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9-8: Mamdani Ignores 9/11 Families' Petition To Stay Away. How Would You Respond? · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: Maybe because it's the week leading up.
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  Speaker 2: To the 25th.
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  Speaker 1: I really can't. Where did that go? The 25th anniversary
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  Speaker 1: of 9-11. Maybe it's because of that. Maybe it's because
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  Speaker 1: I just got off a plane myself and doing a
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  Speaker 1: lot of traveling this summer leading into the fall. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's because it's been so much in the news and
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  Speaker 1: for good reason. But I'm just here to warn you
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  Speaker 1: that we're about to have this week all of our information,
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  Speaker 1: all through media, all of this focus that's going to
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  Speaker 1: be on this commemoration of this horrific, terrible, tragic event
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  Speaker 1: in American history. One of the probably the most defining
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  Speaker 1: event in most of our adult lives. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: have it completely overshadowed by politics. And it's not the fault, certainly,
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  Speaker 1: certainly of the 9-11 families of the victims, because they're
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  Speaker 1: just trying to keep it respectful. No, the politicians have
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  Speaker 1: completely overshadowed this entire thing. And that's a real shame.
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  Speaker 1: Those family members, they're trying to keep Mayor Mamdani of
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  Speaker 1: New York away from the 9-11 ceremony coming up. Well,
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  Speaker 1: this week, obviously, leading up to, but especially on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, being a politician, he's completely ignored them.
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  Speaker 1: How should they respond in turn? We'll get into that
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  Speaker 1: as well as going to hear a lot of this expression.
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  Speaker 1: And until the past couple of weeks, I said it too.
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  Speaker 1: You know, him getting elected. Everything else that's happened in
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  Speaker 1: the country, the way the media has treated this thing,
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  Speaker 1: which has been horrific. I said it too, this expression,
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  Speaker 1: we forgot. We said after 9-11, we'll never forget. Remember that?
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  Speaker 1: Remember the banners and the bumper stickers and the sayings
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  Speaker 1: and the t-shirts? We'll never forget. I too said we forgot,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't think we have because it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: who you talk to. And just recently, in a family event, traveling,
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  Speaker 1: meeting people, talking to people that I've never met before,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't forget everybody, including you, if you're old enough,
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  Speaker 1: has a story of where they were on 9-11. We
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  Speaker 1: didn't forget. We just let it get overshadowed by politics.
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  Speaker 1: So how do these 9-11 families, how do they respond
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  Speaker 1: in turn? Because the mayor of Mondani has said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be there because he's a politician. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get into it, but thanks for being here. Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: this week. It's going to be emotional and it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be intense, so let's try to guide you through it.
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  Speaker 1: Extra Fighter Wicked Radio on the live stream and the
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  Speaker 1: uploaded shortly after we get done with the live stream,
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  Speaker 1: which is, by the way, 8 a.m. Eastern time, Monday
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  Speaker 1: through Friday. Here's a little background of the story, which
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  Speaker 1: has already happened. I'm sure you've already heard about this
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  Speaker 1: because they started it early summer. A lot of the
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  Speaker 1: families got together and they built a petition drive to
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  Speaker 1: try to keep Mayor Mamdani away from 9-11. Now, this
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  Speaker 1: story is a little bit older. I'll give you the
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  Speaker 1: real number on how many signatures are there right now.
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  Speaker 1: This is a little background on exactly what we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about here. I'm sure you've seen at least A little
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  Speaker 1: bit of the details on this.
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  Speaker 3: Families of 9-11 victims are trying to keep Mayor Zoran
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  Speaker 3: Mamdani away from this year's 25th anniversary ceremony at Ground Zero.
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  Speaker 3: The families are calling out this mayor over his controversial
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  Speaker 3: record and his ties to Islamic extremists, like the imam
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  Speaker 3: who testified on behalf of the World Trade Center bombers.
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  Speaker 1: More on that guy in a second. But a signature
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  Speaker 1: to try to keep him away. I think a lot
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  Speaker 1: of us looked at this at the beginning and said, OK,
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  Speaker 1: it's great. You're making a statement. I love that they're
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  Speaker 1: making a statement. I also love the fact that a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these 9-11 families, the family members of the victims,
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  Speaker 1: have kept in touch with each other and they're organized.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. I love that they've done it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's a quarter of a century and they've still been
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  Speaker 1: close enough to organize anything. So where are they now
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  Speaker 1: on this signature before we get to his response? 98,000 signatures.
