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George Santos | Former Congressman | 05-22-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: My friend George Santos, who doesn't realize that of all
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  Speaker 1: the people that reached out to President Trump, I know
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  Speaker 1: he gives Marjorie credit and these other people, But the
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  Speaker 1: reason why he's out of jail today is because of me.
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  Speaker 1: But that's okay, George, Good morning, buddy. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Why you say it's great to be back with you? Always?
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  Speaker 2: My friend? I love your I love your enthusiasm. Every
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  Speaker 2: morning I gotta say thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Are you still listening from down in Florida?
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  Speaker 2: So I've been in Pennsylvania still. We'll be down there
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  Speaker 2: only in uh in the winter, okay for an hour? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we're up here, okay.
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  Speaker 1: And you want to tell us where in Pennsylvania isn't
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  Speaker 1: a nice area?
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  Speaker 2: A nice area northeastern Pennsylvania? How about that? Very nice?
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  Speaker 1: Very nice? So do you miss? And I know you left?
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  Speaker 1: My Mo'm Donnie one. And believe me when I tell
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  Speaker 1: you that I consider leaving all the time. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the truth is, I'm about to extend my deal here.
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  Speaker 1: And I love this radio station. I love John, I
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  Speaker 1: love Margo, I love and I love New York. But
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  Speaker 1: I watched this mayor operate and if Bruce loses to Hochel.
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  Speaker 1: I consider leaving every day. I can make a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money doing this in nice places like Miami, they
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  Speaker 1: pay me in a heartbeat, or Nashville or the Carolinas.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm still here. But you left, you did leave.
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  Speaker 1: Are you happy you left? You to miss New York?
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  Speaker 2: Keviny, I'm miserable. I'm miserable at the fact that I
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  Speaker 2: had to leave. I love New York City. I'm a
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  Speaker 2: New Yorker through and through. Said, let's just face it, right,
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  Speaker 2: So for me, leaving wasn't lightly. I just for me,
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  Speaker 2: I cannot I cannot accept that I have to live
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  Speaker 2: under the rule of someone like Zorhan Mondomity, which, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, is going to make life exceedingly worse for
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  Speaker 2: New Yorkers if he continues to attack people like Ken Griffin.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he realizes this. And I'm gonna say
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  Speaker 2: this for people who don't know this. There are sixty
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  Speaker 2: nine human beings in New York State who make up
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  Speaker 2: forty percent of the tax revenue, and Ken Griffin is
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  Speaker 2: one of them. If you start running out the sixty
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  Speaker 2: nine human beings out of the state, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: have to take that forty percent shortfall and redistribute it
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  Speaker 2: amongst the rest of New Yorkers, which, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: that's millions of people. Sixty nine people take off forty
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  Speaker 2: percent of the burden off the backs of millions of
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  Speaker 2: New Yorkers. And this is what this idiot mayor keeps doing.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't regret leaving, but I resent leaving because
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  Speaker 2: I love my city and I love my safe But
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  Speaker 2: I unfortunately couldn't bear to sit around in wait to
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  Speaker 2: find out what this lunatic was actually going to do.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's going to get a heck of a lot worse.
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  Speaker 1: He's only a couple of months into a four year
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  Speaker 1: deal here. If he doesn't win again, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm considering running in twenty twenty nine. I
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  Speaker 1: get people every day, from Trump people to my next
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  Speaker 1: guess k team McFall in, you name it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: big time people that Bruce Blateman is dying for me
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  Speaker 1: to run. But the truth is I'm much or if
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  Speaker 1: I will, but I don't know if this city is
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  Speaker 1: going to make it four years, let alone eight years.
