Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Alan Dershowitz | Lawyer & Former Law Professor | 05-29-26
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- 0:00Speaker 1: The greatest. I'll put him out of Woody, Allen Alan Dershowitz.
- 0:03Speaker 1: They don't come bigger in Brooklyn than Alan. He loves
- 0:05Speaker 1: me and he's greatest attorney I've on. He's written a
- 0:08Speaker 1: million good books, the great books, and the fact I
- 0:10Speaker 1: want to be in one of them coming up here.
- 0:11Speaker 1: He is my dear friend, Alan dershow It's Alan, Good morning, buddy,
- 0:14Speaker 1: how are.
- 0:14Speaker 2: You good morning? But I'm not loving Brooklyn today. You know,
- 0:18Speaker 2: you have to focus on Park what's it called park
- 0:20Speaker 2: dope or park woke? That park Slope A bunch of
- 0:24Speaker 2: idiots who decide you can't buy matza in Brooklyn. Can
- 0:28Speaker 2: you imagine my grandmother getting up one morning and being
- 0:30Speaker 2: told you can't buy mazza anymore in parts of Brooklyn
- 0:35Speaker 2: because the matza is made in Israel. Now, it is
- 0:38Speaker 2: such bigotry and discrimination, the kind of thing we fought
- 0:42Speaker 2: against the years and years and years in the civil
- 0:44Speaker 2: rights movement. And yet all these woke idiots from Brooklyn
- 0:48Speaker 2: from I don't even regard it as Brooklyn, that part
- 0:50Speaker 2: of that part of Brooklyn Park Slope that all the
- 0:53Speaker 2: radical crazies Wolkes live in. But they have their co
- 0:57Speaker 2: op and their co op is refusing to sell Israeli products. Thankfully,
- 1:01Speaker 2: lawsuits are being brought. I think the lawsuits will win
- 1:05Speaker 2: because there are statutes all over the country that prohibit
- 1:08Speaker 2: discrimination based on national origin, and this is discrimination based
- 1:14Speaker 2: on national origin. If Israeli, you're not kosher. If you Israeli,
- 1:19Speaker 2: we can't sell you. We can't let people buy. You know,
- 1:23Speaker 2: the people go into the store should have a right
- 1:26Speaker 2: to buy what they want to buy. If they don't
- 1:28Speaker 2: want to buy Israeli food, okay, if they don't want
- 1:30Speaker 2: to buy Chinese food, if they don't want to buy Iranian, Russian, whatever,
- 1:36Speaker 2: let them make the decision. But let not the store
- 1:39Speaker 2: engage in this massive censorship. And the bigotry is so
- 1:44Speaker 2: well illustrated by the fact that they don't fan Russian food,
- 1:48Speaker 2: they don't fan Chinese food. They wouldn't even ban Sudanese
- 1:52Speaker 2: food with Israel genocide going on. But Jewish food made
- 1:55Speaker 2: in Israel Maza no, no, no, you can't buy it.
- 1:58Speaker 1: Now listen to things about Dutch. Sorry, First of all,
- 2:00Speaker 1: I agree with you. To me, Brooklyn is a midwood section,
- 2:03Speaker 1: sheep said, Bay Bay Ridge bench Park, Boro Park.
- 2:06Speaker 2: Right.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Once you get to dumbboll And Park Slo No, thank you,
- 2:10Speaker 1: that's Manhattan. And secondly, the worst part about that story
- 2:13Speaker 1: is the people that are offended once again. Once again,
- 2:16Speaker 1: Alan are the Jews.
- 2:20Speaker 2: Well, rabbis too, and you know there are reform rabbis.
- 2:24Speaker 2: There are rabbis who belonged to Jewish Voice for Peace,
- 2:28Speaker 2: which is the most anti so well the second most
- 2:30Speaker 2: anti Jewish organization in America. J Street has to lead
- 2:34Speaker 2: the way. They are the most dangerous anti Israel organization
- 2:38Speaker 2: in America because they pretend to be pro Israel. But
- 2:41Speaker 2: you're right, Look how many Jews voted for Mandomie. People
- 2:45Speaker 2: forget that thousands of Jews voted for Hitler in nineteen
- 2:50Speaker 2: thirty two. They vote he was good for the economy,
- 2:53Speaker 2: so they voted for Hitler. They wanted to be nationalists.
