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Rich Lowry | Editor-In-Chief of National Review Hops on Bandwagon to Keep Mamdani Away on 9/11 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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Speaker 1: Which Lowry is the editor of the National Review, does
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Speaker 1: a great job. He's on Box News quite a bit
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Speaker 1: more than me lately. Rich, Good morning, buddy.
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Speaker 2: How are you good, Sydney.
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Speaker 1: I'm good. I don't remember if you and I approached
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Speaker 1: this yet, or whether he've even written about it yourself,
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Speaker 1: but there is more and more support for the mayor
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Speaker 1: not to be anywhere near ground zero on nine to eleven.
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Speaker 1: That support, just seeing you know, Rich, is coming from
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Speaker 1: the victims' families, which I don't know. I thought doctor
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Speaker 1: that day was all about the politicians, city council people
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Speaker 1: and others believe for some reason that he's got a
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Speaker 1: right to be there. No he doesn't. No, No, he won.
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Speaker 1: He's the mayor. He's got to do the budget, he's
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Speaker 1: got to wun the police department. There's a lot of
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Speaker 1: stuff he needs to do as the mayor. Showing up
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Speaker 1: at ground zero nine to eleven is not part of
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Speaker 1: his quote job description. Woody Giuliani needs to be there,
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Speaker 1: not Mom, Donnie. He was in Uganda, he was nine.
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Speaker 1: So Julie Menin comes out and says he should be there,
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Speaker 1: And I just whipped Julie Menin a new anus. The
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Speaker 1: first hour. But something tells me, rich you agree with
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Speaker 1: the politicians or am I wrong? What are you saying?
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Speaker 2: He's what he's thinking of me? He said, Guy, do
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Speaker 2: you think I am well? No?
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Speaker 1: Because no, no, I think you're a wonderful guy. You
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Speaker 1: know that one of my best friends in the business.
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Speaker 1: But you tend to line up with some of the
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Speaker 1: you know, traditional thoughts and that type of thing. And
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Speaker 1: I don't know what part of his job description says
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Speaker 1: he needs to be at ground zero.
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Speaker 2: Maybe you can tell me you're really you really let
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Speaker 2: me down here. So, because we have talked about this
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Speaker 2: before and I agree with you, I don't think he
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Speaker 2: should go. I think he just say the families don't
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Speaker 2: want me there. I don't want to cause any distress
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Speaker 2: or angst for the families on this day that's so
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Speaker 2: painful for them. So I think they're wrong about me.
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Speaker 2: You know, I hate terrorism. But I'll just go see
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Speaker 2: a matinee that that there, whatever it is, right, should
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Speaker 2: go see Tora Tora torah a great ah.
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Speaker 1: Well, Elick told me that you said that you wanted
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Speaker 1: them to be there. So whoa whoa whoa el Ellick,
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Speaker 1: whoa whoa.
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Speaker 2: That's disappointing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, don't, don't disparage my relationship pured rich my god, So,
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Speaker 1: now there's a new shikty here in the city. You're
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Speaker 1: like this, rich. So September tenth, the day before the
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Speaker 1: h that day they put together this huge event for
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Speaker 1: the firefighters families. You know, three hundred and forty three
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Speaker 1: firefighters died that day at our stadium, John Katsumatiti Staten
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Speaker 1: Island Berry Honk Beautiful Stadium there in the water and
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Speaker 1: the fire Commissioner's office, which is run by the mayor.
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Speaker 1: Of course, they contact the families. They've cut down the
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Speaker 1: hours from a four hour day to a two hour day,
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Speaker 1: get ready for this, and they want the families to
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Speaker 1: pre record their speeches to make sure they don't run
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Speaker 1: long so the mayor can speak. Do you believe this?
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Speaker 2: I do believe it that that's totally graceless, but totally
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Speaker 2: what you'd expect.
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Speaker 1: Right, come on, though, really, I mean nine to eleven,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna do that and ruin that even the tenth
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Speaker 1: for the firefighters. I mean, he has no haunt, this guy, none.