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  Speaker 1: This is, of course, they send it out to the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the country. 98,000 signatures to keep the current
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  Speaker 1: mayor of New York City away from A ceremony to
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  Speaker 1: commemorate the 25th anniversary of a terrorist attack on U.S.
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  Speaker 1: oil and the loss of lives of their loved ones. 98,000
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  Speaker 1: people so far have signed that thing. I think a
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  Speaker 1: lot of us, like I said at the time, said
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  Speaker 1: that's not going to go anywhere. He's a politician. He's
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  Speaker 1: the mayor of New York. He's not going to stay away.
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  Speaker 1: It's just not going to happen. Sure enough, just two
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  Speaker 1: days ago in real time, he said this. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to be there. The question is, how are they going
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  Speaker 1: to respond today? And how much presence is he going
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  Speaker 1: to have? He's going to make his face seen. But
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  Speaker 1: how are they going to respond in turn? 98,000 signatures.
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  Speaker 1: Keep that in mind.
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  Speaker 4: I'm proud to be the mayor of this city. I
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  Speaker 4: love this city. I love this country. And what I
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  Speaker 4: want this week to be a focus on is on
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  Speaker 4: the families whose loved ones were stolen from them 25
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  Speaker 4: years ago in the horrific act of terror of September 11th.
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  Speaker 4: And a focus also on the first responders. who did
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  Speaker 4: everything they could to this city and to the people
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  Speaker 4: who came together to try and help their fellow New Yorkers.
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  Speaker 4: And so in the days to come, my focus will
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  Speaker 4: be on attending events that memorializes that incredible courage, and
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  Speaker 4: I will be there on Friday at the memorial just
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  Speaker 4: as I was last year.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see Giuliani's comments, and did you have any
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on that? Let me say this, and let's be
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  Speaker 1: adults here. Let's take that statement on its own. If
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  Speaker 1: you never knew who that guy was, you never knew
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  Speaker 1: anything about his background, his past statements, which we'll get
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  Speaker 1: to in just a second.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't know anything. You just look at that statement
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  Speaker 1: and what's your immediate response? Again, you just landed on
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  Speaker 1: the planet. You know nothing else. You'd say, that's a
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  Speaker 1: great statement. That's the exact right thing to say. And
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you, my friends, let's be big boys
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  Speaker 1: and girls here. It is the exact right thing to say.
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  Speaker 1: We may not like him. You may not. They may not.
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  Speaker 1: Most New Yorkers may not, even though he got elected.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. But let's not pretend that that guy
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  Speaker 1: isn't a smart politician and a very, very, polished speaker
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  Speaker 1: because he said the exact right thing and think of
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  Speaker 1: it from it from a politician's perspective of course he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be there first of all right despite they
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  Speaker 1: could have a million signatures and the guy's still going
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  Speaker 1: to show up because he's the mayor of New York
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  Speaker 1: City they would also turn that around and say they
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  Speaker 1: chastise him for not being there but that statement what
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  Speaker 1: he just said from his perspective knowing nothing else in
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  Speaker 1: this whole issue was the perfect thing to say as
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  Speaker 1: far as a persuasive statement to make as the mayor
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  Speaker 1: of New York City.
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  Speaker 4: It was.
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  Speaker 1: Let's put that aside for a second, because he's showing up. 98,000
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  Speaker 1: signatures of people in the country, organized by the people
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  Speaker 1: who lost loved ones in 9-11, don't want him to
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  Speaker 1: show up. He's still going to anyway, and then he
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  Speaker 1: comes out with that statement. This is what we take
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  Speaker 1: away from that. He's going to be not only showing up,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be all over the place. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: he even said it there. Not only 9-11 and the anniversary,
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  Speaker 1: the 25th anniversary on Friday, All of the events leading
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  Speaker 1: up to it, he said it, which is this entire week.
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  Speaker 1: Your entire timeline, all your favorite news shows, podcasters, commentators,
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  Speaker 1: other politicians, president, they're all going to be talking about
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  Speaker 1: 9-11 this week. And it's already been overshadowed. He's not
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  Speaker 1: going to be there. Now, you may ask this question
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  Speaker 1: because you're busy. I'm busy. Everybody's busy. Kind of on
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  Speaker 1: the surface, it seems like it makes sense that you'd
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  Speaker 1: have 98,000 people signing a signature to keep that guy
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  Speaker 1: away from 9-11. Maybe you haven't heard why.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 1: The best thing to do is to go to some
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  Speaker 1: of the victims themselves, some of the family members themselves,
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  Speaker 1: and they explain it better than anybody. Now, you could
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  Speaker 1: cherry pick any of these things. There are literally thousands
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  Speaker 1: of them out there because we lost close to 3,000
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  Speaker 1: Americans in that terrible terrorist attack. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: don't let anybody tell you it wasn't a terrorist attack.