- 2:56Speaker 2: In assimilation of this, Jews voted for Mussolini. Jews can
- 2:59Speaker 2: be the biggest idiot in the world when it comes
- 3:01Speaker 2: to destroying their own self. They don't remember the great
- 3:06Speaker 2: Rabbi Hillo who said, if I am not for myself,
- 3:08Speaker 2: who will be for me? They only remember the second part,
- 3:12Speaker 2: If I am for myself alone, what am I? And
- 3:15Speaker 2: so Jews are a big part of the problem, particularly
- 3:17Speaker 2: New York Jews are a big the.
- 3:19Speaker 1: Worst, now the worst. You got this Mosha Indiggie's a rabbi.
- 3:22Speaker 1: I called them out on Twitter. I bought with them
- 3:25Speaker 1: direct message. He's part of the Satmar community. He's not
- 3:27Speaker 1: the only one. I want to call it one community,
- 3:29Speaker 1: but there's a bunch of them and they're the worst.
- 3:31Speaker 1: And you know you mentioned Mam Donnie And I'm gonna
- 3:33Speaker 1: march on Sunday I do every year. Good thank you,
- 3:36Speaker 1: And he's not coming, and I'm glad he's not coming.
- 3:39Speaker 1: But what's funny to me is what's funny to me
- 3:41Speaker 1: is he'll say I'm the mayor for all New Yorkers
- 3:45Speaker 1: that includes a Jewish people. I've been saying this all morning,
- 3:48Speaker 1: warm I'm gonna say it again at the risk of repetition.
- 3:51Speaker 1: This parade on Sunday, Alan Dershowitz is not in Tel Aviv,
- 3:55Speaker 1: I get it, don't do it. It's not in Jerusalem, I
- 3:57Speaker 1: get it, don't do it. It's not in Haifel. This
- 4:00Speaker 1: raid is on Fifth Avenue in New York City, where
- 4:02Speaker 1: you won. So how much you hate Boebee even though
- 4:06Speaker 1: it is bigotry and stupid. That's fine, he's not here.
- 4:10Speaker 1: This is not an Israel parade. It's a parade for
- 4:12Speaker 1: Jewish people in New York City. So what's the real excuse.
- 4:17Speaker 2: Well, also, it's a parade for Christian people who support
- 4:20Speaker 2: Israel and other good people around the world who support Israel.
- 4:25Speaker 2: And it's a great parade. I've been to it many, many,
- 4:27Speaker 2: many many times, and you know, look, the bigotry is outstanding.
- 4:33Speaker 2: You have the twelfth Congressional District. Now you have all
- 4:35Speaker 2: these people running against each other, and they're each campaigning
- 4:38Speaker 2: on who can be more anti Israel, who can be
- 4:42Speaker 2: more anti Israel? And we're getting you know, Goldman, who's
- 4:46Speaker 2: a decent guy running and he's running against this guy
- 4:50Speaker 2: Lander who is campaigning against Israel. So it's become good part.
- 4:55Speaker 1: Lando is Jewish. He's Jewish, by the way, by ad Lando,
- 4:57Speaker 1: he's Jewish.
- 4:57Speaker 2: No, he's Jewish on his parents, right, right. You know
- 5:01Speaker 2: you call that jewish. I don't call that Jewish. But
- 5:05Speaker 2: you know, he has the right to be whatever kind
- 5:07Speaker 2: of jew he wants to be. But why anybody would
- 5:10Speaker 2: vote for him? My favorite candidate though, in the twelfth
- 5:13Speaker 2: District is Jack Schlosberg. You know, the Kennedy kid, the
- 5:18Speaker 2: spoiled brat from the Kennedy family who's running as well
- 5:22Speaker 2: and running fairly well. But you know, democracy is a
- 5:26Speaker 2: dangerous thing. It's the greatest thing in the world, as
- 5:28Speaker 2: Churchill said, the worst thing except for all the others
- 5:31Speaker 2: that have been tried over time. Seven thousand Texans voted
- 5:35Speaker 2: last week for a woman who said she wants to
- 5:38Speaker 2: put Jews in concentration camp. Seven thousand Texans voted for that.
