. That should be done.
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  Speaker 2: Get out there. Get off your ass. Get to work.
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  Speaker 2: And really, work hard for the people you believe in
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  Speaker 2: because they're going to fight for you. If not, you
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  Speaker 2: should just go home and have nothing to say.
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  Speaker 1: That's a perfect message. Pete King, I love you. Give
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  Speaker 1: my best to Rosemary. Another amazing appearance, buddy. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much.
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  Speaker 2: You're good. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, man. Pete King right there. That's a great message.
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  Speaker 1: Don't bitch. Right? If you don't do anything about it,
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  Speaker 1: don't bitch. I don't want to hear from you. Go
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  Speaker 1: out there and vote. And that if we lose, you
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  Speaker 1: can bitch all you want. But don't sit at home
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  Speaker 1: and then start yelling and screaming, how did these wacky
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  Speaker 1: Democrats win? Go vote and help these people the next
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  Speaker 1: couple of months. You got two months. September, November.
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  Speaker 2: Balls to the wall.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. If you hate the Democrats as much as
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  Speaker 1: I do, and you love this country as much as
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  Speaker 1: I do, and you're sick of the nonsense and the
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  Speaker 1: Israel bashing and all that garbage that has nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with this country. Nothing. Get out there and help.
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  Speaker 1: Help Michael Petri. Help Janine Driscoll. Help all these House
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  Speaker 1: and Senate candidates all across the country. And make sure
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  Speaker 1: we retain the House and the Senate come November. And then,
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  Speaker 1: make sure no matter who it is, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of you folks don't like J.D. Vance, I'm not there
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  Speaker 1: yet either. I'm looking forward to seeing J.D. in the
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  Speaker 1: next couple of weeks. Having a little one-on-one. But I
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  Speaker 1: tell you what, no matter who the Republican candidate is,
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  Speaker 1: he or she is getting my vote. Ain't going to
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  Speaker 1: be a Democrat. So go out and do something. Go
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  Speaker 1: out and vote. Make sure America stays great.
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