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Hour 1: New Jersey Governor’s race · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Filling in for Mark. Here's Ken Rosatto and Happy Thursday
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Speaker 1: to you. It's good to be with you. Mark is
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Speaker 1: off former New York City TV news anchor Ken Rosatta
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Speaker 1: reporting for Duty today. You probably best remembered me from
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Speaker 1: the twenty years I spent doing the morning show over
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Speaker 1: Channel seven, and I worked even a Channel five some people,
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Speaker 1: some people still stop me on the street and say,
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Speaker 1: weren't you on Good Day? Yeah, about one hundred years ago.
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Speaker 1: I was before they had TV. It was like two
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Speaker 1: tin cans in a string. That's what I was on
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Speaker 1: Good Day, but it was I did do that for
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Speaker 1: about a year, and these days I have the privilege
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Speaker 1: of hosting a daily show on a New Jersey based
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Speaker 1: news channel. It's called on New Jersey. They were the
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Speaker 1: ones that brought you the first New Jersey governor debate
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Speaker 1: so good to be here. There is a lot to
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Speaker 1: talk about today. Phone lines are open. Give us a call,
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Speaker 1: take part in the conversation. One eight hundred three two
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Speaker 1: one zero seven ten. Today we're going to hit the
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Speaker 1: mayoral debate. Of course for those of you who are
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Speaker 1: political junkies like myself that you couldn't wait for this day,
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Speaker 1: this is a big one. So the mayoral debate, Mam
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Speaker 1: Donnie versus Cuomo versus Curtis. We'll see what happens tonight.
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Speaker 1: It's from seven to nine on Channel four.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: The Trump Gateway Tunnel project looks like Trump is playing hardball.
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Speaker 1: Chuck Schilma. Chuck thought he had the last laugh shutting
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Speaker 1: down the government. But only like two percent of the
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Speaker 1: government is shutdown. Nobody even notices it's shut down. The
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Speaker 1: military is getting paid by alter and it means which
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Speaker 1: is pissing off the Democrats in a big way. They
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Speaker 1: want they want the military not to get paid so
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Speaker 1: that people will get upset. But Trump always has a
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Speaker 1: Plan B. I think the Democrats won't figure this out
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Speaker 1: for one hundred and fifty years. Trump has a Plan B,
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Speaker 1: a Plan C, a Plan F, a Plan L. So
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Speaker 1: you come at him with something, he will come back
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Speaker 1: at you with ten times that Democrat. So just learn,
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Speaker 1: get over it, spend the next three and a half
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Speaker 1: years with a bottle of tums, and accept it. All right.
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Speaker 1: It is the reality. So Trump's response to Chuck Schuma
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Speaker 1: and his insistence on keeping the government shut down by
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Speaker 1: telling his fellow Democrat senators not to vote for the
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Speaker 1: Continuing Resolution in the Senate is to cancel the Gateway
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Speaker 1: Tunnel project, which is Chucky's twenty year He worked on
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Speaker 1: his plan for twenty years to have something that he
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Speaker 1: could hang his hat on. Now that's not to say
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Speaker 1: we don't need it. We do need the Gateway Tunnel project,
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Speaker 1: and I'm sure Trump will get that money to us.
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Speaker 1: But right now we're saying, hey, Chucky boy, if you
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Speaker 1: want this Gateway tunnel project, you better play some ball.
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Speaker 1: Otherwise I'm canceling the money. Here's why Trump can do it.
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Speaker 1: The money that was allocated for the Gateway Tunnel project
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Speaker 1: is not allocated by Congress. It was a grant that
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Speaker 1: was signed off on by President Biden. Well, because the
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Speaker 1: government is shut down and all the outgoing money is
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Speaker 1: in essence effectively locked, President Trump could say, nope, we're
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Speaker 1: not going to continue that grant, stop it no more.
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Speaker 1: We don't have a government functioning. And as the chief
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Speaker 1: of the Executive Branch, he has that authority. So Chucky boy, checkmate,
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Speaker 1: see what you're gonna do next. The New Jersey governor's
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Speaker 1: race is big. We're going to be talking about that.
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Speaker 1: In fact, we are going to have a person I
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Speaker 1: believe is the dean of New Jersey politics, Micah Rasmussen,
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Speaker 1: who heads the Rebevich Institute at Writer University for politics.
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Speaker 1: He knows more about New Jersey politics than anybody. He
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Speaker 1: used to be Jim mcgree communications guy, and so he's
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Speaker 1: going to be on talking about the race. Big, big
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Speaker 1: stuff happening over there between Chitarelly and Mikey Cheryl. We
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Speaker 1: had Chitarelli on my show the other day in New Jersey,
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Speaker 1: and in fact, he broke the news on my show
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Speaker 1: that that was when he was going to officially launch
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Speaker 1: the complaint, the lawsuit against Mikey Cheryl. So that happened
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Speaker 1: on my show on Tuesday, and so I know you
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Speaker 1: probably heard him on Larry Menty about an hour ago
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Speaker 1: talking about it. So we're going to talk with Mike
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Speaker 1: O Rasmussen about that. Did you know that AI knows
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Speaker 1: and by AI meet artificial intelligence, not some guy named
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Speaker 1: al Influenza. AI knows if your phone battery is low,
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Speaker 1: and it can impact how much you pay for stuff
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Speaker 1: based on that. What are you talking about, ken, Okay,
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Speaker 1: let's just say it's two o'clock in the morning, you
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Speaker 1: need a ride share to get home, your phone has
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Speaker 1: three percent battery power left. Artificial intelligence can forward that
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Speaker 1: information to the app for your ride share and say, hey,
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Speaker 1: this dude is desperate. You get it. So now you'll
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Speaker 1: be quoted the highest price instead of a competitive price.
