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Best Of Sid And Friends In The Morning · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is Sid and Friends in the Morning. Week in Review.
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  Speaker 2: Justin Ellick here, executive producer for Sid and Friends in
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  Speaker 2: the Morning, and this is your best of Sid and
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  Speaker 2: Friends in the Morning, local edition. Kicking things off, as always,
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  Speaker 2: John Katzmatidis, owner and operator of Red Apple Media, joined
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  Speaker 2: Sid for his weekly Monday morning discussion to touch upon
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  Speaker 2: last Friday night's festivities, celebrating his wedding anniversary with his
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  Speaker 2: wonderful wife, Margo, who was also honored at the event.
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  Speaker 3: The whole night was great, and It was doubly great
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  Speaker 3: for me because I had a great table with Dominic
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  Speaker 3: and his wife and Jake and Suzanne. I had a
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  Speaker 3: chance to see John Margo and the kids. But the
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  Speaker 3: big one for me, John, that was really cool.
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  Speaker 4: Bernadette Castro.
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  Speaker 3: Her and me on Imus, we went at each other
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  Speaker 3: every week for years. Really? I haven't talked.
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  Speaker 5: To her in 20 years.
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  Speaker 4: She is a wonderful lady.
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  Speaker 3: Great lady.
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  Speaker 4: I still think of Bernadette as pulling out that Castro convertible.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that. And then she became the, she ran the
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  Speaker 3: parks department.
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  Speaker 4: 12 years she ran the parks department. Let me tell
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  Speaker 4: you something. George Pataki, Governor Pataki was a great governor
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  Speaker 4: for 12 years.
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  Speaker 3: Great seeing him too and his wife.
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  Speaker 4: And he was there with.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, uh, his wife, uh, Libby, uh, Libby, uh, last year, this,
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  Speaker 4: how are we getting to this? You know, cause we
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  Speaker 4: had the big gala with 700 people a couple of
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  Speaker 4: weeks ago.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And we finished the gala. We already tapped into 700
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  Speaker 4: of our friends or whatever. And, and all of a
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  Speaker 4: sudden we say, Oh crap, we got another dinner to do.
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  Speaker 4: That's true. By the way, this dinner at the Pierre
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  Speaker 4: on Friday, on Friday night. Thank you for being here.
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  Speaker 4: We loved it. We're done. Yeah. And was a last
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  Speaker 4: minute thing. We started inviting people last Sunday or something.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it was just like, you blink your eyes.
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  Speaker 4: You say, oh crap.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go again.
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  Speaker 4: We got another, we got another dinner. And originally Libby,
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  Speaker 4: it's Libby Pataki's church in Libby Pataki, has always supported
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  Speaker 4: the Franciscans. The Franciscans, they help the poor, they help
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  Speaker 4: the needy, they help the people that are down on
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  Speaker 4: their luck and help pick them up. It's a very worthy,
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  Speaker 4: worthy cause. Oh, they're beautiful people. I had a chance
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  Speaker 4: to talk to one of the big guys.
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  Speaker 3: He was great.
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  Speaker 4: I said, oh crap, we got to fill the room.
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  Speaker 4: So you know what we did?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, what?
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  Speaker 4: October 2nd, there was a dinner. October 2nd was also
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  Speaker 4: my anniversary.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 4: So I invited all our friends. And guess what?
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  Speaker 3: You filled the room.
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  Speaker 4: We filled the room.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there wasn't one empty seat.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, not one empty seat. And Margo, Margo did a
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  Speaker 4: great job.
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  Speaker 3: Really great.
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  Speaker 4: And you know what I did? You notice what I did?
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  Speaker 4: I stepped, I was three feet away. I was there
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  Speaker 4: to help if she needed help.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But I wanted her to shine. And you know what
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  Speaker 4: she did? She followed what I do. I never read.
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  Speaker 4: I never read a speech.
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  Speaker 3: Never.
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  Speaker 4: And she just got up there and just ad-libbed.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Ad-libbed what she felt.
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  Speaker 3: She had a speech in front of her, but she's like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to do this.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, I do that. That's the best way
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  Speaker 4: to do it.
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  Speaker 3: I do that. Trump does that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No teleprompters.
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  Speaker 4: He makes it up as it goes.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I do that too. And I hate when
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  Speaker 4: people read speeches.
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  Speaker 7: Terrible.
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  Speaker 4: I fall asleep.
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  Speaker 5: Terrible.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we fall asleep. She was, I'm telling you, she
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  Speaker 3: was really great. And you were very cute standing there
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  Speaker 3: giving her the attention. So 38 years. 38 years.
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't believe it. It was like, you blink your
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  Speaker 4: eyes and 38 years goes by. Is that what you want, 38?
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  Speaker 4: That was her anniversary. By the way, we're not far
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  Speaker 4: behind you.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to be 35 in June.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: 35 in June.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: We're right behind you.
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  Speaker 4: So, you know, you and Danielle look great, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: on Friday night.
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  Speaker 3: We loved it.
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  Speaker 4: We had a great time. And you were at the
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  Speaker 4: game last week with the Yankees.
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  Speaker 3: You were there the next night.
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  Speaker 4: We were there the next night. And I'm supposed to
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  Speaker 4: be in West Virginia on Wednesday. But guess what? The
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  Speaker 4: heck with West Virginia. Yankees. I'm going to Yankee game.
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  Speaker 4: There you go. I'm going to Yankee game.
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  Speaker 3: Randy loves you.
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  Speaker 4: Because I guess we lost 1-0. 1-0.
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  Speaker 3: How could we lose 1-0? Our offense is inconsistent. So
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  Speaker 3: tonight's a big game. Tonight's a big game. But we
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  Speaker 3: got the great Cam Schlittler on the mound. That's good news, John.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe we'll win 1-0 tonight. And then Wednesday, that'll be
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  Speaker 3: a huge effort in the Bronx. That'll be a big, big,
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  Speaker 3: big night. So I know that Michael Cohen, who's on
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  Speaker 3: every Sunday, he's on your show quite a bit, maybe
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  Speaker 3: every day now at 5 o'clock. He had a meeting,
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  Speaker 3: and I know that you actually reached out to President
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  Speaker 3: Trump early this morning. We are now 29 days away
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  Speaker 3: from the midterms. I know you had a message for
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  Speaker 3: the president.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we went down. You know, we worked late on
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  Speaker 4: Friday night.
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  Speaker 3: How long?
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  Speaker 4: About 14 hours? Oh, yeah. From morning. I was on
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  Speaker 4: Fox Friday morning.
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  Speaker 3: Right. So you were early.
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  Speaker 4: 7 o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And I came in, waved at you.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And the party went on until 10.30 or 10 o'clock
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  Speaker 4: or something. Went out late. And then Saturday morning, I
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  Speaker 4: had to go to Washington.
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  Speaker 3: A long couple of days.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the best way to go to Russia is Amtrak.
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  Speaker 3: That's how we do it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You know why you go from downtown to downtown and, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 4: me and Michael Cohen went down and, uh, we had
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  Speaker 4: a small meeting with the, uh, with the president just
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  Speaker 4: before he took off for Ohio. And basically I told
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  Speaker 4: him what we're doing. Uh, uh, WABC is fully committed
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  Speaker 4: to having common sense, common sense in, uh, uh, for
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  Speaker 4: November 3rd. Uh, because if we don't have common sense
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  Speaker 4: on November 3rd, our country is not going to be
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  Speaker 4: in good shape.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. That's it.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, me and Michael are probably going to do an
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  Speaker 4: additional show, uh, in the evening sometime. Uh, we're trying
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  Speaker 4: to figure it out right now. Uh, it's going to call,
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  Speaker 4: it'll call a countdown. That's countdown to, um, I guess
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  Speaker 4: the election.