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Speaker 2: Right, you're trying to get me to disgrace you something
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Speaker 2: on something said, But you're not doing it. No.
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Speaker 1: Good, I'm glad I'm with you. Oh good, I love that. Good. No,
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Speaker 1: I've always loved you.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 1: You and I are very very close. But I didn't
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Speaker 1: know because I've got very close friends people I really
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Speaker 1: really love that. Not Judy men, but others that have
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Speaker 1: gone the other way on this, and I just don't
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Speaker 1: understand where they're coming from. They can't explain it to me,
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Speaker 1: to get it.
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Speaker 2: To get a sense of how these people feel. Right,
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Speaker 2: there was that event. Where was it? It was on a boardwalk, right,
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Speaker 2: it's some police stay at the boardwalk and mom, Donnie,
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Speaker 2: it was about two weeks ago. You see this, You
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Speaker 2: know he got up and people were booing. They just
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Speaker 2: didn't they didn't want to hear from him, and they
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Speaker 2: shouldn't have to.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, that was on Staten Island. My friend Scott
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Speaker 1: Libatos up with a heart attack that day. He had
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Speaker 1: a literally, yeah, you gotta run off the stage. He
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Speaker 1: spoke for about fifteen seconds. So why would you want
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Speaker 1: to do that again?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Exactly exactly?
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Speaker 1: What is what is everyone? What is the thought? Rache?
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Speaker 1: Explain this to me, because you're much smarter than I am.
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Speaker 1: I admit that what is the thought that because he
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Speaker 1: won as mayor, that he's supposed to be or deserves
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Speaker 1: to be or should be at every event. What is
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Speaker 1: that thought?
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Speaker 2: Well, mayors are usually at these events, right, so that's
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Speaker 2: what they'll They'll argue, that's what your friend. I haven't
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Speaker 2: seen what she said, but I assume that's what your
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Speaker 2: friend then and says, right, the mayors go to this.
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Speaker 2: He's mayor, so get over and he should go to this.
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Speaker 1: Get over it. That's what Curtis Sliver said. Curtis Sliva,
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Speaker 1: this loser man. He was a great guy. Now he's
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Speaker 1: a complete loser. And I mean that in every respect.
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Speaker 1: Seven percent in the election. I've beaten them so badly
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Speaker 1: in the ratings. They took an hour away from him,
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Speaker 1: my sweat guy. They put Marksman on at nine o'clock.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna beat his ass too, And I like Mark.
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Speaker 1: But this guy said that the families need to stop
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Speaker 1: being sore losers.
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Speaker 2: Really, yeah, I mean, you should never talk about that
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Speaker 2: about these families. Obviously unbelieved it defer to the families.
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Speaker 2: They're the ones who've loved ones left and didn't come
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Speaker 2: back that day and for whom this day is so
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Speaker 2: painful and meaningful. Just if they didn't want you there,
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Speaker 2: just just be graceful.
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Speaker 1: Don't go That day he was nine years old, he
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Speaker 1: was in Uganda. He didn't see the buildings fall. He
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Speaker 1: didn't see young beautiful girls. Not did it matters what
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Speaker 1: the gender of the age is, but people in general
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Speaker 1: jumping out of those buildings because they would rather die
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Speaker 1: that way than be burned to death by jet fuel.
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Speaker 1: He didn't go to funerals like Whati Giuliani did a
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Speaker 1: thousand of them. He didn't do anything. And he sits
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Speaker 1: with people who say we deserved it, they took it back.
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Speaker 1: But it's way too late for that. I think you'd
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Speaker 1: agree with that, and even way past us. Sand Piker,
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Speaker 1: he just he just endorsed Chevalier, who wipes her dirty
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Speaker 1: hands with the American flag. Mm hmm, I mean what not?
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Speaker 2: And you know, don't forget well don't like America.