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Speaker 1: So that's the way it works. So we're going to
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Speaker 1: talk about that. It's really deceptive. I think it's unfair.
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Speaker 1: Of course, who doesn't think it's unfair, But that's business.
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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about it. Tish James and her
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Speaker 1: big grand niece, Big Tish and her big grand niece
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Speaker 1: Big Trouble. Potentially, we'll talk about that, the grand new
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Speaker 1: niece finally responding to all the allegations about her being
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Speaker 1: a fugitive from North Carolina and living in Anti Tish's home,
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Speaker 1: that Anti Tish says it's her primary residence in Virginia,
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Speaker 1: and we know it's not, because you can't be the
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Speaker 1: Attorney General of New York if you're a primary residence
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Speaker 1: is in Virginia. And then we're going to talk about, Oh,
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Speaker 1: there's a few actually a few other surprises. I'm not
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Speaker 1: even gonna mention yet. So let's get to the big stuff.
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Speaker 1: Tonight is the night it is the big debate for
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Speaker 1: Mayor of New York City. Curtis Sliwa, Andrew Cuomo and
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Speaker 1: Zoron Mamdani will take the debate stage. It's seven to
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Speaker 1: nine pm on Channel four. And what are they going
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Speaker 1: to be talking about. Well, you know, mom, Donnie is
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Speaker 1: going to be going after Cuomo Andrew.
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Speaker 3: You had your chance to lead this state. You took
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Speaker 3: that time to sell out working class New Yorkers to
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Speaker 3: your billionaire donors and instead of actually meeting the needs
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Speaker 3: of people, who couldn't afford to live in the city.
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Speaker 3: You gave nine hundred and fifty nine million dollars in
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Speaker 3: tax breaks to Elon Musk and now you want us
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Speaker 3: to believe that we can't spend less money than that
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Speaker 3: to make every bus fast and free in the same city.
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Speaker 1: And what does Cuomo have to say?
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Speaker 4: Mister Mandai's plan for Rikers Island is either incoherent and
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Speaker 4: incompetent or diabolically manipulated.
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Speaker 1: Now, now the question is, and of course we have Curtis.
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Speaker 1: I don't have a piece of sound for Curtis right now,
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Speaker 1: but we love Curtis and we keep our fingers crossed
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Speaker 1: for him. The question is, looking at the polls, if
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Speaker 1: you add up the support for Curtis and the support
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Speaker 1: for Andrew Cuomo, the two could If you take the
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Speaker 1: two and combine them, they could potentially beat Mamdani. Right,
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Speaker 1: So what's in your mind? Well, Curtis should bow ow.
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Speaker 1: Curtis should bow ow because Andrew Cuomo has higher numbers.
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Speaker 1: But honestly, the person who has more legitimacy up there
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Speaker 1: is Curtis. Because Curtis is endorsed by one of the
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Speaker 1: major parties in New York the Republican Party. He won
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Speaker 1: that primary fair and square, and he has a right
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Speaker 1: to run. So every time you're ready to condemn him
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Speaker 1: and say and say drop out Curtis, come on, is
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Speaker 1: that really fair to him? But you could look at
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Speaker 1: it as if Curtis stays in and Mamdanni wins. I
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Speaker 1: think a lot of people may look back and say,
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Speaker 1: it's your fault, Curtis, that we got Mamdani. Well, no,
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Speaker 1: it's not his fault. The fault is the education system
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Speaker 1: in New York City that has brainwashed young people for
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Speaker 1: generations now to believe in the system of victim and victimizer.
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Speaker 1: And then you have a socialist like this, a democrat socialist.
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Speaker 1: Let's just face it, he's a communist. He keeps insisting
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Speaker 1: he is a democrat. So but you know, if it
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Speaker 1: walks like a duck and talks like a duck, chances
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Speaker 1: are quack quack, it's a duck. You can call yourself
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Speaker 1: a ham sandwich zoron all that you'd like, but you
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Speaker 1: espouse all the beliefs of communism. So call yourself a
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Speaker 1: democratic socialist. Okay, if that's what we're calling communism today,
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Speaker 1: you're still a communist. Just branded as a democratic socialist.
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Speaker 1: The reality is you are what you are and it
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Speaker 1: is still going to destroy our economy. Out If you
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Speaker 1: saw Mom Donnie yesterday, he was on Fox News Channel
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Speaker 1: with Martha McCallum. Martha did an enormous job. She's a
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Speaker 1: phenomenal journalist and Zoron I give him credit for going
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Speaker 1: to the belly of the beast right Fox News Channel.
