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Bruce Blakeman | Nassau County Executive Will Be New York State's Next Governor · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Buffalo. He happens to be the Nassau
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  Speaker 1: County executive, but he will be the next governor here
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  Speaker 1: in New York, working his ass off, traveling the state.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a three- or a four-day tour. I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know. My dear friend Bruce Blakeman. Bruce, good Wednesday morning, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: We're doing great, Sid. We've had a wonderful trip. We've
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  Speaker 2: been to a lot of different places, met a lot
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  Speaker 2: of different people. The story's the same wherever you go.
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  Speaker 2: People are miserable under Kathy Hochul. They want change. They
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  Speaker 2: want good jobs. They want prosperity, lower taxes, lower electric bills,
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  Speaker 2: safer neighborhoods. So everywhere I go, it could be in
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  Speaker 2: a city. It could be in a town. It could
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  Speaker 2: be in a rural area. Everybody feels the same, and
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  Speaker 2: that's why we're going to win.
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  Speaker 1: I think so, too. And, of course, your lieutenant governor, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Madison County, the great Todd Hood, he's with you every
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  Speaker 1: step of the way. He knows those cities, those towns.
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  Speaker 1: those neighborhoods very, very well. So you got a good
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  Speaker 1: little tour guide there, Bruce, as you make your way
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  Speaker 1: towards that Northern part of the state.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we just spent three days together and Todd's a
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  Speaker 2: great guy. We become really good friends. Uh, he's not
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  Speaker 2: only a running mate, he's a friend of mine. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: we share the same values. He's got, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: great wife, Kelly, great kids. He's got grandkids. And, um,
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  Speaker 2: He looks the part of a sheriff. He's a big guy,
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  Speaker 2: about 6'4, 265. But one of the nicest people you
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  Speaker 2: can possibly imagine. And yeah, he's showing me around a
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  Speaker 2: lot of rural areas up here. He tells me stories
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  Speaker 2: about working on the dairy farms. So we're having a
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  Speaker 2: really good time. But you know, Sid, there's so much
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  Speaker 2: poverty in this state. It's really, really something that I
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  Speaker 2: have to correct as governor. We've got to bring business
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  Speaker 2: into this state. We've got to build our economy. We've
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  Speaker 2: got to make this a vibrant place where young people
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  Speaker 2: want to grow up here and raise a family. So
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  Speaker 2: we have a lot of work to do. And as
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  Speaker 2: I ride along the southern tier, you know, we're sitting
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  Speaker 2: on one of the largest natural gas reserves in the world.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm talking about real poverty. And on the other
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  Speaker 2: side of the border in Pennsylvania, where they're allowed to
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  Speaker 2: drill that natural gas, well, they're living in prosperity. They're
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  Speaker 2: driving brand new Cadillac Escalades on that side of the border.
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  Speaker 2: On the New York side, they're driving around in 25-year-old
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  Speaker 2: rusted-out pickup trucks. It's not right. It's our natural resource,
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  Speaker 2: yet we're not able to use it because Kathy Hochul
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  Speaker 2: has this green energy scam where she's scamming all of us, investing.
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  Speaker 2: I've been driving through the state. We have these large
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  Speaker 2: wind turbines. Sid, none of them are spinning. It's like
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  Speaker 2: it's a joke. Then we have solar farms that have
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  Speaker 2: been under snow for four months. They're not producing any energy.