- 5:43Speaker 1: He did lose all, but she did lose those she
- 5:45Speaker 1: got Wallam, she.
- 5:45Speaker 2: Lost, but she got seven thousands. And the guy in
- 5:48Speaker 2: Maine may win, the guy with the Nazi tattoos.
- 5:51Speaker 1: Ran Platner. He's a terrible person. And it's always the
- 5:53Speaker 1: guy that's been proating around Maine all the time. Another quote,
- 5:56Speaker 1: unquote Jew Bernie Sanders.
- 5:58Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders is painting for him? Was Warren is campaigning
- 6:02Speaker 2: from Look, they would have voted for Hitler in nineteen
- 6:04Speaker 2: thirty two if Hitler promise to have minimum wages. They
- 6:08Speaker 2: don't care about Jews, they don't care about fairness. They
- 6:13Speaker 2: only care about their own socialist policies, and they'll vote
- 6:17Speaker 2: for anybody who's a socialist, they'd vote for Stalin, they
- 6:20Speaker 2: vote for Maude Tongue, as long as you're a socialist,
- 6:25Speaker 2: and you could be the worst anti Semite in the world,
- 6:30Speaker 2: as this guy obviously is. You don't put a Nazi
- 6:33Speaker 2: tattoo on your chest and then claim, oh, I was drunk,
- 6:36Speaker 2: I didn't know what I was doing. I was in
- 6:38Speaker 2: the Marines, I was catching oysters, you know whatever. But
- 6:43Speaker 2: if he wins, by the way, if he wins, there
- 6:45Speaker 2: will be no Republican in the entire Congress, in the
- 6:49Speaker 2: House or the Senate from all of New England. New
- 6:52Speaker 2: England will become Cuba. In the nineteen sixties, not a
- 6:57Speaker 2: single Republican in either the House or the Senate representing
- 7:01Speaker 2: that entire region of the United States. And you know,
- 7:05Speaker 2: New York and New Jersey are not much better there.
- 7:07Speaker 2: It's a little better. You got a few, but you know,
- 7:11Speaker 2: then the northeast of the United States is becoming a
- 7:15Speaker 2: bastion of socialism, which really has never succeeded anywhere in
- 7:20Speaker 2: the world and never would succeed. And New York is
- 7:24Speaker 2: victim of it, you know. Thankfully, my former student Jesse
- 7:28Speaker 2: Tish is marching in the parade and everybody who ought
- 7:30Speaker 2: to stand up and applaud her. She's the police commissioner.
- 7:34Speaker 2: I think she's doing a great job. I hope she'll
- 7:36Speaker 2: be the next mayor of New York.
- 7:37Speaker 1: May be no, not.
- 7:39Speaker 2: The next mayor that you're the next mayor after that.
- 7:43Speaker 2: You're a little older than nursing. You get to run first,
- 7:45Speaker 2: you get to be the mayor, and then she becomes
- 7:47Speaker 2: the mayor after that.
- 7:48Speaker 1: You know, I'm very close with Jessica to I know
- 7:50Speaker 1: she you're a teacher. But if Jessica is going to run,
- 7:54Speaker 1: and she she is intimated in the past, I'm not
- 7:57Speaker 1: going to say whether she told me that or not,
- 7:59Speaker 1: because I keep boss conversations private because they kill her.
- 8:03Speaker 1: They kill her, but talking to me, they kill her.
- 8:05Speaker 1: But if she does want to run, I'm not going
- 8:07Speaker 1: to run. I'd love to see Justica. I don't know
- 8:09Speaker 1: what she's gonna run as though she's not a Republican, Well,
- 8:12Speaker 1: what would she run as an independent?