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  Speaker 1: And you're talking about, you know, getting people like Ken
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  Speaker 1: Griffin to leave, and you left George Santos. He's also
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  Speaker 1: anti comp we know that. And he is the first mayor,
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  Speaker 1: the first mayor who will not be attending the Israeli
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  Speaker 1: Day Parade next week. Now I'm happy about that because
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  Speaker 1: I'm marching that parade every year, and he's the last
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  Speaker 1: person I want to see. I don't want to see
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  Speaker 1: some terrorist lover marching with us as if he cares
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  Speaker 1: about the Jewish people. He hates the Jewish people, he
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  Speaker 1: hates israel I. Actually applaud him for not coming. But
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  Speaker 1: when you think about it, the first mayor not to
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  Speaker 1: be at this really date parade, it's just another on
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  Speaker 1: the list of things that says to you, this guy
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  Speaker 1: does not belong being the mayor of this great city.
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  Speaker 2: No, not at all. He lacks the temperament, he lacks
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  Speaker 2: the intellectual IQ, and he lacks the political maneuver. He's look,
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  Speaker 2: I will say this, Bruce Blateman should be thanking the
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  Speaker 2: high heavens today that he is mayor, because he is
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  Speaker 2: putting Kathy Holkle in a corner and she's going super lefty,
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  Speaker 2: dufty all the way to the left, giving Bruce an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to show her true colors. So he's doing for
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  Speaker 2: for Bruce what Adams couldn't do for Resultance. So I
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  Speaker 2: think it's a great opportunity and that I will say this,
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  Speaker 2: if we do get Governor Blakeman in New York State,
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  Speaker 2: I would send a thank you note and a fruit
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  Speaker 2: basket to Nam. I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're right. So you know it's not it's
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  Speaker 1: not a secret, George that a lot of the Bolts,
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  Speaker 1: the politicians on Long Island had their issues with you. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: some of my really really close friends was Bruce Blakeman,
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  Speaker 1: one of those guys. How did you guys get along?
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  Speaker 2: Look, I've always gotten along with all of them until
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't politically convenient. And I understand, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: mature enough to understand. Yeah, I get it. Everybody we
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  Speaker 2: were all friends and then unfortunately I was my worst
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  Speaker 2: said of me. And I think I've made that abundantly
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  Speaker 2: clear here. A lack of self awareness, a lack of maturity,
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  Speaker 2: a lack of responsibility led for me to create those
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  Speaker 2: relationships going sour. So I get it. I don't hold
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  Speaker 2: it against them. I probably would have been done the
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  Speaker 2: same thing, had to shoot it on the other foot.
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  Speaker 2: So politics is a game. Of you know, political conveniences.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously somebody who's literally a ball of fire falling down,
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  Speaker 2: crashing and burning is going to bring anything that attaches
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  Speaker 2: itself to it with them. So I don't blame them.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: we need them to stay in office so that we
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  Speaker 2: can maintain majorities in the House. You just heard what
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  Speaker 2: President Trump said and that clip you played, He's not wrong.
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  Speaker 2: So no, no, I get it. It sucks. I did
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  Speaker 2: it myself. But I just really wish some of these
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  Speaker 2: guys would just forget I exist, because there's no need
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  Speaker 2: to keep pounding on me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh hold on a second. So you're telling me that
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  Speaker 1: these guys are still pounding on you still.
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  Speaker 2: And some of them still like, are not over it?
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  Speaker 1: And I just but where do they I'm just curious
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  Speaker 1: where do they do that? You went Pennsylvania. You're not
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  Speaker 1: on Long Island, so you're not in the chamber? You
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  Speaker 1: mean on Twitter? Where do people go after it?
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  Speaker 2: It's more like in private circles. They still keep hammering
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  Speaker 2: me that I'm horrible person. I'm like, come on, get
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  Speaker 2: over it. I'm not even in your orbit anymore, Like
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  Speaker 2: go away, Well.
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  Speaker 1: You got to give me one name. Give me one name. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: you have to no, no, you have to. Don't be
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  Speaker 1: a pussy, George, give me one name. I'll give you
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  Speaker 1: the name, and you just say yes, all right, I'll just.
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  Speaker 2: Give you the name Nick. Nick. Yeah, he hates me,
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  Speaker 2: I get it. And he has all believeing in the world.
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  Speaker 2: I supported his primary of pallents and I created a mess.
