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Mike Lawler | New York District 17 Congressman Speaks on NYS Gubernatorial Debate & His NY-17 Race Against Cait Conley · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: You know, I want to congratulate my good friend, Sid Rosenberg,
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  Speaker 1: on his induction into the New York State Broadcasters Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame. You know, he's pretty great, but he's not
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  Speaker 1: the best. Nobody is better than your favorite president, Donald J.
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  Speaker 2: Trump, okay? I should be inducted into the Hall of Fame, too. Now, Sid,
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  Speaker 2: it's Mike Lawler.
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  Speaker 3: You know I love you.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations on being inducted into the New York State Broadcasters
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. You are one of a kind, a
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  Speaker 1: New York original.
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  Speaker 2: We love you.
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  Speaker 3: We're so proud of you.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations.
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  Speaker 4: I got to tell you, Lawler, your Trump is as
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  Speaker 4: good as anybody else in the business today. Like Danielle said,
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  Speaker 4: if this Congress thing doesn't work out, go to SNL.
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  Speaker 2: Do Trump every Saturday night. How about that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, Sid Rosenberg, okay. He's not as good
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  Speaker 3: as the great one, Mark Levin, but he's one of
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  Speaker 3: the best. A true New York original.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: He does a great job taking on Zoran Mamdani. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: We don't like him.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I kind of like him.
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  Speaker 2: I meet with him every now and then, and.
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  Speaker 3: It really pisses it off. It pisses him off so bigly. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's okay.
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  Speaker 4: It's okay.
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  Speaker 3: He still loves me.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. You are so good at that.
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  Speaker 3: It's called stream of consciousness, Sid. You just say whatever
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  Speaker 3: the fuck's on your mind.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 4: And I got to tell you, the guy that actually
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  Speaker 4: said to me that he appreciates your President Trump impression
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  Speaker 4: as much as anybody. You'd never guess this in a
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  Speaker 4: million years. In fact, it was the second thing he
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  Speaker 4: said to me. First, he told me that Donald Trump Jr.
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  Speaker 4: really likes me. Second thing he said was, you make
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  Speaker 4: him laugh. The current vice president, J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Vance.
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  Speaker 4: Right, and didn't you make him lamp on an airplane
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  Speaker 4: right back from Dallas or somewhere where you guys were together?
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  Speaker 3: I did.
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  Speaker 5: I did when I flew back on Air Force Two
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  Speaker 5: with him after the convention to get back in time
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  Speaker 5: for all the 9-11 ceremonies. That was the only way
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  Speaker 5: I was getting home. And he was gracious enough to
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  Speaker 5: let me fly back. And, you know, I broke out
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  Speaker 5: my Trump to him, and he loved it.
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  Speaker 2: He loved it.
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  Speaker 4: You made quite an impression. So, look, I've got Bruce
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  Speaker 4: Blakeman coming up next. It was not even close last night.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of that was because Bruce is terrific and
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  Speaker 4: he knows what he's doing and he was prepared and
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  Speaker 4: knew the issues. And every issue, he did not have
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  Speaker 4: to mention Mamdani or Trump to beat her. But part
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  Speaker 4: of the reason why Bruce was so great last.
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  Speaker 2: Night, I'll be honest, was... She was so terrible.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I thought Lee Zeldin beat her up pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: She may have been worse last night. I said, Mike Lawler,
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  Speaker 4: earlier this morning, I said, the only debate performance I've
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  Speaker 4: ever seen that may have been worse was Biden versus Trump.
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  Speaker 2: You got to admit, Mike, she is terrible on that
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  Speaker 2: debate stage. Terrible.
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  Speaker 3: Terrible. She's a fucking moron, Sid. Look, Kathy Hochul is
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  Speaker 3: the most inept, incompetent, feckless governor in America. She has
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  Speaker 3: bent the knee to Zoran Mamdani and the radical socialists.