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  Speaker 1: That propaganda is happening already. But the best people to
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  Speaker 1: go to are the family members who actually lost them.
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  Speaker 1: You can cherry pick any one of them. This is
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  Speaker 1: one of the best ones I ever saw because she
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  Speaker 1: laid out her complete case. And can you imagine? Can
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  Speaker 1: you imagine seeing this develop over the past 25 years?
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  Speaker 1: Because it wasn't just Mom Donnie and what it is
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  Speaker 1: and it is association. You've seen it develop where people
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  Speaker 1: try to deny that 9-11 ever happened to try to
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  Speaker 1: justify it. That's been out there and they hear it
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  Speaker 1: and they live it every single day. This time of
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  Speaker 1: the year, early fall, kids back to school, September rolls around.
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  Speaker 1: You and I hear about Wow, it's the 12th, it's
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  Speaker 1: the 13th, it's the 15th, it's the 20th anniversary of 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: They live that every single day. The best video of
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  Speaker 1: an explanation on why they wouldn't want this mayor, Mamdani,
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  Speaker 1: anywhere near the 25th anniversary or any year commemorations of
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  Speaker 1: 9-11 came from Sherry Sparaccio. She lost her husband, Tom.
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  Speaker 1: He was working in, I think it was Tower One,
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  Speaker 1: she said. She lays out the best example I've seen
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  Speaker 1: out of all of them, explaining why they don't want
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  Speaker 1: this guy anywhere near. Keep in mind what we just heard.
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  Speaker 1: The mayor of New York City, why they don't want
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  Speaker 1: him anywhere near there. She has the best reason of all.
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  Speaker 1: And how can you doubt her?
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  Speaker 2: When I saw Mr. Mamdami taking pictures with Imam Wahaj,
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  Speaker 2: who was an unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade
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  Speaker 2: Center bombing, I thought this man should not be at
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  Speaker 2: my husband's memorial ceremony. When he became mayor, he hired Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Qasim for the highest legal position in the city. This
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  Speaker 2: man defended an Al-Qaeda terrorist, yet he refused a position
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  Speaker 2: to a Jewish judge who defended Ghislaine Maxwell because he
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  Speaker 2: found that too distasteful. Mr. Mamdami also rigorously campaigned for
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  Speaker 2: Abar Qawas, who won Democratic primary for state Senate She
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  Speaker 2: has also blamed the U.S. for 9-11 because of our
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  Speaker 2: system of capitalism, racism, and white supremacy.
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  Speaker 1: It goes on a lot and a lot of solid examples,
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  Speaker 1: what she gives right there, which makes a lot of
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  Speaker 1: sense now. Again, and I'll go back to this, and
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  Speaker 1: I know I just said it a couple of minutes ago.
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  Speaker 1: Once a year, maybe more than that, we all look
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  Speaker 1: at 9-11 and we say, and those memories come back.
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  Speaker 1: Because we've all got, you hear that expression a lot too.
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  Speaker 1: We forgot. It took only 25 years, but we forgot.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't forget. I used to think that as well
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  Speaker 1: until you actually talk to people. everybody you talk to
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  Speaker 1: who is of adult age has some sort of a
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  Speaker 1: story some sort of a memory on where they were
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  Speaker 1: for 9-11 everybody has one where you were you were
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  Speaker 1: at work you were trying to pick up the kids
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  Speaker 1: you were worried you're whatever I remember mine or being
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  Speaker 1: on the air for 16 hours that day. Back in
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  Speaker 1: the old days, I still have the news clip that
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  Speaker 1: it took off an old AP news machine. You know
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  Speaker 1: what the first report was? This is how things have changed, too.
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  Speaker 1: The first report from the Associated Press was, this is
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  Speaker 1: after it already happened, a small commuter plane possibly may
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  Speaker 1: have hit one of the World Trade Center towers. How
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  Speaker 1: different would it be now? You'd never be able to
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  Speaker 1: do that now. Now you've got documented evidence because everybody's
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  Speaker 1: got a phone. You'd have high-definition videos in real time
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  Speaker 1: exactly how it happened. I remember talking people through that
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  Speaker 1: entire thing because that's how slowly we used to get
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  Speaker 1: information 25 years ago. Now, imagine the stories that all
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  Speaker 1: of those family members of the victims have. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: they don't bring up these memories once a year. They
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  Speaker 1: live it every single day. That's why they're upset. So
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  Speaker 1: if you've heard that they signed this petition, possibly maybe
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  Speaker 1: you thought that was just a petty kind of thing. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: come on. He's the mayor. He's got to be there.