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  Speaker 3: I guess.
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  Speaker 4: To the midterms.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Countdown to midterms because the American people have to know
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  Speaker 4: what is at stake. So I think it's going to
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  Speaker 4: be me, Michael, and Jake Novak. Oh, good. And just
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  Speaker 4: do everything that's going on with the elections and talk
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  Speaker 4: about it.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think? I know you say common sense,
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  Speaker 3: but what does your gut tell you? What do you
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  Speaker 3: think we need to do to ensure Republican victories?
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  Speaker 4: I think that people have to realize that President Trump
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  Speaker 4: has made America almost drug-free. And, you know, I said
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  Speaker 4: to him, what is it going to take to make
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  Speaker 4: America drug-free completely? And it's important. Why should our kids
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  Speaker 4: be dying from these drugs? And, you know, something, foreigners
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  Speaker 4: are feeding it. They're not manufactured in America. It's all
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  Speaker 4: being sent to America. And I would say if I
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  Speaker 4: had a dream, my dream would be make America drug-free.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, me too.
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  Speaker 4: That would be great. But everybody has to realize that
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  Speaker 4: America is under attack in so many directions. So many directions.
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  Speaker 4: We're under attack. The Europeans want a weaker Trump, which
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  Speaker 4: is stupid because the fact is that the if they
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  Speaker 4: could freeze Trump, they'll screw us more on those tariffs
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  Speaker 4: and whatever. And Trump is a businessman. All he wants
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  Speaker 4: is even Steven. That's all he wants. He, he wants,
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  Speaker 4: we don't want to take advantage. We don't want to
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  Speaker 4: take advantage of any of our trading partners, none of them,
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  Speaker 4: but we don't want them to take advantage of us.
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  Speaker 4: You know, uh, Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich got, got the, uh,
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  Speaker 4: The deficit down from $ 5. 5 trillion down to $ 5 trillion. Well,
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  Speaker 4: after that, we never saw $ 5 trillion again.
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  Speaker 3: No, no.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's $ 40 trillion. Right. And you know where
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  Speaker 4: that money went? So all I want all the American
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  Speaker 4: people to know where it went. It went to foreign aid.
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  Speaker 4: It went to protecting NATO, protecting the European community. protecting Japan,
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  Speaker 4: protecting Australia, protecting all these people, and they weren't putting
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  Speaker 4: up their own money. So we were protecting the world,
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  Speaker 4: and the deficit went from $ 5 trillion to $ 40 trillion.
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  Speaker 4: We were giving them too much leeway on those tariffs
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  Speaker 4: because if the Chevrolet was $ 50, 000 and we sent it
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  Speaker 4: to Germany, They charge $ 100, 000 for the Germans, $ 50, 000 against us.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And we weren't charging. They send Mercedes and BMWs to America.
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  Speaker 4: We weren't charging those kind of premiums. You know who
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  Speaker 4: was making the money? The Germans.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, of course.
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  Speaker 4: You know who was making the money when France was
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  Speaker 4: sending all that stuff over to Champagne? The French. The French.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Canada too.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: All that Trump wants, he's a businessman, all he wants
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  Speaker 4: is even Stevens.
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  Speaker 3: I think if you're an American, you would like that,
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't you? That's all I want. Wouldn't you like that?
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  Speaker 3: That's all I want.
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  Speaker 4: We don't want to take advantage of anybody, but we
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  Speaker 4: don't want anybody taking advantage of us. If we're going
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  Speaker 4: to protect you, well, pitching your fair share. Pitching your
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  Speaker 4: fair share to protect. And the one thing that we
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  Speaker 4: discussed with the president about Iran, there's no way. There's
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  Speaker 4: no way. You know, we're coming October 7th is the
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  Speaker 4: third year anniversary.
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  Speaker 3: This Wednesday.
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  Speaker 4: We can't, and we got to do something special. I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure you're going to do something special.
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  Speaker 3: Right now it looks like I may have, I may have,
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  Speaker 3: and you know me, I don't, I don't stop. BB
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  Speaker 3: and President Herzog, both on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know something, it's a special day for them.
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  Speaker 4: And they've got a big election coming up at the
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  Speaker 4: end of October. But, you know, we have never forget. Well,
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  Speaker 4: the one thing we decided at WABC, along with Tunnels
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  Speaker 4: to Tower and along with the Police Athletic League, and
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  Speaker 4: along with the Pataki Foundation. On 9-11, we will, every year,
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  Speaker 4: no matter what day it falls on, we're going to
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  Speaker 4: have a big event on 9-11. Never forget what they
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  Speaker 4: did to us on 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: Sit in Friends in the morning. Week in Review. This
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  Speaker 1: is Sit in Friends in the morning. Week in Review.
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  Speaker 2: Up next, President of Israel Isaac Herzog called into the
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  Speaker 2: morning show a day before the three-year commemoration of the
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  Speaker 2: October 7th Hamas attacks on the Israeli people.
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  Speaker 3: His friends call him Bougie. His name is Isaac Herzog.
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 3: President, good morning. How are you?
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  Speaker 8: Thank you. Thank you, dear Sid. And good morning to
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  Speaker 8: you and your listeners, of course, your many followers.
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  Speaker 3: We all love you here in New York. I mean
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  Speaker 3: that sincerely, Isaac. You've got a huge following here in
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  Speaker 3: New York and, of course, everybody in Israel. Going back
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  Speaker 3: to the days of your grandfather and father, too. What
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  Speaker 3: a magnificent family. Let me get to this Dubai flight
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  Speaker 3: story first, though. Turns out the co-pilot was Omani. People
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  Speaker 3: keep asking me, well, how does an Omani guy have
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  Speaker 3: permission to fly planes even from Dubai into Israel? Now,
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  Speaker 3: it turns out, we found out at least, that he
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  Speaker 3: wanted to do something very similar to 9-11. and crashed
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  Speaker 3: that plane into the airport in Tel Aviv. What else
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  Speaker 3: do we know? Do we know anything else? The guy
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  Speaker 3: was radicalized, seemingly a lone wolf. Do we know anything else?
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  Speaker 8: No. So, look, this is under heavy investigation. and major
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  Speaker 8: interagency activity both in Israel and in the entire region
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  Speaker 8: and of course with agencies around the world including the
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  Speaker 8: various intelligence and investigation bureaus in America and elsewhere because
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  Speaker 8: everybody wants to get to the truth of it. Omani,
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  Speaker 8: the pilot, co-pilot who carried out the terror attack, is
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  Speaker 8: under heavy investigation in the United Arab Emirates. They are
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  Speaker 8: doing their best, and they are sharing information with all
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  Speaker 8: the relevant authorities. Every few hours, there's another leak adding
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  Speaker 8: to what you just mentioned.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll know more, I guess, as the days move on.
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  Speaker 8: Listen, it's unbelievable, honestly, Sid. It's both a miracle and
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  Speaker 8: a result of incredible Israeli bravery and courage. On Thursday,
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  Speaker 8: I will honor these incredible heroes with the Israeli Presidential
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  Speaker 8: Medal for Bravery and Courage. Because these are incredible people,
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  Speaker 8: one woman and five men, who rescued this plane just
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  Speaker 8: before it may have crashed.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, good for you. I love you doing that, President Herzog.
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  Speaker 3: I absolutely love that.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: You're welcome.
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  Speaker 8: I love you, too.
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  Speaker 3: So let's rewind this tape to three years ago today.
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  Speaker 3: Three years ago today, it was a Friday. It was Shabbat,
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  Speaker 3: and you guys were wrapping up the Sukkot holiday. Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And no one had any idea what was about to
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  Speaker 3: happen the very next morning. Morning. Right?