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  Speaker 3: All she cares about is being reelected. She doesn't care
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  Speaker 3: one iota the impact of her policies on New Yorkers.
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  Speaker 3: whether it's the cost of utilities, which have risen 58
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  Speaker 3: percent in six years because she shut down nuclear power.
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  Speaker 3: She banned natural gas extraction. She blocked pipelines. She required
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  Speaker 3: all electric construction. And then she shocked that utility rates
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  Speaker 3: went up. Well, when you limit the supply, you idiot,
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  Speaker 3: of course, utility rates are going to go up. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you look at that issue, you look at
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  Speaker 3: her new sanctuary state policy. I mean, I'm sorry. The
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  Speaker 3: media in this state is so pathetic and so such
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  Speaker 3: an embarrassment to New Yorkers. they should be hammering her
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  Speaker 3: over one simple fact. She keeps saying this is about
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  Speaker 3: civil immigration enforcement and that we want local cops doing
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  Speaker 3: local jobs, keeping our communities safe. How the hell do
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  Speaker 3: you keep our communities safe when you refuse to honor 16,000, 16,000
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  Speaker 3: detainer requests on criminals and you release 7,000 convicted criminal
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  Speaker 3: illegal aliens back out onto the street, including 29 murderers.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody explain to me how the fuck that makes sense,
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  Speaker 3: how that policy is even allowed to exist in the
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  Speaker 3: state of New York to put criminals back out onto
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  Speaker 3: the streets who are in this country illegally. And she
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  Speaker 3: has the audacity to gaslight New Yorkers and stand on
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  Speaker 3: stage and lie to their faces and And Errol Lewis
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  Speaker 3: and Susan Arbetter say nothing. They let her get away
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  Speaker 3: with it. All of the New York press corps is
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  Speaker 3: an absolute disgrace. They never question this woman about her
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  Speaker 3: straight up lie when it comes to putting criminals back
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  Speaker 3: out onto the streets because she doesn't want to honor
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  Speaker 3: the detainer request.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he says.
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  Speaker 3: She says, oh, no, we cooperate on criminals.
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  Speaker 2: Bullshit.
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  Speaker 3: You do not. How is it that you release rapists, murderers, gangbangers,
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  Speaker 3: drug dealers, gun traffickers? For the life of me, there
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  Speaker 3: is not one person who can articulate why that is
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  Speaker 3: a sensible policy. And yet these same people have the
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  Speaker 3: audacity to go defend a criminal with a rap sheet.
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  Speaker 3: you know, pages and pages long.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Who they don't want ice to get him off our streets.
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  Speaker 3: The guy pulled a machete on his neighbors.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, drugs on our streets and they don't give
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  Speaker 3: a crap.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Even if you want to criticize ice, which I never do.
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  Speaker 2: I never do. Mark Wayne Mullen will join me in
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  Speaker 2: about an hour.
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  Speaker 4: But if you want to do that, that's fine. But
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  Speaker 4: then you come out and say, you're Mayor Mamdani. You're
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  Speaker 4: actually going to brag that you called President Trump and
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  Speaker 4: Mark Wayne Mullen to put this gang-banging drug dealer, violent
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  Speaker 4: offender back on the streets with my children, your children, Mike?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what is he, nuts?
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  Speaker 3: This is the same mayor that wanted Nicolas Maduro to
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  Speaker 3: be released from federal custody. A man who's been indicted
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  Speaker 3: multiple times for... for the deaths of thousands of Americans
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  Speaker 3: due to the drug trade, the illicit drug trade that
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  Speaker 3: he has fueled from Venezuela into the United States. And
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  Speaker 3: he called for him to be released and then calls
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  Speaker 3: for Bibi Netanyahu to be arrested. So are you really
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  Speaker 3: surprised that he wants to let a gang-banging drug dealer
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  Speaker 3: out onto the streets?
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm not. You know, it's interesting.
