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Watch the heated debate ahead of Election Day · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Let's break it all down with our panel. Lisa Bloom
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  Speaker 1: is a civil rights attorney at the Bloom Firm. A
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  Speaker 1: proud progressive. John Cobalt is host of The John Cobalt
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  Speaker 1: Welcome both of you. Good to see you. Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the story is thank you our.
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  Speaker 2: New showy CNN.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, good look, thank you very much. It's fun. You
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  Speaker 1: just watched the interview with Nancy Pelosi, very strong words,
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  Speaker 1: almost very personal words. What do you make of what
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  Speaker 1: she said and why do you think it was so
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  Speaker 1: personal about the president?
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  Speaker 2: Well, she's got guts and she's been fighting against him,
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  Speaker 2: not only this time around, but the first time around
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  Speaker 2: as well. And she's right. He doesn't honor the Constitution.
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  Speaker 2: That's why seven million Americans, including me, were out of
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  Speaker 2: the No Kings protest because he's not a king. He's
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  Speaker 2: supposed to respect the separation of powers, respect the rule
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  Speaker 2: of law, and he doesn't do that. That gets her mad.
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  Speaker 2: That gets a lot of us.
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  Speaker 1: Matt, does it get you mad? No?
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  Speaker 3: I thought she said early in the nie she didn't
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  Speaker 3: want to get personal about Trump. I guess she forgot
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  Speaker 3: that by the end of the interview. She also said
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  Speaker 3: that Trump abolished the House of Representatives. I was out
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  Speaker 3: of the country for two weeks. I don't remember that happening.
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  Speaker 3: It's just more hyperbole, more hysteria.
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  Speaker 1: But Mike, they have run out of her point is
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  Speaker 1: that Mike Johnson has not called it into a session
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  Speaker 1: in over a month, right, and.
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  Speaker 2: They all have to bend the need to Trump and
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  Speaker 2: do what he says. And that's what they do.
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  Speaker 3: I can't remember Congress not following the lead of the
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  Speaker 3: president if they were both in the same party.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's what they do.
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  Speaker 2: The difference between the lead and the president saying he's
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  Speaker 2: going to primary you primary you. If you dare to
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  Speaker 2: disagree with anything that he.
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  Speaker 4: Will, well then you have to fight for your your opinion.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, then you do.
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  Speaker 4: People get primaried all the time. That's the way life is.
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  Speaker 2: This is a separate branch of government that's supposed to
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  Speaker 2: have their own backbone, and none of the Republicans will
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  Speaker 2: stand up to him even though they know he's wrong,
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  Speaker 2: even though they say in private they just disagree with
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the Trump polib.
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  Speaker 4: Well, then maybe they should be run out of office
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  Speaker 4: that they're that.
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  Speaker 3: Way, and then we're going to get more or they're
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  Speaker 3: doing what their constituents want.
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  Speaker 2: Why can't you just admit that Trump is the one
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  Speaker 2: that's causing this problem not allowing Congress to be independent?
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  Speaker 4: What problem?
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  Speaker 2: Not allowing Congress to be independent?
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  Speaker 3: He allows them they can do whatever they want. They've
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  Speaker 3: known too session tomorrow and vote against him.
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  Speaker 1: I mean Speaker Johnson is choosing not to call he called,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Pelosi called them a puppet. What did you
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  Speaker 1: make of? What of what Pelosi said about about Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's let's talk about Prop fifty now, which is what
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  Speaker 1: this whole bill was about. And I tried to sort
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  Speaker 1: of get into the specifics of it. She made it
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  Speaker 1: a lot about President Trump. But this idea of jerry
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  Speaker 1: manderin California, because Texas Republicans jerry mandered their state.
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  Speaker 4: It was wrong in Texas, it's wrong here.
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  Speaker 3: Now there's a but seven other states that are going
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  Speaker 3: to jerry mander and get about ten extra seats back
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  Speaker 3: to the Republicans. So this Newsome plan is going to backfire.
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  Speaker 3: It's a fiasco. He got five to match Texas. Now
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  Speaker 3: he's going to lose another ten. Because it's a back
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  Speaker 3: and forth thing. There was a lot more room for
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  Speaker 3: the Republicans to jerrymander and pick up seats than there
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  Speaker 3: was for Democrats. Democrats have been doing it for so
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  Speaker 3: long they're kind of at a room. There's nowhere to go.