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  Speaker 8: You know what? On that noontime, it was Friday. And
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  Speaker 8: it was the 6th of October, exactly 50 years to
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  Speaker 8: the date of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, where Israel
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  Speaker 8: was attacked, again, by surprise, from Egypt and from Syria,
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  Speaker 8: and went to one of its most challenging and painful wars.
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  Speaker 8: And so we marked that noon, 50 years to the war,
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  Speaker 8: and I went to a ceremony of an army military
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  Speaker 8: ceremony of a brigade that functioned heroically in the battlefront
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  Speaker 8: 50 years earlier. So there were many old people there.
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  Speaker 8: Some in wheelchairs, some lost their hands and legs and
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  Speaker 8: heavily wounded, and they even came with grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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  Speaker 8: And I came back home. I said to my wife, listen,
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  Speaker 8: you know, this nation is unbeatable. I saw these people.
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  Speaker 8: They fought like lions, and now they're coming with their great-grandchildren.
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  Speaker 8: And the next morning, it starts again. The next morning,
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  Speaker 8: 629 sirens, a major surprise attack, and terrorists swarm in
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  Speaker 8: by the thousands, and they burn, and they hijack, and
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  Speaker 8: they rape, and they kill innocent civilians all throughout the
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  Speaker 8: border with Gaza in the most horrific tragedy since the
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  Speaker 8: Holocaust for the Jewish people.
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  Speaker 3: That's all exactly what happened. You just nailed it. And
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  Speaker 3: then would you think that October 7th was the day,
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of people around the world, Mr. President,
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  Speaker 3: think it all started October the 8th. And you've got
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  Speaker 3: a mayor. I know you love this city. You always
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  Speaker 3: tell me, we're together in Israel, how much you love
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  Speaker 3: New York. And you've got a mayor who wanted to
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  Speaker 3: arrest a prime minister whose wife actually liked those graphic
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  Speaker 3: images of our young girls being raped and babies being burned.
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  Speaker 3: Can you believe you've got a guy like that here
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  Speaker 3: in New York City?
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  Speaker 8: So, you know, I echo the heavy criticism on the
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  Speaker 8: mayor a couple of times already because his expressions are
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  Speaker 8: utterly anti-Semitic. And worse than that, of course, it shows indifference.
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  Speaker 8: to pain and to justice. Because with all due respect,
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  Speaker 8: you know, we did not wage this war. We did
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  Speaker 8: not want this war. This war was enforced upon us
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  Speaker 8: by a raving terrorist group, jihadists, who came simply for
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  Speaker 8: barbaric reasons to attack and kill and burn and rape.
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  Speaker 8: And we went to defend ourselves by the mere right
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  Speaker 8: of any nation on earth most inherent right to defend ourselves.
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  Speaker 8: And the enemy chose the terrain of the battle. They
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  Speaker 8: fought and they attacked us by missiles from people's living
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  Speaker 8: rooms and bedrooms and mosques and shops. And they, I mean,
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  Speaker 8: they've used these people's homes to dig tunnels underneath and
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  Speaker 8: hijack our hostages. Today I met with a few of
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  Speaker 8: the hostages who were returned. and families of hostages who
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  Speaker 8: were killed in Gaza. And we were discussing it. They
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  Speaker 8: were there in the tunnels. They entered it from people's homes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. Well, good for you for doing that today.
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  Speaker 3: One more for you. Four weeks from today, Mr. President,
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  Speaker 3: we've got a big election day. I know you follow
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  Speaker 3: this very closely in the United States. President Trump wants
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  Speaker 3: Republicans to maintain the House. And you spoke in front
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  Speaker 3: of Congress right before that tragic day, I think three
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  Speaker 3: months before, July of 2023.
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: Exactly. And I said, I alerted the U.S. Congress in
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: a joint session of the House. I said, you know,
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: we want peace. Truly, we want peace. But it cannot
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: exist so long as there is terror undermining it all
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: the time. And people justify this terror with horrors. By
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: the way, we will have our own elections.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Well, that's where I was going.
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: On the 27th of October.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: Right, which is actually three weeks from today. In America,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: four weeks from today. Yours is three weeks from today.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Please excuse me. I don't know the rules. Is the president,
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: are you allowed to endorse Bibi or anybody? Will you
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: be doing that in Israel? No, no.
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: The president is like equivalent of the king of England.
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: We are above politics. But after the elections... I have
• 18:56
  Speaker 8: the constitutional power to delegate the right to form a
• 19:01
  Speaker 8: government to a member of the Knesset, and that depends
• 19:05
  Speaker 8: on the results and the chances of any member of
• 19:08
  Speaker 8: the Knesset to form a government. It's still a long,
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: drawn-out process.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: I know it's much different than the United States. So
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: in the final 30 seconds.
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: One thing I want to say, I'm very proud of
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: the Israeli democracy. We are celebrating democracy. We're the only
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: democracy in the Middle East. There's about 50 parties running
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: in this election.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: I know, like 50. There's a lot going on. So
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: give me quickly in the final 30 seconds, what will
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: the day be like tomorrow in Israel?
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: Tomorrow, the 7th, will be a very sad day because
• 19:44
  Speaker 8: yesterday was a very sad day because it was the
• 19:47
  Speaker 8: Hebrew date of the massacre. Tomorrow will be, you know,
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: the regular date, October 7th, and there will be tens
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: of thousands of people gathered all over in sites around
• 20:00
  Speaker 8: the country, including a major event in Tel Aviv. I
• 20:03
  Speaker 8: will be with my wife at the Nova Festival site
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: where they... terribly, I mean, most cruelly butchered and killed
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: and hijacked and took people who came to dance and
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: celebrate simply in a nature party. By the way, people
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: from 36 countries, including Americans.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Terrible.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: What a horrible, horrible scene that was. I've been there.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: since beautiful faces all over the place. They're terrible.
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: I know, I know. It made me, you know, may
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: I invite your listeners to come and visit our country,
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: show solidarity, and see what a beautiful country it is.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: It is a beautiful country, and you're a beautiful man.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: President Herzog, I love you. I really do. You're a
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: terrific guy. Thank you for making time for me today.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: All the best, my dear. You too. All the best.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: God bless you. Take care. President Herzog right there, Isaac Herzog,
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: what a lovely guy.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Sid and Friends in the Morning, Week in Review. This
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: is Sid and Friends in the Morning, Week in Review.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: On Wednesday morning, actor and comedian Michael Rappaport joined the
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: morning show live from the ground in Israel to recognize
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: the day's three-year commemoration of the October 7th Hamas attacks
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: on the Israeli people.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: The great Mike Rappaport. Michael, good morning, buddy. How are you?
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Sid, thanks for having me. What an introduction. Can you
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: record that so in the morning I don't need an
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: alarm playing music? I just have, you know, maybe just
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: like a little bit like a lower volume, but you
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: just say all those fantastic things about me. What a
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: way to wake up.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Well, it's all true. And although Kibi probably wouldn't love it,
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: she loves you too. But it's all true. In fact,
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: where are you this morning in Israel? Where exactly are you?