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  Speaker 2: People are making billions of dollars off of us, and
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  Speaker 2: Kathy Hochul's getting millions of dollars in political contributions. It's
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  Speaker 2: not right. We've got to end it. We've got to
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  Speaker 2: build our economy, and we've got to bring our energy
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  Speaker 2: supply up so it brings our costs down.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't agree more. I want to get back to Kathy
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  Speaker 1: Hochul in a second. So, I defend you all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing you needed, because you're doing very, very well. Your
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  Speaker 1: campaign is doing great, and you're going to win. But
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  Speaker 1: every now and then, somebody comes up. I know you
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  Speaker 1: hear this too, Bruce. So does Peter King. Okay, this is,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not breaking news, but Like Sam Antar, you know
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  Speaker 1: that guy, Sam Antar, well, then it's Eddie Antar. So
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  Speaker 1: he's on Twitter. Yes, he goes, you know, poverty and
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  Speaker 1: you got black neighborhoods are not doing very well in
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  Speaker 1: New York. Some of these Latino neighborhoods. And every time
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  Speaker 1: I see a Bruce Blakeman commercial, they're white people. Where
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  Speaker 1: are the black people? Where are the Latino people? Where
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  Speaker 1: are the? So I got to be honest, OK? I
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  Speaker 1: haven't paid attention to every commercial. that I've seen from you.
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  Speaker 1: I notice them a lot in the morning because I
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  Speaker 1: do watch Fox News, and they're great. And I love
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  Speaker 1: the AI stuff you do with Mamdani and Hochul. But
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  Speaker 1: I have heard that complaint once or twice that not
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  Speaker 1: enough other people outside of whites in your commercials. Is
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  Speaker 1: there any credibility to that?
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  Speaker 2: First of all, it's complete nonsense. And second of all,
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  Speaker 2: I have a commercial running right now. If you watched
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  Speaker 2: the Yankee game last night, it was running on the
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  Speaker 2: Yankee game. where Kathy Hochul said that black kids in
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  Speaker 2: the Bronx don't know what a computer is. Can you
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  Speaker 2: imagine what a racist comment that is, how she's denigrating
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  Speaker 2: young black people? So not only am I calling her
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  Speaker 2: out for that, I'm explaining how I've made every neighborhood
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  Speaker 2: in my county safe. I've made every person in our
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  Speaker 2: county more prosperous. regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, lifestyle, abilities.
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  Speaker 2: I've gotten a record number of African-American votes for a
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  Speaker 2: Republican because they trust me. They know that if I
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  Speaker 2: give my word, I keep my word. When I said
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  Speaker 2: to the moms and dads in Roosevelt, New York, which
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  Speaker 2: is a predominantly African-American and Hispanic and Latino community, that
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  Speaker 2: I would finally build the park that every other politician
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  Speaker 2: had promised and never delivered, I got it done in
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  Speaker 2: less than a year and a half. And it's the
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  Speaker 2: most beautiful park that we have in the whole county.
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  Speaker 2: I have done things in the African-American community like this
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  Speaker 2: week on Monday night. I'm bringing in Florida. OK, I
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  Speaker 2: brought in boys to men. I have increased and spread
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  Speaker 2: out the type of entertainment that I have in my
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  Speaker 2: summer series. We had Ja Rule. I did this because
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  Speaker 2: I wanted everybody in my county to know that we
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  Speaker 2: were going to celebrate every culture and every community. And
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  Speaker 2: the fact is Kathy Hochul saying that black kids in
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  Speaker 2: the Bronx don't know what a computer is, that tells
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  Speaker 2: you what her opinion is of black kids. And I'll
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  Speaker 2: assure you one thing, Sid, and I guarantee this, there
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  Speaker 2: is not one 12-year-old black kid in the Bronx that
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  Speaker 2: is worse on a computer than I am. So they're
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  Speaker 2: a lot better than I am. They know what a
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  Speaker 2: computer is. So yes, we actually have a commercial up
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  Speaker 2: right now. And listen, they're not paying attention. I was
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  Speaker 2: with over a thousand Dominicans on Saturday night. I got
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  Speaker 2: an award at the Miss Dominican Awards. pageant. They had
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  Speaker 2: a pageant for celebrating women in the Dominican community that
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  Speaker 2: achieved very, very, very admirable things and great things and
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  Speaker 2: women of stature. And I was on Dominican television, probably
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  Speaker 2: over a million people in the Dominican Republic and the
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  Speaker 2: United States were watching that program when I received it.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm out in every community. I'm everywhere. I'm meeting
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  Speaker 2: with a bunch of pastors this morning. I'm having breakfast
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  Speaker 2: with pastors here in Buffalo. Then I'm meeting with union leaders.