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Speaker 1: No, they don't. And when he came after me and
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Speaker 1: started to cry in that press conference, and remember all that,
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Speaker 1: and caught me and islamophobe, he made up a whole
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Speaker 1: story about how his auntie couldn't take the subway anymore.
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Speaker 1: You remember all that yeah. Yeah, it turned out his
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Speaker 1: aunt was in Tanzania and his cousin didn't even exist.
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Speaker 1: He actually used nine to eleven lied about it to
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Speaker 1: do a story on islamophob Yet and Julie Mennant thinks
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Speaker 1: he should be there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, erasist story. Now, Look, I mean there were some
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Speaker 2: Sikhs who are uncomfortable right because they had big turbans.
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Speaker 2: The cab drivers would have little signes on Seakh. But
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Speaker 2: there was a shockingly little, amazingly little, thankfully little anim
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Speaker 2: is directed to the average Muslims after that horrific attack. Yeah. None,
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Speaker 2: They make it the story and smear revers truth. Was
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Speaker 2: totally typical of this guy and the world view he
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Speaker 2: represents him.
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Speaker 1: There were a couple of cab jobs. You're goa punch
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Speaker 1: across the face, like two or three. That's about it, Okay,
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Speaker 1: ever happened? Yeah, stupid? All right. Let me get to
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Speaker 1: Iran because I can't believe it's going into its seventh
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Speaker 1: month and I don't know who to believe, but the channels,
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Speaker 1: the big networks won't claim last night that his approval
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Speaker 1: rating is down to thirty three percent, which is really bad.
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Speaker 1: He had people there yesterday he's showing them the hell
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Speaker 1: of Port, he's showing them the new Grand Ballroom and
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Speaker 1: what he didn't want to talk about Iran all that much.
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Speaker 1: You know my feelings. Loved Midnight Hammer, loved operation of
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Speaker 1: bic Fury, but hate to disagree with Kat mcfallan. I
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Speaker 1: don't know what the hell we've done the last couple
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Speaker 1: of months. I know we're strangling them economically, and Scott
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Speaker 1: bestsint and I'm tired of that too. What's going on
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Speaker 1: with this?
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Speaker 2: I mean it could easily stretch into next year, right
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Speaker 2: what was supposed to be a four to six week campaign.
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Speaker 1: Well, let me stop you then if you're right about that, Okay,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna tell me, and I respect you and trust you.
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Speaker 1: If this does go that long, you're going to tell
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Speaker 1: me that's not going to hurt us, if not kill us.
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Speaker 2: Come November, it's definitely going to hurt and may kill.
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Speaker 2: I don't know whether it's killed. I think the definition
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Speaker 2: of kill. I don't know what your definition of kill is.
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Speaker 2: Definition of kill is losing the Senate, and I think
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Speaker 2: that's possible. I still don't think it's likely.
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Speaker 1: But you're saying that because you think that losing the
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Speaker 1: House is a vata.
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Speaker 2: Company pretty much. Yeah, there was something I read the
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Speaker 2: other day coming say, yeah, maybe it's like an eighty
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Speaker 2: percent chance, so maybe I'll go there. Maybe there are
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Speaker 2: twenty percent chance Republicans hold the House, but they're very
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Speaker 2: likely to lose the House. And a lot of these
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Speaker 2: Senate races in these red states from Texas to Alaska
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Speaker 2: to Ohio to ilare really close, and I'm assuming Democrats,
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Speaker 2: you know, won't sweep them all, but sometimes that's what happens,
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Speaker 2: that every race tilts the same way right at the end.
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Speaker 2: And if that happens, they're going to lose the Senate,
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Speaker 2: and that would be a true debacle. And I don't
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Speaker 2: know whether his approval rating is really a thirty three percent,
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Speaker 2: you know, i'd want to talk to John McLaughlin, who
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Speaker 2: may well be listening before I would say that. But
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Speaker 2: there's no doubt this is exercised downward pressure on his
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Speaker 2: approval rating, and that's the most important factor in a
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Speaker 2: midterm election generally. So you got him under forty, that's
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Speaker 2: that's a big problem. So this clearly, if he had
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Speaker 2: it to do over again, that doesn't want That's not
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Speaker 2: what happens in reality. But if he could, he wouldn't
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Speaker 2: do it, right, And that's kind of the olpimate.
