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Andrew Giuliani | Executive Director of the White House Task Force for the FIFA World Cup 2026 | 07-06-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Here's a man in charge, the great Andrew Giuliani. And Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: I'm no soccer maven I admitted, you know that, But
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  Speaker 1: I looked at that video. He never should have gotten
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  Speaker 1: a red card in the first place.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Sid you know, you might not be the biggest
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  Speaker 2: soccer nutt, but you're a sports nut and you understand
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  Speaker 2: sports as well as anybody that I know or listen to.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, very simply right. I mean, procedure is
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  Speaker 2: a really really big role in this. And the procedure
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  Speaker 2: that was used here in order to issue Florian Balligan
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  Speaker 2: a red card was just improper. It should not have
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  Speaker 2: been used, and it's as simple as that. And so
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  Speaker 2: in light of that, you know, I commend the Disciplinary
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  Speaker 2: Committee at FIFA for suspending the implementation of this red card,
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  Speaker 2: which of course is as Brian laid out, so clearly
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  Speaker 2: they're in the intro and earlier today was the was
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  Speaker 2: rule twenty seven. So you know, look, I think as
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  Speaker 2: President Trump said yesterday, and I was with him yes today,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, there were a lot of different things
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  Speaker 2: that were discussed. What I can tell you was I
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  Speaker 2: think the President is and we all are happy that
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  Speaker 2: a grave injustice let's call it at least grave in
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  Speaker 2: terms of the soccer roll, right, everything is all relative,
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  Speaker 2: I think sometimes with this World Cup as incredible as
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  Speaker 2: it's been, and this really has been such an incredible event,
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  Speaker 2: where you know, we were expecting this to be a
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  Speaker 2: World Cup that's set records by thirty forty percent, it's
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  Speaker 2: actually setting records that are actually five times the amount
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  Speaker 2: of the previous World Cup. It's unbelievable to see. Actually
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  Speaker 2: this from a viewership perspective, We've had over two billion
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  Speaker 2: people watching a match the other day. That's the most
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  Speaker 2: ever for a soccer match in history. The opening US match,
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  Speaker 2: one point three billion people across the world was watching this. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, as President Trump and I have discussed on
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  Speaker 2: numerous occasions, numerous occasions, and he said publicly, there's no
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  Speaker 2: larger platform to show off American exceptionalism and what our
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  Speaker 2: freedoms mean, not just to American citizens, but to the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the world.
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  Speaker 1: Turns out, as President Trump moments ago rang the opening
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  Speaker 1: bell from the White House, believe it or not, from
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  Speaker 1: the Oval Office as it now passes fifty three thousand.
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  Speaker 1: After Trump brings the opening bell, he's speaking right now
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  Speaker 1: from the White House. Turns out that this referee, this
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  Speaker 1: forgot his name, but he's been in trouble before for
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  Speaker 1: giving out cards. The exact quote that I read was
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  Speaker 1: fixing matches. So you've got a referee who clearly has
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  Speaker 1: an American bias. He's been in trouble for fixing matches before,
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  Speaker 1: and as far as I know, the only suspension is
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  Speaker 1: an American. Come on, Andrew, come.
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  Speaker 2: On, yeah, yeah, Look and again I think you know
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  Speaker 2: FIFA looking into this again here and making the decision
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  Speaker 2: was just as you had as you mentioned a referee
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  Speaker 2: that was investigated in Brazil back in twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 2: for fixing matches.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you, let me tell people a second.
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  Speaker 1: So if he was investigated but she was back in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three for fixing matches, why is he out
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  Speaker 1: there now?
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  Speaker 2: You know, look, I don't make the referreencing divisions and
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  Speaker 2: some of who goes on the pitch, that's not that's
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  Speaker 2: not my department. But I will tell you though, is
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  Speaker 2: you know, we take allegations of corruption extremely seriously, and
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  Speaker 2: that's true in the sports world as well. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we've we've had too many people across the federal government
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  Speaker 2: too many federal law enforcement officers, too many state and
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  Speaker 2: local law enforcement officers that have poured their heart and
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  Speaker 2: soul into the last year plus preparing for this world,
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  Speaker 2: who have gone through, you know, incredible heat to try
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  Speaker 2: to make sure these stadiums, these fan festivals are safe.
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  Speaker 2: That we take these allegations extremely seriously. We don't want,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a potent for referee to more games. And look,
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  Speaker 2: you'd have to you know, for the fief in terms
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  Speaker 2: of why he was approved, but you know, definitely in
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  Speaker 2: looking at at his the past allegations in what he
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  Speaker 2: was investigated for. It wasn't only for fixing matches potentially,
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  Speaker 2: but it was by fixing matches for giving sid I
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  Speaker 2: quote this irregular red cards boom, that's how he was investigating,
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  Speaker 2: which is just regular red. He just did it again,
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  Speaker 2: So you know, amazing.