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Speaker 1: Most Democrats won't set foot in there. And of course
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Speaker 1: he went in with his big fake smile, his coach
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Speaker 1: smile and his coached answers, and Martha pushed him and
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Speaker 1: asked over and over again. She asked him, number one,
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Speaker 1: do you congratulate President Trump on his successes in the
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Speaker 1: Middle East? And of course he wouldn't give a direct
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Speaker 1: nam answer, and ultimately he did say that he said,
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Speaker 1: it's too early to give him any kind of congratulations. Well,
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Speaker 1: let's listen to what Mum Donnie said.
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Speaker 3: And when it comes to the ceasefire, I am thankful
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Speaker 3: and I have hope that it will actually endure and
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Speaker 3: that it will be lasting. And I continue to have
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Speaker 3: concerns because I've seen reports still just this in the
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Speaker 3: last few days that five Palestinians were killed by Israeli military.
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Speaker 3: And that's what gives me pause about issuing any kind
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Speaker 3: of praise or celebration at a moment when it is
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Speaker 3: still so in its infancy.
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Speaker 1: And here's where he is a communist and deceptive, and
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Speaker 1: here's where he's very careful to parse his words. Mister
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Speaker 1: mum Donnie talks about the five Palestinians who died, he
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Speaker 1: doesn't tell you how they were killed. The five Palestinians
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Speaker 1: were part of a mob that ran up on Israeli
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Speaker 1: soldiers at a time when according to the peace plan
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Speaker 1: that Hamas signed that the Hamas folks are supposed to
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Speaker 1: be disarmed as of Monday. It was supposed to disarm,
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Speaker 1: but no, they still have weapons. And the Israeli soldiers
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Speaker 1: are now going in to move forward with the next phase.
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Speaker 1: But how do you move forward with the next phase
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Speaker 1: when a bunch of people with weapons come running up
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Speaker 1: on you. So, if you're an Israeli soldier and you
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Speaker 1: know that thousands of your countrymen have just gotten murdered
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Speaker 1: in the last two years, and you see a bunch
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Speaker 1: of people who were supposed to disarm, who have not
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Speaker 1: yet disarmed, running up on you, what are you supposed
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Speaker 1: to do. The Israeli soldiers told those Palestinians stop, they
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Speaker 1: did not stop. They continued running, so they got shot. Now,
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Speaker 1: I don't want anyone to die. I don't want anyone
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Speaker 1: to get shot. But this is the reality. You know,
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Speaker 1: Hamas it was not choked to sign this. They signed
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Speaker 1: a piece plan. They agreed to disarm. They did not.
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Speaker 1: So what are Israeli soldiers supposed to do? All right?
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Speaker 1: So now Mamdani carefully mentions the shooting of those Palestinian
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Speaker 1: folks and they were apparently Hamas members who ran up
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Speaker 1: on the Israeli soldiers, or how do you know what
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Speaker 1: they are honestly, But he fails to mention that Hamas
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Speaker 1: lined up up to thirty five fellow Palestinians and got
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Speaker 1: them blindfolded and on their knees and summarily executed each
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Speaker 1: one with bullets to the back of the head. Why
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Speaker 1: because somebody in Hamas thought they might have leaked to
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Speaker 1: Israel or sided with Israel. In other words, they weren't
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Speaker 1: vociferously enough in support of Hamas' beliefs. So Hamas lined
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Speaker 1: up thirty five Palestinians and shot them at the back
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Speaker 1: of the head. Hey, mister Mamdani, where was your criticism? There?
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Speaker 1: No criticism, total silence. So when Israelis defend themselves, Mamdani
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Speaker 1: is quick to criticize. When Palestinians murder Palestinians and they
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Speaker 1: stream it live, these people's heads getting blown off, streamed
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Speaker 1: live on the internet, there is radio silence from Mamdani.
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Speaker 1: Think about that when you go into a polling place
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Speaker 1: and you go to make your vote, it's awful. Going
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Speaker 1: back for a moment to the Gateway Tunnel project, President
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Speaker 1: Trump made this comment when he discussed it yesterday. We're
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Speaker 1: terminating those programs and they're going to be terminated on
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Speaker 1: a permanent basis.
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Speaker 5: And it's thousands of people, and it's you know, billions
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Speaker 5: of dollars.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And by thousands of people, he means thousands of
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Speaker 1: jobs are going to be impacted that New York and
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Speaker 1: New Jersey government had hoped for. And Governor Kathy Hochel
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Speaker 1: miss Hockels ineffect of herself, had this.
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Speaker 6: To say, this is not sticking it to New York.
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Speaker 6: This is the Northeastern corridor to make sure that our
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Speaker 6: tunnels are safe. They're damaged by Superstorm Sandy, they're over
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Speaker 6: one hundred years old. We need to replace them because
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Speaker 6: if this system of transportation collapses, the Northeastern economy and
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Speaker 6: the economy of the country collapsed. So why be so shortsighted?
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Speaker 1: Kathy Hochel is the definition of why you should spend
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Speaker 1: more money and not less when you get porcelain veneers.