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: I just came back inside the hotel. I've been out
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: all morning in Tel Aviv. Um, I've been in Jerusalem,
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: I'm in Tel Aviv today and you know, it's, it's
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: very melancholy is a lot of sadness. There's a lot
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: of hope, a lot of, um, teary eyed smiles, um,
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: a lot of contemplation. Um, obviously, um, so many people
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: have been through the worst of the worst of the
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: worst of times and families have been destroyed and loved
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: ones have been murdered and never came back. And, um,
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: you know, from, from, from the, the most horrible to
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: the idea of soldiers that have fought and risked everything
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: who've come back, uh, with, with so many injuries, um,
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: either physical or, or mentally, emotionally, um, you know, everybody's
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: been through something, you know, there, I think everybody has,
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: a Netflix series. Every single person you talk to that's
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: lived through October 7th has a story where your mouth
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: is a gate and you know, the ones that are
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: more dramatic to just the families who spent the last
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: three years running in and out of bomb shelters with
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: their kids. Um, that being said, you know, similar to
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: New York and nine 11 life goes on. Um, And,
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: you know, you must keep stepping forward. You must keep shining.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: And this is the Jewish state of Israel and the
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: light will never go out. And you've been here. The
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: people of Israel to me are very much like the
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: bread and butter people of Israel. New York, the working
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: class people from mostly from the boroughs, the hardworking people,
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: the gritty people, the ham and eggers, the people that
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: like are just humble and, you know, just, you know,
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: appreciate their family and appreciate, you know, watching a game
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: with their family. Like that to me is very much
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: akin to. of, of the Israeli people were very similar to,
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: to the, to the best of the best of New Yorkers. Um, and, and,
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: and to especially the kinds of people that listen to
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: your show.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: But unfortunately, Michael, and thank you for saying that. And
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: you're right about that. I'm not sure though, the majority
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: of people anymore. I mean, you're in Israel today, but
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: if you were home and, sitting outside by your Upper
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: East Side apartment by Gracie Mansion, maybe having a cup
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: of coffee at Starbucks, which you do occasionally, and New
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Yorkers love to meet and greet you, you would notice
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: that today, this is unbelievable. There are pro-Hamas rallies and protests. Pro-Hamas.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: People celebrating what happened on October the 7th will be
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: roaming our streets in New York today. The mayor won't
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: do anything about it because he's with them. The police
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: commissioner has to chalk it up to the First Amendment.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: So you talk about a sad day becoming exponentially more sad.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Your New York, which you just talked about in such
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: glowing terms, these animals are going to be up and
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: down the streets in big numbers.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: Well, I'm aware of that, and I'm glad you don't
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: call them protesters. Call them celebrators. They're celebrating death. They're
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: celebrating rape. They're celebrating kidnappers. They're celebrating arsonists. And they're
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: not protesting anything. This is like a year later for
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: them after when the Knicks won the championship. You'll kind
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: of feel like that. That day of October 7, three
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: years ago, was the greatest accomplishment that the doctors, the dentists,
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: the school teachers, the civilians, the fathers of Gaza ever did.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: That's why they celebrated like they won the championship. And
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: that's why these scum bums in our city... And these
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: are mostly elitist pigs or fake refugees that grew up
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: here that have status because of the corrupt UNRWA, which
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: is connected to the corrupt United Nations. These are people
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: that if you can spend the day celebrating anything, on
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: a random Thursday, on a random Wednesday, how could you
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: afford that lifestyle? Why aren't you at work, pig? Why
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: aren't you at work, scumbum? So these are people that
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: are getting paid. They're the disenfranchised.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: They're the miserable.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: These are the same people that complain about everything. And
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: more than they hate the Jews, they hate themselves. And
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: they hate themselves because most of their mothers and their fathers,
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: they didn't give them the attention and nurturing uh, that, that, that,
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: that they, that they yearn for. So I understand what's
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: going on. It's going to be happening all over the world.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: It's a scar and a stain on still the greatest
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: city in the world. And we know what we have
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: in Gracie mansion. And can you imagine Sid three years
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: ago on October 7th, when the animals, the terrorists, were
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: live broadcasting, not hiding it like most criminals. Most criminals, arsonists, rapists,
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: they don't want to get caught. These people broadcast it
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: in real time for the world to see. They wanted
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: us to see it. They showed the world that the
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: mayor of New York's wife was watching that. and liking
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: tweet after post after video after video. Can you imagine
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: seeing anything as horrible as that footage or those photographs
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: from that day and in real time?
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: And this is a female.
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: This is a woman. And she's liking it.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: And this is why I'm so fed up with the
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: New York media. I know her last name sounds Italian, Russo.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: I've been killing this lady, Melissa Russo, NBC locally. She's Jewish, okay?
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Her dad, Italian, but her mother, Jewish. She saw me
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: at the Israeli Day Parade. She was very angry with
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: me because I said that Mamdani wants to see dead Jews.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: And I said, well, wait a second. Until he demonizes
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: the intifada, that's what that word means. What are you
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: getting mad at me for? And just last week, when
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: the mayor made that ridiculous video, he was going to
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: combat anti-Semitism.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Melissa Russo was.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: He created it.
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: She was gushing. She was gushing. So she's despicable, Melissa
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Russo at NBC. Marsha Kramer, CBS. She's not a heck
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: of a lot better. You've got a New York media
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: that fawns over this guy when the truth is he's
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: an anti-Semite. jihad racist scumbag.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: Period period i concur and his wife is also period
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: i concur.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: And his father who sat there his father was one
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: of the guys that helped the columbia stuff.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: They're dogs they're dogs corroded dogs sick puppies so yes
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: we know this but let's not talk about them let's
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: talk about us And let's talk about, and to really
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: emphasize what happened that day should never be forgotten. I
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: will say, Sid, that, you know, when I'm here in
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: Israel and I contemplate, you know, my trips, your trips,
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: everything I've seen, you know, all the people that I've met,
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: all the hostage families who had loved ones that never returned,
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: some who had the great miracle of having them returned.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: You know, I just, you know, I just, it's just,
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: So many lives were destroyed, and there was so much destruction,
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: and I really would urge everybody in New York with
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: a heart to give a beat, to give a prayer,
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: to give a meditation, to just give a thought, to
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: make sure that those people, their memory may forever.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: Be a blessing.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes.
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: Well said.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: We could talk about the Yankees. We could talk about
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: the Giants. But today is a sad day. This is
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: a historic day. And the fact that it's mutated into
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: scum bums in our city that will be dancing around
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: without jobs, jobless scumbums. It's crazy that this has somehow
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: been okayed and they could.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Do it under the guidance of free speech and all this.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: They're also physically repulsive. I don't know why, but I've
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: seen these people. Many rallies, I've walked right in the
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: middle of them, and they're all ugly. I don't know
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: what it is, but then this is part of the
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: reason why. They've got, like you said, their parents never
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: cared about them. They're ugly. They're not hooking up with
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: good-looking people getting great jobs. So this is what they've
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: decided to do with their lives, which is really pathetic.
• 30:20
  Speaker 9: There's a lot of hope, a lot of teary-eyed smiles,
• 30:30
  Speaker 9: a lot of contemplation.
