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Rich Lowry | Editor-In-Chief of National Review Debriefs President Trump's A.I. Summit at The White House · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Rich Lowry's my guy, editor, National Review. I love him
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  Speaker 1: on this show every week. And, Rich, not to make
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  Speaker 1: you jealous, but there I was last night. Sweet 45
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  Speaker 1: standing right next to Randy Levine with Jazz Palminteri and
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  Speaker 1: his son Dante, also a great actor. Robert Wohl, who
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  Speaker 1: will join me on this program today. Danielle Gabriel, about
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  Speaker 1: 30 of us right there in the Bronx watching our
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  Speaker 1: Yankees dismantle the Boston Red Sox last night.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome. Good for you. Just talking to Alec. before I
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  Speaker 2: came on, that Cam is so good, when he gives
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  Speaker 2: up a hit, you're disappointed. Like, oh, my God, he's
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  Speaker 2: falling apart. How could he give up a single?
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  Speaker 1: It's true. He's so good. This guy pitched to a
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  Speaker 1: sub-two ERA this year. He's going to win the Cy
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  Speaker 1: Young Award, which if you folks don't know, was given
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  Speaker 1: to the best pitcher in the American League. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to win that award and starts off the playoffs by
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  Speaker 1: shutting out Boston last night. He is so good. And
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  Speaker 1: I told this to the listeners earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. best rookie season since Ron Guidry.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Since Guidry. And the irony is he was the
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  Speaker 1: best pitcher, not just on the Yankees, but in baseball
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  Speaker 1: this year, he's from Boston and the Yankees best offensive player,
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  Speaker 1: 41 home runs this year, two home runs last night,
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  Speaker 1: Ben Rice. He's from Boston. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. The Massachusetts kids are there calling him on TV
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  Speaker 2: last night. It's, it's great to see homegrown guys thriving too,
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  Speaker 2: you know, uh, and, and Ben Rice just seems like
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  Speaker 2: such a good, happy kid. So, uh, It was delightful.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see what tonight brings. I don't want to go
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  Speaker 2: to game three with Cole starting, but hopefully we can
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  Speaker 2: put him to bed tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody was saying that inside the suite yesterday. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: Radon should be pitching, not Garrett Cole, who did get
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  Speaker 1: a nice round of applause. I'll tell you this. I
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  Speaker 1: paid attention when they were introducing the Yankee players before
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  Speaker 1: the start of the game. Do you know the player
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  Speaker 1: that got the most applause?
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  Speaker 2: The player that got the most applause?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was surprised.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't while Judge isn't on the roster.
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  Speaker 1: No, they announced him, though.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: The guy that got the biggest reaction from the crowd,
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  Speaker 1: Giancarlo Stanton. Oh, yeah. They went nuts.
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  Speaker 2: I so want to see him hit. I so want
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  Speaker 2: to see him hit.
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  Speaker 1: When I got to the stadium about an hour before
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  Speaker 1: I got to the stadium yesterday, he was in there
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  Speaker 1: taking batting practice. He's on the playoff roster, so there's
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  Speaker 1: a chance we will see him, but the crowd went nuts.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've warmed up to him. He's not homegrown, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: It took a while, but then I realized he's so competitive.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's such a leader. And when he's hitting,
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  Speaker 2: it's just so awesome. And it's so weird how he's declined, right?
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  Speaker 2: Because usually your bat speed goes down when you're 35
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  Speaker 2: or late 30s, and that's it. His bat speed's still
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  Speaker 2: the highest in the league. He can't walk.
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  Speaker 1: He can't walk. He can't. But, you know, don't forget,
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  Speaker 1: I spent 11 years down in Miami doing sports talk radio.
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  Speaker 1: So when he came up as a kid and he
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  Speaker 1: went by the name of Mike Stanton, not John Connell.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: He was Mike Stanton. And the Marlins built that team
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  Speaker 1: around him offensively and a young pitcher named Jose Fernandez.
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  Speaker 1: Jose Fernandez was killed in a boating accident in Miami.