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, that's why she talks like that. I'm
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Speaker 1: just guessing. I don't know, I know, I mean, Can,
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Speaker 1: that's mean, don't do that, don't poke fun. My mother
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Speaker 1: right now is probably listening. She listens to WR like
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Speaker 1: I do every day. Can that's mean? All right, Governor,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make fun of your
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Speaker 1: big porcelain veneers. Ten eighteen right now seven to ten WR.
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Speaker 1: And over in New Jersey, the polls are definitely tightening
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Speaker 1: in the race for governor. On Tuesday, as I mentioned,
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Speaker 1: I had Jack Chittarelli on my show in on New Jersey.
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Speaker 1: That's the name of the channel that I'm on and
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Speaker 1: I do the morning show there, and the governor elect.
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Speaker 1: Oh did I say that? No, No, I'm sorry, I
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Speaker 1: meant to say. Jack Chittarelli made the announcement that he
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Speaker 1: was about to launch his lawsuit that day against Mikey
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Speaker 1: Cheryl because if you watch the debate that was on
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Speaker 1: Channel seven, Mikey Cheryl turned to Jack Chittarelli calling him
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Speaker 1: a murderer. Now, for those who aren't following, or they
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Speaker 1: don't they heard something about you, You don't know why.
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Speaker 1: This is what this is about. Chittarelly used to own
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Speaker 1: a company called Galen Publishing. It was a medical publishing company.
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Speaker 1: The University of Tennessee, their medical school, approached Galen and
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Speaker 1: wanted to publish a study on opioids. This is years
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Speaker 1: and years ago Chittarelli's company Galen, and he was the
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Speaker 1: head of the company. There were probably hundreds of people
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Speaker 1: under him who did this deal. They published the book.
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Speaker 1: That's what they do, their book publishers for the medical industry.
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Speaker 1: And I should say Jack Chitdarelli no longer owns this company,
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Speaker 1: has nothing to do with it. So they published a
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Speaker 1: study by the University of Tennessee on opioids, and basically
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Speaker 1: the study said that if you are not currently addicted
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Speaker 1: to stuff, that there is a relatively low chance that
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Speaker 1: you will become addicted to opioids. Well, we've now found
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Speaker 1: out later that no, opioids are extremely addictive. At the time,
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Speaker 1: they may or may not have known that. Either way,
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Speaker 1: Mikey Cheryl is trying to blame him for the deaths
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Speaker 1: of tens of thousands of New Jersey people who got
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Speaker 1: addicted to opioids. Well, you know what, the tens of
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Speaker 1: thousands of New Jersey people who died of opioid overdose
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Speaker 1: did not. Most of them did not die from prescription opioids.
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Speaker 1: They died from fentanyl. You moron. Sorry did I say
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Speaker 1: that doctor? Thankfully that didn't go out on the air.
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Speaker 1: Let me say that again. They died from fentanyl, ma'am.
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Speaker 1: They did not die from opioid overdose like from a
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Speaker 1: prescription from their doc. Now, some do, of course, but
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Speaker 1: most don't. The vast majority of people die from fentanyl,
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Speaker 1: which is why Chittarelli turned to Cheryl and said, no,
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Speaker 1: you were the one and your party allowed people to
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Speaker 1: come in illegally and bring fentanyl into this country, which
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Speaker 1: was the appropriate response. Well, Mikey Cheryl is doubling down.
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Speaker 1: She now apparently is putting together a website calling Jack
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Speaker 1: Chitdarelli opioid Jack, like he's a drug dealer and he
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Speaker 1: is appropriately suing her for it, and I hope it
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Speaker 1: gets the court fast, though I doubt it'll happen before
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Speaker 1: the election. Either way, she better watch when she calls
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Speaker 1: somebody a murderer, because even though we have what are
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Speaker 1: called anti slap laws to protect you from things like that, whatever,
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Speaker 1: I think, he still has a chance in court, and
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Speaker 1: so do many people in the legal industry. It is
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Speaker 1: right back Ken from Mark Today. Here's Ken Rosatto and
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Speaker 1: good to be with you. It's ten twenty nine on
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Speaker 1: your Thursday. And by the way, I don't know if
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Speaker 1: you saw that NBC News announced that they began laying
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Speaker 1: off about one hundred and fifty people from the news
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Speaker 1: division as part of the spin off of MSNBC into
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Speaker 1: ms Now or whatever they're going to be called. But
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Speaker 1: it always makes me sick, whether they're liberal or not. Look,
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Speaker 1: I worked in the industry for decades and I just
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Speaker 1: wish well to my colleagues and just hope they all
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Speaker 1: land on their feet. But it is time to check
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Speaker 1: the phones. Right now, it's eight hundred three to two
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Speaker 1: one zero seven ten wor. We go to Jay in
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Speaker 1: New Jersey. Jay, good morning to you. Hey Ken hill Ay,
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Speaker 1: I'm good.