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: Obviously, so many people have been through the worst of
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: the worst of the worst of times and families have
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: been destroyed and loved ones have been murdered and never
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: came back. And, you know, from the most horrible to
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: the IDF soldiers that have fought and risked everything, who've
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: come back with so many injuries, either physical or mentally, emotionally,
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: you know, everybody's been through something. You know, I think
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: everybody has a Netflix series. Every single person you talk
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: to that's lived through October 7th has a story where
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: your mouth is a gate and you know, the ones
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: that are more dramatic to just the families who spent
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: the last three years running in and out of bomb
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: shelters with their kids. Um, that being said, you know,
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: similar to New York and nine 11 life goes on. Um, And,
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: you know, you must keep stepping forward. You must keep shining.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: And this is the Jewish state of Israel and the
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: light will never go out. And you've been here. The
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: people of Israel to me are very much like the
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: bread and butter people of Israel. New York, the working
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: class people from mostly from the boroughs, the hardworking people,
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: the gritty people, the ham and eggers, the people that
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: like are just humble and, you know, just, you know,
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: appreciate their family and appreciate, you know, watching a game
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: with their family. Like that to me is very much
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: akin to, of the Israeli people, very similar to the
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: best of the best of New Yorkers, and especially the
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: kinds of people that listen to your show.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: But unfortunately, Michael, and thank you for saying that, and
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: you're right about that, I'm not sure they're the majority
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: of people anymore. I mean, you're in Israel today, but
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: if you were home and sitting outside by your Upper
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: East Side apartment by Gracie Mansion, maybe having a cup
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: of coffee at Starbucks, which you do occasionally, and New
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Yorkers love to meet and greet you, you would notice
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: that today, this is unbelievable, there are pro-Hamas rallies and protests. Pro-Hamas.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: People celebrating what happened on October the 7th will be
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: roaming our streets in New York today. The mayor won't
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: do anything about it because he's with them. The police
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: commissioner has to chalk it up to the First Amendment.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: So you talk about a sad day becoming exponentially more sad.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Your New York, which you just talked about in such
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: glowing terms, these animals are going to be up and
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: down the streets in big numbers.
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: Well, I'm aware of that, and I'm glad you don't
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: call them protesters. Call them celebrators. They're celebrating death. They're
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: celebrating rape. They're celebrating kidnappers. They're celebrating arsonists. And they're
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: not protesting anything. This is like a year later for
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: them after when the Knicks won the championship. You'll kind
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: of feel like that. That day of October 7th, three
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: years ago, was the greatest accomplishment that the doctors, the dentists,
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: the school teachers, the civilians, the fathers of Daza ever did.
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: That's why they celebrated like they won the championship. And
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: that's why these scumbums in our city And these are
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: mostly elitist pigs or fake refugees that grew up here
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: that have status because of the corrupt UNRWA, which is
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: connected to the corrupt United Nations. These are people that
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: if you can spend the day celebrating anything– on a
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: random Thursday, on a random Wednesday, how could you afford
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: that lifestyle? Why aren't you at work, pig? Why aren't
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: you at work, scumbum? So these are people that are
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: getting paid. They're the disenfranchised. They're the miserable. These are
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: the same people that complain about everything. And more than
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: they hate the Jews, they hate themselves. And they hate
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: themselves because most of their mothers and their fathers, they
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: didn't give them the attention and nurturing that they yearn for.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: So I understand what's going on. It's going to be
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: happening all over the world. It's a scar and a
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: stain on still the greatest city in the world. And
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: we know what we have in Gracie Mansion. And can
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: you imagine, Sid, three years ago on October 7th, when
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: the animals, the terrorists, were live broadcasting, not hiding it
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: like most criminals. Most criminals, arsonists, rapists, they don't want
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: to get caught. These people broadcast it in real time
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: for the world to see. They wanted us to see it.
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: They showed the world that the mayor of New York's
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: wife was watching that. and liking tweet after post after
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: video after video. Can you imagine seeing anything as horrible
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: as that footage or those photographs from that day and
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: in real time? And this is a female.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: This is a woman. And she's liking it. And this
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: is why I'm so fed up with the New York media.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: I know her last name sounds Italian, Russo. I've been
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: killing this lady, Melissa Russo, NBC locally. She's Jewish, okay?
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: Her dad, Italian, but her mother, Jewish. She saw me
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: at the Israeli Day Parade. She was very angry with
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: me because I said that Mamdani wants to see dead Jews.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: And I said, well, wait a second. Until he demonizes
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: the Intifada, that's what that word means. What are you
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: getting mad at me for? And just last week, when
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: the mayor made that ridiculous video, I was going to
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: combat anti-Semitism. Melissa Russo was right. She was gushing. She
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: was gushing. So she's despicable. Melissa Russo at NBC, Marsha Kramer, CBS.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: She's not a heck of a lot better. You've got
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: a New York media that fawns over this guy when
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: the truth is he's an anti-Semite, jihad, racist scumbag.
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: Period.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Period.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: I concur. And his wife is also.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: Period.
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: I concur.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: And his father, who sat there, his father was one
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: of the guys that helped construct the Columbia stuff.
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: They're dogs. They're dogs. Corroded dogs.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: Sick puppies.
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: So, yes, we know this, but let's not talk about them.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: Let's talk about us. And let's talk about, and to
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: really emphasize what happened that day should never be forgotten.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: I will say, Sid, that, you know, when I'm here
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: in Israel and I contemplate, you know, my trips, your trips,
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: everything I've seen, you know, all the people that I've met,
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: all the hostage families who had loved ones that never returned,
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: some who had the great miracle of having them returned.
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: You know, I just, you know, I just, it's just,
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: You know, so many lives were destroyed and there was
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: so much destruction. And I really, you know, would urge
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: everybody in New York with a heart to give a beat,
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: to give a prayer, to give a meditation, to just
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: give a thought to make sure that those people, their
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: memory may forever be a blessing. Yes, yes.
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: Well said.
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: Without jobs, jobless scumbums. It's crazy that this has somehow
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: been okayed and they could.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: Do it under the guidance of free speech and all this.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: They're also physically repulsive. I don't know why, but I've
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: seen these people, many rallies. I've walked right in the
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: middle of them, and they're all ugly. I don't know
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: what it is, but then this is part of the
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: reason why. They've got, like you said, their parents never
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: cared about them. They're ugly. They're not hooking up with
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: good-looking people getting great jobs. So this is what they've
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: decided to do with their lives, which is really pathetic.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Sit in Friends in the morning.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Week in Review.
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  Speaker 7: Everyone has a community to lean on. A neighborhood, school,
• 38:52
  Speaker 7: kids' teams, where you worship, work, work out, or any
• 38:56
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• 39:00
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• 39:02
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• 39:05
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• 39:09
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• 39:12
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• 39:17
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• 39:20
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• 39:24
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• 39:27
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• 39:31
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• 39:34
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• 39:37
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• 39:40
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• 39:47
  Speaker 1: This is sitting friends in the morning. We can review.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Thursday morning. Heard Ted Cruz, United States Senator from Texas,
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: make his return to the morning show to discuss the
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: upcoming midterm elections across the country before he expands on
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: his possible presidential aspirations. Come 2028, his efforts to save
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: college sports in the Senate and more.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: Back here on sitting friends in the morning. This is
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: one of my favorite people, not just politicians. He's a
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: great guy. Just saw him in Dallas. He was doing
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: Sean Hannity show and, He put his hand to his heart.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: Very nice, Ted. Ted Cruz, I hope, will run for
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: president in 2028. We'll get to that conversation during this conversation.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: At the very least, he's one of our important Republican
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: senators in the country from the great state of Texas
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: where President Trump was just yesterday. Here he is back
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: on Sid and Friends in the morning. Proud to call
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: him a friend, Senator Ted Cruz. Ted, good morning, buddy.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: How are you?
• 40:40
  Speaker 10: Sid, it's great to be with you. Thanks for having
• 40:42
  Speaker 10: me on again.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: No, it's great to have you all the time. You
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: really do a terrific job in the Senate. So what
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: do you think? You know, yesterday, the president in your state,
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: you got that big race, Paxton versus that lunatic. Tallarico
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: is a smart guy. He's not stupid. I get that.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: But he's got some crazy policies. What are your thoughts
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: on Trump and that whole race in your state?
• 41:03
  Speaker 10: Well, listen, Trump is on the road nonstop between now
• 41:07
  Speaker 10: and Election Day.
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: I'm really grateful.
• 41:09
  Speaker 10: He's been now twice in Texas in the last few days.
• 41:13
  Speaker 10: And he's crisscrossing the state and helping turn people out.
