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Rob Astorino, WOR and NewsMax host interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: On the line now, Larry rob Astererino our guy here
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  Speaker 1: at WR you want to listen on Saturdays four to
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  Speaker 1: five because he's run for governor. Did a great job
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  Speaker 1: against Andrew evilized Cuomwall. But we're less than ninety days out.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's the sprint between Kathy Hokele a governor, and
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  Speaker 1: her challenge in Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman. So last
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  Speaker 1: week we discussed how Hokele had imposed a moratorium on
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  Speaker 1: the building of AI data filing centers for a year
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  Speaker 1: in New York State. Blakeman said, no, no, no, we
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't be doing that. And now the new local issue
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  Speaker 1: is Calshi. Hokel and Attorney General Tis James are suing them,
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  Speaker 1: claiming it's a betting market. Blakeman is objecting, saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's an investment tool. It's overseen by the federal government.
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  Speaker 1: You should not be suing them. So we're really getting
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  Speaker 1: down to the local issues now that a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people need to know before they castir vote.
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  Speaker 2: Would that be correct?
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  Speaker 3: You know it's funny the State of New York has
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  Speaker 3: pushed gambling everywhere, right, casinos everywhere. They want online betting everywhere,
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  Speaker 3: every vice possible in New York. But this because the
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  Speaker 3: state ain't getting its cut. Like a mafiosa, they don't
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  Speaker 3: want to deal with it, so they're gonna sue because
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  Speaker 3: god forbid, they don't get their little take. That's what
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  Speaker 3: it's all about. But there's a ton of money that
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  Speaker 3: the state of New York could get. Now, Look, I
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  Speaker 3: perfectly I don't do DraftKings. I don't do those things
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  Speaker 3: just because they're probably real addictive. I could probably sit
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  Speaker 3: there all day, like too many people are betting on
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  Speaker 3: every little fricking thing. But it's legal. And if all
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  Speaker 3: the other things are going to be legal in New York,
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  Speaker 3: why would cow should be be out of the picture.
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  Speaker 3: I don't get it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you. I do want to talk
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  Speaker 2: about John Fetterman though. I think he's the most fascinating
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  Speaker 2: guy in politics today, and he's not real popular among
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats right now. That Paul was taken in Pennsylvania
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  Speaker 2: that showed that only twenty two percent of Democrats support
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  Speaker 2: John Fetterman, but seventy three percent of Republicans support him. Now, look,
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  Speaker 2: people are lining up to primary him. Do you think
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  Speaker 2: he's eventually gonna switch.
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  Speaker 3: You know what this is like. I don't know. This
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  Speaker 3: is probably like going to Vegas, going to a strip club,
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  Speaker 3: paying the woman to strip in front of you, and
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  Speaker 3: thinking you're in love and that she loves you. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: let's be honest for a second. Fetterman is pretty liberal
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  Speaker 3: on a lot of things. He is a Democrat, and
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  Speaker 3: just because on a couple of votes he's had some
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  Speaker 3: common sense or things like Israel, you know, it's like
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  Speaker 3: quick to jump on him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I have respect for him because he's the only guy
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  Speaker 3: that's holding out right now in his party and talking
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  Speaker 3: some nonsense and confronting the evil in his party. But
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  Speaker 3: would I want him to be the Republican nominee for
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  Speaker 3: Senate in Pennsylvania. No, absolutely not. Like nine out of
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  Speaker 3: ten things we disagree on and that will continue. So no,
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  Speaker 3: I don't want that. But I do respect him, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm thankful that he's doing what he's doing. But no,
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  Speaker 3: I want a hardcore Republican in Pennsylvania. It's the same
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  Speaker 3: thing in South Carolina. By the way, Lindsey Graham's daughter
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  Speaker 3: I know nothing about now, Lucky. I'm not voting in
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina. But if I were a Republican there. I'm
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  Speaker 3: really not so sure that I would vote for her
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  Speaker 3: because for six years in the future, I have no
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  Speaker 3: idea really what she stands for other than her brother,
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  Speaker 3: who I like. But I you know, it's kind of
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  Speaker 3: the it's similar things to me at this point. I
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  Speaker 3: want to make sure I'm getting what I'm buying.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you were the Democrats, i'd want to run Fetterman.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to get Republican votes. I mean, he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: get probably all the Democratic votes because it's a Democrat
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  Speaker 2: and they're not going to vote for the Republican. But
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  Speaker 2: he's going to get those votes. John Thune, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: wants them to come over.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you'd want anyone to come over just to
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  Speaker 3: build your numbers. I mean, Bernie Sanders isn't a Democrat,
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  Speaker 3: but he caucuses with them. But I mean that would be.
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  Speaker 2: That would be pretty wild.
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  Speaker 3: If Federman switched parties or just announced that he was
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  Speaker 3: going to be an independent and caucas with the Republicans,
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  Speaker 3: then I mean, look, he's a guy with no party anymore.