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Speaker 5: You know, but about the debate tonight, you know, what
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Speaker 5: has to be made clear is that zoramm Donnie has
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Speaker 5: openly professed to hate America. And yes, arises why he
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Speaker 5: wants to run for the you know, to be mayor
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Speaker 5: of New York City. And the answer is, obviously he
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Speaker 5: wants to destroy it. And I do not have faith
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Speaker 5: in Andrew Cuomo to make this, to make this clear
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Speaker 5: to the people of New York City. And that saddens
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Speaker 5: me because if zoram Ram Donnie gets elected, you know,
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Speaker 5: he's not hiding what he's doing. You saw the Fox
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Speaker 5: News interview and that's just a preview to what you're
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Speaker 5: going to see tonight.
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Speaker 1: Look, there are people on the internet, Jay, and only
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Speaker 1: because we're short of time and I mean to step
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Speaker 1: on you, but there are people on the internet. On
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Speaker 1: the Internet, anyone could say anything, but who have said,
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Speaker 1: you know, and this is it's it sounds very anti Islam.
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Speaker 1: And I am not anti Islam here because I have
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Speaker 1: many friends who are very faithful Muslims. But there are
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Speaker 1: many who say, if you look at what happened in
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Speaker 1: all the European capitals where you had people who were
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Speaker 1: of the faith who came in and then they imposed
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Speaker 1: the faith on many of the capitals, and they're suggesting
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Speaker 1: that that's what he is. I don't believe that, but
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Speaker 1: I do believe that he comes up from a different mindset,
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Speaker 1: that he comes up with a very socialist mindset, and unfortunately,
18:19
Speaker 1: you know, people are falling for it, and that is
18:21
Speaker 1: not the way this country was founded. Alan Yonker's good
18:24
Speaker 1: morning to you.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, hi, Ken, thanks for taking my calling. You know,
18:29
Speaker 7: I just wanted to say I'm a registered Republican and
18:31
Speaker 7: I follow what's going on nationally and locally, and I
18:35
Speaker 7: really think the speaker is the speaker. Johnson is being
18:38
Speaker 7: irresponsible by not even being in Washington. I mean, that's ridiculous.
18:44
Speaker 7: He shouldn't be getting paid.
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Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you this now, al let me
18:47
Speaker 1: let me ask you this. The House did its job.
18:50
Speaker 1: They all they needed to do was pass a continuing resolution.
18:53
Speaker 1: It wasn't this isn't about passing a whole new budget.
18:56
Speaker 1: They just needed a continuing resolution. The House did that,
19:00
Speaker 1: so he did his job. And you know, listen, when
19:03
Speaker 1: the Democrats were in power, they just did what they
19:05
Speaker 1: wanted to do, and then if the Republicans didn't sign on,
19:08
Speaker 1: they said screw you and they moved on. But when
19:10
Speaker 1: the Demo, when the Republicans are in charge, and the
19:13
Speaker 1: Democrats want to still play by the rules as if
19:15
Speaker 1: they're in charge, but sorry, it doesn't work that way.
19:18
Speaker 1: They are not in charge anymore. And the bottom line
19:21
Speaker 1: is House did its job. The Senate has to do
19:23
Speaker 1: its job, and five senators of the Democrat persuasion refused
19:27
Speaker 1: to do that. Vincent, we got about thirty seconds left,
19:29
Speaker 1: but I got to get you on. Good morning Vincent
19:31
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn, Good.
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Speaker 2: Morning Ken, Ken. I think when opioids are used correctly,
19:37
Speaker 2: they have a place in medicine. I think a lot
19:40
Speaker 2: of these severe laws that now in New York you
19:42
Speaker 2: could only get a prescription for opioids for a seven
19:46
Speaker 2: day prescription. So if you have terminal cancer, like my
19:49
Speaker 2: uncle did. And you depend on those drugs at edd
19:54
Speaker 2: state in end stage cancer to relieve your pain, or
19:57
Speaker 2: do you got to go back to your doctor every
19:59
Speaker 2: week to get a prescription. You're in rack and ruin
20:04
Speaker 2: from the pain. And a lot of these people who
20:08
Speaker 2: had problems with these drugs, they would have problems with
20:12
Speaker 2: a lot of other drugs. They have addictive personalities, they're junkies.
