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Erin Molan | Australian Television Reporter Wants Answers Regarding President Trump Getting Cozy with NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but how the f * * * did
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  Speaker 1: I destroy my entire.
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  Speaker 2: F * * * ing.
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  Speaker 1: World and existence to stand up after October 7 against
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  Speaker 1: Islamic jihadist threat and fight for Western civilisation despite getting.
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  Speaker 3: F * * * ing.
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  Speaker 1: Death threats every f * * * ing day, fighting
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  Speaker 1: for a country I'm not even.
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  Speaker 3: F * * * ing.
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  Speaker 2: From, I don't even.
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  Speaker 3: F * * *.
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  Speaker 1: Ing live in, fighting to protect a president that everyone
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  Speaker 1: wants to.
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  Speaker 3: F * * * ing.
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  Speaker 1: Destroy so therefore I get destroyed.
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  Speaker 3: F * * * ing.
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  Speaker 1: Daily by people because I stand up for him to
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  Speaker 1: sit there and watch him say that Mamdani's got potential
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  Speaker 1: to be a great mayor.
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  Speaker 3: Sid, f * * *.
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  Speaker 2: Help me understand what the.
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  Speaker 3: Actual f * * *.
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  Speaker 2: Why am I doing this?
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  Speaker 1: And I say me as in my story. Yours is
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  Speaker 1: ten f * * * ing fold. What the f
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  Speaker 1: * * *?
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  Speaker 4: All right, well, I got to tell you this.
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  Speaker 5: I got that message from my friend Erin Mullen, the
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  Speaker 5: wonderful Australian host of the Erin Mullen Show a couple
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  Speaker 5: days ago. And I don't know her for a little
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  Speaker 5: while now. I've never heard her curse once. I know
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  Speaker 5: she does. But never once before this message, I believe
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  Speaker 5: Justin had to bleep out the F word twice. 11 times.
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  Speaker 4: 11.
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  Speaker 5: So you guys know how upset I was that President
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  Speaker 5: Trump not just met Mamdani at his home field, Gracie Mansion,
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  Speaker 5: but buddied up to him and complimented him.
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  Speaker 4: I've moved on.
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  Speaker 5: I love President Trump. He knows that. I think he
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  Speaker 5: still loves me, but... No one's going to convince me
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  Speaker 5: that Monday wasn't an awful day for Republicans, for Trump,
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  Speaker 5: for me, and clearly for Erin Nolan. Erin, that was
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  Speaker 5: quite a rant right there, sweetheart. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Sid, you know how much I loved my beautiful dad
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  Speaker 2: who passed away a couple of years ago. I know
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  Speaker 2: how much you loved yours. This is probably the first
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  Speaker 2: time that I'm glad he's not here. He would have
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  Speaker 2: died if he had heard that rant on radio. And
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  Speaker 2: can I tell you and your incredible listeners, The funniest
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  Speaker 2: part of this whole thing is that for the last
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  Speaker 2: five years, I have been sending Trump people clips of
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  Speaker 2: my show, trying to suck up monumentally, showing them that
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  Speaker 2: I am this solid staunch defender, this lover. And you
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  Speaker 2: know what? The one clip they probably heard of all
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  Speaker 2: of them is the one you just played because I
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  Speaker 2: know how much they love you and your show. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's funny. I die.
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  Speaker 5: No, I doubt it. I think he knows what a
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  Speaker 5: great supporter you are. And you said during that clip that,
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  Speaker 5: you know what, you've put your life on the line. And,
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  Speaker 5: you know, not just supporting Trump. We'll get to Bibi.
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  Speaker 5: He's speaking later on today. I'll be there with him.
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  Speaker 5: But supporting Israel, you've gotten death threats almost every single day.
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  Speaker 5: You're a single parent. You're in Australia where you experienced death.
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  Speaker 4: A brutal and I mean a brutal.
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  Speaker 5: anti-Semitic attack at that beach a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 5: So you basically turn your life upside down to support
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  Speaker 5: people like President Trump and countries like Israel.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. And like you, of course, I still support President Trump.
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  Speaker 2: And I think he is phenomenal. But what really frustrates
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  Speaker 2: me when I look back at it and I've watched
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  Speaker 2: it a few times is Mamdani doesn't show him the
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  Speaker 2: same courtesy. You watch Mamdani's face, he won't even do
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  Speaker 2: any movement that might annoy his base or his audience.
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  Speaker 2: He was very careful. So I know that Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: needs to have relationships with people that we don't like,
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  Speaker 2: with people he doesn't like. Look at him as Xi Jinping.