- 8:14Speaker 2: She is a Democrat. I know her family have been Democrats.
- 8:18Speaker 2: I know, I know, I suspect I suspect. I don't
- 8:21Speaker 2: know that at least some members of her family look
- 8:24Speaker 2: at the Democrats. That's the way I do. I was
- 8:26Speaker 2: a Democrat for seventy years. Seventy years. I started when
- 8:30Speaker 2: I was fourteen years old, campaigning for Philip Schuffler on
- 8:34Speaker 2: the streets of Boro Park. And of course I've left
- 8:36Speaker 2: the Democratic Party. I spoke last night at a Kabat
- 8:40Speaker 2: event and I said, I'm going to say something that
- 8:43Speaker 2: I've never said before, and I said, welcome fellow Republicans.
- 8:48Speaker 2: And I got wow wow, because you know I have
- 8:52Speaker 2: become a Republican. I was an independent, but you help
- 8:55Speaker 2: persuade me, by the way, Wow thank you argued with
- 8:58Speaker 2: me over and over again that you know you can't
- 9:00Speaker 2: be an independent. You have to take sides. This is
- 9:03Speaker 2: an existential battle for the survival of the Jewish people.
- 9:06Speaker 2: The Democrats have become our enemy, and so the enemy
- 9:10Speaker 2: of our enemy has to be our friend.
- 9:12Speaker 1: Yes, I did. And when you and I actually thank you,
- 9:14Speaker 1: we shared an award together that you received that couldn't
- 9:17Speaker 1: make it that night at the Metropolitan Republican Club on
- 9:20Speaker 1: the Upper East Side, and they told me you stole
- 9:22Speaker 1: the show. So I'm proud to be that guy standing
- 9:25Speaker 1: with Hugh wil and I do want to talk about
- 9:27Speaker 1: a guy that I call the campus terrorist. That's what
- 9:30Speaker 1: I call him. He's the face of campus terrorism. He's
- 9:33Speaker 1: Mold Khalil. He got some good news this week. He
- 9:35Speaker 1: couldn't wait to tweet it. But everybody I talked to,
- 9:38Speaker 1: all these big attorneys, say that it doesn't matter, it's
- 9:41Speaker 1: just a matter of time. He will be deported. What
- 9:44Speaker 1: does Alan Dersholitz think.
- 9:46Speaker 2: I think he will be deported. I think he should
- 9:48Speaker 2: be deported. And by the way, that doesn't violate anybody's
- 9:52Speaker 2: free speech rights. He can still speak on the Internet,
- 9:54Speaker 2: he can still speak on Google. He just can't be
- 9:57Speaker 2: in this country. He doesn't have the right to be
- 9:59Speaker 2: in this country if in fact he lied on his
- 10:02Speaker 2: application for Green card status or any other status. That's
- 10:07Speaker 2: the law, and it should be applied equally to everybody,
- 10:10Speaker 2: and he has to get due process and fairness. But
- 10:13Speaker 2: hopefully he's on the way out and should go to
- 10:15Speaker 2: a country that he supports, not a country that he hates.
- 10:18Speaker 1: Agreed, Now, tell me about Joe Biden. I think I
- 10:21Speaker 1: saw maybe they already struck a deal. I don't know,
- 10:23Speaker 1: but he has been the topic of conversation that he
- 10:26Speaker 1: was really going out of his way to make sure
- 10:28Speaker 1: that certain tapes and recordings of him were not released,
- 10:32Speaker 1: and it was working for a while. I spoke to
- 10:36Speaker 1: Greg Jarrett from Fox News yesterday and I asked him
- 10:40Speaker 1: flat out, could Biden be in big trouble? He said sure,
- 10:42Speaker 1: I mean, this could result in a criminal investigation and
- 10:46Speaker 1: indictment maybe one day. I don't know where are we
- 10:48Speaker 1: in that Biden deal.