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  Speaker 3: And l say ed in Michigan has just taken total
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  Speaker 3: shots at Fetterman because Fetterman has a streak of independence,
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  Speaker 3: which he's supposed to. And speaking by the way, speaking
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  Speaker 3: of l s a ed So, I was just in
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  Speaker 3: Michigan covering that primary. So on Wednesday morning, I walk
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  Speaker 3: out of my hotel in Detroit and I'm have my
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  Speaker 3: pluggage and I walk out and just to my left
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  Speaker 3: there is Abdul l Sayed at eight in the morning,
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  Speaker 3: and so I'm like, I went up and I said
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  Speaker 3: hello to him and just you know, said a couple
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  Speaker 3: of things. And what struck me was that he is
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  Speaker 3: He's just like ma'm Domi. He is smiling, he's very personable.
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  Speaker 3: You could see how he could win people over who
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  Speaker 3: are you know, have no idea what he stands for,
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  Speaker 3: what's going on. And to me, that's what makes him
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  Speaker 3: so dangerous. You know, he can he can win over people,
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  Speaker 3: and once he's in, he's in, just like Mam DOMI.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's interesting because he's been labeled the socialists, although
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  Speaker 1: he claims he's not who we know he is. That's
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  Speaker 1: his platform. The Republicans are now using the term a
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  Speaker 1: communist to apply to anybody associated with the dsay. That's
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  Speaker 1: their main strategy to try to hold the midterms. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the Senate obviously in the House, which is precarious, but
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  Speaker 1: the president and is finally now addressing to what I
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  Speaker 1: believe are the three main issues for all Americans, regardless
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  Speaker 1: of their political ideology, affordability number one on their minds,
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  Speaker 1: course to living an Iran and all three of those
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  Speaker 1: are not playing to the Trump factor at this side.
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  Speaker 1: Rob What does he have to do to start turning
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  Speaker 1: that around, because we're now in the sprint, it's less
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  Speaker 1: than ninety days.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's affecting everybody. You know, Democrats are seizing
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  Speaker 3: on it. Republicans are really nervous about it. You know,
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  Speaker 3: the Iran thing. He's got to bring that to a
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  Speaker 3: halt and figure that out really soon and just have peace.
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  Speaker 3: And so the markets will settle down. Oil prices will
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  Speaker 3: go down, gas prices will come down. That has to happen.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, the frightening thing is, for the first time,
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  Speaker 3: first time ever, when Trump has been president, in the polling,
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  Speaker 3: Democrats are getting more support on the economy than Republicans. Now,
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  Speaker 3: you think about what the economy would look like under
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  Speaker 3: Biden and when what it was, and what the future
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  Speaker 3: Democrats are espousing. That's pretty frightening. But that's a frustration
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  Speaker 3: with people like I don't care. I'm pissed off at
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  Speaker 3: what's going on. You talked about electricity, and Bruce Blakeman's
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  Speaker 3: got such a great issue. I got my freaking khan
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  Speaker 3: ed bill the other day for July. It was seven
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  Speaker 3: hundred and thirty seven dollars for my regular house.
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  Speaker 1: Third highest, third highest in the nation behind Hawaii and
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  Speaker 1: one other state.
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  Speaker 2: We got ours too.
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  Speaker 1: It knocked my eyeballs out because I hate air conditioning.
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  Speaker 2: I turned it off Nan.
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  Speaker 1: She keeps it on for her shelf, and the catch
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  Speaker 1: the raight rob are unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, a second, is that Alaska? Second? They have to
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  Speaker 2: heat the up there? Could you imagine what's up there?
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  Speaker 3: No, it's crazy, but that is a real issue, and
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  Speaker 3: that was all. You know. These electric rates get approved
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  Speaker 3: by Hokals people, her appointees, and there is absolutely when
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  Speaker 3: when she starts talking out of her stupid mouth about affordability,
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  Speaker 3: he's got to hit her hard and he can. And
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  Speaker 3: this is a big issue.
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  Speaker 1: I concur. I concur just looking at those bills. I
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  Speaker 1: know everybody is. It's Larry, I know it's bad where
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  Speaker 1: you are. It's ten times worse here. It really you
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  Speaker 1: cannot imagine going from like one hundred and twenty five
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  Speaker 1: dollars to seven hundred and twenty nine dollars.
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  Speaker 2: It's bad across the country. It's happening. This is happening
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  Speaker 2: across the country. But third worst, especially if you're up
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  Speaker 2: there with what I imagine Alaska is. Rob, thanks a lot
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  Speaker 2: for talking with us. Have a great show this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Rob Astorino host of The Rob Astorino Show on WOR
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  Speaker 2: Saturday is from four to five. Also hosts of Saturday Agenda,
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  Speaker 2: so you can see a smiling face from one to
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  Speaker 2: three pm on Newsmax. He's also, of course, the former
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  Speaker 2: Westchester count Amazing twenty