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Dana Perino | Fox News Host & Former White House Press Secretary | 04-30-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: We'll be in your show plenty, because you have a
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  Speaker 1: great show and you have big ratings.
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  Speaker 2: Sit I don't even know if you know how big
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  Speaker 2: your show is, Okay, but you have big ratings and
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  Speaker 2: you have a great show, and you've been my friend
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  Speaker 2: for a long time, and I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: I love most of the people at Fox News. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's the best, the best watch in terms of
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  Speaker 3: political news on TV by far, by far, And a
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  Speaker 3: lot of the folks I like some I don't. We'll
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  Speaker 3: save that for later. But I love Dana Perino. I
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  Speaker 3: think she's terrific on the five and earlier in the
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  Speaker 3: day with Bill Hammer. And she is a very talented
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  Speaker 3: young lady. And she could also write books. He's written
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  Speaker 3: a bunch fiction, nonfiction. She's got a new book out
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  Speaker 3: right now. We're very excited to bring on and talk
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  Speaker 3: about this new book. And she's on tour with Purple
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  Speaker 3: State starting this Saturday at a lovely place, Point Pleasant
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  Speaker 3: Peach in New Jersey. It's the Little Point Bookshop again.
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  Speaker 3: It's at Point Pleasant Peach High School. That'll be at
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  Speaker 3: two o'clock and Emily Companio will be there too. Then Monday,
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  Speaker 3: the fourth, I'll be at the Yankee game, but she'll
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  Speaker 3: be in Brookville, New York, at Theodore's Books at lu
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  Speaker 3: Posts Gold Coast Cinema, seven o'clock Monday Night with Rep.
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  Speaker 3: Steve Israel. Danny, you're a rock star, a superstar. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I gotta say sid. I gotta listen
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  Speaker 4: to your show every morning. It's so it hyped me
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  Speaker 4: up for the day. I can't listen to these political
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  Speaker 4: podcasts anymore. After listening to that, I loved it. Thank
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  Speaker 4: you giving me back to back in the day.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the show does, and the President loves this show too,
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  Speaker 3: because what you get is because you're a very savvy
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  Speaker 3: media person. It's kind of like that I miss Howard Stern.
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  Speaker 3: We do sports, we do lifestyle, we play great music.
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  Speaker 3: We put the emphasis on news political, both local. Because
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  Speaker 3: I hate Mo'm Donnie, I hate his guts, hate him,
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  Speaker 3: and I love Presidenting Trump. So we get all that.
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  Speaker 3: It's a four hour variety show every morning, and you
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  Speaker 3: will love it, Dana, trust me, trust me, it's fun.
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  Speaker 4: My husband met you at Paul Morrow's award ceremony at
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  Speaker 4: the Retired Detectives where you got an award too. I
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  Speaker 4: believe right.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I did meet him. He was lovely. It was
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  Speaker 3: at Frankie Russo's place, Russo's on the Bank and Howard
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  Speaker 3: Beach three Award. It was me, Paul Morrow, your colleague
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  Speaker 3: at Box News, and the great cop Boat Deedle, and
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  Speaker 3: it was a lovely night. The cops are very good
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  Speaker 3: to me. They've always been good to me. So I
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  Speaker 3: did meet your husband that night and tell him. I said, hello,
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  Speaker 3: let me.
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  Speaker 4: Get to this.
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  Speaker 3: You got at Purple State. You know, my house is
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  Speaker 3: somewhat divided. My wife been a Democrat her whole life.
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  Speaker 3: She has now come along. Yeah, yeah, she's now come along.
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  Speaker 3: I was a Democrat too most of my life. I
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  Speaker 3: was a Democrat. I loved that cotch. You know. It
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  Speaker 3: wasn't until President Trump nine years ago, not even ten,
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  Speaker 3: because I initially bought it for Hillary. He knows that,
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  Speaker 3: but very very close to President and I, but he
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  Speaker 3: knows initially I bought it for Hillary because I didn't
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  Speaker 3: trust him to be a great president. Took me three
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  Speaker 3: months to figure out how great he is. But my
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  Speaker 3: wife and I we were divided for a long time
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  Speaker 3: on that and my daughter and other friends and family.
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  Speaker 3: I have a sister who don't talk to very often
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  Speaker 3: because of it. So the divide, the divide really exists, Dana,
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  Speaker 3: in lots of homes across America.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it does.