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  Speaker 4: There were some people last night that said to me,
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  Speaker 4: Bruce was great, but man... I almost wish Elise Stefanik
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  Speaker 4: would have stayed in. She really would have killed them,
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  Speaker 4: or her, I should say, or Mike Lawler. I don't
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  Speaker 4: even think about anybody else. I am very, very proud
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  Speaker 4: of Bruce. I think Bruce has run a tremendous campaign,
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  Speaker 4: while at the same time, at the same time, doing
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  Speaker 4: a great job as a Nassau County executive. So you did,
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  Speaker 4: you did kind of, you know, look into running for
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  Speaker 4: a while there until it became very, very clear that
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  Speaker 4: President Trump really needed you in Congress, and you're a
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  Speaker 4: great American and a patriot, so you stayed there. But
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  Speaker 4: you tell me, are you proud of Blakeman's performance last night?
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  Speaker 4: And what do you think so far about his campaign?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, of course. Look, Kathy Hochul is a disaster
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  Speaker 3: and she has run this state into the ground. We
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  Speaker 3: have the highest tax burden, the worst business climate. We
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  Speaker 3: lead the nation in out migration. In my district, she
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  Speaker 3: has a 60% disapproval. I mean, my opponent, Kate Conley,
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  Speaker 3: can't run away from her fast enough. Bruce is running
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  Speaker 3: a strong campaign. He needs resources. People should go to
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  Speaker 3: his website and donate to him. We have to defeat
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  Speaker 3: Kathy Hochul. This state is the greatest state in the country.
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  Speaker 3: It has been destroyed by feckless, incompetent leadership. Democrats control
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  Speaker 3: everything in Albany, everything in New York City. The cost
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  Speaker 3: of living is through the roof, whether it's housing costs,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's healthcare costs, whether it's energy costs. These are
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  Speaker 3: directly attributable to the policies that they have enacted. When
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  Speaker 3: you increase state spending by over $ 100 billion since Kathy
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  Speaker 3: took office, it's outrageous. We spend more than double the
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  Speaker 3: state of Florida. The city of New York now spends
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  Speaker 3: more than the state of Florida. The city of New
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  Speaker 3: York has 8 million people Florida's got 23 million people,
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  Speaker 3: and yet the city of New York spends more than them.
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  Speaker 3: How is that feasible? People have to look at what
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  Speaker 3: is happening in our state. You can like or dislike
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump, but I'm sorry, every answer to the question
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  Speaker 3: can't be Donald Trump. Kathy Hochul offered nothing last night.
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  Speaker 3: No accountability, no responsibility, no admission of the disaster that
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  Speaker 3: is the state of New York under her leadership. Every answer,
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  Speaker 3: like Tish James last week, was Donald Trump. They know
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  Speaker 3: nothing else. It's the only thing that they can run
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  Speaker 3: on because they can't possibly defend their incompetent leadership.
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  Speaker 2: True. Before I let you go here, I want to
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  Speaker 2: talk about your race.
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  Speaker 4: And boy, this Kate Conley turns out is getting crazier
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  Speaker 4: and crazier as you get closer and closer to your
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  Speaker 4: big election, Mike. And I think you're going to win.
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  Speaker 2: I really do. I'd be shocked.
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  Speaker 4: Shocked if you didn't you've been such a great congressman
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  Speaker 4: for so many years and she's a lunatic you know
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  Speaker 4: she just says she agrees with all of these dsa
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  Speaker 4: people all of them she likes mom donnie kate conley
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  Speaker 4: she likes kathy hokal so what is the latest in
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  Speaker 4: your race against kate conley up there in rockland county.
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  Speaker 3: Look we're 20 days away uh this race is critical
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  Speaker 3: to determining control of congress uh We are in a
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  Speaker 3: $ 60 million battle, and we need every penny to help
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  Speaker 3: get over the finish line. So if folks want to
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  Speaker 3: support us, they should text Mike to 85007 or go
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  Speaker 3: to Lawler for Congress. dot com. But Kate Conley has
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  Speaker 3: said on over 20 occasions that the greatest threat to
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  Speaker 3: America are the people that voted for Trump and Republicans.