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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. I don't know about Trump. He's
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Speaker 1: he's not the type of guy to not do it.
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Speaker 1: He probably would do it, I know what you're saying.
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Speaker 1: Looking at the results, he wouldn't.
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Speaker 2: He wouldn't do it before the midterms at least. Okay,
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Speaker 2: if you were to do it again, what do you
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Speaker 2: do it before the midterms. I think he had no
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Speaker 2: idea that this was where he'd be. And despite the
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Speaker 2: fact that you know he's projecting confidence the way he
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Speaker 2: always does, there's no way he's not really distressed about this.
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Speaker 1: Right, always got to be right. Let me play one
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Speaker 1: cut Voye two from my dear friend and yours, a
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Speaker 1: King of Brockland County, Mistress Salt, talking about the Democrat
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Speaker 1: Party in generally. I was saying a little while ago
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Speaker 1: that you know this idea that there's like different parts
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Speaker 1: of the Democrat Party. You've got the common sense ones, No,
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Speaker 1: you don't. There's one John Betterman who's a Republican. At
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Speaker 1: this point, you've got the Progressives, then you've got the dsay,
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Speaker 1: they're all the same. Even if you're Chuck Schumer, you're
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Speaker 1: an old school quote unquote Democrat. They all vote with
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Speaker 1: the psychos, the lunatics on the left. They all want
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Speaker 1: men in women's sports, they all want to tax you
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Speaker 1: at every opportunity. They all vote the same. So here's
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Speaker 1: Mike Lawler Rick Rich a couple of days ago, cutting
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Speaker 1: number five talking about the Democrat Party.
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Speaker 4: Jeffries are not the leaders of the Democratic Party. They
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Speaker 4: have no message, they have no plan. Bernie Sanders, aoc
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Speaker 4: Zoron Mamdani and their radical band of Nitwitz have seized
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Speaker 4: control of the Democratic Party, the message and the policy agenda.
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Speaker 4: I mean, think back to twenty sixteen. The things that
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Speaker 4: Bernie Sanders was running on is now the mainstream view
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Speaker 4: within the Democratic Party. So that speaks volumes to where
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Speaker 4: the Democratic Party is today. But the vast majority of
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Speaker 4: Americans are not there. I think when it comes to
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Speaker 4: what we've actually been able to do. We delivered the
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Speaker 4: largest tax cut in American history, no tax on tips,
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Speaker 4: no tax on overtime, no tax on social security, and
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Speaker 4: lifting the cap on salt, the state and local tax deduction.
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Speaker 1: These don't benefit.
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Speaker 4: Billionaires and millionaires, They benefit working class and middle class families,
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Speaker 4: which is why ninety seven percent of Americans so a
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Speaker 4: tax cut this past April.
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Speaker 1: All right, the great witch lowry your thoughts on what
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Speaker 1: Mike Waller had to.
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Speaker 2: Say there, great, great message. Right, it would be nothing
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Speaker 2: wrong if every Republican around the country is saying exactly
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Speaker 2: the same thing in exactly the same terms. Exaggerates a
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Speaker 2: little bit. I think they're still moderates in the party,
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Speaker 2: and some of these primaries they've survived, but there's no
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Speaker 2: doubt the momentum and the center of gravity in the
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Speaker 2: party is is going drastically left, and there are material
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Speaker 2: differences between you know, a Chuck Schumer and these guys.
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Speaker 2: And Chuck Schumer whatever else you think of, would never
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Speaker 2: say like America deserved September eleventh. But now they're accommodating
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Speaker 2: those people, and those people have all the momentum in
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Speaker 2: their party. Latest example the shocking primary result down in
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Speaker 2: Florida on the Democratic side where Vinman, who has zero
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Speaker 2: appeal whatsoever and has no connection to Florida.