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  Speaker 4: And I hate to hear that it would, you know,
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  Speaker 4: strain family relations, though I know that's true. I've heard
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  Speaker 4: about it, and certainly there are friendships that can be
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  Speaker 4: strained as well. People have sort of resorted themselves out.
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  Speaker 2: My idea for Purple State was to write about these
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  Speaker 2: three young women who are hot stuff in New York City.
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  Speaker 2: They're twenty five years old, but they're kind of going
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  Speaker 2: through that quarter life crisis that all these young women
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  Speaker 2: that I mentor are going through.
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  Speaker 4: And one of them things, you know, I really want
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  Speaker 4: to work on a political campaign.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I went into the wrong career. And she convinces
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  Speaker 2: her to friends to go to Wisconsin and work for
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  Speaker 2: a super pack on the election. And they get to
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  Speaker 2: Wisconsin and all of a sudden they're confronted with rural
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  Speaker 2: America and small town businesses that might, for example, like
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  Speaker 2: where you all live, which are so wonderful. And then
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  Speaker 2: they meet these three Republican guys and romance ensues and
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  Speaker 2: they have big decisions to make.
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  Speaker 3: That is so interesting they leave the bluest of blue.
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  Speaker 3: That is an awesome premise. They leave the bluest of blue,
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  Speaker 3: they go to the red Wisconsin. So I would have
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  Speaker 3: to imagine that purple state is it really refers to
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  Speaker 3: the guys and the girls, the mix of the blue
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  Speaker 3: and the red, who eventually they become. You gotta read
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  Speaker 3: the book to find that out. But the mix of
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  Speaker 3: the blue and the red. Is that how you got
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  Speaker 3: purple state?
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  Speaker 2: Kind of? Well, yes, I think it has like what
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  Speaker 2: we call it.
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  Speaker 4: A double on tundra, right, because Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: Is the ultimate purple state.
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  Speaker 4: George Bush lost it in two thousand, won it in
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  Speaker 4: two thousand and four, and it's gone back and forth
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  Speaker 4: every since. Every election it flipped. So no matter who.
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  Speaker 2: Runs in twenty twenty eight, you will hear a lot
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  Speaker 2: about Wisconsin because it's the ultimate purple state. One of
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  Speaker 2: the things that Hillary Clinton made a big mistake in
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  Speaker 2: twenty sixteen is she didn't bother going to Michigan and Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 2: even though the campaign people on the ground were saying,
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  Speaker 2: we could use your help. Well, she didn't go, and
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  Speaker 2: obviously she might have lost anyway. But I know that
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats look too Wisconsin now is like the place
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  Speaker 2: to win.
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  Speaker 3: You know what's funny about that Hillary Clinton story. Dana
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  Speaker 3: did the great Dana perno here. You know who took
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  Speaker 3: it a task for that bill? Her own husband. You
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  Speaker 3: remember that, You remember.
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  Speaker 4: That because he's a good campaigner.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's like, honey, what are you doing? You practically
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  Speaker 3: giving this to President Trump? So, Dot, I guess, is
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  Speaker 3: the protagonist in this book. I know these other characters,
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  Speaker 3: Danny Dawson, hockey loving local, I love hockey too, big
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  Speaker 3: range of fan. But Don is a you do too,
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  Speaker 3: So Don is a protagonist. And by the two time
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  Speaker 3: you finish this book, will the reader love Dot? How
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  Speaker 3: will the reader feel about Dot?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? This is one of the things that I love
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  Speaker 4: about this is because I feel like we're at a time,
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  Speaker 4: especially when you know young women are cutting themselves off
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  Speaker 4: from half of the dating pool because they'll say, I
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  Speaker 4: would never date anybody who would disagree with me or
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  Speaker 4: vote differently. And I feel like these girls make really
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  Speaker 4: good decisions. And I know to a person who've read
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  Speaker 4: the book so far, they all like all three of
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  Speaker 4: the characters, all three girls, all three guys.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not going to give away the ending, but
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  Speaker 2: I will say that. You know you're going to cry
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  Speaker 2: at the end, but it'll be happy tears. Even you said,
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  Speaker 2: even you will cry.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a big crier. I cry and everything I'm They
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  Speaker 3: actually call me the John Bain or a radio.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm a big crier too. I cried everything happy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well me too, I cry happy. I cried, said listen,
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  Speaker 3: I got to tell you the truth. We mentioned Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 3: You're a great book. Here a purple state. I arrived
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  Speaker 3: for the RNZ. I was talking at the beginning of
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  Speaker 3: the show about this Hulk Hogan piece on Netflix, one
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  Speaker 3: of the best pieces I've ever seen. I'm not a
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  Speaker 3: big wrestling guy. I love Hulk I really loved them
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  Speaker 3: from the last couple of months with President Trump. But
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  Speaker 3: I love this piece and it made me cry. But
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  Speaker 3: I got to Wisconsin for the RNC Saturday morning. I
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  Speaker 3: was sitting on my bed in my hotel room. I
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  Speaker 3: had just hung up my clothes watching Fox News when
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  Speaker 3: the president was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, and I started
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  Speaker 3: to cry. I said, Dad, and here we are right.
