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John Catsimatidis | Owner & Operator of Red Apple Media Recaps Weekend Celebrating Margo & Brief Meeting with President Trump · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: John and Margo's anniversary. They honored Margo. And I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying this to patronize the boss, but Margo was so funny.
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  Speaker 1: I got to tell you, she and she was into it, man.
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  Speaker 1: And she was confident. And she was she literally played
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  Speaker 1: the crowd like like a comedian. She was great. And
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  Speaker 1: the whole night was great. And it was great for
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  Speaker 1: me because. I had a great table with Dominic and
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  Speaker 1: his wife and Jake and Suzanne. I had a chance
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  Speaker 1: to see John Margo and the kids. But the big
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  Speaker 1: one for me, John, that was really cool, Bernadette Castro.
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  Speaker 1: Her and me on Imus, we went on each other
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  Speaker 1: every week for years.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: I haven't talked to her in 20 years.
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  Speaker 2: She is a wonderful lady.
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  Speaker 1: Great lady.
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  Speaker 2: I still think of Bernadette as... Pulling out that Castro convertible.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that. And then she became the, she ran the
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  Speaker 1: parks department.
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  Speaker 2: 12 years she ran the parks department. Let me tell
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  Speaker 2: you something. George Pataki, Governor Pataki was a great governor
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  Speaker 2: for 12 years.
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  Speaker 1: Great seeing you too and his wife.
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  Speaker 2: He was there with his wife Libby. Last year, how
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  Speaker 2: are we getting to this? You know, because we had
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  Speaker 2: the big gala with 700 people a couple of weeks ago, right?
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  Speaker 2: And we finished the gala. We already tapped into 700
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  Speaker 2: of our friends or whatever. And all of a sudden
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  Speaker 2: we say, oh, crap, we got another dinner to do.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. By the way, this dinner at the Pierre
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  Speaker 2: on Friday night, Thank you for being here. We loved it.
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  Speaker 2: With Danielle. Thank you. And it was a last minute thing.
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  Speaker 2: We started inviting people last Sunday or something. Oh, really? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was just like you blink your eyes
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  Speaker 2: and say, oh, crap.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go again.
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  Speaker 2: We got another dinner. And originally, it's Libby Pataki's church.
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  Speaker 2: And Libby Pataki has always supported the Franciscans. Yeah. The Franciscans.
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  Speaker 3: They're great.
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  Speaker 2: And they help the poor. They help the needy. They
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  Speaker 2: help the people that are down on their luck and
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  Speaker 2: help pick them up. It's a very worthy, worthy cause. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: the beautiful people. I had a chance to talk to
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  Speaker 2: one of the big guys.
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  Speaker 1: It was great.
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  Speaker 2: I said, oh, crap, we got to fill the room.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So you know what we did?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, what?
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  Speaker 2: October 2nd, there was a dinner. October 2nd was also
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  Speaker 2: my anniversary. Right. So I invited people. All our friends.
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  Speaker 2: And guess what?
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  Speaker 1: You filled the room.
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  Speaker 2: We filled the room.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there wasn't one empty seat.
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  Speaker 2: Not one empty seat. And Margo, Margo did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: Really great. And you know what I did? You notice
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  Speaker 2: what I did? I stepped, I was three feet away.
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  Speaker 2: I was there to help if she needed help.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But I wanted her to shine. And you know what
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  Speaker 2: she did? She followed what I do. I never read.
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  Speaker 2: I never read a speech.
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  Speaker 1: Never.
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  Speaker 2: And she just got up there. And just ad-libbed. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Ad-libbed what she felt.
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  Speaker 1: She had a speech in front of her, but she's like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to do this. By the way, I
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  Speaker 1: do that.
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  Speaker 2: That's the best way to do it.
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  Speaker 1: I do that. Trump does that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No teleprompters.
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  Speaker 2: He makes it up as he goes. Right. Yeah. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I do that too. And I hate when people read speeches.
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  Speaker 1: Terrible.
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  Speaker 2: I fall asleep.
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  Speaker 1: Terrible.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we fall asleep.
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  Speaker 1: She was, I'm telling you, she was really great. And
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  Speaker 1: you were very cute standing there giving her the attention.
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  Speaker 1: 38 years.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it. It was like, you blink your
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  Speaker 2: eyes and 38 years goes by.
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  Speaker 1: Is that what you want, 38?
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  Speaker 2: Huh? That was her anniversary. By the way, we're not
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  Speaker 2: far behind you. We're going to be 35 in June. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: 35 in June.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: We're right behind you.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, you and Danielle look great, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. On Friday night. We loved it.
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  Speaker 1: We had a great time.
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  Speaker 2: But, you know, you were at the game last week
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  Speaker 2: with the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: You were there the next night.
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  Speaker 2: We were there the next night. I know. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be in West Virginia on Wednesday. But guess what?