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  Speaker 1: Understand that they have a reason. politically, he's got a
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  Speaker 1: reason too, and that's why the guy's showing up. So
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  Speaker 1: you can't keep him away. That's just a lost cause.
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  Speaker 1: But they made their statement. But she also went on
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  Speaker 1: to say, and she gave many, many reasons in her video, many,
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  Speaker 1: many reasons of all those different things. She mentioned a
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  Speaker 1: guy there who is a high-ranking member of Mamdani's staff
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  Speaker 1: and his legal team that, as Sherry said there, defended
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  Speaker 1: an al-Qaeda terrorist. Now you can say just practicing the law,
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  Speaker 1: just being this and that. It's a little more than that.
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  Speaker 1: When Mamdani signed an official declaration of commemorating 9-11 and
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  Speaker 1: the 25th anniversary, he handed, it's always a signing ceremony,
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  Speaker 1: he handed the pen to that same guy, who I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to mention by name, who defended the al-Qaeda terrorist.
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  Speaker 1: Is that a statement? Do you do, of anybody in
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  Speaker 1: the staff, and there were like 15 people behind him
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  Speaker 1: from the mayor's staff, of all the people you could
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  Speaker 1: have handed the official signing of the pen to, You
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  Speaker 1: hand it to that guy, Kasim? I actually did just
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  Speaker 1: name him. Really? That's not a statement?
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 1: That's another reason why the 9-11 families are so upset
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  Speaker 1: about this thing. But if you ever needed another reason
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  Speaker 1: to understand why they're so upset about this, here's another
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  Speaker 1: one for you. I'll give it to you. This is
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  Speaker 1: a guy that he campaigned with arm in arm to
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  Speaker 1: win the mayoral race in New York City. This guy
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  Speaker 1: right here. Hasan Piker is a streamer. Big influential streamer
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  Speaker 1: on Twitch. He's got millions of followers. The Democrats now
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  Speaker 1: have him at campaign events. They bring him out there
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  Speaker 1: because of his influence, right? Hand in hand, good friends
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  Speaker 1: with Mayor Momdani. This kid right here. If you needed
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  Speaker 1: no other reason to support the 9-11 families, Mayor Momdani's friend,
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  Speaker 1: this guy. You deserve 9-11, dude. I'm saying it. If
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  Speaker 1: all the other examples you forget because they're too complicated,
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  Speaker 1: can't remember the name, just remember that one example. A
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  Speaker 1: guy that campaigned with Mayor Mamdani says we deserve 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: That's why the families are so upset. But he's showing
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  Speaker 1: up anyway. So the question, I guess, is that we
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  Speaker 1: finally get to, how should they respond in turn? Do
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  Speaker 1: they acknowledge him? Do they shake his hand? I don't
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  Speaker 1: think there's going to be a lot of hugging and
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  Speaker 1: kissing with the mayor, but he's going to be there
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  Speaker 1: and he's going to be everywhere. How do they respond?
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  Speaker 1: I think the best thing and the best way to
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  Speaker 1: respond is to just ignore him best they can. And
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  Speaker 1: I hope they actually do that. I really do. And
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  Speaker 1: it's not petty. Not after what they went through. And
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  Speaker 1: if you do start to find yourself thinking it's petty,
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  Speaker 1: just remember They live this anniversary every single day of
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  Speaker 1: losing their loved ones. Every single day. We'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm here to tell you, too, all of this
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: stuff is going to, you're going to get hit with
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: so much nonsense and propaganda through your favorite mainstream news
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  Speaker 1: sources this week, and it's going to totally overshadow exactly
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: what we should be focusing on. Those family members, and
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  Speaker 1: also us, and how we were able to, a short time,
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  Speaker 1: for a short time, all those years ago, We were
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: able to come together and unite as a country. And
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  Speaker 1: it was beautiful until it got divided again. Let's hope
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  Speaker 1: that's the focus. But the way it's shaping up so far,
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  Speaker 1: it's probably not going to be. But that's your reason
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  Speaker 1: why these families don't want him to be there. Now
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  Speaker 1: how do they respond now that we know he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be there? I don't know. Remains to be seen.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's up to you and me and everybody
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  Speaker 1: else to just support them as they get through this
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  Speaker 1: time too. Unbelievable. All right. I wish it was something
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  Speaker 1: lighter to start the work week off. But that's what
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