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  Speaker 2: Then I'm going back to Long Island and taking care
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  Speaker 2: of business there for a couple of days. So we're
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  Speaker 2: out and about. We're everywhere. We're in every community. So
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  Speaker 2: anybody who's criticizing me for that is not paying attention.
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  Speaker 2: Look at the AI that I have. Look at the
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  Speaker 2: social media that I have. I featured a black child
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  Speaker 2: who came home and he said to his mother, I
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  Speaker 2: got an A on a test. She looked at his
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  Speaker 2: report card and said, son, this says you had a B.
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  Speaker 2: And he goes, mom, I swear I got an A.
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  Speaker 2: Call the school. She calls the school and guess who
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  Speaker 2: the principal of the school is? Kathy Hochul. And Kathy
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  Speaker 2: Hochul says, well, your son did get an A. But
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  Speaker 2: little Cindy got a C, so we wanted to make
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  Speaker 2: him feel good. So we averaged it and gave both
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  Speaker 2: a B. So the black woman says to Kathy Hochul, well,
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  Speaker 2: isn't that socialism? And she says, yes, it is. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm in every community. I'm going to be a governor
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  Speaker 2: for all people.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. See, that's why it's important, though, Bruce,
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  Speaker 1: that you're on this show every week. Because guess what?
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  Speaker 1: New York won channels 2, 4, 5, and 7. Even Newsmax.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to tell the people all this. On
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  Speaker 1: this show, you get to tell the people, look at
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  Speaker 1: this commercial. Look what I said. Look what Kathy Hochul said.
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  Speaker 1: So this is where the real Bruce Blakeman, I should say,
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  Speaker 1: comes alive right here every week with me. There's also
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  Speaker 1: a big breakfast tomorrow I want to make you aware
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  Speaker 1: of because talking about the Latino community. Ruben Diaz loves you.
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  Speaker 1: I told you this. I called him. I cold-called Ruben Diaz,
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  Speaker 1: brought you up. He said, my community loves Bruce. We're
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  Speaker 1: voting for him on two lines, the conservative and Republican line.
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  Speaker 1: They've got a big prayer breakfast tomorrow morning with A.L. David,
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  Speaker 1: who's now the new general counsel of Israel. Christians and Jews,
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  Speaker 1: this alliance, over 100 ministers. All that taking place at
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  Speaker 1: 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. So that may be a stop
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  Speaker 1: for you. I don't know. Ruben Diaz.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll take a look at it and look at
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  Speaker 2: the schedule. But Ruben Diaz is a great leader. He's
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  Speaker 2: a devout Christian. He's got good morals, good values. He's
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  Speaker 2: a great American. And those are the people that I
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  Speaker 2: want to associate, people that love America. You love America.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care what race, religion, ethnic group you are.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care how you live your life. I don't
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  Speaker 2: care what your abilities are. If you love America, even
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  Speaker 2: if we disagree on policy, you know, see, that's the
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  Speaker 2: problem I have with the current Democrat regime. They hate America.