• 41:16
  Speaker 10: And that is hugely helpful. This is an election that
• 41:20
  Speaker 10: is 100% about turnout. And I got to say, I
• 41:25
  Speaker 10: have never seen a midterm race where the stakes are
• 41:28
  Speaker 10: higher than they are right now. What we have seen
• 41:31
  Speaker 10: happen in the Democrat Party is extreme and it's dangerous.
• 41:38
  Speaker 10: We are witnessing... The Green-Red Alliance. We are witnessing a
• 41:43
  Speaker 10: Marxist and Islamist takeover, a hostile takeover of the Democrat Party.
• 41:49
  Speaker 10: And look, sadly, you guys are right there on the
• 41:53
  Speaker 10: front lines in New York with Comrade Mondami. And that
• 41:58
  Speaker 10: poison is spreading across the country. And we've got to
• 42:01
  Speaker 10: defeat it. And that's what these midterms are all about.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: I got to tell you, I was so proud of
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: you specifically talking about the Red-Green Alliance in Dallas. I
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: was waiting for nights, Ted, watching everybody speak. All Republicans,
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: I'm rooting for them. Nobody brought it up. You were
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: the first politician to talk about this invasion, this radical
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: Islam invasion. And I was clapping. I go, way to go, Ted.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: And you mentioned, Mike, yesterday was the three-year commemoration of
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: October the 7th. I know how much you appreciate Israel
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: and the Jewish people. We love you, okay? This creep,
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: this mayor, sends out a statement. Ted, two sentences on Israel. Two.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: 80% of the text was sympathizing with the Palestinians. Why
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: would you do that on all days?
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: Do it the 8th.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Do it the 6th. Do it 360 days a year.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: Why on October the 7th unless you can't stand Israel
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: and the Jews?
• 42:57
  Speaker 10: Well, Sid, as you know, there's an old saying, when
• 43:00
  Speaker 10: they tell you who they are, believe them. Mamdami hates Israel.
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: He is a bigot, and he is an Islamist.
• 43:09
  Speaker 10: His statement was disgusting. On October 7th, the worst one-day
• 43:14
  Speaker 10: massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. And what does his
• 43:18
  Speaker 10: statement say?
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: And I'll read it to you.
• 43:21
  Speaker 10: The suffering did not begin nor end that day. Instead,
• 43:24
  Speaker 10: it continued through the Israeli government's devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza,
• 43:29
  Speaker 10: in which it has killed more than 74,000 people. Palestinians,
• 43:33
  Speaker 10: including more than 21,000 children. Now, there's a technical word
• 43:37
  Speaker 10: for those words, and that's called a lie.
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: And he is lying.
• 43:40
  Speaker 10: He is repeating Hamas talking points. And he is doing
• 43:45
  Speaker 10: so on the anniversary of the murder of over 1,200
• 43:51
  Speaker 10: civilians in Israel, the deliberate murder, and the rape of
• 43:55
  Speaker 10: women and little girls. And it's repulsive every day when
• 44:00
  Speaker 10: he cheers for the terrorists, but when he does so
• 44:03
  Speaker 10: on October 7th, it's all the more repulsive.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: I was actually thrown out, physically removed. Very few people
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: know this. They remember the gold star father, Ted, because
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: he was on TV. I didn't make TV that night,
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: but I was thrown out. of Joe Biden's very last
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: State of the Union. Because much like Mamdani, he started
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: talking about this Hamas health ministry. No, I'm sorry. He
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: called it the Palestinian health ministry. Well, the Palestinian health
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: ministry gets their numbers from Hamas. So I stood up, Ted,
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: and I screamed, says who? Two words. Says who? The
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: Capitol Police Secret Service. They came storming in. The sergeant,
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: the arms, whatever. She contemplated arresting me. They let me go.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: Congressman Anthony D'Esposito ought to walk me out of the building.
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: But I was physically removed from the State of the
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: Union for questioning Joe Biden for the same exact thing
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: Mamdani did yesterday. And all these Democrats do all the time.
• 45:00
  Speaker 10: Well, Sid, the good news is that Joe Biden didn't
• 45:03
  Speaker 10: know that you were there and he didn't know he
• 45:05
  Speaker 10: was there either.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: So, you know, that's.
• 45:09
  Speaker 10: How did we go through that chapter? Seriously, how did
• 45:12
  Speaker 10: we last four years with a commander in chief who
• 45:16
  Speaker 10: could get lost in a walk in closet?
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: I mean, that's just it's dangerous.
• 45:21
  Speaker 8: And you know what?
• 45:21
  Speaker 10: Every one of our enemies knew it.
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: Russia knew it.
• 45:25
  Speaker 10: China knew it.
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: Hamas knew it.
• 45:28
  Speaker 10: And the world got a lot more dangerous because you
• 45:31
  Speaker 10: contrast Joe Biden to Donald Trump as a commander in chief.
• 45:35
  Speaker 10: I'll tell you this. Our enemies are scared of Donald
• 45:37
  Speaker 10: Trump and America's safer when our enemies are scared of
• 45:40
  Speaker 10: the commander in chief.
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: 100 percent true. Ted Cruz right here, the amazing senator
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: from the state of Texas. So, look, you're right. Trump
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: came in and he saved the day. And thank God
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: for that. But Ted, it's almost over. You know, he's
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: got about two years to go and a lot of
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: us already talking about the 2028 election. I think you
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: know this already, but I was invited by J.D. Vance
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: to come visit him. I've never met him. I've never
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: talked to the guy, Ted. You and I are friends.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: I've never met this guy. I went to the White
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: House about two weeks ago. I sat with J.D. Vance
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: for about 30 minutes and then I saw Trump and
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: the Oval Officer was great. But I wanted to get
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: to know all the potential candidates and winners of for
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: 2028 on my side. I know you. I know Marco Rubio.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: I love both of you guys, okay? But the truth is,
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: you're welcome. When Trump leaves, I need good people to
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: take over. You're one of those people. So you've been intimating,
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: if not saying directly, you're going to run. You can
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: do it again right here. Ted Cruz, you are running
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: for president in 2028, yes?
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: You know what, Sid?
• 46:44
  Speaker 10: There will be plenty of time to focus on that
• 46:47
  Speaker 10: after the midterm. I mean, where we are right now,
• 46:49
  Speaker 10: we are in the final sprint. We're less than four
• 46:52
  Speaker 10: weeks away. And so I am spending every waking moment
• 46:57
  Speaker 10: crisscrossing the country, trying to turn people out. Because, listen,
• 47:02
  Speaker 10: the Democrats, they want to take the Senate. They want
• 47:04
  Speaker 10: to take the House. And they want to spend the
• 47:06
  Speaker 10: next two years obstructing everything, fighting to return to open borders,
• 47:13
  Speaker 10: fighting to release violent criminals onto our streets. fighting to
• 47:17
  Speaker 10: push forward their radical transgender agenda, boys and girls sports,
• 47:24
  Speaker 10: and sterilizing and mutilating kids. And they also want two
• 47:30
  Speaker 10: years of all-out war on President Trump. They want to
• 47:33
  Speaker 10: engage in an impeachment circus. They want to engage in
• 47:36
  Speaker 10: relentless subpoenas and investigations. And they want to block every nomination.
• 47:41
  Speaker 10: They want to block every cabinet member. They want to
• 47:43
  Speaker 10: block every federal judge. That is profoundly dangerous.
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: And look, the.
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: Candidates they're running, the two most dangerous candidates in the country.
• 47:54
  Speaker 10: Are James Tallarico in Texas and Abdul Al-Sayed in Michigan.
• 47:58
  Speaker 10: Both of them are absolute radicals. And when Abdul Al-Sayed
• 48:03
  Speaker 10: says in Michigan he has a, quote, obligation to follow Sharia.