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  Speaker 1: And then he was, well, if you want to come
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  Speaker 1: back at Nick load and George, I'll give me something
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  Speaker 1: right now. He's a very sloppy eater. I have not
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  Speaker 1: gone to the Capitol grill once with Nick lo Loda
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  Speaker 1: in Washington, d C. Where there's at least cocktail, sauce
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  Speaker 1: or ketchup with something all over his white dress shirt.
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  Speaker 1: So that's your come back, Okay, you know what, of
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  Speaker 1: all things I could, I won't even blame him because
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  Speaker 1: I've also the truth is you're both very nice guys.
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  Speaker 1: I like Nick a lot. I like you a lot.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you did what you did, you you were accountable,
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  Speaker 1: you went to prison, and thank god President Trump sent
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  Speaker 1: you home. But I think you're a You're a nice guy,
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  Speaker 1: and I think you did really, really, really take accountability
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  Speaker 1: and learn your lesson. But you heard Trump, as you
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  Speaker 1: just pointed out, by the way, any any of those
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  Speaker 1: guys come around, like one guy that said, okay, I
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  Speaker 1: was against you, but now I'm for you, even one
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I never say who, but I have resumed, Well
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  Speaker 2: you got to give me one name. I can't give
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  Speaker 2: you names because it hurts your political careers. And I
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  Speaker 2: here for that. Yeah, okay, that's fair, and you know that.
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  Speaker 2: So a lot of these guys have come around, and
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  Speaker 2: we've re established relationships and communications, you know, and I'm glad.
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  Speaker 2: And some of them are Democrats too, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: which is crazy. But the point I'm trying to make
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  Speaker 2: it very simple. I have no animosity towards these guys
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  Speaker 2: that maybe a like if you go on my Twitter,
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  Speaker 2: you'll see that the one person I hate these days
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  Speaker 2: is John Thune. But really about.
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  Speaker 1: It, right, I just well, you need to explain, You
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  Speaker 1: need to explain to the listening audience. And I know why,
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  Speaker 1: But why you hate the Senate Majority Leader John Thune
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  Speaker 1: so much?
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  Speaker 2: John dude is not just incompetent, he's irresponsible and he's
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  Speaker 2: gambling with national security right now, recessing the Senate for
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  Speaker 2: a month and not passing any kind of reconciliation to
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  Speaker 2: fund DHS, which means CBP and ICE in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of a worldwide event, which is FIFA World Cup that's
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  Speaker 2: starting soon. Okay, We're going to be seeing millions upon
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  Speaker 2: millions of people entering our nation. We're going to see
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  Speaker 2: gatherings of tens of thousands around stadiums and hundreds of
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  Speaker 2: thousands conglomerated in cities of those host games, and we
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  Speaker 2: are not paying our CBP our ICE and DHS has
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  Speaker 2: a shortfall and funding that is criminal behavior, exposing us
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  Speaker 2: to mass amounts of national security risks, especially taking into
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  Speaker 2: the account that we've had twenty plus million people enter
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  Speaker 2: this country unvetted during the regime of the auto pen
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  Speaker 2: Joe Biden. And then on top of it all, he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't pass the fayback. Then he's mad and upset and
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  Speaker 2: pouting like a child the man baby. Because President Trump
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  Speaker 2: defeated Gil Cassidy and is about to defeat John Cornyn
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  Speaker 2: in primaries, two senators who have overstay their welcome, forgot
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  Speaker 2: the mission to the American people and are not allies
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  Speaker 2: of the president. And the President is the leader of
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  Speaker 2: the party. He is entitled to choose who he endorses
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  Speaker 2: against people who are not playing ball with him period.
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  Speaker 2: John thund doesn't think he has that right. So I
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  Speaker 2: think John how Soon is a failure of a leader.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not alone in this endeavor, so thank god, I
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  Speaker 2: think most of America agrees with me now, and I
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  Speaker 2: think the sentence about to learn a very difficult lesson
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  Speaker 2: in losing John.
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