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  Speaker 2: Zoran Mandami never says a good word about America. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I remember when we had Daniel Patrick Moynihan. We had
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  Speaker 2: Mario Cuomo. you carry Ed Koch, even Bill Clinton. I
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  Speaker 2: disagreed with them on policy. But one thing I knew
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  Speaker 2: about those Democrats, they loved America. Yep. This new regime
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  Speaker 2: hates America. And that's my problem with them. It's true.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, you left out one great Democrat whose
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  Speaker 1: wife clearly loves you, Frank Lautenberg.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Bonnie Lautenberg is terrific. Frank Lautenberg. You see, Frank
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  Speaker 2: Lautenberg and I would probably disagree on a lot of
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  Speaker 2: different things. But I always knew Frank Lautenberg was a
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  Speaker 2: man of ethics, a man of high moral values, and
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  Speaker 2: a man who loved America. So I knew when he
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  Speaker 2: stepped foot on the floor of the Senate that his
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  Speaker 2: heart was in the right place. I can't say that
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  Speaker 2: about a lot of these modern Democrats. And I'm very
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  Speaker 2: proud to have Bonnie's support. And since Bonnie came out
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  Speaker 2: and said she was going to support me, I've had
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  Speaker 2: Democrats call me constantly and say to me, Bruce, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to back you. We're going to make a financial contribution.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to get our friends to vote for you.
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  Speaker 2: Every day a Democrat comes up to me and says,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a lifelong Democrat. I've never voted Republican before in
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  Speaker 2: my life. I'm voting Republican this year. My party is insane.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I saw it. I was with you in
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  Speaker 1: the Hamptons a couple of weeks ago at the Roberts House.
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  Speaker 1: But Steve Witkoff kept that crowd with Democrats. And they
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  Speaker 1: were giving you money and lauding you with compliments. And
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  Speaker 1: you've won two consecutive elections in Nassau County, which is
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  Speaker 1: mostly Democrat. So you don't have to prove to the
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  Speaker 1: audience that Democrats and independents, they love you. Last one.
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  Speaker 1: This is the big story of the day. I believe
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  Speaker 1: it went into effect yesterday in Nassau County. You've got
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  Speaker 1: the safest county in America, right? We just had President
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  Speaker 1: Trump in Nassau County two weeks ago complimenting you and
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  Speaker 1: Patty Ryder and all your great police. Safest county in America.
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  Speaker 1: And what does this wretched governor want to do? She
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  Speaker 1: wants to make it less safe. So correct me if
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  Speaker 1: I'm wrong. Yesterday goes into effect that you guys are
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  Speaker 1: not allowed to not allowed to cooperate with ICE, even
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  Speaker 1: though you're on record on this show and other places, Bruce,
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  Speaker 1: telling me that ICE has made many arrests and deported
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of very, very dangerous people who are in
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  Speaker 1: Nassau County. So yesterday goes into effect. So really, in essence,
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  Speaker 1: as of today, Kathy Hochul is making your county less safe.
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  Speaker 1: Or are you saying, I don't care what Kathy says,
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  Speaker 1: it's business as usual in Nassau County?
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing, Sid. So just last week in
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  Speaker 2: my county, we had a 14-year-old girl raped. Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: By an illegal migrant, someone who entered this country illegally.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 2: Two months before that, two women were murdered in my
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  Speaker 2: county by an illegal migrant.
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  Speaker 1: I remember that guy. He went to two different households
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  Speaker 1: and slit their throats.
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  Speaker 2: Two different houses. Yeah. Two months ago, an illegal migrant...
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  Speaker 2: set fire to 10 different cars, an arsonist. They could
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  Speaker 2: have burnt down a building with children in it. What
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  Speaker 2: the hell is wrong with Kathy Hochul? She passes this
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  Speaker 2: law that handcuffs all of our law enforcement. I met
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  Speaker 2: with sheriffs throughout the state, police commissioners throughout the state
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  Speaker 2: the last three days. They are outraged. They want to
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  Speaker 2: take legal action against her. So I'm going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about that a little later. I just have to brief
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  Speaker 2: my sheriff and my police commissioner, you know, Pat Ryder,
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  Speaker 2: very well. Does a great job. I'm going to brief
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  Speaker 2: them a little later today. And we're going to come
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  Speaker 2: out swinging. And, you know, to pass a law like
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  Speaker 2: that and talk about how there were atrocities by ICE,
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  Speaker 2: we threw out 2,000 illegal migrants with criminal records from
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  Speaker 2: attempted murder, rape, robbery, burglary, carjacking, drug dealing, and gang activity.