• 48:08
  Speaker 5: Law, he means it.
• 48:10
  Speaker 10: And I'll tell you what, when James Tallarico in Texas
• 48:14
  Speaker 10: pledges to, quote, dismantle capitalism, he means it. So listen,
• 48:20
  Speaker 10: 28 matters. It's going to matter enormously that we continue
• 48:24
  Speaker 10: the victories that President Trump and a Republican Congress has
• 48:27
  Speaker 10: won these two years. But as the book of Ecclesiastes says,
• 48:32
  Speaker 10: there is a time for every season. And now is
• 48:34
  Speaker 10: the season for the midterms. And that's where I'm focused,
• 48:38
  Speaker 10: and I think everyone needs to focus.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: No, that's fair. We need that. You're right. But, I mean,
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: you have had a little bit of back and forth
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: with J.D. Vance already. I'm not going to get into
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: it today. We'll wait until we're done with the midterms.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: But you have. You have. And let's be honest, okay? J.D.
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: Vance's buddy is Tucker Carlson. And Tucker Carlson, last I checked,
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: Ted Cruz... endorsed this is unbelievable tucker carlson endorsed el
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: sayed and you and tucker carlson have been at each
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: other's throats he's a real old life by the way
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: real old life at each other's throats for months so
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: there is a connection jd bantz tucker carlson they are
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: on the side of the bad guys i'm not okay
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: with that.
• 49:16
  Speaker 10: Look tucker carlson is the most dangerous demagogue in America.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: And he is obsessed.
• 49:22
  Speaker 10: He hates Israel.
• 49:24
  Speaker 8: He hates Jews.
• 49:25
  Speaker 10: Every week he does another show attacking Israel and attacking Jews.
• 49:32
  Speaker 10: He hates Donald Trump. He's called Donald Trump the Antichrist.
• 49:36
  Speaker 10: He wants him removed from office right now. And look,
• 49:40
  Speaker 10: Tucker Carlson actually illustrates the Green-Red Alliance. He illustrates how,
• 49:45
  Speaker 10: you know, anti-Semitism, hating Israel and hating Jews, it's the
• 49:48
  Speaker 10: gateway drug to anti-capitalism and anti-Americanism, and it leads to Islamism.
• 49:54
  Speaker 10: Tucker Carlson, as you said, he actually and officially endorsed
• 50:00
  Speaker 10: Abdul Al-Sayed. He said, we want an Islamist. By the way,
• 50:04
  Speaker 10: you know who the biggest donor to Abdul Al-Sayed's super
• 50:07
  Speaker 10: PAC is? His father-in-law. who helped found a national charity
• 50:12
  Speaker 10: that was an unindicted co-conspirator raising money for Hamas and terrorists.
• 50:18
  Speaker 10: This guy is a Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated radical, and Tucker Carlson said,
• 50:22
  Speaker 10: that's what we need. We need Sharia law in America.
• 50:26
  Speaker 10: This last week, Tucker Carlson did a show where he
• 50:31
  Speaker 10: argued that the world would have been better off If
• 50:34
  Speaker 10: Adolf Hitler and the Nazis won World War.
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: II, the United Kingdom would have been better off.
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: Wait, he actually said that?
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: He did.
• 50:42
  Speaker 10: He was interviewing a British politician, and he was asking him, well,
• 50:49
  Speaker 10: how is the United Kingdom any better off for winning
• 50:51
  Speaker 10: World War II? Would it have been better off if
• 50:52
  Speaker 10: Germany won?
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: This guy, he's lost it.
• 50:57
  Speaker 10: And listen, a lot of elected politicians are scared to
• 51:00
  Speaker 10: take on Tucker Carlson, where I'm not one of them.
• 51:03
  Speaker 10: He is spreading poison, and he's deceiving young people. A
• 51:07
  Speaker 10: lot of young people are suckling on this poison, and
• 51:11
  Speaker 10: the only answer to that evil is to defeat it.
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: This is Sittin' Friends in the Morning.
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: Week in Review.
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: Finally, Saritha Komatoredi, running for election as Attorney General of
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: New York, joined Sid to recap her debate against incompetent
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: incumbent Letitia James.
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: My friend, Saritha Komatoredi. Saritha, I got to tell you,
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: I texted you right away last night. Congratulations. You said
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: thank you. I'm not saying it's because we're friends or
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: you're the Republican candidate. You really did wipe the floor
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: for Letitia James last night. Did you feel that way
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: when you left that place?
• 51:49
  Speaker 6: Well, thank you, Sid, first of all, for having me on.
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: I always love being on the show.
• 51:53
  Speaker 6: And, you know, we were just trying to tell the
• 51:55
  Speaker 6: people the facts. Tish James was evading it at every turn.
• 52:00
  Speaker 6: The reality is New Yorkers right now feel less safe
• 52:04
  Speaker 6: than they did when she came into office. And that's
• 52:06
  Speaker 6: her fault. And she doesn't have any answer for it.
• 52:09
  Speaker 6: I mean, what I was really stunned by was her
• 52:12
  Speaker 6: answer on bail reform. Did you hear that? I didn't
• 52:14
  Speaker 6: have an answer.
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: Were you surprised she did not have an answer for
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: bail reform? And I noticed she did what Kathy Hochul
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: is going to do Tuesday with our friend Bruce. When
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: she didn't have an answer, she just said, Trump, Trump,
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: were you surprised that she was that ill-prepared and knew
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: so little in this very important debate?
• 52:35
  Speaker 6: No, because the reality is there is no way to
• 52:38
  Speaker 6: defend her record. And she doesn't have any ideas about
• 52:43
  Speaker 6: how to make New York safer or more affordable. If
• 52:46
  Speaker 6: you look at her policies, she believes in releasing criminals
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: into the streets. And every policy she's put, she's put
• 52:52
  Speaker 6: into place. Bail reform, the laws that allow... you know,
• 52:59
  Speaker 6: violent criminals to be put back into communities instead of removed.
• 53:03
  Speaker 6: All of those things are focused on letting criminals out.
• 53:07
  Speaker 6: Then she talks about compassion. But what she totally ignores
• 53:10
  Speaker 6: is the victims of the crimes. You know, an NYPD
• 53:13
  Speaker 6: officer was, they tried to rob him when he was
• 53:17
  Speaker 6: off duty. And then when he fought back, they stabbed
• 53:20
  Speaker 6: him 10 times. That happened just last week in the Bronx, right? Now,
• 53:24
  Speaker 6: I went and visited that officer. Tish James didn't. But
• 53:27
  Speaker 6: when you talk to that guy, he's a solid guy.
• 53:30
  Speaker 6: He's going to recover from this. He's going to go
• 53:33
  Speaker 6: back to work. He's going to serve our communities. And
• 53:36
  Speaker 6: our attorney general is not going to serve him because
• 53:40
  Speaker 6: it doesn't matter to her that the people who attacked
• 53:42
  Speaker 6: him were repeat offenders who were let out under our
• 53:45
  Speaker 6: broken bail laws. She just confirmed last night she's not
• 53:49
  Speaker 6: interested in changing those laws. And she doesn't care that
• 53:54
  Speaker 6: the people who attacked him were here illegally, and even
• 53:57
  Speaker 6: after they were convicted of violent crimes, they stayed instead
• 54:01
  Speaker 6: of being removed. She's more interested in keeping the criminals
• 54:04
  Speaker 6: on the streets than protecting innocent New Yorkers, including an
• 54:07
  Speaker 6: off-duty cop who got stabbed.
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: Terrible. Just terrible.