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  Speaker 2: Xi Jinping wants to destroy the world as we know it,
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  Speaker 2: yet Donald Trump must do things that even he would go, oh, Lord.
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  Speaker 2: But what I didn't like was it was unnecessary to
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  Speaker 2: compliment over the top. Yes, be civil. Yes, have relationships. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: do things that are in the interest of the American public.
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  Speaker 2: But there's a line, and I just don't think it
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  Speaker 2: needs to be crossed. And it's Donald Trump. He doesn't
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  Speaker 2: need to say that to Mamdani. Mamdani is, honestly, in
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  Speaker 2: terms of threats to America and people who hate your
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  Speaker 2: nation and people who are in positions of power, that
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  Speaker 2: enable them to exude influence and to actually have the
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  Speaker 2: same what happens to your city and your country. Don't
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  Speaker 2: give them anything that elevates them. Don't give them a second.
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  Speaker 2: And I just, I hated watching it. But again, I
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  Speaker 2: understand there are things at play that we are not
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  Speaker 2: privy to, but as an Aussie who is passionate and
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  Speaker 2: who does a show for an American audience, I care
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  Speaker 2: deeply about your nation. The prosperity of your nation, the
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  Speaker 2: safety of your people is directly linked to mine and
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  Speaker 2: the future of my child. And this is the thing here,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I stand with Israel. I stand with America.
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  Speaker 2: I fight for Western civilization, not because I'm looking for
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  Speaker 2: something to do, because this is existential. The threat we
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  Speaker 2: face is existential. And our enemy is not hiding their intentions.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why I think I got so upset. Because,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Mamdani is part of a bigger picture that
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  Speaker 2: wants to destroy everything that not only we hold dear,
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  Speaker 2: but everything that those before us gave their lives to protect.
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  Speaker 2: And it is up to us. It's our duty to
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  Speaker 2: preserve it. And I know that President Trump is doing it.
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  Speaker 2: And I know that he's doing more than any other
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  Speaker 2: president in history, particularly with the Islamic regime of Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Mind you, Sid, speaking of the U.N., I didn't quite realise,
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  Speaker 2: according to the President of Iran, that they are the victims.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, have we got it wrong, Sid? Was that
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  Speaker 2: the biggest crock of beef that you have ever heard
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  Speaker 2: in your life? It is just this cycle of merry
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  Speaker 2: men getting up on that podium and telling absolute lies,
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  Speaker 2: except for the handful, like Trump, like Milley, and like
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  Speaker 2: Prime Minister Netanyahu, who we'll get up and speak later today,
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  Speaker 2: who will actually tell the truth and annihilate the United
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  Speaker 2: Nations and the enemies of America and the West to
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  Speaker 2: their faces. And I tell you what, I am enjoying
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  Speaker 2: it absolutely, and I'm looking forward to Netanyahu's.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I am too.
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  Speaker 5: This is my friend Erin Molan, the host of the
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  Speaker 5: Erin Molan Show. She's on live from Australia right now,
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  Speaker 5: making her third appearance on this show. You know, from
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  Speaker 5: a political standpoint too, Erin, what Trump did on Monday
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  Speaker 5: was bad.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, let's face it.
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  Speaker 5: Mamdani, there were two people, I've already played clips on
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  Speaker 5: this show earlier this morning before you came on, of
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  Speaker 5: Anna Kasparian... who happens to do a show every week
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  Speaker 5: with a guy named Cenk Aygar. Cenk happens to be
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  Speaker 5: Hasan Piker's uncle. And I played Hasan Piker this morning.
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  Speaker 5: Both Hasan Piker and Anna Kasparian came after me very,
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  Speaker 5: very hard the last two days. Me, I'm not a politician.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just a radio host. But they came after me
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  Speaker 5: because they know I love Trump. I know I love America.
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  Speaker 4: I love Bibi. I love Israel.
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  Speaker 5: So when Trump goes out there and buddies up to
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  Speaker 5: this loser, this mayor, This mayor happens to be friends
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  Speaker 5: with Hassan Piker. This mayor happens to endorse people like
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  Speaker 5: Chevalier and El-Said in Michigan.
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  Speaker 4: So you tell me.
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  Speaker 5: What good is doing this big, big deal in Dallas
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  Speaker 5: to try to get people to vote Republican for the
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  Speaker 5: midterms and then suck up to a jihadist whose friends
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  Speaker 5: would not just Democrats, but the worst of the Democrats,
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  Speaker 5: the DSA. How does that help Republicans come midterms? And
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  Speaker 5: how does that help his buddy, Bruce Blankman, who's running
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  Speaker 5: for governor against both Kathy Hochul and Mamdani?