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  Speaker 1: I've said that to Nancy Pelosi, by the way, we
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  Speaker 1: had to cut that for time, and she it sort
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  Speaker 1: of disagrees with the way you do the math, but
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  Speaker 1: it is an interesting point.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Democrats in California have not been doing it. We've
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  Speaker 2: had an independent commission that's established the districts, and Texas
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  Speaker 2: did what it did, skewing things in favor of Republicans
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  Speaker 2: because Trump told them to, and then they did. And
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  Speaker 2: two runs don't make a right, but they do make
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  Speaker 2: a point. Trump allow the Republicans, they choose, they change badly,
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  Speaker 2: they grab power, and the Democrats are going to sit back.
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  Speaker 1: And doing the process that we have to process. Did
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  Speaker 1: put out a true social post saying that he was
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  Speaker 1: entitled to five seats. That were his own words that
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  Speaker 1: he put out.
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  Speaker 4: But he's not.
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  Speaker 3: And you could always contradict him. You're just talking about
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  Speaker 3: this was.
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  Speaker 2: Too afraid to contradict him. They bent the knee, just
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  Speaker 2: like all the.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they were afraid. They're not doing their job, and
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  Speaker 4: then they ought to be.
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  Speaker 1: Voted out for that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, they're not doing that.
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  Speaker 3: They have the free they have the freedom to agree
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  Speaker 3: with Trump. Everybody in the Republican Party can agree with
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  Speaker 3: the Republican leader. I don't think Obama or Biden ran
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  Speaker 3: into too much.
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  Speaker 2: They have freedom to agree with Trump, but they don't
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  Speaker 2: have the freedom to disagree with Trump. Otherwise they're voted out.
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  Speaker 2: There who there's a retribution.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, wait, voted out? Maybe they get voted out by
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  Speaker 4: const eoj.
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  Speaker 2: Will come after them former Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: But to John's point, I mean, the Republicans are representing Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: And is it fair if this whole thing happens with Prop.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty that people that live in fairy Republican areas are
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  Speaker 1: now going to be represented by Democratic members who really
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  Speaker 1: are not representing their interests.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not fair, but it's the only thing that
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  Speaker 2: we can do now that Texas is picking up five
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  Speaker 2: seats unfairly.
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  Speaker 4: Will you tell me democracy is under threat now?
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  Speaker 3: You're taking the Republican Congress there might have been there.
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  Speaker 4: For decades from rural areas and California.
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  Speaker 3: And I saw one of the districts it's drawn from
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  Speaker 3: the from East California all the.
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  Speaker 2: Way to Marine Texas is doing I did. I said,
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  Speaker 2: Californiania Texas start. Let's you agree on that.
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  Speaker 4: Texas started the problem.
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  Speaker 3: But that doesn't mean Californians lose their congress person.
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  Speaker 2: It's two different stiles.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care what they do.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, let's talk about what's happening in New York. This
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  Speaker 1: big race that's going to get a whole lot of attention.
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  Speaker 1: Uh Zoron Mundani, a democratic socialist, sort of looks like
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  Speaker 1: the future. Meanwhile, Andrew Cuomo, the traditional Democrat, kind of
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  Speaker 1: looks like the past. President Trump weighing in and then
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  Speaker 1: saying that he would back Cuomo. This is what Cuomo said,
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  Speaker 1: This is what Trump said. Excuse me here. It is.
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  Speaker 2: What if Mandami becomes mayor, It's.
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  Speaker 5: Going to be hard for me as the president to
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  Speaker 5: give a lot of money to New York because if
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  Speaker 5: you have a communist running New York, all you're doing
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  Speaker 5: is wasting the money. You're sending there. So I don't
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  Speaker 5: know that he's one, and I'm not a fan of
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  Speaker 5: Cuomo one way or the other. But if it's going
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  Speaker 5: to be between a bad Democrat and a communist, I'm
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  Speaker 5: going to pick that bad Democrat all the time.
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  Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I mean that was quite
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  Speaker 1: an endorsement.
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  Speaker 2: You can always count on Trump to support the guy
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  Speaker 2: with multiple sexual harassment allegations. In Cuomo's case twelve and
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  Speaker 2: Trump's case twenty six, I represented four of them. So
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  Speaker 2: there's no way that I could ever support Cuomo given
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  Speaker 2: that I'm a sexual harassment lawyer. Right, I think I'm Donnie.