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  Speaker 1: There was... You know, there was talks that there was
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  Speaker 1: cocaine and liquor involved. And Fernandez was a great pitcher. Great.
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  Speaker 1: Died a very, very young man. And then Mike got
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  Speaker 1: traded to the Yankees and went by his real name, Giancarlo.
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  Speaker 1: But as a kid, the Yankees, the Marlins, I should say,
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to get Manny Ramirez from Boston. And the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sox said, only if you give us Mike Stanton.
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  Speaker 1: And the Marlins said, no way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, 59 homers the year before the Yankees got him.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: He was a monster star down there in Miami that
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  Speaker 1: big season. 59.
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  Speaker 2: If he were healthy his whole career, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: he'd have 700 home runs.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God, forget about it. He's an animal. He's
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  Speaker 1: an animal. So he's back on the roster. The Yankees
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  Speaker 1: will send Max Freed to the mound tonight looking to
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  Speaker 1: move on from Boston and take on the division champs,
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  Speaker 1: the team with the most wins inside the American League.
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  Speaker 1: The Yankees won 93. Tampa Bay won 98. Yankees win tonight.
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  Speaker 1: They'll take on the Tampa Bay Rays for the right
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  Speaker 1: to get to the ALC.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, I know you want to get on to other stuff,
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  Speaker 2: but the fact that the playoff brackets aren't going to
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  Speaker 2: be receded is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like that either. I don't like it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if the White Sox beat the Astros, which I
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  Speaker 2: hope they should, the Rays should play the Astros. Of course.
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  Speaker 2: In the American League, they should play the worst team. Right.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, and the White Sox already beat Houston game
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  Speaker 1: one on the road yesterday, so that may very well happen.
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  Speaker 1: The White Sox may move on, lower seed than the Yankees,
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  Speaker 1: but the Yankees get stuck with the best team inside
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  Speaker 1: the American League. That makes no sense. All right, let
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  Speaker 1: me get to the big meeting yesterday, the White House.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump said, these are the smartest men, the smartest
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  Speaker 1: people on earth today talking about the big AI summit.
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  Speaker 1: What did you take from that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think his approach is exactly right on AI.
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  Speaker 2: I think it needs to be full speed ahead. Now,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you want to think about guardrails, and you want
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  Speaker 2: to emphasize to these companies, if these things get loose
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  Speaker 2: and start shutting down power plants, whatever it is, there's
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  Speaker 2: going to be massive liability, and their companies are going
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  Speaker 2: to end, and everyone's going to be poor. So that
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  Speaker 2: would be a major incentive to make sure that they're
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  Speaker 2: actually safe. But I just think the upside is so
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  Speaker 2: potentially huge, and there's no way you're going to get
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  Speaker 2: China to stop, even if they're their downsides. So you
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  Speaker 2: just got to do it and make sure there's every
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  Speaker 2: incentive to have appropriate guardrails. But this is one of
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  Speaker 2: the things I think Trump is just It's like fracking
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  Speaker 2: and oil and gas. He just has the right big idea.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he's wrong about some of the details or isn't
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  Speaker 2: the best informed person on it, but the big idea
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  Speaker 2: he's absolutely right on. You've got to do it.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to do it. You don't want China to
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  Speaker 1: beat us. It's always interesting now. You think back to
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  Speaker 1: when Trump was running and how integral Elon Musk became.