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  Speaker 2: The heck with West Virginia. Yankees. I'm going to Yankee game.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to Yankee game.
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  Speaker 1: Randy loves you.
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  Speaker 2: Because I guess we lost 1-0. 1-0. How could we
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  Speaker 2: lose 1-0?
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  Speaker 1: Our offense is inconsistent. So tonight's a big game.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight's a big game.
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  Speaker 1: But we got the great Cam Schlittler on the mound.
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  Speaker 1: That's good news, John. Maybe we'll win 1-0 tonight. And
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  Speaker 1: then Wednesday, that'll be a huge effort in the Bronx.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be a big, big night.
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  Speaker 1: So I know that Michael Cohen, who's on every Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: he's on your show quite a bit, maybe every day
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  Speaker 1: now at 5 o'clock. He had a meeting, and I
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  Speaker 1: know that you actually reached out to President Trump early
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  Speaker 1: this morning. We are now 29 days away from the midterms.
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  Speaker 1: I know you had a message for the president.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we went down, you know, we worked late on
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  Speaker 2: Friday night. How long, about 14 hours? Oh, yeah. From morning,
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  Speaker 2: I was on Fox Friday night. Morning. Right. So you
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  Speaker 2: have early in the morning. Right. And I came in,
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  Speaker 2: waved at you. Right. And, uh, the party went on
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  Speaker 2: till 11, 10 30 or 10 o'clock or something. Went
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  Speaker 2: out late. And then Saturday morning I had to go
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  Speaker 2: to Washington.
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  Speaker 1: That's a long couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the best way to go to Washington is Amtrak.
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  Speaker 1: That's how we do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know why you go from downtown to downtown and, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Me and Michael Cohen went down and we had a
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  Speaker 2: small meeting with the president just before he took off
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  Speaker 2: for Ohio. And basically I told him what we're doing.
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  Speaker 2: WABC is fully committed to having common sense. Common sense
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  Speaker 2: for November 3rd. Because if we don't have common sense
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  Speaker 2: on November 3rd, our country is not going to be
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  Speaker 2: in good shape.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: Bottom line. Me and Michael are probably going to do
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  Speaker 2: an additional show in the evening sometime. We're trying to
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  Speaker 2: figure it out right now. It's going to call a countdown. Cats,
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  Speaker 2: countdown to, I guess, the election.
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  Speaker 1: I guess.
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  Speaker 2: To the midterms.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Countdown to midterms because the American people have to know
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  Speaker 2: what is at stake. So I think it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be me, Michael, and Jake Novak. Oh, good. And just
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  Speaker 2: to everything that's going on with the elections.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think? I know you say common sense,
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  Speaker 1: but what does your gut tell you? What do you
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  Speaker 1: think we need to do to ensure Republican victories?
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  Speaker 2: I think that people have to realize that President Trump
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  Speaker 2: has made America almost drug-free. And You know, I said
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  Speaker 2: to him, what is it going to take to make
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  Speaker 2: America drug-free completely? And it's important. Why should our kids
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  Speaker 2: be dying from these drugs? And you know something? Foreigners
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  Speaker 2: are feeding it. They're not manufactured in America. It's all
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  Speaker 2: being sent to America. And I would say if I
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  Speaker 2: had a dream... My dream would be make America drug-free. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: me too. That would be great. But everybody has to
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  Speaker 2: realize that America is under attack in so many directions, Sid.
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  Speaker 2: So many directions. We're under attack. The Europeans want a
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  Speaker 2: weaker Trump, which is stupid because the fact is that
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  Speaker 2: if they could freeze Trump, They'll screw us more on
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  Speaker 2: those tariffs and whatever. And Trump is a businessman. All
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  Speaker 2: he wants is even Steven. That's all he wants. We
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  Speaker 2: don't want to take advantage of any of our trading partners.
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  Speaker 2: None of them. But we don't want them taking advantage
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  Speaker 2: of us. You know, Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich got
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  Speaker 2: the deficit down from $ 5. 5 trillion. down to five trillion. Well,
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  Speaker 2: after that, we never saw five trillion again. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's $ 40 trillion. You know where that money went? All
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  Speaker 2: the American people know where it went. It went to
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  Speaker 2: foreign aid. It went to protecting NATO, protecting European community,
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  Speaker 2: protecting Japan, protecting Australia, protecting all these people, and they
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  Speaker 2: weren't putting up their own money. So we were protecting
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  Speaker 2: the world, and the deficit went from $ 5 trillion to
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  Speaker 2: $ 40 trillion. We were giving them too much leeway on
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  Speaker 2: those tariffs because if a Chevrolet was $ 50, 000 and we
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  Speaker 2: sent it to Germany, They charge $ 100, 000 for the Germans, $ 50, 000
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  Speaker 2: against us. Right. And we weren't charging. They send Mercedes
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  Speaker 2: and BMWs to America. We weren't charging those kind of premiums.