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  Speaker 2: He's not a communist, he's a democratic socialist.
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  Speaker 4: And they're going to take over the stores in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 2: Taking over all the grocery stores. You know that's not true. Well,
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  Speaker 2: should be picked, not take over all? Should be some.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know the difference between some and all? There's
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  Speaker 2: a big difference.
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  Speaker 4: A test run file.
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  Speaker 2: The Republican Party is denying food benefits to people right now.
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  Speaker 2: The Democrats actually care about lowering prices, getting groceries to
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  Speaker 2: people and free and fast buses is a great platform.
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  Speaker 4: And we're getting a fast bus.
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  Speaker 3: We should have that nobody, So where do you get
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  Speaker 3: the money to pay for the free bus by taxing billionaires?
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  Speaker 2: You know, New York City is not just for the billionaires.
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  Speaker 1: It's for the working part. You're concerned though, that that
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  Speaker 1: may drive some of those billionaires to leave New York.
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  Speaker 2: People have been saying that for years, and taxes have
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  Speaker 2: been raised on billionaires when they're not leaving you.
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  Speaker 3: Whut let them go to New York, Texas in Florida.
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  Speaker 3: Well then how do you pay for the buses if
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  Speaker 3: you let them all go?
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  Speaker 2: Because they're not.
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  Speaker 4: Going to have bush.
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  Speaker 2: You need to let them all go. They can go
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  Speaker 2: now if they want to go. People who love New York.
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  Speaker 4: Moved to Dallas to Miami.
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  Speaker 1: Let them go. So you think wins absolutely?
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  Speaker 2: And I think he should win. I think he's going to
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  Speaker 2: be wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think he wins?
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  Speaker 3: Probably if you believe all the polls, but it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be bad.
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  Speaker 1: Would you vote for Cuomo if you lived in New York? Yes? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: even though he would be a bad Democrats?
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  Speaker 3: Would I would put up with a guy who's a
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  Speaker 3: multiple sexual harasser over a communist guy.
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  Speaker 4: But if that's what Curtis Slay was kind of a
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  Speaker 4: local joke. I mean, that's the thing.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he talks, he makes sense, but nobody takes
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  Speaker 3: me seriously.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, you're a New Jersey guy originally, right, They're they're
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  Speaker 1: having a race which seems to be surprisingly close between
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  Speaker 1: what do you make of that race and where we're
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  Speaker 1: at on them?
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  Speaker 3: You know, in Jersey, Chris Christie was the governor there
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  Speaker 3: just a few years ago, right in the back of
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  Speaker 3: the nineties, Christine Todd, Whitman, Tom Caine back in the eighties,
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  Speaker 3: Like all my life growing up in Jersey, there were
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  Speaker 3: always Republican governors moderate. There was nothing outrageous. They have
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  Speaker 3: bad property taxes and they have bad electricity rates in
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  Speaker 3: New Jersey. And one day this phenomenon is going to
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  Speaker 3: hit California because there's nothing worse than the gas prices
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  Speaker 3: and the electricity rates we have in this state and
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  Speaker 3: people there are doing something about it. And you got
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  Speaker 3: like a fifty to fifty race.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you think happens in New Jersey? Real quick?
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  Speaker 2: I think Democrat. I think it's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: Democrat sweep tomorrow. People are two to one against Trump now,
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  Speaker 2: and the Republican agenda they're sick of it, just like
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  Speaker 2: we saw an interview a little earlier on CNN of
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  Speaker 2: a Trump voter saying regretted.
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  Speaker 3: Her vote for electricity prices get But it's responsible for.
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  Speaker 1: A big question in both New Jersey and California other places.
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  Speaker 1: Is is it truly a national race about Trump or
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  Speaker 1: is it about local issues? In California, they've made it
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  Speaker 1: a national race about Trump. We'll see what happens in
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey. It'll be interesting to see the results.
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  Speaker 2: Great to see both say Virginia is going to have
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  Speaker 2: a female governor no matter what happens, for the first time,
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  Speaker 2: and that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes it did, Lisa John, thanks all, see both
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  Speaker 1: of you. This is fun. More of the story is
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  Speaker 1: right after this