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  Speaker 1: in that campaign run, and then started Doge. Seems like
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  Speaker 1: a distant memory, but Doge, you know, exposing fraud, getting
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  Speaker 1: billions and billions of dollars. And to see those two
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  Speaker 1: guys standing together yesterday, I guess for some people, brought
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  Speaker 1: back some pretty good memories.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was a shame, the split. The
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  Speaker 2: split was kind of inevitable, but I'm so glad they
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  Speaker 2: got back together. As we've talked about so many times,
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  Speaker 2: Trump will forgive you, you know? Just say nice things
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  Speaker 2: to him. He'll forget everything. So I'm glad that's been
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  Speaker 2: the case. Here, because Elon Musk is one of the
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  Speaker 2: most talented people on the planet, is an enormous national asset.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the guy on his own has launched like
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  Speaker 2: five times more satellites than any country. It's unbelievable. It's
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  Speaker 2: a testament to our system and how genius entrepreneurs can
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  Speaker 2: forge huge transformative change. So all of the good.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm talking to Robert Wall last night, and of course,
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  Speaker 1: you remember Robert, he played the sports agent Arliss on HBO,
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  Speaker 1: and he was on New Bomb Turk and Hollywood Nights,
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  Speaker 1: but he's a brilliant baseball guy. I said earlier this morning, Rich,
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  Speaker 1: if you put Bob Costas, Peter Gammons, Christopher Mad Dog Russo,
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  Speaker 1: and Robert Wall in a room... The guy that knows
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  Speaker 1: the most about baseball, Robert won't. He's a walking encyclopedia. But,
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  Speaker 1: of course, anytime you see Sid Rosenberg, you've got to
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  Speaker 1: bring up politics. So he asked me last night, now
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  Speaker 1: we're 34 days out from the big midterm elections. He said,
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  Speaker 1: do you think your party is going to get clobbered?
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  Speaker 1: And I said, no. And he said, well, look, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not into politics. I'm a sports guy. But you're wrong.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to get clobbered. The Democrats are going to
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  Speaker 1: wipe out the Republicans. And the more people I speak
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  Speaker 1: to that are not really entrenched like me and a
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  Speaker 1: MAGA Trump guy like me, the more people that tell
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  Speaker 1: me the same thing, Sid, get ready. In 34 days,
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  Speaker 1: you guys are going to get clobbered. Is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's not going to be a good night, that's
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  Speaker 2: for sure. And I think Republicans will almost certainly lose
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  Speaker 2: the House. And the question is what happens in the Senate. Now,
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  Speaker 2: when I talk to Republican pollsters and operatives, they almost
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  Speaker 2: all say the polls are underestimating Republicans. Republicans aren't answering
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  Speaker 2: the polls. Now, you can interpret that, well, they're so depressed.
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  Speaker 2: They're not answering the polls. They're not going to show
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  Speaker 2: up to vote. But you can also interpret it as
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  Speaker 2: the polls are wrong. And a lot of Republican pollsters,
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  Speaker 2: that's what they think. So I don't know. I tend
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  Speaker 2: to think it's going to be quite bad, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just based on Trump's approval rating at the moment, if
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  Speaker 2: nothing else.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this loser anti-Semite, anti-American El-Sayed, this guy from Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: He's actually coming to New York for a fundraiser, I believe,
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  Speaker 1: next week. And Mamdani, I'm sure, is excited. And Hassan Piker,
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  Speaker 1: all those wonderful people, people who said America deserved 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: And last I saw, he was beating Mike Rogers in Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: Is he going to win that race?
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  Speaker 2: If you're betting, yeah. I think he's winning by four
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  Speaker 2: or five points in all the polls. An operative there said, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know what? People just don't want to tell pollsters
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  Speaker 2: they're going to vote against the Muslim guy. Maybe that's right,
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  Speaker 2: but if I had to bet, I think he's going
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  Speaker 2: to win. Unfortunately, that's going to be a hard pill
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  Speaker 2: to swallow.
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  Speaker 1: What a disaster. And do you think that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: depending on poll you see, Sienna has him down nine,
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  Speaker 1: Quinnipiac had him down 19, but John McLaughlin, who I
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  Speaker 1: trust more than anybody, had him down four, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about Bruce Blakeman in his gubernatorial run against that
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  Speaker 1: moron Kathy Hochul. What do you see in that race?
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  Speaker 2: Too hard a year. I think it's just too hard
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  Speaker 2: a year.