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: You know, I go back to Blakeman and Trump, and
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: they're going to campaign together today in Syracuse. I know
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: you know that. But the last time I saw you
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: was at that Nassau County rally with Blakeman and Trump.
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: And you were sitting there with these two lovely parents.
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: In fact, the last time you were on this show,
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: not that long ago, you were on with both of them.
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: This beautiful 12 or 13-year-old boy that was riding his
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: bike and happened to be in the wrong place at
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: the wrong time. Went to a bodega with his new bike.
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: And next thing you know, there's gunshots. And this beautiful
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: young man was murdered. And they were on this show,
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: the mom and dad and you, we all cried together.
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: In Nassau County that day, we all cried together. But
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: I'm going to gather that much like you said you
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: went to visit the cop and Letitia James didn't, that
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: while you spend a lot of time with victims, with
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: angel parents, that Letitia James hasn't seen that couple yet either.
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: Is that a fair assumption?
• 55:11
  Speaker 6: There's a fair assumption. I mean, that was a heartbreaking
• 55:13
  Speaker 6: day and it was a very moving appearance we had
• 55:15
  Speaker 6: last time on your show. You know, the reality is,
• 55:18
  Speaker 6: you know, she sits there and boasts about taking 10,000.
• 55:22
  Speaker 5: Guns off the street.
• 55:23
  Speaker 6: That's ridiculous. She has eight years and she takes 10,000
• 55:25
  Speaker 6: illegal guns off the street. You know, New Jersey took 16,000
• 55:28
  Speaker 6: illegal guns.
• 55:29
  Speaker 5: Off the street in one year.
• 55:31
  Speaker 6: The reality is kids are getting shot in New York
• 55:34
  Speaker 6: by violent criminals who have illegal guns. She doesn't do
• 55:38
  Speaker 6: anything about it. When there was a spike in gun violence,
• 55:41
  Speaker 6: she told people not to overreact. You know what I
• 55:43
  Speaker 6: did as a federal prosecutor? I went in during COVID.
• 55:46
  Speaker 6: I reopened the grand jury so that we could indict
• 55:49
  Speaker 6: as many violent criminals as possible on illegal gun charges
• 55:51
  Speaker 6: and get them off the street. That's what you do
• 55:53
  Speaker 6: when you have the power to do something. She has
• 55:55
  Speaker 6: all these powers. She doesn't use them. And she has
• 55:59
  Speaker 6: no excuse for not using them. She has the legal authority.
• 56:02
  Speaker 6: She has the resources. She just doesn't actually care about
• 56:05
  Speaker 6: crime victims.
• 56:06
  Speaker 5: True.
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: All she cares about is Trump. She actually campaigned on
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: getting Trump. She tried. It was so ridiculous. She made
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: up crimes. She had to because she promised her constituents
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: she was going to get them. That's what a louse
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: she is. I mean, she's a louse. Even your conversation... Again,
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: you killed her on this. The injection centers, okay? Why
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: would you encourage people to shoot up drugs? You know,
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: my son, Gabriel Cerrito, he goes to high school in Chelsea,
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: and he tells me, you know, Daddy, at least once
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: or twice a week, he'll walk past anywhere between Union
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: Square and 14th Street and 17th Street, And he'll see
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: some junkie, and I'm a recovering addict, okay? So I
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: am sympathetic to a certain extent. But he'll see some
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: man or woman shooting up in the street. And it
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: seems to me, Saritha, like people like Letitia James are
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: encouraging that. Or is that a stretch?
• 57:03
  Speaker 6: They're using taxpayer money to fund drug use. And listen,
• 57:07
  Speaker 6: I've talked to the people in the neighborhood.
• 57:09
  Speaker 5: They've reached out to me.
• 57:10
  Speaker 6: And you know why? Not because of politics. They've actually
• 57:13
  Speaker 6: reached out to their local assemblymen and senators and all
• 57:16
  Speaker 6: the elected officials. And they're just tired of it. Nobody's
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: listening to them. So then they reached out to me.
• 57:22
  Speaker 6: This is why I have Democrats and Republicans supporting my campaign.
• 57:26
  Speaker 6: Public safety is not political. They don't want to see
• 57:30
  Speaker 6: us leading people to their deaths by funding drug use.
• 57:34
  Speaker 6: They don't want to see people who are addicted to
• 57:37
  Speaker 6: drugs wandering around like zombies on their streets, in their neighborhoods,
• 57:41
  Speaker 6: in their kids' playgrounds. They don't want to be stepping
• 57:44
  Speaker 6: over needles when they're walking their kids to school and
• 57:46
  Speaker 6: they're frustrated. And I promised those families that I would
• 57:49
  Speaker 6: bring it up in the debate. That's why I did.
• 57:52
  Speaker 6: And the reality is, you know why she funds, you know,
• 57:54
  Speaker 6: she supports those things. She'll never shut them down because
• 57:57
  Speaker 6: of the same people who fund those drug injection sites
• 58:00
  Speaker 6: fund her campaign.
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 58:03
  Speaker 4: New Yorkers.
• 58:03
  Speaker 6: She just serves the extremists who are ruining our city.
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: You know, there's another big case going on in the
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: city right now, and Sarita, I know part of your
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: amazing resume, and I'll just patronize you, your resume is outstanding.
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: You spent 12 years as a prosecutor prosecuting sexual assault cases.
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: So right now, the whole city, the whole state, really
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: the country, is wrapped up in this Cornell alleged rape case.
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: And Kathy Hochul, the worst governor in the country.
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: Yes, she's the worst.
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: She's every bit as bad, maybe worse than J.B. Pritzker,
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom, you name it. This mental midget decides, I'm
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: going to bring on Letitia James, the AG, as a
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: special prosecutor. Correct me if I'm wrong, but when you've
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: already made public statements like Letitia James did on Facebook,
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: where she basically said these guys are guilty. Let me
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: just say this. I've said this too. What they did,
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: these boys, is morally reprehensible. In my mind, they're guilty
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: of that. No matter what they say, no girl, no girl,
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: messed up or not, wants to have sex with seven guys. Okay? So,
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: at the very least, these guys, what they did was
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: morally grotesque. But, Criminally, we don't know yet. But Letitia James,
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: already on Facebook, basically said they're guilty. How in a
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: million years can Kathy Hochul leave her on this case?
• 59:38
  Speaker 6: Well, I was a federal prosecutor for 12 years. And
• 59:41
  Speaker 6: as you know, Sid, my focus was terrorism. But when
• 59:43
  Speaker 6: you're a prosecutor for 12 years, you do nearly every
• 59:45
  Speaker 6: kind of case. So I prosecuted sexual assault cases. They're
• 59:49
  Speaker 6: some of the most important, serious cases that you can handle.
• 59:52
  Speaker 6: And you need a serious prosecutor to handle them with
• 59:55
  Speaker 6: fairness and impartiality and integrity. Tish James does none of
• 59:58
  Speaker 6: those things. She's never prosecuted a criminal case. She's political
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 6: in everything she does. And in a true breach of ethics,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 6: She and Hochul politicized this case, thinking they'd get some
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 6: kind of election advantage. It's shameful. You have the lives
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 6: and futures of eight young people in your hands. You
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 6: need to approach that situation with complete apolitical, nonpartisan fairness.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 6: And they're not capable of doing that. To me, this
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 6: entire situation just reinforces the fact that what New York
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 6: needs now is a real prosecutor. This is not a joke.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 6: This is not a political football. This is people's lives.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 6: Everyday New Yorkers deserve someone in that office who's a
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 6: non-partisan law enforcement professional. That's what I am. We've had
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 6: enough of the politics. Let's turn the page. Let's focus
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 6: on public safety.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: Sit in friends in the morning. Week in Review.