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  Speaker 4: Explain that to me.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's a brilliant question. And the answer is it
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  Speaker 2: does not. And all it does is give our enemies ammunition.
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  Speaker 2: And when the Republican Party and all of us who
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  Speaker 2: actually care about the things that America should value and
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  Speaker 2: was built upon are trying to fight this enemy ahead
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  Speaker 2: of the midterms, where there is a very realistic chance
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  Speaker 2: that they will gain a hell of a lot more power.
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  Speaker 2: And the Democrats are not the Democrats of old. The
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  Speaker 2: DSA own the Democratic Party. So when people are fighting,
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  Speaker 2: like it's their last day on earth, to stop them
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  Speaker 2: getting more power, which will make life hell for Trump
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  Speaker 2: himself and his administration. And then he comes out and says, well,
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  Speaker 2: you could be a great mayor. It makes everyone else
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  Speaker 2: look absolutely ridiculous, who is saying to America, you cannot
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  Speaker 2: risk giving these people more power. They are one and
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  Speaker 2: in the same. They are the same group of people.
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  Speaker 2: So you can't... You're exactly right in one area, say...
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  Speaker 2: This is dangerous. You cannot give these DSA... I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they're communists, they're socialists, they're nutcases. You can't give them
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  Speaker 2: an inch.
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  Speaker 5: But.
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  Speaker 2: He could be a great mayor. That's potential. They share
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  Speaker 2: the same ideology. They're the same people. They hate America.
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  Speaker 2: You're right. It just makes it fall on deaf ears,
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  Speaker 2: the fight that all of us are heavily engaged in.
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  Speaker 2: And you're right about Blakeman as well. He must have
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  Speaker 2: just gone, what in the actual world?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, he did.
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  Speaker 5: He said all the right things to Melissa Russo on
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  Speaker 5: NBC yesterday. But trust me, he was upset. Andy Shannon.
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  Speaker 5: But he loves Trump. He loves Trump. He's close with Trump.
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  Speaker 5: He's closer with President Trump than I am. And I'm
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  Speaker 5: close with Trump. But no one can figure this thing out.
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  Speaker 5: I had Laura Trump on yesterday. She said, well... You know,
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  Speaker 5: he talks to people we don't like.
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  Speaker 4: That's fine.
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  Speaker 5: You want to talk to somebody in China, in North Korea,
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  Speaker 5: in Russia? This is New York City. This guy is
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  Speaker 5: destroying New York City and is the face of a
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  Speaker 5: movement that may destroy this country. I found it, like
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  Speaker 5: you did, to be too much. But let's get to B.B.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to be there with him this afternoon at
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  Speaker 5: 2 o'clock. He's going to speak. You know, you've got
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  Speaker 5: reporters here in New York. Melissa Russo was one of them.
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  Speaker 5: and others, and you've got a city council speaker, Erin,
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  Speaker 5: her name is Julie Menon, who came down hard on
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  Speaker 5: Bebe a couple days ago because.
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  Speaker 4: they thought.
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  Speaker 5: His rhetoric, his rhetoric was going to cause issues, safety
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  Speaker 5: issues in New York City.
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  Speaker 4: Wait a second.
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  Speaker 5: This guy is 7,000 miles away. He's fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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  Speaker 5: He's still fighting Hamas in Gaza. He's helping America defeat Iran.
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  Speaker 5: He doesn't spend his days and nights like this disgusting
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  Speaker 5: mayor does talking about Mamdani. So he's coming to New York,
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  Speaker 5: and what happens? Two days ago, before Bibi made his video,
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  Speaker 5: Mamdani was back to the same old nonsense. We need
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  Speaker 5: to arrest Bibi Netanyahu. He's a war criminal. He's the
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  Speaker 5: architect of the worst genocide ever. Mamdani started it. Bibi,
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  Speaker 5: all Bibi did was say, hey, I've had enough. Now
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to tell the truth about you. But the
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  Speaker 5: media and the politicians in New York, they made it
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  Speaker 5: seem like Bibi started it.
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  Speaker 4: You know how frustrating that is, Erin?
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  Speaker 2: I hear it in your voice, and I feel it
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  Speaker 2: exactly the same as you do, as you know. And
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  Speaker 2: this is one of the biggest issues with the media.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's global. It's everywhere, but particularly in your country.