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  Speaker 1: Why do I even ask you these questions? I just
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  Speaker 1: want to kill myself.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have any good news for me? They could
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  Speaker 2: hold the Senate. I think that holding the Senate would
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  Speaker 2: be a victory.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what Senate race do you think... will be the
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  Speaker 1: big one that will actually ensure that the Republicans hold
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  Speaker 1: on to it. What race are.
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  Speaker 2: You looking forward to? Everyone matters, right? They can lose four,
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  Speaker 2: so everyone matters. That's not a lot. But if Susan
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  Speaker 2: Collins holds on, and the pulling there hasn't been great,
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  Speaker 2: but she was down by eight six years ago and
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  Speaker 2: one going away, so maybe their pulling is really wrong there.
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  Speaker 2: If she holds on, then they really have to almost
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  Speaker 2: sweep the red states. They've got to win Texas. They've
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  Speaker 2: got to win Iowa. They've got to win Ohio. They've
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  Speaker 2: got to win Alaska. That could happen, but it's hard.
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  Speaker 2: If she loses, then it gets much easier. And then
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  Speaker 2: you look at Texas, where it's basically tied. I still
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  Speaker 2: kind of think Paxton is going to hold on. If
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  Speaker 2: he does, then you've got to win Kansas and Nebraska,
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  Speaker 2: where the polling has been close, but still kind of
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  Speaker 2: hard to believe that's going to happen. So those are
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  Speaker 2: the two kind of swing races I'm looking at.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it depends on the day. Paxton's winning one day.
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  Speaker 1: Tallarico's winning the next in Texas. But, you know, since
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  Speaker 1: Graham Plattner dropped out of the race, you'll be hard-pressed
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  Speaker 1: to find anybody, even people that do what I do
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  Speaker 1: for a living, that can tell you who's running against
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  Speaker 1: Susan Collins in Maine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's actually hurt her. I mean, it's better to
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  Speaker 2: run against the malicious sociopath the way she was with
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  Speaker 2: Platner as a non-entity named Jackson. His name is Jackson. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're like, that's the problem is you could
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  Speaker 2: lose against a non-entity with that. a D next to
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  Speaker 2: his name if it's a really bad night.
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  Speaker 1: Deep a douchebag. I say that all the time. It
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  Speaker 1: used to be deep a Democrat. Now it's deep a douchebag.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a Democrat, you're a douchebag.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I do have to ask you about the Iran conflict.
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  Speaker 1: If we do get our clocks cleaned come election day,
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  Speaker 1: do you think it's mostly because of Iran? Do you
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  Speaker 1: think it's a DSA message? If we do get our
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  Speaker 1: clocks cleaned, why?
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  Speaker 2: I think Iran will have a big role to play
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  Speaker 2: because I think the ultimate issue, the big issue dragging
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  Speaker 2: Trump down is prices. So one, all the Biden inflation,
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  Speaker 2: that elevated prices is still there, right? When inflation rate
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  Speaker 2: goes down, it doesn't mean prices go down. So the
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  Speaker 2: Biden higher prices are still there. The tariffs at the
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  Speaker 2: margins have increased prices for things. And then just the
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  Speaker 2: gas and diesel prices are killer. And I talked about
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  Speaker 2: how they'd have to sweep the red states and do
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  Speaker 2: really well in these rural red states. If they do,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be the price of diesel and fertilizer.
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  Speaker 2: And that's all the Iran war. Now, the Iran war
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  Speaker 2: is going better. I mean, we basically opened up the
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  Speaker 2: Strait of Hormuz. That eliminates their chief point of leverage
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  Speaker 2: and I think really increases the odds of getting a
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  Speaker 2: favorable outcome here. I'm more optimistic than I have been.
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  Speaker 2: about it for a long time. We've talked about us
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  Speaker 2: being stuck. You know, we both use that word. I
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  Speaker 2: think we're coming unstuck in a good way, but that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean it's going to work out politically in November.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're right. Which is always amazing, amazing appearance.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go, Yankees. I know you'll be watching very, very closely.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Thank you, Rich. Great job. Rich Lowry right there,
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  Speaker 1: the editor of the National Review.
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