- 10:49Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think what's going to happen, though,
- 10:51Speaker 2: is that the videotape is going to be released. Look,
- 10:54Speaker 2: if you want to release anything, just say mention the
- 10:56Speaker 2: word Epstein, then it'll get released. But if everything about
- 11:01Speaker 2: Epstein is released, and who was he, it's just a
- 11:03Speaker 2: little schnook from you know, from Brooklyn. If everything about
- 11:07Speaker 2: Epstein gets released, how do you how do you suppress
- 11:11Speaker 2: testimony by the president of the United States. He's now
- 11:15Speaker 2: the former president of the United States. But the public
- 11:18Speaker 2: has the right transparently to see what he said, how
- 11:21Speaker 2: he said it, whether he was at that point competent
- 11:25Speaker 2: or incompetent. Everybody has the right to make that judgment
- 11:27Speaker 2: based on all the information. So of course that material
- 11:31Speaker 2: should come out, and there should be no successful suppression
- 11:36Speaker 2: of relevant material of that kind. Judges released deposition testimony
- 11:41Speaker 2: all the time. They did it in the Epstein case,
- 11:43Speaker 2: and there's no reason not to do it in the
- 11:45Speaker 2: Biden case.
- 11:45Speaker 1: Final sixty seconds. Boy, the Supreme Court seems to be
- 11:49Speaker 1: very busy these days with Trump stuff. I mean, will
- 11:53Speaker 1: you busy, right, Allen?
- 11:55Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, we have a separation of powers, checks and balances,
- 11:59Speaker 2: and the roles Supreme Court is to resolve disputes between
- 12:03Speaker 2: the other branches of government. I have a case in
- 12:05Speaker 2: front of the Supreme Court right now too. You probably know,
- 12:08Speaker 2: I'm suing CNN, and that case probably will be decided
- 12:11Speaker 2: next week whether the Court will take the case or
- 12:14Speaker 2: not take the case. You know, they lied deliberately, wilfully
- 12:17Speaker 2: lied about me, and the judge found that they were
- 12:20Speaker 2: so stupid. The commentators, they couldn't put a string of
- 12:23Speaker 2: sentence together and they couldn't understand that I said nothing
- 12:26Speaker 2: of the sort. But they said I hadn't been able
- 12:28Speaker 2: to prove malice, which you can't prove. It's impossible. You
- 12:31Speaker 2: have to get into the head of the people. So
- 12:33Speaker 2: the Supreme Court has that case in front of it now,
- 12:36Speaker 2: and it has a lot of important cases. The Supreme
- 12:38Speaker 2: Court is becoming a more important institution under the Trump
- 12:42Speaker 2: administration because Trump, to be honest, pushes the envelope. He
- 12:46Speaker 2: always pushes it to the extreme of what he believes
- 12:50Speaker 2: is constitutional. Sometimes he wins, sometimes he loses. But you know,
- 12:54Speaker 2: Jefferson did the same thing. Roosevelt did the same thing,
- 12:57Speaker 2: Lincoln did the same thing. Almost all important presidents have
- 13:01Speaker 2: pushed the limits of executive authority to the point where
- 13:05Speaker 2: sometimes the Supreme Court sustains and sometimes they don't. It
- 13:08Speaker 2: doesn't say anything bad about the president to say that
- 13:10Speaker 2: he's testing the limits of his authority and he abides
- 13:13Speaker 2: by the Supreme Court decisions. Trump has never refused to
- 13:16Speaker 2: obey a Supreme Court decision.
- 13:18Speaker 1: Alan Doshowitz, You're brilliant. I love you. This is a
- 13:21Speaker 1: great conversation. We discussed so many important things. I can't
- 13:23Speaker 1: wait to do it again. Shabatch loon. Have a good weekend.
- 13:27Speaker 1: I'll wave to you Sunday. If you're watching the bright
- 13:29Speaker 1: on TV, I'll wave to you. Okay, please, thank you,
- 13:31Speaker 1: all right, buddy, Alan Doshowitz. Back on SITT and Friends
- 13:34Speaker 1: in the Morning.
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