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Speaker 1: There's a trader too, is a trader or too rich? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: That this crazy woman Angie Nixon wins right. Radically anti
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Speaker 2: Zionists and perhaps the most Zionist state in the country,
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Speaker 2: and a socialist in a state where almost all the
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Speaker 2: immigrants have come to places that are no kidding, socialist
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Speaker 2: countries and want nothing to do with it. It's just suicidal.
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Speaker 1: I know, Angie Nixon, what a loser. Which Larry, You're amazing.
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Speaker 1: I love you. I knew you agree with everything I said.
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Speaker 2: It just one of so so let me get you
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Speaker 2: real quick. I was down in South Florida, your old
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Speaker 2: stomping grounds last week and went to a Marlins game.
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Speaker 2: Have you ever been to Loan Depots?
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Speaker 4: I have.
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Speaker 1: I've been there, in fact, many, many, many, many times many.
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Speaker 2: You know what it bro home to me, like half
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Speaker 2: of the Major league teams in baseball are basically minor
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Speaker 2: league teams in the sense that no one's there, no
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Speaker 2: one shows up, no one really cares, you know. It's
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Speaker 2: just like a nice little thing to do for families,
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Speaker 2: whereas there's nothing like the intensity of the Northeast teams,
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Speaker 2: especially New York. So it brought home to me why
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Speaker 2: a lot of these guys they come to play for
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Speaker 2: the Yankees and you're like, oh, they should be good,
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Speaker 2: and they just can't handle it.
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Speaker 1: They can't handle it.
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Speaker 2: Different different environment.
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Speaker 1: No, listen, it's true. You know the Philadelphia Phillies, packet
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Speaker 1: in the Mets, the Red Sox. You could even go
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Speaker 1: out to Chicago, the Cubs and the White Sox. But
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Speaker 1: living in Miami as long as I did and doing
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Speaker 1: sports down there, rich no one goes to Dophin games.
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Speaker 1: And when they go, they leave it a halftime because
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Speaker 1: they get too hot. I'm not even kidding. Nobody goes
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Speaker 1: to Miami Hurricane games. I got better last year because
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Speaker 1: they played for the National Championship, the Heat Games when
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Speaker 1: nobody was there until they started acquiring people like Shaquille O'Neill, Lebron, James,
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Speaker 1: Chris Bosh and drafted Dwayne Wade and many a morning game. Now, look,
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Speaker 1: when the Mets were in town, I would go, would
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Speaker 1: be crowded. When the Yankees were in town, it would
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Speaker 1: be crowded. The Red Sox, the Phillies, the Cubs. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's like a minor league stay. They got like hip
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Speaker 1: naked girls in cent up you open the Cleveland or hotel.
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Speaker 1: They got a bunch of cartoon characters walking around the stadium.
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Speaker 1: The stadium's orange. I mean, it's nuts.
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Speaker 2: It's nuts Dolphins game that two years ago down there
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Speaker 2: and got what I thought was a real good deal
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Speaker 2: on stub Hub that I didn't realize i'd gotten a
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Speaker 2: sun seat.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's hot. No, I know, but listen.
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Speaker 1: But they don't leave the game because it's hot. I'm sorry.
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Speaker 1: People sit out in Green Bay with no shirt on
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Speaker 1: in December. They don't leave, you know. But Miami people
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Speaker 1: are like that. I'd rather go jet skiing. I'd rather
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Speaker 1: It's a very weird place and it's very as you know,
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Speaker 1: there's you know, a lot of there's very few people
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Speaker 1: who are from there. They're down in Miami or Kendall
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Speaker 1: or Hyaleah.
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Speaker 2: And they're fans of some other team.
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Speaker 1: Exactly right, Rich. Excellent job as always, Buddy, I love you,
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Speaker 1: Thank you, power you too. The editor is always amazing
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Speaker 1: of the National Review. My friend, Wich Lowry.
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