20:17
Speaker 2: I had three oral surgeries in the past year, and
20:21
Speaker 2: if it wasn't for drugs like percocet or oxycondin that
20:26
Speaker 2: have opioids in them, I would be up to proverbial
20:29
Speaker 2: Creek because I was in extreme pain. And once the
20:34
Speaker 2: prescription was finished, and once the pain was gone, I
20:38
Speaker 2: stopped using it. Stop. People have to realize it's written
20:43
Speaker 2: right on the bottle that you're not supposed to take
20:45
Speaker 2: these drugs after a certain period of time. You're not
20:49
Speaker 2: supposed to take them with alcohol, and it's said they're
20:51
Speaker 2: highly addictive.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you know the one. By the way,
20:55
Speaker 1: I should even mention there is a new drug out
20:57
Speaker 1: that is non opioid that some doctors are getting and
20:59
Speaker 1: I'm not just talk to your doctor about. It's called
21:01
Speaker 1: Jernoviks and it is not opioid. It doesn't make you groggy,
21:05
Speaker 1: and it's pretty good. But it doesn't work on spinal pain,
21:08
Speaker 1: but it does work on non spinal pain photoghy. My
21:13
Speaker 1: insurance covered it because when I had I had hernia
21:15
Speaker 1: surgery recently and it worked. But that's a good option,
21:19
Speaker 1: but only because I got to go to news here,
21:20
Speaker 1: we got to jump. I love you, you know when you
21:22
Speaker 1: call all the time, Vincent, and I appreciate that. But
21:24
Speaker 1: Vincent's right, if you are non addictive, it's fine to
21:28
Speaker 1: follow the instructions of the opioids. The problem is, I
21:31
Speaker 1: get it, some people become addictive, But you don't look
21:34
Speaker 1: at the person running against you and say you're a
21:36
Speaker 1: murderer when he just simply published a study from a
21:40
Speaker 1: university seven ten wr When we come back, more on
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Speaker 1: the New Jersey governor's race with New Jersey political guru
21:45
Speaker 1: Micah Rasmussen, whose son was killed by a serial drunk
21:49
Speaker 1: driver Happy Happy Thursday. He was Press secretary for former
21:52
Speaker 1: New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevy. In these days. Micah Rasmussen
21:56
Speaker 1: is the director of the Rebevich Institute for New Jersey
21:59
Speaker 1: politics Rider University. He's contributed to the public affairs of
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Speaker 1: the state for more than two decades and has more
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Speaker 1: than fifteen years experience as an adjunct professor of political science.
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Speaker 1: Mike Rasmussen, Good morning.
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Speaker 8: To you, Hey, San, how are you.
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Speaker 1: I'm great. It feels like I just talked to you
22:15
Speaker 1: in the last two days, maybe because I did almost
22:20
Speaker 1: of them, right there, you go. Hey, So we got
22:22
Speaker 1: to ask you. Actually I was going to talk to
22:24
Speaker 1: about the New Jersey governor's race, but we've had some
22:25
Speaker 1: breaking news since then about the Gateway Tunnel project and
22:30
Speaker 1: President Trump basically telling hey, Chuckie Schielma, screw you, pal.
22:35
Speaker 1: What do you think you think? This is just politics?
22:36
Speaker 1: He's just playing games right now.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I hope so, I hope so for the sake
22:42
Speaker 8: of the region, for the sake of New Jersey, we're
22:45
Speaker 8: sort of swept up in this. And it's as you know,
22:49
Speaker 8: this project is that a long time coming. That rail
22:53
Speaker 8: infrastructure is over one hundred years old. Sometimes it's got
22:56
Speaker 8: to be knocked into placements with a sledgehammer. And I'm
22:58
Speaker 8: not even kidding. And we can't afford for this thing
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Speaker 8: to be caught up. So I hope that resolution is
23:08
Speaker 8: on the way. And you know, this is pretty strong language.
23:12
Speaker 8: It's different than what we heard a couple of weeks ago,
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Speaker 8: which was that it was a pause. Cancelation is a
23:18
Speaker 8: different deal. That doesn't sound like something to come back from.
23:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he used the word terminated. He used
23:23
Speaker 1: the word terminated, so that is a serious word. And
23:26
Speaker 1: he does have the right to do it because this
23:28
Speaker 1: was a grant that was signed in by Biden. So
23:32
Speaker 1: because it was a grant, he could freeze grants and
23:35
Speaker 1: that's for I'm sure this was at a left field
23:37
Speaker 1: for even those on the left. But nonetheless, we'll see
23:40
Speaker 1: what happens in the days ahead. Hopefully it brings them
23:42
Speaker 1: to the negotiating table so we can get this government
23:45
Speaker 1: open again. Where do you see the New Jersey governor's
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Speaker 1: race right now, Micah? Do you know we talked about
23:50
Speaker 1: this on our show the other day in New Jersey,
23:52
Speaker 1: But now Jack was on Jack Torelli was on Minty
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Speaker 1: in the morning today here at w o R, and
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Speaker 1: he talked about that lawsuit. He's moving forward with it.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, it's interesting because I think by most
24:07
Speaker 8: of the public polling, he's got a little bit of
24:10
Speaker 8: round still the makeup in these closing weeks. He's got
24:13
Speaker 8: an enthusiasm match for sure, but he's still got some
24:16
Speaker 8: ground to make up. You know, anywhere between three and
24:19
Speaker 8: five or six points. He's in a good pace to
24:24
Speaker 8: do that. That this is the kind of distraction that
24:27
Speaker 8: can derail him from that. The same thing with these
24:30
Speaker 8: questions that we've talked about about his role in the
24:33
Speaker 8: opioid crisis is his company's role in the opioid crisis.
24:37
Speaker 8: This is the kind of thing that knocks you off
24:38
Speaker 8: your game and prevents you from making the closing arguments
24:42
Speaker 8: that you want to make in the last couple of
24:44
Speaker 8: weeks of the race.
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Speaker 1: So, if you are Jack Chittarelli, what should you be
24:48
Speaker 1: doing right now? Just talking about nothing else but what
24:51
Speaker 1: the fact that Mikey Cheryl won't promise that she won't
24:53
Speaker 1: increase taxes, Talk about the fact that Mikey Cheryl's party
24:58
Speaker 1: is the party that resulted in the high energy rates?