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  Speaker 1: It is amazing. So you know, I got to be honest, Agrew,
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  Speaker 1: I am watching this stuff with more vigor than I
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  Speaker 1: thought I would like In Bobby Brands, can't wait to
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  Speaker 1: watch him and Messy. What a great tournament he's had.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's part of the beauty kine with
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  Speaker 1: England they're still alive, is that the big names, the
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  Speaker 1: big superstars in this sport have come to the World
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  Speaker 1: Cup and they're playing great.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you want, right, Oh, absolutely, it's been fantastic
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  Speaker 2: World Cup. And you talk about the play on the
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  Speaker 2: on the pitchers they called as we know at the field, right,
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  Speaker 2: it has been unbelievable to see Mombape out there with
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  Speaker 2: seven goals, Holland and Norway and beating Brazil yesterday and
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  Speaker 2: him scoring and I think he's at seven goals, Bessie
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  Speaker 2: with seven goals. It's really really unbelievable to see just
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  Speaker 2: the best players. But Sid, I have to tell you,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, people thought I was crazy when I
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  Speaker 2: was saying this, and you know, look could come back
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  Speaker 2: on tomorrow and you could call me crazy again. This team,
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  Speaker 2: this United States team, is as athletic a team as
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  Speaker 2: any of the other twelve that are.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen that so far. I've seen that three games
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  Speaker 1: so far. But tell me why as we get set
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  Speaker 1: to play Belgium tonight and our star is back, he
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  Speaker 1: has scored a goal in all three efforts, tell me
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  Speaker 1: why this team will lost by three goals. Same exact
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  Speaker 1: rosters lost by three goals to Belgium in a friendly
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  Speaker 1: match about a month ago. We over come that tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the US team didn't have a couple of their
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  Speaker 2: stars on the field in that match. I think also
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  Speaker 2: the thing you need to remember, they were still melding
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  Speaker 2: this team. Look, I'll go back to nineteen eighty before
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  Speaker 2: I was born, but we all know the story so well.
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  Speaker 2: The US national team, the US hockey team plays in
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  Speaker 2: Madison Square Garden, just a few short miles from where
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  Speaker 2: you're sitting right now. Sid plays in Madison Square Garden
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  Speaker 2: and loses ten to three to the Soviets. And people
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  Speaker 2: that were at that match, at that game sept Now,
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  Speaker 2: you got soccer in my head. I'm saying a match
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  Speaker 2: and Neil Miller over here, but people were at that
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  Speaker 2: hockey game said it could have been twenty to Uh,
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  Speaker 2: well we got killed.
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  Speaker 1: We got killed, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, we got killed, and we rallied. And why did
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  Speaker 2: we rally because you had twenty people at the time,
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  Speaker 2: now twenty six that all are rallying around a message,
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  Speaker 2: around a belief that we can get this done. And
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  Speaker 2: I have to tell you this coach, Maurisio Punchettino. I've
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  Speaker 2: gotten to know him pretty well over the last year.
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  Speaker 2: He has completely bought into the American exceptional asm idea
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  Speaker 2: to making sure that every single one of their players
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  Speaker 2: is giving everything they have. And Sid, I got to
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  Speaker 2: tell you, this is not just a great athletic team
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  Speaker 2: that the US has. It's a great group of guys too.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you've seen this, but not just
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  Speaker 2: saluting the fans afterwards, but all praying afterwards. They love
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  Speaker 2: their country. I mean, it's a team that is very
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  Speaker 2: very easy to get behind, not just because of that
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  Speaker 2: seal on their chest, but it's what's below that, that heart.
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  Speaker 2: You can see that heart, you can feel that heart.
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  Speaker 2: They will run through that wall, come, try to get
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  Speaker 2: that ball and try to make that play. And that's
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  Speaker 2: why Sid, I believe they are going to win that
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  Speaker 2: game today. And Hershey's chocolate beats Belgium dark to any
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  Speaker 2: day of the week, including today.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. The antithesis of one Soto all right
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  Speaker 1: in the final thirty seconds. And oh, you don't share
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  Speaker 1: every conversation on air with.
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  Speaker 2: You and Trump.
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  Speaker 1: I know that you can't do it, not allowed. But
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  Speaker 1: is it fair to assume that President Trump at least
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  Speaker 1: once has said to you over the last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Heck of a job, Andrew, Well, Sid, you know I
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  Speaker 2: can't disclose any of the conversations I've made with the president,
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  Speaker 2: but I will make an exception about one conversation we
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  Speaker 2: had yesterday. Okay, I asked him, I said, who's for
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  Speaker 2: radio hosting that This is not even close, said Andrew.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, this is a dumb question. This is a
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  Speaker 2: dumb question. It's Sid Rosenberg, and he's the best radio
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  Speaker 2: host in New York, not just in the country, but
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  Speaker 2: in the entire world. So that's the one exception I'll
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  Speaker 2: make in terms of the proctations all the fifth and
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  Speaker 2: forty seventh President the United States, Donald Jake.
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  Speaker 1: True, Well, it would be great if you actually had
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  Speaker 1: that conversation. But I appreciate that. I love you. You will,
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  Speaker 1: I'll say it. I'm sure the President has too. But
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  Speaker 1: what a great job. And like I said, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: the biggest soccer band in the world, but I find
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  Speaker 1: myself enjoying this immensely. And I will be sitting down
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  Speaker 1: tonight rooting for America like my favorite team. No, my
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  Speaker 1: favorite team, it's America. So congratulations and you and I'll
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  Speaker 1: keep talking to This thing is over on July the nineteenth,
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Giuliani, amazing job, buddy, love you, thank you so
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  Speaker 1: Muchusa Ousa and Jude Giuliani right there doing a tremendous job.
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  Speaker 1: Trump Game, a big job, very very big job wunning
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  Speaker 1: this whole Pepa thing. And Andrew Giuliani, that's not disappointed.
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