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  Speaker 3: That was in Wisconsin, ironically, and I just saw this
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  Speaker 3: Hulk Hogan piece and they play this great speech at
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  Speaker 3: the RNC, and here we are, Dana Perno, going through
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  Speaker 3: it again, and it will happen again, and it will
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  Speaker 3: happen again, and if God is good to us, the
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  Speaker 3: Secret Service will get a little better at their job
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  Speaker 3: and make sure that our friend doesn't end up dead.
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  Speaker 3: This is a very scary time in our country.
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  Speaker 4: In addition, I would say that, you know, some people
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  Speaker 4: will say, well, look, if you look at our country,
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  Speaker 4: we've had political violence since our founding in two hundred
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  Speaker 4: and fifty years ago. One thing that's different right now
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  Speaker 4: is the people who.
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  Speaker 2: Are committing the violence right now. They're most the through
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  Speaker 2: line is on the left. They're also highly educated, and
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  Speaker 2: they're rationalizing it by saying, well, if.
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  Speaker 4: He's hitler, I got to do something. And they're not
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  Speaker 4: taking the responsibility of somebody who understands right from wrong.
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  Speaker 4: They think it is correct and right and morally that
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  Speaker 4: they are morally obligated to do something, and so you
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  Speaker 4: look at it.
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  Speaker 2: It would even put this, I would say about Luigi Mangioni,
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  Speaker 2: and all of a sudden he does all of these
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  Speaker 2: fans and said, I don't know what we do about that.
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  Speaker 2: I think the first thing we have to do is
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  Speaker 2: diagnose the problem. And what I've seen since Saturday night's White.
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  Speaker 4: House Correspondence dinner is that there were two hours.
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  Speaker 2: Of unity led by President Trump and then we were
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  Speaker 2: right to it where they'll laught like.
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  Speaker 4: Hakeem Jeffrey saying, well, it's both sides.
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  Speaker 2: It's both sides, and that will lead you to not
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  Speaker 2: solving the problem if you don't diagnose it correctly.
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  Speaker 3: It reminded me, I know you got a run, but
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  Speaker 3: yesterday the King laid the wreath at the nine to
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  Speaker 3: eleven site and it made me nauseous that Mamdani was there.
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  Speaker 3: Mam Donnie, his best buddy is Hassan Piker. He admits that. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: he's never distanced himself from Hassan, and we know, of
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  Speaker 3: course the whole story. He was a guest on Hassan's
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  Speaker 3: podcast and Hassan the hunts that America deserved nine to eleven.
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  Speaker 3: He got no pushback, zero from Mam Donni. So Mamdani
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  Speaker 3: should never Keefy's the mayor. Okay, he should never ever
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  Speaker 3: ever be anywhere near that sacred site with three thousand
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  Speaker 3: of our beautiful New Yorkers died just from going to
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  Speaker 3: work that day Okay, he's a bad guy, get him
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  Speaker 3: out of there. So anyway, he's over there yesterday. But
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  Speaker 3: after nine to eleven, I remember it was the same
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  Speaker 3: kind of the sineme in that people love the cops,
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  Speaker 3: they love the biot fighters, they love the first responders,
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  Speaker 3: and two weeks after that, cops were back to being pigs.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what it is about our country, but
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  Speaker 3: they can't seem to grasp the notion that the way
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  Speaker 3: they feel the day after some tragedy is probably the
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  Speaker 3: way they should feel for an extended period of time.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, and Sid, not only are we celebrating this.