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Speaker 1: Is that what all you should be focusing on?
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Speaker 8: Affordability? Yeah? Absolutely, that's that's what's on voter's minds. Sure,
25:08
Speaker 8: And you know there's some evidence that talking about the
25:12
Speaker 8: ethics or the stop trades or you know, Annapolis is
25:17
Speaker 8: a distraction from what's really on voter's minds, and you've
25:21
Speaker 8: got to show that you are sensitive to what voters
25:24
Speaker 8: are are concerned about. And I don't know if he's
25:27
Speaker 8: doing that right now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm by the way, I'm literally sitting seventy five
25:31
Speaker 1: feet from where Charlemagne the God talked to Mikey Cheryl
25:34
Speaker 1: and had that famous interview. I could walk literally out
25:38
Speaker 1: this door and down the hall and that's right where
25:40
Speaker 1: the interview occurred where she didn't know if she had
25:42
Speaker 1: seven million dollars that she earned in stock Grade. Let
25:45
Speaker 1: me just remind people that are listening to seven to
25:47
Speaker 1: ten wo r it is Ken Rozotto in from Mark
25:50
Speaker 1: Simone on a Thursday, ten forty seven is our time,
25:53
Speaker 1: and we have Micah Rasmuss and political expert from the
25:56
Speaker 1: state of New Jersey, my good friend who's on with
25:58
Speaker 1: us today. So let's let's talk about what the next
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Speaker 1: step is would be for now Mikey Cheryl, if you're
26:04
Speaker 1: Mikey Cheryl, what do you have to do to kind
26:07
Speaker 1: of get back on track in terms of the whole
26:10
Speaker 1: thing with the military academy?
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Speaker 8: You know, so same thing for her, she's got to
26:16
Speaker 8: tap into voter's frustrations over affordability, and this is where
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Speaker 8: her message on high tax jack, which you know, I mean,
26:26
Speaker 8: we can talk about whether that's fair or not, but
26:28
Speaker 8: he definitely has resonated. He's got a bigger problem with
26:33
Speaker 8: approval at this point than she does. In most polling,
26:36
Speaker 8: she is still right side up, he's upside down. So
26:39
Speaker 8: I think those commercials are having an impact on him.
26:42
Speaker 8: I think she's got to continue to continue to drill
26:46
Speaker 8: down on that to the extent that she can, and
26:48
Speaker 8: to the extent that it's fair to do.
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Speaker 1: So, how hard is it for these candidates in New
26:53
Speaker 1: Jersey to run for an office that is statewide because
26:57
Speaker 1: they have to buy ads in the two large or
27:00
Speaker 1: two of the largest TV markets New York is number one,
27:03
Speaker 1: Phillies number five, in order to get their message out.
27:06
Speaker 1: It's got to be super expensive, probably more expensive than anywhere.
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Speaker 8: Else it is. And as you well know, because of
27:13
Speaker 8: you know what you do every morning, viewers are not
27:17
Speaker 8: just getting their TV anymore from cable. They're not just
27:21
Speaker 8: getting it from broadcasts. They're getting in from digital, from streaming,
27:24
Speaker 8: and so it is harder than ever because you've got
27:28
Speaker 8: to be on all the platforms where people are watching.
27:31
Speaker 8: It is a dispersed media market, and that means it
27:35
Speaker 8: is more expensive and it's a tough thing to do.
27:39
Speaker 8: One thing that you know, I have to remind people
27:41
Speaker 8: all the time is said, we've got a public financing
27:43
Speaker 8: system for governor. So theoretically, at least on the campaign side,
27:48
Speaker 8: they're spending their they're cap is the same out about
27:52
Speaker 8: eighteen million dollars. Jack Ciarelli has spent a lot more
27:55
Speaker 8: of that down at this point in the race driving
27:58
Speaker 8: his message. She not more or less than the closing
28:01
Speaker 8: gaye of the race. That she's spoiled away. That could
28:04
Speaker 8: make a big difference in this close So.
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Speaker 1: You think that Jack could climb up in the next guy?
28:10
Speaker 1: Be mean, we only have two and a half weeks
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Speaker 1: before this happens. Do you think he has a shot
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Speaker 1: At this.
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Speaker 8: Point, she does have a shot. There's no question about that.
28:17
Speaker 8: This race is impossible to predict. We're probably going to
28:20
Speaker 8: go through several more lifetime or gateways between now and
28:24
Speaker 8: the election. There's no question he's in the hunt. But again,
28:28
Speaker 8: what I am concerned about for him is is he
28:32
Speaker 8: being driven off of his message. Does he have the
28:35
Speaker 8: fire power to keep going where she has sort of
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Speaker 8: spoiled that money away while she's on the offense with
28:40
Speaker 8: her messaging. I think the positions are better, but I'm
28:44
Speaker 8: certainly not counting him out at this point.