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  Speaker 2: And I link it to President Trump saying to CNN,
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  Speaker 2: to MSN Now, and to Politico, sod off. You're not
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  Speaker 2: welcome here. You know what? They aren't the media. They
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  Speaker 2: aren't journalists. They are propaganda machines. Sorry, but if you
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  Speaker 2: want to be treated as a journalist, act like one.
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  Speaker 2: Tell the truth. I mean, it's an art form that
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  Speaker 2: has completely died. I understand why Trump said, sorry, it
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  Speaker 2: is a privilege to get access to me. You can
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  Speaker 2: still say whatever you want. But no, you're not going
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  Speaker 2: to come and do it on my doorstep.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: And it's the same thing. The media in New York City,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, some of the coverage of this is insane.
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  Speaker 2: Mum Darnie, he lit this fuse. Bibi has, as you said,
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  Speaker 2: 10 million bigger things on his mind right now, an
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  Speaker 2: election in his own country coming up, enemies who want
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  Speaker 2: to destroy him. It doesn't matter what way you look
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  Speaker 2: when you stand in the middle of Israel. There is
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  Speaker 2: an enemy that wants to destroy him and his people.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think he wants to be engaged in this? No,
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  Speaker 2: but there also comes a time when you are being
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  Speaker 2: slandered and it is being propelled to millions of people.
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  Speaker 2: And this is, of course, the media runs the lie.
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  Speaker 2: And the second he defends himself, he's not on the attack.
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  Speaker 2: He is defending himself. They turn it around as though
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  Speaker 2: he is the one that's being antagonistic or his rhetoric
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  Speaker 2: is dangerous. I'm sorry, but calling the leader of Israel
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  Speaker 2: a war criminal and the architect of a genocide, the
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  Speaker 2: world's only Jewish state. Sorry, that's the kind of rhetoric
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  Speaker 2: that gets Jews in Mamdani City stabbed, attacked, abused. It's
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  Speaker 2: why Jews in New York City walk outside and look down,
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  Speaker 2: look around, shake, unnervous. It's insane. That is the rhetoric
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  Speaker 2: that is dangerous. Not Prime Minister Netanyahu standing up for
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  Speaker 2: himself and his people.
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  Speaker 4: 100% right.
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  Speaker 5: We're at the point now where if Israel defends themselves
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  Speaker 5: militarily or verbally, they're the bad guys. So in the
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  Speaker 5: final 60 seconds, and you're brilliant, Darren, I love you,
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  Speaker 5: I really do. In the final 60 seconds, Melissa Russo
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  Speaker 5: goes to Bruce Blakeman yesterday, she goes, so wait, so
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  Speaker 5: basically is the Prime Minister going to waste his time
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  Speaker 5: on an international stage Later on today, talking about the mayor.
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  Speaker 4: Wait a second.
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  Speaker 5: This city in New York, okay? I know you're in
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  Speaker 5: Sydney or Melbourne, wherever you are. We have a million problems.
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  Speaker 5: This mayor has done nothing, despite what Trump said a
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  Speaker 5: couple days ago. He's done nothing to improve this city.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing. And all he does is obsess over Bibi. Yet, yet, yet,
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  Speaker 4: Russo goes, is Netanyahu... You believe this, Erin? You can't
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  Speaker 4: believe it, right?
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  Speaker 2: It is an absolute parody. We are living in a
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  Speaker 2: world that I do not recognize, but my God, I
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  Speaker 2: will fight to save. Sid, thank God for you. Thank
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  Speaker 2: God for Bebe. Thank God for Trump. I cannot wait
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  Speaker 2: to watch Bibi speak. And you know what? I hope
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  Speaker 2: he dedicates every second to slamming Mamdani, but I know
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  Speaker 2: he's far too smart for that and he will elevate
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  Speaker 2: and it will be a powerful, incredible speech. Last year's
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  Speaker 2: was amazing. The one before my favourite ever that Bibi gave. Phenomenal.
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  Speaker 2: Bring it on and make sure you send me potentially
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  Speaker 2: a selfie with the man himself.
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  Speaker 4: I will do that. And you keep up the great work.
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  Speaker 4: You're our best fighter. You really are.
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  Speaker 5: Outside this country, all the way in Australia. I love you, too,
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  Speaker 5: Erin Mullen. Keep up the great work. You were magnificent today.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, legend.
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  Speaker 4: Erin Mullen.
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  Speaker 2: You're the best.
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  Speaker 4: You're the best. Folks, check her out, the Erin Mullen Show.
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  Speaker 4: Love you, too.
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  Speaker 5: We'll take a short break right here on the Thursday
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  Speaker 4: What the heck is going on here?