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  Speaker 2: Year and marking the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
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  Speaker 2: the founding of our country. But it's somewhat hard to believe,
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  Speaker 2: but this September will be the twenty fifth anniversary of
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  Speaker 2: nine to eleven, and America has never forgotten. We and
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  Speaker 2: certainly at Fox News, we cover the entire ceremony every year.
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  Speaker 4: And America is really at a crossroads right now about
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  Speaker 4: do we go forward for another two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 4: years with community. Yeah, we have some problems. Just yesterday
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  Speaker 4: when the Supreme Court said that.
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  Speaker 2: You cannot draw legislative districts just based on race, you
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  Speaker 2: would think that the world was falling apart on the
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  Speaker 2: left instead of saying, well, yeah, that's true, our constitution
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  Speaker 2: says you can't do that.
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  Speaker 4: So let's not do that, and let's get fair representation
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  Speaker 4: for everyone. And we've come a long way as a country.
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't mean we're perfect, doesn't don't have more to do,
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  Speaker 4: but saying the sky is falling every time there's a
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  Speaker 4: Supreme Court decision. Yeah, so you don't.
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  Speaker 2: Have any rationality.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, And the guy that headed all that was
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  Speaker 3: a guy that I still think is the worst president ever.
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  Speaker 3: He was a guy that BLM was born under. He
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  Speaker 3: was a guy that delivered palettes of cash or the
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  Speaker 3: Palestinians went straight to Hamas at three o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: He was a guy that did that terribly iron deal
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  Speaker 3: with John Kerry. He was the guy that came up
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  Speaker 3: with that awful healthcare plan that is destroying most Americans
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  Speaker 3: every day. He was the guy that stood idly by
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  Speaker 3: as isis what you call the JV. We're killing people
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  Speaker 3: all over the world. He was a guy that was
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  Speaker 3: there when Michael Brown was in Ferguson, Missouri, and Freddie
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  Speaker 3: Gray was in bull at the morn, going around Staten Island.
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  Speaker 3: His name is Baraco and he may talk nicely, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: he's an elegant guy, eloquent guy. But he was a
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  Speaker 3: horrible president. And he was at the very forefront of
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  Speaker 3: what you're talking about yesterday, complaining. And you said that
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  Speaker 3: we never forgot. We did forget. New York did forget.
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  Speaker 3: Because the only way you can ever ever elect Mamdani
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  Speaker 3: to be the mayor of this city the same year
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  Speaker 3: as a twenty five year commemoration is if you've forgotten.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear you on that.
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  Speaker 4: I would say I know.
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  Speaker 2: That you haven't. I haven't, and certainly your listeners haven't.
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  Speaker 3: No, they haven't. Okay, So on the way out here
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  Speaker 3: day and again you got a big day coming up
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  Speaker 3: Saturday in Point Pleasant Beach, which is beautiful, and Monday
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  Speaker 3: night in Brookville, New York. When people read this great
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  Speaker 3: book Purple State, you want them to leave thinking what.
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  Speaker 2: America is a great place, and that here's the thing said.
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  Speaker 2: If you were born in America and you're a young
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  Speaker 2: woman who is educated, you don't have to worry your
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  Speaker 2: twenties away. Find someone to love, commit to somebody and
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  Speaker 2: it will not hurt your career, it can actually enhance it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, bless you. My wife's a big time attorney. My
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  Speaker 3: daughter she's twenty two, she's going to Pennsylvania to get
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  Speaker 3: her LLM. She just graduated with honors. Yeah, and Wales
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  Speaker 3: Cardiff University. She's actually wow. Yeah, she's working with author
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  Speaker 3: right dollar right now. And my daughter Aba. So I
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  Speaker 3: got some very strong women in my family. But Dana,
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  Speaker 3: I can't thank you enough for what you do for
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  Speaker 3: women all over the country every day. You're great on TV.
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  Speaker 3: You're a great author. You're a hero. Dana Prino. Thank
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  Speaker 3: you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for having me said.
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  Speaker 3: God bless you. Take care Dana Perino right there, Folks.
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  Speaker 3: Check out the new book, Purple State. Check her out
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  Speaker 3: in New Jersey Saturday and on Long Island on Monday.
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