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  Speaker 3: A greater threat than Al Qaeda and ISIS, a greater
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  Speaker 3: threat than China, Russia and Iran. That is totally disqualifying.
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  Speaker 3: It's outrageous. and unbecoming of somebody who seeks to serve
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  Speaker 3: in the United States House of Representatives. This is a
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  Speaker 3: woman who wants to raise taxes by $ 4 trillion. She
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  Speaker 3: wants a government takeover of health care. She supports Hochul's
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  Speaker 3: sanctuary state policies. And last night, we had a candidate forum,
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  Speaker 3: and she was asked very pointedly by a voter, do
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  Speaker 3: you support impeachment? And she tried to hem and haw
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  Speaker 3: and skirt around it. And then she said, but I
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  Speaker 3: do support impeachment of Pete Hegseth.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: And so when it was my turn to speak, I said.
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  Speaker 3: That's great that you are trying to walk back impeachment
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  Speaker 3: of the president. However, three weeks ago, when the media
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  Speaker 3: asked you point blank whether or not you would have
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  Speaker 3: voted yes on impeachment in Congress, you said, yes, you would.
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  Speaker 3: And we have it on tape. And she said, no,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't. And I said, yes, you did. And she's like, no,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't. And I said, we have it on tape.
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  Speaker 3: I will release the tape in the morning. So folks
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  Speaker 3: should go to our social media accounts, Lawler4NY, this morning.
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  Speaker 3: It will be released. of her on tape saying she
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  Speaker 3: supports impeaching President Trump. She will be a disaster for
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  Speaker 3: this district. She will deliver nothing. I have worked tirelessly.
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  Speaker 3: I've been continually rated the most bipartisan and effective members
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  Speaker 3: of Congress. I'm the only sitting member to be endorsed
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  Speaker 3: by a member of the opposing party Jared Golden, a
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  Speaker 3: Democrat from Maine, has endorsed me. I've been endorsed by
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  Speaker 3: local Democrats precisely because I deliver. I get things done.
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  Speaker 3: I can work across the aisle, but I'm not afraid
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  Speaker 3: to stand up and fight for my district. When I
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  Speaker 3: agree with the president, I say it. When I disagree
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  Speaker 3: with him, I say it. I've passed over two dozen bills,
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  Speaker 3: 17 of which have been signed into law. Ask AOC
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  Speaker 3: how many bills she's had signed into law. I do
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  Speaker 3: the job. I do the job, and that's why I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to win on November 3rd. And I'll tell you this, Sid.
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  Speaker 3: My opponent moved up here for the sole purpose of
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  Speaker 3: running for Congress. She owns a house in Virginia. She
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  Speaker 3: does not own a house in the district. She doesn't
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  Speaker 3: pay taxes. And when I kick her ass on November 3rd,
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  Speaker 3: she's going to move back to Virginia just as quick
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  Speaker 3: as she came.
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  Speaker 4: All righty. That's what I want to hear. Mike Lawler,
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  Speaker 4: amazing appearance this morning. As always, thank you for that
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  Speaker 4: beautiful video for my Hall of Fame induction next week.
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  Speaker 4: I love you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Lawler for New York. Is that the number four or F-O-R?
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  Speaker 3: Lawler4NY is the number four, is our social media handles. LawlerFORCongress.com
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  Speaker 3: is our website. And you can also text Mike to 85007.
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  Speaker 2: Mike, great job, buddy. I love you. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: That was terrific.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: All right, pal.
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  Speaker 4: Mike Lawler right there, the Mr. Salt, as President Trump
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  Speaker 4: calls him. President Trump loves him. King of Rockland County.
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  Speaker 2: What the heck is going on here?