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  Speaker 2: You know who was making the money? The Germans. Yep,
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  Speaker 2: of course. You know who was making the money when
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  Speaker 2: France was sending all that stuff over to Champagne? The French.
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  Speaker 2: The French. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Canada too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. All that Trump wants, he's a businessman, all he
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  Speaker 2: wants is even Stevens. I think if you're an American,
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  Speaker 2: you'd like that, wouldn't you? That's all I want.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't you like that?
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  Speaker 2: That's all I want. We don't want to take advantage
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  Speaker 2: of anybody, but we don't want anybody taking advantage of us.
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  Speaker 2: If we're going to protect you, well, pitch in your
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  Speaker 2: fair share.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: Pitch in your fair share to protect. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And the one thing that we discussed with the president
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  Speaker 2: about Iran, there's no way. There's no way. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we're coming October 7th. is the 30th anniversary. This Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: We can't, and we got to do something special. I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure you're going to do something special.
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  Speaker 1: Right now it looks like I may have, I may have,
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  Speaker 1: and you know me, I don't stop. Bibi and President Herzog,
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  Speaker 1: both on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know something, it's a special day for them.
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  Speaker 2: And they've got a big election coming up at the
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  Speaker 2: end of October. But, you know, we have never forget. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the one thing we decided at WABC, along with Tunnels
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  Speaker 2: to Tower, along with Police Athletic League, and along with
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  Speaker 2: the Pataki Foundation, on 9-11, we will, every year, no
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  Speaker 2: matter what day it falls on, we're going to have
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  Speaker 2: a big event on 9-11. Never forget what they did
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  Speaker 2: to us on 9-11. Love it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the gala every year now, 9-11.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 3: 9-11.
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  Speaker 2: No matter what day it is.
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  Speaker 1: Final 60 seconds. And again, not to patronize you. I
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  Speaker 1: don't do that. But when you do something great, I
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  Speaker 1: give you credit. And I thought that you and Margo
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  Speaker 1: on this station really did an unbelievable job when my
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  Speaker 1: partner and your friend and my friend passed away four
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  Speaker 1: years ago today. Does it feel like that to you, John?
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  Speaker 2: It does. It feels like yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I, I, I, I was so sad. I don't think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it doesn't happen every day. We took St.
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  Speaker 2: Patrick's cathedral and I don't know, 5,000 seats, 4,000 seats.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how many it has. There wasn't a
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  Speaker 2: seat left in the house. That's right. And we, and we,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and we gave Bernie the fear going away, uh,
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  Speaker 2: And the one thing, like me and you talk, Bernie
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  Speaker 2: didn't have to die. No. I did a special doctor's
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  Speaker 2: thing from Yale University on prostate cancer. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: send it to you. Uh, because nobody has to die
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  Speaker 2: from prostrate.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, wait, the other day you had Ed Randall on.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And then he talked about Bernie.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. We talked about Bernie. I'll send you a copy
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  Speaker 2: of the audio. I heard it. And yes. And, um,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't have to die. And, uh, it's curable. It's curable. 99%, 95%. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they do.
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  Speaker 1: They survive. I know it's terrible. He did not.
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  Speaker 2: I said, thank you for all the great work you do.
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  Speaker 2: The president, uh, loves you. And you too. Uh, really,
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  Speaker 2: really loves WBC. He does.
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  Speaker 1: It's his favorite station by far.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: By far.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Not even close.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: He's very close with you and me and Michael and
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  Speaker 1: Greg and all of us.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, almost every person.
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  Speaker 1: The whole station.
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  Speaker 2: I know. Roger, too. That's right. Is there anybody he's
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  Speaker 2: not close to?
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  Speaker 1: Not really. No. Rita, too. Rita's in the Oval Office
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  Speaker 1: quite a bit.
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  Speaker 2: Rita, absolutely. Yeah. And we got to make sure America
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  Speaker 2: stays America. And they don't... We want immigration. We don't
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  Speaker 2: want migrants coming in that want to change America. They
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  Speaker 2: want to change America. Go someplace else. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Immigration, like you say, not invasion. And once again, happy
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  Speaker 1: anniversary to you and your beautiful wife. You guys are great.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, John. Keep fighting for America. You too.
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  Speaker 1: That's my man, John Katzmatidis. Does not one, but two
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  Speaker 1: great shows here at WABC. 5 p.m. every weekday afternoon
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  Speaker 1: alongside Rita Cosby. It is the Katz and Cosby Show. And,
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  Speaker 1: of course, his masterpiece, 8 a.m. every Sunday morning. The
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  Speaker 1: Catch Roundtable, my friend John Katzmatidis.
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  Speaker 2: What the heck is going on here?