28:45
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not going to let you go before I
28:47
Speaker 1: ask you a thirty second question here. Are you going
28:49
Speaker 1: to be watching the New York City mayoral debates tonight?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 8: I absolutely am, And I think it's going to be
28:55
Speaker 8: a big night in that race because people are trying
28:58
Speaker 8: to sort out the new dynamics with the three candidates
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Speaker 8: left for the race. And we'll see what happens. I
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Speaker 8: think Mondani certainly is His messaging is novel. It's different, right,
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Speaker 8: whether or not it's what voters are interested in. But
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Speaker 8: you know, are you going to get more of the
29:14
Speaker 8: same old, same open or are you going to get
29:16
Speaker 8: something new? And then, of course, does that present an
29:19
Speaker 8: opportunity between those two juking it out to have to
29:22
Speaker 8: present an opportunity for Suliva just try to come up
29:24
Speaker 8: the middle.
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Speaker 1: Amazing, all right? The director of the Rebevich Institute for
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Speaker 1: New Jersey Politics at Ryder University, my good friend Micaeh Rasmussen.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you all the time, so I could talk
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Speaker 1: to you for hours. Thanks for coming on.
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Speaker 8: Today, you too, Ken, Thank you very much.
29:37
Speaker 1: You bet have a great day. He is just I
29:40
Speaker 1: mean literally, if there's nothing he doesn't know, and it's
29:42
Speaker 1: been decades. This guy knows everything, certainly about New Jersey politics,
29:46
Speaker 1: but he knows about politics nationwide. Well, we want to
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Speaker 1: hear from you. Seven ten wore the Voice of New
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Speaker 1: We're gonna go right to our busy phones. Christina on
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Speaker 1: Long Island, good morning to you.
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Speaker 9: Good morning. I was listening to your show and it's
30:14
Speaker 9: so repetitive of not only your station but others. How
30:18
Speaker 9: Mandami is going to win and how he has the support.
30:23
Speaker 9: I mean, the primary was eighteen percent of the Democrats
30:27
Speaker 9: and he that's such a small percentage. And the other
30:32
Speaker 9: comment that I have is from what I understand in
30:36
Speaker 9: the beginning. Mondami has been in for about five or
30:39
Speaker 9: six sessions in the legislator and in that time he's
30:44
Speaker 9: only proposed one bill, and he didn't even go up
30:49
Speaker 9: to Albany to vote for that one bill. Why hasn't
30:52
Speaker 9: anybody followed up on that?
30:54
Speaker 7: What was that bill?
30:56
Speaker 9: And why has he been so inactive?
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Speaker 1: Well, you know that's these are only because we're short
31:02
Speaker 1: on time. I'm gonna jump in. You're you're absolutely right
31:05
Speaker 1: about the bill. And I don't know which bill that was.
31:08
Speaker 1: I'm sure we could check that out. But just about
31:10
Speaker 1: every bill that it is right, that is right now
31:13
Speaker 1: brought before the State Assembly in all buty because the
31:15
Speaker 1: Assembly is so far to the left, Christine, it's like
31:19
Speaker 1: you take a look at any bill, just pick anyone,
31:21
Speaker 1: and it's like how communism can help our lives, How
31:24
Speaker 1: being to the left is wonderful. I mean, that's what
31:26
Speaker 1: these bills are insane In the state Assembly. Twenty years ago,
31:30
Speaker 1: even Democrats would have laughed at them. Today they're sort
31:32
Speaker 1: of the mainstream in Albany. In terms of why everybody's
31:37
Speaker 1: talking about Mamdani is because of the polls. Every single
31:40
Speaker 1: poll has shown him between forty and fifty percent support,
31:43
Speaker 1: and that is post a primary. We're now talking about
31:47
Speaker 1: in among the three. So because of that, it is
31:50
Speaker 1: the reality, and we only can talk about the information
31:53
Speaker 1: we have. But I'm with you. Listen, believe me. I
31:55
Speaker 1: don't vote in New York, but if I did, it
31:56
Speaker 1: wouldn't be for that individual events in Fort Pierce, Florida.
32:00
Speaker 1: The beautiful sunshine stay, good morning and.
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Speaker 10: Good morning, you know real quick. On the New Jersey election,
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Speaker 10: your your previous guests might know a lot, but I
32:08
Speaker 10: wouldn't take his advice. He's a Democrat, and I believe
32:11
Speaker 10: the two topics that really put Chitdarelli on the map
32:15
Speaker 10: were the two things that he said he shouldn't talk
32:17
Speaker 10: about now. On the mayoral race in New York. I'm
32:19
Speaker 10: from originally New York and then New Jersey and then here,
32:22
Speaker 10: so I'm keeping track of both races. And the thing
32:25
Speaker 10: with New York, there's nine million voters and there's something
32:28
Speaker 10: like one million people voted in the last election. Yeah,
32:31
Speaker 10: three hundred thousand. Republic that's all they can get. And
32:34
Speaker 10: then they're gonna sit here and cry and whine that
32:36
Speaker 10: the rest of the country needs to bail them out.
32:38
Speaker 10: They need to bail themselves out. There's not a lot
32:40
Speaker 10: of sympathy. I gotta tell.
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Speaker 1: You, Vince, I got to jump only because of the news,
32:43
Speaker 1: But you're right on every one of those counts, seven
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Speaker 1: to ten. Wo R. It's now coming up on eleven o'clock.
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Speaker 1: Time for the news.