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  Speaker 2: We got them out of the state. We got them
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  Speaker 2: out of the region. And we didn't raid one church,
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  Speaker 2: one school, one hospital, one daycare center, one business. We
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  Speaker 2: didn't conduct raids. I don't know what Kathy Hochul is
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  Speaker 2: talking about. The atrocities that are being committed on our
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  Speaker 2: community are being committed by people who don't share our values.
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  Speaker 2: They have criminal intent. They are evil. And they're in
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  Speaker 2: our country. And we got to get them out. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not talking about hardworking people, immigrants who may have overstayed
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  Speaker 2: their visa. And, you know, they're people who are working hard.
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  Speaker 2: They haven't committed any criminal acts. They're good people. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to talk about that next week, about how we
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  Speaker 2: should have a guest worker program But, Sid, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to leave you with this because I've got to run
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  Speaker 2: to all these pastors. I don't want to get on
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  Speaker 2: the wrong side of God. But I just want to
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  Speaker 2: tell you, what the hell is Kathy Hochul doing? She's
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  Speaker 2: making it less safe for everybody. She is the worst
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  Speaker 2: governor in America.
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  Speaker 1: I agree. I love you, Bruce Blakeman. You're doing a
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  Speaker 1: fantastic job. I'm really proud of you, buddy. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for another great appearance. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you, Sid. You're my brother. Take care.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you, too. My man, Bruce Blakeman, right there.
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  Speaker 1: Nassau County Executive. running for governor, and again, I hear
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  Speaker 1: the criticisms all the time, you know. Well, he does
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  Speaker 1: Sid Shaw. What about a black show? I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: think he's done a couple. I don't know. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: if Charlemagne, the guy, that genius, reaches out to him,
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  Speaker 1: he'll go on, I'm sure. Yeah, but the commercials are
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  Speaker 1: all white. No, it's not true. Yeah, but he never
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  Speaker 1: goes to the northern part of the state. No, he
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  Speaker 1: just called me from Buffalo. He's actually done about 20
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  Speaker 1: different counties the last two weeks. Yeah, but what about
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  Speaker 1: if he doesn't get 37% in the five boroughs, he
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  Speaker 1: can't win? Okay, he's going to get 37%, and he's
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  Speaker 1: coming back to Long Island tomorrow, and we'll spend time
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  Speaker 1: in all five boroughs. I just don't know what you
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  Speaker 1: want from the guy. You're not really paying attention. You
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  Speaker 1: hear something at the pool. or in the Hamptons, or
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  Speaker 1: wherever you are, and you just repeat it. You have
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  Speaker 1: no idea what you're talking about. I don't know. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I watched Lee Zeldin very, very closely. Lee was on
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  Speaker 1: this show just Friday. He was great and lovely. And
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  Speaker 1: he ran a very close race and did a terrific job.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce is ahead of where Lee was at this time
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  Speaker 1: four years ago. He's ahead of him. And I heard
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  Speaker 1: the same things about Lee, who was still a senator,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, out there in Suffolk County. So he's got
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  Speaker 1: a job to do right now in Nassau County. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: he's campaigning. And for some of you, it's not enough.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what you want the guy to do,
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  Speaker 1: but I think he's doing a terrific job. I really do.
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  Speaker 1: And I remind him about some of these communities. And
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  Speaker 1: I did reach out on his behalf to Ruben Diaz.
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  Speaker 1: And I do speak to other politicians. None of your business.
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  Speaker 1: On behalf of Bruce, I've kind of taken it upon
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  Speaker 1: myself to be Bruce's unofficial chief of staff. Is that
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  Speaker 1: fair to say, Lou? I think that's a great... Appropriate time.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: That's me. So I really want this guy to win
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  Speaker 1: because I want to save our state.
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  Speaker 1: What the heck is going on here?